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WHAT KIND OF AMERICA DO WE LIVE IN
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How Can Muslims (and Friends of Muslims) Resist by Peaceful Means?
by Dr Kaukab Siddique
Landlord Fined $31 Million for Violations
by Sr Aisha
MUHAMMAD ALI'S JOURNEY TO ISLAM
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PERFECT DAYS FOR PERFECT IBADAH
by Sr. Yasmin
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Latest Afghan-Pakistan conflict
On this Sunday May 10 a huge bomb attack took place in the Bannu area. It killed 15 Pak security forces and injured 3.
Our observers say that Pakistan should try to liberate Kashmir and support the Muslims of India. Pakistani air strikes on Kabul and other Afghan towns have provoked the Afghans to such an extent devoid air force they are using human bombs to attack Pakistani forces.
Pakistan is being ruled by westernized families such as the Sharif family and are attracting the anger of Islamic groups such as TPT and now isis who carry out person to person bombings .
WHAT KIND OF AMERICA DO WE LIVE IN
....Let me know when you get home... These are words which live in your bones....
A woman wrote these words to prepare women to defend themselves.
A woman named Rana Abdel Hamid wrote this great book to help women defend themselves.
She notes these words for women.
You think of these words 'when you hear the echo of footsteps behind you and catch your breath.
Do you speed or slow down. You grip your keys like a blade, just in case.
Maybe you recently bought a container of pepper spray that you carry in a trendy small bag though you dont really know how to use the damn thing .'
How Can Muslims (and Friends of Muslims) Resist by Peaceful Means?
Muslims are several billion globally, but are facing terrible oppression. Palestine is facing genocide. Egypt is under the heels of a monstrous dictator known as General Sisi. The terrible suffering of Palestinian children is instrumented by Israel.
Each Muslim can boycott products and businesses which support Israel.
You can join BDS, the boycott movement against businesses which support Israel. Among these are:
Arm and Hammer Products
Coca Cola
Disney
Haagen Daaz
Hilton Hotel
McDonalds
Nike
Pepsi
Starbucks
Timberland
This coming week we commemorate the Nakba, the large scale ethnic cleansing
that accompanied the declaration of a Jewish apartheid state 15 May 1948.
I have relatives who lost their homes in Jaffa (a city that was largely
ethnically cleansed and subsumed into "Tel-Aviv").
See
Qumsiyeh.org/chapter4
on this chapter of the ongoing Palestine tragedy.
According to CNN more than 25 billion dollars have been spent by USA in the war against Iran
The Strait of Hormuz has been successfully blocked by Iran. Despite daily bombing, Iran is openly defiant, and is sending drones and rockets to all those countries which are retaining US bases, though limiting damage.
Rights of Prisoners
In US prisons, the humanity of prisoners is ignored. They are reduced to numbers and their names are ignored. Islam teaches humane behavior towards prisoners. They should be permitted to wear their own clothes, and their families should be allowed to bring them food. There should be a program for each prisoner to re-enter into normal existence.
Both Islam and international law prohibit the torture of prisoners.
Lebanon
Daily bombing by Israel has killed several thousand civilians. The only resistance, which is meagre, is coming from Hizbullah.
Mayor Mamdani's Administration, including Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) Commissioner Dina Meyer, celebrated a court victory against a NYC slumlord with a long history of code violations. The Mamdani Administration was awarded a record $31 million in fines. This is the largest fine awarded to HPD. The landlords, Karan Singh and Rajmattie Persaud, are listed on the Public Advocate's Worst Landlords' List. They own Robert Fulton Terrace and Fordham Towers, which have numerous violations.
Professional slumlords can be slippery and difficult to punish for violations. So, this victory is unusual.
Robert Fulton Terrace and Fordham Towers tenants constantly dealt with out-of-service elevators, vermin infestations, and no heat or hot water. The tenants often organized to get these violations fixed. Both buildings are located in the Bronx borough.
