journal about life

I'm baaack

2007-10-01T01:45:00.000-07:00

Salaaaaaaam and hi for all people , believe it or not , i'm still alive , thank god , i've gone through a difficult period of illness , I was really suffering , hope everybody is fine .

The shaw

2006-07-24T03:36:00.000-07:00

It's a real shame on the international community to stay without doing anything while Israel is enriching its palmares with another chapter of crimes against humanity, more than 300 innocent civilians have died and the american position on that is " self-defence!!!! "as long as America is hijacked by those neocons we would never see peace on earth , they're really cons ( in French con means idiot) , it seems that Europe has changed it's values for some economic interests with the US, but what really makes me nervous is the level of weakness arab countries have reached, all we could hear from the Arab League is condemnation, poor arabs .

Women's rights

2006-04-04T05:56:00.000-07:00

I’ve seen many programmes last days on TV channels celebrating the international women's day , and i’ve heard some voices criticizing Islam and Muslims and accusing them of opressing woman and treating her inhumanly , here i want to clarify some facts , Islam and Muslims are two different things, you cannot blame the law if the people in charge of this law are not fully commited to imply it or if they imply it in the wrong way, for instance in some Muslim countries you find people who deny the woman right of learning and they justify it by religious commitment while learning in Islam is more than right , it’s a duty !!! bad practices in Muslim world were inherited as a tribal traditions and with time passing and the spreading of ignorance as a result of the absence of competent scholars of Islamic law these traditions became a part of the religion, Islam raised the rank of woman and consider her as a partner of man, give her rights and duties according to her abilities ,she has the right to work as long as she respects the Islamic rules , she could be even a businsswoman like the first wife of prophet Muhammad(peace be upon him)was, Islam never consider woman as a source of evil like some other religions did , the dignity of woman is protected , for instance if a man accuses a woman of immorality and then he turns out to be a liar not only he incurrs a severe punishment but also he would be considered as untrustworthy for the rest of his life , as for the situation the woman is living in the West we should recognize that there are some advantages like learning , working but saying that the woman in the West has no problems would be exagerated ,there is an unlimited number of reports showing the difficulties a western working woman is facing going from verbal harassment to rape, a growing rate of suicide , at least one third of mothers are single, criticizing some tribes in the desert for maltreatment of woman could make you appear as a hero of defending human rights but it would never help you to see your own mistakes.

Prohibited ambitions

2006-03-19T03:53:00.000-08:00

The issue of the Iranian nuclear power is getting more and more importance specially after transferring the case to the UN security council, and it seems that the Bush administration has succeeded partially in convincing at least the Europeans of the seriousness of Iranian ambitions to produce nuclear weapons and there is no good sign for the moment of a possible solution, the Iranians have always claimed there right of getting nuclear power for civil use (mainly for generating electricity) and accused Washington of using double standards in dealing with the sensitive issue of nuclear power reffering to India and Israel , the Americans from their side insist on the fact that Iran was always a threat for peace process in the Middle East and the statements of president Ahmadinejad that Israel must be wiped out from the map are there to proove the bad intentions of Tehran . the last reports of the IAEA are not helping Iran at all, the agency headed by Muhammad Albaradei regret the lack of cooperation from the Iranian government , i guess nobody would be happy with this report more than president Bush given the difficulties he met to convince the European about the necessity of transferring the Iranian dossier to the security council and the UN could find itself in front a deep crisis , the Iranians don’t seem to care alot about the American threats , they’re fully aware that George Bush has enough troubles in Iraq and the last think he needs is another war with a strong neighbour of Iraq, as for economic sanctions it would damage international oil market more than it would do to Iranian economy, so a diplomatic solution would be preferable. John Bolton , the American ambassador to the UN in an interview and as an answer to a BBC journalist who asked him why blaming Iran for its nuclear ambitions and not other countries like India for instance , Bolton answered that Iran has signed the treaty of non-proliferation of nuclear weapons while India didn’t (!!!) , so according to Mr Bolton adhering to a peace treaty could be a trap!!! Not encouraging at all.

