THE GOOD JEW AND THE BAD JEW ..... Excerpt from www.roseannebarr.com
In safed, 1999, is where I experienced for the first time in my life, a knowingness that eclipsed the physical world. There it was that I made contact with the mystics that I have studied since the age of nine years. When we went to the grave of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, it was on the anniversary of his death. To sephardic jews, that is when the connection to the departed's soul is most possible.
Sephardic Jews have very different traditions and culture and thoughts than do Ashkenazi jews. Ashkenazi jews are consumed with germanic principles and philosophies. When Hitler wrote that the soul of the aryan was up for grabs between the german and the jew, I think he was very accurate. When he decided to remove that option, by removing jews from the german presence, in order to tip the balance, he was hoping to seal the ultimate fate of the european gestalt as being german and pagan, not christian.
It is the german (jew) who after many years in power positions in Israel, is acceding power now to the russian (jews), who more sino-aryan in their cultural gestalt. However, it is the sephardic jew who has lived in peace for thousands of years with his arab neighbors, and he who is under represented in the government of Israel.
The history of the jews is extremely interesting when viewed as a racial division between arab jews and european/russian jews. Not one sephardic jew was killed by Hitler, because he considered them to be "real jews" and the german jew as a bastard german.
This fact is not seen by american jews at all. In Israel though, it is whispered about by the sephardic. The Kabbalah is sephardic. The Talmud is Ashkenazi. Jews are at war with jews over old books. Jews are at war with jews and muslims over old books, and jews are at war with christians over old books. Jews are the people who are at war with books. We need to call ourselves not people of the book, but people who are at war with books. In Rome, jews tried to have the kaballah burned and totally destroyed, in their war on it on behalf of the talmud. It was the pope who saved the kabballah. The jews brought the kaballah out of egypt, where Moses was a scholar of Hermetic Wisdom, which is what the kabballah is based on. Moses liberated the hidden esoteric philosophy and gave it to the common man, much as jesus did later on. Bar Yochai wrote the zohar, which he channelled, while hiding in a cave in safed. It is actually his story that makes up a large part of the story we recognize as being about Jesus. Safed is where the sephardic mystics have always lived. Jesus was one of these. He was an arab.
I must pause here to apologize to those who came here looking for Roseanne Barr. I can imagine your puzzlement to find me instead. Well, I always was like this, even though you are familiar with another part of me. I am Roseanne Barr, but yet I am also not her. I am the part of her that sneaked around her edges. I was she who is and is not yet, but is now she who became she who is.
It was in Safed that I was cured of my multiple personality disorder, also called Dissociative Identity Disorder. The part of me that would never stop believing that it spoke directly to god, was finally able to take total control of the body. It was not as the psychiatrists wanted, because it was that part that they called "crazy".
My doctor, Colin Ross, healed me by telling me that I did not have to let go of god, and that I should immediately begin to tell people not only that I spoke to her, but to tell them what exactly god was telling me. At that point in my life, there was no more division and there was no more obsession and there was no more compulsion, or fear of being found out and locked away any more.
For many people like myself, a profound connection to god is what kept us crazy and divided. My contribution to the field of study regarding this "mental illness" is to tell the story of my integration, and how it is for so many of us "multiples" that have indeed grown a new organ of consciousness that is actually quite useful to the human animal.
In trauma and dissociation, reality is suspended, and inventing several shape shifting identities is ultimately a way that the mind overcomes the limitations of time and space. When I knew that I did not any longer have to pretend that I did not speak to god, I was cured.
Friday, March 28, 2008
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Faith News and Politics 03222008 "Land of Israel"
Land of Israel
Excerpts From The Holy Qur'an
Chapter 17
Sura Al-Isra
Verses 93-111
Say (O Muhammad): My Lord be glorified! Am I aught save a mortal messenger? (93)
And naught prevented mankind from believing when the guidance came unto them save that they said: Hath Allah sent a mortal as (His) messenger? (94)
Say: If there were in the earth angels walking secure, We had sent down for them from heaven an angel as messenger. (95)
Say: Allah sufficeth for a witness between me and you. Lo! He is Knower, Seer of His slaves. (96)
And he whom Allah guideth, he is led aright; while, as for him whom He sendeth astray, for them thou wilt find no protecting friends beside Him, and We shall assemble them on the Day of Resurrection on their faces, blind, dumb and deaf; their habitation will be hell; whenever it abateth, We increase the flame for them. (97)
That is their reward because they disbelieved Our revelations and said: When we are bones and fragments shall we, forsooth, be raised up as a new creation? (98)
Have they not seen that Allah Who created the heavens and the earth is Able to create the like of them, and hath appointed for them an end whereof there is no doubt? But the wrong-doers refuse aught save disbelief. (99)
Say (unto them): If ye possessed the treasures of the mercy of my Lord, ye would surely hold them back for fear of spending, for man was ever grudging. (100)
And verily We gave unto Moses nine tokens, clear proofs (of Allah's Sovereignty). Do but ask the Children of Israel how he came unto them, then Pharaoh said unto him: Lo! I deem thee one bewitched, O Moses. (101)
