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Boycott Israel [IslamCity] "Rejoice O My Mother! I Found My Bride"
"Rejoice O My Mother! I Found My Bride" It is mentioned that one of the righteous women in Basra was Umm Ibraahim alHaashimeeyah. The enemy attacked one of the Muslim towns so people were encouraged to join the struggle in the path of Allah. 'AbdulWaahid bin Zayd alBasri delivered a speech encouraging the muslims to struggle in Alah's path and among the audience was Umm Ibrahim. Among the things AbdulWahid talked about was alHoor (the women of Paradise). Umm Ibraahim stood up and said to 'AbdulWaahid: You know my son Ibraahim and you know that the nobility of alBasra wish to have him marry one of their daughters and I have not agreed to one of them yet. But I like this girl you described and I would be happy to marry her to my son. Can you please describe her again?" 'AbdulWaahid then narrated a poem in the description of the Hoor. Umm Ibrahim said: "I want my son to marry this girl and I would pay you 10,000 denaars as her dowry and you take him with you, as he may intercede for me on the Day of Judgment, God willing." 'AbdulWaahid said: If you do so, that is great success for you and your son. She then called her son from the audience. He stood up and said: Yes my mother! She said: Are you pleased to marry this girl with the condition of giving your soul to Allah? He said: Yes! I am very pleased! She said: O Allah you are my witness that I have married my son to this girl from Paradise with the condition he spends his soul in your sake." Then she went and brought back with her 10,000 dinars and gave it to AbdulWahid and said: This is her dowry. Take it and use it to provide for the for those who struggle for Allah's sake She then purchased for her son a good horse and provisions. When they started to march Ibraahim came out with the reciters of Quraan surrounding him and reciting: Indeed, Allaah has purchased from the believers their lives and their properties [in exchange] for that they will have Paradise. When Umm Ibraahim was greeting her son she told him: Be careful and dont allow any shortcomings from yourself to be seen by Allah She them embraced him and kissed him and said: May Allah never bring us together except on the Day of Judgment! 'AbdulWaahid said: When we reached the enemys territory and people were called to struggle. Ibrahim was in the front and he killed many of the enemy but then they overwhelmed him and killed him. On our way back I told my soldiers not to tell Umm Ibrahim that her son was killed until I tell her. When we entered al Basra she met me and said: 'Did Allah accept my gift so I can celebrate or was it rejected so I should cry?' I said: 'Allah did accept your gift and your son is as a Shaheed.' She then prostrated to thank Allah and said: 'Thank you Allah for accepting my gift' The following day she came to me in the mosque and said: 'Rejoice!' I said: 'What good news do you have?' She said: 'I saw my son Ibrahim last night in a dream. He was in a beautiful garden dressed in green clothes, sitting on a throne made of pearl and he had a crown on his head. He told me: 'Rejoice my mother! I got married to my bride!''" - Building a website is a piece of cake. Yahoo! Small Business gives you all the tools to get online.
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Dealing With Trials
Dealing With TrialsPosted by: "looney crazy" [EMAIL PROTECTED] ayub572004 Mon Jul 30, 2007 8:49 pm (PST) Dealing With Trials The Prophet (pbuh - peace be upon him) suffered many kinds of trials for the sake of Allah and conveying the message of Islam to mankind. A reflective reading of the seerah (biography of the Prophet) would enable us to see how the Prophet overcame and transcended various circumstances and marched to glory and success. Such an exercise would be highly insightful and illuminating for us in our own predicament today. Following are a few points that we can readily discern from the seerah: 1. The Prophet (pbuh) always had a tremendous reservoir of spiritual energy to draw upon. We find him turning to Allah in the darkest moments of his life when all that he could see around him was rejection and mocking. When he was being chased out of Ta'if by hooligans and children, who pelted him with stones and ridiculed him, he did not feel weakened or disempowered, rather he sought solace and strength in Allah by opening his heart before Him through a fervent supplication. 2. The Prophet (pbuh) was always optimistic and positive in his mindset. He always looked at every setback or trial as an opportunity. He never failed to see the light at the end of the tunnel. His mind was always focused on the end of his journey. While he was facing persecution and ridicule in Makkah, he said "I will continue the struggle until a woman can travel all by herself all the way from San`a' to Hadramawt without any fear of molestation! " 3. The Prophet (pbuh) consistently cultivated the habit of [demonstrating] shukr (gratitude) and sabr (patience and perseverance) . Through gratitude we come to appreciate Allah's blessings, while through perseverance, we learn to preserve patience. Allah exposes us to trials not to destroy us but only to help us grow. 4. The Prophet (pbuh) was ever willing to surrender Himself to the Lord. He strove to achieve his goals as humanly as possible and hoped his efforts would bear fruit, yet if they didn't turn out the way he had expected, he never complained or fretted over it, rather he accepted the inevitable will of Allah with full grace and serenity. 5. The Prophet (pbuh) looked at every trial he faced in life as an empowering experience. Thus, when the Muslims suffered defeat at Uhud, he used it to learn the lesson of better discipline. Likewise, he looked at the initial setback at Hunayn as a lesson in humility so that he [and we who follow him] never get carried away by our might or large numbers, forgetting about spiritual and moral strength.roups Bismillah, FYI Peace,Curtis Sharif Houston, Texas To receive future posts, subscribe to the asmnational online forum. Send an email to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Choose the right car based on your needs. Check out Yahoo! Autos new Car Finder tool.
