Ahmadinejad has introduced new era for Iran by nominating three women for top ministerial positions, his choice of three females for cabinet posts can be interpreted either as a deceitful act to compensate for post election events or as a sign of government attention to the large portion of Iranian population , women! These three potential female ministers can be a great move in respect to woman's right in Iran,
in an instant comparison between Khatami (the reformist president) who limited himself to give one sub ministerial post for a woman, Ahmadinejad's decision to choose three female ministers is Bold and beautiful decision , Although Ahmadinejad will have to face with parliament to win over his historic decision of nomination females for ministerial position.
The tree potential ministers are:
1- fatemeh Ajorloo, minister of social welfare
2- Marziyeh wahid dastjerdi , minister of health and medical education
3- Susan keshavarz, minister of Education
fateme Ajorloo will have the opportunity to support organization which work on women's issue , Dastjerdi can address the women's health top preferences which needs female friendly faces, and keshavarz who holds PHD in philosophy of education is one of the young faces who is unknown to most Iranians including me!
in my opinion even if Ahmadinejad's female nominees cant get the parliament approval , Ahmadinejad's choice of nominating three women ministers will be ranked as the first mature act at elevating formal position of women in the government within Iran's history where the reformists failed at doing so, so here Ahmadi nejad proved that he is capable of reforms , in addition Ahmadinejad defeated his opponents by such a deft reaction to clear his anti reform image portrayed by his opponents.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Friday, August 14, 2009
crisis and opportunity
learning from the past historical moments helps us to turn crisis into an opportunity, to secure our society socially politically and economically from domestic to international levels.
Iran is now undergoing post election events , Although Iran's post election atmosphere seems to be cool but there are still parties inside the country are unrest influenced by western intruders trying to stir the situation to save their disruptive reputation.
There are significant transition points in Iran post revolution era. the first decade we tried to fix socio-political instability crisis and on the other hand dealing with Iran-Iraq war burden on Iranians' shoulders. This period started from 1979 and ended in 1989 with the death of Ayatullah khomeini,
After 1989Iran entered into the second period with loads of economical crisis, so new government came to the power with a new slogan "restructure of economy" but ignoring developing other social needs of new generation, I personally think that even general economic liberalization failed to some extent,
Here, I am not trying to underestimate their effort of reconstitution of Iran's economic pillars. Iranians are all well aware of problems like tough international sanctions , wars and etc, hence such slight developments could be considered as economic growth, Although their effort was limited and didn't have consistency , privatization process was revolving around the small circle of some politicians and their families only.
from 1997 people felt they needed to some new faces with new beautiful slogans such as reform promises, what we gained was nothing actually , reformist government ignored the economic development instead they involved in political arguments, in my eyes it was another failure of elites.
reviewing the said 3 phases we can see that Iran were mostly under lefties and some semi conservative claiming as progressives tottering to the lefties satisfying their self interests, during the first decade the sever antagonism towards capitalism and privatization caused reduction in productivity and weakening the economy, in the next periods governments failed at acting upon their promises such as reduction of subsidiaries and privatization of nationalized enterprises etc and etc ......
In 2005 , Iranians felt for a real reform something different than reformists and voted for Ahmadinejad , a new face with new promises, Iranians saw him as a tough critic of past governments how ever politicians have never been really trust worthy,but Iranians preferred t o revive their hopes for brighter future with him .He was able to earn Iranian mobs respect , some might reject the idea but we can not ignore the truth,
and now again they re-elected him waiting for the justice he has promised them to receive, right now if we want the system to survive , if we want to be in the right track of economic changes, if we want to save our culture, if we want to have political reforms , we need to stick to history lessons ,
the victory is in turning crisis into the opportunity
Iran is now undergoing post election events , Although Iran's post election atmosphere seems to be cool but there are still parties inside the country are unrest influenced by western intruders trying to stir the situation to save their disruptive reputation.
