"I can't Breathe."
America Can't Heal Itself.
Why are Muslims subservient and silent when this society
urgently needs Islam?
On May 29, Br. Kaukab Siddique gave the juma Khutba at
Masjid Jamaat al-Muslimeen. Owing to government regulations
on gatherings due to Covid, the numbers of worshippers was
limited but more than last time. Security was tight. Two new
brothers were inducted into the masjid Shoora committee
The following is the outline of the khutba for online
distribution inshaAllah.
Text:
Abu Saeed al-Khudri (r.a) said: I heard the Messenger of
Allah say, "Whoever of you sees an evil must change it with
his hand. If he is not able to do so, then [he must change
it ] with his tongue. And if he is not able to do so, then
[he must change it] with his heart. And that is the
slightest faith." (Sahih Muslim)
America has a horrific 400 year history of slavery and
the genocide of Native American tribes.
Formal aspects of slavery ended with the civil war during
which thousands of White people killed each other.
Slavery was subsumed into segregation. Lynchings
continued into the 20th centory.
The good people in America, such as Dr. King ameliorated
the left overs of slavery. Some good laws were enacted but
the racial mindset continued.
Police atrocities particularly against Black people have
become commonplace. However technology, such as the presence
of video cameras made America at large aware of the gross
injustices against Black people and sometimes against all
people of color and poor people.
Videotapes of police atrocities brought some awareness of
injustice to many Americans. However the atrocities
continuef and added to the sense of injustice.
The murder of George Floyd by a police officer in broad
daylight with a clear videotape followed by the usual
attempt to evade the issue led to the uprising in
Minneapolice. People in America are often arrested on
suspicion but the police officer was not arrested even wiith
a clear video tape .
Only when people come out on the streets is justice
approached or at least pretended.
Part 2.
Islam obligates us to support the downtrodden and the
oppressed. The Muslims should support the Black community
against oppression.
However Muslims in America are usually more obedient to
the government than to Allah. Notice how quickly almost
all mosques closed down at the first order from the regime
about covid-19, even before any enforcement by the regime.
No one has the right to close down a masjid. It is
haram. Only the enemies of Islam and ignorant followers
close down masjids.
Of course this does mnot mean that we ignore the dangers
of infection. Washing hands, masking, social distancing
during a
plague are all fine. If you or members of your family are
unwell, don't come to the masjid. The Prophet, pbuh, was
even against coming to the masjid after eating smelly
food.
Why are Muslims so subservient to the power structure.
This came about owing to the emergence of brutal kingship,
the Ummayads and the Abbasides and many others, who would
not allow any criticism of the kings and their families.
Thus you find the emergence of FIQH. Instead of teaching
directly from the Qur'an and authentic hadith, the scholars
indulged in sophistry and minor issues. For example, what is
exactly the right way to do wudu, or should you fold your
hands on your waist or on your chest.
As Maulana Maudoodi pointed out, the "great" scholars
wrote "marginal notes" and commentaries on the Qur'an and
hadith and others wrote commentaries on their commentaries.
Thus the Schools of Thought and the sects have their own
books but they dared not touch the real issues such as: Is
kingship allowed in Islam? Is slavery allowed in Islam?
[They accepted both!]
The really great ones, like Imam Abu Hanifa, Imam
Bukhari, Imam Malik, Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal, either defied
the rulers or migrated. They suffered greatly but did not
cooperate with the oppressors.
Today we see Muslims competing to make kuffar their
elected leaders. We see Muslim "leaders" silent about
Israel, silent about the the invasions and bombings of
Muslim countries, th imposition of dictators and tyrants on
our people, silent even about strategic attacks on the
Islamic way of life through homosexuality and lgbtq.
The return to Qur'an and authentic hadith is taking
place slowly but steadily through the defeat first of the
Soviet Union and now the steady withdrawal of America from
our lands.
The Black community, the Hispanic communities, the women
of America of all colors should be assured that we are with
them in their suffering.
Belief in the One God, Allah, the Way of the messengers
finalized by Muhammad, pbuh, the certainty of the Hereafter
and Judgement is the way to te emergence of a new world
filled with justice, where, as Abu Bakr, r.a., said, the
strong are weak for us until we take from them the rights of
the people.
