This is all in response to the government's threat to shut down the private telephone network that links Hezbollah's military infrastructure.

Lebanon has been a flash point for hostilities in the region for seemingly forever, including the 15 year-long civil war (1975-1990) that started it all. The place is a crazy quilt of competing sectarian interests often acting on (or reacting to) the state interests of Syria, Iran, and Israel.

It looks like things are calming a little, but if this gets out of hand, watch out.

Is it because the mainstream media agrees with McCain's spiritual guide's message?

BEIRUT, Lebanon - Lebanon’s Iranian-backed Hezbollah took control of large areas of Beirut on Friday, tightening its grip on the city in a major blow to the U.S.-backed government after three days of intense fighting. Security sources said at least 11 people had been killed and 30 wounded in three days of battles between pro-government gunmen and fighters loyal to Hezbollah, a political movement with a powerful guerrilla army. The fighting, the worst internal strife since the 1975-90 civil war, was triggered this week after the government took decisions targeting Hezbollah’s military communications network. The group said the government had declared war.

Saudi Arabia, a strong backer of the governing coalition, called for an emergency meeting of Arab foreign ministers over the crisis, Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya television reported. Hezbollah gunmen took control of media outlets owned by governing coalition leader Saad Hariri, Lebanon’s politician. Hariri’s television and radio stations went off the air. Hezbollah, has been steadily seizing offices of pro-government factions in the predominantly Muslim western half of the city. A security source told Reuters that Hezbollah and its allies were in control all of the mainly Muslim half of Beirut except for one district where pro-government gunmen are in talks to lay down their weapons. It certainly leaves the government weaker and the Future movement weaker, said Paul Salem, director of the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut.

But the group did not want to be seen as “occupiers of Beirut” by keeping its fighters in areas whose residents’ political loyalties lie with Hariri or his allies, he said. Handing control to the army appeared the most likely exit. Hezbollah also kept its grip on roads leading to Beirut’s international airport, which has been mostly paralyzed since Wednesday. National carrier Middle East Airlines said all of its flights would be postponed until Saturday and Beirut seaport authority shut down the facility.

Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrullah said. 

Kesedihan itu hanya akan memadamkan api motivasi, membunuh semangat dan membekukan jiwa. Dan kesedihan itu ibarat demam yang membuat tubuh menjadi lemas dan tak berdaya. Mengapa berlaku sedemikian? Kerana kesedihan hanya memiliki daya yang menghentikan dan bukan menggerakkan. Rahsia untuk menghidari itu semua adalah dengan menanamkan prinsip bahawa kesedihan adalah sesuatu yang boleh ditangani, bukan sesuatu yang tidak boleh dikawal hingga kita harus menyerah kepadanya. Kesedihan juga sama sekali tidak mendatangkan manfaat bagi hati, bahkan ia merupakan sesuatu yang amat disenangi syaitan. Oleh itu, syaitan selalu berusaha agar seseorang hamba itu bersedih utk menghentikan setiap aktiviti dan niat baiknya.

Bukan dicari-cari

Kesedihan itu bukanlah sesuatu yang dicari-cari dan bukan pula sesuatu yang kita semua harapkan, bahkan ia tidak mendatangkan sebarang manfaat. Oleh itu, Rasulullah s.a.w. sentiasa memohon perlindungan dari Allah agar dijauhkan dari kesedihan. Baginda selalu berdoa seperti berikut : “Allahumma inni auzubika minal hammi wal hazan..”; maksudnya: “ya Allah, sesungguhnya aku berlindung kepadaMu dari kecemasan dan kesedihan..”

