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Re: Bismillah [IslamCity] From Masada to Gaza
What a splendid piece of intellectual insight, artistic creativity, and social and political courage! Regards best of wishes, Ibrahim Hayani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ..from Masada to Gaza. In the past we have had Masada and the question is : are the same people calling themselves today Israelis those same who resided inside Masada ?? I leave the answer to you , I have made my conclusion, long time ago.. What I want to compare, to identify and to confirm is that the People, today, inside the besieged Gaza are doing exactly what the Masada-people have done,namely, to resist to the invader-occupier and to strive to liberate their own homeland.. And the Irony is that the Gazzeans are genetically related to the Masada's people, although they have a new religion , now. While an Israeli of today might share partly the blood of any Roman soldier.or even a Norwegian Viking. From Masada to Gaza , history keeps on repeating itself, and with the same actors , too. Indigenous-Semites on the inside and fascist-barbarians on the outside. It was a war of liberation , then and It is a war of liberation !! now. Raja Chemayel a christian Semite from the inside... 15Th of December 2007 (my brother's Khalil Birthday) Sent from Yahoo! http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mailuk/taglines/isp/control/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=51949/*http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/mail/winter07.html - a smarter inbox.
Bismillah [IslamCity] Virtues of the Day of Arafaah
Bismillah [IslamCity] MERCY OF ALLAH TIBARAK O TAALA!
Mercy of Allah: A lecture by Shaykh Zulfiqar Ahmad (db) Mercy in Creation Hadith Qudsi says that Allah said, I was a hidden treasure, and I wished that I be recognized, and this is why I created. Hence the reason for creation was love (mohobbah). Allah created everything out of love, and therefore He loves what He has created. Subsequently He loves the believers even more intensely. Hadith also says that Allah divided His Mercy into seventy parts, and distributed one of those parts in the creation around us. Let us think of all the love in this world; be it between a mother and child, a husband and wife, a brother and sister, be it between animals and their young, be it between friends. All the love amongst these people and in this world comprises just one part out of seventy of Allahs Mercy. This brings to mind the question that what tremendous mercy might Allah show on the Day of Judgment? A bird is a very weak little thing. It builds a nest for its young and leaves to get food. Now if the nest was in a house and the door is closed upon the birds return, this little bird will frantically search for some way to get to its nest, flapping its wings at one wall and then the next. She gets tired but keeps struggling to find a way to her young so she can feed them. If the door opens she flies hurriedly to feed her young, but if it remains shut then she will die flapping against the door, looking for some passage to her young. This bird is such a little thing but Allah has put such love inside it that she is willing to die but cannot tolerate her young going hungry. A chicken is also a very delicate little creature, but it protects its young in its wings against a cat. It knows that it is no match for the cat, but the mothers love inside this chicken compels it to stand up against the cat, because it knows that the cat will harm its children. Such is the love that Allah has put inside this chicken that it is prepared to give its life in defense of her children. Only a mother can know and understand how much love Allah has put in her heart for her children. This love is a mountain and no one has been able to scale its heights; this love is an ocean and no one has been able to calculate its depths. A mother loves her children unconditionally, with no display. A mother loves her child whether the child is obedient or disobedient, honorable or dishonorable. After Allah and His Messenger, only a mother can love even the disobedient. This world likes the successful and good, but hates those who are hateful and disrespectful and rejects them. However, a mother is a mother and loves her children no matter is they are obedient or disobedient, kind or unkind. A mother cannot be separated from her child. A Womans Yearning A womans greatest wish is to become a mother, because that is how Allah has made her. She gets worried if after marriage she somehow cannot have children, and prays day and night in every prayer and in tahajjud. When she goes for Umra and Hajj she will pray for children. She has such a yearning in her heart for motherhood that this becomes the first thing that she prays for and it starts to consume her. Allah might have given a big house and a successful husband who loves her, but something will be missing from her life and she will be sad. She will only have one wish despite all this, and that is the wish to become a mother. This same womans life will be transformed if Allah blesses her with children. Her face will gleam and she will say that spring has come to her house. She spends all day running after this child and stays awake all night catering to this childs needs. She stays sleepless and hungry for this childs sake, but this struggle and hardship seem easy for her. Why? This is only because Allah has put the love of her children in her heart. Now she forgets herself after begetting children. She goes to the market but does not look for adult clothes for herself, but searches for little clothes for her child and anything else she can decorate the nursery with. If she becomes tired, one look at her child relieves her of her fatigue; if she is worried, she hugs the child close to her and forgets all these worries, and thinks that she has gained all the happiness in the world. She even forgets her relations, in that if her sister dislikes the child then she does not consider her a sister. Now the child becomes the purpose and focal point of her life. This child grows up and starts working, but the mother keeps worrying and stays up late waiting for him. The rest of the household sleeps but this mother stays awake waiting and worrying about whether the child has eaten or not. If the child hurts the mother to such a degree that the mother says that she will never speak to him again, the child only has to come and beg forgiveness and the mother will immediately do so because she is a mother. If the mother has been hurt worse than this and says that she will not forgive him, then
Bismillah [IslamCity] Watch Ahmad Deedat's Encounter With Christian Missionaries
Assalamo Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahe Wa Barakatahu, *Video: Watch Ahmed Deedat's Encounter With Christian Missionarieshttp://www.biharanjuman.org/Deedat/Ahmad-Deedat-Encounter-With-Christian-Missionaries.htm * PS: Actions may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action, so act we MUST. - Wishing you and all your loved ones greatest of times ahead! Aspiring 2 c u happy! Shakeel Ahmad Dubai, United Arab Emirates +971.50.4599172 http://www.biharanjuman.org - Largest network of people from Bihar or Jharkhand Remember, growing older is mandatory. Growing up is optional. We make a Living by what we get, we make a Life by what we give. If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.
