Muslim month of Ramadan begins (Islam)

Fasting with the eyes means abstaining from temptation(s).

Fasting and celibacy during month of Ramadan explained | Omar Suleiman + Lex Fridman

(A Messy Classroom) All About Ramadan | Islamic history, Muslim

holiday, fasting tradition, Eid al-Fitr educational video

Sid, Krish, Mo, Josh, Aquaman, Lao Tzu, Joe

Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar. It is observed by Muslims worldwide as a month of fasting (sawm, not eating during daylight hours), communal prayer (salah), reflection, and community [5] -- and no sinning in general so "fasting" with the eyes as well. It is also the month during which the Quran is believed to have been revealed to the Islamic Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). The annual observance of Ramadan is regarded as one of the Five Pillars of Islam [6] and lasts 29 to 30 days, from the sighting of the crescent moon to the next [7, 8]. More

• Why don't Muslims ever depict the Prophet? (Everybody Draw Mohammed Day); Buddhism began with the same rule, and Judaism continues to avoid direct mention of their tribal god or the making of graven images and idols. When Buddhism began, the Buddha (the "Awakened One") was referred to with symbols of a Bodhi tree, lotus flower, or an empty chair (aniconism), and the first human depictions were from his hometown (outside of India that had the same prohibition on anthropomorphic images), that being the Greco-Buddhist art of Gandhara (modern Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sakastan, Scythia).

(Global News) Time for higher consciousness, mindfulness, purification

The beauty of Islam

(BTN) It's amazing to learn about popular Islam, revealing many common motives with Buddhism

• Omar Suleiman explains to Lex Fridman; A Messy Classroom; Global News; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit

Short Attn Span Theater: Black superiority?

Black Beauty & Hair – UK's No. 1 Black magazine 2017

(Things Visible & Invisible) African ruins: 200,000 years before Egypt? | Michael Tellinger

Warrior Queen of Angola Nzinga vs. Portuguese - George Washington's Black valet Wm. Lee

• African Mansa Musa (died in 1337), Emperor of Mali, the richest man in history and the richest country, a place of wisdom with books and scholarship to rival any European university: ignored and hidden in colonial history

Mecca's Kaaba a Hindu Shiva lingam?

Are Jews in fact worshiping exact same tribal god as Muslims, an ET being in a black cube?

Was Mecca (with its central Kaaba) once a Hindu temple (ashram)? The PROOF is here!

(Harry Sahota) July 20, 2024: Was Mecca once a Hindu temple?

• Introduction: Overview of the theory and why it has gained attention.
• Historical background: Mecca's significance before the rise of Islam.
• Claims analyzed: Shaivite (Shiva) symbols and rituals: Comparing the Hajar Aswad and Shiva lingam (Shiv-ling).
• Crescent moon and Zamzam (holy water) well: Exploring symbolic connections.
• Ritual similarities: Parikrama vs. the Kaaba circumambulation and Ihram vs. Veshti
• Archaeological evidence: What does the historical record show?
• Linguistic claims: Investigating the origins of ‘Hajar Aswad’ and ‘Kaaba.’
• Conclusion: Summarizing findings and addressing the validity of the theory.
• Makkeshwar Mahadev? Mankeshwar, Maheswarnath Mandir

Keywords: Mecca Shiva Temple, Makkeshwar Mahadev, Hajar Aswad Shiva Lingam, Pre-Islamic Mecca, Kaaba Hindu Temple Theory, Archaeological Evidence Mecca, Zamzam Well Ganga, Islamic and Hindu Rituals, Shiva and Crescent Moon, Ancient Trade Routes Arabia Was Mecca Once a Hindu Temple? Transcript

So the God (Allah) lives in a cube, a black box?

Imagine a Black Cube so sacred that Jews wear it (tefillin) on their heads during ritual prayers, Muslims risk life and limb on pilgrimages to Mecca from around the Islamic world, one of the three world religions. What is in Mecca that is so precious and important? It is this cube or Kaaba/Kasbah in Arabia (which does not belong to the royal Saudi family but which the US is fond of referring to as "Saudi Arabia," which is like calling the U.S. Obama-America) covered in six million dollars' worth of gold and cloth, made of marble with a key belonging to one family to a sacred enclosure or tabernacle. The Orthodox Christians of Ethiopia (part of ancient Kush, Nubia, North Africa) have their Ark of the Covenant hidden somewhere, possibly at a known church protected by a few priests with lifelong commitments to protect it. The Jews have their temple with its inner sanctum or holy of holies with nothing but an altar where the Ark of the Covenant (an ET device protected by an electrical charge said to be God's thunderbolt ready to strike anyone with a static charge if they get too close and offend the Lord) allegedly used to be kept. 

