20.9.07

قوم يابو خالد


قوم يا "أبو خالد" .. قوم يا وحــــش
شوف في غيابك .. جانا كام جـحـش
باعوا الصــــــــــــــانع ويَّا الـزارع
باعوا كنيســــة و بعـدها جــــــــامع
باعوا المينـــــــا و باعــوا مصـــانع
أجروا ســينا مفــــروش بالعـــــفش

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قوم يا سبع .. و شـــوف أحــــــوالنا
شوف في غيـــابك .. كام ديب جــالنا
الإشتراكية و بطَّلوهالنا

الحرية و حـرَّزوهـالنا
التخشيبة و دستَرُوهالنا
من زمنك كان فاضـــــــــــل ورقة
حتى الــــــــــورقة .. قطعــــوهالنا
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طبخـــــــــــولنا السم ..في فتَّة دين
وجـــــابولنا الشيخ مش عارف مين
قال: الإشـتراكية .. دي كفر مـــبين
وَكَستنا دمـاغ .. مـــــاركس و لينين
هزمــتنا أيام .. سبعة و ســـــــــتين
واحنا مش قلة يا رجــــــــــــــــالة
ده احنا من جند صـــــــــلاح الدين
و لما سألنا إيه الحــــــــــــــــــل ؟
؟قال لنا: أمـــــيرنا "هباب الــــطين"؟


هياخــدنا لعُمـــرة في مانــــــــهاتن
بعدها هنتوب على إيد "روزالـيـن"؟

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اتغيرت قبلتنا .. و إتــــدورت الأيــــام
و آدينا ركعنا لسيادنا و سمـــعنا الكـلام
تبنا عن المعاصي و عن القطاع العـــام

ربينا اللحـــــــية و قصَّـــرنا التـــــوب
لبسنا عقـــــــــولنا قميـــــص الاكمـــام
وظفنا فلوســـنا في عب شيوخــــــــــنا
توظيف اسلامـــي في لندن و أمستردام
و لا ربا و لا ريبة
و لا بنك و خــــيبة
نصبوا علينا باسم الله و اسم الإســـــلام
عوِّمـنا جــــــــنيهنا في البانيـــــــــــــــو
حتى في البانيــــــــــو .. طب ما عـــام
و مصــــــــانعنا الحــــربية أهي تــابت
عن المــــــــدافع .. و إتطـــورت تمــام
دلوقت بتنتــــــــج .. يا ماشـــــــــــــالله

دِش و غسَّـــالة .. و سَخَّان حـــــــــمَّام
ع البحري فتحــــناها تكـــــــــــــــــــية
صــــيني و أمريكي و أي سخــــــــــام
ما هو يا اخــــــواننا .. لما سكـــــــــتنا
على بيع بيتـــنا في قلب حــــــــــــارتنا
على بيع شـــــــــرفنا و كرامـــــــــــتنا
كان لازم .. نتبـــــــــاع قــــــــــــــدام
آخرتها باعونا في ســــــــوق الإتــــنين
و ما حــــــــــدش قالنا .. باعـوا بكــام؟

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قفـــــــــلنا مصـــــــــانعك .. يا بلادي
و فتحـــــــــنا بدالــــها.. كنتــــــــاكي

و غســــــــلنا ســــــــينا .. بدم ولادك
علشان نفتحها ماخــــــــــــور لعداكي
و شــفناكي ببتنقــــــــلي وراثــــــــة
و إحنا كمـــــــان ساحــــبينا وراكــي
ورث بيتقســـــــــــم .. تمن و نصــين
بقيتي وسية .. و بقينا عبيــــد جـواكي
الدســـــــــــــــتور ماعجــبش الريس
عملوا له دســــــــــــــــــــتور ملاكي
و إحــــنا ولادك .. مش رجــــــــالة
مابنقدرش .. نمــــــوت فــــــــــداكي
مالنـــاش حــــيلة ..غير بننـــــــــادي
على الفارس اللي زمان .. وضَّــاكي
عارفين .. لا هيسمع و لا هيجــاوب
لا هيطلع من تربة و لا يلبس الكاكي
بننادي م القهــــــرة على المـــــــيت
لما ضاقت بالحي أرضك و سماكي
كلمة يا بلـــدي ف كل الكـــــــــــون
معروفة .. و كمـــان جـــــــــــواكي
طول ما ولادك ربٌّوا قـــــــــــــرون
لازم يا بلــــــــدنا هتت .. حــــــاكي

17.9.07

Polygamy in Islam-02


How did Islam Condition Polygamy?

