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FIRST ANNUAL ISSUE
NOVEMBER 2013
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In this fourth book in the Ask About Islam series, Idris Tawfiq
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Ramadan, he says, is a chance to reconnect with Allah. It is the
month of prayer. It is the month of the holy Qur’an and the
month of remembering those who are less fortunate than we
are More important than anything, though, Muslims fast
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do so
British Muslim writer and presenter, Idris Tawfiq, has a degree
in English Language and Literature from the University of
Manchester and a degree in Sacred Theology from the
Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Rome. For many
years he was Head of Religious Education in different schools
in the UK More remarkably, before embracing Islam he was a
Roman Catholic priest This rich experience in dealing with
people and explaining matters of faith to them enlivens his
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D85 digital magazine november 2013- first annual issueSaleem Khanani
DMC CLASS OF 1985 DIGITAL MAGAZINE
FIRST ANNUAL ISSUE
NOVEMBER 2013
EDITED BY: SALEEM A KHANANI AND SAMEENA KHAN
DEDICATED TO THE FIRST COUPLE OF OUR CLASS MOAZZAM AND SHEHLA ABID ON THEIR 30TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
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In this fourth book in the Ask About Islam series, Idris Tawfiq
talks about the importance of Ramadan in the lives of Muslims
Ramadan, he says, is a chance to reconnect with Allah. It is the
month of prayer. It is the month of the holy Qur’an and the
month of remembering those who are less fortunate than we
are More important than anything, though, Muslims fast
during the holy month because Allah has commanded them to
do so
British Muslim writer and presenter, Idris Tawfiq, has a degree
in English Language and Literature from the University of
Manchester and a degree in Sacred Theology from the
Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Rome. For many
years he was Head of Religious Education in different schools
in the UK More remarkably, before embracing Islam he was a
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visible, rhe sight of a Muslim woman on a Western
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portrait of a sisterhood. As they speak candidly on
diverse subjects ranging from marriage to motherhood,
stereotypes, submission and self-image, we hear the
| strong, proud voices of those who are seldom heard.
An extremely thought-provoking book
that challenges Western preconceptions
of Islamic women’ Daily Telegraph
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a forty-two-year-old doctor, was hospitalized with an in-
operable brain tumor. My friend said to me, "I don't know
why, but I just can't bring myself to visit him. I like him,
I care about him, I know how much my visits mean to
him, but I keep finding reasons not to go and see him, and
it bothers me." I told him, "I think I understand why you
do that. I suspect that you see too much of yourself in him.
Seeing him ill and dying makes you think that a year from
now, it could be you in that situation, and you can't handle
that. I would guess that you are afraid of dying-it's
nothing to be ashamed of; lots of people are---and that is
why seeing someone your own age dying is so hard for you
to deal with. "
"How do you get over the fear of dying?" he asked me.
1 told him that I was not ready to die, that I hoped to live
~or many more years, but that I was not afrai_d of dy!ng
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eople which would outlast me. I poi~ted out to him that
~e could certai nly say the same thmgs about himself
about his life and his work, th at he had already reached
the level of living humanely . It is only when you are no
lo nger afraid to die that you can say that you are truly
alive .
I believe th at it is not dying that people are afraid of.
Something else, something more unsettling and more
tragic than dying frightens us . We are afraid of never
having lived, of coming to the end of our days with the
sense that we were never really alive, that we never figured
out what life was for .
Of all the fears that haunt us, from fear of the dark when
we are young to fear of snakes and high places, there is
nothing to compare to the fear that we may have wasted
our lives with nothing to show for it. I have attended many
people at the end of their lives. Most of them wanted to
live longer if they could. They did not want to leave their
loved ones. But they were not afraid of death because they
knew that they had had time to live and they had used that
time well. Virtually the only people I have known who
were afraid of dying were people who thought that they
had wasted their lives. They would pray that if God would
only give them another few years, they would use them
more wisely than they had used all the years up till then .
