A Poem For Mothers: ماں جی

This poem has been written by me five (05) years ago on Mothers Day for my mother but now I'm dedicating it to all mothers.
ماں جی!
آپ میری کل دنیا ہیں
آپ میرے جیون کی بپتا ہیں
آپ ہی تو میرا مسیحا ہیں
                                    ۔۔۔۔۔
کبھی اندھیروں میں ڈری جو
آپ نے آنکھوں کا اجالا دیا
کبھی راستوں میں بھٹکی جو
آپ نے منزل کا حوالہ دیا
                                    ۔۔۔۔۔۔
آپ کیسے پڑھ لیتی ہیں
ان رت جگوں کا حساب
آپ کیسے جان جاتی ہیں
میرے روزوشب کا نصاب
                                   ۔۔۔۔۔۔
آپ کو پتا ہے ماں جی!
مجھے آپ کو کھونے کا ڈر ہے
آپ جانتی ہیں ماں جی!
آپ کے بن زندگی بے اثر ہے
                                  ۔۔۔۔۔۔
یا اِلٰہ! میری ماں جی کو سلامت رکھنا
مجھ سے پہلے نہ انکی سحر کرنا
بجھا دینا، میری شب کے چراغ کو
لیکن انہیں سرفروشِ سفر کرنا
                                  ۔۔۔۔۔
(ماہِ طیبہ منیر)

My Fictional Hero

اک اڑن کٹولا آئے گا.. اک لال پری کو لائے گا.. کیا بتلاؤں نام اسکا!! کہ ایاں یو یو!
"Ik urran katola aye ga, ik laal pari ko laye ga, kia batlaon naam uska! K ayyan yo! Yo! 

" A red fairy will arrive on a flying carpet, what name should I give to her! I don't know! (Song)
Please sing it for me once again. I just heard it from mama.
I wish I could have seen you more and known you more. I wanted to grow up with you.
You're like a fictional hero for me.
I miss you baba jani!
I'm sure you would be in better place, up in the heaven.
I wanna be like you among friends, family, acquaintance and even with strangers because all of them, love you and miss you. Book lover, pious, fond reader, best son, best brother and more than these; an ideal husband. Wherever you had been; "the center of attraction", the heartthrob of gathering.
Still people come and say to me, "You're sweet but you're not more charming than your father, he had a peculiar aura".
People idealize you as an amazing spouse. Mama use to tell us that you taught her cooking and when she mastered in cooking then you used to say, "I wanna caress and kiss these hands gently who have made such scrumptious food".
I've seen your friends crying like babies, burst into tears upon recalling you. They used to cry for hours by holding the threshold of our home after many years of your demise. They cried for long by putting their chin on my head with fondness and care. I've never seen any friend crying for someone like this after such a long time of someone's departure. You're lucky, man!
Till date some fine ladies come to us and enchant with sparkling eyes that we conspired to visit your home without any reason just to get a glimpse of your father.
So your goof baby has grown up this much that soon I'm gonna catch the age when you went to heavenly abode.
Being your daughter is the most prestigious recognition to me because my father was a finest human.
I punctually went with daada abbu (grandpa) to look for you on the road for your arrival. I insisted that broken middle age father (Grandpa; Dada Abbu) to go with me and wait for your return on the road. I often by hid myself and shouted, "Baaba, please find me". There was a hush silence alarming me that the place where you have gone has no return ticket.
I miss you my first and lasting love.
Proud part of yourself!
Mahe Tayyibah Munir (I love this name cuz you've given me)
[I was going to write a sentences or two but end up with such long essay which still misses some fond recollections]

ترقی اور حکمران

"ISTAN"..THE LAND

Disclaimer: This writing exclusively contains writer's views, opinions and experience. Don't take it as any bias or prejudice attempt.Only constructive criticism is allowed.

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                          Qateel!No one is hypocrite like whom,

                             Who bears oppression,

                              But!doesn't betray..

                                         !دنیا میں اس سا منافق نہیں قتیل

                                   جو ظلم تو سہتا ہےمگربغاوت نہیں کرتا  

This verse seems very true about the present situation of our country. We are leading our lives as Lord has said in Quran;

"Allah has set a seal on their hearts and on their hearings, and on their eyes there is a covering"

(Al Baqra: 7)

We are a perfect example of DEAF, DUMB & BLIND as proceeding in Al-Baqra verse 18.

Well, coming to the main topic, the story and incident I'm going to share; I'm witness of hearing that.

