David Rothscum Reports-Libyan Insurgents

Saturday, March 5, 2011

As I have sought to explain here before, the Libyan rebels are not what we consider them to be. Now, before I get the accusation thrown at me that I paint the Libyan rebels with a wide brush, I want to make it clear that not all Libyan rebels share the same goals, motives and behavior.

Gadaffi has sought to emancipate the African continent from centuries of exploitation by outside forces. Mistakes have surely been made, but I can only assume that Gadaffi has the best of intentions. As I mentioned before, Gadaffi blames the emergence of AIDS on American experimentation with biological weapons. Gadaffi is a driving force behind the African Union and other projects that seek to attempt to emancipate the African continent and end the continual division of the continent by outside forces through divide and conquer techniques.

Last year, Gadaffi apologized for the long history of Arab slave trade of black Africans, an issue that many other rulers prefer to ignore. His full words were as following:

"I regret the behavior of the Arabs… They brought African children to North Africa, they made them slaves, they sold them like animals, and they took them as slaves and traded them in a shameful way. I regret and I am ashamed when we remember these practices. I apologize for this,"

The European Union on the other hand refuses to apologize for what has been done. Formal apologizing is blocked by Britain, the Netherlands (I'm so proud), Portugal, and Spain. Of course these also happen to be the nations that share the greatest responsibility for what has happened over the centuries. The European Union bureaucrats miss the genuineness the world needs in confronting this history. What is the worth of expressing your "regrets" when you first come together to decide that you don't want to apologize? Those regrets have no meaning, because they miss all elements of empathy and genuine concern for your fellow man and what the countries you represent did to him. There is no way to bring back the millions who died, chained to the ground on the slaveships, and my country refuses to apologize for this, I'm continually embarrassed to be Dutch.

Now, Gadaffi sought to have all the people share in his country share in the oil wealth in the east of the nation. However, Gadaffi sought to attempt to share the wealth with the rest of Africa as well, beginning with the places that needed it the most. On 20 January of this year, allAfrica reported on a Libyan development program in cooperation with Liberia. Whereas Western dominated institution like the World Bank and the IMF prefer to put Africa in debts it can never repay, Libya donated tractors to the people of Liberia. The article also mentions:

Libya also gave assurances of its willingness to support Liberia's infrastructural development, including roads and bridges, through multilateral development finance institutions in which Libyan presence is meaningful, such as the African Development Bank and the CEN-SAD Investment Bank.
The Liberian and Libyan leaders also consulted on the situation in Côte d'Ivoire and its implications for the West Africa region. They agreed that if there is no early resolution of the problem, Liberia will face a humanitarian crisis of unimaginable proportions. Libya promised to send humanitarian aid to Liberia within one week, to assist with the more than 20,000 refugees who have flooded into Liberia from neighboring Ivory Coast.

This is an attempt by the Libyan government to help Liberia become self-sufficient in food production. Libya also helped Lesotho:

Lesotho aims to work tirelessly to improve food production so as to reduce its dependency on food aid from other countries, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Relations, has said.

Minister Mohlabi Tsekoa said this on Thursday at an occasion where the Libyan government donated food items that included bags of maize meal, flour, rice, cooking oil, sugar beans, tomato source and milk to the government of Lesotho.

He expressed a deep sense of appreciation over the consignment, aimed at assisting communities in the rural areas to address food shortages and thus attain food security.

He said the donation came at the right time when the country is also working hard to mitigate the effects of drought which has contributed to food insecurity.

Mr. Tsekoa added that the Lesotho government also appreciates the support from Libya in various areas of development throughout the country.

Libya donated tractors to Zimbabwe as well. Furthermore, Libya donated blankets food and other supplies to Haiti after the Earthquake, even though Libya has no diplomatic relations with Haiti.

Another important subject we need to discuss are the guest workers that were allowed to come to Libya. The number of African guest workers Libya has had is enormous, though it appears the number is declining because black guest workers are unfortunately the target of racism. In 2000, Libya had 6 million libyans, and one estimate put the number of African guest workers at one million. Another more recent estimate put the number of black Africans in Libya at two million people, though not all of them seem to be guest workers. These people who are able to share in the wealth that Libya has gained through it's natural resources.

