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Emigration!

2006-10-27T21:18:00.000Z

Assalam Alikom wa rahmat ALLAH
Peace and Blessings be upon you

Dear All,

After more than one year of blogging via BlogSpot, I'm emigrating. However, this doesn't mean I'll delete this blog.

This blog simply reflects me within an important + transitional period within my life + I can not delete something I had made with my own hands.

I'm very thankful for everybody who'd visited my blogspot, even for few seconds
I'm very thankful for everybody who'd placed a comment,
I'm very thankful for everybody who'd send the link/url to anybody

See you @ my personal world.

http://blog.hichamaged.net/

Salaam,
Hicham

OOPS

2006-10-25T17:50:00.000Z

Assalam Alikom wa rhamat ALLAH
Peace and blessings be upon you

Hello Everybody

I'm sorry for the aufwel format of the blog right now. It's really in a mess. I'll fix this as soon as possible, incha'allah

By the way, comments have been disabled for sometime.

Thanks for your patience with me. I appologise for any inconveniences

Salaam,
Hicham

Nothing more that feelings

2006-10-23T00:30:00.000Z

Assalaam Akikom wa rahmat ALLAH
Peace and blessings be upon you

Hello Everybody

- Hicham
- Yes?
- Ramadan is leaving.
- What? Leaving? It had just arrived!

After this short dialogue, I found myself writing this post. I’m trying to understand my feelings, as Ramadan is supposed to leave us after whole month of hospitality.

ALLAH (Almighty) told us that Ramadan is just few days that quickly pass. Yes, it passed as if a jet plane was passing over a small island, Subhaan ALLAH. Do not ask me from where I got this expression because this is what I really feel.

In fact, I don't know how to express my feelings right now. It is a mix of happiness + sorrow, fear + hope in the same time! Strange but true.

Man feels happy because of being that close to the unlimited power of ALLAH (Almighty). You are so close and you feel like flying even if your legs are still on Earth; as you are subjected to do what you are called to do in your life, i.e. your job.

On the other hand, man can not prevent himself from feeling sorrow because Ramadan is leaving. The spiritual journey that man start during Ramadan is about to finish and the plane has to land. For that matter, the fear that ALLAH (Almighty) didn’t forgive him equals the hope that ALLAH (Almighty) had.

I've unlimited trust in what ALLAH (Almighty) had told, and I'm 101% sure that HIS mercy always came in the first place before punishment or anger. Therefore, I wish, hope, and supplicate that ALLAH (Almighty) had accepted our work as our good deeds. Amen.

Look at this collection of feelings; happiness, sorrow, hope and fear. You can figure I out; this is what we are, neither angles nor devils; just humans who are subjected to do right and wrong. However, ALLAH (Almighty) is always there for us, no matter what. I mentioned this in the previous post entitled "Lost Paradise"

In fact, whatever we do, I do not feel it’s enough to thank ALLAH (Almighty) for the unlimited benefactions HE (Almighty) had granted them to me. If man thinks about just one thing like sight for example, he can not count or list the benefits.

I do believe that the meaning of Zakat in Islam is wider than just paying money. Rather, I see it in a way that every Muslim should pay a tax from what he own in order to gain reward from ALLAH (Almighty).

In other words, man is called pay this zakat by using / dedicating his power (body + mind) to perform his role within this planet, to urbanise Earth, each according to what he/she can afford. I do believe that this is the path to get reward from ALLAH (Almighty)

Well, this post is just feelings, nothing more than feelings, trying to figure out myself while Ramadan is leaving

Happy Eid ul-Fitr for all of you + your families

May ALLAH (Almighty) grant you with joy and happiness. Ameen!

PS: I-MAG's Ramadan's issue is comming soon, incha'allah

UPDATE: OPPS! I did it again. I made a typo mistake@ the title; it should be "Nothing more than feelings" not "that"

Salaam,
Hicham

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The Lost Paradise

2006-10-07T16:48:00.000Z

Assalam Alikom wa rahmat ALLAAH

Hello Everybody

Happiness is magic word which humans are looking for since dawn of history until the Day of Judgment. Every place I go, and every one I meet either being single of married, being healthy or ill, being rich or poor, I found them complaining of the lost paradise of happiness, Subhaan ALLAAH!

I thought about this strange fact, which is found in many great novels by the way. You know what’s the real problem? It’s the absence of satisfaction within the majority of human beings worldwide, except few of them. Satisfaction – simply - is a state of mind where you make harmony with nature + environment + context you live within.

Yet I know that life is hard, in fact it’s very very very hard, however when your perspective is wide, and you try to see the whole situation not only the right moment, things can be much easier. I mean, man should try to see the worst things in any situation, and try to adapt himself so this hard situation can pass.

On the other hand, satisfaction doesn’t mean not to be ambitious; no no no (3 no), man should be ambitious, and try his best to set himself goals, plan to reach them. However in case failure occurs after all what we did, we should not think that it’s the end of the word.

Subhaan ALLAAH, I always wonder: why do we look to on side of the coin? Everything is this life has two sides; bad one + good one, however it’s your eye that decide to catch the bad side and ignore the good one. Subhaan ALLAAH!

