Danish Butt

Slaves are patients suffering from multiple disorders and I am the chronic patient. 🍁

[Dr. Muhammad Sameer Shafi Siddiqui @drsameersiddiqi]

غُرَّۂ محرم الحرام سال ؀۱۴۴۸ ھ
الٰہی ہمارے گزشتہ سال کے سبھی گناہوں اور کوتاہیوں کی بخشش عطا فرما اور نیا ہجری سال ہمارے لۓ اطاعت، عبادت اور سعادت کا سال قرار دے۔
محرم الحرام میں کربلا والوں کا غم تازہ ہونے پر جملہ محبین کو تسلیت عرض ہے۔
السّلام علَی الحسین و علٰی اولادہٖ و اصحابہٖ

[Danish Butt @danshweets]

Every age has its Karbala...Every era has its Yazid. The question is on whose side do we stand?

[Danish Butt @danshweets]

In Islamic methodology greatness is not always linked to being first ( phela number).
Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) was the last Prophet yet he is the greatest of all prophets. Hazrat Ali (as) was the last among the four Caliphs yet he is the greatest among them.

[Danish Butt @danshweets]

In islamic methodology the one who comes last is the one who perfects & completes the mission. Muharram is approaching let us put aside our differences & remember Hussain (a.s.)... Read Hussain... understand Hussain, & try to be Hussain in front of the Yazids of our own time.

[Dr. Muhammad Sameer Shafi Siddiqui @drsameersiddiqi]

Come Muharram and many preachers as well as social media users try to disseminate disturbing hate contents which are thoroughly loaded with sectarian hatred. There are many shared and common themes among Muslims to be talked about but have our preachers and their social media followers exhausted all those options of amity and brotherhood that they feel desperate to fan sectarian controversies? Both the Ahlul Bayt Athaar and the Sahaba kibaar are sacred figures of our shared Islamic legacy and let the sanctity of these religious personages be upheld in our discourse. Let no Shia Sunni, Barelvi Deobandi or any other sectarian debate be permitted by the law enforcing agencies to snow ball into a big controversy. And any one trying to disturb social peace and order under the garb of sectarian controversies must be dealt with sternly according to the provisions of law.
Yes there maybe disagreements between various schools of Islamic thought, but the decency of the matter demands that we must agree upon our shared values and at times we must even agree to disagree. That is the real hallmark of a civilised society.
SO MAKE IT A TREND …. SAY YES TO PEACE AND BROTHERHOOD AND NO TO SECTARIANISM AND BIGOTRY.
Last but not the least, in the upcoming holy month of Muharram al Haram let us all try to honour the legacy of Hussain ibn Ali who stood for justice and humanity. Even our non Muslim friends too honour the legacy of Imam Hussain. So why can’t we Muslims collectively honour the sacred sacrifice of Imam Hussain, who stood for all those who believe in absolute human values and dignity?

[Danish Butt @danshweets]

Olive trees are cut in Palestine and Apple trees are cut in kashmir, with the same purpose and same ideology. What a travesty.
SHR

[Danish Butt @danshweets]

@shepherdofnorth When facts become difficult to answer people start attacking lineages. History is not decided by someone is Syed or not it is decided by evidence Muawiya’s actions is a matter of historical discussion recorded in classical sources. Personal insults cannot erase documented history

[Danish Butt @danshweets]

nor does the sun lose its light because the blind deny its existence.
For 1400 years the enemies of Imam Ali have come & gone, yet today millions send salutations upon Imam Ali & his family...while the names of many of their enemies survive only in the footnotes of history.

[Danish Butt @danshweets]

It is not the first time that mosques & pulpits have been used against Imam Ali....1400years ago Muawiya transformed state institutions, mosques & sermons into instruments of propaganda against Imam Ali, as recorded in the every classical Sunni sources..