He said: In truth thou knowest that none sent down these (portents) save the Lord of the heavens and the earth as proofs, and lo! (for my part) I deem thee lost, O Pharaoh. (102)
And he wished to scare them from the land, but We drowned him and those with him, all together. (103)
And We said unto the Children of Israel after him: Dwell in the land; but when the promise of the Hereafter cometh to pass We shall bring you as a crowd gathered out of various nations. (104)
With truth have We sent it down, and with truth hath it descended. And We have sent thee as naught else save a bearer of good tidings and a warner. (105)
And (it is) a Qur'an that We have divided, that thou mayst recite it unto mankind at intervals, and We have revealed it by (successive) revelation. (106)
Say: Believe therein or believe not, lo! those who were given knowledge before it, when it is read unto them, fall down prostrate on their faces, adoring, (107)
Saying: Glory to our Lord! Verily the promise of our Lord must be fulfilled. (108)
They fall down on their faces, weeping, and it increaseth humility in them. (109)
Say (unto mankind): Cry unto Allah, or cry unto the Beneficent, unto whichsoever ye cry (it is the same). His are the most beautiful names. And thou (Muhammad), be not loud-voiced in thy worship nor yet silent therein, but follow a way between. (110)
And say: Praise be to Allah, Who hath not taken unto Himself a son, and Who hath no partner in the Sovereignty, nor hath He any protecting friend through dependence. And magnify Him with all magnificence. (111)
Excerpts From The Holy Qur'an
Chapter 17
Sura Al-Isra
Verses 93-111
Say (O Muhammad): My Lord be glorified! Am I aught save a mortal messenger? (93)
And naught prevented mankind from believing when the guidance came unto them save that they said: Hath Allah sent a mortal as (His) messenger? (94)
Say: If there were in the earth angels walking secure, We had sent down for them from heaven an angel as messenger. (95)
Say: Allah sufficeth for a witness between me and you. Lo! He is Knower, Seer of His slaves. (96)
And he whom Allah guideth, he is led aright; while, as for him whom He sendeth astray, for them thou wilt find no protecting friends beside Him, and We shall assemble them on the Day of Resurrection on their faces, blind, dumb and deaf; their habitation will be hell; whenever it abateth, We increase the flame for them. (97)
That is their reward because they disbelieved Our revelations and said: When we are bones and fragments shall we, forsooth, be raised up as a new creation? (98)
Have they not seen that Allah Who created the heavens and the earth is Able to create the like of them, and hath appointed for them an end whereof there is no doubt? But the wrong-doers refuse aught save disbelief. (99)
Say (unto them): If ye possessed the treasures of the mercy of my Lord, ye would surely hold them back for fear of spending, for man was ever grudging. (100)
And verily We gave unto Moses nine tokens, clear proofs (of Allah's Sovereignty). Do but ask the Children of Israel how he came unto them, then Pharaoh said unto him: Lo! I deem thee one bewitched, O Moses. (101)
He said: In truth thou knowest that none sent down these (portents) save the Lord of the heavens and the earth as proofs, and lo! (for my part) I deem thee lost, O Pharaoh. (102)
And he wished to scare them from the land, but We drowned him and those with him, all together. (103)
And We said unto the Children of Israel after him: Dwell in the land; but when the promise of the Hereafter cometh to pass We shall bring you as a crowd gathered out of various nations. (104)
With truth have We sent it down, and with truth hath it descended. And We have sent thee as naught else save a bearer of good tidings and a warner. (105)
And (it is) a Qur'an that We have divided, that thou mayst recite it unto mankind at intervals, and We have revealed it by (successive) revelation. (106)
Say: Believe therein or believe not, lo! those who were given knowledge before it, when it is read unto them, fall down prostrate on their faces, adoring, (107)
Saying: Glory to our Lord! Verily the promise of our Lord must be fulfilled. (108)
They fall down on their faces, weeping, and it increaseth humility in them. (109)
Say (unto mankind): Cry unto Allah, or cry unto the Beneficent, unto whichsoever ye cry (it is the same). His are the most beautiful names. And thou (Muhammad), be not loud-voiced in thy worship nor yet silent therein, but follow a way between. (110)
And say: Praise be to Allah, Who hath not taken unto Himself a son, and Who hath no partner in the Sovereignty, nor hath He any protecting friend through dependence. And magnify Him with all magnificence. (111)
Friday, March 21, 2008
Faith News and Politics 03212008 "Campaign Strategy"
Campaign Strategy
Barack into going to Iraq and Afghanistan to initiate developing worldwide relations.
Start putting some meat on "changing the world".
Get the media's attention off of Pastor Wright in a big way.
Let Barack lay the ground work now!
Barack go to Iran too to do a mini meeting with President Ahmedenajad, in a non-official capacity, kind of a first interview to get to know each other, which would be difficult to do in an official capacity later.
No negotiations on behalf of the U.S.A just to feel him out beforehand.
Take the campaign worldwide. McCain is doing it already!!!!! The country does fine when the President goes globetrotting, Barack's Campaign is likely to do fine while he is away. Compete on that front with McCain now. McCain is showing that he cares Foreign Leaders are not likely to forget that.
BARACK touch base with countries the USA is NOT willing to meet with.
Can best do that now in an unofficial capacity like McCain is doing now for friendly countries.
Put some meat on that bone too. Now may be the best time to do it, before the PA primary.
I take offense when Barack does not say "God Bless America" or "God Bless you" at the end of his speeches.
Start signature sign off for his speeches.
"Praise be to God" or "Hallelujah" meaning the same thing, is my personal preference.
There is no winning without God as Pharaoh found to his cost. Get Barack to mention God at least once in his speeches to beautify them, Godwilling.
