Articles with tag: God
Faith and Religion
Murad A Baig Aug 24, 2008 interacts: 1Though I have a Muslim name I am a non practicing Indian Muslim who does not believe in any organised religion.
The 'One God' Religions of Revelation
Murad A Baig Jun 16, 2008 interacts: 980The success of the `One God’ idea was its ability to use fear to empower the professional priests enabling them to command the absolute obedience of their followers.
Bullhe Shah and His Veil of “Meem”
Mohammad Gill Feb 4, 2008 interacts: 363One of the attributes of Allah is “Ahad,” meaning “One.” This is the spirit of monotheism. Ahmad is the name of prophet Muhammad.
Search for the God Particle
Mohammad Gill Nov 21, 2007 interacts: 15Pursuit of no other scientific theory has been so intensely single-minded nor so expensive, even the search for cure for cancer, as the search for Higgs boson or the god particle.
Do Intercessory Prayers Work?
Mansur Sindhi Sep 25, 2007 interacts: 12Skeptics contend that studying prayers is a waste of money and it presupposes supernatural involvement, and therefore, by definition, beyond the scope of science.
Periyar An Iconoclast and a Reformer
Shantanu Dutta Sep 20, 2007 interacts: 15Dr. Ambedkar found his answers (to caste problem) in Buddhism, Periyar felt the answer lay in humanism and he became progressively an atheist and a rationalist.
Whence Then is Evil?
Mohammad Gill Jul 4, 2007 interacts: 240Either God wants to abolish evil and cannot; or he can, but does not want to…If he cannot, he is impotent. If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked…
In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth
Mohammad Gill Apr 22, 2007 interacts: 447If religion is to follow the scientific lead, it then becomes falsifiable like science. When a religion becomes falsifiable, it loses its divine base and its God ceases to be as mighty as we conventionally believe It is.
God is a Metaphor
Khalid Sohail Apr 8, 2007 interacts: 200Psychologists are well aware that symbolic and metaphorical thinking develops only when the human mind reaches a certain level of mental maturity.
Kill for a Pill
Fazeel Chauhan May 6, 2006 interacts: 11And then call this patriotism like Hitler
Then call it “christianity”
And murder, “sanctioned by jesus
And god bless America”
Dreaming/Nightmaring in a Perfectly 3+1 Dimensional World
Sohaib Alam Apr 27, 2006 interacts: 1I was born and raised in Tehsil 786, the only place in modern-day Pakistan that was never colonized by the ‘takers’ from Britain. I’m a cow, a living organism just as you are
The Problem Of Pain In European History
Saad Anis Mar 28, 2006 interacts: 6The system demanded faith, and the credulous agrarian populace gladly obliged. Thus the dream of an elusive otherworldly paradise justified flagrant slaughters and gross injustice, in return providing hope to the common peasant wistfully anticipating Grac
Is there a God???
shamendra ekka Dec 24, 2005 interacts: 2ever wondered how did the concept of God came from???
No Intelligent Design Nor accident
Schandra Tripathi Jul 5, 2005 interacts: 11A crude estimate of the number of life sustaining planets is over a few hundred thousand in this universe. On some of them life must have started, we don’t know today how. But like all science we’ll find it tomorrow- attribute to God if you li
Gabriel’s Bike
Nadeem F Paracha Mar 24, 2005 interacts: 17Human beings are either the descendants or creations of aliens who landed on Earth millennia ago, and much of our culture was given to us by extraterrestrial visitors in the time of pre-history.
Psychemanica
Nadeem F Paracha Feb 2, 2005 interacts: 11I screamed inside. I played cool on the out. “I am the messiah,” said I. “I am.” “I.” My, my, what delusion. Since when was I reborn? Since he died. But what then when I die?
Why Am I An Agnostic Muslim?
Mubashir Butt Feb 2, 2005 interacts: 353Allah has not forbidden us from thinking. He rather has encouraged the human kind to do so. I at least have acted upon one of His messages: now I think!
The God Pulp
Nadeem F Paracha Jan 6, 2005 interacts: 18“Cough! Cough!” Coughed the sofa. “Don’t insult my intellect.” “ What?” Said Kamran. “Screw that, man, let’s get stoned!”
Our Minds Our Existance
Naved Haqqi Nov 27, 2004 interacts: 13If our existance is solely dependent on our ability to use our minds, and be able to reap the benefits or suffer the consequences, then, why is God there, at all?
God-shaped Hole: Contemporary Relevance of the Spiritual
Farrukh Khan Nov 18, 2004 interacts: 9From a world of certainty and solace provided by God– in the next world if not this one– the 19th century sciences, philosophy and political ideology plunged humanity into a crisis of faith and culture that has continued into the present times
You and I
Dee Ahmed Apr 8, 2004 interacts: 21Do you remember,
The many times I entertained You and myself with a caustic monologue
You were my only audience and the victim of my diatribe
You never spoke once, but I heard You all the while
I’m With Stupid
Haroon Moghul Jul 3, 2003 interacts: 6thought to myself, as I searched for the right kind of chocolate fudge cake, that I was now living in an ascendant empire, the most powerful country on earth and perhaps in all of human history. An empire!
The Conversion Chiaroscuro
Farzana Versey Jun 30, 2003 interacts: 131Didi became a Hindu. Long before the RSS and the Pope got into a tiff about conversions. At that time it meant nothing to me.
