Real Understanding towards The Grand Design

[noor iskandar]

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Every single thing in the entire universe, big or small, takes place and will happen only and exactly as Allah has planned. That is PRE-ORDAINMENT, written in the Loh Mahfuz. An event takes place and that event acts as a catalyst, a cause for a whole series of other events to occur.This chain of events has been taking place before the Big Bang and will continue towards infinity.

An atom vibrates and triggers the vibration of other atoms and molecules and every event in the cosmos follows. We, each and every single soul of us, whom God has created to ever experienced this thing called LIFE, is a part of that marvelous grand design of His. What each human being has experienced, what each one of us will face in future, HAS, IN FACT, HAPPENED AND WILL TAKE PLACE EXACTLY ACCORDING HIS PLAN.

And what each and everyone of us should question is 'WHAT HAS GOD PUT AHEAD OF ME', 'what is my fate going to be', and most importantly 'WHEN IS THE LAST DAY OF MY LIFE HERE', 'WHAT is it that I need to do to make that day a day of peace, a day that I can actually say "thank you, Allah for making my experience here a blessed one, a day of complete happiness knowing that I am finally my meeting my Creator"..'

For a blessed person is a person who struggles to attain and embrace the beautiful attributes of human nature such as "enduring patience, gratefulness and persistent obedience to God" Those are Gods most beautiful gifts to mankind, but as we know, beautiful things are always too expensive to get and to most people, simply out of reach.

Fortunately the price of such beautiful gifts has NEVER been money. And the kind of people to whom these attributes are easier to attain are those whom have been tested with hardships, grief, illness, handicaps, etc.

What then does a person, on whom God has blessed with worldly bounty and excesses, need to do to get those gifts above? How many in that category can ever be willing and ready to do what it takes to buy God's mercy? How many rich, wealthy people can successfully tell themselves, that, what they have in their possession were never their own to spend and squander at their fancy? How many are smart enough to know the only right way to dispose of their riches and bounty that God has entrusted them with?

Since most of the better off among us are always the ones who have attained academic achievements, let's just leave the simple question for them to ponder, and contemplate...

May God guide us all...

~ Sarawak.
February 9, 2009
12:09

[noor iskandar]

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DEATH FRIENDLY

I find it very interesting that whenever we engage young children
in a conversation about Death or Doomsday, they will react with
unease and discomfort, as if we have just ruined their day. If we
try that with our peers, most of them will try to avoid going into
the detail, as though avoiding the topic will prevent death from
befalling them.

Why do we find it hard to bring ourselves to constantly think about
Death? Why shouldn't Death be accorded the attention it rightly
deserves? It is not like we have a choice;like- when we are asked
to go out running on the streets, naked; because that action will
make us uncomfortable,to say the least, we will surely choose not to
do it. With Death we have absolutely no choice..

If Death is something that is inevitable, that is sure to come to
take us away into a world much more important than this one,
it is only logical that we give It a lot of attention and its due
"RESPECT"..

Why is it that the whole world gets angry when innocent children
of Gaza got murdered the way it happened? We get angry because we
are stuck in the rut- attributing this temporary life as being
everything to us, believing this trivial life more important than
the next one. Are we forgetting the fact that those lives that
perished in the hands of the evil in Gaza are the souls that are
going to ADORN HEAVEN with beauty and perfection? Blessed are the
mothers of those children that God has chosen to die such death.

Life is in many ways ironic, a never ending paradox. Reality is
an illusion, The Unseen is a reality that is haqiqi.. True Blessings
always come in the form of trials; only the people who have been
tested with profound hardship, serious illnesses, the loss of loved
ones, mishaps and handicaps, loss of wealth.. probably have a
better chance at acquiring God's true blessings, and thus are able
to appreciate and understand the reason why we are here.

Bounty and excesses are, in fact, a greater trial. Wealth and
physical appeal/appearance often lead us away from God. Most of
us in this category never learn the right way to lead our life,
often lost in an endless preoccupation of piling up our wealth or
obsessed and lost in our pursuit of life fleeting mundane pleasures.

When we are given a task at our job, to carry out a presentation,
for instance, we normally get ourselves prepared, so that our
work will make a good impression on everyone. If that presentation
means a great deal to our boss, it is vital that we make it flaw-
less and perfect, and so we practice, and practice hoping to
deliver our best..

And what if our boss is GOD HIMSELF and our task is preparing
for our DEATH, shouldn't we be doing the same, and a whole lot
more? Shouldn't we be PRACTICING Death as well, practicing as hard
we might? How do we practice Death..if only we know the perfect
way?

