I had been watching TED talks a lot recently and it was really either touching or impressive. Sometimes was amazing to get to know such creative individuals and how they approach problems in their lives.
So, I highly recommend everyone to regularly check TED talks, you can subscribe to their YouTube channel too, in the mean time, I’ll be posting and commenting on the talks that touch me here too.
I’m finishing up a 4 sessions, English Listening, Speaking and Pronunciation course available online for free via MIT Open Course Ware, which is pretty amazing, I remember first time our professor told us about the Open Course Ware, I bookmarked it, but never had the time to check it out. And just went through these 4 sessions during the last week.
I already went through such English courses on my own before, so it was some kind of emphasizing on what I know, clarifying some ambiguous points, and some practising, plus of course added an in class experience. Of course, the way the class is being ran is totally different that the classes I attend here, so good to know how normal people are supposed to learn.
I highly recommend the MIT Open Course Ware to everyone, plus every knowledge available online for free. I’ll try to bookmark similar sources and make it available here, at least the ones I had been using recently, Insha’ Allah.
Today, thought about a theme I sensed in everything I do lately, imperfect, while I’m capable of making it better. That’s why during that month, August, I’ll be trying to sort out the clutter in my life and start over especially with the business site relaunch with more determination and more organized.
I can frankly say, for me, it’s not about lack of intelligence, qualifications or even time. It’s just emotions which was driving me to a “Whatever!” and “Who cares” attitudes!
But, hey, you’ll still be impressed by the stuff I do, despite these imperfections.
An Arabic poet once said:
I never saw among people’s imperfections, and imperfection like, producing things incompletely while you’re capable of making it complete.
That had been a comment on a blog I’ve wrote recently on Dina‘s blog Chosen Odyssey.
Take your time to believe that which you are conventionally expected to believe. We are not expected to make any mistakes, but are there any absolute mistakes in Life’s lessons?
Well Dina, to respond to the question we had to define 2 words “perception” and “mistake”.
Going back to the concept of paradigm shifting, and the fact that the image formed in our minds about a certain issue is nothing more than a formation from our past experiences and what we grew up believing from the our community and that image will, accordingly, differ between people, as they have different experiences and may be, cultural or religious background.
So, the perception of a “mistake” will differ widely between people.
In Engineering when someone ask for “the best” solution, he shouldn’t be given an answer till he defines all the variables associated with his problem. For example: What’s the best programming language to learn. the response had to be it depends! What applications are you going to develop, what’s your background in the topic, how much time you can dedicate for that .etc
When you go for a competition, you might be the most experienced or most knowledgeable among the competitors but you might not win! Why, they’re mostly judging based on a set of variables that might not be set the right way, they might be judging your technical writing skills and you’re the most qualified craftswoman .etc
So, when I say, I made a mistake or someone made a mistake, I defined some variables that I saw fit in that situation, and judged that based on my previous experience or background. And surely there is something I didn’t take into consideration when doing so, especially if we’re talking about life events.
But there is still things that’s considered to be mistakes by everyone, for example cheating on partners, is that a mistake or not? everyone knows that it’s a mistake.
So, everyone will pick a set of variables to judge actions, these variables might be coming from his own experience, the perception of his community, or religious teachings.
As believers, we’re supposed to believe in Al-Qadr or the Fate. As it’s among the 6 articles of faith for Muslims. That what happened, god wanted it to happen, and it’s the absolute good for us.
That concept might be hard to understand and believe, but much harder to practice while we’re in the acme of troubles.
That article will communicate what I want to say better, when it comes to perceiving actions as god’s will and as a result, it might be “wrong” or “mistakes” according to a certain standard, but for us it’s god’s will.
We as humans aren’t knowledgeable enough to find out all the variables associated with our life problems or situations, and as a result, while we do our best to approach the solution based on the variables we’re able to define, we should trust the ultimate knowledgeable entity which is aware of all the variables, and whether what we wanted worked or not, that was our fate, and god’s will.
We haven’t done a mistake, if we do that, even if we didn’t reach what we wanted.
You know, that’s the core belief of being a Muslim. Islam means submission to God. Which means accepting god as the all knowledgeable and submitting our will to him as he only knows the best for us.
This speech had been delivered by myself July, 21, at Cairo ToastMasters club. It was my 4th speech at the competent communicator track where my objective was “How To Say It” so while preparing this speech my main emphasis was picking the right words and forming the right phases and getting away from using jargon or difficult words. This speech is supposed to be from five to seven minutes.
