In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate.
According to Holy Quran: 005.032
YUSUFALI: On that account: We ordained for the Children of Israel that if any one slew a person - unless it be for murder or for spreading mischief in the land - it would be as if he slew the whole people: and if any one saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of the whole people. Then although there came to them Our messengers with clear signs, yet, even after that, many of them continued to commit excesses in the land.
2:185 Ramadhan is the (month) In which was sent down The Qur-an, as a Guide To mankind............
Holy Quran
From above The Christian Science Monitor and The end time did not come yet as there are some one like Anders Strindberg in USA and West though at present there is none between Muslim and Arab ruling class.
Hizbullah's attacks stem from Israeli incursions into Lebanon
By Anders Strindberg
NEW YORK – As pundits and policymakers scramble to explain events in Lebanon, their conclusions are virtually unanimous: Hizbullah created this crisis. Israel is defending itself. The underlying problem is Arab extremism.
Sadly, this is pure analytical nonsense. Hizbullah's capture of two Israeli soldiers on July 12 was a direct result of Israel's silent but unrelenting aggression against Lebanon, which in turn is part of a six-decades long Arab-Israeli conflict.
In the Monitor
Friday, 08/11/06
Since its withdrawal of occupation forces from southern Lebanon in May 2000, Israel has violated the United Nations-monitored "blue line" on an almost daily basis, according to UN reports. Hizbullah's military doctrine, articulated in the early 1990s, states that it will fire Katyusha rockets into Israel only in response to Israeli attacks on Lebanese civilians or Hizbullah's leadership; this indeed has been the pattern.
In the process of its violations, Israel has terrorized the general population, destroyed private property, and killed numerous civilians. This past February, for instance, 15-year-old shepherd Yusuf Rahil was killed by unprovoked Israeli cross-border fire as he tended his flock in southern Lebanon. Israel has assassinated its enemies in the streets of Lebanese cities and continues to occupy Lebanon's Shebaa Farms area, while refusing to hand over the maps of mine fields that continue to kill and cripple civilians in southern Lebanon more than six years after the war supposedly ended. What peace did Hizbullah shatter?
Hizbullah's capture of the soldiers took place in the context of this ongoing conflict, which in turn is fundamentally shaped by realities in the Palestinian territories. To the vexation of Israel and its allies, Hizbullah - easily the most popular political movement in the Middle East - unflinchingly stands with the Palestinians.
Since June 25, when Palestinian fighters captured one Israeli soldier and demanded a prisoner exchange, Israel has killed more than 140 Palestinians. Like the Lebanese situation, that flare-up was detached from its wider context and was said to be "manufactured" by the enemies of Israel; more nonsense proffered in order to distract from the apparently unthinkable reality that it is the manner in which Israel was created, and the ideological premises that have sustained it for almost 60 years, that are the core of the entire Arab-Israeli conflict.
Once the Arabs had rejected the UN's right to give away their land and to force them to pay the price for European pogroms and the Holocaust, the creation of Israel in 1948 was made possible only by ethnic cleansing and annexation. This is historical fact and has been documented by Israeli historians, such as Benny Morris. Yet Israel continues to contend that it had nothing to do with the Palestinian exodus, and consequently has no moral duty to offer redress.
For six decades the Palestinian refugees have been refused their right to return home because they are of the wrong race. "Israel must remain a Jewish state," is an almost sacral mantra across the Western political spectrum. It means, in practice, that Israel is accorded the right to be an ethnocracy at the expense of the refugees and their descendants, now close to 5 million.
Is it not understandable that Israel's ethnic preoccupation profoundly offends not only Palestinians, but many of their Arab brethren? Yet rather than demanding that Israel acknowledge its foundational wrongs as a first step toward equality and coexistence, the Western world blithely insists that each and all must recognize Israel's right to exist at the Palestinians' expense.
Western discourse seems unable to accommodate a serious, as opposed to cosmetic concern for Palestinians' rights and liberties: The Palestinians are the Indians who refuse to live on the reservation; the Negroes who refuse to sit in the back of the bus.
By what moral right does anyone tell them to be realistic and get over themselves? That it is too much of a hassle to right the wrongs committed against them? That the front of the bus must remain ethnically pure? When they refuse to recognize their occupier and embrace their racial inferiority, when desperation and frustration causes them to turn to violence, and when neighbors and allies come to their aid - some for reasons of power politics, others out of idealism - we are astonished that they are all such fanatics and extremists.
The fundamental obstacle to understanding the Arab-Israeli conflict is that we have given up on asking what is right and wrong, instead asking what is "practical" and "realistic." Yet reality is that Israel is a profoundly racist state, the existence of which is buttressed by a seemingly endless succession of punitive measures, assassinations, and wars against its victims and their allies.
A realistic understanding of the conflict, therefore, is one that recognizes that the crux is not in this or that incident or policy, but in Israel's foundational and per- sistent refusal to recognize the humanity of its Palestinian victims. Neither Hizbullah nor Hamas are driven by a desire to "wipe out Jews," as is so often claimed, but by a fundamental sense of injustice that they will not allow to be forgotten.
These groups will continue to enjoy popular legitimacy because they fulfill the need for someone - anyone - to stand up for Arab rights. Israel cannot destroy this need by bombing power grids or rocket ramps. If Israel, like its former political ally South Africa, has the capacity to come to terms with principles of democracy and human rights and accept egalitarian multiracial coexistence within a single state for Jews and Arabs, then the foundation for resentment and resistance will have been removed. If Israel cannot bring itself to do so, then it will continue to be the vortex of regional violence.
• Anders Strindberg, formerly a visiting professor at Damascus University, Syria, is a consultant on Middle East politics working with European government and law-enforcement agencies. He has also covered Syria, Lebanon, and the Palestinian territories as a journalist since the late 1990s, primarily for European publications.
"It's said that the Lebanese army doesn't have the ability to deploy right now with the effectiveness we demand, and so as a first step some sort of international force in the buffer zone would be an acceptable suggestion," the official said. "We want this force to have extensive enforcement authority and the ability to fulfill its mandate, and during the time the force is there, the Lebanese army would get organized and ready to deploy in that area."
International force can be deployed in all clients States which were created after 1916 without any democracy or opinion of people of that land of 1300 years Caliphate for the Election of Caliph/Khalifah the way Britain did in India and Pakistan before Britain left
Indian subcontinent forever not to return again. Britain divided Caliphate to come there again and again for all proxy war like10 years old Iraq-Iran war, desert storm and present war in Iraq though it is Britain and it’s Murderers International 6 (MI6) along with other Criminal International Agencies which created all illegal rulers and sub-contractors including Saddam to kill and ponder the wealth of Muslims and Arabs.
The following is a proof from a non-Muslim that it is not Muslims who introduced Terrorism during glorious period of 1300 years old Caliphate/Khilafah. Let me also add that before I ask some one to stop something, I must do it first. Thus Western World or so-called UN has no right to ask Iran, the land of great Saints like Hafiz, Shadi, and many others (Allah's/God's mercy on them all) to stop making WMD before Western World destroy his or her own WMD. And Muslims did not steal 4 Continents out of seven and it is Western World who did it and who are still illegally occupying those 4 Continents through power of WMD and false propaganda
Here I must note she, not I, is initiating the conversation based on a person’s Jewish and Islamic identity: The Church I founded less than a decade ago in Gaza was destroyed by Jews in an Apache helicopter firing a laser guided missile at it in 2001. I couldn’t begin to catalogue the Jewish attacks on churches in Palestine, or my ancestral church in south Lebanon and many like it. Have we already forgotten the damage to the Nativity Church in Bethlehem? Have we forgotten that the first suicide attack in Palestine and Israel was by a Israeli-armed Jew on worshippers in a mosque in Hebron (which brought CPT there)? Do we ignore Israeli Jew Gideon Levy who spoke this week of how, if Palestinians had access to F-16s and Apaches, they wouldn’t be committing suicide when they kill, like so many Israeli Jews who “protest by killing people" from the safety of remote protection in the air or in tanks or with uzis (I have been an eyewitness to this)?
It would be very interesting to ask why, according to the NY Times article below, Dr. Sultan has suddenly emerged as “an international sensation.” Is it because of her views on violence or because she speaks false propaganda that supports Israel’s violent occupation to the liking of their powerful fan club in the U.S.? Why has the incredible message of CPT, similar yet much more profound, yet based on experience in Hebron and thus diametrically opposed to the occupation, not received prominence from the crowd? Why aren’t they invited to speak in Israel?
Please promote authentic non-violence. Please do not promote, rather non-violently speak out against those who, seeing relationship and mutuality as a zero-sum game, are willing to falsify the record and diminish the suffering of some by justifying or masking the violence of others, distinguishing them by their religion or ethnicity. Dr. Sultan’s falsifications mask and promote the same kind of violence and bigotry she and I condemn.
Tens of thousands of people have staged protests across Iraq after a bomb attack heavily damaged one of the holiest sites in Shia Islam.
Dozens of Sunni mosques are reported to have been targeted and six Sunnis killed after a gang blew up the dome of the al-Askari shrine in Samarra.
This is surely one of the major sign of end time as this never happend in the past and during 1300 years of Caliphate/Khilafah or 1400 years of Islamic history. There is no protest from more than a billion Sunni Muslims that the holiest sites in question is holiest site for all Muslims including majority Sunni Muslims like other holiest sites in Najaf or Karbala as they were leaders and are revered by all Muslims and surely not by Shia Muslims only. All four Sunni Imams (Founders) of four Sunni Sects (Allah's/God's mercy on them) are students of Imam Jafar as-Sadiq (rahmat-Allahi ta'ala 'alaih).
In Washington, President Bush said in a statement, "The terrorists in Iraq have again proven that they are enemies of all faiths and of all humanity. . . . This senseless crime is an affront to people of faith throughout the world." He condemned the bombing as a "cowardly act" and urged Iraqis to "exercise restraint" as they pursue justice under the law. "Violence will only contribute to what the terrorists sought to achieve by this act," Bush said.
He pledged that the United States would work with Iraq "to rebuild and restore the Golden Mosque of Samarra to its former glory."
He learned 'ilm al-fiqh from Hammad ibn Abi Sulaiman. He enjoyed the companionship of many notables of the Tabiin, and of Imam Jafar as-Sadiq (rahmat-Allahi ta'ala 'alaih).
http://www.icbh.org/topics/sufism.htm
Imam Abu Hanifa (81-150 AH) said:
"For two years I accompanied Imam Jafar Sadiq (RA). I acquired the spiritual knowledge that made a knower in the path of God."
From:
http://www.hizmetbooks.org/Sunni_Path/suazam.htm
The book Qamus al-alam states: Al-Imam al-azam Abu Hanifa's name was Numan. His father's name was Thabit. His grandfather's name was Numan, too. He was the first of the four great imams of the Ahl as-Sunnat. 'Imam' means 'profoundly learned scholar.' He was one of the main pillars of the brilliant religion of Muhammad ('alaihi 's-salam). He was a descendant of a Persian notable. His grandfather had embraced Islam. He was born in Kufa in 80 (698 A.D.). He was born early enough to see Anas ibn Malik, 'Abdullah ibn Abi Awfa, Sahl ibn Sad as-Sa'idi and Abu al-Fadl Amir ibn Wasila, four Sahabis (radi-Allahu ta'ala anhum). He learned 'ilm al-fiqh from Hammad ibn Abi Sulaiman. He enjoyed the companionship of many notables of the Tabiin, and of Imam Jafar as-Sadiq (rahmat-Allahi ta'ala 'alaih)……………………
The Khalifa Mansur revered the Imam very much. He presented him ten thousand aqchas and a jariya. The Imam did not accept them. At that time one aqcha was worth one dirham of silver. In 145 A.H., Ibrahim ibn 'Abdullah ibn Hasan ibn 'Ali was recruiting men in order to help his brother Muhammad (rahmat-Allahi ta'ala 'alaihim ajmain), who had proclaimed himself the Khalifa in al-Madinat al-munawwara. When he came to Kufa, it was rumored that Abu Hanifa was helping him. Mansur heard this and had the Imam taken from Kufa to Baghdad. He told him to tell everybody that Mansur was rightfully the Khalifa. He offered him the presidency of the Supreme Court of Appeal as a recompense. He imposed on him very much. The Imam did not accept it. Mansur imprisoned him and had him thrashed with a stick thirty strokes. His blessed feet bled. Mansur repented and sent him thirty thousand aqchas, only to be refused again. He was imprisoned again and thrashed ten strokes more every day. [According to some report] on the eleventh day, for fear that the people might rebel, he was forced to lie down on his back and poisonous sherbet (a sweet fruit drink) was poured into his mouth. As he was about to die, he prostrated (sajda). Some fifty thousand people performed janaza salat for him. Because of the enormous crowd, it was performed with difficulty and finished not before the late afternoon prayer. For twenty days many people came to his tomb and performed janaza salat for him near his tomb.
I have been abroad and I know that in Europe they are using nuclear energy to purify water and for other things.
Therefore, it is our right to have this technology as well to use for peaceful means; although in other countries they use it for atomic bombs and drop it on our heads.
But mankind needs minimum food, medicine and cloth and not Bombs or WMD, which will be used in the skies of Iran, Iraq, Arab and Muslim World within next few months.
And present publishing of the cartoons/caricature by the civilized Europeans is part of that coming plan to nuke the Muslim world after their violent protest/reaction.
Our offensive against terror involves more than military action. Ultimately, the only way to defeat the terrorists is to defeat their dark vision of hatred and fear by offering the hopeful alternative of political freedom and peaceful change. So the United States of America supports democratic reform across the broader Middle East. Elections are vital, but they are only the beginning. Raising up a democracy requires the rule of law, and protection of minorities, and strong, accountable institutions that last longer than a single vote.
The friezes which adorn the north and south walls of the courtroom in the Supreme Court building (also designed by Adolph Weinman) depict a procession of 18 great lawgivers: Menes, Hammurabi,
Moses, Solomon,
Lycurgus, Solon, Draco, Confucius and Octavian (south wall); Justinian,
Mohammed,
Charlemagne, King John, Louis IX, Hugo Grotius, Sir William Blackstone, John Marshall and Napoleon (north wall):
The Medina constitution is the first Islamic charter for existence, that aims at establishing a mechanism of cooperation in a society of Muslims and Jews, as well of being constituted of several tribes, What are the coexistence formulae the Prophet instituted?
O mankind! We created you from a single (pair) of a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes, that ye may know each other (not that ye may despise (each other). Verily the most honored of you in the sight of Allah is (he who is) the most righteous of you. And Allah has full knowledge and is well acquainted (with all things)
Who started war against Iran in 1980? What was the role of Britain in Arab World and Iraq during 1916? What was the role of T. E. Lawrence and what he promised to Arab?
The war between Iran and Iraq was one of the great human tragedies of recent Middle Eastern history. Perhaps as many as a million people died, many more were wounded, and millions were made refugees. The resources wasted on the war exceeded what the entire Third World spent on public health in a decade.<1>
The war began on September 22, 1980, when Iraqi troops launched a full-scale invasion of Iran. Prior to this date there had been subversion by each country inside the other and also major border clashes. Iraq hoped for a lightning victory against an internationally isolated neighbor in the throes of revolutionary upheaval. But despite Iraq's initial successes, the Iranians rallied and, using their much larger population, were able by mid-1982 to push the invaders out. In June 1982, the Iranians went over to the offensive, but Iraq, with a significant advantage in heavy weaponry, was able to prevent a decisive Iranian breakthrough. The guns finally fell silent on August 20, 1988.
The great people of Egypt have voted in a multi-party presidential election -- and now their government should open paths of peaceful opposition that will reduce the appeal of radicalism. The Palestinian people have voted in elections. And now the leaders of Hamas must recognize Israel, disarm, reject terrorism, and work for lasting peace. (Applause.) Saudi Arabia has taken the first steps of reform -- now it can offer its people a better future by pressing forward with those efforts. Democracies in the Middle East will not look like our own, because they will reflect the traditions of their own citizens. Yet liberty is the future of every nation in the Middle East, because liberty is the right and hope of all humanity. (Applause.)
What happened in Algeria after Islamic party owned the election and why? Who are responsible for the killing of thousands innocent people of Algeria?
Who will answer this question like many other questions like invasion of Central Asian Muslim countries by Russia including Chechnya and Afghanistan and killing of millions innocent people up to Russian Defeat in Afghanistan? Why Russian is still occupying Chechnya?
The same is true of Iran, a nation now held hostage by a small clerical elite that is isolating and repressing its people. The regime in that country sponsors terrorists in the Palestinian territories and in Lebanon -- and that must come to an end. (Applause.) The Iranian government is defying the world with its nuclear ambitions, and the nations of the world must not permit the Iranian regime to gain nuclear weapons. (Applause.) America will continue to rally the world to confront these threats.
Tonight, let me speak directly to the citizens of Iran: America respects you, and we respect your country. We respect your right to choose your own future and win your own freedom. And our nation hopes one day to be the closest of friends with a free and democratic Iran. (Applause.)
Mohammed Musaddiq was elected Prime Minister of Iran with democracy. And it is Imam Khomeni who introduced democracy in Iran after
Islamic revolution in 1979. Iran is only democracy in entire Middle East except illegal Immigrants in Palestine and that democracy is limited to
Illegal European Immigrants in Palestine only and that democracy is not for original people of Palestine who live in refugee camps in Palestine, Lebanon and other part of Middle East. Thus Iran is only true Democracy in Middle East.
In August 1953 a coup overthrew Iran's nationalist government of Mohammed Musaddiq and installed the Shah in power. The Shah subsequently used widespread repression and torture in a dictatorship that lasted until the 1979 Islamic revolution. The 1953 coup is conventionally regarded primarily as a CIA operation, yet the planning record reveals not only that Britain was the prime mover in the initial project to overthrow the government but also that British resources contributed significantly to the eventual success of the operation. Two first-hand accounts of the Anglo-American sponsorship of the coup - by the MI6 (Murderer International number 6) and CIA officers primarily responsible for it - are useful in reconstructing events. (1) Many of the secret planning documents that reveal the British role have been removed from public access and some of them remain closed until the next century - for reasons of 'national security'. Nevertheless, a fairly clear picture still emerges. Churchill later told the CIA officer responsible for the operation that he 'would have loved nothing better than to have served under your command in this great venture'. (2)
So how this World can believe and what they should believe? Who got all WMD and where? Where is the Election of Caliph/Khalifah?
