11 Safar 1445 AH - August 27 2023 Issue # 35, Newsletter #2034
Critical Questions about the future of Muslims
On August 26, Dr Syed Ashraf invited distinguished Islamic
scholars, leaders and imams to his residence. He introduced
each invitee in an accurate and realistic way.The decor of
his home, with the names of Allah and various Islamic
pictures and illustrations added to the atmosphere.
The distinguished guests had to answer three questions from
Dr. Ashraf:
is the Renaissance of Islam possible? If so, how and
when?
Dr. Ashraf gave each invitee a few minutes to attempt an
answer to the questions.
The entire spectrum of Islam was represented in his home.
Sufis
Sunnies
Shia
Imams
attorneys
scientists
Maulana Israr [marhum] supporters.
Women activists
Jamaat al Muslimeen
Dr. Kaukab Siddique was the chairperson of the program. He
brought about a general discussion of the issues. He invoked
the teachings of Maulana Maudoodi and Malcolm X. He focused
on the rights of women and the global struggle of the
Muslims.
[Nadrat Siddique gave an update on the suffering of Aafia
Siddiqui. She got positive responses.]
Congratulations [excerpted from the News] via Br. Shoaib
Qureshi LONDON:
A British Pakistani 16-year-old student Mahnoor Cheema has
passed an astonishing total of 34 subjects at the General
Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) level - setting a
new record in the history of the United Kingdom as well as
internationally
Mahnoor Cheema passed 17 subjects with A* grades as a
private candidate in Year 10 and on Thursday she added 17
more subjects - taking the total count to 34 and
establishing a new milestone, marking the highest number of
subjects ever taken by a student in the history of UK and EU
GCSEs.
The rise of autocratic China and the US complicity
In January 1979, the USA and China formally established
their diplomatic relations. The intermediary role between
the two bitter rivals was played by Pakistan. Even in the
eighties, China was a typical third world country fighting
hard to resolve its hunger and poor economy. I visited
Beijing in November 1997 to attend an IUSSP (International
Union for Scientific Studies on Population) seminar. To me,
the Beijing airport looked even poorer than Bombay or
Karachi airport. The city roads were flooded with bicycles
and had a few motor cars. Beijing city hardly had any
highrise buildings that are seen in Dubai, Singapore or
Hongkong. But now, China is a different country. It is an
economic and military super power -second only to the US.
Despite huge economic progress, China has failed
tremendously to improve its human rights record. It is
hardly better than North Korea. Freedom of speech and
democratic rights have no place in China. A brutal fascist
regime now rules China. Because of its military and economic
power, China is now more aggressive and coercive. It
threatens neighbouring states like Vietnam, Philippines by
claiming its exclusive right in the South China Sea. It also
wants to occupy Taiwan. China also supports the brutal
fascist regimes in North Korea, Bangladesh and Myanmar.
In the making of such a powerful fascist China, the US
government has a huge contribution. In the cold war era, in
order to encounter the Soviet Russia-led communist block,
the US and allies colluded with the autocratic regime of
China and ignored its poor basic human rights record. Since
China has the world's largest labour market, the US
companies were encouraged to invest in China to exploit its
human resource potentials. Such US-led industrialisation
initiatives contributed heavily to make China the second
largest economy in the world. China may even become the
number one economic power in the coming decades.
Such economic power gave birth to new confidence and
political ambition among the Chinese ruling elites. In the
name of the Belt and Road initiative, China invested
hundreds of billions of dollars in Asian and African
countries and thus could buy their political allegiance. In
its domestic front, China has started its brutal cultural
war on its Uighur Muslims minorities. Xinxiang -its
resource-rich Muslim majority province now faces demographic
engineering to be a Muslim minority one. The Uighur Muslims
are now the target of de-Islamisation and cultural
conversion. Millions of Muslims are taken to concentration
camps to eradicate their Muslim identity.
