In memory of my best friend..

Having a Best Friend..
A story tells that two friends were walking through the desert. During some point of the journey they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other one in the face.
The one who got slapped was hurt, but without saying anything, wrote in the sand “Today my best friend slapped me in the face”.
They kept on walking until they found an oasis, where they decided to take a bath. The one who had been slapped got stuck in the mire and started drowning, but the friend saved him. After he recovered from the near drowning, he wrote on a stone “Today my best friend saved my life”.
The friend who had slapped and saved his best friend asked him, “After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and now, you write on a stone, why?”
The other friend replied “When someone hurts us we should write it down in sand where winds of forgiveness can erase it away. But, when someone does something good for us, we must engrave it in stone where no wind can ever erase it.”
Do not value the things you have in your life. But value who you have in your life.

Faith ..

Size of God..
A boy asks his father "what's size of God?"
The father looks up at the sky and seeing an airplane, and ask the son:" what's the size of that airplane?"
The boy says:"it's very small.
I can barely see it."
So the father takes him to the airport and as they approach an airplane, he ask:"and now,what's size of this one?"
The boy answers: " wow daddy, this is huge!"
Then  the father tells the boy:" it's the same with God.His size depends on how distant you are from him..the closer you are to Him,the greater He will be in your life. "
Seher Nazir..

Warning!!

Warning!!
Sleepless with climate change..
Global warming by human emissions of greenhouse gases is having clear effects in the physical world: heat waves, heavier rainstorms, higher sea levels, to cite a few. Now, social scientists are wrestling with a murkier question:Wat will climate change mean for human welfare??
Forecasts in this realm are tricky and based on assumptions. Scientists predict effects as varied as a greater spread of tropical diseases, fewer deaths from cold but more from hot weather, and even bumpier rides on airplanes..
There is now a prediction that in a hotter world,people will get less sleep..
In a paper published in Science Advances,Nick Obradovich,a political scientist, together with colleagues predicted more restless nights in summer, as global temperatures rise for the poor who are likely to have air-conditioning as well as the elderly, who have difficultly regulating body temperature.
By 2050, for  every 100 americans,an extra six nights of sleeplessness can be expected every month.
Think about hotter nations.. And environment..
What is  stored in future ..??

Be tolerant.. And spread compassion..

Let us  apart from negatives..find the positives..
Notice good things. For every act in the world, hundreds of positive activities go unnoticed and undiscussed. All religions teach patience and tolerance.. When we call something' intolerant',is it because we're intolerant?? Tolerance is one of the highest spiritual qualities.
When we speak of intolerance, we speak with scared  based,self-protection and security-based consciousness.We often speak for ourselves, discard others who are follow beings in our nation. We seek our own safety,ignoring those who cannot escape and forced to stay back..we separate ourselves from our brothers and sisters and think only of ourselves.
Once we get into a  fear-based consciousness, there is no limit to what our mind can tell us to fear- weather, political, climate, terrorism, war,bad health and death,an endless list.
While it is not wrong to seek self- protection and safety, one must realize that in this existence and universe, there is no absolute security and safety.
There is no physical security in the world, there is only psychological safety .
As humans ,we are geared for survival, hence every small threat worries us.The ego in us fears annihilation, and seeks to protect itself, by escaping or fighting, using the classical fight- or- fight reaction. But this only increases our anxiety levels.
We must go back to the values taught by all religions- to love, tolerance and brotherhood.
Ask if there is any place safer here. Are we  guaranteed that no harm will befall us if we shift out of our city or nation!? Unfortunately, the answer is big ' No'.We cannot understand life fully, nor escape our fate.The  way to peace and happiness is to focus on positives and work to improve the negatives .
Do your duty and leave rest to Almighty. Become tolerant and show gratitude for what we have and what will be rewarded.

Islam.. Way of life..

In wake of recent terrorist attacks in Kabul and Manchester, UK-in which both suicidal technology is used by terrorist activities is very terrible. In Manchester, where a suicide bomber blew himself up as thousands of fans were going back from Ariana Grande's pop concert, killing around 22 people and injuring 59,the question arises again: Is Islam violent? Islam- violent or peaceful?? The suicide attack carried out in Manchester on 22 May, 2017was ostensibly done in name of Islam ,but in reality it was a satanic act. The methodology of Islam is based entirely on peace, not on violence. A student of Islam must know that the study of Islam is not like the study of a branch of science,eg.chemistry is a discipline which has to be studied in the light of a single framework based on the laws of nature. That is why students of chemistry, when doing an experiment,will always obtain same conclusions. In chemistry, it is not possible for one researcher to conclude that this branch of science is a peaceful subject and another researchers did not conclude it is a violent subject. Islam is different in this regard, no comparisons. A Islamic students are always faced with two different models- Islam and the Muslim community. A student has to study Islam in the light of these two models.Without following the principle of differentiation between these two,one cannot properly understand Islam. Islam, as a principle,in the name of an ideology.The source of this ideology is a revealed book,that is the Quran.It is this revealed holy book that decide what is Islam is and what Islam is not .Another aspect before a student of Islam is the followers of Islam. Although Muslims have accepted the religion of Islam, they are at the same time, part of a society that shapes their thinking. But, Muslim community is a relative part, not a real part of Islam. That is, the social aspects of the Muslims will judged on the Quranic principles. If they adhere to these principles, then their activities will be in accordance with Islam, otherwise not. There are many phenomena which have come to characterise the Muslim world due to the' age factor',although they're not ideologically justified in Islam. One of these phenomena is violence.In the social sense;Muslims were part of tribal society and were naturally influenced by it. For example, when a tribal community attacked them, they had to defend themselves. But this fighting was a result of prevailing times and not part of Islamic teachings. A student must differentiate between the ideology of Islam on the hand and the history of Islam on the other.The ideology is the real part of Islam, while the socio- cultural history of Muslims is not entirely a part of Islam.For instance, in the early period of Islam, battles in which Muslims engaged in with the Byzantine and Sassanid empires are part of history of Islam and not part of the ideology of Islam. A student of Islam must differentiate between these two aspects, otherwise he/she may not be able to have a correct picture of Islam. There are certain verses in the holy Quran which give the command for war. This injunction is not meant to be taken as a general principle,but appears in the holy Quran as a justification for engaging in self-defense.These verses are applicable only when there is an external threats, in the absence of such threats, these verses would be inapplicable . Islam-' religion of peace'.