Kk Quotes

People with the purest souls are capable of the greatest evils.

There is beauty in what is broken.

Sometimes people would rather accept a lie than know the truth. Life is a whole lot easier to swallow that way.

Holy sea turtles!" - Arabella Valli, The Equinox (Book Two of the Summer Solstice Series)

Nothing belongs to itself anymore. These trees are yours because you once looked at them. These streets are yours because you once traversed them. These coffee shops and bookshops, these cafés and bars, their sole owner is you. They gave themselves so willingly, surrendering to your perfume. You sang with the birds and they stopped to listen to you. You smiled at the sheepish stars and they fell into your hair. The sun and moon, the sea and mountain, they have all left from heartbreak. Nothing belongs to itself anymore. You once spoke to Him, and then God became yours. He sits with us in darkness now to plot how to make you ours.” K.K.

There is so much I could say about myself, but I wish you know only this; at times I may be bitter, at times I may be sweet; do not judge me on one character or the other. I have more facets than a jewel, I ask that you understand all of me before you judge me. No one side of my personality is bigger than another, just as no one emotion claims me all the time.

Darkness is no longer something I fear. Not when the light lives within me. Because that’s the thing about weaknesses. They somehow have the power to make you stronger.

Everyone's dying, Milcah. Some people are just dying sooner than others.

Life isn't always predictable. But it's how we survive the bad weather that defines us.

There's so many dimensions to me. I am not a flat surface that can express myself like a painting, but more like a sculpture that you have to see all of before you can understand.

Be weary of the unknown inside of every human being, but do not fear it, embrace it.

Everyone’s past has ways of sneaking up on them. You just have to be in a place in the present that you’re strong enough to deal with when your past comes to visit.

Changing your location doesn’t necessarily mean losing your problems. They’ll show up wherever you are, changing to fit the situation. But until you break them down and deal with it, there is nowhere far enough for you to run away from them.

True Films On TrueFilms.com, Kevin has reviewed the best documentaries he’s seen over decades. The counterpart book series, True Films 3.0, contains the 200 documentaries he feels you should see before you die, and it is available as a PDF on kk.org. Three docs we both love are The King of Kong, Man on Wire, and A State of Mind.

Follow me now, dark-hearted and gray-souled, as I stride on into the mist. If all ends are sown into their beginnings, then there is no other storm but this one.

To understand truth, one must find courage to seek light in the darkness.

Can somebody die from heartbreak twice?

I could always see him for all that he was—for all that he is. Perfect.

We're all different. We all have weaknesses. Until you embrace yours, they will only hold you back from what you're destined to accomplish.

From earliest childhood, an arrow of grief has been embedded in my heart. As long as it remains there, I am ironic — if it is drawn out, I will die.

He looked like he wanted to eat you." With that, I throw my head back and laugh. "That man has no problem finding a meal. I highly doubt he's starving." She scrunches her nose to show me she doesn't agree. "Well, maybe he just spotted something new on the menu. You know men and their food; they have to try a little bit of everything until they're completely satisfied.

Chocolate. The food of the gods, as my grandma used to call it. And I totally agree. It’s the answer to prayers. Emotional relief. A form of currency. An aphrodisiac. Raw and dark. White and saccharine. Milky sweet. Mouthwatering. It’s all good; I don’t discriminate.

Yes, for there I was, outside of society, destitute, torn between transformations, between beast and god. What other paths could I have taken? No, it was worth corrupting myself slightly, if corruption it truly was, for any filth on my soul would be washed out and countered tenfold—all corruptions sanctified in the purity of the ideal at hand.

Right now, I’m living like a piano is going to come plummeting from the sky any second, and I don’t know when. So it’s always like, this is it. This is all you’ve got left.

I don't think we're allowed to call this friendship spooning anymore

The moment romance got involved, everything changed … and I mean everything.

I let it come to this, and I can only take responsibility for my own mistakes. Unfortunately, I've made a lot of them.

Gavin doesn't pull away and I'm grateful for his comfort, but I also know this thing between us—what's always been between us—is wrong.

All I wanted was to follow my heart, but somehow along the way I lost my soul.

I Learned early in life you never tell a person everything, you only let them know what's necessary.

A dream should never cost someone their soul.

Keep working. Keep struggling. Keep learning. Don't. Stop. Quitting is the only way to guarantee your failure.

Your heart is the only mirror you should trust.

You have to love them enough to take a small little breath.

You'll make many decisions in your life. They're only wrong if you're not learning from every choice you make, good and bad. Everything you do should be carving a path to your future.

If I couldn't be myself with the people I chose to surround myself with, then I wasn't being real. And I'd made a promise to never allow myself to be anything other than who I was- unapologetically.

Our love wasn't just written in the stars. Our love was the stuff stars and planets were made of. They had created them and told the story of our past, present, and future combined. And there was only room to grow.

