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Sunday, 19 April 2020

The Sunday Blog # 211

Today is the Sunday the 19th of April 2020 , the 25th of Shaban 1441H till the Sunset ( 6:56 pm ; Karachi ) , And this is my the Sunday Blog # 211 ( Two Hundred and Eleven ) .

Survived the Happy Easter and Passover 2020 . The Friday Juma Mubarak Congregation shutdown went into the fourth consecutive Friday this week . And with the Holy Month of Ramzan Starting from the next Friday or the day after subject to the sighting ...sorry the fly weight championship between chaudary Muneeb and mufti fawwad both undemocratically imposed upon the nation to keep it entertained at all cost .

So there is no chance of a tajdeed ay Emaan .

I went to the meat shop yesterday to buy a beef shank bone but there was none ...and since there is very little chance of a regular and perpetual taravee prayer throughout the Holy Month of Ramzan after the imam of the Holy mosque admits there is no chance for taravee and regular daily five times jamaat and Eid prayer due to the global pandemic Corona virus...I really don't think I will need the Karachi ☠️ Nihari🍛 this hot and humid Holy Month of Ramzan this April- May beginning in four five days .

May the dear merciful Lord All Mighty Allah have mercy on my dearly departed parents Papa and Ammi and may they be blessed by the dear merciful Lord All Mighty Allah and Their Souls may rest in peace in heaven. Amen!


Puisse le cher Seigneur miséricordieux Tout-Puissant Allah avoir pitié de mes chers parents papa et Ammi et qu'ils soient bénis par le cher Seigneur miséricordieux Tout-Puissant Allah et leurs âmes puissent reposer en paix au paradis. Amen!

Even without the covid-19 or the Corona virus people here in the Karachi ☠️ have the unwanted excessive mucus problem . Especially among the pious the God the All Mighty ALLAH Amen ! Fearing people who pray to the dear merciful Lord All Mighty ALLAH Amen! regularly .

Ever since my childhood I have seen many old people who pray very regularly to have a dark spot on the fore head . These days I have seen they are not just a mark or dark  spot but two dark spots which appear on the forehead after years of regular prayers and prostrations . But the interesting thing is that the two dark spots appear after years of praying on the foreheads that had a little bulge or protrusion of a cavity filled with mucus under the skin of the forehead right in the middle just above the nose . So what I am trying to say is that I better not say anything conclusive without first learning the fundamentals .That after eating the properly prepared or cook Nihari we could make the mucus  moveable move out . So that when the time comes there is only one dark spot
Which is also the preferred one religiously .
I am saying this about Nihari with so much confidence because it works for me every time where Anti- biotic or anti - histamine does not .not even the herbal tea joshanda or karra .

Now the question is how come the most famous tv evengelist on our pemra supported cable channel list has two dark spots on the forehead instead of one . Most people in Karachi ☠️ have totally given up eating Nihari especially the ones above fifty and have been raising a private hospital . I am sure the tv evengelist I have on my mind must have been in and out of the too rich hospital many time or he prefers Biryani without Aloo .

Can you believe tonight I gave up the mutton stew because of the too sweat onion and ate the mutton Pulao cooked simultaneously . So only I know how I am staying up and sitting straight in a chair and how many times have the mobile fallen from my hand

Still taking a break or lying down in bed would mean long sleep and fajr prayers
Missed . Two hours to fajr Azan . This reminds me that if I want to continue doing this my the Sunday Blog s regularly on a mobile app then I will have to most certainly get an easy chair or a couch .

So the Corona virus is still going on and on killing more Americans than any ever before The Corona Deaths in the US has now come very close to forty thousand ...yes

May the dear merciful Lord All Mighty Allah have mercy on my dearly departed parents Papa and Ammi and may they be blessed by the dear merciful Lord All Mighty Allah and Their Souls may rest in peace in heaven. Amen!


Puisse le cher Seigneur miséricordieux Tout-Puissant Allah avoir pitié de mes chers parents papa et Ammi et qu'ils soient bénis par le cher Seigneur miséricordieux Tout-Puissant Allah et leurs âmes puissent reposer en paix au paradis. Amen!

The strangest thing about the deaths in the US is that almost one third of all are on the east coast having the largest number of reported deaths from the State of New York  above ten thousand and the irony is that instead of blaming the Muslims they are celebrating the Muslim medical professionals as heros .
Do you remember the time when ......okay nevermind ....because they have a president who calls every other news Fake News but still respond to it with a crispy tweet . No matter what life is gradually returning as the experts and politicians quarrels over when and how the Lockdown must go .

