Bismillah [IslamCity] How M15 blackmails british muslims
FW *How MI5 blackmails British Muslims* *'Work for us or we will say you are a terrorist'* By Robert Verkaik, Law Editor The Independent Thursday, 21 May 2009 Five Muslim community workers have accused MI5 of waging a campaign of blackmail and harassment in an attempt to recruit them as informants. The men claim they were given a choice of working for the Security Service or face detention and harassment in the UK and overseas. They have made official complaints to the police, to the body which oversees the work of the Security Service and to their local MP Frank Dobson. Now they have decided to speak publicly about their experiences in the hope that publicity will stop similar tactics being used in the future. Intelligence gathered by informers is crucial to stopping further terror outrages, but the men's allegations raise concerns about the coercion of young Muslim men by the Security Service and the damage this does to the gathering of information in the future. Three of the men say they were detained at foreign airports on the orders of MI5 after leaving Britain on family holidays last year. After they were sent back to the UK, they were interviewed by MI5 officers who, they say, falsely accused them of links to Islamic extremism. On each occasion the agents said they would lift the travel restrictions and threat of detention in return for their co-operation. When the men refused some of them received what they say were intimidating phone calls and threats. Two other Muslim men say they were approached by MI5 at their homes after police officers posed as postmen. Each of the five men, aged between 19 and 25, was warned that if he did not help the security services he would be considered a terror suspect. A sixth man was held by MI5 for three hours after returning from his honeymoon in Saudi Arabia. He too claims he was threatened with travel restrictions if he tried to leave the UK. An agent who gave her name as Katherine is alleged to have made direct threats to Adydarus Elmi, a 25-year-old cinema worker from north London. In one telephone call she rang him at 7am to congratulate him on the birth of his baby girl. His wife was still seven months' pregnant and the couple had expressly told the hospital that they did not want to know the sex of their child. Mr Elmi further alleges: Katherine tried to threaten me by saying, and it still runs through my mind now: 'Remember, this won't be the last time we ever meet.' And then during our last conversation she explained: 'If you do not want anything to happen to your family you will co-operate.' Madhi Hashi, a 19-year-old care worker from Camden, claims he was held for 16 hours in a cell in Djibouti airport on the orders of MI5. He alleges that when he was returned to the UK on 9 April this year he was met by an MI5 agent who told him his terror suspect status would remain until he agreed to work for the Security Service. He alleges that he was to be given the job of informing on his friends by encouraging them to talk about jihad. Mohamed Nur, 25, a community youth worker from north London, claims he was threatened by the Security Service after an agent gained access to his home accompanied by a police officer posing as a postman. The MI5 agent said, 'Mohamed if you do not work for us we will tell any foreign country you try to travel to that you are a suspected terrorist.' Mohamed Aden, 25, a community youth worker from Camden, was also approached by someone disguised as a postman in August last year. He alleges an agent told him: We're going to make your travelling harder for you if you don't co-operate. None of the six men, who work with disadvantaged youths at the Kentish Town Community Organisation (KTCO), has ever been arrested for terrorism or a terrorism-related offence. They have repeatedly complained about their treatment to the police and to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, which oversees the work of the Security Services. In a letter to Lord Justice Mummery, who heads the tribunal, Sharhabeel Lone, the chairman of the KTCO, said: The only thing these young people have in common is that they studied Arabic abroad and are of Somali origin. They are not involved in any terrorist activity whatsoever, nor have they ever been, and the security services are well aware of this. Mr Sharhabeel added: These incidents smack of racism, Islamophobia and all that undermines social cohesion. Threatening British citizens, harassing them in their own country, alienating young people who have committed no crime other than practising a particular faith and being a different colour is a recipe for disaster. These disgraceful incidents have undermined 10 years of hard work and severely impacted social cohesion in Camden. Targeting young people that are role models for all young people in our country in such a disparaging way demonstrates a total lack of understanding of on-the-ground reality and can only be counter-productive. When people are
Bismillah [IslamCity] Our big day - just two days to go!
Asa and peace, Insha'Allaah you're all well :) In TWO days time I'm going to be taking part in a 20 mile charity walk from West London to East London (Saturday 7th March - Southall to Green Street) on with 12 confirmed walkers alhamdulillah!! All proceeds from the walk will go towards Interpal. I have at present raised around about £400 of my £1500 target with many people still donating and making pledges. Please try and get your pledges and donations in in the next couple of days, any amount is for the sake of Allaah, pennies, pounds etc. With the atrocities that have been committed against the Palestinians many of the basic amenities which we take for granted, such as shelter, water, electricity, flour, milk, food and medicine and even paper has been stripped from them. Interpal (www.interpal.info) is an amazing charity! They help to raise aid and funds specifically for those people in need and are specifically involved with taking over food packages as well as raising funds to help Palestinians rebuild their lives. Our walk is with the aim of raising at least £4000 amongst us through our friends and families, and some of us have our own personal targets. Again this is all in the way of Allaah swt, anything more than this figure would be absolutely amazing :) Please donate at: www.justgiving.com/aishaabbas1 and spread the word :) Many thanks. Ws Aisha :) _ View your Twitter and Flickr updates from one place – Learn more! http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/137984870/direct/01/
Bismillah [IslamCity] Our 20 mile charity walk - for Interpal :)
Assalaamualaikum guys, Insha'Allaah you're all well :) I'm going to be taking part in a 20 mile charity walk from West London to East London (Southall to Green Street) on Saturday 7th March with some friends. Insha'Allaah I am writing to you to ask you to sponsor me any amount Fi Sabilillah. All sponsorship proceeds will go towards Interpal. Donate at: www.justgiving.com/aishaabbas1 Jazakumullaah Khair. Walaikumsalaam Aisha :) Beyond Hotmail - see what else you can do with Windows Live Find out more! Windows Live Hotmail just got better. Find out more! _ Windows Live Messenger just got better .Video display pics, contact updates more. http://www.download.live.com/messenger
Bismillah [IslamCity] today...
23rd February is World Chechnya Day. A day few are aware of and yet none should forget. Read more here World Chechnya Day is intended to commemorate the dignity and resiliance of a people who, against all odds, refused to be erased from existence. On 23 February 1944, Stalin ordered the deportation of the entire Chechen and Ingush population to Central Asia. More than half of the 500,000 people who were to be forcibly transported died in transit or in massacres committed by Soviet troops. Those who survived the journey were left facing starvation and disease in the harsh winters of Siberia and Central Asia. Within days an entire people had been erased from the land of their ancestors. Overnight Chechnya and Ingushetia were emptied of their native inhabitants, and every reference to Chechnya was removed from official maps, records and encyclopaedias. In 2004, sixty years after the event, the European Parliament passed a motion that recognised this catastrophe as Genocide. 23rd February is World Chechnya Day. It is a day that few are aware of and yet none should forget. _ Hotmail, Messenger, Photos and more - all with the new Windows Live. Get started! http://www.download.live.com/
Bismillah [IslamCity] Boycott Israel
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Bismillah [IslamCity] The Blame Game in Gaza
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 16:25:13 -0500From: f...@fair.orgto: aishaabb...@hotmail.comsubject: The Blame Game in Gaza http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=3667 Media AdvisoryThe Blame Game in GazaErasing Israeli actions to fault only Hamas1/6/09The Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip that began in late December have reportedly killed over 500 Palestinians, many of them civilians and children. As is often the case, U.S. corporate media's presentation of the events leading up to this dramatic escalation in violence have laid the blame for the violence mostly with Hamas, whose rocket attacks on Israel are often cited as the cause for the current Israeli attacks. In many media discussions about the events that led to the fighting, emphasis is placed on Hamas' decision in late December to allow a cease-fire agreement with Israel to expire, or the group's failure to adequately suppress rocket attacks into Israel during the cease-fire.A USA Today timeline (1/5/09) explained, In November, the truce frays as Hamas rockets continue to land in Israel, which closes several border crossings and kills militants building tunnels Hamas was using to smuggle weapons and other goods into Gaza. On NBC Nightly News (12/27/08), Martin Fletcher explained that a six-month truce ended this week and Palestinians fired rockets into Israel, as many as 60 a day. Israeli leaders said enough is enough.A Washington Post editorial (12/28/08) announced that Hamas invited the conflict by ending a six-month-old ceasefire, while Post columnist Richard Cohen (1/6/09) was much blunter: It took no genius to see the imminence of war. It takes real stupidity to blame it on Israel.The Dallas Morning News (12/30/08) agreed emphatically in an editorial titled, Blood on Hamas' Hands: The pictures of the civilian victims of Israeli airstrikes-- especially children-- are heart-rending. But let's keep straight whose fault this tragedy is: Hamas, the fanatical Islamists who rule Gaza and who have used the land as a launching pad for firing rockets into Israel.The New York Times' December 28 lead declared, The Israeli Air Force on Saturday launched a massive attack on Hamas targets throughout Gaza in retaliation for the recent heavy rocket fire from the area. The next day, Times reporter Stephen Farrell asked (12/29/08), Why did Hamas end its six-month cease-fire on December 19? He argued that the rejectionist credo of Hamas made this step all but inevitable.These accounts fail on several grounds. For starters, the cease-fire agreement from June through mid-December was credited by many for ratcheting down the violence-- rocket fire into Israel dropped significantly and claimed no Israeli lives during the truce. (Prior to that, rocket and mortar attacks since the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza in late 2005 had killed 10 Israelis-- theisraelproject.org.) After the cease-fire expired, rocket attacks increased, though no Israelis were killed until after the Israeli attacks were launched; four have been killed since then (Agence France-Presse, 1/6/09).Interestingly, as the truce expired, the New York Times published an article (12/19/08) that began with a typical corporate media formulation-- Palestinians are attacking, Israel is retaliating-- before noting that Hamas was largely successful in curtailing rocket fire into Israel: Hamas imposed its will and even imprisoned some of those who were firing rockets. Israeli and United Nations figures show that while more than 300 rockets were fired into Israel in May, 10 to 20 were fired in July, depending on who was counting and whether mortar rounds were included. In August, 10 to 30 were fired, and in September, 5 to 10.The Times article, by Ethan Bronner, noted that what Hamas expected in return from the Israelis never arrived: But the goods shipments, while up some 25 to 30 percent and including a mix of more items, never began to approach what Hamas thought it was going to get: a return to the 500 to 600 truckloads delivered daily before the closing, including appliances, construction materials and other goods essential for life beyond mere survival. Instead, the number of trucks increased to around 90 from around 70. Bronner also added that Israeli forces continued to attack Hamas and other militants in the West Bank, prompting Palestinian militants in Gaza to fire rockets, which produced Hamas response attacks. The Times continued: While this back-and-forth did not topple the agreement, Israel's decision in early November to destroy a tunnel Hamas had been digging near the border drove the cycle of violence to a much higher level. Israel says the tunnel could have been dug only for the purpose of trying to seize a soldier, like Cpl. Gilad Shalit, the Israeli held by Hamas for the past two and a half years. Israel's attack on the tunnel killed six Hamas militants, and each side has stepped up attacks since. This
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Bismillah [IslamCity] We have no words left - Ali Abunimah - The Guardian
We have no words left Ali Abunimah, Electonic Intifada http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/dec/29/israel-gaza-attack-palestinian-reaction I will play music and celebrate what the Israeli air force is doing. Those chilling words were spoken on al-Jazeera on Saturday by Ofer Shmerling, an Israeli civil defence official in the Sderot area adjacent to the Gaza Strip. For days Israeli planes have bombed Gaza. Almost 300 Palestinians have been killed and a thousand injured, the majority civilians, including women and children. Israel claims most of the dead were Hamas terrorists. In fact, the targets were police stations in dense residential areas, and the dead included many police officers and other civilians. Under international law, police officers are civilians, and targeting them is no less a war crime than aiming at other civilians. Palestinians are at a loss to describe this new catastrophe. Is it our 9/11, or is it a taste of the bigger shoah Matan Vilnai, the deputy defence minister, threatened in February, after the last round of mass killings? Israel says it is acting in retaliation for rockets fired with increasing intensity ever since a six-month truce expired on 19 December. But the bombs dropped on Gaza are only a variation in Israel's method of killing Palestinians. In recent months they died mostly silent deaths, the elderly and sick especially, deprived of food, cancer treatments and other medicines by an Israeli blockade that targeted 1.5 million people - mostly refugees and children - caged into the Gaza Strip. The orders of Ehud Barak, the Israeli defence minister, to hold back medicine were just as lethal and illegal as those to send in the warplanes. Ehud Olmert, Israel's prime minister, pleaded that Israel wanted quiet - a continuation of the truce - while Hamas chose terror, forcing him to act. But what is Israel's idea of a truce? It is very simple: Palestinians have the right to remain silent while Israel starves them, kills them and continues to violently colonise their land. As John Ging, the head of operations for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, said in November: The people of Gaza did not benefit; they did not have any restoration of a dignified existence ... at the UN, our supplies were also restricted during the period of the ceasefire, to the point where we were left in a very vulnerable and precarious position and with a few days of closure we ran out of food. That is an Israeli truce. Any act of resistance including the peaceful protests against the apartheid wall in the West Bank is always met by Israeli bullets and bombs. There are no rockets launched at Israel from the West Bank, and yet Israel's extrajudicial killings, land theft, settler pogroms and kidnappings never stopped for a day during the truce. The western-backed Palestinian Authority of Mahmoud Abbas has acceded to all Israel's demands. Under the proud eye of United States military advisors, Abbas has assembled security forces to fight the resistance on Israel's behalf. None of that has spared a single Palestinian in the West Bank from Israel's relentless colonisation. The Israeli media report that the attack on Gaza was long planned. If so, the timing in the final days of the Bush administration may indicate an Israeli effort to take advantage of a moment when there might be even less criticism than usual. Israel is no doubt emboldened by the complicity of the European Union, which this month voted again to upgrade its ties with Israel despite condemnation from its own officials and those of the UN for the collective punishment being visited on Gaza. Tacit Arab regime support, and the fact that predicted uprisings in the Arab street never materialised, were also factors. But there is a qualitative shift with the latest horror: as much as Arab anger has been directed at Israel, it has also focused intensely on Arab regimes - especially Egypt's - seen as colluding with the Israeli attack. Contempt for these regimes and their leaders is being expressed more openly than ever. Yet these are the illegitimate regimes western politicians continue to insist are their moderate allies. Diplomatic fronts, such as the US-dominated Quartet, continue to treat occupier and occupied, coloniser and colonised, first-world high-tech army and near-starving refugee population, as if they are on the same footing. Hope is fading that the incoming administration of Barack Obama is going to make any fundamental change to US policies that are hopelessly biased towards Israel. In Europe and the Middle East, the gap between leaders and led could not be greater when it comes to Israel. Official complicity and support for Israel contrast with popular outrage at war crimes carried out against occupied people and refugees with impunity. With governments and international institutions failing to do their jobs, the Palestinian Boycott,
Bismillah [IslamCity] Petition - Revoke Peres's honorary doctorate
Salaam all,http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/revoke-shimon-peres-honorary-doctorate.htmlPlease sign the above petition, initiated by our friends at the KCL Stop the War Society. The petition expresses our displeasure at the recent Honorary Doctorate awarded to Shimon Peres.Forward to as many people as possible, this is unjust and dispicableJazakAllah Khair. _ Get a bird’s eye view of the world with Multimap http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/115454059/direct/01/
Bismillah [IslamCity] IBB closes Interpal account!
