The Blessing of Paying a Debt, even when the Debtor shows no mercy.
Narrated by Jabir bin Abdullah,r.a.:
My father died and was in debt. I suggested that his
creditors take the fruits (i.e. dates) of my garden in lieu
of the debt of my father, but they refused the offer, as
they thought that it would not cover the full debt. So, I
went to the Prophet and told him about it. He said (to me),
"When you pluck the dates and collect them in the Mirbad
(i.e. a place where dates are dried), call me (Allah's
Apostle)." Finally he came accompanied by Abu Bakr and 'Umar
and sat on the dates and invoked Allah to bless them. Then
he said, "Call your creditors and give them their full
rights." So, I paid all my father's creditors in full and
yet thirteen extra Wasqs of dates remained, seven of which
were 'Ajwa and six were Laun or six of which were Ajwa and
seven were Laun. I met Allah's Apostle at sunset and
informed him about it. On that he smiled and said, "Go to
Abu Bakr and 'Umar and tell them about it." They said, "We
perceived that was going to happen, as Allah's Apostle did
what he did."
Bukahari Volume 3,
Book 49, Number 872
[With thanks to Sis. Kristi]
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Other items:
There is no hadith on age of Ayesha, r.a.
Huge start of Maulana Fazlur Rahman's Freedom march.
The aim of this society after it is formed is to spread the
message of Allah from he Qur'an and the aim is to spread the
teachings of Muhammad, pbuh.
For this purpose I have an Urdu book titled KHUTBAT by
Maulana Maudoodi, rahimullah.
I want to translate in the English language somre small
booklets for the English speaking people.
Today I was given a chance to speak about this project to
about 200 seniors and they supported me. I have a translator
too.
[New Trend urges readers in Canada to support this
project.]
Palestine
Palestinians Not Giving Up: Hundreds of Palestinians across
the Gaza Strip on Friday flocked to the security fence to
participate in the weekly anti-occupation protests -- known
as the Great March of Return.
Protesters from across the Gaza Strip headed to the eastern
areas of the coastal enclave raising the Palestinian
flags.
The spokesman of Hamas group Hazem Qasem said in a statement
that "the Great March of Return reflects the will of our
people and expresses the conscience of the Palestinian
national movement."
Almost 270 protesters have been martyred -- and thousands
more wounded -- by Israeli forces at the security fence
areas with Gaza since the Gaza rallies began in March last
year.
Demonstrators demand an end to Israel's 12-year-old blockade
to the Gaza Strip, which has shattered the coastal enclave's
economy and deprived its two million inhabitants of free
movement in and out from Gaza and prevented many basic
amenities.
Source: aa.com
Muslims Denied Rights in their Own Country
By Abdulkab Oyemomi
The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, being
the grand-norm of the laws of this country, provides for
individual's rights. But Muslims are being precluded and
denied access to many of these rights persistently and
nothing is done to address it, even though Muslims are the
majority amongst those at the corridors of power at various
levels.
Access to loan in Nigeria is a big problem for Muslim
entrepreneurs. Businesses in this country are not made for
us to thrive at all. It is a common knowledge that Islam
does not allow usury of any form as explicitly stated in the
book of Allah, yet the sweetest thing in the mouth of even a
Muslim in custody of National loan is that the interest is
so small! Who cares about the quantum of the interest?
Phenomenally, Hijab issue here is a matter of crying than
the bereaved . Non Muslims and indeed many hypocritical
Muslims in positions of authority have taken matters of
Hijab as a fierce war against the users. This is clearly
inconsistent with the provision of the laws of the country,
but the lawyers are ready to cunningly twist the law,
especially non Muslim lawyers. This ,clearly, does not need
Golden Rule to for interpretation .
The writer is particular about access to loan for Muslims
that are not willing to partake in a loan that is attached
to usury or anything related to this. The government should
henceforth put us in consideration whenever reaching out to
Nigerians in this regard. For instance, there is a recent
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)'s directive to all banks in
Nigeria to make 60% of their funds available for loan to
Nigerians. That is a development that a conscious Muslim
will never benefit from!
