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Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Videos Of Spiritual Journey

Few weeks ago,my friends and i have paid visit at the Tombs of "Qalandar Lal Shahbaz and Shah Abdul Bhittai" where we happened to notice many things and made videos of our tour,are posted below.










The following videos were made at the tomb of great sindhi poet "Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai".






Thursday, July 15, 2010

Bulleh Shah The Sufi and The Beacon of peace

Bulleh Shah was born in a small village located somewhere in Uch sharif (1680) bahawalpur punjab,his real name was "Abdullah Shah" and it is reported that he passed away in the age of 77 years at "Kasoor" Punjab.
It goes without saying,his father Shah Mohammad Darwaish was a preacher as well as teacher in the village mosque who later on got job in "Pandoke" at Kasoor.
Moreover,Bulleh Shah received his early education at pandoke and moved to kasoor for higher education.
Interestingly,Shah Inayat Qadri an eminent Sufi Saint was his spritual teacher who was hailing from Arain caste.where as,Bulleh shah was hailing from Syed caste which has had much respect and status than other castes in our society,was a disciple of Arain,shows clearly that caste is nothing in front of Allah.
Bullah has fallen in love with the Lord.
He has given his life and body as earnest.
His Lord and Master is Shah Inayat
who has captivated his heart."
Undoubtedly,Bulleh Shah had a strong religious family background which certainly helped him when he was deeply involved in spirituality.
Candidly,He represented himself off by his writing as "Humanist". It is noticed when one ponders over his words whatever has been discussed by the poet was not his social problem rather issue of the reader.however,it depicts much attention of the readers and asking them to follow the simplicity and lead their life in spirituality.Unavoidably,Mullahs do not like his words which are damn against the Islamic orthodoxy as well as against the belief because Mullahs are claiming that best way of becoming friend of Allah,is Namaz(prayer) which is mainly concerned with actions only not with the intentions while this Sufi is asking people to offer namaz(prayer) in such way in which you show your deeply involvement while communicating with Allah instead of moving yourself off,thinking about others while offering it and hatching plots against people like Mullahs.There is a poetry of Bulleh Shah in which he says that Allah(God) has never been found in books(Holy scripture),in mosques,in Mandirs,In Kabah,in skies,in minarets rather Allah(God) lives in humans heart(Bulleh shah overtly claimed it).





Once a Sikh was galloping in the surrounding areas of a muslim village who later on was killed by muslims however Sikh community retaliated it and killed a number of muslims.
On the incident,Bulleh Shah denounced that this controvery of killing a sikh who was faultless,has been created by Mullahs and Mufties of Pandoke.Therefore,he went agains them.
You alone exist; I do not, O Beloved!
You alone exist, I do not!
Like the shadow of a house in ruins,
I revolve in my own mind.
If I speak, you speak with me:
If I am silent, you are in my mind.
If I sleep, you sleep with me:
If I walk, you are along my path.
Oh Bulleh, the spouse has come to my house:
My life is a sacrifice unto Him.
You alone exist; I do not, O Beloved!
Last but not the least,his belief is consisted of four stages. (I)SHARIAH(PATH). (II)TARIQAT(OBSERVANCE).(III)HAQIQAT(TRUTH) and (IV)MARFAT(UNION).Simplicity and importance of humanity were his appeals to the people.
Undeniably,his belief is not different from the belief of such sufis(Shah Waliullah and Shaikh Ahmed sirhandi etc) who played their pivotal role in the Sub-continent for re-arranging the actual shape of Islam which was distorted by some Muslim as well as Hindu rulers of that time.
The misconception among the theologians against Sufism,is baseless.Sufis are offering more prays than them,leading a peaceful as well as simple life which was the way of our last Prophet while our theologists instead of improving themselves,remain busy in shouting against others.Sufi always remained busy in prayers,in love with their lord and make themselves as forlorn all the time.Neither they know about feeding time nor about clothing nor about scheduling prayer nor about inhumane activities.
My eyes pour out tears !
He left me, and himself he departed;
What fault was there in me ?
Neither at night nor in the day do I sleep in peace;
My eyes pour out tears !
Sharper than swords and spears are the arrows of love !
There is no one as cruel as love ;
This malady no physician can cure.
There is no peace, not for a moment,
So intense is the pain of separation !
O Bullah, if the Lord were to shower
His grace, My days would radically change !
He left me, and himself he departed.
What fault was there in me ?
Bulleh Shah
Comments will be highly appreciated

