Sunday Surkhi- Muslims and Ahmadis

 Many people still refer to Ahmadis as a sect of Muslims though Pakistan declared them as a minority meaning non-Muslims.
 AS such their safety and prosperity is a duty of the Muslims and the Islamic Government and the Taliban and everybody else. To me the attack on the Ahmadis, unprovoked, unnecessary, detestable and totally condemnable and also the police not acting for their safety even more condemnable, unforgiveable, unIslamic. These Taliban, if at all, are nothing but terrorists and I would condemn their action, their thinking, their teachers, their instigators their associates everybody.
 O Allah help Muslims to understand their faith.

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Two Faces of Facebook

 I guess by now you are familiar with it here are the two faces. Both are "official statements of FB"

"We have strong belief that FB users have the freedom to express their opinions and we do not typically take down the content, groups or pages that speak out against countries, religions, political entities or ideas."

"We do not tolerate hate speech. Targeting people based on their race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability or disease is a serious violation of our standards and has resulted in loss of your account....."  AND YET

whenever I try to write the name Allah on Facebook there is an automatic appearance of unworthy words with it which I cannot write

 I have discontinued FB now (2020)

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Jum'ah Journal-Qur'an Quotes

I have been talking about such quotes that non-Muslims have used incorrectly basically to further their own agenda.
The language of Qur'an is the language that was prevalent and clearly understandable by those who were present then. The words used by Qur'an were those that carried the significance which was easy to comprehend.
Sura 14th, Verse #4, "We sent an apostle (th teach) in the language of his (own) people, in order to make (things) clear to them.............."
 That is why wen we wish to understand a verse we look into how those people understood or how they acted upon it etc. There are many examples of that for us to understand, for example; in Sura Nisaa (4th) verse#101
"When ye travel through the earth there is no blame on you if ye shorten your prayers, forthe fear the unbelievers may attack you....."
 The prophet, however continued to shorten prayers even when there was no fear of attack during travel. That was his interpretation and accepted by all AND allowed by the Lawgiver.
 I repeat here what I said before, the preservation is that of the "sounds of the words" as they were pronounced then by different people in 'Hijaz area' so the harakat (signs that make a sound of vowel) were "added" for those who did not know the exact way of pronunciation and had to be guided with those 'harakat'. The persons who memorize Qur'an have to first learn how to pronounce  as close to the way it should be pronounced because they are 'repeating the sounds' as if a recorded copy that has been handed down through the ages to us. (This is a brief introduction only. there is a whole bit of science of "tajweed" when you wish to learn how to recite Qur'an properly)

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Sunday Surkhi-Facing FaceBook Fight

 Enough has been said about the Pakistani knee-jerk action about FB.
 There is such a large variehty of media available for anti-Islam, anti-Muslim expressions for those who iwsh to that it is becoming a problem to catch up with all.
 You can take one of the two ways to deal with it
 Ignore
Do something
 Doing something if one has to do, can be i) effective or ii) ineffective
 We must see what would be most effective one method for counteracting. As I see it I applaud the way California MSA students did
 They drew boxing gloves on all the line drawings of (Supposedly)Muhammad, the prophet of Islam. That is using the same "freedom of speech" method so effectively and sending a clear message.
 لوہے کو لوہا کاٹتا ہے
 Iron cuts Iron

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Out of context quotes of the Qur'an

 During times of anti-Islam posts in all kinds of media there have been varied responses and good ones. Although I am no scholar but would take one by one.

2:190

Sahih International

Fight in the way of Allah those who fight you but do not transgress. Indeed. Allah does not like transgressors.

Tafsir al-Jalalayn

After the Prophet (s) was prevented from [visiting] the House in the year of the battle of Hudaybiyya, he made a pact with the disbelievers that he would be allowed to return the following year, at which time they would vacate Mecca for three days. Having prepared to depart for the Visitation [‘umra], [he and] the believers were concerned that Quraysh would not keep to the agreement and instigate fighting. The Muslims were averse to becoming engaged in fighting while in a state of pilgrimage inviolability in the Sacred Enclosure [al-haram] and during the sacred months, and so the following was revealed: And fight in the way of God, to elevate His religion, with those who fight against you, the disbelievers, but aggress not, against them by initiating the fighting; God loves not the aggressors, the ones that overstep the bounds which God has set for them: this stipulation was abrogated by the verse of barā’a, ‘immunity’ [Q. 9:1], or by His saying [below]:

2:191

And kill them wherever you overtake them and expel them from wherever they have expelled you, and fitnah is worse than killing. And do not fight them at al-Masjid al- Haram until they fight you there. But if they fight you, then kill them. Such is the recompense of the disbelievers.

Tafsir al-Jalalayn

And slay them wherever you come upon them, and expel them from where they expelled you, that is, from Mecca, and this was done after the Conquest of Mecca; sedition, their idolatry, is more grievous, more serious, than slaying, them in the Sacred Enclosure or while in a state of pilgrimage inviolability, the thing that you greatly feared. But fight them not by the Sacred Mosque, that is, in the Sacred Enclosure, until they should fight you there; then if they fight you, there, slay them, there (a variant reading drops the alif in the three verbs [sc. wa-lā taqtilūhum, hattā yaqtulūkum, fa-in qatalūkum, so that the sense is ‘slaying’ in all three, and not just ‘fighting’]) — such, killing and expulsion, is the requital of disbelievers.

2:192

And if they cease, then indeed, Allah is Forgiving and Merciful.

Tafsir al-Jalalayn

But if they desist, from unbelief and become Muslims, surely God is Forgiving, Merciful, to them.

