Bhanda phor dia

بیٹیاں پھولوں کی طرح ہوتی ہیں

Daughters are like flowers

... تپتی زمیں پر آنسوؤں کے پیار کی صورت ہوتی ہ...یں

On the burning soil, they are like tears of love

...چاہتوں کی صورت ہوتی ہیں

 Forms of fondness

بیٹیاں خوبصورت ہوتی ہیں

Daughters are beautiful

دل کے زخم مٹانے کو

  To erase wounds from hearts

...آنگن میں اتری بوندوں کی طرح ہوتی ہ

 they are like rain drops splashing in your backyard

بیٹیاں پھولوں کی طرح ہوتی ہیں

Daughters speak like flowers

نامہرباں دھوپ میں سایہ دیتی

Shadows in the burning sun

نرم ہتھیلیوں کی طرح ہوتی ہیں

Speak like soft palms of your hands

بیٹیاں تتلیوں کی طرح ہوتی ہیں

Daughters speak like butterflies

چڑیوں کی طرح ہوتی ہیں

Talk like birds

تنہا اداس سفر میں رنگ بھرتی

In lonely journey, fill colors

رداؤں جیسی ہوتی ہیں

Speak like Radahas ..(jogan  

بیٹیاں چھاؤں جیسی ہوتی ہیں

They are like shadows

کبھی بلا سکیں، کبھی چھپا سکیں

  Sometimes seek, sometimes hide

بیٹیاں اَن کہی صداؤں جیسی ہوتی ہیں

Daughters are like unique echoes

کبھی جھکا سکیں، کبھی مٹا سکیں

Sometimes bend down, sometimes….

بیٹیاں اناؤں جیسی ہوتی ہیں

  Daughters are like your ego

کبھی ہنسا سکیں، کبھی رلا سکیں

Sometimes make you laugh, sometimes make u cry

  کبھی سنوار سکیں، کبھی اجاڑ سکیں

They can sometimes sort you out, sometimes destroy you

بیٹیاں تو تعبیر مانگتی دعاؤں جیسی ہوتی ہیں

Daughters are like begging predictions to your prayers

حد سے مہرباں، بیان سے اچھی

More than grateful better than expressed

بیٹیاں وفاؤں جیسی ہوتی ہیں

Daughters are like assurance

پھول جب شاخ سے کٹتا ہے بکھر جاتا ہے

When flower breaks from its branch, and falls apart

پتّیاں سوکھتی ہیں ٹوٹ کے اُڑ جاتی ہیں

Leaves whither and fly away

بیٹیاں پھول ہیں

Daughters are flowers

ماں باپ کی شاخوں پہ جنم لیتی ہیں

They take life on the branches of parental trees

ماں کی آنکھوں کی چمک بنتی ہیں

They shine like light in mother’s eyes

باپ کے دل کا سکوں ہوتی ہیں

They give peace to father's heart 

گھر کو جنت بنا دیتی ہیں

Make the household a heaven

ہر قدم پیار بچھا دیتی ہیں

Spread love on every step

جب بچھڑنے کی گھڑی آتی ہے

When the time comes for separation

غم کے رنگوں میں خوشی آتی ہے

Sadness is captured by the colors of happiness

ایک گھر میں تو اُترتی ہے اداسی لیکن

One house gets sad

دوسرے گھر کے سنورنے کا یقیں ہوتا ہے

The other gets chance to improve

بیٹیاں پھول ہیں

Daughters are flowers

ایک شاخ سے کٹتی ہیں مگر

They break from one branch, but

سوکھتی ہیں نہ کبھی ٹوٹتی ہیں

They never whether or break

ایک نئی شاخ پہ کچھ اور نئے پھول کھِلا دیتی ہ

Spread more flowers on the new branch

محمد شعیب تنولی

Translation by: Naseem Sheikh

Look forward

Don't base your attitude on what you've already experienced in the past. Choose your attitude based on what you would most like to experience in the future.

The way you decide to see the world determines what kind of world you see. Decide to see, and to live in, the very best world you can imagine.

Don't waste a lot of time complaining about what has already happened. Put your time and energy into envisioning and planning and acting to create the life you truly wish to live.

Look forward with eager anticipation, see life at its best, and smile about what you see. What's ahead is what counts, because that's what you have the opportunity to choose right now.

There's never any reason to be discouraged. No matter where you are or where you've been, you can choose a positive future for yourself.

Look forward, and see the positive possibilities. Look forward, and step decisively toward the best of them.