Kesedihan boleh mengotori kehidupan dan juga merupakan suntikan beracun yang berbisa bagi jiwa yg membolehkan mengakibatkan kelesuan, keluhan, dan kebingungan. Kesedihan juga boleh membawa kepada kemurungan yg menggelapkan hati dan akan membuat keseluruhan keindahan menjadi layu. Dengan kesedihan, keadaan yang baik berubah menjadi buruk dan kehidupan yang menggembirakan menjadi mati kerana kesedihan pada akhirnya akan menumbuhkan sifat pesimis dan penyesalan. Namun begitu, pada tahap tertentu kesedihan memang tidak dapat dihindari dan ia pasti akan dilalui oleh seseorang. Oleh itu, disebutkan bahawa para ahli syurga ketika memasuki syurga akan berkata ; “..alhamdulillahhillazi azhab annal hazan..” ( Surah Fathir, ayat 34 ) “segala puji bagi Allah yang telah menghilangkan dukacita kami..” Ini menunjukkan bahawa mereka semua pernah mengalami kesedihan ketika hidup di dunia dulu.

Kesedihan Mendatangkan Pahala

Berbagai musibah lain juga turut menimpa mereka tanpa ada pilihan bagi mereka untuk menlak atau menerimanya. Apabila kesedihan itu datang, tidak ada kemampuan bagi jiwa untuk menghindarnya, maka kesedihan itu justeru akan mendatangkan pahala. Ini kerana kesedihan merupakan sebahagian daripada musibah atau cubaan. Oleh itu, ketika seorang hamba ditimpa kesedihan hendaklah ia sentiasa cuba melawannnya dengan doa dan cara-cara lain yang dapat mengusir kesedihan tersebut.

Sumber : Buku 'Jangan Bersedih' , Pengarang : Dr Aidh Bin Abdullah Al-Qarni

Über die Konsequenzen und möglichen Folgen für Israel macht sich Eisvogel Gedanken.

By JOHN LANTIGUA, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

Friday, May 02, 2008

STUART - Shadi Odeh has lived 17 of his 31 years in the United States.

He is a Palestinian, transplanted at age 14 to Texas, where he was a boisterous Dallas Cowboys fan. In 1999 he moved to South Florida, where he embraced basketball's Miami Heat, which he watches on a wide-screen TV, eating chicken wings and Italian food. His favorite TV show is The Simpsons.

Of course we know that Palestinian children are indoctrinated into the jihadist ideology from a very young age; taught to hate the Jews and others in grade school. Taught that shahada, martyrdom, in the name of allah is a good thing. So does Slim Shadi believe in jihad? Does he root for Hamas/Hizbollah as boisterously as he does the Cowboys and Heat?

Odeh says he has become an American in every way but one: He has so far been denied citizenship and the right to vote. He very much wants to vote in November - for a Democrat.

"Barack Obama is a very good candidate, but it is also time to have a woman president," he says. "I would vote for one of those two."

The question is whether he will be able to register. Odeh passed his naturalization exam and citizenship interviews in 2006, but FBI name checks have delayed his swearing-in for more than two years.

Those checks, instituted after the Sept. 11 attacks, involve comparing an applicant's name with names in FBI criminal and intelligence files to see whether the person is a security threat. Even if an applicant's name matches only an acquaintance of a suspect or a witness to an event, approval can be delayed.

Those FBI procedures come on top of security checks performed by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, which grants or denies citizenship.

The process can take time, too much time for some would-be citizens, especially in an election year.

Odeh is one of six South Florida Muslims who in December sued the federal government, charging that their citizenship applications have been delayed "unreasonably and unlawfully" by name checks. Federal statutes, they insist, require the government to render a decision within 120 days of the interviews.

Plaintiffs in the lawsuit include Osama Qasmieh, a Royal Palm Beach engineer originally from Jordan who has not been outside the U.S. in 20 years. His application has been delayed six years.

They also include another Jordanian, Belle Glade resident Mohammed Abdeen. A relative petitioned 20 years ago for him to be allowed into the U.S., and Abdeen arrived seven years ago. He passed his exam two years ago.

The lawsuit and another brought by five other South Florida Muslims last year are part of an avalanche of suits across the country.

"Hundreds of thousands of people nationally have been delayed," says Tania Galloni, an attorney for the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center in Miami. "In New York, it's Russians. In California, it's Chinese. In Florida, we have seen a disproportionate number of Muslims affected."

