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| What excuse do we have? |
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| sis |
| 05/29/04 at 19:09:16 |
| alsalamu alaykum wa rhmat Ullahi wa barakatuh I was just reading this from an e-mail, and subhan Allah, I feel so ashamed. There is still such a distance I have yet to travel. Please make dua' for each other. walsalamu alaykum wa rhmat Ullahi wa barakatuh Our Society, Our Responsibility What excuse do we have? When Umar ibn Abd al Aziz died, learned men came to his wife to express sympathy and say how great a calamity had struck the people of Islam by his death. And they said to her, ‘Tell us about him – for the one who knows best about a man is his wife.’ And she said: “He never prayed or fasted more than the rest of you, but I never say a servant of God who feared Him more than Umar. He devoted his body and his soul to the people. All day he would sit tending to their affairs, and when night came he would sit up while business remained. One evening when he had finished everything, he called for his lamp – for which he used to buy the oil from his own money – and prayed two Rakats. Then he sat back on his legs, with his chin in his hands, and the tears ran down from his cheeks, and this didn’t stop until dawn, when he rose for a day of fasting. I said to him, ‘O leader of the believers, is there something bothering you tonight?’ And he said, ‘Yes, I saw how I was occupied while governing the affairs of the community, all its black sheep and its white sheep, and I remembered the stranger and the poor and the needy, and the prisoners of war, and all like them in the far places of the earth, and I realized that God most high will ask me about all of them, and the Messenger of Allah will testify about them, and I feared that I should find no excuse when I was with God, and no defense with the Prophet.’ Source: "A History of Muslim Civilization" - by Huseyin Abiva & Noura Durkee, Vol 1, p. 285 |
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| Trustworthy |
| 05/31/04 at 00:22:47 |
| [slm].... :( :'( Someone pass me a tissue please. You know, my bro rented "Lion of the Desert" Anyone ever seen it? Ya Rubbi!!!! I had tears running down my cheeks like I was a broken electric fountain. I never cried that much except when I watched "The Message". Omar Mukhtar said when he was captured, "It doesn't end with me. The next generation will fight against your occupation. We will win or we will die trying. I will outlive my hangman." Mom asked, why the other Muslim countries didn't help? I didn't know how to answer that. And I was thinking....he fought against the occupation of the Muslims land for 20 years, where were all the other Muslims while these "bleep" devils tortured the Muslims? Then I was thinking if we did ally ourselves with other "Muslim" countries and fought against the Kaafiroons, we'd have a horrendous beyond horrendous war that never ends. So which is the better cause either we accept being the weak ones and the torture of the few of our brothers/sisters/children to save the greater number or to be in constant struggle in Jihad? Such a dilemma...so ashamed.... I recommend watching the Lion of the Desert and tell me what you think? Cause it will leave you thinking..... Ma-asalaamah.... |
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| timbuktu |
| 05/31/04 at 01:32:08 |
| [slm] I saw "Lion of the Desert" a long time ago, and I think it is one of the best movies I have seen. regarding your question about why the other muslim countries did not help: Muslim countries have in general found themselves very backward in terms of armaments and trained troops. The scientific and technical education and industrial basis needed for a sustained war does not exist. The rulers have had to rely on help from one non-muslim power or the other to stay in power. Plus the rulers are usurpers, who keep their own people in bondage, and hence have denied them the education and the oportunities that would have set our people free. It must be remembered that this was a time of direct colonialism, Italy was a little late in entering this game, and the means of communication and travel were not easy. It may hearten you to know that Muslims as individuals had been fighting for the freedom of their brethren for a long time. In the Balkans, in Algeria for freedom from the French, in Indonesia from the Dutch, all through I come across examples of people prepared to lay down their lives, and indeed helping in the liberation of Muslims the world over. Afghanistan was the culmination of that activity. With the demise of the Soviet Union, the US thought it could impose its will on all. What we are seeing is resistance to that hegemony, from ordinary people, as opposed to from the governments, because governments cannot stand pressures. They have signed on far too much of back-breaking loans, the leaders are corrupt and keep the looted money in the West. Do you know how much Saudi money is in the US? not to speak of others in the Gulf. and as for Libya and Syria and other regimes hostile to US interests, they went to the other Satan (the USSR). In fact these two were ceated so the third world countries could be controlled. There was a Canadian author who wrote a book with a recurring theme" "NATO and the Warsaw Pact are One" In short, I have concluded that since muslims are technologically backward, there is no option for them other than resist through guerilla techniques, but leave it for where armed conflicts are taking place. Whether or not we participate in that, it will continue. The longer term solution is to educate and to build halal economies that can sustain the sort of expenditures required for modern defence needs. and above all, to instill a culture of tolerance in the populations of Muslim countries, so that strength comes from within. |
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| Trustworthy |
| 05/31/04 at 18:53:29 |
| [wlm]..... Jazakh for your insight. I do agree that "Muslim" countries are somewhat technologically unadvanced, but Omar Mukhtar (may Allah (SWT) grant him firdaws) fought on horses and the reason why they lost was because they ran out of ammunition. Seeing how rich Saudi and other "Muslim" countries are, why not provide the ammo...you know what I mean? They don't have to send over troops though that would've been more helpful but like you said, they didn't have the technology or what not but they must've had ammo they could spare. And all the commoners like us can do is provide zakat or saddaqah to them in how ever way we can. What ponders within is that the Qur'an had all the answers and many of the Muslims discovered mathematics, the universe, etc...yet we can't come up with inventive ways of helping the Muslim ummah, technology or what not. Hmmm....why is that? Or am I missing something? Ma-asalaamah.... |
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