On April 15, Br. Kaukab Siddique gave the Juma' khutba at
Masjid Jamaat al-Muslimeen in Baltimore.
The masjid has been renovated and looks like new. The masjid
was packed with people including good numbers of women.
The Senegalese imam urged people to move up several times
owing to the crowding.
A video of the khutba has been placed on numbers of pages on
face book..
Here are the main points of the khutba:
Texts
"All the practices of Jahiliyyah are trampled under my feet"
(Reported by Sahih Muslim)
"...an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a
non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a white has
no superiority over a black nor a black has any superiority
over a white - except by piety and good action. [Final
sermon of the Prophet, pbuh]
Ramadan is our opportunity to be reborn, purified
physically and spiritually.
Importance of Suhoor, iftar and zakat.
Do not imitate the unbelievers. (hadith) The change
within us should be culturally different from
non-Muslims.
A Muslim looking at a woman should respond differently
from a non-Muslim.
Looking at liquor and bullying and exploitation of
children. Be Islamic.
The Islamic struggle reaches new heights in Ramadan.
Notice the battle of Badr and conquest of Makkah.
Remember the anniversary of Ayesha, r.a. Why do we
remember only male sahaba?
Ayesha, r.a., was closer to the Prophet, r.a., than
anyone else. He died in her lap.
Part 2.
The significance of Africa.
More than 80% of Africa is Muslim. Sudan means land of
the Black people.
The sahaba are most highly praised in the Qur'an.
Read9:100.
Bilal, r.a., was very close to the Prophet, pbuh. Owing
to his influence, all of West Africa embraced Islam Read the
story of Sundiata.
Muslims must liberate Palestine. Masjid al-Aqsa is being
violated by kuffar.
Kashmir and Somalia are under deep oppression and
occupation.
Women have a central role in Islam. We cannot succeed as
Muslims without the support of half of our ummah.
The jihad in Afghanistan over 20 years was successful
because mujahideen were helped by women. We are often misled
by the women's big outer dresses.
For the war in Ukraine, read sura Room. After the deadly
pagan-Christian war, Islam will rise.
Congratulations on the renovation of the mosque. Local
funding and expertise from Pakistanis has done wonders.
Pakistan
JI REPORT
Cutting edge Critique of New regime & Slam Dunk on Imran
Khan.
by Qaiser Sharif
LAHORE- April 15: Jamaat-e-Islami Emir Sirajul Haq has
reiterated the call for early elections, asking the new
prime minister to ensure the polls as soon as possible
instead of focusing on executions of projects.
It is the responsibility of the new government to introduce
electoral reforms with the consensus of all political
parties before the general elections, he added while
addressing a press conference at Mansoorah on Friday.
Sirajul Haq welcomed the DG ISPR statement about the
impossibility of martial law, saying it ended many doubts
and confusion. The institutions including judiciary,
military and election commission must keep their neutrality
intact in the benefit of the country. If establishment
interfered into politics, it must expect criticism from
political workers, he said.
The JI chief demanded the government review agreements with
the IMF, bring down prices of food items and petrol and
decrease the electricity and gas tariff. The old status of
the State Bank of Pakistan must be restored, he said.
He called for implementation of the JI-PPP agreement on
Karachi reforms and Sindh local government. He said the new
government should address the concerns of the people of
Gwadar and other areas of Balochistan.
The government, he said, should recognize the Afghan
government and take a bold stance on Kashmir issue.
To a question, he replied the Supreme Court of Pakistan
should form a judicial commission to probe into letter-gate.
He said the JI believed the US interference into Pakistan's
internal affairs was an open secret yet it did not see any
reason that Washington wanted to end the PTI regime.
The US establishment, he said, was rather comfortable with
Imran Khan government which implemented all the demands of
the international lending agencies working with the backing
of America, facilitated NATO forces and did not recognize
the Afghanistan government on US pressure.
He said the JI believed the three ruling parties (the PML-N,
the PPP and the PTI) could never make a stand against US
dictations. The people, he said, had tested the three
parties for years. The nation, he added, received back no
benefit from the waderas, feudal and imperialists after
bringing them into power time and again.
