(2:177) Righteousness does not consist in turning your faces
towards the east or towards the west; true righteousness
consists in believing in Allah and the Last Day, the angels,
the Book and the Prophets, and in giving away one's property
in love of Him to one's kinsmen, the orphans, the poor and
the wayfarer, and to those who ask for help, and in freeing
the necks of captives , and in establishing Prayer and
dispensing the Zakah. True righteousness is attained by
those who are faithful to their promise once they have made
it and by those who remain steadfast in adversity and
affliction and at the time of battle (between Truth and
falsehood). Such are the truthful ones; such are the
God-fearing.
Some scholars translate captives as slaves. That is a gross
error. Islam does not allow slaves at all. Ma malakut imanu
kum are captives, not slaves.
War News
[We report the war news without taking sides.]
Syria
December 30
Mass rallies in 6 northern towns protesting attempted
reconciliation of Turkish rep and Assad regime .
Al-Raqqa countryside : 6 members of Assad's security forces
were killed in ISIS mine attack.
Southern Hasakeh province: One SDF [pro-US] was killed and 5
injured in ISIS ambush.
Deraa province: Mass demonstration. Assad troops opened fire
on protestors demanding the overthrow of the regime and
removal of Iranian troops.
Deir ex Zor province ISIS gunmen attacking oil field workers
on road to Damascus killing 12 and injuring others.
Western Aleppo province. Missile strike by Hayat Tahrir
Islamic group killed Lebanese Hizbullah commander and two of
his troops.
Child Victims of Gun Violence
{GVA}
More than 6,000 children have been killed or injured in the
United States by gunfire in 2022, the most ever recorded in
the nine-year history of a nonprofit that tracks shooting
incidents.
With five days to go in the year, the Gun Violence
Archive found that 6,023 U.S. children 17 years old or
younger have been killed or hurt in gunfire this year,
surpassing the 5,708 killed or hurt 2021.
MORE: America has a gun violence problem. What do we do
about it?
The Gun Violence Archive said it was the most children to
die or be injured by gunfire in a single year since it
started keeping track in 2014.
At least 306 children 11 years old or younger have been
killed by gunfire in 2022, according to the website. Another
1,323 children between the ages of 12 and 17 died in
shootings, according to the website.
"Reverend" Sharpton!
December 27. According to CBS news, he admitted that he was
an FBI informant. Still he carries on on MSNBC as if he is a
legitimate journalist.
{Thank you Br. Salahuddim, Jamaat Muslimeen leader in
Denver.]
Please call to support Hasan and Jason on hunger strike!
Demand that the punishments being imposed on Jason Robb and
Siddique Abdullah Hasan be reversed and that OSP authorities
be severely reprimanded for violating their rights to due
process and displaying bias toward them.
Details and backstory (share this with media contacts,
please):
Prison Strike Leader Moved to Infirmary after Twenty Four
Days Refusing Food.
Siddique Abdullah Hasan, a national prisoner leader has been
on hunger strike since Monday, February 27th. On Friday,
March 24th he was moved to the infirmary, presumably due to
failing health. His appeal to the Rules Infraction Board
(RIB) was also denied by Ohio Department of Rehabilitation
and Correction (ODRC) Director Gary Mohr.
The administration at Ohio State Penitentiary (OSP) has been
targeting and restricting Hasan's communication access on
any pretense they can find or invent since his outspoken
support for the nation-wide prisoner strike on September 9th
of 2016.
Hasan and another prisoner, Jason Robb began refusing food
when the OSP administration put them on a 90 day
communication restriction for being interviewed by the
Netflix documentary series Captives. Hasan appealed the
RIB's decision, arguing that they violated policies
regarding timelines, access to witnesses, and prisoners' due
process rights. Director Mohr's response to the appeal was a
form letter that did not address any of the issues Hasan
raised.