PAKISTAN
JI voice
Locusts in the Fields, Corruption
in the Government.
by Qaiser Sharif
LAHORE, May 29; Ameer, Jamaat e Islami, Pakistan, Senator
Sirajul Haq, has said that if the affluent people wanted to
protect their wealth, they would have to give the poor the
right to live.
He said that a system in which poor were crushed
economically and the wealth of the rich multiplied within
days, was not acceptable at all. He was talking to JI Kisan
leader Arsalan Khan Khakwani, who called on him at
Mansoora.
Stating that Islam did not allow concentration of wealth in
a few hands, Sirajul Haq said that Pakistan's real issue was
not the dearth of resources. Instead, it was the inequitable
distribution of resources besides the concentration of
wealth in a few hands.
Islam, he said, enjoined the circulation of wealth. However,
he said, that the people who remained in power in the
country, had been increasing their wealth through unfair use
of their political and official influence.
He said the government did not have any mechanism to recover
the plundered wealth because if the plunderers were still
sitting in the government, who would take them to
accountability. Sirajul Haq said the JI wanted across the
board accountability and an interest free economic system in
which the poor and the rich were provided equal
opportunities to earn.
He said that till the time the workers were made partners in
the profits of profit earning institutions/ factories and
the farmers were made partners in the farm produce, the
plight of the workers and the farmers would not improve. He
said that revolutionary measures were required to end the
economic exploitation of the poor and added that the primary
step in this direction was the elimination of interest based
economy in line with the constitution of the country and the
introduction of the system of Zakat and Ushr.
Continuing, Sirajuil Haq said that locusts had destroyed
crops over vast areas but the government was not taking the
matter seriously. He counseled the masses to be determined
to save the crops from locusts and their future generations
from corruption mafia. He said the locusts have eaten away
crops while the corrupt rulers have destroyed nation's
generations. The locusts swallow the crops while corrupt
rulers swallow public exchequer, he remarked. The damage
expected from the locusts was around one hundred billion
whereas the rulers have eaten away trillions of the public
money. He called upon the government to pay due compensation
to the agriculturists for the loss of crop and orchards due
to locust attack.
The JI Chief expressed deep grief over the martyrdom of Dr
Sana ullah of Lahore and senior Peshawar journalist and News
Director of a private TV channel Fakhrud Din Syed from
corona. He deplored that although a large number of doctors
and paramedics had died of corona, the government had not
taken sufficient safety measures for them
War News
Libya
Russian jets in Libya: Why Haftar's MiGs will 'change
nothing' on the ground. A fleet of Russian-made fighter
jets which have arrived in Libya in support of Khalifa
Haftar's Libyan National Army forces are militarily
"useless" and will "change nothing" on the ground, says
aviation analysts. Instead, the planes, which are probably
piloted by mercenaries, have likely been deployed with
Moscow's approval in order to deter further Turkish-backed
attacks on LNA forces. Full story
MiddleEastEye.net/news/russian-jets-libya-why-haftars-migs-wont-tip-balance-battle-tripoli
Tripoli government says 30 migrants slain in revenge attack
Family of smuggler killed by migrants said to slay 26
Bangladeshis and four Africans in retaliation. The smuggler
was slain earlier by what the ministry referred to as
"clandestine migrants". The retaliation killings happened
in the town of Mezdah, about 150km (95 miles) south of
Libya's capital Tripoli. Full story
MiddleEastEye.net/news/30-migrants-killed-revenge-attack-libyas-tripoli-government-says
Muslim communities practice natural burial as a "basic
religious obligation " according to Coutts and his fellow
authors.
Omar bin Abdul Aziz was considered most pious Khalifa after
rashedoun. These mouseleum were originally simple graves as
per shariah but later expanded into elaborate structure
probably by Ottomans who patronized Sufis who venerate
graves. If the graves are built simple per shariah they
won't be any room for desecration. Millions of Americans are
opting for green funerals w no casket, no structure not even
tombstone to make it economic n eco friendly.
Saudi crown prince defends China's right to put Uighur
Muslims in concentration camps.
Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia''s crown prince, on Friday
defended China's use of concentration camps for Muslims,
saying it was Beijing's "right".
"China has the right to carry out anti-terrorism and
de-extremisation work for its national security," Prince
Mohammed, who has been in China signing multi-million trade
deals much to the annoyance of his Western allies, was
quoted as saying on Chinese state television.
