Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un, The National Health Service we are funding through our own hard work have began to circulate leaflets to parents, teachers and youth workers which promotes their crazy belief that children have a right to enjoy orgasms.  If this wasn’t serious I would dismiss it as joke made in really bad taste but unfortunately for me and for many other parents living in the UK, the NHS of Sheffield are very serious indeed.

Using the slogan “an orgasm a day keeps the doctor away” they are suggesting that by having an orgasm a day these children may delay losing their virginity until they are much older and “until they are certain they will enjoy the experience (of sex)”

What sort of mashed up logic is this?

Children are being groomed into believing it is ok to be sexually active because our whole society is saying it is.  Children are receiving mixed messages from every side which has left them totally confused. They watch their favourite pop star sing about sex and then they open a newspaper and read about this person ran off with that person next to a picture of a topless woman, then they watch their favourite soap and see two women or two men snogging, they walk down the street and see huge pictures of bikini clad women whilst listening to sexually explicit lyrics on their ipods.  Then they go into school and hear that they should masturbate because that will stop them from being sexually active….are these people for real?

I have never heard anything so bloody ridiculous in all my life

It’s all too much…In truth they don’t have the answers because they will not pick up scripture and see what God says to them.  They have abandoned God and this is the result despite their objections to this fact. This Godless  society is rotting from within and they think they can solve it with pathetic solutions like this.

As I type I am slowly calming down knowing that most decent people in the UK (and there are many) will not stand for this nonsense and so it won’t have the legs to carry on.

This orgasm suggestion actually comes from one individual, Mr. Steve Stack, a “sexpert” no less, who seems to be living in a strange little world where logical thinking is absent.  Surely, advising children to routinely masturbate is a bad thing that will actually make children more curious about sex and not less.

besides, doesn’t it make you go blind?

Read story here

May Allah protect our children by giving them understanding in religion

I have been approached by a team of highly skilled and able brothers who have the love of Allah ’s Deen in their hearts and the concern for the wellbeing of the Muslims as their priority. They have asked me to get involved in a very big and beautiful project that will, inshallah, be of great benefit to those people who have accepted Islam as their faith.

It is unfortunate and tragic that a number of people who accept Islam go through many trials and many tests after they convert on their own without the support they need from us, the Ummah.  I personally know converts who have not been accepted by their local Muslim community, they feel out of place, they have nobody to talk to, they feel alone and are left to tread water and often struggle to learn the basic tenants of their new faith and especially Arabic.

There are so many issues that they face and problems that they bring with them from their past and it seems the Ummah is struggling to cope with it, which quite often ends in that individual leaving Islam.

This is an indictment upon us and evidence against us on the Day of Judgement.  May Allah protect us. Amin

The project that I have been asked to get involved with will directly assist converts / reverts from all over the world and will be a great source of benefit to them, inshallah.  It is multi faceted and will aim to cover all possibilities but we really need is to speak to converts from all over the world to ask them about their own journey and the issues they faced upon converting.  We hope by listening something can be created that will help them, with the permission and blessing of Allah .

This is a very serious request by serious and committed brothers, much work has already taken place and development has started.

If you are a convert / revert or a friend of one and know of their issues please provide your name and email address so we can begin to learn, it will be a few simple questions inshallah.  You don’t have to put your email in the comment section for everyone to see; by simply commenting on this blog you are required to enter an email in the field which will not be published. If you dont want to comment but want to help by sharing your experiences just write “I’m in” in the comment section

If you would like to share your convert story and the issues you faced and are happy for everyone to see feel free to write, it would be most welcomed, from my experience it does inspire many of us.

As the project grows I will be able to provide more detailed information about the products and services Inshallah.

Allah says in Surah Al-Ma’idah (5): 2

“And help you one another in righteousness and piety. But do not help one another in sin and transgression.”

Our beloved Prophet Muhammad said

“The best men are those who are most beneficial towards others.” (Hadith narrated by Imam Baihaqi)

May Allah make this project successful. Amin

This is Cynthia McKinney and I’m speaking from an Israeli prison cellblock in Ramle. [I am one of] the Free Gaza 21, human rights activists currently imprisoned for trying to take medical supplies to Gaza, building supplies – and even crayons for children, I had a suitcase full of crayons for children. While we were on our way to Gaza the Israelis threatened to fire on our boat, but we did not turn around. The Israelis high-jacked and arrested us because we wanted to give crayons to the children in Gaza. We have been detained, and we want the people of the world to see how we have been treated just because we wanted to deliver humanitarian assistance to the people of Gaza.

