Road to Utopia…(2); Fade to Black

A man (or woman) without time is one of three things: a slave, a prisoner, or dead. A slave or prisoner does not have time; rather, they do time. And a dead man, of course, has no time at all.

To have no time is to be without prospects. It is to stand forever on the threshold of the future without ever entering therein. Even before Fukuyama had declared the End of History in a 1989 essay (prior to publishing a book by that title), a generation before him had already sprayed the words “No Future, No Hope” on the Walls of the Western World. These events are related. To be without prospects is to enter into circular and routine time, which is only the experience of mind become tautology, snared within the bubble of perception…

For Gaza…

 

Not Arab zealotry, not Islamic compassion, and not claims of human rights, but your blood broke the siege of Gazza. You were the bare truth coming out of tons of dirt from collapsed walls. You had not even begun to speak that they smashed your skull and cut your throat. However, you sent the most eloquent and clear message for the humanity on the eve of the New Year, 2009, and woke up those who wanted to go to sleep amidst the commotion of the Christmas feasts, surrounded by the media boycott of the powerful and the ambiguous and shameful words of the international community. But now you are on the lap of Muhammad, Christ, Moses and Abraham, and they are calming you, while ashamed of those who claim to be their followers.

 You are the great tutor of this century, who taught the leaders of the Arab world to open their eyes and witness the consequence of 60 years of neglect and treason, and Arab nations not to hope for Al Azhar’s Fatwa for Jihad and not to seek patriotism in their rulers and leaders. You made all Muslims aware that today; the Ummah of Allah’s Messenger (SA) needs insight and endurance more than anything else. You revealed to all Muslims that who is their friend and who is their enemy. Your murderers are enemies of Muhammad (SA), and you have made these enemies infamous and revealed their true faces to Muslims of the world. And you showed   that how untrue and oppressive are the Western concept of human rights and the systems and organizations derived from it, and for whose interests they are intended to act. You also showed us the meaning of the Free World and revealed the real face of Dajjal, hidden behind the veil of democracy, welfare, Hollywood and BBC.

Today, your pure blood is the strongest evidence to be presented to court of human conscience for judgment on everything and everybody. Your blood is the denominator that separates good and evil, and no one can escape this judgment. Arabs, Muslims and the humanity are either on your side or, directly or indirectly, against you.

Now, all conscientious people give your father and brother to take their weapon and resist against those who murdered you, to take your revenge and defend your neighbors, or if they are not able to do this, at least tie explosives to their bodies and convey your message from within the camp of your enemies, which is built inside your home, to the people of the world.

Your blood broke the siege and went beyond the borders of Palestine and the world;   and no one can stand against it. Your blood has something to say to your murderers: Pack your sacks before it becomes too late, and return back to where you came from   with the same ships that took you here. The day when the holy fury of Muslims and other humans begins to outburst, it will burn and annihilate you along with your allies. This day is not too far and your ascending fear is the most evident sign of it.

And finally, your blood sends the message to the hidden savior of the world that his soldiers are now ready to give their lives in his way will reply his invitation to Jihad with sacrificing their hearts’ blood.       

Trauergedicht (lamentation)

Where are the lightning suns…?

Where are the luminous moons…?

Where are the shining stars…?

Where is the rope which connects earth and the sky…?

Where is the lord of victory day and where is the bringer of Guidance emblem…?

Where is the preparer, who cuts the roots of injustice…?

Where is the Face of God, who Companions turn their face to him…?

Where is the seeker of Martyr of Karbala’s blood…?

and

Where are We …?

Road to Utopia… (I)

 

 ”And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. [...]

  And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. [...]

And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; [...] And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; and the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.”

Genesis II (Authorized Version of 1611)

And nothing else matters…

Never cared for what they say
Never cared for games they play
Never cared for what they do
Never cared for what they know
And nothing else matters…

Das Bedenklichste (to think about thinking)

     The most thought provoking phenomena in our thought provoking times is that we don’t think yet. Maybe the man of our time has acted too much and thought less, since many centuries ago. And how is it possible to say that we didn’t think and there is a widespread tendency to philosophy and it is growing everyday? «Philosophers» are the same «thinkers». They are called like this, because «thinking» essentially occurs in «Philosophy»!

(Martin Heidegger- was heisst Denken?)

       Plato says: «Mankind naturally resides in Philosophy». awareness gives him stability. As Aristotle said, in the first line of Metaphysics:«Mankind naturally seeks awareness», Because he seeks  tranquility. Wittgenstein also says: «where there is awareness, it is surrounded by madness».

        Metaphysics is an attempt to confine this madness. Mankind always escapes from thinking and that is why he fears to encounter the unknown. The philosopher stands on the line, between madness and sanity, between instability and tranquility and creates the circle of awareness.‌ If this circle can not hold it, he creates another circle. So the history of metaphysics is the story of the endeavors that philosophers have done and are doing to provide stability and tranquility for mankind.

       However the poet sails in this sea of madness and never reposes. Poet is as close to madness as a philosopher is. But the stability of a poet is in his instability and he doesn’t find a better confidant than madness, while others don’t understand him. As Hafez Shirazi said truly:

A mountain sea, moon clouded o’er  /  And night the whirlpool’s awful roar-

How can they know our labour sore  /  Who pass light-burdened on the shore?

Gelassenheit (to overcome technological thinking)

Chuang Tzu says:

      When Dzigung reached the northern bank of the Hun River, saw an old man engaged in gardening. He had built some gutters in which he poured the water he had brought up with much hardship from within a well, by a pitcher, and gained very little with much a do.

      Dzigung told him: «There is a tool that by using it one can flow a lot of water in a hundred gutters without much pain and results in much gain. Won’t you like to take benefit of it? » 

      The gardener looked up at him and said: «How is that?» Dzigung said: «make a lever of wood with a heavy end and a light tip. Using it, you will obtain a lot of water. This method is called chaining up. »

      The old gardener was perturbed and then said with smile: «My master told me that one who uses a machine will do his works like a machine, and one who does so his heart will become a machine, and those who have machine like hearts will lose their innocence and those who have lost their innocence will have staggering mind and this is not consisting with Tao. This not that I’m not aware such things, I am ashamed of using them.»

The World That We Live

       Our world is not the world in which we are observers only, we are the actors on the scene of this world. as much as we act on the scene, that scene is our world, but as long as we are observers only, we can only be deceived that what we see is our world ,thereby vastness and narrowness of the worlds of different people can be identified.

Dawn of Nihilism

“What I relate is the history of the next two centuries. I describe what is coming, what can no longer come differently: the advent of nihilism. This history can be related even now; for necessity itself is at work here. This future speaks even now in a hundred signs, this destiny announces itself everywhere; for this music of the future all ears are cocked even now. For some time now, our whole European culture has been moving toward a catastrophe, with a tortured tension that is growing decade to decade: restlessly, violently, headlong, like a river that wants to reach the end, that no longer reflects, that is afraid to reflect.”

 – Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power