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The words, stories of wait, and the dreams..
They come to listen from heavens.. all of them: the divine creatures.
we all should sing along cinderella ;)
These Rock in the AL-ehsaa in Saudi Arabia
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लोग दौलत देखते हैं, हम इज़्ज़त देखते हैं,लोग मंज़िल देखते हैं,
हम सफ़र देखते हैं,लोग दोस्ती बनाते हैं, हम उसे निभाते हैं.
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दिल मैं में जिनको भी जगह देता हूँ खुद से ज़्यादा मैं उनका ख्याल रखता हूँ
जैसे के तुम मेरे दोस्त.
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Sukoon sa Dil ko Milta hai Aey Dost,
Tere Dil me Apne liye Apnapan Dekh Kar.
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Maza aata h kisi ko stane me,
Ruthe na koi to maza kya manane me,
Ek dosto se hi to khushi h,
Warna rakha kya h es zindgi or zamane me.
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हम वक्त गुजारने के लिए
दोस्तों को नही रखते,
दोस्तों के साथ रहने केलिए वक्त रखते है.
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सच्चे दोस्त हमे कभी गिरने नहीं देते,
ना किसी कि नजरों मे, ना किसी के कदमों मे.!!
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लोग रूप देखते है ,हम दिल देखते है ,
लोग सपने देखते है हम हक़ीकत देखते है,
लोग दुनिया मे दोस्त देखते है,
हम दोस्तो मे दुनिया देखते है.
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लोग पूछते हैं इतने गम में भी खुश क्युँ हो..
मैने कहा दुनिया साथ दे न दे.. मेरा दोस्त तो साथ हैं.”
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एक बात हमेशा याद रखना दोस्तों
ढूंढने पर वही मिलेंगे जो खो गए थे,
वो कभी नहीं मिलेंगे जो बदल गए है.
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मेरे “शब्दों” को इतने ध्यान से ना पढ़ा करो दोस्तों,
कुछ याद रह गया तो.. मुझे भूल नहीं पाओगे!
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Dua karte hain hum sar jukaye,
Aye dost tu apni manzil hamse jaldi paye
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अपनी दोस्ती का बस इतना सा उसूल है…
ज़ब तू कुबूल है तो तेरा सब कुछ कुबूल है….
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कोन कहेता है की दोस्ती बराबरी वालो में होती है..
सच तो ये है की दोस्ती में सब बराबर होता है.
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Na chahat hai sitaron ki, Na tamanna hay nazaroon ki,
Aap jaisa aik Dost mila kya zarorat hay hazaron ki.
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Kuch dair ka intazar mila hum ko par sab se sweet yaar mila hum ko,
Na rahi tamanna kisi Aur ki teri Dosti se wo pyar mila hum ko..!
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Hum to dosti ke saudagar hai DIL ka sauda kar Jayege,
agar honge aap hamari dosti ke kharidar to dosti ki kasam
hum muft mei bikk jayege.
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Kuch Rishtey Anjaane Mein Ban Jaate Hain
Pehle Dil Se Phir Zindagi Se Jud Jaate Hain
Kehte Hain Uss Daur Ko Dosti
Jismein Anjaane Na Jaane Kab Apne Ban Jaate Hain
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Itihaas Ke Har Panne Par Likha Hai
Dosti Kabhi Badi Nahi Hoti
Nibhane Wale Hamesha Bade Hote Hain
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Khushiyan Itni Ho Ki Aankhon Mein Aasu Jam Jaaye
Lamhe Ho Itne Haseen Ki Waqt Bhi Tham Jaaye
Dosti Nibhayeinge Hum Aapse Iss Tarah Ki
Sath Gujra Hua Har Pal Zindagi Ban Jaaye…
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Phoolon Ki Mahak Ko Churaya Nahi Jaata
Sooraj Ki Kirno Ko Chupaya Nahi Jaata
Kitne Bhi Door Raho Aye Dost Tum
Dosti Mein Aap Jaise Dost Ko Bhulaya Nahi Jaata
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“हम अपने पर गुरुर नहीं करते,
याद करने के लिए किसी को मजबूर नहीं करते.
मगर जब एक बार किसी को दोस्त बना ले,
तो उससे अपने दिल से दूर नहीं करते.”
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“कोई दोस्त कभी पुराना नहीं होता,
कुछ दिन बात न करने से बेगाना नहीं होता,
दोस्ती में दुरी तो आती रहती हैं,
पर दुरी का मतलब भुलाना नहीं होता.”
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Teri dosti mein khud ko mehfooz maante hain,
Hum doston me tumhe sabse azeez maante hai.
Teri dosti ke saaye mein zinda hain,
Hm to tujhe khuda ka diya hua tabeez mante hai.
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Chal Raha Tha Tanha Zindagi Ke Safar Mein,
Kuch Nahi Tha Mayoos Baithe Dil Mein,
Jab Se Bana Diya Khuda Ne Aapko Dost Mera,
Jannat Le Kar Aayi Dosti Tumhari Meri Sunsaan Zindagi Mein…
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Kabhi Pasnd Na Aaye Meri Dosti To Saaf Keh Dena Dost,
Qasam Se.,Hans Kr Chale Jaengy Teri Zindagi Se Teri Khushi Ki Khatir
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Dosti ka rista do anjano ko jod deta hai,
har kadam per zindgi ko nya mod deta hai,
saccha dost sath deta hai tab,
jab apna saya bhi sath chod deta hai..
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Dosti Ek Gunaah Hai Toh Hone Mat Denaa
Dosti Khudaa Hai Toh Khoney Mat Denaa
Karte Ho Dosti Jab Kisi Se Toh Kabhi Us
Dost Ko Rone Na Denaa!!
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Dosti Ki Tadap Ko Dikhaya Nhi Jata
Dil Mein Lagi Aag Ko Bhulaya Nhi Jata
Kitni Bhi Doori Ho Dosti Mein Aap Jaise
Dost Ko Bhulaya Nhi Jata!
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Dosti Koi Khoj Nahi Hoti
Yeh Har Kisi Se Har Roz Nahi Hoti
Apni Zindagi Mein Hume Be Wajah
Mat Samajhana Kyunki Palkhein Aankhon
Par Kabhi Bhoj Nahi Hoti!
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भूलना चाहो तो भी याद हमारी आएगी!
दिल की गहराई मे हमारी तस्वीर बस जाएगी!!
ढूढ़ने चले हो हमसे बेहतर दोस्त!
तलाश हमसे शुरू होकर हम पे ही ख़त्म हो जाएगी!!
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Tumhari is ada ka kya jawab du,
apne dost ko kya uphar du,
koi achcha sa phool hota to mali se mangvata,
jo khud gulab hai usko kya gulab du.
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Labo se chu kar ik jaam dete jana,
Hathon se apne ik paigam dete jana,
Meri mohabbat ko thukraya jo tune,
To ise dosti ka nam dete jana.
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Ham tere dil mein rahenge ek yaad bankar,
Tere lab pa khilenge muskaan bankar,
Kabhi hamein apne se juda na samajhna,
Hum tere saath challenge aasmaan bankar.
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दोस्तों की कमी को पहचानते है हम;
दुनियाँ के गमों को भी जानते है हम;
आप जैसे दोस्तों के ही सहारे,
आज भी हँस कर जीना जानते है हम!!
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Dosti imtihan nahi viswas mangti hai,
Nazar aur kuch nahi dost ka deedar mangti hai,
Zindagi apne liye kuch nahi par aapke liye,
Dua hazaar mangti hai…
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Pyar Ki Masti Kisi Dukan Mein Nahi Bikti
Acche Doston Ki Dosti Har Waqt Nahi Milti
Rakhna Dosti Ki Ahmiyat Dil Mein Sajakar
Kyunki Yaaron Ki Yaari Kabhi Gairo Se Nahi Milti.
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ऐ दोस्त मै तेरी खुशीयां बाटने शायद न आ सकुं,
पर ये वादा रहा,
जब गम आऐ तो खबर कर देना, सारे के सारे ले जाउंगा.
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लोग दौलत देखते हैं, हम इज़्ज़त देखते हैं,
लोग मंज़िल देखते हैं, हम सफ़र देखते हैं,
लोग दोस्ती बनाते हैं, हम उसे निभाते हैं.
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जिन्दगी जख्मो से भरी है,
वक्त को मरहम बनाना सीख लो,
हारना तो है एक दिन मौत से,
फिलहाल दोस्तों के साथ जिन्दगी जीना सीख लो..!!
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दोस्त तो दोस्त होता है, उसकी कोई जात या धर्म नही होता,
वो ख़ुशी के टाइम पे भी गालियाँ सुनता है और बुरे टाइम पे भी।
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Teri dosti mein khud ko mehfooz maante hain,
Hum doston me tumhe sabse azeez maante hai.
Teri dosti ke saaye mein zinda hain,
Hm to tujhe khuda ka diya hua tabeez mante hai.
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Dosti ka shukriya kuch is trah ada karu,
Aap bhul bhi jao to main yaad karu,
Dosti ne bas itna sikhaya hai muze
Ke khud se pahle apke liye dua karu.
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Teri dosti ka rista pyara hai itna ke,
Har kadam pay muskuratay hain hum..!!
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ए दोस्त…..
कौन कहता है की मुझ में कोई कमाल रखा है……
मुझे तो बस कुछ दोस्तो ने संभाल रक्खा है……
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Dosti imtihan nahi vishwas mangti hai..
nazar aur kuchh nahi dost ka didar mangti hai…
Zindagi apne liye kuchh bhi nahi,
par dosto ke liye dua hazar mangti hai…
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Rishto se badi chahat kya hogi,
dosti se badi ibadat kya hogi,
jise dost mil jaye AAp jaisa,
use zindgi se shikayat kya hogi.
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Faasle mita kar aapas main pyaar rakhna,.
dosti ka ye rishta hamesha barkaraar rakhna,
bichhad jaaye kabhi aapse hum,
aankhon main hamesha hamara intzaar rakhna…
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Zindagi bhi hum apni khushi se luta de,
agar khuda hamari umar apko laga de
aur khuda se chahte kuch bhi nahi bas
hr janam me apko hamara dost bana de
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Hastiya mit gai naam kamane m,
Umar beet gai khusiya paane m,
Ek pal me dur na ho jana humse,
Hame to saalo lage hai,
Aap jaisha DOST pane me
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Dosti Karo To Hamesha Muskra K,
Kisi Ko Dhoka na Do Apna Bana K,
Kar lo yaad Jab Tak Hum Zinda hai,
Fir na Kehna Chale Gaye Dil Me Yade basa ke
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Meri dosti ke sare ehsas le lo,
Dil Se pyar ke sare jajbat le lo,
Nhi chorenge saath tumhare,
Is dosti ke chahe hazaron imtehan le lo…
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Har din ye dil akela hota hai,
Har ek pal uske bina adhura hota hai,
Koi yaad karta h koi bhoola deta hai,
Par har ek friend zaroori hota hai…
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Teri dosti ne diya sakun itna,
Ki tere baad koi bhi accha na lage,
Tujhe karni ho bewafai to is ada se karna,
Ki tere baad koi bhi bewafa na lage…
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Teri dosti ki aadat si pad gayi hai mujhe,
Kuch der tere sath chalana baki hai.
Shamshan mein jalta chodkar mat jana,
Warna ruh kahegi k ruk ja,
Abhi tere yaar ka dil jalna baki hai.
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करनी है खुदा से गुजारिश,
तेरी दोस्ती के सिवा कोई बंदगी न मिले,
हर जनम में मिले दोस्त तेरे जैसा,
या फिर कभी जिंदगी न मिले।
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गुनाह करके सजा से डरते है,
ज़हर पी के दवा से डरते है.
दुश्मनो के सितम का खौफ नहीं हमे,
हम तो दोस्तों के खफा होने से डरते है.
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Dooriya Toh Dosti Me Aati Rehti Hai,
Phir B Ye Dosti Dilon Ko Mila Detee Hain,
Wo Dost Hi Kya Joh Naraaz Na Ho,
Magar Sachi Dosti Doston Ko Mana Leti Hain!
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वातावरण को जो महका दे उसे ‘इत्र’ कहते हैं,
जीवन को जो महका दे उसे ही ‘मित्र’ कहते हैंl
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Maangi thi jab humne dua rab se,
Dena mujhe wo dost ho jo alag sabse,
Usne hume mila diya aapse aur kaha
Sambhaalo inhe yeh anmol hai sab se.
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Bade ajeeb hain ye zindagi ke raaste,
anjane mod par kuchh log dost ban jate hain,
milne ki khushi de ya na de
bichhadne ka gam zarur de jate hain…
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दोस्ती नाम है सुख दुख की कहानी का,
दोस्ती नाम है सदा मुस्कुराने का,
यह कोई पल भर की पहचान नही,
दोस्ती नाम है सदा साथ निभाने का.
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याद तुम्हारी ना आए ऐसा हम होने ना देंगे,
दोस्त तुम्हारे जैसा हम खोने नही देंगे,
एक दो स्मस करते रहना,
वरना रात को हम सोने नही डेनेगे.
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Dosti Karo To Hamesha Muskra K,
Kisi Ko Dhoka na Do Apna Bana K,
Kar lo yaad Jab Tak Hum Zinda hai,
Fir na Kehna Chale Gaye Dil Me Yade basa ke..
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Rishto se badi chahat kya hogi,
dosti se badi ibadat kya hogi,
jise dost mil jaye AAp jaisa,
use zindgi se shikayat kya hogi.
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Faasle mita kar aapas main pyaar rakhna,.
dosti ka ye rishta hamesha barkaraar rakhna,
bichhad jaaye kabhi aapse hum,
aankhon main hamesha hamara intzaar rakhna…
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Zindagi bhi hum apni khushi se luta de,
agar khuda hamari umar apko laga de
aur khuda se chahte kuch bhi nahi bas
hr janam me apko hamara dost bana de
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Hastiya mit gai naam kamane m,
Umar beet gai khusiya paane m,
Ek pal me dur na ho jana humse,
Hame to saalo lage hai,
Aap jaisha DOST pane me
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Dosti Karo To Hamesha Muskra K,
Kisi Ko Dhoka na Do Apna Bana K,
Kar lo yaad Jab Tak Hum Zinda hai,
Fir na Kehna Chale Gaye Dil Me Yade basa ke
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Meri dosti ke sare ehsas le lo,
Dil Se pyar ke sare jajbat le lo,
Nhi chorenge saath tumhare,
Is dosti ke chahe hazaron imtehan le lo…
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Har din ye dil akela hota hai,
Har ek pal uske bina adhura hota hai,
Koi yaad karta h koi bhoola deta hai,
Par har ek friend zaroori hota hai…
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Teri dosti ne diya sakun itna,
Ki tere baad koi bhi accha na lage,
Tujhe karni ho bewafai to is ada se karna,
Ki tere baad koi bhi bewafa na lage…
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Kabhi dil ki kamzori bankar reh jati he,
Kabhi waqt ki majburi bankar reh jati he,
Ye dosti wo pani he,
Jitna bhi piyo pyas adhuri reh jati he…..
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Kuch Rishte Iss Jahaan Mein Khaas Hote Hai;
Hawa Ke Rukh Se Jin Ke Ehsaas Hote Hai;
Yeh Dil Ki Kashish Nahi To Aur Kiya Hai Doston;
Door Reh Kar Bhi Woh Dil Ke Kitne Paas Hote Hai!…….
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दोस्त को दोस्त का इशारा याद रहेता हे,
हर दोस्त को अपना दोस्ताना याद रहेता हे,
कुछ पल सच्चे दोस्त के साथ तो गुजारो,
वो अफ़साना मौत तक याद रहेता हे|
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Dosti ka shukriya kuch is trah ada karu,
Aap bhul bhi jao to main yaad karu,
Dosti ne bas itna sikhaya hai muze
Ke khud se pahle apke liye dua karu.
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Suna Hai Khuda Ke Darbar Se..
Kuch Farishtey Faraar Ho Gaye..
Kuch to Vaapas Chale Gaye..
Aur Kuch Humare Yaar Ho Gaye.
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Milna bichdna sab kismat ka khel hai,
Kabhi nafrat to kabhi dilo ka mail hai,
Beek jata hai har rishta duniya me,
Sirf dosti hi yaha “NOT FOR SALE” hai.
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Manzilo Se Apni Kabhi Dar Na Jaana,
Raastey Ki Pareshaaniyo Se Kahi Toot Na Jaana,
Jab B Zaroorat Ho Zindagi Me Kisi Apne Ki,
Hum Aapke Apne Hi Hai Yeh Bhool Na Jaana!
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umar ki rah me insaan badal jata hai,
waqt ki aandhi me tufan badal jata hai,
sochta hun tumhe pareshan na karu,
lekin baad me irada badal jata hai.
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yaad tumhari na aye aisa ham hone na denge,
dost tumhare jaisa ham khone nahi denge,
ek do SMS karte rahna,
warna raat ko ham sone nahi denege.
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hame ek aisa sathi chahiye,
jo hame apna maan sake,
hamare har dukh-dard ko jo baat sake,
jab ham chal bhi rahe ho tez barish me,
to hamare behte hue ansu ko vo pehchan sake.
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Dosti dard nahi khushiyo ki sogat hai
Kisi apne ka jindgi bhar ka sath hai
Ye to dilo ka wo khubsurat ahsas hai
Jiske dam se rosan ye sari kaynaat hai
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Dosti mein duriyaan toh aati jaati rehti hain,
Fir bhi dosti dilon ko milati rehti hain,
Woh dost hi kya jo naaraz na ho,
Par sachchi dosti doston ko manati rehti hain..
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Dosti ki judaai ka gham mat karna,
Door rehke bhi dosti kam mat karna,
Agar milaaye zindagi kisi modh pe,
To humein dekh kar aankhein band mat karna.
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Dosti aur Pyaar nadi pe gumne gye…
Pyaar nadi me gir gya Q?
Qki pyaar andha hota hai
Uske piche dosti bhi gir gai Q?
Qki dosti kisi ka sath nahi chodti.
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Rate gumnaam hoti hai,
Din kisi ke naam hota hai,
Hum zindagi kuch iss tarahjeete hain,
Ki har lamha sirf doston ke hi naam hota hai.
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Mehak dosti ki ishq se kam nahin hoti,
Ishq se duniya khatam nahin hoti,
Agar saath ho zindagi me doston ka,
To kathor zindagi bhi kisi jannat se kam nahin hoti.
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Aapkee Dosti Per Maan Hai Mujhe,
Kall Tha Jitna Bhrosa Utna Aaj Hai Mujhe,
Dost Voh Nhi Jo Sukh Mein Saath Rahe,
Dost Vahi Hai Jo Hardum Apnepan Ka Ehsass De…
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क्यूँ मुश्किलों में साथ देते हैं दोस्त
क्यूँ गम को बाँट लेते हैं दोस्त,
न रिश्ता खून का न रिवाज से बंधा है,
फिर भी ज़िन्दगी भर साथ देते हैं दोस्त
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दोस्ती होती है दिले राज़ बताने के लिए,
हम अपनी हानशी मिटा दें आपको हसने के लिए,
मिलने की तो आपको फ़ुर्सत नही,
तो हम स्मस करते हैं अपनी याद दिलाने के लिए.
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उमर की रह मे इंसान बदल जाता है,
वक़्त की आँधी मे तूफान बदल जाता है,
सोचता हूँ तुम्हे परेशन ना करू,
लेकिन बाद मे इरादा बदल जाता है.
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Tere dosti me ek nasha hai,
Tabhi to yeh saari duniya hamse khafa hai,
Naa karo hamse itni dosti,
Ki dil hi hamse puchhe teri dhadkan kahan hai.
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Dosti to sirf ittifaq hai,
Yeh to dillon ki mulaqat hai..
Dosti nahi dekhti ye din hai ki raat hai,
Isme to sirf wafadari or jazbaat hai..!
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आओ ….. ताल्लुकात को कुछ और नाम दें,
ये दोस्ती का नाम तो बदनाम हो गया..
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Tere dosti mein mujhe hogaya hai fever,
Tere dosti mein mujhe hogaya hai fever,
DEBIT the receiver, CREDIT the giver!!
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“इश्क के सहारे जिया नहीं करते,
गम के प्यालों को पिया नहीं करते,
कुछ नवाब दोस्त हैं हमारे,
जिनको परेशान न करो तो वो याद ही किया नहीं करते.”
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Dosti Ki Mahek Ishq Se Kam Nahi Hoti,
Ishq Pe Hi Zindgi Khatm Nahi Hoti,
Agar Sath Ho Zindgi Mein Achche Doston Ka,
Zindagi Kisi Jannat Se Kam Nahi Hoti.
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Dosti aisi ho ke dhadkan main bas jaye.
Saans bhi loo to khushboo yaar uski aaye..!
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Rishto se badi chahat kya hogi,
dosti se badi ibadat kya hogi,
jise dost mil jaye AAp jaisa,
use zindgi se shikayat kya hogi.
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Aankhon Mein Basne Wale Pyara Sa Ishara Ho
Andheri Raat Me Chamkta Sitara Ho
Chubh Nahi Sakti Udasi kabhi usko
Jiska Koi Dost Itna Pyara Ho.
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Pyaar aur dosti mein itna fark paya hai.
Pyaar ne sahaara diya aur dost ne nibhaaya hai.
Kis rishte ko gehara kahu?
Ek ne zindagi di aur dusre ne jeena sikhaaya hai.
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Dosti Najaron Se Ho To Kudrat Kehte Hai,
Sitaron Se Ho To Jannat Kehte Hai,
Husn Se Ho To Mohabbat Kehte Hai,
Aur Aapse Ho To Use Kismat Kehte Hai.
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Kehte hain dost banana zindagi hai
Dosti nibhana zindagi hai
Kitne bhi busy kyun na rahe din bhar
Magar ek pal ke liye hi sahi
Doston ki yaad aana hi zindagi hai
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Kuchh fasle sirf aankhon se hote hain,
Dil ke fasle do baton se hote hai,
Koi lakh bhulane ki koshish kare,
Par dosti ke rishte khatam sirf saanson se hote hai.
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Waqt bahut kam hai sath bitane ke liye,
Isko na ganwana kabhi roothne manane ke liye,
Dosti to hamne kar li aap se,
Bas thoda sa sath dena is ko nibhane ke liye.
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Jaam pe jaam pine se kya fayada,
Shaam ko pee subaha phir utar jayegi,
Peena hai to do bund dosti ke pee,
Sari zindagi teri nashe mein guzar jayegi.
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Dost ka pyar dua se kam nahi hota,
Woh chahe door ho phir bhi koi gham nahi hota,
Aksar pyar mein dosti kam ho jati hain,
Magar dosti mein pyar kabhi kam nahi hota.
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Kitne azeez ho tum ye batayein kaise,
Hamari sachchai aap ko dikhayein kaise,
Aapki dosti hai anmol hamare liye,
Aapko chand lafzon mein samjhayein kaise.
→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→ www.fullystuff.com/dosti-shayari/
This is small gift for people whom like my pictures ..
Taken in Ehsaa , Saudia Arabia using my old Camera Canon EOS 10D + my old lens Sigma 15-30mm f3.5-4.5 EX DG IF ||| Raw Picture Converted using Aobe Lightroom
[E X P L O R E D]
This very barbed wire is what separates India and China. I shot this at Nathula Pass at the Indo-China border in the state of Sikkim, India 14200ft above sea level. Whatever you see as the background here is China.
If you tried to crossover, there is a good chance that you'll be shot, yet when i looked above i saw birds flying and crossing over, and i was reminded of what Javed Akhtar once said, that 'Birds,rivers, and the Wind are truly free, how unfortunate we are to be Humans.'
It is at a place like this that the magnitude of the foolishness of our doings becomes apparent. What have we done to our world !!
To quote from the song "Gurus of Peace" by A R Rahman,
"Chanda suraj laakhon taare hain jab tere hi yeh saare
Kis baat par hothi hai phir thakraarein
Kheenchi hai lakkeere is jameen pe par na kheencho dekho
Beech mein do dilon ke yeh deewaarein
Duniya mein kahin bhi, dard se koyi bhi…
Duniya mein kahin bhi, dard se koyi bhi
Tadpe to humko yahan pe
Ehsaas uske zakhmon ka ho ke
Apna bhi dil bhar bhar aaye roye aankhein
What are u waiting for another day, another talk,
Somewhere we have to find a new way to peace,
What are you waiting for another sign, another call,
Somewhere we have to find a new way to peace!!!
Doori kyon dilon mein rahe, faasle kyon badhte rahe
Pyaari hai zindagi, hai pyaara jahaan
Rishte badi mushkilon se
bante hai yahaan pe lekin,
tootne ke liye bas ek hi lamha.
Ishq dava hai har ek dard ki
Zanjeer ishq hai har ek rishte ki.
Ishq saari hadhon ko tod daale,
Ishq to duniya ko pal mein mita bhi de,
Ishq hai jo saare jahaan ko aman bhi de
Ronaq ishq se hai saare aalam ki…
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yeh hai meri kahani
khamosh zindagani
sannata keh raha hai
kyun zulm seh raha hai
ek dastaan purani
tanhayi ki zubani
her zakham khil raha hai
kuch mujh se keh raha hai
chubtay kantay yadoon ke daaman say chunta hoon
girti deewaron ke aanchal mai zinda hoon
bass yeh meri kahani
benishaan nishaani
ek darr beh raha hai
kuch mujh se keh raha hai
bajay pyaar ki shabnum mere gulistaan mein
baraste rehte hain har simt maut ke saye
siyahiyon se ulajh padti hain meri aankhein
koi nahi .. koi bhi nahi jo batlaye
main kitni der ujalon ki raah dekhoon gaa
koi nahi hai koi bhi nahi
na pass na durr
ek pyaar hai
dil ki dharkan
apni chahat ka jo ellan kiye jaati hai
zindagi hai jo jiye jaati hai
khoon k ghoont peay jaati hai
khwaab kaanton se siye jaati hai
ab na koi paas hai
phir bhi ehsaas hai
siyahiyon mai uljhi padi
jeene ki ek aas hai
yadoon ka jungle yeh dil
kaanton se jal thal yeh dil
chubtay kantay yadoon ke daaman say chunta hoon
girti deewaron ke aanchal mai zinda hoon
English Translation by Ayesha Khanna:
this is my story
my voiceless existence
where even silence questions
why I bear such injustice
an ancient tale
hearsay of solitude
where each wound blossoms
to whisper softly to me
where I pick the thorns of my memories
and live behind the veil of falling walls
this, this is my story
my unremarkable mark
where fear trickles down
to whisper softly to me
the dew of love glistens
yet death haunts every corner
eyes weary of inky shadows
but no one … no one to tell
how long till light appears
no one … there is no one
not near, not far
this is love
this heartbeat
that keeps announcing its presence
life is validated by living
that continues persevering
dreams are woven by dreaming
alone
and still i sense
entangled in darkness
an inchoate desire to live
jungle of reminiscences, this heart
strewn with thistles, this heart
where I pick the thorns of my memories
and live behind the veil of falling walls
Continued from: www.flickr.com/photos/42093313@N00/52649997760/in/datepos...
The Seed of Tauba
أسْتَغْفِرُ اللهَ رَبي مِنْ كُلِ ذَنبٍ
وَأتُوبُ إلَيهِ
I ask forgiveness of my sins from Allah who is my Lord
and I turn towards Him.
توبوا من ذنوبكم و سوء أدبكم
هذه التوبة غرسي في أرض قلوبكم بناء أبنيه عندكم،
أنقض بناء الشيطان
و أبن بناء الرحمن
و ألحقكم بمولاكم و ربكم عزوجل
“Repent for your misdeeds and your inappropriate regard!
This repentance is my seed in the soil of your hearts
so that I will make the foundation of a building for you.
I will demolish the building of Shaitaan
and make a building of Allah Ar Rahman
and I will make you rejoin with your Maula and Rabb, your Master
and your Lord, Exalted is His Majesty.”
Ghaus Pak (ra)
Ahmed Javaid Sahib had said that identifying flaws and shortcoming of character and behaviour were essential. Just identify them, he had said. I realized why the emphasis on the exercise was heavy.
From that identification by the aql to make disappear ignorance of one’s own self would follow remorse. It would be inevitable. At least for the person who might reflect truthfully on how that feature of their personality had come as an obstacle between them and their Lord.
From that regret would be expressed tauba. The repentance would ask, insist, of forgiveness. A prayer would be uttered. A dua would save the day!
Only days ago I had come across one of the most powerful verses around forgiveness. Giving it was truly Allah Al Ghaffar’s Declaration of love as well as mercy. The former was for His Love (salutations and greetings upon the Mercy of the Universe by His Lord of the Universe). The latter was for his enemies. For it was offered before it was asked for!
First Subhanahu said He wouldn’t destroy them whilst Nabi Kareem (salutations and greetings upon Ar Rauf by Allah Ar Rauf) was amidst them even though that is what they deserved for rejecting him. A trial for them would become a trial for him. Instead then He would grant them leeway because they might seek forgiveness and so He would forgive them.
وَمَا كَانَ ٱللَّهُ لِیُعَذِّبَهُمۡ وَأَنتَ فِیهِمۡۚ
وَمَا كَانَ ٱللَّهُ مُعَذِّبَهُمۡ وَهُمۡ یَسۡتَغۡفِرُونَ
But Allah will not punish them while you (are) among them,
Allah will not punish them while they seek forgiveness.
Surah Al Anfal, Verse 33
Tafseer e Jilani
Wa ma kana Allahu li-yuaddibahum: And Allah has nothing to gain from punishing them, although they were deserving of intense punishment and an exemplary chastisement and destruction complete because of their refuting you and rejecting your Book…
Wa anta fi-him: whilst you are among them meaning that as long as you are among them and in their midst and in their places, then if Allah punished them, certainly it would afflict you like it would afflict them…
Wa: and if it became possible that We would choose you and save you in the moment of punishing them…
Ma kana Allahu mu’addibahum: Allah will still not punish them and will not intend to torment them and uproot them…
Wa hum yastaghfiroon: while they are supplicating before Him for forgiveness i.e. it is expected from them, despite their opposing imaan, faith that they might seek forgiveness in the future, unlike those nations who were destroyed before (because they would not ask for forgiveness ever).
It was extraordinary!
The Quran says that Subhanahu creates veils between Man and his heart when he is disobedient:
وَٱعْلَمُوٓا۟ أَنَّ ٱللَّهَ يَحُولُ بَيْنَ ٱلْمَرْءِ وَقَلْبِهِۦ
وَأَنَّهُۥٓ إِلَيْهِ تُحْشَرُونَ
And know that Allah comes between Man and his heart,
and that to Him you will be gathered.
Surah Al Anfal, Verse 24
Wa’lamo annallaha: And be certain that Allah Al Muttali’u, The Perfect Informer, who knows what is hidden in His Servants…
Yahoolu: diverts and creates an envelope…
Bayna al mar’ay: between Man, the one who has structured himself in a human skeleton, which is specific upon on the fixture of true balance…
Wa qalbihi: and his qalb, the Seat of Recognition within the heart, which encompasses within it Allah Al Haqq, The Truth who is Allah Al Munazza, The One Purified of all, free of being imprisoned, and Allah Al Mubri’o, The One Above Everything in being encompassed or in any limitation, (He creates between Man and his qalb) many veils.
So these veils and coverings always remain, hanging, between Man and his qalb, so the scent of love and closeness cannot reach him, that scent which is Al Muwaddi’, which leads towards fana, dissolution which results in baqa, everlastingness.
And this opening of the doors of Divine Love and Closeness is received only with ikhlas, sincerity, and tasleem, surrender and tafweed, submission and tawakkal, reliance and tabbattal, detachment and Tauheed Al Musqit, One-ness which makes drop everything extra.
Wa: And over all…
Annahu: Indeed, He…
Ilayhi: towards him, Subhanahu and no one else but Him, will rise the shadows in dissolution and will rise the invalid tangibles…
Tuhsharoon: gathered, returned like shadows return to the Creator of Shadows.
That was my favourite image of myself, being a shadow returning to the Creator of Shadows.
Each choice was like a road that had a fork in it. Even when it overtly seemed like there was no option. One path was always of obedience to the nafs and Shaitaan, the other to hear and answer the call of the one sent to teach as the guide, the warner, the witness, the bringer of glad tidings, the sun lit; Nabi Kareem, who Ghaus Pak (ra) calls Al Mazhar Al Ilahaya Az Zaati, the appearance of the Essence of The Divine.
He, who was Allah’s Jamaal, Beauty (Allah Al Jameel pours his greetings and salutations upon him and his family) was the only one for whom Subhanahu deliberately uses a verb (singular when the dual exists in Arabic) in the Quran so as to render them one and not two when it came to the invitation towards His Tauheed, His One-ness.
“Because the calling of the Rasool (peace be upon him and his family) is in fact the calling of Allah Al Haqq…”
يَٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ ٱسْتَجِيبُوا۟ لِلَّهِ وَلِلرَّسُولِ إِذَا دَعَاكُمْ لِمَا يُحْيِيكُمْ
O you who believe!
Respond to Allah and His Messenger when he calls you to what gives you life.
Surah Al Anfal, Verse 24
Tafseer e Jilani
Then said Allah Subhanahu, as a call to the believers, as a reminder for them and as a teaching:
Ya ayyohalladina aamino: O ye who attained to faith, it is the requirement of your imaan, faith, to answer the Call of Allah and answer the call of His Rasool (peace be upon him and his family)…
Istajeebo lillahe: respond to Him, be obedient to what is His Command and His Order and stay away from what He forbids…
Wa lir-Rasool: and His Rasool (peace be upon him and his family) adopt his sunnat, practice, and his adaab, manners and his ikhlaq, etiquette.
Ida da’akum: When he calls you, any one of them, because the calling of the Rasool (peace be upon him and his family) is in fact the calling of Allah Al Haqq…
Lima yuhhyeekum: because he gives you life-giving messages from the Al Aloom Ad Dineeya, knowledges of religion and Al Ma’aaraf Al Haqeeqa, the recognitions of the realities, bearing fruits of Mukashafaat, unveilings and Mushahidaat, witnessings which had become faded for the people who were on the right path and the ones on the wrong path, both (i.e. forgotten by them both and unclear for them).
Nabi Kareem (salutations and greetings upon him and his family by their Lord God) was the reminder for all in the Universe. Those on the right path and those on the wrong. For both would forget again and again.
Ghaus Pak (ra) saying was the reason Rajab came into my focus last year. A 90 day cycle was unheard of in spirituality. 900 years of striving couldn’t ensure a result!
رجب شھر الزرع و شعبان شھر السقی و رمضان شھر الحصاد
و کل یحصد ما زرع و یجزی ما صنع
و من ضیع الزراعۃ ندم یوم حصادہ و احلف ظنہ مع سوء معادہ
Rajab is the month for sowing seeds, Sha’ban is the month for watering, and Ramadan is the month for reaping.
And all reap what they sow and will be rewarded for what they did.
And the one who wasted the (season of) planting regretted it on the day of harvest
and found it to be against what he thought would be the result.
Then the seeds had been about increased, never before performed, extra rituals of worship, nawafil. They were offered from the mind though, not the essence of my being, even though the intention to do them came out of a love for the Imam (as) in my heart.
This time I longed for my acts to be only be about adab and akhlaq, regard and manners, behaviour, character and morality.
Whether they were inspired by the most honoured Ahl e Bait, the family of Nabi Kareem (salutations and greetings upon them by Subhanahu), his companions or his followers who became the Friends of Allah. For there was only one standard that was in replication anyway.
“Glory be to Allah, whose praise should precede every writing and every speech!
May the blessings of Allah rest upon Muhammad, His Prophet and His Apostle, and on his family and companions, by whose guidance error is escaped!”
Imam Al Ghazali (ra)
At first I wanted my seeds to come from what I had heard were the foundational traits of Nabi Pak (salutations and greetings upon his perfection of manner by his Lord who raised him and his family such):
Haya – modesty.
Sakha – generosity.
Murrawwat – affection.
Tawadda’a – humility.
All took their root in sincerity. That sincerity of obedience and surrender was expressed in perfection by one.
قُلْ إِنِّىٓ أُمِرْتُ أَنْ أَعْبُدَ ٱللَّهَ مُخْلِصًۭا لَّهُ ٱلدِّينَ
Say, "Indeed, I, I am commanded that I worship Allah,
being sincere to Him in the religion.
Surah Az Zumar, Verse 11
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Then said Subhanahu, Exalted is He, commanding His Habeeb (salutations and greetings be upon him and his family by His Lord and His Angels) in order to guide him and to convey to His (other) ordinary worshippers, a thing He said that is specified for wisdom, a wisdom empty of the desires of the nafs of showing-off (of the self), only and only for wishing well and perfection (for others);
Qul: Say O Messenger who completes Messenger-hood (peace be upon you)…
Inni umirtu: Indeed I have been ordered from My Lord…
An a’buda Allaha: that I worship Allah as is His Right to be worshipped and be obedient to Him as His Right to be obeyed…
Mukhlisal lahu deen: bringing sincerity into the religion and offering surrender from myself in such a way that I make both, my obedience with sincerity and my surrender with sincerity, the means of reaching Him.
So that I gain recognition of Him as is His Right to be recognized and He pours upon my heart the purified waters of His Tauheed, One-ness and His Karamat, His Honour.
Waters from seas sweet!
But then Ghaus Pak (ra) told me what the seed should be. It was a seed of tauba.
“Repent for your misdeeds and your inappropriate regard!
This repentance is my seed in the soil of your hearts
so that I will make the foundation of a building for you.
I will demolish the building of Shaitaan
and make a building of Allah Ar Rahman
and I will make you rejoin with your Maula and Rabb, your Master
and your Lord, Exalted is His Majesty.”
If I chose repentance, then the seed wouldn’t even be mine. He had promised that he would become the seed. In the soil of my own heart. Shaitaan would lose influence over me as just he did over Amir Muawia (ratu). My remorse, my regret at all times would protect me from him.
The watering of that seed happens in Shabaan. It is the month that Nabi Kareem (salutations and greetings upon his mercy upon us and his family’s) calls his own. So I thought that perhaps he, himself, would be the water that is poured on that seed.
Like rain that Subhanahu describes thus:
Anzalna: We sent down from the Station of Our Generosity…
Mina: from…
As Sama’i ma’an tahooran: the skies, rain pure, utmost in purity, highest, extreme in its purpose (of purification).
The month of Ramadan, Subhanahu calls His Own. Fasting is for Him. It is the only ritual for which He makes Himself the reward. Could it be His Qurb?
It was making sense why Ghaus Pak (ra) only mentioned one seed and no other. In my spiritual journey that I write about incessantly, one thing had made crystal clear these past months. The relationship between possibilities and shirrk, the intertwining of taqwa and tauba.
What had been in my control all along, in all of my decisions, was the exercising of the don’ts. I did things because I didn’t want to do them anymore. I didn’t want to do them because I started to care about the consequences, the most imperative of which became Subhanahu’s Displeasure, His Ghadab. That only came because when the first time I was terrified of my Master’s displeasure. Before that I was unaware of the gravity of my actions careless about their consequences, forgetting both. I was ghafil.
The connection between taqwa and tauba, then I learnt, is that one lies within the other. From the refrain follows naturally the repentance for not doing it earlier. It comes because the forgiveness of Subhanahu is a “breeze of good news and glad tidings and spirituality.”
The Chosen Ones, the Extraordinary, they live in a state of tauba from the start. It in kneaded in their essence.
Ghaus Pak: “The one who was loved by Allah from the beginning, He makes them pure in the world from that which might distract him even for a single moment from His Being.”
The ordinary reach it by way of mindfulness.
