Historic Change of attitude towards Menstruating Women.
"When a woman from among the Jews menstruated, they would
not eat with her, nor drink with her, nor allow her to
remain with them. The messenger of Allah [peace and
blessings of Allah be on him] was asked about this. Then
Allah Almighty revealed the verse beginning 'They ask thee
concerning menstruation ...'The blessed messenger of Allah
then commanded : Have your meals and drink with the
menstruating women, and stay with them in your homes, and be
normal with them in sexuality, except for actual
intercourse.' The Jews said angrily: 'This person will
oppose us in everything we do ...' "
[Sunan of Tirmidhi, abwabu tafseer al-Qur'an, hadith
narrated by Anas, r.a.]
Newark, Delaware
On May 25, at the biggest masjid in Newark, a 6-page Jamaat
al-Muslimeen document was given to 100 Muslims after Juma'
salaat.
The crowd was large and the khutba was very instructive
about the value of the Hereafter as compared to the value of
this world.
Here is an outline of the 6 page Jamaat document:
Ramadan is part of the struggle against worldly
tyranny.
Appeal to imams to speak against Trump's Jerusalem
move.
US University honors Dr. Teepu Siddique for top level ALS
Research.
Political prisoners {web sites]
IS slaughtered Assad's forces in South Damascus.
Was Iran jointly tricked by US and Russia RE: Syria.
50 Shot Dead
According to the BBC, 50 people have been shot dead by
security forces within one month. The regime claims that
they were drug related incidents. However on the spot
research shows thart many of them were opponents of the
regime , some of them from Khalida's BNP supporters and
others.
Jamaate Islami Leaders Arrested
According to the latest news from Br. Abdul Hannan, 4
leaders of Jamaate Islami in the Kushtia area [including the
local chairperson, have been arrested.
Jamaate Islami is a non-violent and peaceful movement with
support in many parts of Bangladesh. The regime is
constantly trying to oppress them though they have not
committed any crime even in the slightest.
Editorial
The Greatest Scholars of Islam after the Sahaba, r.a. Introduction.
by Kaukab Siddique
The misfortune of Muslims in America has been that they got
ensnared on the three prongs of the devil.
Race oriented cults who claim to have received "God in
person" and even a a "messenger of Allah."
[Astaghfirulla.]
Immigrants from 50 Muslim countries each of whom want to
set up a "national"
mosque in America.
Muslim elites who achieved fame by hooking up with the
government and are taking CAIR of the needs of the regime to
keep Muslims in control.
One result of this tripartite pronging has been that
America's Muslims were not able to become part of the global
ummah of Islam, Malcom X [al-Hajj Malik Shabazz] tried. He
was gunned down in broad daylight. Imam Jamil al-Amin tried.
He was imprisoned and is dying a slow death in prison.
Islam has had great scholars after whom the Schools of
Islamic Thought are named. However, after the destruction of
Baghdad, a new era of depression, division and internal
chaos began. It was like our world after 9.11.
American Muslims need to know the leaders of Islamic thought
who kept hope alive and owing to whom today Islam today is
once again challenging the conscience of the world. One of
the leaders in this progressive forward movement was Ibn
Taymiyyah.
He helped the Muslims to remember once again that fighting
aggressors and occupiers was as much of a religious
obligation as praying and fasting. Even more importantly, he
taught that deadly enemies of Muslims can emerge in the
guise of rulers and governments who claim to be Muslims.
This was the brilliance of Ibn Taymiyyah's ijtihad
[independent thinking] because such a difficult situation
was unknown in Muslim history. [The munafiqs in the era of
the Prophet, pbuh were not in a position of power.]
