OMG. Kyrgyzstan's Government has fallen. I cannot believe it. At least there wasn't alot of bloodshed and killing. I don't know what to say. I am shocked.

Salaam Alaikum!! Sorry it's been awhile since my last post....you know how it is with school and all. *SIGH* But now it's my spring break...so I have a little more time. Alhumdullilah. So. I can't really think of much to say, and as always, I fall back on proverbs and stories...I hate to be preachy, but I like to share. So here it is:

Once, Hasan al-Basri was partaking of the meager meal prepared by poor al-'Ajami when a beggar knocked at the door. Al-'Ajami took all the food he had prepared and gave it to the beggar. Surprised at this strange behavior, Hasan said, "You must know little of manners." Al-'Ajami remained silent. Then a lady appeared at the door bearing plates of delicious food. Both men sat and ate. Then al-'Ajami said, "Hasan, you are a good man. You should develop a little more faith in Allah and remember that anything given in Allah's name returns severalfold." ~Attar

It's getting a bit late (uh, it's 1:30 am..heheh) and so I better not make this long, but I will, inshallah, leave a post tomorrow or the next day...and it will be more interesting. I have to comment on a couple of news article I have read. But I am very sleepy right now...so ami ghumache...(I am sleeping.)

On the day of Judgement, the Lord shall ask the learned men, "What did you do with the knowledge and the learning I conferred on you?" They will reply, "We spent it in Your way." Allah will say, "You are liars." And the angels shall also repeat the same charge. Allah shall further say, " You spent it in earning applause, in passing for learned men, and seeking praise in people." Then Allah shall ask the rich men, "I gave you wealth. What did you do with it?" They will say, "We gifted the riches in Your way." Then Allah and the angels will say, "You are liars. You spent it so that people may call you very charitable." Then Allah shall summon those in the Holy Wars. They will be asked, "How did you spend your life that I gave you?" They will reply, "We sacrificed it in Your Path." Allah and the angels will call them liars and say, "You gave away your lives that people might call you brave and style you martyrs." ~~~al-Ghazzali

Why did I put this story on my post? To remind us all that when we do something, we should do it with a pure heart, out of true, unadulterated LOVE for God~ Not to make ourselves look good, or anything to that effect. Because Allah knows the true intentions in people's hearts...and we should hope not to have a fate like the people spoken of above. Inshallah.

And another....

People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep no beads for reckoning the number of idle words they speak. Caliph Omar said, "Weigh well your words and deeds before they are weighed at the last judgement." ~~~al-Ghazzali.

I read something very thought-inspiring today:

Charity for the sake of God is due from every single part of your body, even from every root of your hair. In fact, Charity is due for every instant of your life.

Charity of the eye means looking with consideration and averting your gaze from desires and things similiar to them.

Charity of the ear means listening to the best of sounds, such as wisdom, the Qur'an, and the benefits of faith contained in warnings and good counsel, and by avoiding lies, slander and similiar things.

Charity of the tongue means to give good advice, to awaken those who are heedless, and to give abundant glorification and rememberance and other similiar things.

Charity of the hand means spending money on others, to be generous with God's blessings to you, to use your hand to write down knowledge and information by means of which others will benefit in obedience to God, and to restrain your hand from evil.

Charity of the foot means to hasten to carry one's duty to God by visiting virtuous people, attending assemblies of rememberance, putting things right between people, maintaining ties of kinship, engaging in inner struggle, and doing things that will make your heart sound and your faith correct. ~~~~~~~~as-Sadiq

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Today I am going to feature Filipino Muslim women, even though the Phillipines is not a Muslim country....they have a significant amount of Muslims. I don't have many pics, though, so this will be short. :)  

Here is a link to read more about the Yemeni Journalist...Jane's Blog

Ok, so I just got this comment from Jane at Armies of Liberation
(to check out the comment, it is a couple of posts below) and I haven't had a chance to read into everything regarding this situation, but from what I've gathered, there is a Yemeni Journalist that is being held unfairly in Yemen...I have not had time to fully research this situation, but if you want to sign the petition, and know what this is regarding, please go to this link....