Now, China's geopolitics has massively changed. Because of
its military and economic might, China is now the US's main
geopolitical adversary on the world stage. So far, the US
government was focussed only to harvest more economic gains
-as is the usual core instinct of every capitalist. But now
it raises the issue of China's human right violation. It
exposes the US leaders' grotesque hypocrisy. If they had any
interest in the promotion of democracy and human rights in
China, they could easily do so when the US had a good
working partnership with China against Soviet Russia. In
those days, China dearly needed the US money. Hence, the US
government could easily attach a binding precondition for
its economic investment in China. It could easily pressurize
the Chinese government to give adequate human rights to its
people. The US and its allies have imposed economic sanction
on Afghanistan to improve its human rights record. But the
US didn't do so against China during its long fifty years of
cordial relationship. Instead, the US government showed full
compatibility with the fascist regime in Beijing. As a
result, the US now encounters an enemy of its own making.
Thus the capitalists sell their ropes for their own
hanging.
Pakistan
With Imran Khan in Prison what next?
LAHORE: August 26:
Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) will not tolerate even a single day's
delay in the elections beyond the constitutional 90-day
period required to organize the polls following the
dissolution of assemblies, says JI Emir Sirajul Haq while
announcing the party's intention to approach the Supreme
Court to ensure the timely execution of the national
vote.
Speaking to the media after addressing a condolence
reference for JI Bangladesh vice-emir Dilawar Hussain Saeedi
at Mansoorah on Saturday,
Haq emphasized the caretaker government's foremost
responsibility to collaborate closely with the Election
Commission of Pakistan to ensure free and fair elections.
Additionally, he urged the caretaker government to reverse
the recent hikes in electricity tariff and petrol
prices.
Haq pointed out that the caretakers should refrain from
blindly adhering to the policies dictated by the IMF. He
said the masses were unable to bear the burden of inflated
bills. The JI, he said, to stage protest demonstrations
across the country against the surge in power tariff and
overall inflation, forcing the government take back decision
aimed at targeting the poverty-stricken masses at the behest
of the IMF.
He said it was due to ill-conceived economic policies of
past governments of the PDM, PPP, and PTI that the people
were starving to death, appealing the masses to actively
participate in JI's peaceful protests and raise their voices
against injustice.
The JI Emir said the former rulers lacked sincerity towards
the public. The rulers, he said, amassed wealth in foreign
accounts, depriving the people of from basic rights. He
emphasized that both military regimes and political parties'
governments backed by the establishment have only brough
destruction He urged the people to reject tested parties and
instead cast their votes for the JI, which promises genuine
transformation and the establishment of an Islamic welfare
state in Pakistan.
In homage to the tireless efforts of the late Dilawar Saeedi
for Islam and the Ummah, the JI chief extolled his
contributions, assuring that his endeavors would not be in
vain. Haq expressed optimism that the rule of the Quran and
Sunnah would ultimately prevail in both Bangladesh and
Pakistan.
WAR NEWS
UAE
The joint exercise seeks to 'deepen pragmatic exchange and
cooperation' between the Chinese and UAE militaries,
Beijing's defence ministry said [CFOTO/Future Publishing via
Getty Images-file photo]The Chinese and UAE air forces will
train together in August in Xinjiang province, where the
Chinese state has subjected the Uyghur Muslim ethnic group
to "crimes against humanity", according to human rights
groups.The Falcon Shield-2023 training - the first joint
exercise between the two nations' air forces - was announced
by Beijing's defence ministry on Monday.The exercise seeks
to "deepen pragmatic exchange and cooperation" between the
Chinese and UAE militaries and "promote mutual understanding
and trust", the ministry said in a statement.It comes after
an agreement was announced earlier this year to export
China's L15 training jet to the Gulf state, Beijing's
Global Times state newspaper reported. The UAE also
possesses Chinese drones.
Syria
Heavy Fighting
Bashar Assad's troops and Iranians advanced on an Islamic
village on the border of Irbid. An Islamic group
counterattack drove them back. Fighting continues with
losses on both sides.
