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Kaptaan wins the hearts of Pakistanis yet again. No compromise on Accountability!

3:41am Oct 21

Apologies for a Small Video:We Were not able to get a Better One.But,its Worth Listening

Kaptaan wins the hearts of Pakistanis yet again. No compromise on Accountability!!!

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Why we must support Change? ZARDARI BILAWAL ZARDARI – THE DUO FROM HELL

PPP is a party of vultures. Its origins are shameful. There is no progressive PPP; there never was and never will be. 
 
That small short lived flash in the pan died the day ZAB imprisoned JA Rahim and had this wonderful gentleman sodomized in the Kot Lakhpat jail in front of his son by a jail sweeper to “teach him a lesson”. 
 
images-6Tried to bump off Ahmed Reza Kasuri and killed his father. Imprisoned Mairaj Mohammed Khan. 
 
No sir, it was a perverted legacy from the beginningIt’s a mirage, a dream, that people think was real.
 
 And now, fully exploited by power hungry merchants headed by their chief Asif Zardari using Bilawal Zardari to keep the poor mesmerized as does a snake so they can continue to loot and plunder. If this terrible group of people continue to rule and plunder, and the more we delay, the redressal of ills, wrongs and exploitation, the more brutal and violent and tragic will be the explosion of the pent up hatred of the poor and the exploited against the rich and the haves symbolized by ‎Asif Zardari, ‬‎Bilawal Zardari‬, ‎Nawaz Sharif‬ etc.  
 
Imran Khan may perhaps be the last hope for a change without violence. 
 
Otherwise, anarchy, murder, mayhem and bloodshed. The streets of Karachi Lahore Islamabad will run with blood. Marauding angry vengeful hordes exploited for centuries will drag the haves from their “safe havens” in Defense, Clifton, Gulberg, DHA F6 F7 F8, etc including Raiwind, Bilawal House and Bani Gala and the other bastions of the rich and the famous. 
 
So this order has to end to avoid what is clearly written on the cards; the complete destruction of orderly society in Pakistan. And, not even the army can save the country from this madness were it to happen, which it will if we don’t change. And, all will be swept away, PTI, PPP, PMLN, JI, JUI, MQM, ANP. Everybody! 
 
The anger and vengeance of the desperate, the exploited, and the angry, spare no one, and have no friends.
 
 May Allah save us from this wrath. But suffer we will if we don’t fix things soon.
 
The anger and vengeance of the desperate, the exploited, and the angry, spare no one, and have no friends.
 
 May Allah save us from this wrath. But suffer we will if we don’t fix things soon.

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Why we must support Change : even if we don’t like Imran Khan or Dr Tahir Ul Qadri by Haider Mehdi

Why we must support Change: even if we don’t like Imran Khan or Dr Tahir Ul Qadri

 

 

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Haider Mehdi

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have always admired the analysis and commentary of many leading geo political thought leaders and subject matter specialists from within and outside Pakistan, who specialize and voice their views on Pakistan and its current crisis.

Most of them have the masterful ability to analyse and present complex issues with amazing simplicity and powerful facts and logic. 

But of recent many of these thought leaders have unfortunately failed their own usual objective lens test of presenting Pakistan’s current imbroglio. There writings and commentaries are laced with anger, bitterness and acrimony rarely seen in their writings, especially in the manner they address the two protagonists of change, IK and TUQ, or objectively speaking what these two consider as “change”.

While I am not an Insafian or a TUQ mureed and do not in any form or shape endorse any direct or indirect extra constitutional intervention by any internal and or external institution / force, but believe that this time we have to suspend judgement and our personal biases and dislikes for these two.  I personally don’t have anything against the two, but even if I did, I would also suspend judgement for the following reason.

And the reason is simple. For 67 years, our constitutional and extra constitutional inputs have only produced this current and rotten political, social, economic, religious output/environment. So if we want change we have to change the inputs to get a different, hopefully better and more positive political, social, economic, cultural and religious order.

As Alcoholics Anonymous famously say. It’s Insanity to expect different results from the same behaviors. 

Therefore, if all well-meaning Pakistanis, including these genuine pundits referred to earlier, but not the “Raqaam BarhaoNawaz Sharif Hum Thumharay Saath hay Najam Sethi types”  to expect that “THINGS” will change by continuing with the same is, in my opinion, quite frankly extremely juvenile and perhaps even suicidal.

So what are our options. Pretty much two.

