3. Words – Meanings –
Implications
♪ Everything – literally – everything
in this world and beyond is known
by its True Value / Real Value /
Intrinsic Value.
4. ♪ What is its “True Value” can be
determined by its characteristics
and properties. Fire has its own
properties and ice has its own.
♪ The former burns and can be
characterized with having a high
temperature, while the latter is
characterized with having a low
temperature – a blunt and simple
example just to get the point
across.
5. ♪ The name that’s given to a
particular thing is more like a label,
by which it can be commonly
called & understood by the
common people.
♪ Even if the name is changed, the
characteristic stays the same.
What is of importance & of
essence is the characteristic and
property of a particular thing that
defines it and gives it its True
Value.
6. ♪ If the world decided altogether in
unison, to change the name of Fire
to ICE, there will come a time,
maybe after a few decades or
more, but definitely after a few
generations, when the moment
someone says ICE, the first thing
that will come to a person’s mind is
“That thing that burns and has
a high temperature”.
7. ♪ Let us take a look at “The Periodic
Table of Elements”, which can be
defined as:
“The periodic table is a table of the
chemical elements in which the
elements are arranged by order of
atomic number in such a way that
the periodic properties (chemical
periodicity) of the elements ARE
MADE CLEAR.”
8. ♪ Thus we come to know that H
stands for Hydrogen. Without
taking into consideration its
chemical & other properties it
would be nothing more than an
Alphabet from a set of 26
alphabets in the English
language.
♪ Words have meanings and
their meanings are its
characteristics &
properties!
Its “True Value / Real Value
/ Intrinsic Value”!
9. ♪ Coming back to Hydrogen in the periodic
table, we come to know that it is a
chemical element with atomic number 1.
♪ It is Only represented by the symbol H.
♪ With an average atomic weight
of 1.00794 u (1.007825 u for hydrogen-
1), hydrogen is the lightest and most
abundant chemical element, constituting
roughly 75% of the Universe's chemical
elemental mass.[5]
♪ Scientists tell us that Stars in the main
sequence are mainly composed of
hydrogen in its plasma state. Naturally
occurring elemental hydrogen is relatively
rare on Earth.
10. ♪ Now if we (somehow) were to change the characteristics and
properties of an atom of Hydrogen to a state where its atomic
number becomes 2 and the atomic weight is 4.002602,
where it stands as a colorless, odorless, tasteless, non-
toxic, inert, monatomic gas & its boiling and melting points
are the lowest among the elements then it will thus be called
Helium, which is represented by the symbol He.
No one in his right mind would still call it
Hydrogen, except someone who is unaware of
the fact.
11. “That knowledge, which
remains only on your tongue is
very superficial. The intrinsic
value of knowledge is that you
act upon it.”
Ali ibn Abi Taalib (Radhi Allahu anhu)
12. “Thinking is easy, acting is
difficult, and to put one's
thoughts into action is the
most difficult thing in the
world.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
13. “Whatever course you decide upon, there
is always someone to tell you that you
are wrong. There are always difficulties
arising which tempt you to believe that
your critics are right. To map out a
course of action and follow it to an end
requires courage.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
14. A claim by its very definition
according to The Free Dictionary
is as follows:
claim (klā m)
Transitive verb
claimed, claim·ing, claims
1. To demand, ask for, or take as one's own or one's due:
claim a reward; claim one's luggage at the airport carousel.
2. To take in a violent manner as if by right:
a hurricane that claimed two lives.
3. To state to be true, especially when open to question;
assert or maintain:
claimed he had won the race; a candidate claiming many
supporters.
4. To deserve or call for; require:
problems that claim her attention.
15. Noun
1. A demand for something as rightful or due.
2. A basis for demanding something; a title or right.
3. Something claimed in a formal or legal manner, especially a
tract of public land staked out by a miner or homesteader.
4. (a) A demand for payment in accordance with an insurance
policy or other formal arrangement.
(b) The sum of money demanded.
5. A statement of something as a fact; an assertion of truth:
makes no claim to be a cure.
Idiom:
lay claim to
To assert one's right to or ownership of.
16. It is easy to state something since words are cheap. The
only thing that gives a word its real and true weight is
only if it’s followed-up with similar actions.
In order for me to give a very dramatic and descriptive
example (just so that we are on the same page), let me
try to draw a picture in words.
17. Imagine a man walking around with a Megaphone
connected to a loud speaker, screaming his lungs out
to the whole world that he loves his mother!
Imagine him going everywhere claiming only one
thing that he loves his mother!
Probably some people will be impressed and touched
by his gesture and may even come to the
understanding that he must really love his mother
very much, so much to the extent that he cannot
hold his feelings to himself anymore and therefore
cannot help but proclaim it to the whole world.
18. Now imagine, the screen-shot changing to where he is
holding his mother by hair and dousing her with fuel
and burning her to death!
Do you really think anyone would believe his words
anymore, when his actions are at 180 degrees of
anything slightly, remotely connected with love?
Action speaks louder than words,
but not nearly as often.
