Slavery, Racism and "Nazis."

Muslim Children in Atlanta Taken without Explanation:

METAIRE, Louisiana:

War News:

"insurgents" killed: 100 or 7?

U.S. OPPOSED BY ENTIRE POPULATION:

THEY STILL DON'T KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENED AT GUANTANAMO BAY!

U.S. MUST APOLOGIZE for DESECRATION of the QUR'AN in GUANTANAMO BAY

Children Held at Abu Ghraib:
U.S. Locked up 15,000 Iraqi Civilians for No Crime

Most Muslims do not Study Qur'an & Hadith. Cut off from Original Islam by the triple evils of Kingship, Slavery and the Subjugation of Women: Abu Hanifa, Malik, Shafii etc did not Form Schools of Fiqh Named After Them.

• Text: "Say: 'Shall I seek for ruler other than Allah when it is He who has sent unto you the Book, explained in detail'..."
  [The Qur'an 6:114]
• I have nothing personal against anyone who follows the Islamic Schools of Thought [fiqh]. However, if Muslims are to progress, they must open the Qur'an and study it in the light of the authentic Hadith, and not follow books relevant only to a certain time in history. Only the Qur'an and the Hadith transcend history.
• My study of Pakistan and parts of Africa shows that most Muslims do not open the Qur'an for guidance. Many of them don't have a book of Hadith in their homes. They simply follow the schools of thought which they were born into.
• Following the era of colonialism, at least some Muslims are seeking the original teachings of Islam but most find it easier to simply follow what their fathers did.. WHY?
• The answer is that following the Golden Era of the Prophet, pbuh, and of the Four Rightly Guided Caliphs, hereditary monarchy was established in the Muslim world along with its accompanying evils, like Slavery and the Subjugation of Women.
• In Islam, there is no monarchy or dictatorship. The basic principle of the Islamic polity is "mutual consultation and consent"
  [Shoora in the language of the Qur'an.]
• The Prophet, pbuh, passed away in year 11 of the Hijra calendar. Abu Bakr, r.a., was Caliph from 11 to 13, a short time jamp packed with brilliant achievements. Umar, r.a. ruled from 13 to 23 H., leaving behind a lasting example of justice. Usman, r.a, was Caliph from 23 to 35, and Islam became a world power. Towards the end of his rule, the internal perfection of the Caliphate started being eroded. Ali, r.a., 35 to 40 H. was a great human being but Muslims now got involved in internal contradictions.
• Ameer Muawiyya, 40-60 H, laid the foundations of monarchy though the original Islamic impulse still remained very strong and Muslims were united during his regime.
• Under Yazeed, 60 to 64 H and Abdul Malik, 65-86, hereditary kingship appeared in its most brutal form.
• The great Islamic scholars, Abu Hanifa, Ja'afar, Malik, Shafii, Hanbal remained independent of the power structure, although the "Caliphate" now was an imperial power, the superpower of the time.
• Abu Hanifa and others did NOT form the schools of thought named after them. The Kings tried both to coerce them and to buy them but failed to erode their resolve.
• The most famous incident is that of Imam Malik whom Caliph Harun ar-Rasheed himself approached to make his book of Hadith, Muwatta, the text book of Islamic Law in the entire empire. The Imam refused the offer.
• For Imam Shafi'I, even Hadith from ONE narrator was more important than any scholar's view. Imam Ahmad Ibn Hanbal focused totally on Hadith. Imam Abu Hanifa used Hadith and understanding of the 4 Caliphs and the sahabah to understand the Qur'an.
• Most modern Muslims, in Pakistan and elsewhere, know little about the Qur'an and even less about the Hadith. They love Islam and the Prophet, pbuh, but progress is very slow because of their blind following of Schools of Thought which spoke to a certain age and time.
• In the later collections of Muwatta [by Imam Malik] there are additions endorsing SLAVERY, and these narrations are NOT from the Prophet, pbuh.
• As we know, ISLAM came to STOP SLAVERY, not to accept it in some form or the other. Look at SURAH AL-BALAD [chapter 90 of the Qur'an]. Early in the Makkan period, it equated Islam with the FREEING of SLAVES. What would Bilal, r.a., have thought of "later Islam" which started finding excuses for slavery?
• Hadith tells us that men must not put obstacles in the way of women's participation in the mosque. Men and women were EQUAL in the mosque during the time of the Prophet, pbuh, and the 4 Caliphs
• Now we find modern Muslim scholars saying that women don't have an obligation to go to the mosque. It's a destructive tendency playing right into the fragmentation of the family system in America. Most of our women now go everywhere EXCEPT to the mosque.
• Hadith tell us that the greatest women of Islam were at every famous Jihad which shaped the origins of Islam. At the battle of Uhud, a woman, at great personal risk, saved the life of the Prophet, pbuh, as narrated in detail in Ibn Sa'ad's Tabqat.
• The future belongs to Islam but will we be among those victorious forces? That will depend on our ability to study the Qur'an and the authentic Hadith and implement Allah's Guidance and Muhammad's, pbuh, example in our lives.

PROPOSAL for a WAQF to help Sisters but through Male Relatives

1. Requests come to an Administrator;



2. If the request comes from a brother on behalf of himself and his family, he must have his request authenticated by the administration of a local masjid. He is given contact information for a Participating Masjid;



3. After authentication, the brother is sent a token donation;



4. The Administrator then negotiates with the local masjid to establish a balance between what the local community will continue to do for the brother and what the Waqf must do. Ideally the local community assumes the entire burden, its goal being to make the brother independent;



5. If the request comes from a sister, she is told to have a man request on her behalf. Her husband if that is feasible. A local brother. A non-Muslim male relative if necessary in the case of converts. A non-Muslim father of her children if necessary in the case of converts. (No non-Muslim male "friends" in the case of converts);



6. The man representing the sister must have her request authenticated by the administration of a local masjid. He is given contact information for a Participating Masjid;



7. After authentication, the sister is sent a token donation;



8. The Administrator then negotiates with the local masjid to establish a balance between what the local community will continue to do for the sister and what the Waqf must do. Ideally the local community assumes the entire burden, its goal being to help the sister establish a stable family. In the case of converts, the local community should attempt to give a role in helping sisters to non-Muslim relatives and fathers of children.

1. Funds would be maintained by an Islamic Bank;



2. Funds could be invested by that bank for the purpose of building the fund and assisting Islamic business projects and facilitating Islamic financing of real estate purchases;



3. At some point the Administrator referred to above might require a salary and a salaried staff;



4. The waqf effort could be initiated utilizing volunteers, with responsibility rotating until the time is right for a paid administration;



5. Basic funding would come from commitments to very small monthly donations by every Muslim man who has an e-mail address. My thinking is five dollars.