Shamaz Hassan

[Shamaz Hassan @shamazifer]

#ElectionReformBill2017
#NoToConstitutionAmendment
Democracy Died In The Hands Of Democrats

[Ashok Swain @ashoswai]

Those who think the donations theft at the Ayodhya Ram temple will decrease BJP support, they are mistaken. Those Hindus who vote for BJP, they don’t vote because BJP has built the Ram Temple, they vote because BJP has demolished Babri Mosque.

[Ammar Ali Jan @ammaralijan]

Treatment being meted out to Dr. Yasmin Rashid is petty, cruel & completely unnecessary. Her health continues to deteriorate. Those at the helm should show some grace & give her relief. Otherwise, we will be thrown in a spiral of hate that will come back to haunt those in power.

[Faisal Warraich @FSWarraich]

سانحےمستقل ہوں تو ذمہ داروں کا جرم بن جاتے ہیں۔ لاہور، کاہنہ سکول میں بچوں پر چھت گرنا معمولی بات نہیں۔ ہسپتال میں برپا قیامت تو کوئی دل گردے والا ہی دیکھ سکتا ہے۔ اگر اس سے سیکھ کر نیا محفوظ سسٹم پوری سوسائٹی پر اپلائی نہ کیا گیا تو حکمران مجرم ہوں گے اور سٹے آرڈر دینے والے جج بھی مجرم ہوں گے۔

[Harman Singh Kapoor @kingkapoor72]

Perfect parking by my wife.

[Match of the Day @BBCMOTD]

Germany had never lost a World Cup penalty shootout, until today 🇩🇪

[Matiullah Jan @Matiullahjan919]

آزاد کشمیر کی آزاد سپریم کورٹ کا فیصلہ

[Cricbuzz @cricbuzz]

History in Belfast!

Ireland have whitewashed reigning T20 World Cup champions India🔥

[ICC @ICC]

A thrilling finish saw Ireland complete a stunning 2-0 T20I series triumph over reigning Men's #T20WorldCup champions India 🤩

📝: https://t.co/4ioMZJrw2N

[Dear Self. @Dearme2_]

Real.

[Tooba Syed @Tooba_Sd]

It’s a national emergency at this point

[Aarti Tikoo Singh @AartiTikoo]

Certain elements of the Indian and Pakistani deep states have played such poisonous, hateful, and bloody games in collaboration with each other that now neither state has any idea how to put its respective country on the right track — for which peace is necessary — amid a dramatic global shift.

[Ahmad Noorani @Ahmad_Noorani]

بے بنیاد توہینِ رسالت کیس میں نابینا مسیحی شخص 10 ماہ جیل میں رہنے کے بعد بری؛ مقدمے نے پاکستان کے مبہم توہینِ رسالت قوانین کے منظم غلط استعمال کو بے نقاب کر دیا.

لاہور کی سیشن عدالت نے قرار دیا کہ پیغمبر اسلام کی ازدواجی زندگی اور آپ کی بیویوں سے متعلق مبینہ گفتگو توہین آمیز نہیں، بلکہ اسلام کے علمی حلقوں میں بحث کا موضوع ہے۔

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[MUSA @adam_jahun]

Al-Quran 105

[Narrator @GrandTarikh]

Aun and Muhammad
The sons of Abdullah ibn Jafar
The sons of Sayyida Zainab SA

We have already told the beginning of their story in this series. At Dhat al-Irq, weeks before Karbala, their father placed them in the Imam's hands and in their mother's hands and called them sadqa, an offering, one from each parent. He told the Imam that Aun would represent his maternal grandfather, Ali ibn Abi Talib, and Muhammad would represent his paternal grandfather, Jafar al-Tayyar. Then their father rode back toward Makkah, and they rode forward, and they never saw him again.

They were boys. The sources describe Aun as around thirteen. Muhammad was younger still. They had learned the art of fencing from their uncle, Abbas ibn Ali AS himself a great warrior.

On the day of Ashura, when the companions had fallen one after another and only the family remained, Aun rode onto the field. The sources preserved in Nafasul Mahmum, drawing on al-Tabari and the Manaqib, record what he called out as he fought:

"If you do not know me, I am the son of Jafar, the truthful martyr, who dwells in illuminated Paradise, flying there on green wings. And this alone is honor enough for me on the Day of Judgment."

He was invoking his father's own father, Jafar al-Tayyar, the brother of Imam Ali and cousin of the Prophet ﷺ
He had said Allah has given you wings in Paradise after he had lost both arms at the Battle of Mu'tah. A boy of thirteen, surrounded by grown soldiers, calling out his grandfather's martyrdom as his own claim to courage.

He killed three horsemen and eighteen foot soldiers before Abdullah ibn Qatabah al-Ta'i struck him down.

His brother Muhammad followed him onto the same field and was martyred in the same hour, by the same army, for the same cause.

There is a story told widely in the devotional tradition, that on the night before Ashura, Sayyida Zainab SA came to her sons and told them she could not ask them to fight, since they were still so young, but that if anything happened to their uncle Hussain AS while they still lived, that would be a sorrow she could not carry, and the next day she watched them ride onto that field and did not stop them.

A mother who had said to her husband, weeks earlier, that she could not face her own mother Fatima al-Zahra SA on the Day of Judgment if she did not stand by her brother. Now her own two sons rode out to stand by him in the way that was left to them.

They are both buried in Karbala.

Their father, who had given them away as sadqa before any of this began. He spent the rest of his life saying he wished he had been there himself, but he had been given other responsibilities by Imam Hussain.

