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April is Iqbal's anniversary, the
Pakistani
poet
who broke the chains of
slavery in Muslim minds. Here are a few of his
verses in which he teaches how
slave minds can misread the
Qur'an
itself:
isi Qur'aan mainhay ub tarake jahan ki ta'lim
jis nay momin ko banaya mah-o-pervin ka ameer
'tun ba taqdir' hay aaj un kay amal ka andaz
thi nihan jin kay iradon may khuda ki taqdir
tha jo na khoob, ba tadreej wohi 'khoob' huwa
keh ghulami main badal jata hay qaumun ka zameer
[Translation;
The same Qur'an now has the teaching of 'stay
away from the world'
which (the Qur'an) at one time made the believer
the leader of the world.
'Waiting for fate' is now the work style of those
whose intentions at one time carried the Will of
God in them!
What was 'no good,' gradually became 'good'
Because slavery changes the conscience of a
nations.]
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Mosque In Swedish Southern City Set On Fire
David’s star was freshly painted on the mosque’s
walls
By Haneefah bint Stefan, Special to IOL
MALMO, Sweden, April 28
(IslamOnline.net)
- Some
55,000 members of the
Swedish Muslim community in this southern Swedish
city of Malmo have become
without a place for worship after their mosque
was almost completely
destroyed by a fire – apparently a hate crime-
late Sunday night, April 27.
The fire was so wild that the Swedish police had
to bring in more firemen
from all over the south of Sweden to control it.
One of the mosques supervisors, Imam Bejzat
Becirov – Bosnian – said "It’s
extremely terrible," when he saw his life work
being shattered by the
flames.
Swedish Police man Goran Olsson told Swedish
daily Afton Bladet that it
cannot be excluded that the fire was set on
purpose. The cause of the fire
was not immediately known, however many had
suspicions about the mosque
being set on fire due to a hate crime.
Trying to put out the fire, the firemen, along
with crying Muslims, noticed
a clear "David’s star" freshly painted on the
wall of the mosque.
"We have received threats against us but I don’t
want to speculate about the
cause of the fire," said Becirov.
The flames of hate eating up the mosque
The fire department was notified some minutes
after 11pm (local time) after
some persons had noticed smoke rising from the
big building.
The fire spread quickly and wildly. Twenty
minutes after the discovery, the
central parts of the building were completely on
fire, as well as the school
building and the kitchen.
Becirov was very disappointed at the work of the
firemen. "The fire has
lasted for one hour now, and still they don’t
have water in all the hoses,"
he said at midnight , at the same time as the
roof of the school building
collapsed.
A lot of Muslims soon gathered at the site of
the fire and the police were
forced to block the roads in the area. Some of
them were crying bitterly.
One of the people who came to the site was the
Imam Adly Abu Hajar, one of
the Imams of the mosque, of
Palestinian
origins.
He told the Swedish daily
what happened, minutes before the tragedy
started.
"We held evening prayer here at 10.15pm. We had
had a children’s group
earlier and we were around ten adults who stayed
for the prayer. We left the
mosque soon after 10.30pm , made sure it was
locked good, and we didn’t hear
or see anything unordinary," he said.
Thirty minutes later, the fire was discovered.
The fire department sent
staff and cars from six stations to fight the
fire. The work was made
difficult by the strong wind.
Many people were irritated because the firemen
did not manage to stop the
fire soon enough to save the building. People
were also trying to get inside
the mosque.
"We called in all people we have," the police
chief said, shortly before one
o’clock after midnight. The site of the fire,
however, was in chaos, and
at two o’clock – some three hours after the fire
was reported – the flames
were still burning wildly.
Before the hate crime
"We have been able to save the minaret and the
center building of the mosque
to a certain degree," said Per-Erik Ebbestal from
the Malmo Fire department.
The other buildings are completely destroyed.
The large prayer room is made of stone but was
damaged severely by smoke and
heat.
"Everything is turning into pieces," devastated
Becirov said. "We’re talking
about values of up to $8.5 millions. 55,000
members of the Muslim community
here will be without their mosque," he added.
