“
I learned from Hussain how to be wronged and be a winner, I learnt from Hussain how to attain victory while being oppressed.
”
”
Mahatma Gandhi
“
your voice is a place i want to take shelter in, a place that makes me feel safe and soft.
”
”
Zaeema J. Hussain (The Sky Is Purple)
“
When they (the men, the scavengers)
come for you, do not give yourself
to them so easily.
Wear your strength like armour,
fight like a beast.
Do not let them tell you that
you belong to them.
Be fearless.
Be a lion.
Be like lava.
Rip them apart,
and burn their bones.
And when you are done,
tell the world that
you belong to no man.
That you are a lady,
a warrior,
a tsunami,
and you belong only to yourself.
”
”
Zaeema J. Hussain (The Sky Is Purple)
“
We thought everything would be
forgotten, but I still remember your
claws running down my back.
I wonder if you still think about us,
the way I do.
How our legs would crash
into each other in the middle
of the night, and how we ended
up creating the moon in the
confines of our beds.
”
”
Zaeema J. Hussain (The Sky Is Purple)
“
Imam Hussein Ibn Ali al-Shaheed was once asked: what is affluence? He said : Decreasing your wishes , and being satisfied with what is enough for you.
”
”
Allama Majlisi Biharol Anwar Vol. 78 P. 102
“
Imam Hussein Ibn Ali al-Shaheed said: Death with dignity is better than life with humility.
”
”
Allama Majlisi Biharol Anwar Vol. 44 P. 192
“
Man's most dangerous enemy is the one he was once closest to.
”
”
S. Hussain Zaidi (Dongri To Dubai : Six Decades of The Mumbai Mafia)
“
To me , death is nothing but happiness, and living under tyrants nothing but living in a hell.
”
”
Imam Hussein Ibn Ali al-Shaheed Tohaf-al- Uqoul
“
You burn like hell, pure red and stormy and I fly like smoke, pure black and gloomy.
”
”
Mirza Sharafat Hussain Beigh
“
খুনের তদন্ত কত্তে এয়েচি, বাওয়া । চোটপাট দেকাবেন না, আমি রানা এজেন্সির গোয়েন্দা আচি ।'- গিলটি মিয়া
”
”
Qazi Anwar Hussain (অন্তরে পাপ (Masud Rana, #446.5))
“
Being lonely and loving your own company are two very different things. Don't ever get them mixed up.
”
”
Zaeema J. Hussain (The Sky Is Purple)
“
Confusion is a stairway to clarity, in a way.
Sometimes, we cross it quickly & other times we make it our home.
It just takes a little patience & retracing of steps to be back on the way.
”
”
Sijdah Hussain (Red Sugar, No More)
“
As Karim Lala often said,'learn to clench the world in your fist. open your palm only when you have to receive money
”
”
S. Hussain Zaidi
“
What is stupidity? "Hostility to one's powerful and efficient commander, or to someone who can harm you or benefit you
”
”
Imam Hussein Ibn Ali al-Shaheed
“
With no doubt Al Hussain was one of the greatest rebels, for correcting the path of rulers who deviated from the right path. He, by his stance honorably acquired martyrdom martyrdom that free people wish to acquire.
”
”
Leo Tolstoy
“
From a tiny seed to dispersed pollen grains hoping to bloom someday – everything holds a story within it. We just need to observe a little more.
”
”
Sijdah Hussain (Red Sugar, No More)
“
Fun,
Joy,
Secrets,
Happiness,
is equals to
FREINDS.
”
”
Hussain Rasheed
“
Volunteering is the ultimate exercise in democracy. You vote in elections once a year, but when you volunteer, you vote every day about the kind of community you want to live in.
”
”
Dr Syed Muhammad Zeeshan Hussain Almashhadi
“
If you neither believe in religion nor fear the hereafter , then atleast be free from Tyranny and Arrogance".
