INTOLERABLE BARBARISM

A pathetic example of Indian atrocities on Kahmiris. They are firing pellet guns that are used for hunting birds on unarmed civilians and doing this to children in Kashmiri towns.

Kashmir

The real torch of liberty consumes the blood of martyrs. The Kashmiris have kept their torch of freedom burning for the last 69 years with the blood of thousands of martyrs. They have faced the atrocities of the Indo-Aryan monstrosity with unflinching resolve. In the last week or so more than 50 innocent Kashmiris have been massacred by despicable Indian occupation forces. The world has to wake up and stand by the Kashmiris.

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The Advent of Adam

The singular event of the creation of Adam, the first human being, has been repeatedly described in the Holy Qur’an, possibly to emphasize its importance and to ensure it attracts the attention of the reader. As a matter of fact it does open new channel of thought in the mind each time one reads it. Here is a second view of the verses already discussed in the previous article. Verse 30 of Chapter 2, the Cow is translated into English as follows:

And when thy Lord said unto the angels: Lo! I am about to place a viceroy in the earth, they said: wilt Thou place therein one who will do harm therein and will shed blood, while we, we hymn Thy praise and sanctify Thee? He said: Surely I know that which ye don’t know.

On reading the above verse one thing immediately becomes clear: mankind was created with the explicit purpose of populating the earth and the notion that the human race is a continuation of the punishment given to Adam and Eve for being disobedient is not correct. Man and woman came into being on earth as God’s viceroys or deputies with the task of continuing God’s work and the dignity of all men and women must be respected in spite of differences. As to the scope of God’s work to be carried out by men and women there can be infinite speculation – but everyone would agree that it must include the protection, nurturing, development and facilitation of the existence of all living beings and life forms. The Creator would certainly like his viceroys to be creative in some way or the other.

The second point that stands out is that almighty God worked with complete transparency, taking His angels into confidence about His intentions and granted His angels the right to question His decisions. Apparently God had a sort of a parliament. When the angels objected that mankind would quarrel and cause bloodshed on earth, The Almighty did not punish them, nor imprisoned them, nor destroyed and replaced them with more obliging ones. Instead, God chose to convince them of the wisdom of his decision by a practical demonstration. Convincing, rather than punishing opposition is God’s way of doing things and obviously His favorite way of doing things for man.

The narration is continued in the same style in verses 2:31 to 2:33 translated as follows:

2:31 And He taught Adam all the names, then showed them to angels, saying:     Inform me the names of these if ye are truthful.

2:32 They said: Be glorified! We have no knowledge saving that which thou hast taught us. Lo! Thou, only Thou, art the Knower, the Wise.

2:33 He said: O Adam! Inform them of their names, and when he had informed them of their names, He said: Did I not tell you that I know the secrets of the heavens and the earth And I know what ye disclose and which ye hide.

To the naïve reader it would appear that God tricked the angels by conniving with Adam who was his favorite and teaching him the names of objects that the angels were not familiar with. But for the keen seeker of the truth, this was not Divine politics. It was the revelation of the human faculty of giving names that would make human beings superior to all other creatures. The ability to give names to objects, actions, feelings and ideas has enabled mankind to develop languages, arts, sciences, laws and civilization as a whole. Animals created before man had limited power of speech. Parrots could repeat what they heard, but could not give names to what they saw and so remained unable to talk to each other. But a human child, as soon as it can control its voice starts giving names to things it sees. In many families the infants introduce new names for objects and people that become adopted. If the speech processing part is removed from the human brain, what remains is pretty much the same as an ape’s brain.

The story of Adam’s creation is continued in chapter 15 (Al-Hijr) verses 26 to 43 translated as follows:

15:26 And certainly We created man of clay that gives forth sound, of black mud fashioned in shape.

15:27 And the jinn We created before, of intensely hot fire.

15:28 And when your Lord said to the angels: Surely I am going to create a mortal of the essence of black mud fashioned in shape.

15:29 So when I have made him complete and breathed into him of My spirit, fall down making obeisance to him.

15:30 So the angels made obeisance, all of them together,

15:31 But Iblis (did it not); he refused to be with those who made obeisance.

15:32 He said: O Iblis! what excuse have you that you are not with those who make obeisance?

15:33 He said: I am not such that I should make obeisance to a mortal whom Thou hast created of the essence of black mud fashioned in shape.

15:34 He said: Then get out of it, for surely you are driven away:

15:35 And surely on you is curse until the day of judgment.

15:36 He said: My Lord! then respite me till the time when they are raised.

