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Verse of Al -Qur-an of this week
And We have indeed made the Qur-an easy to under stand and remember : Then is there any that will receive admonition (Sura Al-Qamar , verse-17,40)
Khawla Binte Salaba (RA) : Allah cognized her appeal
Today 2 nd April, 2008. While I was reading the back ground of the revelation of the 58 th Sura , Sura –Al- Mujdalah of the Al-Quaran , I was really astonished how Allah cognized an appeal of a woman and a man like Hazrat Muhammad (SM) carried out the command in conveying the decision of Allah regarding the dispute of one woman Khawla Binte Salaba (RA) who came to the him claiming her husband who told her that she pretended to be the back of his mother . According to the Custom of the contemporary Arab creed it meant that she was divorced .While she heard the same verdict from the Verdict she started to weep and said that how he could divorce me since he did not utter ‘ Talak' clearly and later she lodged his charge before Allah. Then the Prophet replied that Allah had not yet revealed any verse compiling your decision. Later the verse revealed respecting her appeal mentioning, “Women who came to him and arguing with you (The Prophet) has been granted and Allah has cognized her claim. Allah listens both of you .Surely Allah listens to and sees every thing.” (Verse: 1, Sura Al Mujdalifah ). In the Fikah section of the Islamic jurisprudence the decision contained in the sura is called ‘ Zihar' .
Since then both of the male and female followers of Hazrat Muhammad (SM) respected her as Allah cognized her claim Himself. Once Khalifah Hazrat Omar (RA) was going with a collection of followers. On the way, while the woman came and stood in the street the Khalifah listened to her standing. Some claimed, “For the sake of an old lady you blocked a group!” Khalifa said, “Do you know who she is? This is the woman to who Allah cognized her appeal above the seven skies? Hence, can I avoid her? Swear by Allah if she did not leave the place I would wait for her till the night!”
How nice it is! For a woman Allah cognized the appeal and a Prophet and his followers like Omar, a Caliph too, was ready to be ignored to their business till the night! May Allah help us to understand your revelation.
Verse of Al -Quaran of this week
(Oh Muhammad ! )To follow the common run on those on earth , they will lead thee away from the way of Allah .They follow nothing but conjecture : they do nothing but lie. (Sura Al-Anam , verse-116)
He it is Who has sent down to thee the Book: in it are verses basic or fundamental clear (in meaning) ;They are the foundation of the book : others are not entirely clear . But those in whose hearts is perversity follow the part thereof that is not entirely clear. Seeking discord, and searching for its interpretation, But no one knows its true meanings except Allah. And those who are firmly grounded in knowledge say: “We believe in it , the whole of it is from our Lord:” and none will grasp the message except men of understanding . (Sura Al-Imran , verse-7)
Hajj message of Supreme Leader
IRNA:
The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei on Tuesday stressed that disavowal from the infidels and aversion to idols and idolaters is the prevailing spirit of the believers' Hajj.The Supreme Leader made the remark in his message to the Hajj pilgrims, which was read by his representative for Hajj affairs, Hojjatoleslam Mohammad Mohammadi Reyshahri during the disavowal of pagans ceremony held in Arafat Desert on Tuesday.
The full text of the Supreme Leader's message is as follows:
"In the Name of Allah , the Beneficent, the Merciful,
"Praise be unto Allah, the Lord of all the world and peace upon our Prophet Mohammad and upon his pure Household and his companions, "Greetings to the pilgrims of the House of Allah, the guests of the Almighty's abode and those who have answered His Divine call...and hail to hearts freshened by the remembrance of Allah and opened to His unsparing blessings and bounties. In these elixir-like days, nights and hours, many a man who gratefully consigned themselves to the divine attraction, illuminated their hearts through penitence and repentance and cleansed themselves of the darkness of sin and idolatry in the waves of divine mercifulness coming constantly one after another in this holy land. May Allah's peace be upon these hearts and these virtuous and self-purified people."It would be most appropriate if all my brothers and sisters did think deeply over such a blessing and avail themselves of this great opportunity. They should not allow the worldly preoccupations which are our habitual engagements to occupy their hearts as usual. In this atmosphere of monotheism and unadulterated divinity, they should let their craving hearts soar and collect the necessary provisions to persevere on the path of God and the right path by the remembrance of Allah , penitence and supplication, a resolute will of truthfulness, good thinking and rectitude and seeking the help of Allah.
"Here is the center of true and pure monotheism. Here is the place where Abraham (A.S), The Friend of God, left as a memorial for all the true believers of the world throughout history a symbol of monotheism which is the subjugation of one's carnal desires and complete submission before the divine command by bringing his beloved to the altar. Here is the place where Mohammad Mostafa (PBUH) raised the flag of monotheism against the wishes of the arrogant and bullying elements and the wealthy of his time and deemed aversion to Taghoot along with belief in Allah as the condition for salvation: "Therefore whoever forsakes Taghoot and does believe in Allah, he shall grasp a most secure handle that never breaks" (2-256).
"Hajj is the opportunity to review and revisit these great lessons. Disavowal from the infidels and aversion to idols and idolaters is the prevailing spirit of the believers' Hajj. Each and every corner of Hajj is a manifestation of devoting one's heart to Allah, striving in His name and path, disavowing from Satan, stoning and rejecting and standing against him. Each and every corner of Hajj is the embodiment of unity and solidarity among the believers where natural and contractual differences fade away and the significance of the true and monotheistic unity and brotherhood is upheld.
"These are the lessons that we, the Muslims, from all parts of the world, have to learn; lessons on which bases we have to plan our lives and futures.
"The Holy Quran refers to the strong stand against the enemies, compassion and kindness among the believers as well as courtesy and obedience to Allah as the three indications of an Islamic society.
"Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, and his followers should be solid of heart against the disbelievers, but most compassionate amongst themselves; you see them bowing down, prostrating, imploring Grace from Allah " (48-29).
"These are the three basic pillars necessary for the
establishment of the glorious and dignified body of the Muslim Ummah."Bearing in mind this fact, all the Muslim people can
appropriately identify the ailments of the present Muslim world."Today, the treacherous enemies of the Muslim Ummah are the organizers of the hegemonic centers and expansionist and aggressive powers which consider the Islamic awakening as a great threat to their illegitimate interests and their oppressive domination over the Muslim world. All the Muslim nations led by their political and religious authorities, intellectuals and national leaders need to form a united Islamic front against this invading enemy with full strength.
They need to muster all the elements of power within themselves and properly strengthen the Muslim Ummah. Knowledge and insight, resourcefulness and vigilance, responsibility and commitment, confidence and hope in divine promises, refraining from petty and trivial wants in order to attain the consent of Allah and abiding by the duties...are all the basic elements contributing to the sovereignty of the Islamic Ummah leading it to dignity, independence and material and spiritual progress and preventing the enemies from the attainment of their unlawful wishes.
"Compassion among the believers is the second pillar and another indication for the desired status of the Muslim Ummah . Disunity and conflict among parts of the Muslim Ummah are dangerous diseases which must be treated with all might. Our enemies have long been making great efforts in this area. Today, those who have become terrified due to the Islamic awakening have intensified their efforts.All that the caring people are saying is that the differences must not turn into conflicts and that plurality should not lead to belligerence.
"The Iranian nation has named this year as the year of Islamic solidarity. This naming was used due to the awareness of the intensified plots hatched in order to sow the seeds of discord among our brothers. These plots proved to be effective in Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan and some people in these Islamic countries were instigated to oppose some of their own countrymen and to spill their blood. The traces of this conspiracy were visible in all these bitter and tragic incidents and people with keen sights noticed the hands of the enemy in them.
"The command of 'being compassionate amongst themselves' in the Holy Quran is tantamount to the extirpation of such pugnacities. In these glorious days and during the various rituals of Hajj, one may see Muslims from all over the world and from various faiths going around one single house, praying in the direction of one Qibla, stoning in unison the symbol of the rejected Satan, acting in the same way to sacrifice the carnal desires and passions and, in unison, practicing supplication during the Arafat and Mashar gathering places.
The same closeness and togetherness is also visible among all the Islamic faiths in terms of the most basic religious percepts, regulations and beliefs. Therefore, why should the prejudices and prejudgments be allowed to kindle fire among them and why should the treacherous hands of enemies be allowed to stoke this ravaging fire? "Today there are some who, under false pretexts and due to their narrow-mindedness and lack of prudence, consider a great number of Muslims as infidels and even consider spilling their blood as lawful.
Whether they are aware of it or not, they are in the servitude of idolatry, unbelief and arrogance. Many a person who used the term of infidelity for the reverence of the holy shrines of Mohammad the Great Prophet of Islam (PBUH), the Pious and the Imams (S.A) which is actually honoring religion and religiousness, became the servants of infields and oppressors and collaborated with them in attaining their wicked goals.
"The real religious figures and scholars, committed intellectuals and sincere authorities must combat such perilous phenomena.
"Today, Islamic unity and solidarity are definite religious duties which may be materialized and practiced through cooperation among the wise and caring people.
"Formation of a fortified front against the arrogant powers on one hand and compassion and convergence on the other are the two pillars of dignity. Accompanied by the third pillar which is comprised of the courtesy and obedience to Allah, these pillars enable the Muslim Ummah to tread steadfastly on the same path which led to the pinnacle of glory and dignity for Muslims during the very outset of Islam.
Consequently, the Muslim Ummah will be saved from the humiliating backwardness which has been imposed on it in recent centuries. The precursor of this great move has emerged and the awakening waves are more or less on the move in the Muslim world. The media and propaganda belonging to the enemies try to attribute any freedom and justice seeking movement in any part of the world to Iran or Shi'ism. They try to hold Iran , which was the first flagbearer of the victory of the Islamic awakening, responsible for the blows dealt to them by the zealots in the Muslim countries in the areas of politics or culture.
The peerless epic of Hizbollah created in the 33-Day War, the prudent resistance of the Iraqi nation which led to the formation of a parliament and a government not favored by the occupiers, the astonishing patience and perseverance of the legal government of Palestine and its self-sacrificing people and many other signs of the revival of Islam in Muslim countries are all accused of being linked to Iranism or Shi'ism in order to impede the unanimous support of the Muslim world. However, such a ruse will not be able to withstand the divine tradition which heralds the victory for the strugglers in the cause of God and the victory-bearers of the religion of Allah. The future belongs to the Muslim Ummah and each and every one of us may contribute to the nearness of that future proportionate to the amount of responsibility or capability we have.
"Hajj rituals are a great opportunity for you fortunate Hajjis to prepare yourselves for this cause more than before.
"I hope the divine aid and the blessing of Hazrat Al-Mahdi, May Allah hasten His arrival, will be with you in this great aim.
