Bismillah [IslamCity] Rewards of Safeguarding the Eyes from Lustful Glances
Jun 08 Rewards of Safeguarding the Eyes from Lustful Glances Protection From Uneasiness What is the first reward? It is protection from being uneasy. After staring at a female, one’s uneasiness increases. He feels, “I wish I could have got her.” You are therefore saved from uttering the word ‘wish’ and you are saved from expressing regret. The first reward is thus called ‘protection from regret’. Now a person will not regret because he did not glance. The simple food of the house like chutney and roti will seem like biryani and plaow because it is a bounty granted by Allah. Tell me, if all the women of the world had to send biryani and plow for Majnun while Layla, whom he was madly in love with sent dry bread, whose food would he have eaten? He would have eaten Layla’s food and said, “This dry bread came from Layla’s hand.” Therefore the saints who are the lovers of Allah, regard their wives better than all the Laylas of the world. They know that Allah has granted them their wives. That is the reason they live in peace. There is complete tranquillity in their homes. While on the contrary, those who gaze around here and there, are always perturbed and their homes have no blessing. Their homes are full of quarrels and fights because the husband has another woman in mind. His wife does not seem attractive anymore. Therefore, what is the first reward for safeguarding the gaze? It is protection from problems, uneasiness and regret. The Sweetness Of Iman The second reward is that one experiences the sweetness of Iman. Rasulullah Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam has narrated a hadithe qudsi. The muhaditheen have stated that a hadithe qudsi is the statement of Rasulullah Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, which he narrates from Allah Subhanahu wa Ta’la by saying, “Allah Subhanahu wa Ta’la says.” Rasulullah Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam has narrated in a hadithe qudsi that Allah Subhanahu wa Ta’la said, “The gaze is a poisonous arrow from among the arrows of Iblis (satan). Whoever protected his heart and gaze from this arrow due to My fear, I will grant him the sweetness of Iman that he will perceive in his heart.” Due to the fact that he sacrificed the sweetness of his sight for Allah’s sake, Allah Subhanahu wa Ta’la will grant him the sweetness of the heart. Allamah Ibn Qayyim (Rahimahullah) says that a person gave his basarat [gaze] and obtained basîrat [insight]. Basarat refers to sight. By sacrificing his sight, Allah Subhanahu wa Ta’la gave him the reward of the sweetness of Iman in his heart. A Good Ending Mulla Ali Qari lived in Hirat and then emigrated to Makkah. His grave is in Jannatul Ma’la. He writes in the explanation of this hadith that whoever is granted the sweetness of Iman will most certainly die with Iman because Allah Subhanahu wa Ta’la will not grant the sweetness of Iman to one and then snatch it away. This is the third reward for protecting the gaze. Therefore, do a transaction of a good ending with Allah Subhanahu wa Ta’la by protecting your gaze wherever there are women eg. on the streets, airports, railway stations, shopping malls, etc. When the sweetness of Iman enters the heart, it never comes out again.
RE: Bismillah [IslamCity] summer holidays, in the Lebanon of Europe
Assalamu Alaikum Have a safe journey akhi, pray you and your loved ones enjoy your vacation, ameen. But, plse come back quick it's not the sameFee Amanillah To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:17:24 +Subject: Bismillah [IslamCity] summer holidays, in the Lebanon of Europe The mountains of the Lebanon and the Mediterranean sea, near Geneva Obama went to inspect Afghanistan's new-Opinion-fields and Gordon Brown is visiting the liberated-Green-Zone-of-Iraq and Lebanon and Israel are exchanging corpses while Israel has released the longest serving prisoner, ever held ,worldwide... after 31 years !!! and My son is packing his luggage and his cameras my wife and daughter too... we are off to Switzerland , to visit the Lebanon of Europe otherwise own as: La Republique Helvetique Suisse. For the next month you shall have the pleasure of not having to read my nonsense anymore !! and my translators ,God bless them all , will enjoy a better sarcasm , less repetition , less spelling mistakes and a more refined humour by anyone else. If you hear soon that Switzerland became no more a neutral-countryit would be because of me, surely.because neutrality is like impotence !! After all Zionism was born in there in Basel !! I wish you all of you Happy Summer Holidays a lot of health and patience and that you would still want to read me , when I come back or if I come back ... Inchallah !! Raja Sherlock Moustafa 22 July 2008 Not happy with your email address? Get the one you really want - millions of new email addresses available now at Yahoo!
