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Nov 25

“The Osman's Dream”

Ertugrul's son Osman who established the Ottoman Empire in 1299 after his father's heroic achievements saw a dream which became one of the most resilient founding myths of the Ottoman empire.

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One night, the first sultan, Osman, was sleeping in the house of a holy man called Sheikh Edebali when:

"He saw that a moon arose from the holy man’s breast and came to sink in his own breast. A tree then sprouted from his navel and its shade compassed the world.

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Beneath this shade there were mountains, and streams flowed forth from the foot of each mountain. Some people drank from these running waters, others watered gardens, while yet others caused fountains to flow"

When Osman awoke he told the story to the holy man, who said:

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Nov 17

“When Tipu Sultan approached Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid 1”

In November 1785, a large contingent from Mysore, comprising troops, servants, officials, and four vakils, left Srirangapattana for the port of Tadri on the Malabar coast. They were charged with a mission from Tipu to...

..the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid I in Istanbul. The embassy, under the leadership of Ghulam Ali Khan, carried detailed instructions, along with a huge array of gifts – many of local manufacture – spices, textiles, jewellery, and gold and silver coins.

In early March 1786, the..

..travellers set sail in four ships for Muscat; also on board were four elephants – three intended as gifts and one to be sold to raise funds for the mission’s return. Sadly, none of the unfortunate creatures survived the voyage. Mysore already had an agent and warehouse in...

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Nov 14

On Jawaharlal Nehru's birth anniversary, here is a very profound political discourse between Nehru and his foreign secretary Yezdi Gundevia which reflects today's India.

Gundezia was known for his integrity. As foreign secretary, he began convening on Fridays meetings of
...

..officers, where they talked with no holds
barred. He describes one of those meetings:

‘Friday morning, 11 o’clock, I walked the Prime Minister to the jam packed
Conference Room. He sat down, smiled all round and said,

‘Well, what’s
your agenda today?’

‘We have no agenda, sir, but maybe some of them would like to ask you questions,’ I said.

Not very difficult questions, I hope,’ he said, and everybody laughed.

There was silence. Then I ventured:

‘Well, sir, if these people don’t want to ask you any questions, maybe I could..

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Nov 11

As the world pays homage to the soldiers who fought World War 1, we must not forget that as many as 74,187 soldiers from today's India and Pakistan died in this war. Their stories, and their heroism, were largely omitted from British popular histories of war or...

#ArmisticeDay

..relegated to footnotes. The number of soldiers and support staff sent on overseas service from British India during World War I was huge: among them 588,717 went to Mesopotamia, 116,159 to Egypt, 131,496 to France, 46,936 to East Africa, 4,428 to Gallipoli, 4,938 to Salonica...

...20,243 to Aden and 29,457 to the Persian Gulf. Among these soldiers, 29,762 were killed, 59,296 were wounded, 3,289 went missing, presumed dead, and 3,289 were taken prisoner. Of the total of 1,215,318 soldiers sent abroad there were 101,439 casualties.

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Nov 9

“Allama Iqbal and his love for Prophet Muhammad PBUH”

جز تو مارا منزلی نیست
(ہماری منزل آپﷺ کے سوا کچھ نہیں)

The love for Prophet is a cornerstone of Iqbal's poetry. Someone asked him, how did you become Hakeem ul Ummat (the Sage of Ummah), he replied, “It's very simple; by..

reciting millions of times the darood shareef on Prophet Muhammad PBUH”. His visitors have revealed that whenever there was discussion about Prophet Muhammad PBUH, Iqbal was deeply touched and tears would flow inexorably.

Iqbal writes:

در دل مسلم مقام مصطفی استد
آبروی ما ز نام مصطفی است

In the Muslim’s heart is the home of Muhammad
All our glory is from the name of Muhammad.

In Payam-i M’ashriq, first published in 1923, he writes about the love for Prophet:

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Nov 7

https://twitter.com/TBPEnglish/status/1589000852877942784

Facts are quite different so I'll quickly share the true version of events. The husband and wife referred in the given below post are named Lutfullah, who is the elder brother of Ajab Yalanzai, and his wife Amir Zadi. She is paternal aunt of Shafqat Yalanzai;

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the primary assassin of former Chief Justice Noor Miskanzai. On Nov 5, Amir Zadi was shot dead by his husband Lutfullah who later on commited suicide.

According to sources, Lutfullah sternly ordered his wife not to take part in the rally that was held in support of Shafqat...

..and Ajab in Kharaan on November 1, 2022. Amir Zadi did, however, take part in the demonstration. This was the point of contention in their already tumultuous marriage. According to reports, Lutfullah and his brother Ajab were not even on talking terms.

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