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THE JOURNEYHow does a negligent, celebrity cricketer turn into a selfless philanthropist and politician?

Then & Now Irreligious INivaal Rehmanm Medalistr Resolute Leadera Affectionate Sonn NegligentK Kindh Helpfula Altruisticn Noble

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HOW CANYOU HAVEEVERYTHING,ANDNOTHING? There is a candle in your heart A Poem by Rumi There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. THERE IS A VOID IN YOUR SOUL,  READY TO  BE FILLED. YOU FEEL IT, DON'T YOU? YOU FEEL THE SEPARATION FROM THE BELOVED. Invite Him to fill you up, embrace the fire. Remind those who tell you otherwise that Love comes to you of its own accord, and the yearning for it cannot be learned in any school.

18 ATTIC | JANUARY 2016 IN KHAN'S WORDS In Britain, religion became a sense of ridicule [...] Our role models were Mick Jagger and David Bowie, while our intellectual thinking was defined by the then popular Marxist rejection of religion. What little belief I had in God took a real beating in this atmosphere. [...] The best way to describe my faith was 'no acceptance, no rejection'. [...] If there was a God, then he had nothing to do with my life outside the mosque. [...] My first winter at Oxford was miserable. (KHAN 58)

As a young adult, Imran had Imran knew he was everything someone who separated from God in theAN believed in hedonism could atmosphere he was livingINCOMPLETEPERSON have. However, there was a in at Oxford (\"In Britain, BY NIVAAL REHMAN particular emptiness in him religion became a sense of that made him unhappy ridicule\"). As his life even when he had it all. progresses, however, Rumi's poem about the void Imran recognizes how God in one's soul when you feel is what he needs to learn to \"separated from the become selfless instead of beloved\" or God explains self-centred and this would Imran's feelings. make his life complete.

HERO | PAGE 03 MIDLIFEMOTHER'S DEATH, QUITTING CRICKET AND SELF-DISCOVERYThe experience of mymother’s death coupledwith my stress fracturehad me realize howvulnerable I was. It wasalmost as if someonehad put me in my placeby making me aware ofmy many limitations.

Trapped A Poem by Erin Hanson HERO | PAGE 03

IN KHAN'S WORDS By this time I had come to the realization that thehedonistic lifestyle that hadseemed so appealing from the outside was a mirage. [...] It was a worldcompletely cut off from therest of humanity. […] I had mistaken pleasure for happiness but the former does not last long and the activities that give it have diminishing returns. (KHAN 106)

Recognizing RealityBY NIVAAL REHMANDuring his young adult life, It was as if his \"mind\" was a \"tower\"nothing bad had ever happened that he was \"trapped in\" like theto Imran that would personally poem states, and no one couldaffect him. However, by middle \"save him\". He wanted to bring aage, two of the most beloved change in his life because he beganaspects of his life, his mother to feel even more intensely that heand cricket, were taken away wasn't perfect (\"It was as iffrom him. In response, he first someone had put me into my placeblamed God, however he soon by making me aware of my manybegan to feel that the life he was limitations.\") As a result, he turnedinitially leading was fake and to his God and return to tribaltemporary like a \"mirage\". places like Waziristan to discover his roots and who he really was.



KhudiA Poem by Muhammad Iqbal Issue 27 | 234

IN KHAN'S WORDS KHAN 115

An Endless Struggle