Sunday Surkhi--Gary andTony have a Baby

While the California Courts continue to solve the conflict of Proposition8 and its opponents, the Same-Sex Married couples enjoy further by having a "baby". (There are other terminologies in the making for 'couples' like 'Domestic Partnerships' or 'State-sanctioned Union'. I wonder what terms would be used for such a 'child'--some modification of such words a s offspring or progeny or brood etc.)
 Huge sums of money are collected and spent for all this fight as well as now for "having a baby".
One of the "couple" used his sperm to impregnate an egg bought in the market (Yes like the usual hen's eggs, now there is a market of human eggs too, just a bit more expensive, say a few thousand times more).
Then they went out hunting an "Uterus" to use as the incubating instrument for "gestation" and sure enough (if you spend enough money you can always find a needy woman to sell that "gestational equipment" God Almighty has provided her for procreation) they secured one and--result---out comes Nicholas, a healthy boy for a healthy same sex couple.
My wording above does tend to be somewhat derisive but forgive me for that and let us consider this a bit more seriously, where the gay marriages are taking our civilization and its impact on those concepts and values that have existed since the times of Adam.
 I missed the documentary of Soledad O'brien, but it obviously painted a picture not only sympathizing but also approving and praising the 'happy healthy family'.
 Evidently Gary and Tony spent a lot of money to achieve their goal of having their "own" child who they are raising together as father and "...............". I see articles in support of this that
"there is no effect on the child's psychology when gay 'parents' raise a child (mostly adopted)"
"why does the society oppose such a union between the same sex persons"
"there will be so much to gain in terms of moneys generated by "additional" marriages (if they are given a legal recognition) for example from taxes the state will obtain. (See how much the state is losing by not recognizing the SSmarriages)

------And the battle of sexes goes on.
     Ethics and morals aside, just consider the woman who sold her uterus+ (after all she 'bore' the child, got through the pains and difficulties of gestation and parturition etc.) only to gain some money for her and her family. She opted to remain behind the scenes. She is after all the "biological mother" of Nicholas (and God knows how many more Nichloases will be brought into this world to please many more Garys and Tonys and may be for example Jennys and Janes)
There will be legal battles fought by the biological mothers to get the baby back and "return" the funds obtained. Psychologically she may feel the attraction for the baby (has happened before).
 The opposite of Gary and Tony, we are going to see Soleded or some such reporter bringing to us a gay couple by the names of Jane and Jenny who will find money to get a "sperm" bought in the market of frozen sperms (preferencially chosen from known super-athletes and therefore high prices paid for the sperm) and either of Jane or Jenny providing the uterus for giving birth to their "own child". Then in future may be their child "Jessica" will go out looking for the absent father, who will most likely fail to recognize his daughter
There are myriads of stories I see developing in our 'civilization' which my children and grand children will see and ?enjoy.
An old man like me, even if not Alzheimer's patient, gets confused, can you blame me?

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Jum'ah Journal-

   "When asked about what you do not know, do not be ashamed to say, you do not know.
      and when you do not k now something, do not be embarrassed to learn it.
 And may you have patience, for patience is to faith as the head is to the body; there is no good in a body without its head and none in faith without patience."

 From "Living & Dying with Grace"
By Ali Ibn Abi Taalib RA

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Medical Musings

1.   I was examining the chest of a patient with stethoscope
Breathe with open mouth
Now breathe normal
 Say ninety nine
 say ninety nine
Say ninetynine... many more times
"Doctor, when are you going to ask me to say one hundred".
 
2.  I was getting ready for L.P. to do a myelogram on a patient and after the proper positioning I started the aseptic cleaning with swab of betadine solution.
"Doctor, you forgot to warm up the solution"


3. I was  taking a history of a gentleman in Pakistan about his epigastric pain
"ڈاکٹر صاحب کھانے کے بعد ایکدم پیٹ میں قوالیئں ہونے لگتی ہیں
  (Doctor, after I eat my, tummy gets feelings of Qawwali singing)

