Category: family
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Ikram Hyder Naqshbandi Naatia Kalam in Different Languages
میرے دادا کے والد سید اکرام حیدر (1854 – 1942) کی غالباً 1920 کی دہائی کا لکھا ہوا نبی کریم صل اللہ علیہ وسلم کی شان میں کلام، مختلف زبانوں میں بسم اللہ الرحمن الرحیم بزبان عربی للہ الحمد علی راسنا ار سلت نبی من نبی اقبل احکام شرقی غربی کان امی لقد ا…
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Preserving Old Handwritten Bound Manuscripts-Deewan-e-Baqa by Shah Abdul Ghafoor Manikpuri 1854-1930
This post describes how I am preserving the old handwritten poetic manuscripts written around 1880-1930. They had come to me in a bound volume as seen in the picture below. The binding was labeled Deewan-e-Baqa. Baqa being the poetic name, takhalus, of Shah Abdul Ghafoor Manikpuri. Baqa is used in several ghazal and poems in…
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Rauf Momani and Great Memories of a Lively Lady
Rauf Momani and Great Memories of a Lively Lady On 12th of April, 2023, Mrs Parveen Rauf Momani, my mother’s brother’s wife left this world to meet her creator. Inna lillah e wa inna ilaihi rajioon. May Allah give her the best of abodes in the hereafter. Aameen. Rauf Mamoo and Rauf Momani (1960) Rauf…
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Discovery and Rememberances of a 1951 Journey via Ship from Karachi to London onwards to Brazil
1991-11-09. This photo is just the start of the journey to Brazil whose vivid description and experiences are captured in the following letter by Good Beti to Nice Beti Good Khala face visible from the peep hole of the ship. She was leaving with her husband and family for Brazil; via Ship first to London…
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Companions of Hajj: Dekh mera Zauq o Shauq (See My Yearning and Passion)
Hajj kay Saathi (Companions of Hajj): Dekh mera Zauq o shauq (See my Passion and Yearning) In 2016, Arif bhai went for his second Hajj, and all through the trip, he kept on recalling the saathis (group fellows) of that first Hajj of 1996 which I also accompanied. When I talked on Skype with Arif Bhai after…
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Story of Mankind and the little bird on a mountain 100 miles high and wide
Last night I woke up at around 4am with this quote ringing in my ears. I read this book long ago, during my school days in 1970s. The book made a great impression on me then. About the immensity of time, it’s great expanse, our insignificance, and with all of our pomp and glory, our…
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Why children can not appreciate the value of how they are better off than their parents
When I see my fridge filled with ice cream for a couple of days and children not touching it saying that they don’t like the flavor, I recall my childhood when I used to yearn for ice cream for months and sometimes even years before getting to taste even a small serving. We did not…
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A Drive on a Rickety Cycle and Sufistic Thought by Shah M Ismail Rauf
This is a story/article written by my dear mamoo Shah M Ismail written around 1953-55. Today September 8, 2021 is his 22nd death anniversary. He retired as Major in 1980s. He was great man who taught me how to love and play with children. Father of Faizan Shah, Faryal Osman Khan, Faraz Shah, Fariha Ahmreen,…
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Ism e Tareekh and Qata e Wafat: How Birth and Death Years were remembered in History
Ism-e- tareekh ( اسم تاریخ) was the name computed from the year of birth. There are numbers assigned to each letter of the alphabet. Sum of the numbers assigned to each letter of birth year name evaluate to the birth year. See the computations of names of my father, uncles and phuppo by Syed Ikram…
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Fauqul Chacha and Family Help
I knew them both and their father Fauqul Hasan Zaidi. Fauqul chacha will regularly drop at our place for morning tea with my father and mother during his break journey on his way from his home in F-6/1 to his office in the old state bank building which was being used as parliament building temporarily…
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Ausaf Husain and His Sincere Frankness
Syed Ausaf Hussain Marhoom: On 18th January, 2012, Ausaf Bhai left for his heavenly abode. A wrangler in the true sense and a man of high principles. With the way he carried himself, no one could gauge his true age. I remember sharing an anecdote with us that he once visited a Hakeem. Hakeem sb…
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Depressive Thoughts and Poetry- How Poetry Mellows and Enriches Social Interactions
