'Abdullah bin 'Umar, r.a, said, "Allah's Messenger
(ﷺ) took hold of my shoulder and said:
'Be in this world as if you were a stranger or a traveler."
The sub-narrator added: Ibn 'Umar used to say, "If you
survive till the evening, do not expect to be alive in the
morning, and if you survive till the morning, do not expect
to be alive in the evening, and take from your health for
your sickness, and (take) from your life for your
death."
Sahih al-Bukhari 6416
Book 81, Hadith 5
with Thanks to Sis.Kristi
Armed Settler, Leader of Israeli propaganda, killed by 17
year old Palestinian with a knife.
September 16.
According to Fox News, Fuld, a prominent Israeli settler,
was stabbed to death by a Palestinian youth. Fuld was armed
and chased the youth and fired at him. Other Jewish
passersby also shot the youth. He was not killed.
According to Fox, the settler was a hard core supporter of
the Israeli military.
Owing to his aggressive support for Israel, face book had to
shut him down.
He is being mourned across Israeli, all the way from
Netanyahoo to Israel's ally Huckabee in Texas.
An American professor who was trying to stop the demolition
of Palestinian homes by the Jews has been deported by the
Israeli regime.
An Israeli bus entered a Palestinian refugee camp. It was
stoned by the refugees, injuring 3 of the Jews.
Demonstrations by unarmed people of Gaza continue every
Friday [this time into Saturday] along the line of
occupation. The Israeli military keeps shooting at the
protestors, killing and wounding unarmed people on an
ongoing basis.
OSUN STATE MUSLIMS TO VOTE AGAINST ANTI-ISLAM GOVERNORSHIP CANDIDATE
by
Abdul Kabir Oyemomi
Muslim Community in Osun State has threatened to order its
members to vote against any candidate who threatens the
right of Muslims to education and the usage of hijab in
public schools and institutions.
Alhaji Mustapha Olawuyi, President of the Osun State Muslim
Community.
The President, Osun State Muslim Community, Alhaji Mustapha
Olawuyi, issued the threat in Osogbo at a press conference
to mark the commencement of one-week activities of the
Hijrah (Islamic New Year) celebration.
Olawuyi was apparently responding to one of the governorship
candidates who has promised to return the public schools to
the missionaries if elected governor in the Sept. 22
poll.
"One of them has been using 'return of schools to
missionaries as one of his campaign promises. We are aware
that this is a gimmick to swindle the public.
"You can't return the property that belongs to all of us to
a mission just because such schools bear mission names.
"We are all aware of massive investments of public fund in
these schools after it had been taken over soon after
independence with full compensation.
"We have told him to forget it. Even if he has a pact with
any group, it won't fly. Any politician that tries it will
regret it.
"Again, this is a backdoor approach to banish hijab from
public schools. We have seen hate and lack of religious
tolerance displayed in the Adeleke University Ede and the
Bowen University in Iwo.
"As the majority group in Osun, we will not fold our hands
and allow that happen in our schools. It will be resisted
with full force.
Also read Hijab will soon rule the world - Islamic Scholar
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"We just fought for hijab for three years, so anyone who
intends to mitigate our rights or oppress us should forget
his ambition to become a governor in this state.
"In Osun State, we are aware of our rights and we have an
enlightened populace," Olawuyi said.
The president commended Governor Rauf Aregbesola's
administration for being fair to all religions and urged
whoever wanted to establish mission or private schools to do
so since there was no restriction from the government.
"We commend Governor Aregbesola's thoughtfulness for
declaring Hijrah Holiday to mark the event. This is equity
and fair play in action.
"If our Christian Brothers could get 52 Sundays in a year as
holiday and the Seventh Day Adventist has 52 Saturdays in a
year, it will not be out of place for Muslims who are in the
majority to have just a day to mark such an important
event."
The president stressed that Hijrah holiday has come to stay
and urged the Federal Government and other states to emulate
Osun by declaring the Hijrah day a free day.
Speaking on the theme for the Hijrah 1440 A.H. Good
Governance, Procedure and Processes: Islamic Perspective,
Olawuyi called for a free, fair, transparent and credible
election that is devoid of violence and malpractices.
