What is wrong with many Muslims' prayers?
by Kaukab Siddique, PhD
Muslims have reached so low that we sometimes tell Allah
what to do!
"Give him paradise!", "forgive his sins," be merciful" etc,
etc.
Actually we are ignoring Allah. Look at Sura Fatiha. Right
away in verse 6, Allah tells us to say" Show us the straight
path."
This straight path is in the Qur'an. It's all there:
Faith
Truth
Honesty
fearlessness.
Jihad
Sunnah
Shariah
The examples of the sahaba, r.a
Forgiveness
Mercy
Repentance
The Rights of Women
The Rights of Parents.
Childbirth and children.
Sickness and health
Science
Hope
Paradise and hell
Everything is there
It is a shame that we tell Allah what to do, the all-Knowing
We should look at ourselves and help those who are still alive.
2:177
Pakistan
JI Humanitarian relief
After the tourist disaster in Murree mountain resort,
women and children stuck in
snow and ice are receiving warm food and winter clothing
from al-Khidmat, the humanitarian relief branch of Jamate
Islami.
For Afghanistan, a mile long caravan of truck loads of
relief supplies was sent out by al-khidmat last month.
War News
Pakistan
Pakistani army striking at fighters
The army has issued several reports through the secularist
Daily Dawn. Here is a summary.
The army has killed 7 fighters of the Islamic State.
Khurasani, a popular Islamic scholar of TTP was killed
across the frontier probably by a high flying drone probably
in coordination with USA. [Not clear.]
In a clash 2 Islamic fighters of TTP and 2 Pakistni
troops were killed 2- 3 troops injured.
A Pakistani soldier was killed. [All in Waziristan and
nearb y areas.]
Syria
Jan. 16. ISIS attacks on SDF [US backed] in northeaster
Deir ez Zor
Another prisoner killed by Assad troops in Palmyra.
Victims tortured to death by regime and documented by SOHR is now
47,528 men, 339 children and 64 women. Many not documented yet.
Four Russian air strikes south Id;ib provincde.
Islamic groups and Assad-Iranians exchanged
fire.[Northwest Hama]] Iran has increased pay fior its
militias.
Tribal leaders in al-Raqqah province calling people to
separate themselves from SDF owing to lack of food.
Turkish artillery is hitting SDF in Tal Tamr and nearby
areas,
In the Idlib countryside, 3 Assad troops were killed and
several while trying to sneak into Islamic ;positions.
Turkish artillery is hitting SDF positions in the KObani
area and 5 villages,
45 new Russian air strikes aimed at ISIS in Raqaa and
eastern provinces, ISIS reported to be getting stronger
evading Russian bombing,
Large crowds seen in Damascus, Assad's capital, getting
passports to leave Syria.
News Within the U.S.
Colleyville, Texas.
Synagogue Situation. [Please see ending]
New Trend report
A man who tried to get Dr. Aafia Siddiqjui freed by taking 4
Jewish hostages at a Synagogue has been identified as Malik
Faisal Akram, a British citizen He got the Rabbi to call a
senior Rabbi in New York to explain that Dr. Aafia had been
framed. He called her his sister which confused the media
who don't know that Muslim women are sisters of the Islamic
community.
The incident was echoed in Israel in dark language.
President Biden was also disturbed and called it the act of
terror.
Puppet bootlicker Muslim groups like CAIR right away
condemned the act.
No hostage was killed or injured. All 4 hostages were
released after which a SWAT team stormed the synagogue and
killed Akram. Its not clear till now whether he was
armed.
Why was Israel concerned? One reason could be that numerous
Palestinian women and children are in Israeli prisons.
US Muslims who have been protesting peacefully for Aafia's
release vociferously disconnected themselves from the
Synagogue situation though no one was pressuring them to kow
tow.
American Muslims, by and large, are the weakest link in the
global umma.
Now some in the US media are admitting that Akram's action
was not aimed at Jews at large but only the situation of Dr.
Aafia.
Remember the White supremacist who went into a church and
murdered worshippers and then calmly left to have dinner
many miles across the state.
Lesson from Hadith by Sis. Yasmin
You should not neglect your time or use it haphazardly
{!}.'