Tell him to mention the Native Americans as a part of the United America.
Send a modified copy of this note to 'others'
'The success in my task can only come from Allah(The ONE True God). In Him I trust and unto him I look(turn)' ~ Translation of The Holy Qur'an
Donna Brazile the democratic strategist just made a good comment on CNN which reminds me to ask you to read "Who is Barack Obama?"[Latest Edition] at http://blog.goodrush.net .
Warmest Regards.
Respectively submitted,
Muhammad
Visit http://blog.goodrush.net for a post at "Blog Archive" "Faith News and Politics 03212008 "Typical White Person" "
The conclusion of their prayer will be "All praise Be To Allah The Lord of all the worlds" ~ Translation of The Holy Qur'an
All Errors and Omissions, as in The Sight Of Allah, Excepted.
Barack into going to Iraq and Afghanistan to initiate developing worldwide relations.
Start putting some meat on "changing the world".
Get the media's attention off of Pastor Wright in a big way.
Let Barack lay the ground work now!
Barack go to Iran too to do a mini meeting with President Ahmedenajad, in a non-official capacity, kind of a first interview to get to know each other, which would be difficult to do in an official capacity later.
No negotiations on behalf of the U.S.A just to feel him out beforehand.
Take the campaign worldwide. McCain is doing it already!!!!! The country does fine when the President goes globetrotting, Barack's Campaign is likely to do fine while he is away. Compete on that front with McCain now. McCain is showing that he cares Foreign Leaders are not likely to forget that.
BARACK touch base with countries the USA is NOT willing to meet with.
Can best do that now in an unofficial capacity like McCain is doing now for friendly countries.
Put some meat on that bone too. Now may be the best time to do it, before the PA primary.
I take offense when Barack does not say "God Bless America" or "God Bless you" at the end of his speeches.
Start signature sign off for his speeches.
"Praise be to God" or "Hallelujah" meaning the same thing, is my personal preference.
There is no winning without God as Pharaoh found to his cost. Get Barack to mention God at least once in his speeches to beautify them, Godwilling.
Tell him to mention the Native Americans as a part of the United America.
Send a modified copy of this note to 'others'
'The success in my task can only come from Allah(The ONE True God). In Him I trust and unto him I look(turn)' ~ Translation of The Holy Qur'an
Donna Brazile the democratic strategist just made a good comment on CNN which reminds me to ask you to read "Who is Barack Obama?"[Latest Edition] at http://blog.goodrush.net .
Warmest Regards.
Respectively submitted,
Muhammad
Visit http://blog.goodrush.net for a post at "Blog Archive" "Faith News and Politics 03212008 "Typical White Person" "
The conclusion of their prayer will be "All praise Be To Allah The Lord of all the worlds" ~ Translation of The Holy Qur'an
All Errors and Omissions, as in The Sight Of Allah, Excepted.
Faith News and Politics 03212008 "Typical White Person"
THERE IS NO GOD EXCEPT ALLAH
Who is Allah? Visit http://www.goodrush.net/ for answers
http://blog.goodrush.net/
"Typical White Person"
Let's stop behaving like rednecks on National TV
Let's show some class!!!!!
Barack Obama is not black he is fully half white
The head is at the top of the human body not somewhere half way down
Let's stop behaving like it was
God put everything in it's proper place
Our mouths don't belong somewhere half way down there either
Words of wisdom for 'Monica Lewinsky' followers
We are supposed to follow Jesus son of Mary Prophet of God
God's Design is Perfect
Let's use our human resource like The Creator intended
We are supposed to use our heads to think with
Not something half way down
Leave Barack Obama alone
Stop trying to destroy his campaign
God is not unjust
He Does not put one person's blame on another
We shouldn't either
For He Created us in His Own image
We are supposed to defend the good old USA from enemies foreign AND domestic
What kind of American Patriot are you if you don't know that
That Osama Bin Laden is foreign is quite clear
Are you a domestic Osama Bin Laden
Bent on destroying this country from within
Richardson isn't endorsing Obama for nothing
AFTER this "Typical White Person" thing
Do unto others as you would have others do unto you
Barack said what he said with his spirit and intent
At least ask the man what he meant
BEFORE you start your spin machine
Respect yourself more than
For just getting a check
For saying what is against your own true self
Just because you are having a slow news day
If that is the case
Then get another job as soon
As you get off the air
Take another look at Obama
Like you care for this country
More than the color of skin
Anyway Obama is NOT black he is fully half white
If anything you can call him Mr. United
A potential 'United' President of The United States
That sounds pretty cool
Don't just keep playing the fool
From your Newsroom Pulpit
Whether at CNN or at FOXNEWS
Barack is not 'black' he is fully half white.
Leave the man alone and
Don't keep trying to put words in his mouth.
Now Take The "Typical White Person" Test
I am a typical white person
I know exactly what Barack means.
Let's not behave like mindless yahoos.
To find out if you are a typical white person
Go walk in a black neighborhood on your own to see
If some any fear strikes thee
Then go walk in a white neighborhood and see
If the level of fear is the same
If there are different levels of fear in you
In the two different neighborhoods
You may be a "Typical White Person"
Do you feel lucky?
Go walk in a black neighborhood
Walk the talk
Before you decide if indeed
You are a "Typical White Person"
Now spin this all you want!!!!!