 

 

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One. Sit tight, close our eyes, stick our necks in the sand, and pray that when we open them the World and Pakistan would be this heavenly paradise. And in the meanwhile as we live in Cuckooland, these goons and the terrible order, lead by NS and AZ and GOD FORBID, that royal idiot of idiots Bilawal Zardari (can’t call him a Bhutto) and Hamza Sharif supported by their courtiers who are more like Leechees sucking the life blood of this nation, lead us to destruction. 

Two. We finally stand up for our rights, after centuries and thousands of years of abject servility slavery and serfdom, and seek the establishment of a just and fair society which delivers better governance and improves the quality of life of this miserable nation. And in my 58 years this is perhaps the second time after that great and brilliant pretender Zulfi Bhutto, who also let us down so terribly, that we have in IK and TUQ, the symbols, the seeds, the possibility and fragrance of such a change.

So while IK and TUQ may have their Achilles heels and some skeletons in the closets, but they do represent the cry of the hundreds of millions of the downtrodden, once again looking for hope succour, salvation and a better today and a tomorrowfor themselves and their children.  While these two could be the Pied Pipers of Hamelin as some suggest, or the Source of our Salvation, as others hope for, the truth is…only time will tell.

But and it is a BIG BUT, bigger than all the BUTTS put together,  if we don’t make an effort and if in our personal animosities and in our pettiness, and in our prejudices, and perhaps misguided reading of the tea leaves and the stars or misguided by our own frames of intellectual references and our anger towards these two, we try and douse this fire and desire for Change, we are certain to perish or fall to such lows ….God Forbid…perhaps never to rise again.

So let us all support these forces of change and let us also be cautioned that in this desire for Change let us not open the doors to authoritarianism or military dictatorship, while getting rid of this horrible putrid old order.

And also let not the frailties and perhaps imperfections of IK and TUQ (and pretty small compared to the horrors of the Sharif’s, Zardaris, Khans,  Rehmans etc) cloud our objectivity and our judgement. 

We must make a go of it.

For in this imperfect world, we just have to make do with what we have, wherever we are, in the best way we can.

 

Why we must support Change…………….even if we don’t like Imran Khan or Dr Tahir Ul Qadri

 

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Islamic Scholars Series:Last Khutba e Jumuah of Dr Israr Ahmed – Tafseer of Surah Al Fatiha

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Dr. Israr Ahmed

SI, (Urdu: اسرار احمد, born April 26, 1932) is a Pakistan-based Muslim religious figure who has been described as well-known among Muslims in Pakistan, India, the Middle East, and North America.[1] Born in East Punjab, (now part of Haryana) in India, the second son of a government servant, he is the founder of the Tanzeem-e-islami, an off-shoot of the Jamaat-e-Islami. He currently has a daily show on Peace TV, a 24/7 Islamic channel broadcast internationally, and until a recent controversy had a program on Quran TV (QTV (ARY)).

His supporters describe him as having spent the “last forty years” actively engaged in “reviving the Qur’an-centered Islamic perennial philosophy and world-view” with “the ultimate objective of establishing a true Islamic State, or the System of Khilafah.” [1]Ahmed is skeptical of the efficacy of “parliamentary politics of give-and-take” in establishing an “Islamic politico-socio-economic system” as implementing this system is a “revolutionary process”.[2]

Controversy has accompanied statements he has made about Ali ibn Abu Talib,[3]Jews[4] and conflict with non-Muslims.[5]

 Early life and education

Dr. Israr Ahmad was born on April 26, 1932 in Hisar (a district of East Punjab, now a part of Haryana) in India, the second son of a government servant. He graduated from King Edward Medical College (Lahore) in 1954 and later received his Master’s degree in Islamic Studies from the University of Karachi in 1965. He came under the influence of Abul Ala Maududi as a young student, worked briefly for Muslim Student’s Federation in the Independence Movement and, following the creation of Pakistan in 1947, for theIslami Jamiyat-e-Talaba and then for the Jamaat-e-Islami. Dr. Israr Ahmad resigned from the Jama`at in April 1957 because of its involvement in the electoral politics, which he believed was irreconcilable with the revolutionary methodology adopted by the Jama’at in the pre-1947 period.[1]

Religious work

While still a student and an activist of the Islami Jamiyat-e-Talaba, Dr. Israr Ahmad became a Mudarris (or teacher) of the Qur'an. Even after resigning from the Jamaat, he continued to give Qur’anic lectures in different cities of Pakistan, and especially after 1965 spent a great deal of time studying the Quran.