violent provocation and a simple reaction

2006-02-11T05:17:00.000-08:00

i didn't write since a long time , but with this affair of the blasphemous cartoons towards our prophet (peace be upon him) i think i should say something , the danish newspaper claimed that it had no intention to hurt muslims feelings , it has just exerciced freedom of press !!!, the amazing thing for me is the amazement itself of the these people when they saw the reaction of muslims around the globe , maybe because they have no respect for other people beliefs from the beginning or maybe they themselves have no belief in god ( i mean sincere belief, otherwise they wouldn't insult jesus himself ( peace be upon him)), i'm against violence and against attacking embassies and harming innocent people and the majority of muslims are peaceful , but it's really difficult for any muslim or for any believer to keep silence when his faith is insulted at this level, and let me ask a question : those who have made this cartoons weren't aware of its consequences ? of course they were , but they want to confirm the theory of a viloent clash between a so-called civilized west and a hostile muslim world, but thank to god they're a minority in the west as well as the extremists are very small minority in the muslim world, i'm sure alot of western people and specially intelectuals are against this blasphemy and with those wise people that the muslim world should built bridges and exchange ideas and opinions , what happened has revealed how huge the gap between a west that exagertated alot it's definition of freedom of press and a muslim world that believes alot in a western conspiracy , freedom of the press have limits called diffamation, insult , racism ...and before asking why the muslims are so violent ask what did you do to muslims as a proof of your sincere will of peaceful coexistence ?

Something about Aziz

2005-12-17T04:48:00.000-08:00

I want to tell you a bit about my friend Aziz , he is a young man , nearly 27 years old , well educated , but he is sick , unfortunately he has cancer , doctors are not very optimistic about his case , but he’s resisting the desease courageously and refusing to give up , when i visit him i see always the smile in his face ,it’s not a warm smile all the time but he’s doing a huge effort to not appear in a weak situation ,he even reminds us that it’s his destiny and he won’t escape God’s will anyway ,he asks about the news in politics ,soccer and about daily life ,i really admire him and sincerly not sure i could behave like him if i was in his situation , but i think God help good people when they are in difficulties by giving them patience , and undoubtedly Aziz is one of those good people , sometimes we need to see sick people specially when they are young to remind ourselves that we are not eternal on this earth and that our lives don’t belong to us , yes i’m sure about this one , it’s a divine message , God wants to show us that the purpose of life is not to be rich or powerful but rather to help people by spreading justice and peace on earth in addition to worshipping Him , but unfortunately only a small number of people understand this kind of message ,i’m wondering who gave people the guarantee that they will live another day ? in fact no one and nothing can give us this guarantee , so why do the bad side has the upper hand upon the good one in our actions? Aziz case is a great lesson for me and my friends and also it’s a lesson for those who think their life is finished because they have a dangerous desease, at the contrary they should adapted themselves with the new situation and continue to exist till the end, they should even have projects for the rest of their life!!, what would they do if God give them the chance to live 10 or 5 or even one year ,would they waste it in complaining about their bad luck or blaming life for not being fair with them !! in this case they would be committing suicide , we must have the believe that every moment in life is a gift in itself and because of that we should spend it in creating happiness for ourselves and for other people, i mean the true happiness of being useful to others , not the false one of running after money and power , the real happiness is to be a candle for the others. In the case of Aziz , the candle has proven it could resist till the end with dignity in the front of the wind of cancer.

Love even those who revile you

2005-11-22T06:48:00.000-08:00

I found this interesting interview with Shaykh Hamza Yusuf ( a prominent american muslim scholar) by Nazim Baksh.
Q: The convenient response to those who revile your religion is to return the favor. The more virtuous position however is to forgive. Forgiveness as you know, while less in virtue when compared to love, nevertheless, can result in love. Love, by definition, does not require forgiveness. What many Muslims today seem to forget is that ours is a religion of love and our Prophet, peace be upon him, was the Habib, the Beloved. How did love, the defining virtue of our community, come to be replaced by an urge to redress wrongs, to punish instead of to forgive?

A: It is the result of Muslims seeing themselves as victims. Victimization is a defeatist mentality. It’s the mentality of the powerless. The word victim is from the Latin “victima” which carries with it the idea of the one who suffers injury, loss, or death due to a voluntary undertaking. In other words, victims of one’s own actions.

Muslims never really had a mentality of victimization. From a metaphysical perspective, which is always the first and primary perspective of a Muslim, there can be no victims. We believe that all suffering has a redemptive value.

Q: If the tendency among Muslims is to view themselves as victims which appears to me as a fall from grace, what virtue must we then cultivate to dispense with this mental and physical state that we now find ourselves in?