PRESS RELEASE IBB closes INTERPAL Account URGENT ACTION NEEDED The British charity Interpal, dedicated to alleviating the suffering of the Palestinians, has been notified by their bank, the Islamic Bank of Britain, that Lloyds TSB (their clearing bank) has given them the instruction to cease all dealings with Interpal with effect from 8 December 2008. After this time “all transactions into or out of Interpal accounts will be blocked and IBB will be at further risk of all its customer payments being suspended.” We have been informed IBB has offered Interpal verbal support but is apparently powerless in this situation, throwing into question the autonomy of IBB. Lloyds TSB is calling for IBB to stop the Interpal account without any legal reason. No reason is given by IBB or Lloyds for the draconian and punitive measure taken. By acting in this way, Lloyds TSB has treated Interpal with contempt and jeopardised the efforts to help millions of homeless and poverty stricken Palestinians. Their action sends a signal to other Muslim charities, supporters of justice in Palestine – as well as the IBB’s 50,000 Muslim account holders – that their accounts can be closed down without warning or explanation at any time. We are calling upon our friends and supporters, and all who stand for justice in the face of oppression to contact Lloyds TSB and the Islamic Bank of Britain to ask them to rescind this outrageous, unfair and arbitrary decision. 1] Contact Lloyds TSB asking them to cancel their demand on IBB to close Interpal’s account. 2] Contact IBB and ask them not to succumb to the pressures placed by Lloyds TSB. NOTE - INTERPAL has never been tried of any wrongful act or found guilty of any irregularities. Contact Details: Ms Gay Campbell Lloyds TSB Bank plc1st Floor25, Gresham StreetLondonEC2V 7HN Tel: 020 7661 4778 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Islamic Bank of Britain plcEdgbaston House3, Duchess Place Hagley RoadBirminghamB16 8NHTel: 0121 452 7330 / 0845 6060786 PS 1] Be polite and calm 2] Ask for the reason of closure 3] Request they open Interpal’s account Friends of Al-Aqsa is a UK based non-profit making NGO concerned with defending the human rights of Palestinians and protecting the sacred al-Aqsa Sanctuary in Jerusalem. This vision is supported by various international groups and organisations. Friends of Al-Aqsa was first established in 1997 and now has an international support base.HOME | NEWS | NEWSPAPER | ABOUT US | CONTACT US | BECOME A MEMBER | DONATEYou are receiving this email because you signed up at http://www.aqsa.org.uk to receive our newsletter. Unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] from this list.Our mailing address is:Friends of Al-Aqsa P.O.Box 5127 Leicester, Leicestershire LE2 0WUOur telephone:+44 116 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (C) 2008 Friends of Al-Aqsa All rights reserved.Forward this email to a friend Get the best wallpapers on the Web – FREE. Click here! _ BigSnapSearch.com - 24 prizes a day, every day - Search Now! http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/117442309/direct/01/
Bismillah [IslamCity] taxi to the darkside
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Bismillah [IslamCity] Boycott Israeli Dates campaign!
BOYCOTT ISRAELI DATES CAMPAIGN a.k.a. BID CAMPAIGN This Ramadan there is no excuse for any Muslim in the world to open their fast with an Israeli date. Innovative Minds and the Islamic Human Rights Commission are calling on campaigners to create more awareness in their communities about the boycott of Israeli goods, and in particular, Israeli dates, this Ramadan. In order to educate our communities on this issue two videos and a leaflet have been produced. Zaynab's Story explores the connection between an ordinary person living in Britain and what is happening in Palestine ñ how our actions as consumers in this country affects what happens to the Palestinians. It's a heart wrenching video that exposes the brutality of the occupation as it touches the lives of ordinary people in Palestine. It then traces exactly how our buying habits help sustain this occupation, and ends by exploring ways in which we can start supporting Palestinians. The boycott of Israeli dates forms its central theme. Its premier both in this country and overseas has been very well received. Its duration is around 36 minutes and it is available both as a DVD or as a downloadable AVI for screening in a mosque, community centre or student society, as well as a streaming video on Youtube for personal viewing. Please help us reach the widest possible audience by making copies of the videos and DVDs and passing them on to friends. Also place them on your websites, etc. For further information please contact: E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.inminds.com/boycott-israeli-dates.php Try Facebook in Windows Live Messenger! Try it Now! _ Make a mini you and download it into Windows Live Messenger http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/111354029/direct/01/
Bismillah [IslamCity] please sign
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Bismillah [IslamCity] 10 Goals for Ramadhan
10 Goals for Ramadhan 1. Eat, drink and be moderateAlmost all of us do it - once Iftar time hits, we just keep plowing food and drink into our mouths till it's hard to move afterwards. And those of us who do it know this is totally contrary to the spirit of Ramadan, through which we're supposed to learn self-control not self-indulgence. Let's try to stick to the Prophetic rule on eating: fill our stomachs with one-third food, one-third water and one-third breathing space, even in Ramadan.2. Give a pound a day in charity...or five or tenThe Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, was always generous but even more so in Ramadan. Let's open our hearts and dig a little deeper in our wallets this year. Even less than a dollar a day adds up. Whatever you can give, it's the intention that counts.3. Memorize 4 new SurahsMemorizing the Quran often seems like a daunting task. But the key is doing it in small bites. Since there are four weeks in Ramadan, try to memorize one new Surah a week. Start off with a short, easy one. Once you've started, you'll build momentum and may even want to memorize a longer one the following week.4. Go to Tarawih prayersPost-Iftar, the first urge is to sleep after an exhausting day. But try your best to head out to the mosque for Tarawih prayers. Praying alone is wonderful, but doing it in congregation is fantastic. The community spirit is part of Ramadan's blessings. Don't miss it this year. If going every day is not possible, try going at least one week.5. Attend the Tarawih prayer in which the recitation of the Quran will be finishedCall the local mosque and find out which day the Imam will be finishing the recitation of the Quran in prayer. Attend to not only hear part of the Quran's recitation in prayer, but also participate in the heart-rending Duas that follow it.6. Stop swearing and/or backbiting – with a special boxIt's hard not to shoot our mouths off when someone's upset us. Whether we utter those four-letter words or backbite about someone to our family and friends, we know this isn't the God-approved way of letting off steam. In Ramadan, when we want to build our spirituality, we've got to wage Jihad against our bad habits.Try this: get a box and every time you catch yourself swearing or backbiting put some money in it. It could be a buck or less. The point is to choose an amount that makes it feel like punishment.At the end of the month send the money to a charity or buy a gift for the person whom you've backbitten the most against.7. Call/email your relativesYou'd think that given the easy access to email, competitive long-distance calling rates, phone cards, etc. these days, we'd keep in touch with family and friends more often. But the opposite seems to be the case, as we get caught up in life's busyness.Strengthening ties with family members and keeping in touch with friends is part of our way of life and an act Allah is very pleased with. This Ramadan, call family and friends or at least email them a Ramadan card and ask them how their fasting is going.8. Go on a technology dietEven if you work in the IT industry, you can do this. Avoid checking personal email and surfing the web during your fast. After Iftar, instead of plopping yourself in front of the screen, go to Tarawih. The same goes for the television. The point is to try to give our full attention to spiritual elevation this month.9. Read 5 minutes of Quran a day...and reflect insha'AllaahEven if you feel you've got absolutely no time, set a timer or the alarm on your cell phone and find a relatively quiet place. You can read the first page of the Quran you open or follow a sequence. The choice is yours. The point is simply to connect with God through His revelation in the month of the Quran.10. Forgive everyone who has hurt youStill got a festering wound from the fight with your friend last year? Still upset about something your spouse said during a heated argument? Or are you still bitter about the way your parents sometimes treated you as a kid? Let go of the anger and pain this Ramadan and forgive those who have hurt you. Forgiving someone is not only good for the body, but it's also great for the soul. And in Ramadan, ten days of which are devoted to Allah's forgiveness, shouldn't we lesser beings forgive too?If you find it very difficult to forgive everyone, forgive at least three people. _ Play and win great prizes with Live Search and Kung Fu Panda http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/101719966/direct/01/
Bismillah [IslamCity] FW: FREE: Ramadhaan Preparation Pack . . .
Assalaamualaikum, Print and share insha'Allaah Walaikumsalaam Aisha To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: FREE: Ramadhaan Preparation Pack . . .Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 18:39:45 -0500From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Click here or the picture above to download your free Ramadhaan preparation pack (PDF) If you cannot view the picture above on this e-mail you have received, please copy and paste the following link on your browser: http://tayyibun.com/Ramadhaan preparation pack.pdf *Please forward this e-mail to all your contacts and upload file on websites/forums so all may benefit.Tayyibun.comFor the teachings of Qur'an and Sunnah _ 100’s of Nikon cameras to be won with Live Search http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/101719808/direct/01/
Bismillah [IslamCity] French court has denied citizenship to veiled Muslim mother
disgusting! From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: FW: French court has denied citizenship to veiled Muslim motherDate: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:21:01 -0500 Muslim woman deemed too submissive to be FrenchBy Estelle Shirbonhttp://uk.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUKL1173478020080711?sp=truePARIS (Reuters) - France has denied citizenship to a veiled Moroccan woman on the grounds that her radical practice of Islam is incompatible with basic French values such as equality of the sexes, a legal ruling showed on Friday.The case will reignite debate about how to reconcile freedom of religion, which is guaranteed by the French constitution, and other fundamental rights, which many in France feel are being challenged by the way of life of some Muslims.Le Monde newspaper said it was the first time a Muslim applicant had been rejected for reasons to do with personal religious practice.She has adopted a radical practice of her religion, incompatible with essential values of the French community, particularly the principle of equality of the sexes, said a ruling by the Council of State handed down last month and sent to Reuters on Friday to confirm a report in Le Monde.The Council of State is a judicial body which has final say on disputes between individuals and the public administration.Married to a French national, the woman arrived in France in 2000, speaks good French and has three children born in France.She wears a black burqa that covers all her body except her eyes, which are visible through a narrow slit, and lives in total submission to her husband and male relatives, according to reports by social services. Le Monde said the woman is 32.The woman's application for French nationality was rejected in 2005 on grounds of insufficient assimilation. She appealed to the Council of State, which last month approved the rejection.In the past, nationality was denied to Muslims who were known to have links with extremist circles or who had publicly advocated radicalism, which is not the case here.VIRGINITY ROWThe ruling comes weeks after a heated debate over whether traditional Muslim views were creeping into French law, prompted by a court annulment of the marriage of two Muslims because the husband said the wife was not a virgin as she had claimed to be.In the case of the Moroccan woman, Le Monde suggested the Council of State had gone to the opposite extreme by rejecting the woman's beliefs and way of life rather than accommodating them.Is a burqa incompatible with French nationality? the newspaper asked.The legal expert who provided a formal report on the case to the Council of State wrote that the woman's interviews with social services revealed that she lives almost as a recluse, isolated from French society, Le Monde reported.She has no idea about the secular state or the right to vote. She lives in total submission to her male relatives. She seems to find this normal and the idea of challenging it has never crossed her mind, Emmanuelle Prada-Bordenave wrote.Le Monde quoted Daniele Lochak, a law professor not involved in the case, as saying it was bizarre to consider that excessive submission to men was a reason not to grant citizenship.If you follow that to its logical conclusion, it means that women whose partners beat them are also not worthy of being French, Lochak said. (Additional reporting by Gerard Bon; Editing by Ibon Villelabeitia) Subject: RE: French court has denied citizenship to veiled Muslim mother A Muslim member of the French government has backed a court's decision to deny citizenship to a Moroccan woman who wears the burqa.Ms Amara, who is a French-born Muslim of Algerian parentage, said she supported the ruling in June by France's highest administrative court, the Conseil d'Etat.The burqa is a prison, it's a straightjacket, she told Le Parisien.It is not a religious insignia but the insignia of a totalitarian political project that advocates inequality between the sexes and which is totally devoid of democracy. Ms Amara, who is also a prominent women's rights campaigner, said she made no distinction between the veil and the burqa, describing both as symbols of oppression for women. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7509339.stm--Muslim woman? ... how about ex-muslim kuffar woman instead? “And say to the believing women that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty; that they should not display their beauty and ornaments except what must ordinarily appear thereof; that they should draw their veils over their bosoms and not display their beauty except to their husbands, their fathers, their husbands' fathers, their sons, their husbands' sons, their brothers, or their brothers' sons or their sisters' sons, or their women or the servants whom their right hands possess, or male servants free of physical needs, or small children who have no sense of the
Bismillah [IslamCity] FW: URGENT: Help Needed
From: ahmed_uddin Subject: URGENT: Help NeededDate: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:52:31 +0100 Assalaam 'alaikum Brothers and Sisters Please read email below from Br Luqman, any help of any form will be greatly appreciated. Currently his status is that he has been taken off the course from Sussex. If you want further information please contact me. I leave you all with a small reminder firstly for myself and everyone: At the core of Islamic message is empathy and compassion towards those who are less fortunate. The early Qur'anic revelations repeatedly stress the vital link between religion and acts of compassion. They even go as far as denying faith to those who are deprived of compassion towards the poor and the destitute:Have you seen the one who denies the Religion? Such is he who repulses the orphan, and who does not urge others to feed the poor. Woe to worshippers, who are absent-minded to their prayer, those who make a show (of piety), and refuse to render small acts of kindness (towards others). (Al-Ma`un 107: 1-7). Wasalaam Ahmed Uddin FOSIS South Chair 07931 103 639 Salam Brother Ahmed,This the account I said I was going to send to you.You can get more info on this link, http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=15119077030Luqman Onikosi is a first year international student from Nigeria at the University of Sussex studying Economics International Relations. His ambition to become an industrialist so that he can support his country and its people. Events in Luqman's life took a turn for the worst after his father's tragic death since which point Luqman has had the added responsibility of supporting his five siblings. Luqman applied for a student visa when his uncle managed to offer him sponsorship for his studies at Sussex. This process took six years to complete and Luqman eventually arrived at the University of Sussex in January 2007 to begin his studies.Shortly after, however, Luqman's sponsor passed away and because Luqman was not mentioned in the will the sponsor's family refused to honour their pledge of help and left Luqman without recourse to pay the £8,000 annual course fees.With the support from his tutors Luqman was allowed to complete the foundation year course and begin his degree. His students' union and a charity also managed to raise some money towards paying the extorbitent international student fees.Luqman is now appealling to the University of Sussex to exercise its discretion and in consideration of Luqman's extenuating circumstances to allow him to sit his Summer examinations. In the long term we are asking that the University takes into account both Luqman's exceptional contribution to Sussex, along with the university's duty to students from developing countries, and to either waive his fees entirely, or reduce the charges to those equivalent of a home student's fee.MasalamLuqman
Bismillah [IslamCity] Video: they have killed me
May Allaah swt save us all from these vices. Ameen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNOYDWc6bn0 The translation:At the beginning of the clip the policeman tells the young man : Tirky ,, Tirky wake up ,, wake up and pray a little ,, you have 3 hours left .O you caller of my end summoning me ,, Carry away my peace to my relations for they have killed me ..They feared the eyes of the Blamers ,, If only they Feared on me the heroin's Daggers ..The things me hands committed when I stole from them ,, they didn't notice my condition they haven't asked me .. How many times they knew I'm an addict ,, they didn't report me they haven't stop me ..I've surrendered my life to remorse and bawdry ,, so much that my eyelids had blistered regretting me ..Where are my laughing companions ?? and where are the one's who screwed my life up and didn't visit me .. And with what tears my father shall console me ?? and with what regretful poetry he shall bewail me ..And with what lost face I shall tell you ?? for I'm the obsessive ,, the opium's seller .. Until I have ended into a complete loss ,, so Tears of my eyes Say farewell to my lost life ..sorry about the bad English .. _ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/msnnkmgl001007ukm/direct/01/
Bismillah [IslamCity] FW: Please sponsor me for an Islamic Charity.
