My Sunday Blog № 470
Today is the Sunday
The 6th of April 2025 CE
The 7th of Shawwal 1446H
12:17 am
Room temp 30°C
Karachi weather Now 27°C
Feels like 28°C
Clear
Precip:0%
Humidity:50%
Wind:18 km/h
Moon: 57.7%
Waxing Gibbous
Current Time: 6 Apr 2025, 00:20:13
Moon Direction: 288.36° WNW↑
Moon Altitude: 23.60°
Moon Distance: 384,681 km
Next Full Moon: 13 Apr 2025, 05:22
Next New Moon: 28 Apr 2025, 00:31
Next Moonset: Today, 02:20
Today is the 5th Sunday in Lent and first after Eid ...
Today will be the Sixth and final fast of the post Eid shasha Eid six fast kept by few according to the tradition. They are not mandatory... that is why very few keep it ...I have been keeping them for many years ...so I would probably hate myself if for some reason I am not able to keep them any year in the future...at least this year after Eid I don't hate myself . Today's fast will take the count to thirty five ..and there is still chance to complete the forty in lent ...with almost a fortnight left in lent before the Easter.
Today's fast will be the 32nd in lent Sundays included starting from Wednesday the 5th of March .
The top News this week is as usual from the USA...infact there are several top News from US...
Number one in that list is the series of very deadly and destructive tornadoes across many US states ...such as Arkansas, Tennessee, Michigan, Mississippi, Indiana etc
About 3 dozen people are believed dead...
Trump celebrated the so called Liberation Day with new and improved tarriff.
Which countries have been hit by latest US tariffs?
Country
Share of US imports
Tariff
European Union
18.5%
20%
China
13.4%
34%
Japan
4.5%
24%
Vietnam
4.2%
46%
South Korea*
4%
26%
Taiwan
3.6%
32%
India*
2.7%
27%
UK
2.1%
10%
Switzerland*
1.9%
32%
Thailand*
1.9%
37%
Malaysia
1.6%
24%
Brazil
1.3%
10%
Singapore
1.3%
10%
Afghanistan
<1%
10%
Albania
<1%
10%
Algeria
<1%
30%
Andorra
<1%
10%
Angola
<1%
32%
Anguilla
<1%
10%
Antigua and Barbuda
<1%
10%
Argentina
<1%
10%
Armenia
<1%
10%
Aruba
<1%
10%
Australia
<1%
10%
Azerbaijan
<1%
10%
Bahamas
<1%
10%
Bahrain
<1%
10%
Bangladesh
<1%
37%
Barbados
<1%
10%
Belize
<1%
10%
Benin
<1%
10%
Bermuda
<1%
10%
Bhutan
<1%
10%
Bolivia
<1%
10%
Bosnia & Herzegovina*
<1%
36%
Botswana*
<1%
38%
British Indian Ocean Territory
<1%
10%
British Virgin Islands
<1%
10%
Brunei
<1%
24%
Burundi
<1%
10%
Cambodia
<1%
49%
Cameroon*
<1%
12%
Cape Verde
<1%
10%
Cayman Islands
<1%
10%
Central African Republic
<1%
10%
Chad
<1%
13%
Chile
<1%
10%
Christmas Island
<1%
10%
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
<1%
10%
Colombia
<1%
10%
Comoros
<1%
10%
Cook Islands
<1%
10%
Costa Rica
<1%
10%
Côte d'Ivoire
<1%
21%
Curaçao
<1%
10%
Democratic Republic of the Congo
<1%
11%
Djibouti
<1%
