Delusion of Enjoyment

وَمَا الۡحَيٰوةُ الدُّنۡيَاۤ اِلَّا مَتَاعُ الۡغُرُوۡرِ‏ 50:27

“Whereas the life of this world is no more than the delusion of enjoyment”.

Held this Ayah as my belief, the moment I understood it but it never appeared as clear a sign as it did today while watching first AI actress Tilly Hollywood’s interview at Piers Morgan. My jaw kept dropping by the second the interview progressed. It augurs a massive change in our lifetimes and a massive party of delusion of enjoyment just begins.

Everything I knew to be true apart from my faith is falling apart or should we say the delusion of enjoyment is withering away like a defogger clears away your windscreen in cold winter mornings. 

I loved my sports but they have become so corrupted that it stinks eg most beautiful game of football is molested by its own governing body in FIFA WC 26. 

I can’t mention enough - murderer of my romantic self - filming of Titanic in a pool. 

Nationalism is a hoax. 

State has become bigger than God. We claim Allah as The Sovereign and pass legislations that suit us.

Democracy is smoke and mirrors. Abraham Lincoln’s famous line reads as govt of the elite, by the elite and for the elite. And elite interests are ransom to corporations. 

Geo-politics is a sham. Everything revolves around power & profit. Whole drama of US-Iran war is like a fixed match. US killed Iranian supreme leader and 168 girls in Minab. On talking table, Iran asked for relief in sanctions, release of frozen assets and trade permissions. Choked Hormuz and asked for toll. It didn’t work out so they activated Houthis to choke Bab ul Mandeb. KSA is staging false flag on Harmain to give sufficient reason to its Muslim brothers AKA Hired Guns to fight its war. POTUS is making billions from stocks and oil price fluctuations through his (un) Truth Social statements. 

Diamond neckless was fake and jet fuel was paid. 

Religion across the board is a political tool of rulers, a mask of rich, a cover up of middle class, emotional ‘go to’ tactic of poor and a bread winner of clergy. They all believe in one God - material gain. Which is being replaced by a new god - AI. 

Our house is on fire but we saving the world with our diplomatic gymnastics. 

Lots of scaremongering taking place in developed world on AI that it might exterminate our civilisation in less than a decade. 

I’m old enough to tell you that demand is created by narrative of fear and supplies are always ready to meet these demands. Masses spend and corporates thrive. 

I learnt this from real state agents. They play with your inherent desire to grow wealth. They create demand by invoking fear of losing an opportunity to invest and profit. They implore you to take the deal there and then otherwise next morning or week the prices shall increase. And most people take the bait. 

Last century, the best selling fear was nuclear Armageddon. Defence industrial complexes/ contractors across the globe filled their coffers and counting. 

The fear of communism where interestingly enough Lenin and Bolshevik Revolution was funded by The Wall Street - the jugular of capitalism. 

Fear narrative of Soviets reaching out to warm waters of Arabian Sea created the demand of jehad in Afghanistan. This reminds me of another fear of being found out. Months before the Ojhri Camp “accidental fire”, the US had discovered FIM-92 Stinger missiles in Iran.

New century. New fears. Fear of Islamic terrorism. Guess who created Al Qaeda. Who installed Jolani in Syria. 

Fear of pandemic- COVID 19. Created demand for vaccines and pharmas made hay while sun of COVID fear was shinning across the world. 

Lastly, AI going rogue. Whistleblower Jacob Coxon takes the world by storm and the CEO of Antropics casually endorses the idea, hence more fear. A need to harness and regulate AI. Creates demand for more investments which shall make open source AI an extremely profitable IPO. 

A lot to write but let’s wrap this piece up with where it started. It would be more profitable to fear from and pin hopes with Allah or this delusion of enjoyment shall continue to consume us like a candle burning from both ends. 

Have a thoughtful weekend. 

