Salaamun
'alaykum,
Peace
upon you
Some people ask "Why does God allow War to happen?", God allows
Satan to scheme and implement his schemes within limits, God leads
Satan on, in order to incur his just requital along with all those who
followed him. But Satan schemes and God also schemes, God is the Best
Schemer.
As i said before, there are two parallel kingdoms on earth today,
Satan's kingdom which encompasses all those who allow their Jinn
companions to control them (through obsessions, addiction, and
unjustified fears and hates), those who follow their sinful lusts and
desires instead of the absolute values.
On the other hand there is God's kingdom, and it includes all the
sincere around the world who value each moment of their lives, who know
that they are on a mission to redeem themselves, hence there is no time
to waste. War is allowed also for the sincere to redeem themselves
through helping the innocent victims. Through these real people God
sends His mercy to those who deserve it.
Among the real people is one brave young woman through whom God gave us
a great example, a great reminder for those who are wasting their lives
in pursuing their desires and lusts, totally oblivious of a heavy day
ahead, when everybody will be asked what has he prepared to redeem
himself ? Marla Ruzicka, the 28 year old activist who was killed
by a car bomb in Iraq last Saturday will have enough to
redeem herself on that day.
Why did God allow them to kill her? in our limited perception we cannot
see God's wisdom immediately, however since God
states in Quran that all those who die before 40 years of age go
directly to Heaven (check appendix 32 of the authorized english
translation of Quran by Rashad Khlaifa, you can find it online), rest
assured that Marla on April the 16th had had gathered enough
credits to earn her a ticket back to Heaven and that she is now in the
best place she could have ever dreamt of.
[2:154] Do not say of those who
are killed in the cause of GOD, "They are dead."
They are alive at their Lord, but you do not perceive.
April 19, 2005
On Saturday Ms Ruzicka became a casualty herself. A suicide
bomber attacked a convoy of security contractors near her car on
the airport road in Baghdad, killing her, her Iraqi driver and one
other person, US embassy officials in Baghdad said.
Ms Ruzicka had worked in Afghanistan as well as Iraq. She took
great risks, often travelling without guards and armoured cars. She
also had a gift for promoting her cause.
She worked with Senator Patrick Leahy to get $US2.5 million
($3.2 million) for civilian victims in Afghanistan, and later $US10
million for victims in Iraq. Last week another $US10 million was
authorised for the Iraq program.
SFGate.com
Her father, Clifford, a civil
engineer, "She had some rebel in
her," he said. "She didn't like the status quo and wanted to change
injustices where she found them.
From an early age, Ruzicka showed
signs of an adventurous, and at times, defiant, spirit. One night, when
she was 9 years old, she walked away from her family at a local
restaurant and sat down next to an old man, her mother said. "He looked
lonesome," the girl told her relatives.
Ruzicka was elected student body
president in middle school, where she led a walkout to protest the
first Gulf War.
"It didn't surprise me that she was
the ringleader," said Ruzicka's eighth-grade history teacher, David
Laven. "She couldn't understand there was so much poverty in the world,
with so much wealth here. Most kids in eighth grade have no
consciousness of social issues."
Steve Gentry, principal of Clear Lake
High School, recalled how Ruzicka started the school's environmental
club, coached younger kids to play basketball, goaded the school into
doing more to help abused children, and successfully lobbied for a
girls soccer team.
As a teenager, Ruzicka aligned
herself with San Francisco activist group Global Exchange. When the Iraq war started, she
formed the Campaign for Innocent Victims of Conflict, or CIVIC,
deciding that she could accomplish more through less-partisan efforts.
She started spending weeks at a time trying to track down the stories
of Iraqis killed and wounded in the conflict.
Overseas, CIVIC was essentially a
two-person operation, run by Ruzicka and Faiz Ali Salim, an Iraqi
citizen. April Pedersen, who coordinated work in Washington, D.C., for
CIVIC, said the pair found needy victims through Salim's contacts and
through Ruzicka's hospital-by-hospital tallyings.
Ruzicka's parents are collecting
donations for CIVIC in her memory. Checks may be sent to CIVIC, P.O.
Box 1189, Lakeport, CA 95453.
NewsDay
When Marla Ruzicka saw children selling gum to tourists in
Tijuana in
order to feed their families, she emptied her pockets to buy up their
supply.
She was just 9 years old, her mother, Nancy, recalled yesterday in a
telephone interview.
At 15, Ruzicka brought the same concern for others to her high
school
in California, collecting human rights literature from a San Francisco
nonprofit called Global Exchange and inviting a board member to address
her class.
And during her four years at Long Island University's Southampton
campus, from 1995 to 1999, Ruzicka participated in the Friends World
program, which encourages students to get first-hand experience of the
world's problems, and traveled to Costa Rica and Cuba, Kenya and Israel.
[4:69] Those who obey GOD and
the messenger belong with those blessed by GOD -
the prophets, the saints, the martyrs, and the righteous.
These are the
best company.
CIVICworldwide.org
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