— Ralph Marston

Be specific

Achievement is not generic. In order to achieve, you must achieve something specific.

If you seek true fulfillment, you have to precisely define what that fulfillment looks like. Being successful means being successful in some particular endeavor.

Instead of just wishing for a better life or wishing for a more pleasant situation, be specific. An essential part of getting what you desire is clearly expressing what you desire.

To make your dreams real, give them rich and compelling details. Be specific, to such a degree that you can literally touch those dreams from where you are.

Life's abundance is infinitely flexible and malleable. Your job is to shape that abundance into something truly meaningful.

There is no shortage of energy and raw material for you to work with. Be specific about what you desire, and bring those desires to life.

— Ralph Marston

Most Beautiful and Amazing Paintings

anokha love letter

(سنت نبوی اور جدید سائنس)

ایک دفعہ فرانس میں ایک شخص وضو کررھا تھاکہ ایک آدمی غور سے کھڑا

دیکھ رھا تھا اس نے محسوس تو کر لیا لیکن وضو کرتا رھاجب اس نے وضو کر

... ... لیا تو دیکھنے والے شخص نے اس کو بلا کر پو چھا کہ

آپ کون ھیں ؟ اس نے کہا میں مسلمان ھوں

کہا، کہاں سے آٰ ئے ھو ؟ ۔۔۔ ۔اس نے کہا پا کستان سے۔۔۔۔۔۔

کہنے لگا کہ پاکستان میں کتنے پاگل خانے ھیں؟ ۔۔۔۔۔بڑا عجیب سا سوال تھا ۔اس نے کہا دو یا چار۔۔۔۔

کہنے لگا کہ تم نے یہ ابھی کیا کیا ھے؟ اس نے کھا کہ وضو کیا ھے۔۔۔۔

۔کہنے لگا ، روزانہ کرتےھو؟ ۔۔۔۔اس نے کہا روزانہ بلکہ دن میں پانچ مرتبہ

وہ حیران ھوا اور کہنےلگا یہاں مینٹل (دماغی امراض) کے لئے ھسپتال ھے میں اس میں سرجن ھوں سوچتا رھتا ھوں کہ

 لوگ پاگل کیوں ھوتے ھیں

پھر کہنے لگا کہ انسان کے دماغ کے سگنل پورے جسم میں جاتے ھیں اور اور ھمارے جسم کے اعضاء کام کرتے ھیں۔۔۔۔

اور ھمارا دماغ ھر وقت

fluid کےاندر float کر رھا ھے اس لئے ھم بھاگتے ھیں کود تے ھیں دوڑتے ھیں پھرتے ھیں اور دما غ کو کچھ نہیں ھوتا 

اگر کوئی Rigid چیز ھوتی تو ٹوٹ چکی ھوتی اللہ تعالٰی نے اس کو fluid کے اندر رکھا ھے۔۔۔اس دماغ سے چند باریک 

باریک رگیں بن کر آ رہی ھیں اور ھماری گردن کی پشت پر پورے جسم کو جاتی ھیں۔۔۔۔۔

سرجن مزید کہنے لگا۔۔۔۔

میں نے جو ریسرچ کی ھے کہ اگر گردن کی پشت کو خشک رکھا جائےتو ان رگوں کے اندر کئی دفعہ خشکی پیدا ھو جاتی 

ھےاور انسان کے جسم پر اس کا اثر ھوتا ھے۔۔۔۔۔۔

کئ دفعہ ایسا بی ھوتا ھے کہ انسان کا دما غ کام کام کرنا چھوڑ دیتا ھے اس لئے ڈاکٹر نے سوچا کہ اس جگہ گردن کو دن 

میں دو چار بار تر رکھا جائے کہنے لگا ابھی میں نے آپ کو دیکھا کہ آپ نے ھاتھ منہ تو دھوئے ہی ہیں لیکن یہاں گردن کی 

پچھلی طرف بھی آپ نے کچھ کیا ھے_

وہ ڈاکٹر کہنے لگا آپ لوگ پھر کیسے پاگل ھو سکتے ھین مزید یہ کہ مسح

سے لو لگنا اور گردن توڑ بخار کا خاتمہ ھوتا ھے ۔۔۔۔۔۔۔۔

(سنت نبوی اور جدید سائنس)