Monday, July 5, 2010

Melancholic Sufi Singer (Allan Fakir)

Allan Fakir was born in 1932 at a tiny ancient village namely "Aamari" located in district Jamshoro taluka Manjhand Sindh where he spent his childhood life and passed away on 4th july 2000 at Liaquat national hospital karachi.Actually,he was hailing from Mangharhaar family which is amazingly prominent due to singing songs as well as beating drums at wedding nights.
Needless to say,his father was also beating drums  and singing traditional songs at wedding nights.Naturally,he was singing melancholic songs in the juvenile age which was provoking his father to unlike him.Basically,he was deprived from mother's love however it was his enthusiasm to find out somebody who could replace it but remained vain.
Therefore,He happened to settle at the Shrine of Shah Abdul Latif bhittai located in Bhitt Shah where he learnt many things such as poetry,Alaap,and way of showing a true love in the form of melodies.Reportedly he had been singing Shah Sahabs Kalam as long as 20 years until meeting "Mumtaz Mirza" who introducted him to Radio Pakistan Hyderabad,was his life's most terrific action.
Shockingly as well as proudly speaking,he never changed his fakiri dress code ever despite of receiving  speechless eulogy  as well as countless awards.
It goes without saying,he happened to get President award,Shah latif award and many others.
Pertinently,he never portrayed himself off as best "Sufi Singer" of Mehran rather he had been seen as forlorn.
Moreover,he was also patriotic as well as nationalist in this sense that his all performances were observed in sindhi cultural dresses,was a slap on the face of our cultural departmant which had never worked to promote Sindhi Culture which he was observing even at the time of his last breathe in Sindhi Cultural Dress.
Interestingly,whatever he was earning by singing sufi songs,sharing with the poor as well as with other sufies.This generosity was strongest than the uncontrolablle winds and his love with his motherland was higher than the mountains and deeper than the oceans.
Despite of all that his 10th death annivesary was not oberserved by Sindh Cultural department  on 4th july 2010 proved that our cultural minister had neither time nor interest to set out his 10th anniversary in the limelight by arranging a cultural show.
Last but not the least,there is no dearth of art in our country but it has never been encouraged neither by previous goverments nor by current.Due to this,our sufi as well as pop singers are turning their attentions towards bollywood where they are paid well and recognizing themselves as best performer at the world level.


This article has been written for paying  tribute to great sufi singer  Allan fakir.

Saturday, July 3, 2010

INTERVIEWS OF CSS ASPIRANTS

After being remained in contact with new css aspirants,an impatient desire rose into my heart that their interviews must be taken however i happened to take a few interviews of my friends in which they are throwing light over current problems of pakistan as well as suggesting to the begginers that which strategy to be adhered for passing the css exam.
Moreover,Optional subjects have also been discussed in the below posted interviews.
Honestly speaking,motive of conducting these interviews,is to help out new css aspirants who are facing numerous problems while preparation of css so that by watching below posted interviews they get benefited.








Comments will be highly appreciated

Friday, July 2, 2010

Sab Maya Hay ( Materialism )

