Bismillah [IslamCity] She does not discriminate between sons and daughters her affection and care
12. The Ideal Muslimah: Characteristics of the Ideal Muslim Woman According to the Qur’an and the Sunnah The IDEAL MUSLIMAH The True Islamic Personality of the Muslim Woman as Defined in the Qur'an and Sunnah By Dr. Muhammad ‘Ali Al-Hashimi Translated by Nasiruddin Al-Khattab and Revised by Ibrahim M. Kunna and Abu Aya Sulaiman Abdus-Sabur Copyright and published by the International Islâmic Publishing House (IIPH), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in 1999. The Ideal Muslimah: the true Islamic personality of the Muslim woman as defined in the Qur'an and Sunnah The Ideal Muslimah is proud of the great position that Islam has given her among humanity. She performs her duties knowing that her role is clearly defined and that her rights are still, even today, greater than any other ideology has provided. She is a woman of moral excellence, true to her nature, not confused by alien and morally bankrupt ideas. She preserves her self-respect and dignity through her piety in obedience to Allah (swt) and His Messenger (saw). She is the role model that every true believer hopes to emulate. Chapter 5: The Muslim Woman and Her Children She does not discriminate between sons and daughters her affection and care The true Muslim woman does not discriminate between her sons and daughters in her affection and car, as do some women who are not free from the effects of a jahili mentality. She is fair to all her children, boys and girls alike, and cares for them all with compassion and love. She understands that children are a gift from Allah (S.W.T.), and that Allah’s (S.W.T.) gift, be it of sons or daughters, cannot be rejected or changed: “... He bestows [children] male or female according to His Will [and Plan], or He bestows both males and females, and He leaves barren Whom He will: for He is full of knowledge and power.” (Qur‘an 42:49-50) The Muslim woman who is truly guided by her religion does not forget the great reward that Allah (S.W.T.) has prepared for the one who brings up daughters and takes care of them properly, as is stated in numerous sahih hadith, for example the hadith narrated by Bukhari from `A‘ishah (May Allah be pleased with her) in which she says: “A woman came to me with her two daughters and asked me (for charity). She found that I had nothing except for a single date, which I gave to her. She took it and divided it between her two daughters, and did not eat any of it herself, then she got up and left with her daughters. The Prophet (s.a.w.s.) came in and I told him what had happened. The Prophet (s.a.w.s.) said, “Whoever is tested with daughters and treats them well, they will be for him a shield against the Fire of Hell.” 15 According to another report narrated by Muslim from `A‘ishah (May Allah be pleased with her), she said: “A poor woman came to me carrying her two daughters. I gave her three dates to eat. She gave each child a date, and raised the third to her own mouth to eat it. Her daughters asked her to give it to them, so she split the date that she had wanted to eat between them. I was impressed by what she had done, and told the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.s.) about it. He said, “Allah (S.W.T.) has decreed Paradise for her because of it, or, “He has saved her from Hell because of it.” 16 Abu Hurayrah (r.a.) reported that the Prophet (s.a.w.s.) said: “Whoever has three daughters, and shelters them, bearing their joys and sorrows with patience, Allah (S.W.T.) will admit him to Paradise by virtue of his compassion towards them.” A man asked, “What if he has only two, O Messenger of Allah? He said, “Even if they are only two.” Another man asked, “What if he has only one, O Messenger of Allah? He said, “Even if he has only one.” 17 Ibn `Abbas (r.a.) said: “The Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.s.) said: `Whoever had a daughter born to him, and he did not bury her alive or humiliate her, and he did not prefer his son over her, Allah (S.W.T.) will admit him to Paradise because of her.” 18 The Prophet’s compassion extended to females, and included sisters as well as daughters, as is seen in the hadith narrated by Bukhari in al-Adab al-Mufrad from Abu Sa`id al-Khudri, who said: “The Prophet (s.a.w.s.) said: `There is no-one who has three daughters, or three sisters, and he treats them well, but Allah (S.W.T.) will admit him to Paradise.” 19 According to a report given by al-Tabarani, the Prophet (s.a.w.s.) said: “There is no one among my ummah who has three daughters, or three sisters, and he supports them until they are grown up, but he will be with me in Paradise like this - and he held up his index and middle fingers together.20 No wise mother complains about bringing up daughters, or prefers her sons over them, if she listens to the teachings of the Prophet (s.a.w.s.) which raise the status of daughters and promise Paradise as wide as heaven and earth and the company of the Prophet (s.a.w.s.) to the
