Bismillah


As salam alykom


Sobhan Allah, he died in Ramadan during the last ten days in which Allah promised salavation from Hell fire for those who die. Sobhan Allah one really should never make any judgements about any human being. May Allah grant us all salvation from Hell fire ameen


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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6402008/?GT1=5809


Arafat's body begins long journey home


Egypt prepares for 75-year-old Palestinian leader's funeral


Nov. 11: Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat died early Thursday at a Paris military hospital. NBC's Brian Williams reports on the reaction from Ramallah.


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Updated: 1:12 p.m. ET Nov. 11, 2004CAIRO - Egypt put its security forces on maximum alert Thursday and prepared a modest mosque at Cairo’s international airport for the funeral of Yasser Arafat, the guerrilla leader turned Nobel Peace Prize winner who died earlier in the day at a French military hospital outside Paris at the age of 75.


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A French military helicopter took his flag-draped casket to a nearby military airfield, where crowds of supporters gathered outside, waving flags and pictures of Arafat.


In a brief ceremony attended by French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin and Foreign Minister Michel Barnier, Arafat’s widow, Suha, wept with her head bowed as eight soldiers walked down the airfield tarmac bearing the coffin, draped in a large Palestinian flag. She then followed her husband’s coffin onto a waiting French jet, which departed minutes later for Cairo, where Arafat's funeral on Friday was to be attended by leaders from around the world.


After the service, Arafat’s body will be flown to his Ramallah compound in the West Bank for burial.


The death of the man both revered as a champion of Palestinian statehood and reviled as a terrorist spread spasms of grief among Palestinians and rekindled calls for new peace talks with Israel.


It also left the Palestinians without a strong leader for the first time in four decades and aroused fears of a chaotic power struggle that could lead to fighting in the streets.


Arafat died at 3:30 a.m. local time at the Percy Military Training Hospital in Clamart.


‘His big heart stopped’


“He closed his eyes and his big heart stopped. He left for God but he is still among this great people,” said senior Arafat aide Tayeb Abdel Rahim, who broke into tears as he announced Arafat’s death.


• NBC: Tenacious


• NBC: What's next?


• NBC: Arab views


• Phares: Failings


• Newsweek's obituary


• Palestinian grief


• World reaction


• Video: Reactions


• Timeline: Slide show


• Possible successors


A wave of grief quickly swept across the West Bank and Gaza Strip.


Thousands ran into the streets, clutching his photograph, crying and wondering how they would survive without the man who embodied their struggle for statehood.


“He is our father,” Namia Abu-Safia, 48, said sobbing in the Jebaliya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. “He is Palestine.”


Black smoke from burning tires rose across the Gaza Strip and gunmen fired into the air in grief. Palestinian flags at Arafat’s battered compound here were lowered to half-staff. Somber music played on the radio, church bells rang out and Quranic verses were played for hours over mosque loudspeakers.


As Palestinians mourned, many Israelis heaped bitterness on the man they branded a “master terrorist,” blaming him for the 4-year-old “intifada,” or uprising, and for attacks that have killed hundreds of their people.


President Bush and some other world leaders expressed the hope that Arafat’s death will clear the way for successful Mideast peace negotiations with new Palestinian leaders.


But the impediments to peace were quickly visible.


Within hours of Arafat’s death, militants from his Fatah movement attacked a Jewish settlement in Gaza in what they said signaled the start of a new round of clashes with Israel. Soldiers killed three Palestinians, at least two of them gunmen.

Every person has a different way of coming to the Truth. For Moisha Krivitsky this way led through a faculty of law, a synagogue and a prison. The lawyer-to-be becomes a Rabbi, then he converts into Islam and finds himself in prison. Today Musa (this is the name he has adopted when he became a Muslim) lives in a small mosque in Al-Burikent, a mountain area of Makhachkala, and works as a watchman in the Central Juma mosque.


http://www.jews-for-allah.org/Jewish-Conve...a_synagogue.htm

their are three muslim countrys that need to be free, and thats KURDISTAN, palestine, and kashmire.


who agrees with me?