Madames et Monsieurs / Ladies and Gentlemen: please turn the coin and look to the other side, and believe me; you’ll be shocked that you’ve missed happiness all those years.

Do you know the proverb which states: DO not cross the bridge untill you reach it? This is my advice to everybody. Do not expect bad things to happen in the future. Just work in the present, looking for a better future. If things didnt' came as you want, no problem. Yes, we are humans and will be sad, however this must be within the normal limits that make life go on.

People; Look inside you, and restore. Look for the people around, think + understand how much you’ve been gifted from ALLAAH (swt) for the unlimited good stuff HE (swt) offered you; however you complain from small things that really can pass if you make your vision wider; i.e. satisfaction.

The cornerstone for the satisfaction is not only reasonable one by mind, but also in parallel, or in the 1st place, it should be accompanied by the deep understanding for your role as human on this planet. This will lead us directly to the basic point which people used to ignore: your relation with The Creator, ALLAAH (swt).

ALLAAH (swt) is the unlimited power in this universe, and if you need any kind of spiritual support, do not hesitate; ask ALLAAH (swt) directly from the deep and the bottom of your heart, because in fact, no one can offer you everything except The Sustainer, ALLAAH (swt)

Yes I know, we are humans and we need to support each other. I understand this very well, however this is something between humans. I think when people ask help from ALLAH (swt), they can help others.

I believe that humans should support each other, and if you do not already know, there are people who find their happiness when they place a smile upon the others’ faces, when they help them, when they guide them, when they take care about them, because this is the real happiness for those people. i.e. to give not to take.

Finally
Did you read Paulo Coelho’s greatest novel, The Alchemist? Well, the main theme of this novel = Happiness is closer than you think + do not ignore signs that lead you to find your way of happiness. This is what I understand from this great novel.

You know what? Humans always look for happiness far away, and do not realise that happiness is just very close, may be closer than they think.

Oh people! If only we look around, paradise is found.

PS: totally unrelated: We are currently preparing for the new 8th issue of I-MAG regarding Ramad'aan. Comming soon incha'allah, so do not forget to have your copy for free.

Salaam,
Hicham

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The Pope that failed!

2006-09-26T01:45:00.000Z

Assalaam Alikom wa rahmat ALAAH
Peace and blessings be upon you

Hello Everybody

"Pontiff cannot err". This is one of the basic rules in the Roman Catholic theology, which considers Pope as an infallible character. However, what His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI had mentioned in his lecture - which he told on 12th September 2006 @ University of Regensburg - proof that people - even Pope - are subjected to make mistakes.

When mistakes came from normal people whom do not have any kind of responsibilities towards others, man can understand. However, when it came from the elite whom are called to guide people to the right way + establish bonds between different cultures, man should pause to see what happened.

Well, I know very well that His Holiness Pope Benedict didn’t say something against Islam by his own words; however he had quoted words of the Byzantine Emperor, Manuel Paul II Palaeologus, who lived in the 14th century. This emperor has written down his controversy with some Persian Muslim, and within them he asked the Muslim the following question "Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached".

I'm not interested in the quoted words themselves right now; however what I want to highlight on is Pope's speech itself.

I'd read the whole speech, so people can not say the words had been extracted, and misunderstood. His Holiness Pope Benedict was talking about Faith + Reason, and from what I'd read, simply he tried to establish a comparison between Reasonable Faith which is found in Christianity verse non-reasonable one found in Islam, according to his point of view. That's the key for understanding the whole issue, not the quoted words themselves.

It's very strange how people establish a whole structure over very weak foundations. Pope Benedict XVI (knows as Cardinal Ratzinger before being elected as Pope on April 2005, after the death of his predecessor, Pope Jean Paul II) is quoting words which feed anger, while disregarding what Islam had present to humanity.

His Holiness Pope Benedict had accused Islam with being non-reasonable; and disregarded the fact that Islamic Civilisation had saved its predecessor civilisations - either Greek or others from being lost. Not only saving them, but also additions were applied.

While Europe was living within the dark of middle ages, on the contrary, Islamic civilisation was lighting the way to Mankind between 8th-15th centuries. From where did the Muslims take the orders for this? From Islam

The first verse which was told to Prophet Muhammed (pbuh) via Archangel Gabriel was "Read" (Holy Qur'an 96:1). In parallel, Qur'an told us to use our minds to understand the universe, and urbanise Earth (Holy Qur'an 2:154). Later, when the Islamic civilisation fades out, Europe had found the heritage of the predecessor civilisations + additions made via Islamic civilisation, and established its own renaissance upon.

So, excuse me dear your Holiness Pope Benedict, Islam is a totally reasonable faith, and it should be because it came as the final message from ALLAH (swt) to Mankind, respecting the other divine messages (Judaism + Christianity), and calling Muslims to respect their messengers, because they were sent from the same source: ALLAH (swt).

It's not time to live into past and ask who did what, because that is way of weak people, who do not see anything far than their steps.

