Salam


I would like to explore the topic of ZAKAAT.


Most of us know what is it, but i am having trouble finding out how to actually work it out. From some research i have carried out i found out that it is determined by the NISAAB VALUE.


I have found this hadith


According to a prophetic hadith, "Gold is not liable to Zakah unless it reaches twenty dinars. Once it reaches this amount, half a dinar must be paid as Zakah on it. Likewise, silver is not counted for Zakah unless it reaches two hundred dirhams. Once it reaches this value, an amount of five dirhams must be paid as Zakah on it."


And so it seems that 20 dinars of gold is = 85g of gold and 200 dirhams = 595g of silver.


You need to find out the money value of this by finding out what 1g of gold and what 1g of silver costs and then multiplying it with 85g and 595g. Whatever the value that is the nisaab. AND then find 2.5% of that.


HOWEVER the question is if the above hadith is authentic as i havent been able to find a reference?


ALSO if one does not own gold but has loads of money saved up how does that work?


Which nisaab do we use the gold or silver for our money? Some scholars say its better to use silver as its cheaper compared to gold and therefore the nisaab value will be lower and therefore people will give more zakah to charity as there wealth is over the nisaab.


If anyone knows anything to do with this topic please reply and if you have references from the quran and sunnah please post them here.

Salam


please take time to listen to this lecture.


Alhamdulillah we can all benefit from it.





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Bismillah


as salam alykom


what is the reason behind using them:


Is it:


Personalization.


Socialization.


Feeling ownership.


Personal probagation.


Presenting one's skills.


Learning.


Presenting one's opinions.


Prefer individualism rather than team work.


Spreading personal ideology, religion, opinions.


Self expression.


This should be an interesting topic.


Of course if there are any other reasons, pls list them, we can actually come up with a very important study here.

In the Name of Allaah, the Most Merciful, Most Gracious
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Annual Belmarsh Iftar at HMP Belmarsh 2009</b>
<b><i>Solidarity & Remembrance of Muslim Prisoners Worldwide</i></b>






8 years on still there is little respite for the real victims of the War on Terror. This event provides an opportunity to remember the victims of illegal rendition detainment and torture, control orders, SIAC court rulings and all other measures imposed to unlawfully strip Muslim prisoners in the UK and abroad of their dignity, freedom and liberties- 'guilty' either by association/ circumstance or for expressing an opinion/ voicing openly an authenticated article of faith.


This Iftar has been arranged to remember the plight of these prisoners and their families.
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Guest Speakers:</b>

* Imam Shakeel Begg (Lewisham Islamic Centre)

* Ustadh Uthman Lateef (Hittin Institute)

* Ex-Detainees

* Family members

and many more insha'allaah
<b>

Featuring:</b>

- Qur'aan Recitation

- Full Segregation

- Du'aa Qunoot

- Poetry reading from children of the imprisoned

- Statements from representatives of Detainees and Muslim Prisoners

- Prayers to be performed on site
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Date:</b> Sunday 6th September '09
<b>Time:</b> 3.00- 8.30pm
<b>Venue: </b>Outside Belmarsh Prison

HMP Belmarsh

Western Way

Thamesmead

SE28 0EB
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Transport: </b>Rail: Plumstead Station, Underground: North Greenwich, DLR: Woolwich Arsenal, Buses: 244 and 380

Note: Iftar arrangements include Dates and Milk, and cooked meals for up to 300 attendees.

- Please bring appropriate clothing in case of weather change.


<b>"A Muslim is the brother of another Muslim. He does not oppress him, nor does he leave him at the mercy of others." Saheeh Muslim</b>

<i><b>Organised by the Muslim Prisoners Support Group (MPSG) and the Woolwich Dawah Network</b></i>
<i>Supported by the Tayyibun Institute, Helping Households Under Great Stress (HHUGS) and the Hittin Institute</i>




Please try to attend and offer your support to our brothers locked up in Belmarsh and elsewhere this Ramadhan. Jazaak Allaah khayr.

<b>E-mail: </b>belmarsh-iftar@hotmail.co.uk
<b>Tel:</b> 07949178942 (Brothers) or 07960076099 (Sisters)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090807/ap_o...s_pakistan


Aide says Pakistani Taliban leader killed by US


DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan – Pakistan's Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud, who unleashed a fearsome campaign of suicide attacks and assassinations that made him the country's most-wanted man, was killed in a U.S. missile strike, an aide said Friday.


