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Sha'ban 18, 1432/ July 30, 2010 # 30
Verse of the Week
"Announce to the hypocrites that they shall have a painful
chastisement: Those who take the unbelievers for guardians
rather than believers. Do they seek honor from them? Then
surely all honor is for Allah.
And indeed He has revealed to you in the book that when you
hear Allah's communications disbelieved in and mocked at, do
no sit with them until they enter into some other discourse;
surely then you would be like them; surely Allah will gather
together the hypocrites and the unbelievers all in hell."
Holy Qur'an 4:138-140
Submitted by Sis. Abigail
Obituary for South Africa's distinguished Imam Ragheim by
his brother in Toronto.
Please scroll to end.
First part of a historic interview with with Sis. Karima,
Imam Jamil al-Amin's wife: A gem among America's Islamic
women.
See below.
Our Christian friend Mark Glenn [in Idaho] has done it
again. It's a revealing parable about an Israeli Jews'
kindness to Palestinians.
Please scroll all the way down.
Enjoy!
Pro-Israeli Christians in Kerala, India, are weaving a web
of deceit to entrap the prosperous Muslims in the area.
Please scroll way down
for the response by the Popular
Front, an Indian Muslim organization.
Israeli Soldiers Kick and Drag a Young Woman
Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qpe6shl5XMA
At a protest demonstration on May 14, 2010, at Nabi Saleh in
the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Israeli troops kick a young
woman as she is dragged on the ground. Israeli troops also
fire tear gas canisters and live rouunds at Palestinian
villagers. Demonstrators were protesting the illegal seizure
by Zionist "settlers" of agricultural land and the uprooting
of hundreds of Palestinian-owned olive trees. Runtime: 5:56
mins.
Somali Islamic Leader Challenges Non-Muslim Militaries
Mogadishu, July 29: Sheikh Ali Dhere said that Uganda's
plans to send more troops to help the puppet regime in
Mogadishu will not help the anti-Islam forces. These troops
fire artillery at civilians but are weak in battle, the
al-Shabab leader said. Here are quotes from him.
"If you send your youth (AU troops), they are going to meet
the same deadly fate," cautioned the clergyman.Sheikh Ali
Dhere accused the troops serving Amisom of annihilating the
Muslim Somali people.
He added that further increase in numbers (of AU troops)
will only worsen the plight of the people here."They always
say that they are here for peacekeeping," said the
spokesman. "All they are doing is shelling the people."
Pakistan: Changing Situation
Islam is seen as too Strong: Britain, USA, India Preparing
Something Big: Islamic Students Going to Waziristan
July 28: The US Congress sent a $60 billion war funding bill
to President Obama.
July 28: The new British Prime Minister Cameron, known for
his extreme right wing and racist views, visited India with
the biggest delegation in their history. He made a $700
million military deal with India, including 57 Hawk jets. He
claimed that Pakistan is "exporting" terrorism.
July 27: There are US troops already in Pakistan.
Congressman Kucinich [D] and Ron Paul [R] tried to get a
resolution passed to withdraw US troops from Pakistan. The
resolution failed miserably. [Several hundred US troops are
training Pakistanis.]
New Trend observers say that Islam is too strong in Pakistan
for the US, UK, Israel and India to accept.
A sea change is sweeping younger Pakistanis looking to Islam
for a strong response to the enemies of Pakistan. There are
reports that large numbers of students from Karachi have
gone to North Waziristan to join al-Qaida. The reports are
correct according to New Trend sources. Such a huge support
for al-Qaida means young Pakistanis realize aggression is
coming soon. Here is how it appeared in Asia Times.
[Excerpt, only for info.]
Pakistani students prefer guns to books
By Syed Saleem Shahzad
ISLAMABAD - Several hundred students in the southern port
city of Karachi have left the Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba (IJT),
Pakistan's largest student union, to join al-Qaeda training
camps in the North Waziristan tribal area on the border with
Afghanistan, Asia Times Online has learned.
The IJT is an offshoot of the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), the
country's premier Islamic party.
"This is true. They now have their own camp in North
Waziristan and it is purely the work of the late Dr Arshad
Waheed that such a huge number of people are joining here,"
Usman Punjabi, a militant leader, told Asia Times Online on
the telephone.
Waheed was a renowned kidney specialist who was president of
the Pakistan Islamic Medical Association, an offshoot of the
JI. He and his brother Dr Akmal Waheed, a cardiovascular
physician, were arrested in 2004 after an attack on a
military motorcade in Karachi in 2004. They were charged
with facilitating members of the al-Qaeda-affiliated
Jundallah.
The brothers were later released and relocated to South
Waziristan, where Arshad Waheed was killed in a drone attack
in 2008. He was the first Pakistani al-Qaeda sympathizer to
be featured by al-Qaeda's media wing al-Sahab in a long
documentary, in which he was called a role
model.........................
Jamaat al-Muslimeen [News] [three items]
jamaat almuslimeeninternational.org
Non-Violent Resistance
P.O. Box 10881
Baltimore, MD 21234
Jamaat al-Muslimeen's National Shoora Calls for
Christian-Muslim Unity Against Zionism.
Islam is an Uphill Struggle to free the Slaves and Empower
the Downtrodden.
A mini shoora of Jamaat al-Muslimeen was held in Greensboro,
North Carolina, on July 24, 2010. The program was organized
by Imam Badi Ali and his local team. Prayers were held on
time and the local Muslim community donated quantities of
delicious middle eastern food. Imam Badi Ali is deeply
involved in helping the new arrivals in the Muslim community
as well as in the development of good neighborly relations
with non-Muslims.
Dr. Abdulalim Shabazz,
[DrAAS.info]
Professor and Endowed Chair in
Mathematics from Grambling State University, Louisiana,
addressed the meeting for more than an hour. He connected
Zionism with racism. He traced Zionist influences in
America both theoretically and anecdotally and noticed that
throughout US history Jewish Zionist impact on society has
been the undertow of White supremacist ideas. He pointed out
the role of Jews in the slave trade as well as connections
between the KKK and Zionism.