The widely known condition for polygamy in Islam is justice, as it was the one mentioned in the very same verse that allowed polygyny “marry women as appeals to you, two, three, or four women; but if you fear you will not be equitable, then only one” Women:03. Yet, it was not the only condition in Islam to enable polygyny; the following was in the list:

- A man is expected to fulfill all his duties toward his first wife, offering her good living conditions, emotional and sexual satiety, and prior to him thinking of a second wife, he should be capable to satisfy all these needs for both the current and the wife to be.

- The wife has the right to include monogamy as a condition in her marriage treaty, plus any other conditions related to place of living, quality of living …etc. as far as she does not ask for unlawful act, the husband once accepted her marriage shall abide by all the conditions, including monogamy.

- She holds the right of knowing about her husband’s marriage, and she has the right to get divorced, preserving all her rights. Otherwise, she can give a period to assess the impact on her and her quality of life before taking a decision.

- Equity, in terms of time, quality of living, caring and sharing to each of his wives are all prerequisites.

- Emotional equity was not mandated, as it is uncontrollable by man. However, its expression into manners and even words is requested to be under the equity roles.


Apostle and Polygyny:

Why Apostle Muhammad practiced polygyny, having nine wives at a time?

Maybe we should detail the marital life of Muhammad (pbuh) before we answer this question, as it will leave us with some useful remarks.

- He married “Khadija” when he was 25 years old; “Khadija” was 15 years older, as she was approaching the 5th decade of. He lived with her for as long as 25 years before she died. Afterward, he married to “Sawda” who was in her early 50s as well, and he consorted with her alone for another 3 years. Summing this period to the first, we can figure out he lived until the age of 53 in monogamic marriages.

- Two years after migrating to Medina, he married the daughter of his best friend and disciple, “Aisha” who was around 10 years old. Many of the orientalists had commented massively on his marriage to “Aisha“ in that age. Knowing it was a common social practice by this time in Arabia, we find Muhammad (pbuh) has only followed the socially acceptable roles, and this shall need no justification.

- Then, when “Khanis ibn Hozafa” martyred in ”Ohod” combat, Muhammad (pbuh) proposed to his widow “Hafsa”. Who was the daughter of his major disciple “Omar ibn El-Khattab”.

- His cousin martyred as well in “Ohod”. Muhammad married his widow “Zainab” who lived with him 3 months before she died in the 3rd year after migration. 12 months later, he married “Um Salamah” who was also a widow of one of “Ohod” martyrs, she informed the apostle before marriage that she had already reached menopause, this did not change his proposal.

- Afterward, he married “Zainab bent Gahsh” after his adopted son had divorced her. He was around 59 by this time and she was around 35. Nearly 1 year after, he married “Gwairya” who was captured as a war prisoner after her clan was defeated by Muslims; it was then when he freed her and proposed to her. Also married “Safyah”, who were a Jew, from Medina, after conquering her tribe in similar situation to the one of “Gwairya”. Then as we mentioned earlier in chapter II, he married “Om Habiba”, after her husband died in Ethiopia.

- Upon receiving her as a slave-gift from “Cyrus”, he married “Mary the Copt” after giving birth to his son “Ibrahim” according to Quranic role, which sets free the slave who gives birth to her master. Finally, he married “Maymouna” who proposed to Muhammad wishing to marry him around the 7th year after migration.

- Then, a verse was revealed to him prohibiting his marriage any further “Thereafter women are not lawful to you anymore, neither to take other wives in exchange for them, though their beauty please you” The Clans: 52. This verse was revealed after Islam had limited no. of wives to four. Muhammad (pbuh) was exempted from this condition as his wives –considered as spiritual mothers to Muslims, who were not supposed to marry after him, so divorcing them shall lead to their loneliness for rest of their lives, while other women divorced (above four) were eligible to have other spouses. Accordingly, we find the exemption of Muhammad (pbuh) from the “reduce to 4” role benefiting the best interest of his wives, maybe more than his best interest.

