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فى واحد كان ماشى فى الشارع لقى الدنيا بتمطر
بص فوق فى السما ملقاش ولا سحابايه
كمل مشى لقى المطر بيخبط على قرعته
مسح قرعته و بص فى السما ملقاش و لا سحابايه
كمل مشى و هو باصص للسما لقى نقط مايه راحت دخله عينيه
مسح دموعه و بص فى السما ملقاش و لا سحابايه
كمل مشى و هو باصص للارض لقى نقط مايه سايبه بصماتها
وقف راجل و سأله هى الدنيا بتمطر قال له لأ
وقف راجل تانى و سأله هى الدنيا بتمطر قال له لأ
وقف راجل تالت و سأله هى الدنيا بتمطر قال له هو انت مجنون
داحنا فى عز الحر و السما مافيهاش سحابايه
راح الراجل سايب الشارع و دخل يقعد على سلالم مدخل عماره
و فضل يبص على الشارع اللى كان ماشى فيه
فلقى ان الدنيا فعلا بتمطر
بس المطر وقف يخبط على دماغه



Why do I fear death?
Because I don't know what death is.
It is really a gift that I don't know the time of my death.
But the computer science professor Randy Pausch knows that he just have a couple of days in his life on our planet.
After watching his last lecture I had to cry…and to think.
Although there are so many inspiring stories out there about death including Reem Abaza's death that caused a buzzing effect lately in Egypt, and a friend of mine who died suddenly the 2nd day of Ramadan 1 hour before the Iftar, this was different.
The 46 years old father has been diagnosed with the end stage of pancreatic cancer.
"As I later told [my doctor], it's unfortunate, and it's unlucky, but it's not unfair. As I always tell my 5-year-old, it's not 'unfair' when you don't get what you want. We all run the risk of getting hit by the cancer dart." ,he said.
Pausch achieved almost all his childhood dreams.
Is it time to leave life?
So he was there in Carnegie Mellon University to give his last lecture and to discuss in front of more than 400 people how to fulfill your childhood dreams...and how "really" to live life.
"What we're not going to talk about today," he said , "is cancer, because I've spent a lot of time talking about that ... and we're not going to talk about things that are even more important, like my wife and three [preschool] kids, because I'm good, but I'm not good enough to talk about that without tearing up."
I am sure every one of us has dreams.
With my monotonous way of living, the on and on manipulation of my environment , the specific goals that have to be achieved and being continuously forced by members of my family and the whole society to fulfill their expectations , I have a bad feeling of never reaching my aims.
This wise professor changed my whole pessimistic idea about this issue.
It is wonderful to know that you have a purpose in life… that you can positively change something in the world…and Prof. Randy is an ordinary person that changed many people's lives.
It was a moment of silence when he courageously showed the whole world the CT images of his tumor…the "thing" that will rip him from his beloved ones.
In the end of the lecture Dr. Pausch surprised his wife with a cake for her birthday.
"The only times I cry are when I think about the kids -- and it's not so much the 'Gee, I'll miss seeing their first bicycle ride' type of stuff as it is a sense of unfulfilled duty -- that I will not be there to help raise them, and that I have left a very heavy burden for my wife."
"My wife and children mean everything to me. They give a purpose to life and a depth of joy that no job [and I've had some of the most awesome jobs in the world] can begin to provide."
Teaching is one of the best things anyone can do…and this man taught me how wonderful life is…and that I have to appreciate life more.
I hope one day I will have the chance to teach someone something.
This is a brave man…when I put myself in his place…well...in my remaining days I would have lived in fear and sadness all day and night…not knowing how I am going to die…and if it is going to be painful.
I am still waiting the phone call that will carry the bad news…the death of my grandmother.
Four or five members in my family know that she has also weeks to live.
She does not know.
Very strange…to hear and see so many touching stories about death…yet I am acting as if I am still the same person and have never been informed about.
First being moved for days or weeks…and then forgetting everything and going back to my seat in the circle of life.
Everyone's story is an inspiration that need to be told...and the first person you should tell him your story is "you".
From now on I will consider death a pleasant event.
His infernal majesty is back…and with a vengeance.