#YaHussain.
#Karbala

[Shahid Maitla @ShahidMaitla]

شریف فیملی نے اپنے اوپر تہذیب یافتہ ہونے کا الزام بھی دھو دیا۔

[Mohsin Hijazee @MohsinHijazee]

پتہ نہیں آپ لوگوں کے جاننے والوں کے ساتھ ہی ایسا کیوں ہو رہا ہے میرے تو جاننے والے کو کتے نے کاٹا اور فوراً اس کو "پنجاب احساس وڈھ پروگرام" کی طرف سے کال گئی پھر کتّا خود ویکیسن لے کے گھر پہنچا اپنے بھی پیٹ میں لگائیں اور بولا بھائی سوری مجھے نہیں تھا پتہ آپ پنجاب میں ہوتے ہیں۔

[Mirza Shahzad Akbar @ShazadAkbar]

اور پھر انہوں نے یزید کی بیعت کر لی اور ۲۰۲۲ سے انکے حالات بدل گے
اب یہ خود چھوٹے سے یزید ہیں اور انہوں نے چھوٹے چھوٹے شمر پال رکھے ہیں ۔۔۔۔

[Narrator @GrandTarikh]

9th Muharram. 61 AH.

Karbala. The last night.

After Asr prayers, Umar ibn Sa'd called out to his army: "O soldiers of Allah, mount your horses and receive the good tidings of Paradise." His men moved toward the Imam's camp.

The Imam was sitting in front of his tent, his sword across his lap, his head resting on his knees in a brief and exhausted sleep, when his sister Sayyida Zainab SA heard the advancing army and rushed to him. "Brother, do you not hear them drawing near?"

He raised his head and told her he had just seen the Messenger of Allah ﷺ in his sleep, who said to him: "You are coming to us soon."
She cried out. He told her: "Do not let me see you in distress, my sister."

He sent his brother Abbas AS to ask Umar ibn Sa'd for one night's delay, time to pray, to recite the Quran, to prepare. Umar ibn Sa'd agreed.

That single night divided two camps so completely it is difficult to believe they shared the same patch of earth. In Umar ibn Sa'd's camp, men sharpened their swords and readied their arrows for the morning.

In the Imam's camp, voices rose in prayer until, as the sources describe it, the sound of their supplication filled the air like the steady hum of bees.

The companions had already dug a trench behind the tents and filled it with firewood, so that when the moment came, it could be set ablaze and the camp could only be approached from one direction, protecting the women and children from being surrounded.

That evening Burayr ibn Khudayr asked permission to go and speak with Umar ibn Sa'd directly, to appeal to whatever remained of his conscience. He went, sat without greeting him, and left having heard nothing but excuses.
He returned and told the Imam plainly: "O son of the Prophet, Umar ibn Sa'd would rather kill you than give up his claim to the rule of Ray."

After the night prayer, the Imam gathered everyone who remained, his family and his companions together, and spoke to them. He thanked Allah for them. He said he did not know of companions more loyal or a family more devoted than his own.

Then he told them plainly: "I think tomorrow is the day we face this army. I release every one of you from your pledge to me. The darkness of this night is yours to use. Take the hand of one of my family members and disperse into the towns, scatter into the dark, until Allah grants you relief. They want nothing but me. Once they have me, they will pursue no one else."

According to the tradition long carried in retellings of this night, the Imam had the lamps put out as he said this, so that no man would feel the shame of being seen leaving.

Not one person left.

His brothers, his nephews, the sons of Abdullah ibn Jafar, all answered as one voice: "We will never do this, so that we might live after you. May Allah never let that happen."

Abbas AS spoke first, and every other voice followed his.

Then the Imam turned to the sons of Aqeel ibn Abi Talib specifically and told them: "The sacrifice of Muslim is enough for your family. I permit you to leave."

They refused to leave the Imam.

Earlier that same night, Imam went for a walk to the surrounding hills. Nafi ibn Hilal had noticed the Imam leave the camp alone. He followed at a distance. When the Imam noticed him, he asked why he had come. Nafi told him he feared for Imam’s life out there alone. The Imam asked him gently if he wished to vanish into the darkness instead, to save himself while there was still time.

Nafi fell at his feet and said: "I have a sword worth a thousand dirhams and a horse worth a thousand dirhams. I swear by the One who honored me with your company, I will never leave you while this sword can still cut."

The Imam then went to his sister's tent. Nafi waited outside and overheard Sayyida Zainab SA ask her brother: "Have you tested your companions?" The Imam answered her: "I have tested them, by Allah. I have found them to be brave men who look upon death the way a small child looks upon its mother's breast."

That was the night. A trench filled with firewood. A sermon releasing seventy-two men from any obligation to die. Not one of them taking the offer. And a sister who needed to hear, one more time, that the men staying beside her brother understood what tomorrow was.

Tomorrow is Ashura.

Step by step. There are no more nights left.

#YaHussain
#Karbala
#Muharram
#Ashura

[Mehmood Khan Achakzai @MKAchakzaiPKMAP]

سپیکر صاحب! آپ نے خود کہا تھا کہ آرمی چیف کی ٹانگیں کانپ رہی تھی کہ جاسوس چھوڑ دو ورنہ انڈیا حملہ کردے گا۔

آپ کی فوج سے محبت کب جاگی ہے؟

[Jokerrr🇵🇰 @jokkeerrr2]

میں فوج کے خلاف کسی کو نہیں بولنے دوں گا سپیکر قومی اسمبلی ایاز صادق

یہ رہے فوج کے خلاف بولنے والے ان میں ایک وزیر اعلیٰ پنجاب بن گئی ایک وزیر دفاع بن گیا خود سپیکر بن گیا ایک پاکستان کا صدر بن گیا