Bismillah


In many cases, non believers, and they are not blamed of course, totally misunderstand the reason behind us Muslims saying Allah u Akbar upon the reversion of people. We are not glorifying the person who reverted, who is actually the winner and not Islam. Islam is already well established in a high rank by Allah's Grace and Support and not the other way around. I mean the person does not add to Islam, but rather Islam adds to the person. Islam adds to one who is blessed to see the light, differencitate between falshood and truth, and accepts to submit to Allah. it adds much, I can actually go on with the additions till I fill books. But just to give few examples, adds the glory of not being enslaved to nothing but Allah the only true Deity worth of worshiping.


Thus, we say Allah u Akbar to stress and highlt that this happened by the Mighty of Allah and nothing else, concurrently we stress that Allah Is the Great, Createst and Greater than any other falsehood and anyother claimed gods.


We dont horray the person as a person, however, we certainly welcome the person and congratulate him/her. Yes, congratulate because he/she is the winner in such case.

Bismillah


An example of how our American sisters can be treated and how ordinary people react - in the US.


http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2008/03/3...is-unpatriotic/

End of Local Education Authorities


Parents’ groups, charities, faith bodies, and mutual organizations will have greater role in delivering educational services under plans being drawn up by both Labour and Tory parties. Swedish system of independent state schools, financed by vouchers, is now inspiring the Tory Party to set British schools free from LEAs. The proposal will end 60 years of local government control of education,


Since 1944, all schools have been under a statutory obligation to provide for the spiritual, moral, social and cultural development of pupils at the schools. All state schools have failed to help children to achieve such goals. This is the main reason why silent majority of Muslim parents would prefer to send their children to Muslim schools. Even OFSTED is unable to assess the spiritual and moral development of the children. There is ample evidence that state schools foster intolerance, hate and bullying. There is no evidence that Muslim schools indoctrinate children with values and endanger shared society. Primary Review reports on diversity presents a powerful attack on current educational discourse in relation to diversity and to bilingual pupils in particular. The schools and teachers see children’s use of languages other than English as a ‘barrier to learning’ instead of recognizing and respecting them.


It is crucial that Muslim children should be surrounded with the languages, culture and faith. Faith is powerful element of both personal and community identity. They need state funded Muslim schools with bilingual Muslim teachers as role models. There are hundreds of state schools where Muslim pupils are in majority, in my opinion and in the opinion of the silent majority of Muslim parents, all such schools may be designated as Muslim community schools. Muslim schools are not only faith schools, they are more or less bilingual schools. Bilingual Muslim children need to learn and well versed in Standard English to follow the National Curriculum and go for higher studies and research to serve humanity. They need to learn and well versed in Arabic to recite and understand the Holy Quran. They need to learn and well versed in Urdu and other community languages to keep in touch with their cultural roots and enjoy the beauty of their literature and poetry. Bilingualism is brilliant for the development of intellectual ability and cultural understanding. The great diversity of cultures and languages should be the key to the development of Britain as a world leader in multilingual, multi-cultural integration and partnership, an example to every other nation of how people of all faiths and cultures can live, learn and work together in harmony for a more just and fair world for everybody.


Iftikhar Ahmad

Honour Killing


Honour killing and female infanticide come from Pagan-Hindu-Judeo-Christian traditions. Hindus idolise women as Goddesses on one hand, while downgrading them on the sly at the same time. There is nothing in the Holy Quran and the Hadiths that may encourage people to kill their daughters. Infact, Islam came to abolish the dark ages of Pagan- Hindu –Judeo- Christian traditions. Islam is a matter of choice and there is no compulsion at all. It is a misconception that forced marriage and honour killing are part of Muslim culture. Forced marriage, honour killing and genital mutilation are rare practices among migrant communities. Muslim migrants are worried about institutional racism, binge drinking, drug addiction, incivility, gun and knife crimes, high rate of abortions and teen age pregnancies. An average of 20 English girls under the age of 16 falls pregnant every day. Muslim parents do not want their children to be integrated into such barbarity. Muslim women feel torn between two cultures, thanks to the British education system with non-Muslim monolingual teachers. It makes their lives very confusing.


