User:Toba1

Hi,the name is Zafar Tajjamul and I am from originally from Toba Tek Singh in Pakistan.I am a Civil engineer and Have been Living in Bradford UK for the 31 years.I am interested in articles of wikipedia and Love to read mostly.The information Data base here is huge and very nourishing.I have done little editing,but hopefully will contribute in articles related to South Asia and Europe in future.

Rules To live by:

• You (humans) think that you are insignificant, while there is a great universe contained in you.
• If poverty were a man, I would have slain him.
• A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.
• Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.
• A man's measure is his will.
• There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.
• I have never won a debate with an ignorant person.
• Mutilate not even a rabid dog.
• A wise man's bosom is the safe of his secrets.
• Man is a wonderful creature; he sees through the layers of fat (eyes), hears through a bone (ears) and speaks through a lump of flesh (tongue).
• Live amongst people in such a manner that if you die they weep over you and if you are alive they crave for your company.
• If someone's deeds lower his position, his pedigree cannot elevate it.
• A virtuous person is better than virtue and a vicious person is worse than vice.
• Seek help from those who were satiated and then hungry, not from those who were hungry and then satiated.
• Only he who has the power to punish can pardon.
• Patience is of two kinds: patience over what pains you, and patience against what you covet.
• Contentment is the capital which will never diminish.
• Value of each man depends upon the art and skill which he has attained.
• Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He be glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal. Remember the reply of the righteous slave to Moses when he said to him: 'May I follow you so that you can teach me what you know about what is right?' He replied: 'Surely you will not be able to be patient with me. How can you be patient about something which you do not understand?'.
• Endurance is composed of four attributes: eagerness, fear, piety and anticipation (of death). So whoever is eager for Paradise will ignore temptations; whoever fears the fire of Hell will abstain from sins; whoever practises piety will easily bear the difficulties of life and whoever anticipates death will hasten towards good deeds.
• Conviction has also four aspects to guard oneself against infatuations of sin; to search for explanation of truth through knowledge; to gain lessons from instructive things and to follow the precedent of the past people, Because whoever wants to guard himself against vices and sins will have to search for the true causes of infatuation and the true ways of combating them out and to find those true ways one has to search them with the help of knowledge, whoever gets fully acquainted with various branches of knowledge will take lessons from life and whoever tries to take lessons from life is actually engaged in the study of the causes of rise and fall of previous civilizations.
• Justice also has four aspects depth of understanding, profoundeness of knowledge, fairness of judgement and dearness of mind; because whoever tries his best to under- stand a problem will have to study it, whoever has the practice of studying the subject he is to deal with, will develop a clear mind and will always come to correct decisions, whoever tries to achieve all this will have to develop ample patience and forbearance and whoever has done this has done justice to the cause of religion and has led a life of good repute and fame.
• Jihad is divided into four branches: to persuade people to be obedient to Allah; to prohibit them from sin and vice; to struggle (in the cause of Allah) sincerely and firmly on all occasions and to detest the vicious. Whoever persuades people to obey the orders of Allah provides strength to the believers; whoever dissuades them from vices and sins humiliates the unbelievers; whoever struggles on all occasions discharges all his obligations and whoever detests the vicious only for the sake of Allah, then Allah will take revenge on his enemies and will be pleased with Him on the Day of Judgement.