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How We Keep in Touch with Allah
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Epstein files Indicate Possible Involvement by Top US Politicians
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World News Roundup
by Dr Kaukab Siddique
New World Order in Search of Humanity Law and Order
by Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD.
Brooklyn Woman Attacks Muslims
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The Right to Defend in America Has Been Eroded
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An Arrest in Muslimah's Acid Attack
by Sr Aisha
THE HEART IS NOT PUT RIGHT UNTIL THE TONGUE IS PUT RIGHT
by Sr. Yasmin
How Do Muslims Maintain a Close Relationship with Allah
We pray five times a day: One prayer before sunrise; two prayers during midday; one around sunset; and one at night.
We seek guidance. How do we do this? By reading Qur'an and Hadith.
Responsibilities of a Muslim
Liberation of Palestine: This is a requirement for a Muslim, including taking back all lands forcibly taken by the kuffar.
Opposing oppression: Oppressors must be opposed using various means depending on the situation.
Other Tenants of Faith
Judge men and women by their behavior, not by their gender.
Rejection of imperialism and Zionism.
Epstein files Indicate Possible Involvement by Top US Politicians
As more and more of the Epstein files are released, involvement by top level US and European officials is becoming increasingly clear. Reports indicate that girls and children were brought or lured to Epstein's island where they were raped by prominent persons from numerous European countries. It appears that the United States did not want the lists of the victims to be revealed, but gradually the facts have come out creating a storm of controversy in the US and elsewhere.
The level of perversion by top US and European leaders makes one wonder how, going forward, they ever rightfully claim any moral high ground in lecturing Muslim countries on their treatment of women.
World News Roundup
By Dr. Kaukab Siddique
Venezuela
The United States bombed Caracas and kidnapped Nicholas Maduro, the president of Venezuela, and his wife Celia Flores, and brought them to New York for trial on concocted charges. Flores was treated especially brutally, as the couple was dragged out of their home. She appeared to have a black eye and bruises in photos published by international media. Legal observers consider the abduction a violation of international law.
Syria
British and French jets bombed areas of Syria suspected of harboring Islamic state fighters. Turkey joined in and arrested more than 100 Islamic state suspects.
Yemen
Saudi forces are fighting in Yemen with militia backed by corrupt UAE regime.
Pakistan
The corrupt Pakistani regime is trying to arrest the Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (major Pakistani province), Sohail Afridi leader. Afridi has been rallying public support to release Imran Khan.
Pakistan is becoming a police state. The government also attempted to arrest a singer who sang in support of Imran Khan. Protests are called terrorism.
February 9 - A human bomber attacked the Shi'ite imambargah in Islamabad, killing 31 and injuring 169 in their prayer hall.
Palestine
Three Israelis were killed in Gaza, despite Jewish fire power. Three babies died of cold and lack of food. Food lines and distribution points are regularly blocked by Jewish settlers
Australia
Protestors chanted: "We don't want Herzog here!" Many Australians carried placards listing the civilians killed by Israel in occupied Palestine. Masses of Australians protested the visit of Israeli President. Protestors were crushed by the police but the protests continued opposing the Jewish Israeli genocide in occupied Palestine.
Muslims praying in the street were beaten and stomped on by the police. Videos show protestors being picked up and thrown down by the police. Women were beat by police.
Lebanon and Syria
The Jewish Israeli air force is spraying poison into border areas of Lebanon and Syria, so that nothing can grow there.
New World Order in Search of Humanity, Law and Order
By Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD.
Paradox of Time and History
Is the New World Order a hypothetical phenomenon or a convenient reality to be imagined? How do you assess its evolving substance for the future? Who would usher the New Order or would it be a remaking of historical belligerency by despotic rulers against the people? Who would the new kings, new emperors and new rulers of the 21st century and beyond world? Recall Hans Morganthau (Politics of Nations), called power politics a 'psychological sickness'. Flamboyant proclamations of an imaginary world of power defies the logic of the present time and place of order. H.G. Wells, the British author, tried to redefine "new world order" as a synonym for the establishment of a technocratic world state and of a planned economy, garnering popularity in state socialist circles.