Here in Karachi ☠️ the small business and traders have pressured the provincial government and the city commissionerate to allow them to open the shops even if it is for only a few hours . The Sunni mosques franchises woke up two days before Juma Mubarak Congregation on Friday . They are the worst hit by the Lockdown . With the Holy Month of zakat just round the corner and everyone or anyone they could turn to is or sounds like Iranian shite and the most disturbing fact that Corona virus entered Karachi ☠️ from there .. despite all this the govt of Sindh was able to convince them to shut up and relax .

Now the most challenging threat would be from the public transporters ( private )

But what can the govt do about the mult-i-nationals
The two major foreign investors have bribed openly through their respective embassies . Now if the govt refuses to take this much needed cash and keeps the lockdown intact they may take back this cash and distribute .

So Anyways , I made it !
It's almost time for the fajr
Now I can pray , eat and sleep .

So here I take a Prayer break with a prayer for my dearly departed parents Papa and Ammi


May the dear merciful Lord All Mighty Allah have mercy on my dearly departed parents Papa and Ammi and may they be blessed by the dear merciful Lord All Mighty Allah and Their Souls may rest in peace in heaven. Amen!


Puisse le cher Seigneur miséricordieux Tout-Puissant Allah avoir pitié de mes chers parents papa et Ammi et qu'ils soient bénis par le cher Seigneur miséricordieux Tout-Puissant Allah et leurs âmes puissent reposer en paix au paradis. Amen!

4:48 am Break ( 1206 Words)



11:20 am Good Morning !
The Good News is that The Honorable President of Pakistan and his invited Religious leaders have all agreed on the reopening of the Mosques and the SOP for the ba jamaat prayers , the Juma Mubarak Congregation and the Namaz ay Taravee during the Holy Month of Ramzan and Zakat .
( Pura jata dekho toh adha anney do ...)
Before this meeting ...The Fifty (50yrs) was the new sixty five ( 65 ) ! 🛌
Now it feels like fifty is just past Corona Dead 🛌⚰️
😺🐾💈

Honestly I feel as Thirteen (13 years ) old and sometime six (6 yrs) from the day my dearly departed parents passed away
May the dear merciful Lord All Mighty Allah have mercy on my dearly departed parents Papa and Ammi and may they be blessed by the dear merciful Lord All Mighty Allah and Their Souls may rest in peace in heaven. Amen!


Puisse le cher Seigneur miséricordieux Tout-Puissant Allah avoir pitié de mes chers parents papa et Ammi et qu'ils soient bénis par le cher Seigneur miséricordieux Tout-Puissant Allah et leurs âmes puissent reposer en paix au paradis. Amen!



Very common psychological practice in most agricultural families for the youngest and idiosyncratic....
Anyways I am not dying to be ridiculed and sanitized in a religious frenchise taking orders from the Iranian influence govt especially not on my Bar mitzvah years ....Never !
😜
May the dear merciful Lord All Mighty Allah have mercy on my dearly departed parents Papa and Ammi and may they be blessed by the dear merciful Lord All Mighty Allah and Their Souls may rest in peace in heaven. Amen!


Puisse le cher Seigneur miséricordieux Tout-Puissant Allah avoir pitié de mes chers parents papa et Ammi et qu'ils soient bénis par le cher Seigneur miséricordieux Tout-Puissant Allah et leurs âmes puissent reposer en paix au paradis. Amen!


Here is the first tweet of the day ...

Sun 25th Shaban 1441H
32°C
11:01 am Good Morning ! The sky is hazy blue and the fresh air is tainted with the smell of garbage burning somewhere
Before sleeping I watched the waning Crescent 14% at sunrise probably the last time this month .
No sign of brunch yet
Very peaceful

I had just half a plate of mutton Pulao and half cup of tea after fajr prayer not realizing the brunch will be skipped today . So I better take a break and prepare something for my self or have tikky pack of biscuits with tea and check the news .

12:09 pm Break ( 1628 words )


4:43 pm so first I had only tea and tikky pack biscuits . And then I had this ...for brunch . We had a Facebook Meetup and a very detailed one as this was the first Sunday after Easter and Lent and the last Sunday before the Holy Month of Ramzan and Zakat . Last year the Builder mafia gave me some money from my dearly departed Ammi ' s share in the Grandparents home . See how time fly ...
I know I must be under a microscope watch by both the builder Mafia and Land mafia . What I do about the Zakat . I really don't care about the builder mafia but you know land mafia it never quits . So anyways I have made up my mind to pay the full Zakat on Land Mafia's money but I am still not sure about the interest on it . Technically I want to keep it between me and the builder mafia and do not want to burden the land Mafia which is already in a catch 22 state of affairs .
So anyways after the brunch I had bath and prayed with a prayer for my dearly departed parents Papa and Ammi

May the dear merciful Lord All Mighty Allah have mercy on my dearly departed parents Papa and Ammi and may they be blessed by the dear merciful Lord All Mighty Allah and Their Souls may rest in peace in heaven. Amen!