He said the JI was not in a mood to develop political
alliance with the tested parties. "We will go into elections
under our own flag, manifesto and elections symbol."
War News
Ukraine
Russia is gearing up for a new offensive.
Muriopol is now in Russian hands except for stubborn
resistance at the steel mills by former Nazis..
Russia has killed hundreds of civilians. Both sides also
inflicted heavy military losses on each other.
Steady inflow of weapons from the US, UK and Germany is
helping Ukraine to continue resistance.
Syria
Russia resumes heavy air strikes.
April 16. Northwest Hama province: Fath al-Mubeen Islamic
group and Assad-Iranian militia exchanged heavy machinegun
fire.
Assad artillery hit 5 villages in southern Idlib.
An Ansar al-Islam human bomber killed one Assad soldier and
wounded 4 in Sahl al-Ghab
In the al-Raqqa desert, Russian jets are carrying out scores
of air strikes on suspected ISIS positions. 17 ISIS fighters
were killed and 11 wounded in the latest air strikes.
In norther Deir ez Zor province ISIS gunmen on a motorbike
killed 2 SDF members [supoprted by US.]
Turkish artillery hit SDF and Assad positions in northwest
Hasakeh province.
NDF [Assad militia} retreated from Mayadeen desert into
Mayadeen city under ISIS attack which killed 4 NDF and
wounded six.
There were two more Isaeli air strikes. Iranians did nor
respond.
Pakistan
Army losses mounting. PAF attacks Afghans.
April 16. 5 police and 2 mujahedeen killed in Dera Ismail
clash.
On April 16, Pakistani air strkes hit the Afghan border
towns of Kunar and Khost. Five children and a woman were
killed in the first city. Losses in the second are not yet
known.
Large crowds of Afghans protested against Pakistani
atrocities, [Al Jazeera.]
Taliban leaders are urging Pakistan army to behave.
[New Trend analysis is that Pak army is suffering steady
losses at the hands of the Pak Taliban [TTP}, and in
frustration are attacking Afghan towns where they think Pak
Taliban are sheltering.]
The military has released bits of
information which indicate the worsening situation. The
real losses may be higher.
April 15. A mujahideen attack killed 7 Pakistani troops in
North Waziristan. Another one was killed in a separate
incident. 4 mujahedeen killed. [Dawn report]
On April 12, an officer and a soldier were killed in South
Waziristan.
On April 13 a soldier was killed.
A week back 8 Pakistani troops including an officer were
killed in a clash with the mujahideen in the Tunk-South
Waziristan area.
Even after several years of occupation, the military does
not allow journalists into the area. Remember that the army
expelled the entire population. In response, Tehreeke
Taliban :Pakistan [TTP] has grown stronger.
TTP wants Sharia law. Under reportedly American pressure ,
the army will not allow Sharia. Several Hindu officers have
been promoted.
News Within the U.S.
2 shootings
Most Violent
Country in the World?
Two young men were killed and at least nine others injured
in a mass shooting early Sunday in Pittsburgh, police
said.
The shooting happened just after 12:30 a.m. during a party
at a short-term rental property in the city's North Side,
the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police said in a news release.
The party was attended by as many as 200 people, many of
whom were underage, police added. No further details about
the deceased were provided.
South Carolina
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Ten people were shot and two
others injured in a shooting at a shopping mall in South
Carolina's capital that authorities do not believe was a
random attack.
Three people who had firearms have been detained in
connection with the Saturday afternoon shooting at
Columbiana Centre, Columbia Police Chief W.H. "Skip"
Holbrook said. He said at least one of those three people
fired a weapon.
"We don't believe this was random," Holbrook said. "We
believe they knew each other and something led to the
gunfire."
Authorities said no fatalities have been reported but that
eight of the victims were taken to the hospital. Of those
eight, two were in critical condition and six were in stable
condition, Holbrook said. The victims ranged in age from 15
to 73, he said.