While calling on the electorates to visit any INEC offices
for the collection of their Permanent Voter Cards, Olawuyi
urged citizens to shun vote buying and vote for the best as
well as God-fearing candidates, even as he urged security
agencies to ensure the coming election is free, fair,
credible, and peaceful.
Also read Measuring Media Reactions to Firdaus Amasa's Hijab
Call to Bar Story
The president who spoke on the significance of Hijrah said
the topic for the Hijrah Colloquium would be: Election
Malpractices: Causes, Effects and Islamic Solutions.
"Hijrah celebration is to move people from what is bad to
what is good and to also obey the teachings of the Holy
Qur'an and the Prophet.
"Islamic calendar begins with one of the most iconic events
in history - Prophet Muhammad's Hijrah - (emigration) from
Makkah to Madina to set up a new social order some 1435
years ago.
"Islam is the only religion with Allah. It is the religion
of Truth and in line with His promise, it shall overcome all
other religions.
"So the Prophet had to migrate to establish the everlasting
religion"
Egyptian Myths are used to Divert Attention from the Truth of Islam.
by Sis. Aisha
[Jamaat al-Muslimeen]
Tonight I had a very "deep" conversation (debate) with some
brothers from my class. The teacher believes that all
religion came from the Ancient Egyptians. He relayed the
story of Osiris and Isis and how she became pregnant with
his baby, Horus, after Osiris was murdered. He said the
Christians got the Immaculate Conception from them.
There is another brother who believes the Sumerians had an
even more developed civilization than the Egyptians but,
they came from out of space. I got little caught up with
some Street Corner Philosophers. But, I maintained that I
was not threatened by science because the Qur'an is a
science book but, God the Creator is responsible for all
creation no matter how advanced or intelligent they
become.
Then, I remembered Surah Kaafiruun. I was not trying to
convince them of anything but, it is easy to think that way.
Masha'allah.
25 Years of Two-Nation Theory was a flop.
Top Secularist Admits.
Negotiating Team.
It Was A Mistake To Have Negotiated With Israel At All.
by Diana Buttu
"Buoyed by the Oslo Accords, I moved to the West Bank as a
legal adviser to the PLO team. I was wrong. 25 years since
that iconic Arafat-Rabin handshake, it's clear talks are
futile - and Palestinians are no closer to freedom"
September 13, 2018
By Diana Buttu
"Information Clearing House" - Twenty-five years ago this
month, on the White House lawn, the lives of a generation of
Palestinians changed forever when the late Palestinian
leader, Yasser Arafat, shook hands with Israeli Prime
Minister Yitzhak Rabin. That handshake marked the start of
the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, with promises of a new
era of peace, freedom and prosperity.
25 years later, Palestinians are no closer to freedom, as
Israel has further entrenched, rather than lessened, its now
51-year military occupation.
Like countless others at the time, I was optimistic that the
negotiations would finally lead to Palestinian liberty as
promised and based on this, I decided to move to the West
Bank to work as a legal advisor to the Palestinian
negotiating team. During that period, I met with countless
diplomats, worked on scores of proposals and even began a
house-to-house campaign to speak to Israelis about ending
Israel's military rule.
But while I and others worked to end occupation others
worked to entrench it, including the Israeli government and
its settlers: within the first seven years after the
negotiations began, Israel used incentives to nearly double
its settler population. Today, the settler population is
more than three times the size it was in 1993, with nearly
700,000 settlers living in the West Bank.
Back in 1993, settlements were, for the most part, confined
to hilltops, with Israeli settlers considered to be fringe.
Far from being ostracized, today, some Israel's largest
cities are settlements, settlers have taken over homes in
the heart of Palestinian towns and settlers command
positions on the Israeli cabinet and on the Supreme Court.
In short, settlers are the norm, not the exception. Today,
Israeli settlers speak openly about annexing the West Bank
or expelling Palestinians.
I am often asked why the negotiations process failed. It is
easy to point to the rise of right-wing Israeli governments,
poor leadership or weak or uninterested U.S. presidents. But
the real reason for failure lie beyond these factors.