"Greeting to you,
"Peace of Allah and his blessings and bounties upon you
"Sayyed Ali Al-Hosseini Al-Khamenei
"4 Zil-Hajja, 1428
"December 15, 2007"http://www2.irna.com/en/news/view/line-17/0712184407122742.htm
Hajj - Supreme Leader - Message
Hadis regards to check the greed of wealth
1.It is described from Ukaba Ibnul Haris(RA) .He said , ‘ I performed my Asar prayer behind Prophet (SA) . As soon as he turned salam and went to the rooms of his wives .The peoples became astonished for his haste. Afterward he came back and saw that the peoples became surprised .He said: I remembered a piece of gold or silver that we kept .I did not like to be kept ourselves. So I ordered them to distribute. (Bukhari)
2. It is described from Abu Huraira (RA) . He said, a man came to prophet and asked, O Rasul Allah! Which charity is best to be considered? He said: You would donate in such a condition that you are well, even greed for wealth, are afraid to the poverty and willing to get the wealth .You shall never be so miser that you reach at the moment of death and you would say that, this amount is for yours and that amount is yours; whereas the amount for others have been sanctioned. (Bukhari and Muslim)
Al- Quaranic verses of the week
(They are ) those who, if We establish them in the land ,establish regular prayer and give Zakat,enjoin the right and forbid wrong: with Allah rests the end ( And decision) of all affairs. -Sura Al -Hajj,Verse -41
The answer of the believers ,when summoned to Allah and His Messenger, in order that he may judge between them, in no other than this : They say," We hear and we obey ." It is such as these that will prosper. -Sura An -Nur ,Verse -51
Hadith of the week
Described from Abu Najih Irbaz Ibne Saria (Ra). He said Rasul Allah Sallah hu Alihesallam advised strongly. We became softened and tears poured from the eye. We said, Ya Rasullah! It was like the last advice. So further, advise us. He said: I advise you to fear Allah and advise to hear and oblige to the ruler although he shall be Negro .If some one would be alive would watch division .Then it shall be your firm duty to follow the Sunnah and Sunnah of the blessed Kolafaeh Rashedin. Firmly hold the Sunnah and abstain from all sort of illegality .Because each of ‘Bidat' is deviation. Imam Abu Daud and Imam Tirmizi quoted the hadith and Imam Tirmidizi mentioned it Hasan and right.
Al- Quaranic verses of the week
In order that it (wealth) may not (merely) make a circuit between the wealthy among you -Sura Al -Hashr,Verse -7
On the earth and in the water whatever indiscipline seen -is the earning of mankind. - Sura Ar-Rum, Verse: 41
BM Research,2nd May 2007 :
Islam that is the key word for the debate of politics, military, culture, economy, diplomacy in present times. Many are puzzled why these beliefs shaking those people are ready to sacrifice; is it the opium or mesmerize that spoils thousands of people (Nauzubillah)? Actually the hypothesis must be wrong if the gift of Allah through the messenger Hazrat Muhammad (SM) the Quaran is read thoroughly.
The book Quaran is the gift to the oppressed peoples against the oppression of the arrogant, exploiters around the world. Since Allah is the single creator of the universe there should be none to rule over the creation of the creator unjustly, even those unjustly rule over the creation can no longer be encouraged in the Holy book.
In the sura Al-Baqara of the Holy Quaran it is said ,‘This is the Book, in it is guidance sure, without doubt. To those who fear Allah'. In other sura Al Furkan it is stated, “Blessed is He Who sent down the Criterion to His servant, that it may be an admonition to all creatures.” Here ‘Criterion' which we can judge clearly between right and wrong.
So islam is the war against the false wood. Any kind of replacement against His oneness for the unity of mankind, any sort of economic exploitation and domination in subject to the oneness of Allah. If there is no opponent of Allah and there is none comparable to Allah, there should be no scope for the exploitation, underestimation. These basic beliefs were practiced by the Prophet Muhammad (Sm) and so the appeal of Islam was knocked the mankind and the Islamic faith flooded to the every corner of the globe. Islam identified the tools of exploitation and commenced jihad against them. Those include: usury, gambling, prostitution, wine and all sort of narcotics, slavery, killing children for the cause of poverty, killing human being unnecessary. Wheras the rest of the force in the world are united for the business those are forbidden in Islam. Why the Iraqi, Afghani, Kashmiri, Chechen are murdered the answer is very simple they are the barrier of the 2% of the world economy grabber who accumulated the wealth with the blood of mankind.
In the past Allah favored the oppressed,Allah says, “And We wished to be Gracious to those who were being depressed in the land .To make them leaders (in faith) and make them heirs .” Sura Qasas ,Ayat: 5. “ To establish a firm place for them in the land, and to show Pharaoh ,Haman ,And their hosts ,what they were dreading from them .” Sura Qasas, Ayat: 6.
In this way Allah favored Hazrat Muhammad (SM) against the Quraish who killed the girl child, in the same way Musa (As) was blessed against Pharoah killed boy child. However, while the Chirstian and Jews should respect Muhammad (SM), instead of, they commenced war against him and his followers for the safeguard tol their exploitation through usury, gambling, arms trade, wine and narcotics trade etc.
So Islam was, is and shall not be used as opium, rather it is the practical approach to the have nots and haves who pay jakat.
To sum, this din or religion is the safeguard to the present and future exploited peoples.
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Hadith of the week
It is desribed by Anas (RA) .The Prophet Muhammad (SM) said :You can no longer be a perfect man having iman ,unless you like that what you like for your brother . (Described by Imam Bukhari RA. and Imam Muslim RA.)
Al -Quaranic verse of the week
You are the best of peoples ,evolved for mankind enjoing what is right ,forbidding what is wrong ...(Sura Al -i-Imran,verse-110)
Hadith of the last week
It is described by Khaola Binte Amer Al Ansari(RA) .She was the wife of Hamza (RA) . She said that she had heard to be said by Rasul Ullah (SA): There are many peoples who spend the wealth of Allah illegally, even misuse it. In the Day of Judgment the fire for them shall be ready. (Described by Imam Bukhari RA. )
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debris of IRAM city ,
only mentioned in The Holy Quaran.Courtsy:National Geographic, December 1978 (Vol.154,No.6)
No arrogant states ever existed
<Julkarnain Hasan >
There were several regional and international powerful states in the history. Unfortunately, they could not survive for the time immemorial. The certain state disappeared and the new one came in to scenario, yet the new one became arrogant and was entertained the similar fate.