Inglorious Muslims of British Army - Part 2

Before I proffer answers to questions raised in first part, let me first introduce you to three categories of people in Pakistan today. The powerful, the beneficiaries and the oppressed. Scribe (not by choice but by design of destiny) falls between second and third category - orphan of both. And cognitive dissonance only just starts from this point. 

Know that the title of blog may be catchy and presented a good sound bite but Muslims who partook in British Army wars were neither inglorious nor glorious. They were simple Muslims who needed a job and they did their job well. Recognition was neither their desire nor was given by The Empire. There are strong parallels between Muslims of that time and our times. I leave it to the inquisitive minds to read the tea leaves and analogize both eras. 

I can empathise and relate with Muslim soldiers of British Army wars much strongly along with others who have served with honour and pride. A soldier’s concern is always task at hand. It may not completely absolve him/ her of moral obligation of war, however, maximum onus of responsibility lies with the leadership both political and military. 

In trying to get my head around the dilemma of a soldier and getting into the head of a soldier who left his home to fight for unknown leaders, unknown cause, unknown territory and unknown enemy. Anything but seven rupees could be his motivation to navigate his way through fear and uncertainty with death looming large every step of the way. Though he was expendable yet his resolve was stronger than those who tricked him for seven rupees. Here is my best judgment on this predicament:

For Muslim soldiers, it was not only a struggle for survival but a test of faith. Now and then, faith is the only thing that comes to their rescue. People may pass blanket moral judgments on soldiers but there were all soldiers on both sides in Jumal & Suffein- young men now and then were the same. 

Whether in the deserts of North Africa, the jungles of Burma or the ruins of Europe; they carried their religion with them like an invisible armour. They prayed in silence before battles using their helmets as makeshift ablution bowls. They knelt on torn blankets amid the roar of artillery,  whispering Allah’s Zikr as shells fell nearby. In the chaos of war their routines of prayer, fasting and remembrance became a fragile thread of humanity; a reminder of who they were and why they fought this foreign war.  

From chronicles and history of British Army, some fascinating accounts of Muslim Soldiers emerge. Scribe shall use his own style of writing to describe those accounts. From among soldiers, imams led prayers under the open sky while cooks did their best to prepare halal food. During Ramadan, soldiers kept fast under the burning Sun of the Sahara or the endless rains of Burma. Infidel and ‘mission oriented commanders’  often protested that it weakened the men. But for the soldiers, fasting wasn't a burden it was proof that even in war the spirit could not be conquered. Letters from the front spoke of longing for home and the comfort of the call to prayer. Some soldiers wrote about the guilt of killing. Some  about finding strength in the words of the Quran in weakest and darkest moments. They spoke of seeing death so often that only Faith kept them from losing their sanity. Soldiers built tiny mosques from mud and stone behind the lines. When they buried their fallen they face them toward Mecca even when no one else understood why it mattered. For them faith was not ideology it was identity. It gave meaning to suffering dignity to obedience and comfort in a world gone mad. While others fought for Empire, for ideology or for Vengeance, they fought with a different kind of conviction that courage itself was a form of worship and that dying with honour was a victory no enemy could take away. In the smoke and dust of war their prayers were not loud but they endured echoing softly between the gunfire and the silence that followed. 

Now spare a thought for the dilemma of a soldier returning to Indian subcontinent after WWII. 

When the guns finally fell silent in 1945, the world celebrated, cities lit up, flags waved and Nations rejoiced at the end of six years of destruction. But for the millions of Muslim soldiers who had fought beneath those flags, victory came with a strange emptiness. They had risked their lives to defend lands that were not their own only to return to countries still ruled by Colonial Powers. Many came home wearing British War Medals symbols of Valour in Europe but of obedience at home. For them the war's end was not liberation it was a reminder that the freedom they had fought for still belonged to others. In India, returning veterans found their homeland on the edge and Civil War. Comrades of recent wars now faced each other across new borders. Their shared sacrifice was forgotten amid politics and partition. Others carried invisible scars. The nightmares of battle, the weight of loss, the feeling of being used and discarded. They had marched across the world, seen the worst of humanity and come home to be ignored. When history was written their names were missing. In textbooks and memorials the war became a story of white faces. Brown soldiers, the Muslims who prayed in the trenches and died on foreign soil were erased not by malice but by indifference.