Unfortunately, in a multicultural society like Libya, a backlash can be expected, and in the year 2000 a backlash indeed happened. Hundreds of people were killed. As the economist reported in 2000:

Emeka Nwanko, a 26-year-old Nigerian welder, was one of hundreds of thousands of black victims of the Libyan mob. He fled as gangs trashed his workshop. His friend was blinded, as Libyan gangs wielding machetes roamed the African townships. Bodies were hacked and dumped on motorways. A Chadian diplomat was lynched and Niger’s embassy put to the torch. Some Nigerians attacked their own embassy after it refused refuge to nationals without proper papers—the vast majority.
Libyans sheltering Africans were warned that their homes would be next. Some of Libya’s indigenous 1m black citizens were mistaken for migrants, and dragged from taxis. In parts of Benghazi, blacks were barred from public transport and hospitals. Pitched battles erupted in Zawiya, a town near Tripoli that is ringed with migrant shantytowns. Diplomats said that at least 150 people were killed, 16 of them Libyans. The all-powerful security forces intervened by shooting into the air.

All business reported back in 2000:

Bloody clashes between Libyan youths and many sub-saharan Africans in Libyan cities in September may cast a shadow on the dream of Libyan Leader, Colonel Muamar Ghaddafi to act as a catalyst for the unification of Africa.

The clashes, which are believed to have cost up to a hundred Ghanaian and Nigerian lives, were sparked off when an armed gang from West Africa, believed to be Nigerian, raped and then killed a Libyan woman. Black Africans living in Benghazi, where the incident occurred, were set up and severely beaten. The violence then spread to other Libyan towns.

Benghazi, haven't we heard that name before? Benghazi is the place where the current revolt started. It is also the place where a revolt started 11 years ago against black Libyans and black guest-workers. The revolt in the year 2000 hampered Gadaffi's attempts to force a common currency and open borders for all of Africa. Gadaffi of course blamed the West for inciting the violence back then. I suspect it were lingering racist tendencies in a country that had slaves until the '30s and strong tribal ties that continue to dominate society today.

And now, Western media and Al Jazeera are constantly repeating stories about "African mercenaries". What could the result of this be? The answer is unfortunately genocide. Black Africans are being targeted in Libya now:

While much of the world’s attention is focusing on crude oil prices and the Libyan pipelines in the east of the country– human right groups say rebels are committing crimes against humanity. In east Libya, African hunt began as towns and cities began fall under the control of Libyan rebels, mobs and gangs. They started to detain, insult, rape and even executing black immigrants, students and refugees.
In the past two weeks, more than 100 Africans from various Sub-Sahara states are believed to have been killed by Libyan rebels and their supporters.
According to Somali refugees in Libya, at least five Somalis from Somaliland and Somalia were executed in Tripoli and Benghazi by anti-Gaddafi mobs. Dozens of refugees and immigrants workers from Ethiopia, Eritrea, Ghana, Nigeria, Chad, Mali and Niger have been killed, some of them were led into the desert and stabbed to death. Black Libyan men receiving medical care in hospitals in Benghazi were reportedly abducted by armed rebels. They are part of more than 200 African immigrants held in secret locations by the rebels.
In many disputes involving Libyan residents and black Africans, the Libyans are turning in the Africans as mercenaries.
Thousands more Africans caught up in this mercenary hysteria are terrified. Some barricaded themselves in their homes, while others hid in the desert. Insulted, threatened, beaten, chased and robbed. Their only crime was being black and therefore treated as “mercenaries” of Gaddafi.
While the airing of Gaddafi’s so called “black mercenaries” by Western media has ignited the issue, some say an xenophobic attitude towards these refugees and labourers has existed for years. They say the current attacks are racially motivated because the rebels have released many actual Libyan mercenaries and soldiers under a tribal agreement. They believe many Arabs felt their Libyan leader was abandoning them for black Africans ever since he became a “pan-Africanist”. Many immigrants were regularly victims of racism.
In many situations, Gaddafi and his inner circle preferred black Africans and Libyans from the south over Libyans from the east. Now the angry mobs using the revolutionary movement across Arabia and North Africa are hunting down black people.
Mohamed Abdillahi, Somaliland, 25, was sleeping at his home in Zouara, when the mobs arrived. “They knocked on the door around 1 o’clock in the morning. They said get out, we’ll kill you, you are blacks, foreigners, clear.”

The revolt in Libya is a revolt against pan-Africanism, in favor of tribalism. Libya is a threat to the West because of it's pan-African dream, and now the dream to unify Africa is being destroyed.

