I have scribbled some
lines which displays the pain in my heart for the genocide and merciless
massacre of innocent people under the banner of two great countries who boast
about themselves to be the leaders of peace and human rights. Hope you will
like it.
A LITTLE DOVE 12.06.2005
THIS WORLD WAS BUILT TO BE IN PEACE
BUT MAN HAS DESTOYED TO ITS FINAL CREASE
WHILE CHILDREN INNOCENTLY PLAY A GAME
AND MEN HAVE BECOME A SYMBOL OF SHAME
IF ONE IS KILLING THE OTHER TO LIVE
A THIRD IS KILLING IN THE NAME OF PEACE
WHEN A NATION IS BUILT ON A COUNTRY'S GRAVE
THEY CALL THEMSELVES AS MIGHTY AND BRAVE
IRAQ & PALESTINE ARE ON A ROUTINE KILL
FOR JACK & JILL TO GO UP ON THE HILL
THERE IS NO LIMIT FOR THE DESTRUCTION'S CAUSE
YOU SPEAK OF REBUILDING A NATION FAST
IS IT REQUIRED TO CRUSH THEM FIRST
AND REBUILD THEIR HOUSES FOR MONEY'S THIRST
MAN IS DANGEROUS IN THE CLOAK OF MASEEH
BUT HOW HE SPEAKS THE LANGUAGE OF PEACE
MASSACRE OF MEN ON ITS HIGHEST PEAK
IS THIS THE MEANING OF GLOBAL PEACE?
CAN ORPHANS BE GIVEN THEIR PARENTS ABACK?
AND WIDOWS RETRIEVE THEIR ORIGINAL LIFE TRACK?
THE PEACE OF DEATH IN MISSILES AND BOMBS
BODIES WERE SCATTERED AWAY FROM TOMBS
KARABALA HAS REPEATED ITS HISTORIC DAY
WATER & ELECTRICITY & FOOD IN SCARCE
GUNS OF DESTRUCTION AND GRANADES TO INVADE
ROAMING FROM HOUSE TO HOUSE TO RAID
BULLET IN THE CHEST OR HEART OR BRAIN
LEAVE THEM TO DIE AFTER BLOOD DRAIN
YOUNG OR OLD, CHILDREDN OR INSANE
BULLET WILL LEAVE NOBODY BUT STAIN
TANKS ON THE GROUND AND CLUSTER BOMBS ABOVE
SINGLED OUT ASIDE AND ALLIANCE OF HUNDRED AND ABOVE
OIL FOR FOOD IS THE SLOGAN OF PEACE
YOU LIVE WITHOUT PEACE AND DIE WITHOUT PEACE
LIKE SHOW A PIECE OF BREAD AND KILL
TAKE AWAY THE OIL TO YOUR COUNTRY'S FILL
MY HEART WEEPS SILENTLY FOR SUDAN'S SWEEP
WHEN I SAW THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE ASLEEP
INDIA,
PHILIPPINES, INDONESIA
AND SO ON
FLAMES OF HATRED RISING DUSK AND DAWN
IF MONEY AND POWER ARE A MAN'S NEED
TO ADD MORE AND MORE HE DOES BAD DEED
WE FORGOT THAT WE ARE HUMAN BEINGS
AND STARTED DOING ALL THOSE DIRTY THINGS
I WISH TO SPREAD THE MESSAGE OF LOVE
BUT THE WORLD IS BIG AND I AM A LITTLE DOVE
SYED GHAZIUDDIN
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JEDDAH - 21331
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From: islamcity@yahoogroups.com [mailto:islamcity@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Souladvisor
Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005
7:55 PM
To: islamicity
Subject: [IslamCity] Civilization
or Confusion of Conceptions
I really enjoyed reading this. I hope you will
also. 'Food for Thought', or really "Thought for
Food"; nourishment of the intellect, and reevaluation of concepts of
unity.
Quoting from below, "The bloodshed, the
continuance of colonialism under different names, unending massacres and
conflicts, unchanging of human attitudes, unrefinement of manners,
unenlightenment of intellectual life, the dominance of materialism in science
and world views, all these, together with many other signs of savagery
prevailing world-wide, show decisively that the ‘developed’ peoples
of the world have not founded a true civilization, and nor have their
‘developing’ imitators been able to do so."
Fethullah Gulen's Web Site
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Civilization or Confusion of Conceptions
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Sizinti, Aug 1985, Vol 7, Issue 79
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In the past, civilization was defined as the
coexistence of people who come together, whether in a city or district or a
village, around humanistic thoughts and feelings and conscious of their being
human. Since human beings naturally live in groups, they have, from the
beginning, lived in some degree of civilization. A true civilization is based
on the refinement of manners, thoughts and feelings, and the strength of
human will-power. Although some tend to identify civilization with dazzling
advances and innovations in sciences and technology – from trains to
space-ships, from broad streets and tall buildings to dams and nuclear power
stations, from telecommunication systems to electronics – all these
are, as regards civilization, no more than means of an easy, luxurious life.
Modern facilities can help to
‘modernize’ the outward appearance of life, but that does not
amount to being civilized. Civilization is an atmosphere propitious for the
development of man’s potentialities, and a civilized man is one who has
put himself under the service of his community in particular, and humanity in
general, alongwith the thoughts, feelings and abilities he has developed and
refined in that atmosphere. For this reason, civilization is not to be sought
in riches, luxury and a comfortable life in large, richly-furnished houses,
nor in techniques and quantities of production and consumption, which are all
elements of material pleasures and physical well-being. It is to be found
rather in the purity of thoughts, refinement of manners and feelings, and
soundness of views and judgements. Civilization lies in the spiritual
‘evolution’ of man and his continuous self-renewal towards true
humanity and personal integrity – being the ‘best pattern’
of creation. In particular, it should be noted that civilization is not, as
it is unfortunately understood by blind imitators of the West, a garment to
buy from some shop and put on. Rather, it is a final destination reached
along a rational way going through time and circumstances.
