If you see my last posting (so obviously a witty and clever 
riposte) as "an admission of defeat" then your analytical skills 
are as impaired as your intellectual and emotional development.

The second "not me" posting was a half reasonable attempt at 
muddying the waters, but you have nowhere near the wit, 
knowledge, skill or humour to match me.

Thanks for the invitation to "lash out" at you - it is 
gratifying to see that you recognise the cleverness of my 
previous, similar, invitations to you - and you therefore 
adopted one of my methodologies. Imitation is a form of flattery!

Of course typed words by anyone, emotionally disturbed like 
sa27/Marie or not, have no effect on an intelligent objective 
person like myself - no, I lie, it does give amusement during 
the long graveyard shift.

When sa27 does not respond to my taunts, I know what you are 
doing...chewing gum! sa27 cannot do that and type at the same 
time.

As for feeling free....you bet I do.

WINNING A WAR ON IRAQ IS LIKE WINNING IN THE SPECIAL OLYMPICS...

EVEN IF YOU WIN, YOU'RE STILL RETARDED.

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U.S. Fires 40 Missiles in Attempt to Kill Saddam Hussain

     March 19: At about 9.45 PM Eastern Standard Time, CNN and 
other U.S. TV 
channels reported missile attacks on Baghdad. By 10.30 PM the 
reports stated 
clearly that at least 40 tomahawk missiles and at least one 
bunker buster 
bomb had hit Baghdad in an attempt to kill "targets of 
opportunity." It was 
evidently an attempt to kill the President of Iraq and four 
other leaders.
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At 12.30 A.M. EST, March 20, President Saddam Hussain came LIVE 
on IRAQI TV 
to urge the people to stand united and alert.His iron will was 
evident, as he 
spoke wearing military uniform and reading with the help of 
glasses.  His 
call: "Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar." He condemned the U.S-Zionist 
alliance and 
hailed the people of Iraq and Palestine. He called on the people 
to be ready 
for Jihad. As he turned the pages of the statement he read, his 
hand did not 
shake or tremble.
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Obviously, THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT IN WHICH 40 MISSILES and a 
BUNKER BUSTER 
were used, has FAILED.
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DISINFORMATION AS A WEAPON: Tariq Aziz Refutes Story

     On March 19, an story was put out that the Iraqi Foreign 
Minister Tariq 
Aziz had defected. Tariq Aziz came on Iraqi TV to refute the 
story. He said, 
this kind of disinformation will probably continue. {If Iraqi TV 
had been 
knocked out, this kind of story would have been effective.}
[Christians like Aziz have great respect in Iraq. The U.S. media 
do not 
report on Christian community in Iraq so that demonization 
propaganda against 
Saddam may not be affected.]

ANOTHER STORY WAS PUT OUT THAT SAUDI ARABIA has asked Saddam to 
take refuge 
there. By the evening of March 19, Saudi Arabia had refuted the 
story.
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FUNNY SIDE TO WAR: Karzai's "government" (in Kabul) has offered 
the U.S. 
support in its war on Iraq. Karzai is listed as "Afghanistan" in 
the list of 
"pro" countries issued by the U.S.
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LATEST ANTI-WAR PROTESTS IN CHICAGO
THE WAR HAS STARTED! 100 BOMBS WERE DROPPED TODAY
[PLUS THE CASE OF Dr. SAMIRAH]
by our representative Ather Masood


The media refuses to elaborate on what has transpired today.

The following events with regards to Iraq has happened:

1. President Bush HAS ALREADY authorized war through Vice 
President Cheney.

2. America troops have ALREADY crossed the border from Kuwait 
into Southern 
Iraq.

3. U.S. and British bombers dropped over one hundred, laser-
guided, 2,000 
lbs bombs all over Southern Iraqi battle stations.  The number 
of casualties 
are not yet know.

 PROTEST IN RAVENSWOOD COMMUNITY.

On Saturday, March 17, one  of the most well-known Chicago area 
communities 
protested  against the upcoming war. In the neighborhood of the 
newly 
elected governor of Illinois, an estimated 100-200 anti-war 
protestors 
flocked to Wells-Park carrying signs and chanting against the 
war. The 
unique gathering was composed of local volunteers, War- veterans 
who choose 
to come out despite feeling backlash, students, and even the 
Alderman. The 
funny thing about this incident was that the Alderman was 
confronted by 
local police officers who did not recognize their own Alderman. 
If these 
police officer do not even know their own Alderman can they 
really 
differentiate between Osama Bin-Laden, Saddam Hussein, or even a 
person of 
color? The police were shocked to learn of the Alderman from the 
very 
community 
of the Governor.
That very same evening, thousands of people marched towards the 
Ravenswood 
neighborhood once again to hold a candlelight vigil to protest 
American 
Imperialism. Adjacent area-living residents in  joined 
Ravenswood residents 
turned out to continue the protest. This time with about 1,000-
2,000 
participants from Middle-upper class backgrounds. The entire 
spectacular 
event was made possible by Ms. Julie Peterson whose website link 
is:

http://www.beyondtoday.com/peace.htm


On March 18, Sunday an estimated 9-10,000 Anti war marchers 
lined the 
Federal Plaza in downtown. Muslims, Christians, Jews, Vietnam 
war veterans, 
Native-Americans, Mexican-Activists, African-American activists 
and many 
others joined forces to completely halt downtown activity.
 
 Joan Baez, the legendary singer, organized a successful 
gathering that 
included people from 
every aspect of American life. The major streets in downtown 
Chicago were 
completely flooded with protestors, some coming from as far away 
as 
California just to protest Bush's policy. Well known Professor 
of Civil 
Rights Barak Obama denounced President Bush's war which totally 
disregards 
public opinion in the entire world.


SHOOTING AT MOSQUE

On March 11, 2003 the Villa Park Masjid was attacked by random 
vandals who 
launched a projectile into the front windows. Even though 
several 
individuals were praying at the time, the assailant shattered 
the front 
glassed-windows and was able to escape. Let it be known the  
Villa Park 
Masjid was one of the few places that invited Dr. Siddique to 
speak on 
various subjects regarding the Muslim community. At this point, 
police have 
been unable to apprehend any suspect. The Villa Park area in 
Illinois has 
been known to be a place frequented by white supremacists for a 
LONG time. 
However, the overwhelming number of people there support, stand 
with, and 
appreciate the Muslims in that community.

IN DEFENSE OF DR. SABRIH SAMIRAH

As we all know now, Dr. Samirah was denied entry into America 
from Ireland. 
Despite living a life of complete activism and self-sacrifice 
from the 
Muslim community. Dr. Samirah ALWAYS was seen at every Muslim 
event. Always 
helping, striving, and appreciating Muslims from all walks of 
life. He was 
most involved with being a liaison between Muslims, Arab-
Americans, and even 
Non-Muslims and various elected officials. IT IS A SHAME THAT 
DESPITE THE 
FACT EVERY ELECTED OFFICIAL KNEW THE BROTHER, ALL KEPT THEIR 
MOUTH SHUT WHEN 
HE WAS PUSHED INTO CRISIS.

Now the media is trying to defame Dr. Samirah's academic 
reputation. Quite 
recently media moguls have tried to question whether the brother 
earned 
credible degrees in college. To this we ask the question what 
does this have 
to do with his denial of entry? Why was he denied entry at this 
time? In the 
end the removal of Dr. Samirah from these shores, is an attempt 
to destroy 
any Muslim in leadership. We are being placed into a situation 
where any 
Muslim speaking up will be COINTELPROED out of town.

A WORD OF CAUTION TO ALL MUSLIMS.

We must be aware that many so-called "Muslims," are being used 
by Mr. 
Ashcrofft to spy, report, slander, and eventually destroy 
Muslims in this 
nation. We need to advise our Muslim community, Pro-war 
activists, and 
families (bad and good) to become aware of those representatives 
in the 
mass-media or government being used to spy and destroy Muslims 
attempting to 
stand for the freedoms and rights. Do not accept interviews with 
people who 
you do not know. Question interviewers from the media or from 
the police 
before they question you. REMEMBER! YOU DO NOT HAVE TO TALK TO 
THE FBI. Tell 
them to speak to your attorney.
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MUSHARREF of Pakistan, MUBARAK of Egypt are Part of War on 
Muslims
[From Shaikh Mohommed, our representative in London, England]

Well, the die is cast and occupation of Iraq will commence.  
This is not a 
war because there is no Army in Iraq which will make a stand.  
Iraq has no 
WMD/chemical weapons.  This is not a commencement of an attack 
because attack 
by US/British planes have been continuing under the so-
called  no-fly zone .

We know that Baghdad and other cities will be bombarded and 
Iraqi populations 
will be the target.  Before they commence occupation of Iraq, 
they will make 
sure that Iraqi cities and towns will be devastated and 
destroyed.  Then only 
and only then will US and British forces enter Iraq.  

We should in the meantime hold fast to our religion (Islam) and 
pray that 
Allah (SWAT) helps us in this difficult time.  We should also 
use our energy 
in demonstrating and marching and doing any activity however 
little to expose 
the aggression against the people of Iraq and also expose the 
stooges ruling 
over Islamic countries. General Musharraf of Pakistan, President 
Mubarak of 
Egypt, and other Governments are helping USA to kill Iraqis and 
Palestinians 
and it is our duty to bring these Governments to account.

Time is not far when the might of USA will be defeated as it was 
defeated in 
Vietnam. Inshallah.

Shaikh Mohommad
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MEMORIAL FOR RACHEL DISRUPTED BY ISRAELI ARMY

Chris McGreal in Jerusalem
Wednesday March 19, 2003
The Guardian 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,917178,00.html

Israeli forces fired teargas and stun grenades yesterday in an 
attempt to 
break up a memorial service for Rachel Corrie, the American 
peace activist 
killed by an army bulldozer in Gaza on Sunday. 
Witnesses including several dozen foreigners and Palestinian 
supporters say 
Israeli armoured vehicles tried to disperse the gathering at the 
spot in 
Rafah refugee camp where Ms Corrie was crushed to death. 

The 23 year-old activist with the International Solidarity 
Movement (ISM) was 
trying to prevent the destruction of Palestinian homes by the 
Israelis when 
she was hit by the bulldozer. 

Joe Smith, a young activist from Kansas City, said about 100 
people were 
gathered to lay carnations and erect a small memorial when the 
first armoured 
personnel carrier appeared. 

"They started firing teargas and blowing smoke, then they fired 
sound 
grenades. After a while it got hectic so we sat down. Then the 
tank came over 
and shot in the air," he said. "It scared a lot of Palestinians, 
especially 
the shooting made a lot of them run and the teargas freaked 
people out. But 
most of us stayed." 

Another witness said the army failed to break up the service. 

"People were laying carnations at the spot where Rachel was 
killed when a 
tank came and fired teargas right on them. Then a core group of 
the peace 
activists took an ISM cloth banner to the fence and pinned it 
up. 

"The tank chased after them trying to stop them with teargas but 
the wind was 
against the army," she said. 

Tensions rose further when a convoy of vehicles, including the 
bulldozer that 
killed Ms Corrie, passed the area. 

"I don't think it was deliberate but it was pretty insensitive," 
said Mr 
Smith. 

"I think they had been destroying some buildings elsewhere and 
had to pass by 
to get back to their base." 

The army said it was investigating the incident. 

Hadith 1
Hadhrat Nu maan ibn Basheer (Radhiallaahu Anhu) narrates that 
Rasulullah (Sallallaahu Alayhi Wasallam) said,  You will see the 
believers in their mutual mercy for one another, mutual love for 
one another, and mutual companion for one another like a body. 
When one limb (of the body) complains, that effects the entire 
body by being awake and having fever.  (Mishkaat pg.422; Qadeemi)

Hadith 2
Hadhrat Abu Musa (Radhiallaahu Anhu) narrates that Rasulullah 
(Sallallaahu Alayhi Wasallam) said,  A believer to a believer is 
like a building that strengthens one another (with each brick).  
(Ibid)

Hadith 3
Hadhrat Ibn Umar (Radhiallaahu Anhu) narrates that Rasulullah 
(Sallallaahu Alayhi Wasallam) said,  A Muslim is a brother of 
another Muslim, so do not oppress him and do not hand him over 
(to the mercy of the enemies when he is in trouble).  (Ibid)

Hadith 4
Hadhrat Aamir ibn Maalik, the leader of the tribe of Bani Sulaym 
requested the help of Rasulullah (Sallallaahu Alayhi Wasallam) 
against the enemies of his tribe. Rasulullah (Sallallaahu Alayhi 
Wasallam) accepted his request and sent seventy Sahaaba 
(Radhiallaahu Anhum) who were Qurraa (experts in the recitation 
of the noble Qur aan). The tribe of Banu Sulaym surrounded these 
Sahaaba (Radhiallaahu Anhum) by a place called Bir Ma oona and 
murdered them.

