2015 © Jake / FotoPlus Collective

2015 © Jake / FotoPlus Collective

Over the deep darkened red-like horizon lies the crimson light above my head

When I walk towards the temple of sacrifice

 

Revelations of another time

I have been given a gift

I can see the true prophecy come to life

 

Old plague of the underworlds captures my very soul

I'm the twilight cleansing

I can see through time into an age of sickness and torment

 

Lord of All Unclean Spirits:

God of the eternal fire, foul king of terror

Master of all Evil and Hell

 

Infinite Lord of all unclean spirits

Ancient enemy of life

 

Evil without gain

Boundless malediction

 

Lurid lights leading ever downwards

Blinding torch of misguidance

A restless abomination,

Slithers from below.

(Ondskapt: Revelations Of Another Time)

Most of the pictures in my set Scanned Memories at my Flickr Photostream, are pictures I shot from 2002 mostly on slides and Ilford Delta 100 BW film .

I shot color rolls too Kodak and Fuji.

 

The pictures I shot on slides I mounted for sending them to salon participation, a sheer waste as I retrospect, the slides to have gone to seed.

Some I kept back, on the folder and am seeong them now for the first time .

This was because of my work load , but I toook time off to shoot .

 

The digital has made the task much easier and the Canon G9 snuggly fits in the pocket so I rarely miss a street shot opportunity.

 

I am a hobbyist photographer , an amateur photographer , this keeps the passion fuelled and alive.

 

I loved shooting the Chup Tazia during Athvi segment f Moharam.

This s when Moharam comes to an end after 2 month eight days.

Chup Tazia is an awesome almost silent procession,nohas are recited and all you hear is a sob and the echo of a tear .

Tears are the drops of Faith to the core of Shiasm.

Water is the story of Karbala , water is what holds us intact through our tears , tears that are part of Ghame Hussain.

 

The tragedy of Imam Hussains Martyrdom.. under the regime of Yazid a tyrant cruel despot who took protection from a somnolent society and the misguidance and misinterpretation of the values of True Islam.

 

Modern Jehaddi Terrorism is nothing but a carried forward agenda of hate against Humanity...

I see humanity in the spectrum of my Shia soul that I inherited from my mothers womb..

that Marziya my grand daughter has inherited from her mothers womb..

 

1400 year the Chant of Ya Hussain is nothing but a call against Yazidiyat , but no one read this and Shiasm was termed as an heresy of Faith.

 

I would rather be a hertetic and be closer to my Maker than be a misguided Muslim avenging the wrongs perpetrated on society.

 

This feeling comes from being born in India the land of Vishnu Brahma Mahadev..

A land that Imam Hussain loved immensely .. yes this is Hindustan..

This is home for a Shia Pandit.

The Return from the Hajj

 

Thus I came to understand why when I returned from the Hajj and Iblis attacked me on day one, what I had done wrong that the attack had lasted 5 days. After the once in a lifetime experience, for me at least, which is meant to be a rebirth, quite literally.

 

In the days following, rain poured down on Lahore every day. To shake the gloominess I felt, I walked in it day after day. I hoped it would cleanse me. Wash the heaviness away.

 

The waswasa had been almost ridiculous but of course the nafs had leapt into that fire willingly. I had even tried to rationalize with it but it wouldn’t listen. Then I did not know, I was its partner in crime.

 

Finally on day three I met Qari Sahib who had been stuck indoors, the roads near his home flooded with the rain. I told him what was happening.

 

He focused on the the whispering. In the while before speaking to him, I realized something significant. Iblis’ tactic to trick a human being was to use fact. What he whispered before he ran away sneakily was always true. That was why we, the ordinary, fell into the trap of indulging it and reacting with justification. It was impossible not to. The difference between one who was seeking change and one who was not interested in reform was the time in which they might realize their error.

 

That was in fact the Hajj, said Sheikh Noor Mohammad Kabbani (ra).

 

“How do you know your Hajj was haqeeqi, the true Hajj?” He asked his followers in a lecture. “You will know when you stop yourself before you do something wrong. Even if you go ahead and do it.”

 

Before! It was the tallest order. It was what a giant in Spiritual Masters had described and I had quoted endless times in countless pieces.

 

Then a man says: “First God wrote the sins in my fate then He wishes to punish me for them.”

 

Sheikh ul Akbar (Hazrat Ibn e Arabi (ra)) replies: “When did you know that the sins were destined for you, after you committed them or before? For if it was after then the matter mirrors that of Iblis (Satan) when he was asked to bow down and he refused;

 

‘So Iblis said to God Almighty, “Oh my Lord, you wrote in my destiny that I not prostrate and now you order me to do so.”

 

And he was told, “When did you know that I didn’t want you to bow down, after I ordered it or before? For if it was before My Command then even your refusal will not harm you but if it was after, then you and an animal are one and the same.”

 

…The whole span of the soul’s spiritual itinerary is contained within this exchange...’

 

Qari Sahib gave me a verse to recite. The verse would help but the misery would return.

 

Then came the weekend and my teacher left for his village. I moved in the pendulum between my desolation and refuge from it. Finally on day 5, I couldn’t take it anymore. The torment was becoming unbearably exhausting. Plus its timing was driving me insane and so I did an istakhara.

 

I decided to ask the Quran to tell me what I was doing wrong. I knew how. I had done it before but almost always in the presence of Qari Sahib so the verse that appeared could be interpreted correctly. But desperate times call for desperate measures.

 

I read the duas for it, then cracked the Book open. The Surah was Yaseen. My heart reacted to that. It was one of a few I had memorized. The verse was this, a verse that strangely enough, I intended to understand every time I heard the Surah at Fajr.

 

وَلَقَدْ أَضَلَّ مِنكُمْ جِبِلًّۭا كَثِيرًا ۖ

أَفَلَمْ تَكُونُوا۟ تَعْقِلُونَ ٦٢

هَـٰذِهِۦ جَهَنَّمُ ٱلَّتِى كُنتُمْ تُوعَدُونَ ٦٣

 

And indeed, he led astray a great many of you.

Then did not you use reason?

This (is) (the) Hell which you were promised.

 

Surah Yaseen, Verse 62-63

 

The ayat was a direct reference to Iblis.

 

I called Qari Sahib and apologized for disturbing him on his holiday.

 

“I need the tafseer Sir,” I requested. “From Ghaus Pak (ra).”

 

He sent it almost immediately. I spent the rest of the afternoon looking up word after word and their translation. From what I put together I saw what was happening to me.

 

Tafseer e Jilani

 

Wa: And why did you all worship Satan, and follow in his footsteps and comply with obedience to his order, Ayyohal Uqula, O you who use your reason, who have been created upon the nature of guidance and instruction because…

 

Laqad adalla: indeed he led astray and deceived, this al ghawi al maghwi, enticer who is himself astray…

 

Minkum: from amongst you all, Ya Bani Adam, O Children of Adam…

 

Jibillan katheera: a large group and many nations from your kind so they turned away because of his deception from the right path and they broke, due to his seduction and his bait, the pacts and promises (with Allah Subhanahu) so they were forbidden because of this, the heaven promised to them so they become deserving of the hell, distant (from His Essence) and the fires of abandonment.

 

And then the question to me.

 

A’: Did you worship Satan and follow his influence…

 

Fa lam takunu ta’qiloon: so then did you not use your powers to reflect i.e. you did not use your aql, your ability to reason, in being outraged by his command and the intensity of his enemity and the severity of the punishment of obeying him and what is in it following, after his deception, from extreme suffering and feeling gloominess that lasts forever and an endless retribution and then will you still choose following him and accept from him his misguidance? And you leave the way of Tauheed, Allah’s One-ness, do you not use your ability to reflect, Ayyohal Musrifoona, O ones who transgress boundaries, who have been excessive?

 

The words left me dumbstruck.

 

The tafseer continued:

 

And it was said for them in this moment, pointing it out, towards their reversing and their abode…

 

Hadihi jahannam allati kuntum: this is the same hell you were, Ayyohad Daaloon, O ones who left the right path, Al Ghaawoona, the ones seduced, Al Maghroroona, the ones deceived…

 

Tu’adoon: promised in this world through the tongue of the Messengers and the books.

 

Hell was the word the Quran had used. For feelings that existed in this world, not the Hereafter. I was in Hell and following Iblis was the cause of it.

 

Since the Hajj I had continued uttering words of dikr from my lips but in my reactions and belief, I was following in the footsteps of Satan and obeying him. In that obedience, I had instantly broken all my promises with Subhanahu, The Only One who cared about me and I had withdrawn from my allegiance to His Beloved (salutations and greetings upon him), the only one who wept for me.

 

Except he didn’t just weep for me. He caused himself so much distress from my breaking promises and harming myself that Subhanahu had to step in and tell him to stop, using words like “halaak” – will you kill yourself over them? Over me...

 

فَلَعَلَّكَ بَـٰخِعٌۭ نَّفْسَكَ عَلَىٰٓ ءَاثَـٰرِهِمْ إِن لَّمْ يُؤْمِنُوا۟ بِهَـٰذَا ٱلْحَدِيثِ أَسَفًا ٦

 

Then perhaps you would (be) the one who kills yourself over their footsteps, if they don’t believe in this [the] narration, (in) grief.

 

Surah Al Kahf, Verse 6

 

Tafseer e Jilani

 

After their states in deception and disputing upon this course of action and the intensity of their anger and their enemity with Allah like this:

 

Falallaka: So perhaps you, Ya Akmal Ar Rusul (your Lord sends greetings and salutations upon you lovingly), O Messenger who completes Messenger-hood, with your love, unconditional, for their imaan, faith and their compliance and your hopes and your sympathy towards their pledge and their following…

 

Bakhi’un nafsaka: will kill yourself and devastate yourself…

 

Ala aasaarihim: because of them when they turn away from you and go…

 

Il-lam yu’minu: if they don’t believe and they don’t affirm…

 

Bi hadal hadith: in this Word of Allah i.e. the Quran…

 

Asafa: (you will kill yourself) with traumatic grief i.e. destroy yourself by excessive sadness and grief upon their leaving and their turning away from you and the absence of faith and obedience to you.

 

Even though Subhanahu urges you (to love) their faith and their obedience and their richness and their kingdom and their elevation and their ranking and their wealth and their leadership among the people. So know that indeed, they don’t have any preparation nor do they have any certainty upon what is happening to them (as a result of your preaching).

 

I went back to An Naas, incidentally the first Surah I had translated from the Tafseer e Jilani in 2020 for the closing chapter of The Softest Heart.

 

Verse 6: “The explanation of the waswasa, the whisperings that trigger doubt and paranoia, of the one who makes the whispers i.e. who puts the whisperings in their breasts from the side of Jinn or people, telling them that they both, Jinn and Man, have the ability to give benefit or harm with impressions and permanence, so (in turn) they, both people and Jinn, place their demands and hopes with those two (instead of Allah) so they fall into a state of eternal regret and an abyss of being astray.”

 

That is how I understood; it was my hypocrisy that was creating my misery.

 

I looked up another verse remembering it had the word “footsteps” in it:

 

‏ يَٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ لَا تَتَّبِعُوا۟ خُطُوَتِ ٱلشَّيْطَنِ ۚ

وَمَن يَتَّبِعْ خُطُوَتِ ٱلشَّيْطَنِ فَإِنَّهُۥ يَأْمُرُ بِٱلْفَحشَآءِ وَٱلْمُنكَرِ ۚ

وَلَوْلَا فَضْلُ ٱللَّهِ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَتُهُۥ مَا زَكَىٰ مِنكُم مِّنْ أَحَدٍ أَبَدًۭا وَلَكِنَّ ٱللَّهَ يُزَكِّى مَن يَشَآءُ ۗ

وَٱللَّهُ سَمِيعٌ عَلِيمٌۭ

 

O you who believe!

Do not follow in the footsteps of Shaitaan,

and whoever follows in the footsteps of the Shaitaan then indeed, he commands the immorality and wrongdoing.

And if it were not for the Grace of Allah upon you and His Mercy, not one of you would have been pure,

but Allah purifies whom He wills.

And Allah is The Hearer of all things, The Knower of all things.

 

Surah An-Noor, Verse 21

 

Tafseer e Jilani:

 

And so it was such sins and disobedience happening due to the following of Shaitaan, Satan, al mudill, the one who leads astray, al maghwiyy, the one who tempts, Allah called out to all his ordinary believers and forbade them from obeying him and following him and tracing his footsteps, so He commanded:

 

Ya ayyohalladina aamano: O ye who believed in the One-ness of the Maker and His Attributes and in Prophet-hood and Messenger-hood and in Jurisprudence, the Shari’a which is for everyone and beneficial for all in terms of creating moderation in manners and rituals among all His Servants, the reason behind you having faith, imaan, is that you go against your nafs, the base self, and your desires, both of which are from the forces of Satan, the one who misleads and the one who takes away from the Path of Truth…

 

La tattibi’u khutowaat e Shaitaan: don’t follow in the footsteps of Satan and don’t follow his lead in the distribution of vulgarity and the loving of sinfulness…

 

Wa mayattabi: and who so ever amongst you, O believers, follows…

 

Khutuwaat e Shaitaan: in the footsteps of Satan, the one who leads astray and is the entrapper, he becomes astray and trapped…

 

Fa innahu: so indeed he, Satan…

 

Ya’mur: commands the one who follows him and considers him his leader…

 

Bil fahsha: towards vulgarity and immorality in ways that go against nature and the laws of the faith, the Shari’a…

 

Wal munkar: and (he also commands the one who follows him and considers him his leader) towards that which is rejected in traditions and in customs…

 

Wa lau la fadlullahi alaykum: and were it not for the Bounty of Allah upon you, Allah Al Muttakaffil, The Protector for the correction of your states…

 

Wa Rahmatuhu: And His Mercy, which is in abundance and encompasses all His Servants…

 

Ma zakaa: there would be no one cleansed, purified…

 

Minkum min ahadin: from amongst any of you from following Satan…

 

Abadan: ever, for as long as you live, because following him has been placed in your nature (just as goodness has been placed in it) and following him appears beautified for you and readily accepted by your nafs, self…

 

Wa lakinn Allaha: but Allah Al Mudabbir, The One who manages the affairs of His Servants…

 

Yuzzaki: inserts sincerity and purifies from the traps of Satan and his evil promptings…

 

Mayyasha: whom so ever He wills by virtue of His Wisdom and out of regard for His Being a Well-Wisher which is why He formed the human being…

 

Wallahu: and Allah Al Muttali’u is The One Fully Aware of what appears and what is the hidden…

 

Sami’un: He the Only Hearer of their words…

 

Aleem: and He is the Only Knower of their backgrounds and their intentions.

