ہوا کے رخ پر بہنے والے یا باد مخالف سے ٹکرانے والے

آپ موٹر سائیکل پر بیٹھے اپنی منزل کی جانب رواں دواں ہیں کہ ٹریفک سگنل بند ہوجاتا ہے. سرخ بتّی جل رہی ہے اور اتفاق سے آپکو جگہ بھی سب سے آگے ملی ہے. سگنل بند ہے لیکن آپکے پیچھے گاڑیوں کے ہارن بدستور بج رہے ہیں، یہ ہارن آپکو سگنل توڑ کر آگے چلنے کا کہتے ہیں. بعض دفعہ کوئی بڑی گاڑی اور کبھی ٹرک آپکے پیچھے کھڑا ہوتا ہے. اپنے چنگھاڑتے ہارن بجانے کے ساتھ ساتھ یہ ہلکا ہلکا آگے بڑھتے ہیں اور ایکسیلیٹر پر دباؤ پڑتا ہے، انجن کی زور دار گھن گرج اور آپکے ماتھے پر چمکتا پسینہ آپکی ذہنی اور جسمانی کوفت کا پتا دیتا ہے. اس طرح کی صورتحال بھی قریب آجاتی ہے جب آپ اپنے پیچھے موجود لا تعداد گاڑیوں کے ہارن اور شور سے پریشان ہو کر سگنل توڑ دیتے ہیں اور آگے بڑھ جاتے ہیں،اور سارا ٹریفک آپکے پیچھے چل پڑتا ہے ...

دنیا بھی اس ہی طرح کا ٹریفک ہے، آپ اس کڑے دور میں جہاں ہر دوسرا شخص چھوٹے بڑے گناہوں میں ملوث ہو، جہاں برائی کا اس قدر ریلا آئے کہ آپکو اپنا آپ اس سے بچانا مشکل ہوجائے اور جب آپ ان گناہوں سے بچ رہے ہوں تو بجاۓ تعریف کے ہر طرف سے طعنوں کی بھرمار شروع ہوجاتی ہے، کبھی مولوی ہونے کا طعنہ ملتا ہے تو کبھی دقیانوسی، بنیاد پرستی اور بیک ورڈنیس کا طعنہ. گناہوں کا اس قدر زور ہوتا ہے کے قریب ہوتا ہے کہ اس پیچھے سے آنے والے بھاری ٹریفک سے پریشان ہو کر سگنل توڑ کے آگے بڑھ جائیں. لیکن یہی تو آزمائش ہے. یہی تو وہ بھٹّی ہے جس سے گزرنے کے بعد تانبا تپ کر کندن ہوتا ہے.
صرف عمل نہیں بلکہ رائے عامّہ کے حوالے سے بھی دیکھیں جب ایک غلط رائے اس قدر عام ہوجائے بلکہ دوسرے الفاظ میں جھوٹ اس قدر بولا جائے کے سچ کا سا گمان ہونے لگے. ایسے حالات میں جب سب افراد کی رائے عامّہ مل کر ایک طوفان کی شکل اختیار کرلے اور قریب ہوجائے کہ حق بات کا پرچار کرنے والے بھی اس پراپیگینڈے کا شکار ہونے لگیں. ایسے حالات میں سچ بولنے والے کی حالت اس ہی سگنل پر سب سے آگے کھڑے بائیک والے کی سی ہے جس کے پیچھے دنیا جہاں کا ٹریفک کھڑا شور مچا رہا ہو.

ایسے وقت میں بس یہ سوچا جائے کے دنیا اور دنیا والوں کی ناراضگی زیادہ نقصان دہ ہے یا دنیا و آخرت میں اللہ تعالی کی ناراضگی. یقیناً آپکو اس کا جواب مل جائے گا.

ذرا سوچئے گا ضرور!

ابنِ سیّد

Confessions of a Pakistani…

I am a Pakistani, not a simple Pakistani but a loyal Pakistani, what’s more the prove of my loyalty that I criticize much to my politicians and political parties who are eating the country like hell, without being myself involved in the politics I think I am doing the biggest work for my country in my opinion.

