Salam Big Mo......can you link me the arbic article from Jamal or Gamal Al Bana regarding hadiths?

The White House 'official' statements keep changing....first he was armed and resisted arrest and used his wife as a human shield and now they are saying neither of that happened...they simply shot him in the head!!!!!!!!

The whole thing sounds dodgy to me

ProGod.....i think you've done very well to be patient with the one calling himself al-Quraishi....who in my opinion has some racist under tones in his responses to you.......keep it up bruv

Meteora, in Africa you will find variations in hair texture as well as skin tone and facial features...and this has nothing to do with mixing...thus you will find women in Sudan, Nubia and Somalia with wavy/straightish hair but with very dark skinned.....thats just the way certain ethnic groups look

http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiSZKLv8Kq0

http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=p649FxU6EGk&feature=related

http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvJ0F299kFQ&feature=related

The link does not work

yes Sara thats the one...gracias

Wakas Thank you...i just recovered it

There used to be a section for articles written in Arabic on this website.....i found them to be quite useful for my friends in Sudan who don't read English very well

The Seductive and Blinkered Belligerence of Wafa Sultan

By Stephen Julius Stein, Los Angeles Times

STEPHEN JULIUS STEIN is a rabbi at Wilshire Boulevard Temple, where he also directs inter-religious programming.

June 25, 2006

RECENTLY I WAS one of about 100 L.A. Jews invited to attend a fundraiser for a Jewish organization that seeks to counteract anti-Israel disinformation and propaganda.

The guest speaker was Wafa Sultan, the Syrian American woman who in February gave a now legendary interview on Al Jazeera television, during which she said that "the Muslims are the ones who began the clash of civilizations" and "I don't believe you can reform Islam."

The audience warmly greeted Sultan, a psychiatrist who immigrated to Southern California in 1989. One of Time magazine's 100 "pioneers and heroes," she said she was neither a Christian, Muslim nor Jew but a secular human being.

"I have 1.3 billion patients," she quipped early in her remarks, referring to the global Muslim population. Sultan went on to condemn inhumane acts committed in God's name, to denounce Islamic martyrdom and to decry terror as a tool to subjugate communities. Those statements all made perfect sense.

Then this provocative voice said something odd "Only Arab Muslims can read the Koran properly because you have to speak Arabic to know what it means ? you cannot translate it."

Any translation is, by definition, interpretation, and Arabic is no more difficult to accurately translate than Hebrew. In fact, the Hebrew of the Bible poses many more formidable translation problems than Arabic. Are Christians and Jews who cannot read it ill-equipped to live by its meanings?

Another surprising remark soon followed "All Muslim women ? even American ones, though they won't admit it ? are living in a state of domination." Do they include my friend Nagwa Eletreby, a Boeing engineer and expert on cockpit controls, who did not seek her husband's permission to help me dress the Torah scroll?

Or how about my friend Azima Abdel-Aziz, a New York University graduate who traveled to Israel with 15 Jews and 14 other Muslims ? and left her husband at home?

There is no subjugation in the homes of these and other American Muslim women I know. They are equal, fully contributing members of their families.

The more Sultan talked, the more evident it became that progress in the Muslim world was not her interest. Even more troubling, it was not what the Jewish audience wanted to hear about. Applause, even cheers, interrupted her calumnies.

Judea Pearl, an attendee and father of murdered journalist Daniel Pearl, was one of the few voices of restraint and nuance heard that afternoon. In response to Sultan's assertion that the Koran contains only verses of evil and domination, Pearl said he understood the book also included "verses of peace" that proponents of Islam uphold as the religion's true intent.

The Koran's verses on war and brutality, Pearl contended, were "cultural baggage," as are similar verses in the Torah. Unfortunately, his words were drowned out by the cheers for Sultan's full-court press against Islam and Muslims.

My disappointment in and disagreement with Sultan turned into dismay. She never alluded to any healthy, peaceful Islamic alternative. Why, for example, didn't this Southern California resident mention the groundbreaking efforts of the Islamic Center of Southern California, the leading exemplar of progressive Muslim American life in the United States?

Why didn't she bring up the New Horizon School-Pasadena that the center started, the first Muslim American school honored by the U.S. Department of Education as a National Blue Ribbon School?

You might wonder why a rabbi is so uneasy about Sultan's assault on Muslims and Islam. Here's why Contrary to practically every mosque in the U.S., the Islamic Center has a regulation in its charter barring funding from foreign countries.

As a result, it is an American institution dedicated to propagating an American Muslim identity. Maher and Hassan Hathout are the philosophical and spiritual pillars of the mosque. They also have been partners of Wilshire Boulevard Temple rabbis and others throughout L.A. for decades.

The Hathouts' mosque has twice endorsed pilgrimages to Israel and the Palestinian territories, its members traveling with fellow L.A.-area Jews and Christians. It invites Jews to pray with them, to make music with them, to celebrate Ramadan with them.

