This idea is going to shock the hell out of most people but its no joke.
Imagine an organisation or company or corporation which works solely & only to harm Islam or Muslims. Imagine a holiday in which no one is present in it's building. Imagine technology in your hands which tells you that there is no human in the nearby surrounding vicinity of target as well. In such a case, not only would the suicide bombing be halaal but infact it would be extremely virtuous and would be jihad of the highest order because the mujahid knows in advance that there is no possibility of remaining alive.
In such a situation, I would be the first one to volunteer for blowing-up myself although would still prefer to serve Islam as a Scholar or Sufi. I hope i didn't scare anyone :)
Monday, February 1, 2010
Monday, January 25, 2010
For English Writing Class
Existence entails purpose. The complexity entrenched in something, further, depicts meaning. The intricacy of man supersedes all creations; thus, he cannot be devoid of aim. To some, life is a dreadful sport without a ground where the players are unseen but the result frowned at. To others, it is the merriment with a Santa Claus on the door everyday. Every trace of life’s fabric is woven by the fiber of randomness and yet, the cloth, eventually, yields a Grand Design. We do not know what resides in the Mastermind but we ascertain that it is no fluke. Man cannot alter the Divine Plan; his epilogue was written long ago. He was always meant to be a vessel of Truth, a manifestation of the Hidden. Servitude is his middle name. Khilafat is the signature on his soul. God signed it before his advent.
Reality seems to be inverted by the lens of modernity. Human prosperity is assumed to be an absolute fact. A deep scrutiny into the crises of modern age reveals the opposite. By being absorbed in increasing the quality and quantity of ghair-ul-lah, man is, inevitably, fascinated by all but Allah whereas the essence of tawhid is none but Allah. Most fail to comprehend the subtle yet immense difference between contentment and diversion from discontent. What man has achieved is the creation of innumerable outlets serving as temporary escapes from the spiritual void within. He thinks he has carved endless paths to satisfaction. Imagine a cup of water the material of which is being improved everyday but the water inside needed to quench thirst is decreasing day by day. The cup is the world. Its modifier is man. Zikr is the water.
Alchemy has taught humanity a vital lesson. First, humans with beastly traits can transform into those angels would not be ashamed to envy. Second, the melting of vices is not possible without the heat of tribulations. The revolution brought by Muhammad (pbuh) serves as the supreme example. By sending His most beloved servant, God exalted the earth in the 6th century. The Sahaba showed that man doesn’t need the stamp of prophecy but only its light to traverse the world of obstacles. Skeptics and agnostics have always dethroned the relevance of revelation for morality but the rise of secularism accompanied with the fall of global peace has lifted the curtains of doubt. The denial of metaphysics has made existence within time and space much less bearable than it ever was.
Reality seems to be inverted by the lens of modernity. Human prosperity is assumed to be an absolute fact. A deep scrutiny into the crises of modern age reveals the opposite. By being absorbed in increasing the quality and quantity of ghair-ul-lah, man is, inevitably, fascinated by all but Allah whereas the essence of tawhid is none but Allah. Most fail to comprehend the subtle yet immense difference between contentment and diversion from discontent. What man has achieved is the creation of innumerable outlets serving as temporary escapes from the spiritual void within. He thinks he has carved endless paths to satisfaction. Imagine a cup of water the material of which is being improved everyday but the water inside needed to quench thirst is decreasing day by day. The cup is the world. Its modifier is man. Zikr is the water.
Alchemy has taught humanity a vital lesson. First, humans with beastly traits can transform into those angels would not be ashamed to envy. Second, the melting of vices is not possible without the heat of tribulations. The revolution brought by Muhammad (pbuh) serves as the supreme example. By sending His most beloved servant, God exalted the earth in the 6th century. The Sahaba showed that man doesn’t need the stamp of prophecy but only its light to traverse the world of obstacles. Skeptics and agnostics have always dethroned the relevance of revelation for morality but the rise of secularism accompanied with the fall of global peace has lifted the curtains of doubt. The denial of metaphysics has made existence within time and space much less bearable than it ever was.
Monday, January 18, 2010
Aphorisms by Me
I have taken off the beauty that I never really wore
Man cannot sail to the shore of sainthood while the ship of his soul remains untouched by the rock of calamity.