4. (I have written it before) I was on the evening rounds in a hospital in NorthEast England where there was lot of COPD (Nearby coalmines). I had prescribed Aminophylline suppository to some patients for relief of respiratory distress (with good results).
 Sister (the charge nurse of the ward) who had overheard the conversation in neighboring patients in the ward tells me
  (Medicine has advanced so much nowadays,  the medicine is given you "down" and the effect is "up")


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Sunday Surkhi--Nuremberg Code

  American CIA has rejected allegations against the Bush  administration for their practice of unethical medical experimentations  under "enhanced interrogation" violating Geneva convention restrictions on prisoners, Nuremberg Code and even US war crimes Act Code.
 Physicians for Human Rights has lodged the complaint to Obama Administration to act on the evidence and start investigation and punishment for the Bush administration. Some 22 organizations have signed  for this complaint.
 The problems started right after 9-11 though. First thing that happened was to make sure when "war on Terror" was declared that the terminology had to be changed.
Since it was not "conventional war" therefore the prisoners were not prisoners but "enemy combatants" and then a whole host of  new terminology was introduced, words were redfined so that those who would do "unconventional" things would not be held responsible or 'answerable'. The concepts of torture chambers, were unchanged but new terms threw dust or smoke on them until the pictures from 'Abu Ghuraib' appeared. All moral and ethical standards of the most powerful nation in the world were just--- ignored.
Water boarding--use saline instead of water
Forced Nudity (its effect on the the subjects and also its effect on the 'onlookers'
checking time for "sleep deprivation"
Check medical evidence on exposure to extreme temperatures etc. etc.
 Future will see things more clearly and in more detail just like we see now in the movie "Nuremberg Trials" the Germans did not know how to dodge the media or they were not 'sophisticated' but although the race on which the Germans did the "experiments'--OK you can call them Nazis-- was not the only one of Jews but Jews did learn a lot from them. So now they 'teach' the American Administration Bush or any other, how to throw dust in the eyes of the "public" and do the same things Nazis did with impunity.
 Have Human beings learned anything from Nazis, Hitler, Gustapo, concentration camps etc. etc.?
The answer is "YES". They have learned how to change names and terms and still carry on doing the same things. It is like wearing a thin or extra thin piece of cloth without underwears and considering that you are completely clad.
 Modern Civilization of Man!!!!!

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Jum'ah Journal--Seek forgiveness

 "I marvel at the one who despairs while still able to seek forgiveness."
Ali (RA) in  "living and dying with Grace"
 Knowing that with the exception of 'Shirk', God Almighty forgives every sin, so the truth of the above statement, why not seek His forgiveness There is caution, we should stay away from despair altogether and always hope for forgiveness,o matter how great and how many are your sins.

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Jum'ah Journal-- Raleigh NC news

 Oho Oho
Occu-
pation
to go





 The young fellow on the hooter perched on his older brother's shoulders making the scene today, the usual practices of slogans at the top of your voices, placards and the good group feeling which I went to enjoy.
BUT my voice choked each time I wanted to say something
1 2 3 4- occupation no more.
 because instead my thoughts went to all those innocent people who were massacred on the Flotilla and my eyes filling up.
.The little one may not understand any of the slogans but I did not understand them either way back when I first joined such a demonstration in Lahore, Pakistan. They were demonstrating against the establishment of the state of Israel, 1948. All I knew that we must show support for our "flastini brothers".
   I wonder after another 62 years whether this young-man will still be doing the same what I am still doing?
May God guide our leaders of today to solve this problem  during my life time.


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Pirates, approved by US

 There is a whole bit of history of this category of human misery making machine. Israel is keeping it alive and unfortunately we as Americans are equally to share the blame. This is not a question of Muslim vs Jews or Palestinians vs Israelis, it is just human, now. Just like we used to see in the movies those pirates jumping into the ships they attack with ropes and ladders but now they come on choppers and climbing down on the ship with ropes and they now call them commandos
The whole world is up in arms about this occurance but that is the way it was when Bush attacked Iraq.
Did the American Administration see the light then?
 No! and nor are they going to see today anything.
 I wonder how much political advantage there is to let these atrocities happen to Humans and then I see a poor dof or a puppy being saved from a hole successfully retrieved, a life saved of a poor animal
 Three chairs for the Americans, hip hip hurray.
 So much time, energy and funds spent to save one life of a puppy and not a single finger raised on the "massacre" of human beings in the middle of international waters and the pirates--our own Israelis- Zionists, call them what you like, all the weapons supplied by Americans, us I am afraid. The greatest power on earth gripped into moral decay