Really? And only six have filed lawsuits? How disproportionate can it be if only six filed lawsuits? Can you publish the data for us?

Being denied the right to vote is one way the plaintiffs say they have been damaged.

The delays could affect the November elections, says Altaf Ali, executive director of the South Florida Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

He says there are about 200,000 Muslims in Florida, and among those eligible to vote, turnout is traditionally high.

"This year a lot of people in our community are very interested in Barack Obama being the next president," Ali said. "I myself am a Republican, but I won't vote Republican this year." He's backing Obama.

Our community? Muslim community presumably, and what kind of Republican would vote for Barack Hussein Obama - one who shared some cultural or religious similarity.

The lawsuits have brought a response from the government. Last month it issued a statement saying extra personnel had been assigned to name checks and backlogged citizenship applications.

"The goal is to complete 98 percent of all name checks within 30 days," the statement said. Citizenship and Immigration Services "and the FBI intend to resolve the remaining 2 percent, which represent the most difficult name checks ... within 90 days or less."

The statement said 29,800 cases that have been pending two years or more would receive priority. Those cases include Odeh, Qasmieh and Abdeen.

There is part of the equation 29,800 - how many of those were for Muslims v. other 'religions'? It should be quite easy to determine exactly how proportionate this situation is.

The statement also said all cases of people waiting for more than four years had been resolved recently. But Galloni says that is not true of Qasmieh, who has been waiting six years.

FBI spokesman Bill Carter says that he has no explanation for the Qasmieh case but that about 300 FBI workers and outside contractors are doing name checks. The most time-consuming cases involve common names.

Outside contractors - never a good sign.

"If your name is Mohammed, that's probably going to take more time," Carter says. "It's like having the name John Smith."

Carter says the important thing is to reach "accurate and thorough results" regarding possible threats to the nation.

He says about 1 percent of people investigated are given a "negative" report. That report goes to Citizenship and Immigration Services, which is likely to deny those citizenship requests.

"But we are also very sensitive to the impact that the delays have on individuals," Carter says.

Odeh, who married while on a 2006 trip to the Palestinian territories and has a 1-year-old son there, hopes his case is resolved so he can start the process of bringing his wife and child to the U.S.

"Any person who loves this country the way I do understands the need for security," Odeh says. "But I've never committed a crime or threatened anyone or was involved with anyone who did. I wish they would just figure this all out."

And rather than blaming your fellow Muslims for creating this situation, you file stacks of lawsuits against the U.S. which only adds more burden to the government workload. If Muslims weren't bent on destroying the West it might be a little easier to become a U.S. citizen.

Here, courtesy Jihad Watch reader Charlemagne’s Funny Bone, is a quick summary -- but fuller than most that have appeared in the mainstream media -- of Ahmadinejad’s one hour and three minute speech before 200-300 clerics in the City of Mashad, Iran.

The last two years was the hardest time, after the establishment of the Islamic Republic, through which we have passed. Some Iranian people are telling me that the price of oil has gone up so why we don’t see any of its effect in our country. They ask me why the price of food and many other things are rising. I have to tell you when the price of oil goes up the price of everything go up. My government won’t receive all of the money that we make out of oil. Whatever Majlis approves, my government spends and rest of the money that we made on oil goes to the treasury. The government before me (Rafsanjani, Khatami) changed many things. Whenever I want to fix any corruption, many people within regime that I do not want to name begin to talk against me. In one of their meetings they (Rafsanjani, Khatami) said someone (Ahmadinejad) wants to go against us, but he has to know two things in the country that are in our hands: the Banks and Oil. So, he cannot do anything.We have to work very hard to establish justice in our country. Our foreign enemies thought that by passing resolutions in the United Nations, they could stop us from becoming a nuclear country. But with God’s help, now we are a nuclear country and they cannot do anything about it. There are many problems that, God willing, we will pass. I will talk about how we pass all of these problems in the second part of my speech.