A: The virtue of patience is missing. Patience is the first virtue after tawba or repentance. Early Muslim scholars considered patience as the first maqam or station in the realm of virtues that a person entered into.

Patience in Islam means patience in the midst of adversity. A person should be patient in what has harmed or afflicted him. Patience means that you don’t lose your comportment or your composure. If you look at the life of the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, you will never ever find him losing his composure. Patience was a hallmark of his character. He was ‘the unperturbed one’ which is one of the meanings of halim: wa kaana ahlaman-naas. He was the most unperturbed of humanity. Nothing phased him either inwardly or outwardly because he was with Allah in all his states.

Q: Patience is a beautiful virtue ... the cry of Prophet Yaqub .... “fa sabran jamil.” Patience, it appears, is not an isolated virtue but rather it is connected to a network of virtues. Should Muslims focus on this virtue at the expense of the other virtues?

A: The traditional virtues of a human being were four and Qadi Ibn Al-Arabi considered them to be the foundational virtues or the ummahatul fadaa’il of all of humanity. They are: prudence, courage, temperance, and justice.

Prudence, or rather practical wisdom, and courage, are defining qualities of the Prophet. He, peace be upon him, said that God loves courage even in the killing of a harmful snake.

Temperance is the ability to control oneself. Incontinence, the hallmark of intemperance, is said to occur when a person is unable to control himself. In modern medicine it is used for someone who can’t control his urine or feces. But not so long ago the word incontinence meant a person who was unable to control his temper, appetite or sexual desire. Temperance is the moral virtue that moderates one’s appetite in accordance with prudence. In early Muslim scholarship on Islamic ethics, justice was considered impossible without the virtues of prudence, courage and temperance.

Generosity as a virtue is derived from courage because a generous person is required to be courageous in the face of poverty. Similarly, humility is a derivative from temperance because the humble person will often restrain the urge to brag and be a show-off because he or she sees their talents and achievements as a gift from Allah and not from themselves. Patience as a virtue is attached to the virtue of courage because the patient person has the courage to endure difficulties. So “hilim” (from which you get “halim”), often translated as for-bearance or meekness if you wish, is frowned upon in our society. Yet it is the virtue we require to stem the powerful emotion of anger. Unrestrained anger often leads to rage and rage can lead to violence in its various shades.

Our predecessors were known for having an incredible degree of patience while an increasing number of us are marked with an extreme degree of anger, resentment, hate, rancor and rage. These are negative emotions which present themselves as roadblocks to living a virtuous life.

A patient human being will endure tribulations, trials, difficulties, hardships, if confronted with them. The patient person will not be depressed or distraught and whatever confronts him will certainly not lead to a loss of comportment.

Allah says in the Qur’an: “Isbiru.” “Have patience and enjoin each other to patience.”

The beauty of patience is that “innallaha ma’assabirin” Allah is with the patient ones. If God is on your side you will always be victorious. Allah says in the Qur’an “Ista”inu bi-sabiri was-salat.”” Isti”aana is a reflexive of the Arabic verb “aana” which is “to help oneself.” Allah is telling us to help ourselves with patience and prayer.

This is amazing because the Prophet, peace be upon him, said “if you take help, take help from God alone.” And so in the Qur’an, Allah says: “ista inu hi-sabiri was-salaat”. This means taking help from patience and prayer because that is the means by which Allah has given you to take help from Him alone.

How is it then that a person sees himself as a victim when all calamities, difficulties and trials, are ultimately tests from Allah. This does nor mean the world is free of aggression and that victims have suddenly vanished. What I”m talking about is a person”s psychology in dealing with hardships.

The sacred law has two perspectives when looking at acts of aggression that are committed by one party against another. When it is viewed by those in authority the imperative is to seek justice. However, from the perspective of the wronged, it is not to seek justice bur instead to forgive.

Forgiveness, “afwa”, pardon, is nor a quality of authority. A court is not set up to forgive. It’s the plaintiff that’s required to forgive if there is going to be any forgiveness at all. Forgiveness will not come from the Qadi or the judge. The court is set up to give justice but Islam cautions us not to go there in the first place because “by the standard which you judge so too shall you be judged.” That’s the point. If you want justice, if you want God, the Supreme Judge of all affairs, to be just to others on your behalf, then you should know that your Lord will use the same standard with you.