I can think of no punishment for a wasted life more fright-
en ing than that, and no reward for a life well lived more
grati fyi ng than the sense that you accepted the challenge
to be human and were up to it.
There is a story told of a man who died after having led
a thoroughly selfi sh,.
Our theories about God are our theology.
It is well to value them, to try our best to
keep them pure and high. But the deeper
question is. What is our religion? What are
our real thoughts of God ? In that deep and
secret place of our inmost consciousness, where
all our desires and feelings and hopes and
aspirations are born, what is God to us ? This
is the great question, the searching question.
And on the answer to it our peace, our happi-
ness, our usefulness depend.
This weekend we hear the Gospel passage recounting Jesus’ journey with his disciples on a 25-mile hike to the region of Caesarea Philippi just so he could put forth one question to his disciples, “Who do you say I am?” And Peter gets it so right…and then gets it so wrong as Jesus calls him Satan. So why the hike to that area? And what is so telling about the dialogue between Jesus and Peter that it just may change the inner voice we currently listen to and therefore greatly alter how we act in the everyday situations of our lives. Check it out…
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2 page Summary of the article!
Self-Reliance
from Essays: First Series (1841)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Ne te quaesiveris extra."
"Man is his own star; and the soul that can
Render an honest and a perfect man,
Commands all light, all influence, all fate;
Nothing to him falls early or too late.
Our acts our angels are, or good or ill,
Our fatal shadows that walk by us still."
Epilogue to Beaumont and Fletcher's Honest Man's Fortune
Cast the bantling on the rocks,
Suckle him with the she-wolf's teat;
Wintered with the hawk and fox,
Power and speed be hands and feet.
ESSAY II Self-Reliance
I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject be what it may. The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost,—— and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment. Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is, that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else, to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact, makes much impression on him, and another none. This sculpture in the memory is not without preestablished harmony. The eye was placed where one ray should fall, that it might testify of that particular ray. We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents..
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1. الرحيم الرحمن هللا بسم
DMC CLASS OF 1985 DIGITAL MAGAZINE
JUNE 2015
IN THIS ISSUE
A TRIBUTE TO
FARRUKH
HASHMI
POETRY BY
DOWITES
SHORT
STORIES
POET OF THE
MONTH
FROM THE
QURAN
FROM THE
HADITH
AND MORE
A TRIBUTE TO FARRUKH HASHMI
EDITED BY: SALEEM A KHANANI AND SAMEENA KHAN
2. In the name of Allah, the
Beneficent, the Merciful
Alif. Lam. Mim. (1) This is the Scripture
whereof there is no doubt, a guidance
unto those who ward off (evil). (2) Who
believe in the Unseen, and establish
worship, and spend of that We have
bestowed upon them; (3) And who
believe in that which is revealed unto
thee (Muhammad) and that which was
revealed before thee, and are certain of
the Hereafter. (4) These depend on
guidance from their Lord. These are the
successful. (5) As for the Disbelievers,
Whether thou warn them or thou warn
them not it is all one for them; they
believe not. (6) Allah hath sealed their
hearing and their hearts, and on their
eyes there is a covering. Theirs will be
an awful doom. (7)
ِيمِحَّرٱل ِنَٰـم ۡحَّرٱل ِهللٱ ِم ۡسِب
( ٓمٓلا١)َب َۡير ََل ُبَٰـت ِڪۡٱل َكِلٲَذِِيِِ
( َينِقَّتُمۡلِل ى ً۬دُه٢)َونُنِم ۡؤُي َينِذَّٱل