• PHOTO: Occult Black Cube or Kaaba at the center of Mecca, Arabia (Prof. Richard/flickr.com)
• Charlene don't like it? 'Rock the Casbah' (Kaaba, Kasbah, Casablanca, Mos'que), what are The Clash on about? (americansongwriter.com)
• Is the Kaaba related to the Kabala?

Excessive HEAT warning Ohio to the Hajj

You know it's hot when Chagrin Falls, Ohi, is steamy and the hub of a death spiral sweeping through the nation. The Noreast nearly had no winter this year. Now with the heat and vermin swarming, the agitated townsfolk, the railway pollution the EPA gave us a pass on, we're headed for Armageddon, which is a place in Israel where all hell is gonna break loose for the End Times, which should be right about now. All we need is Gog and Magog, or Persia and the USSR, to push back on MetaYahoo and we're all gonna meet a Yahoo, a YHWH, a yay-way, the gob smacker of the Good Book. What is wrong with HAARP and the chemtrails? How could the EPA and CIA not do a better job so that the NRA wouldn't have to? (What would Allah do? Wait for cooler temperatures, Men.)

Blame it on God?

Hajj 2024 news updates | Extreme heat kills at least 550, mostly Egyptian pilgrims | G18V | News18

(CNN-News18) Premiered June 18, 2024: Only males are allowed to make the pilgrimage to Islam's holiest site, the black cube in the center of Mecca, Saudi Arabia. But intense heat has claimed at least 550 pilgrims during this year's Hajj, news agency AFP reported on Tuesday, quoting diplomats. The deceased include 323 Egyptians, who primarily succumbed to heat-related illnesses, according to two Arab diplomats coordinating their countries' responses. Peace be upon them. #eid #Haj

• Merkabah Mysticism is Jewish or Semitic obsession with UFOs, which are called vimanas in Buddhist Sanskrit and Pali, "palaces" in the sky, "chariots of fire," strange extraterrestrial vehicles, worn symbolically on the head with a strap during Jewish worship even today. That black cube seems to be what is symbolized or present at the center of Mecca in the Great Mosque

Dangerous heat wave puts millions at risk in U.S.

The Old County Map shows there's no escape.

(CBS News) June 17, 2024: A heat wave is forecast to bring dangerously hot temperatures to the Midwest and Northeast this week, with at least 265 million Americans expected to experience temperatures above 90 degrees across the country. CBS News senior weather producer David Parkinson has more.

We need a "Malcolm X Day," too (video)

Malcolm X in Los Angeles May 5, 1962 "Who taught you to hate yourself?"

(spowertube) Full speech: Malcolm X on Jesus Christ, asking: Who taught you to hate yourself? Malcolm X was one of the greatest leaders in history.

Malcolm X founded the Organization of Afro-American Unity to fight for the civil rights of Black Americans. He had the gift of articulating his messages in such a way that he could grab a crowd's attention from the first minute of the speech to the last.

In this speech from 1962, Malcolm X talks about Jesus. He tells how Jesus would be on the side of Black Americans if he were alive. Jesus always came to the defense of the most oppressed.

Who was Malcolm X?

(TRT World) Feb. 21, 2020. American revolutionary and preacher Malcolm X lived and died for Black liberation. This is the extraordinary transformation of a man who became a hero for generations. (TRT is a Turkish public broadcast service).

#MalcolmX #MalcolmShabbaz #BlackMuslims

COMMENTS

(Elijah Arredondo) It’s honestly disgusting that the [American] school system has never told me about this man. Being a white dude, the only way I really found out about Malcolm was through hip hop and this video. What a joke.

(Sir Charles Glover) What a brilliant man

(Ritah Andy) The Most misunderstood man in History... Portrayed as the "devil," and yet he was far from that. He's very iconic.

If you're not careful, they'll have you hating.

Malcolm X also talks about police brutality in the Black community in1962. This teaching covers an interesting subject that is the lesson about who taught us to hate ourselves? When we hate what is in ourselves, we will hate also what is in our brothers and sisters.

When we start loving ourselves, we will start loving our fellows. In this way Malcolm X teaches how it's possible to strengthen each member of the Black community and not let it be divided by anything.