Of all the conspiracies hatched against Islam in modern times, the most dangerous is a false claim to Prophethood made in the beginning of this century. This claim has been the main cause of wide spread mental chaos amongst the Ummah for the last sixty years. Like all other schisms, the root cause of this mischief is that the Muslims are generally ignorant of their religion. Had they been truly imbued with its knowledge and developed a clear understanding of the article of faith relating to the finality of Prophethood, it would have been well-nigh impossible for any false claimant to Prophethood to take root and thrive among the people of Islam after the last ministry of Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him). At this juncture the most perfect and effective remedy for eradicating this evil is to educate the maximum number of people in the best possible manner about true faith in the finality of the Prophethood of Muhammad (peace be upon him) and stressing the importance and value of this article of faith in the religion of Islam. It is also imperative that all doubts and skeptical notions about the final ministry of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) should be dispelled through reason and logic. This booklet has been prepared to serve this very purpose. Readers who find it useful should take a step further and extend their full co-operation in the propagation of its contents. This booklet ought to reach all literate people and they having studied it themselves should read it out to the non-literate. It is hoped that a study of this booklet will not only immunize people who have not been contaminated with this malady but would also make the truth manifest to the right-minded persons among those who have received some of its germs. However, those who have fallen victim to falsehood and are impervious to all reason--for them, hope and salvation lies only with Allah.


Abul A'la Maududi (d.1979) - Lahore - February 12, 1962.


http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/p...nalprophet.html

The heat is on! Once a year a dramatic change occurs in the Muslim


community. Once a year 'Badboy Vick' becomes Waqas and 'S*** Sam' becomes


plain Samina. Off come the Moschino jeans, the Morgan top and On come the


yellow Shalwar Kameez. Goodbye brylcreamed hairstyle, welcome uncool white


Topi (cap). Not to forget the bandana switch for the scarf.


It's during this HOLY month of Ramadan that we ditch the daytime raves and


the frequent visit to the library (and we don't mean for the reference


section - *wink wink*) and begin to act it out. 'MC Vick' becomes


temporarily religious, no more 'wagwans', but Asalamalykum.


It's a sort of spooky feeling. The Mosques are full and you feel good.


Good cos' you've done your bit for the year. One by one you scratch the


days from your Ramadan timetable that your dad brought back from the


Mosque-and then-thank crunchie it's Eid.


Exit Ramdan, ENTER EID!! !!!


The Mosques again becomes museums for the old and for those deprived "ACHA


BACHA"- a good baby. The crease-free hijab comes off but 'welcome back


tight fit jeans', whilst the libraries reopen for "business as usual".


Rinse all your payslips on a hired beamer and hit the places like Wilmslow


Road, Green St with your pakistani flag on your back and bangali tatoo up


your @$$. Just 11 more months of "freedom" to go before the smelly breath


season come back with vengeance.


Year after year it goes on, almost as a ritual. You know it's rough. Yet


Allah(swt) is Al-Rahman and Al-Raheem as we are told by our parents (who


probably also have gone through this). And anyway religion is for the old


men in the mosques- with smelly breaths, and beards that sweep the floor


everytime they walk from one end of the mosque to the other.


Religion is for those "fundies"(fundamentalists) at school/college, the


"weirdoes" who only talk to the opposite sex about the benefits of the


Khilafah ruling system or the fallacies of Western ideo logy such as


Capitalism and Marxist Philosophy.(i.e.try saying that in one breath!).


Thinking of a masterplan...


So you go around playing this game. It's like an endless spiral. You think


you're a rebel or tough-yet you're just one of the pack- a zombie,


conforming to master-plan, which is that when you turn 40s you grow your


beard and take your seat in front row of the mosque, invest in a miswak,


pack your bags for Hajj, and then everything is gonna be safe!- well no!


It doesn't quite work like that. The million dollar question is will you


ever turn 40? Game Over.


Suppose you die. Just suppose you snuff it before you turn 40? What then?


It could severely damage that master-plan of yours. Alright, the chances


may look slim yet the stakes are high. Nobody knows when he or she is


going to die. Just suppose you're locked up in a room and there's no way


out. Just suppose there's a time bomb- tickeing away in this room. Now if


this bomb has "6 days" on it ! you would probably turn "fundy" and spend


all six days reading namaz(salah).


