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Dr. Naik was scheduled to attend a peace conference in Toronto. Besides him, many other speakers face visa denial.

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Dr Zakir Naik banned from entering UK – A Review

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These sessions shall give an insight study of Quran and Hadees and inshallah will improve your knowledge on Islam. Such sessions are hardly conducted, hence ensure to take the best advantage of this opportunity.

So depending upon her nature, a woman can either make her house a Jannah (Paradise) or even worse than hell….

In old age,women often tend to lose their patience and scold children,their daughters or their daughter in laws.Most girls assume their mother in laws to be harsh and some even call them Dracula, but if we observe closely then we’ll come to know that they possess a loving heart.Its just the age factor and few other factors that make them sound strict and harsh. We should never judge a book by its cover.If one’s mother in law sounds really harsh or always sarcastic, even then a girl should always respect her, take good care of her and spend her energies in making her happy(coz it’s a difficult task).Most importantly she should consider her as her own mother and behave accordingly.

Allah says “Thy Lord hath decreed that ye worship none but Him, and that ye be kind (Ihsan) to parents. Whether one or both of them attain old age in thy life, say not to them a word of contempt, nor repel them, but address them in terms of honor. And, out of kindness, lower to them the wing of humility, and say: My Lord! Bestow on them thy Mercy even as they cherished me in childhood.” [Al-Quran 17:23]

“Your lord has decreed that you worship non but him and show kindness to parents. If one or both reach old age with you then do not say uff! To them nor repulse them, but speak graciously to them” [Al-Quranl 17:23]

The most important thing of all is she should always remain silent and never rebuke.A girl who is willing to make her house a really peaceful place should sacrifice a bit by making silence a policy in front of her mother in law. In this way she also pleases Allah and will get immense reward for her patience.

Allah says: ”Only those who are patient shall receive their reward in full,without reckoning” [Al-Quran 39:10]

”And verily,whosoever shows patience and forgives,that would truly be from the things recommended by Allah” [Al-Quran 42:43]

It has also been observed that many girls who are polite, and behave well towards their mother in law are often loved greatly by their husbands.On the other hand if there are always fights going on in any house, man gets disturbed and it affects him so he seeks a solution for this problem and may also end up in divorcing her.

Sometimes its also seen that men become their wives servants and forsake their mothers. That is extremely unethical,immoral and displeases Allah greatly.So men should keep balance b/w the two and should always keep in mind that its just coz of their mothers that they have attained this much height so a new  woman to a family shouldn’t make him forget the old one; Because ”OLD IS ALWAYS GOLD”. Moreover by displeasing Allah no can please others.

Allah says in Quran: “O humankind! Be in awe of your Lord and Sustainer, He who created you all from a single soul, and created from it its mate, and from the two of them brought forth many men and women. Be in awe of Allah and of the wombs (that bore you). Surely Allah is watching over you”. [Al-Quran 4:1]

Narrated by Aisha Umm al-Muminin: “I asked the Prophet (sas): Who has the greatest right over a woman?  He (sas) said:her husband  .  I said:  And who has the greatest right over a man?  He (sas) said:his mother .” (Al-Haakim – taken from Fiqh As-Sunnah)

In another hadith  it has  been reported by Abu Huraira:

I asked, “Messenger of Allah, to whom should I be dutiful?” He replied, “Your mother.” I asked, “Then whom?” He replied, “Your mother.” I asked, “Then whom?” He replied, “Your mother.” I asked, “Then whom?” He replied, “Your mother.” I asked, “Then to whom should I be dutiful?” He replied, “Your father,and then the next closest relative and then the next.”…..(Saheeh Muslim)

Unfortunately where materialism and liberalism has affected the non-Muslims, it has not left Muslims unaffected,especially our women,who have lost their ability to think in their attempts to gain temporary pleasures of this world. They love to imitate the kuffar (Non-Muslims) and violate laws set by Allah. Many are negligent in their duties towards Islam.

A Muslim woman who wishes to gain Allah’s acceptance, should always make efforts to please Allah. She should always keep in her mind the Jannah and rewards that Allah has promised for believing women.

She should avoid rivalry and disputes with her mother in law by staying tolerant and ignore her short comings. This can happen if she starts loving her for the sake of Allah.And Allah loves those who love others for His sake. Thinking about worldly comforts and interests might jeopardize her position among Allah’s blessed slaves. She should remain wise and  totally reject the idea of bartering this transitory life for the eternal one.

Allah says in Quarn: “Verily! As for those who believe and do righteous deeds, certainly! We shall not suffer to be lost the reward of anyone who does his (righteous) deeds in the most perfect manner”. [Al-Quran 18:30]

This doesn’t mean that i am supporting those mother in laws who harass or physically or mentally torture their daughter in laws. Allah Almighty is very merciful and just. If a woman’s survival becomes difficult due to extreme cruelty of her mother in law and she believes that she can’t bear or compromise, then Islam has given her a right to ask for khula. If any couple fails to live in harmony then they can separate.

Allah says: “If the efforts for settlement are unsuccessful then you may separate in accordance with the instructions given by Allah Almighty . Do not let the fear of being left without provision become a hurdle in separation. The Divine System will provide for you in abundance. Allah Almighty is Bountiful and Wise. [Al-Quran 4:130]

Another important thing that contributes to a happy life, which most women ignore is to remain silent in front of their husbands. There are some who keep on complaining about their circumstances as a consequence many men out of desperation seek unlawful haraam (forbiddened) sources of income and in this way prepare themselves and their husbands to be the fuel of hell fire. In this case too,its all about being patient and silent. Much could be overcome if only women possess these qualities.