The Federal Government under Muhammadu Buhari is hereby
called upon to look into various discrepancies like these
for even distribution of resources accruable to all of us as
Nigerians. You cannot have Nigeria being insinuated as
Islamized when the truth is games to take away our Islam
from us are underway..
Latest Khutba
Minority Concept is Deadly.
Case of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Role of Islamic Women is key.
On November 1, Br. Kaukab Siddique gave the Juma Khutba at
Masjid Jamaat al-Muslimeen. The Masjid was full of men but
there were few women. Security was in place.
Here is an outline of the Khutba:
Text #1:
Be not like those who are divided amongst
themselves and fall into disputations after receiving Clear
Signs: For them is a dreadful penalty,- [The Qur'an
3:105]
Text #2:
By the fig and the olive and by Mount Sinai and
this City made Secure & Peaceful. [95:1-3]
Muslims in America, and western countries in general,
often consider themselves minorities and thus a tiny part of
the population.
As minorities, they are usually involved in issues of
Fiqh [jurisprudence] and busy themselves with intricacies of
purity, purification, prayer, fasting and charity. Some of
them go on Hajj but merely as a matter of ritual and
self-righteousness.
Engrossed in internal debates and disputation, these
Muslims have little independent study and perspective of the
global ummah. Hence they are easily influenced by the major
media which are largely corporate and Zionist.
By contrast the Qur'an and authentic hadith have
forbidden sects and internal disputation. The fiqhi habits
of US Muslims have excluded themselves from the ability to
influence American and NATO's military, political and
economic strategies.
Scholars as diverse as Ibn Taymiyya and Zamakhshari have
indicated that the FIG and the OLIVE in sura 95 are not
about real fruits but about Syria and Palestine. The fig was
the major crop in Syria and the olive in Palestine.
Maulana Maudoodi points out that those classical
scholars were correct because the verses following fig and
olive are about Mount Sinai and Makka itself. Thus Islam was
INTERNATIONALIST right from the beginning. It is not a
national or localized religion. [1]
The western powers give total support to Israel and have
been bombing and killing Muslims in Syria, Iraq,
Afghanistan,Pakistan, Somalia, Nigeria and western Africa.
Islamic response from Muslims in the West is near ZERO. The
tragic Kashmir situation is ignored by the West because
India's regime is now with America.
Muslims in the West easily absorb war time and atrocity
propaganda aimed at denigrating and humiliating mujahideen
groups.
Dictators, tyrants and puppets are imposed on Muslim
countries with the support of the West as we can see in key
Muslim countries such as
Egypt, Saudi Arabia and UAE.
It is understandable that the West wanted to destroy the
Islamic caliphate led by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. A caliphate
based on Quran and Sunnah will never be accepted by the West
because it would undermine the entire geo-political planning
of the West. What is most amazing about the power of western
media is the opposition of Muslims in the West to the
caliphate, to the extent that some Muslims claimed that the
leaders of the caliphate were not Muslims.
President Trump's story that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was
scared and "whimpering" and was pursued by a dog {!} was
contradicted the next day by Trump's own general. They
fabricate stories about Muslims. Unfortunately many Muslims
are gullible in politics and easily accept propaganda.
It is true that the caliphate was flawed and committed
some acts which shocked the world, such as beheadings.
Scholars should have noticed that beheadings have been
commonplace in western history, such as the beheading of
Mary Queen of Scots. Beheadings in Saudi Arabia, an ally of
USA, take place about every month. By contrast, USA and NATO
have destroyed entire cities ruled by the caliphate, killing
40,000 civilians in Mosul and 18,000 in al-Raqqa. Allies of
the US such as Egypt and Pakistan have killed thousands of
"soft targets" in Cairo and Alexandria and Swat and
Waziristan.
USA provides freedom of expression and demonstration yet
US Muslims are only interested in fiqhi issues.
US and western suppression of Islamic thought
psychologically has gone so deep that Muslims are trying to
show support for lgbtq and adultery. Most are scared of
using the word "jihad." Thus cultural imperialism is now
coming from America into Africa, Pakistan and Bangladesh,
slowly but steadily.
