30 Temmuz 2008 Çarşamba

SEVGI NEDIR?

SEVGI NEDIR?
Hemen hemen herkes bu soruya kendince bir cevap bulmustur.
Sevgi kimine göre bir duygudur,kiminin inanmadigi,kiminin taptigi bir duygu.
Sen arkadasim! Bana sevginin tanimini yap dedigimde ,bana verecegin ilk cevap ne olurdu?
Tahmin edebiliyorum.
Buna cevap vermek gerçekten çok zor.
Imkansiz degil ama zor.
Sevgi için bir çok tanim yapilir.
Ama gerçek cevabin "sevgi" kelimesinin içinde oldugunun kimse farkinda degildir.
Sevgi sevgidir!
Sevgi bir sakizi sevdiginle paylasmaktir,sevgi hissetmektir,sevgi dokunmaktir,sevgi aglamaktir sevgi gülmek,sevinmektir sevgi,düsünmektir,sevgi acimaktir,sevgi annedir,sevgi çocuktur,sevgi devlettir,sevgi Allah... Sevgi sensin ,sevgi ben,sevgi o....
Sevgi çok seydir,sevgi asktir,arkadasliktir,dostluktur,komsuluktur...
Sevgi her seydir be güzelim...Sevgi her sey...
SEVGI SENSIN BE GÜZELIM SEVGI SENSIN ANLIYOR MUSUN SEN!!!
Bir Yürekte Cannn olabilir misiniz?
O yürege Can Katabilir misiniz?
Bir Cannn'immm kelimesine o yürekte bin anlam katabilir misiniz?
Gözlerde isiltilar, piriltilar görebilir misiniz?
Çalinmis Zamanlari renk renk yasayabilir misiniz?
Ellerin,gözlerdeki isiltilarin o yüregin sicakligini birebir yansittigini algilayabilir/algilatabilir misiniz?
Ya yüzlerce, binlerce renklerin disinda renkler bilir misiniz?
Can sesini duydugunuzda yüreginizde; ürperti ve titresimlerin getirdigi telasin midenize vurusunu bilir misiniz? Imge'lerin tadini bilir misiniz?
Ya kelimelerin, mimiklerin, ifadelerin yetersiz kaldigini bilir misiniz?
Dizlerinizin, omuzunuzun, gögsünüzün can atesini arayisini bilir misiniz?
Avuçlarinizin; Can Çiçeginin ellerini, saçlarini, yüzünü özümleyisini bilir misiniz?
Saçlarina, gözlerine, burnuna, dudaklarina ve tenine dokunusun hazini bilebilir misiniz?
Kalabaliklarda sessizlik sarkilari söylemeyi bilir misiniz?
Ya ellerin dansini bilebilir misiniz? Sikica sarmanin, yürege katmanin tadinin haza dönüsümünü, Onun dizlerinde, omuzlarinda, sonsuza kadar kalmayi hatta yok olmayi isteyebilir misiniz?
Yani dostlugu+yüregi+ruhu+mantigi ve bedeni tek tek sirayla yasamayi, yudum yudum yürege katmayi bilebilir misiniz?
Kim bilebilir!
kim bilebilir ki!..
kim yasamis ve yasatmistir, kim algilatmis ve algilamistir ki, kimin gözleri acimistir, kimin yüregi kanamistir, kim deli yürek olmustur, kimin yüregine yagmurlar yagmistir/yagdirilmistir ve kim bu "misiniz" leri ve"kim"leri birebir yasamsalina katmistir ki :)
Iste bütün bunlari sadece ama sadece CANA CAN KATANLAR bilir yani biz

29 Temmuz 2008 Salı

Photobucket Album

28 Temmuz 2008 Pazartesi

Arkadaşlık ve Dostluk üzerine...

Arkadaş evinize geldiğinde misafir gibi davranır,
Dost geldiğinde buzdolabını açıp istediğini alır..


Arkadaş senin ağladığını görmez,
Dostunun omuzu ise senin göz yaşlarınla ıslanır...


Arkadaş davetine katılınca bir paket hediye ile gelir,
Dost sana yardım etmek için erken gelir; toparlanman için geç gider..


Arkadaş, onu o yattıktan sonra ararsan rahatsız olur,
Dost neden bu kadar geciktiğini sorar, derdini anlatmak için...


Arkadaş bir kavgadan sonra her şeyin bittiğini düşünür,
Dost ise tekrar arar..


Arkadaş senin daima onun arkanda olmanı ister,
Dost ise her zaman senin arkandadır...

Arkadaş zaaflarınızı öğrenir ve onları kullanabilir,
Dost zevklerinizi öğrenir ve onlara hitap eder..


Arkadaş zayıflıklarınızı bilirse başınıza kakar,
Dost zayıflıklarınızı bilirse örtmeye çalışır...