Bill O'Reilly seems like the one
Who has the most sense on FOXNEWS
And some fairness too
Brit is okay too
Chris wallace has the guts to express his views
Slow down Hemmer
The doc was not
Trying to get you a boob job
He was just trying to suggest I think
That you were well off
Say to my servants that they should only say those things which are best ........ IS From God
Let's keep that in our minds
Which By God's Design He Placed way at the top
Excerpts from "Typical White Person" ..... This is a work in process. For the latest edition visit "Blog Archives" "Faith, News and Politics 03212008" at http://blog.goodrush.net/
Who is Allah? Visit http://www.goodrush.net/ for answers
http://blog.goodrush.net/
"Typical White Person"
Let's stop behaving like rednecks on National TV
Let's show some class!!!!!
Barack Obama is not black he is fully half white
The head is at the top of the human body not somewhere half way down
Let's stop behaving like it was
God put everything in it's proper place
Our mouths don't belong somewhere half way down there either
Words of wisdom for 'Monica Lewinsky' followers
We are supposed to follow Jesus son of Mary Prophet of God
God's Design is Perfect
Let's use our human resource like The Creator intended
We are supposed to use our heads to think with
Not something half way down
Leave Barack Obama alone
Stop trying to destroy his campaign
God is not unjust
He Does not put one person's blame on another
We shouldn't either
For He Created us in His Own image
We are supposed to defend the good old USA from enemies foreign AND domestic
What kind of American Patriot are you if you don't know that
That Osama Bin Laden is foreign is quite clear
Are you a domestic Osama Bin Laden
Bent on destroying this country from within
Richardson isn't endorsing Obama for nothing
AFTER this "Typical White Person" thing
Do unto others as you would have others do unto you
Barack said what he said with his spirit and intent
At least ask the man what he meant
BEFORE you start your spin machine
Respect yourself more than
For just getting a check
For saying what is against your own true self
Just because you are having a slow news day
If that is the case
Then get another job as soon
As you get off the air
Take another look at Obama
Like you care for this country
More than the color of skin
Anyway Obama is NOT black he is fully half white
If anything you can call him Mr. United
A potential 'United' President of The United States
That sounds pretty cool
Don't just keep playing the fool
From your Newsroom Pulpit
Whether at CNN or at FOXNEWS
Barack is not 'black' he is fully half white.
Leave the man alone and
Don't keep trying to put words in his mouth.
Now Take The "Typical White Person" Test
I am a typical white person
I know exactly what Barack means.
Let's not behave like mindless yahoos.
To find out if you are a typical white person
Go walk in a black neighborhood on your own to see
If some any fear strikes thee
Then go walk in a white neighborhood and see
If the level of fear is the same
If there are different levels of fear in you
In the two different neighborhoods
You may be a "Typical White Person"
Do you feel lucky?
Go walk in a black neighborhood
Walk the talk
Before you decide if indeed
You are a "Typical White Person"
Now spin this all you want!!!!!
Bill O'Reilly seems like the one
Who has the most sense on FOXNEWS
And some fairness too
Brit is okay too
Chris wallace has the guts to express his views
Slow down Hemmer
The doc was not
Trying to get you a boob job
He was just trying to suggest I think
That you were well off
Say to my servants that they should only say those things which are best ........ IS From God
Let's keep that in our minds
Which By God's Design He Placed way at the top
Excerpts from "Typical White Person" ..... This is a work in process. For the latest edition visit "Blog Archives" "Faith, News and Politics 03212008" at http://blog.goodrush.net/
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Holy Qur'an Chapter 24
DAY 24
Chapter 24
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
(Here is) a surah which We have revealed and enjoined, and wherein We have revealed plain tokens, that haply ye may take heed. (1) The adulterer and the adulteress, scourge ye each one of them (with) a hundred stripes. And let not pity for the twain withhold you from obedience to Allah, if ye believe in Allah and the Last Day. And let a party of believers witness their punishment. (2) The adulterer shall not marry save an adulteress or an idolatress, and the adulteress none shall marry save an adulterer or an idolater. All that is forbidden unto believers. (3) And those who accuse honourable women but bring not four witnesses, scourge them (with) eighty stripes and never (afterward) accept their testimony - They indeed are evil-doers - (4) Save those who afterward repent and make amends. (For such) lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful. (5) As for those who accuse their wives but have no witnesses except themselves; let the testimony of one of them be four testimonies, (swearing) by Allah that he is of those who speak the truth; (6) And yet a fifth, invoking the curse of Allah on him if he is of those who lie. (7) And it shall avert the punishment from her if she bear witness before Allah four times that the thing he saith is indeed false, (8) And a fifth (time) that the wrath of Allah be upon her if he speaketh truth. (9) And had it not been for the grace of Allah and His mercy unto you, and that Allah is Clement, Wise, (ye had been undone). (10) Lo! they who spread the slander are a gang among you. Deem it not a bad thing for you; nay, it is good for you. Unto every man of them (will be paid) that which he hath earned of the sin; and as for him among them who had the greater share therein, his will be an awful doom. (11) Why did not the believers, men and women, when ye heard it, think good of their own own folk, and say: It is a manifest untruth? (12) Why did they not produce four witnesses? Since they produce not witnesses, they verily are liars in the sight of Allah. (13) Had it not been for the grace of Allah and His mercy unto you in the world and the Hereafter an awful doom had overtaken you for that whereof ye murmured. (14) When ye welcomed it with your tongues, and uttered with your mouths that whereof ye had