The U.S. put a $5 million bounty on his head in March. Increasingly, American missiles fired by unmanned drones have focused on Mehsud-related targets.


While his demise would be a major boost to Pakistani and U.S. efforts to eradicate the Taliban and al-Qaida, it won't necessarily deal a definitive blow because he has deputies who could take his place.


Already, Taliban commanders were meeting Friday in a shura, or council, in the lawless tribal area of South Waziristan to choose his successor, according to intelligence and militant officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter. It was unclear when they would reach a decision.


Considered by Pakistan to be its top internal threat, Mehsud had al-Qaida connections and was suspected in the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.


Pakistani and U.S. intelligence officials said the CIA was behind the strike Wednesday that killed Mehsud. All spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.


Pakistan publicly opposes the missile strikes, saying they anger local tribes and make it harder for the army to operate. Still, many analysts suspect the two countries have a secret deal allowing them.


In June, Pakistan said it was launching an operation against Mehsud in South Waziristan. But although airstrikes began, the offensive never went full-scale. In the meantime, the U.S. missile strikes continued, increasingly targeting Mehsud and raising speculation that the Pakistanis were hoping — or even coordinating with — the Americans to kill Mehsud first.


Earlier, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said intelligence showed Mehsud had been killed in his father-in-law's house in Pakistan's lawless tribal area, and authorities would travel to the site to verify his death.


"I confirm that Baitullah Mehsud and his wife died in the American missile attack in South Waziristan," Taliban commander Kafayat Ullah told The Associated Press by telephone. He would not elaborate.


For years, the U.S. considered Mehsud a lesser threat to its interests than some of the other Pakistani Taliban, their Afghan counterparts and al-Qaida, because most of his attacks were focused inside Pakistan, not against U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan.


That view appeared to change in recent months as Mehsud's power grew and concerns mounted that increasing violence in Pakistan could destabilize the U.S. ally and threaten the entire region.


Last year, Mehsud held a rare news conference the town of Kot Kai in South Waziristan to discuss his fight against the U.S.


"It is the top desire of my life to obtain martyrdom, I have strong feelings for the martyrdom in my heart," he said. "To be a martyr, to be wounded or arrested we consider it as a sacrifice."


He said the Taliban supported suicide bombings as a response to American bombs.


"America is bombing us and we are facing cruelty, so we will support these suicide attacks." he said. "They (suicide bombers) are our atom bombs. Although the infidels have the atom bombs, our atom bombs are the finest in the world.


"They use the atom (bomb) and it destroyed everything while our one bomb just targets one target to be destroyed."


Analysts say the reason for Mehsud's rise in the militant ranks is his alliances with al-Qaida and other violent groups. U.S. intelligence has said al-Qaida has set up its operational headquarters in Mehsud's South Waziristan stronghold and neighboring North Waziristan.


Three Pakistani intelligence officials said the likeliest successor was Mehsud's deputy, Hakim Ullah, a commander known for recruiting and training suicide bombers. Two other prominent possibilities, the officials said, were Azmat Ullah and Waliur Rehman, also close associates of Mehsud.


The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.


A local tribesman, who also spoke on condition his name not be used, said Mehsud had been at his father-in-law's house being treated for kidney pain, and had been put on a drip by a doctor when the missile struck. The tribesman claimed he attended the Taliban chief's funeral.


The Pakistani intelligence officials said Mehsud was buried in the village of Nardusai in South Waziristan, near the site of the missile strike.


Last year, a doctor for Mehsud said the militant leader had died of kidney failure, but the report turned out to be false.


White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said the administration could not confirm the death of Mehsud. "There seems to be a growing consensus among credible observers that he is indeed dead," he said, adding that if he is dead, "without a doubt, the people of Pakistan will be safer as a result."


Another senior Pakistani intelligence official said phone and other communications intercepts — he would not be more specific — had led authorities to suspect Mehsud was dead, but stressed there was no definitive evidence yet.


An American counterterrorism official said the U.S. government was also looking into the reports. The official indicated the United States did not yet have physical evidence — remains — that would prove who died but said there were other ways of determining who was killed. He declined to describe them.


