Terra Preta

Jan 30, 2010 by zen non
(sambungan dari pos Masalah Dunia)

Terra preta do indio nama diberi, tanah hitam India nama serasi. Terra preta ditemui oleh seorang ahli kaji tanah Belanda bernama Win Sombroek (1).
Tanah ini tersebar bertumpuk-tumpuk di serata Lembangan Sungai Amazon di dalam Tanah Amozonia.  Luas setiap tumpukan adalah di antara dua ke tiga ekar dan ada juga yang mencapai keluasan 30-40 ekar. Lapisan tanah hitam ini seumpama tahi lalat pada kulit manusia yang mulus. Hitam yang tebal menyimpan rahsia. Rahsia dibongkar oleh seorang anak petani yang zaman kanak-kanaknya telah menempuhi kebuluran ketika Perang Dunia Kedua.
Sebidang tanah hitam ini lebih subur daripada tanah Amazon biasa di sekelilingnya. Ketebalan dua meter (6.5 kaki) bunga tanah terra preta kaya dengan zat-zat makanan utama untuk tumbuhan. Oleh yang sedemikian, tumbuhan yang hidup di atas tanah Amazon biasa lebih kerdil berbanding tumbuhan yang membesar dengan terra preta. Bukanlah suatu yang memeranjatkan pun apabila kita mengetahui bahawa bunga tanah Amazon biasa hanyalah setebal 20cm(8 inci) sahaja.

Penemuan Win Sombroek dipandang serius oleh saintis-saintis tanah sedunia. Setelah digali, didapati isi kandungan terra preta adalah arang, sisa makanan, sampah sarap, periuk pecah dan sebagainya bercampur-campur dengan tanah biasa. Tanah hitam ini dibuat oleh manusia kira-kira dua ribu tahun lampau oleh kaum-kaum yang menghuni Amazonia ketika itu. Suatu penyelesaian lama untuk menyuburkan tanah gersang kini mungkin menjadi jawapan kepada krisis makanan dunia.
Tanah ini hampir saja kukatakan sama dengan tanah bakar di Malaysia kalau bukan kerana keluasan dan ketebalan terra preta. Apa yang dilakukan oleh datuk nenek kita dahulu untuk melupuskan sampah adalah dengan pembakaran. Tanah sisa bakaran sampah ini kemudian digunakan sebagai medium tanaman. Sudah pastilah mereka tidak tahu bahawa sisa karbon yang terperangkap dalam tanah bakar boleh memerangkap mineral seperti fosforus, kalsium, zink dan mangan yang menjadi pemangkin pembiakan pelbagai jenis mikroorganisma di dalam tanah. Apa yang mereka pasti tanah bakar sebegini amat baik untuk tanaman.
Sambil menyelam minum air, begitulah kaedah pembikinan terra preta mampu merevolusikan agrikultur sedunia. Revolusi hijau kini berwarna hitam. Kalau kita mampu melaksanakannya. Namun halangan kita pastilah kebimbangan kepada pembakaran terbuka.  Sampah sehari sebuah bandaraya kalau dibakar mau sebulan baru selesai. Lalu pasti ada suara yang berkata, “Hey, kau membebaskan gas berbahaya!” Lantas satu ilham bakal jadi retorik yang sia-sia.


Manusia itu istimewa kerana berakal dan mampu membuat pilihan.  Akan tetapi manusia menghasilkan banyak sampah. Setiap saat kulit manusia mati lalu luruh. Setiap hari manusia menggunakan tandas. Setiap masa manusia membuang sampah secara sedar atau tidak. Arkian ilmu pengurusan sampah adalah suatu fardhu yang wajar dipelajari dan diamalkan setiap insan dalam setiap penempatan. Pulau Singapura misalnya menguruskan sampah dengan melambakkan di pinggir laut bersama-sama pasir. Lambakan sampah ini lalu membentuk Pulau Semakau. Kita pula menguruskan sampah dengan melambakkan di kawasan-kawasan pelupusan sampah yang diwartakan pihak berkuasa. Bukit-bukit sampah ini jika digunakan untuk membuat terra preta nova dengan teknologi pembakaran kurang oksigen pasti menghasilkan berlori-lori tanah yang subur. Ini ialah suatu cabaran inovasi kepada saintis-saintis kita. Sedarlah kita hanya  sepersepuluh tanah subur sahaja yang memberi makan kepada 6,980,864,950 manusia di bumi pada ketika ini.
(1. NGC: September 2008, Page 100, Our Good Earth, The Future Rest On The Soil Beneath Our Feet. Can We Save It?)

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Masalah Dunia

Jan 29, 2010 by zen non







Dunia ini bakal kekurangan makanan. Tanda-tanda kecil sudah pun kelihatan. Mesej ini bukan satu ugutan. Malah senang kukatakan hanya satu persinggahan.