It is increasingly starting to look like the black "mercenaries" that are fighting in Libya are not at all foreigners, but indigenous black Libyans from South Libya, which is still mostly under control of Gadaffi, who are willing to fight for the Libyan regime, because Gadaffi opposes the racist treatment that black Libyans receive from Libyan society. Human Rights Watch, a group that I am skeptical of, appears to be speaking the truth for once, and claims there exists no evidence of Gadaffi importing mercenaries into Libya:

Human Rights Watch says it has seen no evidence of mercenaries being used in eastern Libya. This contradicts widespread earlier reports in the international media that African soldiers had been flown in to fight rebels in the region as Muammar Gaddafi sought to keep control.
In an interview with Radio Netherlands Worldwide in Libya, Peter Bouckaert from Human Rights Watch said he had conducted research and found no proof of mercenaries being used. Investigator Bouckaert, who has been in the region for two weeks, told RNW that he had been to Al Bayda after receiving reports that 156 mercenaries had been arrested there.
Black Libyans
The town is to the east of the city Benghazi and is also in the hands of the anti-Gaddafi protesters.
The rights investigator said that what he found there were, in fact, 156 soldiers from the south of Libya and not from another African country. After talking to them he found out that they were all black Libyans of African descent. The soldiers have since been released by the protesters.
According to Bouckaert, the support of the black southern Libyans for the Gaddafi regime is explicable as Gaddafi fought to counter discrimination against this group in Libyan society.
In the west
RNW's Mohammed Abdulrahman, who interviewed Bouckaert in Benghazi, says that the fact that there are few economic opportunities in the south also leads to southern Libyans joining the army.
HRW has so far only conducted research in the east of the country which is under the control of the protesters, but it says it could well be the case that reports of mercenaries being used in the areas still under government control in the west are also inaccurate.
Unverified
International media report that the mercenaries are gathering in the central southern town of Sabha, known to be loyal to Gaddafi, and are being sent out from there.
Our reporter says the southern location of the town means it is possible that the soldiers here are also from the south of the country and not African mercenaries as claimed in the international media. As the area is under control of Gaddafi's forces this cannot be verified.

I hope it is clear to my readers that we are falling victim to a large number of lies and a lot of deception. Our media are unashamedly trying to overthrow the Libyan regime, and are willing to condemn any black man murdered in Libya and paraded around as being a "mercenary" of Gadaffi. I hope my readers will not jump on the bandwagon in tearing down the pan-African dream.

The absolute truth about Muhammad in the bible: Rabbis who acknowledging...

Reminding Believers of Allah's Favor Upon Us!

 

 
 
Allah mentioned His favor on the Prophet , in that He aided him with believers, the Muhajirin and the Ansar,
 

He it is Who has supported you with His help and with the believers. And He has united their hearts.)

The Ayah says, `it is Allah who gathered the believers' hearts, believing, obeying, aiding and supporting you -- O Muhammad,'
 

(If you had spent all that is in the earth, you could not have united their hearts.)
 
because of the enmity and hatred that existed between them. Before Islam, there were many wars between the Ansar tribes of Aws and Khazraj, and there were many causes to stir unrest between them. However, Allah ended all that evil with the light of faith,
 

And remember Allah's favor on you, for you were enemies one to another, but He united your hearts, so that, by His grace, you became brethren, and you were on the brink of a pit of Fire, and He saved you from it. Thus Allah makes His Ayat clear to you, that you may be guided. 3:103
 

In the Two Sahihs, it is recorded that when the Messenger of Allah gave a speech to the Ansar about the division of war booty collected in the battle of Hunayn, he said to them,
 

O Ansar! Did I not find you misguided and Allah guided you by me, poor and Allah enriched you by me,  divided and Allah united you by me
 
Every question the Prophet asked them, they said,
"Truly, the favor is from Allah and His Messenger.'' Allah said,
 

But Allah has united them. Certainly He is All-Mighty, All-Wise.
 

He is the Most Formidable, and the hopes of those who have trust in Him, never end unanswered; Allah is All-Wise in all of His decisions and actions.
 
 O Prophet! Allah is sufficient for you and for the believers who follow you. 
 
 O Prophet! Urge the believers to fight. If there are twenty steadfast persons among you, they will overcome two hundred, and if there be a hundred steadfast persons they will overcome a thousand of those who disbelieve, because they (the disbelievers) are people who do not understand. 
 
 Now Allah has lightened your (task), for He knows that there is weakness in you. So if there are of you a hundred steadfast persons, they shall overcome two hundred, and if there are a thousand of you, they shall overcome two thousand by the leave of Allah. And Allah is with the patient.

Taliban vs Mujahideen

Taliban and Mujahideen both stand in the name of Islam. However, one can find much difference between the two. Taliban or Students of Islamic Knowledge Movement has its roots in Afghanistan. They ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001 until they were ousted from power by the US military.

There are two contrasting stories about the origin of Taliban.

One story is that the rape and murder of boys and girls of a family who were travelling to Kandahar or some similar outrage by Afghani bandits aroused Mullah Omar, who is credited with the formation of Taliban, and his students to take a vow to rid Afghanistan of these criminals. The other story is that Pakistan-based “Afghanistan Transit Trade” and the United States along with the Pakistan government, trained, armed, and financed Taliban for clearing the southern road across Afghanistan to the Central Asia for the completion of a oil pipeline.