I had been investing so much time on FB lately, and just tonight get back to PHP with MySQL beyond the basics from Lynda.com which I started 3 weeks ago and had to stop to take care of my starting FB pages first.
Today, ending my career as a Facebooker and marketer, getting back to Geekdom! All projects pages are up & running with 120+ fans
Just to clarify something, Muslims does come from every ethnicity and background so you can’t define someone as Muslim by look, and Arabs make 18% only of the total population of Muslims.
Was taking some Facebook quizzes and everything was going funny and okay, till decided to take that “What’s your true age” quiz, where I had been asked for my race:
Shouldn’t that be considered racism or Arabs and Middle Eastern people are classified as one of the above? Anyway, won’t take the quiz!! till getting answers!
I’m a Middle Eastern, Arab, Egyptian, why didn’t the quiz creator take that into consideration while making the quiz?!!
Thankfully, two posts a week as minimum hadn’t been broken so far, and I’m hoping to find more time to blog more frequently. General updates will be added as I get other projects I’m currently working on stabilized.
So, this time I’m inspired by a Facebook conversation with Sami with a little bit unusual political views!!
Political Views: Free chocolate for everyone party
Actually, related to that, we had the following conversation:
Abdo:Hey, how is your political career going? “Free chocolate for everyone party”! I haven’t got mine yet.
Sami: Hey you, I am just packing the free chocolate for everyone and I will pack an extra ounceone for you :)))) *
Abdo: So, I’ll get two, I’d join your party, though 🙂
Sami: Hmmm, so you’d like to serve me or my party?! Or both?!! ;)))))
Abdo: Oh, so you see yourself excluded from your party? Who’s packing the free chocolate?
I got it, so the 2 chocolates I’m getting one from your party, and the other from you.
So, from a strict political mentality I’d say, “I’d support you inside your political party till reaching the presidency. This way I’ll always guarantee my free chocolates will be increasing”.
Sami: Materialist!!! :))))
Abdo: LOL no, just a politician 🙂
Sami: You look too young to be a politician! ;)))
Abdo: It’s the experience in our years that makes us great politicians. the ability to twist, deceive and manipulate people. joking!
There is no one too young to work in politics, but there is people who’s too kind to work in politics, just like yourself, Sami 🙂
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And yes, this is politics illustrated!! wherever you are, within your family, at work, or even in a charity organization, that’s the principle of everyday politics:
What’s in it for me – how can I get what I want and keep it coming.
That’s why Free Chocolate for everyone party, will find hard time surviving in a political environment. Except they have an intelligent man like myself leading them, I’ll be doing a great job for humanity too, with loads of free chocolate to manage.
What a devoted, sincere, public-centered leader am I?!!
This speech had been delivered by myself July, 21, at Cairo ToastMasters club.It was my 4th speech at the competent communicator track where my objective was “How To Say It” so while preparing this speech my main emphasis was picking the right words and forming the right phases and getting away from using jargon or difficult words. This speech is supposed to be from five to seven minutes.
By the way, I’ll rewrite the content in more details and publish it and make Vlogs about it in the future, really delivering these speeches inspired me with some business ideas that I’ll be executing in the coming few months. here, on DeveloperMan and Al-Adham Web Solutions.
Introduction
Last time we stated general points in reaching out to people on the internet and gave basic steps you had to follow in order to be successful in your online communication using different social networks. Let’s remember, it was “Be there, participate, engage and then personalize” Last Speech
This time, we’ll explore a new model of what’s called online businesses, where there is no physical office and business is totally being ran online by a freelancer or a team of freelancers. The same ideas apply to a company trying to expand its client-base through the internet.
This business model is found to be convenient by designers, programmers, IT professionals, writers and consultants.
There is 4 major steps that you should follow to run a successful online business.
Present
The first obvious step in running a successful online business is to have a strong online presence, that’s a website; the idea about your business is being reflected through your website, putting a small investment on getting your website done professionally will save a lot of troubles on the long run.
Having your own domain name is essential; it’s strange seeing some people still seeking to run online businesses using a freely hosted blogs or websites, investing $10 and getting your own domain name and email, is an essential step to run a successful online business. So, present yourself professionally, chose the right domains and create the right email addresses.