Jibraaeel (Alayhis salaam) informed Rasulullah (Sallallaahu 
Alayhi Wasallam) of the incident and conveyed to him the 
heartfelt message of the Qurraa:
 Inform our people that we met our Rabb. He was pleased with us 
and (in turn) pleased us. 

This incident caused great grief to Rasulullah. Abdullah ibn 
Mas ood (Radhiallaahu Anhu) narrates that Rasulullah 
(Sallallaahu Alayhi Wasallam) recited Qunoot Naazila for one 
month continuously cursing the tribe of Bani Sulaym. (Bukhari 
vol.2 pg.586; )

In view of the above, the Fuqahaa have ruled that when the Ummat 
is in a crisis, they should follow the Sunnah practise of Qunoot-
e-Naazila and make Du aa for the Ummah.Once again we are at 
crossroads and we should resort to the Sunnat practise of Qunoot-
e-Naazila.

METHOD OF QUNOOT-E-NAAZILA

  In Fajr Salaat, after the Ruku of the second Rakaat, the Imaam 
will make audible Du aa. The Muqtadee (followers) will listen to 
the Du aa and say,  Aameen  softly during the pauses of the 
Imaam s Du aa. (Fataawa Mahmoodiyyah vol.2 pg.138)
  The Muqtadis will not recite the Du aa with the Imaam. (I elaa-
us-Sunan vol.6 pg.120; Idaratul Qur aan)
  The Imaam and the Muqtadis should not raise their hands during 
the Du aa. The hands should be left by their sides. (Shaami 
vol.2 pg.9; HM Saeed)
  Upon completion of the Du aa, they will go into Sajdah and 
complete the Salaat as normal.
1. Qunoot-e-Naazila may be recited by the Imaam during Fajr 
Salaat. A Munfarid (person performing Fardh Salaat individually) 
may not recite Qunoot-e-Naazila. (Shaami vol.2 pg.11; HM Saeed)

2. One may also recite Qunoot-e-Naazila in Nafl Salaat, 
performed individually during the night. (Fataawa Mahmoodiya 
vol.2 pg.138)

3. Females may also recite Qunoot-e-Naazila in Nafl Salaat.

THE QUNOOT (DU'AA): Hadhrat Ibn Abbaas (Radhiallaahu Anhu) 
narrates: Rasulullah (Sallallaahu Alayhi Wasallam) would teach 
us the following Du'aa to be recited in the Salaat of Fajr:



Translation : O Allah, guide us aright along with those who have 
been rightly guided and grant us safety along with those that 
have been granted safety and support us along with those that 
have been supported and add Your Blessings to what You have 
given us and save us from the harmful effects of what You have 
ordained ( i.e. lest I should be wanting in cheerfully 
submitting to your Decrees) as You alone disposes and no one can 
dispose against You. Anyone who is under Your Protection cannot 
be lowered and anyone who is opposed by You cannot gain dignity; 
our Lord; You are full of blessings and Most High, we beg 
forgiveness from You and repent before You and may the blessings 
of Allah be showered on the Holy Prophet (Sallallaahu Alayhi Wa 
Sallam). O Allah, forgive us and the believing men and women and 
Muslim men and women, unite their hearts with mutual love, set 
right their mutual affairs and help them against theirs and Your 
enemy. O Allah, let Your curse be on those unbelievers who 
prevent people from treading Your path, who reject Your prophets 
and fight Your chosen ones. O Allah, make difficult their plans, 
shake their feet and give them such punishment which is not 
turned away from a sinning people.


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1. Muhammad (may Allah's blessings and peace be upon him) was 
raised illiterate, unable to read or write, and remained like 
that till his death. Among all his people, he was known as being 
truthful and trustworthy. Before receiving revelation, he had no 
prior knowledge of Religion or any previously sent Message. He 
remained like that for his first forty years. Revelation then 
came to Muhammad with theKoran that we now have between our 
hands. This Koran mentioned most of the accounts found in the 
previous scriptures, telling us about these events in the 
greatest detail as if he witnessed them. These accounts came 
precisely as they were found in the Torah sent down to Moses and 
in the Gospel sent down to Jesus. Neither the Jews or Christians 
were able to believe him regarding anything that he said. 
  

2. Muhammad (may Allah's blessings and peace be upon him) also 
foretold of everything that wouldoccur to him and his community 
after him, pertaining to victory, the removal of the tyrannical 
kingdoms of Chosroes [the royal title for the Zoroastrian kings 
of Persia] and Caesar, and the establishment of the religion of 
Islam throughout the earth. These events occurred exactly as 
Muhammad foretold, as ifhe was reading the future from an open 
book. 
  

3. Muhammad (may Allah's blessings and peace be upon him) also 
brought an Arabic Koran that isthe peak of eloquence and 
clarity. The Koran challenged those eloquent and fluent Arabs of 
his time, who initially belied him, to bring forth a single 
chapter like the Koran. The eloquent Arabs of his day were 
unable to contest this Koran.Indeed, till our day, none has ever 
dared to claim that he has been able to compose words that equal-
or even approach-the order, grace, beauty, and splendor of this 
Glorious Koran. 
  

4. The life history of this Noble Prophet was a perfect example 
of being upright, merciful,compassionate, truthful, brave, 
generous, distant from all evil character, and ascetic in all 
worldly matters, while striving solely for the reward of the 
Hereafter. Moreover, in all his actions and dealings, he was 
ever mindful and fearful of Allah. 
  

5. Allah instilled great love for Muhammad (may Allah's 
blessings and peace be upon him) in the hearts of all who 
believed in and met him. This love reached such a degree that 
any of his companions would willingly sacrifice his (or her) 
self, mother or father for him. Till today, those who believe in 
Muhammad honor and love him. Anyone of those who believe in him 
would ransom his own family and wealth to see him, even if but 
once. 
  

6. All of history has not preserved the biography of any person 
in the manner it has preserved the life of Muhammad, who is the 
most influential human in history. Nor has the entire earth 
known of anyone whom every morning and evening, and many times 
thereafter throughout the day, is thought of by those who 
believe in him. Upon rememberingMuhammad, the believers in him 
will greet him and ask Allah to bless him. They do such with 
full hearts and true love for him. 
  

7. Nor has there every been a man on earth whom is still 
followed in all his doings by those whobelieve in him. Those who 
believe in Muhammad, sleep in the manner he slept; purify 
themselves (through ablutionand ritual washing) in the manner he 
purified himself; and adhere to his practice in the way they 
eat, drink, and clothe themselves. 

Indeed in all aspects of their lives, the believers in Muhammad 
adhere to the teachings he spread among them and the path that 
he traveled upon during his life. 

During every generation, from his day till our time, the 
believers in this Noble prophet have fullyadhered to his 
teachings. With some, this has reached the degree that they 
desire to follow and adhere to the Prophet's way in his personal 
matters regarding which Allah has not sought of them to adhere 
to in worship. For example, some will only eat those specific 
foods or only wear those specific garmentsthat the Messenger 
liked. 

Let alone all that, all those who believe in Muhammad repeat 
those praises of Allah, special prayers,and invocations that he 
would say during each of his actions during day and night, like: 
what he would say when he greeted people, upon entering and 
leaving the house, entering and leaving the mosque, entering and 
leaving the bathroom, going to sleep and awaking from sleep, 
observing the new crescent, observing the new fruit on trees, 
eating, drinking, dressing, riding, traveling and returning from 
travel, etc. Let alone all that, all those who believe in 
Muhammad fully perform-even to the minute detail-every act of 
worship-like prayer, fasting, charity, and pilgrimage-as this 
Noble Messenger (may Allah's blessingsand peace be upon him) 
taught and as he himself performed.All of this allows those who 
believe in him, to live their lives in all aspects with this 
Noble Messenger as their example, as if he was standing before 
them, for them to follow in all their doings. 
  

8. There has never been nor will there ever be a man anywhere 
upon this earth who has received suchlove, respect, honor, and 
obedience in all matters-small and large alike-as has this Noble 
Prophet. 
  

9. Since his day, in every region of the earth and during every 
period, this Noble Prophet has beenfollowed by individuals from 
all races, colors and peoples. Many of those who followed him 
were previously Christians, Jews, pagans, idolaters, or without 
any religion. Among those who chose to follow him, were those 
who were known for their sound judgment, wisdom, reflection, and 
foresight. They chose to follow this Noble Prophet after they 
witnessed the signs of his truthfulness and the evidences of his 
miracles. They did not choose to follow Muhammad out of 
compulsion or coercion orbecause they had adopted the ways of 
their fathers and mothers.Indeed many of the followers of this 
Prophet (may Allah's blessings peace be upon him), chose to 
follow him during the time when Islam was weak, when there were 
few Muslims, and when there was severe persecution of his 
followers on earth. Most people who have followed this Prophet 
(may Allah's blessings and peace be upon him) have done so not 
to acquire some material benefits. Indeed many of his followers 
have suffered the greatest forms of harm and persecution as a 
result of followingthis Prophet. Despite all this harm and 
persecution, this did not turn them back from his religion. My 
brethren! All of this clearly indicates to anyone possessing any 
sense, that this Prophet was truly and really Allah's messenger 
and that he was not just a man who claimed prophethood or spoke 
aboutAllah without knowledge. 
  

10. With all this, Muhammad came with a great religion in its 
credal and legal make-up. Muhammad described Allah with 
qualities of complete perfection, and at the same time in a 
manner that is free of ascribing to Him any imperfection. 
Neither the philosophers or the wise could ever describe Allah 
like such. Indeed it is impossible to imagine that any human 
mind could conceive of an existing being that possesses such 
complete ability, knowledge, and greatness; Who has subdued 
thecreation; Who has encompassed everything in the universe, 
small or large; and Who possesses such perfect mercy.Nor is it 
in the ability of any human being to place a perfect law based 
upon justice, equality, mercy and objectivity for all human 
activity on earth like the laws that Muhammad brought for all 
spheres of human activity - like buying and selling, marriage 
and divorce, renting, testimony, custody, and all othercontracts 
that are necessary to uphold life and civilization on earth. 
  

11. It is impossible that any person conceive wisdom,, morals, 
good manners, nobleness of charactersas what this honorable 
Prophet (may Allah's blessings and peace be upon him) brought. 
In a full and complete manner, Muhammad spread a teaching 
regarding character and manners towardone' parents, relatives, 
fiends, family, humanity, animals, plants and inanimate objects. 
It is impossible for the human mind alone to grasp all of that 
teaching or come with a similar teaching. All of that 
unequivocally indicates that this Messenger did not bring any of 
this religion from his own accord, but that it was rather a 
teaching and inspiration that he received from the One Who 
created the earth and the high heavens above and created this 
universe in its miraculous architecture andperfection. 
  

12. The legal and credal make-up of the religion that the 
Messenger, Muhammad, (may Allah'sblessings and peace be upon 
him) brought resembles the engineering of the heavens and the 
earth. All of that indicates that He who created the heavens and 
the earth is the One Who sent down this great law and upright 
religion. The degree of inimitability of the Divine law that was 
sent down upon Muhammad is to the same degree of inimitability 
of the Divine creation of the heavens and earth. For just as 
humanity cannot create this universe, in the same manner 
humanity cannot bring forth a law like Allah's law that He sent 
down upon His servant and messenger Muhammad (may Allah's 
blessings and peace be upon him). 




