04/17/2012

Crossroads

Though the straight path is laid out for seekers, rare is it that they take the most efficient path up the mountain-climb of its experience. At times they might find themselves being manipulated by others in thinking path A is better than path B, or perhaps themselves preferring one over the other because of the apparent physical ease of one in relativity. Or perhaps one path personally scares them and another seems like the happier and more fulfilling one to take, though possibly (and unnecessarily) longer and more cumbersome.

Whatever the road we take, perhaps a combination of all possibilities in our complex decision-making and constantly-winding existences, there comes a point where action becomes requisite. This-that…or-THAT; “Which route am I going to take? Where will this one take me?” We could spend weeks, months to years reflecting on our options but eventually enough precious time has eclipsed and the need to choose one is hinging the continuation of what will happen in the next chapter of one’s story. No one wants to write a book that is broken or jagged in perpetuation; everyone knows the smoothest books are always the most enjoyable and this is the same with our lives. We have to just keep moving. Keep carrying on and keep writing.

As I enter another one of these crucial stages in my life, I feel the climaxing of months of meditating and computing start to apex into what will become a singular moment of time- almost a time frozen in time, out of time- where the ball that has been rolling down one lane of experiences is sent airborne, and depending on what is willed, will enter and continue forth through the next appropriate channel. In this moment out of time all the probabilities are in flux, fighting and boxing-out each other for the bullseye landing of the floating ball. Fate will decide which one is chosen. God’s ink is dry. Yet I must seal it with my own autonomy.

This is what makes life worth it. Makes life full and vibrant. The constant need for growth, for expansion and for progression. Sad is it those who have buried their dreams. As the poet says, ‘we need to excavate the graves of our childhood ideals’. Remember the dreaming of adolescence? The abstract and romantic planning of the child’s mind is wondrous and for them, every experience is something new. Never liking to settle with one thing, they are on a constant hunt for something to satisfy their little hearts. Adulthood prepares us, at least in theory, for purpose, as children are not aware of that yet- they are too busy tasting. To pair the adventurous and pure nature of the child’s heart with the matured intellect of a conscious adult is to arm one with the necessary and more-than-sufficient tools to make change. To make beneficial progress that will increase us here and now, later and forever.

So I’m approaching the next crossroad. Some of you just passed one, others of you will have one coming up shortly. The fork in the road has shown itself and standing in the middle, I see one of ease and one of difficulty, one of temporal satisfaction and one of dreams. One of selling out and one of buying in.

Whichever I decide, it is best for me. No doubt. So here goes nothing… and everything. Bismillah.

04/04/2012

meccan state of mind

Postpartum separation is real. Now I understand. Having the honor of accepting an invitation to the Cities of Light, there is little more I can muster at this point than an infinitely unproportional ‘Thank you’ to my Host and a sincere request for a return visit. If I was to screen my spiritual CV, I am sure I would decline my own application, so I am still at odds as to why the Most High decided to have me over. His mercy and favor is overwhelming and to witness/feel the effects of the cubed vortex of Lights between the two worlds, in person, was intoxicating. Literally, intoxicating.

There is no little thing in a place like Mecca. The nights are tastes of the Garden, where sweet desert breezes facilitate the pervasion of blessings to the maddened pilgrims as they enter the Sanctuary to perform the ancient rites. At one point Sh. Hamza Yusuf, who I was honored to perform the rituals with on my 25th birthday, mentioned that every single Prophet of the One True God had come to Mecca and performed the sacred rituals- including Moses and Jesus, upon them infinite peace and blessings. All the Prophets were obligated and thus it becomes incumbent upon us as well to literally follow in their footsteps. It was powerful beyond belief. For the cynical, if you thought belief was an irrational position then you would be exhausted by the ultraphysical realities that lay exposed for the initiated to harness. I will never lay down my rug, face Mecca and offer my prayers the same way again. All praise to the Lord of the Worlds.