I remember when I was having a “computer networks” course with participants who were elder than me, I was eighteen at this time and most of them were at their mid or late twenties. We exchanged our contact information, and I gave them my fancy email at this time which was abdo37_sk3, the next session I accidentally heard a discussion where someone was asking have you added them, not all, look at that email, what an idiot! Why should I add him!
After that, I got my emails sorted out professionally, so having your own domain and emails will not only give your audience the smell of professionalism, but will save you from being labeled as an idiot too.
Seek
It’s not hard to get a professional online presence, it’s usually very quick and affordable, the difference is made by the marketing plan this online business will utilize to reach out to people.
Having a few pages about your business, won’t be more than getting some other pages stuck on the already dense internet, if it’s not backed by a strong marketing plan. The ultimate goal from marketing an online business should be putting your website in front of interested prospects’ eyes. The most famous techniques are:
The regular PR work: building relations with other already popular sites, adding the site to business directories
Paid advertising: where you can seek to show your website to a specific group of people filtered by age, gender or location interested in something specific.
SEO or search engines optimization: is helping your website being found by prospects searching for a certain keyword that you chose to optimize the website for.
Involve
The next step would be getting the visitors involved with the site the moment they see it to ensure it won’t be just a onetime visit. The repetition of the marketing message is what will convince those visitors to become interested and finally use your services. Some tools that are being used to involve visitors with the site are:
Newsletter: Is collecting visitors’ emails and sending them regular Email updates about your business, which is being considerably replaced by the next point.
Business blogs: Where articles and updates are being posted regularly on a part of the website and the audiences get involved with that content, by commenting and interacting.
Widgets: Involving people would be by finding where they frequently are, for example if they’re using Facebook regularly why not to make a Facebook page to your business and interact with them on it, you’ll find these widget things that will help you connect your site or blog with other famous networks where it’ll be much more easier for people to involve with you.
Manage
Congratulations, you’re now winning projects, and people are asking you to get their projects done. There is a lot of online communication and project management tools that will help you manage your projects effectively, starting from an IM and VoIP service like Skype, through which you can chat and talk with your clients to full project management tools and client management applications, where the client can check all the information about his project on a certain part of your website.
Conclusion
Through these four steps professional presentation, seeking the right audience, involving and engaging visitors and getting them interested in your service and finally managing the projects and the client communication the right way.
We could now, congratulate you on joining the league of successful online entrepreneurs.
This is just a quick notification that I’m working on MarwaElSherbiny.com a project supposed to be backed by volunteers to network the incident in which Dr. Marwa El-Sherbiny had been stabbed to death in a German court, her husband get severely injured and her 3 years old son witnessed the incident.
The site will be an up-to-date portal dedicated to Dr. Marwa, the updates of the incident and different feedback, articles, blogs from anyone have something valuable to say.
The site is being built with Joomla! in order to ease admin tasks and adding content for everyone.
Site sections:
About Us
About Dr. Marwa
The Murder (Detailed information about the case and its motives)
Formal Updates (Follow up with the case)
They Said (Blogs, Articles from anyone have something valuable to say)
Hijab (Illustrating the meaning of Hijab and why Muslim women wear it)
Community Builder (Members Profiles, Messages, Board .etc)
How to Support (What you can do for Marwa)
I hope to source the content in English and German, that’s why I’m contacting people who’s active or administering groups talking about the same issue. Hoping that they’ll be active on the site too.
Despite being shocked with the crime and the reactions, I didn’t blog about it YET, as I preferred to plan for a long term response that will have a continuous impact, other than a one time blog post. Also, to have sufficient accurate information and read different points of view.
Details will be published soon, If you’re interested in participating in such project, please Contact Me ASAP.
Being subscribed to clevonamerica YouTube channel from a while, I really liked his latest video addressing Nationalism:
It made me remember a movie “Head of State“, in which two individuals were going for presidency. One’s motto was “God bless America … and no place else” the other replied “God bless America .. and everyplace else!“
Human nature will keep inside us a sense of belonging to the people, culture and land where we grew up. And a desire to see it the best, which might be obvious in Football matches for example. But what the heck might be the problem for me, you or anybody else if god also blessed the other countries!!
I still meet some people who are going with the mentality of the first motto! And really don’t know what to say!
Just stumbled upon this Facebook profile and brought me a laugh. You’re supposed to write something about yourself in the box below your photo in your Facebook profile.
As you might know I had been busy during this week and a reason of being busy that you might don’t know was Prison Break. After finishing my exams I had this strange feeling of watching the rest of Prison Break as I watched season one only. And during this week I watched season two, three and four.
