Laughter as Holy Obligation
Have a feast of humour with Mujtuba Hussain, because taking affairs of life too seriously is a disease according to Plato. Despite the traditional recommendation of blessing anyone who laughs – “May God ever keep you laughing” – there are few zinda dil people (who laugh and make others laugh without hurting the other or compromising truth) around and fewer zinda dil writers (writers often are either found as if weeping or bragging or envying or at least complaining about other writers) and still fewer zinda dil preachers (how many can you name?). Taking affairs of life too seriously is a disease according to Plato. Laughter is a great wazeefa that modern Pirs need to suggest to disciples. For Rumi laughter reaches the deepest depths of Godhead. Mujtuba Hussain is almost perfect example of zinda dil writer. He, better than psychoanalysts, scans his contemporaries with fun and insight leaving no bitterness nor selling any falsehood...