.......Shortly after the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, Kitchener was recalled to London as secretary of state for war. By 1915, as British military fortunes in the Middle East deteriorated, Kitchener saw the usefulness of transferring the Islamic caliphate to an Arab candidate indebted to Britain, and he energetically sought Arab support for the war against Turkey. (The caliph, or successor to the Prophet Muhammad, was the traditional leader of the Islamic world.)
In Cairo Sir Henry McMahon, the first British high commissioner in Egypt, conducted an extensive correspondence from July 1915 to January 1916 with Husayn, two of whose sons--Abdullah, later king of Jordan, and Faysal, later king of Syria (ejected by the French in 1920) and of Iraq (1921-33)-- were to figure prominently in subsequent events.
In a letter to McMahon enclosed with a letter dated July 14, 1915, from Abdullah, Husayn specified an area for Arab independence under the "Sharifian Arab Government" consisting of the Arabian Peninsula (except Aden) and the Fertile Crescent of Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq. In his letter of October 24, 1915, to Husayn, McMahon, on behalf of the British government, declared British support for postwar Arab independence, subject to certain reservations and exclusions of territory not entirely Arab or concerning which Britain was not free "to act without detriment to the interests of her ally, France." The territories assessed by the British as not purely Arab included: "The districts of Mersin and Alexandretta, and portions of Syria lying to the west of the districts of Damascus, Homs, Hama, and Aleppo." As with the later Balfour Declaration, the exact meaning was not clear, although Arab spokesmen since then have usually maintained that Palestine was within the pledged area of independence. Although the Husayn- McMahon correspondence was not legally binding on either side, on June 5, 1916, Husayn launched the Arab Revolt against Turkey and in October declared himself "King of the Arabs." .....
No more lies and deception like the present illegal war of mass destruction against Iraq and no more planed coming war against Iran, a civilized country for many thousands years which like all other Muslims and Arabs countries never invaded America or Australia or Europe or illegally never occupied any continent like South America or North America or Australia though once they were in Spain and Eastern Europe as Minority without cleansing majority Christians and later vanished for generosity of European race after 800/500 years of Muslim rule there. Let us destroy all WMD in Moscow, London, Paris and all WMD under control of illegal European Immigrants in Palestine and North America and rest of this world to make this world a safe place to live.
Illegal Immigrants whose ancestors entered North America and South America during last several hundred years without any valid visa after the defeat of Muslims in Spain in 1492 and later in Australia and very recently in Palestine are the problem and not a solution. Though 99% OF THOSE ILLEGAL Immigrants are hard working nice and friendly people who do not bother to work 2/3 jobs for their survival; 1% people have been creating problem with vast interest based anti=Bible, anti-Quran and anti-God/Allah trillions of dollars of wealth. They must be stopped for the survival of earth and entire mankind from their WMD. No Muslim is a Threat to This World as true Muslims spend their time praying/remembering Allah/God all the times and not inventing any WMD. WMD is the gift to Mankind from Crusaders/Europeans to destroy this World. Kindly accept the truth as truth is beauty and beauty is the truth.
Human nature is to want more and more. If there is any Islamophobia, Khilafahphobia, Caliphatephobia, it is in so called Muslim majority land including Ryiadh, Holy Mecca and Holy Medina, Cairo, Amman, Sana, Dubai, Rabat, Ankara, Damascua etc and not in USA or in other European nation as Muslims are free to spread the message of Khilafah/Caliphate in USA or in Europe and not from the holy pulpit of Kaba in Mecca or holy pulpit of Prophet’s holy mosque in Medina (Peace be upon our holy Prophet) which are the right places to spread the message of Khilafah/Caliphate as from there in holy Medina Khilafah/Caliphate was established 1400 years ago and it was destoyed from London through the help of local agents who are now rulling Muslims land and have been spreading Khilafahphobia, Caliphatephobia in whole world bribing all scholars and so called Islamic Scholars so that those Islamic Scholars are remained silent.
So let me take you all to a great scholar whose translation of Holy Quran is read around this world every moment on the saddest event of entire mankind which
happened in same land of Iraq where East and West are dancing over human blood and human flesh every moment now at this end time of mankind and this earth.
From:
http://al-islam.org/short/martyrdom/index.htm
Preface
The following pages are based on a report of an Address which I delivered in London at an Ashura Majlis on Thursday the 28th May, 1931 (Muharram 1350 A.H.), at the Waldorf Hotel. The report was subsequently corrected and slightly expanded. The Majlis was a notable gathering, which met at the invitation of Mr. A. S. M. Anik. Nawab Sir Umar Hayat Khan, Tiwana, presided and members of all schools of thought in Islam, as well as non-Muslims, joined reverently in doing honour to the memory of the great Martyr of Islam. By its inclusion in the Progressive Islam Pamphlets series, it is hoped to reach a larger public than were able to be present in person. Perhaps, also, it may help to strengthen the bonds of brotherly love which unite all who hold sacred the ideals of brotherhood preached by the Prophet in his last Sermon.
A. Yusuf Ali.
Imam Husain And His Martyrdom
Sorrow as a Bond of Union
I am going to talk this afternoon about a very solemn subject, the martyrdom of Imam Husain at Kerbela, of which we are celebrating the anniversary. As the Chairman has very rightly pointed out, it is one of those wonderful events in our religious history about which all sects are agreed. More than that, in this room I have the honour of addressing some people who do not belong to our religious persuasion, but I venture to think that the view I put forward today may be of interest to them from its historical, its moral and its spiritual significance. Indeed, when we consider the background of that great tragedy, and all that has happened during the 1289 lunar years since, we cannot fail to be convinced that some events of sorrow and apparent defeat are really the very things which are calculated to bring about, or lead us towards, the union of humanity.
How Martyrdom healed divisions
When we invite strangers or guests and make them free of our family circle, that means the greatest outflowing of our hearts to them. The events that I am going to describe refer to some of the most touching incidents of our domestic history in their spiritual aspect. We ask our brethren of other faiths to come, and share with us some of the thoughts which are called forth by this event. As a matter of fact all students of history are aware that the horrors that are connected with the great event of Kerbela did more than anything else to unite together the various contending factions which had unfortunately appeared at that early stage of Muslim history. You know the old Persian saying applied to the Prophet:
Tu barae wasl kardan amadi;
Ni barae fasl kardan amadi.
"Thou camest to the world to unite, not to divide."
That was wonderfully exemplified by the sorrows and sufferings and finally the martyrdom of Imam Husain.
Commemoration of great virtues
There has been in our history a tendency sometimes to celebrate the event merely by wailing and tribulation, or sometimes by symbols like the Tazias that you see in India, - Taboots as some people call them. Well, symbolism or visible emblems may sometimes be useful in certain circumstances as tending to crystallise ideas. But I think the Muslims of India of the present day are quite ready to adopt a more effective way of celebrating the martyrdom, and that is by contemplating the great virtues of the martyr, trying to understand the significance of the events in which he took part, and translating those great moral and spiritual lessons into their own lives. From that point of view I think you will agree that it is good that we should sit together, even people of different faiths, - sit together and consider the great historic event, in which were exemplified such soul-stirring virtues as those of unshaken faith, undaunted courage, thought for others, willing self-sacrifice, steadfastness in the right and unflinching war against the wrong. Islam has a history of beautiful domestic affections, of sufferings and of spiritual endeavour, second to none in the world. That side of Muslim history, although to me the most precious, is, I am sorry to say, often neglected. It is most important that we should call attention to it, reiterated attention, the attention of our own people as well as the attention of those who are interested in historical and religious truth. If there is anything precious in Islamic history it is not the wars, or the politics, or the brilliant expansion, or the glorious conquests, or even the intellectual spoils which our ancestors gathered. In these matters, our history, like all history, has its lights and shades. What we need especially to emphasise is the spirit of organisation, of brotherhood, of undaunted courage in moral and spiritual life.
Plan of discourse
I propose first to give you an idea of the geographical setting and the historical background. Then I want very briefly to refer to the actual events that happened in the Muharram, and finally to draw your attention to the great lessons which we can learn from them.
Geographical Picture
In placing before you a geographical picture of the tract of country in which the great tragedy was enacted, I consider myself fortunate in having my own personal memories to draw upon. They make the picture vivid to my mind, and they may help you also. When I visited those scenes in 1928, I remember going down from Baghdad through all that country watered by the Euphrates river. As I crossed the river by a bridge of boats at Al-Musaiyib on a fine April morning, my thoughts leapt over centuries and centuries. To the left of the main river you have the old classic ground of Babylonian history; you have the railway station of Hilla; you have the ruins of the city of Babylon, witnessing to one of the greatest civilisations of antiquity. It was so mingled with the dust that it is only in recent years that we have begun to understand its magnitude and magnificence. Then you have the great river system of the Euphrates, the Furat as it is called, a river unlike any other river we know. It takes its rise in many sources from the mountains of Eastern Armenia, and sweeping in great zig-zags through rocky country, it finally skirts the desert as we see it now. Wherever it or its interlacing branches or canals can reach, it has converted the desert into fruitful cultivated country; in the picturesque phrase, it has made the desert blossom as the rose. It skirts round the Eastern edge of the Syrian desert and then flows into marshy land. In a tract not far from Kerbela itself there are lakes which receive its waters, and act as reservoirs. Lower down it unites with the other river, the Tigris, and the united rivers flow in the name of the Shatt-al-Arab into the Persian Gulf.
Abundant water & tragedy of thirst
From the most ancient times this tract of the lower Euphrates has been a garden. It was a cradle of early civilisation, a meeting place between Sumer and Arab, and later between the Persians and Arabs. It is a rich, well watered country, with date-palms and pomegranate groves. Its fruitful fields can feed populous cities and its luscious pastures attract the nomad Arabs of the desert, with their great flocks and herds. It is of particularly tragic significance that on the border of such a well-watered land, should have been enacted the tragedy of great and good men dying of thirst and slaughtered because they refused to bend the knee to the forces of iniquity. The English poet's lines "Water, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink" are brought home forcibly to you in this borderland between abundant water and desolate sands.
Kerbela and Its Great Dome
I remember the emotion with which I approached Kerbela from the East. The rays of the morning sun gilt the Gumbaz-i-Faiz, the great dome that crowns the building containing the tomb of Imam Husain. Kerbela actually stands on one of the great caravan routes of the desert. Today the river city of Kufa, once a Khilafat capital, is a mere village, and the city of Najaf is famous for the tomb of Hazrat Ali, but of little commercial importance. Kerbela, this outpost of the desert, is a mart and a meeting ground as well as a sacred place. It is the port of the desert, just as Basra, lower down, is a port for the Persian Gulf. Beautifully kept is the road to the mausoleum, to which all through the year come pilgrims from all parts of the world. Beautiful coloured enamelled tiles decorate the building. Inside, in the ceiling and upper walls, there is a great deal of glass mosaic. The glass seems to catch and reflect the light. The effect is that of rich coruscations of light combined with the solemnity of a closed building. The tomb itself is in a sort of inner grill, and below the ground is a sort of cave, where is shown the actual place where the Martyr fell. The city of Najaf is just about 40 miles to the South, with the tomb of Hazrat Ali on the high ground. You can see the golden dome for miles around. Just four miles from Najaf and connected with it by a tramway, is the deserted city of Kufa. The mosque is large, but bare and practically unused. The blue dome and the Mihrab of enamelled tiles bear witness to the ancient glory of the place.
Cities and their Cultural Meaning
The building of Kufa and Basra, the two great outposts of the Muslim Empire, in the 16th year of the Hijra, was a visible symbol that Islam was pushing its strength and building up a new civilisation, not only in a military sense, but in moral and social ideas and in the sciences and arts. The old effete cities did not content it, any more than the old and effete systems which it displaced. Nor was it content with the first steps it took. It was always examining, testing, discarding, re-fashioning its own handiwork. There was always a party that wanted to stand on old ways, to take cities like Damascus readymade, that loved ease and the path of least resistance. But the greater souls stretched out to new frontiers - of ideas as well as geography. They felt that old seats were like dead wood breeding worms and rottenness that were a danger to higher forms of life. The clash between them was part of the tragedy of Kerbela. Behind the building of new cities there is often the burgeoning of new ideas. Let us therefore examine the matter a little more closely. It will reveal the hidden springs of some very interesting history.
Vicissitudes of Mecca and Medina
The great cities of Islam at its birth were Mecca and Medina. Mecca, the centre of old Arabian pilgrimage, the birthplace of the Prophet, rejected the Prophet's teaching, and cast him off. Its idolatry was effete; its tribal exclusiveness was effete; its ferocity against the Teacher of the New Light was effete. The Prophet shook its dust off his feet, and went to Medina. It was the well-watered city of Yathrib, with a considerable Jewish population. It received with eagerness the teaching of the Prophet; it gave asylum to him and his Companions and Helpers. He reconstituted it and it became the new City of Light. Mecca, with its old gods and its old superstitions, tried to subdue this new Light and destroy it. The human odds were in favour of Mecca. But God's purpose upheld the Light, and subdued the old Mecca. But the Prophet came to build as well as to destroy. He destroyed the old paganism, and lighted a new beacon in Mecca - the beacon of Arab unity and human brotherhood. When the Prophet's life ended on this earth, his spirit remained. It inspired his people and led them from victory to victory. Where moral or spiritual and material victories go hand in hand, the spirit of man advances all along the line. But sometimes there is a material victory, with a spiritual fall, and sometimes there is a spiritual victory with a material fall, and then we have tragedy.
Spirit of Damascus
Islam's first extension was towards Syria, where the power was centred in the city of
Damascus. Among living cities it is probably the oldest city in the world.
Its bazaars are thronged with men of all nations, and the luxuries of all nations find ready welcome there. If you come to it westward from the Syrian desert, as I did, the contrast is complete, both in the country and in the people. From the parched desert sands you come to fountains and vineyards, orchards and the hum of traffic. From the simple, sturdy, independent, frank Arab, you come to the soft, luxurious, sophisticated Syrian. That contrast was forced on the Muslims when Damascus became a Muslim city. They were in a different moral and spiritual atmosphere. Some succumbed to the softening influences of ambition, luxury, wealth pride of race, love of ease, and so on. Islam stood always as the champion of the great rugged moral virtues. It wanted no compromise with evil in any shape or form, with luxury, with idleness, with the seductions of this world. It was a protest against these things. And yet the representatives of that protest got softened at Damascus. They aped the decadent princes of the world instead of striving to be leaders of spiritual thought. Discipline was relaxed, and governors aspired to be greater than the Khalifas. This bore bitter fruit later.
Snare of Riches
Meanwhile Persia came within the Muslim orbit. When Medain was captured in the year 16 of the Hijra, and the battle of Jalula broke the Persian resistance, some military booty was brought to Medina - gems, pearls, rubies, diamonds, swords of gold and silver. A great celebration was held in honour of the splendid victory and the valour of the Arab army. In the midst of the celebration they found the Caliph of the day actually weeping. One said to him,
"What! a time of joy and thou sheddest tears?" "Yes", he said, "I foresee that the riches will become a snare, a spring of worldliness and envy, and in the end a calamity to my people." For the Arab valued, above all, simplicity of life, openness of character, and bravery in face of danger. Their women fought with them and shared their dangers. They were not caged creatures for the pleasures of the senses. They showed their mettle in the early fighting round the head of the Persian Gulf. When the Muslims were hard pressed, their women turned the scale in their favour. They made their veils into flags, and marched in battle array. The enemy mistook them for reinforcements and abandoned the field. Thus an impending defeat was turned into a victory.
Basra and Kufa: town-planning
In Mesopotamia the Muslims did not base their power on old and effete Persian cities, but built new outposts for themselves. The first they built was Basra at the head of the Persian Gulf, in the 17th year of the Hijra. And what a great city it became! Not great in war and conquest, not great in trade and commerce, but great in learning and culture in its best day, - alas! also great in its spirit of faction and degeneracy in the days of its decline! But its situation and climate were not at all suited to the Arab character. It was low and moist, damp and enervating. In the same year the Arabs built another city not far off from the Gulf and yet well suited to be a port of the desert, as Kerbela became afterwards. This was the city of Kufa, built in the same year as Basra, but in a more bracing climate. It was the first experiment in town-planning in Islam. In the centre was a square for the principal mosque. That square was adorned with shady avenues. Another square was set apart for the trafficking of the market. The streets were all laid out intersecting and their width was fixed. The main thoroughfares for such traffic as they had (we must not imagine the sort of traffic we see in Charing Cross) were made 60 feet wide; the cross streets were 30 feet wide; and even the little lanes for pedestrians were regulated to a width of 10.5 feet. Kufa became a centre of light and learning. The Khalifa Hazrat Ali lived and died there.
Rivalry and poison of Damascus
But its rival, the city of Damascus, fattened on luxury and Byzantine magnificence. Its tinsel glory sapped the foundations of loyalty and the soldierly virtues. Its poison spread through the Muslim world. Governors wanted to be kings. Pomp and selfishness, ease and idleness and dissipation grew as a canker; wines and spirituous liquors, scepticism, cynicism and social vices became so rampant that the protests of the men of God were drowned in mockery. Mecca, which was to have been a symbolical spiritual centre, was neglected or dishonoured. Damascus and Syria became centres of a worldliness and arrogance which cut at the basic roots of Islam.
Husain the Righteous refused to bow to worldliness and power
We have brought the story down to the 60th year of the Hijra. Yazid assumed the power at Damascus. He cared nothing for the most sacred ideals of the people. He was not even interested in the ordinary business affairs of administration. His passion was hunting, and he sought power for self-gratification. The discipline and self-abnegation, the strong faith and earnest endeavour, the freedom and sense of social equality which had been the motive forces of Islam, were divorced from power. The throne at Damascus had become a worldly throne based on the most selfish ideas of personal and family aggrandisement, instead of a spiritual office, with a sense of God-given responsibility. The decay of morals spread among the people. There was one man who could stem the tide. That was Imam Husain. He, the grandson of the Prophet, could speak without fear, for fear was foreign to his nature. But his blameless and irreproachable life was in itself a reproach to those who had other standards. They sought to silence him, but he could not be silenced. They sought to bribe him, but he could not be bribed. They sought to waylay him and get him into their Power. What is more, they wanted him to recognise the tyranny and expressly to support it. For they knew that the conscience of the people might awaken at any time, and sweep them away unless the holy man supported their cause. The holy man was prepared to die rather than surrender the principles for which he stood.
