This post is intended to be visible in several places concurrently.
At the beginning stage April 22, 2025, this is a draft, in the start to get my thoughts out, of course timely and that you never know what time might do in causing procrastination leading to these words not getting out here soon enough.
Apologies if the grammar has rough edges.
Some young folks could find this information helpful in their development, in turn, can be helpful to the development of one's country.
From time to time, discussion about Nasir' has been brought up (in my other writings, blog posts or news stories), but haven't really dedicated an article to it.
Today and back through the past several months, there came to pass two individuals that, basically, one has to be 'special' to fill their respective posts.
Man one, President Jimmy Carter. More recently, man two, Pope Francis.
That above said paragraph may already be more than enough said for some folks.
They know exactly where this is going, and some know even more. A lot more. That's part of the reason why I even have this blog, is there is about no way in my lifetime that I'll be able to even put my hands on all the material out there that covers the broad topic of Nasir, nevermind, glean, skim, or read all of it thoroughly.
Some points:
Sometimes Nasir is seen as a transliteration. A transliteration such as of Arabic, in today's modern, spoken, post the 3rd major Khalif eras.
Sometimes the transliteration (into English) is seen Naseer.
Sometimes folks will generally say the translation (differentiated from transliteration) has to do with the root definition 'help', hence helper.
Of course the subject is brought up, what help, whose helping who or what?
In this context, it has to do, in brief with help at 'high and holy levels'.
So you might ask, if 'nasra', perhaps another grammatical variant of nasir is used casually today for European stock, especially when used (accurately or inaccurately) to refer to certain outward traits, and it might be independent of 'real help of the high and holy sort', why place the word and concept of nasir on a pedestal as though it is a high up subject?
Some might ask a similar common question, if Quran discusses Nasara (attention to transliteration details), (often near places where Yehuwd is written in today), how is it Nasir is something special, to include in Islam?
Well to quickly answer/address those two, some say that one of the well known 'attributes' of Prophet Muhammad (s...) is Nasir.
There is more of course; research Quran, and common prayers asking for help in Arabic, you're bound to see grammatical variants.
Also briefly for the sake of time, in the effort to attain 'true Nasir' level, here is quick list of some what is nots:
Nasir is not, banding together, forming up hate groups, and beating up others that don't look you and group members. Groups that engage in that activity, needless to say, shouldn't even exist.
Nasir is not just having fair skin, throwing a turban on your head and talking nonsense in Arabic, misleading the people, and engaging in cruelty, in short, joining up a terrorist group. Some people (might be, to be polite about it), are doing it, and calling themselves names like Nasroallah such and such.
Very important.
Basically, don't go running to join a terror group.
The foolishness of wrapping your face up or putting a dark mask on and sneaking over to the Middle East illegally to engage in terrorism, or wrapping your face up, putting on a dark mask, and sneak over to the US to engage in terrorism, that's not the ideal set of actions to be doing. Obviously that's being baited to be used, often for illicit persons so a a guy can gather up the prizes of lust. Could be lust for money, drugs, or human trafficking.
If and when you see that, just call 9-1-1 or the authorities.
Nasir can start with some basic things like making sure you are clean before you leave your house to go on an undertaking like going to work, so that, people can stand to be around you and accept your help.
Other notes for now:
Told to me 'way back in the 70s', possible derivation of the name Shakespeare.
The author from England, referent.
Some information about his background is becoming increasingly available especially online. Areas such as his parentage, native towns, and other families that interacted with his.
Interestingly, Shakespeare wrote about Perdur, some scholars say is another variant or name for Percival.
Going on, families of Shakespeare, in terms of later generations, perhaps relevant today, married into families at least holding the name, if not the, family Percival.
Families of Percival, the same tune, at least having the name, -as many things happen over hundreds of years, such as adoptions, slave holding, using a maternal name, taking on a name, etc., -... married with Carters.
I personally took up somewhat of interest, whether deeply interested or not, as the names Perciful, close to Percival, Carter, as well as others going back on the tree, like Skipwith, then earlier Cave, keeps going back, Clinton, Warwick, and through there, eventually starts pulling together clues that might make the history back in the Shakespeare where and how the name came to be, clearer.
The motivation to be a true Nasir, or at least some or what you can get, which may have been more fully embodied by individuals of stature in times past, can be a sound matter to be motivated to achieve.
Of course make sure the motivation is clear, positive, and not wicked confusion.
-- In terms of reading, you could always read Quran, true understanding of the Injeel, some call it Gospels, really- what was nuzl, translated, 'revealed' to Isa/Jesus, and read your own history as much as you can and pick up the facts going as far back as you can about those on the right path.
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A lens about the Rosa Parks incident.