Hasan and Robb are on death row and have been held in
solitary confinement since the 1993 prison uprising in
Lucasville. They believe that the ODRC and the Ohio State
prosecutors targeted them after the uprising because of
their role in negotiating a peaceful surrender. State
officials, in both the Captives documentary and a 2013
documentary called The Shadow of Lucasville, have admitted
that some prisoners were given deals to testify against
Hasan, Robb and others, and that no one really knows who
committed the most serious crimes during the uprising. In
court, they argued the opposite to secure death penalty
convictions.
The Lucasville Uprising prisoners have been fighting to tell
their story for decades, and are currently suing the ODRC
over an unconstitutional media blockade, which the Captives
documentary crew circumvented by unofficially recording
video visits with Hasan and Robb. The current hunger strike
is part of an ongoing struggle for equal protection, basic
human rights and survival after decades of living under the
most restrictive and torturous conditions of confinement at
OSP, Ohio's supermax prison.
Supporters are asking people to please call Director Gary
Mohr at 614-387-0588 or email him
at drc.publicinfo@odrc.state.oh.us as well as Northeast
Regional Director Todd Ishee, 330-797-6398. Demand that the
punishments being imposed on Jason Robb and Siddique
Abdullah Hasan be reversed and that OSP authorities be
severely reprimanded for violating their rights to due
process and displaying bias toward them.
Hasan's Conduct Report and appeal:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bxez-nYn2VrpVTVESENUZENnaVU/view?usp=sharing
Gary Mohr's form letter response:
https://drive.google.com/a/lucasvilleamnesty.org/file/d/0B9q-BEqATW6TeHVUUHM1ZVF5bnc/view?usp=sharing
Feb 28th announcement of hunger strike:
http://www.lucasvilleamnesty.org/2017/02/uprising-prisoners-censored-respond.html
Info about the lawsuit against media blockade:
http://www.lucasvilleamnesty.org/2014/04/aclu-articles-on-lucasville.html
Articles about Hasan's involvement with the September 9th
prison strike:
http://www.lucasvilleamnesty.org/search/label/strike%20september%209th
Food 7 Human Rights in Guatemala
by Nadrat Siddique
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African palm oil in Guatemala, and with a high rate of human
rights violations." PS - Feel free to join my team, Team
Jamaat al-Muslimala was violently evicted, affecting 50 Maya
Q'eqchi' families. There are 25 arrest warrants against
Q'eqchi' Ancestral Authorities.
Women and minors were arbitrarily detained without any
justification by the National Civil Police (PNC). This
eviction was on behalf of the the companymeen, when the
"join existing team" option comes up.
We stand with indi"On December 6th the Chapín Abajo
community in El Estor, Izabal, Guategenous peoples in their
fight for land rights and self-determination!.
Pakistan Must Help Baluchistan
by Faisal Sharif
LAHORE: Dec 29: Jamaat-e-Islami emir Sirajul Haq has
rejected the buzz about installing a technocrat caretaker
setup for a year or more as a joke and said the elections
are the only way forward to put the country on track.
Addressing a press conference at Mansoorah on Thursday, he
emphasized the need for electoral reforms before the polls.
He added elections without reforms will further the
crises.
The JI chief expressed solidarity with the people of
Balochistan and condemned the police crackdown on the Gwadar
sit-in. He announced the JI will mark Friday as the day of
solidarity with Balochistan. He said the propaganda was
being spread that the Gwadar sit-in was against the
CPEC.
"I want to make it clear that CPEC is crucial for the
development of Pakistan, and the JI is fully supporting the
project."
Residents of Gwadar had been demanding their rights even
before the idea of CPEC, he said, adding the government
should listen to their demands and hold dialogue with them.
The JI, he said, has never supported violence in
politics.
Haq said the country was paying the price of the
ill-conceived policies of the PDM, the PPP and the PTI
governments. He said the law-and-order situation worsened in
KPK while the sense of deprivation among the people of
Balochistan was at its peak, Punjab was facing political
crises, and floods brought the worst crisis in Sindh. Amid
the overall situation, he said, the federal and provincial
governments were in deep slumber. Their only concern, he
added, was the protection of self-interests. The ruling
elite consisted of landlords and imperialists was least
bothered about the problems of the common man, he said. The
mafias were ruling over the country and they lied to the
people, he said.
