[IslamCity] Inews Daily - 31/03/06
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful Inews Daily Friday 31th March 2006 - 1st Rabi' al-Awwal 1427 al-Sistani ignores Bush letterA letter from President Bush to Iraq's supreme Shiite spiritual leader, Ayatullah Ali al-Sistani, was hand-delivered earlier this week but sits unread and untranslated in the top religious figure's office, a key Sistani aide said yesterday. The aide said the ayatullah had laid the letter aside and did not ask for a translation because of increasing 'unhappiness' over American meddling in Iraqi attempts to form their first, permanent post-invasion government. The aide said the person who delivered the Bush letter said it carried Bush's thanks (sic) to al-Sistani for calling for calm among his followers in preventing the outbreak of civil war after a Shiite shrine was bombed late last month. The messenger also was said to have explained that the letter reinforced the American position that Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari should not be given a second term. Iran prepared for possible sanctionsIran is prepared for possible sanctions over its nuclear program, even though its government believes such an eventuality is highly unlikely, the country’s foreign minister said yesterday. The UN Security Council has given Iran 30 days to clear up suspicions that it is seeking nuclear weapons, and it could eventually impose economic sanctions, though Russia and China say they oppose such tough measures. "We have readied ourselves to deal with different conditions," Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki told reporters in Geneva. Western countries have refused to rule out sanctions against Iran and US officials have said the threat of military action must also remain on the table. Tourists die in Bahrain boat disaster A tourist ferry carrying more than 130 people capsized and sank off the coast of Bahrain and at least 48 bodies have so far been recovered, officials said. The Bahraini coastguard commander told a news conference that 63 people had so far been rescued. He said most of those on board the boat were Asians, but passengers also included Europeans and Arabs. Initial reports suggested around 25 Britons, 20 Filipinos, 10 South Africans and 10 Egyptians were among those on board. Officials said the boat had been hired by a local contracting company for a cruise. Organisers said around 150 people had signed up for a dinner cruise but around 130 were believed to have been on board when the boat sank on Thursday night, around 1.5km off the coast. Pirates seize tanker off SomaliaSomali pirates have hijacked a fuel tanker 150km north of Mogadishu, according to port officials. The ship had just offloaded a cargo of fuel and had left El Ade port - a site seized by fighters with an alliance to regional commanders who killed at least 70 people last week. Somalia's lawless Indian Ocean waters are among the world's most dangerous. Crafts plying the waters often are attacked by armed men in heavily armed speedboats who demand ransom for the return of the ship or cargo, which often ends up being stolen. The piracy has often stopped food aid getting into the poor country. Sailors have been held for as long as 100 days and a cruise ship with more than 300 on board was attacked with rockets and machine guns last year. Saudis angry over US visa proceduresSaudi businessmen have objected to the Riyadh US embassy’s negligence of their applications for visa. No one respond to their inquiries about interviews schedules essential for visa issuance. The problem was raised in the Riyadh Commercial Chamber last Sunday during a meeting with a delegation of Illinois businessmen. Despite close relations with American officials in the US embassy in Riyadh and Washington, it is not easy for a number of renowned Saudi businessmen to get visa due to the set procedures. The US embassy in Riyadh specified a telephone number for replying to inquiries. Yet, no one replies. Kurds clash with Turkish police Thousands of Kurdish protesters lobbed stones and Molotov cocktails at Turkish police yesterday, in the third day of street battles in which three people have been killed and more than 250 others wounded. The fresh fighting erupted during funerals for two young men and an eight-year-old boy killed during Wednesday's clashes in Diyarbakir, the main city of Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast. The boy and one man were shot dead. The other man was crushed under a police armoured car. Some mourners, ignoring appeals for calm from local officials, attacked a police station. Police fired warning shots into the air with AK-47 assault rifles and sprayed tear gas. In Diyarbakir, a city of nearly one million, most shops and offices remained shut on Thursday and roads were blocked by barricades of burning tyres. The army deployed armoured vehicles in suburbs to discourage protesters. Danish Muslims sue newspaper A gro
[IslamCity] Palestinian Land Day
Palestine Land Day 2006 BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights Press Release No. (E/08/06) - March 30, 2006 http://www.badil.org End Racial Discrimination, Occupation and Colonization Thirty years have passed since Israeli security forces shot and killed on 30 March 1976 six Palestinian citizens of Israel who were protesting the expropriation of their land to build new and expand existing, exclusively-Jewish cities. Palestinian protests on this first Land Day were triggered by the Koenig Report, a government commissioned study about ways to encourage out-migration of Israel's Palestinian citizens that resulted in a wave of discriminatory measures, including land confiscation, against the Palestinian minority in Israel. Thirty years later, on Land Day 2006, 68 percent of Israel's Jewish population have stated in a public opinion poll that they "do not want to live next to an Arab," and a vast majority is voting for political programs that ignore the rights and needs of the Palestinians and perpetuate an apartheid system in Israel itself, convincing the prominent Israeli journalist, Gideon Levy, to describe Israel on the eve of the elections as "a nation in which racism is the real common denominator uniting us all." Military occupation and colonization continue unabated in the West Bank, including eastern Jerusalem. The Wall under construction in the occupied West Bank continues to dispossess and displace people and serves to de facto annex Palestinian land to Israel, while walls are constructed inside Israel to separate poor Palestinian communities from their wealthy Jewish neighbors. Military closure has led the Gaza Strip to the brink of starvation, and exiled Palestinian refugees are denied their right to return to their homes and properties by means of discriminatory laws. All this, while the victory of Hamas in the recent Palestinian parliamentary elections is used as the latest Israeli pretext for collective punishment of the Palestinian people and the denial of their right to self- determination, both of which have been in force long before Hamas' legislative victory. Before 1948, Palestinians owned or controlled more than 90 per cent of the land in former Palestine. Today they own or control no more than 10 per cent of the land and more than half of the original Palestinian population has been displaced/expelled from the country. "This is no time for appeasement," said the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the 1967 occupied Palestinian territory already more than one year ago, "Israel's defiance of international law poses a threat not only to the international legal order but to the international order itself." In light of Israel's persistent violations of international law, and Given that, since 1948, hundreds of UN resolutions have condemned Israel's colonial and discriminatory policies as illegal and called for immediate, adequate and effective remedies, and Given that the international community has so far failed to convince or force Israel to comply with its obligations under international law, We, Palestinian civil society organizations, reiterate on this Land Day our call for a broad campaign of Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel similar to those applied to South Africa in the apartheid era. We encourage civil society organizations worldwide to follow the example of the Palestine Solidarity Movement in North America and to make the 2006 Land Day a day of Divestment and Boycotts. This Campaign should be maintained until Israel meets its obligation to recognize the Palestinian people's inalienable right to self- determination and fully complies with the precepts of international law by: 1. Ending its occupation and colonization of all Arab lands and dismantling the Wall; 2. Ending its system of racial discrimination and recognizing the fundamental rights of the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel to full individual and collective equality; and 3.Respecting, protecting and promoting the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties as stipulated in UN resolution 194. The Acting Steering Committee, Palestinian BDS Campaign Palestine Land Day - March 30, 2006 The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, PO Box 53062, Washington DC 20009. Phone: (202) 939-6050, Fax: (202) 265-4574, Toll Free: (800) 368-5788, www.wrmea.com Published by the American Educational Trust, a non-profit foundation incorporated in Washington, DC to provide the American public with balanced and accurate information concerning U.S. relations with Middle Eastern states. Material from the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs may be printed with out charge with attribution to the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. Iqra! Newspaper New address in Houston: P.O. Box 571193 Houston, TX 77057 (832) 239-5390 www.iqraonline.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!
