Bismillah [IslamCity] A mistake worth its weight in gold

[Aisha Abbasi]

(fwded to me by another sister)
A Mistake Worth its Weight in Gold From the Original Arabic Piece by Adel bin 
Muhammad al-Abdul 'AaleeTranslated by Abu DujanahOne of the Salaf entered a 
field, hungry and tired, so he wanted to eat, and his stomach was 'rumbling'. 
He saw an apple tree, and picked an apple to eat. He ate half of it under the 
protection of Allah, then he drank from the river near the field. After that, 
he suddenly realised that he was not aware of what he did due to his hunger, 
and thought to himself: Woe to you! How can you eat someone else's provision 
without permission. In remorse he was determined not to leave the place until 
he found the owner of the garden, and confess to him that he had eaten his 
provision without his permission. He looked around and saw a house and went up 
to the door and knocked on it.The owner came out and asked him what he wanted. 
The Salaf said: "I was hungry and entered your garden and took this apple and 
ate half of it, then I remembered it was not mine, and I came to beg you to 
forgive me for this mistake."The man replied, "I will not forgive you except on 
one condition?"So the Salaf asked (and he is Thaabit bin Nu'maan), "What is 
your condition?"The owner of the garden said: "I want you to marry my 
daughter."The honourable Salaf without hesitation said: "yes, I will marry 
her". The father of the girl then said: "I want you to know that my daughter is 
blind and cannot see, dumb and cannot speak, deaf and cannot hear."The 
revelation shocked Thaabit bin Nu'maan and thoughts flashed through his mind - 
what a disaster - what's he going to do? Then he remembered that the trials and 
tribulation he has to endure by accepting this woman as his wife, and taking 
care of her and serving her is better for him than to eat the food (sadeed) of 
hellfire due to the fact that he had eaten the apple without permission. He 
also realised that if he did not make amends, his days in the dunya are 
numbered. So he promised to marry the girl, and prayed for forgiveness and 
reward from Allah, the Lord of the Worlds.The day of marriage came, and the man 
was nervous and very worried: "How will I enter upon a woman who does not 
speak, see, or hear?!" What a dilemma, and he wished the earth would swallow 
him before that happened (i.e. going the wedding ceremony), but he remembered 
Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala and said: "Laa Hawla wa laa quwata illa billah, wa 
inna lilah wa inna ilayhi raji'oon." He went off to the wedding ceremony and 
when he arrived, his future bride stood up and greeted him, saying, "Assalamu 
'alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu." When he saw her, it took his breath 
away and remembered what he had imagined of the hoor il-'ayn in paradise. 
Gaining his composure, he blurted out: "What is this? So you speak, see, and 
hear." Thaabit bin Nu'maan then informed her what her father had to told 
him.She gave him the most beautiful smile and said: "My father spoke the truth 
and he didn't lie.""But why did he tell me things about you which are 
untrue?She replied, "My father said I am dumb, because I have never said a word 
which displeases Allah, nor have I ever spoken to a man whom it is not 
permissable to speak to. [He said] I am deaf, because I have never sat it in a 
place where malicious backbiting, gossip or tale-telling takes place. [He said] 
I am blind because I have never looked at a man who was not permissable for me 
to look."So ponder how Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala united this pious woman to 
this pious man.













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Bismillah [IslamCity] Muslim leaders condemn bomb blasts in UP

[Shakeel Ahmad]

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Muslim leaders condemn bomb blasts in UP

http://www.khabrein.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9124&Itemid=88

By Khabrein.info Correspondent,

New Delhi, Nov 24: Muslim leaders across the country
have condemned Friday's serial bomb blasts in three
cities of Uttar Pradesh. Fifteen people were killed in
six bomb blasts in Lucknow, Faizaband and Varanasi
that had apparently targeted lawyers in all the three
places.

Maulana Abdul Hameed Numani of Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind has
severely condemned the bomb blasts in Uttar Pradesh
saying that terrorism in all forms is condemnable. He
also said that that no religion allows terrorism or
terrorist activities. He also said that killing
innocent people is the most heinous crime and must be
deplored. The Jamiat leader said that the tendency of
media and police to start accusing a particular
community for blasts without any evidence is dangerous
for security of the country. He said that any claim
about the identity of the perpetrators should be made
only after the identities of the perpetrators are
established.
Read more:
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[Hadith Share]

   FIRM BELIEF AND PERFECT RELIANCE ON ALLAH
  
   
   
  Abu Hurairah (Radhiallaho anha) reported: The Messenger of Allah (Sallallaahu 
'alaihi wasallam) said, “A group of people (both men and women) whose hearts 
will be like the hearts of birds, will enter Jannah.”
   
  [Muslim]
   
  It has been interpreted that such people are those who put their trust in 
Allah; another interpretation is that these people are tender-hearted.
   
   

 
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  Umar (Radhiallaho anha) said: I heard Messenger of Allah (Sallallaahu 'alaihi 
wasallam) saying, “If you all depend on Allah with due reliance, He would 
certainly give you provision as He gives it to birds who go forth hungry in the 
morning and return with full belly at dusk.”
   
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Bismillah [IslamCity] Sun Dec 2 Demo against Jewish National Fund charitable status

[Niagara Palestinian Association]

I am planning to attend this. To carpool from St Catharines

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4:30pm on Sunday December 2

Join us at the Sheraton Hotel (Queen/Bay) Toronto. 

