And then, I had a lightbulb moment go off
What if this was Karma? What if this was fa kamaa tadeenu tudaan Israel "stole" Palestinian land and currently occupies it in a brutal way? Maybe it's Karma, benevolent karma weliba, because, at the very least, the Palestinian are not being enslaved, sold as concubines, castrated on a systematic basis, <------- all of which is things we, as Muslims, have done to countless human beings over the 1400 years and in 3 different continents.
France occupied Algeria for 130 years? OK, at least they didn't occupy it for, 8 centuries, like the Ay-rabs and Ber-Bers did to Iberian Spain. 130 years < 800 years. Math, bro, math. Numbers 'n shid.
Even we as Somalis are not immune from the corrective powers of Karma: Witness the dhil, dhac, & kufsi that has befallen Somali people not just in East Africa but in distant and far lands where we are refugees. Witness the relentless tribal slaughter that reached it's apogee in the late 80's and early 90', where you and your family would be murdered by brave pious Somali-Muslims(who, let's not forget, are going to heaven, as opposed to the "filthy gaalo" social/aid/charity worker who will burn in heaven for eternity. /s) on the basis of yaa tahay. On the basis of fictional lineage, you would lose your life & property.
<---------- Maybe all of that was Karma's way of saying: "Soomaali Maxamed ee faradheer, thee who hath thought thy are "special" and "superior" with thy "aristocratic acquiline features"(lol, like legit LOL), thee who hath enslaved & subjugated thy fellow mankind, the Somali Bantus and other fellow Africans; thee who hath sold them "down the river" to thy religious kinfolk, the hairy Ay-rabs of the barren deserts; thee who hath oppressed, subjugated, raped, and murdered Somali Bantus for centuries, shalleth now reap a small taste of the horrors thou & thy hath inflicted on the innocents; for the Eye of Karma is ever-patient and doth not forget, until it thunders down upon thee and thy descendants with the vengeance of a raging flood that doth sweepeth all that is in it's path" (admit that, that was some righteous writing, innit?)
Now, from a theological perspective, a Quranic ayah clearly states: "Walaa taziru waaziratun wazri ukhraa" A soul shall not bear and be held responsibe for the sins of another. So, that kinda sounds like a categorical refutation and rejection of the concept of Karma.
But not so fast, Koolay Cali Banjar, not. so. fast. For another Quranic ayah doth sayeth: "wa'taqoo fitnatun laa tuseeban al'latheena thalamaooo minkum khaasa" Fear a fitna/triblation that wil not be inflicted on only the guilty.
A tribulation that will not only be inflicted on the guilty(implied: but it will also be inflicted on the innocent as well). Is it possible that is what happened the Muslims of Andalus? That they are paying for all of the murder & rape & slavery that the Ay-rabs who burst out of the bowels of Arabia, along with the Ber-Bers and Tur-kiks in the 7th/8th/9th inflicted on not just Spain, but entire regions and countless of human beings for centuries?
It sure does look like it. Nothing happens in a vacuum. Nothing. In my teens, I had a Greek coworker who was fresh off the boat, and off the jump, yo,I noticed he had a very cold demeanor towards me, at times bordering on hostility. And it was only years later, that another Greek coworker told me why that was: The Ottoman Empire brutally subjugated Greece for centuries which culminated in the Greek genocide* early in the 20th century. I like to think of myself as extremely well-read, but even I didn't know that. I was walking around self-satisfied that I'm some sorta Human Encyclopedia #humblebrag, especially when it comes to history(my specialty), but I had no clue that my fellows in faith, the Ottoman Empire, inflicted centuries of occupation & subjugation on the Greek people, including my coworker's grandparents, hence his hostility, Sidaas oo kale, I will never forget the look of anger & disgust a Somali Bantu that I used to play soccer with gave me when he thought I was Habar-Gidir(wal ciyaathu billah.....just kidding, or am I?
). The conversation went something like this:Gives me a look of intense anger and disgust: "Wallahi billahi adiga waa ku aqaanaa, Habar-gidir aa uu ektahay,"
I was all like: "chiiilll, fam, yo relaaaax. I ain't no effin Habar-Gidir"
He be like: "Saxiib, been aa ii sheegoysaa, ha inkirin waxaa aa tahay"
After finally convincing him that I was not Habar-gidir, not even close, he opened up: Habar-Gidir militia, who knows, maybe they were the Madar-kicis militia of The Mahdi & Taliye AW252, killed his uncle, dragged him off a bus, and shot him point-blank, just for kicks, in front of his eyes; he was 6 years old. They also raped women from his tuulo in Shabelle. The brave heroic USC freedom fighters that toppled the evil dictator Siad Barre!!! The brave heroic freedom fighters(all jabhads included, not just USC) that starved Somalia to a famine, forcing the world to act and intervene, yaa salaaam!.
