Dr Kaukab Siddique | Editor-in-Chief Rabi' al-Awwal 13, 1425/ May 4, 2004 #54
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THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

Senator Kennedy pointed out [May 4] that the issue of abuse of prisoners by the U.S. is not confined to Iraq. He said that the investigation should be extended to treatment of Muslim prisoners in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay
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Analysis FALLUJAH: THE TURNING POINT

by our Iraq Monitor

The forces of Islam have won. The U.S. could not break through at Fallujah and has retreated. In political euphemism, the U.S. calls it "re-positioning." As New Trend noted when it was happening, there were TWO battles of Fallujah, both in April.
During the first battle, the U.S. ground forces tried to ram their way into Fallujah and were beaten back. They lost about 40 killed and 600 wounded. After that the U.S. realized that it won't be able to win on the ground.
So there were THREE WEEKS of softening up during which the U.S. claimed that a "cease fire" was in effect. U.S. forces launched jet fighters, helicopters and tank raids into Fallujah day after day.
When the U.S. was ready for victory, helicopters dropped leaflets urging the mujahideen to surrender. TWO NIGHTS of severe helicopter gunship and jet fighter attacks followed in which Iraqi targets were pulverized. THE MULLAHS CALLED ON THE PEOPLE TO RESIST, and recited Jihad verses from the Qur'an on mosque loudspeakers.
When the U.S. attacked after the "softening up," the Iraqis fought back with all they had. NOT ONE IRAQI SURRENDERED. The U.S. then realized that it would have to "liberate" each home in Fallujah to be able to capture the defiant city. The cost would be too heavy for the U.S.
Fallujah stands VICTORIOUS and DEFIANT. [May 4.] [As if to add insult to injury, just as the U.S. started withdrawing, a martyrdom truck driver hurtled out of the city and struck an American post, killing 2 marines and wounding 6.]
[The U.S. forces which could not take Fallujah are the best the U.S. has: The Marines.]
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THREE KINDS OF SHI'ITES:

There have been battles between U.S. troops and the forces of Muqtada al-Sadr in front of Kufa and Najaf. The Sayyid remains defiant and ready to fight.
IRAN remains silent. No support for Moqtada al-Sadr from Iran. It appears that Iran is following NATIONALISM, not even Shi'ism. It's man is Ayatollah Sistani who is still refusing to put up a fight.
A third kind of Shias are those like CHALABI who openly support the U.S. There is a Shia woman living in the U.S. named ZAINAB al-SUWAIJ who frequently comes on CNN and other Zionist media to support U.S. policies in Iraq.
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Viewpoint

Min. Louis Farrakhan Urges U.S. Not to Fight Israel's War

by New Trend's Media Monitor

May 3, 2004: The National Press Club meeting hall in Washington, D.C., was packed with people as Minister Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam organization delivered his most important anti-war speech to date.
He looked in good health and spoke with power, passion and thorough research for more than two hours, an effort which would have exhausted a younger man.
Min. Farrakhan traced the history of his opposition to the war by way of letters which he wrote to President Bush. He pointed out that Iraq was no threat to America: It had no connection to Al-Qaida and it had no weapons of mass destruction. (wmds).
As he traced the role of the neoconservatives (NeoCons), the Minister made the connection with Israel's role and control of American government. Bush, he said, was simply the vessel through which the NeoCons were able to carry out their long laid plans against Iraq.
He also criticized Kerry for avoiding the natural thing to do in the situation: pull out of Iraq.
The NeoCons [Zionist-Jews] who took America into war were not only interested in removing Saddam, they want to RE-SHAPE ISLAM ITSELF. Thus, Minister Farrakhan pointed out, ultimately it's a war against Islam.
Farrakhan's position on elections was interesting. He urged the African-American community to stop being unabashed voters for the Democratic Party. Kerry, he pointed out, has opposed reparations for slavery.
On the issue of 9.11 Farrakhan seemed to endorse the conspiracy theory that someone knew of it beforehand and wanted it to happen to give legitimacy to America's war policies.
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PAKISTANI JIHAD LEADER HAFIZ SAEED says: PAKISTAN is not a GEOGRAPHY-LIMITED CONCEPT: EVERYONE FIGHTING FOR ISLAM IS FIGHTING FOR PAKISTAN