Sometimes I wish I could convince my grandma that is sitting on her sofa and repeatedly crazy listening to Sami Yusuf's "Asmaullah" & "Ya Ommi" and let her listen to "Venus Doom"…yeah…from the start to the end…giving her a unique opportunity to experience gothic opera…and to pass through the ninth gate of hell.
This experiment will prove that you do not have to wear all in black, pierce your lips and let your hair grow to enjoy love metal.
The days of the Baroon Castle…the days of death metal in Cairo…this is now history…isn't it?
I miss these days.
When we talk about a good album…we talk about discovering special moments in each song of the whole album…and fortunately this is the case with the newly released album of HIM.
Of course it is very close to their greater album " Razorblade Romance"…with their masterful and still their best song to date " Join me" ( in Death )…but at least it is not a big disappointment like the cheesy James Blunt's "All the lost souls".
The epic 10 minutes "Sleepwalking Past Hope" is one of my favorite songs…it is a journey…a journey in soul's pain…and a journey through the professional work with music.
Beginning with a beautiful Chopin-piano-like melody…a much darker one than that played in the beginning of "The Sacrament"…followed by heavy electric guitar…your body will surely shiver when the moment comes…the moment when Ville says
In our hearts love keeps sweet-talking to despair

Meditate…and when you realize that life is not what it looks like, you will believe that you need to leave your residence to have the chance to open your eyes…open your eyes to the truth of coexistence.
Globalization of Ummah.
People with different nationalities, different languages, different traditions and different behavior…yet they all are united in peace.
Even animals are left in peace.
Doves fly all around in full confidence…
Butterflies sit on your shoulder…
…and angels look at you.
A young father, a young mother and a 3 years old boy…the father gives his son money…the boy goes happily to the men in blue and gives each one of them 5 SR.
The men in blue look shyly around them to see if there is a grownup watching the whole scene.
A Turkish man buys two KFC meals…one for himself…and the other meal for 2 men in green from Burma.
The Indian man rushes quickly to help an old Syrian woman carrying her bags.
A man in orange from Pakistan waits utterly professional for an unknown man who is sneezing in a paper towel to finish…so he can open the big plastic bag he is holding with his bare hands all day...to throw the unknown man's towel inside
Everyday when I stand alone under the heat of the sun on the side of the highway…I flex my arm with my thumb up wishing for a taxi to see me.
One day a Mercedes car stops and the man inside asks me: where do you want to go?
I answer: Haram…5 SR.
He smiles and says: Haram yes…but with no money.
I could not believe myself…I feel humbled.
The other day a Cherokee stops and the same scenario happens…and the other day…and so on.
Goodness is deep rooted in the human nature…respect, tolerance and understanding can happen instantly without the need of anything, people just need to forget politics, money and…and…and never talk about religion…because it is this precious thing that is deep seated inside everyone's heart…and comes out in the form of love…the love of everything…it happens simply just like that
It is the time of Iftar…I suddenly find 4 different hands full with food directed towards me…I do not know them and they do not know me…I thank them all and I take the food…it tastes delicious.
A 5 years old girl with a beautiful veil comes then with a cup of Zamzam water…she gives it to me...I drink the water…look to Kaaba…and thank God that I am here…in the best place on earth.
