I read Surah Al-Anbiya (The Prophets) today and what I found really interesting was that after mentioning a series of incidents and stories from the lives of the Prophets, including Moses, Aaron, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David, Solomon….and others who weren’t named but alluded to such as Mary and Jesus, the Quran then says: “Indeed this, [...]
The following verse has been taken from Surah Ta-Ha. “Both of you” in this verse refers to Moses and Aaron who are instructed by God to approach Pharoah. اذْهَبَا إِلَى فِرْعَوْنَ إِنَّهُ طَغَى فَقُولَا لَهُ قَوْلًا لَّيِّنًا لَّعَلَّهُ يَتَذَكَّرُ أَوْ يَخْشَى “Go, both of you, to Pharaoh, for he has indeed transgressed all bounds; “But [...]
Reading a few articles exhorting people to donate to the Pakistan floods, I literally feel sick by the hateful and ignorant comments posted on the articles. A case in point is an article by Ethan Casey that appeared in the Huffington Post. The comments range from paranoid Pakistan-bashing (‘what unites Pakistanis is their hatred of [...]
اللَّهُ لَا إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ الْحَيُّ الْقَيُّومُ ۚ لَا تَأْخُذُهُ سِنَةٌ وَلَا نَوْمٌ ۚ لَهُ مَا فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَمَا فِي الْأَرْضِ ۗ مَنْ ذَا الَّذِي يَشْفَعُ عِنْدَهُ إِلَّا بِإِذْنِهِ ۚ يَعْلَمُ مَا بَيْنَ أَيْدِيهِمْ وَمَا خَلْفَهُمْ ۖ وَلَا يُحِيطُونَ بِشَيْءٍ مِنْ عِلْمِهِ إِلَّا بِمَا شَاءَ ۚ وَسِعَ كُرْسِيُّهُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ ۖ وَلَا يَئُودُهُ حِفْظُهُمَا ۚ [...]
It seems that Pakistan is beleaguered by one disaster or catastrophe after the other. This past week may have been the worst in our history. The Margalla plane crash, the worst floods ever leaving over 4.5 million affected, ethnic riots in Karachi and suicide bombing in Peshawar. Can it get any worse? I had been [...]
The humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in Pakistan is tragic at many levels. These are the worst floods in Pakistan’s history and have affected over 4.5 million people and taken over 1500 lives. And it’s not over yet. As the flood waters continue downstream to Sindh, they will cause more destruction in their wake. The images from NASA of before [...]
Hilary Clinton’s latest visit to Pakistan this week ended up in the reiteration of the same old messages and not-so-covert threats. The key message boils down to “we want more from Paksitan” and the warning this time being: “There is no doubt in anyone’s mind that should an attack against the United States be traced to be Pakistani it [...]
It’s become a trend in Pakistan that any musician who gets a decent amount of fame, then moves over to produce music in India. I watched Sajjad Ali’s interview some time back and he said that it was now close to impossible to remain profitable by just producing music in Pakistan. While this route may [...]
This morning I thought “Ugh it’s just one of those days. There’s nothing I can do about it. It’s going to be horrible”. This outburst was brought about by the bus driver (connecting from Oxford city centre to my office) who said I could not travel on my ticket ( that I’d bought from London [...]