www.justgiving.com/nkhan From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Please sponsor me for an Islamic Charity.Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:40:28 + Asalaams wr wb I hope all is well with you and the family. I am mailing all my contacts to ask for sponsorship towards an Islamic charity (Ebrahim College) and whether you could forward this to any friends family that would be interested in helping the cause, inshallah. My aim is to trek the peak of Mount Sinai, Egypt (2,285 meters above sea level), where Prophet (as) Musa (Moses) spoke to Allah. It’s going to be a tough and grueling challenge, with the trek taking around 6 hours in the searing heat of the Egyptian summer, to reach the peak of the mountain. Yes I know, I’m nuts! But it is all for a good cause. I work as a Head of a Sixth-Form in a challenging inner London school, and I thought it was very important for me to support an Islamic Sixth-Form College that is desperately trying to raise funds to educate our future ummah and ‘leaders for tomorrow’. I have worked in Education for the past 6-7 years in tough London schools and I see Islamic schools and colleges as part of the solution to tackle decades of nationwide underachievement of Muslim students. Your donations will benefit Ebrahim College (London) and will become a form of Sadaqah Jariyah for you (lasting rewards), insha-Allah. For more information about Ebrahim College and its appeal please read the section to the left of this page, or visit www.ebrahimcollege.org.uk.Donating through Justgiving is quick, easy and totally secure. It’s also the most efficient way to sponsor me: Ebrahim Community College gets your money faster and, if you’re a UK taxpayer, Justgiving makes sure 25% in Gift Aid, plus a 3% supplement, are added to your donation.Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) said:“If a son of Adam dies, his good works come to an end except for three: charity that keeps providing benefit, knowledge that people still benefit from, and a pious child who supplicates for him.”Please dig deep and sponsor me online.www.justgiving.com/nkhanJazakallah Khairan for your support.Naushad Miss your Messenger buddies when on-the-go? Get Messenger on your Mobile! Get fish-slapping on Messenger! Play Now Miss your Messenger buddies when on-the-go? Get Messenger on your Mobile! _ All new Live Search at Live.com http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/msnnkmgl001006ukm/direct/01/
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Bismillah [IslamCity] Israel 'has 150 nuclear weapons'
www.aqsa.org.uk From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Israel 'has 150 nuclear weapons' Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 14:12:47 -0500 Israel 'has 150 nuclear weapons' Ex-US President Jimmy Carter has said Israel has at least 150 atomic weapons in its arsenal. The Israelis have never confirmed they have nuclear weapons, but this has been widely assumed since a scientist leaked details in the 1980s. Mr Carter made his comments on Israel's weapons at a press conference at the annual literary Hay Festival in Wales. He also described Israeli treatment of Palestinians as one of the greatest human rights crimes on earth. Mr Carter gave the figure for the Israeli nuclear arsenal in response to a question on US policy on a possible nuclear-armed Iran, arguing that any country newly armed with atomic weapons faced overwhelming odds. The US has more than 12,000 nuclear weapons; the Soviet Union (sic) has about the same; Great Britain and France have several hundred, and Israel has 150 or more, he said. Israel's Dimona reactor is understood to provide plutonium for the country's nuclear weapons We have a phalanx of enormous capabilities, not only of weaponry but also of rockets to deliver every one of those missiles on a pinpoint accuracy target. Most experts estimate that Israel has between 100 and 200 nuclear warheads, largely based on information leaked to the Sunday Times newspaper in the 1980s by Mordechai Vanunu, a former worker at the country's Dimona nuclear reactor. The US, a key ally of Israel, has in general followed the country's policy of nuclear ambiguity, neither confirming or denying the existence of its assumed arsenal. However, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert included Israel among a list of nuclear states in comments in December 2006, a week after US Defence Secretary Robert Gates used a similar form of words during a Senate hearing. 'Imprisonment' During the press briefing, Mr Carter expressed his support for Israel as a country, but criticised its domestic and foreign policy. One of the greatest human rights crimes on earth is the starvation and imprisonment of 1.6m Palestinians, he said. The former US president cited statistics which he said showed the nutritional intake of some Palestinian children was below that of children in Sub-Saharan Africa, as well as saying the European position on Israel could be best described as supine. Mr Carter, awarded a Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, brokered the 1979 Egypt-Israel peace treaty, the first between Israel and an Arab state. In April he controversially held talks in the Syrian capital Damascus with Khaled Meshaal, leader of the militant Palestinian movement Hamas. The former US president's Carter Center was unavailable for further comment. Story from BBC NEWS:http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/middle_east/7420573.stm _ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/msnnkmgl001002ukm/direct/01/
Bismillah [IslamCity] One-page flyer about Al Nakba to distribute
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 14:13:14 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: One-page flyer about Al Nakba to distribute Dear Friends, As many of you know, it is now 60 years since Israel was founded and over 750,000 Palestinians were forced from their homes. Unfortunately, most Americans are completely uninformed about this massive act of ethnic cleansing and the continuing injustice against these Palestinian refugees and their descendants. We have created a one-page trifold brochure to explain this expulsion as clearly as possible to Americans. Please download it, print it out, and distribute it to as many people in your community as possible. In addition, you may wish to disseminate it during vigils and other Nakba events. Download printable brochure: http://www.ifamericansknew.org/download/NakbaTrifold-sml.pdf Download full-bleed brochure (to have professionally printed) Front: http://www.ifamericansknew.org/download/NakbaTrifold.pdf Back: http://www.ifamericansknew.org/download/NakbaTrifold2.pdf Below is the text on the flyer: Ethnic Cleansing: How Palestine Became Israel In the late 1800s a small, fanatic movement called political Zionism began in Europe. Its goal was to create a Jewish state somewhere in the world. Its leaders settled on the ancient and long-inhabited land of Palestine for the location of this state.1 Palestine's population at this time was approximately ninety-five percent non-Jewish (primarily Muslim an d Christian).2 Over the coming decades Zionist leaders used various strategies to accomplish their goal of taking over Palestine: 1.By encouraging Jewish emigration to Palestine, partly through the invention of such deceptive slogans as a land without a people for a people without a land, when, in fact, the land was already inhabited.3 2.By convincing a Great Power to back this process. By turn, Zionists approached the Ottomans, the British, and the US to further their cause. While the Ottomans turned them down, the British (being promised that American Zionists would push the U.S. to enter World War I on the side of England) eventually acceded, as did the U.S. (due to concerns of politicians like Harry Truman that they would lose elections otherwise).4 3.By buying up the land (sometimes through subterfuges), proclaiming it Jewish for all eternity, and refusing to allow non-Jews to live or work on the purchased land. This was called redeeming the land and was financed by a variety of means, including by such wealthy banking families as the Rothschilds.5 4.By violence, if such financial dispossession should fail or prove too slow – as it did.6 In the 1930s, Jewish land ownership had increased from approximately 1% to just over 6% of the land, and violence had increased as well. With the emergence of several Zionist terrorist gangs (whose ranks included a number of future Prime Ministers of Israel), there was violent conflict. Numerous people of all ethnicities were killed – then, as now, the large majority of them Christian and Muslim Palestinians.7 The Catastrophe This growing violence culminated in Israel's ruthless 1947-49 War of Independence, in which at least 750,000 Palestinian men, women, and children were expelled from their homes – half of them even before any Arab armies joined the war. At every point in this war, Zionist forces greatly outnumbered Arab forces. This massive humanitarian disaster is known among Palestinians and others as 'The Catastrophe,' al Nakba in Arabic.8 Between December 1947 and December 1950, Zionist forces committed at least 33 massacres9 and destroyed over 531 Palestinian villages and towns. Author Norman Finkelstein states: According to the former director of the Israeli army archives, 'in almost every village occupied by us during the War of Independence, acts were committed which are defined as war crimes, such as murders, massacres, and rapes'...Uri Milstein, the authoritative Israeli military historian of the 1948 war, goes one step further, maintaining that 'every skirmish ended in a massacre of Arabs.'10 Count Folke Bernadotte, a former vice chairman of the Swedish Red Cross who saved thousands of Jews during World War II and was appointed U.N. mediator in Palestine in 1948, said of the Palestinian refugees: It would be an offence against the principles of elemental justice if these innocent victims of the conflict were denied the right to return to their homes.11 Injustice Continues Over the 60 years since Israel's founding on May 14, 1948, this profound injustice has continued. Palestinian refugees are the largest remaining refugee population in the world. Seven million of the ten million living Palestinians are refugees or displaced people. 1.3 million Palestinians live in Israel as Israeli citizens. Despite their status as citizens, they are subject to systematic discrimination. Many are prohibited from living in the villages and homes from
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Bismillah [IslamCity] Friends of Al-Aqsa Update
Dear Friends Friends of Al-Aqsa launched its new web-site recently and after some initial teething problems, it is now fully functioning with many of our existing resources still available and supplemented with added features. You can now donate online using Paypal. Membership forms can be downloaded. Information is available about upcoming events, such as the Friends of Al-Aqsa Challenge 2008 – a fundraising sponsored 15km walk in the beautiful valleys of Dovedale in Derbyshire. Information on current developments in the Occupied Territories, online editions of our journal and newspaper, and book reviews are also all available on the web-site. Please visit the site and circulate details to your friends. With best wishes, Friends of Al-Aqsa Friends of Al-Aqsa is a UK based non-profit making NGO concerned with defending the human rights of Palestinians and protecting the sacred al-Aqsa Sanctuary in Jerusalem. This vision is supported by various international groups and organisations. Friends of Al-Aqsa was first established in 1997 and now has an international support base. HOME | NEWS | NEWSPAPER | ABOUT US | CONTACT US | BECOME A MEMBER | DONATEYou are receiving this email because you signed up at http://www.aqsa.org.uk to receive our newsletter. Unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] from this list.Our mailing address is:Friends of Al-AqsaP.O.Box 5127Leicester, Leicestershire LE2 0WUOur telephone:+44 116 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (C) 2008 Friends of Al-Aqsa All rights reserved.Forward this email to a friend _ Win 100’s of Virgin Experience days with BigSnapSearch.com http://www.bigsnapsearch.com
Bismillah [IslamCity] Australia: Debate Rages with Daniel Pipes over Islam Democracy
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Australia: Debate Rages with Daniel Pipes over Islam DemocracyDate: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:32:43 -0500 If the Polish-American Zionist Jewish Daniel Pipes, the most hateful and venomous anti-Islaam advocate and inciter, is allowed to participate in this uneven debate, why has none of the Muslim Scolars from the Muslim World been invited to participate, even if they have to speak thru an interpreter? Daniel Pipes From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Pipes Australia: Debate Rages with Daniel Pipes over Islam Democracy | IslamToday / Agencies| 15 April 2008 The first of the series of Intelligence2 debates - Islam Is Incompatible With Democracy - was held at at City Recital Hall, Angel Place, in Sydney Australia at 6.45pm. The IQ2 debate series is a partnership between the St James Ethics Centre, The Sydney Morning Herald, Australian Broadcasting (ABC) and the City of Sydney. It is a new forum that aims to elevate the public discourse in Sydney and transcend the toxically emotional and the reflexively ideological. Simon Longstaff from the St James Ethics Centre said that topics and speakers were chosen to promote sharp perspectives but in a format that promotes engagement in a reasonable and respectful way. It has chosen to put its credo to the test for its inaugural debate, which was attended by a packed audience of 1200, and telecast live. A panel of experts on politics and Islam opened the debate series by ripping into the emotionally-charged proposition that Islam is incompatible with democracy. It was an Oxford-style debate, which included three participants arguing the affirmative and three the negative, followed by questions from the audience, who were polled before and after the event to determine who won. The security guards and flyer-wielding campaigners at the doors gave some indication of the fraught nature of the subject matter from the outset. And those on stage did not disappoint, taking the discussion from the soaring heights of Islam's philosophical antecedents to the cold, hard reality of suppression under Sharia law. Having told another Sydney audience earlier this week that Islam would dominate Europe, the director of the Middle East Forum, Daniel Pipes, immediately provided a cutting criticism of the world's second largest religion. Islam is undemocratic in spirit, he said. It takes a lot of learning to have freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of association. These are things that are learnt over a period of time and it is that which the West has achieved and which Islam is a long way from learning. Yes, there are Muslim states which are democratic in form, but true democracy is yet to take root. The great obstacle to this change is the fact that in the Middle East the social system is fundamentally tribal and that obstructs the development of the key requisites of democracy. The rebuttal from the Pakistan-born director of the University of Western Australia's Centre for Muslim States and Societies, Samina Yasmeen, was a cool cloth to Pipes's fire. You will see what you want to see and if you want to identify Islam as incompatible I have no doubt that you will continue seeing that, she said. How is it, though, that Muslims in non-Muslim societies are able to get on so well when Islam is incompatible? I would argue that Muslim majority states do show a lot of tolerance, not only of the Muslim community, but also of the non-Muslim community. Amina Rasul, a human rights activist and director of the Philippine Council on Islam and Democracy, followed the theme. What the West should not do is criticise states which are not democratic while supporting despots who suppress human rights because it is in their economic benefit, Rasul said. There are 800 million Muslims living happily and successfully in democratic nations - why is it that the extremes are always focused on? The Herald columnist Paul Sheehan brought the question into stark relief by comparing a trip to Mecca with a trip to Rome. When you visit the Vatican, one thing that is for certain is that you will be allowed in, Sheehan said. When you visit Saudi Arabia the checks at the airport and for those travelling into Mecca are not just for security reasons, they are to prevent non-Muslims from coming in. Finally the statements were brought back to first principles by Waleed Aly, the young lawyer, writer and spokesman for the Islamic Council of Victoria. My opponents have defined terms such as Islam and Sharia law to suit their arguments and in so doing have ignored the myriad interpretations of these terms. In the end, the audience had the final call and it delivered a victory to hope - but only just. A poll conducted as the audience entered found 38 per cent for the affirmative, 42 per cent for the negative and the remaining 20 per cent