 

I did my wuzu and went to Daata Sahib (ra). I had been planning on it since I returned but in my daze kept putting it off. That too was Shaitaan of course. Now that the light had appeared I wanted to run to express my gratitude to the one who was the beacon of that light in my city. I knew it had come to me by way of him.

 

After saying my salam, I prayed then found a place to sit. It was then that my eyes turned upwards and I read the lines that echoed the verse:

 

و من نظر الاخلق هلك

The one who glanced at Creation was destroyed

 

Again halaka!

 

و من نظر الالحق ملك

The one who gazed upon Allah Al Haqq…became a king

 

I kept staring at them. The significance of the first line would be made to come to me later again and again.

 

The immediate effect was that I was free of the gloom. It left me and it never returned. I hadn’t even done anything. I had just been made aware of the cause through the Quran. In the seeking alone, I had been saved.

 

Wafea' al Qauli is how Imam Zain ul Abedin (as) addresses his Rabb, Who loves him like He loves no one else. The One faithful to His Word! It wasn’t the first time I had experienced it but the intensity of the moment, precisely because it was after the Hajj, was something else.

 

‏ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَتَطْمَىِٕنُّ قُلُوبُهُم بِذِكْرِ ٱللَّهِ ۗ أَلَا بِذِكْرِ ٱللَّهِ تَطْمَىِٕنُّ ٱلْقُلُوبُ ‎

 

Those who believed and find satisfaction their hearts in the remembrance (of) Allah. No doubt, in the remembrance (of) Allah find satisfaction the hearts."

 

Surah Ar’Rad, Verse 28

 

Tafseer e Jilani

 

Alladina amano: Those who believe in Tauheed, One-ness…

 

Wa tatma’innu qulubuhum: the heart finds peace and stability from the pangs of following lies and their colours, disappearing and vanishing…

 

Bi dikr illah: with dikr, the Remembrance of Allah, Al Wahid, Al Ahad, Permanent in His Presence without fluctuation and enumeration and doubt. So indeed (this remembrance), causes to leave and disappear from the tablets of their hearts, the engravings of relying (on others) and thinking (of others), in totality.

 

Alaa: Beware, O Taliboon, the ones who are eager to seek the rank of Kashf, unveiling and Shahood, witnessing…

 

Bi dikr illahe: dikr, the remembrance of Allah Al Musqit, The One who Omits what is extra (other than Him)…

 

Tatma’inno ul qulub: gives tranquility and calmness to the hearts and keeps it firm in the Maqam Al Huzoor, the Realm of His Presence, and gives it restfulness from the agitation of misconceptions.

 

The beauty of the words left me amazed. It felt exactly like that sometimes. Pangs of following lies and their colours, disappearing and vanishing…memories etched that caused return to them again and again.

 

Dikr – “causes to leave and disappear from the tablets of their hearts, the engravings of relying (on others) and thinking (of others), in totality.

 

Dikr - “gives the heart restfulness from the agitation of misconceptions.”

 

If it was sincere!

 

The best part of the experience was a dua, a prayer, that entered my life. I came upon it also by way of the most precious Imam Zain ul Abedin (as), for whom my love and connection was indescribable, may his mercy upon me only intensify and send me into that Divine Embrace in which he dwells…

 

أللَّهُمَّ فَكَمَا كَـرَّهْتَ إلَيَّ أَنْ أَظْلِمَ فَقِنِي مِنْ أَنْ أُظْلَمَ.

 

al-laahum-ma fakamaa kar-rah-ta ilay-ya an uz'-lama faqinee min an az'-lim

 

O God, just as You hast made me detest being wronged, so also protect me from doing wrong!

 

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 can repel it 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,

 

More and more I began to see how dikr didn’t work when my reaction to a situation was not what it should be. When it was driven by my nafs which preferred Iblis. Over my own soul every time. When I saw how each time I was in exact opposition to Nabi Kareem’s sunnah, his practice (salutations and greetings upon the tenderness of his heart and that of his family), I felt a deep regret.

 

Whenever I spoke harshly, when I felt anger always out of a false sense of dignity, when I lost patience, when I exacted revenge. I was a follower of Iblis, not an emulator of Subhanahu’s Beloved. So why would dikr create in me the traits attributed to him which was what the Quran promised? Why would it bring peace to my heart?

 

This was how I started to seek forgiveness in different ways than I done before. When it was a tasbeeh in my hand and an utterance mindless. Now I was aware of a crime. I sought reprieve from it. I would find myself sometimes pleading, sometimes crying. Always ashamed.

 

Strangely it was Nabi Kareem (salutations and greetings upon him being Rauf and Rahim, Allah’s Names) that I was more ashamed in front of. As in more than Subhanahu. Because I always invoked An Nisa, 64 and to avail that Divine Promise of being granted His Mercy, I had to go through him. Not for an instant could I forget that it was only his asking for forgiveness for me that granted me instant absolution.

 

وَلَوْ أَنَّهُمْ إِذ ظَّلَمُوٓا۟ أَنفُسَهُمْ جَآءُوكَ فَٱسْتَغْفَرُُ

وا۟ ٱللَّهَ وَٱسْتَغْفَرَ لَهُمُ ٱلرَّسُولُ لَوَجَدُوا۟ ٱللَّهَ تَوَّابًۭا رَّحِيمًۭا ٦٤

 

And if they, when they wronged themselves, come to you and asked forgiveness of Allah, and the Messenger (peace be upon him) asked forgiveness for them, surely, they would have found Allah Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.

 

Surah An Nisa, Verse 64

 

Tafseer e Jilani

 

Wa lau annahum: And if they, without doubt, due to the intensity of their ignorance and hypocrisy…

 

Id zalamu anfusahum: that which befalls them of affliction, (which is) harmful, from not submitting to you…

 

Jaa’uka: they must come to you as the ones, Tai’eena, those who repent, Mu’tadireena, the ones who are apologetic because of that which happened from them…

 

Fastaghfarullah: then they ask for forgiveness from Allah (being) Mukhliseena, sincere and Nadimeena, regretful…

Wastaghfara lahum Ar Rasoolu: and the Messenger (salutations and greetings upon the one who is the saviour and his family) also asks for forgiveness for them through intercession and praying before Allah, asking for the acceptance (of the person by Him) after they have come as the ones who are apologetic…

 

Lawajadullaha: surely, they will find Allah (to be) and they will testify to Him being the One who grants Bounty and Mercy…

 

Tawwaban: (and find Allah to be) The One who accepts their repentance…

 

Raheem: The One who is Merciful to them and grants them ability to do this (go the The Messenger (salutations and greetings upon the one who is the asker of forgiveness for the Universe and his family).

 

Many people ask me when I tell them this “But isn’t he no longer in the world? So how can you ask a person not alive anything?”

 

I knew that sentence came from some listening to some scholar whose ideology rejected tasawwuff - spirituality. Who equated it to shirrk, association with Allah. I didn’t get into a discussion with them.

 

I didn’t possess enough knowledge to do so. I cited the verse, I said the Quran was for all times. It worked for me that’s why I shared it with others.

 

And sometimes I asked them if they had parents who were alive. Often they said yes. Sometimes no. But few had experienced the death of a parent at a young age.

 

“When you have one who dies when you are young, then there are many times in your life, you ask them to pray for you when you are in a bind. And they aren’t alive for sure. The Prophet (salutations and greetings upon his soul and the souls of his family) is alive. So are the Auliya. But you believe what you want. This is just if you want an out.”

 

For undoubtedly, I found Subhanahu to be Tawwaban Rahim each time. And along with that, it felt like I never did anything wrong at all. For all exits from Hell for me began with verses I had learnt starting with the word, "Qul - you, O Beloved, you say this..."

 

وَقُل رَّبِّ ٱغۡفِرۡ وَٱرۡحَمۡ وَأَنتَ خَیۡرُ ٱلرَّٰحِمِینَ ١١٨

 

And say, "My Lord! Forgive and have mercy, and You (are the) Best (of) those who show mercy."

 

Surah Al Mo’minoon, Verse 118

 

Tafseer e Jilani

 

Wa: And after that Subhanahu made it certain, the success for the Mo’mineen, the believers, Al Muwwahideen, who are certain in Tauheed, 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 Ya Akmal Ar Rusul, O Messenger who completes Messenger-hood (greetings and salutations upon him and his family by His Allah who loves you deeply), 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 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 Raheemeen: 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.

 

Like everything else, the concept of seeking forgiveness varies for each human being. In a lecture, I came across what the words ‘Astaghfirullah’ meant when Abdi-hi, Subhanahu’s Most Favoured Worshipper (salutations and greetings upon his worship) uttered them:

 

The talk was, again, by Sheikh Noor Mohammad Kabbani (www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPJPYVIdLGY). From it I learnt why Nabi Kareem would say Istaghfaar 70 to a 100 times a day. It was for us, his Ummah. So that we would be forgiven because his seeking forgiveness from Allah Subhanahu, the weight of it on the scales, was more than that of entire Creation. From its beginning till its end. And he continued it to this day, asking for that forgiveness.

 

That was exactly why I was forgiven almost every day!

 

The other jewel the Sheikh unveiled was even more remarkable:

 

Sheikh Kabbani (ra): “I heard this from Maulana Sheikh Nazim (ra). Rasool Allah (saw) has been promised by Allah that He will increase his rank non-stop. Endlessly. His ascension in each level is doubled. From the first level, if its 2, then it becomes 4, then 8, then 16. Until when? Until it cannot be counted anymore.

 

When he is elevating in these level, his Ma’rifa, his Recognition of the Divine, is increasing in the same fold. His honour is increasing. His might and closeness to Allah Subhanahu is increasing.

 

And on top of that for Rasool Allah (saw) are opened new forms of praising, new forms of glorification of Allah. New means that did not previously exist in the level below. The Beauty of the Lights of Allah Subhanahu Ta’ala disclosed to him are higher. The Secrets being looked into by him are higher. The Realities he is observing are higher. Of Noor, Knowledge, of Jamal, Beauty, of Mercy, Rahma…

 

So in his complete obedience which was perfect on each level, when Nabi Kareem (saw) notices the difference of Subhanahu’s Ever Increasing Realities, he says ‘Astaghfirullah’ for the worship he did on the level before. He says, ‘Ya Rabbi, my praising of You could have been much more exalted, in a higher form, in a better way. But I didn’t know. Astaghfirullah…I seek your forgiveness.’”

 

The words left me in a daze...

 

As I typed the words of the lecture, all I did was sigh. From the unveiling of a new layer of intensity of love of the relationship between them and that if it wasn’t for him, my Prophet (salutations and greetings upon him and his family who the only ones who taught me anything that mattered), I would have never known there could be regret so deep that if one did not praise Allah the way He was worthy of it, that the heart would express it in the words – I seek forgiveness from Allah!

 

The romantic in me could only imagine what it might be like to seek forgiveness from a human being in the same way. A person one loved but every time something new about them was unveiled, previously unknown, that revealed a new aspect of them that intensified love, it would be said to them, “I am sorry for the way I have loved you thus far…for you deserved a deeper love.”

 

Lecture continued: “And so on was his istighfaar. As his journey was without an end for his elevation is without end and Subhanahu’s Tajilliyaat are never ending. And on each level, he says to us, his Ummah, ‘Come look with me. Come watch with me.’ But who listens.

 

There is a story of Hazrat Bayazid Bastami (ra). He took the way towards the ocean of Muhammad (saw). Who can even know that if he is being continuously elevated in every moment. But the Auliya wanted to know his reality. And let us not forget that Bayazid Bastami (ra) is not an ordinary saint. He is the Sultan ul Arifeen, the king of the ones who possess Divine Recognition.

 

So what did he find? That between him and the reality of the Prophet (saw) were 10,000 seas of noor, light. He didn’t even reach the first sea but only saw the seas between them. When he intended to come towards the first, he was told to not approach for he will burn. Just like the angel Gibrael (as) said that if he went a step after Sidrat al Muntaha, the Lote Tree, he would burn.

 

For Rasool Allah (saw) is the barzakh, the divider and partition, between us and Allah Subhanahu Ta’ala. He is how everything from Allah Subhanahu is brought down to Creation, through his being. He is the means. And if the Sultan ul Arifeen is being told that, who are we?

 

So the reality of Muhammadia (saw) cannot be approached. The Reality of Subhanahu cannot be approached. You cannot handle it. So what can be approached.? The Auliya Allah. Because their love can be taken. So what is the route? You will find the love of Rasool Allah (saw) in the Auliya Allah. And in the love of Rasool Allah (saw) you will find the love of Subhanahu Ta’ala.”

 

The concept was not alien to me. I had heard it from many in a single sentence.

 

Fana fi Sheikh, Fana fi Rasool (saw), Fana fillah!

 

Dissolution (of the identity) in the Spiritual Master, Dissolution in Rasool Allah (saw), Dissolution in Allah Subhanahu!

 

“So if you love the Auliya, you are on the right track. Otherwise you have missed the way to the ocean of Rasool Allah (saw). So go back and find a Master.”

 

I thought about what was it that made me completely wrong about my fellow human beings? Wrongly painting them all with the broad stroke of being betrayers? It was remembering them only as who they were in their lowest moments that perhaps perpetuated for so long, my nafs thought they had always been in that state. Forgetting their origin. That was what Iblis wanted, suspicious and mistrust between human beings, encouraging them to cling to false opinions.

