Allah, The Most Kind and Gentle Although I vanish, the Most Gentle and Kind vanishes not. Thus, I have hope in Him – hope that fails not. I seek safety with Him from a time where trials would age this body of mine So, I bring my needs, and I’m ever in poverty To the One with whom hearts find tranquility Numerous are the matters that Allah decrees! Yet, the unseen realm, is that which none sees His decree eases secretly our difficulties And by decree does He alleviate our calamities and by His discreet kindness and generosity, there’s relief – replacing all adversity. Whose door do I have, besides Allah’s door? I have no other Master nor another whom I so adore! He is generous, kind and gentle, blessing us ceaselessly, He answers our prayers and conceals our faults so beautifully, Enduring is He, never hastening to recompense our delinquency He bestows his mercy like pure rain, gracefully Therefore, King of kings, please pardon me; My sins have cast me so far away from thee My lusts have caused my malady Yet there’s none but thee to heal me So my Lord, comfort and shield me from eyes burning green. for when calamities strike they do so with fangs sharp keen. My Lord, fasten me with the joys of children and family Without them a man is certainly a stranger, poor and lonely Ah, my young children, on their fate I do fret Worn from worry and grief I am ever upset But to thee the reigns of my life I do surrender To the One who handles affairs with majestic splendor The Most Merciful, my refuge and the pillar on which I lean In repentance, I call Him with none in between. Allah, Of my condition thee did hear so my Master, I ask, is relief near? O Lord of Judgment Day, relieve this anxiety of stubborn worries that in my heart sink deeply And bind me to the rope of thy content, and turn thy Face to me And accept me so that I may repent and return wholly to thee. My safety and success are in thy Hands So support my will against life’s difficult demands And with Thy remembrance illuminate my life. Indeed when recalling thy name sweetness becomes rife And say of me that I am still thy servant sharing in thy Kindness, drawing near to thee, no longer distant My thoughts of thee, my Sustainer, are pleasant And my hopes in thee, lie in meadows, fertile and fragrant And send prayers and praises upon the Prophet and his family For whom the nightingales from their branches sing their sweet melody

And love farewells its longing and my elegizing cried
And the tears went dry after crying
And the universe became narrow and so is my space
And the grave became my ground and sky
This is my end and this is my bed

Fear fills my estrangement and sadness is my illness
I expect firmness and I swear it’s my cure
And for Allah i pray faithfully, you are my hope
Allah! I desire heaven, to find bliss in it

And for Allah i pray faithfully, you are my hope
Allah! I desire heaven, to find bliss in it.

Why did not the angles help Him when they heard him while he wailed?
How could the rods stand to bear the True Lord when He was fastened
How could the iron reach Him and His body pinioned?
How could His enemies’ hands reach Him and slap His rear???
And was Christ revived by himself…or the Reviver was another god?
What a sight it is!A grave that enclosed a god!
What’s more weird is the belly that had Him in it!
He stayed there for nine months in utter darkness…fed by blood!Then he got out of the womb as a small baby,
weak and gaping to be breastfed! He ate and drank, and did what that naturally resulted in.
Is this a god??!!
High Exalted be Allah above the lies of Christians
All of them will be held accountable for their libels
Oh cross worshippers…for what reason is it exalted
and blamed who rejects it?
Is it not the logic to break and burn it along with the one who innovated it?
Since the Lord was crucified on it…and his hands were fastened to it?That is really a cursed cross to carry…so discard it
Don’t kiss it!!
The Lord was abused on it…and you adore it?
So you are one of His enemies!!
If you extol it because it carried the Lord of the worlds
why don’t you prostrate yourself and worship graves
since the grave contained your god in it?
So, Christ worshiper, open your eyes,
this is what the matter is all about….