The normal way of human development means that civilisation follow another in order to add, not to subtract, however some people in the 21st century do not want to understand this, and work on feeding hate and anger for the sake of nothing.

Well, back to the reactions. One might feel strange that the reaction of His Holiness after Muslims' anger was nothing more than his deep sorrow for offending Muslims, according to the statement told on 20th September 2006.

However, one might feel stranger that His Holiness called for a meeting with Muslims envoys in Vatican on 25th September 2006, where he expressed his total and profound respect for all Muslims, without any kind of dialogue.

Beside the sorrow, His Holiness mentioned that "Since the beginning of my pontificate I have had occasion to express my wish to continue to establish bridges of friendship with believers of all religions, showing particularly my appreciation in the belief in dialogue between Muslims and Christians,"

Great+ Bravo + très bien aussi!
Just words without actions! Subhaan ALLAH!

From my point of view, what His Holiness has done was nothing more than a short way to avoid falling into the mistake which swallowed Danish Prime Minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen when he refused to meet the 12 ambassadors of Muslim countries in Denmark upon the Carton Crises at the beginning of this year.

What had happened neither need a call for apology nor just bunch of sweet words to be told within a 30 min meeting wassalam! No! What had happened need real people who have sense and sensibility, whom interpret differences among faiths well, and dare to stand together puting hands in hands, despite of the differences, and try to solve real problems and decrease the radius of tension's circle, which is almost tangent to every place.

I can not end this post without stopping by the quoted words @ the speech. Well, if Prophet Muhammed (pbuh) was weak at the begining of his message, can anybody explain for me, why did he release all the people of Mekka - who were infields and not people of the Book – despite of being surrounded by 10,000 soldiers in their shining armour! Prophet Muhammed (pbuh) had forgiven them telling them: "Go, You are Free" and ordered not to kill anybody, and this was the 1st application for what is called today "Ethics of War", which is hardly applied nowadays, and ask History of Mankind.

If Prophet Muhammed (pbuh) had ordered to spread Islam via sword, can anybody explain for me, why did Qur'an order us not to force people to enter Islam? (Holy Qur'an 2:256) + not to kill innocent souls (Holy Qur'an 4:92)

Islam does not need any kind of defend. Yet, some Muslims didn't understand Islam right, but this is something wrong within applying, not due to an error within the ideology itself. I'd told this before in one of my articles published via I-MAG, which is titled "Islam, between Ideology and Application."

It's really the apathy that while Islam is calling + urging Muslims for respecting the others, Muslims on the contrary can not find the same from them!

I'd mentioned this before in many articles via I-MAG; either the one titled "The Others; Who hate Who" or "Behind the Enemy lines: an Extraordinary Mission." We are all Humans; who were created by One and only One, the Creator, ALLAH (swt)/GOD and descend from one father, Adam + one mother, Eve.

Despite of being united in the origin, people are different in culture, colour, and faith. That’s normal, and because of the same origin, we are called to look for what I call 'meeting points"; where we can communicate, interact, and co-operate for the welfare of humanity, if we still care about. That what Islam call us for, and that what Pophet Muhammed (pbuh) told us to do.

Out of the subject but close
Did you read Victor Hugo's greatest novel, "Les Misérables"? Well, I like this novel very much. You know why? Because the main character, Mayor M. Madeline - who were in the past 'Jean Valjean' (the theif) - had deciced to face his destiny as a Man. He made the choice to be responsible towards his acts which caused an innocent man to face a trial that could end with his death.

Thus, he made his trip to catch the trial, despite of meaning that he will loose all what he had done as a Mayor. Hard decision, I know, and it came after long - but great - self dialogue in his room.

Well, that kind of men who we count on for the welfare of Humanity. Yes, as I always believe that no utopia @ planet Earth. We are nither Angles, nor Devils, however we are just Humans.

Very funny when people ignore things and highlight on other ones.

Very funny when people ask the sun to dissapeare because they do not like the beams it radiat!

Finally, I quote the following words by Saint Jerome
"Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, 'Why do you not practice what you preach?'.
- - - Saint Jerome, Letter
- - - Church Father & Saint (374 AD - 419 AD)

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Salaam,
Hicham

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Sorry, where’s you Mask?

2006-09-09T23:13:00.000Z

Assalaam Alikom wa rahmat ALAAH
Peace and blessings be upon you

Hello Everybody

This post is one of the most personal thoughts that I wrote in my corner@ cyberspace. I do not usually talk about myself; however this time I want to do so, because it's impossible that man always be the one who talk. Sometimes, the one who talk need to listen, as this time. I do not know if you can reply or not, because I myself don't know.

We are all humans, and in our life we face situations that make us stop by and think. When something happen to you, you should pause for a while to think about what happened, analyze + evaluate it, and finally use the results for a clear vision.

Well, I’d passed with a situation that made me stop by for sometime, not only for a while. First of all, I’m not that type of persons who usually complains to the others; on the contrary, since I was very young, I found myself the one who always listen to people complains, and try to solve them, for the sake of helping people.