اَّمِمَو َة ٰوَلَّصٱل َونُميِقُيَو ِب ۡيَغۡٱلِب
( َونُقِفنُي ۡمُهَٰـن َۡقزَر٣)َينِذََّٱلو
نِم َلِنز
ُ
أ ٓاَمَو َك ۡيَلِإ َلِنز
ُ
أ ٓاَمِب َونُنِم ۡؤُي
َ ۡٱلِبَو َكِل ۡبَقَونُنِقوُي ۡمُه ِةَرِخ
(٤ۡمِهِبَّر نِم ى ً۬دُه ٰىَلَع َكِٕٮٰٓـَلْو
ُ
)أ
( َونُحِل ۡفُمۡٱل ُمُه َكِٕٮٰٓـَلْو
ُ
َأو٥)َّنِإ
ۡمُهَت ۡرَذنََأء ۡمِه ۡيَلَع ٌءٓاَو َس ْواُرَفَك َينِذَّٱل
( َونُنِم ۡؤُي ََل ۡمُه ۡرِذنُت ۡمَل ۡمَأ٦)َمَتَخ
ۡمِهِبوُلُق ٰىَلَع ُ َّٱَّللۡمِهِع ۡم َس ٰىَلَعَو
ًٌَ۬ةوٰـ َشِغ ۡمِهِرَٰـص ۡبَأ ٰٓىَلَعَوۡمُهََلو
( ًٌ۬ميِظَع ٌابَذَع٧)
NOTES: The conventional translation of muttaqi as "God-fearing" does not adequately render the
positive content of this expression - namely, the awareness of His all-presence and the desire to
mould one's existence in the light of this awareness; while the interpretation adopted by some
translators, "one who guards himself against evil" or "one who is careful of his duty", does not
give more than one particular aspect of the concept of God-consciousness.
Al-ghayb (commonly, and erroneously, translated as "the Unseen") is used in the Qur'an to denote all
those sectors or phases of reality which lie beyond the range of human perception and cannot,
therefore, be proved or disproved by scientific observation or even adequately comprised within the
accepted categories of speculative thought: as, for instance, the existence of God and of a definite
purpose underlying the universe, life after death, the real nature of time, the existence of spiritual
forces and their inter-action, and so forth. Only a person who is convinced that the ultimate reality
comprises far more than our observable environment can attain to belief in God and, thus, to a belief
that life has meaning and purpose. By pointing out that it is "a guidance for those who believe in the
existence of that which is beyond human perception", the Qur'an says, in effect, that it will - of
necessity - remain a closed book to all whose minds cannot accept this fundamental premise.
FROM THE HOLY QURAN
3.
4.
5. TRIBUTES BY FRIENDS
SAMINA KHAN, DMC Class of 1985
To say that Farrukh Hashmi is a close or even best friend would be incorrect.
Farrukh is family. Ever since my earliest days at DMC he has been a source of
support, humor, encouragement and (I can’t believe I’m saying this but…) wisdom.
I remember very clearly when I first went to
DMC I was warned about a mischievous guy
nicknamed "Qaidi Abrar”, that I should stay
away from, because he was impossible to
handle as he could make fun of even a wall or
a lamp post... But then, how could I not check
the authenticity of the information for myself?
Thus began a lifelong bond of deep understanding that has proven to stay strong
and steady over the period of 37 years.
You might remember Farrukh as a lean young man with intense eyes shrouded in a
beard and mustache. You may also agree that he is twice the man he once was
(literally), albeit sans that thick black trademark beard. But for me he was always a
source of inspiration and strength. (Oh
no, what am I typing here??)
Our friendship has a unique quality that
makes it stand out among the best of
friendships. He is the brother that I could
never have imagined after my own was
taken away so early in my childhood and he is also my sahaili with whom I can share
all the gossips that reach me.... He is my confidant with whom I can share my joys
and heartaches with equal trust, without any reservations and he is also my buddy
with whom I can share the cheapest of jokes without the fear of being judged.
6. Throughout the years although life has changed us, our bond has persevered if not
grown stronger despite time and distance. He has been a support not only to me but
also to my children. Along with me and my kids this wizard has amazingly managed
to win the trust and respect of my husband who is always full of praises for him.
