Muharram

Muharram is going on, every Muslim year starts with renewal of memory of greatest sacrifice ever made in history of mankind. Which remind us, true message of Islam and being Muslim and falsehood of this world. 

No matter how much we study or try to understand, we can not get to the limits of Ishq, shown by Hazrat Imam Hussain, we can not understand Wafaa of his companions, we can not assess courage shown by ladies of that pure family.

But we must always remember, that how they practically shown message of Islam “Amar Bil Maroof and Nahi Anil Munkar”. We all must have studied in our text books of Islamiyat in school about it, and must have learned essays on it to get good marks in our exams but how many of us really implemented it to pass in greatest exam of our life?

With sad incidents going on in Gaza, in this holy month of Muharram, isn’t duty of us Muslims to raise our voice against injustice? Atleast, stop by and say wrong, Wrong?

 

 

 

Cant it be simple again?

Was having conversation with mom the other day, and she was telling me how simple life used to be when she was kid. There wasn't any TV, no mobiles, no modern entertainment, all people used to water their gardens in evening and kids used to play around together. Neighbors were really very close to each other, and it was good time.

Its so different from what we have saw, even I remember old PTV days, when we used to watch drama at 8 o'clock and streets gets deserted when "Unkahe" etc were aired. When we used to rent out VCR cassettes to watch on weekend. When we whole family used to enjoy chilled mangos in backyard during load sheddings. Everything was simple from food to dressing, we used not to have food chain restaurants and concept of brands.

Things have changed so quickly and its all so different, seems like we will be having same culture of old age homes and day care centers very soon, as culture of everybody busy in their lives is already there. We dont get a chance to talk our parents but we are in touch with our friends through internet or mobile all the time. We dont have time to stop and say hi to our grandparents once in months but can spend countless hour on orkut or myspace to fill scrap books of our friends or to send 100 sms a day.

Why are we becoming so self centered? Is it technology, that is to be blamed for occupying us so much that we forget people around us? Can't life be simple again, when we dont have all means of entertainment but we were happy and contented with our lives, our standards.

We are becoming part of never ending race, we are forgetting difference between need and luxury. We forget to be contented in what we have, who we are and what should be important for us.

Life is too short

Yes, it is. Recently, was browsing through wedding album of a family member and there were many faces that are not with us now.

A day, a month and a year seems to be passed too quickly. I am sure everyone of us, when look back to old days, wonders it just seems like yesterday. But we should also be more conscious about what are we doing to make our lives more purposeful?

Most of today's youngsters, do say life is too short, lets have fun!! There is nothing wrong with enjoying yourselves once in a while, but if we look around, it seems that now every night has be celebrated as if its weekend and as if everyone on road has worked too hard whole week that they need a break now. When case is entirely opposite, concept of weekends and fun is from western society, and if you closely look they do work so hard whole week, that they can say they deserve a break over weekend.

Besides in their lives, there is no concept of live hereafter, and they think that this is only life they have so just have fun here, while we as Muslims know that this is just temporary life and we are here for test.

Just want to convey message, that do have fun, but things should be balanced. Also, there is certain age you can build yourself a career, don't waste that precious time, open your eyes, think and realize that how quickly things will change.

Work hard today, not just for you but also for the betterment of country. Because if every person is working and fulfilling his/her duties, no matter how small or big, our homeland will be stronger and more prosper. So next time, while heading towards a weekend party, just stop for a moment and ask yourself, what have you accomplished today, this week and this year.

And yes, keep smiling because we can still work hard and achieve our goals with a smile, as life is too short to spread happiness around.

Happy working :)

Where are we heading? To all moms

My blog is specially for Pakistanis, things have changed a lot since last decade with availability of cable channels in every other home. Our social values are changing and so is our overall society. Unfortunately our society is not educated enough to digest all the information they are presented with, result is of course disastrous.

Things that used to be objectionable are not only accepted but unfortunately appreciated now. We were used to of having free male/female friendships in middle class just few years back, but now it seems that its so common that person not have opposite gender friends is being criticized for being backward and "Pando" in our local language.

But what is this so called modernization bringing to us, our kids are getting access to mature content in our homes before their innocent minds can understand. We ourselves are polluting their minds with culture that is not ours, showing them world that is do not match with our social values and our religion.

Young kids can not read Qalma but can sing whole song by heart, they don't know about Namaaz but know what arti and pooja is. Have you ever seen, anyone offering prayers in our pakistani dramas and compare them with Indian soaps, who are in their worship place in every other scene. And these soups are running on our TV sets, whole day, what message are we giving to our young kids? What are we teaching them? Aren't we becoming enemy of our own kids by exposing them to all this just because we want to entertain ourselves?

Just think once, where are we heading? What will these kids be when they will grow up? What values will they hold? Every kids has rights to have proper education, its "Farz" of parents to give him moral values, our duty is not finished by just sending them off to an expensive school and then drop them to another expensive tuition center, thinking we are excellent parents.

Please think and save your kid's innocent mind from devils, I dont mean to say throw away your TV sets, just mean to say be careful what are you showing them on TV. Be around them when they are watching TV.

I will try to keep writing on regular basis, may be my little effort can save some kids.

Please be careful online

Being working on IT industry since 6 years and online user since a decade now, have came across many online victims or to be more specific chat victims. Everytime I met a heart broken person from online relationship, I thought something should be done to at least awareness in masses.

Internet has reached almost every home now, its cheap, most accessible and thanks to cable internet its available 24/7 now to all our immature students and young minds without any supervision. Parents are not computer savvy that makes it more easier for kids to misuse internet, and social system gives plenty of free time to teens and students to waste as they dont have to worry about anything other than attending college for couple of hours daily and submit few assignments by end of each semester.

Even in 90's chat was a craze, it is still a craze in addition to lots of social networking sites that make it very easier to find new friends. But this is not just about finding friends, its also about finding new girl friends, fool them, use them and leave them heart broken.

I use not to believe on all this, thinking how it is possible that girls can be so stupid to believe anyone they even don't know, but then met both victims and few guys, who themselves use internet for finding new girl friends.

I just want to request all girls out there, please dont trust anyone online and give your personal information. Dont give out your photos to your online friends. Please be careful with your life, you got it just once, dont let anyone misusing you on name of friendship.

Please find more information at : http://www.wiredsafety.org/internet101/aromance.html

I know, my blog will not be read by many, but even if one person reads it and become careful online, I will think my purpose has been fulfilled.