Part 2.
For the renaissance of Islam in America and the West,
Muslim women should be equal participants in the Islamic
da'wah and masjid activities.
By excluding women, or minimizing their role, we have
reduced Islamic activism by half.
Let us stop hiding the role od Islamic women as seen in
the life of the Prophet, pbuh, and the sahaba, r.a
After the first revelation, the Prophet, pbuh, came to
Khadija, r.a., and she supported him, comforted him and gave
him all her resources for da'wah.
Ayesha, r.a., was the Companion of the Prophet, pbuh, to
the final day of his life. She was scholar, teacher, orator,
leader and example.
The Prophet's., daughter, Ruqayya, r.a., did the first
hijra to Ethiopia. which is a religious obligation second
only to jihad.
The prophet's daughter, Fatima, r.a., was on the
battlefield at Uhud and tended to his serious injury.
In the same battle, Uhud, a great Islamic woman, Umm
Ammara, r.a., defended the Prophet, pbuh, with sword and
shield.
In the Caliphate of Abu Bakr, r.a., Umar, r.a., and
Usman, r.a., hundreds of Islamic women participated in armed
struggle against the empires of Rome and Persia and helped
tp bring them down. The wife of Muawiyya, r.a., was in the
great naval battle which sank the united fleet of
Europe.
Muslims in the West should protect and support Muslim
women who are often threatened or harassed by non-Muslims.
Women should also learn to defend themselves.
Du'a: O Allah, give health to those of us who are not well,
jobs to those of who don't have jobs. Give us success in
this world and in the Hereafter. Help us O Allah to study
the Qur'an and hadith every day.
[1] For Fig and Olive, sura 95, See Tafhim ul Qur'an by
Maulana Maudoodi, vol, 6, p. 386-387.]
PAKISTAN
JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman gave a stern message to
the government by telling it that "Your writ over Pakistan
has ended...now we will peacefully run this country."
The JUI-F chief was addressing participants of the Azadi
March gathering in Islamabad, Fazl said that his party was
implementing the agreement that had been reached between the
Rahbar Committee and the government. However, he said that
the Islamabad administration had taken certain steps which
had nullified the agreement.
Fazl said that his party 'will run the country by remaining
peaceful'.
Maulana Fazl began addressing the participants of the march,
saying that women are very much part of the march as no one
has pushed them aside.
"Women are part of this protest, sitting at home and doing
Zikar and prayers," he said, adding that from overall the
situation it can be imagined how much hatred prevails
against the incumbent government.
War News
Syria
Mujahideen advance in Lattakia.
Russian bombing in Irbid.
IS raiders active.
November 3. Syrian fighters with Turkish support forced SDF
Kurds to withdraw from the village of Mahmudiyah south of
Tal Tamir.
SDF and Syrian fighters are clashing at 5 villages in the
Turkish-backed attempt to block the highway M4.
November 3. In southern Idlib border in the Khan Shakhoun
area and nearby villages, mujahideen answered regime's heavy
weapons fire in ongoing exchanges. Russian air strikes
followed. Regime helicopters dropped barrel bombs on Islamic
positions in north eastern Lattakia province.
In the Tal Tamir countryside, Assad regime forces joined
hands with SDF Kurds leading to heavy clashes with Syrian
fighters supporting Turkey. An American relief team was hit
by Syrian fighters killing one of its Asian members.
November 2. A Kurdish communist bomb explosion in Tal Abyad
killed 14 and injured 21 Syrians supporting Turkey, mostly
civilians.
November 1. Mujahideen groups took advantage of bad weather
which stopped Russian air strikes to capture 7 hill
positions of the
Assad regime in Lattakia province [Jabal al-Akrad and Jabal
Turkman]. Shia militias lost 23 killed while 11 of the
mujahideen were killed in the bitter hand-to hand
fighting.
SOHR reports after al-Baghdadi, IS forces are operating in
the Syian desert, attacking both SDF and Assad regime
forces. Their activities
are reported now as far north as Tal Abyad.
In Deraa province, chaos continues and people killed a
member of the militia constituted by the Russians.