Driven from city to city
Medina was the centre of Husain's teaching. They made Medina impossible for him.
He left Medina and went to Mecca, hoping that he would be left alone. But he was not left alone. The Syrian forces invaded Mecca. The invasion was repelled, not by Husain but by other people. For Husain, though the bravest of the brave, had no army and no worldly weapons. His existence itself was an offence in the eyes of his enemies. His life was in danger, and the lives of all those nearest and dearest to him. He had friends everywhere, but they were afraid to speak out. They were not as brave as he was. But in distant Kufa, a party grew up which said: "We are disgusted with these events, and we must have Imam Husain to take asylum with us." So they sent and invited the Imam to leave Mecca, come to them, live in their midst, and be their honoured teacher and guide. His father's memory was held in reverence in Kufa. The Governor of Kufa was friendly, and the people eager to welcome him. But alas, Kufa had neither strength, nor courage, nor constancy. Kufa, geographically only 40 miles from Kerbela, was the occasion of the tragedy of Kerbela. And now Kufa is nearly gone, and Kerbela remains as the lasting memorial of the martyrdom.
Invitation from Kufa
When the Kufa invitation reached the Imam, he pondered over it, weighed its possibilities, and consulted his friends. He sent over his cousin Muslim to study the situation on the spot and report to him. The report was favourable, and he decided to go. He had a strong presentiment of danger. Many of his friends in Mecca advised him against it. But could he abandon his mission when Kufa was calling for it? Was he the man to be deterred, because his enemies were laying their plots for him, at Damascus and at Kufa? At least, it was suggested, he might leave his family behind. But his family and his immediate dependants would not hear of it. It was a united family, pre-eminent in the purity of its life and in its domestic virtues and domestic affections. If there was danger for its head, they would share it. The Imam was not going on a mere ceremonial visit. There was responsible work to do, and they must be by his side, to support him in spite of all its perils and consequences. Shallow critics scent political ambition in the Imam's act. But would a man with political ambitions march without an army against what might be called the enemy country, scheming to get him into its power, and prepared to use all their resources, military, political and financial, against him?
Journey through the desert
Imam Husain left Mecca for Kufa with all his family including his little children. Later news from Kufa itself was disconcerting. The friendly governor had been displaced by one prepared more ruthlessly to carry out Yazid's plans. If Husain was to go there at all, he must go there quickly, or his friends themselves would be in danger. On the other hand, Mecca itself was no less dangerous to him and his family. It was the month of September by the solar calendar, and no one would take a long desert journey in that heat, except under a sense of duty. By the lunar calendar it was the month of pilgrimage at Mecca. But he did not stop for the pilgrimage. He pushed on, with his family and dependants, in all numbering about 90 or 100 people, men, women and children. They must have gone by forced marches through the desert. They covered the 900 miles of the desert in little over three weeks. When they came within a few miles of Kufa, at the edge of the desert, they met people from Kufa. It was then that they heard of the terrible murder of Husain's cousin Muslim, who had been sent on in advance. A poet that came by dissuaded the Imam from going further. "For," he said epigramatically, "the heart of the city is with thee but its sword is with thine enemies, and the issue is with God." What was to be done? They were three weeks' journey from the city they had left. In the city to which they were going their own messenger had been foully murdered as well as his children. They did not know what the actual situation was then in Kufa. But they were determined not to desert their friends.
Call to Surrender or Die
Presently messengers came from Kufa, and Imam Husain was asked to surrender. Imam Husain offered to take one of three alternatives. He wanted no political power and no revenge. He said "I came to defend my own people. If I am too late, give me the choice of three alternatives: either to return to Mecca; or to face Yazid himself at Damascus; or if my very presence is distasteful to him and you, I do not wish to cause more divisions among the Muslims. Let me at least go to a distant frontier, where, if fighting must be done, I will fight against the enemies of Islam." Every one of these alternatives was refused. What they wanted was to destroy his life, or better still, to get him to surrender, to surrender to the very forces against which he was protesting, to declare his adherence to those who were defying the law of God and man, and to tolerate all the abuses which were bringing the name of Islam into disgrace. Of course he did not surrender. But what was he to do? He had no army. He had reasons to suppose that many of his friends from distant parts would rally round him, and come and defend him with their swords and bodies. But time was necessary, and he was not going to gain time by feigned compliance. He turned a little round to the left, the way that would have led him to Yazid himself, at Damascus. He camped in the plain of Kerbela.
Water cut off; Inflexible will, Devotion and Chivalry
For ten days messages passed backwards and forwards between Kerbela and Kufa. Kufa wanted surrender and recognition. That was the one thing the Imam could not consent to. Every other alternative was refused by Kufa, under the instructions from Damascus. Those fateful ten days were the first ten days of the month of Muharram, of the year 61 of the Hijra. The final crisis was on the 10th day, the Ashura day, which we are commemorating. During the first seven days various kinds of pressure were brought to bear on the Imam, but his will was inflexible. It was not a question of a fight, for there were but 70 men against 4,000. The little band was surrounded and insulted, but they held together so firmly that they could not be harmed. On the 8th day the water supply was cut off. The Euphrates and its abundant streams were within sight, but the way was barred. Prodigies of valour were performed in getting water. Challenges were made for single combat according to Arab custom. And the enemy were half-hearted, while the Imam's men fought in contempt of death, and always accounted for more men than they lost. On the evening of the 9th day, the little son of the Imam was ill. He had fever and was dying of thirst. They tried to get a drop of water. But that was refused point blank and so they made the resolve that they would, rather than surrender, die to the last man in the cause for which they had come. Imam Husain offered to send away his people. He said, "They are after my person; my family and my people can go back." But everyone refused to go. They said they would stand by him to the last, and they did. They were not cowards; they were soldiers born and bred; and they fought as heroes, with devotion and with chivalry.
The Final Agony; placid face of the man of God
On the day of Ashura, the 10th day, Imam Husain's own person was surrounded by his enemies. He was brave to the last. He was cruelly mutilated. His sacred head was cut off while in the act of prayer. A mad orgy of triumph was celebrated over his body. In this crisis we have details of what took place hour by hour. He had 45 wounds from the enemies' swords and javelins, and 35 arrows pierced his body. His left arm was cut off, and a javelin pierced through his breast. After all that agony, when his head was lifted up on a spear, his face was the placid face of a man of God. All the men of that gallant band were exterminated and their bodies trampled under foot by the horses. The only male survivor was a child, Husain's son Ali, surnamed Zain-ul-'Abidin - "The Glory of the Devout." He lived in retirement, studying, interpreting, and teaching his father's high spiritual principles for the rest of his life.
Heroism of the Women
There were women: for example, Zainab the sister of the Imam, Sakina his little daughter, and Shahr-i-Banu, his wife, at Kerbela. A great deal of poetic literature has sprung up in Muslim languages, describing the touching scenes in which they figure. Even in their grief and their tears they are heroic. They lament the tragedy in simple, loving, human terms. But they are also conscious of the noble dignity of their nearness to a life of truth reaching its goal in the precious crown of martyrdom. One of the best-known poets of this kind is the Urdu poet Anis, who lived in Lucknow, and died in 1874.
Lesson of the Tragedy
That briefly is the story. What is the lesson? There is of course the physical suffering in martyrdom, and all sorrow and suffering claim our sympathy, ---- the dearest, purest, most outflowing sympathy that we can give. But there is a greater suffering than physical suffering. That is when a valiant soul seems to stand against the world; when the noblest motives are reviled and mocked; when truth seems to suffer an eclipse. It may even seem that the martyr has but to say a word of compliance, do a little deed of non-resistance; and much sorrow and suffering would be saved; and the insidious whisper comes: "Truth after all can never die." That is perfectly true. Abstract truth can never die. It is independent of man's cognition. But the whole battle is for man's keeping hold of truth and righteousness. And that can only be done by the highest examples of man's conduct - spiritual striving and suffering enduring firmness of faith and purpose, patience and courage where ordinary mortals would give in or be cowed down, the sacrifice of ordinary motives to supreme truth in scorn of consequence. The martyr bears witness, and the witness redeems what would otherwise be called failure. It so happened with Husain. For all were touched by the story of his martyrdom, and it gave the deathblow to the politics of Damascus and all it stood for. And Muharram has still the power to unite the different schools of thought in Islam, and make a powerful appeal to non-Muslims also.
Explorers of Spiritual Territory
That, to my mind, is the supreme significance of martyrdom. All human history shows that the human spirit strives in many directions, deriving strength and sustenance from many sources. Our bodies, our physical powers, have developed or evolved from earlier forms, after many struggles and defeats. Our intellect has had its martyrs, and our great explorers have often gone forth with the martyrs' spirit. All honour to them. But the highest honour must still lie with the great explorers of spiritual territory, those who faced fearful odds and refused to surrender to evil. Rather than allow a stigma to attach to sacred things, they paid with their own lives the penalty of resistance. The first kind of resistance offered by the Imam was when he went from city to city, hunted about from place to place, but making no compromise with evil. Then was offered the choice of an effectual but dangerous attempt at clearing the house of God, or living at ease for himself by tacit abandonment of his striving friends. He chose the path of danger with duty and honour, and never swerved from it giving up his life freely and bravely. His story purifies our emotions. We can best honour his memory by allowing it to teach us courage and constancy.
From Mali to Tanzania, from Bangladesh to Indonesia, poverty hobbles many nascent democracies, which cannot prevent terrorists from operating on their territory or contain outbreaks of disease. To strengthen weak states, we must do more than promote democracy. We must join with others to build state capacity, in substantial part by helping to alleviate poverty.
The administration's focus is also too limited geographically. The secretary said, referring to the Middle East: "In one region of the world . . . the problems emerging from the character of regimes are more urgent than in any other."
Perhaps, but unless we focus on building state capacity in other regions, we will fall far short in thwarting transnational threats, which can emanate from anywhere.
Finally, if freedom is key to our national security, why is the administration ambivalent about implementing this policy outside Iraq? The president's fiscal 2006 budget requested $30 million less for his Middle East Partnership Initiative than did the previous year's. That same budget also reduced democracy funds for the former Soviet Union.
Thus Election in Iraq will fail until there is Election for a Caliph/Khalifah for whole Muslim World.
Please visit deceitful Islamic Organization like http://www.oic-oci.org/ and know what they discussed in December, 2005 instead of discussing Caliphate/Khilafah to fool entire mankind, they discussed on illegal Immigrants in Palestine for which they are responsible not others as without their help road to Caliphate/Khilafah could not be stopped after 1916 or after 1923/24.
All most all Muslim countries became the land of interrogation under a process called rendition, if any one speaks about Khilafah/Caliphate and even people can be sent to these Muslim countries
for interrogation under a process called rendition. http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?050214fa_fact6
The most common destinations for rendered suspects are Egypt, Morocco, Syria, and Jordan, all of which have been cited for human-rights violations by the State Department, and are known to torture suspects. To justify sending detainees to these countries, the Administration appears to be relying on a very fine reading of an imprecise clause in the United Nations Convention Against Torture (which the U.S. ratified in 1994),
Thus no Imam or preacher can give any sermon on Khilafah/Caliphate during sermon on Hajj or usual Friday prayer sermon.
And none should claim to be their followers while following what they have forbidden. Like Usury/Interest and many other things.
From:
http://www.reformation.org/moneychangers.html
Jesus began his 3 1/2 year ministry in Jerusalem by driving the corrupt moneychangers from the Temple. He also ended His ministry by attacking the same thieves. It was the only time that the Lord used force during his earthly life.
"And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables; And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise" (John 2:13-16).
"Oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, does not restore the pledge, lifts up his eyes to the idols, commits abomination, lends at interest, and takes increase; shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominable things; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon himself "(Ezekiel 18:12-13). Revised Standard Version.
MONEY is the lifeblood of civilization and USURY is the poison that kills it just like vaccination poisons human blood!!
The Law of Moses strictly prohibited usury
"If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury "(Exodus 22:25). "Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase" (Lev. 25:37). "Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury "(Deut. 23:19). "He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved" (PS. 15:5).
Usury is condemned in the Bible; usury was condemned among pagan nations and usury was condemned by the early church.
From:
http://www.reformation.org/catholic-dictionary-usury.html
Usury. Usury in its wider signification, means all gain made by lending. This is a sense which usury often has in the classics, and so understood usury occurs whenever a man lends capital at interest. Now, however, usury signifies unjust gain on a loan, unjust because not justified by the loss, risk, etc., of the lender or the advantage to the borrower, or because the amount of gain is exorbitant. In this latter case usury is forbidden both by the natural law and by the Bible. It is always unjust, and its wickedness is aggravated when advantage is taken of the needs of the poor to secure usurious interest. But we shall see presently that both in the Old Testament and for a long time in Christian legislation little distinction was made between the two kinds of interest. The laws of the Old Testament on the subject had a more important influence on Christian feeling, so that something must be said about the former here
We, the Kings, Heads of State and Government, and Emirs of the Member States of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), meeting in the Third Session of the Extraordinary of the Islamic Summit Conference, held in Makkah Al-Mukarramah from 5 to 6 Dhul Quidah 1426H (7-8 December 2005), declare:
In Islam there is no place of present day Kings and other dictators as ruling system of Islam is only Khalifah/Caliphate.
And those illegal rulers or members of so-called OIC never sought any ruling from Islamic Scholars since they became illegal rulers of Islamic land since 1916.
Will you mankind, and Muslims and Christians wait for Prophet Jesus and Imam Mehdi (Peace be upon them) allowing to kill innocent people here and there or seek a permanent peace in this world?
From:
http://islamic-world.net/khalifah/definition.htm
KHALIFAH is an Arabic word literally meaning "one who replaces someone else who left or died" (English: caliph). In the context of Islam, however, the word acquires a narrower meaning. The Muslim Khalifa is the successor (in a line of successors) to Prophet Muhammad's position as the political, military, and administrative leader of the Muslims. The prophetic role of Muhammad is strictly not included in this definition, as the Qur'an and Hadith clearly state that Muhammad was the last of the prophets. Khilafa is a related Arabic word which, in the context of Islam, is used to denote the government of the Muslim state, of which the Khalifa is the head. A workable analogy of Khalifa and Khilafa is president and presidency or king and monarchy. The Khilafa is a fard kifaya on the ummah.
I look forward to a united Muslim Ummah and good governance that eliminate injustice and oppression for the sake of the comprehensive Muslim development that eradicates destitution and poverty. I also look forward to the spread of moderation that embodies the Islamic concept of tolerance. Moreover, I look forward to Muslim inventors and industrialists, to an advanced Muslim technology, and Muslim youth who work for their life just as they work for the Hereafter, without excess or negligence, without any kind of extremism.
Revival begins with a hope, which turns into an idea and then becomes an objective. Yet, our Ummah is capable of achieving its objectives, if it could place its trust in Allah alone and rest deeply assured by His words that “Allah will never change the grace He hath bestowed on any people unity they first change what is in their hearts” and His promise, Exalted Be His Name, “If you will aid (the cause of) Allah, He will aid you and establish your feet firmly”.
But who will ask the above king that unity of World Muslims depends on only Khilafah/Caliphate not to any illegal Kingdoms of client States like Saudi Arab or Jordan or Egypt or Syria or UAE and so on.
Can some one ask him i.e. King Abdullah on above?
And the speech of head of so called OIC is another deceitful speech ignoring the unity under Khilafah/Caliphate like European Union/NATO, USA, China, India with so many languages and diversity of people. In fact if you visit USA, you visit whole world as people from all part of this World are united here in USA as one nation on earth.
We have raised this issue with a number of international organizations in the West. We have reminded their leading figures that lessening religious tension is the shortest way to international security. We requested that laws in their respective countries may be enacted to ban the practices of Islamophobia and offer protection to Muslims. We have submitted the matter to the United Nations. The Geneva-based Human Rights Commission has adopted a recommendation denouncing hate campaigns, zealotry and defamation against Muslims. We have established a monitoring body to identify document and deal with all anti-Islamic Campaigns.
We must pay attention to issues of communal and ethnic tension and combat terrorism by addressing its root causes whether it is perpetrated by individuals, groups or states. Terrorism is a crime which must be renounced by every Muslim.
Clayton acknowledged that they were conceded to the Arabs; the rest will be matter of confusion among the Arabs themselves. He did not say however, that the confusion was also British, but he was aware of it, for his letter aimed at allaying India's government.
Clayton's view was by the time shared by Lawrence, who, in a famous text headlined" the politics of Mecca", expounded clearly the British scheme in the Middle East, likely as viewed by his friends. The text is worth quoting:
" Sherif Hussein is not working in the British Interests, except in so far as they further the particular dreams and hopes of the political party to which he belongs. His aim is the establishment of a Caliphate (not the only one) for himself, and independence for people speaking Arabic from their present irritating subjection to people speaking Turkish. His aims are thus in definite opposition to the Pan-Islamic party (the Arab Nationalists) who are his strong obstacle, and to the Young Turk party, who are however less dangerous to his schemes; his activity seems beneficial to us, because it marches with our immediate aims, the break up of the Islamic block and the defeat and disruption of the ottoman Empire, and because the states he would set up to succeed the Turks would be as harmless to ourselves as Turkey was before she became a tool in German hands. The Arabs are even less stable than the Turks . If properly handed they would remain in a state of political mosaic, a tissue of small jealous principalities, incapable of cohesion and yet always ready to combine against an outside force. The alternative to this seems to be the control and colonization by a European power other than ourselves which would inevitably come into conflict with the interests we already possess in the Near East (...) If we can only arrange that his (: Sherif Hussein) political change shall be a violent one, we will have abolished the threat of Islam, by dividing it against itself in its very heart. There will be a Khalifa in Turkey and a Khalifa in Arabia, in theological warfare, and Islam will be as little formidable as the Papacy when Popes lived in Avignon." (xxv)
It is a strange text of Lawrence, and certainly the less romantic of all he had written! We must note that it had been written in January 1916; therefore even before the establishment of the Arab Bureau in Cairo. That is to mean that these ideas were in the air, so to say. But more important is the acknowledgement of the" colonization by a European power other than ourselves"- probably France- that will conflict with the British interests. Lawrence will never give up to the French whom he considers as a potential enemy. The text shows also his fear of the Pan-Islamism that made him unconcerned with Ibn Saud and his Wahabi Ikhwan, and the confusion with the Arab Nationalism.