Dr. Shabazz related incidents from his own life at America's
top universities where the friendly Jew/gentile was the
"good cop" to the "bad cop" of the openly white supremacist.
Both sides considered him a "radical."
The solution to America's and the world's problems is Islam,
Dr. Shabazz said. He narrated the story of his pilgrimage to
Makkah in 1977, followed later by his years as a professor
in Makkah, teaching mathematics at Umm Al Qura University.
In America Dr. Shabazz is famous as a "revolutionary
mathematician." Among his students are numerous PhDs in
mathematics and mathematics education."
Dr. Kaukab Siddique, Associate Professor of English & Mass
Communication at Lincoln University, recited Sura al-Balad
[chapter 90 of the Qur'an] and applied it to the struggle
against Zionism in America. He said that Islamic efforts to
liberate America from Zionism are an uphill task [al-aqaba].
The Zionists have taken control of America by its jugular.
Americans have been enslaved through mass culture, the
media, trivialization of women, and the glorification of
war. Our task is to free the slave [rakaba]. Americans are
being humiliated by the transfer of vast funds to Wall
Street and Israel and militaries occupying Iraq and
Afghanistan.
Dr. Siddique said :Americans see Israelis-Jews as victims
because of the appropriation of the World War II narrative
by Zionists. Most Americans, he said, do not know that the
Jewish holocaust was part of the horrors of the World War in
which everyone, including millions of Germans, suffered
tremendously. Americans have been led to believe that
"holocaust" was an event by itself. We must bring Muslims to
study the World War and help non-Muslims to understand it.
The message of sura al-Balad today is that the global "city"
in which we live should be liberated from the oppressors.
Our role is to help people understand the worldwide menace
of Zionism and to break its hold.
July 24: Resolutions for Worldwide Publicity, inshallah.
National Islamic Shoora of Jamaat al-Muslimeen calls for
Practical moves against Zionism.
Thanks Again to Turkey.
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We urge Muslims and non-Muslims to unite against
zionism.
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Efforts must be made to explain zionism to the American
people and the international community, and to confront
it.
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We urge all people of conscience to volunteer to work
creatively, especially in their area of expertise, to help
people understand zionism.
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We urge people of conscience everywhere to pray for an
end to the siege of Gaza, and an end to the suffering of the
Palestinian people.
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Zionism is a form of racism, and it is our duty to help
people to understand this fact.
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The boycott movement launched by JAMI {Jamaat
al-Muslimeen International] and other groups is a peaceful
and useful tool to confront zionism. Lists of corporations
to be targeted should be updated and activists should remain
vigilant on changing zionist investments in occupied
Palestine.
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We call on all occupation forces to withdraw from all
occupied lands, especially Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia,
Kashmir, Palestine, Pakistan and Chechnya.
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We extend our hand to our Christian brothers and sisters
to work against the Israeli occupation.
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We thank the Turkish government for its actions on behalf
of the people of Gaza, and we extend our solidarity to the
Turkish people.
Outreach
Jamaat al-Muslimeen Literature Given to 160 Muslims after
Juma' in Silver Spring, Maryland
Contribution by Islamic woman
In Silver Spring, Maryland, after Juma' on July 23, 2010, an
eight page JAM document was given to 160 Muslims from
various countries.
It included information on military operations in Jamaica,
update on 5 US Muslims handed over by CAIR to the FBI, info
on Qadiani ["ahmeddi"] suppport for military operations
against Islamic villages in Swat and South Waziristan,
support for Lynne Stewart and report on battles in
Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The sister who organized the distribution got good support
from some of the Muslims who received the literature.
[20,000 Jamaicans flee to the US every year.]
New Trend Exclusive
An Interview with Karima El-Amin (Part 1 of 2)
By Nadrat Siddique
The Fourth of July is my birthday. Each year, I seek an
activity which expounds on Frederick Douglass' renowned
musing "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July" and my
social consciousness as a Muslim. This Fourth, I visited
Atlanta to run the Peachtree 10K race, the nation's largest
10K (it boasts 50,000 participants) and to interview Karima
El-Amin, wife of Imam Jamil El-Amin (formerly H. Rap Brown).
Imam Jamil El-Amin is one of America's foremost political
prisoners, currently being held at the infamous high
security prison in Florence, Colorado. I felt his case had
received a degree of exposure, at least by independent
Islamic media, but that far less was known about his wife
and partner in the struggle, an activist in her own
right.
Karima El-Amin graciously granted me an interview at short
notice, even though it meant according me her scant leisure
time (the holiday was one of those rare occasions on which
she closed her law office). I was to meet her soon after my
race. When I called to confirm the details of our meeting,
she expressed concern for my condition. Was I too tired and
dehydrated after the race, being unaccustomed to Atlanta
weather? And did I require more time to rest before our
meeting? I was reminded of Imam Jamil, whose self-less
concern for his visitors to the prison—even while he himself
was being subjected to daily humiliation at the hands of
prison guards—was fabled. And—she insisted she would drive
to my hotel so that I would not have to attempt to navigate
unfamiliar territory. We agreed to hold the interview in my
hotel room.
She entered the room, a slender, bespectacled woman, with
quiet manner and majestic bearing, dressed modestly in light
green hijab. But, as she began to speak, I realized this was
easily the most eloquent, self-confident, and politically
aware Muslim woman I'd encountered. She was clearly very
seeped in Islamic faith; indeed, it may have been what
allowed her (and hence her family) to survive the incredible
trials they'd experienced; yet she was not ostentatious with
her Arabic, nor haughty or judgmental of me or others.
Q: How did you meet Imam Jamil, and what attracted you to
him initially?
I met him July 31, 1967. I remember that day because it was
the first day I had a job. I had just graduated from the
State University of Oswego. I was there four years. I
majored in English with the aim of teaching K - 9th
grades.
