Iikaadi bal, aan soo xasuustee waagii aan hooyadeey la joogay! Allaahu mustacaan: The setting looked like full of plates parking in the middle of the mat, 'sijaayad, ama darinta weyn', each plate bragging about the unique flavor it has against the other. Waiting the call of the Aadaan, everyone is hasty, brushing and cleaning teeth. Some are taking abolutions, others are talking about Jiirooniga, the annual soccer tournaments ciyaalka xaafada of different neighborhoods arrange for the month. As is the norm, when our sisters finish the cooking operation that starts early in the Casar time when the sun is still hot, our father divides us into three groups, each group receiving a fair portion of the meal. Young kids circle, who didn't fast but always compete for eating as much Sambuus as they can by transcrossing sometimes to the no-fly-zone of the Marti, because that was the rule. What a Ceeb, when the marti loudly says to a socod-barad kid, "Kaalay nala cuna saxankeena ma dhameen karnee!" The kids should be confined in that corner, but you know a typical family in Somalia who exceeds a dozen, amazenly from one mother. The girls circle headed by our mom, funny enough sometimes how little they eat out of adhering to the long-standing belief of "gabdhaha cunto badan ma cunaan." I wish the obesity-inflicted western girls would understand the wisdom behind what that golden dietary means. The third eating circle is the fasting-age boys, supervised by our father, who says before the end of the food, "the old sons should leave here for the young ones", and that always happens when we're not even near to our fills, but wishfully thinking that the next round, which is the saxuur will soothe our unsatisfieble hunger. Sometimes we come back to the home during Taraawiix and may sneak to the kitchen, looking for any edibels forgotten or reserved for someone, but sometimes the sounds of the digsi lid slipping mistakenly from our hands makes us in the minds of the sisters that are Dooliyaal in kitchen working hard to take advantage in the absense of them. "Waryaa maxaad sameyneeseen?", the sisters say angrily. And we respond with maraq dripping our hands, or quickly ingesting the last mouthful cantuugo, "Waxaa jikada iiga dhex lumay nooh". The hunger, the joy that arrives with the sunset, the people, the mood, the overall atmosphere of the city in the course of the Ramadan, are all missed in my 10 years fasting, marked this one, out of Somalia. Environment matters when it comes to Ramadan, and more than that, family that you share with the bliss and the spiritual joy, makes Ramadan a reality that one always expects the next Ramadan. Iga daa ha isoo xasuusine!

Cinwaan: Duco ku socota dalkii hooyo. Ujeedo: Nabad iyo Barwaaqo inuu ilaah ka dhigo. Afeef: waxaad la kulmi doontaa ducada dhexdeeda habaar ku socda qablayaasha iyo dableyda halista ah. Waxaana ku alla tuugay sidatan: Rabul Casiisoow adaan kugu cataabeynaa, oo calaacalaha u hoorsanay. Colaadii wadankeeniyo canaasiirta dagaalka, ciribtir ku samee. Ciil bey nabadeenoo, Cunahaa na xanuunoo, caburaad maskax saaqdaybaa cimrigeen kalawiiqay, ee adaa caadilnimadaada caanka aheyd, wax ku ciidmin karaayee calaacalaha noo buuxi. Casiisoow baryadaadaan laga caajizi kareynoo, intey coomiyeyaashaas coobada na hayeen, cilmi baad u laheyd, ee xikmadaada cajiibkaa amuurtaas ku ahaatee, caawa noo abshiree. In cilad aan lasaari kareyn iyo calaamaad ibtileysan ay qabqablayaasha ku habsato, anagana aan farxad taam ah iyo hurdo cuzumaad ugu baaqno dadkeenii ku bahgo'may duleedkaas kufriga. Carro saafi ah, dhul saxansaxo leh, dad isku caado ahoo, caqiido waaxida heystaa, yaad casiiskii boqranaayee, dhamaanteen nagu uuntay, waanse ka anfariirnoo, aafaa na qaseysa oo afrikaan na haweystiyo adduunkaa nagu eegta cadow aan gabaneyn oo caruurtii naga laystay, oo misna soo cartamaaya, dhaqaalihiina curyaanshay, colaad joogta abuuray, nabadii cakiroo, qoryo caarado dhuub ah oo cidwalba curadkeed, ciyaar ciyaar ku dhameeyay, ee casiiskii boqranaayee, adaa awoodaada balaaran iyo cududaada layaabka leh, oo cidwalboo is hortaagtaa ay candaadiq ka dhigeyso, yaan cishadaan kaa tuugnoo, in aad nooga caabisid cadowgaan na idleystay oo, cisha walba na gumaada, in ay ciida la sinmaanoo ciribtooda la waayo. Aamiin, Aamiin, Aamiin. Jacburkaas oo aan tiriyay, waxaan rajeynayaa inuu noqdo ducooyinka uu Raxmaanka inaga aqbalo bishan ramadaan ee nagu soo abbaaran maalmaha soo socda.

