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A Central Asian Naqshbandi saint recommends reciting SubhanAllah hundred times tonight before sleeping with the prayerful intention of liberating consciousness from inescapable Jonah’s whale of stressful existence.

Alperovich Anatoly But sometimes we can feel that rabbis are not respected enough which can result in narcissistic injury and therefore vengeance.

Riley Wishart I am a pro Shariati orthodox Muslim. Shariati a pious sociologist proposed pious socialism as an alternative to post Jewish Marxism. We look upto Catholic socialism. Afghan, Chechen, Uyghur and Syrian grievances can be co opted by open minded post secular socialists to arrive at a universal anti capitalist and anti-imperial consensus.

Belal Ahmed Two of us are trying to think outside Eastern boxes. But west has no tangible advantage in post secular progress. But I think even the sophistication of game theory cannot make our irreducible complexity tractable for them. My mission is finite. My two simple loathings are sin and blood. I pray my virtual existence contributes to damage control sins and bombs in East.

My wife is BPD so your experiences have helped me understand her and empathize with her. You talked about religion complicating BPD. My wife is ultra orthodox while I am neo orthodox but religion helped her cope better before marriage. BPD are more disposed to self transcendence which expresses either as her traditional outreach or your humorous secular outreach. I pray for your post secular progress. I would request you to make Eastern BPD struggles visible because we live in a quite egoless world not suited to make individualistic BPD stories famous. Thanks again for your contribution towards a world with more tolerable and meaningful disequilibrium.

پاکستان میں خواتین کی حقوق پسندی اور حقوق پرستی کی کشمکش

Response to a passionate anti traditional western feminist:

Dealing with anarchist feminism is not my priority right now. A famous Pakistani drama Ranjha Ranjha Kardi created by faithful semifeminists has made the idea of altruistic feminism popular, so I don’t think there is a need for radical anti feminism at least in 2020 Pakistan. My orthodox wife is a semi anti feminist. My wife has co opted with free flow of knowledge and she is an orthodox political scientist. You can study how battle of Jamal has already refuted feminism in Eastern world. But this is too much nuance for you to deconstruct. I hope you leave your comfort zone of self sufficiency to at least re read what I have said. Thanks again for outreach

{ Similarly, even if every single tribeswoman ‘willed’ that her right to vote be taken away, a democratic government cannot uphold that will, no matter how many tribesmen deem it offensive to their traditions.}

Why should a modernist dictate what is tribal will. Isn’t modernity itself a form of post Judaeo-Christian Anglo Saxon tribalism?

تم ٹائر بدل لیتی ہو !
میرا شوہر تو مجھے
وزنی سامان تک نہیں اٹھانے دیتا

تم موزہ ڈھونڈنے کا کہتی ہو !
میرا شوہر مجھے ڈھونڈتا ہے

تم برابری کا نعرہ لگاتی ہو !
میرا شوہر خود سے بڑھ کر
مجھے مان دیتا ہے
خود پرانے لباس میں ہو
مجھے ہر بار نئے جوڑے دیتا ہے
خود سالہا سال ایک جوتے
میں گزار دیتا ہے
مجھے ہر بار نئے جوتے دیتا
ّود سستے کپڑے لے کر
مجھے برانڈڈ دلواتا ہے

تمہیں حق کے لیےباہر آنا پڑا
میرا شوہر مجھے خود سے
سارے حق دیتا ہے

روز آفس سے کال کر
مجھ سے پوچھتا ہے
آج کیا لانا ہے
گویا میری رائے ہی
سب باتوں پر مقدم ہے
میری چاہت ہی اعظم ہے

تم اپنا بتاؤ

کیا ہے کوئی جو تم سے کہے
چھوڑ دو یہ میں کرتا ہوں
وزنی ہے یہ نہ تم اٹھاؤ
اسے میں اٹھاتا ہوں

ارے نہیں نہیں !
تمہاری قسمت ایسی کہاں
تم تو دوسروں کی
عیاشی کا سامان ہو
گھر سے اپنے فرار ہو
تم تو ٹائر بدلتی ہو
تمہیں تو بے طریقہ
بیٹھنے کا حق چاہیے ….

سنو !
مییرا شوہر میرا ایمان ہے
دھوپ میں سائبان ہے
میرے لیے تحفۂ رحمان ہے
میں اسے کھانا بھی دونگی
موزے بھی ڈھونڈوں گی
اس کے پسینے کی بو سے
مجھے جنت کی خوشبو آتی ہے

تم خود تو برباد ہو
دوسروں کی بربادی کا سامان ہو

تم پہلے میری برابری تو کر لو
پھر کسی سے برابری کا دعوا کرنا
منقول…..

You can change tyres. While my husband doesn’t allow me to lift any heavy object. You want him to look for his own socks, while my husband looks for my existence. You talk about equality, while my husband gives me priority over himself. He buys me new clothes while consider his old clothes to be sufficient. He is happy with old shoes while he buys new shoes for me. He is happy with cheap traditional clothes while he buys branded clothes for me. You had to leave home for your rights, while I receive rights at home. He calls me everyday from office as if my opinion is more important and my wish is supreme. Tell about yourself. Do you have someone who is a helper. No you cannot be so fortunate. You are a toy for others. You do not like your own home. You know how to change tyres and you want the right to womanspreading. While my husband is my faith, my shelter, my divine gift. I will prepare food for him at all costs. I will even find his socks. His sweat is perfume of Paradise for me
. While you are a loser and want other women to be losers. So, before trying to become equal to men, try to be equal to me first.

Do not try to judge a religious scholar on his IQ level, but try to identify the spiritual anchors of meaning he represents.

Imagine a world where you have to pay for causing tangible psychological distress. This is what Caliph Umar ra did.

Once a pregnant woman had miscarriage due to awe of Caliph Umar ra. He being God fearing was worried about his afterlife. Imam Ali kaw advised him to pay ten camels worth damages to her as it is tantamount to unintentional murder. He also told him that these people who are taking it lightly are not your well wishers and will not help you on the day of judgement.