Daniel Johnson said he and his family were visiting from
Alabama and were eating in the food court when they first
heard shots ring out and started seeing people running.
Johnson said people were screaming for their children and
spouses, knocking over tables in the food court as they
fled.
"Everybody was trying to get outside," Johnson said. "When I
was coming out, you could see baby strollers turned over,
people's phones and left keys. It was kind of a hectic
situation."
News: Out of this World
The largest comet ever seen is swinging through our solar
system.
The solid center is more than twice the width of Rhode
Island.
[Thank you Sis. Kristi]
A huge comet with a solid center more than twice the width
of Rhode Island is on an orbital path that will swing it
inside our cosmic neighborhood, astronomers say.
The icy interloper is traveling 22,000 mph from the edge of
the solar system toward the sun. In a study published
Tuesday in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, scientists
said the comet is no cause for concern because it will not
pass anywhere near Earth.
Its nucleus — the solid center, which is typically
made up of ice, rock and dust — is about 85 miles
across. That makes it around 50 times bigger than most known
comets, with a mass estimated to be 100,000 times greater
than that of a typical comet, according to the study.
"It's a huge amount of material just in one body," Jewitt
said.
The astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to observe
the colossal comet and determine the size of its nucleus.
Hubble snapped five photos of the icy object on Jan. 8,
revealing its bright nucleus shrouded in a glowing cloud of
dust and gas, known as the coma.
"This is an amazing object, given how active it is when it's
still so far from the sun," the study's lead author, Man-To
Hui, an assistant professor at the Macau University of
Science and Technology, said in a statement to the Space
Telescope Science Institute, which manages Hubble.
Comet C/2014 UN271 was first detected in 2010 by astronomers
Pedro Bernardinelli and Gary Bernstein, when it was 3
billion miles from the sun. Although scientists have spent
more than a decade studying the comet, the new study is the
first to confirm its enormous size.
Occasionally, gravitational forces from passing stars may
jostle far-flung comets in the Oort cloud, "kicking them
into the solar system," Jewitt said.
Comet C/2014 UN271 is less than 2 billion miles from the
sun, according to the study. And in a few million years, it
will migrate back into the Oort cloud, Jewitt said.
The astronomers hope to continue observing the comet leading
up to its closest approach, in 2031. Jewitt said studying
such objects can reveal insights about the solar system and
help solve enduring mysteries of the cosmos.
"It's a reminder that the outer solar system is not a very
well-known place," he said. "When you go far away from the
sun, everything out there is so faint, so all sorts of
things await discovery."
source: NBCNews. Writer: Denise Chow
Opinion
The Dhaka regime has sentenced 4 people to death.
Most people
don't know the context. Here it is from 2016. This ended
blasphemy:
Tragic End of US-backed Attempt to introduce Homosexual
Magazine in Bangladesh.
Al-Qaida Took Responsibility.
[Source: The Guardian, UK .]
On April 25, six men entered an apartment in central Dhaka,
Bangladesh, and hacked a man to death who started the
country's first LGBT magazine. His companion was also
killed. Both were self proclaimed "gays." Their deaths
created a stir all the way up to Washington, DC. As the
photo below shows, one of them, Mannan, worked for the US
government and was close to the US ambassador. Here is how
the daily Guardian of UK described it:
"the latest killings, were on Monday night, of Xulhaz
Mannan, editor of the country's only lesbian, gay, bisexual
and transgender magazine (LGBT), and Mahbub Rabbi Tonoy, an
actor and fellow gay rights activist. Critics have accused
the Awami League government of failing to act effectively to
stop the carnage.
"It is shocking that no one has been held to account for
these horrific attacks and that almost no protection has
been given to threatened members of civil society," said
Amnesty International's Champa Patel, reacting to the four
killings so far this month.
According to the Guardian, al-Qaida has issued statement
paraphrased here: "the banned group Ansar al-Islam, the
Bangladeshi branch of al-Qaida on the Indian subcontinent,
claimed responsibility on Tuesday for killing the two gay
rights activists in what it called a "blessed attack".