Some authoritarianism- lords, emperors and nobles stemmed from the 16th century European Renaissance although knowledge, science and intellectual awakening were the products of new manifestations. The so-called Western democratic culture of superior power is shortsighted and naive. Enlightened and people-oriented leaders hold visions for change and sustainable future-making, not greed or egoistic insanity to quell law, freedom, justice and global peace. Leaders and powerful nations search for stability and a sustainable future cannot be idealistic and perfectionist. Progressive nations look for continuous change and adaptability to future-making and not running after idealistic perfection which means the end game and nothing else.
NATO is in crisis on security, war in Ukraine, Greenland and divide between Europe and America.
The US needs a navigational change but entrapped in chaos.
After WW2, states and nations professed binding commitments to hold the Charter of the UNO and "save the succeeding generations from the scourge of war."
Not so, those pioneering the evolutionary Charter went astray to invade other nations and indulge in crimes against humanity, aggression and genocide.
Historically, leaders and nations claiming to be the most powerful on earth violate the Laws of God and come closer to an end of their time and history.
The Earth was meant to sustain life for all sanctity of human values and universal brotherhood.
Imperialists time and again broke the covenants and victimized other nations in Asia, the Arab world and Africa.
What a contrast, what a tragedy those responsible to shield global values turned out to be aggressors, hangmen and criminals under International Law.
Israel leads the contemporary history of crimes against Palestinian people and global institutions appear dysfunctional to extend any protection or security to the people of Palestine.
The masses live in fear and corrosive values of international norms.
President Trump wants to make America great again by denying the existence of multicultural socioeconomic and political reality of the 21st century evolutionary world.
It is not Greenland occupation, or attack on Venezuela, or threat to Canada and Panama to empower America as a Great Natio—but allegiance to the UN Charter, respect of states sovereignty, non-intervention, peace, order and harmony between nations and respect of law to contribute for global stability and peace.
To enhance America as a progressive nation, the essence is an integral part of emigrants from Europe and other parts of the globe as the historic foundation of this nation.
Alarmingly, the immigrants are haunted and deported to foreign countries as gangsters, drug dealers, and criminals. Is American history in conflict with its own formulation?
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.' Day will be celebrated on January 19. A visionary, a proactive pioneer of enriched moral, intellectual values of peace, humanity and global harmony.
American history shall remember and honor such a role model of human consciousness, peace and brotherhood.
When Western history wills, tragic history happens.
Wars, colonization, aggression and military occupation are all distinct historical milestones of authoritarian leadership.
Machiavelli's Prince relives to unleash tragic tensions of time and history – the endless echo flows from the same myriad of supremacy, hatred and psychology of political maneuvering to control people and thinking minds.
To wake -up informed mankind of the 21st century, and beyond you have a new World Order overshadowing all encompassed universal proclamations, charters, Magna Carta, nobility of rational thinking, collective consensus of time and history – it is a new beginning of unthinkable dark future.
We, the People are engrossed by the few- the egoistic lords of lawless unexcitable shadows of power politics and fearful of their own inner soul, survival and strength for future-making.
Politics of Fallacy and Power of Hegemony
Chris Hedges (Grand Illusion: 1/11/26) spells out the facts of American authoritarianism.
ChrisHedges.substack.com/p/grand-illusion
We are cursed by what the historian Barbara Tuchman calls the "bellicose frivolity of senile empires.".......
Our high priests of war, Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth, Stephen Miller and the Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Dan "Razin" Caine, are no different from the fools and charlatans who snuffed out empires of the past — the haughty leaders of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the militarists in imperial Germany and the hapless court of Tsarist Russia in World War I. They were followed by the fascists in Italy under Benito Mussolini, Germany under Adolf Hitler and the military rulers of imperial Japan in World War II.
Monroe Doctrine was an intent of history not facts of history to be instigated by futurists US presidents. Global peace and order are not the by-product of authoritarianism. The creation of UNO assured the much-desired stability after the bloodbath of WW2. Yet the lessons of history are ignored and stuffed in lost visions. The Chris Hedges Report ("The Machinery of Terror" 1/11/26), recalls annals of history:
ChrisHedges.substack.com/p/the-machinery-of-terror
... As Trump threatens other territories, from Cuba to Greenland to Mexico, many are questioning just how far his administration is willing to go in pursuing hemispheric domination—and, in historian Jay Sexton's words, whether Trump's ambitions will prove to be "another flash in the pan or the beginning of a more consequential strategic turn."