Such is the plight of being a soldier. Most painful part is being used and forgotten. 

Inglorious Muslims of British Army - Part 1

 When I found that Muslims of subcontinent were offered extra seven rupees (100% increase from 7 to 14 Rupees) to fight the World War. It cut deep. For seven rupees in 1942 which equals Rs 23,863 in 2026 is still much less an amount to fight and potentially die for an Empire in foreign lands to liberate them from potential Nazi takeover while these soldiers hailed from enslaved Indian Subcontinent. So what kept them going?

There are strong parallels to our times. What kept me going for two decades? Trivia: I can’t help questioning and I kept getting in trouble for asking these questions. Even the kindest of teachers threw me out of their classes for my questions, no wonder, ‘System’ did the same. So, back in the day, I needed a job for ailing father and four young sisters. Whether I was a patriarch by design or not, it didn’t matter as circumstances made me one from very early age much before my teens. I guess I needed those seven rupees as well. 

But when I delved deeper in to researching the reasons why Muslim Indians opted to go fight in foreign lands for foreign masters, the answer came in a different way, shape and form then my initial skeptic approach thought it to be. 

Total 3 Mn Muslims fought for the Empire in both WWs.

Muslim Punjab Regiment was known as the backbone of British Army. Some of those Muslims are buried in Walkings (UK) and Normandy (France)  Muslim Cemeteries.They took frontlines in Al Amein, while colonial officers commanded from behind. They were vanguard on D Day at Normandy but you only know Inglorious Bastards & Private Ryan because they have been glorified by Hollywood.

On conclusion of war, for The Empire it was liberation & victory celebrations and for Indian Muslims they returned to be slaves again - Did Victoria Cross of Sub Khudadad Khan mean anything to villagers of Dab in Chakwal? Though he became Baba-e-Baluch Regiment later to keep alive the colonial legacy.   

Those fought side by side as Comrades in Burma found their homeland burning in Civil War & at the cusp of division. 

Let’s first look at the numbers:

WWI

400,000 Muslims from subcontinent 1/3 of the 1.5 Mn strong Indian contingent as young as 15 yrs old - child labor was not in fashion then. 

89,000 died, 50,000 injured most bodies never recovered. 

WWII

600,000 to 1,000,000 (one million) Muslim from subcontinent nearly 1/3 of 2.5 Mn

Almost 30,000 died, nearly 100,000 injured & 67,000 taken POWs. 

 Staggering numbers, aren’t they? Apart from few names which is necessity for post war optics like Sub Khudadad Khan, Sepoy Ali Haider of 13 FF and Noor Inayat Khan (Muslim Lady Espionage Officer) who was executed by the German Nazi SS at the Dachua concentration camp on September 13, 1944, shot in the back of the neck after enduring months of brutal torture and solitary confinement by the Gestapo- what a remarkable story; more than hundred thousand Muslims (mostly Punjabis) remain obscure, unrecognised and unsung. 

Question remains- what was their motivation? What kept them going? Now should we revere them? 

Answers in next part. 

Happy Sunday. 

Random Thoughts - 13 July 26

 Don’t feel like writing lately, however, someone asked about US/Israel - Iran war which prompted writing of may not justify the title of random thoughts. 

Firstly, why I lost appetite for writing. People don’t like reading and I’m no exception to this growing trend. Meaningless shorts or clips shall gain more traction than written blogs. Besides, I have been ‘advised’ by sincere elders, well wishers and the system not to write about the state. Well, if you don’t write about state then you become Haqiqat TV 2.0, something I can’t live with. Though, the thoughts are my own and no one can stop this train. AI is another factor, now that I’m using it for multiple business related purposes and it helps reduce time by weeks and at times months. It can write for you in your style and if I’m tempted to ask Claude to write for me in my writing style, it will be death of original ideas and writing passion inside me as if death of a romantic young me was not enough when it divulged that Titanic was filmed in a pool; revelation that patriotism has been purposefully conflated with nationalism; that our military industrial complex is miniature of Global MIC and religion has been marginalised and molested to elevate the state above God. 