Nobody on the “Day of Arafat” will pray: “Oh God, be just with me.” Instead you will hear them crying: “O Allah, forgive me, have mercy on me, have compassion on me, overlook my wrongs.” Yet, these same people are not willing to forgive, have compassion and mercy on other creatures of God.

Q: Imam Al-Ghazali argued that for these virtues to be effective they had to be in harmony. Otherwise, they said, virtues would quickly degenerate into vices. Do you think that these virtues exist today among Muslims but that they are out of balance? For example, the Arabs in the time of the Prophet had courage, but without justice it was bravado. Prudence without justice is merely shrewdness. Do you think that Muslims are clamoring for justice but have subsumed the virtues of temperance and prudence?

A: Yes. Muslims want courage and justice but they don”t want temperance and prudence. The four virtues relate to the four humors in the body. Physical sickness is related to spiritual sickness and when these four are out of balance, spiritual and moral sickness occurs. So when courage is the sole virtue, you no longer have prudence. You are acting courageously but imprudently and it’s no longer courage but impetuousness. It appears as courage but it is not. A person who is morally incapable of controlling his appetite has incontinence and thus he cannot be prudent nor courageous because part of courage is to constrain oneself when it is appropriate. Imam A1-Ghazali says that courage is a mean between impetuousness and cowardice.

The interesting point to note about the four virtues is that you either take them all or you don”t take them at all. It’s a packaged deal. There is a strong argument among moral ethicists that justice is the result of the first three being in perfect balance.

Q: You have painted a very interesting landscape in terms of Muslim behavior in the contemporary period but we are seeing evidence of resentment among some Muslims today which is very strange indeed. I am wondering how this might be related to a sense of victimization?

A: Of course it is. Look for example at the word injury. It comes from injuria, a Latin word that means unjust. So if I perceive my condition as unjust it is contrary to the message of the Qur’an. Whatever circumstances we find ourselves in we hold ourselves as responsible. It gets tricky to navigate especially when it comes to the oppressor and the oppressed.

The Prophet, peace be upon him, along with the early Muslim community, spent 13 years purifying themselves in Makkah. These were years of oppression and thus serious self-purification accompanied by an ethic of non-violence, forbearance, meekness, and humility. They were then given permission to migrate and to defend themselves. At this point they were not a people out to get vengeance and they were certainly not filled with resentment because they saw everything as coming from God. I’m not talking about being pleased with injustice because that’s prohibited. At the same time we accept the world our Lord has put us into and we see everything as being here purposefully, not without purpose, whether we understand it or not.

The modern Christian fundamentalists always talk about Islam as a religion devoid of love. It’s a very common motif in these religious fundamentalist books that attack Islam. They say “our religion is the religion of love and Islam is the religion of hate, animosity, and resentment.” Unfortunately, many Muslims have adopted it as their religion, but that doesn”t mean resentment has anything to do with Islam.

Love (mahaba) is the highest religious virtue in Islam. Imam Ghazali said that it is the highest maqam or spiritual station. It is so because trust, zhud (doing without), fear, and hope are stations of this world and so long as you are in this world these stations are relevant, but once you die they can no longer serve you. Love is eternal because love is the reason you were created. You were created to adore God. That’s why in Latin the word adore which is used for worship in English is also a word for love, adoration. You were created to worship God, in other words, to love Him because you can’t truly adore something or worship something that you don’t love. If you are worshipping out of fear, like Imam A1-Ghazali says, it’s not the highest level of worship, but its lowest.

Q: A vast number of young Muslims today who have the energy to run Down the road of hate do so thinking that it is a display of their Iman. What do you say to help them understand that hating wrongs has to be balanced with the virtues of mercy, justice, forgiveness, generosity, etc.

A: The challenge is to get your object of hate right and hate it for the right reason. In other words, there are things that we should hate for the sake of God. Oppression is something that you should hate. It’s not haram to hate the oppressor, but don’t hate them to the degree that it prevents you from being just because that is closer to Taqwa (awe of Allah). The higher position is to forgive for the sake of God. God gives you two choices — the high road or the low road — both of them will get you to paradise.

We should strive for the highest. Anger is a useful emotion. God created anger in order that we could act and respond to circumstances that need to be changed. Indignation is a beautiful word. Righteous indignation is a good quality and even though it is misused in modern English it’s actually a good thing. It means to be angry for the right reasons and then it is to be angry to the right degree because Allah says, “Do not let the loathing of a people prevent you from being just.”

