Khilafate Rashida

I looked at what Hizbut Tahrir is asking for - Khilafa or the Caliphate. Who is opposing it vehemently, and why?

One may also ask why they have not asked for restoring Khifate Rashida.

Sunni thought has always looked upon Khilafate Rashida (The Rightly Guided Caliphate) as the model to aspire to. Why then this group has not asked Muslims to unite with this aim?

In the 1980's I came across a gentleman called Alvi (India born Pakistani and UK citizen), who had indeed formed this very movement. He did manage to get someone who was very sincere, but the two had a falling out after the latter was gradually diverted into "sainthood". That bit later.

Alvi, in later years at least, was not a paragon of virtue. In his feud with his former disciple, he went to the court with claims over the disciple's property, far in excess of his original loan to him. It transpired during the trial that it was actually Alvi who had been funded, supported, and given large loans by the disciple. The case was dismissed with some very unkind remarks about Alvi.

Unfortunate, but it is not the first time a noble cause has been exploited by people unworthy of it.

I tried searching the net, and guess what: The term has been hijacked!

by the Ahmadis, of all people!

Haq Char Yaar, understandably, also uses this term.

I am going to try the HT sitess, and ask the why thye have not used this term?

Satan's deceit

I see reports of conversions, mostly to Islam, but disturbingly enough, some from Islam to Christianity.

A part of these are due to "marriage" of Muslim girls to Christians in the West. It is forbidden, but it does occur. With children, and the pressure of society, some of these girls enter Christianity. What their inner thoughts are, were they really knowledgeable and practicing Muslims before their conversion, and did they believe in a personal savior before this, etc. are questions that need researching. I haven't come across much data or self-stories from that type of apostates.

Most cases of apostasy are due to pressures of society. Freedom to do what one pleases is very attractive at a certain age, and this gives rise to boyfriends, and then either they become either atheists, or if marriage, then gradually the resistance to Christianity gives way.

Some cases of conversion are after soul searching, reading the Scriptures, etc. In these cases, the convert reports a vision in which Jesus (as) appears and declares himself as Son of God. Then he asks to be accepted as a personal savior if the person wants salvation in the hereafter.

These poor people do not realise that this is actually Satan appearing as Jesus. How do you protect yourself from being misled in such a way?

Recite "Aoodhu billahe minashShaytanirRajeem"

أَعُوْذُ بِاللهِ مِنَ الشَّيْطَانِ الرَّجِيْمِ

There is a story of how Satan tried to hoodwink Sheikh Abdul Qadir Gilani, but Allah (swt) saved the Sheikh. May Allah be your Protector and Guide
aameen 

If Muslims are from a family where a person is held in such high esteem that he is a "personal savior", then shifting such allegiance to  Jesus is not such a great leap for the convert.One more reason to avoid sects where peers, mushaikh etc. are venerated.

American Dream or NIghtmare?

A great essay - long but worth a read and reflection.

The Painful Collapse of Empire:

How the "American Dream" and American Exceptionalism Wreck Havoc on the World

We must tell the truth about the domination that is at the heart of the American Dream so that we may face the brokenness of our world.

 

By Robert Jensen

June 29, 2011 "Information Clearing House" -- Whether celebrated or condemned, the American Dream endures, though always ambiguously.

Obama loves to kill Muslims

under a different name, of course.

Pressure Pakistanis into attacking and killing their own countrymen, so that the country is split into factions fighting each other. Use drones within and outside the country to kill "supected militants" - which include babies and mothers and old men, and ordinary people out to earn a living. Use CIA agents to distribute money to the Tehrike Taliban Pakistan, so that they go on a rampage against the Pakistanis. When a CIA agent is caught murdering civilians in cold blood, falsely claim that he is a diplomat. Hoist an army Chief and an Intelligence chief on long extensions, and then shatter the said country's sovereignty by raiding deep into its territory with the US armed forces. When the said chiefs try to save their skin by some outward show of nationalism, expose them them by intensifying drone attacks. Keep up the pressure so that they learn to betray their oaths to their country.

General Pasha has recently approved another 67 CIA agents in Pakistan. Pray what are they needed for? Except that CIA wants to expose that he has no morals.

