Zeitgeist Addendum - Watch here

October 4th, 2008

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The Arrivals

September 29th, 2008

This is an independently made series explaining a group of amateur researchers’ theories on how everything, from the existence of Humanity, good and evil, religion, belief in God, government, history, the advent of Islam, the Islamic belief in Imam Mahdi, etc, are connected.

The video embedded below is Part 40. There are a few more parts to go. Each part is about 10 minutes long. Some of the earlier parts which I had viewed were actually a bit draggy and repetitive, but the overall message I take away from it is profound.

It’s a bit like Zeitgeist or Loose Change, but the unifying end theme of this series is something very close to my heart.

You can view the entire series by subscribing to the producer’s channel here.

Of all the episodes, I think the one embedded below, the latest so far as of this moment, is most important. I advise you begin with this episode, then watch all the other episodes from the beginning, and come back here again for a refresher:-

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The Atheist Paradox

September 22nd, 2008

Food for thought:

“It is philosophically impossible to be an atheist, since to be an atheist you must have infinite knowledge in order to know absolutely that there is no God. But to have infinite knowledge, you would have to be God yourself. It’s hard to be God yourself and an atheist at the same time!”

- Ron Carlson & Ed Decker, Authors, Fast Facts on False Teachings.

Note:

Of course, I don’t agree that one need to be absolutely certain there is no God in order to be an Atheist.

Absolute certainty founded on absolute knowledge of a subject is not a necessary prerequisite for one to adopt a particular philosophical outlook or world view. Ironically, it takes faith.

Interestingly, by saying the above I have both proven and disproven the premise of the quoted authors.

I love paradoxes. 

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‘Muslims’ who hate the Prophet

September 22nd, 2008

Shiah Muslim websites hacked by Nasibi ‘Muslim’ extremists

Imam Jaafar as-Sadiq AS has said: “A Nasib is one who bears enmity to us the Ahlul Bayt, but since you will never find a person who says, ‘I hate Muhammad and the family of Muhammad’, he is openly hostile to you since he knows that you follow us (the Ahlul Bayt) and (since he knows) that you are of our Shiah.”

Thawaab al-Amaal by Shaykh Saduq.

You speak truly, my Imam! Bear witness…

The Velvet Revolution

September 20th, 2008

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A Drop in the Ocean

September 19th, 2008

My condolences to the Faithful, for the martyrdom of their Master, Imam Ali Ibn Abi Thalib AS, on the 21st of Ramadhan, 40th year of the Hijrah.

The Faithful convey their condolences to Rasulullah SAWA his brother, to Fatimah Az Zahra AS his equal companion and to his children, the Imams from the Ahlul Bayt AS, especially to the Imam of This Age, Muhammad Al-Mahdi AJTFS.

Imam Ali is undisputedly incontestably incomparably the greatest personality in Islam, of Islam, for Islam and from Islam, second only to the Noble Prophet Muhammad SAWA. If Muhammad SAWA is the best teacher, Ali is his best student.

The Prophet had said of Ali, “O Ali, love for you is true faith (imaan), while hatred for you is hypocrisy (nifaaq)”. Like his brother, the Prophet himself, Ali is a polarised figure. Like his predecessor, Muhammad SAWA, he is one of the most loved as well as the most hated personalities in history.

He is loved for his generosity, nobility, magnanimity, valour, wisdom, brilliance, mercy and liberality. Yet he is hated by the hypocrites and the treacherous for his unflinching devotion to justice and preserving the purity of Islam.

Yet his true lovers, followers and devotees will find that even if all the books in existence were to be made into praises for him, they would not do justice to him.

Some more points about Imam Ali:-

- The ONLY Muslim or human being for that matter to have been born in the House of Allah, the Holy Ka’abah.

- The ONLY Muslim to have given zakat (alms) while praying, in the state of Ruku’ as revealed in the Quran, Chapter 5 Verse 55.

- The ONLY Muslim who 100% never questioned the Prophet and always supported him in everything, while other Muslims and Companions occasionally had their human moments.

- Yet despite all his greatness and the praises which he absolutely deserve, he describes himself only as a “Servant of Muhammad”. Despite his undefeatable ferocity on the battlefield in the defence of Islam (and he is the best defender of Islam, Khalid Bin Walid, Salahaddin, etc, cannot compare to a single stroke of his sword), he is so humble such that sometimes beggars who eat from his hands mistook him as someone even poorer than them, and in prayer, he is the best example of one who upholds the prayer after the Prophet.