 

Hence the verse that every Muslim ignores in totality even though it assigns them to the status of being a cannibal:

 

يَـٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ ٱجْتَنِبُوا۟ كَثِيرًۭا مِّنَ ٱلظَّنِّ إِنَّ بَعْضَ ٱلظَّنِّ إِثْمٌۭ ۖ وَلَا تَجَسَّسُوا۟ وَلَا يَغْتَب بَّعْضُكُم بَعْضًا ۚ أَيُحِبُّ أَحَدُكُمْ أَن يَأْكُلَ لَحْمَ أَخِيهِ مَيْتًۭا فَكَرِهْتُمُوهُ ۚ وَٱتَّقُوا۟ ٱللَّهَ ۚ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ تَوَّابٌۭ رَّحِيمٌۭ ١٢

 

O you who believe! Avoid much of the assumption. Indeed, some assumption is sin.

And do not spy and do not backbite some of you to others.

Would like one of you to eat the flesh of his brother, dead? Nay, you would hate it.

And be mindful of Allah, indeed, Allah (is) Oft-Returning, Most Merciful.

 

Surah Hujuraat, Verse 12

 

Ya ayyohalladina aamano: O ye who attained to faith! The demand of your imaan, faith, is: the permanent possession of certainty in your general states and ranks and the leaving of opinions and ignorance in all of your conditions, except for a perception of goodness with Allah and with His Chosen Servants from the Prophets and the Auliya, Friends of God, Al Mustaba’deen, the ones very distant from tuhmat, false accusations and taghreer, delusions…

 

Ijtanibu katheeran min ad danni: avoid most assumptions which cause to inherit for you showing-off and arguments with Allah and His Messenger (salutations and greetings upon him and his family by the one who keeps His Gaze of Love on them) and the ordinary Mo’mineen, the believers, and overall:

 

Inna ba’ada ad danni: Indeed some assumptions, which are inspired to you from Satan, the one who creates falsehood, the deceiver…

 

Ithmun: (those assumptions) they are a sin liable for punishment in the Hereafter, a transgression and a rebellion againt Allah’s Boundaries…

 

Wa la tajassassu: and do not spy (on someone’s unknown matters and secrets) i.e. overall in your excellent manners (akhlaq) is totally avoiding the spying and scrutiny of the weakness of people like you. It is (a duty) upon you, especially that which involves exposing the things of their dignity from different kinds of false, disgusting, accusations…

 

Wa la yaghtab ba’dukum ba’dan: and do not backbite, some of you of others i.e. so overall in your manners and the most important of them, Ayyohal Mo’minoon, O Believers, Al Qasidoon, who are determined, upon the traveling on the Way of Tauheed, Allah’s One-ness, is leaving gheeba, backbiting and it is mentioning someone’s personal thing in his absence, such that if the person was present with you, certainly it would be painful and he would hate it.

 

And when the Prophet (salutations and greetings upon his makaram al akhlaq, excellence of manners and that of his family) was asked about backbiting he said:

 

أن تذكر أخاك بما يكرهه،

اِنْ کَانَ فِیْہِ مَا تَقُوْلُ: فقَدِ اغْتَبْتَہُ، وَاِنْ لَّمْ یَکُنْ فِیْہِ فَقَدْ بَھَتَّہُ۔

 

If you mention your brother with what he dislikes (being said about him),

so indeed if it is in him, then certainly you did backbiting of him

and if it is not in him, indeed it is slander.

 

And both of them are far from the balance (in behaviour) of the people of imaan, faith.

 

Then Subhanahu confirmed this forbidden act (backbiting) upon an extreme level of condemnation and scolding, so He said:

 

A’ yuhibbu ahdukum: Will any one of you like and be pleased with (this)…

 

Ayyakula lahama akhi: that he eats his brother’s flesh, especially in the condition…

 

Maytan: of (him) being dead if it was presented to you…

 

Fakarhitumuhu: then you would hate it for sure because it is not possible for you to deny its hatred and the backbiting of a brother who is a believer is worse than this and uglier (than eating his flesh)…

 

Wa: and overall…

 

Ittaqullaha: be mindful of Allah Al Muntaqim, The Only One who takes Vengeance, Al Ghayyoor, The Only One Uncompromising about the act of backbiting which is forbidden and repent before Him about it and things like it.

 

Inallaha: Indeed, Allah Al Muttali’u, The Only One Informed of what is hidden in your nafs, selves from regret and sincerity is…

 

Tawwabun: The Only Acceptor of Repentance, He accepts from you your remorse…

 

Raheem: All Merciful, He erases for you your wrongdoings after you repented and returned as the regretful ones about what you did.

 

Thus ends this story of love and betrayal. With a lesson I learnt from Mehek Saba, the scent of the morning breeze. Everyone is a reflection of Subhanahu’s Divine Names and Attributes, say the Masters. When we are merciful, we receive the Tajalli, His Manifestation of Jamal, Beauty and when we are unjust, upon ourselves and therefore others, comes down upon us the Unveiling of Jalal, His Awe.

 

No one wants to betray anyone. Especially in relationships that start with the sowing of a seed of love. It is felt uncontrollably, helplessly, for that reason alone. It is inserted by Allah Al Wahhab as a hiba, gift, the most extraordinary gift of all.

 

For it is the gift Subhanahu gave Himself when He made the noor, the light of His Beloved, then sending salutations and greetings upon him endlessly and commanding everyone in existence to do the same. Then making everything else in Creation with that light.

 

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.

 

Ahbabtu: I loved…to be known. Not willed or desired or determined or planned…but loved!

 

This past month the focus of my learning was children because of my niece and the namesake of my mother, Sameena. She was turning 13 and I wanted her to learn what Mehek had taught me. A sole and mindful reliance upon her Creator who she loved deeply when she was little and was now moving away from because of indifference, selfishness and a deterioration of manners that technology brings. Satan’s most powerful tool in these days that eve the end of times.

 

“Hasbi Allah Lou,” I said to her when she was experiencing difficulty with the rage of others who she loved. “Just say these two words when you feel bad, or when you are in a situation that makes you feel distress. ‘Allah is Enough for me.’ That’s what it means. Then you will detach from the situation and the person but you won’t be mad at them. That’s the best part Chukie, Allah will teach you not be affected kindly. You will still be soft with them instead of being angry or rude.”

 

That was what Pathani was gifted with from Subhanahu’s Attributes Lutf, Kindness and Gentleness and His Hilm, Leniency and Mercy. That’s what has been the most elusive for me throughout my spiritual journey. Detachment with kindness and leniency!

 

She listened intently as one does when they are assured the person loves them deeply. She listened as one who sought a solution.

 

I asked her father, my brother, if she was doing it.

 

“She is,” he said. “I ask her about it and tell her she should.”

 

Never was my heart happier than when I heard that. At 53, the effect of dikr upon my life was so altering, it was difficult to describe in totality. For a 12 year old turning 13, how it would map the trajectory of her life was unimaginable for me. My worship at her age had been purely out of obedience. So it was not worship because worship was obedience with love. Hers would have that second element in it because it would be mindful. Of love felt in the world and love felt from the realms unseen.

 

She would become of the Aaqiloon, those who reflect, choosing the verse according to the cause of the darkness of the heart. In sha Allah!

 

Then perhaps she would be, super early in life, one of the ones without fear and grief… attaining faith in the beginning of her spiritual journey…conscious of Subhanahu…safeguarding herself from His Jalali Attributes…understanding the effects of being occupied with the attraction of their desires…conscious of her engagements with the bonds with the selection of her choices.

 

Sigh!

 

أَلَآ إِنَّ أَوْلِيَآءَ ٱللَّهِ لَا خَوْفٌ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلَا هُمْ يَحْزَنُونَ ٦٢

 

Verily, the Friends of Allah, there will be no fear upon them and not they will grieve.

 

Surah Yunus, Verse 62

 

Tafseer e Jilani

 

Ala Inna auliya Allah e: Indeed, the Auliya, the Friends of Allah, Al Munkhalaeena, the ones who are detached from the demands of being human in total, Al Munsalekheena, the one who are far from the requirements of desires of their selves in totality...

 

La khauf-un alayhim wa la hum yahzanoon: there is no fear upon them nor do they feel grief because fear and sadness, they only come from the effects of the tabyat, (the secondary nature that is acquired from outside), and the pursuit of that which fulfills it.

 

And after that they detached from its fulfillment and freedom from its demands and they annihilated themselves in Allah’s Essence and they became what they became thereafter. There was nothing remaining in them which was the generator of (the feelings of) fear and unhappiness and peace and tranquility. That person then is not characterized by the example of these opposites and they are…

 

ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَكَانُوا۟ يَتَّقُونَ ٦٣

 

Those who believe and are conscious (of Allah),

 

Surah Yunus, Verse 63

 

Tafseer e Jilani

 

Alladina aamano: the ones who attained to faith in the beginning of their spiritual journey i.e. they were steadfast in the place of the Knowledge of Certainty.

 

Wa: And after they established their abode and were steadfast upon it…

 

Kanu yattaqoon: they were mindful of Allah and safeguarded themselves from the Power of the Kingdom of Allah’s Jalali Attributes which create awe in the times of their occupation with the attraction of their desires and (they were mindful of Allah) in the time their engagements with the bonds of the selection of their routine (choices).

 

لَهُمُ ٱلْبُشْرَىٰ فِى ٱلْحَيَوٰةِ ٱلدُّنْيَا وَفِى ٱلْـَٔاخِرَةِ ۚ لَا تَبْدِيلَ لِكَلِمَـٰتِ ٱللَّهِ ۚ ذَٰلِكَ هُوَ ٱلْفَوْزُ ٱلْعَظِيمُ ٦٤

 

For them (are) the glad tidings in the life (of) the world and in the Hereafter. no (There can be) change in the Words (of) Allah That is the success great.

 

Surah Yunus, Verse 64

 

Tafseer e Jilani

 

Then when they extracted themselves from these things with sincerity and a true humbleness…

 

Lahum ul bushra: then for them are the glad tidings from Allah of the great success…

 

Fil hayatid duniya wal aakhira: in the life of this world and the Hereafter because they were steady on the station of worship and stable in the seat of Tauheed, Allah’s One-ness, and they reached towards what Allah Al Haqq made appear for His Essence and that is Ma’rifa, His Recognition and Shahood, Divine Witnessing.

 

La tabdeela li kalimaatillahi: There can be no change in Allah’s Words, perfected, spoken with honour and good news…

 

Dalika: that is a glad tiding, encompassing both the worlds…

 

Huwal fauzul adeem: it is the greatest success and it is His Immense Kindness for the Ahl ul Anaya, the people bestowed gifts from amongst the Arbaab il Maqbool, those who were accepted (by Him).

 

Then the words of others would finally not create pain.  

 

وَلَا يَحْزُنكَ قَوْلُهُمْ ۘ إِنَّ ٱلْعِزَّةَ لِلَّهِ جَمِيعًا ۚ هُوَ ٱلسَّمِيعُ ٱلْعَلِيمُ

٦٥

 

And (let) not their speech grieve you. Indeed, the honor (belongs) to Allah all. He (is) the All-Hearer, the All-Knower.

 

Surah Yunus, Verse 65

 

Tafseer e Jilani

 

And after you were steadfast, Ya Akmal Ar Rusul, O Messenger who completes Messenger-hood (salutations and greetings upon you and your family) in the Friendship of Allah and you were attributed by His Friendship and you achieved what you were made to achieve…

 

La yahzunka qauluhum: don’t be grieved by their words, false, with the denial of truth and false associations with Allah and the denying of His Book and what was sent upon them from it and don’t be saddened by their threats towards you and don’t care about their bragging and their pride of money and importance in rank over you.

 

Innal izza: Certainly, all honour, and the greatest value…

 

Lillahi: is for Allah Al Muttazziz, The Only One with Honour with the mantle of His Exaltedness and Jalal, Majesty, Al Muttawaahid, The Only One with the attribute of Kamal, Perfection and Jamal, Beauty…

 

Jami’an: all of it. There is no counting of honour of those who are alluring others and sinful and soon Allah will humiliate them with Qahr, Wrath and Intiqaam, Revenge and He will help you to gain prevalence and control over them because…

 

Huwas Sami’u: He is the The Only One All Hearing of their words, untruthful, false…

 

Al Aleem: He is The Only One All Knowing of their corrupt intentions, He will recompense them according to His Ilm, Perfect Knowledge and avenge them according to His Information All Encompassing.

  

أَلَآ إِنَّ لِلَّهِ مَن فِى ٱلسَّمَـٰوَٰتِ وَمَن فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ ۗ وَمَا يَتَّبِعُ ٱلَّذِينَ يَدْعُونَ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ شُرَكَآءَ ۚ إِن يَتَّبِعُونَ إِلَّا ٱلظَّنَّ وَإِنْ هُمْ إِلَّا يَخْرُصُونَ ٦٦

 

No doubt! Indeed, to Allah (belongs) whoever (is) in the heavens and whoever (is) in the earth. And not follow those who invoke from other than Allah partners. Not they follow but the assumption and not they but guess.

 

Surah Yunus, Verse 66

 

Say, Ayyohan Nabi, O Prophet (salutations and greetings upon you), Al Haadi, the guide, for the one who claims to be god (being) from vanishing shadows and being god from false statues, as a warning for them and awakening them from their ghaflat, forgetfulness: How can you claim, Ayyohal Humqa, O ones without reason, the association of that which is created, valueless with that who is The Creator, Ancient and Wise?