If you fly to the highest sky of reason, you will find nothing but the clouds of Truth, only if the wings of faith take you that far!
Music taught me harmony within differences
The repetition of history depicts the circular dimension of linear time
In physics, light turns potential colors into actual colors. In metaphysics, the rule stays the same while the object is man
The agony of philosophers is their endless struggle for reason in an irrational world
All thinkers commit the folly of turning personal experiences into universal laws
Will you find light in the West where even the sun is blinded
How can man be free from God when God Himself needed man for His manifestation
The more I see life, the more I see the need of another one to replace the injustice in this one
No drama surpasses real life where it is harder to be real than to act
It is strange that we claim imitation as the highest form of flattery but fail to follow the Sunnah
Had man been in no need of God, he wouldn’t have formed idols of stone
If your belief is fortified by hearing Him, an idol-worshipper has more faith than you
Modern maturity is losing the virtues of a child while retaining the vices with far more complexities
A poet can say in one verse, profoundly, that which a writer says in a whole book
Nothing is more unfortunate than when your fruits are overlooked for their roots
Open-mindedness without values is like a house of open windows without walls
Modern Art is nothing but a beautiful outlet for a miserable void within
No book or academic endeavor can match the mind of a sufferer
One moment of mystical experience yields more knowledge than a thousand books.
Language is lost for words to describe a state of spiritual witnessing
Where the intellect of a scholar ceases, the love of a Sufi starts.
Although both a prophet and a Sufi know a lot but where the prophet's superior wisdom doesn't let him disclose it, the childish ecstasy of a Sufi turns him vocal.
Had intuition not been a source of intelligence, there would have been neither art nor poetry nor music.
If the modern man had used only half of his brain with a purer heart, he would've grasped the truth twice as much.
The irony of man is that he longs for greatness but not suffer before it
Arrogance is the highest state of ignorance-only the unknowing sees his significance.
None truly found God unless his ego was shattered into pieces. What bites most refines most.
The difference between calculating the height of Mount Everest and climbing it is similar to that between the conceptualization of and adherence to religion.
Little skepticism yields intelligence but lots of it yields meaninglessness.
Religion without philosophy is dry. Philosophy without religion is uncertainty.
The role of Science is less to prove Religion, more to refute Atheism.
Faith is not irrational but the consequence of a long sequence of rationality.
Wisdom is found in neither books nor sharp minds but in a heart free of worldly desires.
Modern Practicality is nothing but fear of false gods combined with lack of insight.
Madness is the first step towards greatness.
Education without lofty ideals is like religion without morals.
The greatest men were not those who were not humiliated but with humiliations for a higher cause
The mental age of a man is determined by life experiences, not biological age.
There is nothing more despicable and yet inevitable about human nature than being judgmental.
A conformist believer will always have much more hypocrisy than a disbeliever
It is not tolerance but lack of courage to not rectify falsehood to avoid making foes
Modern Literature is nothing but wonderful expressions of meaningless thoughts.
Modern Morality is a code of ethics that avoids displeasing the creation while being indifferent to the displeasure of their Creator.
Modern Success is a fool's endeavor to impress many other fools
Modern intelligence is the measure of smartness at deeds irrelevant to the meaning of life
Secularism is the name given to an idealism which helplessly hopes to combine peace with materialism
Modern respect is egotism under the guise of dignity.
Modernism is that which strives to solve the ancient problems of man with newer and much lesser effective solutions.
Everyone is a genius. Some do not discover it, some do not actualize it and some are undiscovered by others.
The hardest thing is not to achieve genius but to avoid ostentation with it.
It amazes me to see how genius is attributed to ability instead of the life experiences that ignite it.
Intelligence is conceptual ability, not factual memorization. Intellectuality is a deeper version of it. Talent is the ability to create. Genius is the sum of all three.
Islam is a combination of the virtues of both East and West whereas the Muslim Ummah combines the vices of both
The prophet of today is he who examines modernity with such perfection that he is neither influenced nor rejects without reason.
It is senseless to believe in the finality of prophethood and yet deem his teachings impractical.
Education System promises nothing but money to those who lack the talent to earn otherwise.
Academia hardly deals with creativity, originality & depth of thought.
