VOICE OF GLOBAL UMMAH

VOICE OF GLOBAL UMMAH

Volume 75, April 19, 2009
St. Louis, Missouri

Editors: Mohamed & Rashida Ziauddin

In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent and the Most Merciful

EDITORIAL:

Thanks to Br. Amer Sayed who forwarded below article and which was initiated by Br. Tanveer Ahmed of Doha, Qatar. It is an example of what the mainstream media will NEVER focus on. The priorities of an average Muslim on the micro level and Global Ummah on a macro level are totally different than the mainstream media in terms of receiving information. When you pick up a newspaper or magazine, as a Muslim did you ever have a feeling even once, that you got the needed information you would like to get from an Islamic perspective ? We are not talking here about Islamic bookstores but information gleaned from the general media.

Nothing could be more powerful than more Muslims being actively involved in the media world through various media and publication outlets and to coordinate with each other.

For a non-Muslim, the importance of SIMPLICITY in one's life has a very low priority. However for a Muslim, given the gems of Hadith and Quran, it should be an important aspect of one's life. For after all, once we die, regardless of what fame we achieved, what materialistic properties we accumulated, and cash we have saved, we would leave all of it in this world and go back with nothing but a piece of white cloth over our body.

When you die, who are the persons who would wash your body and who are the persons who would throw sand over your body once your body is placed on the grave, only ALLAH knows ? By the passing of each day and night, you are coming one day closer to above departure from mother Earth. What you take with you to the next phase of transition is your deeds. Part of such deeds include SIMPLICITY.

Although as Editors of VOGU, we disagree on President Ahmedinejad extreme and wrong positions relating to the Holocaust and hate towards Jews et.c, we are very humbled and deeply admire his simplicity in terms of his lifestyle. We don't believe that there is a single President of any country in this world that could even come close to the extent of his simple way of life.

The Life of Iranian President Ahmedinejad

"The FoxNewsTV (USA) asked the Iranian President Ahmedinejad,

'When you look into the mirror in the morning what do you say to yourself'?

He answered: I see the person in the mirror and tell him 'Remember' you are no more than a small servant, ahead of you today is the heavy responsibility, and that is to serve the Iranian nation'.

Ahmedinejad, the Iranian President who astonished many when he first reached to the office of the Presidency by donating all the high valued Iranian carpets to one of the mosques in Tehran by replacing them with the low cost ordinary carpets. He observed that there was a huge extravagant lounge for receiving and welcoming the VIPs and he ordered it to be closed and asked the protocol office to arrange for an ordinary room only with wooden chairs.

On many instances he joins the cleaning staff of the municipality for cleaning the streets in the area where his home and the Presidency are located.



Under his authority whenever he appoints any minister to his post he gets a signed document from him with many points particularly highlighting that he shall remain poor and that his personal and his relatives accounts will be watched and the day he leaves the ministry shall be with dignity, and therefore it is not lawful for him or his relatives to take any advantage of his office.

First of all he declared himself for all the 'Big' wealth and the property he owned was a Peugeot 504 car, model 1977, an old small house inherited from his father 40-years ago in one of the poorest zones in Tehran . His accounts with a zero balance and the only money comes in to his a/c was from his salary from the university as a lecturer with an amount of US$ 250 only.

For your information the President still lives in that same house. This is all what he owns; the president of one of the world's important countries; strategically, economically, politically and with regard to its oil and defense. He even doesn't take his personal salary with the argument that all the wealth belongs to the nation and he is the safeguard over it.

One of the things that impressed the staff at the presidency is the bag the President brings with him every day, which contains his breakfast; some sandwiches or bread with olive oil and cheese prepared by his wife and eats and enjoys it with all happiness.

One of the other things he changed was his personal carrier 'the President's Aircraft' to a cargo aircraft in order to save the spending from the public treasury and he ordered that he will be flying with the ordinary airline in the economy class. He organizes meetings every now and then with all the ministers to know their activities and efficiency and he closed down the office of the Manager of the president and any minister can enter to his office without any permission. He also stopped the welcome ceremonies like the red carpet, the photo session or any personal advertisement or respect of any kind while visiting any place in the country.

Whenever he has to stay in any of the hotels he asks them to make sure not to give him a room with any big bed because he doesn't like to sleep on beds but rather likes to sleep on the floor on a simple mattress with a blanket..

Refer to some of the photographs which also confirm the above. The Iranian president is sleeping in the guest room of his house after getting away from his special guards who follow him wherever he goes and photo is taken by his small brother according to the Wifaq Newspaper which published this photo and the next day the photo was published in most of the world's newspapers and Magazines and particularly the Americans.

During the prayer you can see that he is not sitting in the first row. And the final photo is of his dining room where the president is busy eating his simple meal.

Try comparing this with the emoluments and privileges our ministers get ...... plus the amount they loot

How many Presidents, PMs, Ministers & politicians are willing to SERVE THEIR COUNTRY without making money? ! ! ! "

Jazakullah Khair

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