Bismillah [IslamCity] April foolishness
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/notadaylonger If this email is not displayed properly, click here 3 ways to protect your human rights This Tuesday proposals to extend pre-charge detention get their second reading in Parliament. Sadly it is no joke, on 1 April proposals are being put in front of Parliament to extend the time people can be held without charge in the UK to 42 days - in other words you could be locked up for six weeks without being told what you are suspected of doing. The good news is that there are a lot of MPs and Lords prepared to fight this - but they need your encouragement and support. Others may be persuaded to make a stand if their constituents (you) demand it. So here's what you can do: 1 Write to your MP and ask them to stand up for our civil rights and oppose this draconian extension of pre-charge detention. Simply pop your postcode into http://writetothem.com and the site will channel your mail to your own MP. It is important that you write in your own words (inspiration here). 2 Get everyone you know to sign our petition http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/notadaylonger 3 Spread this everywhere you can on Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, blogs and anywhere and everywhere you are active online. If you have any queries or feedback about this email or Amnesty's work, please get in touch with our Supporter Care team on [EMAIL PROTECTED] or +44 (0)20 7033 1777Stop receiving these emailsStop receiving all Amnesty International emailsAmnesty International UK is a company limited by guarantee. Registered in England no 01735872, registered office _ The next generation of Windows Live is here http://www.windowslive.co.uk/get-live
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Bismillah [IslamCity] The Importance of Manners
The Importance of Manners Hadith - Bukhari's Book of Manners #271, Abu Dawud, Tirmidhi, Ahmad, and Ibn HibbanAbu Darda' reported that the Prophet of Allah, upon him be peace, said, Nothing is weightier on the Scale of Deeds than one's good manners.Hadith - Bukhari's Book of Manners #286 and AhmadAbu Huraira, r.a., said, I heard Abu al Qasim (the Prophet saaws), say, 'The best among you in Islam are those with the best manners, so long as they develop a sense of understanding.' Hadith - At-Tabaraanee collected it, and Albani authenticated it in Silsilatul-AHaadeethis-Saheehah (#432).The Prophet (saaws) said: The most beloved of Allah's servants to Allah are those with the best manners.Hadith - Sahih Bukhari, Muslim, and Tirmidhi... 'Abd Allah ibn 'Amr said, The Prophet of Allah, upon him be peace, was never obscene or coarse. Rather, he used to tell us that the best among us were those with the best manners.Hadith - Sahih Bukhari, Muslim and Ahmad... Anas said, I served the Prophet of Allah, upon him be peace, for ten years. During that time, he never once said to me as much as 'Oof' if I did something wrong. He never asked me, if I had failed to do something, 'Why did you not do it?,' and he never said to me, if I had done something wrong, 'Why did you do it?' Hadith - Bukhari's Book of Manners # 285, Hakim, and Abu Dawud... Abu Huraira, r.a., said that the Prophet of Allah, saaws, said, If one has good manners, one may attain the same level of merit as those who spend their nights in prayer.Hadith - Bukhari's Book of Manners # 290, Tirmidhi, Ibn Majah, and Ahmad... Abu Hurairah reported that the Prophet of Allah (saaws) said, And what is most likely to send people to Paradise? Being conscious of Allah and good manners.Hadith - Bukhari's Book of Manners # 296, Muslim, Tirmidhi, Darimi, Abu 'Awanah, Hakim, and Ibn Hibban Nawas ibn Sam'an reported that the Prophet of Allah, saaws, was asked about doing good and evil. He replied, Doing good is having good manners. Doing evil is what troubles you inside and what you would not like others to know about.Hadith - Bukhari's Book of Manners #360, Abu Dawud, Tirmidhi, and HakimThe Prophet of Allah, saaws, said, He who does not show mercy to our young or show esteem for our elders is not one of us.SOURCE _ Live Search Charades - guess correctly and find hidden videos http://www.searchcharades.com/
Bismillah [IslamCity] Palestinian-israeli death figures
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [IfAmerKnew] Counter Israeli plans to exploit Yeshiva deaths!Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 18:52:16 -0800 Please write letters to the editor! Israeli media are reporting that the Israeli government plans to exploit the recent attack on a right-wing Yeshiva in Jerusalem (see story below).It is important that we all work to inform our communities through letters, etc. about the total quantity of deaths in Israel-Palestine for 2008: Since the beginning of the year, Israel caused the deaths of at least 238 Palestinians, 37 of them minors.* During this same period, Palestinians caused the deaths of 14 Israelis, 4 of them minors.** In case anyone is curious about 2007, here are the numbers:*** Palestinians killed by Israelis = 384 Israelis killed by Palestinians = 13 ___Sources:* http://www.mezan.org/site_en/resource_center/mezan_publications/detail.php?id=169 http://tinyurl.com/2sx9oo http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/961314.html** http://www.all4israel.org/ *** http://btselem.org/english/Statistics/Casualties.asp__ Israel exploits Jerusalem Attack Friday, March 07, 2008 - FreeMarketNews.com Israel will take advantage of Thursday's bloody terror attack in Jerusalem in order to launch a campaign against Hamas. Yedioth Ahronoth has learned that the political echelon instructed the Government Press Office to distribute the shocking images from the yeshiva shooting worldwide, including pictures of holy books perforated with bullets, a blood-stained praying shawl and the terrorist's body inside the yeshiva. -YNet News http://www.freemarketnews.com/WorldNews.asp?nid=55477 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~If Americans Knew is a 501(c)3 nonprofit, so all donations are tax-deductible. Our work is made possible by your contributions. Please help: http://www.ifamericansknew.org/about_us/donate.html You received this message because you are subscribed to the If Americans Knew group. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~--~~~~--~~--~--~--- _ Telly addicts unite! http://www.searchgamesbox.com/tvtown.shtml
Bismillah [IslamCity] FW: Save Abdul-Hamed al-Ghizzawi
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Bismillah [IslamCity] World Chechnya Day 24th February London
WORLD CHECHNYA DAYLONDON, 24TH FEBRUARY 2008 ** APOLOGIES if you have received this message before. The Campaignmailing list will now be managed through Google Groups **On 23rd February, 1944 the Stalin ordered the immediate deportation of theentire Chechen and Ingush peoples to the steppes of Central Asiaresulting in the deaths of up to half of the population. In 2004 theEuropean Parliament recognised this event as Genocide.The Save Chechnya Campaign will be marking World Chechnya Day with acommemorative event on Sunday 24th February, 1:30-5:30pm at AbrarHouse, 45 Crawford Place (off Edgware Road) London, W1H 4LP. Nearesttube Marble Arch and Edgware Road. Please attend to learn more about a day that few are aware of and yetnone should forget.All welcome. Entry free.1:30pm: TALK: DEPORTATION AND EXILE. THEN AND NOWLearn about the deportations, the consequences for the Chechen peopleand the continuing effects being felt today.2:00pm: FILM SHOWING: COCA - THE FILM FROM CHECHNYACoca - The Dove from Chechnya is the heroic and true story of onewoman: Zainap Gashaeva (nicknamed Coca) was born in the exile. Sincethe beginning of the Chechen war in 1994 she has been collecting videotapes and interviews about the war that Europe and World has ignored.It is estimated that in the last ten years up to a third of theChechen population may have been killed as a result of Russian anti-terrorist operations. Disappearances and murder of civilians by thesecurity services remains commonplace in Chechnya. In the midst of warand repression Coca and her helpers have remained determined todiscover and record the truth of what has been happened to Chechnya.This film is a story of Chechnya today told by Chechens themselves.For more information:w: www.worldchechnyaday.orge: [EMAIL PROTECTED] received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Save Chechnya Campaign.To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 23rd February is World Chechnya Day. A day few are aware of and yet none should forget. Read more here _ Who's friends with who and co-starred in what? http://www.searchgamesbox.com/celebrityseparation.shtml
Bismillah [IslamCity] Facebook to Co-Sponsor War on Terror
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Bismillah [IslamCity] Seven Gazans killed in day of Israeli air and shelling attacks
Inna lillahi wa inna ilaihi rajioon. Please keep them in your dua'as and please continue making your donations at http://www.interpal.org/appeals/gaza_crisis_0108.html Demo tomorrow End the siege of Gaza!JOIN THE PROTEST Saturday 9 February, 4-6pmOpposite 10 Downing Street, London Protest called by Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Palestinian Forum in Britain, British Muslim Initiative, Palestinian Return Centre, Friends of Al Aqsa, Stop the War Coalition, Friends of Lebanon and Jews for Justice for Palestinians. Seven Gazans killed in day of Israeli air and shelling attacks Report, Al Mezan, 7 February 2008 On 7 February 2008, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) killed seven Palestinians, raising the number of victims from its military attacks to seventeen persons since the beginning of this month, and 96 persons since the beginning of 2008 in the Gaza Strip. The IOF launched seven attacks in different parts of the Gaza Strip since last night, of which the most affected areas were Khan Younis, al-Nuseirat, and other areas in northern Gaza.According to Al Mezan field investigations, this morning and yesterday evening, the IOF launched a series of missile attacks using ground-to-ground missiles and helicopters. The arbitrary attacks left seven Palestinians killed and ten injured. Five of the injured were reported to have sustained serious injuries, including two students at the Agriculture School in Beit Hanoun. At approximately 7:30am, on 7 February 2008, the IOF launched a missile, resulting in the killing of a teacher in the Agriculture School, 41-year-old Hani Shaaban Naim. One other student was injured in the attack, however, not critically. All three students injured were under the age of eighteen.IOF drones and helicopters launched three missiles between 3:55am and 4:15am on the same day. As a result, 23-year-old Jawdat Abdullah Nabhan, 26-year-old Muhammad Yusuf al-Mutuak, and 22-year-old Osama Fayez Assaf were killed. Mr. Assaf's body was found after about three hours. At approximately 3:20am the same day, the IOF launched a missile at a group of young men while they were gathered near al-Ja'l petrol station in eastern Beit Hanoun. As a result, 20-year-old Abdullah Nabhan was killed and two others were injured. One of them was reported to have sustained serious injury.At approximately 3:15am, the IOF launched a missile at a group of young men gathered near Talet al-Rayes in Gaza City's northeast al-Tuffah neighborhood. As a result, 25-year-old Ahmed Zakaria Abu Hamid and 40-year-old Hamouda al-Shurafa were killed and two others were injured. One of them was reported to have sustained serious injury.Last night, 6 February 2008, the IOF launched three attacks at different areas in Beit Hanoun, al-Nuseirat refugee camp and the eastern area of Khan Younis. As a result, three persons were injured, including one child and one woman. They were reported to have sustained serious injury. The shelling also resulted in the destruction of an agricultural store in al-Nuseirat refugee camp and caused partial damage to a number of neighboring houses.Al Mezan Center for Human Rights reiterates its strong condemnation of the escalating acts of murder committed by the IOF in the Gaza Strip. These acts affect a large number of innocent civilians, which constitutes grave violations of international humanitarian law that amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity. Al Mezan warns of the consequences of the international community's unending silence towards these crimes. As a result, the IOF is encouraged to move forward in escalating acts of murder without any commitment to the principles of discrimination and proportionality. The IOF must be forced to take active measures to avoid causing harm to civilians and non-combatants, and prohibit taking non-military steps, including collective punishment. Al Mezan Center calls on the international community to act urgently to stop Israeli war crimes and to provide international protection for civilians in the Palestinian territories, as this is part of their legal and moral duty towards the civilian population in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Friends of Al Aqsa is a voluntary organisation concerned with the defence ofAl Aqsa Haram Sharif and the protection of Palestinian Human Rights.http://www.aqsa.org.ukContact:P.O. Box 5127, Leicester. LE2 0WU. England.Tel 077 11 823 524-To be removed from this mailing listclick on the link below http://www.aqsa.org.uk _ Free games, great prizes - get gaming at Gamesbox. http://www.searchgamesbox.com
Bismillah [IslamCity] Gaza in crisis appeal!
http://www.interpal.org/appeals/gaza_crisis_0108.html In the early morning of the 23rd January, over 350,000 Palestinians surged into Egypt from the Gaza Strip after parts of the border wall were destroyed. Hundreds of thousands of Gazans rushed over the border, some frantically searching for loved ones, most desperate for food and fuel, which due to blockades on Gaza’s borders are in short supply. The chaos only highlights the extreme hardship endured by the Palestinian people. Approximately 1.5 million people are living under conditions of siege. Most are living well below the poverty line of US $2 dollars per day with little access to the basic necessities such as fuel, food, electricity and medicine. Working in partnership with Muslim Aid, Interpal is asking you to make a difference to the lives of those isolated from the world by the conflict. We urgently need help in raising £5 million for the people of Palestine- for food, fuel and medical supplies. One million pounds has already been raised thanks to our emergency relief partners. Despite the difficulties, we pledge to get supplies to those most in need through local partners. Donate NOW Insha'Allaah Think you know your TV, music and film? Try Search Charades! _ Who's friends with who and co-starred in what? http://www.searchgamesbox.com/celebrityseparation.shtml
Bismillah [IslamCity] can you?