Maskiin Macruuf Aqyaar, Adiga hadii lagu dhaho wadankii u ducee, maxaa uga dhigeysaa sida in laguu diray howl xun ama adag oo laga wahsado, waxaaba laguugu aaminay arin barako leh oo wanaagsane. Sida ka muuqato hadalkaaga, eeboow, waxaan ka baqaa inaad meesha xoolihiina kaliyah idiin daaqaan lee u duceysid si roob badan aad u heshiin, intakalena aad habaartid oo hadhow ay abaar ba'an ka dhacdo, sida maanta ka jirtaba meelo badan oo dalka ka mid ah. Ok, MMA, hadaa diiday inaad kaligaa noo duceysid, bal orod oo bunka iyo hilbihii lagu alla-tuugi lahaa noosoo diyaari, anakaa howsha galeyna oo reer-duco-qabe kasoo jeednee! Been kuu sheegi maayo, reero dhan aan waxaan u nahay qolada ugu qeybsan ducada iyo alla-bariga. Marka, eeboow, inaadan gablamin aan kuugu duceyhaa ee inya roortid oo kudid, halkii bun ahaa oo bacbacleehaayo noosoo kari, unukaa mugaas duceyheynee. Minii kale, waad ku ducco la'dahee ogow!

War shiiq Nuur, maandhoow igaarta u tartiibi, u maleyn-maayo inay wax diidan tahay, ee waxaa jira ninyahow cudur la yiraahdo 'sidee aniga naag kale la iila qabi karaa?' Cudurkaas waa iska dabiici, waana loo baahan yahay, inkastoo ay gabdhaha guur la'aanta ku nagaaday kasoo sheegteen 'side-effects' kiisa. Marka waxaan kugula talin lahaa adoo shiiqii cidda ah in aadan igaarshoodhinka ku dhihin waad is badali doontaa, iyadoo ay iska cadahay isbadalkooda inuu yahay sida oraahdii aheyd, 'meyd maxaa ugu danbeeyay? kii hadda lasii siday'. Yacni, isbadalka igaarshoodhinka waa marqaati madoonto. Xitaa waxaan maqlay in hadeey xaajiyadu maseerto lagu aamusin karo been cidlo ah. Sida adoo naag kale qaba oo ay banaanka kasoo xan maqasho, inaad ku tiraahdid, "walaaleey dadkaan waa iska hadal badan yihiin oo jaceelka aan kuu qabo markeey ka yaabeen ayay naga maseereen, oo adba waa ogtahay intaad nooshahay iyo hadaadba iga hormartid inaanan naag aan adiga aheyn saas u fiirin karin". Wallee beentaas waa xoog badan tahay, oo xitaa hadii Rahiima oo maseersan loo sheegi lahaa laga yaabo inay ku qanci lahayd, iyadoo leh "odayga hadalkiisa daacadnimo ayuu salka ku hayaa, ee ka leexo". Balse, beenu raad maleh horaa loo yiri, nin naago luqunta la galo, midhaa marmarsiiyo kama dhamaadaan. U maleyn maayo inaan been aqaano, laakiin sidaan hada ku talo jiro oo ah naago badan guurso, waxaan ka baqayaa in beenta sida loo sheego ay i ciisho!

