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Glimpses from My Life January 4, 2009

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Quran 96:4 · Al-Alaq
Quran 53:39 · An-Najm
Tafsir al-Qurtubi, vol. 6, p. 74
Quran 13:17 · Ar-Ra'd
Musnad Ahmad, Hadith no. 10878
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Birth in a remote village and nature-immersed childhood
“Meri paidaish ki sahi tareekh passport wali nahi hai”
46 sec
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Mother's dream of an elephant carrying baby away
“Meri maa ne khwab dekha, ek bahut bada hathi aaya”
2 min 9 sec
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Mother's resolve and father's patience lesson after his death
“Meri maa purane zamane ki thin, lekin bahut intelligent”
41 sec
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Mother refuses lawsuit over disputed family property
“Hamare baap ka inteqal ho gaya bachpan hi mein”
5 min 22 sec
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How childhood lessons made him the only non-reactive Muslim thinker
“Hamari maa ne kaha hum kachehri nahi jayenge, muqadma nahi karenge”
50 sec
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Father's patience formula: patience now, paradise later
“Sabr badle mein daim posht paeem — mere baap ka formula”
1 min 20 sec
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Childhood cow poem became lifelong positive-thinking philosophy
“Humein Maulana Iqbal ki reader mein gaay ki poem padhai jaati thi”
30 sec
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Childhood cow poem taught converting negative to positive
“Kal jo ghaas chari thi ban mein, doodh bani gaay ke thun mein”
5 min 45 sec
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The full origin story of his writing career from madrasa days
“Madrase se meri writing ka aaghaz hua”
1 min 47 sec
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Naming the handwritten journal Payam sparked his writing career
“Madrase mein qalmi parcha nikalte the log, haath se likh kar”
6 min 8 sec
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From vilified critic to a full-page vindication decades later
“1986 mein Delhi mein ek seminar hua tha Urdu journalism par”
2 min 4 sec
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Critical paper on yellow journalism triggers Muslim press backlash
“Maine likha ke Urdu sahafat yellow journalism hai”
41 sec
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Calling Urdu Muslim press yellow journalism
“Urdu sahafat yeh yellow journalism hai”
2 min 45 sec
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Muslim world's escalation from hate campaigns to shoe-throwing
“Musalmano ne hate develop kiya, phir debate, phir gun culture”
53 sec
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Muslims escalated from hate culture to shoe-throwing culture
“Hate culture, debate culture, gun culture, aur ab juta culture”
2 min 8 sec
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Nahj al-Balagha lesson: excellence over protest and complaint
“Qeemat-ul-marr-e ma yuhsinuh — value of a person lies in excellence”
27 sec
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A person's worth lies in excellence, not complaints
“The value of a person lies in excellence”
36 sec
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Only givers earn respect, takers get only disgrace
“Taker group ko kuch nahi milta, sirf zillat hai”
5 min 14 sec
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Confronting a Muslim leader and the lesson of controlled behavior
“1966 mein Lucknow mein ek mashhoor leader se meri baat hui thi”
5 min 27 sec
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How Al-Islam, written as his last book, reached Arabic and English
“Mazhab-e-Jadid Challenge aur Al-Islam — inn kitabon ka qissa”
1 min 46 sec
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Parable of the man who climbed toward the white bird of truth
“Ek aadmi tha jisko sachai ki talash thi”
6 min 10 sec
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The strange story behind the book title God Rises
“Iss Arabi tarjume ka bahut ajeeb qissa hai”
2 min 5 sec
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A sudden vision gave him the title God Arises
“Achanak meri zaban se nikla — God arises”
2 min 4 sec
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Founding CPS shifted his thinking from Muslim to human
“2001 mein humne CPS banayi”
1 min 52 sec
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Mission reaches the world through internet and electronic media
“Khwaja Kaleemuddin sahab ne is mission ko internet par daal diya”
43 sec
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Closing prayer reflecting on a lifetime's shared mission
“Yeh hai kahani meri zindagi ki”