Dr Bhaskar Dasgupta


London, May 28


China, the inscrutable middle kingdom, the ancient heaven on earth, the country with one of the highest growth rates and the biggest population, the country with a single party communist (sort of) governance structure and the country with the largest number of neighbours, is indeed an interesting one. But what is more interesting is how it creates problems for its friends. The first problem has to do with the Uighur issue and the second with the Tibetans. In this column we take a look at the first one and in next week's column, we will take a look at the Tibetan problem.


China has good relationships with the Muslim world, not to mention others, but it’s the relationship with the Muslims which is germane to this argument. None of these relationships are as close as those with Iran and Pakistan, although China (because of the Taiwanese recognition issue and its presence on the UNSC) has very good relationships with the other OIC nations as well.


It is a little noted fact, that China usually sides with the OIC countries in almost any kind of UNSC or UNGA resolutions, but that is neither here nor there. But the closest relationship is with Pakistan. Pakistan and China, as both sides frequently proclaimed to the world are “time-tested”, and share an "all weather friendship". This is, of course, compared to USA, which is called as a "fair weather friend", with due reason, mind you. As far as Pakistan is concerned, USA only loves Pakistan when it needs to, but when it doesn’t, it is dropped as quickly as one would when handed a red hot shovel. USA loved Pakistan when fighting communism in the 50's, then during the Afghanistan imbroglio in the 70's and 80's, and now again during the war against terror. Other than explicit foreign policy driven interests, USA doesn’t give two hoots about Pakistan. Hence a "fair weather friend".


China on the other hand, is an all weather friend. Or as General Musharraf described the relationship as being "deeper than the oceans, higher than the mountains". China has stuck with Pakistan through thick and thin. It has very deep links with Pakistan in the military, business and political side. It is not surprising that besides Saudi Arabia, China is one of the first destinations of any leader (a generalissimo or prime minister). China helped Pakistan in the international arena as well as in the United Nations. China has also helped in the nuclear weapons program, the nuclear energy program, several huge national infrastructure projects (including the development of the strategic Gwadar port), the Navy, the Air Force, the Karakorum Highway, and so on and so forth. One does wonder what China gets out of all this benevolent munificence towards Pakistan, other than getting Pakistan to keep India busy and away from China. Be that as it may, Pakistan doesn’t really have anything to offer China, with the potential exception of a through road to the Middle East and Arabian sea, but the logistics are crippling and challenging. One viewpoint is that since a huge amount of China's exports and imports pass through the straits of Malacca (which are infested with pirates and a natural choke point), the Tibet, Karakorum highway, down to Karachi, and the Gwadar route offer an alternative route to the Indian Ocean. Anyway, that's peanuts compared with all what China has given to Pakistan. So one would expect that the last thing Pakistan would do is to muck around with China and upset it. Well, “official” Pakistan doesn’t, but then, there is a big gulf between “official” Pakistan and what “unofficial” Pakistan does. But before we go into what Pakistan has done or not done, let us take a look at the problem.


The problem is with the Uighurs. Uighurs are one of the 5 main ethnic groups of China, besides the Han, Manchu, Tibetan, and Mongolian groups. They live in western China, an area which is bounded by mountains, snow steppes, deserts and similar forbidding conditions. It is as far away from an ocean as one potentially could be. They have had an impact on world history for the past 2000 years and I am afraid that for most of these 2000 years, they have had conflicts with the dominant Han Chinese.


Genghis Khan and Timur the Lame were heavily involved in this region and with the Uighur people. While nomadic in nature for most of their earlier history, the Uighurs came under the Buddhist sway till about the 1400's. After this, Islam came to town and the Uighurs became Muslims. In the mid 18th century, Xinjiang and the Uighurs came under Manchu control, but it has been a fact of Uighur life that they have always rebelled against the Chinese, usually not with much success. During this time, the Chinese had a bit of a spat with the Russian empire and after some peace treaties, the land we know as Xinjiang came into being.


In the early part of the 20th century, Xinjiang was a hotbed of separatist activity, with competing parties being variously backed by the Japanese, British, internal warlords, and also the Chinese communist party. In 1945, the first serious threat to Chinese sovereignty was due to the announcement of the Eastern Turkistan Republic, claiming sovereignty over Xinjiang with a firm Islamic flavour. In 1949, most of the leaders of the republic died mysteriously. Funnily enough, the Chinese communist government then took over Xinjiang. By the 1950's, anybody who was part of the ETR was pushed aside, imprisoned, killed or prosecuted. After some desultory negotiations, the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region was formed in 1955. In terms of being a buffer state against Russian expansion and to keep the rebellious Uighurs under control, the central Chinese government promulgated a policy of settling ethnic Han Chinese in Xinjiang, with the result that a province, which formerly was 3/4th Uighur ended up less than 1/2 Uighur now. Then Chairman Mao's Great Leap Forward created the greatest cultural and social dislocation in Uighur life since Genghis Khan rampaged through the countryside. In the 1960's, China used Xinjiang province's Lop Nor area for its nuclear testing grounds. China has also cracked down heavily on the Uighur religious practices and mosques have been destroyed and public worship frowned upon. Religion is an anathema anyway to the communists, and to top it all, Islam was seen as a focal point besides separatism for the Uighurs even though until then it was more of a moderate Islam, greatly influenced by Buddhism.


After the Soviet Union fell and the Turkic republics of Central Asia were formed, the simmering insurgency moved up a gear, with the Uighurs returning from Islamic countries where they had gone for studies and support, bringing back the Wahhabi flavoured Islam they were subjected to. Car bombs were introduced, assassinations of ethnic Han Chinese and generalised rioting against the harsh Chinese rule were practiced, which all had the sad result of the government cracking down hard. And when the Chinese crack down hard, it means hard. Torture, summary execution, long tough imprisonment, internal exile, deaths, you name it, were widely used. The 9/11 incident changed the world (read USA's) reaction to Chinese repression. While before the Uighurs could at least get a hearing in the world capitals, after the 9/11 attacks, they were reduced into the "Islamic Terrorists" category and China was given a "get out of jail free" card.


Now we come to the ‘dear’ friend Pakistan. Before 9/11 and the latest Afghan War, Pakistan was heavily involved in various rebellions and spats going around in the world ranging from Chechnya, Bosnia, Afghanistan, the 'Stans from the Fergana Valley, Xinjiang, Kashmir, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines and the like. It was like the country had been one of the exporters of Islam driven fervour terror. I know “Islamic Terrorism”, is a very stupid term, but there are pretty good reasons to say what came out of Pakistan (or rather what the foaming mullahs defined it as) was definitely Islamic and it definitely was terrorism. There were and still are, militant training camps, reported big involvement of the shadowy intelligence agencies, etc. etc. That is your "unofficial" Pakistan. The aftermath of the Russian Afghan War gave rise to this virulent, “take-out-the-infidels-with-a-sword” kind of philosophy and because the state liked the idea of having cheap terrorist labour for Kashmir, it allowed these camps and the philosophy behind them to grow. These people were quite fungible, Uighurs will fight in the Kashmiri rebellion, or Sudanese will go fight in Bosnia or Jordanians will go to Chechnya. After all, it was all part and parcel of the great enterprise of the mullahs.


Unfortunately, once one has given the green light for people to think of Pakistan as a nice little place for “Islamic terrorism”, everybody who is interested will make a beeline to Pakistan, and that is just what they did. Just search in google about the number of nationalities and territories that were represented by the terrorists captured in Pakistan and you will get an idea. You will find Chechens, Yemenites, Kuwaitis, Jordanians, Palestinians, Sudanese, Thai, Philippinoes, Bosnians, Afghans, Kashmiris, Indonesians, etc. etc. It was indeed a great melting pot. And here is where Pakistan had problems. All these groups were fighting the infidels all around the world, and Uighurs were no different from say Chechens or Kashmiris, as far as these militants were concerned. Another fascinating inconsistency that the Pakistani generals were caught under! The Chinese are too polite to complain loudly in public (except to the Taiwanese), but since the late 1990s some reports revealed that the Chinese protested bitterly to Pakistan. Some experienced China watchers have reported how Pakistan was hauled over the coals with several senior Pakistani officials called in for a grilling in Beijing about how Pakistan is apparently letting these Uighurs run around loose in Pakistan.


As usual, Pakistan showed its spine and fine martial spirit, just like it showed to the USA, and caved in. The police and intelligence agencies moved in, Uighurs in Pakistan were targeted, killed, deported, imprisoned or what have you. Many were directly sent back to China (guess what happened to them) like Ismail Kadir for example. Others were reported to have been handed over to the Americans who then sent them over to that tropical Caribbean paradise of Guantanamo Bay. Every time I read that some Uighur has been given that treatment by Pakistan, I wince for many reasons, not least for the wigging that the Chinese would have given their "friends".


It is an interesting state of affairs. For all the pious and self righteous mouthing about the desire for Kashmiri self determination, that Pakistan raises in the various international forums, there is nary a peep about the Uighurs. For that matter, the various left groups are also suspiciously silent about the cultural genocide and repression that China is undertaking in Xinjiang. If one was a bit cynical and evil, one would chuckle about the way these self-righteous people have been hoisted by their own petards. Self determination and fighting for freedom principles are great, but Xinjiang becomes an inconvenient issue. The cause of Palestine is heard all over the world, but Xinjiang is so inconvenient that the mere mention of it causes embarrassment and shuffling of the feet. After all Alfred Adler said : “It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”


All this to be taken with a grain of salt!