It has been narrated on the authority of Ibn ‘Umar that the Holy Prophet (May be upon him) said A man is a guardian over the members of his family and shall be questioned about them (as to how he looked after their physical and moral well-being). A woman is a guardian over the household of her husband and his children and shall be questioned about them (as to how she managed the household and brought up the children). A slave is a guardian over the property of his master and shall be questioned about it (as to how he safeguarded his trust). Beware, every one of you is a guardian and every one of you shall be questioned with regard to his trust. (Sahih Muslim)

Our history is full of women of character,the women of Jannah. The Ummahaat and their dedication towards Islam,their patience and their dislike for the worldly goods.

Hazrat Asmaa Bint Abu Bakr  a noble woman,daughter of a rich man, at the time when she got married to Hazrat Zubair,he had only a horse and was very poor .She faced all hardships with patience and was thankful to Allah.

She reported: “az-Zubair (Ibn al-`Awwam, the cousin of the Prophet Mohammad, through his aunt) married me. He had neither wealth, slave or anything else like it, except a camel (to get water) and a horse. I used to graze his horse, [provide fodder to it and look after it, and ground dates for his camel. Besides this, I grazed the camel], made arrangements for providing [it with] water and patched up [his] leather bucket and kneaded the flour. But I was not proficient in baking the bread, so my female neighbors used to bake bread for me [and they were sincere women]. And I used to carry on my head the stones (seeds) of the d~tes from az-Zubair’s land which Allaah’s Messenger  had endowed him, and it was at a distance of two miles (from Madinah).

To make her home filled with love,peace and Allah’s blessing a woman should compromise and do everything in her power to prevent the destruction of her married life.

Therefore in many cases silence is the best policy- women should inculcate this

[About Author: This Article has been authored by Sister Nadhra Salman, who is a devout and practicing Muslim Woman. She is an active writer on Islam and conveys the message of Islam through her writings.]

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For example, when Prophet Muhammad (Pbuh) asked one day; Muaz ibn jabal was riding on the camel of Prophet (Pbuh ) very close to him and the Prophet (Pbuh) asked him “Ya Muaz, hal tadri haq-u-lahu allal ibaad”? Oh Muad do you know what is the Haq, the right of Allah upon his servants? And Muaz (ra) was very close to Rasulallah and he could have answered this question because he was a man of imaan and a man of taqwa, he was a righteous and pious man; but his answer to Prophet (Pbuh) was “Allah wa rasoolahu alam” “Allah and his messenger know better”. The companions of Prophet (Pbuh) when they were asked such a question, they never thought to them selves that they could answer the question better than the Prophet (Pbuh), so they always returned it back to him to see what he will say. So he told him that the “The haq of Allah upon his Ibaad, is “La tushriku billahi shai aa” that they do not associate partners with Allah, that is with true almighty God”. Then he asked him another question, he said “Ya Muaz, Hal tadri haqul ibaad alalllah? “Oh Muaz, do you know the Haq, the right of servants upon Allah? Muaz again answered “Allah wa rasoolahu alam“ “Allah and his messenger know better”. And then Prophet (Pbuh) let the camel go a little further and he let Muaz think for a while and then he said “Izafaalu Allah la azzibahum“ “If they do this, that is, “La tushriku billahi shai aa”, that they do not associate any partners with Allah, then Allah will not punish them”.

The messenger of Allah said the best of my nation, the cream of my nation whom if you follow, there is no doubt of what they understood, there is no doubt of what they practice, there is no doubt of what they saw and there is no doubt of there commitment; he asked “who are they?” “Qarni, my generation, and summa yalunahum summa yalunahum and then he stopped. In another narration, he said “and after them will come another people, different people upon them will be some doubt they will do things that was not ordered or they would not do things that were ordered“. But about those three generations, the companions of Prophet (Pbuh), the tabayeen. and the at –ba –tabayeen; those men and women who were around Prophet (Pbuh), who supported, who followed, who listened, who obeyed, who  sacrificed for the messenger of Allah, they were the strangers. In a hadith reported by Muslim 2:175-176 and Ibn Maajah 2: 320, Reported by Abu Hurayrah (ra), The Prophet (Pbuh) said “Sa yao’odu li ghariban, Fatuba lighuraba Fatuba lighuraba Fatuba lighuraba” meaning “This religion, this deen, in the begining it came as a stranger (ghuraba), and it will return again as a stranger; so welcome glad tidings to the strangers (ghuraba)”.

Gharib is a person who is away from his hometown, family, relatives and friends. A gharib Muslim is a Muslim who lives in a society in which he has no friends or loved ones to understand him or to support him. He is not recognized or known in the town. He is a stranger (ghuraba). We are the strangers. Initially, Islam was strange in Makkah, the disbelievers did not know of it. The deen was strange, even the language was strange although it was the language of the Arabs but they did not know that even though they were Arabs they had not heard of these words. They knew the word zakat, but they did not know it like how Qu’ran describes it. Or for that matter, the ayahs from surah shams they did not hear anything of that kind. Even Umar bin khattab, who was a very great poet he did not understand what it meant. He asked others, how is Muhammad saying that, where is he getting that from because the language which Allah send to him was strange. This was kalam ullah and not kalam-un nas.

Prophet Muhammad, who was well known to his people he was known as Al-Ameen , Saddiq-ul- masdooq, they knew he was Muhammed ibn Abdullah and they knew he was al amen and they knew he was truthful. But when Allah sent him as a Prophet (Pbuh) and messenger and commissioned him with this Quran and ordered them to follow him and to listen to this word and to give up the idols and to obey Allah and worship Allah, they thought he was telling some thing strange and he said to them by there names, Oh Quraish! You know me if I told you that there was a army behind this mountain coming here to destroy you, would you believe me? They said yes we will believe you. Then he said “I am the messenger of Allah and you have the obligation to obey me”! Their response was that he is saying some thing strange. And so the Prophet (Pbuh) who was respected, who was trusted, who was loved, who was known by his people, even his uncles; that day he became a stranger (ghuraba). So those people who followed his message after him one by one, they were also well known whether they were slaves or free, whether they were rich or poor, whether they were black or white, whether they were Arab or non Arab, they were known, every one knew them. But one by one, when they choose to follow the Prophet (Pbuh), they too became strangers (ghuraba).