Even my parents loved him deeply and always wished him best in life.
I am proud to call him my friend and am
thankful to Allah to have given me the
chance to cross paths with this noble
soul, my dearest friend, Farrukh Hashmi.
I wish him all the joy and success in the
world. He deserves the best because he
is the best.
7. Farrukh Hasnain Hashmi: Friend and Brother
Izhar Khan
Friendship isn’t about whom you have knwn the longest…It’s about who came, and never
left your side.
In August 2012 my family and I visited my sister in Seattle. We had a fantastic holiday in
what I regard as probably the most progressive and liberal city in the United States. One of
the highlights of our visit was meeting my dear friend Farrukh Hashmi who very kindly
travelled a hundred odd miles to meet me.
My earliest encounter with the bon vivant and friend of friends was in the heady days of
DMC. We came from different colleges but had in common the fact that my father worked in
the Defence Science and Technology Orgnaization, not too far from the Naval Hospital.
Farrukh too had a military background and lived near the area where my father worked in
the vicinity of PNS Shifa. Our friendship was strengthened and nurtured by our shared
political vision and interests.
Soon we ended up as room-mates in the famous (or infamous) room 23 in Dow’s Hosel 2, a
room where three of my uncles and a second cousin had stayed since the 60s. It would be a
tad inappropriate to regale my friends with the more colorful details of our adventures,
suffice it to say that we had some memorable times in Hostel 2 with friends including Muslim
Jami, Ashok Kumar, Shahbaz Malik, Masroor Alam, Wahid Bhatti, Raja Munir, our dear
departed Afaq Muzaffar Butt and Khalid Saleem.
During exams Farrukh used to follow a set, almost military regime. He was an early riser and
used to set a clock to time his revision. Whilst revising he enjoyed listening to the latest
offerings from Michael Jackson, Neil Diamond or John Denver and consuming vast
quantities of bread and butter with tea. From my manji I used to observe him sitting on his
desk wrestling with Cunningham’s dissectors o trying to fathom the finer points of human
physiology under the sensual gaze of a gigantic Suzi Quatro poster, which adorned our
room. The mega revision sessions were interspersed with visits to the hostel balcony from
where he used to shout orders for fresh toast and eggs from the boys of the hostel cafe.
Nights were reserved for merriment and the company of friends where all manners of topics,
from girls to politics were discussed and the world put to right; and in the early hours of the
morning we often headed for the back alleys around the Hostel for paratha, omelette and
doodh patti chai.
So after decades, we met again in Seattle. Farrukh very kindly took me and Nino to the
amazing EMP Museum in downtown Seattle and over lunch near the Pike Market we
8. recalled our memories of old. Time flies quickly in the company of friends and alas we parted
too soon.
In Aberdeen when friends meet and part we have a saying, “happy to meet, sad to part,
happy to meet again”. Farrukh Hashmi, my friend and brother, may you live long and happy
and may we soon meet again.
10. الرحيم الرحمن هللا بسم
ASMA SYED, DMC 1985
Imagine.
Someone really, really important is coming to visit you. Surely, you would cook, clean,
shop, prepare and plan everything for them, well ahead of time. You would make sure
they are comfortable and well taken care of. You would ascertain that everything is
perfectly ready and adequately in place before they arrive.
Now imagine someone coming to visit you that is even more important than that....more
precious, more valuable, more honorable. Wouldn't you prepare even more and give it
the best you got?
Well, the best month of the year, the most blessed and most precious, is coming up. The
month that brings the fragrance of Jannah and the sweetness of Imaan....the tears of
Taubah and the forgiveness of your Lord. And it's bringing with it a night that is
equivalent in worship and reward, to more than a thousand months.
Wouldn't you want to prepare for that?
Wouldn't you want to be ready for it with all your heart and soul so that you don't miss
this great opportunity?
