Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Israel: Where is the shame?
*Israel: Where is the shame?* * Damning war report puts Olmert on the brink Ehud Olmert was under growing pressure yesterday to resign after media leaks that an inquiry committee into last summer's Lebanon war is to blame the Israeli Prime Minister for the failure to cut Hizbollah down to size or to bring home the two soldiers whose abduction provoked the 34-day conflict. Also in the line of fire of the committee, whose report is published today, are Amir Peretz, the Defence Minister, and the former military commander Dan Halutz. The committee, chaired by Eliahu Winograd, a retired judge, is said to have accused them of acting hastily and injudiciously. Mr Olmert, 61, remained defiant last night, despite the first signs of defection among his Labour coalition partners. Ofir Pines, a former minister, told Army Radio: I expect the Prime Minister and Defence Minister to stand up and take responsibility and resign. Two other Labour backbenchers, Ami Ayalon and Danny Yatom, both retired generals, called on their party to pull out of the coalition. The Prime Minister is isolated. General Halutz has already resigned and Mr Peretz is expected to be ousted as Labour leader in party primaries next month. The defence ministry went with the job. Mr Olmert declined to address the Winograd committee's findings yesterday, though he himself appointed the committee. He preferred to beam a message of business as usual and told his Kadima Party colleagues: We cannot discuss what has been leaked. We shall wait for the report, study it and then respond. Sources said he had no intention of quitting or dodging responsibility. He would go on trying to persuade Israelis that he had made the right decisions. They have refused to be convinced. A poll published yesterday in the Ma'ariv daily newspaper found only 2.3 per cent of voters supporting his premiership. More than 20 per cent thought that Theodor Herzl, the father of political Zionism who died in 1904, would do it better. Members of Mr Olmert's Kadima, a centrist party founded by Ariel Sharon 18 months ago, began to speculate on how and when he might be replaced. Kadima is not Olmert, one of them warned, and he will not take it down with him. The committee is not expected to demand resignations. Its findings are reported to be neither white nor black. Politicians were waiting to see how dark a grey the official 250-page text would be. Tzipi Livni, the Foreign Minister and now the most favoured candidate to succeed Mr Olmert, was keeping a low profile, although her friends have hinted that she is ready to take over when the time is right. Other ministers were cautious, fearing that they would also be held to account. Mr Olmert's aides have reminded them that they voted unanimously to go to war. Meir Sheetrit, the Housing Minister, said: I have seen enough governments eulogised prematurely. It's too early. Yossi Verter, the political correspondent for the liberal dailyHa'aretz, said that Mr Olmert's future would be decided by the people in the street. Not the politicians, not even the media, will decide the Prime Minister's fate, he wrote. The bereaved families will speak their mind; so will the reservists. They will try to topple the government, or at least remove the Prime Minister. The critics are planning a protest vigil opposite the Prime Minister's Jerusalem office and a demonstration in a Tel Aviv square. Israel lost 117 soldiers and 41 civilians during the war. According to the media leaks, the committee condemns Mr Olmert for letting the defence establishment dictate policy; failing to ask how they intended to achieve their objectives; and waiting too long to launch a major ground attack that might have stopped Hizbollah's Katyusha rocket barrage on Israeli civilian targets, which continued until the last day of hostilities. By Eric Silver in Jerusalem The Independent April 30, 2007 -- Ends .
