The problem with our friday sermons

Or Friday Khuthba’s have a big problem. In fact it has been problematic for quite some time now. And the problem seems to be in the message of the khuthba. The current format of the khuthba is over used so much that old timers most of the time are seen sleeping when the imam delivers the kuthba. They do so because of boredom. This is a very serious issue which needs to be addressed. It’s not that there is lack of content in Islamic literature to go on, to relate a beautiful piece of advice from history and sunnah. But rather it’s because of the poor quality of khuthba writing  which only means whoever is responsible for this task is clearly not up to job. In our current times, information is so much more readily available than in the past and people have so many questions they would need to ask. As such Friday kuthbas are the perfect opportunity to educate the masses about the beauty, justice and grandeur of Islam.

 

Our solution to this problem of the kuthba could be to open the kuthbas for public as a competition to compose. This could be very well implemented in educational facilities with a price to the best compositions and recognition of merit. This way people could be motivated to seek more knowledge to relate to others and dramatically improve the content of kuthbas.

Hijab Ban decided by minority of 7%

 

 

The recent decision by Azeri secular government is just another clear case of minority oppressing the majority.

 This is about the ruling elite who belong to the secular minority which shall not be bigger than 7% deciding the way how muslims shall dress!

 

http://www.onislam.net/english/news/asia-pacific/450773-school-hijab-ban-divides-azeris.html

 

But all this was prophesied long ago by our beloved prophet.

 

Narrated Thauban:  "The Prophet peace be upon him said:  'The nations shall gather and team up against you (i.e., Muslims) as the predators gather and team up against their preys.  A questioner asked: 'Is it because of us being low in numbers at that day?'  The Prophet replied: 'No, you that day shall be in great numbers, but you will be as powerless as the foam of the water on the surface of the river, and Allah shall remove any fear from your enemies toward you, and He shall put in your hearts a corruption.'  A questioner asked: 'O Apostle of Allah, what is the corruption?'  The Prophet replied: 'The love of life's amusements and the fear of death.'  (Translation of Sunan Abu Dawud, The Book of Fierce Battles - The Gathering of all Nations against Islam, Book 37, Number 4297)"

 

http://www.answering-christianity.com/end_of_times_battles_in_islam.htm

Avoiding What is Doubtful:

The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said “That which is lawful is clear, and that which is unlawful is also quite clear. Between these two is that which is ambiguous, which most people do not know. One who avoids the doubtful safeguards his faith and his honor.”
——— Riyadh-us-Salaheen, Hadith 588.

 

 

Our word on the big demonstration for 23rd December

First of all we urge all fellow Muslims to remember the sanctity of this holy day which is Friday, our day of remembrance of Allah thaaalaa. Having said that, to show solidarity with fellow Muslims on our outrage about the current administration's policies on religion and Islam is a commendable thing. However we must note that everyone who joins the demonstration does not have the same aim. Although our sheikh's and leaders have promised a violence free strike, we believe there is room for violence especially as we have a third front which is our hyper active tightly connected group of saboteurs who are the real enemies of Islam. This third front is the local atheists and agnostics and they are hyperactive in social media, creating opportunities to slander Islam and hellbent to create violence. Their aim is simple, to shatter the 100% Muslim label which  we are also not in agreement. A country has to have islamic sharia first and then religious freedom at the personal level.  However for the sake peace and security, we need this country to be a 100% Islamic state however much a tiny minority disagrees. If they (as they claim) love democracy they better learn to adapt to majority rules.

The purpose of the demonstration shall be to let the current administration know that we are the majority of the population and we have issues with idols. Although all types of idols are “budhus” in dhivehi, there are various names for each form of these objects in other languages. The worst and most severely prohibited type of these is the type of statues that have been fixed in Addu atoll starting with the bird statute in Feydhoo. We have agreement by our ulema that these are indeed haraam objects and we have every right to protest and show our anger.

The budhus cannot even be justified by economic sense as these things were made, transported, fixed and kept under guard all by use of public funds which totals more than 2 million rufiyaas even by conservative estimates. We have better and more pressing issues to address with these public funds.

The political argument against the budhus can be simply stated as the budhus and the whole fiasco about it could not add even one vote to MDP voter base, but it has (we believe it already did) contributed to considerable anger against ruling MDP for appearing to defend this un-defend-able position. 

Smart politicians realize a mistake early, acknowledges the mistake, apologizes to the people and make amends to woo the voters back in to the party. But the zeal and willingness to defend the budhus by prominent MDP politicians present their inexperience in politics which we forgive them with pure hearts.

We also have words of advice for our own sheiks and ulema as they seems to have dug a whole for themselves in a political landscape which should have been a peak. The top leadership of Adhaalath needs to learn to function like a real political party and brush their knowledge of diplomatic language to avert crisis amongst themselves. The lack of diplomatic language might have caused the rift between Dr. Bari and leadership of Adhaalath and both positions seems valid except that their differences were aggravated by lack of conciliatory language.

We ask once again all our fellow Muslim brothers and sisters to be mindful of the special time the afternoon of Friday is (which is the time of dua and zikr) and to avoid confrontation amongst ourselves even as we enjoin upon us to do good and to forbid evil.

The jaahils prevailed.

Today our so called people's majlis has passed another worthless piece of law by which they will stand to lose much in the sharia of Allah(swt) in the day of judgment. Unknowingly and unwittingly they are playing in to the hands of the shaithaan who amused them with worldly pomp and glitter of power and politics and they have thwarted the hopes of suffering Muslims between whose dua and Allah(azz wa jall) there is no barrier.