10%
Dominica
<1%
10%
Dominican Republic
<1%
10%
Ecuador
<1%
10%
Egypt
<1%
10%
El Salvador
<1%
10%
Equatorial Guinea
<1%
13%
Eritrea
<1%
10%
Eswatini (Swaziland)
<1%
10%
Ethiopia
<1%
10%
Falkland Islands*
<1%
42%
Fiji
<1%
32%
French Guiana
<1%
10%
French Polynesia
<1%
10%
Gabon
<1%
10%
Gambia
<1%
10%
Georgia
<1%
10%
Ghana
<1%
10%
Gibraltar
<1%
10%
Grenada
<1%
10%
Guadeloupe
<1%
10%
Guatemala
<1%
10%
Guinea
<1%
10%
Guinea-Bissau
<1%
10%
Guyana <1% 38%
Haiti
<1%
10%
Honduras
<1%
10%
Iceland
<1%
10%
Indonesia <1% 32%
Iran <1% 10%
Iraq <1% 39%
Israel <1% 17%
Jamaica
<1%
10%
Jordan
<1%
20%
Kazakhstan
<1%
27%
Kenya
<1%
10%
Kiribati
<1%
10%
Kosovo
<1%
10%
Kuwait
<1%
10%
Kyrgyzstan
<1%
10%
Laos
<1%
48%
Lebanon
<1%
10%
Lesotho
<1%
50%
Liberia
<1%
10%
Country
Share of US imports
Tariff
Libya
<1%
31%
Liechtenstein
<1%
37%
Madagascar <1% 47%
Malawi*
<1%
18%
Maldives
<1%
10%
Mali
<1%
10%
Marshall Islands
<1%
10%
Martinique
<1%
10%
Mauritania
<1%
10%
Mauritius <1% 40%
Mayotte
<1%
10%
Micronesia
<1%
10%
Moldova
<1%
31%
Monaco
<1%
10%
Mongolia
<1%
10%
Montenegro
<1%
10%
Montserrat
<1%
10%
Morocco
<1%
10%
Mozambique
<1%
16%
Myanmar*
<1%
45%
Namibia
<1%
21%
Nauru
<1%
30%
Nepal
<1%
10%
New Zealand
<1%
10%
Nicaragua
<1%
19%
Niger
<1%
10%
Nigeria
<1%
14%
Norfolk Island
<1%
29%
North Macedonia
<1%
33%
Norway
<1%
16%
Oman
<1%
10%
Pakistan* <1% 30%
Panama
<1%
10%
Papua New Guinea
<1%
10%
Paraguay
<1%
10%
Peru
<1%
10%
Philippines*
<1%
18%
Qatar
<1%
10%
Republic of the Congo
<1%
10%
Reunion
<1%
37%
Rwanda
<1%
10%
Saint Helena
<1%
10%
Saint Kitts and Nevis
<1%
10%
Saint Lucia
<1%
10%
Saint Pierre & Miquelon
<1%
50%
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
<1%
10%
Samoa
<1%
10%
San Marino
<1%
10%
São Tomé and Príncipe
<1%
10%
Saudi Arabia <1% 10%
Senegal
<1%
10%
Serbia* <1% 38%
Sierra Leone
<1%
10%
Sint Maarten
<1%
10%
Solomon Islands
<1%
10%
South Africa*
<1%
31%
South Sudan
<1%
10%
Sri Lanka <1% 44%
Sudan
<1%
10%
Suriname
<1%
10%
Syria
<1%
41%
Tajikistan
<1%
10%
Tanzania
<1%
10%
Timor-Leste
<1%
10%
Togo
<1%
10%
Tokelau
<1%
10%
Tonga
<1%
10%
Trinidad and Tobago
<1%
10%
Tunisia
<1%
28%
Turkey
<1%
10%
Turkmenistan
<1%
10%
Turks and Caicos Islands
<1%
10%
Tuvalu
<1%
10%
Uganda
<1%
10%
Ukraine
<1%
10%
United Arab Emirates
<1%
10%
Uruguay
<1%
10%
Uzbekistan
<1%
10%
Vanuatu
<1%
23%
Venezuela
<1%
15%
Yemen
<1%
10%
Zambia <1% 17%
Zimbabwe <1% 18%
Heard and McDonald Islands
NA
10%
Svalbard and Jan Mayen NA 10%
Source: White House / US Census Bureau • Includes all countries and territories listed as affected by the so-called reciprocal tariffs. Imports data for 2024. *Tariffs given for these countries are those on the White House website and are 1% higher than those given by the White House on X.