Initially Mujahideen groups fought against the establishment of a Soviet style atheistic government in Afghanistan during the late 1970s. Mujahideen groups have spread to various countries like India, Chechnya, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo and Macedonia, Iran, Iraq and Somali. They are called into battle by their love of Islam and Allah! Where ever there is abuse and death of Muslims at the hands of Godless militaries or militias you'll find them, accompanied by "Angels" of Allah.

 

Coming to the Etymology, Mujahideen have been derived from two words jihad and mujahid. Jihad means to struggle and Mujahid means struggler. The particular verb stem from which both the terms are derived means “to struggle” or “to exert effort against”.  However, Taliban is a Pashto word meaning students.

When we compare the ideology of the two groups, both have their ideologies based in Islam. The Taliban has a tribal ideology, which can be called an innovative form of sharia combining Pashtun tribal codes.

The Mujahideen’s have based their ideology completely in defending religious faith. They beleive strongly in the Islamic aspect of Martyrdom or fighting Fesibillilah, (for Allah's sake only, to stop the spread of oppression and evil) Following strick rules of engagement, established in Sharia Law.   

                                            

Summary

1. Taliban or Students of Islamic Knowledge Movement ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001 until they were ousted from power by the US military.

2. Mujahideen groups fought against the Soviet government trying to establish their Godless rule in Afghanistan, during the late 1970s

3. Taliban was born out of anger against Afghanistani bandits.

4. Mujahideen have been derived from two words jihad and mujahid. Taliban is a Pashto word meaning students.

The origin of al qaeda (which means "The Base") can be traced to the writings of Sayyid Qutb, an Islamic thinker. The basic ideology of al qaeda is to establish an Islamic state in Afghanistan, with focus on Sharia. They want to get rid of socialism and nationalism, which they consider as non-Muslim concepts.

 

This group named after the station of their meeting place "The Base" in Afghanistan is a fictional interpretation of Bin Laden's efforts to rid Saudi Arabia of Rulers that were seen as ineffective in establishing sound Islmic principals in Islam's Holiest cities. This has thus been created by the enemies of Islam to be an international assault on the west, all fictional and created as a cover to promote the "War on Terrorism" When in actuality Muslims and non-Muslims around the world are fighting for freedom and the end to exploitation, oppression and torture of it's people by demonic forces.

Synchronicity

Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events, that are apparently causally unrelated or unlikely to occur together by chance, that are observed to occur together in a meaningful manner.
Conclusive evidence of concepts of archetypes and the collective unconscious,^[5] in that it was descriptive of a governing dynamic that underlies the whole of human experience and history—social, emotional, psychological, and spiritual. Concurrent events that first appear to be coincidental but later turn out to be causally related are termed incoincident. wikepedia

Synchronicity the coming together of inner and outer events in a way that is meaningful to the observer and can't be explained by cause and effect.   Synchronicity is the granddaddy of all psychic phenomena, synchronicity manifests itself in clusters of numbers, names, objects, words and symbols.

A psychological state can somehow affect the physical world, synchronicity is an explanatory principle; it explains "meaningful coincidences" such as a beetle flying into your room while a friend was describing a dream about a scarab. The scarab is an Egyptian symbol of rebirth. Therefore, the propitious moment of the flying beetle indicated that the transcendental meaning of both the scarab in the dream and the insect in the room was that the person needed to be liberated from his excessive rationalism.  There is an acausal principle that links events having a similar meaning by their coincidence in time rather than sequentially. Carl Jung claimed that there is a synchrony between the mind and the phenomenal world of perception.

All synchronistic phenomena can be grouped under three categories:

1. The coincidence of a psychic state in the observer with a simultaneous objective, external event that corresponds to the psychic state or content, (e.g., the scarab), where there is no evidence of a causal connection between the psychic state and the external event, and where, considering the psychic relativity of space and time, such a connection is not even conceivable.
2. The coincidence of a psychic state with a corresponding (more or less simultaneous) external even taking place outside the observer's field of perception; i.e., at a distance, and only verifiable afterward (e.g., the Stockholm fire).
3. The coincidence of a psychic state with a corresponding, not yet existent future event that is distant in time and can likewise only be verified afterward.

Sources:
C.G. Jung's Psychology of Religion and Synchronicity by Robert Aziz

Imagine that you are walking along the street one day, pondering about an old friend you haven’t seen in years. Your eyes are focused on the sidewalk, but you glance up to discover that your friend is walking toward you. A joyous meeting ensues. Together, you speak of other friends you used to hang with. A taxi cab slowly pulls up, and a second old friend steps out. The unexpected reunion erupts into hysterical laughter. What are the odds that the three of you would appear at this moment? Just then, the door of a nearby apartment opens. It is your other buddy, the last in the group of friends. The laughter ceases. It is replaced with something more like reverence.
This is synchronicity, or meaningful coincidence. It may occur as a single event, or a chain of related events. It often elicits humor; the distorted sense of reality caused from events that seem beyond all probability. The term synchronicity was coined by famous psychiatrist Carl Jung, who had experienced the phenomenon many times.

