Ein immer wieder erhellendes Beispiel für die Irrwege der Demokratie ist das Lobbying, insbesondere in den USA. Jetzt deckte eine Studie auf (zitiert in Forget Stocks Or Bonds, Invest In A Lobbyist), dass man für jeden Lobbying-Dollar bis zu 220 $ zurückbekommt.
Nach dem Besuch bei einem Schlaganfallpatienten stolperte ich verdutzt über Maulana’s Quote of the Day:
“Who is not fasting, not praying, not obeying – cursing arrows are coming on their heads and no one can save them.” [more]
Recently, Maulana Skeikh Effendi told us another interesting story:
There is no end and no count to this world’s wisdoms, and all are useful for Mankind. When we say wisdom, it means, all of it is for the benefit of Mankind. Allah created these wisdoms, but they don’t teach us this. Open the books of these donkeys; everything in them is rubbish! Rubbish! Why do you put rubbish in these books? There are jewels! Bring out these jewels. Teach people to search and find jewels. Thousands of students are finishing their studies, but they have no idea what to do after. Then why did you study? For what did you study? All these years, you used up your youth, and now you reached close to a zero, both physically and spiritually. For what? What did you learn? It’s only, “Good,” “Excellent,” “Honor Roll,” gymnastics, this and that. This is idle talk, yaa Hu! Leave this! Change is fard, obligatory. You have to change! Who doesn’t know summer cannot know winter, who doesn’t know winter cannot know summer. Why have you let your children study so much (of rubbish)? What did you teach them? Here, he brings home his report card with, “Very Good,” or “Good.” This is all rubbish! The child cannot survive in life with this. Your son received his diploma, report card. Nowadays, they call it “diploma,“ but back in the days they called it “shehadetnâme“ (Certificate of Witness). For what? Witnessing that this child has learned something, that he has learned these lessons and is now certified to apply them (in real life.)
For heaviness to be lifted from Muslims they must (Video Lecture):
- Say Shahada 3 times
- Astaghfirullah 300 times
- Give one sadaka for everyone (even just one coin)
- Try to keep sunnah dressings
For all Muslim ladies to put white, red, green (any color) scarfs, but on top cover with a green scarf. (anything seeing green will go away from you and angels keeping you.) Shariat does not accept that women
work outside. Do not go out without any reason. Men should wear green or white turbans, Afghanis can wear white, green or black. Keep Islam, Allah keeps you.
Recently, Maulana Skeikh Effendi told us this interesting story:
Shaytan’s daughter is this dunya, which he decorates with every ornament, saying “O Pakistani people! Are you ready to marry my beautiful daughter, older than me 100 times but still so fresh, day by day looking like a monkey.” People look. “Yes, come! I will make my beloved daughter your pretty wife! Only I may say that its beauty changes from early morning to early evening. Before she is so white and pretty, but when the sun sets even I don’t care to look at her. But you may enjoy her daily and tomorrow I will bring her adorned in new ornaments, changing daily up to the Last Day. Everyday I will bring my beloved daughter, dunya, for you. That is my biggest trap! I am preparing my beloved daughter particularly for the last group of Mankind, before the Day of Resurrection. Therefore, O people, be quick to reach my beloved daughter, to be happy with her here and Hereafter, from sunrise to sunset! Then you will sleep and awake in the morning, and ask, ‘Where is my pretty bride? Where is she?’ I will answer, ‘Come, she is here,’ and who gives me the most, I will give my pretty daughter to him! O People! Don’t be foolish idiots! Keep her tonight. I will adorn her tonight and tomorrow you will see, ‘O, what a very beautiful face! Such a sweet bride for me.’”
Was ist ein Sufi anderes als ein höchst ausgebildeter Clown? Was ist ein Clown anderes als ein höchst ausgebildeter Sufi?
Maulana’s Quote of the Day passt hierzu mal wieder wie die Faust aufs Auge:
People should have the intention to make the Lord pleased with them. That is all. All other intentions are useless. [more]
Ok, der Tod ist der grosse Nivelierer, aber der kommt nur einmal. Krankheiten erfahren wir dagegen öfter. So ist die Chance auch grösser etwas daraus zu lernen. Die Narkose lehrt mich die Demut auf den Körper angewiesen zu sein. Das Großklinikumhandling lehrt mich Geduld und Hingabe. Die Mitpatienten lehren mich Mitleid und Herzlichkeit. Alles lehrt mich Vertrauen auf Allah.
Einer der besten und erschütterndsten und wahrsten Filme der letzten Jahre fällt bei den Presseorganen mal wieder nur in das Beuteschema:
Syriana “zeigt, wie der radikale Islam das Loch in der Seele junger Männer füllt, die nicht mehr gebraucht werden”, schreibt die ZEIT in bestem islam bashing stil.
Abdal Hakim Murad (Tim Winter) on the western (not islamic!) basis of suicidal bombing: Bombing without Moonlight: The Origins of Suicidal Terrorism. (Interessant auch seine Veruteilung des Terrorbombardements deutscher Städte in WWII durch ein Großbritannien, das zwar hochethisch war (im GG zu Dtland), aber mit dem Rücken zur Wand stand).
Flying into a skyscraper to save the world is closer to the line which links Samson to Captain America, with a detour through the Book of Revelation, than to any Muslim conception of futuwwa.
The antinomian quality of this furious insurrectionist method confirms Gray’s suggestion that Islamism is simply another modern weapon against religion. For theists, the ethical can never be suspended; on the contrary, it is needed most when most under strain. Yet the militant transgressions of radicals form only part of a much wider picture of covert but deep surrender to Enlightenment thought.
John Gray on Al-Qeida’s bases in the modern world:
No cliche is more stupefying than that which describes Al-Qaida as a throwback to medieval times. It is a by-product of globalisation. Its most distinctive feature – projecting a privatised form of organised violence worldwide – was impossible in the past. Equally, the belief that a new world can be hastened by spectacular acts of destruction is nowhere found in medieval times. Al-Qaida’s closest precursors are the revolutionary anarchists of late nineteenth-century Europe.
He also quotes Buruma and Margalit, in their important study of Westernised anti-Westernism:
Bin Laden’s use of the word ‘insane’ is more akin to the Nazis’ constant use of fanatisch. Human sacrifice is not an established Muslim tradition. Holy war always was justified in defence of the Islamic state, and believers who died in battle were promised heavenly delights, but glorification of death for its own sake was not part of this, especially in the Sunni tradition. […] And the idea that freelance terrorists would enter paradise as martyrs by murdering unarmed civilians is a modern invention, one that would have horrified Muslims in the past. Islam is not a death cult.
Zwei Tage Trauer, intensiver Briefwechsel mit einer norwegischen Kollegin, im Angesicht des Todes wird alles zurechtgerückt, bekommt alles seinen richtigen Platz und Stellenwert.
The sinner does not feel any remorse over his sins because his heart is already dead. – Ibn Qayyiam
Und noch so ein Hammer von islamicthought:
Undoubtedly, the one who purifies (their soul) has succeeded. And the one who soiled (their soul) has certainly failed. 92:9-10