Bismillah [IslamCity] Darwinism: A Religion of Superstition
Darwinism: A Religion of Superstition http://www.religionofdarwinism.com/superstition.html The modified, but still characteristically Darwinian theory, has itself become an orthodoxy preached by its adherents with religious fervor, and doubted, they feel, only by a few muddlers, imperfect in scientific faith. (Marjorie Grene, Encounter, November 1959, p.48.) As stated in our introduction, the theory of evolution has now been discredited in scientific circles. Since this theory first appeared, a large number of scientific findings have invalidated its claims one by one. The development of the electron microscope, new knowledge of genetic laws, the discovery of the structure of DNA, the revelation of the complexity of every living organism, and other modern advances have defeated Darwinism and will continue to oppose it. In other books by this author, you can read about the collapse of Darwinism in light of scientific facts and about the scientific proofs that have invalidated the theory of evolution.1 But despite the fact that science is developing so quickly and is continually introducing something new into our lives, certain scientists of an unenlightened, bigoted and conservative mind continue to defend theories developed in the 19th century, theories originally elaborated within a primitive scientific understanding, whose naiveté and superficiality would make a child laugh. So what explains the fact that Darwinism is still so popular in some scientific circles? There is not even one concrete scientific proof in place; on the contrary, it is clearly evident that every living thing has been created according to a flawless design and that nothing has come into existence by chance, as the theory of evolution claims. How can it be, then, that many people, nonetheless, continue to be strong advocates of this theory? The reason is this: the theory is more an expression of a certain mentality and belief than a scientific formulation. It is a mentality that does not view evolution as a mere theory whose validity can be investigated by scientific method, but sees it as a belief that must be vindicated at all costs. Because their faith cannot be substantiated by scientific facts, people with this mentality have a dogmatic bond with their theory which cannot in the least be influenced by the scientific proofs that refute it. No matter how cogent the evidence against evolution, evolutionists continue to ignore it and vigorously defend their faith. For Darwinists, the theory of evolution is much more than a scientific proposition. When their theory becomes a matter for discussion, evolutionist scientists immediately lose their impartiality and scientific objectivity. They are so fiercely bound to their theory that most distinguished biologists would rather lose their right hands than begin a sentence with the phrase, 'If the theory of evolution is true...'2 They do not even want to consider that the theory of evolution might not be true. When Darwin's theory was proposed, science and technology were on a very primitive level. Scientists of that period used very basic equipment, whereas computers and electron microscopes are used today. The development of equipment, from the microscope to other technical devices, began only in the 20th century. The results of scientific advances have nullified the claims made by Darwinism with its primitive level of scientific knowledge. People are not accustomed to seeing this attitude among scientists. They generally imagine that scientific discourse is independent of the individual scientist's philosophical and ideological prejudices and that scientists are objective individuals whose facts are substantiated by concrete evidence and their truth proven by experiment. For this reason they seldom doubt the correctness of the theory of evolution. This is a great error, however, because when evolutionist scientists are discussing the theory of evolution, scientific criteria are not brought to bear on the issue. These words of the eminent Darwinian, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, expose the position of science in the Darwinist outlook: Is evolution a theory, a system, or a hypothesis? It is much more. It is a general postulate to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must henceforward bow and which they must satisfy in order to be thinkable and true. Evolution is a light which illuminates all facts, a trajectory which all lines of thought must follow. This is what evolution is.3 As can be seen in the above quotation, the terms used by Darwinists when they speak of their theory give important clues about their dogmatic attitude and blind allegiance. Taking other examples, one of the leading evolutionists of the world, G.W. Harper, calls the theory of evolution a metaphysical belief;4 the outstanding Harvard evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr calls it man's world view today.5 Sir Julian Huxley, probably the
Bismillah [IslamCity] Four levels of Dawah
Levels of Dawah There are levels of Dawah for Islam, each level expands Dawah further. The first level is individual dawah, meeting people, giving them books, explain important issues .This is the basic level and a must for all Islamic workers. The second higher level of Dawah is when a person becomes a good speaker, then he can communicate to more people. The third level of Dawah is reached when a person becomes a writer and writes articles or books or even letters to news papers on a regular basis.He then reaches more people even he canreach accross the country if he/she can write in English or Arabic or other international languages, An Islamist can reach fourth and higher and global level if he/she become active in internet, al least for one hour.If a person writes through internet and distributes positive or sound materials, he/she can reach world level, can counteract those falsehoods which have no basis. The first level is essential . If somebody can not be writer or speaker, he/she can jump to the fourth global level in this age of internet.We can increase our Dawah for good, dawah for Islam in this way. Shah Abdul Hannan
Bismillah [IslamCity] Only One Thing Unites Iraqis: Hatred of the US!!!
