Still Looking! Nice story Tahera. Adds a lighter side to a very disturbing methodology! I wonder though, how many girls later regret this critical outlook when people stop appearing at their doorstep. just an afterthought! I wonder how many of the selected ones live happily ever after. everything happens behind closed doors and in our culture doors are closed on the instituition of marriage from day one.
Well written, made me smile despite my "poetic concerns"

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Still Looking! Nice story Tahera. Adds a lighter side to a very disturbing methodology! I wonder though, how many girls later regret this critical outlook when people stop appearing at their doorstep. just an afterthought! I wonder how many of the selected ones live happily ever after. everything happens behind closed doors and in our culture doors are closed on the instituition of marriage from day one.
Well written, made me smile despite my "poetic concerns"

Regards
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Still Looking! Nice story Tahera. Adds a lighter side to a very disturbing methodology! I wonder though, how many girls later regret this critical outlook when people stop appearing at their doorstep. just an afterthought! I wonder how many of the selected ones live happily ever after. everything happens behind closed doors and in our culture doors are closed on the instituition of marriage from day one.
Well written, made me smile despite my "poetic concerns"

Regards
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Remembering You Thank you, Pulchritude.
Please accept my heartfelt condolances on your loss. I know that words cannot express the magnitude of grief and perhaps the best expression of sympathy is silence with very wet eyes. May allah bless us in other ways when he chooses to test us in this extreme manner. may the heart find solace in a world left so empty.

God Bless
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I Thought I Heard You Laughing i dont know how to say this, but truly some of the most beautiful people in my life were "love at first sight". When i saw them, i just knew and thanked god for small mercies. And love is not necessarily romance but also great friendships. Next time you find someone who turns your head, smile and say hello. You will be surprized both at what your inner elements can sense and how uniquely beautiful all people are.
Happy living. I'd just say, go out there and fall in love while you can :)

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Remembering You Thank you kashkin,
The poem is lovely and very true.

On a spiritual level we all understand death and that is why we are able to live without those who define our very existance. But the heart is a poor companion of the soul and it grieves for moments past and of all that can never be again. In the eternal conflict between the heart and mind, we suffer in anguish. If only love would not leave such deep rooted sorrows behind, i would pray that everyone should love deeply and ardently. Then again, the pain surpasses the joys in every way and in the end, perhaps it is better not to love at all than to live in the afterglow. Sad. Overwhelmingly sad.
May god bless you for thinking. feeling. sharing.

Fondest Regards,
Amber

Remembering You Thank you friends for your compassion and understanding. it means the world to me. It has given me a rare moment of peace and joy. My brother for me is as alive as anyone breathing, but the only difference is that i cannot share the beauty and warmth of his being with others the way i used to. He was a loving, caring and nurturing soul. i have never met anyone who could say something ill of him. Most of all, when he was around i felt taken care of and protected. Although a part of my heart will always grieve for an irreparable loss, his life and death has given me and my family the strength and the resolve to be better people. Everyone who sees him and reads about him will carry his memory in his heart. To me, life is nothing but a handful of moments. In many ways farzan bhai is breathing on the face of chowk today. Thank you for sharing these moments with us. Please say a prayer for his eisaal e sawab and one for us who haven't yet learnt to move on.

Kind regards,
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Remembering You Re: # 1
Thank you for remembering Farzan bhai. Every time someone talks about him it makes me feel as if he still has the power to surprize and cheer us up. It is heart wrenching when relatives and friends stop talking about a person as loving and beautiful, just because they think it will make us cry. It would be an absolute loss if his love and warmth was never spoken of.
I cried when i read your interact but only because i was so happy someone remembers his life the way we do. Please remember him in your prayers and ask all your friends who knew him to do the same. I am sure somewhere up there he is still smiling because his little sister does such silly things.
Thank you. May god bless you always and in all ways. Amen
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Speculation on the Life Hereafter Re: # 20Doc, isn`t THIS life complicated enough - that one has to go speculating after the afterlife?!!

Oh well, different strokes for different folks!!

