be nice to your pets!!

Hadith / Customary Narrative of the Holy Prophet of Allah PBUH
Volume 1, Book 12, Number 712:
Narrated Asma' bint Abi Bakr:
The Prophet once offered the eclipse prayer. He stood for a long time and then did a prolonged bowing. He stood up straight again and kept on standing for a long time, then bowed a long bowing and then stood up straight and then prostrated a prolonged prostration and then lifted his head and prostrated a prolonged prostration. And then he stood up for a long time and then did a prolonged bowing and then stood up straight again and kept on standing for a long time. Then he bowed a long bowing and then stood up straight and then prostrated a prolonged prostration and then lifted his head and went for a prolonged prostration. On completion o the prayer, he said, "Paradise became so near to me that if I had dared, I would have plucked one of its bunches for you and Hell became so near to me that I said, 'O my Lord will I be among those people?' Then suddenly I saw a woman and a cat was lacerating her with it claws. On inquiring, it was said that the woman had imprisoned the cat till it died of starvation and she neither fed it no freed it so that it could feed itself."

The implications go beyond pets. Lets take a look at ecology and deforestation, and the destruction of animal habitat all over the world. For example - we should all feel responsible for the current trend of polar bear forced to leave the arctic in search of food. Polar bears have actually been spotted in grizzly bear habitat - but they don't have a clue on the food forraging methods of the grizzly. Let's take it easy on the climate change trend and avoid playing the role of the woman in the hadith/customary narrative (who could have been a good religious woman otherwise).

Please read HERE
Therein is placed a hadith regarding putting nuisance strays to sleep, which occurs today, the local shelters here put stray cats to sleep. I am not sure if I agree that they are a nuisance however.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090425.html

The Ultimate Pyramid Scheme

Check it out!

http://www.hiddenmysteries.org/

go to mysteries, then the second heading called Pyramid Dollar.

not as big as it looks mind you.

Surah 29

Al Ankabut - The Spider

~ 41 ~

مَثَلُ الَّذِينَ اتَّخَذُوا مِن دُونِ اللَّهِ أَوْلِيَاء كَمَثَلِ الْعَنكَبُوتِ اتَّخَذَتْ بَيْتًا وَإِنَّ أَوْهَنَ الْبُيُوتِ لَبَيْتُ الْعَنكَبُوتِ لَوْ كَانُوا يَعْلَمُونَ

The parable of those who take protectors other than Allah is that of the spider, who builds (to itself) a house; but truly the flimsiest of houses is the spider's house;- if they but knew.

~ 46 ~
وَلَا تُجَادِلُوا أَهْلَ الْكِتَابِ إِلَّا بِالَّتِي هِيَ أَحْسَنُ إِلَّا الَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا مِنْهُمْ وَقُولُوا آمَنَّا بِالَّذِي أُنزِلَ إِلَيْنَا وَأُنزِلَ إِلَيْكُمْ وَإِلَهُنَا وَإِلَهُكُمْ وَاحِدٌ وَنَحْنُ لَهُ
مُسْلِمُونَ
And dispute ye not with the People of the Book, except with means better (than mere disputation), unless it be with those of them who inflict wrong (and injury): but say, "We believe in the revelation which has come down to us and in that which came down to you; Our Allah and your Allah is one; and it is to Him we bow (in Islam)."

Zionist Racism at Racism conference.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/burningIssues/idUKTRE53J3PI20090420?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0

As described in the link; it is apparently inflammatory to accuse Israel of perpetuating racism as claimed by Ahmadinejad.

Now, lets THINK about htis clearly. Take a step back and look at the big picture. Why did delegates stage this walk-out, when here is what was spoken through a translator:

"And they sent migrants from Europe, the United States and mother parts of the world in order to establish a totally racist government in the occupied Palestine,"

OK, are these comments valid? True or False you cant go and throw them out the window because one FEELS they are anti-semetic. Personally, all that ahmadinejad said was true and on par with the historical and current situation in Israel there is no question whatsoever.

But this is the callous nature of Israeli/Zionist propaganda. If someone points a finger at you, just point a big stick at them, bait and switch.

This is only an example of what has been going on for a century, ever heard on the ADL?, which should be called the J-ADL. Their sole mandate: to counter any criticism of Zionist Israel by branding the critic as antisemetic. You dont like the bombing of palestinian civillians? ANTISEMITE. You dont like the wall? antisemite! radical! You dont agree with starving a nation of food, water and basic needs? antisemite! Oh you think we are racist to muslims and gentiles alike! "... am not, you are! In Fact you're an antisemite", that's worse than being a racist these days, of course.

Zohan

It appears that in popular american media, references to Islam and Arab culture are extremely defamatory, derogatory, and downright inaccurate. I strongly believe that muslims in the world need to form a body that will not only counter these views, but also create a forum where we can justifiably present our views on western/semitic culture. It could be in the form of a cartoon like South Park, or movies, or a weekly interenet broadcast series. Whatever it is there must be some kind of fire with fire measure. God has all the Power and is worthy of All Praise, regardless of what lies media cowards want to spread, but we really need to make that clear.
http://www.countercurrents.org/marrouchi060508.htm
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=9&section=0&article=110090&d=21&m=5&y=2008

~ 35:9 ~

وَاللَّهُ الَّذِي أَرْسَلَ الرِّيَاحَ فَتُثِيرُ سَحَابًا فَسُقْنَاهُ إِلَى بَلَدٍ مَّيِّتٍ فَأَحْيَيْنَا بِهِ الْأَرْضَ بَعْدَ مَوْتِهَا كَذَلِكَ النُّشُورُ

It is Allah Who sends forth the Winds, so that they raise up the Clouds, and We drive them to a land that is dead, and revive the earth therewith after its death: even so (will be) the Resurrection!

Climate And Vegetation of Africa South of the Sahara
- Great slide show showing symptoms of our ill planet, esp. rain forests and 'sahels' in dire need of resurrection.

NICHES - this is a fantastic document written in the same terminology as was used in an "Engineering and the Environment" course I took back in univ. But what I am getting at here is the delicate balance between wind, water, earth... and sometimes fire (California Forest Fires of 2007). Funny thing is that even with the documented degradation to this essential system of ocean currents which feed the sahara and sahels with precipitate bearing easterlies which that big chunk of Africa has always relied on for sustenance - the chart to the right shows possible increase in future precip. As follows:

"So the answer to the question of greening or further desertification for the Sahara-Sahel is uncertain, at least in the IPCC’s Third Annual Report (TAR). The predictions five years later in the Fourth Annual Report may be more reliable - we’ll just have to wait and see. What happens in this vast, 30 million square mile region of Africa will have huge impacts elsewhere on Earth, as I’ll get to in the final Dust post."

Now the Quranic verse on top should not deter non muslims here. You are all welcome. I didnt intend for this blog to have religious inference, but when I came accross the verse it compelled me to put some media together. Atleast its a relief, with all of the ills of the earth there is still this promise from our Creator to revive and ressurect; a parable for the day of judgement, yet with factual environmental implication nonetheless.

-Siraaj