     

"Allah does not look at your body and face; rather he looks at 
your heart" [at-tirmidhi] 

"One who lacks kindness of heart lacks all good" [Muslim] 

"The world is prison for the believer and paradise for the 
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As-Salaamu' Alaikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatu
May ALLAH bless Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah, Sheikh 
Yassin, Hamas, Shayhk Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaeda and all of our 
Islamic resistance forces.
On the eve of war we stand ready to do what must be done. The 
kaffir will begin but it is the Muslims who will finish 
inshaALLAH.
Fi AmmanALLAH
from the servant of ALLAH
Shayhka Maulani Aeisha Muhammad
Hezbollah said deploying Katyusha batteries in
south Lebanon

By Daniel Sobelman, Haaretz Correspondent


The militant Hezbollah organization has deployed Katyusha 
missile batteries in south Lebanon, the Lebanese a-
Safirnewspaper reported Wednesday.

The paper is viewed as close to Hezbollah.

The report, based on eyewitness accounts in south Lebanon, 
states that the deployment is part of precautionary measures 
that the pro-Iranian organization is taking against the 
possibility that Israel will "take advantage of the war" and 
attack Lebanon, and is taking place as the IDF beefs up its 
forces on the northern border.

Hezbollah leaders have stressed recently that they had no 
intention of attacking Israel during the U.S.-led war in Iraq, 
adding that they believed Israel would choose to attack Lebanon 
during this period.

On Monday, Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah warned that 
although his group did not seek confrontation with the United 
States, it would respond if U.S. forces opened an offensive 
against it.


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FAMILY UNITY DURING WAR TIME: Islam Forbids Domestic Violence
"Qur'an only" Concept Hurting Rights of Women
by Kaukab Siddique

    The violence which our power structure carries out all over 
the world 
often starts at home. More than 4,000,000 women are battered 
every year in 
the U.S. As an overflow of this culture of violence, numbers 
Muslim men too 
indulge in physical and psychological mistreatment of their 
wives. Some of 
these Muslims use a verse of the Qur'an to justify their 
behavior. This 
misunderstanding of the Qur'an is difficult to deal with owing 
to an 
important reason:
1. Attempts to interpret the Qur'an without the help of the 
Hadith.
2. Without the Hadith, one cannot know that the Qur'an's 
revelation was 
progressive, not static. It is a mistake to interpret the Qur'an 
without the 
concept of "abrogation" which the Hadith provides.
3. In all matters, the Prophet's (pbuh) interpretation of the 
Qur'an is 
FINAL. The Qur'an itself does not permit interpretation which 
ignores what 
the Prophet (pbuh) said about it.
4. THE PROPHET (pbuh) HAS ABSOLUTELY FORBIDDEN ALL VIOLENCE 
AGAINST women in 
general and wives in particular.  As hazrat 'Ayesha (r.a.) 
reports: The 
messenger of Allah (pbuh) never raised his hand against a woman. 
5. Even rough behavior, without intent to do violence or to 
hurt, directed 
towards women, was forbidden by the Prophet (pbuh). As he told a 
reckless 
camel driver who was transporting women:"Be careful, Anjasha, 
these are 
vessels of glass which might break easily."

     Domestic violence is widespread. Fortunately, an Islamic 
program has 
been successfully initiated to help the victims of such violence 
in Atlanta. 
Great work is being done by BAITUL SALAAM. To send your help, by 
way of 
donations, gifts etc., contact: haleem1@aol.com
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A DIFFERENT VIEW OF THE COMING BATTLE IN IRAQ
[by Br. Eric Mueller in Texas]

Dear Brother Kaukab,

as-Salam `alaykum wa-rahmat Allah wa-barakatuh!

I have enjoyed the two parts of your editorial
tremendously.

As regards the war on Iraq, I would like to observe
that we must not be discouraged if the Imperialists
seem to make spectacular troop advances in the first
days of fighting. Much of Iraq is open country and
with US air superiority, it would be stupid for the
Iraqis to try to hold on to that territory.

German General Erwin Rommel in World War II said that
desert fighting was like fighting at sea -- you take
one point and then cross lots of open country before
the next place of resistance and the next battle. If
you look at the campaigns in North Africa during the
Second World War, you see that the German Afrika Korps
penetrated into Egypt twice and were driven back by
the British across most of Libya twice. That is how
fluid the fighting on such a battlefield is. And of
course Rommel and the British were fighting a
conventional war and were technologically about equal.

Iraq will be fighting very much an unconventional war.

So let no one be discouraged if we quickly hear that
the Americans have penetrated deep into the country. 
The real battle will still be in store for them.

Similarly just as the Americans had no hesitation in
1990 about trotting out the daughter of the Kuwaiti
ambassador to invent stories of "Iraqi atrocities"
that she "witnessed" even though she hadn't even been
in Kuwait recently, So today the Americans are certain
to bring up all sorts of people, probably many of them
already trained and rehearsed, to complain about
torture and abuse at the hands of the Iraqi regime.
The regime in Iraq has been the object of an unceasing
campaign for its overthrow for more than 12 years by
the richest, most powerful states on earth. The only
way that any government could stay in power in the
face of that intense pressure is with extremely tight
security. The Americans even admit to having tried to
get Saddam Husayn assassinated 12 times. So his need
to take strict security measures cannot be questioned
by any reasonable person.

And while we're on the subject of torture, how about
the treatment that the US troops give to those whom
they captured in Afghanistan? Stripping all their
clothes off, often in the presence of women, taping
them to boards, and leaving them naked for days, lying
in their own waste, with no medical care for injuries.
That was the fate of the American Muslim known as
John Walker Lindh. What of the Muslims who didn't
carry a US passport? Can we imagine that they were
given better treatment? Many of those who have been
arrested in the US speak of beatings as well -- and
most of the detainees in the US have NOT been
released.

Rest assured that CBS, FOX, WB, NBC, ABC, CNN and the
rest of them are not going to report how the Americans
treat the Iraqi prisoners, unless it is some sort of
sanitized report. So when they bring up "torture,"
think of the brothers in Guantanamo!

Today, 18 March 2003, President Saddam Husayn told his
cabinet: "This battle will be Iraq's last battle with
every dirty, arrogant power (kull mutajabbir la'eem)
for some period of time, and it will be the last
aggressive battle that America undertakes against the
world for some time too. Victory is assured for you,
in sha' Allah, and the collapse of falsehood
(al-Baatil). Your enemy is going to collapse, by the
help of God because he is in falshood (`ala baatil)."

It may appear to the imperialists that they can win a
win a quick victory, occupying land and even
stationing troops in cities. Even a half victory will
be hailed by the imperialists as some great triumph,
and they will crow about how powerful their weaponsare. But this 
will be 
deception -- an attempt to
deceive us and at the same time a real deception of
themselves.

In the 1920s the Iraqis met the British invaders with
an armed revolt every year on average, even though
they carried muskets against machine guns and even
though the British dropped poisoned gas from
airplanes. But all their technology in the end
couldn't preserve the British empire, and the same
fate is in store for the evil empire with its
headquarters in Washington!

Allahu Akbar! wa-l-yakhsa' al-khasi'oun!

God is Greatest, and may the despicable be driven off!

wa-s-salam!

Eric Mueller
Texas
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JOIN BOYCOTT OF COMPANY WHICH SUPPLIES BULLDOZERS TO ISRAEL
[Important Action in Memory of the sweet rose of America, Rachel 
Corrie]
[From Carolyn, in Florida]


Here's an action we can all easily do:

The number for the public relations office of Caterpillar is 309-
675-1000

If you have a moment, call and ask if they are proud to have 
been the 
supplier of the D-9 Bulldozer that killed the first American, 
but not the 
first civilian, in Palestine this week. Also ask them how long 
they plan to 
continue this murderous business partnership with the IDF, 
providing the 
occupation army with all the tools it needs to oppress a 
defenseless civilian 
population. 



Palestine Children's Relief Fund
www.pcrf.netl

"Our wounded hands are yet capable of extracting the wilting 
olive branch 
from the rubble of massacred groves..."
-Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian poet
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Candlelight vigil

In Memory of Peace Activist Rachel Corrie & Protest the War on 
Iraq
[From Badi Ali, Greensboro, N.C.]

Killing Israeli Style:

Rachel Corrie a Peace activist from Olympia, Washington died of 
injuries in 
Rafah Refugee Camp after being deliberately run over by an 
Israeli military 
Bulldozer trying to prevent the demolition of Palestinian homes 
and property
in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Palestine.

Rachel joins more than 2,000 Palestinians who have been killed 
by Israeli
military machine and settlers since September 2000. Rachel will 
be missed
and always remember by all Palestinians for her courage and 
determination to 
defend human rights and to expose of the ugly face of Israeli 
occupation. 

War on Iraq is not the answer:

It's a fact, support for the war is a minority opinion 
throughout the world 
except in Israel and the USA. In the USA, polls show 54% support 
and 42% 
oppose the war and opposition is growing. 


Date: Friday March 21, 2003
Time: 7:00 PM
Place : Governmental Plaza Downtown Greensboro 

Sponsored by Islamic Center for Triad, Greensboro Peace 
Coalition and Not in 
Our Name Project

( Silence is complicity. We urge all peace loving people to 
immediately 
freeze all dealing with the apartheid state of Israel and 
condemn this 
atrocity and the thousands of others like it. )

Please come join us and bring your vigil candle 
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Afghan officials confirm US role in massacre of Taliban prisoners
[Courtesy Afghanistan-sl list]
March 17, 2003

On March 6, the German television programme Panorama presented 
fresh evidence
implicating US troops in the massacre of Taliban prisoners 
during the 2001
war in Afghanistan. Shown on the ARD channel, the programme 
presented footage,
including interviews with two Afghan government ministers who 
confirmed the
presence of American troops during the transportation and 
killing of 
surrendered
Taliban prisoners.

A documentary film made by Scottish director Jamie Doran?shown 
in an 
uncompleted
form to members of the European Parliament and other selected 
audiences in
Europe last June?presented the first public charges of American 
involvement
in war crimes in Afghanistan.

Doran's film documents events following the November 21, 2001 
fall of Konduz,
the Taliban's last stronghold in northern Afghanistan. The film 
presents
a series of witnesses who testify that American military forces 
participated
in the armed assault and killing of several hundred Taliban 
prisoners in
the Qala-i-Janghi fortress. Witnesses also allege that, 
following the events
at Qala-i-Janghi, the American army command, together with 
troops of the
Northern Alliance, were complicit in the killing and disposal of 
a further
3,000 prisoners, out of a total of 8,000 who surrendered after 
the battle
of Konduz.

Hundreds of prisoners died of suffocation in the course of 
transportation
in closed containers to the prison of Shibarghan. The transport 
finally ended
in a stretch of desert known as Dasht-i-Leili, near Mazar-i-
Sharif, where
dead bodies were unloaded and several hundred prisoners who were 
still alive
were shot to death.

The US State Department has consistently denied any American 
involvement
in the massacre of prisoners in the desert near Mazar-i-Sharif 
by forces
loyal to the commander of the Northern Alliance, General Rashid 
Dostun. Dostun
was the closest ally of American forces in November 2001 when 
fighting in
Afghanistan reached its peak.

Following the showing of the rough cut of Doran's film the 
Pentagon issued
a June 13, 2002 statement denying US complicity in the torture 
and murder
of POWs. The US State Department followed suit with a formal 
denial one day
later.

In December of last year, Doran's completed film Massacre in 
Afghanistan?Did
the Americans Look On? was shown to German audiences. The film 
has already
been shown in Britain and Italy and has been bought for showing 
in a totalof 
11 other countries. The American media has blocked virtually all 
coverage
of the film and its allegations. The film was recently released, 
however,
on video?titled Afghan Massacre?Convoy of Death, available from 
Doran's 
production
company at www.acftv.net.

Prior to the German broadcast, a State Department spokesman, 
Larry Schwartz,
declared: "It is a mystery to us why a respected television 
channel is showing
a documentary in which the facts are completely wrong and which 
unfairly
depicts the US mission in Afghanistan." Following the December 
transmission,
State Department officials once again denied any involvement by 
US troops
in the killing of Taliban prisoners.