One of the main points in Ibn Taymiyyah's teachings was the
need to understand the INTENT of the Prophet's, pbuh,
message: Here it is in his own words :
"All good is combined in seeking the help of Allah the
Exalted in receiving the knowledge left as an inheritance
from the Prophet, pbuh. This is what deserves to be called
knowledge ; as for other than that : if it is knowledge, it
is not beneficial, or it is not knowledge even if it is
called such. If it is beneficial knowledge , it must be from
the inheritance of Muhammad,pbuh. Nothing can take its
place, and nothing is better than it. And the purpose must
be to understand the intent of the messenger, pbuh, in his
commands, prohibitions and the rest of his speech. When your
heart is certain that this is the intent of His messenger,
pbuh, then do not turn away from it, whether it is connected
to his rights, the rights of Allah, or the rights of the
people, if you have the ability to do so.." [p.264.]
[Explanation of the Concise Advices of Shaykh-ul-Islam Ibn
Taymiyyah by Shaikh Sulayman as-Ruhayh.]
[My thanks to Br. Kwame Madden for giving me access to this
book which was published in February 2018]
PAKISTAN
For the First Time Tribal Areas
Get their Civil Rights.
by Qaiser Sharif.
LAHORE, May 24; Ameer, Jamaat e Islami, Pakistan, Senator
Sirajul Haq, has welcomed the passage of the FATA Bill by
the National Assembly and greeted the people of tribal areas
on this landmark achievement.
In a statement here on Thursday, he said that with the
passage of the FATA Bill, the tribal people had won freedom
for the second time after 1947. He said that the new law
would open the door of development for tribal areas and the
people would be free from the black and colonial era
FCR.
He said the FCR was a British legacy but all past
governments in the country retained it for the last seventy
years. He said the tribal people had been demanding
abolition of the FCR since long and their demand had been
finally met.
Sirajul Haq also congratulated the JI leaders and workers
from tribal areas who had kept the issue alive by holding
rallies and public meetings, sit-ins and through all other
means.
War News
Syria
Deadly IS Attacks. Aleppo facing new challenge. Iranian
Losses uncovered. 140,000 in Assad's prisons.
May 21 to May 27.
In the last three days, 150 mortar and light artillery
shells have fallen on western Aleppo which is occupied by
the Assad regime. It appears that Islamic groups are
advancing on Aleppo.
Damascus: After the regime accepted cease fire in South
Damascus under Russian auspices and IS withdrew peacefully
into the desert south, the regime declared victory, It was a
mistake. The Russians had arranged the cease fire because of
the serious losses both sides were suffering on a daily
basis.
The regime and Iranian forces tried to pursue the IS forces
and fell into a trap.
Homs province. According yo SOHR, the regime forces were hit
hard by ISIS fighters in Homs province near Palmyra. It was
a deadly trap. The regime lost 75 killed plus 9 dead
Russians. Some of the regime troops were captured. ISIS lost
25 killed in this battle, mostly human bombers.[May 27]
Hama province: The Iranian-regime forces are punishing the
communities which are resisting the regime.
From May 24 to 27, regime forces have fired 352 shells at
several small towns in the area. [Losses not known yet,]
Hama farmers are being terrorized by the regime to pay 1000
Syrian pounds for each 1000 square km of farm land otherwise
their crops will be burned down. Two women were burned alive
when their farm was set on fire by the regime aircraft.
In Lattakia province [north] and Daraa city, regime
artillery is hammering Muslim volunteer groups resisting the
regime.
Iranian losses which saved the Assad regime.
In the five years of Iranian support for Assad, 7806 Iranian
troops and shia militias under their command have been
killed in battles with the mujahideen of Islam. In addition,
1649 so called Hizbullah of Lebanon have been killed.
[Statistics computed by Syrian Observatory of human rights,
a non-political neutral group.]
Horrific suffering in Assad's prisons:
More than 140000 Syrians are in Assad's prisons, Another
60,000 of Assad's prisoners have died owing to torture and
extreme living conditions.
In Idlib province, assassins have killed scores of Islamic
commanders, civic care takers, supporters of al-Nusra, The
killing continues. An Azerbaijani mujahid commander was
killed on May 27. Small Muslim groups often fight each
other. Rumors labelling each other as IS "sleeper cells"
effectively create violence.