Personal Ethics! The right things are obvious, and the wrong things are obvious, as well. But in between lies issues that resemble each other or with great ambiguities that much of the people can't distinguish what categories they fall in. That was the hadeeth of the prophet, scw, which I paraphrased, but my point to relate this hadeeth is because my sister in the above has said that some of what she used to consider wrong are not wrong because its considered right somewhere else. So, that ufairly raises the question of ethical dillema, as she put it. I don't know if I got it right, but let's say that is the case. If we want to decide what is wrong, where do we go to define first what is wrong and what is right. Societies, we know, manufacture their own ethics by following flexible rules that are twistable and bendable, depending only how and where you want to justify them or manipulate. But as a Muslim society, we have our own ethics for conducting ourselves as individuals and societies of different race, language, and geographical backgrounds. These ethics are the key for measuring right and wrong questions of personal ethics. Though, there are grey lines between the two, yet, we're advised to refrain as much as we can from those issues that appear 'mushtabihaat' or ambiguities, and leave for the people of knowledge to direct us in terms of the safe course of action. In my understanding of the ethics that were primarily derived from cultures, irrespective where the cultures' place of birth is, there is no solid and firm bases those ethics could stand, because cultural ethics that are reflected sometimes from the people's personal ethics are always subject to circumstantial changes that favor for some portions of the society or against another. Therefore, personal ethics must be framed by the supreme who knows for sure what best nurishes the self in living decent standards of life that are acceptable to every naturally sound-minded person,(fitrah-minded), I mean the common natural disposition of the human beings without exposing culture breeded ethics.

Xiinfaniin, lol. Waa runtaa saxiib, sometime ago, the same topic was prompted to me by this movie that is called 'the day after tomorrow', and I started to dig more about the subject by reading several books out of curriousity. What I only came out of them was the sense of predictive analysis that was solely based on the essence of climate studies. The only aspect they look stronger is the observations they obtain from the settalites and but the rest are scientific show-down wrangling that is obviously propelled by political dogmas. My two brothers in the above are disoriented with the hype in the atmosphere about the exagerative claims of global warming. but surely, I will contribute my part on this subject in the coming few days, insha allah.

None of you guys can definately pinpoint the sublime underlying complexities that drive Allah's creations, except that you use and talk about your western mentors who teach you not the reasons but the mere words of hallow meanings! Its time to grasp the will of Allah, gentlemen!

Currently, the spirit of Somali women and the money transfer remittence system are indeed the backbone of our Somali existance, of course with the will of Allah. There must be some curriculum and educational programs in the future of somalia's schools, that teach students the golden role our girls had played in the course of the brutal hardships. Salute for all our Muslim women!

Nazra, you are indeed a nice somali girl with good manners. It seems to me that you come from a nice family where respect comes before everything. I like how you handled the question when you politely refrained from hurting the questioner of her impolite question about your income. I think, there is no problem asking one how much they make, of course with good intentions, but when the question navigates to detect the financial inferiority of the other, that is realy flirting with something else. The only time I use my Income brackets is when I am engaging with Gabar Madax-adag, who didn't heed my other manly tactics of Shukaansi; and believe me, speaking about my income brackets to magicaly impress a lady never made me a champion in shukaansi. Lacag wax ma tartee, ilaahoow Janno hana seejin.