Undoubtedly,Maya has various meanings in sanskrit  it means as "illusion" while in urdu it has four meanings such as "dhoka"(Betray), "fareeb", "saraab",and  it also means "money" .
It has been observed by me,people and society have become completely materialist ,they prefer and pay much attention towards the glittering materialist things like New vehicles,Well-constructed Bungalows and Bank Balance in spite of knowing that the person who is getting much respect in the society ,has been following the foot steps of the "Evil".
Ostensibly,It should have been a task of the society to make corrupt and criminal social animals as faultless but Ah! surprisingly society encourages those who are the followers of Demon rather than letting them know that they would be punished here and hereafter if their deeds remain same.
Society Per se can solve many problems which humans have been facing since the creation of our planet but it has never been observed ever why : no one knows.
Inevitably,Society is the best friend of devil who is also not facing much resistance while provoking others because humans have made themselves not less then an evil just because of leading the path of shadowy and having corrupted their faith.If humans have had not corrupted their faith ,they would not have made successful to demon but what is this ; is a game ,played by the creator in which players are aloof as well as helpless.
Although,we have history as well as several examples of previous marred societies which can be taken into account for making our society as much better as we can but we never ponder over it.
The above posted song "Sab Maya Hay" is overtly throwing light over numerous things which have been already mooted above,has provoked my thought,asking me to do something for the society but Alas! whenever one intentionally helps out the society and its people,would think that the person who is advocating,is their enemy.However,it has become very difficult to turn out the society from the current scenario.
Covertly,every one is thinking of having materialist things instead of making another example for the posterity in which the things have been adhered by our forefathers be discussed so that our future generation,would never make blunders like us.
Shamefully,It is seen today that amity,love,sincerity,truthfulness,passion of a certain things,wife and husband relationship,kinship, and respect are given on the basis of persons materialist status.For instance,a person who is earning 3$ in a single day would not be given that much respect as given to the person earning 10$ in a day and so on.
Moreover,there are three categories in the society such as (i) Upper class (ii)middle class (iii)lower class.these all types have certain living life style.For instance,Upper class will think many a times to have either dinner or lunch with a person ,hailing from lower or middle class same as middle class person does with lower class.The most cruelest class is lower one which faces not only livelihood related issues but also churlish behavior of middle and upper class,is also throwing cold water over it in spite of having the same physical structure,is apathetic to deal like this.
Anyhow,Through this article,i would suggest a few measure to my readers to take a part in my campaign in which i want to change vision of our people who not only distort their life due to lack of education but also about to leave an example for our future generations which is very disastrous.these are the measures (i) Educate people who are living around you (ii)Help out people without taking status concept into account (iii) clean out the perception of materialism from the minds of the people by quoting them Divine acts (iv)Think your society is a part of your family so whatever you can do for your family,should also be done for the society (v) the concept of humanity should also be followed.

Readers are requested to post their comments.

Sunday, June 27, 2010

SAARC (The Lackadaisical Organization)

South Asia  Association for regional Corporation was created in December 1985 its  member countries are "Pakistan,India,Bangladesh,Bhutan,Afghanistan,Maldives,Nepal and Srilanka.This region accounts for 23% of the world population,its share in the global GDP is less than 3%, All 8 members trade account for less than 2% of global trade.
Moreover,this region accounts for 1.7% of world exports and 3% of global Fdi inflows.
Reportedly,there are 30% people of the region living below the poverty line while this is the hub of 400 million poor people.
AH! SAARC members are locked in intra-state conflict.This organization has never provided any mechanism to address terrorism,drug trafficking,extremism,and economic related problems to its members.
Although,these specious matters have become a forlorn hope of 1/5th of the humanity.
Needless to mention,16th summit was held in Bhutan in which member states decided that a fore mentioned issues cannot be solved at bilateral level rather these issues should be addressed through joint efforts and such  cordial relations as persist among the members of  ASEAN,ECO and GCC.
It was decided in the "Islamabad Declaration" held in 2004 by the then President Pervez musharraf and the then premier Vajpaee that their disputes including kashmir will be resolved through a dialogue process which  was suspended in November 2008 without solving intra-related issues due to "mumbai carnage".
"SAARC will not turn into just talk shop bhutan premier expressed hope in the 16th summit"
 It is reported to note that "SAARC" has been dominated by india (it account for 74%)population of the whole region,its GDP is 75%,trade is 79% and 81% Fdi flow.Due to this,India bears more responsibility to make Saarc as successful.
Painfully,there are lingering issues of water,terrorism and Kashmir between two rival states (Pakistan and india)who have been fighting like cats and dogs in the South Asia whose impact has been lasted upon SAFTA(south Asian free trade agreement) and distorting the future of 1.56 billion people in the region.until relations between above mentioned countries are not normalise the fate of "SAFTA" will not be changed from its predecessors because both countries are largest and economically sound in the region.
Moreover,SAPTA(Sounth Asian preferential trading agreement) was signed in the 7th summit at Dhaka in april 1993,has not been ope-rationalized while South Asia food reserves and South Asian Development Fund have met the same fate.
It was promulgated in the 16th summit that two projects of 300$million will be launched for poverty reduction which certainly improves the life of poor people.
Recently,it was announced in a meeting held at Islamabad that  SAARCPOL would be created for desisting the terrorism and drug trafficking problems,was a nice stance though and deserving a plaudits.
It can be summed up as SAARC should be like a Forum where member countries moot not only matters of the region but also underline the causes of bilateral relations so that lingering Indo-Pak disputes can be solved and it should also discuss the issues of peace,security,development with international organization and promote interest of the member countries for preserving the concept of sovereignty.the foremost problem in the SAARC is trust deficit among the member states which leads this organizations towards a murkiest world.
The following measures can make  SAARC as an efficient oraganization (i) people to people contact (ii)inter-connectivity (iii) a joint strategy to tackle the climate change,water and food shortages issues (iv) SAFTA AND SAPTA should be operationalised (v) Bilateral and Multi-lateral Trade should be boosted.
One can surely say that if the above measure to be followed wholeheartedly and collectively then the future of 1.56 billion people of the region would be productive as well as glittering.