In 1967 Dr. Israr Ahmadin wrote “Islamic Renaissance: The Real Task Ahead”, a tract explaining his basic belief. This was that a rebirth of Islam would be possible only by revitalizing Iman (faith) among the Muslims — particularly educated Muslims — and the propagation of the Qur’anic teachings in contemporary idiom and at the highest level of scholarship is necessary to revitalize Iman. This undertaking would remove the existing dichotomy between modern physical and social sciences on the one hand, and Islamic revealed knowledge on the other.

In 1971 Ahmad gave up his medical practice to devote himself full time to the Islamic revival. In 1972 he established or helped establish the Markazi Anjuman Khuddam-ul-Qur’an Lahore, Tanzeem-e-Islami was founded in 1975, and Tahreek-e-Khilafat Pakistan was launched in 1991.

Dr. Israr Ahmad first appeared on Pakistan Television in 1978 in a program called Al-Kitab; this was followed by other programs, known as Alif Lam Meem, Rasool-e-Kamil, Umm-ul-Kitab and the most popular of all religious programs in the history of Pakistan Television, the Al-Huda, which made him a household name throughout the country.Although he did not like to receive it personally, Dr. Israr Ahmad was awarded Sitara-i-Imtiaz in 1981. He has to his credit over 60 Urdu books on topics related to Islam and Pakistan, 9 of which have been translated into English and other languages.

Poor Health

Dr. Israr Ahmed relinquished the leadership of Tanzeem-e-Islami in October, 2002 on grounds of bad health and Hafiz Aakif Saeed is the present Ameer of the Tanzeem to whom all rufaqaa of Tanzeem renewed their pledge of Baiyah.

Influences

Supporters describe his vision of Islam as having been synthesized from the diverse sources. He has also acknowledged the “deep influence” of Shah Waliullah Dehlavi, the 18th century Indian Islamic leader, anti-colonial activist, jurist, and scholar.[2] Ahmad follows the thinking of Maulana Hamiduddin Farahi and Maulana Amin Ahsan Islahi, concerning what his followers believe is the “internal coherence of and the principles of deep reflection in the Qur’an”. He follows Maulana Abul Kalam Azad and Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi in regards to what he believes is the “dynamic and revolutionary conception of Islam.”

“In the context of Qur’anic exegesis and understanding, Dr. Israr Ahmad is a firm traditionalist of the genre of Maulana Mehmood Hassan Deobandi and Allama Shabeer Ahmad Usmani; yet he presents Qur’anic teachings in a scientific and enlightened way …”[1] Ahmed believes in what he calls “Islamic revolutionary thought,” which consists of the idea that Islam – the teachings of the Qur’an and the Sunnah – must be implemented in the social, cultural, juristic, political, and the economic spheres of life. In this he is said to follow Mohammad Rafi uddin and Dr. Muhammad Iqbal. The first attempt towards the actualization of this concept was reportedly made by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad through his short-lived party, the Hizbullah. Another attempt was made by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi through his Jamaat-e-Islami party. Although the Jamaat-e-Islami has reached some influence, Ahmad resigned from the party in 1956 when it entered the electoral process and believes this involvement has led to “degeneration from a pure Islamic revolutionary party to a mere political one”.

Tanzeem-e-Islami

The nucleus of Tanzeem-e-Islami, which Israr Ahmad founded, was created in 1956, following the resignation of Ahmad and some other individuals from Jamaat-e-Islami over its electoral activity and “significant policy matters. They came together and tried unsuccessfully to form an organized group … A resolution was passed which subsequently became the Mission Statement of Tanzeem-e-Islami.”[1]

Later, disappointed with what he saw as the “lack of effort to create an Islamic renaissance through the revolutionary process” he again attempted to create a “disciplined organization,” namely Tanzeem-e-Islami.

Along with his work to revive “the Qur’an-centered Islamic perennial philosophy and world-view” Ahmed aims with his party to “reform the society in a practical way with the ultimate objective of establishing a true Islamic State, or the System of Khilafah”.

 Caliphate

According to the Tanzeem-e-Islami website Ahmed and the party believe “the spiritual and intellectual center of the Muslim world has shifted from the Arab world to the Indo-Pakistan subcontinent” and “conditions are much more congenial for the establishment of Khilafah in Pakistan” than in other Muslim countries.

