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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 ...

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...

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 ...

Survival of the fittest, a phrase that is nearly synonymous to the theory of evolution, but despite its common use people have a total    misunderstanding of what this phrase means. Let’s start from where people tend to go wrong. While it may be closely related to the theory of evolution, the phrase “survival of the fittest” was not actually coined by Charles Darwin. In reality, it was made popular by a man named Herbert Spencer, and he actually came with the term years before Darwin published his theory of evolution. As it turns out Spencer’s views were not exactly the most humanitarian. Spencer thought that the Darwin’s theory could also be applied to economic theory.   According to Spencer foundations of evolution lies in cooperating in the ecosystem and bio diversity we are living in and not in the competition and strength. The focus of niches and cooperation not even points out that how ecosystem and evolution work, but it also makes for a better model for how we a...

(BEDAARI welcomes writer's metrical composition) They say I am real You say I am a dream Who am I is still unclear? They say they can see me You say I am yet to be born Am I the key that can set myself free? They say what has been given to me is a gift You say it is a testament of my presence If what they say is true, then why thy self pushes me not to drift? They say lust and eminence is my nourishment You say it is a pit of frustration and desolation Is what they say a blessing or a punishment? They say I am rational and learned You say I am bound in the boundless Do I want to be the fooled who effortlessly yearned but never earned? Amina Saeed.

We have been told that we are independent, living in an independent state where the constituent units are autonomous and sovereign. We live in a country where there is an equity of rights between the minorities and majority; we live in a country where the state provides quality education to everyone living to grow. We live in a country where development and research is encouraged and it is the first one to play its part when the world faces a pandemic by making a vaccine. We live in a country that provides justice promptly to its citizens. We live in a country where there is no room for religious extremism and racism. However, there is so much to add in it because lies outpace the truth, and eventually we need to realize that what is reality and what should be your individual responsibility to fix it up. Today marks the day of resolution for Pakistan and a republic day. The day when the leaders passed a resolution to take out the majority of Muslims who were being treated as subordin...

The social conundrum of speaking accurate kind of language is embedded in our minds that makes it harder for us to acquire it. We treat language that we need to acquire as a hard core thing that can only be mastered and not as a vehicle of conveying the information or knowledge. We have somewhere attached the power of identity with the language. The country in which we are living has given English language an official status, which means that at official level one must be a proficient speaker of English language. English has always been a language of the minority, “the elite” in Pakistan. From day one of their education this language is a part of their curriculum and   life and   they simply function by playing around this language, and on the contrary in the   government schools this language is being taught from the sixth standard through text books where grammar is being taught to them in an explicit manner and they are not much encouraged to produce competence in En...

Gender inequality in Pakistan has now become a back burner issue or one can say it has become harbinger of doom. Indeed, women in this country has been in eminently plight in almost every sector i.e. economic, social and religious owing to different deterrents diktat by our society. In fact, women are economically hinge on men, which compels them to compromise on their respect. Moreover, some of our anarchic custom believers has made women's life perilous by regarding them their servant. Furthermore, owing to some religious bigots' misguidance, men become violent towards women because these pseudo philosophers do not bear to see the rise of women in our circle. Hence, Gender inequality in Pakistan is a reality, which should be, addressed scrupulously by government and men in our community should develop a civic sense too. In Pakistan, condition of women is marred and it has been proved by the given data from certain international organizations. First, according to Gender Pari...

What is life? Her mind was brimmed with entangled and overlapping thoughts while looking at the orange fringe of the sky. Lowering her gaze towards the land, she asked herself, what is life? With this inquisition, every motion stopped. Her speaking mind ceased, and her heavy heart pounding weightlessly. The ball she felt in her throat was engulfed but it was stubborn enough to remain there. Everything discontinued and a dormant air blew her way. The interrogation had such a strong influence that every activity turned around into inactivity. Her mind was no more or less than a blank slate and body numb enough to revive the life in a single reel behind retina. The outer inertia left the inner mechanism with no move; neither the thoughts of mind nor the sensation of soul. This termination was supported by long pause of silence leaving the question unanswered. Since Silences have grown within They seem deep and dense but not hollow Sometimes, the thoughts entangle Leaving no room...