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Scrupulous Deaf and Finesse Dumb Man

Since along time,a person who is unable to speak and listen,has been performing brilliantly in our society.Actually,his name is Amjad,hailing from jhang punjab,had left his home when he was 12 years old because his family was not behaving with him in kind manner rather ignoring him blatantly due to his disability.
However,he left his home and went to lahore where he happened to join a school of disable people in which he had completed his 8th class and left it.
Due to negligency,and lacking financial support,he decided to do work with a labour company where he learnt many things such as wall painting,construction of rooms and communication process at karachi.
Interestingly,he didnot shun off his relatives despite of their choleric behaviour and remained in contact with them by paying visit once a year at their home.


Moreover,This person has been remained very social with the people and the society,he used to sort out basic problems of human such as helping them by providing financial assistance,working for them free of cost and supporting other disable people in the society.
AH! he never showed off apathy in anything of this world,i have noticed his multi-tasking ability which cannot be adhered by able people in this world.
Needless to say,Most of the people in our society are concerned with their own problems and do not help to needy people while this deaf and dumb man has been coming forward with a measureless speed to meet with the needs of people which is a speechless job though.

This adroit person,is communicating with the people by using his hands.Even though,he is holding a cell phone device through which he used to send short messages to his friends,arranging meetings with the people,and asking his friends to talk with his family behalf of him.
Last but not the least,able people should take this person's life into account and must be honest like him,who never took a single buck illegally and they should be good performer in our society like Amjad.

Friday, May 28, 2010

The Spiritual Journey-2

we left from Sewan at 9:30 pm (May 22 2010),and reached at hyderabad at around 11:30 pm then decided to have fried mutton in dinner at salateen hotel.
My friends were busy in mockery at that hotel and mooting their personal issues with eachother.One of our friend,was being blittered in our discussions rather in the whole journey Who did not take this fun to his heart,was his generosity.


while having dinner at Salateen hotel in hyderabad,one of our friend,suggested that this night has been passed why should not we pay a visit at bhitt shah which was about 60 km away from that hotel.However,all of us occupied our seats,fastened our belts and followed the way of Hala.

Astonishingly speaking,when we reached at the tomb of Shah Abdul Latif bhittai,we happened to watch many things,one of them is posted above.
It is speculated that the above posted picture of the Holy Book,was the same book which Shah sahab had been reciting,and a few senior fakirs have also proclaimed that this Holy Book was being written by Shah sahab.
Truthfully,we all friends became lummox when we happened to listen a "Waaee" which  provoked our thoughts despite of not getting what the fakirs were saying,was amazing.
Historically speaking,Shah Abdul latif was the most simple and honest man,who once was lying down the road and it is he whose poetry is commandable.
Most of the topics of poetry in Sindhi literature are taken from the Risala of Shah Abdul Latif which are really hard to be completely understood.

Moreover,Habib is the name of Shah Abdul Latif's father who was also a sufi.Reportedly.Shah Abdul Latif showed eulogy of his lord in his poetry which is praise-worthy.
Undoubtedly,Sindh is the land of peace where thousands of sufies preached Islam that is why their influence is still lasting in our society.
Lastly,there is no word to express such sufies who wasted their time,money,health and wealth for the betterment of the people through their poetry,actions,simplicity and sincerity handred of years ago and this was done for making their lord happy and letting people know the true path which will lead them towards the place where they would be sent hereafter.this place is well known as jannah (Heaven) which is unending.for this,people's actions should not have been detrimental for others and they must have offered prays punctually.
However,The Spritual journey has tought us a lesson in which we happened to learn the actual faith for what they burnt their desires,demands and dreams.
Sad Enough,we instead of following what our "walis" said,we are asking them to fulfill our demands,our desires and asking them to give us children,such kinds of prays are being offered by the people in our society which is showing the lack of religious education.