If the revolt was to be secular, how could it be accommodated with the idea of two Caliphates, theological warfare, and the alike?
The text may appear as a crusade against the political power of Islam. But at the time, it was a commonplace regarding the Turkish call to the Holy War. Moreover, Lawrence had never hidden that he had acted for a secular power in the Arab world. He was somehow an "internationalist" before time. He had preceded Trotsky without being a communist, and paved the way to the "International Brigades" of Spain in the thirties. Malraux and Hemingway would recognize themselves in his work, as well as other insurgents .We must remember that in the same period the Bolshevik Revolution broke out in Russia. Thus, to the question: Why Lawrence's legend has been so strong? We may find many answers. The simplest is perhaps that he had covered the British very matter-of-fact interests through one of the finest and most pathetic prose ever written till that date about revolutions. Then, may be had he dreamed to be the "bridge" between two civilizations that have some grounds to share, in the same measure that they remain distinct and sometimes contradictory. But his tragedy was perhaps that he did not know where exactly was the limit.-
So how can we go to International Court of Justice to get a fair trial on above true Terrorism to stop present war which started in 1916 in Arab World, 1757 in India though it was stopped in present India as it is Hindu majority land for ever except Pakistan and Afganistan, both Muslim majority land and 1492 in Spain after which several vast Continents were stolen from rest of mankind from present billions of people with vast resources?.
If present war continues, the following will happen at present end time.
From:
http://www.inter-islam.org/faith/mahdi1.htm
4) The Euphrates will Disclose a Mountain of Gold
The Final Hour will not come until the river Euphrates (which flows through Syria and Iraq and finally opens in the Gulf) will disclose a mountain of gold over which people will fight and die Abu Hurairah Radiallahu Anhu reported that the Messenger of Allah said:
"The shall not occur until the Euphrateswill disclosea mountain of gold, over which people will fight.
99 out of every hundred shall die, and every one of them shall say, 'perchance I shall be the one to succeed"
(Muslim)
Thus every race/nation will be effected with preasent war in Iraq as all races originated in Iraq and Arabia i.e. holy Mecca from Prophet Adam (peace be upon him) who landed
in holy Mecca from heaven and built first place of worship i.e. present Kaba and it was rebuilt by Prophet Ibrahim and his first son (peace be upon them)
In another narration we have been told that who ever is present at the time when the Euphrates discloses a mountain of gold should not take the gold.
the Prophet (AS) said : It is diffusion of light, when light falls in soul, heart expands and spreads. The Prophet prayed for Ibn Abbas : 0 God, give him knowledge of religion and of interpretation. Hazrat Ali said : There is nothing which the Prophet concealed from us.' God gives the knowledge of the Quran to some of His servants. It is not acquired knowledge.
God says: He gives wisdom to whom He likes-12:229. This knowledge is said to be that of God's Book. God says: I gave Solomon its knowledge-21 : 79. He specialised Solomon with knowledge. Hazrat Abu Darda'a said: A believer is he who by the help of God's light sees everything from behind the screen. By God. it is true that God casts truth in soul and for that it is disclosed in his tongue. An ancient sage said : Fear the sight of a believer as he looks only by the help of divine light. The clue is found in the following verse : In it there are signs for those who enquire. God says : I make clear the signs to a people with certain faith-12: 118. The Prophet said: 'Learning is of two kinds-one kind of learning lies concealed in soul and it is the benefiting learning.' One learned man was asked about this and he said That is a secret matter out of the secret matters of God. God casts it in the souls of His dear servants Angels or ordinary men do not get clue to it. The learned man is he who learns from his God. This is knowledge from the Almighty called Ilhame Laduni (secret knowledge). God says: I have taught him learning from Myself-18 : 65. Some knowledge comes from God and some knowledge is acquired through the medium of men. It cannot be called secret knowledge which is such a knowledge which arises from the deep bottom of soul without any reason. The Quran and Hadis support it' The following are some examples of Ilme Laduni or secret knowledge.
(1) Hazrat Abu Bakr at the time of his death said to Hazrat Ayesha : They are both your brother and sister.
At that time, his wife was pregnant and she gave birth thereafter to a daughter. He came to know beforehand that he would have a daughter born to him.
(2) One day Hazrat Omar said at the time of his sermon : 0 army, towards the hillock, towards the hillock. When he came to know by Kashf or secret knowledge that the enemies were about to kill the Muslim soldiers, he cautioned them and called them to
(30 Soul and its Attributes Vol-III)
assemble in the hillock. It is wonderful that the call soon reached the Muslim soldiers (though probably there were hundreds miles away).
Commander of that army heard Calip's order and Muslim army was saved from defeat.
From:
http://aol40.com/omar.htm
Omar in Jerusalem
The Caliph left Ali in Medina as his deputy and himself left for Jerusalem. He had only one attendant with him and only one camel to ride. Omar and the attendant rode the camel by turns. It happened to be the servant's turn to ride on the day when they were to reach Jerusalem. "Commander of the Faithful," said the attendant, "I give up my turn. It will look awkward, in the eyes of the people, if I ride and you lead the camel."
"Oh no," replied Omar, "I am not going to be unjust. The honor of Islam is enough for us all."
Abu Obaid, Khalid, Yazid and other officers of the army went some distance to receive the Caliph. All of them were wearing silk cloaks. This made Omar angry. He took some pebbles and threw them at his generals, saying, "Have you changed so much in just two years? What dress is this? Even if you had done this two hundred years from now, I would have dismissed you."
The officers replied, "Commander of the Faithful, we are in a land where the quality of clothes worn tells the rank of a man. If we wear ordinary clothes, we will command little respect among the people. However, we are wearing our arms underneath the silken robes."
This answer cooled down the anger of the Caliph.
Next the Caliph signed the treaty of peace. It ran as follow
"From the servant of Allah and the Commander of the Faithful, Omar: The inhabitants of Jerusalem are granted security of life and property. Their churches and crosses shall be secure. This treaty applies to all people of the city. Their places of worship shall remain intact. These shall neither be taken over nor pulled down. People shall be quite free to follow their religion. They shall not be put to any trouble..."
The gates of the city were now opened. Omar went straight to the Temple of David (Masjid-i-Aqsa). Here he said his prayer under David's Arch.
Next he visited the biggest Christian church of the city. He was in the church when the time for the afternoon prayer came.
"You may say your prayers in the church," said the Bishop.
"No," replied Omar, "if I do so, the Muslims may one day make this an excuse for taking over the church from you."
So he said his prayers on the steps of the church. Even then, he gave the Bishop a writing. It said that the steps were never to be used for congregational prayers nor was the Adhan [ call to prayer ] to be said there.
It looks from all sign that the end day has come and another great war is coming very soon which will be worse than present war in Iraq; land of all races as Prophet Ibrahim (Abraham), Peace be upon him is from Iraq and all human being was originated from Iraq and Arabia. Read more below:
Blair considers UN sanctions as he speaks of 'revulsion' at Iranian President's speech
By Anne Penketh and Colin Brown
Published: 28 October 2005
Blair considers UN sanctions as he speaks of 'revulsion' at Iranian President's speech Tony Blair has condemned President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's outburst on Israel
Tony Blair last night warned Iran that western public opinion would demand action over the call by the Iranian President for Israel to be "wiped off the map" as international outrage mounted.
The Prime Minister spoke of his personal anger and 'revulsion' at the remarks which threaten to plunge relations between Iran and the West into a fresh and dangerous crisis. 'I have never come across a situation of a president of a country saying they want to wipe out another country,' he said.
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But what Prime Minister Blair forgot is that it was his tribe and Britain, which wiped off the map of 1300 years old Caliphate after 1916
through same lies and deception as present war against Iraq and I challenge Prime Minister Blair to face me through any media like BBC or CNN or media of foxes to face me any time and any where on that true history of lies and deception of Britain. Thus present Great War in Iraq was imposed on World Muslims since 1916 if not since 1492 or 1757.
Has Mr. Blair the courage to face me before people’s court through any mass media? I need this answer as soon as possible to end present war and destruction.
Is Prime Minister Blair ready to compensate people of Iraq for killing Iraqis and destroying their wealth during 1921?
And I ask Prime Minister Blair to read the following history from his own office document:
"We must put an end to anything which brings about any Islamic unity between the sons of the Muslims. As we have already succeeded in finishing off the Khilafah, so we must ensure that there will never arise again unity for the Muslims, whether it be intellectual or cultural unity" "The situation now is that Turkey is dead and will never rise again, because we have destroyed its moral strength, the Khilafah and Islam" - Lord Curzon, British Foreign Minister, in front of the House of Commons after the Lausanne Treaty of July 24th 1924.
Britain succeeded in divorcing our system, the Khilafah/Caliphate, from our lives.
We are now living in the law of Jungle for the power of WMD i.e. Weapon of mass destruction and women of mass destruction that is why Britain and other Western countries can deport any Muslims who have been living for 10 years, 20 years or 50 years but not 1300 years old Caliphate or Muslim country. If west can deport illegal Immigrants from Britain and other Western countries Muslims can also deport illegal Immigrants in Palestine and other Muslim land and that is law of equality and justice. Muslims never knew the term Illegal Immigrants and it is the Western World who invented this term and World belongs to Allah/God and human being is free to go anywhere they like and during Caliphate Muslims or Jews or Christians were free to move anywhere they liked. Thus Spanish Jews settled in Morocco, Egypt, Turkey, Palestine, India and other Muslim countries after 1492 and they were not threatened to be deported, as they were Jews. Please read a history book written by Jews and one such famous book is The Secret Jews, by Dr. Joachim Prinz.
At the time of the American revolution the East India Company flag would have been identical to the Grand Union Flag . The flag probably inspired the Stars and Stripes (as argued by Sir Charles Fawcett in 1937 ). [1] Comparisons between the Stars and Stripes and the Company's flag from historical records present some convincing arguments. The John Company flag dates back to the 1600s whereas the United States adopted the Stars and Stripes in 1777 [2]
And We Muslims are not traitors or Terrorists, You Anglo Saxons are. That history is here below:
Based in Leadenhall Street http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadenhall_Street, London http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London, the company presided over the creation of the British Raj . In 1717 , the Company received a royal dictate from the Mughal Emperor exempting the Company from the payment of custom duties in Bengal , giving it a decided commercial advantage in the Indian trade. A decisive victory by Sir Robert Clive at the Battle of Plassey in 1757 established the British East India Company as a military as well as a commercial power. By 1760 , the French were driven out of India, with the exception of a few trading posts on the coast, such as Pondicherry.
And you Anglo Saxons were looters of my country, Bengal and India. You entered India as Immigrant and became ruler for 200 years through true lies and deception.
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From:
The Company saw the rise of its fortunes, and its transformation from a trading venture to a ruling enterprise, when one of its military officials, Robert Clive, defeated the forces of the Nawab of Bengal, Siraj-ud-daulah , at the Battle of Plassey in 1757. A few years later the Company acquired the right to collect revenues on behalf of the Mughal Emperor, but the initial years of its administration were calamitous for the people of Bengal. The Company's servants were largely a rapacious and self-aggrandizing lot, and the plunder of Bengal left the formerly rich province in a state of utter destitution. The famine of 1769-70, which the Company's policies did nothing to alleviate,
may have taken the lives of as many as a third of the population.
The Company, despite the increase in trade and the revenues coming in from other sources, found itself burdened with massive military expenditures, and its destruction seemed imminent. State intervention put the ailing Company back on its feet, and Lord North's India Bill, also known as the Regulating Act of 1773, provided for greater parliamentary control over the affairs of the Company, besides placing India under the rule of a Governor-General.
So please stop propaganda against us every day through your evil medias.
Killing of innocent people here and there from sky or in land or in sea or taking one’s own life is a great sin. Thus those who claim to be Muslim must pray and remember Mowla (Lord of all worlds) all the time and do nothing without his direct permission. If Muslims can get permission from Mowla for certain act, Muslims will win and will not be defeated and above all rest of mankind will love Muslims and follow them as many of them did in the past. Muslims must be good example for rest of mankind so rest of mankind follows Islam. Look at the sky of Afghanistan or Iraq or rest of Muslims World that no fighter bomber fell apart and they flew freely and it cannot happen without permission of Allah/Mowla (SWT) as Allah said in Holy Quran:
Behold! in the creation of the heavens and the earth; in the alternation of the night and the day; in the sailing of the Ships through the ocean for the profit of mankind; in the rain which Allah Sends down from the skies, and the life which He gives therewith to an earth that is dead; in the beasts of all kinds that He scatters through the earth; in the change of the winds, and the clouds which they Trail like their slaves between the sky and the earth;- (Here) indeed are Signs for a people that are wise. (Chapter #2 , Verse #164 )
(55) He it is Who enableth you to traverse through land and sea; so that ye even board Ships;- they sail with them with a favourable wind, and they rejoice thereat; then comes a stormy wind and the waves come to them from all sides, and they think they are being overwhelmed: they cry unto Allah, sincerely offering (their) duty unto Him saying, "If thou dost deliver us from this, we shall truly show our gratitude!" (Chapter #10 , Verse #22 )
Your Lord is He That maketh the Ship go smoothly for you through the sea, in order that ye may seek of his Bounty. For he is unto you most Merciful. (Chapter #17 , Verse #66 )
Nor are the two bodies of flowing water alike,- the one palatable, sweet, and pleasant to drink, and the other, salt and bitter. Yet from each (kind of water) do ye eat flesh fresh and tender, and ye extract ornaments to wear; and thou seest the Ships therein that plough the waves, that ye may seek (thus) of the Bounty of Allah that ye may be grateful. (Chapter #35 , Verse #12 )(140) If ye invoke them, they will not listen to your call, and if they were to listen, they cannot answer your (prayer). On the Day of Judgment they will reject your "PartnerShip". and none, (O man!) can tell thee (the Truth) like the One Who is acquainted with all things. (Chapter #35 , Verse #14 )
And among His Signs are the Ships, smooth-running through the ocean, (tall) as mountains. (Chapter #42 , Verse #32 )
That has created pairs in all things, and has made for you Ships and cattle on which ye ride, (Chapter #43 , Verse #12
And His are the Ships sailing smoothly through the seas, lofty as mountains: (Chapter #55 , Verse #24
We never believed the tribe of Tony Blair who have stolen several Continents from rest of mankind since 1757 in Bengal, India or since 1916 in Arab World or in Iraq and that that
Tribe came to Iraq for democracy and election, as they did not establish it after 1916 when they first went there though they did it in India before 1947 when they left India permanently.
If that tribe wants election and democracy in Iraq, they must do it in whole Arab and Muslim World immediately (i.e. The Election of Caliph) withdrawing all rulers they crated there after destroying 1300 years Caliphate.
Arabs lost Caliphate/Khilafah in 1258 and Muslims lost Caliphate after 1916 as Muslims stopped the development of art of defense for the sucurity of it's land. And there is Chapter (Sura) from Holy Quran on AL-HADID (THE IRON)
The Sultans could never take the name of Caliphate. Firstly they were recent converts and secondly they didn’t control one of the Islamic historic cities, like Baghdad, or Medina and thirdly the Sultans were somewhat secular and the Caliph must incorporate religion, as Islam is a polytheistic system.
So Allah/God can create another Osmani Muslims and establish Caliphate in whole World with interest free World and WMD free World.
Interest is also forbidden in both old and New Testament i.e. bible to protect billions poor from oppression.
And we, Muslims are not getting any help from Allah/Mowla/God like the ancients *peace be upon them and like the followings:
I, Allah, am above My servants, and My Throne is above the whole of My creation, and I am upon My Thone, whereon I regulate [the affairs of] My servants, and nothing pertaining to My servants is ever hidden from Me."
Indeed, the fact that He (Almighty and Glorious is He) is upon the Throne is mentioned in every Scripture that has been revealed [fi kulli kitabin unzila] to every Prophet who has been sent forth to deliver His message ['ala kulli nabiyyin ursila], without further explanation [bi-la kaif].
In all the records that are still available to us, Allah (Exalted is He) is also characterized as possessing the attributes of Exaltedness ['uluww] and Omnipotence [qudra], as exercising control [istila'] and domination [ghalaba] over the whole of His creation from the Throne, and so on.
None of this, therefore, can be what is meant by His 'Self-establishment' [istiwa']. Self-establishment must be one of the attributes of the Divine Essence [sifat adh-Dhat], since He has informed us of it, mentioned it explicitly, and stated it emphatically in seven verses [ayat] of His Book, and since this view is confirmed by the Prophetic tradition [sunna ma'thura]. It must be an attribute [sifa] that is intrinsic to Him [lazima lahu] and properly befitting Him [la'iqa bihi], like the Hand [yad], the Face [wajh], the Eye ['ain], the Hearing [sam'], the Sight [basar], the Life [hayat] and the Power [qudra], all of which are properly attributed to Him, as well as His being Creator [Khaliq], Sustainer [Raziq], Giver of Life [Muhyin] and Causer of Death [Mumit].
We do not depart from the Book and the Sunna. We read the Qur'anic verse [aya] and the traditional report [khabar]. We believe what these two sources contain, and we entrust the detailed understanding [kaifiyya] of the [divine] attributes to the knowledge ['ilm] of Allah (Almighty and Glorious is He). As Sufyan ibn 'Uyaina (may Allah bestow His mercy upon him) once put it: "Just as Allah (Exalted is He) has described Himself in His Book." In other words, the reading of it is self-explanatory, and there is no need of further interpretative commentary [tafsir]. This is all that is required of us, because the rest is a mystery [ghaib], the comprehension of which is beyond the scope of the human mind ['aql].
We beg Allah (Exalted is He) to grant pardon ['afw] and well-being ['afiya], and we take refuge with Him in case we should say anything about Him or His attributes that we have not been taught by Him or by His Messenger (Allah bless him and give him peace).