بچے کے خلاف مقدمہ

امریکہ کی ایک ریاست میں ایک ماں نے اپنے بچے کے خلاف مقدمہ کیا کہ میرے 
بیٹے نے گھر میں ایک کتا پالا ہوا ہے، روزانہ چار گھنٹے اس کے ساتھ گزارتا ہے، اسے نہلاتا ہے، اس کی ضروریات پوری کرتا ہے، اسے اپنے ساتھ ٹہلنے کے لئےبھی لے جاتاہے' روزانہ سیر کرواتا ہے اور کھلاتا پلاتا بھی خوب ہے اور میں بھی اسی گھر میں رہتی ہوں لیکن میرا بیٹا میرے کمرے میں پانچ منٹ کے لئے بھی نہیں آتا، اس لئے عدالت کو چائیے کہ وہ میرے بیٹے کو روزانہ میرے کمرے میں ایک مرتبہ آنے کا پاپند کرے۔ جب ماں نے مقدمہ کیا تو بیٹے نے بھی مقدمے لڑنے کی تیاری کرلی۔ ماں بیٹے نے وکیل کرلیا دونوں وکیل جج کے سامنے پیش ہوئے اور کاروائی مکمل کرنے کے بعد جج نے جو فیصلہ سنایا ، ملاحظ کیجئے۔

"عدالت آپ کے بیٹے کو آپ کے کمرے میں5 منٹ آنے پر مجبور نہیں کر سکتی کیونکہ ملک کا قانون ہے جب اولاد 18 سال کی ہو جائے تو اسے حق حاصل ہوتا ہے کہ والدین کو کچھ ٹائم دے یا نہ دے یا بالکل علیحدہ ہو جائے
رہی بات کتے کی - تو کتے کے حقوق لازم ہیں جنہیں ادا کرنا ضروری ہے البتہ ماں کو کوئی تکلیف ہو تو اسے چائیے کہ وہ حکومت سے رابطہ کرے تو وہ اسے بوڑھوں کے گھر لے جائیں گے اور وہاں اس کی خبرگیری کریں گے"۔

یہ وہ متعفن اقدار ہیں جن کے پیچھے ہمارے بہت سے لوگ اندھا دھند بھاگ رہے ہیں۔ یقین کریں ہمارے معاشرے میں بڑوں کا احترام اور چھوٹوں پر شفقت جیسی اعلیٴ روایات ہماری اسی مغربی تقلید کی دجہ سے ہی دم توڑ رہی ہیں۔

بے عیب تصویر

بے عیب تصویر

کہنے کو تو بادشاہ انصاف پسند اور عوام کے دکھ سکھ کو سمجھنے والا تھا مگر جسمانی طور پر ایک ٹانگ سے لنگڑا اور ایک آنکھ سے کانا تھا۔

ایک دن بادشاہ نے اپنی مملکت کے ماہر مصوروں کو اپنی تصویر بنوانے کیلئے بلوا لیا۔

اور وہ بھی اس شرط پر، کہ تصویر میں اُسکے یہ عیوب نہ دکھائی دیں۔

سارے کے سارے مصوروں نے یہ تصویر بنانے سے انکار کر دیا۔

اور وہ بھلا بادشاہ کی دو آنکھوں والی تصویر بناتے بھی کیسے جب بادشاہ تھا ہی ایک آنکھ سے کانا،

اور وہ کیسے اُسے دو ٹانگوں پر کھڑا ہوا دکھاتے جبکہ وہ ایک ٹانگ سےبھی لنگڑا تھا۔

لیکن

اس اجتماعی انکار میں ایک مصور نے کہا: بادشاہ سلامت میں بناؤں گا آپکی تصویر۔

اور جب تصویر تیار ہوئی تو اپنی خوبصورتی میں ایک مثال اور شاہکار تھی۔

وہ کیسے؟؟

تصویر میں بادشاہ شکاری بندوق تھامے نشانہ باندھے ، جس کیلئے لا محالہ اُسکی ایک (کانی) آنکھ کو بند ،

اور اُسکے (لنگڑی ٹانگ والے) ایک گھٹنے کو زمیں پر ٹیک لگائے دکھایا گیا تھا۔

اور اس طرح بڑی آسانی سے ہی بادشاہ کی بے عیب تصویر تیار ہو گئی تھی۔

کیوں ناں ہم بھی اِسی طرح دوسروں کی بے عیب تصویر بنا لیا کریں

خواہ انکے عیب کتنے ہی واضح ہی نظر آ رہے ہوا کریں!!

اور کیوں ناں جب لوگوں کی تصویر دوسروں کے سامنے پیش کیا کریں…. اُنکے عیبوں کی پردہ پوشی کر لیا کریں!!