The topic of this subject depicts the eight century of the Islamic epoch as very unfavorable history. We were told that there were sacred generations of the Islamic era where the effectiveness of Islam has practically contained every social problems, and transformed an ill-fated society to the best of their potentialities. Muslim historians see the uniqueness of Islamic history through the lenses of the early stages of Islamic development to be guidlines of future plans for revival, whereby the opponents of the Islamic history, especialy the heydays of the Islamic civilizations, precaution the repetition of that era as a threat to their civilizations. Much of what we understand from the western history or their historians today are the perpetual discretings of the Islamic history and its relevance for today's world. In other words, the western history stands in a cycle of constant guard from allowing the emergence of Islamic civilizations because of the opposing principles and forces parrelaly running and contesting in the same orbit. Though, I understand the topic was to enlighten the moderates, which I don't subscribe to, but I felt an obligation of every Muslim that is to correct the fellow muslims when you surely know what embarked needs to be corrected. Moderate muslims should understand that the only way they can gain the support of their people is not to batrey Islam and its people. We have seen the praises of the western leaders for calling the moderates as their best friends and allies in their mission to pacify the rest of the muslim world. It appears that moderates have done everything so far to earn the approval of the west, of course for some reasons. But I say all praise is due to Allah, they are microscopically visible atoms in the muslim community. Their ability to influence fellow muslims for their inferior causes were severely tarnished, and can't even stand with a cohesive principle, thus making themselves appear hypocrites. In Islam, the term moderation has some vital importance in performing many rituals, but the stigma it carries out with today, with excessive western media uses, qualifies it to be refrained and utilize some lexicons with equal meanings. Moderates should seriously think for themselves and Islamicaly in molding their goals and thought patterns so that their characteristics of moderation doesn't become what the western figures dictate, but rather the opposite that is always in line with the Muslims. To become a moderate doesn't supposed to be a pretentious conformity for an allien idealogies and causes. Moderation is what realy sets the practice of Islam in the best doable form without fear of inconsistency and laggardness.

War aniga walaasheey wiilo ma dhahaayi waxaad dhahdeene, ee soo dhawoow ina adeer, aad baan ugu faraxnay soo laabashadaada inkastoon aanan laf ahaateyda kaa soo horeynin. War nuune, waa ku salaamay adeer, koofi aanan kugu ogeyn ayaa kuugu jirta, waayeel gaamurey iga dheh, waxaan filayaa inaan howlaha garta iyo cadaalada kusaabsan kuugu soo wici doono, insha allah.

I am blacksmith, tumaal, and sometimes painter. I couldn't be anything since I came brutally cold lands in the west.

Alloow haku qaadin; war ninyahow Baashi su'aal wanaagsanidaa! Been kuuma sheegaayiyee intaan ka maqnaa Somaliaonline,(iyo internet-ka oo dhan), hormar la taaban karo ayaan gaaray, hadii la dhihi lahaa dhanka dhaqaalaha, dhanka nolosha, dhanka ka faa'iideysiga waqtiga, yacni dhinac walba. Saaxiib, waxaan hubaa SOL inaanan sidii hore oo kale ku ahaan doonin, sababtoo ah waagaas midhaa xiiso ayaa igu jiray, balse hadda howlo iyo duruufo igu xariiro dartood, waqtiga ayaanba ii saamaxeyn. Waa sidaas oo ay kuusii dheertay, SOL oo xiiso beeshay, ama aad arkeysid marmar badan mowduucyada laga hadlayo inay u badan yahay waxyaalo aan munaasab ahayn, oo caruurta meesha timaada Iskoolada loogu soo aqriyo, kadibna ay halkaan la yimaadaan. Waxaaba iigu sii daran, in dadka aqlabiyadooda markaad eegtid ay u badan yihiin kaliyah dad aan waayihii lasoo maray iyo dhaqanka aan sidaas ugu dhaganeyn. Ma rabo inaan sii faaqido, laakiin dabcan su'aashaada ayaa aheyd maxaad ka dheeftaa soo gelida SOL. U maleyn maayo qasaare mooyee in ay halkaan dheef taalo. Koley qasaare waxaa ugu weyn waqtiga oo lagu qasaaro, sababtoo ah ahmiyada waqtiga markii uu ilaah ku dhaartay, wuxuu dabadhigay qasaare, waliba dadka aan ka faa'iideysan ahmiyada uu waqtigu leeyahay. Sikastaba ha ahaatee, hadaan su'aashaada kugu soo leexiyo, maxay kula tahay inaad adiga ka faa'iideysatid meeshaan?

Brother Naasir, I heard Indian Muslim girls are Ok with polygamy as long as you intend to maintain their dues and rights. You can actually marry a better Muslimah with full collaborations in bring your future ambitions into actuality, I mean with the help of Allah. I know some brothers who are determined in the pursuit of marrying Indian muslim ladies, plus they are very gorgeious, don't forget that! Once you get one, you may recommend them your future sons. Don't wait brother, act now.