Shia-Sunni discord

On his tanzeem.org website Ahmed describes the roots of the Shia-Sunni conflict as belonging to a “counter-revolutionary movement” that sought to overthrow the revolution of Islam in the form of “the Jews of Arabia and the Persians.” While “some scholars have even declared the Shias to be kafir … there has been no collective verdict of apostasy against the Shias (as was given in the case of the Qadiyani community).” “The present sectarian version of Shiism” can be traced to “the Safavid dynasty in Iran,” although the Iranian Islamic Revolution may have reversed this unfortunate trend.[6]

 Hizb ut-Tahrir

According to Tanzeem-e-Islami’s FAQ, while both Hizb ut-Tahrir and Tanzeem-e-Islami share belief in reviving the Caliphate as a means of implementing Islam in all spheres of life, Tanzeem-e-Islami does not believe in involvement in electoral politics, armed struggle, coup d’état to establish a caliphate, and has no set plan of detailed workings for the future Caliphate. Tanzeem-e-Islami emphasizes that Iman (faith) among Muslims must be revived in “a significant portion of the Muslim society” before there can be an Islamic revival.[6]

 Abul Ala Maududi

While Ahmad “considers himself a product” of the teachings of “comprehensive and holistic concept of the Islamic obligations” of Abul Ala Maududi, he opposes Jamaat-e-Islami’s “plunge” into “the arena of power politics,” which he considers to have been “disastrous.” [6]

Danger of Foreign powers

Nov 19, 2007 Ahmed warned that “the NATO forces are waiting on the western front to move into Pakistan and may deprive the country of its nuclear assets while on the eastern border India is ready to stage an action replay of 1971 events and has alerted its armed forces to intervene in to check threats to peace in the region.”[7]

Criticism and Controversy

Ahmed has also been criticized as making anti-Semitic and Islamic supremacist statements.

Canada’s National Post newspaper reported in 2006 that, according to Ahmad:

Only the Pakistan region has the potential for standing up against the nefarious designs of the global power-brokers and to resist the rising tides of the Jewish/Zionist hegemony.[4]

Asia Times reports that in September 1995 Israr Ahmed told the annual convention of the Islamic Society of North America that:

The process of the revival of Islam in different parts of the world is real. A final showdown between the Muslim world and the non-Muslim world, which has been captured by the Jews, would soon take place. The Gulf War was just a rehearsal for the coming conflict.

He appealed to the Muslims of the world, including those in the US, to prepare themselves for the coming conflict.” [5]

Urdu Works

Quran Aur Hamari Zindagi (Quran and Our Lives)

Musalmanoun Per Quran Kai Hakook (The Rights of the Quraan on Muslims)[8]

Rah-e-Nijat(Surah Asar Ki Rooshani Mein) (Salvation in the Light of Sura al Asr)[9]

Quran Aur Aman-e-Alam (Quraan and World Peace)[10]

Jihad-bil-Quran Aur Is Kai Paanch Marahil (Jihad by Quraan and its Five Stages)[11]

Jihad-bil-Quran ke Paanch Mahaaz[12]

Quran Ki Sooratoun Sa Ijmali Tajziya (Joint Analysis of Quraanic Suras)[13]

Quran Aur Hamari Zimaidariyan (Quraan and Our Responsibilities)[14]

Azmat-e-Quran (Greatness of the Quraan)[15]

Quran Ki Kuwat-e-Taskheer[16]

Duniya Ki Azeem Tareen Naimat-Quran (World’s Greatest Blessing: The Quraan)[17]

Infaradi aur Ijtamai Nijaat ke lie Quran ka La’eha Amal[18]

Infiradi Nijat Aur Ijtimayi Falah Kai Liya Quran Ka Laayamal (Quraan’s Blueprint for Individual Salvation and Collective Deliverance)[19]

Taaruf-e-Quran Aur Azmat-e-Quran (Introduction to and the Greatness of the Quraan)

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Umm-ul-Musabbihaat yeni Surah al-Hadeed ki Mukhtasir Tafseer[21]

[edit] Mutala-e-Quran-e-Hakeem ka Muntakhib Nisaab

Mutala-e-Quran-e-Hakeem ka Muntakhib Nisaab (Outline) [22]

Mutala-e-Quran-e-Hakeem ka Muntakhib Nisaab (Detailed)

1 – Nijaat ki Rah – Surah al-Asr ki Roshni mein[23]

2 – Neki ki Haqeeqat – Aayat-ul-Bir ki Roshni mein[24]

3 – Muqam-e-Azeemat aur Hikmat-e-Qurani ki Isasaat – Surah Luqman ke Doosre Ruku ki Roshni mein [25]

4 – Hizz-e-Azeem – Surah Hameen Sijdah ki Aayat ki Roshni mein[26]

5 – Surah Al-Fatiha – Quran-e-Hakeem ke Falsafa-o-Hikmat ki Isaas-e-Kamil[27]