They say the more prepared you are for something, the easier it is for you to handle it
and the greater the chances that you will be successful at it.
And what better opportunity to prepare for something than preparing for the blessed
month of Ramadhaan.
This is a month of Rahmah and Barakah, a month of taubah and istighfaar, a great
opportunity for training oneself... to give up your bad deeds and build on your good
ones.
11. So what to do?
Mental Preparation
Prepare yourself mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually for this great month.
Be really excited for this upcoming month and be absolutely determined to do your
utmost best and exert yourself for this magnificent month of Forgiveness and Mercy from
your Lord. Race with one another and compete with each other for it.
Come on.
Be excited. Be energized. Get electrified.
Get all pumped up and feel vitalized.
After all, this is a time when the gates of Jannah are all open. W..I..D..E open.
And all the gates of Jahannum are closed. Yes, alhamdulillaah CLOSED.
And here is a chance for you to get all your sins forgiven.
Get invigorated and motivated. Realize that the month of Ramadhaan is a month of
amazing ibaadah and intense dua, astounding khushoo' and remarkable hope, sincere
taubah and extraordinary istighfaar.
And it is NOT a month of laziness or sleeping, cooking and feasting, or just being plain
grouchy and irritable.
Don't let the thought of the heat or the long day get to you or dampen your spirit. It is
only the Shaytaan trying to play with your mind and spoil this wonderful time for you.
Purify your intention
The next thing to do is to purify your niyyah from now: you are going to fast because it is
the order of Allaah and NOT because it is culture or your family does so, or even
because you want to lose weight. Fasting is a deed absolutely loved by Allaah and you
want to please Him.
ُماَي ِالص ُمُكْيَلَع َبِتُك ْاوُنَمآ َِينذَّال اَهُّيَأ اَيَونُقَّتَت ْمُكَّلَعَل ْمُكِلْبَق نِم َِينذَّال ىَلَع َبِتُك اَمَك
"O you who believe, fasting has been prescribed for you as it has been prescribed for
people before you so that you will (learn how to) attain Taqwa" [al-Baqarah, 2:183]
12. The Qur'aan and You
Have full intention from now, to read as much of the Qur'aan as you can.
Love the Qur'aan. Build a close relationship with it. Realize that these are the Words of
your Lord....Words that will take you to Jannah, your Ultimate Goal.
Don't just read it with your eyes. Read it with your heart. Let it sink in your soul. Savor
the joy and cherish the delight in reading the Book of Allaah. Taste the sweetness of
Imaan. Don't be in a rush to quickly finish the reading. Rather, take your time
to ponder over the words and understand the meanings. Don't think..."when am I going
to finish this Surah? Rather....when am I going to implement this in my life?"
Remember, nothing is sweeter and more pleasurable than the ayaat of the Qur'aan that
you can understand.
Lots of Sujood
Prepare yourself to do plenty of sujood....long, drawn out sujood, in Taraweeh and
Tahajjud. Feel close to your Rabb when you do that sajdah. Realize that this is most
honorable position for you...placing the thing you value most, your head, on the ground,
humbled before your Creator. You are the slave and He is the Master. You are
the 'abd and He is your Owner.
Dua, Dua and more Dua
Resolve from today, to make a lot of dua. Make a dua list. Prepare it from now. And
when you sit down to break your fast, or when you stand in front of your Creator in
Salah, in Taraaweeh or in the middle of the night, or any time during the night or day,
spread out those hands and ask al-Kareem, the Most Generous, the One Who gives to
one and to all. Make sincere, heartfelt dua whenever and wherever you can. Don't let a
moment slip by. And don't forget to be thankful to the One Who gave you everything.
True repentance
Be ready from now to do abundant istighfaar, lots and lots of it. Do it every single day.
In the darkness of the night, when the whole world is asleep, have full realization, that
this is no ordinary time, no time to waste away sleeping.
Ar-Rahmaan is calling. Wouldn't you want to respond??