An intellectual is the one who is cognizent of Allah, and fears Allah's wrath, but hopes for His mercy. That is an intellectual. The opposite of an intellectual is the negligent taken by the desire of the Dunya, and Sheydaan. A good example of the best and undesputed intellectual was prophet Mohamed (scw).

What is this wierd conversation all about? A woman can ask what she wants as a man is entitled to his right to asking what he wants.

Stoic, I personally believe since there is a strong scientific principle that support all the documented changes, man has something to do with the changes. You believe in Science as a principle guidence for truth, and then you believe in the ability of man to changing the natural course of the universe! Interesting rationale! Where Allah's magnificent unimaginable power, by the way? I am realy disturbed by the fact that people believe in everything about the whimsical sensationalism of the scientists, including the one who attempted to describe us as the descedents of the monkey and animal species, i.e. Darwin. Well, scientists are nothing but denailists, because they disguise the facts and hijack the truth. The majority of the climatologists who predict about the future don't show any corralation between the ruining moral degradations, sins, filthy obseneties, injustices, killing and so on and so forth of their own society and the divine consequences. They can't even speak about or predict where everyone is going after death. Yes, its unscientific to talk about religion, because, as they claim, its related to faith, and thus faith is unverifiable. Does that sound exceptable when the same scientists are trying to convince us that what happen, in their own calculations, 1000 million years ago and what will happen the next 5000 million years are the absulate truth. Believe it, as of now, I am another scientist who will always talk about the truth of what will happen definately in the day of judgement, and that all scientists will go to the hellfire if they don't believe in Allah and His Messenger.

Nice talking to you as well Mr. Castro.

Mahadsanid Baashi. Maadaama Computer-kii hore la iga goostay, waxaan rajeynaa in markaan aan la iga waayi doonin golaha murtida ay aqyaartu ku caweyso, minuuw eebe raali ka ahaado!

Originally posted by Castro: quote:Originally posted by Alle-ubaahne: And as to your gullible believe in science, I think you are utterly misled by the glittering of the digital age of computer technology. Saaxib, what I think of science and technology is irrelevant here. First, do you think it's possible, through science and technology, to harness and control natural phenomena such as hurricanes? Second, does Katrina count as a theodicy (the original topic theme)? If yes, why? If no, why not? That's it. My scientific beliefs and your religious inclinations are both on the periphery of this discussion. Cheers! I understand your confidence in thinking about controling natural phenomina, but through what means are you able to control any given natural phenomina, unless you happen to believe in the umbigious science? First, don't question my religious inclinations, because we're simply discussing about the ability of scientific developments and what they can tackle in terms of natural disasters. Secondly, by questioning your believes in terms of science, it was nothing but what you had brought on the table in measuring and bragging about your level of science fenaticism. I guess, its not only you who adhere the religiousity of the science, but many growing number of dissatisfied former christains are resorting to the science as a final abode for belief. Now, whether the hurricane Katrine has a divine cause or not, I think my position about the faith of technology and science is clear.

Brother Nur, Your brillience in sheding some light on the viciousness of the Somali politicians amazes me indeed, because that is exactly who they are. It would be a huge victory for the Somalis if they could understood politics from the dimension you pointed out. Masha-Allah!

Top up your iimaan doesn't have to go all the way from gender lines to scientific terminologies. Iimaan is one of the core significant believe tenants we adhere as Muslims, in which our prophet (pbuh) has explained in a language as clear as the visiblitiy of the sun when there is no cloud. Since Iimaan is very important, why was it explained in a full-proof language? though every thing in our religion was expressed in an understandable manner, but the exception of Iimaan with its emphasis on the precise explainations for it to be easily understood, is because people have to understand and grasp its objectives so that they can be able to live with and act on it. The principle of iimaan was made easy by Allah, but the norm of human tendency is to make things more intricate, for many reasons, because for a chinesse muslim wants to explain Iimaan in what his people can understand or know about by using analogies that can probably be so distanced from the meaning of Iimaan. For instance, if I ask a muslim guy with mechanic background about the meaning of Iimaan, he may use the wheels of a car as an analogy to make me understand how iimaan works, but remember my question was what is iimaan, not how it works and so forth. Now, it seems we are engaging with the issues that arise from language applications, isn't it?

