About this blog

In recent times a plethora of misconceptions, misrepresentation and myths have been forged about Islam
and Muslims. Many western influentials from politicians, policymakers to judges have taken it upon
themselves to undermine the Islamic beliefs, values and rules so to make it palatable to their
egotistic minds and the secular liberal thoughts.

This blog is dedicated:-

1. To argue the point for Islam in its belief and systems and to refute the misconceptions.
2. To expose the weakness and contradictions of all forms of secularism.

27 Dec 2013

Glad Tidings to the Ummah! 2013: A Year in Review

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18 Sept 2012

Our Prophet (saws) Our Honour!



They attacked our Prophet (saws) - What can we do?

ACTION POINTS:

1. TOWARDS YOURSELF

-purify your intentions, sincerity and love for Rasulullah (saws). (eg "none you have imaan until you love me..." [ibn Majah])
-silence is not a option when the munkar (clear prohibition) has not been removed. (eg jews that were silent were also punished with those those who disobeyed the sabbath. [TMQ 7:165])

-learn the hukm (rule) and what needs to be done according to the classical ulemah regarding those who insult the Rasulullah (saws). (eg Qadhi I'yad (rh) in Kitab ash-Shifa).
-know that the actions to implement that (absent) hukm requires the undertaken of the steps to establish it (eg 'whatever leads to an obligation is in itself an obligation')
-learn the weakness of liberalism and freedom. (eg those in power decide & manipulate its definition, use and limits)

2. TOWARDS ISLAMIC ACTIVISTS & MOVEMENTS

-Do not turn this into a moderates vs radicals issue. (eg the RAND report)
-Exert your anger & hatred towards that film and not upon the reactions of some loose Muslims. Advise the latter but do not lose focus. (eg "(believers are) merciful towards each other" [TMQ 48:29])
-Join marches, protests, demos, petitions calling to stop these insults permanently without calling for western solutions and western political dependency. (eg "let there arise out of you a group..." [TMQ 3:104])

3. TOWARDS THE GOVERNMENTS OF MUSLIM LANDS

-Know the response to attacks must come from an authority but these rulers interests are not of Islam - they flame disunity, crack down on the dawah carriers, maintain the colonial grip and distract the Ummah from vital issues. (eg "there is no traitor of greater treachery than the leader of the people [al-Bukhari])
-Exert your actions towards accounting & exposing these Rulers, their change is not expected but fulfilling our obligation is. (eg "to be absolved before their lord.." [TMQ 7:164]

4. TOWARDS YOUR FAMILY & FRIENDS

-Remind with wisdom to your family, friends, colleagues, affiliates, influentials etc that these continuous & timely attacks, from western 'loose' citizens (eg Terry Jone's 'Burn Qur'an Day'), as well as their 'respected' politicians (eg David Cameron's speech at 'Munich Security Conference) to their 'sacred' personalities (eg the Pope Benedict's reiterating Emperor Manual's statement) are part of the process to secularise Muslims.
-these attacks will not cease until and unless a Ruler emerges who has all options open at his disposal, including a military response - that can only be the khalifah (eg response of Khalifah Abdul Hameed (rh) towards the french play). All other rulers even if sincere will not have the capability or bravery. (eg "Muslims is not stung from the same whole twice" [al-Bukhari])
-Do not convey any news from the Western media unless its backed by multiple sources. (eg "if an evil-doer comes to you with a report, look carefully into it..." TMQ 49:6])

5. TOWARDS THE NON-MUSLIM PUBLIC

-know that not all non-Muslims are anti-islamic, many have defended the Muslims (eg comments on BBC news online)
-explain to them Muslims are open to discuss and be criticised but not to be ridiculed or provoked. (eg debates of Imam Baqilaani (rh))
-show them what Rasulullah (saws) did for humanity, environment and animals. (eg. his (saws) hope for non-Muslims of Ta'eef)
-show them the weakness in secularism, democracy and freedom which creates an atmosphere of insults, tension and hatred.(eg "weak are the pursuer and pursued" [TMQ 22:73])
-let them know that we are not in need of western help or involvement, we had a 'tried and tested' system and this is what we want. (eg be humiliated "if you seek honour from other than Islam..." [Umar al Khattab (ra)])