What is the relationship between depressive thoughts and poetic expression? How poetry enables us to face hardships in our lives. What a mournful separation of the family members after the partition is depicted through poetry. Note the following message of eid Mubarak and its poetic response by members of the family across the divide. Also,…
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Of Excellence in Ironing and Remembering the Learnings from Mukhtar A Siddiqui, My Khaloo
Of Excellence in Ironing and Remembering Mukhtar Siddiqui Mukhtar Khaloo once came to Islamabad and was traveling to Mardan. This was the mid-1970s. He spent a few days at our place. There are two memorable incidents from his stay. One was my learning about excellence in ironing. The way he ironed his shirt and pants…
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Sentiments of Families Split Apart by Partition Expressed in a Beautiful Poem by Fatimah Khatoon
اباجان [سید عبدالغنی حیدر] کے ہندوستان واپس جانے پر آپا فاطمہ خاتون نے یہ نظم کہی تھی۔ ۱۹۵۱ [میرے والد احسان حیدر کا نوٹ] بھارت کو جانے والے ، بھارت کو چاہنے والے حافظ خدا تمہارا، مالک کے تم حوالے ہندوستان تمہارا، گھر تھا کبھی ہمارا ہم اُس کو چھوڑ آئے ،لے کے نیا سہارا تم …
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A Jog Down the Memory Lane
A Jog down the memory lane Yesterday I took a stroll down the fields on the farm in Tumair. Moving from the small cozy cottage on the east side of the farm land towards the north-west corner where the work was in progress to build a water reservoir. This is barani land, where people have…
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How I learned the Craft of Book Binding
I learned book binding جلد بندی from my relative Ehtisham Haider Chacha (منّو چچا) . I went with him to Raja Bazar, Rawalpindi in 1975-76 when I was in 8th class and living in Islamabad. He helped me buy the needle, thick thread, and glossy paper sheet, scissors, etc. He then taught me how to…
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How to Build Confidence in Children: Climbing the Trees and Getting out of a Hole
This must be around 1965-66. I am around 4-5 playing in my next door neighbor’s house with my friend Umair, and somehow I had managed to climb up a large shahtoot (mulbery) tree in their courtyard. I could still feel my exhilaration that I felt as I went up and up from one branch to…
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Rauf Mamoo, My war hero of 1965 War: Major (R) Shah M Ismail at Chawinda Tank Battle.
My hero of 1965 War: Major (R) Shah M Ismail at Chawinda Tank Battle. Rauf Mamoo (as known in the family) related to us of his experience at Chawinda battlefield in the 1965 India-Pakistan war. Major Shah M Ismail He was assigned the duty of an OP (Observation Post) and was deputed in the no-man’s…
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Aligarh University, Sadaat e Nihtaur and Hyder Family
Here is the list of alumni of Aligarh Muslim University belonging to Sadaat e Nihtaur. My father Ehsaan Hyder (standing in the middle) with his degree from Aligarh University in 1935 (or was it after his matric?). (b. 1917- d. 2003).Sitting on right: My grandfather Abdul Ghani Hyder (d. 1966)Sitting on left: My grandfather’s father…
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Growing Up in the 1960s-70s: Recollections of Rauf Mamoo by his Daughter
Recollections of Faryal Osman daughter of Rauf Mamoo (Major Shah Mohammad Ismail, Artillery SP3), while growing up in Nowshera when Rauf Mamoo was a Captain and later in Hyderabad where he was posted as Major before his retirement. The chronicle is interesting because it describes the life and times of junior army officers during those…
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Flight from Bedar when Hyderabad Deccan fell to Indian Invasion in 1948
This post describes my maternal family’s flight from Bedar Hyderabad at the time of the annexation of the Nizam-ruled princely state of Hyderabad Deccan by Indian forces in September 1948. See podcast of my mother’s sister Arsalan Khatoon who was among the group that had to run empty handed with her mother, brothers and sisters. …
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Ghaus e Buner (Swat), Syed Ali Tirmidhi’s Descendant Syed Akbar Shah of Sathana
By Muhammad Shafi Sabir Tazkara Sarfaroshan e Sarhad: Syed Akbar Shah of Sathana One of the most vocal and active resistance leader against the Sikh Regime’s injustices was Syed Akbar Shah of Sathana. He belonged to the family of Ghaus e Buner, Hazrat Syed Ali Tirmidhi also known as Pir Baba Rahmatullah Alaihe. In tribute…