(Dr Bhaskar Dasgupta, currently working on a doctorate at Kings College in International Relations and Terrorism, also holds a Doctorate in Finance and Artificial Intelligence from Manchester Business School. He works in the City of London in various capacities in the Banking Sector. He also lectures at several British Universities.)

can't agree where this writer is coming from about Jihad and I do not know why he mixed this thesis up with information as to the recent UAA annual conference. Such use of the word in asociation with the Uyghur is uncalled for in my view and can only give a bad impression about them and by implication the UAA especially as he ties it in for whatever reason with news of the UAA conference.


The Coming Chinese Jihad


By Stephen Schwartz


Weekly Standard | June 17, 2004


IN EARLY JUNE, partisans of democracy in China commemorated the 15th anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre of June 3-4, 1989 -- one of the events of a remarkable year that dramatized the accuracy of Ronald Reagan's description of communism as evil. In retrospect, the killing of students and workers protesting peacefully in Beijing's famous square can be seen as a kind of forewarning that the fall of the Soviet empire would not bring the final end of communism.


One observance of the Tiananmen anniversary, in Washington over Memorial Day, brought new lessons about China. This was the fourth national convention of the Uighur American Association (UAA).


The Uighurs (pronounced "Weeghers") are a Turkic people in the region of northwestern China that Beijing calls Xinjiang and the Uighurs call Eastern Turkestan. They are linked to Tiananmen in the person of Wu'er Kaixi, a prominent figure in the 1989 democracy movement, and a Uighur, who spoke at the recent convention.


The Uighurs, who number at least 9 million, are overwhelmingly Muslims, of the Sufi variety. The primary message the conference spokesmen sought to convey to Americans is simple. As Wu'er Kaixi put it, "Beijing will never accept political or ethnic pluralism, without significant pressure from other countries. Nationalism is the basis of the Communist Party's continued domination of China." As evidence, he cited Beijing's unsympathetic attitude toward Taiwan, Hong Kong, Tibet, and other properties it considers rightfully its own, as well as the Communist authorities' intention, noted in official Chinese media and Western news reports in May, to impose unification by 2008.


There are only a thousand or so Uighurs in America, but we are likely to hear more of them as their aggrieved community inside China resists the intensifying nationalism sponsored by Beijing.


"We are in the same position as the Tibetans," says Erkin Alptekin -- president of the World Uighur Congress in Munich, a former Uighur-language broadcaster for Radio Liberty, and a leading figure at the UAA convention. "The Chinese want to replace us with their own people as colonists, and assimilate those of us who remain, wiping out our culture." Alim Seytoff, UAA president, points out that Uighur-language education is now limited, and university courses must be taught in Chinese. There are no independent media in the Uighur tongue, and U.S.-funded Radio Liberty, Alptekin's former employer, discontinued its Uighur-language service in 1979 as a favor to the Chinese.


At the same time, the Uighurs have a curious bit part in the saga of Islamic extremism.


First, there are reportedly 22 Uighurs among those interned at Guantanamo Bay. According to Alptekin, there are several reasons for this. Some Uighurs were trained by the Chinese, in tandem with the Pakistanis, to fight the Russians in Afghanistan.


Chinese repression drove other Uighurs to flee into Afghanistan (which has a short border with China); these people were natural targets for al Qaeda and Taliban recruitment. Still others were Uighur children sent by their parents to Pakistan to escape Communist indoctrination -- only to be trained in jihad and shipped off to fight in Kashmir, then to defend the Taliban.


A Uighur organization, the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), was declared a terrorist group by the State Department in 2002 at the insistence of the Chinese, who alleged it had ties to al-Qaeda. However, information about the ETIM is hard to come by, and before September 11, 2001, according to Alptekin, the Chinese party secretary of Xinjiang, Wang Lequan, denied there was terrorism in his bailiwick. The global war on terror has been "hijacked by Beijing," according to Alptekin, as an excuse to brand all Uighurs as Islamist radicals.


Alptekin insists, however, that he and his World Uighur Congress have made nonviolence a basic principle of their activities. Armed resistance to the Chinese would only lead to more victimization, he told me. Few Uighurs seek their own state, Islamic or otherwise. According to Wu'er Kaixi, "we don't ask for independence, but for respect, and an end to forced assimilation."


Chinese respect for minority rights will doubtless be a long time coming, and in the meantime foreigners can exploit local grievances for their own benefit. Central Asian experts have long warned that the vast tracts where the Uighurs and other Chinese Muslims live have been infiltrated by Saudi/Wahhabi agents. Before September 11, according to the Uzbek authorities, these agitators dreamed of seizing the oil-rich and nuclear-technology-littered states of former Soviet Central Asia, including Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan, as well as Uzbekistan, and joining them to Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. Grabbing a slice of Eastern Turkestan from the Chinese was considered a major side goal.


China probably has more Muslims living outside a Muslim-ruled state than any other country. In addition to the Uighurs, the vast country has a Chinese-speaking Muslim community of up to 20 million called the Hui, also living in the northwest. The Hui have been the object of extensive evangelism, going back a century, by Wahhabis from Arabia, assisted by Hui returning from the pilgrimage to Mecca. As presented by Professor Dru C. Gladney of the University of Hawaii at Moana, a leading Western expert on Chinese Islam, Wahhabism in Chinese dress enjoys the backing of the Communist authorities. In a 1999 paper entitled "The Salafiyya Movement in Northwest China: Islamic Fundamentalism among the Muslim Chinese?" Gladney averred that Beijing has supported an explicit Wahhabi trend in Chinese Islam, through a movement called the Yihewani. This group takes its name from the extremist Ikhwan, or brotherhoods that helped found the Saudi state in the 1920s and then emerged, in somewhat different form, as the radical Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.


According to Gladney, Chinese Wahhabism has millions of devotees, who show all the characteristics of the creed's Saudi inventors, beginning with hatred of Sufism. With the founding of the People's Republic of China, the state quickly suppressed all Sufi orders, and endorsed the Chinese Wahhabis, financing an official "China Islamic Association" under their influence (much like the puppet "Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association" and similar phony Christian bodies). Beijing renewed state patronage of the Yihewani after Mao's so-called Cultural Revolution, which featured widescale depredations against all religious groups.


So while ethnic suppression has driven some Uighurs toward al-Qaeda, official Chinese Islam promotes the Wahhabi ideology from which al-Qaeda sprang. Either way, ordinary Chinese Muslims, whose total numbers are unknown, are being shoved in the wrong direction.


The lesson here was well articulated by Erkin Alptekin: "The United States should raise the problem of the Uighurs to the same level as that of the Tibetans, and pressure China to open dialogue with all its minorities," even if the Chinese government resents it. The alternative: more, rather than fewer, recruits for Islamist terrorism, drawn from the turbulence of China.


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Stephen Schwartz, an author and journalist, is author of The Two Faces of Islam: The House of Sa'ud from Tradition to Terror. A vociferous critic of Wahhabism, Schwartz is a frequent contributor to National Review, The Weekly Standard, and other publications.


Stephen Sullivan


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new exhibition of relics from the Silk Route shows how religions merged and heresies flourished. It's a revelation, says William Dalrymple


Saturday June 19, 2004


The Guardian


Urumqi monster from the British Library Silk Road exhibition. Photo courtesy of the British Library / British Museum


Some 1,500 years ago, in the same area of northern Pakistan that American troops are scouring for Osama bin Laden, there flourished the Silk Route Kingdom of Gandhara. It was ruled at one point by a dynasty of Bactrian Greeks, descendants of Alexander the Great's stranded legions, with such wonderfully unlikely names as Diomedes of the Punjab and Menander of Kabul. At its height in the sixth century AD, traders came to Gandhara from all over the world, bringing painted glass from Antioch, porphyry from upper Egypt, ivories from south India and lacquers from the China coast. Hellenistic in spirit, Buddhist in religion, Gandhara's principle icon was a meditating Buddha, dressed in a Greek toga.


The British began discovering Gandharan Buddhas in the late-19th century, and one of the first men to be dazzled by them was a young Hungarian Jewish emigre intellectual called Aurel Stein. He spent hours in the Lahore Museum, then run by Rudyard Kipling's father, studying the beautiful sculptures. Intrigued, he soon began walking the Karakorums to find further relics of this unlikely Greco-Buddhist world.


He was in the right place at the right time. Rumours had already begun circulating in India about early Sanskrit manuscripts emerging from the sands of Chinese Central Asia. From his reading of Hiuen Tsang, the Chinese pilgrim who ventured across the Gobi desert to visit the Buddhist shrines of India, Stein knew the oasis towns of the Silk Route to the north of the Himalayas had once been sophisticated outposts of Buddhist civilisation, but no one suspected anything had survived the twin onslaughts of the austere monotheism of Islam and the encroaching desert sands. Stein jumped at the chance to explore the area - and what he found surpassed anyone's wildest expectations.


The sands had perfectly preserved every detail of the life that had once been lived in those lost cities - including, crucially, their sacred texts. "In this ever-dry ground," wrote Stein, "time seems to have lost all power of destruction." Although this was not always an unmitigated blessing (at one point Stein found himself digging through mountains of perfectly preserved turds left by generations of Chinese frontier guards), manuscripts, frescoes and painted silk banners soon emerged from the ground as if newly painted. Even the most perishable of grave-goods - such as fancy pastries dating from the time of Christ - emerged intact after 2,000 years in the ground.


Most remarkable of all, at the Cave of a Thousand Buddhas at Dunhuang, Stein persuaded a Taoist monk to part with a recently discovered library that had been bricked up in the wall of an ancient temple. Only when he got the hoard back to the British Museum did it become apparent that the bundle of documents included the earliest printed book in the world, the Buddhist Diamond Sutra of AD868.


Stein's reputation, however, has not shown the same ability to survive the passage of time as the objects he brought back from the Silk Road. The lack of any glittering Tutankhamen-style death-masks meant that the British Museum quickly consigned his collections to its basements. Outside academia, his name was soon forgotten.


