Friday, October 06, 2006

United Arab Interstellar League Energon Receiver Machine 


United Arab Interstellar League Energon Receiver Machine
Originally uploaded by perfectlymadebirds.

Salams!

Why not? the caption that goes with it is quite something but you have click through to see that by this eccentric American artist who dresses as an Arab maybe he's Muslim Allahu Alim

Otherwise weird sleep schedules ruling my life, destroying productivity Alhamdullilah! I can't keep a rhythm, sleeping hardly at all for a couple of days, Allah is doing strange things!

would like to think He's trying to help me maximise ibada' during this month wa Allahu Alim

~~
Please don't take this the wrong way, this is an observation only

Soberingly I had to perfrom on of my pillars by hand, to the poor in my neighbourhood, Alhamdullilah I visted widows, blind people, miserable abandoned wives & struggling daughters, the sick , the paraplegic, the weak, the helpless, the old, the almost forgotten...I saw their decrepid living quarters, families in one room, to weak to get up out of bed some of them all known to be decent people of taqwa, I was led to them by sincere brothers who know all the people in need...Alhamdullilah

this is their only social security their local community... literally a couple of hundred metres away is the presidential palace, sickening



so many, indeed there's here a city full of them & just the biggest city in Africa

I went home & couldn't help but cry thinking about the pain etched in their faces & my selfish, lucky life as a westerner & what the hell am I doing? Why aren't I doing more? All these people my brothers & sisters drowning in utter poverty..with an Alhamdullilah on their lips

there right there right now while I'm in expensive internet cafe

you can go back to whatever your doing now...


Comments:
salaams;

sadly Truth for most of us...

as Neal Stephenson once wrote (paraphrasing) while "80% of humanity is making mud bricks, most of the rest are field-stripping their AKs" - there is evil to the (im)balance of power. We should not be grateful that the economic and political systems allow us to be comfortable while others suffer, we should be grateful that Allah has not punished us, but has rather allowed us life & time to remedy the situation.

Thank Allah for tawba...
and may Allah guide and forgive the ignorant.
 
Salaam!

Is there any way we can get some Zakaat/Sadaqah to these people? Perhaps via you, or the brothers...

was-Salaam
abdul-Khaliq
 
As salaamu alaikum Matthew

How true your words are! Subhan Allah! It's true: people can be ennobled by hardness and humiliated by wealth!

The sad fact today is that there is sooo much poverty. But, brother, you are not asked to change the whole world, merely to do whatever you can, wherever and whenever you can do it.

Ma'as salama,
Abdur Rahman
 
This state is true in all countries, brother. Even Washington DC, the US Capitol, is surrounded by slums of extreme poverty. Little is done by the government. Yet to be poor with Alhamdulillah on your lips is better than to be rich with only yourself in your thoughts. IN the end, all are dust. When our souls stand before Allah, which of us will bear the greater burden?

Ya Haqq!
 
Salam Sidi Matthew

Thanks for this.

Very True.
I guess we must remember that the portions of everything are given in due measure for all. And not everything is how it appears...

And that piccy above is :-O

Wasalam, duas and may the Grace of God remain upon us all

Bint-eh Adam
 
Assalamu Alaikum Matthew
I hope you are OK. It seems you got so busy that you did not post for almost a month.

Wassalamu Alaikum

Nasser
Al Madina Al Munawara
 
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