Imam Jamil walked into the job. He was staying with my
supervisor. The job was on 135th Street, in Harlem.
It was with Job Corps. I thought I'd keep the job a while.
The Imam walked in. At the time, he had a cadre of
bodyguards. He was meeting Minister Farrakhan, so he asked
the supervisor "See if she'll go to lunch with us." I was
the only female at a big table of only brothers. I remember
it was a big, big table, and we got back to the job at 5 PM.
That evening, Nina Simone was performing. She had invited
Imam Jamil. In later years, he kept in touch with her. She
autographed a photo for him that night, which I still
have.
Q: Tell me about yourself and your background.
A. My grandmother and mother were Canadian. In 1929, my
grandmother brought my mother, her sister, and one of her
brothers to the U.S. after divorcing my grandfather. They
were deported, and then returned. Then, in 1938, my
grandmother went before a judge to ask for her citizenship.
In 1942, while my grandmother was living in Los Angeles,
Immigration denied her case. By 1942, my mother's sister
had married. Her husband was in the entertainment business,
and his father wrote "Dark Town Strutters Ball." She was a
little activist and traveled broadly.
My mother lived in the building where La Guardia, Duke
Ellington, and other musicians lived on Fifth Avenue in New
York. My father was from the U.S. (from Virginia), and was
in the navy. He and my mother married in 1942, and I was
born years later in New York.
We moved to Riverton, built and owned by Metropolitan Life
Assurance, in Harlem on Fifth Avenue. It was built mainly
for African Americans so that we would not reside in the
company's other private developments built for Europeans.
In fact, my mother and father were considering being part of
a class action suit to challenge the discriminatory
practices of the company. Nevertheless, my parents moved to
Riverton where I went to school in Harlem. and my mother was
involved in the PTA.
My mother was involved in the PTA fighting zoning issues,
and that was the first time the FBI came to the house. They
thought the communists must be behind this, and we thought
they were going to take our mother away.
My mother is from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. We would go
back and forth to Canada to visit our grandfather, our aunts
and uncles, and cousins. My father didn't want to tell a
fib, so when they asked him is everyone in the car a U.S.
citizen, he would just nod his head.
We're actually the descendents of runaway slaves. My sister
and cousins are being tested to determine where we are from,
but so far Spain, Portugal, and Europe are coming up, and
not Africa. So, my family members still are exploring
further testing.
My mother, after 30 years of being a housewife, went for a
job with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Thurgood Marshall
was the head of it. He
wanted her to be in charge of payroll. To do this, she had
to be bonded. Thurgood Marshall sponsored my mother to this
end. I became the baby sitter for Thurgood Marshall and
various African American judges and attorneys of the Legal Defense Fund.
I remember that my mother would tell my friends to put their
dresses on so we could go to the Apollo. During the
intermission, she had us walk around with buckets to collect
money for whichever case was being fought in the South at
the time.
Q: What led to your personal involvement in the Black
Liberation struggle?
In college, I got involved with Friends of SNCC. That should
have told me I'd wind up with the chair of SNCC.
I graduated in June and met Imam Jamil in July. My sister
and her husband got arrested. They were with RAM
(Revolutionary Action Movement). This was the first case in
which middle class African Americans were involved in
supporting the Black Liberation struggle.
RAM is mentioned in the original COINTELPRO papers along with SNCC, Stokely, H. Rap Brown,
etc. My husband went to a rally for RAM before I met him.
By August 1967, the FBI had contacted me. They said, "You
know your sister was framed. If you help us, we'll clear
her." I told them I knew she'd be cleared because she was
framed. The FBI wanted me to work for them to provide
reports on Imam Jamil.
My parents were very involved with the community. We were a
close knit family. I had a non-traumatic childhood (other
than the fact that I was almost electrocuted). We did not go
without anything. We traveled a lot. My father helped form
an organization for African American city workers in
transit.
My first trip to the South was in 1959 when a girlfriend of
mine invited me to travel with her to visit her relatives.
One day, we went shopping to look at earrings. I went to
hand money to one of the workers, and she threw the money on
the floor. Later, I was trying to buy a hotdog, and they
would not sell it to me, because the hotdog stand was
"Whites Only." Up in New York, we protested White Castle
(fast food establishment).
My mother was very proper. When my husband's book came out,
she would not say the name of the book, because it was
called Die Nigger Die.
The FBI hounded my parents. They went to my father's job
repeatedly. Despite this, my parents continued to be very
supportive. I came from very smart, compassionate parents.
They both died young (at age 51). One day, we went to the
grocery store. When we came out, we found our car had a flat
tire. We said, "Oh FBI."
Not long after, my father stopped at a gas station to fix a
flat tire. He collapsed and died. Imam Jamil's mother died
the week after that. Then, my mother went into the hospital.
They discovered an aneurism on the right side of her brain.
Then, they located another on the left, and she died two
months later, in June. Then, in October, Imam Jamil was
shot and went to the same hospital where my mother died. In
fact, he was in the room next to where my mother spent two
months before she died. All this happened in one year. We
just didn't have time for grieving.
(To be continued)
Letter: Criticism of New Trend's July 16 issue on Red
Mosque-Jamia Hafsa Anniversary
There were not even 50 dead or injured and you say hundreds.
They also killed police and military personal including a
colonel and a captain. Mention that also. Was it their
business to stockpile the mosque with weapons, grenades and
other war like material. Is it allowed in Islam?
[Re: Qur'an and Hadith.] THEY DID NOT DEFEND ANY OF THESE.
THEY WERE THE ONES WHO STARTED THE FIGHT BY ATTACKING
POLICE, KILLING A COUPLE OF THEM AND BREAKING DOORS AND
WINDOW PANES OF PUBLIC BUILDING. WHEN REQESTED BY
AUTHORITIES TO VACATE THE PLACE THEY REFUSED.
