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What has been Islam’s purpose? What teachings have our beloved Prophet Muhammad (صلى الله عليه وسلم) brought to us? Some common questions that we need to ask from ourselves all over again. The answer of the former is “Islam’s purpose is to show people light”. The later gives answer about what the last messenger of Allah brought for humanity. Yes! Without a sheer amount of difficulty we can answer that, HE (صلى الله عليه وسلم) brought humanity. The actions and statements of the Prophet Muhammad (صلى الله عليه وسلم) of Islam point to strong humanitarian considerations. It wouldn’t be a tiring task for us to recall the incidents that the last messenger underwent from the lady who used to throw garbage on Him (صلى الله عليه وسلم) to what was the treatment he faced in Taif and the reaction of him was something that a normal human could never imagine if he would be in that condition, He (صلى الله عليه وسلم) forgave them, made prayers for them and took care of them. Islam that started fro

کیا اکیسویں صدی میں ہم صبر کا دامن ہاتھ سے چھوڑ چکے ہیں؟   انسان کی پہچان اس کے طرزِ زندگی سے ہوتی ہے۔ آپ کیسے بولتے ہیں، لوگوں سے کیسے پیش آتے ہیں،آپ کس قسم کے افراد کے حامی ہیں یہ سب آپ کا تعارف ہے۔ اور یہ سب آپ کی پہچان بناتا ہے۔ موجودہ دور میں پاکستان کو کچھ ایسے عناصر کا سامنا کرنا پڑ رہا ہے جن کا تعارف تشدد اور شدت پسندی سے ہوتا ہے۔ یہ لوگ اپنی اس ذہنی معذوری کو قابل فخر جانتے ہیں اور دوسروں پر بھی وہی نظریا مسلط کرنے کے حامی ہیں۔ اگر کسی طرح سے وہ اس میں ناکام ہو بھی جائیں تو بات مرنے مرانے پر آ ٹھہرتی ہے۔                    -کیا یہ رویا اچانک سے نمودار ہوا ہے؟   جی نہیں۔ انسانی ذہنوں کو ایک ساکن ڈھانچے میں گھڑنے کے لئے کئی دہائیاں درکار ہیں۔ یہ ذہنیت بیسویں صدی کی پیداوار ہے جہاں زرا زرا سی بات کو ایک انتہائی حساس عقیدے سے جوڑ کر لوگوں کے لئے نہایت ہی خطرناک نتائج نکالے گئے۔  جہاں آئین میں انتہا پسندی کو متعارف کروایا گیا۔ حب الوطنی کو فقط ایک عقیدے پر ایمان کا محتاج بنا دیا گیا۔ وہاں سے نفرتوں کا بیج بویا گیا۔ جس کا پھل آج ان سخت رویوں کی صورت مل رہا ہے۔ جسے کھا ب

Beginning with etymology of the word “rape”, t he term  rape  originates from the  Latin rapere (supine stem  raptum ), that means "to snatch, to grab, to carry off". Since the 14th century, the term has come to mean, "to seize and take away by force". Referring to rape as a sexual endeavor is equivalent of referring to murder as a recreational activity. By no means has the definition implied that rape occurs when the perpetrator is evoked by the victim’s dressing or what they have watched in their alone time because the same man who can control his sexual desires in a crowd or where they have no power to show their dominance over the one whom they find a desired person to rape then how do they lose control when they get an opportunity to     find the vulnerable alone. Rape is not a sexual fantasy. Rape is not a fetish. Rape is an act of violence. An act of destroying a person’s autonomy and invading their bodies completely. You all have heard saying men , justi

According to George Bernard Shaw, "Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance". Today we are living in information and digital bubbles that make us susceptible to anything disseminated by our chosen information, true or false. As we all know, SARS-Cov-2, pandemic has hit hard almost every sector of Pakistan. However, the main grim which is been faced by our society is that some pseudo people are adding fuel to fire by spreading fake news regarding COVID-19.  We all are listening to news on daily basis about 3rd wave and instructions to mitigate it that one should wear mask, should stay at home, all pentagenarian and hexagenerian plus people should visit prescribed centres for inoculation of vaccines and others. But in rural areas, fickle minded people seem that they have no fear of COVID, which is deeply settling, and also they are busy in misguiding others.  Common speculations which these people are spreading are: do not wear masks because it is seda

Recently I got a chance to watch a movie named “the imitation game” and was really thought provoking. The whole movie was based on the biography of Allan Turing a mathematician who became a cryptographer for Britain during the Second World War when Britain declared war on Germany in 1939. The title of the film quotes the name of the game that Allan Turing purposed for answering the question in his 1950 seminal paper “computing machinery and intelligence” that “can machines think?” He in that movie tried to analyze the machine “Enigma” through which Nazis use to send coded messages. Humanly, it was nearly impossible to break the enigma codes to decode the messages if they would have tried for even 20 years to decode it. So between all of the chaos Allan Turing came to an idea of making a machine to analyze another machine. Machine vs machine and not machine vs humans. Consequently at the end, he and the team managed to decode the coded messages and lessened the duration of the war by

During pandemic, we all have been stressed out somehow due to different situations. Many lost jobs, some are away from homes, other are struggling to put their lives together. But in the end, everything works fine, because this is how Life works. LIFE , just four alphabets possessing the most complicated meaning. Every single individual has its own meaning of life based on how they survived or what they experiences. For me, life is a road with several difficulties.   On this road, one will meet up with numerous situations. Either stuck on a barren land, meeting up with speed breakers or it can be a long run. a run where one faces traffic signals too, telling you to stop and letting you wait until you reach the destination. However, there is always a way out. All the hurdles coming your away have an end too, which is decided already by the Divine. What important is to know that Life has two elements or perhaps principles: patience ( sabr ) and gratitude ( shukr ). Following the two