”
”
Imam hussain
“
گدھوں اور دانشمندوں کی ایک مثال ہے کہ جہاں سب گدھے ہوجائیں وہاں کوئی گدھا نہیں ہوتا اور جہاں سب دانشمند بن جائیں وہاں کوئی دانشمند نہیں رہتا۔
”
”
Intizar Husain (Akhri Aadmi / آخری آدمی)
“
The deadline is at midnight in America; dawn, 5 A.M., in England, and 8:00 A.M., early morning, in Iraq. The Americans tie yellow ribbons around oak trees, hoping for their sons' safe return home. The Iraqis tie green ribbons around the Shrine of the Imam al-Hussain, praying for God's protection. In the coldest month, the coldest war of the modern age is declared.
”
”
Betool Khedairi (A Sky So Close)
“
Life isn’t in our brain // It flows through our veins.
Just a little cut to drain out the galaxies that keep me up tonight.
Just a little cut and all this goes away. Just a little cut and no more thoughts. No memories. No pain. I mean screw nostalgia.
I don’t want it. Take it back!
”
”
Sijdah Hussain (Red Sugar, No More)
“
هو الحسين .. ذلك المصحف المخضب بالدماء ،
هو الحسين .. آياتُ حزنٍ رتلتها كربلاء ،
هو الحسين ..توراة موسى بالعزاء ، إنجيل عيسى بالبكاء،
(قرآن طه ، و الذي ثال (وَفّدّيْنَاهُ بِذِبْحٍ عَظِيم
أيّ الحُسين .. ذبيحُ أصحاب الكساء !
”
”
عبد اللطيف الخالدي (مذكرات الجراح)
“
Another stranger, another dream. & my unending silent screams ~
”
”
Sijdah Hussain (Red Sugar, No More)
“
Unleash your mind; for sometimes it’s so much better than being quiet.
”
”
Sijdah Hussain (Red Sugar, No More)
“
In the end we are all just clouds wandering around without fighting off the winds.
”
”
Sijdah Hussain (Red Sugar, No More)
“
The lack of effective and charismatic leaders always forced the Muslim youth to choose the wrong role models.
”
”
S. Hussain Zaidi (Dongri To Dubai : Six Decades of The Mumbai Mafia)
“
The unkindest thing you can do to a human is to tarnish their reputation in front of others just to make yourself look good.
”
”
Sijdah Hussain (Red Sugar, No More)
“
Sometimes, no matter how hard we try for someone and hope that they will get better in time – they never do. Abusive relationships shouldn’t have a key to your chambers of heart. Hold your key and keep it close. Don’t end up getting addicted to such pain or human beings – for that matter. You might not be Thor but they can surely be Loki & hold you prisoner to their trickster nature.
”
”
Sijdah Hussain (Red Sugar, No More)
“
Coming of age in such an environment, the educated elite of Punjab ends up disowning, in fact, ridiculing anything Punjabi, which includes the poetry of Baba Farid, Guru Nanak, Shah Hussain, Waris Shah and Bulleh Shah. Whereas the educated elite can quote verses from Shakespeare and T. S. Eliot, they are completely unaware of their local poets.
”
”
Haroon Khalid (Walking with Nanak)
“
Like the roots stay forever with trees, help them grow and make them strong, will you stay with me just a bit long(er)?
”
”
Sijdah Hussain (Red Sugar, No More)
“
Life isn’t just about getting lemons out of it. An unexpected turn and a kind smile warms you up on the coldest of days.
”
”
Sijdah Hussain (Red Sugar, No More)
“
Healing is like making Baumkuchen – it requires a lot of time, energy and patience.
”
”
Sijdah Hussain (Red Sugar, No More)
“
Burn the victim card down to the ground - for you are so much more than that!
”
”
Sijdah Hussain (Red Sugar, No More)
“
As we Know we have to Die Tomorrow than its better to die in right way
”
”
Hazrat Imam Hussain
“
The true stingy is that who refrains from greeting.
”
”
Imam Hussein Ibn Ali al-Shaheed
“
Peyv û ravekirin anuha du qurîşan nakin. Cîhê wan di dinya me de nemaye. Dinya temaşegeh e û temaşe ê dest pê bike.