[Danish Butt @danshweets]

Neither Imam Ali feared their sermons then nor do his followers fear them today. Today if an ignorant man disguises himself as a Aalim & speaks against Imam Ali it changes nothing...llTruth does not require the approval of every pulpit

[Dr. Muhammad Sameer Shafi Siddiqui @drsameersiddiqi]

Today I was blessed to visit the Dargah of Mehboob i Ilahi Hazrat Khwaja Nizam ud din Awliya after a long time. The thin alleys leading to Dargah with rose petals, jaggery and aromas sold on both sides for the visitors makes alleys vibrant and some what fragrant with the occasional burning of incense and the smell of Mughlai dishes being prepared in the eateries, where visitors eat and beggars wait endlessly in queues so that any philanthrope may arrange a feast for them.
While entering into the Dargah complex, we first entered into the red stone mosque which is also known as the Jamat Khana Masjid and was built by Khizr Khan, the son of Sultan Ala ud din Khilji as a token of respect for Hazrat Nizam ud din. Even Hazrat Nizam ud din used to pray in this mosque and the grandiose of its architecture is really a treat for eyes to behold.
After Zuhr prayers, we sat alongside the Qawwals who were per chance singing a manqabat of Hazrat Ali and the Qawwals were singing it in between the mausoleums of Hazrat Nizam ud din and Ameer Khusrau. I could feel with my heart, how Khusrau as a master musician would have made a value addition to the Indian classical Sufi Sema by inventing ragas like Hussaini and by improving upon the instruments like Veena and Sitaar. And it is recorded in the historical sources that it was Ameer Khusrau himself who melodised the words of Hadith “ MAN KUNTO MAULA” into a rhythmic metre and which eventually the aforementioned Qawaals were singing in a high pitch. Further, my imagination reeled back to the saga of love and devotion which Tooti e Hindustan Hazrat Ameer Khusrau manifested for his spiritual beloved…. his beloved Nijaam, in a Brij Bhasha accent.
Khusrau Nijaam Kay Bal Bal Jayiyay
Mohey Suhaagan ki ni re mo se Naina Milai key
It reminded me of many spiritually evolved duos like Shamas and Rumi, Sudhama and Krishna, Nanak and Mardana, and many others who were meant for each other as soul mates winding their ways to the realm of the Eternal together. Using the symbolisms of the worldly love, Khusrau was pointing towards something deeper when he was beholding his Nijaam and was saying:
Khusrau Ren Sugaag ki Jaagi Piya kay sangh
Tan Mero Man Piyo ko, Dueoo Bhayay ek Rang
And I was imagining what would have been the state of Khusrau’s mind when the thunder bolt of his beloved Nijaam’s demise would have struck him and when he would have said:
Gori soyay Sejh par aur Mukh par daaray Kaes
Chal Khusrau Ghar aapnay, Raen bhayee chuho Daes
“My beloved is resting on a flower bed with tresses of hair on the face
Come back home Khusrau, time has come to return.
I could feel Ameer Khusrau compiling his Persian Mathnawis and Panegyrics to the beloved Prophet Alaih i Salam, wherein he eulogises him like:
Ay Chehrayyay Zebay i Tu Rashkay Butaan e Aazari
Har Chand wasfat mi Kunam ammaa az aan Baalaa tarie
O you my beloved, your countenance is an envy for the images carved out by the master sculptor, Aazar
Every time I praise you, your stature grows out of the bounds of my words.
Aafaq ha gar deedah am, Mehrey butaan warzidah am
Bisyaar khubaan deedah am, amma tu Cheezay deegarie
I have traversed the horizons, I have seen many dear darlings
I have seen limitless beauties, but O my beloved your are “something” different.
Khusrau ghareeb ast o ghadaa, uftaadah dar Shahr e Shuma
Baayad ki az Behray e Khuda, Suyay Ghareeban bingarie
Khusrau is a destitute traveller, stranded in your City
It behoves you that for God sake, do have a look or two upon the travellers as a mark of your courtesy.
While leaving, I bought some books written by Khwaja Hassan Nizami, the late Sajadah Nisheen of the Dargah, who was a great scholar and literary genius in his own right and had famously held written debate with Dr. Sir Muhammad Iqbal about his ideas regarding Hafiz Shirazi in his books and letters. But the likes of Hassan Nizami are nowhere to be found these days within the circle of Dargah’s keepers unfortunately.

