Support govt on insecurity or leave to regret it

  I am writing to protest against an opinion article that appeared Thursday on WAJIR TIMES that was headlined " Somali and Muslim Community will never forgive Duale if Security bill is passed". The piece was penned by Mohamed Hillow who argued, extensively, that the bill was crafted to target the Somalis in the country. Brainwashing has ended a longtime ago.  We now know what is good for us and what is not. To those politicising the security (amendment) Act 2014 by giving out lame excuses that the law targets Somali and Muslims is not a well placed argument. If the government sees it appropriate approach to combat
insecurity in the country, then it’s compelled to do all at its discretion to secure the nation. The Media must be controlled, sermons and utterance of churches and mosques must be void of hate and radicalisation, ID cards must be screened and process of issuance must be revised. Border patrol and screening should be well fixed.
I would also recommend the government to review the remuneration of our security personnel to motivate them to bring the worsening situation back to normalcy. Where are we heading to when we are not ready to cooperate with the government? How I wish I was part of the opposition movement in Kenya. Instead of bickering about every other move by the government to arrest the security situation I would have laid down structures to curb the insecurity in the country. Calling for mass protest will never change anything. If anything, why are we not seeing proposed security measures from CORD? Why are they not contributing ideas to the insecurity menace in the country?
Let us dialogue and desist from not name-calling which will not reduce level of terrorism act in Kenya.                        

                            Quote of Wisdom

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise, many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool but to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

                               The story of the orphaned boy
An 8-year-old boy lost his mum. He was so sad and depressed. A year after his mother’s demise, his father decided to re-marry. One day the boy's father called him and asked: “Is there any differences between your mother and your step-mother?"
The boy answered “yes" His dad then asked what their difference was.
“My mother used to lie to me by my step-mother doesn’t," the boy innocently replied
“What do you mean”? Surprised, the old asked,
The boy then replied, "When I go to my friend’s house, I usually play rough, and my mum would tell me not to play rough, or else she won’t give me food. When my mum sees that I wasn’t at home at the expected time, she would leave whatever she was doing and come to meet me wherever I was. She would then take me home and give me food. But my step-mother always keeps her word. I have been hungry for the past two days.”
Moral story: No one can take the place of a mother. 
                         Education in 21^st century
I have met very few fellows formally educated in English system schools who made significant contribution to their community in Northern Kenya.
Who builds Mosques, orphanages, integrated schools, boreholes and water earthpans in the North? Those who were educated in the Islamic and Arabic schools and those who had little benefit of formal education. Who pays for orphans and finances community projects? Uneducated businesspeople.
What purpose does our education actually serve? It feeds us alright, it provides handouts to our clans alright, it taught us corruption and pilfering alright but it killed both our creativity and our empathy alright. Without those two, one has little vision beyond a suit and a tie.
So we need to dust ourselves and start doing something significant.

Let us support the govt on insecurity or we will live to regret it

  I am writing to protest against an opinion article that appeared Thursday on WAJIR TIMES that was headlined " Somali and Muslim Community will never forgive Duale if Security bill is passed". The piece was penned by Mohamed Hillow who argued, extensively, that the bill was crafted to target the Somalis in the country. Brainwashing has ended a longtime ago.  We now know what is good for us and what is not. To those politicising the security (amendment) Act 2014 by giving out lame excuses that the law targets Somali and Muslims is not a well placed argument. If the government sees it appropriate approach to combat
insecurity in the country, then it’s compelled to do all at its discretion to secure the nation. The Media must be controlled, sermons and utterance of churches and mosques must be void of hate and radicalisation, ID cards must be screened and process of issuance must be revised. Border patrol and screening should be well fixed.
I would also recommend the government to review the remuneration of our security personnel to motivate them to bring the worsening situation back to normalcy. Where are we heading to when we are not ready to cooperate with the government? How I wish I was part of the opposition movement in Kenya. Instead of bickering about every other move by the government to arrest the security situation I would have laid down structures to curb the insecurity in the country. Calling for mass protest will never change anything. If anything, why are we not seeing proposed security measures from CORD? Why are they not contributing ideas to the insecurity menace in the country?
Let us dialogue and desist from not name-calling which will not reduce level of terrorism act in Kenya.                        