”
”
Fawaz Hussain (Parîsabad)
“
Shared gender or shared hearts
I know you would help me
pull out from my back that frozen shards ~
”
”
Sijdah Hussain (Red Sugar, No More)
“
I looked back to see if she was looking back to see me look back. She didn’t. Suddenly a thick layer of mist covered her and I only saw a silhouette in black moving away from me. Slowly it turned into a shadow and then a dot. Strong wind blew the fog. She had gone from my life like the way she came.
”
”
Shahid Hussain Raja
“
Me and my pain
You & your vain
”
”
Sijdah Hussain (Red Sugar, No More)
“
Let’s just have each other to patronize.
”
”
Sijdah Hussain (Red Sugar, No More)
“
I was the whore
I was bound to bore
”
”
Sijdah Hussain (Red Sugar, No More)
“
Making me think I am a worthy crown
When all I really was … just brown
”
”
Sijdah Hussain (Red Sugar, No More)
“
You’re your loyal, set yourself free!
”
”
Sijdah Hussain (Red Sugar, No More)
“
The saddest thing you can do as a human is to discuss one person with another for the sake of it.
”
”
Sijdah Hussain (Red Sugar, No More)
“
The WORST thing you can do is to slip in ‘little’ white lies just to save yourself from confrontations & emotional conversations.
”
”
Sijdah Hussain (Red Sugar, No More)
“
Sure, call me Hades!
”
”
Sijdah Hussain (Red Sugar, No More)
“
A well-behaved person is not always
well-dressed.
”
”
Hussain Rasheed
“
Sometimes we have to lose somthing precious not necessarilly to gain something priceless; sometimes, just losing is priceless
”
”
Shahid Hussain Raja (1857 Indian War of Independence:1857 Indian Sepoys' Mutiny)
“
Take it from glass,
take it from goblet,
else take it from my eyes,
the intoxication, you will never come out from
”
”
Mirza Sharafat Hussain Beigh
“
As Napoleon Hill said, necessity may be the mother of invention but it is also the father of crime.
”
”
S. Hussain Zaidi
“
But destiny has an indelible memory.
”
”
S. Hussain Zaidi
“
The technological man is limited as his tools. The man without technologies is limitless.
”
”
Bilal Hussain
“
I am no longer a writer. Just an emotion. An emotion that is unable to stay within its own body, and is therefore, trying to make its way into yours.
”
”
Zaeema J. Hussain (The Sky Is Purple)
“
Abusive relationships shouldn’t have a key to your chambers of heart. Hold your key and keep it close.
”
”
Sijdah Hussain (Red Sugar, No More)
“
I kept you in a cage to preserve your beauty.
I kept you alone so I could only love you.
I starved you so than I would be the only thing you hungered.
I abused you so then you would worship me.
I removed your eye lids so then I would be the only thing you would see.
I loved you so much that it killed you.
I killed you.
I killed you.
I love you.
I miss you.
”
”
Talha Hussain Mangi
“
We do not have to dig deep into history to understand the reality. The examples of Saddam Hussain, who was executed after a sham trial and the case of Muammar Gaddafi, who killed after surrendering in broad daylight, have given enough factual reality to understand the painful truth.
”
”
Nilantha Ilangamuwa
“
The saddest thing you can do as a human is to discuss one person with another for the sake of it. The unkindest thing you can do to a human is to tarnish their reputation in front of others just to make yourself look good. An unfortunate thing that you can do to a person is to be unapologetically direct and not understand their side. However, the WORST thing you can do is to slip in ‘little’ white lies just to save yourself from confrontations & emotional conversations.
Complain about each other to each other.
Have your freedom … G E N T L Y.
Discuss your mind – politely.
”
”
Sijdah Hussain (Red Sugar, No More)
“
Disappointments and humanity go hand in hand & there’s absolutely nothing we can do about it – other than taking the first step by setting an example ourselves but remember even Superman was hated by Lex Luthor (a “friend” at first; a foe later).
