Kuwait OFFERS Egypt $4 Billion Financial Lifeline
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SUBSCRIPTION 2013 RAMADAN 2, 1434 AH www.kuwaittimes.net ,THURSDAY, JULY 1١ Filipina brutally beaten up by Emsak: 03:12 Kuwait police Fajer: 03:23 Dohr: 11:53 Asr: 15:28 Maghreb: 18:50 3 Eshaa: 20:21 Kuwait offers Egypt $4 Max 48º Min 35º billion financial lifeline High Tide 02:33 & 12:57 Low Tide Egypt orders arrest of Brotherhood leaders 07:38 & 21:25 40 PAGES NO: 15866 150 FILS KUWAIT: Kuwait says it will offer Egypt an aid package worth $4 billion, becoming the latest Gulf state to send a financial lifeline to the new government in Cairo fol- lowing a coup there. Kuwait’s announcement yesterday follows a total of $8 billion in grants, loans and badly needed fuel offered from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Both are strong critics of ousted President Mohammed Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood. But Kuwait has closer ties with the Brotherhood, whose allies have a powerful political faction in the Gulf nation. The offi- cial Kuwait News Agency quotes the minister of cabinet affairs, Mohammad Al Sabah, as saying Egypt will receive a $2 billion loan, a $1 billion grant and $1 billion worth of oil and petroleum products. Meanwhile, Egypt’s prosecutor ordered the arrest yesterday of the leaders of ousted President Mohamed Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood, charging them with incit- ing violence in a clash that saw troops shoot 55 Morsi supporters dead. A week after the army toppled Egypt’s first democratically elected leader, bloodshed has opened deep fissures in the Arab world’s most popu- lous country, with bitterness at levels unseen in its mod- ern history. Brotherhood spokesman Gehad El-Haddad said the announcement of charges against leader Mohamed Badie and several other senior figures was a bid by authorities to break up a vigil by thousands of Morsi supporters demanding his reinstatement. Continued on Page 15 Ramadan Kareem Lessons learned from Ramadan KUWAIT: Kuwaitis gathered at Naif Palace in Kuwait City on the first day of Ramadan to see the Iftar cannon as it was fired to mark the end of the fast. — Photo by Joseph Shagra By Tahira Muhammad amadan is a blessed month in which Muslims abstain from food, drink and intimate relation- Qatar losing ground to Saudi diplomacy Rships from their spouses. However as Muslims there are multiple lessons that we can learn and DUBAI: Qatar, a key supporter of Islamists states,” said Kuwaiti political analyst Ayed benefit from that can help us not just during the who rose to power in Arab Spring coun- Al-Manna. Jonathan Eyal, head of interna- month of Ramadan; but throughout the entire year. tries, is losing ground in regional politics to tional relations at Britain’s Royal United The following lessons can be obtained only if we as Saudi Arabia which appears to have seized Services Institute, argued that Qatar’s Muslims take the time to reflect upon them while we the reins on key issues, notably Egypt and regional politics have failed. are fasting and praying to Allah. (1) Patience (2) Syria. The decline in Qatar’s regional diplo- “Qatar’s Middle Eastern diplomacy now Discipline (3) Avoiding being wasteful (4) Over macy comes as its powerful emir Sheikh lies in ruins: it failed to produce dividends excessiveness (5) Time management. Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani unexpectedly in Libya, backfired in Syria and has now Ramadan teaches us that patience is an inner abdicated in favor of his son Tamim last collapsed in Egypt,” local Emirati daily The jihad. During the daylight hours we have to avoid month. National quoted him on Tuesday as saying. conflicts and avoid getting angry. It can be difficult The wealthy Gulf state had transformed Realizing the damaging effects of their to avoid anger when you have to work during the itself into a key regional player but began policies, Manna noted, “the Qataris sought fasting hours and your employees or boss is getting to retreat as heavyweight Saudi Arabia re- to cut down on their commitments” which on your nerves. However as Muslims we have to look entered the political arena after lagging were already affected by the emir’s abdica- at the greater picture, which are the overall blessings behind in the immediate period following tion and the sidelining of the influential that you will accumulate at the end of that fasting the eruption of the Arab Spring uprisings prime minister Sheikh Hamad Bin Jabr Al- day. in December 2010. The ouster of Egypt’s Thani. Discipline is directly related to being patient. It Islamist president Mohamed Morsi last As a result, “Saudi Arabia, a historical takes a great amount of discipline to control