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Did ISLAM Spread by Force & Terror? - Ahmed Deedat
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Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Update on Oprah's trip to Israel
Update on Oprah's trip to "Israel". These links come up through a simple yahoo search using the key words Oprah Israel but they give a good update. http://blog.camera.org/archives/2005/05/no_terrorism_in_1.html http://search.oprah.com:7782/search/search_results.jsp?origin=60&brand=oprah&qsource=1&querystring=israel&fromSearchPage=yes&Go.x=24&Go.y=7 http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1181570251438&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull http://acaseforpalestine.wordpress.com/2007/06/06/tutu-to-tell-oprah-to-visit-both-israel-and-occupied-palestinian-territories/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1420590/posts Background story http://www.isrealli.org/oprah-is-coming-to-israel/ http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/001518.html http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/001441.html BOYCOTT Chapters/Indigo and Israeli Apartheid. http://www.caiaweb.org/ http://www.caiaweb.org/files/website1_HESEG_factsheet_v2.3.pdf - Ask a question on any topic and get answers from real people. Go to Yahoo! Answers.
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] A Must Read: American Muslim charity leaders on trial
Muslim charity leaders on trial for allegedly aiding terrorists Please read the full story in http://www.usislam.org/itsajoke/holy_land_terror_finance_case.htm also read : 1.) North Texas Muslims say Holy Land case is political 2.) Holy Land terror finance case heading to court By DAVID KOENIG Associated Press Writer © 2007 The Associated Press --> DALLAS One of the most prominent anti-terror prosecutions of the past decade opened Monday as government lawyers and those representing leaders of a Muslim charity began quizzing potential jurors. The men on trial in federal district court aren't accused of being terrorists. Rather, they are charged with funneling millions of dollars to the militant group Hamas, which allegedly used some of the money to support the families of suicide bombers in the Middle East. Although the FBI investigated the men and the charity in the 1990s, the Bush administration raised the profile of the case since Sept. 11. President Bush announced the seizure of the charity's assets in a Rose Garden news conference three months later, in December 2001. Defense lawyers say the men and the charity, the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, helped build hospitals and schools for Palestinians living under Israeli occupation but are not connected to Hamas. The defendants and their supporters claim the prosecution is based on anti-Arab bias. The trial before District Judge A. Joe Fish is expected to last several months. Prosecutors and defense lawyers are expected to lay out the case in opening statements next Monday. Just picking a jury is expected to take all this week. Lead prosecutor James T. Jacks asked Fish to drop a family counselor after she hedged about following the judge's instructions on the law. The judge said he would rule later. The defendants, all dressed in business suits, sat at tables arranged in a U-formation. Before the session started, they exchanged smiles and glanced occasionally at family members in the back row of the small courtroom. The defendants named in a 42-count indictment in 2004 are Holy Land, which federal authorities raided and shut down in December 2001; Shukri Abu Baker, the charity's president; Ghassan Elashi, its chairman; Abdulrahman Odeh; Mohammad El-Mezain; and Mufid Abdulqader. Two other men named in the indictment remain fugitives. The charges include supporting a foreign terrorist group, money laundering, conspiracy and filing false tax returns. According to the indictment, Holy Land raised more than $57 million from 1992 to 2001 and sent about $36 million to individuals and groups tied to Hamas, including $12.4 million after President Clinton designated Hamas a terrorist group in 1995, which made contact with the group illegal. Elashi is in federal prison near Dallas on other convictions, including financial dealings with a top Hamas official. Baker, Odeh, El-Mezain and Abdulqader have been free while preparing for the trial, according to a prosecution spokeswoman. In a court filing in May that spelled out much of their case, prosecutors said Holy Land was sometimes called "The Fund" and was "an integral part of the Hamas social infrastructure." They said the organization was created "to support the Hamas agenda," which includes suicide bombings and other terrorist attacks. Prosecutors said documents seized in 2004 from the Virginia home of an unindicted co-conspirator showed that Elashi, Baker and El-Mezain were part of a committee coordinating support for Hamas in the United States. Prosecutors said the FBI monitored the committee's actions, including meetings to discuss raising money for Hamas. The investigation into Holy Land lasted more than a decade and included surveillance and wiretaps. Prosecution witnesses expected to testify include a retired Israeli Army colonel, a former Treasury Department official and expert on