Influential Recitation

An influential recitation of Surah Dhuha by Qari Abdul Basit :

 

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Inspiration

 

Taken from the Mystic Saint Blog (http://mysticsaint.blogspot.com)

The Prophet(PBUH) said :

“

Remembrance of God is my friend;

Reason is the root of my faith;

Love is my foundation;

Enthusiasm is my horse;

Knowledge of God is my capital;

Firmness is my treasure;

Sorrow is my companion;

Science is my weapon;

Patience is my mantle;

Contentment is my reward;

Poverty is my pride;

Devotion is my art;

Conviction is my power;

Truth is my redeemer;

Obedience is my sufficiency;

Struggle is my manner

and my pleasure is in my prayer.

“

I wish the truth has a tongue !

All your armies, all your fighters
All your tanks, and all your soldiers
Against a boy holding a stone
Standing there all alone
In his eyes I see the sun
In his smile I see the moon
And I wonder, I only wonder
Who is weak, and who is strong?
Who is right, and who is wrong?
And I wish, I only wish
That the truth has a tongue

I wish !

( Thanks to Sami Yusuf for sending such  a powerful message across )

I am and I am not !

I AM AND AM NOT

I’m swimming
in the flood
which has yet to come

I’m shackled
in the prison
which has yet to be built

I am the checkmate
in a future game of chess

I’m drunk with your wine
which remains untasted

I’m slain on a battlefield
of long ago

I don’t
know the difference
between idea and reality

Like a shadow
I am
and am not.

 

RUMI

 

Rumi`s madness is what i like .

Growing with Time

there is no right or wrong.. Humans` belief of right and wrong is based on logic …. logic is to test .. experience the outcome … or calculate the outcome based on assumptions

Mathematician resolve complex mathematical problems with the equations of probabilities… so in science what is right is not ideally right but its the nearest to the right. so its more like a guess work based on assumptions and logic.It is not right but we believe it is right as its been calculated as the nearest to the right.

 

Our knowledge of right and wrong grows with experience . This makes experience a more important element in making any assumptions. To learn from mistake is to grow and move on . Time is a great teacher.

Warming up…

i wrote some blogs which i dint publish as i was bit warming up .. now everyting gona go online !

i am back to my blog site !

Pakistan Independence day-14th August call ….

Dear countrymen

 

Come and join me my fellow countrymen! in the procession of young men, running as if on winged feet, and jubilant as with musical strings in their throats, surmounting obstacles as if there were magnets drawing them up on the mountainside and magic enchanting their hearts.  

 

Or you want to join the procession of old people waling with bent backs, supported with bent canes; they are out of breath though their path is downhill.

 

Which are you and in which procession do you move?

 

Ask yourself and meditate in the still of the night; find if you are a slave of yesterday or free for the morrow.

 

I tell you that the children of yesterday ars are walking in the funeral of the era that they created for themselves. They are pulling a rotted rope that might break soon and cause them to drop into a forgotten abyss.

 

I say that they are living in homes with weak foundations; as the storm blows — and it is about to blow — their homes will fall upon their heads and thus become their tombs. I say that all their thoughts, their sayings, their quarrels, their compositions, their books and all their work are nothing but chains dragging them because they are too weak to pull the load.

 

But the children of tomorrow are the ones called by life, and the follow it with steady steps and heads high, they are the dawn of new frontiers, no smoke will veil their eyes and no jingle of chains will drown out their voices. They are few in number, but the difference is as between a grain of wheat and a stack of hay. No one knows them but they know each other. They are like the summits, which can see or hear each other — not like caves, which cannot hear or see. They are the seed dropped by the hand of God in the field, breaking through its pod and waving its sapling leaves before the face of the sun. It shall grow into a mighty tree, its root in the heart of the earth and its branches high in the sky.

 

Dear Country men lets join our hands where ever you are and sing the song of freedom. Join our hands and walk in the light in the future. Let be the dawn to darkness. Let us be the Youth of Spring calling the occupants of the sepulchers to rise and march toward the new frontiers.