[IslamCity] 5 Poision of the Heart
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(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]
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Re: [IslamCity] HIJABS - Some interesting facts
Assalamu alaikum rwb. I must disagree with one thing the brother said AND NO I
AM NOT DISAGREEING WITH WHAT ALLAH SWT SAID. We don't wear hijab for men. We
wear hijab because it is a commandment of Allah subhana wa t'ala. And that is
why we wear hijab (covering). Jazaka Allahu khairan.
Quran:surahÂl-'Imrân,ayah 15. Shall I inform you of things far better than
those?For Al-Muttaqûn the pious there are Gardens(Paradise)with their
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am one of the Muslims."} (Holy Quran-41:33)
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camels." [al-Bukhaaree, Muslim]
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calls to guidance will have a reward similar to the reward of the one who
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[IslamCity] At last the Silence is being Broken, UK War-Plans are Exposed by the World's Media
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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."
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At
last the Silence is being Broken, UK War-Plans are Exposed by the
World's Media
At long last, the warning cry about the Bliar's
dangerous state-of-mind
and foreign policy is being picked-up by the media. Significantly, the
recently-leaked Sawer memo and its implications are reported first from
Dubai
and Pakistan , ie Asian countries with a rather different
perspective on what New Labour's arrogant John Reid assumes to be the
world community.
When
people like Reid and Bliar use such phrases, attaching them to emotive
clarion calls for the 'defence of freedom', 'our traditional values'
and the 'protection of civilization' you can be sure it's all coded
guff. Orwellian newspeak for 'protecting the predominantly Anglo-Saxon
capitalist power of the USUK' hiding the wicked hypocrisies of a death
machine which really has no place in the 21st Century.
Bankrupt
of any true political vision, they represent forces of reaction which,
even in the face of the most tremendous Earth Changes, hang onto their
anti-evolutionary outlook on humanity. Having chosen past glories of
Empire to be their cultural theme they made a faustian deal with the
USA's new, Straussian imperialists. A deal which ensured their becoming
war-criminals.
Now, they can only spend the rest of their
miserable careers trying to justify the unjustifiable in front of a
media, once servile and now increasingly cynical of a product well-past
its sell-by date. For all the rest of the world cares the Bliars and
Reids, the Bushes and Rumsfelds might just as well address their guilty
protestations to a hall full of mirrors. One way or another the
terrible crimes they have committed against humanity are now beginning
to reflect back on them as a global judgement, sure to revisit and
haunt them for the rest of their mortal existence.
That process of natural judgement may well have begun. But the
danger is that the criminals are on the run and bound to do further
damage in an act of sheer desperation.
Was
the reason for John Sawer's leaking of a high-level memo to warn the
world of the current British government's manoeuvring of the IAEA, the
UNSC and the Big 5 to bring about a UN Resolution against Iran? For
having once obtained that, which they now have, it's a much smaller
step for the USUK to up the ante at a later date, say June, and replace
what they are bound to call an "ineffective measure" with a
punitive Chapter VII Resolution which finally gives the warmongers
the 'legality'
to conduct vicious embargoes. Embargoes which, like the ones against
Irak, will only hurt innocent civilians? Which
will give them the cover they seek to attack Iran militarily in a
blitzkrieg most likely requiring the use of nuclear weapons?
This is what the leaked memo should be warning us of.
Either
John Sawer is now so worried about the Bliar cabal's determination to
take his country into another more terrible war or th
[IslamCity] Actor Charlie Sheen Questions Official 9-11 Story
Actor Charlie Sheen Questions Official 9/11 Story http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/march2006/200306charliesheen.htm Calls for truly independent investigation, joins growing ranks of prominent credible whistleblowers Alex Jones & Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | March 20 2006 Actor Charlie Sheen has joined a growing army of other highly credible public figures in questioning the official story of 9/11 and calling for a new independent investigation of the attack and the circumstances surrounding it. Over the past two years, scores of highly regarded individuals have gone public to express their serious doubts about 9/11. These include former presidential advisor and CIA analyst Ray McGovern, the father of Reaganomics and former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury Paul Craig Roberts, BYU physics Professor Steven Jones, former German defense minister Andreas von Buelow, former MI5 officer David Shayler, former Blair cabinet member Michael Meacher, former Chief Economist for the Department of Labor during President George W. Bush's first term Morgan Reynolds and many more. Speaking to The Alex Jones Show on the GCN Radio Network, the star of current hit comedy show Two and a Half Men and dozens of movies including Platoon and Young Guns, Sheen elaborated on why he had problems believing the government's version of events. Sheen agreed that the biggest conspiracy theory was put out by the government itself and prefaced his argument by quoting Theodore Roosevelt in stating, "That we are to stand by the President right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." "We're not the conspiracy theorists on this particular issue," said Sheen. "It seems to me like 19 amateurs with box cutters taking over four commercial airliners and hitting 75% of their targets, that feels like a conspiracy theory. It raises a lot of questions." Sheen described the climate of acceptance for serious discussion about 9/11 as being far more fertile than it was a couple of years ago. "It feels like from the people I talk to in and around my circles, it seems like the worm is turning." Suspicious collapse of buildings Sheen described his immediate skepticism regarding the official reason for the collapse of the twin towers and building 7 on the day of 9/11. "I was up early and we were gonna do a pre-shoot on Spin City, the show I used to do, I was watching the news and the north tower was burning. I saw the south tower hit live, that famous wide shot where it disappears behind the building and then we see the tremendous fireball." "There was a feeling, it just didn't look any commercial jetliner I've flown on any time in my life and then when the buildings came down later on that day I said to my brother 'call me insane, but did it sorta look like those buildings came down in a controlled demolition'?" Sheen said that most people's gut instinct, that the buildings had been deliberately imploded, was washed away by the incessant flood of the official version of events from day one. Sheen questioned the plausibility of a fireballs traveling 1100 feet down an elevator shaft and causing damage to the lobbies of the towers as seen in video footage, especially when contrasted with eyewitness accounts of bombs and explosions in the basement levels of the buildings. Regarding building 7, which wasn't hit by a plane, Sheen highlighted the use of the term "pull," a demolition industry term for pulling the outer walls of the building towards the center in an implosion, as was used by Larry Silverstein in a September 2002 PBS documentary when he said that the decision to "pull" building 7 was made before its collapse. This technique ensures the building collapses in its own footprint and can clearly be seen during the collapse of building 7 with the classic 'crimp' being visible. The highly suspicious collapse of building 7 and the twin towers has previously been put under the spotlight by physics Professor Steven Jones and Kevin Ryan of Underwriters Laboratories, the company that certified the steel components used in the construction of the World Trade Center towers. "The term 'pull' is as common to the demolition world as 'action and 'cut' are to the movie world," said Sheen. Sheen referenced firefighters in the buildings who were eyewitnesses to demolition style implosions and bombs. "This is not you or I watching the videos and speculating on what we saw, these are gentlemen inside the buildings at the very point of collapse." "If there's a problem with building 7 then there's a problem with the whole thing," said Sheen. Bush's behavior on 9/11 Sheen then questioned President Bush's actions on 9/11 and his location at the Booker Elementary School in Florida. Once Andy Card had whispered to Bush that America was under attack why didn't the secret service immediately whisk Bush away to a secret location? By remaining at a location where it was publicly