Just suppose the bomb had a "? days" on it? What then? That's exactly how


life is!!! A ticking-bomb with a "?" on it, you never know when it's gonna


blow-up. Whereever you are, death will find you. Even if you are in tower


built up strong and high!"


30 days or a lifetime? And anyway, even if you do go along with this


"dodgy" game, don't you think your Creator will know your intention? Many


people have sussed out Islam as a blind faith or and


emotional/spiritual/spooky belief which leaves you contemplating


rationally about the meanings of life. Where did you come from? Why are we


here? Or the question that puts a dampner on all raves, " what's going to


happen to us when we die?"


Islam asks us to answer these vital questions and come to a conclusion,


the correct one. Islam doesn't rely on the dodgy culture we are brought up


with either from our parents or from the Molvi-Saab(imam). Islam is far


from being a "religion" as it is often coined in the media.


Islam is a complete system of life- with solutions to all our problems be


it for Muslims or non-Muslims. Check out Islam for yourself and free


yourself from this shallow zombie-like culture. Before your credits run


out!


This applies to everyone. Including me, the person who sent it to me, the


person who started it. We all in the same boat. Lets help each other out


of this 'BadMan Boat'


Word out!


The Prophet (pbuh) said, "Whoever established prayers on the night of Qadr


out of sincere faith and hoping for a reward from Allah, then all his


previous sins will be forgiven; and whoever fasts in the month of Ramadan


out of sincere faith, and hoping for a reward from Allah, then all his


previous sins will be forgiven."


its all about the sincerity and not the 30-days-only "effort"

Asalamalaykum


Sadly Ramadan is almost about to end , May we make it to next ramadan with good health, high Imaan, and taqwa in our actions.


I was reading this, so I thought to share it with you all, so that you may benefit from it too.


<b>What After Ramadan?</b>



<i><b>Adapted from "Wa maadha ba`da Ramadaan", by Dar Al-Watan (120) </b></i>


AlHamdulillahi wa kafaa, was-Salatu was-salamu `alaa `ibaadihi-lladheena Stafaa


We leave the blessed month of Ramadan, its beautiful days and its fragrant nights. We leave the month of the Qur'an, taqwa, patience, jihad, mercy, forgiveness and freedom from hellfire…


Have we fulfilled the requirements of taqwa and graduated from the Ramadan school with the diploma of the god-fearing?


Have we fought our souls and desires and defeated them, or have we been overtaken by our customs and blind imitations?


Have we performed our actions in a way that fulfills the conditions for receiving mercy, forgiveness and release from the Fire?


Many questions and numerous thoughts come to the heart of the sincere Muslim, who asks and answers with truthfulness.


<b>What Have We Gained From Ramadan?</b>


Ramadan is a school of iman and a 'stop to recharge one's spiritual batteries' - to acquire one's provision for the rest of the year...


For when will one take a lesson and change for better if not in the month of Ramadan?


The noble month is a true school of transformation in which we change our actions, habits and manners that are in variance with the Law of Allah 'azza wa jall. “Verily, Allah does not change the condition of a people until they change what is in themselves.” [Ar-Ra`d, 11]


If you are from those who benefited from Ramadan, fulfilled the requirements of taqwa, truly fasted the month, prayed in it with truthfulness, and strove against you soul, then praise and thank Allah, and ask Him for steadfastness upon it until you meet your death.


Be not like one who has sewn a shirt and then destroyed it... Have you seen one who sewed a shirt or thawb, so when she looked at it, she liked it. Then she destroyed it pulling a thread by thread for no reason. What would people say about such a person?! Or have you seen one who earns a fortune trading throughout the day, then when the night comes, he throws away all that he earned, dirham by dirham. What would people say about such a person?!


This is the condition of one who returns to sinning and evildoing after Ramadan and leaves obedience and righteous actions. So after he was favored with the blessing of obedience and enjoyment of communicating with Allah he returned to the blaze of sins and evil actions. How evil are the people who know Allah only in Ramadan!


My dear ones,


<b>falling short in one's commitment to Islam after Ramadan is manifested in many ways, including:</b>


<b>1 </b>– Men leaving the five prayers in congregation, after they filled mosques for Taraweeh prayers, thus going to the masjid for recommended prayers and leaving obligatory ones.


