RAMADAN AND MUSLIM UMMAH

Think Over It….

"Once there was a loud noise, screams of a person, in Chitral bazar. When I moved near the noise, I saw dozens of people kicking a man, and I heard their sounds saying " why did you eat in Ramadan, you munafeq,ramazan khor".The person was shouting for help, but everyone was joining the group to kick him instead of helping him. I was very surprised to see this cruel situation. After a big struggle, I was able to find the reason for the inhumane action of the people. It was the holy month of Ramadan, a month in Islamic calendar where Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset, and they don’t eat anything during this period. Everyone in bazar was punishing the person because he ate something in bazar, but the person was not Muslim. He was Kalash, and there is not any concept of Ramadan in his faith, but the people didn’t even ask him a question and start kicking the poor guy till he almost fainted". One of my teachers told me this story.

         After I heard about that accident, I am so disappointed on our brothers who call themselves Muslims. They fast in Ramadan and do actions like that. Is it the message of Islam? Is it what Ramadan is all about? Is fasting a duty which should be observed by people who even don’t believe in Islam? Is it the Pakistan which Quaid-e-Azam and our ancestors achieved for us? Is it the rule of Islamic republic of Pakistan? Is democracy in Pakistan practically observed by actions like this? Does our government protects the rights of minorities like this, or there aren’t any rights of minorities? Is this the lesson of acceptance we get from our Madrassahs where we are taught Islam?

         I always wonder if Pakistan is a democracy or not. We keep hearing that Pakistan is a democracy, but is it really? Islam is a complete code of life, and the laws of Pakistan are according to Quran. I always want to know where in Quran it says to force non-believers to practice Islam? Do the people who were beating the poor guy never read the verse of Quran " la ikraha fid diin" which means "there is no forcing others in Islam" ? Why do we want to impose our believes on others? Would anybody convert to Islam by looking at our stupid actions which some people would name Tabligh. I guess people would say good bye to Islam because of Muslims like the people who were beating up a non-believer for eating in Ramadan.

     Ramadan is a very holy month where Muslims fast, but does not eating anything makes us so stupid that we don’t respect others? Do we even need to fast if we can't control our anger? Do we never think that how much other religions take care of Muslims in the month of Ramadan, and they don’t eat anything in front of us? No restaurants or any other eating places are open. Is it how we respect others when they eat and we are fasting because it is not a part of their beliefs? Are we that full of ourselves for being a citizen of "La illaha Illallah" ? Did we forget the "Bhai Chara" which prophet (peace be upon him) had established between Muslims and non-Muslims at that time when Muslims were almost ruling over the whole place.

   One thing which I don’t like is that we take prayer and other religious duties as everybody should do just like we do. Shouldn’t we keep all our personal believes and "ibadaat" to ourselves rather than imposing on others. The main reason I am saying this is that it is educational era, and everybody knows what he/she should do. In religious point of view, would you be punished for someone else's sin in the Day of Judgment? I guess not! As a conclusion, I pray that may Pakistan become a real democracy rather than a theocracy, and may Muslims understand Islam well rather than creating their own Islam. ( Ameen)n)

Come On Dad!!!

Come On dad!!

Thousand times I tried to write on this topic, but every time I start thinking about it, I end up in wetting the page with tears instead of writing something. If you have your parents alive with you, then you are the luckiest person, and you wouldn’t understand why it is hard to write on this topic. If you are someone like me, and you don’t have your dad in this world, then you can understand why it is so challenging to write about your bad luck.

Parents are always loving and important to everyone, but losing a dad like mine is not easy. He was a great friend, a leader, a role model for many people including myself, an adviser, and a great person. I consider myself the luckiest person for being a son of such an awesome dad, but at the same time I think that I am the unluckiest person because I couldn’t see my dad for one last time when he was leaving this world and was meeting his everlasting life.