a voice of reason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 13:45:45 +0530 From: a voice of reason [EMAIL PROTECTED] Abdus Sattar Ghazali [EMAIL PROTECTED], abdul wahid [EMAIL PROTECTED], Subject: Only One Thing Unites Iraqis: Hatred of the US!!! Only One Thing Unites Iraqis: Hatred of the US By Patrick Cockburn , The Independent. Posted December 14, 2007. The Americans will discover, as the British learned to their cost in Basra, that they have few permanent allies. As British forces come to the end of their role in Iraq, what sort of country do they leave behind? Has the United States turned the tide in Baghdad? Does the fall in violence mean that the country is stabilizing after more than four years of war? Or are we seeing only a temporary pause in the fighting?American commentators are generally making the same mistake that they have made since the invasion of Iraq was first contemplated five years ago. They look at Iraq in over-simple terms and exaggerate the extent to which the US is making the political weather and is in control of events there. The US is the most powerful single force in Iraq but by no means the only one. The shape of Iraqi politics has changed over the past year, though for reasons that have little to do with the surge - the 30,000 US troop reinforcements - and much to do with the battle for supremacy between the Sunni and Shia Muslim communities. The Sunni Arabs of Iraq turned against al Qa'ida partly because it tried to monopolise power but primarily because it brought their community close to catastrophe. The Sunni war against US occupation had gone surprisingly well for them since it began in 2003. It was a second war, the one against the Shia majority led by al-Qa'ida, which the Sunni were losing, with disastrous results for themselves. The Sunni people now think they cannot fight two wars - against the occupation and the government - at the same time, a Sunni friend in Baghdad told me last week. We must be more realistic and accept the occupation for the moment. This is why much of the non-al-Qa'ida Sunni insurgency has effectively changed sides. An important reason why al-Qa'ida has lost ground so swiftly is a split within its own ranks. The US military - the State Department has been very much marginalized in decision-making in Baghdad - does not want to emphasize that many of the Sunni fighters now on the US payroll, who are misleadingly called concerned citizens, until recently belonged to al Qa'ida and have the blood of a great many Iraqi civilians and American soldiers on their hands. The Sunni Arabs, five million out of an Iraqi population of 27 million and the mainstay of Saddam Hussein's government, were the core of the resistance to the US occupation. But they have also been fighting a sectarian war to prevent the 16 million Shia and the five million Kurds holding power. At first, the Shia were very patient in the face of atrocities. Vehicles, packed with explosives and driven by suicide bombers, were regularly detonated in the middle of crowded Shia market places or religious processions, killing and maiming hundreds of people. The bombers came from al-Qa'ida but the attacks were never wholeheartedly condemned by Sunni political leaders or other guerrilla groups. The bombings were also very short-sighted since the Iraqi Shia outnumber the Sunni three to one. Retaliation was restrained until a bomb destroyed the revered Shia al-Askari shrine in Samarra on 22 February, 2006. The bombing led to a savage Shia onslaught on the Sunni, which became known in Iraq as the battle for Baghdad. This struggle was won by the Shia. They were always the majority in the capital but, by the end of 2006, they controlled 75 per cent of the city. The Sunni fled or were pressed back into a few enclaves, mostly in west Baghdad. In the wake of this defeat, there was less and less point in the Sunni trying expel the Americans when the Sunni community was itself being evicted by the Shia from large parts of Iraq. The Iraqi Sunni leaders had also miscalculated that an assault on their community by the Shia would provoke Arab Sunni states like Saudi Arabia and Egypt into giving them more support but this never materialized. discover, as the British learned to their cost in Basra, that they have few permanent allies. ABDUL WAHID OSMAN BELAL - Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage.
Bismillah [IslamCity] A good neighbour is better than a far away friend
Half of the Lebanese do not agree with the other half. Half of them call the others: Syrian-agents and the second half calls the first : American-dogs One sides calls the other: French-Puppies while the other half uses the accusation of : Iranian-Puppets Remains the unanswered-question: who or what is worse ?? an Iranian in Baalbeck ?? or a French-man in Jounieh ?? When did Condi Rice ever do anything useful to the Lebanon ?? While her Syrian counterpart Mr. Muallem belongs to a Family which half of it are Lebanese.(and Christians) Who is the foreign intruder here ?? Who wants to protect and defend the Lebanon ? Who stood by the Lebanon when Israel was bombing Beirut in Summer 2006 ?? Bernard Koushner ?? or Condolisa Rice ??? And who armed the Lebanese-resistance-forces ?? George Sarkozy or Nicolas Bush , perhaps ?? Which Lebanese half is not blind nor opportunist ? and Which other Lebanese half would like to import a ready-made-democracy ? instead of cooking it at home with homegrown ingredients.?? Who is trying to divert the attentions from a born-dead-baby called: Annapolis ? Who is removing away the spotlights on that alleged Atomic Bomb which never existed in Iran ?? Who bombed Syria to destroy South-Korean-Fairy-tales ?? Who brought devastation and diaspora to the Christians of Iraq ?? and has completely forgotten that even the Christians of Lebanon are also divided...50/50 ?? A good-neighbour is better than any far-away-(false)friend !! (especially when this friend is the USA) Raja Chemayel 50% Lebanese and 50% normal. 16Th of December 2007 PS: How kosher is Khoushner ?? and How nice is Rice ?? - Sent from Yahoo! #45; a smarter inbox.