25 Temmuz 2008 Cuma

Muslim College Life; Dating, Drinking and Deen

Muslim College Life; Dating, Drinking and Deen

by Huma Ahmad

Freedom. Young people live for the day when they can move out of the house and go to college and finally be free. Freedom from their parents, from restrictions on their lifestyle, from everyone telling them what to do. This is why in college you find a whole generation that does what they want. Life's short they say, let's enjoy ourselves while we can.

So it goes for Muslims. In college you find the most amazing things, Muslims who don't pray, Muslims who date, Muslims who attend MSA meetings but go out to parties and drink. Why is this happening?

For one, when students go off to university they finally realize that what they beleived in was blind. Religion becomes like a fairytale, when they got old enough, they knew better than to believe in it. Most have little knowledge about Islam and have maybe memorized the right rituals to get by. Why beleive something on faith, they ask. After all we cannot see heaven or hell. How do we know Islam is right anyway?

Islamic culture to them means marrying someone they never knew. It means arranged marriages and never hanging out or having fun. For girls Islamic culture has even less to offer. It would mean double standards or having to serve a husband the rest of her life.

The western alternative to this looks alot more attractive. In western culture "love and romance" are supposedly everywhere. Everyone is out looking for love freely. Meeting someone, going out, seeking pleasure sounds alot better. But what about the downside? For love at first sight, you need to have the right image, the right hair, the right clothes. Girls have to aspire to be like the latest supermodels, they have to hold back age. Who's going out with who, what are my friends thinking, what will happen if I don't get the right girl or guy, what is my girlfriend or boyfriend thinking, all become important. Frustration, desperation, and unhappiness become the norm.

Imagine all the heartache youth would save if they followed the Islamic alternative. In true Islam, unlike culture, there is no gameplaying. If two people wish to be involved they are both straight with one another. Unlike what goes on today amongst some Muslims, they both meet each other and make a contract to marry. Women are treated with respect, there is no sexual bombardment like there is in western society. Sex in western culture is also often seen as a vice or a sin of the flesh. But even in religious Islam, sex is seen as natural. As long as it is in the right circumstances, when the two are committed to one another in marriage.

Drinking in college is also the norm unfortunately. If you don't drink or party you're seen as weird. Drinking is cool and a way for people to socialize, meet and have fun. The one who doesn't is less of a person and 'misses out'. Drinking and all the harms that come with it is cut off at the root in Islam. So many problems are avoided, accidents, pregnancy, violence and even rape for example.

In college and in the world, success in life is not seen in terms of religion. It is seen as what other people think, one's careers, how much money they make. If you are religious you must have failed at life. But why do we have this seperation? and this blindness in religion?

The Quran tells us again and again not to have blind faith, not to folllow the religion of our forefathers.

Yet, we as Muslims have stopped thinking. We may think about what our friends or other people will say, but we avoid thinking about the real issues. We spend so much time on the opposite sex, thinking about careers, money etc, but we forget to think about death and how much of this we will really be able to take with us?

"Every soul shall have a taste of death and only on the Day of Judgement shall you be paid your full recompense...for the life of this world is but goods and chattels of deception" (Quran 3:185)

Shouldn't we take the time to comtemplate what will happen to us after we hit the grave? After all, what is the point of life if we are not accountable for our actions? If there is no creator, what is the point of being honest or good.

If we really look at our life we see that everything is indefinate, getting a job, even living until tomorrow. In fact we could die anytime, this is a definate, the _only_ dead certain thing in our life. Most of us believe we can make up for our actions later or we can be religious later. We are gambling. The chances of our dying today are little, but the stakes are high. Allah reminds us of the importance of this, "O you who beleive, obey Allah as he should be obeyed, and die not except in a state of Islam" (Quran3:102)

Each of us needs to decide. Is Islam right or not? Why don't we take the time, just once, once in our lives to find out if Islam is right. Is the Quran from God or not? We can't see God, but is there a maker to all this? We need to study nature, and the world. We only live once, if Islam is wrong then we should leave it, but if it's right we shouldn't go halfway. We shouldn't go to a club thinking we are only going to 'hang out and are not doing anything wrong' then feel guilty about it later. We shouldn't go on a date or drink, then feel guilty about it, worrying about hellfire. If Islam is right, we should follow it.

On the Day of Judgement it will be us alone who will be asked about our actions. If Islam is right and we are not following this deen completely, we are injuring our own soul, both in this life and the next.

"Verily We have revealed the Book to thee in truth, for (instructing) mankind. He, then that receives guidance beinfits his own soul: but he that strays injurs his own soul..." Quran 39:41

This is the true definition of freedom. To learn about Islam and the world openly. To contemplate about life and death. And after learning the truth, obeying the word of God. "Those on whom knowledge has been bestowed may learn that the (Quran) is the truth from your Lord, and that they beleive therein, and their hearts may be made humbly (open)to it..." Quran 22:54

Once students have this rock-solid intellectual beleif in Islam, the corruptness and falseness of the people around them is clear. The beauty and wisdom of the islamic way, the best alternative is clear. What other's do is of less importance. If others think they were weird to pray or weird to be honest, they would still pray and still be honest because they know their deen.