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Sunday Surkhi- Muslims and Ahmadis

 Many people still refer to Ahmadis as a sect of Muslims though Pakistan declared them as a minority meaning non-Muslims.
 AS such their safety and prosperity is a duty of the Muslims and the Islamic Government and the Taliban and everybody else. To me the attack on the Ahmadis, unprovoked, unnecessary, detestable and totally condemnable and also the police not acting for their safety even more condemnable, unforgiveable, unIslamic. These Taliban, if at all, are nothing but terrorists and I would condemn their action, their thinking, their teachers, their instigators their associates everybody.
 O Allah help Muslims to understand their faith.

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Two Faces of Facebook

 I guess by now you are familiar with it here are the two faces. Both are "official statements of FB"

"We have strong belief that FB users have the freedom to express their opinions and we do not typically take down the content, groups or pages that speak out against countries, religions, political entities or ideas."

"We do not tolerate hate speech. Targeting people based on their race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability or disease is a serious violation of our standards and has resulted in loss of your account....."  AND YET

whenever I try to write the name Allah on Facebook there is an automatic appearance of unworthy words with it which I cannot write

 I have discontinued FB now (2020)

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Jum'ah Journal-Qur'an Quotes

I have been talking about such quotes that non-Muslims have used incorrectly basically to further their own agenda.
The language of Qur'an is the language that was prevalent and clearly understandable by those who were present then. The words used by Qur'an were those that carried the significance which was easy to comprehend.
Sura 14th, Verse #4, "We sent an apostle (th teach) in the language of his (own) people, in order to make (things) clear to them.............."
 That is why wen we wish to understand a verse we look into how those people understood or how they acted upon it etc. There are many examples of that for us to understand, for example; in Sura Nisaa (4th) verse#101
"When ye travel through the earth there is no blame on you if ye shorten your prayers, forthe fear the unbelievers may attack you....."
 The prophet, however continued to shorten prayers even when there was no fear of attack during travel. That was his interpretation and accepted by all AND allowed by the Lawgiver.
 I repeat here what I said before, the preservation is that of the "sounds of the words" as they were pronounced then by different people in 'Hijaz area' so the harakat (signs that make a sound of vowel) were "added" for those who did not know the exact way of pronunciation and had to be guided with those 'harakat'. The persons who memorize Qur'an have to first learn how to pronounce  as close to the way it should be pronounced because they are 'repeating the sounds' as if a recorded copy that has been handed down through the ages to us. (This is a brief introduction only. there is a whole bit of science of "tajweed" when you wish to learn how to recite Qur'an properly)

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Sunday Surkhi-Facing FaceBook Fight

 Enough has been said about the Pakistani knee-jerk action about FB.
 There is such a large variehty of media available for anti-Islam, anti-Muslim expressions for those who iwsh to that it is becoming a problem to catch up with all.
 You can take one of the two ways to deal with it
 Ignore
Do something
 Doing something if one has to do, can be i) effective or ii) ineffective
 We must see what would be most effective one method for counteracting. As I see it I applaud the way California MSA students did
 They drew boxing gloves on all the line drawings of (Supposedly)Muhammad, the prophet of Islam. That is using the same "freedom of speech" method so effectively and sending a clear message.
 لوہے کو لوہا کاٹتا ہے
 Iron cuts Iron

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Out of context quotes of the Qur'an

 During times of anti-Islam posts in all kinds of media there have been varied responses and good ones. Although I am no scholar but would take one by one.

2:190

Sahih International

Fight in the way of Allah those who fight you but do not transgress. Indeed. Allah does not like transgressors.

