23.3.11

The Culture of Resistance
as Manifest Destiny
takes hold of entire
Middle East as expected:

Moqawama English Website

Hizbullah Secretary General His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah delivered a speech in support of the revolutionary peoples around the Arab world on Saturday night. From the Sayyed Al Shuhada complex in the Beirut Southern Suburb, Hizbullah SG appeared via video link, and discussed the latest regional and domestic developments.








Between the Culture of Resistance and Wikileaks, the US/ISRAELI Middle East plan is going up in smoke right before the eyes of the world. Make no mistake, this is what that looks like. Pay attention. It's gonna take a few years from here.
All Our Cracked Voices

These might be the last
burned cars where hens hunt
and peck, drab green
noises heart break in the distance
the body parts in stunned engines.
War children hide between houses
and behind skirts quickwashed if at all,
squirrelly, quiet and big-eyed.
Borrowed goods are returned
by doubt and shame
not so much a pair, more
like siblings of fear
near such grand exits

as the sky ends twice.

15.3.11

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Ocotillo Blossoms x 2

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Crowds


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Snow on the Divide 2010


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Fence in January



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Ocotillo

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Ocotilloooooooooooo


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View towards old garbage dump



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Ocotillo in January up the hill from Cole Avenue




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5.3.11

Al Ra'ja'ah

So Goes the Region, So Goes Israel
-. . . No one appreciates it except those who know (Qur'an, 29:43)

Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary-General of Hezbollah declares that Galilee can and will be occupied by Hezbollah forces "within hours" if and when Israel decides to invade Lebanon. He did not specify whether or not that meant solely via a ground invasion with IDF troops or as such, via any strategic air invasion or attack. Netanyahu's response signaled that Israel is not planning on any invasion in the near future by stating about Nasrallah, "he won't" rather than he "cannot". Netanyahu has changed a bit in the intervening years since his last conversations with his congenial Shia neighbors to the north. He has a full understanding that not only does Nasrallah not lie, he also enjoys a track record of batting a thousand when it comes to making predictions about Israeli errors and miscalculations.

The point Nasrallah is trying to make as opposed to what seems like a threat, is that Lebanon exists not only as an equal to Israel but as a party of superiority over Israel. I think that as the nations of the Middle East collapse, Israel will not only no longer possess superiority over her neighbors but will come begging at the door of her neighbors for forgiveness rather than slamming their capitals with bombs, sending Israeli spies into their countries to assassinate their citizens (as they assassinated Rafik Hariri and so many others) or denying them access in any way, shape or form to the traditional commerces of humanity through their lying and manipulation of the United Nations utilizing a false sense of their own strength and so-called integrity.

Furthermore, Shia throughout the Middle East recognize that the events playing out right now have far greater significance than merely the end of Israeli Tyranny and Western Colonialism. In the words of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinijad, the event, "represents the beginning of a significant event which was heralded by prophets."

We've come a long long way it seems in a short period of time. From Israel and the US putting plans for an invasion and destruction of the Iranian regime "on the table, off the table, under the table" to the US not even being able to fit Iran and the Iranian problem into the discussion.

"Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned the US and its allies from any military intervention in North Africa or the Middle East, for the nation of the region will rise and "dig the graves of their soldiers".

According to IRNA news agency Ahmadinejad said, "If you have military interference in North Africa and the Middle East once again, regional nations will stand up and dig graves for your soldiers".


How do we know this? Hmm. From a template given long ago to the first companion of the Prophet Mohamed, SA Ali ibn Abi Taleb, pbuh in several of his speeches and sermons. For instance, in his sixteenth sermon which goes:



Delivered when allegiance was sworn to him at Medina

The responsibility for what I say is guaranteed and I am answerable for it. He to whom experiences have clearly shown the past exemplary punishments (given by Allah to peoples) is prevented by piety from falling into doubts. You should know that the same troubles have returned to you which existed when the Prophet was first sent.

By Allah who sent the Prophet with faith and truth you will be severely subverted, bitterly shaken as in sieving and fully mixed as by spooning in a cooking pot till your low persons become high and high ones become low, those who were behind would attain forward positions and those who were forward would become backward. By Allah, I have not concealed a single word or spoken any lie and I had been informed of this event and of this time.

Beware that sins are like unruly horses on whom their riders have been placed and their reins have been let loose so that they would jump with them in Hell. Beware that piety is like trained horses on whom the riders have been placed with the reins in their hands, so that they would take the riders to Heaven. There is right and wrong and there are followers for each. If wrong dominates, it has (always) in the past been so, and if truth goes down that too has often occurred. It seldom happens that a thing that lags behind comes forward.

ash-Sharif ar-Radi says: In this small speech there is more beauty than can be appreciated, and the quantity of amazement aroused by it is more than the appreciation accorded to it. Despite what we have stated it has so many aspects of eloquence that cannot be expressed nor can anyone reach its depth, and no one can understand what I am saying unless one has attained this art and known its details.

And from another sermon, #137


Referring to events in the future

He will direct desires towards (the path of) guidance while people will have turned guidance towards desires, and he will turn their views to the direction of the Qur'an while the people will have turned the Qur'an to their views.

A part of the same sermon:

(Before this Enjoiner of Good (1), matters will deteriorate) till war will rage among you with full force, showing forth its teeth, with udders full of sweet milk but with a sour tip. Beware, it will be tomorrow and the morrow will come soon with things which you do not know. The Man in power, not from this crowd, will take to task all those were formerly appointed for their ill deeds and the earth will pour forth its eternal treasures and fling before him easily her keys. He will show you the just way of behaviour and revive the Qur'an and sunnah which have become lifeless (among people).

A part of the same sermon

As if I see (him), he (the Enjoiner of Evil) (2) is shouting in Syria (ash-Sham) and is extending his banners to the outskirts of Kufah. He is bent towards it like the biting of the she-camel. He has covered the ground with heads. His mouth is wide open and (the trampling of) his footsteps on the ground have become heavy. His advance is broad and his attacks are severe.

By Allah, he will disperse you throughout the earth till only a few of you remain, like kohl in the eye. You will continue like this till the Arabs return to their sense. You should therefore stick to established ways, clear signs and the early period which has the lasting virtues of the Prophethood. You should know that Satan makes his ways easy so that you may follow him on his heels.

(1). This prophecy of Amir al-mu'minin is with regard to the appearance of the Twelfth Imam, Abu'l-Qasim Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Mahdi (p.b.u.h.).

(2). This refers to `Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan who came to power in Syria (ash-Sham) after his father Marwan ibn al-Hakam and then after the killing of al-Mukhtar ibn Abi `Ubayd ath-Thaqafi in his encounter with Mus`ab ibn az-Zubayr he proceeded towards Iraq. He clashed with Mus`ab's force at Maskin near Dayru'l-jathaliq in the outskirts of Kufah. After defeating him he made a victorious entry into Kufah and took allegiance from its inhabitants. Then he sent al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf ath-Thaqafi to Mecca to fight with `Abdullah ibn az-Zubayr. Consequently this man besieged Mecca and stoned it, and shed the blood of thousands of innocent persons like water. He killed Ibn az-Zubayr and hung his body on the gallows. He perpetrated such atrocities on the people that one shudders at the thought of them.



. . . No one appreciates it except those who know (Qur'an, 29:43)


4.3.11





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