The Prophet(SAW)'s famous hadith to 'seek knowledge even if it leads to china' or to 'seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave' is too often forgotten by students. Our Quran's are left on the top shelves, gathering dust. Sometimes the most it is read is when someone dies. How is this to help, when the guidance comes too late. The Quran is for the living. The path to understanding and following Islam comes from learning first.

How many of us are Muslim, yet have never read the Quran in our native language?

How many of us are Muslim, yet have yet to open a book on hadith or sunnah?

How many of us defend Islam to non-Muslims, but do not follow it ourselves?

May Allah forgive and lead us and all those lost to the straight path, inshaAllah.

Ameen.

based on a talk by Abdul Wajid "Born to be Brown", UK

19 Temmuz 2008 Cumartesi

EYE AGE

EYE AGE
LAID DOWN FULL MOON LIGHT TO MY BED
EYES LIGHT LIGHT
NIGHT DARK DOG HOWL TELL
THE STREETS IS BEING DROWNED WITHOUT THE SOUND
SKY RED VANISH TEND
DARK STARS IS SLIPING
THE SEA PEACE IS CHANGEING THE BAD TEMPER
CONTROLLED LIGHTS ROAD HEIGHT LIE DOWN AND ONE DOT
DIE
THE SAIL IN THE SEA WAS HEAPED CORRECT THE HORIZON
CRY AUNT FISH SCENT
SUDDENLY ONE CHILD CRY COME EAR
MORE NEW WAKE UP IDEA
SLEEP BE SATISFIED EYES WITH ROOM DARK IN THAT MANNER ONE FILTER
LATER AGAIN SLEEP START EYES
AUTUMN LEAF EAT FALL DOWN
QUITE IS BREAKING THE SOUND
LOOK I THIS TIME
YOU MAKE DIFFERENT COME TOBACCO SMELL ROOM
BE FILTERED BROKEN GLASS INSIDE,
METHOD PUSH INTO TREMBLE SKY
UNDERSTAND THERE FORMATION
RECOGNIZE I, I ANY MORE
COME LIKE GO ROOM
ONE DREAM SLEEP BREAK INTO PIECES
LOOK FOR ME MAKE DIFFERENT VANISH
FOR A MOMENT STREET FIND POOR JACKET TIRED BODY
FOR A MOMENT STREET FIND POOR ALSO HAND WINE BOTTLE BECOME
KISS WANT LIP
FEELING BLIND THIS WINE SCENT
RUN AWAY BE AFRAID OF FROM ME
BLOOD DROP SKY
SUN RISE CLOUD CORNER BE TORN,
SUN RISE CLOUD MORNING BREEZE DOORS HUMMING WITH LAST
A SIDE ALWAYS STAYED COLD
TIRED POOR BODY COOL WATER EDGE COLLIDE
SILENTLY BE FILTERED WAVE BODY PLACES
GATHER RECOGNIZE PEOPLE HEAD
LOOK AT I ALSO KNOW MYSELF
ONE YOU THERE ME OLD RECOGNIZE
EYES ORIGIN STAY EYES
DRAW WANT EYES BUT DO
UNDERSTAND FULL OF EYES WET
BE FILTERED TREMBLING ONE LEAF LIKE BECAUSE OF
LOOK THIS EYE AGE
YOU LONELINESS ALSO DOCTRINE

17 Temmuz 2008 Perşembe

The Opportunity to Choose Love

The Opportunity to Choose Love

It may be easy to look around our world today and see the appearance of chaos, difficulty and strife. Yet, when we come from an open heart, we can also see our opportunity to love all things into balance, joy, harmony and peace. This planet does not need more visions of desperation, fear, doubt and hate - it requires an abundance of love, especially unconditional love, to heal and restore the beauty contained in every moment. This becomes the easier path once we take the first step and begin to share our love.

When we bring unconditional love back into our personal, professional, community and family lives, we begin the journey of restoring wholeness and happiness to our planetary adventure. Of course it takes determined effort on our part as the old ways of being are quick to return in our mind. However, this effort to love is rewarded with a new perspective on everything and all life benefits as a result.

Here at The Love Foundation, whether through Global Love Day each May 1st, our annual Art, Essay and Poetry Invitational, the Love Ambassador or Act of Love designations, and our newest program, Loving Earth, each of these opportunities are simply ways to keep the understanding of love fresh in our collective hearts and minds.

Eight years ago we started this nonprofit organization as a way to inspire and remind people of the simple power of loving unconditionally. In just these few years, we have witnessed a growing worldwide momentum embracing this opportunity to bring the awareness of unconditional love back into our daily lives.

We look forward to expanding this dialogue and welcome you to walk this journey of unconditional love in your part of the world.