Xi Jinping, China's leader, told the crown prince the two
countries must strengthen international cooperation on
de-radicalisation to "prevent the infiltration and spread of
extremist thinking".
China has detained an estimated one million Uighur Muslims
in concentration camps, where they are undergoing
re-education programmes allegedly intended to combat
extremism.
The Uighur are an ethnic Turkic group that practices Islam
and lives in Western China and parts of Central Asia.
Beijing has accused the minority in its Western Xinjiang
region of supporting terrorism and implemented a
surveillance regime.
Uighur groups had appealed to Saudi's powerful young prince
to take up their cause, as the ultraconservative kingdom has
traditionally been a defender of the rights of Muslims
worldwide.
But Muslim leaders have so far not broached the issue with
China, which has in recent years become an important trading
partner with the Middle East.
Hami Aksoy, a spokesperson for Turkey's Foreign Office,
however described China's treatment of its Uighur population
as "a great cause of shame for humanity" last month and
asked it to close the "concentration camps".
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had once accused China of
"genocide" but has since established closer diplomatic and
economic relations with Beijing.
Imran Khan, prime minister of Pakistan, where Prince Salman
has just visited, said he "did not know" much about the
conditions of the Uighurs.
source: telegraph
News Within the U.S.
Police kill unarmed black man (again). Protests take place
all across America.
Before George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police
officer, he was suffering the same fate as millions of
Americans during the coronavirus pandemic: out of work and
looking for a new job.
Floyd moved to Minneapolis from his native Houston several
years ago in hopes of starting a new life. He was doing well
until he lost his job at a restaurant after the stay-at-home
orders were issued due to Covid-19.
Last Monday, an employee at a Minneapolis grocery store
called police after Floyd allegedly tried to pay with a
counterfeit $20 bill. A video of his subsequent arrest went
viral on social media and has since been broadcast on all
major news networks. Protests have been happening since,
and by the weekend there were protests organized all across
the country in cities big and small.
The video shows Floyd, who is black, on the ground with his
hands cuffed behind his back while Officer Derek Chauvin
pins him to the pavement with his knee on Floyd's neck.
Chauvin, who is white, holds Floyd down for 7-8 minutes as
Floyd complains he can't breathe, begging for his life. The
video ends with paramedics lifting a limp Floyd onto a
stretcher and placing him in an ambulance.
"When you try so hard to put faith in this system, a system
that you know isn't designed for you, when you constantly
seek justice by lawful means and you can't get it, you begin
to take the law into your own hands." -Christopher
Harris, friend of George Floyd
Chicago, Illinois
Intense protests escalated with thousands of demonstrators
marching, burning, climbing onto city buses and light poles,
hurling bottles, overturning police cars and surrounding
officers on foot prompted Chicago Mayor to impose a curfew
on the city: from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m.
The mayor said she had seen protesters use pipes, bats,
hammers and other objects to damage property. "I've seen
protesters hurl projectiles at our police department ...
bottles of water, urine and Lord knows what else,'' she
said.
"People are destroying property, meting out violence in the
memory of a man who was unjustly killed, murdered by police
officers." And "at least one officer had broken bones and
many more were injured", said Chicago police Superintendent
David Brown.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Philadelphia mayor has set a mandatory curfew after
protestors damaged property, started fires, and looted
businesses Saturday. There have been "heated" interactions
between protesters and police and multiple vehicles and
stores were set on fire. An overturned police car burned
outside Philadelphia's City Hall.
Los Angeles, California
Protesters block the freeway, burn police cars, topple cars,
loot stores, throw bricks and highway cones at police. At
one point, the protestors were circled by police officers
and police cruisers and had helicopters circling overhead,
and despite being surrounded by police and the cameras from
news networks rolling, the protesters used an aerosol spray
to burn an upside-down American flag and painted anti-police
graffiti on the Police Headquarters.
Police used batons to move protesters back and shot rubber
bullets to scatter the crowd.
This picture shows protestors in Los Angeles standing on top
of a burned police car.
Baltimore, Maryland
another unarmed black man murdered by police, brought
protestors chanting, holding signs, and marching through the
streets of Baltimore. Protesters threw water bottles,
vandalized a police van, flung a shopping cart over the
metal barrier and toward the officers who were in riot gear.
The officers remained in place.
The Impotence of Black Politicians
by Sis. Aisha [Jamaat al-Muslimeen.]
