23 Rabi' al Thani 1440 A.H. - December 30 2018 Issue # 52, Newsletter #1791
Hadith of the Week
Narrated by Abu Musa,r.a.:
The Prophet, pbuh, said, "A believer to another believer is
like a building whose different parts enforce each other."
The Prophet,pbuh then clasped his hands with the fingers
interlaced. (At that time) the Prophet,pbuh was sitting and
a man came and begged or asked for something. The Prophet,
pbuh faced us and said, "Help and recommend him and you will
receive the reward for it, and Allah will bring about what
He will through His Prophet's tongue."
Strangely enough, most Pakistanis did not know that Abidi
was a Shia leader and his group had links with India.
British police found $700,00 in its London Office along with
weapons and explosive making info . That was 2015 but MQM
was allowed to operate in Pakistan.His funeral was led by a
top Shia cleric. He was very popular in Karachi. [Editor
NT]
Former Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) MNA Syed Ali Raza
Abidi has been killed in a targeted attack in Karachi after
unidentified armed men opened fire and fled the scene.
The former MNA was critically injured and the assailants
fled the scene. He was then rushed to Jinnah Hospital,
where, despite all out efforts of the doctors, he succumbed
to his wounds during treatment.
According to SSP South Pir Mohammad Shah, unknown miscreants
sprayed bullets at car of Ali Raza Abidi outside his
residence in Khyaban-e-Ittehad Karachi when he was returning
home after visiting a relative. The gun attack took place
outside his residence at Khayaban-e-Ghazi.
Abidi remained affiliated with Muttahida Qaumi
Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P), but had resigned from basic
membership of the party in September 2018 citing 'personal
reasons.'
Leaders of the political parties have strongly condemned the
murder of the former MNA and condoled with the bereaved
family over his death. Meanwhile, the police after
registering a case against unidentified attackers have
started an investigation.
Source: nation.com.pk
Bangladesh
Mass Arrests, numerous clashes, Human Rights Concerns
[December 30: Pro-India Hasina is heading to a landslide
victory in bogus elections. In daylong clashes with the
opposition 17 people were killed: BBC.
The leader of the opposition BNP, also a woman, was
imprisoned by Hasina on fake corruption charges.
BBC reports most votes were cast before elections
started.]
Background report
As elections approach next weekend, the Awami League regime
is cracking down on he opposition. According to the Oikya
Front, the opposition coalition, more than 7000 opposition
leaders and activists have been arrested by the Awami League
government.
Opposition representatives met the Chief Election
Commissioner and complained but he abused and insulted
them.
"Awami League and the opposition parties clashed in Dhaka,
Cox's Bazar, Mymensingh, Chittagong and Sylhet districts,
leading English newspaper Daily Star and domestic Jamuna
Television reported." [Al Jazeera December 27.]
Human Rights Watch has expressed concern about the
possibility of fair elections.
Tunisia
December 24-25
Abderezzak Zorgui, a 32 year old TV correspondent set
himself on fire and died after issuing a message on
unemployment, corruption and hopelessness in Tunisia. People
rallied in the streets of Kasserine, his hometown, in
western Tunisia., and clashed with the police for several
hours. Roads were blocked by the protestors.
After his burial on Tuesday, clashes and rallies spread to
other cities. [Protests reported by AP and AFP.]
The government is anxious because young people from Tunisia
have provided the largest number of volunteers from the Arab
world to Islamic State [IS] caliphate.
The country faces serious economic problems and unNahda, a
party like that of Ikhwan in Egypt, decided not to accept
power and cleverly allowed secularists to take over.
Editorial
Islamic Rules for Marriage in America.
by Kaukab Siddique, PhD
America bases male-female relations on freedom and choice.
.
Immigrants often do not understand that purda-based
relations which are prevalent in Muslim majority countries
can create situations in America which are opposed to the
message and mission of Islam. My purpose here is not to
discuss the situation in Muslim countries. I will say only
that Muslim countries are following Islam only in part and
often they consider their culture and customs to be part of
Islam.
Here is my understanding of Islam and Islamic marriage:
Faith in Allah and acceptance of the messages in the
Qur'an and authentic hadith of the Prophet, pbuh, is
essential. If the person you want to marry does not accept
Islam as the ultimate truth, then marriage with such a
person is forbidden.
Some of our Arab Muslim brothers think that marriage of a
Muslim male with a Christian or Jewish female is permitted.