The historians tried their best to dig out the debris of the fallen civilization and tried to find out the ins and outs of the civilization and their findings suggested elements which headed them in the present situation.
Other than the historians, the Holy Book Al- Quaran is the best source to find out the details of the reason for their fate, because, Al Quaran is the answer of the Creater, Allah (Su), who created the world. In this writing, Al- Quaran shall get priority to find out the background and the causes for the disappearance of the civilization.
In the Quaran, the names of the fallen nations, nation-states those appeared are as follows:
• A'd
• Samud or Thamud
• Lut
• Nuah
• Saba
• Tubba
• Boni Israel
• Ashaeb-e-Kahf
• Ashabus Sabat
• Ashabul Kariah
• Ashabul Aikah
• Ashabul Ukdud
• Ashabur Ras.
• Ashabul Fil
(Source :Quaran Sharif, trns. Hafiz Muniruddin Ahmed , pp.23)
Other than it :
The Iram city was exclusively mentioned in the Quaran.
Now we shall move to the direct verses of the book were the causes for the fallen of the civilizations are mentioned.
The topic mentioned:
1. It is not a guidance to such Men (to call to mind) How many generations before them We destroyed, in whose haunts They (now) move? Verily, In this are Signs for men endued with understanding.
(Sura Ta Ha, verse: 127)
2.(As to those) before them, Not one of the towns which We destroyed believed ;will these believe?
(Sura Al –Anbiyaa, verse:6)
3. How many population have We destroyed, which were given to wrong doing? They tumbled down on their roofs .And how many wells are lying idle and neglected, And castles lofty and well-built?
(Sura Al-Hajj,verse;45)
4. Then We raised after them other generations.
(Al-Muminoon, verse: 42)
5. No people can hasten their term, nor can they delay (it)
(Al-Muminoon, verse: 43)
6. Then sent We Our messenger in succession: every time There came to a people Their messenger, they accused him of falsehood: so we made them follow each other (in punishment); we made them as a tale (that is told): so away with a people that will not believe!
( Al-Muminoon, verse: 44)
7. Untill we seize in punishment those of them who received the good things of this world, behold, they will goan in supplication!
(Sura Muminoon: verse.64)
8. Then see what the end of their plot was! –this, that we destroyed them and their people, all (of them)
(An –Namal, verse: 51)
9. Now such were their houses;-in utter ruin, because they plasticized wrong doing
Verily in this is a sign for people of knowledge.
(An -Namal, verse; 52)
10. Say: Go ye through the earth and see what has been the end of those guilty (of sin)
(An-Namal-verse.69)
11. Truly Pharaoh elated himself in the land and divided its people into sections, depressing a group. Among them: their sons he slew, But he kept alive their females .For he was indeed An evil doer.
( Sura-Qasas,verse:4)
12. And we wished to be gracious to those who were being depressed in the land to make them leaders (in faith) and make them heirs.
(Sura Al-Qasas,verse:5)
13. To establish a firm place for them in the land , And to show Pharaoh, Haman And their hosts ,what they were dreading from them.
( Sura Al-Qasas,verse:6)
14. We did reveal to Moses the Book after We had destroyed the earlier generations,(to give) insight to men , and Guidance and Mercy, that they might receive admonition.”
(Sura Al- Qasas, verse: 43)
15.But if they hearken not To thee, know that they only follow their own lusts: And who is more astray than one who follows his own Lusts, devoid of guidance from Allah? For Allah guides not People given to wrong –doing.
(Sura Al-Qasas, verse: 50)
16.And how many towns We destroyed ,which exulted in their life of ease and plenty)! Now those habitations of theirs, After them, are destroyed,-All but a (miserable) few! And We are their heirs!
(Sura Al-Qasas, verse: 58)
17. Nor was the Lord the one to destroy a town until He had sent to its centre A messenger, rehearsing to them our signs; nor are We going to destroy a population except when its members practice iniquity.
(Sura Al-Qasas, verse: 59)
18. He said: “This has been given to me because of certain knowledge which I have” Did he not know that Allah had destroyed, before him, (whole) generations,-which were superior to him in strength and greater in the amount (of riches) they had collected? But the wicked are not called (immediately) to account for their sins.
(Sura Al-Qasas, verse: 78)
19. And call not, besides Allah, on another god. There is no god but He .everything (that exists) will perish except his face .To him belongs the command, And to him will ye (All ) be brought back.
(Sura Al-Qasas, verse: 88)
20. Say: Travel through the earth and see what the end of those before (you) was: most of them were idolaters.
(Sura Ar-Rum,verse: 42).
21. Does it not teach them A lesson, how many generations we destroyed before them, in whose dwellings they (Now) go to and fro ? Verily in that are Signs: So they not then listen?
(Sura As-Sajada, verse: 26)
22. We destroyed aforetime towns round about you; and we have shown the signs in various ways that they may turn (to Us)
(Sura Al-Ahqaf, Verse: 27)
23. And how many cities with more power than thy city which has Driven thee out, Have we destroyed (For their sins)? And there was none to aid them.
(Sura Muhammad, Verse: 13)
24. But how many Generations before them did We destroy (for their Sins) ,- stronger in power than they? Then did they wander through the land: was there any place of escape (for them)?
(Sura Qaf, Verse: 36)
25. Verily in this is a message for any that has a heart and understanding or who gives ear and is a witness.
(Sura Qaf, verse: 36)
26. Verily it is we Who Give Life and death; And to us is the Return-.
(Sura Qaf, verse: 43)
27.Do they not travel through the earth and see what was the End of those before them? They were more numerous than these and superior in strength and in the traces(they have left) in the land; yet all that they accomplished was of no profit to them.
(Sura Al -Mu-min or Gafir,verse: 82)
28.So we destroyed men-Stronger in power than these;-And (thus) has passed on the example of the peoples of old.