This is the mosque whose day school teaches students about Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur and Hanukkah alongside lessons in Arabic and the Koran. Recently, the Islamic Center joined the food pantry collective of Hope-Net, helping feed the hungry and homeless.

Make no mistake I am not an Islamic apologist. But Sultan's over-the-top, indefensible remarks at the fundraiser, along with her failure to mention the important, continuing efforts of the Islamic Center, insulted all Muslims and Jews in L.A. and throughout the nation who are trying to bridge the cultural gap between the two groups. And that's one reason why I eventually walked out of the event.

Here's another As I experienced the fervor sparked by Sultan's anti-Muslim tirade and stoked by a roomful of apparently unsuspecting Jews, I thought What if down the street there was a roomful of Muslims listening to a self-loathing Jew, cheering her on as she spoke of the evils inherent in the Torah, in which it is commanded that a child must be stoned to death if he insults his parents, in which Israelites are ordered by God to conquer cities and, in so doing, to kill all women and children ? and this imagined Jew completely ignored all of what Judaism teaches afterward?

In a world far too often dominated by politicians imbued with religious fundamentalism of all flavors ? Jewish, Christian, Muslim ? we need the thoughtfulness, self-awareness and subtlety that comes from progressive religious _expression. We have that in Judaism, in Christianity ? and in Islam, right in our backyard. If only Sultan, applauded in many quarters yet miscast as a voice of reason and reform in Islam, were paying attention.

I would still rather listen to the rational voices of Edip, Layth and to a certain extent Ayaman rather than the delusional rantings of a sunni scholar.

http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=zS9S5uDpma4

What difference does it make what colour anyone is? - None at all

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We may not live to see a thousand years from now with our existing system...but definitely we can project how it will look like if we do. Views regarding saddam today are divided on wether he is a "hero" or a "Villain"...but I can imagine many will give him the status of hero, just like the fella in This Show.

It is known fact that he killed.
It is known fact that he maimed.
It is known he used his position to further his personal desires.
It is known fact he died saying the Shahada, and therefore to many Sunni Iraqis ''a courageous muslim''.
It is known fact he fired scud missile into Israel.
It is known fact that he claims to be a uniter of all arabs and muslims.
He is practically given the status of the "Shahaba" as the video depicts.

No wonders if in 1400 years time he will be called one of the "Ashraf El Mursaleen"...Saddamism is rising by the day, and people may soon shout....Saddamism is the fastest rising religion in the world....and they will fight whenever he is insulted...they will burn flags whenever he is depicted and they will say

I sacrifice my Mom and dad for you...Oh Saddam

and of course the generation born in that era (1400 years from now), will support him because it is being passed down to them with intimidation...and they blindly refuse to resort to historical accounts.

The thing is bm...organic food is more expensive...infact it's a 'middle class thing'...you can see the difference when you see fast food shops in poor areas while in middle class areas you see lots of health foos shops and no McDonlads/KFC etc etc

Salam Edip

I think you should send a copy to the head 'scholar' at Madina University and include their criticism lol lol lol

salam bmbmm

You still have not explained what it means to 'love' the messenger more than our relatives or Children

Thank you

Peaceful Muslim

Shukran jiddan ya akhi!!

I never even thought of those other ayaat in reference to women being witnessses!!

What you said makes sense.

I always guard against sterotypes, so I just did not want to conclude that this ayaat is speaking to some type of deficiency of women. After all, it says the other can remind her if the one errs. So if women were naturally or consistently deficient, one could not remind the other.

But, at the same time, women and men are not the same. To counter attack the Islaam detractors on this women issue, I can't pretend that men and women are the same.

Now, some may still take issue and say, why can't two women be witness and no man be present? I also noticed or think I noticed that, the verbs used in that portion of the ayaat do not seem to be feminine verbs. On second look, maybe there is no feminine dual pronoun suffix in arabic. But it does say iHda which is the feminine for waHad? And tudhkkira is the feminine for yudhikkir I believe?

At anyrate, this is to be understood as dealing with financial transactions. And I just noticed, all of this comes after the issue of the one owing the debit being unsound. If the one owing the debt is sound, are the other witnessess still needed? Because the scribes is putting it all in writing. Are the two men witnesses or one male and two females really acting as guardians for the unsound party to the transaction?

So Jaxal does Shahid and Shaheed both mean the same thing?

salam jaxal but does not the word shaheed mean witness also or are thry two diffferent words?

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Thus, have We made of you an Ummat justly balanced, that ye might be witnesses over the nations, and the Messenger a witness over yourselves; and We appointed the Qibla to which thou wast used, only to test those who followed the Messenger from those who would turn on their heels (From the Faith). Indeed it was (A change) momentous, except to those guided by Allah. And never would Allah Make your faith of no effect. For Allah is to all people Most surely full of kindness, Most Merciful.