Bismillah [IslamCity] WE DO NOT USE HALAL CHICKEN - KFC
Subject: WE DO NOT USE HALAL CHICKEN - KFC
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O Allah! Guide us, make our intentions sincere, accept our deeds, answer our
prayers, and make us of those who are patient.
Bismillah [IslamCity] Fw: Video: Israeli soldier arrested for shooting prisoner
Video: Israeli soldier arrested for shooting prisoner Anne Barrowclough An Israeli soldier has been arrested after being caught on camera shooting a bound and blindfolded Palestinian prisoner in the foot. In the video, the Palestinian, Ashraf Abu Rahma, 27, is seen being led, handcuffed and blindfolded, to a Jeep by a high ranking officer of the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF). While the officer, a lieutenant-colonel, grips his arm, a second soldier aims his gun at Abu Rahma’s legs and fires a rubber bullet at him from about 1.5 metres away. The incident took place on July 7 in Ni’lin, a West Bank village which has been the scene of near daily demonstrations by stone-throwing protesters against the construction of the West Bank security fence, according to the Israeli Human Rights group B’Tselem, which has published the video. The demonstrator says that the bullet hit his left toe. I closed my eyes and I don’t remember anything, he told the Palestinian television channel that screened the video on Sunday. It felt like my leg was gone. He said he had been held for about 30 minutes and had been beaten by soldiers before being shot. After the shooting he said he received treatment by an army doctor and was then released. The video was shot by a 14 year old girl who filmed it from her house in the village, and sent it to B’Tselem. After the video was screened, The IDF launched an investigation into the conduct of the soldiers. The Israel Defence Forcecs (IDF) said the soldier, who has not been identified, had been detained. The soldier has been detained for questioning. Once the investigation is complete measures will be taken, an army spokesman told the AFP news agency. In a statement, the Army called the incident grave and in direct contradiction of IDF values and principles. Military law forbids inflicting harm on detainees and obligates soldiers to show them respect and ensure their safety, it said. Incidents when detainees are harmed are, in accordance with IDF policy, forwarded to the Military Police for investigation. As in this case, after reviewing the videotape, JAG Brig-Gen Avichai Mandelblit ordered the opening of a probe into the incident. But an Israeli army spokeswoman, Avital Leibovich, added that the film raised several questions. She said it was clear the images were not filmed in one go, adding: Where are the missing sequences? What did they contain? Ms Leibovich said the man went home with an injured toe and did not file a complaint. The army says five border guards, three soldiers and two labourers working on the wall were injured during protests against the barrier in June. Israel says the barrier is needed to stop potential attackers from infiltrating Israel and Jewish West Bank settlements, but Palestinians say it is a land grab aimed at undermining the viability of their promised state. From Times Online, July 21, 2008 For Video please click below http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article4370366.ece __ Not happy with your email address?. Get the one you really want - millions of new email addresses available now at Yahoo! http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/ymail/new.html
Bismillah [IslamCity] The Muslim Brotherhood Denies Report It Called for Writer Prosecution--an important statement
The Muslim Brotherhood Denies Report It Called for Writer Prosecution IkhwanWeb - Egypt Tuesday, July 22, 2008 The Lebanese Menassat news agency has mysteriously translated the word Jama’a Islamiya or The Islamic Group into the Muslim Brotherhood in a news story about a call by Jama’a Islamiya to prosecute feminist writer Nawal Saadawi on charges of blasphemy and contempt for religion. The error in translation itself was a fatal mistake, since it confuses two completely ideologically different organizations and schools of thought, but it also feeds into false allegations by opponents of the Muslim Brotherhood that it adopts a hard-line stance against freedoms of thought and expression. Prosecuting writers contradicts with the Muslim Brotherhood ideology which has always been staunch supporter of freedom of thought and expression We promote freedom of thought, said MB Secretary General Mahmoud Ezzat, and never in the history of the Muslim Brotherhood we prosecuted or called for the prosecution of writers. But is important that writers and thinkers use their talents in a way that respects the creeds and beliefs of others; in another word seek to reconcile between principles of freedom and the respect to the rights of others, so that one’s opinion will not be a violation of the other’s freedom of belief, he told Ikhwanweb. printer2.jpgemail.jpgcomments.jpgfacebook.jpgdelicious.jpgezzat.jpg