There are significant transition points in Iran post revolution era. the first decade we tried to fix socio-political instability crisis and on the other hand dealing with Iran-Iraq war burden on Iranians' shoulders. This period started from 1979 and ended in 1989 with the death of Ayatullah khomeini,
After 1989Iran entered into the second period with loads of economical crisis, so new government came to the power with a new slogan "restructure of economy" but ignoring developing other social needs of new generation, I personally think that even general economic liberalization failed to some extent,
Here, I am not trying to underestimate their effort of reconstitution of Iran's economic pillars. Iranians are all well aware of problems like tough international sanctions , wars and etc, hence such slight developments could be considered as economic growth, Although their effort was limited and didn't have consistency , privatization process was revolving around the small circle of some politicians and their families only.
from 1997 people felt they needed to some new faces with new beautiful slogans such as reform promises, what we gained was nothing actually , reformist government ignored the economic development instead they involved in political arguments, in my eyes it was another failure of elites.
reviewing the said 3 phases we can see that Iran were mostly under lefties and some semi conservative claiming as progressives tottering to the lefties satisfying their self interests, during the first decade the sever antagonism towards capitalism and privatization caused reduction in productivity and weakening the economy, in the next periods governments failed at acting upon their promises such as reduction of subsidiaries and privatization of nationalized enterprises etc and etc ......
In 2005 , Iranians felt for a real reform something different than reformists and voted for Ahmadinejad , a new face with new promises, Iranians saw him as a tough critic of past governments how ever politicians have never been really trust worthy,but Iranians preferred t o revive their hopes for brighter future with him .He was able to earn Iranian mobs respect , some might reject the idea but we can not ignore the truth,
and now again they re-elected him waiting for the justice he has promised them to receive, right now if we want the system to survive , if we want to be in the right track of economic changes, if we want to save our culture, if we want to have political reforms , we need to stick to history lessons ,
the victory is in turning crisis into the opportunity
Friday, August 7, 2009
Imamat 2
" And those who disbelieve say: why has not a sign been sent down upon from his lord? you are only a warner and (there is ) a guide for every one. "
Holy quran 13:7
This verse points that the earth has never been free from a guide and it will never be, there should be a Warner and the holy prophet is a Warner for the people in all times and the imam (guide) in his progeny is also for people in every age, prophet Muhammad PBUH said :
" I am the Warner and Ali is the guide, O Ali, through you those who are guided will receive guidance, "Imam Sadiq (PBUH) narrated a saying from Imam Sajaad (PBUH) that as of the creation of man kind by Allah, the earth has never been free from the guide, the Guidance has been sometimes explicit and the other times implicit, and until the resurrection , the earth won't be without righteous Guide(Imam), and Allah wont be worshiped without the Guide (Imam ),
from Fakhr razi and Syouti tafseer, narrated by Ibn Abbas
therefore there are 3 different interpretations of this verse,
1- The holy prophet is a warner and a guide for every nation.
2- the holy prophet is a warner and every nation had a guide
3- the holy prophet is a Warner and every nation has a guide.
The last interpretation must be accepted according Aqa Mahdi Pouya and Almizan Tafseer by Alama Taba'taba'ee
Monday, August 3, 2009
Imamat 1
"When his lord tried Ibrahim with certain words he fulfilled them .He said: surely I will make you an Imam of men. Ibrahim said: and of my offspring? My covenant does not include the unjust, said He."Ibrahim (PBUH) was a prophet , despite of his state as Khalilullah he was tested and tried by Allah (SWT), it would be meaningless if one thinks that Ibrahim PBUH with such high moral and ethics was tested in very elementary matters of his life for the sake of test only such as many other human beings,why then he was tested?! what was the nature of his test? Ibrahim PBUH 's trial was a test to show his steadfastness of his faith in Allah. Allah tried him then made covenant with him , afterward He became Imam :
2:124 Holy Quran
" Surely I will make you an Imam of men"this verse guides us to understand Risalat and Imamat better, it indicates that Imamat holds definitely high order which is bestowed by Allah to one who proves himself suitable and worthy after going through a series of tests.
No one however vitreous or godly he might be could never claim the divine position of imamat on his own.
Ibrahim became an Imam for mankind yet he had no right to pass it to his descendants. He requested Allah let children inherit the position , Allah told him : " My covenant does not include the zalim(Unjust), unjust according to quran is the one who commits shirk and worships other than Allah . Allah clearly says that Imamat will never be given to those who have sinned, only infallible one can be an Imam.