The mosque in Malmo was introduced in 1984 as the
first one in Scandinavia.
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Jewish Scholars Originated the Attacks on Hadith
now Being Spread Among
Unwary Muslims by People who Claim to be
following "Qur'an Only."
[Dr. Kaukab Siddique
has sent the following
response to persons with Muslim
names who are disseminating abusive attacks on
the Hadith of the Prophet
Muhammad (pbuh) in an ongoing campaign to delink
the Prophet, pbuh, from the
Qur'an.]
Allah's Word, the Qur'an, and the Prophet's
words, the Hadith, have always
gone together. Be it
Imam Bukhari
or any of our
other great scholars, from
Imam Abu Hanifa to Maulana Maudoodi, all have put
the Qur'an first, with the
Prophet's Hadith as its decisive interpretation.
The attack on the Hadith is not an Islamic
endeavor. It was a
Christian missionary endeavor first but its
greatest scholars have been Jews.
G.A. Pervez, etc, copied almost verbatim from the
Jews.
Ignaz Goldziher's Muhammedanische Studien
was published in 1869 when the
Muslim world had been colonized. Since then it
has appeared in English, first
in bits and pieces and then in complete
translation. Parts of it have been
published in Urdu.
He was a Hungarian Jew from the Hebrew
Congregation in the city of Pec.
Just about all the views of G.A. Pervez and
his fellows are to be found
in Goldziher's book. Protestant missionaries like
Samuel Zwemer and Temple
Gairdner hailed Goldziher's writings and tried to
spread them to weak Muslim
intellectuals.
Here are some of the absurdities about
Hadith spread by the Pervezi
fitna which are copied almost wholsale from
Goldziher and other Jews:
1. Hadith was transmitted orally, so it is
not reliable.
2. The existing Hadith collections do not
refer to earlier collections,
so there were no no earlier collections. Thus
hadith BEGAN in the third
century of Islam.
3. Why are hadith from young sahaba more in
number than those of older
ones.? [Very obvious reason, but discussion will
be done at some later date.]
4. ISNAD [chains of transmission] did not
exist before the first
century, so must have been arbitrarily
manufactured.
5. Many hadith contradict each other.
6. Both ISNAD and Hadith were forged.
7. Muslim scholars looked only at Isnad and
not at the text of the
Hadith.
and on and on.
Goldziher's main point, which has affected
just about all the
munkareene hadith, and was accepted in a very
sophisticated way by Dr. Fazlur
Rahman, was as follows:
"The hadith will not seve as a document for
the history of the infancy of
Islam, but rather as a reflection of the
tendencies which appeared in the
community during the more mature stages of its
development.' (Muhammedanische
Studien, II, 5)
Goldziher's attack on Hadith was picked up
and developed further by
another famous Jewish scholar, Joseph Schacht,
who published his outstanding
book The Origins of Islamic Jurisprudence in
1950, reprinted in 1964. He
denounced ALL of Hadith as a huge fraud and
claimed that the Prophet (pbuh)
had no concern with SHARIA or Islamic Law, and
that Hadith related to law
were inventions. He made a detailed attack on
ISNAD.
Again Schacht became hugely popular with
the enemies of Islam.
Thus when I wrote that those who are
attacking Hadith are, witting or
unwitting, tools of the Jews, I was writing with
a full sense of
responsibility.
[All these Jewish attacks have been refuted in
detail, point by point, by
great Islamic scholars as well as by honest
non-Muslim scholars. They are
only of interest now because Pervezis among
westernized Pakistanis living
overseas have started regurgitating these
falsehoods in the hope that they
will spread among Muslims who have not taken the
trouble to STUDY the
teachings of the Prophet, pbuh.]
[NABIA ABBOTT's research in the discovery of
ACTUAL HADITH WRITINGS on
papyrus from the time of the Prophet (pbuh)
himself have made the argument
that Hadith were not written down, outdated. See
Studies in Arabic Literary
Papyri by Abbott which appeared in 1957 but was
ignored by the Pervezi sect
because it would destroy their entire
Jewish-inspired adventure. She followed
it up by a series of other related books in 1967,
1972, and 1983.]