Bismillah [IslamCity] The concept of international justice will be on trial, too
The concept of international justice will be on trial, too Serbs will now look to The Hague for a kind of closure, but it is always better for a nation to seek atonement within itself * * Simon Jenkins * The Guardian, * Wednesday July 23, 2008 The capture of Radovan Karadzic is unqualified good news. Despite yesterday's queue of Balkan pundits eager to destroy any hope of his getting an unadulterated trial, he was half the duumvirate that oversaw the worst atrocities committed on European soil in half a century. The other half, Ratko Mladic, is still on the run. Quite what Karadzic's defence might be is obscure, unless it is that brutality, revenge and the fog of war have long been commonplace in the Balkans. It is not an argument that will appeal to the thousan ds of Muslim and Croat victims of his fraudulent Serbian Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Atrocities also committed against Serbs by Croats, notably in Krajina, in no way excuse the systematic Serb killings, especially in Sarajevo and Srebrenica. That Karadzic and Mladic have roamed free for 13 years since their indictment by The Hague tribunal in 1995 has been a disgrace both to the international rulers of Bosnia, including Britain's Paddy Ashdown, and to Serbia itself. But now, with a newly elected government in power, a sort of closure is in sight. Visitors to Belgrade during the 1990s were baffled by the contrast between the European civility of its Serb citizens and their blank refusal to see wrong in what was happening in their name in the federated states of Bosnia and Kosovo. It was like the dismissive attitude of many Britons to colonial peoples in Africa and Asia. After the fall of Tito's communism, the Yugoslav cosmopolis disintegrated into its former parts. The release of hatred was appalling. All who care for peace in the Balkans must now hope that Serbia can put the past behind it. It has paid an awful price for voting for Milosevic in 1990, including the recent loss of Kosovo and Montenegro. It has had to watch regional neighbours such as Slovenia, Croatia and Bulgaria join the European Union while its European credentials remained beyond the pale. This year the Serbs rejected, admittedly by a narrow margin, a return to introspective chauvinism, electing a president and government of pro-western inclinations. The early capture of Karadzic may well have been precipitated by the prospect of European enlargement coming to a halt after the Irish veto. Serbs may not desperately want the EU, but they desperately want to be loved. Not only Karadzic and Serbia are now on trial. So is the concept of international justice at The Hague, reduced to bureaucratic farce by the handling of Slobodan Milosevic in 2002. That trial was supranational jurisdiction at its most flatulent and inert, a monument to the maxim that slow justice is no justice. The prosecution case took three years, and by the end in 2006, both the judge and the defendant were dead. What the court really achieved in the case of Milosevic and the 44 other Serbs brought to trial must be moot. He died in captivity, but the process did much to stir fury among the Serbs that Croats and Kosovans - who could be no less cruel in their ethnic cleansing - had got off lightly at The Hague. The case for war crimes justice in its present internationalised form remains in question. A burgeoning army of jurists points out that international crime against humanity is a meaningful concept and that many countries lack the security or the competence to conduct criminal trials, which is true. They also claim that the prospect of a Hague indictment deters the worst of dictators from the worst of atrocities, though it is hard to see this deterrence in practice. Defenders of the international criminal court in The Hague also protest its infancy. As the lawyer Geoffrey Robertson has written: It has been a long and difficult struggle, legal, political and diplomatic, to hold political and military leaders accountable for crimes against humanity. The concept of impunity for atrocities within sovereign states is now an acknowledged wrong but, says Robertson, it is one that will take time to establish. This defence is wearing thin. It may well be that the world needs a lofty tribunal to enforce agreed standards of behaviour in war, and to call dictators to account. But every murder is a crime against humanity. The glamour of Nuremburg still hovers over a process that has become bureaucratic and trespasses on conflicts that should be dealt with nationally. It is tempting to add that international lawyers who so conspicuously fail to put their professional house in order can hardly expect sceptical statesmen to give them free rein. The existence of The Hague is said to have complicated peace negotiations in Zimbabwe, Congo, Uganda and Sudan. Leaders are reluctant to step down from power without a promise of immunity from
