AKHTAR N JANJUA

Allah created humans from a male and a female and made into tribes and nations for identification. However the most righteous is the most honoured. No Arab has any superiority over a non-Arab nor is a White any way better than a Black. All created beings are the decendants of Adam and existence of Adam sprang from dust. hence all claims to superiority and greatness, all demands for blood or ransom and all false traits or trends of rule are false.

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Monday, July 31, 2017

4:32 PM

انسان، دُنیا اور ہوسِ ہزار جہتی ۔ ۔ ۔

سلام اور ڈھیروں دعائیں ۔ ۔ ۔ 

 ہڑبونگ مچا ہے، صبر عنقا ہے، لاٹھی راج اور چوپٹ راجے،  ڈھٹائ ہر سُو، شرم مصلوب اور سچا ئ مسدود۔ 
      
دنیا آگے آگے۔ ۔ ۔ آدمی پیچھے پیچھے۔ ۔ سب جانتے ہیں کہ دنیا ایک خوبصورت گورکھ دھندا ہے پھر بھی بھاگے چلے جا رہے ہیں ۔ اس کا جادو ہے ہی ایسا۔
   
 کھربوں اس کے جال میں پھنس کر بے حال ہوے ، لیکن نہ اِس کی چال سمجھ آئ  اور نہ اس کا وبال بوجھ بنا۔

 حقیقت ہے تو صرف اتنی کہ:۔
 سب مایہ ہے

آنا اور جانا، پانا اور پھر کھونا، اتنا سا کھیل۔

 گورنمنٹ ڈگری کالج بوچھال کلاں ضلع چکوال کے مجلہ ’ونہار‘ میں سالوں پہلے، ایک چھوٹی عمر کے بہت بڑے مشاہدے والے طالبِ علم بچے کی ایک پنجابی نظم چھپی تھی جس کے چند اشعار ذہن میں چپک کر رہ گئے:۔

لکھ حساب میں کیتے، اج تائیں کے پایا کے کھویا
ہر واری گل مُکدی ایس تے، جو  پایا سو کھویا

پہلی گل اے گبھرو پن دی، جس دے لکھ بکھیڑے
سادہ بچپن، سچے سنگی، ایس نیں آن نکھیڑے
نہ میں آن تے ہسیا ایس دے، نہ جاون تے رویا

ہر واری گل مُکدی ایس تے، جو  پایا سو کھویا

دوجی گل اے دَھن دَولت دِی، شے ہے اے بے اِتباری
اے بازی اے جُوئے دِی، اج جِتی کل ہاری
کون پیا اج کھیندا اے ، تے کیں مگرے تے ڈھویا

ہر واری گل مُکدی ایس تے، جو  پایا سو کھویا






اختر نواز جنجوعہ



Sunday, July 30, 2017

2:43 PM

WILL - INTEGRITY - ESTEEM!

Salam & Duaien ...

Commenting on the obtaining Political Spectrum and hovering Accountability Clouds, in the Country, most of the Columnists today have mourned about the chilling apathy and pathetic display of 'DA Nodders' ... A sentence from Mr. Harun Rashid presents the GIST of what all of them have wailed about:-

"اِس قدر ہم گر گئے، اِس قدر پامال ہو گئے کہ ہمارے معززین بھی خون آلود ہاتھوں پر بیعت کرتے ہیں"

Here is from 'Publius Cyrus' for respected columnists and readers:-
"If you obey 'AGAINST YOUR WILL', you are a SLAVE; if 'OF YOUR WILL', you are an ASSISTANT."
Here 'BOTH' ???  

. . . . . And for those of us who become victims of our own DEEDS, TONGUES, and TURNABOUTS ... An advice from the Archives:-
"He who has not A GOOD MEMORY should never take upon himself THE TRADE OF LYING." - - - Michel Eyquem De Montaigne 

For those who are DONE .. Integrity and Self Esteem demand that they should Hang Up ... Uttering:
 
ساحلوں سے کہو، میں نہیں آؤں گا 
اب کسی شہر کی رات میرے لیے جگمگائے نہیں 
دھوپ بوڑھے مکانوں کی اونچی چھتوں پر مرا نام لے کر بلائے نہیں
 
.میں نہیں آؤں گا



کیونکہ ۔ ۔ ۔


بہت گدلا تھا پانی اس ندی کا
مگر میں اپنا چہرہ دیکھ آیا



Akhtar N Janjua

Thursday, July 27, 2017

4:12 PM

THE CORRUPTION CANYON !

