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Ay Tair-e-Lahoti us rizk say mot achi
Jis rizk say aati ho parwaz main kotahi RAY SUAREZ: You reviewed
his medical records.
Sabak phir perh sadakat ka ,shujat ka diyanat ka
Liya jaye ga tugh se kaam duniya ki imamat ka Iqbaal bada
updeshak hai.
Mun baaton se moh leta hai.
Guftaar ka ghaazi ban to gaya.
Kirdaar ka ghaazi ban na saka performance as president. In
certain ways I came out of it thinking he was a heroic
character.
Yeh (Ghazi) Yeh tere Purisrar Banday -
IQBAL
Ye Ghazi Ye tere pur
israr bande
jinhen tune bakhsha hai zouq e khudai
Do neem jin ki thokar se sehra o darya
Simat kar Pahar jinki haibat se rai
Do Aalam sey karti hey begana dil ko
Aajab shey hey lazzat-e-Aashnai
Shahadat hey matloob-o-Maqsood-e-Mu'min
Na Mal-e-Ghanimat, Kishwar Kushai
- IQBAL
There is no doubt that there is a destiny. It has been
written that what is going to happen in one’s life. But it’s not
actually what it is written. It’s that all the way you are given
with choices, to choose from “a” and “b”. The destiny means that
you’ll be given the 2 choices and the choice you made is
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So eventually, one thing is
clear; that the choices are written. However, the difference
that you can make is where you have to choose, which is the
point where you can actually change your destiny. But whatever
the choice you made is also written
, not in hardcoded form. So, you have to pay, you have to work
out something to change that “not hardcoded” form of choice into
your desired choice. How would you? Emm, that’s the real
question. Let me try to put my answer here.
Suppose, hypothetically, there is
written in your destiny that you’ll reach to “point A” which you
don’t want to. You have aimed and want to reach at “Point B”.
For this, you have to go through some preparations, some tests.
Which are Praying (for sure) and working hard, struggling to get
what you want and during all this time, God will continuously
keep you testing. He will put different tests on your way, the
tension, the restlessness and the mental trauma you may suffer
during all this time. Now, if you are determined and strong
enough to bear all this with all that “solid hard work”, then it
means you did your job and you’ll be paid off with your reward,
i.e. “Point B”.
There is a saying that “How would
I know that the problems that I am facing is some sort of
punishment or the tests” and the answer was given as “if those
problems are bringing you closer to God, then those are tests,
otherwise the punishment”. Yeah, that’s the thing in above case.
If you don’t lose your ground during your struggle to reach at
your aim, you’ll get it. This is the thing, which Allama Iqbal
said in his shair (the most favorite one of mine)
خودی کو کر بلند اتنا کھ ہر تقدیر
سے پہلے
خدا بندے سے خود پوچھے بتا تیری رضاء کیا ہے
Khudi ko kar buland itna kay har
taqdeer say pehlay
Khuda banday say khud puchay, bata teri raza kya hai
(Increase your selflessness to
such heights that before creating each destiny, God himself
would have to ask the human ‘What is your opinion about this’
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Living with a disability
Dr Aslam Farrukhi is an Urdu writer and critic
What are you reading these days?
Next to me, and which I give a lot of importance to, is Fawaidul
Fawad by Khawaja Hasan Sajzi. It has been translated into Urdu
many times and twice into English but I read it in Persian.
The book is a collection of the accounts of the conversations in
Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya’s majalis penned by his mureed Hasan
Sajzi who was also well-known as a Persian poet. Hasan Sazji
would show these to Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya so they are
authenticated accounts.
Fawaidul Fawad contains everything, ilm, danish, din. There is
no aspect of life which is not present in the book.
For about 30 years, every morning I read one chapter of the
Quran and then one account of a majlis, and I always find some
new meaning. By now, I know a big part of it by heart.
Another book next to me is Ghalib’s Persian diwan. He was a very
big poet in Persian. Also, Muhammad Husain Azad’s Aab-i-Hayat. I
have spent a lot of my life reading and writing about him. I go
through Aab-i-Hayat at least once a day. Through repeated
reading, the book has become a part of me. I also sometimes go
through its translation by Frances Pritchett and Shamsur Rahman
Faruqi.
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