قُلۡ یَـٰعِبَادِ ٱلَّذِینَ ءَامَنُوا۟ ٱتَّقُوا۟ رَبَّكُمۡۚ
Say, "O My Servants those who attained to faith!
Be mindful of your Lord.”
Surah Az Zumar, Verse 10
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Qul: Say, Ya Akmal Ar Rusul (Allah sends blessings and salutations upon you since the beginning of Creation till the end), O Messenger who completes the Messenger-hood, give this message on Our Behalf, calling out to the selected sincere amongst my Servants…
Ya ibadi: O My Worshippers, by attaching them with His Essence making them special and honouring them…
Alladina aamano: those who attained to faith from amongst you in the One-ness of My Essence and My Appearance according to My Affairs and My Ever changing-ness in accordance with My Names and Attributes, the requirement of your faith is taqwa, mindfulness from the demands of your desires…
Ittaqu Rabbukum: be conscious of your Lord and stay away from what is forbidden by Him and what He has ordered prevented for you and characterize yourself with His Commands and know that He…
Stay away…from the forbidden, the prevented. It was a don’t!
It made me remember the beginning of the Quran. The second line of Al Baqarah. It said in total clarity; the Book was only a guidance for the one who was Muttaqi, who were conscious of being seen by Him at all times and therefore exercised restraint.
Since the verses in the Quran appear in the order of importance, in terms of a ranking it seemed to be; seeking refuge from Shaitaan, then praise of Subhanahu, the expression of gratitude, a supplication (all in Surah Fateha) and then taqwa, being in a constant state of mindfulness of Him. The start of Al Baqarah.
ذَٰلِكَ ٱلۡكِتَـٰبُ لَا رَیۡبَۛ فِیهِۛ هُدࣰى لِّلۡمُتَّقِینَ
That (is) the book, there is no doubt in it, it is a guidance for the ones conscious of Allah.
Surah Al Baqarah, Verse 2
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Dalika al Kitab-u: That is the Book لَّا یَأۡتِیهِ ٱلۡبَـٰطِلُ مِنۢ بَیۡنِ یَدَیۡهِ وَلَا مِنۡ خَلۡفِهِۦۖ falsehood cannot approach it (the Quran) from before or from behind. The levels of its exaltedness are far from comprehension. It is the gatherer of the ranks of the Exalted Names and Attributes in the Realms of the Unseen and Seen. It is gradually revealed upon your qalb, O Akmal Ar Rusul, O Messenger who completes the Messenger-hood (salutations and greetings upon you and your family by your Lord), compiling in totality the order of the creation of the Universe from the beginning till the end, such that there is no inconsistency in it at all…
La raiba fihi: (such that) there is no possibility of doubt in it because, indeed, it is revealed from Us, its words and its meanings.
Words: Ghaus Pak (ra) means that they make helpless the most prominent of the orators and the most famous of the well-spoken from competing with the shortest verse of it, even though their claims were boastful.
Where as the meaning, it is inclusive of the totality of all the states of realities seen and secrets unseen, which were and which will be in both the worlds, this and the next and it is not possible to know it (that totality) and describe what all is in it, in terms of its wonderful patterns, except for the one who is the knower of the Unseen.
And We only sent it upon you, O one who is deserving of the matter of Messenger-hood and Vice-regency, so you (salutations and blessings upon your qalb that receives and reveals the Quran) can guide by it towards the Ocean of Divine Reality and you can guide through it also the one who is obedient to you from the ones who are walking in bewilderment in the wilderness of being astray, because in it…
Huda-n: is guidance, great…
Lil Muttaqeen: for the ones who safe-guard with compliance to His Commands and avoid what He disallows for their selves from the impurities of sins forbidden with true purification and a reaching towards the real rank and destination.
Safe-guards, avoids, disallows – don’ts!
I could not become grateful. I could only decide I didn’t want to be ungrateful. I could not become generous. I could only decide not to be a miser. I could not decide I will be patient. I could only decide I didn’t want to be impatient. I couldn’t decide to be selfless. I could only want to not be selfish. I couldn’t become sensitive. I could just desire to not be insensitive. Even in rituals, I could not decide to pray the two
Sunnah of Fajr without fail. I could only intend to not miss it.
Each time I exercised a don’t, mindful of it, conscious of it like the Imam Ghazali (ra) became, in my being rather than my mind, I reaped a fruit. I was rewarded for the taqwa, for the restraint. When I failed in the don’t, I felt regret.
The best example of in following something Maula e Kayinaat (as) said which was also the most difficult. “Even if a man came to you riding on a red camel (the most expensive of the time) and asks you for something, don’t let him leave empty handed.”
He said empty handed for us. He probably gave the man everything he possessed!
I could not tell myself to always say yes to everyone who asked me for money. That would never happen. My nafs, which I trained to be a miser, would never allow it. Most often I found that when I didn’t give many people anything at all I thought nothing of it.
But if I consciously decided I didn’t want to say no to anyone, then I would at least always give them something. A little, a lot, something. Why? Because the promise was to myself. If I broke it, I was a liar. If I didn’t, I felt remorse. If for nothing else, then for being a liar.
Any change that came within me was the fruit of emulating a practice of Nabi Kareem (salutations and greetings upon him and his beloved family) or a Prophet (as) or a Friend of God (ra). Because they did it and they told me to do it. They told me how to do it. When I connected the act with them, the manner of executing it became “excellent.”
It came with ease.
فَأَمَّا مَنۡ أَعۡطَىٰ وَٱتَّقَىٰ
وَصَدَّقَ بِٱلۡحُسۡنَىٰ
فَسَنُیَسِّرُهُۥ لِلۡیُسۡرَىٰ
Then as for (him) who gives and is mindful,
and believes in the best,
then We will ease him towards the ease.
Surah Al Layl, Verses 5-8
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Fa amma man aa’ta: So as for the one who gives from that which he was given from Al Haqq from rizq, sustenance, in (both) form and meaning, along with khushu, humility and khudu, submission and khuloos, sincerity, of intention and inner most feelings and different kinds of obedience and worship commanded for him…
Wa attaqa: and is mindful in totality of that which is forbidden and that which is prohibited about which Allah’s warnings of restraint have come in them…
Wa saddaqa bil husna: and he affirms the limitless demands of the Names of Allah and the effects of His Exalted Attributes which can never be counted and never be enumerated…
Fa sanuyassirruhu: then We will prepare for him and give him ability…
Lil yusra: for ease towards the way, which is easy, connecting towards the goal of Tauheed, One-ness and Ma’rifa, Divine Recognition, that brings deliverance from the darkness of doubts and the shadows of paranoia.
Tauba was my wish to not be the same person. It was my wish that I was dying to change. It was my reward for being forgiven.
Forgiveness
قَالَ رَبِّ إِنِّی ظَلَمۡتُ نَفۡسِی فَٱغۡفِرۡ لِی فَغَفَرَ لَهُۥۤۚ
إِنَّهُۥ هُوَ ٱلۡغَفُورُ ٱلرَّحِیمُ
He, the Prophet Musa (as) said, "My Lord! Indeed, I [I] have wronged my soul, so forgive me."
Then He, Subhanahu, forgave him.
Indeed He, He (is) the Oft-Forgiving, the Most Merciful.
Surah Al Qasas, Verse 16
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Qala: He said, the Prophet Musa (as), in humility before Allah Al Haqq, returning to Him, repentant of that which happened from him, pleading with Him with only regret…
Rabbi: O my Lord who raises me with the different kinds of Lutf, Affection and Karam, Generosity between me and my enemy and purifies me from the distress that is causing me suffering xxx by the demand of Your Jood, Your Bounty…
Inni: Indeed, I, with the steps taken in this matter loathsome…
Dalamtu nafsi: wronged my own self and offer it to you for Your Punishment because of the exiting from the demands of Your Boundaries by the killing of this man without the permission of the Shari’a…
Faghfir li: so forgive me, O my Lord, my sin after that I repented before you and returned to you from my sin, remorseful and seeking refuge, towards Your Door, returning…
Faghafara lahu: so his Lord forgave him his sin after he returned to him sincerely…
Innahu huwa al Ghafoor-u: Indeed, He is Al Ghafoor, The Forgiver of all sins of His Servants after they returned to him, in humility, disappointed, as losers…
Ar Rahim: He is Merciful for them accepting their tauba, repentance, after they were sincere in it and after he repented and returned about what was they did in error.
Ahmed Javaid Sahib said in a lecture once that a relationship loses its meaning when the emotion attached to it disappears. It is the emotion that defines the rights and duties attached to any bond between two people. With a younger person, its shafqat, kindness. With an older its ehtaram, respect. With a contemporary, its muhabbat, love.
Hence, he says, the absence of the emotion makes it devoid of ehsaas, feeling. Then it is simply rendered to be a delusion. It has no existence. It bears no reality.
It made sense. That was why extreme carelessness and indifference, total unawareness could come to exist in behaviour. No matter how paramount the relationship. Why akhlaq experienced sudden death in relationships that should have been life-long. There was no longer a fear of consequence from displeasing the other. The relationship being void of emotion is what allowed that indifference.
What kills emotion? I don’t know. So I asked Qari Sahib.
He told me this, “The first thing is that Allah Subhanahu places the inclination for another in one’s heart. It cannot be created. It cannot be caused. When it is pure, it is a blessing and it is endowed. It is the people themselves that make the feeling leave.
One reason is the tongue and what comes forth from it. That is from the prodding of Shaitaan in terms of anger etc. Another is lust that corrupts that feeling. For the world or others in relationships which are forbidden. Again Shaitaan.
The other even more important reason emotions become numb, appear dead is ingratitude.”
The effect of the blessing had to appear, be seen.
If you hide the blessings from Allah Azzo Jal and did not express gratitude for it, He will sieze it from you.
Those who were in a state of mindfulness of their akhlaq, its effect on others, taufeeq, ability, was granted. They became of the Saliheen; the ones who corrected and reformed themselves.
It was perfectly expressed in the prayer of the Prophet Yusuf (as) that I had been saying for months not realizing the effect it was having on my life:
تَوَفَّنِى مُسْلِمًۭا وَأَلْحِقْنِى بِٱلصَّلِحِينَ رَبِّ
Cause me to die as a Muslim, and join me with the righteous."
Surah Yusuf, Verse 101
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Then prayed Hazrat Yousuf (as) for himself and he said softly to his Lord, a prayer, that uttered from him only with wisdom, intellect and reasoning, with his invocation:
Rabbi: O my Lord who raises me, by Your Unmerited Affection and Your Bounty, with different kinds of guidance and favour that you have granted me…
…
Tawwafini: Make me die and take my soul…
Muslim-an: surrendering, entrusting all my matters to you…
Walhiqni: and enjoin me, with Your Special Favour…
Bi saliheen: with the righteous ones who are the ones who reformed their selves in this life and the Hereafter until they achieved success from You with the honour of meeting You.
The same blessed Prophet who taught me that self-deceit would only yield me living like the dead. Unable to see, unable to hear. Veil upon veil upon veil. I had to stop absolving my nafs, no matter the circumstance. It was
Shaitaan’s trap: “rationalizations.” In any situation with anyone, I had to take its failing upon my self. Regardless of who did what. Regardless of innocence and guilt.
No one offered the proof of that like Sayyadna Yusuf (as).
وَمَآ أُبَرِّئُ نَفْسِىٓ ۚ
إِنَّ ٱلنَّفْسَ لَأَمَّارَةٌۢ بِٱلسُّوٓءِ إِلَّا مَا رَحِمَ رَبِّىٓ ۚ
إِنَّ رَبِّى غَفُورٌۭ رَّحِيمٌۭ
"And yet I am not trying to absolve myself.
Indeed, the nafs Ammara is a certain inciter of evil,
unless my Lord bestows Mercy.
Indeed, my Lord (is) Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful."
Surah Yusuf, Verse 53
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The he, Hazrat Yusuf (as) said:
Wa ma ubarri’o: And I do not absolve and do not justify…
Nafsi: my nafs, my self, from furataat, excessiveness and ghafalaat, forgetfulness and shameful thoughts and repulsive deeds according to the demands of the organs of lust and animalistic desires and how can I absolve myself and justify it?
Inna an nafsa: Indeed the nafs, the base self, that has been embodied in the nature of human beings…
La-Ammaarat-un: the forceful commanding of which is by its nature towards …
Bis su’: wrong-doing and fasaad, corruption and its focus upon that whenever it’s free and is its nature…
Illa ma rahima Rabbi: except for the one upon whom is bestowed the Mercy of my Lord i.e. Allah protects that nafs by His Endless Mercy and Affection from its transgressions and the whisperings of Satan towards it.
Inna Rabbi: Indeed my Lord, who has raised me with safeguarding from sin and with virtuousness…
Ghafoor-an: is All Forgiving of that which has happened from me from the occurences of my nafs…
Raheem-un: is All Merciful. He bestows Mercy towards me with His Fazal, Bounty and He preserves me with His Lutf, Kindness, from those things that make me distant from His Kunuf, Protection and His Jawaar, Safety.
The idea of focusing upon what not to do yielded a revelation. What applies to my own self also applied to a relationship with another.
If there was a problem that emerged in it I should not focus on what I could do but rather on what I should NOT do. The first took its root in desperation. The overtures, when unreturned, caused heartache and agonizing disappointment. The doing of the action caused the birth of hope that it would be reciprocated. It created the expectation that it would be noticed, appreciated.
I knew the drill. It would begin with me thinking of myself as “good” courtesy of Shaitaan’s imprisoning of my nafs with that whispering. Never would I reach the realization that my expectation of an outcome, of a change in another, was the cardinal sin; shirrk!
I had just experienced that with the young man in Karachi with whom I exercised patience simply but vowing not to be impatient. With a prayer, calling upon Subhanahu as my Musta’aan as did Hazrat Yaqoub (as) and leaving the matter with Him for resolve.
Along side the dua I practiced the attribute of murrawwat from the akhlaq from the blessed person who Allah’s Beloved (salutations and greetings upon the one declared the guide of the Universe by Allah Al Hadi). His instruction to not demean others publicly. There was no one else from the world then left in the equation. It was me, my guide and my Lord.
Then ability was granted. The nafs could not grant ability. It only stoked its egoism when it took on missions. Ability was only granted by Allah Al Mutawaffiq, The Granter of taufeeq. Sometimes it arrived with simply a tear that held in it helplessness. In the utterance of a prayer in the words of the Chosen!
Every time my nafs tried to do something good, it lasted but for a short time. Then I regressed. My qalb changed and then changed back again. What promised steadfastness, stability was up to The Divine. Hence the prayer of Nabi Kareem (salutations and greetings upon his heart):
يَا مُقَلِّبَ الْقُلُوبِ ثَبِّتْ قَلْبِي عَلَى دِينِكَ
O Changer of Hearts forever changing!
Make my qalb steadfast upon your religion.
When I pondered upon Ghaus Pak (ra) being the seed in my heart I felt overwhelmed. Who would have thought my heart would one day become hallowed ground!
The blessed of Nabi Kareem (salutations and greetings upon that name) only appears in the Quran four times. When I came across an instance in writing this piece where it did, I was excited to study the context of its appearance.
وَٱلَّذِینَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَعَمِلُوا۟ ٱلصَّـٰلِحَـٰتِ وَءَامَنُوا۟ بِمَا نُزِّلَ عَلَىٰ مُحَمَّدࣲ وَهُوَ ٱلۡحَقُّ مِن رَّبِّهِمۡ كَفَّرَ عَنۡهُمۡ سَیِّءَاتِهِمۡ وَأَصۡلَحَ بَالَهُمۡ
And those who believe and do righteous deeds, and believe in what is revealed to Muhammad (salutations and greetings upon him and his deeds),
and it (is) the truth from their Lord,
He will remove from them their misdeeds, and relieve their concerns.
Surah Muhammad, Verse 2
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Walladina aamano: And those who attained to imaan, faith in Allah and in His Rasool (salutations and greetings upon him and his honoured family by their Lord)…
Wa: and along with that…
Aamilo salihaat: do righteous deeds persistently, that create closeness for them with Allah…
Wa aamilu ala bima nuzzila ala Muhammad: and believe in what was revealed upon Muhammad (salutations and greetings upon his blessed name) i.e. in the totality of what has been revealed to him…
Wa: and they attest to all that is descent upon him…
Huwa al haqq: it is the truth, truthful according to the happenings, (the truth that is) descending…
Mir Rabbihim: from their Lord, without doubt and confusion…
Kaffara: He erases and removes…
Anhum: from them, Subhanahu…
Sayyiatihim: their bad deeds i.e. their consequences and their punishment from them…
Wa aslaha: and He reforms what was attached to them (those sinful deeds), and He changes the consequences that follow…
Baalahum: in their states of being i.e. He makes their states the best in religion and in the world according to the measure of this world and the Hereafter and He compensates them with the best of rewards.
Wa aslaha: He, Subhanahu, reforms…
The definition of aslaha, to reform, was different when it was Subhanahu doing the reforming for His Servant. It was the reward of deeds that were mindful of disobedience, thus allowing closeness. It was the reward of believing in His Seal of Prophet-hood (salutations and greetings upon his noor). Sins would be erased, their consequences would be removed, they would change so that states changed. To become the best!
Subhan Allah!
One page that would keep opening for me at the shrines was from the end of Surah Al Mo’minoon. It was always the last page. I kept translating different verses from it until I reached the last verse. It was a supplication that Subhanahu was teaching His Beloved (salutations and greetings upon the mercy of the Universe and his blessed family by His Lord Ar Raheem).
It became my dua!
وَقُل رَّبِّ ٱغۡفِرۡ وَٱرۡحَمۡ وَأَنتَ خَیۡرُ ٱلرَّٰحِمِینَ
And say, "My Lord! Forgive and have mercy,
and You are the Best of those who show mercy."
Surah Al Mo’minoon, Verse 118
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Wa: And after that Subhanahu made it certain, the success for the Mo’mineen, the believers, Al Muwwahideen, who are certain in the One-ness of Allah, in the beginning of this Surah and He deprived the Kafireen, the deniers of truth, Al Mushrikeen, the ones who associate others with Allah in the end (of the Surah)…
Qul: Say O Akmal Ar Rusul, O Messenger who completes the Messenger-hood (greetings and salutations upon him and his family by His Allah who loves him), educating everyone who considers you his leader and follows in your footsteps and warning them as well of this and reminding them…
Rabbi: O my Lord, who raised me by your Kunf, Protection and Jawar, Safe Guarding…
Ighfir: forgive me and hide for me my selfish, egoistic self from my inner eyes…
Warham: and have mercy upon me by the negation of the essence of my nature and dissolve it in Your Essence.
Wa anta: And You with Your Essence and Your Names and Your Attributes…
Khair ur Rahimeen: are the Best of the Merciful, who are also demands of Your Attributes and reflections of Your Names and everything is with You and from You and there is no one who is Merciful except You and there is no Lord for me other than You.
For the first time I noticed that ask did not have in it a time frame. It was a plea for now as well as the Day of Judgement. It was a plea for now!
Normally in my translations of the tafseer of the verses, Qari Sahib and I never got into how Ghaus Pak (ra) starts and ends the exegesis of each Surah. There would be the opening section addressing the ones especially chosen by Allah Subhanahu. At the end would then be a section addressing the ordinary.
For some reason, Qari Sahib sent me the closing section of Surah Al Mo’minoon and we translated it.
Khatim as Surah – Al Mo’minoon
“O Muhammadi (his servant)! Upon you, as Al Mutahaqqiq, the one steadfast upon the station of worship, is compulsory this prayer (above) which you were made to hear by Allah Al Haqq through the tongue of your Prophet (greetings and salutations upon him and his family O Beloved by your Lord who chose his words) and be forever in its utterance, especially in your seclusion and after your prayers, determined upon it, holding on to this firmly.
Hear this prayer with acceptance and willingness until it becomes rooted in your heart and be trained in it till your state speaks through it without help from your tongue.
And when you are certain and settled in this rank, you will have completed the station of worship.
So for you, after that the progression of your worship is perfected by taufeeq, ability, granted from Allah and love from Him (you will reach) towards the rank of dissolution in Allah and being everlasting in His Permanence.
And this will not be completed except by the disappearance of your nature and vanishing of your personality and your being (an ordinary) human, until it is dropped from you, your personality completely and your individuality is dissolved overall.
And at this point you will be successful by how much you will be fated in success and you will reach what you are ordained to reach and there is no purpose except Allah and no end except Him.
It was comforting that all I had to do is bring a verse in to my state. Be in synch with the ask in it with the sincerity of my heart. That was easy; I awaited forgiveness. I was desperate for my selfish ego to be hidden from me. I wanted my tabyat, the acquired nature to be dissolved, to entirely disappear.
I memorized the prayer and its utterance came forth from my tongue through my days and in my nights.
The other prayer that had impacted my life had come by way of Imam Zain ul Abedin (as). After I had heard that his prayers “are the saplings for nisbat, association, with Nabi Pak’s (salutations and greetings upon him and his family by Allah Al Wudood) duas, I asked Qari Sahib if he had the book mentioned in the lecture; It was called Saheefa e Sajjadia.
He did and he sent it to me. It was in pdf format. I could barely read anything, the print was so small. I decided to do what I always do. Go to a random page and see what came up for me.
Almost all the prayers were long spanning several lines on an entire page. On the one I landed, the title was “The prayer for his own self and his loved ones in his family and his friends.”
On the translated Urdu page was a paragraph break. The first line of that paragraph was the supplication I picked and it was this:
اللَّهُمَّ أَغْنِنَا عَنْ هِبَةِ الْوَهَابِيْنَ بِهِبَتِكَ،
وَاكْفِنَا وَحْشَةَ الْقَاطِعِين بِصِلَتِكَ،
حَتّى لا نَرْغَبَ إلَى أحَد مَعَ بَذْلِكَ،
وَلاَ نَسْتَوْحِشَ مِنْ أحَد مَعَ فَضْلِكَ
Allahuma aghnina an hibbat il wahhabiyaani bi-hibatika
wakfina wahshat-il qaatiyeena bi silatika hatta la narghaba ila ahdim ma’ bi-dalika
wa la nastauhisha min ahdim ma’ fadlika
My first focus was upon the words that took their root in the Exalted Names of Allah. One was in the 99, Al Ghani. I looked up the exact meaning to understand the plea. What was I asking for myself when I said, ‘Aghnina - Make us ghani…?’
Ghani: From the root gha-noon-yeh which has the following classical Arabic connotations: to be free from wants or needs, to be self-sufficient, independent, to be able to do without help from others, to be content, satisfied, flourishing.
The other Beautiful Name was Al Kafi also meaning The Sufficient One as in He is Sufficient for all His Servants’ needs.
O Lord!
Make us free of the need of being gifted by others with only being granted by You
and make us self-sufficient from being melancholy because of the cutting off of ties by
others with the attachment of Your Being,
until we do not ask anything from anyone else because of it (that Gifting and Attachment)
and we do not ever feel the misery of loneliness because of anyone as a resut of Your Bounty upon us.
Ameen summa Ameen summa Ameem
I felt elated!
The universality of the prayers of Subhanahu’s Chosen always touched my heart. The pronoun was always, without fail, “us.” The words would be spoken by one but it would be asked for all of Mankind. No one was left outside. Everybody was included in the circle of humanity.
There is no such thing as coincidence in Islam. Everything is in the Knowledge of Allah Al Aleem. Where we land is a function of our choices, courtesy of our free will. Those choices are ours. The outcome is just pre-known and recorded in the Lauh e Mahfooz, the Tablet of Fate. That is what the Arif is gifted access to. All he has to do is glance at it whenever he wishes for anyone.
Imam Zain ul Abedin’s (as) prayer was a God-send, there is no doubt about that. I started memorizing it in Arabic. My need was certainly captured in it perfectly. Other cutting off ties suddenly appeared like a blessing instead of a trial. The closing of doors was necessary, as Ghaus Pak (ra) had said, for the Greatest Door of Subhanahu to open.
A mushrik would never be allowed any nearness at all. A person with ugly manners would never come close to it. Those people who were mean to me were making me in turn be mean to them. I hated that the most about being around them. The sarcasm that would spill from my tongue, the barbs impolite, the impatience rude. It was a nightmare. That a month ago my nafs, knowing that would be its behaviour, still pined for!
The thing about truth is that whenever it appears it challenges the status quo, whatever it might be. That is the Sunnah of Nabi Kareem (salutations and greetings upon him and his family and those who gained imaan, faith, by bowing in obedience to him. Love is the purest form of truth. That is why the rank of the beloved is the highest in the rungs of spirituality.
Al Fath Ar Rabbani:
“You are not of the ones who are without fear (as in the ones who don’t feel it) because without deed, the rote memorization of knowledge is all you possess. Therefore you cannot be an inheritor of the Prophets. Their inheritance only comes from knowledge and deed accompanied by sincerity.
Be in a state of awareness of your station and do not move towards that which is has not been apportioned for you.
Be in agreement with that has been destined for you by Allah Azzo Jal in your fate. If you do that, for sure, He will grant you ability and bestow kindness upon you and lift the burdens from your head and will treat you with an attitude of softness in this world and the Hereafter.”
A promise!
“When the imaan, the faith, of the Mo’min, the believer, becomes strong only then he is given the title of Sahib e Iqaan, the person of certainty. When that iqaan becomes strong, he is called the Arif, the one who knows Allah. When his knowledge becomes strong, he is named Muhibb, the lover. And when that love becomes steadfast, he is called the Mehboob, the beloved.”
Each time love appeared in my life, it forced me to change. Luckily I submitted to that change because I loved love. It’s swooning effect, its joy, its appearance. Even when later it almost always turned out to be an illusion. I was always overcome by it so I had no interest in preserving whatever version of myself I was then. I was in submission to it.
Yet I practiced my faith taking submission to my Lord who created me for granted. Even though it always formed the first layer of my identity.
I started reading about my faith fervently in my 30s but nothing changed in my behaviour till I went to Iraq. Till I went to Imam Ali (as), the Door of the City of Knowledge. That’s why I tell anyone and everyone I care for. If they want a relationship with Allah and His Beloved (salutations and greetings upon him and his family eternally) that possesses in it an ever evolving truth, an appearance before Maula e Ali (as) is the first step. It is incumbent.
He is the one who opens the door for knowledge to meet deed.
Rajab is his month. As I pray my new-found prayers, I wish for my identity to be shed and my states to be altered in it.
Forever!
I couldn’t help but think that I was brought full circle to a beginning. A thought that began in Damascus on the roof of a hotel, staring at a mountain was meant to show me that my thoughts, almost of them were mere imkaan, possibilities.
Each one reflected the state of my heart which was like a cupboard stacked with idols of hopes and statues of expectations. All of which were coated in ill-will. Both were flip sides of the same coin of shirrk!
And only two broke idols. Then or now!
As recorded by Allama Haysmi (ra) in Majma’ az Zawaid:
Imam Ali (as) narrates: “I accompanied Rasool Allah (salutations and greeting upon him and his family) until we reached the Ka’aba. Then Rasool Allah (salutations and greeting upon him and his family) stood upon my shoulders.
I tried to stand up and Rasool Allah (salutations and greeting upon him and his family) felt the weakness in me so he said, “Sit.”
I sat and he came down and said again, “You stand upon my shoulders,” so I climbed his shoulders and stood up.
Then I felt that if I wanted to, I could hold onto the edges of the sky.
I reached upwards inside the Ka’aba and there was a statue there of copper and bronze. I started taking it apart from the left and the right and from the front and back, until I had successfully dismantled it.
Nabi Kareem (salutations and greeting upon him and his family most eminent in the blessings of Allah) said, “Throw it,” so I threw it. Then I broke it into pieces the way glass is broken into pieces. Then I descended and he and I left the Ka’aba without coming across anyone.”
Only two are our friends.
إِنَّمَا وَلِيُّكُمُ ٱللَّهُ وَرَسُولُهُۥ وَٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ ٱلَّذِينَ يُقِيمُونَ ٱلصَّلَوٰةَ وَيُؤْتُونَ ٱلزَّكَوٰةَ وَهُمْ رَكِعُونَ
Your only ally is Allah and His Messenger, and those who believe, and those who establish prayer and give zakat and they are those who bow down in prayer.
Surah Al Maida’, Verse 55
Except that the verse was sent down in praise of one person’s deed:
“Huzoor Ghaus Pak (ra) says the verse is revealed for Maula Ali (may Allah gives honour to his countenance), when a beggar asked him (for alms) while he was in ruku’, bowing in prayer, and he loosened his ring so that it dropped (for him to take).”
Tafseer e Jilani
Then when Allah, Exalted is He, forbade the Mo’mineen from friendships with the Kuffar, the infidels, and love towards them and Allah, in emphasis, decided to inform them as to who is deserving of friendship and love and the reality of the two, He said…
Inna walliyyukum Allah: Indeed, Allah is your Friend, The One who is in charge of your matters as related to all kinds of ordinary love…
Wa Rasooluhu: and so is His Messenger (peace be upon him), who is His Vice-regent second to Him, also in charge…
Walladina aamino: and those who brought faith in Allah with a special love (extraordinary) because of their following the Prophet (peace be upon him) and they…
Alladina yuqeemoona: are the one who are forever…
As salat: in prayer that brings one close to Allah’s Essence…
And yu’toona az zakata: and they give charity which cleanses their batin, inner being, from focus on anything other than Allah…
Wa: in the state of…
Hum rak’ioon: bowing in their prayer.
The Imam’s prayer brought one closer to Allah’s Essence. The emulation of his charity cleansed the batin from shirrk.
The perfect manifestation of spirituality, jurisprudence, akhlaq – morality, character, behaviour, all stemmed from them and theirs. Whether they were the family and lineage by blood or companions or through the spiritual silsilas, all linked together in a chain from Master to disciple and so on.
One person of utmost importance before Subhanahu is Syeda Bibi Zainab (as). She was what made Damascus Paradise, the title given to the city by her beloved grand-father (salutations and greetings upon the life of the Universe and his honoured family) years before her entrance into it.
She was the reason the city was enclosed in a dome of Divine Mercy that brought souls into their most exalted state, Mutma’inna, effortlessly. I knew she was the reason that I was shown how that state of contentedness could come to exist elsewhere and everywhere, even for the ordinary.
That is what I realized from all the verses where Allah Al Muqtadir declares that He only does what He wills and nothing impedes in that.
He purifies whom He wills from Shaitaan.
وَلَكِنَّ ٱللَّهَ يُزَكِّى مَن يَشَآءُ ۗ
…but Allah purifies whom He wills.
Surah An-Nur, Verse 21
Wa lakinn Allah: But Allah Ta’ala, the One who manages the affairs of His Servants…
Yuzzaki: inserts sincerity and purifies them from the traps of Satan and his evil promptings…
Mayyasha: whom so ever He wills, by virtue of His Wisdom and His Control by which He forms the human being…
He guides and misguides who he wills as a function of their obedience to His Beloved (salutations and greetings upon him and his softness by his Lord who keep him and his family in His Eyes at all times):
فَإِنَّ ٱللَّهَ يُضِلُّ مَن يَشَآءُ وَيَهْدِى مَن يَشَآءُۖ
فَلَا تَذْهَبْ نَفْسُكَ عَلَيْهِمْ حَسَرَتٍۚ
For verily, Allah lets him go astray who wills to go astray, just as he guides him that wills to be guided.
Hence, O Allah’s Habeeb (salutations of peace be upon you and your family eternally),
don’t let your sorrow over them destroy you.
Surah Fatir, Verse 8
Fa Innallaha: The One who possess all Honour (Al-Mutazziz), who has Supreme Authority and Majesty, who controls all He wants…
Yudillu: He makes (some) wayward from the Path of Tauheed, according to His Wrath and according to His Majesty…
Mayya sha’: those of His Creation who are disobedient, sinking them in waywardness and making them lost…
Wa yahdi maayya sha’: and He guides and gives guidance (to others), for indeed, this is what is asked for as help by them first of all. This (Decision) is a function only and only of Allah’s Will and His Choice. Nothing is allowed to interrupt that or become involved in it in any way whatsoever.
Fa la tadhab nafsuka: So don’t exhaust yourself, O Beloved (peace be upon him), and don’t be a cause of your own extreme anguish and torment…
Alaihim: over the ones who are astray, though you love for them guidance and wish it for them…
Hasaraat: feeling sad for them and sorry for them, pining over this wish of yours for them again and again feeling that sorrow for them, layering grief upon grief because of their waywardness and refusal to accept guidance.
The exercise of my don’ts. That was the only hope for my obedience.
In repeating the meaning of the verse again Ghaus Pak (ra) says for emphasis:
“For that person who thinks his sin is goodness and thinks the deed is good for his nafs and believes it to be correct, all the time being unaware that it is in fact falsehood. This is the reason he has turned from the Right Path, thus totally distancing himself from guidance.
And you, O Beloved Messenger (peace be upon him) who completes The Message, will you torture yourself over them in sorrow wondering all the whole; “Why don’t they accept guidance and why don’t they bring faith?” Indeed, Allah makes astray those He wishes to make astray and guides those He wishes to guide. So don’t feel badly for them.”
The verses went on and on. In reference to every aspect of life. It was Subhanahu’s Will to bestow His Rahma, Mercy, Fazal, Bounty, Rizq, livelihood, Noor, His Light, Taqwa, His Consciousness. Darajaat, ranks of closeness leading to Him, Nasr, His Help, Huda, His Guidance, Sama’, inner hearing, Baseera, seeing from the eyes of the heart, Izza, honour in both the worlds upon whoever He wants, whenever He wishes. It was a sustenance complete, mental, emotional, physical, material and spiritual and it was for a person as well as their family.
If heaven and hell are states, as Iqbal says, hell is possibilities. Heaven is surrender.
Thus I come to await Rajab this year like no other month and the 13th like no other day I have ever waited for before. It will begin with asking Allah Al Haailo, The Only One who comes between, to be the barzakh, the separation of mercy between my states of being a Mo’min and my states of being a Kafir. I was both the seas, salty and sweet.
It will end with the last verse of Surah Al Baqarah, the series of prayers gifted to The Beloved (salutations and greetings upon him and his family who are the source of Allah’s Forgiveness in the Universe).
َعَن ابْن عَبَّاس قَالَ: بَيْنَمَا جِبْرِيلُ قَاعِدٌ عِنْدَ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ سَمِعَ نَقِيضًا مِنْ فَوْقِهِ فَرَفَعَ رَأْسَهُ فَقَالَ: «هَذَا بَابٌ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ فُتِحَ الْيَوْمَ لَمْ يُفْتَحْ قَطُّ إِلَّا الْيَوْمَ فَنَزَلَ مِنْهُ مَلَكٌ فَقَالَ هَذَا مَلَكٌ نَزَلَ إِلَى الْأَرْضِ لَمْ يَنْزِلْ قَطُّ إِلَّا الْيَوْمَ فَسَلَّمَ وَقَالَ أَبْشِرْ بِنُورَيْنِ أُوتِيتَهُمَا لَمْ يُؤْتَهُمَا نَبِيٌّ قَبْلَكَ فَاتِحَةُ الْكِتَابِ وَخَوَاتِيمُ سُورَةِ الْبَقَرَةِ لَنْ تَقْرَأَ بِحَرْفٍ مِنْهُمَا إِلَّا أَعْطيته» . رَوَاهُ مُسلم
Hazrat Ibn e Abbas (ratu) narrates:
Hazrat Gibrael (as) was sitting near the Prophet (salutations and greetings upon him and his family) when they heard a loud sound above them so they turned to look up and he said,
“This door has been opened for the first time in the skies and an angel has descended from it.”
Hazrat Gibrael (as) said, “This angel has not come to the Earth ever before.”
He, the angel, presented his salam and said, “Glad tidings come for you with two nur, Divine Lights, that have been sent only for you and not for any Prophet before you. Al Fatiha and the ending verses of Surah Al Baqarah.
Not will a word of them be uttered that will not be granted.
Rabbana…O my Lord who raises me with His Lutf, Affection and Fazl, Bounty…
رَبَّنَا لَا تُؤَاخِذۡنَاۤ إِن نَّسِینَاۤ أَوۡ أَخۡطَأۡنَاۚ
"Our Lord! (Do) not take us to task if we forget or we err.
Surah Al Baqarah, Verse 286
Tafseer e Jilani
Then when he pointed, Subhanahu, towards the secret behind obligations, He willed towards the performance of what was commanded to do, which is not possible except by His granting ability and a pulling from Him. For this purpose He has directed the dua, prayer and ista’anat, the asking of help and munajaat, the silent supplication in His Words:
Rabbana: O Our Lord, The One who raises us by His Lutf, Kindness, for the acceptance of Your Obligations (upon us) so we can reach towards the Atmosphere of Your Tauheed, One-ness and Your Glorification…
La tu-aakhid-na in naseena: do not take us to task for being forgetful about performing what You commanded us to do because of (the delusions of) our possibilities…
Au akhtaana: or our erring in it because of the lack of our understanding.
رَبَّنَا وَلَا تَحۡمِلۡ عَلَیۡنَاۤ إِصۡرࣰا كَمَا حَمَلۡتَهُۥ عَلَى ٱلَّذِینَ مِن قَبۡلِنَاۚ
رَبَّنَا وَلَا تُحَمِّلۡنَا مَا لَا طَاقَةَ لَنَا بِهِۦۖ
وَٱعۡفُ عَنَّا وَٱغۡفِرۡ لَنَا وَٱرۡحَمۡنَاۤۚ
أَنتَ مَوۡلَىٰنَا فَٱنصُرۡنَا عَلَى ٱلۡقَوۡمِ ٱلۡكَـٰفِرِینَ
And (do) not lay upon us a burden like that (which) You laid on those who (were) from before us.
Our Lord! [And] (do) not lay on us what we don’t have (the) strength (to bear).
And pardon us, and forgive us and have mercy on us.
You (are) our Protector, so help us against the people - [the] disbelievers.
Tafseer e Jilani
Rabbana wa la tahmil alayna isran: O Our Lord, do not lay upon us a burden of a veil thick and a curtain heavy which blinds the vision of Our quloob, the station within Our hearts that recognizes You, from the comprehension of Nur, the light of Your Tauheed, Your One-ness…
Kama hamalta-hu alladina min qabli-na Rabbana wa la tuhammil-na: the way you burdened the ones who came before us. Our Lord, do not burden us with the exhaustion of our ritualistic exercises and the hardships of obligations intensive due to the filth of imkaan, possibilities and ambiguities in relationships…
Ma la taqata lana bihi wa’fu: (exhaustion and hardship) that we don’t have the strength to bear and remove them, erase (them), by Your Favour…
An-na: for us (these burdens) from the demands of the characteristics of possibilities (in our nature)…
Waghfir lana: and forgive us i.e. conceal for us, O our Lord, our selfishness and ego-ism and the true nature of our personality from our own eyes….
Wa: and after that…
Irham-na: have mercy upon us with Your Mercy Expansive.
Anta Maulana: You are Our Lord and Master, The Controller of our blessings …
Fan sur na: so help us with your help and your succour so we can make well known Your Tauheed…
Ala qaum il Kafireen: against the nation of the deniers of truth and the ungrateful, As Saatireen, the ones covered by the haze of their false natures from the sun of the truth apparent on the horizon.
Ghaus Pak (ra) prays: Make us steadfast by Your Lutf, Affection and by Your Ultimate Truth and by Your Tauheed, One-ness, Ya Khair ul Nasireen, O Best of Helpers, Ya Hadi-il Muddaleen, O Guide of the Astray!
In another tradition by Imam Abd bin Hameed the incident of the descent of the blessed verses ends with the line: “When the angel Gibrael (as) read the last two verses of Surah Al Baqarah, Nabi Kareem (salutations and greetings upon him and his family by his Lord who taught them prayers that bring us relief) said, “Ameen.”