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] NAZIsraeli Forces Demolish Islamic Building in OCCUPIED Jerusalem
Israels Cause Is OUR Cause We Stand With Israel Because It Is a Beacon of HEGEMONY in the Region; That is Why We Stand With Israel Because Its Very Existence is a Defiant Affront to MUSLIMS; That Is Why We Stand With Israel Because In Defeating ISLAM Because Israel's Cause is OUR Cause. And That is Why We Stand With Israel Because of Our Shared Values Our Shared Belief in the OCCUPATION OF MUSLIM LANDS TO PILLAGE THEIR RESOURCES the Right to IMPLEMENT That Without Fear or Oppression. And What We Must Do Is to Think Rationally Strategically About How Our Values, Our Beliefs Can Be Translated Into Effective Action. It is Not Enough for Us to Say the Right Things; We've Got To Be Smart Tough Enough to Do the Right Things That Will KILL THOUSANDS OF MUSLIMS DESTROY ISLAM Now Forever. The US Israeli Forces Demolish Islamic Building Mohammed Mari Agencies http://arabnews.com/?page=4section=0article=95511d=27m=4y=2007 RAMALLAH, West Bank, 27 April 2007 Israeli bulldozers have started demolishing parts of the Supreme Islamic Council building near Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. The Al-Aqsa Foundation has reported that the Israelis began bulldozing parts of the southern and western facade and several internal rooms of the building, located dozens of meters from the Al-Buraq wall near Jaffa Gate in the Old City of East Jerusalem. Adjacent to the building the Israelis are constructing apartments in the modern Western style, with architectural features in disharmony with the Arab-Islamic architecture, the foundation said. During its monitoring of the process, the foundation found that in addition to external damage, most of the inside the Supreme Islamic Council building had been destroyed, with interior walls knocked down. With regard to Islamic heritage in the Old City, the Al-Aqsa Foundation says, They fall under the ferocious war perpetrated by the Israeli institutions in the frantic pursuit to Judaize Jerusalem and obliterate all Arab and Islamic features, ignoring history and the Arab and Islamic civilization. The Israelis seized the Palestinian building under its own absentee (Palestinian refugees) property law since 59 years. As part of the project to engulf the western area of Jerusalems Old City overlooking Al-Aqsa Mosque, the Israelis sold the building to an American Jew to convert it into luxury apartments. Meanwhile, the Israeli authorities have demolished the house of Nawaf Mohammad Al-Shalaldeh, in Al-Tur, east of the old city of Jerusalem, claiming it lacks needed license. Shalaldeh, father of 7 children, said that his house was newly constructed and that his family members only moved their belongings into the house in recent days. Meanwhile, Palestinian armed factions yesterday renewed their commitment to a Gaza Strip truce but said rocket salvoes from the territory could resume if Israel did not halt military operations in the occupied West Bank. The message was delivered to Israel by an Egyptian mediator who has been trying to prevent major confrontation after Hamas armed wing fired rockets and declared the Gaza truce dead on Tuesday, Palestinian sources familiar with the talks said. Egyptian Maj. Gen. Burhan Hammad informed the Israelis of the new commitment by the factions and at same time stressed that factions demanded the calm be reciprocal and simultaneous, covering Gaza and the West Bank, one of the sources said. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas agreed to the truce in November. Rocket fire from other groups such as Islamic Jihad and the Popular Resistance Committees has continued sporadically. Abbas, whose secular Fatah faction formed a ruling coalition with Hamas last month, called Tuesdays rockets an exceptional event that will not last and urged restraint by Israel. Hamas Ezzeddine Al-Qassam Brigades said its barrage was a response to the killing of nine Palestinians in Israeli military operations against militants, mostly in the West Bank. After security consultations on Wednesday, Olmert decided against launching a ground offensive in Gaza, Israeli political sources said. But in a statement, his office said Israel would not hesitate to attack rocket-firing squads. Anticipating Israeli military action, Hamas gunmen took up positions overnight near Gazas border with Israel, covering themselves with tree branches as camouflage. The Zionist enemy should understand that any thought of raiding the Gaza Strip will open the gates of hell and hundreds of rockets will be launched against (the southern Israeli towns) of Sderot and Ashkelon and beyond, said Qassam brigades spokesman Abu Ubaida. AB [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Why I am not a moderate Muslim
