COAT OF ARMS & FAMILY CREST OF SATTI TRIBE

COAT OF ARMS  Explanation

What are symbols? Symbols are important to help remind us of important truths. Symbols are a timeless language that gives visual form to ideas and feelings that may otherwise defy the power of words.

EAGLE

The remarkable strength and courage of the eagle have inspired mankind throughout the ages. An Eagle stands for a nation, clan or a person who soars to the highest realms of truth and knows no fear and no bounds of time and space. It is the symbol of a passion, an ambition, an ideal as the Eagle is seen high above in the heavens and is endowed with exalted spirits. Eagles represent divine majesty, the superiority of the intellect over the physical and of the spiritual over the material. 

In Islam, the eagle represents nobility and dominion. The Hawk of Quraish is a symbol which is found on a number of emblems, coats of arms and flags of several states of the Arab League. Also the traditions and recorded history about the Quraish and prophet MUHAMMAD (PBUH) claim a falcon had been used as clan symbol. Salahudin Ayubi carried a yellow flag adorned with an eagle. The Eagle was taken as a symbol of pride and dignity. 

Iqbal’s Shaheen stands for courage and self-respect, purity of soul and character, devotion and dedication, struggle and endurance, prestige and perseverance, self-control and self-reliance. In Shaheen he envisages the desired attributes of a devoted Muslim or Momin.

SWORDS & KNIGHT

The sword is said to be the emblem of military honour and should incite the bearer to a just and generous pursuit of honour and virtue. Besides inciting the bearer to a generous pursuit of honour and virtue, the sword is symbolic of authority, protection, courage, liberty and strength. 

Even though the modern Knight looks back to medieval days when chivalry and nobility were openly celebrated, and to wield a sword meant combat against a foe's "flesh and blood," the modern Knight should wield his sword symbolically in the defence of truth and against delusion.

Swords and Knight on horse represents glorious military history of the tribe, as Satti Tribe is known for their services for armed forces. Sattis are inborn soldiers, they possess a distinctive place and role in the Armed Forces of Pakistan. Every graveyard of Satti region is the resting place of Martyrs and War heroes. 

Sattis are believed to have descended from Naushirwan, The Emperor of Sasanian Empire. When Arabs invaded and conquered Persia, the ancestors of this tribe were driven out, they took refuge in the neighbouring states of central Asia. Later on they joined the early Muslim Armies in their invasion of subcontinent and settled in the region of North Punjab, Pakistan.

 HISTORY OF SATTI TRIBE

SATTI TRIBE FAMILY CREST

“If you are bareheaded, develop high resolve,

For here the crown is only for the Eagle’s head.” 
                                                                     —— (Bal-e-Jibril) 

The central theme of Iqbal’s  poetry is “khudi”. Khudi as conceived by him is the name of several attributes, found in an ideal character. These are self-assertion, self-realization, the spirit of independence, sense of honour, noble idealism and action. Its object is not material aggrandizement but spiritual adornment and elevation. In the eagle we observe almost all these salient characteristics. That is why Iqbal conveys his message to the youth and advises them to foster an “eagle-like” spirit. 

His Shaheen stands for courage and self-respect, purity of soul and character, devotion and dedication, struggle and endurance, prestige and perseverance, self-control and self-reliance. In Shaheen he envisages the desired attributes of a devoted Muslim or Momin.

In Islam, the eagle represents nobility and dominion. The Hawk of Quraish is a symbol which is found on a number of emblems, coats of arms and flags of several states of the Arab League. Also the traditions and recorded history about the Quraish and prophet MUHAMMAD (PBUH) claim a falcon had been used as clan symbol. Salahudin Ayubi carried a yellow flag adorned with an eagle (Eagle of Saladin). The Eagle was taken as a symbol of pride and dignity. 

The remarkable strength and courage of the eagle have inspired mankind throughout the ages. An Eagle stands for a nation or a person who soars to the highest realms of truth and knows no fear and no bounds of time and space. It is the symbol of a passion, an ambition, an ideal as the Eagle is seen high above in the heavens and is endowed with exalted spirits. Eagles represent divine majesty, the superiority of the intellect over the physical and of the spiritual over the material. 

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HISTORY OF SATTI TRIBE

SATTI TRIBE COAT OF ARMS

Division of Punjab, administrative necessity for political progress - Zeenia Satti

Punjab must be divided into more provinces. It is ridiculous to have a province as large as Punjab, where majority of citizens have to travel more than fourteen hours to get to the provincial capital at Lahore, and in the process, are forced to deplete their health and their capital both. 

Punjab is the dominant province in Pakistan, area and population wise. It has come to acquire a “domineering” position in the perception of other provinces in Pakistan. It breeds ethnic antipathy and causes feeling of ethnic suffering amongst other, larger in size yet far less populated provinces. Punjab’s management is becoming difficult due to its size and will become increasingly more so in coming years as its population grows. 

Punjab is politically suffering from a ‘bloating’ sickness which is giving birth to attitudes that are beginning to divide its population. All of Pakistan has a population of 207, 774, 520, of which Punjab alone has 110, 012,442! Compare that to population in Pakistan’s other provinces, the rate of growth of same, and you cannot help getting frightened about where Punjab is headed while it keeps getting blown up all the time? In modern times, a citizen should not have to travel more than two to three hours to get to the capital of his/her province. 

This conventional wisdom lies at the heart of administrative management of populations in all civilized countries. Why do we, in Pakistan, keep sticking to the British era administrative designs, when we have outgrown the same in terms of population and resources? We must not continue to treat Punjab as a monolithic entity frozen in time and space. The unit is absorbing way more than it can hold and is hampered by its own bloating. It must shed its weight by giving birth to new provinces to restore healthy functionality.

By : ZEENIA SATTI

Nation celebrates 143th birthday of father of the nation, Muhammad Ali Jinnah.

“We should reiterate today that the mistakes of past shall never be repeated and we all will work as one nation to transform vision of the Quaid into reality and take the country to its rightful place among the comity of nations.“

Nation celebrates 143th birthday of father of the nation, Muhammad Ali Jinnah.

" Jinnah’s dream for Pakistan was based on the principles of social justice, brotherhood and equality, which he aimed to achieve under his motto of "Faith, Unity, and Discipline."