PIETY DEADLINE EXTENDED Jazakallah khair to everyone who has donated for Plymouth Islamic Education trust. Alhamdulillah, because of your generous donations we have raised £380,000. That leaves only £30,000. We have been given an extension until the 9th of February to raise the rest. Please dig deeper and give a bit more. Piety needs your help. Please give now. Please do support it with whatever you have; however it is recommended to give according to any of the following ‘bands’ 30 people giving £1000 = Piety for Plymouth 60 people giving £500 = Piety for Plymouth 120 people giving £250 = Piety for Plymouth May Allah double and multiply your rewards and put it on your scale of good deeds on the day of judgement. A forward thinking 'Model Mosque' which should benefit the life of Muslims and the wider community in Plymouth in so many ways CLICK BELOW TO WATCH THE NEW PIETY ADVERT _ Who's friends with who and co-starred in what? http://www.searchgamesbox.com/celebrityseparation.shtml
Bismillah [IslamCity] Gaza In Need - Urgent Appeal
PLEASE DONATE INSHA'ALLAAH if you are unable to read this email please click the following link http://www.hai.org.uk/eshots/humaneshot40.html?mid=40did=426 Dear Brothers and Sisters! I hope and pray this email finds you in the best of health and ever increasing Iman, insha’Allah. Reason for this email as you can gather from the title is to raise urgent funds for Gaza! We’re all subject to the bias media and many of us don’t put enough effort to know what’s really going on, so the second purpose of this email is to create awareness. The plight of the Palestinians would have been going on for 60 years this year, but with Human Rights law that the West hold so dear and the UN you would never expect the situation in Gaza could get this bad. “Israel” withdrew from the Gaza strip in the summer of 2005, but did it? With complete control over borders, air space and sea the strip has been removed of occupation and put under siege….the worlds biggest open air concentration camp as has been described by some! When the West asked for the Palestinian people to undertake free and fair elections, you could argue that the Palestinains set a precedent for this within the region, in the beginning of 2006. so what is the price of democracy for these people? It is that Gaza is put under siege. It has been so for over a year on and off and constantly for the past 7.5 months…why?... because it is under the authority of a democratically elected government. Gaza is the size of about 360 square km which is like the size of a single borough of London with a population of 1.5 million and a density rate of 27000 individulas per one square km (just over half a mile) the most densly populated place in the world! Even Jeddah airport in Saudi Arabia is bigger than Gaza strip. 81% of the population live under the poverty line which is about a dollar a day and 53% are unemployed! Nothing and no one can come in or out of Gaza.government employees have not been paid their wages for months, money is scarce therefore demand has vanished and as a result many businesses have had to shut down. The americans will not allow banks to deal with the government (hence there is hardly any money)and on a personal level it will not allow a transfer of over $5000 (about £2500) at any one time. israel is also withdrawing its currency (which is the main currency in the strip for which all other currencies are exchanged for!) When bush visited the Middle East recently, he said he is committed to bringing about peace within the region, before he leaves office! He stated to scrap the previous UN resolutions which did not work (why didn’t they work? Because the US vetoed every single resolution) So a few days after his visit to Palestine and Occupied Palestine the Israelis started incursions into Gaza reinforced by air strikes…giving the green light to such barbaric behavior! This is the peace? Conditions were previously dire and after these recent incidents, have become even more so. In the past week around 50 people were killed and dozens injured by Israeli attacks, the majority of them civilians (not that the killings of the resistance is justified) 73 ill people with curable conditions died because they have no access to medicines or hospitals outside Gaza. About 1700 face a slow painful death. The siege has brought about catastrophic effects on daily and economic life. In recent days power plants have had to be shut down because the fuel that is needed to run these plants to generate electricity has been blocked by the Israelis from being imported into Gaza. Gaza now lives in total darkness! What are the effects of this?... Hospitals are unable to treat the injured or the terminally ill as there is no electricity to operate equipment. Patients needing dialysis will be left to die. My mother-in-law suffers from asthma, so when my husband called home, his mother could not speak and had to hang up on him because she was suffering severely as there was no electricity to operate the inhalator. She has to sleep the whole night breathless in the severe cold. People cannot store food: meat or milk or such products as refrigerators can not run without electricity. The temperature at night inside is the same as outside, recently being below 0 degrees… but the people cannot warm their houses as there is guess what….no electricity! The previous agricultural activities of the occupying settlers has left the water reserves lacking and contaminated. The pure clean drinking water is stolen by the israleis and pumped into the settlements and the Israeli cities. When this water is depleted the source is filled with sea water which is by no means drinkable. Due to this fact there has emerged water filtering companies from which the population has to buy for consumption purposes, these companies can not operate without electricity. The other major concern with water and
Bismillah [IslamCity] Gaza Vigil -24 Jan 5:30 Leicester
The Lights Have Gone Out in Gaza Candle lit Vigil Leicester Town Centre The Clock Tower 5.30pm 6.30pm Thursday 24th January 2008 There is a humanitarian catastrophe taking place in Gaza. Food, Medicine, fuel and all other vital supplies have been drastically cut. Hospitals have no electricity Medical patients are dying from treatable illnesses. Food supplies are running out Gaza has become an open air prison. Support the vigil and remember the Palestinians in Gaza (Bring a candle along) Organised by Friends of Al-Aqsa Friends of Al Aqsa is a voluntary organisation concerned with the defence ofAl Aqsa Haram Sharif and the protection of Palestinian Human Rights.http://www.aqsa.org.ukContact:P.O. Box 5127, Leicester. LE2 0WU. England.Tel 077 11 823 524-To be removed from this mailing listclick on the link below http://www.aqsa.org.uk _ Share what Santa brought you https://www.mycooluncool.com
Bismillah [IslamCity] End the Siege on Gaza - Saturday 26th January- International Day of Action
***PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY*** End the Siege on Gaza International Day of Action Saturday 26th January 4-6pm Parliament, London View a short film about the 400 strong protest on the 12th of January outside Downing Street: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWhBC6hP6cM Join us in protesting against Israel blocking desperately ill Palestinians from accessing medical treatment and its escalating military attacks on Gaza Saturday 26 January, 4-6pm Parliament We are particularly appealing to medical staff to join us in uniform to visibly express their opposition to Israel preventing Gazans from traveling for lifesaving medical treatment. ‘The human catastrophe deliberately inflicted on Gaza by western policies over the past two years is one of the great crimes of the century so far’. Jonathan Steele, Guardian 11 January. Israel’s illegal, brutal siege of Gaza is tightening, restricting fuel and electricity, and preventing even medical supplies, food, essential construction materials and paper for UN schoolbooks from entering Gaza . With lethal military strikes being launched on Gaza , and Ehud Barak has warned that an Israeli invasion of Gaza is nearing. Even those who desperately need medical treatment are prevented from leaving. Over 65 Palestinians have died as a direct result of Israel ’s prevention of access to medical treatment. Miri Weingarten from the Physicians for Human Rights-Israel said ‘ Israel intends and wishes to punish the general population in Gaza , and they're not hiding it -- in fact, they've stated it clearly.’ Dr Ahmed Abu Tawahineh, deputy director of the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme, has pointed out that since last June, only a hundred patients have been allowed out of Gaza to seek treatment - less than 10 per cent of the more than 1,000 applicants. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported harrowing scenes of: 'a two-and-a-half-year-old boy, Ahmed Samut from Khan Yunis, and a nine-and-a-half-year-old girl, Sausan Jaafari, of Rafah, as they entered the Erez crossing alone, after being torn from the arms of their weeping parents. The two children have heart conditions and need urgent surgery to save their lives...The parents of the two children, both fathers and mothers, were not permitted by the Israel Defense Forces' coordination and liaison administration to accompany their children to this critical surgery. They are denied entry to Israel . The fact that Sausan's parents had accompanied her to previous operations at Wolfson did not change the evil decree. It is indeed a decree of unparalleled evil. Only the elderly uncle of one of the children was allowed to go with them.' http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/943343.html. How long can this inhuman treatment continue unchallenged by international leaders? Collective punishment is being inflicted upon the Palestinians for voting for a government against the wishes of Israel , the US and the EU. Call on the British government to end its collusion with these policies, which are imprisoning Gazans and attempting to destroy their lives by limiting access to food, electricity, clean water supplis and medical treatment. 26 January has been declared a day of international solidarity. Join us in calling on our government to act to immediately lift the siege of Gaza . Join us in calling on our government to end the siege immediately! More details: www.palestinecampaign.org; www.endgazasiege.net; View a short film about the 400 strong protest on the 12th of January outside Downing Street: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWhBC6hP6cM ***PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY*** Dr Norman Finkelstein UK Speaking Tour In Manchester, Keele, Cambridge, London, Sussex and Edinburgh From 21st to 25th January. Author of 'Image Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict', 'The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering' and 'Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti Semitism and the Abuse of History'. He is the son of two Holocaust survivors and one of the world's foremost political scientists. For full details and booking information please visit: http://tinyurl.com/2y7o2v Monday 21 Jan Manchester University 19:30 - 22:00Tuesday 22nd of January 2008Keele University 12:00 - 13:15University of Cambridge (evening)--Wednesday 23 Jan 2008London School of Economics 18:00 - 20:00--Thursday 24 Jan 2008University of Sussex 13:30 - 15:30-Friday 25 Jan 2008Edinburgh University 18:00 - 21:00 - -- Palestine Solidarity CampaignBox BM PSALondonWC1N 3XX Tel: 020 7700 6192Fax: 020 7609 7779
Bismillah [IslamCity] The room
The RoomAuthor UnknownIn that place between wakefulness and dreams, I found myself in the room. There were no distinguishing features save for the one wall covered with small index card files. They were like the ones in libraries that list titles by author or subject in alphabetical order. But these files, which stretched from floor to ceiling and seemingly endlessly in either direction, had very different headings.As I drew near the wall of files, the first to catch my attention was one that read People I Have Liked. I opened it and began flipping through the cards. I quickly shut it, shocked to realize that I recognized the names written on each one.And then without being told, I knew exactly where I was. This lifeless room with its small files was a crude catalog system for my life. Here were written the actions of my every moment, big and small, in a detail my memory couldn't match.A sense of wonder and curiosity, coupled with horror, stirred within me as I began randomly opening files and exploring their content. Some brought joy and sweet memories; others a sense of shame and regret so intense that I would look over my shoulder to see if anyone was watching. A file named Friends was next to one marked Friends I Have Betrayed.The titles ranged from the mundane to the outright weird. Books I Have Read, Lies I Have Told, Comfort I Have Given, Jokes I Have Laughed At. Some were almost hilarious in their exactness: Things I've Yelled at My Brothers. Others I couldn't laugh at: Things I Have Done in My Anger, Things I Have Muttered Under My Breath at My Parents. I never ceased to be surprised by the contents. Often there were many more cards than I expected. Sometimes fewer than I hoped.I was overwhelmed by the sheer volume of the life I had lived. Could it be possible that I had the time in my 20 years to write each of these thousands or even millions of cards? But each card confirmed this truth. Each was written in my own handwriting. Each signed with my signature.When I pulled out the file marked Songs I Have Listened To, I realized the files grew to contain their contents. The cards were packed tightly, and yet after two or three yards, I hadn't found the end of the file. I shut it, shamed, not so much by the quality of music, but more by the vast amount of time I knew that file represented.When I came to a file marked Lustful Thoughts, I felt a chill run through my body. I pulled the file out only an inch, not willing to test its size, and drew out a card. I shuddered at its detailed content. I felt sick to think that such a moment had been recorded.An almost animal rage broke on me. One thought dominated my mind: No one must ever see these cards! No one must ever see this room! I have to destroy them! In an insane frenzy I yanked the file out. Its size didn't matter now. I had to empty it and burn the cards. But as I took it at one end and began pounding it on the floor, I could not dislodge a single card. I became desperate and pulled out a card, only to find it as strong as steel when I tried to tear it.Defeated and utterly helpless, I returned the file to its slot. Leaning my forehead against the wall, I let out a long, self-pitying sigh. And then I saw it. The title bore People that I Have Taught About Allah. The handle was brighter than those around it, newer, almost unused. I pulled on its handle and a small box not more than three inches long fell into my hands. I could count the cards it contained on one hand.And then the tears came. I began to weep. Sobs so deep that the hurt started in my stomach and shook through me. I fell on my knees and cried. I cried out of shame, from the overwhelming shame of it all. The rows of file shelves swirled in my tear-filled eyes. No one must ever, ever know of this room. I must lock it up and hide the key. _ Who's friends with who and co-starred in what? http://www.searchgamesbox.com/celebrityseparation.shtml
Bismillah [IslamCity] this Monday - on Gaza
Yvonne Ridley hosts a special Agenda discussion show on Press TV on Monday 14th January at 14.05 (GMT) about the Siege of Gaza. Download live by going to www.presstv.com or tune in to one of the 10 global satellites which broadcast the station. details are on the channel's website.The show is repeated Tuesday 02.05, Wednesday 00.05 and saturday 04.05 (GMT)Please send your feedback to [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.presstv.com _ Who's friends with who and co-starred in what? http://www.searchgamesbox.com/celebrityseparation.shtml
Bismillah [IslamCity] Demonstrate this Saturday!
- Please circulate widely!! - End the Siege on Gaza Protest outside Downing Street Saturday 12th of January 2008 4 to 6pm Opposite 10 Downing Street, London The international Campaign to end the siege on Gaza There are 1.5 million people, including women and children, in the Gaza Strip suffering the consequences of an oppressive siege and threatened with further measures of power cuts and cuts in foods and medicines allowed into the strip. Last week the IDF killed 17 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, including a woman and on Thursday the 3rd of January the Israeli High Court of Justice rejected an appeal by human rights groups for an injunction against fuel cuts to the Gaza Strip. Please show your support to Gaza by attending this protest to call for an end to the siege which is causing untold misery to the residents of the Gaza Strip. www.endgazasiege.net Supported by: PSC, PFB, BMI, PRC, STWC and FoA. - Please circulate widely!! - Friends of Al Aqsa is a voluntary organisation concerned with the defence ofAl Aqsa Haram Sharif and the protection of Palestinian Human Rights.http://www.aqsa.org.ukContact:P.O. Box 5127, Leicester. LE2 0WU. England.Tel 077 11 823 524-To be removed from this mailing listclick on the link below http://www.aqsa.org.uk _ Get Hotmail on your mobile, text MSN to 63463! http://mobile.uk.msn.com/pc/mail.aspx
Bismillah [IslamCity] Exclusive interview with Imam Anwar Al Awlaki with cagerprisoners