To say: "NO!" to

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60 years after the massive ethnic cleansing of indigenous

Palestinians from their homelands and the destruction of 

over 430 Palestinian villages, the world is waking up to

the realities of Israeli apartheid.

  

In Canada, the JNF enjoys "charity" status, for its racist

land theft. The JNF is an integral part of the systematic 

denial of the fundamental right of Palestinian refugees to

return to their homes. After 60 years of  waiting, it's

time to say "Enough!"

  

On December 2nd, stand in solidarity with the 5-million

Palestinians locked-out of their homeland. Send a clear

message to the Canadian government that fundraising for

apartheid and ethnic cleansing will not be tolerated.

  

For more information about the film screenings and

discussion at the Brunswick Theatre: 

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For information about the JNF campaign please email us at

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Endorsed by:: Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA), 

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Bismillah [IslamCity] God�s Preservation of the Sunnah (part 4 of 7):

[Mohammed A]

God’s Preservation of the Sunnah (part 4 of 7):   The Preservation of Isnad  
Concerning when the narrators were forced by the listeners to mention their 
Isnads, Fullaatah states that Abu Bakr, the first caliph who died only two 
years after the Prophet, was the first to make the narrator prove the 
authenticity of his narration as he sometimes would not accept a hadeeth unless 
the person presented a witness for his hadeeth. Umar also followed the same 
pattern. By doing so they made it clear if the person heard the hadeeth 
directly from the Messenger of God or through some intermediary source. Their 
goal was to confirm the correctness of the narration although they were, at the 
same time, inadvertently making the narrator state the Isnad for his hadeeth. 
Therefore, it was during their time (right after the death of the Prophet) that 
narrators were first being forced to state their Isnads. Ali, the fourth caliph 
and the caliph during the fitnah (affliction), would sometimes
 take an oath from the person in which the person would swear that he heard the 
hadeeth directly from the Prophet. Obviously, then, after the fitnah, the same 
process of requiring the narrator to state his sources continued.[1]   
Concerning when the narrator himself began to insist on mentioning the Isnad of 
each hadeeth, Fullaatah states that the need for the Isnad really became 
apparent after weak narrators and immoral people began to relate hadeeth. 
During that time, the narrator himself made sure that he would mention the 
Isnad of the hadeeth he narrated. Al-Amash used to narrate hadeeth and then 
say, “Here is the head of the matter,” and then he would mention the Isnad. 
Al-Waleed ibn Muslim of al-Shaam stated, “One day al-Zuhri said, ‘What is wrong 
[with you people] that I see you narrating hadeeth without the critical or 
important part?’ After that day our companions [that is, the people of al-Sham 
(Northern Arabia)] made sure to mention the Isnad.”[2]  The scholars
 would blame their students for listening to hadeeth from teachers who would 
mention the hadeeth without the Isnad.[3]  In fact they would reject any 
hadeeth which did not have an Isnad with it. Bahz ibn Asad said, “Do not accept 
a hadeeth from someone who does not say, ‘He narrated to us..,” that is, 
without an Isnad. The Muslims even began to insist on the use of the Isnad for 
people of disciplines other than hadeeth, for example, history, tafseer 
(explanation of the Quran), poetry and so on.
  Therefore, after discussing the question in detail, Fullaatah could soundly 
conclude the following:
  1. The Isnad was first used during the time of the Companions.
  2. Abu Bakr was the first to force narrators to mention the source 
for their hadeeth.
  3. The narrator himself insisted on mentioning the Isnad of each 
hadeeth on the heels of (1) and (2) above.[4]
  In conclusion, there was never any time that hadeeth narrations were 
completely void of mentioning the Isnad. During the time of the Companions the 
use of the Isnad was not so obvious as there was (usually) no intermediate 
narrator between the person mentioning the hadeeth and the Prophet. (The period 
of the Companions “officially” ended in 110 A. H. with the death of the last 
Companion.) Abu Bakr and Umar were scrupulous in checking the authenticity of 
hadeeth. Later scholars like al-Shabi and al-Zuhri appeared and they made the 
Muslims realize the importance of mentioning the Isnad with the hadeeth. This 
was especially manifest after major confrontations (such as the death of 
Uthmaan) which made the people realize that the hadeeth narrations were their 
religion and, therefore, they should look carefully at whom they were taking 
their religion from. After the early years, the Isnad and its proper use became 
standardized and its knowledge became an independent branch of
 hadeeth. This continued until the major collections of hadeeth were compiled 
in the third century.[5]
  In reality, God blessed the nation of Muhammad with a unique way of 
preserving its original teachings: the Isnad. Muhammad ibn Haatim ibn 
al-Mudhaffar wrote:
  “Verily God has honored and distinguished this nation and raised it above 
others by the use of the Isnad. None of the earlier or present nations have 
unbroken Isnads. They have [ancient] pages in their possession but their books 
have been mixed with their historical reports and they are not able to 
distinguish between what was originally revealed as the Torah or the Gospel and 
what has been added later of reports that have been taken from untrustworthy 
[or, most likely, unknown] narrators.”[6]
  
  
  
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  Footnotes: [1] Fullaatah, vol. 2, pp. 20-22.

[2] Quoted by Fullaatah, vol. 2, p. 28.

[3] Ibid., vol. 2, pp. 28-29. See the stories of al-Zuhri, Abdullah ibn 
al-Mubaarak and Sufyaan al-Thauri on those pages.