no knowledge, ye counted it a trifle. In the sight of Allah it is very great. (15) Wherefor, when ye heard it, said ye not: It is not for us to speak of this. Glory be to Thee (O Allah)! This is awful calumny. (16) Allah admonisheth you that ye repeat not the like thereof ever, if ye are (in truth) believers. (17) And He expoundeth unto you the revelations. Allah is Knower, Wise. (18) Lo! those who love that slander should be spread concerning those who believe, theirs will be a painful punishment in the world and the Hereafter. Allah knoweth. Ye know not. (19) Had it not been for the grace of Allah and His mercy unto you, and that Allah is Clement, Merciful, (ye had been undone). (20) O ye who believe! Follow not the footsteps of the devil. Unto whomsoever followeth the footsteps of the devil, lo! he commandeth filthiness and wrong. Had it not been for the grace of Allah and His mercy unto you, not one of you would ever have grown pure. But Allah causeth whom He will to grow. And Allah is Hearer, Knower. (21) And let not those who possess dignity and ease among you swear not to give to the near of kin and to the needy, and to fugitives for the cause of Allah. Let them forgive and show indulgence. Yearn ye not that Allah may forgive you? Allah is Forgiving, Merciful. (22) Lo! as for those who traduce virtuous, believing women (who are) careless, cursed are they in the world and the Hereafter. Theirs will be an awful doom (23) On the day when their tongues and their hands and their feet testify against them as to what they used to do, (24) On that day Allah will pay them their just due, and they will know that Allah, He is the Manifest Truth. (25) Vile women are for vile men, and vile men for vile women. Good women are for good men, and good men for good women; such are innocent of that which people say: For them is pardon and a bountiful provision. (26) O ye who believe! Enter not houses other than your own without first announcing your presence and invoking peace upon the folk thereof. That is better for you, that ye may be heedful. (27) And if ye find no-one therein, still enter not until permission hath been given. And if it be said unto you: Go back, then go back, for it is purer for you. Allah knoweth what ye do. (28) (It is) no sin for you to enter uninhabited houses wherein is comfort for you. Allah knoweth what ye proclaim and what ye hide. (29) Tell the believing men to lower their gaze and be modest. That is purer for them. Lo! Allah is aware of what they do. (30) And tell the believing women to lower their gaze and be modest, and to display of their adornment only that which is apparent, and to draw their veils over their bosoms, and not to reveal their adornment save to their own husbands or fathers or husbands' fathers, or their sons or their husbands' sons, or their brothers or their brothers' sons or sisters' sons, or their women, or their slaves, or male attendants who lack vigour, or children who know naught of women's nakedness. And let them not stamp their feet so as to reveal what they hide of their adornment. And turn unto Allah together, O believers, in order that ye may succeed. (31) And marry such of you as are solitary and the pious of your slaves and maid-servants. If they be poor, Allah will enrich them of His bounty. Allah is of ample means, Aware. (32) And let those who cannot find a match keep chaste till Allah give them independence by His grace. And such of your slaves as seek a writing (of emancipation), write it for them if ye are aware of aught of good in them, and bestow upon them of the wealth of Allah which He hath bestowed upon you. Force not your slave-girls to whoredom that ye may seek enjoyment of the life of the world, if they would preserve their chastity. And if one force them, then (unto them), after their compulsion, lo! Allah will be Forgiving, Merciful. (33) And verily We have sent down for you revelations that make plain, and the example of those who passed away before you. An admonition unto those who ward off (evil). (34) Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The similitude of His light is as a niche wherein is a lamp. The lamp is in a glass. The glass is as it were a shining star. (This lamp is) kindled from a blessed tree, an olive neither of the East nor of the West, whose oil would almost glow forth (of itself) though no fire touched it. Light upon light. Allah guideth unto His light whom He will. And Allah setteth forth for mankind similitudes, for Allah is Knower of all things. (35) (This lamp is found) in houses which Allah hath allowed to be exalted and that His name shall be remembered therein. Therein do offer praise to Him at morn and evening. (36) Men whom neither merchandise nor sale beguileth from remembrance of Allah and constancy in prayer and paying to the poor their due; who fear a day when hearts and eyeballs will be overturned; (37) That Allah may reward them with the best of what they did, and increase reward for them of His bounty. Allah giveth blessings without stint to whom He will. (38) As for those who disbelieve, their deeds are as a mirage in a desert. The thirsty one supposeth it to be water till he cometh unto it and findeth it naught, and findeth, in the place thereof, Allah Who payeth him his due; and Allah is swift at reckoning. (39) Or as darkness on a vast, abysmal sea. There covereth him a wave, above which is a wave, above which is a cloud. Layer upon layer of darkness. When he holdeth out his hand he scarce can see it. And he for whom Allah hath not appointed light, for him there is no light. (40) Hast thou not seen that Allah, He it is Whom all who are in the heavens and the earth praise, and the birds in their flight? Of each He knoweth verily the its worship and the its praise; and Allah is Aware of what they do. (41) And unto Allah belongeth the Sovereignty of the heavens and the earth, and unto Allah is the journeying. (42) Hast thou not seen how Allah wafteth the clouds, then gathereth them, then maketh them layers, and thou seest the rain come forth from between them; He sendeth down from the heaven mountains wherein is hail, and smiteth therewith whom He will, and averteth it from whom He will. The flashing of His lightning all but snatcheth away the sight. (43) Allah causeth the revolution of the day and the night. Lo! herein is indeed