The tragedy of forced marriage and honour killing could have been avoided if the poor girls were educated in a single sex state funded Muslim schools by female Muslim teachers. Educational attainment rises quite significantly if boys and girls are educated separately. The tragedies are an eye opener for all those Muslim parents who send their children to state schools where they are exposed to non-Muslim teachers who have no respect for Islamic faith and Muslim community and do not understand the needs and demands of the Muslim children. Muslim schools are crucial for Muslim children because western education makes a man/woman stupid. The hypocrisy of the Western society is clearly seen whereas an Australian Judge failed to jail nine males who admitted gang-raping a 10-year old aborigine girl in 2005, saying the victim probably agreed to have sex with them and a UNICEF Photo of the year shows, a bridegroom, 40, with his 11-year old bride in Afghanistan. In my opinion, a UNICEF photo of the year must show a nine year British girl having a baby and another photo showing a gang of teenage girls with anti-social behaviour and vomiting out side a pub, thanks to binge drinking. Muslim children need state funded Muslim schools with Muslim teachers as role models during their developmental periods. Muslim schools are the solutions and not a problem. They help to strengthen community cohesion, not undermine it. Muslim schools stand as shining beacons of light, serving as one of the most crucial factors which protect Muslim children from the onslaught of Eurocentricism, homosexuality, racism and secular values and traditions. They need to be well versed in Standard English to follow the National Curriculum and go for higher studies and research to serve humanity. At the same time they need to be well versed in Arabic, Urdu and other community languages to keep in touch with their cultural roots and enjoy the beauty of their literature and poetry. Muslim schools are not only faith schools but also bilingual schools. Infact, bilingualism is an asset and not a problem as perceived by the British education system. There is a positive co-relation between language and culture. English language is associated with western culture.


The silent majority of Muslim parents would like to send their children to Muslim schools but there are not enough schools to go by. The only alternative left is either British Government should introduce voucher system for parents to choose the school of their choice or designate all those state schools as Muslim community schools where Muslim pupils are in majority. There are hundreds of state schools where Muslims are in majority. Such schools may be handed over to Muslim educational Trusts or charities for their management. They are in a better position to educate Muslim children in accordance with their needs and demands. This demand is in accordance with the law of the land because there are state schools already managed by private companies. Muslim community is not asking for a favour. It is their legal right.


Iftikhar Ahmad


www.londonschoolofislamics.org.uk

It was a number of years ago when I found myself praying in church, when I looked up at the crucifix, and thought to myself, “How crazy is this? Why am I asking for help from someone who is nailed to cross?” If there was ever anyone who was in a helpless state, it is a person who is crucified. Consider all the able-bodied people who help us survive our daily life, from the plumber to the doctor to the builder to the farmer to the energy producer, etc., none of them would be of much practical value without the ability of motion. What then makes Jesus helpful rather than helpless? We should be trying to Save Jesus, not vice-versa. He needs our help.


As a white male, entrepreneurial, self-employed, college-educated and American, I exist as among the most privileged people in the world. While not rich compared to some, my lifestyle is among the top 10% of the richest people in the world, if certain statistics can be believed. I am a master in this universe, buying and selling, reading and speaking, thinking and doing, coming and going. I have achieved the American Dream of house and family and freedom, yet there was still something more I wanted.


I was down on my knees praying for the answer that I have always sought, going back to at least the seventh grade: why is there war and poverty? This is a pretty common question, I suspect, but I am not sure how often it has been answered. In seventh grade I was the “hippie” at my catholic school in Watertown. It was 1970, and one of the nuns showed us pictures from the battlefield in Vietnam. She put them on the chalk edge and we filed around the room looking at them. Here in vivid and silent color was the real Vietnam. Men in uniform laying in the tall lush green grass, with blood oozing out of their skulls and other places. They were not so different than the crucified Jesus, reduced to a shell of flesh, like meat in the marketplace of time.


This same nun also played for us Jesus Christ Superstar, the rock opera. Looking back, it is clear that she was no ordinary nun, but I did not appreciate that at the time. I didn’t really like her or school. I was the chronic daydreamer, detached and uninterested in my immediate surroundings, schedules and the rat-race rhythm. My brother had the album, and I had head it a hundred times already. To me, her playing this album was just some goofing off time in school. That I liked. She was obviously unconcerned about MCAS scores and was trying to teach a deeper lesson. It is too bad that I was not paying more attention, as I may have discovered she already knew the answer that I was grasping for.