Bismillah [IslamCity] RE: Hidaya Foundation - One Million Meals Qurbani Projects - Feed Less Fortunate
Assalam Alaikum Dear Waseem Baloch We hope that you will be delighted to inform you that they are thousands of the Somalis both in Somalia and in some refuge Camps in Kenya and yemen who do not have nothing to eat, many times we only hear that some Muslims Organizatiions are donating food and some tents else where but not Somalia. Our Somali association in Glasgow UK is hereby kindly request that if you have any help for Somalia, please do contact with us as we have prepared to ship anything we got from any where to Somalia bnd to these Somali Camps outside Somalia to help these poor Muslims refugees of war torned Somalia. Please do write do us for more information. Thanks. Yours truly Hassan Guleid, Chairman of the Somali Association, Glasgow,. United Kingdom. rom: Waseem Baloch Reply-To: islamcity@yahoogroups.com To: eGroup For Muslims Around The World islamcity@yahoogroups.com Subject: Bismillah [IslamCity] Hidaya Foundation - One Million Meals Qurbani Projects - Feed Less Fortunate Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:19:56 -0800 (PST) As Salaamu Alaikum (Peace Be Upon You) One Million Meals Project The world is full of people who cannot afford to feed their children a decent meal even one time a day. Hidaya Foundation (www.hidaya.org) distributes food packages along with Eid-ul-Adha sacrifice meat. Due to buying in bulk and distributing in rural areas, it costs approximately 25 cents per meal. This means you can feed 200 people just for $50 or 1,000 for just $250. To donate online for our One Million Meals project visit: https://donation.hidaya.org/donation.aspx?projectId=46 Eid-ul-Adha Qurbani (Sacrifice) 2007 Hidaya Foundation (www.hidaya.org) has arranged Eid-ul-Adha Qurbani (Sacrifice) Project in Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, West Africa North America. The costs are provided in the table below. To donate online via electronic check or credit card, please click on an option below: Location Goat/Sheep Ox/Buffalo (One Share) International $100 $50 U.S.A. $200 $120 You may mail checks payable to: Hidaya Foundation, P.O. Box 5481, Santa Clara, CA 95056 Sincerely, Waseem Baloch Hidaya Foundation (866) 244-3292 Toll Free Hidaya Foundation (www.hidaya.org) is a US based non-profit 501 (C)(3) charitable organization, with Tax ID# 77-0502583. Its mission is to implement projects in economically depressed areas of the world. _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/
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Bismillah [IslamCity] Biography of Prophet Muhammad [pbuh]: Best Biography Award at international conference
Assalamo Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahe Wa Barakatahu, *Ar-Raheeq Al-Makhtum (THE SEALED NECTAR): Biography of Prophet [pbuh], by Saifur Rahman al-Mubarakpurihttp://www.biharanjuman.org/Ar_Raheeq_al_Makhtoum.htm * PS: Actions may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action, so act we MUST. - Wishing you and all your loved ones greatest of times ahead! Aspiring 2 c u happy! Shakeel Ahmad Dubai, United Arab Emirates +971.50.4599172 http://www.biharanjuman.org - Largest network of people from Bihar or Jharkhand Remember, growing older is mandatory. Growing up is optional. We make a Living by what we get, we make a Life by what we give. If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.
Bismillah [IslamCity] Terrorism and the Democratic Imperative: Reflections on Contemporary Muslim Politics
Terrorism and the Democratic Imperative: Reflections on Contemporary Muslim Politics Written by Dr. Abdelwahab El-Affendi When the news came in August 1998 of the bombing of the US Embassy in Kenya and Tanzania, the publisher and editor of an independent and strongly pro-government weekly published in Cairo made this comment: The news came to me like a dream. The destruction of the embassies in Nairobi and Dar Es Salam. Glory be to the avenger. These fires remind me of the fires of Baghdad. My heart bleeds for the Africans but I am pleased about what happened to the Americans. That may have turned us into angry and embittered people looking for revenge which would placate our souls. I am not going to inquire about the perpetrator. Whoever you may be you have placated us a little. Ask the Arab masses from the Gulf to the Atlantic Ocean and you will see pleasure in their eyes. Even those who condemn the act say let them pay. Yes, American we are strong. The editor who made the above statement does not belong to the extremist fringe of either the right of the left. He condemns the terrorism of local Islamists and he is very close to government circles - too close perhaps , as he has recently been used by official circles to spearhead the government's campaign against local human rights groups accused of receiving Western funding. The editorial in the semi-official Al Ahram on the same day called on the US to improve its image. It said 'The Arab peoples generally regard the USA as biased in favour of Israel and against the Arabs'. In other words the US has brought it on themselves. Other Egyptian papers were more explicit. The US, they argued has turned a deaf ear to Egyptian pleas to fight terrorism. Instead America harboured and protected wanted terrorists under various pretexts. Now it is learning a historic lesson. This general sentiment was echoed throughout the Arab world, particularly in countries which are US allies: the Gulf countries, Jordan and Morocco. These attitudes to political violence are reflected in mainstream political Arab discourse regarding how violence is produced and reproduced in the region. Most Arab regimes are very vocal in condemning terrorism but the signing of a treaty condemning terrorism by Arab Interior Ministers was held up for years because of the disagreement over the definition of terrorism. On the insistence of the majority of Arab countries, led by Syria, the final agreement distinguished between violence aimed at liberating occupied lands and other types of violence. The first would not be regarded as terrorism. Thus terrorism was defined in terms of the target and not its methods. Violence against Arab regimes or perpetrated on their territory is considered terrorism. That directed