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"(know that in his stead) Allah will bring a people whom He loveth and who love Him,"Maida 54 , you know what happens if ALLAH Kareem start to love somebody? You know WHAT ARE THE QUALITIES OF THOSE PEOPLE WHOM ALLAH, THE CREATOR, LOVES? SEE THE HADITH QUDSI, IT WAS RELATED BY AL-BUKHARI. ON THE AUTHORITY OF ABU HURAYRAH (MAY ALLAH BE PLEASED WITH HIM), WHO SAID THAT THE MESSENGER OF ALLAH (PEACE BE UPON HIM) SAID: ALLAH (MIGHTY AND SUBLIME BE HE) SAID: “WHOSOEVER SHOWS ENMITY TO SOMEONE DEVOTED TO ME, I SHALL BE AT WAR WITH HIM. MY SERVANT DRAWS NOT NEAR TO ME WITH ANYTHING MORE LOVED BY ME THAN THE RELIGIOUS DUTIES I HAVE ENJOINED UPON HIM, AND MY SERVANT CONTINUES TO DRAW NEAR TO ME WITH SUPEREROGATORY WORKS SO THAT I SHALL LOVE HIM. WHEN I LOVE HIM I AM HIS HEARING WITH WHICH HE HEARS, HIS SEEING WITH WHICH HE SEES, HIS HAND WITH WHICH HE STRIKES AND HIS FOOT WITH WHICH HE WALKS. WERE HE TO ASK [SOMETHING] OF ME, I WOULD SURELY GIVE IT TO HIM, AND WERE HE TO ASK ME FOR REFUGE, I WOULD SURELY GRANT HIM IT. I DO NOT HESITATE ABOUT ANYTHING AS MUCH AS I HESITATE ABOUT [SEIZING] THE SOUL OF MY FAITHFUL SERVANT: HE HATES DEATH AND I HATE HURTING HIM” AND OUR MASTER SEYYIDEE WAMOULAYA ABDUL CADER JILANI IS UNDISPUTEDLY THE ARCH INTERCESSOR AND LEADER AMONG THOSE PEOPLE. I HAVE NO WAY EXCEPT HANGING TO THE FOOT OF MY MASTER SEYYIDEE WA MOULAYA MUHYIDDEN ABDUL CADER JILANI Raliyallahu anhu.
And that hands which Allah/God can create as his own can take out those few brief cases from Moscow, London, Paris, Tel Aviv and else where
in any moment and can destroy/disable all WMD through those brief cases to save this earth and mankind. And it is not a story and it is historical fact. Any one can visit Chittagong, Bangladesh and know the history
of Shah Amanatat Shah (ALLah's/God's mercy on him). One Judge told a defender in Chittagong, Bangladesh during British rule that he must produce all paper at that moment if he wants to win his case.
But papers were msny miles away from the Court. Seeing this, that Judge's orderly/Peon Amanat Shah (RA) asked the defender of that case to close his eyes and took his hand to pick up those papers from his home many miles away and he won the case. When Judge asked how he got those paper as those were in his village home, the defender pointed to the peon of Judge and told the fact how he got his papers after which Amanat Shah (RA, Allah's/God's mercy on him) vanished as he did not like to disclose his status with Allah/God. Hadrat Amanat Shah's majar (Holy tomb) is in Chittagong and any one can verify this fact. This kind of miracle happened in around this world by Muslims Saints in recent past.
At least it may happen by the holy hands of Prophet Jesus and Imam Mehdi
(Peace be upon them) very soon.
The above is the only way through which I can gather power, power from Allah/Mowla (Lord of all worlds) (SWT) and not killing/beheading innocent people both civilians and military here and there.
On one occasion, after meeting with the Prophet (s), Abu Dharr returned to his tribe and was asked whether the Prophet (s) had given him any advice. ‘Yes,’ he replied. ‘He has ordered me to do seven things.
‘He has ordered me to love the poor and to get close to them.
‘He has ordered me to look to those who are lower than I and not to those who are higher than I.
‘He has ordered me to maintain close relations with my relatives even if they turn their backs on me.
‘He has ordered me not to ask anyone for anything.
‘He has ordered me to say the truth even if it is bitter.
‘He has ordered me not to fear anyone, for the sake of Allah.
‘And he has ordered me to say often: “There’s neither might nor power but with Allah.”’.
The advice to ‘love the poor’ was one that Abu Dharr took extremely seriously. For the rest of his life, he eschewed wealth – for himself and for all other Muslims. After the death of the Prophet, as the Muslim empire began to grow and the elite within the community began building large palaces for themselves, he became so critical of those in power that, more than once, he was exiled.
It is said that the words of the Qur’?n which forbade wealth accumulation were always on his lips. So much so that he would often be welcomed by people with the words: ‘Announce to those who hoard up gold and silver, the warning of branding irons,’ referring to the verse from Surah Taubah: ‘And those who hoard up gold and silver and do not expend it in the cause of Allah, announce to them a painful chastisement. On the Day when it shall be heated in the Fire and with it their foreheads, their bodies and their backs shall be branded, “This is what you treasured for yourselves, so taste the evil of what you were treasuring”’ (9: 34-35).
Abu Dharr devoted his life to this mission as he saw that wealth was increasingly being accumulated and monopolized for power and being turned into a means of control and abuse. He witnessed a passion for comfort which, he believed, threatened to destroy the beauty, sincerity, vision and values developed during the years of the mission of the Prophet (s).
‘Loving the poor’ is a very different thing from giving to the poor. Haroun recounted the story of a would-be volunteer at Islamic Relief who was told about ‘loving the poor’ as per this report by Abu Dharr. ‘But how can I,’ he replied. ‘They are so filthy.’ He wanted to work with an organisation that sought to uplift people from poverty, but he wanted to have nothing to do with poor people. He didn’t last long, Haroun concluded.
Many of us with some means believe it is enough to give our lillah and zakah in Ramadan. By it, we believe, we have done our Islamic duty and our duty to the poverty-stricken. But to ‘love the poor’? To ‘get close to them’? That is asking a little too much, we feel. And so there are many of us who are willing to sponsor food hampers, donate blankets or sponsor an orphan, but have never been into a squatter camp (I prefer to use this harsher term than the euphemistic ‘informal settlement’). It is, after all, much easier dealing with numbers on a computer than with the filth of poverty.
The Prophet (s) knew the impact of his advice on the very committed Abu Dharr.
The Prophet once asked him, ‘Abu Dharr! What would you do if you witnessed a time when commanders monopolize the war booty?’ He replied, ‘I swear by Allah Who sent you with the truth, I would strike them with my sword!’ The Prophet (s) said to him, ‘Shall I guide you to what is better? Be patient till you meet me.’
With these words, the Prophet stayed Abu Dharr’s sword, while predicting a time he knew would arrive among Muslims. But he did not stay his tongue. Indeed, the Prophet (s) encouraged that tongue when he said: “The earth never carried above it, nor did the sky ever shade under it a more truthful tongue than Abu Dharr’s”.
It was a tongue and a voice which lost Abu Dharr many friends. And so it was that this man, who was among the first six people to embrace Islam, fulfilled the prophecy of the Prophet (s): That he would ‘live alone, die alone and be raised alone.’
Thus let us hope that the beheader group will stop killing innocent people here and there as The Prophet (s) said to him,(Abu Dharr) ‘Shall I guide you to what is better? Be patient till you meet me.’
And instead they must use their tongue and voice to spread the truth as Allah said in holy Quran:
From:
http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/103.qmt.html
Translations of the Qur'an, Chapter 103:
AL-ASR (THE DECLINING DAY, EVENTIDE, THE EPOCH)
Total Verses: 3
Revealed At: MAKKA
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful.
103.001
YUSUFALI: By (the Token of) Time (through the ages),
PICKTHAL: By the declining day,
SHAKIR: I swear by the time,
103.002
YUSUFALI: Verily Man is in loss,
PICKTHAL: Lo! man is a state of loss,
SHAKIR: Most surely man is in loss,
103.003
YUSUFALI: Except such as have Faith, and do righteous deeds, and (join together) in the mutual teaching of Truth, and of Patience and Constancy.
PICKTHAL: Save those who believe and do good works, and exhort one another to truth and exhort one another to endurance.
SHAKIR: Except those who believe and do good, and enjoin on each other truth, and enjoin on each other patience.
From:
http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/057.qmt.html
Translations of the Qur'an, Chapter 57:
AL-HADID (THE IRON)
Total Verses: 29
Revealed At: MADINA
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful.
057.001
YUSUFALI: Whatever is in the heavens and on earth,- let it declare the Praises and Glory of Allah: for He is the Exalted in Might, the Wise.
PICKTHAL: All that is in the heavens and the earth glorifieth Allah; and He is the Mighty, the Wise.
SHAKIR: Whatever is in the heavens and the earth declares the glory of Allah, and He is the Mighty, the Wise.
057.002
YUSUFALI: To Him belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth: It is He Who gives Life and Death; and He has Power over all things.
PICKTHAL: His is the Sovereignty of the heavens and the earth; He quickeneth and He giveth death; and He is Able to do all things.
SHAKIR: His is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth; He gives life and causes death; and He has power over all things.
057.003
YUSUFALI: He is the First and the Last, the Evident and the Immanent: and He has full knowledge of all things.
PICKTHAL: He is the First and the Last, and the Outward and the Inward; and He is Knower of all things.
SHAKIR: He is the First and the Last and the Ascendant (over all) and the Knower of hidden things, and He is Cognizant of all things.
057.004
YUSUFALI: He it is Who created the heavens and the earth in Six Days, and is moreover firmly established on the Throne (of Authority). He knows what enters within the earth and what comes forth out of it, what comes down from heaven and what mounts up to it. And He is with you wheresoever ye may be. And Allah sees well all that ye do.
PICKTHAL: He it is Who created the heavens and the earth in six Days; then He mounted the Throne. He knoweth all that entereth the earth and all that emergeth therefrom and all that cometh down from the sky and all that ascendeth therein; and He is with you wheresoever ye may be. And Allah is Seer of what ye do.
SHAKIR: He it is who created the heavens and the earth in six periods, and He is firm in power; He knows that which goes deep down into the earth and that which comes forth out of it, and that which comes down from the heaven and that which goes up into it, and He is with you wherever you are; and Allah sees what you do.
057.005
YUSUFALI: To Him belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth: and all affairs are referred back to Allah.
PICKTHAL: His is the Sovereignty of the heavens and the earth, and unto Allah (all) things are brought back.
SHAKIR: His is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth; and to Allah are (all) affairs returned.
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YUSUFALI: He merges Night into Day, and He merges Day into Night; and He has full knowledge of the secrets of (all) hearts.
PICKTHAL: He causeth the night to pass into the day, and He causeth the day to pass into the night, and He is knower of all that is in the breasts.
SHAKIR: He causes the night to enter in upon the day, and causes the day to enter in upon the night, and He is Cognizant of what is in the hearts.
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YUSUFALI: Believe in Allah and His messenger, and spend (in charity) out of the (substance) whereof He has made you heirs. For, those of you who believe and spend (in charity),- for them is a great Reward.
PICKTHAL: Believe in Allah and His messenger, and spend of that whereof He hath made you trustees; and such of you as believe and spend (aright), theirs will be a great reward.
SHAKIR: Believe in Allah and His Messenger, and spend out of what He has made you to be successors of; for those of you who believe and spend shall have a great reward.
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YUSUFALI: What cause have ye why ye should not believe in Allah?- and the Messenger invites you to believe in your Lord, and has indeed taken your Covenant, if ye are men of Faith.
PICKTHAL: What aileth you that ye believe not in Allah, when the messenger calleth you to believe in your Lord, and He hath already made a covenant with you, if ye are believers?
SHAKIR: And what reason have you that you should not believe in Allah? And the Messenger calls on you that you may believe in your Lord, and indeed He has made a covenant with you if you are believers.
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YUSUFALI: He is the One Who sends to His Servant Manifest Signs, that He may lead you from the depths of Darkness into the Light and verily Allah is to you most kind and Merciful.
PICKTHAL: He it is Who sendeth down clear revelations unto His slave, that He may bring you forth from darkness unto light; and lo! for you, Allah is Full of Pity, Merciful.
SHAKIR: He it is who sends down clear communications upon His servant, that he may bring you forth from utter darkness into light; and most surely Allah is Kind, Merciful to you.
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YUSUFALI: And what cause have ye why ye should not spend in the cause of Allah?- For to Allah belongs the heritage of the heavens and the earth. Not equal among you are those who spent (freely) and fought, before the Victory, (with those who did so later). Those are higher in rank than those who spent (freely) and fought afterwards. But to all has Allah promised a goodly (reward). And Allah is well acquainted with all that ye do.
PICKTHAL: And what aileth you that ye spend not in the way of Allah when unto Allah belongeth the inheritance of the heavens and the earth? Those who spent and fought before the victory are not upon a level (with the rest of you). Such are greater in rank than those who spent and fought afterwards. Unto each hath Allah promised good. And Allah is Informed of what ye do.
SHAKIR: And what reason have you that you should not spend in Allah's way? And Allah's is the inheritance of the heavens and the earth, not alike among you are those who spent before the victory and fought (and those who did not): they are more exalted in rank than those who spent and fought afterwards; and Allah has promised good to all; and Allah is Aware of what you do.
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YUSUFALI: Who is he that will Loan to Allah a beautiful loan? for (Allah) will increase it manifold to his credit, and he will have (besides) a liberal Reward.
PICKTHAL: Who is he that will lend unto Allah a goodly loan, that He may double it for him and his may be a rich reward?
SHAKIR: Who is there that will offer to Allah a good gift so He will double it for him, and he shall have an excellent reward.
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YUSUFALI: One Day shalt thou see the believing men and the believing women- how their Light runs forward before them and by their right hands: (their greeting will be): "Good News for you this Day! Gardens beneath which flow rivers! to dwell therein for aye! This is indeed the highest Achievement!"
PICKTHAL: On the day when thou (Muhammad) wilt see the believers, men and women, their light shining forth before them and on their right hands, (and wilt hear it said unto them): Glad news for you this day: Gardens underneath which rivers flow, wherein ye are immortal. That is the supreme triumph.
SHAKIR: On that day you will see the faithful men and the faithful women-- their light running before them and on their right hand-- good news for you today: gardens beneath which rivers flow, to abide therein, that is the grand achievement.
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YUSUFALI: One Day will the Hypocrites- men and women - say to the Believers: "Wait for us! Let us borrow (a Light) from your Light!" It will be said: "Turn ye back to your rear! then seek a Light (where ye can)!" So a wall will be put up betwixt them, with a gate therein. Within it will be Mercy throughout, and without it, all alongside, will be (Wrath and) Punishment!
PICKTHAL: On the day when the hypocritical men and the hypocritical women will say unto those who believe: Look on us that we may borrow from your light! it will be said: Go back and seek for light! Then there will separate them a wall wherein is a gate, the inner side whereof containeth mercy, while the outer side thereof is toward the doom.
SHAKIR: On the day when the hypocritical men and the hypocritical women will say to those who believe: Wait for us, that we may have light from your light; it shall be said: Turn back and seek a light. Then separation would be brought about between them, with a wall having a door in it; (as for) the inside of it, there shall be mercy in it, and (as for) the outside of it, before it there shall be punishment.
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YUSUFALI: (Those without) will call out, "Were we not with you?" (The others) will reply, "True! but ye led yourselves into temptation; ye looked forward (to our ruin); ye doubted (Allah's Promise); and (your false) desires deceived you; until there issued the Command of Allah. And the Deceiver deceived you in respect of Allah.
PICKTHAL: They will cry unto them (saying): Were we not with you? They will say: Yea, verily; but ye tempted one another, and hesitated, and doubted, and vain desires beguiled you till the ordinance of Allah came to pass; and the deceiver deceived you concerning Allah;
SHAKIR: They will cry out to them: Were we not with you? They shall say: Yea! but you caused yourselves to fall into temptation, and you waited and doubted, and vain desires deceived you till the threatened punishment of Allah came, while the archdeceiver deceived you about Allah.
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YUSUFALI: "This Day shall no ransom be accepted of you, nor of those who rejected Allah." Your abode is the Fire: that is the proper place to claim you: and an evil refuge it is!"
PICKTHAL: So this day no ransom can be taken from you nor from those who disbelieved. Your home is the Fire; that is your patron, and a hapless journey's end.
SHAKIR: So today ransom shall not be accepted from you nor from those who disbelieved; your abode is the fire; it is your friend and evil is the resort.
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YUSUFALI: Has not the Time arrived for the Believers that their hearts in all humility should engage in the remembrance of Allah and of the Truth which has been revealed (to them), and that they should not become like those to whom was given Revelation aforetime, but long ages passed over them and their hearts grew hard? For many among them are rebellious transgressors.
PICKTHAL: Is not the time ripe for the hearts of those who believe to submit to Allah's reminder and to the truth which is revealed, that they become not as those who received the scripture of old but the term was prolonged for them and so their hearts were hardened, and many of them are evil-livers.
SHAKIR: Has not the time yet come for those who believe that their hearts should be humble for the remembrance of Allah and what has come down of the truth? And that they should not be like those who were given the Book before, but the time became prolonged to them, so their hearts hardened, and most of them are transgressors.
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YUSUFALI: Know ye (all) that Allah giveth life to the earth after its death! already have We shown the Signs plainly to you, that ye may learn wisdom.
PICKTHAL: Know that Allah quickeneth the earth after its death. We have made clear Our revelations for you, that haply ye may understand.
SHAKIR: Know that Allah gives life to the earth after its death; indeed, We have made the communications clear to you that you may understand.
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YUSUFALI: For those who give in Charity, men and women, and loan to Allah a Beautiful Loan, it shall be increased manifold (to their credit), and they shall have (besides) a liberal reward.
PICKTHAL: Lo! those who give alms, both men and women, and lend unto Allah a goodly loan, it will be doubled for them, and theirs will be a rich reward.
SHAKIR: Surely (as for) the charitable men and the charitable women and (those who) set apart for Allah a goodly portion, it shall be doubled for them and they shall have a noble reward.
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YUSUFALI: And those who believe in Allah and His messengers- they are the Sincere (lovers of Truth), and the witnesses (who testify), in the eyes of their Lord: They shall have their Reward and their Light. But those who reject Allah and deny Our Signs,- they are the Companions of Hell-Fire.
