ONE NATION ONE DESTINY

On 23rd March, 1940 under the roof of Mughal emperor Shahjahan’s Badshahi mosque, in the city Lahore that has been known as the heart of Muslims of subcontinent for so many years and decades, a resolution had passed by a group of great Muslim Leaders with one point agenda ‘A separate homeland for Muslims of subcontinent'. The resolution initially presented with the name of ‘Lahore Resolution' but who knew that it will going to create a history in only seven years of time period.

The resolution was signed by the leaders of All India Muslim League that clearly reject the idea of United India because after British government, everyone knew that the powers will automatically go in the hands of Hindu as they were in majority and that will create a disaster for Muslims and other minorities, they will have to suffer for their basic rights religiously, on cultural basis, political and social basis as well. 

All the Muslims leaders including the founder of Pakistan Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah have a crystal clear vision regarding the rights of Muslims and if Hindus came in the ruling position Muslims will face the undefinable limitless problems in all aspects of life. The resolution was named as Lahore Resolution and even it didn’t actually mention Pakistan anywhere, but after that resolution the struggle found a new life and energy. The resolution later called as PAKISTAN Resolution and it had become the turning point for Muslims of India. After 23rd March, 1940, Muslims of subcontinent never looked back.

In just seven years after the resolution passed, Pakistan came in to being on the map and became the world’s first Islamic Republic. Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah and his other members, the leaders and companions lead Muslims from the front. The struggle and vision was real and only for the rights of Muslim men and women, for the generation and generation. 

The nation proudly celebrate Pakistan Day annually on 23rd March. The day starts with early morning parades in Islamabad and in all provincial capitals of the country. We all should be grateful to Allah for the independent homeland where we are free to perform our religious and cultural activities without any fear. Pakistan and Muslims of subcontinent will always remain blessed to have great leaders like Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Allama Iqbal, Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, Liaquat Ali Khan, Chaudhary Rehmat Ali, Fazlul Haq, Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar, Nawab Mohsin-ul-Mulk, Fatima Jinnah, Begum Rana Liaquat, Jahanara Shahnawaz and many more leaders, personalities and people of subcontinent who have struggled for our better and shining future.

After the creation of PAKISTAN, Quaid-e-Azam spread the message of unity always and said,

“We are now all Pakistanis - not Baluchis, Pathans, Sindhis, Bengalis, Punjabis and so on and as Pakistanis we must feel, behave and act, and we should be proud to be known as Pakistanis and nothing else.”

The founder of Pakistan Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah always encourage people with his words of Unity , faith and discipline. If we want to see Pakistan a successful country we must try individually and play our own part for unity and betterment of the country and the citizens. 

PAKISTAN ZINDABAD!

THE LOCKDOWN DIARIES

“Twenty – Twenty”, this figure (2020) had always been exciting, thrilling, breath-taking for the ones who loves cricket. Yes, if you are a die heart fan of cricket then you are still refreshing your world cup sixes of Boom boom and surely my words had taken you back in to the memories of those huge houseful grounds. 

But why I’m talking about 20-20? The word Twenty-twenty have now become the most horrible and painful for the whole world. Yes, the time has changed. The table had now turned around and the most exciting word has now become the most tragic and unforgettable for all of us. The word which we only used to hear as a sport has now actually played it’s game in the stage of our life. The world will never forget the pain of these double zeros in two thousand and twenty! From the past six months, we are only loosing the lives of our loved ones, we are shattering into pieces but there is no peace. Everyday, the sun rises with the negative news of the positive reports and sets with the news of more and more lockdown, hunger, stress and much more. 

We have always heard that LIFE IS NOTHING BUT A SWEET FALSE WHEREAS, DEATH IS NOTHING BUT A BITTER TRUTH, but none of us had ever thought that we will face this and now we are living in the era where we listen thousands of deaths everyday from east to west and from north to south. The situation is same for the developed countries and for the developing countries. 

COVID-19 is not only a pandemic situation but also a lifetime lesson for humans all over the world. What basic lessons we should learn by this sudden world closure? There are some common experiences we all surely going through with:

Firstly, we all have to understand that we can’t buy health from money. This is one of the most important lesson the world has to learnt because all our wealth have become useless.