<b>2 –</b> Return to musical entertainment, forbidden films, women displaying their adornment beyond that which ordinarily appears thereof, free mixing etc.


This is not thankfulness for blessings and favors, nor is it the sign of acceptance of one's actions, rather this is opposition to favors and absence of thankfulness.


These are from signs of one's deeds not being accepted – and Allah's refuge is sought – for one who truly fasts rejoices on the occasion of `eid, praises his Lord for helping him complete the fast, and remains fearful that Allah may not accept his fasting, just as the Salaf would continue asking for acceptance of their actions in Ramadan for six months after it.


From signs that one's deeds are accepted is that he or she has improved in his or her obedience to Allah `azza wa jall. “And remember when your Lord proclaimed, 'If you are grateful, I will surely increase you [in favor]…” [ibrahim, 7] Increase you in good, faith and righteous actions. So if the servant is truly thankful to his Lord, you will see him guided to more obedience and distanced from sinfulness. Thankfulness is leaving sins, as the early Muslims said.


“And worship your Lord until there comes you to the certainty [i.e. death].” [al-Hijr, 99]


The Muslim must continuously be in the state of obedience of Allah, firm upon His Sharee`ah, steadfast upon His Deen, so that he or she is not of those who worship Allah only during one month or only in one place. Rather, the believer knows that the Lord of Ramadan is also the Lord of other months, and that He is the Lord of all times and places, so he is steadfast upon the Sharee`ah of Allah until he meets Him while He is pleased with him. Allah ta`ala said, “So remain on a right course as you have been commanded, [you] and those who have turned back with you [to Allah].” [Hud, 112] And, “So take a straight course to Him and seek His forgiveness.” [Fussilat, 6] And the Prophet, sallallahu `alayhi wa sallam, said, “Say 'I believe in Allah', then be steadfast.” [Muslim]


-- If the fasting in Ramadan has ended, then there remains voluntary fasting, such as fasting six days in Shawwal, on Mondays and Thursdays, the three days in the middle of the month, the days of `Aashoora and `Arafat, and others.


-- If standing in prayer at night during Ramadan has ended, then there remains voluntary night prayer throughout the year. “They used to sleep but little of the night.” [Adh-Dhaariyaat, 17]


-- If the charity in Ramadan and zakat ul-fitr have ended, then there is the obligatory Zakat, and also there are many other open doors to charity, voluntary actions and jihad.


-- Reading of the Qur'an and contemplating it is not only for Ramadan, rather it is for all times.


Righteous actions are for all times and all places, so strive – O my brother and sister – and beware of laziness. And remember that it is not allowed for us to leave the obligatory actions or delay them, such as the five daily prayers on time, in congregation etc.


And do not fall into forbidden actions, such as forbidden sayings, food and drinks, or by looking at or listening to what is forbidden.


Be steadfast and upright upon the Deen of Allah at all times, for you do not know when you'll meet the Angel of Death. Beware of him taking you while you are in a state of sin. “O Allah, Who turns the hearts, keep our hearts steadfast upon Your Deen.”


I ask Allah to accept from us and you our fasting, our prayers and other righteous actions, that our condition after Ramadan be a better one, that the state of our Ummah improves, that we are granted honour and that we truly turn to our Lord…Ameen

After his recent victory, Bush assured his Zionist supporters that the war in Iraq will continue – till the country is ‘stabilized’, which is very essential for the ‘security of Israel’.


In practice that means continued fighting for his next four-year presidential term. France ‘kept fighting’ in Algeria in the 1950s as America did in Vietnam in the 1960s and as the Israelis are now doing in occupied Palestine. It has never worked anywhere. In Algeria, the French employed over three times as many troops, nearly half a million, to fight roughly the same number of Iraqi resistance-fighters as America is now fighting in Iraq. They lost. America had half a million soldiers in Vietnam and gave up. After forty years of warfare against the Palestinians, the Israelis have achieved neither peace nor security.


