... ... ... ... Islamic Focus Issue 76 Igniting the Spirit of Islam Jan 2010 P3 Career P4 Best Bait P7 Angels’ Prayer P9 Sheikh Abdul Basit P10 Road Safety P12 Cii Youth Bukhara Publications/Tel: 078 672 7797/Fax: 086 651 2125 Email: [email protected]/Korsten/Port Elizabeth Division. Once Muslims united, Allah Ta’ala caused divisions within the ranks of the Crusaders with King Guy of Luisgnan on the one side and Raynold of Catillon and the Knights Templar on the other. This will also happen to the united forces of Christianity and Judaism today. Tactics. Again, with unity, Allah granted the Muslims a brilliant tactical leader in Salahuddin who lured the Christians into false military maneuvers at Hittin. He also used smoke to blind the Crusaders and captured the main water supply at the battlefield. Furthermore, Salahuddin refused to be bribed by the Crusader gar- rison at Tiberias. The Crusaders lost 17,000 men on that day and the road to the liberation of Je- rusalem and Palestine lay open to Salahuddin. Palestine is occupied. The surrounding Muslim coun- tries are helpless. Al Aqsa is under threat. Sound familiar? Well, this was the situation 1,000 years ago when the Chris- tian Crusaders ruled over Palestine. No Muslim could make inroads against them. Hero. Then the man of the moment, Salahuddin Ayyubi stood up for the liberation of the holy land and he suc- ceeded where others had failed. The turning point was the Battle of Hittin in 1187, where Salahuddin’s forces crushed the might of Chris- tendom’s armies, once again making the Muslims the main military power in Palestine, liberating Jerusa- lem and several other Cru- sader-held cities. Here are some of the reasons why he won through: Unity. The Muslim states surrounding the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem had been united during the 1170s and 1180s by Salahuddin. He had been appointed vizier of Egypt in 1169 and soon came to rule the country as sultan. In 1174, he united Damascus, Aleppo by 1176 and Mosul by 1183. For the first time, the Kingdom of Jerusalem was encircled by Muslim territory united under one ruler. A similar situation exists to- day, where the Muslim states surrounding Palestine are di- vided, each looking out only for her own interests. In fact, countries like Egypt and Jor- dan even refuse to allow hu- manitarian aid into Palestine. Once these countries are united under Islam, then the days of the Jewish occupa- tion will be numbered.
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united, Allah Ta’ala caused divisions within the ranks of
the Crusaders with King Guy of Luisgnan on the one side and Raynold of Catillon and
the Knights Templar on the other.
This will also happen to the united forces of Christianity
and Judaism today.
Tactics. Again, with unity, Allah granted the Muslims a brilliant tactical leader in
Salahuddin who lured the Christians into false military
maneuvers at Hittin. He also used smoke to blind the
Crusaders and captured the main water supply at the battlefield. Furthermore,
Salahuddin refused to be bribed by the Crusader gar-
rison at Tiberias. The Crusaders lost 17,000
men on that day and the road to the liberation of Je-
rusalem and Palestine lay open to Salahuddin. �
Palestine is occupied. The
surrounding Muslim coun-tries are helpless. Al Aqsa is
under threat. Sound familiar? Well, this was the situation 1,000
years ago when the Chris-tian Crusaders ruled over
Palestine. No Muslim could make inroads against them.
Hero. Then the man of the moment, Salahuddin Ayyubi
stood up for the liberation of the holy land and he suc-ceeded where others had
failed.
The turning point was the Battle of Hittin in 1187,
where Salahuddin’s forces crushed the might of Chris-tendom’s armies, once
again making the Muslims the main military power in
Palestine, liberating Jerusa-lem and several other Cru-sader-held cities. Here are
some of the reasons why he won through:
Unity. The Muslim states
surrounding the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem had
been united during the 1170s and 1180s by Salahuddin. He had been appointed vizier of
Egypt in 1169 and soon came to rule the country as
sultan. In 1174, he united Damascus, Aleppo by 1176 and Mosul by 1183. For the
first time, the Kingdom of Jerusalem was encircled by
Muslim territory united under one ruler.
A similar situation exists to-day, where the Muslim states
surrounding Palestine are di-vided, each looking out only
for her own interests. In fact, countries like Egypt and Jor-dan even refuse to allow hu-
manitarian aid into Palestine. Once these countries are
united under Islam, then the days of the Jewish occupa-tion will be numbered.
