Hay , I am back.
I was more than busy in the last few months/years, so my contribution was halted for a while, but here I am trying to come back.
What is theme of current era, that is a good questions that we may all know the answer, it is communication. It was in the 18th century when the industrial era started and lasted for couple of centuries, where the importance of any people, country or community was determined by its production, and the theme was to produce more and more.
This era almost lasted till the WW II where the atomic bomb changed everything, as the production count does not matter anymore, but actually the power of that produce. so the atomic bomb started the atomic age in the 1940s, and then after that due to the competition between the US and USSR, they started the space programs and moving to the space age, I prefer to call all this period with the technology era, as what matter in it was the technology race, and not the production race.
In the 1980s, the commercial satellite TV becomes widely known, and the mobile networks were introduced, and later the internet started commercially used. All this lead to the start of the information Age in the 1990s, which I prefer to call the communication era, where everyone can reach everyone, no barriers. A person in Egypt can start his day giving a training to people in The gulf, and then call his friend in Europe and before lunch start work on his stocks in wall street, and the Gulf markets while watching the CNN Finance and Al Arabiya channel to follow the changes that affect his action. The use of internet the satellite TV ease the communication and news update, as you will know and follow any major event as it happens.
The introduction of mobiles, specially the later camera phone, introduced a whole new opportunities to follow the event on the personal level. if a problem happens in the US , while you are in the Gulf for example , you can call your friend there and know exactly what is happening on personal level. and not only that, you can get a footage of things you would never see, and no camera man can be there to take.
So now the swine flu, is the first pandemic since and communication era started, so what we will see in that subject will be very interesting to analyze , as such communication and materialization of events was not ever before possible.
Salam
بعض مشاعري عن مصر أكتبها في نثر مسجوع أو شعر حر - حقيقة لا أعرف ما أسميه - المهم هي مشاعري
مصر لما كنا صغيرين
مصر دي كانت أمنا
حنانها يبوسنا يضمنا
بنحبها و تحبنا
ليه لما كبرنا يا مصر فطرت قلبنا
مصر لما كنا صغيرين
كان أهلها طيبين
كان شبابها مؤدبين
كانت بناتها متربين
و كنا احنا لسه صغيرين
كان لسه ناسها بيحبوا بعضهم
كان لسه الطمع مدخلش في وسطهم
ليه يا مصر اتغيرتي في عيونا
ليه يا مصر زادت همومنا و ديونا
ليه دلوقتي شيبتي و انحني ضهرك
ليه عطشتي قلبي و اتردم نهرك
ليه الظلم و الجفا بين أهلك ملوكي
ليه ولادك من الغربة فيكي سبوكي
ليه يا مصر مترجعيش
مليانه خير مينتهيش
و يرجع أهلك طيبين
فقرا ولا مريشين
برده همه مبسوطين
من غير حرامية و طماعين
و ترجعي يا مصر تاني
ذي ما قالت الأغاني
مصر حرة
مصر عندي أغلى درة
مصر إلي نعرفها لما
لما كنا صغيرين
محمد حسني 17/1/2007
أرجوا توضيح المصدر عند النقل
This is a reply to a friend of minde that thought the posting about Was life better is questioning faith, so I am
putting some clarifications here.
1- what I meant by not judging other , is not to use other religion or sometime color , or ethnic group to extremely judge them .becauze sometimes people exagerrates judging others while they themselves do really more bad things.
And note that I talking in the posting about muslims, cuz I am a muslims, but the same can be applied to others like christians judging muslims, and can be applied to other than religion groups like Arabs judging Indians, or American judging Arabs, it is a global thing
2- What I wanted to say about complexity of life, that as you grow up, you know more, and that makes your life no way easier, it is get complicated, you have to take decisions, and stick to it, and that decisions will affect your view of others and the world, and that makes you feel more pressure. Hope you can understand what I mean.
3- I was not comparing sunni with shi3a , nor muslims with christians as religion rivals, but this is the life, and life is not easy , and that what I am talking about, complexity of emotions against others as you know more.
4- Here are somethings that make life complex. Some scholars say shi3a is legitemate muslims, while others says they are koffar, shi3a now threatening the sunnis in Iraq, and maybe us all .
So who are the worst the Iranians or the americans or the israelis, should we be happy about Hizbullah
wining against Israel, while that add to the shi3a power and may indirectly threatenning us, blah blah blah.........................
So That what I mean by complexity
5- Notice that you and me are sunni muslims, so that we believe that sunni islam is the true religion, and hence you know, you should act in accoordance with that, but sometimes you get confused by the differences inside different muslims society, (like school of thoughts in Saudi Arabia and Egypt) so you have to choose and you have to justify your chice, and it is not easy act. And that means more complexity
6- The posting was not questioning faith in anyway. it is questioning the complexity of choices.
Hope that clarify my view
Here is a total different view of was life is better before, or it is just an illusion.
Here is a list of what I like about the past
1- There was only two TV channels , seeing a good program or movie was a bliss, and we had alot of
spare time to spend on other things than TV
2- Cinema whatever comedy or drama was romantic and clean, remember old movies of
Fred Astire, Abot and Castillo, remember gone with wind.
3- Things we get like a new toy, and chocolate ship was rare , not like today's kids, so we admire
the feeling of getting something new.
4- Reading from books was a good thing to do to satisfy your desire of knowledge gathering and also for fun.
5- going out was nice, usually just to go by the sea or a garden or to a family relative.
6- People was less in numbers, so the street was rather empty, and going from one place to another was not
a horrifying experiment.
7- News was controlled by government and local , bad events was rare.
