Ali Malik's blog

Below is a translation of Hum Dekhain Ge (of Faiz Sahab) done by me. Just when I don't consider poetry to be serious business, I felt like translating this one. I just like the resonance and power of the message and find it inspiring. So it is kind of a tribute from myself to the thought, philosophy and message of hope and struggle and to the man who wrote it. And this is not pro and neither am I. I kind of suck at linguistics:) For your eyes: We will witness – We will witness It’s a must that we will witness The Promised Day!!!! The one written on the Preserved Scriptorium We will witness When the heavy mountains of injustice blow like the cotton fibers And the earth shakes with the might of steps of us the conquered And thunderbolts shake the foundations of them the rulers We will witness When all the idols are removed from the Land of God We the innocents and the rejected become power All crowns juggled And all thrones made fall We will witness There will be no supreme but Lord

A couple of weeks back when I started writing this post, I thought I will start my next post with the speculation that it has been arranged that wardiwala does not have the required numbers to be elected from the present assemblies. But events of the last few weeks have been so swift and have such profound implications that I have dropped the idea. But the pace at which events are taking place, though expected, has brought some serious issues to the fore. And so today I will be touching a lot of things (and will try to keep them brief). Lal Masjid operation has brought us as a nation to a point to which we were destined, for everything we do comes to fore. Out security apparatus raised this militant brand of Islam (so much so that the extremist elements have penetrated within the apparatus to the extent that it is hard to differentiate) to further their interests without realizing that anyone who has muscle will demand his share of power sooner or later. People, having faith in the ext