You people know that God did not create man to live the way he is living today. No one used his mind better than prophets and Imams. The glorifications of men all will happen with divine management. If there is not any divine management, nothing happens in the world. All of the fights from the beginning of humanity have been because of he who has to manage and govern the world. From the beginning of humanity, all of the prophets said that the world must be managed through divine direction. We have to create a situation for the establishment of divine government. Anything that happens in the world happens because of Imam Mahdi. The creation of the world was because of the Imam Mahdi. The misery of humanity is because they don’t think about establishment of divine government on earth. There is no other truth or goodness in the world except the establishment of Imam Mahdi’s government on earth.

One day I was in a gathering, some people asked me what are these things that you are talking about, I told them that I did not say these things, God said them. If we don’t connect ourselves to the Imam, we are nothing. The return of Imam Mahdi is the only truth that we must think about. From the beginning of humanity there have been people with evil intentions that have been trying to stop us from thinking about the return of Imam Mahdi. Some people just see the body of the enemies but not their intentions. For example, the people who came and occupied Iraq, it seems their intention is to steal Iraqi’s oil, but that is not the case. Actually they have studied and analyzed that something is about to happen in this area. A divine hand is about to come out from this area and obliterate the corruption in the world.

Some people think that at this time Imam Mahdi is living somewhere and doesn’t care about humanity, but they are wrong. At this time Imam Mahdi is managing the world. My dear people, let me tell you something, at this time humanity has entered a new era. The people around the world are up rising against the arrogant powers. At this time we are seeing many of miracles of Imam Mahdi. For example, Iran becoming a nuclear country was one of the Imam Mahdi’s miracles. The victory of Islamic Revolution in Iran was another miracle of Imam Mahdi.

Let me tell you something, one day one of the grand Ayatollahs, whom many of you know, told me, “I have heard that you are talking about the return of Imam Mahdi and that you are in contact with him. Is that right?” I told him that I believe Imam Mahdi is managing the world. Furthermore, I told him, “Do you know what my problem is? My problem is that I believe everything people like you taught me.”

I believe that Iran is becoming the center of this management. "We must solve Iran's internal problems as quickly as possible. Time is lacking. A movement has started for us to occupy ourselves with our global responsibilities, which are arriving with great speed."

Posted at May 8, 2008 10:19 PM

 

Camel racing has been around for thousands of years. "The Sport of Sheikhs almost exclusively utilized small children, usually boys around the age of four, to ride and direct the camels. Often, the boys would be starved to be as light as possible. Many of the boys used for the races were often sold to race organizers or camel owners, and there was an active Child slave trade for camel jockeys, involving victims of kidnapping or the children of destitute families who sold them into servitude. The children were rarely schooled, and were sometimes the victims of sexual abuse. In Qatar, camel racing is seen as an historic national pastime, and the use of child labor as camel jockeys has been accepted for centuries. However, as international condemnation of the practice of child jockeys grew, the Emir of Qatar, Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani, banned child jockeys in 2005 and directed that by 2007, all camel races will be directed by robots.

This is happening in Qatar: an ancestral tradition is going high tech with robots replacing jockeys for the camel races.

The motivation behind it is not enhancing performance, but rather because the supply of jockey is going to dry up, and that's actually a good thing: Most jockeys for camel races are children from Pakistan and India that were normally kidnapped. The local government has banned child-jockeys that's why the races will take place with robots. The titanium robot looks and act very much like a human jockey.

A robot jockey is commonly used on camels in camel racing as a replacement for human jockeys. Developed beginning in 2004, the robotic jockeys are slowly phasing out the use of human jockeys, which, in the case of Middle Eastern camel racing, often employs small children who reportedly suffer repeated systemic human rights abuses. In response to international condemnation of such abuses, the nation of Qatar has banned the use of human jockeys in favor of robots.

robotic jockeys.

The government of Qatar initiated development of the robots beginning in 2002. A Swiss robotics firm named K-Team, under the direction of Alexandre Colot, designed the robots. Part of the initial problems faced by the design team included that the camels were conditioned to the use of human jockeys. Early designs confused or frightened the camels. The designs were modified to include more human-like features. The robots, which are aluminum-framed with a "thorax" about the size of a large book, contain small hinged arms that control the whip and the reins. The robot can also monitor and transmit the speed and heart rate of the camel.