News Within the U.S.
The Heartfelt Words From the Cogburn Family | The Host
Family of Pakistani Exchange Student Sabika
Please click on the image below to view the video.
Video of the host family of Pakistani exchange Student
Sabika
Islamic Women Facing Extreme Atrocities
They deserve no mercy': Iraq deals briskly with accused
'women of Isis'
A Baghdad court has sentenced more than 40 foreign women to
death after 10-minute hearings
Martin Chulov in Baghdad and Nadia al-Faour
Tue 22 May 2018 00.00 EDT Last modified on Tue 22 May 2018 02.34 EDT
[tiny Islamic woman prisoner in an Iraqi Shia court]
French jihadist Djamila Boutoutao attends her trial at the
Central penal Court in Baghdad. She was sentenced to life in
prison for belonging to the Islamic State group.
In a small holding room in a Baghdad court, French citizen
Djamila Boutoutao cradled her two-year-old daughter and
begged for help.
Boutoutao, 29, is accused of being a member of Islamic
State. Whispering in her native tongue within earshot of
other accused Isis members - all foreigners like her - she
said life had become unbearable.
"I'm going mad here," said Boutoutao, a small bespectacled
woman with a deadpan stare. "I'm facing a death sentence or
life in prison. No one tells me anything, not the
ambassador, not people in prison."
Guards moved closer as Boutoutao continued. So did her
fellow accused - all from central Asia or Turkey, who had
all lost husbands and, in some cases, children as the
Islamic State collapsed in Iraq last year.
"Don't let them take my daughter away," she pleaded. "I am
willing to offer money if you can contact my parents. Please
get me out of here."
With that, the short conversation was shut down and
Boutoutao returned to a corner, waiting for the judge in the
adjoining room to summon her. There were no French officials
present, and nothing at all to connect her to her former
life in Lille. If convicted of joining the terrorist group,
she faces life in a central Baghdad jail, or death by
hanging.
All the 15 women in court last week had been widowed by the
war that eventually ousted Isis from much of Iraq, killing
tens of thousands of its members and replacing its promises
of an Islamic utopia with a crushing defeat. The women here
had in some cases willingly joined the group, travelling
alone from Europe and central Asia, or with their partners,
to what they believed to be a promised land.
More than 40,000 foreigners from 110 countries are estimated
to have travelled to Iraq and Syria to join the jihadist
group. Of those, around 1,900 are believed to have been
French citizens, and around 800 were British.
Boutoutao arrived in Iraq in 2014, with her husband,
Mohammed Nassereddine and two children. He was killed in
Mosul in 2016 as was her son, Abdullah, one year later. She
was captured by the Kurdish peshmerga in northern Iraq and
eventually sent to Baghdad, where the fortified court in the
centre of the capital has become a focal point of the
post-Isis era.
Up to 1,000 women accused of belonging to Isis were rounded
up from the ruins of Iraq's towns and cities and are now
being held in Baghdad to face a reckoning from a society and
government that remains deeply scarred by the past four
years, with much of their anger directed at foreign fighters
and their families. Up to 820 infants accompany the women,
with some others yet to be born.The proceedings had a sense
of urgency, and so did the 10-minute hearings in Baghdad's
central criminal court that have summarily dispensed with
the accused foreign women, sentencing more than 40 to death,
and dozens more to life in prison since the so-called
caliphate crumbled.
Foreigners in particular, often carrying babies, are
processed with an uncompromising efficiency rarely seen in
other parts of Iraq's judicial system. In mopping up the
aftermath of Isis, the court system has taken on the role of
bringing the country towards a closure. As Iraqis try to
stitch their torn social fabric back together, a stark
resentment remains towards the jihadists whose rampage took
a toll on a national psyche that was yet to recover from
sanctions, invasion and civil war.