from the April 23, 2007 edition - http://www.csmonito r.com/2007/ 0423/p09s01- coop.html Why I am not a moderate Muslim I'd rather be considered 'orthodox' than 'moderate.' True orthodoxy is simply the attempt to piously adhere to a religion's tenets. By Asma Khalid Cambridge, England Last month, three Muslim men were arrested in Britain in connection with the London bombings of July 2005. In light of such situations, a number of non-Muslims and Muslims alike yearn for moderate, peace-loving Muslims to speak out against the violent acts sometimes perpetrated in the name of Islam. And to avoid association with terrorism, some Muslims adopt a moderate label to describe themselves. I am a Muslim who embraces peace. But, if we must attach stereotypical tags, I'd rather be considered orthodox than moderate. Moderate implies that Muslims who are more orthodox are somehow backward and violent. And in our current cultural climate, progress and peace are restricted to moderate Muslims. To be a moderate Muslim is to be a good, malleable Muslim in the eyes of Western society. I recently attended a debate about Western liberalism and Islam at the University of Cambridge where I'm pursuing my master's degree. I expected debaters on one side to present a bigoted laundry list of complaints against Islam and its alleged incompatibility with liberalism, and they did. But what was more disturbing was that those on the other side, in theory supported the harmony of Islam and Western liberalism, but they based their argument on spurious terms. While these debaters including a former top government official and a Nobel peace prize winner were well-intentioned, they in fact wrought more harm than good. Through implied references to moderate Muslims, they offered a simplistic, paternalistic discourse that suggested Muslims would one day catch up with Western civilization. In the aftermath of September 11, much has been said about the need for moderate Muslims. But to be a moderate Muslim also implies that Osama bin Laden and Co. must represent the pinnacle of orthodoxy; that a criterion of orthodox Islam somehow inherently entails violence; and, consequently, that if I espouse peace, I am not adhering to my full religious duties. I refuse to live as a moderate Muslim if its side effect is an unintentional admission that suicide bombing is a religious obligation for the orthodox faithful. True orthodoxy is simply the attempt to adhere piously to a religion's tenets. The public relations drive for moderate Islam is injurious to the entire international community. It may provisionally ease the pain when so-called Islamic extremists strike. But it really creates deeper wounds that will require thicker bandages because it indirectly labels the entire religion of Islam as violent. The term moderate Muslim is actually a redundancy. In the Islamic tradition, the concept of the middle way is central. Muslims believe that Islam is a path of intrinsic moderation, wasatiyya. This concept is the namesake of a British Muslim grass-roots organization, the Radical Middle Way. It is an initiative to counter Islam's violent reputation with factual scholarship. This was demonstrated through a day-long conference that the organization sponsored in February. The best speaker of the night was Abdallah bin Bayyah, an elderly Mauritanian sheikh dressed all in traditional white Arab garb, offset by a long gray beard. The words coming out of the sheikh's mouth all in Arabic were remarkably progressive. He confronted inaccurate assumptions about Islam, spoke of tolerance, and told fellow Muslims an unshy;pleasant truth: Perhaps much of this current crisis springs from us, he said, kindly admonishing them. He chastised Muslims for inadequately explaining their beliefs, thereby letting other, illiberal voices speak for them. I was shocked by his blunt though nuanced analysis, given his traditional, religious appearance. And then I was troubled by my shock. To what extent had I, a hijabi Muslim woman studying Middle Eastern/Islamic studies, internalized the untruthful representations of my own fellow Muslims? For far too long, I had been fed a false snapshot of what Islamic orthodoxy really means. The sheikh continued, challenging Mr. bin Laden's violent interpretation of jihad, citing Koranic verses and prophetic narrations. He referred to jihad as any good action and recounted a recent conversation with a non-Muslim lawyer who asked if electing a respectable official would be considered jihad. The sheikh answered yes because voting for someone who supports the truth and upholds justice is a good action. The sheikh, not bin Laden, is a depiction of true Islamic orthodoxy. The sheikh, not bin Laden, is the man trained in Islamic jurisprudence. The sheikh, not bin Laden, is the authentic
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Polygamous LESBIANS Flee from the Police in Nigeria
Homosexuality is NOT a Human Right. It is ONE of the Abominable SINS in the Sight of God Almighty. As Just as Much an Individual / Organisation Claims to Have a Right to Promote / Support Homosexuality We Muslims Have the RIGHT to Oppose It. AB Polygamous Lesbians Flee Sharia http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6599437.stm A Nigerian lesbian who married four women last weekend in Kano State has gone into hiding from the Islamic police, with her partners. Under Sharia law, adopted in the state seven years ago, homosexuality and same-sex marriages are outlawed and considered very serious offences. The theatre where the elaborate wedding celebration was held on Sunday has been demolished by Kano city's authorities. Lesbianism is also illegal under Nigeria's national penal code. Nigeria's parliament is considering tightening its laws on homosexuality. Stoning Kano's Hisbah board, which uses