Zakah and the Forgotten Islamic Obligation Towards Prisoners
17-09-2009
The history of Islam is replete with stories of men and women facing imprisonment and abuse at the hands of oppressors. The chapter of the Prophet Yusuf [a] vividly illustrates how dealing with unjust imprisonment is not only inherent to the heritage of monotheistic tradition but, both the Old Testament [Torah] and the Quran - and hence, Judaism, Christianity and Islam - would be incomplete without it.
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The Importance of Small Actions
09-03-2009
After the news this week that Farid Hilali had been freed on bail, this had me thinking. For those unaware, he is a muslim from Morocco originally, who was falsely accused of terrorism offences. He was first arrested in 2003 in the United Kingdom, and then held for five years, without charge, before being extradited to Spain in 2008 where he has still not been given a trial. I was then delighted to hear last week that he had been freed on bail whilst he awaits the Spanish judicial authorities to formally present a court date.
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Dark Secrets
06-02-2009
Dark sunshine is dripping from the ceiling to the floor
Like curing drops of blood singing in my core
No curtain that is dividing my skin from yours
Only the hijab of death that keeps me away from my Lord
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The Repentance of Abu Mu’adh
31-12-2008
The story begins like this:
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In Those Cages
26-10-2008
Response to poem by Guantanamo detainee Ustad Badruzzaman Badr Lions In The Cage
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'All of This is Nothing When It Comes To Your Love..'
08-10-2008
The person derives pleasure from this hardship and this roughness. Why? For Allah.
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From the Mountains
29-09-2008
I heard you from the mountaintop
Calling down to me
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The True Conclusion
29-09-2008
When the ocean dries
And aggression is paid
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Break Their Darkness
02-09-2008
After darkness
Comes the light
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Free the Prisoner!
21-08-2008
From the things that the Ummah should wake up to and be worried about are the affairs of the Muslim prisoners all over the world, especially the scholars and callers to Allah amongst them - those who took it upon themselves to openly speak the truth and confront falsehood.
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Peace: In That Name
21-08-2008
Peace, they claim.
In that name
They play their game
For wealth and fame
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The Aafia Siddiqui I Saw
20-08-2008
During the time of the Prophet (صلى الله عليه و سلم), those who entered Islam were of two types: those who remained in their lands with the general populace practicing the basic tenets of the religion, and those who took it upon themselves to migrate and join the Prophet in his expeditions.
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When Hearts Incline
17-08-2008
“You don’t care about me. No one cares about me,” said the teenage boy, nearly whimpering, grief-stricken. His emotional, agonized pleas clashed starkly with the mechanic voice of his interrogator. Then, left alone, his sobs and weeping calls for his mother filled the bare, metallic room. All seemed hopeless.
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The Last Third of the Night
14-08-2008
For
The Guantanamo Bay
Detainees who, I pray,
Will stay on the straight path
And never dismay
Of God’s reward on the Last Day
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A Poem For Omar Khadr
04-08-2008
Captured at 15 years of age by U.S. soldiers
Omar Khadr has suffered for over five years
At Guantanamo Bay.
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A Glorious Dawn…A Better Day
04-08-2008
Another dawn …another day,
Disgrace; insult is thrown our way;
Yet shamelessly on their golden perch
The spineless look Oh how they sway!
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Prisoner 650
24-07-2008
A Pakistani Muslim woman had been held in the notorious Bagram Prison in Afghanistan for years and now her current whereabouts unknown. Have you heard about her? Most likely not.
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Book review 2: Madarij al Salikeen, Ibn al Qayyim
13-07-2008
This is a three Volume book which represents one of the greatest works produced on the topic of spirituality. I had already read the book a long time ago and was fascinated by it. When I was in jail and was thinking about what books to order when I would be allowed to do so, this book seemed to be the right thing to read in my present circumstances.
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Book Review 3: In the Shade of the Quran by Sayyid Qutb
13-07-2008
This work by the Shaheed -by the will of Allah- along with “Milestones” represent his greatest works and the fruits of his life. I received 5 of the 6 volumes along with Madarij al Salikeen as the first books I was allowed to have.
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Book Review 4: Al Bidayah wa al Nihaya by Ibn Kathir
13-07-2008
Ibn Kathir is a Shafi’i scholar, who studied under one of the greatest Shafi’i scholars of all time, Abu al Hajjaaj al Mizzi.
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