Now you see, for most of us Death is very much a strange thing
that not only our young children are unable to acknowledge, but we
adults, too.

What if someone were to tell us that our life here is really
going to end soon. That our earth is entering its final phase
of its current cycle. That scientists predicted a Galactic
Alignment- of our planet along with the sun and the blackhole in
the middle of our galaxy.. that a planet named Nibiru is approaching
our earth.. to cause a great event called the Pole Shift, and a
number of unimaginable destruction to take place. To compliment
that, a few perished civilizations of the past have a record of
such event to occur; notably the Mayans, the Sumerians, the Chinese
(I-Ching), possibly the Pharoahs as well. (Read and find out for your-
self) Only Allah has the real knowledge of such event.

Weather such an event will in fact happen as predicted, or not,
wouldn't it be wise to prepare ourselves? Wouldn't it be important
that we know what it takes in order that our faces on that day will
be bright/white, and not otherwise?

As always I wish myself and everyone all the luck in our struggle;
purifying our souls. Lets be VERY-DEATH FRIENDLY from now onwards,
and may God accept all of us into a new place, a place that is hope-
fully US-FRIENDLY. Let us also start to love ourselves more and
never to be ZALIM to ourselves (for it is a fact that we are often
cruel to ourselves without realizing it) May Allah bestow upon us his
mercy, and in whatever time that we have left for us here in this
life, Allah will open our eyes, our heart and that we be shown the
truth, the right path towards a perfect and beautiful FUTURE, our
future that only begins WITH DEATH..

Love and peace.

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[noor iskandar]

Hearts of people are like wild beasts.
They attach themselves to those who love and train them.
~ Saidina Ali
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assalamualaikum,

Life and the world is the way it is because of our own fault and ignorance, mostly anyway. A great majority of us live this life mainly for the purpose of achieving material gain and thus for the recognition that follows from that; gaining respect and honor from our fellow human beings. We attribute that as the ultimate success in this life. There is nothing wrong with that, of course.

What makes it wrong, however, is what goes along with it. In our endless struggle to attain that worldly success, we, sadly, have lost our own beautiful soul..And I mean it when I said BEAUTIFUL (when Allah first gave us our soul- when we were in our mother's womb, that soul must have been beautiful and pure), for that is the only thing that matters to Allah, the only part of us that will give us meaning in our NEXT EXISTENCE..our eternal, timeless life, following this fleeting one.. (if you are among those that think this present life is, in fact ugly, again, you are not the only one either..)

Within our own self, we feed, we breed and we support an army of (our very own) ENEMIES. In some of us, those enemies are so fat, so thick, so overwhelming that we are powerless to fight them! For most of us, we don't even recognize them as the enemy for (we have let) those enemies have taught us to feel good, to feel the highest of highs when we worship and bow to them. We all know how good it feels- when we are 'above' our peers when it comes to- the size of our savings in the banks, the size of our house(s), the price of the car(s) we drive(or those we keep in our garage for exhibit). And as for the female gender, the things they love to collect for exhibit are beyond comprehension sometimes..(- their makeup, gold and diamonds, glittering this and that)

Now you might have guessed what our so called enemies might be. They come in several forms...first and foremost being 'NAFS' or our unquenchable desire for things worldly, followed by a thing called GREED and then 'RIAK' (ego), that feeling of excessive pride and the need to be 'seen'.. And then there is that thing called arrogance.. all of which are there to compel us towards KESESATAN (astray).

And now we are faced with this one question- how did we get to become the way we are? Lost in a world full of illusions.. blind to the one reality that is HAKIKI.

We may put all our blame on everything else but our own selves.. thus prompting us to look for answers elsewhere other than within our own selves, when we feel lost. What for instance, may we ask, was the reason why we choose to borrow money from the bank to purchase a house, a car, or to purchase on credit many things most of which are not even necessary..

And yes, the reason is because we LET OUR ENEMIES WITHIN win! We bow to our nafs, desire. And haven't we all 'been there'?

If you wonder why there exist monetary institutions in the world..it is because the founders saw in us human beings; our greatest weaknesses; Greed and Stupidity.. And yet, when we are faced with the trouble of paying back our loans, we get angry with the banks as if the banks will ever feel our pain, hear our cries, understand our struggles.. No, we know better than that; banks were founded by a force so evil..so vile, heartless..it is foolish to expect otherwise.

Now some of us are beginning to see the truth, the reality of our life in terms of our reliance on the banking institutions. How an unseen, unknown evil force has had its grip around our necks, suffocating us, causing much misery to so many of us..which if we are honest, are all the product of our own greed and desire in the first place!