I really don’t remember much of what I watched and don’t really care that much, as I wanted just to be up-to-date with what’s happening in the world including what people watch, not to live like a freaky stranger.
What touched me the most was, actually two ideas:
The Ending:
How the whole story turned out, made me look to the story as a practical life lesson, a very deep life lesson. I saw it as a reflection of justice in the situations of people involved. I believe people are born alike in their desire for good or bad and life is about decisions we make. At the end life will never settle down except with the good for the good and the bad for the bad, either in this life or thereafter.
Any challenge that we pass with in life should be looked at this way, and how right we do in it, is what determines how good things will turn out for us.
Human Relationships:
Human relationship still a very mysterious subject to me. Decisions you take in life that involve others need so much weighting to what’s valuable, what’s worthy and what is not. The fundamental idea of the show is the sacrifice of someone doing good in his life according to our standards, to help his innocent brother out of prison. Then getting back to help team mates, whom had been his enemies at some point.
A situation and a phrase in the show, even made me discover things still inside myself, and related to some situations I had been through. May be because growing up with a clean tongue, I wasn’t able to say it when I was supposed to. The guy’s reaction when he knew that it was a set up, made me laugh, in evil.
“You whore! You’re a whore, and your mother was a whore, and her mother, and your father used to turn tricks at a gas station, cause he was a whore too!”
Hey, I know it’s just a TV show, but still time investment on entertainment can get back to you with thoughts deeper than you imagine.
This is just a random post celebrating my freedom from Prison Break. And might blog more thoughts about it when I have a better chance.
Had to get busy, real productively busy right now.
if you got dreams in your heart
why don’t you share them with me?
and if dreams don’t come true
I’ll make sure that your nightmares
are through
if you got pain in your heart
why don’t you share it with me?
and we’ll just wait and see
if it’s half what it used to be
and lay it down slow
lay it down free
lay it down easy
but lay it on me
if you’ve got love in your heart
why don’t you keep it with mine?
I can’t promise a miracle
but I’ll always be trying
and lay it down slow
lay it down free
lay it down easy
but lay it on me
This is a speech I delivered at Cairo ToastMasters club June, 23. The speech title had been “reaching out” and it was my 3rd speech at the competent communicator track, where the speech’s objective is “get to the point”.
So getting to the point here, the general purpose of the speech had been to make the audience aware of the fundamentals of networking and internet marketing. The specific purpose was to encourage the audience to effectively utilize social networks in their daily life, whether for expressing their political opinions, marketing their businesses or positioning themselves as competent professionals in their fields.
Notice that writing for a speech is different that writing an article and the style – in my case – is going according to the requirements in the project’s manual.
Introduction
Since the beginning of mankind and formation of communities, people were seeking to reach out to others. The criteria that made some people more powerful than the rest was their ability to reach out to the public and spread their ideas, winning people’s trust and taking the lead in forming the identity of their communities.
No one can deny that the internet is the largest community ever known to mankind, and these principles does apply to the internet. Let’s take a look to some practical incidents that recently proved that. The Iranian elections, wasn’t the protests first reported on Twitter before even the mainstream media know about it.
War on Gaza, when the Israeli Army denied the western media from entering Gaza during the massacres, wasn’t these massacres reported Live! on YouTube, Facebook and other social networks? Not getting so far away from Egypt, the 6th of April movement in Egypt, wasn’t it started on Facebook and created one of the most politically striking movements by the Egyptian youth?
Let me tell you something very recent and I attended it myself, the white house was managing a chat room using Acrobat Connect with average 400 participant during Obama’s speech in Cairo, and that chat room was marketed via Facebook Ads. Plus, during the speech if you were on YouTube, you’d notice that upper banner with a link to the Live! speech.
Let’s see how sxephil a 23 years old guy, was able to have more than 400,000 subscribers on YouTube, and how his content usually reach more than 1 Million viewer per week. Also, through the internet people build their full time freelancing career, and ecommerce businesses is being started everyday.
All these incidents and more prove the importance of the internet as an effective marketing tool, and does prove to us that the investment that we’ll make to explore how to effectively utilize social media for spreading our ideas is really worthy.
We’ll go through 4 main steps we should all do in order to effectively use social media to achieve our goals:
Be There
Being on social networks is free, quick and easy. Creating an account in the networks that’s relevant to the one’s interests is the first step for anyone planning to effectively utilize the power of the internet to pursue his/her goals.