 

Alaa innalillahi: Doubtlessly, indeed belong to Allah i.e. take warning, Ayyohal Musrifoona, O ones who transgress boundaries, Al Jahiloona, O ones who are ignorant about the Power of Allah, Al Muttawahid, The Only One, Al Muttafarrid, The One Unique by His Essence, Al Muttajalli, The Only One Unveiling in the horizons with His Names and Attributes, (indeed belong to Him) the appearances…

 

Man fis samawaati: those from the heavens from angels…

 

Wa man fil ard: and those from the Earth, the two carrying burdens, although, they are by the blessings upon them and their honour and the height of their reverence important, they don’t deserve to be lord and god (and they didn’t claim it)…

 

Wa: and how can that which is inanimate deserve worship, low by any level of consideration (and also didn’t claim being lord), so for this reason…

 

Ma yattabi’u: they don’t follow, Al Mushrikoona, the ones who associate partners with Allah…

 

Alladina yadaouna min doonillahi shurukaa’a: those who they worship other than Allah as partners in His Lordship, (considering them) deserving of worship like the worship of Allah, (they don’t follow) except by the power of falsehood and trade and perishing and instead…

 

Ien yattabi’ouna: they never follow (their conjecture) i.e. they don’t follow, Ad Daalona, the ones astray, Al Mushrikoona, the ones associating partners with Allah…

 

Illad danna: except because of speculation and estimations arising from their ignorance and their inattentiveness towards the Secret of the Essence of Al Haqq in all of appearance. So for this reason, they proved in that which was manifested without proof…

 

Wa in hum illa yakhrusoon: and they were only wrongly guessing with opinions i.e. there is nothing in their claims and their confinement (in their assertions) except that they are Kaadiboon, liars, Aafikoona, slanderers doing a slandering great. Allah is High above what the Daalimoona, the unjust, say, He is Most Exalted.

 

Thus I intend to continue my Rabbul Awwal with a wird, a continuous dikr, of two words that came my way unexpectedly at the end of a verse:

 

وَمَا خَلَقْنَا ٱلسَّمَـٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضَ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَآ إِلَّا بِٱلْحَقِّ ۗ وَإِنَّ ٱلسَّاعَةَ لَـَٔاتِيَةٌۭ ۖ فَٱصْفَحِ ٱلصَّفْحَ ٱلْجَمِيلَ ٨٥

 

And We did not create the heavens and the Earth and whatever (is) between them except in truth. And indeed, the Hour (is) surely coming. So overlook (with) a forgiveness gracious.

 

Surah Al Hijr, Verse 85

 

Tafseer e Jilani:

 

Then said Subhanahu speaking, giving proof of the Perfection of His Qudra, Power and His Masheeya, Will and His Luft, Gentleness, and His Qahr, Wrath and His Inaam, Blessings and His Intiqaam, Revenge, as a warning for the Du’l al Basa’ir wal Ae’tabaar, the people of (inner) seeing and consideration, Al Mutafakkireen, the ones who ponder the Creation of Allah and His I’jaad, Inventions and His Ae’daam, what He makes disappear and His Istaqlaal Tasarrifaat, Independence upon His Control over His Mulk, Kingdom and His Malakoot, Sovereignty, (then said Subhanahu)…

 

Wa ma khalaqna: and We did not create and We did not authorize…

 

As samawaati: the heavens and what is in them from signs and abilities, high above…

 

Wal arda: and the Earth and what is in it which gain abilities and are lower…

 

Wa ma baynahuma: and what lies between them from creation and deterioration happening in the cosmos, (We did not create them to be) false or useless which have no purpose in them and no value in their appearance and their manifestation and instead We did not create what We created…

 

Illa: except along with…

 

Bil haqqi: truth, proven for the Ashaab ad Dalaail wal Burhaan, the people of understanding proof and evidence and the Tauheed Al Haqq As Saabit Al Muhaqqiq, The True, Proven, Executed One-ness for the Arbaab al Kashf wal Yaqeen, the people of unveiling and certainty…

 

Wa: and know Ayyohal Uqula, O those who reflect and Al Mukallifoon, the ones assigned, Al Mu’tabiroon, the ones who consider…

 

Innas sa’ata: indeed the Hour, promised for the vanquishing of the tangible (in appearance) and the disappearance of imagination (which is hidden)…

 

L’aatiyatun: is surely coming, certainly, without fluctuation and doubt so it will recompense in it all according to the requisites of what was done in the realm of creation and evolution and while everyone is rewarded and when all have been compensated according to their deeds, (and) they have been questioned about the Hour…

 

Fasfahi: then (for now) forgive them, Ya Akmal Ar Rusul, O Messenger who completes the Messenger-hood (salutations and greetings upon you and your blessed family) and turn away from revenge from the pain they give you and their wanting to isolate you…

 

Assafhal jameela: an overlooking beautiful i.e. a turning away (with a) graciousness that the disposition (of people) appreciates and be the most gentle with them and be the most kind with them.

 

Fasfahi Assafhal Jameela!

 

On another’s birthday, this is the present I will ask for myself.

For Fasfahi Assafhal Jameela to be imbued in me…

 

On the Day of Judgement, as we return to our origin, noor, light, ranks will be raised based on that light. In return for giving generously to others will be given a Rizq Eternal.

 

أُو۟لَـٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلْمُؤْمِنُونَ حَقًّۭا ۚ لَّهُمْ دَرَجَـٰتٌ عِندَ رَبِّهِمْ وَمَغْفِرَةٌۭ وَرِزْقٌۭ كَرِيمٌۭ ٤

 

Those - they are the believers (in) truth. For them (are) ranks with their Lord and forgiveness and a provision noble.

 

Surah Al Anfal, Verse 4

 

Tafseer e Jilani

 

Ulaika: They, the fortunate ones, Al Maqbuloona, the ones accepted by Allah…

 

Hum ul Mo’minoon: they are the believers, Al Muttahaqqiqoona, the ones steadfast on the rank of idaan, obedience and iqaan, certainty…

 

Haqqan: true, Saabitan, firm, Mustaqirran, stable, without restlessness and shaking…

 

Lahum darajaat: for them are ranks, great…

 

Iynda Rabbihim: near their Lord from the ranks of al ilm, the knowledge of certainty, al ayn, the witnessing of certainty and al haqq, the truth of certainty…

 

Wa Maghfiratun: and (for them is) forgiveness, which is a veiling of their ego and selfishness and identity…

 

Wa Rizqun Kareem: and (for them is) a sustenance noble, meaningful, the best of all rewards. They will be given provisions with these (ranks, forgiveness and nourishment), they will be happy with these gifts from Allah for they are for the one who focuses upon Allah Al Haqq, The Only Truth and for the one who inclines towards His Essence with an inclining, quashing entirely his focus upon anyone else and he leaves the requisites of imkaan, possibilities, so much so that he spends and he expends all of what is associated with him from the possessions of the world, turning away from them, driving away their love from his heart. Subhanahu gives him, (that person), in exchange for his sincerity, a meaningful sustenance which no eye has seen, no ear has heard and no heart of a human being has imagined.

 

I was amazed to discover that noor will be the envy of those who won’t have it, driving them to the point of asking to borrow from it.

 

يَوْمَ يَقُولُ ٱلْمُنَـٰفِقُونَ وَٱلْمُنَـٰفِقَـٰتُ لِلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ ٱنظُرُونَا نَقْتَبِسْ مِن نُّورِكُمْ قِيلَ ٱرْجِعُوا۟ وَرَآءَكُمْ فَٱلْتَمِسُوا۟ نُورًۭا فَضُرِبَ بَيْنَهُم بِسُورٍۢ لَّهُۥ بَابٌۢ بَاطِنُهُۥ فِيهِ ٱلرَّحْمَةُ وَظَـٰهِرُهُۥ مِن قِبَلِهِ ٱلْعَذَابُ ١٣

 

(On the) Day will say the hypocrite men and the hypocrite women to those who believed, "Wait for us, we may acquire of your light." It will be said, "Go back behind you and seek light." Then will be put up between them a wall, for it a gate its interior, in it (is) mercy but its exterior, from facing towards [it] the punishment.

 

Surah Al Hadeed, Verse 13

 

Tafseer e Jilani

 

Then after Subhanahu promised the Mo’mineen, He followed it by the scolding of the Munafiqeen, the hypocrites so he said also upon the manner of warning:

 

Yauma yaqoolul Munafiqeen: on that Day the hypocrites, Al Mubtiloona, those who are on the false path, Al Mustamirroona, the ones continuous upon hypocrisy with the Ahl ul Haq, the people of truth…

 

Wal Munafiqaat: and hypocrite women (who were) in the same way (continuous upon hypocrisy)…

 

Lilladina aamano: with the ones who attained to faith when they see…

 

Yasaa nooruhum bayna aydeehim wa bi aemaanihim: the light from their front and their right side…

 

Unduroona: look at us, Ayyohas Su’ada, O fortunate ones, Al Muhaqqoona, the ones truthful, and turn towards us…

 

Naqtabis min noorikum: so we may acquire from your light because we are in intense darkness.

 

Qeela: It will be said to them in that moment from Allah Al Haqq, The Only Truth, in the way of reprimand and scolding…

 

Irja’u wara’akum: go back i.e. return to the abode of gaining warning and choice (the world)…

 

Faltamisu noora: then look for light (there) and acquire from the lamp of Nabuwa, Prophet-hood and Wilaya, Friendship (of Allah) with the obedience of what was ordered and what was forbidden, sent from Him, Subhanahu, upon His Messengers and with Wisdom and Secrets coming from the tongues the Ulil Azaim As Sahiha, the people who are of true rank, and the Al Munjazibeena, the ones who are drawn towards Al Haqq from the way of dissolution in Him by the death of the will and know that they could have attended to the light and gained from it. Indeed this could have happened in the abode of warning and deception (the world), not in the abode of presence (before Subhanahu) and tranquility.

 

The tafseer made me think about what is scarcely mentioned in Islam except by a few chosen ones. That those who will not believe, deny and refuse Subhanahu and His Messengers and His Books will have to return to the world. Over and over like the Hindus and Buddhists, not insignificant faiths in terms of numbers or existence in time, believe in their ideology of multiple lives.

 

Will they have to return again and again till they gain the light?

 

“I am sitting with the one who remembers Me,” says Subhanahu. Ana Jalisu. Not the one remembering me is sitting with Me but that I am sitting with them. The difference is distinct and always highlighted by scholars. The approach towards the Servant by their Lord, not the other way around. Through the utterance of a word by the tongue or the heart or both.

 

In the reward of that dikr, which is uncountable, is one reward specifically named: the absence of shaqa, wretchedness, misery, sad, miserable, distressed, misfortunate.

 

عَنْ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ

إِنَّ لِلَّهِ تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى مَلَائِكَةً سَيَّارَةً فُضُلًا، يَتَتَبَّعُونَ مَجَالِسَ الذِّكْرِ، فَإِذَا وَجَدُوا مَجْلِسًا فِيهِ ذِكْرٌ، قَعَدُوا مَعَهُمْ، وَحَفَّ بَعْضُهُمْ بَعْضًا بِأَجْنِحَتِهِمْ، حَتَّى يَمْلَأُوا مَا بَيْنَهُمْ وَبَيْنَ السَّمَاءِ الدُّنْيَا، فَإِذَااْنْصَرَفُوا عَرَجُوا وَصَعِدُوا إِلَى السَّمَاءِ،

قَالَ: فَيَسْأَلُهُمْ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ وَهُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِهِمْ: مِنْ أَيْنَ جِئْتُمْ؟

فَيَقُولُونَ: جِئْنَا مِنْ عِنْدِ عِبَادٍ لَكَ فِي الْأَرْضِ، يُسَبِّحُونَكَ وَيُكَبِّرُونَكَ وَيُهَلِّلُونَكَ وَيَحْمَدُونَكَ وَيَسْأَلُونَكَ،

قَالَ: وَمَا يَسْأَلُونِي؟

قَالُوا يَسْأَلُونَكَ جَنَّتَكَ،

قَالَ: وَهَلْ رَأَوْا جَنَّتِي؟

قَالُوا: لَا أَيْ رَبِّ، قَالَ: فَكَيْفَ لَوْ رَأَوْا جَنَّتِي!

قَالُوا: وَيَسْتَجِيرُونَكَ،

قَالَ: وَمِمَّ يَسْتَجِيرُونَي؟

قَالُوا: مِنْ نَارِكَ يَا رَبِّ،

قَالَ: وَهَلْ رَأَوْا نَارِي؟

قَالُوا: لَا،

قَالَ: فَكَيْفَ لَوْ رَأَوْا نَارِي!

قَالُوا: وَيَسْتَغْفِرُونَكَ،

قَالَ فَيَقُولُ: قَدْ غَفَرْتُ لَهُمْ، وأَعْطَيْتُهُمْ مَا سَأَلُوا، وَأَجَرْتُهُمْ مِمَّا اسْتَجَارُوا، قَالَ يَقُولُونَ: رَبِّ فِيهِمْ فُلَانٌ، عَبْدٌ خَطَّاءٌ إِنَّمَا مَرَّ فَجَلَسَ مَعَهُمْ، قَالَ: فَيَقُولُ: وَلَهُ غَفَرْتُ؛ هُمْ الْقَوْمُ، لَا يَشْقَى بِهِمْ جَلِيسُهُمْ"

رواه مسلم وكذلك البخاري والترمذي والنسائي

 

The Prophet (ﷺ) said:

Allah (glorified and exalted be He) has supernumerary angels who rove about seeking out gatherings in which Allah's name is being invoked. They sit with them and fold their wings round each other, filling that which is between them and between the lowest Heaven.

 

When [the people in the gathering] depart, [the angels] ascend and rise up to heaven.

 

He (the Prophet (ﷺ)) said: Then Allah (mighty and sublime be He) asks them - [though] He is most knowing about them: From where have you come?

 

And they say: We have come from some servants of Yours on Earth: they were glorifying You (Subhana llah), exalting you (Allahu akbar), witnessing that there is no god but You (La ilaha illa llah), praising You (Al-Hamdu lillah), and asking [favours] of You.

 

He says: And what do they ask of Me?

 

They say: They ask of You Your Paradise.

 

He says: And have they seen My Paradise?

 

They say: No, O Lord.

 

He says: And how would it be were they to have seen My Paradise!

 

They say: And they ask protection of You.

 

He says: From what do they ask protection of Me?

