Sunday Surkhi-Old story

گاھے گاھے باز خواں ایں قصّہء ُپارینہ را
(Every now and again tell this old story again)
To tell you the truth I was watching one old movie as usual and thought of it very different than when I first saw it, "Dr. Zhivago".
One good thing for watching such oldies is that you dont have to watch it all can interrupt wherever and whenever you want to. Thus while watching I was carried into my own world of imagination.
As a Muslim why do I support the idea of a man, no matter who he is, for having married one woman and carrying on with another one so passionately that ultimately losing the life (You will recall at Omar Sharief's excellent portrayal of the acute coronary syndrome on seeing Laura). He obviously loved Laura more than he loved his wife, mother of at least two of his children. As a man of course you could love two women at the same time and equally which is human. I guess you could say the same for a woman too but women according some sayings of the sages are "monogamous" by nature (Are they?)
Anyway, the villainous Komerov was right in saying about her, "a slut", and yet Laura was so devoted to Yuri (Dr. Zhivago).
Well, it is such a moving story and catching and absorbing on the screen performed so well through MGM, and you cant help but be moved by it and end up in sympathy with both Laura and Yuri and of course Tonya. It reminded me of Chacha Ghalib who while married loved another woman.
Then reflect on those days of "Revolution" when Czar was killed along with the whole family and the "people" took over.And how long that Leninism etc. last? We saw it with our own eyes crumbling down almost overnight, not that the triumphant democracy/capitalism is any better but human beings have yet to learn how to run their affairs in a just and equitable fashion. (Have also seen and lived through the concepts of "Maxism" being started and over a short period supported and then eclipsed/disapproved)
It was only one time (in human history) when "just" governance was achieved may be just less than a half century- what is called
Khilafat-e-rashidah خلافت راشدہ
There is one more story I must relate here. My neuropathology teacher was a Polish individual who told me that in the USSR system the value of a physician was very poor. He was telling me about some man whose daughter was dating a doctor and her father was furious with her, "Why do you want to ruin your life marrying a doctor who remain poor all his life go for some worker who will be richer". Looks like Joe the Plumber, did have enormous capital then? (in Poland, and so was preferable to a doctor who was paid less)