Salam & Duaien 

Just read few pages from the  'Journal of Democracy'.  The 'sunk in material' pretty much sums up the CORRUPTION CANYON we find ourselves in ... It is, however, not EXCLUSIVE; Autocracies and Democracies (most) are neck-deep in the swampland of 'NO HOLDS BARRED' Lust and Greed. Amazingly it says that: 
Many of the countries that do 'corruption' are electoral democracies and STATE CAPTURE for plundering state resources is the favoured domain of Rulers. 
It emphasis that Democratization is increasingly producing a new type of regime ...
One in which Rulers who monopolize power and treat the state as their own patrimony allow succession only to those competing political rivals that excell in corrupt practices ... a COMPETITIVE PARTICULARISM. In these societies, ethical universalism fails to take hold as the main rule of the game, and winners of the political process, in their turn, TREAT THE STATE AS THE MAJOR SOURCE OF SPOILS, FEEDING OFF THE PUBLIC RESOURCES THAT THEY CONVINENTLY DIVERT TOWARD THEMSELVES.
Violent power grabbing practices result in Corrupt Politics and Rigged Elections. The allocation of public resources is unfair; graft/commission seeking is common; 
THE RULE OF LAW IS PARTIAL AT BEST (THOSE IN POWER ARE ABOVE THE LAW); and THE STATE IS PERCEIVED AS AN INSTRUMENT FOR THE SPOILATION OF THE MANY AND THE ENRICHMENT OF THE FEW.
Looks pretty familiar ????


کیوں لوگوں سے مہر و وفا کی آس لگائے بیٹھے ہو
 


جھوٹ کے اس مکروہ نگر میں لوگوں کا کردار کہاں



Akhtar N Janjua

Wednesday, July 26, 2017

3:18 PM

DESCENDANTS OF 'HISTORY' !

Salam & Duaien ...

I am reading the History of 18th Century India ... 

Especially, the period after the death of Emperor Aurangzeb Alamgir (1707) to 1770. 

It seems that Jokers, Eunuchs, Conspirators, War Lords, Hitmen and the Fortune Tellers ruled, while the Mughal House was symbolic only, and 'Royal Court filled with Fawners' ...

What was the criterion for conferring Nobility? 

The following excerpt will sum that up:-

'Mughal Courtiers were devoid of COMPETENCE, WISDOM and POLITICAL INSIGHT. Most of them were Mimickers, Jesters, and Flatterers par excellence ... One minstrel Amir Khan Anjaam was made Subedar of Allahabad with the title of Umdat Ul Mulk'. 
  

مغل درباریوں میں قابلیت، حکمت اور سیاسی بصیرت نام کو بھی نہیں تھی۔ اکثر نقالی، لطیفہ گوئ اور خوشامد سے شاہئ دربار میں قرب حاصل کرتے تھے ۔ ایک بھانڈ امیر خان انجام نے لطیفہ گوئ کے فن سے ترقی کر کے محمد شاہ بادشاہ سے الہ آباد کی صوبیداری اور عمدہ الملک کا خطاب پایا ۔

History never stops 'BREEDING' ...



ہزار گِرد لگا لیں قد آور آئینے
حسب نسب بھی تو ہوتے ہیں خاندانوں کے





Akhtar N Janjua

Tuesday, July 25, 2017

12:11 PM

CUSCUTA REFLEXA !

Salam and Duaien ...

The Musical Chair 'One Man Show' System of Ruling has given this country the Monsters of CORRUPTION, INCOMPETENCE, TOTAL DISREGARD FOR THE LAW, ZERO ACCOUNTABILITY, DISRESPECT FOR HUMAN DIGNITY, INSATIABLE LUST/GREED FOR POWER/PENNY and more.

 ... Alongside ... The horror of Thugs, Drugs, and Terror.

All have scavenged ruthlessly ... Military Dictators and Civilian Despots alike... 

Civil Sultans have made deliberate efforts to turn the System into a family Inc while Military Monarchs couldn't do that because their constituency was the Barrel of the Gun and as soon as the control of the Barrel shifted .. the edifice collapsed ... 

Yes ... they could not start a family tree, but successfully (Yahya excluded), planted the CUSCUTA REFLEXA, The Giant Dodder (آکاش بیل) ... in their sunny days and the result is that our Pakistan is covered with the Yellow (s):

















We cannot travel back in time to undo the Past but CAN and MUST resolve for the Future ... 
"We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose." (Desmond Tutu)
سچ خود سے بھی یہ لوگ نہیں بولنے والے
اے اہلِ جنوں تم یہاں بے کار میں آئے
یہ آگ ہوس کی ہے جھلس دے گی اسے بھی
سورج سے کہو سایۂِ دیوار میں آئے




Akhtar N Janjua


Monday, July 24, 2017

10:13 PM

DESIRE ... WHY NOT ... And The REQUIREMENT !

Salam and Duaien ...


Pakistan has suffered so much at the hands of INCOMPETENCE,  GREED and 'Self Supersedes All Else' Syndrome that each one of us DESIRES a change, yet we just can't get ourselves TO DO IT ... 

WHY? 

Because DESIRE without requisite MOTIVATION yields NOTHING. Desire depends on CAPABILITY and CAPABILITY needs the launch pad of MOTIVATION ... We want the CHANGE ... BUT ... also want that someone else should do it for us ... NO GO.

