Showing posts with label palestinian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label palestinian. Show all posts

Thursday, 12 June 2025

March to the Holy Land - Part 2

 


Flotilla

The dire Palestinian situation has much to analyse. The solution is simple but implementing the solution has many obstacles. Organs of the United Nations and others have declared the situation a genocide. The most important issue right now, is saving lives. Aid in the form of food, water and medicinal supplies are crucial. Not nearly enough is done, and when it is done, the Palestinians get killed at that moment in time too. Along comes the flotilla.

As with all things, there are well-meaning people whose humanitarian hearts are in the right place, i.e. they do not see it as merely a religious war, but as a humanitarian catastrophe. However, there are also opportunity for “controlled opposition” to join the ranks and join the flotilla. Nothing is as it seems because those bent on deception, being well-schooled in deception, infiltrate those doing good. Taking a stand, while it is not popular, is impactful. Of course, it needs to be for good, for justice. And the flotilla is for a good cause. The current refrain is that “if they can do it while being non-Muslim, where are the Muslim rulers?”. That is a fair question. The answer is obvious and while it is obvious, there is a need for further analysis. At the same time there is a march across North Africa to Rafah. How this will pan out, will soon be known. However, the idea is good and this, from its impact, can be more meaningful. Good versus Evil can only have one winner. It is a matter of timing. In April 2024, the idea of a march onto the Holy Land was already raised. Palestine will be free.

The Balfour declaration, in 1917, decided that Palestine must become the homeland for the Jews. More than a century later, the displacement of the original people, the Palestinians, continues unabated. It is the land of the Palestinians, and it always has been. No doubt, they have every right to resist. However, the latest attempts to annihilate them have likely been more brutal than every before, In fact, even military experts cannot believe that they are able to resist after the large-scale bombs being dropped on them. What will be the outcome? Good will overpower evil. The question is “when?”. We will need to unpack this too. For now, know that there are both Muslim and Christian Palestinians. The solution must include all victims. There may be victims among Jews too. Before the Balfour declaration, Palestine was a land where Muslims, Christians and Jews live peacefully, side-by-side. Then Palestine was under Muslim rule.

We welcome the flotilla and those who strive for a good cause. We never over praise, nor get carried away by euphoria and influencers (in their many guises). Calm down, there is yet a job to be done. No, this keyboard warrior was not near the flotilla or the North African march. Each has a role to play. The question rebounds and it is about your role. You are looking at the Arab nations and their state of inertia. The one action you do is lifting a pointing finger at them. Their condition did not start now. A most heartfelt advice from our beloved Prophet Muhammad ﷺ is: “Even if the Resurrection were established upon one of you while he has in his hand a sapling, let him plant it.” Musnad Aḥmad 12902

  You ought to strive to the end, for Allah’s sake. So, even when things look like it is over and there is nothing you can do, plant that seed in your hand. In our situation, invite others to good and keep looking for solutions in which you can play a role. The least of it is prayer and an excellent time for prayer is in the middle of the night.


See next: https://capemuslimspeak.blogspot.com/2025/06/march-to-holy-land-part-3.html

      

See previous:  https://capemuslimspeak.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-march-to-holy-land.html


Monday, 3 June 2024

You got played

 

It is true that you must focus on what is apparent. Sometimes though, “apparent” is how closely you look, e.g. females have a trait that they can remember what you wore months, if not years, ago, on a certain day, etc. And they are usually right. And sometimes what is not apparent through one sense, like the eyes, will be apparent through another sense like the nose from where you get the saying “I smell a rat”.

Muslims are guided by Quran and Sunnah and the answers are all there. Because I am not a scholar, I will leave it just there. In any case, what is making the news. In South Africa, elections were deemed “free and fair” while twenty pollical parties are contesting the results. I guess that gives a new meaning to “free and fair”. Assuming the results are accepted, then it certainly makes for interesting reading. Nothing happens by chance. About a year ago, analysts had the ANC dropping to below the 50% mark and tending nearer 40% which is more or less where they ended. At that point when the analysis was first made, the MK party was not yet a player. Did the ANC create the MK party or did they indirectly, through their targeting of a certain Jacob Zuma, create the MK party? The formation of the MK party had the desired impact on the results, dropping the ANC around 40%. This brought the DA into play as a possible coalition partner. The ANC forming an alliance with MK will be ironic since the MK is a spin off of the ANC. And likewise is the EFF. Did Cyril Ramaphosa play the game and open the door for the DA to get into government? Was this always the plan? At what point was the voters played. I know the voters are always played, but this one is quite big. The Palestinian issue was a burning issue in the election, at least in the Western Cape. The ANC has now said “country first”. Does this mean that they are willing to form a coalition with the DA who opposed South Africa taking the genocide of the Palestinians to the ICJ? Then either way, your vote may have been stolen.