Eid mubarak

2005-11-06T05:02:00.000-08:00

Ramadan has gone ?!! i'm sad for that but it's Eid,evrybody is happy specially children , muslims celebrated the coming of Ramadan and its end praising the Lord and thanking Him for his unlimited blessings in the holy month and in the rest of the year , hope we will live to celebrate more Ramadans .

Welcome Ramadan

2005-10-09T04:40:00.000-07:00

It's Ramadan , the holy month of fasting , i'm really happy , my spirituality is at its highest level in this month and i can feel the blessings of Allah everywhere , the mosques are full of worshippers , there is a lot of charity acts and people are donating to the poor , my question is : why can't we keep this behaviour in the rest of the year ? because we're weak ?, we can't resist the temptation of evil ? , Allah has offered us a wonderful opportunity in Ramadan to make daily training to get used to good deeds and to purify our hearts and souls , but the problem is that we're not aware of how important this month for every muslim to start new life full of faith and to get rid of the materialism that was the center of our interest during eleven months , we have to meditate alot and to remember Allah's signs of power , mercy and the real purpose of our creation , all that in order to worship Him in the appropriate manner to deserve His mercy and to prepare ourselves to meet Him without sinns or at least without major sinns , hope we will keep behavouring in a good way inshallah , Ramadan mubarak .

Our identity

2005-09-27T06:46:00.000-07:00

I have promissed you to talk a little bit more about my country Algeria and i'll try to fulfill my promiss in this post inshallah , i know most of you have some informations about Algeria , you know it's a large country situated in north Africa between Tunisia and Morocco ( more than 2300000 km2 ) , algerians are at 99.99% muslims ( as i've written in a comment in a friend's blog it's not about arab elections ,so trust this number) , our race ? it's the problem ( at least in the eyes of opportunist politicians ) , in my opinion the majority of us are "Amazigh" ( the name of algerian population before the coming of Islam to north Africa) even if some wouldn't agree with me specially our brothers and sisters belonging to the panarabist ideology which in my opinion lacks objectivity and serve only a partisan agenda, in the other part of the equation we have people who want to impose "Amazighity" as a foundation for the algerian nation which is unacceptable too ,the real problem is that both panarabists and amazighity supporters give a small role to the most imprtant link between all algerians which is Islam , our religion don't recognizes race as a criteria of honor or piety , otherwise "Abu Lahab" a pure arab and the uncle of prophet Mohamed (pbuh) wouldn't be cursed by God in Quran , the criteria in Islam is faith , intentions and deeds and not the color of skin or blood . Since our independance in 1962 we've made little progress in promoting our society mainly because of ideologies which have proven its failure during 40 years of theorical freedom ,but who cares ?!! all that politicians are concerned about is to protect their own inetrests , and the consequences are there , 10 years of a civil war that was the inevitable result of a deep corruption at all levels ,i believe everyone in this country has the right to exist with dignity and should be judged according to his skills and abilities beyond his race and tribe , i might have jews as ancestors ( some berbers celebrate al kahina who was a jewish amazigh queen in my region Tebessa ) but what i feel a real pride about is that i'm a muslim , and only Islam can bring together all algerians no matter their racial background .

Materialism

2005-09-16T02:33:00.000-07:00

Yesterday i was listening to a debate on a french radio , the guest was a french atheist philosopher ,he was talking about materialism , the evolution theory of Darwin and of course God , he said that people who rejected Darwin's theory were ignorant and had no scientific background and were only reacting according to their religious beliefs which in his eyes are not relevant in science , he was not convincing at all and when he was asked how could we explain this power of thinking and the mental strength we have if our ancestors were monkeys !!! he said that this question is the unique obstacle that could undermine evolution theory (!!!) , he's forgotten to say that it's also the most important difference between humans and animals ,and when talking about God he explain his rejecting of Him that materialism recognizes only things we can see , hear , smell , taste or touch , obviously Mr philosopher you're blind and deaf , we can see and hear God with our hearts ,and only open hearts can feel the presence of God everywhere , i feel the presence of god when i see the sky , the stars , the mountains and when i hear the birds and the sea , when i smell the rain , when i touch the tree , when i taste the pain of beeing free , when i see a new-born baby coming to life and when i see death coming to me . I know it's not scientific , but believe me Mr philosopher , it's the truth .

