Is the World Flat? Is the time become fast day by day? Doesn’t it suit with what Ar Rasul(pbuh) said regarding time that it moves fast as the Armageddon comes? Doesn’t he said that those who are stick to the Koran and Sunna among the lucky ones? I will explain those above by relating them to globalization, how can it help us (Muslim) to expand our way of life( read Arabic Deen) to non-Muslim..What and how is our chances to get into Heaven(read Arabic Jannah, read Malay Syurga)
If you still can remember among the utmost reason Colonialists came to the East for the sake of 3G (Gospel, Gold and Glory) and actually it is just a continuation of Crusade. In relation to that, I would like you to read an excerpt from the book I am reading now; “The World Is Flat” by Thomas L. Friedman on the first chapter “While I was Sleeping.(pg3)It is an excerpt from the journal of Christopher Columbus on his voyage on 1942:
“Your Highness, as Catholic Christians, and princess who love and promote the holy Christian faith, and are enemies of the doctrine of Mahomet, and of all idolatry and heresy, determined to send me, Christopher Columbus to the above mentioned countries of India, to seethe said princes , people and territories and to learn their disposition and the proper method of converting them to our holy faith and furthermore directed that I should not proceed by land to the East as is customary but by a Westerly route in which direction we have hitherto no certain evidence that anyone has gone.”
At the end of his journey, he found out and he is convinced that the world is in fact round but in our case today, it is still round but the force of globalization makes it flat, even flatter than before. What do I mean by putting this notion? I don’t want to give you a straight to the point answer but rather I want you my readers to reflect on this excerpt:
“So this is or conference room ,probably the largest screen in Asia-this is forty digital screen(put together),.. “…. Infosys, he said can hold a virtual meeting of the key players from its entire global supply chain for any project at any time on that super sized screen. So their American designers could be on the screen speaking with their Indian software writers and their Asian manufacturers all at once. “We could be sitting here, somebody from New York, London, Boston, San Francisco, all live. And maybe the implementation is in Singapore, so the Singapore person could also be live here. That globalization…”
So globalization is a very powerful tool for a muslim(notice that I use A MUSLIM here because it is everybody responsibilities) to outsourcing and inviting and cultivating the Universal Truth, in fact it does not belong to any particular groups or individual, everybody can be a part of it. My question is what is our efforts to implement the Truth to the whole universe, to bring THE MESSAGE to the world population?
I quote more, (pg 5, para.1):
“I actually found India and thought many of the people I met there Americans. Some had actually taken American names and others were doing great imitations of American accents at call centers and American business techniques at software labs.”
This is my dream:
I actually found India and thought many of the people I met there Muslims. Some had actually taken Muslim ethics( read Arabic Akhlaq) and other were living themselves based on Muhammad pbuh qualities and they promote Islam based on clear and good understanding of Sahabah.(read English companions)
And Hail to Malaysian Politicians that have been using blogging as a powerful tool helping the Malaysians and Ummah.
For those who just started from Umno and the Gang, I ain’t interested to give you credits because we are using “release 3.0’, you are outdated hehehe..
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August 17th, 2008 at 5:30 am
Assalamualaikum.
I dont quite understand.. I mean what is your motive anyway??? I am a muslim n what is flat world has got to do with being a muslim? n with all the armagedon thing? Dont get me wrong, im just interested in reading articles about islam. But this one is quite confusing n seems like there’s no motive.
August 17th, 2008 at 10:29 am
Alaykumussalam..
Thanks for coming by and read.
The book is written by Thomas Friedman. One of the gists inside tells how the world is becoming flat by the advancement of technology especially internet. Americans fully use this opportunity to spread false ideology ( capitalism, hedonism and etc) by using this technologies(internet, media(films,progandas, false news). Anyway have u read the book? I suggest you to read it because Thomas Friedman step by step explained how the world becomes ‘fully’ flat in the book.
What is has to do with us as Muslims? A lot, in fact, we can use technologies to spread the message of Islam. When I said the message of Islam, it is wide, it is not ONLY related to solat, fasting. It means Islam as a perfect and complete deen( way of life: economics, education, warfare)I am talking about we Muslims become far better than Christopher Columbus( read again his intention when he wanted to find a new world from the excerpt above) as what the companions of Rasulullah pbuh did to spread the message of Islam. They used horses to travel from Makkah to Palestine that would take months, we NOW use internet or youtube or blogging to spread dakwah.
Intentionally I did mention the armageddon here to stress my point of how true Rasullullah pbuh was. He said as the time (Armageddon) comes, time will become faster, there will be pseudo-Christs( Dajjal) and the obvious thing that even happening now is how real Muslims who are really hold tightly to deen( Islam) are being mocked. Among these Muslims are the group of mujahideen. They simply being called terrorists but in fact who are the real terrorists? The one that dropped Atomic Bomb at Hiroshima are not real terrorists? The one that bomb and kill and destroy Iraq are not terrorists? The one that chase out Palestinians from their homes and completed the massacres of Deir Yassin is not terrorists?
ok relating to the Armageddon again, as Rasulullah said, the time will be more fast( please read the sign of Qiyamah). Dont you think we Muslim has to grab( the time that become fast day by day) and use this technology and opportunity at least to help telling the truth( about them) and protecting the honor of Jihad, or mujahidin or at least our own children from receiving hedonism, porns from technology which can be found anywhere in the media?
I believe you miss this point in my article:
“So globalization is a very powerful tool for a muslim(notice that I use A MUSLIM here because it is everybody responsibilities) to outsourcing and inviting and cultivating the Universal Truth, in fact it does not belong to any particular groups or individual, everybody can be a part of it. My question is what is our efforts to implement the Truth to the whole universe, to bring THE MESSAGE to the world population?”
Sorry if I sound harsh, I dont mean too. Anyway thanks for reading and commenting. I appreciate it.
Assalamualaikum