HUMANITY ABOVE ALL.

"I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter for who it is. I’m a human being, first and foremost, and I'm for whatever benefits humanity as a whole".

Every living creature feels pain, right? But what is so different in human beings to be proud of?
I'm thinking that are we really human beings or just a living creature like other living entities? If we are talking about humans then first we have to think that where is humanity?
Humanity is the element which doesn't exist in our society, all we are doing is becoming superior to get fame and degrading each other on daily basis whether it is religion or race, culture or language, physique of a person or dressing sense. We all are focusing on the sins of others, yet we don't have time to realize our mistakes as an individual or as a society.
There are many religions and every religion gives us message of humanity. There is no book of Allah which teaches us to not do good to the people who are not from our religion because we should give respect to humanity first.

Our first duty as a society is to give respect to every single person around us.It is natural to talk about what our rights are but at the same time we should understand what are our own responsibilities as an individual and as a society. Belonging from a different religion, gives us no right to misbehave to an individual.If a person is not from our cultural background then we have to give same respect to his culture as we are giving to our own culture. Only because they are not speaking our language doesn't mean their language is inferior than ours. We all have to understand that killing people is killing humanity. Only by these simple actions we can be able to make our society a better place for each and every human being.
Give respect to gain respect!
Give respect to the humanity!
Give respect to humans!

CHOCOLATE NEVER ASKS STUPID QUESTIONS..

“Eat lots of chocolates when time gets tough, and eat even more when times are great.”

In the world full of stress, depression, tensions and a burden of unlimited responsibilities, there is only one thing that can excite my happy hormones and change my mood in seconds are  chocolates. I must say that if you are a chocolate lover then you are also thinking the same. Just take a moment and imagine that the word “chocolate” is not just a word it is a feeling of joy, happiness, love and also an emotion of sadness as well.

If I can tell you some interesting facts about chocolates, you will definitely feel something out of this world because it is not just an eating item, it can be the most important part of our life at any moment.
Firstly, when we are talking about chocolates, how can we forget cocoa? Cocoa, the key ingredient of chocolate, contain biologically active compounds which can provide us health benefits like aging, blood pressure regulation, stress management and much more.

Secondly, dark chocolate have more cocoa in it and it will provide more health benefits because it contains less sugar and fat. It also give you relaxation and calm your brain.
Thirdly, it can prevent us from certain cardiovascular diseases, also help in lowering cholesterol levels but above all it can makes us happy and that’s the most important benefit of eating chocolate.
But the question is why chocolate never ask stupid questions like most of the people around us? Because it melting point is almost 32°C which is less than a human body. So may be that’s the reason why chocolates never ask silly questions like us and just understand our feelings calmly and silently.

So next time when you get irritated or feeling upset go and buy a chocolate for yourself it will not ask anything. First, live for yourself and try to make yourself a happy and positive person because if we can’t motivate ourselves then we can’t make our society a better place to live. If one smile, one chocolate, one flower, one line of kindness can change our own lives then it will surely change the life of many people around us. So eat more chocolates and share even more..!

MUHARRAM – THE FIRST HOLY MONTH

Muharram-ul-Haraam, the first holy month of Islamic calendar and it is one of the most precious and the most important month for all the Muslims in the whole world. The month of Muharram begins with the sighting of the moon on the last date of the last month of Islamic year. The month of Muharram is of great religious significance for the Islamic people all over the world. The 10th day of Muharram is marked as “Ashura”. The day when the grandson of Muhammad (S.A.W) Imam Hussain and his family and his 72 companions martyred at the Battle of Karbala in 680 A.D.

On the 9th and 10th or 10th and 11th day of Muharram, most of the Muslims opt fast to remember that feelings of Imam Hussain and his family because they even didn’t get water for three days by the brutal caliph Yazid. The Muslims all over the world remember the importance of this battle and the importance of what the Prophet's family did for the Justice and stood against the corrupt, suppressive and deviated ruler Yazid.
Imam Hussain (R.A) and Imam Hassan (R.A) was the two grandsons of Muhammad (S.A.W) and the brave sons of Hazrat Ali(R.A) and Hazrat Fatima (R.A), Imam Hussain and his family and his 72 companions were brutally martyred by Yazid as he didn’t bows his head in front of wrong and brutal act against the humiliation of mankind and stood against Yazid till his shahadat.

