Unfortunately many Muslims disregard the clear teachings of
the Prophet Muhammad, pbuh, about Ramadan although there can
be no Islam without the teachings of the Prophet, pbuh:
Many Muslims have handed over their faith to experts and
specialists and mullahs.
Most people want someone to tell them although Islam is
meant for every Muslims.
Is it a surprise that Muslims are are by and large ruled by
dictators and kings or are waiting for the emergence of a
Mahdi or even the descent of Jesus, pbuh.
كتاب
الصيام13 The Book of
Fasting (5)Chapter: Each land has its own sighting of the
moon, and if they see the crescent in one land, that does
not necessarily apply to regions that are far away from it
(5) باب
بَيَانِ
أَنَّ
لِكُلِّ
بَلَدٍ
رُؤْيَتَ§ُمْ
وَأَنَّه¥مْ إِذَا
رَأَوْا
الْهِلَا¤َ
بِبَلَدٍ
لَا
يَثْبُتُ
حُكْمُهُ
لِمَا
بَعُدَ
عَنْهُمْ
Kuraib reported that Umm Fadl, daughter of Harith, sent him
(Fadl, i.e. her son) to Mu'awiya in Syria. I (Fadl) arrived
in Syria, and did the needful for her. It was there in Syria
that the month of Ramadan commenced. I saw the new moon (of
Ramadan) on Friday. I then came back to Medina at the end of
the month. Abdullah b. 'Abbas (Allah be pleased with him)
asked me (about the new moon of Ramadan) and said:
When did you see it? I said: We saw it on the night of
Friday. He said: (Did) you see it yourself? I said: Yes, and
the people also saw it and they fasted and Mu'awiya also
fasted, whereupon he said: But we saw it on Saturday night.
So we will continue to fast till we complete thirty (fasts)
or we see it (the new moon of Shawwal). I said: Is the
sighting of the moon by Mu'awiya not valid for you? He said:
No; this is how the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) has
commanded us. Yahya b. Yahya was in doubt (whether the word
used in the narration by Kuraib) was Naktafi or Taktafi.
{Sahih Muslim]
Pakistan
The Pakistani national assembly has been dissolved.
Prime Minister Imran Khan came near to losing a vote in the
assembly.
The commander of the army Bajwa is supporting the western
alliance and urging support for the suffering people of
Afghanistan.
Imran Khan is openly opposing America and claiming Amerrican
interference in his government.
With the army now agsinst him, Imran is facing a difficvult
situation but he has lots of support in sections of the
pubic.
War News
Ukraine
Russians killed hundreds of civilians in the towns around
Kiev. After heavy fighting, Russia has retreated. and is
focusing on southern and eastern areas.
The massacres of civilians amount to crimes against
humanity.
It appears that the Kiev regime had been armed and trained
by the western powers for 8 years. Heavy losses were
inflicted on Russia including 5 generals killed and scores
of tanks destroyed.
April 2-3.
Syria
A tank column of the Assad regime stormed into Taftanaz
town, eastern Irbid, burning houses and killing scores of
civilians. {SOHR report]
In Tal Tamr area, Turkish artillery put out an electricity
service station near a Russian base. {Hasakeh province].
Turkish artillery also carried out random sheling of 17
villages. No casualties.
In an ISIS raid in Homs province, near al-Sokhnah, 2 Iranian
militia were killed and 8 injured.
In Deraa province, a dissident in Assad prison for 4 years,
died under torture in Saidaniyah prison.
Also, in Deraa, gunmen shot and killed an affiliate of
Assad's air force intelligencer,
Russia carried out 30 air strikes on ISIS kin the Sokhna and
Palmyra deserts.
News Within the U.S.
Two Amazing Black Women Ripped up Ketanji Brown Jackson
female candidate for Supreme Court.
They call themselves Diamond & Silk and appeared on Newsmax
for an hour.
At first one might think they are from the ghetto.
They are eloquent and scholarly and they tore apart the
candidacy of Jackson.
Here are the main points they made:
Jackson is soft on crimes against children.
She is so deeply mired in the "liberal" transgender culture that she could not explain what is a woman.
What is transgender and lgbtq?
The police unions are supporting Jackson. Why?
The role of Biden.
It is unwise to think that all Black people support Biden.