            I went to the United States as an exchange student for a whole year. Going to a foreign country in a full scholarship was really exciting not only for me but also for my whole family. I said goodbye to my family with smiling face, and I could see the sadness in the faces of my parents because they wouldn’t be able to see me for a whole year. I was just relaxed and excited to enjoy a full new life so I didn’t give any importance to the goodbye since I was meeting my family after only one year. My dad and I went to the other village to catch the land cruiser. I wish I knew that it was the last walk with my dad forever, not only for a year. My dad said goodbye with proud tears, but I was rushing to experience a year in different way and come back. I wish that I had known that that was the last chance for me to hug my dad, and I wouldn’t be able to see him again. The last words coming from my dad were not that important at that time, but I wish I had saved them somewhere. During my stay in America, I would receive calls from my dad. I had never seen him missing me that much. He would want to talk to me for hours and just listening to me, and I would try to avoid his questions so that I would have a good story to tell him when I get home. He asked me to take a lot of pictures so that he could see them. I wish I had told him everything on phone and wouldn’t have trusted this not trustable life.

            I was lost in the fun life of America, but in the last two months of my stay, I just wanted to return home, see my family, and live my real life. In the last month of my exchange year, I never got a phone call from my dad. The last time he had called me, he promised that he would talk to me after a week. Alas!! That week never came. My dad didn’t keep his promise. I kept waiting to hear my dad, but he never talked. Nobody told me what was happening, but the sixth sense inside me had told me what happened. I knew that my dad cannot be alive without talking to me for a whole month. I was so lost in the last month, and finally it was over. I was so darn ready to return home to see my dad, and tell him how worried I was when he didn’t call me. I was thinking to be angry with love. I was so eager to share my exchange year my dad, the only person who would be so excited to hear from me. I could hardly wait to reach home after the long travel of three days.

            Finally, I reached the main town of Chitral, where I was expecting my dad to come to welcome me. Instead of the smiling face of my dad, I saw many of my uncles and cousins with fake smiles on their faces. I was really worried at that point. I was wondering if my dad was sick or something. We went to my uncle's apartment in the town, and I saw some more people like my principal and some more relatives there. I just wanted to hear what had happened because I was so confused at that time. Thousands of thoughts start to revolve in my mind. Did something happen to my mom, whom I always worry about, or did something happen to any of my siblings or was it really my dad. At last, an uncle of mine was kind enough to tell me the black news which I was never ready to hear. It was something which was like an electric shock. When I heard that I had lost my dad; I felt the first feeling of an orphan. The room began to spin around me, and there was a lock on my mind. I was not able to think about anything. All I could see was the smiling face of my dad in front of me.

            Was this what I was expecting when I was going on my exchange experience? Whose fault was it? Is God that cruel that he never let me see my dad for one last time, and my dad died from a heart attack twenty days before I reached home? Which kind of heart attack can snatch my dad from me? Didn’t the death think about me that I was his son, and I was not home yet so death should wait for a while? How can my dad leave me that alone in this world? Is this what the world does to everyone or is it just me? Is it because I am unlucky? People say that it was a judgment, but first of all, how was I supposed to believe it? I am never going to accept it! This is not true…how can my dad die before hearing to all my stories and see all the pictures which I took just for him? How didn’t my dad think before dying that there is no one else who is there to listen to me and call me with sweet nick names? Am I not getting a kiss on my forehead after I finish my talk about my stay in USA? I accept that his life was that much, but is 17 an age for me to be called an orphan? Why do other people have their dads for 100 years? Is my dad never going to see me a grown up man? Is there no one to tell me how much I have changed, and how should I change more? Did my village lose a great leader? Who is going to do all the work he was doing for the power production project in the village? Who is going to support my family? Last of all, who am I going to call "dad", and who is calling me by my nickname "khan"?