Now the British Library is making amends, and looks set to complete the process of Stein's rehabilitation begun by Peter Hopkirk in his book Foreign Devils on the Silk Road . Its exhibition The Silk Road: Trade, Travel, War and Faith shows, for the first time, the sheer wonder of the artefacts Stein brought back from his 25,000 miles of archaeological travels. Of the 400 treasures on show, over 250 are items excavated by Stein and 150 belong to the British Library, alongside rarely seen loans from China, Japan, Germany and France.


Although it contains no spectacular gold treasures, this is one of the most surprising and stimulating shows to be mounted in the capital for years. It concentrates on the Central Asian section of the Silk Route in the pre-Islamic period and, more specifically, on the stories and lives of the people who lived then. On show is a prayer for bad period pains, a piece of seventh-century anti-war poetry and a letter apologising for drunken behaviour at a dinner party.


There are some beautiful early-medieval silk paintings: my favourite is a humorous cari-cature of a beak-nosed storyteller, walking the Silk Route with a tame tiger and a backpack full of Buddhist scrolls. Yet every bit as moving as these delicate paintings are the simple remnants of everyday Silk Route lives: a felt slipper or a broken mousetrap.


Today, of course, what draws most travellers to the oasis cities of the Silk Route - Kashgar, Khotan, Samarkand - is their breathtaking remoteness. Yet what most distinguished these places in the early first millennium AD was the opposite: the fabulously wealthy and cosmopolitan nature of the societies that thrived there. Central Asia was the centre of first-century AD globalisation: ideas of art, decorum, dress and religion passed backwards and forwards, melding to create unexpected cultural fusions. Strange heresies and heterodoxies grew and flourished in this environment - something that is dazzlingly apparent from the show's very first exhibit.


As you walk into the gallery, you are immediately confronted with the carved marble funerary monument of a Sogdian trader from sixth-century Samarkand, who died far from home on the edge of the Gobi. He is shown pot-bellied and fork-bearded, sitting down with his Chinese wife under a tented canopy as Sogdian and Chinese dancers strut their stuff to the music of harps, lutes and Indian tabla. Elsewhere on the monument we see the merchant's Zoroastrian funerary rites being performed by a long-robed magus, a veil over his mouth to prevent his breath polluting the sacred fire. A dog stands to one side to drive away the spirit of defilement. Yet the promiscuous nature of the intermingled religious ideas of the time is indicated by the presence, on the very next panel, of the Sogdian goddess Nana, who has no relationship with Zoroastrian beliefs, but whose four arms and lion mount show instead the influence of Hindu-Himalayan Tantrism.


Trade and religion were often fellow travellers: in Syriac, the language of west-Asian trade, the word for merchant ("tgr") was the same as that for missionary. One religion that travelled eastwards along the Silk Route, and was brought to Central Asia by Mesopotamian merchants, was Manichaeism. It was founded by the prophet Mani in Babylon in the third century AD. Brought up in a heterodox ascetic environment where Christian and Jewish Gnostic ideas mingled with Zoroastrianism, Mani went on a pilgrimage to Gandhara where he encountered Hindu and Buddhist ideas. Conceiving all creation as the product of a great struggle between light and dark, good and evil, he saw his religion as a fulfilment of all these different religious currents, and accepted Adam, Zoroaster and the Buddha as prophets, while also subscribing to the Hindu idea of the transmigration of souls. His ideas rapidly spread from Carthage in the west (where the young St Augustine briefly converted to Manichaeism) to Xi'an, the Chinese terminus of the Silk Road in the east, before disappearing by the late Middle Ages.


Stein's discoveries of a Manichaean library recovered not only several of the sacred texts of this lost faith, such as the Great Hymn of Mani, but also images of the vegetarian Manichaean elect, in long white robes and tall, cylindrical hats. Perhaps the strangest image in the show is an eighth-century fragment showing Jesus as an unbearded Manichaean prophet, mounting to heaven in a crescent-shaped moon boat.


No less strange are the relics from the brief moment when Central Asia converted en masse to Nestorian Christianity. Expelled from the Byzantine empire in the fifth century, the church had taken root with astonishing speed further to the east. By the seventh century, Nestorian archbishops watched over cathedrals as far apart as Bahrain, Kerala, Kashgar and Lhasa. By 660AD there were more than 20 Nestorian archbishops east of the Oxus, and Nestorian monasteries in most Chinese cities.


Genghis Khan had a Nestorian guardian and at one point the Mongol Khans nearly converted to Nestorianism, which might have made the church the most powerful religious force in Asia. But instead, by the early years of the 20th century, a series of genocidal reverses brought the church to the verge of extinction.


Archaeologists have recently recovered many relics of this lost eastern Christian church: last month SOAS in London displayed some of the remarkable hybrid gravestones discovered at Quanzhou (the ancient Zaitun) on the China coast. But nothing in Zeitun can match the most beautiful image in the Silk Route show: that of a Nestorian Christian saint from Samarkand, which at first sight appears to be Buddhist. The figure is wearing Buddhist-style robes and is sitting cross-legged in the mudra of preaching; only the two Maltese crosses that the saint is wearing - one on his headdress, the other on his torc - shows his true faith.


The saint represents the familiar in utterly unfamiliar garb - yet that this is so is itself a feature of our prejudices and assumptions. Today we think of Christianity as a western religion, forgetting that it is really an eastern one: it was born in Jerusalem and received its intellectual superstructure in Antioch, Alexandria and Constantinople. At the Council of Nicea in 325AD, where the words of the Creed were thrashed out, there were more bishops from Persia, Central Asia and India than from western Europe. This extraordinary show makes you re-examine that eastern world - and that is why it should not be missed.


The Silk Road: Trade, Travel, War and Faith is at the British Library, London NW1, until September 12. Details: 0870 444 1500.

The demise of the Soviet Union and emergence of new independent states


Central Asia stimulated the growth of Uyghur Nationalism in predominantly


Muslim East Turkistan, also known as Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous region of


China.


Anti-Chinese actions during the last decade culminated in a series of


sanguinary uprisings making Uyghur separatism one of the most serious


internal problems of China. Islamic religious identity of the Uyghurs also


complicates the ethnic conflict in this part of the world. The lecture will


look at two dimensions of the Uyghur identity in a Global Era, nationalism


and Islam, and the role of Islam in shaping Uyghur Ethno-Nationalism.


Wednesday, June 23, 2004


2:30 PM, LJ 119


Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress


202-707-3302 for more info


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بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِِ


I’zzah is with Islam alone


Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala declared that he has given the I’zzah to the believers, He subhanahu wa ta’ala says in surah al-Munafiqeen,


وَلِلَّهِ الْعِزَّةُ وَلِرَسُولِهِ وَلِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَلَكِنَّ الْمُنَافِقِينَ لاَ يَعْلَمُونَ


"But honour belongs to Allah and His Apostle, and to the believers; but the hypocrites know not." [TMQ 63:8]


With the latest security resolution 1546/2004, Bush and Blair appear to think, they have got away with it. Having Iyad Alawi, the very newest Western puppet in place, the invaders hold all the power, take none of the blame and in theory, should now be in position to reap the benefits of 21st century western liberal colonialism. This global war launched by the two leading western liberal democracies against Islam and her Ummah has highlighted and indeed crystalised the difference between the two ideologies and their people.


There has been an undeniably brutal and shameful persecution of the Muslims globally by the West – despite their claims to superiority of values and claims of civilisation. Western state sponsored terrorism has a long reach. Bush and Blair’s call to war against Islam is finding willing partners all over the world. Muslims have been murdered, shot dead, blown up, obliterated by missiles, tortured to death in methods of such cruelty and barbarity Stalin never imagined, all without any recourse to justice, or to the rule of law. Detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan have been tortured and beaten to death. Phil Shiner a solicitor acting on the 20 cases of Iraqis killed or injured by British troops during occupation, wrote in the Guardian (UK, 10/06/04) on the case of the death of Baha Mousa, a 26 year old widower with 2 young children, “Evidence from other witnesses describe systematic abuse including a kickboxing ritual where soldiers compete to see how far they could throw a detainee with their kicks.”


These are detainees, not people actually convicted of a crime by a court of law.


The scale of the persecution of Muslims globally, whether in the West on in our own lands, is unprecedented – something not even Hitler ever mustered against his many enemies.


This Ummah has not got a single political entity, structure or state established on the ruling system of Islam i.e. the Khilafah. This Ummah has no single sincere ruler, no Amir ul Mu’mineen who has the bai’ah and is charged with the affairs of the Ummah, who speaks and shields the Believers. The body of this noble Ummah has been dismembered by the West in an effort to sow the seeds of nationalism so as to keep them forever divided and weak. To consolidate this false division, puppets were imposed upon them, to carry out the behest of the West. Consequently although the Muslim armies are great in number, there wasn’t and isn’t a single army whether from Muslim or non-Muslim lands that has come to the defence or aid of the Islamic Ummah.


Consider further, that we as an Ummah are facing the worlds only hyper-power, with a national budget for war, larger than the national war spending of the next 10 largest nations put together. This defence budget manufactures and ultimately deploys the most violent, cruel weapons 21st century western civilisation can create, in order to support the propagation of western liberal democracy. Already America the hyperpower has struck twice this century firstly against the most frail of entities, the Taliban Emirate of Afghanistan and then against Iraq, enfeebled by a 10-year war, an invasion and finally a crippling 12 year sanctions regime. The only authority America has, is not moral or judicial, rather it is the greatest violence a Western nation can assemble.


