wa 3alaikom assalaam

I think that this is a minority group in lebanon which does not represent the beliefs of the majority of Muslims except maybe in the fact that Palestine is the land of the Arabs which some jews have occupied unrightfully.

That group is acting independently of the Lebanese government. The Lebanese government has no say in what that group decides to do.

Of course the Lebanese government doesn't want this war because many civilians are dying and many industrial sites are being destroyed.

The obligation of fasting the month of Ramadan becomes incumbent upon the occurrence of one of two matters: to sight the crescent of Ramadan after the sunset of the 29th day of Sha^ban (the month directly preceding Ramadan) or, if the crescent is not seen, then completing 30 days of Sha^ban.

So, the beginning of the month of Ramadan, as well as the end of the month is determined by sighting the crescent, and if not sighted, then by completing the month with 30 days--as is the case with determining all the months of the lunar calendar.

This is taken from the hadith of the Prophet related by al-Bukhariyy and Muslim.


So, on the 29th day of Sha^ban, directly after the sun sets, the Muslims look towards the western horizon, and if the crescent (of the new moon) is seen, the following day will be the first day of Ramadan.

If it is not seen, because of cloud cover or another reason, then the next day will complete 30 days of Sha^ban, and the day after that is the first day of Ramadan.


From the hadith related by Abu Dawud from the route of ^Abdullah Ibn ^Umar who told the Prophet he had sighted the crescent and so the Prophet fasted the next day and ordered the others to fast as well.


Be warned of those who determine the month of Ramadan relying upon astronomical calculations.

Prophet Muhammad informed us that such calculation are not relied upon in determining such matters.

Imam Ahmad related in his Musnad that the Prophet said which means: < Praise be to Allah, how easy the matter is.>

Any Muslim with sound sight can observe the crescent.

He does not rely on complex calculations which only a few people understand.

Thanks for sharing your views that you do not think that Hezbollah represents the beliefs of the majority of muslims.

But do you agree with my Lebanese neighbor's angry statement that as a Lebanese civilian, she is also a resistance fighter, and that Hezbollah is the people and the people is Hezbollah? My neighbor is a Sh'ia muslim.










She was stuck in Beirut when the bombing began.

The group called hizbullaah is known in lebanon to be a shia group.

As i said they do not represent the majority of Muslims.

The majority of Muslims care about lebanese civilians who do not have the capacity to go to war.

Doing something which harms those civilians is not wise.

When this groups hits the Israelis, the lebanese & Palestinian civilians get bombed.

So what group of Lebanese muslims would identify and support the actions of Hezbollah, sam?

Only the Shia group?

In this situation, because the Muslims are angry with the jews for occupying Palestinian land unrightfully, you can find a lot of people happy when Israelis cop it.

But for the one who thinks about it, it is not wise to bring harm upon the lebanese civilians.

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But harm on the lebanese civilians is inevitable because it seems that the Hezbollah are mingling with the civilians. What do you think about their strategy? Is it a moral thing to do in your eyes?

I think they are not being wise.

I think so too that Hezbollah is not being wise. But they are an army within your country. Can your government stop them?

If let's just say in australia there was a group of people obtaining weapons for themselves & planning attacks without the involvement of the government, it would be pretty hard to control them. because they are so dispersed and the government would not be able to know how many people are involved in the group let alone capture them all.

When he was only two years old, Ibrahim, the Prophet's son, died...He was the only boy he had, so he was very sad when he died.

When Ibrahim was buried, the prophet was crying, so one of the companions came to the Prophet. Our dear prophet peace be upon him said which means: The eye cries, and the heart is sad, and we are sad because Ibraham died.

The prophet was teaching us how important it is to be patient, even when you're very sad; as a matter of fact patience is really needed in the hard times.

Some people blaspheme when their family members die. They curse Angel ^azra'eel, which is blasphemy, or they object to Allah. We seek refuge with Allah ta^ala from this.

Once, a prophet saw a woman sad for the loss of someone, so he told her to be patient….She didn't know that it was a prophet who was talking to her, so she told him to leave her alone, then she was told that this is a prophet, so she went to him and told him: I didn't know that you're a prophet, so he told her:



This shows that it's extremely important to be patient when something like this happens; you should be patient when it happens and after it has happened, but most people don't have patience when they first face something sad or when they go through pain.

We ask Allah to help us to be patient to obey Him and stay away from the sins.

Samsparky, I juz had a chat with my neighbor and her tears were rolling down her cheeks uncontrollably as she recounts how her parents and sister and her in-laws are currently trapped in northern Lebanon and cannot find supplies as easily as before as the siege goes on.

After I bade her goodbye, i went for my yoga class and half-way through it, i decided I would like to give her a prayer from the Qu'ran, something that hopefully will give a moment of peace in all this trauma.

Can you guide me as to which prayer in the Qu'ran would be meaningful for such a situation?

When I was in Lebanon, they advised us to recite Surat Yaaseen 40 times each day, of course after learning the authentic recitation.

And when I came here they advised us to say "Yaa Hayy" which means "O (Allaah) the One Who is Attributed with a Life not similar to our life"one thousand times each day.

Shukran sam, that was very helpful advice. Thanks again.

You are welcome



Severing the ties of kinship is among the sins of the body, and it is a major sin. This is done by breaking the hearts of the relatives by refusing to be good-hearted financially if they need money, or by leaving out visiting them without an excuse. If one usually helps one’s relatives, then one lost the money, or one found a more urgent need for it, then one would not be sinful for not offering it to one’s relatives.

The Prophet, sallallahu ^alayhi wa sallam, said:





This means: “The one who severs the ties with the relatives will not be among the first to enter Paradise. Rather, this person will enter it after being tortured in Hellfire (i.e., if one dies as a Muslim).”

(Narrated by al-Bukhariyy.)

Maintaining the ties of kinship: Kinship includes the relatives: aunts, uncles, and their children.


A Companion asked the Prophet:



“What is the way of saving oneself in the Hereafter?” The Prophet said: “You maintain the tie with the one who severed it with you, you give to the one who deprived you, and you forgive the one who wronged you.”

(Related by at-Tirmidhiyy.)


These three (3) traits were among the traits and manners of the Prophet, sallallahu ^alayhi wa sallam, one of which is maintaining relations with the kin who severed ties with one. This means one has to observe the right that the kin has on one by maintaining the ties with them. So it is not permissible for one to treat a relative in a way in which the relative feels cut off and deserted, even if the latter himself does not observe one’s right of kinship ties.


One must not say so-and-so of my relatives does not visit me, so I will not visit him. It is prohibited for him to treat the one who severed ties with him likewise; rather it is an obligation on him to maintain a tie, even with the one who severed the tie with him.


The Prophet, sallallahu ^alayhi wa sallam, said:





(Narrated by Muslim.)

This hadith explicitly states that there is merit in maintaining a tie with the one who severed ties with you and the one who did not, rather than maintaining it only with the one who did not sever the tie with you. This is among the good manners that the Religion has strongly urged us to practice.

Interesting post, Sam.