Now the allegations raised in Doran's film have been confirmed 
for the first
time by Afghan government officials. German reporters 
accompanied a small
team representing the German parliamentary committee for Human 
Rights to
Afghanistan on a trip to investigate the background to the 
events in 
Mazar-i-Sharif.
In the course of their research, the reporters were able to 
briefly interview
Rashid Dostun, who now occupies the post of joint Deputy Defence 
Minister
of Afghanistan.

In the interview, Dostun acknowledged that the killing of 
prisoners had taken
place. He was not prepared to be drawn out, however, on the role 
played by
US troops in these killings. Dostun shares the deputy post at 
the Afghan
Defence Ministry with another general, Atig ullah Barialei, who 
was much
more forthright and conceded that American troops were in 
attendance at this
massacre.

Barialei stated in an interview with Panorama reporters at the 
Defence 
Ministry
that, in his opinion, what had taken place in the desert was a 
war crime,
and he confirmed that "at all the incidents which took place, 
American troops
were present."

Barialei's charge was confirmed by Afghanistan's Interior 
Minister Taj 
Muhammed
Wardak. Wardak acknowledged that unarmed prisoners had been 
killed in an
operation that he called an "accident". Wardak went on to 
acknowledge that
US troops were present during both the transportation and 
killing of the
prisoners. Shortly after his interview with Panorama, Wardak 
resigned his
post as interior minister for reasons that remain unclear.

In a comment for the Panorama programme, Christa Nickels, 
representing the
German parliamentary committee for Human Rights, stated that she 
was convinced
beyond any doubt that a massacre of prisoners had taken place. 
The prisoners
had previously been disarmed, and their killing was in blatant 
violation
of international law. She added that the statements made by 
Afghan government
officials served to reinforce allegations that American Special 
Forces 
troopswere present during the killings.

The United Nations had agreed to organise a fullscale 
investigation of the
events at Mazar-i-Sharif this spring, but according to a 
representative of
Physicians for Human Rights interviewed in the Panorama 
documentary, there
is little chance of such a probe ever taking place. No agreement 
has been
reached with the government of Afghanistan for the protection of 
those who
would do the investigating, and the UN is displaying little 
willingness to
ensure on its own that suitable protection be made available.

Since Doran's film was completed, two of the eyewitnesses who 
testified on
camera to seeing US soldiers at the scene of the killings have 
themselves
been murdered. Other witnesses and co-workers of the filmmaker 
have received
death threats.

The Panorama documentary ends with recent footage of the desert 
where the
massacre took place. There are indications of digging suggesting 
that an
attempt is underway to destroy the evidence of a war crime. The 
film's 
narrator
warns that a forthcoming war in Iraq, with all its new attendant 
horrors,
could serve to finally distract all attention from the 
involvement of US
forces in the war crimes carried out at Mazar-i-Sharif.
 

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cc: Brother Imam, thank you for sending this. Very informative. 
We need to somehow make war obsolete.

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Read this! Incredible huh? 





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http://www.yesmagazine.org/25environmentandhealth/rokke.htm 

The War Against Ourselves 

An Interview with Major Doug Rokke 

Doug Rokke has a PhD in health physics and was originally 
trained as a forensic scientist. When the Gulf War started, he 
was assigned to prepare soldiers to respond to nuclear, 
biological, and chemical warfare, and sent to the Gulf. What he 
experienced has made him a passionate voice for peace, traveling 
the country to speak out. The following interview was conducted 
by the director of the Traprock Peace Center, Sunny Miller, 
supplemented with questions from YES! editors. 


photo by Charlie Jenks 

QUESTION: Any viewer who saw the war on television had the 
impression this was an easy war, fought from a distance and 
soldiers coming back relatively unharmed. Is this an accurate 
picture? 

ROKKE: At the completion of the Gulf War, when we came back to 
the United States in the fall of 1991, we had a total casualty 
count of 760: 294 dead, a little over 400 wounded or ill. But 
the casualty rate now for Gulf War veterans is approximately 30 
percent. Of those stationed in the theater, including after the 
conflict, 221,000 have been awarded disability, according to a 
Veterans Affairs (VA) report issued September 10, 2002. 

Many of the US casualties died as a direct result of uranium 
munitions friendly fire. US forces killed and wounded US forces. 

We recommended care for anybody downwind of any uranium dust, 
anybody working in and around uranium contamination, and anyone 
within a vehicle, structure, or building that s struck with 
uranium munitions. That s thousands upon thousands of 
individuals, but not only US troops. You should provide medical 
care not only for the enemy soldiers but for the Iraqi women and 
children affected, and clean up all of the contamination in 
Iraq. 

And it s not just children in Iraq. It s children born to 
soldiers after they came back home. The military admitted that 
they were finding uranium excreted in the semen of the soldiers. 
If you ve got uranium in the semen, the genetics are messed up. 
So when the children were conceived the alpha particles cause 
such tremendous cell damage and genetics damage that everything 
goes bad. Studies have found that male soldiers who served in 
the Gulf War were almost twice as likely to have a child with a 
birth defect and female soldiers almost three times as likely. 

Q: You have been a military man for over 35 years. You served in 
Vietnam as a bombardier and you are still in the US Army 
Reserves. Now you re going around the country speaking about the 
dangers of depleted uranium (DU). What made you decide you had 
to speak publicly about DU? 

ROKKE: Everybody on my team was getting sick. My best friend 
John Sitton was dying. The military refused him medical care, 
and he died. John set up the medical evacuation communication 
system for the entire theater. Then he got contaminated doing 
the work. 

John and Rolla Dolph and I were best friends in the civilian 
world, the military world, forever. Rolla got sick. I personally 
got the order that sent him to war. We were both activated 
together. I was given the assignment to teach nuclear, 
biological, and chemical warfare and make sure soldiers came 
back alive and safe. I take it seriously. I was sent to the Gulf 
with this instruction: Bring  em back alive. Clear as could be. 
But when I got all the training together, all the environmental 
cleanup procedures together, all the medical directives, nothing 
happened. 

More than 100 American soldiers were exposed to DU in friendly 
fire accidents, plus untold numbers of soldiers who climbed on 
and entered tanks that had been hit with DU, taking photos and 
gathering souvenirs to take home. They didn t know about the 
hazards. 

DU is an extremely effective weapon. Each tank round is 10 
pounds of solid uranium-238 contaminated with plutonium, 
neptunium, americium. It is pyrophoric, generating intense heat 
on impact, penetrating a tank because of the heavy weight of its 
metal. When uranium munitions hit, it s like a firestorm inside 
any vehicle or structure, and so we saw tremendous burns, 
tremendous injuries. It was devastating. 

The US military decided to blow up Saddam s chemical, 
biological, and radiological stockpiles in place, which released 
the contamination back on the US troops and on everybody in the 
whole region. The chemical agent detectors and radiological 
monitors were going off all over the place. We had all of the 
various nerve agents. We think there were biological agents, and 
there were destroyed nuclear reactor facilities. It was a toxic 
wasteland. And we had DU added to this whole mess. 

When we first got assigned to clean up the DU and arrived in 
northern Saudi Arabia, we started getting sick within 72 hours. 
Respiratory problems, rashes, bleeding, open sores started 
almost immediately. 

When you have a mass dose of radioactive particulates and you 
start breathing that in, the deposit sits in the back of the 
pharynx, where the cancer started initially on the first guy. It 
doesn t take a lot of time. I had a father and son working with 
me. The father is already dead from lung cancer, and the sick 
son is still denied medical care. 

Q: Did you suspect what was happening? 

ROKKE: We didn t know anything about DU when the Gulf War 
started. As a warrior, you re listening to your leaders, and 
they re saying there are no health effects from the DU. But, as 
we started to study this, to go back to what we learned in 
physics and our engineering I was a professor of environmental 
science and engineering you learn rapidly that what they re 
telling you doesn t agree with what you know and observe. 

In June of 1991, when I got back to the States, I was sick. 
Respiratory problems and the rashes and neurological things were 
starting to show up. 

Q: Why didn t you go to the VA with a medical complaint? 

ROKKE: Because I was still in the Army, and I was told I 
couldn t file. You have to have the information that connects 
your exposure to your service before you go to the VA. The VA 
obviously wasn t going to take care of me, so I went to my 
private physician. We had no idea what it was, but so many good 
people were coming back sick. 

They didn t do tests on me or my team members. According to the 
Department of Defense s own guidelines put out in 1992, any 
excretion level in the urine above 15 micrograms of uranium per 
day should result in immediate medical testing, and when you get 
up to 250 micrograms of total uranium excreted per day, you re 
supposed to be under continuous medical care. 

Finally the US Department of Energy performed a radiobioassay on 
me in November 1994, while I was director of the Depleted 
Uranium Project for the Department of Defense. My excretion rate 
was approximately 1500 micrograms per day. My level was 5 to 6 
times beyond the level that requires continuous medical care. 

But they didn t tell me for two and a half years. 

Q: What are the symptoms of exposure to DU? 

ROKKE: Fibromyalgia. Eye cataracts from the radiation. When 
uranium impacts any type of vehicle or structure, uranium oxide 
dust and pieces of uranium explode all over the place. This can 
be breathed in or go into a wound. Once it gets in the body, a 
portion of this stuff is soluble, which means it goes into the 
blood stream and all of your organs. The insoluble fraction 
stays in the lungs, for example. The radiation damage and the 
particulates destroy the lungs. 

Q: What kind of training have the troops had, who are getting 
called up right now the ones being shipped to the vicinity of 
what may be the next Gulf War? 

ROKKE: As the director of the Depleted Uranium Project, I 
developed a 40-hour block of training. All that curriculum has 
been shelved. They turned what I wrote into a 20-minute program 
that s full of distortions. It doesn t deal with the reality of 
uranium munitions. 

The equipment is defective. The General Accounting Office 
verified that the gas masks leak, the chemical protective suits 
leak. Unbelievably, Defense Department officials recently said 
the defects can be fixed with duct tape. 

Q: If my neighbors are being sent off to combat with equipment 
and training that is inadequate, and into battle with a toxic 
weapon, DU, who can speak up? 

ROKKE: Every husband and wife, son and daughter, grandparent, 
aunt and uncle, needs to call their congressmen and cite these 
official government reports and force the military to ensure 
that our troops have adequate equipment and adequate training. 
If we don t take care of our American veterans after a war, as 
happened with the Gulf War, and now we re about ready to send 
them into a war again we can t do it. We can t do it. It s a 
crime against God. It s a crime against humanity to use uranium 
munitions in a war, and it s devastating to ignore the 
consequences of war. 

These consequences last for eternity. The half life of uranium 
238 is 4.5 billion years. And we left over 320 tons all over the 
place in Iraq. 

We also bombarded Vieques, Puerto Rico, with DU in preparation 
for the war in Kosovo. That s affecting American citizens on 
American territory. When I tried to activate our team from the 
Department of Defense responsible for radiological safety and DU 
cleanup in Vieques, I was told no. When I tried to activate 
medical care, I was told no. 

The US Army made me their expert. I went into the project with 
the total intent to ensure they could use uranium munitions in 
war, because I m a warrior. What I saw as director of the 
project, doing the research and working with my own medical 
conditions and everybody else s, led me to one conclusion: 
uranium munitions must be banned from the planet, for eternity, 
and medical care must be provided for everyone, not just the US 
or the Canadians or the British or the Germans or the French but 
for the American citizens of Vieques, for the residents of Iraq, 
of Okinawa, of Scotland, of Indiana, of Maryland, and now 
Afghanistan and Kosovo. 

Q: If your information got out widely, do you think there s a 
possibility that the families of those soldiers would beg them 
to refuse? 

ROKKE: If you re going to be sent into a toxic wasteland, and 
you know you re going to wear gas masks and chemical protective 
suits that leak, and you re not going to get any medical care 
after you re exposed to all of these things, would you go? 
Suppose they gave a war and nobody came. You ve got to start 
peace sometime. 

Q: It does sound remarkable for someone who has been in the 
military for 35 years to be talking about when peace should 
begin. 