In the face of all the above, Muslims globally from Palestine and Iraq in the middle east, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Chechnya in the Caucasus, to Xinjiang in China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Korea and Japan in the far east and even Muslims in Guantanamo and Belmarsh (the UK equivalent), rather than abandoning or compromising on the Deen, are steadfast in the Aqeedah and Islam. Despite the superior and barbaric weapons systems, the relatively poorly trained and equipped Mujahideen of Islam run into the battlefields to hold onto the honour of Islam and defend our Ummah and our lands against the neo crusaders.


Even as the ubiquitous mass media of the west are furiously spinning their propaganda, the Islamic Ummah has turned their backs on their puppet rulers, and rejects the tyranny and terrorism of Bush and Blair, even though they have a clear capability for mass murder and destruction. The more they kill and destroy, the more they are hated by the Muslims. Kuffur and taghut remain kuffur and taghut no matter how big or how many the fir’aun.


The war against Islam has caused a clear polarisation, between the Believers, the Islamic Ummah on one side and their treacherous puppet rulers and the West on their other.


The Karzais and Alawis of the world, along with the Mubaraks, Fahds, Asads, Abdullahs, Allah SUBHANAHU WA TA’ALA warns you,


إِنَّمَا يَنْهَاكُمْ اللَّهُ عَنْ الَّذِينَ قَاتَلُوكُمْ فِي الدِّينِ وَأَخْرَجُوكُمْ مِنْ دِيَارِكُمْ وَظَاهَرُوا عَلَى إِخْرَاجِكُمْ أَنْ تَوَلَّوْهُمْ وَمَنْ يَتَوَلَّهُمْ فَأُوْلَئِكَ هُمْ الظَّالِمُونَ


“Allah has forbid your friendship with those who fight you because of your deen, and drive you from your homelands, or aid others to do so; and as for those who turn to them in friendship they are oppressors” [TMQ 60:9]


Those praised by Bush, Blair and the enemies of Islam, are warned by Allah SUBHANAHU WA TA’ALA,


الَّذِينَ يَتَّخِذُونَ الْكَافِرِينَ أَوْلِيَاءَ مِنْ دُونِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ أَيَبْتَغُونَ عِنْدَهُمْ الْعِزَّةَ فَإِنَّ الْعِزَّةَ لِلَّهِ جَمِيعًا


“As for those who take the Kafir as allies in preference to the believers- do they hope to be honoured by them when, behold, all honour belongs to Allah alone” [TMQ 4:139]


The Islamic Ummah had I’zzah due to Islam alone


Call to mind the situation of the early Muslims and Islamic State. When Islam first appeared as a system of life in Madinah in the first year Hijri. The Muslims were a minority in the Hijaz, let alone the world. They were a City State, whilst Rome and Persia were both regional if not global empires. They were with a military and weapons capability less than even that of the Qur’aish in Mekkah, and the Jews in Khaibar – both of whom were plotting to destroy them.


And yet, such was the nature and structure of the Islamic State and the leadership of Rasulullah SALLALLAHU ALAIHI WASALLAM, the Islamic Ummah were ready to face the world. When they were at their weakest, at the eve of the Battle of Badr, when Rasulullah SALLALLAHU ALAIHI WASALLAM was deciding whether to attack the caravan led by Abu Sufian which was within reach, or to divert to attack the Qur’aish army which out equipped and outnumbered them 3:1, Rasullah SALLALLAHU ALAIHI WASALLAM said “Give me advice O men!” to which Sa’d ibn Mu’adh of the Ansar who was holding their banner said, “It seems you mean us, O Messenger of Allah.” He (SALLALLAHU ALAIHI WASALLAM) said, “Yes.” Sa’d said, “We believe in you, we declare your truth, and we witness that what you have brought us is the truth, and we have given you our word and agreement to hear and obey; so go where you wish, we are with you; and by he who sent you, if you were to ask us to cross this sea and you plunged into it, we would plunge into it with you; not a man would stay behind. We do not dislike the idea of meeting our enemy tomorrow. We are experienced in war, trustworthy in combat. It may well be that Allah will let us show you something which will bring you joy, so take us along with Allah’s blessing.” Rasulullah SALLALLAHU ALAIHI WASALLAM was delighted with Sa’d’s reply and said, “Forward in good heart, for Allah had promised me one of the two parties, and by Allah, it is as though I now see the enemy lying prostrate.”


The light of Islam exploded over the world, liberating man, from the subjugation of man lifting him to the worship of the Creator. During the lifetime of Rasulullah SALLALLAHU ALAIHI WASALLAM, Islam spread throughout the Hijaz, expanding by some estimates at an average of 800 square kilometres per day! The jihads of this time, took 150 of the kuffar and 120 Muslims were shaheed. During the lifetimes of the Khulafa ar Rashideen, Islam destroyed the empire of Persia and reduced the once mighty empire of Rome, pushing it back to Constantinople.


This occurred, not through the superiority of weapons, numbers, wealth, technology nor the extremes of violence, nor anything else, other than the Deen of Islam and it’s implementation. Umar ibn al Khattab was reported to have said, "We are people who get honoured by Islam, if we seek the honour through any other thing, then Allah will humiliate us."


Indeed, unlike kufr and taghut, Islam spread by the strength of the Deen of Islam. Democracy it seems, can only be propagated by extremes of violence justified by lies and shifting-sands reasoning.


Although this noble Ummah has shown great sab’r (fortitude) in the face of such oppression, the I’zzah of Islam will only fully return when once more the Islamic Ummah stands on the Aqeedah of Islam alone and we are again united by the rule of the Amir ul Mu’mineen and the system of life as was delivered to us by Rasulullah SALLALLAHU ALAIHI WASALLAM.


Allah SUBHANAHU WA TA’ALA warns us in Surah Mujaadila,


إِنَّ الَّذِينَ يُحَادُّونَ اللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ أُوْلَئِكَ فِي الأَذَلِّينَكَتَبَ اللَّهُ لَأَغْلِبَنَّ أَنَا وَرُسُلِي إِنَّ اللَّهَ قَوِيٌّ عَزِيزٌ


لاَ تَجِدُ قَوْمًا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِاللَّهِ وَالْيَوْمِ الآخِرِ يُوَادُّونَ مَنْ حَادَّ اللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ وَلَوْ كَانُوا آبَاءَهُمْ أَوْ أَبْنَاءَهُمْ أَوْ إِخْوَانَهُمْ أَوْ عَشِيرَتَهُمْ أُوْلَئِكَ كَتَبَ فِي قُلُوبِهِمْ الإِيمَانَ وَأَيَّدَهُمْ بِرُوحٍ مِنْهُ وَيُدْخِلُهُمْ جَنَّاتٍ تَجْرِي مِنْ تَحْتِهَا الأَنْهَارُ خَالِدِينَ فِيهَا رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُمْ وَرَضُوا عَنْهُ أُوْلَئِكَ حِزْبُ اللَّهِ أَلاَ إِنَّ حِزْبَ اللَّهِ هُمْ الْمُفْلِحُونَ


Those who oppose Allah and His Messenger, they will be among the lowest (most humiliated).


Allah has decreed: "Verily! It is I and My Messengers who shall be the victorious. Verily, Allah is All-Powerful, All-Mighty. You will not find any people who believe in Allah and the Last Day, making friendship with those who oppose Allah and His Messenger, even though they were their fathers, or their sons, or their brothers, or their kindred (people). For such He has written Faith in their hearts, and strengthened them with Rûh from Himself. And We will admit them to Gardens (Paradise) under which rivers flow, to dwell therein (forever). Allah is pleased with them, and they with Him. They are the Party of Allah. Verily, it is the Party of Allah that will be the successful. [TMQ 58:20-22]


Khilafah.com Journal


28 Rabi al-Thani 1425 Hijri


16 June 2004


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China


Despite a few positive steps, no attempt was made to introduce the fundamental legal and institutional reforms necessary to bring an end to serious human rights violations. Tens of thousands of people continued to be detained or imprisoned in violation of their rights to freedom of expression and association, and were at serious risk of torture or ill-treatment. Thousands of people were sentenced to death or executed. Restrictions increased on the cultural and religious rights of the mainly Muslim Uighur community in Xinjiang, where thousands of people have been detained or imprisoned for so-called "separatist" or "terrorist" offences. In Tibet and other ethnic Tibetan areas, freedom of expression and religion continued to be severely restricted. China continued to use the international "war against terrorism" as a pretext for cracking down on peaceful dissent.


Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region


The authorities continued to use the international "war against terrorism" to justify harsh repression in Xinjiang, which continued to result in serious human rights violations against the ethnic Uighur community. The authorities continued to make little distinction between acts of violence and acts of passive resistance. Repression was often manifested through assaults on Uighur culture, such as the closure of several mosques, restrictions on the use of the Uighur language and the banning of certain Uighur books and journals.


The crack-down against suspected "separatists, terrorists and religious extremists" intensified following the start of a renewed 100-day security crack-down in October. Arrests continued and thousands of political prisoners, including prisoners of conscience, remained in prison. Concerns increased that China was putting pressure on neighbouring countries to forcibly return Uighurs suspected of "separatist" activities, including asylum-seekers and refugees.


Officials confirmed in October that Shaheer Ali, who had been forcibly returned to China from Nepal in 2002, had been executed after being found guilty of "terrorist" offences in a closed trial. He had been recognized as a refugee by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in Nepal. Shaheer Ali had secretly left behind a detailed testimony in which he described being beaten, given electric shocks and kicked unconscious during a previous period of detention in 1994.


Source: Amnesty International

By Guy Dinmore in Washington and James Kynge in Beijing


Published: June 22 2004 19:18 | Last Updated: June 22 2004 19:18


The US has ruled out the possible return of 22 Chinese prisoners held at its Guantلnamo Bay detention centre to China because it fears they could be tortured or executed, according to a senior US official.