against Israel is not. In practise all Arab governments practically espouse this attitude and it is found in their policies. We cannot go into this discussion without a definition of terrorism. Contrary to the prevailing attitude, defining terrorism is not very difficult. One of the definitions concentrates on the five distinguishing characteristics of terrorism. (1) A terrorist act is an act which is premeditated and designed. (2) It is directed at a wider target than the immediate victims. (3) It involves an attack on random or symbolic targets. (4) It is considered by the society in which it occurs as extra normal, that is in the literal sense, in that it violates norms and conventions. (5) It is used primarily, but not exclusively, to influence the political behaviour of governments. I prefer the definition proposed by Alex Schmidt which defines terrorism as the equivalent of war crimes. I think this definition captures both the factual and normative condition of terrorism. I started with the comment made by an Egyptian editor and the connection he makes with the blowing up of the American embassies and the sanctions against Iraq at a time when the two acts can be seen in the same light. In both places the act targets civilians deliberately. In both places the suffering of the innocent is either an objective in itself or it acts as a pressure point on the target on which pressure is being put. The people who are hurt are not the target but they are used to exert pressure. The suffering of the victims is regarded as acceptable. Collateral damage, to use NATO speak , is 'a price well worth paying' as the US Secretary of State, Madeline Albright, said about the deaths of innocent civilians in Iraq as a result of the sanctions. If we accept the definition of war crimes, terrorism becomes an act which cannot be justified because nothing can justify war crimes. However if we stress the definition of war crimes, most of the acts of modern war would be classed as terrorism. We do not want to do that. If you look at the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagaski, it has all the criteria of a terrorist act. On a
Bismillah [IslamCity] India: a catastrophe or a break with imperialism
55% of the GDP is from the service sector, but only sheltering 0,7%, while a vast majority is surviving on agriculture 77% of the Indian population live on 20 rupi a day (0,5 USD). The growth rate is only for the top ten percent and it doesn't effect the vast majority of the people The vast majority of the indian population has no power, they have no purchasing power India: a catastrophe or a break with imperialism Interview with GN Saibaba of the Revolutionary Democratic Front, India India is at a turning point, says GN Saibaba, a representative of the Revolutionary Democratic Front. He stresses the deep poverty and terrible living conditions of ordinary Indians co-existing with the economical boom. Either India breaks with imperialism or sectarianism and Hindu right-wing nationalism will prevail, he warns. His is a message of hope, but also fearful warnings. Poverty boom The economy of India, when measured in USD exchange-rate terms, is the twelfth largest in the world, with a GDP of US $1.09 trillion (2007). It is the third largest in terms of purchasing power parity. India is the second fastest growing major economy in the world, with a GDP growth rate of 9.4% for the fiscal year 20062007. - If these are indicators of growth, I'm afraid that these indicators could never speak about the real growth that is developing in India, says GN Saibaba, the deputy General Secretary of the Revolutionary Democratic Front (RDF). India's huge population results in a per capita income of $4,182 at PPP and $964 at nominal (2007 estimate). The World Bank classifies India as a low-income economy. Co-existing with the economical growth is widespread poverty. The population of the vast South-Asian country is among the worlds' poorest and most down-throdden. The UN Human development index ranks India as 126th. An economy of impoverishment - This poverty is a real indicator of how growth develops in India, says Saibaba. An even better indication is the fact that 150,000 farmers have committed suicide. Even in Sub-saharan Africa these kind of numbers don't exist. These are forced suicides, not voluntary! Saibaba sees the Western picture of India as a state of economical and technological progress as a fiction. - The growth rate is illusive! It's mostly based on calculated and speculated capital, which is very fragile. One day the capital could be here and another day it will fly to another territory in the world. This growth rate is artificial and calculated. Special Economical Death Zones Currently the Indian government is designating and building more than 500 Special Economical Zones to stimulate further growth in the Indian export industry. The zones are put at the disposal of large multi-national companies and products will mainly be exported. - These are fragile investments, one would never know if they would remain permanently. Any kind of turmoil could easily cause a shift, says Saibaba. Through the Revolutionary Democratic Front he's participating in Visthapan Virodi Jan Vikas Andolan, which is an umbrella organization consisting of more than one hundred local mass movements all over India. To build the new zones local peasants are being bought out off or expelled from their land. Violence is often applied to expel those who are determined to stick on to the soil, like in Nandigram, close to the capital Kolkata of West Bengal, where the official Communist Party (Marxist) are heading the regional government. 150 were massacred and 2000 wounded when militias hired by the communist government were rushed in to clear the peasants out. Many intellectuals and others concerned about the social and sometimes deadly consequences of the economical wonder are also connected with the movement. Still a feudal economy Traditionally the maoist analysis applied by the inspired Indian naxalite rebels has been to say that the Indian economy is a feudal economy. Yet this image is contrasted by a sharp growth in the economical standards of the bourgeoisie and the upper middle class. But Saibaba denies that there's any development towards real capitalism in the country. - The capitalist entrepreneurs in India are dependent on imperialist capitalists, they are unable to take independent decisions. India is a traditional supplier of raw material. They export raw material cheaply and remain on the receiving end of the market for the finished goods, so in a double way you are helping the imperialist entrepreneurs. The new economics also give little in terms of investment to the people. While money is tossed into building new universities and campuses, the beneficiaries are foreigners and the Indian diaspora, not the common man, in the view of Saibaba. - They build some good educational institutions, but ordinary people don't have the opportunity to go. And though there are developments of science and