A case of democracy

2005-09-10T04:41:00.000-07:00

President Mubarak has won the elections and believe it or not without fraud , but with all the Propaganda in his side , with 25 years as a living image in the conscious and the subconscious mind of 70 millions poor egyptians and with daily warnings for the nation that unless the people choose him , the future would be dark , very dark even ,Ayman Alzawahiri( the n2 of Alqaeda) is there waiting for this opportunity ,wich opportunity ?!! to see Egypt without Mubarak in order to hijack the power and then declaring the" talibanic" state ,in other words you have the choice between Mubarak and the apocalypse , it's almost impossible to convince the people that Egypt is not Mubarak , that it could be raining without Mubarak , but what to do ? it's the choice of the people even if the level of participation was only 23% , the same people who was claiming freedom of speech , better life , jobs ,but let's not be pessimistic , it's a step or rather two steps " mubarak has gone , mubarak has come back " !!!! ,i know some of our egyptian brothers may say " it's not your buisiness , you're jealous because our corruption is better than yours !!!!", that was always the case in the arab world . i know it's not about changing Mubarak , it's about changing the whole system in the arab world , but what we can do when the people refuse the change ,it's a rule "a corruption you're used to is better than an unknown reform!!!" we still need decades , maybe centuries in our arab world to understand that "better life" is not a wish , it's a mentality , a way of thinking , a decision that comes from within , by the way congratulations Mr president.

Solidarity

2005-09-03T06:09:00.000-07:00

I was very sad when i saw on tv channels the destruction some american states suffered as aftermath of the the hurricane Katrina and i was thinking how human beings are weak and fragile in front of catastrophies even if they are the citizens of the unique superpower , i was also thinking about the real need of this humanity for solidarity and compassion , spreading peace around the world , helping the poor .

2005-08-28T07:53:00.000-07:00

Sometimes i feel my mind is sterile and can't write one word , and that's make me really sad and nervous , i have a lot of ideas in mind but i think my problem is the obsession of bringing something new and not repeating what others are saying here and there wich is quite difficult task , another problem for me is that i need a very good mood to write or to read , and i should do more efforts to be regular in posting articles , i'll try .

american hegemony

2005-07-23T06:52:00.000-07:00

In my last post i've criticized extremism among muslims that lead to this bad idea a lot of westerners have of islam and muslims , in this post i want to talk about the other part of the problem , namely the american policy in the world specially towards arabs and muslims , i hate playing the role of victim but the truth is that we've suffered a lot of humiliation directly or indirectly , directly through invasion , threatning , interference in our domestic affairs, and indirectly through supporting dictators and corrupted goverments when they serve american interests , and getting rid of them under the cover of spreading democracy when " mission accomplished " , isn't that a double standard , a pure hypocrisy? another basis of american policy is to deceive american public and to direct its attention to other concerns other than unempleyment , education , and what happened since president Bush declared war on terrorism ? all i can see is chaos , attacks everywhere , innocent people dying everyday , the war on terror has brought only destruction , more hatred between nations , it seems that the american administration is preparing a dark agenda for this poor world , i'm trying to be optimistic , but what's happening these days is not very promising , even in america itself civil rights are regressing in front of "patriotism" , and the new speech explains all the agenda : either you're with us or against us , it reminds me Hitlerian speech warning people they have no choice but to agree with the Fuhrer's ideology , and what was the aftermath ? a total destruction . wish you better days humankind .....