Haqqani and Kayani asked the wrong question: "Can we fight the US?" No one wants to fight a war. The correct question is: "Do we have to bow down and kowtow to every whim of Uncle Sam, or do we have the courage to say, we are neither terrorists nor their supporters, but we will fight terrorism in the way we see fit?"

another example of exceptionalism

The government, media and the Congress+Senate of the US are saying that Pakistan lied to them over uBL.

First of all, the account of the UBL killing is highly fishy. The US government changed the story many times, and the quick burial at sea arouses more suspicion that the US government has something to hide.

Secondly, it is not proved that Pakistan lied to the US. If Usama did live in that compound, and escaped detection, that does not imply complicitity by Pakistan
Third, the US government, like all other governments, lies. Over the Raymond Davis issue, the President, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and the whole body lied that Raymond was a diplomat, while he was a CIA contractor.

So do not act innocent.

The reality is that the US wants Pakistan to attack North Waziristan, which is beyond Pakistan capability at present. And the build-up is to cast Pakistan as a rogue, terrorist state, so that it can be bombed like the other Muslim countries that the US has targetted.

do Pakistanis hate the US

No

If they did, they would not want to send their young men to study and settle there.

What the Pakistanis hate is US exceptionalism, among other things.

The US government, senators, media are furious at the arrest of Pakistanis spying for the CIA.

In which country are spies of another country honored?

Would the US not arrest those Americans who spy for another country?

One major reason why Karachi's electrics don't work!

One major reason why Karachi's electrics don't work!

  

 In January this year, more than 4,000 employees declared ‘non-core personnel’ were restored by the coalition government but KESC management refused to accept the surplus personnel voluntarily. Now the solution is announcement of golden handshake packages and peaceful, dialogue and negotiation with the labour. Government should kick out the ‘appointees of political elites, who were bribed for their political pressure.
 
  On one hand KESC management is calling these 400 people as burden and on the other hand same management has appointed 650 people at packages ranging from Rs 150,000 to Rs500, 000.
 
  Here is the list of some (there is a long list of these kind of people)
  · Shahbaz Beg son of MQM-MNA Khushbakht Shujat- package Rs 500,000.
  · Pir Danish, son of PPP minister Pir Mazharul Haq- Rs 500,000- designation Government Affairs Director.
  · Nayyat Hussain, a relative of PPP MNA Sherry Rehman-Technical Group Head-package 2.5 million per month.
  · Asif Hussain- brother of MQM provincial minister Aadil Siddiqi- KESC Production Department’s revenue director- package is 700,000 per month
  · Abid Hussain, brother of MQM's parliamentary leader in the Sindh Assembly, Syed Sardar Ahmed- project director- package Rs 500,000 per month
  · MQM diehard activist Abrar Hussain- Project-2 Director- package Rs 500,000.
  · Naveed Hussain- close relative of PML-Q’s MNA Humayun Akhtar- Group Head of Recovery-package is Rs 29 lakh per month.
  · Tayyab Tareen from Multan- Finance Group Head- sent by the Prime Minister’s House.
  · Former heads of Inter Service Intelligence (ISI) Karachi and Islamabad, Brig. (retd) Mazhar Ahmed and Brig. (retd) Masood Ahmed- security chiefs. Package Rs 1.5 million each per month. Diretly appointed by President’s House.
  · About 18 retired colonels are working for the company, sources said. “Col (retd) Wahid Asghar, Col (retd) Imran Nadeem Khuwaja, Col (retd) Saqi, Col(retd) Aamir are among the former military men hired in the company. They all are pocketing Rs 500,000 every month
  · Asir Manzoor- group head of Human Resources- package Rs 2 million. He worked in Ittefaq Foundry owned by leaders of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N).
  · Zarar Nasir Khan- general manger- package is Rs 500,000 ( he is brother-in-law of Asir and within 18 months, Manzoor promoted Khan twice – first as deputy general manager and then as general manager. His appointment is illegal. He is an intermediate only.

  Now you please think and decide that are the demands workers, who earn between Rs 10,000 and Rs 30,000 for their livelihood and to feed their families, unjustified.
 

  Instead of resolving the issue and listen to the workers demands, the KESC management is releasing millions of rupees advertisements to print and electric channels against the workers. So-called PAID MOULVIS like Mufti Naeem are talking poison against the workers and calling the strike ‘un-Islamic’.