The JI, said Haq, wanted free and fair polls without any
interference from institutions. He said the Election
Commission should be financially and administratively
independent, and elections should be held on the principle
of proportional representation. He said people must reject
the tested parties and vote for the JI for corruption-free
Islamic welfare Pakistan.
Guidance from Sis. Yasmin
'Assalam Alaikum Wa Rehmath Ullahi Wa Barkatahu'.
The Great Challenge to Produce
One {1} Chapter Like the Chapters
of the Holy Qur`an.
Allah has said in the Qur`an...
'And if you are in doubt about what
We have revealed
(the Qur`an) to Our worshiper (Muhammad ),
then produce a chapter like it, and call your witnesses
(supporters and helpers)
besides God if you are truthful. And if you do not do it, and you can Never do it !
then fear the Fire (Hell) whose fuel is men and stones.
It has been prepared for disbelievers.
And give good news O Muhammad
to those who believe
and do good deeds, that for them are
gardens (Paradise)
in which rivers flow...'
[Source~ Qur`an~Surat Al-Baqarah (The Cow) -2 ~A# 23-25 ]
Ever since the Qur`an was revealed,
fourteen centuries ago, no one has been able
to produce a single chapter
like the chapters of the Quran in their
Beauty,
Eloquence,
Splendor,
Wise Legislation,
True Information,
True Prophecy,
and other perfect attributes.
{'Alhamdullilah'}
Also, note that the smallest chapter in the Qur`an
(Chapter #108) is only ten words,
yet no one has ever
been able to meet this challenge, then or today.
Some of the disbelieving Arabs who were enemies of the
Prophet Muhammad tried to meet this challenge to prove
that Muhammad
was not a true prophet,
but they failed to do so. This failure was despite
the fact that the Qur`an was revealed in their own language
and dialect and that the Arabs
at the time of Muhammad were a very
eloquent people who used to compose
beautiful and excellent
poetry, that is still read and appreciated today !
The smallest chapter in the Holy Qur`an (Chapter # 108)
is only ten words, yet no one has ever been able to meet
the
challenge to produce one chapter like
the chapters of the Holy Qur`aan.
~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 }
****************************************
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}
Courtesy:
This Beautiful, True Reality and open challenge of Allah
Kareem
til the Day of Judgement has been shared by sister
Yasmin.
I pray for sister Yasmin from the core of my heart,
may Allah Kareem bless her,
forgive her all mistakes and accept her all efforts for Deen
e Islam... Aameen..
Jazak Allah o Khairan Kaseeran
Editorial
by Kaukab Siddique, Ph.D
Shirk [associating others with Allah] closes off Human
creativity and endeavor.
A widespread weakness of Muslims is that they want others
than Allah to help them by spiritual intercession. They
call on saints to invoke Allah on their behalf. They want
intercession by humans, both by alive and sometimes dead
human beings.
Somehow they refuse to study what Allah says in the Qur'an:
[See sura Nisa 48]
Reward and punishment will be in the Hereafter.
In this world we are supposed to follow the mission brought
by the Prophet Muhammad, pbuh and the prophets before
him..
Oneness of the Creator and the oneness of humanity.
Opposing oppression, exploitation and tyranny of all kinds.
Study the creation and come up with solutions making the world a better place.
Research against disease, poverty and wastefulness.
Prayers are meant to cleanse ourselves and make ourselves better human beings
Stop waiting for saviors. Each one of us is accountable for what we do.
Gwadur, Pakistan
December 27. Large numbers of protestors were beaten up by
police and teargassed after governmnment broke its
promises.
The leader of the crowds is a jamaate Islami spiritual
leader.
The crowds reacted against police atrocities and chased the
police.