But, of course, I had no proof for any of these enticing thoughts. Cursed proof! Cursed proof. Proof: flimsy, false, ethereal fugitive, hiding at the end of a regress that runs out the world itself. No need for proof.

You brought me back to life at a time I needed it most. If you think if you think I’m giving up on you now then you’re wrong. I get a second chance to show you exactly what you mean to me – and just how far I’ll go to keep you.

Me and Brian had a choice that day and we made the wrong fucking one and I knew it then—hell, even before it happened, I think I knew it—and I sure as shit know it now, especially now with my own little girl looking up at me so trusty-like and jumping into my arms like a little monkey.

History doesn’t mean it no longer exists, Wild One. The opposite is true. History is more than a time period or an event. It’s born into our DNA and embedded in our bones. Without history, there’s no future. And the more you know and understand, the more power you have to right the wrongs of our ancestors.

Right now, Marcy and the birthday girl are curled up on the couch under a blanket watching The Little Princess with Shirley Temple for what, the hundredth time? That Marcy; I don’t know how she does it. I made ‘em popcorn then I said I had to go get smokes, be right back. I didn’t need smokes. What I needed was to get the hell out of there, go for a drive, think. And I knew just what I’d be thinking: she was six, just like my Anna—I know because she told us or maybe I remember reading it in the paper after. Her name was Olive Copely. I got that name tattooed on my brain.

Wanasayansi wana uwezo wa kupeleleza hadi kipindi cha karne ya kwanza ambapo Yesu aliishi, alikufa, alifufuka na alipaa kwenda mbinguni, na wana uwezo wa kujua mambo mengi kwa hakika yaliyofanyika katika kipindi hicho na hata katika kipindi cha kabla ya hapo. Kuna miujiza ambayo Yesu aliifanya ambayo haiko ndani ya Biblia. Kwa mfano, Biblia inasema Yesu alizaliwa ndani ya zizi la ng’ombe wakati sayansi inasema alizaliwa nje ya zizi la ng’ombe; na muujiza wa kwanza kuufanya ambao hauko ndani ya Biblia ni kutembea mara tu baada ya kuzaliwa, na watu na ndege wa angani kuganda kabla ya kuzaliwa Masihi na kabla ya wakunga kufika kumsaidia Maria Magdalena kujifungua. Akiwa na umri wa miaka sita, sayansi inasema, Yesu alikuwa akicheza na mtoto mwenzake juu ya paa la nyumba ya jirani na mara Yesu akamsukuma mwenzake kutoka juu hadi chini na mwenzake huyo akafariki papo hapo. Watu walipomsonga sana Yesu kwa kumtuhumu kuwa yeye ndiye aliyesababisha kifo cha mwenzake, na kwamba wangemfungulia mashtaka, Yesu alikataa katakata kuhusika na kifo hicho. Lakini walipozidi kumsonga, aliusogelea mwili wa rafiki yake kisha akamwita na kumwambia asimame. Yule mtoto alisimama! Huo ukawa muujiza mkubwa wa kwanza wa Yesu Kristo, kufufua mtu nje ya maandiko matakatifu. Kuna mifano mingi inayodhihirisha uwepo wa Mungu ambayo wanasayansi hawawezi hata kuipatia majibu. Tukio la Yoshua kusimamisha jua limewashangaza wanasayansi hadi nyakati za leo. Mwanzoni mwa miaka ya 70 wanasayansi walijaribu kurudisha muda nyuma kwa kompyuta kuona kama kweli wangekuta takribani siku moja imepotea kama ilivyorekodiwa katika Biblia. Cha kushangaza, cha kushangaza mno, walikuta saa 23 na dakika 20 zimepotea katika mazingira ambayo hawakuweza na hawataweza kuyaelewa. Walipochunguza vizuri walikuta ni kipindi cha miaka ya 1500 KK (Jumanne tarehe 22 Julai) ambacho ndicho tukio la Yoshua la kusimamisha jua na kusogeza mwezi nyuma digrii 10, ambazo ni sawa na mzunguko wa dakika 40, lilipotokea. Kwa kutumia elimu ya wendo, elimu ya kupanga miaka na matukio ya Kibiblia, dunia iliumbwa Jumapili tarehe 22 Septemba mwaka 4000 KK. Hata hivyo, mahesabu ya kalenda yanaonyesha kuwa Septemba 22 ilikuwa Jumatatu (si Jumapili) na kwamba kosa hilo labda lilisababishwa na siku ya Yoshua iliyopotea. Hayo yote ni kwa mujibu wa Profesa C. A. Totten, wa Chuo Kikuu cha Yale, katika kitabu chake cha ‘Joshua’s Long Day and the Dial of Ahaz: A Scientific Vindication and a Midnight Cry’ kilichochapishwa mwaka 1890. Kama hakuna Mungu iliwezekanaje Yoshua aombe jua lisimame na jua likasimama kweli? Iliwezekanaje Yesu aseme atakufa, atafufuka na atapaa kwenda mbinguni na kweli ikatokea kama alivyosema? Ndani ya Biblia kuna tabiri 333 zilizotabiri maisha yote ya Yesu Kristo hapa duniani na zote zilitimia – bila kupungua hata moja. Utasemaje hapo hakuna Mungu? Mungu yupo, naamini, sijui. Tukio la Yesu kufa, kufufuka na kupaa kwenda mbinguni si la vitabu vitakatifu pekee, hata sayansi inakubaliana na hilo.