Iraq
Baghdad Blocked. Iranian flag Taken Down. Huge Crowds calls
for Complete Change of Regime.
On November 3, a new outpouring of protests began in the
Shia regions of Iraq.
The capital Baghdad is closed. All the main streets have
been blocked by the protestors and they are attempting to
enter heavily
guarded Green Zone.
Security forces have been brutal in their attempts to crush
the protests. The death toll since October is now above 250
with more tan 8000
injured. Now the police seems tired of trying to stop the
protests and are just watching as the streets are blocked by
the crowds. A big banner says; STREETS CLOSED BY ORDER OF
THE PEOPLE.
Anti-Iran feelings have flared. Crowds took down the Iranian
flag from the Consulate in Karbala and replaced it with the
Iraqi flag. The pro- Iran militias have earned hatred by
shooting at the crowds.
On Juma' Ayatollah Sistani , top Shia cleric, appealed for
calm but the new outburst two days later indicated his
appeal failed.
People now want complete change: a revolution in which
Sunnis should be included.
Mali
Devastating IS attack.
November 1. In a devastating attack on a military post in
Indelimane in the Maneka region, Islamic State fighters
killed 49 regime troops and destroyed all their equipment.
On November 2, in a separate attack, in Liptako, a French
soldier was killed.
News Within the U.S.
Prison Inmates on the Front Lines Battling California
Wildfires being paid $3 a day. Risking their lives and
working alongside Firefighter making $350 a day! The State
opposes early release programs for those Inmates because the
State would lose cheap labor!
As multiple deadly wildfires in California, stoked by dry
weather and 65 MPH winds, threaten to destroy thousands of
homes across the state, 2,150 prison inmates are battling on
the front lines to tame the flames.
The prisoners earn between $2.90 and $5.12 per day, plus an
additional $1 per hour during active emergency for their
potentially life-threatening efforts. The firefighters they
work alongside earn an average of $91,000 each year before
overtime pay and bonuses.
The Conservation Camp Program, officially established in
1945, is estimated to save California taxpayers about $100
million each year. Prisoners work on hand crews,
constructing firebreaks by using tools like chainsaws and
picks. During active fires, they work for 24-hour periods
followed by 24 hours of rest.
Over the past 75 years, inmate firefighters have become so
essential to the state's ability to effectively deal with
wildfire season that in 2014, California fought court orders
to apply those 2-for-1 release credits to other
rehabilitation work programs. They argued that no one would
want to join the fire camp if they could get the same perks
doing other, low risk jobs.
"Extending 2-for-1 credits to all minimum custody inmates at
this time would severely impact fire camp
participation—a dangerous outcome while California is
in the middle of a difficult fire season and severe
drought," the Attorney General's office, then led by Senator
and 2020 candidate Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) wrote. "The
extension of 2-for-1 credits to all [minimum security
facility] inmates would likely make fire camp beds even more
difficult to fill, as low-level, non-violent inmates would
choose to participate in the [Minimum Support Facility]
program rather than endure strenuous physical activities and
risk injury in fire camps."
An affidavit from Department of Corrections official Vimal
Singh also stated that extending early release credits would
"deplete the fire population."
All inmate firefighters join camps voluntarily and they are
free to leave at any time, but asking prisoners to put their
lives at risk for reduced sentencing is sticky moral ground
said David Fathi, director of the ACLU National Prison
Project.
In Fathi's experience, the majority of prisoners he's
encountered want to work to break up the monotony of prison
life and be productive, but, "prison is a uniquely coercive
environment," he said. "There is very little in prison that
is truly voluntary. There is a power differential between
prisoners and their captors and employers that creates a
significant risk of exploitation and abuse and we need to be
alert to that."
Over the past 35 years, six incarcerated firefighters have
died as a result of injuries sustained while actively
working on containing a fire, according to Alexandra Powell,
public information officer with the California Department of
Corrections and Rehabilitation. But injuries abound.