[4] Fullaatah, vol. 2, p. 30.

[5] In fa

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Bismillah [IslamCity] India Accountable for Human Rights Violations in Kashmir, urges KCC to Commenwealth

[Labbayk YaMahdi]

News Release/ Communiqué de  presse
   
  KCC urges Commonwealth leaders to hold India  accountable  for human rights 
violations in  Kashmir   
  Toronto  – November 23, 2007:  On  the occasion of the Commonwealth Heads of 
Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Kampala,  Uganda (November 23-25), 
Kashmiri-Canadian Council (KCC) has urged leaders to  persuade India and 
Pakistan to allow the people of Kashmir the right of  self-determination and 
help to end their suffering and deprivation.  
   
  Mr.  Mushtaq A. Jeelani, Executive Director of the KCC in separate letters to 
53  Commonwealth leaders and the  Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, 
expressed his serious concern about  worsening  human rights situation in 
Indian-administered  Jammu and Kashmir.
   
  The  Executive Director reminded the leaders that the people of Kashmir 
continue to  be deprived of their inalienable right of self-determination, 
which is enshrined  in the resolutions of the United Nations Security Council, 
and have remained  unimplemented for over half a century. The April 1948 
Security Council  resolution declared: “the only way to settle the Kashmir 
problem peacefully was  to demilitarise the state and hold a plebiscite under 
the UN  supervision.”
   
  He  underscored that the Kashmir issue has dominated the geopolitics of South 
Asia  for the past 60 years because of continuing rivalry between India and 
Pakistan -  both members of the Commonwealth. They have fought three wars since 
their  independence from Britain in 1947, two of them over the disputed region 
of  Kashmir. The dispute between the rivals is the root of competing in nuclear 
arms  race, which has resulted into the diversion of their resources from human 
 development to militarisation. Regrettably, it is the people of Kashmir who 
have  been caught in the middle of this deadly tug-of-war.
   
  Mr.  Jeelani underlined that India and Pakistan declared a ceasefire across 
the  Ceasefire Line - a.k.a. - Line of Control within the disputed state of 
Jammu and  Kashmir in November 2003, and later launched a peace process 
committed to  resolve the Kashmir issue, among other issues through 
negotiations. The overall  achievement of the peace process was the launch of 
the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus  service (in April 2005) and the opening of entry 
points along the Ceasefire  Line, which divides the disputed state into Indian 
and Pakistani administered  Kashmir, for civilian crossing. Unfortunately, to 
date there has been no  progress on the question of Kashmir.   
   
  The  Executive Director reminded the leaders that despite  the warming ties 
between the rivals there is no let-up in systematic human  rights abuses. The 
occupying troops continue to carry out arbitrary detention,  summary 
executions, custodial killings, extrajudicial executions, enforced  
disappearances, rape, sexual exploitation, torture and fake encounters. Since  
October 1989, the 700,000 strong Indian forces have killed more than 100,000  
Kashmiris to silence the people’s demand for freedom, justice and respect for  
human rights. He added that generations of Kashmiris have grown up under the  
shadow of the gun; not a single family is unaffected; property worth hundreds 
of  millions dollars has been destroyed and the suffering and devastation 
continues  unabated, which has sadly drawn no significant attention from the 
international  community, including the Commonwealth.
   
  Mr.  Jeelani cautioned the leaders that impunity has become a licence for the 
Indian  occupation forces to wreak havoc with the lives of Kashmiris. The 
deliberate and  unprovoked attacks and other patterns of abuse have all become 
too frequent to  report. No perpetrator has ever been prosecuted in a real 
manner, despite the  fact that such crimes have been extensively documented by 
many international  human rights organisations including Human Rights Watch and 
Amnesty  International. Very recently the New York-based Human Rights Watch has 
again  demanded an immediate end to impunity in Kashmir.
   
 He  reminded the leaders that 15 million people of Kashmir are yearning for 
peace,  justice and freedom. They want a just and dignified peace that 
guarantees total  freedom from foreign occupation and alien domination. Their 
struggle to achieve  that right of self-determination will not be extinguished 
until India and  Pakistan accept its exercise by the people of Jammu and  
Kashmir.
   
  The  Executive Director cautioned the leaders that the  perception that the 
Kashmir issue is a bilateral matter between India and  Pakistan is wrong. 
Kashmir is not a territorial or bilateral issue, it is about  the future of 15 
million people, and it does not constitute an un-demarcated  frontier between 
India and Pakistan which could be marked through bilateral  negotiations 
between New Delhi and Islamabad. The disputed state of Jammu and  Kashmir is 
inhabited by a people with their own history of independ

Bismillah [IslamCity] Jummah Muabarak

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Like rain cant b stopped 4rm falling,
Allah's luv n blessings keep on pourin.
Capture da drops of luv & savour da blessings of dis wonderful day! 


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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, Aboo Daawood, an-Nasaa'ee, at-Tirmidhee, Ibn Maajah] 
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Bismillah [IslamCity] The Lost Jihad: Love in Islam

[saiyed shahbazi]

The many words and meanings for love in Arabic are reflective of Islam's 
comprehensiveness and depth

"At the heart of all things is the germ of their overthrow," wrote Egyptian 
author Adhaf Soueif in her Booker-nominated novel, The Map of Love. She was 
indulging in a very beautifully written digression about Arabic grammar, 
comparing words derived from the same root: in this case, qalb, "heart"; and 
enqilab, "overthrow". At this level, where the interplay of meaning and 
construction is visible, Arabic becomes an extraordinary language, forcing into 
cooperation concepts and ideas that are entirely unrelated in English. 