http://cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=22926 Listen to the audio of the interview here Exclusive interview with Imam Anwar Al Awlaki with cagerprisoners Moazzam Begg: When were you arrested? On what grounds were you held? Were there any charges made against you?Anwar Al-Awlaki: Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Raheem[i]. I was arrested in mid-2006. Initially I was held because I entered as an arbitrator in a local issue here, a tribal issue. I was an arbitrator in that issue and I was arrested until that issue… because the government wanted to solve that issue rather than have it solved tribally.MB: Right.AA: After that, they began asking me questions about my local Islamic activities here, and later on it was becoming clear that I was being held due to the request of the US government. That was what they were telling me here, and that the Americans wanted to meet me.MB: Subhan Allah[ii]. Well, that’s something that we can share together. I’ve also been held at the request of the Americans for quite some time.The other question is that the media reported that your incarceration was due to having some knowledge, or some people who were involved in 9/11 at your sermons. Could you clarify any of this at all?AA: That was one of the issues that the Americans asked about but I don’t know if I was held because of that, or because of the other issues that they presented. But it was one of the issues that they enquired about.MB: Can you describe a little bit about what your prison conditions were like? What was your individual cell was like?AA: For the first nine months, I was in solitary confinement in an underground cell. I would say that the cell was about 8 feet by 4. It was about 12 feet high. It was clean. No interaction with any other prisoner was allowed for the entire nine months. After that, they moved me to the upper floor. The same thing, it was solitary confinement, although the restrictions were less, and the room was larger, it was about, maybe three times the size of the initial room, the initial cell. I spent there the remainder of my period, which was one and a half a years.I was allowed for the last month and a half… they moved another person into this room, for the last month and a half. So for a year and a half, minus this month and a half, I was in solitary confinement, with the exception of the last month and a half.MB: Subhan Allah. Did they place any restrictions on you in terms of what you were allowed to have in your cell, how you were allowed to interact with other prisoners, or in any way, other than you have already stated?AA: When I was in the underground cell, there were restrictions on family visits, restrictions on any food that my family would send me, there were restrictions on books. I was not allowed pen and paper, and no exercise whatsoever. I hadn’t seen the sun for the entire period. What else… No interaction at all with any person except with the prison guards.Later on, when I moved to the upper level, even though I was still in solitary confinement, but the restrictions were less. Visits from the family were more frequent. They would allow me food from home twice a week, and I was allowed more books. So things were better during the last period of the time I spent in detention… I don’t want to say sentence, because there wasn’t any sentence.MB: That’s one of the questions I was meant to ask you. You were never charged with a crime, is that correct, and you were never put through any legal system?AA: I wasn’t charged with anything. I was held for interrogation. When interrogation was over, I was released.MB: Did any foreign interrogation take place? Did any Americans or any other foreign nationals interrogate you?AA: Yes, the US did interrogate me. Officials from the US.MB: And do you know if that was the FBI? Did they identify themselves as FBI, CIA, NSA or anything?AA: Yes. They were FBI.MB: Okay. And how was their attitude towards you… how did they deal with you as a person, how did they regard you?AA: There was some pressure, which I refused to accept and that led to a conflict that occurred between me and them, because I felt that it was improper behaviour from their behalf. That led to an issue between me and them during the interrogation. That was solved however, later on, and they apologised.MB: Al Hamdulillah[iii]. Were you able to have contact with your family at all, during the imprisonment, of course you’ve already said that they restricted from you letters, phone calls, and so forth, for the first nine months, I think you said. But afterwards, did they allow you this contact?AA: Yes, towards the latter period of my imprisonment, I was allowed visits from my family, once a week.MB: How often were you interrogated, by either local officials or foreign officials? Was it something regular, or was it something sporadic?AA: The interrogation was on and off for a year.MB: Is there any truth in the rumour that you
Bismillah [IslamCity] Imam Anwar Al Awlaki released
25/12/2007Imam Anwar Al Awlaki Released From Custody Cageprisoners can confirm that Imam Anwar Al Awlaki was released from prison on 12th December 2007, after almost a year and a half behind bars in Yemen. We thank all of you who took action on his behalf and remembered him in your prayers. If you would like to send Imam Anwar a message, please email us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and we will pass it on. ___Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://www.cageprisoners.com _ Fancy some celeb spotting? https://www.celebmashup.com
Bismillah [IslamCity] february
23rd February 2008 is World Chechnya Day. A day few are aware of and yet none should forget. Read more here www.worldchechnyaday.org _ Who's friends with who and co-starred in what? http://www.searchgamesbox.com/celebrityseparation.shtml
Bismillah [IslamCity] James Yee in conversation with Moazzam Begg
The 1990 Trust supports... Former Guantanamo Chaplain Tours UK For The First Timehttp://www.cageprisoners.com/campaigns.php?id=596Cageprisoners is hosting a series of events around the UK, and inviting people to attend a truly unique opportunity to hear former US army Chaplain James Yee speak and discuss his experiences with former Guantánamo detainee and Cageprisoners’ spokesman, Moazzam Begg.There are few people in the world who have never heard of the notorious US military prison facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. However, very few people have heard eye-witness accounts from US military personnel who served there – and even more rarely from Muslims within the US military.Chaplain (Yusuf) James J. Yee, a former US Army Chaplain and graduate of West Point served as the Muslim Chaplain for the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2003. While ministering to prisoners at guantanamo Bay, Captain Yee advised camp commanders on detainee religious practices and objected to the cruel and degrading abuses to which the prisoners were subjected.What sets Yee’s already unique story apart from others is how his fortune changed from being recognized twice as an outstanding officer serving the US military to being regarded as an enemy of the state. Captain Yee was arrested and imprisoned in a Naval brig for 76 days in September 2003 while being falsely accused of spying, espionage, and aiding the alleged Taliban and Al-Qaeda prisoners. He was held in solitary confinement and subjected to the same sensory deprivation techniques that were being used against the prisoners in Cuba that he had been ministering to.After months of government investigation, all criminal charges were dropped. He tendered his resignation from the U.S. Army and received an Honorable Discharge on January 7, 2005. Upon separation he was awarded with a second Army Commendation medal for “exceptionally meritorious service.”James Yee will be speaking with Moazzam Begg at the London Muslim Centre on Wednesday 5th December, (in conjunction with Q News and Hidden Detainees), in Birmingham on Thursday 6th December (co-organised by the Birmingham Guantanamo Coalition), where they will also be joined by the ‘Tipton Three’, and in Luton on Sunday 9th December.Yee will also be touring the UK, in conjunction with FOSIS, Scotland Against Criminalising Communities, Save Omar Deghayes Campaign, and speaking in a host of cities, amongst them Glasgow, Dundee, Brighton, Manchester, and ampeter. For full details of his UK itinery see below.Copies of Yee’s gripping account of his Guantanamo experience and struggle for justice For God And Country: Faith and Patriotism Under Fire will also be available at most events:Dates:Wednesday 28th November - Lancaster University, Department of Politics and International RelationsThursday 29th Nov - Kings College, London, 5 pmFriday 30th Nov - FOSIS, University of Sussex University of PortsmouthSaturday 1st December - FOSIS, University of KentSunday 2nd Dec - FOSIS, University of Bristol University of ExeterMonday 3rd Dec - FOSIS, MidlandsTuesday 4th Dec - FOSIS, Manchester Metropolitan University of Leeds/ BradfordWednesday 5th Dec - Cageprisoners, Hidden Detainees and Q News, London Muslim Centre, Whitechapel E1, 6:30pm. With Moazzam Begghttp://www.cageprisoners.com/campaigns.php?id=597Thursday 6th Dec - Cageprisoners and Birmingham Guantanamo Campaign, Birmingham, 7pm, With Moazzam Begg and Tipton ThreeFriday 7th Dec - SACC, GlasgowSaturday 8th Dec - FOSIS, Dundee UniversitySunday 9th Dec - Cageprisoners, Dallow Community Centre, 234 Dallow Road, Luton, LU1 1TF, 5:30pmhttp://www.cageprisoners.com/campaigns.php?id=598Monday 10th Dec - Save Omar, BrightonFor Further Information contact:Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: +44 797 326 4197James Yee and Moazzam Begg will be available for interview on request. _ Telly addicts unite! http://www.searchgamesbox.com/tvtown.shtml
Bismillah [IslamCity] Vote Anas El-Banna for Person of the Year
Kate Allen, director of Amnesty International UK, has nominated Anas El-Banna, Jamil El-Banna's eldest son, as New Stateman's Person of the Year 2007. In spite of his young age (almost 11) and not having seen his father in over five years, Anas has worked hard for the release and return of his father, having written to Prince Charles and Tony Blair shortly after his father was kidnapped and rendered when he was six, followed by other letters to the Prime Minister, speaking on international TV and to press media, speaking at demonstrations around London and in parliament. Please support Kate Allen's nomination of Anas El-Banna by voting at http://www.newstatesman.com/200711150026 Person of the Year 2007 Published 15 November 2007 Your chance to vote for the person you think has done the most for the good of humanity this year. Which man or woman most demonstrated the better side of being human? This week, we are launching the New Statesman Person of the Year Humanity Award. It's your chance to nominate someone who has done most in the past 12 months to inspire and enrich the lives of others, either in their community or profession, globally or locally. You have until 5 December to make your nomination. Kate Allen, director of Amnesty UK, nominates Anas el-BannaAnas el-Banna is the 11-year-old son of the Guantanamo prisoner and UK resident Jamil el-Banna. Jamil is one of more than 300 people still held without charge or trial at the notorious prison camp. Anas has led his family's struggle for justice for his father. At Amnesty we've been incredibly impressed as Anas has written to prime ministers, picketed No 10 and appeared on live television. He deserves recognition for his courage and determination. Nominations must be in by 5 DECEMBER _ Telly addicts unite! http://www.searchgamesbox.com/tvtown.shtml
Bismillah [IslamCity] Email your MP about Counter Terrorism Bill 2007 proposals
Message from London Guantanamo Campaign email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] friendWe would appreciate if you could write a letter to your MP opposing the government seeking draconian police powers such as the extension of pre-charge detention from 28 to 56 days. You can find all the arguments against these measures and resources including a draft letter on our website www.campacc.org.uk Please forward this email to your contacts. However if you want to send a quick letter by email, you can do it in less than 5 minutes by following these steps1. Please click this link http://www.writetothem.com/2. A separate window will appear. Put in your post code and you will get a link to your MP. 3. Click that it will take to a form. entering your details and space for the letter4. Then copy this letter below and paste it in the space for the letter in the form. Edit it.5. Send6. Go back to your email. You will get a message to confirm that you want to send the message. Click the link. Draft letter Dear Local MP dude/dudette (search www.writetothem.com), Re: Counter Terrorism Bill 2007 proposals I am writing to you as your constituent to express my concerns about the government’s proposals for the Counter-Terrorism Bill 2007. These proposals seek to extend the injustice of current police powers, which are extensive already.These proposals are based on the Terrorism Act 2000, which has defined terrorism so broadly as to criminalise many normal political activities in this country and resistance to oppressive regimes abroad. That Act created the ‘terrorist’ offences of belonging to certain organisations, sharing a platform with their members, and helping them financially, for example by selling publications. In particular I oppose the following new powers, which would be inherently unjust: 1. Detention without charge would be extended from 28 days to 56 days or possibly even 90 days. For anyone deemed a ‘terror suspect’, the current limit of 28 days already represents a drastic extension from that before the Terrorism Act 2000. There are no credible grounds for why such a long time would be necessary. It is equivalent to 8 weeks of a custodial sentence. The 28-day detention period has been used as a substitute for a proper criminal investigation, instead intimidating and stigmatising people as ‘terror suspects’. Extending pre-charge detention would be equivalent to 4 months of custodial sentence having serious impact on an individuals job prospects and family life. The majority of the people arrested under anti-terror laws are innocent and they need to be protected. Such a long detention amounts to internment in all but name, thus violating the principle of habeas corpus. It ignores the principle that citizens must be considered innocent until proven guilty. Police naturally want as much time as possible to lean on a suspect before honouring this principle. They may also lobby government to give them such powers, but in a free society, the police enforce the law, they don't make it. 2. Post-charge questioning of ‘terror suspects’Likewise such powers can be used to intimidate detainees, as a substitute for an adequate basis for the criminal charge in the first place. There needs to appropriate judicial oversight to ensure that this is supervised rigorously to prevent intimidation and pro-longed interrogation.3. A new criminal offence of seeking ‘information which could be useful for terrorism’. This offence would apply regardless of whether or not the seeker intends a ‘terrorist’ use – again terrorism being defined in such a broad way as to encompass many non-violent activities and to criminalise the peace movement, some strikers, or anyone planning boycotts, pickets, blockades etc. Information ‘which could be useful for terrorism’ can mean nearly anything, e.g. having maps or researching companies, and would be used for speculative charges to harass or criminalise political activists. 4. Travel restrictions for ‘suspects’For mere suspicion of involvement in terrorism, anyone could face travel restrictions and be deprived of their passport. Protesters could be prevented from travelling to international demonstrations. Like control orders, this would be punishment without trial. 5. Collective punishment of families of convicted terroristsUnder control orders, the imposing of curfews, electronic tagging, restrictions on the use of telephones (and mobile phones and the Internet) and restrictions on visits by relatives and friends, even of children, have turned homes into prisons for the family as a whole. The proposal to make it easier for the court to order the forfeiture of complex assets, such as a house and a flat of a convicted terrorist would punish the family. Given the recent convictions for possessing DVDs however radical under the provisions of the ‘glorification of terrorism’, this move is extremely serious. The counter terrorism powers that exist and the
Bismillah [IslamCity] A mistake worth its weight in gold
(fwded to me by another sister) A Mistake Worth its Weight in Gold From the Original Arabic Piece by Adel bin Muhammad al-Abdul 'AaleeTranslated by Abu DujanahOne of the Salaf entered a field, hungry and tired, so he wanted to eat, and his stomach was 'rumbling'. He saw an apple tree, and picked an apple to eat. He ate half of it under the protection of Allah, then he drank from the river near the field. After that, he suddenly realised that he was not aware of what he did due to his hunger, and thought to himself: Woe to you! How can you eat someone else's provision without permission. In remorse he was determined not to leave the place until he found the owner of the garden, and confess to him that he had eaten his provision without his permission. He looked around and saw a house and went up to the door and knocked on it.The owner came out and asked him what he wanted. The Salaf said: I was hungry and entered your garden and took this apple and ate half of it, then I remembered it was not mine, and I came to beg you to forgive me for this mistake.The man replied, I will not forgive you except on one condition?So the Salaf asked (and he is Thaabit bin Nu'maan), What is your condition?The owner of the garden said: I want you to marry my daughter.The honourable Salaf without hesitation said: yes, I will marry her. The father of the girl then said: I want you to know that my daughter is blind and cannot see, dumb and cannot speak, deaf and cannot hear.The revelation shocked Thaabit bin Nu'maan and thoughts flashed through his mind - what a disaster - what's he going to do? Then he remembered that the trials and tribulation he has to endure by accepting this woman as his wife, and taking care of her and serving her is better for him than to eat the food (sadeed) of hellfire due to the fact that he had eaten the apple without permission. He also realised that if he did not make amends, his days in the dunya are numbered. So he promised to marry the girl, and prayed for forgiveness and reward from Allah, the Lord of the Worlds.The day of marriage came, and the man was nervous and very worried: How will I enter upon a woman who does not speak, see, or hear?! What a dilemma, and he wished the earth would swallow him before that happened (i.e. going the wedding ceremony), but he remembered Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala and said: Laa Hawla wa laa quwata illa billah, wa inna lilah wa inna ilayhi raji'oon. He went off to the wedding ceremony and when he arrived, his future bride stood up and greeted him, saying, Assalamu 'alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu. When he saw her, it took his breath away and remembered what he had imagined of the hoor il-'ayn in paradise. Gaining his composure, he blurted out: What is this? So you speak, see, and hear. Thaabit bin Nu'maan then informed her what her father had to told him.She gave him the most beautiful smile and said: My father spoke the truth and he didn't lie.But why did he tell me things about you which are untrue?She replied, My father said I am dumb, because I have never said a word which displeases Allah, nor have I ever spoken to a man whom it is not permissable to speak to. [He said] I am deaf, because I have never sat it in a place where malicious backbiting, gossip or tale-telling takes place. [He said] I am blind because I have never looked at a man who was not permissable for me to look.So ponder how Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala united this pious woman to this pious man. _ Celeb spotting – Play CelebMashup and win cool prizes https://www.celebmashup.com