On a side note: I think I am going to have to rethink my views of fashion on the hajab (spelling?) because I saw an amazing looking woman wearing one a week or so ago. She was a white woman with hips, curves, full breasts, and a certain swagger that reflected confidence and righteousness like a female lion of the most noblest birth protected and esteemed by the most steadfast male - with integrity and wit - showering her with adore. The hajab she wore had an excellent fashion sense to it in the style she wore it. She also had sunglasses propped up on her head.

Hijaab*

The H in Hijaab is not the normal h in henry. Have you heard the H in Hijaab before?

Ablution (wudu' ) is a condition for the validity of prayer. Allah, ta^ala, said in the Qur’an:



Ya ayyuhal-ladhina amanu idha qumtum ilas-salati faghsilu wujuhakum wa aydiyakum ilal-marafiqi wamsahu biru’usikum wa arjulakum ilal-ka^bayn.

Ayah 6 of Suratul-Ma’idah means: {When you want to pray, wash your face, your hands and forearms up to and including the elbows, wet wipe your heads, and wash your feet up to and including the ankles.}

Wudu' has integrals, recommendations, and invalidators.

Wudu' has six integrals. The wudu' is not valid if any of them is left out.

1 - It is recommended to say بِسم الله “Bismillah” (with the Name of Allah) while washing the hands.

2 - It is recommended to wash the two hands with the wrists three times.

3 - It is recommended to rinse the mouth three times using the right hand.

4 - It is recommended to draw water into the nose with the right hand and to blow it out of the nose with the left hand three times.

5 - It is an obligation to have the proper intention. When the water touches the first part of your face say in your heart “I intend to perform wudu'”.

6 - It is an obligation to wash your face, from the normal hairline to the chin and from one ear to the other including the hair and skin.

If a string was put at the middle of the forehead at the normal hairline and drawn to the top of the ear, then one washes all that would be below that string, both hair and skin, with the ears excluded.

It is recommended to wash the face three times.


7 - It is an obligation to wash the hands, forearms, and elbows. It is recommended to wash them three times each. Start with the right and then the left.

8 – It is an obligation to wet wipe part of the head, between the normal hairline and the occiput.

9 - It is recommended to wet wipe both ears three times.

10 - It is an obligation to wash the feet with the ankles. It is recommended to wash them three times starting with the right foot.

Do the obligatory parts (from step 1 to 10) in the aforementioned order.


It is also recommended (sunnah) to say after one finishes wudu':

أَشْهَدُ أَنْ لاَ إِلهَ إِلاَّ اللهُ وَحْدَهُ لاَ شَرِيكَ لَهُ وَأَشْهَدُ أَنَّ مُحَمَّداً عَبْدُهُ وَرَسُولُهُ، اللَّهُمَّ اجْعَلْنِي مِنَ التَّوَابِينَ وَاجْعَلْنِي مِنَ الْمُتَطَهِّرِينَ.

Ash-hadu alla ilaha illallahu wahdahu la sharika lah. Wa ash-hadu anna Muhammadan ^abduhu warasuluh. Allahumma j^alni minat-tawwabina waj^alni minal-mutatahhirin.

This means: “I bear witness that no one is God but Allah only, with no partners and that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger. O Allah, make me among those who repeatedly repent and purify themselves.”

So it's pronounced Hi - jab?

Also Sam, some Catholic guy was trying to tell me online that prophet Mohammed was racist towards Black peoples refering to them as raisens or something like that. To be honest I don't value the guy's comments to much because he is very bias. But I thought I would run it by you to see what you have to say?

7i- jaab.

Islaam teaches that there is no difference between an Arab and a non-Arab except with piety.

Islaam rejects racism.

I received this from an administrator of the forum "alsunna.org , We
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& I thought I would share it with you all

Here's a story about a Bag of Nails!


There was a little boy with a bad temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and
told him that every time he lost his temper, to hammer a nail in the back fence.
The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. Then it gradually
dwindled down.

He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into
the fence. Finally, the day came when the boy didn't lose his temper at all. He
told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy now pull out one
nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper.

The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all
the nails were gone.
The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. He said, "You have
done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence.

The fence will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave a
scar just like this one. You can put a knife in a man and draw it out. It won't
matter how many times you say I'm sorry, the wound is still there.

Can I ask a question? You live in the States, right? Has it always been that muslim women in hijab get stared at frequently? Or it's only recently post 9-11 that they are getting more attention due to the relentless media coverage?

Yep I live in the United States.

Hmmm not sure how to answer your question. I say that because Muslim women in hijaab I'm sure get their fair share of stares, some I'm sure even get discriminated against while wearing one. However from my observation and from my feeling people in the U.S. - at least in urban areas - don't really give Mulsim women in hijaab to much mind. To an extent they do simply because they are "out of the norm." Especially you don't see to many White women in the U.S. wearing an hijaab.

9-11 media coverage was dwarfed by the media coverage on the U.S. Catholic Church sex scandle of Priests with young boys. Catholic churches and sacred shrines are attacked (spray paint and other means). It's much, much, worse to be a Catholic Priest in the U.S. than it is to be Muslim. Frankly I don't know how those Catholic Priests do it. They are treated worse and have a worse image than the "baby killer" returning Vietnam veterans decades ago.

But to get a more accurate image into life as a Muslim in the U.S. you would have to ask a Muslim in the U.S. I'm not really the qualified one to ask. I can only give you my impression.

I think it is hard to say something general about such a big continent.

Maybe you can say something about some states.

The United States, Brazil and Canada I would suspect are the countries with the best social climate overall for Muslims within the Americas. Places like Mexico or Chile I would suspect are less socially comfortable for Muslims.

While Evangelical Protestantism is growing in both Mexico and Chile (especially Chile), and while there are Mexican Muslims in Mexico, to be Mexican is still very much to be Catholic. And even if we ever assumed a Mexican did not know who Jesus was, deaf, blind, or dumb they would know who Our Lady of Guadalupe is. She is tied into the Indian and Mestizo identity in that nation. When the Indian Juan Deigo proclaimed he was visited by the Virgin Mary dressed as a pregnant Indian woman, so many millions of Amerindians in Mexico converted into Catholicism that what was lost numerically in Europe by the Protestant Reformation was regained numerically in Mexico alone. In Chile the Catholic Church holds an extreme amount of influence. She is one of the more European of Latin American nations (like Argentina) and is known as one of her most conservative nations. As well she is known to have a strong ethical cultural base to doing buisness (unlike most Latin American nations. And in this day in age perhaps even more so that the United States). Chile even in light of the Catholic Church's grand influence, has elected a female, divorced, single mother and agnostic (or maybe she's atheist) as President.

Brazil has fairly good tolerance for religious diversity. Both Canada, Brazil and the United States are secular nations. Brazil seems to me to be the most tolerant and balanced in regards to religion. The United States and Canada are more secular intolerant of religion. Canada is much more secular than the U.S. and the U.S. is caught between far wing secular intolerance and far wing Christian fundamentalism. Brazil allows people to be, be they into Islam, vodoo, Catholicism, secularism, mixed-race, or mixed-gender transexuals. In Brazil classes are packed for Arabic and Islamic studies as well as classes in Chinese language and culture (do to China's growing business relation with Brazil).