With all due respect, to the justifications lead by jurists to reason the apostolic multiple marriages, we find nothing to justify in this matter! We perceive the matter in its temporal and social framework, to find nothing illogic or drifted to need justifications. Was Muhammad (pbuh) the 1st Apostle of God who practices polygamy? No, “Solomon” and “David” did before him and in much more intense practice. Was it socially acceptable for an Arab leader by this time to have multiple wives? We dare to say it was the only normal thing, as polygamy, until a very near era, was perceived among Arabian clans as a sign of nobility and leadership.

Accordingly, all what we say here is, there is no case to defend neither irrational to rationalize! We could never ask an Arab leader in the 7th century to live with the modesty standards as perceived now in the 21st century! Muhammad (pbuh) lived the best moral and lifestyle model of a nobleman and a leader in his temporal terms according to his society norms and trends. He was superior to his pears from moral perspectives before Islam. Otherwise, he lived their life as one of them.


Is Polygyny Eternal?

Tunisia is a Muslim country who allows no polygamy by its civil laws. Shall we call this unlawful governmental regulation from Islamic standpoint? Many of our priests had attacked this civil law in Tunisia, but we see it violating no role in Islamic approach to life. Islam stated the upper limit to be four, without stating a lower limit, so there is a room for legal regulations to control within what Islam had allowed. If we assumed medicine has discovered a harm of eating camel’s meat, while Islam had limited only pork meat. Can a Muslim government decide legal prohibition of camel products based on its medical harm? Surely, it can, and it applies to marriage too, as the government can state upper limit of four, three, two or simply one, as far as all lies within the framework of Islam guidance.

However, we see this matter better to be up to couples as a matter of personal freedom, where the world “consensus” is a key word that distinguishes righteousness from wrong. In a world that accepts group sex practices as far as it is built on consensus, we do not see any logic to prevent a 2nd marriage, as far as the man, his first wife, and the new spouse are all accepting the polygamy situation. Having a plenty of options for what is right usually minimize the incidence of falling to wrong deeds which supports polygamy as an option. Shall anyone perceive polygamy as an uncomforting system? The solution is very simple, he/she can ignore this option and insist monogamy as a prerequisite in marriage.

Therefore, polygamy was an option in Islam, everyone can ignore it and live in a monogamy fashion. Only whoever find it the best way-out from a severe social paradox, and as far as all parties agrees to it, can use it. In this we visualize Islam showed more flexibility to meet the various needs in different societies.

16.9.07

Polygamy in Islam-01

One major defects in the Euro-American knowledge model, is the low tolerance it possesses to behavioral modules that conflicts with it. Polygamy being one of these social forms having low tolerance in the western world, while in Africa and many areas of Asia, it was practiced with its two forms (Polygyny as male coupling to several females and polyandry when the opposite applies) for ages before Islam gets to Africa or the Far East. Studying sociology will clarify to us that these forms of polygamy usually existed as needed, and in accordance with environment as well as socio-economic factors. Therefore, hereunder we are not justifying polygamy in Islam, but we are framing it to its normal frame of knowledge and social factors, starting with what was common before Islam in Arabia

Did Islam Introduce Polygamy to Arabia?

To have a clear insight about Islam management to marital lives, we should first get a comprehensive idea about the societal model preceding it. During the 5th and 6th centuries in Arab Peninsula, seven types of marriage existed,

- Normal Marriage: which was the one continued after Islam and until today

- Dower-Free Marriage: Wherein two men exchange their kinship, women for marriage (like sister for sister …etc) without dower.

- Inheritance Marriage: where eldest son usually inherits his dead father’s wives if he wished or he can marry them to any other and get their dower, as we discussed in earlier part of this chapter.

- Exchange Marriage: when to men exchange their wives, also without a dower

- Outsourcing Marriage: when a man likes to have a prominent son, he asks his wife to sleep with a leading figure in the clan until she gets pregnant. Then she gets back to her husband with the promising embryo of the other man!

