GREENSBORO, NC - Islamic leader Badi Ali of Greensboro has issued a call for
physically well Americans of all religious beliefs to observe a single day of
fasting on Friday, October 21, in the interest of universal justice and our
struggling and suffering humanity.
Sheikh Badi Ali pointed out that the date is one of Ramadan's 29 holy days of
annual focus on God/Allah, meditation, special sacrifice, adoration and
fasting by Muslims throughout the world.
"It is a good time for Christians, Jews, Muslims, and people of other faiths
to renew their spiritual commitments to God/Allah and to each other as
believers in His mercy, love, forgiveness, goodness, wisdom and justness."
In other words, this is a special time for human solidarity as workers for
peace, truth, generosity, charity and compassion, the Islamic leader stressed.
"The enormous tragedies of Pakistan's earthquake, Persian Gulf war, Sri
Lankan/Indonesian tsunami, Gulf of Mexico hurricanes should remind us all of our duty to
God/Allah and each other in this respect. By fasting on that Friday,
(October 21), I mean total abstinence from food, tobacco, drink and intimacy from
dawn to dusk. By observing this single contemplative day during Ramadan, I
believe people of all faiths can, together, help to make real God/Allah's holy
plan for His creation."
"In the Divine spirit of God/Allah and the secular spirit of the late Martin
Luther King, Jr., we should figuratively sing 'We shall overcome' and think of
ourselves as overcomers" the 44-year old Palestine-born North Carolinian
urged.
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{Invite (mankind, O Muhammad ) to the Way of your Lord (i.e. Islam) with wisdom (i.e. with the Divine Inspiration and the Qur'an) and fair preaching, and argue with them in a way that is better. Truly, your Lord knows best who has gone astray from His Path, and He is the Best Aware of those who are guided.}
(Holy Quran-16:125)
{And who is better in speech than he who [says: "My Lord is Allah (believes in His Oneness)," and then stands straight (acts upon His Order), and] invites (men) to Allah's (Islamic Monotheism), and does righteous deeds, and says: "I am one of the Muslims."} (Holy Quran-41:33)
The prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: "By Allah, if Allah guides one person by you, it is better for you than the best types of camels." [al-Bukhaaree, Muslim]
The prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) also said, "Whoever calls to guidance will have a reward similar to the reward of the one who follows him, without the reward of either of them being lessened at all."
[Muslim, Ahmad, Aboo Daawood, an-Nasaa'ee, at-Tirmidhee, Ibn Maajah]
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