Near Mayadeen [Deir ez Zor] big ISiS attack has caused
Bashar heavy losses, with death toll now 26 and many
injured.
Three US Congressmen for the first time are visiting orphans
in northern free Syria.Orphans welcomed them and accused
Bashar, Iran and Russia for the deaths of their parents.
Sudan
The commander of the Sudanese army has moved to Port Sudan
Saudi Arabia
Reports indicate that Saudi troops have killed numerous
Ethiopian migrants who were trying to enter Saudi
Arabia. Exact figures are not available.
12 000 Palestinian Children in Israeli Prisons.
Al Shibli mosque attacked.
Zionist enemy forces attacked Al-Shibli Mosque in center of
Hebron 27/August/2023]
HEBRON August 27. 2023 (Saba)-The Zionist enemy forces
attacked Al-Shibli Mosque in the Old City, downtown Hebron,
in the occupied West Bank.
According to (Palestine Online) website, the Director
General of the Hebron Endowment, Nidal al-Jabari, denounced,
in a press statement, the enemy forces' attack on the corner
and mosque of al-Shibli by breaking the windows of the
shrines and the windows of the mosque.
Al-Ja'bari called on the citizens and concerned institutions
to stand up to their duties to fight the Zionist enemy's
plans to control the Old City.
Assalaamu `Alaykum wa Rahmatullaahi wa Barakaatuhu'. ~
*Look in the Mirror*~ {!} A Reminder for myself first {!}
and after that , to all my fellow Muslimeen ---
For surely, the one who looks in the Mirror and is able to
see the truth...
the truth unadulterated has been blessed...{!}
Walhamdulillah !
Iyaas Ibn Mu'aawiyah~ { Rahimahullaah} said... "There is
no one who does not know his own faults, except that he is
stupid." of course, we all have our faults, but the
reality is many of us... we do not see them... {!}
Rather...we busy ourselves with the faults of others...{!}
Perhaps this preoccupation with the mistakes of others
is to mask our own faults- mistakes- and
transgressions...{!} putting the spotlight on their
shortcomings and forgetting our own...!
Be it Criticism... {!} Be it 'Nameemah'[gossip]... {!} Be
it Backbiting ...{!} The Poisons of the Tongue are Rampant
!
Perhaps our chief problem lies in the fact that we don't
see these faults ! In this respect, one who recognizes
their own faults has truly been Blessed {!} for
Bi'idhnillah now they may remedy them.
But what of the one who is blind to his/her own faults...
{?} who looks in the Mirror and sees Perfection --- {?}
one who doesn't turn back to Allah in 'Tawbah' for he sees
nothing wrong with himself --- ? And is this not the
scarier of the two...?
And it is true, that we may dismiss such a notion of ever
becoming the latter ... that is, one who is heedless, such
that he sees NO fault within himself ---? But - is it not a
Possibility ? I ask --- If we do not frequent this
Mirror...{?} if we go about our daily business without T
R U L Y looking at our reflection and assessing our own
character...?
and we pray never to be amongst such people {!}
Let us heed the message of Isa Ibn Maryam (a. s.) who
said---"Do not look at the people's faults as if you are
Lords... but look at your own faults as if you are Slaves
! because people are of two {2} types...
~Afflicted and Pardoned~{!}
So have Mercy on the Afflicted and thank Allah for
pardoning you and protecting you from it."'In Shaa Allah'~
may our trips to this Mirror become frequent through...
#1/~ Contemplation...#2/~ Reflection... and--- ? #3/~
Self-Assessment ! {'In Shaa Allah' ~ 'Aameen' !}
'Invite all to the way of thy Lord with wisdom and
beautiful preaching... And consult with them in ways that
are best
and most gracious'.