UBL museum, but the Pakis are stupid

News Update: Hoax or no hoax, most of the (so-called UBL) possessions that were found at the Abbotabad, have been burned down, and plans have been made to demolish the building there as soon as possible.

Had the Pakistanis been not stupid, they would preserve the building, and the material found in it - turning it into a UBL museum People would come from all corners of the world to have a glimpse, and they would pay in foreign currency.

Zardari could, as usual, demand his cut from the proceeds, but perhaps the army is in charge of this, and perhaps they are too scared to think commercially about it, even though they are good at schemes that yield them a profit.

The Agendas Behind the Bin Laden News Event

The Agendas Behind the Bin Laden News Event

By Paul Craig Roberts

May 04, 2011 "Information Clearing House" -- The US government’s bin Laden story was so poorly crafted that it did not last 48 hours before being fundamentally altered. Indeed, the new story put out on Tuesday by White House press secretary Jay Carney bears little resemblance to the original Sunday evening story. The fierce firefight did not occur. Osama bin Laden did not hide behind a woman. Indeed, bin Laden, Carney said, “was not armed.”

The firefight story was instantly suspicious as not a single SEAL got a scratch, despite being up against al Qaeda, described by former Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld as ‘the most dangerous, best-trained, vicious killers on the face of the earth.” http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=43817


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How to Photoshop a lie?
Learn from the pros how its done!

This picture (obl dead.jpg) of Osama bin Laden has been circulating the internet for 4 to 5 years now (maybe even more). A picture that has just (May 2nd, 2011) been released by US government and TV Networks as proof that OBL has been killed in Pakistan, May 2011.

Usama ben Laden dead?

Once again, the US declares that it has killed Usama ben Laden.

So far, serious questions about the 9/11 have not been answered.

We do not believe everything the US says. After all, their judge sentenced Aafia to 86 years for trying to kill US soldiers. The whole story of Aafia as told by the US is a pack of lies after lies.

And then, the Qs about 9/11 !!!

Anyway, everyone has to die some day, and to die fighting the enemies of Islam is much better than dying any other way.

US justice: 60 days for sport killing

An American soldier charged with killing Afghan civilians and mutilating their corpses has been sentenced to 60 days hard labor. 

 

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Bryan Fischer: a Christian Warmonger on Steroids

Laurence M. Vance quotes Bryan Fischer and refutes him:

"The Scriptures certainly know nothing of squeamishness." Take the example of King David, a man who had slain "his ten thousands" (1 Samuel 18:7), "fought with the Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and smote them with a great slaughter" (1 Samuel 23:5), smote the Amalekites "from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and fled" (1 Samuel 30:17), "smote the Philistines from Geba until thou come to Gazer" (2 Samuel 5:25), and warred against the Philistines, Moab, Zobah, Syria, and Edom (2 Samuel 8:1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 13, 14). And remember, says Fischer, that David was a man after God’s own heart (1 Samuel 13:14).

But it is wrong to invoke the Jewish wars of the Old Testament against the heathen as a justification for the actions of the U.S. military. Although God sponsored these wars, and used the Jewish nation to conduct them, it does not follow that God sponsors American wars or that America is God’s chosen nation. The U.S. president is not King David, America is not the nation of Israel, the U.S. military is not the Lord’s army, and God never commanded any Christian to war on his behalf. The fact that King David did what he did under divine sanction has absolutely no bearing on anything the U.S. military does.

And please read the whole story of King David:

Then David the king stood up upon his feet, and said, Hear me, my brethren, and my people: As for me, I had in mine heart to build an house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and for the footstool of our God, and had made ready for the building: But God said unto me, Thou shalt not build an house for my name, because thou hast been a man of war, and hast shed blood. (1 Chronicles 28:2-3)

King David of the Bible is not a good example after all.

Congratulations, Egypt

Mubarak gone so congratulations, but it is only the first step.

Live Egypt Feb 11, 2011 - alJazeera English

crackdown continues in Egypt

Wael Ghonim and Ayman Mohyldin are free again, but others are still missing. Among them Blogger Abdul Kareem Nabeel Suleiman Amer, and independent film maker Samir Esh.

and many whose names we do not know.

6:47pm  There are reports of continuing crackdowns in Wadi al-Jadid.