[IslamCity] DAJJAL PERSECUTES PARACHAS WITH CONCENTRATION CAMP AND SHOW TRIAL
Assalamu aleikum. Please note that 3 articles follow: *Twin tragedy *TIMELINE How the crisis unfolded for the Parachas *'It has devastated our family' --- (1) Twin tragedy By Vinita Bharadwaj, Staff writer Gulf News 03/30/2006 http://www.gulfnews.com/weekend/Special_Report/10029403.html - photos: While Uzair Paracha (left) faces the grim prospect of 75 years in jail, his businessman father Saifullah Paracha has been incarcerated in Guantanamo Bay. http://www.gulfnews.com/images/06/03/30/31_weekend_lead_4.jpg - Muneeza Paracha recounts the events surrounding the arrest of her brother and father, and its effect on her family. At first glance, Muneeza Paracha appears to be a normal 23-year-old. She's a student in one of Karachi's better known institutions and tries to manage her academics along with her duties towards her family. Or what's left of it. Muneeza's elder brother Uzair was detained three years ago (March 28, 2003) in New York and has just been found guilty on five counts of terrorism-related charges. Less than four months after Uzair's detention, Muneeza's father Saifullah was kidnapped from Bangkok (on July 6, 2003) and is now being held as an enemy combatant in Guantanamo Bay. For three years, the family has appealed for attention, fought for support and waited. "It's the wait that's killing," Muneeza says in an exclusive interview to Weekend Review. "The uncertainty, the fears, the insecurities ... all that has had a huge psychological impact on us." Muneeza last spoke to her father on July 5, 2003, after he had boarded Thai Airways flight TG-502 en route to Bangkok to meet his American partner Charles Anteby. "He said he was fine and the plane was about to take off," recalls the young girl, whose e-mail user handle is " dadz_little_gurl". Anteby had asked Saifullah, in the last week of June 2003, to visit Bangkok for a business meeting with K-Mart officials. Anteby had often visited Pakistan, but this time he insisted on a meeting in a different country citing lack of security for Americans. Saifullah thought this strange, particularly since Anteby had visited Pakistan several times a year in the past. "My mother saw my father off at the airport and that was the last she saw of him. Later we discovered that my father had left Karachi on the Thai Airways flight, but we didn't know what had happened to him," she says. Saifullah had been abducted from Bangkok and taken to Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, where he was interrogated for his alleged association with terrorists and for supporting their activities. The Parachas had no idea of his whereabouts until an NBC broadcast on August 5, 2003 which reported the charges levelled against Uzair. It also said that Saifullah was in US custody. The family still didn't know where he was. "Our first contact with my father was a letter through the ICRC [International Committee of the Red Cross] and that's when he told us he had been detained," she says. Following that letter, there has been sporadic contact between Saifullah and his wife Farhat, even though she writes at least one letter to him every week. After over 14 months of detention in Afghanistan, Saifullah was shifted to Guantanamo Bay's Camp Delta 5 in September 2004. "Contact has marginally improved since then, but our letters - both incoming and outgoing - are heavily censored and there's no knowing whether our letters reach him at all. My mother writes regularly, but we received a few letters from my father in which he says he hasn't heard from us in six months," Muneeza says. Saifullah appeared in front of a military tribunal in December 2004 and was declared an enemy combatant. "This was on the basis of far-fetched allegations, all of which he denied," she says. Muneeza does not know of any other consequence of the tribunal hearing. As she says, "He is still there". Uzair's arrest And so is her brother Uzair, who continues to be at New York City's Metropolitan Detention Centre. At the time of his arrest, Uzair was 23 and, in Muneeza's words, known to have had a "good, uninterrupted, academic record with a major in marketing". The young man joined his father in the family business and they took up a project that involved Uzair marketing upmarket apartments to non-resident Pakistanis or Americans of Pakistani origin. "My brother's office was basically a desk in the New York City office of Charles Anteby. It was a transparent business. We've been green card holders for a long time. My father's association with the US goes back 30 years when he first went there as a student. We lived there for a long time until we returned in the mid-1980s to settle in Pakistan. "Less than two months after Uzair reached New York to work, he was picked up by two FBI agents from his office. We've heard he is looked after well, but when he speaks to us we can tell that despite his positive remarks he is psychologically down. He is allowed a 15-minute call per month to us. Recently he was pen
[IslamCity] A Glimpse at Islam & Sufism in the Balkans
A Glimpse at Islam & Sufism in the Balkans By Huseyin Abiva (Chicago) Introduction The nearly six centuries of Ottoman rule over southeastern Europe provided ample opportunity for the spread of Islam. Indeed, among the nations that now comprise the Balkans Peninsula (Albania, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia) the visible Muslim component to their populations are readily evident. Two of these nations, Albania and Bosnia-Hercegovina, undoubtedly have Muslim majority populations. The populations of Macedonia and Serbia (which includes Kosova) are comprised of huge Muslim minorities. In Croatia, Bulgaria, Montenegro and Greece there are smaller percentages, but in the case of Bulgaria this means more than 1 million! The largest Muslim ethnic group present in the Balkans is the Albanians, who number over 5 million. They are concentrated in the central and southern areas of the Peninsula and form the overwhelming majority of the population in Albania, the Serbian occupied province of Kosova and western Macedonia. There are small groups of Albanians living in Bosnia, Montenegro and Croatia who are mainly émigrés from the Tito era. In regards to religion, though they are for the most part followers of Islam (or the non-practicing descendants of Muslims), Albanians have never found it a force for ethnic unity. Significant portions of the Albanian people still cling to either Catholic or Orthodox Christianity, and among the Muslim population there was further division between the Sunni majority and the followers of the Shiah Bektashi (see below). The next cultural element in the Muslim population of the Balkan Peninsula are the Slavs. They number some 3.5 million and are the descendants of those of the region who embraced Islam during the centuries of Ottoman rule. Culturally and linguistically they are a diverse group whose racial base and religious faith form for the only common factor. They form a plurality of the inhabitants of Bosnia-Hercegovina (where they are known as Bonjaks), a majority of the Serbian-occupied region of the Sandzak of Novi Pazar, a significant minority in Macedonia (where they are known as Torbei) and Bulgaria (where they identify themselves as Pomaks). Small pockets of Slav speaking Muslims (Pomaks) can also be found in northern Greece and in Kosova (Goranis). The Turkish element of the Muslim population is but a mere shadow of what it once was, say a hundred years ago. In the past, Turks made up significant portions of the populations of Macedonia, Thessaly, the Morea and Bulgaria. At present, there are nearly one million Turks who continue to live in Bulgaria. In Macedonia and Greece there are some 200,000 Muslims who still identify themselves as Turks. There are also much smaller communities of ethnic Turks who live in the urban centers Kosova and the Sandzak. The smallest of the compact Balkan Islamic ethnic groups are the Roma (Gypsy) people. They are widely distributed throughout the region and tend to follow the dominant religion where they reside. Thus in the heavily Islamized regions of Bosnia, Albania, Bulgaria and Macedonia they usually profess Islam as their creed. In Macedonia the Roma are a highly visible minority, especially around the capitol city of Skopje. Historically, the Roma have (and continue to do so) suffered from racial discrimination by their non-Roma neighbors, both Muslim and Christian. In the past there have been other ethnic elements that have since disappeared due to extermination, expulsion or assimilation into one of