Kuna mambo yanatokea hapa ulimwenguni ambayo yanafanya nikiri uwepo wa Mungu kwa asilimia kubwa. Wanasayansi wanasema ulimwengu ulianzishwa na mlipuko wa ‘Big Bang’, uliotokea takribani miaka bilioni 14 iliyopita, kutoka katika kitu kidogo zaidi kuliko ncha ya sindano, lakini hawatuambii nini kilisababisha mlipuko huo utokee au hicho kitu kidogo kuliko ncha ya sindano kilitoka au kilikuwa wapi. Wanaendelea kusema kuwa baada ya ‘Big Bang’ kutakuwepo na ‘Big Crunch’, ambapo ulimwengu utarudia hali yake ya awali ya udogo kuliko ncha ya sindano, na kila kitu kinachoonekana leo ulimwenguni hakitaonekana tena. Hapo sasa ndipo utata unapokuja. Mlipuko wa ‘Big Bang’ ulipotokea ulimwengu ulilipuka na kusambaa pande zote nne za ulimwengu kwa mwendokasi wa zaidi ya kilometa milioni 2 kwa saa, mpaka hivi leo unavyoonekana na bado unaendelea kusambaa. Kutokana na dhana ya ‘Big Crunch’, wanasayansi wanaamini ulimwengu utapanuka ila baadaye utapungua mwendo na utarudi mwanzo kabisa mahali ulipolipukia. Lakini mwaka 1995 wanasayansi hao hao waligundua kitu. Ulimwengu – badala ya kupungua mwendo wa kupanuka kama wanasayansi walivyokuwa wakitabiri – sasa unaongeza mwendo, tena kwa mwendokasi ambao haujawahi kutokea. Hiki ni nini kinachosababisha ulimwengu uongeze mwendokasi kiasi hicho badala ya kuupunguza? Hicho ni nini ambacho ulimwengu unapanukia? Wanasayansi hawana jibu. Wanasingizia kitu kinaitwa ‘dark matter’, maada ambayo haijawahi kuonekana, kwamba ndicho kinachosababisha ulimwengu uongeze mwendokasi kwa kiwango hicho ambacho hakijawahi kutokea; na hicho ambacho ulimwengu unapanukia wanahisi ulimwengu wetu unapanukia katika ulimwengu mwingine, kwa mujibu wa dhana nyingine kabisa iitwayo ‘multiverse’ au ‘meta-universe’. Kuna kitu kinaitwa ‘Higgs boson’ – chembe ndogo inayosemekana kuhusika na uzito (‘mass’) wa chembe ndogo 16 zilizomo ndani ya atomu, kasoro chembe ya mwanga, iliyopotea mara tu baada ya mlipuko wa ulimwengu wa ‘Big Bang’ miaka bilioni 13.7 iliyopita katika kipindi kilichoitwa ‘epoch’ – ambayo ilianza kutafutwa katika maabara za CERN, Uswisi, toka mwaka 1964, maabara ambazo kazi yake kubwa ni kutengeneza mazingira ya mwanzo kabisa ya mlipuko wa ‘Big Bang’, kusudi wanasayansi waone kama wanaweza kubahatisha kuiona na kuidhibiti hiyo bosoni. Bosoni itakapopatikana wanasayansi watajua siri ya ‘dark matter’, watajua jinsi ulimwengu unavyofanya kazi na jinsi ulivyoumbwa na jibu la kitendawili cha ‘Standard Model’ litapatikana. Hiyo ni kazi ngumu. Ndiyo maana ‘Higgs boson’ mwaka 1993 iliitwa ‘The God Particle’. Yaani, wanasayansi wanahisi kuna muujiza wa Kimungu na huenda wasiipate kabisa hiyo bosoni. Wanasema waliipata mwaka 2013. Lakini hiyo waliyoipata bado ina utata. Kutokana na kushindwa huko kwa sayansi na historia, kutokana na kushindwa kwa sayansi kutengeneza binadamu au mnyama, kutokana na miujiza iliyorekodiwa katika vitabu vitakatifu; naamini, Mungu yupo.

Brave people are sometimes afraid of the strangest things.

I believe a woman is just as likely to kill as a man, given the proper motivation.

Maybe she's heard you have a reputation for being armed and dangerous," he whispered.