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WORLD NEWS
YEMEN - 30 Muslims killed in Yemeni airforce strike. (BBC, Dec 24) US gave firepower to help Yemeni government launch recent deadly raids. In Abyan several homes were destroyed and 64 civilians killed, including 23 children and 17 women. (AJ, Dec 19) PALESTINE - Israel admitted using the military to harvest organs from dead bodies of Palestinians and foreign workers in the 1990s, without permission from their families. Jehuda Hiss, former head of Is-rael's forensic institute, confirmed this. (AJ, Dec 21) ERITREA - UN Security Council imposed an arms embargo, travel bans and asset freezes on top Eri-trean officials accusing them of supporting Islamist fighters who control most of Somalia. (BBC, Dec 24) AFGHANISTAN - Taliban released a video showing US soldier Bowe alive. He was captured 6 months ago. (BBC, Dec 25) USA - A huge winter storm rolled across central US, bringing chaos to road and air transport from Texas to Minnesota. The storm spanned two-thirds of the country. 18 people died and 100 flights leaving Min-neapolis were cancelled. (BBC, Dec 25) BURMA - Burma agreed to repatriate 9,000 Rohin-gya Muslims from Bangladesh. Human rights groups say Rohingya Muslims fled cruel religious persecu-tion in Burma and do not want to return to their home country. (BBC, Dec 29) NIGERIA - 38 people killed in clashes between se-curity forces and members of the Kala Kato Islamist sect in Bauchi state. Two soldiers and a policeman were also killed. (BBC, Dec 29) PALESTINE - Over 1,000 activists from 42 coun-tries were prevented by Egyptian authorities from reaching Gaza. Some were arrested while a separate convoy of vans delivering medical supplies was stopped by Jordanian authorities from entering Pal-estine. Another convoy of 200 trucks from London, led by UK MP George Gallaway was turned away by Egyptians. (BBC, Dec 29) An Egyptian soldier was killed in clashes after authorities refused to allow the aid trucks into Gaza. TV footage showed riot police hitting activists with batons. (BBC, Jan 6) SAUDI ARABIA - 40 officials arrested in an investi-gation into the authorities' response to devastating floods in Jeddah. 150 people were killed in the
floods in Nov. (BBC, Dec 28) KASHMIR - Muslim freedom fighters in Indian-occupied Kashmir killed four Indian soldiers at War-pora. (BBC, Dec 30) HEALTH - A US study of 12 to 18-year-olds found those with bedtimes after midnight were 24% more likely to have depression than those who went to bed before 10pm. And those who slept fewer than five hours a night had a 71% higher risk of depres-sion than those who slept eight hours. It is esti-mated 80,000 UK children and young people have depression. (BBC, Jan 2) SOMALIA - Somalia's al-Shabab Islamist group which rules most of the country has pledged to send fighters to help Al Qaeda fighters in Yemen. The US increased training, intelligence and military equip-ment provided to Yemeni forces to fight Islamist fighters. (AJ, Jan 2) NORWAY - Norway’s Foreign Minister Jonas Store wrote a back-cover praise of a book exposing cruel Jewish massacres of Gaza civilians during 2008’s deadly onslaught. The book is written by two Norwe-gian doctors who describe Israel’s ‘monstrous, sys-tematically implemented and comprehensive massa-cre’ against Gaza civilians. Jewish troops killed more than 1,400 Palestinians, including 313 children, and wounded thousands during its three-week Gaza on-slaught. 20,000 homes and thousands other schools, hospitals and Musjids were ruined. A UN fact-finding committee accused Israel of committing war crimes during the Gaza war. (IOL, Dec 27) EGYPT - Coptic Christians smashed ambulances and stoned police after 7 Copts died in a shooting. This was in revenge for the rape of a 12-year-old Muslim girl by a Christian man. (BBC, Jan 7) PALESTINE - Christians boycott celebrations of Or-thodox Christmas in Bethlehem, accusing their Greek Orthodox Church of selling land to Jews. The previ-ous patriarch was ousted after leasing Church land in Jerusalem's Old City to Jews while the present one is continuing his policy. (BBC, Jan 6) PALESTINE - Arab and Jewish chefs won the world record for the biggest ever hummus dish serving up four tons of the stuff together and beating the re-cord set by Lebanese chefs in Oct who mixed two tons of the dip. (Sky News, Jan 8) �
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CAREER / FIN
ANCE
You’ve completed Matric and need to decide on
what you’re going to study to land you your dream
career. Here are some pointers to bear in mind:
Intention. Actions are judged according to intention. Among the intentions one can make is to be able to earn a living and not to beg.
Halaal. The career should be in a field that is
permissible in Islam. Doing something Haraam with the hope of success never works for a Muslim.