                            Quote of Wisdom

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise, many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool but to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

                               The story of the orphaned boy
An 8-year-old boy lost his mum. He was so sad and depressed. A year after his mother’s demise, his father decided to re-marry. One day the boy's father called him and asked: “Is there any differences between your mother and your step-mother?"
The boy answered “yes" His dad then asked what their difference was.
“My mother used to lie to me by my step-mother doesn’t," the boy innocently replied
“What do you mean”? Surprised, the old asked,
The boy then replied, "When I go to my friend’s house, I usually play rough, and my mum would tell me not to play rough, or else she won’t give me food. When my mum sees that I wasn’t at home at the expected time, she would leave whatever she was doing and come to meet me wherever I was. She would then take me home and give me food. But my step-mother always keeps her word. I have been hungry for the past two days.”
Moral story: No one can take the place of a mother. 
                         Education in 21^st century
I have met very few fellows formally educated in English system schools who made significant contribution to their community in Northern Kenya.
Who builds Mosques, orphanages, integrated schools, boreholes and water earthpans in the North? Those who were educated in the Islamic and Arabic schools and those who had little benefit of formal education. Who pays for orphans and finances community projects? Uneducated businesspeople.
What purpose does our education actually serve? It feeds us alright, it provides handouts to our clans alright, it taught us corruption and pilfering alright but it killed both our creativity and our empathy alright. Without those two, one has little vision beyond a suit and a tie.
So we need to dust ourselves and start doing something significant.

You left North, then what’s it?

                          You left north, then what’s it?
You left the North to get education, and then you refused to return. For whom were you seeking that education, for yourself or for society?
When you are asked why you are stuck in Nairobi for decades, you claim there are no quality social amenities in the North, no good hospitals, no good schools, no good roads, no good food and no high street to shop. People are amazed at you: ain't you the doctor who should have established those hospitals, the teacher who should have taught those schools, the engineer who should have built those roads, the entrepreneur who should have established those high street shops?
The society then decides to entice you with a job, at the local County Government so that you can use the knowledge you gained to bring development. Then you get clever; you earn the salary, the bonus and the perks and repatriate them to Nairobi. You steal the resources entrusted with you and build a palatial home far away from the locals prying eyes. You are an absentee from your job, your office is dysfunctional and you offer no services for which you are employed.
Your education has become a burden to the society. You didn't get a wholesome education, you just learned craftiness.
Remember, you were sent to study and acquire knowledge. Knowledge and skills are not private property, they are not to be hoarded and refrigerated. You need to use that knowledge to empower society and certainly not to steal from them, no to cause resource attrition and not to become a burden to them.
Ponder about this.
                          Wajir under virtual lockdown
There are more robberies with violence, mugging and murders in Nairobi, Nakuru and Nyeri than Wajir. Yet Wajir is under virtual lockdown, no movement after 7pm. How do you explain that to me?
Yes, we appreciate the presence of Police on the streets but we do not think closing down the town is a security measure. It is restrictive and creates unnecessary fear.
The people of Wajir should get back their streets from the hoodlums causing violence in the town. The government must not succumb to fear of a few criminals and impose a curfew on the town. Let the business be as usual as possible.
                             Let’s not blame Shabab for everything

There is a tragic trend emerging, where every criminal activities are linked to al-Shabaab militia even before a through investigations are carried out.

Gun, Somalia and hope

          
Every gun that is made, every warship that is launched, every attack on Mogadishu, and every rocket that is fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger but are not fed, those who are cold but are not clothed, those whose limbs are amputated by astray rocket but are not treated.
Those in arms are not wasting money alone, they are also wasting the natural resources of their motherland, the blood of their people, the genius of their future generation and the hopes of their children.