ROKKE: When I do these talks, especially in churches, I m 
reminded that these religions say,  And a child will lead us to 
peace.  But if we contaminate the environment, where will the 
child come from? The children won t be there. War has become 
obsolete, because we can t deal with the consequences on our 
warriors or the environment, but more important, on the 
noncombatants. When you reach a point in war when the 
contamination and the health effects of war can t be cleaned up 
because of the weapons you use, and medical care can t be given 
to the soldiers who participated in the war on either side or to 
the civilians affected, then it s time for peace. 

--------------------------------- 

For more information on DU, see the WISE Uranium Project, 
www.antenna.nl/wise/uranium/; the National Gulf War Resource 
Center, www.ngwrc.org; or Veterans for Common Sense, 
www.veteransforcommonsense.org. Sunny Miller s interview was 
originally broadcast on WMFO (Boston) in November 2002 and is 
available for re-broadcast at www.traprockpeace.org. 






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Denying Women Access to the Mosque: A Betrayal of the Prophet

by Shamima Sheikh 

An 'ignorance' that's frightening

I was prompted to put together these few thoughts after a 
meeting with a group of architects (who are also popular mosque 
designers in South Africa) and students who presented their 
proposals for the WITS mosque. The architects expressed their 
certainty as to where a woman may be located in a mosque, saying 
that any other accommodation was bid'ah (innovation). A young 
student presenting his design said women and men reading 
alongside were unacceptable; they had to be completely separated 
(he said that women should be accommodated in a gallery). His 
other assumption was that men at WITS could not control their 
libidos. 

It was their certainty that their beliefs and perspectives were 
actually the Prophetic tradition and that anything else was 
bid'ah that I found frightening. I was in no doubt about the 
sincerity and love these men have for the Prophet (pbuh). It is 
because of this and my own love for Islam and the Prophet (pbuh) 
that I feel the need to inform them about what I've come to 
learn about women and the space they occupied in the Prophet's 
mosque. 

Women's Space in the Prophet's Mosque

Women occupied the back rows of the Prophet's mosque, where they 
could be seen and heard by the rest of the congregation. 
(Remember that the Prophet's mosque was fairly small.) Ibn Abaas 
(ra) said: 

"Once the Prophet came out (for the 'Id prayers) as if I were 
just observing him waving to the people to sit down. He then, 
accompanied by Bilal, came crossing the rows till he reached the 
women. He recited verse 12 of chapter 60 to them and asked: 'O 
ladies, are you fulfilling your covenant?' None except one woman 
said 'Yes'. The Prophet then said: 'Then give sadaqah.' Bilal 
(ra) then spread his garment and said 'Keep on giving alms'." [1]

Access to the Imam

Direct contact between the Prophet, as the imam who led the 
prayers, and those who attended the prayers seems to have been 
an important element in the Friday khutba:

". . . On Friday he (the Prophet) preached the khutba leaning on 
a staff. . . And the people were in front of him, their faces 
raised toward him, they listened as they watched him. . . ."[2]

The idea that the mosque is a privileged place, the collective 
space where the leader debates with all the members of the 
community before making decisions, is the key idea of Islam 
which today is presented to us as the bastion of despotism. 
Everything passed through the mosque which became the school for 
teaching new converts how to do the ritual prayer, the 
principles of lslam, how to behave towards others in places of 
worship and elsewhere. Was it fitting to come armed or not? 
Could one have buying and selling there? (the Prophet and his 
Makkan supporters were originally merchants) Could one keep 
prisoners of war in the mosque courtyard (to keep better watch 
on them) or not.

The mosque was a space where dialogue between the leader and the 
people could take place. The apparently simple decision to 
install a mimbar in the mosque was treated by the Prophet as a 
matter that concerned all Muslims. The Prophet used to say the 
Friday prayers standing, leaning against a palm trunk. One day 
he announced that standing made him tired. Tamim al-Dari 
answered: 'Why not build a pulpit like I have seen in Syria?' 
The Prophet asked their advice on the question, and they agreed 
to the suggestion. [4] A Madinah carpenter cut a tree and built 
a pulpit with a seat and two steps up to it. Other versions say 
that the Prophet was urged to take his place on the mimbar at 
the time of prayer so that everybody could see him, because in a 
few months the number of Muslims had grown considerably, and 
this seemed a more plausible reason than fatigue. The Prophet 
was only 54 years old at the time of the Hijra and was in the 
prime of life. 

From access to denial of access

In the Kitab al-Jum'a (Book of Friday) of Imam Bukhari (d. 256H),
[5] who wrote two centuries after the death of the Prophet 
(pbuh), he quotes the hadith: 

"Do not forbid the mosques of Allah to the women of Allah." 

A half-century later (300H), Imam Nasa'i, wrote his al-Sunan. In 
his chapter on al-masjid, he gives specifications for the rows 
between men and women: how crowded they may be and how far from 
each other. He states that a man has no right to forbid his wife 
to go to the mosque. He quotes the Prophet: "When a woman asks 
authorisation from one of you to go to the mosque, let him grant 
it to her."[6] 

Ibn al-Jawzi (d. 597H), wrote a book on the laws that govern 
women in Islam and devoted his chapter 24 to 'Women's Friday 
Service'. He had to acknowledge that they had a right to the 
service since the hadith on the subject was incontrovertible. 
However he raises three issues:

1. On the question of rows he said 'the prayers of men who are 
seated behind women are worthless.'[7] It often happened that 
men came to the mosque late and were blocked by the rows of 
women. It is very easy to imagine the fatal next step: ban women 
from the mosque, since the mere presence of women risked 
creating a problem.

2. Ibn al-Jawzi then asks a question which in itself contains a 
betrayal of the ancient texts: 'Is it permitted for women to go 
to the mosque?' And his answer: 'If she fears disturbing men's 
minds, it is better for her to pray at home.'[8]

3. He cites Bukhari's key hadith in which the Prophet stresses 
that the mosques of Allah are not forbidden to women. He 
concludes by saying that 'the Friday service is not a duty for 
women'.[9] And, 'A woman should try to avoid going out as much 
as she can.'[10] 

But it is in reading modern authors like Muhammad Sadiq al-
Qannuji, the twentieth-century Indian scholar (d. 1308H), that 
one notes the institutionalisation of the exclusion of women 
from such a crucial place as a mosque. In his chapter on "What 
has been said on the fact that the Friday sermon is not a duty 
for women", he brings out a dubious hadith which says: "The 
Friday service is a duty for all Muslims, with four exceptions: 
slaves, women, children, and the ill."[11]

We are certainly a long way from the Prophet's mosque, open to 
all, welcoming all those interested in Islam, including women. 
The mosque now suffers a betrayal of Muhammad's (pbuh) ideal 
community: women are declared strangers to the place of worship. 
Women, who had the privilege of access to the mosque as 
sahabiyyaat (companions of the Prophet) very quickly became 
polluting, evil beings.

Sexual Men and Invisible Women

The premise that women 'distract' men from their spiritual 
endeavors and that they stimulate sexual urges rests on a 
certain understanding of what it means to be human, and a 
certain understanding of what constitutes maleness and 
femaleness.

This argument operates from the premise that our focus of 
control, and our focus of self as human beings, as Muslims, is 
outside ourselves, and that men have weak inner centres since, 
upon seeing and listening to women, they are overcome by 
irresistible uncontrollable sexual urges. By such reasoning we 
imply that man are incapable of taking moral responsibility for 
their behaviour and relations. 

The solution is to manipulate the external environment   women 
must be invisible   to keep men's responses in check. This 
raises important questions: What does this say about man's 
capacity to take full responsibility for his spirituality? On 
what understanding of humanity are these arguments based?

In order that we believing men and believing women, God-
conscious men and God-conscious women, can reclaim our full 
humanity, reclaim our Islam, we need to revolutionize our 
categories of maleness and femaleness. We must reject the idea 
of uncontrollable male sexuality and evil women.

Allah says in the Qur'an:

"The Believers, men and women, are protectors one of another: 
they enjoin what is just, and forbid what is evil: they observe 
regular prayers, practice regular charity, and obey Allah and 
His apostle. On them will Allah pour His mercy: for Allah is 
Exalted in Power, Wise."[12]

Therapy for Male 'Sexuality'

For those men and women who view each other only as sexual 
beings, the mosque precinct   a holy precinct   can be 
therapeutic. On seeing women in the holy precinct, the depraved 
soul has to recognise that women are not just sexy beings but 
spiritual beings, members of the ummah, their sisters in faith. 
If women are invisible in this holy precinct his perception of 
women as just sexy beings will not be challenged and he will 
never be able to reclaim his full humanity, his Islam. 

May Allah guide us and help us respect each other

[ 1] Bukhari, vol. 2, no. 95
[ 2] Ibn Sa'd, Tabaqat, vol, l, p, 238
[ 3] One of the most fascinating descriptions of the Prophet's 
mosque is in Imam al-Nasa'i, Sunan, vol. l, pp. 31- 59
[ 4] Ibn Sa'd, Tabaqat, vol. l, p. 250
[ 5] Askalani, Fath al-bari, vol. 3, p. 34
[ 6] Imam Nasa'i, Sunan, vol. 2, p. 32
[ 7] Ibn al-Jawzi, Kitab ahkam al.nisa' eirut: Al-Makbba al-
'Asriyya, 1980, p. 201.
[ 8] Ibid., p. 202.
[ 9] Ibid., p. 205.
[ 10] Ibid., p.209.
[ 11] Muhammad Sidiq Hasan Khan al-Qannuji, Husn al-uswa bima 
tabata minha allahi fi al -niswa (Beirut: Mu'assasa al.Risala, 
1981) p. 345.
[ 12] Qur'an (9:71)

Sources:

Fatima Mernissi, The Forgotten Queens of Islam
Sa'diyyah Shaikh, Sexual men and Spiritual women

Presented to the Jamaat Khanna Committee of the University of 
the Witwatersrand - 1995. Shamima was a 'community member' of 
the committee that was negotiating with the university 
administration for a new mosque complex and participating in 
decisions regarding the design of the complex. She argued for 
women to be accommodated in the 'main space' of the mosque.


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Most of the Muslim/Arab leaders have been lured into believing 
that they must buy armaments from West and these folks will also 
protect them. But it has been nearly forty-four years that they 
have not learnt a single lesson. The Arabs/Muslims have been 
made to fight with one another through "Virtual Reality Demons" 
created by the West, and by pretending to be their protectors 
and saviors. As James Schlesinger pointed out just tonight on 
PBS-TV's News Hour Program that Bush et al. planned 
a "sequential assault" to dominate the Middle East. Nine-eleven 
was merely used as an excuse and there are tell-tale signs that 
it was planned by the collaboration of local law 
enforcemnent/intelligence agencies who were at loggers-head with 
the folks in diplomatic community. Thus they collaborated with a 
common enemy to stage the WTC event, in which they deliberately 
lost their mastermind, John O' Neill, to eliminate any traces of 
any such collaborative effort (like Jack Ruby killing Lee Harvey 
Oswald, who later died of a suspicious cancer). 

Last year it was Afghanistan, this year it is Iraq, and Allah 
and Bush et al. only know who is next in there serial genocide 
of Muslim nations. Had the rulers not been fooled into 
establishing Gulf Cooperative Council after 1991 Gulf War, 
Muslims wouldn't be seeing this day, when the enemies of Islam 
will kill another thousands of Muslims and deestry the resources 
of Muslims to keep us backward and dominated pretending to be 
the protectors and friends of Muslims, while the reality is that 
a few hundred Muslims are being tortured and incacerated against 
the International Law in Guntanamo Bay, Cuba, and Bagram Air 
Base in Kabul. If Muslim rulers or people think that this blood 
money earned to minmize their economic woes will help them, they 
must not forget that Allah will never forgive those who became 
instruments in handing over their brethren to foreigners to have 
them tortured and killed, annd where they will never receive 
proper justice till the cows come home. The personal greed 
harbored by foreign aid and the booty earned for delivering 
Muslim trophies will cause further degeneration of Muslims 
rather than uplift their economic and social condition. 

 

Remember:

Brief about IRAQ:

* The previous Gulf War cost the Arabs almost $100 billion, and 
Saudi Arabi for the first time had to borrow money to meet 
domestic programs.

* More than 200, 000 Iraqi Soldiers were killed like wild 
turkeys.