The Illuminated City, Medinah al-Munawwarah, was similar in its regality but different in its expression. Where Mecca was powerful, Medinah was gentle. Where Mecca commanded prostration, Medinah offered an abode of relaxation and spiritual hydration. The Masjid itself was the most beautiful I have ever seen, eclipsing even those of Istanbul and Andalusia which I am deeply amorous of. Each prayer, seekers filled the mosque to its limits, believers flowing out into the marble courtyard in all four directions, 5 times a day, facing Mecca from which I had just come. It was surreal. Sending peace and benedictions to the Beloved of God in person was also indescribable. We can sing songs and send prayers all day, but upon entering the Messenger of God’s resting place, one feels an anxious giddiness that only a first-love encounter would seem even semi-equivalent to. And it would happen every single time we entered his mosque. Salla Allah alayhi wa’alihi wa’sahbihi wassalam.

My heart does naught but smile upon reflection on my experiences in the Holy Land. It is something that I will never forget and God-willing it will serve as another major inflection point as I continue this path to my Lord. I remembered all of you often and I pray for you all to have the opportunity to taste the sweetness of the Holy Sanctuaries yourself. I really can’t imagine a blessing bigger than it.

And also a major salute to the brothers who were with me on this trip. You all made it more special than I could have possibly imagined and the tying of hearts that happened was and is still one of the major ancillary blessings I am still realizing. I pray that we are revived one day in a gathering similar to it, in a place much loftier than this.

This- and all praise belongs only, truly, exclusively to the One Creator Lord of the Universe, who has organized His Creation in order and patterning and adorned it with lights and decorations that we may re-realize His Greatness and actualize it through total submission to His Reality.

01/18/2012

SOPA is sucha POS

Quite interesting that not many are talking about this SOPA thing. The so-called ‘Stop Online Privacy Act’, which really is only so-named to distract from its primary objectives, is threatening to consolidate yet even more hegemony and control of the digital world in a most blatant, tyrannical form.

Like the Patriot Act, the National Defense Authorization Act, No Child Left Behind, and the false precepts pushed through the State Department to enter into 3 illegal wars in the past decade, this new bill is the newest Frankenstein-monster piece of legislation preparing to get unleashed. Our government is so coining these sinister plots to frame them in the mind as something beneficial and harmless- using words like patriot, defense, child, security, terrorism, privacy, etc. These words form a certain cognitive frame, subconsciously, in our minds and we do not process them like free minds should. Instead, we either get emotional and totally bypass the rational circuitry of our minds or we just docilely pass these things off like one of those ‘good programs’ the government gets together and actually follows through with to take care of their populace. Either way, we pass off from action.

Unfortunately, all the above mentioned bills have, or will very soon, prove that there is something seriously wrong in our government. And we are seriously lacking in the freedoms department. And something is seriously wrong with us who are silently enabling them to continue oppressing us.

There was a heavy push (and $100s million in lobbying) from the multinational media conglomerates, i.e CBS, AOL, Hollywood, in initiating this sort of bill to be drafted and now many of the large internet companies are stepping up in protest. Because there are turf wars now. Who gets to control the battlefield? Who gets to control the minds and hearts? Really, there is an incredibly complex psycho-battle going on now and we’re here watching these big business boys fight it out.

It’s funny because the scam is really evident if you look into it. I say funny in a omgthismakesmesopissedIwanttostrangleasquirrel sort of way…not really, but I’ll explain why. Many of the file-sharing software programs like Kazaa, Limewire, BitTorrent, and their like, are propped up for free on the CNET website. Now, the funny thing is, CNET and www.download.com are two of a few branches owned by CBS Interactive. CBS Interactive is the media branch of the CBS/Viacom media mega-conglomerate. And interestingly enough, CBS/Viacom invested millionssss into lobbying this bill. They are one of the major proponents of the bill and are well known in the field as possibly being the largest and most influential media corporation in the world. So the one party offering you its candies for free is the same one prosecuting you and making you pay more when you eat them. Now I get why we’re not supposed to take candies from strangers… strangers can be straight up devils.

So, in case I lost you: CBS/Viacom hosted the file-sharing programs for free on their websites, even outsourcing the links to AOL and ESPN. They then would sue the users of the programs for downloading and using the program, sometimes premature children and little old ladies, for millions of dollars. And NOW, they want it to make it a felony to do so. So that even if you put a video on Youtube with a song that is copyrighted, they can sue you for full copyright infringement. This also means that they will be scrutinizing everything we do on here. Like… everything. The government will track all the websites you go to, what sort of files you download, how often you watch/listen to them and log it all in a government-subsidized server. So you’re paying for your own e-informant… who now has the power to throw you in jail.