[Dr. Muhammad Sameer Shafi Siddiqui @drsameersiddiqi]

After a pretty long time I happened to visit the Jamia Masjid at Delhi. Every time I visit the places like this, I come to feel the exhibition of aesthetics, elegance and grandeur in the architecture of the medieval religious structures like this.
My imagination immediately led me into the bygone days of Shahjahan Abad, when the alleys and labyrinths between the mosque and the imperial Mughal Court (Lal Qila) would have been bustling with the activities happening around. The Ulema, traders and all sorts of men visiting from Afghanistan, Iran, Central Asia and Ma wara un Nahr. A rich cultural exchange happening near the travellers’ inns like Sarai Kale Khan, near water bodies (Baulis) and near the old city gates like the Kashmiri gate. How come our people from Kashmir would have been coming to Delhi, during those bygone days and a few seeking fortune and fame at the imperial court.
The place reminded me of the great historical upheavals it had seen. The invasion of Nadir Shah Afshaar, the excursions of Ahmed Shah Abdali, the blood and gore past the revolt of 1857 (Ghadr e Hind), when hundreds of patriotic Muslims were hanged around the adjacent Chowks of Jamia Masjid. It reminded me about the Majestic Shah e Jahan, who desired to see his newly built Shahjahan Abad to rival the Isfahan e Nisf Jahan. A look towards the rampants of Lal Qila from Jamia Mosque made me to imagine the decay of the Mughal majesty and the occasional gushes of puritanical piety during Aurangzeb’s era into a flamboyant atmosphere created by the likes of Muhammad Shah Rangeela. It made me to recall the literary gatherings of the royal court; albeit the influence of the court was limited to the walls of Qila only; that were organised by Bahadur Shah Zafar, when Ibrahim Zauq and Mirza Noshah (Ghalib) were vying with each other to steal the show. And it made me to remember the decay of that very Majesty, Grandeur and Elegance into a mere lament when Zafar said:
“Kitna Badnaseeb hai Zafar ki dafan kay liyay
Do gaz zameen bhi na mili kuy e Yaar mein.”
While visiting the tombs of Faqeers like Shah Sarmad and Hare Bhare Shah Sabzwari downstairs, I could imagine the blend of Shariah, the juristic opinions of Fataawa Alamgiri often being challenged by the Majzubs like Sarmad, only to be “martyred” by the sword of Shariah like Mansoor was killed by the Abbasid Court. Anyways, my imagination was loaded through and through with things like this, and this is what always fascinates me whenever I visit the historical Jamia Masjid at Delhi.

[Mirwaiz Umar Farooq @MirwaizKashmir]

It’s a very welcome news that the Delhi High Court has granted bail to Human Rights activist Khurram Parvez sb after years of incarceration and suffering for him and his family. But when individuals, despite being granted bail by the courts are re-arrested in other cases, so that they continue to remain in jail -as we saw in Shabir Shah Sahib’s case, it defies the purpose of justice. Hope this practice is not followed in his case.
May all our political prisoners, youth and hundreds of others, who have spent years and some a lifetime behind bars awaiting legal resolution, get relief and are reunited with their families. Ameen

[Dr. Muhammad Sameer Shafi Siddiqui @drsameersiddiqi]

The scorching heat of Delhi is making me recall the beautiful Persian couplet of a Mughal era poet, Urfi Shirazi, (d. 1555 CE), who in his ode to Kashmir, namely ‘Qasida e Kashmiriyah’ says:
ہر سوختہ جانی کہ بہ کشمیر درآید
گر مرغِ کباب است ببال و پر آید
Har sokhta Jaani ki ba Kashmir dar aayad
Gar Murghi Kabab ast ba baal o par aayad
means…
Every schorched person who arrives in Kashmir,
Even if he is roasted like a chicken Kebab, he will sprout the wings and feather.
May Allah bless our Kashmir and its people with His choicest blessings.

[Danish Butt @danshweets]

@drsameersiddiqi Kashmir has been healing scorched souls long before air conditioners were invented.
May Allah Protect Mouj Kasheer

[Danish Butt @danshweets]

وطنِ بد نصیب کا قصہ بھی عجیب رہا،
منزل تو مشترک تھی، مگر راہ پر اختلاف رہا.

[Danish Butt @danshweets]

Kashmiris on both sides of LoC differ in ideology. Majority in #AJK are fans of nationalism & believe nationalism is the path to liberation while Maqbooza Kashmir see freedom through the vision of Azadi Barai Islam. AJK advocate an independent Kashmir.

[Danish Butt @danshweets]

Differences need not disappear but unity on shared goals is essential. Otherwise this conflict may be inherited by future generations for another century.