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Kaal Bhayya, Shukriya aapki inaayat ka, lekin laqab denay ke itnay takkalluf ki kiya zaroorat thi?

Posted: Apr 5, 2008 Sat 02:30 pm     Views: 129    Interacts: 1

Meray Aziz Bhai,
I am NOT an Islamic Warrior - as much as I may appear to be. No, I am not a Saladin, a Khalid bin Walid, Sultan Mehmed Fatih, or even a Mohammad Qasim, Maharajah Aurangzeb, or Hrithik Roshan. Infact, I am anti-war and I consider religion to be the least meaningful and most stupid of reasons for fighting.

My belief in faith is that once you have found it, keep it to yourself, lest sharing the good fortune dilute your own supply of sanctity. Amen.

I am a firm opponent of hypocrisy, bullshit, and anything that is represented as "Shining" - especially when it stinks as well as sucks.

Also, I like to give the initiators of any evil, a healthy dose of their own evil to remind them of the pain and suffering they cause to others when they perpetrate their evil in the first place. That is my basic problem with and effective solution for Scout aka Pakihunk/Tabahi/Barbaadi/Aashee/LayGord Filthier/etc/etc and Saminasha aka Neembu/Trmntr_x/Aphrabehn/etc/etc,

Similarly, that is somewhat my issue with and solution for jingoistic, right-wing Hindutva types that pollute the environment with the language of hate-mongrel goons from BJP/RSS/VHP/BD/JS/SS/SP/MNS and other lovely manifestations of Ahinsa Dharam.

Of course, my brother, you are none of the above, simply sharing your wisdom and not your venom as you proceed through life giving meaning to breathing and fearing but not succumbing to the inevitability of death.

Just like you, I hope to attain the long-elusive spirit of Sufism. I have traveled a few times to the tomb of Mevlana Rumi in Konya about a couple of hundred miles from here. I have also visited Fatehpur Sikri and hope to get to Ajmer Sharif to benefit from the wisdom of these sufi saints.

Kaal Bhayya, practicing the dharma of bhaichaara or brotherly and sisterly love on Chowk is akin to being a brahmachaari in a busy brothel - not easy.

I look forward to more guidance from your almost-Momin philosophy. Khuda Khair or Mas Salaama (it's ok, you are almost 89% completely Muslim.)


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Posted by Salim_Chauhan on Saturday April 5, 2008 02:37 pm
Kaal Bhayya
Khuda aapko jannat-ul-firdaus men jagah faraham karey aur koi itni bhi jaldi nahin, inshallah.


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