That is not true. The Qur'an strictly forbids such
marriages. The Arab brothers have misunderstood a verse in
Surah Maida to think that it is allowed. That Surah was
revealed when Islam had become dominant and there was little
chance of children from such a marriage following some
religion other than Islam.
Husband and wife are equals. Their relations have to be
based on mutual consultation and consent. A chapter in the
Qur'an titled Shoora [mutual consultation] makes such
equality obligatory, Also sura hujurat makes it decisive
that awareness of Allah and moral behavior [taqwa] is Islam,
not gender superiority.
Male and female are complementary to each other, not one
dominant over the other. Surah al-Baqarah makes this clear
by giving the metaphor of "garments" for EACH OTHER.
Sura Ale Imran recognizes this equality not only in
behavior but also in jihad against the enemies of Islam.
The world we live in is corrupt and is organized by the
forces of evil. Hence the points above one to five have to
be a process and cannot suddenly happen.
This is where the hadith of the Prophet, pbuh, specially
his life in Makkah, becomes essential. We must focus on
faith and prayer, not on dress and weaknesses which American
culture has inculcated.
We must be tolerant of non-Muslims but strict in our own
behavior. There is no point in criticizing domestic violence
among non-Muslims if we condone it in our own families.
The husband must provide for the wife [4:34] till she can
be economically viable like Khadija, r.a.
Decency and modesty are important in Islam but the hijab
as in Muslim majority countries was not taught in Qur'an and
hadith till Madina was established.
Hadith is essential in prayers five times a day. The
prayer line is a line of battle. Men are in front because
they are physically strong. Women are at the back, not
because they are inferior but owing to Islam's effort to
create a specific nurturing culture in which children are
brought up with love. Ayesha, r.a., prayed behind the men
but no man would dare to say that he is superior to Ayesha,
r.a,
Community is central to Islam; hence back biting, rumor
mongering, slander and sectarianism are not allowed.
Liquor, drugs, gambling, fornication/adultery,
homosexuality are strictly forbidden. The punishment for
rape is death. However such sharia laws can be expressed in
non-Muslim societies but not applied.
For more information on my support for these teachings
please check:
The Struggle of Muslim Women.
Liberation of women thru Islam.
Man's Twin.
Islam and Revolution.
Islam - Wave of the Future.
HadithAndWomen.wordpress.com
NewTrendMag.org
[Several thousand articles are on this web
site. Use the search engine,]
PAKISTAN
Plundered Wealth must be Returned, says Jamaat.
by Qaiser Sharif
LAHORE, Dec. 30; Ameer, Jamaat e Islami, Pakistan, Senator
Siraj ul Haq, has said that the gas crisis had worsened in
the extreme cold weather and increase of LPG prices besides
gas shortage was causing hardships for every household. He
was talking to the media after addressing the Talent Award
show organized by the National Association for Education
(NAFE) at Sialkot. Students and teachers showing excellent
performance were awarded prizes and shields on the occasion.
JI chief for central Punjab, Amirul Azeem, also spoke on the
occasion.
Sirajul Haq said the people who had plundered public money
did not deserve any leniency. He said the nation and the JI
wanted accountability of the corrupt and the recovery of
their ill gotten money. sHe said that the present government
also included people who had been in the PPP and the PML (N)
and were involved in loot and plunder.
The JI chief said that the present accountability system was
dividing the nation. He said the government should not give
an impression that the accountability was one sided and the
NAB and the Supreme Court should also proceed against the
remaining 436 persons named in the Panama leaks and the NAB
should open around 150 cases of mega corruption lying with
it. He said that the names of all the corrupt persons should
be put on the ECL.
He said the present government was talking of the state of
Madina but was not ready to adopt that path. He said that as
long as a leadership believing in the Pakistan ideology came
to power, Pakistan could not become an Islamic welfare
state.
LAHORE, Dec. 30; Ameer, Jamaat e Islami, Pakistan, Senator
Sirajul Haq, has summoned the central Shoora of the JI on
January 4, at Mansoora.
According to the JI Information Secretary, the Central
Shoora will approve the JI plan for the year 2019 besides
discussing the latest political situation obtaining in the
country. The JI chief will also announce the future plan of
the JI on January six.