15:37 He said: So surely you are of the respited ones

15:38 Till the period of the time made known.

15:39 He said: My Lord! because Thou hast made life evil to me, I will certainly make (evil) fairseeming to them on earth, and I will certainly cause them all to deviate

15:40 Except Thy servants from among them, the devoted ones.

15.: He said: This is a right way with Me:

15:42 Surely. as regards My servants, you have no authority ,over them except those who follow you of the deviators.

15:43 And surely Hell is the promised place of them all:

Here is another classic example of God’s tolerance of dissent. Iblis (the devil) flatly refused to obey a direct order from the Almighty God. The expression, “What aileth thee…” shows that God’s initial reaction was concern for the well-being of his dissenting creature rather than anger at the dissent. 

Verse 15:27 could mean that Iblis (Satan) a jinn is an intelligent life form which came into existence while the Earth was still a cloud of very hot gases; probably as a consequence of the imaginary components of the complex equation of life. Even in terms of established modern physics it does not seem impossible that out of a large mass of plasma there could emerge stable configurations of fundamental subatomic particles containing logic circuits and sensing and transmission capabilities of magnitude sufficient to create enough excitation of a few cells of the human brain to initiate an idea. In a healthy and sound brain, the old devil or jinn seems unlikely to produce any more disturbances than a temporary distraction. Moreover, in nearly five billion years since the separation of the Earth from the Sun, it is likely that most of them have become extinct; and one should not expect continuous production of Jinns from a considerably cooled down Sun although there might be some coming from distant stars in all directions.

The question as to whether or not there exists an intelligent and resourceful enemy bent on destroying mankind can be answered by studying the history of medicine. Just as in a war situation, the combatants try to develop countermeasures and disrupt the defense supplies of the enemy; when mankind developed vaccines utilizing the immune system and it seemed that all epidemics had been brought under control, AIDS surfaced which attacks and immobilizes the immune system itself. Anyway, we find that at that juncture in prehistory there was an agreement between God and Iblis (Satan) that whereas man was created to follow the righteous path, the Satan would be free to divert him and lead him astray. God would not interfere in this process and it is up to man alone to recognize if he is being led astray and to fight the evil thoughts and stay on course. This makes sense because if man is superior to Satan then there is no reason why he should get any help when he is losing his struggle against an inferior adversary. One should expect that God would be quite chagrined if man, the best of His creatures betrayed His trust by losing the battle against Satan by allowing himself to be led to counterproductive thoughts, thus causing an insult to God. As to what happens to those who accept Satan's leadership there is a clear statement in chapter 16 verse 63:

"By God, we sent apostles to many a people before you, but Satan made their acts seem attractive to them, and he is their friend this day, and a painful torment is their destiny."

It may be worthwhile, here, dwelling a little upon the intent of angels and the Satan being asked to bow down before the first man. Obviously, God would not have wished to make man the object of worship for other forms of life, as He has reserved this privilege for Himself alone. He would also not have wanted to make them subservient to human will for the same reason. The only valid explanation that remains is that God wanted the angels and the Satan to accept man's sovereignty over the physical universe, the role of other agencies being relegated to one of assisting him in the execution of the assigned objectives for which man was created. This thought is further strengthened by the statement in chapter 2, verse 30 which says that man is God's viceroy on earth.

The question now is, “How does man exercise his sovereignty on the universe or at least earth?”

The examples of man’s benevolent authority on earth can be seen in the domestication of animals, dams that change the courses or control the flow of rivers, artificial rains by cloud seeding, harnessing of wind and solar energy for power generation, mining of solid and liquid resources such as metal and oil, space travel etc.  It seems that most peaceful engineering endeavors amount to the execution of God’s will and achieving the object of our creation.

(Extract from “What and why I Believe by Mohammad Nasim alias Naseem Mahnavi.)

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Manuela and the future.

I recently came across the following news item on the social media and got to thinking about faith and prejudice. Let us start either news item:

“http://todaysbreaking.com/world/daughter-of-italian-parliamentarian-converts-her-religion-to-islam/

IN INTERNATIONAL / BY DIGITAL TEAM / ON JUNE 18, 2016 AT 4:07 PM /

Italy : Italians are in shock after the daughter of a parliamentarian announced her conversion to Islam and changed her name to Aysha. Manuela Franco Barbato is a 22 years old student at the Università L’orientale de Napoli. She is the daughter of Franco Barbato, a former parliamentarian representing the ‘Italy of Values’ party.