No one was more respected in Makah than Abubakr siddique. Every one knew him. But he too became a stranger. When Omar ibn khattab, the patriot among the arabs, the patriot among the Quraish, the man who was willing to kill Prophet (Pbuh) just because of his feeling of khaomiyah, he was willing to kill. But on that day, when he went to kill Prophet (Pbuh) he too became a stranger that very day. And we go on to the strangers, these are the people whom, we Muslims, the strangers today, we have to connect our selves to those strangers (ghuraba), We have to connect our children to those strangers, because it is these strangers that established this deen, they are the ones who forged their path for this deen, they are the ones who made sacrifice for this deen, they are the ones who Allah is speaking about when he says in the Quran in Surah Bayinath “These are the people “razialllahu anhum Wa razu’an”. We Muslims because we are reading the news paper, because we are educated, because we are living in the west, because we are Arabs or Pakistani or Somali or Sudanai or Moroccan or Indian, because we Muslims have our own roots, we have our own families, our own love, because we watch the television and cinema and we go to schools and our neighbors and we live in the west and we live in Australia and UK and USA and India; we develop a love, a following, a support for another group of people and they are not the strangers, they are the strangers to the deen they are not the strangers of the deen.

The Messenger of Allah said there are three characteristic who so ever has them, has tasted halawatul imaan. The first is that a person loves Allah and his Messenger more than anybody else. So Allah mentions to us after a special incident that took place. He says in Surah  Mujadilah 58: 22 “You will not find a people who believe in Allah and the Last Day having affection for those who oppose Allah and His Messenger, even if they were their fathers or their sons or their brothers or their kindred.”. So what is the asbabun nusul of this ayah. One day son of Abu bakar siddique RA, he came to his father after he became a Muslim and he said him “O father, I saw you at the battle field and I could have killed you but because of my love and respect for you, I could not do it”. And Abu Bakar siddique, he said to his son, “O my son, wallahi I never saw you, but if I had seen you, I would have killed you very easily for Allah because at that time you are among the kufar.” After this incident, Allah mentions this ayah for the love that Abu Bakar showed for Allah. This is the difference.

Today many Muslims here, you have relatives who are selling haram, doing haram, who live in your house and don’t pray and you don’t care, you say assalamalaikum how are you brother and you smile with them and drink coffee with them and smoke with them and listen to music and play dominos with them and you pass by them and greet as you greet any body else; But you don’t give them any Nasiha or advice. This is because you don’t have any love in your heart for Allah and his messenger. As the prophet mentioned the first Quality of imaan is to love Allah and his messenger more than anyone else. And so if we  love Allah and his messenger and if some one lives in our house and doesn’t pray and the are  Muslims; Every single day we will argue with them, we will talk to them, we will be at times even very rough with them, if they are our sons we will grab him as the Prophet (Pbuh) mentions in a hadith that if your son reaches the age of 7,  make him pray and when he reaches age of ten and if  he is lazy you beat him up a little bit, because that amount of admonishment will get fear of his father so if he develops fear of his father, maybe by the time he reaches the age of 14, 15, or 16; he will surely develop a fear of Allah. But if he has no fear of Allah when he is ten and he doesn’t fear his father, chances are that when he is big enough 13 .14 or 16,if his father grabs him he will fight with him because now he doesn’t fear or respect his father.

So now what’s happened to the Muslim community? They are living with there fathers and they are selling alcohol and drugs and there fathers are accepting that money because they cannot say nothing because they also lost there imaan. So Allah he warned us he said “Fear Allah and look what you sent forward for yourselves or tomorrow, that your sons that your daughters, you sent them and they come back and they forgot about Allah and you forgot about Allah, you did not forget his name, they did not forgot his name, they know Allah, they will say Allah and you will say Allah but you forgot the ahkam of Allah and they forgot the ahkam of Allah and because they forgot the ahkam of Allah, Allah caused them to forget there own legacy, there own identity, there own deen and so they become trash. You know and you see the trash all over the city, Muslim trash, Muslim Trash, they are Muslims, still there is the flame of Islam in them but they are sleeping, eating in the trash and they are bringing the trash back home, you know who they are and if some of them are here today, Alhamdulillah better for you to be here than any where else. The Prophet (Pbuh) said to one of his companion Abu zar “Ittakilla haisu ma kuntum, watbi asaiyyiah bil hasanah, tamhuha, wa khaliqeennas bi khulukhin hasanin”. “If you do a bad deed, then follow it with a good one that will wipe it out.” In case of doing haram or doing kabaer you have to make Taw bah, in case of saghaeer you have to do some good action like sadqa or fasting.

Dear Brothers and sisters, these strangers (ghuraba) are Abubakar siddique, Umar bin khattab, osman bin affwan, Ali bin abu talib, musab bin omer, Salaman alfarsi. Abu dhar gheefari, Bilal ibn rabba, Abdulllah ibn omar, sad ibn abiwaqas, Suhaib bin abiwaqas, Muad ibn jabal these are the names we should teach our children, they should be the heroes of our children not Micheal Jackson not Micheal Jordan, not the foot ball players or the basket ball players or the musicians which they are listening to every day or bollywood and Hollywood actors and actresses. Al Meaghdad  ibn omer, Said ibn amaar, Hamza ibn mutalib Abdullah ibn Masood, Hudaifa ibn jamal, Ammar ibn yassir, Obaida ibn asamad.