I understand that the majority of people want others to listen to them, and try to help them, and I've no problem with this issue at all. I even used to listen to people more than I talk to them, and this is something I do by default, therefore I'm not complaining. I also discovered that I care about everything in different situations, because I always consider people as my brothers + sisters, no matter what.

However, I'd discovered that I'm dealing with people in a wrong way! Yes, this young cat whom is walking slowly to his 3rd phase of his life - 30th - is dealing with people in a way that is not matching with the majority.

When I say something, or do something, I do it from the bottom of my heart; not for people themselves, but for the reward from ALLAH (swt). Prophet Muhammed (pbuh) told us to do so with people, no matter what.

When I deal with people, I'm dealing with them really from the bottom of my heart. I'm not wearing the masks and hide my identity behind, because I believe that everything should always be in the light.

Hiding behind the masks is a favorite human act since dawn of history till now. If you read about masks, you'll find the myth of this thing that people hide themselves behind, however reasons varies from person to person, and from era to era for sure.

You know what? People used to assume that the others are wearing masks, therefore they also wear there masks, and communication in between happened as if you are watching a historical / Shakespearean play. They also used to smile at your face, as if they are not hiding the real soul behind those fake masks that they tied themselves with!

Therefore, when people find someone who is not wearing the normal masks, they felt confused, and suspect that he's pretending + hiding himself behind a new mask; however they are mistaken, because he's unfortunately not wearing any masks: either known or unknown.

That's the real problem. I felt that I'm really wrong! When some people from different places make the same, then there;s something wrong! I know that I'm dealing with people for the sake of getting reward from ALLAH (swt), however I'm human too. I didn't pretend to be angle, because I'm not + I didn't say I'm.

I'm pretty sure 101% that there are no angles on Earth - except cats + babies. Other than this, all of us are just humans. Humans = Do Right + Do Wrong, however it's up to everybody to choose his way to make the right and the wrong. I'm not responsible that I'm flying higher why others are not.

I always believe that we are not supposed to judge people according to the intentions; simply because no one except ALLAH (swt), the Creator, who knows the intentions. Therefore, we should deal with each others according to this simple equation: Acts + Words = Personality.

I used to take care about both because I deal with people for GOD sake, and never judge the intention of the others. Why do people judge me for something they thought that it happened? Subhaan ALLAH! Ya salaam! Thought? Just thought? Is it that simple to destroy friendship which was built over years because of a thought? And this thought is wrong?

I'm not complaining! I never complain to people, but I'm really wondering! Subhaan ALAH, why do not people take the shot way between two points, which is the straight way, and be honest with others? If someone saw that I'm wrong in something - and sure I must be making mistakes - why do not take the short way and ask me directly? I'll not bite - because I'm not a dog + I'll not use my claws as a cat. On the contrary, I appreciate when people talk frankly with me.

Guys: If someone sees that I'm a donkey for example, go a head and tell me why you think I'm. Give me reasons to analyze them, and try to solve the problem; because eithier you are right or wrong. However, you think that I'm donkey without mentioning reasons + building things on fake reasons? Excuse me; you are totally wrong, monsieur.

It's not my problem that you don't understand the difference between the fake things and the real things.

It's very easy to loose temper; however I'm not that weak. Therefore I still dare to tell you: Salaam + Peace be upon you

Myself: Mmm! seems like tears in those cat eyes?
Me: Never! Tears are something very very very valuable for me; however I save them for things that deserve.
Myself: Mmm! Then you are crying?
Me: Are you donkey [...] Never! For the past mentioned reason.
Myself: Then what? Hurt?
Me: Yes! if it came from a stranger, i can understand. However when it came from people you thought they were close. Subhann ALLAH! I'm human not a machine.

Ya Rabbi! O my dear GOD! O' my Lord!
People want me to wear their masks! Subhaan ALLAH
Poor little ones!

Salaam,
Hicham

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Flying Without Wings

2006-08-24T20:45:00.000Z

Assalam Alikom wa rahmat ALLAH
Peace and blessing be upon you

Hello Everybody

Today, I'd a meeting with Myself to seek for some answers about some questions. Well, Me + Myself, but Erine is not involved in such post [:P] Anyway, here's the short dialogue.

- Me: Can we fly without wings?
-- Myself: Hmm. I guess we can if we want!
- Me: How?
-- Myself: Well, it's all about imagination + inspiration.

As all of us know, life is hard and requires us to make continues effort in order to reach goals we need, either on the short run or on the long run. However Subhaan ALLAH, I always wonder, why people are tiding themselves to Earth in a way that causes troubles for them!

I totally understand that people are different in everything. I also might say that every person who was found on this planet since dawn of history is a unique character, inspite of being good or bad person.

I'm talking about how unique we are, and that's why ALLAH (swt) - GOD - created Man; i.e. to use his mind for the purpose of Urbanising Earth in order to gain reward from HIM (swt)

On the other hand, because many people do not understand that everyone is unique, and everyone can be unique; they spent their efforts in destroying not in building + creating. Well that's their own problem for sure, because everyone can be useful in case he/she discovered the power inside.