My covenant does not include the unjust"
Among the companions of the prophet ,there was no one who has never worshiped idols , except Ali ibn Abi Talib , the prophet cousin, hence the prophet PBUH hand over the imamt covenant to Ali ibn Abi taleb under the command of Allah, and after Ali (as) to the eleven imams in the progeny of Muhammad(PBUH) and Ali (as). Imam must be free from any kind of sins , small or great , hidden or open.
Through the last messenger of Allah the perfect and completed religion of Allah was conveyed to the people, Although the legislation act was ended with the mission of the prophet Muhammad PBUH , but Allah never left this umma alone without genuine leaders.
Ibrahim became imam for mankind , he was not apolitical leader or governing ruler yet people were appointed to obey him in every single matter, spiritual or earthly , nonetheless an Imam doesn't need to be a political face or a temporal power, people have been ordered to obey the imam of their age .
prophet Muhammad PBUH said:
whoever dies not knowing imam of his age , he dies in ignorance
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
whither then you will go?
In an advice by Imam Ali to Malik Ashtar, he wants him to not isolate himself as a ruler from the people , because a ruler 's seclusion from his own people results a lack of knowledge of his society's affairs. Unfortunately there are a few evildoers amongst different political parties and even in revolutionary guards trying to separate Iranians from their government by spreading mischief and injustice, in fact there are a few unanswered questions which must be replied by some of the officials.
Couldn't anti protest cops perform better and manage the situation wisely? Why some of the so called plainclothes intrude upon anti protest force's affair making it difficult for us to get to know the foreigner's hands in the riot?
we all know that western countries and Israel have been trying different plots against Iran trying to separate Iranians from the system , My question is why then we should provide them the opportunity to poison the atmosphere of Iran more and more by our own false deeds!?
I myself feel very proud of Islamic republic of Iran but I will never forgive any of the Islamic republic of Iran's rulers if they damage Islam, Islamic ethics.
When we establish our system based on Islam , we should let the pure Muhammadi Islam be reflected in our system, nothing more nothing less!
In Islam the relationship between man and god leads us to the principals which direct Muslims to develop and sustain interrelations between human beings.
Islam not only establishes peace, unity and Harmony between man and man but also co-ordinates mankind affairs. Islam puts universal interest above the individual interests:
Quran invites us to establish an institution which not only would call people to Allah but guide mankind towards the system which is approved by the humans conscience.
prerequisite of such perfect institution is forbidding evil and doing good, it is clear that one can become Muslim in tongue but a true Muslim should submit to Allah completely and shall not do anything outside the true path revealed through Quran. even the slightest deviation from his path and making amendments in the guidance provided by Allah and His prophet Muhammad PBUH and Ahlul bayt salamullah Alahum is as going back to the days of ignorance and falling into the abyss. There is a great punishment for such followers and scholars on the day of judgment.
So we should practice Quran in our daily life , lets our affairs be evaluated by quran and the prophet PBUH sunnah .
while we know the last presidency election with such turnout can be considered one of the peculiar pages of Iran's history , some of the traitors in the name of Muslims are showing their ugly sides, We Iranians are aware of Zionist threats and our colourful sworn enemies striving their best to destabilize Iran, nevertheless we stand against them bravely but we can't tolerate to see some local wrong doers damaging our Islamic morals by beating and killing a few people in jails . It is time for our supreme court to take action against those who have been ill-mannered with some of the protesters .as per Islamic sharia law they should treat them humanly with kindness to preserve their dignity .
even after a few speeches of Ayatollah Khamenei (the supreme leader) about islamic brotherhood advising the political circles in the country to be careful of their remarks and avoid rifts and asking the whole system to stay integrated and to correct their behavior,some of the rulers or so called members of the political elites perform beyond the law ignoring his advices.
I don;t know if i can call it fortunate or unfortunate event that after being idle for more than 30 days the supreme judge has commanded a group of his men to investigate about the recent violation of Islamic constitution and jurisdiction clauses in prisons.
Although our supreme leader's job is not really interfering the affairs of the three existing powers(legislator power:parliament, president of Iran and the judiciary system which are completely acting independent from each others according to our constitutional law ) except supervising them, recently we see that in every single matter Our leader is under pressure to appear and perform on behalf of the powers because there is a feeling that they haven't done their duty properly !
however at such difficult time the need for such a person and leader has been felt strongly, I just pray for him to be able to act independently and powerfully without being any one else's influence.