The prisoners, captured in Afghanistan, are Muslim Uighurs from China's north-west Xinjiang region, where separatists have fought a low-level insurgency against Beijing for decades.


The US official, who asked not to be named, said the prisoners had no more intelligence value and could be released, but the US had not been able to find a country willing to take them. "We can't send them back," he said. Amnesty International last month raised the case of 22 Uighurs it said were being held at Guantلnamo, saying they were likely to face torture and possibly execution if repatriated.


China and the US denied Amnesty's claim that China had sent interrogators to Guantلnamo and had subjected the Uighurs to "stress and duress" techniques, such as sleep deprivation and extreme temperatures.


The US released more than two dozen prisoners from Guantلnamo in January after some were found to have been wrongly imprisoned. However four, including a Syrian and an Iranian, remained in a US-run prison at Baghram, Afghanistan, because they could not be sent home, a Pentagon official said.


China regards Uighur separatists in Xinjiang as its most incendiary "splittist" movement. Unlike those seeking Tibetan independence, some Uighur activists have resorted to violence to press independence claims for Xinjiang, a region of 14m people.


China insists Uighur separatists should be treated like any other terrorists targeted by the US. However, human rights groups have expressed concerns that China has used the US-led war on terror as an opportunity to crack down on non-violent Uighur activists.


In its recent annual report on human rights worldwide, the US State Department noted: "The United States has raised concern for the rights of minorities. The United States publicly and privately urged China not to use the war on terrorism as justification for cracking down on Uighurs expressing peaceful political dissent." Under criticism for the treatment of US prisoners, the Pentagon will release secret orders from Donald Rumsfeld, defence secretary, on interrogating terrorism suspects in Guantلnamo Bay, Reuters reports from Washington.


Officials said some details of guidelines issued by Mr Rumsfeld earlier this year would be made public quickly to show that some 600 Taliban and al-Qaeda suspects held there were not being tortured.


Treatment of the Guantلnamo detainees, including interrogation methods, has come under scrutiny since the scandal over abuse and sexual humiliation of Iraqi prisoners by US forces at Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad. Officials also planned to release documents to show the deliberation process used by President George W. Bush in setting a broad policy toward ensuring prisoners were treated humanely.

Jesus (Peace be upon Him) is not the Son of God, he is not begotten and he is not God in human form and he is not God incarnate. He did not claim as the Son of God. According to the Bible God is incomparable with man. Bible says, “ How can mere man stand before god and claim to be righteous? Who in all the earth can boast that he is clean? How much less is man, who is but a worm in his sight? “ (Job chapter25 verse 4,6). Eighty times in the Bible it is mentioned that Jesus is the son of man. “I the son of man. Feast and drink” (Matthew chapter11 verse 19).


Only fourteen times the Bible mentioned Jesus is the Son of God. God is almighty and clean. Actually God cannot be unclean and act as human do. A human child is born from his mother’s womb through the reproductive organ with clot of blood in an indecent way; A God cannot born through such ugly way. If we go through Bible we see Jesus (peace be upon him) did acts as human body does. Such as eat, drink and sleep, ”But I eat my food and drink my wine, and you say, what a glutton Jesus is!“(Luke 8 verse 34). He slept as we do,” But Jesus was asleep”(Matthew8 verse-24). Can we say him a thirsty God? ‘I am Thirsty”(John20 verse 28).”When Jesus was eight days old he was circumcised”? (Luke chapter 2 verse 21). God was circumcised? If we take these into account then it can easily be said that Jesus did drink water. So naturally he had to urinate. Even He became a little bit intoxicated after drinking wine. That’s mean He lost His natural consciousness for some time. And when he was asleep He also lost all the senses during that period. So everybody can ask what would be the consequence of the universe when God is asleep? Basically God is Almighty but nevertheless He cannot do two things i.e. He cannot create another God and He cannot throw out anybody out of His Kingdom. Actually Jesus (PBUH) was not God but prophet. Jesus said, “I am not making up this answer to your question! It is the answer given by the Father who sent me. I am telling you these things now while I am still with you---“. (John14, verses 24). Jesus (Peace be upon him) as a prophet sought help from His Lord. And the Lord is ALLAH, THE ALMIGHTY. Jesus asked help from Allah when he was said to be crucified said, ”Eli, Eli lama Sabachthani”(Matthew27 verse 46.) means Allah, Allah have u forsaken me? ELI, ELI is Hebrew language that is Allah, Allah. Even in the Holy Quran this Will a God ask help from another God? It is very interesting to note that Jesus had indicated about a Comforter who would teach the mankind, -“ But when the Father send the Comforter instead of me, and by the Comforter I mean the Holy Sprit- he will teach you much, as well as remind you of everything I myself have


told you “. (John14, verses 24,25,26). We all know ISLAM is derived from the Arabic root "SALEMA": means peace, purity. And Muhammad (Peace be upon him) preached Islam. Peace and comfort are in a sense intertwined. So naturally it can be said he who preached Islam that is peace was the peacemaker or COMFORTER. Even in the holy Quran the sign of Muhammad(SM) that were predicted by the early prophets are mentioned, “Those who follow the messenger, the Prophet who can neither read nor write, whom they will find described in the Torah and the Gospel (which are) with them. He will enjoin on them that which is right and forbid them that which is wrong. He will make lawful for them all good things and prohibit for them only the foul; and he will relieve them of their burden and the fetters that they used to wear. Then those who believe in him, and honor him and help him, and follow the light which is sent down with him: they are the successful” (ARAF, verse157). Allah said in the Quran, “The Messiah, son of Mary, was no other than a messenger, messengers (the like of whom) had passed away before him. And his mother was a saintly woman. And they both used to eat (earthly) food. See how we make the revelations clear for them, and see how they


are turned away!”(Al-Maida verse75) Allah said about Jesus, “ And verily We gave unto Moses the Scripture and We caused a train of messengers to follow after him, and We gave unto Jesus, son of Mary, clear proofs (of Allah's sovereignty), and We supported him with the holy Spirit. Is it ever so, that, when there cometh unto you a messenger (from Allah) with that which ye yourselves desire not, ye grow arrogant, and some ye disbelieve and some ye slay?”(BAQARA-verse87).Allah said Jesus was not killed but taken away, “That they said (in boast) "We killed Christ Jesus the son of Mary the Apostle of Allah";but they killed him not nor crucified him but so it was made to appear to them and those who differ therein are full of doubts with no (certain) knowledge but only conjecture to follow for of a surety they killed him not. Nay Allah raised him up unto Himself; and Allah is Exalted in Power Wise. ”(Sura Nisa4:157-158)


But it is a pity to note that the original scripture that was given to Jesus was wrongly practiced and altered its contextual sprit. Now we see many editions of the Bible. And these are textually different from one another. For example The Holy Bible Douay Version, which are followed by the Roman Catholic version .The Christian Protestants believe on the King James Version. King James not God almighty authorizes this version such a way Bible got corrupted. So some errors are found in the Bible.Here are two examples among many. “Solomon owned forty thousand chariot horses and employed twelve thousand charioteers”(King1, Chapter 4,Verse26). In another place Bible mentioned, “Solomon had 4000 stalls of horses and chariots-“(Cronicles2, Chapter9, Verse25). “-Israel is my eldest son”(Exodus5 verse22).“-- and Ephraim is my oldest child” (Jeremiah31, verse 9). Not only these errors even Bible mistakenly glorified some known person more than Jesus Bible described that person as such; “This Melchizedek was king of the city salem, and also a priest of the most High God. Melchizedek’s had no father or mother and there is no record of any of his ancestors. He was never born and he never died”(Hebrews Chapter 7 verse 1 to 3). But Jesus had a beginning, and he had a mother. The original scripture that was reveled to Jesus got misinterpreted in the passage of time. And now Christians of different sect follow different Bibles. They follow versions of different men. Not the scripture revealed by Allah. Allah mentioned this corruption in the Holy Quran, “Then We caused Our messengers to follow in their footsteps; and We caused Jesus, son of Mary, to follow, and gave him the Gospel, and placed compassion and mercy in the hearts of those who followed him. But monasticism they invented. We ordained it not for them. Only seeking Allah's pleasure, and they observed it not with right observance. So We give those of them who believe their reward, but many of them are evil-livers”(Al hadid, verse 27).“Peace on me the day I was born, and the day I die, and the day I shall be raised alive! Such was Jesus, son of Mary: (this is) a statement of the truth concerning which they doubt.It befits not (the Majesty of) Allah that He should take unto Himself a son. Glory be to Him! When He decree a thing, He said unto it only: Be! and it is.And lo! Allah is my Lord and your Lord. So serve Him. That is the right path.”(Quran;Sura Mary; verses 33—36) Allah gave message through revelation since the birth of man till humanity attained maturity i.e. from the Prophet Adam (PBUH) till Muhammad. Muslims do not only believe in the Prophet hood of Muhammad (Sm) but Abraham, David, Moses, Jesus. The Holy Quran lies down, ‘And those who believe in has been revealed to you & and what has been revealed before you’. Thus belief in previous history is mandatory & is a fundamental of the faith. Allah bestowed His messages in a series one after another according to the improvement and maturity of the human society. And final concluded by sending the last Messenger Muhammad (PBUH) when people attained full maturity. Islam dates back to the edge of Adam and its message have been conveyed to man by God's Prophets and Messengers including Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad. Islam's message has been restored and enforced in the last stage of the religious evolution by God's last Prophet and Messenger Muhammad. Islam Is the religion of every human child that is born, according to the Holy Prophet, who, to accurate, is not the originator, but the latest exponent of that Devine system which was made perfect at his advent, And, according to the Holy Quran, Islam is the natural religion of man: ‘The nature made by Allah is which He has made men; there is no alerting of Allah’s creation, -that is the right religion’ (30:30), And since, according to the Holy Quran, Prophets were raised among different nations in different ages, & the religion of every true Prophet was in its pristine purity no other than Islam, the scope of the religion in the true sense of the word, extends as far back & is as wide as humanity itself, the fundamental


principles always remaining the same, the accidents changing with the changing needs of humanity. The latest phase of Islam is that which made its appearances in the world with the advent of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) “This day have I perfected your religion for you and completed My favor unto you, and have chosen for you as religion AL- ISLAM. “(Quran Al-Maida verse 3) The Holy Prophet do not preach any new fangled doctrine or introduce much that was not made known before but their teachings are infect a confirmation of what had gone before them, The Quran declares, “ None of Our revelations do We abrogate or cause to be forgotten but We substitute something better or similar; know you not that Allah has power over all things? “(Sura Baqara; verse 106). Thus Quran is the inclusion of all the scriptures sends before with more details.