PICKTHAL: And those who believe in Allah and His messengers, they are the loyal, and the martyrs are with their Lord; they have their reward and their light; while as for those who disbelieve and deny Our revelations, they are owners of hell-fire.
SHAKIR: And (as for) those who believe in Allah and His messengers, these it is that are the truthful and the faithful ones in the sight of their Lord: they shall have their reward and their light, and (as for) those who disbelieve and reject Our communications, these are the inmates of the hell.
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YUSUFALI: Know ye (all), that the life of this world is but play and amusement, pomp and mutual boasting and multiplying, (in rivalry) among yourselves, riches and children. Here is a similitude: How rain and the growth which it brings forth, delight (the hearts of) the tillers; soon it withers; thou wilt see it grow yellow; then it becomes dry and crumbles away. But in the Hereafter is a Penalty severe (for the devotees of wrong). And Forgiveness from Allah and (His) Good Pleasure (for the devotees of Allah). And what is the life of this world, but goods and chattels of deception?
PICKTHAL: Know that the life of the world is only play, and idle talk, and pageantry, and boasting among you, and rivalry in respect of wealth and children; as the likeness of vegetation after rain, whereof the growth is pleasing to the husbandman, but afterward it drieth up and thou seest it turning yellow, then it becometh straw. And in the Hereafter there is grievous punishment, and (also) forgiveness from Allah and His good pleasure, whereas the life of the world is but matter of illusion.
SHAKIR: Know that this world's life is only sport and play and gaiety and boasting among yourselves, and a vying in the multiplication of wealth and children, like the rain, whose causing the vegetation to grow, pleases the husbandmen, then it withers away so that you will see it become yellow, then it becomes dried up and broken down; and in the hereafter is a severe chastisement and (also) forgiveness from Allah and (His) pleasure; and this world's life is naught but means of deception.
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YUSUFALI: Be ye foremost (in seeking) Forgiveness from your Lord, and a Garden (of Bliss), the width whereof is as the width of heaven and earth, prepared for those who believe in Allah and His messengers: that is the Grace of Allah, which He bestows on whom he pleases: and Allah is the Lord of Grace abounding.
PICKTHAL: Race one with another for forgiveness from your Lord and a Garden whereof the breadth is as the breadth of the heavens and the earth, which is in store for those who believe in Allah and His messengers. Such is the bounty of Allah, which He bestoweth upon whom He will, and Allah is of Infinite Bounty.
SHAKIR: Hasten to forgiveness from your Lord and to a garden the extensiveness of which is as the extensiveness of the heaven and the earth; it is prepared for those who believe in Allah and His messengers; that is the grace of Allah: He gives it to whom He pleases, and Allah is the Lord of mighty grace.
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YUSUFALI: No misfortune can happen on earth or in your souls but is recorded in a decree before We bring it into existence: That is truly easy for Allah:
PICKTHAL: Naught of disaster befalleth in the earth or in yourselves but it is in a Book before we bring it into being - Lo! that is easy for Allah -
SHAKIR: No evil befalls on the earth nor in your own souls, but it is in a book before We bring it into existence; surely that is easy to Allah:
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YUSUFALI: In order that ye may not despair over matters that pass you by, nor exult over favours bestowed upon you. For Allah loveth not any vainglorious boaster,-
PICKTHAL: That ye grieve not for the sake of that which hath escaped you, nor yet exult because of that which hath been given. Allah loveth not all prideful boasters,
SHAKIR: So that you may not grieve for what has escaped you, nor be exultant at what He has given you; and Allah does not love any arrogant boaster:
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YUSUFALI: Such persons as are covetous and commend covetousness to men. And if any turn back (from Allah's Way), verily Allah is Free of all Needs, Worthy of all Praise.
PICKTHAL: Who hoard and who enjoin upon the people avarice. And whosoever turneth away, still Allah is the Absolute, the Owner of Praise.
SHAKIR: Those who are niggardly and enjoin niggardliness on men; and whoever turns back, then surely Allah is He Who is the Selfsufficient, the Praised.
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YUSUFALI: We sent aforetime our messengers with Clear Signs and sent down with them the Book and the Balance (of Right and Wrong), that men may stand forth in justice; and We sent down Iron, in which is (material for) mighty war, as well as many benefits for mankind, that Allah may test who it is that will help, Unseen, Him and His messengers: For Allah is Full of Strength, Exalted in Might (and able to enforce His Will).
PICKTHAL: We verily sent Our messengers with clear proofs, and revealed with them the Scripture and the Balance, that mankind may observe right measure; and He revealed iron, wherein is mighty power and (many) uses for mankind, and that Allah may know him who helpeth Him and His messengers, though unseen. Lo! Allah is Strong, Almighty.
SHAKIR: Certainly We sent Our messengers with clear arguments, and sent down with them the Book and the balance that men may conduct themselves with equity; and We have made the iron, wherein is great violence and advantages to men, and that Allah may know who helps Him and His messengers in the secret; surely Allah is Strong, Mighty.
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YUSUFALI: And We sent Noah and Abraham, and established in their line Prophethood and Revelation: and some of them were on right guidance. But many of them became rebellious transgressors.
PICKTHAL: And We verily sent Noah and Abraham and placed the prophethood and the scripture among their seed, and among them there is he who goeth right, but many of them are evil-livers.
SHAKIR: And certainly We sent Nuh and Ibrahim and We gave to their offspring the (gift of) prophecy and the Book; so there are among them those who go aright, and most of them are transgressors.
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YUSUFALI: Then, in their wake, We followed them up with (others of) Our messengers: We sent after them Jesus the son of Mary, and bestowed on him the Gospel; and We ordained in the hearts of those who followed him Compassion and Mercy. But the Monasticism which they invented for themselves, We did not prescribe for them: (We commanded) only the seeking for the Good Pleasure of Allah; but that they did not foster as they should have done. Yet We bestowed, on those among them who believed, their (due) reward, but many of them are rebellious transgressors.
PICKTHAL: Then We caused Our messengers to follow in their footsteps; and We caused Jesus, son of Mary, to follow, and gave him the Gospel, and placed compassion and mercy in the hearts of those who followed him. But monasticism they invented - We ordained it not for them - only seeking Allah's pleasure, and they observed it not with right observance. So We give those of them who believe their reward, but many of them are evil-livers.
SHAKIR: Then We made Our messengers to follow in their footsteps, and We sent Isa son of Marium afterwards, and We gave him the Injeel, and We put in the hearts of those who followed him kindness and mercy; and (as for) monkery, they innovated it-- We did not prescribe it to them-- only to seek Allah's pleasure, but they did not observe it with its due observance; so We gave to those of them who believed their reward, and most of them are transgressors.
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YUSUFALI: O ye that believe! Fear Allah, and believe in His Messenger, and He will bestow on you a double portion of His Mercy: He will provide for you a Light by which ye shall walk (straight in your path), and He will forgive you (your past): for Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
PICKTHAL: O ye who believe! Be mindful of your duty to Allah and put faith in His messenger. He will give you twofold of His mercy and will appoint for you a light wherein ye shall walk, and will forgive you. Allah is Forgiving, Merciful;
SHAKIR: O you who believe! be careful of (your duty to) Allah and believe in His Messenger: He will give you two portions of His mercy, and make for you a light with which you will walk, and forgive you, and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful;
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YUSUFALI: That the People of the Book may know that they have no power whatever over the Grace of Allah, that (His) Grace is (entirely) in His Hand, to bestow it on whomsoever He wills. For Allah is the Lord of Grace abounding.
PICKTHAL: That the People of the Scripture may know that they control naught of the bounty of Allah, but that the bounty is in Allah's hand to give to whom He will. And Allah is of Infinite Bounty.
SHAKIR: So that the followers of the Book may know that they do not control aught of the grace of Allah, and that grace is in Allah's hand, He gives it to whom He pleases; and Allah is the Lord of mighty grace.
The word "bird" appear 19 time(s) in 16 verse(s) in Quran in Yusuf Ali translation.(1) Behold! Abraham said: "My Lord! Show me how Thou givest life to the dead." He said: "Dost thou not then believe?" He said: "Yea! but to satisfy My own undertaking." He said: "Take four birds; Tame them to turn to thee; put a portion of them on every hill and call to them: They will come to thee (Flying) with speed. Then know that Allah is Exalted in Power, Wise." (Chapter #2 , Verse #260 )(2) "And (appoint him) an apostle to the Children of Israel, (with this message): "'I have come to you, with a Sign from your Lord, in that I make for you out of clay, as it were, the figure of a bird, and breathe into it, and it becomes a bird by Allah.s leave: And I heal those born blind, and the lepers, and I quicken the dead, by Allah.s leave; and I declare to you what ye eat, and what ye store in your houses. Surely therein is a Sign for you if ye did believe; (Chapter #3 , Verse #49 )(3) Then will Allah say: "O Jesus the son of Mary! Recount My favour to thee and to thy mother. Behold! I strengthened thee with the holy spirit, so that thou didst speak to the people in childhood and in maturity. Behold! I taught thee the Book and Wisdom, the Law and the Gospel and behold! thou makest out of clay, as it were, the figure of a bird, by My leave, and thou breathest into it and it becometh a bird by My leave, and thou healest those born blind, and the lepers, by My leave. And behold! thou bringest forth the dead by My leave. And behold! I did restrain the Children of Israel from (violence to) thee when thou didst show them the clear Signs, and the unbelievers among them said: 'This is nothing but evident magic.' (Chapter #5 , Verse #110 )(4) Now with him there came into the prison two young men. Said one of them: "I see myself (in a dream) pressing wine." said the other: "I see myself (in a dream) carrying bread on my head, and birds are eating, thereof." "Tell us" (they said) "The truth and meaning thereof: for we see thou art one that doth good (to all)." (Chapter #12 , Verse #36 )(5) "O my two companions of the prison! As to one of you, he will pour out the wine for his lord to drink: as for the other, he will hang from the cross, and the birds will eat from off his head. (so) hath been decreed that matter whereof ye twain do enquire"... (Chapter #12 , Verse #41 )(6) Do they not look at the birds, held poised in the midst of (the air and) the sky? Nothing holds them up but (the power of) Allah. Verily in this are signs for those who believe. (Chapter #16 , Verse #79 )(7) To Solomon We inspired the (right) understanding of the matter: to each (of them) We gave Judgment and Knowledge; it was Our power that made the hills and the birds celebrate Our praises, with David: it was We Who did (all these things). (Chapter #21 , Verse #79 )(8) Being true in faith to Allah, and never assigning partners to Him: if anyone assigns partners to Allah, is as if he had fallen from heaven and been snatched up by birds, or the wind had swooped (like a bird on its prey) and thrown him into a far- distant place. (Chapter #22 , Verse #31 )(9) Seest thou not that it is Allah Whose praises all beings in the heavens and on earth do celebrate, and the birds (of the air) with wings outspread? Each one knows its own (mode of) prayer and praise. And Allah knows well all that they do. (Chapter #24 , Verse #41 )(10) And Solomon was David's heir. He said: "O ye people! We have been taught the speech of birds, and on us has been bestowed (a little) of all things: this is indeed Grace manifest (from Allah.)" (Chapter #27 , Verse #16 )
And before Solomon were marshalled his hosts,- of Jinns and men and birds, and they were all kept in order and ranks. (Chapter #27 , Verse #17 )(12) And he took a muster of the birds; and he said: "Why is it I see not the Hoopoe? Or is he among the absentees? (Chapter #27 , Verse #20 )(13) We bestowed Grace aforetime on David from ourselves: "O ye Mountains! Sing ye back the Praises of Allah with him! and ye birds (also)! And We made the iron soft for him;- (Chapter #34 , Verse #10 )(14) And the birds gathered (in assemblies): all with him did turn (to Allah.. (Chapter #38 , Verse #19 )(15) Do they not observe the birds above them, spreading their wings and folding them in? None can uphold them except ((Allah)) Most Gracious: Truly ((Allah)) Most Gracious: Truly it is He that watches over all things. (Chapter #67 , Verse #19 )(16) And He sent against them Flights of birds, (Chapter #105 , Verse #3 )
And no help is coming like the following:
AL-FIL (THE ELEPHANT)
Total Verses: 5
Revealed At: MAKKA
Maududi's introduction
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YUSUFALI: Seest thou not how thy Lord dealt with the Companions of the Elephant?
PICKTHAL: Hast thou not seen how thy Lord dealt with the owners of the Elephant?
SHAKIR: Have you not considered how your Lord dealt with the possessors of the elephant?
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YUSUFALI: Did He not make their treacherous plan go astray?
PICKTHAL: Did He not bring their stratagem to naught,
SHAKIR: Did He not cause their war to end in confusion,
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YUSUFALI: And He sent against them Flights of Birds,
PICKTHAL: And send against them swarms of flying creatures,
SHAKIR: And send down (to prey) upon them birds in flocks,
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YUSUFALI: Striking them with stones of baked clay.
PICKTHAL: Which pelted them with stones of baked clay,
SHAKIR: Casting against them stones of baked clay,
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YUSUFALI: Then did He make them like an empty field of stalks and straw, (of which the corn) has been eaten up.
PICKTHAL: And made them like green crops devoured (by cattle)?
SHAKIR: So He rendered them like straw eaten up?
So I have problem for which I can blame none except myself.
From:
(5) Nay, We are able to put together in perfect order the very tips of his fingers. (Chapter #75 , Verse #4 )
We now see finger print though it was mentioned in holy Quran 1400 years ago. Is it not?
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
[75.1] Nay! I swear by the day of resurrection.
[75.2] Nay! I swear by the self-accusing soul.
[75.3] Does man think that We shall not gather his bones?
[75.4] Yea! We are able to make complete his very fingertips
[75.5] Nay! man desires to give the lie to what is before him.
[75.6] He asks: When is the day of resurrection?
[75.7] So when the sight becomes dazed,
[75.8] And the moon becomes dark,
[75.9] And the sun and the moon are brought together,
[75.4] Yea! We are able to make complete his very fingertips
From:
Some quotation from MY HUZUR, BY Abdul Gaffar PP 1,3,16,47,67-68,73,126-130, on the life of the grandfather of my Saint::
The Late Mr. Khondkar Yusuf Ali, Barrister-at-law, related, "Once, my mother-in-law, a European lady, who had been living with me, left my house without any notice and took away with her my son who was then child. It was late at night when I came to know of it and so upset was I for my son that I could hardly sleep. "The next morning, Huzur sent for me and as I presented myself before Him he cheered me up, saying (although I had spoken to none about the incident) `Don't you worry about your son Counsili Saheb, tomorrow will he be back with his granny.' And to our great delight they did come back the next morning". Two very close relations of Mrs. Khondkar, a highly educated European lady, died while she was in England but so intense was her grief that she had no peace and yearned to see them even after their death. For it, she went to many religious heads in Europe and in India and also to reputed theosophists but to no effect. At last, her husband after he had become a disciple of Huzur, asked her to apply to Huzur for it, but as she had no faith in Islam she did it most reluctantly in writing. On receipt of her letter, through Mr. Khondkar, Huzur enquired if she would go through some prayer. `By no means', she sent a reply. For, no prayer can do it but the strong spiritual power of some mighty saint.' After that, she took Mr. Khondkar to Beneras where she went to the famous Sannyyasi, Vaskarananda Swami and told him of her mission. "But Maiji", said he "It was possible only during Satyug, but this is Kaliyug and none but my Guruji-the Peer Saheb of your Saheb- can do it now. Go back to Him in Calcutta." She came back to Calcutta with Mr. Khondkar and solicited Huzur to fulfil her object. Huzur gave her a very short and ordinary prayer to say. But to her great delight, within only a very few days, there suddenly appeared before her those very dead persons whom she wanted to see. "It is on these very chairs, in front of me," she told Maulana Abu Taher Saheb, "That they sat and talked to me as if they were alive-. A thousand thanks to His Holiness- Huzur for this. Give Him my innumerable salams. But I must still say that it's not the prayer He gave me but His mighty Spiritual Power that has wrought this miracle." Thenceforth, she used to be absorbed in it, day and night, sitting and talking with them. But that was but the beginning of her spiritual life. ... Huzur's Vesal (Union with God; Death) took place at His residence in Calcutta, at eleven minutes past two on the morning of Sunday, the twenty-seventh of Shawal, A. H. 1318, February the seventh, A. D. 1901. A few days ahead of it, He had asked Moulvi Syed Shah Abdul Malik Saheb, Deputy Magistrate and Deputy Collector, who was then posted at Balasore, to come on the Sunday following, direct to Midnapore to attend His funeral there where His body would be taken. ... Multitudes of men flock to His Holy Shrine and invoke His help. Difficulties are overcome, calamities removed, diseases cured and wishes granted- all with great speed. "Why have you come so far"? came the voice of Hazrat Sultan-ul-Aulia Ghous-ul-Azam Hazrat Peeran Peer Syedana O Maulana Mohiuddin Shaikh Abdul Kader Jilani Al-Baghdadi Al-Hasani-w'l-Hosaini, when Maulana (A learned man; a term of respect) Abu Taher Saheb, Professor, St. Xavier's College, Calcutta, presented himself at Baghdad, "Very close to you, in the tomb of your Peer (Spiritual guide) it is I who lie, why have you come so far?"
But there are instances that some of them went by the direct command from the Holy Prophet. One such instance is Khaja Moinud-din Chishty (R. A., God's mercy with him); who is call the Sultanul Hind (king of Hind or India). It is said that while he was visiting The holy mazar(Tomb) of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him); The Prophet asked him to go to India; but he answered that he does not know where is India and the prophet showed him the path to India. So he proceeded to India and came to Ajmir where the then king was Prithiraj. The short story is that the King around Ajmir tried to prevent him from staying there but by spiritual power all the means of that king failed and Khaja Mohiuddin was able to defeat him by his great spiritual power and spread Islam through-out India, Even all the leading Indian leaders used to visit the holy shrine and seek his blessing. He even helped the then muslim rulers with his spiritual power.
We are quoting a Indian Book; "A History of Sufism in India" by Saiyid Athar Abbas Rizvi M. A. Ph. D. D. Litt., F. A. H. (Austra-lia), by Munshiram Manohar-lal publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, volume one, Chapter two, The Chishtis, pg 114.
