Smile Forever!
You are to smile forever
Like a fresh pink flower
When dew torches its soft petals
Fresh, smiling it get settles
Like ripples on charming streams
Like the tender orange sunbeams
Joys to shine your gorgeous eyes
Like stars twinkling in skies
Live like a chirping bird full of delight
That sings its full heart in moonlight
You know not how precious you are!
Not like a diamond, sapphire or a star
But hope, love and immortal pleasure
A blessing God made my treasure
Jawad Iqbal Jawad
According to the medieval concept of knighthood the person who goes on the expedition to safeguard the truth and remains firm on the right path is knight. He is brave, chivalric, respecting and regardful for others.
Latter on the people making reparable achievements for some noble cause were knighted by the British governments. There has been no discrimination of country or creed or religion. Many people from India, Muslims and Hindus were knighted and have been called ' Sir'
Michael Hot writes the name of Prophet Muhammad ( PBUH ) on the top of hundred great men. He has given his objective and just opinion through considering the Holy Prophet the greatest person ever born in the world.
Muhammad ( PBUH ) has been considered the greatest law giver by British.
Then comes a sudden change in this country. The people who consider themselves very civilized, cultured and moderate give refuge to a person who commits blasphemy against the Holy Muhammad ( PBUH ). Their claims about respecting human rights and regarding the feelings and beliefs of human beings faded away as the beautiful rainbow vanishes from the blue sky when they knighted that hellish Rushdi.
It is fact that British who are men of intellect and reason are not in the favour of this decision, but the total image of Britain has been spoiled in Muslim communities.
The gulf between nations and religions is being widened. There is a great hatred in Muslims for the west because it is a common opinion or though among them that the west is attacking on their religion. Besides Iraq and Afghan wars blasphemous sketches in Norway and, now, this decision of giving the title of sir to hellish Rushdi is enough to ignite the hatred and anger in the Muslims.
The question is why this devil has been knighted by Britain government?. Has he done some remarkable thing in the service of mankind?
Is he a great and worth remembering scholar?
Can a person who disregards the sentiments, feelings and beliefs of a large number of people for nothing be a hero ?
Can he be considered a chivalric knight?
No, nothing.
All he has done is hellish and devilish thing.
The British who regards the sentiments and comfort of animals ignore the sentiments and beliefs of more than one billion of the people of the world.
Our Holy Muhammad ( PBUH ) is an ideal and hero among the non- Muslims. But the devil who writes against him is knighted by the British government. Those who back up a devil, give refuge to him and encourage him for his hellish deeds know well the definition of themselves.
We know that the good natured British are not in the favour of this decision , but they should protest strongly against this unfair and unjust act of honoring a devil. British government is on Devil's party because they are not ready to reverse their decision and seek pardon of Muslim world.
The whole world, especially the west is crying against the suicide bombing by the Muslim militants . They have the agenda to fight and eradicate the terrorism. But they are showing their negligence to the roots and causes of all this which is terrorism in their opinion. They are igniting the flames of hatred and annoyance in the Muslim world.
The Muslims must through the titles of 'sir' to the face of British government demonstrate strong protest against this decision. There is an important thing to be kept in mind that this decision has been made by the British government and not by the Christianity. So the protest should be against the British government.
Jawad Iqbal Jawad
The way is smooth and plan
Then what is there hitting my feet
Blue horizon with shining star in her lap
Smiles to me ,but what is there with my heart
Getting indifferent to her
That is far off but mine
A sense of dejection
Deserts the flame
Of love and effort
My love deception ?
My feelings fake?
No I love her
I push back the earth to meet her
Nothing is there to stop me
The star in her lap is mine
Jawad Iqbal Jawad
' Theatre is the mirror of the society' , says Dr. Johnson. Theatre was the only media of that age. With the passage of time the form of media changed, but its function and purpose remained the same. This purpose and function is to educate the people with providing recreation to them. Electronic media, especially television plays a very affective role of influencing the way of thinking and manners of a nation. Usually it is considered and is true as well that PTV is watched by the majority of our people because of its wide coverage and traditional way of performance. People learn many things from PTV. An anchor person or a compere of TV is watched and copied by the viewers and listeners. His way of talking and performance influences the people.
