Author: afzal
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Life
Life is making choices, some easy, some hard. Sometimes knowing and sometimes unknowingly, and then living by those choices. And always being wise after the event. Life is a test. No, a series of tests, big and small. And you are taking them, like it or not. You’re taking them and may not even be…
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Waiting
At school, it is just another October day. With reading, maths, and those tiring group work sessions. Back home there is homework to be done, and as the application requesting dismissal of today’s chores is denied, there is no other way than to make them a quick affair. Hoping that their quality is maintained within…
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Autumn
Outside there is an explosion of colors. Inside, all the colors have merged into the all familiar black. The day still lets the sun shine its warmth. The night grows colder and longer. Even among the dead, a bearable moment in the brilliance of the last magical light. Before the shadows return and, as always,…
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Freedom
Tied up, locked down is my desire to fly. Like the instinct of a caged bird. I have been told that freedom is the perception of reaching the impossible. Did not make much sense to me at the time. Today I look back and I see all the impossibles that knocked on my door and…
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Eid Mubarak!
About Eid, the Prophet Muhammad (Allah bless him and give him peace) said, `They are days of eating, drinking, and remembrance of God.´ (Reported by Bukhari in his Sahih, an authoritative collection of the sayings of the Prophet) I wish all Muslims a happy and blessed Eid!
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Ramadan Mubarak!
Believers! Fasting is enjoined upon you, as it was enjoined upon those before you, that you become God-fearing. (Qur’an 2:183, Dr. Zafar Ishaq Ansari’s translation of Syed Abul A’ala Maududi’s Tafhim Al Qur’an) With these words from the Qur’an, I wish the Muslims of the world Ramadan Mubarak!
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The Tree
I am the tree. Always rooted strongly to the ground, looking up at the sky. Always staying still, while others pass me by. Some times things get caught in my branches. But that they will stay with me, there are little chances. Because all it takes for them to fly away, is a gust of…
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Beauty
BEAUTY asked God one day This question: ‘Why Didst Thou not make me, in Thy world, undying ?’ And God replying- ‘ A picture-show is this world: all this world A tale out of the long night of not being; And in it, seeing Its nature works through mutability, That only is lovely whose essence …
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Wizard
It’s not that I don’t cherish every moment we’re together. It’s not that I am not thankful for your every breath. It’s not that my heart doesn’t melt every time your eyes meet mine. But it’s when I cradle you in my arms like this, that magic happens. The world is blocked out. Time comes to…
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Transformation
Nothing is as serious as a piece of candy on a cold October evening. Its powerful call makes them defy the tiredness after a long day in school, after homework, after chores, after dinner. It makes them get ready, paying scrupulous attention to details, leaving nothing to chance. This has to be just right. When the…
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