Cea Weaver, Director of the Mayor's Office to Protect Tenants, said, "In the Mamdani administration, the Mayor of New York City is on tenants' side. This judgement is not just a step forward for the tenants of these buildings -- it is a sign of a new era of leadership, where the City works hand-in-hand with organized tenants to deliver a fairer city for all New Yorkers,"
In a city where affordable housing is very inaccessible, it is unfortunate that affordable housing has become associated with poor quality service and repair violations. State Senator Gustavo Rivera said, "Providing habitable housing to New Yorkers is not an investment opportunity, it is a legal obligation."
The city has also secured an independent Chief Restructuring Officer who has frozen over $900,000 from the Singh's and Persuad's personal finances. This money will be used to make repairs in 500 apartments in the Fulton Terrace and Fordham Towers complexes.
In Capitalist America, there is no humanity. For instance, some grocers want consumers to believe that pesticide-free, nutritious food is a privilege to eat and charge higher prices for the convenience of accessing it. It is the same mentality as affordable housing. Americans have been groomed to believe that paying low rent means poor service and living in filth, and that paying higher rent entitles renters to better services and RESPECT!
However, the glaring truth is that slumlords also exist in the luxury rental markets, too, and have been sued over not making timely repairs. Greed is everywhere.
(Source: NYC.gov)
Salaam,
Sis. 'Aisha Jamaat al-Muslimeen New York City
Guidance from Sis. Yasmin
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* MUHAMMAD ALI'S JOURNEY TO ISLAM & 'HAJJ'*~ [1972] ~🕋~ {ALHAMDULILLAH}~
'Assalaamu `Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakaatuh'.
Muhammad Ali's 1972 journey to Islam and Hajj.
Fifty Three (53) years ago the former heavyweight boxing champion made the pilgrimage to Makkah.
Article By James Langton.
There was an unmistakable face among the hundreds of thousands of pilgrims who made the journey to Makkah for Hajj in 1972.
Wearing the simple white cotton robes worn by all men who carry out the pilgrimage was Muhammad Ali. The self-styled greatest heavyweight boxing champion of the world was instantly recognisable, even to those with little interest in the sport.
A photographer was there to capture the moment when Ali bent down to kiss the Black Stone, or Hajar Al Aswad, in the Kaaba.
That image should have represented the high point of Ali's spiritual journey, the pilgrimage to Makkah that all able Muslims are required to perform and one of the five pillars of Islam.
"I have had many nice moments in my life, but the feelings I had while standing on Mount Arafat on the day of the Hajj was the most unique," he told Saudi newspaper Al Madinah in 1989.
"I felt exalted by the indescribable spiritual atmosphere as over one and a half million pilgrims invoked God to forgive them for their sins and bestow on them His choicest blessings."
But the branch of Islam the boxer followed at the time was on the far fringes of the religion and his views were regarded as extreme by many Muslims. Within a few years of the pilgrimage, a crisis of belief would lead him to reassess the direction of his faith.
Born into a devout Christian family, the young Ali, who was baptised as Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr, was heavily influenced by his mother. "Momma Bird" Odessa Clay regularly took her son to worship at the King Solomon Missionary Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky.
His religious views began to change as a teenager, the result of the racism and segregation he experienced growing up in the southern US state.
Following his own path.
At the age of 16, Ali started down the path to his conversion to Islam. He was influenced by a cartoon in a newspaper published by the Nation of Islam, a religious and political group in the US. The image showed a black Muslim slave being beaten by a white overseer because of his faith.
Ali later wrote to his second wife, Khalilah, that "the thing that attracted me to Islam was a cartoon".
Some months earlier he had taken part in a Golden Gloves tournament in Chicago, buying a record he would play repeatedly. "A White Man's heaven is a Black Man's hell" was recorded by a Calypso singer called Louis Farrakhan, a black supremacist who is now the leader of the Nation of Islam.
