03-31-2004, 07:06 PM
Ok i understand what you are saying muslimah...
Brother Suhail... i saw the same thing happening in my country a few years ago brothers went to university and came back wanting to change all the things that we did...they told us NO CONGREGATIONAL DUA AFTER FARD!! because back then i didnt want to hear them.. we went crazy when they told us that...
Till this day no one has been able to show us the proof of where the rasul made a congregational dua after the fard salaah those people who said things like that in my country did so without any proof...
Now brother please dont misunderstand this post... i am not trying to argue anything.. nor do i want this post to turn into one that is a debate about the permissability of du'a after fard...
my point is that i know exactly what you are saying and it has had an effect on us...
these people who say things without proof in our country are making now a public mockery of islam and the muslims....
My dear brother you will not believe what they did...
about two days ago they banned a muslim brother who graduated from the aleemiyah institute in pakistan because he made statements saying that muslim people in my country were struggling hard for american visas <i>(*they called him a terrorist)</i>... can you believe that... they banned him from all the masaajid in our country that they controlled... Brother that is only half of it... the media heard of it... and you can just imagine what they did with such a story....
you know what happened next... the only person in their organisation who have studied islam... he resigned because they of the whole fiasco.... brother this is not all... the leader of this organisation was not chosen based on any islamic criteria... instead they used a purely westernised method of choosing a leader... i know these things are true because i have been present at some of their meetings and i am seeing what the media is doing... yesterday this thing was the paper headlines... today also it made the headline...
brother suhail... can you imagine how the people in my country look at muslims now...
can you imagine how difficult the work of da'wah is now going to be... subhanallah...
this is what happens when muslims look to follow islam and do not make actions based on what the quran or sunnah says... brother you see i used this example because what you said there to me was a situation that happened many many years ago in my country... and because of this hap-hazard approach to islam... many things are happening.... Brother suhail imagine... there are many more incidents that i didnt say because of my limitation in time....
My dear brother... i do not wish for you, what has happened to us in this country.... i wish that you all look use the proper approach to 'ilm....
may allah increase us all in knowledge and may he guide all those muslims who are are going astray...
ameen..
please heed my words brother...
please do not take my post as argument... It was all out of love for you as my brother... and for all my muslim brothers and sisters worldwide...
wa salaamu alaikum wa rahmatullah