In the echo of that “Ameen,” the one uttered by the Beloved of Allah Subhanahu (salutations or greetings upon his prayers and those of his blessed family’s prayers for us which are always answered by their Lord), “Ameen summa Ameena summa Ameen…”
رَبِّ ٱجۡعَلۡنِی مُقِیمَ ٱلصَّلَوٰةِ وَمِن ذُرِّیَّتِیۚ
رَبَّنَا وَتَقَبَّلۡ دُعَاۤءِ
رَبَّنَا ٱغۡفِرۡ لِی وَلِوَٰلِدَیَّ وَلِلۡمُؤۡمِنِینَ یَوۡمَ یَقُومُ ٱلۡحِسَابُ
My Lord! Make me an establisher (of) the prayer, and from my offsprings.
Our Lord! and accept my prayer.
Our Lord! Forgive me and my parents and the believers (on) the Day of Reckoning.
Surah Ibrahim, Verse 40-41
Tafseer e Jilani
Rabbi ja’alni muqeem as salati: O my Lord! Make me steadfast in prayer in the manner of khudu’, intense compliance (of the heart) and khushu’, submission and tabattal, devotion and ikhlas, sincerity…
Wa: and make…
Min zurriyati: from my offspring as well ones who are steadfast in it like the etiquettes mentioned previously.
Rabbana: O Our Lord! Respond to my supplication…
Wa taqabbal dua: and accept (my) prayer in my favour and in favour of my children.
Rabbana aghfir-li: O Our Lord, Forgive me by your Favour, for if You do not, I don’t have control for my self over harm or benefit…
Wa liwalidayya wa lil Mo’mineena: and forgive my parents and the believers, all of them, and forgive in accordance with the demands of your Jood, Generosity, my errors and their errors…
Youma yaqoom ul hisaab: on the Day of Reckoning when the Register of deeds will be opened and accountability be asked for everything which happened in sin.
Ameen!
Min al Jinnati wa Naas
(From the Jinn and Mankind)
Part I - The Cause
April 17th, 2020: “Brave new world” by Aldous Huxley starring Demi Moore! The tag selling the show: A world where monogamy is illegal. “Yikes” I thought! Infidelity in marriages and otherwise single partner relationships being berated in Hollywood’s writing, or perhaps all of the West, is not new. It first became noticeable to me in the mid 2000’s, 15 years ago. But illegal? That was definitely a whole different story.
The episode I remember in particular is from Gray’s Anatomy. The most insignificant and plain character in an otherwise “beautiful” cast was moping around because he wanted Thursdays to himself to do whatever he wished with whomever he chose. His wife was apparently being a pain about it. The insert was horrendous in terms of its deliberateness.
In Lahore the idea appeared differently in my generation. People started hiding behind “philosophical” discussions of whether monogamy was really a part of human nature to avoid saying, “I’m dying to have an affair.” It’s not like infidelity is a new concept having been around since time immemorial. The generation before mine just accepted it for what it was; a transgression. Mine has always wanted things to be somehow deemed kosher by someone else.
For the millenials and whatever the generation after them is called, the stakes were even higher. They were being taught subversively that there was no such thing as fidelity to begin with. Like religion it was outdated and irrelevant. The most overt example for me came from the first season of Ryan Murphy’s The Politician, a dark comedy about high school seniors, out on Netflix this January, Alice says to Payton after getting caught cheating on him, “Sex has nothing to do with loyalty. We're not our parents.” If the diktat of Hollywood prevails, which history has proven it almost always does, perhaps we can also safely arrive to a society where monogamy is illegal.
It made me wonder what that meant in terms of the verses of the Quran that spelled out the future in clear terms for those who were about to embark on the journey of being available to all.
الْخَبِيثَاتُ لِلْخَبِيثِينَ وَالْخَبِيثُونَ لِلْخَبِيثَاتِ ۖ وَالطَّيِّبَاتُ لِلطَّيِّبِينَ وَالطَّيِّبُونَ لِلطَّيِّبَاتِ
(In the nature of things), corrupt women are for corrupt men, and corrupt men, for corrupt women - just as good women are for good men, and good men for good women – Surah An-Nur, Verse 26
Talk about going head to head on an issue!
I knew people personally who, come a certain age, upon reading these verses had changed lifestyles completely. They had dropped whatever they were doing for eons. It wasn’t so surprising. Who wants to be with a corrupt, also translated as “evil, impure, wicked, unclean, bad, vile, indecent and dirty” person? No one I would think. But Iblis has his ways.
Huxley wrote his novel in the 1930s. It was required reading by my Mamu but I stopped when I got to the part of “hundreds of naked children engaged in sexual play and games.” It was too disturbing. The plot of the book moves around “a futuristic society, the World State, and warns of the dangers of giving the state control over new and powerful technologies…In this society, emotions and individuality are conditioned out of children at a young age. The embyros hatched in a lab are divided into five castes and there are no lasting relationships because ‘every one belongs to everyone else.’”
“People are divided into five castes; Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, or Epsilon. The Alpha embryos are destined to become the leaders and thinkers of the World State. Each of the succeeding castes is conditioned to be slightly less physically and intellectually impressive. One group, the Delta infants, are reprogrammed to dislike books and flowers. This conditioning helps to make Deltas docile and eager consumers. The Epsilons, stunted and stupefied by oxygen deprivation and chemical treatments, are destined to perform menial labor.”
“‘Hypnopaedic’ (sleep-teaching) methods are used to teach children the morals of the World State. The State successfully removes strong emotions, desires, and human relationships from society. Religion is abolished because it causes wars, pain, suffering and tears. Ford is the perfect “god” for World State society because, in developing his Ford Motor Company, he invented mass production by means of the assembly line and the specialization of workers, each of whom has one single, specific job.”
There were too many boxes to check in terms of the novel resonating with what was happening today so I leave that to the reader. I guess if one was writing a novel of that nature today, the “god” could be named Schmidt or Zuckerberg although the most promising choice seems to be Gates. A good friend of mine had been very upset with the Common Core system that the Gates Foundation, had sold to the public school system in 2009, “spending 400 million itself and influencing $4 trillion in US tax payer funds.”
She thought its sole purpose was to sift students through math and standardized tests and divide them into leaders and welders. Alphas and Epsilons so to speak! Her son was on the autism spectrum. The program ignored children with learning difficulties altogether. The stranger thing was that “the (Common Core) program had no pilot…There wasn’t even a draft available to the public before the Obama administration hooked states into contracts.” Today it’s dead.
A billionaire had an idea of what counts as success, decided to put it to action through what is these days knows as “advocacy philanthropy” and ended with naught. Except that for many schools, books were eliminated and learning became technology based. Technology in education had already made its advent much before Gates. In the 1920’s came radio programming in schools. In the 50’s and 60’s instructional television was introduced with huge grants from the Ford Foundation. In the 80’s came the computer. And that’s when the Jinn apparently came into my life.
To be clear I never knew anything about this particular creation of God. Then in the early days of the virus, I received a video from a friend of mine on the Naqshbandi path. It was intriguing. The speaker was Sheikh Hisham Qabbani and this is what he said:
April 20th, 2020: “We are in a war that has not been known before. Everybody is involved in it. We leave it to Allah who knows best what He has created. We need to adhere to the Zikr (remembrance of God) that follows this battle, which is a spiritual battle. Involving Jinn and human beings, the righteous ones against the corrupt (fasid) ones. And we are the ones oppressed in this battle that has come upon us from every side, but in the end we are the victors. We are the victors and victory is for the people of Islam and for the entire community (of Mankind), so do not be afraid.”
“This is a battle involving Jinn because it is coming from corrupt Jinn. There will come a time when the corrupt ones will perish. Like other corrupt ones have perished before them. So stay steadfast where you are and do not be afraid. There is someone coming to purify the Earth and that is Imam Mahdi (as) and the family of the Prophet (saw).”
Jinn! The only thing I ever heard about them in my life in Lahore was of people reading verses of the Quran specifically to call them for furtive purposes. Information could be retrieved though them or other favours asked. There seemed to always be a clear code for the arrangement. Between the human beings money exchanged hands or other compensation was due. Between the human supposedly in control of the Jinn, if you asked anything from the Jinn one thing was certain; they would ask something of you.
The Naqshbandi Spiritual Masters have been giving lectures on a regular basis to prepare and support their disciples throughout the world through the crisis of the disease that had enveloped the world. One of my friends happened to send me one titled “Jinn, Demon and Technology” by Sheikh Nurjan Mirahmadi. But it was a year old so had nothing to do with COVID-19. I include parts of it throughout the piece.
Feb 10th, 2019: “In the way of knowing ourselves, Mankind invented computers…This is from the world of Jinn. This is the convergence of the Jinn world into the human world with the intention to overtake Insaan. They (Jinn) are the smokeless fire.”
I asked Qari Sahib where exactly their creation was mentioned in the Quran. It was in Surah Ar-Rahman.
وَخَلَقَ الْجَانَّ مِن مَّارِجٍ مِّن نَّارٍ
And He (Allah) created the Jinn from a smokeless flame of fire – Surah Ar-Rahman, Verse 55
“You are using a smokeless fire that is called electricity,” Shiekh Nujan said. “Before that was the ‘horse and buggy world.’ How much change came about in that time (in the lives of human beings)? As soon as the Jinn world was allowed to enter the Earth, it began to enslave Mankind to be worshipped and to be taken as lords.”
“There are Jinn who live amongst us and those who live outside of this planet. The computer is (to make us) enter into their world. The Jinn are spiritual beings whose subtle reality has no physical protection. As a result of their spiritual power but physical frailty they conceal themselves in different forms…The computer was their way of asking us to communicate with them.”
“They are a reality from the time of Sayydana Sulaiman (as) who was given command of them. Allah did not want to establish the sunnah (way) of the Prophet to ask the Jinn for anything so his vizier who had the knowledge of the Book said, ‘I will bring it.’ So then using the Jinn became a choice for Mankind; to rely on the Jinn or the heavenly Book and the people of the Book?”
I knew the story of the Prophet Sulaiman (as) somewhat but not in great detail so I looked it up. It was the proof that whatever ability a fasid (corrupt) Jinn possessed, humans surpassed and so were not in need of them.
“The Prophet Sulaiman (as) could understand the speech of animals, even of the lowly ant. He was grateful to Allah for all his gifts and he always tried to serve God. Hazrat Sulaiman (as) had Jinn and birds serving in his army as well as men.
The kingdom of Saba was ruled by a rich and powerful queen. She and her people worshipped the sun and other idols instead of Allah. The Prophet Sulaiman (as) sent a letter to the queen, greeting her and requesting her to submit to God. The queen consulted with her ministers. They informed her that the country had the strength to wage a war, but they entrusted her with the decision of whether to use her armies or seek a peaceful settlement. The queen was reluctant to expose her country to the destruction and waste that would accompany a war. Instead she decided to try to please Sulaiman (as) by sending him expensive gifts. Her chiefs and ministers agreed with her decision.
When the messengers of the queen delivered the queen’s presents to the Prophet Sulaiman (as), he rejected the gifts. He said that the gifts which he had received from Allah were infinitely better than those which she had sent. He sent the messengers back with a message to the queen that she had better submit or he would send armies which would thoroughly destroy the Sabaeans and their country.
While the Prophet Sulaiman (as) was awaiting the arrival of the queen, he desired that her throne be brought to him. A Jinn present in his court raised his hand.
قَالَ عِفْرِيتٌ مِّنَ الْجِنِّ أَنَا آتِيكَ بِهِ قَبْلَ أَن تَقُومَ مِن مَّقَامِكَ ۖ
وَإِنِّي عَلَيْهِ لَقَوِيٌّ أَمِينٌ
Said a strong one of the Jinn, “I will bring it to you before you rise from your place. And indeed, I am for it surely strong, trustworthy” – Surah An-Naml, Verse 39
The Prophet (as) demanded it be faster than what the Jinn had offered.
قَالَ الَّذِي عِندَهُ عِلْمٌ مِّنَ الْكِتَابِ أَنَا آتِيكَ بِهِ قَبْلَ أَن يَرْتَدَّ إِلَيْكَ طَرْفُكَ ۚ
Said one who, with the knowledge of the Book, “I will bring it to you before returns to you your glance (in the blink of an eye).” - Surah An-Naml, Verse 40
Sheikh Nurjan had said that the vizier in possession of knowledge of the Book was able to do that which the Jinn could not. Bring the throne as he said, within a fraction of second. Why was that? I looked up the exegesis of the verse by Hazrat Abdul Qadir Jilani who I will henceforth refer to as Ghaus Pak (ra);
“He, (the one who brought the throne), was the one bestowed a little from the Divine Knowledge and the Lauh e Mahfouz, The Preserved Tablet, as well as the knowledge of the Names of God and knowledge of the realities of each and everything. This empowered him to make anything appear or disappear in a moment or less.”
Just a little! The man was Asif Bin Barkhia. He was an Auliya Allah, a Friend of God.
Back to Sheikh Nurjan: “The Jinn want to be the lords of Mankind. This device of the computer and its technologies, this is the Jinn world…They Jinns preferred environment is the sand hence the silicon chip. They taught them to make a chip based on silica. ‘We can live there and facilitate for you whatever you ask of us.’”
Throughout this talk, the Sheikh never said who the “them” were but I was too busy thinking, “Wow!” Google must have the king Jinn because no one was bringing anything faster and with more accuracy than them.”
Sheikh Nurjan continued: “The Jinn want to bring you more but in exchange so they say, ‘We want you to worship us and you will have to think of us as your provider.’ Their intention is to be worshipped by Mankind, to set themselves as an authority that ‘we will protect you and if you don’t follow us, we will destroy you. Fear us and not Allah.’”
Verses in the Quran sounded what he was saying.
إِنَّمَا ذَٰلِكُمُ الشَّيْطَانُ يُخَوِّفُ أَوْلِيَاءَهُ فَلَا تَخَافُوهُمْ وَخَافُونِ إِن كُنتُم مُّؤْمِنِينَ
It is only that the Shaitaan frightens you of his allies. So do not fear them, but fear Me, if you are Believers – Surah Al e Imran, Verse 175
The exception was made for the believers. Everyone else would be scared. So who was it then that fell in the trap of fear? I looked up the Tafseer e Jilani again. It was the hyprocrites, the Munafiqeen. I went back to read what Hazrat Sahel had said about how one became a hypocrite; Sin, anything that torments the self, leads to disobedience. The disobedience is rooted in refuting something while knowing it’s the truth. The denial of something whole knowing it to be true leads to falsehood. The falsehood results in hardness of the heart. The hardness of the heart leads to hypocrisy thus rendering one of the Munafiqeen. Everything lay in the heart.
قال رسول اللہ :اَلاَ وَاِنَّ فِی الْجَسَدِ مُضْغَۃً اِذَا صَلَحَتْ صَلَحَ الْجَسَدُ کُلُّہٗ
وَاِذَا فَسَدَتْ فَسَدَ الْجَسَدُ کُلُّہٗ اَلآَ وَھِیَ الْقَلْبُ
Said the Prophet (peace be upon him): “There is a piece of flesh inside you, that if it is healthy the rest of the body is healthy and if it is sick, the rest of the body is sick. And that piece of flesh is the heart.”
Towards the end Sheikh Nurjan offered advice: “Now people are farther from their beliefs. The more they use these devices, the more they stop using their spiritual abilities. The heart has ability that exceeds that of a machine. You think this (pointing to his phone) can do anything, but what God created you deny? People have become idol worshippers. These are the idols of the modern times. You can use it as your servant or become a servant to it. Either you can use it to propagate the Message of Allah and the glory of His Prophet (saw) or be a slave to it.”
“But the reality is important to understand. We (humans) are a power source of Divine Energy. ‘We are going to absorb everything from you,’ the Jinn are saying. ‘We want to feed off what you have and what we were not given. We want to take away your belief in Allah’ and that’s exactly what has happened.”
I looked forward to my next class with Qari Sahib. I asked him two things. One, what made a Jinn good or bad? Qari Sahib explained that the Jinn were created from Iblis who is called Abu al-Jinn, the Father of Jinn, just like the Prophet Adam (as) is called the Abu-al Adam. Like humans, some were good and some, not so good.
وَأَنَّا مِنَّا الصَّالِحُونَ وَمِنَّا دُونَ ذَٰلِكَ ۖ كُنَّا طَرَائِقَ قِدَدًا
And among us are the righteous, and among us are (others) not so; we were (of) divided ways – Surah Jinn, Verse 11
The righteous brought faith upon God and the ones who did not were those who left for a path divergent.
وَأَنَّا لَمَّا سَمِعْنَا الْهُدَىٰ آمَنَّا بِهِ ۖ فَمَن يُؤْمِن بِرَبِّهِ فَلَا يَخَافُ بَخْسًا وَلَا رَهَقًا
Hence, as soon as we heard this call to His Guidance, we came to believe in it. And he who believes in his Sustainer need never have fear of loss or burden – Surah Al-Jinn, Verse 13
I wanted to know about the ones who did not. The Quran calls them the Qasitoon, the unjust. They are unjust because “they, in their disobedience, turned their faces away from the guidance sent upon them only to roam in the valleys of disbelieving the Truth in a state of perpetual bewilderment.”
وَأَنَّا مِنَّا الْمُسْلِمُونَ وَمِنَّا الْقَاسِطُونَ
And there are among us some who have surrendered (to Allah), the Muslimoon and there are among us some who are unjust, the Qasitoon – Surah Al-Jinn, Verse 14
Same as us pretty much!
The second thing I wanted to know from Qari Sahib was what it was exactly that we had that the Sheikh kept referring to that they might want. It seemed like they were the ones controlling the distribution of information, processing everything in milliseconds. What was it about us that they envied exactly?
وَلَقَدْ كَرَّمْنَا بَنِي آدَمَ وَحَمَلْنَاهُمْ فِي الْبَرِّ وَالْبَحْرِ وَرَزَقْنَاهُم مِّنَ الطَّيِّبَاتِ
وَفَضَّلْنَاهُمْ عَلَىٰ كَثِيرٍ مِّمَّنْ خَلَقْنَا تَفْضِيلًا
And certainly, We have honored (the) children of Adam and We carried them on the land and the sea, and We have provided them of the good things and We preferred them over many of those whom We have created with preference – Surah Al-Isr’a, Verse 70
Ghaus Pak (ra) says that this preference from God is granted in many forms; ability of reflection, moderation in behavior, a balanced disposition with attributes derived from the Attributes of God, a pleasing appearance, countless blessings of nature and livelihood from that which is kosher. The list went on and on. The human being is bestowed aql, the power of reflection, for a particular purpose; it is what allows one to gain from Divine Knowledge to become informed about the Essence of God and then worship Him by connecting with Him through His Prophets, His Books and His Friends.
But the Jinn are bestowed the power to reflect as well so as to gain the same recognition (ma’rifat) of Divine Reality. The purpose of our creation was exactly the same.
وَمَا خَلَقْتُ الْجِنَّ وَالْإِنسَ إِلَّا لِيَعْبُدُونِ
And I did not create the Jinn and Mankind except to worship Me – Surah Al-Isra’, Verse 56
Why was it then that the human being was chosen to be God’s Vicegerent, His Khalifa, the earthly representative in this world?
Ghaus Pak (ra) says when Allah wanted His Essence to be examined, it was through the one who is the perfect manifestation of His Attributes. Uzair explained in a lecture who this akmal, the most perfect, most complete being was.
“When Allah wanted to manifest Himself, He says he ‘loved to be known.’
كُنتُ كنزاً مَخفياً فأحببتُ أن أُعْرَف فخَلَقتُ الخَلْقَ لكي أُعرف
I, Allah, was a treasure hidden so I loved to be known.
Therefore I created Creation so that I will be known.
That love is the light of the Prophet Muhammad (saw) that Allah created from His Nur. The Prophet (saw) is the one who is the perfect reflection of all of His Attributes and a copy derived from His Essence. The Prophet Adam (as) is a copy of him and we, in turn, are all versions of the model of the Prophet Adam (as).”
Then he came to the verse.
وَلَقَدْ كَرَّمْنَا بَنِي آدَمَ
And certainly, We have honored (the) children of Adam…
“Abdul Kareem Jili (ra) says that irrespective of your belief and what you do, whoever you are, there is a basic ta’zeem, an honour, that is bestowed upon every human being. But he asks, ‘What is in you that you deserve such greatness from your Creator?’ It is only and only that you are formed in the image of the Prophet Adam (as) and he is created in the image of the Beloved of God (saw). And the Beloved of God, the Prophet Muhammad (saw), is created directly from the Essence of God. That and only that is why you receive this exalted honour.”
وَإِنَّكَ لَعَلَىٰ خُلُقٍ عَظِيمٍ
And you, O Beloved (saw), are certainly on the most exalted standard of moral excellence – Surah Al-Qalm, Verse 4
It was remarkable what Jili was saying; Nabi Kareem (saw) was the only one deemed by God to be the one who fulfilled His Rights as they were worthy of being fulfilled. In return, God bestowed for the sake of that perfect devotion of just one individual, an honour that permeated to all the other human beings who then came through him.
From the Tafseer e Tustari; “That is in the beginning when God, Transcendant and Exalted is He, created him (the Prophet Muhammad) as a light within a column of light, a million years before creation, with the essential characteristic of faith, in a witnessing of the unseen through the unseen.”
Elation is all I could feel to be included in that love between the two. It made me think of myself in a particular way which I had never done before.
(Audio by Ustad Imran Jafri @the.softest.heart)
جام ہر ذرہ ہے سرشار تمنا مجھ سے
کس کا دل ہوں کہ دوعالم سے لگایا ہے مجھے
Every speck of the goblet is intoxicated with desire for me
Whose heart am I that the two worlds are made to feel enraptured by me? - Ghalib
And it made me realize that envy was indeed the worst of poisons.
Sheikh Nurjan: “People have lost their humanity. Nobody even has the ability to communicate. Everyone is looking only at their phone. That is what Shaitan (Iblis) wanted. ‘Look at me, just look at me,’ he says. ‘Whatever you want, I will send it to you. You don’t even have to move. Just ask me.’”
I wanted to know more about Iblis, the master Jinn whose resentment ran so deep he was hell-bent on devouring us all as well. Qari Sahib told me to go to a most interesting verse of Surah An-Nisa.
لَّعَنَهُ اللَّهُ وَقَالَ لَأَتَّخِذَنَّ مِنْ عِبَادِكَ نَصِيبًا مَّفْرُوضًا
Allah cursed him and he (Iblis) said, "Verily, of Your Servants I shall most certainly take my due share – Verse 118
What was the share he wanted that he thought was due? Turned out it was stealing the faith of those who believed in God. He didn’t have to worry about the others. He possessed them in his control anyway.
Ghaus Pak (ra): Iblis is referring to the ones who are on the Path of Oneness. He vows to delude them and make Allah’s Truth appear hidden from them. Then he convinces them to take on other worshippers and speak against God. He knows better than anyone that disregard will render one deprived of the honour of His Closeness and safeguarding, instead becoming deserving of His Anger.
The next verse continued Iblis’ vow of devastation that he would unleash upon us.
وَلَأُضِلَّنَّهُمْ وَلَأُمَنِّيَنَّهُمْ وَلَآمُرَنَّهُمْ فَلَيُبَتِّكُنَّ آذَانَ الْأَنْعَامِ وَلَآمُرَنَّهُمْ فَلَيُغَيِّرُنَّ خَلْقَ اللَّهِ ۚ
وَمَن يَتَّخِذِ الشَّيْطَانَ وَلِيًّا مِّن دُونِ اللَّهِ فَقَدْ خَسِرَ خُسْرَانًا مُّبِينًا
“And I shall lead them astray, and fill them with vain desires. And I shall command them - and they will cut off the ears of cattle. And I shall command them - and they will corrupt God’s Creation!” But all who take Satan rather than God for their master do indeed, most clearly, lose everything. – Verse 119
“Command them” (twice)? The arrogance and rage was certainly palpable. “Cut off the ears of cattle?” What did that even mean?
Ghaus Pak (ra): “I will make them lose themselves in delusion and paranoia so that they leave the Oneness of God and become astray. I will sow in them greed for worldly life and the lust of indecency. They will go against the Laws and Commands decreed by Allah and cause harm to all of God’s beings, destroying and devastating them through that which is forbidden. In accordance with my will and pleasure, I will make them alter their natural being.” Hence the last line from God; Leaving the friendship offered by God, instead making Iblis an ally, was the cause of the the loss of everything.
“Check, check, check and check,” I thought. Iblis must be smug about his success in fulfilling his mission of our destruction thus far.
But all his promises are false and misleading, God says further in the next verse. “These vain desires will never be fulfilled because his promises itself are delusions. These false promises will never come to pass. They have no reality and existence and therefore no benefit or result.”
That explained the years of going around in circles if not physically, then in one’s own head. Except it wasn’t flat ground. It was quicksand, inching one deeper into it until there was just plain stuckness and a drowning in slow motion.
It was the promotion of indecency, fahsha’, that appeared to be Iblis’ most favoured mode of corruption.
إِنَّمَا يَأْمُرُكُم بِالسُّوءِ وَالْفَحْشَاءِ وَأَن تَقُولُوا عَلَى اللَّهِ مَا لَا تَعْلَمُونَ
He (Iblis) will only command you to evil and indecency (immorality) and that you should say of Allah what you do not know – Surah Al-Baqarah, Verse 169
At 50 I had, for the most part, left the overt sins of my life. That’s one of the easier things to give up in the world, the worldly "forbidden" acts. Been there done that, moving on! But the Sufis explain indecency differently which makes it much more complicated.
“Fahsha’ (shamlessness) is a form of being wayward and astray. It refers to the corrupt ideology and intellectual doubts and misconceptions that are sowed in the hearts of those who are lost or otherwise immersed in lust of the world. Their state of darkness comes from the absence of the light of the Prophets, their disobedience towards them, their refusal to follow them. Therefore they are firmly attached to their own beliefs and their “grandiose” intellect. In that state when prodded by Iblis they say that which is inappropriate about God and completely incorrect.”
Sheikh Nurjan continued: “And the next generation (of technology) will be integrated with your thought. Because this (current) technology is only as good as the speed of your fingers. They say, ‘We want to integrate with your brain where we overtake your thinking process. Not wait for your command.’ Be aware, it’s not going to be singularity with the machine. It’s singularity with the Jinn world!”
It was most definitely an OMG moment! Elon Musk is the tech billionaire bringing that particular brand of technology to the city nearest you. Which luckily is nowhere near Lahore. Although I’m guessing India, which these days serves as the khalifa for Israel, will be all over it so who knows? I had read that the Modi government had recently mandated a contract tracing app in his country which had shocked even the West.
Contact tracing apps appeared to me as one of the most insidious yet transparent modes of the “enslaving” the Shiekh was talking about. Google and Apple have teamed up in the effort as they have between them 3 billion users. Almost half the world’s population! Everybody was doing it anyway but if all private information of one’s existence was handed over voluntary, there was really nothing left.
Every human being would literally become a data byte that could be sold or manipulated. The "social credit system" in place by the state (China) or private corporations in the West meant denial and access to services (Uber, AirBnB etc) for anyone would be in the control of others. The Factbook-Cambridge Analytica fiasco had proven elections could be won.
And if people weren’t willing, it seemed like they would be forced.
May 7th, 2020: “In early April, India’s government launched a contact tracing app that processes users’ travel history, symptoms, and location data to calculate their risk of contracting the coronavirus…The government has made the app mandatory for public workers and has ordered companies to ‘ensure 100 percent coverage’ among employees. In the city of Noida, near New Delhi, people caught without the app could be fined $13 or face six months in jail.” And this is the world’s largest “democracy!”
Only to be outdone by Israel again. On May 8th the Jersualem Post headlined, “Netanhayu suggests microchipping kids.” The man just straight up suggests it. This from a state that already has “a classified Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) database that stores information on all Israeli citizens and most Palestinians in the West Bank. The data tracked by the agency included movements, phone calls and text messages.”
Singularity with the Jinn world through the brain, although that is probably not how he would put it, was originally Musk’s brainchild. From what I have read nobody seemed clear on what it was really for. All I found was a lot of “it could be for this or that or something else.”
July 2019: “Musk presented the first product from his company Neuralink. It’s a tiny computer chip attached to ultrafine, electrode-studded wires, stitched into living brains by a clever robot. And it’s either a state-of-the-art tool for understanding the brain, a clinical advance for people with neurological disorders, or the next step in human evolution.
The operation of Neuralink will develop computer chips that able to be implanted in human brain. The implanted chip aimed to increase the capacity of brain to memorized as well as installing or downloading ‘thoughts.’
In 2019 Musk said the process “will take a long time.” Then just this month, May 7th, 2020 he said. “‘We may be able to implant a neural link in less than a year in a person I think.’…Musk likened the process of his neural stimulation device zapping the brain to “kicking a TV”… the purpose being to restore functionality where it has been lost. For instance, those with Alzheimer’s could have their memories restored…‘We are already a cyborg to some degree.’”
The kick in the head didn’t sound like bad idea (I jest). Of course Musk is not the only one trying to do this. Facebook is making its own inroads.
When I had heard Sheikh Nurjan say that Jinns were electricity I got the movie “The Current War.” It was about the rivalry between Westinghouse and Thomas Edison in making widespread the use of electricity in the States. It was also terribly boring. The only thing striking about the movie was how electricity was used for capital punishment for the first time, replacing hanging, in the effort to be more civilized. Only turning out to be “extra brutal” to put it mildly.
Edison had vowed he would never use his inventions for anything that was harmful for the human race. Until of course came the time he needed money. It’s always the same ending. Sometimes I feel what Allah said in the Quran about alcohol and gambling ends up being true of most things we humans do. It always starts off with something that is “good.” Before you know it has been overshadowed by unparalleled harm. Some subversive agenda appears reversing the “goodness” that was due in a matter of, more and more, just a few years.
يَسْأَلُونَكَ عَنِ الْخَمْرِ وَالْمَيْسِرِ ۖ
قُلْ فِيهِمَا إِثْمٌ كَبِيرٌ وَمَنَافِعُ لِلنَّاسِ وَإِثْمُهُمَا أَكْبَرُ مِن نَّفْعِهِمَا ۗ
They ask you, (O Beloved (saw)), about intoxicants and games of chance. Say, “In both of them is a sin great, and some benefits for people. But sin of both of them is greater than the benefit of the two.” – Surah Al-Baqarah, Verse 219
The Sufis interpret the verse through another lens. The intoxicants are of two types, overt (zahiri) and inner (baatini). It is the intoxicants that sicken the soul they focus upon (baatini sharaab). Hazrat Najmuddin Kubra (ra) says that the ingredients of the latter are forgetfulness of God, indecency, lust for the forbidden and love of the world. All things that corrupt the mind and soul are harmful. Therefore, they are not allowed even in small doses and forbidden altogether.
I decided to read the Suraj Jinn in its entirety. One verse in particular popped out; the people who sought refuge from the Jinn.
وَأَنَّهُ كَانَ رِجَالٌ مِّنَ الْإِنسِ يَعُوذُونَ بِرِجَالٍ مِّنَ الْجِنِّ فَزَادُوهُمْ رَهَقًا
And there were men from mankind who sought refuge in men from the Jinn, so they (only) increased them in burden – Surah Jinn, Verse 6
I didn’t understand the translation so I asked Qari Sahib to explain it. His go-to is the same as mine, Ghaus Pak (ra). We opened the Tafseer e Jilani.
“The Jinn said (about that which he knew happened), ‘Before it was unveiled upon us the Oneness of Truth, there were some men amongst the humans seeking refuge from the men of the Jinns, when they traveled in desolate areas. Whilst in such places, the humans used to say, “I ask for refuge from the king of this valley from the wicked of his tribe.”’
“Then the humans thought we have received help from the Jinn and are in their protection. This made the Jinn and humans increased in their arrogance and wrongdoing and allowed the Jinn to snatch for them (secrets and information they did not know) as well as speak to them.”
I asked Qari Sahib, “But the Jinn is talking in the past sense, Sir. So this used to happen but a long time ago. How do we know it happens now?”
“Because Nabi Kareem (saw) already said,” my teacher responded, “that there is nothing forbidden that has happened before which my Ummah will not do again.”
أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ ، قَالَ : لَتَتَّبِعُنَّ سَنَنَ مَنْ قَبْلَكُمْ شِبْرًا بِشِبْر
وَذِرَاعًا بِذِرَاعٍ حَتَّى لَوْ سَلَكُوا جُحْرَ ضَبٍّ لَسَلَكْتُمُوهُ
The Prophet (saw) said, “You will follow the wrong ways, of your predecessors so completely and literally that if they should go into the hole of a mastigure, you too will go there.”
Man!
For me personally, the most harmful thing about the corrupt Jinns in machines was not about staring at a screen for eight hours a day or more. I don’t do that. It was about two things, the first being technology leading to over exposure, information overload and therefore the mass desensitization of the masses. It started a while ago with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan where the numbers of innocent civilians and children killed reached millions. Then came the terrorist attacks and the thousands of innocent civilians and children killed. That certainly muted reactions to the dying of others.
Time had confirmed that my own reaction to disturbing events was initially intense but always short-lived. Recent examples; Domestic violence is up 40% is Europe and the UK! Deep concern, next! Muslims in India are being targeted for “spreading the virus,” facing violence and denied medical services with some hospitals taking out full page ads in newspapers to say if they will not be treated if tested positive for COVID-19. Extreme rage, next! Tens of thousands of Americans are standing are standing for hours in lines to receive something to eat from food banks across the country, while Amazon clocks 10,000 dollars a minute. Genuine sadness, next! I hated it.
The second was what Huxley called ‘Hypnopaedic’ (sleep-teaching). In my world, the teacher of morality was popular culture, specifically the media which, through technology, had successfully stripped in two decades the values of societies thousands of years old. I witnessed such happenings countless times in my generation. Case in point; movies and the world’s largest film industry, Bollywood. The wheels set in motion in 2006. Disney started acquiring share in UTV, a Mumbai-based leading media and entertainment company. Within a decade India had fallen.
Other Bollywood studios started joint ventures with Hollywood and the on-screen erosion and systemic eradication of a country’s culture and religious morality began. We went from images of butterflies and birds as a proxy for intimacy in the 80’s to hook-ups between the young where you have sex first and ask the other’s name later. If ever! I literally saw that and it amazed me how anyone could even buy it.
In the writing New York or Los Angeles were transposed onto Delhi or Mumbai just like that and not a peep was heard. Not from the censor boards, not the clergy, not the actors who were “willing to go naked” to land roles, certainly not the viewer. The exact same thing happened in Pakistani cinema to a lesser extent but it didn’t matter. Up until all things Indian were banned recently, our society was imbued with Bollywood as much as the Indians. Mehndi’s had become sangeets and I don’t know who came up with the word “shandi.”
Then courtesy of the internet and smart phones, within a decade, South Asians became the top porn-watchers in the world. Sexual violence against women and children in conservative societies became rampant. Recently China has started flexing its muscles with Hollywood. Given the size of its viewership the state began to dictate content, censoring what was “against” them. They made no qualms about controlling the narrative or simply deleting what was offensive to their “values.” Kisses were edited out of upcoming movies like Mulan and songs, the cornerstone of a Disney flick, were removed. The driver remained the same; money begets control.
‘Hypnopaedic!’ For one generation a drug, marijuana, was illegal and criminalized so intensely, thousands of young African American men was incarcerated for years for minor possession. For another it was an ingredient for brownies and gummy bears sold in cafes and Maureen Dowd was writing an op-ed about her experience of edibles for the New York Times. Yet the same minorities continue getting brutally assaulted, if not killed by the police, most recently for not maintaining social distancing of all things, in the East Village of all places and everyone is programmed to swallow that with a sip of Diet Coke.
The Prophet (ﷺ) had told me what to do when faced with injustice for oneself or another.
“Whosoever of you sees an evil, let him change it with his hand. And if he is not able to do so, then (let him change it) with his tongue. And if he is not able to do so, then with his heart — and that is the weakest of faith.”
I felt upset that just expressing outrage in my heart or at best in my writing, was all I could do. I would feel bad but then I just forgot everything too as if it never happened. Till I read about it again. I asked Qari Sahib why I was like this, what was it that rendered me essentially unaffected by everything and anything. He gave me my answer.
أَفَلَمْ يَسِيرُوا فِي الْأَرْضِ فَتَكُونَ لَهُمْ قُلُوبٌ يَعْقِلُونَ بِهَا أَوْ آذَانٌ يَسْمَعُونَ بِهَا ۖ
فَإِنَّهَا لَا تَعْمَى الْأَبْصَارُ وَلَٰكِن تَعْمَى الْقُلُوبُ الَّتِي فِي الصُّدُورِ
Have they, then, never journeyed about the earth, letting their hearts gain wisdom, and causing their ears to hear? Yet, verily, it is not their eyes that have become blind - but blind have become the hearts that are in their breasts! – Surah Al-Hajj, Verse 46
A heart being blind! What did that even mean? Ghaus Pak’s (ra) explanation was spellbinding.
“The world has been created for you to travel in so you learn from it and open your eyes. And your ears have been given the ability to hear so as to be informed of the news and the states of why others are destroyed and disconnected from their origins.”
“But did those before you learn from these stories and incidents? Their eyes were not blind because they watched their happenings and were informed. But their hearts were blind in seeing. They did not learn a lesson from them or open their eyes to their realities or see the happenings to gain insight as a thinking person. They were not being watchful.”
“Overall know this; The one who does not learn lessons from that which is destroying others from detriment, these people their hearts have become blind even though their eyes are well.”
It was emulation of the worst kind! I was reminded of Confucius who said that there were three ways of acquiring wisdom. The most difficult and most noble was reflection. The easiest was emulation. The most bitter, experience. It certainly didn’t seem like our lustful desire to experience everything that came our way from the West or even closer was going to end anytime soon.
Personally I was never an emulator of any kind but that’s easy when you live on the periphery of society. It doesn’t let you in unless you mainstream yourself to death so if you don’t mind being alone, I guess you are rendered safe. Finally I understood what it was that Iblis wanted from me at least. My softness was the best part of me so it was the slow but sure stripping of my ehsaas, the ability to be sensitive to the state of another’s heart, that him the happiest.
June 30th, 2015 Live Science “Our brains can't handle the barrage of emotionally draining stories told to us, and this leads to a negation or suppression of emotion that destroys empathy. The natural response is to shut down our compassion, because we are emotionally exhausted..."
"...However, if we are conscious of the diminishment of empathy, we can recover it… Remember that empathy is a muscle: The more you use it, the stronger it gets. So, flex those empathy muscles through storytelling and expand your notion of who is in your group (meaning only the ones you care about). Or, be willing to fall prey to the increasing ideological polarization of our time and face the global consequences.”
To better understand how to hold on to that which made me human, I decided to look up the verses of the Prophet Adam (as) after he and Amma Hawwa (ratu) were made to leave Heaven for a transgression they were enticed to commit. In their sadness of their error how did they react?
قَالَا رَبَّنَا ظَلَمْنَا أَنفُسَنَا وَإِن لَّمْ تَغْفِرْ لَنَا
وَتَرْحَمْنَا لَنَكُونَنَّ مِنَ الْخَاسِرِينَ
The two replied, "O our Sustainer! We have sinned against ourselves and unless You grant us forgiveness and bestow Your Mercy upon us, we shall most certainly be lost!"
So one: blame yourself when you commit a wrongdoing and not the other, not even Iblis when it is him who misleads you. That was unexpected! Since he was the one who quite literally mislead them. Only when a mistake was committed by another person did the Prophet’s deflect blame from their loved ones to Satan. For sowing discord, as the Prophet Yousaf (as) had done when it came to his brothers.