 

They say: From Your Hell-fire, O Lord.

 

He says: And have they seen My Hell-fire?

 

They say: No.

 

He says: And how would it be were they to have seen My Hell-fire:

 

They say: And they ask for Your forgiveness.

 

He (the Prophet (ﷺ)) said: Then He says: I have forgiven them and I have bestowed upon them what they have asked for, and I have granted them sanctuary from that from which they asked protection.

 

He (the Prophet p.b.u.h) said: They say: O Lord, among them is So-and-so, a much sinning servant, who was merely passing by and sat down with them.

 

He (the Prophet p.b.u.h) said: And He says: And to him [too] I have given forgiveness: he who sits with such people shall not suffer.

 

It was related by Muslim (also by al-Bukhari, at-Tirmidhi, and an-Nasa'i).

 

I think since I heard it first in a lecture by Sheikh Hisham Kabbani (ra), it became my favourite Hadith Qudsi. The layering in the hadith was of course endless but the part that moved me first was the angels pointing out that someone had wandered into the dikr. A sinner, who just happened to be walking by and sat down. And Subhanahu, when asked what should happen to him, said, “To him too I have given forgiveness” for with such people no one can suffer.

 

All I want is for Sameena to not suffer. Not for an instant, a moment, a second. That is all I want. And nothing else. Luckily for me I escaped the angst around that wish by placing her as a child at the feet of Nabi Kareem (salutations and greetings upon his softest heart and that of his family) and I placed her at the feet of his beloved daughter, Bibi Fatima (as) who is always with him.

 

I know that when I did that they might have looked upon her. In that gaze of theirs, she became theirs and no longer mine. I wrote 50 pages in two days trying to understand and communicate love and betrayal to others, mostly strangers. To mark a first Friday like no other Friday. With the certainty that if another benefits from a single word in them, the reward of that will reach her here and her namesake in another realm.

 

And for myself, perhaps I will learn to overlook betrayal with grace and only see why any of us were created; to be a manifestation of love.

 

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COMMON TINSEL (Catapaecilma major)

The name is misguiding,it is certainly a rare butterfly in kerala,In the picture an ant (less than 3mm in size) attending a first instar caterpillar of the COMMON TINSEL (Catapaecilma major) butterfly

 

 

Youngsters growing intolerant due to misguidance: Satyarthi

 

Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi today stressed the need to harness the energy of youths to make world a better place even as he felt that the new generation is becoming intolerant and violent because they are "confused" and "misguided".

 

"Whatever they are doing today is because they could either be misguided or they don't have a clear path in their lives. They are confused in the competitive world and they don't see much opportunities. This frustrates them and creates a dislike for the whole system and establishment, eventually making them intolerant and violent," Satyarthi told PTI on the sidelines of an event organised by CII here.

 

Satyarthi said his NGO has launched a new global campaign against child labour and exploitation. The online and offline campaign is called as "100 million for 100 million" which aims to channelise the energies of the youth to create a better world.

 

The idea behind the campaign is to get 100 million young people to voice their views and act for another deprived 100 million children by sensitising others about issues relating to child labour, exploitation, sexual abuse and trafficking, through the initiative.

 

"There is a need to harness the anger and energies of the young people for a better world than wasting them in blaming each other. They can be the champions and voices on behalf of the 100 million children who are deprived of their basic rights to education and healthcare," he said.

 

The international child rights activist further said the government, civil society and the corporates should come together to ensure children are not exploited in any production or supply chain.

 

"Whenever corporates execute their projects they should make sure that no child is deprived of education and healthcare. All the three major stakeholders jointly create a culture of mutual trust and work together towards this common goal," Satyarthi said.

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AKHIL BHARATIYA VIDYARTHI PARISHAD .

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29/10/2004.

EXPOSE THE HYPOCRITICAL COMMUNISTS .

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Friends, · The communist politics of deceit, appeasement, treachery and.

The professional liars are at it once again. hypocrisy is in full swing. When the ABVP brought out a pamphlet on 27.9.04 giving some official census figures, .

the communists came up with a rejoinder overflowing with Bangladeshi infiltration-friendly vote bank politics. The central issue is that a secular state should be concerned about the rising population and its possible consequences and natural resources without basing its policy initiatives on the possible.

in terms of burden on infrastructure reactions of the religious leaders of a particular community. When the Mullahs are misguiding common Muslims by claiming that family planning is 'un-lslamic', and their communist stooges are busy singing praises of their contributions in AMU agitations, we think it our national duty to counter the propaganda of the Mullah-communist alliance and create a consciousness regarding the dangers of not controlling the growing population. .

THE RECENT 'MOVEMENT' BY SFI-AISF-AISA .

The ABVP has never believed in propaganda politics and double standards. When the JNUSU was led by the ABVP in 2000-01 , we facilitated for the student community the much desired railway reservation counter. At that point of time the ABVP strongly agitated for the allotment of the Mahi-Mandavi hostel and got it allotted to the .

students in the month of March, 2001. The ABVP could have also waited for the elections before agitating for the .

allotment of the hostel, as was done by the Communists this semester, but our politics is never election-centric. The recent movement of the SFI-AISF-AISA was a total sham. Not only did they sit on a hunger strike for the allotment of an already completed hostel, but they also raised -quoting the JNUSU Constitution -the demaAd for student representatives in the Academic Council, only to withdraw the strike without extracting any commitment on the latter demand from the Administration! We condemn this attempt to hoodwink the JNU students and demand an apology from the SFI-AISA for being more than 25 years late in raising the demand for student representatives in the AC, despite having been in the Union for years at a stretch.. We caution the students, particularly the freshers, not to be misled by the annual pre-election ritual of hunger stnkes. .

OUR DEMAND FOR THE DISPLAY OF M.PHIL INTERVIEW AND WRITTEN EXAMINATION MARKS .

The ABVP strongly feels that there is a need for larger transparency in the admission process at the M.Phii/Ph.D level. It is widely believed by a large section of the student community that due to the lack of transparency inherent in the non-declaration of written and viva marks scored by the candidates, the SFI and AISA .

able to influence the admission process by stealth in connivance with their sympathizers sitting as facultyare .

members and are able to get admitted many of their undeserving activists. The ABVP would like to promise the student community that if it wins the union election, it would take up the transparency issue and ensure the declaration of both written and viva marks as its top priority. .

GEELANI ISSUE .

The anti-national, sectarian and divisive mindset of the communists in the campus became clear when .

they invited a suspected terrorist like Geelani -who proclaims that h,e will fight till the last drop of his blood for the .

freedom of Kashmir from the Union of India-to the campus. Law abiding as they are, the students of JNU cannot .

tolerate the presence of a person who openly rejects the constitutional emphasis on the territorial integrity of India. .

Friends, we urge you to give a befitting reply in the forthcoming JNUSU elections to the SFI & AISA, and support a nationalist alternative in the form of the ABVP. .

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CENTRAL PANEL .

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PRESIDENT.

DHANANJAY SINGH -VICE-PRESIDENT.

ANKITA BHATTACHARJEE -GEN-SECRETARY.

PRITISH KUMAR SAHU -JOINT-SECRETARY.

MANOJ PANT -S IS sss S anskrit Centre.

SL BHARTI TANWAR ARIJIT RAKSHIT RAJEEV NARAVAN RAKESH RANJAN VIKAS SHARMA.

DZHKHA KARUNA SAURABJYOTISARMA .

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NAVNEET RADHAY SHYAM .

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PUSP RANJAN VIKAS ANAND .

VIVEK KUMAR OJHA.

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SATISH .

VANDE MATARAM! .

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Sd/-Ran Vijay Central Campaign Coordinator .

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tradition. In other words. we stand for .

decolonization in all spheres of national activity .

with acceptance of only those foreign values which can further enrich our indigenous cultural core . The ABVP is a nationalist student organization which stands for cultural nationalism. Even if the nation itself is a modern phenomenon, as is claimed by theorists of nationalism and nation-states the world over, it does derive popular legitimacy from the past. This legitimacy is based on notions of past cultural continuity, and shared historical memories and experiences. India being no exception to this, we reject the notion that lnd1an nationalism was a product merely of the opposition to colonial rule, and that the 'impact-response' model convincingly explains the 'im1tat1on' by a colonized, 'child people' of the politicalmstltutlons of the colonial masters. Our nationalism 1s ent1rely mdigenous to us. and is based on a celebration of the cultural linkages -as also the harmonization of differences through historical processes of collectivization -that can be traced bac'k to the times of the Vedic culture, the epic tradition. the egalitarian Bhakti Movement, etc. In more recent times, these processes of national collectivization have been carried forward by the contributions of men like Gandhi and Vivekanand , and organizations like the Arya Samaj and the RSS. The commitment towards the celebration of our national culture would be rendered meaningless ifwe were to fail to make a significant contribution to the decolonization of our education system. Our education system is still based on the colonial model, and can be seen as a direct off-shoot of the colonial state's policy to educate a handful of Indians in western thought, literature etc., with English as the medium of instruction. The aim of this venture was clearly hegemonic · having established political control over India, the colonizers were now seeking to perpetuate the RaJ through moral. social and cultural control; through a projection of notions of 'British supenonty' which were being sought to be established by the deculturization of Indians through the institutionalization of alien modes and forms of knowledge. The knowledge system thus imposed had an epistemological basis in the .

'Enlightenment' discourse -the dominant intellectual tradition in Europe at that time. The categories constructed by this European intellectual tradition -such as 'progress', 'rationality', 'scientifrcity', 'secularism', etc.-made their way into India and have unfortunately become uncontested 'truths' for us. An alternative, indigenous system of knowledge can be structured only through a questioning of these categories and the construction of alternative categories. which have indigenous roots; which are an outcome of a comprehensive and critical study of our own schools of thought and cultural values. The ABVP stands firmly in favour of any such venture aimed at the indigemzat1on of our education system. .

Related to the question of education is the issue of rewriting history. The initiative of the NDA government to rewrite history textbooks came in for severe criticism at the hands ofthe left. They argued that history was being sought to be 'saffronized' and 'distorted' by the Vajpayee government. So far as the 'saffronization' issue goes. the intellectually colonized cannot appreciate the indigenization of education and are constrained to give negative connotations to it. Where 'distortion' is concerned, any serious scholar of social sciences can understand that history is not a body of factual information but a discipline based on contesting approaches to past questions. Any interpretation based on sources and coherently argued can constitute a legitimate approach to the past. But so far as textbooks are concerned. care should be taken not to make them an instrument for the propagation of a .

particular ideology, least of all an Ideology that has no popular support in the country! The earlier NCERT textbooks played precisely this role : they selectively concealed and overemphasized facts calculated to further the political cause of the Communists and the Congress, to the total detriment ofthe Hindutva ideology. That is why the Modern India Textbook of Bipan Chandra, which is otherwise obsessed with 'communalism', conveniently omits the important historical evidence regarding support for the Pakistan Movement by the CPI-the mother organization of .

the CPl. the CPI(M) and the CPI(ML). .

The ABVP expresses serious concern over the threat of fundamentalism of all hues, religious and 'secular', which seeks to reduce the complex of reality to a narrow, monolithic code of ethics and behaviour. It divides the whole material and spiritual world into two watertight compartments -'truth' (which it alone possesses) and 'falsity'. While the Jehadi mindset -which insists on restoring the 'purity' of Islam and is ready to counter with violence any questioning of its model ofa monolithic religion-has become a major source of world terrorism. Marxist terrorism, in Nepal and in several states of India, which is a direct off-shoot of the dogmatic Ideas of Karl Marx and Engels. is another threat to world peace. While the Jehadi mindset can be countered both by state action and the encouragement of moderate Muslim opinion. the 'secular' Marx1st terronsm can be countered only with an iron hand; for no moderate Marxist opinion can exist in the world without being branded 'Utopian' or even 'pro-imperialist' by its own dogmatic comrades. .

The explosive situation in Assam and Manipur shows the utter failure of the UPA government supported by the Communists in handling the situation in the north-eastern states of India. The BJP-Ied NDA government had engaged in constructive talks with many north-eastern groups through its interlocutor, Mr. Padmanabhiyah, and had s1gned a historic peace accord with the various factions of the Nagas.The ABVP stands for peaceful resolution of the problems concerning the north-east through negotiations aimed at the satisfaction of all concerned groups. CAMPUS ISSUES .

The ABVP rejects the SFI-AISF-AISA's politics of ritualistic pre-election hunger strikes which aim at misguiding the freshers. The hostel problem 'suddenly' crops up before every election, only to disappear in the winter semester: the 'anti.-student Administration' is targeted and abused unt1l the hunger strike is finally withdrawn on the Administration's 'assurance' of agreeing with the SFI's demands 'in principle' (as distinct from practice) and hollow promises of initiating .

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Union food processing minister and Bathinda member of Parliament from Bathinda Harsimrat Kaur Badal said Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener Arvind Kejriwal was a “king cobra” and was “biting” his party leaders to become Punjab chief minister.

 

The Akali MP, who was in Mansa on Saturday to inaugurate rural sewa kendras, said: “Kejriwal’s next target will be Sangrur MP Bhagwant Mann as he is aiming at the CM’s chair and will keep suspending Punjab leaders of his party,” said she.

 

Harsimrat had earlier termed the AAP “seasonal frog” that often makes noise after coming out of hibernation. Over reports of Bhagwant Mann being miffed with the AAP, she said the Sangrur MP was already in touch with Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi and soon truth will be out in the open.

 

Criticising Punjab Congress chief Captain Amarinder Singh, she said he would betray voters of Amritsar, who had reposed faith in him in the Lok Sabha elections, as he wants to contest assembly elections from Patiala.

 

Regarding the alleged derogatory remarks by SAD MLA Virsa Singh Valtoha against the Dalits in the Punjab Vidhan Sabha, Harsimrat said: “The Opposition allegations are baseless and out of frustration as it has nothing to show against the SAD-BJP government. The opposition leaders are running short of public issues to be discussed in the assembly.”

