Now our so called heroes believed the fact from Arabs and Koran that; none believers should be killed or tortured till they submit to Islam. (TORTURING OR KILLING) aren’t anything wrong with that if God and the religion is peaceful and why am i reading such from other faiths? We despised Yahya for torturing, maiming and killing our people yet if you read the Koran, it condones those acts. Again, never befriend none believer until they submit to Islam? Is that phrase uniting God’s creation? Why will God tell them to torture or kill and again, is the same God who said thy shall not kill? If that is the case why does God need to punish the disobedience after death? These misconceptions are the reasons why when we became adults we are always looking for someone to decide for us someone to do things for us or waiting for who will start first because we were never empowered to be right or to stand for ourselves, we learn those when we are adult. This also can be a negative reaction on our adulthood in terms of rebelling against the system that dis-empowered us. People let’s start using our conscious mind not logical one. God Allah or whatever name you call Him, is always here with us and fulfilling our collective needs. These needs will never be materialized/realized without collective efforts and conscious realization clear from egoistic expectations. Trust, faith, and patience are very importance tool in this regard, whatever one trust “wholeheartedly” with patient and faith will sure materialize. For example; if a doctor or marabou give you a medicine for the cure of certain ailment, but you didn’t believe it will, surely it will not period. As well if the doctor is not kind with the patient, whatever he/she gives the patient will not help either. This is how human psychic functions. Wherever/whatever unconditional love and wisdom is applied the universe will always support. Nothing had however, happen in the Gambia out of our consents. We Gambians consciously or unconsciously created them because God will never give us anything we didn’t ask for. Faith, trust, and believe are God’s own entity period. If you distrust anything or process you distrust God because God is the creator of everything and every process and if you build trust around them, God will surely saw you the way to completion. On the other hand, whenever there comes a collective dislikes, God will surely intervene in His own terms as it is now happening to Yahya without even knowing the reasons and logic behind some of his acts.In this trying time, I think what God is teaching us Gambians is to consciously look within ourselves; (the place where God is/resides) as well as from our past in order to know our present such as; what are the advantages/disadvantages from our colonial masters to the second republic? All these were naturally and systematically different entity but similar in their motivations (governing). Now we will have to collective agree on the positive ones needed from each era in order to stabilize the third republic. Such as; (democracy and rule of law, citizen empowerment, economical management infrastructural development just to name but few).To be fearful is to be controlled by so called Satan as well as rejecting and disobeying the divine power. Besides, believing in two powers (the power of Satan and that of God) is abomination to the divine reality. One who is afraid of spreading his/her conscious opinions is a living soul without guidance. Furthermore, we shouldn’t be blamed for misinterpretation of the messages which had not only confused people, but done lots of destructions in this beautiful world and Her people. It was said by Joel that, “All attempts to contact God through the mind or intellect have failed and always will fail. God can be known only through the Soul and the Soul-faculties and the soul and its faculties can only be incorporated through KHALUA in seclusion or meditation and contemplation”. KHALUA is an individual self development method that will take one closer to the divinity. Sadly in our culture, we were not taught to meditate even thus our prophet received the divine teachings from meditation. These fallacies religions cleverly formulated in our minds are not helpful either. Man must be really conscious because it is from consciousness that will benefit this world and hereafter. Besides, why do we have to pay others to perform KHALUA on our behalves? They scared the hell out of people by telling them if they try KHALUA without knowledge or know-how, they can come out mad because various kinds of animals like snake or frog can come growing larger and larger in your secluded space etcetera. In reality, KHALUA or meditation can be performed anywhere even our prophet was doing it in the mountains or any seclude area that suits you (in the forest, the beach side, on the mountains just to be away from distractions to contemplation.DO ONTO OTHERS AS YOU WILL ACCEPT THEM IN RETURN. DO YOUR BEST AND LIVE THEREST TAKING CARE FOR ITSELFOn Tuesday, 29 July 2014, 18:39, Edie Sidibeh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
THE BITTER OPINION SOCIETY LOVE TO IGNORE AND TABOOEDThings are not the way they should be in this world and these problems are getting out of hand. Now let’s ask ourselves:-What are these problems? And where does it start? How can we help this situation? Where will we start?The problem with our smiling coast and Her people Vs our attitudes come from a place termed as divinely tabooed to discuss deeply much more to remedy. So called religions without teaching us the know-how to its faith (in honesty Gambians are very religious but our faith to God as the creator of everything Good or bad is missing). This, I may say was due to the wrong understanding in which it was received and distributed with. Everybody wants to go to heaven but none wants to die is where the faith and knowledge of it is lack. Besides, how can one goes to heaven without dying? The religion came to us with fear mongering in the heart and mind of the people just like the introduction of slavery from both the Arabs and the white man. All these were introduced to our society in a brutal manner, killing and maiming and forcefully taking people to subjugation to Islam and slavery. Some will say that we shouldn’t look unto the Arabs for Islam, but in what language are we praying? Who assembled the Koran Thus the words were said to be come from God to Muhammad (PBH)? In our people’s mind, The Koran was written, edited and bind by God Himself and the angels straight to the hands of Muhammad. Now if we should not look unto the Arabs for the religion, why are we blaming the English, the Germans, and the Portugal etcetera for slavery? Why are we blaming the Nazism for discrimination? We can all be blamed for double standard behaviors hence It is human’s nature to turn blind eye on realities which are not in their favor just like how the American are turning blind eyes to the atrocity of Israel towards Palestinians. Besides Arabs self interest behaviors are well known. Have you ever seen an Arab is worried about so many wars in Islamic Africa countries? But whenever Arabs are killing each other African Muslims will involve in the favor Arabs but fail to realized that it is all God’s punishment. Why can’t the Arabs join together to help Palestinians why did they left Somalia to be destroyed?
We can call on or blamed slavery for the destruction it brought to us but not religions. How many people did Foday Kabba, Mansa Musa etcetera killed maimed for the forceful introduction of Islam in our society? Upon all their ungodly and wicked manners, they became heroes and gradually these forceful subjugation became rooted in our society. For example; No matter how right the child is, his/her parents words must stand thereby, dis-empowering the child and make him/her vulnerable resulting to the total dependency on his/her parents mercy. Yes parents should train their children to become a better adult but with both physical and mental empowerment coupled with love will help because every child came with a message from God but only if the parents will sometimes listen instead they will like to force the child to subdue to their will. In a certain stage of their life, children start asking lots of questions and parents will sometime stop them on their tracks instead of answering the questions. Some parents will tell the child “you talk too much or shut up”. These kinds of behaviors will never empower the child towards been a productive adult. However, children due to their curiosity, can sometimes ask difficult questions that their parents are not ready or have no knowledge about, but does not mean you have to shut them up thinking you are training him/her to become a better adult whiles what you are doing is dis-empowering.DO ONTO OTHERS AS YOU WILL ACCEPT THEM IN RETURN. DO YOUR BEST AND LIVE THEREST TAKING CARE FOR ITSELF
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