وَقَدْ أَحْسَنَ بِي إِذْ أَخْرَجَنِي مِنَ السِّجْنِ
وَبَيْنَ إِخْوَتِي ۚ وَجَاءَ بِكُم مِّنَ الْبَدْوِ مِن بَعْدِ أَن نَّزَغَ الشَّيْطَانُ بَيْنِي
And He (Allah) was certainly good to me when He took me out of prison and brought you (here) from the desert life after Satan had caused discord between me and my brothers.” - Surah Yusuf, Verse 100
But when it came to their own selves and anything related to their lives, the Prophets never blamed anyone. Certainly never fate. Not during any trials. Not even though they were innocent, masoom, devoid of free will. It was because blame and accusation expels love from a relationship. But I digress. That’s another story.
Out of curiosity I asked Qari Sahib what it was exactly that Iblis had promised the Prophet Adam (as) when he lured him into doing that which was forbidden to him by God.
فَوَسْوَسَ إِلَيْهِ الشَّيْطَانُ قَالَ يَا آدَمُ هَلْ أَدُلُّكَ عَلَىٰ شَجَرَةِ الْخُلْدِ وَمُلْكٍ لَّا يَبْلَىٰ
Then whispered to him Shaitaan and he said, "O Adam! Shall I direct you to (the) tree (of) life eternal and a kingdom not (that will) deteriorate?" – Surah Taha, Verse 120
Eternal life! I had come across articles over recent years on the desire of billionaires to live longer.
Sep 2nd, 2015: “6 Billionaires who want to live forever” and the first line reads, “A growing number of tech moguls are trying to solve their biggest problem yet: Aging.” Who are they; Theil - Paypal, Ellison – Oracle, Larry Page – Alpahbet, Sergey Brin – Google, Zuckerburg – Facebook, Sean Parker – Napster.” Ellison’s quote; “Death has never made any sense to me. How can a person be there and then just vanish, just not be there?” I guess he hadn't come across the Quran : )
كُلُّ نَفْسٍ ذَائِقَةُ الْمَوْتِ
Every soul will taste death - Surah Aal e Imran, Verse 185
But perhaps many people not so rich want to live forever too. It was the second part of Iblis’ lure that I was interested in. Ghaus Pak (ra) defines the kingdom without decline in a particular way: “It is a kingdom that will only grow. It will be forever and it will be the first of its kind, not coming from another. It will never be in decline nor will it be transferred to another.”
I paused when I read the lines with Qari Sahib and looked at him in surprise. I didn’t know about the past but anybody could guess which “kingdoms” were the first of their kind in our lifetime.
“Maybe it was the banks before Sir or whoever but it’s definitely the tech companies now,” I spoke the words slowly. Nothing like them ever existed before. I guess that’s why they give their wealth to so-called philanthropy. The advancement of an agenda long after they’re dead must continue. Iblis offers them the wealth and the power that comes with it. Then he just keeps it while they die taking nothing to the grave. I had read about that being his modus operandi enough times in the books of the Auliya Karaam. It made sense why “advocacy philanthropy” or as I heard recently from enraged activists “philanthro-capitalism” was the call of the day.
But the most concise explanation of the problem with the corrupt Jinn lay in Surah An-Naas. In it is the last line of the Quran which formed the inspiration of the title of this piece. The surah was hugely significant. It contained God’s parting words to me. The strange thing was I knew the surah inside out because for my book where I had translated the entire tafseer from the Arabic so as not to miss a word. But I had done it entirely ignoring the word Jinn because I knew nothing about them. And what did it encompass; a warning!
(Begin excerpt “The Softest Heart”)
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I had an opportunity to be therein in the flood affected areas of Sindh during 2nd - 6th September, 2011, and had seen several relief camps set there either by the government or NGOs or by the people on self-help basis. The pictures of two of these camps there at KHATLARY and NAUKOT which I have captured and would like to share few out of them with you.
The recent rain fall has devastated the livings of the inhabitants of Mithi, Badin, Umarkot, Jamshoro, Dadu, Naukot, Mirpurkhas, Jhado, Nawabshah, Nara, Thari Mir Wah and many other cities of the south eastern region of Sindh and the enraging flood has ruined the villages and forced about 600,000 people to opt for a gypsy living. An area of About 1,600,000 acres agricultural land with the harvest has come under the flood water destroying all the crops and wiping out hundred of thousand of villages which once were existing there.
The flood affectees are spending days into these relief camps without sufficient food and clean drinking water resources, their children are having no cloth, the makeshift arrangements for the living they have adopted for are such fragile that a single wind wave wrecks the shelter of their shabby homes and thus leaving them to get wet under the heavy showers for hours. They somehow have brought with them their livestock which too is experiencing the similar circumstances -though these animals are a source only as to relieve these people of theirs miseries to some extent.
These flood affectees are living a distressed life in their these own made relief camps and awaits for the help from the world around.
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Road Prince
قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ
الْمُؤْمِنُ آلِفٌ مَأْلُوفٌ وَلا خَيْرَ فِيمَنْ لا يَأْلَفُ وَلا يُؤْلَفُ ، خَيْرُ النَّاسِ أَنْفَعُهُمْ لِلنَّاسِ
The Prophet of God (peace be upon him) said,
"The Mo’min is the one who loves and is loved.
And there is no goodness for the one who does not give love and receive love.
The best amongst people is the one who gives others benefit.
Recently life made me ponder the state of sadness and its relation with the ego. All of us experience sadness, then some of us become parked in that state, sometimes not even knowing it. Superficially we appear angry or numb, but over time it just turns into a deep selfishness that permeates the entire being, inward and outward. The curse of that selfishness manifests as a deprivation of ehsaas, sensitivity towards the state of another.
Then by the Mercy of God, enters affection or love or just compassion. For everyone. But can anyone really reduce another’s sadness, lessen selfishness? I used to think no, that the state has to exited by each one of us but I had forgotten.
Nothing happens without a waseela, a source. It is sent. Ability is granted. Answering the call of love is a shortcut for sure. But sometimes even love emanates from the ego instead of the heart. It is transient, it dissipates, it needs reciprocity to survive. And the proof is in the pudding!
Ghaus Pak (ra) says in the Tafseer e Jilani: The heart in which lies the seed of love, the fruit of that love is a witnessing; mushahida.
Everything difficult, traumatic that we go through, leaves a scar upon our heart even when we bury it, ignore it. The upside of the experience though is undeniable, the gift of resilience granted to us. We can survive pretty much anything. But ultimately the pain has to be shed otherwise we retreat, becoming invisible as it veils the heart, hardening it, making it seemingly impossible to pierce.
But then not all of us are like that.
A couple of weeks ago I saw a homeless man in a park, Bagh e Jinnah. My favourite hang now since I worked there to make the tables and definitely this fall when the weather will turn gorgeous and I will play there every single day. The cherry though was not the beauty of the green, the ancient trees, the variety of flora or the immaculate workmanship of hundreds of gardeners. It was the shrine of Hazrat Pir Sakhi Turat Murad Shah (ra). I couldn’t stop going there almost every single day after the first time.
One afternoon after my game I walked over to him.
“Salam,” I said sitting down on the steel bench opposite where he was lying down. “I see you sitting here all the time. I wondered if you need anything.”
He looked up at me and the first thing I noticed was the sweetness of his face. His tan was an olive complexion. His hair was short, light. It always covered with a baseball cap.
“No,” he said gently, sitting up. “I’m fine.”
“So what about the box?” I asked casually. “How come you bring that with you every day?”
I knew I was being intrusive. But it wasn’t out of curiosity. I actually wanted to know if he needed anything.
“My things are in it,” he said like it was the most normal thing in the world to carry your belongings around everywhere.
As I left I turned around and asked, “What’s your name?”
He hesitated for a second, then said, “Shaan.”
I smiled.
“Like the actor.”
He smiled back.
On another day I asked him again if he needed anything. He said no but when I insisted, he pointed at his sandals. One of them was broken. I bought him a new pair and a few t-shirts and short-sleeved button down shirts. He didn’t ask for any of it.
“Here!” I said, sitting down placing the bags next to him. “I hope you like them.”
He took each bag carefully, then opened the plastic covers that wrapped each item so slowly, I couldn’t help but notice the delicacy of his nature. He was nafees.
“They’re beautiful,” he said happily. “You have good taste. I saw your shirts that you play in. They’re nice.”
I thanked my lucky stars I had chosen everything for him myself.
When he tried the shoes though they were still too big. “I’m so sorry. I did tell my driver that they looked big. He isn’t getting the size right.”
Shaan glanced over at my feet. I was wearing my Bata sandals.
“That looks about right,” he said. “Let me try them.”
My nafs jumped. I’m a huge germophobe, the fear of dirt, on my feet specifically. bordering on OCD. I never ever walk around barefoot, except sometimes on grass and sand.
“Ummm,” my head thought until thankfully my heart kicked it in the head.
“Stop being disgusting and let him try the shoe.”
“Oh yes, of course,” I jumped up placing my shoe near his foot. He slipped it on and beamed.
“It’s a perfect fit.”
“I’ll have him change the shoe,” I said smiling back.
It was my driver, Usman, who informed me that Shaan was a woman. One day I sent a cooler for him with water and ice so he could keep it next to him when he called me.
“She isn’t here. I asked the guards and they said they haven’t seen her today. Should I wait or come back?”
“Come back,” I said ignoring the gender revelation.
Later when I was in the car I said, “So he’s a girl.”
“Ji,” he replied in the affirmative.
“Well, since he’s referring to himself as a male, let’s just do that,” I said.
“Okay,” he replied.
That was the beauty of a 2o some year old for a driver.
Everything about an individual related to gender identity and sexuality was cool, accepted with warmth by his generation, regardless of socio-economic background. It was ingrained through social media no doubt, which I believe is poison, but then I guess everything has its upside. My decades old driver, Sadulah, would have been freaking out for sure and driven me mad.
Another day or so later, again on my way back from the shrine, I went over to see Shaan.
“Salam,” I said, asking how he was, then ventured, “I was wondering Shaan, where do you live?”
“In the park,” he answered as if he was giving me an address in the city.
“But the park closes at 9.”
“Not this park,” he said. “The one in Shadman.”
I knew which park he was talking about. It was a grassy spot surrounded by markets on all sides.
“And bathrooms?” My curiosity started kicking in.
“I used to go to the Mosque but they said I can’t come unless I wear Shalwar Kamiz. I don’t have one.”
“Oh,” I thought. I wondered if they had figured out that he was a woman. Women don’t go to Mosques in Pakistan for some reason.
“So I just wash myself where there is a tap with my clothes on.”
“I was thinking,” I said gently. “It’s not the safest thing, living in a park I mean. Why don’t you find a place to live and I can pay for it.”
“If you could get me a job…” Shaan said instead.
I shook my head.
“I’m leaving the country next week for a month or so. I don’t know many people but I will try for sure. In the meantime, how about you find a place in the next couple of days. Is that possible?”
“Well,” he said, “I can share with someone and...”
“No, no,” I cut him off. “No sharing.”
I knew drivers and laborers who came into the cities from the villages, shared rooms, sometimes four people to a space, if not more. How would a woman live with them? Sounded like a nightmare.
“How old are you Shaan?” I asked. “If you don’t mind my asking.”
I don’t know why my manners finally kicked in.
“47,” he replied.
“What?” my jaw dropped. “You look like you’re 22.”
Later when I told my friends the story they said I look young too.
“Yeah,” I said rolling my eyes, “But I’m not living in a park. If I was I would be looking 65.”
“That’s true,” they all conceded.
That evening a friend of mine, Hiba, called to tell me she had some money she wanted to give to an orphanage and could I send it over to them. I started telling her about Shaan. Did she want to give any money towards settling him into an apartment?
She turned around and told me she had a workshop in the city where there was a room that could be fixed up for Shaan and he could live there. Her carpenters worked in the space from 9 till 6 and the rest of the time, the house was empty. A family lived in the back to take care of it. Shaan was welcome to live there she said.
“Super!” I said. “Can I bring him over soon?”
“Sure,” she said, “let’s go together tomorrow.”
The next day I went to see Shaan and suggested the idea, wondering if he would he be open to it. I was terrified he might become paranoid and disappear.
“She might even have a job for you,” I offered never having spoken so softly to anyone in my life. That’s the beauty of people who exude tenderness. They make you gentle with them. Suhbat! The number one factor that shapes and changes a human being at any age; company!
“Ok,” he said. “When?”
“Tomorrow,” I beamed. “She will come with me so we can go together.”
At 11am the following morning, I went to the park to pick up Shaan. I saw him walking towards me, drenched in sweat.
“Can I change my clothes before we go?” he asked.
“Oh, that’s not necessary,” I said. “We’re late and you’re fine.”
“No,” he insisted. “It will only take a minute.”
He turned around and walked to back to the pergola where his stuff was. He pulled off one of his tshirts, he was wearing two, and put on one of the new shirts. Then he wrapped what seemed like a sheet around his waist and changed his trousers. He fixed his hair and walked towards me looking fresh.
I smiled at him and we got into the car. At the gate of the park we met my friend and we set off to her workshop. My friend started asking Shaan questions about himself. Of course it started with the question every employer-to-be has.
“Do you have an ID card?” she asked warily.
“No,” Shaan answered. “I used to have one. Then it expired and I haven’t renewed it yet. But I will do that.”
“My driver can help you in terms of taking you to an office.” I offered. “It should be pretty straightforward.”
“And do you have a CV?” my friend asked.
“I made one,” Shaan said turning around to look at us from the front seat. “I have worked in boutiques, factories, shops. I used to teach in a school at one time. I’ve done many jobs. I can even fix electrical things,” he said smilingly.
“Cool,” I piped in.
“I’m also an artist. I like to write stories and poetry. I like drawing. I like many things,” he said.
“Wow! You seem to have done it all,” Hiba remarked. “Well this job will most likely be admin. Mostly coordination between my different projects. Ensuring deliveries are happening on time, checking the merchandise etc.”
“Like a foreman,” Shaan suggested.
“Yes, exactly like a foreman.” Then she asked, “Can I ask where all you have you have lived?”
“Many places, many parks.” he said, looking out the window.
“I’m a road prince.”
“Road prince!” I echoed from the back. “I like that title. I sometimes write stories too. I think I might write a story about you and call it that,” I said, waiting for him to react.
I could see him in the rear view mirror. He was still smiling.
The house was in Johar Town. Almost all the rooms were being used by the carpenters but on the second floor we found a room that was empty. It had a bathroom with it. The room was spacious with a large window. It needed to be cleaned.
“Let’s go sit in my office,” Hiba suggested.
While sitting there I suggested that Shaan go and buy whatever he needed from the market for himself. Hiba handed him a blank piece of paper.
“Here, you can make a list,” I gave him a pen.
He took the paper and placed it sideways. Next to him was a piece of wood about the size of a ruler. He took it and using the pen, started drawing horizontal lines on the page. I smiled and wondered what his zodiac was. His approach to everything was so detailed.
I gave him some money to buy the items and anything else that occurred to him and to use the rest to purchase food since the kitchen was not yet functional. There was a small stove connected to a cylinder which the carpenters used to make tea.
After leaving him, on the way home I told Usman how I liked his title for himself. “It’s cool.”
He told me Road Prince was the name of a model of a motor cycle.
When I had called him later in the evening to make sure he was settling in alright, he said to me excitedly. “I have all the receipts and I wrote down everything I got for you to see. I also got a shirt and pants. That will be my uniform for work which I will wear every day.”
“Nice,” I smiled thinking, who does that.
The next day, the first for Shaan in his new space, I went to see him. He wasn’t interacting with the rest of the workers in the house. They were trying to be friendly but he stayed in his room mostly. The job was going to start in a week or ten days because Eid was around the corner and everything would be closed. Till then he had nothing to do.
We sat in the office and talked. I asked him how he spent the morning.
“I wrote in my diary,” he said. “I like to write in it every day. Would you like to see it?”
“Sure,” I replied enthusiastically. “I would love to see it.”
I couldn’t really understand what he had written. It was in English but the sentence construction wasn’t making sense to me. There were several entries with varying dates even though he had written them all that same day. One line was on almost every page. “I like ice-cream.” I immediately called Usman and told him to bring some along with some food.
Shaan wasn’t going downstairs so he wasn’t eating anything except buns he had bought from a bakery the day before. I told him the staff would get him anything he wanted. All he had to do was tell them what. He nodded and I wondered if it was actually going to happen.
It was the first page of the diary that caught my attention.
On it he had written Name, Father’s name, Mother’s name and then filled them out. Everyone’s last name was Shaan. For Address he had written Shadman. Below that was “Date of birth” and “ID card number.” Those were blank. It was like a form. Everything about him was so particular. He reminded me of myself. Later he told me he was born in late November.
“I’m Sagittarius,” he said.
When I asked him about the people he used to hang out with in the park, he didn’t say much.
To my question, “What were they like?” he answered, “If you spend time with someone, it’s not nice to say anything bad about them.”
Wow, I thought. I felt like I was seeing someone who was the personification of a daily tasbeeh I read myself and also taught my niece. “Allah u Rabbi.” “My Lord is The One who raises me by His Lutf, Kindness and His Fazal, Bounty.” For Shaan at least one consequence of that raising seemed to be a bestowing of excellence in manners.
I could see he was tired. I asked him if he slept well. “It’s a new place so you know…” he said looking down, his eyes turning sad. “And if you think of something bad before you sleep, then sometimes it comes into your dream.”
To just that comment, I had a thousand questions but I kept my mouth shut. I racked my brain for something that might make him laugh. But since I didn’t know him, I couldn’t think of anything. I tried just being friendly.
“Yesterday I noticed the way you made your list of things you were going to get. Using the wood to line the page,” I said smiling.
“Yes,” he said looking up at me. “I like to write on paper that has lines.”
He had written down exactly seven items on it; a pail with a bowl for it, soap, a towel, a bed-sheet, shampoo and powder.
I sat with Shaan while he ate, then I left. When I got home I started feeling bad that he might be feeling lonely. I called Qari Sahib to ask him what to do.
“It’s just an adjustment for him right now. The first few days are hard. Then they become better. It’s like that for anyone who lives alone for the first time.”
“But the room isn’t great Qari Sahib,” I said. “It’s a big size but it needs stuff so it’s cozy. There’s nothing in it.”
“No one’s first room is great,” my teacher responded clearly remembering his own.
The problem was I was thinking of a story Qari Sahib had told us recently in class:
One day a man came to see Hazrat Shah Suleman Taunsvi (ra). He asked him about Tauheed, the One-ness of Allah.
“Teach me what it means,” he requested.
The Saint replied, “Tauheed is thinking of Allah better than you think of yourself. Or at least treating him as you treat yourself.”
The man was flabbergasted.
“What are you saying to me? I had no idea you would say something so inappropriate as a scholar and someone so highly regarded in spirituality. How can I think of Allah in any way related to my base self. This is shirk. You are misguiding people,” he ranted.
Hazrat Shah Suleman Taunsvi (ra) calmly replied, “This is what I know of Tauheed and so I have told you it. If you can find a better answer elsewhere, seek it.”
The man wanted to leave but night had already appeared so he decided to stay till the morning. Hazrat Shah Suleman Taunsvi (ra) told his disciples to give him dinner but with a special instruction.
“Send him some fresh food and bread and some that is old.”
As the man began to eat, a sa’il, one in need, made a plea in the street.
“Will anyone give me anything in the Name of Allah?”
The man heard the voice and looked at his tray. Then he decided to keep the fresh food for himself and send the old one to the hungry person. Soon after he fell asleep.
The next morning, before leaving, he came to Hazrat Shah Suleman Taunsvi (ra) to say goodbye. He asked him again, “So did you understand anything about Tauheed from our previous conversation?”
The man reiterated his disappointment.
The Saint then said, “O friend! Listen to me. I told you this; Think of Allah more than you think of yourself or treat Him at the least, as you treat yourself. Yesterday night you had before you fresh food as well as food that was old. When the needy person asked for something for the Sake of Allah, you kept the good food for yourself and sent the old food for him.
Since sadqa goes into the Hands of Allah, you kept what was better and sent what was worse to Him. You couldn’t treat Allah better than yourself by giving the man all the fresh food and you couldn’t even treat him as you treat yourself (by giving him some of it).”
It was true; understanding the essence of faith, of God, who for so many was entirely elusive, always only comes as a result of another human being.
Then Qari Sahib had quoted a verse from the Quran;
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا أَنفِقُوا مِن طَيِّبَاتِ مَا كَسَبْتُمْ
وَمِمَّا أَخْرَجْنَا لَكُم مِّنَ الْأَرْضِ
الْخَبِيثَ مِنْهُ تُنفِقُونَ وَلَا تَيَمَّمُوا
وَلَسْتُم بِآخِذِيهِ إِلَّا أَن تُغْمِضُوا فِيهِ
وَاعْلَمُوا أَنَّ اللَّهَ غَنِيٌّ حَمِيد
O ye attained who faith!
Spend on others out of the good things which you have acquired
and out of that which We have produced from the Earth.
Do not choose the worst of it to give in charity that you yourself would be reluctant to accept.
Know that Allah is Rich beyond need and Praiseworthy.
Surah Al-Baqarah, Verse 267
I thought of my room and what was in it. His room and what was in it. I sent a text around to my friends to get some furniture so I could place it in his room before I left. I went to see my Aunt but my heart felt heavy. I couldn’t stop thinking about him. On the way back I told my driver that I thought Shaan was low. That I didn’t know how to raise his spirits.
Usman told me that the guys in the workshop had said they tried to make conversation with him and to everything they asked, Shaan had said, “If you don’t mind, mujhe nahin pata.” “If you don’t mind, I don’t know.”
I burst out laughing. Sounded like a t-shirt Uzma would love!
I called Hiba and told her I was feeling nervous. She said she was sending over a phone for Shaan through her driver.
“He will have it tonight. Then we can call him. And he can call other people. That might make him happier. And I will go see him tomorrow. It will just take a little time.”
He had said he liked art. I thought I would get him some stuff so he can paint while he waits for his job to start. I thought I would buy him a bike. He said he preferred a bicycle to a motor bike. But would these things make him happy?
That night I cried in my bed while I thought of him and I cried in my prayers at dawn. I only asked for one thing; “Guide my heart to do that which will make Shaan happy. Please, tell me what will make him happy.”
It was a prayer I never prayed like that for anyone before. Not a family member that was unhappy, not a romantic love that was sad, not a friend who was depressed. I prayed for them to be happy, sure but I never pleaded for it. Plus people are different. Some shun love offered all the time. Others choose their loneliness, then extract pride from it. It always ended up a façade upon a façade full of landmines, impossible to traverse. Shaan was alone.
The prayer I uttered for guidance was new. It had been the topic of a lecture I heard by Uzair the same day; a hadith mubarik
اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَسْتَخِيرُكَ بِعِلْمِكَ
Allahumma inni astakhiruka bi'ilmika
“O Allah! I ask guidance from Your Knowledge.”
“Guide my heart, Ya Rabbi, to do what which is right for Shaan. Pleeeeeease!” I sobbed.
While I lay in bed, I could sense my nafs feeling astounded.
Then it asked me, “Why are you crying like this? Do you want Shaan to be happy because of that story you read in Ghaus Pak’s (ra) book? ‘Pleasing the needy is pleasing God.’”
“No,” I answered truthfully starting to cry again. “I’m just worried. What if he doesn’t feel happy.”
“Well, could you wait a day to see what happens please because you’re killing me,” was its genuinely irritated response.
Through the tears I smiled. A sense of humour always did heal everything for me! That’s why Zee’s always been the most special of my friends.
I think what was making me feel that worried was my leaving for the States for a month two days later. If I had been in Lahore longer, I would have been able to see Shaan every other day and made sure personally that he was settled. If the job was not going to start, I would have found other things for him to do so his time was occupied. I was sure he missed the park, the outdoors, sound.
The next day I called Shaan in the morning and told him I was sending over the rest of the stuff he had asked for. It was a shalwar kamiz, gray, tea bags, sugar, a frying pan, a pot to boil water, some plates and cutlery. I added to that a new pair of pyjamas I had just gotten made for myself and a t-shirt I absolutely love. I wanted to take them myself but it was a crazy day so I sent Usman. Which as it turned out was the best thing I could have done.
“Call me when you are with him so I can have a word please.”
An hour or so later, I heard from him. Shaan’s voice sounded upbeat. He loved the clothes and now he was going for a drive with Usman to buy some fruit and check out a park nearby. He told me again that I had great taste. I asked him to please see what the food choices were nearby so he wasn’t eating junk.
“You sound much better today,” I said. “You sound happy.”
I could hear his smile. “Yes,” he said dreamily. “It’s a good day,” he said in English and my heart leapt with joy. I thanked God in my heart and vowed to do a tasbeeh later.
In our last class on the Haj Qari Sahib had told us the verse:
وَيَزِيدُ اللَّهُ الَّذِينَ اهْتَدَوْا هُدًى
وَالْبَاقِيَاتُ الصَّالِحَاتُ خَيْرٌ عِندَ رَبِّكَ ثَوَابًا وَخَيْرٌ مَّرَدًّ
And Allah increases guidance for those who accept guidance.
And the everlasting good deeds are far better near your Lord in reward and in outcome.
Surah Maryam, Verse 76
“Nabi Kareem (peace be upon him) says that those “everlasting good deeds” are sometimes words. Specifically the words His Beloved (saw) chose were, ‘Subhan Allah, Alhamdolillah, Allah o Akbar, La hawala wa la quwwata.’”
All Glory is for Allah, All praise is for Him alone, Allah is the Greatest, I cannot come around to that which is good for me (without Him) and I cannot stay away from that which is harmful to me (without Him).
It was a tasbeeh that held deep meaning for me that day!
Especially the last part.
In the evening I went to the shrine in the park to say Salam, then to Daata Sahib’s (ra) to say goodbye. On the way I asked Usman to tell me the details of the afternoon. He told me Shaan seemed to have had a really good time.
“I set up his phone and he called me. Hiba bibi gave him a really nice one. Samsung.”
“Oh, so you were the first call,” I said almost with a pang of jealousy. “Cool! That’s good. It’s very important he trusts someone. You should go see him twice a week while I’m gone and take him out for a drive, do something fun, eat something nice. He will enjoy that.”
Usman smiled. “When we came back from the shopping, he even had a cup of tea with the workers downstairs for the first time. Then as I was taking my leave to come home, I asked him if he needed anything else. He said no, he was fine. Then he offered me the Sprite he bought and I said no thank you, I just had tea.
So he asked me if I wanted fruit from the peaches and apples we had just got. Again I said no and Shaan says, ‘Aren’t you my best friend? If you take some fruit, it will make me really happy.’ Then he put the two bags in front of me. He didn’t even pick them out. So I took a peach and an apple.”
I noted Usman pointing out that he placed the bags before him; Rich people always pick out things and give them. Quantity is always chosen. They never place it in front of anyone and say, “Take what you want, however much you want.”
I listened to each word intently and it occurred to me that gentleness, like grace, was endowed. Not just to Shaan but everyone. How we responded to the difficulty of life made us aggressive if we became angry or bitter if we became dejected. Those that didn’t remained gentle. That’s what made it rare as well as palpable.
I thought of the hadith I had just translated with Qari Sahib about the Bedouin who asked Nabi Kareem (peace be upon him) 25 questions. When we got home, I looked up each question that had the word “manners” in the answer.
“The man said, ‘How do I perfect my Imaan, faith?’”
Allah’s Beloved (peace be upon him) said, “Improve your manners (akhlaq).””
Then he asked, “What is the worst thing?”
The Messenger of God (peace be upon him) said, “Having bad manners and being miserly.”
Lastly, he asked, “And what is the best of things?”
The Beloved of Allah (peace be upon him) replied, “Excellence in manners, humility and patience.”
Shaan possessed all three!
How one celebrates a blessing and bears a trial is entirely different for each person. Ghaus Pak (ra) says that those who are grateful for their blessings and reflect upon them and heed from them, their reward is that they move forward, rank by rank, drowning in the knowing of Allah’s Jamal, Beauty.
After we had shifted Shaan to Hiba’s place, she had called me thanking me profusely for the opportunity to do something kind. I had said to her that what we had done was nothing in terms of its impact on our time or our wallet. I could have given Shaan ten times more money than I had already or that I would eventually and it would have made no difference to my wealth.
“It’s what he does for us that’s going to be unique Hib,” I said.
“I don’t know what it will mean for me but I know for you, it will be a reward so sweet, I can’t even begin to fathom its impact.”
While the events were happening, every time I met a friend it was all I could speak about. Each one expressed curiosity around what Shaan’s circumstances might have been that lead him to live in a park of all places.
“Will you ask him?” they wondered.
“No,” I replied. “I don’t think I will.”
I wasn’t curious about it personally. I never am about the source of people’s pain. It’s too difficult to hear. Dysfunction fascinates me but not pain. Especially when it is almost sublime.
Recently I had added a prayer to my intention before each Namaz. I learnt it through Uzair again. The prayer was uttered by Hazrat Mohyuddin Ibn e Arabi (ra), Ghaus Pak’s (ra) progeny. It was amazing. I said it with inordinate focus which I almost always lost a few seconds later. If nothing else, for the first time in my namaz I was able to convey my soul’s longing.
ارید ان اصلی للقربۃ الی اللہ
“I want to pray to gain closeness to God.”
Meeting Shaan, finding him a place to live in, a job, all of it suddenly seemed like prayer to me. Like an act of worship. It made me realize that everything I do, I want it to somehow bring me closer to my Lord. Lately, I had already been saying the prayer, just changing the verb, for anything I did during the day.
“I want to drink to gain closeness to God.”
“I want to eat to gain closeness to God.”
Most times I said that, I would just stare at the drink or morsel in my hand and wonder at myself, “I expect this to bring me closeness?” It made me think about why spirituality places such extraordinary emphasis on simplicity and purity of food.
This year I learnt, much to my amazement that the first 10 days of Haj are special like no other to God.
قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:
مَا مِنْ أَيَّامٍ الْعَمَلُ الصَّالِحُ فِيهِنَّ أَحَبُّ إِلَى اللَّهِ مِنْ هَذِهِ الْأَيَّامِ الْعَشْرِ
فَقَالُوا: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ وَلَا الْجِهَادُ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ،
فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:
وَلَا الْجِهَادُ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ إِلَّا رَجُلٌ خَرَجَ بِنَفْسِهِ وَمَالِهِ فَلَمْ يَرْجِعْ مِنْ ذَلِكَ بِشَيْءٍ
The Prophet of God (peace be upon him) said, "There are no days in which good deeds are more beloved to Allah then these ten days of Zil Haj."
They (the Companions) asked, "Ya Rasool Allah (peace be upon you)! Not even jihad in Allah's Cause?"
The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) replied, "Not even jihad in Allah's Cause, except for the man who went for it with his self and his wealth and did not return with any of them."
Since I heard the hadith, which was on day four or five, I had been in overdrive trying to do good things. It as not lost on me that Shaan came in to my life during these days.
Through traversing the path of spirituality, I have learnt that the greatest boon of attachment to the Friends of God is learning the short-cuts. Otherwise unknown. One of the surprising ones that I discovered came courtesy of a scientist, Avicenna or Ibn e Sina, who was a Persian polymath regarded as one of the most significant physicians, astronomers, thinkers and writers of the Islamic Golden Age.
He has been described as the father of early modern medicine. Of the 450 works he is known to have written, around 240 have survived, including 150 on philosophy and 40 on medicine. He had memorized the Quran by the age of 10, started studying medicine at the age of 16 and by 18 was a qualified physician. But he also had a deep interest in theology and studied it with the aim to reconcile it with rational philosophy.
He writes; “The softness of the heart comes from two things. The first is purification of thought. The second, a pure love, the condition for which is that it is mental and spiritual, not physical and lustful, so that the reason for loving the beloved is their akhlaq (manners and morality) that forms their behavior.”
I don’t believe I have ever seen anyone fall in love with someone because of manners and morality. But I guess there’s always a first time.
Ghaus Pak (ra) says in Al-Fath Ar-Rabbani addressing his listener, “I love you for your sake not mine.” It was such a simple statement. It made me wonder who I had ever loved in my life for their sake alone. I only came up with two people; my mother and my niece. Only for them was my love purely unconditional. It was not transient. It did not dissipate. It did not require reciprocity. It was muwwadat!
With everyone else, once I hit my 40s, calculation, negotiation, expectation seeped into my love. Then followed disappointment and hurt. And funnily enough, it was always all in my head. I hardly ever even voiced it to anyone.
Maulana Shams Tabrez (ra) says that love with conditions is Hell. He couldn’t have used a better word. I guess that’s why the heart has to be cleansed of association with anything except God. It’s not for His Sake, it’s for mine. Otherwise I am burning in fires of unceasing torment. I can accept another’s nature but I can’t give them preference.
Acceptance alone still leaves a hurt masking grudge. Only with that preference, when we are both needy, will greed (in my case emotional) be taken from me and I will be of the Mufliheen.
وَيُؤْثِرُونَ عَلَىٰٓ أَنفُسِهِمْ وَلَوْ كَانَ بِهِمْ خَصَاصَةٌ ۚ
وَمَن يُوقَ شُحَّ نَفْسِهِۦ فَأُو۟لَـٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلْمُفْلِحُونَ
They give them preference over themselves, even if they themselves are needy.
And whoever is spared from their own greed, they are the successful ones.
Surah Al-Hashr, Verse 9
I even knew in theory what would create unconditional love; the annihilation of the ego. That was the cure for everything else as well.
The greatest of blessings is escaping the entrapments of your ego because between you and your Creator, it is the thickest of veils
- Hazrat Abu Bakr Tamastani (ra)
But I didn’t know how to make it happen.
And then it was made to happen for me. At least in one instance.
It was two days before I was leaving for Portland. I had asked Usman to get Shaan a tv, a paint job for his room, he chose gray, some curtains for his window and a ceiling fan. He was not happy with the one in his room. “Let him pick out everything,” I said. “So he likes it.” Deeda was sending over furniture, pretty much everything a room would need. Hopefully work would start soon after.
I was visiting my 90 some year old grandmother who adores me for some reason unknown to the rest of the family since she has probably two dozen grandchildren. She stares at me with the sweetest smile. In turn, I show my love pleasing her by wearing my best outfits on every visit, which I would otherwise never wear, because she loves touching fabric and commenting on it.
Suddenly I received a text on my phone that something bad had happened to someone I once knew. We were not estranged but our relationship was not warm either. But then maybe it was estranged because I always felt after like I had met a stranger. So I guess I could say it was kind of non-existent.
I remained calm and called my friend who sent the text. “What happened?” I asked.
“I don’t really know. Let me first confirm,” is all she said and quickly hung up.
Feeling nervous, I left my grandmother’s house and came home waiting to hear from her. I called the person in question and received no answer. That’s when the paranoia started kicking in and I began to think of the worst of possibilities. I started calling the person the text was about half a dozen times. My friend who told me the “news” didn’t pick up my calls either, she didn’t respond to my texts. As I saw myself starting to panic I thought, maybe I should just pray.
It was a long prayer Qari Sahib had told us to try and do every day during the Haj days. I knew once I started I wouldn’t be able to answer the phone for at least 20 minutes. But I began anyway. Through the prayer I cried. First I asked God to please let the person be ok. Then I began telling myself that if the worst has happened, it must be accepted as His Will but through that my tears streamed non-stop.
While I read the Arabic part, my heart whispered, “It’s true. I surrender myself to Allah and His Rasool (peace be upon him). I entrust my matter to Allah and His Rasool (peace be upon him). I seek the pleasure of Allah wa Rasoolu-hu (peace be upon him).”
My phone rang throughout my namaz and I ignored it. Then when I finished and looked at the missed calls, three of them were from the person the text was about. I breathed a sigh of relief and called back.
“You called me six times,” I heard on the other end.
“Come to my house now,” I said with an urgency.
The rest of that story isn’t important. What is is that the devastatingly intense experience only happened to make me realize how fragile life is. That choosing to hold a grudge or be badguman, thinking of another as insincere or insensitive, at the same time as claiming love for them was not acceptable to God. Not as a show of disapproval from Him but simply because the claim was a false and truth and falsehood cannot co-exist.
It went against one of my most intense asks after each namaz, a prayer that Allah taught his Beloved (peace be upon him). And I remember repeating it in the shrine in the park and hoping it would come true.
وَقُل رَّبِّ أَدْخِلْنِي مُدْخَلَ صِدْقٍ
وَأَخْرِجْنِي مُخْرَجَ صِدْقٍ
وَاجْعَل لِّي مِن لَّدُنكَ سُلْطَانًا نَّصِيرً
Say, O Beloved (peace be upon you), “O my Lord! Cause me to enter (in all I do) with truth
and cause me to leave (it) with truth,
and grant me out of Thy Grace, a sustaining strength.
Surah Al-Isra’, Verse 80
There was, in fact, no love. It was just pretense created by the ego, rendering me to be the most insincere of all while longing for sincerity. Even the beginning of this piece while I edited it. I noticed I sound bitter because I felt dejected.
I spoke to Shaan one last time the day before I left. It had rained that morning and cooled the weather significantly. “It’s very pleasant outside today,” he said when I asked him how he was. He told me he didn’t want a tv but would rather have a speaker to listen to music. He chose gray for the colour of his wall paint. He had even made a pouch for his new phone with some cloth he had. Usman told me every single time he gave him something, he thanked him profusely.
I told Shaan I would speak to him sometime from the States. He ended the call with me warmly expressing his feelings, “I love you Ma’am,” he said. I smiled. “Take care of yourself please.”
What happens next who knows but there was absolutely no better way to mark the present moment, which happened to be the 10th of Zil Haj. My incidence of good deeds was sky high. A fake news text brought me closer to being truthful. And a homeless person in a park by the name of Shaan made me a Mo’min!
Sooraj ki sham ka Khula Ehsaas hai,
Mairay Dil main Teri jagah kuch Khaas Hai,
Tu Nahi Yahan maloom hai mujhe,
Par Dil ye kehta hai tu yahee mere paas hai.
Shot taken during my tour to Mansehra/Thandiani/Islamabad in Feb 2008.
This is Mansehra, my hometown.
We live in an unfair world. Nothing seems fair or equitable right from the time we are born. The great English writer Charles Dickens summed up this sentiment well in one of his novels. “In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice. It may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is small —.” Dickens would also say: “The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy; walk and be healthy. The best way to lengthen out our days is to walk steadily and with a purpose.” In saying so, he was telescoping what physicians and public health practitioners would be saying a century and a half after his death. In one of his most famous speeches the legendary human rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. remarked, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” A couple of years before his assassination, he had remarked, “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.” King was, in effect, eloquently reminding the world of the raison d’etre for the creation of the World Health Organization on April 7, 1948 with a strong affirmation that the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being.
Winston Churchill was a war time Prime Minister of Britain. At the height of the World War II when bombardment of London was the norm and his aides were painting a doomsday scenario, Churchill asked, “Are the courts functioning?” and when informed in the affirmative he said, “then nothing can go wrong.” At another point he would remark,“Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.” Here was a man whose country was facing an existential threat, yet the considerations of justice and health apparently weighed more on his mind than the might of his arsenals. Dickens, King and Churchill were three very different stalwarts with hardly any shared interests, yet they were saying the same things.
Scores of years later, both Health and Justice figure prominently among the 17 Sustainable Development Goals to be achieved by 2030 by all the United Nations’ member states. What is more, public health and human rights are mutually reinforcing forces, inextricably linked to each other. Global Health and Public Health aim to bridge the differences or inequities in the health status of men, women and children due to considerations of race, religion, political belief, economic or social condition.
