How can Jews forget when their prayers for rain recall the favors of God to Abraham, Isaac, Solomon, David, Moses and the twelve tribes and end like this?
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By Anwer Khan | June 17, 2015
I am a die-hard Californian, my dream state for which I migrated in 1970 from my home country. I hear, read, watch and understand the thousands of people giving a bleak future of my state in the light of existing drought. New York Times, at least pointed out that the entire nation owe to California for all the walnuts they enjoy, yet the almonds they share at the feasts, the alfalfa sprouts, what to talk of the greatest commodity, grapes giving 70% of world wine. What an apt and brilliant headline, The New York Times came up with: “ The average American consumes more than 300 gallons of California water each week by eating food that was produced there” (5/21/2015).
California – the vegetable basket of the world is in water crisis for the last four years, yet continues to be the benevolent arm to provide rich and wholesome share to the world with the best walnuts, almonds, grapes, vegetables, avocados that billions of people enjoy round the world.
Timothy Egan in NY Times, May 1, 2015 issue stated: “Of course, there is nothing normal about the fourth year of the great drought: According to climate scientists, it may be the worst arid spell in 1,200 years. For all the fields that will go fallow, all the forests that will catch fire, all the wells that will come up dry, the lasting impact of this drought for the ages will be remembered, in the most exported term of California start--‐ups, as a disrupter.
“We are embarked upon an experiment that no one has ever tried,” said Gov. Jerry Brown in early April, in ordering the first mandatory statewide water rationing for cities.
Among the scores of suggestions to avert this condition include the five--‐ point action plan suggested by Time Magazine, including drip irrigation, Xeriscaping, desalinization, water cycling and household conservation. (Jan.2014 by Bary Walsh), of course, our Governor’s astute observation and a great mandatory conservation plan and several others are all great, if adopted may substantially benefit the situation.
What I am about to propose is an individual action plan that will not cost a dime yet may very well address the situation beyond one’s imagination. This was tested out by hundreds of noble Divine men in the history again and again and is true to the letter even today as I write this small and humble suggestion. Let me share a few examples from the history and a very recent example in Los Angeles area where this method was adopted, and it blew the previous charts and records.
How can Christians and Jews forget the period of Elijah 874--‐841 BCE, when a long drought of seven years was lifted by the ardent and deep prayers of Elijah who beseeched the Creator of the rains to bestow the badly needed rains. In no time, God the Merciful averted the long drought and created a state of flooding that in turn was also changed due to his prayers. What a powerful tool indeed!
How can Buddhists forget the City, Vesali that was drought stricken (563--‐485 BCE) and promptly changed to a city of luscious green by the prayers of the noble Siddhartha Buddha?
Yes the Zoroastrians are too familiar with Tishtar Yasht When they ardently prayed, and the Mighty winds gave rise to immense rains.
They may repeat this today and God the Merciful will bestow the Californians the needed rain, He is the one who has provided the lion’s share of all the produce in the first place, it is to HIM we implore for help.
Muslims recall as a vivid occurrence when a fellow came to Prophet Mohammad and during the sermon reminded of the dismal state of crops and livestock due the state of drought, only Mohammad had to request earnestly the bestower of rain to open the gates of the clouds to humongous rainfall.
Yes! Dear Californians! That God is ALIVE and listen to our prayers as He always did.
How can Jews forget when their prayers for rain recall the favors of God to Abraham, Isaac, Solomon, David, Moses and the twelve tribes and end like this? For You are Hashem, our God, Who makes the wind blow and makes the rain descend.
The One Billion Indians may recall Parjanya – the God of Rain how the Avatars prayed to the God to seek rains in the time of droughts. Let us repeat this hymn: “Lift up the mighty vessel, pour down water, and let the liberated streams rush forward. Saturate both the earth and heavens with fatness, and for the cows, let there be drink abundant.”
The 2.0 billion Catholics may repeat this prayer: O God, in Whom we live and move, and have our being, grant us rain, in due abundance, that, being sufficiently helped with temporal, we may the more confidently seek after eternal gifts. Through Christ, our Lord.
Look at this vivid acceptance of Prayers of Angelinos; on May 3, 2015 Baitul Hamid Mosque held prayers for rain with 300 souls requesting God the needed rain. Since then we saw rains coming in the month of May unprecedented in the last nine years. God heard the prayers of helpless Californians and came to our rescue. We are holding again the same event on June 20th where 800-1000 people will pray at our facilities to earnestly ask the Creator of Rains for Rains to come. Leaders of Six different faiths will join us at this occasion.
O my dear 37 Million fellow Californians, our state needs us in this time of crisis, we can get this averted and continue to remain the benevolent arm for the people at large, by simply beseeching sincerely, ardently and seriously the prayers of rain, the way we are taught in our different faiths or simply bleeding our heart to the Creator of rains. I am 200 % confident that God the Merciful will listen to our humble prayers and will give us beyond what we deserve.
-- A Real Solution for the California Drought – A California Way
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