(Sura Az-Zukhruf,verse:8)
29. So We exacted retribution from them: now see what was the end of those who rejected (truth)
(Sura Az-Zukhruf,verse:25)
30. We showed them Sign After Sign,each greater than its fellow ,and we seized them with Punishmentin order that they might turn (to Us)
(Sura Az-Zukhruf,verse:48)
31. Then see what was the end of those who were warned
(Sura As- Saffat,verse:73)
32.What ! are they better than the people of Tubba and those who were before them ? We destroyedthem because they guilty of sin.
(Sura Ad-Dukkan,verse:37)
33-37: (48) That is He Who Giveth wealth and satisfaction . (49) That he is the Lord of Sirius (the Mighty Star). (50) And that it is He who destroyed the (powerful) Ancient 'Ad (people) (51) And the Thamud, He left no trace of them (52)And before them,the people of Noah,for that they were (all) most unjust and most insolent transgressors.
(Sura An -Najm ,verse:48-52)
38.Did We not destroy the men of old (for their evil)?
(Sura Al- Mursalat ,verse:16)
39.So shall We make later (generations) follow them.
(Sura Al- Mursalat ,verse:17)
40.See they not how many generations before them we destroyed ?Not to them will they return:
(Sura Ya-Sin ,verse:31)
41.How many populations that insolently opposed the command of their Lord and of His messengers,Did We not then call to account ?- And We chastised them with a horrible Chastisement.
(Sura At-Talaq ,verse:8)
42-44:(15) Now the A'd behaved arrogantly through the land , against (all) truth and reason ,and said :"Who is superior to us in strength ?" What did they not see that Allah, Who created them,was superior to them in strength ? But they continued to reject Our signs! (16) So We sent against them a furious wind through days of disaster ,that We might give them a taste of a Chastisement of humiliation in the Life ; but the Penalty of the hereafter will be more humiliating still: and they will find no help. 17. As to the Tahamud, We gave them guidence ,but they preferred blindness (0f heart ) to guidence : So the thunderbolt of the Chastisement of humiliation seized them because of what they had earned .
(Sura Ha-Mim,or Fussilat,verse:15-17)
45. How many generations before them did We destroy? In the end they cried (For mercy)-when There was no longer time for being saved!
(Sura Sad,verse:3)
46.Not one (of them) but rejected the messengers , but My punishment came justly and inevitably(on them) .
(Sura Sad,verse:14)
47. But they turned away (from Allah), and We sent against them the flood (released ) from the dams And We converted their two Garden(row) into " gardens" producing bitter fruit.And tamarisks ,and some few (stunted) lote-trees.
(Sura Saba,verse:16)
48-55 :(7) Of the (city of Iram ,With lofty pillars . (8) The like of which were not produced in (all) the land? (9)And with the Thamud (people), who cut out (Huge ) rocks in the valley?-(10) And with the Pharaoh lord of Stakes?(11) (All) these transgressed beyond bounds in the lands.(120 And heaped therein Mischief (on mischief) .(13) Therefore did thy Lord pour on them a sourge of diverse chastisements:(14) For thy Lord is Watchful.
(Sura Al-fajr ,verse:7-14)
56. Generations before you We destroyed when they did wrong : Their Messengers came to them with clear signs ,but they would not believe ! Thus do We requite those who sin!
(Sura Yunus ,verse:13)
57-59:(43) On account of their arrogance in the land and their plotting of Evil . But the plotting of Evil will hem in only the author therof .Now are they but looking for the way the ancients were dealt with ? But no change way(of dealing ). No turning off wilt thou find in Allah's way ( of dealing) .(44) Do they not travel through the earth , and see what was the End of those before them, - Though they were superior to them in strength ? Nor is Allah to be frustrated by anything whatever in the heavens or on earth : for He is all-knowing . All -Powerful . (45) If Allah were to punish men accroding to what they deserve ,He would not leave on the back of the (earth) a single living creature : but He gives them respite for a stated term: when their Term expires , verily Allah has in His sight All His servents.
(Sura Fatir ,verse:43-45)
60. But how many (countless) generations before them have We destroyed ,who were even better in equipment and in glitter to the eye?
(Sura Maryam or Mary ,verse:74)
61-69: (4) The Thamud and the 'Ad people disbelieved in the day of noise & clamour !(5) But the Thamud ,they were destroyed by a terrible storm of thunder and lightning !(6) And the 'Ad, they were destroyed by a furious wind exceedingly violent ;(7 )He made it rage against them seven nights and eight days in succession : So that thou couldst lying overthrown in its (path) , as if they had been roots of hollow palm-trees tumbled down!(8) Then seest thou any of them left surviving ?(9) And Pharaoh and those before him ,And the cities overthrown , comitted habitual sin .(10) And disobeyed (each) the messenger of their Lord so He punished them with an abundant penalty. (11) We, when the water (of Noah's flood) overflowed beyond its limits, carried you (man kind),in the floating (Ark )
(Sura Haqqa or Sure Reality ,verse:4-11)
70. How many were the towns We utterly destroyed because of their iniquities ,setting up in their places other places?
(Sura Al –Anbiyaa, verse:11)
71. We helped him against people who rejected Our signs : Truly they were a people given to evil :so We drowned them(in the flood) all together .
(Sura Al –Anbiyaa, verse:77)
72. But there is a ban on any population which We have destroyed : that they shall not return .
(Sura Al –Anbiyaa, verse:95)
73. Do they not travel trough the earth, and see what was the end of those before them (who did evil)? Allah brought utter destruction on them, and similiar (fates await) those who reject Allah .
(Sura Muhammad, Verse: 10)
74. How many towns have We destroyed (for their sins ) ? Our punishment took them on a sudden by night or while they slept for their afternoon rest.