Bismillah [IslamCity] Heavenly Daughters Blessed Mothers
To Allâh belongs the kingdom of the heavens and the earth. He creates what He wills. He bestows female (offspring) upon whom He wills, and bestows male (offspring) upon whom He wills. Or He bestows both males and females, and He renders barren whom He wills. Verily, He is the All-Knower and is Able to do all things. (42:49-50) In relation to the above ayahs, Wathilah ibn Aqsa states: Blessed is a woman who gives birth to a daughter first. (Qurtubi)
Bismillah [IslamCity] ...the Truth has Left him Without A Friend
Bismillah Hir Rahmaan Nir Raheem Assalaamu alaykum wa rahmatuallahi wa barakatuhu Al-Tirmidhi HadithHadith 6125 Narrated byAli ibn AbuTalib Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) said, Allah, show mercy to AbuBakr! He gave me his daughter as wife, he conveyed me to the abode of the emigration, he accompanied me in the cave, and he freed Bilal out of his property. Allah, show mercy to Umar! He speaks the truth even if it is bitter, and the truth has left him without a friend. Allah, show mercy to Uthman! The angels display bashfulness before him. Allah, show mercy to Ali! O Allah, cause the truth to accompany him wherever he goes! Tirmidhi transmitted it, saying this is a gharib tradition. Surah Isra 17 verse 80 Say: O my Lord! let my entry be by the Gate of Truth and Honor and likewise my exit by the Gate of Truth and Honor; and grant me from Thy Presence an authority to aid (me). Ameen. Transliteration :Wa qur rabbi adkhilni mudkhala sidqiw wa akhrijni mukhraja sidqiw wa-j'al li mil ladunka sulta_nan nasira_(n). Al-Tirmidhi HadithHadith 2482 Narrated by AbuHurayrah (May Allah be pleased with him) Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) used to say, O Allah, grant me benefit in what Thou hast taught me, teach me what will benefit me, and increase my knowledge. Praise be to Allah in all circumstances. I seek refuge in Allah from the state of those who go to Hell. Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah transmitted it, Tirmidhi saying this is a tradition whose isnad is gharib. Transliteration:an Abi Hurairah (radiya Allahu anhu) qaal: qaala Rasul Allah (salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam): Allahumma infa'ni bima 'allamtani, wa allimni maa yanfa'oni wa zidni 'ilman, alhamdulillahi alaa kolli haal, wa a'odtho billahi min haali ahlil naar. From Chandigarh to Chennai - find friends all over India. Go to http://in.promos.yahoo.com/groups/citygroups/
Bismillah [IslamCity] Arabic Language Lesson 11.1 : Attaching Pronouns
In the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Merciful. Asalam O Alaikum If you are unable to see arabic text please go to main menu of your internet browser and follow the steps: View -- Encoding -- More -- Unicode (UTF-8). Inshallah this will help you. If you are still unable to see the arabic text please click below for this lesson: http://www.madinaharabic.com/Arabic_Language_Course/Lessons/MB1_Lesson_011/MB1_L11_section_001.htm You can find previous missed Lesson at: www.madinaharabic. com الْدرسُ الْحَادِيَ عَشَرَ - Lesson 11 In this lesson we will Insha Allah learn about attaching the pronouns to the prepositions i.e., adding pronouns to the prepositions and their vowel ending. English Final Form Pronoun Preposition In it فِيْهِ هُ فِي In it فِيْهَا هَا New form of a new verb and the cases of the parts of a verbal sentence: The present verb الْفِعْلُ الْمُضَارِعُ I like, I love أُحِبُّ We like, we love نُحِبُّ He likes, he loves يُحِبُّ She likes, she loves تُحِبُّ
Bismillah [IslamCity] Gujarat Carnage-Role of Narendra Modi