They are time prompts and symbols of duality, pointing the way to a reality beyond man’s three-dimensional frame of reference

Read more at Suite101: What Does 11:11 Mean?: Synchronicity, Time Prompt and Symbolic Duality http://www.suite101.com/content/what-does-1111-mean-a109040#ixzz1F3AjeGVd

Have you been seeing 111 or 1111 lately? You are not alone!
It is as if some unseen force telepathically turns your eyes to the 1111 address on a house, to the clock at 11:11am then 1:11pm and again as you go to bed at 11:11pm...and it is! What ever your belief, acknowledge that God/Spirit/Angels are telling you you are on your path and to say, "Thank-you" for them talking to you. Whenever you see the sequence 111 or 1111 show up, it is a great sign of a golden opportunity. Both sequences mean that a "doorway" has opened up in which your intentions and goals will manifest extremely quickly. So, focus your thoughts and intentions whenever you see 111 or 1111,it's almost like making a wish when a cake with candles is presented to you.


What is the Islamic Perspective on all this?

The greatest thing that Allah (SWT) has enjoined is Tawheed.
 Literally Tawheed means "unification" (making something one) or "asserting oneness", and it comes from the Arabic verb wahhada which itself means to unite, unify or consolidate.

It is the belief that Allah (SWT) is:
One, without partner in His dominion and actions (Ruboobeeyah)
One without rival in His divinity and worship (Ulooheeyah/’Ebaadah)
One without similitude in His essence and attributes (Asma wa Sifaat)

Imām Ibn al-Qayyim said: ‘There is no [true] bliss, nor any delight, joy, or completeness for him, except in knowing Allāh, loving Him, being tranquil in the remembrance of Him, feeling delighted in drawing closer to Him and in yearning to meet Him; this being the paradise of the worldly life. Likewise, there is no delight or success for him in the Afterlife, except with his being enveloped in the Abode of Bliss in the Paradise of the next life. So there are for him two paradises, he will not enter the latter without first entering the former.

I heard Shaykh’l-Islām  Ibn Taymiyyah, may Allāh sanctify his soul, saying: ‘Indeed there is a paradise in this world, whoever does not enter it will not enter the Paradise of the Afterlife.’

Imaam Ibnul-Qayyim, rahimahullah said: If you would like to draw a conclusion of what is contained in someone’s heart then use as a proof the movements of his tongue, for surely, he will show you what is contained in his heart regardless of whether he wants to or not. Yahyaa Ibn Mu’aadh said,

The hearts are like pots. They boil with that which they contain and their tongues are their ladles [i.e. scooping spoons]. So look at a man when he speaks. His tongue will scoop out for you that which is contained in his heart, whether it is sweet or bitter, fresh or salty and other than that. And the flavor of his heart will become clear to you from that which his tongue scoops out. 1

This means that just as you can taste the flavor of foods being cooked with your tongue and you realize the true flavor of them, similarly you can taste what is in a man’s heart by way of his tongue, in the same manner that you can taste what is in the pot with your tongue.

• Footnote: 1) Collected by Aboo Nu’aym in “al-Hilyah” (vol. 10/pg. 63)
• Source: “al-Jawaabul-Kaafee/ad-Daa wad-Dawaa” (pg. 242-249) – K.S.A.: Daaru Ibnil-Jauzee-2006
• Transcribed from: The Appendix of An Explanation of the Hadeeth: “Say, ‘I believe in Allah’, and then be upright and steadfast” | Ibn Rajab

Thus all events occur by the will and permission of Allah;

Truly, the religion with Allah is Islam. Those who were given the Scripture (Jews and Christians) did not differ except, out of mutual jealousy, after knowledge had come to them. And whoever disbelieves in the Ayat (proofs, evidence, verses, signs, revelations, etc.) of Allah, then surely, Allah is Swift in calling to account. 
(  سورة آل عمران  , Aal-e-Imran, Chapter #3, Verse #19)
Verily! In the creation of the heavens and the earth, and in the alternation of night and day, there are indeed signs for men of understanding. 
(  سورة آل عمران  , Aal-e-Imran, Chapter #3, Verse #190)