”
”
Sijdah Hussain (Red Sugar, No More)
“
Separation shall not define
Beats getting weak in my heart
Instead
Be lull but me mine
Darling—stay bleak in my heart
Your lament mourned in storms
Some cries cling deep in my heart
It is who
Crossed leagues to die in my arms
Who has born to weep in my heart
”
”
Mirza Sharafat Hussain Beigh
“
كنت أظن فيما سب أن البكاء و إذراف الدموع و تلك الأمور شعيرة خصصت كطقس من طقوس الوداع الأخير ، لكننا نرى و نقرأ هنا شيء آخر ، مصابُ من نوع آخر لا شبيه له من أول الدنيا لآخرها ، رضيعُ يبكى عليه ساعة ولادته ، هنا رسول الله و ابنته و حشدُ كبيرُ من الملائكة في حال نياح على رضيع ساعة ولادته ..
حثا إنني الآن على يقين تام ، بأن الحسين عليه السلام قد ضرب بمصابه كل العادات و التقاليد المتبعة عرض الحائط، و انفرد بشخصه و ذاته عن الجميع ، فسلامُ على من بكى عليه ساعة مولده رسول الله ، و ناحت عيه الزهراء ، و جزع له جبرائيل و الحشد العظيم !
”
”
عبد اللطيف الخالدي (مذكرات الجراح)
“
This is the part of anguish grey curtains blue & wallpapers yellow. This is the part where I learn to lose you & try to gain me back. This is a part where the end is my start!
”
”
Sijdah Hussain (Red Sugar, No More)
“
Succumbed together, Suppressed below the layers of skin & blood vessels turned black
‘tis a story of a heart burnt to rot!
”
”
Sijdah Hussain (Red Sugar, No More)
“
Sometimes –
you & I just don’t exist
and that’s alright!
”
”
Sijdah Hussain (Red Sugar, No More)
“
Hey Gurllll!
Introduce me to that bird?
Can I have that plant’s number?
Could you do my music assignment?
Here, hold my beanie.
Gotta go, byeee!
”
”
Sijdah Hussain (Red Sugar, No More)
Sijdah Hussain (Red Sugar, No More)
“
No memories. No pain. I mean screw nostalgia.
I don’t want it. Take it back!
”
”
Sijdah Hussain (Red Sugar, No More)
“
Another stranger, another dream.
& my unending silent screams ~
”
”
Sijdah Hussain (Red Sugar, No More)
“
You can get addicted to a living being too,
a beautiful feeling – dangerous but beautiful.
”
”
Sijdah Hussain (Red Sugar, No More)
“
An unfortunate thing that you can do to a person is to be unapologetically direct and not understand their side.
”
”
Sijdah Hussain (Red Sugar, No More)
“
Complain about each other to each other.
Have your freedom … G E N T L Y.
Discuss your mind – politely.
”
”
Sijdah Hussain (Red Sugar, No More)
“
It only takes a few words, a little distance & a whole lot of suppressed emotions to move out of the primary label and press delete on each other.
”
”
Sijdah Hussain (Red Sugar, No More)
“
It’s so overwhelming when you notice how the clock ticks; so many tiny pieces holding each other together just so it keeps going.
”
”
Sijdah Hussain (Red Sugar, No More)
“
We are like clocks! Always ticking to the tocks. When the pieces of our soul are torn away or broken – we can’t be sent to the mending shop, however.
”
”
Sijdah Hussain (Red Sugar, No More)
“
Just open your mouth and let the lightning come out.
”
”
Sijdah Hussain (Red Sugar, No More)
“
Open your mouth and let the spiders out!
”
”
Sijdah Hussain (Red Sugar, No More)
“
Power is something that is out of term.
”
”
Lena Hussain
“
A bath is not enough to remove all your dirt if you are dirty from inside.
”
”
Hussain Rasheed
“
Truth is simple but difficult to explain....