6 – Aqal, Fitrat aur Iman – Surah Aal-e-Imran ke Akhri Ruku ki Roshni mein[28]

7 – Noor-e-Iman ke Ijzai Tarqeebi – Noor-e-Fitrat aur Noor-e-Wahi – Surah-e-Noor ke Paanchwen Ruku ki Roshni mein[29]

8 – Iman aur us ke Samaraat – Surah Al-Taghabun ki Roshni mein[30]

9 – Isbaat-e-Aakhirat ke lie Quran ka Istadlal – Surah al-Qiamah ki Roshni mein[31]

10 – Tameer-e-Seerat ki Isasaat aur Quran ka Insan-e-Matloob – Surah al-Mominoon aur Surah al-Ma’arij ki Roshni mein[32]

11 – Banda-e-Momin ki Shakhsiat ke Khad-o-Khaal – Surah al-Furqan ke Akhri Ruku ki Roshni mein [33]

12 – Aa’eli Zindagi ke Bunyaadi Usool – Surah al-Tehreem ki Roshni mein[34]

13 – Islam ka Muashrati aur Samaji Nizam – Surah Bani Israel ki Aayat 23 ta 40 ki Roshni mein [35]

14 – Musalmanon ki Siasi wa Milli Zindagi ke Rehnuma Usool – Surah al-Hujaraat ki Roshni mein [36]

15 – Tawasao Bil Haq ka Zarwa-e-Sinaam – Jihad o Qital fi Sabeel illah – Surah al-Taubah aur Surah al-Hujaraat ki Roshni mein[37]

16 – Jihad fi Sabeel-illah ki Gha’eyat-e-Oola – Shahdat ilannas – Surah al-Haj ke Akhri Ruku ki Roshni mein[38]

17 – Surah tus-Saf – Jihad-o-Qital fi Sabeel-illah ke Mozu per Quran-e-Hakeem ki Jamia Tareen Soorat[39]

18 – Inqalab-e-Nabwi (S.A.W.W.) ka Isasi Minhaj – Surah al-Juma ki Roshni mein[40]

19 – Jihad se Gurez ki Saza – Nifaaq – Surah al-Munafiqoon ki Roshni mein[41]

20 – Ahl-e-Iman ke lie Ibtala-o-Imtahan se guzarna laazmi he – Surah al-Ankaboot ke Pehle Ruku ki Roshni mein[42]

21 – Seerat-e-Tayyaba men Sabr-o-Masabarat ke Mukhtalif Adwaar – Surah al-Kahaf ki Aayat 27 ta 29 ki Roshni mein[43]

22 – Nabi-e-Akram (S.A.W.W.) ki Hayat-e-Tayyaba men Qitaal fi Sabeel-illah ya Silsala-e-Ghazvaat ka Aaghaz aur us ka Hadaf-e-Aakhreen[44]

24 – Fatah-o-Nusrat ka Nuqta-e-Aaghaz – Sulah-e-Hudaybia – Surah al-Fatah ke Akhri Ruku ki Roshni mein[45]

[edit] Sunnat Aur Seerat

Rasool-e-Kamil(S.A.W.W.)[46]

Nabi(SAW) Se Hamare Taaluk Ki Bunyadain[47]

Sacha Ummati Kaun?[48]

Uswa-e-Rasool (S.A.W.W.) – Surah al-Ahzab ki Roshni Mein[49]

Miraj-e-Nabi(S.A.W.W.)[50]

Shaheed-e-Mazloom[51]

Saniha-e-Karbala[52]

Maseel Essa(AS),Ali Murtaza(RA)[53]

Azmat-e-Mustafa[54]

Haqeeqat-e-Deen

Haqeeqat-e-Iman[55]

Tauheed-e-Amali[56]

Shirk aur Iqsam-e-Shirk[57]

Eid-ul-Azha aur Falsafa-e-Qurbani

Azmat-e-Saum[58]

Azmat-e-Sayam o Qayam Ramadhan[59]

Mutalibat-e-Deen[60]

Zindagi, Maut Aur Insaan[61]

Ita’at ka Qurani Tasaawer[62]

Marwaja Tasawaf, Salook-e-Muhammadi Yani Ehsan Islam

Jihad Fi Sabeel-Allah[63]

Ejad-o-Ibda Alam Se Alami Nizam-e-Khilafat Tak[64]

Khatam-e-Naboowat Kai 2 Mafhoum Aur Takmeel Risalaat Kai Takazai[65]

Haqeeqat-e-Tasawwuf[66]

Islami Nizam-e-Hayat

Islam Ka Moashi Nizam[67]