It is because the parties should not have started
negotiating in the first place.
To demand that Palestinians - living under Israeli military
rule - negotiate with their occupier and oppressor is akin
to demanding that a hostage negotiate with their hostage
taker. It is repugnant that the world demands that
Palestinians negotiate their freedom, while Israel continues
to steal Palestinian land. Instead, Israel should have faced
sanctions for continuing to deny Palestinians their freedom
while building illegal settlements.
Twenty-five years later, rather than living the joys of
freedom, we mark each day, by thinking about how to maneuver
the maze of Israel's more than 500 checkpoints, put in place
to accommodate Israeli settlements, just to be able to get
to work or to school. A 25 year-old in the West Bank has
likely never been able to visit the sea - a few miles away -
while a 25 year-old in Gaza has never been able to leave the
Gaza Strip, to visit friends and family in the West Bank and
Jerusalem or even abroad.
It isn't just movement of people that is affected.
Palestinians have not been able to take advantage of
technological progress for "security reasons" for example,
as cancer treatment advances throughout the world,
Palestinian hospitals are barred from acquiring radiation
equipment. Even our postal system remains hostage to
Israel's whims.
But, rather than recognize the mistake of negotiations, the
world continues to demand that we continue the facade even
though negotiations irrevocably broke down more than a
decade ago. The negotiations process has, in effect, served
as cover for the world to do nothing - while giving Israel
the cover to build and expand settlements.
If peace is to be achieved, it must entail costs - and this
time, not shouldered by the Palestinians. Rather, Israel
must receive the strong message, the first in its history,
that settlements will no longer be tolerated but rather
reversed, and that Palestinians must be free.
I am under no illusions that the Trump Administration will
put into place such sanctions. While previous
administrations tried to maintain a semblance that they were
helping "both sides," Trump has come decidedly in support of
Israel's right-wing pro-settler movement.
Whether by declaring Jerusalem as Israel's capital or by
attempting to extinguish the right of return, President
Trump has shown that his "deal of the century" will
undoubtedly accommodate Israeli settlements, take away
Palestinian rights and reward Israeli wrongs. The closure of
the PLO office in Washington D.C. this week is yet another
check on Israel's wish list.
For Israel and its supporters, the past 25 years have been a
victory. With Trump at the helm, Israel's settlers are at an
all-time high, Palestinians are confined to bantustans and
the U.S. is cracking down on Palestinians for demanding
their freedom.
But this short-term fix has long-term implications. While
Oslo changed the lives of a generation of Palestinians, this
generation and the next have certainly learned its lessons:
that negotiating is futile, and that our rights cannot be
compromised. With this, it is only a matter of time before
we begin struggling for equal rights in a single state,
rather than press for statehood.
Diana Buttu is a Ramallah-based analyst and activist, and a
former adviser to Mahmoud Abbas and the negotiating team of
the Palestine Liberation Organisation. Twitter:
@dianabuttu
Editorial
Re-Emergence of Islam, after the Destruction of Baghdad, by
scholars in India and Arabia
by Kaukab Siddique, PhD
Immeditely after the destruction of Baghdad in 1258 by the
mongols,
the Islamic response for victory came from Ibn Taymiyyah.
The indirect influence on all revolutionary scholars
specially in the analysis of Islamic texts came from Ibn
Taymiyyah, 1263-1328.
Here I am only looking at India and Arabia.
The re-emergence of Islam as a transformational power began
as a challenge to British hegemony in India, Hindu-Sikh
militancy in what is now Pakistan, and decadent prevalence
of tribal-Turkish rule and Shi'ite sectarianism in Arabia
and Iraq.
Iqbal taught Muslims to focus on Muhammad, pbuh, as the
leader of the ummah. Pakistan exists today owing to his
globalistic intellect.
He attacked western power, capitalism, sufiism and
obscurantism.
Shah Waliullah, 1703-1762, took on the task of unravelling
the diversion created by religious scholasticism. Syed Ahmed
[Shaheed ] 1786-1831, Shah Ismail Dehlavi, 1779-1831 and
their companions met head on Sikh-Hindu fanaticism in
northwestern india [now Pakistan] . Jihad became a relevant
concept again.