So what now, right? Can we make our life better, and seriously HOW?
It is easy to expect our leaders to correct what is glaringly, obviously wrong, evil, unjust and bad in our country.. but is it practical? If changes were to take place at all, it would need a long time to change even merely the foundation of those very things we deem evil.. Change of banking systems? Let us dream and never forget to pray hard for that to change, for only Allah has the power to allow that to happen.

Unless of course all of us dare act, on consensus, to bring them down.
And I am smiling to myself picturing this scene in my mind.. 'all of the people who have taken loans from banks to purchase a car, for instance, give the banks back their cars, regardless of the loss these people themselves might incur in doing so..' Imagine if we simply do away with the banking institutions.. and if that act were to be carried out by everyone on the planet.. (I am on the verge of getting myself in a great trouble here, ain't I?) If we all work together, there might be a way that the power of the people be restored into their own hands, the way that it should be..and that 'slavery' be put to an end.

How very few of us actually recognize the 'faces' of all of our true enemies, be those within our selves or those that are in our nation.. namely banking institutions,corporations, privatization, globalization.. Yes, your enemies; all those!!

First and foremost, though, it is our own selves that need to be purified, revolutionized, enlightened and educated in order that we might win in a bigger fight (other than the one which is with our own selves). Yes I mean we are our own enemy that we need to fight first, before all else..

Remember to only use the guidance of Allah and His alone, in this fight. If we follow Him, appoint him as our commander in chief.. we can assure ourselves that we are in fact, on the RIGHT side.. no matter what obstacles might come in our way. And seek always the TRUTH.. for the truth will liberate us.

For me though, due to the fact that NOTHING in politics ever appeals to me, I feel I am already winning half the fight (hopefully, I am right), struggling with all my might to fight evil that exists only within myself, not giving a damn about all else.. be it political or social or economical..

After all, this very planet that has accommodated us greedy beings, is said to be in a state of naza', with all the destruction we have forced down on her, made her swallow, choked her with.. we, in fact, could be the generations to witness her ultimate 'death' before Allah put a better 'people' as the new khalifahs on a would-be-new pure, fresh, rejuvenated and pristine-again earth. Scientifically, they called it the POLE SHIFT, you know a thing that will cause the sun to shine in the west, Mecca to be fertile and green... Some even put a date to that day.. find out the truth, for once again the truth will guide and set us free. Only Allah knows..

And therefore, for that reason, who needs to fight the Rothschilds (look this up!) and all the other evil systems of this world. Our best WEAPON at last is and would be; DETACHING ourselves, alienating ourselves, freeing ourselves from this temporary, trivial life..

And as always I wish myself and everyone all the luck in fighting evil, in the endless, enduring struggle to be pious.. before leaving this world. And I pray that when the end has come, we may be among those who has attained HIS blessings.. entering the next world with a soul, hopefully, that is as beautiful as Allah has expected it to be.. feeling happy that in the fleeting life that has just passed, we in fact, have taken great care of our own soul.. nurturing it with attributes of patience, takwa, iman..

The richest among us are the ones who are content with what they have, even if what they have is meager...Love and peace to all.

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[noor iskandar]

" If I cannot harness you," said the Witch to the Lion, speaking through the bars of the gate, "I can starve you. You shall have nothing to eat until you do as I wish."

- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
"The search for the Wicked Witch"
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I'll try to give you an interesting way at looking at the banking system. Take the infamous DHSB for an example.. That entity succeeded collecting say RM100 million of depositors' money to start a bank or a fund . Applying the system practiced by the IMF or World Bank, DHSB can now loan out at least ten times that RM100 million.. meaning that DHSB now has RM1 billion ready to give away to borrowers. Imagine again DHSB collecting 10% annually on all money loaned.

That would mean in a year alone DHSB can collect RM100 million, which is equal to the amount of all the deposit in the first place. Imagine again DHSB has the absolute right over the printing of paper money and, imagine again DHSB is sought out by the government and huge corporations to borrow money from. Imagine now DHSB is so powerful and the founders so filthy rich that they can go out to finance any event or project in the entire world, as long as that event or project profits DHSB.

By now the founders learned how stupid really the entire human race is, and it begins to look like there is a possibility that DHSB can hijack a whole nation if only they can start DHSB-like banks and institutions in that particular nation. And so DH, whatever his or her name is,and the partners manage to open banks in the major European countries, and later the US.. and slowly in almost all the nations of the world.