The other most notable one is that who we are? We are only a small and minute creation on Earth and can’t even protect ourselves from the smallest unseen creature of Allah. Allah is the only Creator and He is the only Power. Then another one which is specifically the most important one for our new and advanced cool generation is that no one can ever replace the value of a family. A friend or any other person can never invite us to stay with them as we are not from their family and can be dangerous in this Corona outbreak. That’s indeed a precautionary measure but take a minute and think if our own family, our grand parents, our parents say this to us. No we can not even imagine this, as we are a family. So always keep in mind that family should always be our first priority, if anyone of us are not sincere with our parents then we will never taste the true essence of any relationship.

Lastly, most of the people have realized that life is beautiful with hangouts and without hangouts as well. If we want to be happy then we will be, things and places don’t matter but our thinking matters a lot. In this lockdown, we all have discovered how much talented we are and also wondered that how blessed we are that we can still living our best lives. Some of us have discovered their painting qualities, cooking expertise, writing and singing abilities. Many of us have become such a good photographer but this time selfies are taking with family members not with friends. For the friends, we have found a new way to connect which is a sweet long video calls which needs no makeup just a lot of gossips in a bundle of laughter. This materialistic world is now understanding the values of true happiness which can never buy with branded dresses, heavy makeup, hangouts in big restaurants, but just a free WhatsApp call is also enough to stay in touch with our loved ones.

In the end, just remember that this situation will definitely end one day but all we have to do is to led all those positive habits with us throughout our lives and after this pandemic show each other that we have learnt something and we have changed. Try to value people not things and try to use things not people. This is the simple lesson which will make a mark difference in the world if we all apply this one rule. Stay blessed and stay safe, things will get better soon.

اور پھر ہمیں خدا یاد آگیا۔۔

زندگی کے شور میں ہم سب مصروف ہوتے ہیں اس دنیا میں اتنا کھو جاتے ہیں کہ بھول جاتے ہیں کہ دراصل انسان کے اس کائنات میں آنے کا مقصد کیا ہے۔ اس فانی دنیا کی رعنائیوں میں اتنے مصروف ہوجاتے ہیں کہ یاد ہی نہیں رکھتے کہ آخر ہم کر کیا رہے ہیں

اس دنیا میں بھیجنے کا حکم صرف اس لیے نہیں دیا گیا تھا کہ ہم اللہ کی عبادت کریں، نماز روزے کا خیال کریں، نہ صرف حج کریں کیونکہ مقصد اگر صرف عبادت ہوتا تو یہ بات ہمیں بتادی گئی ہے کہ اس کائنات کی ہر شے اللّٰہ کی عبادت میں مشغول رہتی ہے، فرشتے ہر وقت اللہ کی حمد وثناء بیان کرتے رہتے ہیں لیکن ہم نے یہ سوچ لیا کہ ہمارا ضمیر اسی بات پر متفق ہے کہ ہمیں صرف وہ کرنا ہے جس سے ہمارا فائدہ ہو، ہم اپنے مفادات کی دوڑ میں اتنے آگے نکل گئے کہ بھول گئے کہ ہمیں اشرف المخلوقات بنا کر بھیجا گیا تھا۔

آج دنیا کے تقریباً 199 ممالک ایک ایسی وبا کا شکار ہیں جس سے نہ کوئی امیر محفوظ ہے نہ غریب، نہ عرب والے نہ عجم والے، نہ مشرق کے انسان نہ مغرب کی عوام، نہ شمال کی ہوا نہ جنوب کی فضاء۔ آج خود کو طاقتور ترین ملک کہنے والے ممالک بےبسی کی اور عبرت کی تصویر بنے بیٹھے ہیں۔ اور انتظار ہے تو اس ربّ العالمین کا جس کی قدرت کو ہم فراموش کر بیٹھے تھے۔ حقوق العباد تو جیسے کوئی مذاق ہوگیا تھا۔ سب ایک دوسرے سے آگے نکل جانے کی دوڑ میں شامل تھے، ایک دوسرے کو ختم کردینے کے خواب دیکھنے لگے تھے، کمزور کو تو جیسے ہم نے انسان ہی سمجھنا چھوڑ دیا تھا۔ 