Ali's anger towards white society in the US came to a head in 1960, when he was 18. He returned in triumph from the Olympic Games in Rome having won the gold medal for boxing in the light heavyweight division.
As a national hero, he believed he would be treated differently. Reality hit him hard when he was turned away from a restaurant in Louisville because of his race. It was reported that he threw his medal into the Ohio River in disgust, saying years later "that was the moment I became a Muslim".
Ali soon left Kentucky, moving to Miami to train for his first title fight and worshipping for the first time at the city's Al Ansar Mosque, which was run by the Nation of Islam.
His faith was a closely guarded secret at the time owing to fears it could cost him the title fight with Sonny Liston because of prejudice against black Muslims.
Making a name for himself after historic victory !
In public, Ali spoke of going to church. On the eve of the fight, in February 1964, it was reported that he prayed. Only a handful of people knew he did so as a Muslim and had been accompanied by American Muslim leader and civil rights figure Malcolm X.
Ali's defeat of Liston shook the world of boxing, as did his public declaration a day later that he was a Muslim.
He later said Cassius Clay was a slave name. He was named after his father, who ha named after a member of the white Clay family, a committed abolitionist and opponent of slavery in the 19th century.
The boxer's new name honoured Ali, son-in-law of the Prophet Mohammed, with the first name being a tribute to Elijah Muhammad, the leader of the Nation of Islam at the time.
The Nation of Islam was a product of the oppression of black people in the US. It claimed the white race was created to oppress black people by a scientist named Yakub.
It said a space ship would arrive and wipe out life on Earth for a 1,000 years. Ali once claimed he saw the ship during an early morning training run.
Ali expressed the views of the organization and its charismatic spokesman Malcolm X.
Ali opposed desegregation, going against Christian civil rights activists such as Martin Luther King, and said self-help was the only way forward for black Americans.
He described white people as "blue-eyed, blonde-haired devils".
Ali reigns again before spiritual journey.
After refusing to be drafted to fight in the Vietnam War on religious grounds, Ali was stripped of his heavyweight title in 1967 and warned he could be jailed.
In 1971, the Supreme Court upheld his status as a conscientious objector and overturned the ruling that he evaded the draft.
His passport, which was taken away with his title, was returned and in January 1972 Ali flew to Makkah to perform Hajj. He also met members of Saudi Arabia's royal family.
By now an admired figure in the Muslim and Arab world, Ali said the experience of visiting the Prophet Mohammed's tomb in Madinah gave him faith that he could defeat Joe Frazier, who had beaten him a year earlier.
Ali would narrowly win against Frazier in 1974 and go on to reclaim his world title from George Foreman in the "Rumble in the Jungle" in Zaire.
Ali's religious views were beginning to mature. His former mentor, Malcolm X, had split from the Nation of Islam after renouncing its views and was assassinated in 1965 by three members of the organization.
Malcolm X had become a Sunni after performing Hajj and Ali followed suit in 1975,
helped by the death of Elijah Muhammad the same year and the decision of the Nation of Islam to renounce its more extreme views.
Towards the end of his life, and suffering from Parkinson's disease, Ali revealed in 2004 that he now was drawn to Sufism and later Sunni-Sufi Islam, as well a becoming increasingly tolerant of all faiths.
"Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams – they all are unique, but they all contain water," he said.
~My 'Salaams' to all~
~ Y a s m i n ~
~*Never Despair Of The Mercy Of Allah*~
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
~Say, 'Indeed, my Prayer, my Rites of Sacrifice,
my Living and my Dying are for ALLAH, Lord of the Worlds'~
{'Qur`an'~Surat Al-`An`am -# 6-162.}
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*PERFECT DAYS FOR PERFECT IBADAH🤲 [عبادة]*~*REWARDS MULTIPLIED & SINS FORGIVEN*~
'Bismillah Walhamdulillah Was Salatu Was Salaam `ala Rasulillah .
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'As-Salaam -Alaikum Wa-Rahmatullahi Wa-Barakahtu'.