[Re: US-Israeli Support.] PAKISTAN WAS NOT BACKED BY AMERICA
IN THIS EPISODE. IT IS UNTHINKABLE THAT ISRAEL COULD HAVE
BACKED MUSHARRAF IN THIS EPISODE.
Ghulam Yusuf [Pakistan]
How do we know of US-Israeli Role in Red Mosque-Jamia Hafsa
Tragedy?
Please do not write in capital letters. Here is our
reply.
Editorial response: General Musharraf was working for
Pakistan's recognition of Israel. He openly visited major
Jewish-Zionist groups in USA in September 2005. Here is what
a top Jewish leader had to say. [See Arab News, Sept. 19,
2005.]
"He was incredibly well received, and all the leadership of
American Jewry was there — it was a very impressive
gathering of American Jewish leadership," said David
Twersky, director of the AJC Council for World Jewry, the
sponsor for the event."
[AJC is the organization which tried to remove me from my
job because I wanted an open debate on the holocaust
story.]
After he destroyed Jamia Hafsa and the Red mosque, Musharraf
was hailed by the Jews. USA was worried that even secular
Pakistanis were turning against Musharraf because of his
attacks on the Judiciary, but American Zionist-Jews were
extremely happy with him. The transfer of the army from
Musharraf to Kayani was controlled by USA. Both are
America's men and Israel's men. One cannot be America's man
without being Israel's man. Israel controls America. Here is
a quote from the leading Jewish magazine Forward, November
11, 2007:
"With the blessing of Washington, Jack Rosen, chairman of
the American Jewish Congress's Council for World Jewry,
traveled halfway across the globe for a face-to-face meeting
with Musharraf, who he had hailed two years ago as a
courageous leader and driving force in Jewish-Muslim
dialogue.
Rosen made the trip to Islamabad after consulting with the
State Department and key members of Congress. In addition to
Musharraf, he met with General Ashfaq Kiyani, the deputy
chief of staff who is expected to take over from Musharraf
as head of the army, as well as ministers and intelligence
officials."
As for casualties in the Red Mosque and Jamia Hafsa, the
martyrs were in the thousands. Hundreds is a cautious
estimate. Among them were many young women. Eye witnesses
saw bodies of young women dumped like trash by the "security
forces." Artillery was used and the smoke of destruction
could be seen from miles away. Ask people in Islamabad.
Muslims have the right to defend their mosques. The
dastardly army of General Musharraf, cowards that they are
under Kayani too, had no right to attack a mosque and a
women's seminary. Musharraf had already demolished a number
of mosques before Abdur Rasheed Ghazi [shaheed] and the
Muslim women decided to stop the sacrilege through civil
disobedience.
Musharraf did not consult Parliament or any civilian
authorities. It was ENTIRELY done by orders from USA and
Israel.
The Islamic people did not harm anyone. The takeover of the
library was not violent. The courts have now heard the
charges brought by Musharraf. They were all fake and were
dropped.
Pakistani troops threw copies of the Qur'an and Hadith all
over the floors of Jamia Hafsa.
Pakistanis need to wake up. Nothing happens, of any
importance, in Pakistan without approval by the USA and
Israel. What made you think such a huge tragedy could be
enacted in the capital city without US-Israeli support and
okay?
Notice that the ENTIRE Zionist media simply did not report
the attack by Mushharraf on the Red Mosque, as if it never
happened. A Christian Science Monitor Pakistan-related
reporter told me that she had no idea what had happened in
Islamabad! [That is America's best newspaper.]
For details on the Red Mosque-Jamia Hafsa tragedy, see my
book Return to Pakistan: Media Perspectives on Bush's Iraq &
Afghanistan Wars.
Hadith Studies
Does Islam Teach the Wife to Obey the Husband?
Q & A
Does Islam say that the Wife Should Obey the Husband? Why
are Marriages under Stress?
Several readers have pointed to Saudi-linked lists which are
propagating the claim that according to Islam, the wife
should Obey the husband. The Saudi-influenced scholars are
saying that if a wife leaves the house for any reason, she
must ask her husband's permission. They say that even the
woman's voice is "awrah" and should not be heard. If she
travels, she must be accampanied by her husband or a male
relative. What do the Qur'an and the Hadith really say?
Answer by Br. Kaukab Siddique: We must realize that
according to the Qur'an, authority belongs to ALLAH ALONE.
[1] Any attempt to give authority to any human being is
SHIRK, which is the only sin Allah does not forgive.
The Qur'an is a progressive revelation which went through
stages of development of the Muslim woman and the Muslim
male. In the final analysis, male-female relations in Islam
are based on TAQWA [Fear of Allah, God-conscious behavior],
not on gender. [2]
In the FINAL revelation about men and women, the Qur'an
proclaimed without ambiguity that the believing men and
women are EACH OTHER'S protecting friends and guardians, not
the woman under the domain of the male. [3]
The Qur'an proclaimed the EQUALITY of men and women even in
such an advanced, complex and cooperative venture as
jihad.[4]
Allah Almighty categorically places women TOGETHER in ALL
aspects of Islamic endeavor, without the slightest shade of
inferiority for women. [5]
The Prophet Muhammad, pbuh, took an oath of allegiance from
women which covered their entire existence but does not
include obedience to the husband. [6]
In the earliest stage of the Muslim community in Madinah,
Muslim men were given the authority to discipline their
wives in cases of sexual misconduct [without causing any
significant hurt], but this was taken away at the next stage
when in cases of alleged sexual misconduct, all that a man
could do was to swear that he was telling the truth. If the
wife took a similar oath, the marriage would be dissolved.
[7] Most apologist Muslims focus on this early development
in Islam and ignore the rest of the Qur'an.