volunteers to enforce Islamic law, told the BBC that the women's marriage was unacceptable. The BBC's Bala Ibrahim in Kano says Aunty Maiduguri and her four wives are thought to have gone into hiding the day after they married. All five women, who are believed to be film actresses in the local home-video industry, were born Muslims, otherwise they would not be covered by Sharia law. Islam says a man can take up to four wives if he is able to support them. As defenders of the Sharia laws, we shall not allow this unhealthy development to take root in the state, the Hisbah's deputy commander Ustaz Abubakar Rabo told Nigeria's This Day newspaper. Mr Rabo told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme that if the women were found guilty of lesbianism they faced one of two punishments. For a married woman the offence would be considered adultery for which the punishment is death by stoning. A single woman would be caned. Large turnout Our correspondent says the theatre where the colourful wedding ceremony was held was flattened earlier this week. Several reasons were given for the demolition, including the discovery that it was built on wrongly allocated land. Eyewitnesses say there was a large turnout for the marriage and guests were given leaflets as a souvenir showing Aunty Maiduguri surrounded by her brides. A Kano police spokesman told the BBC that his officers were not actively looking for the women, but would arrest them if need be. The Hisbah group, which is run separately from the police, receives state government support. Two years ago, a Sharia court sentenced a man to six months in prison and fined him $38 for living as a woman for seven years in Kano. Eleven other states in mostly Muslim northern Nigeria have adopted Sharia law. AB [EMAIL PROTECTED] First They Came for the EXTREMIST, FUNDAMENTALIST MODERATE Muslims. And I DIDNT Speak Out Because I Wasn't An Extremist, Fundamentalist or a Moderate Muslim. Then FINALLY They Came for Me the NON-PRACTICING Muslim And NO Muslims Were Left to Speak Out for ME. - Ahhh...imagining that irresistible new car smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos.
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Enough 9/11 evidence exists to hang Bush, imprison thousands - By John Kaminski
Enough 9/11 evidence exists to hang Bush, imprison thousands. - By John Kaminski http://www.serendipity.li/wot/arrest_bush_now.htm __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Turks protest Islamic-rooted government
Turks protest Islamic-rooted government At least 300,000 Turks waving the red national flag flooded central Istanbul on Sunday to demand the resignation of the government, saying the Islamic roots of Turkey's leaders threatened to destroy the country's modern foundations. Like the protesters - who gathered for the second large anti-government demonstration in two weeks - Turkey's powerful secular military has accused Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of tolerating radical Islamic circles. They want to drag Turkey to the dark ages, said 63-year-old Ahmet Yurdakul, a retired government employee who attended the protest. More than 300,000 people took part in a similar rally in Ankara two weeks ago. Sunday's demonstration was organized more than a week ago, but it came a day after Erdogan's government rejected the military's warning about the disputed presidential election and called it interference that is unacceptable in a democracy. The ruling party candidate, Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul, failed to win a first-round victory Friday in a parliamentary presidential vote marked by tensions between secularists and the pro-Islamic government. Most opposition legislators boycotted the vote and challenged its validity in the Constitutional Court. The military said Friday night that it was gravely concerned and indicated it was willing to become more openly involved in the process - a statement some interpreted as an ultimatum to the government to rein in officials who promote Islamic initiatives. Sunday's crowd chanted that the presidential palace was closed to imams. Some said Parliament Speaker Bulent Arinc was an enemy of the secular system, because he said the next president should be pious. In the 1920s, with the Ottoman Empire in ruins, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk imposed Western laws, replaced Arabic script with the Latin alphabet, banned Islamic dress and granted women the right to vote. The ruling party, however, has supported religious schools and tried to lift the ban on Islamic head scarves in public offices and schools. Secularists are also uncomfortable with the idea of Gul's wife, Hayrunisa, being in the presidential palace because she wears the traditional Muslim head scarf. We don't want a covered woman in Ataturk's presidential palace, said Ayse Bari, a 67-year-old housewife. We want civilized, modern people there. The military, one of the most respected institutions in Turkey, regards itself as the guardian of the secular system and has staged three coups since 1960. Neither Sharia, nor coup but fully democratic Turkey, read a banner carried by a demonstrator on Sunday. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070429/ap_on_re_mi_ea/turkey_demonstration_7
