Perhaps or perhaps the original sender should make his case as we don't know what is being forbidden. Enjoining what is rightous in Islam is not an individual community issue but is for obligatory for the entire Umma, so please brother Curtis, state your grievences with clarity so that the learned among us can set a path toward resolution. Asalaam, Kimm
----- Original Message ---- From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: eGroup For Muslims Around The World <islamcity@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday, August 9, 2008 11:07:22 AM Subject: Bismillah [IslamCity] Re: Invitation to Houston Masjid Imams to Stop Forbidding Prayer These kind of fitna messages should not be approved. It is just one person's opinion on whatever is going on in their community. Such messages should be posted within their own community so they can have a discussion. For all we know, these masajid might be forbidding these bidah prayers that people have invented. ----- Original Message ----- Subject: Bismillah [IslamCity] Invitation to Houston Masjid Imams to Stop Forbidding Prayer Posted by: "Curtis Sharif" Curtis Sharif cssharif Sat Aug 9, 2008 3:05 am (PDT) l-Imran (The Family of Imran) 3:104 Let there arise out of you a band of people inviting to all that is good, enjoining what is right, and forbidding what is wrong: They are the ones to attain felicity. Bismillah, As Salaam Alaikum, Brother Imams, This is an invitation to the Houston Masjid of Al-Islam / Mercy Community Center Imams to stop forbidding prayer at, and€ ¦ start permitting equal access to, worship in Allah's House of Worship,€ ¦ in the same way it is permitted in Masjid Haram, The Prophet's Mosque, and other masajids all over the world. With tomorrow's Jummah, you have the opportunity for you to end, or extend, according to your will, the Houston Masjid's continuing,€ ¦ decades long practices, of dictatorial punishment, banishment and oppression of the worship of Allah. It would be a Mercy for you to relieve the ummah, of the€ ¦ unnecessary burdens of these practices. These are the same practices used against Prophet Muhammad and his ummah (PBUT), by those who oppressed them, and their efforts to Worship Allah in Peace, at the Kabbah. Allah Gives the oppressed the Right to publically protest their oppression, when private efforts to end it have been fruitless. The Commands of Allah in the Holy Quran are clear, the€ ¦ choice of whose path you choose to follow is yours.€ ¦ I pray for Allah to Guide you on the Right Path. € ¦ Sura 96 6-19€ ¦ "Nay!€ ¦ Indeed, man transgresses all bounds, considers himself to be self-sufficient, although, surely towards your Rabb is his return.€ ¦ Have you seen the one who forbids Our servant from offering Salah (prayer)?€ ¦ Have you considered, if he was on right guidance, or was enjoining true piety, why he would forbid someone from prayer?€ ¦ Have you considered, if he denies the truth and turns away, what will happen?€ ¦ Does he not know that Allah is observing all things?€ ¦ Nay!€ ¦ Let him know that if he does not stop, we will drag him by the forelock, a lying, sinful forelock.€ ¦ So let him call his supporters for help, We too shall call the guards of hell to deal with him.€ ¦ Nay!€ ¦ Do not obey him!€ ¦ Prostrate yourself and bring yourself closer to your Rabb." € ¦ Sura 2-217 "€ ¦ They ask thee concerning fighting in the Prohibited Month. Say: "Fighting therein is a grave (offence); but graver is it in the sight of Allah to prevent access to the path of Allah, to deny Him, to prevent access to the Sacred Mosque, and drive out its members." Tumult and oppression are worse than slaughter. Peace, Brother Curtis Sharif