From our Pakistan observer

During April 2004, Hafiz Muhammad Saeed spoke to crowds in the Pakistani cities of Sialkot, Gujrat and Gojra. He condemned the Musharref regime's efforts to please the U.S. He said that Pakistan is based on the Kalima of Islam, that there is no God but the One God Allah, and that Muhammad, p, is His messenger. This concept orientation, he said, makes Pakistan relevant to all those who want to overthrow human tyranny.

All those who are fighting for Islam in Kashmir, Palestine, Iraq, Chechnia are in fact fighting for Pakistan and we consider them all Pakistanis.

He condemned the government's attempts to re-write syllabi to take out the Qur'an's emphasis on Jihad. He said, Jihad is central to Islam and will continue in spite of the efforts of the U.S. to stop it.
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KARACHI, PAKISTAN

A JIHAD MOVEMENT WHICH HELPS PEOPLE in DAILY STRUGGLE

According to Ghazwah, a weekly Pakistani publication, the Jihad movement led by Hafiz Saeed, known as Jamaat ad-Da'wa, is carrying out a number of humanitarian activities in the huge city of Karachi.

Recently, owing to its flood relief activities in Thatta, Jamaat ad-Da'wa was surprised when 10 Hindus travelled from the area to Karachi to embrace Islam at the hands of ad-Da'wa representative.

In the Lasi Goth area of Karachi, ad-Da'wa fighters battled dacoits, captured 4 of them and handed them over to the police.

In Korangi, Malir, North Nazimabad and Gulistane Jauhar areas of this vast city, Jamaat ad-Da'wa started study circles for students with the help of student activists and religious scholars.
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HOW DID BBC STEAL HAFIZ SAEED'S PHOTO?:

Following a recent visit by Hafiz Saeed to the Free Kashmir city of Muzzafarabad, the BBC published a report on his visit along with his photo. How did the BBC get his photo? Hafiz Saeed does not permit photographs of himself or anyone in Jamaat ad-Da'wa. Hence the question arises, is the BBC involved in some secretive activity or has the Pakistani government provided the photo?
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IQBAL DAY CELEBRATED IN JIDDA, Saudi Arabia

BY: MAQBOOL R. ABBASI
APP JEDDAH, KSA

JEDDAH: APRIL 26, 2004
MR. ABDULAZIZ UQAILI, CONSUL WELFARE PAKISTAN CONSULATE JEDDAH, PAID RICH TRIBUTES TO ALLAMA IQBAL ON HIS 66TH DEATH ANNIVERSARY. HE WAS ADDRESSING A GATHERING OF PAKISTANI COMMUNITY CALLED BY PRC, PAKISTAN REPATRIATION COUNCIL. HE SAID IQBAL WAS NOT SIMPLY A POET BUT A POLITICAL PHILOSOPHER, WHO DID NOT AGREE WITH THE ORTHODOX THEORY, BUT GENERATED NEW POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY AND PLEADED FOR THE TWO NATION THEORY WHICH ULTIMATELY RESULTED IN THE CREATION OF PAKISTAN. UQAILI SAID HIS OFFICE DOORS ARE OPEN FOR ALL PAKISTANIS IN THE KINGDOM, SPECIALLY THOSE WHO NEEDED HELP.

CHIEF ORGANISER, PRC, ENG. EHSANULHAQ PUT FORWARD THREE RESOLUTIONS AND PEOPLE RAISED THEIR HAND:

PAKISTAN GOVT SHOULD ESTABLISH IQBAL RESEARCH ACADEMY.

HOLDING ELECTION IN OCCUPIED KASHMIR IS NOT THE SOLUTION OF KASHMIR ISSUE.

