HAMAS won 76 out of 132 seats in the Palestinian Legislative elections last week, with a high 78 percent voter turn-out. This spelt the end of Fatah dominance and, God Willing, the beginning of a new era of dignity and sovereignity. Here's a special poem for Palestine and the Palestinians!
Palestine is alive
Palestine speaks
Palestine writes
Palestine sings
Palestine is alive
Palestine hurts
Palestine cries
Palestine mourns
Palestine is alive
Palestine kicks
Palestine bites
Palestine struggles
Palestine is alive
Palestine loves
Palestine cherishes
Palestine believes
Palestine is alive
Forever alive
Doc Jazz.com
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In the spirit of the Islamic New Year, here’s a quote from Miracles of the Messenger (pbuh, translated by Sameh Strauch, 2003, 99):
“It does not befit any human being that he should prostate to another human being. If it were right for a human being to prostate to another human being, I would have commanded the wife to prostate to her husband, due to his great right upon her. By Him in Whose Hand is my soul, if from his feet to the parting of his hair was a boil flowing with pus and she were to face him and lick it up, she would not have fulfilled his right upon her.”
The moral of the story:
“That it is not permissible to prostate to any other human being whomsoever it might be and whatsoever his rank and status might be and that prostration is only for Allah.
The great merit which a man has over his wife and the greatness of his right upon her.”
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Phenomenal Women:
Caught up with SY and SS, old friends from the media industry, for lunch and then coffee at the GE Mall last Saturday; got my fill of latest gossip about local artistes and celebs. Talked about the possibility of making a made for tv movie on Serikandi Melayu. That would let me pick up the pieces where I left 7-8 years ago researching on Tun Fatimah, Cik Siti Wan Kembang, Puteri Sa’adong and the gang. Then it’s the question of finding the right team of scriptwriters, director, producer and investor; wonder if the likes of Yasmin Ahmad or Amir Muhamad (remember the Bette Davis eyes and the Garbo mystique?) would be interested in this kind of project?
Tun Fatimah - "In my research on her she struck me as the true imperial to Melaka. She was the ruler. The basic story line (of what most people think of her) is that she was very demure and a woman who became a victim of the feudal system. This type of thinking about her makes me very uncomfortable. People think of her as the poor, pitiful woman, when her husband Tun Ali was murdered by Sultan Mahmud (who then married her). In truth, she was the pillar of strength for the Sultan when Melaka fell in the year 1511. Sultan Mahmud was a broken man and she was the one who led the nation from Melaka to move on to Johor Lama and then to Pulau Bantam, when the Portuguese was after them. It is also through her bloodline that she was able to continue and maintain the Melaka empire. She was a very powerful woman, a woman with a vision. Even though a man kills her family there is no malice or vengeance felt. She even managed to change the Sultan's ways after which he repented and became a very religious man. With this, the honour of her family and herself was restored."
(Azanin Ahmad)
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Bet’s Bites:
“Damn if you do, damn if you don’t; so just do what is right by you”
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