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#931 [Permalink] Posted on 15th January 2020 20:09

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Two Ulama who had a disagreement recently met in person, nothing dramatic and nothing serious in the video

Alhumdolillah that two Muslims reconciled and this is what Allah Ta'ala commands us to do.
 
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#932 [Permalink] Posted on 16th January 2020 00:50
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That's great. I wanted to create a click bait.
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#933 [Permalink] Posted on 16th January 2020 07:14
Would come under deception. I hate such captions.
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#934 [Permalink] Posted on 16th January 2020 09:43

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And you get reward of 100 Martyrs for labelling specific Muslims "Bayghayrat"...
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#935 [Permalink] Posted on 17th January 2020 14:02
So many muftis in muftisays.com
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#936 [Permalink] Posted on 17th January 2020 14:03
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#937 [Permalink] Posted on 17th January 2020 15:03
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On the contrary!
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#938 [Permalink] Posted on 17th January 2020 15:31
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#939 [Permalink] Posted on 23rd January 2020 12:33
Imran Khan’s position on China's treatment of Uighurs

When pressed on China's policies, Khan said Pakistan's relations with Beijing were too important for him to speak out publicly.

"China has helped us when we were at rock bottom. We are really grateful to the Chinese government, so we have decided that any issues we have had with China we will handle privately."

Source: aljazeera
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#940 [Permalink] Posted on 28th January 2020 10:46
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#941 [Permalink] Posted on 1st February 2020 13:24
Amer Iqbal Left Pakistan


TWO weeks ago Pakistan’s only well-known mathematician left for the Western world. He has no plans to return. Since the country has almost no real mathematicians — a bare half a dozen or less — the loss was huge. But who cares? Preoccupied by politics of the boot, busy gorging imported luxury products, and feverishly preparing for travel to the hereafter, our moribund culture is indifferent to math or physics.

Professor Pervez Hoodbhuy's Article

Source : The Dawn
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#942 [Permalink] Posted on 4th February 2020 05:48
Kashmir Ki Nida


A Tarana was released today by a channel Islamic Releases on You Tube today where in the refrain is Kashmir Ki Nida, Voice of Kashmir. The tune is same as that of the Nasheed Sabeeluna-Sabeeluna. It is very catchy. Search for Emotional Kalaam with Beautiful Voice. I'll not link the video here to spare the forum from unwanted traffic.
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#943 [Permalink] Posted on 7th February 2020 12:53
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In the post quoted above I have given a link to an article by Professor Pervez Hoodbhuy about a well known string theorist, Amer Iqbal, leaving Pakistan for good.

String theory is my discipline and hence and otherwise too I suppose I have to do the dissection of the post.
Here I go.

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TWO weeks ago Pakistan’s only well-known mathematician left for the Western world. He has no plans to return. Since the country has almost no real mathematicians — a bare half a dozen or less — the loss was huge. But who cares? Preoccupied by politics of the boot, busy gorging imported luxury products, and feverishly preparing for travel to the hereafter, our moribund culture is indifferent to math or physics.


He, Professor Pervez Hoodbhuy, has relegated string theory to mathematics and this point will normally not be forgiven by string theory community. Since the target of criticism is Pakistan this point will not be noticed at all.

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Preoccupied by politics of the boot .....

Who can deny that. And a very sad state of affairs indeed.
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.... busy gorging imported luxury products...

So damn and irritatingly true of the Pakistani society. It is not inclined towards Duniya but preoccupied and obsessed with it. I am indeed surprised that Iman survives in that country in spite of this sickening level of materialism.
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... and feverishly preparing for travel to the hereafter

This is the only objectionable part of the statement.
Yet there is something in this phrase too that should not be overlooked.
Preoccupation of hereafter goes bad if the duties of this world are ignored.

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But in living and vibrant cultures, both new and old, mathematicians and theoretical physicists are seen very differently. In millennia past, Pythagoras and Plato were cult leaders who saw in geometry the wondrous key unlocking the universe’s secrets. They demanded from their students accurate definitions, clearly stated assumptions, and logical deductive proof — the very stuff that makes mathematics the queen of sciences and the mother of physics. Everything in the modern world from spacecraft and internet to pharmaceuticals and chewing gum owes itself to such rigorous mental training.

He has a point. What he is driving towards follows.

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Below is a story for all who wonder why Pakistan sorely loses out in the modern world, why its universities consistently fail to keep our best and brightest, and why there’s no genuine culture of learning and research. While it’s about just one person, there are countless stories of others who returned to Pakistan but eventually gave up.

I am among those who feel said about this state of affairs.

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Around 1994-1995, I received a handwritten letter from someone saying he was deeply interested in studying theoretical physics. It was signed by some Amer Iqbal. Filled with neatly written formulae, it seemed moderately interesting but little more. I replied, suggesting he visit.

Indeed a romantic episode of talent in Pakistan.
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This is the story of Pakistan’s most recognised mathematician and why we finally lost him.

Sad.

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Weeks later, a tall lad in his late teens walked into my office at Quaid-e-Azam University. I was then teaching a subject called quantum field theory whose comprehension requires years of mathematical preparation. The boy seemed bright but I said he wouldn’t be able to follow my course. I was wrong. He rapidly self-studied the needed background and, to my amazement, was soon picking out my occasional mistakes on the blackboard.

The romantic story continues.

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Delighted, I suggested MIT for a PhD. Although all its departments are extremely competitive, MIT’s departments of theoretical physics and mathematics can be terrifying. Even with 100 per cent perfect GRE scores and excellent grades, overseas candidates have a hard time getting in and then surviving. Fortunately, I had colleagues on the MIT faculty with whom I had either collaborated on research or who had been on my PhD committee. After an initial hiccup it all worked out and Amer was on his way.