In a prison, they call those awaiting the executioner ' Dead Men Walking'. Well, only a damned fool would not see what this Trump-led government has been doing since January 2025. ..... the fools in our Congress, our media, and the MAGA faithful won't push away from this horror and demand that this cognitive failing hustler and his minions just go away! We are a Dead Country Walking that has plenty of military power and ammunition with absolutely NO MORAL COMPASS!
Contemporary Crises are a Menace to Global Peace, Law and Order
West European and American history needs no new introduction in the surge of imperialism and conquest and military domination of small and vulnerable nations across Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
The Middle East Peace Plan is a hoax, a sham and failure of Arab-Muslim leadership. The composition of "Board of Peace" is a board of real estate agents to exploit Gaza and undo freedom of Palestine. Everyday innocent people are bombed and displaced by Israel. PM Netanyahu and his extremist governance would soon put the finished answer to Palestine and a Greater Israel would dominate the Arab Middle East. It is oil and land to be grabbed by the US-Israel strategic plan. Phil Rockstroh ("The Toxic Innocence of Empire: The US and Israel, Forever Blameless, Always Pure in Motive On the madness of perpetual war and imperialist overreach", Dissident Voice: 1/09/26), views the US-Israel policies and practices as of a superior race acting to shield its own transitory image:
DissidentVoice.org/2026/01/the-toxic-innocence-of-empire-the-us-and-israel-forever-blameless-always-pure-in-motive
There is an exact and troubling historical correlation between the Trump administration's imperialist aggression against Venezuela and Israel's perpetual crimes against humanity. Both can be traced to a Western settler-colonialist worldview possessed by a sense of insatiable entitlement, and the psychological carnage concomitant to a citizenry given to the brutality inherent to the pursuit of colonialist and/or imperialist agendas. Whether the collective mode of mind is termed Manifest Destiny or Zionist doctrine, both are manifested in the ethnic cleansing of indigenous people that can be traced back to a European belief system that insists upon its innate (White supremacy-rancid) ...
The UNO was an outcome of collective wisdom and resolve to foresee global peace, non-intervention and non-aggression and respect of human rights and sovereignty of states. Its main aims were to prevent wars and restore trust in collective dialogue and participation in peace and conflict resolution. Imagine some eight decades later, we continued to witness abrogation of human rights, lost freedom and justice in all parts of the globe. Those holding the Gospel in one hand have planned wars, killing, occupation and intervention in other states propelling greed of oil and money and monstrous control of helpless people. Raging wars in Ukraine, Palestine and elsewhere see no beacon of hope, knowledge and collective wisdom to stop or to change the nuisance of political power and sadistic leadership minds capable of offering a promising world of tomorrow or day after tomorrow.
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Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja specializes in international affairs-global security, peace and conflict resolution and has spent several academic years across the Russian-Ukrainian and Central Asian regions, getting to know the people, diverse cultures of thinking and political governance. He has a keen interest in Islamic-Western comparative cultures and civilizations, and is the author of several publications.
Sis. 'Aisha
The Right to Defend in America Has Been Eroded
On January 9, 2026, Joel Adrian Florez, 43 years old, was arrested and charged with murder in the death of Joel Samuel Lozano Jr., 39 years old, who trespassed and unlawfully entered Florez's home with a weapon. This incident occurred in Big Spring, Texas, where Florez is currently being detained in a Howard County detention center.
Despite Lozano's unlawful entry into Florez's home, local police view Lozano as the "victim," not Joel Florez.
There is an astronomical number of cases where a person defending himself or herself and a loved one has been charged with a crime!
In the public school system, two children fighting are suspended, even if one of the children was a victim of bullying by the other. The school system no longer considers self-defense when investigating fights. In fact, suspending both students is a lazy way for the educational system to avoid any investigation or accountability in allowing the bullying to occur unchecked.
The professional sports leagues have long adopted an anti-self-defense stance by punishing players who fight. The NBA has been so extreme in its punishments for men who throw punches that fighting among men has been reduced to a slap-fest.
America does not like self-defense. If America truly valued its freedom fighters, it would extend its praise of fighting for freedom to those who fought against human bondage in America, rather than limiting its praise to the hypocritical, genocidal, slave-owning Founding Fathers!
Realizing America's disdain for those who fight against oppression of any kind has helped me to understand why it is so in love with its serial killers. Yet another movie depicting serial rapist and murderer, John Wayne Gacy is on television again. And how many television reality shows about serial killers, like the beloved Ted Bundy. are there? Too many to count! There are numerous documentary series about spouses killing spouses, neighbors killing neighbors, friends killing friends, etc. There is even a show about people who nearly committed the perfect crime but got caught!