Most Perfect Days for Perfect عبادة .
'So whoever does good equal to the weight
of an atom, shall see it...
and whosoever does evil equal to the weight
of an atom, shall see it.'
{ Source ~ 'Qur`an' ~ Surat Al-Zalzalah ~99: A # 7-8}
{'Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alamin'}
The glorious days when rewards are
multiplied many times !
and sins are forgiven much more... !
{'In Shaa Allah'}
These Blessed days are the first Ten {10} days
of 'Dhul-Hijjah'~{!}
Just like the last Ten nights of 'Ramadan' !
PROPHET MUHAMMAD ﷺ said...
'There are no days in which righteous deeds are more
beloved to Allah than these ten days !
The people asked...
'Not even 'Jihad' for the sake of Allah'...?
PROPHET MUHAMMAD ﷺ replied...
'Not even 'Jihad' for the sake of Allah,
except in the case of a man who went out to
fight giving himself and his wealth up
for the cause, and came back with nothing.'
{Source ~ S. Bukhari }
{'Subhaan Allaah wal-Hamdulillaah'- what an Amazing Blessing ! }
# 1/~ Fast all nine {9} days and
especially fast the Day of 'Arafah' {!}
PROPHET MUHAMMAD ﷺ said...
'Anyone who fasts for one day for Allah's pleasure,
Allah will keep his face away from hell fire
for a distance covered by a journey
of Seventy {70} Years'!
{Source ~Bukhari & Muslim}
PROPHET MUHAMMAD ﷺ
used to fast on the ninth [9th] day of
Dhul-Hijjah and he said...
'Fasting on the Day of 'Arafah'
Ninth (9) 'Dhul-Hijjah' is an Expiation for
(all the sins of ) the previous year
and an expiation for(all the sins of) the coming year'
{Source ~ Sahih Muslim}
#2/~ Do a LOT of 'Dhikr' and 'Takbir'...
PROPHET MUHAMMAD ﷺ said...
'There are no days on which good deeds are
greater or more beloved to Allah
than on these Ten days, so recite...
'Tahlil'[ تَهْلِيل] {La Ilaha ill Allah}
'Takbeer' ~ {Allahu Akbar}
'Tahmeed' ~ {Alhamdu Lillah.}'
{ Source~ Ahmad ~Saheeh }
'Takbeer' at this time is a 'Sunnah' that has mostly been forgotten,
especially during the first few days. So say it in the 'Masjid',
in your home, on the street and every place where it is permitted
to remember Allah {Aza wa Jal}
Revive the 'Sunnah' that has been virtually forgotten and earn
great rewards for doing so.
PROPHET MUHAMMAD ﷺ said...
Whoever revives an aspect of my 'Sunnah'
that is forgotten after my death,
he will have a reward equivalent to that of the
people who follow him, without it detracting
in the least from their reward' !
{Source ~Tirmidhi- a Hasan Hadeeth}
{Note: men should recite these phrases out loud...
and women should recite them softly}
#3/~ Stand in Night Prayers:
Remember the virtues of spending the night in
prayer, and its sweetness in 'Ramadan'{?}
why not revive this beautiful act of worship
during these nights as well ?!
Remember, how in the last third of every night,
ALLAH Almighty calls out to us, HIS servants...
' Is there anyone to invoke ME, so that
I may respond to his invocation ?
Is there anyone to ask ME,
so that I may grant him his request ?
Is there anyone seeking MY forgiveness,
so that I may forgive him... ?'
{'Alhamdullilah'}
{Sources ~ Bukhari and Muslim}
#4/~ Make Sincere Repentance {!}
One of the best and most important things
to do during these Ten days is to
repent sincerely to Allah and to give up all kinds of
disobedience and sin right away because
we do not know when we will die {!}
and also because one evil deed leads to another.
But, what exactly does 'Repentance' mean...?