New York City - During this stressful time when Americans
are supposed to be "uniting," Black people have become the
favorite target of the police. But, I knew that would happen
before wearing masks became law. Some people have always
questioned the government's measures for "containing" the
coronavirus. We questioned the effectiveness of such
measures but, most importantly: It's intent!
We've seen an unmasked Black man getting dragged off of a
bus by police. Recently, in New York City, a young mother
was tackled by police, in front of her young daughter,
simply for trying to enter the subway system without
covering her face. There have been a series of reports
accusing police officers of targeting people of
African-descent for "violating" Social Distancing Laws.
And now, yet, another sadistic police officer has been
filmed murdering a detained human being of African-descent,
in Minnesota.
Where are all the Black politicians in this?
They are the same place they were when Black children were
being murdered, one by one, in Atlanta, Georgia. The same
place they were during the 1980's Crack Cocaine Epidemic.
The same place they were when Pres. Bush II sicced the
National Guard on mostly helpless Blacks trying to escape
the New Orleans floods. The same place they have always been
when an unarmed Black person is murdered by criminal
cops...... Hidden in plain sight!
They sat right there on the perch, that Black voters put
them on, and looked down their noses at these voters and
dared not move a muscle to speak out or take any action to
help those in need.
Anytime there is an open forum on Black issues these Black
politicians steer the session away from problem solving to
that of merely venting about the problems they were put in
office to solve. It is not their goal to bring solutions.
They are nothing more than black faces in high places, as
former WWRL radio show host Bob Law used to say.
Many Black leaders, including some Imams, stress the
importance of voting saying it empowers the community.
During their political campaigns, these Black politicians
develop a messiah-complex until they get in office.
The disenfranchised, marginalized Black voter unfairly puts
a lot of power in the hands of politicians to deliver him
from this evil oppression but, that's because he has been
misled into believing in the power of his vote!
Although I do not participate in this kuffar voting system,
I always contact my local representatives about issues that
need to be addressed. For those Muslims who are inclined to
submit to the kuffar's way of a life instead of submitting
to Allah's Will read Chapters 11 and 49 of the Qur'an.
Many of these Muslims and other Americans have said that if
you don't vote,you don't have a right to complain. Here are
two reasons why this claim is false and ridiculous:
- Anytime someone or a group makes decisions that affect
people then the people need to have input in the decision
making. How could living in any community be any other
way?
- Our taxes pay these politicians salaries.
We MUST always have input in the government's decisions.
Years ago, Dr. Khalid Muhammad questioned the destruction of
a corrupt system as a solution. He said that the system is
like a spider web. If you destroy the web, the spider will
just come back and rebuild it so, you have to destroy the
spider, not just the web.
The forming your own political party (Freedom and Green
Parity) will not do much to empower voters since the entire
political system is controlled by corrupt people. In the
2016 Presidential Campaign, and probably 2020's, Bernie
Sanders was prevented from participating in any televised
debates.
How much progress can anyone, using shai'tan's weapons,
expect to make in a battle against him?
Black politicians and voters serve as examples of what
happens to a group of people when they become inclined to
work with the oppressor in the slightest way. Again, Allah
forbids this and encourages us to depend only on Him for
guidance. The Black voter has been tricked into giving his
power away to politicians who are loyal to money not
votes.
Black Voters have become steppingstones for someone else's
gain. Now, they have become weakened spiritually and
hopeless. And, without guidance from the Qur'an they won't
understand why.
Hadith of the Week
Narrated by Anas, r.a.:
Allah's Apostle said,
"Help your brother, whether he is an oppressor or he is an
oppressed one. People asked,
"O Allah's Apostle!
It is all right to help him if he is oppressed, but how
should we help him if he is an oppressor?"
The Prophet said,
"By preventing him from oppressing others."
the May 24 issue of New Trend reached
237,505 people on Facebook.
It included articles on:
Dr. Siddique's conference with Libyan group on May 20.
A report on boycotting Chinese goods produced by enslaved
Muslims.
Covid-19 and global health.
Ramadan and Eid in Gaza
Bangladesh Jamaat e-Islami.
Political Prisoners: Free them all.
Hadith
Strange stabbing group in Canada.
Who attacked the church?