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] In Ahmadinejad's Iran, Jews still find a space
Some 25,000 Jews still live in Iran and many say that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's fiery anti-Israeli rhetoric is about politics, not religion. A Synagogue amid mosques: A Jewish man at the Yousefabad Synagogue last month in Tehran, Iran. Some 25,000 to 30,000 Jews live relatively freely among the country's majority Shiite Muslims.Scott Peterson/Getty ImagesIn Ahmadinejad's Iran, Jews still find a space By Scott Peterson | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Page 1 of 4 Reporters on the Job http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0427/p01s03-wome.html TEHRAN, Iran - Enmity runs deep between arch-foes Iran and Israel. And that confrontation complicates the lives of Iranian Jews, who make up the largest community of Jews in the Middle East outside the Jewish state. Iran's Jews are buffeted by inflammatory rhetoric from President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad about wiping Israel off the map and denying the Holocaust, and a politically charged environment that often equates all Jews with Israel and routinely witnesses the burning of the enemy flag. But despite what appears to be a dwindling minority under constant threat of persecution, Iranian Jews say they live in relative freedom in the Islamic Republic, remain loyal to the land of their birth, and are striving to separate politics from religion. They caution against comparing Iran's official and visceral opposition to the creation of Israel and Zionism with the regime's acceptance of Jews and Judaism itself. If you think Judaism and Zionism are one, it is like thinking Islam and the Taliban are the same, and they are not, says Ciamak Moresadegh, chairman of the Tehran Jewish Committee. We have common problems with Iranian Muslims. If a war were to start, we would also be a target. When a missile lands, it does not ask if you are a Muslim or a Jew. It lands. The continuous Jewish presence in Iran predates Islam by more than a millennium. One wave came when Jews sought to escape Assyrian king Nebuchadnezzar II around 680 BC; others were freed from slavery by Cyrus the Great with the conquest of Babylon some 140 years later. Anti-Semitism historically 'rare' Historically, say Jewish leaders, anti-Semitism here is rare, a fact they say is often lost on critics outside, especially in Israel, where many Iranian Jews have relatives. Still, the Jewish community has thinned by more than two-thirds since Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution, to some 25,000; the largest exodus took place soon after the Islamic Republic was formed, though a modest flow out continues. Our problem is that the Israel issue is not solved, and that affects us here, says one Iranian Jew who asked not to be named. But that does not affect every Iranian Jew. Surgeon Homayoun Mohaber measures his nationalism in blood, and bits of metal the kind of support that Iranian Jews say has defined their small community's ties to Iran. During the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s, as an Iranian military surgeon, Dr. Mohaber conducted more than 900 frontline operations, was himself wounded, and gave blood twice to save fellow Iranian soldiers. Today, in his Tehran clinic, he keeps a jar full of bullets and shrapnel fragments, extracted during the war from wounded soldiers. The relations between Jews and Muslims, between 70 million Muslims and 30,000 Jews, are very good, says Mohaber. In Israel, the situation for Iranian Jews is quite misunderstood. [The Islamic regime] made very good respect for me all the time, and did not care about my religion after the revolution, says Mohaber, who avoided a general purge of Jews from the officer ranks after Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution. But some episodes have shaken those who remain. In 1999, charges of spying for Israel were brought against 13 Jews in Shiraz and Isfahan, sparking a new exodus and widespread fear. Amid a welter of international criticism, 10 of those charged were handed sentences later shortened that ranged from four to 13 years in prison. Jews in Tehran at the time told the Monitor of their fears that Zionist groups connected with the US were hurting their cause by using the issue against Iran. Today, all 13 are free, and remain living in Iran. The effect [of the Shiraz cases] was very bad, recalls Mohaber. But they have rectified it. I think it was a political case between Iran and Israel. Fine line between faith and politics The saga underscored the delicate line Iranian Jews draw daily between their religion and politics. Outside Iran, they think our condition is very bad, living as a minority in a religious country, with law based on Islamic law, says Mr. Moresadegh, of the Jewish Committee. He notes some difficulties, including restrictions on government employment, but says that Mr. Ahmadinejad's questioning of the Holocaust, while very unwelcome, has no effect on our daily life. The president's fierce
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] The state is to blame, Mr Blair