ہر کوئی اپنی الگ ہی جنگ میں مصروف تھا، حقوق مانگے جارہے تھے اس مذہب سے جس نے ہر چیز کا جواب چودہ سو سال پہلے ہی دے دیا تھا، کہا گیا چہرہ ڈھانپ کر نہیں رکھیں گے حجاب پر پابندی لگا دی گئی آج کیوں اسی قرآن کو کھول کر بیٹھے ہیں ہم کہ شاید کہیں کوئی علاج مل جائے۔ میرے پیارے نبی صلی اللہ علیہ وآلہ وسلم نے بتایا کہ کلونجی میں سوائے موت کے ہر علاج ہے لیکن ہم تو سب کچھ بھلا کر اکیسویں صدی میں جو آگئے تھے۔ 

اس دنیا نے عذاب کو خود دعوت دی ہے۔ کیوں نہ آئے عذاب جب ایک چھ ماہ کی ننھی سی پھول سے لے کر ساٹھ سال تک عورت اس معاشرے میں محفوظ نہ ہو، کیوں ہم پر رحم کیا جاۓ جب ایک نوجوان کو اس بات پر قتل کر دیا جائے کہ وہ آزاد ملک میں اپنی شناخت کے ساتھ رہنا چاہتا ہے، کس غرور میں ہم کہہ رہے ہیں کہ ہم ناراض نہیں ہونے دینگے اپنے رب کو کہ جب ایک بچی مر رہی ہو بھوک سے اور وہ یہ کہے کہ میں جا کر اپنے رب کو سب بتاؤں گی تو پھر یاد رکھیں کہ جو حضرت یوسف علیہ السلام کا رب ہے جو میرا اور آپ کا رب ہے جو سمندر کی گہرائیوں کے راز کا رب ہے جو پہاڑوں کو پل بھر میں روئی کردینے والا رب ہے تو پھر جان لیجئے کہ اس ننھی کلی اور اس جیسے لاکھوں بےبس اور بے سہارا معصوم لوگوں کا بھی رب ہے۔

کیسے ممکن ہے کہ ہم چوری کر رہے ہوں، ایک دوسرے کے حقوق کو کچل رہے ہوں، جھوٹ ایسے بول رہے ہوں کہ جیسے کبھی سچ کہا ہی نہ ہو، ریاکاری کر رہے ہوں، ماں باپ کو بوجھ سمجھتے ہوں، اپنی طاقت کا غلط استعمال کر رہے ہوں اور ہر وہ کام جو اس رب العالمین کو ناپسند ہو وہ کر رہے ہوں تو کیا اس کو ناراض ہونے کا حق نہیں؟ وہ رب جس نے رزق کا وعدہ کیا ہم اس کے پانچ مرتبہ آواز دینے پر اس لیے نہیں جاتے کہ ہمارے کاروبار رک جائیں گے، تو پھر جائیے اپنے دنیاوی کام کیجیے اسے ہماری عبادت کی کوئی ضرورت نہیں۔ آج ہم تڑپ رہے ہیں کہ کسی طرح مسجد میں صرف فرض ہی پڑھنے کی اجازت مل جائے، آج حقیقت یہ ہے کہ اس کا گھر خالی نہیں فرشتےہوں یا پرندے اس کہ گھر کا طواف کر رہے ہیں، روکا ہے تو ہم انسانوں کو روک دیا ہے، آج ہم اس لیے نہیں ڈرے ہیں کہ ایک وائرس ہمیں نقصان پہنچا سکتا ہے بلکہ ہم اس لیے خوف کی علامت بنے ہوئے ہیں کیونکہ ہم جانتے ہیں کہ وہ رب جب ناراض ہوتا ہے تو رزق نہیں چھین لیتا بس اپنی عبادت سے محروم کر دیتا ہے۔ 