The bravery of Imam Hussain (R.A) and his companions can never be fully defined. The holy shrine of Imam Hussain (R.A) is in Karbala, Iraq.

The battle of Karbala gives us the strongest message for all the humanity that it was the war of 72 that has left the message for the billions. This month gives us a lesson that no matter who we are and no matter how many strength we have, if we are right and follow the message of Karbala Battle we will be succeeded at every step of life. We should follow the message that instead of relying on oppression, relied on justice. We all should learn from the life of Imam Hussain (R.A) because nobody remember Yazid but everyone remember the name of Islam and the name of Hussain (R.A).

LET'S PLANT FOR PAKISTAN

Are we inhaling a pollutant air? If we don’t know then we should just look around as for a while and we will get the answer very easily. We have buildings, a huge buildings all around us and what we don’t have that is plants, pots, trees. We have constructions in every area of our city as well as in our country. Plantation is just a simple word but it has a great importance in our lives which we should have to understand before it will become harmful for our generation and toxic for our coming generations.
Plantations is a very common word that means to plant a group of trees to get a fresh environment which is free from all the pollutants. Why is it important? It is important because plants have ability to absorb carbon dioxide which is harmful for us and give us oxygen which is necessary for every creature to survive.
Plants can provide us fresh and natural air and make our environment pollutant free which is very important for us. Trees are the natural source of oxygen and if we don’t have trees around us then our lives will be in danger after some times. As a citizens of this land we all have equal responsibility to do what we can do to make this land a pollutant free not only for ourselves but for animals and every living creature.

Plantation in these days are now become necessary for our country because from the last five years, temperature of the world is rising day after day and we have to observed above 40°C in our cities which can leads to the heat stroke conditions and also can leads to the death of many people and even many animals too.
One plant by a single person can make a difference because we have around 216.5 millions of population and we can make a mark difference if we all do plantation by our own self because only Government is not responsible for it, we as a responsible citizens of Pakistan have to think about it and make our city, our society, our country a green land because global warming is effecting every country and if will not take that matter seriously it will produce hazardous effects on us. Increasing pollution is very dangerous for human health and due to this many of the people are suffering with diseases only because of polluted environment.

Let’s own our land and let’s do plantation for ourselves and for our country. Made this country clean and green because its our country and it’s our responsibility. Show some care for the air you breathe.

KASHMIR – A HEAVEN ON EARTH IS BLEEDING

“Gar Firdaus bar-rue zamin ast, hami asto, hamin asto, hamin ast.”

(If there is heaven on earth, it is here, it is here, it is here)

This is a very famous quote which was said by Mughal Emperor Jahangir when he visited Kashmir in 17^th Century. Without any doubts we have to say that yes, Kashmir is a pure heaven on earth since a very long time because of its magical beauty which is completely indefinable.  If a person traveled almost all the attractive places in the world but missed to visit Kashmir then he really missed something worthwhile.

In 1947, when the partition of sub-continent took place and Pakistan got freedom on 14^th August, 1947 while India on 15^th August, 1947 after a day of independence of Pakistan, Kashmir had become a major dispute between these two neighboring countries. Kashmir is a Muslim majority area, but India occupied that heaven area since a very long time. Azaad Kashmir is the area which is free from Indian forces and a part of Pakistan but the Indian occupied Jammu-Kashmir is still under the threat of Indian forces.

In the war of Kashmiris, millions of Kashmiris are killed and still brutally attacked by the Indian army since the time of independence. Many resolutions have been passed but the world, the super powers, the states of human rights all are still silent and their silent is dangerous because now Kashmiris have no fear of death because they are facing bombs, bullets, harassment and even pallet guns which is horrible action from Indian forces. The kids have lost their eyesight due to pallet guns.