So yeah, I have a problem with this. If are of sound mind I can imagine you being upset about it too. Is this just? Does this sound honorable to you? It sounds like the work of demons to me… demons that just want money and power, and they will ruin anyone to have it. And they’re trying to buy our government now by passing a bill called the ‘Stop Online Privacy Act’.

Are we going to fall for it again? I hope not. This is pretty big folks. I’m not going to link you to anything; go do your research, educate yourselves and take the appropriate action. You will know what to do… just do.

12/19/2011

hidden treasure

I have a confession to make. I have this secret I must disclose. It is something that I feel must not be hidden and it would be a crime upon each and every one of you- especially those of you who don’t know- if I did not share it with you. I don’t know how to really tell you this but… but it’s this book. This utterly amazing book. An old book. A timeless book. A book of secrets. Of wonders and of wisdom.

This book… there is no query that you can bring to this book which it does not address. Purpose? Meaning? All your ‘why?’ questions you have brewing. Every answer is given and its answers are clear. Lucid. Like a crystal pool of the purest water. Flowing through the ages and waiting patiently for a goblet to pour some of itself into.

People would pass out unconscious upon their first time hearing it recited. Some even died. Some fell in love. Others ran away to mountains and forests to be away from everything but it. Everyone, though, who opens it and knows what it is, feels an awe with it. Like… oh my God. Who can author such a book? Who can write with this much… authority? Majesty? While leaving no leaf unturned and no thing unexplained? Unbelievable… almost.

It is a book that will sober you to the deepest foundations of your core and it might even scare you. It WILL shatter you. It will open you. Leave you gasping for air. But in the ripping open there is a filling. A completing. An utter sense of hopeful helplessness is instilled in you that only something emanating from its lofty origin could contain. If we can even speak about ‘containing’ it in those terms in the first place. I don’t know.

All I know is that this Book is the book that we are all looking for. Each and every one of us. And it is this knowing that I come to you with a treasure that is grander than any one thing I could possibly gift you with. It is a book of salvation. It is a book of understanding. A book of wisdom. A book of beautiful love.

It is a book that has been on Earth for over 1400 years and has never been altered. Ever. And I swear to you, it is absolutely glorious.

This book is the Qur’an. The secret treasure I have is the Qur’an. A book that was revealed by the Almighty God to the final Messenger to mankind- the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him- and I… I just wish to share it with you.

carry on

There are periods in one’s life where there is nothing to do but sit quiet. In an empty house. Head bowed. Breathing deep. Breathing the air that maintains wakefulness and feeling the beat of the circulating heart. In this state, one realizes slave-hood. One realizes reliance. One realizes Trust.

Then suddenly, you rise up again. Filled. Satiated. Content. From thereforth, you saddle up and you carry on…

11/16/2011

The Hegelian Dialectic- How We Got to This Point

‘The State has the supreme right against the individual, whose supreme duty is to be a member of the State, for the right of the world spirit is above all privileges.’

For quite some time now the political stratosphere has been dominated by a seemingly indominable force that seeks to continually enforce its polemical ideologies on the citizens of the world. For the past couple centuries mankind has witnessed some of the bloodiest, most inhumane and most unjustified acts of aggression; all perpetrated by a well-woven, well-lubricated matrix of clandestine operations and dealings.

One of the most prominent channels these ‘elites’ have used to methodologically subjugate the masses to their whims has been usage of what is now known as Hegelian dialectical reasoning. This process incorporates a very simple yet very effective protocol of transforming the collective psyche of a social population into agreement with the contentions and intentions of the implemeting agents.

The formula for this reasoning is as follows. Hegelian dialectics implements a trilateral approach to a situation through which the agents communicate a thesis, or ideology, of a specific group or individual. This is done for some time until the population is made aware of the issue, after which another view is communicated; this is usually in contradiction to the original thesis, acting as an antithesis, and serves to offer another perspective of the same issue. This, unfortunately, has been proven to confuse the target group and throw their understandings into disarray. When tension is built between the proponents of the two positions, a third view- the synthesis- is introduced which functions to compromise between the first two contentions, forming a hybrid position of diluted ideas via each of the original contentions. This third ‘solution’ becomes readily accepted by the people as it functions to relieve the tension and confusion of all affected parties, thus allowing for the waning of concern regarding the issue- ultimately handing authority of the situation to those who had offered both the original problem and the concession.