Apabila berjalan manusia perlukan makanan. Lima bijiran makanan utama. Lima bijiran untuk merentas benua. Lima bijiran mungkin ditaburkan oleh baginda ayahanda.

Seperti manusia, haiwan ruminan juga makan bijiran. Seandainya manusia itu bijaksana, pastikan dia mengurangi makan daging. Mungkin hingga ke tahap sebulan sekali. Maka hasilnya adalah permintaan daging yang kurang. Selanjutnya mencukupkan bekalan bijiran untuk semua dari Peru hingga ke Afrika.

War-warkan ikan sebagai sumber protein utama. Selain mempromosikan kekacang seperti soya dan tanah hitam bernama "terra preta".
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Prepare for Battle and The Story of The Name of Allah in Arab History

Jan 6, 2010 by zen non

2. Weather
3. Terrain

4. Superior Command Structure (foreknowledge, spy, deception, tactics and strategies)

5. Doctrine and Morality of the Army

My respect and graciousness to the Prophet Muhammad SAW as a general of war is far greater than a thankful peasant humbly bow to a king.

He walked the path of many great kings before him who had gone to war either to protect or to attack. Although he never learned from Sun Tzu, the great teacher of war; but yet he himself was a knowledgable warrior winning his fight that spanned for two decades past three years. He approached battles after battles with a single mission in mind. His mission was not to established himself, but to a greater cause of establishing a faith.

The faith is to Allah. Allah means The God. The God that Arab ancestors call upon. However, many years passed by and somewhere around 2nd AD the Arabs started to accept gods in forms that they could worship. Idols.
Amr bin Luhay from the tribe of Khuza'ah was a respected leader whose words were always taken as law in Mecca. Once he travelled to as-Sham (Syria, Palestine, Lubnan and Jordan) and he saw some idols. At that time, people in As-sham spoke Aramaic and were the descendants of the Nabateans race.

1He asked the people, "what are these?"

They replied, " These are intermediate between us and Allah. If we want rain, then we asked them. They will appeal on our behalf to Allah. When we want to ask for rain we ask them, they'll appeal for us. Whe we want children we will go to a different idol. In war there are idol. They'll appeal on our behalf to God and they perform things for us."

Amr said," Excellence. This is what we need. We need someone to appeal to our Lord to provide us with rain, to provide us with wealth, how about you hand me one of these idols so I can take it back home." Then they gave him a pretty big idol named Hubal which meant spirit in Aramaic.
Amr brought it back and put it next to Kaabah. (some says on top)He told his people "This will intercede on your behalf to Allah. Ask it whatever you want."

Thereafter, the Arabs in Mecca started adopting the believes of the pagans of the north and its spread like wildfire when pilgrims came from all around the Arabian peninsular. Hundreds of idols surrounded the Kaabah. The concept of idol in the Hijjaz of Arab continued to grow and soon it became business. Arabians began innovating. They made idols that were able to be displayed at home and smaller portable idols that were easy to carried around. Idols were easily accepted by the Arabs of Mecca maybe due to the influential status of Amr bin Luhay and also the wealth that they had brought along.

Polytheism that the Arabs started to adopt angered The God. First The God Allah with His mercy sent a man to remind His subjects, that He is the King of All Kings, the only deity worthy of worship. But the message was denied by most of them. Then Allah commanded His messenger to prepare for battle. For when the enemy strike, His believers could protect themselves.

The name of the messenger is none other than Muhammad ibnu Abdullah ibnu Abdul Mutalib ibnu Hashim, truly the true chosen one, the last prophet of Allah, the bearer of the holy words of the Quran. He carried the weight of the world when he was commanded to spread the message of submission to the one Allah to everyone else from his time until the end of time.
"Dig thaibah (the pure),"

"Dig the precious,"

"Dig Zamzam,

Zamzam,

It will never fail or dry up,

It'll water the grand pilgrims,

It lies between the dung and the blood,

Near the nest of the crow with the white leg and the ant's nest."
– voices from 3 consecutive days of Abdul Mutallib dreams. 



References
1. Stories of the prophet\The Life of Muhammad (PBUH) (Makkan Period) By Imam Anwar Al-Awlaki mp3\CD3 - The Religious Situation Of Pre-Islamic Arabia

Apa ada dalam Kaabah?
Muhammad The Holy Prophet, Hafiz Ghulam Sarwar (Pakistan), p 18-19
Cerita Ustaz Harun Din masuk Kaabah
Belongings of Mohammad S.A.W مقتنيات الرسول (ص)اhttp://www.chillnite.com/rare-picture-of-holy-kaaba-from-inside
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