Native American tribe gets its land back after being displaced nearly 400 years ago
The Rappahannock Tribe, a Native Tribe in Virginia, has
reacquired 465 acres of sacred land at Fones Cliff.
Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and US Fish and
Wildlife Service Director Martha Williams celebrated the
tribe's reacquisiton of the land Friday, according to a
press release from the Department of the Interior.
"We have worked for many years to restore this sacred place
to the Tribe," said Rappahannock Tribe Chief Anne
Richardson, according to the Chesapeake Conservancy. "With
eagles being prayer messengers, this area where they gather
has always been a place of natural, cultural and spiritual
importance."
"The Department is honored to join the Rappahannock Tribe in
co-stewardship of this portion of their ancestral homeland.
We look forward to drawing upon Tribal expertise and
Indigenous knowledge in helping manage the area's wildlife
and habitat," Secretary Haaland said in the statement. "This
historic reacquisition underscores how Tribes, private
landowners, and other stakeholders all play a central role
in this Administration's work to ensure our conservation
efforts are locally led and support communities' health and
well-being."
The cliffs play a central part in the history of the tribe.
In 1608, the tribe first encountered and defended their
homeland against English settler Captain John Smith, who
played an important role in the first permanent English
settlement in America at Jamestown, Virginia. In the 1660s,
the tribe began to be forcefully displaced from their
homeland on the Rappahannock River by the English, according
to the Chesapeake Conservancy.
The tribe's reacquisition of its land was made possible by
the family of William Dodge Angle, who provided the funds
necessary for the Chesapeake Conservancy to purchase the 465
acres and donate the fee title to the Rappahannock Tribe.
Additional funding also came from a grant from the National
Fish and Wildlife Foundation through Walmart's Acres for
America Program, according to the conservancy.
The acquisition follows a growing movement of Indigenous
people fighting to reclaim their land.
In 2019, the Wiyot tribe successfully reclaimed their
ancestral homeland of Duluwat Island on the northern coast
of California after over a century of displacement. And
earlier this year, more than 500 acres of California forests
were returned to a group of Native American tribes.
Source: CNN
A Blogger's Post
The writer, Ken Meyercord, publishes his blog, "Ken's Blog",
which he describes as " Iconoclastic views on controversial
topics."
The Hilarious Holocaust
by Ken Meyercord
Depressed by the at-least-once-a-week article in The
Washington Post linking the ongoing tragedy in the Ukraine
to the Holocaust, I've tried to lift my spirit by looking on
the lighter side of that earlier horror (Believe it or not,
there is a lighter side!); for instance:
The Fake Gas Chamber at Dachau : At the Dachau concentration
camp in Germany is a room with a low, 7-foot ceiling in
which fake, sheet metal showerheads are embedded. Tourists
are informed that the room was a gas chamber. Problem is two
days after Dachau's liberation a congressional delegation
visited Dachau and they described the room as having a
10-foot-high ceiling from which real, brass showerheads
hung. The congressmen were so preconditioned to expect to
find a gas chamber they speculated on how the poison gas was
introduce into the room through the plumbing, instead of
recognizing the room for what it was: a shower room.
While identifying the room as a gas chamber, tour guides
explain that it was never used; but this is disputed by a
man who claimed to have been an inmate at Dachau, Martin
Zaidenstadt, who pedaled his memoir in which he describes
witnessing gassings to gullible tourists outside the main
gate of the camp for years.
The Barber of Treblinka : As with most who claim to be
eyewitnesses to gassings, it's hard to tell whether
Zaidenstadt is lying or just delusional. Take Abraham Bomba,
a barber who says he and other barbers gave a "nice haircut"
to women inmates at Treblinka—in the very chamber in
which the women were soon to be gassed. Some of the women
were relatives of the barbers, yet they gave their kin no
inkling of what awaited them. You might think I'm setting up
a straw man easily ridiculed, but Bomba is featured on the
website of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum!
Gassing Vans : At one time the Simon Wiesenthal Museum of
Tolerance featured a short, documentary-like film which
showed children being herded into the back of a van by
grim-faced Nazis, who attached a hose from the truck's
exhaust to the inside of the enclosed van to asphyxiate the
poor kids. A revisionist named David Cole knew the scene was
fake and, after diligent research, found the obscure,
fictional Polish movie from which the footage had been
kyped. He informed the film's producer about the museum
airing the scene non-stop and expressed his hope the
producer was receiving royalties. He wasn't. One can only
imagine the lively conversation between the irate producer
and Mr. Wiesenthal which ensued! (Gassing vans figure
prominently in the Holocaust tale, but an actual such van
has never been found.)
