The tone in which he recites istirja is something I have never seen in my life. For us it’s always solemn and depressing, but Israel has changed how Palestinians conceptualize death after 75 years of atrocities, apartheid, and war crimes
Pakistan was created to safeguard the rights of a minority group by turning it into a majority so it can act like every other majority in history towards its minorities
Why is my cousin’s 12 year old daughter’s insta bio “fuck off” and why is her selfie captioned “but strawberries and cigarettes always taste like you” buffer zone main ho kya raha hai Karachi waalo
everything about karbala shocks the conscience, but what truly leaves one at a loss for words is what the muslims did with imam hussain’s body after killing him. the hatred is absurd
My parents buy shot glasses for niyaz ka sharbat/paani and when my sister and I roasted them for it, their response was, "har cheez ki apni qismat hoti hai aur hum ne in ki qismat badal di"
the dumbest thing that ever happened to me at a majlis: a maulana once recited an anees couplet so i pulled my phone out to jot it down. the maulana then stopped and said, "beta tum message bhej lo phir main bolta hoon."
Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s epic web series Heera Mandi on Netflix is set against the Indian independence/British Raj in Lahore of the 1920s-1940s. Fareedan (Sonakshi Sinha) is supposedly reading an Urdu newspaper (EP5). Headlines say, “Warangal Municipal Elections: TRS Distributes
Do all desi dads state the obvious as their first statement or is that just my dad? Like I’ll pick up the phone in the morning and he’ll ask “uth gaye tum?” I’ll come out of the shower and he’ll ask “naha liye tum?” Lmaooo
Dwarka Darshan under the waters...where the spiritual and the historical converge, where every moment was a divine melody echoing Bhagwan Shri Krishna's eternal presence.
"Majlis"
"The Lamb"
My piece from the beginning of the ten days of Muharram and my piece for the end of it
(I still have one more coming which will be uploaded late)
My best friend got me this book as a graduation gift. It contains tweets from the first half of this year and because of it, every major event and memory of my last semester at UIC is captured in it. Ahl e Bombay are creative af 😍
Our master Ali b. Abi Talib being surrounded by weeping geese on the morning of his assassination is perhaps the most powerful image in early Islamic history
why can't we use this opportunity to discuss how indian food in the west is really just an array of 10 dishes native to and concocted from UP and Punjab
Marx (1867): An accumulation of wealth at one pole of society indicates an accumulation of misery and overwork at the other.
Mir (1775): Na mil Mir ab ke ameeron se tu
Hue hain faqeer un ki daulat se hum
Actually, brother, this is Coca Cola’s praise of the Holy Prophet in defeating Quraysh... It is to be interpreted as “without Muhammad, there would be no Makkah.” This is a beautiful tribute...
The goons of TLP in Lahore started accusing a lady of blasphemy over her outfit, alleging that Quranic verses are written on it. In reality, the clothing brand is Kuwaiti-based, and the text is just Arabic, having nothing to do with Quranic verses.
While most associate
#Biryani
with a rice dish from north
#India
/
#Pakistan
. The real Biryani actually has no rice at all & only contains minced meat, sheep lungs & tail fat.
Biryani, literally “to roast/ fry” in
#Persian
is the speciality of
#Isfahan
The Qur’an says plainly that daytime fasting during Ramadan ends at “Dark” not at sunset. “Dark” is a good match for the end of twilight. This time of year: up to 15 mins later in equatorial latitudes. 30 mins at middle latitudes. And 45 mins at higher latitudes. I’m just saying.
I’ve waited my entire life to do Muharram in Karachi and now that I can there’s a pandemic, Zameer Akhtar is dead, and mullas are whitewashing the Taliban in Ancholi