According to SOHR,
Abu Hamza al-Qurayshi, the new leader of ISIS, has issued a
shocking audio statement in which he claims the new leader
of the Iraqi regime is a U.S. agent. He also condemns the
Saudi government for stopping pilgrims from coming to Mecca
for Umrah.
On May 27, an ISIS attack on Assad regime forces in northern
Syria killed 8 soldiers. ISIS withdrew when Russian
airstrikes followed.
On May 28, three members of the SDF supported by the U.S.
were found stabbed to death near the Iraqi border where ISIS
sleeper cells are active.
Finally, again according to SOHR, a group of 50 ISIS
fighters have left for Libya to fight General Hiftar's
forces.
Turkey
Turkey's government is set to celebrate the 567th
anniversary of the Ottoman conquest of Istanbul with an
Islamic prayer at the city's contested Hagia Sophia
building.
Hagia Sophia, a Unesco world heritage site, was originally
built as a Greek Orthodox church. It was converted into a
mosque after the conquest of Istanbul by Mehmet the
Conquerer in 1453, celebrated on 29 May every year.
In 1935, it was converted into a museum by Mustafa Kemal
Ataturk, as part of his secularist reforms.
Religious conservatives have long called for the conversion
of the building back into a mosque, a move increasingly
hinted at by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in
recent years.
"Al-Fath surah will be recited and prayers will be done at
Hagia Sophia as part of conquest festival," Erdogan said on
Thursday night during a televised broadcast.
The announcement dominated Turkish Twitter, alongside
discussion about 1453 more broadly, with the issue
continuing to prove popular among his base.
Erdogan has in the past rejected calls to convert the museum
into a mosque, but since 2016 he has endorsed symbolic steps
to reintroduce Islamic practices into the building.
Israel Prevents Restoration of Hebron's Historic Ibrahimi Mosque
Israeli forces prevented the Hebron Rehabilitation Committee
(HRC) from carrying out restoration works in the Ibrahimi
Mosque in the occupied city of Hebron (Al-Khalil).
Israeli forces on Thursday prevented HRC employees from
continuing with the restoration work in the mosque,
according to the director of the mosque, Sheikh Hafthi Abu
Sneineh.
Abu Sneineh also explained that the Israeli authorities
tried to take control over the holy site, also known as Cave
of the Patriarchs.
The Ibrahimi Mosque was closed from early March whilst the
occupied West Bank was dealing with coronavirus and was
opened on Tuesday.
On May 26, the Israeli army closed all military checkpoints
and electronic gates leading to the Ibrahimi Mosque and
prevented residents from crossing to reach the mosque for
prayer.
The Ibrahimi Mosque, believed to be the burial place of the
Prophet Abraham, is sacred to both Muslims and Jews and has
been the site of oft-violent tensions for decades.
The Mosque is located in the Israeli-controlled section of
Hebron, known as H2. It has been divided between Muslims and
Jews following the massacre carried out on February 25,
1994, by Israeli-American settler Baruch Goldstein, who
opened fire at a large number of Palestinian worshippers as
they were performing the dawn prayers on a Ramadan day.
Guidance
by Sis. Yasmin.
*MEN WHO BELIEVED IN ALLAH & ACKNOWLEDGED THE TRUTHFULNESS
OF MESSENGERS*
Abu Sa'id Al-Khudri (May Allah be pleased with him)
said...
Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him) said... 'The dwellers of
'Jannah' will look at those in the upper abodes above them
as you look at a shining star which remains in the eastern
or western
horizon, such will be the difference in superiority which
some of them have over others'
PROPHET (PBUH) was asked:' Will those be the dwellings of
the Prophets which no one else will be able to reach' ?
The Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him) replied...'Yes, but by Him
in whose hand my soul is ... men who believed in Allah and
acknowledged the truthfulness of the Messengers will reach
them.'
[Source: Al-Bukhari and Muslim] Book # 20 Hadith # 1887]
Abu Hurairah (May Allah be pleased with him) said:
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said...'A space in
'Jannah' equal to the distance between the middle and the
end of a bow will be better than all that upon which the sun
rises and sets.'
[Source~ Al-Bukhari and Muslim-Book 20, Hadith # 1888 ]
A Little Note...
In 'Jannah', people will have different grades according to
the strength of their Belief and love of Allah {Azza Wa
Jall}.
Some people will be on a position near that of the
Prophets.
May Allah [Azza wa Jall] grant us such lofty places.Allah
Humma Ameen.