I just finished reading a book about the Dreyfus Affair (yes, ok, it's a liiiiitttle nerdy that I like non-fiction books, and that I choose to read them electively (sp?) but who cares?) I cannot believe that I did not learn about any of this in school (ok, I guess I shouldn't over-estimate the American school system)...it is sooooo sad. But also I find alot of similarities with what is going on today. Dreyfus was a Jew in the French military at the turn of the century, and because of Anti-semitism, he was tried for treason (with BOGUS evidence) and a huge government cover up took place. (In France.) And a similiar case happened here regarding Captain James Yee (a Muslim) last year(I don't have time to explain because I have a test in 2 days and have to study...but check it out on the web)....

Anyways, one of my pretty good friends (ok, not so much a friend as an acqaintance) was saying some pretty bad remarks about Jews and when I corrected him and told him the way he was acting was un-Islamic, he acted like I was a traitor or something, so I am a little peaved off right now. The nerve!!! ME, A TRAITOR!? Ha! I have never NEVER heard of the Prophet (saw) saying trash about Jews or Christians...and if we are supposed to live Sunnah, than how can he say I am a traitor? Allah Forbid! It makes me just as upset to hear one of my own people saying something about Jews as it does to hear Americans say crap about us. So we should learn a lesson and not do the same thing that they do to us. Can't we learn to love each other? Isn't that the REAL path to God? On the Day of Judgement, I don't think Allah is going to be rewarding us for all the bad things we said about The People of the Book (i.e. Jews and Christians)...rather I think it would still be considered backbiting....and the punishment will be just as bad as if we said it about our own....

Farewell, I did not know thy worth
But thou art gone, and now tis prized

So angels walked unknown on Earth,
but when they flew, were recognized.

I found this funny post on someone's blog (www.voiceforislam.com) and I thought I would put a copy of it on here. I hope I don't offend anyone. Disclaimer: Not all the views on what I am about to post are my shared views (although I agree with alot of it...) Please let me know if I offend anyone, because it is totally not my intention. And I am pre-sorry.

Monday, February 28, 2005

Robin Willams Vs. Al Muslim

Administrator’s warning: This article may contain offensive and/or coarse language and is meant to be a joke and nothing more. As you all know, Robin Williams is a world-famous actor and comedian who uses political satire as an effective way of communicating his opinions about the world. In film, he has portrayed, among many others, a Jew, a homosexual, and an Italian. -- Yet I doubt very seriously that he has ever been dubbed an anti-Semite, a homophobe, or anti-Italian. It was all just for the sake of entertainment. This is exactly what this article is, entertainment. Please do not flood us with comments about how this is “hateful” and negative. This is only a JOKE! After Robin wrote his original message “The Robin Willams Peace Plan” (which spread widely throughout the world via the internet), a Muslim named “Al Muslim” decided to respond to his suggestions with his own take on things. So here now are the Robin and Al “10 step peace plans:”

ROBIN SAID:1. The US will apologize to the world for our “interference” in their affairs, past & present. You know, Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo, Noriega, Milosovich and the rest of those good ol’ boys: We will never “interfere” again.

AL SAID:1. The US will apologize to the world for aiding the TALIBAN with hundreds of million of dollars, training Al-Qaida operatives such as Osama bin Ladin, bombing and killing 100,000 (not an exaggeration) innocent men, women, and children in Japan, supporting the “butcher of Baghdad” Saddam in the 1980's, and helping to create the state of Israel, a “country” that has done nothing but kill and destroy since 1948.

ROBIN SAID:2. We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting with Germany, South Korea and the Philippines. They don’t want us there. We would station troops at our borders. No one sneaking through holes in the fence.

AL SAID:2. We will send the children of all the congressmen and senators who voted for the war to Iraq to fight alongside Miguel and Tyrone. ---Starting with the Bush daughters. Any congressman or senator who refuses to send his children will have to go himself and learn how to defecate in a hole in the ground.

