Caravan of Light

Universe is a creative product by a Creative Self, and Man is an element having the best sense of creativity among the Creation . Everything in the Universe conceives and creates. Creation adds diversity of form and behavior which enhances the Beauty of the worlds. At sub-atomic level every instant electrons modify their pattern of movement, creating and destroying polarities, which in turn help change their chemical behavior. Resulting new and unique products add to Creation. Cosmic changes occur, energy and charge distribution changes in the upper atmosphere and we witness a creative movement of the heavenly bodies inside the space. When creativity reaches the shores of Human mind, it finds a new depth therein. It seems as if Man wants to consume all his energies creating and decorating things. Taking threads of nature and weaving them every time in a new fashion. For Man, inventing things for providing himself with comfort is all but a way to create and appreciate the marv

“What color do you like?” “I prefer red.” “But why do u like it? There must be some reason.” “The only reason is that… THERE’S JUST NO REASON” There comes many such moments in our life when ‘There’s just no reason’ behind some of our actions or thoughts. Yet we feel determined to carry them out. This is the point when our unconscious steps in our conscious world and leaves indelible marks on it. Unconscious has a considerable effect on one’s way of life but the nature of the exact relation it has with the conscious self is mysterious. Also the fact that despite having seemingly conflicting nature one’s conscious and subconscious usually go together in an efficient way deepens this mystery further, thus making it more appealing for researches and study. Life is a complete system and the process of living needs every component of that system to work in harmony. That is why we should not consider that the unconscious and the conscious do not supplement each other.

Love has a way of giving Man courage to do anything that is required of him on its path. When one is in Love every object seems to hold the reflection of one’s Beloved, every thought in one’s mind give birth to new possibilities and every action signifies a closer acquaintance with Love. This reflection, new possibilities and closer acquaintance leads Man towards the highest degree of Love, teaching him the traditions of Selflessness and Sacrifice. Sacrificing one’s most dear thing can leave ever lasting impressions on one’s psyche. High degree of patience and zeal is needed for this act, without which it becomes impossible to carry out any form of Sacrifice. We usually consider ourselves master of the things we have. At times it turns out to be the reverse. Soon after we take something in our possession, it starts influencing our thoughts and take control of our psyche. We can not think of ourselves living without that article. Only then we realize that we are no longer

Here are my reflections on Khurram Ali Shafique's articles published in Dawn Friday Feature 'For a common Destiny'. Seek Consensus (from 1887 to 1906) (The complete article written by Khurram Shaffique Seek Consensus ) The representatives of 'the largest Muslim community in any one country' seemed to redefine a number of things for the coming times. A new sense of Nation was developed, where every member of this National community enjoyed not only the right of choice and freedom of speech but was also heard and given equal importance. The means through which the Nation was kept together were based on purely educational lines. In the sessions of the Conference Muslims from all over British India interacted with each other through 'poetry, lectures and debates' thus using Education in the most practical parametres for the Society to develop. Even Religion found new dimensions in this one act of bringing the whole N

Me a pearl, you an ocean Living together forever In your heart is my abode In my shine is your reflection You sustain me, and nourish me I am your pride, your honor Your surging bottom spreads The aurora of Love to my shell Buried inside its crust I move Responding to your call of Love Crossing every frontier and limit When this Love reaches you and me Blind is the world that is unable to feel The warmth it brings to you and me They question, and argue and complain I feel sorry for their doubtful souls Those who are unable to Appreciate the wonders of Love Nature excludes them from It’s Art of Creation Dry remains in their souls The seeds of Conception The Universe desires to witness The limits of God’s best creation From the bond of Love, learn Your aim, your goal, your destiny And reveal unto the Worlds Your boundless bounds…!