Subhanallah, if you and I took the time to read about just fifty of the companions of the Prophet (SAWS) the tabayeen ,at-batabayeen, just read about them and we learned just one or two line about each of them and we shut the television off for two or three hours a day and in place of that we just play a tape of them every day. We give to our children best food and we give them some money and we put it on the table put the money or food or nice gift on the table and tell them, after you have finished listening to this take that money and that gift and I have some more gifts which I will give you. Do that with them everyday for ninety days, that money you spent on them, the good food that you give them and the gift you give them; is an investment because now they will listen for ninety days, your children masahallah will have  a reference in mind. But if you did not make that investment, I will guarantee you something, some one else has given them some gifts and some one else has offered them good food and some one else will offer them lot of money for some other heroes. (You can read about 70 such heroes on this website here: http://peacepropagation.com/category/biographies)

We have to make the investment in the strangers (ghuraba). Osman bin masood  , Zaid bin haris ,Jaffar bin abi talib look at these people, tell your sons about Osama ibn zaid the sixteen year old boy whom the Prophet (Pbuh) said “There is none better than him except his father, so he appointed him as the ammer of a group, when Abu bakar siddique was living , Omar was living , Osman was living , Ali ibn abu talib was living and other companions of Prophet (Pbuh) were living, they were three times his age; but the Prophet (Pbuh) took that young boy and made him the commander of the army because he thought there was no one fit for job except his father ,and who was his father, Zaid bin haris, who had memorized the Quran directly from the Prophet (Pbuh). We need to tell them who Jaffar ibn abutalib was, the commander of the first muhajjirun,  those who went to habash, the prophet  hand picked him and sent them, those people to be their commander, to be their Amir and it was jaffar who spoke to the najashi, touched his heart and later on it was Jaffar who convinced him to become a Muslim, the king of a country and we know that he  became a muslim because when the prophet came to know that he died, he stood and he made salat ul janaza for him.

O Muslims! Khalid ibn walid, Ghaiyse ibn saad ibn  obaida .omaer ibn wahab. Abuzhaar ibn darda, talaha ibn obaidullah ,tell them about abu zhaar al ghefari that man Muhammad PBUH) said “Abu zar will walk alone and Abu zaar will die alone and Abu zaar will be raised on the day of judgment  alone not because he did something wrong but because Allah distinguished him that way”. Abu zaar, who was the worst of criminals, who used to lay down traps in different places to rob people,who was known and his people were known; but yet when Abuzar became a Muslim, he was the person, the  prophet said  “The believers are like mines of gold and silver, the best of them in the Jahiliyah will become the best of them in the day of Islam if they believe, if they believe and look at abu zaar when he became a Muslim. He said “ya rasullah I will go today to the haram and I will tell them la iiiaha illal lah Muhammad rasullah”. The prophet said “don’t say that they will beat you”. He said “I don’t care and I will do it and Abu zaar went to the haram and he faced them and he told them by their names, “I am Abu zaar and I say la illah ha illlal lah Muhammad rasulllah and asked who doesn’t like it?” and they jumped on him and beat him till they knocked him down and when he got his conscious he stood again and declared shada and they beat him up and knocked him down and he continued to do that until the prophet commanded Abu zaar to leave Makah because he knew they will kill him and abu zaar left and next time he came back, he came back with his entire tribe, all of them saying la illlaha illallah Muhammad rasulllah. This was abu zaar.

On the other hands look at us Muslims, we are Muslims for 20 yrs or 50 yrs old and we have not given a single shahada in the place where we live, we did not give one, because we say my family is Muslim, my father is Muslim, my grand father is Muslim, my great great grand father is a Muslim, Mashallah, but you don’t say it to the kafir who you work with and you don’t say it to the kafir you go to school with and you don’t say it to the non Muslim who enters your store with which you do business, you don’t say it to your neighbor who is a Non Muslim what Abu zaar said that is “la  illlaha illallah Muhammad rasulllah”, you don’t share the treasure of Islam with anyone.

The prophet said “There are three things who so ever has them, has tasted the sweetness of faith. First is that person loves Allah and his messenger more than all else. Second is that he/she loves a person only for the sake of Allah, he/she loves a person not because he is my country man, not because he is my family, not because I know him very well not because we hang together, not because we watch T.V together, not because we do business together, no we love a person because what? For the sake of Allah and you hate a person for, the sake of Allah. And third, you hate going back to kufur as you hate being driven in to a fire.

So when a Muslim thinks of the act of kufr (Read What is Kufr), because here it doesn’t mean to become a kafir but it means to do an act of kufr, so when the act of kufur, when you think of it, you think the fire is next to you and some one is pushing you in to it then, you know you have imaan. But if the idea of fawahish comes in to your mind and nothing comes inside of it you don’t have imaan. If you lied to earn money, the prophet never lied to earn money. If you steal from a kafir simply because he is a kafir any ways, then you don’t have Imaan. Because the prophet never stole from the kafir because if it was legitimate to steal from the kafir, he would have taken the money that he was holding for the Quraish, it was the money which the people of Quraish had given the prophet money,  trust and even they were hating him and his message, even though they were fighting him against his message, even though they were killing and torturing his followers and even though they had plotted to come to his house and kill him, not one time did they come to him and say, give me back my money. He was holding the money for them and the reason why he left Ali ibn Abi Talib in his bed, when they came they saw that Ali(R.A) could give them the money which he was holding, which belong to them. So if it was lawful for rasullah to take some money from the kafirs because they were kafirs, that was a good time to take, it but he did not because he was al ameen.