American society has a fascination and admiration for the oppressor: the bully, the crime boss, the serial rapist and murderer. The Associated Press has demonstrated its concern for the aggressor instead of the victim of a crime. Rather than focus on the heinous wrong committed against the victim of a crime, the media paints the crime victim as weak and uninteresting.
The prosecutors are the true culprits because they are the ones who go forward with criminalizing self-defense. It is not just up to activism to protect our rights, but also to these runaway juries who decide against convictions based on their own God-conscious common sense and moral logic.
(Source: Independent.co.uk via MSN.com)
An Arrest in Muslimah's Acid Attack
Nafia Ikram was the victim of a vicious acid attack, steps from her family's Nassau County, Long Island home. On March 17, 2021, as the Hofstra student walked toward the entrance of her home, the perpetrator, in a hoodie, can be seen running up to her and then immediately fleeing. The perpetrator fled in a red 2013-2015 Nissan Altima in the area at the time. There was a 2025 tip that helped police locate the suspect and the 2015 Nissan Altima he had access to, which was registered to a family member.
After years of patience and praying, the police have arrested a suspect: Terrell Campbell, a 29-year-old aspiring rapper living with his mother in Brooklyn. Police say that community tips and digital surveillance led to Campbell's arrest. Campbell rapped about burning a woman's face with acid in his song "Obsidian," and there were web searches on his computer regarding the 'acid attacks' a day after it occurred. Prosecutors said that their efforts to contact technology companies to see Campbell's web searches slowed their investigation. There were searches including for "sulfuric acid remover," "sulfuric acid on car seat," and "How do I remove sulfuric acid from my car's fabric?" Nassau County Prosecutor Anne Donnelly alleged.
Other jugganauts thwarted progress in this case. For instance, Nafia's father, Sheikh Ikram, was listed as a suspect and subjected to lie detector tests. They were suspicious of Nafia's account of what happened.
The statute of limitations was fast approaching in this horrific case, according to People Magazine. Should there be a statute of limitations in an assault case? When the statutes of limitations expire after a certain period without charges being filed against anyone, either because the victim refuses to come forward or because there is no evidence, the case is dead. Any suspect can walk free after the statutes expire.
There is a five-year statute of limitations in this case, and authorities say that this case is not over. They are investigating whether Campbell was paid to commit his crime. If so, by whom? More arrests are possible. According to Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder, whom the Ikram Family have questioned over the slow progress in the case, said, "We will make sure the family gets the closure they deserve and the animal will go to jail for a long, long time ... along with anyone else involved in this case."
Terrell Campbell has been charged with assault, possession of a weapon, and possession of noxious material. He was ordered held without bail. If convicted, he could be sentenced to up to 25 years in jail. He has pleaded not guilty.
Nafia and her family are relieved. She said that she was fearful while the perpetrator was at large. Nafia still needs surgeries to remove scar tissue from her throat so that she can eat and breathe normally. However, she is also grateful for how far she has come since this attack and is focused on completing college and possiblyentering a career as a trauma surgeon.
There was a $50,000 award in this case that will be paid, according to the authorities.
Sherina Mohammed, Nafia Ikram's mother, thanked everyone who prayed for her daughter and those who investigated the case.
(Source: CBSNews & People.com)
Salaam,
Sis. 'Aisha Jamaat al-Muslimeen New York City
Guidance from Sis. Yasmin
*PROPHET*~ ﷺ *THE HEART IS NOT PUT RIGHT UNTIL THE TONGUE IS PUT RIGHT *
It is reported in al-Musnad, on the authority of Anas, that the
Prophet ﷺ
[ may Allah bless him and grant him peace ]said:
' The Faith of a servant is not put right
until his Heart is put right,
and his heart is not put right
until his Tongue is put right.'
This shows that the Prophet
[ may Allah bless him and grant him peace ]
has made the purification of Faith conditional on the purification of the Heart, and the purification of the Heart
conditional on the purification of the Tongue...{!}
At-Tirmidhi relates in a Hadith on the authority of
Ibn 'Umar (R):
'Do not talk excessively without remembering Allah, because such excessive talk without the mention of Allah causes the heart to harden, and the person furthest from Allah is
a person with a hard heart.'