a lesson for those who see. (44) Allah hath created every animal of water. Of them is (a kind) that goeth upon its belly and (a kind) that goeth upon two legs and (a kind) that goeth upon four. Allah createth what He will. Lo! Allah is Able to do all things. (45) Verily We have sent down revelations and explained them. Allah guideth whom He will unto a straight path. (46) And they say: We believe in Allah and the messenger, and we obey; then after that a faction of them turn away. Such are not believers. (47) And when they appeal unto Allah and His messenger to judge between them, lo! a faction of them are averse; (48) But if right had been with them they would have come unto him willingly. (49) Is there in their hearts a disease, or have they doubts, or fear they lest Allah and His messenger should wrong them in judgment? Nay, but such are evil-doers. (50) The saying of (all true) believers when they are called unto Allah and His messenger to judge between them is only that they say: We hear and we obey. And such are the successful. (51) He who obeyeth Allah and His messenger, and feareth Allah, and keepeth duty (unto Him): such indeed are the victorious. (52) They swear by Allah solemnly that, if thou order them, they will go forth. Say: Swear not; known obedience (is better). Lo! Allah is Informed of what ye do. (53) Say: Obey Allah and obey the messenger. But if ye turn away, then (it is) for him (to do) only that wherewith he hath been charged, and for you (to do) only that wherewith ye have been charged. If ye obey him, ye will go aright. But the messenger hath no other charge than to convey (the message) plainly. (54) Allah hath promised such of you as believe and do good work that He will surely make them to succeed (the present rulers) in the earth even as He caused those who were before them to succeed (others); and that He will surely establish for them their religion which He hath approved for them, and will give them in exchange safety after their fear. They serve Me. They ascribe no thing as partner unto Me. Those who disbelieve henceforth, they are the miscreants. (55) Establish worship and pay the poor-due and obey the messenger, that haply ye may find mercy. (56) Think not that the disbelievers can escape in the land. Fire will be their home - a hapless journey's end! (57) O ye who believe! Let your slaves, and those of you who have not come to puberty, ask leave of you at three times (before they come into your presence): Before the prayer of dawn, and when ye lay aside your raiment for the heat of noon, and after the prayer of night. Three times of privacy for you. It is no sin for them or for you at other times, when some of you go round attendant upon others (if they come into your presence without leave). Thus Allah maketh clear the revelations for you. Allah is Knower, Wise. (58) And when the children among you come to puberty then let them ask leave even as those before them used to ask it. Thus Allah maketh clear His revelations for you. Allah is Knower, Wise. (59) As for women past child-bearing, who have no hope of marriage, it is no sin for them if they discard their (outer) clothing in such a way as not to show adornment. But to refrain is better for them. Allah is Hearer, Knower. (60) No blame is there upon the blind nor any blame upon the lame nor any blame upon the sick nor on yourselves if ye eat from your houses, or the houses of your fathers, or the houses of your mothers, or the houses of your brothers, or the houses of your sisters, or the houses of your fathers' brothers, or the houses of your fathers' sisters, or the houses of your mothers' brothers, or the houses of your mothers' sisters, or (from that) whereof ye hold the keys, or (from the house) of a friend. No sin shall it be for you whether ye eat together or apart. But when ye enter houses, salute one another with a greeting from Allah, blessed and sweet. Thus Allah maketh clear His revelations for you, that haply ye may understand. (61) They only are the true believers who believe in Allah and His messenger and, when they are with him on some common errand, go not away until they have asked leave of him. Lo! those who ask leave of thee, those are they who believe in Allah and His messenger. So, if they ask thy leave for some affair of theirs, give leave to whom thou wilt of them, and ask for them forgiveness of Allah. Lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful. (62) Make not the calling of the messenger among you as your calling one of another. Allah knoweth those of you who steal away, hiding themselves. And let those who conspire to evade orders beware lest grief or painful punishment befall them. (63) Lo! verily unto Allah belongeth whatsoever is in the heavens and the earth. He knoweth your condition. And (He knoweth) the Day when they are returned unto Him so that He may inform them of what they did. Allah is Knower of all things. (64)
Chapter 24
Sura Al-Noor
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
(Here is) a surah which We have revealed and enjoined, and wherein We have revealed plain tokens, that haply ye may take heed. (1) The adulterer and the adulteress, scourge ye each one of them (with) a hundred stripes. And let not pity for the twain withhold you from obedience to Allah, if ye believe in Allah and the Last Day. And let a party of believers witness their punishment. (2) The adulterer shall not marry save an adulteress or an idolatress, and the adulteress none shall marry save an adulterer or an idolater. All that is forbidden unto believers. (3) And those who accuse honourable women but bring not four witnesses, scourge them (with) eighty stripes and never (afterward) accept their testimony - They indeed are evil-doers - (4) Save those who afterward repent and make amends. (For such) lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful. (5) As for those who accuse their wives but have no witnesses except themselves; let the testimony of one of them be four testimonies, (swearing) by Allah that he is of those who speak the truth; (6) And yet a fifth, invoking the curse of Allah on him if he is of those who lie. (7) And it shall avert the punishment from her if she bear witness before Allah four times that the thing he saith is indeed false, (8) And a fifth (time) that the wrath of Allah be upon her if he