6. TOWARDS THE WESTERN GOVERNMENTS

-go to their embassies, write to their MPs, etc demanding them to stop meddling with the Muslim lands. (eg stanch of Jafar ibn Abi Talib (ra))
-do not accept any help, even if it seems harmless, since all their help is linked to their colonial inRterests. (eg "the yahudees and nasaran will never be satisfied with you.." [TMQ 2:120])

7. TOWARDS THE WESTERN MEDIA

-phone or write a complaint to any misinformation or negative implications - their laws require them to respond. (eg "a party of them used to hear the words of Allah and then distort it..." [TMQ 2: 75]).
-explain with wisdom, or write articles to be published, why we love our prophet (saws) and why we do not want their freedom or democracy especially as we are capable to look after our own affairs (eg the greatest personality was Rasulullah (saws) "best of character" [TMQ 33:24]; the greatest civilisation was under the Khilafah "shade of Allah on the earth" [at-Tabarani])
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What they said...

“Islam represented the greatest military power on earth…It was the foremost economic power in the world…It had achieved the highest level so far in human history, in the arts and sciences of civilization...Islam in contrast created a world civilization, poly-ethnic, multiracial, international, one might even say intercontinental.”





[Bernard Lewis, Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Orientalist and Historian, 2001]





"There was once a civilization that was the greatest in the world. It was able to create a continental super-state that stretched from ocean to ocean, and from northern climes to tropics and deserts…the civilization I'm talking about was the Islamic world from the year 800 to 1600… Although we are often unaware of our indebtedness to this other civilization, its gifts are very much a part of our heritage"





[Carly Fiorina, ex-CEO of Hewlett-Packard, 2001]





"For the first three centuries of its existence (circ. A.D 650-1000) the realm of Islam was the most civilized and progressive portion of the world. Studded with splendid cities, gracious mosques and quiet universities where the wisdom of the ancient world was preserved and appreciated, the Moslem world offered a striking contrast to the Christian West, then sunk in the night of the Dark Ages."





[Lothrop Stoddard, Ph.D (Harvard), American political theorist and historian, 1932]





"Medieval Islam was technologically advanced and open to innovation. It achieved far higher literacy rates than in contemporary Europe;it assimilated the legacy of classical Greek civilization to such a degree that many classical books are now known to us only through Arabic copies. It invented windmills ,trigonometry, lateen sails and made major advances in metallurgy, mechanical and chemical engineering and irrigation methods. In the middle-ages the flow of technology was overwhelmingly from Islam to Europe rather from Europe to Islam. Only after the 1500's did the net direction of flow begin to reverse."





[Jared Diamond, UCLA sociologist and Author, 1997]



"No other society has such a record of success in uniting in an equality of status, of opportunity and endeavour so many and so varied races of mankind. The great Muslim communities of Africa, India and Indonesia, perhaps also the small community in Japan, show that Islam has still the power to reconcile apparently irreconcilable elements of race and tradition. If ever the opposition of the great societies of the East and west is to be replaced by cooperation, the mediation of Islam is an indispensable condition."





[Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb, Professor at Harvard University, 1932]





“The Muhammadan Law which is binding on all -- from the crowned head to the meanest subject is a law interwoven with a system of the wisest, the most learned and the most enlightened jurisprudence that ever existed in the world.”





[Edmund Burke, British Statesman and Philosopher, 1789]





"The Exile here is not like in our homeland. The Turks hold respectable Jews in esteem. Here and in Alexandria, Egypt, Jews are the chief officers and administrators of the customs, and the king’s revenues. No injuries are perpetuated against them in all the empire. Only this year, in consequence of the extraordinary expenditure caused by the war against Shah Tahmsap al-Sufi, were the Jews required to make advances of loans to the princes."





[David dei Rossi, Jewish Traveller 17CE, quoted by Norman A. Stillman, The Jews of Arab Lands]





"The notable religious tolerance towards Christians and Jew under Muslim rule had given way to the uncompromising zealotry of Spanish Inquisition. Jews and Muslims thus fled Spain with large numbers of Jews immigrating to the Ottoman Empire which was known for its tolerance to the Jews."





