Simurgh Pakistan

 

Khurram Ali Shafique has a profound thesis that everything is subservient to literature, because literature is the seed from which sprouts all imagination and all action that follows, he sums up this idea very well when he says “You know that Iqbal believed that literature plays the most important role in the life of a nation. In fact, he treated literature like a collective dream which comes true. Therefore, the most courageous and daring stand which Iqbal Studies demands from us is that we insist that if anything is wrong in the world, its ultimate root can be traced in the kind of literature that has been venerated, and if we want to bring any positive change, the first step has to be the representation of that change in idealistic literature: "No new world can come into being around us until it is first created in the depth of our souls (i.e. in our imagination)."

 He divides the history of Pakistan  into seven stages since 1887, and gives us a list of the most POPULAR authors of these stages: one for each stage. Then he tells us that these authors, and their messages, are exactly parallel to the seven stages of ancient history studied in the "DNA Course", the 7 visions of the Sphere of Moon, the 7 chapters of Javid Nama, the 7 verses of Surah Fatiha, the 7 valleys of Attar, and any other model of self-development which we may find reliable.

 On basis of this model of Khurram Ali Shafique, this is what it looks in a netshell: 

                                                                          

                                                                           Seek Consensus

1887-1906

خودی کا سرِ نہاں لا الہ الا اللہ      خودی ھے تیغ فساں لا الہ الا اللہ

Sir Syed Ahmad Khan

The Valley of Search (First valley of Attar from Mantaq ul Taier)
Asrar o Ramoz    (First book of Iqbal)
Sphere of Moon   (First Chapter of Javidnama by Iqbal)
Knowledge and Religious Experience (First Lecture of Reconstruction of Religious Thoughts in Islam)

Qibla Ro/ اطاعت (First act in Namaz from the meaning of prayer by Hazrat Ali Hajveri from Kashf al mahjub)

                                                           Think Long Term

1907-1926

یہ دور اپنے براھیم کی تلاش میں ھے      صنم کدہ ھے جہاں لا الہ الا اللہ

Muhammad Ali Jauhar
The Valley of Love (The second valley of Attar from Mantaq ul Taier)
Payam e Mashriq  (Second book of Iqbal)

Sphere of Mercury (Second Chapter of Javidnama by Iqbal)

The Philosiphical Test of the Revelations (Second Lecture of Reconstruction of Religious Thoughts in Islam)

Qayam/ مجاھدہِ نفس (Second act in Namaz from the meaning of prayer by Hazrat Ali Hajveri from Kashf al mahjub)


 

                                                           Rise Above Yourself                                            

1927-1946

کیا ھے تو نے متاعِ غرور کا سودا       فریبِ سودو زیاں لاالہ الااللہ

Allama Iqbal
The Valley of Understanding ( Third valley of Attar from Mantaq ul Taier)
Bang e Dera (Third book of Iqbal)
Sphere of Venus (Third Chapter of Javidnama by Iqbal)
The Conception of God (Third Lecture of Reconstruction of Religious Thoughts in Islam)

Tilawat / ذ کر  (Third act in Namaz from the meaning of prayer by Hazrat Ali Hajveri from Kashf al mahjub)

                                                                                                              

                                                       Respect the Law

1947-1966

یہ مال و دولتِ دنیا یہ رشتہ و پیوند        بتانِ وھم و گماں لا الہ الا اللہ

Ibne Safi
The Valley of Detachment ( Fourth valley of Attar from Mantaq ul Taier)
Zabour e Ajam (Fourth book of Iqbal)
Sphere of Mars (Fourth Chapter of Javidnama by Iqbal)
The Human Ego (Fourth Lecture of Reconstruction of Religious Thoughts in Islam)

Raku/ عجز و انکسار (Fourth act in Namaz from the meaning of prayer by Hazrat Ali Hajveri from Kashf al mahjub)



 

                                                           Unite Organically

                                                                                                              

1967-1986

خرد ھوئی ھے زمان و مکاں کی زناری       نہ ھے زماں نہ مکاں لاالہ الا اللہ

Waheed Murad
The Valley of Unity ( Fifth valley of Attar from Mantaq ul Taier)
Javidnama (Fifth book of Iqbal)
Sphere of Jupiter (Fifth Chapter of Javidnama by Iqbal)
The Spirit of Muslim Culture (Fifth  Lecture of Reconstruction of Religious Thoughts in Islam)

Sajda/ معرفتِ نفس (Fifth act in Namaz from the meaning of prayer by Hazrat Ali Hajveri from Kashf al mahjub)

 

                                                          Learn Experientially

1987-2006

یہ نغمہ فصلِ گل ولالہ کا نہیں پابند         بہار ھو کہ خزاں لا الہ الا اللہ

Mustansar Hussain Tarar
The Valley of Wonderment ( Sixth valley of Attar from Mantaq ul Taier)
Bal e Jibraeel (Sixth book of Iqbal)
Sphere of Jupiter (Sixth Chapter of Javidnama by Iqbal)
The Principle of Movement in Islam (Sixth Lecture of Reconstruction of Religious Thoughts in Islam)

Tashahud/  سکونِ قلب (Sixth act in Namaz from the meaning of prayer by Hazrat Ali Hajveri from Kashf al mahjub)

I am Pakistan 

2007-2026

اگرچہ بت ہیں جماعت کی آستینوں میں         مجھے ھے حکمِ اذاں لا الہ الا اللہ

Pakistan Simurgh
The Valley of Nothingness ( Seventh valley of Attar from Mantaq ul Taier)
Zarb e Kaleem (Seventh book of Iqbal)
Beyond Sphere  (Seveth Chapter of Javidnama by Iqbal)

Is Religion Possible (Seventh Lecture of Reconstruction of Religious Thoughts in Islam)

Salam/  تمام علائق سے نجات (Seventh act in Namaz from the meaning of prayer by Hazrat Ali Hajveri from Kashf al mahjub)