Bogus Autobiographies: Holocaust autobiographies are ever
popular (Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban once quipped,
"There's no business like Shoah business" [Shoah being
another term for the Holocaust]). Many of the books which
made the best-seller list under the Nonfiction category,
however, subsequently had to be reclassified as Fiction.
Here are a few: The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosiński, a
book lauded by that Hypester of Holocaust Horrors, Elie
Wiesel, in which Kosiński, who would go on to become a
two-time president of PEN America, claims that, as a boy, he
spent the war years wandering Europe alone and frightened,
while, in fact, he was sheltered by a Catholic family in
Switzerland throughout the war; Misha by Misha Defonseca,
the Romanesque fable of a little girl who fled into the
woods to escape the Nazis and was raised by wolves, a book
which was translated into 18 languages and made into a movie
before Defonseca was exposed as a fraud; Angel at the Fence
by Herman Rosenblat, a concentration camp romance hailed by
Oprah Winfrey as "the single greatest love story" ever told
on her TV show; subsequently, when confronted about
impossibilities in his account, the author recanted.
March of the Living Dead : A group called 'March of the
Living', which takes young Jews on tours of the
concentration camps, scaring the bejeezus out of them and
instilling in them a hatred of Gentiles and a thirst for
revenge, used this photo of smoldering bodies being
cremated in the street in its promotional materials:
Apparently, they assumed any World War II-era pile of
corpses must be Jews. In fact, those are German dead, killed
in the Allies' firebombing of Dresden. A cautionary tale
when it comes to understanding just what such gruesome
photos portray; for instance, this photo:
At first glance this might be taken to be a photo of a mass
grave with Germans admiring their handiwork. It is a mass
grave—of Poles in the Katyn Forest—but they were
killed by the Soviets when they invaded Poland in 1940, not
the Germans (after decades of claiming the Germans were
responsible, the Russians admitted they did it after the
fall of the Soviet Union in 1990).
Holocaust Denial Laws : Some 17 countries in Europe have
made it a crime to deny or trivialize the official Holocaust
narrative, and those who violate the law face serious prison
time. David Cole, the gassing van debunker, quips, "The
present rulers of Germany want to prove they're not the kind
of Germans who lock people up for writing books—by
locking people up for writing books." And, harking back to
the 1930s, do you know what the German government does with
banned books it confiscates: it burns them.
The Silence of the Memoirists : When Winston Churchill was
told during the war that the Germans had exterminated a
million and a half Jews, he called it "the greatest and most
horrible crime ever committed in the whole history of the
world", if true ( Winston S. Churchill, Vol VII, by Martin
Gilbert, p. 847); yet, in his memoir of the war years,
Churchill makes no mention of the Holocaust. Did the "the
greatest and most horrible crime ever committed " slip his
mind, even when the final count had quadrupled to 6 million,
or did he know the story was bunk and did not want to be
seen by future generations as a fool for having fallen for
wartime propaganda? (Nor did Eisenhower or de Gaulle mention
the Holocaust in their memoirs).
If you believe it crass of me to find humor in something as
horrific as the Holocaust, blame those who have defiled the
memory of those who perished by distorting the story with
such bizarre, fanciful embellishments as to lend to a true
tragedy a sometimes comical aspect.
Opinion
[Excerpted]
The cultural and ideological imperialism and the
civilizational war
Dr. Firoz Mahboob Kamal
www.drfirozmahboobkamal.com/blog/the-cultural-and-ideologica-imperialism-and-the-civilizational-war/ The infrastructure of continual occupation
In the Muslim world, the west's military occupation has
formally ended. But the cultural and ideological occupation
still thrives. In former colonies, imperialists' Armies may
not be visible in uniforms. But their soldiers -both the
natives and the westerners are still present in thousands to
promote their ideas, culture, values, education, politics,
and commerce. They work in both civil and military
establishments of the former colonies. Therefore, even after
the formal departure of the imperialists, their way of
thinking, living, eating, drinking, dressing, and politics
didn't die out, rather flourished. In such a conducive
cultural and ideological milieu, the westerners enjoy a huge
advantage in Muslim lands. As fish freely swim in the water,
they too, freely roam in these former colonies.