Now what the world is doing for the innocent people who are not just a Muslims but a living human beings like anyone else in the world. The world needs to wake up and if still we are thinking that this dispute is only between Pakistan and India so wait for the horrible war between not only the two countries which have nuclear powers but the war that will destroy the peace of every country. The killing of Kashmiris should be stopped now, the use of chemicals on the innocent children and the use of pallet guns are just enough to open the eyes of the world. And now the recent change in constitution is open violation of UN resolutions. Kashmir is the land of Kashmiris and now the world should have to understand this. Pakistan have to take step forward for the Kashmiris as this time, it’s now or never movement! This issue has to resolved now and if this time the issue remains unresolved then the People of Kashmir, the people of heaven on earth will never forgive us and will never forgive this world. KASHMIR WANT FREEDOM.!

YES! WE ARE AN UNPREDICTABLE NATION

AN UNPREDICTABLE NATION

The word “Unpredictable” is a commonly used term and we all hear this word whenever our beloved cricket team is in the ground against the most powerful team or the team which is on the last number of the points table. But we are not unpredictable in sports only we, Pakistanis are unpredictable at every forum of the world.

 

Pakistan is such an amazing country with all the natural resources. We are one of the most hospitable people in the world. Although according to 2018 survey, Pakistan is the 6^th largest populated country in the world but what makes Pakistan an unpredictable nation?

Yes, it is not a difficult question to be answered that why Pakistan and the people of Pakistan are so unpredictable and challenging. We are living in the country which is blessed with everything, it means that we have all kinds of weather; we have mountains, deserts, glaciers, fruits, vegetables, cotton, food items and many other natural beauty which a person wants to see or a country wants to have.

Now why I’m talking about these blessings? Pakistan is the reality that comes on the world map 71 years ago on 14^th August, 1947 after the partition of British India. We are the nation who always surprised the world by our unity. If we go back in 1940’s, one can easily trust on the words that we surprised the world because the Resolution of Pakistan was passed on 23^rd March, 1940 and after the resolution was passed, the world witnessed that we made an unpredictable and indefinable efforts to get our dream country Islamic Republic Of Pakistan. As Quaid-e-Azam said,

“The great majority of us are Muslims. We follow the teachings of the Prophet Mohammed (may peace be upon him). We are members of the brotherhood of Islam in which all are equal in rights, dignity and self-respect. Consequently, we have a special and a very deep sense of unity. But make no mistake: Pakistan is not a theocracy or anything like it.” 

No one can even imagine that Muslims of British India could get their freedom under the umbrella of remarkable historic Muslim leaders like Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Allama Iqbal, Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, Liaquat Ali Khan and many more Muslim Heroes and the people of British India who gave their blood and sweat for the freedom.

When we move forward and talk about nuclear powers, we also give surprise to the world when we rise up as the First Muslim country in the world who constructs civil nuclear power plants. And we are the 7^th atomic nuclear power in the world.

Pakistanis are the most hospitable nation in the world. This is not my opinion; this is the view of foreign travelers who traveled Pakistan. An American traveler blogger Drew Binskey said that the country’s hospitality is the “World’s best”. He further shared in one of his video that he didn’t spend any money during his travels to the country “not by choice” but because of the hospitality of Pakistan that they won’t let me pay for anything.

We as a country and as a nation are facing too many problems but on the other hand we are also prepared to spread love and always want peace in the country and in the world because we are always ready to push our efforts for peace in any area of the world. Although we have nuclear powers but we always as a nation talk about peace only. That unique and loving behavior of Pakistanis makes them an amazing and unpredictable nation because we showed the world that what we decided to do we can do and 71 years of this homeland is an example for everyone. Pakistan Zindabad!

SAY NO TO STRESS..

Are you stressed? Are we living a stressful life? These two basic Questions everyone should have to know because our daily life is based on how we managed the things we are doing routinely in a week, month or year. But to answer these questions, first we have to understand that what actually is stress and how can it produce negative impact on our health?

In a very simple way, stress is our body response to pressures from the situation or life event. Every single person faces stress in any stage of his or her life. It is normal physiology to get stressed sometimes when things are not managed. But not all the time, the more we get stressed the more we adverse impact our body will face. A long term stress or tension can produce negative effect on our health and disturbs our daily life routine. A long term stressed life can leads to high blood pressure and also causes heart problems.

