[Reader-list] Ghalib and the damn Muslim problem

Raheema Begum theunderscoredhood at gmail.com
Wed May 7 23:07:54 IST 2008


I meant 'fitrat', and yes, I need some amal too.
This is from Tulu-e-Islam, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRM90iEIK_U


On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 11:02 PM, Raheema Begum <theunderscoredhood at gmail.com>
wrote:

> as far as this space is concerned, my lament has always been this :
>
> yeh khaki apni kismat mein na noori hai na naari hai
>
> Raheema.
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 10:17 PM, ambarien qadar <ambarien at yahoo.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
> > Ofcourse the 'Half muslim' anecdote is very much true..atleast in the
> > world I come from!
> > Many of my closest friends would drink wine and would not eat
> > pork....this is more to do with cultural influences rather than anything
> > else.
> > Frankly, they give a damn to who is saying what to whom or had said what
> > to whom or whether they will be less muslims by doing it or will be more if
> > they do not, before they raise the toast
> > Nevertheless, we are labelled so all the time...It also brings the
> > hijab-jeans, combo to my mind amongst other things...
> > This surely is an interesting thread. I'm thinking through some it...
> > But Ghalib perhaps is not the right reference for this thread.
> > I'm already thinking of someone like Iqbal.
> > Cheers
> > Ambarien
> >
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