bad goal , no message

2005-07-11T06:48:00.000-07:00

i guess everyone was shocked hearing the terrible news about the criminal attacks in london , it's really difficult ( almost impossible ) to understand the way these people were and are thinking and feeling , they have no respect for human soul , no consideration for victims families , have they thought about what could happen to innocent muslims because of their stupid actions ? of course they don't care , all they do care about is to see the result of their action , to see deads , injured and chaos and to prove that western security don't work at 100% specially when facing nervous and courageous so-called muslims , isn't that part of corruption allah has forbidden , and is that a response to the injustice and humiliation alot of muslims are suffering , and what kind of messages they are trying to send to the west ?, disturbing the mood of blair and bush ?, what's else ? saying to western public opinion that we muslims are not scared of you , we can kill , spread fear , or do they think they are the real muslims ?, who gave them this "tazkia"? , i'm a muslim , i understand the suffering of our brothers and sisters in palestine , iraq and other regions , and i do feel pain more than those who kill anywhere it seems an easy target do claim for oppressed muslims , i believe in jihad as i believe in prayer , but jihad as i know it is to fight he who fight you , not his cousin nor his neighbour , of course unless they join him in the battle's field , real jihad distinguish between fighter and civilian , salaf's mujahidin had alot of consideration to take before fighting , you know why ? they were fully aware that they were fighting for allah , for a cause of justice , NOT for fighting itself , coming back to the results and impacts of london's attacks on muslims and daawa in west , alot of our brothers will suffer , some of them will be sent back home and allah know what's waiting for them , others will loose their jobs , mosques are under the danger of attacks of some extremists ( that impact has reached new zealand ) ,as for daawa , it would be a titanic task after what happened to convince english people islam has nothing to do with violence and criminality , what's more ? allah knows what's coming . i've said many times muslims (specially in the arab world ) are not aware of what's going on around them , we should go back to our resources , our quran and sunna if we want to know and understand our role in this life , we must deepen our knowledge about quran's teaching and avoid confused opinions and feelings of people who have to do more with politics than pure jihad , may allah guide us all to the right path , Amen .

free your minds

2005-06-12T07:16:00.000-07:00

i still believe the crisis in our poor arab and islamic world is a crisis of mind , and the real war in this changing world is a war of ideas and thoughts , the idea lead the military power and the use of weapons is a confirmation of the triumph of that ideology or idea asd superior one , we muslims though we have the strongest idea , a divine idea , concept of truth and guidance , yet we are defeated and humiliated nation , it's so simple , we don't believe truly in islam as guidance and salvation , otherwise we would follow its principles and teachings , i find it really strange to find nations which have a deep belief in a misleading ideologies and a nation which have some doubts about the efficiency of its religion in finding solutions to their problems , we need to use our minds and rethink our position in the world , if we believe prosperity and power are from allah , so why we do not see them coming , it's obvious , we don't deserve allah's help !!!! , we have first to correct our position , fulfill our duties towards our lord , making pure intention to serve allah and the nation " niyya khalisa" , relying on allah's power and will "tawakkul", learning about life , understanding our world ( some of our brothers would say : i'm not created to understand the world , but to worship allah , i agree but the rest of the world are allah's creatures and we are not ufos !!! we make part of this humanity , wether we like it or not ) , another thing is the fact that our minds are broken because they are contaminated with negative ideas about life and the role we should have as a positive actors , alot of nowadays corruption is given a legitime cover in name of religion and patriotism ( in alot of cases patriotism have had the upper hand no matter against whom it's beeing used , in most cases other arab and muslim countries ) , so for the sake of allah free your minds and purify your hearts .

positive thinking

2005-06-01T07:26:00.000-07:00

everyone has something to say about positive thinking , reorganizing life , making things in order , but on the ground only few people succeed in doing the programme , the first reason of this failure is very simple , we're not used to do so ( it should always has been someone to give us a list about what is to do in our life ) , we're all influenced by someone in our daily life , and in general we're influenced by the whole system , even if it's a corrupted one , the majority of people feel the need to be protected under a system no matter if it's good or bad , they do that because they have a deep belief of their incapability to create their own way of life , having a positive thinking about life is the only way to improve ourselves and to realize our dreams and projects ,and i'm sure the lack of positive thinking is one of the main reasons of our backwardness in the arab world , i really feel bitterness when i see millions of young people lost in their life , they're not even aware of the responsability waiting them , they're shocked , confused about their choices in life , inable to understand what's happening in their homeland and around the world , who's wrong and who's right , they have no reference or criteria to distinguish between good and evil , nobody told them enough about life , about the reason of their existence , about their identity !!!! , they were educated to be "things" , " you're all the same , you're all equal , brothers and sisters , serving the nation , don't thing about anything , we're doing it for you , all you have to do is to be loyal to the nation , your provider " , and beyond the borders of the nation another nation teaching it's children the same principles of the loyalty but with a different flag and a different leader .