We need to understand that stressful give will never give us a positive and peaceful mind. We have to wipe out those things from our life which create stress and any kind of hurdle in our goals. A person should have courage to handle stress because if we can’t handle stress we can’t handle success. To achieve anything in life we have to be focused on our goals and forget regarding our education, our career, age, beauty or anything else. A girl should know how and when to say “YES” or “NO”. We have to be focused on our goals because education is the basic right of every human being. Every single person has a right to living their best life because we all have just one life and for this we have to give our best.

We all have one life to live and in this life do what is the best for you. Allah has made every creature for a reason and we just have to try to find out what is unique in us. Once we know what is our quality we can do every possible thing to achieve our goal. One more thing which we as a society have to understand that a girl is also a human being and have right to live freely with her family. She breaths like a common person in our society so let her do what she wants to do for herself and for her family with her family support, she is not a show piece. Let her live let her breath, treat her with respect. In the same way a man who works hard just for his family, his parents, his siblings, for his wife and for his kids and never thought for himself. We have no right to make his life stressful. Every person deserves the same respect. Don’t make any one life stressful, it’s not about gender difference it’s all about stress free life. Improve your quality of life, relaxed yourself, your environment and say no to stress! 

"Give your stress wings and let it fly away"

A WORLD IN THE PALM OF YOUR HANDS

We are living in the era of technology and the world is just away from a click. Almost everyone has smart phones, laptops, tablets or many other advanced technologies which gives us immediate information about the world. Everything is good but not every time.

The growth of technology is one of the main causes of the decline of reading books in recent decades. Even we are not aware of what will be a book reading give us and what change a good book makes in our lives. Now a days, we are living such a busy life and due to extra burden of everything we are going in stressful conditions. But we have to understand that the most important thing is a peaceful mind and the best solution is to keep yourself away from everything just for an hour and take that world in the palm of your hands, what we just have to do is to select a good book in any of our comfort language and start reading.

Books are the only loyal friend we have and if our new generation understands this then all other stress will become secondary and there will be no loneliness or depression because a good book is a journey to the world we are unaware of. It has been observed that in a recent past that reading is nothing for us. There are very few people who show their interest in book reading. 

It is well said that a reader lives a thousand lives because every time when a person opens a book he or she experience a new fact about the world. We have thousands of good books which can make a marked difference in our life. A book can give us that knowledge which nobody can ever give us but if read it with all our interest. If we read one good book in our life then we will definitely gain some priceless knowledge, also it will improve our thinking to see the world more positively. And most important, it will reduce your stress and make you a positive person. Just read a single book in your life, you will understand what it gives you in return.

Education system of Pakistan

EDUCATION SYSTEM OF PAKISTAN
Education system of Pakistan is one of the most important subject which we all have been discussing since a very long time. It has always been an important topic whenever we are talking about the development of our country.

WHAT IS EDUCATION SYSTEM?
Before discussing the issues and problems in the education system of Pakistan, first we have to understand what actually education system is? The education system includes all institutions that are providing a formal and quality education from basic to higher education, public to private, for-profit and non-profit, providing different facilities, students, resources, infrastructure, rules and regulations and many other departments. An education system is a complete hierarchy from organizational body to the students.

ISSUES AND PROBLEMS OF EDUCATION SYSTEM OF PAKISTAN:
Pakistan is an independent country and it has its own laws and rules. When it comes to an education, it is mandated in the Article 25-A of the constitution of Pakistan, that the state is responsible for providing free and compulsory education to the children of the age group 5 to 18 years. But this rule is unfortunately exist only on paper but not any practical implementation we have seen yet. The basic issue of our education system is that we don’t have one system, we are existing in between many systems. We have government schools where education standards are very low as compared to the private schooling system, but on the other hand private schools are very expensive.

Then we have many other systems of education which met the criteria of international standards. Then come to another main reason why primary and secondary education is damaged so badly, increased number of coaching centers because those teachers who are giving a home tuitions cannot teach properly in schools and encourage parents to send their child in the tuitions. And we all know about the renowned tuition centers in our big cities. This has been become a business and parents have no other option because schooling education quality is decreasing day after day because of different coaching centers and school associations. Coaching centers provide that trustable education which the parents and the students want to gain and then they thought that coaching is necessary for their child.
Other than that issue, we also don’t have any accountability. We don’t have any fear of punishment because it is the responsibility of the state to maintain the check and balance of each and every school in all the provinces. In the whole education system, students are not satisfied and parents are always complaining that they all give their best but their child didn’t get what he or she deserves. From nursery to secondary we taught our child to observe, think and then made their concepts to write freely what he or she observed but suddenly when he or she has made all his concepts he or she came to know that one NTS test can make or break his or her all dreams.