Civilization is different from modernism. While the
former means the changing and renewal of man with respect to his views, way
of thinking and human aspects, the latter consists in the changing of his
life-style and bodily pleasures and the development of living facilities.
Although this is the truth, the new generations, who have been bewildered
through misuse of concepts, have first been misled in their way of thinking
and then made to degenerate in belief, language, national thoughts, morals
and culture. Apart from this, those Western peoples enjoying technical
facilities more than others, and the so-called ‘intellectuals’
who have emerged among Eastern peoples, and who consider themselves civilized
and the others as savage, have committed, through such mis-labelling, a
grave, unforgivable sin against civilization and culture. Those peoples and
‘intellectuals’ should know that as civilization does not mean
modernism, so being intellectual is quite different from being a school
graduate. The number of true intellectuals who have not studied at a school
is not less than high school or even university graduates who have not been
able to free themselves from savagery. Misuse of concepts may cause
long-lasting deceptions: people may, for ages, confuse white with black,
justice with wrong-doing, enlightenment with ignorance, being intellectual
with dark-mindedness and civilization with savagery.
The enlightenment of a community and its being freed
from confusion of thoughts, expressions and convictions, requires the existence
of a group of true intellectuals. However, as we have said, being
intellectual should not be confused with being a school graduate. In any
particular community, there may be people who have specialized in different
branches of science, but the enlightenment of that community is possible
–not through those have studied physics, chemistry or biology- but
through intellectuals who, in the awareness of the age, lead their life at
the level of the spirit and have awaken to existence in soul and intellect by
using their will-power in accordance with the dictates of truth. By combining
the truths of sciences with the inspirations coming from beyond the visible
worlds to form an inextinguishable source of light, they have truly been
revived in soul and intellect, and have opened the way to the revival of
their community through the messages they disseminate. Only through the
efforts of those intellectuals can a true civilization come to existence.
Every new civilization is born through attempts
based on a unique love and belief. It is in vain to talk about civilization
where there are no such love and belief. In addition, if despotic pressures
or interventions are added to the lack of love, belief and zeal, even the
conquest of space and discovery of sub-atomic worlds will not be enough to
found a civilization.
If the masses in a community are devoid of belief,
love, zeal and the feeling of responsibility, if they live an aimless life
unconscious of their true identity and unaware of the age and environment
they live in, that community cannot be regarded as civilized even if it has
changed thoroughly with all its institutions, and the living standards have
risen considerably, and the people have all been ‘modernized’ in
their life-style. For, as we have reiterated, civilization is an intellectual
and spiritual phenomenon, nothing to do with technology, with dress and
finery, with furniture and luxuries. The bloodshed, the continuance of
colonialism under different names, unending massacres and conflicts, unchanging
of human attitudes, unrefinement of manners, unenlightenment of intellectual
life, the dominance of materialism in science and world views, all these,
together with many other signs of savagery prevailing world-wide, show
decisively that the ‘developed’ peoples of the world have not
founded a true civilization, and nor have their ‘developing’
imitators been able to do so.
How pitiful it is that the intelligentsia of
‘developing’ countries have deceived their people into believing
that they could be civilized through modernization of their life-style, which
means absolute dependence on the West. This is, in fact, what the West has
always suggested to them in order to block up the way to their true
civilization. The ‘Westernized’ modernists in those countries
have never been afraid of carrying out what has been ‘inspired’
to them by the West, and, through concerted assaults on the religion,
language and way of thinking of their people, have achieved a hundred times
more than what a hundred armies of crusaders would fail to achieve.
However, we are hopeful that the world will
undoubtedly witness true civilization once more, and the signs of this
civilization which will be founded on belief, love, knowledge and universal
moral values, have already appeared on the horizon. It suffices for the
realization of this sacred cause that the new generations who have undertaken
it should go on their way with a strong belief and will-power and
ever-deepening resolve.
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O
Allah, O Sufficer of the isolated
and weak and Protector against terrifying affairs! Offenses have isolated me, so
there is none to be my companion. I am too weak for Thy wrath and there is none to strengthen me. I have approached the terror of meeting Thee and there is none
to still my fear. I beg for Your Mercy! Ameen
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{Invite (mankind, O Muhammad ) to the Way of your Lord (i.e. Islam) with wisdom (i.e. with the Divine Inspiration and the Qur'an) and fair preaching, and argue with them in a way that is better. Truly, your Lord knows best who has gone astray from His Path, and He is the Best Aware of those who are guided.}
(Holy Quran-16:125)
{And who is better in speech than he who [says: "My Lord is Allah (believes in His Oneness)," and then stands straight (acts upon His Order), and] invites (men) to Allah's (Islamic Monotheism), and does righteous deeds, and says: "I am one of the Muslims."} (Holy Quran-41:33)
The prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: "By Allah, if Allah guides one person by you, it is better for you than the best types of camels." [al-Bukhaaree, Muslim]
The prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) also said, "Whoever calls to guidance will have a reward similar to the reward of the one who follows him, without the reward of either of them being lessened at all."
[Muslim, Ahmad, Aboo Daawood, an-Nasaa'ee, at-Tirmidhee, Ibn Maajah]
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