That night was as terrible as a nightmare. I was trying to sleep from two hours but all in the vein, meanwhile the light gone at 1'O clock. The environment was so quiet that it was enough to kill. I jumped to my sister's bed, she got annoyed and I said 'am scared'. After few minutes I heard the voices raising slogans of TUQ followed by firing and those voices were disturbing me like never before. I started sending messages to my friends and family but I got no response. One friend said that it would be nothing, just go and sleep, every thing will be all-right. But my heart was alarming me that it's the harbinger of any calamity. At 3'O clock, light again gone unexpectedly and the continuous firing was started. I closed all the windows and doors and crept out of room into corridor and saw that a fire is burning in the main street in front of our main gate. I opened my laptop and started browsing the live streaming of different news channels but there wasn't any news, then I read the headlines on ARY News that the police tried to remove the barricades of TUQ's house and a clash sprang between PAT & police and four people are injured.

At 6 a.m, that discontinuous firing stopped. I was at peace but still something disturbing me inside. We came to know that the Minhaj students threw stones on the corps,they should let them remove the hurdles.

Around 9 a.m, the agitation started over again but now it was worse than night, following the tear gas shelling which was even felt in the room, it was like scratching and burning your skin and difficulty in breathing. My office van came around 11 a.m and I went to office through back gate. But I was feeling very upset and disturbed. I was contacting my sister to escape from there as soon as possible but the condition had become more grave then. The whole area was sealed. I was following up my sister and friends. One of my friend tried to enter the locality to leave for outstation but she didn't succeed to enter the area from any route. I came to know that the police operation has elevated and around seven citizen has died.From office I went to my elder uncle (taya) home. Before reaching there, my whole views were changed because at my place I could only hear the firing or screaming of people. But when I watched the brutality of police in T.V that how ruthlessly they were beating the old men, students and even they were cruelly handling the women. I was just like a statue and forgot to think for a while that reality is more bitter than just hearing voices from the room.A person, who was smashing the cars, breaking into the refrigerators was also the blue eye bird of the very darling CM of Punjab, "THE SUPREME SERVANT" (خادمِ اعلیٰ) , Mian Shahbaz Sharif. Since that day of 17th June, I really feel abhorrence towards CM. Many innocent people have been killed in a brutal way and he said that he was unaware about that.

The damn operation which was started from the midnight and he said that he was unaware about that! how is it possible! when his palace is on the walking distance from that place. Either he doesn't read newspapers or he doesn't watch the news channels or his resources are dumb or inefficient or he was tippled or intoxicated ( sorry cm).Or I think he gets up in the midday while he claims that he gets up at dawn to observe the situation of his state.

I could not collect the strength to watch that Blood Hollie.The corps were dragging the youngsters on the road,one was looking pale and fatal that he drooped on the road but they didn't stop beating him, they continued beating their country men after pulling them in police vans, four to five corps were beating an old man while he was begging for mercy by crossed hands and they were more cruel than beasts that they didn't spare the injured boy who was in the hands of Rescue 1122. What the massacre I have watched!It was heart rendering, when a woman told the media resource; " Our sister, who was shot in the jaws was rolling in the pain and they did not allow the ambulance to come and take her to hospital unless she breathed her last and her daughter was crying that please somebody save my mother". 

For me, the supreme servant is responsible for the whole scenario because his one order even from his breakfast table can stop that massacre.I think it doesn't matter for him that his state's men are killed. He just announced stipend for their survivors.

I heard many people saying that the students should not threw stones on the police. What the hell you people are talking about that those strong headed giants were so delicate that they could died by those pebbles. For God sake, if now you will keep your eyes closed and keep on saying that every thing is fine and that was just a political stunt than shame on you. We deserved to be ruled by these brutal, insane lions. We deserved to live in such life threatening situations. The Mighty Lord has proclaimed in the Holy Quran that " He does not change the condition of the people unless they don't want to change it by themselves".(Al-Anfal)

I have an issue with the name of this country that long and lucid name, "ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF PAKISTAN", it is neither Islamic nor Republic. Even it is not PAKISTAN (The Land of Pure People), it is only the land, it is only the "ISTAN", every thing else is false, all the prefixes are wrong.I can only see or presume or predict is the destruction, devastation, only a miracle can bring REVOLUTION and I don't think that any miracle can work on this land.

As Daniel Kahneman has said, 
" We're blind to our blindness. We have very little idea of how little we know. We're not designed to know how little we know."

We are really blind and we don't want to open our eyes. We don't want to stop our malicious deeds. We like to dwell in the vices and sins. We filthy humans.

Narrated Abdullah Bin Umar (R.A): Allah's Apostle(S.A.W) said, "A Muslim is a brother of another Muslim, so he should not oppress him, nor should he hand over him to an oppressor."

SAHI BUKHARI: VOLUME 3, BOOK 43, NUMBER 622

What have we done to Aafia Siddiqi and now with these innocent people! We have given Aafia to The Great US to oppress her and in the Model Town incident, our corps were enough to oppress.

