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Tuesday, February 27, 2007

{Quick Reflections 12} Our Loved One(s)..?

Posted by Badeea at 10:15 AM
Again I received the following reflection from someone, who prefers to remain anonymous, which is so expressive that I have nothing to say to comment on it!
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Our loved ones ... are always an unfinished story; a light breeze, a quick shading place that swiftly goes by without us noticing when it came or how it left. No matter how caring they are, or how durable the bond is, forever is just a foolish word to say and a crazy thing to believe in. Going in different ways, breakup, passing away, bitterness and hatred, a not meant to be situation, inexplicable change of heart or coldness, are the human ways of finishing a story, every human relation must eventually come to one of these ends. However, look who has always been there since the first glance on this world till the last of them all, looking straight at you all the time and everywhere. None of these ends are possible to take place between you and Him. He will neither lead another way (you can do so but actually you have no other way to go), nor leaves you (you ignorantly leave, but he does not, you die but He (SWT) does not), nor hates you (you can be crazy enough sometimes to feel bitter, but He (TWT) is beyond all that). Allah is the right One for everyone at all times and places, He who never changes or grows cold, Subhanu.

Sometimes we just grow tired of the heavy burden of emotions that we carry towards other people. Being abandoned, being unappreciated, not having the ability to give as much as we would love to, caring too much sometimes, losing loved ones, depending on feeble counterparts, needing others who are not there; these are all human experiences that each of us can point to at least one and say yes this is me. However, Only He (SWT) is there when we need Him, or even when we are too ignorant to admit our need. Only He (SWT) knows, like really knows, what lies in our hearts, and yet never minds us expressing it fully to Him. Only He (SWT) never abandons, never gets bored from hearing our same old stories, always appreciates, pushes forwards, and even gets closer. Only He (SWT) whose love for us is infinite, and our love for Him is never enough and our giving abilities are pathetically nonsense. Only He (SWT) is the right One to depend on, He is always there by our side even when we cannot see it: The Forever-Understanding, the Forever-Loving, the Forever-Forgiving. And yet, we simply go on with our absurd fallacies, and keep on falling for the same eternal paradoxes.

Diverse are our needs, and so distant our aspirations and calls, but one and only one way we all share together; it is the way where all our needs, aspirations, and calls go to; to Him (AWJ), our LOVED ONE. He who has seen it all... when we are good and when we go wrong. He has seen it all, we forget He is here, we forget where we went wrong. Our earthly relations can be destroyed simply over one wrong doings, but with Him it is a never-ending story. Let us, at least every once in a while, remember where should our hearts really be heading. Let us reach out to Him, together this time.

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2009 THEME: Islam in the West and Our Children (Discussion & Resources regularly updated)

There is increasing concern that second and third generation Muslims in the West are mostly no longer Muslims so they actually end up adding to the Christian or Atheist population of the West, albeit racially from a non-Western origin. Accordingly, the ratios mentioned in the video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-3X5hIFXYU) would be correct in regards to race or ethnicity but not necessarily to religion.

It is a grave danger facing our children and grand children from a real life stand point as statistically only 1/5 of the second generation stay really Muslims when they grow up and are independent and almost non from the third generation are Muslims. And that is why the Western authorities are still permitting the immigration of Muslims inspite of the figures provided in the above video. They know that on the long term the descendants of Muslims in the West leave Islam because their parents raised them up with an Eastern mentality in a Western society instead of an Islamic mentality that encompasses all cultures.

You can see more about that by Jeffrey Lang; an ex-atheist American Mathematics University Professor who reverted to Islam in 1982. He has also written 3 books that I highly recommend; "Struggling to Surrender", "Even Angels Ask" and "Losing my Religion; A Call for Help".
Now I will leave you to enjoy 2 short excerpts from one of his lectures followed by links to his most important full presentation regarding our children.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmqN75NI0xg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT1KGyxBXC0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMANKaX8khw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgivQJKtQME
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga2rIUWcPPs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYb2v3Yx1LY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhMN_TZavW0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHeM0H0EMAw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD-YefJH9x0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2eVOKjOqHE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBQp7aZjxjc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4_xxQVGU44

Here is a solution that is yet to be implemented.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geRM4AlFBOU&NR=1

Raising children here is not an easy task ofcourse but if we do it the right way they will be true Muslims in shaa Allaah who are "Informed Muslims" rather than "Muslims by inheritance" like their counterparts in the East. Hopefully they will then be a much better generation than ours.

Quickly, I do believe that the best 4 authors (for example, there are many others but these are my favorite) who could guide us through this difficult process are Yahiya Emerick, Jeffrey Lang, Jamal Badawi and Dalia Mogahed.

Here are some links for future reference and for an ongoing learning process that I have started collecting slowly.
Please spread the below information to all your Muslim contacts in the West.

Jeffrey Lang:
http://meccacentric.com/jeffrey_lang.html I highly recommend the lecture titled "The Purpose of Life". It has true meanings that I have not come across in any Arabic literature.

Yahiya Emerick:
Articles:
http://www.islamicedfoundation.com/articles/articles.htm
http://www.islamfortoday.com/yahiyaemerick.htm I highly recommend reading and spreading the last article in this link by the name of "The Confusion of the Scholars"
Books:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=sr_adv_b/?search-alias=stripbooks&unfiltered=1&field-keywords=&field-author=Yahiya+Emerick&field-title=&field-isbn=&field-publisher=&node=&url=&field-feature_browse-bin=&field-binding_browse-bin=&field-subject=&field-language=&field-dateop=&field-datemod=&field-dateyear=&sort=relevancerank&Adv-Srch-Books-Submit.x=29&Adv-Srch-Books-Submit.y=8 There are only 14 books, about half for adults and the other half for kids. The extra are just repetitions.

Jamal Badawi:
Many products including books, articles and lectures mostly for adults. You can find them by searching his name online. My favorite is;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMfWURGcvBI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HXGRYaUy6g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyMD_tE6U68
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AixgiXpAFTY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WUgbgLgMXM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3VLRoQ3qUw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5UvvkCDrm4

Dalia Mogahed: (Obama's adviser)
Has one book so far but has a great potential. "Who Speaks for Islam".
You can watch her debate with Irshad Manji (an openly Lesbian Canadian Muslim who is distorting the picture of Islam in the name of "Progressive Islam")http://fora.tv/2008/07/01/Irshad_Manji_and_Dalia_Mogahed_-_Who_Speaks_for_Islam

Finally here is a website for a store that sells lots of Islamic products including Islamic cartoon DVDs in English and Arabic for kids.
http://www.astrolabe.com/category/17/Cartoons_and_KidVid.html?sid=ceb7c5cf8de15b8f1cb92ad29e183a44
 

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