Ram Puniyani In the worst ever communal carnage of this century, the post Godhra Gujarat violence, over 2000 innocents lost their lives. Most of the survivors not only lost their livelihood and shelter but also have been degraded to the status of second class citizens. Most of the perpetrators of violence, have not only gone scot-free; many of them had an upward political mobility. The efforts of the victims and human rights activists had yielded very few results and majority of the victims are grieving and living with the scars of their losses. In the whole process, the direction of Apex court to the Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the role of Modi, his cabinet colleagues and other top functionaries of state and those involved in violence, has come as a sigh of hope. The court gave the direction (April 27, 2002) in response to appeal by Jakia Ahsan Jafri, the widow of slain Congress MP, Ahsan Jafri. One complements the courage and doggedness of Jakia Jafri for all her efforts. This comes in the backdrop of the arrest of Maya Kodnani, Modi's cabinet colleague who instigated and led the carnage in Naroda Patia. Just to recall, Ahsan Jafri ex Congress MP had made frantic calls to all those concerned but the police help was not forthcoming to save him from the mob assembled by the VHP-Bajrang Dal and others, the lead players in Gujarat carnage. So far the official inquiry committees have not pointed its finger on the role of Modi, while the Human Rights Commission report (2002) pointed out that state machinery failed to protect the innocent people. Most of the citizen's inquiry committees by human rights activists have pointed out about the role of state administration and Modi in particular in the violence. In the major such report of 'Citizens tribunal' headed by retired Justice Krishna Ayer and Justice P.B.Sawant, (Crime against Humanity), a Minister in Modi's Government Haren Pandya gave description of the meeting which Modi had called on the evening of Godhra train accident. As per Pandya Modi instructed all the top state officials to let the Hindu anger not be curtailed in the aftermath of Godhra. Modi popularized the thesis that Godhra train was burnt in a pre planned manner by the international terrorism, in collusion with the ISI and local Muslims. Infamously, he announced that every action has an opposite reaction, meaning that now Hindus will take revenge and state should sit back and let the opposite reaction take its course. Same Harem Pandya was murdered later and his father stated that his murder had taken place on the instance of Modi. While the carnage was on, the Central government, NDA led by BJP, kept watching and barring some stray noises by PM Vajpayee and Home Minister Advani, the carnage went on spilling the rivers of blood. Despite Modi's claim that he controlled the violence in 72 hours, it took months for the din to settle. Modi's acts of omission were more than obvious. Now as matters stand our legal system has lots of loopholes and most of the guilty are not punished. On the contrary, in the case of Gujarat, Modi 'succeeded' in splitting the Gujarat society along religious lines, and he took advantage of the communal divide by riding back to power and strengthened his vice like grip on the administration and state as a whole. And now, In Gujarat the matters are not seen as guilty versus innocents, they are seen as Hindu versus Muslim. While on one hand Modi is being projected as the future Prime minister of India, not only by many captains of industry but also by the party sustaining on the fodder of communal divide, the BJP. While most of the people with plural values and concern for national integration are welcoming the direction of Apex court, the others doing electoral calculations point out that this investigation will enhance the standing of Modi. BJP spokesman also pointed out that this direction of Apex court will be helpful to the BJP in electoral arena. The nation is standing on a tragic point where the communal polarization brought in by communal violence and anti-minority propaganda has resulted in the loss of sensitivity of a section of society towards the miseries and travails of large part of our own country, our own nation. In response to court directive, Modi asserted that he is ready to go to jail. This assertion is the outcome of his knowledge that in the polarzed state he will benefit despite his ciminal acts. The observation so far has been that Modi has shown no remorse for what happened in Gujarat, forget apologizing for the same. The path to power for the practitioners of divisive politics is through the rivers of blood, and they know it. So should we press for justice or fall in the trap of electoral arithmetic? The point is if we loose our basic human morality, if we compromise on the issue of rule of law, what is the worth of values of Constitution? Tragedy is not that the nation is knowing the guilt of the ilk of Modi and is watching