White/Latino rock-rappers mention Malcolm

Korn is a nu metal band from Bakersfield/OC that dabbled in drugs and rap, or one could say more than dabbled. They came up with a nice song that never really caught on called "Wicked" with the Deftones' vocalist Chino Moreno from the Life is Peachy album. It gives a nice shoutout to the importance of the legend of Malcolm X in the popular imagination.

LYRICS: "Wicked" (Korn)

Yo, Chuck, we got running mixes in the headphones

Haha!

Wicked!

Haha

[Verse 1: Chino Moreno, Jonathan Davis, and both]

One, two, three, and I come with the wicked style (style)

You know that I'm from the wicked crew

You act like you knew

But I got everybody jumping to the voodoo

Yeah, you, you can kick it wicked rhymes, picket signs

While me and the mob gotta trunk full of nines

Drop, and I'll slay ya

Play, play thug-made, ah from the heya

Ready to buck, buck, buck

But it's a must to duck, duck, duck

Before I bust ya

Looking for the one that did it

You want my vote, no you're never gonna get it

‘Cause I'm the one with the fat, mad skills

And I won't choke like the Buffalo Bills

Sittin' at the pad just chillin'

Larry Parker just got two million

Oh what a f*ckin' feelin'

That n*gga done past me the peel

And I'll slam dunk ya like Shaquille O'Neal

Like it, work it, baby I'll rock that test tube baby

Kick it, ‘cause I get…

[Chorus: Jonathan Davis and Chino Moreno]

Wicked! I told them not to keep on their fire

I'm wicked! I told them not to keep on their fire

I'm wicked! I told them not to keep on their fire

But now I'm in your face, so you'll keep on your fire (wicked!)

[Bridge: Chino Moreno]

Ooh, aah

Sh*t

Skoo-ba-coo-ze-zah-heh

[Verse 2: Chino Moreno, Jonathan Davis, and both]

Don't say nothin', just listen

Got me a plan to break Tyson outta prison

You come my way, ya get served

Still got a deuce that'll bunny hop the curb

Nappy head, nappy chest

Nappy chin, never seen with a happy grin

Gotta fat frown ‘cause I'm down

So take a look around

All you see is big black boots

Step in, use my steel toe as a weapon

And it's awfully quiet, they want to label this n*gga

Do with the sticker, but that's nasty

‘Cause I gotta body count like Ice-T

From here to New York

I get them skins, and I ain't talking about pork

You're sly, ya pig, dig, listen from the flow from a so-fro'd Caucasian

Ah, who didn't know I was as funky as Wilson Picket, but you talkin'

[Chorus: Jonathan Davis and Chino Moreno]

Wicked! I told them not to keep on their fire

I'm wicked! I told them not to keep on their fire

I'm wicked! I told them not to keep on their fire

But now I'm in your face, so you'll keep on your fire

[Bridge: Chino Moreno and Jonathan Davis]

Ooh!

Something' here with this sh*t off

Yeah

The f*ck out my case, come on

[Verse 3: Chino Moreno with Jonathan Davis]

People wanna know how come

I got a gat, and I'm sitting at the window like Malcolm

Ready to bring that noise

Kinda trigger-happy like the Geto Boys

April 29th was power to the people

Ya'll might just see a sequel

‘Cause police got equal pay

A horse is a pig that don't fly straight!

I'm doin' Darryl Gates, but is Willie Williams

Down with the Pilgrims?

I'm through with the picket signs

So I think the job is dead, get out ‘cause I get…

[Chorus: Jonathan Davis, Chino Moreno, and both]

Wicked! I told them not to keep on their fire

I'm wicked! I told them not to keep on their fire

I'm wicked! I told them not to keep on their fire

But know I'm in your face, so you'll keep on your fire

I'm wicked! I told them not to keep on their fire

I'm wicked! I told them not to keep on their fire

I'm wicked! I told them not to keep on their fire

But now I'm in your face, so you'll keep on your fire (wicked!)

[Bridge: Chino Moreno]

Fuzz

Boo-boo

Hahaha

Say!

[Chorus: Jonathan Davis]

'Cause I'm wicked! I told them not to keep on their fire

I'm wicked! I told them not to keep on their fire

I'm wicked! I told them not to keep on their fire

But know I'm in your face, so you'll keep on your fire

'Cause I'm wicked! I told them not to keep on their fire

I'm wicked! I told them not to keep on their fire

'Cause I'm wicked! I told them not to keep on their fire

But know I'm in your face, so you'll keep on your fire (wicked!)

