1426

All the best in 1426! Today is the first day of the new Islamic year, marking 1426 years since Prophet Muhammad migrated from Mecca to Medina, with Sayyidina Abu Bakr as-Siddiq his only traveling companion.
This year, the hijri calendar and the chinese calendar met: yesterday was the Chinese New Year. The end result is a five-day weekend for everybody. Unlike the last two years, there has been no record flooding, no flooding at all for that matter. In fact, I’d say we’re having a drought. It rains every other day or so, but the rains are light and don’t last long. The last two years have seen incessant day-long heavy rains around this time. The clay soils in my backyard are so dry they have cracked open. The trees don’t seem to be suffering yet though.

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Published:: 02.10.05 / 7am

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It has indeed been hot lately. When I had a shower early this morning the water wasn’t really cold. In the past, early morning showers without a heater meant darting in and out of the shower, usually with a few screams. No screams this morning, nor was there any darting. Hot indeed.

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Anwar Ibrahim and the Opposition: Malaysian Seeks End to Decades of Firm Rule - a pretty decent roundup of political developments in Malaysia, from the New York Times.
The Spiritual Aspirant: Sidi Khalil Moore will be in Singapore conducting a workshop for The Spiritual Aspirant, to be held 27 June to 5 July. I had the pleasure to hear Sidi Khalil speak in Detroit back in 2002 in conjunction with the US tour of Habib Ali Al-Jifri. I regret I won't be able to make the short trip across the South China Sea to attend, but I recommend it to anyone in the area. The workshop is being sponsored by Simply Islam, under the capable hands of some of the fine people who put on the Journey to Ihsan event a couple years ago, which I did attend and enjoyed immensely.
Collapse Preparedness: The transition from the USSR to the republic of Russia was a catastrophic event for the people who lived through it. The eventual (imminent?) collapse of the US will be much much worse, warns Dmitry Orlov. The USA has a Collapse Gap. Orlov realizes
that some people will react rather badly to having their country compared to the USSR. I would like to assure you that the Soviet people would have reacted similarly, had the United States collapsed first. Feelings aside, here are two 20th century superpowers, who wanted more or less the same things – things like technological progress, economic growth, full employment, and world domination – but they disagreed about the methods. And they obtained similar results – each had a good run, intimidated the whole planet, and kept the other scared. Each eventually went bankrupt.
Valuable lessons on what to expect and how to prepare follow. Read it yourself, but the condensed advice is this: Live on the margins of society. One encouraging sign that Americans are picking up the skills they will need to survive: haggling at the mall.

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