Pakistan has higher tariff than UK, KSA,or even Iran ( 10%)
It seems that trump has a special focus on neighbors and allies .
Sleepy....💤
4:01 am .....After a month of being woken up by the beating drum
..it is nice to wake up to a very peace and quiet. Sometimes it feels like there is nobody in the Neighborhood but me.
Anyways it's time for Sehri...
Sehri done 
Astronomical twilight Karachi : 5:01 am
Sunrise Karachi 6:19 am
Time for fajr Prayer 🛐
with a prayer for my dearly departed parents Papa and Ammi and the Recently Departed Aslam Bhai
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!
Dear merciful Lord All Mighty Allah !
please forgive my dear loving and caring brother Aslam Bhai and give him the highest place in Jannah . Amen !
اللہ پاک میرے پیارے والدین ، پاپا
اور امی پر رحم فرمائے ، اور ان کو اللہ تعالی کی رحمت نصیب ہو ، اور ان کی روح کوجنت میں آرام نصیب ہو ۔ آمین !
پیارے مہربان رب اللہ پاک میرے پیارے اور خیال رکھنے والے بھائی اسلم بھائی کی مغفرت فرمائے اور جنت الفردوس میں اعلیٰ مقام عطا فرمائے- آمین !
Sun 7th Shawwal 1446H
30°C
1:01 pm Fasting
Shasha Eid # 6
Fall asleep after fajr 🛐
Woke up before noon
Did gardening..
Back in bed ..
Zuhr Azan ....time for Zuhr Prayer 🛐
with a prayer for my dearly departed parents Papa and Ammi and the Recently Departed Aslam Bhai
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!
Dear merciful Lord All Mighty Allah !
please forgive my dear loving and caring brother Aslam Bhai and give him the highest place in Jannah . Amen !
اللہ پاک میرے پیارے والدین ، پاپا
اور امی پر رحم فرمائے ، اور ان کو اللہ تعالی کی رحمت نصیب ہو ، اور ان کی روح کوجنت میں آرام نصیب ہو ۔ آمین !
پیارے مہربان رب اللہ پاک میرے پیارے اور خیال رکھنے والے بھائی اسلم بھائی کی مغفرت فرمائے اور جنت الفردوس میں اعلیٰ مقام عطا فرمائے- آمین !
1:30 pm Break 🛐 🤲
Cooking mafia wanted garlic for cooking ...it's her sixth shasha Eid fast today ...and she wants to cook something special for her Eid again ....
Because of the very hot weather no vegetable push cart sellers came today ...
I told her that I will go to market and bring it for her ..but she was restless..and wanted it so bad ...so I ordered it from panda 🐼 mart...with a few other essentials ... available among other non essentials...was blueberry...
Never tried it but recently have heard a lot about it .....cousins in us started farming and posting pictures on Facebook and Instagram...so we were curious how it tastes..... unfortunately Trump / musk has fired the USAID ...so we may not be able to farm them here like the strawberry and buffalo...
Since the trump global tariff announcement....Pakistan got 30% tariffs...which means that direct imports from us will probably be avoided ....even if no retaliatory measure are imposed...most friendly countries have got only 10% tariff which may be waived after good behavior....as before...
Expecting good behavior from Pakistan is absolutely impossible....
They way things are going ...I think most importers will stop dealing with Jewish and Israeli businesses directly.
Indirect trade , smuggling and fake labelling may flourish....
Anyways
It is said that blueberry has the same health benefits like our jamun black plum The Anti- Oxidants....etc
Blueberry may be often hailed as the king of antioxidants but our humble jamun, often known as the Indian blackberry, actually outperforms the former and is much cheaper and accessible. Both fruits are high in antioxidants, although jamun may have a minor advantage with anthocyanins, which combat cell damage.
Okay it time for Asr Prayer 🛐
with a prayer for my dearly departed parents Papa and Ammi and the Recently Departed Aslam Bhai
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!
Dear merciful Lord All Mighty Allah !
please forgive my dear loving and caring brother Aslam Bhai and give him the highest place in Jannah . Amen !