It means that you come back to Allah
and give up all the deeds, open and secret,
that HE dislikes & that you regret
whatever you did in the past,
giving it up immediately and be determined
never ,ever to return to it,
and resolve to adhere firmly to the Truth
by doing whatever Allah loves~
{'In Shaa Allah' ~'Aameen'~}
'But as for him who repented,
believed and did righteous deeds
then he will be among those who are successful.'
{ Source 'Quran'~Surat ~Al-Qasas 28: A #67 }
#5/~ Return to the Qur`an
It is time now to dust off your copy of the
'Qur`an' and return to its refuge...
Try and make it a daily habit, using these 10 days
for the beginning of a strong and beautiful
relationship with it .
A Little Note:
Reading Surat Al-Fatihah, which doesn't take more
than two minutes will give you more than one thousand rewards .
This is on ordinary days, so what about these magnificent days !
Certainly the reward will be far greater...{!}
{'In Shaa Allah'}
#6/~ Generally Increase in doing
ALL good deeds.
we should strive in doing more good deeds in general,
because good deeds are beloved by Allah
and will bring us closer to HIM.
So if we are not able to go to 'Hajj' this year,
we should occupy ourselves during these blessed
days by worshiping Allah, praying extra
Prayers, reading Qur`an, remembering Allah ,
sending 'Salaams' on the Prophet
(Sal Allahu `Alayhi wa Sallam)~
making Dua,
giving charity,
honoring our parents,
upholding ties of kinship,
enjoining what is good
and forbidding what is evil,
and other good deeds and acts of worship.
#7/~ Get the Reward of 'Hajj' wherever you are!
you may be unable to do 'Hajj' this year, and
may feel sad because you are deprived of the
great reward of 'Hajj'.
But you can achieve a similar reward
wherever you may be...
PROPHET MUHAMMAD ﷺ said..
'Whoever prays 'Fajr' Prayer in congregation,
and then sits and remembers Allah until the sun
rises, then after a while prays two
(2) Rakats, he will gain
a reward equal to that of making perfect 'Hajj'/'Umrah'.
{he repeated the word Perfect three {3} times}
{ Source~At-Tirmidhi }
#8/~Slaughter an Animal
and distribute the meat.
~Ibn Umar{ Allah be pleased with him } said...
PROPHET MUHAMMAD ﷺ
lived in Medina for 10 years and
every year he slaughtered an animal .
{Source ~Ahmad-}
#9/~ Attend The 'Eid' Prayers.
But remember that Eid prayer is a form of
worship and we should not be doing things
that are un Islamic (especially) during these
times, women going out for prayers without
proper 'Hijab'! mixing of men and women, etc.etc.
#10/~ Gratitude to Allah {Aza wa Jal}
One of the biggest forms of worshiping
ALLAH [Subhanahu wa Ta`ala](سبحانه وتعالى) is to thank HIM,
deeply, sincerely and continuously...
[After all, it is HE who gave you every single thing that is in you,
on you or around you.]
In fact, you wouldn't even be here
if it wasn't for the Mercy of your Creator !
{'SUBHAN ALLAH'}
so thank HIM for Everything that HE gave you,
the Islam that HE gave you,
the very Life HE gave you.
and thank HIM for the chance that HE gives
you in these Ten[10] days,
to ask for forgiveness and guidance.
'Alhamdulillah'~ there is much to be gained in
these coming days.
so make the most of this perfect
opportunity offered by these invaluable and
irreplaceable ten [10] days... !
Hasten to do good deeds and appreciate this
blessing and make the most of it {!}
'And worship your Lord until there comes
unto you the certainty,{Death}'.
{Source...'Qur`an' Surat~ Al-Hijr ~15: A #99}
~ My 'Salaams' to all ~
~ Y a s m i n ~
'Say, 'Indeed, my Prayer, my Rites of Sacrifice,
my Living and my Dying are for ALLAH, Lord of the Worlds'.
{'Qur`an'~Surat Al-'An`am -# 6-162.}
