LONG WAY FROM HOME !

Assalamu-Alaikum !

18th Day of Ramadhan Karim Mubarik - everyone. 

What a month? Loyalty, Control, Patience, Industry and "I AM ON" personified.  Quest is Allah Karim's pleasure and even the HALAL is 'a refrain' for most part of 24 Hours. 

Friends; since SEHAR I am in a strange HAAL (milieu), 'Long Way from Home' in a 'Celestial Company'......(and I want to take you along).

There is an uninterrupted stream of 'FLASH BACKS'..BADAR..CONQUEST OF MAKKAH.....GRAVES OF EXALTED ONES IN SYRIA......ADI BIN HAJAR staring in the face of DIGGERS and telling them here I am fresh as a ROSE after 1400 years, IF THIS DOESN'T MAKE YOU 'SUBMIT' NOTHING WILL....BECAUSE 'THE STAMP HAS BEEN AFFIXED' ON YOU.

There is MAQAM-E-BADAR and NUSRAT-E-KHUDAWANDI.........Unarmed, poor and weak Mohajiroon, Awosis and Khazrajis; 313 only before the battle hardened, skillful swordsmen, champion archers and hate filled 1000 of Quresh with all their might......dusted in the brown dust of Badar at the hands of same unarmed, poor and weak.

There is URWA BIN MASOOD SAQFI pleading at Hudaibiya saying O Prophet ﷺ be our leader and forget about these MOHAJIROON and ANSAAR as they will desert you on which the mild and compassionate Abu Bakr takes out his sword saying O YOU WORSHIPER OF LAAT what did you say? Restrained only by Prophet ﷺ ... And then there is MUGHIRA (for whom once URWA had paid BLOOD MONEY for 13 murders) shoving URWA away from Prophet ﷺ when as per the tradition of Arabs URWA touched the beard of Prophet ﷺ.

See when the agreement of Hudaibiya is being drafted and the leader of Quresh delegation is Sohail Bin Amr whose own son ABU-JANDAL walks in chained, bruised and tortured shouting "I BEAR WITNESS THAT THERE IS NO GOD BUT ALLAH AND MUHAMMAD ﷺ IS ALLAH KARIM'S SERVANT AND PROPHET."

There are Khubaib, Summaiya (Aale Yasir) laying their lives for the truth. 

There is Bilal under extreme torture proclaiming 'AHAD AHAD' (There in only one God) persistently. 

There is Sumaira rushing like a gushing wind towards the Prophet ﷺ when some one intercepts her telling that your husband and sons have embraced Martyrdom....SHE RETORTS BACK 'Thousands be sacrificed on the name of Muhammad ﷺ in the way of TRUTH.......some one whispers :

حسنِ یوسف پہ کٹیں مصر میں انگُشتِ زناں

سر کٹاتے ھیں تیرےﷺ نام پہ مردانِ عرب۔

There you see the Khyber falling. 

Khalid Bin Walid, Ikrama bin Abu Jahl and many other coming to the fold of TRUTH.

There the Caravan of Truth enters Makkah from where once it was forced to leave in the darkness of night. There you see the Idols falling....and there you see the Grace, The Mercy, The Compassion, The Forgiveness, the Humility, The Submission all in their glittering galore. NO REVENGE, NO HATE and NO HASTE.......ONLY GRATITUDE FOR ALLAH KARIM and LOVE AND MERCY FOR ALL.........AND IT IS RAMADHAN KARIM !

Wondering I ask the ever-pensive Iqbal as to how quickly those men and women had fathomed and became the living exegesis of that what you had to remind us 1300 years later :

کی محمدﷺ سے وفا تو نے تو ھم تیرے ھیں

یہ جہاں چیز ھے کیا؟ لوح و قلم تیرے ھیں۔

The serene ABD-ALLAH looks up and says :

نھیں ھے ناامید اقبال اپنی کشتِ ویراں سے

ذرا نم ھو تو یہ مٹی بڑی ذرخیز ھے ساقی۔

and goes on : 

شب گریزاں ھو گی آخر جلوۂِ خورشید سے

یہ چمن معمور ھو گا نغمۂِ توحید سے۔

IN SHA ALLAH. 

 ........Akhtar N Janjua.....      

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