Loving is easy but difficult to express.
”
”
Hussain Rasheed
“
If you want to save youself from problems just hold the hands of truth
”
”
Hussain Rasheed
“
Without love breathing is difficult but without freinds breathing is impossible.
”
”
Hussain Rasheed
“
Cleverness have no meanings until you find the stupidity that teach you.
”
”
Lena Hussain
“
The wounds on the body can be healed by medicine but the wounds in heart can only be healed by love.
”
”
Hussain Rasheed
“
Make your timetable according to your life but dont make your life according to your timetable
”
”
Hussain Rasheed
“
Live for yourself and you will live one life
Live for your family and you will live a few life's
Live for the humans of the world and you will live millions of life's
Infact you may live for ever
”
”
Khalid Hussain
“
In this part there’s no you & I just an emptiness filling my mind with screams and cries; ice-cream dipped fries.
This is the part where it all begins the journey
to not the centre of earth but me!
”
”
Sijdah Hussain (Red Sugar, No More)
“
It’s the memories that we yearn for & cherish – not the relationship or person when sadness engulfs our heart and makes us go through the whole storyline again and again and again and again. Those memories are not even real. They are an idea of the memory formed that day – gorgeous and heartwarming – but it wasn’t always that. Was it?
”
”
Sijdah Hussain (Red Sugar, No More)
“
One can speak best through stories. Things only come alive in this way. This is because such things are the children of our experiences. They are conceived during big events in our lives, born when we begin to reflect on those incidents and then grow with us as our appreciation for the memories that brought them into being also lives and thrives.
”
”
Ali Hussain (A Childhood Between Rivers and Mountains (The Souk of Nostalgia))
“
In the earliest English, the word bully was created by borrowing boel from the Dutch language. It means lover or sweetheart. Today, it is used to talk about someone who gets off by intimidating others because making others feel inferior is the only way for them to feel better about themselves maybe.
Oh, how the words have fallen – literally fallen from grace!
”
”
Sijdah Hussain (Red Sugar, No More)
“
Ansar is an Arabic term that means helpers or supporters. They were the citizens of Medina who helped Prophet Mohammed upon His arrival to the Holy city. While 'Hussain' is a derivation of 'Hassan' that means 'GOOD' (I also owe this one to Khaled Hosseini).
That's how my favorite character in my debut novel 'When Strangers meet..' gets his name... HUSSAIN ANSARI, because he is the one who helps Jai realize the truth in the story and inspires his son, Arshad, to have FAITH in Allah.
”
”
K. Hari Kumar (When Strangers meet..)
“
so when asked Who was Prophet's grandson Hussain?
I replied :
Imbibe in the name of Hussain
with his name comes the bliss
though his spring lost in deserts of Iraq
his treasury has yet vacant threshold
raise your hands and ask your wishes
in the name of his Baby Doll
in her name is Love for Dejected
generosity of Hussain extends beyond
even a handful of dust from his grave
beseech to it in the name of Infant Asghar
I love to call it Khaak e Shifa
heals the incurable wounds of heart.
”
”
Mirza Sharafat Hussain Beigh
“
Paranoia (n)
A condition where a person always doubts others and themselves.
A condition where all compliments seem too fake to be a reality.
A condition where a person is unable to trust someone even after knowing them for years.
A condition where a person thinks self-sabotage is healthy.
A condition where a person just can’t turn off the grinding noises in their brain.
A condition where a person feels that someone is only nice to them because they need something in return.
A condition where a person can no longer differentiate between delusions and reality. A condition where a person’s own mind is their biggest enemy.
A condition where a person is ridden with irrational fears and ‘yellow wallpaper’ feels.
A condition where a person feels that when people are not talking to them they are either talking about them or against them. Always.
”
”
Sijdah Hussain (Red Sugar, No More)
“
This is a story of;
light & dark – moon & stars – hurt & heart
A human – A Woman – A bird
A man – A key
A friendship – A relationship – A sinking ship
Anger – Hope – Grief – Dismay
A cat – A plant – A knight – A dog stray
love & hate
A cage – A knife
And endless preys
Succumbed together,
Suppressed below the layers
Of skin & blood vessels turned black
‘t i s a story of a heart burnt to r o t !