So knock on the door of the Almighty. He is al-Ghafoor, the Oft-Forgiver and you are
nothing....just a weak and sinful human being. Bend your head with shame, and cry. Cry
13. like you've never cried before. Ask for His forgiveness. Make firm resolve never, ever, to
go back to your sins...never, ever to do those bad deeds again. Go ahead...spread out
those hands and be sincere and then be certain He will surely respond.
Determination to change for the better
Most importantly, have firm determination from this moment on, to continue all the good
deeds and habits that you will develop during Ramadhaan to continue even after
Ramadhaan is over. Remember, you are not a good Muslim just during a special month
of the year. Rather you are a Muslim throughout the three hundred and sixty five days.
Use the upcoming month of taqwa and training to coach and develop your nafs, to
cultivate virtuous deeds and actions and to give up your bad ones.
Tell me, are you going to let all that hard work of fasting, waking up in the middle of the
night, reading all that Qur'aan, standing up for Taraaweeh and prayers, and all that dua
go to waste???
Other tips:
1. Make a schedule or time-table for all your activities during Ramadhaan and write it
down. Allocate times for reading Qur'aan, waking up for tahajjud, cooking, sleeping, etc
and stick to it. You will find you have much more time at hand now that you are
organized about your activities.
2. Get to know the rules of fasting from now, so that your fasting can be closest to the
Sunnah and thus be more beloved and acceptable to Allaah.
3. Clarify any doubts that you may have and don't be afraid to ask a scholar.
4. Cleanse your heart of any anger, hatred, grudges, etc from now. And forgive
everyone. That's because forgiveness is delayed for the one who has anger and grudge
against his Muslim brother/sister.
The Prophet (sal Allaahu Alayhi wa sallam) said: “The gates of Paradise are opened on
Monday and Thursday, and everyone who does not associate anything with Allaah is
forgiven, except a man who has had an argument with his brother. It is said: ‘Wait for
these two until they reconcile, wait for these two until they reconcile, wait for these two
until they reconcile.” (Muslim)
14. 5. Finish up on your Ramadhaan and Eid preparation, cooking, shopping, etc. from now
so that you can free up all the time during Ramadhaan for Ibaadah.
6. If you are like most people who give their zakat during Ramadhaan, get it all
calculated and worked out before the month starts.
7. Don't spend all day in the kitchen. Remember this is a month of fasting, not feasting.
Our focus should be on fasting and Ibaadah, not on food.
To conclude, think positive and have firm resolve.
Strive with all your effort to do your best so that this will be an amazing, awe-inspiring,
heart-stopping experience of a lifetime.
Your best Ramadhaan ever.
Set your goals at the highest.
Don't settle for anything less than JANNAH!
May Allaah enable us to make this our best Ramadhaan, one that is accepted by Him
and He is pleased with. Ameen.
And Allaah knows best.
15. POETRY BY DOWITES
SYED KHALID ANWER
LOVE THE THINGS YOU LOVE!
Read the things you like, like the things you
read
Write the things you like, like the things you
write
Listen to the things you hear, hear the things
you listen
See the things you look at, look at the things
you see
Feel the things you touch, touch the things
you feel
Taste the things you eat, eat the things you
taste
Convey the things you feel, feel the things
you convey
Love the things you love, love the things you
love
Love is the unfinished business
AYESH IDRIS
ر؛ظتنم
اوتہںیہنھکچ سےےانرکت
دیاٹلدیقنکی مرعوج
سباورےہادتہتشگ مگ اکوہ
ےہہایمرساراہمتذاتاریہمت
لوکر دان،اترتخھکچ سو
کےگیدزتاسےنب ۃٰزکو اگرکی لتهوںکال
ےہ قجھکچ هینارمتہیاسوت
اہنندهٹبامتےنھکچ ںیممت ںیممہ ھیبک
دوڈالانکسمدٹچںیمهولیجریمتےانتاس
ےانجرہہی اممتاتسرتحںیہک سرتحریمت
وببحمرےمتےانجآ ہیںیمزدکی آہسیک وتںیہک!
