We have often been interested in the “Rags To Riches” stories. This interest is rooted deep in our unconscious or subconscious longings to wake up in the morning in either a Surrey Palace or a Park Lane Apartment. Of course just longings don’t land you in command and control of offshore companies, Swiss accounts, and thriving businesses that churn out millions each minute of each hour. You need to be either a magician or a Prime Minister or a Prime Minister’s husband.
But there are stories of another kind too—stories in which adored glamour kings basking in the haze of high recognition, high fame, and high acclaim suddenly decide to shun all that they have learnt to enjoy and that has endeared them to millions of fans, and take a giant leap into a world that looks down upon glory, and that glorifies one’s willingness to go down on one’s knees in submission to one’s Creator, and His Will.
The HERO of one such story died in a plane crash on November the 7th, 2016.
Junaid Jamshed— with JJ as his signature— was no demagogue. He was a living testimony to the fact that Allah can bring about incredible transformation in any person’s life.
JJ probably was born with a beard in his soul. Allah made it appear on his face when He so Willed. Beard here is a metaphor. A kind of an affirmation in this society dominated by Western thought and traditions that “I AM NOT ONE FROM YOU”.
Beards are not what make you different. Maulana Fazlur Rahman too has a beard. But beards as metaphors make so much differences. It requires some will, some grit and some inspiration to become an Inzamam, a Saeed Anwar, a Mushtaq Ahmad, a Saqlain Mushtaque, a Mohammad Yousuf and a Junaid Jamshed.
We will not miss you JJ.
You live in our hearts.
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