And those who disbelieve and deny our Ayat (proofs, evidence, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.) are those who will be the dwellers of the Hell-fire. 
(  سورة المائدة  , Al-Maeda, Chapter #5, Verse #10)
Say (to the disbelievers): "Tell me, if Allah took away your hearing and your sight, and sealed up your hearts, who is there - an ilah (a god) other than Allah who could restore them to you?" See how variously We explain the Ayat (proofs, evidence, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.), yet they turn aside. 
(  سورة الأنعام  , Al-Anaam, Chapter #6, Verse #46)
Do they not then consider the Qur'an carefully? Had it been from other than Allah, they would surely have found therein many a contradiction. 
(  سورة النساء  , An-Nisa, Chapter #4, Verse #82)
 And verily, I am indeed forgiving to him who repents, believes (in My Oneness, and associates none in worship with Me) and does righteous good deeds, and then remains constant in doing them, (till his death). 
(  سورة طه  , Taha, Chapter #20, Verse #82)
O ye people! Adore your Guardian-Lord, who created you and those who came before you, that ye may have the chance to learn righteousness; 
(  سورة البقرة  , Al-Baqara, Chapter #2, Verse #21)
 Allah disdains not to use the similitude of things, lowest as well as highest. Those who believe know that it is truth from their Lord; but those who reject Faith say: "What means Allah by this similitude?" By it He causes many to stray, and many He leads into the right path; but He causes not to stray, except those who forsake (the path),- 
(  سورة البقرة  , Al-Baqara, Chapter #2, Verse #26)

They followed what the evil ones gave out (falsely) against the power of Solomon: the blasphemers Were, not Solomon, but the evil ones, teaching men Magic, and such things as came down at babylon to the angels Harut and Marut. But neither of these taught anyone (Such things) without saying: "We are only for trial; so do not blaspheme." They learned from them the means to sow discord between man and wife. But they could not thus harm anyone except by Allah.s permission. And they learned what harmed them, not what profited them. And they knew that the buyers of (magic) would have no share in the happiness of the Hereafter. And vile was the price for which they did sell their souls, if they but knew! 
(  سورة البقرة  , Al-Baqara, Chapter #2, Verse #102)
 

Surah Al-Kahf 01

A PARADIGM SHIFT

"And We sent thee not (O Muhammad), but as a Mercy unto (all) the worlds"
The Holy Qur'an, Chapter 21, Verse 107

Allah tells us in the Qur’an:
"Behold! In the creation of the heavens and the earth; in the alternation of the Night and the Day; in the sailing of the ships through the Ocean for the profit of mankind; in the rain which Allah sends down from the skies, and the life which He gives therewith to an earth that is dead; in the beasts of all kinds that He scatters through the earth; in the change of the winds and the clouds which they trail like their slaves between the sky and the earth, (here) indeed are Signs for a people that are wise"

He is Allah, there is nothing worthy of worship but He. He knows all things – hidden and revealed. He is the Beneficent, the Merciful. He is Allah, there is no deity but He. The sovereign, the Holy, the Sublime, the Guardian of (True) Faith, the Watcher over his creation, the Mighty, the Irresistible, the Supreme, Glory to Allah! (High is He) above what they ascribe to Him! He is Allah, the Creator, the Originator, the Bestower of Forms. To Him belong the Most Beautiful Names. All in the heavens and the earth glorify Him. And He is the Almighty, the Wise. (Quran, 59:22-4)

If God sent a religion, how would people who do not know of the religion believe in it? What means did God put in the human beings by which they can decide right from wrong? Surely the religion was not revealed to the whole of humanity at once. It must have started from one point. How would others know of it and more so accept it and believe in it? What is that one faculty that is shared by all human beings by which a message can be analyzed and determined to be right?

The answer is quite simple; it is the human mind and the faculty of reasoning. It is the mind that helps us judge things and decides between right and wrong in every matter of our lives. The word of God, if it is to be transferred to other people who are foreign to it, must conform to the faculty of reasoning that God put in all of us. This is why in Islam faith in God is not the outcome of dogmas and doctrine but rather the product of reasoning and deep scrutiny of revelation.

When one era ends and a new one begins’ , as we wittness the end of decades of ruling elite, dictors, kings and preveleged rulers, we can't help but suspect that some major shift is in the works.  Couple this with the strange death of birds, bees, fish and other animals, we can be certain this will be a year never unlike any other. Or is it can we look back in history and find other times in Man's existance when such things happened?  If so, what were the outcomes?

When you talk to people from any faith or even no-faith you get the sence that something foreboding is about to happen, anyone with just average intelligence can feel and read the signs.  Depending on your perspective and knowledge base this can be anything from "The End of the known World" Senerios to a period of Global Consciousness Raising.  There certainly are changes occuring on a universal scale wittnessed in planetary alignments, sunflare eruptions, climate changes, mass blood shed, mass insanity, sucides, murders, earthquakes, vocanic eruptions, corruption, dictators being ousted, revolutions, social unrest, you name it and it is happening and increasing at an alarming rate!