“ And strive for Allah with the endeavor which is His right. He hath chosen you and hath not laid upon you in religion any hardship; the faith of your father Abraham (is yours). He hath named you Muslims of old time and in this (Scripture), that the messenger may be a witness against you, and that ye may be witnesses against mankind. So establish worship, pay the poor due, and hold fast to Allah. He is your Protecting Friend. A blessed Patron and a blessed Helper!”(QURAN Sura Hajj; verse78). Muslims respect and revere Jesus (SAW) and await his Second Coming. They consider him one of the greatest of God's messengers to mankind. A Muslim never refers to him simply as 'Jesus', but always adds the phrase 'upon him be peace'. The Quran confirms his virgin birth (a chapter of the Quran is entitled 'Mary'), and Mary is considered the purest woman in all creation. The Quran describes the Annunciation as follows: 'Behold!' the Angel said, 'God has chosen you, and purified you, and chosen you above the women of all nations. O Mary, God gives you good news of a word from Him, whose name shall be the Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, honored in this world and the Hereafter, and one of those brought near to God. He shall speak to the people from his cradle and in maturity, and shall be of the righteous.'She said: 'O my Lord! How shall I have a son when no man has touched me?' He said: 'Even so; God creates what He will. When He decrees a thing He says to it, "Be!" and it is.' (Quran, 3.42-7) Jesus (SAW) was born miraculously through the same power, which had brought Adam (SAW) into being without a father:Truly, the likeness of Jesus with God is as the likeness of Adam. He created him of dust, and then said to him, 'Be!' and he was. (3.59) During his prophetic mission Jesus (SAW) performed many miracles. The Quran tells us that he said:'I have come to you with a sign from your Lord: I make for you out of clay, as it were, the figure of a bird, and breathe into it and it becomes a bird by God's leave. And I heal the blind, and the lepers, and I raise the dead by God's leave.' (3.49) Neither Muhammad (SAW) nor Jesus (SAW) came to change the basic doctrine of the belief in One God, brought by earlier prophets, but to confirm and renew it. In the Quran Jesus (SAW) is reported as saying that he came:'To attest the law which was before me. And to make lawful to you paff of what was forbidden you; I have come to you with a sign from your Lord, so fear God and obey Me.' (3:5O)


The Prophet Muhammad (SAW) said: 'Whoever believes there is no god but God, alone without partner, that Muhammad (SAW) is His messenger, that Jesus is the servant and messenger of God, His word breathed into Mary and a spirit emanating from Him, and that Paradise and Hell are true, shall be received by God into Heaven.'(Hadith from Bukhari). So we the whole mankind should follow the instruction of Allah. Allah said:


110 Establish worship, and pay the poor due; and whatever of good ye


send before (you) for your souls, ye will find it with Allah. Lo! Allah


is Seer of what ye do.


111 And they say: None enter Paradise unless he is a Jew or a Christian. These are their own desires. Say: Bring your proof (of what ye state) if ye are truthful. 112 Nay, but whosoever surrender his purpose to Allah while doing good, his reward is with his Lord; and there shall no fear come upon them neither shall they grieve.


113 And the Jews say the Christians follow nothing (true), and the Christians say the Jews follow nothing (true); yet both are readers of the Scripture. Even thus speak those who know not. Allah will judge between them on the Day of Resurrection concerning that wherein they differ.


114 And who doth greater wrong than he who forbidden the approach to the sanctuaries of Allah lest His name should be mentioned therein, and strive for their ruin? As for such, it was never meant that they should enter them except in fear. Theirs in the world is ignominy and theirs in the Hereafter is an awful doom.


115 Unto Allah belong the East and the West, and whithersoever ye turn, there is Allah's countenance. Lo! Allah is All Embracing, All Knowing.


116 And they say: Allah hath taken unto Himself a Son. Be He glorified! Nay, but whatsoever is in the heaven and the earth is His. All are subservient unto Him.


117 The Originator of the heavens and the earth! When He decrees a thing, He said unto it only: Be! and it is.


118 And those who have no knowledge say: Why doth not Allah speak unto us, or some sign come unto us? Even thus, as they now speak, spoke those (who were) before them. Their hearts are all alike. We have made clear the revelations for people who are sure.


119 Lo! We have sent thee (O Muhammad) with the truth, a bringer of glad tidings and a Warner. And thou wilt not be asked about the owners of hell fire.


120 And the Jews will not be pleased with thee, nor will the Christians, till thou follow their creed. Say: Lo! the guidance of Allah (Himself) is Guidance. And if thou should follow their desires after the knowledge which hath come unto thee, then wouldst thou have from Allah no protecting friend nor helper Actually besides their blaming each other we have to come to the truth. And the truth is:(Al –Baqara).


“The Religion before Allah is Islam (submission to His will): nor did the people of the Book dissent there from except through envy of each other after knowledge had come to them. But if any deny the Signs of Allah, Allah is swift in calling to account.”(Sura Al Imran-Vesrse 19)


And “Muhammad is not the father of any of your men but (he is) the Apostle of Allah and the Seal of the Prophets: and Allah has full knowledge of all things”(Sura Al Ahjab-verse-40).


In this present day world we all have to obey the Quranic instructions including the followings:


“Invite (all) to the way of their Lord with wisdom and beautiful Preaching, and reason with them in ways that are Best and Most gracious(Quran 16;125)


“O ye who believe! Squander not your wealth among yourselves in vanity, except it be a trade by mutual consent, and kill not one another. Lo! Allah is ever Merciful unto you.”( Quran,4.29}


“Keep to forgiveness (O Muhammad), and enjoin kindness, and turn away from the ignorant.”(Quran suraAraf.199)


“Repel evil with that which is better. We are best Aware of that which they allege.”(Quran; Muminun: 96)


“O ye who believe! why say you that which you do not?”


3 “It is most hateful in the sight of Allah that ye say that which ye do not.”(Quran; Sura61: 2,3)


4 “Whoso intervene in a good cause will have the reward thereof, and whoso interveneth in an evil cause will bear the consequence thereof. Allah oversees all things.”(Quran;sura Nisa 4 verse;85).


“ Those who spend (of that which Allah hath given them) in ease and in adversity, those who control their wrath and are forgiving toward mankind; Allah love the good.”


(Quran Sura no3: 134)


“O ye who believe! Be steadfast witnesses for Allah in equity, and let not hatred of any people seduce you that ye deal not justly. Deal justly, that is nearer to your duty. Observe your duty to Allah. Lo! Allah is Informed of what ye do.”


(Sura Maida; 5:8).


“Fill the measure when ye measure, and weigh with a right balance; that is meet, and better in the end.”(Sura Bani Israel: 35).


“Turn not thy cheek in scorn toward folk, nor walk with pertness the land. Lo! Allah love not each braggart boaster.”


“Be modest in thy bearing and subdue thy voice. Lo! in harshest of all voices is the voice of the ass.”(Sura Lokman31; 18-19)


“O mankind! Lo! We have created you male and female, and have made you nations and tribes that ye may know one another. Lo! the noblest of you,


in the sight of Allah, is the best in conduct. Lo! Allah is Knower, Aware.”(Sura Hujrat49 verse13).


“Here is no compulsion in religion. The right direction is henceforth distinct from error. And he who reject false deities and believeth in Allah hath grasped a firm handhold which will never break. Allah is Hearer, Knower.”(Sura.Baqara: 256)


“Work not confusion in the earth after the fair ordering (thereof), and call on Him in fear and hope. Lo! the mercy of Allah is nigh unto the good.”(Sura araf; 7:56)’


“Allah love not mischief.(Baqara.”205).


“He give wisdom unto whom He will, and he unto whom wisdom is given, he truly hath received abundant good. But none remember except men of understanding.”(SuraBaqara: 269).


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The threat to independence in the late twentieth century from the new electronics media proved could be greater than was colonialism. The transnational corporations control the manufacture, distribution and above all selection of news relied on by most of the word,




has created a new mechanism and dependence. As we know the news media have the power to penetrate more deeply, so it is used to create a kind of mindset in the whole world. People watch the television with a relatively unquestioned certainty that they are seeing the reality.




It is an irony that today by most of the leading news media in the world have developed a tendency to portrayed Islam; brutal and violent thus only understands force . Islam is an intolerant, segregationist, medieval, fanatic, cruel, anti woman religion. Muslims especially those who bear their name with AHMED, MUHAMMAD, ISLAM etc are closely related with terrorists , and that the religion is fit only for profit or war.




This anachronistic aspect is largely presented before the western people through the media and the images of the them are shown as virtuous and clean warriors.




The way medias are patronizing the confrontations among classes, ethnic groups, are actually spreading hatred, agitations in the world. The notion that they are demons and we are advanced so virtuous innocent in the state of affairs is unacceptable. “They and We” this classification has divided the world so badly that it has become very hard for a universal civilization.




