For every closed door, there is always another which is open—but only to those who have the eyes to see it and the courage to march through it.
SOI Magazine, Mar 2016
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The most blessed marriage is one in which the marriage partners place the least burden on each other. — Prophet Muhammad (Musnad Ahmad, Hadith No. 24529)
SOI Magazine, Mar 2016
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A wise man always differentiates between a positive response and a negative reaction, between a realistic approach and an emotional approach.
SOI Magazine, Mar 2016
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Nazr is real!
Growing up I never believed in it. I didn’t care about what my parents said, I thought I was invincible. Got success very early on in life - my life looked like a fairy tale from afar. And, it was too. Until nazr creeped in and I watched the life I had built unravel, one brick at a time, until I barely recognized it.
I’ve learned that not everything needs to be shared. Not everyone needs to see your vacation photos, your healthy children, your thriving career, or your happy marriage.Guard your life the way you guard your wealth.
But there’s divine beauty in certain lessons. Humility for one. You come to realize that nothing is truly in your control, and nothing truly belongs to you. Not the beauty of your face. Not your intelligence. Not your wealth, your career, or even your children. We own nothing other than our ikhlaq. And sometimes tests befall us so we can find the real beauty within. Alhumdulillah
Establish a peaceful atmosphere at any cost, it will open up opportunities and availing these through wise planning, we can achieve success.
SOI Magazine, Mar 2016
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A wounded heart and a dysregulated nervous system do not experience time the way the world believes they should.
They say time heals everything. But there are wounds that time does not heal it merely illuminates. With every passing day, it throws light upon what is no longer there. The silence grows louder, the absence becomes more tangible, and the distance stretches into something almost immeasurable.
Time has a peculiar way of magnifying what the heart has tried so desperately to bury. It sharpens the edges of misunderstandings, exposes the depth of betrayal, and mourns the futures that never came to be. It reminds us of the hopes we carried with open hands, only to watch them dissolve into memories.
Perhaps healing is not the disappearance of pain. Perhaps it is learning to coexist with echoes that never truly fade. For some wounds, time is not the cure it is the mirror that reflects everything we have lost, until one day, we no longer fear the reflection...
Petrol at Rs 30/litre in Pakistan sounds crazy. It is not. What is crazy is the policy failure that prevents it.
Petrol is around Rs 300/litre today, excluding government levy, here's how it can effectively be Rs 30/litre.
People do not consume petrol for its own sake; they use it to travel. The average Pakistani rides a motorbike. A fuel-efficient motorbike can travel about 60 km on one litre. An efficient electric scooter can travel about 30 km per kWh, so it needs only 2 kWh to cover the same 60 km.
What should 2 kWh cost in Pakistan? Pakistan is one of the best places in the world for solar, with an all-in LCOE cost of around 5 cents per kWh. The electricity cost is 10 cents, or Rs 30/litre of distance travelled! The Rs 30/litre calculation remains the same for cars.
The 300-versus-30 gap is the cost of bad policy. It reflects billions of dollars of saving that could instead finance EV infrastructure: charging, distribution, battery swapping, and smart pricing software etc. - boosting much-needed domestic investment.
Since solar is highly modular. You do not need massive scale to get reasonable efficiency. That creates business and employment opportunities for small domestic power producers. Instead, Pakistan leaned into large fossil-fuel plants financed by dollar-denominated borrowing and guaranteed returns.
Local firms face credit constraints, but solar creates a natural collateralizable cash flow through electricity sales to the grid. With the right regulatory framework, this could have unlocked large private domestic investment, and employment.
Battery swapping is another area where small local businesses could have emerged and scaled.
Electricity enables smart pricing. When solar supply is abundant, prices can fall, and poor households and firms can shift usage to cheaper hours - automatic demand stabilization
Better air quality would mean longer, healthier lives and higher productivity. That is a growth multiplier
Green technology industries could be developed domestically with the right industrial policy, easing balance-of-payments pressure while raising employment and investment.
Instead, Pakistan chose imported-fuel power plants, protected a backward-looking domestic auto sector, and raised electricity prices by burdening them with the fixed costs of those plants and heavy taxation, slowing EV adoption. Then came the net-metering fiasco, all to keep zombie power plants alive.
Pakistan’s energy policy may be the clearest example of a broken nervous system. I hope someone fixes it, because people are paying the price, 300-versus-30
To any future historians reading this, this era will make a lot more sense if you remember that every name is the opposite of what it really is. The antifascists are fascists, the antiracists are racists, the fact-checkers are propagandists, etc. Hopefully this has been fixed by your time.
the most feminine has a masculine soul and the most masculine has a feminine soul
in taoism it's understood as higher embodiment, that which is very feminine is delicate and light, and thus is hardened and weighed down by a dark soul when in balance - while that which is very masculine is heavy and dark, and thus is softened and eased by a light soul when in balance
you could view it as the law of opposites - the more delicate and careful you are the more hardened your soul is as a compensation - the more hard and careless you are the more softened your soul is as a compensation
in practice it means the tomboys and girlbosses are more femininely embodied, while sensitive young men are more masculinely embodied
in order to be fully embodied you can't fall to either side however
for the woman the feminine must be nurtured greatly in order to ensure that the tomboy spirit doesn't develop into animus possession and repressed femininity
for the man the masculine must be developed greatly in order to ensure that the sensitive spirit doesn't turn into anima possession and repressed masculinity
basically the tomboy/girlboss that maintains her feminine and fully embodies it becomes the higher embodiment of a woman - nobody likes a dyke, a woman larping as a man is annoying, but a woman evenly matched with men in intellect, skill, power while being femininely embodied is either intimidating or irresistible to men - the highest embodiment of femininity imo
likewise the sensitive young man that maintains his masculine and fully embodies it becomes the higher embodiment of a man - nobody likes a pussy, a man being insecure is annoying, but a man that maintains sensitivity towards all things while being a masculine force of command is a master of the world
to fully complete the embodiment
to full complete your tao
is to find the externalization of your internal spirit
- as a women to find the embodiment of your animus in a man
- as a man to find the embodiment of your anima in a woman
some believe everyone has a soul mate and the soul can first ascend when it is brought into union with its counterpart
there's an ancient greek story by Aristophanes where he describes the original humans as having two bodies conjoined, and that each human had a male and female part of them, the original humans however were too powerful and threatening to the gods so Zeus split them in half and made them spend their lives searching for their other halves to keep them weak and confused so they didn't become a threat for the gods
who knows if soul mates are literally real, but there is definitely a mystical truth to the process of it all
the individual always yearns to become something greater than itself, it is the primal drive of life to seek union of opposites and completion
the physical and mystical drive are one in the same in this sense
the physical urge and drive towards procreation and children is the same as the mystical urge and drive towards higher alchemy of self and completion