More than 1,000 inmate firefighters were sent to the
hospital between 2013 and 2018, according to data obtained
by TIME. Incarcerated firefighters were four times more
likely to suffer from object-related injuries like cuts and
broken bones than other firefighters and eight times more
likely to suffer from smoke and particulate inhalation than
other firefighters.
There is no available data on whether prisoners suffer from
smoke-inhalation related heart disease and cancers at
elevated rates as other firefighters do in the years after
their service, but unlike their unincarcerated coworkers,
inmate firefighters do not receive extended health benefits
or pensions upon retirement.
Powell says that during large scale wildfires there is a
medical emergency response team waiting at base camp to
provide assistance and that all prisoners are trained in
basic first aid. Prisoners are also entitled to certain
workers' compensation benefits for injuries sustained during
work.
"Prisoners are largely unprotected by the occupational
health and safety laws that protect all other workers from
dangerous working conditions," said Fathi. "They're not
covered by OSHA, they can't unionize to bargain for safer
working conditions. When you put all of those together it
makes prisoners a uniquely vulnerable workforce compared to
everyone else who fights fires or does any other work in
this society."
The prisoners who work at fire camps often find that they're
unable to put their skills to use when they're released. The
majority of firefighting jobs in the U.S., and most of the
900 fire departments in California, require employees to
obtain an Emergency Medical Technician or paramedic license.
In California, the majority of convicted felons can't obtain
those licenses until they've been out of prison for 10
years.
The high risks of the job combined with a lack of actual
career opportunities at the end of prisoners' sentences have
led to a steady decline in fire camp volunteers. An internal
CALFire and California Department of Corrections memo
obtained by Earther shows that the number of prisoners
working in camps have declined by at least 1,000 people over
the past 12 years and that camps are not operating near full
capacity.
There have been recent efforts to make up for the lack of
job opportunities. The California Department of Corrections
has recently partnered with a firefighter certification and
training program in Ventura County to create an 18-month
program that provides advanced training to former convicts.
The $26.6 million program will train 80 parolees, but does
not grant them an EMT license. Still, two participants have
been offered employment with CAL Fire, said Powell. Another
found work with an environmental clean-up agency.
California Assemblymember Eloise Reyes is attempting to
change the rules so that prisoners' fire careers don't end
upon release. She's introduced a bill that would allow
former convicts to join the California Firefighter Joint
Apprenticeship program. The legislation is currently pending
but could come to a vote as early as January.
"Reyes believes that a criminal conviction should not be a
life sentence, but rather that folks that have made
mistakes, and demonstrated commitment and effort to
rehabilitation should have the same opportunities as
everyone else," said an official who works for Reyes.
But similar bills have been shot down in years prior, and
the California Professional Firefighters, a powerful union
with a membership of more than 30,000, has spoken out
against the plan.
Source: FortuneMagazine
CHINA: Over 1 million in concentration camps
The full extent of Beijing's evil is finally coming into
view. As the world watches the ongoing democratic uprising
in Hong Kong, it is impossible to ignore the greater
backdrop of oppression and egregious human rights abuses
across China: more than 1 million religious minorities now
in Xinjiang's modern-day concentration camps, vast efforts
at cultural reprogramming, and regular physical torture.
Sayragul Sauytbay, a Chinese Muslim of Kazakh descent,
described being separated from her family and kept in
Xinjiang under heinous conditions, where prisoners were
routinely punished for observing their faith and having
insufficient knowledge about Chinese culture or
language.
Over the last several months, the steady trickle of
horrifying stories has provided a fuller picture of the
kinds of evils regularly occurring within these camps. We
have now heard credible accounts of relentless brainwashing,
systematic sexual abuse and extensive physical punishments,
like fingernails ripped out and forced abortions.
These are some of the darkest stories ever told, yet they
are critical to air to the world. Now, we hear them with
terrible frequency. In Congress, Nury Turkel, chair of the
board for the Uyghur Human Rights Project, recently provided
testimony, explaining that speaking "may cost the lives of
[his] parents, but ... it's the right thing to do".
However, we must recognize that this evil is not exclusive
to Xinjiang or even to the nation's Muslims, but one more
consistent with the Chinese Communist party's greater
philosophy. Any religion or ideology that recognizes a
higher power than the party is a threat that must be brought
to heel or eliminated. Political and cultural conformity
must be enforced at all costs.