As we observe World Health Day today with the theme – ‘Building a fairer, healthier world’, we are all the more conscious than ever of the health inequities confronted globally. And no, not even the major world powers, can claim to be devoid of them as some of them have been the hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has thoroughly exposed their lack of preparedness and overwhelming their relatively strong health systems in relation to the developing world. What is more disparaging, however, is the scramble for vaccines against the pandemic by the rich nations at the cost of the poorer ones.
In Pakistan that has quite sub-optimal health and demographic indicators with a growing disparity between the privileged and under-privileged classes, a shrinking middle class and millions more on the brink of falling down the poverty line due to catastrophic health expenditures, it is all the more important to emphasize the health and human rights nexus. When we examine some of the causes of health inequities the foremost among them are social determinants of health such as income poverty, unemployment, lack of basic education, particularly in rural females, gender and human rights issues, an almost unchecked population growth, lack of road safety, low coverage of essential services such as safe water and sanitation, rapid urbanization with urban slums, inadequate though expanding measures for social protection, and a high prevalence of natural and manmade disasters.
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on certain priority health problems such as the silent pandemic of tuberculosis, maternal and child health, nutrition and immunization. Some time ago, a seminar was held in Islamabad with the support of the Stop TB Partnership advocating the accessing of TB care services as an inalienable human right. Celebrities were engaged at Stop TB ambassadors to promote civil society engagement
There is also a growing realization that implementing a Tuberculosis control program involves all tiers of the health system including the community level and can strongly complement efforts toward attaining universal health care. Meanwhile, WHO was asked by the United Nation’s high level meeting held in 2018 to assist countries in developing a multi-sectoral accountability framework involving all sectors as a prerequisite to better End-TB outcomes.
It is therefore imperative to conduct intersectoral planning and action involving the government and other stakeholders to proactively address social determinants and health inequities. Intersectoral action needs to be promoted as an integral and vital component of the national health planning process. Without intersectoral action as a fully integrated component embedded in the national health planning process, health inequities are likely to persist, imperiling the health of Pakistan’s population.
It is also important to sensitize policymakers on the concepts of inequality and inequity in health, measuring equity, and development of the strategies designed to effectively address health inequities. Incidentally it was the celebrated economist and Finance Minister of Pakistan the late Dr Mahbubul Haq who is said to have given the world the concept of Human Development Index by merging three critical measure of well-being namely per capita income, longevity, and literacy. Equity is often considered as synonymous with social justice or fairness, and is an ethical concept grounded in the principles of distributive justice. It also denotes the absence of socially unjust or unfair health disparities.
Underlying social deprivation can be in relation to wealth, power or prestige – attributes that define how people are grouped in social hierarchies. A disproportionate number of poor citizens in Pakistan do not have adequate access to health care. Health inequities can also result from geographical, gender, ethnic, social, political, cultural or linguistic disparities.
Rapid urbanization in Pakistan also has grave implications for health warranting the need for meticulous planning. Even the hitherto fore planned capital city of Islamabad, with an annual population growth of 5%, is beginning to suffer from unplanned growth with the quality of life in its urban slums being miserable and much worse than those living in peripheral rural areas. Increasing urbanization gives rise to a unique set of health challenges, including non-communicable and infectious diseases, air pollution, access to water and sanitation, the need to improve nutrition, increased physical activity, and building resilience to health emergencies.
The implementation of human rights also necessitates a cross-sectoral approach that increases synergy amongst the various sectors relevant to promote health and development and avoid fragmented interventions. This is also necessary to fulfil an internationally agreed set of principles and norms that are contained in treaties, conventions, declarations, resolutions, guidelines, and recommendations at the international and regional levels.
Pakistan has to be very proactive in ending gender discrimination, such as denying girls and women access to education, information, and various forms of economic, social and political participation, as this can significantly increase health risks. Attention to human rights also brings into focus less popular vulnerable groups like prisoners, miners, migrants, refugees and substance abusers where some interventions have been carried out by the TB and HIV/AIDS control mechanisms.
Education and information can promote understanding, respect, tolerance and non-discrimination in relation to persons with Tuberculosis and other communicable and non-communicable diseases with which some stigma is attached. Public programming explicitly designed to reduce the stigma by challenging beliefs based on ignorance and prejudice has been shown to help create a more tolerant and understanding supportive environment.
Within the Health Sector, the negligible efforts demonstrated to prevent and control noncommunicable diseases is intriguing as it has been an integral part of public policy in Pakistan ever since 2004. We can start by establishing population based cancer registries to inform the establishment of cancer control programs, while taking effective measures for diabetes control, institutionalizing preventive cardiology in health programs while containing chronic respiratory diseases. All these diseases make up the larger part of the disease burden spectrum and are responsible for a lot of excess and premature mortality across the country, disproportionately affecting women and marginalized population segments.
While the current drive of the government to provide health cards to the people in certain pilot districts is highly laudable as an interim poverty reduction measure, it can be sustained and institutionalized by implementing mandatory health insurance in the country through premiums or co-payments in which the rich can cross-subsidize the poor, while those in good health can cross-subsidize those in ill health. Other social safety nets such as Zakat, Baitul Maal and other interventions under the Ehsaas program need to be enhanced in an effort to strengthen the middle class to promote food security and avoid catastrophic health costs till such time as the economy can stand on a firm footing. Good governance is of essence to the whole exercise encompassing affirmative action in enhancing health allocations to a respectable level in keeping with government policy and must be regarded as an investment in the future.
Everything said and done, the need for maintaining peace and tolerance cannot be over-emphasized if the social sectors including Health have to prosper in Pakistan to the immense benefit of not only our country but the region as a whole. Emotive rhetoric has distracted us from our main goals for too long, let us now be guided by Mr. Jinnah who stated in unequivocal terms: “Our object should be peace within and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large.” No advice can serve us better in building a fairer and healthier country with justice for all.
The author is a senior public health and public policy specialist of Pakistan and can be reached at gnkaziumkc @gmail.com
MANGOO TU TALAB KAR K SAKHI SHAHNSHA E WAFA SE,
MAYOOS KOI NAI HOTA UN KI ATTA SE,
HOTA HAI APNA ELAJ NA DUA SE NA DAWA SE,
CHALTI HAIN YE SANSIEN TERY PARCHAM KI HAWA SE,
Bheja nahi tha Sher ko Jung ke Khayal se,
Lag jati warna aag neher mein Jalaal se,
Kat Kat ke gire zulm ke Parcham Zamin per,
Tera Alam Jawan hay 14 so Saal se.
GHAZI ABBAS ALAMDAR KE DIVANE HA,
HUM TU BAS AAP KE KIRDAR KE DEVANE HA
,BHAI HO KE BHI JO GHULAMI KA DAM BHARTE HAIN,
HUM ASAD AISE WAFADAR KE DIWANE HAIN
4 SHABAN AMAD HAY SHAH-E-WAFA KI,
DUA PURI HOI AAJ MUSHKIL KUSHA(a.s) KI,
YAHAN QAMAR BANI HASHIM KA CHAMKA,
WAHAN TAQDIR CHAMKI KARBALA KI,
Mehki hui jannat k hawa khoob hai leken
Abbas(a s) k rozay k fiza sab seh alag hai
Laao tou ata karnay main Abbas ka sani
Bin hathoon seh denay k ada sab seh alag hai.....
"Jo Mushkil Talta Hai Usay Ali (as) Kehtay Hain,
Jo Qismat Banaaiy Usau Batool(sa) Kehtay Hain"
Muhammad(saww) Se Le
Kar Hassan(as) Tak
Sabhi Ne Hussain(as) Ko Chaha,
Lekin Jisay Jussay Ne Chaha Usay Abbass(as) Kehtay Hain"
Mostafa Shabbir hai,Or Mortaza Abbas Hai
Manzil-e-Haq Hai Hussain Or Rasta Abbas Hai
Mashk-o-Alam,Josh-e-Wafa,Hokm-e-Imam
Ab Agar Dekho to Pori Karbala Abbas Hai
Saja rakhi thi dariya par ajab baraat pani ki
Bahut kerte the Ashrare yezidi baat pani ki
Magar sahil pe pahonche thokare mari chale aye
Bata di Hazrat-e-Abbas ne Auqaat pani ki.
ANKHOON SAY JOO GHAZI(A.S)KA ROOZA NAZAR ATA HAI.
DIL SAY JOO MAIN DAIKHOON TOO KAABA NAZAR ATA HAI.
MAIN MANTA HOON YEH RIZQ ALI (A.S) KA HAI LAIKIN
PANI TOO MUJHAY GHAZI(A.S) KI JAGEER NAZAR ATA HAI
*TAWAJJO*
Jab Hussain Rote, Malak Aake Jhulate Jhoola,
Yeh Kaun Araam Kar Raha Hai,
Hussain Jhoola Jhula Raha Hai!!!!
Sani koi ho nahi saktha ummul bani ke chand Abbas ka
Tasawar-e-Wafa kero to aatha hai lub pe naam Abbas ka
Sar uthao ge to gir Jaiga dastr-e-Ghrur
Iskader uncha hai Alam Abbas ka
Qalb-e-Haider se uthi aur arsh-e-azam per gai
Surkhru ho ker jo palti wo dua Abbas hai.
Ye haqikat hai ki hai Shabbir dil Islam ka
Aur us dil ki dharkan ki sada Abbas hai.
Anboh-e-Gham Mien Sabr Ki Talwar ban Kay Jee.
Abbas Ki Wafa Ka Talbgar Ban Kay Jee.
Is Dor-e-Zolm-o-Jor Ko Dena Hai Gar Shikast.
Mazlom-e-Karbala Ka Azadar ban Kay Jee....
Joo meray Ghazi tera Tazkara naih karta.
Woh Bewafa hay Aalam say Wafa naih karta.
Joo tera wasta dayy kar Duaa naih karta.
Issar duaa ka duaa koo KHUDA qabool naih karta.
ALI kay shair teri uzmat-e-Duaa koo sallam.
Wafain karti hain ab bhi teri Wafa koo sallam.
Umul Baneen nay betay ko bedar kar diya.
Her jung fatha karnay ko taiyar kar diya.
Abbas ko laga kay kalejay say barbar.
Itnee duain deen kay, alamdar kar diya.
Yeh Kaun Ayaa Hai Darwaazay Pe,
Ali Khud Muskura Rahe Hain,
Is Shaqs Ko Alam Mile Ga,
Abhi Se Tevar Bata Rahe Hain...
HAR HARF KAAINAAT KA AKKASH BAN GAYA.
DEKHA JO GHOR KAR KAY TO ABBAS BAN GAYA.
JAB BHI NABI KAY DEEN PAY KOI HARF AA GAYA.
ABBAS FATIMA KI DUA BAN KAY CHA GAYA.
Ayat-e zuljalal hi jiska hisar ho
Abbas us wafa ka akela Makan hai
Siffin me ye kehte the kuffar alaman
Abbas me Ali ki har ek aan baan hai
Quwate Qalb-e-Hussain ai arzo-e-buturab
La nahi sakte do aalam hashr tak tera Jawab
Kahti hai duniya tume mah-e-bani hashim magar
Karbala ne kerdiya tujhko wafa ka aftaab
Puchtah ho ki abbas ki haibat kia hai
Pehle ja ke Mallum kero ki Qayamt kia hai
Jisne nazroo se he rokka the Yazadi Lashker
Use Talwar uthne ki zarurat kia hai
Babul Hawaej Hazrat Abul fazlil Abbas (a.s.):
Muhabbat Ki Anaa Joshe Ghazab Laati To Kya Hota...
Jabeene Wadae Haq Pa Shikan Aati To Kya Hota..
. K Is Nuqte Pe Aksar Karbala Bhi Sochti Hogi...
Agar Shano Se Pehle Mashk Chhid Jati To Kya Hota...
“Ali ke sher, barha hosla dia tu ne;
Qalam ko tegh e tafakkur bana dia tu ne.
Hamaray seenon ko darya e tashnagi dekar,
Dilon ko mashk e Sakina (S.A) bana dia tu ne.
Laga ke seenay se mashkeeza aur tashna labi,
Wafa o sabr ka ek maujza dia tu ne.
Amaan namay ke purzay urha ke maqtal men,
Wafa ka lafz mujassam bana dia tu ne.
Chhidi jo mashk e Sakina tau sath pani k,
Lahu ka apnay samandar baha dia tu ne.”
“Abbas e Alamdar (A.S), Abbas e Alamdar (A.S).
Tum ruh e Ali (A.S), Jan e Hussain ibne Ali (A.S) ho;
Tum ibne Wali, ibne Wali, ibne Wali ho;
Hai dushman e deen ke lye bazu tera, talwar.
Tum Fatima Zehra (S.A) ki duaon ka asar ho;
Tum dhoop men Zenab (S.A) ke lye misl e shajar ho;
Parcham ka pharera hai tera aisa hawadar.
Haidar (A.S) ne namazo men jo Allah se manga:
Kehte thay Khuda de mujhay Abbas (A.S) sa beta,
Wo jisko kahe sara arab Ghazi o Jarrar.
Abbas e Alamdar (A.S), Abbas e Alamdar (A.S).”
“Naam ABBAS (A.S) ka likh kar jo pehna deta hai,
Us k båchon ko KHUDA sher bana deta hai;
Thak k so jatey hain bachay jo Azakhano mein,
Apnay daaman se Malak unko hawa deta hai;
Apnay bächon ko sikhatay nahin maatam hum log,
Naam ABBAS (A.S) ka khud hath utha deta hai;
Itni daulat bhi kahan teray khazanay mein Yazid,
Jitni ek SHEH (A.S) ka Azadar luta deta hai.”
“Mujh say kisi ne kaha wafa ki misaal do
Mein nay qalam uthaya aur ABBAS (A.S) likh dia.”
“Hum apnay gharon pe lagatay hain jo Moula Abbas (A.S) ka panja,
Es sher badshah ki dahshat ka nazara hi barha hai;
Hum mast malangon ko nahin kisi ki zarurat,
Moula Abbas (A.S) k hathon ka sahara hi barha hai.”
“Jab lasha e Qasim (A.S) ko Alamdar (A.S) nay dekha,
Qabzay ki taraf taìsh se jarrar nay dekha,
Munh bhai ka ro ker Shah e Abrar (A.S) nay dekha,
Ki arz barha daagh, namak khwaar nay dekha;
Taighon se ajab sarw e rawaan kut gaya Aaqa,
WALLAH ke dil zeest se ab hat gaya Aaqa.”
“Kis kis se larhay tashna dahani mein wo be aas,
Hamdard na koi na madadgar koi paas,
Wo foj ka nargha, wo hujoom e alam o yaas,
In sab se siwa mashk ke chhid janay ka wiswas.
Barhtay thay kamandar tau ruk jatay thay Abbas (A.S),
Teer ata tha jab mashk pe, jhuk jatay thay Abbas (A.S).”
"Naam-e-Abbas (A.S) tha jis ka, wo Alamdaar-e-Hussain (A.S),
Lashkar-e-Shah ki bigrhi ko bananay wala;
Haath say aik a'lam gir gaya, majboori say,
Kitnay haathon mein a'lam day gaya janay wala."
"Jiss naam se himmat ko jawani ka ho ehsaas,
Bujh jaati ho jiss naam ki lazzat mein mairi piyaas,
Jiss naam ki a'zmat se wafa paati ho mairaaj,
Wo naam tau Abbas (A.S) hai, Abbas (A.S) hai, Abbas (A.S)."
"Shah-e-shuhda (A.S) laash-e-Alamdaar (A.S) say liptay,
Kis shoq say, kis yaas say, kis piyar say liptay,
Gham-khaar say, aashiq say, namak-khaar say liptay,
Zakhmi say, musaafir say, mada-gaar say liptay;
Yeh joash tha riqqat ka Sheh-e-jinn-o-bashar (A.S) ko,
Jis tarah kay rota hai koi baap pisar ko."
"Ali (A.S) nay Abbas (A.S) ko har jang fatah karnay kay liyay tayyaar kar dia,
Laga kay kalaijay say itni duaaen deen kay Alamdaar kar dia."
Khatam hai duniya ki tareekh-e-wafa Abbas(AS) par
Ibtida jis se bhi ho, haan inteha Abbas(AS) par
Saari duniya ko nuseri k Khuda par naaz hai
Naaz karta hai nuseri ka Khuda Abbas(AS) Par
Chaadar-e-Tatheer thora aur barh jaati agar
Ik siraa Zainab(SA) pe hota doosra Abbas(AS) Par
"Johar-e-zabt kay ehsaas say darr lagta hai,
Jang mein tapti hui piyaas say darr lagta hai;
Is lye Karbala Shaam say aaya na Yazeed,
Usko Maula (A.S), teray Abbas (A.S) say darr lagta hai."
"Maqtal mein donon haath kataanay kay baa-wajood,
Abbas (A.S) teray haath mein baazi hai aaj tak;
Tu nay badal kar rakh diye ma'eenay hayaat kay,
Tu tau shaheed ho kay bhi Ghazi hai aaj tak."
"Usay tehzeeb ki duniya mein hassaas kehtay hain,
Usi ko ghairat-e-karrar ka andaaz kehtay hain;
Jo qaabiz ho kay dariya par, piyasa hi palat aaye,
Wafa-daaron ki duniya mein usay Abbas (A.S) kehtay hain."
"Lafz ki shakal men ehsas likha jata hai,
Yani pani ko bhi piyas likha jata hai;
Meray jazbaat say waaqif hai mera qalam,
Mein wafa likhoon, naam-e-Abbas (A.S) likha jata hai."
"Wafa jis ka parhhay kalma, usay Abbas (a.s) kehtay hain,
Jisay sajday karay sajda, usay Abbas (a.s) kehtay hain;
Jo hai Shabbeer (a.s) ki quwwat, Ali (a.s) ko naaz hai jis par,
Jisay Zehra (s.a) kahain baita, usay Abbas (a.s) kehtay hain."
"Kia bataoon ap ko khush-qismati Abbas (a.s) ki,
Fatima Zehra (s.a) say hai wabastagi Abbas (a.s) ki;
Goad mein Zainab (s.a) ki day kar, hutt gyeen Umm-ul-Baneen (s.a),
Karbala pay waqf kar di zindagi Abbas (a.s) ki;
Hamlaa-e-Akbar (a.s) mein dekho nau-jawani ki jhalak,
Jurrat-e-Asghar (a.s) mein dekho kam-sini Abbas (a.s) ki;
Dushmanon ko khof hai, Zainab (s.a) ko par itmenan,
Jab talak khaimon mein hai maujoodgi Abbas (a.s) ki;
Paar kar paya na lashkar, aik halki si lakeer,
Thi tau halki si, magar khainchi hui Abbas (a.s) ki."
"Abbas (a.s), tera saani duniya mein kahan mumkin?
Duniya ko jo daita hai, us nay tujhay maanga hai."
"Wafa ko naaz hai jiss par, usay Abbas (a.s) kehtay hain,
Lagey jo saani-e-Hyder (a.s), usay Abbas (a.s) kehtay hain;
A'lam gaarhay jo patthar par, usay kehtay hain sab 'Hyder' (a.s),
A'lam gaarhay jo paani par, usay 'Abbas' (a.s) kehtay hain."
Yeh zameen, aaasman, khush hai sara jahan,
Aasman-e-wafa ka qamar aa gya;
Montazir they Ali (a.s) jiss kay ab tak, woh hi,
Sher-e-Yazdaan (a.s) ka sher-e-babbar aa gya;
Jiss kay dumm say wafa ko jawani mili,
Azm-e-Shabbeer (a.s) ko zindagaani mili,
Lo nisaab-e-ata'at mukammal hua,
Aaj Shabbeer (a.s) ka hum-safar aa gya."
"Baat idraak say aagey ki hai, kaun samjhay ga piyaar kay ehsaas ko?
Mustafa (s.a.w.w.a) nay jiss ko apni maa kaha, uss nay baita keh diya Abbas (a.s) ko."
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The Dying of Will
Tafseer e Tustari: "Hazrat Sahl (ra) was [then] asked about a man who repents and renounces a certain sin, but then it occurs to his heart, or he sees it or hears of it and finds sweetness in that vile sin. What is to be done in such a case?
He replied: The feeling of sweetness pertains to [his] nature (ṭabʿ) and is not susceptible of change, such that a thing which is loved could become something detestable.
However, the heart’s determination can be coerced so that he can return to God, Mighty and Majestic is He, and place his dilemma before Him. Then he should force on himself and on his heart a state of rejection [of that sin] which should never leave him, for if he becomes inattentive to that state of rejection for just the blinking of the eye, it is to be feared that he will not remain safe from it."
Ramzan! The month Allah calls His Own. When Satan is shackled and the nafs is bound, at least superficially, through fasting. My routine per instruction from Qari Sahib was set; Reading the Quran as much as possible. My intention was to write one piece for the month.
The choice of topic was spectacular; the Quran. I had collected a gazillion gems for it from different lectures by Uzair. I wanted to post it on the 27th night, Laila tul Qadr. The night that the first verse was revealed upon the heart of the Beloved (peace be upon him) in the Cave of Hira where he went to meditate for years and where his beloved wife, Bibi Khadija (ratu) brought him his food.
عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ رضي الله عنه قَالَ: أَتَي جِبْرِيْلُ النَّبِيَّ صلي الله عليه وآله وسلم
فَقَالَ : يَا رَسُوْلَ اﷲِ، هَذِهِ خَدِيْجَةُ قَد أَتَتْ مَعَهَا إِنَاءٌ فِيْهِ إِدَامٌ أَوْ طَعَامٌ أَوْ شَرَابٌ،
فَإِذَا هِيَ أَتَتْکَ فَاقْرَأْ عَلَيْهَا السَّلْامَ مِنْ رَّبِّهَا وَمِنِّي،
وَ بَشِّرْهَا بِبَيْتٍ فِي الْجَنَّةِ مِنْ قَصَبٍ، لَا صَخَبَ فِيْهِ وَلَا نَصَبَ
As narrated by Hazrat Abu Huraira (ratu):
Hazrat Gibrael (as) came to the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and said, “Ya Rasool Allah (peace be upon you)!
This is Khadija (ratu) who is bringing with her a bowl with soup or food or drink.
When she comes to you, say to her that her Lord God sends upon her Salam and so do I and give her glad tidings of a palace in Paradise wherein there will be no noise or any fatigue.”
I honed in on the words “noise and fatigue” and how they were the harbingers of difficulty in the world.
The incident of the revelation in recorded in the following manner in Fatih ul Bari ;
Begin excerpt “The Softest Heart”
أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ:
أَتَانِي جِبْرِيلُ بِنَمَطٍ مِنْ دِيبَاجٍ فِيهِ كِتَابٌ قَالَ اقْرَأْ
قُلْتُ: مَا أَنَا بِقَارِئ
Said the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), “Gibrael came to me with a book placed on a sheet of silk, and said, ‘Read!’
I said, “I do not have a reader.”
It is true that as soon as the Quran was recited by the Prophet of God (peace be upon him) in front of the Kuffar who felt spellbound by its beauty, the first accusation they leveled against him was that he was a poet, then that he was a magician, then that he was Majnun.
ن ۚ وَالْقَلَمِ وَمَا يَسْطُرُونَ
مَا أَنتَ بِنِعْمَةِ رَبِّكَ بِمَجْنُونٍ
وَإِنَّ لَكَ لَأَجْرًا غَيْرَ مَمْنُونٍ
وَإِنَّكَ لَعَلَىٰ خُلُقٍ عَظِيمٍ
بِأَييِّكُمُ الْمَفْتُونُ فَسَتُبْصِرُ وَيُبْصِرُونَ
Nun. (I swear) by the pen, and all that which they write (therewith)! You are not, by your Sustainer's grace, a madman! And, verily, yours shall be a reward never ending.
And you (stand) on an exalted standard of character. And (one day) you will see, and they (who now deride you) shall see which of you is afflicted with madness.
Surah Al Qalam, Verses 1-4
The most common understanding of the incident of the first revelation to the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) is different from what I have written above.
It is that when Hazrat Gibrael (as) came to him and said, “Iqra,”
“Read,” he replied, “I cannot read” as opposed to “I do not have a reader.”
After the dialogue repeating thrice, Hazrat Gibrael (as) said:
اقْرَأ باسم رَبك
“Read in the Name of your Lord God.”
People have never understood why the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) was an Ummi,’ the one who does not read or write. They don’t understand that the God who can do anything, if He chooses to make His Beloved (peace be upon him), the manifestation of perfection, then there has to be a significant reason behind it. The trite explanation for this that I have seen is that he didn’t read or write so that when he would reveal the Quran to the Meccans, he would not be accused of writing it himself. But he was accused of thinking it up himself regardless so what’s the difference?
Pir Naseeruddin Naseer (ra) offers another explanation for why the Prophet (peace be upon him) is created as Ummi’ by God:
God makes His Last Messenger (peace be upon him) share His own Sunnah (habit/actions): God also does not read, He has others do it for Him. He does not write, others do it for Him. He wanted the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), the one who he created in His Image more than anyone else, to share that attribute with Him.
It’s a very subtle point that only a certain kind of mind can appreciate. Personally I love it! It reminds me of a line of a couplet of Jigar Muradabadi.
میری کیا مجال جو دخل دوں ، میں کسی کے راز ونیاز میں
Who am I to interfere in His Secrets and His Bestowing, how much to whom?
Another Sufi thought that I heard behind why the one who possesses all the knowledge and wisdom of the Universe since its Creation does not write is that it is simply a matter of love. If The Beloved (peace be upon him) did write, what he would write most is the word “Allah.” Since the pen would be above and the word written below it, it was not acceptable again in the realm of adab, regard.
Later in the year, I would read in the Tafseer e Jilani the explanation for the verse in which Allah Ar-Rafi’, The Elevating One, says to His Prophet (peace be upon him):
سَنُقْرِئُكَ فَلَا تَنسَىٰ
We shall teach you, O Muhammad (peace be upon you) and you will not forget (of what you have been taught).
Surah Al-A’la, Verse 6
Tafseer e Jilani: We will make you from Ourself a reader who watches and reads Our Revelations and Inspirations even though you are an Ummi’ for I created you to be above the norms of reading and writing. So you will memorize and safeguard all of it and you will express your gratitude continuously for it so that there will never be any lessening or addition or alteration to it.
End excerpt “The Softest Heart”
In any case, those who think of the angel Gibrael (as) as the Prophet’s (peace be upon him) teacher have not read the following hadith again invoking the same verse.
سَنُقْرِئُكَ فَلَا تَنسَىٰ
We shall teach you, O Muhammad (peace be upon you)
and you will not forget (of what you have been taught).
Surah Al-A’la, Verse 6
The exegesis of the verse in the Tafseer Ruh Al Bayan is as follows: When Gibrael (as) came to the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) with the verse of Surah Maryam and recited it, (the first verse being four letters of the Arabic language);
كهيعص
Kaf, Ha, Ya, 'Ayn, Sad.
Surah Maryam, Verse 1
the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) said, “I know its meaning and intent.”
Gibrael (as) said, “Kaaf.”
The Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) said, “I know its meaning and intent.”
Gibrael (as) said, “Haa.”
The Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) said, “I know its meaning and intent.”
Gibrael (as) said, “Yaa.”
The Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) said, “I know its meaning and intent.”
Gibrael (as) said, “‘Ain.”
The Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) said, “I know its meaning and intent.”
Gibrael (as) said, “Suaad.”
The Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) said, “I know its meaning and intent.”
Gibrael (as) said, “O Prophet of Allah (peace be upon you)! What majesty is this? I myself don't know the meaning of this and you know it.”
But nothing I had planned for the month came to pass. For starters Qari Sahib got Corona. That alone sent me into a tailspin. My ablutions became more intense. I couldn’t write anything. He is the one who helps me with my references. I need the original text which is in Arabic or Urdu books in his online archive. Then I always need to study and translate the tafaseer with him.
The second happening that threw a wrench into the desire of worship was my building outdoor table tennis tables in a local park in Lahore. It wasn’t just any park either. It was the Kohinoor of all 800 parks in the city; Bagh e Jinnah. I had pitched the idea to the PHA (Parks and Horticultural Authority) on April 10th. They had been extremely enthusiastic about it. Two weeks later on the 27th I presented them with my plan and another two weeks later, a day after Ramzan started, we broke ground.
I went to the site every day at 7:30 am and stayed there for hours. I didn’t know the first thing about construction so my input was zero. I sat there like a dummy. The contractor and other workers would say, “Baji, go home” but I stayed. I don’t know why. I felt like I should be there. It felt hotter because of the fast but the heat wasn’t unbearable. I don’t mind heat. If I was an animal I would be a camel. Still, by the time I got home in the afternoon I was exhausted. I would collapse on my bed with alarms ringing an hour later for other stuff I had to do. For the first time in years I barely had time to even check email once a day.
For the next three weeks, I was deeply immersed in all things worldly. I joked with a friend of mine that I didn’t have a single experience at the site that motivated me to write even a sentence. Otherwise if I traveled anywhere for just a weekend, a story emerged from within me. The whole experience was physically arduous. But the real test of the month was spiritual and it came totally out of the blue.
The best I can explain what happened is this; a ghost from my past appeared. That’s all it was; an apparition. I was supposed to stay still. That was the test, my reaction was being watched. Instead of remaining where I was and letting destiny play itself out, caving to impulse, I ran towards it and all hell broke loose. Maulana (ra) writes about it perfectly;
What you seek is seeking you.
When I run after what I believe I want,
my days are a furnace of stress and tension.
But if I sit in my own place of patience,
what I need flows to me itself, without any pain.
From this I understand that
what I am seeking is also seeking me
is looking for me and attracting me.
There is a great (Divine) Secret here
for those who can comprehend it.
The weird thing is I had successfully applied the principle in the past. Usually I waited and watched. Precisely because of the poem and obeying the instruction given in it in no uncertain terms. But for some reason my zahir and batin, overt and inner beings, were in acute separation.
In all my writing for years I have been using the words zahir and batin without knowing exactly what they meant. My understanding of the two words was limited to the zahir being my superficial intention and the batin my deeper, real intention. The first could sometimes be falsehood but the latter was always the truth. The first was rooted in the nafs, the latter in the qalb, the seat of recognition of God in the heart.
Since they were never aligned, I felt the dichotomy between them when nothing went according to expectation. I thought I would be doing things for one reason but they would be for entirely another! This time they were moving in polar opposite directions, ripping me apart in the process.
I had recently come across the definitions of both words from Hazrat Najmuddin Qubra (ra), an honored disciple of Ghaus Pak (ra) in the Tafseer e Jilani;
“Know that for each thing that exists in the Universe there is a zahir and a batin.
The different forms of zahir: Sometimes it is the jism, a mass, because it has a length and a width and a height so it takes space and can be split into parts. Sometimes zahir is the duniya, the world, because it comes from the root donow, which means becoming near. Therefore the world is called duniya because it is near ehsaas, our feelings.
Sometimes zahir is the surat, the face, because it has a form and it can be felt through the five senses. Sometimes zahir is the shahadat, witnessing, because through it something can be testified to. Sometimes zahir can be mulk, a kingdom, because it comes in an ownership and it can be controlled and made subordinate.
The different forms of batin: The batin of each and every thing is sometimes called roohaniyat, spirituality, because it has no length, width and depth that takes space and splits into parts. Sometimes batin is called akhirat, because akhirat means that which comes after. In terms of sensing something, the inner (batin) becomes known after the overt (zahir), hence batin is called that which comes in the end.
Sometimes batin is called ma’ana, essence or reality, because it does not have an apparent form and it cannot be felt physically. Sometimes it is called ghaib, unseen, because it is absent for the overt senses. Sometimes it is called malakut, the kingdom where there is no possession or control, but it is connected with the outer world.”
As soon as I ran after what I believed I wanted, my days became “a furnace of stress and tension.” And I knew exactly why. Prior to taking the misstep, I had done an istakahara to know how to behave in the situation and the verse that had come for me was this;
وَإِذَا قَرَأْتَ الْقُرْآنَ جَعَلْنَا بَيْنَكَ وَبَيْنَ الَّذِينَ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِالْآخِرَةِ حِجَابًا مَّسْتُورً
And when you recite the Quran, We place between you and between those who (do) not believe in the Hereafter a veil hidden.
Surah Al-Isra’, Verse 45
In the tafseer of the verse I read that Allah is saying that sometimes Nabi Kareem (peace be upon him) would be so deeply engrossed in reading the Quran, delving in its depths, searching for the pearls of benefits in Divine Commands, that he would forget about safeguarding himself from harm. Then Allah would, in order to protect him, from those who do not believe in the Afterlife, place a thick barrier between them and him as a veil. They would not be able to see him through that veil and therefore became unable to do him harm.
The only part of the verse that I felt was for me was the "veil." Allah had veiled me but in following my desire, I had ripped what was protecting me and exposed myself to a nightmare. For what, one might wonder? Nothing! Because when I did finally reach what I was chasing, it was literally nothing. The apparition disappeared like it was never even there but by then the veil was gone and for the first time in my life after decades, I felt alone. It was devastating because I live my life alone and have for a long time. But this was something else.
After that feeling came the real fruit of my disobedience; bitterness. I have been wayward most of my life yet never felt bitter. Or even felt punished. I realized then the difference was because in those days I was in the category of those who didn’t mean to be defiant.
ٱلَّذِينَ يَجْتَنِبُونَ كَبَـٰٓئِرَ ٱلْإِثْمِ وَٱلْفَوَٰحِشَ إِلَّا ٱللَّمَمَ ۚ
إِنَّ رَبَّكَ وَٰسِعُ ٱلْمَغْفِرَةِ ۚ
هُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِكُمْ إِذْ أَنشَأَكُم مِّنَ ٱلْأَرْضِ وَإِذْ أَنتُمْ أَجِنَّةٌ فِى بُطُونِ أُمَّهَـٰتِكُمْ ۖ
فَلَا تُزَكُّوٓا۟ أَنفُسَكُمْ ۖ
هُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِمَنِ ٱتَّقَىٰٓ
Those who avoid major sins and indecencies, except for minor lapses excepted.
Indeed, your Lord’s Forgiveness is vast.
He knows you well, ever since He created you from the earth and ever since you were embryos in your mothers’ wombs. So do not attest to your own virtues. He knows best as to who is conscious of Him.
Surah An-Najm, Verse 32
But knowing something, following it and then being disobedient, striving towards closeness with God and then turning away from Him, that had consequences unforeseen.
One might then ask, “So what is bitterness like?”
For me it was two things. First I became unable to be happy for someone else. Even when what happened to them was something I myself had wished for them for ages. Like this one friend of mine who called me and said there was shift in her marriage. For the better. After a decade of misery and anger flung around the house, trapping the spouses and the children in its ugly vortex. My reaction to the news was totally muted.
It was so unlike me I noticed it immediately. I didn’t say one positive thing to her. All that left my mouth was “You know you could have done this sooner.” And perhaps more strictly, “Obedience is the prerequisite for guidance” which is a fact but there was no need to say it. It was such a happy occasion. Instead of laughing with her about it and congratulating her, I was numb. Caught up in my feelings of misery. I was too busy gouging my soul.
روی نفس مطمئنه در جسد
زخم ناخنهای فکرت میکشد
Like nails, evil thoughts scratch the face of the Nafs e Mutmainna, your soul.
فکرت بد ناخن پر زهر دان
میخراشد در تعمق روی جان
Know that your wicked thoughts are as if dipped in poison.
Delving into them deeper only damages the face of the soul more.
I wonder if the reverse applied. Does bitterness prevent one from being able to feel another person’s sadness as well?
The other manifestation of the feeling for me was the appearance of badgumani, a word I had been unfamiliar with personally here to forth. It loosely translates as misunderstanding. For me it was the insertion of paranoia into my own heart by my own self, sowing seeds of mistrust and doubt about the sincerity of another person. Except when bitterness prevails, then the badgumani starts applying to everyone.
I have been on the receiving end of the emotion but not felt the emotion myself. Or if I had I couldn’t remember when it last happened. Without question, distrust is one of the heaviest, most negative feelings in the world. Being suspicious about others, second guessing their motive and intention, the whole thing was exhausting, both physically and mentally.
Taking that one step on my own made me feel more alone than when members of my family died in succession within months of each other. Because then I was under that veil. Difficulty ceased to exist or was always bearable. Then it would always pass.
In these days, I was reading Surah Al-An’am when I got the chance. When I reached the end, I came across a line that explained what was happening.
قُلْ أَغَيْرَ اللَّهِ أَبْغِي رَبًّا
وَهُوَ رَبُّ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ
وَهُوَ رَبُّ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ وَلَا تَكْسِبُ كُلُّ نَفْسٍ إِلَّا عَلَيْهَا
Say, “Why would I look for a lord other than God when He is the Lord of all things?”
Each soul is responsible for its own actions and no one bearer of burdens will bear the burdens of another.
Surah Al-An’am, Verse 164
Hazrat Najumiddin Kubra (ra) in the Tafseer e Jilani; “O you who is unaware! Why would I want anyone other than Allah when He is my Beloved and the lover never wants anyone else except their beloved. If the lover happens then to desire anything other, then Allah is still the Lord of each thing. When the Lord is mine, then the thing is also mine. Whereas if I embrace anyone or anything other than Him, I will never attain it. Even if I gain some goodness from it, it will eventually become a difficulty upon me.”
Subhan Allah!
Even when I wasn’t religious I had a relationship with Allah in which He protected me. Now when I look back at the hardest times, I see how I brought them all upon myself. But then I didn’t know how to behave. My E.Q. was zero. I was all bravado caught up in a repetition of patterns that continually deepened the grooves of my dysfunction.
I can’t say that through this experience I didn’t gain wisdom. Confucius’ promise finally came true; Wisdom can be gained through experience, as opposed to emulation which is easy or reflection, hard, but only with bitterness. I had never chosen “experience” before. I focus all my attention on the stress-free route; emulation.
Tafseer e Tustari: "Sahl (ra) was asked about the words of the Prophet , ‘Seeking knowledge is an obligation (farīḍa) for every Muslim’.
He said, ‘This refers to the knowledge of [one’s] state (ḥāl).’
He was asked, ‘What is the knowledge of [one’s] state?’
He replied: 'Inwardly it is sincerity (ikhlāṣ) and outwardly it is emulation (iqtidāʾ). Moreover, unless a person’s outward [self] (ẓāhir) is leading his inner [self] (bāṭin), and his inner self is the perfection (kamāl) of his outward self, he will merely be fatiguing his body.'"
I related to a friend of mine my experience of the week. She looked at me amazed.
“It sounds like magic.”
I didn’t understand what she meant.
“Magic?”
“Yes. For all that to happen in days. For you to realize what was happening so quickly. People live in that state for so long.”
I pondered upon her words. Then I realized at least one reason why I had been so quick to understand what was going on. At the end of the day what saved me was that I’m a wuss, an emotional weakling. I cannot bear or sustain emotional pressure for very long. I think it runs in my family.
My mother had weak nerves. She was prone to nervous breakdowns from a young age. She couldn’t sustain emotional pressure at all. Maybe that’s why she was married thrice during a time when a single divorce carried heavy stigma in society. Even her family, her father and brother, despite being from an extremely conservative feudal background, never forced her to stay in a situation that was unhappy for her. That made a huge impact on my life in terms of moulding my personal outlook. In my relationships, if I felt lovelessness making roots, I had no choice but to exit. Long-term facades were not happening for me.
In this case, my bitterness and badgumaani, my silent reproach, didn’t last more than four days. It was by far the worst four days of my life. Worse than the times I felt intense depression and couldn’t get out of bed for weeks. Because that was more self-pity than anything else. There was little recognition, much less admission, of any personal transgression.
This trial ended because I couldn’t stop crying about what I had done wrong. There it was again appearing as the savior; repentance. Who would have thought just feeling truly badly about doing something brought with it the heavenly ease of salvation.
