Azka's Writeups

On Tuesday 28th August 2018, I payed my first visit to a cinema. I wondered what the experience would be like but the film I watched was worth it! I just couldn't get over the movie so I had to write a review.... Title: Parwaaz Hai Junoon (Flight Is Passion) Producer: Momina and Duraid Productions Writer: Farhat Ishtiaq Genre: Patriotism Cast: Hania Amir as Sania Hamza Ali Abbasi as Hamza Ahad Raza Mir as Saad Shafaat Ali as Zaid Sikandar Vincent as Rashid Minhas Yousufzai Kubra Khan as Fiza Shaz Khan as Nadir Kermani Marina Khan as Sania's mother Hina Binat as Hamza's mother Asif Raza Mir as Hamza's father Review: The producers and writer of Bin Roye Aansu 2015 (Uncried tears) reunite once again for another heart warming film; Parwaaz Hai Junoon. As the title suggests the movie revolves around fighter pilots and PAF (Pakistan Air Force) cadets. Like Farhat Ishtiaq's novels Mata e Jaan (My Precious) and Hamsafr (Fellow Traveller/ Life Partener)...

"We've pulled out the child from school he's memorizing the Qur'an now, as you konow... he's mentally weak... he can't study" I'm sorry but that is what I just heard a woman say. I wanted to say something to her but I didn't. Yet I know it is my responsibility to do something about it or I'll be no different from her. So here I am... Firstly memorizing the Qur'an is a huge responsibility and requires rapt attention and determination.  Before the Qur'an was revealed Allah first offered the trees and mountains to bear the revelation but they said they would crumble under the Divine weight, only a human was strong enough to undertake this burden. So surely somebody mentally or even physically weak can not do it. And if someone has memorized the Qur'an, to any extent, they are strong enough. This is just one case, in other cases, parents want their children to memorize the Qur'an as atonement for their own sins, and they cons...