Prayers of Prisoners

دنیا کی رونقوں سے اکتاگیا ہوں یارب۔۔۔ ساری رونقیں جعلی ۔۔۔ ساری کامیابیاں نقلی ۔۔۔ زبردستی کی یا پھر غفلت کی مسکراہٹیں۔۔۔ گھروں کے قیدی۔۔۔  قیدمیں تفریح کا سامان۔۔۔ موسیقی, کھیل تماشے۔۔۔  بے رنگ, بے مزہ زندگی۔۔۔

Life is a prison.  A beautiful prison equipped with all kind of entertainment; music, theater, games, sports, wine....

So soon came to know the reality of life, tasteless and colorless.  Every moment waiting for a new comedy, new melody, new drama, new action, new adventure.  People keep coming up with new varieties to entertain fellow-prisoners.  What a baseless life we spend!

I am sorry Allah (SWT)!  For being such a loser.  I couldn't bring pleasure to Your world, to the ones who needed it.

I ask You to help Pakistani troops guarding Pakistani borders.  I ask You to help the righteous ones protecting Pakistan.  I ask You to aid those who are on the right path.  I ask You to weaken those harming Pakistan.  Ameen!

Beauty and Books

This is the place in APWA college, where I sat the other day under this tree and started reading a book.  They have build these wells on both sides of this vast sandy field in the middle.  All around are the buildings with classes and faculty rooms.  It isn't like an educational place should be but I enjoyed being there for two reasons.  First, because the premises was less crowded with people.  Second, as the students are settled in their classes and the mothers find their corners, it became a quiet place.  Feeling winter breeze under the sunlight, listening to the birds, a hen and a cat and a puppy playing there.  It was awesome.  
As I was busy reading the book, I noticed the crows crowing in crowd above my head.  I looked up and spotted a nest.  I tried to ignore them but they kept calling their fellows around.  I had to move to the next well and in five minutes they all dispersed accept for the one that owned the nest.  

Today, I saw this puppy following girls for food.  She is so thin that anyone can count her ribs.  I fed her with qeema roll.  I divided it into three pieces so she can eat them easily.  She ate them one by one and went to sleep, which didn't last for long.  She had to wake up because of the girls coming out of the classrooms talking loud.  

The college is under construction.  I wish if they can cover the field with grass and grow flowers along the boundary wall all around.  That would save the furniture, floor and students from getting dusty especially on windy days.  There is a lot of empty space where they can build landscapes or shaded areas where girls can enjoy their break time and can literally think of something beautiful.  I wonder why our students don't demand it from the authorities.  

This is the canteen where I bought the rolls.  It is big from inside but not that shiny as it is supposed to be.  I never appreciate these kind of advertisement (of Pepsi, Coke or other products) in an educational environment.  

In government colleges, students should not be allowed to eat outside the canteen area.  They should not keep dogs, cats and chicken there too because they don't belong there.  

Government colleges and schools are very spacious.  They occupy thousands of yards.  They can build at least two studio apartment or proper room with their own bathrooms, somewhere in the corner for guards and gardeners furnished with necessary items, such as bed, table, chair, closet, book shelves etc.  At least they would have a comfortable place of their own to sleep well.