Despite the tremendous conceptual range and utility provided by the 
root-and-pattern system of the language, there is a common assumption among 
non-speakers that Arabic-and thus, Islam-lacks an equivalent of agapé, a Greek 
term used by Christians to mean the boundary-less, self-sacrificing love 
between believers, or between a believer and God. More passionate than filia, 
less explicit than eros, agapé is love stripped of expectation, in which the 
lover is humbled and disciplined before the beloved. Running a Google search 
for 'agapé' and 'Islam' yields literally hundreds of Christian sites claiming 
there is no such term in Arabic, and painting Islam as a cold, dispassionate 
religion in its absence.

Over the years, Sufi Muslims have co-opted many of the romantic Arabic words 
for love and made them serve an ideal very much like agapé: Rumi feels hayam 
for the absent Shams; al Ghazali explores 'aishq as the union between a worthy 
believer and a higher Beloved, Allah. The poetry of 10th and 11th-century Sufis 
helped inspire the troubadour culture and ideals of courtly love that 
flourished in the medieval kingdoms of southern France, Navarre and Aragonne; 
one of the positive artistic developments to arise from contact between 
Christian Europe and the Muslim Near East during the Crusades. But many of the 
greatest Sufi thinkers, including al Ghazali, were themselves influenced by 
Platonic, Neoplatonic and Gnostic Christian ideals of love, kept alive in the 
medieval Middle East by the translation of Greek, Roman and Byzantine texts 
into Arabic and Persian. The question remains: we know the Prophet Muhammad 
meant Muslims to love and serve God, but did he mean them to be in
 love with God-and to reflect this love and service among each other?

The answer is, simply, yes. Though it has classically been overlooked by 
Islam's detractors, there is a word for agapé in Arabic. It carries the same 
non-specific 'boundary-less' connotation as the Greek word, and is used 
contextually in the same way. Better yet, it is entirely original; not 
borrowed, adapted, or modeled on a word from another language. The Arabic word 
for agapé is mahubba, and it is fascinating for two reasons: one, because it 
comes from hub-in its feminine form. Two, because of the prefix ma. Adding the 
letter mim to the beginning of a word in Arabic means "one who is/does", "that 
which is/does", or "in a state of" the word that follows it. Junun is mad, and 
majnun is "one who is mad" or "in a state of madness"; baraka is a blessing, 
and mubarak is "one who is blessed" or "in a state of blessedness"; Islam is 
submission, and Muslim is "one who submits" or "in a state of submission". 
Thus, mahubba is quite literally 'in love', but it is rarely used in an
 erotic sense. It can describe either love among people or love for the divine, 
and is used most commonly in a spiritual context in both cases. Implicit in 
mahubba is service; the lover puts the beloved at the center of the discourse, 
and submits to his/her demands. Author Fethullah Gulen describes mahubba as 
"obedience, devotion and unconditional submission" to the beloved, quoting Sufi 
saint Rabi'a al-Adawiya's couplet, "If you were truthful in your love, you 
would obey Him/for a lover obeys whom he loves." 

While it is, again, primarily Sufis who have propagated the ideal of mahubba 
over the centuries, the word and the concept have roots in mainstream Islamic 
tradition: verse 3:31 of the Qur'an is sometimes called 'ayat ul'mahubba', and 
reads "Say: if you do love Allah, follow me, and Allah will love you." Even ibn 
Taymiyya, one of the founders of the Wahhabi movement, said of this verse, 
"There can be no clearer recognition of mahubba than this, and this recognition 
in itself increases love for Allah. And people have discussed (at length) about 
mahubba: its causes, its signs, its fruits, its supports and rulings." A hadith 
qudsi included in the Muwatta of Imam Malik is even more explicit: "God said, 
'My love [mahubbati] necessarily belongs to those who love one another 
[mutahubinna] for My sake, sit together for My sake, visit one another for My 
sake, and give generously to one another for My sake'." 

Mahubba differs from agapé in one crucial respect: because serving and 
approaching the beloved is a form of ongoing personal stru

Bismillah [IslamCity] Midnight in Beirut

[raja chemayel]

It is Midnight in Beirut...
we shall wake up tomorrow without a President
I am sure some citizens in France or in the USA
would be jealous of us...(Lebanese)

In France ,Train drivers and Metro conductors  
could do without a President Sarkozy , 
while 150.000 Marines ought to wish that Bush 
would have sent them elsewhere than Baghdad,
or that there were never a President..Bush.

Saturday, tomorrow, Beirut shall have an illegitimate
unconstitutional Government with half its member
having resigned , long time ago !!
And a President who would have resigned on time
and according to the constitution.

Divided in two halves , 
Lebanon shall survive , 
it has seen worse times.
We have had once 5 sub-Lebanon's 
plus three different-occupying-armies,
while 5000 UN Blue Helmets were there, too.

So far our (Lebanese) victory , is not above each other's
but our victory is on our enemy who was praying
and hoping , and planing,that military confrontations 
would follow , they did not and they shall not.Inchallah !!


All the bad-guys are to be found on one side
although each side is a coalition of different 
parties and movements...all those who once collaborated
secretly or openly with Israel are on the one side only 
and the other side does not include any dirty-guys..
on the contrary it includes the cleanest of all

Two blocks , two coalitions , two sides
have grown mature and shall not use their gun.