This all simplifies to the equation: problem, reaction, solution. Again, first comes an introduction of a problem that threatens the well-being of the society. Then, an alternative is put on the table which serves to polarize both proponents. Then finally, a solution is endorsed by the ones that created the original problems. This is automatically accepted by the people and they trust it will be taken care of at that point… so they continue onwards with their lives. The lives they are being told to lead, not ones in which they choose to lead. We are all subject to this psychological mind-play, whether you are cognizant of it or not.

This can be shown to be the root methodological approach to most ‘problems’ of our recent times and it can be proven that not only has it been successful in subduing the masses, but also successful in amalgamating support to carry on with their agendas- whatever they might be.

Hegelian Marxism has been the front runner in implementing this sort of reasoning. They have been successful in it too, bringing the new age of ‘enlightened’ mankind to an ideal, utopian flavor of world communism. Or so they say, I think we’d describe it as something else. They have named this, however, the New World Order.

Hegel himself was a German philosopher and very much influenced the works of Marx, Darwin and Spencer. Herbert Spencer was an interesting fella who was, contrary to popular understanding, actually the one that coined the phrase, ‘survival of the fittest’. He had meant it in a context of societal evolution, with leading philosophical axioms like ‘might makes right’ and ‘matter over the mind’–basically, neo-Stoic materialism packaged as psuedo-intellectual political metaphysics. This idea was then borrowed by Darwin and woven into his book the Origin of Species, where Darwin tried to mold Spencer’s theorem into a biological mechanism. To which he failed terribly. Yet, the idea continues forth into the 21st century all thanks to the beast that is Hegelian Marxism.

This idea, though now relatively recently coined by Hegel and molded in time into an ideological roadmap for political consolidation of power, is nothing really new. The Quran talks about similar ‘elites’ of the ancients who had grasped totalitarian authority over the land and subjected their citizens to harm. God says:

Indeed Pharaoh transgressed in the land and divided its people into sections. One group of them he humiliated, and slew their sons and spared their daughters. Truly he was among the mischief-makers. (The Stories:4)

This verse talks about Pharaoh, the authoritarian dictator of Egypt, and the corruption he sowed. He divided his population into different camps (think right- and left-wing, have and have-nots, bourgeoisie and proletariats) and even went as far as making an ‘example’ of one group and totally wiping them out. Now, is there an equivalent to this in the modern context? Sure there is.

If one was to look at the political landscape of the post-modern West, one can see that the rule of a closely knit group of people had grasped power of the land. The following is a statement by former President John F. Kennedy, before he was silenced for talking too much:

The very word “secrecy” is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings…And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment. That I do not intend to permit to the extent that it is in my control. And no official of my Administration, whether his rank is high or low, civilian or military, should interpret my words here tonight as an excuse to censor the news, to stifle dissent, to cover up our mistakes or to withhold from the press and the public the facts they deserve to know.

Does President Kennedy speak the words of a maniac or of someone in desperation, warning the people of the reality that is the socio-political coup that has hijacked this nation? I beg the latter.

Thus, we can make the similitude of Pharaoh to the ones that President Kennedy had attributed to be members of these secretive cults. Furthermore, the dividing of people into sections can also be seen in the intra-class warfare being waged now on the extreme camps of the socio-political spectrum. And the one group that the modern day Pharaohnic entity has chosen for its sacrifice has been, without any inkling of doubt- the black man. The same black man that was subject to some of the most humiliating and degrading circumstances in history are, to this day, the most oppressed peoples living in the West. The numbers speak for themselves. There are more blacks in the California prison systems than prisoners in all jails in the world combined. That’s a fact. One in three black males in America have, are, or will spend at least one stint in a U.S government subsidized prison. This is the reality. This is what we are living in right now.