Now let’s shift focus to what’s happening around us. For this, we might have to go back in time but not too far back. 

It should be obvious by now to everyone that Nation State is a farce. An idea created out of thin air at the dusk of 18th Century in France. Democracy “one musket one vote” is the tool used to implement the idea of nation states which killed double the number of humans in less than two & a half centuries than all religious & monarchical wars hitherto. 

Nation states are apparently run by Zionist agenda which is merely a puppet show run by the occult in the backdrop. 

The occult seems all set to change the balance of power in the world. It shifted from Dutch to UK to US is last two centuries and it might take the shape of multiple power nodes in the world wherein US from global power might be reduced to Regional hegemon. Others power centres might include China, Israel, GCC & Iran might get a share of the pie. 

Keeping this context in view, which sounds more like a conspiracy theory but in absence of clear evidence of reasons behind US/ israel-Iran war, it seems to be the most likely scenario; current global events suggest that this war is likely to continue until agenda of global power shift takes effect. For example in 1930s the world suffered a global depression and out of the ashes of this unprecedented financial disaster, an Empire ie US was born. We are inching towards that kind of a situation with prolonged uncertainty and financial losses because now it appears that they want to shift the global religion from material god of peace, prosperity & pursuit of happiness to a new god ie AI; where nation states exercise power through AI and be securitised, monetised and controlled through AI by the occult. 

As for the nation states, they are designed to give control to the corrupt elite and its select beneficiaries who are less than 1% of total population and 99% and above shall continue to live under illusion of democracy or some form of government where enough rights are given to the submissive masses so that they continue to operate below the state of anarchy. Anyone who has different ideas shall be dealt with incremental repression from marginalisation, financial loss, harassment, abduction, incarceration or extermination. 

Now you can relate this with what is happening within Pakistan and around it. 

For Baluchistan, just keep one thing in mind where there are immense resources, there will be problems because that piece of land becomes a playground of imperial colonial powers which is pretty much an extension of colonial era in a different garb. 

What should we do under these circumstances? We still have to live a life. This shall be covered in upcoming blogs. 

Eid ul Adha (1447 AH) Mubarak

 Please accept a heartiest Eid Mubarak. 

While animal show parade is coming to an end and meat lovers’ imagination is immersed in Eid Day meat dishes and subsequent BBQ, let’s quickly recap the spirit of the event. 

Allah swt really loves over those who put their trust in Him. Who else could top the list than Ibrahim AS. His unquivering trust in the command of His Master made his act of supreme sacrifice eternal. To top it all; it was a mutual submission by father and son. Let alone reenacting, just imagine putting a sharp knife to the neck of your firstborn. Ibrahim AS passed the test with flying colours and to this day we celebrate by going through Hajj rituals and offering animal sacrifice. 

If anything, this global commemoration shall remind us, it has to be about developing understanding and reviving the Sunnah of Ibrahim AS ie unwavering faith, unshakeable trust and submission to Allah’s command. 

Also remember sacrifice and sufferings of Gazans. They have unmasked the ugly face of ruling elite across the globe and wipe off the blurring of our worldview with their blood. 

May Allah be our Guide. Ameen 

Random Thoughts - 14 May 26

 World has become a grand freak show. Take a seat and watch the show through random freak thoughts. 

Listening to Piers Morgan and Najam Sethi on regular basis helps keeping pace with The Agenda at International & National level. Both are master manipulators and excellent mouthpieces of Zionist narrative; they keep the viewers interested, adroitly fake journalistic integrity by occasionally criticising the power, spin doctor the storyline through subliminal signalling and  audience management to kowtow to power and by extension prescriptive narrative. 