'Al-hamdu Lillahi Rabbil-Aalameen'
wa-Salaatu wa-Salaamu 'Alaa
Ashrafil-Anbiyaa-e-wal-Mursaleen~
'Amma Baa'd~
Assalaamu 'Alaykum wa Rahmatullaahi wa Barakaatuhu.
Imam Al Ghazali [May Allah have mercy on him] said...
"You should not neglect your time or use it haphazardly
{!}
on the contrary, you should bring yourself
to account, structure your litanies
and other practices during each day and night,
and assign to each period
a fixed and specific function.
This is how to bring out the spiritual blessing ('Baraka')
in each period.
But... if you leave yourself adrift,
aimlessly wandering as cattle do,
not knowing how to occupy yourself
at every moment,
your time will be lost...{!}
It is nothing other than your life,
and your life is the capital that you make use of to
reach perpetual felicity in the proximity of
Allah the Exalted {!}
Each of your breaths is a priceless jewel,
since each of them is irreplaceable and,
once gone, can never be retrieved...{!}
Do not be like that deceived fools who are joyous because
each day their wealth increases
while their life shortens {!}
What good is an increase in wealth
when life grows ever shorter ?
Therefore be joyous only for an increase in
knowledge or in good works {!}
for they are your two {2} companions
who will accompany you in your grave
when your family,
wealth, children and friends stay behind."
{'Subhan Allah'}
~ My 'Salaams' To All ~
Y a s m i n.
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"Never Despair Of The Mercy Of Allah"
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' 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 (r) }
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I Want to Die With my Forehead on the Ground,
The Sunnah in my Heart, Allah on my Mind,
Qur'an on my Tongue, and Tears in my Eyes!
'In Shaa Allah 'Aameen'
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Courtesy: This valuable and treasured mail was shared by
Sister Yasmin.
May Allah Bless in this world & reward her generously in the
Hereafter !
(Ameen Ameen Ameen)
'Aameen' ~'Barak Allah Feek' ~
باركالله
فيك Brother Usman-
The Prophet (sallallahu alaihiwasallam) said that seeking
knowledge is a way to Paradise.
He (sallallahu alaihiwasallam) said: "Whoever follows a path
in the pursuit of knowledge,
Allah will make a path to Paradise easy for him." (Narrated
by: Al-Bukhari)
Invitation to Think
Saudi Arabia's tribal regime.
Little Known Facts.
Graves of Abu Bakr, r.a/ and Khadija, r.a. erased
By Latheef Farook [Sri Lanka] Excerpted
American-Zionist wolf in Islamic sheep's clothing?
Ever since the senseless beheading of Rizana Nafeek without
a proper trial, Saudi Arabia's tribal rulers who, for far
too long, has exploited Islam to entrench their autocratic
regime which many people regard as unIslamic and most
oppressive in the planet.
A tribal system of government, a repressive royal family
given special treatment, looting of the nation's wealth and
wasting them in vulgar opulence while the bulk of the people
live below the poverty line, denying basic freedoms,
arbitrary arrests, torture and killings, oppressing women
liberated by Islam, and all other such institutionalized
brutalities are, needless to say, in complete violation of
Islam.
It all started with the First World War when Britain and the
Zionist Jews joined to defeat the Turkish Ottoman Empire
which ruled most of the Middle East in order to establish a
Jewish state in Palestine and divide the Middle East into
nation states.
As part of this conspiracy Abdel Aziz Ibn Al Saud, tribal
ruler in Nejd, and Shareef Hussein of Mecca who was
appointed by the Ottoman rulers, were bribed to help the
British to defeat and destroy the Ottoman Empire. For the
treachery of Shareef Hussein of Mecca, the British rewarded
him with a princely sum of seven million sterling pounds
while Abdel Aziz Ibn Al Saud who signed a Treaty of
Benevolent Neutrality with Britain was paid a sum of five
thousand pounds a month. Thus it was that both Shareef
Hussein and Abdel Aziz sold their souls to the devil.
In the aftermath of World War I, the British and the
Zionists got the Islamic caliphate abolished in Turkey. Four
days later Shareef Hussein of Mecca declared himself the new
caliph. Alarmed, Britain and the Zionists acted swiftly and
gave their puppet client Abdel Aziz ibn Saud the green light
to attack their other client Shareef Hussein and take over
Mecca. They replaced Shareef Hussein with Abdel Aziz Ibn Al
Saud's monarchy which prevents, even today, the restoration
of the caliphate.
