Chistmas, a constant innovation is being taking place for the past at least 20 years to a millenia of its meaning. The Classic critique of Christmas day relating to the Mythriac traditions are never dealt with. Taking this aside, christmas has become a Holiday season, Symbolic, and even its symbolism has lost meaning. What does Christmas mean to the vast masses ? Surely in the Secular world it has been reduced to "a reason for social interaction with family/friends and a day off for most" The greeting of "Happy Holidays" is suited now to the "Christian" masses.
The constant deriding of Christ and God is NO more a cultural taboo ....
The reduction of Christmas, in its Symbolism, i say is a continuing and slow one.... The Church has throughout history been hidden, apologetic, bending over backwards and changing/adapting the "rules" of its principles and relgion to somehow fit into the Secular model or ways of the masses irrespective of the teachings/principles of the bible ...
The Christians are in realisation of this fact and have become divided from more vocal secularists .... What a shame .... at least once upon a time, we The "God inclined" could share commonality" with those who "who celebrated xmas for the Sake of God" (i can reminese to those times)....
So is say, the Status of Christ, The status of God, is more deserving to be Held by the Muslims .... Surely if there was a Mass of Christ, the Muslims would be more deserving to hold it.
Tuesday, 28 December 2010
Saturday, 18 December 2010
The Future is for islaam (in more ways than one)
Some may know the hadiths (sayings of the prophet) regarding the signs before the Day
of Judgement, a few of them regarding Kingship, Tyrants, the Fall of Rome and Rejoicing of the Muslims .
All prophecies foretold which become reality, yet we are waiting for many other events which have not come to pass. One of these is the eventual success of the Ummah (nation of islam) and subsequent ignorance ,,,,,
If i were to plot the current state of the Ummah on a bell curve-like representation it would surely be at the lower right end, with the major downward spiral already taken place ....
Yet, I want to pose a point, Success (in history) for the muslims correlated many a time with success militarily, in wealth and arts/science (see Golden islamic age) as is the course for any civilization .... If we take a GDP nominal and GDP per capita muslim nations (and eastern nations) now, we would find them lagging in ratios of up to 40:1 (per capita) and (20:1) per GDP output (these are aproximate "guestimates") for the sake in point. Yet in (as close as) 30-35 years Goldman sachs who predicted the Rise of the BRIC [1] (Brazil, Russia, India and China) the new super powers have also predicted N11 (Next 11) [2] , These are the new Emerging markets the powers of the future.
To Summarise what can be a very long discussion, the next 30-35 years it can be seen that many of the N11 nations are islamic ones, and nearly all Eastern (Asia). Combining this with the BRIC we can see that the G30 nations will be dominated by Eastern and islamic countries !
And what about GDP?For example, lets take Egypt, it will have a higher output than italy (double that) and it's GDP will be at a ration of (1:2) .... considering it's around 1:20 at present !
So this new found wealth, high GDP output, high GDP per capita with an even higher purchasing power parity, for a whole host of islamic and asiatic countries what will this mean for GEO-Political issues .... Well, the easy answer is, that it will all be very different ,,,, and so will the world.
[1] http://www2.goldmansachs.com/ideas/brics/book/99-dreaming.pdf
[2] http://www.internationalbusinessreport.com/Reports/Focus-reports/2008_emerging_markets.asp
of Judgement, a few of them regarding Kingship, Tyrants, the Fall of Rome and Rejoicing of the Muslims .
All prophecies foretold which become reality, yet we are waiting for many other events which have not come to pass. One of these is the eventual success of the Ummah (nation of islam) and subsequent ignorance ,,,,,
If i were to plot the current state of the Ummah on a bell curve-like representation it would surely be at the lower right end, with the major downward spiral already taken place ....
Yet, I want to pose a point, Success (in history) for the muslims correlated many a time with success militarily, in wealth and arts/science (see Golden islamic age) as is the course for any civilization .... If we take a GDP nominal and GDP per capita muslim nations (and eastern nations) now, we would find them lagging in ratios of up to 40:1 (per capita) and (20:1) per GDP output (these are aproximate "guestimates") for the sake in point. Yet in (as close as) 30-35 years Goldman sachs who predicted the Rise of the BRIC [1] (Brazil, Russia, India and China) the new super powers have also predicted N11 (Next 11) [2] , These are the new Emerging markets the powers of the future.
To Summarise what can be a very long discussion, the next 30-35 years it can be seen that many of the N11 nations are islamic ones, and nearly all Eastern (Asia). Combining this with the BRIC we can see that the G30 nations will be dominated by Eastern and islamic countries !
And what about GDP?For example, lets take Egypt, it will have a higher output than italy (double that) and it's GDP will be at a ration of (1:2) .... considering it's around 1:20 at present !
So this new found wealth, high GDP output, high GDP per capita with an even higher purchasing power parity, for a whole host of islamic and asiatic countries what will this mean for GEO-Political issues .... Well, the easy answer is, that it will all be very different ,,,, and so will the world.
[1] http://www2.goldmansachs.com/ideas/brics/book/99-dreaming.pdf
[2] http://www.internationalbusinessreport.com/Reports/Focus-reports/2008_emerging_markets.asp
Sunday, 5 December 2010
Finding something Offensive ....
In this secular world we live .... Where God is mocked, The prophets Mocked and religion Mocked, Why do we (islamic and religious peoples) find offense (to the extreme) in this ?
For the non muslim to understand the person has to alter his/her mindset .... So What do i mean by this?
The answer, i say, rests in the understanding of "What is Sacred" !!
The understanding of Sacreligious is something overlooked, denied and unapreciated... "What" is offensive and "Why" something is offensive (when mocking sacreligiousity) is thus not apreciated In our modern era "The Sacred" is placed side-by-side and with equal measure that which is not Sacred ... "Homesexuality, Race, God .... the prophets" Are these all the same?
When "That which Sacred" is apreciated in its entirety and given its due weight apreciating "what is offensive and why it is offensive" will similarly be apreciable...
So why does the mockery of God, the prophets offend muslims ?
Holding something "Sacred" is "not to cross the line, is something that is more loved than ones life itself, than ones mother, than ones father, country and graves of dead siblings ... " This is an attempt to articulate what "The Sacred" means to oineself .. but is more than what mere words can express since the heart cannot write ..... !!
As we know Freedom of speech has its limits ! But to cross the line into "What is held Sacred" has to be understood by the "not-religiously inclined ..." into why offence is caused !!
For the non muslim to understand the person has to alter his/her mindset .... So What do i mean by this?
The answer, i say, rests in the understanding of "What is Sacred" !!
The understanding of Sacreligious is something overlooked, denied and unapreciated... "What" is offensive and "Why" something is offensive (when mocking sacreligiousity) is thus not apreciated In our modern era "The Sacred" is placed side-by-side and with equal measure that which is not Sacred ... "Homesexuality, Race, God .... the prophets" Are these all the same?
When "That which Sacred" is apreciated in its entirety and given its due weight apreciating "what is offensive and why it is offensive" will similarly be apreciable...
So why does the mockery of God, the prophets offend muslims ?
Holding something "Sacred" is "not to cross the line, is something that is more loved than ones life itself, than ones mother, than ones father, country and graves of dead siblings ... " This is an attempt to articulate what "The Sacred" means to oineself .. but is more than what mere words can express since the heart cannot write ..... !!
As we know Freedom of speech has its limits ! But to cross the line into "What is held Sacred" has to be understood by the "not-religiously inclined ..." into why offence is caused !!
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