Participate
Joining doesn’t mean a lot, if you’re not planning to participate with quality content that’s relevant to your network’s interests. Since you’re there it’s an investment of time and effort you put to produce quality content, from your own ideas and inspirations.
As content is king; the quality of your content will determine how far you’ll reach within the community.
Engage
Producing your own content, will usually result in being anxious for people to read and interact with your content. That might result in spamming people with content they’re not interested in. So the solution to that is to engage with the community, read their content and interact, your content will be most likely to be noticed.
Example of that, is replying to a popular YouTube video with a relevant reply, commenting on Facebook status messages .etc
Personalize
People will always be touched by genuine individuals and content, so going all the way to marketing might result in being impersonal in communication, while in actuality, you’re supposed to maintain a personal touch in all your content and interactions as people either buy or get convinced by people who they have some kind of emotioal connection with.
Conclusion
The internet provides a valuable framework, if smartly utilized, it can enormously help you achieve your personal, professional or business goals.
In the last few days, I had been preparing to formally launch the blog and finish the final optimizations to both the design and functionality. Plus, planning for more accessible content.
We had a 31 confirmed guests to the event (Facebook Event), and 65 are already fans of the blog on the Blog’s Fans Page.
By now, you’re supposed to understand this is my personal blog, that means that any content I develop away from any business project will be published through that blog. Plus, all my social activities online will be centered with that blog.
So, by July, 1st. I’ll commited to constant updating to that blog with minimum 2 posts a week.
This is a speech I delivered at Cairo ToastMasters club on June 23, 2009. The speech title had been “reaching out” and it was my 3rd speech at the competent communicator track, where the speech’s objective is “get to the point”.
You know that feeling after getting out of the exam and looking to the exam paper! A mix of feelings, could be summed up in depression I guess! Yet, another video had been made a while ago.
I delivered a speech at ToastMasters Cairo club last Thursday entitled “The Development Way“, this is a follow up Email I sent to the club members, thought to blog about it too, might add more details later.
As I didn’t find enough time to emphasize on the idea of the project, so thought to share some information about it for whom might be interested. By the way, I picked up the title as of presenting the project as a solution to the pre-discussed problems but may be I didn’t get that clear.
1) A very descriptive article from Al-Ahram weekly: May, 2006! [English]
Desert Development Corridor: Into The Sahara
Farouk El-Baz proposes a superhighway to solve Egypt’s pressing problems
This article advances the case for a proposed superhighway west of the Nile from the Mediterranean Sea coastline to Lake Nasser. The proposal would provide numerous opportunities for the development of new communities, agriculture, industry, trade and tourism around a 2,000 km strip of the Western Desert. The Government of Egypt was unable or unwilling to pursue the project, when I first proposed it 20 years ago, for whatever reasons. Because the country is presently facing insurmountable problems, the proposal is resubmitted for consideration by the private sector — local, Arab and international investors.
3) Aljazeera, “Without Barriers” interview with El-Baz: December, 2007 [Arabic]
A general talk about why his generation wasn’t able to introduce much development to Egypt and the way to developing Egypt from his own experience. Discussing the issues of education and leadership in Egypt too.
I started working with Adobe Premiere Pro producing some videos for YouTube. As I’m starting to talk about unity, picked up that scene from Braveheart, showing how could calling for unity might be deceptive.
Calling for unity against a common enemy among people that share a religious belief, country or even a business is very logical and a sign of maturity of whom calling for unity.
But that’s not always the case, some people will sharply betray when it’s the real time. some for a piece of land, some money and others for their own political agenda.
In this clip from Braveheart, I try to communicate that meaning, Wallace won the first battle by himself and the people loved him and followed him as they saw his goal is freedom for all of them.
When it came to the critical preparation for a battle in which he’ll need the help of the other group, he called for unity and actually been promised.
At the hardest time when he sent the sign for the other group to attack, he discovered that he had been betrayed, look into his eyes to realize how it feels when discover that you had been betrayed and learn the lesson and make sure who are you uniting with.
This is a lesson to learn when calling for unity, is that person or group of people actually want to unite for the best of the community, or they’re doing that for their own agenda!
Sorry for the incorrect dimensions and low quality, I’ll fix it in the upcoming videos. Hit the HQ button for now for better preview.
Unite yes, but keep your eyes open for whom you’re uniting with.
