Trump's bombing of Iran reminds me of a move that maybe Ronald Reagan, the John Wayne President, would've made. But, maybe not. There was that Iran-Contra scandal.
The U.S. bombing a tiny little island nation or other nations it thinks it could defeat easily is the American Way, but bombing a country with nuclear weapons is very unusual. This seems like a Zionist move to me. This has led to their reckless demands that America bomb any Muslim country that opposes them in any way or harm individuals who do.
Trump's readiness to bomb a nuclear country shows his readiness to please his Zionist, war-mongering masters, who are a part of the Electoral College that elected him. Only a greedy, amoral businessman without any political science background can so eagerly start a war with no regard for the consequences.
I am not a political expert. This is just my opinion.
Salaam,
Sis. 'Aisha Jamaat al-Muslimeen New York City
Sr. Yasmin
*HE ANSWERS A 100 TIMES "HERE I AM"*
'Assalamualaikum'.
"I AM HERE ."~THE AWAKENING ~
{~By Mevlana Rumi (r)~}
All night, a man called "Allah"
Until his lips were bleeding.
Then the Devil said, "Hey ! Mr. Gullible !
How comes you've been calling all night
And never once heard Allah say, "Here, I am" ?
You call out so earnestly and, in reply, what?
I'll tell you what. Nothing ! "
The man suddenly felt empty and abandoned.
Depressed, he threw himself on the ground
And fell into a deep sleep.
In a dream, he met Abraham, who asked...
"Why are you regretting praising Allah ?"
The man said, " I called and called
But Allah never replied, "Here I am."
Abraham explained, "Allah has said,
"Your calling my name is My reply.
Your longing for Me is My message to you.
All your attempts to reach Me
Are in reality My attempts to reach you.
Your fear and love are a noose to catch Me.
In the silence surrounding every call of "Allah"
Waits a thousand replies of ---
"Here I am."
~ { Source ~ Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi } ~
Each moment contains a hundred messages
from God to every cry of "Oh God"
HE answers a hundred times...
"I AM HERE ."
All your attempts to reach Me ,
Are in reality My attempts to reacj you
~ {Source~ Mevlana Rumi (r)}~
Do not ever think that because you cannot see
God that He cannot see you.
"Do not lose heart or grieve"
(Source~ Quran~ Surah Al- Imran 3: A # 139)
because even in the depths of your darkest nights
your Lord is with you always, saying,
"I am near"
~ My 'Salaams' to all ~
************************************************
~ Yasmin ~
'All that is on earth will Perish. But will abide
{Forever}
the Face of thy LORD, full of Majesty, Bounty and Honor'
{'Quran'- Surah Al-Rahman-55. A # 26-27 }
*MUHAMMAD ALI'S JOURNEY TO ISLAM & 'HAJJ'* [1972] ~ {ALHAMDULILLAH}
'Assalaamu `Alaikum wa Rahmatullaahi wa Barakaatuh'.
Muhammad Ali's 1972 journey to Islam and Hajj.
Fifty Three years ago the former heavyweight boxing champion
made the pilgrimage to Makkah.
Article By James Langton.
There was an unmistakable face among the hundreds of
thousands of pilgrims who made the journey to Makkah for
Hajj in 1972.
Wearing the simple white cotton robes worn by all men who
carry out the pilgrimage was Muhammad Ali. The self-styled
greatest heavyweight boxing champion of the world was
instantly recognisable, even to those with little interest
in the sport.
A photographer was there to capture the moment when Ali bent
down to kiss the Black Stone, or Hajar Al Aswad, in the
Kaaba.
That image should have represented the high point of Ali's
spiritual journey, the pilgrimage to Makkah that all able
Muslims are required to perform and one of the five pillars
of Islam.
"I have had many nice moments in my life, but the feelings I
had while standing on Mount Arafat on the day of the Hajj
was the most unique," he told Saudi newspaper Al Madinah in
1989.
"I felt exalted by the indescribable spiritual atmosphere as
over one and a half million pilgrims invoked God to forgive
them for their sins and bestow on them His choicest
blessings."
But the branch of Islam the boxer followed at the time was
on the far fringes of the religion and his views were
regarded as extreme by many Muslims. Within a few years of
the pilgrimage, a crisis of belief would lead him to
reassess the direction of his faith.
Born into a devout Christian family, the young Ali, who was
baptised as Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr, was heavily
influenced by his mother. "Momma Bird" Odessa Clay regularly
took her son to worship at the King Solomon Missionary
Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky.