Islam Mein Aurat Ka Maqam[68]

Shaadi Biya Kai Ziman Mein Aik Islahi Tahreek[69]

Ek Islahi Tehreek – Khutba-e-Nikah[70]

Islam Mein Adal-e-Ijtimayi Ki Ahmeeyat[71]

Ehad-e-Hazir Mein Islami Riyasat Aur Maeshat[72]

Islam men Khilafat

Khutbat-e-Khilafat[73]

Pakistan mein Nizam-e-Khilafat: Kia, Kyon aur Kese?[74]

Ahya Islam Aur Islami Tahreekain

Islam Ki Nishaat-e-Saaniya (Karne ka Asal Kam)[75]

Daawat Rujool-ul-Quran ka Manzar aur Paseemanar[76]

Tanzeem-e-Islami ki Dawat: Ek Ijmali Khaka[77]

Azam-e-Tanzeem[78]

Tanzeem-e-Islami Ek Nazar Mein[79]

Tanzeem-e-Islami ka Imtiazi Muqaam[80]

Tanzeem-e-Islami ka Taareekhi Paseemanzar

Mazhabi Jama’aton ke Bahmi Ta’awun ke Zimen mein Tanzeem-e-Islami ki Masaa’i[81]

Mazhabi Jamatoun Ka Bahami Taawun Aur Tanzeem Islami

Tahreekh Jamat-e-Islami(Hakeeki Mutala)

Tareekh Jamat-e-Islami Aik Gumshuda Baab

Jamaat-e-Sheikh-ul Hind Aur Tanzeem Islami

Hisaab Kamobeesh Aur Guzareeh-e-Ahwalai Waqai

Maulana Maudoodi Aur Mein

Islami Inqalaab

Nabi(S.A.W.W.) Ka Maksaad-e-Behsaat[82]

Minhaj-e-Inqalaab Nabi(S.A.W.W.)

Islam Kai Inqalaabi Fikar Ki Tajdeed-o-Tahmeel

Rasool-e-Inqalaab(S.A.W.W.) Ka Tareeka-e-Inqalaab[83]

Hizb Allah Kai Ausaaf[84]

Faraiz-e-Deen

Daawat-e-Allah[85]

Hamari Deeni wa Milli Zimmedaarian aur Qurb-e-Ellahi Kai 2 Muraatib[86]

Faraiz-e-Deen Ka Jamai Tasawour[87]

Musalman Khawateen ke Deeni Fara’ez[88]

Ummat-e-Muslima Kai Liya Seh Nukatti Layamaal[89]

Hub-e-Rasool(S.A.W.W.) Aur Iss Kai Takaaze[90]

Islami Nazm-e-Jamaat Mein Baiyat Ki Ahmeeyat[91]

Millat-o-Siyasaat

Islam Aur Pakistan[92]

Istehkam-e-Pakistan[93]

Istehkam-e-Pakistan Aur Masale Sindh

Allama Iqbal Aur Hum[94]

Pakistan Mein Nizam-e-Khilafaat, Kiya, Kiyoun, Kaise

Sabiqa Aur Maujooda Musalmaan Ummatoun Ka Maazi, Haal Aur Mustakbil[95]

Issayat Aur Islam

Pakistan Ki Siyasaat Ka Pehle Awami Aur Hangami Daur

Shia-Sunni Mufhammat Ki Zaroorat Aur Ahmeeyat[96]

Pak-Bharat Mufhamiyat Aur Masal-e-Kashmir Ka Haal[97]

Maujooda Alami Haalat ke PasManzar Mein Islam Ka Mustaqbil[98]

Pakistan Kai Wajood Ko Lahaq Khatraat Aur Khadshaat aur Bachao ki Tadabeer[99]

Basaer

Allama Iqbal, Quad-e-Azam Aur Nazriy-e-Pakistan

Allama Iqbal aur Hum[94]

English Works

Minhaj-e-Inqalab-e-Nabawi ( S.A.W.W. )

The Obligations Muslims owe to the Quran.[100]

The way to Salvation in the light of Surah Al-Asr.[101]

Rise and Decline of Muslim Ummah.[102]

The Quran and World Peace.[103]

Islamic Renaissance – The Real Task Ahead.[104]

Islam; Deen, Not Religion by Dr.Ahmad Afzal[105]

Calling People Unto Allah.[106]

Tragedy of Karbala. [107]

Muhammad(SAW) The Objective of His Appointment.[108]

Lessons From History.[109]

Three- Point Action Agenda for the Muslim Ummah.[110]

Baiyah: The Basis for organization of a Revivalist Party in Islam.[111]

Khilafah in Pakistan, What Why and How?[112]

Obligations to God.[113]

Religious Obligations of Muslim Women.[114]

The Call of Tanzeem-e-Islami.[115]

Azm-e-Tanzeem.[116]

The Reality of Tasawwuf.