Three weeks ago, I decided to start Vlogging and actually provided an Ice-Breaking video, expressing my intention to start Vlogging starting with the topic of “Unity of Muslims”. Since then I had been thinking of the ideal way to presented the topic and came to some ideas, that I’ll be trying to get clear in that post.
The series’s title will be “Lessons In Unity” and its goal is to explore incidents – usually battles – throughout our Islamic History where we united and show different situations, concepts and analogies related to the unity of Muslims.
Out of brainstorming, I structured the series in 10 lessons that will communicate the meanings we need to understand today, in order to conceive and seek unity between us Muslims the right way, I focus on having a certain logical flow of information so each lesson adds a new concept we’re prepared to understand from the last one and wider our view in a certain way.
The lessons is structured as follows:
1. Unity as a Concept
In this light introduction, I’ll present why unity is important by couple of very famous analogies, then will discuss 3 main concepts that goes against unity of Muslims. The concepts are Racism, Nationalism and Sectarianism.
2. Sahaba’s Perception of Unity:
To form a solid, stable structure; you had to make sure that the units you use in that structure is actually solid and stable at first place. The strength of a wall you’re intending to build, is directly dependent on the strength of every single building block you’ll use in it.
The same concept applies to building communities, to unite people you had to make those people ready for unity before trying to unite them. By changing their mentalities and as a result their behaviors, attitudes and qualities towards the their brothers and sisters who share their religion.
As such concepts had been sharply clear in the way the companions of the prophet (PBUH) united after Hijra. The brotherhood, personal qualities and attitudes between Mohajereen & Ansar would be the subject of the 2nd episode of this series Insha’ Allah (God Willing).
3. Sahaba’s Different Interpretations
Could Muslims have different approaches to a certain Islamic ruling or a in finding a solution to a certain problem, we do have different schools of thoughts, so how those people who started these schools of thoughts conceived unity of Muslims? what’s the red lines that should not be crossed when we talk about different approaches, when a certain approach should be considered excessive and unacceptable in a Muslim community.
The feasibility and flexibility to have different approaches to a problem, had been obvious in a certain situation when Sahaba (RA) interpreted an order gave by the prophet (PBUH) differently and how they dealt with each others upon their difference and how Prophet Mohamed (PBUH) reacted to the issue.
By discussing that, I want to bring to our attention that among us Muslims, we should have the flexibility to accept others’ opinions and interpretations and be mature enough to maintain our brotherhood with those who conceive things differently. And at the same time we should never tolerate those who ruin our Islamic teachings by having unacceptable approaches.
4. Ohod’s Unity Pitfalls
The battle of Ohod is rich with unity lessons, it shows two types of deviations. Among the Muslims one third of the Muslim army left the battlefield because of the heads of hypocrisy within the Muslim community itself. Then those who preferred this life and didn’t obey Prophet’s orders, caused a lot of harm to Muslims.
I’ll present those two deviated groups in the battle of Ohod in order for us to understand ourselves and how practically things get to work. To know that there is among us may be those who can harm us more than our enemies and among us those who’ll go for their own agendas.
Presenting that in the context of Unity will give us the maturity we need, not to be easily fooled or deceived while sincerely seeking unity. As Allah SWT says in the holy Quran:
Had they marched out with you, they would have added to you nothing except disorder, and they would have hurried about in your midst (spreading corruption) and sowing sedition among you – and there are some among you who would have listened to them. And Allah is the All-Knower of the Zalimun (polytheists and wrong-doers). [Quran 09:47].
5. Hussein (RA) & Muslim Unity
We can’t deny that disunity had taken place at some point after prophet Mohamed’s death, and there had been some battles within the Muslim community itself. I’ll present that subject not by getting back to what historically happened, who was right and who was wrong. But how should be conceive it and how what happened should even bring the Muslim community closer and unite us upon righteousness.
A lot of emotional energy from the martyrdom of Imam Hussien (RA) is being manipulated to misguide Muslims, especially new Muslims and those with no access to appropriate Materials. We’ll see how Hussien (RA) in Karbalaa have done everything possible for the unity of Muslims, and the disunity had been actually caused by those who betrayed him.
6. Saladin’s Leadership Model
Had the Muslim unity been just something of the past when prophet Mohamed (PBUH) and the righteous companion been there, we’ll explore how in medieval Islam, Muslims united against crusades under the leadership of Saladin.