So what does a person do in this uncertain times, we of the Islamic faith can look to our Prophet's legacy and the Quran for answers:

”Surely, knowledge of the Hour is with Allah alone. ” (Holy Qur’an 31:34)

 There are no planetary alignments in the next few decades, Earth will not cross the galactic plane in 2012, and even if these alignments were to occur, their effects on the Earth would be negligible. Each December the Earth and sun align with the approximate center of the Milky Way Galaxy but that is an annual event of no consequence.

 A reversal in the rotation of Earth is impossible. There are slow movements of the continents (for example Antarctica was near the equator hundreds of millions of years ago), but that is irrelevant to claims of reversal of the rotational poles. However, many of the disaster websites pull a bait-and-shift to fool people. They claim a relationship between the rotation and the magnetic polarity of Earth, which does change irregularly, with a magnetic reversal taking place every 400,000 years on average. As far as we know, such a magnetic reversal doesn’t cause any harm to life on Earth. A magnetic reversal is very unlikely to happen in the next few millennia, anyway.

 The Earth has always been subject to impacts by comets and asteroids, although big hits are very rare. The last big impact was 65 million years ago, and that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs. Today NASA astronomers are carrying out a survey called the Spaceguard Survey to find any large near-Earth asteroids long before they hit. We have already determined that there are no threatening asteroids as large as the one that killed the dinosaurs. All this work is done openly with the discoveries posted every day on the NASA NEO Program Office website, so you can see for yourself that nothing is predicted to hit in 2012.

Solar activity has a regular cycle, with peaks approximately every 11 years. Near these activity peaks, solar flares can cause some interruption of satellite communications, although engineers are learning how to build electronics that are protected against most solar storms. But there is no special risk associated with 2012. The next solar maximum will occur in the 2012-2014 time frame and is predicted to be an average solar cycle, no different than previous cycles throughout history.

Islam believes in Doomsday - a day when the entire world will be destroyed. This day is called “Day of judgement.”
Holy Quran has explicitly stated this

 “Verily, Allah! With Him (Alone) is the knowledge of the Hour“ (Surah Luqman 31/34).

So there is no indication in Quran or the saying of the prophet Muhammad (SA)  that 2012 is the end of the world - according to what is projected by the mayan calender, and as potrayed by the movie.

The exact time of the Doomsday is given neither in Qur’an nor in Hadith. But Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) have pointed out the distinctive signs in Hadiths and in Qur’anic verses, which will happen near to the last hour constantly warned the believers for the appointed day.

The Major Signs:
Although they appear here in no particular order, it is important to point out that the Prophet (peace be upon him) said that these last, major signs will follow each other like pearls falling off of a necklace…

1. Coming of Masih ad-Dajjal (The AntiChrist)
2. Arrival of The Mahdi
3. The appearance of Masih al-Isa (Jesus Christ), the son of Mary (peace be upon him)
4. Yajuj and Majuj (Gog and Magog)
5. The destruction of the Kabah and the recovery of its treasure
6. Emergence of the Beast
7. The smoke
8. Three major landslides (one in the East, one in the West, and one on the Arabian peninsula)
9. The wind will take the souls of the believers
10. The rising of the sun from the west
11. The fire will drive the people to their final gathering place
12. Three blasts of the trumpet (fear & terror, death, resurrection)

The Minor Signs:

1. The disappearance of knowledge and the appearance of ignorance (Bukhari, Muslim, Ibn Majah, & Ahmad)
2. Books/writing will be widespread and (religious) knowledge will be low (Ahmad)
3. Adultery and fornication will be prevalent (The Prophet, peace be upon him, said that this has never happened without new diseases befalling the people, which their ancestors had not known.) (Bukhari, Muslim, Ibn Majah, & Al-Haythami)
4. When fornication becomes widespread among your leaders (The Prophet, peace be upon him, said that this will happen when the people stop forbidding evil) (Ibn Majah)
5. Adultery and fornication will be performed in the open
6. The consumption of intoxicants will be widespread (Bukhari & Muslim)
7. Women will outnumber men……eventually 50:1 (Bukhari, Muslim, & Ahmad)
8. Killing, killing, killing (Bukhari, Muslim, Ibn Majah, & Ahmad)
9. The nations of the earth will gather against the Muslims like hungry people going to sit down to a table full of food. This will occur when the Muslims are large in number, but “like the foam of the sea”.
10. People will beat others with whips like the tails of oxen (Muslim) ?The Slave Trade
11. The children will be filled with rage (at-Tabarani, al-Hakim)
12. Children will be foul (at-Tabarani, al-Hakim)
13. Women will conspire (at-Tabarani, al-Hakim)
14. Rain will be acidic or burning (at-Tabarani, al-Hakim)
15. Children of fornication will become widespread or prevalent (at-Tabarani, al-Hakim)
16. When a trust becomes a means of making a profit (at-Tirmidhi, Al-Haythami)
17. Gains will be shared out only among the rich, with no benefit to the poor (at-Tirmidhi)
18. Paying zakat becomes a burden and miserliness becomes widespread; charity is given reluctantly (at-Tirmidhi & Al-Haythami)
19. Miserliness will be thrown into the hearts of people (Bukhari)
20. Episodes of sudden death will become widespread (Ahmad)
21. There will be people who will be brethren in public but enemies in secret (He was asked how that would come about and replied, “Because they will have ulterior motives in their mutual dealings and at the same time will fear one another.”) (at-Tirmidhi)
22. When a man obeys his wife and disobeys his mother; and treats his friend kindly while shunning his father (at-Tirmidhi)
23. When voices are raised in the mosques (at-Tirmidhi)
24. People will walk in the marketplace with their thighs exposed
25. Great distances will be traversed in short spans of time
26. The people of Iraq will recieve no food and no money due to oppression by the Romans (Europeans) (Muslim)
27. People will hop between the clouds and the earth
28. A tribulation will enter everyones home (Ahmad)
29. The leader of a people will be the worst of them (at-Tirmidhi)
30. Leaders of people will be oppressors (Al-Haythami)
31. People will treat a man with respect out of fear for some evil he might do (at-Tirmidhi)
32. Men will begin to wear silk (at-Tirmidhi)
33. Female singers and musical instruments will become popular (at-Tirmidhi)
34. When singers become common (Al-Haythami)
35. People will dance late into the night
36. When the last ones of the Ummah begin to curse the first ones (at-Tirmidhi)
37. People will claim to follow the Qur’an but will reject hadith & sunnah (Abu Dawood)
38. People will believe in the stars (Al-Haythami)
39. People will reject al-Qadr (the Divine Decree of Destiny) (Al-Haythami)
40. Time will pass rapidly (Bukhari, Muslim, & Ahmad)
41. Good deeds will decrease (Bukhari)
42. Smog will appear over cities because of the evil that they are doing
43. People will be carrying on with their trade, but their will only be a few trustworthy persons
44. Wealth will increase so much so that if a man were given 10,000, he would not be content with it (Ahmad & Bukhari)
45. A man will pass by a grave and wish that he was in their place (Bukhari)
46. Earthquakes will increase (Bukhari & Muslim)
47. There will be attempts to make the deserts green
48. The appearance of false messengers (30 dajjals) (Bukhari)
49. Women will be naked in spite of being dressed, these women will be led astray & will lead others astray (Muslim)
50. The conquest of Constantinople by the Muslims (Ahmad)
51. The conquest of India by the Muslims, just prior to the return of Jesus, son of Mary (peace be upon both of them)(Ahmad, an-Nisa’i, at-Tabarani, al-Hakim)
52. When people begin to compete with others in the construction of taller buildings (Bukhari)
53. There will be a special greeting for the people of distinction (Ahmad)
54. The Euphrates will disclose a treasure (The Prophet, peace be upon him, said that whoever is present should not take anything from it) (Bukhari & Muslim)
55. Two large groups, adhering to the same religious teaching will fight each other with large numbers of casualties (Bukhari & Muslim)
56. Wild animals will be able to talk to humans (Ahmad)
57. A man will leave his home and his thigh or hip will tell him what is happening back at his home (Ahmad)
58. Years of deceit in which the truthful person will not be believed and the liar will be believed (Ahmad)
59. Bearing false witness will become widespread (Al-Haythami & Ahmad)
60. When men lie with men and women lie with women (Al-Haythami)
61. Trade will become so widespread that a woman will be forced to help her husband in business (Ahmad)
62. A woman will enter the workforce out of love for this world (Ahmad)
63. Arrogance will increase in the earth (at-Tabarani, al-Hakim)
64. Family ties will be cut (Ahmad)
65. There will be many women of child-bearing age who will no longer give birth.
66. There will be an abundance of food, much of which has no blessing in it.
67. People will refuse when offerred food.
68. Men will begin to look like women and women will begin to look like men

We are fortunate to have been given so much knowledge of the coming events as the Last Day (Qiyamah) draws closer. No other people have been blessed with such details of the future trials and events that will overcome mankind. While the prophecies in the Qur'an and those told to us by Muhammad (Peace be upon him) are already coming true as time unfolds, Muslims are either unaware or remain unserious regarding their value. Use this knowledge to prepare yourselves and strengthen your faith.