Our Culture - Part 6 - The Road to Medina
Blueprints inspire, but blueprints alone do not pour concrete, assemble councils, or season the first vat of shūrba. Having envisioned the khanqāh’s spine, its architecture, governance,...
The Archive
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Tolerance as Treason: How Liberal Muslims Betray Truth
I - The Burial of Truth When a civilisation buries Truth, its ‘tolerance’ is a polite nihilism. Allah declares, ‘Truth has arrived and falsehood has vanished; surely falsehood is ever bound to...
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Problem Narrative is Problematic
I In a world increasingly obsessed with diagnosis, the proliferation of problems has become its own self-sustaining industry, a vast machinery of concern that thrives not on the resolution of...
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Counter-Narrative | Response to “Empty Houses, Aging Parents: Kashmir’s Wealth Illusion”
The lament of empty houses in Kashmir, while deeply evocative, is not just a social observation - it is a cultural indictment, a misdiagnosed ailment offered with the wrong medicine. What masquerades...
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Culture Bashing Cannot go Unabated
Have you ever considered why birds, those little sages of the sky, lurch their heads in abrupt, start-stop spasms rather than simply gliding their gaze? Unlike us, they cannot swivel their...
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The Catastrophe of One Generation: A Cultural Holocaust in the Making
The generation born in the 1980s and 1990s stands as a fragile bridge between a world lost and a world looming - a generation that did not merely encounter modernity, but was engulfed by it. They are...
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Counter Narrative | A Culture that Silences Men or Men with a Culture Silenced?
An article, appearing in Kashmir Observer, laments Kashmiri men’s silence as a cultural flaw, failing to realize that this very critique is shaped by Western therapeutic individualism. It sees...
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A Message to NEET Aspirants Who Gave It Their All
To those who prayed, persisted, and prepared with sincerity for NEET but didn’t make it: know that you haven’t failed. You’ve been tested in a deeper way—a test not of marks or ranks, but of...
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Counter Narrative | Soft Feminism, Hardcore Destruction
A reflection on a post that came to my knowledge Someone posted on facebook, in a noble and thoroughly confused moment, that feminism is a “theory for women to produce” but for men, it’s about...
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Q&A: Past Grief and Struggles
During the process of reflecting on past experiences, particularly the mistakes that led to grief, we surrender before Allah and trust in His wisdom. Despite our best efforts to overcome previous...