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Letter of Ramamdan 20-7-2012

2012-07-20

In the Name of God the Most Gracious the Most Merciful

 Praise and Thanks be to God Lord of Mankind, Prayers and Peace be upon the Master of Messengers, His Family and His Companions, until the Day of Recompense 

After Salutations, 

This month is meant to remind people about the great grace when the word was made a light, which meaning was eliminated by the veil of ignorance and forgetting. At the pre-Islamic period, many things used to distract people from the fountains of faith and human nature that his Almighty wanted to grant as a blessing and benediction for them. There were tribes that used to invade and alienate each other, being greedy by the material interests. They fight with an instinctive stimulator for the love of authority, presidency and tribal power. The tribe used to wait for the other tribe with viciousness and greediness, to break the paths and deform the way, and its speaker mocks, slurs and distorts the thoughts.  

As a result, the temporal aspiration has controlled the hearts and characters. Thus, the earth, along with that illusion to acquire the power, both carry a purpose themselves. The God of people was definitely stones and idols, rather idols of desires. 

God his Almighty wanted to hit the wall of the human foolishness with a word taught to His messenger (Prayer be upon him), he said: {Read! In the Name of your Lord who has created (all that exists)}. There was the praise which is among the brilliant verses of God and what we accumulate from His absolute wisdom, preaching, guiding and secret knowledge, aiming at reviving the human soul from a deep sleep and awakening the mind about the reality of the truth, which is a stimulation to repentance, penitence and the return with a pious heart to the beauty of obedience that is solely meant to stimulate the human to reach his perfection and consciousness by realizing his living soul through which the reward of eternity is obtained.  

This happened during a blessed month where the Fasting was imposed on people, so that it would represent a recall, obedience and awareness of this great divine grace. The Fasting carries health and safety to the body, as well as a revival and an awakening of the soul, because it is by the liberation of this latter from the body’s density that it becomes closer to the feelings of mercy, modesty and altruism. Thus, it gets closer to the praise, with a passion to the kindness of the significance. All this gets it closer to the consciousness of the divine presence and the seeking of satisfaction.  

We thank God his Almighty for the grace of this blessed month since it reminds all the people of the doors of mercy, forgiveness, compassion, participation and praised humanitarian convergence. We thank him because, due to our faith and conviction about the secrets of its significances and phenomenon, we call all to have mercy on themselves, their citizens and their nation; because when we receive what his Almighty has rewarded Adam’s sons with, we wonder with pain: What are you doing? What has led you to disparity, stubbornness, aspiration for power and seeking for predominance? What is blinding the hearts from the concept of justice that constitutes the soul of a successful and fruitful reign that preserves the interests and benefits of all people? What made politics in our country incite the one aspiring to an ordinary life to immigrate after having lost any faith in the country and its future? Shouldn’t the beds of the governors be destroyed by the initiative to reform starting with oneself so that we would get to a successful path? 

The blessed Ramadan should be, by the symbol it carries, rather by what it carried of blessings from the graces of God his Almighty, a great occasion through which all the servants gather, starting with the politicians, for the good, rightness and success. There is no obedience to God unless by a sincere intention. For this reason, intentions should be committed to make all the efforts for the sake of Lebanon’s resurrection through the State with its institutions, bodies and administrations, and at first with its united army capable of facing any challenge for its entire entity and resisting the tyrannical Israeli enemy.  

All we can say about this loud crowd that is hitting our nation that we pray with sincerity and obedience, asking his Almighty to inspire the leaders with calmness in governing and to ease every oppressed person. We also ask Him to accept our prayers by putting us on the right path, inspiring all of us to the good, illuminating our hearts to be conscious of the spirit of sincere participation that is meant to lift our country beyond this futility that is about to hit the path of life, motivating mercy in our souls so that it takes conscience of the greatness of His mercy and does not slip to what enrages his Almighty. We ask Him to guard us with the rope of His wisdom, the evidence of His book and the grace of His virtue to be all in the circle of the ones embraced by His satisfaction and pardon. What would be the value of the whole universe if man owns it without His satisfaction and pardon? It is only by this way that our populations gain stability in their obvious right to an ordinary, fair and prosperous life. There is no other way to protect Lebanon including its union, persistence and coexistence and the only way through which our brothers regain stability by reacquiring the factors of the national union and anchoring the rules of reform, justice and effective participation. By these means, we can see with firm hearts the flags of victory rising in Jerusalem and on the earth of Palestine.   

Ramadan 1st, 2012