،اردترےتتسےبک وںہرظتنمںیم
تاوراردترتغکہ اجاٹگ سبو ....
16. POETRY BY DOWITES
A LOVER 'S WISH
Feeling nostalgic today
Remembering the day
When we met in the memory lane
The road of memory in which lain
The culmination of yester years
Love, deceit , anger and tears
And as you left and moved on
Where there was nothing but oblivion
Beyond which there was nothing
You never looked back to see my suffering
And disappeared in yourself cavern
Not knowing whether you will return
And as the grief sucking time
And the hours flitting away
your image still shimmers in my brain
Brings hot surface tears with the pain
Holding my gaze
In a moment of daze
With my bated breath and sullen eyes
My heart heavy with cries
Waiting for you to reappear
As our fates are together
And as our love swerves
And our souls arouse
the veils will fall
And there will be no wall
Between you and me
And the time will see
When my eyes and yours
Once more to meet
And the lovers will greet
Each other and vowing
To be always together
For ever !!!!
Waqar Siddiqui
20. Karachi leads the way to Railways
Sohail Ansari
As Saleem asked me to write again, I pondered what would be the next best thing to cover and
yet continue with my theme on Karachi. As it is mid-May while this article is being conceived,
there can be nothing better than to commemorate a very significant moment in the history of
Karachi, and indeed Pakistan, that occurred 154 years ago on 13th May 1861.
I find it difficult to imagine how people would have viewed a monster such as a train, that they
would have never seen before, in those days when there was very inadequate information and
media.
Following invasion of Karachi with subsequent conquest of the rest of Sindh, Charles Napier
had a vision and saw Karachi as a major commercial as well as a military route to Punjab,
Afghanistan and Central Asian states. Invasion of Karachi was part of a bigger strategic plan
to access that route under the wake of threat from Russia. For that purpose physical
communication links were much required and the infrastructure at best was nearly non existent
as there were no roads worthy of mention, particularly in Sindh. Rivers were used for
transportation but facilities were rudimentary. Sir Henry Bartle Frere, who was the then
Commissioner of 'Scinde', had plans to see Karachi as a major seaport and for that purpose it
needed links with the rest of Indus and beyond. In 1851, he recommended a railway line to
connect the port. Colonel J.P. Kennedy presented a memorandum in 1952 for railway links to
21. Punjab and Sarhad. Lord Dalhousie, the then Governor General of India, agreed with the
proposal and gave his approval for the Karachi - Kotri Railway Line Project in 1853. The
ambition was to ultimately connect with Euphorates.
As a consequence of that decision, Pakistan inherited a rail network stretching more than 5000
miles at independence in 1947. Like the modernisation of postal system (which I wrote about
in one of your previous issues), Henry Bartle Frere and Karachi took the lead in leaping into
provision of the railway network in this part of the world which was very unique in those
days. On May 13th, 1861 the first engine left the station in Karachi and was witnessed by an
astonished crowd. I narrate here an account leading to that momentous occasion.
Until 1848, there was not a single kilometre of railway line in entire combined India of that
time. Its first railway was built by the Great Indian Peninsula Railway between Bombay and
Thane which opened in 1853.
Once, the project of Karachi-Kotri Railway Line met the approval of the Governor General of
India in 1853, Scinde Railway Company was formed in 1855 in London and a contract was
signed between Scinde Railway Company and East India Company in January 1856 for this
108 mile stretch. The company was also entrusted two other projects, Indus Steam Flotilla and
Punjab Railway, a line from Multan to Amritsar via Lahore. These three projects were under
three distinct capitals. Karachi-Kotri railway line was seen as the neck of the funnel. Karachi
had a population of 60,000 but it was rapidly growing.