اللہ پاک میرے پیارے والدین ، پاپا
اور امی پر رحم فرمائے ، اور ان کو اللہ تعالی کی رحمت نصیب ہو ، اور ان کی روح کوجنت میں آرام نصیب ہو ۔ آمین !
پیارے مہربان رب اللہ پاک میرے پیارے اور خیال رکھنے والے بھائی اسلم بھائی کی مغفرت فرمائے اور جنت الفردوس میں اعلیٰ مقام عطا فرمائے- آمین !
5:06 pm Break 🛐 🤲
Made tea without milk....
For adding lemon 🍋
Eid was very quiet and calm this time ...nobody came and neither did we go ....our is of only one day ...because we start the shasha Eid fasting from 2nd Shawwal which was on the first of April this time ...no fooling around ...
On Eid day I woke up an hour before fajr 🛐
But still instead of sehri we watched the Turkish drama...
Siyah inci ...
Then I prayed fajr Prayer 🛐
with a prayer for my dearly departed parents Papa and Ammi and the Recently Departed Aslam Bhai
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!
Dear merciful Lord All Mighty Allah !
please forgive my dear loving and caring brother Aslam Bhai and give him the highest place in Jannah . Amen !
اللہ پاک میرے پیارے والدین ، پاپا
اور امی پر رحم فرمائے ، اور ان کو اللہ تعالی کی رحمت نصیب ہو ، اور ان کی روح کوجنت میں آرام نصیب ہو ۔ آمین !
پیارے مہربان رب اللہ پاک میرے پیارے اور خیال رکھنے والے بھائی اسلم بھائی کی مغفرت فرمائے اور جنت الفردوس میں اعلیٰ مقام عطا فرمائے- آمین !
And made tea with cardamom and no milk to squeeze lemon 🍋
We had dairy milk chocolate
I prepare for Eid prayer 🛐
Had bath
Changed to old clean clothes ...picked a prayer mat just in case and walked to the ground with mosque .... unfortunately...they had the prayer inside the mosque ....they have done some remodification on the roof top..so they try to send everybody up ....the stairs ...while I have some knee joint problem so I avoid going up the stairs and find a place to stand in the fully occupied rows in the main verandah.
Luckily I got space ...
So after prayer 🛐 I went to the local savory shop and bought kachoris and returned home had fateha
And relaxed .
Iftari and Maghrib Prayer 🛐
with a prayer for my dearly departed parents Papa and Ammi and the Recently Departed Aslam Bhai
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!
Dear merciful Lord All Mighty Allah !
please forgive my dear loving and caring brother Aslam Bhai and give him the highest place in Jannah . Amen !
اللہ پاک میرے پیارے والدین ، پاپا
اور امی پر رحم فرمائے ، اور ان کو اللہ تعالی کی رحمت نصیب ہو ، اور ان کی روح کوجنت میں آرام نصیب ہو ۔ آمین !
پیارے مہربان رب اللہ پاک میرے پیارے اور خیال رکھنے والے بھائی اسلم بھائی کی مغفرت فرمائے اور جنت الفردوس میں اعلیٰ مقام عطا فرمائے- آمین !
Sunset Karachi 6:50 pm
6:45 pm Break 🛐 🤲
9:08 pm Did iftari 
and prayed Maghrib Prayer 🛐
with a prayer for my dearly departed parents Papa and Ammi and the Recently Departed Aslam Bhai
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!
Dear merciful Lord All Mighty Allah !
please forgive my dear loving and caring brother Aslam Bhai and give him the highest place in Jannah . Amen !
اللہ پاک میرے پیارے والدین ، پاپا
اور امی پر رحم فرمائے ، اور ان کو اللہ تعالی کی رحمت نصیب ہو ، اور ان کی روح کوجنت میں آرام نصیب ہو ۔ آمین !
پیارے مہربان رب اللہ پاک میرے پیارے اور خیال رکھنے والے بھائی اسلم بھائی کی مغفرت فرمائے اور جنت الفردوس میں اعلیٰ مقام عطا فرمائے- آمین !
