Voice of Common Pakistani !!!

Quetta - a city I remotely know. Dry weather with relatively warm hearted people. A short trip that turned into an undesired longer stay.

Quetta, same as it was some 7 years back. Time has no effect on the city but definitely time has changed the thinking of the habitats. Once relatively warm city with the feelings of patriotism, now houses people who do not celebrate 14th August but infact showed solidarity on the 15th. Children now in schools are not allowed to sing national anthem, no one can wear Pakistani flag or hoist a flag on roofs. One cannot openly roam around fearlessly with a punjabi face and lingo. Things have changed for the worst and the change came fast.

To add bitterness to the already bitter situation, FC has been manhandling people wearing Balochi style shalwar qameez. I wonder who ordered it and why it went unnoticed.

Anyways politics is ugly and its ugliness is faced by common people. Those who sit in higher echlons of govt are never bothered or affected.
Tonight is an odd night, I HAD to fly back, I was happy and excited while sitting on my seat 46K, when the traffic staff came and asked me to come down. Come down as I was off-loaded due to some reasons. It is a disturbed and depressing night for me. Sitting under the starlit sky, I just wonder why am I awake. There are just bad feelings that I am fighting within and am still unable to have control over them. I don’t know what all has affected this mood swing ……… Par as always me alone to pamper and cuddle myself while the world sleeps.

Religious festivities are supposed to be for all, in all the religions. The lessons given in all Holy Scriptures are the same. They are all based on one factor, HUMANITY. Somehow in our region sub-continent, this HUMANITY factor got lost somewhere. Despite being the land of so many religious elders, sufis and scholars, we as a community failed to carry the true essence of Islam.

We have locked our religion to Namaz, Roza and the way of offering namaz. The religion is confused and subjected only to Haqooq Allah. The teachings of the Holy Prophet PBUH and the guidance of the Holy Quran to create a balanced society - a society where every human being is equal, no one gets superiority over the other by virtue of caste, creed and color - is found only in lectures and books. Its implication in practical life is totally missing. Read more »

Strangely out of 12 moons we have in a year, somehow 2 out of them are disobedient Moons. They are a reason for dispute, quarrel and division amongst the one community called Muslims.

I ask myself and I urge you too to ask similar questions to yourselves too.

The time difference between Saudia and Pakistan is 2 hours. How a time difference of 2 hours of sun can result in 24 hours difference in sighting of the moon. If we look at the geographic location of Pakistan on the world map, Karachi and Gawadar are closest to Saudia and middle eastren states, then how come moon is sighted by cities far ahead geographically earlier than Karachi and Gawader. Thirdly, if we want the northern part of Pakistan to follow sighting of moon as per the desire of federal govt, then why the central govt year after year fails to verify how nothern Pakistan manages to witness sighting of the moon. Let’s not forget the scientific side as well. Has anyone from the federal govt or the scientific so-called pundits tried to address the issue by visiting northern Pakistan on the required dates, either to verify or challenge the claim of moon being sighted. No, no one would. They rather believe in keeping the nation divided year after year and keep their own nuisance value intact. Read more »

A short video, you may term it as introduction to Black Waters.

In these last moments of this blessed night, I pray not only to pray for me but I pray for thee.

I pray to Thank My Lord for all these blessed years that I lived and forgot to Thank you God. Thank you Allah Jee for the health you gave me, Thank you for the family you gave me, Thank you for the friends you brought to me, Thank you for the happy moments I had, Thank you for these past years where I forgot to fall back to you and offer my prayers and yet you were always there for me, Thank you for giving me chances again and again when I went wrong, Thank you for accepting my apologies (as I firmly believe you always forgive), Thank you for not sealing my heart and letting me fall back to You tonight.

With all these Thanks My Lord, since I am always a seeker and you a giver, I seek thy kindness yet again to give happiness, health, wealth, tranquality, joy, peace and harmony to the members of my family, my friends, my neighbours, my maids and my servants, my co-workers and my superiors, my juniors and my collegues. I pray to you as it’s only You I know. I pray for my country and I pray for my nation, help us get our honour and help us find our identity, help us and lead us to the path of glory.

In the end My Lord, I seek your blessings and your kindness for me. You gave me all but I yearn for more, give me My Lord my dreams and give me what all I need, you hold the power to change what’s not good into good for me, you hold the power to give me what’s not for me. I am a tiny ‘dot’ in this universe of thee, give me moon in one hand and put sun on the other hand for me.

I love you My Lord, just love me back please. Ameen

I don’t know what to ask for!

Allah is merciful, He gives without asking.

Then what do I pray for???

Do I pray for my lustful desires to be fulfilled?

Or for my material needs to be taken care of?

Or for supremacy over other living beings?

Do I pray for more and more for myself?

While I try to cut others short!

Do I pray for love and sincerity?

While I cheat on others myself!

Do I pray for the truth?

When I lie all the time!

Do I pray for justice?

When I am not fair myself!

Do I pray for mercy?

When I hurt others around me!

Or do I pray for everything?

When I refuse to give anything!

What do I pray for?

I hang my head in shame!

Allah has given me so much.

Yet I forgot to be grateful enough!

Tonight I pray for this and that!

When I felt dismal all year.

How many times did I give thanks!

For how long was I true to those around me?

O God! I only thank You tonight.

For You bless me nevertheless!

No matter how much I lie and cheat.

No matter how upset and depressed I feel.

And You put up with my selfish demands.

And You show me the light still!

I thank You, O Mighty One!

Coz before You, I am none!

A simple joke that I got via sms corrupted my mind to write this post.

The joke goes like this:
A baby fish asks its mom: Why can’t we live on earth?
Mom: My innocent child, earth is for sel-fish, not fish.

I asked myself if there was any truth in it and to my surprise, I found that the mom fish was 100% right in it’s belief.

As we, infact all human beings, are selfish and even when someone claims to be selfless, is infact selfish.

For example, I am walking in a jungle with my daughter and a tiger comes in front. I climb a tre, leaving my child behind. What will I be called other than coward? I will be labelled as selfish for my life.

Let’s look at it from another angle, I am walking in a jungle with my daughter who is everything to me and a tiger comes in front of us. Since I love my child enough to endanger my life, I take the risk to fight the wild cat. What would I be called? Here I would be labeled as brave and blah blah blah, but infact this act too was out of my selfishness as my daughter is a prize for me and I became selfish to protect her.

Every person, mother or father, brother or sister, husband and wife, friends and lovers are bound to each other with one string. You call it love or you term it as selfishness, as basically even love is the outcome of one’s selfishness for one’s wants and desires.

There is no selfless relation, there isn’t any selfless act and there isn’t any individual who is not selfish. Read more »