Tabish Qayoom.

Learner•
Growing•
Blessed•

[Tabish Qayoom. @taabish_37]

Every minute which is passing it is bringing you nearer to your Grave.

[Tabish Qayoom. @taabish_37]

Wisdom is a women and she only loves a warrior.

[The Islamic Ummah @TheIslamicUmmah]

“When you make Dua, it is a sign that Allah loves you and has intended good for you.” - Ibn AlQayyim

[Tabish Qayoom. @taabish_37]

Ameen 🙏

[Sajad Lone @sajadlone]

Heartfelt condolences to Pervez Ahmed Bhat of Lankreshan, Dahama whose wife passed away
May Allah grant her Jannat. May Allah grant courage to the family to bear this loss. She leaves behind a young family.

[Zaira Wasim @ZairaWasimmm]

Just came across a clip from a school somewhere in Kashmir. Independence Day celebrations held for or by the Waqf Board.

I have a question. Isn’t waqf board a religious body entrusted with serving the Muslim Community. and ideally doing so while uplholding Islamic Values?

Then there is something almost comical about this institution: an organisation built around a religious and communal purpose, yet sitting so comfortably through something you would expect a religious institution to at least question.

It lends its name to celebrations that reduce our children to stage props and performers.

Why is the default way of involving children — and particularly girls — in public celebrations to make them dance to irrelevant songs? Why aren’t our institutions giving them something to think about, create, learn, discuss, build or contribute?

Especially in a place like Kashmir. Which has had a remarkable legacy of people who understood education as a means to enlighten minds, cultivate character and equip people with knowledge and spirituality.

What about the intellectual and cultural legacy of wonderful scholars of the past.

So if it’s an institution whose very existence is tied to religious purpose, you are taksed with deeper work of strengthening the communities spiritually morally, intellectually.

And to be clear: the point is not the children. Children are often simply made to participate in whatever schools and institutions put before them.

Perhaps that is the real tragedy here.

The question is what an institution chooses to facilitate, endorse and place under its own banner.

[Tabish Qayoom. @taabish_37]

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parking+ complimentary boating experience after every rainfall. 🙃

[Zaira Wasim @ZairaWasimmm]

Turns out, you weren’t paying for parking you were crowdfunding a lake all along.

Pay hefty parking fees. Get a lake every time it rains.

Srinagar Smart City subscription.

[Ihtesham Ali @ihteshamali]

A Nobel Prize winner spent his entire career proving that your brain lies to you constantly, and the most unsettling part is that the smarter you are, the more convincing the lies become.

His name is Daniel Kahneman, and the research that earned him the Nobel Prize in Economics was not about markets or money.

It was about the two systems running inside every human mind at all times, and why one of them is almost always in charge when you think the other one is.

Here is what he found, and why it changes how you should think about every decision you make.

Kahneman called them System 1 and System 2.

System 1 is fast, automatic, emotional, and operates almost entirely outside your conscious awareness. It is the system that reads the mood in a room before you process a single word, that flinches before you hear the sound, that forms an impression of a stranger in milliseconds.

System 2 is slow, deliberate, effortful, and exhausting. It is the system you engage when you do long division or carefully weigh a major life decision. The critical insight is not that these two systems exist. It is that System 2 is lazy by design, and System 1 runs the show far more often than any of us want to believe.

The most dangerous finding in Kahneman's research is what he called the what-you-see-is-all-there-is problem. System 1 does not pause to ask what information might be missing. It builds the most coherent story it can from whatever data is currently available, then delivers that story to your conscious mind as a conclusion that feels like it was carefully reasoned.

You experience the output of an automatic process as if it were the result of deliberate thought. The confidence feels earned. It almost never is.
This is why cognitive biases are not character flaws. They are structural features of a brain optimized for speed. The availability heuristic makes you overestimate the probability of whatever comes to mind most easily, which is why people fear plane crashes more than car accidents and dramatic rare diseases more than the conditions that actually kill most people.

The anchoring effect makes your judgment of any number heavily influenced by whatever number you heard first, even if that number was completely arbitrary. The halo effect makes your overall impression of a person contaminate every individual judgment you make about them, so the same resume gets rated more competitively when attached to an attractive photo.

The part that Kahneman spent the most time on, and that most people resist the hardest, is what he called expert overconfidence. He studied stockbrokers, surgeons, military commanders, clinical psychologists, and financial analysts people at the absolute top of their fields with decades of experience and found systematic evidence that their confidence in their own judgments consistently exceeded the accuracy of those judgments.

Experience in a domain does not eliminate cognitive bias. In many cases it amplifies it, because experts build elaborate mental models that feel comprehensive but are often just more sophisticated versions of the same shortcuts everyone uses.

The most honest thing Kahneman ever said about his own research was that writing the book did not make him any less susceptible to the biases he spent fifty years documenting. He still felt the pull of every heuristic he described. The difference was not immunity.

The difference was recognition, and the discipline to slow down in moments when the fast answer felt suspiciously easy.

Knowing that your brain lies to you does not stop the lies. But it teaches you which moments deserve a second look before you trust the story you are already telling yourself.

[Tabish Qayoom. @taabish_37]

Thank you Mr @sajadlone . He was my dada ji , May Allah Swt grant him highest place in Jannah. Ameen suma Ameen.

[Sajad Lone @sajadlone]

In the intervening night Haji Abdul Ahad Bhat sahib of Lankration passed away. He was an associate of my late father.
Condolences to his sons Pervez Bhat and Nazir Bhat and to his brother Ghulam Nabi.
May Allah grant him Jannat.

[Sajad Lone @sajadlone]

For the sake of information. Till date up to 25000 Kashmiris have been detained under PSA since it was “invented” as a law in 1978 by Sheikh Sahib.

MLAs were routinely detained under the PSA. My father was detained multiple times under the PSA as a sitting MLA. So were many other MLAs.

[Tabish Qayoom. @taabish_37]

@Dostoevskyquot The idiot.

[Shahid Hussain Rather @Shahidali379]

Daily fights between boys at Amar Singh College are causing distress among other students, especially girls. Many feel scared, with some even reduced to tears. I urge the @amarsinghsgr administration n @srinagaradmin to take action and ensure a safer environment for all students.

[Tabish Qayoom. @taabish_37]

The garden of the soul, the heart, and the spirit.

[Tabish Qayoom. @taabish_37]

@sawdaaaaaaa @Mun220723 I've ever heard ❌ I've ever seen ✅

[Tabish Qayoom. @taabish_37]

Sometimes, the things we deeply desire are exactly the ones we should stay away from.

[Tabish Qayoom. @taabish_37]

Dealing with a narcissist is like fighting a shadow, they will only reflect your frustrations back at you.

[Tabish Qayoom. @taabish_37]

@Huzaifa2717 Book: atomic habits??