Yawm-e-Hussain RA/Aashura

This is the first month of Islamic hijri year called "Allah's month" and the tenth day called Aashura. Shia have kept this day alive with their exaggerated mourning of shahadat, because they for some reason believe it is OK to mourn this shaheed. There is no doubt this martyrdom is unique as it establishes the principle of justice and how much as Muslims we should sacrifice to establish Justice and not give in to the oppressors. While I do not wish to go along with shia method of mourning because Qur'an tells us the shaheed is not dead, and Qur'an tells us in no uncertain terms, "do not call them dead", I consider that Shia have continued to remind us of these principle of Islam' like what is called "Islam zinda hota hay her Karbala kay ba'd"
        Muslims rulers of today however have followed what the oppressor Yazid did and all the reminders do nothing to wake them up. In addition we could call this also as Yawm-Shukrana because Musa AS fasted for Allah on this day when he and his followers crossed the waters safely and Firawn and his people chasing them were drowned.. This is the other thing known for Aashura as this remarkable day is called. Jews are required to fast this day in thankful-ness to Allah as this is the day Musa AS along with his followers was saved from Fir'awn and his forces as they were drowned after Musa AS and followers crossed the waters with miracle. In order to differentiate it from Jews the prophet SAWS asked Muslims to fast for two days. Please visit my Urdu blog at http://saugoree-bsc.blogspot.com/

Yawm-e-shukrana

This is the Turkey day. Feel sorry for the poor bird but these birds go straight into paradise in contrast to their consumers who are judged differently. Have started calling it in Urdu/Persian/Arabic as yawm shukrana It may not be popular but there is less objection for Muslims to 'celebrate' this kind of occasion in America Happy Thanksgiving to all Please visit my Urdu blog at http://saugoree-bsc.blogspot.com/

Our Picnic of November 8th

 Well that was 8th November 1956.
 We all traveled to  stay in a rest house for the night  in "Head Balloki" thanks to the brother of Zulfi (first from left in the first pic above) Rest house stay was free for us
Picnics like that were not easy to come by so it was enjoyed to the fullest there. We were 9 of us classmates/friends. Only one is missing from the two pics, and he was busy cooking the chicken which BTW is not easy to to afford  by the poor students. Chicken has lot more meanings (or it had at that time) in Pakistan than other types of meat. Needless to say our travels were by bus (not chartered) That is the condition of poor students but the regular bus in which we were together in the last  or back seats It did not matter for we all sang our songs for fun while other passengers enjoyed the 'youngsters" fun

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