France and other European countries remain hostile to those
of their citizens who are now facing Iraqi courts, insisting
they should face local justice abroad. The French government
has shown some leniency towards children orphaned by the
fighting, but none towards adults who made decisions to join
the group.
Earlier this year, the defence minister Florence Parly said
those who did make it back to France would be "held to
account for their acts". French officials have told their
counterparts in the region, however, that those who failed
to escape can expect no comfort.
With Isis now all but ousted from Iraq's lands, there is
little talk of reconciliation. Asked what he would say to
the leader of Isis, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi if he was put in
front of him, Sheikh Qais al-Khazali, the leader of one of
Iraq's most feared Shia paramilitary groups, Asa'ib ahl
al-Haq, said: "I would tell him he failed. He wasn't good
enough. He was nothing and he is beneath us all."
Mustafa Rashid, a car dealer in east Baghdad was similarly
scathing about the foreign prisoners. "Be damned with them,"
he said. "They deserve no mercy. The women too."
In the same court a day earlier, an Iraqi woman had been
cleared of all charges and released after successfully
mounting a defence that her brother had forced her to join
Isis. While some Iraqi women, and large numbers of men, have
been sentenced to death for their roles in the terrorist
group's rampage, only a small number of foreign women have
received any concession
"In the minds of Iraqis and the judiciary and the
government, by virtue of the fact that you are foreign and
chose to live in Isis territory there is a level of agency
in what you did and more culpability," said Belkis Wille,
the senior researcher for Iraq for Human Rights Watch. "It
is not the same in the case of Iraqi women, where very
specific evidence is often lessening sentences. If you buy a
plane ticket, cross a border and make your choices, you are
far more exposed."
The Baghdad courtroom was bustling with men who were
shuffled into a dock in the centre of the room. A group of
12 were sentenced to death by hanging, then escorted back to
cells. Next it was Zahraa Abdel Wahab Al Kaja's turn. Just
turned 17 years old, and originally from Tajikistan, she
also cradled a baby, whom she had dressed in a hijab, and
seemed disorientated.
"I was brought to Syria about five years ago with my mum and
dad," she said. "They married me to a Turkish man. He was
good to me. This is his child. We settled in Iraq. My father
and husband died. I am now imprisoned with my mother and
daughter. I want to go back home, even though my country is
no good. I didn't wear hijab back home. Isis is good, it
taught me how to cover myself."
More women came and went: a Turk, a Russian, and two from
Kyrgyzstan. In each case one of three judges asked several
curt questions, then ordered the accused woman from the
room. A prosecutor then made a short statement, and a
defence lawyer read from a brief. Outside, one of the
state-appointed defenders said he had not spoken with his
client, and had only seen a summary of the investigation
notes.
Human Rights Watch said that, despite its urging over the
past two years, there had been no sign of lawyers playing a
more proactive role, or the judiciary seeking more
substantive evidence for prosecutions. Justice instead
depended heavily on instinct, an official said during a
break. "I've worked here for 10 years and I can tell who's
innocent with one look in their eyes. I can tell you horror
stories and I can share moments of magic."
Guards who bring the women from a nearby prison said most
were unrepentant. "An Isis prisoner once asked me for
something which I couldn't provide and she called me an
infidel."
What to do with the children is a more vexing question for
Iraqi authorities. Some infants chewed on apples while their
mothers waited for their hearings. Others were passed around
the women who each took turns at calming them.
"They will grow up to be just like [their mothers]," said
one of the guards. "No, it's a sin to say that," said
another. "All children are innocent."
"Maybe," came the reply. "But let's finish with this
quickly. There are still so many of them."
Guidance
Neglect of three blessings can destroy our inner being.
[Note the Teaching Method of the Prophet, pbuh.]
Courtesy ~ Sis Yasmin~
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'Assalaamu `Alaykum wa Rahmatullaahi wa Barakaatuhu'.