O Muslims! We must be willing and courageous to be strangers (ghuraba), being a stranger will result in change. People will change, simply because you start to practice, you begin to pronounce, you begin to establish your self around them as a Muslim. If you work for some Non Muslim and your name is Abdul rab; you tell him your name is Robbie. You open a store, your name is Haaris and you say my name is harry because you want to have a good relationship with them and you feel that being Muslim, you cannot have good relation with them, hence you hide your identity. Then one day you wake up, and you tell them, No! My name is not harry, my name is haaris so in fact my whole name is Muhammad haaris therefore don’t call me harry any more! They would say “No! we will call you harry we don’t care otherwise, we go to another store.” so you say “go to another store, I don’t care”. This happens because you woke up and you want to respect Allah,  you want to respect Muhammad, you want to respect this deen so there will be change in the attitude. If you work with a non Muslim and because you really don’t want to disturb them and you don’t want to create any problems with them, you don’t pray Zuhur, you don’t pray Asar,  you don’t pray Jummah. And when you do this, they will say “Abdullah is a moderate Muslim, I don’t know why the rest of the Muslims are not like Abdullah, the others are extreme, they grow their beard long, they wear these cloths and they got to go on Friday and they got to be praying on the job, these are extremist; but Abdullah he is a good guy he doesn’t do all that, he is a moderate Muslim; that’s why we like him”.

Now when one day Allah gives Abdullah Hidayah, He wakes up. And when at 12:30 every body goes for lunch, they say “come abdullah, join us for lunch”, he would reply “No I am going up stairs for prayer”. They say “what’s wrong with you abdullah!” Friday comes and abdullah leaves at 11:00 am, they say “were are you going?”. He replies “I am going for jummah”. And he says Allah said “ya ayuhal lazeena amanu noori as salatu alal jummah fasal zikarullah” and he translates the meaning to them. He further says “if you want to fire me, Fire me if you want me, I will do night shift, I will do mid-night shift, I will work on holidays, I will work Saturdays, I will work Sundays, I will work double shifts, any time; But jummah is Allah’s time, See you!”.

A couple of months later he grows a full beard, and they start telling “O abdullah, what’s happened to you, you are looking like Osama bin laden, you are looking like these Qaeda guys, what’s gone in to you, you have become extremist!”. Abdullah replies “I did not become extremist, I haven’t joined any group like that, this is the sunnah of prophet if you don’t like it I don’t care”. May be they will respect Abdullah even more going forward. Until he does that, he doesn’t realize that he is thinking that may be if he just goes around with them they will like it. No! they will not be satisfied with you abdullahs, muhammads or any other Muslims, until you leave this deen. And even when you leave this deen, they will still not be satisfied with you and they will say “I know you changed your religion but you are still a Muslim”. They will still not respect you. So the only respect we should look for is the respect of Allah. You will lose some money, you will lose some association, you will lose some people and even some family members will start telling you “why are you dressing like that, why are you getting up early in the morning disturbing us?”. And when we ask our own Muslims to bring themselves on the path of Allah, they say “it is not your business”. And this is what we have become. We have become big people, we have money, we got big name, we got big money, we got big house, we got big family, we also got big kebriya and we don’t have to come to the masjid, you see, we can just stay home. The only thing we have not become is a Muslim.

We must be willing and courageous to be strangers because those who are at the masjid at fajr and those who pray and leave there houses for isha at night to get the benefit of the 27 ajar, they are strangers too. We must be willing to be strangers and when we become a stranger, it will affect our livelihood because people misunderstand you and it will some times make you doubt you’re self. Why am I losing my friends? how come my wife wants a divorce, she is telling me I have become an extremist.

There is this case of a sister, she doesn’t cover herself she wears lipstick on the street, she wears perfume and she walks with the men and her husband likes her that way. And one day she wakes up and she wears niqab, she put her full cloths on, no more lipstick, no more perfume, she is not talking to the men, she is not working any more because she understands that she needs to keep her hayah, to keep her self she stays at home and her husband tells her “what happened to you”? she says “yesterday I read an ayah from the Quran, I read a hadith from the prophet and it made me cry to think about my religion and I am not doing it  no more”. So he says “Then I don’t want you, you have become an extreme!” so now she has become a stranger! Alhamdulilah if he leaves her, we ask Allah to give her another stranger to give her some one else who is also a stranger because strangers belong with strangers. It will challenge your Imaan will challenge your commitment, the issue of deen it distinguishes father to son, it distinguishes mother to daughter, the deen came to distinguish individuals from family, to separate families from the tribes and to separate tribes from the nation on the basis of what? Deen.  The prophet said “alaeku  wadeen wa sunnatu khulfa wa rasheeden wa mehdaen wadu ilahim bin nawajir”, hold on to them your teeth not front teeth but back teeth. Belief, commitment, sacrifice, knowledge, obedience fear of Allah, consistency, courage, steadfastness, loyalty,  respect, love for each other, brotherhood, discipline, patience, support and cooperation! These are the characteristics of strangers (ghuraba).

If we listen to the ayahs whom Allah gave to them (strangers), all of these ayahs were calling them to these characteristics. Imaan, sacrifice, knowledge ,obedience, love for each other, the prophet said “the strangers have love for each other”. So Allah says in one of the hadith us qudassi that those who love each other for my sake this day I will give them shade, the day there will be no shade except my shade. Oh Muslims brothers and sisters you and I we should want to be strangers, we want to be a part of the return, the strangers and we should realize that no matter what the non Muslims do , no matter what they do to blow out and extinguish the light of Allah by blowing with there mouths meaning there television, there cinema, there news paper,there books, there radio, whatever they do against Islam, the lies, the misconception what ever they do to wipe out Islam; they will never wipe Islam because Allah will perfect his light and he will perfect it through the strangers.

We pray that Allah make you and I strangers , we pray that Allah give our sons and daughters love for the strangers (ghuraba). We ask Allah that our sons and daughters who have taken of there cloths and go out in the jahiliyah world, who are selling drugs,  who are in the clubs, who have went astray, we pray Allah that they will come back to become strangers. When the Muslims in Palestine, Afghanistan, Somalia, Chechnya, Morocco, Egypt, Algeria and when the Muslims where ever they are, when they come out for prayers in the masjid as strangers then Allah will give them back there earth, there kuwa back to them,  because Islam then will be back. You should not ask for the reward of the strangers if you are not acting like the strangers and as long as the kufaar whom you associate at your jobs, in your neighborhood as soon as they like you, it should alert you as to why they like you. If the like you because you follow Islam properly, then well and good. If not, then there are things to change in yourself.

