Grave

This morning, we visited my mum's grave at Tuan Haji Said Cemetery. This has been an annual practice (during or before 'Eid). We did some cleaning of the grave (see pics below). Thereafter, we recited some prayers. May Allah blessed her with His Grace and grant her jannah.

This cemetery is now already closed since it is full. So possibly if I go, I will be buried at the new location in Senawang.

I have not touched in my previous posts, the grave situation of the war in middle east. It has entered the 15th day and it has already impacted the oil prices. Locally, there is already petrol price hike and naturally, soon there will be price hike in other goods. I have been updating my family on the war all this while. I have been listening to many podcasts and commentaries on the war in order to understand what is going on. Despite all the cover stories being given, the objective of the war is to initiate a 'regime change'. But as Scott Ritter has remarked, 'regime change' can cut both ways and we will see how the war unfolds. The other disturbing (hidden) objective is to hasten armaggedon. No muslim would really want to do this as this would mean everyone is subject to a great tribulation. I have also been listening quite frequently to Prof. Jiang whose rising fame for his predictions have made him being sought after by many. I saw many dismissed his ideas as being presumptuous but with all the uncertainties and hidden information, one is simply curious on what his predictions are. I have seen his second interview by Sneako and Sneako's review of his recent lecture and saw how his flow of 'detailed' reasoning and I find it interesting. One of the new things that I have learned is the universal law of game theory:

winning is determined by (mass × energy × coordination)

where mass translates to number of people, energy translates to the motivation or commitment, and coordination is simply how people work together. Prof. Jiang applied this to the current war and some of his predictions are counterintuitive. Like many things, one should only take such predictions with a handful of salt. One prediction that I find disturbing is the destruction of Al-Aqsa Mosque (God forbid), the third holiest site of Islam. As far as my casual search of this matter, there is no authentic hadith that mentions this.

Having touched upon armageddon, I have bought several books on Islamic eschatology in the past. I have dug out this one 30-page booklet a long time ago and left it visibly on my pile of books at my work desk. The book was written in the early 80s and it had this picture.

As I have said before, no sane person (Muslim) would want to see the End Times during one's lifetime due to the great tribulations that come with it. Thus, I would not want to see the current war to initiate the End Times. Nevertheless, a Muslim will usually be on the lookout of major events in this world that might point to the end of the world. Let is be reminded of this hadith:

Even if the Resurrection were established upon one of you while he has in his hand a sapling, let him plant it. (see here)

May Allah help us all.