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| What happens if I don't forward an Islamic email? |
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| Nafisa |
| 03/27/03 at 07:50:09 |
| [slm] I don't come here often so please forgive me if this issue has already been raised! The thing is, I been troubled by this for a while. I have received forwarded emails that are Islamic in content, you know the type, that tells a hadith or something but sometimes they tell you to forward it to every muslim you know. I have no problem with that but I take issue with the guilt tripping they inflict on me. The thinking being that if you don't foward it then you are ashamed of being muslim or that you don't care or that it implies you don't believe by not forwarding it. This is from an email I got today: [code]This is true.From Madina Sheikh Ahmed has sent this news,on a Friday Sheikh Ahmed fell asleep reading the Quraan. Then he dreamt the Prophet Muhammed (PBUH) standing in front of him and saying that in one week seven thousand people died but not even one was a true Muslim. None did what ALLAH wanted. He also said now is a bad time. These days Wives dont look after their Husbands,Girls go round without being covered they do not respect parents or others,Rich do not look after the poor,they do not give gifts or money or do not give fulfil zakaat.he also said to Sheikh Ahmed make people understand to give zakaat,To do prayer and to keep fast. The day of judgement is near. When There is a single star in the sky,straight away the path of forgiveness will close. The writing in the Quraan will disappear (vanish). The Sun will lower itself with earth. The Prophet said whoever reads this news to someone else, " I WILL ON THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT MAKE HIM A PLACE IN PARADISE, AND IF SOMEONE DOES NOT BELIEVE THIS NEWS TO BE TRUE THEY WILL BE BANISHED FROM PARADISE" If a poor person gives out this news to other people his/her good wish will come true. Sheikh Ahmed said if this is not true then my death will be off a Non-Muslim. The Prophet said " KEEP FAST,DO PRAYERS,GIVE ZAKAAT AND GIVE KINDNESS TO THE POOR" Whoever Forwards This will get his/her reward in three days. One Person forward it to 40 people he had 8,000 thousand, take prophet in his buisness. One Person did not believe this news and his son died. One kept Saying he will forward it today,tomorrow but never forward this news he died as well PLEASE DO NOT THINK THIS IS NOT TRUE. PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE![/code] I have no problem with the basic message of giving zakat and so on but the last part troubles me no end. Is it bad to not forward? Because I don't always forward them. In fact i usually delete them :-[ Is anyone else worried by this or is it just me? Any replies are welcome. [wlm] |
| Re: What happens if I don't forward an Islamic ema |
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| BrKhalid |
| 03/27/03 at 08:07:11 |
| Asalaamu Alaikum ;-) [quote]What happens if I don't forward an Islamic email?[/quote] You check out the [url=http://www.jannah.org/cgi-bin/madina/YaBB.pl?board=madrasa;action=display;num=1048289295]*Urgent Message*[/url]thread in the Naseeha and sigh a huge sense of relief ;-) |
| 03/27/03 at 08:08:37 |
| BrKhalid |
| Re: What happens if I don't forward an Islamic ema |
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| Nafisa |
| 03/27/03 at 08:21:38 |
| [slm] Oh. :-[ I feel silly now. i'll make sure to email back the person who sent this to me. At least I don't feel so guilty for deleting those emails now. |
| Re: What happens if I don't forward an Islamic ema |
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| Al-Basha |
| 03/28/03 at 16:45:09 |
| [slm] :D Sis don't feel so bad, I fell into the same trap a while back, remember Bhaloo? Actually I ended up forwarding it to my family and close friends, then I said hmm wait a minute this doesn't make any sense at all. Plus Bhaloo informed me that this letter has been around since the early 80's :o |
| Re: What happens if I don't forward an Islamic ema |
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| Nafisa |
| 04/03/03 at 15:38:518/td> |
| [slm] it's happened again! Okay, now this time, I got an email which had the 99 names of the Prophet [saw]. It looked very nice with lots of little pics for each name and at the end it said this: [quote]Dear friends i am mailing u something very important please try it and watch the miracle. Please follow the instructions below. Read this dua and say aameen with ur heart : "Allah I love you and I need you, Please come into my heart" Pass this message to 7 people except u and me. You will receive a miracle tomorrow...... Don't ignore and Allah will bless you. May Allah Reward Those Who Copy & Spread This Dua[/quote] Now, I don't think we say stuff like that do we? Or do we? it has a Christian vibe to it to me. I think I may be uncovering a conspiracy! |
| 04/03/03 at 15:48:42 |
| Nafisa |
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