In times of insecurity and war, in long journeys, the
Prophet, pbuh, ordained that a woman should travel with her
husband or a male relative. This was meant to help the woman
and to provide security, not to put the woman under the
control of her husband. The issue of travel is used by some
scholars to argue that the wife must obey the husband. There
is a whole series of omissions, either dishonest or out of
ignorance, carried out to use this issue. The following
Hadith is quoted:
Narrated Abu Huraira: The Prophet (p.b.u.h) said, "It is not
permissible for a woman who believes in Allah and the Last
Day to travel except with a Mahram." [Bukhari]
However, that is not the complete Hadith. Here it is with
the key words in bold type: The Prophet (p.b.u.h) said, "It
is not permissible for a woman who believes in Allah and the
Last Day to travel for one day and night except with a
Mahram." [Bukhari]
One day and night connotes a long journey. Nowadays, one can
travel halfway around the world in a day and a night. This
is certainly not about a woman going shopping or to meet her
friends down in the city. In those days, it was dangerous
and one could lose life, goods and honor to bandits on the
way. There were no highways or electric lights on the sandy
desert.
However, the misuse of Hadith does not end there. These
scholars do not note the context and do not let anyone know
that restrictions were put on males too. Here are the
relevant Hadith:
The Prophet, pbuh, said: "Travel is a kind of punishment. It
limits food, drink and sleep. When you have completed the
requirements of travel, return quickly to your family."
[Bukhari and Muslim.]
The Prophet Muhammad, pbuh, spent much of his life in
Madinah in jihad. He traveled extensively for jihad and
hence there are numerous hadith about travel and its rules.
It's a shame for modern Muslims [such as the Saudi elites]
who have never even spoken against the oppressors, let alone
gone for jihad, that they should be using the words of the
greatest liberator of women, Muhammad Mustafa, pbuh, to try
and subjugate women.
When a man went out for a journey, his life was often in
danger. Here is another Hadith on the subject which stops
men from going forth alone:
The messenger of Allh, pbuh, said: "A horseman going alone
is satanic. If there are two going by themselves, they are
two satans. and three is the proper [recommended] caravan."
[Sunan of Abu Dawood and Sunan of Nasa'i]
The messenger of Allah, pbuh, said; "If people knew what I
know about the bad aspects of traveling alone, no one would
travel alone at night." [Sahih Bukhari]
The Islamic solution, the Prophet, pbuh, gave was excellent
but we Muslims have forgotten it. Where possible, especially
where satanic forces are at work, Muslims should travel in
groups, even if these are very small groups, and the
traveling should be well organized:
The messenger of Allah, pbuh, said: "When three of you
travel, make one of your companions the ameer." [Sunan of
Abu Dawood]
We are living in times where travel conditions are being
affected by the antagonistic activities of our enemies. So
go forth prepared:
Someone asked the messenger of Allah: "O messenger of Allah,
I have the intention of travel. Please advise me. He [the
messenger, pbuh,} replied: "The fear and awareness of Allah
[taqwa] should always be with you, and at every high point
[in the journey] say takbeer!" [Sunan of Tirmidhi]. [8]
So, if obedience to the husband is not a part of Islam, how
should the family be organized? Wouldn't there be chaos if
there is no "captain" of the team? This argument ignores the
Islamic principle of organization which is called SHOORA or
mutual consultation leading to decision making based on
discussion, consent and consensus. There is a chapter of the
Qur'an titled Shoora. Allah ordains in this chapter that ALL
matters of Muslim activity must be carried out by mutual
consultation and consent. [9] Even the Prophet, pbuh,
divinely inspired as he was, received the command to consult
with the believers. [10]
Maulana Maudoodi's tafsir [commentary] on the verse of
Shoora is the best among all tafsirs. Here is the key
excerpt:
"...Mutual consultation [shoora] is an essential requirement
of the moral character Islam wants to teach the human being.
Evasion of shoora is a major immorality which islam can
never permit. The Islamic way of life requires that the
principle of shoora should be used in all social
relationships, big or small. In domestic life, the husband
and the wife should do mutual shoora and when children grow
up, they too should be included in the family shoora. When
matters of the entire extended family are involved, all the
sane and adult family members should be involved. If an
entire tribe or clan is to be affected and all of them
cannot be in the shoora process, by an agreed upon method
their representatives should be included in a tribal majlis.
If an entire nation is involved, the leader of the nation
should be chosen by the will of the people and should manage
national affairs with the help of the shoora members whom
the nation considers trustworthy...." [Tafhimul Qur'an,
vol.4, p.509]
In Islam, the husband and the wife are each others' friends
and comrades. It's not a relationship of dominance and
submission. Communication and discussion are the keys to
successful Islamic marriage. Attempts at dominance and
control are bound to create stress and the slow
deterioration of the relationship, however well it might
have started.
Men often do not listen to the nuances of what the wife
says. Muhammad, pbuh, did. Women communicate differently
from men. The Prophet, pbuh, knew that. Let's follow his
example. One won't find him , in ALL of Hadith literature,
trying to suppress and subordinate 'Ayesha, r.a., or any
other woman.
Textual notes: [Emphasis added.]
1. "Say: For me, I have an obvious sign from my Lord, but
you reject it. What you would see hastened is not in my
power. Authority belongs to Allah alone. He declares the
Truth, and He is the best of Judges." [The Qur'an 6:57.]
"Men are then returned to Allah, their Protector, the
Reality. Authority belongs to Him Alone. and He is the
swiftest in taking account." [6:62]
[Yusuf, pbuh, said] "If not Him, ye worship nothing but
names which ye have named - ye and your fathers - for which
Allah has sent you no ruling: Authority is for None but
Allah; He has commanded that ye worship none but Him; that
is the right religion but most people understand not."
[12:40]
[Jacob, pbuh, said] "O my sons! enter not all by one gate:
enter ye by different gates. Not that I can benefit you
against Allah! None has authority other than Allah. On Him
do I put my trust, and let all that trust put their trust on
Him." [12:67.]
"And He is Allah: there is no god but He! To Him be praise
at the first and at the last! To Him belongs Authority and
to Him shall ye all be brought back." [28:70]
[Notice that even Prophets like Jacob and Yusuf have no
authority. There is no question of an ordinary person like
the husband having authority.]