We see this in Xinjiang. We increasingly see it among the
Hui, a separate population of Chinese Muslims with no
history of radicalization, who are now regularly surveilled
and repressed, and whose mosques are being stripped of their
distinctive domes. We have seen it in China's numerous
Christian communities, where intense persecution has forced
millions to practice their religion underground.
The end goal is sinicization: the forced transformation of
religious and ethnic minorities into narrow, party-approved
cultural, ideological and ethnic norms. In its worst forms,
it's a eugenic project, which explains why the government
pressures Uyghur women to have fewer children and marry
outside their ethnicity.
Most of the work to shine light on the atrocities that
sinicization requires has occurred outside of the organs of
American government so far. For that, we owe a debt of
gratitude to individual dissidents who have escaped,
diasporic minority communities, international watchdog
organizations and individual researchers and
journalists.
But more action is required on the part of the US
government. My Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2019 -
which would direct our government to collect and publicize
information about China's abuses in Xinjiang as well as
Chinese intimidation of US citizens and legal permanent
residents (LPRs) - has already passed unanimously in the
Senate. The legislation urges the application of Global
Magnitsky and other sanctions, a review of export controls,
and the establishment of a voluntary database that American
citizens and LPRs could use to provide information on
missing family members.
The bill now awaits final passage in the House. It would
represent an important first step at striking back against
this tremendous injustice.
The international community cannot turn a blind eye to what
is unfolding in Xinjiang, Tibet, Ningxia and throughout the
rest of China. The Chinese Communist party's ideological
commitment to totalitarianism has become mobilized into
regular, brutal action, intended to forcibly assimilate
anyone who dares question the Communist party's political
and cultural control. Lawmakers in free capitals around the
world must step up and counter this evil.
Source: theGuardian
Guidance by Sis. Yasmin.
'Assalaamu 'Alaykum wa Rahmatullaahi wa Barakaatuhu'.
And We had certainly given Luqman wisdom [and said], 'Be
grateful to
Allah , and whoever is grateful is grateful for [the benefit
of] himself.
And whoever denies [His favor] - then indeed, Allah is Free
of
need and Praiseworthy.
Source~ 'Qur'an'~ Surat Luqmān # 31A #12}.
"And indeed We bestowed upon Luqman Al- Hikmah
(wisdom),"
Luqman ~{Allah be pleased with him } on the need to have a
pleasing
Tongue and a sound Heart !
Yazid Ibn Hamn and Waki' told us after Abul AShhab after
Khalid Ar-Rab'i
(Allah be pleased with them ) as saying...
" Luqman al-Hakeem~ {Allah be pleased with him } was an
Ethiopian
slave who worked as a Carpenter...
One day, his master ordered him to slaughter a Goat and
bring him the
Two [2] most pleasant and delicious parts thereof...!
Luqman {Allah be pleased with him} did so and brought
him
The Tongue and Heart {!}
The master asked: 'Did not you find anything more pleasant
than these?
Luqman {Allah be pleased with him } answered: 'No' !
After a while, the master ordered him to slaughter a goat
and to throw
away the Two [2] most Malignant parts thereof {!}
Luqman al-Hakeem {Allah be pleased with him} slaughtered the
goat and
threw away the Tongue and Heart {!}
The master exclaimed saying ... I ordered you to bring me
the most
delicious parts thereof and you brought me the Tongue &
Heart...
and I ordered you to throw away the most malignant parts
thereof and you
threw away the Tongue & Heart {!} how can this be?
Luqman al-Hakeem {Allah be pleased with him} answered...
'Nothing can be more pleasing than these if they are good,
and nothing
can be more Malicious than these if they are
Malignant...{!}"
# 2 Luqman al-Hakeem~{Allah be pleased with him} on...
"Speech is Silver and Silence is Golden"
Luqman {Allah be pleased with him} said to his son...
"O my son , I have never regretted because of keeping
silent.
If words are Silver ! Silence is Golden !"