Tafsir al-Jalalayn

After the Prophet (s) was prevented from [visiting] the House in the year of the battle of Hudaybiyya, he made a pact with the disbelievers that he would be allowed to return the following year, at which time they would vacate Mecca for three days. Having prepared to depart for the Visitation [‘umra], [he and] the believers were concerned that Quraysh would not keep to the agreement and instigate fighting. The Muslims were averse to becoming engaged in fighting while in a state of pilgrimage inviolability in the Sacred Enclosure [al-haram] and during the sacred months, and so the following was revealed: And fight in the way of God, to elevate His religion, with those who fight against you, the disbelievers, but aggress not, against them by initiating the fighting; God loves not the aggressors, the ones that overstep the bounds which God has set for them: this stipulation was abrogated by the verse of barā’a, ‘immunity’ [Q. 9:1], or by His saying [below]:

2:191

And kill them wherever you overtake them and expel them from wherever they have expelled you, and fitnah is worse than killing. And do not fight them at al-Masjid al- Haram until they fight you there. But if they fight you, then kill them. Such is the recompense of the disbelievers.

Tafsir al-Jalalayn

And slay them wherever you come upon them, and expel them from where they expelled you, that is, from Mecca, and this was done after the Conquest of Mecca; sedition, their idolatry, is more grievous, more serious, than slaying, them in the Sacred Enclosure or while in a state of pilgrimage inviolability, the thing that you greatly feared. But fight them not by the Sacred Mosque, that is, in the Sacred Enclosure, until they should fight you there; then if they fight you, there, slay them, there (a variant reading drops the alif in the three verbs [sc. wa-lā taqtilūhum, hattā yaqtulūkum, fa-in qatalūkum, so that the sense is ‘slaying’ in all three, and not just ‘fighting’]) — such, killing and expulsion, is the requital of disbelievers.

2:192

And if they cease, then indeed, Allah is Forgiving and Merciful.

Tafsir al-Jalalayn

But if they desist, from unbelief and become Muslims, surely God is Forgiving, Merciful, to them.

2:193

Fight them until there is no [more] fitnah and [until] worship is [acknowledged to be] for Allah . But if they cease, then there is to be no aggression except against the oppressors.

Tafsir al-Jalalayn

Fight them till there is no sedition, no idolatry, and the religion, all worship, is for God, alone and none are worshipped apart from Him; then if they desist, from idolatry, do not aggress against them. This is indicated by the following words, there shall be no enmity, no aggression through slaying or otherwise, save against evildoers. Those that desist, however, are not evildoers and should not be shown any enmity.

     Here is sample fromJalalain Tafsir and accepted English transaltion of Verses from second sura (Al-Baqara) from 190 to 193.

Frequently #191 is quoted without others as can be easily guessed from the tafsir notes Two points need to be talked about.

 1. Consider #191 alone which means, "Kill them (non-believers) wherever you find them and expel them from Mecca (Where they were expelled from)"  The point is if this was to be the principle Muslims are being placed in a state of constant war against non-Muslims. No truce, no compromise, no other conditions but we see that is not what happened because of the other associated verses.

2. Next is #193. Meanings here suggest to continue fighting until the rule is that of Allah or in other words the Muslims have conquered and subjugated and only then quit fighting. This evidently refers to the situation with the meccans at the time. At best it can serve as a principle when a fighting breaks out between Muslim and non-Muslim governments/countries, that at such times Muslims should not rest until non-Muslims have stopped aggession against Muslims and 'Deen', the way of life with governments being just and fair which would mean "approved by God", if such state of affairs comes to set, no need to continue fighting/killing.

 This s not a permanent ultimatum for non-Muslims. What is overlooked is #190, where Muslims are being Allowed to fight with God's leave and it is to be emphasized that this fighting must be 'Fee sabeel Allah (In the way of God)' NOT for personal or political or other worldly gains. Here the caution is clear No excess, "no more no less". Fighting for worldly gains etc. is not Jihad. Here we have the beautiful example of Ali RA:

 During the thick of the battle once a non-Muslim came under the strike of Ali's sword and the unbeliever spat on his face.

 Ali lowered his sword and spared his death.

 The unbeliever utterly surprised asked him why did you not kill me?
 "If I kill you it would appear to be because I was angry with you for your spitting in my face and that would be excess for all I can do is spit back on your face but killing would be wrong, so because of this personal anger I could not kill you I am only allowed to kill you in the way of God."

 The nonbeliever changed.

 Will take up other verses of similar substance next time inshallah.