[Some translators use the word "command' for hukm or
Authority but that is an incorrect translation. Command is
'Amr. However hukm has other uses too depending on the
Qur'anic context.]
2. "O mankind! We created you from male and female and made
you into nations and tribes, that ye may know each other.
Surely the noblest of you with Allah are the ones among you
who are best in conduct [taqwa]. Surely Allah is All
Knowing, Aware." [49:13]
3. "The believers, men and women are protectors and
guardians [awliyya] of each other. They enjoin what is just
and fobid what is evil: they establish prayer , give zakat
regularly, and they obey Allah and His messenger. On them
will Allah pour His mercy, for Allah is Exalted in Power,
Wise. Allah has promised the believers, men and women,
gardens under which rivers flow, to dwell therein, and
beautiful mansions, in Gardens of everlasting bliss. But the
greatest Bliss is the Pleasure of [acceptance by] Allah.
That is the supreme felicity." [9:71-72]
[Commentators agree that these were the final verses
revealed on this subject.]
4. "And their Lord has accepted of them and answered them:
'Never will I allow to be lost the efforts of any of you, be
ye male or female: Ye are from each other. Those [men and
women] who left their homes, or have been driven out from
there or suffered injuries in My cause, or fought or been
slain, - surely I will blot out from their sins and admit
them into Gardens with rivers flowing beneath, - a reward
from the presence of Allah, and from His Presence is the
best of rewards.' " [3:195]
5. The Qur'an 33:35
6. 60:12
7. 4:34. Modernists have expended much energy on this verse,
in trying to change its meaning. They forgot that the Qur'an
was revealed progressively over two decades. If this
progression is not taken into account, one can be involved
in tahrif [distortion] of the Qur'an, a deadly sin. For
instance, see the next development of the husband-wife
relationship in 24:6-9, where the husband is no longer
called on to discipline his wife. [Islam followed a similar
progression in dealing with intoxicants, interest and
jihad.]
8. For the sake of Islam, women often traveled alone, as in
the first hijra to Ethiopia and the great hijra to Yathrib.
9. The Qur'an, chapter 42, verse 38.
10: 3: 159
Palestine
A Tale of Jewish Kindness
By crescentandcross
A wealthy Israeli Jew, riding in his limousine, munching
down a Reuben-on-Rye and drinking a cup of Starbucks coffee
saw two Palestinian men along the roadside eating grass.
Disturbed, he ordered his driver to stop and he got out to
investigate the matter.
He asked one man, "Why are you eating grass?"
"We don't have any money for food," the poor Palestinian man
replied. "We have to eat grass."
"Well then, you can come with me to my house and I'll feed
you," the Israeli Jew said.
"But sir, I have a wife and two children with me. They are
over there, under that tree."
"Bring them along," the Israeli Jew replied.
Turning to the other poor Palestinian man the Israeli Jew
stated, "You come with us also."
The second Palestinian man, in a pitiful voice then said,
"But sir, I also have a wife and nine children with me!"
"Bring them all, as well," the Israeli Jew answered.
They all entered the car, which was no easy task, even for a
car as large as the limousine.
Once underway, one of the poor fellows turned to the Jew and
said, "Sir, you are too kind. Thank you for taking all of us
with you."
The Jew replied, "Glad to do it. You'll love my place- the
grass is almost three feet tall!"
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Pro-Israel Christians Weaving a Web to Entangle Muslims
What is happening in Kerala?
On 4th July 2010 a college teacher was attacked at
Moovattupuzha in Ernakulum district while he was returning
from the church. In the attack one of his hands were severed
off and he suffered some other minor injuries. The police
have arrested many people in this connection. The police
stated that the accused were members of Popular Front of
India. Popular Front state leadership immediately condemned
the incident and clarified that it is not the organization's
policy to be involved in such incidents. Popular Front also
offered complete cooperation in the police
investigation.
Neither Communal nor Religious
The attacked teacher is an accused in a criminal case for
insulting Prophet Muhammad in most heinous manner in a
question paper supplied for internal examination in his
college situated in the nearby town of Thodupuzha. This town
in Idukki district had seen vehement protests by various
Muslim organisations in March last when the question paper
incident took place. There is a suspicion that the question
paper issue is a part of a major conspiracy to hurt the
sentiments of Muslims and incite them. It is likely that the
man was attacked because of his role in the question paper
issue and definitely not because of his religion or
profession. Hence this issue should not be given a communal
colour.
There were certain incidents in the recent past which had
hurt the religious sentiments of Muslims. In southern Kerala
some Christian groups have been secretly distributing books,
pamphlets and fliers which abuse the Prophet in most
indecent terms. They also tell their followers that Islam is
a satanic religion and they should support the Zionist state
of Israel as it prepares ground for the return of Jesus
Christ. They also support the US invasion of Iraq and
Afghanistan and send paramedics, mercenaries and
missionaries to Iraq and Afghanistan to support the
invasion. They describe it as a golden opportunity to
convert Muslims. It is also seen that most of the attacks on
Islam and the Prophet come not from traditional Christian
churches but Pentecostals and evangelicals financed by
rightist Christian groups in the US. They are high pressure
missionary groups who raise money on the number of people
converted.
Scarf Scare
In some cases, Christian owned institutions were involved in
activities which directly aimed at provoking Muslims. The
Christian controlled media in particular spread the canard
that Muslim students in colleges are involved in wooing
high- born Christian and Hindu girls for the purpose of
converting them to Islam and terrorism under an operation
plan allegedly named Love Jihad. One prominent Christian
priest warned that Kerala would become a Muslim state by
2050. The Jagratha Samiti which is a wing of Kerala
Christians Bishop's Council issued a circular asking the
Christians to be vigilant about Love Jihad; Finally the High
Court had to intervene to call the bluff.