I was reminded that one of Iblis’ favourite tactics of misguiding is not letting people admit their error and instead just buckling down obstinately on their position. I had heard a story in one of Uzair’s lectures that once Iblis came to Pharoah and said to him, “What is it that you think you have come to possess that you have claimed to be god? I have immeasurable knowledge and much more power than you but never have I even thought to make such a claim.”
His words alarmed Pharoah. He thought about it in the night and made a decision. The next day when Iblis came he said to him, “I have decided that I will continue everything as is. Do whatever I wish to whoever I want. But I will no longer call myself god.”
Iblis looked at him sorrowfully and said, “I think it’s too late for such a reversal. If you now say that, you will lose much more than your credibility. If I were you, I would now just continue as you have been.”
Strangely enough, a lot of clerics have the same attitude as well. I know of people who went to many in Lahore, one after another, looking for redemption, seeking forgiveness, wanting to express repentance, explore change and instead were told that it was too late. They were older in years so they heard the same thing Iblis said to Pharoah. “You're too far gone. You may as well just stay as you are.”
I recalled a hadith which I have otherwise only focused on again and again in my writing because of the first part; controlling the tongue. But there it was; redemption and deliverance lay in crying in recognition of a mistake.
عَنْ عُقْبَةَ بْنِ عَامِرٍ، قَالَ: قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، مَا النَّجَاةُ؟
قَالَ: أَمْسِكْ عَلَيْكَ لِسَانَكَ وَلْيَسَعْكَ بَيْتُكَ وَابْكِ عَلَى خَطِيئَتِكَ
As narrated by Hazrat Uqba Bin Amir (ratu):
I asked, ”Ya Rasool Allah (peace be upon you)! Where lies salvation?”
He replied, “Keep your tongue in control, have your home capable of holding you and shed tears upon your mistakes.”
Then I remembered the line I had used in the video I had made for Maulana (ra) from the Masnavi;
تا نگرید ابر کے خندد چمن
تا نگرید طفل کے جوشد لبن
Till rain doesn’t fall from the clouds, the deadness of the earth remains.
Till the child doesn’t cry, the mother doesn’t nurse it.
گفت "ولیبکوا کثیرا " گوش دار
تا بریزد شیر فضل کردگار
And remember that Allah said, “they should weep a lot,”
so that the Mercy of God is showered upon them.
My test really ended when I wrote a letter to God. I told Him that I felt like I had been in a boat by myself, sailing blissfully through an ocean calm, then rowed myself into a vortex voluntarily. Now I needed help to get out of it because I was drowning with no end in sight. I wasn’t alive and I wasn’t dead. I wept and wept and invoked Nabi Kareem (peace be upon him) asking for forgiveness for the sake of His Beloved. That is when feeling of being distraught dissipated and I felt calm.
And thus I returned under the veil. I started feeling like myself again. The hardness of my heart cracked. I wrote to my friend whose marriage was changing and told her how elated I was for her. I felt happy. I sang out loud and twirled around in my room.
In the days after when someone I loved disappointed me, I noticed my reaction became different. Before I would be irritated for sure, even if I was able to exercise silence and not react. My heart thought badly of them because what they did was unprovoked and clearly unfair.
Now, though, having taken a ride on the train that they were spending most of their time on in their present, I didn’t think of them negatively. I would just stare at them and think how it was exactly like how I had been feeling and behaving. Perhaps there was no other way for me to soften my stance towards them without being exactly the same as them.
Later I thought about what happened deeply. I wondered why I had regressed so badly after so long. After all that blissful while that I had sat in my place of not wanting anything and seeing what I needed flow to me. A thought occurred to me. I had been brandishing my latest video as my “masterpiece.” There was a line in it that went a little something like this; whatever you pursue and make your destiny, the striving for it will not let you have any peace in your life.
No wonder Nabi Pak (peace be upon him) and all the Auliya Karam in his emulation, prayed fervently for their free will to be taken from them forever.
اللَّهُمَّ رَحْمَتَكَ أَرْجُو فَلَا تَكِلْنِي إِلَى نَفْسِي طَرْفَةَ عَيْنٍ
وَأَصْلِحْ لِي شَأْنِي كُلَّهُ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَا أَنْتَ
The most honored Prophet of Allah (peace be upon him) said, “O Allah, it is Your mercy that I hope for so do not leave me in charge of my affairs even for a blink of an eye and rectify for me all of my affairs.
None has the right to be worshiped except You.
Even for a blink of an eye!
I wondered with sadness what would happen to the ensuing generations who can’t seem do anything except what they want, when they want, impatient for full charge of their affairs as early as possible.
The “veil” I keep referring to is in fact the prize of surrendering one’s free will. Submerging one’s wishes into the irada, Will, of Allah and following that lead.
Ghaus Pak (ra) in Al-Fath Ar-Rabbani; “When the possibility of rejecting destiny, changing it, erasing it, going against it doesn’t exist, then why do you make a will contradicting Allah’s Will? When only that reaches you which He wills, then you should not want anything at all yourself. And when that cannot happen which He does not wish for you, then don’t put your nafs and your qalb, your self and your heart within the heart, in baseless difficulty by desiring it.
Surrender everything to your Lord. Turn your focus towards Him and with the hand of repentance hold on to His Mercy. Then you will always be in the state when bearing all the hardships of the world will become easy. Leaving desires and lusts will become easy and you will not complain about it and you will not be stung by it.”
I guess in that state then it doesn’t matter what comes one’s way. If it is happiness one is grateful. If it’s sadness, one is patient while not thinking of the ordeal as difficult and not wanting it to end. And if it happens to be humiliation, then even that has its upside most supreme.
Hazrat Bayazid Bastami (ra) sought His Lord for 40 years.
“I tried everything I knew to find My Lord but I did not find Him. Finally one night, during Tahajjud, I went into sajda (prostration) and continuously wept. And I said to Him;
ما وجدت شياء يتقرب به اليه تعالى إذ رأيت كل نعمت يتقرب به للا لوهية فيه مدخل
“I did not find anything that drew me closer to my Lord when I saw that all blessings that create closeness to Allah have, in them, some distortion."
فقلت يا رب بماذا أتقرب إليك؟
So I said, “O Lord! By what do I come closer to You?”
That night was the first time I heard The Voice and He said to me;
تقرب الي بما ليس لي
“Come towards Me with that which is not Mine and not for Me.”
I was astonished by the words and I asked;
ما الذي ليس لك يا رب
“What is there in this Universe that is not You and not for You?”
He said;
الذلة و الافتقار
“Humiliation and humility."
When I first heard the story I couldn’t get over the first word; humiliation. But there is a difference between humiliation borne for the self and the zillat borne for Allah’s Sake. In the first, which is part of everyone’s life in one relationship or another, there is martyrdom, then self-righteousness and almost always a limit of tolerance.
When crossed one explodes and retreats, sometimes forever. Or stays and repeats the cycle becoming even harder than before. In the second, there is surrender to Divine Will and therefore infinite patience even when the pain is intense. That is gifted for the chosen few who know that the source of all things is only God.
I learnt from Ghaus Pak (ra) the reason to lend understanding to anyone who is overtly doing something wrong.
“For example, when you see someone who doesn’t pray, then you tell them to do so because it is the command of the Sharia’ but understand that in the Knowledge of Allah, if the person had been written as a Namazi, the one who says their prayers, then for sure they would have done so. But they are ma’zoor i.e. they are excused because no one has the ability to go against their taqdeer, their ordained destiny.
So in this way, when they were not able to listen and obey to advice and orders and instruction, whether it was given gently or firmly, then in the rank of your own knowledge, know that they are ma’zoor, not accepting guidance, so don’t become prideful on your own deeds (for having been granted ability) and stay firm in your belief of having been chosen.”
The read, which was actually a footnote, was a remarkable find for me who has trouble not interfering in other people’s spiritual journeys. Again it was about surrender! Except this time it’s not for one’s own self but in the acceptance of the journey of another. That if it is incongruent to one’s own, it’s ok.
Qari Sahib explained it wonderfully. “Think of it like the Azaan,” he said. “Some come to pray, others don’t and the call of the Azaan continues.”
And of course there was a reference from the Quran. The verse was different because in it Allah has Nabi Kareem (peace be upon him) address not the Muslims but every single human being.
قُلْ يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ قَدْ جَاءَكُمُ الْحَقُّ مِن رَّبِّكُمْ
فَمَنِ اهْتَدَىٰ فَإِنَّمَا يَهْتَدِي لِنَفْسِهِ
وَمَن ضَلَّ فَإِنَّمَا يَضِلُّ عَلَيْهَا
وَمَا أَنَا عَلَيْكُم بِوَكِيل
Say, “O Mankind! The Truth has come to you from your Lord.
Whoever chooses to follow the path of guidance, it is for his own good. And whoever chooses to go astray, does so to his own loss. I am not responsible for your conduct."
Surah Yunus, Verse 108
Funnily enough is the hard thing was supposed to be the tables in the park. Everything about the execution of the project was unknown to me. We were doing something for the first time. There was nothing but X factors from start to finish. But for that Qari Sahib had me read two nafal on Day One surrendering everything to Allah and Nabi Pak (peace be upon him). After that even when things seemingly didn’t go right, I didn’t feel bad or angry or worried. Everything about it was fine with me.
In the end everything is in a balance whether we see that or not. Everything is placed in the place it deserves to be placed in; that is the classical definition of adl, justice. Each single thing is held accountable for its own actions. Even inside the same person different parts, like the nafs and the qalb, cannot be blamed for one another.
Hazrat Najmuddin Kubra (ra) in the Tafseer e Jilani; “By its nature, the ease and satisfaction of the nafs lies in the world and its artificial and false adornments. The nafs desires the opposite of that which is commanded by God and this is what becomes its burden. In this state, it travels towards the most base of ranks and none other than the nafs can carry the weight of its weakness.
The qalb will not be held accountable or answerable for the encumbrances of the nafs as long as it is safeguarded from the regretful negativity of the nafs and possesses the light of imaan, faith. For in the intrinsic nature of the qalb is placed the love and desire of Allah.
Only when the qalb follows the nafs does Allah, in His Wrath, make the two equal. In this case, the mirror of the qalb becomes rusted by the habits and attributes of the nafs. When the qalb follows in the footsteps of the desires of the nafs and becomes trapped by its lusts, it loses its original intended purpose.
By Allah’s Command it was supposed to be the seat of taharat (purity), safa (cleansing), salamati (peace), zikr (remembrance), fikar (reflection), tauheed (One-ness), imaan (faith), tawakul (reliance), sidq (truth), ikhlas (sincerity) and bandagi (obedience). When it rejected this Command and fell into waywardness, it became liable for the burden of its sins.
Just as Allah has said;
كَلَّا بَلْ رَانَ عَلَىٰ قُلُوبِهِم مَّا كَانُوا يَكْسِبُون
Nay! But, their hearts have been corroded by what they do (earn).”
Surah Al-Mutaffifin, Verse 14
In my 30s I used to say to people if there was something that wiped the slate clean, no matter what someone did before, it was marriage. In my 50s, I learn repentance does the same. Within that it’s one thing when someone apologizes for something and entirely another when they do so with tears. It’s unlikely I will ever know the feeling of being the vice-regent of Allah on Earth, having been “created in the best mould” but this Ramzan I certainly experienced the asfala safileen, the depths of despair;
ثُمَّ رَدَدْنَاهُ أَسْفَلَ سَافِلِين
Then We returned him to the lowest of the low.
Surah At-Teen, Verse 5
Tafseer e Jilani; “Because of their own misdeeds, when Our Will decided it, we deprived Man from his highly exalted status and relegated him to the lowest of states where his fulfillment, desires and hopes are tied to the world.”
Still in the last ashara’, last 10 days of the month, which is exclusively for escape from the fires of Hell, I experienced Allah as Al-Ghafoor and Al-Wadood.
وَهُوَ الْغَفُورُ الْوَدُود
And He is Oft-Forgiving, the Most Loving.
Surah Al-Burooj, Verse 14
Tafseer e Jilani; “He is bound by His Mercy to be the Forgiver and The One who hides sins. He erases the sins of those who repent with sincerity and become obedient, no matter what the sins are, in number or type. He loves the repentance of the sinner who asks for forgiveness with sincerity. When they plead before Him, when they are bent in fear and shame, when they are regretful of their sins, that ask for forgiveness is beloved to Him.
In the end, I felt sad that on the 27th of Ramzan I was not able to post the piece on the Quran that I had intended. Qari Sahib was still not well. Still we managed a phone call and I discussed some of my translations for this writing. Instead, I read the Quran. It so happened that I reached the last verse of Surah Al-An’am.
وَهُوَ الَّذِي جَعَلَكُمْ خَلَائِفَ الْأَرْضِ
وَرَفَعَ بَعْضَكُمْ فَوْقَ بَعْضٍ دَرَجَاتٍ لِّيَبْلُوَكُمْ فِي مَا آتَاكُمْ
إِنَّ رَبَّكَ سَرِيعُ الْعِقَابِ
وَإِنَّهُ لَغَفُورٌ رَّحِيم
It is He who has made you His Vice-regent on this Earth and has raised some of you in rank above others so that He might test you by means of what He has given you.
Your Lord is swift in punishment but He is also forgiving and Merciful to all.
My eyes read the tafseer of the verse and wept as I translated it, the words piercing my heart.
وَهُوَ الَّذِي جَعَلَكُمْ خَلَائِفَ الْأَرْضِ
“It is God who has sent you as His Appointee on this Earth as the one who is able to become the reflection of His Attributes.
وَرَفَعَ بَعْضَكُمْ فَوْقَ بَعْضٍ دَرَجَاتٍ
In gaining those Attributes He has made given some of you preference over others.
لِّيَبْلُوَكُمْ فِي مَا آتَاكُمْ
So you will be tested on the capabilities and strengths that were bestowed upon you to see if you are using them to consummate the purpose of your creation or for other means.
إِنَّ رَبَّكَ سَرِيعُ الْعِقَابِ
The one who destroys their natural ability without purpose will be punished swiftly.
وَإِنَّهُ لَغَفُورٌ رَّحِيم
Similarly, the one who heeds advice and seeks forgiveness and makes the intent to come towards the right path through repentance will find that Allah is Benevolent towards them.”
The road towards Tauheed, the One-ness of Allah, is paved with the dying of the will. Over and over, again and again. This Ramzan I learnt that quite literally. I experienced Hell but for an instant and it was unbearable. Prayers I uttered entirely in obedience to Nabi Kareem (peace be upon him), copying his words exactly, saved me from myself. The one that became my favourite was this;
قُلْ إِنَّ صَلَاتِي وَنُسُكِي وَمَحْيَايَ وَمَمَاتِي لِلَّهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِين
Say, O Beloved (peace be upon you), "Indeed, my prayer and worship, and my living and my dying are for Allah, Lord of the worlds.”
The words were so intense I had to look up Ghaus Pak’s (ra) tafseer of it.
Tafseer e Jilani: “Oh Messenger who completes prophet-hood, who is the reflection of the essence of Allah’s Tauheed, One-ness, say, while entrusting your entire affairs and all that which is happening with you and by you to your Lord, “Indeed, the inclination of all my organs and parts, my entire being (zahir and batin) and all my worship, which is the means of my gaining closeness and connection with my Lord in my life in this world and the Hereafter, are only and only for Allah, The One who is The Controller of all His Kingdoms by His Will in every aspect, for everything belongs to Him and He is the Lord of all the Worlds.”
It was a comforting relief for me to discover that which I love cannot become detestable to me. A feeling my nature considers sweet is not susceptible to change. The apparition was not my enemy. I did not have to dislike it if I loved it. My "sin" was my lunging towards it for the umpteenth time instead of patiently standing where I was and letting the ghost play its test out, whatever it was. After all, it appeared for a reason.
At each point in the journey when one stumbles, hope appears. If one is attached to those who stand at the destination as a result of being guided by Allah's Beloved (peace be upon him), there is always a beckoning from them to get up and move forward. There is no prolonged self-pity. There is no extended distress.
Ghaus Pak (ra) says that the batin is the bird, the qalb its cage. The qalb a bird, the body its cage. The body a bird, the grave its cage. The grave is the cage for all creation that everyone has to enter. Before that dying come a thousand deaths for the seeker. And as I learnt, a thousand lives. Only through each does one edge towards fulfillment of purpose.
Sahel Tustari (ra): "The heart has a thousand deaths, of which the ultimate is being cut off (qaṭīʿa) from God, Mighty and Majestic is He; and the heart has a thousand lives, of which the ultimate is the encounter (liqāʾ) with God, Mighty and Majestic is He. Furthermore, with each sinful act the heart undergoes a death, and with each act of obedience it receives [new] life."
That Allah is His Infinite Generosity offers vice-regency to all human beings astonishes me. Even acquiring a single attribute of The Divine seems invisibly far. The hand of repentance, however, that reaches His Mercy via Nabi Kareem (peace be upon him) brings everything in one's reach. Fresh starts, clean slates, new choices, different endings. In every moment, in every day. In the end, inspired by the hadith Qudsi I have learnt recently, I will find myself to be only that which I think I am.
Tafseer e Tustari: "Hazrat Sahel (ra) said: Struggle against your lower self with the sword of opposition! Place upon its [back] the burdens of remorse (nadam), and guide it through the desert plains of fear (khawf), so that you may turn it back to the path of repentance (tawba) and contrition (ināba). Repentance is not acceptable except from one who feels perplexed at his plight, grief-stricken at this situation, and confounded in his heart at what has happened to him."
Long time that i shot any flower, Parijatha is one of my fav flower. A flower which has a history. They say its the flower from heaven :)
A shot from our garden, Nelamangala, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
LOVE IS LIFE....LOVE IS HEAVEN
HALOO MY FRIENDS MY NAME IS MAST PAHADI...
I M PRVTLY STUDYING N HANDLE MY CYBER CAFE & BUSINESS ............
AND I M HATE=DRINKING SMOKING ETC ...
AND I M INTRESTED IN TRUE FRDSHP ......
AND IF U WNT TOO SEE ME WHO I M SEE MY ALBUM N THN FRIENDSHIP WITH ME ..& dnt add me fake id plz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1.Read this nessage by heart ‘’1 day boy went to his girlfriend and asked her to marry then she gave him a challenge to live without her .....boy accept n there is no discussion between them for 24 hour .....next day boy come to her with ring & wid excitment bt he shocked by seeing that she is dead ....she left a few words for him that it honey and without me ,do it daily ...love u and miss u ‘’bt she never tel him that she had any disease and suppose for to survive for one day only ............
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
EK Ladki ne God se pucha ……….
What is Love???????
God ne kaha jaao Baag mai se ek Phool le aao……………,Wo ladki phool lene gayi………….Use 1 Phool pasand aaya pr wo jyaada sundar phool chahti thi………….wo aage chali gayi lekin use jyaada sundar phool na mila Jab wo vaapas wo phool lene gyi………………. Toh wo phool bhi naa mila …………………Wo bahut pachtayi…..Usne God ko aakar bataya ……………
Then God Say :::: This Is Love “Jab Pyaar Tumhare pass hota hai toh uski kadar nahi hoti…….. par uske jaane ke baad uska ehsaas hota hai…………….That’s Love
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Ek ladki rozana burke main collage jati thi....
Ek ladka us ladki ko behad pyar karta tha..
Ladka rozana us ladki ko raste main jate hua cheda karta tha....
ladka ladki se kehta......E parda nashi ...parda hata aur apne husn ka jalwa
dikha..
Ladki uski baat ko sunti aur chupchap chali jati...
Ek din ladke ne raste me ladki ka haath pakadkar kaha...
Jaan ,janemaan, janejigar, jane tamanna..
agar tumne kal meri mohabbat ko kabul nahi kiya to main apni jaan de dunga.
Ladki muskurakar chali gayi..
Ladki 3 - 4 din tak collage nahi gayi
Bad main ladki ko pata chala ki ladke ne such me khudkhushi kar li hai..
Ladki roti huyi ladke ki KABR par gayi or apna nakab khol kar boli..
A mere gumnam aashiq dekh teri mehbooba aayi hai ji bhar ke uska didar kar le..
Tabhi KABR main se aawaz aati hai..
A khuda ye teri kaisi khudai hai,Aaj hum parde me hain aur wo benakab aayi ha
एक सचे प्यार की कहानी
'' एक दीन एक लड़का आपने नसीब से परेशांन होकर घूमते घूमते एक कब्रिस्तान जा पोहंचा, उस का नाम राज था....... और राज अनजाने में एक कबर पर बैठकर आपने नसीब को कोस रहा था.... आचानक से उसकी नजर एक बगल वाली कबर पे गई कबर को देखकर वो हैरान हो गया क्युके वो कबर कीसी जवान लड़की की थी उसका नाम पूजा था और उस लड़कीको गुजर कर कुछ दो तीन दीन ही हूवे थे........ और राज आसमान में देख कर ये सोचने लगा की इस लड़की की उम्र तो मरने की नहीं थी फीर इसकी मोत कैसे हुई होंगी ? जय से ही राज की नजर दुबारा उस कबर पर गई तो उस ने एक लड़का देखा जिसका नाम राहुल था और वो कबर पर गुलाब का फूल बीचा रहा था तो राज ने उसे पूछा क्या भाई तुम्हारी कोई रीश्तेदार थी क्या? राहुल ने कहा नहीं ये मेरी girl friend थी
राज; इस की मोत कई से हुई
राहुल; इसे पता चला था के मुझे blood cancer है इस लीये इसने जहर खा के खुदख़ुशी कर ली,
राज; अरे लेकीन तुम्हे blood cancer था ना तो उस पागल ने क्यू खुदखुशी कर ली तुम तो आचे भले जींदा हो,
राहुल; मै कहा जींदा हू मै तो उस के पहेले ही मर गया हू और जीस कबर पर तुम बैठे हो वो कबर मेरी ही है
THATS LOVE
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Love Shayari, Meri mohabbat hai woh
Love Shayari, Meri mohabbat hai woh
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मेरी मोहब्बत है वो कोई मज़बूरी तो नही,
वो मुझे चाहे या मिल जाये, जरूरी तो नही,
ये कुछ कम है कि बसा है मेरी साँसों में वो,
सामने हो मेरी आँखों के जरूरी तो नही!
Meri mohabbat hai woh koi majboori to nahin,
Woh mujhe chahe ya mil jaye, zaroori to nahin,
Yeh kuch kam hai ke basa hai meri saanson mein,
Woh saamne ho meri aankhon ke zaroori to nahin.
Love Shayari, Hum Ruthe To Kiske Bharose
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हम रूठे तो किसके भरोसे,
कौन आएगा हमें मनाने के लिए,
हो सकता है, तरस आ भी जाए आपको..
पर दिल कहाँ से लाये.. आप से रूठ जाने के लिए!
Hum Ruthe To Kiske Bharose,
Kaun Hai Jo Aayega Hume Manane Ke Liye,
Ho Sakta Hai Taras Aa Bhi Jaye Aapko..
Par Dil Kaha Se Laau.. Aapse Ruth Jane K Liye.
Love Shayari, Tere Bina Tutkar
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तेरे बिना टूट कर बिखर जायेंगे,
तुम मिल गए तो गुलशन की तरह खिल जायेंगे,
तुम ना मिले तो जीते जी ही मर जायेंगे,
तुम्हें जो पा लिया तो मर कर भी जी जायेंगे।
Tere Bina Tutkar Bikhar Jayenge,
Tum Mil Gaye To Gulshan Ki Tarah Khil Jayenge,
Tum Na Mile To Jite Ji Mar Jayenge,
Tumhe Paa Liya To Markar Bhi Jee Jayenge.
Love Shayari, Udas nahi hona
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उदास नहीं होना, क्योंकि मैं साथ हूँ,
सामने न सही पर आस-पास हूँ,
पल्को को बंद कर जब भी दिल में देखोगे,
मैं हर पल तुम्हारे साथ हूँ!
Udas nahi hona kyon ki main saath hoon,
Saamne na sahi par aas-paas hoon,
Palkon ko band kar jab bhi dil mein dekhoge,
Main har pal tumhare sath hu!
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Love Shayari, Ishq mohabbat to sab
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इश्क मुहब्बत तो सब करते हैं!
गम-ऐ-जुदाई से सब डरते हैं
हम तो न इश्क करते हैं न मुहब्बत!
हम तो बस आपकी एक मुस्कुराहट पाने के लिए तरसते हैं!
Ishq mohabbat to sab karte hai,
gam-a-judai se sab darte hai,
hum to ishq karte ha na to mahabbat,
hum to bas aapki ek mushkurahat pane ke liye taraste hai.
Bewafa Shayari, Dil se roye
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दिल से रोये मगर होंठो से मुस्कुरा बेठे,
यूँ ही हम किसी से वफ़ा निभा बेठे,
वो हमे एक लम्हा न दे पाए अपने प्यार का,
और हम उनके लिये जिंदगी लुटा बेठे!
Dil se roye magar honto se muskura beithe,
yunhi hum kisi se wafa nibha beithe,
wo hame ek lamha na de paye apne pyar ka,
aur hum unke liye apni zindagi gawa beithe.
Sad Shayari, Khush nasib hote hain badal
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खुश नसीब होते हैं बादल,
जो दूर रहकर भी ज़मीन पर बरसते हैं,
और एक बदनसीब हम हैं,
जो एक ही दुनिया में रहकर भी.. मिलने को तरसते हैं.
Khush nasib hote hain badal,
Jo dur rehkar bhi zameen par baraste hain,
Aur ek badnasib hum hain,
Jo ek hi duniya mei rehkar bhi.. Milne ko taraste hain.
Sad Shayari, Pyar kya hota hai
Sad Shayari, Pyar kya hota hai
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प्यार क्या होता है हम नहीं जानते,
ज़िन्दगी को हम अपना नहीं मानते,
गम इतने मील के एहसास नहीं होता,
कोई हमें प्यार करे अब विश्वास नहीं होता.
Pyar kya hota hai hum nahi jante,
Zindagi ko hum apna nahi mante,
Gum itne mile ke ehsaas nahi hota,
Koi hume pyar kare ab vishwas nahi hota.
Love Shayari, Aankhon mein raha
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आँखों में रहा दिल में उतरकर नहीं देखा,
कश्ती के मुसाफ़िर ने समन्दर नहीं देखा,
पत्थर कहता है मुझे मेरा चाहनेवाला,
मैं मोम हूँ उसने मुझे छूकर नहीं देखा!
Aankhon mein rahaa dil mein utarkar nahin dekha,
Kishti ke musafir ne samandar nahin dekha,
Patthar mujhe kahta hai mira chahne wala,
Main mom hun usne mujhe chhookar nahin dekha!
Love Shayari, Es kadar hum unki
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इस कदर हम उनकी मुहब्बत में खो गए,
कि एक नज़र देखा और बस उन्हीं के हम हो गए,
आँख खुली तो अँधेरा था देखा एक सपना था,
आँख बंद की और उन्हीं सपनो में फिर सो गए!
es kadar hum unki mohabbat mein kho gaye,
ki ek nazar dekha aur bas unhi k ho gaye,
ankh khuli to andhera tha, dekha ek sapna tha,
aankh band ki aur unhi sapno me phir kho gaye.
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Ijazat Lyrics from Sunny Leone starrer One Night Stand.
Kaise bataaye, kaise jataaye
Subah tak tujhme jeena chahein
Bheege labon ki, geeli hansi ko
Peene ka mausam hai peena chahein
Ik baat kahoon kya ijazat hai
Tere ishq ki mujhko aadat hai
Ik baat kahoon kya ijazat hai
Tere ishq ki mujhko..
Aadat hai o.. aadat hai..
Aadat hai o.. aadat hai..
Ehsaas tere aur mere toh
Ik dooje se judd rahe
Ik teri talab mujhe aisi lagi
Mere hosh bhi udne lage
Mujhe milta sukoon teri baahon mein
Jannat jaisi ek raahat hai
Ik baat kahoon kya ijazat hai
Tere ishq ki mujhko aadat hai
Ik baat kahoon kya ijazat hai
Tere ishq ki mujhko..
Aadat hai o.. aadat hai..
Aadat hai o.. aadat hai..
Kyun sabse juda, kyun sabse alag
Andaaz tere lagte..
Besaakh ta hum saaye se tere
Har shaam lipat’te hain
Har waqt mera, qurbat mein teri
Jab guzre toh ibadat hai
Ik baat kahoon kya ijazat hai
Tere ishq ki mujhko aadat hai
Ik baat kahoon kya ijazat hai
Tere ishq ki mujhko..
Aadat hai o.. aadat hai..
Aadat hai o.. teri aadat hai..
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Preface :)
Anything of goodness that came to me, came by way of the blessed Ahl e Beit - the family of the Prophet (salutations and greetings upon Sayyeduna Misbah, the Lantern, and his family) - Ghaus Pak (ra)
In the context of all my relationships as of late, I have discovered that the "misfortune" that comes my way in the form of disappointment or sadness of the heart, comes by way of a naqs, shortcoming or deficiency in my character and manners. What we call akhlaq in the Arabic.
in the Quran the verse that extols the highest praise upon the Beloved (salutations and greetings upon the one He calls Ajmal, the most beautiful and his most beautiful family) is
وَإِنَّكَ لَعَلَىٰ خُلُقٍ عَظِيمٍۢ
Indeed, surely, you are of an excellent moral character.
Surah Al Qalam, Verse 4
Tafseer e Jilani
Wa Innaka: And indeed, you, the one whose manner is the perfection of the Attributes of Allah Subhanahu, (man takhalluqe-ka bil akhlaq Allah) and your being in a state of conviction in the Station of Friendship and Vice-regency…
La’ala khuluq-in adeem: you are of an excellent moral character. No one’s excellence of manners is more superb than your manners because you hold and have gathered the characters of the ones before you and the ones after you as per the totality of your rank.
The Naqshbandi Spiritual Master, Sheikh Nurjan (ra), says notably that the verse is the proof that of all things being observed by Subhanahu in a human being, above all is their manner with another.
"What is Allah Azzo Jal then saying here; Not you have the perfect aqeeda, belief, imaan, faith, taqwa, piety, iqaan, certainty, shukr, gratitude, sabr, patience and on and on the list goes, even though he is without doubt gifted them all as the perfect manifestation of all of Subhanahu's Beautiful Names and Attributes.
It is that you possess the most excellent manners, how you behave with other human beings in every single sense."
Hence it doesn't matter what we do as much as how we do it. For all generosity and all consideration goes to naught if the manner of its execution is harsh and an attitude towards anyone is unforgiving.
After a lifetime of knowing the words, I finally hear the call of Maula e Kayinaat (as) who said, "Your disappointments are not from people. They come from your expectations of them." Which breed the silent bughz, grudges and unspoken gheebat, back-biting between me and my self, making me miserable that I feel those things about whom I claim affection.
For all it ever makes me is vehement. I learnt the word, مَلَكَةِ الْحَمِيَّةِ, from a prayer of Imam Zain ul Abedin's (as) where he asked for refuge from hateful things and it struck me how I was drowning my own self in that state. Overcome by a quality that came naturally, insane "strictness" with "misguided enthusiasm."
But now I hear a call that says: Ya Mariam! Be who you are. Not who you become because another regresses and you regress right along with them. Every single time!
I was telling my dearest cousin Rahim, We cannot change. We have to be changed. Two means of that, I conclude, are feeding the hungry and dua - invoking Subhanahu in the words of His Chosen Ones. It's that simple.
For everything in spirituality pivots on ehsaas, consideration for the state of another's heart. The needle of that pivot is akhlaq.
On that note, we await the night that will change us. Just like the moon changes effortlessly...because any ease that came my way, undeniably came by way of the blessed Ahl e Beit (salutations and greetings upon them and their gaze of love upon me).
Subhan Allah!
437. Whatever problems befall you come from your own hands
وَمَآ أَصَـٰبَكُم مِّن مُّصِيبَةٍۢ فَبِمَا كَسَبَتْ أَيْدِيكُمْ وَيَعْفُوا۟ عَن كَثِيرٍۢ ٣٠
And whatever befalls you of (the) misfortune, (is because) of what have earned your hands. But He pardons much.
Surah Shoora, Verse 30
Tafseer e Jilani
Wa: And know Ayyoha al adlaal al haalika, O ones who are shadows that are vanishing in themselves…
Ma asaabakum mim museebat-in: that which befalls you of misfortune, harmful, painful…
Fabima kasabat aydeekum: so it is because it is the outcome of your own hands i.e. because of your perpetrating disobedience and sinful deeds…
Wa: and while (He knows it)…
Ya’fu: He forgives, Subhanahu…
An katheer: most of it. He does not punish you because of those sins with misfortune, showing you kindness and giving you ease.
Subhan Allah!
438. Allah is our Lord and yours and for us are our deeds and you yours. There is no argument between us and we will all return to Him
ٱللَّهُ رَبُّنَا وَرَبُّكُمْ ۖ
لَنَآ أَعْمَـٰلُنَا وَلَكُمْ أَعْمَـٰلُكُمْ ۖ
لَا حُجَّةَ بَيْنَنَا وَبَيْنَكُمُ ۖ
ٱللَّهُ يَجْمَعُ بَيْنَنَا ۖ
وَإِلَيْهِ ٱلْمَصِيرُ ١٥
Allah (is) our Lord and your Lord.
For us our deeds and for you your deeds.
(There is) no argument between us and between you.
Allah will assemble [between] us,
and to Him (is) the final return."
Surah Ash Shoora, Verse 15
Tafseer e Jilani
(Continuing from the first part of the same verse) so I am ordered to do the preaching of His Messages and clarifying them for you and (I am bidden to do) your training and your perfection because…
Allahu: Allah is Al Mudabbir, The Only One who governs the matters of all His Servants…
Rabbu-na: who is our Lord who raises us for instruction and perfection…
Wa Rabbu-kum: and your Lord who wills that He raises you with guidance and instruction and if it was not that we were commanded from Him, Subhanahu, for your guidance and your instruction, we would not be with you because…
Lana a’maaluna: for us are our deeds i.e. the reward for whether they are good or wicked…
Wa lakum: and (the reward) for you your deeds will be the same because all of us and all of you are recompensed by what we do.
La hujjatan: There is no argument i.e. no fight and enemity…
Baynana wa baynakum: between us and between you after we have conveyed to you what we were commanded to convey and we clearly explained to you the way of Allah Al Haqq and overall…
Allahu: Allah i.e. The Essence that is Al Mustajmi’u, who collects all of the (existing) Names and Attributes…
Yajam’u baynana: He gathers us and all of you if it is His Will to gather us…
Wa: and how can He not gather us, Subhanahu…
Ilayhi al maseer: (when) we will all return to Him i.e. the returning of all is towards Him as they appeared from Him.
On a night of keeping vigil, an understanding of some verses on supplication from Ghaus Pak (ra)
426. The Prayer series – Call upon Me and I will respond to you
وَقَالَ رَبُّكُمُ ٱدۡعُونِیۤ أَسۡتَجِبۡ لَكُمۡۚ إِنَّ ٱلَّذِینَ یَسۡتَكۡبِرُونَ عَنۡ عِبَادَتِی سَیَدۡخُلُونَ جَهَنَّمَ دَاخِرِینَ
And said your Lord, "Call upon Me; I will respond to you.
Indeed, those who (are) proud to worship Me will enter Hell (in) humiliation."
Surah Ghafir, Verse 60
Tafseer e Jilani
Wa: And after Subhanahu points towards the station of the two groups, the muwwahid, the believer in One-ness and the mushrik, the one who associate others with Allah, He pointed towards the one who focuses his attention upon Him affectionately and intends towards His One-ness, persevering and endeavouring, invoking Him humbly, that He answers him and makes him receive success in his ask, such that…
Qala Rabbukum: Your Lord said, who raises you upon the nature of Tauheed, One-ness and Irfaan, recognizing (Him)…
Ud’ooni: call Me O Mukallifoon, the ones who are ordered to obey Allah’s Commands, according to the aql, the power to reason, poured (upon you) as is appropriate for My Being invoked, and they remained focused towards Me in the state of being Mukhliseen, the sincere, without looking towards (other) means and ways in the Universe…
Astajib lakum: I will respond to your prayer and connect you to your purpose and your goal, which is Tauheed az Zaati, the One-ness of My Essence, so compulsory upon you is to not become too proud to worship Me and to be obedient to Me.
And overall:
Inna: Indeed, Al Musrifeena, the ones who are the transgressors of boundaries…
Alladina yastakbiroona: who are too arrogant and refuse…
An ibadati: My worship (i.e praying before Me) due to their false opinions and (following) their corrupt desires…
Sayadkhuloona: so soon they will enter on the Day of Recompense…
Jahannama: the Hell of deprivation and disappointment…
Dakhireen: belittled, humiliated, disgraced.
Astaghfirullah!
427. And when they ask about me, tell them O Beloved (salutations and greetings upon you and your family by Me, your Lord who raises you will only with love), I am near
وَإِذَا سَأَلَكَ عِبَادِى عَنِّى فَإِنِّى قَرِيبٌ ۖ
أُجِيبُ دَعْوَةَ ٱلدَّاعِ إِذَا دَعَانِ
ۖ فَلْيَسْتَجِيبُوا۟ لِى وَلْيُؤْمِنُوا۟ بِى لَعَلَّهُمْ يَرْشُدُونَ ١٨٦
And when they ask you, My Servants, about Me then (tell them), indeed I am near. I respond (to the) invocation (of) the supplicant when he calls Me. So let them respond to Me and let them believe in Me, so that they may (be) led aright.
Surah Al Baqarah, Verse 186
Tafseer e Jilani
Wa: And for this reason (the Companions asked in their love for their Lord, Is Allah near us or far?), Subhanahu informs His Prophet (salutations and greetings upon Nabi Kareem who is His Gift to the Universe and his blessed family) for the instruction of His Servants, who are grateful for His Blessing, about His Closeness towards them by His Saying:
Ida sa’alaka: If they ask you, Ayyoha Ad’Daa’i, O Caller of Creation towards Allah Al Haqq (salutations and greetings upon you and your family from Me in continuance)…
Ibadi: My Servants, Ash Shakireen, the ones grateful for The Bestower of the Blessings…
Ann-ni: (they ask) about Me by their words: Is He near us, our Lord who raises us, so we should speak to him softly like we speak to ourselves or is He far from us so we should call out to Him as we call out to someone distant, tell them Ya Akmal Ar Rusul, O Messenger who completes Messenger-hood (salutations and greetings upon the Hadi-n, the guide, and his blessed family), in answer to them on behalf of Me …
Fa-inni qareebun: indeed I am nearer to them than their own selves such that…
Ajeebu da’wata ad-da’i da’ani: I respond to the invocation of the supplicant when he calls Me, answering him swiftly with an answer to his prayer like He points towards Himself in the Hadith Qudsi narrated by Subhanahu (tell them…)…
Falyastajeebu li: so let them respond to Me also in all of their affairs and their needs…
Walyu-mino bi: and believe in Me as the ones Mu’taqideen, the ones with strong belief that I will make them reach towards the fulfillment of their wishes because there is no place of return for them apart from Me and no refuge for them in (their) being except Me and indeed, they were informed and commanded by what they were commanded…
La’allahum yarshudoon: hoping that they are guided towards the Rank of Tauheed, Allah’s One-ness, as Rashideen, the guided ones, Mutma’ineen, the contended ones.
Then Ghaus Pak (ra) prays:
اهدنا بلطفك إلى مقر عزك يا هادي المضلين
Guide us by Your Lutf, Kindness, towards Maqarra Izzika, the Abode of Your Honour, Ya Hadi il Mudaleen, O You who is the Only Guide for the ones astray!
Ameen!