It said the two were killed because they were "pioneers of
practising and promoting homosexuality in Bangladesh" and
were "working day and night to promote homosexuality ...
with the help of their masters, the US crusaders and its
Indian allies".
Earlier, an English professor from Rajshahi visiting Dhaka
was similarly murdered. He is accused to be an atheist who
was going from village to village setting up music
centers.
The latest is that a Hindu who blasphemed against the
Prophet, pbuh, was killed on April 30 in the city of
Tangail.
[New Trend's view is that the regime crushed the peaceful
Jamaate Islami movement and the vacuum has been filled by
al-Qaida and the Islamic State.]
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Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim'
As Salaamu 'Alaykum wa Rahmatullaahi wa Barakatuh.
The Prophet (Peace be upon Him) said...
"Whoever forgets that he is fasting and eats or drinks,
then he still completes his fast.
It is only Allah who fed him and gave him drink."
~ My 'Salaams' to all ~
~Yasmin~ 'Do Not Despair of the Mercy of Allah'.
{'Qur'an Surat Az-Zumar 39:A # 53 }
[Sources: Bukhari H: 1933; Muslim H: [2716] 171 -
(1155);
Tirmidhi H: 721; Abu Dawud H: 2398; Ibn Majah H: 1673)
Hadith of the Week
Narrated by Abu Said Al-Khudri
Allah's Apostle said,
"While I was sleeping I saw (in a dream) some people wearing
shirts of which some were reaching up to the breasts only
while others were even shorter than that.
Umar bin Al-Khattab was shown wearing a shirt that he was
dragging." The people asked,
"How did you interpret it?
(What is its interpretation)
O Allah's Apostle?"
He (the Prophet ) replied,
"It is the Religion."
Bukhari, Volume 1, Book 2, Number 22
[With thanks to Sis. Kristi]
Morocco has condemned Israeli actions against Palestinian
worshippers in Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound this
week, while Israeli-organised dance festivals in the Sinai
have sparked outrage in Egypt.
Morocco has expressed its "firm condemnation of the
incursion by Israeli occupation forces into the Al-Aqsa
mosque, their closure of its gates and their aggression
against unarmed worshippers in the mosque compound", a
foreign ministry statement said.
The clashes come after three weeks of deadly violence in
Israel and the occupied West Bank, and as the Jewish
festival of Passover and Christian Easter overlap with the
Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
More than 150 people were injured in clashes between
Palestinian demonstrators and Israeli police in the Al-Aqsa
compound on Friday, the first face-off at the flashpoint
holy site since the start of Ramadan.
Al-Aqsa is Islam's third-holiest site. Jews refer to it as
the Temple Mount, referencing two temples said to have stood
there in antiquity.
Witnesses said Palestinians threw stones at Israeli forces,
who fired rubber-coated bullets and stun grenades.
India
Police Join Mobs Attacking Muslims.
16 Apr 2022
Clashes broke out during a Hindu religious procession in the
Indian capital, New Delhi, on Saturday that left several
people and police officers injured.
The violence erupted between Muslims and Hindus during the
procession in Jahangirpuri, a suburb of New Delhi.
Police said they were still investigating the source of the
disturbances.
"We are still assessing how many people are injured ... some
policemen have also been hurt," said Deependra Pathak, a
police official in Jahangirpuri.
The violence broke out during a procession to mark the Hindu
festival of Hanuman Jayanti, police said without giving
further details.
Earlier on Saturday, protesters in New Delhi shouted slogans
against Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government saying
Muslims had been violently targeted by authorities last week
in the aftermath of Hindu-Muslim clashes in parts of three
states ruled by Modi's Hindu nationalist party.
The clashes last Sunday during a religious festival prompted
police to impose a curfew in one town and ban gatherings of
more than four people in parts of the states.
Local authorities tore down the homes and shops of suspected
Muslim rioters in central Madhya Pradesh state in the
aftermath of last weekend's violence that broke out during
the Hindu festival of Ram Navami, said a police official who
did not want to be named.