PTV has produced exemplary figures in the realm of compering like Tariq Aziz, Naeem Bukhari, Moeen Akhtar and Mustansar Hussaain Tarar. These anchor persons taught the viewers how to speak and express themselves. Their brightened performance comes out of their knowledge and their learning. They have a recognized literary importance. Mustansar Hussain Tarar has not only been the Chacha in morning transmission, but he is also a novelist and travelogue writer. In our childhood we would wait for Chacha Mustansar on our TV in the morning. Apart from him there were also people whom we try to copy in conversation and way of expression.
But unfortunately, now there is an enormous decay in the field of compering. The people who are coming as comperes and anchor persons in many programmes of PTV are not eligible for this job of responsibility and seriousness. They do not even know how to speak. Their performance remains shallow because of lack of knowledge and learning. The most intolerable thing happened in this regard is Anglicization of Urdu. They speak a very strange language which is acceptable and comprehensible for a minority of the people. In other words they are destroying our own national language. Apart from this debate there is no seriousness in their attitude. Their questions and conversation to the guests are not apt, but childish and sometimes silly.
Especially the programmes broadcast during Ramazan Mubarak were pitiable as far as comperes were concerned. There was only Shamoon Hashmi who performed aptly and accordingly. In one programme Khursheed Ahmed, a renowned Naat performer, was invited. The compere was constantly calling Qari Sahib. He corrected her that he is not a qari because it is a different and vast field that needs special attention and devotion. But she said that she called Naat performers qari sahib . At the end of the programme, Kursheed Ahmed Sahib performed a Naat Sharif. He read the Maqtah in which the name of the poet is mentioned. The compere asked a funny rather a silly question,
' Qauri Sahib yeh Naat ap nay likhi hay?'
That Naat was also very popular,
'Yeh sab tumhara karam hay aaqa keh baa tab tak bani owi hay..'
This shows the knowledge and observation of our new and young comperes.
We request the responsible authorities of PTV to reform all this and to present learned comperes and real presenters on the screen of our TV. We want to see the revival of the golden era of PTV and it is not difficult. There must be merit for the selection of comperes and nacre persons. There are well literate and well learned young lot who can revive the tradition of actual compering. They will be able to educate the young generations how to think and how to speak.
By
Jawad Iqbal Jawad
His Holiness Pope Benedict declares that Islam was spread through the power of sword and he finds Muslims terrorists and this philosophy of Jihad has been presented by the Prophet of Islam, Muhammad ( PBUH). I want to bring some historical facts before illumined Pope. Our Holy Prophet ( PBUH) has taught us tolerance and the lesson of brotherhood. Especially with the Christians the followers of Muhammad (PBUH) have been very friendly and regarding.
Your Holiness! Those were the days when Muslims were under the extreme suppression of the unbelievers of Mecca and the Persians defeated the Romans who were Christians . The Muslims were grieved at the defeat of their Christian brethren. Allah Almighty sent good news of the victory of Romans in the Holy Quran and Muslims were very glad at that news, through the unbelievers who were their relatives made fun of them. After Hijrah when Romans defeated the Persians this was a matter of joy and relief for the Muslims. Your Holiness! Our Prophet ( PBUH ) taught us to be friendly with the Christians. Our religion tells us that the Christians may have soft corner for us among the peoples of the whole world.
Your Holiness! When the staunch fellow of the Holy Prophet ( PBUH ) and the second Caliph of Islam, Umer ( May God be pleased with him ) conquered Palestine and Aqsa Mosque there was no blood shed and no casualty there and the enlightened and illumined Christians delivered the keys of Aqsa to the Muslims and embraced Islam. His Holiness! This is the way Islam spreads and the pious hearts accept the holy light of Islam.
His Holiness! Our Allah says in the Holy Quran,
' There is no compulsion in religion. '
(Al Baqra )
We take arms against those who spoils the peace and make mischief on the earth and we know that Allah does not love the transgressors. Muslims and Christians can be on friendly terms in the world as they have been united in Lebanon against Israelites and why are you spoiling and destroying these friendly relations by your harsh remarks against the Prophet of Islam and philosophy of Jihad?