Westernizing education and the details of British
exceptionalism were attacked by Maulana Maudoodi. Syed Qutb
undertook that task in Egypt and the Arab world.
The greatest reformer of them all was Imam Muhammad ibn
Abdul Wahhab 1703-1792. He pointed out that the teachings of
Shiism and aspects of sufiism amount to kufr. We should try
to live according to the Qur'an and authentic hadith and not
seek intercession from the dead. The struggle is today and
the guidance is in the living texts of Allah's final
revelation, the Qur'an and Allah's final messenger and
prophet, Muhammad, pbuh.
In response to this process of Islamic renaissance, the
British, the Shi'ites and Sufis, the Zionists and now all
the western powers combined have popularized a negative term
"wahhabi." To conceal the re-emergence of authentic Islam,
the attempt has been made to create the impression that
those who strictly follow the Qur'an and the authentic
hadith are a new sect called "wahhabism." The Zionists have
tried to make "wahhabi": a term of abuse almost like the "N"
word for Black people.
A favorite tactic of the abusers is to link the current
rulers of Arabia, the Saudis, with "wahhabis." It is a bogus
tactic like blaming Mohomed Ali Jinnah for the chaos in
Pakistan, or Imam Khomeini for the sectarianism of Iran, or
George Washington for the imperialism of America.
In fact the teachings of Imam Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahhab were
an attempt to link Muslims with the original Islam of
Muhammad, pbuh, as seen in the Qur'an and in the authentic
hadith of Muhammad, pbuh, and in the ijma [consensus], of
his Companions, the sahabah who are extolled in the Qur'an
9:100.
What was Imam Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahhab trying to do which
has enraged the groups attacking him? He wanted Muslims to
KNOW the real Islam in its own texts. Here is what he
taught, in his own words:
"You [may Allah have mercy on you], have to know that we are
obliged to learn four issues:
Knowledge: It means true cognition of Allah, His Prophet and
the DEEN of Islam though their evidences.
Acting according to this knowledge.
To propagate it.
Patience in enduring the injurious difficulties of knowledge
and its exigencies.
The evidence for these points is the statement of Exalted
Allah:
'In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. By the
declining day. Surely mankind is in a state of loss, except
those believe and do good works and exhort one another to
truth and exhort one another to endurance,' [103:1-3]
About this Quranic text, al-Shafai, Allah's mercy be on him,
commented: 'If Allah had revealed only this sura as
irrefutable demonstration to His creation, it would be
adequate enough to convince them.'
Al-Bukhari, may Allah's mercy be on him, said with the same
emphasis, 'Knowledge must precede both statement and
action.'
The evidence for for this is the statement of Exalted
Allah:
"So KNOW ye that there is no God save Allah and ask
forgiveness for thy sin.' [47:19]
In this verse, Allah started with the word KNOW before
statement and action."
[ us-thalatha usool fit-Tawheed, by Shaykh al-Islam Muhammad
ibn Abdul Wahhab.]
PAKISTAN
Mass Wedding Arranged by Islamic
Movement to help the needy.
by Qaiser Sharif
LAHORE, Sep. 13: Ameer, Jamaat e Islami, Pakistan, Senator
Sirajul Haq, has said that different decisions of the
government were adding to the problems of the people. He was
speaking at the mass weddings ceremony of the JI welfare
body Al-Khidmat Foundation at Peshawar.
Sirajul Haq said that several new taxes had been proposed in
the review budget which included five per cent raise in the
regulatory duty and Rs. 4 raise in the electricity tariff.
He said the raise in the prices at this speed would soon
make the life of the common miserable.
He said the PTI's government's top priority should be to
retrieve the plundered wealth from abroad. Besides, he said,
the government had promised austerity to save money.
However, he said, austerity seemed to be nowhere as the army
of ministers proved the otherwise. The JI chief advised the
government not to become a tax collecting machine. He
deplored that so far, the government had not initiated any
action against the 436 persons named in the Panama
leaks.
Sirajul Haq said that in the State of Madina, the rulers
were always worried about the welfare of the citizens. He
said that the past governments had been collecting taxes
from the public and spending on their luxurious living and
it the present government also seemed to be following the
same path.