آخر کوئی شخص بھی تو عیبوں سے خالی نہیں ہوتا!!

کیوں نہ ہم اپنی اور دوسروں کی مثبت اطراف کو اُجاگر کریں اور منفی اطراف کو چھوڑ دیں…… اپنی اور دوسروں کی خوشیوں کیلئے!!

ابنِ عمر رضی اللہ عنہ کی روایت کردہ ایک حدیث پاک کا ملخص اور مفہوم ہے کہ

(جو شخص مسلمان کی پردہ پوشی کرے گا ، اللہ تعالیٰ قیامت کے دن اس کی پردہ پوشی کرے گا.

Valentines Day : How Halaal is it ?

In the name of Allah, the Most-Merciful, the All-Compassionate 

"May the Peace and Blessings of Allah be Upon You"

Praise be to Allaah, we seek His help and His forgiveness. We seek refuge with Allaah from the evil of our own souls and from our bad deeds. Whomsoever Allaah guides will never be led astray, and whomsoever Allaah leaves astray, no one can guide. I bear witness that there is no god but Allaah, and I bear witness that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger.

  

Bismillah Walhamdulillah Was Salaatu Was Salaam 'ala Rasulillah

As-Salaam Alaikum Wa-Rahmatullahi Wa-Barakatuhu

Valentines Day : How Halaal is it ?

by Asma bint Shameem

Okay...so its that time of the year again. When they say that "love" is in the air. The time when you see RED  everywhere.....red hearts, red candy, red flowers and red roses.

And when you walk into the stores you see chocolates, and jewelry and gifts for "that someone special you know".
 

This is the time when the old and the young, and even kids, as young as those in elementary school, exchange valentine cards and love notes amongst themselves.

And why is all this?

Because it's "Valentine's Day"...thats why.

But the sad calamity is, that even us Muslims are doing this. And its not just in the West. Those living in Muslim countries are just as involved. They too, are exchanging cards and gifts and love notes.

They too, are celebrating Valentines Day,

But what is this "Valentine's Day" after all ?

Have we ever thought about it? What is the story behind it?

What does celebrating "Valentines Day" really mean?

Where does this fit in a Muslims life?

In fact, does it even fit in it at all?

Looking at the Quraan and Sunnah, one should realize that we should not be celebrating it in the first place, because it is a celebration of the non-Muslims. Whatever we need to celebrate has been prescribed to us by Allaah and His Messenger (Sal Allaahu Alaiyhi wa sallam) and it is prohibited to celebrate anything else.

That is why And Allaah said:

"For every nation We have ordained religious ceremonies which they must follow." [Surah al-Hajj:67]

And the Prophet (Sal Allaahu Alaiyhi wa sallam) said: "Every nation has its own Eid (celebration) and this is our Eid (meaning Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha). ’ (al-Bukhaari, Muslim)

 

But, even if this Divine command was not there, it stillwould not be appropriate for a Muslim to celebrate Valentines Day.

Why is that ?

Because, if you really think about it, what this day promotes and revolves around, goes against the very basic principles of Islaam. What this day encourages, cuts at the very roots of what our religion teaches us.

Let us see what some of these differences are:

1. Allaah commands us to lower our gaze and not look at the opposite gender.

“Tell the believing men to lower their gaze and protect their private parts....And tell the believing women to lower their gaze, and protect their private parts...” Surah al-Noor :30-31)

But Valentines Day encourages people to deliberately look and stare and seek out the one that you find attractive and pick him/her as your valentine.

2.  Allaah orders the Muslim women not to talk unnecessarily or in a soft manner to strange men.

“....then be not soft in speech, lest he in whose heart is a disease (of hypocrisy, or evil desire for adultery) should be moved with desire” (Surah al-Ahzaab :32)

 

Even for the Sahaabah, Allaah ordered them to screen themselves from the wives of the Prophet (Sal Allaahu Alaiyhi wa sallam) when they need to ask them something.  Who could be purer than the wives of the Prophet (Sal Allaahu Alaiyhi wa sallam) and who could be higher in taqwa than the Sahaabah?

"And when you ask (the Prophets wives) for anything you want, ask them from behind a screen, that is purer for your hearts and for their hearts".
(Surah al-Ahzaab: 53)

Yet, for Valentines Day, you see young men and women who are absolutely not mahram for one another in any way whatsoever, going way beyond this prohibition. Not only are they talking to each other in a soft and flirtatious way, but they are right out expressing their love (in reality, lust) for each other.