- Group Marriage: wherein a group less than ten, have sex with one woman (polyandry) and when she gets pregnant, whoever is closer in looks to the infant he get him as a son. To this type “Nabegha” model we mentioned earlier belongs.

This is all plus female slavery and a form of sacred prostitution that was practiced in Mecca and major cities. Now, what shall we expect Islam to do when approaching this form of sexual chaos?

“Moses” starting point was in Egypt, wherein monogamy was the dominant style, so it was easy to set-up the model of monogamy with divorce option in Judaism. Yet, polygamy existed in Judaism until as late as 11th century, when “Rabbenu Gershom” outlawed it. Christianity starting point was the Judaic society which was -despite polygamy ability- a near-monogamic society, as multiple spouses were quite uncommon by time of 1st century for economic reasons, and where misuse of divorce to manipulate women was the only major defect, accordingly Christianity came-up with the model of monogamy with tight limitations on divorce. In addition, when approached Europe, with a relatively dominant monogamy based on the Roman law as well as Anglo Germanic traditions, it was a match for Christianity to hammer on monogamy as a model. On the other hand, Islam started in a society wherein men were spoiled with a vast of sexual coupling options, unlimited number of wives, different marriage types some of it was dower-free or at “reduced rates”, all in addition to female slaves and prostitution. Shall we expect the monogamist Catholic model to work in such a society?

I will use the wording of Bishop “Joseph Osei-Bonsu” of Konongo-Mampong (Ghana) in his report “The situation of evangelization in Africa” , where he faced a closer problem in Sub-Saharan Africa (in Senegal polygamy counts for 44% of marriages). In his report, he stated: “Another pastoral problem in Africa is polygamy in the form of polygyny, the marriage by one man of two or more wives. In most African countries, polygyny is permitted. Though most African men are not polygamists, a good number of them have more than one wife. Various reasons have been given to explain the existence of polygamy in Africa, but we cannot go into them here. What does a priest do when a polygamist wants to receive baptism and be admitted to the other sacraments? The Church's position is that such people cannot be admitted to the sacraments. Monogamy is the norm for Christians and thus anyone who wants to be a Christian or is a Christian must abide by it. As a result of this there are thousands of African Catholic men and women who cannot be admitted to the sacraments because they find themselves in polygamous relationships.”

When we consider also, the forms of non-marital polygamy practices throughout humankind history, from slavery, to concubinage, from extra-marital affairs to prostitution, these are all terms that indicate the occurrence of polygamy in all societies and under all religious constrains.

10.9.07

أشـــرقت

كانت شمساً دفيئة .. لكنها ما كادت تشرق حتى غربت، وهكذا يمر العمر وتشرق الشموس وتغرب، ويبقى الشعر .. ويبقى الشعر

أشرقت .. كالشـــمس صحواً
بعد صقيع السنين
تنــزَّلَت ..كالمن و الســلوى
قـــوتاً للتائهين
تفتَّحَـــــت سلـــــــوى لعيني
كَنـــور اليقين
ترقرقت تنسكـــــــــب بقلبي
فكف عن الأنين


EyaD
القاهرة – شتاء 2005

Fanaticism Exhibition

Commenting a Flood of Web Imagery


May God return Ramadan on Muslims with blessings and prosperity, Amen. I want to apologize in advance for the nature of this post, and the imagery content in it. I would have better started Ramadan with a more cheerful post. However, I felt being compiled to highlight the flood of devastating imagery available today everywhere online. The false image it reflects on Islam is painfully and offensively bad. I felt compiled as Muslim to comment on the inhumanity of fanaticism and compare it to the righteous Islam as we know it. Hereunder I display their ugliness, trying to compare it to the Real Islam.

Her eyes tell stories about the unmet dreams and the opposed ambitions. Again & Again. Concealing one's identity through face covering had never been averred neither in Quran nor in creditable Sonna of Apostle (pbuh). This is baseless in Islam. Nevertheless, the satans of fanaticism never stop energizing it all time and mandating it once they can. Their disturbed manhood wants always to conquer women through this disgracing appearance.

Horror Killing, such a thing they call "honor killing" had never been related to Islam, not only determined by the fact that it had outdated Islam by ages. Also as it stands against Quran verses stating women to be accountable for their acts before God. None has the right to end the life of a human except as a penalty of murder or terrorism as stated in Quran and Sonna. This is not Islamic, and shall never be acceptable by Islam or real Muslims.



