God has a better plan for you.

   Once upon a time there was a warrior who dreamed of ruling the whole world. He had already occupied most of the territories during his struggle but before he could conquer the last and the liveliest place in his way he experienced something unexpected.

   The night before he was destined to attack the last state, he met the angel of death. His time was over, the angel acknowledged him. The warrior got upset. 'His dream would remain unrealized' he thought. So he pleaded the angel to leave him alive for one day so that his name could be engraved, as a conqueror of the world, forever.

   The angel proposed him a deal. "Either you accept your death now or never;" the angel declared. The warrior drenched in his pride, accepted the deal.

   The next day the warrior with his army marched to that last state left to be conquered just to witness a population standing there in his way - unarmed - ready to defend there homeland with their lives. The warrior was surprised to see this state of patriotism by mere men and women. He warned them of fatal consequences in case they resisted from subjugation. But still nobody moved an inch backward. They declared that they will not let anyone rule their homeland, such as him. “Man like you knows nothing about Love and you have lost your mind in the abyss of power. And no one with such traits will be allowed to rule our lives as we are the people knowing the importance of peace and love.” They announced.

   The warrior didn't heed to their words and warned them for the last time. Just about then a man appeared from among the people and proposed him an option. He said, "We will let you rule us but not before you come to live with us for three days. And after that nobody will be a resistance in your way." The warrior agreed at once.

   The place was beautiful and so were the hearts of the people living there. After living there for 3 days the warrior had a complete transformation. In those three days He realized the importance of love and peace for the heart of a man. And so he dismissed his decision of ruling this place and wanted to live here among these people in midst of the beauty of nature that he understood just then.

   Before he could live there for a month he urged to leave this place. His redemption of his unjustly thought actions was done. And there was nothing else he could lose; so he decided to leave this place. 'My heart is a warrior and there is much difference between the heart of a Warrior and the heart of a Lover.' he thought.

   He left the place and went to a far away mountain to live - alone. He lived there for hundreds of years and the angel of death didn't appear ever. And he realized the mistake he did years ago when the angel had come to take his life. When he faced the utter loneliness he would regret it. And at that very time he understood that GOD has the best plane for His men.

   Now that years passed away whenever he evoked the past he learnt that the man who proposed him to live with them for 3 days, he was the same angel of death he met during the night. Though he is immortal but he also didn't had the lust to live. And at that very time he understood the very basic thing about life and death:

   Death is as essential for life as living it.We are born with an ambition because God wants it. He is the greatest planner. We are born to live life and we die because it is the greater plan of God. The world changes with every second. When we are born we start learning new things everyday. And there we realize, in our life towards death, that once our quest is done we have to return to our GOD. And that's what compelled the warrior to regret upon his mistake. He had conquered many territories but now the world has changed. And this changed world is no more livable for an old man like him. He is old now - indeed very old.His legacy is there in the books but that's all that he wasn't concerned with. He didn't had new challenges. He has been through all the challenges he was destined to face. And now he wanted to die. And now ,that mistake he committed years ago, engulfed him everyday. Even today he could remember one thing that the angel disguised as man, said to him during his stay of 3 days: “If a man happens to find strength that’s beyond his control, then one day he will harm his own self.”

(The Fallen Apple ~ Aamir Khan Khattak)

Shikayat.

"Zamana bra hai. Aur aaj kal k log bhut brey aur khudgharz hain".

      This is that very principle we embrace everyday with our morning tea - before going out of home to face the world. And there is no good in arguing with someone over this fact; or may it be a fiction or misinterpretation of our daily life experiences with other people. (And by the way i personally feel that its merely an assumption because of the lack of the right "self perception' of ours. And, by the way, this very term i used, 'self perception', i read it for the first time in a Business Communication book about a month ago - for the first time in my whole academic career of about 16 years.). You might be thinking why i mentioned about Business communication book. Like many other hints i will give you in this blog this is the first of them (because i cannot write all the things inside me in one blog so i will be giving hints about them.) and the hint behind it is that, if we are taught about Business Communication only once is a 16 years of academic course then when we will be taught about the Social Communication with all the details our religious and cultural history left for us.

      "No one cares for the animals on the roads when one is riding or driving a bike or a car respectively. They don't even bother to slow down the speed when they see a dog on the road.", after saying these words to my mother who was with me in the car and we both saw how the man ahead of us didn't bother to save a dog, from his speeding car, which was in the middle of the road, i uttered some words that made me write this blog today. My words were:

"Yeh log tou ek kuttey ko ni bacha sktey tou ek insan ko kesey bachaingey!". 

      I am half embarrassed and half angry over humans of Pakistan. And more than at our people I am angry at our rulers. And that's how the death of Abdul Sattar Edhi affected me. And I was all in disgust after hearing the news of this great man's death. He was ill since a long time and i heard on TV that he had been very upset after that robbery incident that occurred about, 2 years ago if i am not wrong.

      The first two paragraphs are greatly linked to each other even if it doesn't seem so. Some might say that humans are more important but animals are not, and hence my proverb is wrong. I should have said, "Ye log tou ek insan ko ni bacha sktey tou ek kuttey ko kesey bachaingey!". 

      The time we are living through says that no one is trust worthy - but having said that - it doesn't declare that time is so bad that even the dogs should be crushed under the vehicles. Time has changed humans but it didn't change the animals. We find it easy to have a dog than to have a watchman at our house.
"Kia aj ka insan itna gir gya hai?"
      Now whoever reads this I have this above question for him/her. And would love to be helped in understanding this mystery we are watching with our eyes that some days ago appeared in the form of Amjad Sabri. And now it appeared in the form of Edhi, who had been the greatest of all the philanthropists but still lived a simple life and yet he was threatened by the political parties. And i would like to ask a question for our Media as well;  

      It was a great day when Edhi was born. But Today when that man died, all of you so actively produced the coverage of this incident that I felt confused. Is today the great day now that Edhi is not alive anymore.
      "Zamana bura nhi hai janab. Hamarey dil murda ho gaey hain."

      If we were good and yet other's weren't fair to us then at least we couldn't have the dare to see a dog die in the middle of the road after being hit with our car. But even if that was an accident we could have stopped the car and should have gotten off the car to see that innocent creature. But we didn't. I too could have said that Edhi died of a natural cause. But I didn't and you might call me a pessimist for that. But then i will call you numb and senseless. It wont be long when we will forget about all these mysteries that doesn't make a sense to me because i have read iqbal who once said:

Kabhi ae nojawan muslim tadabbur bhi kia tune     Woh kia gerun tha tou jiska hai ek tota hua tara

 Janab Sitara bhut bara hota hai. Agr uska ek chota sa tukra bhi zameen pr gir jay tou yahan ki zameen k daweydaaron ko bhi hila kr rkh dey.