3. The Sunnah prohibits a man and a woman from being alone together at any time.

The Prophet (Sal Allaahu Alaiyhi wa sallam) said:

“Whoever believes in Allaah and the Last Day, let him not be alone with a woman who has no mahram present, for the third one present will be the Shaytaan.” (Ahmad -- saheeh by al-Albaani)

 

But those who celebrate Valentines Day purposely seek to be alone with each other and go out on dates with each other while Allaah says:

“And come not near to unlawful sex. Verily, it is a Faahishah (i.e. anything that transgresses its limits: a great sin, and an evil way that leads one to hell unless Allaah Forgives him)” (al-Isra’ :32)

  

4. Islaam prohibits a man to even touch a non-mahram woman.

The Prophet (Sal Allaahu Alaiyhi wa sallam) said:

“If one of you were to be stabbed in the head with an iron needle, that would be better for him than his touching a woman who is not permissible for him.” (al-Tabaraani --saheeh by al-Albaani)

 

But Valentines Day promotes more than just touching. It promotes hugging, kissing, cuddling and much more. May Allaah protect us.

 

5. Islaam teaches us that real love between a man and a woman, that is acceptable and allowed by Allaah is only that between a husband and his wife.

"And of His signs is that He created for you wives from among yourselves, that you might reside with them, and has put love and mercy between you. Surely, there are signs in this for those who think".
(al-Room: 21)

But Valentines Day endorses haraam relationships between a non-mahram man and woman and encourages illicit love and un-Islaamic affiliations.

6. Islaam tells us that Hayaa (modesty) and bashfulness are a jewel to be treasured.

It is a purity and innocence that is a virtue, regardless for a man or a woman.

The Prophet (Sal Allaahu Alaiyhi wa sallam) said:

“Hayaa (modesty) is a branch of faith.” (Bukhaari)

On the other hand, this Valentines day advocates nothing but shamelessness and immodesty. Young men and women who have no hayaa for Allaah, leave alone for each other, openly and shamelessly, ask each other to be their love or be their valentine. Subhaan Allaah!

Conclusion

We, as Muslims, should not be celebrating Valentines day, nor is it allowed for us to do so. Everything that this day revolves around and is associated with is totally against the pure and pristine teachings of Allaah and His Messenger (Sal Allaahu Alaiyhi wa sallam).

One shouldnt even congratulate one another or commemorate this day in any way or form. Even if this celebration is between a husband and wife, it is not right to do so because it is a celebration of the non-Muslims. And of course, if it is an illicit relationship, then obviously it is haraam.

 

We should adhere to the limits set by Allaah, and not transgress them just because we see other people doing so.

May Allah guide us and enable us to be true Muslims who submit earnestly and sincerely to Allaah and His Orders.
Ameen.

"O you who believe! Fear Allaah and keep your duty to Him. And let every person look to what he has sent forth for tomorrow, and fear Allaah. Verily, Allaah is All-Aware of what you do."
(Surah al-Hashr:18)

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These  are like the Ten commandments to follow in life all the time.

1] Prayer is not a "spare wheel" that you pull out when in trouble, but it is a "steering wheel" that directs the right path throughout.


2] So why a Car's WINDSHIELD is so large and the Rear view Mirror is so small? Because our PAST is not as important as our FUTURE. So, Look Ahead and Move on.

3] Friendship is like a BOOK. It takes few seconds to burn, but it takes years to write.


4] All things in life are temporary. If going well, enjoy it, they will not last forever. If going wrong, don't worry, they can't last long either.


5] Old Friends are Gold! New Friends are Diamond! If you get a Diamond, don't forget the Gold! Because to hold a Diamond, you always need a Base of Gold!


6] Often when we lose hope and think this is the end, GOD smiles from above and says, "Relax, sweetheart, it's just a bend, not the end!


7] When GOD solves your problems, you have faith in HIS abilities; when GOD doesn't solve your problems HE has faith in your abilities.


8] A blind person asked St. Anthony: "Can there be anything worse than losing eye sight?" He replied: "Yes, losing your vision!"


9] When you pray for others, God listens to you and blesses them, and sometimes, when you are safe and happy, remember that someone has prayed for you.


10] WORRYING does not take away tomorrow's TROUBLES, it takes away today's PEACE.

 

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Naughty Babies

The beggar, thief & clerk

The beggar, the thief and the clerk are Pakistan`s modern-day agents of change

IN the beginning there were beggars, one or two or four folded on sidewalks at traffic lights or lingering in alleys and outside bazaars, hands spread before shaved and showered men going to work, housewives carrying bags of tomatoes and potatoes.