terrorism financing, and an unnamed person to discuss the structure of Hamas. Prosecutors indicated their evidence will include U.S. and foreign bank records, intercepted phone calls and faxes, and records seized by Israeli forces during military operations in the occupied West Bank. Defense attorneys said they will argue that most of the case against their clients is hearsay and flawed. They seized on summaries of FBI-wiretapped conversations that claimed Holy Land officials made anti-Semitic slurs. But the comments weren't found in the unabridged 13-page transcript. The defense plans to call its own experts, including scholars who have studied the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Prosecutors charged that defense lawyers are hoping to influence jurors with inflammatory testimony about Israel's operations against Palestinians. The political overtones of the case run deep. Parvez Ahmed, chairman of the Washington-based Council on America
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] From Atheism to Islam
>From Atheism to Islam Abdullah Adiyar, India http://www.muslimedia.com/ARCHIVES/special98/adiyar.htm For one who was an arch atheist, with a communist activist for a father, who could not accept Islam, knowing that it 'required one to be strictly disciplined', Abdullah Adiyar, the celebrated South Indian poet, playwright, orator and journalist of the Tamil-speaking world had come a long way when he breathed his last on 19 September. After almost a lifetime of achievements which would be the envy of most people, Adiyar made a name for himself throughout India, and across the seas, as a fervent champion of Islam, even before he himself had become a Muslim. Abdullah Adiyar's commitment to promoting Islam, 'the religion of salvation', was as strong as his belief that it is Allah alone who gives hidaya (guidance) to people, and it is not for him 'to convert.' He ran the Islamic Dawah Centre in Madras and was engaged in an Islamic project for satellite television for the 60 million strong Tamil viewers. He was a popular speaker on Islam not only in the towns and cities of Tamil Nadu but also abroad; he was invited to speak on the life of the Prophet by the Tamil Muslims of Britain. He also visited Sri Lanka and Singapore which have a large Tamil speaking population. He produced audio as well as video cassettes to teach Islam. His devotion to da'wah remained undiminished despite a stroke last year; he could not speak or write much, but he was present at most Islamic gatherings, and never lost contact with Islamic da'wah work. His funeral prayer on Friday, 20 September, 1996 at Jami' Masjid in Kodambakim and burial followed by a memorial gathering bore testimony to the niche he had found among Muslims and non-Muslims alike. Already an author of 120 novels, 13 plays and 13 books, editor of the daily Murasoli, (for 17 years) mouthpiece of Dravidian Munnetra Kazagham, the Tamil regional nationalist party, Adiyar had his introduction to Islam during the darkest days of his life, thanks to his wife Thayammal, a Christian then. The state of emergency declared by prime minister Mrs Indira Gandhi in 1975 was a nightmare for politicians and opinion makers throughout India; under the Maintenance of Internal Security Act, DMK workers in Tamil Nadu were flung into prison, Adiyar included. He was imprisoned and tortured, with lasting injuries to his stomach. In the bowels of despair and pain, the spark of Islam touched his soul. His wife's Bible, to quote his words, "did not provide me the answer. The atheist in me was looking for answers to questions like 'Why death? What is the reason for creation?'" But it spurred him to search for answers for his tortured soul which he eventually found in his study of the life of Prophet Muhammad, and the Qur'an. He read Yusuf Ali's English translation, making notes which inspired him to write a series of 17 articles entitled: Nan Kadilikkum Islam (The Islam I love), also published in a book under the same title, Nan Kadilikkum Islam. On his release in 1977 he started a journal Neerottam, in which he published his reflections on Islam. Without any patronage, the magazine did not last long, but the publication of those articles in a book Nan Kadilikkum Islam proved an instant success. The second edition was also snapped up. Translations quickly followed in many languages such as Malayalam, Telagu, Marathi, Hindi and Urdu. The Urdu edition of The Islam I love led to a Sindhi edition in Pakistan in 1983, thanks to the late President Ziaul Haque. Idarai Majlise Adab, the publishers, invited Adiyar to Pakistan. He attended the Shah Abdul-Latif Bhittai Conference in Sukkur, where Ziaul Haque welcomed him as the guest of honour at the launching of the Sindhi edition by Sindhi Adab Melo. Adiyar visited Lahore and Karachi and was treated with such respect that he fondly recalled: `I was honoured as if I was the minister of a foreign state.' Another magazine, Tangagurodun, was no more successful, but his publishing house, Neerottam Publications, he did not abandon. He published 12 books on Islam, some in refutation of critics; some of the titles were From prison to the Mosque, One God or many?, Islam Calls. The one publication that had an indelible impression on so many was The Islam I love. Its impact on one reader, a zamindar (landowning aristocrat) in faraway Uttar Pradesh, was like a ricocheting bullet that first got the man in northern India than the unaware author in the south. His burning desire to meet Adiyar brought him to Madras in 1987 to proclaim: "I accepted Islam after reading your book." He was aghast when he saw, as the author himself admitted, "found me sunk in my chair with cigarette pressed between the fingers and an open whisky bottle On the table." The Zamindar's bursting out in tears at the sight of him touched Adiyar's conscience. After a sleepless ni