Now the Lebanon faces the final run
as the "finish-line" is in sight..
Who shall win ?
Arab-Pan-Nationalism ?
Syrian-Regional-Nationalism ?
or
Lebanese-narrow-Nationalism ?


It is Midnight in Beirut ,
no President at next breakfast,
just a Prime Minister , bought by Saudi Arabia,
and rented to Condi Rice 
to serve  as sand-bag to Israel's tactical-schemes.

It is Midnight in Beirut
and we (Lebanese) are still nowhere


Raja Chemayel
Midnight in Amsterdam
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Bismillah [IslamCity] ten days of Dhul-Hijjah

[***hajikhan***]

  

  
   
  Abdullah ibn-`Umar (May Allah be pleased with him) reported that 
  Prophet Muhammad (sallallaho alaihi wa sallam) said: 
  “There are no days greater in the sight of Allah and in which righteous deeds 
are 
  more beloved to Him than these ten days (of Dhul-Hijjah). So, during this 
time, recite 
  a great deal of Tahlil (saying Laa ilaaha illa-Allah: ‘there is no god but 
Allah’), 
  Takbeer (Allahuakkbar) and 
  Tahmid (alhumdulillaah).”(Reported by Ahmad.)
  
   

 
   
   

Bismillah [IslamCity] Email your MP about Counter Terrorism Bill 2007 proposals

[Aisha Abbasi]

Message from London Guantanamo Campaign email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] friendWe would 
appreciate if you could write a letter to your MP opposing the government 
seeking draconian police powers such as the extension of pre-charge detention 
from 28 to 56 days. You can find all the arguments against these measures and 
resources including a draft letter on our website www.campacc.org.uk Please 
forward this email to your contacts. However if you want to send a quick letter 
by email, you can do it in less than 5 minutes by following these steps1. 
Please click this link http://www.writetothem.com/2. A separate window will 
appear. Put in your post code and you will get a link to your MP. 3. Click that 
it will take to a form. entering your details and space for the letter4. Then 
copy this letter below and paste it in the space for the letter in the form. 
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you want to send the message. Click the link. Draft letter




Dear Local MP dude/dudette (search www.writetothem.com), Re: Counter Terrorism 
Bill 2007 proposals I am writing to you as your constituent to express my 
concerns about the government’s proposals for the Counter-Terrorism Bill 2007. 
These proposals seek to extend the injustice of current police powers, which 
are extensive already.These proposals are based on the Terrorism Act 2000, 
which has defined terrorism so broadly as to criminalise many normal political 
activities in this country and resistance to oppressive regimes abroad. That 
Act created the ‘terrorist’ offences of belonging to certain organisations, 
sharing a platform with their members, and helping them financially, for 
example by selling publications. In particular I oppose the following new 
powers, which would be inherently unjust: 1. Detention without charge would be 
extended from 28 days to 56 days or possibly even 90 days. For anyone deemed a 
‘terror suspect’, the current limit of 28 days already represents a drastic 
extension from that before the Terrorism Act 2000. There are no credible 
grounds for why such a long time would be necessary. It is equivalent to 8 
weeks of a custodial sentence. The 28-day detention period has been used as a 
substitute for a proper criminal investigation, instead intimidating and 
stigmatising people as ‘terror suspects’. Extending pre-charge detention would 
be equivalent to 4 months of custodial sentence having serious impact on an 
individuals job prospects and family life. The majority of the people arrested 
under anti-terror laws are innocent and they need to be protected. Such a long 
detention amounts to internment in all but name, thus violating the principle 
of habeas corpus. It ignores the principle that citizens must be considered 
innocent until proven guilty. Police naturally want as much time as possible to 
lean on a suspect before honouring this principle. They may also lobby 
government to give them such powers, but in a free society, the police enforce 
the law, they don't make it. 2. Post-charge questioning of ‘terror 
suspects’Likewise such powers can be used to intimidate detainees, as a 
substitute for an adequate basis for the criminal charge in the first place. 
There needs to appropriate judicial oversight to ensure that this is supervised 
rigorously to prevent intimidation and pro-longed interrogation.3. A new 
criminal offence of seeking ‘information which could be useful for terrorism’. 
This offence would apply regardless of whether or not the seeker intends a 
‘terrorist’ use – again terrorism being defined in such a broad way as to 
encompass many non-violent activities and to criminalise the peace movement, 
some strikers, or anyone planning boycotts, pickets, blockades etc. Information 
‘which could be useful for terrorism’ can mean nearly anything, e.g. having 
maps or researching companies, and would be used for speculative charges to 
harass or criminalise political activists. 4. Travel restrictions for 
‘suspects’For mere suspicion of involvement in terrorism, anyone could face 
travel restrictions and be deprived of their passport. Protesters could be 
prevented from travelling to international demonstrations. Like control orders, 
this would be punishment without trial. 5. Collective punishment of families of 
convicted terroristsUnder control orders, the imposing of curfews, electronic 
tagging, restrictions on the use of telephones (and mobile phones and the 
Internet) and restrictions on visits by relatives and friends, even of 
children, have turned homes into prisons for the family as a whole. The 
proposal to make it easier for the court to order the forfeiture of complex 
assets, such as a house and a flat of a convicted terrorist would punish the 
family. Given the recent convictions for possessing DVDs however radical under 
the provisions of the ‘glorification of terrorism’, this move is extremely 
serious. The counter terrorism powers that exist and the new