Why did I choose to fly?
Well, flying itself has two destinations. From + To. Let us see exactly what happened in the two phases.

1. Take off: Simply a bird flies from the early morning till the end of the day, looking for the daily food for himself + his family. Man also is called to fly higher and higher, not only for the food but also for a clear vision.

As you know, in Architecture + Urbanization (A+U), there's a perspective called "Bird's Eye Perspective" which allow the viewer to look at the place within the context around, which is something pretty close to what you do via Google Earth. Anyway, this help you to see better, and therefore understand better.

2. Landing: On the other hand, bird returns back home at the end of day to feed his family. Man also should return back to the normal view in order to take an action plan for solving problems on the ground, which he saw better within the higher level.

Simply I say, then, it's not about the flying itself, it's about the purpose.

The problem that people forget that ALLAH (swt) had gifted us with minds in order to use in the right way, and not to use it in a strange way, or sometimes do not use at all. Yes, I totally understand that people are not equall, however, why people are being tided to the ground? It's not only about minds; it's also about souls.

Simply, as body needs nutrition via food + drink + exercises, mind needs nutrition via using them in situations + developing them via reading. Of course, soul need nutrition via being in contact with the Creator, ALLAH (swt) / GOD

I want to highlight on this point because soul is the key for everything; you know, ascending process is always harder than descending one. That's why I think Man should make more effort to ascend higher to get reward from ALLAH (swt), while it's very easy to take the short-cut, i.e to descend.

Guys: ALLAH (swt) is the greatest. HE (swt) had gifted us, and dose not wants anything from us except worshiping from the wide perspective of personal worshiping + applying your role in your community. It's a parallel path Man should walkthrough in case

Finally,
As much as I'm flying without wings in the sky
I always return back to the ground as my original state
A Cat without a hat. However I do have 9 souls / 7 souls according to the Arab world.

You know what? "Abu Horaira" was one of the famous companions of Prophet Muhammed (pbuh) whom was nominated as No.1 in writing down/documenting Hadith of Prophet Muhammed (pbuh). Do you know what his name means? It means "Father of the Cats" because he loved cats so much and used to bring his own cat with him everywhere. How cute :)

Well, I can not pretend I'm Abou Horirah from the scholar point of view because the comparision means that I'm ZERO, however I'm trying to be at least from the Cat's point of view.

Well, not all people love cats, however I want to say Man should fly into the sky for a better view, and when he returns back to Earth, he should find the best way to fulfill the goals. In all things, ALAH (swt) must be the companion and the sustainer for people, in case they want real reward in everything + judgment day.

Wallahi - I swear - words can not express feelings of being so close to ALLAH (swt).

Why people do not spread there wings away and fly to ALLAH (swt)?

O' People! I wish if I could tell you how great ALLAH/GOD is

Salam,
Hicham

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Touched by an Angle

2006-08-15T17:55:00.000Z

Assalam Alikom wa rahmat ALLAH
Peace and blessing be upon you

Hello Everybody

Have you ever been touched by an angle? Hmm. I think I did :)

Okay, away from problems - either personal or global - I want to take you with me to this special journey. What I'm going to tell you in this post had happened to me couple of day ago. Before starting, I kindly want you to read it carefully; try to disconnect from anything/everything you are think about now - whatever it is - in order to get all the values I found from this story.

Disconnected? Well, re-connect with me [*smile*]
Ready, Steady and GO. [*wink*]

The story
Once upon a day, not far from today, I was returning back home from my work as I do every day. Well, my work is located outside my city, therefore, I used to travel every morning and went back home every night via public transportation.

As the distance is somehow long between my home + my work, so during this daily trip, I used to listen to the "good-bye" Sun whispers her younger sister Earth with, before leaving the space for their middle brother, the moon, in order to say his own "hello"

While I was sitting listening to these whispers, thinking about many things as usual, I saw something which makes me stop what I was doing on the short run, and made me think twice in many things on the long run, later after this situation end.

What happed?
I saw two couples, man + woman, who were trying to catch the bus. Something normal and happens every day everywhere, however the 1st abnormal thing that both of them were handicapped.

The two couples were trying to catch the bus I was in, but the driver didn't stop for them. The man didn't feel any kind of depression, and he started shouting to make people notice. We noticed what happened, and told the driver to stop for this family.

The couples got into the bus. They were moving very very very slowly. Meanwhile, after they site down near by me, I discovered that the man is deaf + dumb while his wife was blind.

Ya Rabbi, both? Yes! By the way, they are youth and not old, and I think they are at the late 20th or maximum the 1st quarter of 30th.

In fact, this was not the situation which made me stop + think. The two couples were not alone; they had their own baby, a girl who is not more than 2 years old. This little angle was the real reason to suspend everything I was thinking about and to start looking at her.

What about her? She was one of the prettiest babies I saw in my life. As we say in Arabic, she was "Amaar" which means very pretty like the Moon. Kindly note I do not use this expression to describe women with. Only with babies [:P].

This little angle was something great; not only as a white babe + blue eyes + light brown medium hair but also because of her smile which was marvelous.