Bismillah [IslamCity] Islam and 'Honor Killings'
by IMAM ZAID SHAKIR For that reason, we ordained for the Children of Israel that whoever kills a soul for other than murder or spreading corruption in the land, it is as if he has killed the whole of humanity (Quran 5:35) One of the gravest charges levied against Islam, in terms of its alleged antipathy towards women, is the claim that it encourages a phenomenon known as honor killings. This un-Islamic practice consists of the murder of female family members who are seen as dishonoring their families through real or perceived acts of indiscretion, such as premarital sexual relations or unapproved dating. This charge has been intensified recently due to the tragic murder of a Pakistani Canadian teenage girl, Aqsa Parvez. The practice of honor killings has absolutely no sanction in the Quran, the Prophetic practice, or in the evolved systems of Islamic law. In the case of fornication or adultery, the only way a charge can be levied against an individual, male or female, is through confession, which is discouraged, or by four people actually witnessing the male organ penetrating the female. Even if four people witnessed a naked man engaged with a naked woman, but could not actually testify that they witnessed penetration, their testimony would be rejected. In a somewhat related issue, it should be noted that in three of the four Sunni schools of law, as is the case with all of the major Shiite schools, pregnancy is not a proof of fornication, as the possibility of rape exists in such a case. Therefore, if a single woman were to become pregnant, according to the overwhelming majority of Islamic jurists, there is no basis for punishing her. In the few well-publicized instances where a pregnant woman has been threatened with death, the minority opinion of the Maliki School of law was unjustly evoked, as occurred in Nigeria, or criminal malfeasance occurred as is the case in Pakistan. In the case of dating, there is no Islamically-mandated punishment for a male or a female seeing a member of the opposite sex against the wishes of their families. Such situations should be handled with counseling, compassion and a healthy dose of common sense. Muslim immigrants who have migrated to the West should realize that they have placed their children in an environment where there is a tremendous amount of un-Islamic peer pressure. This is especially true if they have placed their children, as was the case of the young lady who was recently murdered in Canada, in public schools. Children who succumb to that pressure should not be seen as bad kids, for by the standards of the society that has shaped them, no matter how strong their home environment is, they are normal. To kill a female guilty of an offense such as dating or dressing like her peers under such circumstances is nothing short of cold-blooded murder, and no Islamic authority can argue otherwise. The overwhelming majority of Muslim societies are free from the practice of honor killing, although it does endure in some parts of the Middle East and South Asia. According to statistics released by the United Nations in 2000 there are approximately 5,000 deaths annually from honor killings. Even if one killing occurred due to such barbarity, it would be one too many, as the Quran emphasizes. However, to use the existence of such killings to smear Islam shows the desperation and misplaced priorities of many of those levying such attacks. Most of those deaths are the pathetic acts of sick individuals, who are far removed from the letter, as we have shown above, and the spirit of Islam. An example of such an individual is Muhammad Riaz, a British Muslim of South Asian descent who died as a result of a fire he set to burn to death his wife and four daughters, allegedly because his wife resisted his attempt to arrange marriages for his daughters. His wife and daughters did perish in that fire. To present Riaz, whose daughters had neither fornicated nor dated, as anything other than a sick individual is a sad attempt to defame Islam. To attack Islam from this angle is a case of misplaced priorities because it can distract attention from far graver abuses of women that demand immediate redress. For example, the State Department estimates that approximately 800,000 women and girls are trafficked as sexual slaves annually. The overwhelming majority of these females are taken from and sent to nominally Christian countries. Over the last five years well over one thousand women have been kidnapped and then gruesomely murdered in Guatemala. Their bodies usually turn up after a few days, mutilated and in some instances with messages such as death to bitches written on them. To date only three men have been incarcerated in connection with those attacks. Would it proper for us to infer from that situation the conclusion that the Christians of Guatemala, an overwhelmingly Christian
Bismillah [IslamCity] Honey
Al salam aalikom dear all I had came across this hadith a while ago, which says: *Narrated Ibn Abbas (the prophet said): * *Healing is in three things: a gulp of honey, cupping, and branding with fire (cauterizing). But i forbid my followers to use (cauterization) branding with fire * *Sahih El Bukhari (76-The book of medicine)* Then like two weeks ago, i bumped into this piece of information which mentions that: *Honey is the only food that never turns bad* Then i thought to myself Sob7an Allah; the only kind of food that the prophet mentions that heals us, never goes bad. We have no excuse to be unhealthy!!