Then I watched a new Turkish drama Ateşböceği named in English as Firefly or in Urdu jugnu...
The previous Turkish drama is almost finished...
Both , Siyah inci
And
Vermem Seni ellere
While watching I suddenly realized that today is the Sunday and I am doing this my the Sunday Blog № 470 ( Four hundred and seventy)
So I got up ...getting up is not easy after so much watermelon 🍉 🍈 and crispy fried prawns or shrimps 🦐 whatever ...heavy iftari
But I did get up and prayed isha Prayer 🛐
with a prayer for my dearly departed parents Papa and Ammi and the Recently Departed Aslam Bhai
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!
Dear merciful Lord All Mighty Allah !
please forgive my dear loving and caring brother Aslam Bhai and give him the highest place in Jannah . Amen !
اللہ پاک میرے پیارے والدین ، پاپا
اور امی پر رحم فرمائے ، اور ان کو اللہ تعالی کی رحمت نصیب ہو ، اور ان کی روح کوجنت میں آرام نصیب ہو ۔ آمین !
پیارے مہربان رب اللہ پاک میرے پیارے اور خیال رکھنے والے بھائی اسلم بھائی کی مغفرت فرمائے اور جنت الفردوس میں اعلیٰ مقام عطا فرمائے- آمین !
And the very next day of Eid was doctor Saab 's birthday....I wanted to go visit him and wish him happy birthday with a cake and chocolates...but I woke up with a missing knee....yes it felt like I don't have a right knee at all.....it was very difficult and painfull to stand on the right foot....
So I lied down in bed and tried to sleep pass the day ...
Gradually the leg was normal...must be sugar high related thing ....
The day before was the Eid day..and first no fast day after a month...had half a dozen kachoris....and mutton pulao and chicken karahi...all day ..and watched Siyah inci ...
Sitting in chair...after coming from the Eid prayer....so I was shocked ...as to what happened...I thought I had no sweets all day ....a very sugar free vermicelli zarda..
But the carbohydrates in kachoris and rice probably caused the knee trouble.
Tried very hard to control the sugar that evening between iftari and sehri...but next we had doctor Saab and his family for iftari ....and I ordered strawberry butter cream cake and fried chicken and chicken biryani , he brought the savories potato samosa and chicken patties...
before sehri the sugar was highest...and could not go on fasting on a empty stomach..and the gas ( not Petrol) curfew returned to normal timings ....10 pm to 6 pm ...no gas at sehri time ...
Meaning no scrambled eggs...
The first time I need to buy now is a electric plate to fry the scrambled eggs when ever...
Anyways ...today I feel much better...the vision is a bit blurry though.... probably because of constantly looking at the mobile screen...the good thing is that Sunday is almost finished and so is the Sunday Blog...but most of all .. Mobile's battery is also down ...to 30 %
Which reminds me ...
Nevermind
10:40 pm Break !
11:34 pm The president of Pakistan his excellent c is under ziauddin hospital care...and diagnosed COVID 19
The memes world on social media are having a field day...you can imagine how the social media loves Mr zardari and his family...
But COVID 19....?
Anyways ...I did order imported blueberries but I was so worried that it might turn out to be black currant... that's the risk you sometimes have to take while shopping online in Pakistan .
Especially for the imported food items ...the present govt discouraged imported food items ...at first because we had to save the foreign exchange...
Then probably because of the different contaminations and viruses...
This reminds me that despite the common factor between the two political parties of Pakistan
PMLN and PTI being their leadership based in London or from London ...UK ...their approach is very different...
Pti leadership believes they have seen it all....I mean the west ...when everytime we see them in the west ...they are in the protested protocols ....while on the otherhand PMLN leadership is always seen in London walking...on the streets ...subways...metro...
Very humble ...down to earth...at home
So I don't mind if some of the imported stuff is now hard to get as compared to the time of COVID 19 lockdown...
I hope you know what I am saying ...
Okay the time is up ...
I had fun doing this Sunday Blog...
All the Best 🌹
Allah Hafiz 🙏