I am a Pakistani, I love my country, but as you know the universities are junk here so I am trying to get admission in university of a foreign country like UK, yet still I am to be a patriotic person because after completing my education I will be coming back and serving my country, I mean what more can I do for Pakistan.

As you already know how the economic situation of the country coming down at the speed of light, yeah, the corrupt politicians and industrialist are making the country like a hell, so I planned to go outside for money making probably USA or UAE, Oh please don’t think I’m doing this for myself, Naah, its just for Pakistan well I will earn and send money to my parents and they will spend here or save in the banks as per their requirement this will make our economy better.

Well, I will eventually try to get a accommodation in Canada, its for Pakistan sake too, don’t know how to justify but my heart says if I will live and work in Canada this will be more beneficial for my country.

I will spend all my life in Europe and finally I want to die in Makkah, as I am a Muslim so that my all sins would be washed away and will bury in Madina, although I have to prove that I am a Muslim after all. What more can I do for my religion after that I’m so much busy in this life that can’t took out five minutes for namaz.

 I am a Pakistan, a loyal and patriotic Pakistani, but you know my language is Urdu and when I talk in my office and university I look like a “Paindoo”, that’s why despite my ultimate love for my language I usually talk in English its look more professional and civilized. I wonder how China, Russia propagated without English, its difficult!

I love to eat Chinese food, Italian Pizzas, Russian Salads, well its not Haraam after all, still I’m a patriotic Pakistani. Let me tell you about the electronic items manufactured in my country without guarantee that’s why I turned to Japanese electronics, they are durable, but don’t think that I don’t love my country if I do this. I do!

Despite the rich culture, music and environment of my country I love to watch English movies and listen to Indian songs; still I’m a patriotic Pakistani. I am so happy to see my little daughter singing “Wanday Mataram”, how cute she looks; she will be a patriotic Pakistani like me too. To tell you more many of our patriotic singers who sing songs for Pakistan got fame and get known to us from the Indian media!

Still proud to be a Pakistani?

A Question to Think about!

Think again!

How many of us know Muhammad Asad?

An Austrian Jew Leopold Weiss who converted to Islam and changed his name to Muhammad Asad, author of the famous book “Road to Makkah”, among his other books are “Islam and Politics”, “Towards an Islamic Constitution” and the list continues. Asad was a traveler, researcher, writer and scholar. His journey through Palestine and Arab countries make him think about Islam, he was impressed by Islam and in its study he found out that this is the perfect religion, in his own words about Islam, he says: “Islam appears to me like a perfect work of architecture. All its parts are harmoniously conceived to complement and support each other; nothing is superfluous and nothing lacking; and the result is a structure of absolute balance and solid composure.”

He came to the Indo-Pak region in the 1932 and met Allama Muhammad Iqbal, Allama iqbal the spiritual leader of Muslims of sub-continent who gave the concept and thought of a separate Islamic country on the basis of Islam, where Muslims can practice their religion with freedom, where all the minorities will be given fundamental right, where the Islamic laws will be implemented. He worked with Allama Iqbal and the Muslim leaders for the creation of the separate homeland, he was arrested in 1939 from Lahore and spent three years in prison he reunited with his family finally in 1945 when the independence movement in the Indo-Pak region was at its peak, the land of sub-continent was echoing with the slogans of “Pakistan ka matlab kia, La ilaha ilallah”, he supported and worked for the independence of a separate Muslim state which came on the globe of the world as Pakistan, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Asad was given the Pakistani Nationality on his never-ending efforts. He has close relations with Quaid e Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah due to his effort for Islam.

After the independence of Pakistan, he was designated as the Director of the Department of Islamic Reconstruction which involved in the preparation and reviewing the recommendation to the drafting of the first constitution of Pakistan according the Islamic law. He also worked with the ministry of foreign affairs as Head of Middle East Division. 

The book “Road to Makkah” is about his journey of his life and his travel towards Makkah and the story of his conversion from Judaism to Islam.

In the last days of his life, he moved to Spain with his wife, where he lived till his death on February 23, 1992. He was buried in Granada.