Your Holiness! You only defend and clarify your point of views but do not seek apology from the grieved Muslims of the world. The Muslims cannot tolerate any impertinence against their Prophet ( PBUH ) Seeing any thing against the Holy Prophet is to enkindle the fury of his followers. Holy sir, you are the follower of Holy Christ who taught tolerance, patience and love for humanity and you are hurting billions of Muslims. You consider it against your prestige and honor to seek apology. You are not ready to return your words which were full of poison. Pope John Paul started a very appreciable and positive movement to create friendly relations between Muslims and Christians but you are spoiling his efforts.
Your Holiness we remind you the lesson of tolerance, humility and patience preached by the Holy Christ.
By
Jawad Iqbal Jawad
The firmament of Islamic history is lighted with many a bright stars who have given us the light of guidance. They, by their excellent and exemplary character and personality, have taught us how to lead a life full of love and harmony.
They suffered from hardships and turmoil but remained firm and on the right path shown by our Holy Prophet Sirat-Mustaqeem'. But inspire of all these painful conditions they did not leave the policy of patience and love for their brethren.
Imam Abu Hanifa and Imam Ahmed Bin Hanbal ( May God be Merciful with them ) have shown a very good example of patience and firm resolution for the righteousness. Both of them were put into prison and were badly tortured. Hazrat Imam Ahmed Bin Hambal was flogged to death because of his firm belief in the actual spirit and concept of the Holy Quran.
That great scholar remained unshakable even when he was tied with the legs of an elephant and flogged daily. When he was near to meet his Lord he was asked about the people responsible for his tragic end he said that they are not aware of actual thing and that's all. Ultimately his funeral came out of the prison and he became a living legend of patience and tolerance.
He was against the sect' Mutazillah' According to that sect Quran was the creature of God and not His word. Every creature of God is bound to die or to be demolished. It meant that Quran would be worn out with the passage of time an that belief negated the Quranic statement ' Indeed we revealed this book and we are to protect it.
Abbasids were in the favor of that sect and their belief. The true Islamic scholars stood against that wrong concept. The leading personality of that age was Imam Ahmed Bin Hanbal and he was put behind the bar and was tortured brutally.
Those people were not ordinary, but had a great fame and reputation among their contemporary society. They were Imams and were followed by the people. They remained firm but did not revolt against the government. They know that their rulers are not fair or not on the right path.
But they did not adopt the way of violence and revolt. They show the people what is right and what I wrong. But they did not arouse hated and revolt among the masses. They showed the difference rather discrepancy between the right and the wrong.
They could arouse people against the rulers and he government. Bu they knew that such revolts and rebellions cause the massacre and the bloodshed. They did not want to cause the murders of innocent people.
The message they gave through their firm belief devotion and patience became a movement and an undfeatable power. They defeated the wrong through their sacrifice. Shekh Ahmed Bin Hanbal, Abu Hanifa and their follwers who suffered from brutality are alive and living legends and their opponents are no more worth mentioning.
If you feel that our rulers are not on the right path it does not mean that you should revolt against them, violate the laws and regulations.
If you are true and on the right path you must be firm on our beliefs and can spread the word of truth and righteousness but are not to break the laws and regulations or to arouse rebellions among the people causing hatred and extremism which is resulted in nothingness except destruction and bloodshed.
If you are a religious leader you are supposed to be more responsible to serve the truth and the true spirit of Islam.
The Protection of truth and Islam is with Allah Almighty. We are supposed to serve all this for our own benefit. Our actual benefit is there in Allah's will. Since you are a religious scholar you are the follower of the illumined souls like Imam Amed Bin Hnbal, Imam Abu Hinifa and their companions.
We have to be one in spreading the tue message of Islam; love, peace, patience and tolerance for all humanity and projecting the actual image of Islam before the rest of the world. We are bound to follow the people whom we consider our guide, our Imams and our light.