Bismillah [IslamCity] Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) is the last messenger of Allah by QHA Rabbani Courtesy:

[Abdul Wahid Osman Belal]

Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) is the last messenger of Allah
   
  By QHA Rabbani
  The Qur'aan says, "Muhammad is not the father of any of your men, but (he is) 
the Messenger of Allah, and the Seal of the Prophets: and Allah has full 
knowledge of all things." (Qur'aan, 33:40)
  This verse is conclusive of the precept that Prophet Muhammad (Sall Allaho 
alaihe wasallam) is the last of the prophets and that there shall be no prophet 
or messenger of Allah Almighty after him. All those personages who have dwelt 
upon the subject of Prophet Muhammad's prophethood, his miracles and expounded 
the Holy Qur'aan, have stated that Prophet Muhammad (Sall Allaho alaihe 
wasallam) had informed that there would be no prophet after him.
  Prophet Muhammad (Sall Allaho alaihe wasallam) unequivocally declared that he 
was the final Prophet. He said, "Certainly my example and the example of 
prophets earlier than me is like the example of a palace most elegant and most 
beautiful constructed by a person except (that he left in it) a blank space for 
a brick in one of its corners and that made the people (who were) going around 
it wonder (at its marvellousness) and exclaimed (in perplexion): Why not is 
this brick inlaid in here?" The Holy Prophet (Sall Allaho alaihe wasallam) 
said, "I am that (corner's last) brick and I am the last of the prophets." 
(Sahih Bukhari, vol 1, p 501 & Sahih Muslim, vol 2, p 248)
  Prophet Muhammad (Sall Allaho alaihe wasallam) said: "I have been bestowed 
with excellence over (other) prophets in six respects:
  1. I have been gifted with comprehensive words,
  2. I have been helped through awe (being put in the hearts of enemies),
  3. Spoils have been made lawful to me,
  4. The whole earth turned into a mosque for me and a means of purification,
  5. I have been ordained as the prophet for all humanity, and
  6. The line of the prophets has been terminated with me." (Sahih Muslim, vol 
1, p 199, Mishkat, p 512)
  The Holy Prophet (Sall Allaho alaihe wasallam) said to Hadhrat Ali (Radhi 
Allaho anho), "You have the same relation with me as Haroon had with Musa 
(Alaihimus Salaam) except that there shall be no prophet after me." (Sahih 
Bukhari vol 2, p 633)
  Hadhrat Abu Hurairah (Radhi Allaho anho) relates from Prophet Muhammad (Sall 
Allaho alaihe wasallam) that the Bani Isreal were led by their own prophets, 
when one prophet died, another prophet took his place, but there shall be no 
prophet after me that there shall be caliphs and they will be many. (Sahih 
Bukhari, Kitab-ul-Manaqib)
  Prophet Muhammad (Sall Allaho alaihe wasallam) said, "In my Ummah there shall 
be born thirty liars, each of them will pretend that he is a prophet, but I am 
the last of the prophets, there shall be no prophet after me. (Abu Dawood and 
Tirmizi)
  Allah's Messenger Muhammad (Sall Allaho alaihe wasallam) said, "Verily, 
risalat and nubuwwat are terminated, so there shall be neither a rasool nor a 
nabi after me." (Tirmidhi and Musnad Ahmad)
  The Holy Prophet (Sall Allaho alaihe wasallam) said, "I am the last prophet 
and my mosque is the last mosque among the mosques of all the prophets." 
(Kanzul Ummal, vol 12, p 270, Hadith No 34999)
  Hadhrat Ali (Radhi Allaho anho) describing the virtues of the Holy Prophet 
(Sall Allaho alaihe wasallam) said, "Between his (ie the Holy Prophet's) 
shoulders was the signet of prophethood and he (Prophet Muhammad) was 
Khatam-un-Nabieen (ie the last of the prophets)." (Shamail-e-Tirmizi, p 3)
  Allah's Messenger Muhammad (Sall Allaho alaihe wasallam) said, "If there 
could ever be a prophet after me, indeed Umar bin Khattab would have been 
such." (Tirmizi, vol 2, p 209)
  Hazrat Jubair bin Mut'am (Radhi Allaho anho) said, "I heard the Holy Prophet 
(Sall Allaho alaihe wasallam) saying, 'Certainly there are some names for me, I 
am Muhammad, I am Ahmad, I am Mahi, the obliterator, as Allah shall blot out 
kufr through me and I am Hashir, the gatherer of people who shall be 
resurrected at my feet and I am Aaqib, the last to come, as there shall be no 
prophet after me." (Mishkat, p 515) 

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Bismillah [IslamCity] Bush: I would understand if Israel chose to attack Iran

[Abhiyya 2006]

"U.S. President George W. Bush and President Jacques Chirac of France 
met several weeks ago. Bush told his French counterpart that the possibility 
that Israel would carry out a strike against Iran's nuclear installations 
should not be ruled out. Bush also said that if such an attack were to take 
place, he would understand it"
   
  Bush: I would understand if Israel chose to attack Iran 
By Yossi Verter, Haaretz Correspondent 
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=789940&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1

The United States lacks sufficient intelligence on Iran's nuclear facilities at 
this time, which prevents it from initiating a military strike against them, 
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has told European politicians and diplomats 
with whom she has recently met. 