It is irony to note that the world had witnessed imperial powers nurtured many dictators in the world like HaileSelassie, Somoza, SyngmanRhee, the Shah of Iran, Pinochet, Marcos, Noriega and even Saddam Hussein whose rule they encouraged, whose favors they long enjoyed, while purpose is served they all were demonized in front of the world. But the prominent news medias of the world are mysteriously silent at this stage. None of the world-class media came forward to create international public opinion against those policies as they are now against Al-Queda. Why? Is free flow of information stifled? Answer is, no but they are biased or somehow managed.




The propaganda machineries sometimes misguide most of the people of the world. Any partisan and shallow role of the news media could result immense havoc for sure, erode the creditability of the noble profession. It is true, rumor, false propaganda has meet their present requirements but it will jeopardize the credibility of this sector in consequence. Equity, clarity, rationalism which long been nurtured through the passage of time has been ruined.




Astonishingly the intellectual lives of the western countries have been almost swallowed up. Their sense of self-pride has been becoming too much like Bismarck Ian Kutler, buttressing from superiority in technology alike Britain’s former sense of superiority. Their intellectuals are drawn increasingly in strategic planning, and the development of scientific warfare, Utopian sanctuary has deranged them. Cults like post-modernism, discourse analysis, new historicism, deconstruction, neo- pragmatism transport them into the country of the blue.




This cultural identification should not be ‘straitjacket’ for propaganda, which promotes ‘identity politics’ it, has an inexorable link with the idea of racism. Which can promote reactionasim and stimulate mass destructiveness. Today the world has started to experience all sorts of extremism. Who knows how long the world has to suffer by the reactivation.




The promotion of equality, equity, justice, tolerance as we learnt are the basis of modern welfare secularism is at a stake. The Iraq invasion has proved that the UNO has lost the power of its adjudication and jurisdiction and so forth. UNO’s role to secure the interest of its member states as well as their sovereignty has been badly damaged by the invasion infact by those countries whose pattern of democratic norms are followed and practiced all over the world. The nucleus essence of their democratic sprit is seriously under a big question mark. Consequently, the small state’s sovereignty will be jeopardized. Can UNO play a deterrent role in order to protect their independent power from the powerful hostile countries? Present situation reveals negative result. Those who dreamt of the emergence of a free, fair universal civilization are now dreaming of an early departure. After the Iraq war now the time has arrived to rethink in the dilemma.




It is pity to note that the Arab world is still divided into different groups They have got the most precious mineral resources in their hand but due to lack of unity they can not raise their hands all together. It is to be noticed here that the European countries had fought two world wars against each others, suffered loses more than any nation bitterly experienced in the human history. They have got linguistic and ethnical differences. Nevertheless they ignored the past, narrowed down their prejudices and ultimately got united for the sake of their own existence in the newer world order. If they can why not the Arabs, they are belonging almost the same language, same religion and same background. It is almost inevitable from the Arabs point of view that their monolithic character can stick them together.




Not only the Arabs, in a broader spectrum we the new generation should come forward to narrow down all the irritated issues among all the Muslim countries in the world. Though the Iraq war will be a psychological blow to many citizens of the world. And yet we cannot be distracted from our daily work. In fact, the Iraq war should provide more a reason for being diligent in developing Islamic brotherhood.




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Jesus (Peace be upon Him) is not the Son of God, he is not begotten and he is not God in human form and he is not God incarnate. He did not claim as the Son of God. According to the Bible God is incomparable with man. Bible says, “ How can mere man stand before god and claim to be righteous? Who in all the earth can boast that he is clean? How much less is man, who is but a worm in his sight? “ (Job chapter25 verse 4,6). Eighty times in the Bible it is mentioned that Jesus is the son of man. “I the son of man. Feast and drink” (Matthew chapter11 verse 19).




Only fourteen times the Bible mentioned Jesus is the Son of God. God is almighty and clean. Actually God cannot be unclean and act as human do. A human child is born from his mother’s womb through the reproductive organ with clot of blood in an indecent way; A God cannot born through such ugly way. If we go through Bible we see Jesus (peace be upon him) did acts as human body does. Such as eat, drink and sleep, ”But I eat my food and drink my wine, and you say, what a glutton Jesus is!“(Luke 8 verse 34). He slept as we do,” But Jesus was asleep”(Matthew8 verse-24). Can we say him a thirsty God? ‘I am Thirsty”(John20 verse 28).”When Jesus was eight days old he was circumcised”? (Luke chapter 2 verse 21). God was circumcised? If we take these into account then it can easily be said that Jesus did drink water. So naturally he had to urinate. Even He became a little bit intoxicated after drinking wine. That’s mean He lost His natural consciousness for some time. And when he was asleep He also lost all the senses during that period. So everybody can ask what would be the consequence of the universe when God is asleep? Basically God is Almighty but nevertheless He cannot do two things i.e. He cannot create another God and He cannot throw out anybody out of His Kingdom. Actually Jesus (PBUH) was not God but prophet. Jesus said, “I am not making up this answer to your question! It is the answer given by the Father who sent me. I am telling you these things now while I am still with you---“. (John14, verses 24). Jesus (Peace be upon him) as a prophet sought help from His Lord. And the Lord is ALLAH, THE ALMIGHTY. Jesus asked help from Allah when he was said to be crucified said, ”Eli, Eli lama Sabachthani”(Matthew27 verse 46.) means Allah, Allah have u forsaken me? ELI, ELI is Hebrew language that is Allah, Allah. Even in the Holy Quran this Will a God ask help from another God? It is very interesting to note that Jesus had indicated about a Comforter who would teach the mankind, -“ But when the Father send the Comforter instead of me, and by the Comforter I mean the Holy Sprit- he will teach you much, as well as remind you of everything I myself have




told you “. (John14, verses 24,25,26). We all know ISLAM is derived from the Arabic root "SALEMA": means peace, purity. And Muhammad (Peace be upon him) preached Islam. Peace and comfort are in a sense intertwined. So naturally it can be said he who preached Islam that is peace was the peacemaker or COMFORTER. Even in the holy Quran the sign of Muhammad(SM) that were predicted by the early prophets are mentioned, “Those who follow the messenger, the Prophet who can neither read nor write, whom they will find described in the Torah and the Gospel (which are) with them. He will enjoin on them that which is right and forbid them that which is wrong. He will make lawful for them all good things and prohibit for them only the foul; and he will relieve them of their burden and the fetters that they used to wear. Then those who believe in him, and honor him and help him, and follow the light which is sent down with him: they are the successful” (ARAF, verse157). Allah said in the Quran, “The Messiah, son of Mary, was no other than a messenger, messengers (the like of whom) had passed away before him. And his mother was a saintly woman. And they both used to eat (earthly) food. See how we make the revelations clear for them, and see how they




are turned away!”(Al-Maida verse75) Allah said about Jesus, “ And verily We gave unto Moses the Scripture and We caused a train of messengers to follow after him, and We gave unto Jesus, son of Mary, clear proofs (of Allah's sovereignty), and We supported him with the holy Spirit. Is it ever so, that, when there cometh unto you a messenger (from Allah) with that which ye yourselves desire not, ye grow arrogant, and some ye disbelieve and some ye slay?”(BAQARA-verse87).Allah said Jesus was not killed but taken away, “That they said (in boast) "We killed Christ Jesus the son of Mary the Apostle of Allah";but they killed him not nor crucified him but so it was made to appear to them and those who differ therein are full of doubts with no (certain) knowledge but only conjecture to follow for of a surety they killed him not. Nay Allah raised him up unto Himself; and Allah is Exalted in Power Wise. ”(Sura Nisa4:157-158)




But it is a pity to note that the original scripture that was given to Jesus was wrongly practiced and altered its contextual sprit. Now we see many editions of the Bible. And these are textually different from one another. For example The Holy Bible Douay Version, which are followed by the Roman Catholic version .The Christian Protestants believe on the King James Version. King James not God almighty authorizes this version such a way Bible got corrupted. So some errors are found in the Bible.Here are two examples among many. “Solomon owned forty thousand chariot horses and employed twelve thousand charioteers”(King1, Chapter 4,Verse26). In another place Bible mentioned, “Solomon had 4000 stalls of horses and chariots-“(Cronicles2, Chapter9, Verse25). “-Israel is my eldest son”(Exodus5 verse22).“-- and Ephraim is my oldest child” (Jeremiah31, verse 9). Not only these errors even Bible mistakenly glorified some known person more than Jesus Bible described that person as such; “This Melchizedek was king of the city salem, and also a priest of the most High God. Melchizedek’s had no father or mother and there is no record of any of his ancestors. He was never born and he never died”(Hebrews Chapter 7 verse 1 to 3). But Jesus had a beginning, and he had a mother. The original scripture that was reveled to Jesus got misinterpreted in the passage of time. And now Christians of different sect follow different Bibles. They follow versions of different men. Not the scripture revealed by Allah. Allah mentioned this corruption in the Holy Quran, “Then We caused Our messengers to follow in their footsteps; and We caused Jesus, son of Mary, to follow, and gave him the Gospel, and placed compassion and mercy in the hearts of those who followed him. But monasticism they invented. We ordained it not for them. Only seeking Allah's pleasure, and they observed it not with right observance. So We give those of them who believe their reward, but many of them are evil-livers”(Al hadid, verse 27).“Peace on me the day I was born, and the day I die, and the day I shall be raised alive! Such was Jesus, son of Mary: (this is) a statement of the truth concerning which they doubt.It befits not (the Majesty of) Allah that He should take unto Himself a son. Glory be to Him! When He decree a thing, He said unto it only: Be! and it is.And lo! Allah is my Lord and your Lord. So serve Him. That is the right path.”(Quran;Sura Mary; verses 33—36) Allah gave message through revelation since the birth of man till humanity attained maturity i.e. from the Prophet Adam (PBUH) till Muhammad. Muslims do not only believe in the Prophet hood of Muhammad (Sm) but Abraham, David, Moses, Jesus. The Holy Quran lies down, ‘And those who believe in has been revealed to you & and what has been revealed before you’. Thus belief in previous history is mandatory & is a fundamental of the faith. Allah bestowed His messages in a series one after another according to the improvement and maturity of the human society. And final concluded by sending the last Messenger Muhammad (PBUH) when people attained full maturity. Islam dates back to the edge of Adam and its message have been conveyed to man by God's Prophets and Messengers including Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad. Islam's message has been restored and enforced in the last stage of the religious evolution by God's last Prophet and Messenger Muhammad. Islam Is the religion of every human child that is born, according to the Holy Prophet, who, to accurate, is not the originator, but the latest exponent of that Devine system which was made perfect at his advent, And, according to the Holy Quran, Islam is the natural religion of man: ‘The nature made by Allah is which He has made men; there is no alerting of Allah’s creation, -that is the right religion’ (30:30), And since, according to the Holy Quran, Prophets were raised among different nations in different ages, & the religion of every true Prophet was in its pristine purity no other than Islam, the scope of the religion in the true sense of the word, extends as far back & is as wide as humanity itself, the fundamental