Originally posted by Castro: quote:Originally posted by Alle-ubaahne: What a jocular statement is that when one speakes about controling hurricanes! Isn't true that a thing you can control is a thing you can create. Thus, if anyone can control a forthcoming hurricane, why not create some and use them against North Korea who is more than a natural challange to the western world. Alleubaahne, wax kalena waad u yara baahantahay: open your eyes a little and look around you. We already control things considered impossible only a hundred years ago. I don't know about your control-create link but there are things we can't create but fairly easily control. Think about it. Castro, it seems to me that you missed to understand the history of distrust as to how it pertains to the material development in western societies. You can't speak about total relience on technology without grasping the fact that there never was a time when scientists were unskeptical about their inventions of anything due to the prone-to-fail essence of all scientific developments. This indeed is the focul point to stick with when discussing about science in general. And as to your gullible believe in science, I think you are utterly misled by the glittering of the digital age of computer technology. Absulatism and gaurenteed warrenties are not the typical tags that scientists bargain about. May be a reer baadiye like me would buy otherwise!

Sister Athena, why are you spinning your self to confussion? Please take a rest, you've been dancing all day long. Excessive dance has its own side-effects, worser than any misused drugs. Plus, let me mention that you forget your Hijab, if my eyes aren't failing me from the sight of your dancing image. Ilaahoow ceebta astur, Aamiin.

This is what I observed from the rationale of a typical somali political tribalist in great dilemma. Before you read his quick statements, let me tell you a breif introduction about this guy's background. He is the son of one former political elite of the country. Now that he is close to forties, he wants to head a campaign for his tribe to do something in Somalia. What is interesting about this guy is that he lives with his tribal believes, and he proudly speakes about it everywhere he goes. At the end of his statement, the guy becomes very frustrated, and suddenly becomes full of despair. This is what he had to analize about Somalis disputes according to his tribal perspective: "The Somalis are fed up the tribalism idealogies that are always propelled by the traditional leaders and their bosses, warlords. I believe without tribalism, we would be the best in the world. But on the other hand, I think its not our tribe that is responsible the demise of our nation. I blame the tribe X for every wrong doing in the country, but if you think about their side, they are blaming us the same for everything. Politically, I understand that we need a just government, but only if our tribe is the head of the state. That is right, because if you look back you find it was only our Reer Hebel who rescued the nation, and was always the eyes of others. You see, we have a history of being the single most just tribe in the affairs of Somalia. When it comes to national interest or governance, we must be recognized for our smartness and everything. You know, Reer Hebel are talking about something they can't even understand; Government. My friend, I understand everything, but the problem is with those people who hate us ever since we were Somali. We are good people, indeed. Look, our state of the country today is that you either choose one of two problems, and that is where the dilemma comes: they will rule us and we face an extermination of the worst genocide, or we stay this way of no hope in the future of good political stability. I am asking yourself Where is the solution for our nation? Its hard to say it, isn't it? Do we stick to the idea of reginoalism, so that every tribe takes their own land for good? That doesn't work for many regions that are inhabited more than one tribe. Do we think about revolting to the traditional elders who instill the tribal dogmas and spread the propoganda? Even though our people are open minded, and can't be misled by our elders, still Reer X will not confront the realities with their tribe. What if we use the next door country's forces to help us overcome the other tribes in Somalia? At least that is close to what can bring about a final solution for the crisis made by Reer Hebel". What about Culimada? I asked him. "No, because the majority of Culimo are reer Hebel, and our tribe didn't invest enough Shiekhs in Islamic studies! To be honest with you, we are the best tribe, educators of the country, and the most civilized, but Reer Hebel don't trust our good faith. Its very sad and sometimes mind-boggling to think about what they did to us, and still think for saving Somalia" Now that he is overcome by an emotional outbrust, he slows and sadly says this: "Oh, you know what.... the solution must either come from our tribe or some people other than Reer Hebel, because that is the fact!"