They have prevailed in preventing fellow Muslim brothers who are suffering in the hands of the kuffar in the notorious American jail at Guantanamo Bay. Those who did this have no honour to their name and in the sight of Allah and believers they could be much more worthless than the people of the book who are freeing them and allowing them to live in their lands. We the so called Islamic country of Maldives have appointed to offices of importance jaahils of first order who know not how deprived they are of themselves. May Allah destroy them and substitute for us better leaders in their place. Ameen

Even  though the common people might not know of their contempt of Islam, we the common people will also be questioned as to why we followed our leaders unwittingly. Islam is not a religion of ignorance. In Islam we follow not blindly but with knowledge. Now for all those who love and adore these kuffars who voted to persecute Muslims, there is this one message. On the day of resurrection, you will be resurrected with the ones you loved and followed.

In the time of Sahaaba

Life was simple. Basically that was what characterized the life of the best after the anbiyaa of Allah at their time.

• The halaal was easier than the haraam, which is vice-versa now. For example it was easier to marry or to divorce than to do the same thing unlawfully. Now we have put so much red tape and bureaucracy around these issues, its virtually impossible for a man or a woman to come of age without falling in to a sin of this sort. Shaithaan has instilled this idea that a big deal out of these issues shall be made so that nobody enjoys what is their right by fithra  and the religion of Allah subuhaanahu wathaaalaa. So now it is either:

• preposterious pre-mairtal agreements
• pre-marriage counseling
• blood testing and various other medical tests
• extravagent waleemaas
• consent of the wife to marry the second wife
• reducing the age of consent to a numerical function despite it being a biological function

and basically anything that either delays or prevents marriage and puts forward some form of hindrance to the blessed union. This is despite his (shaithaan's) other works which already sent the people out of their aura and confused them in hijaab so that nobody can escape unintended sights .....  On the other side, shaithaan also made it sure that nobody gets out of wedlock unscathed. However incompatible the husband and wife are, shaithaan made sure that they will have to suffer their misery by some more crafts.

• The concept of slavery was also very different from the one we understand currently. Slavery at that time was not specifically against one ethnic group or race but rather there were conditions in which a free person  can be enslaved. These are: 

1. falling in debt
2. being a prisoner of war

The European and American enslavement of black people is a completely different thing which is not what was happening in Arabia. In the seerah of the holy prophet and  the sahaaba, we come across sahaaba like Salmaan the persian, Billal, the abyssinian, Zaid bin Haarisa the Arab etc.. so it was not a master race enslaving the others. Islam treated them all equal regardless of colour.

Let's welcome the Aseer's of Guantanmao Bay

Come whatever motive the president had for this decision to allow in 2 aseer's from the notorious American prison in Cuba, its a commendable action. However the opposition parties are playing politics with this issue like every other issue the government proposes and taking advantage of the ignorance of the public on matters like this. Here are some points to the story.

1. The two men, one a palestinian and the other still of unknonw nationality has never been prosecuted or knonw to be involved in terrosit activity or violence. Infact they are quite like our own local prisoner Fauzee who was inprisoned in the same jail. They are all innocent and happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. However global media has played a role in smearing their name to convey guilt whenever the name of the prison and their incacertation are conjoined. The fact of the matter is they are innocent people who deserves freedom.
2. The United States of America is not actually falling in debt because of expenses to house these men, but rather they have a problem of conscience as they want to be seen as the leaders of moral uprightness which is why they want to expel these prisoners. The American people has been poisoned by their media to reject their freedom to American soil which is why the US is trying to find other countries willing to take these prisoners in. However countries which has bad reputation of human records is not ideal places for  sending these prisoners because of the risk they be again released or their fate becoming unknown. The US does not want the countries who take back these prisoners either to release them or to harm them. Both actions will inflame the influential US media against the current administration.
3. Frequent references are made to the hadhees of the holy prophet in which our beloved prophet mentions the similitude of muslims as the likeness of an organ in body which in solidarity with the whole body will keep it from sleep if one organ is hurt or cut. Now coming back to the issue at hand, are we worried about the personal worries of these prisoners? these are just normal people like everyone else who have been incarcerated at a foreign jail for years and yet when there is just an opportunity to get them released our shameless "politicians" are trying to defame their status and trying to block this good gesture. How can we call us muslims if we behave like this? Where is the sense of muslim charity? Is it even worse than christian charity? How come our hearts are meaner than them who are embracing these "eneiemies" with open hearts?
4. Just as when the forces of evil are making a big fuss over a small good deed, our forces of good are mysteriously silent and lukewarm in their opposition to the "evil forces", one asks why? Is it not the case that evil flourishes when good men remain silent? Why then are not our scholars and aalims and aabids up in arms against DRP and Gaumee party for opposing this move? A lukewarm notice in the Adhaalath Party website says that its "ok" for prisoners to be released from Guantanamo Bay and be welcomed in Maldives. But is it OK only? Does it not go beyond a mere OK? Is it not binding on us to help Muslims one another wherever possible? Are we not supposed to be the ones Quruan mentions as they who despite their love for food feeds the miskeen, the yatheem and the aseer?
5. The president Anni is accused by the opposition parties of recieving financial aid from the Americans for housing their two prisoners. But we ask, what's wrong with that? Americans  are certainly not unable to keep these prisoners for another 1000 years in their prisons. They can do so overwhelmingly. America despite its wayward policies is a rich country which is spoiled by the kuffar.

We ask Allah (azza wa jaal) to speed up the release of the muslims aseers of Guantanamao Bay and various other jails where they are inprisoned by kuffar and to guide islamic nations to piety and brotherhood and remove the enmity from their hearts.
ameen