LAHORE, Dec. 30; Secretary General, Jamaat e Islami, Liaqat
Baloch, has said that the PTI government was facing decline
because of its wrong decisions. He was speaking at a public
breakfast hosted by Syed Ehsanulla Waqqas in Township
area.
Liaqat Baloch said the people had been expecting a ruthless
accountability by the PTI government and the recovery of the
plundered wealth from the corrupt. However, he said the
government did not seem to be serious in this respect due to
which the youth, the masses and the business community were
getting disappointed. He said the government should bring
all the corrupt people, especially the 436 persons named in
the Panama leaks to the dock to satisfy the people.
War News
Libya
December 26.
According to State Television in Tripoli, Libya, the Foreign
Ministry building came under attack. Amaq, the news agency
of the Islamic State, took credit for the attack. The
footage from TV showed the FM building and cars parked
outside on fire.
At least 3 people were killed and18 injured according to
reports but exact numbers are not available.
IS fighters are said to be mobilizing in the vast Libyan
desert and are difficult to locate.
Somalia
Attack on Presidential Palace.
December 22-24
The death toll rose to 26 from Saturday's twin bombings in
Somalia's capital, police and hospital sources said
Monday.
The number rose because several victims of the car blast
near the rear entrance of the presidential palace died in
hospitals in Mogadishu, said Capt. Mohamed Hussein. The toll
could rise further as several of the 20 wounded have serious
injuries, hospital sources confirmed.
Among the dead were seven soldiers who were escorting a
government official through a checkpoint on their way to the
presidential palace.
Afghanistan
7-hour long gun battle in Kabul.
3 mujahideen vs Regime troops.
December 24
At least 43 people were killed and 27 others injured in an
hours-long attack carried out on 24 December at a government
building in Kabul, according to the United Nations
Assistance Mission in Afghanistan.
Local media reported that the assault began when a suicide
bomber detonated a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device
(VBIED) in front of a building used by the Ministry of
Public Works and the Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs,
Martyrs, and Disabled.
Three gunmen, who had stormed the multistorey building
shortly after, were gunned down by Afghan forces following
seven hours of fighting inside the compound.
Iraq
Khanaqin:
December 29. Several regime troops were captured and three
of their vehicles burned by Islamic State fighters. Two
regime policemen were also killed in the fighting. Regime
reinforcements have been rushed to the area.
Mosul: December 28
Southwest of Mosul, 2 regime policemen were killed and 5
wounded in two bomb blasts.
In a separate attack, 3 policemen were killed near Ghazlani
camp, south of Mosul.
Three million civilians are living in the desert following
the destruction by the US and Iran of Islamic State capital
of Mosul and numerous towns.
President Trump and the first lady visited US military base
in western Anbar province desert area.
Syria
SDF forced to retreat. US air force bombing ISIS non-stop.
SDF linking up with Assad. Many towns shelled by
Iranians.
December 30: Assad's Shia allies advanced into northern Hama
and clashed with Islamic factions before pulling back.
Assad's troops also clashed with Islamic factions in
northwestern Aleppo province. In addition Assad's Iranian
forces shelled
two towns in eastern Idlib province and two in northeastern
Latakia province.
Assad's forces in large numbers have moved towards Manbig
[north central Syria] while Islamic FSA factions allied to
Turkey are
also moving near to Manbig. Kurds [YPG] are linking up with
Assad. Turkey considers them terrorists.
In Deraa province, which was occupied by Assad forces,
civilians are posting wall slogans calling for the removal
of Assad.
The corrupt UAE regime has opened its embassy in Damascus in
recognition of Assad.
Floods and bad weather have ravaged refugee camps on the
Syria-Jordan border but people are refusing to go back to
Assad's rule.
ISIS
December 24-30. Fighting continued outside Hajin on the
southern Euphrates throughout the week. IS counterattacks to
take back Hajin failed. Eleven fighters who entered the city
were encircled by SDF who then called in US air strikes
which killed the 11.
However, SDF attempts to advance on three towns and six
villages still part of the Islamic State failed and SDF
retreated.
SOHR is reporting large US transportation convoys bringing
new weaponry and ammunition to SDF in the Hajin area.
SDF is disturbed by news of US withdrawal from Syria [though
it has not happened yet] and has opened communication with
Assad in Damascus.
On December 30, ISIS fighters again emerged in the Tulul
al-Safa desert south of Damascus. New fighting is reported
from there.
Readers might remember several months of fighting in that
area between ISIS and Hizbullah which ended with mutual
release of IS families and Druze families.