ظلم کی وہ داستانیں رقم کیں ہیں کہ اگر حساب دنیا میں ہی لے لیا گیا تو کوئی کسی کو چہرا دکھانے کے قابل نہیں رہے گا۔ عدل وانصاف کی جو جڑیں ہم نے کاٹی ہیں اسکا حساب تو دنیا کو دینا ہی تھا۔ ابھی تو صرف دنیا کو ہلایا گیا ہے، ابھی تو صرف ایک لوک ڈاؤن کیا گیا ہے، ابھی تو اس دنیا نے گھروں کے باہر موت کو محسوس کیا ہے، ابھی تو صرف دنیا نے ایک دوسرے سے فاصلہ کیا ہے، ابھی تو سپر پاور اور بہترین طبی سہولیات کا مزہ چکھا ہے، ابھی تو اور بہت کچھ یاد دلانا باقی ہے، ابھی تو بھوک و افلاس سے تڑپی نہیں ہے یہ دنیا، ابھی تو سوشل میڈیا موجود ہے اپنی آواز دنیا تک پہنچانے کیلئے، ابھی تو اپنے پیاروں کی خیریت مل رہی ہے، ابھی کیوں جاگ رہی ہے یہ دنیا ابھی تو صبر و تحمل رکھنا ہے نہ جیسے سالوں سے تلقین کی جارہی تھی، کہا جارہا تھا ہم ایک دن آپ کی مشکلات حل کریں گے۔ ابھی کیوں چیخیں نکل رہی ہیں؟ ابھی تو بس کچھ مہینے گزرے ہیں اتنے سالوں سے جو یہ دنیا اپنے ظلم کا مزہ لے رہی تھی اس وقت کیوں کسی کی آواز نہیں نکلی؟ آخر کیوں آج انسان  رو رہا ہے آج کیوں پوری دنیا ایک دوسرے کی تکلیف کو محسوس کر رہی ہے؟ ابھی تو صرف انسان کو اسکی اصل جگہ دکھائی گئی ہے، ابھی تو ہمیں ہماری اوقات بتائی گئی ہے، ابھی تو اس بابرکت ذات نے ہمیں وقت دیا ہے توبہ کا وقت، اپنے گناہوں سے معافی مانگنے کا وقت، اپنے اللّٰہ کو منا لینے کا وقت، اپنی ندامت کے اظہار کا وقت۔ خوش قسمت ہیں ہم کہ ہمارے پیارے نبی صلی اللہ علیہ وآلہ وسلم نے ہمیشہ اپنی امت کے لیے دعا کی اور آج ہمیں ہماری اتنی ناانصافیوں کے بعد بھی اللّٰہ نے وقت دیا ہے۔ اللہ ہم سب کو محفوظ رکھے کیونکہ وہ ذات سب سے افضل ہے، پاک ہے، کریم ہے، وہ رحمٰن ہے، وہ رحیم ہے۔ ہم خاک ہیں اور اس کے ایک کن کے محتاج ہیں! یاالہی رحم فرما۔

AN UNSEEN VIRUS!

In the end of 2019, the World was planning about what will happen in the next year of 2020 and every country from super powers, developed countries to the developing countries. Everyone of us planning about our education, career, finance, economy, success, even wars, win, defeat to other country, betterment of country people etc. But who knows what was going to be on Earth in the end of 2019 after facing a lot of injustice in the world with those who were weak in powers. Who knows! 

In Surah-tul-Sajdah, Allah said,

Today, it’s almost 192 countries which are directly or indirectly effected by the Corona Virus and these are the countries who claimed to be the super powers and also claimed that they have the best medical care, best researchers, one of the best healthcare systems but they all are now helpless and waiting for some miracles. But as a Muslims, we have faith that Allah is the only Power and can heal our pain, He is listening our tears. There is no FDA approved medicine which have been launched up till now for the treatment of this virus.

If we go back around 1400 years ago for a minute then we can easily concluded that how much we have in our religion if we have faith. A tiny seed of KALONJI can treat all diseases except death but we take our religion only to offer prayers and thought that we are going on a right way. No Islam is a complete way to live life. Allah has given us answer of every Question.

As we all are seeing that there is no powers, no weapons, no medicines are there to give us treatment of this unseen virus, all men from King to common man, we all are now helpless and waiting for the mercy of Allah because those who have the best medical facilities and those who have no advanced medical care, all are on same page in the same situation. There is no power on Earth who claimed that he has any solution to stop this pandemic disease. As we have heard that oh! We are living in 21st century and we have the solution for every problem. We are independent, we are educated, we are powerful and can do anything with our own. But we forgot that we can’t even know that whether we will take our next breath or not!

Life is very short and this world is just a place of learning, it is not an ideal place to live, it is not the place where we get everything we want. We have forgotten our core responsibilities towards our religion, also towards our Homeland. We forgot why we have sent in this world. We were just living for false fame, owner, money. The world is facing what we have sow and now we are behaving like we haven’t done anything wrong. Just think about it! Just take few minutes and think seriously what this world did with Kashmir, what this cruel humanity has done with the Muslims of Palestine, what this so called independent countries did with underdeveloped countries, what we all have done with our brothers, we have forgotten our responsibilities, we have forgotten our basic rules of Islam, we have heard that cleaning is our half Emaan but what we did is totally opposite.