[Source~ 'Qur'an' Surat An-Naĥl ~(The Bee) ~
سورة
النحل, 16: A #125 ] ~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.A # 26-27
}**********************************************
Son of Adam! You are nothing but a number of days,
whenever each day passes then part of you has Gone!{Al-Hasan
Al-Basree}
Anas bin Malik r.a. narrated the Prophet, pbuh, said:Do not
hate one another, and do not be jealous of one another, and
do not desert one another - Sahih Bukhari, 6065
How Transwomen Use Testosterone to Get an Unfair Advantage Over Biological Women
by Sis. Aisha [Jamaat al-Muslimeen]
A 40-year-old Canadian transwoman, Anne Andres, has sparked
outrage by setting an unofficial "women's" powerlifting
record.
In athletic competitions, this gives transwomen the
advantage over biological women. Andres won by a
considerable margin in the Canadian Powerlifting Union's
2023 Western Canadian Championship Female Masters Unequipped
category. Andres lifted a whopping 200 kilograms more than
the second-place opponent, SuJan Gill.
It is believed that biological women will not be able to
compete at such a high level with testosterone-charged
transwomen.
A transwoman is someone born male but who lives as a woman.
They want to be addressed as she/her, even if they're not
transitioning to become a woman, anatomically. These
transwomen, especially those who have not transitioned,
still produce large amounts of testosterone found in
biological males. Transwomen, who have fully transitioned
to women, produce lower amounts of testosterone than
biological men do but they also produce more than the
average biological woman.
Some organizations allow transwomen athletes to compete with
biological women out of fear of being sued.
Convicted male sex offenders have been going as far as to
claim to be transwomen to avoid the sex-offender stigma,
which entails assaults by fellow male prisoners. However,
these same sexually perverted men "identifying" as women in
a women's prison have resumed sexually assaulting women
while there!
In Scotland and England, placing transwomen in women's
prisons is allowed on an individual basis.
Muslims should stay out of these political debates among the
kuffar. They do not know how to logically debate such an
issue anyway. They equate racial discrimination, which is
immoral, with LGBTQIA discrimination, which is a moral
issue. Some lesbian athletes are even against transwomen
competing in women's sports. So, the morality of a man or a
woman changing their sex is not an issue with these
complainers.
The issue is fairness. Collegiate swimmer Abby Carr says
that allowing transwomen to compete in sports discriminates
against biological women. This argument is similar to White
men's complaint that affirmative action discriminates
against them. These are emotional, not logical
arguments.
Transwomen have targeted biological women. Disney shows,
such as Raven's Home, want it to appear that transwomen and
biological women can be friends. But, in reality,
transwomen have an adversarial relationship with each other
and biological women. Transwomen envy biological women for
having Allah-given assets they can never possess.
Muslim communities must exercise vigilance about these
LGBTQIA measures to be sure to shield our schools,
businesses, and Islamic choices from any imposition of such
kafir policies.
(Source: FoxBusiness.com & National Center for Biotechnology
Information: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
Salaam,
INDIA
Treacherous Daily Dawn.
Dawn is attacking Pakistan where there has been ONE attack
on Christians. Pakistan has arrested 200 people and is
supporting the victims and paying compensation.
At least 400 acts of violence committed against Christians
in India in first half of 2023: report
By Anugrah Kumar, Christian Post Contributor
The first half of 2023 has seen a surge in violence against
Christians across 23 states in India
according to a New Delhi-based human rights group, which
identified 400 incidents, up from 274 reported over the same
period last year.
The majority of these violent acts occurred in Uttar
Pradesh, India's most populous state, with 155 incidents,
according to the report released by the United Christian
Forum and shared with The Christian Post.
Chhattisgarh ranked second with 84 cases, followed by
Jharkhand with 35, and Haryana with 32.
The districts of Jaunpur in Uttar Pradesh and Bastar in
Chhattisgarh reported the most cases of violence, with 13
and 31 incidents, respectively.
According to UCF's findings, the number of violent incidents
against Christians has been rising steadily in India since
2014, with a significant spike observed in 2021 and 2022