This post is not a poem, just a voice of my heart... Please ignore any shortcomings related to poetic expression in it! Dedicating to the Full Moon tonight! Oh you, the brightest spot in the gloomy sky How many mysteries in your bosom lie? You have for countless centuries Guided Man out of his miseries Nature in your growth and disappearance put The charms of its most precious assets These secrets reached Man when Desired the tides of Life to reach you Who basked themselves in your Light Got their Hearts enlightened with Love Love made the sky gleam with Full Moon When the clouds of confusion left the blue Enlightening the night of your Love is your orbit A symbol of Hope are you, oh Full Moon All your secrets, confide in us and Turn our motion like yours, oh Moon We who look for the footsteps of our beloved Teach us your way of Living, oh Moon

Let me introduce you to me and my doll. I am ten years old, and my doll is umm… perhaps five years old, although she does not seems so young! She is a plastic doll, but no no… don’t think that she looks any different from me. In fact I put in every effort to make her look like myself. I knot her hairs just like my Mama ties mine. And dress her up like I would get dressed with the help of my Mama on any occasion. But there are some differences too. She can not move around or show any response to my words *sighs*. My doll has got some friends too. All the girls who live in my neighborhood keep at least one plastic doll and all our dolls are very fond of each other. But there is one exception. My Sissy, who is ten years elder than me, do not keep any doll. Hymph…! I can’t even think of living without my doll and you know what once I heard Sissy saying that even Mama keep two plastic dolls. I wonder…! As is my nature whenever I get wind of a strange matter I get curious to kno

Knowledge has a stock of many exciting stories… But today I have come up with the tale of Knowledge itself… The Story of Man and Knowledge. Man and Knowledge are old acquaintances. Angels bowed down before Adam because Man had Knowledge of the things they knew not. Knowledge has two offspring; Teaching and Learning. Both Teaching and Learning grows in the laps of Knowledge and help Man in his search for it. After Adam came to this world, a chain of Prophets and saints followed him who taught Humanity how to learn. This teaching brought a massive revolution and the whole World evolved in the process. A new age dawned on Humanity after the chain of Prophets concluded and now Knowledge had to seek fresh quarters where Teaching and Learning could grow and hence help Man in his quest for Knowledge. Man was so close to Knowledge but in order to feel and admire the intimate relation he is destined to have with it he had to undergo certain stages of evolution. Recognizing this,

Imagine yourself surrounded by an enchanting daybreak in the valley of Kashmir where the mantra of the Brahmans spreads the aura of Love and Harmony. You are Welcomed to a world where you explore the Secrets of Nature embedded in the Life-story of Iqbal as narrated by a pen which has the power to relive the Story as if developments are taking place all around you. Yes, I m talking about Khurram Ali Shafique’s   Biography of Iqbal Part 1 “Ibtadai-Daur (till 1904)” . Before embarking onto an enthralling Voyage, the Contents page declares that there are nine stations or stages to be covered before the reader finds itself arriving towards the end of the First out of a Total of Six Parts of a captivating experience. And as indicated in the Preface every ‘station’ holds a hidden message ready to get revealed as the journey of the reader proceeds. The flow of Time takes a backward turn and the story begins from the time when the early ancestors of Iqbal would greet a newborn Day with hymn f

Studying Centripetal force and Circular motion in Physics class we started discussing the everyday importance of the phenomenon. As I could not come up with a unique and interesting example from everyday life that could fit in, the lecture started boring me, and the only escape I could find was looking out of the window of class-room. The scene was perfect, a cloudy sky with grassy play-ground in view. But what were some little girls doing on the other side of the ground? I wondered. Oh, they were playing Kikli. A traditional game which is deeply rooted in the culture of Punjab, Kikli, involves mostly two or an even number of young girls, in which girls of each pair stands facing each other, holding each others hands with their arms crossed and the toes of their feet touching one another in the center. The girls then stretch their arms as much as possible, bend their backs and start whirling around, singing songs. The girls must keep their balance as they spin, and if anyone of them

“Know, oh brother…. that the study of sensible geometry leads to skill in all the practical arts, while the study of intelligible geometry leads to skill in the intellectual arts because this Science is one of the gates through which we move to the knowledge of the essence of the soul and that is the root of all knowledge.” (From the Rasa’il by The Brotherhood of Purity, translated by S.H Nasr) From Abacus to Algebra Mathematics was present in the life of ordinary individual even thousands of years back. Abacus provided an effective method of counting to the early generations of Man. Simple counting and measurements regarding straight lines existed in a well-developed form before the advent of Islam. Later the early Muslim Mathematicians brought a revolution in the world of Circles, thus generating a number of Polygons and blooming Mathematics to a level where amazing pieces of architecture and astounding developments in the field of Astronomy took place. However according to them th