More than 4,000 civilians were killed some with the most 
horrible bombs known as Bunker Busters in an Air Raid Shelter.

* 40 tons of Depleted Uranium debris was left after using DU 
munitions, affecting more than 500,000 people dying with Cancer. 
(Half life of Uranium-238 is 4.6 billion years)..

* Prior to sanctions the inflation rate stood at a level of 45 
% , and between August 1990 and January 1991, it rose to 1,000 %.

* GDP decreased from US$66 billion in 1989 to an incredible US 
$100-200 billion.

* The cost of reconstruction was estimated to be $200 billion.

* Forty % of the schools were destroyed. Approximately 600 
bombs, rockets and artillery shells fired daily to pieces of 
unexploded ammunition are alleged still to lie in Iraq. 

* Infant mortality rate increased by 100 % between 1990 and 
1992. 

* Iraq's water supply was deliberately contaminated causing 
severe hygiene problems and diseases.

 

Brief About Kuwait:

* In Kuwait City, 200 buildings including hotels, parliaments, 
the National Museum, libraries, the Emir's palace, hospitals, 
and government offices were set on fire.

* Kuwait paid US$22 billion to the allies for the war effort, in 
addition to more than $1million paid tid to Hill & Knowlton, to 
invent a lie to justify war.

Kuwaitis GDP fell from US$24.5 billion in 1989 to US$11.2 
billion in 1991 as a result of the war, before rising to 
US$21.74 billion in 1992. 

Major Allied finacial to US and UK in US$million :

Country                          Paid to US              Paid to 
UK

Saud                    16,839                     873

Kuwait                           16,006                    990

UAE                                4,000                   417

Japan                             10,740                   288

Germany                          6,572                    411

Korea                                 385                       
27

Other                                   20                    220

Total:                              54,562                 3,226

The above shows that kicking Saddam and killing several thousand 
Muslims was a  profitable enterprise for US and UK. 

When will the Muslims learn from such blunders and learn who is 
their friend or foe?  

 B. Syed

                                                    
"Call to the way of your Lord with wisdom and sincere 
exhortations and debate with them in the manners that are most 
appropriate." [Al-Qur'an, 16:125]
                                                   

 

As Salaamu Alaikum,

This is going to all the groups I moderate and participate in 
daily discussions.  It is time for us to continue the prayers, 
write letters of protest and go to the streets to protest.  We 
have allowed others to do what we should be doing as Muslims 
making a lot of noise about the war with Iraq.  Don't let the 
fancy double talk fool you.  A lot of civilians will get hurt.  
A lot of our young people in the military will be hurt for 
almost no reason.  We need better leadership than what we have 
and only we can bring that about.  We must become more political 
minded and aware.

May Allah assist the people of Iraq and end this conflict now.

ma salaam
Hadayai 

ma salaam
Hadayai Majeed
Muslim Women's Political Action Committee 

<br><br><br><html><DIV>Assalam o Alaikum Warahmatullahi 
Wabarakatuhu</EM></FONT></STRONG>
<P></P></DIV>

Firstly, let's just forget all the elaborate word's and 
sentences and 
remember the main aim is to help people understand a topic. 
Intellect is not 
shown through your own opinion on a matter or subject but 
through sensible 
reasoning.

Instead of biting off each other's head's just think about the 
good that can 
come out of silence. Why are so many young muslim's wasting 
their time on 
people who have decided they dont want to learn. Why not create 
a web site 
where people only visit because they WANT to learn.

Ok so mr Tukman has a problem with women in islam wearing 
hijjab? How many 
time's have you tried to put some sense in to him....did it 
work?...Just 
remember there are people out there who need dawah. and there 
are some who 
just like arguing. Instead of going on the net why not give 
dawah to the 
locality?...make your home an islamic state before you can make 
the world 
one. Never dream without putting in the effort.

The simple fact is that people who like to show off their bodies 
are not 
helping the world at all...the world need's educated people. Not 
sportsmen 
or athelete's. I am not being biased as i myself love sport a 
lot. But i 
have the intellect to at least know that if we want to help the 
world and 
help the ummah then we should be studying right now instead of 
wasting time.

Why are so many nation's puppet's of america?...because we are 
not as 
advanced. Muslim's have the dedication and will power but not 
the 
technology. We see many youth's shouting slogan's and going to 
demonstaration's. But instead if we quietly studied at home to 
help portray 
the view of the muslim's through media this would be the best 
jihad.

America and uk have covered all of the media...they help to 
decideon your 
behalf. without realising it you by wtching cnn are contributing 
toward's 
the war on innocent people not just muslim's. Islam teches mercy 
for all not 
just your own fellow muslim's.

If all the muslim's in the world had degrees and money they 
could put up a 
muslim news and information channel. America is using media to 
propaget thei 
veiw's. How many muslim's are doing the same? NOne. There are 
hardly any 
muslim's on the media. There are hardly any muslim role model's 
to be heard 
of. The prophet was told to "read in the name of your lord". but 
the youth 
are exactly the opposite.

Shaitan loves to waste your time...and he alway's make's you 
think you are 
doing good. Why is it that the majority of youth will take 
hour's in front 
of the mirror each morning and not in front of a book?...How 
many muslim's 
are buying playstation game's and not book's? Islam need's good 
representative's...not thug's fighting in the name of islam. The 
reason why 
the muslim's are being treated in such a harsh way today is our 
own self to 
blame. because we forget allah and shaitan remember's us. How 
many time's a 
day do we think people will laugh at me if i sit on the floor 
and eat?...
Just remember we will all grow old and pride, strength and 
beauty never 
last's for ever. So just kill the little pride that we have.

I am not perfect but each day i read through my e-mail's and 
what do i see? 
Argument's and wild goose chases.Half baked muslim's, If people 
find the 
hijjab hillarious then question your selves why?...because the 
ummah does 
not feel proud to wear it. If you don't feel good about your 
self no one 
else will about you.

The kuffar's feel good doing their own dirty activities and what 
happen's?...the world praises them. because they are proud to 
follow satan. 
How many muslim's watch MTV award's and movie Award's too?...we 
watch 
useless movies and drama's. these are just a few way's we loose 
gip of the 
rope of islam.

We go to football matches and join hooliganism...this is not 
islamic. This 
is western corrupt culture. Football youth's only cause harm to 
the worl'd 
as they have no sports man ship due to lack of moprals. When 
their team 
looses they cause violence. But the funniest thing is that they 
only watched 
the match and the team's are relaxing in the changing room's. 
This is the 
intellect of the western society.

Islam teaches that loss is from allah and that make's people 
HUMANE. 
Drinking beer harm's your health and kill's many people. is this 
HUMANE? 
smoking is encouraged HUMANE? Raping is caused by showing sexual 
material No 
this is not a HUMANE soiciety

The hijjab show's modesty and self CONTROL. It indicates that 
the woman in 
islam does not need to be so weak that she uncover's her head to 
please the 
world. The guy's will marry a woman to raise well mannered 
children. Who 
will grow up to helkp the world further. Instead her intellect 
is her true 
beauty because intellect last's longer than beauty. Clothes 
should be to 
cover's ones self not to reveal your bodies. in the western 
society men 
mainly marry for sexual pleasure and not to raise children. 
However this is 
the majority of non-religious families.but in the non-islamic 
society today 
'less is more'.

Religion has alway's encouraged good. and bought people 
together. If people 
think the world is a happier place without repligion then read 
on. 
Capitalism is caused by greed of wealth. without god people will 
loose good 
moral's. Such as charity, islam encourages charity. but in a 
capitalist 
society people want top keep their money to them selves. They 
want to 
acheive everything in their life. They want to look more 
beautiful. But they 
forget the need's of those who are poor. In a capitalist society 
the rich 
get richer and the poor get poorer. The poor then steal and 
commit crimes. 
No body question's why people steal. As they are too selfish to 
reason. Some 
people steal to have what they desire and some to fulfil their 
necessity.

In islam if a person steal's through neccessity then it is the 
fault of the 
society for being selfish.

As far as Mr turkman said that wearing the hijjab was centuries 
ago?...people were naked when the world first started...so this 
contradict's 
your opinion. As far as you said it is uncovering which is 
backward's and 
prehistoric. How I wish I had more time to waste. But right now 
the world 
need's help...not selfishness. make-up is for the ugly to make 
them seem 
beautiful. If you feel you need make-up to make you look 
attractive then you 
are not attractive. The first thing 90% of the corrupt society 
look at is 
the body and facial appearance.

Islam encourages looking clean and pleasing, but not sexually 
attracting 
other's intentionally. many husband's in the west leave their 
wives and look 
for more beautiful women and the same with women. This is why 
many 
Non-islamic marriages are destroyed. When you turn on the Tv you 
just see 
drinking, clubbing, and family problem's. Islam does not need 
jerry springer 
to guide people's lives. Islam is perfect even if the muslim's 
are not.

If you really think you are intellectual than conserve your 
youth...and work 
for your future. Study is the key to success. shaitan will tell 
you it's 
normal to drink and have illegal sexual intercourse...but when 
you are older 
you will never be able to get back the time you waste now. I am 
only 17 but 
alhmdulillah I have had the habit to reason everything. Study 
islam and look 
at the world again.

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from your 
Brother in Islam Reyhan Ali-Haq</EM></FONT></STRONG></P></html>

As Salaamu Alaikum,

I'm writing to ask you to join me in signing a Citizens' 
Declaration reaffirming our commitment to international 
cooperation. The outbreak of war is not the end of the fight for 
peace -- only the beginning. Around the globe, people are 
joining together in the declaration below. We will be announcing 
it in a press conference on Friday, and we need your help to 
make it as big as possible. Signing up will only take a minute 
of your time, but it'll send a message that the momentum built 
through our opposition to war in Iraq will only keep growing. 
You can sign up at: http://www.moveon.org/declaration/ Here's 
the text of the Declaration: ------------ A CITIZENS' 
DECLARATION As a US-led invasion of Iraq begins, we, the 
undersigned citizens of many countries, reaffirm our commitment 
to addressing international conflicts through the rule of law 
and the United Nations. By joining together across countries and 
continents, we have emerged as a new force for peace. As we 
grieve for the victims of this war, we pledge to redouble our 
efforts to put an end to the Bush Administration's doctrine of 
pre-emptive attack and the reckless use of military power. ------
------ Thank you.

ma salaam 

ALLAHU AKBAR !!
 
This is the beginning of sorrows for the devil and his gang of 
shaiyateen. Let us hope that Belgium stays straight on this 
course.
 
Fi AmmanALLAH
S.M. Aeisha Muhammad
 
US chides Belgium over rights law

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/2863273.stm

Washington has berated Brussels after several Iraqi
families announced they were suing former US President
George Bush and other US politicians for human rights
violations in a Belgian court. 

Families of those who died in the US attack on the
Amiriyah air raid shelter in Baghdad, which took place
in the 1991 Gulf War, are to file a case against the
former president under a law enabling Belgian courts
to hear human rights cases. 

Belgium's "universal competence" legislation allows
proceedings against people accused of war crimes,
crimes against humanity or genocide, regardless of
their nationality or location. 

"We have cautioned our Belgian colleagues that they
need to be very careful about this kind of effort,
this kind of legislation, because it makes it hard for
us to go places that put you at such easy risk," said
US Secretary of State Colin Powell. 

"If you show up, next thing you know you're being...
Who knows?" 

Mr Powell is accused, along with Vice President Dick
Cheney, former US army commander Norman Schwarzkopf
and former president George Bush snr. 

Sharon case 

More than 400 people died in the Amiriyah attack, when
US planes attacked the shelter. 

The US says it was a military command centre, and that
it did not know it was being used to shelter
civilians. 

Mr Powell claimed another case is already being
prepared in relation to the current Gulf conflict
against President Bush and his defence secretary
Donald Rumsfeld "even before anything has happened". 

The most prominent case so far under the Belgian law
is a complaint against the Israeli prime minister,
Ariel Sharon, for his role in the massacre of
Palestinians in Beirut in 1982. 

The case has been temporarily suspended while Mr
Sharon has immunity from prosecution as prime
minister, but has severely strained relations between
Belgium and Israel. 