I start looking at her, and smiling to her and then waving "bye-bye" for her. Ahm Ahm, hey I do this because she's a baby not a lady. Shall I? [:P]

Anyway, you can not imagine how happy this little angle was; I saw joy + happiness swimming within the ocean of her blue eyes and spreading its drops for only who notice. O' People! How great to see a pure smile on the faces of little babies, because they do not want anything from you.

Subhaan ALLAH! The male + female + the babe were handicapped. Yes, I didn't make typo mistakes as usual; as after few minutes from send/receive "bye-bye" between us, I discovered that the babe can not walk properly. However, her soul was something great, macha'ALLAH

Wallahi - I swear in Arabic - even if it is very clear that they are poor and for sure they have own problems, this family seems to be very happy.

Just look at them while they were leaving the bus to their destination; the man was holding his wife's hands to guide her in order to descend the steps and keep on making voices as if he was telling her to take care. In the same time, the wife keeps on saying "I'm okay! Do not worry; you watch your steps", while holding their baby on her shoulder while descending the steps of the bus.

Wallahi again, I'm not overwhelming if I said they were one of the happiest families I met since a long time ago.

Subbhan ALLAH.

O' ALLAH! You've created man from nothing, while Man keeps on complaining from nothing real in the matter of fact

Poor Human! You keep looking for happiness here and there, and forgets that happiness is very very very close!

Poor Human! You keep on complaining from stupid things, while people who really suffers are thanking the Creator for what they have!

O' Miserable creature! Who didn't discover the light within the dark, yet!

O' ALLAH! YOU (swt) are the Master of this Universe.
I wish I could thank HIM (swt) for the unlimited good things HE (swt) gave to me. However, I'm just human; therefore I'm tying to do my best to thank HIM (swt).

ALLAH (swt) know better, and know my intentions, so I wish that HE (swt) forgive me, and give me the strength and the power to thank HIM (swt) via Acts and Words.

O' People! I wish if I could tell you how great ALLAH/GOD is

Salam,
Hicham

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Knocking on Heaven's door

2006-07-30T16:15:00.000Z

Assalam Alikom wa rahmat ALLAH
Peace and blessing be upon you

Hello Everybody

Today is day 19 since Israel had assaulted Lebanon on July, 12th, 2006. This day is different because Israel had committed a new massacre in Qana where 57 innocent civilians were killed according to the BBC.

I want to say that what had happened really suites the mentalities which is rolling Israel since 1948 until today as I'd described the in the previous two posts; therefore I'm not willing to discuss it any more.

Today, I'm just a messenger; I'm carrying a message from this little girl; I'll call her Nur. Nur in the Arabic language = Light in English. Nur had told me something even if we didn't - and will not ever - meet on this planet; Nur said:

She: Salam, Hicham
Me: Salam, Nur.

Me: I don't know what to say
She: Don't be sad dear; I'm not the first, and I'll not be the last. This is the reality of this state.

Me: I know and I'd mentioned this before, but still don't know what to say.
She: Do you know what happened?

Me: No, you tell me.
She: I was sleeping in the basement of a house with my family, and an "intelligent missile" hit the house and killed us for no particular reason except the deep hate those people feel against us. They are twisting the truth, forget that they are occupying forces anganist resistance, and still find the support from the world.

Me: Did you feel anything?
She: I was just sleeping beside my brother, my sister, father and mother. Suddenly, I find this man holding me. Actually, he's holding my dead body which had left this planet without any sorrow. My soul is free; my country will be always free despite of what's happening now. Finally I shall meet my family in Heaven, and this is the real happiness.

Me: You are totally right.
She: Before leaving Earth to Heaven, I want to mention something: We will always be free. The real losers are the Israeli people on the long run as you mentioned before. Let them twist the truth, let their friends + supporters use the "veto" and say "Israel has the right to defend herself". Let the world watch without making any real progress. Let the supporters legitimate the actions in the name of "Self Defense". Let them find the courage to sleep in the night, and kill from behind. Let them say whatever they want to say, but you should know that we'll always be free, as much as everyone performs his role in the right way.

Me: You are totally right. Are you leaving now?
She: Yes, and I want to say one last thing before leaving: Poor humans! Who didn't discover the light inside yourself yet.

Any listeners? Any one who understand? I'm leaving. Salam

Salam, May ALLAH bless your soul

Against the Wall

Salam,
Hicham

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Aganist the Wall

2006-07-25T06:03:00.000Z

Assalam Alikom wa rahmat ALLAH
Peace and blessings be upon you

Hello Everybody

No, this post is not discussing the famous 1982 Pink Floyd's album; rather it is discussing the current Israeli assault against Lebanon, which is approaching its second week (14 days!).

1. Intro
First of all, if you didn't read my previous post yet, please take few minutes to read it as the current one is build over it and I hate duplicating the words.

For those who had read the previous one; you will find some duplication of words because some of my comments shall be mentioned again but this time in a separate post.

