Cry me a river?

Assalamualaikum.

I am very much intrigued when ustaz hannan pointed out today that history does not progress in a linear form. This made me think about a couple of things that i want to share with fellow readers.

First and foremost, i would like to disagree with the statement that we are in the Jahiliah period. Even if history does not progress in a linear form, but the fact that it is PROGRESSING shows that we are in a way better than the people who lived before the birth of our Prophet (s.a.w). And didnt Allah said we are the best group ( ummat nabi muhammad ) to ever live in this world? Yes some people will point out that the bad practices today ( such as incest ) have a frightening resemblance to the practices from the jahiliah period, but i am very sure that if we are to calculate and compare the amount of incest cases today with the jahiliah period, there will be lesser cases today. That is why history is PROGRESSING. To progress is to improve step by step if need be. To say that we are the same as in the jahiliah period is not a fair thing to me personally. We may cross a river twice, but we will NEVER cross the same water inside the river again. Just a thought. Feel free to debate.

About SP flag day...

Alhamduliillah it was ok. Haha. But very tiring. I was to collect at city hall area. But i ended up collecting at kranji. HAHA! when i counted the money later on, there was even a few MALAYSIAN cents.-_-

hey, maybe we shld go overseas and have a flag day there! then we can change the currency! imagine changing US dollars to Spore dollars! $$$$$$$$$$

Wassalam.