And the innocence on death row?
It’s probably in the same proportion to criminals in black robes
That smack gavels
That crack domes
That smack gavels
That smash homes

Justice is somewhere between reading sad poems and 40 oz of gasoline crashing through windows
It is between plans and action
It is between writing letters to congressmen and clocking the captain
It is between raising legal defense funds and putting a gun to the bailiff and taking the judge captive
It is between prayer and fasting
Between burning and blasting
Freedom is between the mind and the soul
Between the lock and the load
Between the zeal of the young and the patience of the old
Freedom is between a finger and the trigger
It is between the page and the pen
It is between the grenade and the pin
Between righteous and keeping one in the chamber

So what can they do with a cat with a heart like Turner
A mind like Douglass
A mouth like Malcolm
And a voice like Chris?!

That is why I am not dangerous; I am danger
I am not angry, I am anger
I am abominable, stress, Eliotic relentless
I’m a death sentence
For the beast and his henchmen
Politicians and big businessmen
I’m a teenage Palestinian
Opening fire at an Israeli checkpoint, point blank, check-mate, now what?!
I’m a rape victim with a gun cocked to his cock, cock BANG! Bangkok! Now what?!
I am sitting Bull with Colonel Custard’s scalp in my hands
I am Sincay with a slave trader’s blood on my hands
I am Jonathan Jackson and a gun to my man
I am David with a slingshot and a rock
And if David lived today, he’d have a Molotov cocktail and a Glock
So down with Goliath, I say down with Goliath

But we must learn, know, write, read

We must kick, bite, yell, scream
We must pray, fast, live, dream, fight, kill and die free!

They showed us their culture and we became instant fans
We abandoned our religion and so Allah abandoned us
We broke our deal with Allah within our mutual trust
We were supposed to remain obedient and in Allah place our trust
But we fell into sins and were betrayed by our lust
Allah sent us a Messenger who taught us success:
To aim for Jannah and love this dunya much less
But we took the blessings of honor and power for granted
So when we strayed from Islam, a wake-up call we were handed
The troops of the devil in our nations quickly landed
To colonize the Muslims, with their kufr so candid
But we still didn’t learn and so soon we became related
They were far from Allah and Islam is what they hated
We, too loved this Dunya, and our Iman had long faded
We didn’t realize that the gates of Jannah are gated
Earning Jannah means putting desires to the side
If we expect the gates of Paradise to open for us wide
But since we abandoned Allah and forgot our religion
Allah says Be and so He carries out His decision
The worst amongst us were made to lead us
But they, too were oppressors and didn’t even feed us
Allah withdrew our Khilafah and woke us up to a reality
That our success is with Allah and not with ethnic principalities
That we need to put our ethnicities and worldly love to the side
And hold firmly to the rope of Allah, not swimming with the tide
Our return to success as an Ummah resides
In following the Prophets’ and Sahaba’s lives
In learning about and adhering sternly to the Qur’an and the Sunnah
And implementing Allah’s laws collectively as an Ummah
To rise back to the top, we must return to our Deen
Beginning with our own individual beings
Then move onto our families, communites, and nations
Establishing with Allah the best of relations
So let’s invest in the Aakhira instead of over-enjoying life
And be prepared for this means considerable strife
The hatred from the mouths of the kuffar continues to emanate
The time is for Jihad, and Salam to the Believers who participate
Allah’s Messenger, Sal-Allahu Alayhi wa Sallam said
That the Kuffar would attack and Muslim blood would be shed
Because we’re obsessed with the Dunya and abandoned Jihad
That we love this life and would hate to be dead
And until we return to our Deen, this condition remains
That we stand humiliated until we rethink our aims
We are here to establish Islam on this Earth
So by the Will of Allah, let’s give Islam a rebirth!

