I don’t know why I still write about her,
Maybe it’s because I used to believe
life can not be without her,
Perhaps it’s the residue of love?
Perhaps it’s the sudden death of her?
I used to look at her, and feel my heart beat,
the heart that she conquered.
Now, I look at her, and feel my heart beat,
but it beats in anger,
It beats in rage, hate and fluster.
I used to tell her,
your love taught me patience
I used to tell her
I am revived by your fragrance,
She was my sinful delight,
Now my righteous torture,
My remorseful repentance.
My moonlight, my darkest daze, my liar
My fake lover, my unfit queen, of the kingdom of my desire
I still can not understand
How you can live with yourself….and smile.
-Death of a heart, the resurrection of a poet.
We really need to have discussions about the difference in treatment of refugees and how they are viewed?
For example governments such as the ones of Slovakia or the Czech Republic all states that they’d rather not have Muslim Syrian refugees and only take those of Christian or Atheist beliefs. Islamophobia in Europe is a real and scary issue.
Someone also explain to me why this outrage was not shown to Eritrean, Somali.. refugees who have been going through the same fate for years now.
The people of Iceland want to go out of their own way in order to help Syrian refugees which is great and honourable. But I cannot help but wonder if these people would have done the same for black refugees from North and East Africa.
Does skin colour matter?
kohoofelrouh-deactivated2016112 asked: Who r u & why are u confused?
I am because we are
Sometimes it feels like whenever something kicks off people have the urgency to go all out and share whatever they can find on the Internet without verifying if its true or not.
Some would even argue this is causing harm (Haretz recently stated that Palestinians are spreading propaganda) and not doing anyone much favors. Personally, I feel that awareness among people, who have a sense of empathy and decency, know what is going on and lets be frank here if all of this was successful we would have seen change long time ago in regards to Palestine, Syria, Myanmar, Central African Republic etc. Another sad reality that this form of activism causes is that people from other affected places will start getting upset knowing that their cause or suffering isn’t ‘worthy’ enough which then makes people compare calamities across the globe and distances the gap between people.
We can’t change the world via sharing posts regarding an area every minute or protesting once or twice a year and doing nothing for the rest of the year. If we look at Palestine, for example, we usually hear and see people’s outcry during Israeli advances into Gaza which have recently occurred in 2009, 2012 and now in 2014. What about Syria? We usually see people’s outrage when the regime decides to employ chemical weapons against civilians. How many of you knew that more than 1000 people were killed during June alone? What about the ongoing crises in Burma or must we wait until the BBC decides to showcase a 1 minute segment?
I admire the people who dedicate their lives to causes that are benefitting to humanity as they try and ensure that we don’t forget about these sufferings in our life of luxury and safety but what annoys me is when people do these acts just to jump on a bandwagon and make themselves feel at ease. I understand this helps people overcome the feeling of helplessness but there is so much more we can do. We need to establish ourselves so we can lobby this government as the Zionists have done for years because years of protests have had very little impact.
(I am not directing this to anyone in particular as I myself have been guilty of this, just something to reflect on)
‘We need to talk about methodology because a lot of time what we talk about in speeches are outcomes but outcomes don’t come without their causes. So number one as young Muslims in the West we have to talk about methodology that needs to be centrists in nature, it is extremely important to be centrist and not to be fanatical to one group or another because that fanaticism destroys us and weakens us. We have a very beautiful principal in Islam, that is if something good if its harm becomes greater then its good it should be left alone and we learn this from our Prophet. In the hadeeth related by our mother Aisha (ra) the Prophet (saw) after the conquest of Mecca he said to her that if it wasn’t that your people were new to Islam I would order that the Kabba be destroyed and rebuilt on the foundations of Abraham. Imam Nawawi says that this is an example of leaving a good that could possible lead to a greater harm.
The ultimate goal of Sharia is to bring benefit and prevent harm. Imam Al-Ghazzali said that the entire goal of Sharia is to bring everything that benefits people in this life and the hereafter. Imam Ibn Taimiyah also said that goal of sharia is to bring benefit and prevent harm, 60 years before him Nawawi and 60 years after him Ashatabi and 150 years after him Ashowkani and all of these Ulema from the earliest days until the last days have said that the entire goal of Sharia is to bring benefit and prevent harm. So if you want a mission statement for your life after being a servant of Allah is to bring benefit and prevent harm. This is why the Prophet (saw) said the best person is the one who benefits others the most.
As a legacy, we have to visualise what is going to benefit ourselves and ultimately if God blesses us to benefit others around us, because the prophet (saw) likened us to land one is a land which soaks the water. He (saw) said the example that God has sent me with is like rain that falls on land: one that soaks the water, benefits itself, has a healthy soil and creates lots of growth that benefit others. The second soaks up the water but doesn’t benefit others. The last is a rocky land that has no benefit. The first is an example of a person who benefits themselves and benefits others, the second is the one who benefits themselves only and the last is someone who doesn’t benefit from the guidance of Allah because their heart is hard. So the ultimate level is to be someone who not only benefits themselves but is able to benefit the people around them.
It is important that we do not define our legacy by particulars, and by particulars I mean our culture. I am against this indigenous divide, this is a fitnah because we are brothers and sisters. We can have our differences in our discussions but its not good for us to introduce these type of terminology into the community that could ultimately undermine its unity because even though it might seem good the harm is more. The same thing applies to calling myself Az’hari, Sufi, Salafi, whatever’e. If the goal behind that is to strengthen Islam and to help the ummah you can call yourself what you want but if the goal behind that is to undermine the unity of the Muslims and weaken our ranks as a community then ultimately the employment of those terms becomes harmful and harm is what in islam? Harm is removed. This is what the scholars have said that there are six rules related when using terms, we don’t even know what we are saying has a ruling behind it. One of the rules is that the term does not weaken the ranks of the Muslims, to divide the Muslims because that is the ultimate harm. So when I say don’t define ourselves by particulars to the point that those particulars undermine your ultimate legacy of doing good and bringing benefit and protecting people from harm.
How did this play out through history? In the 6th century in Baghdad there were a number of blind people and the Ulema met to discuss how this problem should be dealt with. They decided on a dog, the Seeing Eye dog was an invention of the Ummah you belong to. One of the main reasons why we have lost this greatness is because we have let the particulars of life (our culture, race, social class, group)
In Egypt you have these troughs on the side of the road, which was designed for dogs. This is because the people were taken care of so they started taking care of dogs because they were scared that if a dog died in Cairo of thirst it would complain to Allah about us. People would build minarets to make sure birds had proper nutrition. This was four hundred years ago.’
