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| "Does it matter?" |
| 03.28.05 (1:25 pm) [edit] |
From: J A H I D A H M E D
"Does it matter?" (4 January 1998)
"Where we go, you cannot follow.
What we must do, you must steer clear of.
Whom we are, you shall not become.
For those who have sought the truth, we find it.
For those who have suffered, we fight for.
For we are the ones who have not suffered,
and have not sought the truth.
In their name, do we go."
"The sun's light shines on my face
As I see the dawn arise over the horizon.
I realise that it is time, to pay reverence
To my sovereign Lord.
I see the rays of the light come through the clouds
And I see a new land before my eyes;
Far different than the one I saw
In the day past.
I cannot imagine how it was different before
Only that it was
And so was I.
For both I and the land
Have experienced a rebirth.
A new life, as the sun arose,
And we arose
From our slumber.
Thank the Almighty
For the gift of life."
"I have the spirit within me.
How strong it is, I do not know.
But I know that it is of a type of glory
I have never before experienced.
It is the type that can deliver a man
Into the depths of evil in this world
Or raise his entire civilisation
Into the skies above.
It is a noble glory.
It cannot be taken by another man.
It cannot be broken
By an outside force.
It cannot be shaken
By the external.
But, and this is unfortunate;
It can have all of these done
By myself."
"Tell me people, how should I identify my nationality?
I am neither Emirati nor English, neither Egyptian nor Sudani.
But I carry the blood of them all.
Does it matter? We are all one family.
Tell me people, how should I identify my faith?
I am not Christian nor Jew, but I am not Sunni nor Shia,
not Hanbali nor Ibadite.
Does it matter?
I hail only from where I am. I follow only that which
I believe to be true. I follow no man; I only follow God.
And I am a Muslim."
Hisham Zoubeir
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| Merchant Marine |
| 03.18.05 (9:43 pm) [edit] |
Some years ago, the story came to us in Toronto about a man who was in the merchant marine and made his living on the sea. A Muslim gave him a translation of the Qur'ân to read. The merchant marine knew nothing about the history of Islam but was interested in reading the Qur’ân . When he finished reading it, he brought it back to the Muslim and asked, "This Muhammad, was he a sailor?" He was impressed at how accurately the Qur’ân describes a storm on a sea. When he was told, "No as a matter of fact, Muhammad lived in the desert," that was enough for him. He embraced Islam on the spot.
He was so impressed with the Qur’ân 's description because he had been in a storm on the sea, and he knew that whoever had written that description had also been in a storm on the sea. The description of "a wave, over it a wave, over it clouds" (Sûrah Nûr, 24:40) was not what someone imagining a storm on a sea to be like would have written; rather, it was written by someone who knew what a storm on the sea was like. This is one example of how the Qur’ân is not tied to certain place and time. Certainly, the scientific ideas expressed in it also do not seem to originate from the desert fourteen centuries ago.
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