I explore some of the stuff I have discovered while getting to work at an exciting product company

Throughout my life I have been running after numbers, in the form of grades or a salary figure. But on that day, there will be another one-number summary that will determine where I go, my score...

I imagine myself siting outside a marquee in Jannah; the grandest mehfils of them all! In the faint distance I can hear the sweet recitation of Hz. Dawud (AS) in the background...

I once got lost into the supermarket,  searching frantically for my mother who was just next to me, moments ago...

Inspired from Rumi's three gates of speech, tried to think about it in terms of failure!

Posting some of my favorite lines and takeaways from the Broadway Musical!

A post where I attempt to discover all things time and why timezones are so mind-boggling and how can they be handled

My Personal Blogging resumes! View my journey so far :)

I thought much like most of the stuff on the internet, this too would fade away...

The metrics kept on changing. 
First I was a letter of the English Alphabet.
Then, reduced to 4.00 digits.
Then, summed up to a six figure salary.
Then, measured in acres of land.
Then, assessed on my progeny.
Then, Nothing.
Little did they know that the only
constant was character.

—

Me

A man whose stance on religion was so firm, whose acceptance to Islam sent ripples of fear to his enemies so much so that even _Shaytaan_ used to acquire a different path than the one Umar (RA) had chosen. You would wonder what possibly could have been the reasons that would have reduced the mighty Hazrat Umar (RA) with his towering personality to tears?

The Prophet Sal Allaahu Alaiyhi wa Sallam said:

“Allah bestows mercy and His angels invoke blessings for those in the first rows”

(Abu Dawud, An-Nasa’i -Saheeh by al-Albaani).

What is the crime of innocence? The price of retribution? The consequence of ignorance? The streets of Aleppo burned yesterday......

Many of us received our results of Cambridge International Examinations similar to the format of this yesterday. These results were that which seemed final but were never fatal, and could not have possibly dictated our entire future, and may be of little or no use in the later years.....

Yesterday night, the first episode of the much highly awaited series Game of Thrones aired and I was just one of the myriad of people who eagerly anticipated its release since over a year....