المهزله تبتدى من باب المطار لما يجوا المصريين اللى طالعين عمره بكل الاهل و الاصدقاء و الاحباء و يلا نبتدى نحضن و نبوس فى بعض و لما ادى اشاره تزغرتى زغروتايه صوغانونايه وشويش خالص مالص بس تهز كل المطار علشان انتم عارفين احنا فى المطار و مش عاوزين حسد ، و تنطلق الزغاريت و العفاريت و كل الاجانب تنظر الى حفل الزفاف الجماعى و بيصوروا مش كاميرا بس لأ فيديو كمان ، و كله لابس ابيض فى ابيض علشان غاسلينه بكلوروكس و بالمناسبه اريال طلع احسن من برسيل ، و احنا استحمينا و بقينا فل الفل و يلا بينا مع بعضينا على الطياره لاحسن تفوتنا و تبقى مصيبه و باى باى يا مصر و مع السلامه و ياريت مانشوفكيش تانى و نموت بقه و نخلص و احنا بانطوف علشان زهقنا بقه من العيشه النكد دى و الاسعار خلاص مولعه و المدارس على الابواب و ندخل احس الجنه حتف
ما فيش اى حد صوته عالى فى الحرم غير صوت الامام و صوت المصريين...لو لقيت اتنين قاعدين ادام بعض فى وش بعض و بيصرخوا فى بعض و هما بيتكلموا يبقى اعرف ان دول مصريين ... على فكره ده لازم يتعالج فورا... فى حاجه غلط فى الفوليوم بتاع حبالنا الصوتيه عاوزه تظبيت... اصل احنا متعودين على الصويت و الولوله... و احلى منظر لما واحده ماسكه الموبايل بالمشقلوب و بتكلم مصر من الحرم و بتصرخ و هي بتبص للسقف علشان اللى هناك فى مصر يسمعها...فتصور وليه بتنادى لوليه مصريه فى الحرم و بتقول لها تعالى هنا لقيتلك مكان...تقوم قايلالها... طب انا جايه اهو... مش عارفه اقفل المحمول... و البازابورط حايوقع منى... ايوووه
كل مره احلف انى عمرى ما حاركب مصر للطيران دى تانى... برضه الاقى نفسى فيها مش عارف ازاى... عبيط انا بقه... و فعلا بقه ده عن تجارب عديده... فعلا مصر للطيران دى تانى اوحش وسيله مواصلات فى العالم... التأخير هو شعارها... و الخدمه المهمله هى ادائها... و المضيفه فاكره نفسها واو حلوه صاروخ و هى اساسا شبه قفاها بس بالالوان... و تجيب لى الاكل و هى متوتره مش عارف ليه... ما تتوتريش يا حبيبتى.. دى اول مره تركبى فيها طياره و الا ايه...اول ما حطت الاكل و لسه بقول بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم و حاكول الاقيها بتشيل الاكل من ادامى... طب احلف بقيه ان ده حقيقه مش تأليف... قال ايه بتبتسملى ابتسامه خضراء و تقول لى ... ايام ثورى ... و ايام مصرى ياختى... ايام ثورى الطياره حاتهبط... طب ما جبتيش الاكل من بدرى ليه و انت عارفه ان الطياره حاتهبط... جاتك هبطه فى قلبك
اثبتت الدراسات الحديثه ان مرض بلوجاوى سيندروم بدأ فعليا فى الانتشار بشكل ملحوظ و غريب بين صفوف المدونين ، و مما لا شك فيه ان بلوجاوى سيندروم اصبح يشكل تهديدا خطيرا على الساحه البلوجيه و لاسيما فى الشرق الاوسط و تحديدا حول حوض البحر النهرى النيلوى... بالبلدى يعنى فى مصر
انا لسه جاى من الجامع اللى بصلى فيه الجمعه... و حاسس ان جه الوقت انى ابتدى اصلى فى حته تانيه... بالرغم ان الجامع ده الاقرب و تحت البيت... و الناس بتجيله مشى و بالعربيات من حتت كتيره علشان سمعته الجامده فى المنطقه... و قال ايه بيسموه جامع تيك اوى... او الجامع اللى بيخلص بسرع...بيخلص فى السريع... بدرى بدرى... يمكن عندك مشوار...يمكن مستعجل...يمكن تعبان و صاحى يا عينى يوم الجمعه الصبح و لسه ما فطرتش الفول و البيض بالبسطرمه و الشاى بالنعناع حايبرد...يمكن عازم ناس على الغدا و لازم تروح تشترى طلبات البيت من السوبر ماركت... و يمكن عاوز تروح النادى فى يوم اجازتك و تنزل البيسين... اصل احنا فى زمن بيجرى بسرعه... و صلاه الجمعه لازم تواكب العصر المتطور السريع...و فعلا مسجد تيك اواى بيقدم الخدمه دى لكل المتأخرين و المستعجلين
ياااه ايام زمان...لما كانت صلاه الجمعه دى بالنسبالى حدث...و كنت اقعد استمتع بخطبه الجمعه..اللى الخطيب كان بيتكلم فيها عن امور بتمس كل واحد فينا...كان خطبه الجمعه دى هى الحاجه اللى بتفكر الواحد مره فى الاسبوع ان الدنيا دى زائله...و ان الواحد لازم يراجع نفسه... و يستغفر ربنا...كانت الخطبه دى الخطيب بيقول آرائه عن الاحداث اللى بتحصل فى العالم من حوالينا...و كنت لما ارجع من الصلاه مع جدو نقعد على الترابيزه مع العيله كلها نتشاور و نتكلم عن الخطبه اللى سمعناها...و لما نطلع من الجامع نقعد شويه مع الجيران و نتكلم فى امور الحياه...و كنت باسيبهم ثانيه اروح اشترى مجله ميكى اللى كانت رخيصه زمان... زمان بقه
بمناسبه انتهاء موسم (التنطيط ثم القذف) و بعد ما اتضحك علينا انا و صحابى و اخدنا بومبه احب ان اعرضلهم جزء من محاضره مدام فوزيه سوتيان من ندوه "كيف تربى حيواناتك المنويه" خلال فعاليات المؤتمر الثالث لاكاديميه الطهاره
Prof. G invited me to his house for dinner.