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Three News Reports: Thanks to National Public
Radio
(NPR).
[NPR seems to be
making a big effort to improve its reporting.
These three items did not
appear on any of the major TV channels.]
1. GUANTANAMO BAY: 600 Islamic People from 45
countries Who have no Rights but
are Allowed to Pray.
Under international criticism, the
U.S.
is
trying to do some public
relations improvements in its treatment of the
Islamic prisoners in
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. At least some of them have
been moved from Camp X-Ray
to Camp Delta. Camp X-Ray was open to the
elements, dilapidated and like a
death camp. In Camp Delta, conditions seem to be
much better or at least were
shown to be better to reporters who sent this
story.
Prayers are allowed. Prisoners have Qur'ans.
Even the call to prayer is
permitted (and was heard on NPR).
However, the prisoners have no rights of any
kind:
1. Their names are not given out. They are people
without names.
2. They are not charged with any crime and don't
have any idea why they are
there.
3. They have no attorneys, no visitors, no
relatives.
4. Their imprisonment is open ended. They are not
told how long they will be
held.
Suicide attempts by 25 of the prisoners have
been reported.
Amnesty International
has voiced concern over the
conditions of these
prisoners of war. [The U.S. refuses the claims
that they are P.O.W.s]
Some of the prisoners are
Afghan
children
ages 13 to 15. The U.S. refuses
to let them go, saying, on the one hand, that
they are dangerous, and on the
other that they are learning useful skills in
prison.
New Trend's comment: Why did they try to kill
themselves when they are
followers of Islam? Observers say that the U.S.
exercises psychological ways
of creating extreme disorientation, through use
of sleep deprivation, bright
lights and endless interrogation which can create
a sense of hopelessness.
Till now, no voices have arisen from the Muslim
world for the release of
these Islamic people. After one year and 4
months, 13 Pakistanis were
released who were found to have been sold to the
Americans by the "northern
alliance" although they had no connection with
any armed formation.
[As no names are given out, it's not known if
Mullah Zaeef, the last Taliban
ambassador to Pakistan is among them. In an act
of dastardly treachery which
has blackened the name of Pakistan in Islamic
history, General Musharraf
handed over the popular, pious and learned
ambassador to the Americans. Even
the dirtiest traitors in Muslim history never did
what Musharraf did for U.S.
dollars, handing over a Muslim ambassador to the
kafirun.]
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2. MUSLIMS CLOSEST TO
BUSH
ARE CRYING OUT OVER
THE APPOINTMENT OF DANIEL
PIPES TO PEACE FOUNDATION.
The second NPR news item was the
appointment of Daniel Pipes to a
"Peace" Foundation which will "advise" Bush on
how to deal with Muslims.
Pipes is so extreme in his anti-Islamic views
that Muslims who want to work
closely with the Bush administration are
protesting about his appointment.
According to Ibrahim Hooper, Director of
CAIR,
a
Muslim advocacy group, Pipes
has come up with the concept of "Islamism"
according to which ALL Muslims who
are serious about their religion can be seen as
potential terrorists.
NEW TREND COMMENT: There can be little doubt that
Daniel Pipes is an
extremist. It may not be a coincidence that he is
a
Jew.
His appointment can
be compared to the appointment of the white
racist Klu Klux Klan Grand Dragon
as an adviser on African-American issues.
The condition of Muslims in funded groups
like CAIR is indeed pathetic.
These Muslims have already recognized
Israel.
They see Hamas, Hizbullah,
Islamic Jihad and Hizbut Tahrir as terrorists.
They have fulfilled all the
requirements of being tame, spineless and in full
prostration in front of the
White House.
However, now President Bush has imposed on
them a man, Pipes, who does
not think that CAIR etc have humiliated
themselves enough. For Pipes, EVERY
Muslim who takes Islam seriously is a potential
terrorist. So now poor CAIR
and all will have to publish an expurgated
edition of the Qur'an, one without
Jihad in it. Then perhaps Pipes might be
mollified and CAIR can visit the
White House in
Ramadan
and on the two
Eids.
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