Kaab Ibn Ujrah (Radi Allah Anhu) relates...
Prophet (Sallallaho `Alaihi Wassallam) said...
'Come near to the Mimbar' and we came near the Mimbar
When he (Sallallaho `Alaihi Wassallam) climbed
the first step of the Mimbar...
he (Sallallaho `Alaihi Wassalla) said...
'Aameen' !
When he (Sallallaho `Alaihi Wassallam)
ascended the second step,
he (Sallallaho Alaihi Wassallam) said...
'Aameen' !
When he (Sallallaho `Alaihi Wassallam) climbed
the third step,
he (Sallallaho Alaihi Wassallam) once again said...
'Aameen' !
When Prophet (Sallallaho `Alaihi Wassallam) came down,
we said...
'O Rasool of Allah (Sallallaho `Alaihi Wassallam),
we have heard from you today something which we never heard
before'.
Prophet~ (Sallallaho `Alaihi wasallam) said...
When I climbed the first step,
the angel Jibraeel (A.S.) appeared before me and said...
'Destruction to him who found
the blessed month of 'Ramadhan' and let it pass by
without gaining forgiveness.'
...upon that I said 'Aameen'.
When I climbed the second step, he said...
'Destruction to him before whom your name is taken
and then he does not make Dua of Allah's blessing for
you'
(by saying, for example Sallallaho `Alaihi Wasallam).'
I replied 'Aameen'.
When I climbed the t]hird step, he said...
'Destruction unto him in whose lifetime
his Parents or either one of them reaches old age,
and (through failure to serve them)
he is not allowed to enter 'Jannah'.
I said 'Aameen'.
{Source~ Haakim~Baihaqi~ }
A Lil Note:
In this Hadith, it ap pears that
Jibraeel (Alaihi Salaam) gave expression to three (3)
curses,
upon which Prophet (Sallallaho Alaihi wasallam) said
'Aameen' every time.
In al-Durr al-Mansoor it is reported that Jibraeel (Alaihi
Salaam) advised Prophet
(Sallallaho `Alaihi Wasallam) to say 'Aameen'.
Being an Angel of such high mark, Jibraeel (AS) giving these
curses is
sure to be accepted.
May Allah (Subhanahu wa Taala) in His infinite mercy
grant us His help and save us from these three [3]
dangers...!
[Allah Humma Aameen]
~ My 'Salaams' to All ~
~ Y a s m i n ~
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"All that is on earth will Perish. But will abide
{Forever}
the Face of thy LORD, full of Majesty, Bounty and
Honour"
{'Quran'- Surah Al-Rahman-55.26-27}
Say, 'Indeed, my Prayer, my Rites of Sacrifice,
my Living and my Dying are for ALLAH, Lord of the
Worlds'.
{'Quran'~Surat Al-'An`am -# 6-162.}
{'In Shaa Allah'~'Aameen'}
I Want to Die With my Forehead on the Ground!
The Sunnah in my Heart, Allah on my Mind,
Qur'an on my Tongue, and Tears in my Eyes!
'In Shaa Allah'!
Contribution from a Reader
Malcolm X Stood for the Rights of Palestine.
Memorial Ceremony in New York.
by Abu Talib [Jamaat al-Muslimeen]
There was an event in the celebration of the life and legacy
of Malcolm x on his 93rd birthday. It was held at the
Shabazz Center in Harlem.
There was a large crowd despite the weather. What was a
pleasant surprise that his daughters were there: three of
them. They spoke about their father and his support for
Palestine in terms of his human. rights advocacy and his
stand for the oppressed worldwide and taking America to the
United Nations in terms of the violation of human rights the
African American people inside the Country.
I gave out several copies of the New Trend to Muslim sisters
who were there also..
There were cultural performance by various artist.
As Malcolm X said many years ago, we must stand up for the
rights of the poor and the oppressed wherever you see
injustice taking place . Do not confine the struggle to just
here in America but all over the earth.