The only way we can have a CHANGE is that WE, (Individuals, Institutions, and Incognizants) create a SENSE OF URGENCY that is so intense that WE ARE COMPELLED TO DO IT AND FOLLOW THROUGH.

WE 'CAN' DO IT has echoed for a long time now ... 

Got To ... 

Replace it with ... WE 'WILL' DO IT ... 




یہ خاکی اپنی فطرت میں نہ نوری ہے نہ ناری ہے





Akhtar N Janjua 

Saturday, July 22, 2017

8:46 PM

PA-NA-MA - PEOPLE, PERCEPTIONS and PERSEVERANCE !

Salam & Duaien;

Panama saga has bewildered millions ... 

It has exposed countless ... 

It has spared neither the Pa nor the Ma. 

It has restored the Image of Few Institutions especially the SCP (arrival of PPP to the premises says volumes - they have had some very genuine grievances), Armed Forces ... and laid bare the integrity of many other public bodies ... 

It has witnessed the emergence of a rarity ... THE JIT ... which from 'KILL THE ISSUE Past' has been catapulted into 'DISCOVER THE TRUTH Present'. 

The curtain is about to fall... Polarized Views, Deliberate Exceptions, Embarrassing Precedences and Murky Past do paint TENTATIVITY ... But ...

For a new beginning. THE NATION has to step up and be counted by rejecting the Ravens, Ceaselessly struggling to root out Corruption and Marooning the Mafias forever ...

اب رات کی دیوار کو ڈھانا ہے ضروری
یہ کام مگر کِسیسے اکیلے نہیں ہو گا

It is said:-
'An IDEALIST believes THE SHORT RUN doesn't count. 
A CYNIC believes THE LONG RUN doesn't matter. 
A REALIST, however, believes that WHAT IS DONE OR LEFT UNDONE IN THE SHORT RUN DETERMINES THE LONG RUN.'

Perseverance, Logicality, and Hope ... required.

جہاں پہنچ کے قدم ڈگمگائے ہیں سب کے
اسی مقام سے اب اپنا راستہ ہو گا






Akhtar N Janjua

Friday, July 21, 2017

3:58 PM

ONCE MORE !

                        ONCE MORE!

ON THE CROSSROADS ... 

ONCE MORE ... 

AN OPPORTUNITY TO CORRECT THE COURSE OF HISTORY. 
The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others.  
It is, through the analyses that he does in his own field; 
to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking;  
to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions ... 
and to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play).

Without any reference to 'RELEVANCE' or otherwise, a quote from Mark Twain reads:-
"History is strewn thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill, but a lie, well told, is immortal."

واقعہ کچھ بھی ہو سچ کہنے میں رسوائی ہے
کیوں نہ خاموش رہوں اہلِ نظر کہلاؤں

آدمیت ہے کہ ہے گنبدِ بے در کوئی
ڈھونڈنے نکلوں تو اپنا بھی نہ رستہ پاؤں




Akhtar N Janjua

Monday, July 17, 2017

5:38 PM

LEADERS ... and ... NOT THE KNEELERS!

SALAM O DUA ..

The Muslim World is long overdue for a 'Renaissance' ... It has to dump THE GARBAGE of centuries miles below the surface for that to happen. Look at the present day Leadership... taking pride in touching the Knees of Masters and sitting on their feet, putting online everything to STAY IN ... WHILE NEVER IDENTIFYING WITH THEIR OWN PEOPLE ...

When shall we have Rulers like:-

'حکمرانی کے لئے ایسا شخص موزوں ترین ہے جو جب منصب پر فائز نہ ہو تو قوم کا سردار نظر آے اور جب حکمرانی کے لئے منتخب ہو جاے تو قوم کے عام آدمی کی طرح بن جاے'
[سیدنا عمرِ فاروق رض]

'The best person for ruling the Nation is one who looks a Leader when not in power .... and becomes an ordinary person when elected to RULE'.. (Syedna Omar RA)

Leaders of the Muslim world since centuries have been MSRs and BSZs, who only remember after reaching Rangoon that 'REMEMBRANCE OF ALLAH WHEN THE SUN IS SHINING BRIGHTLY AND FEAR OF ALLAH WHEN IN RAGE IS MUST ... WHAT TO TALK OF A RULER, FOR EVEN BEING A HUMAN BEING' ... عیش میں یادِ خدا اور طیش میں خوفِ خدا ...

In their hay days, they conveniently forget that a day shall come definitely due to their own deeds, when THEIR SUN WILL HIDE BEHIND THE CLOUD COVER, WINDS SHALL BLOW, LIGHTENING WILL STRIKE .. and ... they will witness the oft-repeated phenomenon that:-

'The lofty Pines are more vulnerable to be shaken by the winds,

High Towers are akin to fall with a heavier crash, AND...

Lightening strikes the highest Mountains.'

ایماں نہیں مومن کا مکافاتِ عمل پر
امیدِ کرم کیا طمعِ خام نہیں ہے


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