Wars of national ‘self-determination,’ to use President Woodrow Wilson’s evocative phrase, can last for generations or even centuries. Britain tried to beat down (or even exterminate) the Irish for nearly 900 years, from shortly after the Eleventh century Norman invasion until 1921; the French fought the Algerians from 1831 until 1962; both Imperial and Communist Russia have been fighting the Chechens since about 1731. Putin’s Russia is still at it. There was no light at the end of those tunnels.


At best, ‘keep fighting’ in Iraq can be only a temporary measure as eventually America will have to leave. But during the period it stays, say the next four years, my guess is that another 40 thousand Iraqis will die or be killed while the US armed forces will lose perhaps 5,000 dead and 40,000 seriously wounded. The monetary cost will be hundreds of billions.

In most human societies, females outnumber males. In the US there are, at least, eight million more women than men. What should a society do towards such unbalanced sex ratios? There are various solutions, some might suggest celibacy, others would prefer female infanticide (which does happen in some societies in the world today!). Others would think the only outlet is that the society should tolerate all manners of moral decadence: prostitution, sex out of wedlock, homosexuality, etc. Other societies (like most African societies today) would see the most honourable outlet is to allow polygamous marriage as a culturally accepted and socially respected institution. The point that is often misunderstood in the West is that women in other cultures don't necessarily look at polygamy as a sign of women's degradation.


After the WW II, there were 7,300,000 more women than men in Germany (3.3 million of them were widows). There were 100 men aged 20 to 30 for every 167 women in that age group. Many of these women needed a man not only as a companion but also as a provider for the household in a time of unprecedented misery and hardship. The soldiers of the victorious Allied Armies exploited these women's vulnerability. Many young girls and widows had liaisons with members of the occupying forces. Many American and British soldiers paid for their pleasures in cigarettes, chocolate, and bread. Children were overjoyed at the gifts these strangers brought. A 10 year old boy on hearing of such gifts from other children wished from all his heart for an 'Englishman' for his mother so that she need not go hungry any longer. We have to ask our own consciences at this point: What is more dignifying to a woman - A virtual prostitute as in the 'civilized' Allies approach or the Qur’anic prescription?


The world today possesses more weapons of mass destruction than ever before and the European churches might, sooner or later, be obliged to accept polygamy as the only way out. Father Hillman has thoughtfully recognized this fact: "It is quite conceivable that these genocidal techniques (nuclear, biological, chemical..) could produce so drastic an imbalance among the sexes that plural marriage would become a necessary means of survival....Then contrary to previous custom and law, an overriding natural and moral inclination might arise in favour of polygamy. In such a situation, theologians and church leaders would quickly produce weighty reasons and biblical texts to justify a new conception of marriage".

Jesus (as) bowed down in submission on the ground to God - {Matthew 26:39}


Jesus (as) said: “All of you who submit your will to God, are my true brothers and sisters (Mark 3:31-35).’


(Matthew 7:21-23) "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles? Then I will tell them plainly, 'I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers! (Matthew 7:21-23).”


This proves that Jesus (as) was neither a Jew nor a Christian.


Now let us see where the name Jew comes from. {Gen 11:31} we see that Abraham took his family out of his homeland "Ur of the Chaldees". Therefore, Abraham could not have been a Jew because that is a part of Iraq. He was more an Arab than a Jew. Secondly, the name Jew came after the existence of Judah, the great-grandson of Abraham.


Abraham in the Bible is called "a Hebrew" {Genesis 14:13} which means a human from the other side of the Euphrates. It also means pertaining to Eber a descendant of Shem, clearly not "a Jew”. The descendants of Jacob were called Israelites {Gen 32:28} consisting of twelve tribes. Judah was nicknamed "Jew" so that only Judah's descendants were called Jews originally.


Moses (as), was from the tribe "Levite" {Exodus 6:16-20} therefore also not a Jew. The name Jew {according to the Bible} is not a reflection of "an organized religion" as Jews want us to believe, but a Tribe, a forename, an ancestor branch off of a large family tree. But worse of all that racism – 90% of Western Jews don’t even belong to those 12 Tribes – They are Mongolian Khazars, of Turkic race, who adopted Judaism in the 10th century.


Jesus may have been a Jew by birthright, but a Muslim by Faith.

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