Japenese proverb

 

On Christmas

"YasU Maseeh ke aage mera sir is liye kham nahi hai - kiun ke woh khuda ka nabi tha, ya koi maujiza tha ya maujize kerta tha - bulke isliye hai ke - woh shaks zameen pe basne wale dusre insaanoN ke liye - us daur ke khudaoN ke haaton - Suli char gaya tha!".

It goes true for all humans who walk on his footstep 

 

On 'contemplating'

 

On 'Oneness'

 

A painting from German artist Lucio Orlando

 

On Bertrand Russell's quote

Although I disagree with Bertrand Russell's following observation, but it also tells me that Islam's extreme amalgamation with real/practical life is validated. On a personal note, I think Bertrand Russel is referring to political Islam after Mohammad's death, and not to the real Quranic Islam which values are nearer to other Abrahamic religions and Buddhism.

“Among religions, Bolshevism is to be reckoned with Mohammedanism rather than with Christianity and Buddhism. Christianity and Buddhism are primarily personal religions, with mystical doctrines and a love of contemplation. Mohammedanism and Bolshevism are practical, social, unspiritual, concerned to win the empire of this world. Their founders would not have resisted the third of the temptations in the wilderness. What Mohammedanism did for the Arabs, Bolshevism may do for the Russians. As Ali went down before the politicians who only rallied to the Prophet after his success, so the genuine Communists may go down before those who are now rallying to the ranks of the Bolsheviks. If so, Asiatic empire with all its pomps and splendors may well be the next stage of development, and Communism may seem, in historical retrospect, as small a part of Bolshevism as abstinence from alcohol is of Mohammedanism." 

 ―Bertrand Russell, The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism (1920), Part I, The Present Condition of Russia, IX. International Policy, page, 106

A literary Joke

حفیظ جالندھری کی طبیعت خراب ہوئی تو حکیم فقیر محمد چشتی کے پاس علاج کے لیے گئے. مرض کی تشخیص کے بعد حکیم صاحب نے انہیں پرہیز بتایا:

 " آپ نے اب کوئی دماغی کام نہیں کرنا"

جالندھری نے کہا:

" میں شاہنامہ اسلام لکھ رہا ہوں"

حکیم صاحب بولے:

 "وہ لکھتے رہو"----

Aik khubsurat dua

 Mumtaz Mufti likhte hain partition se pehle unke ghar aik hindu pandit kaa aana huwa. Mumtaz Mufti ki amma ne un se kaha - is bachhe ke liye koi dua karain. 

Unhon ne dua di ke - bhagwan kare ise zindi main achhe log milain. 

Mumtaz mufti kehte hain, isi dua ki badolat unki mulaqat Qudratullah Shahab, Ashfaq Ahmad, Banu Qudsia aur Ibne Insha se ho gai.

~ kitni khubsurat dua hai - Khuda kare tumhe zindagi main achhe log milain

Munir Niazi observes!

 

Imtihan

 Jab main ne Karachi main "muqable ka imtihan"* (Public Service Commission) paas kiya aur abba ko bataya to abba ne kaha: 

"Beta imtihan to ab shuru huwa hai!"

(I very quickly resigned and never pursued a career in it)

* Found this term always funny