Shehryar Afridi

[Shehryar Afridi @WanderingAfridi]

@utggondal I'll call it a resurgence only when he start performing in test and ODIs. His game in leagues has never been down. It was the BBL that crushed his confidence otherwise he has always been great in PSL

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

A Persian scholar finished a single math book in 9th century Baghdad that quietly became the foundation for every line of code running on Earth today.

I started reading about him at midnight and could not believe how many things in my daily life trace back to one man.

His name was Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi. The book is called The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing.

Every time you say the word algebra, you are saying his book title. Every time someone says the word algorithm, they are saying his name. Both English words come from him. Both are Latin transliterations of Arabic and of his own identity. The man did not just contribute to mathematics. He named it.

Here is the part almost nobody tells you.

Al-Khwarizmi was born around 780 CE in Khwarazm, in what is now Uzbekistan. He moved to Baghdad and worked at a research institution called the House of Wisdom, which during the Islamic Golden Age was the single most important center of learning on the planet. The caliph al-Mamun hired the best mathematicians, astronomers, and philosophers from across three continents and put them in one building with one job. Translate, study, and produce new knowledge.

Al-Khwarizmi finished his book on algebra around 820 CE. The Arabic title contained the word al-jabr, which referred to one of the two operations he used to solve equations. When the book was translated into Latin in the 12th century, the Latin world did not have a word for what he had built. So they kept his Arabic word. Al-jabr became algebra. The discipline was named after a single Arabic word in the title of a single book by a single man.

The deeper insight is what he actually changed about how humans think.

Before al-Khwarizmi, mathematical problems were solved geometrically. You drew shapes. You measured them. You compared areas. The Greeks had built an entire mathematical tradition on visual proofs and physical constructions. It was beautiful and limited. You could not solve a problem you could not draw.

Al-Khwarizmi did something nobody had done before him at this scale. He said you could solve any problem using abstract symbols and rules. You did not need a shape. You needed a procedure. You moved terms across the equation. You cancelled like terms on both sides. You isolated the unknown. He invented the idea that mathematics is a manipulation of symbols according to rules, not a study of physical figures.

That single shift made everything that came afterward possible. Calculus. Differential equations. Linear algebra. Quantum mechanics. None of it works if math is locked inside geometry. He pulled it out.

The second thing he did is the one that changed how the world counted forever. He took the Hindu numeral system from Indian mathematics, refined it, and wrote a book introducing it to the Arab world. That system included the concept of zero as a placeholder, and a positional notation where the value of a digit depends on its location. Roman numerals could not do complex calculation. Hindu-Arabic numerals could.

When his book on numerals was translated into Latin as Algoritmi de numero Indorum, the word Algoritmi was just the Latin spelling of his own name. Europeans started calling the new method "doing algorism," then "running an algorithm." The word for the most important concept in computer science is literally his name in Latin.

The third thing he did is the part that should haunt anyone who works in tech.

His method of solving problems was systematic. Step one, do this. Step two, check that. Step three, if condition A, then do X, otherwise do Y. He wrote down procedures that could be followed by anyone, anywhere, who knew how to read. The procedure did not depend on intuition or genius. It worked because the steps worked.

That is exactly what an algorithm is. A finite, deterministic procedure for solving a problem. He did not just give us the word. He gave us the entire concept of programming a thousand years before there was anything to program.

When Alan Turing built the first abstract model of computation in 1936, when John von Neumann designed the first stored-program computer in 1945, when every engineer at Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind writes code in 2026, they are working in a paradigm that started with one man in Baghdad twelve centuries ago.

The strangest part is what happens when you walk into any tech office in San Francisco or Bangalore or Lahore today. Engineers say the words algebra and algorithm hundreds of times a day. They do not know whose name they are saying. Almost nobody can spell al-Khwarizmi correctly on the first try.

His original Arabic manuscript is preserved at Oxford. His book on Hindu numerals survives only in Latin translation. The Latin version was the textbook that taught medieval Europe how to count.

The man who built the foundation of the AI revolution did not live to see a calculator. He died around 850 CE, a thousand years before the first electric current was sent through a wire. The civilization he built mathematics for collapsed. The library he wrote in burned. His own grave is unmarked.

But every algorithm running on every machine on Earth right now still answers to his name.