 

Later, addressing a gathering in Bathinda, she said “morally and financially” corrupt AAP leaders were indulging in malpractices and looting people. “The AAP is a pack of liars, who are hell bent to misguide the people of Punjab,” she said.

 

“In the hour of crisis, when people of Delhi are facing severe dengue and chikungunya outbreak, not only the CM but also deputy chief minister and other ministers are on foreign jaunts,” she said.

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This book published by SIKH ITIHAS RESERCH BOARD, Shiromani Gurdwara Prabhandak ,Shri Amritsar containing Hand written Hukamname and Nishans of so Many Guru Sahibs ,Mata Gujri Ji,Mata Sundri Ji, Baba Banda Bahadur Ji and so many respected personalties is now NOT AVAILABLE FOR GURSIKHS,WHY ?

BECAUSE GURU SAHIBS STRICTLY

NOT ALLOWED THE USE OF MEAT,WINE ,BHANG& Other such Nashas.We are to see the directions of Guru Sahibs.Some people are Misguiding the new sikh genration.

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Frrends, Electrons to the JNUSU are known to be contested on both national and campus 1ssues That a nch chmate of rntellectual debate has pre\arled rn the campus rs pnmarily due to the presence of the ABVP for we are the only organrzatron rn JNU whrch can justly lay a clatm of havrng an alternative visron for the nat10n and the socrety All other organrzatrons are lined up to approprrate the dommant Nehruvian agenda which draws mtellectual nounshment from a set of values ongrnatrng tram the modern European tntellectualtraditron grounded rn the 18' century Enlightenment What the other orgamzatrons debate among themselves IS not thrs central agenda but the1r relatrve abilities of push1ng rl foiWard We contest th1s agenda rtself and suggest an alternative pohtrcal soc1al econom1c and cultural model based on a deep study, d'efinrtto~ and redefintlton of our ind1genous rntellectual tradilton In other words we stand for decolon1zatron rn all spheres of nat1onal aclivrty wuh acceptance of only those forergn values whrch can further ennch our rndrgenous cultural core The ABVP tS a naltonaltst student orgamzatton which stands for cultural nationalism Even 1f the nat1on rtself rs a modern phenomenon -as 1s cJarmed by theonsts of natronalism and natron-states the world over-1t does denve popl.llar legrtmacy from the past. Th1s legrt1macy 1s based on notions of past cultural contrnu1ty, and shared histoncal memories and expenences India betng no exceptron to this we reject the notion that lndran nahonahsm was a product merely of the opposrt1on to colonral rule, and that the 'Impact-response' model convincingly explarns the imitation' by a colonized, 'child people' of the pohtical instttutaons of the colonial masters Our nationalism 1s enttrely rndrgenous to .

us, and 1s based on a celebratron of the cultural hnkages -as also the harmonrzation of differences through h1stoncal processes of collectrv1zat1on -that can be traced back to the t1mes of the Vedrc .

culture, the epic traditron. the egalitarian Bhakta Movement, etc In more recent t1mes, these processes of national collectrvtzat1on have been earned foiWard by the contnbutaons of men like Gandhr and Vivekanand, and organizations ltke the Arya SamaJ and the RSS. .

The commitment towards the celebration of our national culture would be rendered meanmgless rf we were to far I to make a s1gnrficant contnbution to the decolonization of our education system Our educatron system ts strll based on the colon1al model, and can be seen as a d1rect off-shoot of the colontal state's policy to educate a handful of Indians tn western thought. literature etc.. w1th English as the medium of instructron The arm of thrs venture was clearly hegemonrc havmg established polrt1cal control over lndra. the colonrzers were now seekrng to perpetuate the Raj through moral, sacral and cultural control, through a proJeCtion of notrons of 'British supenonty' which were being sought to be established by the deculturization of lndrans through the institutionalizatiOn of allen modes and forms of knowledge. The knowledge system thus imposed had an epistemologrcal basrs 1n the 'Enlightenment' discourse -the dominant intellectual tradrtion in Europe at that lime. The categortes constructed by thrs European intellectual tradrtron -such as 'progress', 'ratronahty', 'scientificity', 'secularism', etc -made therr way rnto India and have unfortunately become uncontested 'truths' for us. An alternatrve, rndigenous system of knowledge can be structured only through a questronmg of these categories and the construction of alternative categones. which have indigenous roots; wh1ch are an outcome of a comprehens1ve and critrcal study of our own schools of thought and cultural values The ABVP .

stands firmly 1n favour of any such venture a1med at the .

1ndigen1zahon of our education system .

Related to the quesuon of education ts the assue of rewriting history. The 1ntt1at1ve of the NDA government to rewnte htstory textbooks came in for severe cnt1casm at the hands of th~ 1 ft They argued that h1story was be1ng sought to be 'saffrontzed :Od 'distorted' by the Vajpayee government So far as the ·saffron1zatlon 1ssue goes. the mtellectually colomzed cannot appre-iate the ind1gemzatton of education and are constrained to g·ve n"egative connotal1ons to 1t Where 'd1stortron' rs concerned, a~y senous scholar of social sc1ences can understand that h1story s not a body of factual information but a ~tsctphne ~ased on.

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contesting approaches to past quest1ons Any Interpretation based on sources and coherently argued can constitute a leg1t1mate approach to the past. But so far as textbooks are concerned, care should be ta"en not to make them an mstrument for the propagat1on of a part1cular Ideology, least of all an tdeology that has no popular support 1n !he country! The earlier NCERT textbooks played prec1sely thts role · they selectiVely_ concealed and overemphaSIZed facts calculated to further the pohttcal cause of the Communists and the Congress. to the total detnment of the Hindutva rdeology. That 1s why the Modern lnd1a Textbook of B1pan Chandra, whrch IS othe1W1se obsessed wrth 'communalism . convenrently omits the important h1stoncal evtdence regardrng support for the Pakistan Movement by the CPI -the mother organiZatron of the CPI, the CPI(M) and the CPI(ML). .

The ABVP expresses senous concern over the threat of fundamentalism of all hues -rehg1ous and 'secular' -which seeks to reduce the complex of reality to a narrow. monohthtc code of ethiCS and behaviour. It drvrdes the whole matenal and sprrrtual world rnto two watertight compartments -'truth' (whrch it alone possesses) and 'falsity'. Whrle the Jehadi mindset -which insists on restoring the 'punty' of Islam and 1s ready to counter w1th violence any questioning of its model or a monolithic religion -has become a major source of world terrorism, Marxist terronsm, in Nepal and in several states of lnd1a, which is a direct off-shoot of the dogmatic tdeas of Karl Marx and Engels, rs another threat to world peace. While the Jehadr mrndset can be countered both by state action and the encouragement of moderate Mushm opmron, the 'secular' Marxist terronsm can be countered only with an iron hand; for no moderate Marx1st oprnton can exist rn the world wrthout bemg branded 'Utopran' or even pro-rmpenahst' by 1ts own dogmatic comrades. .

The explostve srtuatron in Assam and Manipur shows the utter failure of the UPA government supported by the Communists in handling the srtuation in the north-eastern states of India. The BJP-Ied NDA government had engaged in constructive talks with many north-eastern groups through its interlocutor, Mr. Padmanabhlyah, and had signed a historic peace accord with the various factions of the Nagas. The ABVP stands for peaceful resolution of the problems concemmg the north-east through negotiations aimed at the satisfaction of all concerned groups. .

CAMPUS ISSUES .

. . The ABVP rejects the SFI-AISF-AISA's politrcs of ntuahst1c pre-election hunger strikes whrch aim at misguiding the freshers. The rssue of MCM and its reported enhancement clearly exposes SFI-AISF-AISA led JNUSU nexus with JNU-Admn. A paltry increase in the MCM (although rt has not been Implemented so far) 1nd1cates that the SFI-AISF-AISA led JNUSU had a beforehand understanding wrth the JNU-Admn w1th an eye at the - .

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have a moral stand1ng to seek mandate from the student .. commun1ty PSU has already withdrawn its panel from the JNUSU -electrons after it was exposed that rts v1ce Presidentral candrdate had a case of sexual hasrassment pendrng agarnst him, but SFI shamefully contmues to reta1n its V1ce Presidential candrdate who ·-has senous charges of sexual harassment agamst hm. .

Durrng the course of the year 2000-2001 , the ABVP led JNUSU fulfilled the long standtng demand of a Railway Reservation Counter on the campus, ATM facrlrty in the SBI ·-Extension Counter purchase and installation of 140 computers to be used by students of each centre purchase of 4000 books for .

the Central Ltbrary, startrng of a Students Welfare Fund, resolution to a great extent of the hostel cnsis on the campus by exped1tmg the bu1ldrng and allotment of Mah1-Mandav1 and starting of work on two more hostels 1n the campus. etc .

Our focus for the comrng year WJII be on the followrng issues . .

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If we get a mandate from the students of JNU we w111 ensure declaration of the M.Phil. written examination and interview marks so that complete transparency in the academrc process is ensured .

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Restructunng the syllabus in social sctences so as to make the course content more reflective of our 1nd1genous knowledge systems. .

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Settmg up of a Central Placement Cell for JNU so as to make educatron in JNU more job-oriented .

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Timely release of scholarship money for students of all schools by exertmg pressure on the otherwrse insenstltve JNU Admmistration. .

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The need for transparency in instrument purchase IS an rmportant demand m the Science Schools The Parishad wrll take up thrs demand as a top pnonty .

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The Science Schools are in drre need of more funds. for wh1ch we shall exert pressure on the government In case of government insensrtrvity. we can even rnvolve the pnvate sector .

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There is an urgent need for the proviSion of clean drrnl .

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The killer politics ofthe brahminicalleft .

'Bloody Revolution '-Opium ofthe Masses! .

The recent killings of 8 persons (& scores getting injured) in police firing in the Khammam district of Andhra Pradesh again.

,()ear Friends, .

brings to light the dangerous game being played by the manuwadi communists in India. It is not for the first time, and surely not for the .

last timl.! that innocent people, no surprise all of them bahujans, have fallen prey to police bullets like this. The victims were doing demonstration under the left banner, purportly demanding agricultural land for the landless. The AP police opened indiscriminate fire on the demonstrators, killing 8 persons on the spot and critically injuring many more. of the SC,STIOBC/ Religious minorities. The communist ·movement' especially the naxalite/ maoist kind of violent movement has .

This brutal incident is yet another instance ofthe manuwadi communists' crooked game plan ofdoing politics over dead bodies .

"v.asted'" lakhs & lakhs ofinnocent lives (ofSC/ST/OBC/Muslims) in the past 35 years since its inception. Despite. so many Jives ofpoor .

& innocent people falling prey to police or naxaJite violence, not even 1% of what the manuwadi (read Brahmin) communist leaders .

promised to the poor. hns been delivered to them. Every year thousands of people die in naxal violence or police/naxal confljcts but, has .

an~one ever heard of any Brahmin leader ofthe communistlnaxal/ maoist movement being killed either in police firing ofnaxal violence .

\\'h' doesn't any police bullet ever ta!J!et a brahmin Naxal/ Maoist leader needs to be understood. It is important to understand the though the} upenl) roam around giving interviews to media and addressing public meetings spewing (fake) 'venom' agajnst the State. .

lsn't 1t surpris1ng that the so called violent left movement is active in the areas with more than 90% population belonging to the.

hrahminical strateg) to use the innocent poor to as "fuel" to bake their political bread. .

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SC ST OBC and ~fuslim society? These brahmin "owned' lef-shit organizations (CPI-M, CPI, RSP and their numerous students' wings .

like SFI.AlSA DSU etc. all over the country) brain wash innocent Bahujans into violence where they get regularly killed by police bullets. Baba~abeb Or Ambedkar had clearly stated many times during his lifetime that the depressed classes (SC/ST/OBC/Religious .

minorities) of this counrr-y should come together on one platform and snatch the political power from the hands of handful of .

br-.:thmmical class which is ruling and exploiting the majority population of this country by creating divisions amongst them. .

art>a-. ''here naxal1sm/Maoism is prevalent in the country, the SC/ST/OBCIRM pt:ople can easily mitigate all their suffering through "Ballol'', but the manuvad1 fake 'revo/utiona1 ies' have turned these hapless & exploited people ~owards path of" Bullets". Hence, despiteBabasaheb told his people that they ~an mitigate all their sufferings by using their voting power and forming their own govts. In all these .

d~ing) like animals and the handful ofmanuvadis are ruling over them. All that is happening because ofthe false dreams ofsome distant being overwhelming majMit} in their states like Chhattisgarh, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, West Be11gal etc., the bahujans are living (and .

'Ihe poor and the exploited can live a life of dignity and prosperity by using their power of vote (i.e. by adopting democratic're'oluuon' that falls to arrive, just like a "mirage in a desert. .

means) but the brahminical commu-na~is have poisoned the minds of the minds of the people with their fake doctrine of "armed name of 're\'OIUllon' and the brahminical manuwadis (whether communists/RSS-BJP types/Congress etc) are laughing & enjoying this struggle". Whether it's the naxalite/maoists, policemen or the ordinary people, it's only the bahujans who are killing one another in the sight from the fences. In the past three decades or so, lakhs of SC/ST/OBC people have lost their lives or they are rotting in jails under .

l'AOA & other draconian Acts. Even the lower level police personnel who get killed in naxal attack/ landmine blast are from the bahujan samnj only. Not just that. a Dalit IPS officer was killed few years back in naxal attack in Bihar and a Backward caste (Kunni) MP Sunil i\1ahto was killed by naxalitcs a few months back in Jharkhand. In Chhatt1sgarh, the manuwadi rulers have started "Salva Judum" drama . · .. ,_ ''her\! the brothers are killing brothers in the name of 'counter-terrorism measures' by the state govt. while the I0% manuwadis are ruling .

Not just that, as per the statistics available, more than 40% of the people (men, women and even children below 18) who are .

