Misery Loves Company Oº°‘¨ Advice of the Millenium ¨‘°ºO
Shahid Afreedi Noo Chaeeda Ay Paani Day Waqfay`ch Toliya Saabun Pharraaya Keray!

Misery Loves Company
Yes, NHK, thats what it means. Its used traditionally in cricket in Punjab for a kid who is number 11 for both the teams, and fields for both the teams too. But the general meaning is someone who belongs to neither side.
Rozaiba, Imran was telling the difference between an all rounder and an Afridi. An all rounder excells at either batting or bowling, and is then good at the other field as a bonus. Shahid Afridi excells at niether of the two, hence Railoo Kataa :) When he doesnt bat, we play him as a spinner, then we realize he isn`t a good bowler, then we try him as a batsman again!
I personally think they put him in the team for two reasons:
1- pepsi
2- glamour

The Tyson Who Didn\'t Fight Lewis
Dear SaimaShah,

The only reason we don`t see a bunch of women protesting against Jamaat-e-Islaami in Pakistan is that they can`t or don`t want to imagine it. They`re scared of someone punching them and running away. The drawing room is safer!

Dear Aliya!


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``This is the most interesting thing that I`ve read in a while.``
- #47 by maria526

The Tyson Who Didn\'t Fight Lewis

Sometimes I think Peace is a little girl whose hair is curly.

Misery Loves Company

Imran Khan has come up with an excellent name for Shahid Afridi:

RAILOO KATAA

Dear Aliya!


Dear Saminasha,
Whatever!



Dear Godot,
lol sharam kerain! Doosron ko bhains naee khetay! :P

Dear Aliya!
Dear Saminasha,


``no one can have ever the access to the shade under which a thing is created...``
- #31 by koi-kon

``.... I think Saminasha is directly under that shade...``
- #36 by PaagalInsaan




Translating to English:

- A lot of people mis-percepted this article and koi-kon thought this proves that a reader can not completely understand the idea of the writer behind a piece of literature. I disagreed to him, and as an example, pointed out to him that Saminasha`s perception is very close to perfection.


Moral of the Story: Aqal Barri Ke Bhains?

Dear Aliya!
Dear freethinker,
I have not sought permission from Aliya for the `rights of publication` of her letters yet :) Obviously after a while she thought I was a retard and left me.


Dear koi-kon,
I think its about being on a particular wavelength.... I think Saminasha is directly under that shade. It is however the mediocrity of my ability to express my feelings that confuses the reader.


Dear Bhitai,
The Sufi (and Koranic) metaphor of comparing a believer with Maryam, is just a symbolic narration of the rise of a human soul to the state of Salvation (Nafs-e-Mutmainna). This procreation is only as confusingly superior to physical procreation, as is the love of God to the love of Aliya! :)


Dear Rozaiba,
The `bakvaas` about spirit, soul, heart and the metaphor of love is only another way of saying ``search and struggle are themselves manifestations of love.``

The New Jews

Humanity is our mother, and since it gave birth to us, it has lost its ability to reproduce. Its weak, sick, hungry, in rags, looking for `humans` among `nations`.

Let us be Humans, let the whole world be our homeland.

Dear Aliya!






°o.O My Own Analysis O.o°

The two letters in the compilation were written in totally different contexts. My intention here was not to establish an analogy between God and the Beloved, but to unify the different manifestations of the feeling of `Love` and to highlight the intriguing confusion of the `subconcious logic` in its decision on how to react to the inborn feeling of love, in the contemporary third world society.

`` is it the uncertainity or the fear-of-commitment ``
- #13 by koi-kon





°o.O Profound ? O.o°

As an artist, compliance with sanity has never been a major concern for me. There are times in my life when I listen to and express the pure subconcious. These are two letters that I wrote to my beloved, without the slightest intention of getting them published. Being at that level of intimacy, your major concern is to express, and not the psychological analysis of your feelings. Philosophy and religion are not your concerns either. I did not `attempt to sound profound` (Re: Bhitai) because I have no philosophy to follow.




°o.O The Metaphor of Love O.o°

God created Souls seven thousand years before the Bodies, and kept them in a station of Proximity. He created the Spirits seven thousand years before the Souls, and kept them in the degree of Intimacy. He created the Hearts seven thousand years before the Spirits, and kept them in the degree of Union. He revealed the epiphany of his beauty to the Heart, three hundred and sixty times every day, and bestowed on it, three hundred and sixty looks of grace. He caused the Spirits to hear three hundred and sixty words of love and manifested three hundred and sixty exquisite favours of intimacy to the Soul. They all surveyed the phenomenol universe and saw nothing more precious than themselves. This made them full of vanity and pride. Therefore God subjected them to probation: He imprisoned the Heart in the Spirit, and the Spirit in the Soul, and the Soul in the Body; then He mingled Logic with them.

Each of them began to seek its original degree or station. (Re Saima Shah) The Body seeks physical pleasures such as eating and intercourse, and eventually betakes itself into prayers. The Soul seeks love of objects and eventually attains to the love of God. The Spirit eventually arrives at proximity to God, and the Heart finally finds rest in Union with Him. This is Salvation.




°o.O The Essence of Letter One O.o°

`` Paternal threats cause the child to leave the safe haven of the maternal body. Why leave this safe haven if all you have to look forward to is fear and threats? ``
- #21 by Saminasha




°o.O The Essence of Letter Two O.o°

- Reproduction is not creativity in the proverbial sense. It infact is `imitativity`, which is the exact opposite of proverbial `creativity`. Literal creativity is different. The word `Create` is akin to the Latin `crescere` which means, `to grow`.

- The Koran starts with the praise of God for the reason of him being the `Rab` of the worlds. The word `Rab` implies creation and nourishment. The ability of a woman to give birth and nourish is the human manifestation of God`s ability to create and nourish. This ability renders women superior to men.


``God sometimes you just don`t come through
Do you need a woman to look after you ``
- #5 by Saminasha

Old Men Sleep Worth staying tuned for!

Let There be Light...


(¯`·._.·[ Clarification of the Millenium ]·._.·´¯)
(Re: Sobia)


I`ll quote mself:

``I think its not objective wisdom, political insight, social sagacity or the comprehensibleness that matters for a piece of text that has a literary nature. Its about the correct expression of the state of mind that the writer is in. Its about the reader going through the text and experiencing the same state of mind, and automatically moving on to the sub-ideas and super-ideas that had not been able to cross the barriers of the sanity of conciousness and rules of language during the phases of thinking and writing respectively.
This is what I meant by `literary and subjective merits` and you are one of the very few writers I`ve read, whose `pieces` are extremely rich in those merits. Non-literary and political pieces on Chowk are never objectively analysed, and are taken usually at emotional level. The literary pieces on the other hand are usually taken objectively rather than emotionally. If I were a Chowk writer of either type, this approach would seriously depress me as an artist or analyst. How you feel about it, was the `Mystry of the Millenium` for me, and it still is. ``


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Stop Indian Atrocities in Kashmir

°o.O Discovery of the Millenium O.o°



1997 to 2001 is ``last 5 years``. The honorable discoverer was hybernating last year! :)


Citations:
#6 by arjun_m on March 5, 2003 2:00pm PT

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Travels through America - Deep Thoughts

•·.·´¯`·.·• Idea of the Millenium •·.·´¯`·.·•


The websites that you`ve mentioned, if you had given your affiliate links for all of them, it would`ve earned you a handsome sum! :)

IS Waging Another War on Iraq Justified?

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IS WRITING ANOTHER ARTICLE ON THIS TOPIC JUSTIFIED?