News Within the U.S.
Suffering and Humiliation of a 12 year old
boy from Honduras.
See the movie depiction in ICE BOX
Then read this report of large operation against
Immigrants.
Paris, Texas.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security
Investigations office in Dallas said the operation was
thought to be one of the largest of its kind nationally in a
decade. Now immigrants in this Northeast Texas town, face an
uncertain future.
... A new book has revealed the dark side of Europe's
liberation after the Second World War. Professor Mary Louise
Roberts, from the University of Wisconsin, said within
months of D-Day ordinary French women came to fear their
American 'liberators'. She tells how, by the summer of 1944,
large numbers of women in Normandy filed complaints about
rapes by US soldiers. And their arrival prompted a wave of
crime all over France, with American soldiers caught
committing robberies and petty thefts ... The locals of Le
Havre were shocked by the soldiers' behaviour and wrote
letters of protest to their mayor.
Guidance by Sis. Yasmin.
~Admiring Oneself After Doing a Good Deed~
If a person feels self admiration after doing something good
or fears that he may show off, he should ward that off and
resist it by seeking refuge with ALLAH from it, by saying...
"Allaahumma inni a'oodhu bika an ushrika bika wa ana a'lam,
wa'staghfiruka lima laa a'lam "
Translation: "O Allaah, I seek refuge with you from
knowingly associating anything with You, and I seek Your
forgiveness for that of which I am unaware"
Prophet (Sallallaahu 'Alayhi wa Sallaam) said ...These kind
of feelings happen to everyone,but you have to try to be
sincere towards Allaah, seek His forgiveness, and remember
that there is no strength and no power except with ALLAAH !
if it were not for the help of Allaah, you would not have
been able to do this good deed, so to Allaah be praise in
the beginning and at the end.
The Prophet (Sallallaahu 'Alayhi wa Sallaam). said to
Mu'aadh ibn Jabal (r.a.) ... "O Mu'aadh, by Allaah indeed I
love you, and I advise you, O Mu'aadh, do not forget at the
end of every prayer to say...
Transliteration: *Allaahumma a'inni 'ala Dhikrika wa
Shukrika wa Husni
'Ibaaditika.*
Translation:"O Allaah help me to remember You,give Thanks to
You and Worship You in the best way."
{Source,Narrated by Ahmad, Abu Dawood, al-Nasaa'i, and
others ~ (it is Saheeh)~.}
Do not forego doing good deeds for fear of showing off,
because this is one of the tricks that the Shaytaan uses to
weaken people's resolve and stop them from doing things that
Allaah loves and is pleased with...{!}
As for merely feeling happy that one has done a good deed,
this does not contradict sincerity and faith... for ALLAH
says ...
" Say: "In the Bounty of Allâh, and in His Mercy (i.e. Islâm
and the Qur'ân)
therein let them rejoice." That is better than the wealth
they amass. "
[Source ~ Qur'an~ Surat Yunus 10~ A # 58]
Prophet (Sallallaahu 'Alayhi wa Sallaam) said...If he
attains guidance, faith and righteous deeds,and the mercy
resulting from what overwhelms him and he feels joy and
success as a result..Hence Allaah commanded us to rejoice
oversuch things.
Prophet (Sallallaahu 'Alayhi wa Sallaam). said..."If your
good deeds make you happy and your bad deeds make you sad,
then you are a believer."
{Source~ Narrated by Ahmad, Ibn Majaah and others from the
hadeeth of Abu Umaamah;( it is a Saheeh Hadeeth) }
By the same token, if people praise you for your good deed,
then this is a portion of the glad tidings of the Hereafter,
which ALLAH gives a person in this world.The Messenger of
Allaah (Sallallaahu 'Alayhi wa Sallaam). was asked... " What
do you think if a man does a good deed and the people praise
him for it ? " he answered... "That is the portion of the
glad tidings for the believer which he is given in this
world."
{ Source: Narrated by Muslim from the Hadeeth of Abu
Hurayrah (Allah be pleased with him)
So this praise is a sign that ALLAH is pleased with him and
loves him, so He makes him dear to other people.
A Lil Note:We ask ALLAH [Azza Wa Jall] to make our
intentions and deeds right for HIM alone . "In Shaa
Allah"... 'Aameen'.
~'Salaams' to all ~
Courtesy ~ Sis Yasmin~
