Reverend Jeremiah Wright
Faith, Social Justice, and Service.
The Prophetic Tradition of The Black Church
God?s desire is for positive, meaningful and permanent change. God does not want one people seeing themselves as superior to other people. God does not want the powerless masses, the poor, the widows, the marginalized, and those underserved by the powerful few to stay locked into sick systems which treat some in the society as being more equal than others in that same society. full transcript here
Video Part I: (scroll down for parts ii thru vi)
remember Allah
The Noble Prophet (peace and blessings on him and his Family) said: “O’ Ali! The following three are one’s noblest characteristics, being fair, treating others as equals, and remembering Allah the Blessed, the High in all situations (Mishkat, h. #264)
Praise
Praise is due to Allah from Whose mercy no one loses hope, from Whose bounty no one is deprived, from Whose forgiveness no one is disappointed and for Whose worship no one is too high. His mercy never ceases and His bounty is never missed (Imam Ali (AS) sermon #45)
how to save humans
Earth does not need saving, humans do. So, what is it that humans need to do to save humans?
President Evo Morales of Bolivia gave an excellent speech recently at the 7th Session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues on the theme of “Climate change, bio-cultural diversity and livelihoods: the stewardship role of indigenous peoples and new challenges”.
Inhabitable Earth lists the ten main points of the speech:
1) Putting an end to the capitalist system
2) Renouncing wars
3) A world without imperialism or colonialism
4) Right to water
5) Development of clean energies
6) Respect for Mother Earth
7) Treat basic services as human rights
8 ) Fighting inequalities
9) Promoting diversity of cultures and economies
10) Living well, not living better at the expense of others
Unfortunately, the imperialist countries’ population have made recycling and earth days a sort of “religion” – in the worst sense of that word – a feel good, opium of the masses type. Meanwhile, only a tiny minority of the people of those countries are serious about ending wars, imperialism, and colonialism – and have little or no understanding of most of the other issues outlined by Morales.
You can watch/listen to the speech here (in Spanish) and here (in English) – Morales starts speaking at around 36:40.
beyond what is described
Allah is sublime beyond what is described by those who liken Hu to things, or those who deny Hu (Imam Ali (AS) sermon #49)