Have we forgotten the purpose of our lives?Sometimes we think we exist just to have a good time.So we indulge in satisfying our lusts and desires,Even if means becoming hypocrites, thieves and liarsWe forget the sole reason Allah created our souls.It is to worship Him alone, until they bury our bonesNever faltering, never shifting, away from our Iman,Remaining true to Allah as best as we can.But beyond this belief in our hearts come our actionsBalancing obedience to Allah and appeasing satisfactionsWhat is a Muslim who forgets the commands of His religion?One who is blinded by Dunya, and lost all vision?Have we forgotten that we have one of two destinations?Hell is for the transgressors, and Jannah is for the patient.In this test we can enjoy ourselves, and be pleased with our lives,But the reason we live is to worship Allah, and this will not change until we die.In the sorrow and regret of the most horrific of days,We’d wish to return to Dunya, only to change our ways.A Day on which we’d beg Allah on our hands and our knees,Return us to this Dunya! So we can salvage our Deeds!But Nay!You’ve had your chances and received your warnings!But remember when you slept during the early mornings?!When you neglected Fajr, and didn’t keep up with your Salah?You were cheap and you were greedy, and didn’t pay your Zakah!You indulged in the obsession of this Dunya with the sinners,And prevented your own self the company of the winners.Who might they be, if you ask as you listen?The winners are those who answered their Lord in submission.They obeyed Allah and realized life’s mission:To submit to the One who created you from clay,and to fear the most horrifying, detrimental of daysThese winners are the ones who enjoined in the worship of their Lord:They kept their covenant with Allah, not breaking one word.Prayer by prayer, Day by Day,Holding firmly to the Qur’an, while following the Prophet’s way.The best of the Muslims receive Jannah’s delight.Because they fasted through the day and prayed Tahajjud through the night.They fulfilled the necessary obligations and did more,They kept their loyalty to the One who they lived and died for.Let us all reflect, as to how we may be viewed by the Sublime.Are we of the hypocrites who don’t even pray on time?Of the losers who worship every nickel and dime?Of the animals who don’t treat fellow Muslims with respect?Of the enemies of Allah whose commands we neglect?Are we the sinners whose own lives we’ll regret?Or have we devoted ourselves to pursuing Paradise?Of the Muslims whose actions are intelligent and wise?Of the noble who tell only truth with no lies?Of the pious who pray every prayer on time?Let us Never forget our aim for Paradise,We must worship Allah, through all of the sacrifice.For those who fall short, Jahannam is their destination.Allah’s Judgement is most Supreme, and His is the best of legislation.So Ya Allah! We beg of you to guide us the straight path!And we seek refuge with Your mercy from the torment of Your wrath!Ya RABB! Grant us patience and let us die in submission!Let us realize and succeed in the struggles of life’s mission!We are for You and to You we return,So grant us refuge from Hellfire’s burn!Grant us the peak of Jannah with the Prophets, martyrs and righteous,For none exceeds You in Your generocity, O Lord of Kindness!And send Your peace and blessings upon he who You’ve sent to guide us,To make us of the pious, and bring us out of the blindness
All praise is due to You, Lord of the Heavens, the Earth, and all that’s between.Master of the Universe, All-Knower of the Unseen.

“If our prediction is correct, Solar Cycle 24 will have a peak sunspot number of 90, the lowest of any cycle since 1928 when Solar Cycle 16 peaked at 78,” says panel chairman Doug Biesecker of the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center.

Right: A solar flare observed in Dec. 2006 by NOAA’s GOES-13 satellite.

It is tempting to describe such a cycle as “weak” or “mild,” but that could give the wrong impression.

“Even a below-average cycle is capable of producing severe space weather,” points out Biesecker. “The great geomagnetic storm of 1859, for instance, occurred during a solar cycle of about the same size we’re predicting for 2013.”

The 1859 storm–known as the “Carrington Event” after astronomer Richard Carrington who witnessed the instigating solar flare–electrified transmission cables, set fires in telegraph offices, and produced Northern Lights so bright that people could read newspapers by their red and green glow. A recent report by the National Academy of Sciences found that if a similar storm occurred today, it could cause $1 to 2 trillion in damages to society’s high-tech infrastructure and require four to ten years for complete recovery. For comparison, Hurricane Katrina caused “only” $80 to 125 billion in damage.