good muslim and bad one

2005-05-25T09:31:00.000-07:00

how can we distinguish between good and bad muslim ? i'm sure most of you would choose general behaviour as criteria ,i would agree but the problem is that alot of muslims give no attention to this point, and think they have the right to do whatever it taste funny to them regardless of what the others ( specially non muslims ) would think about them and the judgement they would make .they're not aware of the responsability of being muslim ( and it's really a huge one ) ,we have two kinds of irresponsible muslims here , first group who are careless about islamic principles and teaching and very neglecting of the religious side of life ( and that's a kind of extremism simply because it's a dangerous deviation from the right path) , and a second group who claim having the monopoly of truth and who despise other muslims and consider all non muslims as ennemies . the fact is that both groups are extremists and have done a lot of damage to the image of islam , nobody can nominate himself judge of other people deeds , but what can a good muslim do is to preach the word of god with good manners with full respect of others lives , customs and confessions ,we should never forget that prophet mohammad ( may peace be upon him ) had suffered opression , torture , exile , plots ,illness to convey the pure message of mercy of allah (swt) to all mankind and he never expressed hatred and disdain toward others even his ennemies and prisoners of war were treated with mercy ,we are in a real need to reread our prophet's tradition and his way of dealing with others , but saying all that i'm not pessimistic , there is ( hamdu lillah ) a lot of our brothers and sisters who are making a lot of efforts to show the real message of islam and who are saying to non muslims " don't judge a divine message by the behaviour of its people , go to the sources , make an individual effort and look for the truth regardless of what the media is saying , all i'm asking you to do is to be a sincere truth seeker ".

something about me

2005-05-19T10:04:00.000-07:00

salam alaikom , today i'll talk a little bit about myself ( i feel it necessary for the simple reason that some of those who might visit this blog would be curious to know more about its creator and also it would help me finding people like me ), you know already i'm journalist from algeria , 28 years old in 25 days ,single (unfortunately),i like learning languages , i speak spanish , italian ,french , bad german and bad portugues and of course arabic and english ( even if i do not have a shakespearian style ), i like reading alot ( but sincerly i can't finish books of more than 100 pages,there is exceptions of course ),i've read alot about religion , history ,philosophy ,geopolitics but i've to learn more (don't worry , i have the appetite ),it's important to know and to understand the daily events of our changing world ,i like also having debates with open-minded and intelligent people ( the others must submit an application and pay money , i'm joking ),i hate pre-estblished ideas and conformism (it's like pre-established goverments in the third world ),i hate also arrogant and materliastic people ,what more ? i think it's enough unless you send questions (my fans are welcome and if you insist i'll organize a press conference , i'm joking ), may allah bless our umma and guide everyone to the right path ,ameeeeeeeeeeeeeeen.

saving algeria

2005-05-17T07:33:00.000-07:00

do you know algeria ? it's a north african arab muslim republic ( even if we have some troubles about the word "arab",it's another story , i'll tell you later ) that defeated the powerful colonial france , but forty years after that glorious independance the country find itself in front of a politcal storm that lead to non glorious civil war causing the killing of at least 150 000 men and women among civilians , soldiers and islamists , it's a real tragedy specially when it occurs among muslims who are aware of the price of muslim life and any innocent life , unfortunately in the case of algeria corrupted politics had more power than wisdom , today corruption still exist and will continue to exist till the day of judgment but hamdu lillah , the situation is different in many levels , and with the efforts president bouteflika is making we can be hopeful and expect improvements ( i'm not one of president bouteflika soldiers and i do have some critics about him but honestly saying he's the best politician and leader algeria have for the moment , and i should recognize the great efforts he's done to improve the image of the country abroad and i think the majority of algerian people admire his the intelligence even if they do feel bored about his long speeches on tv ) , i'll tell more about my homeland next time , salam alaikom .

dialogue

2005-05-16T03:52:00.000-07:00

salam alaikom , it's my second post , and sincerly i'm really satisfied to have friends from all over the world wether they are muslims like me or from other confessions to debate what's going on in a world full of conflicts of interests at different level , and i believe the unique way to have peace is dialogue with all confessions and ideologies , free speech and the diversity of opinions would really improve understanding for each other ideas and beliefs , and allah ( swt ) ordered us to argue with good manners with people from other confessions specially people of the the book ( christains and jews ) .

salam alaikom

2005-05-15T07:36:00.000-07:00

it's my first post , i would like to say salam alaikom all my brothers and sisters , non-muslims freinds and curious are also welcome , i think we have a common goal here which is to give the real image of our peaceful religion , send me your comments , suggestions , advices , that all for the moment , salam