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Operation Death
This is the tale of an Average Man
Who acts contrary to Allah's plan.
If you are reflected herein
Then repent, and commit no sin.
'Twas early in the morning at four
When death knocked upon a bedroom door
"Who is there?" the sleeping one cried.
"I'm Izrael, let me inside."
At once the man began to shiver,
As one sweating, in deadly fever,
He shouted to his sleeping wife,
"Don't let him take away my life."
"Please go away, O Angel of Death!
Leave me alone, I’m not ready yet.
My family on me, depend,
Give me a chance, O please, I'll repent!"
The Angel knocked again and again,
"Friend! I'll take your life without a pain,
'Tis your soul that Allah require,
I come not with my own desire."
Bewildered, the man began to cry,
"O Angel! I'm so afraid to die!
I'll give you gold, and be your slave,
Don't send me to the unlit grave."
"Let me in, O friend!" the Angel said,
"Open the door, get up from your bed.
If you do not allow me in,
I will walk through it, like a jinn."
The man held a gun in his right hand,
Ready to defy the Angel's stand,
"I'll point my gun, towards your head.
You dare come in, I'll shoot you dead."
By now, the Angel was in the room,
Saying, "O Friend! Prepare for your doom.
Foolish man, Angels never die,
Put down your gun, and do not sigh."
"Why are you afraid? Tell me O man,
To die according to Allah's plan?
Come, smile at me, and do not be grim,
Be happy to return to Him."
"O Angel! I bow my head in shame,
I had no time to take Allah's name,
From morn till dusk, I made my wealth,
Not even caring for my health."
"Allah's commands I never obeyed
Nor five times a day I ever prayed.
A Ramadan came and a Ramadan went
But no time had I to repent."
"The Hajj was already Fard on me
But I would not part with my money,
All charities I did ignore
Taking usury more and more."
"Sometimes I sipped my favorite wine
With flirting women I sat to dine.
O Angel! I appeal to you
Spare my life for a year or two."
"The Laws of Quran I will obey,
I'll begin Salah, this very day.
My fast and Hajj, I will complete,
And keep away from self conceit."
"I will refrain from usury,
And give all my wealth to charity,
Wine and wenches, I will detest,
Allah's oneness I will attest."
"We Angels do what Allah demands,
We can not go against His commands.
Death is ordained for everyone,
Father, mother, daughter or son."
"I'm afraid, this moment is your last,
Now be reminded, of your past.
I do understand your fears,
But it is now too late for tears."
"You lived in this world, two score or more,
Never did you, your people adore.
Your parents, you did not obey,
Hungry beggars, you turned away."
"Your two ill-gotten, female offspring,
In nightclubs, for livelihood they sing.
Instead of making more Muslims,
You have made your children non Muslims."
"You ignored the Muezzin's Adhaan,
Nor did you read the Holy Qur'an
Breaking promises all your life,
Backbiting friends, and causing strife."
"From hoarded goods, great profits you made,
And your poor workers, you underpaid.
Horses and cards were your leisure,
Money-making was your pleasure."
"You ate vitamins and grew more fat,
With the very sick, you never sat.
A pint of blood you never gave
Which could a little baby be saved"
"O Human, you have done enough wrong,
You bought good properties for a song.
When the farmers appealed to you,
You did not have mercy, 'tis true"
"Paradise for you? I cannot tell,
Undoubtedly, you will dwell in hell.
There's no time to repent,
I'll take your soul, for which I'm sent"
The ending, however, is very sad.
Eventually, the man became mad.
With a cry, he jumped out of bed.
And suddenly, he fell down dead.
O Reader! Take a moral from here,
Never know your end may be near.
Change your living and make amends,
For Heaven, on your deeds depends!
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Fear none but Allah: Yuonne Ridley
The following is the text of a speech delivered by Yuonne Ridley at a meeting of the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY) held at Cairo, Egypt, in November 2006
The Arabic language is one of the cornerstones of Islam, as we have heard today from our brother, so I do apologize in advance that this is one of the many areas of Islam I have to master.