N. looting the resources ofthe state with both hands and making merry. .

rott1ng in various state prisons (mostly Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Orissa) under anti-terrorist acts like TADA, erstwhile POTA etc come from Scheduled Tribe category. But has anyone ever heard any brahmin leader of this fake leftist movement ever talking about or .

prote:-.t111g againc;t victimization & suppression of these innocent people who are themselves victims of the manuvadi exploitation for .

ccntuncs. But, that is the real crooked character of the brahminical communist leaders ofthis country who are misguiding the bahujans in .

the name of their bogus revolution which is nothing but a ploy to confuse them and keep them perpetually divided and under their .

sl!rvitude. It is high time to expose the Manuwadi communists of this country. JAI BHARAT .

J:\1 BIIEEM EMail: bahujanstudcnts2006@gmail.com .

Ashol.. (Convenor-BSF) 260, Tapti hostel, JNU, New Delhi. Ph: 09899446851 .

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'Irbad bin Sariyah (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: One day, Messenger of Allah (sallallahu 'alaihi wa sallam) delivered a very effective speech, as a result, eyes shed tears and hearts became softened. A man said: "O Prophet of Allah! It sounds as if this is a farewell speech, so advise us." He (sallallahu 'alaihi wa sallam) said, "I admonish you to fear Allah, and to listen and obey even if a black slave has been appointed as your leader. For whoever among you lives after me will see much discord. So hold fast to my Sunnah and the Sunnah of the Rightly-Guided Caliphs who will come after me. Adhere to them and hold fast to them. Beware of Bid'ah (in religion) because every Bid'ah is a misguidance." [Abu Da wud and At-Tirmidhi]. وعن العرباض بن سارية رضي الله عنه قال: وعظنا رسول الله موعظة وجلت منها القلوب، وذرفت منها العيون وذكر الحديث وقد سبق بكماله في باب الأمر بالمحافظة على السنة، وذكرنا أن الترمذي قال: ((إنه حديث حسن صحيح)). Sunnah.com reference : Book 2, Hadith 22 Arabic/English book reference : Book 2, Hadith 702

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Elect1ons to the JNUSU are f..nown to be contested on both nat1onal and campus 1ssues That a rich climate of Intellectual debate has preva1led m the campus 1s pnmarily due to the presence of the ABVP for we are the only orgamzat1on 1n JNU whrch can JUStly lay a cla1m of hav1ng an alternat1ve vis1on for the nat1on and the soc1ety All other orgamzahons are tined up to appropnate the dommant Nehruvian agenda wh1ch draws rntellectual nourishment from a set of values originating from the modern European mtellectual trad1tion grounded in the 18'h century Enlightenment What the other organizations debate among themselves is not this central agenda but their relative abilities of pushmg it forward. We contest this agenda itself and suggest an alternative political, soc1al. economic and cultural model based on a deep study, definition and redefinition of our indigenous mtellectualtradltion. In other words, we stand for decolonization in all spheres of national activity wrth acceptance of only those forergn values wh1ch can further enrich our indigenous cultural .

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The ABVP IS a nationalist student organization which stands for cultural nationalism. Even 1f the nation itself is a modern phenomenon -as is cla1med by theorists of nationalism and nation-states the world over-it does derive popular legitimacy from the past Th1s leg1t1macy IS based on notions of past cultural continuity, and shared histoncal memories and expenences. India be1ng no exception to th1s, we reject the notion that Indian nat10nahsm was a product merely of the opposition to colonial rule, and that the 'rmpact-response' model convincingly explains the 'imrtatlon' by a colonized. 'child people' of the pohtical mstitutions of the colonial masters. Our nat1onahsm 1s entirely indigenous to us, and rs based on a celebrat1on of the cultural linkages -as also the harmonization of differences through historical processes of collectivization -that can be traced back to the times of the Vedic culture, the ep1c tradrhon. the egalitarian Bhakti Movement, etc. In more recent times, these processes of national collectivization have been carried forward by the contnbutions of men like Gandh1 and V1vekanand, and organizations like the Arya Samaj and the RSS. .

The commitment towards the celebration of our national culture would be rendered meaningless if we were to fail to make a significant contribution to the decolonization of our education system. Our education system is still based on the colonial model, and can be seen as a direct off-shoot of the colonial state's policy to educate a handful of Indians in western thought, literature etc., wrth English as the med1um of instruction. The aim of th1s venture was clearly hegemonic . having established pohttcal control over lnd1a. the colonizers were now seekmg to perpetuate the RaJ through moral, soc1al and cultural control; through a projection of notions of 'Bnt1sh superiority' which were bemg sought to be established by the deculturrzation of Indians through the rnst1tuhonaliza!lon of allen modes and forms of knowledge The knowledge system thus 1mposed had an epistemological basis in the 'Enlightenment' d1scourse -the .dominant intellectu~l tradition m Europe at that time The categones constructed by thrs European intellectual tradrl1on -such as ·~rogress', 'ratio.nahty', 'scientrficity', ·secularism' etc. -made the1r way mto lndta and have unfortunately become uncontested 'truths' for us. An alternative, rndigenous system of knowledge can be structured only through a question1ng of .these .categones . a~d the construot1on of alternative categones, wh1ch have 1nd1genous roots, wh1ch are an outcome of a comprehensive and critcal study .

of our own schools of thought and cultural values The ABVP .

stands f1rmly in favour of any such venture aimed at the .

md1genization of our education system .

Related to the question of education 1s the issue of rewriting history. The initiative of the NOA government to rewnte h1story textbooks came in for severe critic1sm at the hands of the left They argued that history was be1ng sought to be 'saffron1zed' and 'distorted' by the Vajpayee government. So far as the 'saffronization' issue goes. the intellectually colonized cannot appreciate the indigenization of education and are constrained to give negative connotations to it. Where 'distortion' is concerned ~ny serious scholar of social sciences can understand that h1sto,Y 1s not a body of factual information but a discipline based on contesting approaches to past questions. Any interpretation based on sources and coherently argued can constitute a legitimate approach to the past. But so far as textbooks are concerned, care should be taken not to make them an mstrument for the propagation of a particular ideology. least of all an ideology that has no popular support in the country! The earlier NCERT textbooks played precisely this role . they selectively concealed and overemphasized facts calculated to further the political cause of the Communists and the Congress, to the total detriment of the Hindutva ideology. That is why the Modern India Textbook of Bipan Chandra, which is otherwise obsessed with 'communalism'. conveniently omits the important historical evidence regarding support for the Pakistan Movement by the CPI -the mother organization of the CPl. the CPI(M) and the CPI(ML). .

The ABVP expresses serious concern over the threat of fundamentalism of all hues -religiOlS and 'secular' -which seeks to reduce the complex of reality to a narrow. monolithic code of ethics and behaviour. It divides the whole material and spiritual world mto two watertight compartments -'truth' (which it alone possesses) and 'falsity'. While the Jehadi mmdset -which msists on restoring the 'purity' of Islam and IS ready to counter with violence any questioning of its model of a monolithic religion -has become a major source of world terrorism, Marxist terrorism, in Nepal and in several states of India, which is a direct off-shoot of the dogmatic ideas of Karl Marx and Engels, is another threat to world peace. While the Jehadi mindset can be countered both by state action and the encouragement of moderate Muslim opinion, the 'secular' Marxist terrorism can be countered only with an iron hand; for no moderate Marx1st opmion can exist In the world w1thout being branded 'Utopian' or even 'pro-impenahst' by its own dogmatic comrades. .

The explosive situation in Assam and Manipur shows the utter failure of the UPA government supported by the Communists in handling the Situation in the north-eastern stat~s of India. The BJP-Ied NDA government had engaged 1n constructive talks with many north-eastern groups through l~s interlocutor, Mr. Padmanabhiyah, and had signed a histone peace accord with the various factions of the Nagas. The ABVP stands for peaceful resolution of the problems concernmg the north-east through negotiations a1med at the satisfactiOn of all concerned groups. .

CAMPUS ISSUES .

The ABVP rejects the SF'I-AISF-AISA's politiCS of ntualistic pre-election hunger strikes which aim at misguiding the freshers. The issue of MCM ~nd its reported enhancement clearly exposes SFI-AISF-AISA led JNUSU nexus with Jt;'U-Admn. A paltry increase in the MCM (although 1t has not been Implemented .

so far) tnd1cates that the SFI-AISF-AI SA led JNUSU had a beforehand understanding w1th the JNU-Admn w1th an eye at the JNUSU elections. .

It 1s also very unfortunate to note that the Commun1sts have m their panels candidates who are known sexual harasser and do not have a moral standmg to seek mandate from the student community. PSU has already w1thdrawn 1ts panel from the JNUSU elections after 1t was exposed that 1ts v1ce Presidential cand1date had a case of sexual hasrassment pendmg against him, but SFI shamefully continues to retain its V1ce Presidential candidate who has serious charges of sexual harassment against him. .

During the course of the year 2000-2001, the ABVP led JNUSU fulfilled the long standing demand of a Railway Reservat1on Counter on the campus. ATM fac1hty in the SBI Extension Counter, purchase and installation of 140 computers to be used by students of each centre, purchase of 4000 books for the Central Library, startmg of a Students' Welfare Fund, resolution to a great extent of the hostel cns1s on the campus by exped1t1ng the buildmg and allotment of Mahi-Mandavi. and startmg or work on two more hostels in the campus, etc .

Our focus for the coming year will be on the follow1ng issues .

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If we get a mandate from the students of JNU. we w1ll ensure declaration of the M.Phil. written examination and interview marks so that complete transparency in the academ1c process is ensured. .

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Restructuring the syllabus m soc1al sc1ences so as to make the course content more reflective of our tnd1genous knowledge systems. .

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Setting up of a Central Placement Cell for JNU so as to make educatiOn in JNU more job-oriented .

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Timely release of scholarship money for students of all schools by exertmg pressure on the otherwise 1nsens11tve JNU Admtnistration. The need for transparency in instrument purchase IS an.

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Important demand tn the Science Schools. The Panshad will take up this demand as a top pnonty The Science Schools are m dire need of more funds. for.

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whrch we shall exert pressure on the government In case of .

government insensit1vrty, we can even 1nvolve the pnvate sector There IS an urgent need for the prov1sion of clean dnnking.

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water at Ganga Ohaba -wh1ch we shall take up as an 1mportant pnority We demand that the JNU library be kept open round the.

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Chandrabhaga Hostel w1th central locations of the campus hke the Ad-Block. We shall exert pressure on the Administration for the same We w11l ensure proper fundmg of the libranes concerned with.

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d1fferent centres so that the required books and JOurnals are made available on regular bas1s Unfettered internet access for all students mcluding Phys1cally.

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Challenged students of the University, 1ncludmg BA & MA students entailing more tem11nals for each centre and hostels and increased hours of access. 1s a top priority for us .

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The killer politics of the brahminicalleft .

'Bloody Revolution'-Opium of the Masses! .

The recent killmgs of 8 persons (& scores getting injureuJ in JJoiice firing in the Khammam district of Andhra Pradesh again .

Dear Friends, .

brings to light the dangerous game being played by the manuwadi communists in India. It is not for the first time, and surely not for the last time that innocent people. no surprise all of them bahujans, have fallen prey to police bullets like this. The victims were doing demonstration under the left banner, l purportly demanding agricultural land 1or the landless. The AP police opened indiscriminate fire on This brutal incident is yet another instance of the manuwadi communists' crooked game plan ofdoing politics over dead bodies .

the demonstrators, killing 8 persons on the spot and critically injuring many more. .

of the SCISTIOBC' Religious minorities. The communist 'movement' cspectall) the naxalite/ maoist kind of violent movement has .

··v, Jsted" lakhs & Jakhs of innocent lives (ofSC/ST/OBC/Muslims) in the past35 years since its inception. Despite, so many lives ofpoor & innocent people falling prey to police or naxalite violence, not even l% of what the manuwadi (read Brahmin) communist leaders promised to the poor. has been delivered to them. Every year thousands of people die 111 naxal violence or police/naxal conflicts but, has anyone e\er heard ofany Brahmin leader ofthe communtst/naxal/ maoist movement being killed either in police firing of naxal violence though they open!~ roam around gh ing interviews to media and addressing public meetings spewing (fake) 'venom' against the State. .

\\'h' doesn't any police bullet ever target a brahmin Naxal/ Maoist le:Hier needs to be understood. It is important to understand the .

brahminical strategy to use the innocent poor to as "fuel" to bake their political bread. .

Babasaheb Or Ambcdkar had clearly stated many times durir!g his Jifct1mc that fhc depressed classes (SC/ST/OBC/Religious SC <;T!OBC and Muslim society? These brahmin "ov.med" le.f-shit organiLations (CPI-M, CPI, RSP and their numerous students' wings .

Jsn't it surprising that the so called violent left movement is active in the areas with more than 90o/o population belonging to the .

like SFI.AISA DSU etc. all over the country) brain wash tnnocent Bahujans tnto v10lence where they get regularly killed by police bullets. .

brahminical clas~ "" hich is ruling and exploiting the majority population of this country by creating divisions amongst them. .

minoritie..,) of u.;~ count;)' stHluld come together on one pla:forrn aud snatch the political power from the hands of handfl!l of Raba~aheb told his pl.!ople that they can nlitigate all theii sufferings by using their voting power and fom1ing their own govts. In all these area<; where naxaltsm/Maoism is prevaknt ir. the country. the SCIST/OBC/RM people can easily mitigate all their suffering thn.ugh bein~ overwhelming majority in their states like Chhattisgarh, Orissa, AndhraPradesh, West Bengal etc.. the bahujans are living (and ''Ballot". but the manuvadi fake 'revolutionanes' have turned these haplese; & exploited people towards path of" Bullets". Hence, despite d\ 111:~) like animals and the handful of manuvadis are ruling over the111. All that is happening because ofthe false dreams of some distant .

"armed 're,olutJOn' tlrat fatls to arrive.just like a "mirage in a desert. .

The poor and the exploited can live a life of dignity and prosperity by using their power of vote (i.e. by adopting democratic .