Bulgaria makes U turn on Iraq: FWD: President Purvanov Opposes 
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EUP20030319000346 Sofia Khorizont Radio in Bulgarian
1500 GMT 19 Mar 03 

President Purvanov Says Bulgaria Must Not Participate
in 'Military Operations' EUP20030317000264 Sofia
Khorizont Radio Bulgarian 1300 GMT 17 Mar 03 
[FBIS Translated Text] 
    President Purvanov is against Bulgaria's
participation in the antiterrorist coalition for
Iraq's immediate disarmament of weapons of mass
destruction.

    In consecutive conversations the president was
briefed by Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and
Foreign Minister Solomon Pasi on the proposal made to
this country to join this coalition and on the
positive answer that the government has given.

    Georgi Purvanov explained his negative position on
including Bulgaria in the coalition with the positions
that he expressed at a meeting of the Consultative
Council on National Security on Monday [17 March].

    Within the next few days the president will
address the nation in connection with the Iraq crisis,
the Presidency Press Secretariat has announced.

[Description of Source: Sofia Khorizont Radio in
Bulgarian -- state-owned, nationwide radio] 
 

Salams (peace greetings)


A demonstration for the people of Iraq will begin today (March 
20th) at 1:00 PM
at Montreal's Concordia University Hall Building - 1455 de 
Maisonneuve Blvd.
West.  

Also, at 12:30 PM today, the Collectif ةchec   la guerre 
will host a
mobilization at the  Guy-Favreau Government Complex. Please tell 
everyone you
know!!!!!!

ALSO, THIS SATURDAY, MARCH 22ND, AT 1:00 PM- A mass anti war 
mobilization will
begin at Dominion Square (Ren -L vesque and Peel

Several anti war demonstrations will be held all over the world 
today and in the
days ahead.

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Question #1514: Reading Quran for a Deceased Person

Question:

Is setting a date to meet and read the entire Qur aan for a 
deceased person and
to pray for him, and doing this every year a bid ah.?

Answer: 

Praise be to Allaah.

There is no indication in either the Qur aan or the Sunnah that 
would prescribe
the actions described in the question. Based on this fact, these 
actions are
bid ah (a reprehensible innovation) which is not permitted; we 
should avoid it
and warn others not to do it. The Messenger of Allaah  (Peace & 
Blessings of
Allaah be upon Him) used to say in his khutbahs (sermons): "The 
truest of speech
is the Book of Allaah, the best guidance is that of Muhammad and 
the worst of
things are those which are newly invented. Every newly-invented 
thing is a
bid ah, every bid ah is a going astray, and every going astray 
will end in the
Fire of Hell." (Reported by al-Nisaa i, may Allaah have mercy on 
him, in
al-Sunan, Kitaab salaat al- eidayn, no. 1560).

It is permissible to pray for the deceased, without arranging a 
formal
gathering, and without setting a specific date for doing so. We 
ask Allaah to
help us and you to do that which He loves and which will please 
Him. Allaah
knows best.

Islam Q&A 
Sheikh Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid (www.islam-qa.com)

http://www.islam-qa.com/index.php?ln=eng&QR=1514


Question #9304: Ruling on reciting al-Faatihah for the deceased

Question:

What is the ruling on reciting al-Faatihah and giving the reward 
for it to the
deceased?

Answer: 

Praise be to Allaah. 

There is no evidence (daleel) for reciting al-Faatihah or any 
other part of the
Qur aan and giving (the reward for) it to the deceased. We must 
not do that,
because it was not narrated that the Prophet (peace and 
blessings of Allaah be
upon him) or his companions (may Allaah be pleased with them) 
did any such
thing. It is prescribed to make du aa  for the dead Muslims and 
to give charity
on their behalf by giving to the poor and needy. In this way a 
person may draw
closer to Allaah and ask Him to give the reward for that to his 
father, mother
or other people, deceased or alive. The Prophet (peace and 
blessings of Allaah
be upon him) said:  When a man dies, all his deeds come to a 
halt apart from
three: ongoing charity (sadaqah jaariyah), beneficial knowledge 
or a righteous
child who will pray for him.    

And it was reported that a man said to the Prophet (peace and 
blessings of
Allaah be upon him):  O Messenger of Allaah, my mother has died 
and she did not
make a will. I think that if she had spoken she would have given 
in charity.
Will she be rewarded if I give in charity on her behalf?  He 
said,  Yes. 
(Saheeh   agreed upon)  

The same applies to Hajj and  umrah on behalf of the deceased 
and paying off his
debts. All of these actions will benefit him, as was narrated in 
the shar i
daleel (evidence). But if the questioner is referring to 
treating the family of
the deceased person kindly by giving them money or meat (i.e., 
food), there is
nothing wrong with that if they are poor.

Majmoo  Fataawa wa Maqaalaat Mutanawwi ah li Samaahat al-
Shaykh  Abd al- Azeez
ibn  Abd-Allaah ibn Baaz (may Allaah have mercy on him), vol. 9, 
p. 324
(www.islam-qa.com)

http://www.islam-qa.com/index.php?ln=eng&QR=9304


Question #12552: The forty-day anniversary is a Pharaonic custom

Question:

What is the origin of the forty-day anniversary? Is there any 
evidence that
eulogizing is acceptable in Islam? 

Answer: 

Praise be to Allaah. 

Firstly: the origin of this is a Pharaonic custom which was 
practised by the
Pharaohs before Islam, then it spread from them to other 
nations. It is a
reprehensible innovation (bid ah) which has no basis in Islam, 
and it is be
rejected as the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon 
him) said:
 Whoever innovates anything in this matter of ours (Islam) which 
is not a part
of it, will have it rejected.  (Saheeh   agreed upon).  

Secondly: commemorating and eulogizing the dead in the manner 
that is done
nowadays, when people gather for that purpose and exaggerate in 
praising the
deceased is not permitted. It was narrated by Ahmad and Ibn 
Maajah, and classed
as saheeh by al-Haakim, that  Abd-Allaah ibn Abi Awfaa 
said:  The Messenger of
Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) forbade 
eulogizing.  (And it
is not permitted) because mentioning the attributes of the 
deceased usually
involves boasting and provokes sorrow and grief. But simply 
speaking well of him
when he is mentioned or when his funeral passes by, or 
mentioning his good deeds
and so on, in a manner similar to the way in which the Sahaabah 
eulogized those
who were killed at Uhud and others, is permissible. It was 
narrated that Anas
ibn Maalik (may Allaah be pleased with him) said:  A funeral 
passed by and they
spoke well of the deceased. The Prophet (peace and blessings of 
Allaah be upon
him) said,  He deserved it.  Then another funeral passed by and 
they spoke ill
of the deceased. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be 
upon him) said,
 He deserved it.   Umar (may Allaah be pleased with him) 
said,  What did they
deserve?  He (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) 
said,  The first one
you spoke well of, and he deserved Paradise, and the second one 
you spoke ill
of, and he deserved Hell. You are the witnesses of Allaah on 
earth.  (Narrated
by al-Bukhaari and Muslim).

Kitaab Majmoo  Fataawa wa Maqaalaat Mutanawwi ah li Samaahat al-
Shaykh  Abd
al- Azeez ibn  Abd-Allaah ibn Baaz (may Allaah have mercy on 
him), vol. 13, p.
398. (www.islam-qa.com)

http://www.islam-qa.com/index.php?ln=eng&QR=12552


Question #5871: Bidaa'h of gathering after fourty days to pray 
for the deceased

Question:

In the indo Pak bangladesh subcontinent, there is something in 
the culture where
if any Muslim dies then after 40 days we observe a day of 
supplication and
rememberance of that person. My father recently died ( XXXX) so 
I would like to
know the islamic ruling on these kind of observences?

Answer: 

Praise be to Allaah.

What happens in some Muslim countries   where the friends and 
relatives of the
deceased gather after 40 days to read Qur aan, make du aa  for 
him and remember
him   is undoubtedly bid ah (reprehensible innovation) for which 
no authority
has been revealed by Allaah. It is not permissible to take part 
in or attend
such gatherings. We have to speak out against such practices. 
The Muslim should
pray for his brother at all times, not only for three days after 
his death, or
forty days or one year later, etc. It should be known that this 
is a custom of
the Kuffaar and it is not permissible for us to imitate them. 
May Allaah help us
to follow the Sunnah, and may He bless our Prophet Muhammad.

Islam Q&A 
Sheikh Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid (www.islam-qa.com)

http://www.islam-qa.com/index.php?ln=eng&QR=5871


Question #9965: Gathering in the house of the deceased and 
offering a collective
du aa  for him

Question:

when some one dies...families go round to the deceased houses 
and sit with there
families and make a collective dua..is this permissable? and in 
the masjid they
hold a 'khutam'...is this allowed? 

Answer: 

Praise be to Allaah. 

Among the fatwas issued by the Standing Committee for Issuing 
Fatwas is the
following:  

We do not know of any evidence (daleel) from either the Qur aan 
or Sunnah to
indicate that it is prescribed to recite any soorah of the 
Qur aan in any place,
or in the house of the deceased. We do not know of anyone among 
the Sahaabah or
Taabi een or Taabi ee al-Taabi een [i.e., the first three 
generations of Islam]
from whom it is reported that he did that. The basic principle 
is that this is
not allowed, because the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah 
be upon him)
said:  Whoever does any action that is not in accordance with 
this matter of
ours [i.e., Islam], will have it rejected.  (Narrated by Muslim, 
al-Aqdiyah,
3243). With regard to gathering and making du aa  for him, 
du aa  is an act of
worship, and acts of worship are based on the principle of 
tawqeef [i.e., to be
based solely on the saheeh texts, with no room for adding or 
taking away
anything]. It is not reported that the Prophet (peace and 
blessings of Allaah be
upon him) made du aa  with his companions for any deceased 
person after he had
completed the (funeral) prayer. It was reported that he used to 
stand by the
grave after the ground had been levelled over its occupant and 
say,  Pray for
forgiveness for your brother, for he is being questioned now.  
From the above we
know that the correct thing is not to offer a collective du aa  
after offering
the funeral prayer, and that this is bid ah. 

Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa imah, 9/16 

So pray for your deceased each one of you individually. It is OK 
to make du aa 
for him during salaah and at other times, at the times when 
du aa s are
answered, such as the last third of the night, the last hour 
of  Asr, Fridays,
between the adhaan and  iqaamah, etc. You should be sincere in 
your du aa . When
the du aa  is only between you and Allaah, you will feel more 
khushoo  and will
feel more sincere than when you make du aa  simply to please 
others, as when
people recite du aa  collectively to please the family of the 
deceased. May
Allaah help us and you to do all that is good.

Islam Q&A 
Sheikh Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid (www.islam-qa.com)

http://www.islam-qa.com/index.php?ln=eng&QR=9965


Question #2253: Holding  khatam  gatherings in the mosque to 
recite Soorat
Ya-Seen for the dead is bid ah

Question:

regarding answer 2226:
I see in my mosque something called a 'khutm' where the people 
get together and
recite sura yasin (36) saying that helps the dead or something 
similar. Is there
any daleel in support of this? wa salam. 

Answer: 

Praise be to Allaah.

There is no saheeh evidence (daleel) to indicate that this 
practice is
prescribed in sharee ah. Therefore it is an act of bi dah 
(innovation) which we
should avoid, warn others against and not take part in. We 
should adhere to the
sunnah, which contains sufficient alternatives to all the 
innovated practices.
The hadeeth  Recite Yaa-Seen for your dead  is a da eef (weak) 
hadeeth. See
Question #734. And Allaah is the Source of strength..

Islam Q&A 
Sheikh Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid (www.islam-qa.com)

http://www.islam-qa.com/index.php?ln=eng&QR=2253


Question #734: Ruling on reading Soorat Yaa-Seen for the dying 
and the deceased

Question:

Asslamua Alylum, In my culture people read sura Yaseen in groups 
before and
after people die. I would like to know if whether this is based 
on suna or an
innovation?

Answer: 

Praise be to Allaah.