the more dominant Muslim groups. For instance there were large numbers of Greek-speaking Muslims in Macedonia, Crete and in the various regions of Greece up until the turn of the twentieth century. One also can find the descendants of Circassian and Tatar refugees still living in Kosova and Bulgaria though they have been relatively assimilated into the Albanian or Turkish populations amongst whom they live. Sufism as a means of Islamic Propagation during the Ottoman Era. As with other Muslim lands, the historical role that the Sufi tariqats played in the preservation and propagation of Islam in the Balkans cannot go without notice. It can be said with all fairness that the implantation of Islamic Civilization here could not have been possible without the efforts of these Sufi shaykhs and their orders. The Sufis of the Ottoman Balkans added enormously both to the development of an Islam of the intellectual arena as well as a folk Islam of the masses. Though now a mere shadow of a once vast manifestation, the influence of Sufism can still be felt at both the popular and academic level among the Balkan Muslim population. The extent of the impact of Sufism and its role in Balkan Islam can be seen through the number of tariqats (mystical brotherhoods) that functioned in the region over the centuries. The largest and most wide-spread of these tariqats were the Hal
[IslamCity] HAMAS MP's VOW FOR JIHAD
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To:eGroup For Muslims Around The World From:"assalamu_alaikum_1427" Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 14:13:02 -Subject: [IslamCity] HAMAS MP's VOW FOR JIHAD"The Quran is our constitution, jihad is our way, and death for thesake of God is our highest aspiration"Hamed Bitawi, Hamas MP-Hamas MP's vow for jihadReutersTuesday 28 March 2006http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/1A014B78-768C-4775-B28F-297DD4A3C2DB.htm-photo:The parliament approved the cabinet by 71-to-36 votehttp://english.aljazeera.net/NR/rdonlyres/1A014B78-768C-4775-B28F-297DD4A3C2DB/118117/A59E445274474B43B8360FBE85BCF149.jpg-Hamas adopted a strident tone after its cabinet won approval in thePalestinian parliament, with one MP declaring "jihad is our way".The parliament, dominated by members of the Islamist group, approvedthe cabinet line-up by 71 to 36 on Tuesday.The cabinet was expected to be sworn in on Wednesday by Mahmoud Abbas,the Palestinian president whose long-dominant Fatah faction refused tojoin the new government. Chanting "God is Greatest" after the vote, Hamas parliamentarianshugged and kissed Ismail Haniya, their prime minister-designate, whovowed not to abandon the fight against Israel. One Hamas MP, Hamed
Bitawi, said: "The Quran is our constitution,jihad is our way, and death for the sake of God is our highestaspiration." His comments stood in contrast to a more conciliatory speech by Haniyaon Monday in which he stressed the new government's push for peace anddialogue.The earlier speech drew fire from some MPs for not stressing resistance.Change of tone In presenting the cabinet for parliamentary approval on Monday, Haniyasought to reach out to the West by saying his government was ready fortalks with the "Quartet" of Middle East mediators on bringing a "justpeace" to the region. In contrast, on Tuesday, Haniya said: "We were born from the womb ofresistance, we will protect resistance and the arm of resistance willnot be touched." Addressing Mariam Farhat, a newly-elected Hamas parliamentarian whosethree sons died fighting Israel, Haniya
said: "This the fruit of thesacrifices by martyrs, including your sons. You've got to be proud ofthis day." Israel seized on Haniya's change of tone, saying it reflected the newgovernment's "extremist" policies.Mark Regev, the foreign ministry spokesman, said: "I hope the sort ofremarks we heard today help to dissolve any possible illusion thatmight exist as to the true character of this new Palestinian leadership." After the vote, Haniya and several newly approved cabinet ministersprayed at the house of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the co-founder of Hamaswho was killed by an Israeli airstrike in 2004. "We are coming to congratulate you and to say that the blood of ourSheikh [Yassin] did not go in vain," Haniya told Yassin's widow.http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/1A014B78-768C-4775-B28F-297DD4A3C2DB.htmABDUL WAHID OSMAN BELAL
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[IslamCity] UN Warns Against Israeli Unilateralism
UN Warns Against Israeli Unilateralism "It will become even more difficult to persuade the Palestinians that there is anything to be gained from moving toward compromise," Kalomoh said. UNITED NATIONS, March 31, 2006 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) The United Nations warned Thursday, March 30, that Israel's unilateral moves to fix borders without consultations with the Palestinians would undermine efforts to establish peace in the Middle East as the new Palestinian premier said the Israeli plan was a recipe for conflict. "If the prospect of a viable Palestinian state in the framework of a two-state solution is seen to dwindle because of unilateral Israeli actions, it will become even more difficult to persuade the Palestinians that there is anything to be gained from moving toward compromise," Tuliameni Kalomoh, the UN assistant secretary general for political affairs, told the UN Security Council, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported. Acting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said he intends to unilaterally set Israel's permanent borders without consultations with the Palestinians. Olmert, whose Kadima party won the Israeli elections, said Israel will hold on to large Jewish settlement blocks in the occupied West Bank, dividing Palestinian areas and making it almost impossible to create a contiguous and viable Palestinian state. The United State signaled on Thursday, March 30, the possibility of supporting Israel's unilateral moves to fix borders. Arab governments believe more unilateral steps by Israel to retain control over occupied Palestinian territories would kill stone dead any peace chances. Kalomoh, who was briefing the 15-member Security Council on recent developments in the Middle East, including Tuesday's Israeli elections, underlined the need to pursue efforts to head off security and humanitarian crises in the Palestinian territories. "Despite the gulf between the parties (Israelis and Palestinians), they and the international community share a common interest and duty to prevent a security or humanitarian crisis in the occupied Palestinian territory," Kalomoh said. The United Nations warned earlier this month that the Palestinians were on the verge of a humanitarian crisis because of food shortage caused by Israeli closures. Experts said Israel added insult to injury as the agriculture-dependent territories were being sliced from the main water resources by the Israeli separation wall. "Recipe for Conflict" "Olmert's unilateralism is a recipe for conflict," Haniya said. Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya said in an article published by the Guardian on Friday, March 31, that Israel's unilateral moves to fix borders was a "recipe for conflict." "Olmert's unilateralism is a recipe for conflict," Haniya wrote in an article in the British mass circulation paper. "It is a plan to impose a permanent situation in which the Palestinians end up with a homeland cut into pieces made inaccessible because of massive Jewish settlements built in contravention of international law on land seized illegally from the Palestinians." Haniya stressed that any Israeli plan would prove failure unless Tel Aviv recognizes the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people. "No plan will ever work without a guarantee, in exchange for an end to hostilities by both sides, of a total Israeli withdrawal from all the land occupied in 1967, including East Jerusalem; the release of all our prisoners; the removal of all settlers from all settlements; and recognition of the right of all refugees to return," he wrote. Double Standards Haniya lashed out at the West's double standards in dealing with the Palestinian cause. "Do policymakers in Washington and Europe ever feel ashamed of their scandalous double standards," he questioned. He went on: "Before and since the Palestinian elections in January, they have continually insisted that Hamas comply with certain demands. "They want us to recognize Israel, call off our resistance, and commit ourselves to whatever deals Israel and the Palestinian leadership reached in the past." The US and the EU have threatened to cut off aid to the Palestinian Authority once a Hamas-led government is in place unless Hamas disarms, "renounces violence" and recognizes Israel. "B
[IslamCity] CAN WE EAT MEAT SLAUGHTERED BY A SHIA?