Attributing the information to Egyptian security officials, Reuters reports that several protesters suffered gunshot wounds and one was killed when 3,000 protesters took to the streets.

AFP news agency reportes three dead and 100 are wounded in the clashes that have been going on for two days. The protesters, said the report, retaliated:

The furious mob responded by burning seven official buildings, including two police stations and a police barracks, a court house and the local headquarters of President Hosni Mubarak's ruling National Democratic Party.

Iran's PressTV, meanwhile, reoirts that three protesters have been killed and hundreds have been wounded.

pressure the Egyptian government to release them.

why Obama and Hilary want Suleiman in Egypt

On January 29, Omar Suleiman, Egypt’s top spy chief, was anointed vice president by tottering dictator, Hosni Mubarak. By appointing Suleiman, part of a shake-up of the cabinet in an attempt to appease the masses of protesters and retain  his own grip on the presidency, Mubarak has once again shown his knack for devilish shrewdness. Suleiman has long been favoured by the US government for his ardent anti-Islamism, his willingness to talk and act tough on Iran - and he has long been the CIA’s main man in Cairo.

for the full report, click here

Egypt - continued crackdown, with update

Update: Feb 8th, 2011: alHamdulillah, the two Ayman Mohidin and Wael Ghonim, have been released. But the military, before releasing people, gets them to sign a paper that they won't go to Tahrir Square before military's permission.

That has got to stop. Unless this repressive regime goes in toto, their will be no liberty.And what about the other missing and ead?

The post re missing and dead persons is below.

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People are still being arrested, or not being released. See this spreadsheet:

missing persons in Egypt;s Jan 25th revolution

Wael Goneim, Google's Marketing Manager feor the Middlet East, based in Dubai, was in Cairo during the protests, and was arrested on Jan 28th. He has not been seen since. See the video below:

and here is a partial list of those martyred in this:

martyrs of the Egyptian Jan 25th revolution

8 year old girl lectures "President" Mubarak

Egyptian Revolution - 5 days, Jan 25 to Jan 29th

cute: 5 year old leads demonstration in Egypt

Solidarity with Kashmir

Today, 5th February, is Kashmir Solidarity Day.

India took the case of Kashmir to the UN in 1948, where it was ecided that Kashmiris have the right of self-determination. India agreed to this, but has denied them this right ever since. ANy demands of Kashmiris is brutally put down - murders, rapes, mutilations, disappearances, are the methods the Indian Army and Border Security Force, apply regularly.

The US, and other powers aren't bothered, because the Kashmiris are predominantly Muslim.

Muslims shold rely on Allah alone, and help their brethren/sisters wherever they are suppressed.

We are with the Kashmiris.

A new world?

I have not commented on protests in this blog. That does not mean I do not care, or that I am afraid. No, I am very much with the protesters - those who want freedom from tyranny, oppression.

I simply pray for their success. There is little I can do from here, at my age, and with my (ill)health.

There is also the knowledge that protests in the past have not delivered the people from tyranny. Instead, after a while, the old tyrannical faces are replaced by new figureheads. In many cases, the actual torturers retain the same faces.

My prayers are with the common people in Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine, Yemen, Syria, Pakistan, ..., everywhere.

May Allah bring humanty to deliverance.

Learning Tajweed sites

There are some good Tajweed sites:
About Tajweed.com/

Tajweed.com

but I have come across some more that are also helpful:
Quranic Arabic Webinars

The language of instruction is English, and the presentation is good, including good diagrams for Mukharij. Their videos are hosted on youtube, and although they have a policy of not allowing downloads from their site, these can be downloaded from youtube. It is helpful, because most of us do not have fast, reliable net connections round the clock.

Qari Khushi Muhammad's videos are hosted on aswatalislam.net: He teaches Tajweed in Urdu. He was a familiar face on TV during the Zia era in Pakistan. There are no diagrams for makharij in these videos.


Learn Tajweed with Qari Khushi Muhammad (Urdu)

 

These are also available on youtube. You can download from either.

Insha`Allah, in due course, I will create buttons and link these at bottom of page, but you will have to be patient, and pray for me.

Quran/Arabic programs

Update: all in this post now linked with buttons at bottom of page.