Popular history usually puts in a nutshell Rosa Parks refusing to 'give up her seat', a moment in 'changing racial attitudes in US history', perhaps an iconic moment.
There are plenty of folks from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds that didn't give up their seat, for a wide range of ethnic backgrounds, just as there were plenty of folks from a wide range of backgrounds that did give up their seat for the wide range, such as a polite man of European stock doing an act of kindness for a woman of African or partially African ancestry especially of referent descriptions.
(There are plenty of people from Africa that look much like Europeans, intermarriage, invasions of armies and so forth, that happened over thousands of years etc.)
The big deal is, a woman that was ordinarily discriminated against, made a refusal.
What was it all about, or 'might have really been' all about?
There was a time when there were folks that had descent to those that helped in different ways missions of Prophet Isa/Jesus, and immigrated to, pertinent, America, especially the area now known as the USA. They may have kept up certain traditions, or at minimum strive to do what was passed down, even though the traditions may have gotten weaker over hundreds of years.
Once upon a time, there were folks of European descent/stock whose hair was so clean and shiny, combed without a tangle, that most folks could literally almost go blind by looking at them. They woke in an early time in the morning pretty much every day, bathed, read, made sure their house was clean, and their families were all set for the day.
They never cursed, never fornicated/ committed adultery, never stole.
Those folks come fewer and fewer, as time became more recent, regardless of what stock or ancestry.
So, if I see someone that strove to keep the level of hair of the high shine that helps keep millions of Americans fed, I probably would get out of my seat for that person, especially if they on top of that had descent to families known for helping out Prophets. In 2025, 2035, back in time, or whenever.
Honestly, many aspects of how people look on the outside these days, is really the decision of the Creator.
There are many combinations of heritages.
It may well could have been that there are people in the social fabric that are called 'Native', or Euro descent stock, or African American, and so forth that are appear as exactly the same, or are the same in pedigree but look much different. [3 kids from the same parents, as extreme illustration]. So what matters are about, especially when times change, might have to change with it.
There are reports that Rosa Parks had a great grandfather that was Scotch Irish. There are reports that a great gr., plausibly referring to one in the same, has name Mr. J. Percival. (Incidentally there are some with name Percival brought up already in this writing.)
Different contrasts illustrated, what was the Rosa Parks incident really about. ? Now let's look back at Nasir, (the name and concept) and what comprises it.
Again pretty broad.
An analogy could be a large castle made entirely of gold bricks. Each brick is very valuable. If you were to be able to take just one brick from an ancient castle made gold home, you could showcase it, with the name of the castle it came from.
Obtaining all of the Nasir, of course might be an extreme. Perhaps getting one or two bricks, can be quite an accomplishment.
On the extreme other end, being so far removed from being anywhere near obtaining any of the bricks, then comes the 'unworthy' discussion, not a condition that most sane folks would want to be in, if they knew what was/is being talked about.
Which brings us back to, trying as appropriate to have some of the Nasir qualities is fine. Of course don't trip the wrong way.
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It is known, to whom knows, when someone is striving, from when someone is putting on a show of themself, putting an emphasis on outward but not inward, parading deeds of their forefathers, but not the bad deeds they did earlier that morning, and not trying to correct themself.
You know, eat and eat junk food at the local fast food restaurant while your near relative doesn't have lunch at school, have a girlfriend and fornicate, she leaves because you were abusive, irresponsible, drunk, and you go out and get another girlfriend, and repeat the cycle over and over, your whole life, without thinking of even trying to get married, or continue wrongful adultery. The outward might match the outward of some folks that did strive to high degrees to do right, but just to say, hey, I'm the same crop or in league (with the pious, true Nasir, and that ilk) based on the outward appearance, might not work out all that easily.
Is there a trophy, to the extreme right, of the Nasir of the sort when used as a an attribute or title of the Prophet (s)?, that can hold admirable men in a cloak for critique/ ~constructive criticism, evaluation...? There's the, most folks might get up to the level one day where their heads are left spinning trying to figure out how they can accomplish and make their name as big as Jimmy Carter and Pope Francis.
There's relatively a handful of folks that see what can briefly be referred to as, that 'trophy' on the extreme right, and know they have admirable qualities, but also wish some of the aspects of Nasir that they might have been taught by some high degrees individual or individuals or sources were added on, or the course history went more this way than that, but even many of those would admit, that in the day to day living, being all the way up there to where you can clutch that trophy and run off with it holding securely everyday, can be serious challenge. Some of them might say in brief in general, obtaining that degree, 'good luck'.
Reiterating what good start is, keep clean and study good materials, you can't go wrong there. On the list may be, help your family when in need and safely, like cut the grass.
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Perhaps more on this photo later. August 2025.