your week by the army and the election by the regional US ally, regained its role” in coor- thoughts, actions and inner desires. Someone who Syrian opposition of Saudi-linked Ahmad dination with other oil-rich Gulf monar- may not be fasting may say something negative to Assi Jarba as new leader stripped Qatar of chies, said Manna. Saudi Arabia’s King you, that may cause you to want to react. It takes a strong influence in both countries. Abdullah was the first foreign head of great deal of discipline to not do so which will cause “Qatar had tried to take a leading role in state to congratulate Egypt’s interim presi- you to break your fast. MAKKAH: Worshippers walk down from the Cave of Hira on the top of Al-Nour the region but overstepped its limits by dent Adly Mansour, hours after he was Wastefulness and over excessive eating, I am sad Mountain in Makkah, Saudi Arabia. The Cave of Hira is where Muslims believe openly backing the Muslim Brotherhood named to replace Morsi. to say in many Muslim countries is a big problem. I Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) received his first revelations. — AP in Egypt, Syria, and other Arab Spring Continued on Page 15 see that during the Iftar time Muslims gather togeth- er to have elaborate feasts, with enough food that can feed a family of four for a whole week! The Monster star spotted Prophet Muhammad (saws) stated that: Nothing is worse than a person who fills his stomach. It should be enough for the son of Adam to have a few bites in the stellar ‘womb’ to satisfy his hunger. If he wishes more, it should be: One-third for his food, one-third for his liquids, and PARIS: Astronomers yesterday report- Observatory (ESO) one-third for his breath.” — Tirmidhi & Ibn Majah ed their best observation yet of a mas- The most massive and brightest During Iftar time we should follow this saying of sive star embryo growing within a dark stars in the galaxy form within cool and the Prophet. It isn’t necessary to fill our stomachs to cloud-the largest stellar “womb” ever dark cloud cores, hungrily feeding on the point that we are so full that we cannot perform spotted in our Milky Way galaxy. The material being dragged inwards by the the night prayers. This totally defeats the purpose of star, which could grow to 100 times the embryo star’s gravitational pull. This fasting in the day time. Lastly time management is mass of our Sun and up to a million specific star is located in the Spitzer also an important lesson that can be learned during times brighter, was spotted by the most Dark Cloud, whose core has a mass Ramadan. We are commanded to pray our daily powerful radio telescope on Earth-the about 500 times that of the Sun. “This prayers when they first come in and not delay. ALMA international astronomy facility object is expected to form a star that is Also it’s imperative to break the fast on time as located in Chile, according to a paper up to 100 times more massive than the well as get up on time for the early morning meal. published in the journal Astronomy Sun. Only about one in ten thousand of It’s not easy for those of us who live in a society that and Astrophysics. all stars in the Milky Way reach that doesn’t shut down during the month of Ramadan. Astronomers hope its discovery, at a kind of mass,” said study lead author However if you can manage your time around the distance of some 11,000 light years Nicolas Peretto of Cardiff University. daily prayers, getting up early in the morning and from Earth, will shed light on how these “The remarkable observations from the night prayers then you accomplished a huge exceptionally massive stars are formed, ALMA allowed us to get the first really goal during this month. shrouded as they are in dust and mys- in-depth look at what was going on tery. “Not only are these stars rare, but within this cloud. We wanted to see Question: What are some of the lessons that can their births are extremely rapid and how monster stars form and grow, and be learned during Ramadan? childhood short, so finding such a mas- we certainly achieved our aim. One of sive object so early in its evolution in the sources we have found is an our Galaxy is a spectacular result,” study absolute giant-the largest protostellar Courtesy TIES Center, a leading non-political NGO co-author Gary Fuller of the University core ever spotted in the Milky Way!” PARIS: A river boat sails past the Hotel Lambert, a 17th century mansion over- promoting relations between Westerners and of Manchester said in a statement According to the ESO, there are two looking the Seine river, which suffered ‘serious damage’ in a fire that broke out Muslims through dialogue, friendship and cultural issued by the European Southern Continued on Page 15 yesterday.