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means) but the brahminical commu-nazis have poisoned the minds of tht! minds of the people with their fake doctrine of struggle". \Vhether it's the naxalitc/maoists, policemen or the on.linary people, it's only the bahujans who are killing one another in the .

name of 'n!\'Oiutron' and the brahminical manuwadis (whether communists/RSS-BJ P types/Congress etc) are laughing & enjoying this sight from the fences. In the past three decades or so, lakhs of SC/ST/OBC people have lost their lives or they are rotting in jails under samaj only. Not just that. a Dalit IPS officer was killed few yenrs back in naxnl attack in Bihar and a Backward caste (Kurmi) MP Sunil T \DA & other draconian Acts. Even the lowl.!r level police personnel who get killed 111 naxal attack/ landrnine blast are from the bahujan .

l\1ahto was killed by naxalites a few months back tn Jharkhand. In Chhattsgarh. the mnnuwadi rulers have started "Salva Judunr" drama .

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v..ll\.!re the brothers are killing brothers in the name of'countcr-terrorism measures' by the stnte govt. while the 10% manuwadis are ruling & looting the resources ofthe state with both hands and making m~rry.

from ~Scheduled Tribe category. Bu1 has anyone ever heard any brahmin leader of this fake leftist movement ever talking about or Not just that, as per the statistics available, more than 40% of the people (men, women and even children below 18) who are centuries. But. that is the real crooked character of the brahminical communist leaders of this country who are misguiding the bahujans in rottin~ in various state prisons (mostly Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Pri~sa ) under anti-terrorist acts like TADA, erstwhile POTA etc come the name of their bogus revolution which is nothing but a ploy to confuse them and keep them perpetually divided and under their .

JAI BHARAT.

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protesting against victimization & suppression of these innoc<.·nt people who are themselves victims of the manuvadi exploitation for .

~ high time to expose the Manuwadi communisrs ofthts country. --------------.

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TIME FOR IMPLEMENTATION, NOT FOR DISCUSSION.

Friends, 19.03.201o .

numbers in yesterday's protest demo in front of 555-I demanding the implementation of NSUI express its sincere gratitude towards the student community who participated in large.

reservation in student and faculty intake and made the agitation a huge success. We also .

acknowledge the participation of other student organizations and faculty members who gavemobilization of an opinion in favor of reserva~nn the Academic Council has thwarted the their unequivocal support for the cause of social jfstice. As a result of the agitation and the.

.. Aditv_a Mukheriee Committee reoort on stu~lent intake and decided to imolement the .

Hvderabad UniversLty model which will em ure 27°/o reservation for OBC without an .

discrepancies. It is indeed a remarkable triumph against the casteist, elitist and parochial forces .

of this campus who were trying to sabotage the reservation policy for last three years. .

Moreover, it is a strong warning to the self proc aimed "meritorious", ahistorical and apolitical .

Youth for Equality that the student communil) will not tolerate such casteist prejudices. The .

student community successfully exposed the fal,acy of their meritocratic argument and strongly .

denounced it by showing it where it belongs to; the dustbins of history. Nevertheless, the .

struggle is not over since the decision on reserv tions in faculty_ intake is halted because the AC .

meeting got adiourned without taking a condu ive decision in this re_g_ard. This leaves us with .

no other option but a _necessity for intense stru.

these prophets of dark ages. t.

Friends, yesterday few YFE activists also showed up at SSS-I with badges written "NO TO .

CASTE BASED RESERVATION" and were circulating appeals to the AC members against the .

implementation of reservation. NSUI strongly condemns such malicious and juvenile tactics to .

scuttle a historical affirmative action to ensure social justice for the marginalized section of this .

country. YFE and its brainless godfathers like Venugopal and Shiv Khera are repeatedly trying .

to hurt the sentiments of the marginalized community by their castiest statements. They are .

perpetuating a myth and misguiding their own intellect by denying the existence of caste and .

its prominence in Indian society. These ahlstoric forces failed to comprehend how Babasaheb, .

Gandhiji, Phule, Sree Narayana Guru, Periyar, etc. led a crusade against caste and its nefarious manifestations in untouchability, ali;nation and victimization. The Hon. Supreme Court of India (Article 400, Mandai Case Judgment Vol 6, No.9, Nov 30, 1992) delineates that caste is a practical reality in Indian society and it exists even in religions like Islam, Christianity and .

Sikhism. It still exists in the brutal killings of Dalits and other Backward Castes by the casteist feudal forces. It still exists in the form of various discriminations inflicted by your activists towards the Dalit students of AIIMS, and TIT's and many other institutes. It was the UPA government's commitm.ent to uproot such dangerous tendencies from the society culminated in the implementation of QBC reservation was part of a historical step to ensure social justice to these sects. Because Indian National Congress realizes that the deprivation of OBCs is very .

special case of the larger national issue: here the basic question is that of social and educational.

handicaps. As these handicaps are embedded in our social structure, their removal will require .

backwardness and poverty is only a direct consequence of these two crippling caste-based .

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(disgust, discourage on this precious weekend ending)

 

Christmas 2009

A Spiritual healer’s power stems not from any special ability, however from maintaining the bravery and awareness to embody and express the universal healing power that each individual naturally possesses

It’s not an easy task. If I tell you my understanding of who is a true spiritual healer. I am gonna introduce you with World No.1 Spiritual healer Dr. Anil Sharma.

Right age of learning anything start from 5 yrs, be it material or spiritual. So, it's already late. Many people think that one should take to spiritual life seriously only when one is retired and old etc. I have hardly seen anyone, themselves taking to spiritual life seriously after retirement. Generally what one learns from childhood creates such a deep impression in our mind that later on, it is very difficult to learn anything new. Another problem- are we sure that we are going to live till we are 70–80 years old? We are not sure whether we will live next day. So, the best time to take to spiritual life is NOW! Another thing- why to offer God something which is almost useless(our old emancipated body at the age of 70–80)? Why not offer something fresh-youthful body?

Vedas declare that the current age of Kaliyuga would be terribly degraded. excluding several different faults, there would be cheaters, who would create themselves as guru and misguide others. once such cheaters are exposed, overall faith of individuals in religion decreases. What I would like to say- It’s hard to find a real guru.

The strength of the knowledge of the Vedas and paying due attention to that, that it really deserves, is that the would like of the time. The additional the inner which means of the Vedic is delivered to light-weight, the additional is going to be the radiance and enlargement of actuality genius of India, which is able to lead of not solely the nice of Bharat, not even solely of human beings, however conjointly to the whole lot of Nature and surroundings, each animate and inanimate. This verily is our firm conviction and ardent hope.

 

In the era of technology, everything is growing very fast so it’s essential for our engineers to be up to speed and to experiment with new technologies.

But in the ongoing progress, our soul is filled up from very dangerous diseases. Over here, we need to heal our soul before its too late to heal, I feel there is so much energy around the problem that we’re trying to solve and every day the problem is different. The problem is also really big and it’s still growing, and that is why I think it’s the daily affair of healing the soul all over again with the work that we’re doing.

 

Dr. Anil Sharma is an influential psychospiritual Astrologer whose work has changed the lives of thousands of people worldwide. After escaping the religious sect he was raised in, Anil Sharma experienced a profound existential crisis that led to his spiritual awakening. As a spiritual counselor, diviner, an astrologer, Anil's mission is to help others become conscious of their entrapment and find joy, empowerment, and liberation in any circumstance.

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While this was good enough to make again without changing the recipe, I did make some changes. The main change being increasing the amount of onions, and including green pepper as well. I also left out the green onions on top but that was more of a 'not having any on hand' issue than wanting to change that aspect of the recipe.

 

60 g. Unsalted Butter

5 ml. Sesame Oil

50 g. Green Pepper (sliced)

50 g. White Onion (sliced)

240 g. White Mushrooms (washed and sliced)

Salt

 

* Brown the butter on medium heat

* Add sesame oil, onions, peppers, and mushrooms

* Salt as desired, allow mushrooms to become fully tender, reduce to low

 

120 g. dry Pasta (preferably spaghetti or similar noodle)

20 g. fresh grated Parmesan

 

Okay, so tossing freshly cooked pasta in Parmesan is something that has been making the rounds on the internet for a few months, even going as far to be recommended by two fairly well known celebrity chefs. It's not a 'technique' (I use the term loosely here) that is all that new, as it's common with carbonara, so I decided to give it a try. I attempted it on three different occasions, including for this recipe, and... I think it's a trick, an act of vengeance upon dishwashers. Unless one likes wasting their freshly grated Parmesan, spending twice the time cleaning the dishes, having to go over them and the utensils with a magnifying glass and wired scrub brush, and having their scrubbing sponges stink for days from Parmesan being stuck in them, I would not recommend tossing freshly cooked pasta in fresh Parmesan. This is unfortunate because in theory it sounds like a good idea to get things to stick to the pasta better, especially for something like mushrooms, which is why I tried it three times on pasta with mushrooms. FUCK YOU, CELEBRITY CHEFS INTENTIONALLY MISGUIDING PEOPLE... or whoever made the fake article, to whomever it applies. I did it the first time and suspected it might be a trick. I did it the second time to be sure. I did it this time so I can bitch about it. Maybe it came to be becauuse of some high and mighty ninny complaining about the freshly grated Parmesan melting and clumping atop various pasta dishes. Who knows for sure why it came to be, what I do know is that I would never willfully recommend it other than to trick someone or enact revenge upon a dishwasher. This is indicative of why 'professionals' pf any profession cannot be trusted.

 

* Cook pasta per instructions

* Drain and immediately toss with Parmesan

* Toss pasta and buttered mushrooms together

 

fresh grated Parmesan

Sesame Seed Bagel Seasoning

 

* Top with Parmesan and bagel seasoning.

 

Of course, the biggest change here from the first time I did it is that this photo is actually good, and the other one was bad. The Parmesan trick aside, this is a good recipe.

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A wonderful execution to me is a pretty gruesome but scary photo. The beautiful colors and wallpaper, misguide you to what really is the concept of this photo. look closer... someone is about to be executed!

Don't let the Wartenfels misguide you to a waterfall as it will lead you through the meadows to a fairytale castle in Fuschl.

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YOUTH FOR EQUALI'IY .

Friends! .

YFE stands for Peace, Equality, Development and National [ntegrity. YFE is committed to fight against every viok!lce activity; discriminatory policy of politicians to enhance Inequality; and political stunts trying to break communal harmony of the society. YFE slams the act of violence and intimidation in Lohit hostel by an ABVP activist and appeals to the student community to maintain the ham1onious atmosphere in our campus. YFE is continuously raising voice against increasing violence in our campus. Whether it is the detention or Registrar or fatal attack on Sumi~ an YFE activist with a stony weapon, by an AiSA activist or the recent violence thrashing fellow resident by an ABVP activist, all are extremely black blots on the JNU prestige. In .'ltead of taking genuine students issues, all political parties are competing to divert the common students to fake and illogical issues indicating their frustration and bankruptcy. The fatal physical act on 5th October by an A BVP activist thrashing a fellow resident is pretty shameful and highly condemnable event. We demand to take strict action against him. In stead of being more active and strict against such issues. the adm inistration is very casual over repeated incidents of violence that had increased confidence among the mongers of violence and a deep sense of fear and insecurity among the campus residents. We seek justict! as earliest as possible. .

YFE warns ABVP to avoid such violent, aggressive and communalistic atlitude which can never be suitable to maintain National integrity further it wi II be the bigges1 hurdle in national development. YFE also warn Leftists to stop playing sentimental politics colouring the event as communal riots. It should be treated as crime against humanity. YFE slams A1SA for participating in protest demonstration against the violence. AISA is already sinking in the mud due to the weight of criminal act by Rajan Pande) during admission assistance. Shameless AISA has no moral ground to stand in protest demos unless they take strict action against Rajan Pandey and stop supporting him. The AlSA lumpen was engaged in realizing the primitiv~ communism by transporting our campus to Stone-Age. This is the height of shame that Gen Sec. of ,JNUSU, Mr. Sandeep Singh in council meeting tried to miss guide the council that Jumpen Rajan Pandey assault case on umit has been rejected. The \\hvJ... propaganda ga ng of AI 'A is misguiding and misinforming whole student community regarding lumpen Rajan Pande' asslUlt case. \\'e want to make it clear that proctorial enquiry has been set up and its decision is about to release. .

Dear intellectual comrades, extremists and naxals, we urge vou to starl thinking positively. Think about student; issues first. Students need enha need and equal scholarship, \Vi-Fi facility, full-flcdgt d Bank, Single wiodO\\ svstem, computerized intra-networking of all ad min offices and many more. Instead of wasting youth energy in fake issues, plea:! raise your voice for modernization of our JNU to improve gualitv of academic performance and to enhance research pace !o C(lmpete with USA and China like global powers. .

T be ~·iolent and intimidating txhibitions of masculinity in the garb of extremism can never be a p~rt of our YiSH1lt for Indian society. The violence, communal slogans, gender sensitive comments and rude behn\·ior in the name uf 'm1xalism' 'class struggle' and extremism' have become a regular phenomenon in the vicinity of JNU campus. The campus has become a wrestling ground for competing ideologies trying to influence the ne"' comers with a strategy of ·catch them young'. \Ve warn the all political pets not to drag common student in their communal, naxal and dividing .

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l·ricnds! If one dreams to make India a scc11lar and egalitarian nation, a model democracy for rest of the \-vorld. she/he \\ ill '( t p being selective and being guiucd by petty electoral tactics. 1Ve need to awaken tile critical mind oftile nation. ln rhe t.:I t pt,l!lJc'd ~cenario it is an upptnl from common students to light for justice and struggle for a society sans discrimination: a mth for f:.qu,tlily. had al\\:tys envisioned and fou1'!hl for. fJie tllerefort! appeal to all rlze members ofJNU comJt1W!ity t ppase thi~ act of l'ialencc aml1mmmk the dh·il'ive plan ofthe ftfarxisc.\·, tire na.xa/s and lire e..rtrem ist forces to create u rift .

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Ahs<trul Haque (YFE Representative) d/R~tchna Singh (Y FE Rcpre entative) .

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