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Stop
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CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING NEW TREND'S REPORT ON DARRUSALAM MOSQUE IN
COLLEGE
PARK, MARYLAND
In DEFENSE OF DARRUSSALAM. [This email appeared on the PIDL list.]
Assalamu alaikum dear brothers and sisters:
Alhamdulillah. Wassalatu wassalamu 'ala Rasulillah...may Allah guide us
on
the right path.
With all due respects brother...
Dar-us-Salaam is a growing institution offering multiple beneficial
services
to the Muslim community. For those brothers and sisters on the list,
please
have a look at the Al-Huda website
www.alhuda.org
, get on their
email list, visit the masjid and then make up your own mind.
Dar-us-Salaam is not a "tiny" masjid and I don't know what gives you
the idea
that it is pro-government or anti-government. The truth is probably
closer to
the fact that they are more interested in community development. They
are
more concerned with building the Muslim community in the DC area. If we
have
to build a Muslim community in America, yes, we need to invest money in
our
institutions. You asked "Is this an Islamic project which Muhammad
(pbuh) and
his sahaba (companions) would accept." Allah has given us the Wahy and
our
'Aql to make the best decisions to develop the Muslim community in
America.
The Sahabah DID invest money in the Muslim community of Madinah and
institutional development and community development needs no
justification
and apologies. Let's stop creating divisions in the Muslim community
and
let's stop slandering our brothers.
You also wrote: "The standard of
Islam
as evidenced at Darussalam's
juma
khutbas is low in quality. The khateebs usually tell long stories from
Islamic folklore without any relevance to the audience, except for ONE
PURPOSE: More donations needed for the masjid. The khutbas lack
scholarship
and the Islamic stories told are usually from very weak and/or
fabricated
narrations. In any case, references are seldom given which would help
people
in the audience to verify the narrations." This is ridiculous. I know
one of
the main khateebs personally, have travelled with him, interacted with
him,
lived with him and know that he is very careful in maintaining a high
standard of authentic (saheeh) scholarship. One of the khateebs there
has set
up this wonderful Islamic education program:
www.almaghrib.org
I
encourage all brothers who can, to register and increase their 'ilm
inshaAllah...
"The school does help to teach basics to Muslim children and provides a
few
jobs but definitely is not relevant to an input of $2.3 million."
Brothers
and sisters, please visit the school yourself. It is probably one of
the top
Islamic schools in the DC area.
"The masjid functions as if there is NO oppression of Muslims for which
funds
are needed. There is a woeful lack of awareness of the Islamic
struggle.
Recently our team stopped for JUMA' at Darussalam and invited the
people to
come out and support the cause of
SULAYMAN WALKER LINDH
, the American
Taliban. There was absolutely no interest. The people there were simply
interested in collecting $800,000 for their property." Just because
they did
not support Lindh's legal fund does not mean there is a "woeful lack of
awareness of Islamic struggle". You argument is illogical. Let Lindh's
American parents apply for a loan to citibank to finance his legal
battle in
the court room...inshaAllah there credit is probably good enough..save
your
dollars and invest it to educate our children.
MashaAllah brother...the other projects you mentioned seem worthy and
may
Allah help you with them...but that does not take away from
Dar-us-Salam's
projects of community development and da'wah.
Let us remember that Allah (swt) said in the Qur'an: Walladheena
jahadoo
feena lanahdiyannahum subulana...(As for those who struggle in Us, We
shall
show them our paths" Please reflect on this...there is not only one
path to
the pleasure of Allah (swt). I respect the good work you are doing
inshaAllah
but that does not mean that everyone else is wrong.
Wassalam,
Mustafa Kamal
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RESPONSE TO MUSTAFA KAMAL by SHIBLI ZAMAN on PIDL list:
bismillaah, wa `alaykum as-salaam wa rahmatullaahee wa barakaatuhu,
Please clarify this ridiculous statement of nifaaq and outright
declaration of war against Allaah and His believers. For now I will
give
you Husnu-THunn that you maybe fell into a temporary lapse of insanity.
You had me convinced that perhaps the charges levied against raising $2
million for a pretty building were justified because it was actually a
school (a noble endeavor).
Then you say that one of the mujaahideen for
Allaah who is captured by the disbelievers should use a ribba based
loan
while the Muslims ignore his cause? Have you never studied fiqh a day
in
your life? His defense is fard kifaayah upon the Ummah. As in all
issues
of Kifaayah, if that Kifaayah is not met the fard becomes `Ayn and the
entire Ummah who was in a position to help become aathim (sinners). You
rush to defend yourselves as not being pro-government then you say
something like this? This is sick. How can you use the word "illogical"
and say something as insipid as this? I am totally flabbergasted.
Please
clarify this truly daft statement. Perhaps you meant something else and
I misunderstood.
...Oh yes, and "with all due respect brother". Don't speak with two
tongues.