Above: This plot of sunspot numbers shows the measured peak of the last solar cycle in blue and the predicted peak of the next solar cycle in red. Credit: NOAA/Space Weather Prediction Center. [more]

The latest forecast revises an earlier prediction issued in 2007. At that time, a sharply divided panel believed solar minimum would come in March 2008 followed by either a strong solar maximum in 2011 or a weak solar maximum in 2012. Competing models gave different answers, and researchers were eager for the sun to reveal which was correct.

“It turns out that none of our models were totally correct,” says Dean Pesnell of the Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA’s lead representative on the panel. “The sun is behaving in an unexpected and very interesting way.”

Researchers have known about the solar cycle since the mid-1800s. Graphs of sunspot numbers resemble a roller coaster, going up and down with an approximately 11-year period. At first glance, it looks like a regular pattern, but predicting the peaks and valleys has proven troublesome. Cycles vary in length from about 9 to 14 years. Some peaks are high, others low. The valleys are usually brief, lasting only a couple of years, but sometimes they stretch out much longer. In the 17th century the sun plunged into a 70-year period of spotlessness known as the Maunder Minimum that still baffles scientists.

Above: Yearly-averaged sunspot numbers from 1610 to 2008. Researchers believe upcoming Solar Cycle 24 will be similar to the cycle that peaked in 1928, marked by a red arrow. Credit: NASA/MSFC

Right now, the solar cycle is in a valley–the deepest of the past century. In 2008 and 2009, the sun set Space Age records for low sunspot counts, weak solar wind, and low solar irradiance. The sun has gone more than two years without a significant solar flare.

“In our professional careers, we’ve never seen anything quite like it,” says Pesnell. “Solar minimum has lasted far beyond the date we predicted in 2007.”

In recent months, however, the sun has begun to show timorous signs of life. Small sunspots and “proto-sunspots” are popping up with increasing frequency. Enormous currents of plasma on the sun’s surface (“zonal flows”) are gaining strength and slowly drifting toward the sun’s equator. Radio astronomers have detected a tiny but significant uptick in solar radio emissions. All these things are precursors of an awakening Solar Cycle 24 and form the basis for the panel’s new, almost unanimous forecast.

According to the forecast, the sun should remain generally calm for at least another year. From a research point of view, that’s good news because solar minimum has proven to be more interesting than anyone imagined. Low solar activity has a profound effect on Earth’s atmosphere, allowing it to cool and contract. Space junk accumulates in Earth orbit because there is less aerodynamic drag. The becalmed solar wind whips up fewer magnetic storms around Earth’s poles. Cosmic rays that are normally pushed back by solar wind instead intrude on the near-Earth environment. There are other side-effects, too, that can be studied only so long as the sun remains quiet.

Meanwhile, the sun pays little heed to human committees. There could be more surprises, panelists acknowledge, and more revisions to the forecast.

Quotation:

	“The best jihad [struggle] is (by) the one who strives against his own self for Allah, The Mighty and Majestic,” Hadith (sayings of the Prophet Muhammad). 1
	“Fight in the cause of Allah those who fight you, but do not transgress limits; for Allah loves not transgressors.” Qur’an, Chapter 2, verse 190.

Meanings of “Jihad:”

“Jihad” and “Mujahid” (one who carries out a jihad) are two religious words that have been given multiple meanings:

Many accounts in the media define “jihad” as a synonym for “holy war,” — a vicious clash between followers of different religions, each of whom believes that God is on their side and that the other side is is of Satan. This usage often appears on Western TV, radio, and other media during news about the Middle East, where it is used to describe a call for Muslims to fight against non-Muslims in the defense of Islam. Some Muslims have begun to adopt this meaning of “jihad” as a result of Western influence.

Others use the term as a synonym for a struggle of any type. This reflects the origin of the word from the Arabic verb “jahada” which means to struggle or figh