Both spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on the matter publicly.


Whether a new leader could wreak as much havoc as Mehsud depends largely on how much pressure the Pakistani military continues to put on the network, especially in South Waziristan in Pakistan's tribal belt. The mountainous region has a leaky border with Afghanistan and fiercely independent, heavily armed tribes hostile to interference by outsiders. The Pashtun tribes from which the Taliban draws most of its fighters straddle both sides of the border.


Although Mehsud's stronghold in South Waziristan does not directly border Afghanistan, he was known to have ties to other commanders acting on the frontier and was believed to give refuge to Taliban fighters in Afghanistan who move freely back and forth across the border.


In Afghanistan, Defense Ministry spokesman Gen. Mohammad Zahir Azimi said Mehsud's fighters would cross the border into eastern Afghanistan occasionally to help out one of most ruthless Afghan insurgent leaders, Siraj Haqqani.


"He was an international terrorist that affected India, Pakistan and Afghanistan," Azimi said, without confirming Mehsud was dead.


Interior Minister Rehman Malik said Pakistan's military was determined to finish off Pakistan's Taliban.


"It is a targeted law enforcement action against Baitullah Mehsud's group and it will continue till Baitullah Mehsud's group is eliminated forever," he said.


Pakistan's record on putting pressure on the Taliban network is spotty. It has used both military action and truces to try to contain Mehsud over the years, but neither tactic seemed to work, despite billions in U.S. aid aimed at helping the Pakistanis tame the tribal areas.


Mehsud was not that prominent a militant when the U.S. invaded Afghanistan in 2001 after the Sept. 11 attacks, according to Mahmood Shah, a former security chief for the tribal regions. In fact, he has struggled against such rivals as Abdullah Mehsud, an Afghan war veteran who spent time in Guantanamo Bay.


But a February 2005 peace deal with Mehsud appeared to give him room to consolidate and boost his troop strength. Within months of that accord, dozens of pro-government tribal elders in the region were gunned down on his command.


In December 2007, Mehsud became the head of a new coalition called the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, or Pakistan's Taliban movement. Under his guidance, the group killed hundreds of Pakistanis in suicide and other attacks.


Mehsud has no record of attacking targets in the West, although he has threatened to attack Washington.


He was suspected of being behind a 10-man cell arrested in Barcelona in January 2008 for plotting suicide attacks in Spain. Pakistan's former government and the CIA named him as the prime suspect behind the December 2007 killing of Bhutto, the former Pakistani prime minister. He denied any role.


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Bismillah


http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/index.html

Bismillah: Assalamo Alikum.


Here is an issue that really bothered me in the past few days.


Christians believes that there is one God manifests Himself in three persons, God the father, the son and the Holy Ghost, three separate persons and yet each is considered to be a complete and fully God. On the other hand, they also believes that Jesus Christ is both, God and man at the same time (<i>fully man and fully God</i>), and so Muslims have concluded or <i>misunderstood</i> (as the Christians would say) that Jesus who is fully God has died on the Cross. The Christians would explain that it was not Jesus ‘<i>the God</i>’ who died on the Cross but Jesus who is made of <i>flesh and bone </i>(i.e. the human Jesus).


Now please ponder over these very famous and often quoted verses:


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In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. John 1:1


After that, the verses continues on explaining how John the Baptist came to preach Jesus the Christ and ‘testify to the light’ etc down to verse number 14 where it says:


<b>And the Word became flesh
and made his dwelling among us, and we saw his glory, the glory as of the Father's only Son, full of grace and truth. </b>John 1:14


Now here is my point:


- Jesus is the Word


- The Word/Jesus is God


- The Word/Jesus/God became flesh


So who died on the cross? I say naturally God Himself and not simply ‘<i>the human Jesus</i>’, because the Word which is God has become Jesus/flesh who died on the Cross.


Does this make any sense? Any comments (especially from Christian side) ?


Salam


Wael.

Children from minority groups, especially the Muslims, are exposed to the pressure of racism, multiculturalism and bullying. They suffer academically, culturally and linguistically: a high proportion of children of Pakistani and Bangladeshi origin are leaving British schools with low grades or no qualification.


In the 1980s, the Muslim community in Britain started to set up Muslim schools. The first was the London School of Islamics which I established and which operating from 1981-86. Now there are 133 schools educating approximately 5% Muslim pupils. Very few schools are state funded.