Aa – pronounced as ah, as in father Bb – pronounced as bay Cc – Generally, its French pronunciation is say. However, its pronunciation will change depending on the situation. If this letter comes before I and E, it must be pronounced as the English S (similar to how C in the word center is pronounced). If it comes before A, O, and U, its pronunciation must be the same as c in cat. Dd – pronounced as day, or similar to D in the word dog Ee – must sound like euh, similar to the emphasis of U in the word burp Ff – sounds like eff, similar to how F is pronounced in the word fog Gg – As a general rule, this letter is pronounced as jhay. However, its pronunciation will change depending on the word. If this letter is found before the vowels A, O, and U, it must sound like the g in the word get. On the other hand, if it’s placed before I and E, the pronunciation must be similar to the S in the word measure. Hh – While this letter generally sounds as ash and is found in French written words, it is ALWAYS silent, even if the word begins with this letter. However, H has two kinds in the French language that are useful in writing. In non-aspirated H (or H muet), the letter H is treated as a vowel and the word requires either liaisons or contractions (other rules will be discussed in a later section). On the other hand, in an aspirated H (or H aspiré), the word is treated is a consonant and will not require liaisons or contractions. To determine which words are aspirated or not so that words can be spelled and pronounced correctly, French dictionaries place an asterisk (or any other symbol) on words starting with an H to indicate that they are aspirated. Ii – sounds like ee, or similar to how the letters ea in the word team is pronounced Jj – pronounced as ghee, and sounds like the S in the word measure Kk – sounds like kah, and is pronounced like the K in the word kite Ll – a straightforward el pronunciation, similar to L in the word lemon Mm – simply pronounced as emm, from M in the word minute Nn – similar to N in the word note, as it sounds like enn Oo – This letter can be pronounced as the O in the word nose, or can also sound similar to the U in nut. Pp – pronounced as pay, or similar to the letter P in the word pen Qq – sounds like ku, or how the K in kite is pronounced Rr – must sound like you’re saying air. To do this correctly in French, you must try to force air as if it’s going to the back of your throat. Your tongue must be near the position where you gargle, but the letter must sound softly. Ss – Generally, it must sound like ess. However, the pronunciation might change depending on the word. If the word begins with an S or has 2 S’s, it must sound like the S in sister. However, if the word only has one S, it must sound like the Z in the word amazing. Tt – pronounced as tay, just like t in the word top Uu – To pronounce this properly, you must say the letter E as how it is said in English while making sure that your lips follow the position like you’re saying “oo”. Vv – pronounced as vay, and sounds like the V in violin. Ww – pronounced as dubla-vay as the general rule. However, this may be changed depending on the word. It can sound like V in the word violin, or as W in the word water. Xx – sounds like eeks, and can be pronounced either like gz (as how the word exit is said) or as ks (when the word socks is said). Yy – pronounced as ee-grehk, or similar to ea in leak. Zz – sounds as zed, or like the letter Z in zebra

I love you more than I need you to like me right now.

Whoever holds that heart of yours is a lucky man. Just make sure you get it back soon. You deserve to be fully in control of what happens next.

Madame Hugo had become insufferable. She had started with the peeking in at breakfast, and then moved on to skipping romps of faux-concern down the hallway at mid-day, speaking with trumpets in her throat and stumbling by my door with the grace of an elephant. In case it was not already clear, let me pronounce it: I loathed her. The violence I conjured up for her in that dark sanctum of mine was infinite, and the subject of her various fatalities and tortures came to almost—almost, but not quite—rival those intrusions which such thoughts of Sophia continued to make.

Where they had acquired these objects in their happy captivity, she could not tell. Though their expressions were, for the most part, still mute, she could yet discern a difference in their fixed stares, most obvious in the children. It was a subtle crease under the eyes, the mouths only slightly hanging agape. One of the children, whose gaze flickered more attentively than the others, was even holding a palm-sized, blackened rectangle of stiff paper, which retained a faded red mark at its corner and jagged gold at its top. Sielle could not restrain a smile from spreading across her face, for in each of those talismans over which they loomed, mystified, there remained the forms of metamorphosis and history and decay, and perhaps man was therefore an inescapably metaphysical animal yet.

It had begun not long after he had learned that she had no procrustus. Tikan, who hardly knew Sielle or her history, and whose sleeves were ever streaked with his heart’s blood, had started taking her as a blank canvas on which to project his own idea of her. And this idea was, insidiously, an abstraction he made out of her. To him, she was becoming the living symbol of his cause. Despite her flesh and her mind and words—rather, due to these—he began seeing her as a mere ideal of humanity, a fleshless world-soul containing in her the essences of each living person. A spirited, thinking person in a world dispirited and mindless. The torch-bearer and the posterity. The reason, the final cause. In her he saw some image of survival in the ideal unity of freedom. And in some sense, as the moment lingered, it was as if he were aiming his gaze through her, beyond her, and not quite at her.