The Chisti order of sufis is essentially an Indian one, Other branches emanat-ing from the town of Chisht in modern Afghanistan did not survive for long in the Perso-Islamic world. Chist, written as Khisht in the Persian geographical work, the Hudud al-'Alam, which was compiled in 372/982, is now a small village known as Khwaja Chisht on the river Hari Rud, some hundred kilometers east of Herat. Reference from pg - 116 of the above book are as follows:
Khwaja Mu'inu'd-Din
Both medieval and modern scholars have showered copious praise on Khwaja Muinuddin Chishti, but no reliable information regarding his early life, before he settled in Ajmir, remains. The only information recorded is the name of the area where he was born, the name of his teacher, and the fact that he had travelled widely. Strangely enough, the voluminous book, Khairul-Majalis, does not mention Khwaja Mu'inuddin in any connection, and the Fawa'idu'l-Fuad refers to him merely in passing. The earliest works which relate anecdes of the early life of Khwaja Muinuddin Chishti and his encounters with the court of Prithviraj at Ajmir are the apocryphal malfuzats. These tend to indicate that within about a hundred and fifty years of his death, the Khwaja had become a legend in India. The Siyar-u'l-Auliya', drawing on this literary source and also on family anec-dotes, gives the following account of the Khwaja. Khwaja Muinuddin Sijzi was the embodiment of Sufi virtues and famous for his outstand-ing spiritual achievements, which included the performance of mira-cles. He was the Khalifa of Khwaja 'Usman Harwani, an eminent Chishti sufi who lived in Nishapur. Khwaja Muinuddin related that after he dad entered the service of Khwaja Usman Harwani and been enrolled as his disci-ple, he then served his master for twenty years without a moment's rest. Finding him steadfast both in service and the practice of spiri-tual exercis-es, The Khwaja passed on to his disciple divine blessings which he himself had acquired. The Sultanu'l Masha'ikh (Shaikh Nizamud'd-Din Auliya') believed that when Khwaja Mu' Din reached Ajmer, India was ruled by Pithaura Ra'i (Prithvir-aj) and his capita was Ajmer. Pithaura and his high officials resented the Shaikh's presence in their city, but the latter's eminence and his apparent power to perform miracles, prompted them to refrain from taking action against him. A disciple of the Khwaja's was in the service of Pithaura Ra'i. After the disciple began to receive hostile treatment from the Ra'i, the Khwaja sent a message to Pithaura in favor of the Muslim. Pithaura refused to accept the recommendation, thus indicating his resentment of the Khwaja's alleged claims to understand the secrets of the Unseen. When Khwaja Mu Din (the spiritual king of Islam) heard of this reply he prophe-sied: We have seized Pithaura alive and handed him over to the army of Islam." About the same time, Sultan Muizzud-Din Muhammad's army arrived from Ghazna, attacked the forces of Pithaura and defeated them. Pithaura was taken alive, and thus the Khwaja's prophesy was Fulfilled. The Akhbari'l-Akhyar also contains the same account, and a large number of medieval and modern scholars confirm the validity of the story and recount fantastic miracles performed by the Khwaja at Ajmer.
Even in modern India million of muslims and non-muslim use to visit the Holy shrine of Hazrat Khaja Mainuddin Chisti in Ajmir, in the State of Rajashtan. During annual Urs of the great Saint Lacks of people irrespec-tive of their religion visit the Holy shrine which is telecasted by Dur Darsan (Indian Television) of India, in one such accession a commentator was telling that so many kings went in (Delhi) India and gone which many do not remember, but this king of the kings still to day is the same as he was in first time (in his life time). This year one visitor (a Hindu) was telling trough Dur Darshan interview that he was visiting another shrine in south India to seek blessing for some skin disease of his child, when some one who was coming to Ajmir and he accompanied him to Ajmir after which his child was cured so he decided to visit Azmir in each so long he will be alive. There were many s-uch interviews through Door Darsan.
I must stop here.
Muslim must have faith in one Allah (God), all Prophets including Abraham, Moses, Jesus and second coming of Prophet Jesus (peace be upon them) and that Prophet Muhammad is the last Prophet (Peace be upon him), pray five times a day and other optional prayers if one can, fast one month, make Hajj to Holy Mecca if one can effort and pay Zakat (Charity). So Muslims have no time to spread mischief on earth. Muslims also must love entire mankind and pray to Allah (God) so that all are guided to true path. Thus Muslims cannot create any war, killing and destruction except defensive one. Muslims are also bound for one Umma/nation/Khilafah/Caliphate to avoid any conflict and to use their resources for benefit of Mankind. But during last 2 European wars, known as World War, Caliphate was destroyed by Anglo/French conspiracy with some local agents and that 1300 years old Caliphate was divided into small illegal client States and this is the root of all present wars, killing and destruction. Afghanistan or Chechnya did not attack Russia and it is Russia which occupied from Chechnya to Afghanistan and killed millions Muslims/people. I have tried to document all these fact and history in my book The Election of Caliph/Khalifah and World Peace.
Today, 11the November, 2004, Palestinian leader Arafat dies at 75 and thus ended a life. He will not be allowed to be buried in holy Jerusalem by illegal Immigrants in Palestine. But the leader of Caliphate movement started after it’s destruction in 1916 is buried there with honor and below is that fact.
We can throw any argument that Arafat was terrorist into dustbin. Any one can go to the following Jewish site for a civilized conclusion not a conclusion of a true terrorist.
In early 1990, an Indian delegation to Jordan was driven down 40 kms from its capital Amman for lunch at a restaurant on the Dead Sea, 400 mts below sea level. On enquiry, when it was pointed out that the hills and the land across just 18 kms of sea water was the occupied West Bank with Israel in south and north, the Indian leader burst out in Hindustani, These British Where ever they went, they first encouraged divisions and then created problem before they left; Palestine, Cyprus, Iraq and India, much to the delight of his host, a Jordanian minister, who having studied in Pakistan, understood everything and was fully in agreement.
During the protracted interim period of the Oslo process, Israel's Labor and Likud governments built new settlements in the occupied territories, expanded existing settlements and constructed a network of bypass roads to enable Israeli settlers to travel from their settlements to Israel proper without passing through Palestinian-inhabited areas. These projects were understood by most Palestinians as marking out territory that Israel sought to annex in the final settlement. The Oslo accords contained no mechanism to block these unilateral actions or Israel's violations of Palestinian human and civil rights in areas under its control.
I remind you here about the audience between the Prime Minister of Britain, Lloyd George, and the Khilafat (Caliphate) Delegation led by Muhammad Ali Jauhar on 19 March 1920.
Biographical detail : Politician and journalist. His brilliant, stormy and sad life commenced in the principality of Rampur, where he was born, which lay 150 miles to the east of Delhi.
The founded Jamia Millia Islamia, “a flowering institution with its own individuality and usefulness.” He launched The Comrade, a weekly in English, from Calcutta, and outlined in the opening number of January 14, 1911 “the frank recognition of yawning differences that divide” Hindus and Muslims. Written and edited by one man and produced on expensive paper, The Comrade quickly gained circulation and influence. After twenty months the paper moved to Delhi, the Raj’s new capital. It acquired a sister, an Urdu-language daily Hamdard, in 1913. He played very important role during non co-operation and Khilafat movement. He was chosen President of Indian National Congress (1923 - 24). Speaking increasingly of Muslim fears and Muslim rights, Muhammad Ali felt that Hindu communalism was gaining ground in Congress. He, therefore, shared the dominant Muslim feeling that Swaraj (independence) would be a Hindu prize and Muslims would need to battle for their rightful share of the spoils of self-government.
He declared at the first Round Table Conference in London (1930), that he would not return to India alive unless the country was set free. “I would prefer to die in a foreign country so long as it is a free country,” he addressed to the British, and went on, “and if you do not give us freedom in India you will have to give me a grave here.” He further went on. “The Hindu-Muslim problem is your creation. But not altogether. It is the old maxim of ‘divide and rule’. But there is a division of labour. We divide and you rule.” His words in London about the position of an Indian Muslim have gone into history.
“I belong to two circles of equal size, but which are not concentric. One is India, and the other is the Muslim world…We as Indian Muslims belong to these two circles, each of more than 300 millions, and we can leave neither.”
Muhammad Ali a great orator and a poet, Jauhar was his poetical name, died of a stroke in London and the grave in which he rests is neither in Britain nor in India. Muhammad Ali was buried, by the choice of his relatives, friends and admirers in Jerusalem, the place from where the Prophet (PBU) ascended to heaven. The inscription written on his grave near the Dome of the Rock says: “Here lies al-Sayyid Muhammad Ali al-Hindi.”
At this moment Iraq became field of destruction and killing. In 1916 Anglo Saxons also went there to destroy Caliphate and Iraq killing thousands of Iraqis from Air through Chemical bombs and Iraqis or Arab Muslim did not get any democracy and freedom from Anglo Saxons in London. Iraqis will not get it this time too as all these are true lie as morning shows the evening and by one tomorrow we will see that almost all Iraqis will be killed by all kind WMD and Allah/God only knows rest.
Rabindra Nath Tagore, who was the first to get Nobel Prize in India, wrote in a poem that every one thinks that he is the God. But real God laughs. And WMD and power made us mad as it did mad many Empire in the past including powerful Muslims Caliphs of Ummayad,
Abbaside and Osmani.
Please know the history of Iraq and Caliphate here in:
11/06/04 15:55
Samarra, an ancient city of gold-domed mosques that once served as the capital of a Muslim empire extending from Spain to India, was recaptured from Sunni Muslim insurgents in September and was touted as a model for restoring government control to other areas formerly under guerrilla domination.
Mother Teresa preferred to live in Calcutta, West Bengal. West Bengal and Bangladesh are most densely populated are of this World.
Holiness is not the luxury of the few; it is a simply duty, for you and for me. Mother Teresa
Please visit the following web site to know detail about Mother Teresa.
http://www.motherteresacause.info
Bangladesh and West Bengal, India are mostly densely populated area of this World. Thus Bengal can teach the rest of this World how to implement Immigration policy. Indian Government and Government West Bengal rehabilitated around 30 million Hindus from former East Pakistan, now Bangladesh. Any one can visit West Bengal (my birth place) and see thousands of housing projects were completed in Calcutta and around West Bengal. In my own sub-Division of Katwa, Burdwan, you will see from rail station to Court building all are Hindus from former East Pakistan, now Bangladesh. The same is true for Delhi. So America and Australia for examples can allow around billion poor people from around this World and West Bengal can be an example for them how. Hindus in Bangladesh are safe since Bangladesh came into existence in 1971/72. Influx of millions refugees happened in 1947 for the partition of India by Britain. Thus present Indian Prime Minister was born in Present Pakistan and present Pakistani military dictator was born in Delhi, Indian Capital.
Karachi in Pakistan and how Pakistan sheltered millions in Pakistan after Russian invasion of Afghanistan is another example.
There cannot be Palestine problem if Caliphate can be reestablished as those millions poor and helpless people of Palestine under illegal occupation of illegal European and American Immigrants can be relocated to nearing provinces like Saudi, Kuwait, Iraq, Yemen and those helpless poor Palestine people can live with honor and security of life.
Around 2,50, 000 Jews went to Palestine from Morocco alone. Has Morocco allowed equal number of poor Palestine in Morocco after Palestine was partitioned by force of WMD? I don’t think so. The same is true for all Arab countries and Iran. If there was proper and proportionate exchange of population (Jews in Arab World and People of Palestine) like in India and Pakistan (though it is very sad as no one wants to leave his/her birthplace)we could not see any Palestine is living in refugee camps or becoming victims of every day killing at the hand of illegal Immigrants in Palestine. Visit West Bengal, India, Delhi, India, and Karachi, Pakistan and compare the suffering of people Palestine. Illegal Governors of illegal provinces created by Anglo Saxons in London are using poor Palestine for their own power so that they can stay in power with the blood of people of Palestine and now Iraq.
And probably only Imam Mehdi and Prophet Jesus (Peace be upon them) will liberate Palestine from the forces of Anti-Christ as real plan of forces of Anti-Christ is to make some reserve area in Palestine so visitors can see them as they see original Americans and Australians in America and Ausralia like animals live in Zoos. In fact animals like dogs and cats have more freedom and love in America than original Indian People in America or original people of Palestine.
And irony is it happened in America after fall of Muslim rule in Spain in 1492. Whole World can see it in Palestine since 1916, after fall of Caliphate. And it happened as there was no Gandhi in Europe or America or Australia.
And it was Gandhi who started fasting until death in Delhi after communal right started in Delhi and it was he stopped killing of Muslims in Delhi and in many part of India. He ended his fast after Hindus accepted not to harm Muslims and Muslim property.
Around 35% to 40% of world total Muslim population live in India-Pakistan-Bangladesh sub-continent of which 120 to 200 million of Muslim or 10% to 15% live in India alone. So what happened in Bosnia in recent past by the Serbs and former Yugoslavia could happen in India. But thank to the Indian non-Muslim or Hindu population that at least there was some civilized and intellectual people in India like Mahatma Gandhi and Nehru density that helped to minimize the massacre of Muslims in India. Even Gandhi had to give his life before an assassin for his protest over the massacre of Muslims just after the partition of India which was mentioned by Moulana Abul Kalam Azad in his famous book "India weans freedom" with some criticize by Gandhi of the then Home minister Bollove Bhai Patel for his role in that time. Yet there was some massacre of Muslim and Hindus in greater Punjab (in Pakistan and India) and other part of India.
But it is an irony of fate that Indian Muslims were against the British Government for its' conspiracy of abolition of Khilafat during world war. Even Gandhi joined the Muslims for the Khelafat movement.
But what a pity it is that since 1924 no Arab leader talked about that Khelafat that has been initiated and headed by the Arabs for long 900 years of Islamic movement from Khelafat Rasheda, Ummaya, and Abbaside era and even during some split of the Khelaphat (Caliphate) era by Fatimite in Egypt and separation of Spain under Umayat from mainstream Khelaphat under Baghdad.
When Mubarak, Founder of present illegal Kuwait was accepting only Indian Rupees 15,000.00 from Britain
to become ruler of Kuwait and to destroy Caliphate/Khilafah, when Ibne Saud was accepting gold and few thousand monthly British
pound to become illegal ruler of illegal Saudi Arabia, later when Governor Shariff Hussain and his sons were supporting
Britain to destroy 1300 years Caliphate around same time, greatest State was coming into existence on the model of Caliphate,
that all man is born equal as according to Islam all are born into Islam. Is it not a shame that all on a sudden
Muslims became Saudis, Iraqis, Syrians, and Egyptians etc when people in USA became only American though they came from all part of this World
and this is secret of present power of United States of America or Europeans under European Union or NATO and present weakness of all those
Saudis, Egyptians, Syrians, Iraqis who were once Muslims under Caliphate/Khilafah for around 1300
Years. Muslims were safe under Caliphate/Khilafah or in Muslim India when no Muslims were killed
in Mosque or Hindus in Temple. Look at India no Muslim is killed in mosques though in Pakistan no Muslim is safe
in mosque as no one knows when some one will kill some Muslims in Shia or Sunni Mosques. The same has started
in Iraq or Afganistan now. So only remedy against all these evil is to become true Muslim under Caliphate/Khilafah.
Did Islam influence the federalist system of government established by the US Constitution? aka
The Muslims' Illusions of Grandeur
Email forwards are more thought-provoking than I am usually willing to admit. Here's one I got recently:
One thing that was interesting was attendance for a lecture given by a Lebanese woman who is a professor of law in the US. She is a specialist in WS constitutional law. She has done some original research and found out that one of the founders of the US constitution (Thomas Jefferson) owned a copy of the Slate translated QurÂ’an that was two parts. Slate's first part was about the Prophet (SWS) and his life, etc and the second was the QurÂ’an, as we know it. She discovered that by reviewing Jefferson's library that was donated to the library of congress. She says that the form of federalism that was adopted in the US constitution was not known in Europe or anywhere else. She thinks it came from the (Meethaq al Madina) that the Prophet wrote, giving Jewish and Moslem tribes each their own religion, etc but all one community. Jefferson replaced the tribes with the states and here you have the federalist system. Also, the election (Al bai'ah) and how the Prophet only became the ruler after the people elected him, a system not known elsewhere 15 centuries ago. Also,al Shurah (al Ijtihaad, etc. all things of democracy). It is too bad that the Ommayad's (Ibn Abe Sufian) made it into an inheritance and from then on it became dynasties following each other, without shura or bai'ah, when the Prophet (SWS) himself, did not name a successor....but left it to the people to choose. You know, we all know all these things, but not in the context of the US constitution. put together, it is a very powerful force for democracy in Islamic countries, which we have not known since al khulafa al rashedeen. Maybe only in the time of the Califah Omar, who was the third and then Califah Abdel Aziz, whose nickname was el Adl, because he was so just. She also spoke of Moslem women's rights, and how they have a separate zimah maleyah, etc. also not known in Europe except many centuries later. As you can imagine, the audience of Muslims and Americans, the Americans were in shock. It appears that we Muslims have been unable to organize properly and get our message to the larger community. One last observation, she noted that Moslem immigrants, many of them engineers and doctors, etc but not many are lawyers (Code Napoleon in Egypt, Syria, Lebanon) is not applicable to the Anglo laws of US and UK. Lawyers are mostly the ones who are dealing with constitutional issues, Public information, etc. that is partly a reason for Moslems not getting their case articulated well.
It is your choice if you want war or peace. But either way you can know the way to true World Peace.
And it is you of people’s court who will decide whom to believe. It is you who will decide if you want to believe modern day Clive of Bengal or Lawrence of Arabia for war, killing and destruction of wealth or those who speak about peace. There are several recent books on war in Iraq. But my book on peace was published in 1998 and it was enough time to decide present war and permanent peace. Warmongers choose war, killing and destruction of wealth instead of permanent peace.
You can buy The Election of Caliph/Khalifah and World Peace from your local Barnes & Noble Booksellers stores.
Human life is more important than any politics and diplomacy.
Those who treat other people as inhuman being cannot be termed as human.
Modern war of bunker buster and cluster bombing is nothing but crime against humanity.
All human being is equal. Thus no one have the right to kill any USA soldier or Iraqi soldier and they are just employed for job and to earn bread for their family and not kill others.