In Search of Peace and Flowers
Ras Siddiqui Feb 15, 2003 interacts: 43personal perspective on the January rally
The Diary of a Pretty Young Thing
Bina Shah Dec 2, 2002 interacts: 34I smiled charmingly at the visa officer
Ahmedabad. Sept 23, 2002
Leya Mathew Oct 13, 2002 interacts: 2226 people have been killed in a terrorist attack in some mandir in Gandhi Nagar
The Riverbank
Hamid Mahmood Jul 22, 2002 interacts: 63Mahmood felt as if he was choking. Choking in the polluted environment of our society.
DIL’s Caravan of Hope
Ras Siddiqui Jun 6, 2002 interacts: 36DIL has already changed the lives of over 8000 underprivileged children
Abr ka Tukra
Rehan Ansari May 13, 2002 interacts: 125I was in love with a woman who looked like Waheeda Rehman
Confessions of a BJP Supporter
Parag Vohra May 13, 2002 interacts: 275Why was the philosophy of the Sangh Parivar attractive to so many urban middle class Hindus?
When the Lights Hurt the Eyes
Farzana Versey Nov 14, 2001 interacts: 384Our superstitions are world-renowned. We feed the poor in designated months...
The Damned And The Damnable
Samina Wahid Feb 23, 2001 interacts: 46They left because they were out of the ‘right things to say.’
The Day When God Died
Urstruly Jan 13, 2001 interacts: 284I have an innate fear of the news of someone’s demise.
An Obituary
Shandana Minhas Nov 20, 2000 interacts: 17Whatever you did to the least of my children, you did it for Me
The Burden of Virginity
A Bismil Oct 15, 2000 interacts: 132If you ever have sex with a guy, I’ll know immediately
Neither Heaven Nor the World Under My Feet
Onaissa Qais Sep 4, 2000 interacts: 20Before Rayan was born, my days were perfect
Family Laws in Bangladesh
Esam Sohail Jun 15, 2000family law codes are inconsistent with the Constituion on three counts
The Sweet Child of Mine
Nadia Siddique May 29, 2000 interacts: 14I don’t blame life for being cruel. . .
The Point
Shandana Minhas May 23, 2000 interacts: 123“main Mussalman hoon”...Can a man dressed like this do something like
Mecca or Mohenjodaro?
RMS Azam May 6, 2000 interacts: 162A living religion is more eloquent than a dead civilization
Revolution in the Westerlies
Tariq Ahmad Sep 10, 1999 interacts: 13The prodigious son of a devout nation, Karachi sleeps late into the night.
Of Boylove and Boylovers
Sabia Ahmed Aug 31, 1999 interacts: 223We (even in the oh-so-liberal West) live in a more conformist society that we are led to believe
An Inward Journey to Pakistan - Part 2
Kamran Akhtar Aug 26, 1999 interacts: 41An introspective travlelogue of a journey to Pakistan after 16 years of absence.
Alternate Goals
Content Jul 22, 1999 interacts: 35Our expectations of you for the first day of your life....
Lies of the Western ‘Science of Islam’
Parvez Manzoor May 1, 1999 interacts: 17Mass killing in the name of the state is legitimate and justified; sporadic acts of violence in the name of religion (read: Islam) are illicit and immoral
Pagans and Competitive Conversions
Murad A Baig Mar 12, 1999 interacts: 67On conversions and reverse conversions
Shaam Ki Biathaak
Content Mar 9, 1999 interacts: 10A place almost completely secluded from the rest of the world.
Ramadan: Then and Now
Altaf Bhimji Jan 18, 1999 interacts: 15Looking a few thousand miles into the past
The Daily Grind
Saad Shafqat Dec 5, 1998 interacts: 51Deodorant and excrement in Karachi, circa 1985.
A Tree of Water
Ifti Nasim Nov 4, 1998 interacts: 16Wherever the drop of your blood fell -- A tree of water will blossom
I Cheat Therefore I Am
Suds Jiff Sep 21, 1998 interacts: 25Our most cherished phone calls home are from some stolen calling card
A Wedding with the Divine
Yousuf Saeed Jun 4, 1998 interacts: 1let us, oh Khusro, return home now, the dark dusk settles...
A Day with an Orthodox Rabbi
Hisham Zoubeir May 27, 1998 interacts: 2Hebrew for God willing also sounds like insha’allah.
Can People be Forced to Accept Islam? A Qur’anic Perspective
Kashif A Shehzada Feb 21, 1998 interacts: 13Does man have the freedom to believe or disbelieve the message of Allah? Who are the people who force others to their way of thinking? Answers to these and other questions, from a Qur’anic perspective.
The Basanti Dye
Yousuf Saeed Feb 6, 1998 interacts: 12By four-o clock in the morning the whole sky became Basanti. It seemed as if mustard was flowering in the eyes of the sky….
Selective Islam in Pakistan
Imran Khan Jan 21, 1998 interacts: 50I feel there are certain western countries with far more Islamic traits than us, especially in the way they protect the rights of their citizens.
Swinging Cradles
Ras Siddiqui Dec 21, 1997 interacts: 2This poem is dedicated to Bilquis Edhi and Karachi’s Khazana-I-Atfal (Babies Nest)...
Chowk Tales I
The Chowkwala Oct 7, 1997 interacts: 5The neighborhood paagal was busy cleaning the thick glass shell of the map of Pakistan. It was an amazing sight because almost always when he ventures into the Chowk there are people running behind and...throwing kachra at him...
Cry No More
Amber Bokhari Oct 5, 1997 interacts: 6I often ask my heart, when I remember your grave among weeds, ’Was it disease that killed you or was it the hatred?’