Benefit. The Hadith tells us that the best
people are those who are of most benefit to mankind. Study subjects that can help in
solving society’s problems. Wealth. It is natural to wish for wealth. But
this should be tempered by adjusting one’s priorities: For a Muslim, pleasing Allah comes
first. This attitude will lead to a Muslim enjoy-ing his wealth even more as the Quraan promises a good life for those who set Islam
as their main objective.
Effort. Never think that achievements are due to ones efforts. This is the way of the ar-rogant people of the past who were de-
stroyed. Be thankful to Allah and humble in ones achievements.
Shariah Compliant. Always check the rul-ings related to ones field of study or work
with Ulama to ensure it is within the parame-ters of Islam. Umar � would only allow a per-son to trade in the marketplace once he knew the Islamic laws of commerce. �
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While exclusive paper money as currency is a rela-
tively new phenomenon, gold and silver were in use
throughout the ages and across cultures as cur-
rency. Some sources say Prophet Aadam � initi-ated the use of gold and silver as currency. In fact,
much of the world instability and inflation is due to
the fact that these metals are no longer used as
everyday currency. The Muslim community, from
the era of the Prophet � till the fall of the last Khalifa used gold and silver. The Quraan speaks of
currency as being gold and silver. There are move-
ments in the Muslim world calling for a return to the
gold standard, the most prominent advocate being
former Malaysian PM Mahatir Muhammad. Some
states have introduced the gold dinar on a limited
scale while it is widely available as an investment.
Here are a few facts on the gold dinar:
Initially Muslims used gold and silver by weight and
used Persian dinar and dirhams. The first dated
coins assigned to Muslims are copies of silver dir-
hams of Yezdigird III, struck under Uthman �. In 695 CE Khalifah Abdulmalik minted the first Is-
lamic dirhams, establishing officially the standard of
Umar Ibnul Khattab �. The Islamic dinar is a coin of 22k (91.7%) gold
weighing 4.25 grams. � To be continued
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Countries with least number of Muslims: British
Indian Ocean Territory 4, Anguilla 72, Cayman Is-
lands 91, British Virgin Islands 92, Iceland 121, Do-
minica 134, Monaco 165, Seychelles 183, Lesotho
202, Aruba 291.
Excludes 46 countries with no Muslims.
Least percentage of Muslims in relation to to-
tal population:
Poland 0.01%, Ireland 0.01%, Slovakia 0.02%, Bo-
livia 0.02%, Iceland 0.04%, Paraguay 0.05%,
South Korea 0.07%, Cuba 0.08%, Belarus 0.1%,
Hungary 0.1% �
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MOTIVATION / INSPIRATION
A youngster found a nest of worms. He picked
one up and felt a sting as he hooked it on his rod. With these worms he began pulling in
bigger fish than the other boys. A man walking past asked him the secret of
his success and the boy showed him his worms. As he did so, the boy became dizzy
and fell unconscious. His hand was swollen and he died in hospital.
On investigation, the nest of ‘worms’ was ac-tually found to be a nest of baby rattlesnakes
and the boy had been bitten by one and died as a result.
This is the example of a Muslim using some-thing Haraam to gain some benefit. For a
while he might see success, but ultimately it will lead to his ruin and failure. The rattle-
snakes brought the boy big fish but killed him off in the end.
The law of Islam in every aspect of life is the only way for a Muslim to see genuine success
and contentment. �
Just as we upgrade everything in life, here’s a
list on how to improve the wearing of Hijab:
1. The Hijab shouldn’t attract attention Allah states the believing women should ‘not ... display their beauty (zeenah).’ [Surah
Noor:31] ‘And stay in your houses, and do not display yourselves like those of the times of
ignorance…’ [Surah Ahzaab:32] 2. Don’t shake hands with non-Mahrams
It’s part of Hijaab. The Prophet � said: ‘For one of you to be stabbed in the head with an
iron needle is better for him than to touch a woman who is not permissible for him.’ [Tabaraani] Non-Mahram is a male
whom a female can marry.
3. Be careful, even in the way you walk Walk with modesty. ‘There are two types of
the people of Hell that I have not seen yet… women who are clothed yet naked, walking with an enticing gait…’ [Muslim]
4. Keep those nice fragrances for home
That’s part of Hijab. The Prophet � said: ‘Any woman who puts on perfume and passes by people so that they can smell her fragrance, is
an adulteress.’ [Nasaa’i, Tirmidhi]
5. No joking with non-Mahrams Being properly covered is no license to talk and joke with men. Allah says: ‘… then be not
soft in speech, lest he in whose heart is a dis-ease should be moved with desire, but speak
in an honorable manner.’ [Surah Ahzaab:32]So talk to them when there is a specific need, and in a manner that is not necessarily rude,
yet is polite but firm. �
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