PRESIDENT AND PRIME MINISTER OF PAKISTAN ARE REQUESTED TO RE-ACTIVATE THE RABITA TRUST AND GOVERNMENT SHOULD ORGANIZE THE REPATRIATION AND REHABILITATION OF THE STRANDED PAKISTANIS IN BANGLADESH.

MUNAWAR HASHMI, HAMID ISLAM, GHULAM NABI BUT, NASEEM SEHR, ZAMURRAD SAIFI, HABIB SIDDIQUI, AND JAMEEL RATHORE also spoke. MOHSIN ALVI CONDUCTED THE FUNCTION.
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The Polemics of Hadith Studies

WHY DO THE SECTARIANS and the anti-HADITH PROPAGANDISTS HATE ABU HURAIRA, r.a.?
He narrated Hadith teaching Jihad and supporting Muslim Unity

by Kaukab Siddique

Syed Hasan Jarchavi has distributed an abusive attack on Abu Huraira, r.a. written by a person named Awan. The attack fits in with the overall pattern of attacks on this blessed SAHABI (companion of the Prophet, pbuh). The sectarians attack him and then the attacks are picked up by the anti-Hadith people in this ongoing cycle of hate.

THE FACTS ABOUT ABU HURAIRA, r.a., beloved STUDENT OF MUHAMMAD, pbuh: [Ed. note: r.a. = radi Allah unh =Allah be pleased with him.] [pbuh = peace be on him. ]

There can be no doubt that Muhammad Mustafa, the final messenger of Allah, pbuh, loved Abu Huraira, r.a. and in turn Abu Huraira, r.a., loved Muhammad, pbuh, more than anyone or anything in the world.
  1. Abu Huraira, r.a., along with 70 others from the Banu Dos tribe, embraced Islam and did Hijrah to join forces with Muhammad, pbuh.
  2. Abu Huraira, r.a., left everything in the world to embrace the Prophet, pbuh. He took his mother and his slave with him on the journey to Madinah leaving everything else behind. When he reached Madinah, he found that the Prophet, pbuh, was in Khaibar, fighting a Jewish tribe.
  3. Abu Huraira, r.a., joined the Prophet, pbuh, in the final days of the battle at Khaibar, in the 7th year of the Hijrah. His first act on meeting the Prophet, pbuh, was TO FREE HIS SLAVE. Islam teaches the freeing the slaves and Abu Huraira, r.a., started his life with the Prophet, pbuh, by freeing his slave.
  4. The Prophet, pbuh, took Abu Huraira, r.a., with him on a series of Jihad expeditions immediately after the battle of Khaibar. Some eywitness narrations of these expeditions by Abu Huraira, r.a., are available in Hadith and in early history books. The purpose was to ward off attacks by Jewish and other tribes which were moving to attack the Muslims. For instance there is a narration by Abu Huraira about the expedition of Wadi al-Qurra in Tabari's TARIKH, vol. 3. A very severe expedition was that of Zaat ar-raqa'a. Some details in Bukhari's Sahih indicate that there were only one camel for six mujahideen. They rode by turns and the rough terrain tore up the the feet of the Sahaba. Abu Huraira, r.a., prayed Salatul Khauf with the Prophet, pbuh, on this expedition. [Bukhari's Sahih, vol. 2]
  5. Abu Huraira, r.a., then took part in major Islamic moves by the Prophet's, pbuh, army, including the CONQUEST of MAKKA, 8 Hijri, BATTLE of HUNAIN,, and in the expedition of TABOOK, 9 Hijri. Tabook was very difficult and required a journey of 350 miles in severe summer weather which challenged the Romans for 20 days and foiled their attack plans. [See Bukhari's Sahih, vol. 2, for Abu Huraira's participation.]
  6. After these major moves, the Prophet, pbuh, also sent out Abu Huraira, r.a., in smaller raids to stop various threats. On one such occasion, the Prophet, pbuh, said to Abu Huraira, r.a.: "I put you under Allah's Trust and safeguard and He is the one whose Trust is never wasted." [ Sunan of Ibn Maja, vol.2]
  7. During the Caliphate of Abu Bakr, 'Umar and 'Usman [Allah be pleased with all three], Abu Huraira, r.a., continued to participate in Jihad. One of the HISTORY CHANGING battles in Islamic history was the BATTLE OF YARMOUK which brought down the power of the Roman empire. The historian Ibn Asakir in his Tarikh Damishq writes that the Banu Azd, with its sub group of the Banu Dos, with Abu Huraira, r.a., in its core, was on the RIGHT WING of the Islamic army. The huge Roman army attacked and the outnumbered Muslims would have been wiped out but for the leadership of great companions of the Prophet, pbuh, such as Abu Huraira. Ibn Asakir quotes Abu Huraira, r.a., as he rallied the mujahideen. Abu Huraira said:
"O valiant believers! The hoories of Paradise are awaiting you. Prepare yourself to meet them. Prepare to gain the approach to Allah and to be accepted by Allah. At this time, no place is dearer to Allah than the one where you are standing."