O Muslims! One of the most powerful thing that Allah gave strangers that made us Muslims one of the most powerful thing Allah gave to the strangers was and is the issue of Dawah (illal lah). You and I have the power in our mouth, we have the power in our chest, we have the power in our mind, we have more power more than any other bomb in this entire world. Yes the kufaar, they have neutron bomb, they have the hydrogen bomb, they have the atom bomb, they got this bomb and that bomb and they will blow every thing on this earth  but Allah did not give them the bomb that will allow the heart to explode but Allah gave us that bomb to us. It is the D bomb, the dawah bomb, it is the bomb that will not explode any buildings, it is the bomb that brakes no bones, it’s the bomb that doesn’t harm any one, rather it is the bomb that penetrates minds and hearts and causes people to explode inside and become strangers. You and I carry the bomb with us every day but we are talking about another bomb, we are reacting to the other bomb because we are fearing some one else beside the Allah. Allah has told us that the Izaath is for him Maan yata shahu wa uzilu manta yashaoo it belongs to Allah.

O Muslims make dua, ask Allah, come back to the deen and your respect will come to you, come back to the deen and all your power will come back to you, ask Allah and he will answer you. Teach your children about the strangers and you yourself learn about them!

- by Imran Ali (President – PPC)

A person can be categorized as Kaafir or Murtadd (meaning apostate) if the following twelve beliefs or actions are found in him. Everyone should be aware of what Kufr is so that we can save ourselves from its dangers. Not knowing about kufr may result in you thinking that you are a Muslim, yet in reality you come under the category of Kaafir (May Allah save us from such disgrace).

However, unless we have clear and irrefutable evidence, ensure not to haste in labeling a person who claims to be Muslim as a kaafir (disbeliever) or Murtadd (Apostate). Leave this job to the scholars of Islam. But when you feel the need of letting people know about the person’s kufr, you may mention that his actions portray kufr in them. The reason for not directly assigning a person the label of a kaafir (Disbeliever) is the warning from prophet (pbuh) in the below Hadith:

Ibn Umar (radiallahu ‘anhu) reports that the Prophet (sallallahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) said “Any person who called his brother ‘O Unbeliever’ (has in fact done an act by which this kufr) would return to one of them. If it were so as he (the accuser) asserted, (the kufr of the accused would be confirmed, but if the kufr was not true) then it returned to him (the man who called his brother Muslim a kaafir).” Muslim.

There are matters which may indeed indicate or even necessitate that a person be a disbeliever (kaafir) such as defiling the Qur’aan or cursing the Prophet (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) regardless of what the person espouses and it is only Allah who knows the unseen. As humans we can only judge or make determinations from what is outwardly evident.

Kufr (disbelief) is of two types: action (‘amaly) and belief (‘itiqaady ), some of which may be termed “kufr doona kufr” that is, a degree of kufr less than the total kufr which does not necessarily put one outside of Islam although such a person’s Islam may be doubtful or in grave danger. This is the explanation of Qur’aan 5:44 by the companion Ibn Abbaas (radiallahu ‘anhu) collected by Ibn Jareer and quoted by Ibn Katheer on the authority of ‘Ataa.

1) To disavow Allah’s Lordship (Ruboobiyah) or Deity and singular right to be worshipped (Uloohiyah) [Qur'aan 4:48 & 116, 5:72, 39:2-3, 51:56] or the message of any of the Messengers of Allah (Tawheed) [Qur'aan 10:35, 16:36] or to claim that any Messenger or Prophet (Rasool or Nabiy) came after the Prophet Muhammad (sallallahu ‘alaihi wa sallam). [Qur'aan 6:93, 6:21, 7:37, 11:18-19, 18:15, 29:68, 33:40, 39:32, 61:8]

2) To deny or reject any of Allah’s Attributes or Names (Asmaa was Sifaat) i.e. Living, Knowing, Hearing, Seeing, Merciful, having a face and hands (though we know not in what manner yet certainly not like His creation), or to add to them that which is not mentioned in the Qur’aan or authentic Sunnah. i.e. Belief that Allah is not above His creation & that He is everywhere or in everything or to attribute any quality that is Allah’s alone to man [Qur'aan 4:48, 6:18 & 61, 10:3, 68 - 69, 20:5, 35:10, 42:11, 72:26 - 27, Ch. 112]

3) Setting up intermediaries between oneself and Allah, making supplication to them, asking their intercession, and placing one’s trust in them. Calling upon the dead, asking them for help, or offering them gifts or sacrifices is all shirk. [Qur'aan 2:165 & 255, 5:72, 30:52, 39:44]. To give any of the creation that which is due to Allah alone or to be pleased with being given worship besides Allah in any manner [Qur'aan 21:29] thus making or becoming a taaghoot (pl. tawaagheet).

4) To curse, abuse the Name of Allah, to deny or to revile Him or any of His Messengers or Prophets or Angels. [Qur'aan 2:285, 4:136, 6:10, 57:19]

5) To deny, stop, or reject any Fard (obligatory) duty of the Sharia (Divine Law) i.e. Salaah, Zakaah, Saum, Hajj, Kindness to parents, or Jihad. [Qur'aan 4:50, 64-65, 80] or to turn away from the religion by not learning or practicing it’s precepts. [Qur'aan 32:22]

6) To deem or to make permissible (halaal) what is clearly forbidden (haraam) -i.e. adultery, fornication, drinking alcohol, taking drugs, theft, murder, sorcery, magic; or to make what is halaal haraam – i.e. to eat meat or seafood, marry plural wives, women to veil, etc. [Qur'aan 2:102, 174-176,4:69, 6:157]

7) To deny or reject any chapter, verse, or letter from the Book of Allah (Al-Qur’aan) or to purposely give it deviant interpretations [Qur'aan 3:7, 6:21] i.e. not derived from the Qur’aan itself, the authentic Sunnah of Muhammad (sallallahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) [Qur'aan 6:153, 16:64] or according to established methods of tafseer. Abu Hurairah (radiallahu ‘anhu) reported that the Rasool (sallallahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) said, “Don’t pursue that which you have no knowledge of”. Ahmed. [Qur'aan 4:59, 10:68-70].