'Umar Ibn al- Khattab' ~
[ may Allah be pleased with him] said:
'A person who talks too much is a person who often
makes mistakes, and someone who often makes mistakes,
often has wrong actions.
The Fire has a priority over such a frequent sinner.'
In a Hadith related on the authority of Mu'adh (R)~
Prophet[ may Allah bless him and grant him peace ] said---
'Shall I not tell you how to control all that...?'
I said, ' Yes do, O Messenger of Allah.'
So he held his tongue between his fingers, and then he said:
'Restrain this.' {!}
I said, 'O Prophet of Allah, are we accountable for what we say?' he said, 'May your mother be bereft by your loss...
is there anything more than the harvest of the tongues
that throws people on their faces
(or he said 'on their noses') into the Fire?'
A hadith related by Abu Huraira~ (RA) says:
'What mostly causes people to be sent to the Fire are the
two {2} openings, the mouth and the private parts.'
Abu Huraira (RA) also related that the Messenger of Allah
[ may Allah bless him and grant him peace ] said-
'The servant speaks words, the consequences of which he does
not realize, and for which he is sent down into the depths of
the Fire further than the distance between the
east and the west.'
The same Hadith was transmitted by at-Tirmidhi with slight variations:
'The servant says something that he thinks is harmless,
and for which he will be plunged into the depths of the
Fire as far as seventy autumns.'
Uqba ibn Amir (R) said:
''I said: ''O Messenger of Allah, what is our best way of surviving?''
he [may Allah bless him and grant him peace] replied---
'Guard your tongue, make your house suffice for
sheltering your privacy, and weep for your
wrong actions.'
It has been related on the authority of Sahl ibn Sa'd(R)
that the Prophet ﷺ said---
'Whoever can guarantee what is between his jaws and what is between his legs, I guarantee him the Garden.'
It has also been related by Abu Huraira~[may Allah be pleased with him]
that the Prophet ~
[ may Allah bless him and grant him peace ] said:
'Let whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day
either speak good or remain silent.'
The Prophet [ may Allah bless him and grant him peace said:
'Everything that the children of Adam say goes against them, except for their enjoining good and forbidding evil, and remembering Allah, Glorious and Mighty is He.'
[ This was reported by at-Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah on the authority of Umm Habiba,~
[may Allah be pleased with her].
Umar ibn al- Khattab visited Abu Bakr...
[may Allah be pleased with them both]
and found him pulling his tongue with his fingers... !
Umar [RA] said '' Stop! may Allah forgive you !''
Abu Bakr [ may Allah bless him ]replied:
'This Tongue has brought me to
dangerous places.'
Abdullah ibn Masud (R) said :
' By Allah, besides Whom no God exists, nothing deserves
a long prison sentence more than my tongue.
He also used to say
'O tongue, say good and you will profit;
desist from saying evil things and you will be safe;
oherwise you will find only regret.'
Abu Huraira (R) reported that Ibn al-Abbas(R) said:
'A person will not feel greater fury or anger for any part of
his body on the Day of Judgement
more than what he will feel for his Tongue !
unless he only used it for saying or enjoining good.'
Al-Hassan~[ may Allah bless him ] said:
'Whoever does not hold his tongue cannot understand
his deen.'
The least harmful of a tongue's faults is talking about whatever does not concern it.
The following Hadith of the Prophet
[ may Allah bless him and grant him peace ] said:
is enough to indicate the harm of this fault:
''One of the merits of a person's Islam is his
abandoning what does not concern him.''
Abu Ubaida related that al-Hassan (R) said:
''One of the signs of Allah's abandoning a servant is
His making him preoccupied with what does not
concern him.''
Sahl (ra) said:
'Whoever talks about what does not concern him
is deprived of truthfulness. '
This is the least harmful of the tongue's faults.
There are far worse things ...like
backbiting,
gossiping,
obscene and misleading talk,
two-faced and hypocritical talk,
showing off,
quarrelling,
bickering,
lying,
mockery,
derision
and falsehood;
and there are many more faults which can affect
a servant's tongue,
ruining his heart and causing him to lose both his
happiness and pleasure in this life, and his success
and profit in the next life.
ALLAH {Azza Wa Jal } is the One to whom we turn for Assistance~
{'In Shaa Allah'!...'Aameen'}...Wal Hamdulillahi Rabbil Alamin.