Please don’t get the impression that catholic school is normally a deeply probing moral and spiritual place, or that she or my peacenik attitude were the norm. In fact, I have witnessed more cruelty at this school than anywhere else in my privileged life, by both students and teachers. The world everywhere is a microcosm of a macrocosm. The conflict in Vietnam was no different than the conflicts in America: civil rights, poverty, political power, foreign policy, etc. A consensus is hard to come by everywhere. War and poverty have a thousand faces, but I was primarily focused on just one. I hated Nixon. I could not see the whole. It was only when I was down on my knees that I began to see how I fit within reality.


As absurd as it may sound, I am the one who crucified Christ. I am the person responsible for war and poverty. I am the gnawing specimen of history that keeps repeating itself generation after generation. You are too, of course. We all are. In fact, it is unavoidable. The problem is not what we disagree about, the problem is what we agree about. Our only consensus is the problem! We all believe that money is “real,” when in fact it is simply a figment of our imagination. The love of money is the root of all evil, but more specifically, how we create, understand and handle money is the root of all conflict.


We have been doing a terrible job in how we conceptualize and manage money. In modern times, the four horsemen of the apocalypse can be thought of as George Washington, Thomas Paine, Ben Franklin and Robert Morris. They set down the cornerstone for the society we live in, and each one in his own way rejected Jesus Christ, even if they acknowledged his existence. Each was a reformer, ambitious, hard-working and concerned with the future. They undoubtedly believed themselves to be righteous, but they forgot a key instruction: love your enemy. And secondarily, don’t be so concerned with wealth in this world.


Government, regardless of how it is configured politically, is the source of both war and money. It is the wellspring of all misery: a central government, a central bank and a standing army is the infrastructure of every empire. The individual is smothered by this arrangement since fidelity to organization replaces faith in God and kindness toward one another. The enduring problem with human laws is that the wise don’t need them and the unwise won’t follow them. Adding new laws to God’s laws creates a conundrum. The first law-makers of every country were first law-breakers. The cornerstone of every country is hypocrisy. Any success in a system of hypocrisy can only be accomplished through hypocrisy. As such, my sin, your sin, and our sins are all the same: hypocrisy and double-standards. All men are created equal, in the worst way possible, by our collective errors. Individual countries simply reflect the same conflicts and the same attitudes on a grander scale.


But moving beyond the structural failures of society, what am I doing wrong? I buy and sell goods for a living. Unfortunately, I am just like the money-changers in the temple. Exchanging goods for money is not any different than changing money for money. Both Profit and Interest presume an unequal exchange. This habit results in inflation and concentrations of wealth. Conflicts inevitably follow as wealth and power divide. Every war is actually a civil war, they only spread as other nations get involved. As war spreads, so too does the misery. No government can ever collect enough in taxes for what it spends. Government is the origin of money, not the people. As values are applied to goods, and more transactions occur, the bigger the problems become. Boom must follow bust, and the swings and the divides must grow larger. The geometric progression of compounded “value” is a limitless as numbers themselves. Government is not incompetent by chance, there is an underlying cause and effect. Since government exists to kill enemies and to regulate money, when Jesus says to love your enemy and to share your wealth He challenges the very foundation of every civilization. He says to render unto Caesar what is Caesar's because the faithful have no need for money. We are woefully lost, and the creation of paper money has compounded our problems.


So what should we do? For starter’s, we should take Leviticus more seriously. Jesus came to confirm the old laws. The prohibition on profit and interest was good policy by God. Everybody can afford zero, nobody can afford inflation. Jubilee was a system of making automatic adjustments so that the next generation did not find themselves at a disadvantage to the previous generation. Reformers have used violence and laws in every way possible. They fail repeatedly because they abandon the only strategy that works: Forgiveness. It is mercy that the world needs, not justice. Courage, not fear. Humility, not pride. Change, not tradition. Each and every man is an individual, for good or ill. Mountains are not moved whole, but by changing the nature of each grain of sand. “The good” has the same advantage as “the bad.” Both grow from a single mustard seed, and we get to choose which seed we will be. It is a small act, yet the harvest is huge. As Isaiah declared, if we are willing and obedient, we will eat the best from the land, but if we resist and rebel, we will be devoured by the sword. This would seem to be true for both this world and the next one. If you ask you will be answered, at the time of God’s choosing. Happy Easter.

Malaysian general election had just ended on 8 March 2008. The results shocked both the government and oppositions parties. Although the ruling coalition maintained their mandate, but the increase of opposition seats in parliament and the loses of several states were never foreseen.