Hi BJ,

Yes everyone hsa a different take on life, death and everything else. To me, thinking is important, feeling is life and expression is freedom:)

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Sounds from Within thank you for sharing Tania and Tomas. i guess we are all finding pieces of ourselves in others. This helps us appreciate the goodness outside our souls.

God Bless
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Sounds from Within Re: # 2
I discovered Nirvana but cannot quite hold on to it. It has a tendency to slip away and then the journey towards it begins again. But yes, i've experienced it and would like to finally posess it. Any ideas?
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Sounds from Within Re: # 1

Thank you Nikhat. A moment of peace is a rarity in a chaotic world. And being able to share the feeling with others is even rarer. If even one other being understands the feeling, life is a complete bliss!
thank you for sharing:)

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Speculation on the Life Hereafter Re: # 17
Syed,
I agree with you on the life and death issue. The more you learn about life and its amazing intricacies, the more soberly you reflect on the presence of a higher wisdom governing everything. Chance alone cannot produce such miracles as life. The strangest thing is that the more you research and study, you realize how little u actually knew. For instance, if you consider genetics, it is amazing how even the alteration in the sequence of a single amino acid in a gene codon can cause major disease... there are so many things that can go wrong, that i am seriously bewildered how a normal human being is ever born! No wonder, babies are miracles. As far as death is concerned, we start our lives from the fusion of two very dead entities... one is incapable of life in a blob of semen (sperm) and the other is equally dead (ovum). Putting these two together starts an amazing process. When u understand that, life after death is simple.

Maybe it is easy for some to reject this idea, but it helps me to be a better human being. so i want to believe that i will be rewarded for any good deeds that i perform and punished for any misdeeds. If there is a one in trillion chance of me being right, i will take it. At best, i will die, there will be no heavan or hell and my elements will recycle. No harm done. If i do not believe in life after death, my worst fear would be what if from a crevice of my grave an angel creeps out... i`d rather take my chances in believing than otherwise:).

Tell me what you think on the subject.
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Speculation on the Life Hereafter thanks for elucidating parthaab. :)
Honestly if you are interested in schizophrenia, visit an instituition and spend some time with the patients. It is a very sobering experience contrary to what we commonly portray in ``madmen``. In our own extended family we have a patient whom we always edged away from. Clinical experience taught me a whole different perspective on diseases of the mind. maybe its the way i tried to look at it. I tried to find the person behind the whole story and not the story behind the person. Now i can no longer say for sure who is more crazy...the one who agreed to be tainted by society(me) or the one who changed his perceptions of the world to stay forever innocent(him). It took alot of moral courage for me to stand among my friends and introduce my relative in the fountain house as i would have if he was not schizophrenic. and for the first time in my entire life, i saw recognition and warmth in his face. I learnt that no matter how crazy they may seem, something always gets communicated and we as a society tend to forget that. ( we do the same thing to children...try and remember your earliest memories, correlate your age with it and then reflect on how much u understood then verses what your family/ folks thought u understood.)
.....I hope i turn out to be a better person, adult and parent than i see around me.

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Speculation on the Life Hereafter Dear friends,

Thanks for sharing your wonderful crit, even though u missed the whole point. The thread was on life after death and not schizophrenia :)!!! next time i might write something on that and get crit on life after death. The idea was to get a few ideas on life n death discussed or maybe just random thoughts. Honestly, i`d have appreciated that.

and Parthaab...please atleast clarify for my sake what religion do u follow. It doesnt matter whether u believe in life after death or not, what matters is how you respect others` believes. I`m sure noone can be certain unless they are dead... aankhein to tab hi khulain gi jab yeh ankhain band hon gi...lets not be too sure either way.

Happy living.
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Leaving so soon? Dear Saim,

thanks for your crit. I have an ilog under the name of Abee...i have no idea how to connect my past id with my new one:) but you can find some of my recent work there. i am basically a doctor so i find little time to compile my work online although putting my pen to paper comes naturally. i hope my work meets your expectations. you can interact with me at absyed22@yahoo.com.

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