At the outbreak of Israel’s Operation ‘Cast Lead’ [in December 2008], I boarded a Free Gaza boat with one day’s notice and tried, as the US representative in a multi-national delegation, to deliver 3 tons of medical supplies to an already besieged and ravaged Gaza.

During Operation Cast Lead, U.S.-supplied F-16’s rained hellfire on a trapped people. Ethnic cleansing became full scale outright genocide. U.S.-supplied white phosphorus, depleted uranium, robotic technology, DIME weapons, and cluster bombs – new weapons creating injuries never treated before by Jordanian and Norwegian doctors. I was later told by doctors who were there in Gaza during Israel’s onslaught that Gaza had become Israel’s veritable weapons testing laboratory, people used to test and improve the kill ratio of their weapons.

The world saw Israel’s despicable violence thanks to al-Jazeera Arabic and Press TV that broadcast in English. I saw those broadcasts live and around the clock, not from the USA but from Lebanon, where my first attempt to get into Gaza had ended because the Israeli military rammed the boat I was on in international water … It’s a miracle that I’m even here to write about my second encounter with the Israeli military, again a humanitarian mission aborted by the Israeli military.

The Israeli authorities have tried to get us to confess that we committed a crime … I am now known as Israeli prisoner number 88794. How can I be in prison for collecting crayons to kids?

Zionism has surely run out of its last legitimacy if this is what it does to people who believe so deeply in human rights for all that they put their own lives on the line for someone else’s children. Israel is the fullest expression of Zionism, but if Israel fears for its security because Gaza’s children have crayons then not only has Israel lost its last shred of legitimacy, but Israel must be declared a failed state.

I am facing deportation from the state that brought me here at gunpoint after commandeering our boat. I was brought to Israel against my will. I am being held in this prison because I had a dream that Gaza’s children could color & paint, that Gaza’s wounded could be healed, and that Gaza’s bombed-out houses could be rebuilt.

But I’ve learned an interesting thing by being inside this prison. First of all, it’s incredibly black: populated mostly by Ethiopians who also had a dream … like my cellmates, one who is pregnant. They are all are in their twenties. They thought they were coming to the Holy Land. They had a dream that their lives would be better … The once proud, never colonized Ethiopia [has been thrown into] the back pocket of the United States, and become a place of torture, rendition, and occupation. Ethiopians must free their country because superpower politics [have] become more important than human rights and self-determination.

My cellmates came to the Holy Land so they could be free from the exigencies of superpower politics. They committed no crime except to have a dream. They came to Israel because they thought that Israel held promise for them. Their journey to Israel through Sudan and Egypt was arduous. I can only imagine what it must have been like for them. And it wasn’t cheap. Many of them represent their family’s best collective efforts for self-fulfilment. They made their way to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees. They got their yellow paper of identification. They got their certificate for police protection. They are refugees from tragedy, and they made it to Israel only after they arrived Israel told them “there is no UN in Israel.”

The police here have license to pick them up & suck them into the black hole of a farce for a justice system. These beautiful, industrious and proud women represent the hopes of entire families. The idea of Israel tricked them and the rest of us. In a widely propagandized slick marketing campaign, Israel represented itself as a place of refuge and safety for the world’s first Jews and Christian. I too believed that marketing and failed to look deeper.

The truth is that Israel lied to the world. Israel lied to the families of these young women. Israel lied to the women themselves who are now trapped in Ramle’s detention facility. And what are we to do? One of my cellmates cried today. She has been here for 6 months. As an American, crying with them is not enough. The policy of the United States must be better, and while we watch President Obama give 12.8 trillion dollars to the financial elite of the United States it ought now be clear that hope, change, and ‘yes we can’ were powerfully presented images of dignity and self-fulfilment, individually and nationally, that besieged people everywhere truly believed in.

It was a slick marketing campaign as slickly put to the world and to the voters of America as was Israel’s marketing to the world. It tricked all of us but, more tragically, these young women.

We must cast an informed vote about better candidates seeking to represent us. I have read and re-read Dr. Martin Luther King Junior’s letter from a Birmingham jail. Never in my wildest dreams would I have ever imagined that I too would one day have to do so. It is clear that taxpayers in Europe and the U.S. have a lot to atone for, for what they’ve done to others around the world.

What an irony! My son begins his law school program without me because I am in prison, in my own way trying to do my best, again, for other people’s children. Forgive me, my son. I guess I’m experiencing the harsh reality which is why people need dreams. [But] I’m lucky. I will leave this place. Has Israel become the place where dreams die?