- His in-depth knowledge of Islam and the Quran was of such genius proportions that the Companions and the Caliphs after Rasulullah would only turn to him as a trusted authority on religious, political, social, even occasionally mathematical matters, despite being narrators of hadith themselves. His deep knowledge of Islam was evident in the fact that he never manifested any signs of doubt or forgetfulness in giving his answers or delivering his sermons; there was absolutely no uncertainty in him, it was as if Rasulullah was still alive and dictating to him when he was giving his guidance. Many Jews and Christians with questions about Islam did not embrace Islam only until they get satisfied by the answers of Imam Ali AS; for the answers of no one else could satisfy them of the truth of Islam.

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Was Islam spread by the sword?

September 15th, 2008

Sayed Ammar Nakshawani gave a lecture analysing the history of the spread of Islam, discusses the concept of freedom and the importance of freedom of speech, the Inquisition and also a reply to the Pope.

No other young Islamic scholar I know of could deliver what he had delivered:-

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The Earliest Terrorists in the History of Islam & the Obligation for All Rational Muslims to CONDEMN Them

September 13th, 2008

Dr Zakir Naik was asked as to Yazid Ibn Muawiyah (may Allah deprive him and his followers of His Mercy), the so-called Caliph in the History of Islam who was infamous for the murder of Imam Husain, the Grandson of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him and his progeny).

To be fair, Dr Zakir Naik did not praise Yazid nor express explicitly that he approved of what Yazid had done. What he did do though was to say, “May Allah be pleased with him”, referring to Yazid.

Here are some of the traits & habits of Yazid according to renowned Sunni scholar-historians:

  • He loved drinking alcohol even though he was the so-called Caliph of the Muslims.
  • He committed incest with his own mother.
  • He pleased himself with “beautiful young boys without facial hair” (I leave it to your imagination).
  • He said that the religion of Islam was nothing more than a political plot for Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him and his family) to gain power over Arabia.
  • He played with monkeys more than he engaged in worship (if he EVER did any worship).
  • After the battle of Karbala, he ordered the raid on the cities of Medina and Mecca. In Medina, his soldiers pillaged the houses, slaughtered the Muslim civilians and raped the women. In Mecca, his army burnt and destroyed the Kaabah, the holiest shrine of Islam, the very House of Allah, with catapults.

Sayed Ammar Nakhshawani, a young Shiah scholar and speaker, replies to the Doctor’s expression of opinion in this lecture:-

A reply to Zakir Naik about Yazid by Ammar Nakhshawani - 1/9

A reply to Zakir Naik about Yazid by Ammar Nakhshawani - 2/9

A reply to Zakir Naik about Yazid by Ammar Nakhshawani - 3/9

A reply to Zakir Naik about Yazid by Ammar Nakhshawani - 4/9

A reply to Zakir Naik about Yazid by Ammar Nakhshawani - 5/9

A reply to Zakir Naik about Yazid by Ammar Nakhshawani - 6/9

A reply to Zakir Naik about Yazid by Ammar Nakhshawani - 7/9

A reply to Zakir Naik about Yazid by Ammar Nakhshawani - 8/9

A reply to Zakir Naik about Yazid by Ammar Nakhshawani - 9/9

Note: The speaker, Sayed Sheikh Ammar Nakhshawani, is just my age!

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The God Particle

September 11th, 2008

I think the greatest modern boon one could have in this Internet age is to be featured on the home page of Google. No, not the 1st page of search listings after people type in their search query. But to be ON the home page of Google itself.

Today, September 11th 2008, as I get online, I see the graphic of the LHC encircling the Google logo, like an Ouroboros.

The LHC, or the Large Hadron Collider, is presently the world’s largest particle accelerator that was built to collide opposing high energy beams of hadrons. One of its aims is to verify the existence of the God particle or the Higgs Boson, a hypothetical entity attributed to giving mass to matter.

Check out these related links:

Large Hadron Collider activated successfully

Stephen Hawking bets $100 the LHC won’t work

Why the Large Hadron Collider must be stopped

Don’t panic: Large Hadron Collider won’t spawn voracious black holes
My commentary on this article: the author recalled how when the first atomic bomb was tested, people were worried it might ignite the whole atmosphere, but it didn’t. He compared it with the paranoia today surrounding the LHC. But then he forgot that though the first A-Bomb did not ignite the atmosphere, it spawned a new age of uncertainty and nuclear proliferation.

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The Ummah

September 10th, 2008

The following video is of a function titled “How to Achieve Muslim Unity between Sunni and Shiah” held during last year’s birth anniversary of the Prophet -

My transcript / minutes / comments coming soon.