Puisse le cher Seigneur miséricordieux Tout-Puissant Allah avoir pitié de mes chers parents papa et Ammi et qu'ils soient bénis par le cher Seigneur miséricordieux Tout-Puissant Allah et leurs âmes puissent reposer en paix au paradis. Amen!

And recited the 23rd para of the Holy Quran . It has a Sajda in the 38th Sura .
This is one of my very favorite sura I have read it's English translation many times . And when I reach to the verse of judgement ...." Till Appointed time " waqt il maloom ... My soul goes into prostration and rises high beyond my imagination at the same moment . Could be a split of a second beyond my recognition .
Praiseth the Lord , Wise All Knowing All Mighty ALLAH Amen !

When I finished the reciting it was four in the evening . Too late to start the next para so today I will do only one . I am sure I will be easily able to finish it before time . My dearly departed Ammi , May her soul rest in peace in jannah Amen ! , Would be so pleased she used to finish at least two Quran recitals before every fateha and she or any body else for that matter ever suspected that I would be finishing two Quran recitals for her Second Ramzan Fateha just six years later .....

May the dear merciful Lord All Mighty Allah have mercy on my dearly departed parents Papa and Ammi and may they be blessed by the dear merciful Lord All Mighty Allah and Their Souls may rest in peace in heaven. Amen!


Puisse le cher Seigneur miséricordieux Tout-Puissant Allah avoir pitié de mes chers parents papa et Ammi et qu'ils soient bénis par le cher Seigneur miséricordieux Tout-Puissant Allah et leurs âmes puissent reposer en paix au paradis. Amen!



5:52 pm Break ( 2167 words)

Sun 26th Shaban 1441H
32°C
8:08 pm Good Evening !
So in this break I had choley chat and butter slice papay rusk . Tea was finished so I have requested and it is in the making . It's Dinner time and they are again eating the sweet mutton stew so I locked my self here . Will only go out when the tea is ready . Will have supper after midnight when I finish this my the Sunday Blog #211 ( Two Hundred and Eleven ) .

Okay the Good news is that The beaches in the second home state of Florida have reopened after lockdown and visitors are advised not wear too much clothes and leave them behind as they may be infected with Corona virus . It was either this news on CNN or the same episode of Sharlock on the series channel today  . Our dear neighbors and family friend send the Annual Ramzan Reminder bottle of Jam e Shirin . Jazak Allah for the Ramzan gift
Hope this coming Ramzan is a very blessed one for everyone .

Talking of television my brother's state of the Trump Art television gave up this week thanks to All Mighty ALLAH Amen ! We are feeling much better now 😊

Yesterday at about this time I was channel surfing in the other tv and paused at bol entertainment star dancers show watched this girlish fellow dancing the naheed Siddiqui steps to the tune of Titanic mashup . Later on I searched the show on the YouTube and found out that she ...I mean the name of the boy performer was sikander and he was one of the finalist but to my greatest surprise . There was no Titanic tune or meshup in the YouTube video . So I googled just in case the YouTube did not allowed the tune due to copyright laws and terms of agreement etc . I found the show and clips of the same episode on Facebook page of the channel and the show .here also no Titanic tune with the classical dance step . I am still very confused both for this music mix-up and also for the show I have been watching for months with the same judges   where qayomabad super talent probably half brothers or in-laws of The channel owners past present and future torture kubra Khan and others . Anyways in this other show the judges seems to be really enjoying themselves which was a great surprise for me as I was only watching the comic show to see when the judges get up and beat the audience or camera crew . 🧟

Okay I missed the nine o clock news . It's pin drop silence on the street and in the neighborhood . Even the escort service in town is off beat . The only business in town that never looks up at me or offers any discounts keeps it's field staff covered hundred and ten percent at all time is  desperate . I am not sure if desperate is the correct word may send some wrong message ...worried is the politically correct term . I am in almost isolation how could I know if they are desperate or not unless I try to find out . They will never show their desperation to me . I know .

Koi toh hai Jo nizam ay hasti
Chala raja hai ....
Anyways today I have no movies of the week  again as my schedule has changed till Ramzan . Sleeping in the night or watching the online drama serials . And reciting three para in the afternoon leaves no time to watch even movies on the Cable . Life is good .