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Jum'ah Journal-Have you thanked God this morning?

 فبایّ آلآ ء ربّکما تکذّبان
 Then which of the favors of your Lord will ye deny?
My dear reader you need to thank God for

1. your eyes which helped you to see blog
2. ability to understand what is written here
3.the language abilities
4. the fingers which worked to open the computer and brought out the blog
5. the brain that functions normally.
  6. and..............
This is just a few of the 'favors' you are taking for granted but God keeps providing you in abundance without your asking.  God's love.

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Jum'ah Journal-Late Entry

Emergency visit to N. Virginia.
  Situation under control but with these grandchildren draining energies.No serious problem Alhamdulillah.
Got opportunity to play with Ayah Iman and Issa and Musa.
 Will get back home soon Inshallah.
Being a grandfather can be very enjoyable but tiring too.

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My Ancestral Link-Contd.

 My father had started medical practice (Hikmat) in Saugor city about 1900 and lost his fther in 1905 but then he turned to family and got married settled in there with political and other activities. He remained the main source of medical help for a long time with one MBBS physician coming to town after some time. Our life (his children) was simple. Mother was (afraid of?) against having electricity at home so we had oil lamp ( Lantern or Laltain). We had rooms where things like food grains or wood for burning etc. stored and there was no concept of 'individual rooms' for each child. Water was stored for use in earthen pitchers in one corner and a woman filled them everyday from a nearby well One kitchen and we all sat down on the ground for eating together food spread out on a piece of cloth (dasterkhwan). My father stored money (coins) in a large box kept locked in one room That was considered a comfortable living. We would eat two or three times a week some meat otherwise usually vegetables of each season as was the case with fruits.
 All of us were born in Saugor except my oldest sister and my older brother. There were a total of four sons and 6 daughters. As I grew older I learnt my oldest brother was from first wife of my father who he divorced early and she (my stepmother) was a stepsister of my mother. So my maternal grand father had married twice (not from divorce). My father and my step mother (who we called 'massi"-aunt) both had bad temper so the divorce, but that put all my maternal uncles on the defence and were not friendly with my father or mother. After the retirement of my father and as we all came back to the village in the Panjab before Partition of India, two of the maternal uncles started back friendly relationship.
 Seems complicated but it was really amazing how it happened and I was told this all happened within the family that my grandfather's brothers acted in good faith and my father was liked by all of them and they respected him.
 We had taken up the culture and language of central India but it changed after we all came back to the Panjab, all due to my mother's decision as she wanted her children to be married in Panjab. From practical point of view it was difficult as my parents/father was not well-known here as they had spent nearly all of their life in central India. Anyway, I was ten year old when we came back to Panjab.
 My father continued seeing patients and advising prescriptions free of charge for the rest of his life in Kotla, the village, my mother had chosen for that purpose. Father had mild obesity but no hypertension and during my medical school days he had developed Congestive heart failure, later got Atrial fibrillation and was maintanied on medications. Around 17th July 1957 he woke up with right hemiplegia and aphasia and was treated by us (my brother had started medical practice and I had just taken my final MBBS exam but he breathed his last on 31st July and was buried in the  (then) new graveyard of Kotla. My aunt from saugor and another neighbor from Saugor, my oldest brother, all were able to come at his burial.

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My Ancestral Link-contd.