( Sura Al - A'raf, Verse: 4 )
75. But indeed men before them rejected ( My warning) : then how( terrible ) was My punishment (of them) ?
( Sura Al - Mulk , Verse:18 )
76. If Allah were to punish men for their wrong-doing, He would not leave ,on th (earth) , A single living creature : but He gives them respite for a stated term : when their term expires, they would not be able to delay (the punishment) for a single hour ,just as they would not be able to anticipate it( for a single hour) .
( Sura Al - Nahl , Verse:61 )
77. Do they not travel through the earth ,and see what was the end pf those before them? They were superior to them in strength : they tilled the soil and populated it in greater numbers than these have done: there came to them their messengers with clear(sign) ,( Which they rejected ,to their own destruction): it was not Allah who wronged them,but they wronged their own souls .
(Sura Ar-Rum,verse: 9).
78.When our decree issued , We saved Shu'aib and those who believed with him , By (special) mercy from Us: but the (mighty) blast did seize the wrong doers and they lay prostrate in their homes by the morning ,
(Sura Hud,verse: 94).
79. As if they had never dwelt and flourished there ! so away with Madyan As Thamud gone away .
(Sura Hud,verse: 95).
80. These are some of the stories of communities which We relate unto thee : of them some are standing , and some have been mown down (By the sickle of time )
(Sura Hud,verse: 100).
81. And (oft) in the past , have We destroyed gangs like unto you: then is there any that will receive admonition ?
(Sura Al- Qamar,verse: 51).
82. We sent against them a violent tornado with showers of stones , (which destroyed them) , except Lut's household : them We delivered by early dawn.
(Sura Al- Qamar,verse: 34).
83-86. (25) How many were the gardens and springs they left behind, (26) And corn-fields and noble buildings , (27)And pleasant things wherin they had taken such delight ! (28) Thus (was their end )! and We made other people inherit (those things)!
(Sura Ad- Dukhan,verse: 83-86).
In the Hadith :
Regards to the issue Hazrat Muhammad (SM) said:
1.It is described by Jabir (RA). Rasul (SA) said: Keep aloof of suppression .Because Suppression can be turned dark fume in the Day of Judgment. Keep aloof of misery, because misery destroyed many nations in previous times. Misery directed them towards blood shed and quarrel and inspired haram tasks to halal.
Imam Muslim described the hadith
2. It is described from Abu Musa(RA) .He said , Rasul(SA) said: verily Allah allows the suppressor.But when He arrests them He never keeps them free. Then: he recited the verse;"And when your Lord grab any locality ,then His grab comes like that. His arrest is very rude, ferociuos and painful"
Imam Bukhari and Muslim described the hadith.
So with 86verses from Al Quaran we can conclude that the there is no way to take stand against Allah, no way to divide the people, make the people underdog to rule over them, no way to be idolaters, no way to stand everlasting since Allah wishes to teach the people that they have to think that the world is perishable and since Allah is the supreme power and we are the followers of Allah, have to go back to Him.
In present times, we are experiencing with the unbound arrogance from different parts of the world which prompted to prepare the article. In Soviet Russia lots of Muslims and mosques were perished by the Soviet Armed forces, yet they have not been able to hold the super power emblem, they have been defeated in Afghanistan and consequently collapsed her statehood. Once the British empire's sun could not set up ,now the British nation is going along with USA, can not independently dominate the world and can not ‘ divide and rule' as it could have been possible nearly fifty years ago. Once Germany clinched Jews and later Jews have been powered by atomic forces and became arrogant, killed hundreds of Muslims in Palestenian is now being challenged by the suppressed Palestenian and lebanese Hijbullah. Now Pakistan became the nuclear super power, in the same way, Islamic Republic of Iran is going to be closer to the nuclear power. Once Iran was inhumanely attacked by Iraq with the aid of rest of the world, now the Iraqi regime is to be fought with the USA . The USA's economy shall be challenged which might drive the future of the USA into uncertainty .The arrogance of India in the question of Islam (Babari Mosque) , Muslim(Gujarat Killing) and neighboring states ( Kargil war , Farakkah issue ,South Talporti issue) becoming shattered .In the question of Bangladesh , she is afraid of playing role openly so lobbying with other states to impact its diplomacy over Bangladesh .
So we must think that Allah is the supreme authority, no matter what we are, have to go back to Allah, and this understanding can lead the world in to balanced position.
In addition, it is imperative to be understood that some times we can be examined by Allah with the condition that we are truly practicing iman –is exceptionally be assessed .Regards to it the verse depicts : “Be sure we shall test you with something of fear And hunger, some loss in goods, lives and the fruits (of your toil), but give Glad tidings to those who patiently persevere.”(Sura Al-Bakara, verse: 155) can no longer be upset or frustrated if we are really think that we are in the path of Allah .
To sum, we have to follow the principles of Al -Quaran and hadith so that we can avoid the unexpected deeds have been forbidden by Allah.
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"To invigorate the dead spirit of Muslim, Imam Jainul Abedin (AS) commenced lamenting in memory to the brutal assassination of Imam Hussein (AS)”
--------------------------------DR. M.R. Hashemi
MS AKHTER ,Dhaka , 23,2007 :
When the fundamentals of Islam supposed to be in confusions among the people, the Prophet Muhammd (SM) indicated that Imam Hussein belongs to him . In keeping the mind for the following ages ‘Ana min Hussein' is hard to be understood roughly, on the other hand, it can be understood if we try to understand with heart .The cultural Counsellor of the Islamic Republic of Iran Dr.M.R. Hashemi said in the discussion forum on the auspicious of Asura at the Cultural Centre Auditorium on 23 rd January 2007.
He further said that the duty of the prophet is to deal with the massage of Allah and his resalat is Imam Hussein (AS). In addition ,it is described Imam Hussein's body belongs to Muhammad (SM). In regards to his brother Imam Hasan (AS), Imam Hussein (As) said that his brother is the banda of Allah.