Jazaakum Allaah khayr, akhookum, Shibli Zaman
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NEW TREND'S RESPONSE TO MUSTAFA KAMAL on PIDL list:
waa
Mustafa has not touched the key issue in his response:
A 300-person community (600 claimed in its publicity) building a
million
dollar mosque while mosques dot the DC beltway and an Islamic schhool
is down
the road.
He also tried to distort the life of the Prophet (pbuh). The Prophet's
mosque
was not grandiose in its concept even (let alone its actuality) as
compared
to DARRUSSALAM, College Park, Maryland. People like Mustafa play with
religion trying to downplay the struggle and jihad of Muhammad (pbuh)as
compared to their capitalistic ventures.
The Imam does use weak and or fabricated narrations. All one has to do
is to
attend one of the khutbas.
Looks like the tragedy and suffering of the UMMAH after 9/11 in
particular
has failed to touch DARRUSALAM and the writer named Mustafa. It is
enough to
look at his comment on Br. Sulayman Walker Lindh to understand this
DARUSSALAM-type mentality. He is basically advising Lindh to go take an
American bank loan while his "white elephant" masjid spends a million
dollars
on a building.
Also, he missed the point on Br. Walker's predicament. It was not of
finance
but of DARUSSALAM's silence on the brother'suffering and refusal to
take part
in a protest even for his basic CIVIL RIGHTS. (The brother is being
held
incommunicado.) The court where Lindh is being tried is ON THE SAME
BELTWAY
(south side) on which Darrusalam is located (northeast side). THUS
Darussalam
is definitely a pro-government place, pro-U.S. government, pro-Saudi
government, pro-Kuwaiti government. These are the mis-leaders of the
ummah,
one among many.
The big money people, in the name of mosques, are diverting Muslim
attention
from the issues which need our financial support. That's for sure.
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IN DEFENSE OF DARRUSSALAM (forwarded from unnamed list):
As-salaamu Alaikum,
When I first saw this article, I couldn't believe my eyes. La hawla wa
la
quwatta illa billah. What a malicious article. What malicious
intent!
Kaukab Siddique needs to fear Allah.
I've been a part of the Dar us Salaam community for 4 years and this
article
was totally off base. I've been a witness to worries about the school
closing. I've witnessesd little kids giving up their money so their
school
doesn't close. Astagfirullah! I dare say the school is one of the top
5 in
the country, definitely on the East Coast. It's on the Quran and the
Sunnah,
which is more than I say about many schools in this metro area,
including the
Saudi Academy and MCC (the school to which the brother was referring).
We're all aware of the tragedies and musibahs befalling the Ummah.
Does that
mean we don't need Islamic centers, especially madrassahs? Subhanallah!
Brother Safi (who is my wakil and really is a very kind brother) always
says
"We only have each other." This is SO true. Yes, I had tears in my
eyes at
the fundraisers as the money was being raised to save the school. This
attack was so ugly. I might not agree with some of the "politics", but
overall, my heart is right with the school. And yet a person like
Kaukab Siddique
takes two separate issues and tries to portray Dar us Salaam
(more
over, Brother Safi) as frivilous. You know my dear sisters, the
Shaytan is
up in the ranks, live and kicking.
Who is going to building the madrassahs? Who is going to raise our
kids?
Where will the little Muslimeen wa Muslimaat go to school? Where will
our
architects, doctors, lawyers, engineers, nurses, scientists, athletes
and
more, get their foundation? Brother Kaukab I am horrified. It seems
you
launched a personal attack. Then you put it on the web. Do you know
how many
people will bear witness against you on the Day of Judgment for this?
Astagfirullah.
Is this brother so envious of the school and Brother Safi, that he
would try
and discredit it. It feels (and Allah knows best) that he had evident
intention on approaching him, attacking him (Bro. Safi) offguard and
using
their conversation and the photo as daleel to discredit my wakil.
I'm not wasting any more time on this, except to say that I'm
forwarding this
to some shura members as well as Brother Safi himself. Taki' Allah.
UF
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NEW TREND'S COMMENT on UF's LETTER:
Dear sister Karima
walaikum asalam
Thank you for forwarding that sister's response.
Obviously that sister is not used to hearing criticism and hence is in
a
state of shock.
THIS SIMPLY PROVES MY POINT THAT DARUSSALAM HAS NO FORUM IN WHICH
MEMBERS CAN
QUESTION THE IMAM'S POLICIES.
She is right that children can get education at the school there and it
is a
reasonably good school (and provides a few jobs). That was not the
point at
all. One can have a good school without spending another $1,000,000 on
TOP OF
WHAT HAS ALREADY been spent.
NOTICE that she does not address ANY of the issues I had raised, in
particular the point about the SUNNAH of the Prophet (pbuh). He never
taught
the building of such expensive mosques while the ummah is caught in
jihad and
need for basics.
There is no personal issue here. If anyone raises an issue, that does
not
mean it is personal. She is ATTACKING MY INTENTIONS which is pure
speculation
on her part.
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