Archive of Visionary Thoughts

10/20/2024

Keep the herd running..

09/24/2024

“Before everything else, I must first know ‘Who am I?’ How should I live my life, and ultimately, what responsibilities do I bear in my life? As long as I do not understand this concept, all the blessings and gifts that come to me feel like misfortunes.”

"ہر چیز سے پہلے مجھے یہ جاننا چاہیے کہ 'میں کون ہوں؟' مجھے کس طرح زندگی گزارنی چاہیے اور بالآخر اس زندگی میں مجھ پر کس طرح کی ذمہ داری عائد ہوتی ہے؟ جب تک یہ مفہوم مجھ پر نہیں کھلتا، وہ ساری خوش نصیبیاں جنھیں علم میرے لیے سوغات لاتا ہے، بد نصیبیاں ہیں۔"

- Dr. Ali Shariati

09/18/2024

"Muhammad (a) is the symbol of human perfection, the synthesis of all human ideals. He represents an ideal balance between reason and spirituality, between this world and the hereafter, between man and society."

Dr. Ali Shariati

08/12/2024

Those who amass wealth, though alive, are dead to realities of life, and those who achieve knowledge, will remain alive through their knowledge and wisdom even after their death, though their faces may disappear from the community of living beings, yet their ideas, the knowledge which they had left behind and their memory, will remain in the minds of people".

Imam Ali (a)

07/10/2024

"Imam Hussain (as), who is the successors of the Prophets (as), taught people how to live, now came to the battle field to show the entire mankind how to die".

"امام حسین علیہ السلام، جو انبیاء علیہم السلام کے جانشین ہیں، لوگوں کو جینے کا طریقہ سکھایا، اب میدان جنگ میں اترے تاکہ پوری انسانیت کو یہ دکھایا جا سکے کہ کس طرح مرنا ہے"

Dr. Ali Shariati

04/18/2024

The real damage is done by those millions who want to ‘survive.’ The honest men who just want to be left in peace. Those who don’t want their little lives disturbed by anything bigger than themselves. Those with no sides and no causes. Those who won’t take measure of their own strength, for fear of antagonizing their own weakness. Those who don’t like to make waves—or enemies. Those for whom freedom, honour, truth, and principles are only literature. Those who live small, mate small, die small. It’s the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you’ll keep it under control. If you don’t make any noise, the bogeyman won’t find you. But it’s all an illusion, because they die too, those people who roll up their spirits into tiny little balls so as to be safe. Safe?! From what? Life is always on the edge of death; narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues, and a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does. I choose my own way to burn. ~Sophie Scholl

(Source: Unclear/Consider one of Scholl's most books: At the Heart of the White Rose

(Art: Photograph by Maryam Zandi)

02/23/2024

“Do not ask your children
to strive for extraordinary lives.
Such striving may seem admirable,
but it is the way of foolishness.
Help them instead to find the wonder
and the marvel of an ordinary life.
Show them the joy of tasting
tomatoes, apples and pears.
Show them how to cry
when pets and people die.
Show them the infinite pleasure
in the touch of a hand.
And make the ordinary come alive for them.”
The extraordinary will take care of itself.

(Book: The Parent's Tao Te Ching)

02/19/2024

In fact, man is the one who has his own self, who has his own identity and individuality. Whoever can say "I", who can say that I made this choice and the basis of my choices are based on these arguments, and then he chooses something for himself with his will and authority in the light of arguments and proofs. Ali Shariati
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دراصل انسان وہ ہے جس کی اپنی خودی ہو، جس کا اپنا تشخص اور انفرادیت ہو۔ جو ”میں ‘‘ کہہ سکے، جو یہ کہہ سکے کہ میں نے یہ انتخاب کیا اور میرے اس انتخاب کی بنیاد یہ دلائل ہیں اور پھر وہ اپنے ارادہ اوراختیار سے دلائل اور براہین کی روشنی میں اپنے لئے کسی شے کو منتخب کرے۔

علی شریعتی

02/02/2024

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.
-Ayn Rand

12/14/2023

11/25/2023

Aah ye sach ha ka hathiar ka balbuta par
aadmi nadro changaiz bhi ban sakta ha
zahrii kuwato sitwat ki farawanii sa
lene no hitlaro angraiz to bansakta ha
sakht dushwar ha insan ka mukammal hona
haqqo insaf ki buniad pa afzal hona
haqqo insaf ki buniad pa afzal hona

- Hazrat Amir Usmani

11/21/2023

Excerpt from the book Char Zindaan e Insaan by Ali Shariati where we explored different preceptive about human appoach about life.

علی شریعتی کی کتاب "چار زندہ انسان" سے اقتباس جس میں ہم نے انسانی زندگی کے بارے میں مختلف تصورات کا جائزہ لیا ہے۔

11/18/2023

“The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.”
―Malik el-Shabazz

10/30/2023

Where there is power, there is resistance.

Michel Foucault

10/19/2023

“You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.”

MalcomX

10/02/2023

Whoever seeks will find, and the finding will cause him to seek, but in the seeking is hidden the meaning of Life.

Hazrat Essa (a)

09/08/2023

“Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.” Carl Jung

09/01/2023

"There must be another life, here & now, this is too short, too broken. We know nothing, even abt ourselves. Imean, there must be right? We cannot be created for this sort of suffering!”

- Virginia Woolf