He said that the present economic system was based on
exploitation and it had nothing to do with public welfare.
He said there was need to collect taxes from the wealthy and
spend on the wellbeing of the poor.
The JI chief congratulated the Al-khidmat Foundation for
arranging mass weddings of fifty couples with limited means
and he himself solemnized their Nikah.
Sirajul Haq said there was no shortage of resources in
Pakistan but unfortunately, the country did not get an
honest leadership so far. He said that huge foreign loans
had been misappropriated as nobody knew where these had been
spent.
War News
Syria
Heavy Fighting in parts of Syria.
Massive Shia armada ready for Slaughter of Muslims in Idlib.
Public rallies against Assad.
[On Friday 14 September again there were rallies of historic
proportions in 16 towns condemning Assad in the provinces of
Idlib, northern Hama, and northwestern Aleppo. ]
September 9 to 16. Islamic State enclaves on the banks of
the Euphrates river witnessed heavy week long fighting.
Attacks by the US air force, continuous shelling shelling
by French artillery units and advances by SDF [Communist
Kurds] have broken some of the defenses of Islamic State in
the town of a;-Bughuz. SOHR has documeted 66 IS fighters
killed and 40 SDF killed.
More than 100 women and children supporting IS have
surrendered to SDF after being yerrorized by US bombig and
French shelling.
September 9 gto 16. "Hizbullah" Shias from Lebanon are
finding it very difficult to advance against Islamic State
fighters in the Tlul al-Safa area of the rugged desert
adjoining Suwaida provice south of Damascus. IS has beatenn
back daily attacks by "Hizbullah" Shias despite support of
Hizb by Iranian artillery.
In the provinces of Idlib, northern Hama, north west Aleppo
and parts of Lattakia, which are under Islamic conntrol,
mujahideen groups led by Tahrir [al-Nusra] are preparing to
stop a massive assault which Shias of Assad, "Hizbullah",
Iran, Shia militias have prepared. Light bombing by Russia,
Iranian artillery, Assad's helicopters is continuing o a
daily basis piling up a few civilian deaths every day.
Nearly 4000 Iranian troops and militias connected to them
have arrived at the borders of Idlib provinnce.
[About 2400 Iranian troops have died fightinng for Assad in
Syria since the conflict began.]
A column of Turkish troops has arrived to support FSA
factions around Afrin but they have only one tank.
September 15. Israeli missiles hit a cargo plane unloading
weapons for Assad from Iran at Damascus Innternational
airport. Three Assad troops were killed. No response from
Iran.
Iraq
In Depth report from the Intercept says ISIS regrouping in
Strength.
Basra in Serious Condition as Protests Continue.
Iran has successfully infiltrated the Regime but is
Unpopular.
In an indepth report on ISIS, the prominent research
enginne, The Intercept has come up with this conclusion:
"Though ISIS has lost the bulk of the 22,000 square miles of
territory it held at the peak of its reign in Iraq, a recent
U.S. government report estimates that a staggering 15,500 to
17,100 ISIS fighters have survived in Iraq alone. These
fighters, thought by observers to be leaderless since their
defeat in Mosul, are now regrouping amid a gradual
reconstitution of ISIS's command and control structure.
"The pattern of attacks is growing increasingly
sophisticated," Cafarella told The Intercept. "We are
watching a spread from an initial very small sort of
isolated pockets of ISIS presence after the fall of Mosul to
an attack campaign that is consistent with a rehabilitated
command and control structure." '
Most recent attacks are at Tikrit and north of Diyala.
Basra continues to be in a mess. with new protests.
Sistani has signalled a change of Shia leadership. Looks
like Abadi is going out.
Iran has successfully infiltrated the Baghdad parliament and
has the support of the new Speaker.
Afghanistan
Regime General Killed.
September 14. Taliban shot down a regime military helicopter
in Farah province killing its 5 occupants, including a
general.
According to the Long War Journal, most of Farah province is
in Taliban hands.
In the next round of talks with the US, Taliban will talk if
the US releases
the son of a top mujahid leader who was snatched by the US
while travelling from Bahrain to Qatar.