Now DH and partner get greedier every day, and begin to work out a way to broaden their blood sucking money business. Lets see, if a country or countries can be manipulated to engage themselves in wars, (the bigger the war, the better) DH and partner can make money by financing both sides. And it seems like if the war should last until the country in the war be made to lose everything, the better it is for DH&Co. Imagine how much power DH&Co will hold when a country, after having lost everything to the unnecessary war, came to DH&Co begging to borrow money from them.. The entire population of that poor stupid country would have to work their butt their entire life paying taxes to the government, to repay their loans to DH&Co. Will DH&Co get poor ever, I mean ever?

And through out history, DH&Co will create situations and wars to make the entire human race become their slaves. That is why during the WW1, after Germany had pulled out its entire warships from all the seas and oceans,leaving the English warships waiting not knowing what will or has happened to the WW1, DH&Co (at the speed of light) went to England to avoid the English government from finding out about Germany's move..and tried desperately to avoid the war from ending.

DH&Co now see a bigger possibility, a golden opportunity, that is to engage the one most powerful nation in the world to join in the war. The US which was a supporter of Germany in the first place got tricked into a war which has nothing whatsoever to do with them, suddenly switched side and is now supporting England. Oh by the way, DH&Co made England to agree to give Palestine to DH&Co if DH&Co can bring the US to support England in a war which was in effect already ending. The US didn't have the slightest clue what war they are fighting for, save for the lies DH&Co made about Hitler's intent to conquer the world, which of course was only fitna!, LIES.

It is never easy for DH&Co to keep the world from knowing their deceptions. People all over the world, even presidents of the most powerful country have tried to expose and suppress their power and evil system, but DH&Co have so far managed to hold on. Time and again it seems DH&Co will play manipulative game and countries like Mexico, Indonesia, S Korea.. can be 'owned' through a game of currency trading, for instance.

Due to the fact that DH&Co are the major players in the world oil business, it seems vital that no other source of energy be used to take place that of the oil to run the planet. And so the world must be made ignorant or blind to the fact that THE WORLD CAN ACTUALLY RUN ON FREE ENERGY!, that vehicles can run without fuel,for instance, by electrolysis of WATER to get Hydrogen and to use that Hydrogen gas for combustion to run engines.

DH&Co have the absolute power over the media, thus assisting them in the spreading of lies and suppressing of truth from the public. The world adopts not only its evil financial system, but more importantly, the people of the world are all brainwashed into thinking that the only right and best systems to follow are those that DH&Co have founded. In trying to succeed in this system, it seems necessary and inevitable that we distance ourselves from our Creator... because the simple, pure and beautiful teachings and way of life our creator professes for us to follow in order to succeed in this life, SHALL NEVER GO HAND IN HAND with those systems initiated by DH&Co.

And so through out our entire life, we struggle against a force that we cannot name, cannot put our finger on.. finding ourselves getting more and more depressed, frustrated and lost.. despite how we try to overcome it. Some among us have everything that money can buy, wealth that our peers envy, but deep down, it is very possible that there exists a profound sense of lost and unhappiness gripping its hold on the heart, making life feels dark and empty.

To my understanding, we all need A REVOLUTION, for that is the only solution, the savior of our souls, a revolution that does not involve going to the streets, that does not hunger for bloodbath- but a revolution from within ourselves. It may be hard to get used to, but the first thing to do is to NOT ONLY TO CHANGE OUR PERSPECTIVE OF LIFE, BUT TO REVERSE THAT perspective all together! Life must be looked at as a trivial and temporary passage that we must all go through. It must be understood that our Creator has, in fact, intended for us to enjoy that passage with complete happiness, calmness and peace. And how very few among us are actually privileged enough to sail through this fleeting existence in such a way?

The road to gaining that privilege is long and challenging for most of us, mainly due to the fact that we cling to this world too strongly, forgetting that there is actually a better life ahead of us, a life far more beautiful, everlasting, beautiful that is, if we have the key to make it as such. What does it mean to most people..to GIVE UP OR SACRIFICE this life for a better one to come? Think for a moment,that there are, in fact, on this planet, a category of people who sees success in a way totally the opposite of what success is (conventionally) supposed to be, and that these people are possibly far more content and happy under any circumstance, some having very little money, some even chose to give away money when God endow them with it in abundance.. But how do they do it?

Who among us are the ones who, in fact, see DEATH as a beautiful beginning, a road to a place they have longed all their entire life to enter? If we understand and learn the way of these people practicing and living their life, perhaps we too, can feel heaven not only in the hereafter, but to feel it right here, right now...

And I wish myself all the luck.. as I would like to wish everybody else the same in our fight against evil, in our struggle to be near Him... Love and peace to all.


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