For we may born and we may die but we will be ruled by corrupt politicians, we elected, forever.….. *The state is to blame, Mr Blair* *Yesterday saw an unusual event: the Prime Minister admitting that he was wrong. * *Tony Blair's recognition that a central plank of his social policies was misguided is welcome, as is his admission that the causes of crime and anti-social behaviour cannot be tackled simply by channelling more benefits to the offenders.* *Unfortunately, Mr Blair's recognition of his mistake has come only when he is about to hand over power to a man who shows no signs whatever of sharing his insight into the impossibility of diminishing anti-social or criminal behaviour simply by transferring more taxpayers' money to those responsible for it. Gordon Brown believes passionately in the power of an active and interventionist state to solve social problems. * In the unlikely event that Mr Brown were to adopt Mr Blair's analysis, the result would be to compound Labour's policy errors rather than eliminate them. That is because Mr Blair's solution to criminal or anti-social children and their parents is still to send for the state: this time in the form of nationally-organised parenting classes and other types of state-sponsored instruction. What Mr Blair lacks is a recognition that the state plays a large part in the causes of anti-social behaviour. Poverty, as Mr Blair has recognised, but Mr Brown has not, is not the root cause: most poor people are not criminals, and nor do they behave in an anti-social way. There is a much firmer association between a selfish, anti-social disregard for others and the assumption, inevitably generated by the automatic receipt of tax-funded welfare, that someone else will pay. David Cameron, the Conservative leader, at least recognises that there are many social problems that not only cannot be solved by government intervention, but are actually exacerbated by it. He rightly insisted last week that, just as we need to stop expecting the state to sort everything out, so politicians should stop promising that they can put everything right. As we report today, the new batch of Tory candidates have a strong awareness of the limits of what can be expected from state action. They, like David Cameron, want to try to replace central government programmes with local initiatives organised by ordinary citizens. It is an inspiring vision. But while central and local government bureaucracies continue to dominate the social landscape, it is hard to see how it can be realised. Nothing so discourages ordinary people from getting involved in local projects of any kind than the dead and stultifying hand of state bureaucracy. While the state and its thousands of officials are there to provide solutions, and to frustrate attempts to generate alternatives, few private citizens can be bothered to initiate their own. If Mr Cameron wants to realise his vision, he will have to cut back the tentacles of the state first, for it is they that strangle so many would-be social entrepreneurs before they even get started. Editorial: Sunday Telegraph Sunday, 29 April 2007 -- Ends .
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] MARRIAGE IN ISLAM - MAHR - DOWRY
Mahr - Dowry 1. Once a nikâh is performed, it will be valid irrespective of whether mention of any mahr was made or not. Despite it being valid, one will have to give the mahr. In fact, if a person makes the condition that he will not give any mahr and that he is marrying the woman without any mahr, he will still have to give the mahr. 2. The minimum mahr is 10 dirhams and there is no limit to the maximum amount of mahr. The woman can stipulate as much as she wishes. However, it is not good to stipulate a very high figure. If a person gives an amount less than 10 dirhams or its equivalent, he will have to give the balance as well because mahr cannot be an amount less than the minimum. If the husband divorces his wife (in this case) even before she can come and live with him, he will have to give half of the minimum. 3. A person stipulated R20, R100, R1000, or any other amount according to his financial position. The woman thereafter came and lived with him. He also had sexual intercourse with this wife of his. Alternately, he did not have intercourse with her, but he and his wife were able to meet in privacy where no one or nothing stopped them or prevented them from engaging in sexual intercourse. In both these cases, it will be wajib on the person to fulfil the full amount of the stipulated mahr. If none of the above transpired between them, and one of them passed away, it will still be wâjib to fulfil the entire mahr. Furthermore, if none of the above transpired between them, and the man divorced her, it will be wâjib on him to fulfil half the stipulated mahr. In short, if the husband and wife meet in privacy, as mentioned above or one of them passes away, the entire mahr becomes wâjib. And if the husband divorces her prior to them being in privacy and seclusion, it will be wâjib to fulfil half the stipulated mahr. 4. If one of them was ill, keeping a fast of Ramadân, in the ihrâm of hajj, the woman was in her hayd or there was someone who was peeping at them or intruding on their privacy, and they met in private or seclusion in any of the above situations, then this privacy or seclusion of their's is not considered. If they meet each other in any of the above situations or circumstances, the total amount of mahr will not become wâjib. If the husband divorces her, it will be her right to receive half the total mahr. However, if the fast was not a fast of Ramadân, instead it was a qadâ, nadhr, or nafl fast, and this was being kept by one of them, then in such a case if they happened to meet in privacy and seclusion, the wife will have the right of receiving the full amount of the mahr. It will be wâjib on the husband to fulfil the full amount. 