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Jahil terrorists
Peace be upon you, Recent times have brought what appears to be a new generation of terrorists. Individuals who choose to kill, or at the very least, cause harm, indiscriminately, to anyone, almost anywhere; all in the name of achieving the objectives of an ideology, Islam; which to me, they have very little understanding of. The phrase `Islamic terrorists' is an oxymoron, for Islam and terrorism are not compatible. The period before Islam is commonly referred to as jahiliyya, a period of ignorance. As Muslims we should take pride in our faith and protect it from the harm of these confused jahils (people ignorant of the teachings of Islam). Thus I propose that we as Muslims, when referring to these terrorists refer to them as Jahil 'Terrorists' When the jahil terrorists drove into Glasgow airport on June 30th 2007 they did so with the ill intention of causing great harm to the people, people of all faiths, including Muslims. The suicide note of the two terrorists indicated that they planned to explode the vehicle while still inside. It is only by the Mercy of God, that their main bomb failed to explode and that just a handful of people were treated for minor injuries; in fact it was one of the terrorists who sustained the greatest injury, catching on fire. The day before, June 29th, two car bombs were discovered in London, both also failing to explode. One of the vehicles had 60 liters of petrol, gas cylinders and nails and would have caused significant injury. The last nail bomb in London by David Copeland a member of a British neo-Nazi socialist movement killed three people injuring 129. Had either of these car bombs exploded the injury caused would have been significantly worse. With the memory of the July 7th bombing fresh on our minds, seven 'jahil wannabe terrorist' men were jailed on June 15th 2007 for plotting terrorist attacks on the London underground. What is wrong with these people?!? The most disheartening factor in all of these recent bombings or attempted bombings is the claim that these people are Muslims, and that somehow their ideology can be associated with Islam. On the contrary, I propose that these people are not proper Muslims, and these people can have no association with Islam. Allow me to explain. Allah Almighty says that the person who kills another unjustly, it is as if he has killed all of humanity [s5: v32] and Allah Almighty warns us not to take the life of a person, life which Allah has made sacred, unless it is for justice or a legal case in law [s6: v151]. Throughout the Quran, throughout the life of Prophet Muhammad, so much stress is placed on the value and sanctity of life, to protect people from harm, to act justly, that the only way a person can not know or understand this is if the individual is unfamiliar with the Quran and the life of Prophet Muhammad. Such people have no right to suggest that they `represent' Islam. Prophet Muhammad said that people should not cause harm and there is no reciprocation to harm. [Ibn Majah] Which part of this statement is difficult to understand? Prophet Muhammad also said that every Prophet before him had companions who obeyed and followed their commands, but later, came people who did not practice what they were commanded to. The person who strives against these people (who have corrupted the meaning of faith), with their tongue (by speaking out against them) is a believer, and with his heart (by feeling in their heart that what they are doing is wrong) is a believer; but the person who does not correct their abuse of faith, it is as if they do not even have a mustard seed of faith in their heart. [Sahih Muslim #81] And the Prophet Muhammad said that Allah is good and therefore, Allah will only accept that which is good. [Sahih Muslim #2214] I simply cannot understand how or why these jahil terrorists do what they do when they claim to follow Islam, but I have found a saying of the Prophet which may explain their condition. Prophet Muhammad said `The one who commits an illegal sexual intercourse is not a believer at the time of committing illegal sexual intercourse, and a thief is not a believer at the time of committing theft, and a drinker of alcoholic drinks is not a believer at the time of drinking; but the option to repent is open to him after he commits the sin'. [Sahih of Bukhari 8/108] So as well as being jahils, the person who commits a terrorist attack, despite having the belief that there is only 1 God, the core of Islam,; when that person commits an atrocity, they are not in fact Muslims; they have become disbelievers. Their disbelief is not just at the time of the actual terrorist attack, but throughout the entire time they sit, plot and plan these terrorist attacks. Ignorant and disbelievers, what a fitting description. In the Quran, Allah Almighty refers many times to the punishment of hell, one verse reads, "Those who reject Our Signs We shall soon cast into the fire: as often as their skins are r