Fatwa # 14135 from United StatesDate: Thursday,
March 30th 2006
Category
Food and Nourishment
Title
Can we eat meat slaughtered by a Shia?
Question
can we eat meat slaughtered by a Shia?
Answer
In principle, it is not permissible to eat the meat
of Halaal animals slaughtered by non-Muslims. The meat
of Halaal animals slaughtered by Christians and Jews
are excluded from this general prohibition. Allah
permits the meat of Halaal animals slaughtered by
Christians and Jews, that is with the condition of
Zabah in Shariah, which includes reciting the name of
Allah before slaughtering the animal. Kindly refer to
Zabeeha of Ahle-Kitaab on our site.
As regards the meat of Halaal animals slaughtered by
Shias, that depends on their beliefs. It is well
known fact that Shias are different from the
mainstream Ahlus sunnah Wal Jamaa. The two sects have
some very fundamental differences. It is authentically
recorded that many Shia scholars do not accept the
Quraan as is today. Literature in the regard could be
provided. Shias also do not accept the Ahaadith of
Ahlus sunnah Wal Jamaa, do deny Hadith Mutawaatir like
denying any Aayat of the Quraan which is Kufr. They
do not believe in the Khilaafat of Abu Bakr
[radhiallaahu anhu] which was established through
Ijmaa of the Sahaaba to deny anything established
through Ijmaa of Sahaaba [radhiallaahu anhu] is also
Kufr.
and Allah Ta'ala Knows Best
Mufti Ebrahim Desai
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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."
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[IslamCity] "We will show you Our Signs" - The Universe - Part 1
Mracles of Allah - The Universe Source : Chapter 2 of "History of Truth - The Truth about God and Religions" Book.http://www.usislam.org/20univ.htm Studying the universe can be an overwhelming spiritual experience. We see pictures of our solar system, distant stars, and galaxies, but the human minds fail to comprehend the size and complexity of this huge universe. In this chapter, you will encounter a host of theories and names. I attempted very hard to make the presented material simple, so you can get an appreciation of the splendor and grandeur of this universe. However, if you are temporarily stunned, you are sharing the astonishment of the scientists who lived through the development of their theories, and who at times saw nothing but increasing complexity with little hope of understanding. If you stick to it, you will share the excitement of the scientists, and the humility of the believers. If you keep asking questions: Who, Why, and How, you will have only one logical answer: God exists and He made it His Way." From time immemorial, people have wondered at the starry heavens. On a clear night, the beautiful stars hang like shining jewels against the vast darkness of space. The parade of sunrise and sunset, the changing phases of the moon, and the silent convoy of the stars across the black dome of heaven have long proven a spectacle and a puzzle. The spectacle has inspired the artist, the musician, and the poet. The puzzle has intrigued philosophers and scientists. Just what is out there in the space? What is the meaning of it all? How did it start? Is there life out there? We don't know. But, who has any idea of what God can do? The spectacle of the heaven above charges the believers with humility and faith. They realize that they are a grain of dust on a grain of dust on a grain of dust. Yet, God gives us the intellect to contemplate all of this. The recent Hubble telescope discovery increased the estimates for the known galaxies from 10 billion to 100 billion, with each galaxy containing billions of stars, and perhaps planetary systems. When we discover new galaxies, stars and planets, this should make us aware of how great God is, and how little we know. God simply revealed some of his magnificence. To ancient peoples the sky exhibited many repetitive behaviors. The bright sun, which divided daytime from nighttime, rose every morning from one direction, the east, moved steadily across the sky during the day, and set in a nearly opposite direction, the west. At night more than 1000 visible stars followed a similar course, appearing to rotate in permanent groupings, called constellations, around a fixed point in the sky, which was known as the north celestial pole. Observation of the stars that appear in the west after sunset or in the east before sunrise showed that the relative position of the sun among the stars changed gradually. The Egyptians may have been the first to discover that the sun moves completely around the sphere of the fixed stars in approximately 365 days. Several ancient peoples, notably the Egyptians, the Mayans, and the Chinese, developed interesting constellation maps and useful calendars but the Babylonians accomplished even greater achievements. To perfect their calendar, they studied the motions of the sun and moon. It was their custom to designate as the beginning of each month the day after the new moon, when the lunar crescent first appeared after sunset. Due to limited knowledge, the earliest civilizations developed inaccurate model of the universe. At about 4000 BC, the Mesopotamians, believed that the Earth is the center of the universe and that the other heavenly bodies move around it. Later, in ancient Greece, the challenge was resumed, and a new view taken of the universe. The Greek Aristotle and the Alexandrian astronomer Ptolemy expanded the nightly motion of stars across the sky from a dome to a sphere. In doing so, the Greeks took the first step towards realizing that the universe is larger than it appears. They also developed an elaborate mathematical way of describing the cyclic motion of the Moon and planets around the Earth, which, on what seemed good evidence, appeared fixed at the center of universe. The Greek astronomer Aristarchus of Samos maintained, about 270 BC, that the Earth revolved around the sun. However, because of Aristotle's authority, the Greeks regarded the colossal, heavy Earth as a motionless globe around which the universe revolved. This theory, known as the geocentric system, remained virtually unchallenged for about 2000 years due to the widely accepted model of the universe according to the famous Aristotle. Had humanity believed Aristarchus, our knowledge of astronomy would have been more advanced than our present case. Greek astronomy was transmitted eastward to the Syrians, the Hindus, and the Arabs. The Arabic astronomers compiled new star catalogs in the 9th and 10th centuries
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(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."