Widespread usage is limited to Qatar where the robots have been widely accepted. Other nations where camel racing is popular, such as the United Arab Emirates, have been facing increased scrutiny and controversy for their continued use of child jockeys.

said that:

Hundreds of children are the victims of this black & dirty business. Graph of child abductions are increasing in our country. It is a most hatred act of these Arab Sheikhs, those are arranging these kinds of Camel races and are the main culprits behind these child smuggling / abuse. They are destroying the human lives and are directly responsible behind this child trafficking business of innocent children for camel jockeys. This should be condemned Internationally and must be given harsh sentences through speedy courts, to stop the most backward & satanic enjoyment.

"INED, France's National Institute of Demographic Studies, has done some detailed research and concluded that France's immigrant population is responsible for only 5 percent of the rise in the birthrate and that France's population would be rising anyway even without the immigrant population.

"That is important in a country where the number of immigrants from traditionally Muslim countries and their French-born children and grandchildren is now reckoned to be more than 6 million from a total population of 60.7 million. The anti-immigration Front National Party has claimed the rise in births came from Muslims, who were thus on track to become an eventual majority, and this appears not to be the case."

IB sendiri pun tidak bersetuju jika Karpal celupar dan biadap menghina kedaulatkan institusi Raja di Tanah Air kita. IB tidak kira samada penghinaan itu dilakukan oleh orang Melayu ataupun bukan Melayu.

Tetapi, IB terlebih amat marah bila keceluparan datang dari orang Melayu kita sendiri yang sepatutnya mempertahankan kedaulatan raja-raja Melayu.

Malah, IB amat terkejut bila orang Melayu secara terangan menghina Tuanku Mizan kerana tidak memilih pemimpin mereka sebagai MB. Tuanku Mizan disifatkan sebagai binatang!

Di zaman Mahathir, umat Melayu di Tanah Air tercinta ini berpecah dua. Sebahagian besar orang Melayu bersatu ingin mendaulatkan institusi raja. Namun, dengan kuasa yang ada untuk disalahgunakan mereka, UMNO dan kepimpinan (serta segala pak turut mereka) berapi-api menghasut serta menghina Raja-raja Melayu. Untuk beberapa minggu lamanya, satu demi satu raja Melayu diaibkankan oleh akhbar dan media elektronik. Ada juga pemimpin UMNO menabalkan "sultan" lain.

Ketika kemelut tersebut memuncak, IB secara kebetulan berkesempatan duduk semeja dengan seorang Raja Muda (walaupun kini dia sudah memegang tampuk tertinggi). Apabila topik ini IB timbulkan, ternyata di air muka beliau kekesalan terhadap kepimpinan serta jentera UMNO yang menghina Sultan dan diheret untuk diadili oleh rakyat marhaen.

Kadang-kadang kita sukar memahami cara orang UMNO berfikir. Prinsip mereka boleh berubah-ubah. Ketaatan mereka tidak kukuh. Tertib tidak mereka kira. Yang sepatutnya dibuat laporan terlebih dahulu ialah terhadap barisan pimpinan UMNO yang menghadkan kuasa raja dulu. Anwar tidak boleh lari dari ketanggungjawaban beliau berperanan juga semasa itu.

Kalaulah mereka ini sememangnya mudah lupa, krisis perlantikan MB Terengganu masih lagi segar di ingatan, baru sebulan berlalu.

Sekian, IB

Memang penulis tidak nafikan memang ada pemimpin BN Negeri Kelantan yang bertindak sedemikian kerana tujuan penulis mengetengahkan isu ini bukanlah kerana ingin menafikan kenyataan ini tetapi penulis merasa bertanggungjawab untuk mendedahkan siapa sebenarnya Abdul Hamid Derani ini.

