O Man! You who just see me below my navel

محترمہ (ثروت زہرا) کا خوبصورت کھرا، سچائ سے بھرپور کلام

My loose English translation below

(مجھے میری ناف سے نیچے دیکھنے والے!)

میری ناف کے پہلو میں میری کوکھ بھی موجود ہے۔
جہاں تمھارے جیسی کئی کائناتوں کی تجسیم کی گنجائش
رکھ دی گئی ہے۔
اور اس سے ذرا اوپر مرا دل ہے۔
جہاں عمر بھر کی محبتوں کا اتنا زیادہ بہی کھاتا لکھا جاتا ہے۔
کہ اب یہاں عبادت گاہوں سے زیادہ تقدس گونجتا ہے۔
اور یہی کہیں قریب سے ہی تمھاری پہلی
غذا کی دھارائیں نکلتی ہیں۔
اور اس دل سے اوپر میری زبان ہے جہاں
الف کے بےنقاط اور ب کے تمام نقاطـ
کے ذائقے دے دیے گئے ہیں۔
اور اس دہن سے اوپر میری آنکھ ہے۔
جو چشم آہو کے علاوہ گمان و یقین کو اپنی
روشنی کی لگام سے باندھنا جانتی ہے۔
اور ان آنکھوں سے اوپر ایک دماغ ہے۔
جس کے اعصابی
ریشوں کے درمیان شعور سے لاشعور تک
کے سارے توازن رکھے گئے ہیں۔
مجھے میری ناف سے نیچے دیکھنے والے!
شائد اسی لئے میرے قدموں کے نیچے جنتیں رکھ دی گئی ہیں

(O Man! who just see me below my navel)

Beside my navel lies my uterus too
Where lies the potential of creation
of many universes like you
And just above that is my heart
Where registers fountain of life-long loves
making it holier than any temple
And somewhere near it flows
The lifeline of your first food
And above that lies my tongue
Where (Almighty) kept the pleasures
of all finities of A and infinities of B
And above that opening
Lies my eyes
Which want to circle all lights
Beyond perception of sight and vision
And above that, there is a mind
Between neurons of which he kept
All balances of
Subconscious to consciousness
O Man!  You who just see me below my navel
That's why lies heavens below my feet

On "Full Moon"

Zindagi main mujhe poore chaand se ziyada koi cheez mystify nahi kerti!

Poore chaand pe aik waqiya aksar yaad aata hai: USA main mera pehla hafta hai. Mujhe residency ke interview ke liye NewYork se Detroit jaana paRa. Paise the nahi, to bus ki raat ki ticket pe safar kerna shuru kiya. NewYork ke Grand Central Station se (Itna baRa station na dekha na suna) mere saath aik aur Pakistani doctor sawar ho gaye - Dr. Anwar. Hum saath saath seat per beth gaye. Jab raat apne joban pe paunchi to bus ki khiRki se mujhe aye baRa chaand nazar aaya. Itna baRa chaand main ne pehle nahi dekha tha. Main aur Dr. Anwar poori hairat se itna baRa chaand dekhte rahe. Phir Dr. Anwar ne aankhain band kerta huwa kaha: "Soch liya! Ab saari zindagi isi mulk main rehna hai". 

Main ne poocha: "Abhi se faisla ker liya?"

Bole: "Jis mulk main aesa kubsurat aur baRa chaand niklta ho, use koi kaafir hi choR ker jaaye ga".  Shayed sach hi kehte the woh!

Hum huwe tum huwe ke meer huwe
us kii zulfoN    ke sab    aseer huwe*


*(ye shyr is liye likha ke hamare aik dost dusre misreh main us ko tanzian hamesah US - United States - parhte hain)

On "Midlife Crisis of Men"

"Tum jaante ho mard ke 'mid-life crisis' ka sab se bhayanak roop kaun sa hota hai?"

"Kaunsa?"