5. The husband is impotent, however, both of them met in privacy and seclusion. The wife will still receive the full mahr. Similarly, if the husband is a hermaphrodite and they meet in privacy and seclusion and thereafter he divorces her, she will receive the full mahr. 6. The husband and wife met in privacy and seclusion but the wife is so young that she is incapable of sexual intercourse. Alternately, the husband is so young that he is incapable of sexual intercourse. If they meet in privacy and seclusion in such a case, the full mahr will not be wâjib. 7. If no mention whatsoever of the mahr was made at the time of the nikâh, or the nikâh was performed on the condition that the woman will not receive any mahr, and thereafter one of them passed away or they met in privacy - that is regarded as a valid privacy in the Sharîah - even then the mahr will have to be fulfilled. However, in such a case, the mahrul mithl will have to be paid. In the above case, if the husband divorced his wife prior to being in seclusion with her, she will have no right to receive any mahr. Instead, she will only receive a set of clothing. It is wâjib on the man to give this to the woman. He will be sinning if he does not do so. 8. When giving this set of clothing, only four items are wâjib on the man : a dress, a scarf, a pants, and a sheet which can cover her body from head to toe. Apart from these items it is not wâjib to give any other clothing. 9. The clothing that the man gives should be according to his financial position. If the man is poor, he should give cotton clothing. If he is of a middle class, he should give silk that is of an inferior quality. If he is very rich, he should give silk clothing that is of a very high quality. However, it should be borne in mind that in all these circumstances the clothing that is given should not be more than half the mahrul mithl in value. At the same time, it should not be less than 5 dirhams in value. In other words, it is not wâjib on the man to give clothing which is very expensive and which exceeds half the mahrul mithl in value. However, it is permissible for him to give clothing that is more than the stipulated amount provided that he gives it happily and out of his own will. 10. At the time of the nikâh no mahr was
Boycott Israel [IslamCity] Eating of Meat of Sea Creatures Fasting on Arafat Day
Different Views on Meat of Sea Creatures Adil Salahi, Arab News http://arabnews.com/?page=5section=0article=95517d=27m=4y=2007 Question People have different views on the permissibility of eating the meat of some sea creatures, particularly the ones that also survive on land, such as crabs. Please comment. Answer There is no doubt as to the permissibility to eat the meat of such creatures. God says in the Quran: Say: In all that has been revealed to me, I do not find anything forbidden to eat, if one wishes to eat thereof, unless it be carrion, or blood poured forth, or the flesh of swine for all that is unclean or a sinful offering over which any name other than Gods has been invoked. (6: 145) Referring to the sea, the Prophet says: Its water is pure, and its dead animals are permissible to eat. Guided by these and other texts we say that crabs and similar animals, as also fish and mammals of the sea are all permissible to eat, even though they die naturally or merely by staying out of water. Which Arafat Day? Question I went to my home country, India, shortly before the pilgrimage, where the Eid was celebrated one day after it was celebrated in Saudi Arabia. I wondered whether the recommended fasting should be the 9th of Dul Hijjah as it was marked at Arafat or as it occurred in India. Please explain. Answer The day that the Prophet (peace be upon him) recommended to fast is the day of attendance at Arafat. As such, people who are not attending at Arafat and want to mark the occasion by fasting, as recommended, should mark the occasion, not the date. It is true that the ten nights and nine days preceding the Eid are strongly recommended for voluntary worship, and that whatever one does during that time of adding voluntary prayers with the obligatory ones, donating to charity, fasting or night worship will earn rich reward. Therefore, if one fasts on the 9th of Dul Hijjah as marked in his own country which is India in your case one will be earning good reward, God willing. However, if you wish to mark the Arafat day in particular by fasting, then you should fast when the pilgrims are actually attending at Arafat, i.e. the day as marked in Saudi Arabia. This does not prevent you from adding another day of fasting, if you wish, to match the date in your own country, as this is also recommended. AB [EMAIL PROTECTED] For to us will be their return; then it will be for us to call them to account. (Holy Quran 88:25-26) - Ahhh...imagining that irresistible new car smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos.
