Ramzan: Month of Compassion or Aggression?

Every culture has its own specific ways to greet and celebrate a particular event. Pakistanis have their own ways to do this. And this greeting has also become a certain type of culture. All over the world Muslims observe holy month of Ramzan with religious devotion. This religious devotion again varies with culture but sometimes it becomes rather a deconstructive contamination of spirituality and a complete u-turn from the essence of the worship.

My Ugly Children

The misery of our understanding and the passion of our self supposed beliefs haunt us like a permanently residing spirit within us. Often, tending to believe in our conclusions in firmness, we completely ignore the facts of life and the limitations of our environment. We turn blind to the fact that the biases we harbor in our minds are based on our narrow visions and not on our “great” knowledge. This ignorance composing our chosen selective dementia and alter egos, leaves a great impact on the society without an iota of realisation by us.

Of Reason and Heresy!

This article was published in the June, 2012 issue of The Rationale, Monthly. *

Immanuel Kant once said, “A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.” For a person who believes in reason, this objectivity is mostly based on his analytical mindset, which comprehends the situation, analyse the variables, calculate the impact of the thing he concludes and then states his conclusion. However, a difficult situation arises when others counter this conclusion without much thought just for the sake of defending their dogmas.