”
”
Sijdah Hussain (Red Sugar, No More)
“
Who told you that everything you think is right? When did you realise that everything you believe is set in stone? Can you choose the correct answer from below? Pick the right feeling – the right answer!
| 4 + 4 = 8 | 2 × 4 = 8 | 6 + 2 = 8 | 3 + 5 = 8 |
They are all correct, aren’t they? So how can you feel that everything you know is the correct answer to life and, thus, you are validated to play God?
”
”
Sijdah Hussain (Red Sugar, No More)
“
You may never realize that the tear that escaped my eyes as you bid farewell, despite my efforts to restrain it, carried within it an entire universe of concealed emotions, shattered dreams, & sentiments left unvoiced, a silent expression of the pain that words failed to convey
”
”
Shahid Hussain Raja
“
Just open your mouth and let the lightning come out. Burn the victim card down to the ground - for you are so much more than that!
You’re a witch. You’re a wizard.
Open your mouth and let the spiders out! Unleash your mind; for sometimes it’s so much better than b e i n g quiet.
”
”
Sijdah Hussain (Red Sugar, No More)
“
The worst thing about being underweight or overweight; too dark or too white – in short too plain and bland in someone’s perception is the fact that most people just end up talking to you because they feel you can be a good stepping stone. And guess what – it sucks! It sucks being the ladder to so many, helping everyone grow and bloom, only to find yourself splayed upon the mud to be used as a path from one person to another. Not moving an inch. Just lying there on the sticky dirt infused ground – hoping someone would help you up – no one ever comes. The only person who can help you crawl out is yourself. Get up. Try. Just try.
You ARE Enough!
”
”
Sijdah Hussain (Red Sugar, No More)
“
250,000 men and women who worked in the mills are history. Some died, some became disillusioned, others simply lost their minds. Many committed suicide, some just melted into the background, some retreated to their native villages – while others ended up hawking vegetables beneath the very structures that gave them their bread and butter.
”
”
S. Hussain Zaidi (Byculla to Bangkok)
“
It’s so overwhelming when you notice how the clock ticks; so many tiny pieces holding each other together just so it keeps going. We are like clocks, too! Always ticking to the tocks. When the pieces of our soul are torn away or broken – we can’t be sent to the mending shop, however. So how do we get better? Workable? Thoughts can be tiring, at times. Or maybe it’s the same time – who knows? The clock is broken. Meh.
”
”
Sijdah Hussain (Red Sugar, No More)
“
جدید افسانے کو شروع کرنے کا ایک اور طریقہ بھی بے حد مقبول تھا۔ یعنی، غار میں بیٹھے ایک شخص نے دوسرے شخص سے کہا کہ ہم کتنے ہیں۔ دوسرے نے کہا کہ اے احمق کیا تو حساب میں فیل ہوتا رہا ہے۔ دیکھتے نہیں کہ ہم دو ہیں۔ تب پہلے شخص نے آہ بھر کر کہا کہ باہر زمانہ کتنا بدل چکا ہے۔ میرا خیال ہے تیسرا اور چوتھا شخص ہمارے لیے برگر خریدنے کے لیے گئے تھے۔ ابھی تک نہیں لوٹے۔ میں خود جا کر دیکھتا ہوں کہ کہیں وہ دھند میں گم تو نہیں ہو گئے۔ یہ کہہ کر پہلا شخص غار سے باہر نکل گیا۔ دوسرے شخص نے اطمینان کا ایک سانس لیا اور سگریٹ سلگا کر سوچنے لگا کہ پہلا شخص تھا بھی یا نہیں۔ اور میں بھی ہوں یا نہیں۔۔۔
”
”
Mustansar Hussain Tarar (Tarar Nama 2 / تارڑ نامہ 2)