Salaam All

 

Here are what people say about Germany rated the #1 popular destination

 

1. I love Germany. Good food, clean and the people don't BS you.

 

2. Been to 10 countries so far. I loved Germany the best. Such a clean and beautiful country.

 

3. We have visited Germany twice. We found it scenic, friendly, prosperous, and clean.

 

4. Germany is a clean and safe country. Modern technology is everywhere...

 

5. What's not to love? Beautiful country, rich culture, low crime, strong, technologically advanced economy with emphasis on quality and domestic manufacturing, excellent healthcare and education.

 

6. It has family values, great healthcare, awesome school system, clean roads, great healthy food, and short work hours.

 

7. I used to travel quite a bit in Germany and what impressed me most was the cleanliness - whether cities, villages, farms or highways.

 

How would they rate a city that is the opposite of clean? Obviously at the bottom...such is Georgetown...and how would they rate the mayor of such a city...an abject failure, obviously. Then they would ask the obvious question...how come he's the longest running mayor in the history of the world...20 years...everytime he opens his mouth he speaks garbage...the lowest form of political culture--lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth 

 

 ohh shucks that's exactly what this city is renowned for...garbage...physical & verbal

 

garbage at every corner and a mayor who speaks garbage...a double tragedy of incredible proportions...we should declare a state of mourning for this beautiful city with incompetent leaders

 

Shamal

 

 

 

Salaam All

 

I look to the sea, the ocean and reflections in the waves spark my memory. Most are happy...I think of childhood friends, and the dreams we had.

 

I look to the flood in the yard this morning and hatred floods my mind for the "empty talking" politicians and stupid mayor. What crap they are!!! Do a google search and find out how many times since the 1990s we see articles on the  "govt cleaning the city..."empty talk" These are not trifling stories, but they are the straws, telling that the wind blows from the marsh-lands of inexactness—not from the mountain tops of truth. Once leaders lose the sense of the great value of absolute truthfulness, they blur the clear mirror of their souls. They are LIARS.

 

John the Baptist washed away the sins of people in water. Don't tell me you are pretending to be prophets by baptizing our homes, our lives!

 

Reflections in this dirty water are distortions...distortions of leadership. Lack of ideals; lack of principles.

 

God says: And We have sent down out of the rain-clouds, water cascading that We may bring forth thereby grain and plants, and gardens luxuriant.

As a teenager in the 1970s lying in bed and listening to the torrential rainfall...it was PURE JOY. Last night as I listened I trembled in fear...the greatest blessing from God has become the greatest curse by man.

 

So tell me Mr. Ministers, Mr. Mayor, how was your yard, how was your journey to work?  How people curse the salaries you get paid from the taxes you steal from us....for it becomes stolen if you cannot provide basic services to us. You are really professional burglars.

 

When we the ordinary people do one task bad we are fired...

You people do the whole job bad, year after year...and continue to hold your positions

 

Take a look at the few pics in Alberttown.  The gutters NOT even in the hottest weather are empty. It is near the top with the pavement every day of the year with "water" that has never drained for YEARS. Can you imagine the diseases just waiting for us...these gutters in GT are weapons of mass destruction. In the 1970s these gutters were always cleaned WEEKLY. Water flowing down them as the rains fell without any flooding ..but in 2013 our yards, then our homes are flooded...and we live in misery...speak of PROGRESS??? Take a look at the front page of SN of children going to school on a flooded street. Aren't you ashamed??? The world would be a better place should your kind cease to exist....this means none of you will be remembered as a great statesman...no matter how great your personal wealth...

 

Or maybe we the people should not demand of half-evolved human beings (politicians) what we would expect of wholly divine creatures (the Prophets).

 

Shamal...I edited & redited this mail to remove all the F words that punctuated almost every sentence. Losing my dignity behind the filth of this city & the filthy politicians is not worth it. Ahmed Deedat did lose a bit of his character when he quoted all those F words from Salman Rushdie's ugly book the Satanic Verses. Tread carefully...for the sake of God...and in this city to avoid leptospirosis...

 

May God guide us all...including the leaders

Salaam All

 

The very word "Islam" comes from a word meaning "peace". The most basic principle of the religion is Unity:- first the unity of God, who is One without equal, without associate, then the unity of His creation in which every element, however tiny, has its place and its function, and finally the unity achieved in every man and woman once they know who they are and where they are going, at peace with their Lord, at peace in the world, at peace with themselves.