ROBIN SAID:3. All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their affairs together and leave. We’ll give them a free trip home. After 90 days the remainder will be gathered up and deported immediately, regardless of who or where they are. France would welcome them.

AL SAID:3. All illegal aliens are more than welcome into the country. I seriously doubt “Curt” and “Brad” will be happy picking fruit and mowing our lawns. All white people who are descended from the Europeans who massacred the Native Americans must return to their European countries of origin where they will enjoy French fries with mayonnaise, tight jeans, and body odor.

ROBIN SAID:4. All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and limited to 90 days unless given a special permit. No one from a terrorist nation would be allowed in. If you don’t like it there, change it yourself and don’t hide here. Asylum would never be available to anyone. We don’t need any more cab drivers or 7-11 cashiers.

AL SAID:4. No diplomat, politician, or “aide worker” from America may travel abroad, as this is the cause of countries getting FUBARed (F#@&ed up beyond all recognition.) Christian missionaries need to grow some backbone and try to convert American Muslims...like me!

ROBIN SAID:5. No “students” over age 21. The older ones are the bombers. If they don't attend classes, they get a “D” (for “deport”) and it's back home baby.

AL SAID:5. Anyone involved in a corporate crime in which thousands of hard-working people get ripped off, should be made to relinquish his country club membership and be publicly beaten by cheated stockholders.

ROBIN SAID:6. The US will make a strong effort to become self-sufficient energy wise. This will include developing non-polluting sources of energy but will require a temporary drilling of oil in the Alaskan wilderness. The caribou will have to cope for a while.

AL SAID:6. The US will make a strong effort to get its citizens to get off of their fat, lazy, cheese-eating asses and stop draining the world of 60% of its resources, while the US makes up less than 1% of the world's population. Damn greedy bastards!---The caribou will be eaten by fat Americans.

ROBIN SAID:7. Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil producing countries $10 a barrel for their oil. If they don't like it, we go some place else. They can go somewhere else to sell their production. (About a week of the wells filling up the storage sites would be enough.)

AL SAID:7. If Saudi Arabia doesn’t give us oil then the ENTIRE economy of the US will go straight to sh$%, and Jimmy won’t be able to buy that SUV he wanted with the Hemmy engine. Poor Jimmy. Saudi Arabia should get wise and cut off all oil to the US and sell it all to France and Germany to make them superpowers. Viva la France!

ROBIN SAID:8. If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the world, we will not “interfere.” They can pray to Allah or whomever for seeds, rain, cement or whatever they need. Besides, most of what we give them is stolen or given to the Army. The people who need it most get very little, if anything.

AL SAID:8. The US will put an end to the IMF and World Bank which goes around the Middle East and offers their governments money through loans that are taxed and paid back with 900% interest. Instead of offering help to their own citizens like people living in slums and ghettos right here in this country, the US will continue to give 4 BILLION dollars a year to Israel, so more innocent people can be displaced and killed. Hey, we need our oil!

ROBIN SAID:9. Ship the UN Headquarters to an isolated island some place. We don’t need the spies and fair weather friends here. Besides, the building would make a good homeless shelter or lockup for illegal aliens.

AL SAID:9. Hollywood needs to stop making these bullsh$%, historically inaccurate movies about Pearl Harbor, the US invasion of Somalia, the HOLOCAUST (please for the love of Jehovah), Vietnam, and Jesus Christ!

ROBIN SAID:10. All Americans must go to charm and beauty school. That way no one can call us “Ugly Americans” any longer. The language we speak is ENGLISH.....learn it...or LEAVE...

AL SAID:10. For once, we are in total agreement!

ROBIN CONCLUDED:Now, ain’t that a winner of a plan. The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying ‘Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.” She's got a baseball bat and she’s yelling, “You want a piece of me?”

AL CONCLUDED:Now ain’t that a winner of a plan. The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying “Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.” She’s got a black hood over her face with electrodes driven into her wrists while her brother is forced to get naked and bend over while an inbred, pig-smelling, soldier points and laughs. Nanu Nanu!