There was a family there, too: a man and a woman expecting a child. Like most couples, they had first seen each other in a metempsy; that is, the interprocrustic network had mathematically determined their optimal compatibility and arranged for them to meet and fall in love by way of subliminal or explicit suggestions. Mostly, they showed up as love interests in each other’s metempsies a year before actually meeting, and were therefore conditioned into love at first sight. This particular couple, however, had decided within six months that they hated each other, and that whatever system had brought them together was therefore evil. Though they themselves could not adopt a monastic life free of metempsies like their neighbor, they wanted better for their child. They had thus resolved to have their child in the Bilge, in order to prevent it from being procrusted. A number of people had had this same idea over the years, and since such ideas were lethal to a fetus, it usually resulted in a stillbirth.

Sometimes tragedy strikes us in the most unusual of ways.

It's hard to be around Gavin and not get little hot flashes every now and then. I'm having an episode now ...

Chloe has always had a serious effect on my heart, but lately . . . she's stolen pieces of it, bit by bit. Or maybe she's had them all along.

My world stops at the sight of her ... it's as if I've been looking at Chloe through a two-way mirror this entire time—aware of her, always feeling her presence, but never allowing myself to break through the barrier.

Chloe doesn't move right away even though I've stepped to the side to allow her to pass. When she finally does, it's as if she's stealing my air as she goes. She's so damn beautiful.

You were staring out at the horizon, telling me it was the most beautiful thing you'd ever seen, and I was staring at you thinking the exact same thing.

Well"—I place my hands on my hips—"aren't you going to sketch me?" I twirl slowly, allowing him to take in the entire outfit. Before I'm even facing him again he's moving toward me, then grabbing me by the hips and pulling me against his hard body. My heart is trying to catch up to his eagerness as we fall onto the bed. "I've done all the practice sketches I can handle.

Tan man kare, tujhpe fidah, mehboob woh. Palkon pe jo, rakkhe tujhe, mehboob woh. Jiski wafah, tere liye ho. Aare yaaron, mahabbat hi to bandegi hai. Yeh na ho toh, keya fir, bolo yeh zindagi hai? Koyi toh dilbar ho yaar. Jisko tujhse ho pyaar. Koyi toh dilbar ho yaar...

That’s the problem with unrequited love. It doesn’t give back, even when you think you’re on the verge of something spectacular. It’s like looking into a one-way mirror, knowing in the depths of your soul that you’re standing in front of the one, but he never sees you in return. Still, you try. It’s an addiction. A trap. And the deeper you fall, the harder it is to climb your way out.

The second I recognize Hope is the moment the pain of losing her comes crashing and burning all around me. The damage I did, the woman I lost, the deep-seeded desire I smothered like it wasn’t the last flame left standing in my life. She was the one. The only one I’d ever felt could make my dimly lit world a better place, and I pushed her away as though she didn’t even matter.

The last time I gave Hope the space I thought she needed, she walked away and left a big, gaping hole in my chest. I won’t make that mistake again.

I want to go back. And this time, I want to be selfish. Because if I ever had the chance to rewrite that last night we had together, I would have never let her go.

You’re right. About everything.” I bend down to touch my forehead to hers. “I was cruel, and I forced you to leave when it was the last thing I wanted you to do. I’ve never wanted anyone to stay more.

I fucked up. I hurt you. And the weight of my regret over causing that pain is my burden to bear for the rest of my fucking life. But you belong here, Hope, just as much as I do. This is your home, and I’ll make it my mission to remind you of that for as long as you’re here.

I knew you’d leave one day. You were young and still figuring out what you wanted to do with your life. You were bound to leave, whether I pushed you away or not. Everyone leaves.” From my peripheral, I can see her scan me like she’s assessing my expression. ”I’m not everyone. I was yours. And you were the only one who couldn’t see it.

Not getting another chance to explore everything we should have had is my biggest fear of all. This time, I don’t want to miss a thing.

My goddess. My Hope. My second chance at life. I’ll worship her for a lifetime if she’ll give me the chance.

That’s because there’s no use enjoying what you love if you can’t be with the one you love.

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It was his eyes that I gravitated to the most. It was there that I could see his soul, the very part of him that he kept hidden from everyone else. Not from me. And that was how I always knew that Jamison Bexley was mine.

I know what I did. I know how badly I hurt you … And I know what I lost.

Violet doesn’t belong to me. She never has, no matter the desperation I once felt to make her mine. Yet here I am, back in my old neck of the woods, chasing after the ghost of my past like there’s a chance in hell to resurrect what we once shared.

Friendship was safe for us. It was the only way I could be sure that you’d always be there.” I frowned, thinking about how wrong I was. “But we couldn’t help ourselves. I wanted all your firsts.” “And I wanted you to have them. I wanted yours too.” I move my hands to her waist. “You got all the important ones. To this day, you’re the only woman I’ve ever loved.