Bismillah [IslamCity] Help Support Muslim Business
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Bismillah [IslamCity] Hadith of the day
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Bismillah [IslamCity] All India Muslim Forum On Taliban - Dr.M.K.Sherwani
All India Muslim Forum Galaxy Market, Thakurganj, Lucknow, U.P. India +91-9935023077, 979377, 9919777909 _ May, 5,2009 PRESS STATEMENT ( All India Muslim Forum on Taliban ) Lucknow:, May, 5,2009 -All India Muslim Forum strongly condemns the growing barbaric face of Taliban insurgency which has assumed the most menacing proportion in the form of extortion of money from the hapless Sikh community of the region in the name of Jazia. In a joint statement the Chairman of Muslim Forum Dr. M.K.Sherwani and its President, Syed Rafat have requested the Organization of Islamic States and other meaningful Muslim entities the world over to exert pressure over Talibans to abandon their misconceived notion of Shariah so that the international fraternity may be saved from its likely evil repercussions. While calling upon Pakistan and Talibans to immediately bring their armed conflict to a halt, both the leaders appealed to the saner global community not to allow the United States of America and its NATO stooges to use the ongoing serious developments as a further tool to demonize Islam and execute their known anti- Muslim agenda in the name of ‘ War on Terror’. The gravity of the situation requires, stressed Dr. Sherwani and Syed Rafat , that the American-led NATO forces which are an anathema to the Afghan people must be immediately withdrawn and replaced by the composite multi-national troops, drawn from neutral states under the aegis of United Nations. It is the last opportunity before the World Body and powerful countries to assert their influence if they want to save the humanity from devastating international conflagration that is bound to spare none. ___ Dr. Mustafa Kamal Sherwani Chairman, All India Muslim Forum Galaxy Market, Thakurganj Lucknow ,U.P.India. sherwan...@yahoo.com srafat...@gmail.com Get your new Email address! Grab the Email name you#39;ve always wanted before someone else does! http://mail.promotions.yahoo.com/newdomains/aa/
Bismillah [IslamCity] Reminding Of Fasting
Alsalamo alikom hows everybody doing think of fasting monday may ALLAH reward you all
Bismillah [IslamCity] Zardari's challenge in Washington
By Shamshad Ahmad It is good news. President Zardari is a changed man and is said to have improved as a leader. This is the breaking news story emanating after a group of notable journalists and columnists had a two-hour discussion-cum-dinner meeting with our president this last Monday in Islamabad. According to an eminent journalist, he found the president a totally different person compared to his earlier impressions of him as he no longer talks in first person, and now admits mistakes and sounds practical. Another prominent journalist captioned his banner-line story saying: The president is learning on the job, and is learning well. In his assessment, the president has started changing himself somewhat and is now willing to listen to others and register their viewpoint. But he would still not relent on what he thinks is the correct course for him. He did admit, albeit after lot of argument, that the government was suffering governance problems and had become weak because of its policies. It was indeed a well-choreographed curtain raiser before President Zardari goes to Washington to join Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai at a tripartite summit which US President Obama has convened on May 6 and 7 to discuss the operationalisation of his new AfPak strategy. Whether or not the president is now a changed person is immaterial for us as far as the intent or importance of the Washington summit is concerned. What will be important for him in Washington is not whether he listens to the other side well and whether he admits his mistakes or does not relent on what he thinks is the correct course for him. Nor would anyone there be interested in what Pakistan's president has been learning on the job. Obama and Karzai would only expect of him to guarantee them security from their albatross. Both would also like to have assurances of Pakistan keeping India free of terrorism. This is a tall order for someone whose own country is on fire, and is standing on the apocalyptic brink. The foremost challenge for President Zardari in this situation is not what we are required to do for