Abdul Hamid Derani ini sebenarnya dulu Penceramah UMNO dan semasa beliau menjadi Penceramah UMNO dahulu beliaulah antara penceramah yang paling kuat mengutuk, mengherdik, menghina dan bermacam-macam tuduhan buruk yang dilemparkan oleh beliau kepada Tuan Guru Nik Aziz Nik Mat.

Penulis sendiri banyak kali juga berpeluang mengikuti ceramah beliau sewaktu beliau menjadi penceramah UMNO, antara 'label' yang diberikan oleh beliau kepada Tuan Guru Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat ialah 'kaki temberang', kaki bohong, Tok Guru Bodoh, Tok Guru Binatang Apa (Tok Guru Nate Apo) dan bermacam-macam lagi.

Itulah apa yang penulis ingin dedahkan tentang siapa dia Abdul Hamid Derani ini yang akhir-akhir ini sering menyuarakan pendapat mengapa BN tewas di Kelantan dengan menyatakan kesalahan BN ialah tindakan mengkritik Tuan Guru Nik Aziz yang dihormati sebagai Ulama' di Kelantan sedangkan pada masa dulu beliau lah paling kuat dan paling hebat mengkritik dan mengutuk pemegang tampuk kepimpinan tertinggi PAS itu. Jelas sekali Abdul Hamid Derani telah menjilat ludahnya sendiri.

Penulis ingin mengambil kesempatan ini untuk mencabar Abdul Hamid Derani bersumpah Demi Allah tuhan seru sekian alam yang beliau tidak pernah membuat perkara ini sekiranya beliau ingin menafikanya, sebab setakat nafikan sesiapa sahaja boleh nafikanya.

Akhir Kalam penulis ingin mengatakan bahawa apa yang baik datang dari Allah tuhan seru sekian alam dan apa yang buruk datangnya daripada saya hamba Allah yang lemah dan sering melakukan kesalahan walaupun sekecil zarah ini.

Ternyata HMI Batam masih ada?.................. pertama, petang tanggal 22 April 2008 ,seorang yang mengaku anggota HMI meneleponku, menanyakan tentang vietnam dan menyangkut pariwisata............. saat itu aku sih senang-senang saja , karena aku baru pulang dari Vietnam, dan di Batam ada kemp ex pengungsi vietnam.

Janjian akan bertemu dengan Ibrahim demikian nama yang disebutkan diseberang telpon kepadaku dari HMI pak katanya menjelaskan..... sungguh aku pun sudah lupa siapa Ibrahim. Hingga hari ini tanggal 9 Mei 2008 Ibrahim tak kunjung datang berkunjung.

Akupun sudah lupa lagi dengan HMI, lupa pulak dengan yang namanya Ibrahim........... tiba di petang tanggal 8 Mei 2008 ada sms masuk ke hp ku.......... PAK KALAU MENDAKWA HARUS NIAT DAN HATI YANG TULUS TANPA EMBEL 2D BELAKANGNYA DARI HMI KOTA BATAM .  dari  +6281372916679 , karena tak tahu maksudnya isi sms dari yang mengatasnakan HMI itu aku hubungi no hp diatas .............

Diangkat sebentar tidak dijawab langsung dimatikan....... aku hubungi lagi ......... jawaban nomor yang anda tuju tidak aktif. Besoknya selepas Jumat 9 Mei 2008 aku coba hubungi lagi ....... ada sahutan......... aku tanya dengan siapa, jawabaan agak kurang jelas pak... saya lagi di bus nanti saya hubungi lagi kata suara dari seberang.

Aku agak penasaran siapa pulak yang mengatasnamakan Himpunan Mahasiswa Islam (HMI) Batam ini menulis sms seperti itu, sedang aku terpikir-pikir mana dakwa yang dimaksud sms yang mengatas namakan HMI tadi, kalau lah dah mengatasnamakan HMI membuat komentar seperti itu tentulah mereka dah rapat ..eeee ada pulak sms masuk dari bang Ade Syahlan , bang Ade ni adalah pemimpin Perusahaan dan juga wartawan Pos Metro (Jawa Pos group) . "ada sms dari bang Ade pak" kata Aries Kurniawan ........... aku baca  berbunyi sbb : "apa sudah ada respon setelah saya pasang iklan di posmetro untuk sedekah di pulau? hari ini iklannya di hal 23".  