Islamically, I am very young, having reverted in 2003. And while I have much to learn I can identify with the frustrations shared by young Muslims today. I know 9/11 had a huge impact on the world, but it was not really the start of something. It was the continuation of a legacy of US imperialism and its fear of Islam.
Just over ten years ago, fit, young Muslims across the globe flooded into Bosnia to help their brothers and sisters fight for their survival against the Serbs who were carrying out a genocide sanctioned by the silence of a watching world. The jihad brought together Muslims from all nationalities, status and culture. All were united; even those who could not travel to fight helped in other ways such as fundraising, public awareness events and demonstrations. The impact was to stop the genocide. Western intervention, when it happened, came only after it was apparent that the Bosnian Muslims were heading for victory. The establishment of an Islamic state deep in the heart of Europe was simply too much to bear and so the West intervened. This is not my conclusion, but US President Bill Clinton admitted it in his autobiography.
This fear of Islam has now evolved in the last 10 years to such an extent that the blood of our brothers and sisters is now flowing like rivers across Chechnya, Kashmir, Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq and we saw recently what happened to Lebanon. I have walked through many of those killing fields and let me tell you the twisted, blown up limbs of our Muslim brothers and sisters look exactly like those pulled from the rubble of the Twin Towers. Yet the message of today is quite clear. Muslim blood is a cheap commodity.
Meanwhile tens of thousands of innocent Muslims continue to be tortured in far away dungeons and cages in Guantanamo Bay, Bagram airbase in Afghanistan, Abu Ghraib, Diego Garcic and ghost prisons throughout the world. Others are tortured in Syria, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria and even here in Egypt. Brothers are being tortured at the behest and request of the United States.
So what sort of message does that send out to our young people? They read about the heroic exploits of Salahuddin Ayyobi, Khalid bin Walid, Tariq bin Zaid and listen intently to stories of courage and bravery about our beloved Prophet Mohamed.
Do you know, five years ago I had never even heard of the Prophet, but now I would give my last drop of blood to protect his name, his honour and his memory. Even in death he continued to show how strong he was by uniting the Ummah in protest at those vile cartoons from Denmark.
Our modern day heroes include those two sixties martyrs Malcolm X Sayyid Qutb, both whose writings have helped define me as a Muslim. These are the sort of role models and influences our youth need to follow, but instead they receive confused and mixed messages. One minute they are told to fear no one but Allah while the next minute they are told to dilute their Islam and keep their heads down.
Since the events of 9-11, there has been an unrelenting campaign launched to change Islam into something more palatable to Western society. The vision is a secular and cultural Islam at peace with the world through her submission to her oppressors rather than to Allah; an Islam devoid of Jihad, Shariah and Khilafah: the very things we are commanded by Allah to implement in order to establish Allah’s Deen on this earth. And it is in evidence everywhere I look. Hijabs are being ripped off the heads of my sisters in Tunisia, France and Turkey. Sisters in Holland and Germany are also in the firing line. And in Britain, we have Jack Straw, the former British Foreign Secretary, who questioned the veil! I am not having a white, middle-aged man telling me how to dress. Keep out of my wardrobe and that of every sister on this planet.
I pick up the newspapers in Cairo today to discover the Minister of Culture has called the wearing of the veil a regression. How dare he say that! Why are the men in Egypt standing by and doing nothing to silence him? He is insulting the honor and dignity of every Muslim woman who chooses to cover.
Farooq Hosni is a disgrace to Islam! What sort of message does he send out to our young people with his weasel words! The Niqab, like the veil, like the Hijab, has become a symbol of a rejection of those negative Western lifestyles like drug-taking, binge-drinking and promiscuity. It is a statement telling the West we don’t want to be like you.