Many moons ago, I introduced here a standalone pacakage (beta version) by "Taha Zarrouqi". It was the beta version of Arabic Verb Conjugator "qutrub". I spoke highly of it, although there are a few things that I would like Taha to attend to in the next version. Download link is near end of page:

Another Arab developer (Assem) has released  a standalone Quran Search Engine, called "alfanous". It is also a beta version. I have only just started using it, but expect to find it useful, too. The example phrase in this package: "الحمد لله" returned 22 finds, while the online search engine Tanzil.net gave 21, the searchtruth.com site gives 26, and the standalone program "Quran with Tafseer" gives 23 results.

This does not mean that searchtruth always finds more than or equal to other search engines. I have not yet started thinking and researching the reasons for these discrepancies.

search for "رسول الله" gives 17 results here, Tanzil finds 17, searchtruth also 17, QWT also 17. One has to enclose the search phrase in quotes for an exact search in all these except QWT. Note the use of quote symbols.

Maybe this discrepancy is due to not using quotes " " for the first search "الحمد لله"

That brings me to "Quran with Tafseer 1.0". I talked about it, but I will more info here. This is also a standalone program. with many features:

• Arabic text of Quran: * Uthmani text as in Madina Mushaf * Simple text.

• Urdu Translation: * Jalandhri * Mahmoodul Hasan * Jonagarhi.

• Urdu Tafseer: * Tafseer Ibn-e-Kaseer * Tafseere Usmani * Tafseere Salahudin * Tafseere Ateeq.

• English Translation: * Justice Taqi Usmani * Abdullah Yousuf Ali.

• English Tafseer: English translation of Tafseer Ibn-e-Kaseer.

• Subjects of Quran Para wise from Tafseer-e-Usmani.

• Para wise Tafseer-e-Ateeq .

• Tafseer with show/hide text.

• Search in Quran, Translations and Tafseer text with active marker 'highlight text' display.

• Builtin Urdu and Arabic virtual keyboards.

• Different View modes (Para, Sura, Fixed Aya, Tafseer).

• Fonts changing of Arabic, Urdu and English text.

• Internet Explorer style Favourites for Ayas.

• View styles of reading text from Right to Left (Urdu) and Left to Right (English).

• Changing of Different Color Themes at run time.

• Print Preview/ Copy text to other applications.

• Quick search: jump to any (sura:aya) quickly.

• Sura and Para Details: Sura No, Name, Revelation, Place, Para name, No.

• No need to install Urdu/Arabic language support.

• Sajda Ayas: Jump directly to Sajda Ayas.

• Highlighting Sura as makki or madni.

All in all, a very good package that does not need a net connection.

To download qutrub, go to this link:

qutrub download

For alFanous:

and for Quran with Tafseer 1.0:

On this blog's page, the link for Qutrub appears near the end of page, but the others have not been linked to yet. Have patience.

Quran: verse by verse, & QWT

This is a fantastic site, where recitation is split verse by verse. It is a lot of work, so if anyone can donate, it will inshallah earn him ajr.

and the following is Quran with Tafseer 1.0 - a standalone program that has many iseful features.

ambassador Munter said:

... is totally opposite to the wishes expressed in the previous post.

Yes, he said, we are dictating terms, we are arrogant, we are the viceroys!

Full marks for honesty.


But then he said: we provide the money, we give grants, we bail you out!


Wait a minute, your excellency. Who were you talking to? If this was directed to the masses of Pakistan, it is a lie.

You see, most of the money you give, is not grant, it is indeed loans. Then again most of the loan goes back to the US in the form of expensive consultants, or inflated projects awarded to US firms which the sublet it to local firms, at a very low rate. The result is not some ubber execution of project, but the same shoddy, corruption-eaten project the third world could get without your assistance.

What you provide is a continuation of corrupt governments, and an added burden to the masses.

Munter should have said:

fictitous, but don't you wish this had been written

           Memo #3 US Ambassador Robert Munter

 From: Robert Munter
 US Ambassador to Pakistan
 Islamabad, Pakistan
 To: Under Secretary of State for South Asia
 Department of State
 Washington, DC
 Date: December 31, 2010
 Re: Pakistan the first quarter

 Having been in Pakistan since October, I am forwarding a brief review of my first personal impressions.
 1) View about America: Survey after survey has shown that the populace at large has very infavorably views US government and policy.

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