US/ Israel - Iran war is coming back soon. Iran & Trump want an off ramp except that Trump wants to avoid humiliation of being called TACO and Iran is ok with KACO. Israel wants war to go on for regional hegemony and expansionist aspirations & US Industrial Complex has to sell arms. Abraham Accord (or should we say Epstein Accord for better understanding and assimilation) signatories GCC Arabs ie UAE & Bahrain along with Kuwait want more war because Iran wins if it walks out of this war with its nuclear dust, war waging capacity intact and without regime change. Iran takes driving seat as GCC hegemon and dictates terms on oil movement through Hormuz which no GCC member could afford. KSA & Qatar don’t want war yet can’t say no. Pakistan wants to boast world level mediator image through more talks to horror of twin cities’ dwellers for disruption of life. Without house in order, boasting image is empty brag. Foregoing, most powerful players in this matrix - Israel & US establishment shall prevail and war shall resume sooner than later. So that US defence industrial complex shall fill their coffers, US oil oligarchs shall sell oil at higher price with same production cost as was before February 28 and US inside traders shall make hey while Trump keeps vacillating between war, talks, peace and total annihilation week after week. Rest of the world including US commoners shall get buried under weight of ever growing inflation and cost of living. 

Prediction: at the end of current tenure, our PM’s memoirs shall break the charts at world stage if The Armageddon had happened and only one person lived to read it that too himself. 

Karachi cocaibe queen-Anmolo Escobar shall overshadow the Colombian legend Pablo Escobar. Later died in police  encounter and former’s case shall die soon at the hands of Sindh Police. 

US remained at war every six year of its 250 years’ existence. We raised the bar ushering into perpetual state of war since 1979 by exporting Jihad in Afghan-USSR war as US proxy.  However, 20th Century belonged to US and 21st to China because business of US is war and business of China is business giving us leeway to switch sides at opportune time. 

Random Thoughts - May 2026

Reflecting on two decades in uniform, I still maintain that I ended up in the best of professions. Soldiery at its core is above trivialities of life. A soldier’s resolve can be measured by the fact that each time he goes out on a mission, probable death is part of the package. A soldier is not defeated by enemy’s superior tactics, surprise attacks or crafty manoeuvres. He defeats death by embracing it. 

Unfortunately, downside of soldiery is bottom up. Matrix gets weaker at the top whether it’s military leadership, political leadership or Hybrid. 

Nationalism is the cancer we are trying to cure with the tumour of democracy. 

Robin Williams (US actor-comedian) once said,”Politicians are like NASCAR drivers, they must wear sponsor badges on their shirts”. However, Pakistan is an exception for its uni-sponsor state policy. 

Now that Rockefeller sponsored Starmer is on his way out of 10 Downing Street, The Stalking Horse could be Shabana Mahmood  who we might as well call the Dark Horse (pun intended).

This is how propaganda plays out- 21 Million Russians died in WW2 but the only number in millions the world knows about is 6 Million Jews. However, the world has changed, hitherto ignorance was a blessing but now a choice. 

Our actual growth rate is less than our actual population growth rate. In plain words, cake is getting smaller and eaters are growing. Who keeps eating the cake? 

Operation Sindoor turned 9 May commemoration in Pakistan to 10 May Marka-e-Haq celebrations.

Across the board, in today’s world; religion, ideology and isms (socialism, humanism, communism etc) are for common people and slogans for ruling elite who believe in power and money however & whichever way they can hang on to it. 

We haven’t earned so much favour from any POTUS than the incumbent who in most polite US publications and his stalwart depleting MAGA supporters (Tucker, Candice, Marjorie etc) is controversial, divisive, polarising, Narcissistic, Convicted Felon, Fraud, Authoritarian, Dictator, Fascist, Chaotic, Erratic, Racist, Sexist, Bigot, Bully, Boorish, Petty. Wonder why it took American voters so long to do us this favour? Arrogant

Liar/Dishonest