Man cannot sail to the shore of sainthood while the ship of his soul remains untouched by the rock of calamity.
If you fly to the highest sky of reason, you will find nothing but the clouds of Truth, only if the wings of faith take you that far!
Music taught me harmony within differences
The repetition of history depicts the circular dimension of linear time
In physics, light turns potential colors into actual colors. In metaphysics, the rule stays the same while the object is man
The agony of philosophers is their endless struggle for reason in an irrational world
All thinkers commit the folly of turning personal experiences into universal laws
Will you find light in the West where even the sun is blinded
How can man be free from God when God Himself needed man for His manifestation
The more I see life, the more I see the need of another one to replace the injustice in this one
No drama surpasses real life where it is harder to be real than to act
It is strange that we claim imitation as the highest form of flattery but fail to follow the Sunnah
Had man been in no need of God, he wouldn’t have formed idols of stone
If your belief is fortified by hearing Him, an idol-worshipper has more faith than you
Modern maturity is losing the virtues of a child while retaining the vices with far more complexities
A poet can say in one verse, profoundly, that which a writer says in a whole book
Nothing is more unfortunate than when your fruits are overlooked for their roots
Open-mindedness without values is like a house of open windows without walls
Modern Art is nothing but a beautiful outlet for a miserable void within
No book or academic endeavor can match the mind of a sufferer
One moment of mystical experience yields more knowledge than a thousand books.
Language is lost for words to describe a state of spiritual witnessing
Where the intellect of a scholar ceases, the love of a Sufi starts.
Although both a prophet and a Sufi know a lot but where the prophet's superior wisdom doesn't let him disclose it, the childish ecstasy of a Sufi turns him vocal.
Had intuition not been a source of intelligence, there would have been neither art nor poetry nor music.
If the modern man had used only half of his brain with a purer heart, he would've grasped the truth twice as much.
The irony of man is that he longs for greatness but not suffer before it
Arrogance is the highest state of ignorance-only the unknowing sees his significance.
None truly found God unless his ego was shattered into pieces. What bites most refines most.
The difference between calculating the height of Mount Everest and climbing it is similar to that between the conceptualization of and adherence to religion.
Little skepticism yields intelligence but lots of it yields meaninglessness.
Religion without philosophy is dry. Philosophy without religion is uncertainty.
The role of Science is less to prove Religion, more to refute Atheism.
Faith is not irrational but the consequence of a long sequence of rationality.
Wisdom is found in neither books nor sharp minds but in a heart free of worldly desires.
Modern Practicality is nothing but fear of false gods combined with lack of insight.
Madness is the first step towards greatness.
Education without lofty ideals is like religion without morals.
The greatest men were not those who were not humiliated but with humiliations for a higher cause
The mental age of a man is determined by life experiences, not biological age.
There is nothing more despicable and yet inevitable about human nature than being judgmental.
A conformist believer will always have much more hypocrisy than a disbeliever
It is not tolerance but lack of courage to not rectify falsehood to avoid making foes
Modern Literature is nothing but wonderful expressions of meaningless thoughts.
Modern Morality is a code of ethics that avoids displeasing the creation while being indifferent to the displeasure of their Creator.
Modern Success is a fool's endeavor to impress many other fools
Modern intelligence is the measure of smartness at deeds irrelevant to the meaning of life
Secularism is the name given to an idealism which helplessly hopes to combine peace with materialism
Modern respect is egotism under the guise of dignity.
Modernism is that which strives to solve the ancient problems of man with newer and much lesser effective solutions.
Everyone is a genius. Some do not discover it, some do not actualize it and some are undiscovered by others.
The hardest thing is not to achieve genius but to avoid ostentation with it.
It amazes me to see how genius is attributed to ability instead of the life experiences that ignite it.
Intelligence is conceptual ability, not factual memorization. Intellectuality is a deeper version of it. Talent is the ability to create. Genius is the sum of all three.
Islam is a combination of the virtues of both East and West whereas the Muslim Ummah combines the vices of both
The prophet of today is he who examines modernity with such perfection that he is neither influenced nor rejects without reason.
It is senseless to believe in the finality of prophethood and yet deem his teachings impractical.
Education System promises nothing but money to those who lack the talent to earn otherwise.
Academia hardly deals with creativity, originality & depth of thought.
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