So I was wondering if there will be no taravee at mosque for me in the Holy month of Ramzan and Zakat , then there will be no point in continuing the Sunday blog in the holy month of Ramzan and Zakat , after the Midnight , so I have decided to end all Sunday Blogs in the holy Month of Ramzan and Zakat , at the usual Midnight hour no unnecessary delays or extra time .
Good 👌

9:39 pm Break ( 2827 words )

11:38 pm okay then the time is up but before I go let us pray for all the Muslim and Hispanic immigrants who died in the US due to the Corona virus the latest figure is 40131 dead almost 20,000 in the State of New York and New Jersey .
Allah maghfirat karey Amen !

By the way I was watching the Shades of Blue Map and I realised that if we did not have the Sindh govt we would have joined the darkest blue Alliance  have you ever felt like a lame kid in the pied Piper fairy tale ???

God Bless America !

Allah Hafiz !


A long long time ago
I can still remember how
That music used to make me smile
And I knew if I had my chance
That I could make those people dance
And maybe they'd be happy for a while
But February made me shiver
With every paper I'd deliver
Bad news on the doorstep
I couldn't take one more step
I can't remember if I cried
When I read about his widowed bride
Something touched me deep inside
The day the music died
So
Bye, bye Miss American Pie
Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry
And them good ole boys were drinking whiskey and rye
Singin' this'll be the day that I die
This'll be the day that I die
Did you write the book of love
And do you have faith in God above
If the Bible tells you so?
Do you believe in rock and roll?
Can music save your mortal soul?
And can you teach me how to dance real slow?
Well, I know that you're in love with him
'Cause I saw you dancin' in the gym
You both kicked off your shoes
Man, I dig those rhythm and blues
I was a lonely teenage broncin' buck
With a pink carnation and a pickup truck
But I knew I was out of luck
The day the music died
I started singin'
Bye, bye Miss American Pie
Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry
And them good ole boys were drinking whiskey and rye
Singin' this'll be the day that I die
This'll be the day that I die
Now, for ten years we've been on our own
And moss grows fat on a rolling stone
But, that's not how it used to be
When the jester sang for the king and queen
In a coat he borrowed from James Dean
And a voice that came from you and me
Oh and while the king was looking down
The jester stole his thorny crown
The courtroom was adjourned
No verdict was returned
And while Lennon read a book on Marx
The quartet practiced in the park
And we sang dirges in the dark
The day the music died
We were singin'
Bye, bye Miss American Pie
Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry
Them good ole boys were drinking whiskey and rye
And singin' this'll be the day that I die
This'll be the day that I die
Helter skelter in a summer swelter
The birds flew off with a fallout shelter
Eight miles high and falling fast
It landed foul on the grass
The players tried for a forward pass
With the jester on the sidelines in a cast
Now the half-time air was sweet perfume
While sergeants played a marching tune
We all got up to dance
Oh, but we never got the chance
'Cause the players tried to take the field
The marching band refused to yield
Do you recall what was revealed
The day the music died?
We started singin'
Bye, bye Miss American Pie
Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry
Them good ole boys were drinking whiskey and rye
And singin' this'll be the day that I die
This'll be the day that I die
Oh, and there we were all in one place
A generation lost in space
With no time left to start again
So come on Jack be nimble, Jack be quick
Jack Flash sat on a candlestick
'Cause fire is the devil's only friend
Oh and as I watched him on the stage
My hands were clenched in fists of rage
No angel born in Hell
Could break that Satan's spell
And as the flames climbed high into the night
To light the sacrificial rite
I saw Satan laughing with delight
The day the music died
He was singin'
Bye, bye Miss American Pie
Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry
Them good ole boys were drinking whiskey and rye
Singin' this'll be the day that I die
This'll be the day that I die
I met a girl who sang the blues
And I asked her for some happy news
But she just smiled and turned away
I went down to the sacred store
Where I'd heard the music years before
But the man there said the music wouldn't play
And in the streets the children screamed
The lovers cried, and the poets dreamed
But not a word was spoken
The church bells all were broken
And the three men I admire most
The Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost
They caught the last train for the coast
The day the music died
And they were singing
Bye, bye Miss American Pie
Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry
And them good ole boys were drinking whiskey and rye
Singin' this'll be the day that I die
This'll be the day that I die
They were singing
Bye, bye Miss American Pie
Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry
Them good ole boys were drinking whiskey and rye
Singin' this'll be the day that I die

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