In the United States, most urban cities are pretty good for Muslims I believe, in general at least. I suspect from Miami to Chicago to San Fransico or through the south urban centres of Atlanta, Charlotte, or Kentucky's large cities that social atmosphere for Muslims isn't to bad. However I would suspect, from what I know of the U.S., certain more rural areas like Montana or the backwoods of Mississippi might pose much more danger to the health and life of a Muslim. Actually anywhere in the rural south or the rural northwest and even rural deserts of the southwest I would not recommend for a Muslim.

I could be wrong on some of this. But it's just my impression.

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Sam,

What sect of Islam do you belong to anyways?

I belong to the mainstream of Muslims.

That is the creed and way of the majority of Muslims in all the world.

That is not introducing anything new into Islaam but following the original teachings of the Prophet.

That is not bin laaden or sayyid qutb or those other figures that are presented by the media as Islamic when in reality they are radicals who are going out of the rules of Islaam and introducing their corruption into the society.

The Muslim who follows Islaam correctly knows what is right and what is wrong and who is following Religion correctly and who is making mistakes.

Sam,

I ask this neutrally, I want to know your opinion and read your commentary, What's your thoughts on the average life and feeling so to speak, of Muslim women? And how do you feel as a woman in Islam?

alHamdulillaah I am happy to be a Muslim woman.

The Muslim woman has rights in Islaam and the Muslim man has rights and the Rules of the Creator are Just.

God Knows all. God Knows best.

The Muslim woman who has the love for the Creator in her heart and the firm belief in the rewards in the Hereafter will not affected by any criticism coming from a person who contradicts the truth.

Hey Sam, I dunno why but your reply juz reminded me of the lyrics of a song by famous Nigerian singer, Fela Kuti. Its a song about African Woman. Have u heard that song? Nice day!



I found the lyrics on the internet for you.. it's called Lady and the music is really funky. Hope you get to listen to Fela Kuti one day soon!

LADY

If you call woman
African woman no go ‘gree
She go say I be Lady o

If you call woman
African woman no go ‘gree
She go say I be Lady o

She go say:
*(CHORUS) SHE GO SAY I BE LADY O – [AFTER EACH LINE]
She go say I no be woman
She go say market woman na woman
She go say I be Lady


I want tell you about Lady: (3x)
She go say him equal to man
She go say him get power like man
She go say anything man do
Him self fit do
I never tell you finish… (3x)
I never tell you…
She go want take cigar before anybody
She go want make you open door for am
She go want make man wash plate for her for kitchen
She want salute man she go sit down for chair (2x)
She want sit down for table before anybody (2x)
She want piece of meat before anybody (2x)
Call am for dance, she go dance Lady dance (2x)


African woman go dance she go dance the fire dance (2x)
She know him manna Masster
She go cook for am
She go do anything he say
But Lady no be so (4x)
Lady na Masster (3x)
Call am for dance, she go dance Lady dance (2x)
African woman go dance she go dance the fire dance (2x)
She know him manna Masster
She go cook for am
She go do anything he say

But Lady no be so (4x)
Lady na Masster (4x)
If you call am woman
African woman no go ‘gree
She go say I be Lady


She go say:
*(CHORUS- AFTER EACH LINE) SHE GO SAY I BE LADY O O
She go say I be Lady
She go say I no be woman
She go say market woman na woman
She go say I be Lady
*(repeat indefinitely)

It is not good to have such enmity as to refuse to comply with your husband with anything lol

In Islaam, the husband and wife need to be cooperative and compromise.

In Islaam, the wife is not obligated to cook.

That doesn't mean that she will not.

It is good to be nice to others and help out.

It is nice to take turns in doing things around the house.

Just like before you get married when you are in your parents house.

Both sons and daughters should be helping the parents and the parents helping each other.

If the person truly knows his rights as was revealed by God, that person will not have a headache at all.

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Samy, that's what Fela Kuti is trying to tell his mates in his song .... African Woman wants to and has got to be treated like a Lady!

African Lady >>>>>>



African Guy >>>>>



I juz lurve Fela Kuti!!!

The Invalidators of Wudu'
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The invalidators of wudu' are matters which break wudu'.

When one’s wudu’ is invalidated, one must make wudu' again to pray.

The invalidators are:

Materials exiting from the eliminatory outlets, such as urine, feces, gas, or stomach worms.
Touching the anus, vagina, or penis with one's bare palm.
Touching the skin of the marriageable woman without a barrier.
Losing one's mind by craziness, fainting, or intoxication.
Sleeping without having one's buttocks firmly seated. If one slept without a gap between one's buttocks and the floor, then one’s wudu' would not be invalid.

The person who loses his wudu' is prohibited to perform the obligatory and recommended prayers and tawaf. Tawaf, i.e., circumambulating the Ka^bah, has the same status as praying, except that talking is allowed throughout.

It is also unlawful for the person who lost his wudu' to carry the Qur’an and to touch it, i.e., or the paper connected to it or its cover, except if necessary.

It is permissible for the one who lost his wudu' to recite the Qur’an, and to enter and stay in the masjid.

Questions:

1. What must one do before praying if one’s wudu' becomes invalid?
When one’s wudu’ is invalidated, one must make wudu' again to pray.

2. List the invalidators of wudu'.

The invalidators are:

Materials exiting from the eliminatory outlets, such as urine, feces, gas, or stomach worms.
Touching the anus, vagina, or penis with one's bare palm.
Touching the skin of the marriageable woman without a barrier.
Losing one's mind by craziness, fainting, or intoxication.
Sleeping without having one's buttocks firmly seated. If one slept without a gap between one's buttocks and the floor, then one’s wudu' would not be invalid.

3. What is the meaning of the eliminatory outlets?
The anus, vagina and penis.

4. What does one become prohibited from doing if one loses one’s wudu' ?
The person who loses his wudu' is prohibited to perform the obligatory and recommended prayers and tawaf. It is also unlawful for the person who lost his wudu' to carry the Qur’an and to touch it, i.e., or the paper connected to it or its cover, except if necessary.

5. Give an example of what one can do without having wudu'.
It is permissible for the one who lost his wudu' to recite the Qur’an, and to enter and stay in the masjid.

Istinja'
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It is obligatory to make istinja' from every wet material emitted from the eliminatory outlets, like urine or feces.

Istinja' is performed using pure and purifying water or a solid, dry, uprooting and unrespectable material, like paper.

Islamically, there are substances that are considered filthy and must not be on the person’s body, clothes, place of prayer, or even carried when praying. Some of these substances include urine, feces, blood, vomit, pus, and discharges from the penis and vagina, except maniyy (semen and the woman’s fluid of orgasm) which is not filthy.

To clean oneself after urinating and defecating, the person dries himself of all urine with toilet paper after urinating, and then pours water on the areas where the urine was. In the case of defecation, the person is correct if he removes the defecation with toilet paper and then pours water on the stained area to remove the traces.

It is also acceptable to use either toilet paper or water only. However, the exclusive use of toilet paper has conditions. The person must use at least 3 wipes and must do so before the najas dries. The urine must not go beyond the exit area and must not dry there. Also, one’s defecation must not spread past the area of the buttocks which comes together when one is standing.