others' interests; it is what we ought to do to serve our own national interests and to safeguard our sovereign independence and national dignity. This will be the real test of President Zardari's maturity as a leader of this country and his ability to present our case meaningfully at the Washington summit. Zardari is an elected head of state, and unlike his predecessor, he should not be taking arbitrary decisions on the fate and future of the nation. General Musharraf claimed in his book In the Line of Fire that in all difficult moments, he felt so lonely that the fateful buck really stopped with him. For an elected president, the buck must not stop with him. In a democratic spirit, he should have at least met with major political leaders, both within and outside the National Assembly and sounded them out on what should be our own strategy on Obama's AfPak strategy. That would have reinforced his hands in making Pakistan's case to his interlocutors more effectively. Obama recognises that military force alone is not a solution to the problems in this region. It is a welcome departure from the Bush-Mush policy of relying solely on military option. But there are other aspects that cannot be ignored in pursuing this new strategy. Pakistan is now seen as the real Afghan issue. It is the single greatest challenge facing the new American president. The US cannot afford to see Pakistan fail, nor can it ignore the extremists operating in Pakistan's tribal areas. Vice-President Joe Biden has himself summed up our case well. He says no strategy for Afghanistan will work without Pakistan's assistance, and the US must strengthen its cooperation with the people and government of Pakistan, help them stabilise their tribal areas and promote economic development and opportunity throughout the country. President Zardari should simply ask Obama to heed to his vice president's advice and also not forget that Pakistan has already staked everything in supporting this war. Pakistan, however, is perturbed by America's indifference to its legitimate concerns. The US in recent years has been targeting Pakistan with military incursions and drone attacks in our tribal areas without realising that a country cannot be treated both as a target and a partner while fighting a common enemy. Drone attacks and military incursions across the Durand Line must stop lest they further deepen anti-American sentiment in Pakistan with greater sympathy for the Taliban in the affected areas. Our problems are further aggravated by a complex regional configuration with ominous Indo-US nexus, India's growing influence in Afghanistan with serious nuisance potential against Pakistan's security interests in the very heart of its backyard. Pakistan has been complaining for some time that India was using its presence in Afghanistan to foment trouble in Balochistan and its tribal
Bismillah [IslamCity] NEWSWEEK: Explaining Darfur
Explaining Darfur Katie BakerNEWSWEEK From the magazine issue dated Apr 27, 2009 Say darfur and hor rific images leap to mind: Janjaweed, genocide. But most of us would be hard- pressed to explain the violence there, beyond the popular no tion that it's ethnic cleansing of Africans by Arabs. Columbia University scholar Mahmood Mamdani's brilliant new book, Saviors and Survivors, explains why this assumption is incor rect, and why it's undermining peace efforts in the region. The Idea:The Darfur conflict, Mamdani says, is fundamental ly between tribes (both Arab and non-Arab) who have rights to a homeland—and through that, political representation— and tribes who don't. This is key to understanding the situation and how to remedy it. The Evidence:When the British colonized Darfur—at the time a polyglot sultanate—they pur sued a retribalization policy that classified certain peoples as na tive and others as immigrant, giving land and political rights to the former while disenfran chising the lat ter. This system produced long- simmering ten sions between nomadic and sedentary Dar furis. Add to that decades of se vere drought that drove nomads south onto their neighbors' land, as well as meddling by Libya, America and Chad— which militarized Darfur tribes as Cold War proxies—and by the mid-'80s, the region had ex ploded in civil war, which spi raled into an international con flict with escalating atrocities. The Conclusion: The old colo nial land-rights system must be overhauled before Darfur's tribes can find a common path forward and integrate into a peaceful, multiethnic whole. URL: http://www.newsweek.com/id/194622