Such cultural and ideological occupation has proved to be
very cost-effective for the imperialists. It has reduced the
cost of further military occupation. This is why to
perpetuate the occupation, it has been the strategic
objective of the colonialists to build obedient cultural and
ideological armies as well as culture-friendly civil and
military infrastructure long before their formal departure
from the colonies. What the British and the French did in
their former colonies, the US tries to do the same in
Afghanistan, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia,
Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, and many other Muslim countries.
Because of ideological and cultural compatibility, in those
Muslim lands the westerners are not considered alien, rather
taken as sociable friends. Whereas in the same Muslim
countries, due to heavy intoxication with the Western
ideologies and culture, the Islamists with the prophetic
format of beliefs that entails Islamic khilafah, sharia,
hudud, jihad, and trans-ethnic pan-Islamic Muslim unity are
looked down as incompatible strangers. Therefore, the
practitioners of the untainted Qur'anic Islam face
tremendous disadvantages and state-sponsored enmity in their
own homelands. In many countries like Egypt, Saudi Arabia,
UAE and many others, the Islamists find their places in
prisons. They are labelled as terrorists -an easy pretext
for bloody persecution and killing.
The cultural cum ideological occupation never comes alone.
It also brings cultural cum ideological conversion and
prepares the ground for long-term political, ideological,
cultural, and economic slavery. The religious conversion
makes the prophets and the heroes of that embraced religion
highly respectable to the new converts. This is why the
Middle Eastern Jesus got acceptance as a god among western
Christian converts. Likewise, with the cultural conversion,
the heroes and the icons of the imperialists became the
political and cultural prophets of the converts. As a result
of iconoclastic endeavours of the occupying powers, even in
Muslim lands, the great Muslim heroes finds their place only
in rare history books or graveyards. These Muslim heroes are
not even mentioned in the text books, let alone teaching
their thoughts. Not only the western thoughts and beliefs,
but also their cultural products like their dress, stories,
history, sports, cinemas, cartoon films, dolls, and toys get
huge market in the occupied Muslim lands. To make the
situation much worse, the greatest catastrophic fall-out of
the cultural and ideological occupation hits somewhere else.
AIDS damages humans' immunity against germs. Likewise, the
ideological and cultural occupation of the enemies kills the
ideological immunity of the Muslims against anti-Islamic
ideas. This is why de-Islamisation cum aloofness from
Islamic vision and ideology could go much deeper among the
Muslims. Such enemy occupation not only destroys the power
of resistance against foreign aggression but also inspires
the ideological and cultural converts to welcome them.
Hence, the US army found welcoming friends in Kabul in 2001
and Baghdad in 2003. And in Pakistan, the government of
President General Parvaiz Musharraf opened the land and air
space for the US to bomb Afghanistan in 2001. In Bangladesh,
many people are ready to welcome the Indian Army in Dhaka.
In Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, and Qatar, and in
many other Muslim countries, the same ideological and
cultural converts gave sanctity to the US Army in their
midst and beg their constant presence. Under such
occupation, the whole country works as a cultural cum
ideological industry. And the people appear as cultural and
ideological products.
The US and her allies want to preserve the occupation at any
cost. The US has built about 800 military bases all over the
world to give sustenance to their worldwide military
dominance and economic exploitation. This way the US wants
to protect its superpower legacy. The imperialists call it a
new world order. The creation of Israel, the division of the
Middle East into 22 pieces, the occupation of the
resource-rich Arab lands, the installation of the US and the
NATO forces in the heart lands of the Muslim World are
indeed the key elements of the so-called world order. It is
indeed the imperialist world order to give sustenance to
their own interest. Such a defensive and offensive military
infrastructure are crucial for the exploitation of oil, gas,
metals and other geopolitical and economic potentials of
Muslims. It is also vital to keep the Muslim World under the
continuous subjugation.
