Farzan Chishti

Haptic Feedback – Innovation in User Experience

“I was training at BodyMasters, and my headphones were on, blasting out my regular dose of Trance music to keep me motivated, though the music sounded awesome, there was something strange, i couldn’t feel anything, other than the rough metal texture of the bar is was holding on to curling the weight” To me this…

Problems that Plague the Modern Mind solved via Tazkiya

“Allah never changes the condition of a people unless they change what is in themselves ” Holy Quran [13:28] Islam the religion structures itself at three levels: 1) Submission 2) Faith (Imaan) 3) Excellence (Ihsaan) All external acts of prayer that Muslims perform are prescribed for the reformation of the heart. Islam enforces that for the success…

Da Vinci’s ‘Last Supper’ – A Renaissance MasterPiece

The Renaissance is still thought of as the rebirth of art. It is a scholarly accepted view that the Renaissance was one of the great creative periods of progressive development. One of the masterpieces of the Renaissance was The Last Supper, a late 15th-century painting by Leonardo da Vinci and currently located in Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan, Italy….

False Dichotomization: A Bottleneck that limits Human Triumph

To ‘Dichotomize’ means to separate into parts or classifications. ‘Dichotimization’ is the act of dividing into sharply different categories. It is part of human behavior. Everyone ‘Dichotomizes’ to some extent, it is a basic part of human behavior to reduce large and complex ideas into simpler forms so that it is easy for the mind to…

Perception – Why it limits Human Progress

Perception is perhaps a unified awareness derived from the world of sensoria. Meaning our hearts and minds bring certain information from different sensors in our body and create a reality based on that limited information. In today’s world, perception seems to have more weight than reality. Personally, i feel this is due to a rise…

Humankind – An Amazing Miracle

To think that human intelligence and consciousness is in the brain is similar to thinking that the Internet is found in your computer or cellphone. Our brain is sort of a radio, tuning into different sensors, and converging that information into a single vision of perceived reality. Whatever we see around us, was once just…

Spiritual Ascension – The Light of the Holy Quran

Are you ready to rise above others? The world is in chaos and it is high time for ascension, it is time to rise above the material world for the greater purpose of life, through the path of spiritual development. You need to change your perspective to see the reality of this world. Allmost everyone reading…

The Ultimate Downfall: Ego-Centricity & Ignorance

Is it just all in my head? Or is it that i think about things that people have never said? Is there something wrong with the way things are, at least partially, and i am quite far. A lot of times i have to work long hours to resolve issues created by Generalists from who knows which domain….

Tazkiah: The Maqamaat and Application

Note: The following article is deduced from many Islamic sources, it has been compiled by the author into a single article from the work of several scholars over the course of Islamic History. Intention behind the article is to ease the process of understanding ‘Tazkiah’ due to a personal longing and pursuit of the the truth. The author…

Al-Ujb – The Satanic Trait of Self Conceit

Purification of the Nafs is the greatest jihad. We all work so hard in our lives for ourselves and our families, thinking Insha’Allah one day we shall enter paradise. However there is one thing that can stop us from entering this dream destination. Self-conceit The greatest example of self-conceit in art is perhaps Narcissus. Narcissus was…

Farzan Chishti – Creative for a Living

Author: Farzan Chishti