Our Agenda to change Our condition (The last part)

A Group is nothing but a number of individuals gathered up for a reason that binds them together, that is what makes a community, a nation, etc. and for that they say "Start the right in yourself first, and be sure of it, and everyone else will follow", to build our nation, each one of us need to set up his/ her very own POV of this nation, and decide- while seeing other countries and knowing more about other cultures and filtering them to match his/her culture and ideology, or to match what he/she see as what Logic and Selfless Conscious could accept- the points that this nation needs. My personal experience is that I decided after seeing the Khawater program to right my very own "Agenda to change our condition"; I write it down in 1, 2, 3... And I take that little notebook wherever I go, where ever I see some wrong action that this community is used to doing and need to be fixed I write it down, Like: “More attention should be paid to waste and garbage disposal.” “There must be laws to protect citizens in public ways and abroad”, you know stuff like that.

The point from this agenda is that you will keep it with you in your library or something, every now and then you’ll come back to it, see what the government has actually achieved and/ or what you can achieve from your current position (7atta law kan el position da ennak Ba22al!). Try to advice people whom you see worthy of the advice to do the same. Do the right action, always, and not because you’re afraid of the punishment of the wrong action, but because right is what have to be done, to have a peaceful mind! A right action is what our nativity could accept, regardless the religious affiliation, you’ll soon discover that nativity and religion (not necessarily religion representatives) are not much different.

So, after this long ride, tell me; what will be the very first things you’ll be putting on your agenda now?! :) (Radwa Fouda, 2009)

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Our Agenda to change Our condition pt.2

You know guys, I don't really mean to call them reluctant or anything, but our Arab world- which is supposed to be the Islam Hometown- isn't really using Islam, or let’s say: not using it the right way... I mean, when I went to England, I have seen Muslims there acting way differently, Islam is a part of the everyday life, and even non Muslims are applying actions that are said in Islam, not because of Islam certainly, but because they simply are doing a right action... In a word, I tell my fellow homies here... that there, Islam is just Easier, I don't have to look like the odd sheep doing a good action... and I'm not speaking about the praying and the major stuff...I'm speaking about simpler more.. just mind relaxing right actions, like throwing the stuff in the garbage, like smiling in each other’s face in the street, passing old people in the road, or stopping the car for them for a while till they pass, oh! and being on Time, which most of the Arabs seem to respect only when they travel abroad, see, just simple actions, that doesn't necessarily shows us as Muslims, but as a person who's doing a right action, and showing respect to others.
In Khawater, Al-Shukairy showed us good habits that Japanese had been doing that made them reach what they had become, especially after being totally demolished in Hiroshima. He insists on the principle of not "photocopying" all what they do... Ya3ni el fehm 7elw bardo :-)... but Japan is a live example of Starting from scratch, is I mentioned before, their infra-structure was totally demolished, they suffered many years of radiation poisoning, and mutilation caused by nuclear wastes, but those who survived, took it as competition with themselves. A month later- a photo was displayed- Little kids were sitting in the middle of wrecks and demolish taking their school lesson!!! And during the very same time the ministry of education started laying down the new curriculums. Again let me remind you A MONTH after total Demolishment! Why?! because instinct and logic says that when some bully kick you flat to the ground at school, you should stand up back again, and fight back again... except for here's the Japanese trick! When Al-shukairy asked a Japanese dude: "Do you hate the American for what they did to you back then?!" He replied: "It's not about hating them or not, it’s about how we respond to such a catastrophe! To an extent the nuclear bomb, was a good thing in our history, why?! Because it shifted all the Japanese attention and energy from war and destruction to building their own History and people back up again!! And teaching that lesson of survival to all the upcoming generations." Now that is a lesson for the whole world... How to respond to having your butt kicked, I'm not discussing the reasons behind the divine reasons that lead them to have such an accident, nor for the Americans to do such a thing, but just the respond. Keeping in mind that the Japanese didn't reply the attack back by force, even after building back their structure and civilization, nor did they publically try to enter a one on one competition with the American! They simply took the High way, of doing their work and doing it well! Did You know that they had their infra-structure back to how it was before the bombing in just 3 years!!

“But after all the hardship they had suffered, the Japanese were ready to learn from their mistakes. So they went out and hired the best advisors they could find, among them Dr. W. Edwards Deming, a statistician who had worked in the US Army's quality control office during the war.
Deming's message to the Japanese: Don't try to copy the intricate structures of big American Corporations. Instead, Deming and others advised, build a new kind of Japanese company- a company dedicated to Employee involvement, quality improvement, and customer satisfaction...
It didn't happen overnight, but the Japanese company was reborn. Japan became a leader in technological innovation... With this new spirit in place Japanese firms didn't just catch up with their foreign competitors. In many important industries, the Japanese rolled right past... America, unfortunately, was one of the last to catch on" -Dale Carnegie(Author)
Those few lines I just quoted paraphrased what I want to speak about when it comes to the Japanese concept of technological resurrection. My younger brother- and he's a great fan of the Japanese culture himself- told me that the difference in Japanese concept is that they accept outside technology to Japan only if it matched, or reformulated to match their traditions and/or culture. When the Americans propose a certain new technology or even sometimes ideology, they expect people to mould themselves according to it! That's not a generalization of course but most of the "Weak personality countries" do that!, which what lead to the bad side of Globalization.

End of pt. 2, Await the Last part tom. Inshallah

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Our Agenda to change Our condition pt.1

The following article was a long one, so i decided to divide it to parts so it'd be easily readable; PLEASE DO NOT COPY, PUBLISH, OR USE THIS ARTICLE FOR COMMERCIAL PURPOSE WITHOUT MY PERMISSION!

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The Prophet Muhammad said, “Any word of wisdom is the stray of the believer, who has the better right to it wherever it may be found.”

Instinct or conscious and Logic -in my opinion- is the base behind every action or concept the human person takes... And the reason why those two should be together is definitely because, some stuff could work as Logic but they cannot work ethically where our conscious is the judge in it. The fact... or let's say the phenomena that we (everywhere) are tending to normalize some of the stuff that are sometimes un-ethical and accept it as a normal change in the world under the name of "civilization" is just in my POV is illogical! And sooner or later that attitude proves itself incompatible.

From one of these things the trend of accepting all the technological changes to the community without filtering it, or deciding whether or not they are consciously acceptable to our societies or to our world in general or not. Ignorant in my own opinion are the ones who’re shallow enough to push themselves through such a technology or a concept and telling everyone its Modernization... I would ask that person, that institute or that country a question... Are you really being true to yourself?! Are you really buying that?! I believe it's all a matter between each person, his mind and his conscious, don't you think?

This Ramadan from the 60 to 66 shows I was told were being broadcasted- coz I'm not really the gal who keeps the timings of shows in her mind, even the favs- there was a show called "Khawater Shab" means "The Memoires of a Young man" by Ahmed Al-Shukairy, this year was the 5th edition, and he broadcasted it from Japan. I have to say that this guy did an amazing job, really, because even though I didn't follow it on the TV, I only saw random episodes on the internet, I really benefited, and it inspired me enough to write down this article. Another thing inspired me as well, It's "Agenda to change our condition" a book by the two scholars Sheikh Hamza Yusuf and Imam Zaid Shakir, which what I partially took its title for the article.

End of pt. 1