Maihr | مِہْرْ

Be the glitch.

[Rubab @rubabbx]

She took the CSS exam in 1982.
The question paper quizzes her about her own work.

Pakistan's bureaucracy was testing its candidates on her words while she took the same exam.

Parveen Shakir. Born Karachi 1952. Daughter of a poet father.

A PhD. Three Masters degrees including a Harvard qualification. A civil service career in Pakistan Customs. Second Secretary of the Federal Board of Revenue.

And in 1976 at age 24 she published Khushbu.

Fragrance.

The most beloved debut collection of poetry in the history of modern Urdu literature.

She used a word nobody had used in a ghazal before.

Larki. Girl.

She wrote with a feminine voice. A woman speaking as herself. Her longing. Her love. Her anger. Her grief. Not filtered through a man's perspective. Hers.

Urdu poetry had been a masculine world for centuries. She walked in and claimed space for every woman who came after her.

Her personal life was hard. Divorce. Loss of custody of her son Murad. Law favoured the Father. She fought fiercely, challenged the law and choose Single motherhood in a Pakistan that had no word for it yet.

She raised him without anyone's support. she wrote him a poem.

I have lived in my house and paid jiziya all my life.

December 26, 1994. She had breakfast with Murad. Left for work. Her car was hit by a bus at Faisal intersection in Islamabad.

She was 42. She had told people she would not live past 42.

The road where she died is named Parveen Shakir Road.

Google celebrated her in 2019 with a doodle.

Millions of Pakistanis have her lines memorised.

The world has barely heard her name.

Parveen Shakir.

Pakistan Zindabad. 🇵🇰

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

— hertalesdiary

[Jamarrius @YungxJayy]

I say I hate Israel, and then I read something like this, and I realize I don’t hate them nearly enough. These people are sick beyond words.

[• @Al__Quraan]

📌

[Female scholar 💕💨 @AAyshato]

So be patient Allah is with you 🖤

[𝐌𝐚𝐡𝐝𝐢 @Mahdii_365]

Dua for increasing memory

[liam cunningham @liamcunningham1]

#gaza

[Öznur Küçüker Sirene @SireneOznur]

Yapay zeka bile böyle bir felaket görüntüsü hazırlayamazdı. İşte İsrail'in eseri.

[Salahu @salahudeen33]

The Three Faces of The Nafs

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[Idris @7signxx]

Only deliberately ignorant people still believe that they are...

[🏴‍☠️ @EncrrKala_]

On ne s'en rend pas compte mais le monde a fini par s'habituer au calvaire des Palestiniens.

Des enfants meurent chaque jour et ça ne choque plus personne on dirait

[𝐌𝐚𝐡𝐝𝐢 @Mahdii_365]

The Prophet (ﷺ) said:

[Big Akh @Thoughtful1_]

“Then Allah will bring you news, that makes you forget all the bitterness you've gone through.”

[SARA 𓂆 @ZaqoutMe]

In case you didn’t see, last night people in Gaza were burned to death.