Saudi Betrayal
"The world has to react immediately now and stop this
deportation in a matter of hours to save the four Uyghurs
from this catastrophic deportation. It is crucial that all
governments with diplomatic ties to Saudi Arabia step in now
to urge the Riyadh authorities to uphold their obligations
and stop the deportations."
Under the customary international law principle of
non-refoulement and as a State Party to the UN Convention
against Torture, Saudi Arabia is obliged not to return
anyone to a country where they would face a real risk of
torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or
punishment, persecution or other serious human rights
violations.
Background
In June 2021, Amnesty International published a report
revealing how hundreds of thousands of Muslim men and women
in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region are being
subjected to arbitrary mass detention, indoctrination and
torture.
Earlier the same year, another piece of Amnesty research
described how the children of internment camp detainees are
often sent to state-run "orphan camps" where they face
indoctrination and are cut off from their parents.
Prisoner of the Week
Br. Samuel Baptiste
Via facebook,
the April 10 issue of
New Trend
reached 134,960 Muslims
including 9312 women.
The main items in it were :
Father & daughter for Islam [photo]
Supreme Court of Pakistan opposes Imran Khan's moves.
Iran's Strange Religion Opposes Entire Muslim Ummah. Afghans
have Exposed the issue.
Tehran Regime has re-affirmed its total Support for the
Assad regime in Damascus.
[New Trend report]
Iran executes Sunni rebels after cursory or summary
"trials." Shiaism is proclaimed as Iran's religion though
Islam rejects sects within Islam.
On April 6, a Sunni Muslim, an Uzbek, attacked Shia clerics,
in the huge shrine Iran has set up in the city of Mashad.
Iran does not recognize opponents to the Shia religion as
Muslims. They are referred to a "takfiris."
Iran's best friend is the regime of Bashar Assad in
Damascus. The people of Syria were about to topple the
regime when Iran intervened and set up a chain reaction of
weapon re-supply to Assad. Iran also brought the Shia
extremist group Hizb of Lebanon to fight the Islamic groups
opposed to Assad. When Hizb was defeated, Iran sent its own
forces and numerous Shia militias to defend Assad. Tens of
thousands of Syrian civilians have been tortured to death by
the Assad regime, 67,000 plus according to SOHR, including
large numbers of women and children. Millions of Syrians
have fled their homes. Russia has joined Iran in the ongoing
genocide in Syria.
Recently Iran again strongly reaffirmed its solid support
for the Assad regime.
Iran has tried to replace the Islamic veneration of the
Companions of the Prophet, pbuh, with a concocted list of
"imams" who are supposedly linked to the family of Ali,
r.a., though there is no such evidence. Gradually Iran is
trying to replace Mekka and Madina with Karbala [in
Iraq].
Iran claims that the 12th Shia "Imam" is in hiding [since
1000 years] and will return to fill the world with justice.
Iranians regularly pray for the "early" return of the 12th
"imam.'
A serious problem for Iran is the August 2021 victory of the
Taliban in Afghanistan. Instead of recognizing the Islamic
Emirate of Afghanistan, Iran is putting forth various
demands which have to be met for recognition by Iran.
Social media have brought out serious mistreatment and
torture of Afghan refugees in Iran. Here are excerpts which
have been published in al-Jazeera and various other
media.
AFP reports. Tehran, Iran - Iran has summoned Afghanistan's
charge d'affaires in Tehran over attacks on its diplomatic
missions in the neighbouring country after unverified videos
circulating on social media purported to show Afghan
refugees being beaten in Iran.
The formal protest came after protesters on Monday pelted
Iran's consulate in the Afghan city of Herat with rocks.
They also reportedly broke security cameras and burned the
Iranian flag before dispersing after Taliban security forces
fired warning shots.
Meanwhile, in Afghanistan's capital Kabul, angry protesters
chanted slogans such as "death to Iran" outside the Iranian
embassy.
Iran's foreign ministry on Monday warned the Taliban that
the current situation cannot go on indefinitely and that the
group needs to do more to control its borders.
Br. Abu Talib helping orphans in Gambia and Ghana.