My Grandfather did not go back to the village, my Grandmother died still young, so he decided to get married locally in Sagar (spelled as Saugor), so that is why my father decided to go to Saugor to be with his father after he had taken his diplomas (of Maulvi) from Deoband and (Hikmat) from Tibbia College Dehli.
 How did my father study after he left the village at such a tender age, how he supported himself through schooling in Lahore and then institutions like Tibbia College, and Deoband, we have no information. I dont remember him ever talking about that subject or my mother or any of my older siblings. All I remember during my childhood he was the chairman of local municipal committee, was chairman of the provincial congress committee and was active as a Muslim looking after the interests of local Muslims. He was therefore held in great regard amongst the Hindus and Muslims alike in that city.
  Hakim Ajmal Khan is known for his contributions to Tibb as well as in the movements of freedom of India (from the English) and he was one of the teachers of my father who influenced him and so was Maulana Mahmood-ul-Hasan the most well-known teacher of Deoband School who had palpable influence on the life and activities of my father and it may be the resemblance of father's name had some bias attached. I have attended some of the speeches of my father as a leader, like one in 1941-2 during Gandhiji's agitation of 'quit-India' when one day his speech excited the crowds so much it got out of control and damaged telephone wires and burnt the post office things like that. I also have heard some lesser speeches like on Eid days in our village or such occasions when people would ask him to speak. The Urdu terminology and manner of speech, that I heard was, clearly dominated by the type of words M. Mahmood-ul-Hasan uses in his writings (I did not hear his speeches but he was , if you recall, arrested by the British also and sentenced to "Kala Pani"--i.e. in Malta) I have his introductory remarks for Translation/Tafsir of Qur'an-el-Karim where you can see his style and type of language he spoke/wrote).
 I remember some afternoons some chhabriwalas would be outside of his clinic (Matab) to get either pardoned or fined according to their 'crime' of selling eatable stuff without proper cover (from insects specially flies). I remember receiving my prize from him (the chief Guest) when I won a race as a child in my school. I remember seeing signs of 'yellow ballot box' (pilee pati) with captions "Put your vote in the yellow box" which was my father's.
 He was a man of strict principles. His 'clinic' called Matab was a large room in which he would be seated against the wall with a large oval cushion (Gaow Takiya) supporting his back and a small desket-like thing in front of him. Small papers, inkpot and a pen placed on top of it for him to write prescriptions and on his right side adjoining large room controlled by his compounder who would dispense the "medicines".
 The patients as well as his visitors all sit in front of him on the ground covered by a large mat and another cottonmade covering. There was one chair and a fixed bench placed outside of the mat area.. We had no special 'drawing room'. That chair and bench served that purpose of more distinguished guests' seating arrangement.
 He would finish his morning clinic and retire for lunch+fiesta at midday and anyone coming at that time must wait till he finished his fiesta and went back to clinic 2 oclock or thereabout. he would never entertain any guests during lunch which he must have with his family (all of us) sitting with him and the same for supper.
I always saw him in the same clothing--shalwar and Kurta made of Khaddar (Cloth, made from cotton yarn spun from regular local cotton). A coat longer than a jacket made from local thick cotton or during winter  the one made from local wool, with shoe, a type of moccasin (but with heels) prepared by a local shoemaker
were his unchanging outfit. His turban wore on  a 'kulaah' (cap) was always green which I found out from my elder sister (Apa Shakeela) was given to Deoband Graduates on completion of their courses (Dastaar-bandi- kind of  convocation of the renowned school). Yes he was burried in white Khaddar kaffan too, upon his death in 1958
 Islamically he was also provincial chairman of "Jamiat-ul-Ulama-e-Hind", was follower of Hussain Ahmed Madani group and M. Abul-Kakam Azad. He never joined Muslim League, but resigned from Congress with harsh words that, "Congress principles are fast being replaced by 'maha-sabha' elements" (which was the precursor of modern days extremist Hindus)
My grandfather died early in 1905 with  Cholera. His (second) wife never married again and I have a vague memory of her walking around in her daughter's home, or reciting Qur'an, a large copy). They (My grandparents) had only one daughter, my father's half sister whose love I remember as a child teaching us namaz etc., but my mother always taught Qur'an, not only to us but also all other children who would come after Fajr in our home for that purpose.
Rest of his life history in my next blog inshallah.

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Jum'ah Journal-

 "Generosity awakens affection more than kinship"
"O son of Adam, be your own administrator in respect to your wealth and do with it what you wish would be dome with it after your passing"
  (Ali RA, from Living and dying with Grace")

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My Ancestoral link

  Some place in Kashmir two brothers started traveling for getting some education. It seems the Sunna of hijra has many reasons and for knowledge it is even more commendable. They came down to the Panjab in the city of Sialkote where there were  well-known sources of education and so that city was a place of attraction. 

