Night Patrol of Umar ibn-al-Khattab
by Hyder Shaikh, Canada
Once on his duty to solve the needs of the people he came
across old man begging.
He asked who he was? He replied I old and Jew I cannot pay
Jizya due to my old age. He took him home and took care and
next morning after salat took him to Baitul Mall and
instructed that old people should be helped by the state and
not allowed to beg.
Once at night patrol he found a woman not breast feeding
her crying baby. Umar asked why she is not feeding woman and
went, then he came back when the baby was crying louder.
Umar came again and said what a bad mum you are she replied
Umar is giving money to the child who is taking food and not
to the breast-feeding children. The changed the policy and
instructed Baitul -mal to give baby allowance from the day
the child is born.
War News
[We report the war news without taking sides.]
Syria
December 25, ISIS raiders captured and executed two Assad
regime soldiers. [western al-Raqqa]
Turkish artillery is hitting SDF targets in the Tel Abyed
area'
Half million Syrian refugees have returned home from
Turkey.
Large areas are under Islamic control.
Pakistan facing TTP Islamics
TTP attacks are spreading. In the latest 6 Pakistan troops
have been killed.
Iraq
12 Iraqi regime troops have been killedb in the latest
fighting with ISIS near Kirkuk.
British jets are bombing ISIS.
GUIDANCE by Sis. Yasmin
A car ahead was moving like a turtle and not giving me
way in spite of my continuous honking!
I was on brink of losing my cool when
I noticed the small sticker on the car's rear!
"Physically challenged~ Please be patient."
And that changed everything!!
I immediately went calm & slowed down!!
In fact I got a little protective of the car & the
driver!!!
I reached work a few minutes late, but it was ok!
And then it struck me. Would I have been patient if there
was no sticker!???!
Why do we need stickers to be patient with people!??
Would we be more patient & kind with others
if people had labels pasted on their foreheads??
Labels like ——
" Lost my job" , "Fighting cancer", "Going through a bad
divorce" , " Suffering Emotional abuse " , "Lost a loved
one", "Feeling worthless" , " Financially messed up".....
and more like these!!!!
Everyone is fighting a battle we know nothing about.
The least we can do is be patient & kind!!!
Let us respect the invisible labels!!!!
'In Shaa Allah' إن شاء
الله (God willing)
~My 'Salaams' to all ~
~ Y a s m i n ~
"All that is on earth will Perish. But will abide {Forever}
the Face of thy LORD, full of Majesty, Bounty and Honor"
{'Qur`an'- Surah Al-Rahman-55.26-27 }
Editorial
by Kaukab Siddique
PhD
Soft Targets
One of the most demeaning forms of human behavior is the
bombing of civilian populations. Russia is doing that right
now.
Ukraine is successfully answering the bombing.
Worse than that is the bombing of civilisations which cannot
shoot back and have no anti-aircraft weapons. They cannot
even respond to long range artillery and tanks.
America has been doing that to Islamic groups such as
Al-Qaida , ISIS and al-Shabab. The bombing of their families
has been documented. NATO as a whole has participated.
There has been no voice raised against these atrocities. In
fact the bomber pilots are hailed as heroes.
More than 40000 Muslim civilians were killed in the bombing
of Mosul by NATO and Iranian artillery.
Russians did that to eastern Aleppo where thousands were
killed. There was no protest from the western powers.
So there is a double standard. If Ukrainian civilians are
killed, even one or two, the media are full of it.