He wanted to introduce his girlfriend to me.
She is an Algerian girl in her early twenties.
I was amazed by the fact that he is sharing a small apartment with a man and a teenage boy, but is planning to buy a big house when he is ready for marriage.
While we were eating she started to talk about the difficult condition she was facing as an Arab girl that fell in love with a French Professor, or the other way round.
They solved all their other problems including the cultural differences and that he is much older than her, but there was a big problem still burning on the surface of their relationship.
She wants him to become a Moslem.
It was obvious that neither her family nor her community will accept marrying a non-Moslem man.
She tried several times to show him the beauty of Islam, to explain to him all the misconceptions about this religion and how this step will move their relationship to another level, which is marriage.
My Professor was totally convinced that this religion is all about peace and that it came to organize and enlighten people's lives and minds.
But he had only one problem, or maybe many things that he did not understand about this religion. He wanted me to clarify it to him.
This was like an explosion of questions heading towards me.
If I become a Moslem, why can't I change my religion and go back to Christianity?
Why should I be sentenced for death?
Why should my children become automatically Moslems?
Why can't they choose their religion when they are grownups?
Where is the freedom of belief?
Why can't a Moslem woman marry a non-Moslem man, but a Moslem man can marry a Christian or a Jewish woman?
His girlfriend tried to explain to him that Islam wants to protect the religion, so the children must be like their father, and if the father is not a Moslem, then how will they learn the basics of Islam, who will teach them the religion.
Children always mimic their parents.
She gave him another argument by telling him that this religion is not something to play with, if it was easy to convert from Islam to something else then this could scatter the religion's structure and strip away the bonds of the Islamic communities. This will be like an act of treason against the Ummah.
Furthermore we Moslems believe in Jesus and Moses, but you don't believe in Prophet Mohammed (Pbuh).
I looked to Prof. G and could not say a word.
Actually I was surprised with the whole conversation.
To be honest I was not prepared for something like this.
It seemed like the man wanted me to solve this dilemma, or at least find a way out of it.
But I failed.
I had so much sympathy for the girl because she was trying so hard to make the man understand her.
I was not satisfied with myself because I could not help her.
I could see it in his eyes, he was a little disappointed because at that time he felt that this relationship will never work.
I would never dare to ask him about the development of their relationship now.
While she was talking I had a strange thought running in my mind.
I put myself in his position and tried to think the way he was thinking and I felt "fear".
If I had to take this big step and convert to a religion when I know that it is a one way direction-I can not turn back-I doubt I will take this critical step in my life.
We changed the subject when his apartment- mate entered the dinner room.
On my way home I was sad and had to have this short dialogue with my heart:
Islam depends upon faith and will, about really believing in the concepts of this religion, and this would be meaningless if she forced him to become a Moslem as she was doing at that time.
Conversion should not happen with coercion.
Why should I kill someone who did not do any harm to me or to my community?
Who gave you the right to take away something so precious like the soul of a human being?
And what will the Islam gain from an act like that? Justice?
"He will be invited to express his regret for leaving Islam, and if he refuses he will be executed according to the obligations and rights of the Islamic law."