2:193

Fight them until there is no [more] fitnah and [until] worship is [acknowledged to be] for Allah . But if they cease, then there is to be no aggression except against the oppressors.

Tafsir al-Jalalayn

Fight them till there is no sedition, no idolatry, and the religion, all worship, is for God, alone and none are worshipped apart from Him; then if they desist, from idolatry, do not aggress against them. This is indicated by the following words, there shall be no enmity, no aggression through slaying or otherwise, save against evildoers. Those that desist, however, are not evildoers and should not be shown any enmity.

     Here is sample fromJalalain Tafsir and accepted English transaltion of Verses from second sura (Al-Baqara) from 190 to 193.

Frequently #191 is quoted without others as can be easily guessed from the tafsir notes Two points need to be talked about.

 1. Consider #191 alone which means, "Kill them (non-believers) wherever you find them and expel them from Mecca (Where they were expelled from)"  The point is if this was to be the principle Muslims are being placed in a state of constant war against non-Muslims. No truce, no compromise, no other conditions but we see that is not what happened because of the other associated verses.

2. Next is #193. Meanings here suggest to continue fighting until the rule is that of Allah or in other words the Muslims have conquered and subjugated and only then quit fighting. This evidently refers to the situation with the meccans at the time. At best it can serve as a principle when a fighting breaks out between Muslim and non-Muslim governments/countries, that at such times Muslims should not rest until non-Muslims have stopped aggession against Muslims and 'Deen', the way of life with governments being just and fair which would mean "approved by God", if such state of affairs comes to set, no need to continue fighting/killing.

 This s not a permanent ultimatum for non-Muslims. What is overlooked is #190, where Muslims are being Allowed to fight with God's leave and it is to be emphasized that this fighting must be 'Fee sabeel Allah (In the way of God)' NOT for personal or political or other worldly gains. Here the caution is clear No excess, "no more no less". Fighting for worldly gains etc. is not Jihad. Here we have the beautiful example of Ali RA:

 During the thick of the battle once a non-Muslim came under the strike of Ali's sword and the unbeliever spat on his face.

 Ali lowered his sword and spared his death.

 The unbeliever utterly surprised asked him why did you not kill me?
 "If I kill you it would appear to be because I was angry with you for your spitting in my face and that would be excess for all I can do is spit back on your face but killing would be wrong, so because of this personal anger I could not kill you I am only allowed to kill you in the way of God."

 The nonbeliever changed.

 Will take up other verses of similar substance next time inshallah.

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Jum'ah Journal-Have you thanked God this morning?

 فبایّ آلآ ء ربّکما تکذّبان
 Then which of the favors of your Lord will ye deny?
My dear reader you need to thank God for

1. your eyes which helped you to see blog
2. ability to understand what is written here
3.the language abilities
4. the fingers which worked to open the computer and brought out the blog
5. the brain that functions normally.
  6. and..............
This is just a few of the 'favors' you are taking for granted but God keeps providing you in abundance without your asking.  God's love.

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Jum'ah Journal-Late Entry

Emergency visit to N. Virginia.
  Situation under control but with these grandchildren draining energies.No serious problem Alhamdulillah.
Got opportunity to play with Ayah Iman and Issa and Musa.
 Will get back home soon Inshallah.
Being a grandfather can be very enjoyable but tiring too.

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My Ancestral Link-Contd.

 My father had started medical practice (Hikmat) in Saugor city about 1900 and lost his fther in 1905 but then he turned to family and got married settled in there with political and other activities. He remained the main source of medical help for a long time with one MBBS physician coming to town after some time. Our life (his children) was simple. Mother was (afraid of?) against having electricity at home so we had oil lamp ( Lantern or Laltain). We had rooms where things like food grains or wood for burning etc. stored and there was no concept of 'individual rooms' for each child. Water was stored for use in earthen pitchers in one corner and a woman filled them everyday from a nearby well One kitchen and we all sat down on the ground for eating together food spread out on a piece of cloth (dasterkhwan). My father stored money (coins) in a large box kept locked in one room That was considered a comfortable living. We would eat two or three times a week some meat otherwise usually vegetables of each season as was the case with fruits.
 All of us were born in Saugor except my oldest sister and my older brother. There were a total of four sons and 6 daughters. As I grew older I learnt my oldest brother was from first wife of my father who he divorced early and she (my stepmother) was a stepsister of my mother. So my maternal grand father had married twice (not from divorce). My father and my step mother (who we called 'massi"-aunt) both had bad temper so the divorce, but that put all my maternal uncles on the defence and were not friendly with my father or mother. After the retirement of my father and as we all came back to the village in the Panjab before Partition of India, two of the maternal uncles started back friendly relationship.
 Seems complicated but it was really amazing how it happened and I was told this all happened within the family that my grandfather's brothers acted in good faith and my father was liked by all of them and they respected him.
 We had taken up the culture and language of central India but it changed after we all came back to the Panjab, all due to my mother's decision as she wanted her children to be married in Panjab. From practical point of view it was difficult as my parents/father was not well-known here as they had spent nearly all of their life in central India. Anyway, I was ten year old when we came back to Panjab.
 My father continued seeing patients and advising prescriptions free of charge for the rest of his life in Kotla, the village, my mother had chosen for that purpose. Father had mild obesity but no hypertension and during my medical school days he had developed Congestive heart failure, later got Atrial fibrillation and was maintanied on medications. Around 17th July 1957 he woke up with right hemiplegia and aphasia and was treated by us (my brother had started medical practice and I had just taken my final MBBS exam but he breathed his last on 31st July and was buried in the  (then) new graveyard of Kotla. My aunt from saugor and another neighbor from Saugor, my oldest brother, all were able to come at his burial.

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