His religious views began to change as a teenager, the
result of the racism and segregation he experienced growing
up in the southern US state.
Following his own path.
At the age of 16, Ali started down the path to his
conversion to Islam. He was influenced by a cartoon in a
newspaper published by the Nation of Islam, a religious and
political group in the US. The image showed a black Muslim
slave being beaten by a white overseer because of his
faith.
Ali later wrote to his second wife, Khalilah, that "the
thing that attracted me to Islam was a cartoon".
Some months earlier he had taken part in a Golden Gloves
tournament in Chicago, buying a record he would play
repeatedly. "A White Man's heaven is a Black Man's hell" was
recorded by a Calypso singer called Louis Farrakhan, a black
supremacist who is now the leader of the Nation of
Islam.
Ali's anger towards white society in the US came to a head
in 1960, when he was 18. He returned in triumph from the
Olympic Games in Rome having won the gold medal for boxing
in the light heavyweight division.
As a national hero, he believed he would be treated
differently. Reality hit him hard when he was turned away
from a restaurant in Louisville because of his race. It was
reported that he threw his medal into the Ohio River in
disgust, saying years later "that was the moment I became a
Muslim".
Ali soon left Kentucky, moving to Miami to train for his
first title fight and worshipping for the first time at the
city's Al Ansar Mosque, which was run by the Nation of
Islam.
His faith was a closely guarded secret at the time owing to
fears it could cost him the title fight with Sonny Liston
because of prejudice against black Muslims.
Making a name for himself after historic victory !
In public, Ali spoke of going to church. On the eve of
the fight, in February 1964, it was reported that he prayed.
Only a handful of people knew he did so as a Muslim and had
been accompanied by American Muslim leader and civil rights
figure Malcolm X.
Ali's defeat of Liston shook the world of boxing, as did his
public declaration a day later that he was a Muslim.
He later said Cassius Clay was a slave name. He was named
after his father, who ha named after a member of the white
Clay family, a committed abolitionist and opponent of
slavery in the 19th century.
The boxer's new name honoured Ali, son-in-law of the Prophet
Mohammed, with the first name being a tribute to Elijah
Muhammad, the leader of the Nation of Islam at the time.
The Nation of Islam was a product of the oppression of black
people in the US. It claimed the white race was created to
oppress black people by a scientist named Yakub.
It said a space ship would arrive and wipe out life on Earth
for a 1,000 years. Ali once claimed he saw the ship during
an early morning training run.
Ali expressed the views of the organization and its
charismatic spokesman Malcolm X.
Ali opposed desegregation, going against Christian civil
rights activists such as Martin Luther King, and said
self-help was the only way forward for black Americans.
He described white people as "blue-eyed, blonde-haired
devils".
Ali reigns again before spiritual journey.
After refusing to be drafted to fight in the Vietnam War on
religious grounds, Ali was stripped of his heavyweight title
in 1967 and warned he could be jailed.
In 1971, the Supreme Court upheld his status as a
conscientious objector and overturned the ruling that he
evaded the draft.
His passport, which was taken away with his title, was
returned and in January 1972 Ali flew to Makkah to perform
Hajj. He also met members of Saudi Arabia's royal
family.
By now an admired figure in the Muslim and Arab world, Ali
said the experience of visiting the Prophet Mohammed's tomb
in Madinah gave him faith that he could defeat Joe Frazier,
who had beaten him a year earlier.
Ali would narrowly win against Frazier in 1974 and go on to
reclaim his world title from George Foreman in the "Rumble
in the Jungle" in Zaire.
Ali's religious views were beginning to mature. His former
mentor, Malcolm X, had split from the Nation of Islam after
renouncing its views and was assassinated in 1965 by three
members of the organization.
Malcolm X had become a Sunni after performing Hajj and Ali
followed suit in 1975,
helped by the death of Elijah Muhammad the same year and the
decision of the Nation of Islam to renounce its more extreme
views.
Towards the end of his life, and suffering from Parkinson's
disease, Ali revealed in 2004 that he now was drawn to
Sufism and later Sunni-Sufi Islam, as well a becoming
increasingly tolerant of all faiths.
"Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all are unique, but
they all contain water," he said.
~My 'Salaams' to all~
~ Y a s m i n ~
~*Never Despair Of The Mercy Of Allah*~
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
~Say, 'Indeed, my Prayer, my Rites of Sacrifice,
my Living and my Dying are for ALLAH, Lord of the
Worlds'~
{'Qur`an'~Surat Al-`An`am -# 6-162.}
