Because of the escalating use of suicide bombing in Pakistan and Afghanistan, I felt compelled to revisit this topic by reposting the article below, bearing in mind that it does not really tackle many of the key issues such as what a legitimate jihad really is, and whether it is even possible or legal in terms of the shari’ah to fight against absolutely overwhelming odds, particularly when women and children are exposed to danger, the illegitimacy of declaring a jihad if there is no Dar al-Islam, i.e. a social order living by the behaviour pattern of Islam and caring for the poor and the disadvantaged, the illegality of a jihad that does not hoist high the banner of Islam and call the non-Muslims to Islam, etc. Rather I have limited myself to dealing with the anonymous author’s attempt to prove the legality of killing oneself in this manner. Continue reading “Examination of an article claiming to legitimise suicide bombings”
The Last Phase of Arab Shame
The last line of Curzio Malaparte’s “the Skin†is:
“ I said in a low voice, ‘It is a shameful thing to win a war.’ â€
Victory in modern warfare is both a shame and a defeat. The defeated demand rehabilitation, reward, revitalisation. The victors are bankrupted, exhausted, and leaderless – their generals useless in peace. After World War Two it is Germany and Japan who emerge defeated then triumphant.
Today Israel is a victor. Absolute and unrelenting. Unconditional surrender.
http://www.shaykhabdalqadir.com/content/articles/Art087_01012009.html
Bully for You!
bully
noun ( pl. -lies)
a person who uses strength or power to harm or intimidate those who are weaker.
The figure of the bully springs to mind, writ large and wreaking infinitely more devastation than the casual sadism of the school bully, but in essence the same. What is the point of having all that weaponry if you don’t use it? Precisely! the only point of having it is not to use it. The strong do not need to kill; it is only the weak and the pathetic who go on the rampage. We all know the gentle giant who is slow to anger and can endure a thousand insults before being stirred slowly to fight, just as we know the small vicious thug who is alive to insults that have not yet been uttered except in his paranoia. If shame could kill, then the Israelis should have died by now, for shameful indeed is the murder of men, women and children in this fashion.
When Madoff made off with the money
This peculiar article, University goes to court over $24m lost in Bernard Madoff scandal, from The Times, centres around a synagogue in New York which seems to have been packed with billionaires and millionaires who have lost considerably when Madoff made off with the money.
But this interesting article, Madoff’s Double Bluff, from Muhammad Rafeeq, really demands your full attention.
A Muslim’s Christmas
Seems incongruous, doesn’t it? The Muslims wouldn’t celebrate Christ mas. Or would they? It is so much a part and parcel of Western culture that it would be totally bizarre to try and imagine Arabs sitting around Christmas trees or spending flustered weeks choosing ties and socks for obscure uncles and aunts. Or unwrapping their gifts — Kalashnikov rifles and fabulous diamond necklaces.
Shoeless and Clueless
A shoe was thrown. It was thrown because of the destruction of Iraq, its infrastructure, and the million deaths of men, women and children, and the exile of substantially more people as refugees, because of the theft of Iraq’s resources and their being handed over to crony capitalism by what they like to call the ‘US government’, a rubric for what has been a kind of gangsterdom long before Mr Bush assumed the helm and which will certainly continue to be so with the next incumbent.
Now the man who threw the shoe is regarded as bad mannered, and possibly an extremist. So to throw a shoe is extremism but to kill a million people is not. And in other eyes, he is a new hero, a Saladdin. One man will buy the shoe for $10 million and another has offered his willing daughter in marriage.
Read it here
Appointment of the Imam (khalifah)
They reached consensus on the obligatory nature of the appointment of the Imam, the only difference being as to whether it is obligatory on Allah or on people, with transmitted or intellectual evidence.
The position of the people of the Sunnah and the great majority of the Mu’tazilah is that it is an obligation on people because of:
1. evidence transmitted in his words, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, in that which Muslim narrated in the hadith of Ibn Umar, may Allah be pleased with him, in this wording: “Whoever dies without an Imam dies the death of the time of ignorance,”
2. and because the Companions, may Allah be pleased with them, considered the most important of all matters to be the appointment of the Imam to such an extent that they gave it precedence over his burial, may Allah bless him and grant him peace,
3. and because there is no avoiding the necessity of the Muslims having an Imam who undertakes to execute their legal judgements, establish their hudud limits, protect their borders, equip their armies, take their zakat (sadaqat), conquer insurgents, thieves and brigands, establish the jumu’ahs and the eids, marry off young people who have no guardians, divide up the spoils of battle, and the similar duties of the shari’ah which individual members of the ummah cannot take upon themselves. (Mulla ‘Ali al-Qari, Minah ar-rawd al-azhar fi sharh al-Fiqh al-Akbar)
Paper Money and Tyranny – Congressman Ron Paul
Delivered in the House of Representatives
September 5, 2003
“All great republics throughout history cherished sound money. This meant that the monetary unit was a commodity of honest weight and purity. When money was sound, civilizations were found to be more prosperous and freedom thrived. The less free a society becomes, the greater the likelihood its money is being debased and the economic well-being of its citizens diminished.â€
Read it here
The Deconstruction of the World Financial Power System: an Analysis of a Different Kind
The Deconstruction of the World Financial Power System: an Analysis of a Different Kind
In ancient Rome, a one ounce gold coin (which is REAL Money) bought you a fine toga, a handcrafted belt and a pair of sandals. Today, you can walk into any fine men’s store and, with a one ounce gold coin, you can buy a fine suit, a handcrafted belt and a fine pair of shoes.
Dr. Habib Dahinden
Empire and The Siege of Bombay by Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi
FIRSTLY: LET US TAKE THE LONG VIEW.
The first Empire with world hegemony was the British Empire. The British Empire began when Disraeli persuaded Queen Victoria to claim India as Imperatrix. She was declared Empress in 1877. The Empire lasted precisely 70 years.
It came to an ignominious end under Viceroy Lord Mountbatten, whose wife, daughter of the notorious banker Sir Ernest Cassel, during the partition settlement carried on an adulterous affair with the Hindu leader Nehru. The disastrous and illegal partition cost the lives of millions of Muslims. The populace was never consulted by ballot or referendum. It was 1947.
Read the full article at Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi’s website