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... getting in and then surviving.

The import of this phrase can not be over emphasized.

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The rest is history. His PhD research and a series of brilliant papers soon established Amer in high academia. MIT’s Professor Jeffrey Goldstone — of Goldstone Boson fame (the Higgs Boson or so-called God Particle derives from the Goldstone Boson) — is also famously frugal for words. But in a corridor encounter about 20 years ago, he somehow strung together enough of them to gruffly bark a “thank you” at me for sending Amer to MIT. At the next stage, Steven Weinberg — who co-shared the 1979 Nobel Prize with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow — invited him for post-doctoral research at the University of Texas (Austin).

You have to be in the business of Particle Physics to fathom what an honour Professor Hoodbhuy is talking about.
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The young man was flowering. During short subsequent visits to the United States from Pakistan, he was co-authoring papers with the world’s outstanding mathematicians (Okounkov, Yau, etc) and famous string-theory physicists (Vafa, Zwiebach, etc). Only practitioners in the super stratified world of high science can understand what this really means. Amer Iqbal is still the sole Pakistani invited to lecture at high-level meetings on problems at the interface of theoretical physics and mathematics.

And the honour is continued.

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None of this cut much ice with his colleagues in Pakistani institutions. Six years of teaching and research at Lums (2009-2015) ended with Amer’s forced resignation and unceremonious exit. Some of his peers — jealous intellectual midgets — were threatened by his academic stature and conspired against him. Lums has never explained why he was fired.

I am not a Pakistani but I am outraged at this shabby treatment meted out to Amer.
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The next stint — at the Abdus Salam School for Mathematical Sciences (AS-SMS) in Lahore — lasted another five years and ended no better. Instead of a regular appointment, he was given a year-to-year contract, a situation leaving appointees vulnerable and forced to curry favour with higher ups. For Amer that was out of the question
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Another stage of shabby treatment.

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But it was his exposing a mega-scandal that ended everything. Readers are referred to my Dawn article, ‘Our ghost mathematicians’, which tells how at least Rs638 million were paid in fake salaries at AS-SMS. I began the article saying: “To be named below are several persons who would have ended up behind bars in any country where there is rule of law. Several others — whether complicit or negligent — would be shamed, reviled and removed from their current official positions. Knowing that nothing will happen here in Pakistan, this is still a story I must tell.”

That article escaped my perusal. And it is a mighty irritating scandal.
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That story was told and indeed nothing happened — except that Amer’s contract was not renewed. One hears that HEC has launched a scam investigation. But committees are made to whitewash crimes, not to catch crooks.

Such a familiar story in the sub-continent. Sadly Pakistan is not strong and robust enough to wetaher such experiments.
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Nevertheless, the truth filtered out. Days later my Dawn article was picked up by BBC. Its diligent researchers located several European ‘ghost mathematicians’ from 10 years ago as well as the former director of AS-SMS who ran away with the loot (of course, he denies it). In essence this BBC report (accessible at www.bbc.com/urdu/pakistan-50490259) corroborated Amer’s extraordinary 456-page investigative report. Earlier posted on the AS-SMS official website, it was removed last month. Presumably this is to protect others complicit in the heist at AS-SMS.

Problem with Muslim societies the world over is the same - their sordid stories continue and continue.

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Pakistan’s universities — all of them — are cesspools of political filth and intrigue. In a system with perverted values and nonsensical selection criteria, duffers who fail at all else become lauded university professors. Today they rule the roost. Even if Pakistan somehow attracts back its best and brightest from foreign lands, they will soon leave unless our universities can be made to respect the rule of law and operate on principles of strict merit, fair play and transparency. It is hard to see how any of these conditions can be met in the near future.


His words make me very sad.

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The writer teaches physics and mathematics in Lahore and Islamabad.

Published in Dawn, February 1st, 2020


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#944 [Permalink] Posted on 20th February 2020 12:15
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#945 [Permalink] Posted on 3rd March 2020 03:58
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Many posts of the Guest user from Bangladesh has been reported and my Aamar Sonar Bangla thread has been locked.

I hope the moderators will unlock the thread at certain point of time. It is also fine if they do not want to unlock it. I am not done with the topic of BD and in case the moderators do not want to unlock that thread I'd create a new one to sort out those matters that I have in my mind.

My view is that we must not stifle our BD brother at all. Just imagine Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhastan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. Kazakhstan is two third of India in physical size. Is it contributing to Muslim politics in proportionate with its size? No. Similarly the other four countries are cipher on the world map when it comes to Muslim politics. Why? Because they have just come out of a horrendous occupation that lasted for too long. Nations take time to breathe easy. Same is true for BD. Let us give them Bangladeshis enough time to breathe.


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And today 20 crore Indian Muslims' plight is due to Pakistan's attitude and its reactions and misadventures to take revenge of Bangladesh defeat. 20 crore Muslims are caught between India and Pakistan for no fault of theirs.


This BD brother said above about Pakistan when I made my views about BD known in that thread.

I suppose that comment can be answered in this thread because the issue involves Pakistan.

Let the concerned people know that we Muslims of India feel loved by the Pakistani people when they worry about us. (Listen to the opening line of Mubashshir Luqman in this video.)

I would expect the same from the BD people. As and when they can reach that level.

till then I have my full support to those of my brothers and sisters in BD who are trying to turn their country into a pround member of Muslim Ummah and who are being hanged, suppressed or harassed by the BD government.

What should we call these people? The Bangla nationalists have created a huge problem not only for the pious Bangla Muslims in BD but for us too.

In particular we Muslims of India, much to the chagrin of the Saffronites, neither hate Pakistan not the Pakistanis.

They, the Pakistanis, separated from us in India at a very delicate moment but I have no logic to term this act as an act of treason of Muslims of India.
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