  The life in Kashmir, in the late eighteenth century was tough and inspite of the fact that the British had taken over, things did not look better, so instead of going back home after graduation from Madrasa they went their own way. One of them went to Amritsar and the second one walked over to a village in the northern Panjab, got married and settled there. Why did they separate? I have no clue. The village where he settled had nothing to offer (except, perhaps the woman he married). No institution, nothing for education and he himself then started teaching Islam from the books he must have carried with him after study in Sialkote. There was some land that he probably tilled worked for feeding his family. He had no choice but to pass on the education (mostly Islamic) to his children and if there was anybody interested in the village for it.
  I begin the story from the Person who made the hijra or who migrated from Kashmir to Sialkote and after education settled in a small village called Sahontra. I am told his name was "Khair Din", who was  the grand father of Saheb Din who was the grandfather of my father Chiagh Din. Sometimes my father would write his name as Muhammad Chiraghud-Din. Starting from Saheb Din who had three sons and land for work there was a hobby of his, helping the sick with local herbs. He lived a longer life (died at age 80 or so in the late nineteenth century) than others so maybe he picked up anecdotes or something like that to help because that was the only available medical help in those days in the villages. Oldest son finished memorizing the Qur'an and he was placed in a nearby village of Sidwal Kalan. Hafiz Nizam Din was my mother's father. Younger than him was Mahmoodul-Hasan who was my father's father and youngest son of saheb Din was Yasin who also memorized Qur'an, but Hafiz Nizam din was an Imam of the masjid and taught Qur'an  memorization also, whereas Yasin took up the land.
  What about Mahmoodul-Hasan who was educated at home and practiced the favorite hobby of helping the sick. His nackname was "Allah Loke" (a term in Panjabi used for a simple honest type of person) and he was a peripatetic cloth merchant, sometimes traveled far off from home.  His such travels ended up in making Hijra again to a city in MidIndia. When my father was born probably in 1878 or thereabout, he found his father often 'missing' and nothing to keep his interests at home other than running around teasing one or the other in the village, liked by everybody. There was an educated (oriental languages) person in the nearby village of Kakrali with whom he learnt ABC of Persian and Arabic, finished his Qur'an memorizing about three-quarter of it but his thirst for knowledge demanded more and there was no school anywhere near. Call for next Hijra and again for the same reason.
 So one day he took about 8 paisa ( a coin of duanni) in his pocket and left the village for an adventurous life of getting more education. Maybe he was 6-8 years of age.  So he too made the hijra That is how we ended up leaving that village, five generations after Khair Din. 

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Jum'ah Journal--Extraordinary Rendition

 I did not know the true meanings of it until I read one story of the German fellow named Khalid Al-Masri, who was taken away for mistaken "terrorist", tortured in Afghanistan, found to be innocent, and left open where he was picked up from with strong warnings to the German Government, to keep his case hush hush and they did as most governments these days do for USA.
 This is equivalent to apprehanding a known fugitive but the "extraordinary" has come to mean
 "When, only suspicion is enough to warrant the action and deprive the person of all legal help or process and torture out of USA"
Unfortunately, my state is an accomplice here, i.e. North Carolina. Most persons are  flown from here to any of the countries known to flout human rights, so the persons can be tortured under the supervision of CIA
 Then I read the statements of Candy Rice, Alberto Gonzales and others that extraordinary rendition is most effective method used in Counter-terrorism, fully justified and promulgated legally supported and unfortunately continued by Obama Administration.
 You all also know about Dr. Afia Siddiqi. How the "case' is developed, concocted and constructed to serve the purposes of Governments who wish to do Justice''. Was Hitler and his Nazi party doing something different? Stories are now presented on TV programs as if the Nazis were wrong (But now US does the same thing and it is not wrontg)
 I remember reading stories of Egyptian Government under Gamal Naser what they did for torturing prisoners like those from Ikhwan.
 Injustice will always be a part of human experience and we would see these stories always written by the victims if and when they make it out of the prison/torture. Then I heard the stories of "disappearances" in Pakistan under Musharraf.
So whats new?

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Jum'ah Journal-

When asked about what you do not know, do not be ashamed to say you do not know, and when you do not know something do not be embarrassed to learn it. And may you have PATIENCE, for patience is to FAITH as the head is to the body; there is no good in a body without head and none in FAITH without Patience.
(Nahj-ul-Balagha by Ali Ibn Abi Talib RA)

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