Bismillah [IslamCity] How to close down Guantánamo in 5 minutes
If this email is not displayed properly, click here Close Guantánamo in 5 minutes Dear unsubscribers, The tide is turning fast against Guantánamo Bay. Even former Secretary of State Colin Powell has gone on record saying that he would close the base down 'today not tomorrow'. However, around half of the candidates in the US Presidential election still support its existence. Amnesty is going to present the US Congress with a 13-point plan that shows exactly how the base can be closed down (and what the rest of the world thinks of Guantánamo Bay). We are getting MPs, SMPs, Assembly Members, MEPs and Lords to put their names to our plan. But we need your help to give them a gentle nudge in the right direction. What you can do Visit our action page today and you can swiftly and easily mail your elected representative. Please hurry as the deadline for collecting signatures is less than a month away. Want to do more? Send this mail to everyone you know and encourage them to take this decisive action. With your help we can really make a huge difference. You don't need to be an Amnesty member to do this action, but you can always join us if you would like to. If you have any queries or feedback about this email or Amnesty's work, please get in touch with our Supporter Care team on [EMAIL PROTECTED] or +44 (0)20 7033 1777Stop receiving these emailsStop receiving all Amnesty International emailsAmnesty International UK is a company limited by guarantee. Registered in England no 01735872, registered office _ Celeb spotting – Play CelebMashup and win cool prizes https://www.celebmashup.com
Bismillah [IslamCity] Coping with personal problems
Coping with Personal ProblemsBy Sheikh Salman al-'Awdah Who does not have problems?Problems are a part of life. If it were not for distance and separation, people would never know the joy of meeting and reunion. If it were not for poverty, people would not know wealth. And if it were not for sorrow, people would not know joy.In this manner, Allah has permitted the world to be a place of passage, where pleasure is accompanied by pain and laughter by tears, a world where the degree and severity of suffering is commensurate to the degree of happiness a person feels when that suffering goes away.Every home has its problems, as does every office, corporation, and country. Every soul is afflicted with its own inner problems. When a person knows that his own self does not comply with what he wants from it and does not fulfill his expectations, and that it often shames him and disappoints him unbearably, then what can he possibly expect from others?What can he hope to expect from the difficulties that arise from social interactions, whether they occur within a family setting, or among neighbors, or between colleagues and business partners, or with those who he meets on the road?In spite of all this, the goodness, companionship, and human welfare that social interactions bring about can never be attained by a person who lives in isolation. The evils brought about by seclusion are far greater than the discomfort that comes from dealing with others.How many people have tried to solve their problems by cutting off their dealings with others and going into seclusion? They seek to treat their ailments with something that is a sickness itself. They wind up longing to return to the very circumstances that they had so much detested before.A woman feels that she can not stand to live with her husband's behavior any more and sees divorce as the only solution. Then when she gets what she wants, she feels like she is going to die of loneliness and starts to think of a way to undo what she had done.An employee feels he can not bear his job any longer so he quits his job. After a while, though, he starts looking for people to intercede on his behalf as he repeatedly tries to get his job back.This is why it is not sensible to hastily resort to severing ties, thinking that this is going to get to the root of the problem and make it just go away. This course of action can possibly cause much more suffering than before.Specialists in problem management have set down the following practical steps for dealing with one's problems. These steps can be summarized as follows:Perceiving and recognizing the problem.Defining the problem correctly.Research, examination, and fact finding, with a focus on pinpointing causes.Setting down alternatives and options, then evaluating them and weighing their pros and cons.Determining the option that will provide the best solution to the problem.These steps can only be put into practice by a person who can approach his problems with a calm, level head. Reactions that are spontaneous and overemotional only serve to cloud a person's judgment, making it seem that the only solution is to completely divorce oneself from the source of the problem and with everything that in any way relates to it.The problem could actually come from the deep within a person's character or personal history and cannot be simply shrugged off. It could also come from unavoidable circumstances outside of that person's control. Often we besiege ourselves with problems and difficulties. This is not to say that those problems are not real. They definitely are. But we often have many good ways of getting around them. We do not have to dwell on them. We need to seek the help of Allah and cling hard to the firm handhold that He provides, repeating the words: You alone we worship and You alone we beseech for help.One of the supplications that the Prophets of old used to make goes as follows: O Allah! Yours is the praise. You are the one whose help we seek. You are the one on whom we rely. Yours is the aid that we seek. There is no might and no strength except with Allah, the High and Mighty.We can look at our problems as they really are and strive to get rid of them or at least minimize them, without letting them suffocate us or hold us back. Our problems must not make us stop working and living productive lives. We can also defer some problems that we cannot solve at the present time and wait for Allah, in whose hands rest all affairs, to relieve us of themIt is related from Ibn Mas`ûd that Allah's Messenger said: The best form of worship is to wait for relief. [Sunan al-Tirmidhî (3571), al-Bazzâr (Majma` al-Zawâ'id 10/147), and al-Bayhaqî in Shu`ab al-Imân (7/204)] This narration, though, is weak. [1] At the same time, there can be no doubt that expecting relief from Allah is a form of worship, since it is part of being patient. This brings to our attention an important
Bismillah [IslamCity] sowing the seeds of discord
(An excellent story forwarded to me) There were three bulls, a white bull, a red bull, and a black bull. A hungry wolf approached the red and the black bull and told them if they let him eat the white bull he would not have any further interest in eating them. So in order to save themselves they agreed, and the wolf devoured the white bull. A few days later the wolf returned and stealthily took aside the black bull and told him if he let him eat the red bull he would not attack or eat the black bull. The black bull agreed and the wolf devoured the red bull. A few days passed and once again the wolf returned as hungry as ever. He found the black bull and they both knew what was coming next. The wolf told the black bull to at least try and save himself to which the black bull responded, 'I was dead the day I allowed the white bull to be devoured'. Whilst united the wolf could not devour any of them, but once the wolf began sowing the seeds of discord, he was able to conquer them one at a time. When the black bull realised what the wolf was up to, it was too late.May Allaah swt save us from this and may we unite in favour of Allaah swt and his commands. Ameen _ Feel like a local wherever you go. http://www.backofmyhand.com
Bismillah [IslamCity] Video: Characteristics of the caller (Murtaza Khan)
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Bismillah [IslamCity] Video: Characteristics of the caller (Murtaza Khan)
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Bismillah [IslamCity] important: please open and sign
Please click here to sign for the release of Imam Anwar Al-Awlakihttp://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/appeal-of-immediate-release-of-imam-anwar-al-awlaki Anwar Al-Awlaki, a US citizen of Yemeni descent was arrested in Sana'a, Yemen on the 31st of August 2006. He is a highly respected scholar of Islam who has a large following throughout the Muslim world. He has been identified in the media as 'Abu Atiq'. The Imam is believed to be held in Central Security Prison, Sana'a without any formal charges being brought against him. Imam Anwar Al-Awlaki has been a beacon of guidance to the Muslim Ummah. He has authored numerous audio lectures on Islam, 'Lives of the Prophets', 'The Hereafter', 'The life of Muhammad (saw)' amongst others. _ Get free emoticon packs and customisation from Windows Live. http://www.pimpmylive.co.uk
Bismillah [IslamCity] Video: how can you deny?
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Bismillah [IslamCity] important: please open and sign
Please click here to sign for the release of Imam Anwar Al-Awlakihttp://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/appeal-of-immediate-release-of-imam-anwar-al-awlaki Anwar Al-Awlaki, a US citizen of Yemeni descent was arrested in Sana'a, Yemen on the 31st of August 2006. He is a highly respected scholar of Islam who has a large following throughout the Muslim world. He has been identified in the media as 'Abu Atiq'. The Imam is believed to be held in Central Security Prison, Sana'a without any formal charges being brought against him. Imam Anwar Al-Awlaki has been a beacon of guidance to the Muslim Ummah. He has authored numerous audio lectures on Islam, 'Lives of the Prophets', 'The Hereafter', 'The life of Muhammad (saw)' amongst others. _ Celeb spotting – Play CelebMashup and win cool prizes https://www.celebmashup.com
Bismillah [IslamCity] parent's rights
Allah's Messenger (Blessings peace be upon him) said: ‘Let him be humbled into dust! Let him be humbled into dust!’ It was said: ‘O Allah's Messenger (Blessings peace be upon him) who is he?’ He (Blessings peace be upon him) said: ‘He who sees either of his parents during their old age or he sees both of them, but he does not enter Paradise (through his deeds of service towards them)!’ Sahih Muslim Hadith 6189 Narrated by Abu Hurayrah Get free emoticon packs and customisation from Windows Live. Pimp My Live! _ The next generation of MSN Hotmail has arrived - Windows Live Hotmail http://www.newhotmail.co.uk
Bismillah [IslamCity] gems and jewels
Taken from Gems and Jewels - compiled by Abdul Malik MujahidDo not attach your heart to other than AllahImaam ibn Taymiyyah RA said: “Anyone whose heart is attached to the creation, hoping for someone from the creation to help him or provide for him or guide him, then his heart submits to them and to the degree that his heart submits to them, he becomes their slave. This holds true, even if he is outwardly a ruler or guardian over those whom he treats as masters. The wise one looks at realities and not at appearances. So if a man’s heart is attached to his wife, even though it is permissible, his heart remains a prisoner to her and she may rule over him as she pleases – though outwardly he is her master and her husband. In reality, he is her prisoner and her slave, especially if she knows how much he is need of her and how much he is in love with her and how much he feels she cannot be replaced by anyone else. At that point, she rules over him as the tyrant master rules over his subjugated slave, who cannot escape of go free. Indeed for the heart to be taken as a prisoner is a much greater matter than for the body to be taken prisoner or slave. Even a body that is a slave can have in it a serene and peaceful and happy heart. As far the heart that is a slave to other than Allah then that is true humiliation, imprisonment and slavery.” Words of wisdomWhen Ibn `Aun was bidding farewell to another man, he said: “Upon you is to fear Allah, for the one who has taqwaa never feels loneliness”.Zaid bin Aslam said: “Whoever fears Allah people will love him, even if they had previously hated him”.Imaam Thauri said to Ibn Abi Dha`ib “If you fear Allah, He will be enough for you so that you do not need people. And if you fear people, they will not satisfy you in the least terms of your total dependence on Allah”Sulaiman bin Dawood said “We have been given what others have been given and more, and we know what others know and more, and we have found that nothing is better than the fear of Allah in secret and in open, justice during times of happiness and sadness, and moderation in times of poverty and richness”. True HonourAllah SWT says in the Noble Quraan that honour comes only through piety:‘Verily, the most honourable of you with Allah is that believer who has taqwaa (piety, righteousness, the fear of Allah etc)’ 49:13It is related that Umar bin Khattab RA passed by a man who proudly said ‘I am from the valleys of Makkah’. He stood over him and said, ‘If you have religion, then you have honour, if you have sound mind, then you have dignity, if you have knowledge then you have respect otherwise you are on an equal footing with donkeys.’And it has been said “honour during the days of Ignorance was achieved by eloquent speech, by bravery and forbearance and in Islam by religion and piety”. Five mattersThe Prophet said, “I was given five matters that no other Prophet before me was given. The first is that I was given victory with terror (i.e, people felt fear and terror) equivalent to the distance it would take one to travel in one month (that is how widespread the terror and awe had become). Secondly, the entire earth has been made a mosque for me and its soil is pure. Thirdly, the spoils of war have been made lawful to me. Next, I have been given intercession, and finally each Prophet before me was sent to a specific people, while I was sent to all of mankind” (Saheeh Bukhari). 23rd February is World Chechnya Day. A day few are aware of and yet none should forget. Read more here End Israeli Occupation Free Palestine Do you know a place like the back of your hand? Share local knowledge with BackOfMyHand.com _ Celeb spotting – Play CelebMashup and win cool prizes https://www.celebmashup.com
Bismillah [IslamCity] final destination
Remembering the Destination of Mankind in the Hereafter – A Cure for Weak ImanIbnul Qayyim al Jawziyyah Madaarij us-Saalikeen islaam.com When one's mind is clear, he will be able to see clearly, thus giving such a person a light in his heart that will allow him to almost witness the Warning and the Promise, Paradise and Hell, and what Allah has prepared in this (Paradise) For His Awliyaa` (loyal friends) and in that (Hell) for His enemies. He will then witness people rushing out of their graves following the call of the Truth (Resurrection). The angels in the heavens will the descend and will surround them (creation). Allah will then come to judge (between creation) and His Kursi (literally a footstool or chair) will be raised. The earth will shine with the Light of its Lord (Allah, when He comes to judge between His creation), the Book (of Records) will be opened and the Prophets and the witnesses will be brought forward. The Mizan (Scale) will then be established, the books of (individual) records will fly around and the foes will converge, each holding to its foe. Al-Houdh (the pool that runs outside the gates of Paradise from a river inside it) will then appear and its cups will appear close by. Thirst will intensify, but those who are allowed to drink are few. Al-Jisr (the bridge over Hell that everyone must pass over into Paradise) will then be laid (over Hell) so that (mankind and the Jinn) can pass over it (as for the disbelievers and those whose sins outweigh their good deeds, they will fall into Hell, where only the disbelievers will reside for eternity). People will then be gathered in its direction. The Fire (Hell) will appear, each part harshly consuming the other parts beneath it. Those who fall into it are far more than those who are saved from it. Then, an eye will be opened in his (the man who is thinking about these scenes) heart with which he will be able to see clearly. His heart will then witness some scenes of the Last Life, along with imagining the various stages of the Last Life which will last for eternity, as compared to this Dunya (the life of this world) and its briefness. 23rd February is World Chechnya Day. A day few are aware of and yet none should forget. Read more here End Israeli Occupation Free Palestine Do you know a place like the back of your hand? Share local knowledge with BackOfMyHand.com _ 100’s of Music vouchers to be won with MSN Music https://www.musicmashup.co.uk
Bismillah [IslamCity] Purification - Intention, Forgetfulness...