Leave their innocence alone you mad ones. Let their childhood breath. Clearly Islam has nothing to do with this again. If the matter of adult women dress code was debatable in Islam, the matter of such a dress to kids had never been even discussed by the most fanatic jurists. It is a pure invention of the masculine fanatic madness. Wanted to acclimatize girls to this humility since their early childhood to kill any possibility of defiance in their minds and hearts. It is a nomadic mentality and patriarchal habits, only common in nomadic Asian societies, from where it creeped lately with the "Petroleum Civilization" values to other countries, Egypt being one.

Mullah Omar, the proclaimed "Prince of Muslims" in Afghanistan. To every Muslim I direct a question, Do you accept this decayed piece of shit to be your prince? Do you accept the frightened rat in Afghanistan humps to be your leader? Leadership in Islam as sampled by Muhammad (pbuh) selection of his leaders, was a pure secular process to select the best for bearing the designated task. Shall this apply to that thing? Surely it is not. He can be only proclaimed "Prince of Terrorists and Robbers"


As displeasing as Rasputin and the fanatic Rabbis of Jews. However, we can try being subjective. Let's try something. Call any young boy, below 9 years of age, and ask him to look in these faces, and try to figure out of these people are good or bad. Surely the agitating faces and the untamed looks will give the natural unbiased child the perception about demonic beasts. This is their factuality, they represent the man before civilization gets him out of the caves and the untamed compulsions and passions. Quran verses and credible Sunna condemn such a behavior in a way that leaves no doubt these people has a near zero knowledge of their own book and their own faith.



O' Europe and entire world, never listen to this, and never count September 11th as a Muslim act or a Muslim way expressing their cases. A real Muslim shall never rely on violence to express his case, save when his own homeland is invaded, like the case of Hizbullah. In this case only Muslims like any other patriot peoples shall carry an arm to free their land. We surely disagree to the humiliating Danish cartoons about Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). However, we believe the problem was not the cartoons, but the idea delivered to the artists motivating them to draw it. These fanatics and their falsehood based understanding lead to this, and only a civilized dialectic can corrects it.





As false as usual. Islam had never aimed to dominate the world. The early foundation of Islamic empire was a temporal act related to the nature of era.It was the time of empires, from Romans to Eastern Roman to Sassanids. However, we will find the 5th guided Caliph, "Omar ibn Abdulaziz" ceasing down the military augmentations, as he found it pointless in Islam after achieving the temporal power capable to protect the faith and the people in an esteemed temporal empire. Wars and empires in Islam was well understood by early Muslims as a temporal decisions that are related to the state not to religion. Islam did not rely on military acts in Asia for instance, where it dominated many countries without warfare. This shall also offset the sayings of orientalists claiming Islam was spread by sword and imposed on defeated nations. These fanatics mottoes only attest their talks unconsciously, against the real message in Quran and Sunna, affirming their shall be no obligations in matter of faith. More than 24 verses in Quran alone hammered on this eternal value in Islam.


When we demonstrate glorifying the Satan "Bin Laden", carrying his image and supporting his falsehood, what shall we expect the world to call us then? Terrorists I guess is the word. Bin Laden has nothing to do with Islam. He is a waste product of the Cold War, wherein he was employed with the other Afghani demons to fight for their CIA masters against Soviet union in Asia and Arab League. Safari club that included Sadat, Faisal, together with Afghani representatives and CIA leaders, resulted in what is called "The Arabic Afghan", Bin Laden and Zawahry being included. When shall we understand that Islam condemned terrorism and called for death penalty to terrorists. Islam nominated the risk of militias in "Heraba" penal code and asked Muslims to fight them. What do we need more to know they are neither Muslims nor Jihadists? Only a wasted US tool we can call them.



I understand the agitation of this man on seeing the cartoons humiliating our Prophet Muhammad, I also perceive such creations as uncivilized as it touches the holiness of others faiths. However, the word "BEHEAD" will do us not any good in our fair case. It shall only prove the claims against Muslims as terrorists and about Islam as a bloody sect. Is this fair? Is this what we want? Surely it is not. We should understand that liberty of innovation, and expression is unlimited and it should remain so in any country where prosperity is seek. Our way is to explain to others how Islam differs with the misleading image they receive from media everyday.