Thus came into being the Saudi tribal family rule, with the
blessings of Britain and Zionists, in what we now call Saudi
Arabia, which was later promoted and protected by the US,
especially in the aftermath of the oil discovery which gave
tremendous financial clout to the Saud family tosaudi096
entrench its rule. In the process Muslim holy lands came
under the control of the Saud tribe.
Since then the unholy link between Saudi Arabia and the
sworn enemies of Islam and Muslims (US and Zionists)
continues unabated to date. On the one hand, the Saudi
ruling family projects to the Muslim world an image as the
guardians of Islam while remaining an active partner in all
Jewish sponsored US wars against Muslim countries.
This includes the eight year Iraq-Iran war which destroyed
two Muslim countries besides killing almost a million
Muslims and the Israeli sponsored and American engineered
Kuwaiti crisis of August 1990 which virtually destroyed
Kuwait and Iraq. Saudis alone spent more than $ 55
billion.
Then came the US led invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq. Most
American planes which destroyed and massacred innocent
Iraqis took off from Saudi airbases. Thus the Saudi ruling
family assisted this US-led destruction of Iraq and the
incineration of the Muslim population there, not to mention
the use of depleted uranium by American warplane which is
still causing many thousands of Iraqi children to die of
cancers like childhood leukemia. The latest Saudi-Zionist
collaboration, according to London based Arabic dailies, was
their contribution to the Israeli destruction and killings
in Gaza during its 2008/2009 invasion when it chose to
remain absolutely silent on the massacre.
The height of this shameful collaboration was when Saudi
king Abdullah traveled all the way to Washington to award
the highest national award to US President George W.Bush, a
war criminal responsible for more than a million and half of
Iraqi deaths. He did this as the self-claimed custodian of
the two holy mosques in Mecca and Medina, provoking
unprecedented fury among Muslims worldwide. "It was the most
shameful event in the history of Islam and no Muslim would
ever forgive him for this treachery" said millions of
embarrassed, dejected and helpless Muslims worldwide who
vehemently condemned King Abdullah for insulting Islam.
Besides this disgraceful behavior, the Saudi regime has
done, and is still doing, tremendous damage to peace loving
Muslim communities worldwide by their policy to propagate
its version of Islam. Under this policy they pick up a
handful of people in villages and cities where Muslims are
living in harmony, finance them, put up a mosque and divide
the Muslims. They spend billions of dollars in this campaign
of creating disunity among Muslims, covering the Middle
East, Africa, South Asia and even the Central Asian
republics.
An Azerbaijan born Toronto based journalist told me last
year that this Saudi policy had done tremendous harm to
Islam which is just trying to
raise its head in Central Asian republics after almost three
quarter century of atheist communist rule. This is being
done corrupting Islamic scholars by offers of money and
perks.
Saudis are main shareholders in the global media empire
owned by Australian born Jew and Israeli citizen Rupert
Murdoch who hates Muslims and uses his media empire to
demonize Islam and Muslims, cover up all US-Israeli crimes
and atrocities and help create the environment justifying US
and European invasions and destruction of Muslim
countries.
This carefully planned and orchestrated conspiracy strikes
at the very root of Muslim societies worldwide. They
demonize anything and everything about Islam and Muslims.
They portray every Muslim man with beard and Muslim woman
with headscarf as potential terrorists and subjected to
painful and humiliating harassments in the West. Arbitrary
arrests, indefinite detention and torture besides pitting
Christians against Muslims in the West have become daily
occurrence.
Never in the more than fourteen century inspiring history of
Islam so much damage done to Muslims by US and Europe as it
was since the collapse of former Soviet Union in 1989.Thus
Saudis are active collaborators in this campaign against
Islam and Muslims.
Saudi regime never helps Muslim countries. For example
across the border Yemenis suffer in abject poverty and the
Saudis have done nothing to help them. Instead together with
President Barack Obama, Saudis are bombing and killing them.
Sudanese foreign minister once told me in Bahrain that his
country has the largest fertile lands in Africa and they
could produce food to supply the entire Middle East provided
Saudis give only a billion dollar. However Saudi's who spend
$ 60 billion on arms purchasing from America will never
invest on Sudan. This is the ridiculous state of affairs.