And many other things , but enough for now and here is a respective list of what I hate about present
1- Now TV is like zillion channels, with million video clips and thousands of movies and few good programs
enjoy less of anything of them , quantity is large , but quality is poor. and in general TV eats out all of the
time as it works all day as ongoing white noise in the house.
2- Cinema now is about violence and sex no more , movies make you feel depressed.
3- Kids now get a toy or candies everyday , so they do not cherish anything they got.
4- No time to read , even on the net, as long as watching is easier and available, also now you read from the net
which is filled with bad grammer, and naughty words.
5- Going out only to eat , less to enjoy nature and sights.
6- Streets all the time is crowded, going from one place to another is hell
7- News now everyday comes with blood and more violence to our eyes , and contribute to the depression and
feeling of unhappiness.
Thats it for now
I recall my life and think how life was simple and nice when I was younger, most people think that life is getting worse
everyday , usually Old people will tell their children or other youngster that life was better.
I made some thinking about that and find the following,
and all it is is very self related, very personal indeed ,,,,
1- Some General Issue is with that fact that usually human thoughts of the past is only the
good memories, the bad is usually left behind, so that affect everyone to think that life was
better before the present , and this issue participate in the whole effect of better past thing.
2- Childhood is almost always better life, less responsibility and less pressure
3- The conscious of human being gets old and complex and that affect his judgement of himself and
judgement of others, and that affect his feelings of being simple and nice in life. that will need
further elaboration, and that what I will make next:-
When I was a child (The innocence age) life was soooo simple, just know that you should follow your parents rules
and everything is fine. and by doing that and study and pass you are the best, and God is pleased with you.
When I got older, God start to take new position in your life, specially that I am a muslim , and most muslim are
religious, so you start to be concerned about God more than about your parents, you know what he want you to do and
you try your best.
When I got to mid-primary school I knew that I am a muslim but there are others, like christians and jews etc.,
it was still simple as muslims are the good guys (like the americans think about themselves) ,
and others are bad, ,,,,, but not all bad, specially our christian friends (that because I grow in Egypt)
When I get to high school I start to know about different religious schools within Islam itself, that made it worse
that being a muslim is not enough , you should follow a school of thought in your deeds .
When I get an adult I found that things got more complex and confusing, I am a muslim,
but Sunni , so what about Shia ?? ok I am a sunni , what to follow Hanbali or Hanafi? Salafi or Sofee?
more questions come to mind, by time, Everyday you know more and get more confused.
Now I am confused about how to judge people, some muslims look at me as a sinner because I do
not follow their ideology, others see me as a conservative!!, so that others are extremely
judging me, so how should I judge others.
Are all muslims good people? Are christian and jews not good people in general?? that seems to me to be so naive question now. Some muslims are doing very bad deeds, while
some christians doing good deeds, so why it is coming that complex , why it is not that clear and
simple like when I was a child.
BECAUSE it was not ever simple.
Life is not simple, and will not be.
To judge people?? it is not my work it is God's work.
"All humen are sinners and best of them are the people who are penitents" ( and confise their guilt and try to be better)
I can't judge other , (No Arab is better than a non-Arab or A white is better than a black, what makes them better is
their fearing of God and preserving their deeds to his well)
I merely can judge myself if I am right, Am I right? I hope so ,
I am doing my best but life is getting complex
I think My life and any human life can be divided into several ages
Age of innocence , that for my childhood till age of 10 or 11, that is the second best age, I hope I be a child again:)
Wild Age , that was my teenage years, it is full of rage ,
searching to learn more , and desire to know about everything and
desire to try every desire.
Freedom Age, that was when I get like 18 and I joined the
university, it comes great feeling of freedom and maturity, you enjoy
yourself with no actual responsibility, actually you can split this age
into two one in university and one after that , but mostly they are the
same for me. it continues till you get engaged in a marriage project.
It was till 24 yr old when I get engaged. This is the best Age ever.
Romantic Age, that was after I engaged and till I got married ,
24 to 27 yrs old, you are happy man with romantic thoughts and actions
with your future wife. I think this is the third best age after
childhood.
Stability Age, that is after marriage and usually till you get your first child, you are stable , happy and enjoying your life
Responsibility Age , this after you get your first child and
till you died, you are always under pressure in this age and
responsibilities are overwelming and increasing, thanks God for
everything, by the way that age is why human is created in the first
place. :)
Peace all,
I was supposed to express my best wishes in this post to all muslims with the coming of Eid Adha and hajj. but unfortunate event of Saddam Hussein execution shadowed the happiness of Eid.
I must say that I was not a fan of Saddam , or even approving his regime, but what happened was at least a savage killing of man who was the president of a country.
I can't tell if he was tyrant or not ,but even though he should had have a just trial.
Anyway the video that was shown in the media made him a hero for all arabs now and most sunni muslims.
I believe that his execution in that way will result in several things worldwide, and it show us more about what is really going in Iraq.
Salam
I miss being there too much
I consider myself a very Alexandrian , a very deep one. Alexandria is the city of my childhood, and adulthood. I had to leave it to find better career, so All my memories are there.
So I want to talk today about Green plaza shopping mall.
It is an open are shopping mall, with a lot of greenery around, a 5 stars (maybe more) Hilton hotel, and interesting cafeterias , It was the mall of me and my wife, we had a lot of memories there , I was there with her on its openning day, I spent part of my honey moon in hilton there, I almost ate at every resturant there, so I like it very much, and I really miss it.
This is my first post in this blog
I hope this will be useful and fun for me and others. I will express
here my thoughts and my feelings about personal, and public subjects.
في بعض الأحيان سأكتب بالعربي
Sometimes I will write in arabic like last sentence, so will need to adopt the character mode if characters is not showing .
So that's it for now
M. Hosni