principles always remaining the same, the accidents changing with the changing needs of humanity. The latest phase of Islam is that which made its appearances in the world with the advent of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) “This day have I perfected your religion for you and completed My favor unto you, and have chosen for you as religion AL- ISLAM. “(Quran Al-Maida verse 3) The Holy Prophet do not preach any new fangled doctrine or introduce much that was not made known before but their teachings are infect a confirmation of what had gone before them, The Quran declares, “ None of Our revelations do We abrogate or cause to be forgotten but We substitute something better or similar; know you not that Allah has power over all things? “(Sura Baqara; verse 106). Thus Quran is the inclusion of all the scriptures sends before with more details.




“ And strive for Allah with the endeavor which is His right. He hath chosen you and hath not laid upon you in religion any hardship; the faith of your father Abraham (is yours). He hath named you Muslims of old time and in this (Scripture), that the messenger may be a witness against you, and that ye may be witnesses against mankind. So establish worship, pay the poor due, and hold fast to Allah. He is your Protecting Friend. A blessed Patron and a blessed Helper!”(QURAN Sura Hajj; verse78). Muslims respect and revere Jesus (SAW) and await his Second Coming. They consider him one of the greatest of God's messengers to mankind. A Muslim never refers to him simply as 'Jesus', but always adds the phrase 'upon him be peace'. The Quran confirms his virgin birth (a chapter of the Quran is entitled 'Mary'), and Mary is considered the purest woman in all creation. The Quran describes the Annunciation as follows: 'Behold!' the Angel said, 'God has chosen you, and purified you, and chosen you above the women of all nations. O Mary, God gives you good news of a word from Him, whose name shall be the Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, honored in this world and the Hereafter, and one of those brought near to God. He shall speak to the people from his cradle and in maturity, and shall be of the righteous.'She said: 'O my Lord! How shall I have a son when no man has touched me?' He said: 'Even so; God creates what He will. When He decrees a thing He says to it, "Be!" and it is.' (Quran, 3.42-7) Jesus (SAW) was born miraculously through the same power, which had brought Adam (SAW) into being without a father:Truly, the likeness of Jesus with God is as the likeness of Adam. He created him of dust, and then said to him, 'Be!' and he was. (3.59) During his prophetic mission Jesus (SAW) performed many miracles. The Quran tells us that he said:'I have come to you with a sign from your Lord: I make for you out of clay, as it were, the figure of a bird, and breathe into it and it becomes a bird by God's leave. And I heal the blind, and the lepers, and I raise the dead by God's leave.' (3.49) Neither Muhammad (SAW) nor Jesus (SAW) came to change the basic doctrine of the belief in One God, brought by earlier prophets, but to confirm and renew it. In the Quran Jesus (SAW) is reported as saying that he came:'To attest the law which was before me. And to make lawful to you paff of what was forbidden you; I have come to you with a sign from your Lord, so fear God and obey Me.' (3:5O)




The Prophet Muhammad (SAW) said: 'Whoever believes there is no god but God, alone without partner, that Muhammad (SAW) is His messenger, that Jesus is the servant and messenger of God, His word breathed into Mary and a spirit emanating from Him, and that Paradise and Hell are true, shall be received by God into Heaven.'(Hadith from Bukhari). So we the whole mankind should follow the instruction of Allah. Allah said:




110 Establish worship, and pay the poor due; and whatever of good ye




send before (you) for your souls, ye will find it with Allah. Lo! Allah




is Seer of what ye do.




111 And they say: None enter Paradise unless he is a Jew or a Christian. These are their own desires. Say: Bring your proof (of what ye state) if ye are truthful. 112 Nay, but whosoever surrender his purpose to Allah while doing good, his reward is with his Lord; and there shall no fear come upon them neither shall they grieve.




113 And the Jews say the Christians follow nothing (true), and the Christians say the Jews follow nothing (true); yet both are readers of the Scripture. Even thus speak those who know not. Allah will judge between them on the Day of Resurrection concerning that wherein they differ.




114 And who doth greater wrong than he who forbidden the approach to the sanctuaries of Allah lest His name should be mentioned therein, and strive for their ruin? As for such, it was never meant that they should enter them except in fear. Theirs in the world is ignominy and theirs in the Hereafter is an awful doom.




115 Unto Allah belong the East and the West, and whithersoever ye turn, there is Allah's countenance. Lo! Allah is All Embracing, All Knowing.




116 And they say: Allah hath taken unto Himself a Son. Be He glorified! Nay, but whatsoever is in the heaven and the earth is His. All are subservient unto Him.




117 The Originator of the heavens and the earth! When He decrees a thing, He said unto it only: Be! and it is.




118 And those who have no knowledge say: Why doth not Allah speak unto us, or some sign come unto us? Even thus, as they now speak, spoke those (who were) before them. Their hearts are all alike. We have made clear the revelations for people who are sure.




119 Lo! We have sent thee (O Muhammad) with the truth, a bringer of glad tidings and a Warner. And thou wilt not be asked about the owners of hell fire.




120 And the Jews will not be pleased with thee, nor will the Christians, till thou follow their creed. Say: Lo! the guidance of Allah (Himself) is Guidance. And if thou should follow their desires after the knowledge which hath come unto thee, then wouldst thou have from Allah no protecting friend nor helper Actually besides their blaming each other we have to come to the truth. And the truth is:(Al –Baqara).




“The Religion before Allah is Islam (submission to His will): nor did the people of the Book dissent there from except through envy of each other after knowledge had come to them. But if any deny the Signs of Allah, Allah is swift in calling to account.”(Sura Al Imran-Vesrse 19)




And “Muhammad is not the father of any of your men but (he is) the Apostle of Allah and the Seal of the Prophets: and Allah has full knowledge of all things”(Sura Al Ahjab-verse-40).




In this present day world we all have to obey the Quranic instructions including the followings:




“Invite (all) to the way of their Lord with wisdom and beautiful Preaching, and reason with them in ways that are Best and Most gracious(Quran 16;125)




“O ye who believe! Squander not your wealth among yourselves in vanity, except it be a trade by mutual consent, and kill not one another. Lo! Allah is ever Merciful unto you.”( Quran,4.29}




“Keep to forgiveness (O Muhammad), and enjoin kindness, and turn away from the ignorant.”(Quran suraAraf.199)




“Repel evil with that which is better. We are best Aware of that which they allege.”(Quran; Muminun: 96)




“O ye who believe! why say you that which you do not?”




3 “It is most hateful in the sight of Allah that ye say that which ye do not.”(Quran; Sura61: 2,3)




4 “Whoso intervene in a good cause will have the reward thereof, and whoso interveneth in an evil cause will bear the consequence thereof. Allah oversees all things.”(Quran;sura Nisa 4 verse;85).




“ Those who spend (of that which Allah hath given them) in ease and in adversity, those who control their wrath and are forgiving toward mankind; Allah love the good.”




(Quran Sura no3: 134)




“O ye who believe! Be steadfast witnesses for Allah in equity, and let not hatred of any people seduce you that ye deal not justly. Deal justly, that is nearer to your duty. Observe your duty to Allah. Lo! Allah is Informed of what ye do.”




(Sura Maida; 5:8).




“Fill the measure when ye measure, and weigh with a right balance; that is meet, and better in the end.”(Sura Bani Israel: 35).




“Turn not thy cheek in scorn toward folk, nor walk with pertness the land. Lo! Allah love not each braggart boaster.”




“Be modest in thy bearing and subdue thy voice. Lo! in harshest of all voices is the voice of the ass.”(Sura Lokman31; 18-19)




“O mankind! Lo! We have created you male and female, and have made you nations and tribes that ye may know one another. Lo! the noblest of you,




in the sight of Allah, is the best in conduct. Lo! Allah is Knower, Aware.”(Sura Hujrat49 verse13).




“Here is no compulsion in religion. The right direction is henceforth distinct from error. And he who reject false deities and believeth in Allah hath grasped a firm handhold which will never break. Allah is Hearer, Knower.”(Sura.Baqara: 256)




“Work not confusion in the earth after the fair ordering (thereof), and call on Him in fear and hope. Lo! the mercy of Allah is nigh unto the good.”(Sura araf; 7:56)’




“Allah love not mischief.(Baqara.”205).




“He give wisdom unto whom He will, and he unto whom wisdom is given, he truly hath received abundant good. But none remember except men of understanding.”(SuraBaqara: 269).




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