It is recommended to enter the bathroom with the left foot, and to leave it with the right foot; contrary to the way you enter the masjid. It is recommended (sunnah) to enter the masjid with the right foot first, and to leave it with the left foot.

Supplication:
It is recommended (sunnah) upon entering the bathroom to say:



Bismillah. Allahumma inni a^udhu bika minal-khubuthi wal-khaba’ith.

Which means: “[I enter the bathroom] with the Name of Allah. O Allah, I seek refuge with you from the male and female devils.” This provides protection from the eyes of the jinn.

After leaving the bathroom, it is also recommended to say:



Ghufranak. Al-hamdu lillahi-lladhi adh-haba ^annil-adha wa ^afani.

Which means: “I ask You (Allah) for forgiveness. Praise and thanks be to the One (Allah) Who took the harm away from me and granted me good health.”

Questions:

1. From what is istinja' obligatory?
From every wet material emitted from the eliminatory outlets, like urine or feces.

2. With what does one perform istinja’?
Istinja' is performed using pure and purifying water or a solid, dry, uprooting and unrespectable material, like paper.

3. How can one make istinja' from faeces?
In the case of defecation, the person is correct if he removes the defecation with toilet paper and then pours water on the stained area to remove the traces.

4. How does one make istinja' without water?
The exclusive use of toilet paper has conditions. The person must use at least 3 wipes and must do so before the najas dries. The urine must not go beyond the exit area and must not dry there. Also, one’s defecation must not spread past the area of the buttocks which comes together when one is standing.

5. If one wipes three times and the najas-filth remains, what must one do?
Add wipes until the najas-filth is removed.

6. If one is performing istinja' without water, is it enough to wipe once?
No.

7. If the emitted najas-filth dries on the outlet, is it enough to just use toilet paper?
No, in this case one must use water.

8. With what foot is it recommended to enter the bathroom? Leave it?
It is recommended to enter the bathroom with the left foot, and to leave it with the right foot.

what is the meaning of 'wudu'?

It means the Ablution that the Muslim does before Praying e.g. for the Five Obligatory Prayers.

It includes having the intention in the heart to perform the WuDoo', washing the face, washing the arms up to and including the elbows, wet-wiping the head, and washing the feet up to and including the ankles.

Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds, the One Who exists without a place. To Him belong the endowments and proper commendations. May Allah raise the rank of Prophet Muhammad and his kind Al and Companions and protect his nation from what he fears for them. May the Lord of Heavens and Earth grant us the sincere intentions and guide us to the acceptable deeds.

Thereafter, Allah sent the prophets as a mercy to the slaves and supported them with miracles to indicate the truthfulness of their message. Of all the prophets, our Prophet, Muhammad, was blessed with the most miracles. Al-Isra' and al-Mi^raj are among the many miracles of Prophet Muhammad.

The miracle of al-Isra' is confirmed in the Qur'an.

In Surat al-Isra', Ayah 1, Allah said:



which means: [Praise be to Allah Who enabled His slave, Muhammad, to make the journey at night from Masjid al-Haram in Makkah to Masjid al-Aqsa in Jerusalem, which is surrounded a blessed land.]

This journey is also confirmed in the sahih hadith.

As such, there is scholarly consensus (ijma^) Prophet Muhammad journeyed in body and soul the night of al-Isra' from Masjid al-Haram in Makkah to Masjid al-Aqsa in Jerusalem. Moreover, these scholars indicated the person who denies al-Isra' is a blasphemer for belying the explicit text of the Qur'an.

Before the Prophet took this night journey, the ceiling of the house in which he was staying was opened, and Jibril descended. He cut open the chest of Prophet Muhammad and washed that open area with Zamzam water. Then he emptied something from a container into the chest of the Prophet to increase his wisdom as well as the strength of his belief. This was done to prepare the Messenger of Allah for that which he had yet to see in the upper world from among the wonders of the creation of Allah.

Al-Isra'

After the Prophet performed the Evening Prayer (^Isha'), Jibril came to him with a white animal, slightly larger than a donkey yet smaller than a mule. This animal was the buraq,--one of the animals of Paradise. Jibril held the buraq by his ear and told the Prophet to mount it. When the buraq was mounted, the Prophet set forth.

The buraq is a very fast animal; the length of the buraq's stride is the farthest distance it's eye can see. The Prophet and Jibril arrived to a land with palm trees. Jibril told the Prophet to dismount and pray, so the Prophet dismounted the buraq and prayed two rak^as. Jibril asked him, "Do you know where you prayed?" and the Prophet answered, "Allah knows best." Jibril told him, "This is Yathrib; this is Taybah. "." (These are two names for the city of al-Madinah.) Before the Prophet emigrated to al-Madinah, it was called Taybah and Yathrib. It earned the name al-Madinah after the Prophet emigrated to it.

The buraq continued with the Prophet and Jibril until they reached another place. Again Jibril told the Prophet to get down and pray. The Prophet dismounted there and prayed two rak^as. Jibril informed the Prophet of the name of that place; it was Tur Sina'.

Once again the buraq took off with the Prophet and Jibril. Once again it stopped, and the Prophet dismounted and prayed two rak^as. This was in Bayt Lahm, where Prophet ^Isa (Jesus) was born. Then the buraq continued with the Messenger of Allah until they entered the city of Jerusalem. There the Prophet went to Masjid al-Aqsa. Outside was a ring used by the Messengers of Allah to tie their animals. The Prophet tied his buraq to this ring. Then the Prophet entered the masjid where Allah assembled for him all the Prophets--from Adam to ^Isa. Prophet Muhammad moved forward and led them all in prayer. This is an indication the Prophet is higher in status than all the rest of the prophets and messengers.

1- On Prophet Muhammad's journey from Masjid al-Haram to Masjid al-Aqsa, Allah enabled him to see some of His wondrous creations. Allah enabled the Prophet to see the world (dunya) like an old woman. However, this old woman was wearing a great deal of jewelry, and in this there is an indication signifying the reality of the world.

2- Allah enabled the Prophet to see Iblis. The Prophet saw something on the side of the road which did not dare to stand in his way or speak to him. What the Prophet saw was Iblis. Originally, Iblis was a believer and lived with the angels in Paradise. When Allah ordered the angels to prostrate (sujud) to Prophet Adam, Iblis was ordered to prostrate to him as well. The angels prostrated to Adam in obedience to Allah, because angels do not disobey Allah. However, Iblis did not obey, and he objected to the order of Allah. He said, "You created me out of fire, and You created him out of clay. How do You order me to prostrate to him?" So this objection by Iblis to the order of Allah was the first blasphemy he committed.

3- On his journey, the Prophet smelled a very nice odor. He asked Jibril about this pleasant scent and Jibril informed him this good smell was coming from the grave of the woman whose duty used to be to comb Pharaoh's daughter's hair. This woman was a good, pious believer. One day, as she was combing Pharaoh's daughter's hair, the comb fell from her hand. At this she said, ""Bismillah." Pharaoh's daughter asked her, "Do you have a god other than my father?" The woman said, "Yes. My Lord and the Lord of your father is Allah." Pharaoh's daughter told her father what had happened. Pharaoh demanded this woman blaspheme and leave Islam, but she refused. At that, Pharaoh threatened to kill her children. He brought a great pot of water and built a great fire under it. When the water boiled, Pharaoh brought her children and started to drop them into that pot one after the other. Throughout all this, the woman remained steadfast to Islam, even when Pharaoh reached her youngest child--a little boy still breast feeding--but she felt pity for him. At that, Allah enabled this child to speak. He said to his mother, "O Mother, be patient. The torture of the Hereafter is far more severe than the torture of this life, and do not be reluctant, because you are right." At this the woman requested Pharaoh collect her bones and the bones of her children and bury them in the same grave. Pharaoh promised her that--then dropped her into that boiling water. She died as a martyr. The good odor the Prophet smelled coming from her grave is an indication of her high status.

4- During his trip, the Prophet saw people who were planting and reaping in two days. Jibril told the Prophet, "These were the people who fight for the sake of Allah (mujahidun). ")."

5- The Prophet also saw people whose lips and tongues were clipped with scissors made of fire. Jibril told the Prophet, "These are the speakers of sedition (fitna) who call people to misguidance."

6- He also saw a bull which exited a very small outlet, then was trying in vain to return through that small outlet. Jibril told the Prophet, "This is the example of the bad word--once spoken, it cannot be returned."

7- The Prophet saw people grazing like animals, with very little clothing on their private parts. Jibril told the Prophet, "These are the ones who refused to pay zakat. "."

8- The Prophet saw angels smashing some people's heads with rocks. These heads would return to the shape they had been, and then the angels would smash their heads again--and so on. Jibril told the Prophet, "These are the ones whose heads felt too heavy to perform prayer--the ones who used to sleep without praying."

9- On his journey the Prophet saw people who were competing to eat some rotten meat--ignoring meat that was sliced and unspoiled. Jibril told the Prophet, "These are people from your nation who leave out that which is permissible (halal), and consume that which is forbidden ((haram). "This reference was to the fornicators, that is, the ones who left out the permissible (marriage) and committed sins (fornication).

10- Also, the Prophet saw people who were drinking from the fluid coming from the bodies of the fornicators, (water mixed with blood). Jibril indicated to the Prophet these were the ones who were drinking the alcohol which is prohibited in this world.

11- The Prophet saw people scratching their faces and chests with brass finger nails. Jibril said, "These are the examples of those who commit gossip ((ghibah). ")."

Al-Mi^raj

After the Prophet took this night journey from Masjid al-Haram to Masjid al-Aqsa, he ascended to the upper heavens. The Prophet ascended to the heaven on stairs, called al-mirqat, in which one step is made of gold and the next of silver, and so on. These stairs are veiled from us. The Prophet ascended these stairs until he reached the first heaven. When the Prophet and Jibril arrived at the first heaven, Jibril requested the gate to be opened. The angel assigned to that gate asked Jibril, "Who is with you?" Jibril answered, "It is Muhammad." The angel asked Jibril, "Was he dispatched? Is it time for him to ascend to the heaven?" Jibril said, "Yes." So, the gate was opened for him, and Prophet Muhammad entered the first heaven.

There, Prophet Muhammad saw Prophet Adam. To Adam's right, the Prophet saw some bodies, and to Adam’s left, other bodies. If Adam would look to his right he would laugh, and if he would look to his left he would cry. Adam was seeing the souls of his descendants. Those on his right were his descendants who would die as believers and those on his left were his descendants who would die as non-believers.

Then the Prophet ascended to the second heaven. In this second heaven was where Prophet Muhammad saw Prophets ^Isa and Yahya. ^Isa and Yahya are cousins; their mothers were sisters. They welcomed the Prophet and made supplication (du^a') for him for good things. The Prophet ascended to the third heaven, where he found Prophet Yusuf. Prophet Yusuf was extremely handsome. Allah bestowed half the beauty on Yusuf. Yusuf received the Prophet with a warm welcome and made supplication (du^a') for him for good things.

Then the Prophet ascended to the fourth heaven, where he found Prophet Idris. Idris welcomed the Prophet and made supplication (du^a') for him for good things. In the fifth heaven, the Prophet encountered Harun, the brother of Prophet Musa. In the sixth heaven, he encountered Prophet Musa. Each of these Prophets received Prophet Muhammad with a warm welcome and made supplication (du^a')') for him for good things.
Then the Prophet ascended to the seventh heaven, and that is where our Messenger saw Prophet Ibrahim. Prophet Ibrahim is the best of the prophets after our prophet, Muhammad. The Prophet saw Prophet Ibrahim with his back against al-Bayt al-Ma^mur. To the inhabitants of the skies, al-Bayt al-Ma^mur is like the Ka^bah is to us, the inhabitants of the earth. Every day 70,000 angels go there; then exit from it, and never return. The next day another 70,000 angels go, come out, and never return. This will continue until the Day of Judgment. In this, there is an indication as to the greatness of the numbers of the angels--their numbers are far more than the numbers of the humans and the jinns together.

In the seventh heaven, Prophet Muhammad saw Sidrat al-Muntaha--a very big tree of sidr. Each of the fruits of this tree is as large as a big jar. The leaves of this tree are similar to the ears of the elephants. Sidrat al-Muntahais an extremely beautiful tree. It is visited by butterflies made of gold. When these butterflies gather on this tree, its beauty is beyond description.

Then the Prophet ascended to what is beyond the seven skies; he entered Paradise. He saw examples of the inhabitants of Paradise and how their situation would be. He saw most of the inhabitants of Paradise are the poor people.

The Prophet saw other things on the night of his ascension. He saw Malik, the angel in charge of the Hellfire. Malik did not smile at the Prophet when he saw him, and the Prophet asked why. In answer to the Prophet's question, Jibril said, "Malik did not smile since the day Allah created him. Had he smiled for anyone, he would have smiled for you."

In Paradise, the Prophet saw some of the bounties Allah prepared for the inhabitants of Paradise. He saw the Hur ul-^In: females Allah created who are not humans or jinn. They are in Paradise and will be married to those men Allah willed them to marry.

The Prophet saw the wildan ul-mukhalladun: creations of Allah who are not human, jinn, or angels. They are a very beautiful creation of Allah whose appearance is like laid-out pearls. They are servants of the inhabitants of Paradise. The least in status of the People of Paradise will have 10,000 wildan ul-mukhalladun to serve him. Each one of them would carry a tray of gold in one hand and a tray of silver in the other hand.
The Prophet saw the Throne (^Arsh), which is the ceiling of Paradise. The Throne is the largest creation of Allah in size; Allah did not create anything bigger in size than it. The seven heavens and the earth in comparison to the Kursiyy, are like a ring thrown in a desert, and the Kursiyy in comparison to the Throne, is like a ring thrown in a desert. The seven heavens and the earth in comparison to the Throne are like a seed of mustard compared to the ocean. Allah created the Throne as a sign of His Power and He did not create the Throne to sit on it.

Allah created the Throne to show His Power. It is carried by four angels, and on the Day of Judgment, it will be carried by eight. The Prophet said he was permitted to speak about one of these angels who carry the Throne. In describing this angel, the Prophet told us the distance between his ear lobe and shoulder is the distance a fast-flying bird would cover in 700 years.

Then the Prophet ascended beyond Paradise. He reached a place where he heard the creaking of the pens used by the angels who are copying from the Preserved Tablet. It is at that location Prophet Muhammad heard the Kalam of Allah, which is an attribute of the Self of Allah. He heard the Kalam of Allah which does not resemble our speech--so it is not something that occurs bit after bit. It is not letter after letter or a word that comes after another word. Rather, it is an attribute of Allah which is eternal and everlasting. It does not resemble our attributes. The Kalam of Allah has neither silence nor interruptions. It is an attribute of Allah, and it does not resemble the attributes of the creation.

The Prophet understood several things from hearing this Kalam of Allah. He understood the obligation of the five Obligatory Prayers. At first, Allah obligated fifty prayers. When Prophet Muhammad encountered Musa, Musa told him to make supplication (du^a') to his Lord to ease the obligation of fifty (50) prayers, because his nation could not handle that. Musa said, "I have experience with the people of Israel, and I know your nation cannot bear that." So the Prophet asked his Lord to lessen these prayers for his people. Five prayers were eliminated. Once again, Musa told the Prophet to ask Allah to lessen the number of prayers. Allah did. Nine times the Prophet made supplication to Allah to lessen these prayers--until these prayers were lessened to five Obligatory Prayers. So Prophet Musa was a great benefit to us. Had we been obligated to pray fifty prayers a day, this would have been a difficult matter for us.

From the Kalam of Allah, the Prophet also understood that a good deed would be written for the person who intends to do a good deed, even if he did not do it. Also, the good deed performed would be registered for he who performs it as at least ten good deeds--up to 700 good deeds. For some people, Allah would multiply the reward of their deeds more than that. Additionally, if one performs a bad deed, it is registered for him as one bad deed; yet for he who inclines towards committing a bad deed and then refrains from committing it, a good deed would be registered for him. Here one should note the difference between two matters. If a thought crossed a person's mind about doing something sinful, and this person wavered in this thinking, i.e., considered whether he should do it or not, then he refrained from doing this for the sake of Allah, this is written as a good deed. However, if a person has the firm intention in his heart that he wants to commit a sin, it would be written for him as a sin, even if he does not do it.

The Prophet Returns to Makkah

After all these matters took place with the Prophet, he returned to the city of Makkah. Some scholars said the Prophet's journey took about one-third of the night, i.e., his journey from Makkah to Jerusalem, then to the heavens and what is above them, and then back to Makkah The next day the Prophet told the people what happened to him the previous night. The blasphemers belied the Prophet and mocked him, saying, "We need a month to get there and back, and you are claiming to have done all this in one night?" They said to Abu Bakr, "Look at what your companion is saying. He says he went to Jerusalem and came back in one night." Abu Bakr told them, "If he said that, then he is truthful. I believe him concerning the news of the heavens--that an angel descends to him from the heavens. How could I not believe he went to Jerusalem and came back in a short period of time--when these are on earth?" At that, the Companion, Abu Bakr, was called "as-Siddiq"--because of how strongly he believed all what the Prophet said.

The blasphemous people questioned the Prophet: "If you are truthful, then describe to us Masjid al-Aqsa and its surroundings." They asked this because they knew Prophet Muhammad had never been there before the previous night. Allah enabled the Messenger to see Masjid al-Aqsa, and he described the masjid and its surroundings in exact detail. Moreover, the Prophet said, "On my way back, I saw some of your shepherds grazing their animals in a particular location. They were searching for a camel they had lost." The Prophet continued by giving the description of the camel. When these shepherds came back, they told their people what happened to them--precisely as the Prophet had already told them.

These blasphemers admitted the Prophet's description was exact. Despite that, they were still stubborn and rejected the faith. They did not accept Islam. Only those whom Allah willed to be guided, will be guided. The person whom Allah did not will to be guided, will not believe--regardless of how much explanation or how many proofs he is shown. The person whom Allah willed to be guided, surely he will be a believer. Many people witnessed miracles and still did not believe. Many people witnessed the miracle of the Prophet's splitting of the moon. Those who refused to embrace Islam said, "This is magic. Muhammad played a magic trick on our eyes." They even asked the people of a faraway land who witnessed the moon split in two.

Despite this, they still did not believe. They said, "The magic of Muhammad is powerful; it even reached the faraway lands!" This was their response to witnessing a miracle--instead of believing and becoming Muslims.

We ask Allah that we would all die as Muslims. We ask Allah to bestow on us the bounty of entering Paradise without torture.

And Allah knows best.

It is an obligation upon the guardian to teach the children certain matters of the Religion.

He must teach the child the necessary matters of the Religion that the child will need to know after pubescence, those matters which both the knowledgeable and the lay person knows.

Among the matters related to the creed that the guardian must teach the child are:

That Allaah exists and that He does not have a partner;

That Allaah is Eternal and Everlasting and does not resemble the creation;

That among the uncountable Attributes of Allaah, there are 13 attributes of Allaah that every accountable Muslim must know;

That Prophet MuHammad is the Messenger of Allaah and that he is the last of all the messengers;

That Prophet MuHammad was born in Makkah and immigrated to al-Madeenah;

That Allaah sent many messengers, the first of whom was Adam;

That Allaah revealed Books to His messengers;

That Allaah created the angels;

That humans and jinn will die and then they will be brought back to life after which they will be judged for their deeds;

That Allaah prepared an abode for enjoyment called Paradise, and an abode for torture called Hellfire; and

Other similar matters among the essentials of the belief.


Also the guardian must teach the child other matters of the Religion commonly known to the scholar and layman alike, like:

Stealing and lying are forbidden;

Adultery and sodomy are forbidden;

Gossip and talebearing are forbidden;

How do you feel about this...

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-01...-polygamy_x.htm

A person who goes through life with a clear conscience about himself, what he does and how he affects others is indeed a man of peace. This muslim man obviously live a very good life, seemingly changing his fourth wife on a whim, and with a fourteen year old girl at that.

In Islaam it is not a praised thing to indulge in worldly desires. It is not a good thing to give yourself everything it gets inclined towards.

In Islaam it is good to be focussed on working for the next life otherwise the devil may get a hold of you and lead you from non-beneficial but permissible to non-beneficial and disliked to non-beneficial and forbidden.

The story of that man that you mentioned looks like the story of a person who indulges in worldly matters.


He MUST be fair with his wives and pay the dowry of each lady he marries even if he divorces her and he must make sure that his children are raised up properly.

In Islaam there is no limit on how many times a person can marry and divorce but again I need to stress that this should not be the person's first concern in a way that the person forgets about the Day of Judgement. With the current situation of people claiming to be Muslims and teaching incorrectly, it is sinful for a Muslim to remain silent while being able to speak the truth about such misleaders as bin laden.

One needs not only to avoid the sin of fornication but also one must avoid the sin of refraining from forbidding the unlawful.

Marrying and divorcing many times in ones life is better than fornicating with people.

I see a lot of people who during one year might have more than one relationship outside of marriage then they just have a fight and leave each other and go find other people to fornicate with.

However, if the 2 people are married then they have a fight and break up the marriage, the man will owe the woman her dowry if he did not pay it to her yet. Also, he must provide her with housing for about three months after the divorce. If she is pregnant however, he must provide her with housing and food until the termination of her pregnancy.

So you see, teaching the people the rules which God Revealed is an important task which, if neglected because of indulging in worldly pleasures, will end in ignorance.

In the West, we call those who had multiple marriages they are making a mockery out of the institution of marriage. And men who marry very young girls, young enough to be a granddaughter, pedophiles. So far I have seen nothing this man did as un-Islamic under Islamic jurisprudence, do you? I am not (yet) interested in the duties and responsibilities of the man after he talak-ed the woman three times. I am interested, for now, the religious and social mentality that would make feasible a man like al-Sayeri to live, in his words, with a 'clear conscience'. That misogynistic attitude permeate the entire ummah...How many of these divorces were initiated by women? I would dare to guess statistically none. If a woman can be punished by her own family for a divorce regardless of the circumstances, I do not see how the ummah can, with a straight face to the kufars, say that Islam treats women with respect and diginity.

Fornication is a sin.

Those who commit it are at high risk of STDs even if they use condoms.

Not all diseases need to be transmitted through body fluids.


A person who avoids this sin by going and agreeing to pay the dowry of a woman to her to marry her is protecting himself from such a thing - unless of course he marries a fornicator.


And what kind of women are actually marrying this guy?

I think you have neglected to portray that to us.

Which God-fearing family will agree to let a woman marry a man who thinks women are a game?

Obviously that guy is rich and such women would be marrying him for the money.

Don't try to put the family in this now because the dowry goes to the wife not the family.

So any family that forces the woman to give them her dowry is not following the rules of Islaam.


That guy, if he is not paying the dowry of each woman he divorces is not following the rules of Islaam.

Nor is he following them if he does not provide the woman with her rights after he divorces her.

Nor is he following them if he is not making sure his children are raised properly.


Stop trying to portray those women as innocent for marrying such a man whose reputation they know.

And stop trying to portray this man as guilt-free in Islaam because he is not.

I have said nothing about sex or STDs. It is irrelevant to the subject.

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al-Sayeri is on his 58th wife, a 14 year old girl whom he sent his niece on a reconnaisance mission......Obviously 58 families agreed among themselves that al-Sayeri is a good catch.

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In a society where women are not allowed to drive or to go anywhere or to even be confined to home for the rest of a woman's natural life, it is naivete of the highest degree to believe that a woman would be in control of her dowry.

Surah 2:223, The Cow......Basically, a woman is like a farmer's field for him to 'plow' as he wishes at anytime he considers appropriate.

Sura 4:34...In a society where women are discouraged or even physically banned from having an education, to drive or to go about as they please, what other life is there for a young girl to commit herself to a marriage to a man, any man? And once she is in this dependent situation, sura 4:34 is held over her head as a religious club to enforce submission (islam). She is controlled and even beaten if she is deemed 'rebellious', which of course we have the husband's words to take. Do you really think that somewhere in this household her dowry is safe and secured?

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But he is paying......The only thing we do not know is what happened to the money the divorced women received. Otherwise, in paying al-Sayeri is following the rules of Islam.

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There are no evidences that he infringes upon their rights. I would say that with his wealth, why should I be bothered with what happened to the woman, after all, did I not pay already? You are trying to distract from the real issue.

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We have no evidences he is neglectful of his children, he just does not remember how many he has or much of their names. Again, this is nothing but a distraction.



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And what reputation is that? We do not know except that in his own words......al-Sayeri is obviously a minor potentate in the kingdom. We can be quite certain that if he sent his niece to assess the 'virtues' of a 14 year old girl and later proposed marriage to the child in front of her family, he would have exercise the same cautionary measures for past wives as well. After all, he has a 'rep' to maintain.

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So far you have failed to provide any arguments as to how al-Sayeri is violating Islamic laws. He is merely following the path of Muhammad, who has more than the 4 wives he commanded as the maximum allowed for muslim men. One of Muhammad's wives was Aisha, a child of six years old when he proposed marriage to her father, Abu Bakr, and the marriage was consumated when Aisha was nine years old and Muhammad was in his mid fifties with several other adult wives.

You will not find in me a gullible and fawning admirer like the other participants in this discussion.

So who is this girl and who are her parents to want such a future for their daughter?

Pious parents would not want to give their children except to pious spouses who are concerned with worship rather than worldly pleasure.

Obviously her parents are not concerned with the fact that this man has not learned to leave drowning in the pleasures of this life and be busy with teaching ignorant people about Islaam.

This guy is obviously rich and has a lot of rich friends. Rich people very often base their lives on worldly acquisitions and that is not what Islaam tells us to do.


In Islaam a woman is allowed to drive. It is those damned wahhabis that come up with theses figments of their imagination and prohibit the woman from driving or from showing her face or speaking. They even came up with a new very recent one – that she can not go on the internet by herself.

Those wahhabis originated from about 250 years ago and are followers of the man called Muhammad ibn abdil wahhaab.

People such as bin laaden follow them.

True Muslims all over the world hate wahhaabis and warn against them.

This is something well known in places like Indonesia.


In Indonesia you can see many Muslim women working and going to university.

You can even see that in Lebanon and many other Arab countries.

It is just that much of Saudi Arabia has been “colonised” by these terrorist wahhabis who terrorise the Muslims who go to Hajj – like last time the princess of them came with her car to throw the stones in the basins. She killed many Muslims by that. But did you hear of it on the news? No.

Well ask a Muslim who was there.

Those wahhabis call the Muslims blasphemers for carrying Verses of the Qur’aan on them and visiting the graves of the Companions of the Prophet.

Those terrorists are the same terrorists that are causing degradation to women and killing people by suicide bombing.

Ask the people of al-Madeeneh, they all know the wahhaabis are bullies.

But the Muslims will not go out of Madeenah just because of them. Eventhough it is the wahhaabis which have the oil and hence the money.

That is one of a series of replies to your post that I will write.

Read carefully and if you have any questions ask.

I intend to post the next reply later today in shaa' Allaah

The reality for this girl-child is that she has no future except for that determined by her parents and by this wealthy muslim man. This is a society that was created by muslims and no one else.

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No. It is in muslim societies that a woman is allowed, or not, to drive or to be educated. And before you damn the Wahabbis, you have to show how is it that they violated the Quran, the hadiths, local customs and traditions. According to Abu Dawud, third most authoritative after Bukhari and Muslim...Whether you accept the Arabic interpretations of what is a 'veil', you cannot deny the validity of obeying local customs and traditions. If the mullahs in Saudi Arabia instituted such dress codes for women in accordance with what they interpreted of the Quran and the hadiths along with incorporation of traditions, it cannot be charge that what they instituted for women's dress modes as figments of their imaginations. As for the Internet, it is a very valid extension of having a male relative with a woman when she might be in the presence of another man.

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Saudi-Wahab financed mosques and madrassas are showing up in Indonesia. In Oct 2005, three Christian schoolgirls were beheaded and a fourth seriously wounded in Central Sulawesi. The police found the girls' heads a couple miles from their bodies. Christians in Jakarta have accused the police in being under Wahabbist influence and not prosecuting religiously motivated attacks and even murders against non-muslims, particularly against Christians. There must be some appealling aspects of Wahabbism that would attract Indonesian muslims.

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As well as the existence of mutaa,'pleasure marriages'. In the West, we call this 'prostitution', but as you claimed earlier that it is better to marry than to fornicate, how is this sham of a marriage any different from prostitution? Basically, as long as there is a rule, a muslim is covered.

What is an engineer? To engineer is to adapt what is an ideal to real world imperfections and human flaws. To engineer is to compromise and make the best of a situation. In that perspective, all humans are engineers, be it physical or social. Physical engineering give us the automobiles and iPods. Social engineering give us religions, morals and human communitites. Islam as an organized religion, a code of social conducts and moralities and as a community, the ummah, is no different than any other social engineering projects. Muhammad, as a leader, was also a social engineer and as such he set down rules and regulations for the community he founded. These rules and regulations enabled muslim men to take advantage of women in ways that 21st century societies have rejected as part of their past social engineerings. A woman friend of mine is a co-pilot for a regional airline. Her goal is to someday earn the captain's seat and I have no doubt she will.



Those are the three indicators of the status of women between Islam and the West. As long as there is a social engineering rule that tells women that some god will not hear their prayers or that they are a slut for having their hair uncovered, the women in the middle category will be just like the women under the Taliban, unable to sit in the captain's chair, like Lt. Col. Eileen Collins, COMMANDER of STS-93, has done. Few as the women like Colonel Collins, they are magnitudes more than whatever the ummah will ever produce.

Actually, the reality of that girl is that she has parents who are away from Religious Knowledge and are drowning in the worldly matters.

Who else but a people with such a description would send their daughter to such a man whose focus is clearly not the Hereafter.

And stop calling a pubescent girl as a child because puberty is what ends childhood and begins accountability for the sane person who has heard the basic message of Islaam.

http://talkaboutislam.com/forums/index.php...g52497#msg52497

Wahhabis contradicted the Qur'aan and Hadeeth by saying that God is a body and is in the above direction.

Allaah said in Surat ash-Shura Verse 11: laysa kamithlihi shay' which means Nothing resembles Allaah in any way.

Imaam al-Bayhaqiyy said in his book al asmaa' was-Sifaat what means: {Some of our companions used as a proof to clear Allaah of being attributed with place, the saying of the Prophet (what means) "O Allaah, You are ath-Thaahir and there is nothing above You and You are al-Baatin and there is nothing underneath You." hence if there is nothing above Him and nothing underneath Him, He is not in a place.}

Imaam Ali said what means: {Allaah Existed Eternally and there was no place, and He now Exists as He Eternally Existed.} Narrated by Abu Mansoor al-Baghdaadiyy in his book al-Farqu bayn al-Firaq.

Al-bukhaariyy, ibn al-Jaarood and al-Bayhaqiyy narrated with a SaHeeH chain that the Prophet said what means: {Allaah Existed Eternally and nothing else existed.}

وَلَا يُبْدِينَ زِينَتَهُنَّ إِلَّا مَا ظَهَرَ مِنْهَا وَلْيَضْرِبْنَ بِخُمُرِهِنَّ عَلَى جُيُوبِهِنَّ

Surat an-Noor, Verse 31 orders the woman to cover their adornment except what is apparent and to cross their head cover over the opening of their clothes.

“Except what is apparent” was explained by both ^A-ishah and ibn ^Abbaas to mean: “The hands and face.”

“to cross their head cover over the opening of their clothes.”

Means to bring the right side of the head scarf to the left side and the left side to the right so as to cover the neck.

This verse was actually revealed because of women who used to wear the headscarf and tie it to the back – not covering their neck.

Khimaar in the Arabic dictionary means head-cover not face cover.

Also an evidence is that Prophet Muhammad said to Asmaa’ what means: “When the female becomes pubescent she must conceal herself except for this and this” and he pointed to the face and hands.

POINTS:

When a woman is in the presence of another man it is actually not necessary for her male relative to be there. Rather the rule is that whether the person is male or female, they can not be alone with a member of the opposite sex without any third person.

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Your mention of yet another wahhabis terrorist act proves my point.

While wahhaabis are making chaos in the world, true Muslims are out there teaching the people that suicide bombing is wrong. That killing in this heretical way that they do without a purpose except to seek fame is wrong.

The Muslim is more concerned with the ending of a person – worried about leaving non-Muslims to die that way and end up in Hellfire.

Such attacks by wahhabis are not religiously motivated but they are a result of the bad creed of wahhabis which leads them to such things.

If they do not even believe in their Creator properly then what do you think about their situation with the people around them.

Wahhabis are rejected in Indonesia and all over the world.

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Mut^a is a rejected and refuted idea that the shia support.

Ask any scholar of ahlussunnah & they will refute it for you.

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Islam doesn’t come from engineering as you claimed.

Islam is the Religion which was sent to the Prophets, the first of whom was Adam and the last of whom was Muhammad, peace be upon them all.

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Islam does not say that an uncovered woman is a slut.

It is actually a major sin to accuse a person of committing fornication or adultery when they have not.

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The Taliban are like bin laaden – wahhabis

i.e. rejected people who came 250 yrs ago and went astray from the whole Muslim ummah.

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Maybe you do not know how many Muslim women hold degrees.

Many of your misconceptions are a sign of your ignorance and closed-mindedness towards Muslims.

YOU THINK THAT MUSLIM WOMEN ARE NOT ALLOWED TO DRIVE.

That is enough embarrassment for you because IT’S WRONG and I’m sure most members of AF will know that.

You obviously do not see the contradiction in your reply. In the first, you criticize the families of those women who married them off to a wealthy Saudi tribal chief for being materialistic and ignoring spiritual matters, then on the second, you excuse the sexual relationship of this 'marriage' by invoking biological law -- puberty. Like I said, as long as there is a rule, a muslim will have a way out. Out of thinking, that is. I suggest you do a poll among your fawning admirers in this discussion, especially the women, and see if they consider first menstruation a true definition of 'adulthood'.

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I am not interested in the abstract in this discussion. It is the refuge of those who lacks coherent thought processes in the real world. I am interested in how Islam is applied.

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But if according to Abu Dawud, Aisha herself being Muhammad's favorite, said a woman should cover her face as well, why is Wahabbism wrong in this regard? Take a look at the hijab ban enacted by the French government, muslims everywhere criticized the French government for the ban, saying that it is one of religious freedom. For a secular country like France, muslims are demanding the right to submit to a religious law. So why is Wahabbism in error in Saudi Arabia, being an Islamic country, in instituting an Islamically based dress code for women? The point here is that the oppression of women is part of the grand social engineering project called the Islamic ummah and the rules are...The rules allowed men in position of political leaderships in Islamic countries to make comments about women such as these without facing the wrath of the women themselves...

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