Not by coincidence certain Christian schools banned Muslim
girls wearing scarf in school. During the same period a
Christian missionary group published a book abusing Islam
and a publishing house released a school text book with
Prophet Mohammed's images. A book containing vitriol against
Islam was reprinted and distributed secretly. It is likely
that such unfortunate incidents had widened the gap between
the two communities and created an atmosphere of mistrust
among them. Such incidents are not in the interests of both
the communities and also the secular fabric of Kerala.
The media, the CPM and the Christian lobby in the police are
now using this incident as an excuse for no hold's barred
attack not only on the Popular Front of India but everything
related to Islam and Muslims in Kerala. The attack in
Thodupuzha was not the first such incident in Kerala. The
state has witnessed more gory attacks by organized political
parties, Sangh parivar and killer gangs. CPM and RSS are in
the forefront of beheadings, choppings and bomb attacks as
evidenced by the State Crime Records Bureau. When such
incidents take place police usually bring the culprits to
book without much hullabaloo. But the current incident was
blown out of proportion to blame an organization and a
community. Popular Front is relentlessly attacked and
Muslim community is made the target. Even the Chief Minister
joined the fray accusing Popular Front of planning to make
Kerala a Muslim majority state within twenty years. All
these were blatant lies as the Front is not involved in
missionary work.
It is ironical that both the CPM and RSS which have a long
history of being actively involved in all sorts of criminal
activities are speaking together against the Popular
Front.
Following the incident series of raids were conducted by
police in Popular Front offices and residence of its
activists. There were unlawful arrests of Popular Front
members, breaking into houses at midnight, closing down
business and even incidents of physical and verbal
harassment of women. Most of the offices and centres of the
organization across the state were raided by the police but
no objectionable documents or material could be found in any
of the offices or centres. Even the offices of the
political party SDPI and the human rights organization NCHRO
were raided because they protested the police atrocities.
The Ernakulam district president of NCHRO was arrested and
jailed immediately after he lodged a complaint to National
Human Rights Commission about the police harassment of
innocent Muslims.
But the police and the communally biased segments of the
media propagated that anti-national handbills, books and
videos were recovered. The printed materials found at the
office were either hand bills or posters related to many
public campaigns conducted by the organization. The CD's
were the video documentaries of various public programmes
which are sold in public. Every day one political leader or
the other raised concern about talibanism and the spectre of
Islamic terrorism without even an iota of evidence.
Smear Campaign
In such a situation our worry is not about what is happening
to Popular Front. Actually it is the Muslim community
being targeted. Muslims who were poor illiterate and
under-developed are now coming up in Kerala. The sections
which had so far monopolized education, political power and
administration are not happy with the recent Muslim
advances. There are reasons to believe that the recent
smear campaign against Muslims is part of a wide conspiracy
aimed to divert the Muslim attention from the path of
development. One of the ways to suppress a community is to
suppress its dynamic sections. Popular Front of India has
been in the forefront of struggles for reservation in
government services and the political empowerment of the
Muslims and other marginalized sections of the society. With
its presence in 16 states across India, the Front has become
the driving force for change in the Muslim community.
There are two possible reasons for targeting the Muslim
community through Popular Front. One would be the growing
communal influence in the State Government machinery
including the police. CPM in spite of its tall claims of
secularism is basically a Hindu party in Kerala. The
communal imbalance in the administration and police force
leads to discrimination and Islam phobia. Another reason is
the local body elections expected in September this year and
the state assembly elections next year. The ruling CPM
controlled LDF does not expect to return to power and is
playing a dirty political game to consolidate the Hindu and
Christian communal votes. Those Muslim organizations which
once supported LDF have deserted them and they do not expect
any crucial support from the Muslims as happened in the
previous Assembly elections.
Being an organization which has always adhered to the values
of the constitution, we are worried about the transformation
of a local incident to a catalyst of communal divide. This
is not merely an issue about Popular Front or even the
Muslim community, but it is a serious concern for the
society. The secular fabric of the country is the most
sacred element which binds the nation together and any
attempt to destroy the secular fabric of the nation by the
communal forces, political parties or the biased media
should be stopped to safeguard peace and harmony.
Released in public interest by
Popular Front of India
Headquarters
No 5, 1st Main, 4th Cross, SK Garden,
Benson Town Post, Bangalore
Phone: 080 32957534
popularfrontindia.org
With thanks to Br. Shaikh Hyder in Canada.
Obituary from Canada for a distinguished South African
Imam
In Loving Memory of my dear brother
Imaam Abdul Raghiem Paulsen.
By: Abdul Hamid Lachporia
"Be sure we shall test you with something of fear and
hunger, some loss
in goods or lives or the fruits (of your toil), but give
glad tidings to those who patiently
persevere, who say, when afflicted with calamity":
"Inna lilla he wa inna elaihe raji oon"
"To Allah we belong, and to Him is our return."
"They are those on whom (Descend) blessings from Allah,
and
Mercy, they are the one's that receive guidance."
(Surah Al-Baqara verses 155 to 157)
To the righteous soul will be said:
"O (thou) soul, in complete rest and satisfaction!
Come back thou to thy Lord -well pleased (thyself),
And well-pleasing unto Him! Enter thou, then
Among My Devotees! Yea, enter thou My Heaven."
[Surah Al Fajr verses 27 to 30]
The soul that returned unto its Creator and Sustainer on the
morning of Friday July 16th, 2010 during the most wonderful
and Mubarak day of Jummah in the month of Sha'baan was one
which had every reason to be well-pleased and well-pleasing
with its majestic achievement of a brilliant life of devoted
service to Almighty Allah Subhanahu Wata'ala and to the
people of Riverlea and throughout the Johannesburg area.
The soul of our beloved brother Imaam Abdul Raghiem lovingly
known as Imaam Ghiem by all those who knew him, left its
corporeal frame to ascend into the bliss of Divine proximity
leaving behind an orphaned community of loving admirers and
devoted followers in a state of profound shock, deep grief
and great sadness.