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[IslamCity] Islamic Ruling on Celebrating April Fool
Bismillah hir Rehman nir Rahim Islamic Ruling on Celebrating April Fool Praise be to Allaah, we praise Him and seek His help and forgiveness. We seek refuge in Allaah from the evil of our own selves and from our evil deeds. Whomsoever Allaah guides, none can lead astray, and whomsoever He sends astray, none can guide. Lying is an evil characteristic, which all religions and systems of ethics warn against and which man's innate common sense (fitrah) agrees that it is wrong. Those who possess chivalry and sound reason also say this. Truthfulness is one of the pillars on which the moral survival of the world depends. It is the foundation of praiseworthy characteristics, the cornerstone of Prophethood, the result of taqwaa. Were it not for truthfulness, the rulings of all divinely-revealed laws would collapse. Acquiring the characteristic of lying is akin to shedding one's humanity, because speaking is an exclusively human trait. (Bareeqah Mahmoodiyyah, Muhammad al-Khaadimi, 3/183) Like many other Evils of Western Culture, April fool has become a part of our Societies. They celebrate this day by lying to their friends & relatives to make fool of them. They believe that its not a sin to lie in jest, so they dont feel any guilty and enjoy fooling others. But in fact, islam prohibited lying even in Jest, Insha Allah following lines will explain the prohibition on lying in Jest and its punishment. [added by the sender] The Prohibition Of Lying Our purely monotheistic shareeah warns against lying in the Quraan and Sunnah, and there is consensus that it is haraam. The liar will have bad consequences in this world and in the next. Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning): It is only those who believe not in the Ayaat (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.) of Allaah, who fabricate falsehood, and it is they who are liars [al-Nahl 16:105] It was narrated from Abu Hurayrah that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: The signs of the hypocrite are three: (1) When he speaks, he lies; (2) When he makes a promise, he breaks it; and (3) When he is entrusted with something, he betrays that trust. (Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 33; Muslim, 59) The Permissible kinds of lies According to shareeah, lying is not permitted except in specific cases which do not lead to loss of rights, bloodshed or slander of peoples honour, etc., but which concern saving lives, reconciling between people, or creating love between husband and wife. It was narrated that Asmaa bint Yazeed said: The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: It is not permissible to tell lies except in three (cases): when a man speaks to his wife in a way to please her; lying in war; and lying in order to reconcile between people. (Narrated by al-Tirmidhi, 1939) It was narrated from Umm Kalthoom bint Uqbah that she heard the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) say: He is not a liar who reconciles between people and narrates something good or says something good. (Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 2546; Muslim, 2605) The Prohibition of Lying in Jest Some people think that it is permissible to tell lies if it is in jest. This is the excuse that they use for telling lies on April 1st or on other days. This is wrong. There is no basis for this in the pure shareeah. Lying is haraam whether the one who does it is joking or is serious. It was narrated that Abu Hurayrah said: They said, O Messenger of Allaah, you joke with us. He said, But I only speak the truth. (Narrated by al-Tirmidhi, 1990) It was narrated that Muaawiyah ibn Haydah said: I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) say: Woe to the one who talks to make the people laugh and tells lies, woe to him, woe to him. (Narrated by al-Tirmidhi, 235, Abu Dawood, 4990). Abd al-Rahmaan ibn Abi Laylaa said: The companions of the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) told us that they were travelling with the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him). A man among them fell asleep and some of them went and took his arrows. When the man woke up, he got alarmed (because his arrows were missing) and the people laughed. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said, What are you laughing at? They said, Nothing, except that we took the arrows and he got alarmed. The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: It is not permissible for a Muslim to frighten another Muslim. (Narrated by Abu Dawood, 5004; Ahmad, 22555). It was narrated from Abd-Allaah ibn al-Saaib ibn Yazeed from his father from his grandfather that he heard the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) say: None of you should take the belongings of his brother, whether in jest or otherwise. Whoev
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(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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[IslamCity] Is it permitted to celebrate birthdays?
Is it permitted to celebrate birthdays?
Answered by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Adam al-Kawthari
In the name of Allah, Most Compassionate, Most Merciful,
Principally, birthdays are not something that should be celebrated or to be
happy about. When it is someone's birthday, one year of his/her life has
decreased, and not increased. As such, what intelligence is there in
celebrating and showing happiness when a year has decreased in one's life?
Before understanding the legal ruling with regards to birthday celebrations,
it is worth remembering here that imitation of the unbelievers (Kuffar) is
something that Islam strictly disapproves of.
In a Hadith recorded by Imam Abu Dawud (Allah have Mercy on him) and others,
The Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him & give him peace) said:
Whosoever imitates a nation is amongst them. (Sunan Abu Dawud,)
It should be remembered here that not everything what the non-Muslims wear
and do, is Haram and unlawful. Imitation, which is prohibited, is effected in
one of the following two ways:
a) One does something with the intention of imitating the Kuffar, meaning one
does so because one wants to be like a particular non-believer or
non-believers.
b) Doing something that is unique and exclusive to the non-believers or it is
part of their faith. This will also be considered imitation, thus Haram
(unlawful). (See the Fatwa of Shaykh Mufti Taqi Usmani).
In light of the above, there are few situations with regards to the Shariah
(legal) ruling on celebrating birthdays:
1) If it is celebrated by imitating the Kuffar in that all or some of the
customs that are unique with the Kuffar are adopted, or acts that are unlawful
in Shariah are committed, then there is no doubt in its impermissibility. The
lighting of candles on a cake that number the years of ones life and then
blowing on them, playing of music, singing, extravagant and lavish spending,
showing off, etc are all unlawful and forbidden practices. Thus, if birthdays
are celebrated by adopting the above-mentioned customs, it will not be
permissible.
2)If the above-mentioned evils are avoided, then there are two possibilities:
a) If one celebrates birthdays with the intention of imitating the Kuffar
meaning one does so because one wants to be like the Kuffar, then, as stated
previously, it will be considered imitating the Kuffar, thus unlawful.
b) If there is no intention of imitating the Kuffar (and also the above
mentioned evils are avoided) then the ruling on celebrating birthdays will
depend on whether it originated from the religious customs of the non-Muslims
and it is part of their faith. (It can not be considered to be unique with the
Kuffar, for celebrating birthdays has become a widespread phenomenon that is
carried out in many different parts of the world). I am personally unaware of
whether celebrating birthdays has a connection with the Christian faith or
other wise, thus I am unable to give a decisive ruling.
However, I have mentioned the criterion of which the ruling will be based. If
the origins of birthday celebrations are connected to a particular faith, then
there is no doubt in its impermissibility. If, however, it has no connections
with the faith of the non-Muslims, then (and Allah knows best) it seems that it
would be permissible to celebrate it (provided the evils mentioned above are
avoided).
3)If one thanks Allah and shows gratitude for being blessed with one more
year of his life, thus expresses happiness and joy, then there is nothing wrong
with that. (See: al-Fatawa al-Rahimiyya (urdu), 6/320).
And Allah knows best
Muhammad ibn Adam al-Kawthari
Darul Iftaa, Leicester, UK
www.daruliftaa.org
http://qa.sunnipath.com/issue_view.asp?HD=1&ID=2106&CATE=115
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(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,
[IslamCity] Ya Allah ! Forgive me
All praises are for you Allah, how I hope that you are there.
For sinful though I know I am, your displeasure I can not bear.
Never, till this moment, did I realize how much I've strayed.
Never, till now, was I more conscious of all those times when I
should have prayed.
