a Journey of Life

Apparently, they're a couple of decades behind the "liberal" West, and not so stuck after all. Before 9/11/01, the media relegated stories about women in Islamic societies to page B27, below the fold. Ever since 9/12/01, those same stories have screamed from the front pages in 100-point type. The shift in discourse coincided with the launch of Bush's global "War on Terror," when various hawks began using the plight of women in Islam to illustrate the supposed perfidy of our "enemies," and to justify a series of military "interventions" -- invasions -- by Western powers.

In the United States, there's now an almost universally held belief that most women in Islamic societies face wretched persecution and that Islam itself is wholly to blame. But there's scant empirical evidence to support the claim -- mostly, we're treated to detailed reports of horrific abuses in theocratic states like Saudi Arabia and Iran, despite the fact that just six percent of the Muslim world live in those two countries. If you ask average Americans how they came to their beliefs about how badly women suffer in Islamic societies, most will reply that "everyone knows it."

But I've seen no empirical data to suggest that an Islamic majority itself correlates with the subordination of women better than other co-variables like economic development, women's ability to serve in government, a political culture that values the rule of law or access to higher education. In other words, you can use a comparison of women's status in Saudi Arabia and Sweden to make an intellectually weak argument for Western superiority, but there's little support for the notion that women living in "traditional" Islamic cultures enjoy a lower social status than those in orthodox Christian, Jewish or Hindu communities, to name a few examples. Think of the perfectly backwards Eastern Orthodox Church, the largest Christian communion in the world. Or consider the country where women may be brutalized more terribly than in any other, the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is 70 percent Christian and 10 percent Muslim. Or go to Utah, where tens of thousands of Mormon fundamentalists believe that women are literally the property of their fathers or husbands. Of course, Mormon fundamentalists are the exception that proves the endless benevolence and equality of the West, while whatever despicable caricature of justice perpetrated on a woman by the House of Saud is breathlessly recounted as emblematic of Islamic culture as a whole.

I'd expect, for example, the structure of a country's economy to play a far greater role in determining women's status than the religion of its people. There's quite a bit of research showing that in service and manufacturing economies -- those of wealthier states -- women enjoy a great deal of personal freedom and autonomy, civil and political rights and access to higher education. That's because of the high value of their labor outside the home, in the workforce. Women earning their own bread out in the working world demand, and require, full political rights and legal protections. In poorer economies, most of which have large agricultural sectors and many of which rely on extractive enterprises -- oil, mining, etc. -- women tend to suffer a much lower social status, because their labor is more valuable coerced and sequestered close to home. That's a structural, rather than a "Clash of Civilizations" explanation of women's varying outcomes in different countries. It's the latter view that I find little evidence to support.

From the Holy Qur'an I just read an interesting topic and I think It is better if I share it with you.

O ye who believe, let no people ridicule another people, it is possible, they may be better than them; nor let one group of women ridicule another, it is possible, the last may be better than the first (Chapter 49: Verse 12)

He created you from a single soul then from that He made its mate.(Chapter 39: Verse 7)

Your creation and your resurrection are only like the creation and resurrection of a single soul. (Chapter 31: Verse 29)

O ye people! Fear your Lord, Who created you from a single soul and created from the same its mate, and through them both He caused to spread a large number of men and women; and be mindful of your duty to Allah in Whose name you appeal to one another, and fear Him particularly in the sphere of ties of relationships. Indeed, Allah watches over you (Chapter 4: Verse 2)

Life in peace without any terror, without any war, without any prejudice I think is a dreams most of the people in the world but unfortunately in fact there are so many people also feel they are doing a holy task with doing any terror even killed other person in the name of religion!

What wrong with the religion? Isn’t it true that all religion teaching the follower to love each other, to respect to all people whatever they religion, they nation, they belief, they color of skin? Then what happened to the people that always make hardness as a way of life?

The most common source of energy in animals including humans is the carbohydrate glucose. Using oxygen via a specific biochemical pathway known as `glycolysis', glucose is oxidized to provide energy yielding the products carbon dioxide and water. Glucose levels are replenished by means of the diet. Food is absorbed from the gut into the bloodstream, and can be stored in the liver, muscle, and fat. Glucose is stored mainly in the liver and muscles as glycogen. Since glucose is the preferred source of energy in the body, the fate of absorbed glucose depends on the energy requirements of the body. If the cells need to produce energy, they need a steady supply of glucose, so there are mechanisms within the body to mobilize its stores of glucose. The detection of an inadequate blood glucose level is by glucose receptors predominantly within the brain and pancreas. The brain processes the information and sets into motion the feeling of hunger within the person such that they may acquire and ingest food. The pancreas releases a protein hormone called glucogen which causes the stores of glycogen to be converted to free glucose in the blood. These two mechanisms among others provide the cells with their required glucose.

If, conversely, the blood glucose is greater than the need of the cells, then following detection by receptors, the pancreas releases another hormone called insulin. This favors glucose being stored as glucogen rather than being free in the blood. Also, the brain gives the feeling of being satiated, so no more food is ingested.

Therefore, it can be seen that the blood glucose level is regulated within a fairly tight range to preserve its balance. If this is disturbed, the effects can be dangerous and problematic for the individual. For example, if not enough glucose reaches the brain, the cells cannot survive. In the short term, the person feels dizzy and has a feeling of hunger. If this lack of glucose continues for a longer period of time, alternative sources of energy are utilized. If inadequate, it leads to brain cell death and eventually to bodily death.

Alternatively, if there is too much glucose in the blood, this leads to other problems. The medical condition defined by raised blood glucose is Diabetes Mellitus, and can be related to heart and blood vessel disease, loss of vision, loss of sensation, gangrene and kidney failure, if uncontrolled. It has been shown to be a problem with insulin either not being released or not having its desired effect.

Islam requires its followers not only to believe in certain things but also to carry out certain duties. In the present section we will deal with those duties that relate to the worship of God.

Worship of God, in some form or another, is common to all religions of the world. The purpose of worshiping God in Islam is to evoke His help and guidance in leading a purposeful life in this world, and to acquire His attributes.

When we praise a thing, we wish to acquire it and appreciate its attributes. Praising God is appreciating His attributes and awakening a desire to acquire them. To be merciful when the situation demands, to be firm when the situation requires. The Holy Prophet said, "Create in you the attributes of God". Mere recitation of God's praise by the tongue, therefore, is not sufficient.

In the broader sense of the word, worship is obeying God. The various ritualistic worships described below are nothing but means of training the soul and disciplining one's self. The five fundamental acts of worship in Islam are:

1. Declaration of Faith
2. Prayer
3. Zakat
4. Fasting
5. Pilgrimage