Imam Hussein (As) said that no body would be left to remember him without weeping.
In consideration to the opinion of other Imam, MR. Hashemi mentioned that Imam Joinul Abedin (AS) used to weep and described through dua about the incident of karbla. Like wise the charge with the electricity to the heart attack patient, Imam Joinul Amedin (AS) wept to charge the stable heart of Muslams .In the same way, Ali (As) hit his own face while others did not try to understand him. He repented while others were indifferent to him and said that they were not fit to listen him. So the method that was used by Imam Joinul Abedin (AS) was used earlier.
Imam Joinul Abedin(AS) said that he (Imam Hussein) was such a bird that was blood strained locking in the cage. Imam Baker (AS), however, said Imam Hussein (AS) achieved it through his sacrifice, Hashemi said in his lecture. Some argued that Imam Hussein sacrificed his life for nothing . It was propagated by Yazid, he remarked. However, Imam Hussein struggled for the cause of islam and was rewarded. Every Imam echoed the same about Imam Hussein(AS) . Most of them opined that we could be closest to him through mourning. We can learn manything from Muharram which could be applicable for all times , Mr.Hashemi said in the hall. He regreated that many buried him after 12 Muharram . Imam Hussein(AS) kept promise which was done by his brother Imam Hassan(AS) and did not make revolt till the death of Imam Muabia. In saying it, Mr.Hashemi called on to keep promise irrespective of Sia and Sunni. Reagrds to Imam's conscious approach he mentioned that Imam Hussein (AS ) kept his own security while he met with the Governor. His sacrifice revived the Islam while everybody compromised with the falsehood, he added.
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Mohammad Hamiduzzaman's written Quaran displaying at IFB library,Dhaka
BM Correspondent,19 January 2007:
Mohammad Hamiduzzaman's hand written Al -Quaran is displaying at the Islamic Foundation library premise in Dhaka . He belonged to Rajshahi District and started writing the Holy Quaran since 1981 and completed in 1989. He wrote the whole Quaran on art paper with black ink. The whole Quaran consists of 110 pages and weighed 61 kgs. The length, width and the height of the Quaran is 2'-5'', 1'-11'' and 9” respectively .Every day huge visitors come to see the Quaran .All are invited to see the magnificence work of Hamiduzzaman.
HADITH OF THE WEEK
• Abu Huraira (RA) described. Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (SM) said, ‘ There are more than seventy or more than sixty branches of Iman .Among them the best is to utter La Ilaha Illah la ,and general branch is that to remove the material which breeds pain or produces trouble on the street. Shame is one of the branches. (Bukhari and Muslim)
• Abu Huraira (RA) described. Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (SM) said, ‘I saw a man moving to the jannat for a tree. He cut off the tree from the street which produced pain to Muslims.' (Bukhari and Muslim)
Whereas: we see while move in the street of Dhaka that the norm of the hadith is ignored .If we follow it and our authority ensures it then we shall get a modern nice Bangladesh and keep to follow the hadith to get reward here and here after . The pictures are put in the ‘enviornment.'
AL-Quaran
Since they receive interest (riba) -whereas they have been forbidden and grasped other's property. I have prepared for severe punishment for the infidel like them. (Sura An Nesa, verse: 161)
Allah abolishes interest (riba) and increases the deeds for donation or charity. Allah dislikes to any ungrateful sinner. (Sura Bakara, Verse: 276)
O believer! Be fearful to Allah and give up the dues of interest (riba) if you are Muslim. ( Sura Bakara,Verse:278)
O believer! Do not take interest and fearful to Allah in order to attain success. (Sura Imran, Verse: 130)
If you do not give up interest (riba), then mind it that it is like the war against Allah and Rasul, however, if you are repentant then the capitals vested upon yourself, you shall not torment or not being tormented. (Sura Bakara,Verse: 279)
That which you give in usury(Interest) or riba for increase through the property of (other) people ,will have no increase with Allah: But that which you give for charity , seeking The Countenance of Allah (will increase): it is these who will get a recompense multiplied.(Ar-Rum,30)
Wheras : Many commercial banks and NGOs are conducting business based on usury or riba or interest .As a result the poverty level is still hanging on the same level.
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ISLAM IN AMERICA
In every century a powerful political state emerges and secures the crown of ‘superpower’.Basically the military supremacy ensures this entity. Other things act as the properties of the key term. The United States of America secured the place and had been continuing her supremacy over half of the century. The recent invasion in Iraq and Afghanistan indicates her bad superpower attitude, since her military capability stood atop. Although the military supremacy has been achieved, the country is still segregated by racial discrimination. Interestingly in Iraq it is proven that peoples do not like the USA as it is easily understandable; more clearly disliking attained from her beastlike desire counted upon materialistic means ignoring the dignity of mankind. The letter that is provided is written by a man who dignified the political history of the United States of America for his anti-racial pro -Islamic entity in the fifties and sixties of twentieth century.He was Shaeed El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, a converted Muslim and African Negro hereditary, born on 19 May 1925 in Omaha in the USA. His letter carried the teaching of Hajj, criticism of American society in contrast with the social and political reality of Mecca during the hajj period while at the stage the USA is firm in her supremacy. The thirst for spiritual and social peace made him a man of repentance (Tauba) and helped to point out the destiny where he was really wanted to reach. The destiny he fixed was to place the Al-Quaran’s principle in the life of Americans to make her glory shinier. In the book ‘The Autobiography of Malcolm X’ Malik El Shabazz dreams, “....... I dreamed to see the day when shiploads and planeloads of American Muslims would come to Mecca for the Hajj.” In the letter he wrote, “I could see from this, that perhaps if white Americans could accept the oneness of God, then perhaps, too, they could acceptin reality the Oneness of Man –and cease to measure ,and hinder, and harm others in terms of their ‘differences’ in color.” In the same book it was written, “Here in race torn America, I am convinced that the Islamic religion is desperately needed, particularly by the American black man.”