speaketh truth. (9) And had it not been for the grace of Allah and His mercy unto you, and that Allah is Clement, Wise, (ye had been undone). (10) Lo! they who spread the slander are a gang among you. Deem it not a bad thing for you; nay, it is good for you. Unto every man of them (will be paid) that which he hath earned of the sin; and as for him among them who had the greater share therein, his will be an awful doom. (11) Why did not the believers, men and women, when ye heard it, think good of their own own folk, and say: It is a manifest untruth? (12) Why did they not produce four witnesses? Since they produce not witnesses, they verily are liars in the sight of Allah. (13) Had it not been for the grace of Allah and His mercy unto you in the world and the Hereafter an awful doom had overtaken you for that whereof ye murmured. (14) When ye welcomed it with your tongues, and uttered with your mouths that whereof ye had no knowledge, ye counted it a trifle. In the sight of Allah it is very great. (15) Wherefor, when ye heard it, said ye not: It is not for us to speak of this. Glory be to Thee (O Allah)! This is awful calumny. (16) Allah admonisheth you that ye repeat not the like thereof ever, if ye are (in truth) believers. (17) And He expoundeth unto you the revelations. Allah is Knower, Wise. (18) Lo! those who love that slander should be spread concerning those who believe, theirs will be a painful punishment in the world and the Hereafter. Allah knoweth. Ye know not. (19) Had it not been for the grace of Allah and His mercy unto you, and that Allah is Clement, Merciful, (ye had been undone). (20) O ye who believe! Follow not the footsteps of the devil. Unto whomsoever followeth the footsteps of the devil, lo! he commandeth filthiness and wrong. Had it not been for the grace of Allah and His mercy unto you, not one of you would ever have grown pure. But Allah causeth whom He will to grow. And Allah is Hearer, Knower. (21) And let not those who possess dignity and ease among you swear not to give to the near of kin and to the needy, and to fugitives for the cause of Allah. Let them forgive and show indulgence. Yearn ye not that Allah may forgive you? Allah is Forgiving, Merciful. (22) Lo! as for those who traduce virtuous, believing women (who are) careless, cursed are they in the world and the Hereafter. Theirs will be an awful doom (23) On the day when their tongues and their hands and their feet testify against them as to what they used to do, (24) On that day Allah will pay them their just due, and they will know that Allah, He is the Manifest Truth. (25) Vile women are for vile men, and vile men for vile women. Good women are for good men, and good men for good women; such are innocent of that which people say: For them is pardon and a bountiful provision. (26) O ye who believe! Enter not houses other than your own without first announcing your presence and invoking peace upon the folk thereof. That is better for you, that ye may be heedful. (27) And if ye find no-one therein, still enter not until permission hath been given. And if it be said unto you: Go back, then go back, for it is purer for you. Allah knoweth what ye do. (28) (It is) no sin for you to enter uninhabited houses wherein is comfort for you. Allah knoweth what ye proclaim and what ye hide. (29) Tell the believing men to lower their gaze and be modest. That is purer for them. Lo! Allah is aware of what they do. (30) And tell the believing women to lower their gaze and be modest, and to display of their adornment only that which is apparent, and to draw their veils over their bosoms, and not to reveal their adornment save to their own husbands or fathers or husbands' fathers, or their sons or their husbands' sons, or their brothers or their brothers' sons or sisters' sons, or their women, or their slaves, or male attendants who lack vigour, or children who know naught of women's nakedness. And let them not stamp their feet so as to reveal what they hide of their adornment. And turn unto Allah together, O believers, in order that ye may succeed. (31) And marry such of you as are solitary and the pious of your slaves and maid-servants. If they be poor, Allah will enrich them of His bounty. Allah is of ample means, Aware. (32) And let those who cannot find a match keep chaste till Allah give them independence by His grace. And such of your slaves as seek a writing (of emancipation), write it for them if ye are aware of aught of good in them, and bestow upon them of the wealth of Allah which He hath bestowed upon you. Force not your slave-girls to whoredom that ye may seek enjoyment of the life of the world, if they would preserve their chastity. And if one force them, then (unto them), after their compulsion, lo! Allah will be Forgiving, Merciful. (33) And verily We have sent down for you revelations that make plain, and the example of those who passed away before you. An admonition unto those who ward off (evil). (34) Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The similitude of His light is as a niche wherein is a lamp. The lamp is in a glass. The glass is as it were a shining star. (This lamp is) kindled from a blessed tree, an olive neither of the East nor of the West, whose oil would almost glow forth (of itself) though no fire touched it. Light upon light. Allah guideth unto His light whom He will. And Allah setteth forth for mankind similitudes, for Allah is Knower of all things. (35) (This lamp is found) in houses which Allah hath allowed to be exalted and that His name shall be remembered therein. Therein do offer praise to Him at morn and evening. (36) Men whom neither merchandise nor sale beguileth from remembrance of Allah and constancy in prayer and paying to the poor their due; who fear a day when hearts and eyeballs will be overturned; (37) That Allah may reward them with the best of what they did, and increase reward for them of His bounty. Allah giveth blessings without stint to whom He will. (38) As for those who disbelieve, their deeds are as a mirage in a desert. The thirsty one supposeth it to be water till he cometh unto it and findeth it naught, and findeth, in the place thereof, Allah Who payeth him his due; and Allah is swift at reckoning. (39) Or as darkness on a vast, abysmal sea. There covereth him a wave, above which is a wave, above which