I’ll focus on exploring the issue of Leadership, taking Saladin as a leadership model and focusing on couple of incidents that shows how strong, wise and righteous he was and the Muslim leader should be. And also, how the Muslim community united under his leadership.
7. Unity Against Mongols
Mongols is considered one of the greatest dangers faced the Muslim community since its existence, politically Muslims had been totally and completely disunited during the beginning of the attacks from the Mongols, even some was helping the Mongols killing Muslims and occupying Muslim lands.
But how Muslims united at such circumstances, even inside the single country there had been fights between different groups. How Kotoz the Muslim leader was able to unite all Muslims against their enemy and win the battle of Ain Jalot.
I’ll be focusing on Kotoz as an excellent politician dealing with different groups seeking power, and then as a fighter by shouting Wa Islamah (O! My Islam) in the battlefield.
8. 1973 War’s Unity
No one can deny that in our Modern history the limited victory in 1973 war was a result of a limited unity, In a trail to bring hope and show that unity isn’t something dates back to centuries. I’ll show some signals of unity between Egypt, Syria, Libya and Saudi Arabia and different Muslim countries in this war against the Zionist occupation.
9. Muslim Resources
Who are we? This is going to be statistics and representation to the ability of us Muslims and how powerful the Muslim world could grow if we really united.
10. Personal Roles
Finally, how could me and you participate in the Unity of the Muslim community, what’s the values and qualities should we live with. Out of the ideas we’ll discuss, we’ll get to a certain points that we should all keep in mind to achieve unity on the long run. And work for unity between even the local Muslim communities.
Just adding general points about the publishing of the series.
Publishing Format:
The nature of videos is being quick, light and persuasive and It won’t be practical to cover every lessons in a 5 ~ 10 minutes video! and make all points clear enough for the audience; thus, I’ll be considering the videos as the conclusion and will use it for what It should be eye-opening, persuasive and light, while the technical points and the detailed description of the incidents will be published as articles on this blog Insha’ Allah (God Willing), while the videos will be published on YouTube and Muxlim mainly.
By the end of the series, I’ll collect my writings and the ideas generated out of research and interaction and produce a PDF document including all the ideas discussed and all the lessons learned.
The main publishing framework though, is going to be my personal blog here, so If you’re interested in the series the ideal way to keep yourself updated is to subscript to the blog feeds, or you can connect with me on different social networking sites.
Qualification & References:
What makes me qualified to talk about this subject, I was grown up in a religious family and had a considerable amount of religious education, so all these incidents I studied before, plus the series is “Practical Lessons” all what I do is having access to authentic information and use my logic in communicating with the audience taking the context and our current status as Muslims into account, and highlighting the points that will be beneficial.
I’m from the mainstream Muslims and don’t associate myself with any Muslim group or school of thought, except following the authentic teachings of Islam from the Holy Quran & Sunnah, that’s why I won’t be using that series to Market for a certain group or a school of thought.
Of course, I prepare from references that I’m adding in this post, The majority of my preparations if not all of it is from Arabic sources, which include mainly the following books and taps:
* الرحيق المختوم. بحث في السيرة النبوية – فضيلة الشيخ صفي الدين المباركفوري
* دروس وعبر من سيرة خير البشر – دروس في غزوة أحد – الدكتور محمد المختار محمد المهدي
* أباطيل يجب أن تمحي من التاريخ – الدكتور إبراهيم شعوط
* سيرة صلاح الدين الأيوبي – القاضي بهاء الدين المعروف بإبن شداد
* و اإسلاماه – علي أحمد باكثير
* التتار – دكتور راغب السرجاني
May Allah SWT accept our work, and hope that would be beneficial in somehow Insha’ Allah (God Willing)
Just after thinking for a while about four months passed from the “New” year. Yes I just remember that it was a new year, I felt so much guilty about a lot of activities that hadn’t been started and others that went extremely slow.
I’m using a new apprach kicking projects around, just by kicking it. I’m always waiting for the right time budgeting so much on preparations and the perfect time to launch, which will usually lead to waiting for the perfect resources which will never come.
I thought about that today, after being active for around half an hour on Egypt-Designers group, after waiting so much for getting the website perfectly suitable to the project, I preferred to announce it on its current status, you know default theme, blank forums and that sort of stuff.
So, I’m just kicking my activities and accepting the imperfections in my projects and in myself too, that’s so much like a self talk and announcement of kicking things around.
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