We have to make a distinction here between the two issues: 
reading Yaa-Seen for
one who is dying, and reading it for one who has died. With 
regard to reading
Yaa-Seen for one who is dying, this practice has been reported 
from some of the
Sahaabah. Imaam Ahmad reported in his Musnad from Safwaan:  My 
shaykhs told me
that they were with Ghudayf ibn al-Haarith al-Thumaani when he 
was dying. He
said:  Can any of you read Yaa-Seen?  So Saalih ibn Shurayh al-
Sakooni recited
it, and when he reached the fortieth aayah, Ghudayf passed away. 
My shaykhs used
to say that when it is recited in the presence of one who is 
dying, it eases the
pain of death.  That was the opinion of Safwaan.  Eesaa ibn al-
Mu tamir read it
for Ibn Mab ad (when the latter was dying). (al-Musnad, 16355)

Al-Albaani said in Irwaa  al-Ghaleel, 3/152:  This is a saheeh 
sanad going back
to Ghudayf ibn al-Haarith, may Allaah be pleased with him. Its 
men are thiqaat
apart from  the shaykhs  who are not named and are therefore 
unknown (majhool).
But the fact that they are unknown is compensated for by their 
large number,
especially since they are of the generation of the Taabi een  

Shaykh Ibn  Uthaymeen said in al-Sharh al-Mumti  fi Ahkaam al-
Janaa iz:  Soorat
Yaa-Seen may be recited over him (i.e., the one who is dying) 
for the one who
thinks that the hadeeth is correct.  He explained that this is 
because this
soorah contains good news of Paradise, as in the aayah 
(interpretation of the
meaning):  It was said:  Enter Paradise.    [Yaa-Seen 36:26], 
and because it
makes the passage of the soul easier, and other reasons.

As regards reading Soorat Yaa-Seen for one who has died, there 
is no saheeh
hadeeth to indicate that this should be done. A hadeeth was 
narrated by Abu
Dawood and others which says  Read Yaa-Seen over your dead , but 
this hadeeth is
not saheeh because its isnaad contains contradictions and 
narrators who are
unknown (majhool). This was stated by al- Allaamah al-Albaani in 
Irwaa 
al-Ghaleel, hadeeth no. 688. Reading Qur aan over the dead is 
considered to be
bid ah (innovation), as he states at the end of his book Ahkaam 
al-Janaa iz.
Some people think that it should be read forty times over the 
deceased, and some
of them may distribute copies of the Qur aan among the mourners 
who gather to
offer condolences so that they may read, or organize gatherings 
in the mosque to
read it for the soul of the deceased. All of this has no basis 
whatsoever (in
the sunnah), and these are innovated deeds of bid ah which we 
should avoid and
warn others against. And Allaah is the Source of strength.

Islam Q&A 
Sheikh Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid (www.islam-qa.com)

http://www.islam-qa.com/index.php?ln=eng&QR=734


Question #9979: Ruling on reading Qur aan over the grave of a 
dead person

Question:

Some people in our village bring together some shaykhs who know 
how to read
Qur aan well, and they read Qur aan on the grounds that this 
Qur aan will
benefit the deceased and bring mercy to him. Some others invite 
one or two
shaykhs to read at the grave of a particular person, and others 
organize big
gatherings where they invite one of the famous readers to read 
over
loudspeakers, to commemorate the anniversary of a loved one s 
death. What is the
Islamic ruling on that? Does reading Qur aan at the graveside or 
elsewhere
benefit the deceased? What is the best way to benefit the dead? 
Please advise
us, may Allaah reward you greatly on our behalf, and we thank 
you very much.

Answer: 

Praise be to Allaah. 

This action is bid ah (reprehensible innovation) and is not 
permissible, because
the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) 
said,  Whoever innovates
anything in this matter of ours (i.e., Islam) that is not a part 
of it, will
have it rejected.  (Saheeh   agreed upon). And he (peace and 
blessings of Allaah
be upon him) said:  Whoever does anything that is not a part of 
this matter of
ours (i.e., Islam) will have it rejected.  (Narrated by Muslim 
in his Saheeh).
And there are many similar ahaadeeth.   

It is not the Sunnah of the Prophet (peace and blessings of 
Allaah be upon him)
or the way of his rightly-guided successors (the Khulafaa  al-
Raashideen   may
Allaah be pleased with them) to read Qur aan over graves or to 
have gatherings
to commemorate the anniversary of a person s death. All goodness 
is to be found
in following the Messenger (peace and blessings of Allaah be 
upon him) and his
rightly-guided successors, and those who followed their path, as 
Allaah says
(interpretation of the meaning): 

 And the foremost to embrace Islam of the Muhaajiroon and the 
Ansaar and also
those who followed them exactly (in Faith). Allaah is well-
pleased with them as
they are well-pleased with Him. He has prepared for them Gardens 
under which
rivers flow (Paradise), to dwell therein forever. That is the 
supreme success 
[al-Tawbah 9:100]   

And the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) 
said:  I urge you to
adhere to my way (Sunnah) and the way of the rightly-guided 
Khulafaa  who come
after me. Adhere to it and bite onto it with your eyeteeth (i.e. 
cling firmly to
it). Beware of newly-invented matters, for every newly-invented 
matter is an
innovation and every innovation is a going-astray.  And it was 
reported in a
saheeh hadeeth that he (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon 
him) said in a
Friday khutbah:  The best of speech is the Book of Allaah and 
the best of
guidance is the guidance of Muhammad (peace and blessings of 
Allaah be upon
him). The most evil of things are those which are newly-
invented, and every
innovation is a going-astray.  And there are many similar 
ahaadeeth.  

According to the saheeh ahaadeeth, the Prophet (peace and 
blessings of Allaah be
upon him) explained the things that will benefit the Muslim 
after he dies. He
(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said:  When a man 
dies, all his good
deeds come to a halt, apart from three: ongoing charity (sadaqah 
jaariyah);
beneficial knowledge; or a righteous child who will pray for 
him.  (Narrated by
Muslim in his Saheeh). A man asked the Prophet (peace and 
blessings of Allaah be
upon him),  O Messenger of Allaah, is there anything that I can 
do to continue
honouring my parents after they die?  He (peace and blessings of 
Allaah be upon
him) said:  Yes: pray for them, ask for forgiveness for them, 
fulfil their last
wishes (wasiyah or will), honour their friends and uphold the 
ties of kinship
which you would not have were it not for them.  The last wishes 
(wasiyah or
will) expressed by the person before he or she died should be 
fulfilled so long
as they are in accordance with sharee ah. Other ways of 
honouring one s parents
is to give in charity on their behalf, to make du aa  for them 
and to perform
Hajj and  Umrah on their behalf. And Allaah is the Source of 
strength.

Kitaab Majmoo  Fataawa wa Maqaalaat Mutanawwi ah li Samaahat al-
Shaykh
al- Allaamah  Abd al- Azeez ibn  Abd-Allaah ibn Baaz (may Allaah 
have mercy on
him), vol. 9, p. 319 (www.islam-qa.com)

http://www.islam-qa.com/index.php?ln=eng&QR=9979


Question #14285: Ruling on reading Qur aan at the graveside and 
putting roses
and fragrant herbs on the grave

Question:

We see some people reciting Qur aan at the grave of their 
deceased loved one
when they visit, and others putting some roses and fragrant 
herbs on the grave.
What is the ruling on that?

Answer: 

Praise be to Allaah. 

With regard to reciting Qur aan when visiting the grave, this is 
something which
has no basis in the Sunnah.  

It is not prescribed in Islam, and the fact that it is not 
prescribed is
supported by the hadeeth of the Prophet (peace and blessings of 
Allaah be upon
him):  Do not make your houses into graveyards, for the Shaytaan 
flees from a
house in which Soorat al-Baqarah is recited.  This was narrated 
by Muslim and
al-Tirmidhi from the hadeeth of Abu Hurayrah. This indicates 
that graves are not
the place for reading Qur aan, hence the Prophet (peace and 
blessings of Allaah
be upon him) encouraged reading Qur aan in our houses and told 
us not to make
them like graveyards where it is not read. Another hadeeth 
indicates that they
(graveyards) are not the place for prayer (salaah) either. The 
Prophet (peace
and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said:  Pray in your houses 
and do not make
them like graves.  This was narrated by Muslim and others from 
Ibn  Umar. A
similar report was narrated by al-Bukhaari, who included it in a 
chapter
entitled Baab Karaahat al-Salaah fi l-Maqaabir (Chapter on it 
being disliked to
pray in graveyards); thus he indicated that the hadeeth of 
Ibn  Umar could be
understood to mean that it is makrooh to pray in graveyards. 
Similarly the
hadeeth of Abu Hurayrah may be understood to mean that it is 
makrooh to read
Qur aan in graveyards. There is no difference between praying 
and reading
Qur aan in this regard.  Abu Dawood said in his Masaa il (p. 
158):  I heard
Ahmad being asked about reading Qur aan at the graveside. He 
said,  No [that
should not be done].    

It is not prescribed in Islam to put  aas  leaves (a kind of 
tree) or fragrant
herbs or roses on the grave, because this is not what the salaf 
did, and if it
was good, they would have done it before us. Ibn  Umar (may 
Allaah be pleased
with them both) said:  Every bid ah (innovation) is a going 
astray, even if the
people think it is good.  (Narrated by Ibn Battah in al-
Ibaanah  an Usool
al-Diyaanah, 2/112; al-Laakaa i in al-Sunnah, 1/21, a mawqoof 
report with a
saheeh isnaad).  

We ask Allaah to bestow mercy upon the deceased Muslims. May 
Allaah bless our
Prophet Muhammad.

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  Salamu alaikum, al'humdolillah, we know better through the 
Quran-Majeed,
 that "Fighting is ordained for you though you may dislike it, -
 - - - -"(al'Baqarah 2:216).
Read on  -  see how the greedy aggressors fabricate excuses to 
wage war.
                Windbags of War
by Gene Callahan


Initiating war is a particularly stupid form of human activity, 
and the onset of the war that will start tonight at 8 pm is 
bringing out the dunce in many. I'm not sure if these will 
alleviate or increase your depression at the thought of war, but 
here are a few choice ideas circulating right now:

One well-known libertarian sent out an e-mail saying, "As our 
men go off to war, the time for criticism ends." Well, there you 
have it. It's one thing to criticize a mugger before he takes 
your wallet, but, once he's in the act, it would be impolite to 
continue. And if you had known about the terrorist plot of 
September 11th, it would have been fine to try and talk the 
terrorists out of it while they were in the planning stages. But 
once they had actually hijacked the planes, it would be quite 
gauche to keep badgering them.

I've read several people asserting that the ease with which the 
US and its minions will win the war will "shut up" those who 
worked for peace. The moral principle involved seems to be that 
no action can be wrong if it is successful. By this criterion, 
Germany was fully justified in invading Poland in 1939, since it 
won so quickly. Barroom bullies are vindicated as long as they 
beat the fellow they picked on with little fuss.

I saw a TV report that one UK official claimed that if not for 
France's intransigence, war could have been prevented. So, it's 
not the countries that are advocating war and massing troops 
around Iraq that are responsible, it's a country resisting the 
push to war. I suppose that makes sense: Imagine three men who 
have met a woman alone in a dark alley. Two of them threaten to 
rape her, but one refuses to cooperate. The two aggressors tell 
the third man, "It's your fault that we have to rape her. If 
only we had presented a united front, she would have given up 
hope and submitted voluntarily."

Also on TV was Bush saying that the US did nothing to provoke 
Iraq's aggression. Um, what aggression? Does he mean the way 
Iraq's land has kept blowing up US bombs over the last decade? 
Or maybe the way Iraqi children have continually tried to 
embarrass the US by up and starving to death?

However, the topper of them all is word from CBS News Radio that 
Bush's "ultimatum" to Saddam Hussein is meaningless. When asked 
whether Hussein's abdication would halt an invasion, an 
administration official replied that the invasion would proceed 
regardless. In other words:

Bush: If you don't go into exile, we'll invade your country. 
Hussein: And if I do go into exile?
Bush: Well, in that case, we'll invade your country. 
March 19, 2003

Gene Callahan [send him mail], the author of Economics for Real 
People, is an adjunct scholar of the Ludwig von Mises Institute 
and a contributing columnist to LewRockwell.com. 

Copyright   2003 Gene Callahan


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