I would have loved you forever, Vi … I wanted to love you forever.

What we had was the most special thing to me. I was yours for so many years, and I loved you more than anything. I still do.

His lips tilt up on one side. “You act like you won’t be moving in soon.” I gasp and playfully push against his chest. “Going a little fast there, aren’t you, Bexley?” He shakes his head so slowly that I become mesmerized by the purposeful movement. “I happen to think the lifetime it’s taken for us to be standing right here has been excruciatingly slow.” My heart is beating so fast. “I might have taken a little detour.” He leans in so his mouth is a mere inch from mine. “And you’re back on track now?” It’s been years since I’ve felt these kinds of butterflies – the ones that feel uncaged in my chest to the point that they could carry me away. “Without a doubt.

And here I thought I’d have to work a lot harder to get you back into my bed.” … “I don’t have the same willpower I once did. Like it or not, I’m pretty much a sure thing for you.

You’re the sexiest, most beautiful woman I’ve ever known. Then, now, and forever.

I’m certain there isn’t another man alive who could love you more than I do.

इसलाम’ के निर्माण के लिए 27 मंदिरों के भागों का इस्तेमाल किया गया था। मस्जिद के आगे के भाग में अरबी भाषा में इस संबंध में लिखा भी है। मंदिरों के स्तंभों को मस्जिद के स्तंभों में बदला गया है। दीवारों और स्तंभों के कई भागों से देवी-देवता दिखाई पड़ते हैं। विष्णु, गणपति और अन्य कई देवताओं की मूर्तियाँ यहाँ से प्राप्त हुई हैं। इस सच्चाई को खुलकर कहने से रूढ़िवादी मुसलमान कहेंगे कि एक क्षेत्र की जनता का एक साथ धर्मांतरण हो जाने से मंदिरों को स्वाभाविक रूप से स्वेच्छा से मस्जिद में परिवर्तित किया गया है। मुसलमान शासकों ने जो गलती की, उसे वे मानेंगे नहीं। कुतुबमीनार के पास के ‘कुवुत्तुल इसलाम’ मंदिर के स्तंभों से नहीं बनाया गया है, कहना सही नहीं है। निर्माण हेतु मंदिरों को तोड़ा गया है और मंदिरों के स्तंभों से ही मस्जिद बनाई गई है; परंतु

राजगीर हमारी पहली राजधानी थी और दूसरी पाटलिपुत्र। सम्राट् अशोक की राजधानी नगरी कुम्राहर अनाथ स्थिति में थी। चारों

अगर भारत एक मुस्लिम बहुसंख्यक धर्मनिरपेक्ष देश होता तो (मुस्लिम बहुसंख्यक होने से धर्मनिरपेक्ष का सवाल उठता नहीं) एक हिंदू मंदिर में अतिक्रमण करके मुस्लिम लोग मस्जिद-निर्माण करते तो उनके खिलाफ कानूनी काररवाई करने के लिए हिंदू अफसर के साथ रहने के लिए कितने मुसलमान सहकर्मी तैयार हो सकते थे? यह चिंता का विषय है। भारत की धर्मनिरपेक्षता का महत्त्व तभी हमें मालूम होगा।

एक मुसलमान के लिए मक्का-मदीना जितना महत्त्वपूर्ण है, उतना ही महत्त्वपूर्ण है एक हिंदू के लिए अयोध्या। मक्का और मदीना अन्य धर्मावलंबियों के हाथ में पड़े तो...मुसलमान इसकी कल्पना नहीं कर सकते। हिंदुओं के बहुसंख्यक होने पर भी उनका पुण्य तीर्थ अन्य धर्मावलंबियों के अधीन हो गया। आज हिंदू के आत्मविलाप को सुनने के लिए मुसलमानों को तैयार होना है। हिंदुओं का विश्वास है कि बाबरी मस्जिद उनके भगवान् राम का जन्म-स्थान है। मुसलमानों के प्रवाचक मुहम्मद नबी से इस जगह का कोई संबंध नहीं है। सहावी से, खुलफाउराशीदी से संबंध नहीं; ताबिउ, औलिया और सलफुस्सालीहिन से भी कुछ रिश्ता नहीं। मुगल संस्थापक बाबर से मात्र इसका संबंध है। इस तरह की एक मस्जिद के लिए मुस्लिम क्यों जिद्दी हो जाते हैं?