'Abdullah ibn as-Sunnabiji stated that the Messenger of Allah said:When a slave makes ablution and rinses his mouth, his wrong deeds fall from it. As he rinses his nose, his wrong deeds fall from it. When he washes his face, his wrong deeds fall from it until they fall from beneath his eyelashes. When he washes his hands, his wrong deeds fall from them until they fall from beneath his fingernails. When he wipes his head, his wrong deeds fall from it until they fall from his ears. When he washes his feet, his wrong deeds fall from them until they fall from beneath his toenails. Then his walking to the mosque and his prayer give him extra reward. (Related by Malik, an-Nasa'i, Ibn Majah and al-Hakim.) _ Pronouncing The Intention Verbally - Shaykh Abdul-Azeez ibn BaazWhat is the ruling regarding pronouncing the intention verbally in Salaat and Wudoo?The ruling regarding this is that it is an innovation. Because it has not been reported from the Prophet (peace be upon him) or his companions, therefore it is an obligation to abstain from it. The place of the intention is the heart, generally there is no need to pronounce the intention verbally. And Allaah is the possessor of all success._Washing the Hands[1] Before the Face During Wudhoo - Shaykh Abdul-Azeez ibn BaazI was performing Wudhoo for Salaah and I forgot to wash my face and washed my hands [2]. I then remembered that, so I washed my face, then my hands[3] and then completed the Wudhoo. Is there anything upon (me) with regards to that? And O Eminent Shaykh! What if somebody forgets to wash his face and did not remember this until he finished the Wudhoo? Please give us the Islaamic ruling, may Allaah reward you with good.There is nothing upon you with regards to that, because you went back, washed your face and then you washed your hands[4] and then completed the Wudhoo. As for the one who left out (washing) his face and did not remember it until he finished the Wudhoo, consequently he must redo the wudhoo because it is an obligation to maintain it’s sequence and wash the prescribed bodily parts in succession without interruption (whilst performing Wudhoo).And Allaah is the Possessor of all success.---[1] Up to the elbows [TN][2] Up to the elbows [TN][3] Again for a second time [TN][4] Again for a second time_Wiping Over the Nape During Wudhoo - Shaykh Abdul-Azeez ibn BaazIs wiping over the nape whilst performing the Wudhoo not recommended? Because I have heard that it is imitating the Jews?Yes, it has not been recommended, and Islamically it has not been legislated to wipe over the nape, however wiping is only for the head and the ears, as this has been established in the Quraan Sunnah._Performing Wudhoo Inside The Bathroom - Shaykh Abdul-Azeez ibn BaazWhat is the ruling upon one who does Wudhoo inside the bathroom? Is his Wudhoo permissible?There is no problem for him to perform Wudhoo inside the bathroom if there is a need for that. He is to invoke the name of Allaah at the beginning of performing Wudhoo, by saying (ÈÓã Çááå) ‘In the name of Allaah’ because invoking the name of Allaah (ÇáÊÓãíÉ) is compulsory according to some of the people of knowledge, and an emphasized Sunnah according to majority of the scholars. So he is to invoke the name of Allaah and the ruling of (ÇáßÑÇåÉ) Karaahah (dislike - for uttering it inside the bathroom) is removed because legitimately the (ÇáßÑÇåÉ) Karaahah ceases when the need is present (like in this case) to invoke the name of Allaah (inside the bathroom). As the person has been commanded to invoke the name of Allaah at the beginning of Wudhoo, so he is to invoke the name of Allaah and then complete his Wudhoo.As with regards to the supplication upon completing the Wudhoo (ÇáÊÔåÏ) ‘the declaration of faith’ then it is to be uttered after coming out of the bathroom, as the bathroom is a place to relieve one’s needs. So when he finishes performing Wudhoo, he is to come out of the bathroom and utter the (ÇáÊÔåÏ) ‘declaration of faith’ outside . However if the bathroom is only for the purpose of Wudhoo and it is not for relieving oneself from stool or urine, then there is no problem for him to utter the supplication (ÇáÊÔåÏ) ‘declaration of faith’ inside the bathroom, because in this case the bathroom is not a place to relieve one’s needs.Source: http://www.madeenah.com/category.cfm?id=29 Inbox cluttered with junk? Clean up with Yahoo! Mail. Play Movie Mash-up and win BIG prizes! _ Get free emoticon packs and customisation from Windows Live. http://www.pimpmylive.co.uk
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Bismillah [IslamCity] poem: Down Memory Well - Babar Ahmad
http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=21859 Down Memory WellBabar Ahmad Last night I lay awake unable to sleep, As I let my soul wander too deep. My heart was in doubt about Your Promise,No-one could give me solace.My soul left my body and my body left my cell,As I pulled up my pail from Memory Well.I journeyed back to the time of my birth,Not knowing then what it was worth.What I discovered was a chest of treasure,As I realised You had blessed me without measure.I remembered all the good You had done for me, In all my years when my body was free.I was hungry and You fed me, I was bare and You clothed me.I was alone and You gave me company,By blessing me with friends and family.When I was sick You cured me.When I was hurt You healed me.When I was sad You cheered me up.When I was broken You fixed me up.I veered off the path but You brought me back.I lost my footing but You set me on track.I went astray but You gave me direction.I felt afraid but You gave me protection.When the pack of beasts savaged me that day,And the racist devils mocked how I pray,I asked You for death but You gave me life.I asked it to end but You gave me respite.As I lay in pain in the cell that December,You sent me a gift I will always remember.A dream unlike I had ever seen before.A vision that made my spirit soar.What I saw that winter’s night,Turned my darkness into light.Even as I bled to the bone,I knew then that I was not alone.You set me free so my body could heal,And my heart and soul could recover their zeal.You were preparing me for what lay ahead:A path of peril, fear and dread.Once again You blessed me with captivity,And made me into someone I never dreamed to be.O Allah! I never sought all this attention,That I got because of my detention.The more they defamed me the more You honoured me.The more they detained me the more the blind could see.The harder it got the more You helped me.The darker it got the more You enlightened me.As I then gazed at my memories in the pail,I began to see beyond the veil.I truly was an ungrateful servant,Whose woes appeared ever so fervent.As my feelings of sorrow turned into shame,I realised I had only myself to blame.How dare I moan about my pain,When others far worse did not complain?My throbs of doubt transformed into certainty,As I fell asleep with my soul in serenity.I had quenched my thirst from Memory Well,And pulled myself out from my own hell.O Allah, forgive me for my ingratitude!O Allah, ignore my shameful attitude!You were always there when I wanted You to be,And I know now that You will never abandon me.Babar Ahmad MX5383, HMP ManchesterSeptember 2007, Ramadan 1428 Source www.feesabilillah.com “What can my enemies do to me? My paradise is in my heart; wherever I go it goes with me. For me, prison is a place of (religious) retreat; execution is my opportunity for martyrdom; and exile from my town is but a chance to travel in the way of Allah.” - Ibn Taymiyah Yahoo! Answers - Get better answers from someone who knows. Try it now. Are you the Quizmaster? Play BrainBattle with a friend now! _ Celeb spotting – Play CelebMashup and win cool prizes https://www.celebmashup.com
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10 ways of developing love for AllahAdapted from Shaykh Ibn Qayyim's (rah) Madarij-us-Saalikeen Shaykh Ibn al-Qayyim (rah) says: “The reason which cause mahabbah (love) of Allaah to develop, are ten: First: Reciting the Qur’aan, reflecting and understanding its meaning and its intent. Second: Drawing closer to Allaah – the Most High – through optional deeds, after fulfilling the obligatory duties. Third: Being continuous in the dhikr (remembrance) of Allaah, with the tongue, the heart and the limbs – under all circumstances. The more continuant the dhikr, the more muhabbah develops and intensifies. Fourth: Giving precedence to what Allaah loves over personal loves, when being overcome by desires. Fifth: Contemplating and deliberating over the Names and Attributes of Allaah. Sixth: Recognizing and remembering the favors and bounties of Allaah – both manifest and hidden. Seventh: To be humble and submissive before Allaah – and this is the greatest matter. Eighth: To be in seclusion reciting the Qur’aan, during that time in which Allaah descends to the lowest heaven (which is the last third of every night), finishing this recitation with seeking Allaah’s forgiveness and repenting to Him. Ninth: To sit in the gatherings of the true and sincere lovers of Allaah, reaping the fruits of their speech, and not to speak except if there is benefit in it and that you know that such talk will increase you in goodness and that it will benefit others as well. Tenth: To stay clear of all those causes which distances the heart from Allaah – the Mighty and Majestic.So these are the ten reasons which cause the person to develop true love for Allaah and to reach the rank of al-muhabbah, by which he reaches his Beloved. 23rd February is World Chechnya Day. A day few are aware of and yet none should forget. Read more here End Israeli Occupation Free Palestine Play Movie Mash-up and win BIG prizes! _ 100’s of Music vouchers to be won with MSN Music https://www.musicmashup.co.uk
Bismillah [IslamCity] 7 Practical Tips for praying Qiyaam al-Layl
7 Practical Tips for praying Qiyaam al-LaylReferences'The Night Prayers' by Muhammad Nasir ud-Deen al-Albanee (rahimahullah),answers by Shaikh Salih al-Munajjad (hafizahullah) and othersAs-Sunnah Islamic Newsletter Issue 15What is Qiyaam al-Layl?Qiyaam' means 'standing' and 'Qiyaam al-Layl' means 'standing in night.' In the Islamic terminology, both terms refer to, 'the voluntary night prayer, whose time extends from after Isha prayer until dawn.' Other common names for Qiyaam al-Layl are, Salaat ul-Layl (the night prayer), Tahajjud (from hajada meaning remained awake at night), Witr(odd-numbered this term is also used to refer to the last one or three Raka'ah of Qiyaam) and Taraweeh (resting).A widespread misconception is that Tahajjud is a different night prayer than Qiyaam or Taraweeh. It is important to clarify this misunderstanding and to make clear that there is only one nafl night prayer known by different names. Even though the term Taraweeh is more commonly used to describe the night prayer in Ramadan, it is not different from Tahajjud. Thus, the practice of praying Taraweeh in the earlier part of the night and Tahajjud in the later part should be stopped.The Excellence of Qiyaam al-LaylNumerous Ahaadeeth and Qur'aanic verses mention the excellence of Qiyaam al-Layl and the merit of those who perform it regularly. Umm al-Mumineen, Aa'ishah (radhi allahu anha) reported that the Prophet (sallallahu alaihi wa-sallam) said: The most beloved deeds to Allah are the most constant, even if they were little. [Saheeh al-Bukharee and Saheeh Muslim] and she said in another narration: Do not ever stop praying Qiyaam. The Prophet (sallallahu alaihi wa-sallam) never ceased praying it. When he was sick or weak, he prayed sitting. [Saheeh al-Bukharee and Saheeh Muslims] He (sallallahu alaihi wa-sallam) said: You should pray Qiyaam al-Layl, for it is the habit of the righteous people who came before you, and it will bring you closer to your Lord, expiate for bad deeds, prevent sin, and expel disease from the body. [At-Tirmidhee and Musnad Ahmad]Narrated Mu'adh Ibn Jabal (radhi allahu anhu): 'The Prophet (sallallahu alaihi wa-sallam) said to him: May I show you the gates of goodness?' (they are), (a) Fasting is screen from Hell, (b) As-Sadaqah extinguishes the sins, as water extinguishes fire, (c) Standing in Salaat (prayer) by a slave of Allah during the last third part of a night. Then the Prophet (sallallahu alaihi wa-sallam) recited the verse: Their (believer's) sides forsake their beds, to invoke their Lord in fear and hope; and they spend out of what We have bestowed onthem.' [Abu Dawood and at-Tirmidhee]Abu Hurayrah (radhi allahu anhu) reported that Allah's Messenger (sallallahu alaihi wa-sallam) said: The best of prayer after those prescribed (i.e. obligatory prayer) is that in the depth of night. [Saheeh Muslims]Abu Hurayrah (radhi allahu anhu) reported that Allah's Messenger (sallallahu alaihi wa-sallam) said: May Allah have mercy on a man who wakes up at night, prays, and wakes his wife to pray; and if she refuses, he sprinkles water on her face. And may Allah have mercy on a woman who wakes up at night, prays, and wakes her husband to pray; andif he refuses, she sprinkles water on his face. [(Hasan) Abu Dawood ]Abdullah Ibn Bashr (radhi allahu anhu) reported Allah's Messenger (sallallahu alaihi wa-sallam) saying: Whoever prays Qiyaam reciting ten verses, he will not be recorded among the negligent. Whoever prays Qiyaam reciting one hundred verses, he will be recorded among the devout. And whoever prays Qiyaam reciting one thousand verses, he will be recorded among those with a multitude of good deeds. [(Hasan) AbuDawood]7 Practical Tips for praying Qiyaam al-Layl1: Ikhlas (Sincerity) - the key to Allah's Help and BlessingsHelp of Allah is needed to accomplish and achieve success in all our affairs. And Allah only helps those who are sincere in their hearts. The Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alaihi wa-sallam) said: If you are truthful with Allah, then Allah will deliver to you what you wish for. [An-Nasa'ee, al-Hakim and Saheeh al-Jamee] Therefore, one should have asincere intention to pray Qiyaam al-Layl; seek the Pleasure of Allah Alone and avoid the desire of praise or fame. Allah says: And they were commanded not, but that they should worship Allah, and worship none but Him Alone… [(98): 5] Imam Ibn al-Qayyim said: The degree to which a person is helped and aided by Allah depends on the degree of his intention, drive, aim and hopes. Help from Allah comes to people in proportion to their drive intention, hopes and fears, and failure comes to them in like manner.2: Knowing the Virtues of Qiyaam al-LaylKnowing the virtues and rewards of performing worship produces willingness and desire to perform the worship. We have previously mentioned numerous virtues of regularly praying Qiyaam al-Layl, here we mention the excellence of praying
Bismillah [IslamCity] eloquent speech
Eloquent Speech Abu Hurayrah (radiyallaahu anhu) reported that Allaah's Messenger (sallallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam) said: Love the one whom you love to a certain degree (moderately), perhaps one day he will be someone for whom you have hatred, and hate the one for whom you have hatred to a certain degree (moderately), perhaps one day he will be one whom you love. (at-Tirmidhee) I am sure that all of you know the famous Hadeeth where Hudhayfah (radiyallaahu anhu) said: “People used to ask the Messenger of Allaah about the good times, but I used to ask him about the bad times fearing lest they should overtake me. I said: Messenger of Allaah, we were in the midst of ignorance and evil, and then Allaah brought us this good (time through Islaam). Is there any bad time after this good one?” He said: “Yes.” I asked: “Will there be a good time again after that bad time?” He said: “Yes, but in it will be a hidden evil.” I asked: “What will be the evil hidden therein?” He said: “(That time will witness the rise of) the people who will adopt ways other than mine and seek guidance other than mine. You will know good points as well as bad points.” I asked: “Will there be a bad time after this good one?” He said: “Yes. (A time will come) when there will be people standing and inviting at the gates of Hell. Whoever responds to their call will be thrown into the fire.” I said: “Messenger of Allaah, describe them to us.” He said: “They will be a people having the same complexion as ours and speaking our language.” (Saheeh Muslim) Allaah (Subahana Wa Ta’ala) said: “And of mankind there is he whose speech may please you (O Muhammad), in this worldly life, and he calls Allaah to witness as to that which is in his heart, yet he is the most quarrelsome of the opponents.” (Al-Baqarah 2:204) ‘Abdullah bin Umar (radiyallaahu anhu) narrated that 2 men came from the east and addressed the people who wondered at their eloquent speech. On that Allaah’s Messenger (sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam) said: “Some eloquent speech is as effective as magic.” (Saheeh al-Bukhaaree) And we are in a time where the ignorant ones are giving verdicts in matters that they have no knowledge about, and people are taking these ‘ignorant ones’ as scholars. Ibn Mas’ud (radiyallaahu anhu) said: There will not come upon you a time, except that it is more evil than the time before it. I do not mean a leader better than another leader, nor a year better than another year. But your 'Ulemah and fuqahaa (i.e. your Scholars) will disappear, and you will not find anyone to succeed them. Then there will come a people who will give verdicts according to their opinion. (Ibn Hajr related it in Fathul-Baaree). And in another wording: It is not due to abundance of rain, nor due to its scarcity. Rather it is due to the disappearance of the Scholars. Then there will come a people who will give verdicts on matters based upon mere opinion; and thus they will destroy Islaam. (Ibn Hajr related it in Fathul-Baaree) And that, which affirms the truth of what Ibn Mas’ud (radiyallaahu anhu) said, is what is reported in the Sunnah of the Prophet, in his (sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam’s) saying: Indeed, Allaah does not snatch away the knowledge, but He takes it away by the passing away of the Scholars. Such that when no Scholar remains, the people take ignorant ones as their leaders. They are asked and give verdicts without knowledge. Thus, they misguide themselves and misguide others. (Saheeh al-Bukhaaree and Saheeh Muslim) And the Prophet (sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam) said: “Indeed it is among the signs of the Hour that knowledge be sought from the asaghar (minor / lesser people, in lineage or knowledge).” (Recorded by Ibn al-Mubarak in az-Zuhd, 61 and al-Lalaka’i in Sharh Usool I‘tiqad Ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jamaa‘ah, 102) And in the Hadeeth of Anas (radiyallaahu anhu), the Prophet (sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam) mentioned some more signs of the Last Hour, amongst which he said: Knowledge will be lifted and ignorance will become widespread. (Saheeh al-Bukhaaree and Saheeh Muslim) And the following statement of the Prophet (sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam): “Towards the last days, a people will emerge who will be young in age and have foolish ideas. They will speak with the best speech of the creatures. Their Eemaan will not go past their throats. So wherever you encounter them, kill them, for indeed there will be a reward for the one who kills them on the Day of Judgement.” (Recorded in as-Sunnah of Imaam Ahmed bin Hanbal) Muhammad bin Sireen, Maalik bin Anas and many more of the Salaf (Rahimullah) have said: “Indeed, this knowledge is the Religion! So look carefully towards whom you take your Religion from.” (An authentic narration on Muhammad Ibn Sireen reported by Muslim in the introduction to his Saheeh Muslim) So when taking knowledge we have to be extremely careful where we take it from because taking knowledge
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