For sins are like heavy baggage, that one carries through Life,
Why didn't I realize sooner, that Earth is but a place of sport?
Ya Allah ! Forgive me. Save me from the fire of Hell.
Ya Allah ! Protect me. From myself for my soul is weak.
Let me not falter ever, for Jan'ah is the abode I seek.
Ya, Allah! Please help me. For I don't understand and thus, I fear.
What happened to all those moments when I never doubted that you
were near ?
My actions once were guided, by my faith which, once, was strong.
Ya Allah! please guide me . What happened, what went wrong ?
Each footstep that I used to take, I took with you ever near my
side.
The Quran was my faithful companion, Rasoolallah my beloved guide.
How I yearn for those bygone days Allah, for I know that the day
comes near
When we'll each receive our just rewards, and Truth will stand
sparkling clear.
Life is like a spider's web Allah. We get caught in its tricky snare
So thoroughly are we disillusioned, time for saalat we can not
spare.
I sit here and I wonder, Ya Allah! Why did I fall so low ?
What happened to my faith Allah? Where did my Iman go?
In this earthly life of ours, so often does sin seem right.
Falsehood seems to be the truth, as if days are confused with night.
Man is an imperfect creature. And thus, Man shall always wrong.
For the road to Jan'ah is rocky, and the journey seems awfully long.
Ya Allah ! Our creator, we are all just peices of clay.
Please help us with our steps in life, and let us not lose our way.
All praises are for you Allah, I know that you are near.
I know that you have read my heart, and my words I know you hear.
Mehboob Rehman
***
{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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[IslamCity] ISNA Establishes Office in Washington, DC
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From: ISNA
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Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 9:02 PM
Subject: ISNA Establishes Office in Washington, DC
The Islamic Society of North America Establishes Office in
Washington, DC
(Plainfield, IN March 28, 2006) The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA)
is establishingan Office of Interfaith and Community Relations (IOICR) in
the nation's capital. Interfaithactivity has been a cornerstone of ISNA
activities, and has been wholeheartedly endorsed byISNA affiliates and other
Islamic organizations across the US and Canada. The establishmentof an ISNA
office in metropolitan Washington, DC area, to be opened this spring, is in
responseto emerging realities and new opportunities for ISNA to build
greater strength in fulfillingits mission. The IOICR will further work to
increase good relations and understanding betweenMuslim Americans and their
government agencies and Congressional representatives.
Considering the importance that ISNA and Muslim Americans attach to
interfaith engagement,the ISNA Secretary General Dr. Sayyid Muhammad Syeed
is relinquishing his current positionto serve as the first National Director
of the IOICR. As National Director of ISNA'sOffice of Interfaith and
Community Relations, Dr. Syeed will build on the relationshipsISNA has
already developed with diverse interfaith, religious and social
serviceorganizations to engage American Muslim communities in addressing the
spiritualand ethical challenges of the twenty-first century.
Dr. Syeed brings extensive credentials to his new appointment. He has a
doctorate inSociolinguistics and has served as ISNA Secretary General for 12
years. He has been activelyinvolved in fostering understanding among the
world's religions and has developed significantinterfaith alliances at
different levels in the U.S., Canada, and internationally.
Accordingly,the search for a new Secretary General for the national
headquarters of ISNA in Plainfield, INis now underway. Mr. Ahmed El-Hattab
is serving as the Acting Secretary General of ISNA duringthis interim
period. Mr. El-Hattab has been with ISNA for 23 years. He has served as
AssistantSecretary General and currently is Executive Director of ISNA
Development Foundation.
CONTACT RESOURCE: Ahmed El-HattabPhone: 317-839-8157 ext
236Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Islamic Society of North America
P.O. Box 38 (mail)6555 South County Road 750 East ( Express mail and
packages)Plainfield, Indiana 46168 U S APhone (317) 839-8157Fax
(317) 839-1840E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL: www.isna.net
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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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[IslamCity] Support the MYBA All-Star Slam Benefit for South Asia Earthquake Relief
"Jamaaluddin \"Coach J\" al-Haidar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [NOTICE: Permission to distribute widely to everyone on your email list is granted (and encouraged).] Bismillaah, wal Hamdulillaah, was Salaatus Salaam ala Rasulillaah, wa ba'd As-Salaamualaikum wa Rahmatullaahi wa Barakaatuhu MSAs and all other youth orgs are encouraged to post their banners and signs inside the gymnasium at the
MYBA All-Star Slam this Sunday, April 2nd at Del Mar Coliseum. Del Mar is located at 2020 Mangum behind Northwest Mall at the Hwy 290/Loop 610/ Hempstead Hwy junction. Doors open at 1:00pm. Advanced tickets are just $5 for all three games or $7 at the door. MYBA Commissioner, Br. Jamaaluddin al-Haidar, is requesting that all Houston area Islamic schools and all youth orgs such as MSA, CRESCENT YOUTH, YM,etc. post their banners, and represent their orgs support for this ground-breaking benefit event--the first of its kind to ever be attempted in the Houston Islamic community. Team Mecca will compete against Team Medina in 3 all-star games at the middle school, high school, and senior(18+) level. Mecca wears black with white lettering. Medina wears white
with black lettering. All proceeds from this event benefit the ICNA Relief Helping Hands Project to restore communities and infrastructure of the earthquake stricken areas of South Asia. To purchase tickets and to obtain info on sponsor and volunteer opportunities, please contact MYBA at www.mybausa.org or call 281-513-1645. The schedule is as follows: 1:00pm Doors open to public 2:00pm MYBA Middle School All-Star Game 2:45-3:15 3-point shooting competition (only All-Stars compete) 3:30pm MYBA High School All-Star Game 4:15-4:30 Asr prayer 4:45pm MYBA Seniors All-Star Game Insha'Allah we hope to see you
there! Fi-Aman'Allah, Jamaaluddin al-Haidar MYBA Commissioner * to
the deen and the game. . . stay true.MYBA-Muslim Youth Basketball Association www.mybausa.org
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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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[IslamCity] 'Asia must prepare for dollar collapse'
'Asia must prepare for dollar
collapse'
AFP
Tuesday
28 March 2006
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/50B0028B-B417-4FDE-866C-842CB3280A4F.htm
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photo:
ADB:
Possibility of a dollar collapse small but fallout huge http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/rdonlyres/50B0028B-B417-4FDE-866C-842CB3280A4F/118069/A0980442298A4D159BCD29FABB16C1F0.jpg
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Related:
Bank
of Japan
signals rate rise
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/C046BEBF-6416-4D14-B702-164774A42C81.htm
Dollar
hits new low
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/F1BB1749-1E4D-4955-8BA7-4384D2ECF84F.htm
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East
Asian economies need to prepare for a possible collapse of the US dollar, the
Asian Development Bank says.
The
warning comes as the US
trade deficit reaches a record high and global interest rates continue to rise.
Masahiro
Kawai, the ADB's head of regional economic integration, said on Tuesday:
"Any shock hitting the US
economy or the global market may change investors' perceptions given the
existing global current account imbalance.
"Our
suggestion to Asian countries is: Don't take this continuous financing of the US current
account deficit as given. If something happens then East Asian economies have
to be prepared."