If there was spare change in the latter`s fists, stray notes or coins left behind from the purchase of this or that, they dutifully handed them over; if not, they muttered a perfunctory plea for forgiveness against the sin of having just a bit more, enough to make them the target of another`s greater want.

Those were the slightly better days of old, when beggary was a recourse and not a profession, and the beggar a tolerated even pitied edgedweller at the margins of society.

Now, as reams of newspaper articles and media exposés heavy with the revelations of anchors have told us, beggary is a business with all the sophistications of revenue projections and market shares.

In Karachi, in the area behind Boat Basin, training schools can be found where children `purchased` from hapless villages afflicted by floods or fighting are brought for instruction.

Theyare taughtthe speedy calculations of money and manipulation, who will give and not give, what signs suggest a bleeding heart or a guilty one or simply one that will cave in before the dirty palm or the wilted rose against the clean windshield.

Those that beg from us know our demons as well as we know our deepest desires.

The beggar is the most benevolent of Pakistan`s new agents of redistribution. His arsenal is emotion, persistence, guilt small, sly dramas of filth, suffering anddestitution played out in parts before his targets.

Others in the business of taking are less benign, more entitled and focused on the task of easy acquisition via the cold barrel of a gun peeking from a pocket or pressed against a vulnerable body.For these, the daily take is better: phones and wallets, a gold bangle or two, maybe a locket that spells a name or a prayer, all pocketed easily before the move to another intersection. It`s quick work that pays well, no longer even maligned by the guilt of the days of old when holding people up was unarguably evil, morally impermissible, legally punishable.

If you care to chat, the assailant relieving you of your cellphone may tell you, like the beggar, a saga of constricted choices and the evisceration of opportunity. Your wealth, however meagre the cellphone you may have saved up to buy, the ring your grandmother gave you when you turned 12 all render you guilty.

The mere fact of their possession proclaim your membership amongst the supposedly enfranchised; legitimate targets for righteous robbing.

There is no taint in taking from the supposedly rich to cater to the hunger of the certainly poor.

The beggar and the thief are the visible assailants in an unequal society. But the morality of self-help, of taking because you can, is not simply a strategy of the streetemployed by those visibly beyond the margins.

Inside stuffy offices, up crumbling staircases that pause at paan-stained landings, are the secret thieves who enable their own acts of redistribution some more overtly than others.

The clerk at the water board office who wants a few hundred rupees to pass a paper to his boss, the shopkeeper`s assistant who takes two bottles of shampoo for himself before he stocks the shelf, the almost-executive who charges the birthday dinner to the company credit card all, it seems, are complicit in small acts of thievery, practised by the righteous criminals of Pakistan, believers all in the mantra that commands `if you don`t take you will never receive`.

The beggar, the thief and the clerk are Pakistan`s modern-day agents of change, far from the armchair sort that march at rallies and gulp down whatever new elixir of hope is pedalled at such occasions, or are proffered on Twitter.

Visible in the righteous confidence of the acts of taking of the beggar, the thief or the clerk are the symptoms of a system broken for so long that the recovery of its limbs can no longer be imagined.

The transformation that they enable every day would not be so tragic if it were complete. Their acts of imagined retribution for the wrongs that each of them have suffered blows from the pimp who bought one, taunts from the boss who wronged another are directed at random, helpless others with only chance and unfortunate resemblances to their tormentors.

When justice is enacted by those who have been denied this very thing, it becomes quite simply vengeance whose severity seems warranted even when it victimises without discerning. In the Pakistan run by the beggar, the thief and the clerk, a price must be paid by someone,anyone, to sate the roaring fires that burn in the land of the so many wronged.

In one of the bleating talkshow presentations that are forced down Pakistan`s robbed and ravaged throat everyday, a religious leader suggested a solution for the breakdown of justice, the decade-long adjudications that decide nothing at all.

Thieves, he insisted against a video of a brazen bank robbery, must be hanged in a square for all to see, within one week of their crime.

The proposition is an attractive one, not least because all of us consuming it imagine ourselves circling the square in gawking safety rather than be wrongly hanged in it.

In the beguiling simplicity of this solution lie some clues of the Pakistan to come: when selecting a cure, an ailing society selects not the inoculation that will dig deep into muscle and bone to dig out disease or to heal completely, but the painkiller that will instantly, potently stem the pain.• The writer is an attorney teaching political philosophy and constitutional law.