Jihad is our way! Surely it is, I affirm. But what we mean by "Jihad"? In language, Jihad means a persistent faithful effort. While Jihad as an Islamic term refers to "Persistent faithful effort paid to serve a moral objective beyond one's own self". Defending homeland is Jihad, fighting devils in life is Jihad, fighting terrorism and fanaticism with all the devils they bring to life is Jihad, also working hard to achieve humanity prosperity is Jihad. This is the sort of jihad I support and proclaim to be supported by Islam.



You moron creature. Are you happy as the reporters' cameras caught you throw a stone on whatever? Do you think you are a Muslim doing so? Do not you understand your stone had only harmed the face of Islam, the faith of peace that was deformed on hands of beasts like you to be perceived as a violent sect. And why you are dressed in white? White color in pilgrimage dress in Islam was to symbolize two things, one is the shroud, wherein someday we will all rest, therefore we remember life is not eternal. Second thing was purity and clarity of sins. If your heart carries the rage and hatred expressed in your face, you better dress in black therefore you look more self-harmonized.




My Goodness, the much misperceived penalty of "public adultery" in Islam. Yes, Islam did not assign a death penal for fornication as widely said, it was only for "public" adultery when committed by a married man. Imagine the social destructive effect of married man and married woman coupling in an extra-marital sexual act in public! How this shall offense the society? Their spouse surely being on top? It was for public acts as it is conditioned by 4 adult witnesses seeing the man's organ inserted in woman's genital. Can this ever happen but in public? Did those savages understood it this way? I doubt it. Moreover, all penal codes in Islam was a temporal matters related to the social development. Proved by the modifications done by Prophet Muhammad and Caliph "Omar Ibn Al-Khattab". Shall it be eternal? Apostle of God and his disciples would had never changed or accepted exceptions in it. Nevertheless, the savages of Pakistan followed the understanding of "Abu Ala Mawdodi" not the clear revealations of Islam.




God bless Hitler !!! Surely you must say so. It is you, but not Islam, who holds an ideology as fascistic as Hitler's one. It is you, not Islam, who carry the bloody hatred he had in his mind. It is you, not Islam, who should face the same destiny of Hitler, defeat and eradication from the modern world. This is your destiny sooner or later, God be my witness.






Body mutilation penal had always existed in nomadic tribal societies, as it was the only applicable penal among a nomad tribes moving after pasture wherever found. Moses law as well as Islamic law relied on it as the temporally reliable way. Shall this mean we can apply it today as is, in such a savage way? In Pakistan, Saudi and Afghanistan, is it applied to everyone, or only the simple poor thief, sparing the big sharks who are usually princes and generals? This is not Islam, and it cannot be. Apostle of God and Omar the Caliph both ceased cutting hands with a decision as governors when the environment became unsuitable for it. This is also what we must do today. It resembles a man who enucleates his eye after looking to a woman, and thinks he is applying Jesus teachings in this regard, literal understanding of teachings is stinky.


"Muslim Brothers", the gulf financed and US blessed stream someday in the past. Those who kept claiming modesty, until a militia demonstration took place in Azhar university few years ago, only to show they are as violent as others and as uncivilized as others. They were founded by a good man named "Banna" someday, only before they drift to a power seeking and a violent sect before he dies. They defied his orders and compiled him to write an article about them, the address was "Neither Brothers nor Muslims". This is how we find them till today.








Different but related. Opus Dei, a recognized sect by Vatican. From bloody rituals to discrimination against women, they match or exceed the Muslim fanatics. Needless to mention, someday in the past, Vatican itself burnt women alive on fake blasphemy accusations. Therefore, Christian friends should observe the stick in Vatican eyes before mocking the ashes in Islam fanaticism. Fanaticism did exist someday in the past and till now somewhere in every faith. Let all the modest persons stand together, condemning terrorism and fanaticism in all religions and all forms and shapes. Fanaticism has no religion at all, it is a black mass in man's heart calling him for hostility. Let us all face it together in one solid row.