2. Overview
Okay, let us start I intended to describe what Israel is doing with the world "assault" instead of the common word "offensive" which is widely used via the majority of news agencies; because what is happening in Lebanon can't be described as offensive only; it's rather a complete assault against a country which is a member in the U.N. since 24th of October, 1945 while Israel is a member of U.N. since 11th May, 1949. [ source = U.N. ]

Israel – with total support from its colleges worldwide – is twisting the truth, and wants people to forget that they are occupation forces. Yet Israel was declared as a state on 15th May, 1948. Such declaration came as the according to The Balfour Declaration signed on 2nd November 1917. Later Israel became member of U.N. on 11th May, 1949 (one year after declaration of the state).

I'm not willing to discuss the history or the political situation in this post. However, I just want to mention the dates because history is a good starting point. Talking about history, since the declaration of Israel as state until now, the successive Israeli governments was to shape the world opinion to support Israel against Arab, because they – Arab - are "terrorists" who want to destroy Israel. Very funny how the Zionists twist the truth and want people to forget that they are occupying Arab lands specially after 1967.

Okay, a worldwide fact stats that Israel is a member state in the U.N., but what did this country – represented in their leaders – offer to the word except killing civilians in Palestine and Lebanon with its arsenal, killing children and women via their warplanes, destroying cultivated lands with bulldozers and abusing prisoners of war inside its jails and finally, destroying the entire infra structure of a U.N. state member – Lebanon – in the name of Self defending.

When resistance reply, the Israeli say they are terrorists, and should be blamed! So funny how occupation force is talking against the legal resistance forces and world is just watching and legitimating the actions. Legitimating actions is not only by directly supporting the Israeli statements, but I consider people who are listening to one side only – Israel – and ignore the other side of the problem – Arab not only Lebanese, I think they are making the situation worries. At least, the 1st team is clear.

Sorry people! Killing the innocent people in this brutal way is not a self-defense action at all. It's barbaric action, which can not be legitimated under any mean or within any mind that really care about humanity.

In the World War II, Jewish had been abused via the Holocaust. This is a historic fact not deny. It was illigal acts aganist innocent people (Jewish + others) who were killed for no particular reason except the hate!

As mentioned in the previous post, I understand well the difference between Jew and Zionist. Thereby, I don't have this stereotype image that many people have against Muslims when they say Muslim = Terrorist.

For god sake, how can world describe the Israeli actions? Self-Defending. You may have watched the photos of the current attacks against civilians in Lebanon – and same against civilians in Palestine, which is a real holocaust. What is happening now had happened before: in Sabra and Shatila (1982) + Qana (1996), and the world is still watching. Before them, in 1970, the Israeli Air forces had bombed a school of kids in Egypt called (Bahr el-Bakar) and world is watching.

Same Mentaities that do not care about any other races except themselves since 1948 untill now, and still no one can dare to raise a voice aganist them because they don't want to look for the situation from all perspectives.

3 Light through Dark
The U.N. had been established for the welfare of humanity after the stupid actions of Word War II, but unfortunately, when governments don't care about people injustice will reveal as we see today in many places worldwide.

As I mentioned in a previous issue of I-MAG, I believe that U.N. is still a good place to be a real meeting point for countries to co-operate, not for countries to fight!

If you check my profile, you'll find me mentioning that I believe – and always belive – that we must co-operate to the welfare of humanity, and to spend our efforts in building not in creating another ruins on this planet.

4. To the Israeli Nation
You didn't proof anything yet except supporting the killing of the innocent people. Your actions + your words since 1948 until now is telling so. The wall which you are building to separate yourself from the other's is not only placed physically on the ground in Palestine; rather it's placed in your minds because you do not want to listen, apply force, see situations only from your perspectives and let the others burn.

If you are really looking for peace, try to destroy the wall, as the Germans did in Berlin 1989, and try to find the way to communicate + respect the others. It doesn't matter wither you are an Oxford or Harvard graduate if you can not see what human life means, or respect the other races.

In fact, you are loosing on both: the short run and the long run; loosing peace, hiding behind the wall of fear which you had created by your hands. In fact, you are loosing everything.

5. Final Words
Human Rights means that every one has the right to live in peace on this planet, not matter what the colour, race, and faith. Thereby, they should be placed in actions among all countries, not only to be printed over some papers and became a document (ref 123/xyz) in the U.N. archive.

On the other hand, it's very important not to judge people according to their races or their faith; rather judge them according to their words + actions. That what Islam taught us, as the final message from ALLAH (swt) to Mankind. That's why Islam is not accepting terrorism; simply because it came as mercy for Mankind for only who want to listen. In parallel, if you are not Muslim, Islam respects you. Human Rights was placed within Islam since 622. A.D. via prophet Muhammed (pbuh) whom were insulted before because of some people who do not understand / do not want to understand the others well.

Neither me nor you can really judge the others' intentions; rather our Lord, ALLAH (swt) is the ONLY ONE who shall judge everybody at the Judgment day according to the whole package: Intentions + Actions + Words, because HE (swt) is GOD. Those meanings were discussed in details various issues of I-MAG Magazine before.