जरूसलें के बैतुल मुखद्दीस को जूदों द्वारा कब्जा लिये जाने की खबर सुनकर हम सबने अपने गाँव कोडुवल्ली की जामा मस्जिद में एकत्र होकर बैतुल मुखद्दीस को वापस मिलने के लिए रो-रोकर प्रार्थना की।’’ (बैतुल मुखद्दीस जूदों, ईसाइयों और मुसलमानों का समान रूप से प्रमुख पुण्यस्थान है) बैतुल नष्ट हो जाने से जितना दुःख मुसलमानों को हुआ, उतना दुःख रामजन्म स्थान नष्ट हो जाने से हिंदुओं को भी होता है। मैं शिक्षित प्रगतिवादी हिंदुओं के बारे में नहीं कह रहा हूँ। उत्तर भारत की कड़ाके की सर्दी में बिना कपड़ा, बिना जूते मीलों दूर पैदल चलकर भगवान् श्रीराम के दर्शन के लिए तरसते हजारों साधारण हिंदुओं के बारे में कह रहा हूँ। उनकी हृदय-वेदना और धार्मिक भावना को सम्मान देने में क्या गलत है?

उलटा चिंतन’ (reverse thinking)।’’ हिंदू अपने को मुसलमान समझकर समस्याओं को देखें और मुसलमान अपने को हिंदू समझकर समस्याओं का विश्लेषण करें और समाधान के लिए काम करें।

Blue as a baby, silver as Enchanted.

कई नरमवादियों ने समझौते की कोशिश की, परंतु रामजन्मस्थान पर विश्व हिंदू परिषद् ने अपनी पकड़ मजबूत कर दी। बाबरी मस्जिद हिंदुओं को देकर समस्या का समाधान करने के लिए मुसलमान नरमवादी तैयार थे, परंतु इसको खुलकर कहने के लिए किसी में हिम्मत नहीं थी। बाबरी मस्जिद पर अपना दावा छोड़ने से वि.हि.प. को फिर आगे बढ़ाने के लिए मुद्दा कुछ नहीं होगा, कुछ मुसलमानों ने ऐसा भी सोचा। इस तरह के विचार आगे बढ़ जाएँ तो समस्या के समाधान की संभावना होती थी। खेद के साथ कहना पड़ेगा कि उग्रपंथी मुस्लिम गुट की मदद करने के लिए कुछ वामपंथी इतिहासकार सामने आए और उन्होंने बाबरी मस्जिद नहीं छोड़ने का उपदेश दे दिया। वास्तव में, उन्हें यह मालूम नहीं था कि कितना बड़ा पाप कर रहे हैं। दिल्ली के जवाहरलाल नेहरू विश्वविद्यालय के.एस. गोपाल, रोमिला थापर, बिपिन चंद्रा जैसे इतिहासकारों ने ‘रामायण’ के ऐतिहासिक तथ्यों पर सवाल खड़े कर दिए और कहा कि 19वीं सदी के पहले मंदिर तोड़ने का सुबूत नहीं है। उन्होंने अयोध्या को ‘बौद्ध-जैन केंद्र’ कहा। उनका साथ देने के लिए प्रो. आर.एस. शर्मा, अनवर अली, डी.एन. झा, सूरजभान, प्रो. इरफान हबीब आदि भी आगे आए। तब एक बड़े गुट का समर्थन बाबरीवालों को मिल गया।

पत्र-पत्रिकाओं से निरंतर संबंध रखनेवाले वामपंथी इतिहासकारों ने अयोध्या की वास्तविकता पर सवाल उठाते हुए लगातार लेख लिखे और उन्होंने आम जनता में भ्रम और असमंजस पैदा कर दिया। वामपंथी इतिहासकार और उनका समर्थन करनेवाले ‘टाइम्स ऑफ इंडिया’ जैसे मीडिया ने समझौते के पक्ष में रहे मुस्लिम बुद्धिजीवियों को अपने उदार विचार छोड़ने की प्रेरणा दी। बड़े खेद की बात है कि इसने बाबरी मस्जिद एक्शन कमेटी को धैर्य और अंगीकार प्रदान किया। इसी कारण मस्जिद को हिंदुओं के लिए छोड़कर समस्या के समाधान के लिए सोच रहे साधारण मुसलमान लोगों ने अपनी सोच में परिवर्तन कर दिया और मस्जिद नहीं देने के पक्ष में विचार करना शुरू कर दिया। साम्यवादी इतिहासकारों के हस्तक्षेप से उनकी सोच में परिवर्तन हुआ। इस तरह समझौते का दरवाजा हमेशा के लिए बंद कर दिया गया।