428. Who responds to the one distressed when he call Him and removes his evil? Allah!
أَمَّن يُجِيبُ ٱلْمُضْطَرَّ إِذَا دَعَاهُ وَيَكْشِفُ ٱلسُّوٓءَ وَيَجْعَلُكُمْ خُلَفَآءَ ٱلْأَرْضِ ۗ
أَءِلَـٰهٌۭ مَّعَ ٱللَّهِ ۚ قَلِيلًۭا مَّا تَذَكَّرُونَ ٦٢
Or Who responds (to) the distressed one when he calls Him and He removes the evil and makes you inheritors (of) the earth? Is there any god with Allah? Little (is) what you remember.
Surah An Naml, Verse 62
Tafseer e Jilani
A’mmayyu yujeebul mudtarra: (Continuing from the verses 60-61 Subhanahu asks) Or does the one who answers the distressed, the one anxious, confused in his matter without instruction about deliverance from it and being saved from it forever…
Ida da’ahu: when he supplicates before Him, calling him, hopeful, beseeching Him, Subhanahu…
Wa: and who…
Yakshifu us soo’a: removes the hardship, causing aggravation for the people of grief and pain…
Wa: and who…
Yajalukum khulufa’ al ard: makes you the inheritors of the Earth from amongst your ancestors who passed upon it…
A’ ilahun ma’allah-i: are they a god with Allah, Al Wahid, The Only One, Al Ahad, The One and Only, As Samad, The One above everything, whom you call upon or worship, Ya Ayyoha Jahiloon, O Ignorant Ones, Al Musrifoona, who transgress boundaries, Al Makabiroona, the ones who think of themselves as proud and arrogant and from the extremes of your jahal, ignorance and ghaflat, forgetfulness, about the worship of Allah Al Haqq and the depths of your transgression and waywardness from His Tauheed, One-ness…
Qaleelam ma tadakkaroon: little is the advice you accept i.e. only a few from amongst you remember the Blessings of Allah and His Favours (pouring) continuously upon you, following each other in succession.
429. Allah Subhanahu is Ever-Living so call Him sincerely
هُوَ ٱلْحَىُّ لَآ إِلَـٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ فَٱدْعُوهُ مُخْلِصِينَ لَهُ ٱلدِّينَ ۗ
ٱلْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ رَبِّ ٱلْعَـٰلَمِينَ ٦٥
He (is) the Ever-Living; (there is) no god but He, so call Him, (being) sincere to Him (in) the religion. All praise (be) to Allah, (the) Lord (of) the worlds.
Surah Ghafir, Verse 65
Tafseer e Jilani
Instead…
Huwal Hayyu: He is the Ultimate Truth, forever, till the end, in permanence (without a beginning and an end), Al Mustaghni, Self-Sufficient from the counting of time and measurement of space totally…
La ilaha: there is no god in presence except Him and there is no one present who can be worshipped…
Illa huwa: except His Essence and after you heard this, O Mukallifoona, those obedient to Allah’s Commands, the characteristics of His Names and Attributes of Subhanahu…
Faduhu mukhliseen: then call Him, O sincere ones, and worship only and only Him…
Lahu ud deen: in the religion i.e. worshipping and following because there is no one else deserving of obedience and worship except Him. And after you return to Him as Mukhliseena, sincere, and after you worship only and only Him, say with the tongue wholeheartedly:
Alhamdo: all praise is for Al Mustaw’ib, The Only Collector of all of the admiration arising from the tongues of the ordinary in appearance, which is for sure (that praise)…
Lillahi Rabbil alimeen: for Him, the Lord of the Worlds because He is Alone in His being worshipped and permanent in His being Rabb, Lord, without doubt of association and sharing.
Subhan Allah!
430. So call Subhanahu by His Perfect Names
وَلِلَّهِ ٱلْأَسْمَآءُ ٱلْحُسْنَىٰ فَٱدْعُوهُ بِهَا ۖ
وَذَرُوا۟ ٱلَّذِينَ يُلْحِدُونَ فِىٓ أَسْمَـٰٓئِهِۦ ۚ
سَيُجْزَوْنَ مَا كَانُوا۟ يَعْمَلُونَ ١٨٠
And for Allah (are) the names - the most beautiful, so invoke Him by them.
And leave those who deviate concerning His names.
They will be recompensed for what they used to do.
Surah Al Ar’aaf, Verse 180
Tafseer e Jilani
Wa: And know Ayyoha al Fudula’, the special ones who use their intellect, al Urufa, the special ones who recognize Allah, Al Muwwahidoon, the special ones who believe in His One-ness…
Lillahi: for Allah Al Muttawahid, The Only Lord, Al Muttafarrid, The Uniquely Incomparable One in His Essence…
Al Asma’ ul Husna: are the Perfect Names, which are derived from the Exalted Attributes arising out of the signs of happenings in the realm of creation and destruction and the realm of appearing and the unseen and this world and the Hereafter…
Fad’uhu: so call Him, Subhanahu, Ayyoha al Muwwahidoona, the ones who believe in his One-ness…
Biha: by them and relate to the happenings which are happening from these Names first and by His Essence…
Wa daro: and leave those i.e. rebuff and leave the words…
Alladina yulhidoona: of those who refuse to believe, who turn away and who associate others with Him…
Fi Asma’i-hi: in His Names by associating happenings with means first and (also associating) with His Essence and stay away from their religions and isolate from them and their gatherings and be sure that every one…
Sa-yujzauna: will soon be rewarded upon the requisites…
Ma kanu ya’maloon: of what they do, if it is good then with goodness and if it is evil then with evil.
431-432. The one who purifies himself succeeds and remembers His Lord’s Names and prays
قَدْ أَفْلَحَ مَن تَزَكَّىٰ ١٤
وَذَكَرَ ٱسْمَ رَبِّهِۦ فَصَلَّىٰ ١٥
Certainly, has succeeded (one) who purifies (himself),
And remembers (the) name (of) his Lord and prays.
Surah Al’a, Verse 14-15
Tafseer e Jilani
Then said Subhanahu in the way of admonition…
Qad aflaha: certainly is successful and achieved triumph with the great rank and the station exalted…
Man tazakka: the one who purified and cleansed the pollution of (one’s) nature and the tarnish of their identity from the inclination towards the world and everything in it from the temporary attractions and the forbidden desires, which do not remain, and focus towards Al Maula, The Lord, with sincere determination.
Wa dakara: And he remembered in the beginning of his desire and the origin of his want (towards Him)…
Isma’ Rabbi-hi: the Names of His Lord i.e. the group of the Names of His Lord, keeping in mind their meaning, consciously, feeling happy, with a yearning…
Fa salla: so he prays and is inclined towards Him, Subhanahu, in all times of His Commands, establishing them, abstaining upon his nafs, self, the ordinary attractions of his world.
433-434. There are signs within the Earth and within yourselves, then do you not see?
وَفِى ٱلْأَرْضِ ءَايَـٰتٌۭ لِّلْمُوقِنِينَ ٢٠
وَفِىٓ أَنفُسِكُمْ ۚ
أَفَلَا تُبْصِرُونَ ٢١
There are ˹countless˺ signs on earth for those who are certain,
And within yourselves, so do you not see?
Surah Ad-Dhariyat, Verse 20-21
Tafseer e Jilani
Then pointed Subhanahu towards the Expansiveness of the One-ness of His Essence, which comprises everything which is apparent and hidden in the horizons and in the selves with permanence and in all individuals and the specific Secrets of Allah’s One-ness in each speck of the Universe, warning the mureed, the one who intends to reach His Essence, al mustabsir, the one who wants to see Him and to arouse them from the sleep of ghaflat, ignorance and the yawn of nisyaan, forgetfulness, so He said…
Wa fil ardi: and in this Earth i.e. the realm of means and capabilities expressed in the horizons, prepared for the appearance of the Signs of the Perfect Control of Allah being Lord from the amazing and strange (things), sprouting from Perfect Knowledge and Abundant Wisdom which are certain arguments and clarifications and a witnessing of the clear proof which are manifesting the Power of As Sani’, The Only One who manufactures, Al Hakeem, The Only One whose Judgement is perfect, and manifesting the Essence of His One-ness and His Control in all of His Matters and His
Permanence in His Governing and His Authority…
Lil Mo’qineen: for the ones possessing certainty, Al Munkashifeena, the ones who unveil by knowledge and witnessing and (experiencing) the ultimate truth and also…
Wa fi anfusikum: and in your selves (the ordinary) also, Ayyoha al Mustabsiroona, those who want to see Him, Al Mustakshifoona, the ones who seek to unveil the Secrets of Allah’s being the only One worshipped and the Secrets of His Being Lord and considering Him as being The Only One in His Appearance and His Presence…
Afala tubsiroon: and still do you not see Ayyoha al Majbuloona, the ones set up upon the nature of kashf, unveiling and shuhood, witnessing.
Thus we begin the night with the prayers by way of the blessed Imam Zain ul Abedin (as).
www.duas.org/sajjadiya/sajjadiya.htm
*** Keeping in mind the important requisite that the etiquette of dua is to give a sadqa, a charitable giving, not obligatory, before it ***
And on that note...
442. If you people owned the treaures of the world, you would never spend them for Man is stingy
قُل لَّوْ أَنتُمْ تَمْلِكُونَ خَزَآئِنَ رَحْمَةِ رَبِّىٓ إِذًۭا لَّأَمْسَكْتُمْ خَشْيَةَ ٱلْإِنفَاقِ ۚ وَكَانَ ٱلْإِنسَـٰنُ قَتُورًۭا ١٠٠
Say, "If you possess the treasures (of) the Mercy (of) my Lord, then surely you would withhold (out of) fear (of) spending." And is man stingy.
Surah Bani Israel, Verse 100
Tafseer e Jilani
Qul: Say to the Munkireen, the refusers, Al Muttawahhimeen, who are deluded in thinking of the perishing of Allah’s Qudra, Authority and His Hawla, Power and His Quwwat, Strength, that it will expire, (tell them) about His Intent: Don’t compare the unseen with the witnessed and don’t think of miserliness and stinginess and helplessness and obligation on behalf of Allah but instead (know) everything is from your attributes and your characters because:
Lau antum tamlikoona khaza’in rahma Rabbi: if you possessed the treasures of the Mercy of my Lord with their abundance and the absence of their finishing and certain endlessness…
Idan la amsaktum: so then surely you would withhold and be stingy…
Khashiyat infaaq: out of fear of spending i.e. the fear of it finishing with spending without replacing what is spent…
Wa kana al insaanu: and Man is indeed created in his original nature…
Qatoora: stingy, withholding (by hoarding) in abundance the necessities in this world, not spending of the treasures, because he is most needy of everything created and is most distant from the Essence of the One-ness of Allah because Man is the last point of the circle of Creation and he is the end-game and he can become the first dot of the circle of Allah’s Presence, if he removes himself from the garments of the world and detaches himself from it just once without the mixture of disfigurement and shortcomings.
Just once......Unbelievable!
The first key to reverse the worst of my nature: Dua No. 20
ْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ
bis-mil-lahir-rahmamnir-rahim
In the Name of Allah, the All-merciful, the All-compassionate
اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَّآلِهِ
allahumma sal-li a'la muhammadiw-wa a-lih
O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household,
وَبَلِّغْ بِإِيمَانِي أَكْمَلَ الإِيمَانِ
wa bal-ligh bi-imani ak-malal-iman
cause my faith to reach the most perfect faith,
وَاجْعَلْ يَقِينِي أَفْضَلَ الْيَقِينِ
waj-a'l yaqini af-zalal-yaqin
make my certainty the most excellent certainty,
وَانتَهِ بِنِيَّتِي إِلَى أَحْسَنِ النِّيَّاتِ، وَبِعَمَلِي إِلَى أَحْسَنِ الأَعْمَاِل
wantahi bi-ni-yati ila ah-san-ni-yati wa bi-a'mali ila ah-sanil-a'-mal
and take my intention to the best of intentions, and my works to the best of works!
اللَّهُمَّ
allahumma
O Allah,
وَفِّرْ بِلُطْفِكَ نِيَّتِي
waf-fir bilut-fika ni-yati
complete my intention through Your gentleness,
وَصَحِّحْ بِمَا عِندَكَ يَقِينِي
wa sah-hih bima i'ndaka yaqini
rectify my certainty through what is with You,
وَاسْتَصْلِحْ بِقُدْرَتِكَ مَا فَسَدَ مِنِّي
was-tas-lih biqud-ratika ma fasada min-ni
And set right what is corrupt in me through Your power!
اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَّآلِهِ
allahumma sal-li a'la muhammadiw-wa a-lih
O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household,
وَاكْفِنِي مَا يَشْغَلُنِي الإِهْتِمَامُ بِهِ
wak-fini ma yash-ghalunil-ih-timamu bih
spare me the concerns which distract me,
وَاسْتَعْمِلْنِي بِمَا تَسْألُنِي غَداً عَنْهُ
was-ta'-mil-ni bima tas-aluni ghadan a'n-h
employ me in that about which You will ask me tomorrow,
وَاسْتَفْرِغْ أَيَّامِي فِيمَا خَلَقْتَنِي لَهُ
was-taf-righ ay-yami fima khalaq-tani lah
And let me pass my days in that for which You hast created me!
وَاغْنِنِي وَأَوْسِعْ عَلَيَّ فِي رِزْقِكَ
wa agh-nini wa aw-sia' a'lay-ya fi rizqik
Free me from need, and expand Your provision toward me,
وَلا تَفْتِنِّي بِالنَّظَرِ
wa-la taf-tin-ni bin-nazar
And tempt me not with ingratitude!
وَأَعِزَّنِي وَلا تَبْتَلِيَنِّي بِالْكِبْرِ
wa ai'z-za ni wa-la tab-tali-yani-y bil-kib-r
Exalt me and afflict me not with pride!
وَعَبِّدْنِي لَكَ وَلا تُفْسِدْ عِبِادَتِي بِالعُجْبِ
wa a'b-bid-ni laka wa-la tuf-sid i'bidati bil-u'j-b
Make me worship You and corrupt not my worship with self-admiration!
وَأَجْرِ لِلنَّاسِ عَلَى يَدَيَّ الْخَيْرَ وَلا تَمْحَقْهُ بِالْمَنِّ
wa aj-ri lin-nasi a'la yaday-yal-khayra wa-la tam-haq-hu bil-man-n
Let good flow out from my hands upon the people and efface it not by my making them feel obliged!
وَهَبْ لِي مَعَاِلي الأَخْلاَقِ
wa hab liya ma'ali-yal-akh-laq
Give me the highest moral traits
وَاعْصِمْنِي مِنَ الْفَخْرِ
wa a'-sim-ni minal-fakh-r
And preserve me from vainglory!
اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَّآلِهِ
allahumma sal-li a'la muhammadiw-wa a-lih
O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household,
وَلا تَرْفَعْنِي فِي النَّاسِ دَرَجَةً إِلا حَطَطْتَنِي عِندَ نَفْسِي مِثْلَهَا
wa la tar-fa'-ni fin-nasi darajatan il-la hatat-tani i'nda naf-si mith-laha
raise me not a single degree before the people without lowering me its like in myself
وَلا تُحْدِثْ لِي عِزّاً ظَاهِراً إِلاَّ أَحْدَثْتَ لِي ذِلَّةً بَاطِنَةً عِندَ نَفْسِي بِقَدَرِهَا
wa-la tuh-dith li i'z-zan zahiran il-la ah-dath-ta li dhil-latam batinatan i'nda naf-si biqadariha
And bring about no outward exaltation for me without an inward abasement in myself to the same measure!
اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلى مُحَمَّدٍ وَّآلِ مُحَمَّدٍ
allahumma sal-li a'la muhammadiw-wa a-li muhammad
O Allah, bless Muhammad and Muhammad's Household,
وَمَتِّعْنِي بِهُدَىً صَاِلحٍ لا أَسْتَبْدِلُ بِهِ،
wa mat-tia'-ni bihudan salihil-la as-tabdilu bih
give me to enjoy a sound guidance which I seek not to replace,
وَطَرِيقَةِ حَقٍّ لا أَزِيغُ عَنْهَا،
wa tariqati haq-qil-la azighu a'n-ha
a path of truth from which I swerve not,
وَنِيَّةِ رَشْدٍ لا أَشُكُّ فِيهَا
wa ni-yati rush-dil-la ashuk-ku fiha
And an intention of right conduct in which I have no doubts!
وَعَمِّرْنِي مَا كَانَ عُمْرِي بِذْلَةً فِي طَاعَتِكَ، فَإِذَا كَانَ عُمْرِي مَرْتَعاً لِلشَّيْطَانِ فَاقْبِضْنِي إِلَيْكَ، قَبْلَ أَن يَّسْبِقَ مَقْتُكَ إِلَيَّ، أَوْ يَسْتَحْكِمَ غَضَبُكَ عَلَيَّ
wa a'mmir-ni ma kana u'm-ri bidhlatan fi ta'tika fa-idha kana u'm-ri mar-ta'al-lish-shaytani faq-bizni ilayka qab-la ayyasbiqa maq-tuka ilay-ya aw yas-tah-kima ghazabuka a'lay-ya
Let me live as long as my life is a free gift in obeying You, but if my life should become a pasture for Satan, seize me to Yourself before Your hatred overtakes me or Your wrath against be becomes firm!
اللَّهُمَّ
allahumma
O Allah,
لا تَدَعْ خِصْلَةً تُعَابُ مِنِّي إِلاَّ أَصْلَحْتَهَا
la tada' khas-latan tua'abu min-ni il-la as-lah-taha
deposit in me no quality for which I will be faulted, unless You settest it right,
وَلا عَائِبَةً أُؤَنَّبُ بِهَا إِلاَّ حَسَّنتَهَا،
wa-la a'a-ibatan uan-nabu biha il-la has-santaha
no flaw for which I will be blamed, unless You makest it beautiful,
وَلا أُكْرُومَةً فِيَّ نَاقِصَةً إِلاَّ أَتْمَمْتَهَا
wa-la uk-rumatan fi-ya naqisatan il-la at-mam-taha
And no deficient noble trait, unless You completest it!
اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَّآلِ مُحَمَّدٍ
allahumma sal-li a'la muhammadiw-wa a-li muhammad
O Allah, bless Muhammad and Muhammad's Household,
وَأَبْدِلْنِي مِنْ بُغْضَةِ أَهْلِ الشَّنَانَ الْمَحَبَّةَ
wa abdil-ni mim bugh-zati ah-lish-shinanil-mahab-bah
and replace for me the animosity of the people of hatred with love,
وَمِنْ حَسَدِ أَهْلِ الْبَغْيِ الْمَوَدَّةَ،
wa min hasadi ah-lil-bagh-yil-mawad-dah
the envy of the people of insolence with affection,
وَمِن ظِنَّةِ أَهْلِ الصَّلاَحِ الثِّقَةَ،
wa min zin-nati ah-lis-salahith-thiqah
the suspicion of the people of righteousness with trust,
وَمِنْ عَدَاوَةِ الأَدْنَيْنَ الْوَلايَةَ،
wa min a'dawatil-ad-naynal-walayah
the enmity of those close with friendship,
وَمِنْ عُقُوقِ ذَوِي الأَرْحَامِ الْمَبَرَّةَ،
wa min u'quqi dhawil-ar-hamil-mabar-rah
the disrespect of womb relatives with devotion,
وَمِنْ خِذْلانِ الأَقْرَبِينَ النُّصْرَةَ،
wa min khidhlanil-aq-rabinan-nus-rah
the abandonment of relatives with help,
وَمِنْ حُبِّ الْمُدَارِينَ تَصْحِيحَ الْمِقَةِ،
wa min hub-bil-mudarina tas-hihal-miqah
the attachment of flatterers with love set right,
وَمِن رَّدِّ الْمُلاَبِسِينَ كَرَمَ الْعِشْرَةِ،
wa mir-rad-dil-mulabisina karamal-i'sh-rah
the rejection of fellows with generous friendliness,
وَمِن مَّرَارَةِ خَوْفِ الظَّالِمِينَ حَلاَوَةَ الأَمنَةَ
wa mim-mararati khaw-fiz-zalimina halawatal-amnah
And the bitterness of the fear of wrongdoers with the sweetness of security!
اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَّآلِهِ
allahumma sal-li a'la muhammadiw-wa a-lih
O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household,
وَاجْعَل لِّي يَداً عَلى مَن ظَلَمَنِي،
waj-a'l-li yadan a'la man zalamani
appoint for me a hand against him who wrongs me,
وَلِسَاناً عَلَى مَنْ خَاصَمَنِي،
wa lisanan a'la man khasamani
a tongue against him who disputes with me,
وَظَفَراً بِمَنْ عَانَدَنِي
wa zafaram biman a'anadani
And a victory over him who stubbornly resists me!
وَهَبْ لِي مَكْراً عَلَى مَن كَايَدَنِي،
wa hab li mak-ran a'la man kayadani
Give me guile against him who schemes against me,
وَقُدْرَةً عَلَى مَنِ اضْطَهَدَنِي،
wa qud-ratan a'la mani-ztahadani
power over him who oppresses me,
وَتَكْذِيباً لِمَن قَصَبَنِي،
wa tak-dhibal-liman qasabani
refutation of him who reviles me,
وَسَلاَمَةً مِّمَّن تَوَعَّدَنِي
wa salamatam-mimman tawa'-adani
And safety from him who threatens me!
وَوَفِّقْنِي لِطَاعَةِ مَن سَدَّدَنِي،
wa waf-fiq-ni lita'ti man sad-dadani
Grant me success to obey him who points me straight
وَمُتَابَعَةِ مَنْ أَرْشَدَنِي
wa mutaba'ti man ar-shadani
And follow him who guides me right!
اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَّآلِهِ
allahumma sal-li a'la muhammadiw-wa a-lih
O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household
وَسَدِّدْنِي لأَنْ
wa sad-did-ni li-an
and point me straight to
أُعَارِضَ مَنْ غَشَّنِي بِالنُّصْحِ،
ua'ariza man ghash-shani bin-nus-h
resist him who is dishonest toward me without counsel,
وَأَجْزِي مَنْ هَجَرَنِي بِالْبِرِّ،
wa aj-ziya man hajarani bil-bir-r
repay him who separates from me with gentle devotion,
وَأُثِيبَ مَنْ حَرَمَنِي بِالْبَذْلِ،
wa uthiba man haramani bil-badhli
reward him who deprives me with free giving,
وَأُكَافِئَ مَن قَطَعَنِي بِالصِّلَةِ،
wa ukafi-a man qata'ni bis-silah
recompense him who cuts me off with joining,
وَأُخَاِلفَ مَنْ اغْتَابَنِي إِلَى حُسْنِ الذِّكْرِ،
wa ukhalifa mangh-tabani ila hus-nidh-dhik-r
oppose him who slanders me with excellent mention,
وَأَنْ أَشْكُرَ الْحَسَنَةَ،
wa an ash-kural-hasanah
give thanks for good,
وَأُغْضِي عَنِ السَّيِّئَةِ
wa ugh-ziya a'nis-say-yiwah
And shut my eyes to evil!
اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلى مُحَمَّدٍ وَّآلِهِ
allahumma sal-li a'la muhammadiw-wa a-lih
O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household,
وَحَلِّنِي بِحِلْيَةِ الصَّاِلحِينَ
wa hal-lini bihil-yatis-salihin
adorn me with the adornment of the righteous,
وَأَلْبِسْنِي زِينَةَ المُتَّقِينَ فِي
wa al-bis-ni zinatal-mut-taqina fi
And clothe me in the ornaments of the god-fearing, through:
بَسْطِ الْعَدْلِ
bas-til-a'd-l
spreading justice,
وَكَظْمِ الْغَيْظِ
wa kazmil-ghayz
restraining rage,
وَإِطْفَاءِ النَّائِرَةِ
wa it-fa-in-na-irah
quenching the flame of hate,
وَضَمِّ أَهْلِ الْفُرْقَةِ
wa zammi ah-lil-fur-qah
bringing together the people of separation,
وَإِصْلاَحِ ذَاتِ الْبَيْنِ
wa is-lahi dhatil-bayn
correcting discord,
وَإِفْشِاءِ الْعَارِفَةِ
wa if-shia-il-a'arifah
spreading about good behavior,
وَسَتْرِ الْعَائِبَةِ
wa sat-ril-a'a-ibah
covering faults,
وَلِينِ الْعَرِيكَةِ
wa linil-a'rikah
mildness of temper,
وَخَفْضِ الْجَنَاحِ
wa khaf-zil-janah
lowering the wing,
وَحُسْنِ السِّيرَةِ
wa hus-nis-sirah
beauty of conduct,
وَسُكُونِ الرِّيحِ
wa sukunir-rih
gravity of bearing,
وَطِيبِ الْمُخَالَفَةِ
wa tibil-mukhalafah
agreeableness in comportment,
وَالسَّبْقِ إِلَى الْفَضِيلَةِ
was-sib-qi ilal-fazilah
precedence in reaching excellence,
وَإِيثَارِ التَّفَضُّلِ
wa itharit-tafaz-zul
preferring bounteousness,
وَتَرْكِ التَّعْيِيرِ
wa tar-kit-ta'-yir
refraining from condemnation,
وَالإِفْضَاِل عَلَى غَيْرِ الْمُسْتَحِقِّ
wal-if-zali a'la ghayril-mus-tahiq-q
bestowing bounty on the undeserving,
وَالْقَوْلِ بِالْحَقِّ وَإِنْ عَزَّ
wal-qaw-li bil-haq-qi wa in a'z-z
speaking the truth, though it be painful,
وَاسْتِقْلاَلِ الْخَيْرِ وَإِن كَثُرَ مِن قَوْلِي وَفِعْلِي
was-tiq-lalil-khayri wa in kathura min qaw-li wa fia'-li
making little of the good in my words and deeds, though it be much,
وَاسْتِكْثَارِ الْشَّرِ وَإِن قلَّ مِن قَوْلِي وَفِعْلِي
was-tik-tharish-shari wa in ql-la min qaw-li wa fia'-li
And making much of the evil in my words and deeds, though it be little!
وَأَكْمِلْ ذَلِكَ لِي
wa ak-mil dhalika li
Perfect this for me through
بِدَوَامِ الطَّاعَةِ،
bi-dawamit-ta'h
lasting obedience,
وَلُزُومِ الْجَمَاعَةِ،
wa luzumil-jama'h
holding fast to the community,
وَرَفْضِ أَهْلِ الْبِدَعِ، وَمُسْتَعْمِلِي الرَّأْيِ الْمُخْتَرَعِ
wa raf-zi ah-lil-bidai' wa mus-ta'-milir-ra-yil-mukh-tarai'
And rejecting the people of innovation and those who act in accordance with original opinions.
اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَّآلِهِ
allahumma sal-li a'la muhammadiw-wa a-lih
O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household,
وَاجْعَلْ أَوْسَعَ رِزْقِكَ عَلَيَّ إِذَا كَبِرْتُ،
waj-a'l aw-sa' rizqika a'lay-ya idha kabir-tu
appoint for me Your widest provision in my old age
وَأَقْوَى قُوَّتِكَ فِيَّ إِذَا نَصِبْتُ
wa aq-wa qu-watika fi-ya idha nasib-tu
And Your strongest strength when I am exhausted,
وَلا تَبْتَلِيَنِي بِالْكَسَلِ عَنْ عِبَادَتِكَ،
wa-la tab-tali-yani bil-kasali a'n i'badatika
And try me not with laziness in worship of You,
وَلا الْعَمى عَن سَبِيلِكَ،
wa lal-a'ma a'n sabilik
blindness toward Your path,
وَلا بِالتَّعَرُّضِ لِخِلاَفِ مَحَبَّتِكَ،
wa-la bit-ta'r-ruzi li-khilafi mahab-batika
undertaking what opposes love for You,
وَلا مُجَامَعَةِ مَن تَفَرَّقَ عَنْكَ،
wa-la mujama't man tafar-raqa a'nk
joining with him who has separated himself from You,
وَلا مُفَارَقَةِ مَنِ اجْتَمَعَ إِلَيْكَ
wa-la mufaraqat manij-tama' ilayk
And separating from him who has joined himself to You!
اللَّهُمَّ اجْعَلْنِي أَصُولُ بِكَ عِندَ الضَّرُورَةِ،
allahummaj-a'l-ni asulu bika i'ndaz-zarurah
O Allah, make me leap to You in times of distress,
وَأَسْألُكَ عِندَ الْحَاجَةِ،
wa as-aluka i'ndal-hajah
ask from You in needs,
وَأَتَضَرَّعُ إِلَيْكَ عِندَ الْمَسْكَنَةِ
wa atazar-rau' ilayka i'ndal-mas-kanah
And plead to You in misery!
وَلا تَفْتِنِّي بِالإِسْتِعَانَةِ بِغَيْرِكَ إِذَا اضْطُرِرْتُ،
wa-la taf-tin-ni bil-is-tia'anati bighayrika idhazturir-tu
Tempt me not to seek help from other than You when I am distressed,
وَلا بِالْخُضُوعِ لِسُؤَاِل غَيْرِكَ إِذَا افْتَقَرْتُ،
wa-la bil-khuzui' li-suali ghayrika idhaf-taqar-tu
to humble myself in asking from someone else when I am poor,
وَلا بِالتَّضَرُّعِ إِلَى مَن دُونِكَ إِذَارَهِبْتُ
wa-la bit-tazar-rui' ila man dunaka idharahib-tu
or to plead with someone less than You when I fear,
فَأَسْتَحِقُّ بِذَلِكَ خِذْلانَكَ وَمَنْعَكَ وَإِعْرَاضَكَ
fas-tahiq-qu bidhlika khidhlanaka wa man-a'ka wa ia'-razak
for then I would deserve Your abandonment, Your withholding, and Your turning away,
يَا أَرْحَمَ الرَّاحَمِينَ
ya ar-hamar-rahamin
O Most Merciful of the merciful!
اللَّهُمَّ اجْعَلْ مَا يُلْقِي الشَّيْطَانُ فِي رَوْعِي منِ التَّمَنِّي وَالتَّظَنِّي وَالْحَسَدِذِكْراً لِعَظَمَتِكَ، وَتَفَكُّراً فِي قُدْرَتِكَ، وَتَدْبِيراً عَلَى عَدُوِّكَ،
allahummaj-a'l ma yul-qish-shaytanu fi raw-e'e mint-taman-ni wat-tazan-ni wal-hasadidhik-ral-li-a'zamatika wa tafak-kuran fi qud-ratika wa tad-biran a'la a'du-wika
O Allah, make the wishing, the doubt, and the envy which Satan throws into my heart a remembrance of Your mightiness, a reflection upon Your power, and a devising against Your enemy!
وَمَا أَجْرَى عَلَى لِسَانِى مِن لَّفْظَةِ فُحْشٍ أَوْ هَجْرٍ أَوْ شَتْمِ عِرْضٍ أَوْ شَهَادَةِ بَاطِلٍ أَوِ اغْتِيَابِ مُؤْمِنٍ غَائِبٍ أَوْ سَبِّ حَاضِرٍ أَوْ مَا أَشْبَهَ ذَلِكَ،
wa ma aj-ra a'la li-sani mil-laf-zati fuh-shin aw haj-rin aw shat-mi i'r-zin aw shahadati batilin awigh-tiyabi mu-minin gha-ibin aw sab-bi hazirin aw ma ash-baha dhalika
Make everything he causes to pass over my tongue - the indecent or ugly words, the maligning of good repute, the false witness, the speaking ill of an absent man of faith, or the reviling of one present, and all things similar—
نُطْقاً بِالْحَمْدِ لَكَ،
nut-qam bial-ham-di lak
a speech in praise of You,
وَإِغْرَاقاً فِي الثَّنَاءِ عَلَيْكَ
wa igh-raqan fith-thana-i a'ilayk
a pursual of eulogizing You,
وَذَهَاباً فِي تَمْجِيدِكَ
wa dhahaban fi tam-jidik
an excursion in magnifying You,
وَشُكْراً لِّنِعْمَتِكَ
wa shuk-ral-linia'-matik
a thanksgiving for Your favour,
وَاعْتِرَافاً بِإِحْسَانِكَ
wa a'-tirafam biih-sanik
an acknowledgment of Your beneficence,
وَإِحْصَاءاً لِّمِنَنِكَ
wa ih-sa-al-li-minanik
And an enumeration of Your kindness!
اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَّآلِهِ
allahumma sal-li a'la muhammadiw-wa a-lih
O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household,
وَلا أُظْلَمَنَّ وَأَنتَ مُطِيقٌ لِّلدَّفْعِ عَنِّي
wa-la uzlaman-na wa anta mutiqul-lid-daf-i' a'n-ni
let me not be wronged, while You canst repel from me,
وَلا أَظْلِمَنَّ وَأَنتَ الْقَادِرُ عَلى الْقَبْضِ مِنِّي
wa-la azliman-na wa antal-qadiru a'lil-qab-zi min-ni
let me not do wrong, while You are powerful over holding me back,
وَلا أَضِلَّنَّ وَقَدْ أَمْكَنَتْكَ هِدَايَتِي
wa-la azil-lan-na wa qad am-kanat-ka hidayati
let me not be misguided, while You are able to guide me,
وَلا أَفْتَقِرَنَّ وَمِنْ عِندِكَ وُسْعِي
wa-la af-taqiran-na wa min i'ndika wus-e'e
let me not be poor, while with You is my plenty,
وَلا أَطْغَيَنَّ وَمِنْ عِندِكَ وُجْدِي
wa-la at-ghayan-na wa min i'ndika wuj-di
let me not be insolent, while from You comes my wealth!
اللَّهُمَّ
allahumma
O Allah,
إِلَى مَغْفِرَتِكَ وَفَدتُّ
ila magh-firatika wafad-tu
I come to Your forgiveness,
وَإِلَى عَفْوِكَ قَصَدتُّ
wa ila a'f-wika qasad-tu
I go straight to Your pardon,
وَإِلَى تَجَاوُزِكَ اشْتَقْتُ
wa ila taja-wuzikash-taq-tu
I yearn for Your forbearance,
وَبِفَضْلِكَ وَثِقْتُ
wa bi-fazlika wathiq-tu
And I trust in Your bounty,
وَلَيْسَ عِندِي مَا يُوجِبُ لِي مَغْفِرَتَكَ
wa laysa i'ndi ma yujibu li magh-firatak
but there is nothing with me to make me warrant but Your forgiveness,
وَلا فِي عَمَلِي مَا أَسْتَحِقُّ بِهِ عَفْوَكَ
wa-la fi a'mali ma as-tahiq-qu bihi a'f-wak
nothing in my works to make me merit but Your pardon,
وَمَا لِي بَعْدَ أَنْ حَكَمْتُ عَلَى نَفْسِي إلاَّ فَضْلُكَ
wa ma li ba'-da an hakam-tu a'la naf-si il-la fazluka
And nothing on my behalf after I judge my soul but Your bounty,
فَصَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَّآلِهِ
fa-sal-li a'la muhammadiw-wa a-lihi
O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household
وَتَفَضَّلْ عَلَيَّ اللَّهُمَّ
wa tafaz-zal a'layil allahumma
O Allah, bestow Your bounty upon me!
وَأَنطِقْنِي بِالْهُدَى
wa antiq-ni bial-huda
make my speech be guidance,
وَأَلْهِمْنِي التِّقْوَى
wa al-him-nit-tiq-wa
inspire me with reverential fear,
وَوَفِّقْنِي للَّتِي هِي أَزْكَى
wa waf-fiq-ni lil-lati hiya azka
give me success in that which is most pure,
وَاسْتَعْمِلْنِي بِمَا هُوَ أَرْضَى
was-ta'-mil-ni bima huwa ar-za
And employ me in what is most pleasing to You!
اللَّهُمَّ اسْلُكْ بِي الطَّرِيقَةَ الْمُثْلَى
allahummas-luk bi-yat-tariqatal-muth-la
O Allah, let me tread the most exemplary path
وَاجْعَلْنِي عَلَى مِلَّتِكَ أَمُوتُ وَأَحْيَا
waj-a'l-ni a'la mil-latika amutu wa ah-ya
And make me live and die in Your creed!
اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَّآلِهِ
allahumma sal-li a'la muhammadiw-wa a-lih
O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household,
وَمَتِّعْنِي بِالإقْتِصَادِ
wa mat-tia'-ni bil-iq-tisad
give me to enjoy moderation,
وَاجْعَلْنِي مِنْ أَهْلِ السَّدَادِ،
waj-a'l-ni min ah-lis-sadad
make me into one of the people of right behavior,
وَمِنْ أَدِلَّةِ الرَّشَادِ،
wa min adil-latir-rashad
the proofs of right conduct,
وَمِن صَاِلحِي الْعِبَادِ
wa min salihil-i'bad
And the servants of righteousness,
وَارْزُقْنِي فَوْزَ الْمَعَادِ،
war-zuq-ni fawzal-ma'adi
And provide me with triumph at the place of Return
وَسَلاَمَةَ الْمِرْصَادِ
wa salamatal-mir-sad
And safety from the Ambush!
اللَّهُمَّ
allahumma
O Allah,
خُذْ لِنَفْسِكَ مِن نَّفْسِي مَا يُخَلِّصُهَا
khudh linaf-sika min-naf-si ma yukhal-lisuha
take to Yourself from my soul what will purify it
وَأَبْقِ لِنَفْسِي مِن نَّفْسِي مَا يُصْلِحُهَا،
wa ab-qi linaf-si min-naf-si ma yus-lihuha
And leave for my soul that of my soul that will set it right,
فَإِنَّ نَفْسِي هَاِلكَةً أَوْ تَعْصِمَهَا
fa-in-na naf-si halikatun aw ta'-simaha
for my soul will perish unless You preservest it!
اللَّهُمَّ
allahumma
O Allah,
أَنتَ عُدَّتِي إِنْ حَزِنتُ
anta u'd-dati in hazintu
You are my stores when I sorrow,
وَأَنتَ مُنتَجَعِي إِنْ حُرِمْتُ
wa anta muntajae'e in hurim-tu
You are my recourse when I am deprived,
وَبِكَ اسْتِغَاثَتِي إِن كُرِثْتُ
wa bikas-tigha-thati in kurith-tu
from You I seek aid when troubled
وَعِندَكَ مِمَّا فَاتَ خَلَفٌ،
wa i'ndaka mimma fata khalaf
and with You is a substitute for everything gone by,
وَلِمَا فَسَدَ صَلاَحٌ،
wa lima fasada salah
a correction for everything corrupted,
وَفِيمَا أَنكَرْتَ تَغْيِيرٌ
wa fima ankar-ta tagh-yir
a change from everything You is approvest.
فَامْنُنْ عَلَيَّ قَبْلَ الْبَلاءِ بِالْعَافِيَةِ،
fam-nun a'lay-ya qab-lal-bala-i bil-a'afi-yah
So show kindness to me with well-being before affliction,
وَقَبْلَ الطَّلَبِ بِالْجِدَةِ،
wa qab-lat-talabi bial-jidah
wealth before asking,
وَقَبْلَ الضَّلاَلِ بِالرَّشَادِ
wa qab-laz-zalali bilr-rashad
right conduct before misguidance;
وَاكْفِنِي مَؤُونَةَ مَعَرَّةِ الْعِبَادِ
wak-fini ma’unata ma'r-ratil-i'badi
suffice me against the burden of shame toward the servants,
وَهَبْ لِي أَمْنَ يَوْمِ الْمَعَادِ
wa hab liya am-na yaw-mil-ma'ad
give me security on the Day of Return,
وَامْنَحْنِي حُسْنَ الإِرْشَادِ
wam-nah-ni hus-nal-ir-shad
And grant me excellent right guidance!
اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَّآلِهِ
allahumma sal-li a'la muhammadiw-wa a-lih
O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household,
وَادْرَأْْ عَنِّي بِلُطْفِكَ
wad-ra a'n-ni bi-lut-fik
repel from me through Your gentleness,
وَاغْذُنِي بِنِعْمَتِكَ
wagh-dhuni binia'-matik
feed me through Your favour,
وَأَصْلِحْنِي بِكَرَمِكَ
wa as-lih-ni bikaramik
set me right through Your generosity,
وَدَاوِنِي بِصُنعِكَ
wa dawini bisuni'k
heal me through Your benefaction,
وَأَظِلَّنِي فِي ذَرَاكَ
wa azil-lani fi dharak
shade me in Your shelter,
وَجَلِّلْنِي رِضَاكَ
wa jal-lil-ni rizak
wrap me in Your good pleasure,
وَوَفِّقْنِي إِذَا اشْتَكَلَتْ عَلَيَّ الأُمُورُ لأَهْدَاهَا،
wa waf-fiq-ni idhash-takalat a'lay-yal-umuru li-ah-daha
And give me success to reach the most guided of affairs when affairs confuse me,
وَإِذَا تَشَابَهَتِ الأَعْمَالُ لأَزْكَاهَا
wa idha tasha-bahatil-a'-malu li-azkaha
the purest of works when works seem similar,
وَإِذَا تَنَاقَضَتِ المِلَلُ لأَرْضَاهَا
wa idha tanaqazatil-milalu li-ar-zaha
and the most pleasing to You of creeds when creeds conflict!
اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَّآلِهِ
allahumma sal-li a'la muhammadiw-wa a-lih
O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household,
وَتَوِّجْنِي بِالْكِفَايَةِ
wa taw-wij-ni bil-kifayah
crown me with sufficiency,
وَسُمْنِي حُسْنَ الْوِلاَيةِ
wa sum-ni hus-nal-wilayah
place in me excellent guardianship
وَهَبْ لِي صِدْقَ الْهِدَايَةِ
wa hab li sid-qal-hidayah
give me to guide correctly ,
وَلا تَفْتِنِّي بِالسَّعَةِ
wa-la taf-tin-ni bis-sa'ah
tempt me not with plenty,
وَامْنَحْنِي حُسْنَ الدَّعَةِ
wam-nah-ni hus-nad-da'ah
grant me excellent ease,
وَلا تَجْعَلْ عَيْشِي كَداًّ كَداًّ
wa-la taj-a'l a'yshi kad-dan kad-da
make not my life toil and trouble,
وَلا تَرُدَّ دُعَائِي عَلَيَّ رَدّاً
wa-la tarud-da dua'a-i a'lay-ya rad-da
And refuse not my supplication in rejection,
فَإِنِّي لا أَجْعَلُ لَكَ ضِدّاً
fa-in-ni la aj-a'lu laka zid-da
for I make none rival to You
وَلا أَدْعُو مَعَكَ نِدّاً
wa-la ad-o'o ma'ka nid-da
And I supplicate none with You as equal!
اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَّآلِهِ
allahumma sal-li a'la muhammadiw-wa a-lih
O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household,
وَامْنَعْنِي مِنَ السَّرَفِ
wam-na'-ni minas-saraf
hold me back from prodigality,
وَحَصِّن رِّزْقِي مِنَ التَّلَفِ
wa has-sir-rizqi minat-talaf
fortify my provision against ruin,
وَوَفِّرْ مَلَكَتِي بِالْبَرَكَةِ فِيهِ
wa waf-fir malakati bil-barakati fih
increase my possessions through blessing them,
وَأَصِبْ بِي سَبِيلَ الْهِدَايَةِ لِلْبِرِّ فِيمَا أُنفِقُ مِنْهُ
wa asib bi sabilal-hidayati lil-bir-ri fima unfiqu minh
And set me upon the path of guidance through piety in what I spend!
اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَّآلِهِ
allahumma sal-li a'la muhammadiw-wa a-lih
O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household,
وَاكْفِنِي مَؤُونَةَ الإكْتِسَابِ،
wak-fini ma’unatal-ik-tisab
And spare me the burden of earning,
وَارْزُقْنِي مِنْ غَيْرِ احْتِسَابٍ
warzuq-ni min ghayrih-tisab
provide for me without reckoning,
فَلا أَشْتَغِلَ عَنْ عِبَادَتِكَ بِالطَّلَبِ،
fa-la ash-taghila a'n i'badatika bit-talab
lest I be distracted from Your worship through seeking
وَلا أَحْتَمِلَ إِصْرَ تَبِعَاتِ الْمَكْسَبِ
wa-la ah-tamila is-ra tabia'atil-mak-sab
And carry the load of earning's ill results!
اللَّهُمَّ
allahumma
O Allah,
فَأَطْلِبْنِي بِقُدْرَتِكَ مَا أَطْلُبُ
fa-t-lib-ni bi-qud-ratika ma at-lubu
bestow upon me what I seek through Your power
وَأَجِرْنِي بِعِزَّتِكَ مِمَّا أَرْهَبُ
wa ajir-ni bi-i'z-zatika mim-ma ar-hab
And grant me sanctuary from what I fear through Your might!
اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَّآلِهِ
allahumma sal-li a'la muhammadiw-wa a-lih
O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household,
وَصُن وَّجْهِي بِالْيَسَارِ،
wa suw-waj-hiya bil-yasar
save my face through ease,
وَلا تَبْتَذِلْ جَاهِي بِالإِقْتَارِ
wa-la tab-tadhil jahi bi-liq-tar
And demean not my dignity through neediness,
فَأَسْتَرْزِقَ أَهْلَ رِزْقِكَ،
fa-as-tarziqa ah-la rizqik
lest I seek provision from those whom You hast provided
وَأَسْتَعْطِي شِرَارَ خَلْقِكَ
wa as-ta'-ti shirara khal-qik
And ask for bestowal from the worst of Your creatures!
فَأَفْتَتِنَ بِحَمْدِ مَنْ أَعْطَانِي،
fa-af-tatina biham-di man a'-tani
And Then I would be tried by praising him who gave to me
وَأُبْتَلي بِذَمِّ مَن مَّنَعَنِي
wa ub-tala bidhammi mam-mana'ni
afflicted with blaming him who held back from me,
وَأَنتَ مِن دُونِهِمْ وَلِيُّ الإِعْطَاءِ وَالْمَنْعِ
wa anta min dunihim wali-yul-ia'-ta-i wal-man-i'
While You— not they— art patron of giving and holding back
اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَّآلِهِ
allahumma sal-li a'la muhammadiw-wa a-lih
O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household
وَارْزُقْنِي صِحَّةً فِي عِبَادَةٍ،
warzuq-ni sih-hatan fi i'badah
And provide me with soundness in worship,
وَفَرَاغاً فِي زَهَادَةٍ،
wa faraghan fi zahadah
detachment in renunciation,
وَعِلْماً فِي اسْتِعْمَالٍ،
wa i'l-man fis-tia'-mal
knowledge put into action,
وَوَرَعاً فِي إِجْمَالٍ
wa wara'an fi ij-mal
And abstinence in measure!
اللَّهُمَّ اخْتِم بِعَفْوِكَ أَجَلِي
allahummakh-tim bia'f-wika ajali
O Allah, seal my term with Your pardon,
وَحَقِّقْ فِي رَجَاءِ رَحْمَتِكَ أَمَلِي
wa haq-qiq fi raja-i rah-matika amali
verify my expectation in hoping for thy mercy,
وَسَهِّلْ إِلَى بُلُوغِ رِضَاكَ سُبُلِي
wa sah-hil ila bulughi rizaka subuli
smooth my paths to reach Your good pleasure,
وَحَسِّن فِي جَمِيعِ أَحْوَاِلي عَمَلِي
wa has-sin fi jamii' ah-wali a'mali
And make my works good in all my states!
اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَّآلِهِ
allahumma sal-li a'la muhammadiw-wa a-lih
O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household,
وَنَبِّهْنِي لِذِكْرِكَ فِي أَوْقَاتِ الْغَفْلَةِ
wa nab-bih-ni lidhik-rika fi aw-qatil-ghaf-lah
Incite me to remember You in times of heedlessness,
وَاسْتَعْمِلْنِي بِطَاعَتِكَ في أَيَّامِ الْمُهْلَةِ
was-ta'-mil-ni bita'tika fi ay-yamil-muh-lah
employ me in Your obedience in days of disregard,
وَانْهَجْ لِي إِلَى مَحَبَّتِكَ سَبِيلاً سَهْلَةً
wan-haj li ila mahab-batika sabilan sah-lah
open a smooth road for me to Your love,
أَكْمِلْ لِي بِهَا خَيْرَ الدُّنيَا وَالآخِرَةِ
ak-milu li biha khayrad-dunyawal-a-khirah
And complete for me thereby the good of this world and the next!
اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَّآلِهِ كَأَفْضَلِ مَا صَلَّيْتَ عَلَى أَحَدٍ مِّنْ خَلْقِكَ قَبْلَهُ وَأَنتَ مُصَلٍّ عَلى أَحَدٍ بَعْدَهُ
allahumma sal-li a'la muhammadiw-wa a-lihi ka-af-zali ma sal-layta a'la ahadim min khal-qika qab-lahu wa anta musal-lin a'la ahadim-ba'-dah
O Allah, and bless Muhammad and his Household the best You hast blessed any of Your creatures before him and wilt bless any of them after him,
وَآتِنَا فِي الدُّنْيَا حَسَنَةً وَّفِي الآخِرَةِ حَسَنَةً
wa a-tina fid-dunya hasanataw-wa fil-a-khirati hasanah
And give to us in this world good, and in the next world good,
وَقِنِي بِرَحْمَتِكَ عَذَابَ النَّارِ
wa qini birah-matika a'dhaban-nar
And protect me through Your mercy from the chastisement of the Fire!
إِنَّكَ عَلَى كُلِّ شَيٍْء قَدِيرٌ، وَهُوَ عَلَيْكَ يَسِيرٌ
in-naka a'la kul-li shay-in qadiruw-wahua a'ilayka yasir
You are powerful over everything, and that is easy for You!
Ameen summa Ameen summa Ameen...
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Bewafa Shayari, Dil se roye
Category: Bewafa Shayari, Dard Shayari, Sad
Shayari, Yaad Shayari
दिल से रोये मगर होंठो से मुस्कुरा बेठे,यूँ ही हम किसी से वफ़ा निभा बेठे,वो हमे एक लम्हा न दे पाए अपने प्यार का,और हम उनके लिये जिंदगी लुटा बेठे!
Dil se roye magar honto se muskura beithe,yunhi hum kisi se wafa nibha beithe,wo hame ek lamha na de paye apne pyar ka,aur hum unke liye apni zindagi gawa beithe.
Sad Shayari, Gujarish hamari
Category: Bewafa Shayari, Dard Shayari, Sad
Shayari, Yaad Shayari
गुजारिश हमारी वह मान न सके,मज़बूरी हमारी वह जान न सके,कहते हैं मरने के बाद भी याद रखेंगे,जीते जी जो हमें पहचान न सके.
Gujarish hamari woh maan na sake,Majburi hamari woh jaan na sake,Kehte hain marne ke baad bhi yaad rakhenge,Jeete ji jo hame pehchan na sake.
Sad Shayari, Pyar kya hota hai
Category: Bewafa Shayari, Dard Shayari, Sad
Shayari, Yaad Shayari
प्यार क्या होता है हम नहीं जानते,ज़िन्दगी को हम अपना नहीं मानते,गम इतने मील के एहसास नहीं होता,कोई हमें प्यार करे अब विश्वास नहीं होता.
Pyar kya hota hai hum nahi jante,Zindagi ko hum apna nahi mante,Gum itne mile ke ehsaas nahi hota,Koi hume pyar kare ab vishwas nahi hota.
Sad Shayari, Kashish toh bahut hai
Category: Bewafa Shayari, Dard Shayari, Sad
Shayari, Yaad Shayari
कशिश तोह बहुत है मेरे प्यार मैं,लेकिन कोई है पत्थर दिल जो पिघलाता नहीं,अगर मिले खुद तो माँगूंगी उसको,सुना है ख़ुदा मरने से पहले मिलते नहीं.
Kashish toh bahut hai mere pyar mai,Lekin koi hai pathar dil jo pigalta nahi,Agar mile khuda to mangungi usko,Suna hai khuda marne se pehle milte nahi.
Sad Shayari, Sukun apne dilka
Category: Bewafa Shayari, Dard Shayari, Sad
Shayari, Yaad Shayari
सुकून अपने दिलका मैंने खो दिया,खुद को तन्हाई के समंदर मे डुबो दिया,जो थी मेरे कभी मुस्कराने की वजह,आज उसकी कमी ने मेरी पलकों को भिगो दिया.
Sukun apne dilka maine kho diya,Khud ko tanhai ke samandar mai dubo diya,Jo thi mere kabhi muskrane ki wajah,Aaj uski kami ne meri palko ko bhigo diya.
Sad Shayari, Na milataa gam to
Category: Bewafa Shayari, Dard Shayari, Sad
Shayari, Yaad Shayari
ना मिलता गम तो बर्बादी के अफसाने कहाँ जाते,दुनिया अगर होती चमन तो वीराने कहाँ जाते,चलो अच्छा हुआ अपनों में कोई ग़ैर तो निकला,सभी अगर अपने होते तो बेगाने कहाँ जाते।
Na milataa gam to barabaadi ke afasaane kahaan jaate,agar duniyaa hoti chaman to viraane kahaan jaate,chalo achchhaa huaa apano me koi gair to nikalaa,sabhi agar apane hote to begaane kahaan jaate!
Sad Shayari, Aap se door ho kar
Category: Bewafa Shayari, Dard Shayari, Sad
Shayari, Yaad Shayari
Aap se door ho kar hum jayenge kaha,Aap jaisa dost hum payenge kaha,Dil ko kaise bhi sambhal lenge,Par aankho ke aansu hum chupayege kaha.
आप से दूर हो कर हम जायेंगे कहा,आप जैसा दोस्त हम पाएंगे कहा,दिल को कैसे भी संभाल लेंगे,पर आँखों के आंसू हम छुपायेंगे कहा.
Sad Shayari, Tere Dil Ke Kareeb
Category: Bewafa Shayari, Dard Shayari, Sad
Shayari, Yaad Shayari
तेरे दिल के करीब आना चाहता हूँ मैं,तुझको नहीं और अब खोना चाहता हूँ मैं,अकेले इस तनहाई का दर्द बर्दाश्त नहीं होता,तू एक बार आजा तुझसे लिपट कर रोना चाहता हूँ मैं..
Tere Dil Ke Kareeb Aana Chahta Hoon Main,Tujhko Nahi Aur Ab Khona Chahta Hoon Main,Akele Iss Tanhayi Ka Dard Bardast Nahi Hota,Tu Ek Bar Aaja Tujhse Lipat Kar Rona Chahta Hoon Main.
Sad Shayari, Ulfat ka aksar yahi dastur
Category: Bewafa Shayari, Dard Shayari, Sad
Shayari, Yaad Shayari
उल्फत का अक्सर यही दस्तूर होता है,जिसे चाहो वही अपने से दूर होता है,दिल टूटकर बिखरता है इस कदर,जैसे कोई कांच का खिलौना चूर-चूर होता है!
Ulfat ka aksar yahi dastur hota hai.Jise chaho wahi humse dur keyo hota hai.Dil tut kar keyo bikharta hai is kadar.Jaise kanch ka khilauna chur chur hota hai.
Sad Shayari, Hum Simate gaye
Category: Bewafa Shayari, Dard Shayari, Sad
Shayari, Yaad Shayari
हम सिमटते गए उनमें और वो हमें भुलाते गए..हम मरते गए उनकी बेरुखी से, और वो हमें आजमाते गए ..सोचा की मेरी बेपनाह मोहब्बत देखकर सीख लेंगी वफाएँ करना ..पर हम रोते गए और वो हमें खुशी-खुशी रुलाते गए..!
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Thought
Kal Halki Si Barsaat Mein Ho Gayi Mulaakat Unse,
Nazron Ki Shabnam Ne Jaise Kar Li Ho Har Baat Unse,
Unki Aankhon Mein Thi Aisi Kashish Ke Kya Kahein,
Mere Jism Ke Rom Rom Ne Kar Li Mohabbat Unse,
Masoom Hai Kuch Is Qadar Unki Chhuwan Ka Ehsaas,
Aakhir Ek Mod Par Kar Li Meri Haya Ne Hararat Unse,
Palkon Ke Parde Mein Karwat Leti Thi Kuch Paak Khataye,
Meri Muskurahat Ne Kar Hi Li Ho Jaise Shararat Unse,
Gaane Lagi Unki Khamoshi Kuch Aise Haseen Nagme,
Sambhle Na Jaate The Shayad Apne Khayalaat Unse,
Lamhe judai ke bekarar karte hain
haalat mere mujhe laachar karte hain
aankhe meri pad lo kabhi
ham khud kaise kahe ki aapse pyar karte hain…
Dil ki tadap ko kaise lafjo mein bayan karoon,
Teri yaad ko kaise apne dil se juda karoon,
Dil hi dil mein tujhko apna bana liya maine,
Tujh bin guzara kaise main mere meherba karoon…
Haal dekh kar mera khuda bhi tadap jayega,
Jab bhi hogi bewaffai ki baat nujhe bhi koi bhoola yaad aayega,
Are apno ne kya kami rakhi jo ab koi anjan sitam dhayega,
Mat chu palkon ko Hai itna dard isme ke tera daaman bheeg jayega.
Kabhi kabhi in ankhon me nami si hoti hai.
Kabhi kabhi in hoton pe hasi si hoti hai.
E dost wo tum hi ho, jis se meri jindagi zinda dil hoti hai
photograph of the school from outside. More than 300 students study at the school. Ehsaas School is a co-ed with roughly the same number of boys and girls studying there. The school currently has 17 teachers on its staff out of which only two are qualified to teach grades 9 and 10. The estimated expenditure of the school is around Rs. 1 Lakh (1800 USD) per month, this includes the teachers' pay that comes to around Rs. 74,000 (1250 USD). Under the earth quake relief program, government has exempt the school and the dispensary from paying electricity bills till the end of the year 2007. The school expenditure will go up next year. The school currently has the following immediate needs -
1. Furniture - as you can see, none of the classes have any furniture, students have to sit on the floor mats. About 500 benches and desks are required
2. There aren't sufficient funds to build a science lab, the students as a result have little chance of doing well in metric (10th grade) exams where lab work is a required part of the curricula.
3. School staff expressed the need to make the school an intermediate school as it is very hard for parents to send their kids (especially girls) to the city for intermediate education as the closest college is several miles away.
4. There is also a need for more teachers for grades 9 and 10.
तू मिला है तो ये एहसास हुआ है मुझको
ये मेरी उम्र मोहब्बत के लिए थोड़ी है
एक ज़रा सा ग़म-इ-दौरान का भी हक है जिस पर
मैंने वो सांस भी तेरे लिए रख छोड़ी है
तुझ पे हो जाऊँगा कुर्बान तुझे चाहूँगा
मैं तो मरकर भी मेरी जान तुझे चाहूँगा
अपने जज़्बात में नगमात रचाने के किये
मैंने धड़कन की तरह दिल में बसाया है तुझे
मैं तसव्वुर भी जुदाई का भला कैसे करून?
मैंने किस्मत की लकीरों से चुराया है तुझे
प्यार का बनके निगेहबान तुझे चाहूंगा
मैं तो मरकर भी मेरी जान तुझे चाहूंगा
तेरी हर चाप से जलते हैं खायालूँ में चिराग
जब भी तू आये जगाता हुआ जादू आये
तुझको छूलूं तो ए जान-इ-तमन्ना मुझको
देर तक अपने बदन से तेरी खुशबू आये
तू बहारों का है उन्वान तुझे चाहूंगा
मैं तो मरकर भी मेरी जान तुझे चाहूंगा
zindagi mein to sabhi pyaar kiya karte hain
main to markar bhi meri jaan tujhe chahoonga
tu mila hai to ye ehsaas huaa hai mujhko
ye meri umr mohabbat ke liye thhodi hai
ek zara sa ghum-e-dauraan ka bhi haq hai jis par
maine wo saans bhi tere liye rakh chhodi hai
tujh pe ho jaaoonga qurban tujhe chahoonga
main to markar bhi meri jaan tujhe chaahoonga
apne jazbaat mein naghmaat rachaane ke liye
maine dhadkan ki tarah dil mein basaaya hai tujhe
main tasavvur bhi judaai ka bhala kaise karoon?
maine kismat ki lakeeron se churaaya hai tujhe
pyar ka banke nigehbaan tujhe chaahoonga
main to markar bhi meri jaan tujhe chaahoonga
teri har chaap se jalte hain khayaalon mein chiraag
jab bhi tu aaye jagaata huaa jaadu aaye
tujhko chhulun to aye jaan-e-tamanna mujhko
dair tak apne badan se teri khushboo aaye
tu bahaaron ka hai unwaan tujhe chaahoonga
main to marrkar bhi meri jaan tujhe chaaoounga….
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Jab tak bika na tha to koi poochta na tha,
Tune mujhe khareed ke anmol kar diya..
Main toh bik jaun tere naam pe maut ki tarah,
Tu kabhi kharidar to ban, is zingadi ke bazaar mein..
Suna hai aaj bik raha hai ishq baazaar mein,
koi unse pooche kya wafa bhi saath dete ho..
Hum ne tere baad na rakhi kisi se mohabbat ki aas;
Ek shakhs hi bahut tha, jo sub kuch sikha gaya.
Woh khud par garoor karte hai, to isme hairat ki koi baat nahi.
Jinhe hum chahte hai, woh aam ho hi nahi sakte.
Hum bhi bikne gaye the bazaar-e-ishq mein,
Kya pata tha wafa karne walon ko log khareeda nahi karte.
Tamam umr usi ke khayal mein guzar gayi,
Jise umr bhar mera khayal na aaya..
Koi batayega kaise dafnate hain unko,
Woh khwab jo dil mein hi mar jate hain..
Usne kaha tha aankhen bhar ke dekha kar mujhe,
Yaaron ab aankhen to bhar aati hai par vo nahi dekhte..
Main bhi kabhi hasta khelta tha
kal ek purani tasveer mein dekha tha khud ko..
Odh kar mitti ki chadar benishan ho jayenge,,
Ek din aayega hum bhi dastaan ho jayenge..
Raat shama bujha ke bahut der tak mehfil sajai humne,
Main apne dil ke liye rota raha aur yeh dil tere liye..
Seekh jao waqt par kisiki chahat ki qadar karna,
Kahin koi thak na jaye tumhein ehsaas dilate dilate..
Na tha koi hamara na ham kisi ke hain,
Bus ek Khuda hai aur hum usi ke hain..
Shohrat to janaze ke din pata chalegi,
Daulat to koi bhi kama leta hai..
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I AM RAJESH MISHRA MY HOME ADD.TAGORE TOWE ALLAHABAD PIN 211002,
AND MY WORK ADD. PRIDE SYSTEM LTD. KAROLBAGH NEW DELHI PIN 110005
Thought
Kal Halki Si Barsaat Mein Ho Gayi Mulaakat Unse,
Nazron Ki Shabnam Ne Jaise Kar Li Ho Har Baat Unse,
Unki Aankhon Mein Thi Aisi Kashish Ke Kya Kahein,
Mere Jism Ke Rom Rom Ne Kar Li Mohabbat Unse,
Masoom Hai Kuch Is Qadar Unki Chhuwan Ka Ehsaas,
Aakhir Ek Mod Par Kar Li Meri Haya Ne Hararat Unse,
Palkon Ke Parde Mein Karwat Leti Thi Kuch Paak Khataye,
Meri Muskurahat Ne Kar Hi Li Ho Jaise Shararat Unse,
Gaane Lagi Unki Khamoshi Kuch Aise Haseen Nagme,
Sambhle Na Jaate The Shayad Apne Khayalaat Unse,
Lamhe judai ke bekarar karte hain
haalat mere mujhe laachar karte hain
aankhe meri pad lo kabhi
ham khud kaise kahe ki aapse pyar karte hain…
Dil ki tadap ko kaise lafjo mein bayan karoon,
Teri yaad ko kaise apne dil se juda karoon,
Dil hi dil mein tujhko apna bana liya maine,
Tujh bin guzara kaise main mere meherba karoon…
Haal dekh kar mera khuda bhi tadap jayega,
Jab bhi hogi bewaffai ki baat nujhe bhi koi bhoola yaad aayega,
Are apno ne kya kami rakhi jo ab koi anjan sitam dhayega,
Mat chu palkon ko Hai itna dard isme ke tera daaman bheeg jayega.
Kabhi kabhi in ankhon me nami si hoti hai.
Kabhi kabhi in hoton pe hasi si hoti hai.
E dost wo tum hi ho, jis se meri jindagi zinda dil hoti hai
I AM RAJESH MISHRA MY HOME ADD.TAGORE TOWE ALLAHABAD PIN 211002,
AND MY WORK ADD. PRIDE SYSTEM LTD. KAROLBAGH NEW DELHI PIN 110005
Thought
Kal Halki Si Barsaat Mein Ho Gayi Mulaakat Unse,
Nazron Ki Shabnam Ne Jaise Kar Li Ho Har Baat Unse,
Unki Aankhon Mein Thi Aisi Kashish Ke Kya Kahein,
Mere Jism Ke Rom Rom Ne Kar Li Mohabbat Unse,
Masoom Hai Kuch Is Qadar Unki Chhuwan Ka Ehsaas,
Aakhir Ek Mod Par Kar Li Meri Haya Ne Hararat Unse,
Palkon Ke Parde Mein Karwat Leti Thi Kuch Paak Khataye,
Meri Muskurahat Ne Kar Hi Li Ho Jaise Shararat Unse,
Gaane Lagi Unki Khamoshi Kuch Aise Haseen Nagme,
Sambhle Na Jaate The Shayad Apne Khayalaat Unse,
Lamhe judai ke bekarar karte hain
haalat mere mujhe laachar karte hain
aankhe meri pad lo kabhi
ham khud kaise kahe ki aapse pyar karte hain…
Dil ki tadap ko kaise lafjo mein bayan karoon,
Teri yaad ko kaise apne dil se juda karoon,
Dil hi dil mein tujhko apna bana liya maine,
Tujh bin guzara kaise main mere meherba karoon…
Haal dekh kar mera khuda bhi tadap jayega,
Jab bhi hogi bewaffai ki baat nujhe bhi koi bhoola yaad aayega,
Are apno ne kya kami rakhi jo ab koi anjan sitam dhayega,
Mat chu palkon ko Hai itna dard isme ke tera daaman bheeg jayega.
Kabhi kabhi in ankhon me nami si hoti hai.
Kabhi kabhi in hoton pe hasi si hoti hai.
E dost wo tum hi ho, jis se meri jindagi zinda dil hoti hai
~
Jab tak pas thi, najdiki ka ehsaas na tha..
Jab dur gayi, duri ka ehsaas na tha..
Mujhme is kadar basi hai tu…ki,
Mujhme ‘Mere’ hone ka ehsaas na tha…..
~
Have a great weekend all of you :)
. . . . . . . . .
I AM RAJESH MISHRA MY HOME ADD.TAGORE TOWE ALLAHABAD PIN 211002,
AND MY WORK ADD. PRIDE SYSTEM LTD. KAROLBAGH NEW DELHI PIN 110005
Thought
Kal Halki Si Barsaat Mein Ho Gayi Mulaakat Unse,
Nazron Ki Shabnam Ne Jaise Kar Li Ho Har Baat Unse,
Unki Aankhon Mein Thi Aisi Kashish Ke Kya Kahein,
Mere Jism Ke Rom Rom Ne Kar Li Mohabbat Unse,
Masoom Hai Kuch Is Qadar Unki Chhuwan Ka Ehsaas,
Aakhir Ek Mod Par Kar Li Meri Haya Ne Hararat Unse,
Palkon Ke Parde Mein Karwat Leti Thi Kuch Paak Khataye,
Meri Muskurahat Ne Kar Hi Li Ho Jaise Shararat Unse,
Gaane Lagi Unki Khamoshi Kuch Aise Haseen Nagme,
Sambhle Na Jaate The Shayad Apne Khayalaat Unse,
Lamhe judai ke bekarar karte hain
haalat mere mujhe laachar karte hain
aankhe meri pad lo kabhi
ham khud kaise kahe ki aapse pyar karte hain…
Dil ki tadap ko kaise lafjo mein bayan karoon,
Teri yaad ko kaise apne dil se juda karoon,
Dil hi dil mein tujhko apna bana liya maine,
Tujh bin guzara kaise main mere meherba karoon…
Haal dekh kar mera khuda bhi tadap jayega,
Jab bhi hogi bewaffai ki baat nujhe bhi koi bhoola yaad aayega,
Are apno ne kya kami rakhi jo ab koi anjan sitam dhayega,
Mat chu palkon ko Hai itna dard isme ke tera daaman bheeg jayega.
Kabhi kabhi in ankhon me nami si hoti hai.
Kabhi kabhi in hoton pe hasi si hoti hai.
E dost wo tum hi ho, jis se meri jindagi zinda dil hoti hai
I AM RAJESH MISHRA MY HOME ADD.TAGORE TOWE ALLAHABAD PIN 211002,
AND MY WORK ADD. PRIDE SYSTEM LTD. KAROLBAGH NEW DELHI PIN 110005
Thought
Kal Halki Si Barsaat Mein Ho Gayi Mulaakat Unse,
Nazron Ki Shabnam Ne Jaise Kar Li Ho Har Baat Unse,
Unki Aankhon Mein Thi Aisi Kashish Ke Kya Kahein,
Mere Jism Ke Rom Rom Ne Kar Li Mohabbat Unse,
Masoom Hai Kuch Is Qadar Unki Chhuwan Ka Ehsaas,
Aakhir Ek Mod Par Kar Li Meri Haya Ne Hararat Unse,
Palkon Ke Parde Mein Karwat Leti Thi Kuch Paak Khataye,
Meri Muskurahat Ne Kar Hi Li Ho Jaise Shararat Unse,
Gaane Lagi Unki Khamoshi Kuch Aise Haseen Nagme,
Sambhle Na Jaate The Shayad Apne Khayalaat Unse,
Lamhe judai ke bekarar karte hain
haalat mere mujhe laachar karte hain
aankhe meri pad lo kabhi
ham khud kaise kahe ki aapse pyar karte hain…
Dil ki tadap ko kaise lafjo mein bayan karoon,
Teri yaad ko kaise apne dil se juda karoon,
Dil hi dil mein tujhko apna bana liya maine,
Tujh bin guzara kaise main mere meherba karoon…
Haal dekh kar mera khuda bhi tadap jayega,
Jab bhi hogi bewaffai ki baat nujhe bhi koi bhoola yaad aayega,
Are apno ne kya kami rakhi jo ab koi anjan sitam dhayega,
Mat chu palkon ko Hai itna dard isme ke tera daaman bheeg jayega.
Kabhi kabhi in ankhon me nami si hoti hai.
Kabhi kabhi in hoton pe hasi si hoti hai.
E dost wo tum hi ho, jis se meri jindagi zinda dil hoti hai
हमें आपकी जान नहीं सिर्फ साथ चाहिए,
सच्चे प्यार का सिर्फ एक एहसास चाहिए,
जान तो एक पल में दी जा सकती है,
पर हमें आपकी महोब्बत आखरी सांस तक चाहिए !
Humein Aap Ki Jaan Nahi Sirf Saath Chahiye,
Sacche Pyaar Ka Sirf Ek Ehsaas Chahiye,
Jaan Toh Ek Pal Mein Di Jaa Sakti Hain,
Par Hume Apki Mohabbat Aakhri Sans Tk Chahiye !
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I AM RAJESH MISHRA MY HOME ADD.TAGORE TOWE ALLAHABAD PIN 211002,
AND MY WORK ADD. PRIDE SYSTEM LTD. KAROLBAGH NEW DELHI PIN 110005
Thought
Kal Halki Si Barsaat Mein Ho Gayi Mulaakat Unse,
Nazron Ki Shabnam Ne Jaise Kar Li Ho Har Baat Unse,
Unki Aankhon Mein Thi Aisi Kashish Ke Kya Kahein,
Mere Jism Ke Rom Rom Ne Kar Li Mohabbat Unse,
Masoom Hai Kuch Is Qadar Unki Chhuwan Ka Ehsaas,
Aakhir Ek Mod Par Kar Li Meri Haya Ne Hararat Unse,
Palkon Ke Parde Mein Karwat Leti Thi Kuch Paak Khataye,
Meri Muskurahat Ne Kar Hi Li Ho Jaise Shararat Unse,
Gaane Lagi Unki Khamoshi Kuch Aise Haseen Nagme,
Sambhle Na Jaate The Shayad Apne Khayalaat Unse,
Lamhe judai ke bekarar karte hain
haalat mere mujhe laachar karte hain
aankhe meri pad lo kabhi
ham khud kaise kahe ki aapse pyar karte hain…
Dil ki tadap ko kaise lafjo mein bayan karoon,
Teri yaad ko kaise apne dil se juda karoon,
Dil hi dil mein tujhko apna bana liya maine,
Tujh bin guzara kaise main mere meherba karoon…
Haal dekh kar mera khuda bhi tadap jayega,
Jab bhi hogi bewaffai ki baat nujhe bhi koi bhoola yaad aayega,
Are apno ne kya kami rakhi jo ab koi anjan sitam dhayega,
Mat chu palkon ko Hai itna dard isme ke tera daaman bheeg jayega.
Kabhi kabhi in ankhon me nami si hoti hai.
Kabhi kabhi in hoton pe hasi si hoti hai.
E dost wo tum hi ho, jis se meri jindagi zinda dil hoti hai
I AM RAJESH MISHRA MY HOME ADD.TAGORE TOWE ALLAHABAD PIN 211002,
AND MY WORK ADD. PRIDE SYSTEM LTD. KAROLBAGH NEW DELHI PIN 110005
Thought
Kal Halki Si Barsaat Mein Ho Gayi Mulaakat Unse,
Nazron Ki Shabnam Ne Jaise Kar Li Ho Har Baat Unse,
Unki Aankhon Mein Thi Aisi Kashish Ke Kya Kahein,
Mere Jism Ke Rom Rom Ne Kar Li Mohabbat Unse,
Masoom Hai Kuch Is Qadar Unki Chhuwan Ka Ehsaas,
Aakhir Ek Mod Par Kar Li Meri Haya Ne Hararat Unse,
Palkon Ke Parde Mein Karwat Leti Thi Kuch Paak Khataye,
Meri Muskurahat Ne Kar Hi Li Ho Jaise Shararat Unse,
Gaane Lagi Unki Khamoshi Kuch Aise Haseen Nagme,
Sambhle Na Jaate The Shayad Apne Khayalaat Unse,
Lamhe judai ke bekarar karte hain
haalat mere mujhe laachar karte hain
aankhe meri pad lo kabhi
ham khud kaise kahe ki aapse pyar karte hain…
Dil ki tadap ko kaise lafjo mein bayan karoon,
Teri yaad ko kaise apne dil se juda karoon,
Dil hi dil mein tujhko apna bana liya maine,
Tujh bin guzara kaise main mere meherba karoon…
Haal dekh kar mera khuda bhi tadap jayega,
Jab bhi hogi bewaffai ki baat nujhe bhi koi bhoola yaad aayega,
Are apno ne kya kami rakhi jo ab koi anjan sitam dhayega,
Mat chu palkon ko Hai itna dard isme ke tera daaman bheeg jayega.
Kabhi kabhi in ankhon me nami si hoti hai.
Kabhi kabhi in hoton pe hasi si hoti hai.
E dost wo tum hi ho, jis se meri jindagi zinda dil hoti hai
I AM RAJESH MISHRA MY HOME ADD.TAGORE TOWE ALLAHABAD PIN 211002,
AND MY WORK ADD. PRIDE SYSTEM LTD. KAROLBAGH NEW DELHI PIN 110005
Thought
Kal Halki Si Barsaat Mein Ho Gayi Mulaakat Unse,
Nazron Ki Shabnam Ne Jaise Kar Li Ho Har Baat Unse,
Unki Aankhon Mein Thi Aisi Kashish Ke Kya Kahein,
Mere Jism Ke Rom Rom Ne Kar Li Mohabbat Unse,
Masoom Hai Kuch Is Qadar Unki Chhuwan Ka Ehsaas,
Aakhir Ek Mod Par Kar Li Meri Haya Ne Hararat Unse,
Palkon Ke Parde Mein Karwat Leti Thi Kuch Paak Khataye,
Meri Muskurahat Ne Kar Hi Li Ho Jaise Shararat Unse,
Gaane Lagi Unki Khamoshi Kuch Aise Haseen Nagme,
Sambhle Na Jaate The Shayad Apne Khayalaat Unse,
Lamhe judai ke bekarar karte hain
haalat mere mujhe laachar karte hain
aankhe meri pad lo kabhi
ham khud kaise kahe ki aapse pyar karte hain…
Dil ki tadap ko kaise lafjo mein bayan karoon,
Teri yaad ko kaise apne dil se juda karoon,
Dil hi dil mein tujhko apna bana liya maine,
Tujh bin guzara kaise main mere meherba karoon…
Haal dekh kar mera khuda bhi tadap jayega,
Jab bhi hogi bewaffai ki baat nujhe bhi koi bhoola yaad aayega,
Are apno ne kya kami rakhi jo ab koi anjan sitam dhayega,
Mat chu palkon ko Hai itna dard isme ke tera daaman bheeg jayega.
Kabhi kabhi in ankhon me nami si hoti hai.
Kabhi kabhi in hoton pe hasi si hoti hai.
E dost wo tum hi ho, jis se meri jindagi zinda dil hoti hai
I AM RAJESH MISHRA MY HOME ADD.TAGORE TOWE ALLAHABAD PIN 211002,
AND MY WORK ADD. PRIDE SYSTEM LTD. KAROLBAGH NEW DELHI PIN 110005
Thought
Kal Halki Si Barsaat Mein Ho Gayi Mulaakat Unse,
Nazron Ki Shabnam Ne Jaise Kar Li Ho Har Baat Unse,
Unki Aankhon Mein Thi Aisi Kashish Ke Kya Kahein,
Mere Jism Ke Rom Rom Ne Kar Li Mohabbat Unse,
Masoom Hai Kuch Is Qadar Unki Chhuwan Ka Ehsaas,
Aakhir Ek Mod Par Kar Li Meri Haya Ne Hararat Unse,
Palkon Ke Parde Mein Karwat Leti Thi Kuch Paak Khataye,
Meri Muskurahat Ne Kar Hi Li Ho Jaise Shararat Unse,
Gaane Lagi Unki Khamoshi Kuch Aise Haseen Nagme,
Sambhle Na Jaate The Shayad Apne Khayalaat Unse,
Lamhe judai ke bekarar karte hain
haalat mere mujhe laachar karte hain
aankhe meri pad lo kabhi
ham khud kaise kahe ki aapse pyar karte hain…
Dil ki tadap ko kaise lafjo mein bayan karoon,
Teri yaad ko kaise apne dil se juda karoon,
Dil hi dil mein tujhko apna bana liya maine,
Tujh bin guzara kaise main mere meherba karoon…
Haal dekh kar mera khuda bhi tadap jayega,
Jab bhi hogi bewaffai ki baat nujhe bhi koi bhoola yaad aayega,
Are apno ne kya kami rakhi jo ab koi anjan sitam dhayega,
Mat chu palkon ko Hai itna dard isme ke tera daaman bheeg jayega.
Kabhi kabhi in ankhon me nami si hoti hai.
Kabhi kabhi in hoton pe hasi si hoti hai.
E dost wo tum hi ho, jis se meri jindagi zinda dil hoti hai