And while you are trying to get to grips of how you were duped, try on a mask and social distance for effect. Anthony Fauci has let the cat out of the bag claiming that he has no idea how he came up with social distancing and masking since there is no scientific evidence for it. You got played and you got upset with people who wanted to live normal lives and not follow pseudo-science. Muslims prayers were impacted as they were not allowed to pray normally. You listened to someone who spread false news while the truth was censored and “fact-checked”. Will you have a different outlook going forward? The jab is another matter that needs to be unpacked. But already you are nervous about the truth. Yeah, the truth does that. It makes people uncomfortable, so let’s leave the jab until you are ready or Anthony Fauci tells us some important “hidden” truths about it.

The truth is apparent but how can you see it if you are hiding from it. However, the stench of their rats is so bad that you should be able to smell it, even with your mask. The truth shall set you free.

 

Do read, share and comment on these links below:

https://capemuslimspeak.blogspot.com/2024/05/indelible-ink.html

https://capemuslimspeak.blogspot.com/2024/05/resilience-and-reversion.html

https://capemuslimspeak.blogspot.com/2024/05/the-plot-thickens.html

https://capemuslimspeak.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-march-to-holy-land.html

https://capemuslimspeak.blogspot.com/2024/03/bold-question.html

https://capemuslimspeak.blogspot.com/2024/03/ar-you-reading-from-wrong-script.html

https://capemuslimspeak.blogspot.com/2024/02/wars-and-scores.html

 

Picture courtesy: https://www.pngkit.com/

 


Wednesday, 6 March 2024

Iftar at the third haram


How many are aware of the demise of the Caliphate on 03 March 1924 corresponding to 27 Rajab 1342 of the Hijri calendar? And just like the youth do not relate to apartheid, there are life-changing events that are forgotten. Will the Palestinian people be forgotten as it seems that, at this rate, they are getting wiped out?

Just as people debate the importance of the Caliphate, so too there are “debates” about the “need” and the “how” to support the Palestinians. Of course, imagine Jerusalem without Palestinians. Will that be the end of Masjid-al-Aqsa? An example of how we have strayed, i.e. how we have lost our connection to what is important, is the matter of “Ramadan Expo’s”. I thought it was a place where the basics and importance of Ramadan are covered. Rather, it is but a market. By all means have your market, but why associate it to Ramadan since it has nothing to do with Ramadan. We have trivialised some matters and forgotten others. Will you remember the starving Palestinians when you break your fast? Do you understand that the fall of the Caliphate gave rise to monarchs and presidents of “countries” whose role is to justify the division of the ummah, based on nationality. It created a vacuum in which Muslims have no leader. It seemingly removed the duty to defend Muslims. And further to the geographical divide after Muslims rebelled against the Ottoman empire and sided with the British and French so that they can get their fiefdom, the enemies of Islam did not stop there. Muslims are not bound by geographical boundaries, so the enemies of Islam infiltrated further, in many guises, and sought to corrupt the religion of Islam. This is a heavy subject of which we cannot cover the details in a short space of time except to warn against it. The pointing of fingers at Arab leaders has its merits, but self-reflection is important. Your belief must not be corrupted. Things that you may find trivial, may well be far more important than you think. And yet, belief is corrupted. Ramadan is such a month that you must reflect, repent and attain Allah-consciousness. The latter is the goal. Allah is Lord and deifying anyone by giving them attributes that belong only to Allah, is a grave sin. Keep matters simple and worship Allah alone. Reflect on the issues affecting the ummah and the world at large. Remember those suffering and assist to alleviate their plight, especially the Palestinians. Return to the pristine teachings of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ upon whom was revealed Quran in the month of Ramadan, and who taught us also through his sunnah.   Avoid innovation for it distorts the teaching of Rasoolullah ﷺ.

Let us, through our sincere actions, be the reason Allah not only saves the Palestinians, but grants us ease from calamity and grants peace. Let us have iftar (break fast) in Jerusalem.

 

 

You need to also read:

https://capemuslimspeak.blogspot.com/2024/03/slaughter.html

https://capemuslimspeak.blogspot.com/2024/02/final-wake-up-call.html

https://capemuslimspeak.blogspot.com/2024/02/wars-and-scores.html

https://capemuslimspeak.blogspot.com/2024/02/toxic.html

https://capemuslimspeak.blogspot.com/2024/02/red-heifer.html

https://capemuslimspeak.blogspot.com/2024/01/why-its-trump.html

https://capemuslimspeak.blogspot.com/2023/03/suicide-at-cape.html

 

 

 

 

 

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