Narrated Anas (R.A): Allah's Apostle (S.A.W) said, "Help your brother, whether he is an oppressor or oppressed one."

People asked, ' O Allah's Apostle! It is all right to help him if he is oppressed, but how should we help him if he is an oppressor?" The Prophet (S.A.W) said, " By preventing him from oppressing others." 

SAHI BUKHARI: VOLUME 3, BOOK 43, NUMBER 624

But unfortunately, no one dared to stop the oppressor at that day and the one old man who came out from Gosha.e.Durood (the room reserved for reciting blessings on Holy Prophet) and his crime was that he wanted to stop the oppressors but he was beaten to death by the corps. Instead many people are cursing the oppressed ones.Shame on us! We should open our eyes before we shuffle off our mortal coils.

We are not united as a nation even in a room, in a home, in a street, in a colony, in a town and in a city. How we can claim that we can stand as a nation? Believe me, there will be no REVOLUTION because this nation has no such genes which can bring REVOLUTION.Because we don't have the potential to evolve ourselves, REVOLUTION is a far beyond activity. We love to sleep and let us sleep.

May God save this "ISTAN" on the planet Earth and may it can be PAK. Ameen!

Let's keep on sleeping!

INSANITY

I want to share and preserve my poetry over here. So, it gets rectification, amendment or appreciation. Up to readers!

Firstly! I want to share my English fragment and I will put up the rest of my work; English or Urdu, which I’m keeping from years with me.

Here we go!

INSANITY

There is an opaque wall
standing in front of you,

You have curiosity to see

Far behind the seal thou,

You want to cross the hurdles

Without any pause, having no barrels,

You know

That

You can’t get

You can’t go,

But!

Your heart always lingers for;

The things you can’t find although,

You are tired and pale

Still, you never think to forgo

The one! Passed away, long ago 

                                                      (MAHE TAYYIBAH MUNIR)

                                                                                                                            

MY LIFE, YOUR LIFE...OUR LIFE!

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Robert Frost 

When I think about life,my mind stuck and stop comprehending any thing about it. I can't solve the jigsaw puzzle of Life that either it is too complex or too simple. Let's analyse these two extremes that are; complexity and simplicity.

Talking about the complexity of life; we have to start from the origin of life. Whenever we go to the explanation of life we have to explore the beginning of this universe, the life of universe. I was just contemplating about this complexity and I just swirled into the milky way. For commencing the life, God had organized the constellation,galaxies, planets' system and in these many planets only one planet; EARTH, was capable of bearing human beings on it. Else according to me every thing which is viable or can show motion has life. The advocates of Big Bang Theory believed that the life has originated from a smallest atom, may be its true. Because in Quran, Allah (SWT) has also said that:

“Have those who disbelieved not considered that the heavens and the earth were a joined entity, then We separated them, and made from water every living thing?  Then will they not believe?” (Quran 21:30)

which ranges between Birth and Death.
Nothing will live forever and no one stay here forever. No state, no incident, no condition,no emotion, no sorrow, no laughter is eternal. Every thing will perish some day and we don't know when this day will come? But it will happen some day. So do good, have good, plant and water your relationships carefully. Every living thing has to taste death, who has bestowed life.
So, say Hello! to your life, live as your Lord has commanded you and live it as fully as it demands you. Celebrate your sorrows as you celebrate your happiness, share and care for your life as it is for once. Cherish your relations, cherish the every moment which is passing as it is most precious, don't waste your life in being a single condition because it only left you with an unending repent and unable you to live your life. Today we are here, tomorrow we may not. Therefore, value and greet every breath you take as it is a gift from your Lord.
                          Love People, Love your Lord,Your Life will Love You!

Well, I don't want to explain it through coarse and mighty books. I just want to give my perspective with a little knowledge which I have.

In-fact, Life is an evolution, the continuity, the change; only constant thing in life. When God chose the Earth as a blessed place for bearing human beings on it, I think this crowned the Earth as the strongest planet of Solar System. It is explicit as the Earth is the only planet which has an intense diversity on it like water, land, air, plants, animals (including humans), heavy loads of sins and modern inventions of the Superior Creation (The Man) and all the things that exist on the Earth; she is carrying their weight. If I continue to explain the complexity of Life than surely it compels me to generate a heavy volume book.

The second thing; the Simplicity of Life is hidden in accepting the reality of Life, i.e.

                                               IT GOES ON!

The continuity is LIFE, the constant Change is LIFE, the short living thing is LIFE,

HAPPY LIFE!! STAY BLESSED!!

Author: Mahe Tayyibah Munir