I asked my students ageing between 18 and 20s if they had any idea of what was going on in Haiti and they looked at eachother like what is he talking a bout? Where is Haiti?
While in Haiti...
"Hard-pressed government workers, meanwhile, buried thousands of bodies in mass graves. The Red Cross estimates 45,000 to 50,000 people were killed in Tuesday's cataclysmic earthquake. Up to 50 percent of the buildings in the capital and other hard-hit areas were damaged or destroyed, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in New York."
Another catastrophe, a devastating disaster a calamitous event has stricken yet another poor nation why Lord? It is not enough that this island nation has been struggling most of its existence trying to break free from human bondage, corruption and exploitation and now You have practically wiped out whatever that is left that has held together the fabric of its humanity. Perhaps the answer to the question is already answered as You, Lord ,do work in mysterious ways, like wipe the slate clean and start a new beginning. But do they learn even from these harsh lessons? Look at Aceh, after the Tsunami they are now back to their kill or be killed ways of old before You sent them the big wave.
What do i know, I am but a wanna be artist who still is struggling to make ends meet in these days and age of so called plenty, what does it matter how I see things being removed from these events that has changed lives for good in most cases. I express myself through this 'Tower of babel", You have endowed man with in order that we may share our thoughts and ideas , dreams and concerns and so we try, each and everyone of us... just blogging away irregardless if it makes sense or not anymore. Our collective mind hopefully will someday bring to fruition our collective dream in the most positive way to save this our beautiful planet the only one that we know of in the galaxy of planets that You have created Your testing ground of souls. Don't give up on us yet Lord, we are still not broken nor will we give up without arriving closest to Your being despite all the trials and tribulations that You have laid in our path albeit pain or pleasure. There are those of us Lord who will still aspire to fulfill our destinies as You had set out for us to.
To the Tahitian Government and people who's on these last few days are struggling to cope with their losses and grief I pray to You for solace and calm, for Your infinite Mercy and Compassion. Please dear Lord , You who has the Power over life and death, over all that is and that will ever be, I besiege Thy forgiveness for our transgressions whether as individuals or collectively. Spare us Thy wrath even in these days of the End of Days, these 'Darma Ending Age', these 'Kali Yuga!' these' Akhir Zaman!!'I beg Thee for time that we may find reconciliation in our beliefs and faiths, find peace between all those factions that are at wars amongst us, give us time Lord that we may come to truly understand Your Will through the understanding of who we are and why we are being created the way we are and who is our true companions and who our mortal enemies. Give us the strength to stand up and be accounted for as man and not as anything but man, created in Thy image and bearing Thy essence within each and everyone of us, your mirrors, that which You reflect this creation with, your eyes that which You behold and the rest of the senses by which You enjoy Your creation for in Truth only You exist, the rest are but pigments of Your imagination, illusions, Maya, only dust in the wind. Give us the strength that we may come to realize and awaken to Your Truth, the only Truth that we were created to behold and to serve.
Ya Allah! as a poor example of a Muslim I place my hands together and bow my head before You in humility and awesome fear that You will grant me and mine forgiveness and guidance and lead us in the straight path, that which have been taken by those before us, those that have earned Thy mercy and Favor...ameen!
While in Haiti...
"Hard-pressed government workers, meanwhile, buried thousands of bodies in mass graves. The Red Cross estimates 45,000 to 50,000 people were killed in Tuesday's cataclysmic earthquake. Up to 50 percent of the buildings in the capital and other hard-hit areas were damaged or destroyed, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in New York."
Another catastrophe, a devastating disaster a calamitous event has stricken yet another poor nation why Lord? It is not enough that this island nation has been struggling most of its existence trying to break free from human bondage, corruption and exploitation and now You have practically wiped out whatever that is left that has held together the fabric of its humanity. Perhaps the answer to the question is already answered as You, Lord ,do work in mysterious ways, like wipe the slate clean and start a new beginning. But do they learn even from these harsh lessons? Look at Aceh, after the Tsunami they are now back to their kill or be killed ways of old before You sent them the big wave.
What do i know, I am but a wanna be artist who still is struggling to make ends meet in these days and age of so called plenty, what does it matter how I see things being removed from these events that has changed lives for good in most cases. I express myself through this 'Tower of babel", You have endowed man with in order that we may share our thoughts and ideas , dreams and concerns and so we try, each and everyone of us... just blogging away irregardless if it makes sense or not anymore. Our collective mind hopefully will someday bring to fruition our collective dream in the most positive way to save this our beautiful planet the only one that we know of in the galaxy of planets that You have created Your testing ground of souls. Don't give up on us yet Lord, we are still not broken nor will we give up without arriving closest to Your being despite all the trials and tribulations that You have laid in our path albeit pain or pleasure. There are those of us Lord who will still aspire to fulfill our destinies as You had set out for us to.
To the Tahitian Government and people who's on these last few days are struggling to cope with their losses and grief I pray to You for solace and calm, for Your infinite Mercy and Compassion. Please dear Lord , You who has the Power over life and death, over all that is and that will ever be, I besiege Thy forgiveness for our transgressions whether as individuals or collectively. Spare us Thy wrath even in these days of the End of Days, these 'Darma Ending Age', these 'Kali Yuga!' these' Akhir Zaman!!'I beg Thee for time that we may find reconciliation in our beliefs and faiths, find peace between all those factions that are at wars amongst us, give us time Lord that we may come to truly understand Your Will through the understanding of who we are and why we are being created the way we are and who is our true companions and who our mortal enemies. Give us the strength to stand up and be accounted for as man and not as anything but man, created in Thy image and bearing Thy essence within each and everyone of us, your mirrors, that which You reflect this creation with, your eyes that which You behold and the rest of the senses by which You enjoy Your creation for in Truth only You exist, the rest are but pigments of Your imagination, illusions, Maya, only dust in the wind. Give us the strength that we may come to realize and awaken to Your Truth, the only Truth that we were created to behold and to serve.
Ya Allah! as a poor example of a Muslim I place my hands together and bow my head before You in humility and awesome fear that You will grant me and mine forgiveness and guidance and lead us in the straight path, that which have been taken by those before us, those that have earned Thy mercy and Favor...ameen!
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