When the Heavens Draw Near One of my earliest memories of Ramadan goes back to when I was about six or seven years old. It was the night of Khatam al-Quran at our local mosque, the 27th night of Ramadan. My ami had laid out a beautiful black-and-blue polka-dot shalwar kameez for me to wear. […]
When the Heart Forgets Its Way There is something about direction. Not the kind you trace on a map, but the kind your heart quietly follows. Every heart has a compass, and that compass is always pointing somewhere. The question is not whether we are moving. It is where we are facing. The Subtle Drift […]
Shahab Namah (Urdu)– 1999 by Qudrat Ullah Shahab (Author) Shahab Nama is one of the most interesting autobiographies I have ever read. It is a fantastic read, which unfortunately was never translated into English. Shahab Nama is the story of Qudrat Ullah Shahab, a Pakistani Bureaucrat who served in the Indian Civil Service before partition and volunteered during the […]
Sukoon is an Urdu Language word which means calm, peace, relief, serenity, tranquility, wholeness. Its not a material object, it cannot be weighed, it cannot be named…it can only be felt. Its the most priceless feeling. So expensive…..yet free. Many a men strive their whole life trying to taste a morsel of it but still remain […]