These Arabs who choose to be more western than Westerners make me laugh! Do they realize how pathetic they look in the eyes of the rest of the world? This Minister should be sacked from his post for dishonouring every sister who chooses to cover.
I suppose to hides behind such descriptions as moderated. Again what sort of message does that send to our young people? If we ask them to be moderate, does that not suggest that there is something wrong with Islam that it needs to be toned down, diluted?
The last time I came to Cairo I was called an extremist by none other than the Sheikh of Al Azhar: Sheikh Tantawi. The reason for this? Because I would not shake his hand. What is a moderate and what is an extremist? I really don’t know. I am a simple Muslim. I follow no scholars or sects. I merely follow the Prophet and the Sunnah. Does not make me an extremist? I once said being a Muslim is a bit like being pregnant. You are or you are not. Whoever heard of anyone being moderately or extremely pregnant?
Islam has been under attack for 1400 years and we should have learned by now to put our trust in no one but Allah. Yet there are those who continue to kiss the hand which slaps them. I am afraid that we can no longer put our trust in to someone just because they might wear Islamic dress or have a long beard! I notice quite a few long beards in here today, but I am not referring to you, brothers. There are those Muslim leaders who claim to guide and protect us but not all of them have our interests at heart.
Our young people are going to have to be very discerning since the events of 9/11, Bali, Madrid and the London Bombings, to name a few. There are individuals who for years rallied the masses to stand up for justice and support mujahideen groups around the world and now some have become embarrassingly silent while others condemn armed jihad, portraying mujahideen as terrorists and extremists who follow a distorted version of Islam.
In some ways we are all to blame. Our greatest shame has been our silence while martyrdom operations in Palestine and other occupied lands have been condemned as acts of terror as witnessed in 9/11 and the July 7 bombings. Our young people have to be taught that what is happening in Palestine, Kashmir, Chechnya, Iraq and Afghanistan is legitimate resistance against a brutal military occupation, while crimes like 9/11 and the London bombings are blatant terrorism.
Equating the two only betrays our brothers and sisters who have no other option but to fight or face being wiped off the face of this planet. The new slaves of the West criticize Islamist parties and governance by Shariah. Even student and youth movements which consistently campaigned for Palestine and Iraq have suddenly lost their tongues in a bid to be seen as Moderate!.
In Britain we have an invasion of what I call the Happy Clappies. They are being flown in by the Government from the US, Canada, Yemen and Mauritania to preach a diluted form of Islam. They are poisoning the minds of our youth and we should be very wary before the Happy Clappies spread across the world. They attach Wahhabi groups in the most cynicl manner! Some even misuseNasheeds, and I am deeply afraid that the Happy Clappies are infecting our Nasheeds with the excesses of western pop culture.
The end result of all this has been a dilution of the Deen of Allah, a weak and pacified Islam willing to accept the status quo in which Muslims are oppressed and subjugated; an Islam in which Muslims are content to sing and dance the night away to Nasheeds, to concentrate on bettering their life in the West and to condemn the actions of their brothers and sisters who courageously resist occupation and oppression with whatever they have. Even making dua for them now has become a crime! How long before we are told not to even pray for the Mujahideen?
One of the greatest military general the world has known, Salahuddeen Ayyubi, the liberator of al-Quds, was once asked why he did not smile. He answered back (with a counter question as to) how could he smile while knowing that the Masjid al-Aqsa, remained under Crusader occupation. I wonder what he would make of the state of the world today. I wonder what advice he would give our youth!,.
This is a world where Arab leaders belly-danced shamelessly in front of America while handing Iraq over on a plate. The same Arab leaders look the other way as our beautiful Palestine is continually raped and sodomized. And that other great daughter of the Arab world, Lebanon; where was the Arab world when she was so brutally assaulted.