The truth speaks for itself. We are living in a world that has been molded by the neo-Pharaohnic principles of the political elite, and we have been subconsciously boxed into a corner of blind obedience and acceptance. Acknowledgement of this reality is the first step to rehabilitation. It is imperative that we understand this.

Problem, reaction, solution can be seen in many examples in the near past. It can be seen in the media propaganda machine pre-WWII, the Vietnam war era, the Cold War era, the Gulf War era, and the modern day wars the United States is currently waging. The attacks of 9/11 were the problem, the reaction was orchestrated with campaigns of mass fear and ‘terror’ programming. And the solution? Go bomb two sovereign nations that had nothing to do with 9/11. And had no weapons of mass destruction. BBC did an interview a couple years back where they interviewed some Afghani villagers living in Kandahar province, and found that they actually had never heard of 9/11. And when they were told what happened they were disgusted by it. Many of these people don’t even know why their country has been sacked and savagely ravaged. Total black of knowledge. It is unbelievable.

Two false premises do not yield a sound conclusion. This makes the Hegelian reasoning formula an construct of fallacious deductive reasoning. Logically, the syllogism does not hold and I’m sure the great logicians the likes of Socrates and Aristotle would be rolling in their graves at the sight of this; at the witnessing of how this evil, logically unsound and totally unethical philosophical formula managed to control the world and harness so much evil. I believe the decline in morality is a result of this problem and it has most obviously served the opposite result of social ‘evolution’. Rather, it has exacerbated the de-evolution of man into a sort of transhumanist archetype that eats what it is told to eat, watches what it is told to watch, feels what it is told to feel and agrees to what it is told to agree with. A robot. We are now dealing with nothing shorter than a generation of mindless, unintelligent robots. Do you see what I’m seeing?

This is what they want. A worker class that is just smart enough to do the tasks they are apportioned to do yet just dumb enough to not realize how badly the system is screwing them. We must break this if we are to make any change. We must realize our missteps and seek to retrace our steps up the arduous mountain of oppression that is before us if we are to make any progress in this world. It is something that must be done, sooner better than later. Knowledge of this Dajjalic deception, I believe, is a good start.

10/25/2011

Can the Real Men Please Stand Up?

Oh Brothers in Adam- where are the real men? I know we’re told nowadays that a real man has ‘x’ amount of money or ‘x’ car or ‘x’ females chasing him, but what about the men with straight spines? Where are they at? You know what I’m talking about right… the spine that runs down your back. Yes, where are the men with strong spines nowadays? I hear men talking about having big egos and big this and big that, but that’s often time empty talk anyways- where are the men who stand up for truth, righteousness and virtue? A real man is someone who does not waver from what is right and has the SPINE to stand up when a man is supposed to. A real man only bends his spine in  prostration to the Almighty and a real man knows that nothing else is worthy of the flexing of his torso except for this reality. Build up that spine brothers.

Most of the problems of the world have come from this exact problem being exacerbated to a degree that we literally not only have men not acting like men, but also have men that have waived their masculinity and chosen to actually take the form and function of a woman! What kind of disease is this? Men all over the world need to rise up against their own selves and strengthen that barren core of theirs. Ultimately, this strength of course comes from the heart as all strength comes from the Lord packaged as guidance and blessings via the qalb; but a man has a conscious, rational faculty in which he is, or at least should be, in control of at all times. Men have lost themselves and literally let themselves go and thus we are left in this predicament. Where men act like fairies and women like gangsters. It’s amazing.

Men are XY and Women are XX. Males have outward organs and females have inward organs. Men have spines and women have wombs. Each and every part serves its function to the holistic whole and the society does not become diseased until the natural balance is tampered with. After which we are left with an intermixing and diluting of our duties and responsibilities, allowing for a merging of mankind into one hybrid unisex. Where all permutations of nasty behavior and repulsive moral etiquette, with dog-like tempers and swiftly-overridden patience levels, are leading our society to one in which historically has always meant one thing: degradation and destruction. Degradation of the society= degradation of the inflicted ‘nation-state’ as an entity: fiscally, economically, politically, militarily, psychologically, spiritually… everything. Everything is being degraded to bare bones until now we are seeing ourselves for the ugly people we are. Because we are a part of this sinking ship too. And any time morals are bankrupt, you see everything else fail too alongside it. Thus you see the state of America now, like the Titanic after hitting the ice. We all know it’s going down, but instead of doing anything about it we’re just going to drink and play to our imminent and most-evident destruction.