We are now shouting that please wash your hands, stay away from dirt, kindly maintain social distancing, drink water as much as you can. 

Just think for a second that these all instructions have already been said by our Religion. But yes! We haven’t remembered. We were busy in talking about what were my rights and what were your rights. But in the meantime we have forgotten that what were my responsibility and what were your responsibility. The world is crying for that uncountable deaths and lockdowns but what about those millions of people who are facing this since a long time and nobody seriously nobody cares. That’s the bitter truth but that is the face of our world. What we did, is now happening with ourselves. 

It’s a high time to realize that give equal rights to every single person in the world before it’s too late. Live for yourself is good but live for others is the best. Care for your people is justified but killing the rights of others is unjustified. Happiness in your country is acceptable but tears and blood shed in other countries because of you people is no more acceptable. This is an unseen virus which made you helpless, but just think that it is just a virus, He is the only Power and it’s all about the two words of Kun – Fayaqoon. 

CLEANLINESS - THE FIRST LAW OF HEALTH

Cleanliness now days have become one of the most important word which is discussing all over the world due to the epidemic viral infection (Corona Virus) but as everyone is already discussing and providing information about this virus and the sudden spread of this virus in almost all countries whether we are talking about superpowers, developed countries or developing countries. Moreover, we can not even differentiate the age of infected people, neither white not black, there is no differentiation of culture or even religion. There is only one thing that we can only count the effected people and give them the best possible treatment but what if we have no treatment!

Yes, this is a new virus and the world have no treatment to cure but our religion has that power since the beginning that all those preventive measures which have announced for the prevention of this disease are already defined by our beautiful religion Islam. We are the most blessed people who opened our eyes in the religion who said that Cleanliness is our half EMAAN. We offer prayers five times and Every time when we stood for the prayers, we have to clean ourselves by Wazuh. It is our daily routine to keep ourselves neat and clean. Here is one of the most beautiful ayah of Quran in Surah Al- Maidah (Verse no. 6) Translation:

“O you who have believed, when you rise to [offer] prayer,  wash your faces and your forearms to the elbows and wipe over your heads and (wash) your feet to the ankles. And if you are in a state of Janabah (ceremonial impurity), then purify yourselves (bathe your whole body). But if you are ill or on a journey or one of you comes from the place of relieving himself or you have contacted women and do not find water, then seek clean earth and wipe over your faces and hands with it. Allah does not intend to make difficulty for you, but He intends to purify you and complete His favor upon you that you may be grateful.”

Purity should be our habit it’s not about how others can effected by this but if we can not keep ourselves clean we will not feel comfortable and fresh because when we take bath and keep ourselves clean then we can do our things more positively and not being dull and dirty because cleanliness give a person internal freshness and calm and make more positive for their work and to fulfill daily routine. Washing hands are the easiest way to avoid a lot of diseases it’s just take 5-10seconds to wash but unfortunately we avoid these little things which actually can create a major difference in health problems.

Self hygiene should not be an option but it should be a habit. From the last 3-4 weeks we are just sharing how to keep ourselves clean and how to get rid of this virus. But we are not thinking that these activities should be the part of our lives and we are not only avoiding in terms of hygiene but also we were not following our religion properly because if we followed then we should not be in that panic situations which we specially as a Muslim country facing from the last 20 days, as our schools are closed, colleges, universities are closed, public sitting areas are in danger, people are worried about there health as well as for their children’s health and education as well. People who have an illness and suffering from fever, flu, cough are also suffering from stress because every single person is giving advice without studying about anything. It’s our responsibility to make ourselves clean and then keep our surrounding clean. Only by doing efforts we can protect everyone and even our environment as well.

Cleanliness is not only about how we are looking clean or fresh physically but it is also about spiritual purity, an internal clean heart and soul. We can make ourselves physically clean by washing hands, bath, wearing neat and clean clothes and keep our environment our house, area, city cleaned and much more but for internal spiritual purity, we have to follow what Islam teaches us and the way for the perfect life is to follow the real path of Islam. If we genuinely follow the real roadway of Islam and make our life goals according to it we can not even become physically strong but we will feel internal happiness which is the actual purity, the purity of heart, the cleanliness of mind, the hygiene of tongue, the sweetness of love.

“Make cleanliness a habit not an option”

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..!