Her dad told a newspaper “This conversion is not just bad, but terrible because this religion is too harsh, too radical, too rigid. It is a fundamentalist religion.

Manuela Franco Barbato converts to Islam wear Hijab

I am seeing this firsthand, my daughter lives with me. I see it every day. At the time of prayer, she does not even take care of the children and I get angry about it. If a baby cries, it means that he needs something, he needs his mom. I feel a lot of pain for this choice she has made for her life”.

She wrote on facebook “The veil is what Allah has chosen for me, I am proud of the purity of my soul. This is the law of God, who am I to oppose it?”. Her comments were met with a lot of hostility on social media as most Italians have negative views of islam and Muslims.”

The question that has been begging an answer for many years now is, “Why are Italians and all other Christians and Jews so opposed to Islam? Do they know anything about it?”

In reaction to terrorist attacks by depraved Muslims, the leaders of Western countries including USA, UK, France, Germany etc. all reacted with precisely the same rhetoric:

 “We shall not change our way of life.”

That, indeed, is the crux of the matter.  The western antipathy towards Islam is driven by the fear of having to change their life styles if Islam becomes dominant in those regions as predicted by Christian saints such as Nostradamus and Baba Vanga.

There may be some justification for this fear.  If you take wine, pork, fornication and abuse of science out, there is hardly anything left in the western civilization, although the people therein are still precious.

In the USA 77.7% of the population was white in 2013, which is expected to change to 53% by 2050 and if the same trend continues, it would be less than 25% by the end of the 21^st  century and perhaps white men and women will only be found in special reservations by the end of the 22^nd century.

The trend in Europe is even worse.  Population growth rate of Caucasians or white people in almost all European countries is negative and the rate of depletion is growing.  Whereas the deficit is being compensated by immigration in most European countries, Germany, Greece, Poland and Russia have trend of net population decrease. However, the leaders of those countries are in a constant state of denial. They would, for fear of losing votes, not accept that there is something wrong with their way of life.

Now let us suppose that the Western nations (Christian and Jewish people) mange to destroy the Islamic powers in the world and thus thwart the prophecies of Nostradamus and Baba Vanga so that they may continue to live in their chosen way, albeit as a negligible minority, who will dominate the world? Obviously the communist Chinese and the Hindu Indians will. The Hindus, once they taste power will naturally revert to their Aryan originality declaring the white populations as “untouchables” or doing what the German Aryans did in their hay days.

Ref: http://www.nap.edu/read/9599/chapter/4

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Redefinitions -2

Life: Ability to feel and respond or the possession of at least one sense and some sort of an autonomic nervous and motor system.

Humanity: Ability to respond to sensory inputs with meaningful speech or writing or art.

Faith: Ability to integrate an idea into one's life.

Love: Ability to perceive another's feeling.

Wisdom: Ability to extract ideas from life.


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Panama TORs

The joint parliamentary committee for investigating foul play by Pakistanis disclosed by the Panama papers has started its deliberations. There are already a number of draft TORs for the proposed judicial commission on the table, prepared by apparently the best brains in the country. However, I have a few humble submissions for the consideration of the committee:

        1.  The order of investigation should from the most significant person to the least significant.

        2. The commission should indict and punish those whose crimes are obvious and examine if other concerned persons are likely to have been involved in fraud, perjury, money laundering, tax evasion, misrepresentation etc. and accordingly instruct the relevant offices such as NAB, Election Commission, FIA etc. to take necessary action which should be monitored and completed in a short time.

      3. If the investigations indicate a deceased person to having been guilty of financial crime or misdemeanor, then his or her heirs should be asked to reimburse any such funds or relinquish inherited property, local or foreign, acquired by the deceased in unlawful manner or in defiance of national interest.

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Redefinitions

God: God is not a person or thing. God is a system. There are political, social, economic, communication and mechanical systems and there are people dedicated to their preservation and functioning. God is the father and mother of all systems; a super-system or network that motivates the genome and facilitates and controls the growth of a seed into a tree or an embryo into a man or animal.

Worship: Proof of compliance with the super-system.

Prayer: A humble appeal to the super-system.

Sin: Deed of personal vice that cannot be controlled by law or cured by medicine. 

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Immaculate Enrichment

At the moment public attention seems entirely gripped by the controversy of Panama Papers which include documents relating to offshore companies and transactions of over 200 Pakistanis.

