a poem about Christmas or Spring?

Spring; thou art close to the gates of our field,
When we are preparing for the partying friends.
Christmas, we celebrate thee in our hearts,
Wintry December lightens in our green memories of the past

"me said this poem bro"

Madinnah, Spring 2008

How I miss Hajj

I used to take practical Muslims as radical people. Then I changed and put a difference between being a true believer in God and a radical man. Now there is metamorphosis even deeper than what I expected. Faith in God helps humanity survive, no matter how practical you are or in what religion you find it.

My journey to Medinna and Mecca, spring this year, gave me a pause. I didn't expect it! I don't know whether the reader of these words has experienced Hajj or not? But as I should explain my journey to Islam, I would rather say that I expected a castle of opulence and luxury. Much to my surprise the very first look at the four black walls of Kabba rid me of all the burden I had carried all 28 years of my life as a human. I was depressed at the first sight but freed at the end.
One could find the people turning around the house of God as one stream of mankind, wearing no luxurious outfits but a towel in white and walking in bare feet! We all were as one! One nation, one dream, one God! How I miss Hajj, and how I wish to go back to the Masjed-al-Nabi in Medinna and talk to God with my soul in Mecca!

his 28th birthday

"I came from very far, sitting lonely on the moon. Where are you? I'm missing you! I'm sitting on the moon."

Before his eyes, was the past with the lady.

"What a gloomy world if she doesn't come back on my birthday!" said the young man in his abandoned sleep time under the starless murky sky, promising him a repetitively plain dream if gone to sleep.

He was missing the lady and couldn't hide it; his complex bursting into trickles of tear wetting his old white shirt, after midnight.

The young man was still thinking of the future with an annoying question of whether she would think of him or not? Did she care to come back? At least for the sake of his birthday on the 8th of August!

But she was gone a long time ago!

He was humming a song into the ears of the wind "where are you? I'm sitting on the moon. Where are you? I'm missing you!"

Could the wind take his heavy heart to the lady? Would she come home when she heard those words from the wind?

It was early at dawn and the young man still humming in his last breath "Where are you? I'm missing you!"

by Tony Hamilton

Getting used to the new place, it seems that little by little, the new colleagues are accepting the new comer's company here at the dealing office of the bank.
My direct boss runs the office in a friendly way that gives me the feeling as if it's a place to stay and try to prove abilities.
Life is showing its better side but there is a long way to go before I get used to all the new things here I see in my new job.
I've always liked the change and never dangled anywhere for long.
Maybe this time I leave the plane of exodus for stay!
Have I reached the Promised Land here at this office?!
Time would say!

changed my office

It's been a week since they've changed my office after nearly two years in the Interpreters Group of the Foreign Department.
The new place is called Dealing Middle Office, a division of the same department. Here we sell and buy money from any bank ready to correspond with us.
To change requires patience. Hopely, I've enough of it to get used to the new place. Overly I should kind of forget about the college and MA! Cause' I've got no permission to leave the office!
Seems a bit confusing at the first look but I'd manage it.

the echo of the call for the Morning Prayer in Maddinah

It was easy to start a journey to the place that I heard so much about before. I walked into the heart of Islam with a long history of ups and downs.
We took off around 13:00 on Saturday April 05, 2008.
The first impression of the brown khaki sands of the deserts, covering all across the Saudi Arabia, fills you with the sense of loneliness and holiness. We were on an airbus of Saudi Airlines accompanied by more than 280 pilgrims. Most of those pilgrims were nice old people. Many of us were experiencing our first journey to Islam. Having been disturbed by the way Arab officers received us at the gates of the airport; we got to the hotel near the Masjed Al-Nabi.
Our room number was 802. At 22:00, Fateme and I walked up the street to the door 7 of the holy mosque and hang about the green dome, enjoying the pleasant weather of the mosque yard. It was our first night of stay in Saudi Arabia and the weather was kindly cool to let us feel it was home away from home.
The Morning Prayer was a miracle! Something strange, that I had never been through before. The pray was as different as the place was. The unity, the humbleness, the large crowd of Muslims from different countries was quite amazing! The call to prayer!
I will never forget the echo of the call for the Morning Prayer in Maddinah. I'm still living with that call....

a Journey to Islam

a Journey to Islam

Next Saturday (April 05, 2008), my wife (Fateme) and I would start a journey to Mecca and Medina as the two holiest cities of the Islamic nation.
There is a feeling inside that I can't explain!
I'm a little bit nervous about how to make it a success.
Anyway, we would be on the flight to the land, wherein lies the long history of one of the largest religions of humankind.
Dear reader, when I return, I will share with you my experience of such a religious journey.#

Islamic media and sustainable development

Now on I'd post more on media and journalism as my MA studies. I appreciate if you kindly share your comments on them...