To give sustenance to such an exploitative western
occupation and to grant legality to all of their military
aggressions that are needed to meet their geopolitical
interests, the leading colonial countries of the past formed
a formal statutory body called the UN keeping the full
control in their own hands. To keep the majority member
states of the UN deprived of any influence in the
decision-making, democracy has been officially banned in
this world body. The UN itself has been made hostage in the
hands of five big nuclear powers. As a result, the US stands
dispossessed of the moral power to condemn even the most
horrendous crimes on earth! So the brutal occupation of
Palestine, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Chechnya and the
destruction of hundreds of cities, massacre of millions in
those countries by the occupiers went unabated and
unpunished, let alone stop it. Not a single man was brought
to justice for killing more than two million in the occupied
countries. Such crimes of the big powers were not only
overlooked, but also given official legality -as was the
case of the US occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq. In May
2021, the UN even failed to condemn the wholesale
destruction of Gaza by the Israeli Army.
The cultural empire
The west's colonial empire has collapsed. But its cultural
empire has thrived. It is due to its soft power. Unlike
geopolitical frontiers, its cultural and ideological
frontiers do not end at national borders. The western
countries have taken it into the heartlands of most of the
non-western countries. The Muslim countries are the most
culturally and ideologically invaded territory. In fact, the
concept of the global village and global culture was
invented only to justify such a borderless cultural empire
of the imperialists. The US and its NATO alliance want to
give sustenance to such an empire at any cost. Former US
President Barack Obama's war of ideas in fact revealed such
a determination. The western imperialists understand that
the major challenge to their dominance will not come from
any military power, rather from an ideological cum cultural
power. After the demise of the Soviet Union and its
communism, it is the most dominant view in the academic as
well as in the defence circles of the west that such a
challenge will come only from Islam. China or India may
emerge as big economic or military power, but have little to
offer ideologically or culturally. Apart from some songs,
folklores, dance shows, sitar music, and film entertainment,
what cultural challenge India can present against the west?
Do they have any ideological force that can galvanize people
towards establishing any superior social order? They have
their own huge ideological voids. To fill in those voids,
the Indians and the Chinese are moving fast towards western
economic, cultural, and political paradigms. The defeat of
the Soviet Socialist Union in Afghanistan and its collapse
in the immediate aftermath in fact owes to its disgraceful
defeat in the direct clush with the ideological and cultural
force of Islam. Islam offers the same challenge to the
capitalists. And the west didn't miss the message. So the
west's civilizational clush with Islam has already been
started.
During the Soviet era, NATO's cold war was mostly against
the USSR-lead communist bloc. Now it is mostly against Islam
and the Islamists. The other nations of the world may have
some political or economic conflicts of interest with the
west, but they have no ideological or cultural quarrel.
Hence, a Chinese, an Indian, a Russian, or a Japanese can
easily meltdown in the socio-cultural melting pot of western
societies. Their religions or ideologies do not stand as a
barrier. Apart from some spiritual rituals, these religions
do not delineate any formidable codes of conduct for their
economic, cultural, judicial, or political practices. Hence
they can take any diversions in those areas. They can share
any food, drink or dress with the westerners.
Since Islam is a complete code of life, it does not give
such a free option. A Muslim has to comply with the Islamic
prescription in every aspect of life. Hence, unlike
followers of other faiths, the Muslims stand distinctly
different in a non-Muslim country. They appear in every
field of life -even in streets, schools, colleges and
workstations with the visible markers of religious,
cultural, ideological, and political identity. But such
distinctive visibility of millions of Muslims in Europe and
America has not been positively appreciated in the west.
Instead, such peaceful presence of the Muslims has turned
them markedly Islamophobic and unwelcoming. Even a head
scraf of a Muslim girl looks toxic to them. To them, London
appears as "Londonistan" and England as a "de fact Muslim
country" -as mentioned repeatedly in the British press. For
the same reason, in India, Muslims face regular riots of
annihilation at the hands of Hindutva forces. These are the
symptoms of the ongoing cultural war.
The cultural imperialists of the west can't perceive and
expect that any of the non-western ideas, cultures, or
values should challenge their own idea, culture, and values.