News Within the U.S.
Imam Hasan in Ohio prison targeted but Sustained by his faith.
Contact: Ben Turk
614-704-4699
LucasvilleAmnesty.org
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Silenced prisoner leader demands
conduct report repeal
YOUNGSTOWN OH- Imam Siddique Abdullah Hasan, a revolutionary
organizer and outspoken advocate of the national prisoner
rights movement has appealed the Ohio Department of
Correction (ODRC) decision that restricted him from
communication access for a year of more leading up to the
Agust 21- September 9 nationwide prison strike.
In his appeal Imam Hasan states: "The fabricated charges in
my conduct report, the procedural errors in my SMP [Serious
Misconduct Panel] hearing, and the dirty games played by all
parties involved are so egregious and a violation of my due
process rights... that not even returning my case to a new
SMP for a rehearing will cure and correct the violations of
applicable procedures and the vindictiveness shown toward my
person."
The most serious of the four rules violations contained in
Hasan's conduct report of July 27 were "Rioting, or
encouraging others to riot" and "Engaging in or encouraging
a group demonstration or work stoppage" these charges are
based primarily on an outside supporter mailing him an
endorsement of the strike written by the Fire Inside
collective.
Imam Hasan did not request or receive the document because
it was intercepted by mailroom staff, yet the SMP convicted
him, adding on a fifth ad hoc violation during the SMP:
"Violation of other policy... Inmate Sanders is also acting
as a leader and spokesperson."
ODRC Bureau of Classification Chief Brian Wittrup is the
charging official in Hasan's conduct report, and also the
ultimate authority deciding Hasan's fate. To rectify this
clear due process conflict, Wittrup stated that he "did not
wish to have input into the disciplinary proceedings." At
the actual hearing though, he responded to and critiqued
Hasan's testimony repeatedly and without request from the
panel, in violation of ODRC policy.
Other due process violations included providing the SMP with
evidence not contained in the conduct report and not
available for Hasan's review prior to the hearing as well as
blocking Hasan's witnesses from testifying at the hearing
citing "relevancy, unavailability and security reasons".
"I was named in the conduct report," said Ben Turk, who sent
Hasan the offending material, "so I'm relevant. I called
both the prison and central office to ask when or how I
would be allowed to testify, so I was available. They must
think merely letting me speak to the panel on the phone
would compromise their security."
Hasan's appeal, and the conduct report are available online
at IncarceratedWorkers.org and LucasvilleAmnesty.org. Since
the conduct report on July 27, Hasan has had his phone and
email access blocked, his property severely restricted, and
his cell door barricaded to prevent other prisoners from
communicating with him through it.
The Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee (IWOC) has
organized a phone zap to the Ohio State Penitentiary (OSP)
on Thursday September 13 to demand reprieve of these
restrictions.
The ODRC has until September 27 to reply to Hasan's appeal.
Supporters hope that Wittrup will be satisfied with having
silenced Hasan during the nationwide strike and will not try
to defend and uphold this sloppy, violation-ridden SMP
decision.
"If not, we're looking into a civil lawsuit, because this is
a clear infringement on both Hasan and my first amendment
rights," Turk stated.
According to a recent statement by Greg Curry, a friend of
Hasan's also held at OSP, the repression against Hasan and
others actually sparked a work stoppage in late July and at
least one block of prisoners maintained a commissary boycott
throughout the period of the strike.
Thought....
The Struggle of a Hijabi Muslimah in a world of Struggle and
Darkness.
by Raabia Ahmad [Atlanta, Georgia]
I have been on the path to healing emotionally, mentally,
physically and spiritually since 2009 when I had my first
kundalini awakening (spiritual awakening). This awakening
ripped off the lense with which I had seen myself, the world
and God. It put me in a place where I truly began to see and
understand that there was so much more to life then I had
over known.
Suddenly I began to question all I had been taught growing
up in an American ego based society and all that I believed
to be true. The false ways that had been thrust upon me
since birth and that I had been clinging on to, screamed at
me and urged me to take a closer look at it all. To take a
closer look at myself and most of all to examine my beliefs
about God.