            With all these questions, I had to go home and support my broken family. What such other questions were making my mom cry, who lost her life partner. I was supposed to support my family, and I was not supposed to cry! How was I supposed to control my tears when I lost a big part of myself? How much parents love their youngest kids is not hard to understand, and I was the unlucky youngest kid who would never ever get his dad's love. What was my dad thinking when he was leaving me? How did he feel when he saw everyone except me around him? I just paused my thoughts and feelings as I entered home. My only sister, brother and mom couldn’t hold their tears, but I did. I forced myself so much that my feelings died. Now I hardly know what it means to be sad or happy. People came to visit me. They took me to the back of my house where my dad was buried. The man whom I was expecting to hug me when I came home was so silent. He was so hidden from me. I could not touch him, see him or hear him. People were pointing to a small building as the permanent house of my dad now after. What can a son feel at that time? Who can understand me? My dad was not ever going to answer, no matter how loud I shout or how soft I talk to him.

            Now, when my brain started working partially properly after twenty days, I think that my dad was such a great person that this world didn’t deserve him. I had heard this Chitrali saying so many times but now I know what it means " Great people don’t live long". Hundreds of people came to my house every day for these last twenty days, and everyone was crying for my dad. I felt that it was not only my lose. That is the kind of death which I would wish for the person whom I loved so much. How wouldn’t a person like my dad go to heaven? As a Muslim, I accepted it as a judgment from God. I think that one day I will have to say goodbye to everyone else in the world, too. I was thinking that I wouldn’t be able to live one day without my dad. I was so mad at the singing birds that how can they sing without him, but his lose made me live and stick to life. It is the most unexpected thing ever happened in my life, and my wish of seeing my dad for one last time will remain a wish forever and ever and ever. If you have your dad alive with you, then please go hug him for me because you never know your last hug. I can write a whole book on this, but what else can I say now except that I will wait to meet my great friend, loving dad and brave leader in Heaven if I was able to carve my life in the way my dad had. Then we will live in a world where there is no America or Pakistan, and where there are no heart attacks. May his soul stay in peace. Ameen

            "Khuda janae yae dunya jalva gah hae naz hae kis ki

Hazaron uth gayae, ronaq magar baqi hae majlis ki"

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to Islam. The credit does not really go to the religion, but it was because of the people. It is very same case why people like Americans. The main idea of the examples is a proof that people are influenced a lot by other people. If a person has positive outlook, then other people in the society will of course copy that person. The most honorable thing in the world for most people is belief and if positive outlook can change belief then it can change anything. A person with positive outlook is like a shining star on sky for sailors.

    Every development is a change, but every change is not a development. To bring development, the community should have overall positive outlook, but every individual is equally a part of the overall. Life is not about to live for one self, rather life is to serve others. A candle burns itself and gives light to others. Trees are standing calmly in the blinking sun of hot summer and provide with shade to a tired traveler. In the same way, creation of man is also for helping others, and helping is not possible unless a person has positive outlook and thinks about the unlucky sector of community. It can all happen as a result of positive outlook of an individual.

It can be concluded that an individual has great impact on society. Positive outlook of a person can benefit the community because every action done is a fruit of a seed, the outlook.

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obviously. Expecting of changing or affecting others without changing oneself can be put in the circle of oxymoron. The first thing needed in the society is to start with oneself. It is the idea of inside out. Positive outlook makes a person responsible and charming part of society because all the actions are servants of the outlook of the person. Thus having a good personality by a positive outlook is the best contribution to the society.

      After making oneself a positive person in the society it is time to affect others. Humans have the same characteristics as mirror. If a person laughs in front of a mirror, it never cries. Similarly, the relationship between people depends on how they treat each other. If a person keeps positive outlook about others, then there is no doubt that others will have the same response. This chain of positive responses make a network in the society and leads to success and happiness .millions of books have been written, thousand of ideas have been introduced, several religions are present in the world but the only thing which has affected man is a person’s way of thinking and living. Indonesia is the biggest Muslim populated country in the world. it is interesting that Islam did not start in Indonesia, but it puts a question in mind that then how does Indonesia has the largest Muslim population? The answer is quite simple. Muslims went to Indonesia for trade and the actions, honesty and the way Muslims treated Indonesian forced compelled them to convert

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Topic: “How my Positive Outlook Benefits my Community”

Number of Words: 769

It is nature of the nature that things are formed by the combination of other things. Sand particles combine to form desert, trees come together to make forest, ocean is the sticking together of water drops, and in the same way living together of people makes a community. If a single fish in a pond is muddy, then it makes the whole pond dirty. This tells the importance of individual in a society in either positive or negative ways. There is no concept of right or wrong, but it is the way one thinks. Some of the good things are obvious but most of them are complicated, and they can be only reached by having a positive outlook. Positive outlook shapes one’s life in a better way, influences others positively and makes a better society.