"Jab woh apni dhalti jawani ko chupaane ke liye aurat pe zulm-o-jabar pe utar aata hai"

Three Dreams of Ann Frank

Last week, I had to go to Iowa for hospital work. I was tagged with a local family doctor. It was an eye-opener. We drove miles and miles of beautiful, lush green cornfields and soybean farms. He told me that his family always wanted him to be a farmer, but he decided to be a small-town doctor, though he still helps out his father as a part-time farmer. I laughed and said: "In our part of the world, all parents want their children to be doctors."

Most importantly, I learned that small farmers struggle in the midwest USA despite highly fertile land. They have been exploited in the same way as in any other part of the world. Small farmers can not compete with big giant corporations and are eventually bullied out to sell their farms (Ha! Walmart). The cost and maintenance of new farming machines are skyrocketing. To ease the pain of financial hardships, towns set up small weekly markets for local farmers and retailers to sell vegetables, fruits, crafts, etc. We drove to the neighboring state of Minnesota to see the Thursday market in Rochester. There was a stall of books written by local authors. I bought a storybook by Rod Starcke: "Three Dreams of Anne Frank." It was an interesting story of a young girl, Anne, struggling to write a good Fairy tale. As the story evolves, she goes through a mystical journey of three dreams named Ocean, Church, and The Tracks (of the train) - where out of her fear and fight for survival (and her deaths), she learns to help out other people At the end, she writes: "Finally! I have it right. Ellen dies and comes back in people's dreams so that she can keep comforting them even after death".

It sounds like a typical life story of any Sufi !!!

I was not expecting such a forceful story sitting at a small stall in a small town. It was just beautiful.

*

On "Hijab"

"Mera Shohar kehta hai: Agar main ne hijab nahi pehna to woh mujeh choR dega. Mujhe kiya kerna chahiye? Mere 2 chote bachhe hain. Main kahan jaun gi?"

"Wese to hijab tumhara aur tumhare khuda ke beech ka muamla hai. Par agar tum apne ghar ko pamaali se bachaane ke liye hijab pahen leti ho to mere khayal main, ye amal khuda ki nazar main, hijab pahenne ki har dusri illat se afzal-tar hoga."

A quote

Captain America:Civil War

This is an interesting movie where they have collected all famous superheroes. This movie though marked by periodic action of typical spider-man/Iron Man/Avengers type movies but more than half of a movie is discussion:

Is it ethically right to accept collateral damages in the eternal war of Good and Evil? Violence eventually bore more violence, and killing innocent individuals for the sake of the prevalence of truth may not be justifiable. Do we call it collateral damage when other people are dying but when our own loved ones die, we become egoistic revengers? (and that creates civil war among superheroes, as they cannot come to a logical conclusion).

 (ringing bell of Iraq war? or US drone attacks?)

 - or was it another shrewd move of evil by implanting this debate among advocates of truth?

It reminded me the famous quote of German-American author, Charles Bukowski that: "The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”

Robert Downey Jr. again proved himself to be the #1 heartthrob of Hollywood.

Trailer here: https://youtu.be/uVdV-lxRPFo

Quote - True?

"There is no sincerer love than the love of food" - George Bernard Shaw

On 'Sufism - and Philosophy &Science"

(Someone sent this quote yesterday. Religion, Philosophy and Science are travelling together over centuries in quest of truth).

صوفی جو تجرید پیش کرتا ھے واردات کے بعد ، برسوں بعد فلسفی اس پہ دھیان باندھتا ھے اور اس بھی برسوں بعد سائنس دان اس کی مساوات دریافت کرتا ھے۔

Depression - 2

(one email on previous post on depression. Speechless)

".....A very good friend of mine had a history of attempted suicide, and was on medications. He was married with two beautiful children, and was always joking with me. He was admitted to hospital and was treated for many days. Finally, they felt comfortable and discharged him. After getting home, next day he hanged himself in his basement. He and his wife both were doctors and were in successful practices in their specialties......."