Mohammad Yousuf: A tribute

Please consider the FACT that author lives in Karachi, a city, which went through
an extra-ordinary voilent phase for two , decades, obviously it has dis-oriented a lot from that city.


...they will come back to their senses, ........in say........ another decade, provided things remained calm.

Despite the temptation to rip into the author like a hungry vulture rips into carrion, all I will say is that the Muslim world needs more role models like Mohammed Yousuf. If converting to Islam has given him the mental strength he lacked earlier, then good for him. If his family indeed made his life hell for converting, then a plague be upon them.

He is a brilliant batsman, one the entire subcontinent can be proud of, and comes across as very good human being. More power to him.

``even if it means eating bhindi ``(hamidm)

why? -- do you have something against the hairy lady`s finger? -- or lady`s hairy fingers?

It is shere non-sense. Cricket is no longer a sport but a profession so downgraded that it is fit now only for `Chooras` (sweepers) and `kanjars`. In fact, in the sub-continent, when a chora (Shoodar) converted or more aptly, reverted to Islam, he is called a Musalli and not a Muslim. Yousaf Yuhanna has proved that he has `reverted` from a Masih to a Musalli by chnging his name given to him by his parents as none of the greatest of the Muslims like Hazrat Farooq change their names on accepting Islam.

It appears not only the game of cricket the entire Paky nation has been `musallized`. Look at Mush who paid Rs.50 lacs to that Musalli for making so much runs in cricket like a Mughal king squandering public money at his sweet will despite his long immoderate unkempt beard. It is perhaps the very camouflage provided by his long beard that has added to his run count. Or he may have contrived it by fixation which is not uncommon nowadays in cricket when you can win such a big reward by which you can purchase the whole team.

Ricky Ponting for 2005/06
Matches:12 Runs:1483 Avg:78.05 100s:8 50s:6 (not including the 196 at perth)

I heard he reverted to a more attacking style since the last couple of years.

#7 by xcom_cheetah on December 4, 2006 7:43am PT
Very well summed up thing... although i see most of the people here have bashed you but the number of evil will always surpass by the number of righteous...

X comm you are so true..... the Muslim Population is increasing world wide. (i.e the number of evil)

Insularity is the curse of the human race. I have never ever heard a person from any other nation or religion crowing about the greatness of his religion or community as unabashadly as Pakistanis.

People whose thoughts are bound in ideas like `punjabi`, muslim-non-muslim aren`t Muslim. Why o why do Pakistanis take so much pride in being `Muslim` and knowing the `true way to live?.` Verily that makes them non-muslim, because doesn`t Allah punish takabbur?`.
Anyway, a little bit of prophetizing, since that sells so much in the Land of the Pure. Of course the prophet of Islam has a monoply, but here`s hoping for some affirmative action.

As for spirituality, it has gone the way of the dodos, instead arrogance, materialism and hypocricy have taken root. And yet the people call themselves Muslims.

S

This article actually IS all over the place...
but still.... i agree with most of the things u said and put in a less dramatized/romanticized way these things are quite true...
the article itself might not be worthy of a lot of praise but the thoughts definitely are...
overall a very good piece

and yes further to #15, the award of most efficient editing goes to chowk editors.

And the award of bigotry goes to the author for using the word reversion instead of conversion.

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why did he change his name? is yohana not islamic enough?

I somehow agree with #10 below. The records made earlier were tougher to get because not that much of cricket was played back then as it is played now. Also, there was no such thing as `ball tempering` and all the speedsters used to do it. Yousaf while very good, is not the calibre of Viv Richards who was quite effortlessly a batting giant.

leaving aside M.Y.`s religious views, he did achieve something great in this cricketing age. Even batsmen like Ponting, Matthew Hayden, Lara or Dravid have not been able to achieve something like this.

But I still consider the Great Viv Richards` record as more significant because his runs were scored against greater bowlers like Lillee, Hadlee, Imran Khan, Thomson etc and in an age where the pitches actually offered something to the bowlers unlike the dust bowls of today. Even home matches for Richards would not have been batsmen friendly on account of the great bowlers in his team. M.Y. scored majority of his runs on Pakistani pitches where even someone like M.S. Dhoni made a huge score.

M.Y.`s is an achievement which however should still be kept in perspective.

just when you thought it was not possible to sink any lower, chowk has hit a new low !

............ this is the kind of garbage that makes me want to `revert` to the religion of grandpa gopinath even if it means eating bhindi and running around in a loin cloth for the rest of my life .............

chowk staff, wake up !