Mungkin ini yang dimaksud oleh HMI Batam tadi.............. kenapa berdakwa harus diembel dengan 2D kata Aries Kurniawan lagi............... bang Ade memang ikut saat kami tanggal 1 Mei 2008 pergi ke beberapa pulau mengunjungi suku laut muslim, ada 60 an orang kami ke pulau-pulau tu...... ada dari Tribun Batam, ada dari Batam Pos, ada dari Pos Metro, ada dari Lembaga Amil Zakat (LAZ) Masjid Raya Batam, ada dari Persatuan Mubaligh Batam, ada dari Kantor Departemen Agama Batam , Ka KUA Nongsa hadir, Lurah Ngenang pun ikut, dari Pemuda Muhammadiyah hadir, dari Aisyiah Batam pun ikut, Muhammadiyah, Ikatan Mahasiswa Muhammadiyah (IMM)  Batam, dari Polyteknik pun ikut tapi tidak mengatasnamakan polyteknik tapi dia dosen disana. Wartawan Pos Metro mengirim anggotanya 3 orang......... dari HMI tak ada yang ikut.

Nah ........masing-masing mereka ini melihat on the spot .......... dan masing memikirkan apa yang bisa dibuat untuk membantu suku laut muslim yang tertinggal dan terpinggirkan itu........... mungkin bang Ade berpikir alangkah baiknya dibuat iklan untuk mengetuk hati orang-orang  untuk bersedakah....... mungkin itu menurutnya bentuk dakwa bil hal yang bisa dibuatnya.

Terus dimana embel harus ikhlas dan 2D tadi.............. seorang sajana pertanian yang ikut dengan rombongan kami ziarah ke suku laut muslim yang sekarang sedang gencar "diserang" aqidahnya itu......... berniat akan membuat satu proyek yang dapat menambah income mereka....... karena laut Batam tak menjanjikan lagi.......... banyak ide-ide bermunculan setelah melihat saudara se Iman yang sedang goyang aqiadahnya ini............... lha HMI entah kemana koq tiba-tiba ada yang mengatasnamakan HMI Batam sewot.......... menyuruh orang niat tulus segala.............. atau ada orang yang menyaru sebagai HMI....................... kata Aries lagi....    mungkin juga ya.........

Someone working on the Maps of War site has done a wonderful job of graphically portraying the development of the major religious groups through history in the video entitled “History of Religion.” There are slight errors, for example the portrayal of all of Spain as under Islam in the eighth century AD, when the northwest corner remained steadfastly Catholic, but overall it is an excellent history lesson. What strikes me, though, is that the Jews were never particularly interested in converting people, but that the Christians took off from their base in Judaism and spread over much of the world through persuasion.

That was at the beginning. With their so-called triumphalism in place, the “Christians” lost their biblical bearings and began massacring people (including each other) in the name of their faith. Islam didn’t bother with any initial restraint, but spread mainly by way of conquest from the outset. Its representatives have been called “meataxe missionaries.” As for the Eastern religions, their emphases, in particular Gautama Buddha’s insistence that “life equals suffering,” inhibited any movement to improve the lot of the people in material terms for many centuries.

Oh, religion! What crimes have been committed in thy name!

A la saison de récolte des fruits, chacun gagne en fonction de son travail, celui qui fournie un énorme effort il le trouvera, c’est l’exemple des examens de nos enfants, qui passent l’année à l’école pour revenir par des bons résultats.

Pour arriver à ces bons résultats, il faut une bonne préparation, qui commence dès le premier jour de l’école et qui continue jusqu’au bout, jusqu’on obtient nos fruits.

Se sont deux examens, un de ce bas monde et l’autre de l’autre jour, dans ce bas monde Allah nous donne des épreuves préparatoire pour la grande épreuve, celle du jour de jugement, nous pouvons tirer leçons de ce qui est dans le Coran à propos de cette dernière épreuve.