Islamic media and sustainable development

By: Ehsan Abadikhah
ehsanabadikhah@gmail.com


Introduction
Sustainable development theory is part of international studies carried out after the Second World War and coincided with the establishment of the United Nations (1945). The UN named 1960s as the “decade of development” to encourage the then newly established countries and other nations to improve their socio-economic status. Gradually, the role of communication technologies became more important. The fulfillment of human needs while maintaining the quality of the social life made it urgent to be update about the changes. Economy should meet the needs of the present generation and oversee the future generations' potentials for their needs. Therefore, the role of new-tech communication systems in sustainable development remained as a challenge for all the nations, even in the 21st century.

Communication technologies boost the process of development. Existing competitive markets necessitate the knowledge that is in the hands of the developed countries with high-tech communication systems. In this article, we would briefly look at the role of Islamic mass communication systems in the prosperity of Muslim nations.

Sustainable development depends on the welfare as the corner stone of citizens’ willingness to participate in the plans of their governments. However, it does not focus only on economy. Relative policies encompass some general areas of economy, society and communication.

Economy
Economic and social challenges may create opportunities for development. Here we have an ambiguous concept, and a wide array of views to fall under. The concept includes sustainable and unsustainable development if we divide the developed and developing nations into northern and southern countries respectively.
Sustainability in economy is to continue to function properly without causing irreversible damage to the planet’s ecosystems. This may involve providing the current needs of society while ensuring the welfare of future generations. It should minimize poverty, save the ecosystems, increase the value of a currency and reduce inflation.

Some Islamic nations, mostly in the Middle East are naturally gifted with considerable crude oil resources, so we can take oil industry, as an example, to define Islamic nations’ share of natural resources; how they are limited to it and how it pushes them toward losing their opportunities of investing in other resources.
Such nations are suffering from lingering problems both economically and socially, though they are rich in natural resources and can spend as much as they extract the crude oil.The growth of GDP is necessary for sustainable development but it is not necessarily interpreted as the development itself.
The oil-oriented economy is different from the service-oriented one. The first one experiences higher risks while the latter carries on healthier. That is why oil production cannot compete with some international leading car manufacturers. Tourism is another good example of such potentials to create job opportunities, where private sector can play a major role in this area. So far, just a few Muslim countries have been active in this regard.

Society
If the growth process continues, in the long term we will see the development in many aspects of social life. In "unsustainable situations", the nature's resources are used up faster than it can be replenished. Therefore, it requires that people only use nature's resources in a way that be replaced naturally. Theoretically, it is impossible at the present speed of destruction. The long-term result would be the disappearing local environments that are no longer able to sustain human populations to any degree. Such degradation on a global scale could imply destruction for civilization.
New-tech communication
Both society and economy play parallel roles in the healthy growth and development of the country. Is there any need for persuading the nation to save the world? Who can take this heavy role? The answer is mass communication systems.
Let us look at the history of destruction and construction in the world. Invention of radio, before the Second World War, and television after that horrible period of history, influenced the world more than any other agents of communication did. The newly born media had the power to cultivate decisions of the owners. Nazism, for instance, exploited the communication instruments of 1930s to declare war against humanity. The emergence of green NGOs and other humanitarian communities, mostly on the cyber space, has gathered a huge power from around the world in favor of peace and human rights.

The mysterious media really frames the audiences' understanding of the place they live in. One can use the media for the sake of peace and prosperity of all the humanity or vise versa.
Muslim nations share the same Islamic rules and teachings about the economy. Media can work on this aspect and help the Islamic governments mobilize the nation to try for unity and prosperity of the entire Muslim nation in a greater scale.
The media can help through informing, agenda setting, priming and framing those visions of the Islamic governments for Muslim NGOs and communities.

Conclusion
Continuous economic growth is necessary to create sustainable development. If we reach this point, we would find the way to make dreams of social development come true.
Participating media educates a participating nation with democracy. Doing well in just one aspect of growth and leaving the rest untouched will not end in development; it just makes holes in the body of the economy. We should consider both growth and social development at the same time with the same pace. If governments pay no attention to welfare, education, health and happiness of their people and just concentrate on the growth, they will lose the human resources to carry out their plans.
We live in the age of information, and we are here to win or lose the opportunities. Those who invest in new-tech communications would control the market and conduct the business, but those who do not would get to anywhere.
If Muslim nations continue on a knowledge-based growth, attracting foreign investment, they can help their dreams come true. It also depends on a variety of factors, namely social, economic and political stability.
Finally, it is with the combination of all the three elements of society, economy and mass media that a prosperous and participative Muslim nation can live happily and save the natural resources for the next generation on the green planet earth.#

how to produce a phenomenon

According to real, exact knowledge, one force, or two forces, can never produce a phenomenon. The presence of a third force is necessary, for it is only with the help of a third force that the first two can produce what may be called a phenomenon, no matter in what sphere.

Gurdjieff (1873-1949)
Russian Adept, Teacher and Writer

The hasty holy snow

The hasty holy snow

Winter is here
Snow is falling
It is cold here
Love is calling

Christmas is blessed and saintly
My heart feels it wholly
It is as white as hasty
As I tread my way lonely