Bismillah [IslamCity] Those Who Will Enter Paradise Without Being Called to Account
* * * * * * *Those Who Will Enter Paradise Without Being Called to Account* ** The first group of this ummah who will enter Paradise will be those who were pre-eminent in their imaan, taqwaa, righteous deeds and adherence to the true religion. They will enter Paradise in one rank: the first of them will not enter until the last of them enters, and they will be as beautiful as the full moon. Al-Bukhaari reports from Abu Hurayrah (ra) that the Messenger of Allah (saw) said: The first group to enter Paradise will be as beautiful as the full moon. They will not spit, blow their noses or excrete. Their vessels will be fo gold, their combs of gold and silver, their incense o aloe, and their sweat of musk. Each of them will have two wives, the marrow of whose leg-bones will be visible through their flesh because of their extreme beauty. There will be no differences or hatred among them (the people of Paradise); their hearts will be as one, and they will glorify Allah (swt) morning and evening. *(Kitaab Bid' al-Khalq, Baab Ma Jaa' fi Sifaat al-Jannah, Fath al-Baari, 6/318; Muslim, at-Tirmidhi)* al-Bukhaari reports from Sahl ibn Sa'd (ra) that the Messenger of Allah (saw) said: Seventy thousand - or seven hundred thousand - of my ummah will enter Paradise; the first of them will not enter until the last of them does so, and their faces will look like the full moon. *(Fath al-Baari, 6/319)* It is true that with each one of these seventy, Allah (swt) will give His Prophet seventy thousand. Ahmad reports with a saheeh isnaad from Abu Bakr (ra) that the Messenger of Allah (saw) said: I have been given seventy thousand of my ummah, who will enter Paradise without being called to account. Their faces will be like the full moon, and their hearts will be as one. I asked my Rabb, may He be glorified, for more, and He gave me, along with each of them, seventy thousand more. *(Saheeh al-Jaami', 1/350, no. 1068)* Ahmad, at-Tirmidhi, and Ibn Hibbaan report with a saheeh isnaad from Abu Umaamah that the Messenger of Allah (saw) said, My Rabb promised me that seventy thousand of my ummah would enter Paradise without being called to account and without being punished, and with each one will be seventy thousand, and three handfuls of people picked up by my Rabb [i.e. it will be a great number]. *(Saheeh al-Jaami' 6/108, no. 2988).* The Prophet (saw) described the characteristics of these seventy thousand. al-Bukhaari reports from Ibn 'Abbaas that the Prophet (saw) said, I was shown the nations, and I saw a Prophet pass by with a group of his people, and another with a band of his people, another with only ten, another with five, and another on his own (with no followers). Then I looked and saw a large crowd of people. I asked, O Jibreel, are these my ummah? He said, No, but look at the horizon. So I looked, and saw a huge multitude of people. Jibreel said, These are your ummah, and those seventy thousand in front will not be called to account or punished. I asked, Why? He said, They did not treat themselves with branding (cauterisation) or with ruqyaa (charms) and they did not see evil omens in things (i.e they were not superstitious): they put their trust only in their Rabb. 'Ukaasha ibn Mihsan stood up and said, Pray to Allah (swt) to make me one of them. The Prophet (saw) said, O Allah (swt) make him one of them. Then another man stood up and said, Ask Allah (swt) to make me one of them. The Prophet (saw) said, 'Ukaasha has preceded you. *(Saheeh al-Bukhaari, Kitaab ar-Riqaaq, Baab Yadhkul al-Jannah Sab'un Alfan bi Ghayri Hisaab, Fath al-Baari, 11/405)* These may be the ones whom Allah (swt) has called al-Muqarraboon (those nearest to Allah swt): And those foremost [in faith] will be foremost [in the Hereafter]. These will be those nearest to Allah [al-Muqarraboon], in the Gardens of Bliss. * (56:10-12)* More of them will come from the early generations than from the later generations: A multitude of those [foremost] will be from the first generations [who embraced Islaam], and a few of those [foremost] will be from the later generations. *(56:13-14)* Compiled from various sources. * Permission is granted to circulate among private individuals and groups, to post on Internet sites and to publish in full text and subject title in not-for-profit publications. * ** *Note that an English translation of the Qur'an is an interpretation of the Qur'an, and does not have the perfect status as the Qur'an in its original Arabic form.* image001.jpgimage006.gifimage005.jpgimage002.gif
Bismillah [IslamCity] Principle of veil (hejab)
Principle of veil (hejab) This information is taken from a book named(sharaiee
perday ki hakikat by Molanah atiq l-Rahman jamia binoria karachi )
no hejab with those relatives which are mahrum for women
1.Perdah is compulsory from those relatives which are na mahrum
2.(is baray may ya principle hay kay wo people jin say kbhi nikah nhi
ho sakta hay
3.Wo mahrum hain . in say perday ka hokum bhi nhi hay
4.Jis say kisi bhi time nikah ho sakta hay wo na mahrum hain .in say
perdah faraz hay
Wo long jin say perdah lazmee hay
5.^^
6.From a son of your mothers sisters
7.From a son of your Mothers brothers
8.From a son of your fathers brothers
9.From a son of your Fathers sisters
10. Your brother in law
11. Husbands brothers
12. Uncles(mamo phopa khalo etc) of your husband
13. Son of your husbands brothers
14. Son of your husbands sisters
Jin logo say perdah nhi hay
15. ^^^
16. People jin logo say perdah nhi hay wo ya hain
17. 1:husband ( if he divorced his wife then he will be
in category of na mahrum )
18. 2:father
19. 3:grandfather , (nana dada ) fathers brother ,
mothers brothers ,son, grand son ,son of husband (belong to other women his
second wife),son in law, brother, step brothers ,sisters son , brothers son
.beside this all those whom nikah is haram .children do not reach an age of 10
year.did not understand the difference of man and woman .