 

 

(*Strong influence of English Translation of Khalil Gibran`s New Frontiers been used)

A Thirsty Fish

A Thirsty Fish

I don’t get tired of you. Don’t grow weary
of being compassionate toward me!All this thirst equipment
must surely be tired of me,
the waterjar, the water carrier.

I have a thirsty fish in me
that can never find enough
of what it’s thirsty for!

Show me the way to the ocean!
Break these half-measures,
these small containers.

All this fantasy
and grief.

Let my house be drowned in the wave
that rose last night in the courtyard
hidden in the center of my chest.

Joseph fell like the moon into my well.
The harvest I expected was washed away.
But no matter.

A fire has risen above my tombstone hat.
I don’t want learning, or dignity,
or respectability.

I want this music and this dawn
and the warmth of your cheek against mine.

The grief-armies assemble,
but I’m not going with them.

This is how it always is
when I finish a poem.

A great silence comes over me,
and I wonder why I ever thought
to use language.

 

Rumi

(Mevlâna Jalâluddîn Rumi translated by Coleman Barks) 

A Note to more traditional one!

Your thought urges you to marry wealth and notability.

Mine commends self-reliance. Your thought advocates fame and show. Mine counsels me and implores me to cast aside notoriety and treat it like a grain of sand cast upon the shore of eternity.

Your thought is a tree rooted deep in the soil of tradition and whose branches grow in the power of continuity. My thought is a cloud moving in the space. It turns into drops which, as they fall, form a brook that sings its way into the sea. Then it rises as vapour into the sky.

Your thought allows you to believe in the unequal contest of the strong against the weak, and in the tricking of the simple by the subtle ones.

My thought creates in me the desire to till the earth with my hoe, and harvest the crops with my sickle, and build my home with stones and mortar, and weave my raiment with woollen and linen threads.

Your thought is social science, a religious and political dictionary. Mine is simple axiom. Your thought speaks of the beautiful woman, the ugly, the virtuous, the prostitute, the intelligent, and the stupid. Mine sees in every woman a mother, a sister, or a daughter of every man.

The subjects of your thought are thieves, criminals, and assassins.

Mine declares that thieves are the creatures of monopoly, criminals are the offspring of tyrants, and assassins are akin to the slain.

Your thought describes laws, courts, judges, punishments. Mine explains that when man makes a law, he either violates it or obeys it.

You have your thought and i have mine !

Khalil Jibran.

Education becomming corporate

I came across some educational bodies like colleges and universities that have been set up as limited companies or Plc(s).

So it means that educational institutes are strictly becoming corporate as well. They are not different than shops or superstores where you go and buy some stuff. They can run only those courses who are in demand by the industry.

So at the end of the day industry will set the mood for education. we cannot run a course or do a research because its not supported by the industry. The advancement in Science and Technology rely on industries as the scientists and researchers are funded by them.

So welcome to the new era of education. We have “Imperial College Ltd”(Imperial College Of Science Technology and Medicine), one of its sister company (college) is “Wye College of Salesmen” providing skilled sales staff  to retail banking.

The only thing that really make me worry that some of the companies that really used to do pure scientific research became corporate and profit based organizations. Take the example of IBM. I would say that IBM is at the forefront of advancement in Science and Technology. Take one IBM out of the history of Science and you will find man back in the Stone Age. They have made major breakthrough in Computing, Chip Technology and space travel and they left it for other organization to benefit from it and make profits.

But even they didn’t escape from the wave of becoming corporate. “IBM Business Consulting” is the major field where they are focusing their energies now a days.

I believe that the corporate world has benefited man in the positive way. It is a source of freedom from hegemonic rulers and dictators. But leave universities and educational institutes aside otherwise.. we will not have any  philosophers , poets , psychologists and artists. It will be only computer programmers and bean counting accountants. Ahhhhhh…..