The ruling coalition, the National Front, <i>Barisan Nasional</i> (BN), was expecting to take control of the whole country had been focusing its effort into taking over the state of Kelantan, the only state that was under opposition administration. But not only it failed to take over Kelantan, but it lost four other states in the process.


Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party ,<i>Parti Islam Se-Malaysia</i> (PAS) not only retained its power in eastcoast state of Kelantan, it also added another, northern state of Kedah, into its administration.


Democratic Action Party (DAP), a Chinese-backed party took over the northern state of Penang while two other states, northern state of Perak and central state of Selangor, fell into the hands of PAS-PKR-DAP coalition.


with 82 out of of 222 parliamentary seats awarded by the people to the opposition coalition through their polls, it sends a strong signal to BN that the government should respect people's right more than they're showing.


Kelantanese non-muslims flying the banners and posters of PAS, an Islamic party, during the process of election showed how the administration based on Islamic and moral values is accepted by multi-racial and multi-faith people.

Bismillah


as salam alykom


Does anyone even remember why did the USA envaded Iraq in the first place, what they are still doing over there??


Democracy, is it proven a fallacy or not yet??????????????????????????????? :76: :conf06:

Salaam brothers and sister i have actually two question to ask.


firstly this is how i pray my travel salaat and i ask anyone to correct me if i am performing this wrong.


I live in Birmingham but travel over 50 miles to any other location in UK / World and then return back within 5 working days to home.


during travel i pray as follows:


Fajr = 2 rakats only


Dhuhr & Asr are combine two rakats each


Maghrib and Isha are combine 3 rakats for maghrib and 2 rakats for Isha


sometime and this is not always when i need to pray if its raining too much or its too windy / cold i then end up praying in my car would this be vaild salaat or not. beare this in mind that the location that i go to in UK are remote and often you shall not find a mosque in place { that's what i know of }


so really i want someone to check if i am doing the pray the right way or not.


my second question is something that i often get confuse so please tried to correct this


"normal salaat how it should be pray?"


this is how i pray at the moment:


* Fajr 2 rakats fajrs and 2 rakats sunnat


* Dhuhr = 4 rakats fajrs and 4 rakats sunnat and do sometime pray 2 rakats sunnat before Dhuhr


* Asr = 4 rakats Fajrs


Maghrib 3 rakats fajrs and two sunnat


Isha 4 rakats farjs and 3 rakats wabjiba


now i know i am doing the bare basic here so want i want to know would the above salaat be vaild or has ibis got to me and may Allah guard me against shataan


Please brothers and sister i don't follow any imani i just pray as i was told and bits of information that i have found from books so keep this bit simple for me inshalla and may other brothers and sister benefit from this major question

Bismillah


as salam alykom


A new brother joined the board and he started his activity with sending me a PM and I replied his pm explaining the purpose of the board and what we do here.


His first participation, I m not sure why he didnt post it in the public, may be he is not familiar with the use, that is why I m trying to help him get familiar and also get the feedback he wants.


Here is what he sent me


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so great you have know me now,but muslima i dont know if i can get the real answer of this question from you,why are the rich arabian muslims degrading the black muslims by discriminating them?Allah said in the holy quran,muslim should marry muslima,but blackmuslim cant marry muslima from rich arab nations,are they not fellow muslim brothers and sisters and are all equal befor Allah subhana wata Allah?this keep bothering me since for about 13yrs now,pls dont misunderstand my question i just feel i will get the answers from you


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I understand he addressed the question to me, but I think this is a crucial topic that all of us must contribute to.

Death toll from Iraq pilgrim bombing rises to 63


It's been a while since we've had a spectacular mass murder in Iraq. Despite the efforts and sacrifices of coalition forces to stem the ideologically inspired slaughter of innnocent iraqi's, these suicide bombers/mass murderers do find a way to glorious martyrdom

Quote:HILLA, Iraq (Reuters) - The death toll from Sunday's suicide bomb attack on Iraqi pilgrims heading to a Shi'ite festival south of Baghdad has risen to 63, a health official said on Monday.
The bomber exploded a suicide vest packed with metal ball bearings in a refreshment tent full of pilgrims heading to the annual Arbain festival, one


of Shi'ie Islam's holiest events, in the southern city of


Kerbala.