An English Poem by Tariq Abdullah

Poem Dedicated to VENOM that doesn't lets me live.

I can feel my blood racing through my veins and arteries,
toward an unknown location,
in the undefined journey. looping all the while.
I can feel it.

I feel the unrest behind the still standing water,
I can feel the volcano down the calm earth,
I feel my soul,
I can feel it.

The sadness behind a roaring leo,
the pain behind the tuning cockoo,
the vibation behind every song,
I feel it all in the quiete darkness.

I can feel I am Enlightened,
I can feel... That deep in me.
--By Tariq Abdullah

On Eid Ul Fitr 2011

First of all, I would like to wish the whole Muslim Ummah a very happy Eid, and I pray to Allah, may he forgive all our sins on this glorious day and i send a lot of tributes, Salam to our beloved prophet.

You will find this post to be unusually cool and calm, and I, myself do not wish to spark another debate by saying a word on burning topics like Gaddafi and Hazare on this special occasion. This is to tell you a very interesting thing, yesterday, while i was busy in Eid shopping, I suddenly felt that I am a big sinner, i had not utilized the sacred month of Ramadhan. My heart raced with fear and my breath just got deeper and deeper and at once I felt my lips fluttering, reciting this:

"O Allah, We praise you, you are the praiseworthy alone. Surely I have done many sins, knowingly and unknowingly, but my lord, I seek your forgiveness as you are the most merciful, O my lord, save me from the Satnic provocations, the Satan out there and from the Satan that is within me, Save me from fire."

After this, I felt like a cold breeze blew all over my blood and i was feeling like blessed. The purpose of telling you all this is that, when you are really and really regretful and guilty of your sins by heart, there is no reason that our Supreme Lord will not forgive us. May Allah guide us to the right path and may this Eid bring you a lot of happiness, blessing. Thank you for reading.

Love and its goal

When I talk of love I don't mean something that you might have seen in movies. The real love is a bit different, or at least in my case. I don't hesitate to accept the fact that a strange new feeling that is non-expressible, which we often call love, has been to me one time earlier. Consider my case, there is a girl I liked, I had a big secret LIKE for her since long, but i did pay no attention toward anything else. For example, even being a classmate i didn't talk to her, i would say nothing, and so she would. And I kept liking her. Day by day, this strange new feeling increased. Whenever i would think about her the heart beat raced. Why did not i say anything? The problem is, i have a deep 'respect-like thing' for her and next, my heart starts throbbing in front of her. It may sound a little weird but it is true that one may have such feeling for the one he/she loves.
Finally one day, i thought about telling this to her and then came up a question atop my senses: what is the final goal of this LOVE? This left me puzzled, do I want physical relations? No, currently, not at all. Do I want anything else? There is nothing to wish. so what do I want? What is the goal of love? The ultimate goal of love is sacrifice or to give away, the goal of love is the willing to share all of what you can, since no one, nor any thing last forever. And in fact, there is no need to create the goal of love, the goal is love itself. If you have an attraction towards someone’s beauty, not the whole existence, character, behaviour and all other things, then it is not love. This is what I believe. Most of the times, we notice 'love' only with an opposite gender person of our age but love has no such restrictions, it may happen with your mother, father, teacher or a professor. Here I would like to quote one answer to this: "The Ultimate ‘goal’ is to love without limits, boundaries, conditions, or expectations. Expectations can lead to disappointment which can in turn lead to hate. Now whether this goal is realistic or not is another question."

Are women oppressed in islam?

It is generally a widespread idea among public that you muslims keep women in veil, you keep them in burkha, chadar and many other things because muslim treats them as secondary object - the half human. And the muslim will have other other view. why?...  we will examine the real status of weomen under the Islamic System.
let us see how do you say women is secondary object. the explanation or the reason put forward by peoples who say that women is opressed in islam are:

• first of all, all one see is the physical appearance of women i.e their clothing style: Burqa, hijab or the other veiling cloth. that seems to be a barrier and to some peoples a kind of oppression. 

• the second thing people see are the comments like "She also has to bear him children and hide herself from the public, as though her very existence were a shame." 
• third point is raised by only those who have studied Islam a little more : "why does she get lesser share in property of parents?"

Believe me, You can't raise a single other question!

Okay that was the Question, here is the answer:

• If a veiled woman is meant to be oppressed and she is thought not to be free, then my bro you are wrong. It just indicates the importance of woman! take it biologically, The most important part of your body constitutes brain, it is protected by hardest bone, veiled by many layer and it never gets even light! it shows its importance not the oppression! okay? :) We, the Muslim, thinks that women are the honor for our family, the medal for our society and to protect her from various anti social elements (we all have this element in ourselves) we think it is better for her safety to be veiled. where they are not veiled they are raped: take the example of america and Iran/Saudi Arabia on the other hand. see the difference in number women abducted, molested or raped. In chapter 33, entitled Soorah Al-Ahzaab (The Clans), verse 59 Allaah The Exalted Almighty Says (what means): "O Prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the woman of the believers to bring down over themselves (part) of their outer garments. That is more suitable that they will be known (as free respectable women) and not be abused. And ever is Allaah Forgiving and Merciful." [Quran 33:59] This verse shows that Islam makes wearing a Hijaab necessary. Hijaab is the word used for covering, not only the head scarves (as some people may think) but also wearing loose clothes that are not too bright.
• the second thing people see are the comments like "She also has to bear him children and hide herself from the public, as though her very existence were a shame." The main reason for this is that people often fail to distinguish between culture and religion -- two things that are completely different. In fact, Islam condemns oppression of any kind whether it is towards a woman or humankind in general. If you see the western culture, you will find that there women serve the husband, earns money and everything else. But in our religion, it is men who serve them, it is compulsory on them to fulfill their needs!! She can work, if she like, under Islamic conditions and she can go out, but with a body guard: her husband or brother or son! is that oppression or advantage??
• And about property share:in Islam she gets lesser than brother. first thing is do they even get share of property in other religion??? she get lesser because she has share in her husband's property!! so simple!

I will post more things regarding this at later time as i have to study for my upcoming exam. you can leave your question in comment. thanks for reading.