They perceive it as an attack on their pride and cultural
heritage. They think, whatever they possess in the field of
ideas, culture and values are unbeatable. Such a
self-worshipping belief is indeed the basis of the western
arrogance that has led them to genocide and ethnic cleansing
in America, Australia, New Zealand, and many other
countries. This is why they envisage that the global village
must have a singular brand of culture, ideas, and values,
and that must be the western one. The US and its NATO
alliance built huge armies not only to protect their
political and economic interests but also to protect their
cultural and ideological interests. Hence, they drop bombs
not only on arms depots and war fields but also on madrasas,
academic institutions, and houses. They kill not only the
armed jihadists but also the unarmed scholars. They
confiscate books and close the internet sites. The western
powers are ready to tolerate the practice of Islam only
within the confines of mosques or prayer mats, but not in
political, judicial, cultural, and educational premises. Now
they claim that the Islamic penal code, the law of
inheritance, gender segregation, and even dress code go
against basic human rights, hence suggest inviting the UN
watchdogs into such premises to interfere.
The western colonial power also tried to alter the
demographic specifics of the Muslim lands. They did it to
serve their own strategic interest and to weaken the
Muslims. They implanted millions of Jews in Palestine and
many millions of Chinese in Malaysia. Thus they sowed the
seed of continuous instability in the Muslim heartlands. But
the colonization of Muslims' minds and intellect with
western ideas was much more massive and worse. In fact, with
the recent resurgence of Islam, such a project has received
more importance. The Islamophobic propaganda and slander
against Islam and its Prophet (peace be upon him) have
attained a new hype. They now keep close monitoring of the
educational systems, school textbooks, and academic
curriculum of almost every Muslim country. They have already
forced many countries to restrict the teachings of the Holy
Qur'an in schools and colleges. The US ambassadors in
countries like Bangladesh and Pakistan have started visiting
religious madrasas. In Bangladesh, the books on Jihad are
now being confiscated by the police. The mosques and
religious institutions are also brought under close
surveillance. Imams in mosques can't exercise their freedom
in delivering Friday sermons. They are allowed only to read
the printed stuff that is supplied to them by the government
officials. However, the imperialists do not need to do such
surveillance on their own in any Muslim country. In almost
every Muslim country, they have enough foot soldiers and
watchdogs to do the job. They are only giving the necessary
orders, the native cultural and ideological converts are
doing the rest.
Guidance by Sis. Yasmin.
Why is Sighting the Crescent Empowering for the Muslims?
It is obligatory to witness the New Moon for
establishing
certain acts of worship... if these acts are
obligatory,
such as Fasting 'Ramadan' & 'Hajj'.
Then witnessing the New Moon also becomes
obligatory on the Muslim 'Ummah' { 'Fard Kifayah'.}
That is because..."what is necessary to fulfill the
requirements of an obligation is an obligation itself."
The 'Sunnah' 'Dua' upon seeing the New Moon.
The Prophet (SallAllahu `Alayhi Wasallam)
taught us the 'Dua' to read when we see the new moon.
So make an effort to sight the 'Ramadan' Moon
with full attention and eagerness and say this
'Dua' on sighting the new moon! {In Shaa Allah}
**************
Allaahu `Akbar, Allaahumma `ahillahu `alayna bil`amni
wal`eemaani, wassalaamati wal-`Islaami, wattawfeeqi
limaa tuhibbu Rabbanaa wa tardhaa, Rabbunaa wa
Rabbukallaahu.
Translation:
Allah is the Greatest. O Allah, let the crescent loom above
us in
safety, faith, peace, and Islam, and in agreement with all
that
You love and pleases You. Our Lord and your Lord is Allah."
A Neglected 'Sunnah' ?
It's part of the beauty of Islam to anticipate when Fasting
begin.
When will 'Eid' be ?
This builds up the excitement and love of these blessed
times.
And there is deepest wisdom in how Allah {Subhaanahu
waTaala} ordained these issues.
This was the way of the Prophet (SallAllahu`Alayhi
Wasallam),
the 'Sahabah' and Early generations,(including the 4 Imams),
Yet, it is sad to see many Muslims getting lost
in the fast track world of machines and calculations and
neglecting this act of 'Sunnah' ! thus losing out on the
chance to
earn reward from their Rabb for following the Prophet
(SallAllahu `Alayhi Wasallam) and his guidance!
PLEASE REVIVE THE 'SUNNAH' !
So work hard to revive the 'Sunnah' of the Prophet
(SallAllahu
`Alayhi Wasallam) and Please don't belittle it.
Practice it yourself, teach it to your children and others.