Rice mentioned three reasons why the United States is currently unable to carry 
out a military operation against Iran: the wish to solve the crisis through 
peaceful means; concern that a military strike will be ineffective - that it 
would fail to completely destroy Iran's nuclear capabilities; and the lack of 
precise intelligence on the targets' locations. 

U.S. President George W. Bush and President Jacques Chirac of France met 
several weeks ago. Bush told his French counterpart that the possibility that 
Israel would carry out a strike against Iran's nuclear installations should not 
be ruled out. 
  Bush also said that if such an attack were to take place, he 
would understand it. According to European diplomats who later met with Rice, 
the secretary of state did not express the same willingness to show 
understanding for a possible Israeli strike against Iran. 

Nonetheless, Rice did not discount the possibility that such an operation may 
take place. 

In recent talks with their Israeli counterparts, French government officials 
estimated that Iran would reach the "point of no return" in its nuclear program 
by spring 2007, in approximately five months. 

At that point, according to Israeli sources, Iran will be in a position to 
simultaneously operate approximately 3,000 centrifuges for enriching uranium. 

Various estimates by international experts hold that Monday Iran is operating 
340-600 such centrifuges. 

In talks with Israeli sources several days ago, a French government official 
asserted that an Israeli military attack against Iran would be "a total 
disaster" in terms of its implications for the entire world. 

According to the French official, such a strike would at best delay the 
completion of Iran's nuclear program by two years. 

The attack would also result in Iran cancelling its membership in the Nuclear 
Non-Proliferation Treaty, cause a great deal of agitation in the Arab world, 
lead to a rise in oil prices, and could result in a major Iranian military 
response that would not target Israel alone. 

With Regards 

Abi
   
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Bismillah [IslamCity] Hadith

[hadith.share]

Abu Qatadah ( Radhiallaho anha ) reported : The Messenger of Allah (
Sallallaahu 'alaihi wasallam ) was asked about the observance of Saum (
fasting ) on the day of `Arafah. He said,



"It is an expiation for the sins of the preceding year and the
current year."



[ Muslim ]



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Abu Hurairah (Radhiallaho anha) reported: The Messenger of Allah
(Sallallaahu 'alaihi wasallam) said, "A group of people (both men
and women) whose hearts will be like the hearts of birds, will enter
Jannah."



[Muslim]





It has been interpreted that such people are those who put their trust
in Allah; another interpretation is that these people are
tender-hearted.









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Umar (Radhiallaho anha) said: I heard Messenger of Allah (Sallallaahu
'alaihi wasallam) saying, "If you all depend on Allah with due
reliance, He would certainly give you provision as He gives it to birds
who go forth hungry in the morning and return with full belly at
dusk."



[At-Tirmidhi]



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Abdullah bin `Amr bin Al-`As (Radhiallaho anha) reported : A man
asked the Messenger of Allah (Sallallaahu 'alaihi wasallam): "Which
act in Islam is the best? He Sallallaahu 'alaihi wasallam replied,
"To give food, and to greet everyone, whether you know or you do
not."



[Al-Bukhari and Muslim]





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Abu Hurairah (Radhiallaho anha) reported : The Messenger of Allah
(Sallallaahu 'alaihi wasallam) said, "Every Muslim has five rights
over another Muslim (i.e., he has to perform five duties for another
Muslim):  to return the greetings, to visit the sick, to accompany
funeral processions, to accept an invitation, to respond to the sneezer
[i.e., to say: `Yarhamuk Allah (may Allah bestow His Mercy on
you),' when the sneezer praises Allah]"



[Al-Bukhari and Muslim]





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Abu Hurairah (Radhiallaho anha) reported : The Messenger of Allah
(Sallallaahu 'alaihi wasallam) said, "There are two statements that
are light for the tongue to remember, heavy in the Scales and are dear
to the Merciful: `Subhan-Allahi wa bihamdihi, Subhan-Allahil-Azim
[Glory be to Allah and His is the praise, (and) Allah, the Greatest is
free from imperfection)'."



[Al-Bukhari and Muslim]





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Bismillah [IslamCity] Hajj Workshop - held by Sheikh Adly

[Shahid]

As-Salaamu 'Alaykum,

Sheikh Muhammad Adly held a hajj workshop at the masjid a few weeks ago. He is 
offering it again this time on paltalk. I went to the first one and it was 
great, I encourage everyone to attend this (even if you're not going to hajj 
this year).

wa'l salaamu alaykum
Shahid.

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Subject: Hajj Workshop - UPDATED



Assalaamu alakum,

 My dear brothers and Sisters. My name is Muhammad S. Adly and I am pleased to 
be your guide as we embark on the sacred journey to fulfill the Fifth pillar of 
 Islam. Due to it's importance we need to talk and go over what is going to be 
facing us and what we are required to do and what to stay away from according 
to the Quran and the authentic Sunnah and also how they  relate to this blessed 
event. I have prepared a workshop to help us in this area. It will start on 
Monday at 6 P.M.EST. It will be broadcast on PalTalk in the room Islam Emaan 
Ishan. 

IF you do not have a paltalk go to www.paltalk.com click on download for free 
then click run then run again agree to terms click next then next again this 
will install paktalk onto your computer. click Finnish then  follow the on 
screen instructions. you make up a nickname and make up a password type in you 
email choose a question then type the answer remove the green check marks by 
clicking on them then click Finnish. click OK go to browse all rooms then 
religion  and spirituality then Islam then Islam emaan ishan. and you will be 
ready for the class it seems like allot but it is easy as 123 that's on Monday 
Nov 26th at 6pm EST make sure that you are there. 