Ask the people of Palestine. Ask the stream of black and Asian men whom I see being processed at Ramle. Ask the women on my cellblock. [Ask yourself:] what are you willing to do?

Let’s change the world together & reclaim what we all need as human beings: Dignity. I appeal to the United Nations to get these women of Ramle, who have done nothing wrong other than to believe in Israel as the guardian of the Holy Land, resettled in safe homes. I appeal to the United State’s Department of State to include the plight of detained UNHCR-certified refugees in the Israel country report in its annual human rights report. I appeal once again to President Obama to go to Gaza: send your special envoy, George Mitchell there, and to engage Hamas as the elected choice of the Palestinian people.

I dedicate this message to those who struggle to achieve a free Palestine, and to the women I’ve met at Ramle. This is Cynthia McKinney, July 2nd 2009, also known as Ramle prisoner number 88794.

Abu Dhar al-Ghafari said: “The Messenger of Allah (sal Allahu alaihi wasallam) said:

‘Sadaqah is prescribed for every person every day the sun rises.’ I said: ‘O Messenger of Allah , from what do we give sadaqah if we do not possess property?’ He said: ‘The doors of sadaqah are takbir (Allahu Akbar), Subhan Allah , Alhamdulillah, La-ilaha-ilAllah, Astaghfirullah, enjoining good, forbidding evil, removing thorns, bones and stones from the paths of people, guiding the blind, listening to the deaf and dumb until you understand them, guiding a person to his object of need if you know where it is, hurrying with the strength of your legs to one in sorrow who is appealing for help, and supporting the weak with the strength of your arms. These are all the doors of sadaqah.” [Ahmad]

In other words one does not need to have financial resources to earn the reward of sadaqah. There are many deeds that qualify as sadaqah with Allah . In addition to those listed above the following ordinary courtesies are also sadaqah if we do them with the intention of pleasing Allah with them.

1. To administer justice between two people is sadaqah.
2. To assist a man upon his mount so that he may ride it is sadaqah.
3. To place his luggage on the animal is sadaqah.
4. A good word is sadaqah.
5. Every step taken toward prayer is sadaqah.
6. Your smile for your brother is sadaqah.
7. Planting anything from which a person, an animal or anything eats is sadaqah.

Beautiful lecture on the beautiful subject of our Prophet Muhammad by Maulana Abdur Raheem

In an address to the inaugural Palestine Festival of Literature (2008), John Berger gives a moving reading of Ghassan Khanafani’s “Letter from Gaza“.

John Berger reads Ghassan Khanafani’s Letter from Gaza from Palestine Festival of Literature on Vimeo.

topi tip Sabbah

Trailer for the upcoming 9th Annual Youth Tarbiyah Conference at the Islamic Foundation of Toronto. http://www.youthtarbiyah.com

Confirmed Guests:
http://www.youthtarbiyah.com/guests * Sh. Abdul Salam – Trinidad * Sh. Ebrhaim Bham – South Africa * Sh. Sulaiman Moola – South Africa * Sh. Ahmed Ali – UK * Sh. Rafiq Sufi – UK * Mufti Muhammad Ibn Adam Al Kawthari – UK * Sh. Zahir Mahmood – UK * Ustadhah Zainab Salam – Trinidad * Dr. Munir El Kasem – Canada * Sh. Faraz Rabbani – Canada * Sr. Rabia Khedr – Canada * Sh.Yusuf Badat – Canada * Labbayk Nasheed Group – UK

When asked: what is the best form of charity for those who had died, our beloved Prophet Muhammad replied: ‘Water’. Related by Abu Dawud

Watch Imam Zaid taking part in Islamic Relief Projects in Mali

I apologize for the lateness of this information

It is with great pleasure that we take the opportunity to inform the Muslim Community of the United Kingdom, of the arrival of :-  Hadhrat Shaikh Bhaijaan Abdul Mueed Saheb Khalifaa of Arif Billah, Shaikh ul-Mashaaikh Hadhrat Nawaab Qaisar Sahab (Khalifa of Hadhrat Masihul Ummat who also had the privilege of sitting in the Majaalis of Hadhrat Hakeemul Ummat Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi (ra)

All brothers, particularly the Ulamaa, are humbly requested to participate in this programme,

Please inform of this programme in your nearby towns, enabling people to benefit from the blessed Majlis of Hadhrat Shaikh Bhaijaan.

Fundamentals of Understanding the Glorious Qur’an. A Single Weekend Course Taught Entirely by Shaykh Abu Yusuf Riyadh ul Haq at Azhar Academy, London. Open to brothers and sisters. Limited Spaces! Further details at www.akacademy.eu