Reviving aspects of the 'Sunnah' that are being forgotten is one
of the most important charitable deeds that a person can do
during his lifetime and is a deed that will
bring an immense reward{!}
PROPHET (SallAllahu `Alayhi Wasallam) said..
'Whoever revives an aspect of my 'Sunnah' that is
forgotten after my death, he will have a reward equivalent
to
that of the people who follow him, without it detracting in
the least from their reward.'
(Source: Tirmidhi)
PROPHET (SallAllahu `Alayhi Wasallam) also said...
'Pay attention to my 'Sunnah' and the way of the Rightly
guided
'Khalifahs' after me, adhere to it and hold fast to it.'
{Source: Saheeh Abi Dawud}
"And he who brings the Truth and he who confirms and
supports it, such are the men who do right. They shall have all
that they wish for, with their Rabb.
Such is the reward of those who do good: so that Allah
will
remit from them (even) the worst of their deeds and give
them
their reward according to the best of what they have
done."
{'In Shaa Allah'~ 'Aameen'}
{Source: 'Qur'an'~Surat Az-Zumar (The Troops) 39 A
33-35}
My Salaams To All.
~Yasmin~
"Never Despair Of The Mercy Of Allah"
"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'~ 'Aameen']
Hadith of the Week
Narrated by:Ibn Umar reported:
A man belched in the
presence of the Prophet,
peace and blessings be upon him. The Prophet said,
"Restrain your belching, for
those who were most satiated in
the world will be the most hungry
on the Day of Resurrection."
Source: Sunan al-Tirmidhī 2478
[With thanks to Sis. Kristi]
Islamic State Affiliates killed 11
Israelis including 2 from Ukraine
DPA report
In the third incident of its kind within a week, a man
opened fire on passers-by on one street in the city of Bnei
Brak near Tel Aviv, before moving on to another. The
assailant was subsequently shot by police.
According to Israeli media reports, the perpetrator was a
Palestinian from the occupied West Bank. The mayor of Bnei
Brak called on residents to remain indoors.
Numerous ambulances and police officers attended the scene
of the attack. A ZAKA ambulance worker who lived in the
immediate vicinity told dpa that the sight at the scene had
been "shocking."
"I saw four dead people on the street," he said, adding that
he had treated a man with gunshot wounds.
Israeli opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu tweeted on
Tuesday that it was "a sad and difficult evening," and that
Israel was "at the height of a dangerous wave of terror, the
likes of which we have not seen in years." He called for
decisive action "to bring peace and security back to the
citizens of Israel."
The shooting brings the number of Israelis killed in attacks
within a week to at least 11.
On Sunday, two police officers and two gunmen were killed in
an attack in the coastal city of Hadera, while four people
were also killed in a terrorist bombing in the city of
Beersheva in southern Israel last week. The bomber, a
Bedouin from the Negev desert, was shot dead by a
passer-by.
Attacks by Palestinians in the West Bank and the
Arab-dominated eastern part of Jerusalem have increased in
recent months. Several Palestinians have also been killed in
Israeli raids.
There are fears of a further escalation during Ramadan.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett was due to hold
security talks with Defence Minister Benny Gantz and
representatives of the country's military and police on
Tuesday evening.
Forecasting [With thanks to Dr. T]
"ایک بات
ہمیشہ یاد
رکھیے،
فوج زیادہ
دیر تک کسی
پر اعتماد
نہیں کیا
کرتی۔ یہ
اُس کی
نفسیات ہے
کہ
اندرونِ
مُلک جو
قوّت اُس
کے ساتھ
تعاون
کرتی ہے،
مشکل وقت
گزرنے کے
بعد یہ سب
سے پہلے
اُسی پر
حملہ آور
ہوتی ہے۔"
( سیّد
ابوالاعلªٰ
مودودیؒ۔
تصریحات۔
ستمبر 1971)
"Always remember: the army does not depend on anyone for
long. Its psychology is that the force which cooperates with
it within the country is the very one it attacks after the
difficult times are over."
[Syed Abul Ala Maudoodi, September 1971]
What happened to Turkey's Erdogan? .
He called the Israeli president to condole for the Islamic
State attacks.
He has an embassy in Tel Aviv and is planning to visit and
send an ambassador!
Another munafiq using Islam as a front?