The Panama Papers are a set of 11.5 million confidential documents detailing information about more than 214,000 offshore companies compiled by the Panamanian corporate service provider Mossack Fonseca, including the identities of company shareholders and directors. The documents illustrate how wealthy individuals, including public officials, hide assets from public scrutiny. At the time of publication, the papers identified five then-heads of state or government leaders from Argentina, Iceland, Saudi Arabia, Ukraine, and the United Arab Emirates as well as government officials, close relatives, and close associates of various heads of government of more than forty other countries. The British Virgin Islands was home to half of the companies exposed and Hong Kong contained the most affiliated banks, law firms, and middlemen.^[1]

While the use of offshore business entities is not illegal in the jurisdictions in which they are registered, and often not illegal at all, reporters found that some of the shell corporations seem to have been used for illegal purposes, including fraud, drug trafficking, and tax evasion.^[2]

An anonymous source using the pseudonym "John Doe" made the documents available in batches to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung beginning in early 2015. The information from this unremunerated whistleblower^[3] documents transactions as far back as the 1970s and eventually totaled 2.6 terabytes of data. Given the scale of the leak, the newspaper enlisted the help of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), which distributed the documents for investigation and analysis to some 400 journalists at 107 media organizations in 76 countries.^[4] The first news reports based on the papers, and 149 of the documents themselves, were published on April 3, 2016. The ICIJ plans to publish a full list of companies involved in early May 2016.^[5]

According to these documents, Nawaz Sharif's family holds millions of dollars worth of property and companies in the UK, and around the world.^[308]

The documents reveal that Nawaz Sharif's children (Hassan, Husein and Maryam) have multiple properties in the UK through a set-up of at least four offshore companies in theBritish Virgin Islands. These companies own at least six upmarket properties overlooking London’s Hyde Park.^[293]

 In a rare phenomenon, the opposition parties in Pakistan have united in demanding fair judicial investigation and action against any wrong-doings that may be associated with the disclosures. The more vociferous such as Imran Khan are demanding that Mr. Nawaz Sharif should step down immediately.

Let us look at the life and works of Mr. Nawaz Sharif to see if it all makes sense.

According to Wikipedia:

Nawaz Sharif was born in Lahore, Punjab on 25 December 1949.^[1][19] The Sharif family are Punjabis of Kashmiri origin.^[19] His father,Muhammad Sharif, was an upper middle-class businessman and industrialist whose family had emigrated from Anantnag in Kashmir for business, eventually settling in the village of Jati Umra in Amritsar district, Punjab in the beginning of the twentieth century. His mother's family came from Pulwama.^[20] After the movement led by Jinnah in his struggle to create Pakistan in 1947, his parents migrated from Amritsar to Lahore.^[19] His father followed the teachings of the Ahl al-Hadith.^[21] His family owns Ittefaq Group, a multimillion-dollar steel conglomerate^[22] and Sharif Group, a conglomerate company with holdings in agriculture, transport and sugar mills.

 In 1976, Sharif politically motivated himself and joined the Pakistan Muslim League, a conservative front rooted in the Punjab province. He initially focused on regaining control of his steel industry from the government.

In 1979-80 General Zia-ul-Haq returned the Ittefaq Foundries to The Sharif family.

In 1981, he initially joined as a member of the Punjab Advisory Council^[30] under General Ghulam Jilani Khan, the Governor of the Province

Under the Military government of Lieutenant-General Ghulam Jilani Khan, Sharif was appointed as the provisional finance minister and successfully attempted to denationalise all of the government-owned industries to private sector.^[30]

In 1985 General Ghulam Jilani Khan nominated Sharif as Chief Minister of the Punjab, against the wishes of the new prime minister, Muhammad Khan Junejo, who wanted a rural candidate, Malik Allahyar.^[32] Sharif secured a landslide victory during the non-political parties 1985 elections and became Chief Minister of Punjab with the support of the army.^[19] He served for two consecutive terms as Chief Minister of Punjab Province, the most populous province of Pakistan.

During the 1980s, Ittefaq Group expanded from five mills to diversified 30 businesses which produced steel, sugar, paper, and textiles.^[2] Its annual revenues were then estimated at $400 million.^[2]

He served as Prime Minister from November 1990 to July 1993 when he was dismissewd by president Ghulam Ishaq Khan on charges of corruption similar to his predecessor Benazir Bhutto and from February 1997 to October 1999 when he was ousted in a military coup by General Pervez Musharraf whom he had dismissed on disagreement on the Kargil fiasco..