Two days back marked the birth anniversary of Albert Einstein who was the theoretical physicist and made some remarkable achievements in the field of physics. Therefore, I thought I should give a meticulous read to his work and contributions and what distinguishes all from Albert Einstein in general. In my view, there was no other way to celebrate a researcher’s birth anniversary than researching for the facts. Consequently, when I was researching I got one eminent point and it was the high IQ level that differentiates us from this renowned physicist. I wondered that the possibility of having a high-sky IQ level is just 2/7b that means in the world population of 7 billion there were not a single individual than Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton who could have a high IQ level and amid this research one name popped up and I was just startled, there was a man who had an IQ higher than Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton. A smartest man in the history. You have never heard of him. Albert Einst...

I Believe, we everyday experience something, which astounds us. They shape our thoughts accordingly or they simply leave us speechless. Perhaps this is how life goes on. There has been one life account I want to share too. The incident that made me rethink about my prescription of disserving patients We as human beings, always have a soft corner for patients suffering from any kind of disease. The feeling of either sympathy or empathy grasps us while we think of them. Definitely we silently pray for their betterment and try our best to comfort them. However, it is not always this way. Last week I visited a pharmacy in order to pick medicines for my mother who hasn’t been well since quite some time. I had to wait there for few minutes, as I had to wait for my brother to pick me up. While I was sitting there, a man in his early forties with very rough and jagged outfit came there with his front neck swollen badly. He was suffering from goiter, a serious thyroid disorder. It seems tha...

Being myself in twenties, I can completely apprehend the things youngsters go through. I have analyzed through my past experiences that teens face many judgments. However, the society we live in, girls are being judged and misunderstood most of the times. Human faces different phases in life. At first, he/she is an adolescent taking all the attentions from everyone. Then grow up a little, absorbing all the energies from the environment whether negative or positive. This phase comes when the child starts to interact with the people of his/her age and size i.e. when kids start the schooling or interacts with peer groups. After this comes the real phase, when a person start developing personality based on what he/she has gathered, positive or negative.   A child when becomes a sensible being, he\she develops a character of what he\she have witnessed while interacting with people, communicating with humans of his\her age. They are misunderstood because the elders want them to be a ...

Population explosion in current scenario, has remained a back-burner issue for Pakistan. According to the World’s population, as for now, global population has reached almost 7.5 billion and the prediction by University Of Washington says that it will increase up to 9.6 billion by 2064. The contribution of Pakistan in Population bulge will be immense, which is worrying situation for developing state specifically. As per the PBS (Pakistan Bureau of Statistics) reports, Pakistan is on fifth position having 222 million population collectively, with 2.4 percent annual population growth rate. Moreover, this is becoming plight for Pakistan because majority of the people in the state are between the ages of 25-34 years, considered as youth. This situation is instigating trouble to Pakistan as it has no resources to facilitate them and jobs to entertain all. One of the biggest issues owing to the plight of population bulge is Urbanization. As we know, in 21 st  century, purchasing power of...

Challenged world is an altered world, and with challenges comes a change. International women’s day has been celebrated for over a century now. But many people think of it as a feminist movement, where its roots lies in the labor movement. It was first organized in 1911 by the early 20 th  century Marxist from Germany Clara Zetkin who was born in 1857 in Germany’s Wiederau. Zetkin was a part of both Labor and the Women’s movement. Being a co-founder of the international socialist Women’s congress, Zetkin proposed that women’s day be celebrated in every country on February 28, during the conference. The conference comprised hundred women from seventeen countries. The first women’s day was observed in 1911.Two years later, in 1913 the date was changed to March 8, and it continues to be celebrated on same day, every year. Coming to the point, the question arises that why I am addressing the history of women’s day briefly? Please there is no need to wonder as you know the answer. The h...