China's anti-Muslim Horrors
How did a revolutionary state which came to power promising
to end all forms of national discrimination, end up
resorting to such horrific policies?"
The answer to this question, posed by scholar of the Uyghurs
David Brophy, has exercised world leaders and experts as
they grapple with the whys and wherefores of China's
onslaught against the Turkic peoples of its Northwestern
borderlands, particularly since an acceleration of the
atrocities against Xinjiang's so-called minorities in
2016.
Michael Clarke in his new anthology "The Xinjiang Emergency:
Exploring the Causes and Consequences of China's Mass
Detention of Uyghurs" (Manchester University Press, 2022)
wrestling with the issues involved, considers the writing
has been on the wall for decades, profoundly shaped by a
colonialist mindset that laid the foundations for cultural
genocide to solve a "Xinjiang problem" that had been vexing
China's rulers for years.
September 2019 dawned as the full extent of the atrocities
being meted out on the Turkic peoples of Northwest China was
coming into focus. A multi-disciplinary band of experts
gathered in the Australian city of Canberra, to piece
together the available evidence so far. Something was
happening in this desert land but a revelation of the full
horrors was yet to be unleashed.
The genocide word and its relation to these crimes was being
tentatively framed in terms of culture rather than of an
entire ethnic group, but suspicions lurked in the shadows of
something worse to come.
The pieces of the puzzle available to date were laid on the
table by some of the best minds in the field, and Michael
Clarke's "The Xinjiang Emergency" is the result.
There have been other conferences, panels, endless webinars
and Zoom meets since. Analysis has moved on, satellite
imagery has proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that vast
numbers have been incarcerated in hundreds of secret camps,
the Chinese government's meticulous online records have
betrayed their genocidal endgame, and sickening firsthand
testimonies of camp survivors have trickled out.
Genocide is now firmly on the table.
But in 2019, with red flags flying metaphorically and
physically, this group of academics sat down in the
Australian National University (ANU) to thrash out the
genesis of what has been described as the largest mass
incarceration and persecution of an ethnic group since the
Nazi Holocaust.
As the first team of analysts to specifically confront the
warning signs, their observations provide valuable
background and rare insights into a genocide that continues
to unfold to this day.
Experts on the whole agree that since imperial times, the
Chinese state has had its eye on controlling and
assimilating both the territory and the non-Han peoples of
the great Northwest.
Whilst, since the terror attacks of 9/11, draconian measures
to rein in the Muslim "minorities" have been conveniently
framed as "counterterrorism," it has become increasingly
obvious that assaults on the indigenous culture, language,
religion and population control have more to do with
colonial ambition than curbing terrorism.
Clarke's compelling ride through the imperial past of the
area, once known as East Turkestan, takes the reader through
a history of warlords, emperors and rebellions. Two separate
East Turkestan Muslim republics came and went followed by
the "peaceful emancipation" of it all by the People's
Liberation Army in 1949. The PLA heralded a tentative
renaissance of "Minzu" (minority) autonomy, which has
surfaced from time to time since then, but all pretense of
self-determination has now vanished; replaced by President
Xi Jinping's vision of a "New Era" for his country, fully
sinicized and culturally uniform.
Large scale Han migration into the area, forcible
"transformational" re-education policies that "resonate with
the worst totalitarian precedents of the twentieth century"
and pathologize Uyghur cultural identity and practice,
provide clues as to the final settler-colonial intent,
according to some of the authors. The CCP ultimate ambition
is to appropriate the land and degrade or vanish the
indigenous Turkic people altogether.
Exercised by the CCP's actions in Xinjiang, much of the
anthology examines elements of human rights abuses in
Xinjiang against the backdrop of the United Nations
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of
Genocide (1948) whereby intent to destroy in whole or part,
a national, ethnically, racial or religious group can be
established.
Remember Muslim Political Prisoners.
Via facebook, the March 27 issue of New Trend reached 73,467
Muslims.
These were the main items in it:
Medeleine Albright, Iraqi children & NPR. [Dr. K.Siddique]
Rallies in Pakistan
Russian losses & retreat around Kiev.
Secularism is a crime {Dr. Firoz]
Remembrance & Forgiveness. [Sis. Yasmin]
Apartheid in Israel. [Amnesty]
Muslim woman in India: Two years in prison. [Zafar Aafaq]