This is pointed to the men first and foremost, as we are the ones that set pace for our societies and families. Let’s work on our spines my brothers.

10/18/2011

Critical mass reaching..

Human family. Listen. We have been getting screwed for a long time. You know it. I know it. Let’s be real. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, you need to read. Asap. The people who have sworn allegiance to protect us, the people, have abandoned ship. They have placed us on autopilot, directed us towards massive icebergs and in the meantime prepared the life rafts for themselves and their circles. All while everyone was on the sun deck tanning. And watching football.

Now the vessel has been hit. We’re watching these same people who screwed us float away on life boats with all the loot. Cash, gold, silver, security, food, fresh water, land. They have stolen everything while enslaving us to debt. Debt that they imposed on us, re-packaged, sold and bet AGAINST in the invisible market. It’s rigged. And we’re looking like the poor suckers watching those rafts float away against the oceanic backdrop of the night sky. Eventually transitioning into the darkness that is their evil souls.

Action will come when the time makes it suitable. For now, just read. Understand. Feel something in your heart for your common folk. This is not a right/left issue. It’s a slave master and slave issue. And I promise you, whoever you think you are. We’re the slaves in this thing. This is what Malcolm X meant by the house negro and field negro metaphor.

However, the nice thing about it is that it is all mental. The programming is cognitive so if you can break out of it, defeat it, you become a free man. With a free mind. And a clear intellect to then go about trying to make the world a better place.

You will realize this eventually, I guarantee it. The heyday of American hegemony is over. The economy is dead. Dead! Know this. It has been on rescue life-support for years now. And the politicians don’t want to treat it. They just want to place band-aids on the infection until they can guarantee the next election. To buy more time for more robbery.

Just remember. Every dog has his day. The wolves of this nation are calling for the full moon to no avail. It is the new moon that is now coming. Beckoning a new start. The people always win. Always. Always.

10/13/2011

remember the sunny days

Funny how things come some times.
Like the random thought of your favorite dish
to come home to find it steaming and gleaming on the dining room table.
When I look back and see my life in reverse fast-motion
I see this sort of ironic, tragic playwright unfolding
scene by scene.
Of course it seemed bad on the low ends of the ride
but the highs were good, right?
And we’re still here, right? Me thinks things are good.
Count your blessings.
And know that if the show backwards is tragic
forward its a lovely epic.
It’s going to have spins and twists
dips and flips;
and know that at times you might get splashed
by the rains of misfortune.
Rainfall nourishes regardless.
For a nourished man is better than a fallen man.
The nourished will see another sunny day.

10/05/2011

the inevitable end

فَأَيْنَ تَذْهَبُونَ

‘So where are you going?’

Do you have a legitimate answer to this imposition? Not where are you going tonight. Or tomorrow afternoon. Or next week. I’m talking about where are you GOING. Like ultimately. Like, if you could fast-forward to 5 seconds before your last breath, and I asked that same question… what would be your answer? If you don’t know, I would respectfully recommend you figure it out. Asap. If you don’t know, what are you waiting for?

And for those who already have this knowledge, first of all consider yourself blessed. And make known your understanding of this blessing by praising He who gave you this beautiful insight to reality. Secondly- don’t dare forget it.

Only a fool would continue on through a stop sign after knowing its meaning. When you understand that a red octagon means stop!… you stop. Always. Right? Yet when you drive past the graveyard everyday on your commute. Or see a funeral procession passing by, do you not realize one day that will be YOU. Do you not stop and reflect that one day your family will bury and leave you six feet deep?

Steve Jobs died today. My condolences to his family. And the thousands of families who lost loved ones today all over the world. Death is a part of life. These phenomenons of global celebrity mournings should snap us collectively out of our makeshift realities into the actual one. We should slide away the cognitive veils, if only for a little while, to observe what patterns are actually manifesting around us. If you haven’t ever thought about death, think about it tonight. Realize where you’re going.

And if you don’t know, seek it like your life depended on it. Because it does.