     If anything happens, then there is a philosophy that there is something already happened due to which the new thing happens. A person is known by different actions the person does, but actually actions are the obeying of what the upstairs thinks about. This particular reality tells that outlook is the seed to all kind of deeds. Good or bad Habits of a person are governed by outlook the person has. Human being has been created with the ability of judgment. If one wants to be a good person, then the person should sow the right seed or lay a good foundation, and things which follow will be good,

Topic: “How my Positive Outlook Benefits my Community”

Number of Words: 769

Writer’s Name: Abdul Wahid Khan.

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positive outlook

Topic: “How my Positive Outlook Benefits my Community”

Number of Words: 769

It is nature of the nature that things are formed by the combination of other things. Sand particles combine to form desert, trees come together to make forest, ocean is the sticking together of water drops, and in the same way living together of people makes a community. If a single fish in a pond is muddy, then it makes the whole pond dirty. This tells the importance of individual in a society in either positive or negative ways. There is no concept of right or wrong, but it is the way one thinks. Some of the good things are obvious but most of them are complicated, and they can be only reached by having a positive outlook. Positive outlook shapes one’s life in a better way, influences others positively and makes a better society.

     If anything happens, then there is a philosophy that there is something already happened due to which the new thing happens. A person is known by different actions the person does, but actually actions are the obeying of what the upstairs thinks about. This particular reality tells that outlook is the seed to all kind of deeds. Good or bad Habits of a person are governed by outlook the person has. Human being has been created with the ability of judgment. If one wants to be a good person, then the person should sow the right seed or lay a good foundation, and things which follow will be good, obviously. Expecting of changing or affecting others without changing oneself can be put in the circle of oxymoron. The first thing needed in the society is to start with oneself. It is the idea of inside out. Positive outlook makes a person responsible and charming part of society because all the actions are servants of the outlook of the person. Thus having a good personality by a positive outlook is the best contribution to the society.

      After making oneself a positive person in the society it is time to affect others. Humans have the same characteristics as mirror. If a person laughs in front of a mirror, it never cries. Similarly, the relationship between people depends on how they treat each other. If a person keeps positive outlook about others, then there is no doubt that others will have the same response. This chain of positive responses make a network in the society and leads to success and happiness .millions of books have been written, thousand of ideas have been introduced, several religions are present in the world but the only thing which has affected man is a person’s way of thinking and living. Indonesia is the biggest Muslim populated country in the world. it is interesting that Islam did not start in Indonesia, but it puts a question in mind that then how does Indonesia has the largest Muslim population? The answer is quite simple. Muslims went to Indonesia for trade and the actions, honesty and the way Muslims treated Indonesian forced compelled them to convert to Islam. The credit does not really go to the religion, but it was because of the people. It is very same case why people like Americans. The main idea of the examples is a proof that people are influenced a lot by other people. If a person has positive outlook, then other people in the society will of course copy that person. The most honorable thing in the world for most people is belief and if positive outlook can change belief then it can change anything. A person with positive outlook is like a shining star on sky for sailors.

    Every development is a change, but every change is not a development. To bring development, the community should have overall positive outlook, but every individual is equally a part of the overall. Life is not about to live for one self, rather life is to serve others. A candle burns itself and gives light to others. Trees are standing calmly in the blinking sun of hot summer and provide with shade to a tired traveler. In the same way, creation of man is also for helping others, and helping is not possible unless a person has positive outlook and thinks about the unlucky sector of community. It can all happen as a result of positive outlook of an individual.

It can be concluded that an individual has great impact on society. Positive outlook of a person can benefit the community because every action done is a fruit of a seed, the outlook.