If I particularly talk about my city Karachi, we have only 4 government medical college and 1 main government engineering college. So how can you think that every student who wants to be a doctor and serve his or her country can get the admission to fulfil his or her aim? Just think about it. There are many other issues and all issues can’t be discussed in a single article. So now come to the solutions that what major steps should be taken by the responsible people of that system or the state.
Firstly, the state should take some major steps to overcome the education system problems, and implement the law of Article 25-A to make sure that no students should be out of the school and get his primary education atleast. Then start some awareness programs for the people who have less education and awareness regarding importance of education. As accountability is very important in the success of any country, this is the responsibility of the government to appoint educated person in the education department and make sure that no one is out of the law and rules, made such kind of strict accountability laws. The lack of proper planning is majorly target our generation and our coming generations so make proper plans of atleast 5 years. Federal government should provide special grant to the provinces where the literacy rate is low because basic education is the right of every citizen of Pakistan as mentioned in the laws of Pakistan.

CONCLUSION:
All the issues we have been discussed needs a proper reforms but these reforms which are required in the education system of Pakistan cannot be done by the federal government alone. The participation of private sector is also required for the better future of our education system. A combined efforts of people who are directly or indirectly connected to that system can bring a change in the education system.

SUPER HEROES – A DIFFERENT STORY

SUPER HEROES – A DIFFERENT STORY
Super heroes, usually when we hear this our mind immediately goes on super man, spider man and other fictional characters but are these fictional characters really our superheroes? When we asked our children they all know whom we are talking about. Because we didn’t teach our children that who are the real heroes.
We, Muslims are the most blessed people because we are the followers of the Last prophet Hazrat Muhammad (S.A.W) and we have the greatest book among all which is Quran Pak. We have the best history and the true historical wins of our Khulfa-e-Rashideen (Hazrat Abu-Bakr, Hazrat Umer, Hazrat Usman and Hazrat Ali R.A.). Why we do not tell our children these true historical stories of our Sahaba? We should think about it that what we are doing with ourselves and our future generations as well.
Our beloved Prophet (S.A.W.) is the greatest example of leadership. He was always lead from the front and always did his work by himself. He always gives respect to not only Muslims but each and every person. His rules are same for everyone and because of his nature and truth he was known as “Sadiq” and “Ameen” not only by Muslims but non muslims also said that he never lied to anyone, he had the purest heart. In every battle he was with sahaba and his followers.
Muslims are blessed with many great leaders but our children doesn’t even know the names of that great heroes we have. Hazrat Khalid Bin Waleed, the name who first took part in the battle of Uhad against Muslims and defeated them but then he later converted to Islam and became a true companion of Muhammad (S.A.W.), he joined Muhammad (S.A.W.) in the conquest of Mecca. He also recaptured a number of provinces which break away from Islam. His efforts for Islam was remarkable and can not defined in some lines. He was a great hero of Muslims.

We Muslims have such a great scientists like Jabir-bin-hayan, who is known and remembered as a "Father of Modern Chemistry". We have Ibne Sina, Al-Masudi, Al-Kindi and many more who are the pioneers of their work.

 Pakistan is not an easy task to be in the world map, it was a dream of Iqbal and efforts and right vision of Jinnah and other Muslim leaders of sub-continent. Allah blessed us with such a great leaders like Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, Mulana Muhammad Ali johar,  Mulana Shaukat Ali, Liqauat Ali Khan, the Agha Khan, Dr. Allama Muhammad Iqbal, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah. Pakistan is the “Land of the Pure” in which we are living freely and can follow our religion and culture is the victory of our great heroes and their true leadership. 

We all have to understand that these Muslim heroes did far much valuable and amazing work for us then any fictional character and just because we don’t tell our children about our true super heroes so they follow fictional characters and thought that these characters are super heroes. It is our responsibility to tell them about Islamic historical events and heroes of Islam. Think about it!