If you have  any problems with paltalk call 803 223 1949 ask for Khalid and he 
will help you Inshallah.

As salaamu alakum,

Muhammad S. Adly
 Adlyonline.com 

Bismillah [IslamCity] Intrafaith Q&A on Sunni/Shi'i---Islamic Horizons (An ISNA Publication, www.ISNA.net)

[S A Hannan]

VERYIMPORTANT

- Original Message - 
From: "Ali Abbas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2007 9:02 AM
Subject: ISNA: Intrafaith Q&A on Sunni/Shi'i


>
> -- forwarded
>
> ISNA: Intrafaith Q&A on Sunni/Shi'i
>
> Taken from
>
> Islamic Horizons (An ISNA Publication, www.ISNA.net)
> November/December 2007/1427
>
> INTRA FAITH WORKS
> ONE FAITH - Nineteen Questions about Shi'i-Sunni Relations by,
>
> Mohamed Nimer, director of research at the Council on American Islamic
> Relations, is the author of "The North American Muslim Resource Guide:
> Muslim Community Life in the United States and Canada" (Routledge:
> 2002).
>
> Asma Afsaruddin, associate professor of Arabic and Islamic studies at
> the University of Notre Dame, is the author of "Excellence and
> Precedence: Medieval Islamic Discourse on Legitimate Leadership"
> (Leiden: 2002).
>
> Liyakat Takim, associate professor of Islamic studies at the University
> of Denver, is the author of "The Heirs of the Prophet: Charisma and
> Religious Authority in Shiite Islam" (SUNY Press: 2006).
> 
>
> Is it accurate to speak of "Sunni Islam" and "Shi'i Islam"?

 Muslims  avoid identifying the Sunni and Shi`i traditions as different 
"Islams."
> But the two traditions, which developed over the course of centuries,
> shaped Muslim religious thought and practice.
>
> What are their doctrinal com¬monalities?


Both branches share the same
> foundational religious beliefs rooted in monotheism, Muham¬mad's
> prophethood, a singular Qu'anic text, and a belief in fi¬nal judgment.
> They agree on the core fundamentals of Islam: the six articles of
> belief (God, angels, scriptures, prophets, the next life, and destiny)
> and the five pillars of practice (testimo¬ny of faith, prayer, fasting,
> giv¬ing alms, and pilgrimage).
>
> What are the important differ¬ences between them?


Mainstream Shi'is
> believe in the doctrine of the Imamate, name¬ly, that certain
> descendants of the Prophet's family provided the ultimate, legitimate
> source of guidance after his death. This doctrine impacted how the
> Shi`i scholars evaluated the authenticity of hadiths as well as their
> respective views of Islamic ju¬risprudence. Over time, both branches of
> Islam developed parallel institutions of learning and a number of
> distinctive religious practices.
>
> Was the origin of these two branches religious or political in nature?
>


 Shi`i scholars believe that the community's leadership should have
> remained within the Prophet's family: in the hands of Ali, the
> Prophet's cousin and husband of his daughter Fatimah. An early
> community of Shi'is considered Ali to be the first Imam. This idea was
> sub¬sequently expressed in the doc¬trine of the Imamate a central
> defining feature of Shi`i doc¬trine. Specifically, the Shi'is be¬lieve
> that the issue of leadership is religious in nature and that the
> Prophet explicitly named Ali as his successor. Sunni scholars trace the
> Shi`i commu¬nity's genesis to what they con¬sider to be political
> arguments about leadership after the Prophet's demise. They argue that
> many Companions sup¬ported the leadership of Abu Bakr, one of the
> Prophet's clos¬est early followers, and that the leadership of Muslims
> falls un¬der the control of the general Muslim community.
>
> What about the claim that the Shi'is have a different Qur'an called the
> Mushaf Fatimah?

 Shi'is and Sunnis use the same Qur'an. According to
> Shi'i scholars, the Mushaf Fatimah contains hadith narratives by
> Fatimah. It is not considered a holy scripture or a replace¬ment for
> the Qur'an.
>
> What is the Sunni view of the Ahl al Bayt (the Family of the E
> Prophet)?


 All Muslims' daily prayers in¬clude praise and blessings for
> Prophet Muhammad's family. The Sunni Hadith literature regards Fatimah,
> Ali, Hassan, and Husayn as Companions to whom the Prophet promised
> Paradise. These four people, along with other members of his family,
> are major narrators in Sunni books of Hadith. Ali is revered by Sunnis
> as the first young Muslim who risked his life for the Prophet. Sunnis
> consider him the last of the Rightly Guided Caliphs, while the Shi'is
> consider him the first Imam.
>
> Do Shi'is believe that Ali is God?


 Mainstream Shi'i and Sunni
> traditions hold such thinking to be a form of unbelief. While Ali was
> still alive, some people considered him to be God. They were later
> labeled ghulat (extremists).
>
> Do Shi'is slander and ridicule the first three caliphs and Nishah?

This
> is a false generalization. Shi'is consider Abu Bakr, Umar, and Uthman
> to be great Com¬panions and caliphs, although they believe that they
> did not at¬tain the spiritual purity attained by Ali and the other
> grand Imams. As for A'ishah, the mainstream Shi'i position views her as
> the mother of all believers on par with all of the Prophet's other
> wives. Any