Last year, some sessions were arranged by Iqra Society on for Purification of the hearts series. Two of its talks were on “Curing arrogance” and “Curing hatred” For this purpose, I had the task of inviting the girls to the event. One thing which I particularly noticed was that how people were simply not interested in attending curing arrogance lecture and somehow extremely interested in curing hatred. When I started analyzing why it was so, I came to the conclusion [...]
A few days back, I was waiting for IBA point in the morning. It was the exact same place I waited everyday. Everything around me was same. I was looking around me and right in front of me was a tree. It is a completely bent tree. I had known and seen the tree since I was a child. And yet, until that day I had not realized or thought upon the fact that how was the tree so bent, [...]
Photo Credit I wrote an article for Hiba Magazine which got printed last January (Jan 2010). I told my sister-in-law, Saima about it a few days back and she encouraged me to put it on my blog for everyone to read it. So here it is… I look up at the stars on the sky. I am amazed. The dark blanket of the sky which scares most of us when it is in its solitary becomes an enchanting gaze of [...]
Funny how sometimes pages and pages full of words and sentences fail to impart even a single message while sometimes a few beautifully strategically placed words can change the entire essence of a person. I have always been a big fan of learning the golden words whenever and wherever I could. It has been a beautiful journey and as I rewind my life, I can always see myself in search of this treasure consciously and unconsciously. In the school library on the wall, [...]
Oh did you just see Tania? What was she wearing today? So Out of fashion, like Oh my God! I would never even wear it while sleeping! oh that french braid doesn’t suit her at all. Looks like she is having a bad hair day.. Welcome, my friends, to your own sweet world. I am Nida Ali, your travel guide for the day and I will show you your own world a little more closely. Please fasten your seat [...]
Photo Credit Everyone of us has different version of what the definition of entertainment is. Some of us would want to play video games, some of us would want to watch a movie, some of us would want to read a good book and well the list goes on. However, a lot of stuff that we do in the name of entertainment comes under the category of haraam, for example listening to songs or watching movies that are inappropriate for [...]
“Real” is such a subjective word. What is real to you may not be real to me and vice versa. In my own life, I have been taught different meanings of what “real” is. When I was in Lyceum, my accounts teacher in my A1, before revising on the concepts of double entry told us in a jovial manner ” back in the 90′s, coke was considered to be the real thing” Just so that you know, you can view [...]
Photo credit On a tree, far far away in a forest was a nightingale. Lonely and upset, it looked hither and thither as darkness started encompassing the earth with the setting of the sun. What made it upset, one may ask. was it the loneliness or was it the darkness? Nay, it was the longing to reach home. And the diminishing light was making the task impossible. Hearing the nightingale crying, a firefly nearby went upto the nightingale and said [...]
Photo credit Imagine a world of darkness. A world where there are no greens or blues or yellows but only black. Darkest of the darkest black. Where there is no sunshine after rain and no morning after night. This is not any unrealistic world. But a world which can be visited anytime by just closing our eyes… Such is the world of a blind. A world where there is so much darkness that he cannot even see his own [...]