स्वधर्मे निधनं श्रेयः।’’ स्वधर्म के निर्वहन के लिए मृत्यु भी स्वागतयोग्य है।

समय के प्रवाह में कई घटनाएँ हुईं। सांप्रदायिक दंगे, मुसलमानों की सामूहिक हत्या, जलाना आदि-आदि। ये सब इतिहास के प्रवाह में होते आए हैं। आगे भी इस तरह की घटनाएँ होंगी। गुजरात में मुसलमानों की सामूहिक हत्या एक सच्चाई है, परंतु इससे कई गुना क्रूर घटनाएँ मध्यकालीन मुस्लिम शासनकाल में हुई थीं। मैं एक बात यहाँ कहना चाहता हूँ कि हिंदू सांप्रदायिकता मूल रूप से नहीं है। कभी-कभी कुछ घटनाओं की प्रतिक्रिया के रूप में हुआ है। गोधरा में भी ऐसा ही हुआ। वहाँ ‘साबरमती एक्सप्रेस’ में यात्रा कर रहे तीर्थयात्रियों को जलाने से दंगा शुरू हुआ। बाद में हुए निष्ठुर कृत्यों के खिलाफ सीतलवाड़ जैसे हिंदू सामाजिक कार्यकर्ता और संजय भट्ट जैसे पुलिस अधिकारियों ने आवाज उठाई। गुजरात के डी.जी.पी., श्री आर.बी. श्रीकुमार ने नानावटी आयोग के समक्ष सत्ताधारी बी.जे.पी. सरकार के खिलाफ बयान दिया। उन्हें अब तक पेंशन नहीं मिली है, क्योंकि मामला कोर्ट में है। आवाज उठानेवाले हिंदू अफसरों की लियन रद्द की गई। संजय भट्ट जैसे लोगों की नौकरी चली गई। सीतलवाड़ को आज भी शिकार बनाया जाता है। अगर भारत एक मुसलमान राष्ट्र होता तो हिंदुओं के पक्ष में बोलकर अपनी नौकरी गँवाने के लिए कितने मुसलमान अफसर तैयार हो जाते? मुस्लिम लोगों को इस तरह की बातों पर विचार करना चाहिए।

देश की राजधानी दिल्ली में रोजाना देश और विदेश से सैकड़ों लोग आते हैं। उन्हें देखने के लिए कई ऐतिहासिक स्मारक यहाँ हैं—लाल किला, हुमायूँ का मकबरा, कुतुबमीनार, आगरा का ताजमहल, आगरा किला, फतेहपुर सीकरी आदि-आदि। ये सब मुगल सल्तनत के जमाने में बनाए गए हैं। केवल ये सब देखने से भारत के संबंध में एक पर्यटक का दृष्टिकोण क्या होगा? सब मुसलमानों का है। ‘भारत’ का मतलब दिल्ली के इर्द-गिर्द नहीं है। भारत के अन्य राज्यों में विभिन्न राजवंशों द्वारा बनाए गए और हमें गौरवान्वित करनेवाले स्मारकों को देखे बिना हम कैसे भारत को समझ सकेंगे? दिल्ली में आनेवालों को भारत के विभिन्न प्रदेशों के मंदिर, वहाँ के मनोहर शिल्प जैसे—बृहदेश्वर मंदिर, महाबलिपुरम्, अजंता-एलोरा, एलिफेंटा आदि देखने का अवसर नहीं मिलता है। अतः विविधताओं से संपन्न भारतीय संस्कृति के बारे में दिल्ली में आनेवाले पर्यटकों को पूर्ण जानकारी नहीं मिल पाती है।

छत्तीसगढ़ में रुद्रशिव की एक आकर्षक प्रतिकृति है। जैसा नाम है, वैसे रौद्र भाव की नहीं है वह। मेरे अध्ययन और सुबूत के अनुसार यह पशुपति शिव हैं। समस्त ब्रह्मांड के नायक माने जानेवाले भगवान् शिव है यह पशुपति मूर्ति।

सभी जीवों के समन्वय रूप हैं ये भगवान् शंकर। सिर बाँधने के लिए साँप है, कान मोर से बनाया है, मगरमच्छ और मेढक की आँखें, दो मछलियों को जोड़नेवाली मूँछ, केकड़े के छिलके से बनाई हुई दाढ़ी। मगरमच्छ के मुँह से निकलनेवाले हाथ, नवग्रहों को सूचित करनेवाला नौ मानव मुख, कछुए के सिर का उपयोग करके गुप्तांग, हाथी के पैर आदि। सभी प्राणियों का सम्मिलन है छत्तीसगढ़ के ताला मंदिर का यह पशुपति शिव।

यह स्क्रिप्ट जेएनयू के एक प्रोफेसर प्रो. नजफ हैदर ने लिखी थी, जो अलीगढ़ मुस्लिम यूनिवर्सिटी के प्रो. इरफान हबीब के प्रिय शिष्य हैं।

परस्पेक्टिव की महिला संपादक सुश्री माधुरी गुप्ता को पुलिस ने पाकिस्तान को खुफिया भारतीय दस्तावेज सौंपने के आरोप में गिरफ्तार कर लिया है।

It’s hard to envision the sad, insecure girl I was when I first came to town. My life has taken on a whole new meaning since then. It’s filled with responsibility that no one should be forced to manage. The knowledge of who I am and the history that comes along with it is a burden as much as a blessing.