Allah (swt) dit dans le Sain Coran: "Celui qui a créé la mort et la vie afin de vous éprouver (et de savoir) qui de vous est le meilleur en œuvre, et c'est Lui le Puissant, le Pardonneur" (67/2).

On tire donc des leçons auprès du grand examen pour les examens de cette vie, celle de l’école de l’université ou de recrutement, et on tire des leçons auprès de ces petits examens et teste pour le grand examen.

Malheureusement les gens vis-à-vis des examens sont sur deux cotés extrêmes, ceux qui prétendent travailler pour l’au-delà, en oubliant que l’islam veux aussi que le musulman soit fort dans cette vie, dans la science, dans la richesse, dans la position sociale et politique afin de donner une force particulière à l’islam et aux musulmans , ces personne quand il y a des examen on les trouve sont souci, le résultat vient d’Allah même sans effort, et il n’y a pas de mal s’ils s’échouent dans leur vie, dans leur carrière scientifique ou professionnel, bien sur sans de dire cela explicitement.

Ce n’est pas un vrai pratiquant celui qui ne fournit pas d’effort pour l’intérêt de soit même et l’intérêt de sa société, celui qui occupe une place fixe dans la mosquée et quand à ca place dans la société il est nul.

Le vrai dit musulmans pratiquant et celui doté des qualités, des facultés et des compétences. Celui qui ne cesse de améliorer son savoir et sa position.

Une autre catégorie des gens qui lorsqu’il y a des examens, il oublie la mosquée, oublie leur seigneur et oublie l’au-delà, alors que le musulman doit chercher la force dans la foie, cherche l’effort aussi dans l’aide divine, l’aide d’Allah (swt).

Le Prophète (saws) dit : « Le sage est celui qui fait son examen de conscience, qui œuvre pour l’au-delà, et l’incapable est celui qui s’incline devant ses passions, puis nourrit de faux espoirs en Dieu. »

Celui qui fait son examen de conscience ne se laisse pas occuper par l’erreur, car il est constamment occupé par les œuvres pies, et, de par sa crainte de Dieu, il regrette tout manquement vis-à-vis de son Seigneur. Comment une telle personne pourrait-elle alors se laisser aller aux futilités et à l’oisiveté ?

Il n’a y pas assez de temps pour rester sans préparation en vu d’une bonne année scolaire, il faut que chacun prend part à ses responsabilités, parents, et élèves ou étudiants, familles et individus.

Pour des conseils pratiques : on doit craindre Allah (swt) car c’est lui qui dit : "Et quiconque craint Allah, Il Lui donnera une issue favorable, et lui accordera Ses dons par (des moyens) sur lesquels il ne comptait pas. Et quiconque place sa confiance en Allah, Il (Allah) lui suffit. Et dans le hadith du prophète (saws): "protège Allah, et Il te protégera, protège Allah, et tu le trouveras à tes cotés, lorsque tu demandes, demande Allah…). Et la craint d’Allah c’est faire le bien et s’éloigne des péchés

Il faut bien se préparer par la lecture, la compréhension, l’apprentissage et la révision, il ne faut pas faire recours à certain méthode interdite en Islam telle que la tricherie dans n’importe quelle condition, Car le Prophète (saws) a dit : « Celui qui nous trompe n’est pas des nôtresé » dans un autres hadith le Messager d’Allah (saws) a dit : « Celui qui trompe (les gens) n’est pas des miens ».

Il n’y a pas des invocations spéciales pour les examens, il y a des invocations générale et ne trouve pas mal de dire certain invocation, mais elle ne constitue pas des bâtons magique pour la réussite sans apprendre la science par ces méthode connues, celui qui fait des invocations sans prendre causes c’est comme il se moque de sa religion. Car Allah (swt) a dit "Et dis: "œuvrez, car Allah va voir votre œuvre, de même que Son messager et les croyants" (9/105).

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