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Is Evil necessary? Okay fer those of u with no time, skip and delete. Philosophy follows! Those who can spare some, here u go. Jalaluddin Rumi was a Sufi saint who lived in the 1200's. He wrote a lot of poetry on Love and religion and humanity in general. Interestingly, 600 years before Darwin, he came up with the idea of evolution too. (I'm telling u this to emphasise that he was a not a goddamn ascetic, eating leaves and sitting in muraqbah all the time, but a thinker and a revolutionary). Here's what he thinks of what evil is: (Excerpted from ' The life and work of Jalaluddin Rumi ' by Afzal Iqbal) But why, it may be asked, has God created that to which man has given the name of evil? And since He is the only real Agent, who are we to blame for the actions that we are caused to commit? It is characteristic of Rumi that he find the answer to this old riddle not in thought but in feeling, not in theological specualtion but in religious experience. We can feel as on

Just a post on BMJ Here is what mark twain had to say to the anti smoking groups of his day : You are blind to the fact that most old men in America smoke and drink coffee, although, according to your theory, they ought to have died young; and that hearty old Englishmen drink wine and survive it, and portly old Dutchmen both drink and smoke freely, and yet grow older and fatter all the time. And you never try to find out how much solid comfort, relaxation, and enjoyment a man derives from smoking in the course of a lifetime (which is worth ten times the money he would save by letting it alone), nor the appalling aggregate of happiness lost in a lifetime by your kind of people from not smoking. Of course you can save money by denying yourself all those little vicious enjoyments for fifty years; but then what can you do with it? What use can you put it to? Money can't save your infinitesimal soul. All the use that money can be put to is to purchase comfort and enjoyment in this life

   It has been progress by leaps and bounds on the blogging scene around me. Many new entrants have blessed the idea of blogging and still more seem interested in doing so. Just recently Usman started giving us his regular dose of thoughts that are inspired by his ideas of horror and gore. And now Hammad seems interested in the idea of blogging too. Infact he is so interested that he has started his own blog by the name of cool hammad.    All this gives me lots of pleasure because now I know I am not the only one who is out there in the cyberspace rather all of my friends are slowly beginning to realize the power of push button publishing of their ideas and random thoughts. Now we will be more in touch with others when we part after graduation. At this point in time someone might argue that we can do so through emails and stuff but I would not agree. Right now we know each other inside out. Emails only tell you what the writer wants you to know in very limited words. A blog is

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Impressions of a watcher! I just watched Dr. Zakir Naik's video: The Bible and the Quran in the light of Modern Science. It was a dialogue between an eminent Christian scholar and Dr.Zakir Naik held at the Niles West High School, Chicago, US in the year 2000. (incidentally,I saw our very own Saad Chicago sitting in the audience scratching his head, his mouth hanging open, you celebrity you!) I'll get straight to the point. Dr. Zakir won that dialogue with the audience and the opposition speaker hands down,not only giving sufficient refutations to the alleged scientific errors in the Quran, but also forcing the Christian scholar to admit that 'there are a lot of problems in the bible and I cannot give you an answer right now...but I believe in the Jesus Christ as my saviour and I have firm belief in his father, the God, Yahweh! This was the most incredible piece of religious knowledge that has been passed onto me in quite a while. As a rule, I steer clear of debates about Ch

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All right, boys! I'm in. Yeah,I know u dun't give a crap, but screw ya.I'm here to rule...

The blogging fever is spreading slowly but surely in the hostel. Atleast in my friends. And what do you know what talents lay hiden behind seemingly simple fellows. Kashif is in full swing with his long intelectual posts on his blog that he has so aesthetically and phonetically named vispurz . His long posts are rather cumbersome to read for someone with a temprament like mine but i am sure many online would like to read them with keen interest. He has been touching ver sensitive issues lately. And why not he is going to be a neurosurgeon.    Now we come to the mystery writer of all times_yes he is Usman the malik. Since he has nothing better to do he has taken up the task of writing his blog. His delightful style of writing can win any heart. It seems he is here to stay. Who knows in future when he is difficult to find and too busy to take appointments we catch him by his blog. Let the storm come Usman.

First USMLE score in our class. I must take this opportunity to congratulate Shehzad from '05 who has scored a 99 in USMLE step one with the triple number score of 272 . Before this in my knowledge only Muzammil Shafi of '02 scored 273, a single score higher than Shehzad. This is indeed a great achievement on the part of Shehzad. He has truly been able to prove his mettle. This score also comes as a blatant slap on the face of our curriculum committees. We all remember that it was Shehzad who was given a resit in third year for minimally apparent reasons. This result also speaks volumes of inability to of our system to judge our students on a truly international criteria. Well done seized and keep up the good work in step two.Ameen.