Zainab - A Woman With Spine

10/08/2025

How can a society with such deep class divides set the same minimum wage for the elite and the working class?

21/07/2025

One of the many unfortunate events from Balochistan..
That the heart has knowingly and unknowingly mourned...

17/07/2025

Things men built:

Wars,
Climate change denial lobbies,
Religious extremism,
Coal-fired power plants,
Weapons of mass destruction,
Cars over clean public transport,
Militaries that are among the world’s biggest polluters,
Global financial crashes,
Nuclear weapons,
Oil empires,
Carbon footprints,
Colonization,
Plastic industries,
Capitalism,
Prisons,
Patriarchy,
Border walls,
Systems that profit off unpaid labor,
Deforestation for profit,
Fossil fuel subsidies,
Toxic waste dumping in the Global South

I can go on.

06/07/2025

“Zainab, tumhari baat sahi hai lekin yehi baat aram say bhi hosakti hai, ghussa nahen kerna chahye, wese bhi aurtain tahammul mizaj hoti hain, pyar say samjhao logon ko”

Acc to this world passion and resistance are masculine qualities, and women can only be unreasonably angry.

Every time people point emotional charge and passion in women as “trigger” “na munasib tone” or “not feminine”, I only have one thought ,’ how little do we know about Syedda Zainab?’

We’ve been conditioned to believe that a woman’s strength lies in her composure, not in her courage, not in her conviction.

When people reduce women to the volume of their voice, the tone of their argument and unruliness of emotions. I think ,’How little have we been speaking about Syedda Zainab?

She didn’t whisper resistance, she thundered it. If there was one thing, quiet and shaken, it was Yazid’s delusion.

When people associate women in Islamic history with passive contributions, they memorialize their tears, they talk about them in terms of grief, sorrow or support but never!
Never in rage!

And all I can think is,’ How little do we know Syedda Zainab?’

She was not merely mourning in Karbala, she was commanding. In the aftermath of unfathomable brutality, with her brother’s body desecrated and the tents of her family set ablaze....

She spoke. And what she spoke was not sorrow alone.
it was strategy.

It was divine defiance!
And it was the epitome of femininity!

Its not a coincidence that we know so little about Syedda Zainab!

Women in this country are constantly told to learn from the women of the Prophet’s family, yet their real stories are hidden beneath layers of a fabricated version, one carefully shaped to soften their resistance, dim their passion & recast their courage into quiet submission & blind obedience.

Why?
Because if they caught even a glimpse of her strength, what would happen to every Yazid sitting on a throne in our homes, society, roads, workplaces..
a throne built from control, pride, and fear?

If they got to know Syedda Zainab, they would know that a woman’s fury can shake the very core of tyranny.

On this Ashura, I mourn our loss of not knowing.

24/06/2025

Men dont cry but they bom* other countries when angry. Whos the joke really on?

06/06/2025

I am a scapegoat through and through. What abt you?

03/06/2025

The pain just cant be explained.

27/05/2025

I am not a giver. I am taken from.

In the last class of my module, I experienced play therapy for the first time.

The client (me) could choose anything, draw, paint, doodle, or simply sit. Whatever needed to happen, would.

I picked up an A4 page and silently began drawing a face. Then, almost instinctively, I began to speak.

“…You know, I was six or seven. It was an Art exam & we had to make a wall hanging. I created mine & left it at my seat for a moment. When I came back, a classmate had taken it, written her name & submitted it…"

As I told the story. My heart ached. My eyes welled up.

This has always been the theme of my life.

I never understood until that moment, why I stayed silent when people copied me, stole from me, took what was mine without shame. In fact became a beta version of me.

I didnt remember the drawing but as I looked down at the page, it hit me.
I had drawn the exact same wall hanging from that exam, subconsiously.
The one that was stolen.

A wave of emotions crashed over me. I remembered that girl’s face, her name was shumaila, I remembered her expressions and what she said in that moment ,” yeh tumhara idea nae tha, sab kar rahay hain”

All the times people had taken from me surfaced like ghosts. Opportunists. Takers.

That little girl wasn’t hurt by the theft itself. She would've gladly made her project & let her take credit. She was hurt because she believed that the only way people would stay in her life was if she let them take.

She was too bold, too edgy.

So she became the fixer. The rescuer.

She'd make sure her closed ones benefit from her growth. That was her currency for love.

But the ache came from this truth.
She could have died for them, and still they would walk away.

After years of serving and self-depletion, I have decided to take care of that little girl who didn’t know her worth. Who thought she is too hard to be loved.

No more credit hogging.
No more intellectual theft.
No more rescuing.
No more helping ungrateful leeches.

You didn't ask. You carved your needs out of my soul.
And I let you.

But not anymore.

19/05/2025

The reason I never buy "oh they probably didnt know how to support" is, I will see them doing it for themselves.

When people need something from you, they will find the time and cognitive ability to please you. They will know how they haven't been there for you so to clear that record, they will start taking interest and showing up.

Everyone knows what needs to be done.
Everyone knows how to extend support.

Its a choice that they dont and I believe that information.

15/05/2025

So now, the same creators who treated Dhruv Rathee like a god, will make videos against him.

I wish I had written my opinions about Pakistani creator's obsession with him on a stamp paper and could present it as evidence now.

My stance when I was working on this episode was: waqt anay per is k khilaf bhi bolingay jese abhi yeh tiktokers or family vloggers ko bol rahay hain qk stance principled nae, consumerist, individualistic aur oppertunist hai.

The goal was never to rehabilitate the society, it was to jump on the badwagon and now its dhruv's turn.

Its funny that youtubers cant find any good content creator in their country who are working on a cause and create good quality content to mention as an example. Dhruv rathee! dhruv rathee! Lol.
You cant find a single platform or activist in your country who shares your value? Or the numbers on their videos doesn't benefit your reach?

Time to debunk this! There's a time when anti-state narrative is popular and then there comes a time like today when you cant hear anything against the state. So what were you really standing up against?

let me answer this: NOTHING.

10/05/2025

26/04/2025

Its very easy to criticise but very difficult to take responsibility.