That peace is closely bound up with the awareness of beauty. In one of his most famous sayings, Prophet Muhammad (p) told his people: "God is beautiful and He loves beauty!". Now that is not a statement about feelings or impressions. It is a statement about the nature of Reality. And that, in turn, suggests something very important. It suggests that ugliness – and, Yes!, there's plenty of that in the world in which we live – is not on an equal footing with beauty. It's not one of a pair, like hot and cold, black and white; it represents the spoiling of beauty, the unmaking of what had been well made, the denial of God or His seeming absence. You might compare it to a hole in the pattern, a stain on the fabric, and it belongs to that class of things which, so the Quran tells us, last for but a short time and are then wiped away, while beauty endures. To know this is to possess a sense of the sacred and so to be aware of the radiance that illuminates unspoilt nature from within and which may be found also in the things we make, when these are well and lovingly made. The tragedy of modern man, in the midst of his riches and his technological achievements, is that he has lost this sense of the sacred and lives in a world drained of light.

 

Politicians should be deeply ashamed of presiding over a city as ugly & nasty as Georgetown. They are people who have lost all sense of purpose, who live in a grey, monotonous world and who need contact with the splendours of virgin nature (of which we have vast swathes all across this beautiful country) if they are to be healed. But what we have to understand – and perhaps what they need to understand – is that their "grey" world is an illusion. The fault is not in their surroundings but in themselves. "It is not the eyes that grow blind," says the Quran in this context, "but the hearts that grow blind". So Parliament is an institution of the blind. Go figure where you are heading if you are being led by blind people. Blind also are the "cook & eat" leaders also known by the euphemism "religious" leaders...their stomachs are bloated and if you follow them you will topple into Hell via your gluttonous mouths. They overeat because they cannot think...of how to build a World of Nur (of light)...they have lost sense of the sacred. Jesus & Muhammad (p) called such "religious" leaders, hypocrites.

 

We live in a city from which beauty has been banished as an irrelevance, as though it were a luxury which we can do without, and this is an environment in which it is difficult to believe in God since it has been constructed in forgetfulness of Him; and – in Islam – to forget God is the greatest sin, or the root of all other sins. Those who have told us, over the past century, that "God is dead" should have had the honesty to complete the sentence:- "God is dead, therefore man is dead!" When nothing in our surroundings reminds us of Him, then He does – in a sense – die in our hearts, and all that makes life worth living dies with Him.

 

Shamal...enjoy reading Muslim Art...for God is Beautiful...if your heart is (still) alive then clean your surroundings...waiting on blind people is not an option

 

Salaam All

Today ISA school kids resumed their East St. Ave. cleanup after the rains.

Br. Akbar is the responsible teacher for keeping this environmental action going. He also mentioned that he has started the same initiative in Diamond New Scheme two weeks ago. Go bro Go. We need more committed souls like you.

Mr. Ishmael (a trainer of teachers) spoke to us yesterday asking about the campaign. He and his Canadian wife had seen us cleaning the Avenue 2 months ago and without any dialogue they just joined in. Only if we could have more spontaneous souls like them. He said that a project like this can become self-perpetuating if we keep the places in spic & span condition. You know the word...MAINTENANCE. Great words that boosted our spirits.

Br. Akram, the principal of ISA has procured some plants. These will be planted in about two weeks. We know the encouraging words of the Prophet (p) regarding such an activity. He also had words of encouragement for the project.

Two little Winfer Garden kids passed Abid & I this morning and excitedly said "you spoke to us on Littering" and they also said "we don't litter anymore". Hahaha...kids are so sweet. 

Mayor Green is still talking about Restoration GT...it's a pity his name is the same as the worldwide phenomenon like GOGREEN.org and other GREEN projects. Mayor...haven't you reached retirement age as yet or is your age as perennial as the green grass. You have outlived your usefulness two decades ago. There are young people capable of managing this city and bringing it into the 21st century...you have us in the 19th. And a repulsive 19th at that. Give it up Mr. Mayor and relax in your rocking chair and watch as young minds create a city that you would be proud of...within ONE year. And you spoke a few days ago of LeRepentir Cemetery...of cleaning it up. TALK again. You just are not able. Let the young clean it up so that when your time comes you will be happy to go and be buried in a classy cemetery. Right now I am sure you are thinking about cremation...you don't want to be surrounded by that terrifying bush that you are responsible for.

 

Please make contributions to the Guyana Islamic Trust (Haseeb Yusuf) or the CIOG (Sheik Zakir) so that we can buy brushcutters ($100,000 each). Thank you.

 

Shamal