He
said because of the highly interdependent nature of East Asian economies, if
countries worked together to allow their currencies to collectively appreciate
against a tumbling dollar then the cost of adjustment would be spread.
"The
possibility of a US dollar collapse or sharp decline may be small at this point
but it would generate very significant turmoil so East Asian economies ...
ought to be ready for that."
The
Manila-based ADB is working on several indices of Asian currencies that could
be helpful to monitor exchange rate movements in the case of a sharp dollar
decline, although its main intention is to help develop regional bond markets.
Political
sensitivities
However,
the ADB is still trying to decide which currencies to include in this Asian
Currency Unit (ACU) amid political sensitivities about the inclusion of the Taiwan dollar given China's claim over the island.
The
ADB had apparently been aiming to launch the ACU - a weighted basket of Asian
currencies - before the bank's annual meeting in May, but Kawai said this would
not be possible.
He
said there was no specific launch date yet but hopefully it would be unveiled
"in the next few months".
But
Kawai played down suggestions that the ACU could foreshadow a single Asian
currency like the European Currency Unit (ECU), which existed for two decades
before the creation of the euro in 1999.
He
said: "The ECU had an official status but the ACU has no such official
status. We are not in the position to decide whether this should become a real
currency or not."
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/50B0028B-B417-4FDE-866C-842CB3280A4F.htm
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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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[IslamCity] Ya Allah ! Forgive me....(A Poem)
All praises are for you Allah, how I hope that you are there.For sinful though I know I am, your displeasure I can not bear. Never, till this moment, did I realize how much I've strayed. Never, till now, was I more conscious of all those times when I should have prayed. For sins are like heavy baggage, that one carries through Life,Why didn't I realize sooner, that Earth is but a place of sport? Ya Allah ! Forgive me. Save me from the fire of Hell. Ya Allah ! Protect me. From myself for my soul is weak. Let me not falter ever, for Jan'ah is the abode I seek. Ya, Allah! Please help me. For I don't understand and thus, I fear. What happened to all those moments when I never doubted that you were near ? My actions once were guided, by my faith which, once, was strong. Ya Allah! please guide me . What happened, what went wrong ? Each footstep that I used to take, I took with
you ever near my side. The Quran was my faithful companion, Rasoolallah my beloved guide. How I yearn for those bygone days Allah, for I know that the day comes near When we'll each receive our just rewards, and Truth will stand sparkling clear. Life is like a spider's web Allah. We get caught in its tricky snare So thoroughly are we disillusioned, time for saalat we can not spare. I sit here and I wonder, Ya Allah! Why did I fall so low ? What happened to my faith Allah? Where did my Iman go? In this earthly life of ours, so often does sin seem right. Falsehood seems to be the truth, as if days are confused with night. Man is an imperfect creature. And thus, Man shall always wrong. For the road to Jan'ah is rocky, and the journey seems awfully long. Ya Allah ! Our creator, we are all just peices of clay. Please help us with our steps in life, and let us not lose our way. All praises are for you Allah, I
know that you are near. I know that you have read my heart, and my words I know you hear.
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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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[IslamCity] The Qur'aan is a healing and a mercy to the believers
6577: The Qur'aan is a healing and a mercy to the believers Question: Tell me more about quran. Answer: Praise be to Allaah. The Qur'aan is the word of Allaah that was revealed to His Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) and is recited as an act of worship. This definition of the Qur'aan is comprehensive. Our saying "the word of Allaah" excludes the words of human beings or others. Our saying "revealed to His Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him)" excludes anything that was revealed to anyone else, such as the Injeel (Gospel), Tawraat (Torah) and Zaboor (Psalms). Our saying "it is recited as an act of worship" excludes the hadeeth qudsi (ahaadeeth in which the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) narrated words from Allaah which are not part of the Qur'aan). It brings light and gives certainty, it is the strong rope, it is the path of the righteous. It tells us of those who came before us, Prophets and righteous people, and how those who disobeyed them tasted the punishment of Allaah and were humiliated. It contains verses which speak of the miracles of Allaah and His power in this great universe. It tells us of the origins of human beings who are created from "despised water" (semen). It contains the basic principles of faith which must be embraced by every humble heart. It contains the rules of sharee'ah which tells us what is permissible and what is forbidden; what is true and what is false. It tells us of the Resurrection and the fate of human beings, either in the Fire in which they will burn and be among those who are humiliated, or in Paradise with its gardens, springs, plants and places of security. In it there is healing for men's hearts, light and illumination for the blind. Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning): "And We send down of the Qur'aan that which is a healing and a mercy to those who believe (in Islamic Monotheism and act on it), and it increases the Zaalimoon (polytheists and wrongdoers) nothing but loss" [al-Isra' 17:82] Al-Haafiz Ibn Katheer said in his commentary on this verse: Here Allaah tells us about His Book, which He revealed to His Messenger Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) and which is the Qur'aan which "Falsehood cannot come to it from before it or behind it, (it is) sent down by the AllWise, Worthy of all praise" [Fussilat 42:41- interpretation of the meaning], that it is "a healing and a mercy to those who believe" _ i.e., it takes away the diseases in the heart such as doubt, hypocrisy, shirk, deviation and misguidance; the Qur'aan heals all of that. And it is also a mercy which brings about faith, wisdom and the pursuit of and desire for goodness. This is only for those who believe in it and follow it; for such it will be a healing and a mercy. But as for the kaafir and those who wrong themselves thereby, their hearing the Qur'aan only makes them further away (from truth) and increases them in kufr. The problem comes from the kaafir, not from the Qur'aan. Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning): "Say: It is for those who believe, a guide and a healing. And as for those who disbelieve, there is heaviness (deafness) in their ears, and it (the Qur'aan) is blindness for them. They are those who are called from a place far away (so they neither listen nor understand)" [Fussilat 41:44] "And whenever there comes down a Soorah, some of them (hypocrites) say: `Which of you has had his Faith increased by it?' As for those who believe, it has increased their Faith, and they rejoice. But as for those in whose hearts is a disease (of doubt, disbelief and hypocrisy), it will add suspicion and doubt to their suspicion, disbelief and doubt; and they die while they are disbelievers" [al-Tawbah 9:124-125] Qutaadah said, concerning the phrase "And We send down of the Qur'aan that which is a healing and a mercy to those who believe": when the believer hears it he benefits from it, memorizes it and understands it. "and it increases the Zaalimoon (polytheists and wrongdoers) nothing but loss" means, they do not benefit from it, memorize it or understand it. Allaah has made this Qur'aan a healing and a mercy for the believers. Tafseer Ibn Katheer, 3/60. Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning): "O mankind! There has come to you a good advice from your Lord (i.e. the Qur'aan, enjoining all that is good and forbidding all that is evil), and a healing for that which is in your breasts, — a guidance and a mercy (explaining lawful and unlawful things) for the believers" [Yoonus 10:57] "And if We had sent this as a Qur'aan in a foreign language (other than Arabic), they would have said: `Why are not its verses explained in detail (in our language)? What! (A Book) not in Arabic and (the Messenger) an Arab?' Say: `It is for those who believe, a guide and a healing. And as for those who disbelieve, there is he
