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A strong relationship is based on love. And there are many who say ‘I love you’, but few who live up to it. Without loyalty love is mere infatuation -- at best ‘humour’, which fails to stand the test of time, howsoever strong the expression of love may have been: Many a morning
hath he there been seen,
The sacrificial animal is the epitome of our pledge to sacrifice our all for the sake of Allah, if need be. With the ummah’s (the whole Muslim community’s) general indifference to its religious identity and religion, the big question that every Eid (eedudhhaa) raises for a Muslim is thus: Do you have the courage left to ‘love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind’? In a world where the Muslim leadership addicted to luxuries of life virtually condones the persecution of the Muslim peoples daily with its apathy and lack of conviction and the average Muslim watches helplessly, perhaps the ummah has a greater cause for mourning than for celebration on Eid. khizaan
main mujh ko rulaatee hai yaade fasle bahaar
payaame
‘aysho mussraat hamain sunaata hai
In autumn,
the fond memory of spring4
makes me cry;
Bringing the
glad tidings of luxury and comfort,5
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1. Quid rides? Mutato
nomine, de te febula narratur: [Latin] Why do you laugh? With the name
changed, the story is about you.
2. Aurora: in Roman mythology, the goddess of the dawn. 3. heavy: heavy-hearted. 4. Spring: that is the times in which the ummah was at its zenith. 5. Luxury and comfort: to which we have become accustomed. (The line is sarcastic). |