Coffee

 -

---How do you prefer your coffee?

---With you

Makan

 

Punishment

 

Two sides of pencil

 

One of Iqbal's classic

 

Ishq!

عشق کا لفظ عشقہ سے ماخوذ ہے

جو اس بیل کا نام ہے

جس کو عربی میں "لہلاب"

اور ہندی میں "عشق پیچاں"

اردو میں (امر بیل)

اور پشتو میں جسکو (نیلا داری) کہتے ہیں

یہ بیل جس درخت سے لپیٹ جائے

اس کو بے برگ وبار کر دیتی ہے

پھر زرد ہو جاتا ہے

اور کچھ دنوں بعد بلکل خشک ہو جاتا ہے

اس طرح جب عشق ؛ قلب عاشق میں پیدا ہو

تو غیر محبوب قلب سے فنا؛ خود عاشق کی ذات فنا اور معشوق ہی معشوق رہ جاتا ہے۔۔۔ 

Life goes on!!

 

One common mistake on Meer Shyr

 Everyone reads

Actual Shyr is

One common mistake

 Most of people, even publications, speak/write the following shyr of Ghalib:

The actual radeef is:

I agree with that

 

Agree?

 

Inflation or Greed?

 I go to 'Whole Foods' regularly, which means once every five years!!!

It is called Whole Foods because it costs you a whole paycheck.

I ended up in Whole Foods this time because I had to return stuff to Amazon. I met an elderly gentleman who was almost 85-90 years old. As I complained under my breath about unreasonably high prices on the shelves, he smiled and said:

"Our Federal government thinks it's all due to inflation. No, my son, this is all due to the greed of big chain corporations and business owners who jacked up prices in the pandemic, digested all government loans without paying them back, and now don't want to bring prices back down. It's not inflation; it's all greed." 

One great shyr

زُلفیں ، سینہ ، ناف ، کمر

ایک ندی میں کتنے بَھنور

"جاں نثار اختر" 

Doctor

I feel particularly privileged to have had good teachers from elementary till post-graduation. During my internship (house job) back in my previous life in Pakistan, one of our junior professors, who had recently returned from England after pursuing MRCP, had an immense passion for teaching. Once he said,

"As a doctor, you are obliged to teach and pass on knowledge to the juniors. The word doctor derives from the Latin word “docere,” meaning "to teach."