Ancient war with sword was better than modern war with WMD as two could fight between themselves with sword and non-combatant is spared from any harm, injury and death. So we must destroy all WMD, fighter-bomber, nuclear bombs and cluster bombs if we want the survival of this earth.
No one can impose democracy on any nation through brute force of cluster bomb and it must come from people of that land.
His people elected Sukarno of Indonesia through democracy. But Suharto destroyed democracy and stayed in power for several decades. Pakistani democracy is a joke for its army just like Indonesia under Suharto.
Iran is the only country with democracy in entire Midle East Muslim country during last 24 years. Lastly there was no present client States like Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi, Jordan, Syria, and Egypt etc before 1916 as Caliphate is the only Islamic States. Caliphate was far better than present client States created by the West through gunpoint. And you cannot buy peace through gun and cluster bombs.
But all medias like CNN, BBC, ABC, Al-Jazeera etc and so called scholars are simply greatest liar and dishonest and as such they will never search for permanent peace as they need to propagate lying to earn their livelihood through cheap propaganda to the illiterate audience of the West and to fool the audience of the East.
There is only one alternate for permanent peace which are:
Let all illegal subcontractors of illegal client States leave their present illegal power to a senior Supreme Court Judge for a caretaker Government under whom there must be election for a Caliph from Morocco to Kuwait/U.A.E. and Yemen to Iraq/Syria all Arab countries with the model of present election of Bangladesh.
Will scholars, illegal subcontractors of illegal client States and Western Government accept my above proposal and leave Middle East forever in peace?
I don’t think so.
In history of USA no President can be branded as one even stole 10 millions dollars of wealth or money while he was president and the same is true for any Prime Minister of UK or any President of France and most of the present European country. The same is true for all most all Prime Ministers of India or even Prime minister of illegal Immigrants in Palestine, falsely known as Israel.
And look at so called all Islamic countries and you will see that they are greatest thieves of this earth though they claim to be Muslim. And those subcontractors of illegal clients States of Caliphate are no better than Blair’s Saddam and in fact they are worse than Saddam as they even could not manufacture a plane or a tank or a missile to defend the land of Caliphate though they have stolen billions of dollars wealth and kept it in banks of their masters in the West. And those thieves who have been working as subcontractors were hosting 300,000 Army with all kind of WMD to kill and destroy while they were trying to stop this war through Arab League or Organization of so called Islamic Conference (OIC)Meeting. Is there any more hypocrisy than their act? So World Muslims must drive them from the land of Caliphate and punish them.
At this moment so called liberation of people of Iraq started.
But what about all other illegal client States and other illegal subcontractors?
Are those illegal subcontractors are different than Saddam?
What about Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Saudi, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and other states?
And who created those illegal subcontractors and why?
And why we will be victims of terrorism every now and then? We did not introduce any WMD in this World. We are watching TV and how million dollars thousands missiles are hitting Baghdad though we could not see it 700 year ago by Halagu Khan who took many days to destroy Baghdad.
Without Caliphate there will be no peace in Iraq or from Morocco to Kuwait or Yemen to Iraq/Syria.
Only Caliphate can make peace, permanent peace. If you give election in Iraq for a President, the chances is that a Shia Muslim will won the election as they are majority and in that case Sunni and Kurdish may not accept that.
So you need to think original political System, which is Caliphate, and in that case a Sunni Muslim will be elected. We can create a post of vice Caliph for Shia Muslims which will make peace and honor towards the Shia population of Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Bahrain, Saudi and so on.
And let me explain the treachery of Britain.
1. Long before partition of India, Britain introduced democracy and Parliament in India through which where Muslims were majority, chief Ministers were Muslims like eastern India, Bengal, Assam and both majority Hindu and minority Muslims had a say in Indian affairs.
2. On the other hand evil Britain did not introduce any election process or democracy in entire Arab world and instead Britain made some thieves, traitors and criminals like Ibne Saud, Shariff Hussain and his sons as subcontractors of illegal client States.
3. Though there was no democracy in India before where as Muslims introduced a form democracy and election process 1400 years ago though which first four Caliphs were elected.
Caliphate is part of our faith which exited till 1924 when greatest Terrorist State, U.K. with all kind of WMD destroyed it. I just remind you Sykes-Picot and much other terrorism of Britain and France.
AS I mentioned that India never had a Parliament or a Majlish E Shura, Consulting Assembly and Islam gave it 1400 years ago the way first four Caliphs (God be pleased with them) were elected.
Is it not another great lies and deception when Tony Blair says that his army is going to Iraq to free Iraqi People and to give democracy as Britain gave a Parliament and democratic process to India before it left India and it gave dictatorship to Arab world creating illegal client States under illegal subcontractors.
It destroyed democracy in Iran in 1953.
And we did not see any WMD of Saddam after so many bombing and it is another great true lies from Britain that Saddam gets WMD.
Gandhi's remark on our holy Prophet (Peace be upon him)
"I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of the Prophet, the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers and his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle”.(Young India, 1922).
And in fact Gandhi gave his life for Indian Muslims and Caliphate.
Here is some quotation:
Gandhi’s links with the British Empire would not have snapped so dramatically were it not for another strand in Indian politics, represented by the "Khilafat, (Caliphate/Khilafah)" movement. Indian Muslims were agitated over the terms Turkey was likely to get from the victorious Allied Powers and over the fate of Muslim holy places in the Middle East. Gandhi feared that the pent-up Muslim frustration might burst the dykes and turn into violent channels. Hence he offered to lead the Muslim community on the Khilafat issue, if it accepted his technique. It is significant that Gandhi’s programme of non-violent non-cooperation with the British Government was endorsed by he leaders of the "Khilafat" movement even before it was approved by the Indian National Congress in September 1920.
Please read a book in two volumes, Mahatma Gandhi and Jawarharlal Nehru, A historic Partnership (1916-1948) Vol I and Vol II by Madhu Limaye, which were recently published by B. R. Publishing Corporation, Delhi, India.
You will be astonished to learn that there is not a single Muslim in whole world today to struggle for Caliphate the way Gandhi did during his lifetime. And you will read page after page on Caliphate related to Gandhi and Indian Caliphate movement in both the volumes.
In entire Middle East, it is only Iran which introduced democrany in 1953 and after Khomeni’s Islamic Revolution and all other Rulers are simply oppressors and anti Islamic criminals.
But we all know how democracy was destroyed in Iran in 1953 by the Anglo Saxons.
But I think that democracy is for the richest and not for poorest.
For example:
If some one becomes a Presidential candidate with following agenda, will he win the election?
1. If he is elected President, he will increase minimum wages as say $25 per hour.
2. He will implement tax only for those who earns more than $25 per hour and that new tax must 30%, 40%, 50%, 60% etc of the total income depending on the income.
3. He will make medical and education free for those whose income is less than 50% per hour
4. Free housing for those whose income is less than 30% per hour
5. And so on
In entire Middle East, it is only Iran which introduced democrany in 1953 and after Khomeni’s Islamic Revolution and all other Rulers are simply oppressors and anti Islamic criminals.
Where is our balance 87 billion dollars, which we need for, poorest of the poor of this World?
From:
http://www.forbes.com/2003/02/24/0224kings.html/
Name of thieves of the client States of Muslim Provinces created by Britain Past Present Balance
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Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, Brunei $30 billion $11 billion 19 billion
King Fahd Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud, illegal Governor, of Najd $28 billion $20 billion 8 billion
Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan, illegal Governor, present Abu Dhabi $20 billion 20 billion
Sheikh Maktoum Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, illegal Governor of present Dubai $12 billion $12 billion
President Saddam Hussein, illegal Governor of our province of Iraq $6 billion 2 billion $4 billion
Amir Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Than,illegal ruler of present Qatar $5 billion $5 billion
President Hafez Al-Assad, former illegal Governor of Syria $2 billion $2 billion
-- ------------ ---------------- ---------------
$120 billion $33 billion $87 billion
Previous stolen money was $120 billion
Present stolen money is only 33 billion
So where is balance $87 billion?
Now those thieves of desert who became subcontractors of the illegal client States, created by the Anglo Saxons still are not ready to hand over their illegal power to an elected Caliph/Khalifah to avoid further bloodshed, war and destruction.
Only God knows which is left for all of us, for all people if unjust war is break out against Iraq! I came across a page on 9-11, the Afghanistan War & Apocalyptic, hosted by Santa Clara University, California, USA.
On February 7, 2003, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw of Britain proposed a revised draft resolution that demanded Iraq to disarm by March 17 or face the possibility of war. France said it would block the measure.
But Anglo Saxons deceived Mirjafar Ali Khan, Chief of Army Staff of Nowab Sirajjoddowla of Eastern India compromising Bengal, Assam and Orissa in 1757 with lying that he will be ruler once Nawab is defeated. But Anglo Saxons liar did not keep their promise and they took India from Muslims with lying and deception and above all greatest terrorism.
Anglo Saxon repeated the above terrorism in Arab world in 1916 through greatest terrorist T. E. Lawrence and the promise of a united Arabia to Sharif Hussain, one of greatest traitors was not kept after defeat of Osmani Caliphate and that land was divided into illegal client States under few thieves of the desert as subcontractors.
Hundreds years old Habit of Lying and deception of Anglo Saxons.
British intelligence claims that Saddam Hussein has been trying to import uranium for a nuclear bomb are unfounded, according to UN nuclear inspectors
Ian Traynor
Saturday March 8, 2003
The Guardian
British intelligence claims that Saddam Hussein has been trying to import uranium for a nuclear bomb are unfounded and based on deliberately fabricated evidence, according to an investigation by the UN nuclear inspectors in Iraq.
The chief nuclear inspector for Iraq, Mohammed El Baradei, yesterday flatly contradicted Downing Street's and British intelligence's claims of attempted uranium smuggling by Iraq and said that the documents used to substantitate the British claim were "not authentic".
In a 55-page report last September detailing British intelligence evidence of Baghdad's ongoing attempts to acquire weapons of mass destruction, the government said that since 1998 "Iraq has sought the supply of significant supplies of uranium from Africa".
British officials named the state of Niger as the source of the uranium and passed their evidence to the UN nuclear watchdog, the international atomic energy agency, in Vienna.
"Close scrutiny and cross-checking of the documents, the letterheads on them, the signatures on them, led us to conclude with quite absolute certainty that the documents were false," an IAEA official said.
"They were fabricated," said another IAEA official.
The fabrication was transparently obvious and quickly established, the sources added, suggesting that British intelligence was either easily hoodwinked or a knowing party to the deceit.
There was no suggestion that the British were involved in falsifying the evidence which is believed to have been manufactured in Africa, probably in Niger, and then passed to western intelligence agencies.
Caliphate is the only solution against all Wars
Let all sub-contractors of the Clients States, created by the British Government since 1916 and earlier hand over their present power to an Elected Caliph immediately and let Western military and illegal immigrants in Palestine and other part of land of 1300 years Caliphate leave that land immediately. This is the only solution to avoid present and all future wars.
Are you British and other Western Government not responsible for all crimes for the illegal client/nation states you created abolishing 1300 years old Caliphate?
Oh gentlemen of the gentlemen of present World.
Instead of discussing on subjugation of the Tribe of Prophet Abraham’s (Peace be upon him) ancestors, discuss how you can help hungry people of Asia, Africa and Latin America to feed them, how to honor them as part of mankind as almost 50% of mankind cannot have a meal, a proper meal per day. Instead of destroying 200 billion dollars and million’s life, spend this 200 billions dollar as charity to people of Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Instead of studying on war and destruction, study on the human life and their minimum need.
Instead of becoming beast and killer, become human and help fellow human being.
The victors gathered on the northwestern coast of the Italian Riviera in a town called San Remo, then as now a place of respite for Europe's wealthy. It was April 1920, a moment that in the argot of the 21st century we would call an inflection point. They were there to divide up the world. The Great War was over, and its merciful end brought a halt not only to killing on a historic scale but to a world order. The Ottoman Empire was finished. The conquering imperial powers of the war, France and Britain, convened at San Remo to conclude a peace treaty with Turkey and to parcel out the spoils of what was supposed to be the War to End All Wars. And those spoils, they knew very well, included oil--lots and lots of oil.
Those billions of dollars including al-Samoud missiles and those billions, which were destroyed by Crusaders sponsored wars like long 9 years Iraq-Iran war belong to people and not to those thieves of the desert.
We wonder why Anglo Saxons do not stop their continuous war against World Muslims and Islam, as Islam is the religion of prayer, remembrance of God and peace and not war with all kind of wars. Muslims did not introduce any real WMD in this world, as they don’t have time to invent any WMD.
Globalization of revenge When you are angry with your ruler and can’t complain, you target his patrons in the West by
Shekhar Gupta
Nobody looks more ridiculous in the whole Iraq situation than the Europeans. A bit of their hypocrisy was on show in New Delhi earlier this week as the German president came calling. He, and the formidable array of intellectuals accompanying him, were at pains to make the same outdated point: that global terrorism must be fought, but with compassion. And how is that compassion supposed to work? By bringing Islamic religious teachings into school curricula. By being kind to those (of the Islamic world) feeling left out. By taking steps to soften the blow of globalisation for those (again from the Islamic world) who can’t keep pace. And by opposing a war on Iraq unless the UN says so. Europe, we were told, is now acquiring a strong Islamic minority and must cater for its concerns and fears. It was even underlined that the Muslim population in France is now 15 per cent, about as much as in India.
But nobody paused to ask why France’s Muslims are so angry with the US and its western allies but India’s are not. Or how is it that French Muslims suspected of Al-Qaeda connections now sit it out in Camp X-Ray on Guantanamo Bay while there isn’t one Indian there? Or, how come there isn’t one Indian Muslim on the FBI’s list of Al-Qaeda suspects. And finally, how come, despite the history of Indian security forces’ excesses, despite widespread alienation among a predominantly Muslim population in the Kashmir Valley and in spite of desperate Pakistani efforts to build this into a pan-Islamic jehad, hardly any mainland Indian Muslim has made common cause with it.
Could it be that this entire formulation is flawed? That the Indian Muslims are actually as sullen as those of the Middle East and Europe, but they find - mostly - a different way of seeking revenge? They hated Farooq Abdullah in Kashmir as New Delhi’s despotic stooge and defied terrorist bullets to vote him out. They believe the Congress double-crossed them on Babri, so they are still punishing it by banishing it from Uttar Pradesh and, thereby, from national power. They could not do this to Narendra Modi. But they came out to vote nevertheless. I cannot get rid of you, but I can at least vote against you, curse you on a television channel, shout a slogan against you. Not good enough, but some revenge nevertheless. I am then less likely to feel the need to hijack a plane and ram it into a symbol of my national power. And why should I do any such thing in New York anyway? I have no revenge to take there.
Now reverse that equation. You are a Muslim in Saudi Arabia, Egypt - even Pakistan - or any other such pro-western dictatorship. You hate your ruler, you detest the denial of democracy. You hate it even more when you find how the same dictators suck up to their western (US and European) masters and carry on with their support. What can you do about it except sulk, retreat to the mosque and the madrassa and plan revenge. Then, who do you take revenge on?
In your own country not only is there no freedom, even the thought of defiance, of questioning authority, could cost you your life. You cannot hold a demonstration, put up a poster, wave a placard, write an angry editorial, even a letter to the editor. You cannot organise a political party, not even a weekend discussion group. What happens then? The Friday congregation becomes the only political forum, revenge an attractive idea, and since even making the slightest move in your own police state is so dangerous you plan it in New York, Washington and who knows, tomorrow, in London or Berlin. You are convinced that your dictator stays in power because of western (American and European, I repeat) support. You cannot harm your own dictators, so make their masters pay.
Extend this logic to Pakistan and Iraq. The Iraqis must hate their dictator as much as anybody else does. It is possible that his fall may release some of the same cathartic forces as Ceausescu’s in Romania. But can the Iraqi complain about it? Can an Iraqi expatriate in the US even write a letter to the editor in The New York Times if he still has a part of his family staying back home? The only difference is that today the average Iraqi does not see Saddam as a western pawn. You have to search for logical answers when 18 of the 19 men involved in 9/11 hijackings come from Saudi Arabia, the Emirates and Egypt, dictatorships aligned with the West. And when most of their ideological and logistical support came from Pakistan, yet another dictatorship whose strongman has been hailed as a stalwart ally by the US and endorsed by France, Germany, the rest of the EU, Britain, Scandinavia, the rest of the European bleeding hearts and Japan.
It is still early days in Pakistan. But if this denial of democracy goes on much longer, if the general continues to rule with the joke of 90-odd per cent endorsement in a referendum, if the Pakistanis keep realising they cannot campaign against him, curse him in public, challenge him politically, even expect their most prominent political leaders to return from exile only because he is such a darling of the West, don’t be surprised if some of them also hijack a plane and ram it into some symbol of the same cynical western power. The Europeans join Washington in praising Musharraf’s road-map to democracy. To any thinking Pakistani this tree of democracy is a bonsai. With shallow roots, tiny branches, displayed by the West in a show window to fool him.
Funny, how this is beyond European comprehension. Even the Palestinians can take some revenge closer home. A Palestinian child can throw a rock at an Israeli tank. A fanatic can blow himself inside an Israeli bus. A Palestinian can hold a demonstration, write an angry editorial, burn Sharon’s effigy. Could that be why there wasn’t one Palestinian among the 9/11 hijackers?
Such a thing is impossible in Saudi Arabia and Egypt. It is not so easy in Pakistan. The anger in this Muslim world, therefore, is not because they feel left out in the sweep of globalisation. The anger has resulted in an entirely new phenomenon, the globalisation of revenge. You are angry with your ruler, you cannot complain at home, so you take revenge on his western patron where, ironically, democracy gives you freedom of movement denied at home.
If the Europeans wish to address the root causes of Islamic anger, they have to get their fundamentals right. There is no point looking for esoteric explanations where the answers are pretty straightforward. The real problem with the Islamic world is the denial of democracy, with the complicity of the West. It is, in fact, a matter of time before Pakistan also firmly joins that crescent of anger with Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Meanwhile, even the Iranians will continue to democratise slowly on their own and somebody will be telling the Muslims they are only being denied democracy by regimes that happen to be the stooges of the West. The anger that is generated will not be sated by any European bleeding heart largesse with tax-deductible Euros to teach Islam or Arabic in schools, whatever their stand on the US invasion of Iraq.