How will foreigners think about Islam now? As a heavy burden that is connected to death?
Islam is "Salam" or peace, god is merciful and killing shows the opposite of forgiveness.
Who knows, maybe after some time he will realize that he has done a mistake and will return back to Islam ?
If we kill him, then he will never have this chance again.
Or do we see that killing him is a way to help him "washing" this big sin.
Here comes the fact or the question: After his death he will return to god as a "Moslem"!?
Like someone who stole something and his hand has been cut.Now he will "not" carry the sin of stealing with him to the grave.
Religion is a pure relationship between the slave "the human being" and god, and no one should evaluate or intrude himself in this very personal connection.
And then I remembered some friends of mine in Egypt who are Moslems but do not do anything related to Islam like praying or fasting.
Are they Moslems too?
Maybe one of them is an atheist, did not tell anyone and kept this secret to himself.
Why shouldn't he talk about his apostasy in public?
But another one can talk about his conversion to Islam?
Should he be executed because he is living in an Islamic country?
What is an Islamic country?
Is Egypt an Islamic country?
Should he leave Egypt if he is not a Moslem or a Christ or a Jew?
God can make everyone in the world a Moslem if Almighty God wants.
There is a deep meaning in the differences between people.
This is life.
To imagine the situation back in the early years of Islam when there were so many wars and it was of so much importance to enlarge the size of the Islamic nation and to strengthen the power of Islam by letting more and more people join this religion, one can understand what happened back at that time.
If one converted from Islam to another religion and fought against Moslems, which means on the other side with the enemies of Islam, it was "then" logic to kill him.
So Moslems did not kill him for his apostasy, but because he was "an enemy" who started to fight against them.
Is there a difference between a man who was born in a Moslem family and decided in his adolescence to become an atheist and a man that was an atheist and decided to embrace the Moslem faith and then became an atheist again? Should both be sentenced for death?
What about ex-Moslem monotheists? Should they be treated the same as ex-Moslem polytheists?
The Quran came to the human being to tell them about Islam in a logical way, in a way that makes sense.
But there are things that you can't find an explanation for.
Like why should Moslems pray five times a day?
Where is god?
Why is it forbidden to eat pork even if it is clean?
Some people can say that the death sentence for an apostate is another thing we just have to accept without arguing or thinking.
Others will say that this dramatic consequence of apostasy is a kind of warning to the person who wants to convert to Islam that is telling him to think twice (and rethink) before taking this decision.
Can't you see what is happening between two poles in the same religion...Sunnis and Shia?
This year I heard about Baha'i faith, Quranists, Egyptian Christians who converted to Islam but want to convert back to Christianity and ex-Moslems who are atheists and I say to myself: what a chaos. It is exactly like Lulu.
If we let those people do what they want, then…then what?
The country and the whole world will collapse?
So there is a connection between state and religion, or let's say politics and religion.
I thought religion was about an individual.
An individual who acts and lives according to his beliefs and morals.
An individual who knows what is wrong and what is right and accordingly affects his surroundings in a positive way.
His surroundings include his family and the community he lives in.
And a good individual and another good individual will make a good nation…an Ummah.
Why should religion be connected to the government?
Am I a secularist now?
This is if we think about the message of Islam from a Moslem's point of view.
But if I am an atheist, or a Buddhist, why should I follow your rules, the rules of Islam.
I have my own rules.
I have my own morals.
For instance: for you it is forbidden to drink alcohol and to have premarital sex. But for me it is not. Why do you want to punish me? Because I am the minority living among a powerful and dominant Islamic community?
Because you think you are right and I am wrong?
I see that I am right and you are wrong.
But I respect your point of view.
Why can't you respect mine?
Where is the freedom?
When I come to this magical word "freedom" I just have to stop thinking, because I tried so many years to find a real definition for "freedom".
Maybe one day I will know.
For now I have a better idea.
Why don’t we just erase the religion part in the identity card and let everyone do what he wants to do, and believe what he wants to believe as long as he doesn’t hurt anyone.
Will you act with him differently if you know his religion?
Religion is something between you and god.
It is no one's business, and only god will decide who will go to heaven and who will go to hell.
If I were an atheist, I would never mention the latter.