Reform means to put or change into an improved form or condition; to amend or improve by change of color or removal of faults or abuses, beneficial change, more specifically, reversion to a pure original state, to repair, restore or to correct.
Reform is generally distinguished from revolution. The latter means basic or radical change; whereas reform may be no more than fine tuning, or at most redressing serious wrongs without altering the fundamentals of the system. Reform seeks to improve the system as it stands, never to overthrow it wholesale. Radicals on the other hand, seek to improve the system, but try to overthrow whether it be the government or a group of people themselves.
Rotation in office or term limits would, by contrast, be more revolutionary, in altering basic political connections between incumbents and constituents.
Developing countries may carry out a wide range of reforms to improve their living standards, often with support from international financial institutions and aid agencies. This can include reforms to macroeconomic policy, the civil service, and public financial management.
Hamza Yusuf Hanson is an American Islamic scholar, and (with Zaid Shakir and Hatem Bazian) is co-founder of Zaytuna College in Berkeley, California, United States. He is a convert to Islam, and is one of the signatories of A Common Word Between Us and You, an open letter by Islamic scholars to Christian leaders, calling for peace and understanding. He has described the 9/11 attacks as "an act of 'mass murder, pure and simple'". Condemning the attacks, he has also stated "Islam was hijacked ... on that plane as an innocent victim".The Guardian newspaper in the United Kingdom reported that he "is arguably the west's most influential Islamic scholar" and added that "many Muslims find his views hard to stomach."
Hamza Yusuf was born to two academics in Washington State and raised in Northern California. In 1977, he became Muslim and subsequently traveled to the Muslim world and studied for ten years in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, as well as North and West Africa. Hamza Yusuf spent four years studying in the United Arab Emirates and elsewhere in the Middle East. Later he traveled to West Africa and studied in Mauritania, Medina, Algeria, and Morocco under such scholars as Murabit al Haaj; Baya bin Salik, head of the Islamic court in Al-'Ain, United Arab Emirates; Muhammad Shaybani, Mufti of Abu Dhabi; Hamad al-Wali; and Muhammad al-Fatrati of Al Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt.[citation needed] After more than a decade abroad, he returned to the United States and earned degrees in nursing from Imperial Valley College and religious studies at San José State University.[citation needed]
It's override you
"We are now cruel beings fighting things"
Something learned
And now concerned
All is different now
Somehow
Rearranged
We face the change
Stumbling towards
But never found
Always forwards, never back
Crouch and wait for the attack
One by one we overcome
As we learn we've just begun
Only distance waits now
Only distance waits now
Only distance waits now
Put it in it's place now
I always feeling like I'm falling down
There's got to be
Another way
I lose control
And cannot stay
There's got to be
Some kind of change
I can't relate
Must rearrange
Only distance waits now
Only distance waits now
Only distance waits now
Put it in it's place now
Missing in it's absent state
One point left to recreate
Start from scratch and now rebuild
'Til the emptiness is filled
There's got to be
Another way
I lose control
And cannot stay
There's got to be
Some kind of change
I can't relate
Must rearrange
Only distance waits now
Only distance waits now
Only distance waits now
Put it in it's place now
Only distance waits now
Only distance waits now
Only distance waits now
Put it in it's place now
There's got to be
Another way
I lose control
And cannot stay
There's got to be
Some kind of change
I can't relate
Must rearrange
There's got to be
Another way
I lose control
And cannot stay
There's got to be
Some kind of change
I can't relate
Must rearrange
I always feeling like I'm falling down
(There's got to be
Some kind of change
I can't relate
You hit the ground 3000 miles too fast and you break
You fall into rivers of tears and you ache
And you hold onto the brink and you fall, you sink, it laughs and you think
I’m ok!
Well if I’m ok
Why do I break?
And If I fall will I reform?
And If I fall will I reform?
So you pick yourself up and they laugh
And you dust yourself down to reveal scars
and you hold on to the hope that wings will come to fix you
But it’s too late
And If I’m Ok?
Why does she break?
If I fall will I reform?
If I fall will I reform?
3000 miles and no one saves you
Please don’t drown in your own tears
And I will try to save you
If you’d only try and save me
When you fall, you will reform
When you fall