As much as I felt proud of him when he didn't surrender himself to an illogical request to dump the election which was flawless I would also like him to stand against any unfair discriminatory act against the imprisoned protesters and their families , and to put an end to the current military kind state.
Couldn't anti protest cops perform better and manage the situation wisely? Why some of the so called plainclothes intrude upon anti protest force's affair making it difficult for us to get to know the foreigner's hands in the riot?
we all know that western countries and Israel have been trying different plots against Iran trying to separate Iranians from the system , My question is why then we should provide them the opportunity to poison the atmosphere of Iran more and more by our own false deeds!?
I myself feel very proud of Islamic republic of Iran but I will never forgive any of the Islamic republic of Iran's rulers if they damage Islam, Islamic ethics.
When we establish our system based on Islam , we should let the pure Muhammadi Islam be reflected in our system, nothing more nothing less!
In Islam the relationship between man and god leads us to the principals which direct Muslims to develop and sustain interrelations between human beings.
"And hold by the covenant of Allah altogether and be not disunited, and remember the favor of Allah on you when you were enemies, then He united your hearts so by His favor you became brethren; and you were on the brink of a pit of fire, then He saved you from it, thus does Allah make clear to you His communications that you may follow the right way. "
Alee imran:103
Islam not only establishes peace, unity and Harmony between man and man but also co-ordinates mankind affairs. Islam puts universal interest above the individual interests:
" O you who believe! be upright for Allah, bearers of witness with justice, and let not hatred of a people incite you not to act equitably; act equitably ,that is nearer to piety and be careful of (your duty to) Allah ; Surely Allah is Aware of what you do. "
al maaida:8
Quran invites us to establish an institution which not only would call people to Allah but guide mankind towards the system which is approved by the humans conscience.
prerequisite of such perfect institution is forbidding evil and doing good, it is clear that one can become Muslim in tongue but a true Muslim should submit to Allah completely and shall not do anything outside the true path revealed through Quran. even the slightest deviation from his path and making amendments in the guidance provided by Allah and His prophet Muhammad PBUH and Ahlul bayt salamullah Alahum is as going back to the days of ignorance and falling into the abyss. There is a great punishment for such followers and scholars on the day of judgment.
So we should practice Quran in our daily life , lets our affairs be evaluated by quran and the prophet PBUH sunnah .
while we know the last presidency election with such turnout can be considered one of the peculiar pages of Iran's history , some of the traitors in the name of Muslims are showing their ugly sides, We Iranians are aware of Zionist threats and our colourful sworn enemies striving their best to destabilize Iran, nevertheless we stand against them bravely but we can't tolerate to see some local wrong doers damaging our Islamic morals by beating and killing a few people in jails . It is time for our supreme court to take action against those who have been ill-mannered with some of the protesters .as per Islamic sharia law they should treat them humanly with kindness to preserve their dignity .
even after a few speeches of Ayatollah Khamenei (the supreme leader) about islamic brotherhood advising the political circles in the country to be careful of their remarks and avoid rifts and asking the whole system to stay integrated and to correct their behavior,some of the rulers or so called members of the political elites perform beyond the law ignoring his advices.
I don;t know if i can call it fortunate or unfortunate event that after being idle for more than 30 days the supreme judge has commanded a group of his men to investigate about the recent violation of Islamic constitution and jurisdiction clauses in prisons.
Although our supreme leader's job is not really interfering the affairs of the three existing powers(legislator power:parliament, president of Iran and the judiciary system which are completely acting independent from each others according to our constitutional law ) except supervising them, recently we see that in every single matter Our leader is under pressure to appear and perform on behalf of the powers because there is a feeling that they haven't done their duty properly !
however at such difficult time the need for such a person and leader has been felt strongly, I just pray for him to be able to act independently and powerfully without being any one else's influence.
As much as I felt proud of him when he didn't surrender himself to an illogical request to dump the election which was flawless I would also like him to stand against any unfair discriminatory act against the imprisoned protesters and their families , and to put an end to the current military kind state.