And the war drums are beating again. Not only is the whole world watching, but so are our children, our youth, and our future. We must nurture them, and inspire them with tales of the Prophet and the Sahabah. As long as the Ummah continues to throw up figures like Khalid bin Walid, Salahuddeen Ayyubi, Sayyid Qutb and Malcolm X all is not lost. The more we are oppressed the tyrants, the more we will fight back. That is the nature of Islam. And this is the Islam our youth need to follow, be guided by and inspired.
Farooq Hosni and his ilk are pale imitations of real men! They have castrated themselves in a pathetic attempt to become more Western than the Westerners. He will be consigned to the history books with barely a sentence while the courage and heroic resistance of our brothers and sisters will go down in chapters.
A rapidly increasing number of Muslim youth are now realizing that no matter how hard they compromise their Deen to blend in with the wider society, when things go sour, they will be treated with suspicion. The more we are told to forget Shariah, Khilafah and jihad, the more Muslims will pay the blood price to uphold these values. The jihad we are witnessing in Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Kashmir and Checynya is something noble, a just war against injustice and tyranny. The actions of the Jihadists pose absolutely no threat to the West or Western lifestyles and their resistance is not only justified but embraced and encouraged by international law.
The real religious extremists who pose the greatest threat to radicalizing our youth are the Christian Fundamentalists in the While House and Downing Street, Bush and Blair have become al-Qaeda’s finest recruiting officers.
More and younger Muslims are waking up with the realization that it is not terrorism or extremism that is being targeted but Islam itself. It is up to the Ummah to lead and inspire our youth, just as the Prophet led and inspired millions and continues to do so. And the first lesson we must teach our youth is to fear none but Allah.
(COURTESY: YOUNG MUSLIM DIGEST)
A Short Thought...If We Ponder Upon It...
When we are leaving this world for the next one, it shall be like a
trip to another country. Where details of that country won't be found
in glamorous travel brochures but in the Holy Qur'aan and the
Ahadiths. Where our plane won't be British Airways, Gulf Air or American
Airlines but Air Janazah. Where our luggage won't be the allowed 23 kgs
but our deeds no matter how heavy they weigh.
You don't pay for excess luggage. They are carried free of charge with
your Creator's compliment. Where our dress won't be a Pierre Cardin suit
or the like but the white cotton shroud. Where our perfume won't be
Chanel, Paco Rabane, but the camphor and attar. Where our passports
won't be British, French or American but Al Islam.
Where our visa won't be the 6 months leave but the "La Illaha Illallah.."
Where the air hostess won't be gorgeous females but
Izra'iil and its like. Where the in-flight services won't be 1st class
or economy but a piece of beautifully scented or foul smelling cloth.
Where our place of destination won't be Heathrow Terminal 1 or Jeddah
International Terminal but the Qabarastaan. Where our waiting lounge
won't be nice carpeted and air-conditioned rooms but the 6 feet deep gloomy Qabar.
Where the Immigration Officer won't be Her Majesty's officers but
Munkir and Nakir. They only check out whether you deserve the place you
yearn to go. Where there is no need for Customs Officers or detectors.
Where the transit airport will be Al Barzaakh. Where our final place of
destination will be either the Garden under which rivers flow or the hell Fire.
This trip does not come with a price tag. It is free of charge. So your
savings would not come handy. This flight can never be hijacked so do
not worry about terrorists. Food won't be served on this flight so do
not worry about your allergies or whether the food is Halal. Do not
worry about legroom; you won't need it, as your legs will become things of the past.
Do not worry about delays. This flight is always punctual. It arrives and
leaves on time. Do not worry about the in-flight entertainment
programme because you would have lost all your sense of joy. Do not
worry about booking this trip, it has already been booked the day you
became a fetus in your mother's womb. Ah! At last good news! Do not
worry about who will be sitting next to you. You will have the luxury
of being the only passenger. So enjoy it while you can. If only you can!
One small snag though, this trip comes with
no warning.
ARE YOU PREPARED ?
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