Again, “Only one religion-Islam- had the power to stand and fight the white man’s Christianity for a thousand years! Only Islam could keep white Christianity at bay.”
Once Malcolm X was pointed out as the angriest person of America, Hajj had changed his vision in to logical revolutionary pathway. He said, “I was trying to gradually reshape that image .I was trying to turn a corner, in to a new regard by the public, especially Negros; I was no less angry than I had been, but at the same time the true brotherhood I had seen in the Holy World had influenced me to recognize that anger can blind human vision.”
Finally he concluded his views likely, “I said to Harlem street audience that only when mankind would submit to the One God who created all – only then would mankind even approach the ‘peace’ of which so much talk could be heard..... but toward which so little action was seen.”
In the year 1965 he was assassinated by unknown miscreants and was martyred. On the eve of Idual Adhaja and hajj we pay our respect to this man who got the right path before his death and pray to Allah so that he can be placed in the Jannatul Ferdaus and we are to be able to meet with him in the Jannat.
In addition, I feel to add that during the Hajj the direction of Muslim Ummah is little heard as our beloved prophet Hazrat Muhammad (SM) directed during the Hajj in his life time.
Now we should better to move to the letter that he wrote from Mecca to the people of America.“Never have I witnessed such sincere hospitality and the overwhelming spirit of true brotherhood as is practiced by people of all colors and races here in this ancient Holy Land, the home of Abraham, Muhammad, and all the other prophets of the Holy Scriptures. For the past week, I have been utterly speechless and spellbound by the graciousness I see displayed all around me by people of all colors.
I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca .I have made my seven circuits around the Ka’ba, led by a young Mutawaf named Muhammad .I drank water from the well of Zem Zem.I ran seven times back and forth between the hills of Mt Al-Safa and Al-Marwah.I have prayed in the ancient city of Mina, and I have prayed on Mt Arafat.
There were tens of thousands of pilgrims, from all over the world. They were all of colors, from blue- eyed blonds to black –skinned Africans. But we were all participating in the same ritual, displaying a spirit of unity and brotherhood that my experiences in America had led me to believe never could exist between the white and the non- white.
America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, and even eaten with people who in America would have been considered ‘white’ –but the ‘white’ attitude was removed from their minds by the religion of Islam. I have never before seen sincere and true brotherhood practiced by all colors together, irrespective of their color.
You may be shocked by these words coming from me. But on this pilgrimage ,what I have seen ,and experienced ,has forced me to re-arrange much of my thought –patterns previously held ,and to toss aside some of my previous conclusions. This was not too difficult for me .Despite my firm convictions, I have been always a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds it. I have always kept an open mind, which is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth.
During the past eleven days here in the Muslim world, I have eaten from the same plate, drunk from the same glass, and slept in the same bed (or in the same rug)-while praying to the same God-with fellow Muslims, whose eyes were not the bluest of blue, whose hair was the blondest of blond, and whose skin was the whitest of white. And in the words and in the actions and in the deeds of the ‘white’ Muslims, I felt the same sincerity that I felt among the black African Muslims of Nigeria, Sudan and Ghana.
We were truly all the same (brothers)-because their belief in one God had removed the ‘white’ from their minds, the ‘white’ from their behavior, and the ‘white’ from their attitude.I could see from this, that perhaps if white Americans could accept the Oneness of God, then perhaps ,too, they could accept in reality the Oneness of Man-and cease to measure ,and hinder, and harm others in terms of their ‘differences’ in color.
With racism plaguing America like an incurable cancer, the so-called ‘Christian’ white American heart should be more receptive to a proven solution to such a destructive problem .Perhaps it could be in time to save America from imminent disaster –the same destruction brought upon Germany by racism that eventually destroyed the Germans themselves.
Each hour here in the Holy Land enables me to have greater spiritual insights into what is happening in America between black and white. The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities-he is only reacting to four hundred years of the conscious racism of the America whites. But as racism leads America up the suicide path, I do believe, from the experiences that I have had with them, that the whites of the younger
generation, in the colleges and universities, will see the handwriting on the wall and many of them will turn to the spiritual path of truth –the only way left to America to ward off the disaster that racism inevitably must lead to.Never have I been so highly honored. Never have I been made to feel more humble and unworthy. Who would believe the blessings that have been heaped upon an American Negro? A few nights ago, a man who would be called in America a ‘white’ man, a United Nations diplomat, an ambassador, a companion of Kings, gave me his hotel suite, his bed. By this man, His Excellency Prince Faisal, who rules this Holy Land, was made aware of my presence here in Jedda. The very next morning, Prince Faisal’s son, in person, informed me that by the will and decree of his esteemed father, I was to be a State Guest.
The deputy Chief of Protocol himself took me before the Hajj Court. His Holiness Muhammad Harkon himself okayed my visit to Mecca. His Holiness gave me two books on Islam, with his personal seal and autograph, and he told me that he prayed that I would be a successful preacher of Islam in America. A car, a driver, and a guide, have been placed at my disposal, making it possible for me to travel about this Holy land almost at will. The government provides air- conditioned quarters and servants in each city that I visit. Never would I have even thought a dreaming that I would ever be recipient of such honors that in America would be bestowed upon a King- not a Negro.
All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of all the worlds.
Sincerely,
El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz
(Malcolm X)”11. Alex, Haley, The autobiography of Malcolm X, USA, 1965.
Sahi Al Bukhari Vol 9, Book 89. Judgments (Ahkaam). Hadith 256.
Narrated by Anas bin Malik: Allah's Apostle said, "You should listen to and obey, your ruler even if he was an Ethiopian (black) slave whose head looks like a raisin."
