Bister ke waade

 Bister pe kiye gaye waade aksar wafa nahi kerte!

Migration

 

It hurts!!

 

Munir Niazi

 

Ibne-safi's poem on death of his mother

 

Maut aur rozgaar

Insaan ko agar sirf do cheezon ka yaqeen ho to sab kuch sahl ho jaaye:

Aik to ye ke maut ka aik din muayyan hai 

 - aur dusra ye ke rizq ki kushadgi pe uska koi akhtiyaar nahi, woh sirh mehnat ka hamil hai. 

crazy people

 (Somebody made an interesting observation - and I tend to agree with it up to some extent)

"Normal people do not enjoy the actual fruit and joy of life. Only crazy people get blessed with it."

dimag

 "Insaan apne dimag se pareshan hai"

Surah Kahaf, Time-Travel aur Stephen Hawkins

 (I may not agree completely, but a pretty strong argument)

"Surah Kahaf ka khulasa ye hai ke agar khuda chahta to insaan ko waqt pe ikhtiyaar de deta 

- time-travel ki quwwat ata ker deta. 

Magar insaan apne waqt main hi mar jaaye to us ke liye asani hai. 

Stephen Hawkins ka bhi yahi kehna tha: Time-travel pe insaan ka akhtiyaar nahi, werna mustaqbil ke insaan hamare paas aa chuke hote"

Charles Dickens says

مرد خوش قسمت ہے اگر وہ عورت کی پہلی محبت ہو، 

عورت خوش قسمت ہے اگر وہ مرد کی آخری محبت ہو

Charles Dickens

Tale of Two Cities۔

Ustad

(An old conversation when I was a kid)

 "Main aap ko ustad manun agar main chati, saatween, aathween, naween aur dasween - har jamat main awwal aun"

"bete! agar tum itne qabil hote to tumhe ustad ki zaroorart hi nahi"

On being soft

 

Math

 

Societal manipulation

 

Quote

مرد اُتنا ہی مضبُوط ہوتا ہے جتنی مضبوطی سے عورت نے اُسے تھاما ہوتا ہے...

بیورلی جینکنز - 

(Beverly Jenkins is an Afro-American author from Michigan)

A different take on Abraham's story

 

PK

 

Kinds of Love

 

Reputation

 After the pandemic, I think this was the first time I walked into the theater to watch the movie 'Top Gun.' At least say, I thoroughly enjoyed the film because of Tom Cruise, effects, dialogue, and focused storyline (though there was a little Bollywood touch in the storyline). My favorite was the following dialogue.

"Reputation precedes arrival."

"Thank you, Sir."

"It was not meant to be a compliment."

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Married for 7 lives

I have never been a firm believer in reincarnation. I read about it every day. I met people who vouched about it from their anecdotal experience. Following is another experience from my one trip to El Salvador, where I took a cultural trip to see Mayan culture.

I met a couple in our tour group. It was interesting as the woman's name was 'Maya.' They asked me to believe in their tale in the name of their children. Maya described her story in the presence of her husband as below:

"As far as we remember, we first met 3500 years ago. My man was in somewhat 50-60 years of age when he died, and it was a scorching hot day. He was dressed in a classic Mayan tribal outfit. He probably died of heart failure as he was swollen and used to get short of breath easily the day he died. I was in love with him. I died very soon afterward in his grief. I returned to this world 2500 years afterward in old India, where I used to dress in white Saree and wear flowers in my hair. He took another thousand years to get born again. When he asked me if I should have found another soul in between, I replied: my heart didn't accept any other man, but I became friends with another female soul - and became kind of a lesbian until  you and I were born together."

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