The needs and demands of Muslim children can be met only through Muslim schools, but education is an expensive business and the Muslim community does not have the resources to set up schools for each and every child, and only eight Muslim schools have achieved grant maintained status.


This leaves a majority of children from Muslim families with no choice but to attend state schools. There are hundreds of state schools where Muslim pupils are in majority. In my opinion, all such schools may be designated as Muslim community schools with bilingual Muslim teachers as role models.


Prince Charles, while visiting the first grant maintained Muslim school in north London, said that the pupils would be the future ambassadors of Islam. But what about thousands of others, who attend state schools deemed to be "sink schools"?


The time has come for the Muslim community - in the form of Islamic charities and trusts - to manage and run those state schools where Muslim pupils are in the majority. The Department for Education would be responsible for funding, inspection and maintenance.


The management would be in the hands of educated professional Muslims. The teaching of Arabic, Islamic studies, Urdu and other community languages by qualified Muslim teachers would help the pupils to develop an Islamic identity, which is crucial for mental, emotional and personality development.


In the east London borough of Newham, there are at least 10 state schools where Muslim pupils are in the majority.


The television newscaster Sir Trevor McDonald is a champion of introducing foreign modern languages even at primary level in schools in Britain. The Muslim community would like to see Arabic, Urdu and other community languages introduced at nursery, primary and secondary schools along with European languages so that Muslim pupils have these options.


In education, there should be a choice and at present it is denied to the Muslim community. In the late 80s and early 90s, when I floated the idea of Muslim community schools, I was declared a "school hijacker" by an editorial in the Newham Recorder newspaper in east London.


This clearly shows that the British media does not believe in choice and diversity in the field of education and has no respect for those who are different.


Muslim schools, in spite of meager resources, have excelled to a further extent this year, with two schools achieving 100% A-C grades for five or more GCSEs. They beat well resourced state and independent schools in Birmingham and Hackney.


Muslim schools are doing better because a majority of the teachers are Muslim. The pupils are not exposed to the pressures of racism, multiculturalism and bullying.


Iftikhar Ahmad


www.londonschoolofislamics.org.uk

Why does this site suddenly condense the topics so that only the first and last post show? I dont like it, is there a way I can change my settings so it doesnt display this way?

Bismillah: Assalamo ALikum.


100,000 Qur'an for FREE. Mash a Allah.


The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) will hold a news conference on Tuesday, June 30 in Washington, D.C., announcing the launch of a major campaign to distribute free copies of the Quran to 100,000 local, state, and national leaders.


Over several years the "Share the Quran" campaign plans to distribute Qurans to governors, state attorney generals, educators, law enforcement officials, state and national legislators, local elected and public officials, media professionals, and other local or national leaders who determine policy or shape public opinion.


According to CAIR, the educational campaign was prompted by President Obama's speech in Cairo earlier this month in which he quoted the Quran several times. As posted here previously (article 1 and article 2), the Cairo audience applauded loudly each time the Quran was quoted.


CAIR Board Chairman State Sen. Larry Shaw (NC) stated, "Through this ground-breaking outreach initiative, we hope not only to educate policy-makers and opinion leaders about Islam, but also to provide an opportunity for American Muslims to reach out to their fellow citizens of other faiths."


The "Share the Quran" campaign builds upon CAIR's "Explore the Quran" initiative. The Quran that will be distributed is Muhammad Asad's, The Message of the Qu'ran, which has received high praise by many. It includes the original Arabic script, an English translation by Muhammad Asad, transliteration of the Arabic text, and notes on individual verses.


CAIR has 35 offices and chapters nationwide and in Canada and is the largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization in the United States. It's stated mission is "to enhance understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims, and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding."


Founded in June 1994, the "Share the Quran" campaign is part of CAIR's 15th anniversary celebration.


Details about launch


WHAT: CAIR News Conference to Announce Launch of "Share the Quran" Campaign


WHEN: Tuesday, June 30, 11 a.m.


WHERE: CAIR National Headquarters, 453 New Jersey Ave., S.E., Washington, D.C.


CONTACT: CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper, 202-488-8787, 202-744-7726, E-Mail: ihooper@cair.com.Proin