History's richest man: Black Emperor Musa

Crystal Q., CC Liu, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wikipedia edit

Black Emperor (Mansā) Mūsā (circa 1312–1337 [a]) was the ninth [3] emperor (mansa) of the Mali Empire, Africa, which reached its territorial peak during this king's reign.

Emperor Musa is known for his unimaginable wealth and has sometimes been called the wealthiest person in history, far richer than Mexico's Carlos Slim, Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, or Elon Musk.

His riches came from the mining of gold and salt deposits in the Mali Empire, along with the slave and ivory trade [4, 5]. 

At the time of Musa's ascension to the throne, Mali in large part consisted of the territory of the former Ghana Empire, which Mali had conquered.

The Mali Empire consisted of land that is now part of Guinea, Senegal, Mauritania, The Gambia, and the modern state of Mali.

Musa was so rich that when he went on a Muslim pilgrimage (hajj) to Mecca in 1324, traveling with an enormous entourage and a vast supply of gold, he disrupted economies.

En route, he spent time in Cairo, Egypt, where his lavish gift-giving is said to have noticeably affected the value of gold in Egypt and garnered the attention of the wider Muslim world.

Buddhist Nalanda: World's first university?

Emperor Musa expanded the borders of the Mali Empire, in particular incorporating the cities of Gao and Timbuktu (a great ancient center of learning and hope to possibly the oldest residential university in history, even older than the oldest known university, Buddhist Nalanda (regarded by scholars as the world's first residential university), which Buddhist records say came after a kind of university system in Taxila or Takkasila, Indo-Pakistan, where the Buddha as the Bodhisatta went to school in a past life (Jataka Tales)] into its territory. More

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Emperor Musa of Mali is renowned for his wealth and generosity. Online articles in the 21st century have claimed that Mansa Musa was the richest person of all time [89].

This claim is often sourced to an article in CelebrityNetWorth [89], which claims that Musa's wealth was the equivalent of US $400 billion [90].

CelebrityNetWorth has been criticized for the unreliability of its estimates [91].

Historians such as Hadrien Collet have argued that Emperor Musa's wealth is impossible to accurately calculate [89, 85].

Contemporary Arabic sources may have been trying to express that Emperor Musa had more gold than they thought possible, rather than trying to give an exact number [92].

Furthermore, it is difficult to meaningfully compare the wealth of historical figures such as Mansa Musa, due to the difficulty of separating the personal wealth of a monarch from the wealth of the state and the difficulty of comparing wealth in highly different societies [93].

Emperor Musa may have brought as much as 18 tons of gold on his pilgrimage to Mecca [94], the center of Islam, equal in value to over US $957 million in 2022 [95].

Emperor Musa himself further promoted the appearance of having vast, inexhaustible wealth by spreading rumors that gold grew like a plant in his kingdom [96].

According to some Arabic writers, Emperor Musa's gift-giving caused a depreciation in the value of gold in Egypt.

Al-Umari said that, before Emperor Musa's arrival, a mithqal of gold was worth 25 silver dirhams, but that it dropped to less than 22 dirhams afterward and did not go above that number for at least 12 years [97].

Though this has been described as having "wrecked" Egypt's economy [85], the historian Warren Schultz has argued that this was well within normal fluctuations in the value of gold in Mamluk Egypt [98]. More

The "God of Poverty"

In terms of questionable religious practices, nominally Buddhist Japan may now lead the pack. There is a new God of Poverty, which can be struck, kicked, and blamed for financial misfortune -- for a price. The God is willing to shoulder the blame for the current global crisis as well as individual hardships.

• VIDEO: Japan's God of Poverty & Anti-worship Works

This practice echoes the Islamic practice of hurtling stones at the devil (tossing pebbles at a wall called Jamarat during the Hajj, or annual pilgrimage to Mecca).

• VIDEO: Stoning of the Devil (Reuters)

The custom of self-mortification is not limited to the sages and seers of the East. It is still rampant in some parts of Christendom. Most notable is the annual custom of self-flagellation and voluntary crucifixion in the Philippines.

• VIDEO: Nailed to a Cross for Christ

Finally, no culture can rival India for majestic splendor and strange customs. The country hosts the largest human gathering for a single purpose (with hundred of millions attending Kumbh Mela held every dozen years). Its practices are colorful, with periodic lesser Melas every three years, and national holidays like Holi.

• VIDEO: Holi Preparations in India & Holi (BBC)

Related

• Kumbh Mela: 2010
• TIMEAsia: Photo Essay of Kumbh Mela
• The New Gomorrah (India)