We are not ALLAH (swt), We are not the Creator of the World
We are neither Angles nor Devils; we are just Humans
Humans = subjected to do the right and the Wrong all the time

Shall we hear and understand?
Shall everybody worldwide try to improve the situation?

Say No and Protest. Go a head; Write, and resist.
Help the refugees. Aid the people as much as you can.
Work for Humanity when you performe your role as human

If you can not do anything from this
At least: supplicate for the Creator.

Work = Think globally + Act Locally

UPDATE (1): Click on the photo in this post to sign the petition aganist Israeli assault.

Salam,
Hicham

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The Death and Destruction Show

2006-07-16T02:53:00.000Z

Assalam Alikom wa rahmat ALLAH
Peace and blessings be upon you

Hello Everybody

1st of all, I want to apologies for everyone who might read this long post, because it is the first one after being back to my blog. It's long one so forgive me. Let's start this long post.

Intro
"Vee, Voo, Vam." Those are the daily sounds people used to hear in ME since June 2006.

The Situation
While the world was busy following the fair battles on the green pitch to know who'll win the 2006 Word Cup, In Palestine, Israeli forces launched another unfair battle on the 28th of June 2006, which took place this time on the red pitch of civilians blood who were killed during an operation on Gazza Strip called "Operation Summer Rain".

Two weeks later in Lebanon, on the 12th of July 2006, the Israeli forces launched a second military operation called "Operation Just Reward" which became later "Operation Change of Direction" in respond to an operation executed by Hizb allah (Hizbollah) called "Operation True Promise".

I know that the world opinion says that the both operations from Israel are considered as "Self-Defense" against the terrorist attacks. Well, my reply for this is one word: "How funny when people convert + twist the truth".

The international community used to talk about human rights, and how should all countries respect them, but when it came to this country which is not more than an Occupation Force since 1948, World can not raise any voice.

It's very strange how people convert the situations and legitimates the actions of an occupation force in the name of Human rights, while when that occupation force uses their Air Force + Navy Forces to bomb Beirut's infra structure and to kill civilians, no one can raise a voice because they are "defending themselves".

I'll assume they have this right – even if they are occupation forces – whey are they destroying the Infra Structure of Lebanon and apply a complete siege over Lebanon? Why destroying Beirut International Airport which carry the name "Rafik Hariry International Airport", Rafik whom had been assassinated. Why bombing civilians in Palestine and Lebanon including women and children?

Call it revenge, call it dark souls, call it minds that don't have any kind of respect to another human race except themselves. Call it whatever you want to call; as this suites most of the Israeli governments since 1948 untill now.

As I always say, no one likes violence. We – as Arab and Muslims – understand well the difference between terrorism and resistance. No one accept terrorism because it's forbidden by default according to the Islamic taught. However, when it came to resist an occupation force, things are different.

I want to highlight again that civilians should always be out of the war actions.

On the other hand, Islam had guarantee how to deal with "prisoners of war" and how to respect them and not to hurt them, because at last they are human beings created by one and only one, the creator, ALLAH (swt), even if they are not following Islam.

Don't tell me look what al-Qaeda or Zarkawi had done with prisoners, because this is not from Islam and those kind of people are not representing the real Islam at all.

On the other hand, we understand well the difference between a Jew, and a Zionist. We don't have this misconception which most of people have against Muslims when they say Muslim = Terrorist.

Light through the Dark
I don’t see a single solution for the current situation. As I always write in I-MAG, the International Organization which was raised for the welfare of the world after World War II, called U.N. must play a real role in the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Israel should understand that Arab is not accepting what they are doing with killing the civilians in the name of self defending.

In the same time, we don't want war. That's why we presented a "Peace Initiative" @ 2002 via Saudi Arabia to reach a state of peace, but Israel doesn't want to listen. They are talking about disarming the resistance, and want people to forget that they are occupation force for the Arab land in Palestine + Syria + Lebanon.

Thereby, I can't blame a resistance for fighting any occupation force in any country within any Era. If the current situation of world was revealing during the World War II, I think Charles de Gaulle would have been accused of being terrorist!

The Solution
The international community – represented in the UN – didn't take the right steps to stop the barbarian attacks and make a way to exchange prisoners among the two sides untill now. That's a short term solution, because I still believe in the power of UN as I'd mentiond in I-MAG before.

A long term solution is to find a way to execute a real peace in ME, including the Iraqi situation, An urgent and real action plan that serves all nations in ME should be placed or else, I think we'll found ourselves in a situation worries than now.

Finally
To Lebanon + Palestine + Iraq + Arab: Don't let riot found its way to reveal. Supporting the Palestinian + Lebanese nation is a must to re-build what had been destroyed in the 3 comtries.

To the Israeli Nation: If you want real peace, proof it! Proof it in Palestine, Lebanon and Syria. It doesn't matter to be a Harvard or Oxford graduate if you didn't know how to respect the others.

The darkest moments are those just before the dawn comes

Updates: Kindly, Sign the Petition and spread the word!

Updates2: I want to thank everybody who had stopped by my blog. Kindly read the comments of this post to complete the perspective.

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Salam,
Hicham

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