[Pakistan Strategic Forum @ForumStrategic]

Footage shows manufacturing of Pakistan's indigenous PRSC-EO3 satellite at the SUPARCO Satellite Research & Development Facility, later the footage demonstrates how EO3 satellite was airlifted via PAF IL-78 to China, footage also shows the final preparation of the satellite before the launch 🇨🇳 🤝 🇵🇰

[Mir Mohammad Alikhan @MirMAKOfficial]

This is my beautiful Pakistan. This is the country that lives in my soul. This is heaven on earth to me.

[It's Ahmad @AhmadX_Official]

An old clip that has resurfaced:

A man is seen jumping with overwhelming joy upon seeing the City of the Messenger of Allah PBUH ❤️

[Salahu @salahudeen33]

Retweet the Quran, your hands will bear witness for you on judgement day...

[𝐀𝐥-𝐐𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐧 || القرآن @Al_quraan114]

Repost, it will help you and me❤🕊️

[Shehryar Afridi @WanderingAfridi]

@jayeshbiltheria @ka_leem7 @MichaelKugelman Remove the 'e' from your 2nd name and it fits so well. 🙌

[Shehryar Afridi @WanderingAfridi]

@smartboy32 @iamqadirkhawaja کیا آپ کو خود بھی سمجھ آئی ہے کہ آپ نے کیا لکھا ہے؟

[Islamic Reflections @Islamic_reflec]

La hawla wala quwwata illa billah...

NASA shared images of space from Mars.

In the face of the magnificence of His infinite and supreme power, even spending a whole lifetime in prostration (Sujood) to Allah would not be enough.

[Aasim @AasimSaeedPPP]

90 minutes before nuclear annihilation of a Civilization - Pakistan made the call.

40+ countries said thank you.

On camera. On record. With receipts. Every quote. Every leader. Every flag. With Source.

Dataset(CSV)/Visuals/Music/Video available on demand.

[Dr. Saira Bano Orakzai @OrakzaiSaira]

Allama Iqbal in "Zarb e Kaleem" 1936
#IslamabadTheDestination
#Islambadtalks

[Dan Qayyum @DanQayyum]

Godspeed, Pakistan 🕊️

[Mohammad Taqi @mazdaki]

پاکستان تو دل ھا را بُردی
Pakistan, you stole (our) hearts!

Iranian song expresses profuse gratitude to 🇵🇰
Via @YousufNazar

[Wajahat Kazmi @KazmiWajahat]

VIDEO OF THE DAY 😂

A former US diplomat gives a shut-up call to the Indian media for their foolish anti-Pakistan agenda during the Islamabad peace talks between Iran and the US.

India has lost all the respect!

[Fahd Husain @Fahdhusain]

It’s a good day to talk. Islamabad has closed its roads but opened its arms for Iranians & Americans alike. With apologies to Churchill sahib, never have so many banked so much on…not so few, but one. Primarily one. Falling bombs, closed straits, and glorious - yes glorious fate - all have combined to bring the world, here this morning, to this beautiful City by the Hills. As sworn enemies prepare to face each other across a table - unprecedented moment in itself - & as they sharpen their negotiating terms & arguments to clinch a better deal, it’s hard to say who will smile all the way back to their respective capitals. But amid such de-escalating tension & escalating hope, one winner has already reserved a space on the victory stand: Pakistan.

Welcome to Islamabad!
#islamabadtalks

[Yasser Latif Hamdani @theRealYLH]

This is beautiful

[Zard si Gana @ZardSi]

Indians: “We are also playing a key role in Iran-US war.”

Meanwhile India’s role in this war:

[Umar Khayyam @utggondal]

The great Munir Niazi
اس حسن کا شیوہ ہے جب عشق نظر آئے
پردے میں چلے جانا شرمائے ہوئے رہنا

اک شام سی کر رکھنا کاجل کے کرشمے سے
اک چاند سا آنکھوں میں چمکائے ہوئے رہنا

عادت ہی بنا لی ہے تم نے تو منیرؔ اپنی
جس شہر میں بھی رہنا اکتائے ہوئے رہنا

[Think Tank @RRazzaqPMLN]

All the way from Egypt 🇪🇬 for Pakistan 🇵🇰