Jawad Iqbal Jawad
Something Strange
What is there in my heart
I don't know
Something teasing
As a child of six months
Whom you cannot scold
He wants something
And you don't know
You listen to his weeping
Whether you like it or not
You try to comfort him
But it is unfruitful
There is uneasiness around me
Or may be it is within myself
Something chilly something icy
How can I express it
How can I name it
It is riddle unsolved
Something strange
Something teasing
Jawad Iqbal Jawad
Where Are Tears
Thousands of them
Gazing the starry sky
The eyes are full of horror
Hearts are teaming with sorrow
They are silent
Not weeping or mourning
On the deaths of their loved ones
They are silent
Hungry , wounded
Under the cold black roof
Stars are shining
But the light is not enough
To brighten the Hope
They are silent
Not crying , not weeping
Where are tears
That lighten the heart
That lessen the sorrow
The stony eyes
Without tears
Two Stanzas
Jawad Iqbal Jawad
Beauty Lives Here
Hills, Valleys, Brooks , Meadows
Where nature springs beauty
Where pines sing murmuring songs
The birds keep abreast the duty
The sky adores the snowy Mountains
The moon comes to kiss the lakes
The songs, the colors ,, the blooms , the fumes
The land Flora her dwelling makes
Jawad Iqbal Jawad
Something Within
Difficult to define
But easy to refine
The passion of heart
The reflection of thought
The words to express
The words o confess
But frozen like snow
How I melt them
Make tem a river
What though tears
Wet my nights
Like dew drops do
A flow of from heart
A flow of thought
One being loved loves
One being hated hates
Bowl of honey gives you honey
A thorny glade spoils silky clocks
Jawad Iqbal Jawad
Melted Heart
To swallow the melted heart
What you say?
Possible!
So difficult and so torturing
Blood sweet for me?
No I am a human made of flesh and blood
How can I do it
I am not to drink
My own Heart Melted
With sorrow and melancholy
It flows from eyes
And stirs my poor Soul
Perhaps purifying it
But I am not
To be desperate
I own His fellowship
Immortal and everlasting
Jawad Iqbal Jawad
What We Have
Beyond the world of Words
Like the Chirping Birds
Making the music o reality
Ambition filled with sanity
Energy for Arch action
To satisfy the Ambition
Love for making the tremendous
Forming the worth peerless
Here's devotion with its essence
That lights up the lamp of excellence
What we think is miraculous
Jawad Iqbal Jawad
Let me say a word to show
The spark lightening in my heart
Incense, a hymn or a lightening bow
Holy love that has my soul caught
…………………………….
It leads me through darkling nights
When moon goes below the sky
And whispering silence scorns and bites
When burning sorrows want to cry
………………………………………
This is the love you adore to me
To raise my hopes and yearnings high
Let me say a word to thee
Chirping like a lark in sky
…………………………………………
Smiles, sniffles, and sighs of thine
With all their dusky tones are mine
Jawad Iqbal Jawad
Destiny of Our Heroes
History is the biography of great people who sacrifice their comfort rather than their self for their cause and mission and it is the duty of other people to pay honour and homage to them for their great work. Great nations keep their heroes and their message alive forever. History of Islam is brightened and lightened by many such great people. But unfortunately the maltreatment and in some cases brutal acts with great people is also present in our history.
The land of Indus weeps blood when it sees the brutality being destined to its savior and Andataa Hazrat Muhammad Bin Qasim on Arabian sands. The greatness and bravery of that pious young man is ignored and he is dropped into the fire of some old revenge which has been there in Arab blood for centuries. The conqueror of Spain Moosa Bin Nusair is put behind the bars in his old age because of the same reason. Khalifa Salaman does not like him and puts him in prison. In his old age he was received by Salman the head of his brave and pious son Abdul Aziz and pious Aziz would spend the night praying and during the day fighting in the name of Allah. . But the pious man was killed for nothing.
In the same way Imam Ahmed Bin Hambal was brutalized resulting in his tragic death. Imam Abu Hanifa was imprisoned and tortured. Yes! They were our heroes who were humiliated and brutalized for their glory and dignity. They serve Islam and followers of Islam but they were given punishment instead of paying them gratitude.
On the other hand the people against whom our heroes defend us confer the real honour to their heroes. They can crown them and make them sit on the royal chair.
It is a very strange thing that we do not want to see our heroes dying and it is expressed through our dastans and our films as well. A Punjabi film hero gets hundreds of bullets in his breast but survives and kills all of his enemies who may be in hundreds. But in the real world we care neither for honour nor their lives. We crush them as if they were our enemies or the agents of enemies. Our protectors, our benefactors and our saviours are brutalized and tortured instead of being honoured and regarded.