8 ) To openly show disdain, scorn, contempt for, or treat with levity the Deen of Islam or it’s tenets, obligatory injunctions or it’s traditions. [Qur'aan 4:140] To ridicule and deride them or to treat the Qur’aan as a piece of garbage or filth or to trample or abuse it as an insult. [Qur'aan 4:83, 140, 6:4-5, 7:50-51, 9:63-66, 20:124, 41:26 27]

9) To disbelieve in the Resurrection, Punishment, or Goodly reward on the Day of Reckoning or that punishment and reward are only abstract, symbolic or spiritual. [Qur'aan , 56:1-2, 67:8-10, 69]

10) To say that the Righteous (Awliyaa’) are above the Prophets (‘alaihimus salaam) or that some of the Righteous are exempt from acts of worship prescribed by Islam according to the Sunnah of Muhammad (sallallahu ‘alaihi wa sallam). [Qur'aan 3:85, 8:34, 10:62-63]

11) To rule or judge by other than that which Allah revealed. This is of different types and the ruling differs depending on the beliefs and actions. Whoever rules by other than what Allah has revealed viewing it or believing it to be superior or better than Allah’s sharia is considered a disbeliever by all the Muslims. Likewise, the one who substitutes the sharia with man-made laws and views that as permissible, even if he says that to rule by the sharia is better, is a disbeliever because he has made halaal what Allah has made haraam. If one rules as described following whims or in opposition to someone (i.e. not viewing it as equal, a substitute or superior as described above) he is considered a major sinner. [2:120, 3:85, 4:115, 5:3, 44, 49, 50, 33:36, 45:18, 58:22]. [explained in detail in Fataawa Ibn Baz, Vol. 1 Rulings on 'Aqeedah, pg. 991]

12) To support or aid the polytheists (mushrikoon) against the Muslims. [3:28. 118, 4:51, 5:57]

Types of Kufr:

There are many types of Al-Kufr ul Akbar:

1. Kufrul-’Inaad: Disbelief out of stubborness. This applies to someone who knows the truth and admits to knowing the truth and admits to knowing it with his tongue, but refuses to accept it and refrains from making a declaration. Allaah subhanahu wa ta’ala says: Throw into Hell every stubborn disbeliever [Soorah Qaaf (50), Ayah 24]

2. Kufrul-Inkaar: Disbelief out of denial. This applies to someone who denies with both heart and tongue. Allaah subhanahu wa ta’ala says: They recognize the favors of Allaah, yet they deny them. Most of them are disbelievers. [Soorah Nahl (16), Ayah 83]

3. Kufrul-Kibr: Disbelief out of arrogance and pride. The disbelief by the devils (Iblees) is an example of this type of Kufr.

4. Kufrul-Juhood: Disbelief out of rejection.This applies to someone who aknowledges the truth in his heart, but rejects it with his tongue. This types of kufr is applicable to those who calls themselves Muslims but who reject any necessary and accepted norms of Islam such as Salaat and Zakat. Allaah subhanahu wa ta’ala says: They denied them (OUR SIGNS) even though their hearts believed in them , out of spite and arrogance. [Soorah Naml (27), Ayah 14]

5. Kufrul-Nifaaq: Disbelief out of hypocrisy.This applies to someone who pretends to be a believer but conceals his disbelief. Such a person is called a MUNAFIQ or hypocrite. Allaah subhanahu wa ta’ala says: Verily the hypocrites will be in the lowest depths of Hell. You will find no one to help them. [Soorah An Nisaa (4), Ayah 145]

6. Kufrul-Istihaal: Disbelief out of trying to make HARAM into HALAL. This applies to someone who accepts as lawful (Halal) that which Allaah has made unlawful (Haram) like alcohol or adultery.Only Allaah subhanahu wa ta’ala has the prerogative to make things Halal and Haram and those who seek to interfere with His right are like rivals to Him and therefore fall outside the boundries of faith.

7. Kufrul-Kurh: Disbelief out of detesting any of Allaah’s subhanahu wa ta’ala commands. Allaah subhanahu wa ta’ala says: Perdition (destruction) has been consigned to those who disbelieve and He will render their actions void. This is because they are averse to that which Allaah has revealed so He has made their actions fruitless. [Soorah Muhammed (47), Ayah 8-9]

8. Kufrul-Istihzaha: Disbelief due to mockery and derision. Allaah subhanahu wa ta’ala says: Say: Was it at Allaah, His signs and His apostles that you were mocking? Make no excuses. You have disbelieved after you have believed. [Soorah Taubah (9), ayah 65-66]

9. Kufrul-I’raadh: Disbelief due to avoidance. This applies to those who turn away and avoid the truth. Allaah subhanahu wa ta’ala says: And who is more unjust than he who is reminded of his Lord’s signs but then turns away from them. Then he forgets what he has sent forward (for the Day of Judgement) [Soorah Kahf (18), Ayah 57]

10. Kufrul-Istibdaal: Disbelief because of trying to substitute Allaah’s Laws. This could take the form of:

(a) Rejection of Allaah’s law (Sharee’ah) without denying it

(b) Denial of Allaah’s law and therefore rejecting it, or

(c) Substituting Allaah’s laws with man-made laws. Allaah subhanahu wa ta’ala says: Or have they partners with Allaah who have instituted for them a religion which Allaah has not allowed. [Soorah Shuraa(42), Ayah 8] Allaah subhanahu wa ta’ala says: Say not concerning that which your tongues put forth falsely (that) is lawful and this is forbidden so as to invent a lie against Allaah. Verily, those who invent a lie against Allaah will never prosper. [Soorah Nahl (16), Ayah 116]

[Source: Adapted from Tafseer Ibn Katheer]

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The Governor of Andhra Pradesh, N.D. Tiwari was involved in a sex scandal a few days ago. He at his 87 years of age was trapped in a video which was relayed in a Telugu channel world wide. Yediyurappa, the CM of Karnataka having extra marital relationship with Shaoba Karadlaje..Kumaraswamy, the Ex C.M of Karnataka and .. and many many more. Not to forget Clinton and Monica lewinsky. Even well known Swami Jayendra saraswati involved it sex scandal, and also the so called great Tiger woods, who is still not out of the woods.

