• Grand Public Lecture by Sheikh Yasir Al Jabri, Organized by PPC
• Monday, 29 Sept ' 08

A grand Public Lecture was orgainzed by Peace Propagation Center at M.F Garden Functional Hall in Tolichowki, Hyderabad on 28th Sept 08. The Public lecture was in Urdu on the topic "Dawah ki ehmiyat aur uska Tareeqekar" delivered by Sheikh Yasir Al Jabri Al Madani (Hafizullah), who is a renowned scholar from Madina. Sheikh Yasir is a young and dynamic scholar who works as a Daee and Aalim in Jeddah Dawah Center.

During his lecture, Sheikh Yasir pointed out the main importance of calling people towards good and forbidding them from doing wrong. He also showed the proper methodology of doing Dawah from Quran and Sunnah and the lives of Sahaba. His main concentration was on the condition of Muslims today and blamed the laziness of Muslims towards this responsibility.

The Lecture went on for about 45 minutes, which was followed by Q&A session. Several questions were answered during this session. In a particular question asked in regards to whether planting bombs in civilians areas is called Jihad or not, Sheikh Yasir gave a beautiful reply. He showed how it is prohibited to kill innocents and hence such activities are condemned heavily by Islam. He also urged all those who maybe involved in such activities to stop it immediately as they are unislamic.

Iftar and Dinner was also arraneged in this program. Around 2,500 people attended this program which was a grand success. Alhumdulillah.

 

 

• The Four Pillars of Kufr
• Monday, 25 Aug ' 08

"The pillars of Kufr (i.e. disbelief and disobedience) are Four:

1. Kibr i.e. arrogance, which prevents him from submission, (to the command of Allah)
2. Hasad i.e. jealousy, which prevents him from accepting advice and giving it.
3. Ghadab i.e. anger, which prevents him from being just.
4. Sha`wah i.e. lowly desires, which prevents him from devoting himself totally to worship.

Hence, if the pillar of arrogance is removed then it becomes easy to submit, and if the pillar of jealousy is removed then it becomes easy for him to accept naseehah (i.e. advice) and to give advice. If the pillar of anger is removed then it becomes easy for him to be just and humble himself and if the pillar of lowly desires is removed then it becomes easy for him to be patient, chaste and devote himself to worship. Every imprudent characteristic derives from these four. And when these characteristics settle in his heart they will cause him to see falsehood as truth and to see truth as falsehood. To see Ma`roof (i.e. good) as Munkar (i.e. evil) and evil as good, and it brings him closer to the life of this world and pushes the hereafter further from him.

Uprooting strong and power mountains from their places is easier than removing these four characteristics from the heart of an individual who is tested with them. This proves especially true when these characteristics become firmly rooted and embedded in an individual to the point they become second nature, for when an individual reaches this point it is almost impossible for him to do any good deeds, nor would he purify himself with them if he were to perform any acts of good. The more he strives diligently to perform acts of good the more his actions are corrupted by these four characteristics...