John Brunton was appointed in 1857 as Chief Resident Engineer on this project. His
son William Alexander Brunton obtained an appointment as an assistant engineer with Scinde
22. Railway Company in the same year. Whereas, Edward Snowball served as the
locomotive superintendent for five years from 1858 to 1863.
Henry Bartle Frere inaugurated the project on 29th April 1858 and he wheeled the first barrow
load of earth at the site of a railway embankment in Karachi. In 1859, two small stretches of
Railway line become functional in Karachi city limits. One was from Kiamari to Railway
Workshops near present day Karachi Cantonment Station which swerved from present
mainline near Karachi City Station and crossed near the Boat Basin. The other one was from
Railway Workshops to Gizri Harbour; this other part has been uprooted. Railway Workshops
were located near the present day ‘kala pul’ just north of Karachi Cantonment Station, at the
junction of the Gizri branch with the mainline.
The workshop consisted of a sawmill, smiths', fitters', tool shops, iron and brass foundries
engine and carriage erecting facilities, heavy machinery and the needful tools.
23. Workshop
Karachi-Kotri section had thirty two bridges built to cope with the high rate of flash floods;
Twenty five of these bridges are masonry arched bridges with spans of between 20 feet and 45
feet. Of the viaducts, Malir Viaduct was particularly challenging piece of engineering.
Malir Viaduct
The project was finally completed in three years and opened for rail traffic on May 13, 1861
making it the first railway line of what was to be Pakistan between Karachi City and
Kotri. The cost of this railway line came out to Rupees 250,000 per mile.
Karachi City Station
24. However, the work continued and by 1897 the line from Kiamari to Kotri was doubled. In the
meanwhile other portions of railway line were also constructed in Punjab; in 1885 The Scinde
Railway, the Indus Flotilla Co, the Punjab Railway and the Delhi Railway, working in a single
company, were amalgamated into the Scinde, Punjab and Delhi Railway and the company was
purchased by the Secretary of State for India. The following year it became the North Western
State Railway, which was later on renamed as North Western Railway.
John Brunton presented a detailed report on the project to Institute of Civil Engineers on 14th
April 1863 highlighting the way work was carried and the various difficulties faced, getting a
varied workforce of carpenters and artisans from Cutch, labour from Baluchistan, clerks from
Sindh, European foremen and the officers from among the local British. As well as reported
the development of train signalling. How carefully the workforce was managed to keep them
engaged, daily wages and looking after their health from the hazards of water and insects and
animals. Acquiring land, avoiding the villages, obtaining the material needed for construction,
natural encounters and spiralling costs were covered in the report. An earthquake shook
Karachi on 9th April 1861 causing cracks along the line which were fixed with hoop iron bonds
and led to similar recommendation for the rest of India.
In his memoirs, John Brunton, described the challenges of buying off hostile princes and the
day a rabid wolf ran through his camp outside Karachi. "In India a record is kept of all fatalities
arising from attacks of wild beasts, snakes etc – and on this occasion the return gave 12 men
bitten, of whom 10 died, and a large number of cattle". He wrote, 'The natives of Scinde had
never seen a locomotive engine, they had heard of them as dragging great loads on the lines by
some hidden power they could not understand, therefore they feared them, supposing that they
moved by some diabolical agency, they called them shaitan. When I got out my locomotive
for trial the Karachi natives were astounded. I drove the engine myself of course at a slow
speed – the natives thronging all round, I was fearful of some accident. At last I thought I
should frighten them away, so I blew the engine steam whistle loudly. Instantly they all rushed
back from the “Demon” falling over one another much to our amusement.'
25. Karachi City Station is the first and oldest in Pakistan. When completed in May 1864, it was
called McLeod Station. Karachi Cantonment Stations was originally named as Frere Road
Station. Its construction commenced in 1896 and was completed in about two years at a cost
of Rs. 80,000.
Karachi Cantonment Station