[Graham Fuller, Author and former CIA, 1995]





“If there is much misunderstanding in the West about the nature of Islam, there is also much ignorance about the debt our own culture and civilization owe to the Islamic world. It is a failure, which stems, I think, from the straightjacket of history, which we have inherited. The medieval Islamic world, from central Asia to the shores of the Atlantic, was a world where scholars and men of learning flourished. But because we have tended to see Islam as the enemy of the West, as an alien culture, society, and systems of beliefs, we have tended to ignore or erase its great relevance to our own history”





[Charles Philip Arthur George, HRH The Prince of Wales, 1993]





"...Not being subject to the Sharia, Jews and Christians were free to go to their own religious authorities for adjudication of disputes; but in many cases they went instead to the [Muslim] Qadi"





[Richard W. Bulliet, Professor of History and Author, 2004]





"Here in the land of the Turks we have nothing to complain of. We possess great fortunes; much gold and silver are in our hands. We are not oppressed by heavy taxes and our commerce is free and unhindered. Rich are the fruits of the earth. Everything is cheap and each one of us lives in freedom. Here a Jew is not compelled to wear a yellow star as a badge of shame as is the case in Germany where even wealth and great fortune is a curse for a Jew because he therewith arouses jealousy among the Christians and they devise all kinds of slander against him to rob him of his gold. Arise my brethren, gird up your loins, collect up your forces and come to us."





[In his book 'Constantinople', Philip Mansel quotes a rabbi in Turkey writing to his brethren in Europe where they were facing increasing persecution after 1453]





"Praise be to the beneficent God for his mercy towards me! Kings of the earth, to whom his [the Caliph’s] magnificence and power are known, bring gifts to him, conciliating his favour by costly presents, such as the king of the Germans, the king of the Gebalim, the king of Constantinople, and others. All their gifts pass through my hands, and I am charged with making gifts in return. (Let my lips express praise to the God in heaven who so far extends his loving kindness towards me without any merit of my own, but in the fullness of his mercies.) I always ask the ambassadors of these monarchs about our brethren the Jews, the remnant of the captivity, whether they have heard anything concerning the deliverance of those who have pined in bondage and had found no rest."





[Hasdai Ibn Shaprut (915-990 CE) Jewish physician, chief minister of Islamic Caliphate in Cordova, 'The Jewish Caravan']





"In Baghdad there are about forty thousand Jews, and they dwell in security, prosperity, and honour under the great Caliph [al-Mustanjid, 1160-70 CE], and amongst them are great sages, the Heads of the Academies engaged in the study of the Law…’"





[Benjamin of Tudela, Rabbi in Baghdad in the year 1168 CE, 'The Jew in the Medieval World']





"Those Eastern thinkers of the ninth century laid down, on the basis of their theology, the principle of the Rights of Man, in those very terms, comprehending the rights of individual liberty, and of inviolability of person and property; described the supreme power in Islam, or Califate, as based on a contract, implying conditions of capacity and performance, and subject to cancellation if the conditions under the contract were not fulfilled; elaborated a Law of War of which the humane, chivalrous prescriptions would have put to the blush certain belligerents in the Great War; expounded a doctrine of toleration of non-Moslem creeds so liberal that our West had to wait a thousand years before seeing equivalent principles adopted.





[Leon Ostorog, French Jurist]





"The debt of our science to that of the Arabs does not consist in startling discoveries or revolutionary theories; science owes a great deal more to Arab culture, it owes its existence"





[Robert Briffault, Novelist and Historian, 1928]





"The only effective link between the old and the new science is afforded by the Arabs. The dark ages come as an utter gap in the scientific history of Europe, and for more than a thousand years there was not a scientific man of note except in Arabia"





[Oliver Joseph Lodge, Writer and Professor of Physics, 1893]





“Thus, when Muslims crossed the straits of Gibraltar from North Africa in 711 and invaded the Iberian Peninsula, Jews welcomed them as liberators from Christian Persecution.”





[Zion Zohar, Jewish scholar at Florida International University, 2005]







“Throughout much of the period in question, Arabic served as the global language of scholarship, and learned men of all stripes could travel widely and hold serious and nuanced discussions in this lingua franca. Medieval Western scholars who wanted access to the latest findings also needed to master the Arabic Tongue or work from translations by those who had done so.”





[Jonathan Lyons, Author, Writer and Lecturer, 2009]