Friday, July 24, 2009
The Ideal society: Ummah
yesterday evening I found a book by Dr. Ali Shari'ati in our ware room ,, as I found it something very worthy I decided to to share some parts of it with you my dear readers , the book is in farsi and the title is " Islam shenasi" which means Islamology :
The Ideal society of Islam is called umma. Umma includes different aspects like different culture and languages,different races and tribes. umma inspires dynamic and committed ideological social version.
the word umma derives from the root amm,which has the sense of intention and path. Therefore the umma is a society in which a number of individuals have got common faith and goal, come together in harmony with the intention of advancing and moving toward their common goal.
while other words for societies express the unity under blood and soil and they share the material benefit as the criterion of Society .
The basis of the Islamic social philosophy is the intellectual responsibility and shared movement towards a common goal regardless of blood and soil or materialistic benefits, Although the infrastructure of the umma is the economy because " whoever has no worldly life has no spiritual life."
Islamic social system is based on equity and justice and ownership by the people, which is the revival of the "system of Abel," the society of human equality and therefore the classless brotherhood. Islamic brotherhood is not like western social system which has kept the western bourgeoisie.
The political philosophy of Umma and the form of the regime of umma is not the democracy of heads, not irresponsible and the directionless liberalism which is a tool in hands of social forces, It is not rotten aristocracy , not anti-popular dictatorship, not a self -imposed oligarchy ,
It consists rather of the purity in leadership [not the leader,for that would be fascism], committed and revolutionary leadership.
Islamic regim of ummah is responsible for the movement and growth of the society towards the divine destiny of man .
Now my dear reader don't you think such leadership is the true meaning of IMAMATE??!!!
Yes,in my opinion, it is the true meaning of Imamate!(leadership of umma)
Please think about it and leave your comment ...what do you think of Islamic umma and the leadership?
The Ideal society of Islam is called umma. Umma includes different aspects like different culture and languages,different races and tribes. umma inspires dynamic and committed ideological social version.
the word umma derives from the root amm,which has the sense of intention and path. Therefore the umma is a society in which a number of individuals have got common faith and goal, come together in harmony with the intention of advancing and moving toward their common goal.
while other words for societies express the unity under blood and soil and they share the material benefit as the criterion of Society .
The basis of the Islamic social philosophy is the intellectual responsibility and shared movement towards a common goal regardless of blood and soil or materialistic benefits, Although the infrastructure of the umma is the economy because " whoever has no worldly life has no spiritual life."
Islamic social system is based on equity and justice and ownership by the people, which is the revival of the "system of Abel," the society of human equality and therefore the classless brotherhood. Islamic brotherhood is not like western social system which has kept the western bourgeoisie.
The political philosophy of Umma and the form of the regime of umma is not the democracy of heads, not irresponsible and the directionless liberalism which is a tool in hands of social forces, It is not rotten aristocracy , not anti-popular dictatorship, not a self -imposed oligarchy ,
It consists rather of the purity in leadership [not the leader,for that would be fascism], committed and revolutionary leadership.
Islamic regim of ummah is responsible for the movement and growth of the society towards the divine destiny of man .
Now my dear reader don't you think such leadership is the true meaning of IMAMATE??!!!
Yes,in my opinion, it is the true meaning of Imamate!(leadership of umma)
Please think about it and leave your comment ...what do you think of Islamic umma and the leadership?
Muhammadi Rose water
" Sha'abaan is my month, whoever keeps fast in it, is worthy of heaven."
prophet muhammad (PBUH)
yesterday I was watching a program about washing inside of Kaaba (house of Allah in mecca) with pure Rose water from Qamsar ,a city near kashan
Kashan is filled with Mohammadi Rose, roses from which they extract high quality rosewater. This type of rose which has got such delightful fragnance, has been named after the prophet Muhammad PBUH.
Rose water is extracted from sweet-scented Muhammadadi rose,which is indigenous to Iran ,
Rose water is the hysrosol portion of the distillate of rose petals. Rose water can be used to flavor food, or as a component can be added to cosmetic and medical substances . In Iran we use it for religious purpose too. That's why each year , Kashan sends large amount of this Rose water to the holy city of mecca in Saudi Arabia as a gift to wash Kaaba with it on the first day of Shaaban.
Happy shaaban to whoever celebrates this blessing month .
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