20. Allah told us in Surah NISA the list of those women
whom nikah is haram
21. These are
22. : Mother {including(grand mother )(nane ,dade)}
23. : daughter (Grand daughter)
24. :SISTER
25. ; Fathers sister (phopo)
26. : Mother s sister(khala)]
27. Sisters daughter
28. brother s daughter
29. : foster-mothers
30. :daughter of Foster mother
31. Other relatives of foster mother ( foster niece foster aunties)
32. Mother in law
33. Daughter of wife
34. Daughter in law
35. Sister of wife till your wife is alive or in your Nikah
36. Step mother
37. Perdah her us women say kerna obligatory hay jin
say kesee bhi time nikah ki um,eed hay
38. For example mamo kee wife , wife ke sister
,fathers brother ki wife , brother ki wife
39. Total 13 women hain jin say nikah haram hay .
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Bismillah [IslamCity] The Blessed Days of Dhul-Hijjah
All praises and thanks be to Allah, Lord of everything that exists.The most Gracious, the Most Merciful.Master of the Day of Judgment You (alone) we worship, and You (alone) we ask for help.Guide us to the Straight Way The Way of of those on whom You have bestowed Your Grace, not (the way) of those who earned Your Anger, nor those who went astray. Ameen Oh ALLAH Increase me In Knowledge(Ameen) The Blessed Days of Dhul-Hijjah The month of Dhul-Hijjah is a season of worship, and seasons of worship bring along blessings, benefits and opportunities to correct one's faith and make up for shortcoming. Every one of these special opportunities involves some kind of worship, which brings the slave closer to his Lord. And Allah bestows His blessings and Favors on whom He wills. The fortunate person is he who makes good use of these special months, days, and hours, while worshiping Allah. He is most likely to be touched by the blessings of Allah. [Ibn Rajab, al-Lataa'if pp. 8] The first ten days of Dhul-Hijjah are marked blessed for both, the pilgrims and the non-pilgrims. Rewards of good deeds are multiplied in these days. Imaam Ibn Qayyim (rahimahullah) (d. 751H) said: Indeed, its days are the most excellent of all the days with Allah. It has been confirmed in Saheeh al-Bukharee from Ibn Abbas (radhi allahu anhu) that the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alaihi wa-sallam) said: No deed are more virtuous than deeds on these days. The companions asked: 'Not even Jihad (fighting in Allah's Cause)?' He (sallallahu alaihi wa-sallam) replied: Not even Jihad for the sake of Allah, unless a man goes out risking himself and his wealth for the sake of Allah, and does not come back with anything. [Saheeh al-Bukharee vol: 2, no: 457] Yawm al-Arafat: The 9th day of Dhul-Hijjah is the day of Arafat. It is this day when the pilgrims gather on the mountain plain of Arafat, praying and supplicating to their Lord. The day of Arafat holds great importance in Islam since this is the Day when Allah completed his revelation on His Messenger (sallahu alaihe wa-sallam). It is reported in the Saheehayn (i.e. Saheeh al-Bukharee and Saheeh Muslim), from Umar Ibn al-Khattab (radhi allahu anhu) that a Jewish man said to him: O Ameer al-Mumineen (O head of the Muslims)! There is a verse in the Qur'aan, which if was revealed on us, the Jews, we would have taken that day as an Eid (festival). Umar asked: Which verse? He said: This day I have perfected your religion for you, completed My favor upon you, and have chosen for you Islam as your religion. [Soorah al-Maidah (5): 3] Arafat is the day on which Allah took the covenant from the progeny of Adam (alaihis-salaam) , it was reported that Ibn Abbas (radhi allahu anhu) narrated: The Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alaihi wa-sallam) related: (When Allah created Adam (alaihis-salaam) Allah took covenant from him in a place Na'maan on the day of Arafat, then He extracted from him all the descendants who would be born until the end of the world, generation after generation, and spread them out in front of Him in order to take a covenant from them also. He spoke to them face to face saying: Am I not your Lord? and they all replied: Yes, we testify to it. Allah then explained why He had all of mankind bear witness that He was their Creator and only true God worthy of worship. He said: That was in case you (mankind) should say on the Day of Resurrection, 'Surely, we were unaware of this. We had no idea that You, Allah, were our Lord. No one told us that we were only supposed to worship You. [(Saheeh) by Shaikh al-Albanee in Silsilah al-Ahaadeeth as-Saheehah vol: 4, no: 1623] Yawm an-Nahr: The tenth day of Dhul-Hijjah is the greatest day of Hajj. It is known as Yawm an-Nahr (the day of Sacrifice), since it marks the ending of the major rite of Hajj - the Sacrifice. And it is on this day that the Muslims commemorate the bounties and blessings of Allah. It was recorded in a Hadeeth by Imaam Ahmad (in his Musnad vol: 4, no: 350) that the day of Nahr is the most virtuous day to Allah. The Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alaihi wa-sallam) said: The greatest day of Hajj (Pilgrimage) is the Day of an-Nahr (Slaughtering) . [(Saheeh) by Shaikh al-Albanee in Irwa al-Ghaleel (no: 1101). Abu Dawood no: 1945] Imaam Ibn Taymiyyah (d. 728H) said: The most excellent day of the week is the day of Jumuah (Friday), by the agreement of the Scholars. And the most excellent day of the year is the day of an-Nahr. Some of them said that it is the day of Arafat. However, the first opinion is the correct one, since it is related in the Sunan collections that the Prophet (sallallahu alaihi wa-sallam) said: The most excellent days with Allah is the day of an-Nahr, then the day of al-Qarr (the day that the Muslims reside in Mina). [(Saheeh) by Shaikh al-Albanee in Irwa al-Ghaleel (no:
