What you seek, is seeking you ~ Rumi
19/05/2013 1 Comment
Muslims Love you!
19/05/2013 Leave a comment
Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, was the most loving compassionate man of his time, who strived for a lasting peaceful union of the people of Arabia under the Divine guidance of Allah SWT, setting a most beautiful wise example of what we should create elsewhere.
Do not feed the fears of islamophobes by being the exact opposite. Be the means of carrying Allah’s Divine Love, Peace and Kindness to every region of the Earth and beyond.
Paul Salahuddin Armstrong
www.khilafahonline.com
Sheikh Hamza Yusuf: Think Outside The Cube
19/05/2013 Leave a comment
The event was yesterday. But as always, Sheikh Hamza Yusuf shares with us some wonderful insights well worth reflecting upon.
“The same conditions and problems that got you into a difficult situation, that type of thinking will not get you out of that situation. So we have to begin to think anew.”
~ Sheikh Hamza Yusuf
The Forgiveness of God Has No Comparison
13/05/2013 Leave a comment
Abu Yahya al-Mazini came in upon al-Shafi’i (may God have mercy upon them both) in his final sickness, and asked him, ‘How are you faring this morning?’ ‘This morning I am travelling from this world,’ he said, ‘and departing from my brethren, and going to meet my evil works, quaffing the cup of death, and coming unto God (Exalted is He!) Yet I do not know whether my spirit is travelling to Heaven, that I might congratulate it, or to Hell, that I might console it.’ Then he recited:
When my heart was hardened and my courses
constrained,
I made my hopes a stairway to Your
forgiveness.
My sin burdened me heavily, but when I measured it
by Your forgiveness, Lord, Your forgiveness
was the greater.
Always are You forgiving of sin, and always
do You show generosity and forgiveness out of
munificence and bounty.
Still, were it not for You no worshipper would be
tempted by the devil;
How could that be, when he led astray Your
chosen one, Adam?
From Imam Al-Ghazali’s The Remebrance of Death And The Afterlife, Book XL of The Revival Of The Religious Sciences (Ihya Ulum Al-Din). Page 95 in the Islamic Texts Society edition.
Oh, so you know how to cut and paste hadith?
09/05/2013 Leave a comment
A student needs to invest years of dedicated study to truly master their chosen subject, does anyone think Islam any different? Who can expect to be an overnight expert?
Even if a person studies a college or university course for a few years, they will still have only covered a tiny fraction of the vast percentage of material that exists on their chosen subject. While no one can deny what the student has learned, they would still not be a master of their subject.
Mastering a subject still requires years of research and personal dedication. What this means, is that almost no one is in an authentic position to judge anyone else. So please, less judging, more self improvement and personal development.
Paul Salahuddin Armstrong
www.khilafahonline.com
Veiling the face originally meant Prostitute
04/05/2013 3 Comments
By Paul Salahuddin Armstrong
Veiling the face originally signified the woman or girl dressed in such a manner is a prostitute or slave, available for sex to anyone in the street or their master’s bidding…
I know this may sound shocking, considering it’s not what we get told by mullahs, but it can be easily proven, just go to Genesis 38:14-15 which relates an event from thousands of years ago:
she took off her widow’s clothes, covered herself with a veil to disguise herself, and then sat down at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah. For she saw that, though Shelah had now grown up, she had not been given to him as his wife. When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.
Another incident is related in Genesis 24:64-65, where a servant girl puts on her veil, indicating this was a symbol of servitude:
Rebekah also looked up and saw Isaac. She got down from her camel and asked the servant, “Who is that man in the field coming to meet us?”
“He is my master,” the servant answered. So she took her veil and covered herself.
Please bear in mind, ‘servant’ in that verse is the Hebrew ‘ebed’, which means the girl was a slave. Slave girls were routinely used by their masters to satisfy their sexual urges and those of any guests their master ordered them to serve. Free women on the other hand, were clearly not required to veil or to do any such thing!
Before you takfir me, please bear in mind these accounts are thousands of years old, long before Islam (as we know it) emerged on the scene. With just a little research, it would not be difficult to find similar Roman and Byzantine accounts of face veiling. How therefore can the practice of veiling the face be Islamic, when it symbolises the status of a prostitute?
Women are honoured in Islam, not treated as prostitutes! I do not want my sisters being treated like prostitutes or being told to dress like them.
