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About me: Born in Kashmir, raised and educated in Western Europe. I presently live somewhere west of the Bosphorus and east of the Rocky Mountains.
Thursday, October 27, 2005
I am back. I've been away for a couple of days doing this and that. Well actually the this and that more specifically is me trying to sell my humble abode here. I hear you cry, how can that be? How can you of all people have a house and home and you are a nomad? My answer to that is simple have you not read my title I am a 21st century nomad, not like your old age nomads that used to wander from place to place with animals and family intoe, sometimes you could not distinguish between which one was a family member and which one was an animal. No most certainly not, I am not one of those nomads I am as you can say a 21st century nomad. Anyway getting back to the story of my house, it is so hard to sell! The price has been reduced by thousands of American dollars(convert to your local currency unit if you wish) but still no offers. I am at my wits end. The estate agent is no help whatsoever all he can tell me it is his worst time in business since he started in the 1960's. I think that he may not be telling me the complete truth on that one. Anyway I sit here and write hoping in vain that some prospective buyer will want to part with his/her money and allow me to move on to my next tent with family and animals intoe.
Now to the point of this evening's post. Have you ever thought that children have no respect for anyone and how things were always better when you were a child even though you had to walk barefooted 20 miles everyday to get to school and back. Well I have a small video clip for you if you are of that mindset. If you think that children's morals have gone down hill not to worry because you can still send them to this teacher, who I am sure will oblige:
http://www.uparab.com/img/1130112723.3gp
Saturday, October 15, 2005
Anyone who knows anything about Kashmir will tell you that the most important thing to many a Kashmiri is social status and accumulation of wealth, not necessarily in that order. I have no problem with this per se although I believe there are many other things more useful to the betterment of ones self and those around him than just accumulation of wealth and social mobility for the sake of it. It has reached such a stage that any means whether criminal or not justify the ends of increasing wealth and moving up the social ladder.
One example of this is the obsession that many kashmiri's have for their offspring to become doctors whether the child is particularly interested in becoming a medic or not. As they say why let your aspirations for your children be dashed by the small fact that he/she may not want to become a doctor or have any aptitude in that direction. As a reader you may think that this is such a noble cause and why not? I agree it is a noble cause to become a doctor to help those in need from your fellow humankind. But is that the reason that so many families sacrifice hundreds of thousands of Indian rupees to send their children out of home and family to places like Russia, China the southern states of India and even more preferably to institutions in the west. All this irrespective of gender, you will find in many a university campus kashmiri males and females faraway from their beloved homeland. Are their motives completely altruistic? Do they sacrifice time and money for the benefit of those less fortunate than themselves or are there other more base reasons?
As a humble 21st century Kashmiri nomad may I hazard an answer? Maybe the reason that there are so many want to be doctors in Kashmir is not because of the altruistic reason detailed above. Rather the need to be a medic is more base than that. Due to the status that it brings for the individual and his or her family members in front of their peers, with the prospect of wealth accumulation in the future and the ability to immigrate to far greener lands than those of Kashmir. Lands that are paved with gold and one has the ability to move up the social ladder. Maybe this a more realistic starting point for the one who wants to investigate this further rather than the altruistic reason mentioned above.
Why have I mentioned all of the above you might ask? There is a point to all this. That point is this. Why revere pious people like Sheikh Abd Al-Qadir Al Jilani and Imam Abu Hanifa, say that they are beloved to you, shed tears for them and marvel at their lives when you make no effort to follow their example. Are these not crocodile tears, is this not a hypocritical love that only surfaces on every 11th day of each Islamic month? Does this love for Abu Hanifa only surface when confronted by a person who raises his hands before going into Raku during his prayer? These pious predecessors did not sully their hearts with this type of love and did not moisten there faces with these types of tears. But rather they acted upon the knowledge that came to them and did not twist it to suit their society.
Tagged: Money
Friday, October 14, 2005
Well, welcome to my blog
This is the first time that I have put finger to keyboard as they say and I am rather lost as to what to write. It has been a rather busy period for me. News broke this week of the earthquake in South Asia affecting areas of Northern Pakistan and Jammu and Kashmir. I believe that tens of thousands of people have died and hundreds of thousands made homeless or injured. Appeals for assistance have engulfed not only the immediate area but also as far wide as the United Kingdom and the United States.
People are at a loss to explain this occurrence, unable to comprehend the intelligence behind such a devastating event that not only killed adults but children as well. This topic deserves a great deal more consideration and sensitivity than I can afford in the space of this short blog.
Moving on as you can probably tell by the title of this blog, I am a Kashmiri nomad wandering the one way paths and dead ends not only of cyberspace but of life too. Looking for some semblance of happiness and inner fulfilment but unable to ever forget that the majority of mankind is not only in material loss but also in spiritual loss. Unable to control base instincts to such an extent that one becomes enslaved by them. May be one day I will find an eternal abode where Shirk (Association with Allah) is replaced by Tawheed (Singular Oneness of Allah) and disbelief is replaced by belief.
Until that time I am here wandering the highways of life, in the hope of entrance to the Eternal Garden
This is the first time that I have put finger to keyboard as they say and I am rather lost as to what to write. It has been a rather busy period for me. News broke this week of the earthquake in South Asia affecting areas of Northern Pakistan and Jammu and Kashmir. I believe that tens of thousands of people have died and hundreds of thousands made homeless or injured. Appeals for assistance have engulfed not only the immediate area but also as far wide as the United Kingdom and the United States.
People are at a loss to explain this occurrence, unable to comprehend the intelligence behind such a devastating event that not only killed adults but children as well. This topic deserves a great deal more consideration and sensitivity than I can afford in the space of this short blog.
Moving on as you can probably tell by the title of this blog, I am a Kashmiri nomad wandering the one way paths and dead ends not only of cyberspace but of life too. Looking for some semblance of happiness and inner fulfilment but unable to ever forget that the majority of mankind is not only in material loss but also in spiritual loss. Unable to control base instincts to such an extent that one becomes enslaved by them. May be one day I will find an eternal abode where Shirk (Association with Allah) is replaced by Tawheed (Singular Oneness of Allah) and disbelief is replaced by belief.
Until that time I am here wandering the highways of life, in the hope of entrance to the Eternal Garden
Tagged: Kashmir Blog