The ferocious Roman onslaught was beaten back. At that point, another 20,000 Romans attacked the small group led by Abu Huraira, r.a. Khalid ibn al-Waleed, r.a., the overall commander of the Islamic army noted the severe pressure on the right wing of his forces. He launched an all out attack on the Romans and routed them. Yarmouk changed the history of the Middle East for ever.

Other historians, Ibn Athir, Ibn Kathir, have noted the participation of Abu Huraira in Jihad as far away as Jilan and Jurjan during the Caliphate of 'Usman, r.a.

This beloved companion of the Prophet, pbuh, is under attack by the sectarians and the Pervezis.

WHY DO THESE PEOPLE HATE ABU HURAIRA, r.a.?
  1. For the sectarians there seems to be an element of jealousy that Abu Huraira, r.a., came into the Islamic struggle in its final years and equalled, if not surpassed, most companions of the Prophet, pbuh, in many ways, and in particular in the narration of the Prophet's Hadith.
  2. Abu Huraira, r.a., remained neutral in the conflict between hazrat Ali and Ameer Muawiya as well as in the confrontation between hazrat Ali and 'Ayesha Siddiqa, r.a. Like Hasan, r.a., the elder son of Ali, r.a., Abu Huraira opposed the inter-Muslim conflicts.
  3. The sectarians believe that hazrat Ali spoke against Abu Huraira, r.a. There is no such evidence. There are a couple of statements attributed to Ali, r.a., against Abu Huraira, but these are fabrications produced much after both Ali and Abu Huraira had passed away.
  4. In the sectarian attack just distributed by Syed Jarchavi, the person named Awan claims that Abu Huraira, r.a., was "hired" by Muawiyya. This is a figment of Awan's imagination. Most modern readers would not know that during the rule of Ameer Muawiyya there was PEACE AND UNITY in the Muslim realm. Imam Hasan had made peace with Ameer Muawiyya and a spirit of cooperation existed among all segments of society. There was no question of anyone "hiring" Abu Huraira, r.a.
WHY ARE THE ANTI-HADITH PEOPLE AGAINST ABU HURAIRA, r.a.?
  1. For G.A. Pervez and other anti-Hadith self-proclaimed scholars, Abu Huraira, r.a., was a problem because he narrated more Hadith of the Prophet, pbuh., than any other sahabi.
  2. If Abu Huraira, r.a., could be discredited then a big chunk of Hadith could be discredited.
  3. The anti-Hadith people are basically dishonest. Although they oppose Hadith and claim that they want the "Qur'an alone," they found some Hadith narrations in which 'Ayesha, r.a., and Umar, r.a., looked critically at a few of Abu Huraira's narrations. These couple of instances of criticism were used by the Pervezis to create the impression that ALL of Abu Huraira's narrations should be suspected.
  4. The anti-Hadith people then went on to fabricate some stories accusing Abu Huraira's (r.a.) of dishonesty!
[to be continued, inshallah]
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