The Genesis of Tanzeem-e-Islami.

Synthesis of Iman

Reference

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SOBER ADVICE to BJP…by Mani Shankar Aiyar (Congress MP in the Rajya Sabha)

SOBER ADVICE to BJP
 
Makes sense.

​.. but will BJP pay heed to his advice ?

By

Mani Shankar Aiyar

(Congress MP in the Rajya Sabha)

The bigger danger is that overblown rhetoric can tip the subcontinent over the precipice. That is what we must remind ourselves in this centenary year of the commencement of the First World War. The parallels between the events that sparked WWI and the contemporary India-Pakistan situation are striking. The Austro-Hungarian Empire and Serbia were neighbours, much as India and Pakistan are neighbours. There was no comparison between the military power, the economic strength and the political clout of the two neighbours: Austro-Hungary, like India vis-a-vis Pakistan, was undoubtedly superior. Nevertheless, tension between the two neighbours was rife, as in the case of India and Pakistan. Serbia-based non-State actors were secretly readying for a major terrorist strike against the Empire, backed by powerful forces within Serbia but out of government control, much as Pakistan-based non-State terrorists are constantly preparing for terror strikes against key Indian targets, backed by powerful forces within Pakistan, but outside government control.
When a young band of Serbian terrorists slipped into Bosnia to kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the Government of Serbia did not know, even as it is entirely likely that the Government of Pakistan did not know that Ajmal Kasab and his gang had slipped into Mumbai to target the iconic Taj Hotel. But, as in India, so in Austria, the suspicion was so strong that there were rogue elements in the Serbian establishment that were backing the terrorists, no proof was needed: suspicion amounted to conviction. Therefore, when the Serbian terrorists struck, assassinating the heir-apparent to the Austro-Hungarian throne, the Empire needed no conclusive proof that the Serbian government was behind the assassination. It knew, as India “knew”, that 26/11 was master-minded by the Government of Pakistan. And even as the Pakistan government denied any involvement in such cross-border terrorism and undertook to set in train an investigation into the dastardly terrorist attack, so also, a hundred years earlier, did Serbia condemn the assassination and offer to investigate and bring to justice those responsible.