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

The Spiritual Journey-1

For the long time,I have been thinking of paying a visit  at Lal Shabaz Qalander's Tomb located at sewan sharif,about 300 kilo meter away from karachi.
Ah! I am Thankful to my friends who on saturday 22 may 2010,had taken me with themselves in their car,booked a seat for me and asked me to go with them to sewan sharif.we left from karachi at around 2 pm,reached at hyderabad highway about 4pm where we pulled up the car and decided to have lunch and tea.

Afterwards,we again occupied our seats,and followed the way of sunn which led us towards sewan in the meanwhile we were mooting numerous topics and recording videos of such areas which we were crossing.
Needless to mention,Sindh is the most beautiful province of pakistan particularly sewan sharif where ranges of mountain show a natural beautifulness which provoke people to think over the creation and remind them that the lord who created all this,is most powerful,can put him/her into the jeopardy,if he/she will continually adhere the teachings of evil.
Finally,we reached at Lal Shahbaz Qalander's tomb at the time of dusk where a number of people were already present,was showing the value of the waliullah who spent many years in prays,had dashed his feeling,desires and demands just because of the real love(of Allah) in which  he was sound-sleeping.
Interestingly speaking,it is said that he had the priviledge of flying,he used to fly from one place to another however most of the people are reported to have said that he came by flying  from marwan an arabic country to sindh,is thought provoking.

Anyhow,he brought his khalifa well-known as "Bodla-Bahar" with himself,whose body was mutiliated by hunood kasai at sewistaan,was demised there and his body laid in rest at a mountain in sewan,where we paid a visit and met with a curmudgeon who was puffing a cigrate bitterly,showing a desi enthusiasm of discussion.
We posed up many questions and he addressed our queries blatantly,his jabbering style was extra-ordinary and note-worthy.
After this,we followed the way of Lal Shahbaz Qalander's tomb,reached there at around 8 pm where we were feelings a little bit difference from the outside place.
Truthfully,our eyes were shining,our souls were soothe,our tentions were disappeared from mind,what we were feeling,was the natural power which asked us to be a good muslim and follow the teachings of Islam lieu of leading the way of demon.
It is repoted to have said,most of the people,are paying first visit at Bodla Bahar's tomb before Qalandar lal shahbaz's mazaar.moreover,there were many magnanimous people,who were feeding the poor on the name of Allah .Inevitably,thousands of people are fed up and most of the petit bourgeois are given alms by the higher class which is really a way of sustaining their life.

Monday, May 24, 2010

Nuclear Summit April 2010

Few days back,a summit was held at USA in which nuclear proliferation was highly discussed and new plans were made to thwart the nuclear race in the whole world.
It goes without saying,America was the first country who enjoyed the taste of nuclear bomb in the second World War II in which thosands of japanies people were killed brutally and most of the children were handicaped which was the most disastrous action taken by USA in the history of the whole world.
elucida'ta,Uncle Sam is pertinently against the human life.On the one hand,it is claiming that it believes nuclear race might be disastrous for the whole world and on the other hand it is growing its nuclear capability as well as helping its allies by providing them nuclear assistance.
Reportedly,98% of nukes of the  are being held by USA and Russia inspite of this uncle sam is asking other countries like iran and north korea for not making warhead weapons lieu of destroying its own weapons.
Interestingly speaking,Iran is a member of NPT which is certainly allowing it to have civil nuclear capability.
Needless to say,the uncle sam is encouraging Israel while throwing cold water over the Iran for making civil nuclear program,is showing the cronyism while it is holding summits,holding meetings and conferences in which uncle sam is chanting only one sentence with a great utterance that Nuclear bombs are very disastrous for the human as well as for this planet.
Anyhow,most of the muslim countries are taking a part in uncle sam's campaign which has only one aim,is to prevent such countries and making a forlorn hope of being a nuclear country for them,is a dream of uni-polar world because it doesnot want to lose its power.
Power tends to currupt but absolute power currupts absolutely
(Lord Acton)