As part of his first actions as prime minister in 1990, he legalized foreign money exchange to be transacted through private money exchangers.^[38]

In 2005, Daily Pakistan reported that Sharif family are the fourth wealthiest family in Pakistan with an estimated net worth of US$1.4 billion.^[300]

In 2011, his assets were worth Rs 166 million which increased to Rs 1.82 billion by 2013.^[303] In 2012 he made a net income of Rs. 12.4 million ($1.24 million) in 2012.^[304] He was one of the five billionaires who were elected to Pakistan's National Assembly in 2013.^[305] In 2015, his declared assets slightly decreased to Rs. 1.75 billion ($175 Million).^[306]

Dawn columnist Hasan Belal Zaidi 4 April, 2016 writes about Panama Papers:

Mariam is described as “the owner of British Virgin Islands-based firms Nielsen Enterprises Limited and Nescoll Limited, incorporated in 1994 and 1993”.

Marium Nawaz Sharif was born on 28 October, 1973.in Lahore and was probably studying English literature at the university when she became the owner of the offshore companies.

During Mr. Nawaz Sharif’s first term as prime minister (1991-93) she married Captain Muhammad Safdar Awan who was her prime minister father’s military aide.

The romantic fiction writer would perhaps call it an example of legendary paternal love that forced the poor prime minister to first make a law that would allow chaotic money transfers and then siphon off his state discretionary funds into offshore companies to secure the future of his beautiful daughter who had married against the wishes of the family, and the old man who was chairman of the billions of dollars worth family fortune would not allow anyone to spend a penny against his wishes, presumably to keep his six jealous brothers at bay.

       

People whose documents appear in the Panama Papers.

 Pakistan

1. Benazir Bhutto, former Prime Minister of Pakistan and a member of the Bhutto family
2. Farrukh Irfan, Judge of the Lahore High Court
3. Rehman Malik, former Minister of the Interior and former Director General of the Federal Investigation Agency
4. Malik Mohammad Qayyum, Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court and former Attorney General
5. Anwar Saifullah, Member of the Senate, former Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources and former Minister for Environment and Urban Affairs
6. Humayun Saifullah former Member of the National Assembly
7. Osman Saifullah, Member of the Senate
8. Salim Saifullah, Member of the Senate and a Pakistan Muslim League faction leader
9. Hassan Bhutto, nephew of Benazir Bhutto
10. Samina Durrani, widow of former Governor of the State Bank Shahkur Ullah Durrani, and Ilyas Mehraj. Both relatives of Chief Minister of Punjab Shehbaz Sharif.
11. Waseem Gulzar, close relative of President of the Pakistan Muslim League-Q and former Prime Minister Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain
12. Maryam Nawaz, Hasan Nawaz Sharif and Hussain Nawaz Sharif, children of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif^[1]
13. Dr. Iqbal Saifullah, Pakistani cardiologist and Saifullah family's member
14. Jehangir Saifullah, Chairman of Saif Group and Saifullah family's member
15. Zain Sukhera, close friend of former Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani’s son
16. Mahmood Ahmad, Pakistani businessman and CEO of Berger Paints
17. Bashir Ahmed, Pakistani businessman and chairman of Buxly Paints
18. Sultan Ali Allana, Pakistani businessman and chairman of Habib Bank Limited
19. Hussain Dawood, Pakistani businessman, Chairman of Dawood Hercules Corporation Limited, Engro Corporation Limited, Hub Power Company Limited, Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund and The Dawood Foundation.
20. Sadruddin Hashwani, Pakistani businessman and Chairman of Hashoo Group, and his son Murtaza Hashwani
21. Brothers Aqueel Hassan and Tanwir Hassan, Pakistani businessmen and owners of the Pizza Hut's Pakistan branch
22. Ahmed Ali Riaz, son of Pakistani business magnate Malik Riaz Hussain who founded and owns Bahria Town
23. Mir Khalil-ur-Rahman, Pakistani businessman, founder and editor of the Jang Group of Newspapers
24. Zulfiqar Lakhani, Pakistani businessman and owner of Lakson Group and Express Media Group
25. Shahbaz Yasin Malik, Pakistani businessman, managing director of Hilton Pharma, and his family
26. Shahid Nazir, Pakistani businessman and CEO of Masood Textile Mills
27. Zulfiqar Paracha, Pakistani businessman and owner of Universal Corporation (Pvt) Ltd
28. Javed Shakoor, Pakistani businessman related with Buxly Paints
29. Abdul Rashid Soorty, Pakistani businessman and owner of Soorty Enterprise
30. Azam Sultan, Pakistani businessman and Chairman of ABM Group of Companies
31. Gul Muhammad Tabba, Pakistani businessman and Managing Director of Lucky Textiles

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