The Man Swami Nityananda claimed to be practicing celibacy, was also considered by many Hindu devotees to be God. He was addressed as Swami Paramahamsa Nityananda Guruji. He was known to be a preacher on Bhagavadgita, conducting regular discourses in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and also in the foreign countries. A public figure often seen in Televison channels, wearing saffron robes depicting the traditional Hindu customaries, with Vibuthi on his forehead and rosary beeds on his neck and not to forget the kumkum.

Swami Nityananda

A well renowned personality until March 2nd, 2010, had all his lifetime honor going down the drain, when the famous Sun Tv, the Tamil Indian Television channel showed Swami Nityananda lying in a compromising position with a movie actress Ranjitha. The sexual advancements that he endeavored with her, was all shown to world, when Sun Tv broadcasted the duo having sex in a closed room.

The people who had taken him as god, revolted against him, and went on protests on streets, burning his posters, pictures and also his ashram in Bidadi, Karnataka. People in Tamilnadu have also requested the Commossioner of Police of Tamilnadu to arrest Swami Nityananda and punish him for his act of immoral conduct.

What went wrong in all of this episode? Who is to be blamed? Is Swami Nityananda solely responsible for this or not? In reality, there are hundreds of Nityanandas and Ranjithas in the Indian subcontinent. This is not the first time that we have heard about a Swamiji involved in sex scandal. It is not the first time that we have heard about an actress involved in sex scandal. Where are these people being tutored to do such things?

Firstly, it is the belief of the people that needs to be blamed. It is the masses that produce people like Swami Nityananda. When people are ready to get fooled by beautiful speeches, and believe that man can become god, these culprits like Nityananda take advantage of their belief and thereafter exploit them. People must never consider a man or a woman to be god. Man has all the weakness. He wants to eat to survive, he wants to answer the call of nature (he visits the toilets), he needs to sleep, he needs to rest and so on. Man is mortal, but God is immortal. God does not need food, water, sleep or anything. Man needs all of it. Man is also in need of a mate, through whom he finds tranquility and repose. It is the false belief of the people that has jeopardized the entire system. If people had not worshiped Swami Nityananda, he would have been earning his livelihood by working and would have also got married to a woman to lead a family life. Celibacy is never a norm in our society, nor can it ever become one. We have seen the Catholic Priests in Rome, who claim to celibate but, eventually ended up in debauchery, for having had sex with young boys and other women. We have heard even in the books of Mythology that even Vishwamitra could not resist the beauty of Menaka. Even in the Mythological and fictious stories it never happened. Then why have false hopes? God has created us to live a natural life in which man’s nature is created. Hence, I blame the belief of the people first.

Secondly, I would condemn today’s movie industry that is filled with obscenities and nudism. Even to sell a match box we find a woman coming in front of the screen in mini skirts. What are the commercial Ads trying to do? Exploit womanhood? These women who act in movies and TV commercials, lose their level of modesty and chastity from their selves. They become immune to shamelessness. And these women actresses have a miserable marital lives. Their families often break due to lack of trust between the partners. Which husband would feel comfortable to see his wife dancing with another man dressed up like a live band singer? Its a total chaos. It is the today’s Movie Industry that manufactures such Ranjithas. And not to forget the public who watch these movies by paying the movie tickets and supporting the movie producers. The people who watch the obscenities in the form of movies are also adding to this immoral culture.

And Thirdly, I would blame the inadequate man made law that lacks stern punishments to check the rise of such immoral societies. What would the current Indian law do, even after the pair being convicted for their crime? Would they be convicted at all, missing the loop holes of the existing law? People dont fear the existing law and order. In fact, the people who suppose to maintain the law and order are corrupted to the core.

The Governor of Andhra Pradesh, N.D. Tiwari was involved in a sex scandal a few days ago. He at his 87 years of age was trapped in a video which was relayed in a Telugu channel world wide. Yediyurappa, the CM of Karnataka having extra marital relationship with Shaoba Karadlaje..Kumaraswamy, the Ex C.M of Karnataka and .. and many many more. Not to forget Clinton and Monica lewinsky. Even well known Swami Jayendra saraswati involved it sex scandal, and also the so called great Tiger woods, who is still not out of the woods.

There is a need for a change in the system, an alternative system, that can tackle all the existing problems of our society. In my view, with 100% conviction, the alternative is Islam. In Islam, intermingling of sexes is not allowed. In Islam, women are not allowed to reveal their beauty to strange men. In Islam, there is a strict Shariah law that punishes those indulging in extra marital affairs with a death penalty (for the married person) or hundred flogs (for the unmarried person). And the last but not the least, in Islam, no Muslim is allowed to worship humans, monkeys, snakes or idols. Hence, people like Swami Nityananda have no place in the Islamic society. The complete system for an aspiring nation is Islam. If the people are willing to change, then surely the current situation will change. Join the club of Muslims by renouncing the false religions of the forefathers’. Discover Islam, the only way to peace. Islam is the only solution, the only hope.

Author – Umar Shariff, (President, DIET)