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Arun Jaitley thumps his chest and proclaims that we have given the Pakis a “jaw-breaking reply” (munh tod jawab). 
Oh yeah? The Pakistanis are still there – with their jaw quite intact and a nuclear arsenal nestling in their pockets. 
Rajnath Singh adds that the Pakis had best understand that “a new era has dawned”. 
How? Is retaliatory fire a BJP innovation? Or is it that we have we ceased being peace-loving and become a war-mongering nation? 
And Modi thunders that his guns will do the talking (boli nahin, goli). Yes – and for how long?
The Government struts around as if it has silenced the Pakistani guns. Nothing could be a more dangerous illusion. If the guns have ceased for the present to bark, it is because the Pakistan army has silenced its own guns, even as the Indian army has silenced ours. The idea that we have terrified the Pakistanis into submission by shelling a few homes and killing a few soldiers and several innocents might be a myth that washes here but it is far, far from the truth. The danger is that we will forget the limits that divide peace from war.
If losing half their country in 1971 and leaving 90,000 prisoners of war in Indian hands has not dimmed Pakistan’s zeal to protect itself, big words from our end are not going to make them grovel at Modi’s feet. Pakistan is a sovereign nation. It makes its own assessment of the threats to its security. And the kind of talk they have heard in recent days from our governmental chiefs only persuades them that they are right in regarding India as the biggest threat to their security. This marginalizes the sane voices across the border and brings Pakistanis of all hues and colours together in the defence of their homeland. The language of the “akhaara” is not the language of statesmen. And war is not a continuation of diplomacy by other means; it is a confession of the breakdown of diplomacy.
Dr. Manmohan Singh showed, especially during the first three years of his government, how much could be achieved by talking to Pakistan instead of shooting at them. Even Kashmir was tackled on the back-channel. It was agreed that territories could not be changed nor populations exchanged. What was needed was fostering exchanges of all kinds between Kashmiris on both sides of the LoC – the restoration of Kashmiriyat by fostering exchanges between people, relatives, friends, media, goods and  services across the LoC in a two-way traffic. Pakistan has repeatedly – even with the change of regime in India – shown that it is ready to talk with India. It is we who are stalling the dialogue. But as the history of the last 20 years has shown, proxy war in Kashmir did not come in the way of Vajpayee’s bus journey to the Shaheed Minar in Lahore; Kargil and the Parliament attack did not stop the invitation to Musharraf to come to Agra; nor did it prevent Vajpayee from going to Islamabad to sign a joint declaration that presaged the resumption of dialogue. 26/11 certainly threw the spanner in the works but was not enough to forestall the invitation to Nawaz Sharif to the forecourt of Rashtrapati Bhawan. So, a “munh thod jawab” is for domestic consumption, a pathetic attempt at proving the breadth of the Prime Minister’s chest.
The bigger danger is that overblown rhetoric can tip the subcontinent over the precipice. That is what we must remind ourselves in this centenary year of the commencement of the First World War. The parallels between the events that sparked WWI and the contemporary India-Pakistan situation are striking. The Austro-Hungarian Empire and Serbia were neighbours, much as India and Pakistan are neighbours. There was no comparison between the military power, the economic strength and the political clout of the two neighbours: Austro-Hungary, like India vis-a-vis Pakistan, was undoubtedly superior. Nevertheless, tension between the two neighbours was rife, as in the case of India and Pakistan. Serbia-based non-State actors were secretly readying for a major terrorist strike against the Empire, backed by powerful forces within Serbia but out of government control, much as Pakistan-based non-State terrorists are constantly preparing for terror strikes against key Indian targets, backed by powerful forces within Pakistan, but outside government control.
When a young band of Serbian terrorists slipped into Bosnia to kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the Government of Serbia did not know, even as it is entirely likely that the Government of Pakistan did not know that Ajmal Kasab and his gang had slipped into Mumbai to target the iconic Taj Hotel. But, as in India, so in Austria, the suspicion was so strong that there were rogue elements in the Serbian establishment that were backing the terrorists, no proof was needed: suspicion amounted to conviction. Therefore, when the Serbian terrorists struck, assassinating the heir-apparent to the Austro-Hungarian throne, the Empire needed no conclusive proof that the Serbian government was behind the assassination. It knew, as India “knew”, that 26/11 was master-minded by the Government of Pakistan. And even as the Pakistan government denied any involvement in such cross-border terrorism and undertook to set in train an investigation into the dastardly terrorist attack, so also, a hundred years earlier, did Serbia condemn the assassination and offer to investigate and bring to justice those responsible.
But Vienna would not be appeased. An eight-point ultimatum was sent to Serbia demanding full acceptance of the eight conditions within a month. Eventually, after much hemming and hawing, Belgrade accepted seven of the conditions but baulked at the eighth – that a joint Austrian-Serbian investigation be launched into the assassination. That was enough for Vienna to insist that if all conditions were not fulfilled, the far more powerful Austro-Hungarian forces would reduce Serbia to rubble in a matter of days.
The threat was meant to cow the Serbians. The Serbians went as far as they could, but baulked at abject surrender. In consequence, military plans began to roll – to the alarm of both Emperor Franz Joseph of Austro-Hungary as well as the German Kaiser whose belligerence was pushing Vienna further and further down the road to disaster. Their political misgivings were entirely understandable. For Russia had declared that any military action against her Slav cousin would invite Russian retaliation against both Austria and Germany. At the same time, Germany had made it clear that her first target was France. Treaty obligations made it incumbent for France to come to Russia’s rescue and vice versa in the event of war. Britain was committed to entering the war in these circumstances. The very balance of power that was supposed to have kept the peace in Europe for a hundred years was now pushing the world to the brink.
To prevent this catastrophe, the two Emperors who had been the loudest in proclaiming a “munh thod jawab” to Serbia tried at the last moment to stop the guns from booming, but were over-ruled by their respective military hierarchies. War was launched. The mighty Austro-Hungarian Empire conquered Serbia but ended up losing the War and disappearing from the map of the world. Germany won the opening rounds but ended in humiliating defeat. Defeat on the battle-field led to the Peace Treaty but contained the seeds of resentment that resulted in WWII breaking out 20 years later. It did not end till nearly a hundred million people – mostly unarmed non-combatant civilians – had been killed the world over. That was the outcome of Vienna saying “Boli nahin, goli”.    
Let us remind ourselves that it was the Father of the Nation who taught us that “taking an eye for an eye would leave the whole world blind.” Shanti! Shanti! Shanti!


Mani Shankar Aiyar

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