The real cost of conflict in South Asia
From the Blog beenasarwar *My article on the symposium I attended last week at University of Texas, Dallas, published in Aman ki Asha* [image: The real cost of conflict in South Asia] *Peacetalks symposium: Raza Rumi, Pritpal Singh, Amitabh Pal, Nyla Ali Khan. Photo by Beena Sarwar* *By Beena Sarwar* *Born in the Rawalpindi area in 1943, Suresh Bakshi was about four years old* when his family left their ancestral home after Partition in 1947. But he still remembers and has strong feelings for the place where he was born. These feelings created a powerful conflict when, as an Indian Army soldier, he fought in the 1965 war against Pakistan. Last Saturday, talking on the phone to a young man he had never met, Bakshi painfully revealed how difficult it was for him to order artillery fire toward his birthppakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
Disputations are nafsani
From the Blog ashrafiya [image: watesmu] Shaykh Sayf ad-Dīn father of Shaykh ‛Abd al-Ḥaqq Muḥaddith Dihlawī (Allah have mercy on them) said, 'The (polemic) wars which take place on academic issues (differed upon) are solely for the pacification of the self (*nafs*). They are futile. They result in mutual enmity and hostility. There must be an exchange of views with love and kindness on academic issues (differed upon) . This is because: 'It is a matter of love. When there is no love, no work can be accomplished.' From: Shaykh ‛Abd al-Ḥaqq Muḥaddith Dihlawī: By Mawlānā Muḥammad Qamruz ZamānʾIlāhābādī Translated by Mawlānā Mahomed Mahomedy pakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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