Point being, the centuries long subjugation of the Somali Bantu by the lamagoodle/faradheer/laandheer(aka Beesha Caqli-Dugaag), and more importantly, our critical engagement in the slave trade where countless of innocent human beings where shipped from Somali ports ranging from Zeylac and Berbera in the north to Kismaayo in the SOuth, has to be accounted for. We can't just raise the flag of independence in 1960, idolize the tribal chieftain Maxamed Cabdullahi Xasan, and just wash our hands of the past. Naaaaaaaaaaaah, homie. Gotta pay the fuckin' pied piper, feel me? Gotta bring balance back to The Force, and there is & was a SEVERE imbalance that the eyes of History attest to: Hence, the corrective actions of Karma: Civil War. Dhil, Dhac, Kufsi, Famine. Drought. Anarchy.
Now, I understand that many of you reading this, are card-carrying members of Beesha Caqli-Dugaag, and that you have given up your God-given intellect in favor of archiac religious dogma & "traditional culture", but just think about it: What kind of world would we be living in if the Ay-rabs of the 7th/8th/9th century and the Pur-shans of the 10th/11th/12th century and the Turks of the 13th/14th/15th/16th/17th century had adopted and implemented progressive & liberal policies, liberal shit like: "don't enslave anybody, bro, yeah, yeah, i know it's *technically* allowed, but we can just pronounce it mansookh(abrogated); it's just not a nice thing to enslave another human, fuck(rape) them, or sell them in the market like they were cattle. That's just not humane, bro. And, you know, don't carry out collective punishments like the mass executions & mass enslavement that happened to Bani Quraytha of Medina because that's something only the Nazis would do(and did) during WWII where they would exterminate entire villages in the name of "justice". And maybe we can announce universal human rights, right now in the 7th century bro, here in Arabia, land of the liberals and home of humanity, so that means no more jizya and all that jazz, we can also declare jizya to be mansookh, all human beings are equal in every way, and are entitled to freedom of thought, speech, & belief that no authority can transgress on., that's what i'm sayin doe, brooooo/akhiiiiiii"
I would venture to say that if the 7th century Ay-rabs did enact and adopt those liberal & progressive policies, we would live in a much different world. Karma would not have to issue it's horrific corrective actions
But they didn't. Instead, what they did was hold on to fucked up dogma, refuse to reform it and insist on a pedantic-literal reading of it, which gave them the permission to engage in fucked up Imperio-Colonial behavior, like invading & occupying Spain/NorthAfrica/Egypt/Shaam/Persia/India for centuries and kidnapping and exporting, as sex-slaves, young girls to cities all over the Muslim world, including the "holy lands" like Makkah, Madina, and Jerusalem. Imagine open-air slave markets being conducted in "holy-lands". Imagine you walking around examining & fondling the thighs & breasts of female slaves as they are on display like red-light district of Amsterdam, except in Amsterdam they are their on their own free will, while the blessed pious Companion Abdullahi bin Umar forcbibly fondles and molests a female slave declaring her as "nothing but mercandise"(quote: inamaa hiya sil'ca) as the athaan for salaadul duhur is called. Man, wouldn't it be great to be living in those blessed spiritual times /s.
And so, I think we need to seriously examine the possibility, that EVERYTHING that has befallen and happened to the Muslim Ummah over the past 2 centuries, from the European colonization & subjugation, to the rivers of sectarian bloodshed(still ongoing), to the atrocious state of development & backwardness, is actually just a small fraction of Karmic payback, a Corrective Action, for all of the invasion & occupation, along with the ever-present murder, rape & slavery, that has been committed in the name of Islam starting from the very first Rashidun Caliphate army that headed north to Mesopotamia & the Levant, motivated by the exact same things that has motivated all Empires before it and after it: Greed & Lust: lust for sex, as well as lust for riches and lust for power & dominion over other human beings)
But, you know what, that's a tall order, it's asking too much. Much better that we just insist that we are "special" and "God's chosen people" who will enter heaven while everybody else(including James Dahl & Grant) will burn in hell, /sarcasm. Because if we start going down this road, the road of owning responsibility, and when possible, making amends for our brutal history and the brutality we inflicted on countless of people, from the mass executions of Banu Qurayza* to the Armenian Genocide** and everything in between, well, our flimsy House of Cards will collapse.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Banu_Qurayza (Note:When we do collective punishment, it's ok, because, you know, we're "special" But when the Nazis do the exact same thing it's proof positive of their inhumane savagery. Can you not see how much better and superior we are to the Nazis, akhi?)
**https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide Note:(As Shirib noted on another thread, what happened to the Armenians wasn't our fault as Muslims, because it was carried out by ethnic Turks who enlisted the aid of Ay-rabs, both who just so happen to be Muslim, but hey bro, it's totally not our fault, just like what happened to Banu Qurayza isn't our fault either, cuz they had it coming you know, kinda like the Armenians had it coming too; because they were engaged in treason, akhi, and the punishment for treason is...........collective death & mass execution????