When we see the heroes of our films we want to be heroes because we see that ultimately we will achieve our longings and purposes as heroes. Death and torturing hands cannot touch us. But when we see the ultimate destiny of our real heroes we have to give up the idea of being heroes like Hazrat Muhammad Bin Qasim, Tariq Bin Ziad and and Moosa Bin Nusair. We become afraid of mental and physical torture. We fear to be imprisoned in our homes where we may be caught by blood cancer. We are afraid of being accused as culprits and traitors instead of being honoured as national heroes. We fear the separation from our friends, our relatives and our loved ones.
But heroes never die. They live in the hearts of people. If we want to have great and shining people in our society we will have to give honor and homage to them. Otherwise Allah Almighty may deprive us of the illumination and real leadership.
By
Jawad
Little Lamb! Who Killed Thee ?
If the mystic poet William Blake were living in the present age he would definitely write
Little Lamb !Who killed thee'
Little Lamb !Who killed thee'
Little Lamb I ll' tell thee
Little Lamb I ll' tell thee
The one who defies God
The one who is brute
The one who is coward
Palestinians and Lebanese are being brutalized by the powerful cowards devoid of humanity and principle. They have power of weapons an media to target the innocence. The story of little lamb killed and swallowed by the cruel wolf rightly symbolize the people being killed in Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine and the most recently in Lebanon. A little innocence goes on a stream for drinking water and is overcome by a cruel wolf. The wolf blames the lamb for abusing him the last year. The lamb tells him that he is only three months old. The wolf says that the impertinent lamb would be his father who was killed for his impertinence. Innocent lamb again explains that his father was sacrificed on Eid-ul-Azha. On this point the wolf attacks the lamb and killed because he has to do this out of his instinct.
Afghanistan was punished for Alqaida, Iraq for Suddaam Hussain and now Lebanon is being targeted for Hezbollah . Being the super power of the world USA consider it her duty to establish democracy in all over the world. Afghanistan and Iraq are bestowed with this blessing and the democratic governments in these two countries are right powers according to American point of view. America wanted to see democracy in Palestine in the result of fair election. According to an estimate USA spent about twenty billion dollars to keep away Hammas from governing Palestine. But opposite to all expectations of her Hammas came into power and it was considered necessary to punish Hammas for this insolence of being elected by the majority of Palestinians. First it is demanded by America that there should be a democratic government in Palestine and then justly and fairly elected government does not qualifies the American standards. It means that in all respects Palestinians are to be punished because they are lambs. Besides this Hezbollah is also enemy of Israel because they show resistance against Israel when she victimizes armless innocent Palestinians. This is the peak of bravery demonstrated by Israelites that against armless and homeless men, women and children they use tanks and rockets. On the other hand the people throwing stones on these tanks are culprits, enemies of peace process and terrorists.
America considers it the right of Israel to crush Hezbollah to make her defense solid and invincible, though innocent people lose their lives and their homes. More over America has offered more weapons to Israel. Israeli children write messages on the rockets and missiles fired on Lebanon. They don't know the miseries of the children effected by these devilish gifts. The whole world remains silent as snow lying on sky touching mountains which forget weeping lest the wolves go away in streams coming from those mountains. According to official reports amore than seven hundred people including two third of the total number have lost their lives during the recent attacks. UN and other human rights organizations seem dead bodies doing nothing for the sorrowed humanity. Only a few protests and rallies are observed to show solidarity with the victims of violence. Tears and blood spoil the sprinkling smiles but no one goes ahead to stop this transgression. Actually this war is between innocence and brutality or between wolf and lamb. If the lamb were strong enough to defend himself against the cruelty and brutality the brute and offensive wolf would not attack him. William Blake would write beautiful and melodious songs when there was no brutality and barbarism around him. He would think about the creation of God Almighty. He would see the existence of Holy Spirit in creatures and creation. If he saw these extreme atrocities against the crown of creation because of innocence he would definitely sigh out the question'
Little Lamb !Who killed thee'
Jawad Iqbal Jawad