The current lose, pain and suffering of Somalia goes beyond the wildest of any humanly imagination, yet days pass as if nothing is happening.
We speak one language, we have one religion yet we opted for Qabiil that divided us so much.
We could end our differences with diplomacy but we resort to force, knowing that force is such a poor solution to any problem and thus its only employed by small children

in peace the sons bury their fathers .in war, the fathers bury their sons.---in Somalia, do we bury our fathers, or they bury us?.PLEASE DO NOT ANSWER ME.
                          The one Ayah that changed my life
One Ayah Changed My LifeAl-Fudayl ibn ‘Iyaad was famous for his piety and worship, but he was not always a practising Muslim. In his early years, Al-Fudayl was an infamous highway robber; he would prowl in the night for victims on the road from Abu Ward to Sarakhas. Between these two cities was a small village in which lived a girl that Al-Fudayl was in love with. One night, out of desperation to be with her, Al-Fudayl climbed the wall of her home. As he was climbing over it, he heard a voice recite:"Has the time not come for those who have believed that their hearts should become humbly submissive at the remembrance of Allah..." Surah Al-Ḥadeed 57, Ayah 16.
At that moment, Al-Fudayl answered, "O my Lord, the time has indeed come." He returned from where he came and sought refuge near a travelling party on the main road. They were busy engaging in a serious discussion. Al-Fudayl heard one of them say, "Let us continue our journey now." Another answered, "No, not until the morning, for Al-Fudayl is lurking on the road somewhere out there, just waiting to rob us."
Having heard the entire conversation, Al-Fudayl thought to himself,
"I go around in the night to sin, while a group of Muslims remain here because they fear me. Indeed I feel that Allah has brought me here to them only so that I can reform my character. O Allah, I indeed repent to you!"
The Moral of the story
What we can learn from this story is that no matter how sinful a person is, their is always a chance that they may turn back to Allah in repentance. Since we do not know peoples futures we should hope for their guidance. Sometimes the worst of people can become the best of people as what happened with many of the companions of the Prophet Muhammad (May the Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him). Jumaa Kareem to all Muslims.

One thing you should know as we head to 2015!

A bus full of passengers was traveling while suddenly the weather changed and there was a huge downpour and lightening all around.
They could see that the lightening would appear to come towards the bus and then go elsewhere.
After 2 or 3 horrible instances of being saved from lightening, the driver stopped the bus about fifty feet away from a tree and said -

"We have somebody in the bus whose death is a certainty today."
Because of that person everybody else will also get killed today.
Now listen carefully what I am saying ...
I want each person to come out of bus one by one and touch the tree trunk and come back.
Whom so ever death is certain will get caught up by the lightening and will die & everybody else will be saved".
They had to force the 1st person to go and touch the tree and come back.
He reluctantly got down from the bus and went and touched the tree.
His heart leaped with joy when nothing happened and he was still alive.
This continued for rest of the passengers who were all relieved when they touched the tree and nothing happened.
When the last passenger's turn came, everybody looked at him with accusing eyes.
That passenger was very afraid and reluctant since he was the only one left.
Everybody forced him to get down and go and touch the tree.
With a 100% fear of death in mind, the last passenger walked to the tree and touched it.
There was a huge sound of thunder and the lightening came down and hit the bus - yes the lightening hit the bus, and killed each and every passenger inside the bus.
It was because of the presence of this last passenger that,earlier,the entire bus was safe and the lightening could not strike the bus.
LIFE LEARNING from this...
At times, we try to take credit for our present achievements, but this could also be because of a person right next to us.
Look around you - Probably someone is around you, in the form of Your Parents, Your Spouse,
Your Children, Your Siblings, Your friends, etc, who are saving you from harm!
Think About it as you start 2015!
                Let us disown clanism.
Clan disobedience, as I put it to the audience, was not the problem, despite the warnings of some that it threatened social stability, that it led to anarchy. The greatest danger, I argued, was and is clan obedience, the submission of individual conscience to clan authority. Such obedience led to the horrors we saw in Northern Kenya, and it led to the public's acceptance of war whenever the so-called clan Elders decided on it...
Therefore, to begin the process of change, to stop a war, to establish justice, it may be necessary to break the law, to commit acts of Clan disobedience, disown your clan