Such was the majesty of his spirit and the absorbing
charisma of his person that it tended to create an illusion
of eternity about his physical presence: the immortal
majesty of his soul had cast its shadow of permanence on his
physical presence and everything that surrounded it.
However, there is nothing that is permanent in this
transitory realm of corporeal existence except, of course,
for the reflection therein of the world of transcendence,
which had found such a brilliant reflection in the soul of
our dearest brother Imaam Abdul Raghiem Paulsen.
It is said that the apple never falls far from the tree. In
this case, reference is made to his honourable father, the
late Hajee Agmat Paulsen who gave the better part of his
life in serving Islam and the Muslim community of Riverlea.
To this end Hajee Agmat was instrumental in acquiring land
and the subsequent construction of the Riverlea Gabieboela
Islamic Association. It is in this very same Masjid and
through the guidance of Hajee Agmat that our dear Imaam
Ghiem was inspired at a very young age by his father to
pursue his Islamic studies in the country of the birth of
our Beloved Nabee Muhammad Sallallahoo Alayhi Wasallam. Upon
completion of his Islamic studies he returned home to serve
the people of Riverlea with distinction where he has lived
amongst them serving them faithfully until he was summoned
home by his Glorious Creator on Friday July 16th, 2010.
Alhumdoelillah! In his person, the lamp of eternity burnt
brightly and cast its radiance over the dark world of
corporeal being. In truth, he was both a beacon and
protector of his flock, and one of the radiant points where
the world of transcendence, the world of light and glory,
intersected the ephemeral world of matter. Imaam Abdul
Raghiem Paulsen was the embodiment of the everlasting power
of the spirit, and his dedication and life achievement bear
the greatest contemporary testimony to the subjugation of
the world of material inertia to the sovereignty of the
world of spirit.
He put to display the great power of the spirit by his
triumphant confrontation with the transitory against the
eternal, of the sensual and the carnal against the
spiritual, of ignorance and blindness against wisdom, of the
animal and the bestial against the angelic and the human.
More than anything else, it was the words of inspiration
that came out of his mouth, words that shattered to pieces
the idols of wrongdoing, Kufr, Dhulm and the Jahilliya way.
Today when our beloved brother Imaam Abdul Raghiem has
ascended to his eternal abode in the proximity of his
Exalted Creator and Sustainer, his spirit retains its
eternal bond with his family, his many close friends and the
entire Jamaat of Riverlea and the surrounding areas
throughout the greater Johannesburg area.
Though Imaam Abdul Raghiem is not amongst us physically
anymore, and no more shall we behold his noble, kindly and
determined heavenly and ethereal visage, or hear his
majestic voice addressing us from the Mimbar, his lofty
spirit remains the élan vital and will continue to guide the
future generations of our communities on the Path of
Seerathal Mustaqeem, and lead their battle for demolishing
the idols of wrong doing, oppression, despotism, injustice
and misguidance to the Day of Judgement.
Not only in Riverlea but the entire Muslim community of
Johannessburg lost a great leader, a beacon a guide and a
consoler. His presence and his most loving brotherly words
were the greatest inspiration to all those who came into
contact with him. His constant reminder to people was that
true believers are those who remain devoted to Almighty
Allah Subhanahu Wata'ala under all circumstances. Allah
exists no matter what befalls us and deserves to be
worshipped at all times. Thus, we serve Allah with true
faith at all times and pass every test - at good times, we
thank our Glorious Creator and at difficult times we
continue to serve Him with grateful hearts and look to the
Aghirah (Hereafter) with Sabr (patience) and
perseverance.
His inspiring leadership, his dedication, his great love for
the people that he faithfully served for so many years, his
understanding and his reassuring presence also gave a great
strength to the people of Riverlea. However, if today Imaam
Abdul Raghiem Paulsen is not physically amongst us anymore,
we say Alhumdoelillah for we still have amongst us the
eternal consolation, the Most Holy and Glorious Qur'an that
declares in Surah al-Anbiyaa (21) verses 34 & 35:
"And We granted not to any human being immortality before
you
(O Muhammad), then if you die, would they live forever?
Everyone is going to taste death, and We shall make a
trial
Of you with evil and with good, and to Us you will be
returned."
This reality must be established firmly in one's heart, the
reality that life in this world is limited and has an
appointed end - and this end will definitely come. Man's
spirit will ascend toward Almighty Allah Subhanahu Wata'ala
and immerse him in true happiness when he avoids the pitfall
of neediness by severing himself from all causes and turning
directly to Almighty Allah Tabaraqa Wata'ala . He will then
see himself linked directly to Almighty Allah's Essence and
palpably feel His infinite favour and Grace.
The righteous will die and the wicked will die. The Mujahid
who fight in Jihad will die and those who sit at home will
die. Those who busy themselves with correct belief will die
and those who treat people as their slaves will die. The
brave who reject injustice will die, and the cowards who
seek to cling on to this life at any price will die. The
people of great concern and lofty goals will die, and the
wretched people who live only for cheap enjoyment will
die.
"Allaahum maghfirli hayyinaa, wa shaahidinaa wa
ghaa'ibinaa,
wa sagheerinaa wa kabeerinaa, wa dhakarinaa wa
unthaanaa,
allaahumma man ahyaitahoo minnaa fa ahyihee 'alal
islaam, wa man tawaffaitahoo minna fatawaffahoo 'alal
eemaan,
allaahumma laa tahrimnaa ajrahoo, walaa tudilanaa
ba'dahoo."
"O Allah! Forgive our living and our dead, those of us who
are present and those who are absent, our young and our old,
our males and our females. O Allah! Whoever amongst us You
cause to live, then cause them to live upon Islaam, and
whosoever from us You cause to die cause them to die upon
Imaan. O Allah! Do not forbid us the reward, and do not
cause us to go astray after him."
And Almighty Allah knows best
Was Salamualaykum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuhu.
Abdul Hamid Lachporia
Toronto. Ontario. Canada
2010-08-05 Thu 18:43:09 cdt
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