As-salaamu-'alaikum,
I have a blurb about NYC Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani.
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City-Owned Grocery Stores
In New York City, eating quality food is a privilege reserved for the wealthy. Some food pantries provide limited quantities of organic and non-genetically modified (GMO) food, but you must live at or below the poverty line to qualify for free food.
As usual, those in the middle-income bracket endure the worst sting from inflation.
In addition to inflated food prices, there is the capitalist business practice of selling poor-quality foods full of chemical ingredients for cheaper prices in poor communities simply because poor people cannot afford to travel to the quality stores.
And, there are the price-fixing poultry suppliers, including Tyson Foods and Perdue. It is no wonder US food company profits have soared!
This is why mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has proposed the creation of city-owned grocery stores as an answer to food insecurity among New Yorkers.
There are government-run food markets. The US military already provides military families access to their public grocery system, which gives them grocery items at 30% to 40% below what the average civilian would pay.
Anna Chworow, deputy director of Nourish Scotland, a UK-based nonprofit advocacy group, warns against targeting groups, such as low-income families. It creates a stigma that will compel others who might benefit to stay away out of fear of being stigmatized. She suggests making the municipal grocery stores universal.
While many New Yorkers surveyed support city-owned stores, one notable detractor is Pro-police billionaire John Catsimatidis, owner of Gristedes. His chain of stores have become one of the most expensive in New York City.
Catsimatidis believes that Mamdani's policies, and not economic greed among private grocers, will cause an economic downturn.
SUPERB QUOTES OF MEVLANA ' RUMI ~ WHY SHOULD I BE AFFLICTED BECAUSE OF A THORN ~ THIS PLACE IS A DREAM{!} THE SOUL HAS EARS
'Assalamu Alaikum'.
Superb Quotes from 'Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi'(r)
"These Pains you feel are Messengers, Listen to them"
~Rumi~
"There is a Voice that doesn't use words. Listen."
~Rumi~ Petals.
Even when you tear its petals off one after another,
the Rose keeps laughing and doesn't bend in pain.
"Why should I be afflicted because of a Thorn ?
It is the thorn which taught me how to laugh."
Whatever you lost through fate, be certain that it saved you from pain.
~Rumi~
This Place is a Dream, Only a Sleeper considers it Real,
Then Death comes like Dawn and you wake up laughing
@ what you thought was your grief.
~Rumi~
The Soul has been given its own Ears to hear things the mind does not understand.
~Rumi~
"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world.
Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."
~Rumi~
It is good to leave each day behind like flowing water free of sadness, Yesterday is gone
& it's tale told, Today new seeds are growing .
~Rumi~
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~Salaams to all~
~ Y a s m i n ~
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Say, 'Indeed, my Prayer, my Rites of Sacrifice,
my Living and my Dying are for ALLAH, Lord of the Worlds'
{'Quran'~Surat Al-'An`am -# 6-162.}
MY SIN BURDENED ME HEAVILY ~ HOPE A STAIRWAY TO ALLAH'S... {?} + DUA ~[SUPERB]~
'Alhamduli'Allahi Rabbil-'Aalameen
wa-Salaatu wa-Salaamu 'alaa Ashrafil-Anbiyaa-e-wal-Mursaleen~ `Amma `Bad'.
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'Assalamu `Alaikum wa Rahmatullaahi wa Barakaatuhu'.
'I made my Hope a Stairway to Your Forgiveness' {!}
When my heart was Hardened,
and my Courses Constrained~
I made my Hope a Stairway to YOUR Forgiveness...{!}
My Sin Burdened me Heavily...{!}
But...{?}
when I measured it by
YOUR Forgiveness LORD
YOUR Forgiveness was the Greater {!}
{*Alhamdullilah*}
(Source~ Imam ash Shafi'i ( R. ) in his Final Sickness...)
Translation:
Our Lord You truly know all that we may hide
[in our hearts] as well as all that we bring into the open, for nothing whatever, be it on earth or in heaven, remains hidden from ALLAH .
{Source ~ 'Quran'~ Surat 'Ibrāhīm 14: A # 38 }
~ MY 'SALAAMS' TO ALL ~
~ Y a s m i n ~
"All that is on earth will Perish. But will abide {Forever}
the Face of thy LORD, full of Majesty, Bounty and Honor"
{'Quran'- Surah Al-Rahman-55.26-27 }
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Say, 'Indeed, my Prayer, my Rites of Sacrifice, my Living and my Dying
are for ALLAH, Lord of the Worlds'.
{'Quran'~ Surat Al-'An`am -# 6-162.}
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I Want to Die With my Forehead on the Ground!
The Sunnah in my Heart, Allah on my Mind,
Qur'an on my Tongue, and Tears in my Eyes!
'In Shaa Allah'!