The story of the doctor, the kind woman and the glass of milk

One day, a poor boy who was selling goods from door to door to pay his way through school, found he had only one thin dime left, and he was hungry.

He decided he would ask for a meal at the next house. However, he losthis nerve when a lovely young woman opened the door.

Instead of a meal he asked for a drink of water. She thought he looked hungry so brought him a large glass of milk. He drank it so slowly,and then asked, "How much do I owe you?"

"You don't owe me anything," she replied. "Mother has taught us never to accept pay for a kindness."

He said ... "Then I thank you from the bottom of my heart."

As Howard Kelly left that house, he not only felt stronger physically,but his faith in God and man was strong also. He had been ready to give up and quit..

Many year's later that same young woman became critically ill. The localdoctors were baffled. They finally sent her to the big city, where they called in specialists to study her rare disease.

Dr. Howard Kelly was called in for the consultation. When he heard the name of the town she came from, a strange light filled his eyes.

Immediately he rose and went down the hall of the hospital to her room.

Dressed in his doctor's gown he went in to see her. He recognized herat once.

He went back to the consultation room determined to do his best to saveher life. From that day he gave special attention to her case.

After a long struggle, the battle was won.

Dr. Kelly requested the business office to pass the final bill to himfor approval. He looked at it, then wrote something on the edge and thebill was sent to her room. She feared to open it, for she was sure it would take the rest of her life to pay for it all. Finally she looked,and something caught her attention on the side of the bill. She readthese words .. "Paid in full with one glass of milk"

(Signed) Dr. Howard Kelly.

Tears of joy flooded her eyes as her happy heart prayed: "Thank You God,that Your love has spread broad through human hearts and hands."

There's a saying which goes something like this: Bread cast on the waterscomes back to you. The good deed you do today may benefit you or someone you love at the least expected time. If you never see the deed again at least you will have made the world a better place - And, after all, isn'tthat what life is all about?!

Can Muslims wish Christians Merry Christmas

To wish the non-Muslims with Merry Christmas or any of their religious festivals is haraam (forbidden), by consensus of the
ulama (ijma’), as Ibn al-Qayyim, may God have mercy on him, said:
{Congratulating the kuffaar on the rituals that belong only to them is haraam by consensus, as is congratulating them on
their festivals and fasts by saying “A happy festival to you” or “May you enjoy your festival”, and so on. If the one who says
this has been saved from kufr, it is still forbidden. It is like congratulating someone for prostrating to the cross, or even
worse than that. It is as great a sin as congratulating someone for drinking wine, or murdering someone, or having illicit
sexual relations, and so on.}
Many of those who have no respect for their religion fall into this error; they do not realize the offensiveness of their actions.
Whoever congratulates a person for his disobedience or bid’ah or kufr exposes himself to the wrath and anger of God. If they
greet us on the occasion of their festivals, we should not respond, because these are not our festivals, and because they are
not festivals which are acceptable to God. These festivals are innovations in their religions, and even those which may have
been prescribed formerly have been abrogated by the religion of Islam, with which God sent Muhammad (pbuh) to the whole
of mankind.
Also, the sayings of the Prophet (pbuh) shows that we should not imitate non-Muslims:
{Whoever imitates a nation is one of them.} [Sunan Abu Dawood: Hadith-3512]
{The final hour will not come until my followers copy the deeds of the previous nations and follow them very closely, span by
span, and cubit by cubit.} [Sahih Al Bukhari]