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Silent Surge in Contractor 'Armies' in Iraq
Silent Surge in Contractor 'Armies' By Brad Knickerbocker Wed Jul 18, 4:00 AM ET http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20070718/ts_csm/acontractors_1 There are two coalition armies in Iraq: the official one, which fights the war, and the private one, which supports it. This latter group of civilians drives dangerous truck convoys, cooks soldiers' meals, and guards facilities and important officials. They rival in size the US military force there, and thousands have become casualties of the conflict. If this experience is any indication, they may change the makeup of US military forces in future wars. Having civilians working in war zones is as old as war itself. But starting with US military action in the Balkans and Colombia in the mid-1990s and accelerating rapidly in Afghanistan and Iraq, the number and activity of contractors has greatly increased. Coming from dozens of countries, hired by hundreds of companies, contractors have seen their numbers rise faster than the Pentagon's ability to track them. Now, the challenges of this privatization strategy are becoming clear. Everything from who controls their activities to who cares for them when wounded remains unresolved, say experts in and out of the military. This has led to protests from families in the United States as well as concerns in military ranks about how contractors fit into the chain of command. "This is a very murky legal space, and simply put we haven't dealt with the fundamental issues," says Peter Singer, a foreign policy specialist at the Brookings Institution in Washington. "What is their specific role, what is their specific status, and what is the system of accountability? We've sort of dodged these questions." As the inevitable drawdown of US military forces in Iraq occurs, the importance of civilian workers there is likely to grow. "In my view, the role of contractors is just going to continue to escalate, probably at an ever-increasing rate," says Deborah Avant, a political scientist at the University of California, Irvine, whose research has focused on civil-military relations. For example, the new US Embassy now being completed in Baghdad 21 buildings on 104 acres, an area six times larger than the United Nations complex in New York is likely to be a permanent fixture needing hundreds if not thousands of civilian contractors to maintain it and provide services. In Iraq, up to 180,000 Contractors Estimates of the number of private security personnel and other civilian contractors in Iraq today range from 126,000 to 180,000 nearly as many, if not more than, the number of Americans in uniform there. Most are not Americans. They come from Fiji, Brazil, Scotland, Croatia, Hungary, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Australia, and other countries. "A very large part of the total force is not in uniform," Scott Horton, who teaches the law of armed conflict at Columbia University School of Law, said in congressional testimony last month. In World War II and the Korean War, contractors amounted to 3 to 5 percent of the total force deployed. Through the Vietnam War and the first Gulf War, the percentage grew to roughly 10 percent, he notes. "But in the current conflict, the number appears to be climbing steadily closer to parity" with military personnel. "This represents an extremely radical transformation in the force configuration," he says. Until recently, there has been little oversight of civilian contractors operating in Iraq. The Defense Department is not adequately keeping track of contractors where they are or even how many there are, the Government Accountability Office concluded in a report last December. This is especially true as military units rotate in and out of the war zone (as do contractors) and institutional memory is lost. This lack of accountability has begun to change with a Democrat-controlled Congress. As part of the 2007 National Defense Authorization Act passed last year, Congress now requires that civilian contractors who break the law hurt or kill civilians, for example come under the legal authority of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So far, however, the Pentagon has not issued guidance to field commanders on how to do this. Proposed bills in the House and Senate would require "transparency and accountability in military and security contracting." For example, companies would be required to provide information on the hiring and training of civilian workers, and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff would have to issue rules of engagement regarding the circumstances under which contractors could use force. Senior commanders acknowledge the value of contractors, especially those that are armed and ready to fight if attacked. At his Senate confirmation hearing in January, Army Gen. David Petraeus, commander of the multinational force in Iraq, said that the "
