Kashmir - A Mesmerizing Beauty

    Travelling itself is an adventure for many and same has been the case for me. I have been lucky in an aspect that during last 9 years i have had the chance of visiting diverse places. May it be Quetta, Sibi, Karachi, Sialkot, Abbottabad, Nowshera or Kashmir, I have enjoyed every bit of my stay at these places. Every area has its own beauty, culture and traditions and for the same very reason travelling is said to be a learning process.

        Now as I am in Azad Kashmir, it is such a mesmerizing place that you cant help getting lost in its sceneries. Kashmir valley is a combination of snow clad mountains, lush green meadows, scenic waterfalls, swift-flowing rivers and above all hardworking, hospitable people. I am sharing few glimpses of The Heaven on Earth, which, I hope you will like. Insha Allah, I'll keep posting more pictures as and when captured. God Speed.

The Law of Garbage Truck - An Inspirational Tale

     Many a times in our lives we find ourselves in awkward circumstances where we are under the wrath of someone else. We find it too difficult as how to handle the other person. I came across a tale written by David J. Polly, an inspirational tale. This story is infact a book, titled "The Law of Garbage Truck Story", giving an account as to how we should deal with the negative people in our lives. These negativities can be from a friend, colleagues and the boss. I found it worth sharing.
        

       "One day, I hopped into a taxi and took off for the airport. We were driving in the right lane when suddenly, a black car, jumped out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed the brakes, skidded, and missed the other car by just inches! The driver of the other car whipped his head around and started yelling at us. My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. I mean, he was really friendly. So I asked, "Why did you just do that? This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital!" This is when my taxi driver taught me what I now call, 'The Law of the Garbage Truck'

He explained, "Many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it and sometimes they'll dump it on you. NEVER take it personally. Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on with the routine life." Don't take their garbage and spread it to other people at work, at home or on the streets.

The bottom line is that successful people do not let garbage trucks take over their day. Life's too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so...... 'Love the people who treat you right. Pray for the ones who don't.'

  

The moral which can be drawn from this story is best explained in the quote that Life is 10% what you make and 90% how you take! May Allah grant us the courage to take life in a positive manner and make best use of all oportunities that come our way. Aameen.

Esprit De Indépendance

          With the tickling of clock we are closing to celebrate another Independence day, the 69th Independence day. Get ready for hue and cry on Media, talk shows will be telecast where tales of our journey to Independence will be narrated to us. With the dawn of 15 August, all this media blitz will be over and PAKISTANIYAT of this nation will again go in hibernation for another 1 year and next year same rhetoric will be repeated.

           Spirit of celebrating  Independence day demands a self catharsis by each one of us. We as a nation need to put ourselves on track, unless each one of us put in his best in his area of influence we are not going to be on track. The need of hour is to change ourselves, CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME, so the start has to be taken from ourselves. Only then we will be able to transform Pakistan into the dream of Hazrat Iqbal and make Pakistan stand tall in the comity of nations. 

         May Allah Almighty bless our Pakistan and may each one of us maintains the PAKISTANIYAT through out the year, which we display on 14 August and reflect in our deeds. Aameen

Happy Independence Day

United we Stand, Divided We Fall

In our childhood everyone of us has read the famous story of the farmers and his sons, that how the father taught the lesson of unity. But I think we just READ it without understanding the MORAL and REAL MEANING of the story which would have been intended by the author of the story. Why I am saying this is because, had we understood the crux of the story we wouldn't have been suffering this much as a nation.

What our society has turned into today, at-least it can't be called a NATION. Our present state seems to be various segments bond together for nothing. We are either Sunni, Shia, Brelvi or Punjabi, Sindhi, Balochi, Pathan or if we go further divided into bits and pieces of Castes. In the presence of all these divisions, we can be called anything else but a NATION. 

If we intend rising as a Pakistani Nation in the comity of progressing world, we need to free ourselves from trammels of these divisions. This is high-time now and if no remedial measures are taken at this point of time then we shall be broken like the sticks unlatched from the bundle.

May Allah Almighty grant us the courage and wisdom to stay united and we as a Pakistani Nation keep the National emblem flying high. Aameen

Self Reforms - 1st Step to way forward

Pakistan, the land of pure people, which was bestowed upon us by Allah Alsmighty by virtue of the struggles of our fore-fathers, has been dealt with so cruelly by each one of us that its liberators' souls would be in immense pain. Even after 67 years of so called independence, we have been unable to come out of shackles of slavery, nepotism, corruption and so on. Over this period of time we have polluted ourselves so much that we as a society have become morally and ethically corrupt.

We know nothing other than talking scores and scores, as if Hazrat Iqbal had said about us that گفتار کا غازی بن تو گیا کردار کا غذازی بن نہ سکا . It has become our national psyche to crib against the misdeeds of our leaders and rulers, ignoring the fact that our rulers are none other than our own reflections. How can a corrupt and polluted society produce noble and just rulers???


The only way out in this grim and bleak situation is to start putting things right from our very self, I don't have any authority over the rulers, but i do have authority and control over myself, so why can't and why shouldn't I change myself? This society can never be changed until I change myself, only then this ladder of change can be climbed upwards.