"There was a time where you were on the brink of destruction..."

Enhance the good in people. 

I remember in the past I came across a someone at Uni who shared his anti-Arab sentiment with me. He's a student like myself. The stuff that he was coming up with was exactly the kind of information you would find in colonialist literature; portraying us as if we were warmongering people who had 10 wives stealing peoples riches on our conquests. I was FUMING for days afterwards that I had even complained to people about him! The same anger arisen when arguing with someone on the Woolwich incident. It was a really heated moment. Then a friend kindly pointed out to 'advise with hikmah' i.e. advise in a patient manner and with wisdom. There was a great lesson to learn from what she advised me. 

Going back to the first person, I realized i was so focused on that one bad aspect of him that i totally disregarded everything else. He was an intelligent historian, he was on the deen, he was sociable and would do favors for others without asking. Such a shame that he held such prejudiced sentiments- but that could have been fixed. If I had advised this brother in a proper manner, then there was a possibility that he would have abandoned such beliefs and become a better person. Instead I disregarded him altogether along with the good qualities he had in a moment of blind anger. 

There was once a time when we all were worse off, but then someone had the patience and the faith in us to advise us to take the higher route. We didn't develop into better people on our own, we had some form of help and advice along the way from someone who overlooked OUR faults and believed in us! As Saudi Sheikh Muhammed Al-Arayfi said; "Perhaps there is 90% bad [in a person] and there is 10% good. So expand this 10% and treat it as 50%. Don't say [to such a person] that you are a sinner/transgressor. Because that will decrease the 10%. Consider the good to be more. Perhaps Allah shall rectify this person at your hands."

See full video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38bUWI_7rGQ

On Second Thoughts...

On second thoughts..

Will it ever happen? Arab unity- if there hasn’t been progression in 70 years. What will stop me believing that my last post will be yet another redundant, empty slogan. Words need to be coupled with action. Please prove me 

wrong. Start by changing your mindset. 

Letter to the Arab World.... ....رسالة للوطن العربي

(please excuse any grammatical mistakes in my Arabic, I'm still a novice! :) )

A Letter to the Arab world, 

Our region will only change if we as Arabs change. There's way too much fragmentation. Even 70 years after Colonialism, even after 60 years of the establishment of the State of Israel, we are no closer to unity because of the nationalism that was sold to us by the Colonialists. Nationalism- A tool to keep us divided. This nationalism has extinguished the concept of brother/sisterhood among us yet the notion of nationalism is still persistent today in our societies. I don't mean that we should go and tear down all the borders. That's only superficial. We need to tear down the borders that are deeply entrenched within our mentality. But let's not blame the colonialists for the persistence: 

"If someone pushed you in the mud, that is there fault. If you stay there and wallow in it, then you're at fault."

Is this how we have fallen from grace? We can only blame our past and the dictatorships to an extent, but we as people carry responsibility too. Don't you realize we all came from the same forefather Abraham? To which before that we share an ancestor with the rest of humanity- Adam? Just because you are Palestinian, Jordanian, Saudi, Egyptian, etc. you are only as special as much as the next human being. 
Please don't misunderstand this post, I believe in unity between all Muslim nations, but we could at least start with ourselves since we share a culture. 

رسالة للوطن العربي

سيتغير منطقتكنا عندما نحن كعرب سنغير لحالنا.  حتى 70 سنة بعد الاستعمار و 60 سنة بعد تأسيس دولة إسرائيل في تجزئة كبير عندنا. و مع ذلك لسنا أقرب إلى الوحدة… بسبب القومية الي اشترينا من المستعمرون. فهو اداة للتقسيم بيننا. و القومية قد انطفأت معنى الإخوة بيننا و حتى الان القومية مستمر في مجتمعتنا. قصدي ليس إن نهدم الحدود. لا, هذا مجرد سطحي. لازم نهدم الحدود الِي منقوش في عقليتنا. لكن لن نلوم المستعمرون لهذا استمرار;

"اذا واحد دفعتك بالطين, الذنب له. لكن اذا ظلت فيه, الذنب لك"

هذا هو كيف وقعنا في الخطيئة؟ أو كنا منزوع من النعمة؟ نسطتيع نلوم تاريخنا و الدكتترييات إلى حد, لاننا كمواطنين عندنا مسئولية بالقضية أيضًا.

هل ادرك كلنا متحدر من نفس السلف (إبراهيم)؟ و قبله من نفس سلف كما يندحر باقي الناس (ادم)؟ مع هيك لا تفكروا حالك مميز لانك أردني أو سوري أو فلسطيني أو كده. بنسبة للعرق, إنت مميز كما باقي الناس مميز فقط.

لا تعتقد لم اشجع الاخوة الاسلامية. أشجعه أكتر شي. لكن  على الاقل نبدأ مع بعض لاننا في نفس الثقافة.