I have been out of Islamabad since 98 and last visited the city in 2003. Alot has changed and I don’t know if the same Islamabad exists. Maybe the memories are more beautiful then the city itself. Maybe I will go inshallah and see it this year. Maybe I should expect disappointment as those places don’t exist which I am used to.
Category: Thoughts (Page 3 of 16)
Have a lot if pictures but never get around to posting any. These are from my phone
Katara
Living in qatar is a blessing. But if you are not careful you will fall in the trap of letting islam go on autopilot. Salat is a norm. Enough masjid around except if ur in the pearl. So u won’t miss Salat but other than that everything is an extra effort which one doesn’t realize cuz “I am in a Muslim country” mentality will lead you to do everything that you didnt do back home. So be careful, hangout with the right company. Spend time with family and try ur best to be on the right path. One thing that I realized is that everyone is a Muslim here and that leads you to trust people cuz of Islam. But there are enough back stabbers around. The guy you might pray with might be your downfall. It is not back home where people who came to the masjid actually made an effort to come and pray (unless you work for law enforcement and you came for something else :)) people here are all Muslims but all flavors of personalities also. Don’t have high expectations.
may Allah make us better Muslims.
GCC level of work ethics are beyond me. I still cannot understand the politics here. It is nationalistic or ethnic but not related to the betterment of the organizations. Vendors control supply chain and technology. New technologies are hard to come by. Everything requires a meeting. Then the meeting requires another meeting.
New ideas need to be pitched with certain carrots otherwise they will be shot down.
The philosophy is “don’t change it if it works, don’t replace it as the vendor is well settled here or don’t change it as non of ur coworkers know the new tech”
Old is Gold
due to their ignorance, they wont even say salaam, maybe they have something in their hearts that they are ashamed of or maybe they are full of themselves.
alhamdulillah i feel nothing against them and just didnt get a chance to say salaam to thim but then maybe he was avoiding me
“When I was new in the USA. One of the happiest day of my life was to be able to afford a pair of khakis from Walmart. I thought I had achieved something big. It was a time when 15$ pants were hard to come by. Alhamdulillah such experiences are a reminder who I was.
All I can think now is alhamdulillah”
Sometimes it is difficult to juggle life, how it is between different people, respect for all but sometimes it is difficult. I ask Allah to give me strength inshAllah.
Decisions is what makes a Person, gives them a future full of hope or despair. I have for a long time avoided decisions on certain matters but it is soon going to be a time when I will have to decide and move on.
I hope I do take the right decisions and get better at it, I just Hope ……
حسبي اللہ ونعم الوکيل
Pmln . We made roads and motorways
Ppp . We cried about rights for the liberals.
Pti . We will fix all this
Jui . We defended rights for terrorists
Ji. We just complained
MQM. We kill until we r in the government
The awam is still waiting for some relief. نه بجلی نہ پانی نه سستا کهانه
But still bhutto zinda hai. Pmln peeling bar teesri dafa vizer e azam bani. Aur blah blah blah
Nothing solid but bakwas
Lagay rahoo
What you have now will not be there forever. Don’t learn the hard way and have regrets for the rest of life.
Unless you don’t follow Pakistani cricket