In the local scene Saudi Arabia's fascist attitude affect
the country's democratic spirit as extremists rail against
democracy despite the fact that Islam recognized democracy
well over 1400 years ago. Rather than Islam, these
extremists look up to the dictatorial Saudi rule which
deprives people of even basic freedoms where those who have
tried to raise their voices against injustice have been
arrested, detained indefinitely in unknown places, tortured
and even killed. Every non-Saudi knows that if he gets
caught saying something unflattering about a member of the
royal family, he could simply vanish.
Obituary
Hashir Faruqi
Founder of Moderate Muslim Journalism
Passed away on January 11.
Br. Faruqi published the most important Muslim newsletter
IMPACT to come out of England. He wrote just about all
controversial issues including fitna of Salman Rusdie.
He finessed the methdology of moderation. He crticised all
the moves against the Muslims of England but never got into
trouble with the authorities.
He lived a simple life and succeeded even with few resources.
Praise for his work is coming out from Pakistan and Muslim
circles in India.
May Allah accept his efforts and bless him.
White House & Fox TV Spar over Vaccine. [January 10]
Jen Psaki sparred with a Fox News reporter over Biden's
argument that this is a "pandemic of the unvaccinated."
Peter Doocy suggested the characterization is inaccurate
because of the high level of breakthrough cases.
Psaki pointed out that unvaccinated people are far more
likely to be hospitalized or die if infected.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Monday clashed with
a Fox News reporter over President Joe Biden's argument that
the ongoing COVID-19 crisis is a "pandemic of the
unvaccinated."
Fox News' Peter Doocy, who returned to the White House
briefing room on Monday after his own breakthrough bout of
COVID-19, suggested that Biden's characterization of the
pandemic doesn't take into account the high numbers of
fully-vaccinated Americans who are contracting the
virus.
"I understand the science says that vaccines prevent death.
But I'm triple-vaxxed, still got COVID. You're
triple-vaxxed, still got COVID," Doocy told Psaki,
referencing when the fully-vaccinated press secretary
contracted the virus in October. "Why is the president still
referring to this as a pandemic of the unvaccinated?"
Psaki stressed that unvaccinated people infected with
COVID-19 are much more likely to be hospitalized or die than
those who are vaccinated.
"I had been triple-vaxxed," Psaki said, meaning she's gotten
two vaccine shots and a booster. "I had minor symptoms.
There's a huge difference between that and being
unvaccinated."
Psaki went on, "You're 17 times more likely to go to the
hospital if you're not vaccinated, 20 times more likely to
die," citing data from the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention. The CDC also found that unvaccinated people are
10 times more likely to test positive for the virus than
unvaccinated people, despite a surge in breakthrough
cases.
India's Leading Activists Imprisoned by Modi Regime
BBC
After three years in prison, one of India's best-known
activists is trying to set up home in a new city and find
work.
Bail conditions prohibit Sudha Bharadwaj from leaving Mumbai
until the end of a trial in which she is accused of a role
in a 2018 incident of caste-based violence and alleged links
with Maoists. She is also not allowed to talk about the
case.
Since June 2018, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's BJP
government has jailed 16 people in connection with the
violence in Bhima Koregaon village in Maharashtra state.
They include some of India's most respected scholars,
lawyers, academics, activists and an ageing radical poet.
(Tribal rights activist, Stan Swamy, died last year in
hospital, aged 84.) They have all been repeatedly denied
bail under a sweeping anti-terror law, which many observers
believe is now being mainly used to crack down on
dissent.
Ms Bharadwaj cannot return to her work as a professor of law
at a leading university in the national capital, Delhi, or
go home to Faridabad on the outskirts. She is unable to
visit her daughter who's studying psychology in Bhilai, more
than 1,000km (620 miles) away. (The two were reunited
briefly after she was freed on 10 December.)
"From a smaller jail I am now living in a bigger jail, which
is Mumbai," Sudha Bharadwaj, 60, told me on Monday in her
first interview since being released.
"I have to find work, and a place I can afford," she said.
Until then she is staying with a friend.
Born in Massachusetts, Ms Bharadwaj gave up her American
passport after her parents returned to India. The
mathematician-turned-lawyer would eventually become a
committed activist and trade unionist steadfastly fighting
for the rights of the dispossessed in the mineral-rich state
of Chhattisgarh, where some of India's poorest and most
exploited live.
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