Mark Twain
19. A statement is only true and valid as long as it is
followed up with similar actions and more
importantly is not contradicted with something
opposite to the claim!
Two things, which are contradictory in nature,
cannot be the same and both of them cannot be
true at the same time. Either only one of them
will be valid or both of them could be wrong.
This is the most common and basic thing that
one can understand, prior to getting into
intricacies and complications related to any
topic.
20. When the basics are flawed and the
foundations are fractured, any building
constructed on such grounds will always be
faulty and destined to an eventual doom, no
matter how much paint job is applied to its
exterior.
In order to understand something correctly
(so that correct actions can be taken), its
essence has to be taken into consideration.
21. A filled-up bottle of wine remains a filled-up
bottle of wine, no matter how many labels of
holy water one puts over it.
The labels do not change the reality of a
substance.
But, where is this leading to?
So, please allow me to clarify that in a
moment.
22. What does it mean to be compliant?
Let us take a look at the dictionary so that
we are clear.
com·pli·ant
Adjective -ənt
readily giving in to the command or
authority of another
23. 1. ready or disposed to
<a corrupt regime aided by a compliant press>
2. conforming to requirements
<compliant software>
24. I asked him for a favor, and he was compliant.
The student's shirt was not compliant with the
school's dress code.
The software is compliant with the latest
standards.
25. If we realize the similarities and
relationship (characteristics and
properties) of
COMPLIANT
and
COMPLAINT
26. ♪ In the absence of Objectivity of “Word + Action”
relationship, this will become similar to the
deceptive claim of the so-called Riba infesting
Islamic Banks.
♪ Ask anyone who has the slightest knowledge of how
banks work and is aware of the operations of these
so-called Islamic Banks.
♪ The only thing that differentiates the present day
Islamic Banks from any contemporary Western
Bank is the title, such that the former have added
the word “Islamic” to their name.
♪ Does the label change the reality of the substance?
28. ♪ Do we understand the power of Belief?
♪ I hope we can comprehend what it can
achieve, provided it is firmly grounded and
not inflicted with self-imposed blindness.
29. ♪ Can we imagine the Power of a Word?
♪ A statement! A Testimony! Isn’t Shahaadah
a Testimony ?
30. ♪ We have a chance to do something that no
one else can do and you do not have to
pick-up AK-47 and go berserk for that.
♪ The only thing that is required at this
moment is determination and Faith to
achieve the Right Thing, because “Right is
Might”, not the other way around.
31. ♪ All “Big Gifts come in small Packages”.
What will be the first step?
♪ What is needed to be done?
♪ How will we follow that up?
♪ What will we do if we come across any new
developments?
♪ What will we do when there are road-
blocks?
♪ There is a way to outmaneuver all that,
provided you have the Will and a
commitment to fulfill and achieve what so
many can only speak of.
33. ♪ They’re like a seed.
♪ You leave it out in the open for too
long and it dies.
♪ You bury it too deep and it dies.
♪ You leave it unattended and it
dies.
34. ♪ We’ll do us a favor if we know this much
from the start … that Doing the Right Thing
will be doing a favor on ourselves foremost.
♪ Think of it as an investment for yourself
such that, any and all doors that you will
open will become “Sadaqah Jaariyah” for
the rest of eternity.
♪ We will be in our graves but our book of
deeds will still be open.
35. ♪ And if you decide not to go ahead with it,
then Allah will raise someone else for the
job, because this is His Promise.
36. ♪ We are living in strange times and there is a
chance to do something Now, which was
not possible maybe 5 or 10 years ago.
♪ I can understand that sometimes we make
vows, take oaths and set goals but after a
while we lose track of it and go on tangents.
♪ This is human nature. That’s why constant
reminders are required and one has to
remind himself foremost.
37. ♪ I know that most Muslims want to do
something for Islam.
♪ Ask yourself, what could be more
important than this?
38. ♪ We must’ve heard this quote a thousand
times “Aim for the Sky”!
Though we know that Sky is an almost endless (not
quite though) vastness of space.
39. ♪ Probably what it means is that even if one
can’t reach the sky (which no one can as long
as they are alive – illa Ma’shaa’ALLAH), at
least he’ll touch the clouds.
Only a few blessed ones get to have a bird’s
eye-view.
40. ♪ I do not want to quote all the Quraanic
Verses at this time that relate to legislation
and arbitration.
I believe you are already more knowledgeable than me on this
topic.
♪ However, I do want to quote a few, hoping
that this will enable us to look at the big
picture.
41. And take as witness two just persons from among you (Muslims). And establish
the testimony for Allâh.
That will be an admonition given to him who believes in Allâh and the
Last Day.
42.
And whosoever fears Allâh and keeps his duty to Him, He will
make a way for him to get out (from every difficulty).
And He will provide him from (sources) he never could imagine.
43. And whosoever puts his trust in Allâh, then He will
suffice him.
Verily, Allâh will accomplish his purpose.
44. Indeed Allâh has set a measure for all things. (3)
May the Peace & Blessings be upon our Nobel Messenger
Mohammad and his progeny. Aameen