is a cloud. Layer upon layer of darkness. When he holdeth out his hand he scarce can see it. And he for whom Allah hath not appointed light, for him there is no light. (40) Hast thou not seen that Allah, He it is Whom all who are in the heavens and the earth praise, and the birds in their flight? Of each He knoweth verily the its worship and the its praise; and Allah is Aware of what they do. (41) And unto Allah belongeth the Sovereignty of the heavens and the earth, and unto Allah is the journeying. (42) Hast thou not seen how Allah wafteth the clouds, then gathereth them, then maketh them layers, and thou seest the rain come forth from between them; He sendeth down from the heaven mountains wherein is hail, and smiteth therewith whom He will, and averteth it from whom He will. The flashing of His lightning all but snatcheth away the sight. (43) Allah causeth the revolution of the day and the night. Lo! herein is indeed a lesson for those who see. (44) Allah hath created every animal of water. Of them is (a kind) that goeth upon its belly and (a kind) that goeth upon two legs and (a kind) that goeth upon four. Allah createth what He will. Lo! Allah is Able to do all things. (45) Verily We have sent down revelations and explained them. Allah guideth whom He will unto a straight path. (46) And they say: We believe in Allah and the messenger, and we obey; then after that a faction of them turn away. Such are not believers. (47) And when they appeal unto Allah and His messenger to judge between them, lo! a faction of them are averse; (48) But if right had been with them they would have come unto him willingly. (49) Is there in their hearts a disease, or have they doubts, or fear they lest Allah and His messenger should wrong them in judgment? Nay, but such are evil-doers. (50) The saying of (all true) believers when they are called unto Allah and His messenger to judge between them is only that they say: We hear and we obey. And such are the successful. (51) He who obeyeth Allah and His messenger, and feareth Allah, and keepeth duty (unto Him): such indeed are the victorious. (52) They swear by Allah solemnly that, if thou order them, they will go forth. Say: Swear not; known obedience (is better). Lo! Allah is Informed of what ye do. (53) Say: Obey Allah and obey the messenger. But if ye turn away, then (it is) for him (to do) only that wherewith he hath been charged, and for you (to do) only that wherewith ye have been charged. If ye obey him, ye will go aright. But the messenger hath no other charge than to convey (the message) plainly. (54) Allah hath promised such of you as believe and do good work that He will surely make them to succeed (the present rulers) in the earth even as He caused those who were before them to succeed (others); and that He will surely establish for them their religion which He hath approved for them, and will give them in exchange safety after their fear. They serve Me. They ascribe no thing as partner unto Me. Those who disbelieve henceforth, they are the miscreants. (55) Establish worship and pay the poor-due and obey the messenger, that haply ye may find mercy. (56) Think not that the disbelievers can escape in the land. Fire will be their home - a hapless journey's end! (57) O ye who believe! Let your slaves, and those of you who have not come to puberty, ask leave of you at three times (before they come into your presence): Before the prayer of dawn, and when ye lay aside your raiment for the heat of noon, and after the prayer of night. Three times of privacy for you. It is no sin for them or for you at other times, when some of you go round attendant upon others (if they come into your presence without leave). Thus Allah maketh clear the revelations for you. Allah is Knower, Wise. (58) And when the children among you come to puberty then let them ask leave even as those before them used to ask it. Thus Allah maketh clear His revelations for you. Allah is Knower, Wise. (59) As for women past child-bearing, who have no hope of marriage, it is no sin for them if they discard their (outer) clothing in such a way as not to show adornment. But to refrain is better for them. Allah is Hearer, Knower. (60) No blame is there upon the blind nor any blame upon the lame nor any blame upon the sick nor on yourselves if ye eat from your houses, or the houses of your fathers, or the houses of your mothers, or the houses of your brothers, or the houses of your sisters, or the houses of your fathers' brothers, or the houses of your fathers' sisters, or the houses of your mothers' brothers, or the houses of your mothers' sisters, or (from that) whereof ye hold the keys, or (from the house) of a friend. No sin shall it be for you whether ye eat together or apart. But when ye enter houses, salute one another with a greeting from Allah, blessed and sweet. Thus Allah maketh clear His revelations for you, that haply ye may understand. (61) They only are the true believers who believe in Allah and His messenger and, when they are with him on some common errand, go not away until they have asked leave of him. Lo! those who ask leave of thee, those are they who believe in Allah and His messenger. So, if they ask thy leave for some affair of theirs, give leave to whom thou wilt of them, and ask for them forgiveness of Allah. Lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful. (62) Make not the calling of the messenger among you as your calling one of another. Allah knoweth those of you who steal away, hiding themselves. And let those who conspire to evade orders beware lest grief or painful punishment befall them. (63) Lo! verily unto Allah belongeth whatsoever is in the heavens and the earth. He knoweth your condition. And (He knoweth) the Day when they are returned unto Him so that He may inform them of what they did. Allah is Knower of all things. (64)
CNN AC/360
Jim Wallis speaks most positive comments on CNN AC/360 Hosted by Campbell Brown. Most of the comments are positive. Senator Obama's speech 'A more perfect Union' is being well received appears to be a classic. David Gergen very impressed with the speech. Bill O'reilly is complaining that Barack Obama is not doing his show. Bob Werk gave negative comments. "Google" these individuals to learn more about what motivates them.
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