I had been taught about God and knew so much about him, but
at the age of 25, I couldn't say that I truly had a
connection with the divine. A series of events showed me God
in ways that I had never experienced him before. I was
taught lessons about God by being forced to be alone even
while being surrounded by people. God showed me that I had
to learn to talk to him to rely on him and break the
attachments and codependencies that I had with people that
were getting in the way of me putting my full trust and
reliance in him.
I was plunged into the darkest parts of myself, parts that
needed to be deeply examined faced and healed. It's heen a
long and arduous road. One filled with triumphs,
illuminations, setbacks and darkness. There are days when I
want to give up, days when I cry and days when I rejoice in
the mere fact that God chose me to walk this walk and to
help others who may be struggling and searching for truth in
a world filled with so much darkness.
Still the light overpowers. Those whose eyes are fully open
see the design and magnificence of God in EVERYTHING. This
struggle has shown me that I possess a resilience and
ability to bounce back time after time after time and for
all of this I thank God. I am no where near finished.
Walking the path has taught me that there will be some days
spent wandering in the wilderness, and it keeps me humble in
praying that when I go off track, God in his infinite mercy
reroutes me back to him.
So I chose the path. I use my voice, I write down the truth
even when it's hard to look at because God is truth and God
and his divine law are the answers to ALL that ails us. Time
and time again, I chose the path back to God. The path one
walks where they must shed all the parts of themselves that
hold them back from living their best divine selves and from
seeing God all around them, and in their heart the only
place God can exist in his fullest extent. Chose the path.
Chose the light, chose the awakening chose the cleansing.
It's the place where light is, where true life begins....the
first step on the eternal path to God.
..
-TheHighlySensitveHijabi
Guidance by Sis. Yasmin
MUHARRAM - ONE OF THE FOUR SACRED MONTHS
'Muharram' is the first month of the Hijri calendar and is
one of the Four sacred months concerning which....
ALLAH {Azza wa Jall } says in the 'Qur'aan':
'Surely the number of months with Allah is Twelve months
in Allah's ordinance since the day when He created the
heavens and the
earth, of these four being sacred; that is the right
reckoning;
therefore be not unjust to yourselves regarding them'.
[Source: 'Qur'aan' ~Surat At-Taubah ~ 9~ Verse # 36]
'Muharram' is one of the four sacred Months out of
twelve.
The others being...Zul-Qa'dah, Zul-Hijjah, and Rajab
These four months have been sacred since the creation of
universe.
ALLAH {Azza wa Jall } says in the 'Qur'aan'....
'Muharram' is a sacred month because Allah made it sacred
along with
three other months and told us about it in the
'Qur'aan'.
Prophet Muhammad {may peace be upon him} informed us about
the
Four sacred months in the following narration:
'The year is of Twelve months, out of which Four {4} months
are sacred:
Three {3} are in succession ..
Dhul-Qa'da;
Dhul-Hijja;
Muharram;
Rajab.
[Source: Bukhari Vol 004, Book # 054, Hadith # 419]
'Ashura'~ [meaning tenth in Arabic] The 10th of Muharram
Fasting on the 10th Muharram 'Ashura' was obligatory on the
Muslims before the fasts of 'Ramadan' were made obligatory.
Narrated by the
Mother of the Believers Aisha (Allah be pleased with
her).
The people used to fast on 'Ashura' {the10th day of
'Muharram'} before the fasting of 'Ramadan' was made
obligatory and on that day the 'Kaaba
used to becovered with a cover. When Allah made the fasting
of the
month of 'Ramadan' compulsory...
PROPHET {may peace be upon him} said...
'Whoever wishes to fast (on the day of 'Ashura') may do so
and whoever wishes to leave it can do so'
[Source: 'Bukhari' Vol 02, Book 026, Hadith # 662]
Abu Qatada al-Ansari (Allah be pleased with him) reported
that The Messenger of Allah {may peace be upon him} was
asked about fasting on the day of 'Ashura' {10th of
Muharram} whereupon he said: It expiates the sins of the
preceding year...{!}
{Source:- Muslim: Book 06: Hadith # 2603}
