Isra’ dan Mi’raj

Apakah Isra’ dan Mi’raj berlaku pada malam 27 Rejab?

Oleh: al-Qaradhawi

Salah seorang ulama hadith dari kurun ke 7 bernama Abu al-Khattab ‘Umar bin Dahya, yang menulis kitab “Ada’ la wajaba fi bayan wad’ie al-wadhdha’ien fi syahr Rajab” menyebut di dalamnya: “Sesungguhnya sebahagian para Qusshas (pereka-pereka cerita) ada yang menyebut kononnya Nabi SAW diisra’kan pada bulan Rejab.” Katanya (Abu al-Khattab): “Ini suatu pembohongan.” Kenyataan ini diakui oleh Khatimatul al-Huffadz al-Hafidz Ibn Hajar al-‘Asqalani pensyarah kitab hadith al-Bukhari yang terkenal.

Saya sedia maklum bahawasanya dakwaan isra’ dam mi’raj berlaku pada malam 27 Rejab tidak terdapat walau satu hadith yang sahih, tidak terdapat juga satu pendapat yang sahih dari seorang sahabat, ia hanyalah pendapat yang telah termasyhur, dan pendapat sebahagian para ulama, dan pendapat ini dinisbahkan kepada al-Imam al-Nawawi, dan al-Imam al-Nawawi memilih pendapat ini di dalam fatwanya, dan al-Imam al-Nawawi adalah seorang yang diterima oleh umat Islam, maka masyhurlah pendapatnya ini, dalam masa ada ulama seperti Abu Ishak al-Harbiy, yang kami dapati beliau berpendapat isra’ dan mi’raj tidak berlaku pada malam 27 Rajab sebaliknya berlaku pada malam 27 Rabi’ul Awwal.

Saya sedia maklum tidak ada sesuatu yang pasti dalam perkara ini (penentuan tarikh Isra’ dan Mi’raj). Cumanya pendapat ini telah masyhur dan diketahui di kalangan umat Islam semenjak kurun-kurun mereka memperingati Isra’ dan Mi’raj pada malam tersebut. Dalam keadaan tidak berlaku pada malam tersebut (pada ketika itu) sebarang amalan atau ibadah. Malam Isra’ dan mi’raj ini tidak disyariatkan untuk kita (mengkhususkannya) dengan bangun malam atau berpuasa pada siang harinya. Tidak dituntut juga daripada seseorang muslim untuk dia melakukan apa-apa amalan (yang khusus) untuk mendekatkan diri kepada Allah pada malam atau pada siang hari tersebut. Kerana itu umat Islam dahulu tidak memberi tumpuan kepada malam Isra’ dan Mi’raj.

Persoalan menyambut hari Isra’dan mi’raj, jika ia dimaksudkan untuk mengambil pengajaran dari peristiwa yang agung ini dan apa-apa kesannya dalam kehidupan Nabi SAW dan ianya berlaku selepas tahun al-Huzn (tahun kesedihan) dan apa yang menimpa baginda, lalu Allah SWT hendak memuliakan Rasulullah SAW selepas orang ramai dan Quraisy menentang baginda, demikian juga selepas Bani Thaqif menentang baginda dan kesusahan-kesusahan yang baginda hadapi, selepas itu Allah menghendaki memuliakan baginda, lalu dalam perstiwa israk dan mi’raj baginda mendirikan solat bersama para nabi yang lainnya, dan baginda menjadi imam, baginda disambut oleh para malaikat dan para nabi di langit dan baginda dinaikkan ke langit yang tinggi sehingga ke tempat yang dinyatakan oleh Syauqiy: “Baginda tidak diterbangkan dengan sayap dan tidak dijalankan dengan kaki.

Perkara ini penting untuk kita ambil pengajaran dan i’tibar darinya, selama-mana tidak timbul darinya sebarang amalan atau ibadat (khusus). Jika demikian tidak ada sebarang halangan untuk kita menyambut peristiwa ini.

Menyambut sesuatu membawa maksud mengambil berat dan memberi perhatian kepadanya, yakni perkara itu tidak dilupakan dan tidak ditinggalkannya. Maka kita menyambut yakni mengambil berat tentang perkara isra’ dan mi’raj ini terutama padanya ada dua perkara yang penting: Pertama: Kaitan Masjid al-Aqsa, sebagai tempat penghujung Isra’ dan permulaan mi’raj. Isra’ tamat di masjid al-Aqsa dan Mi’raj bermula di masjid al-Aqsa hingga naik ke langit yang tinggi. Maka kita perlu memerhatikan keadaan umat Islam pada masa sekarang di masjid al-Aqsa yag ditawan dalam gengaman yahudi.

Sedangkan manusia lalai dari perkara utama ini, perkara yang paling utama nisbahnya bagi umat Islam pada masa kita sekarang ialah persoalan Palestin, dan persoalan Palestin terasnya ialah al-Quds, dan teras persoalan al-Quds adalah masjid al-Aqsa, maka kita mengambil peluang ini untuk mengingatkan orang ramai tentang persoalan Palestin dari peristiwa isra’ dan mi’raj dan perbicaraan tentang masjid al-Aqsa. Wallahu a’lam.

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Palestinian…History…..101

This is the real hisory of Palestine which kreep is desperately trying to hide away from us. Of course he will rant and scream and will shoot Bigot, Anti-Semite, Jew Hater in every direction.
Do your very worst kreep!! You cannot refute or deny the truth. All your lies have been exposed!!!
Do you still think you are superior? You worthless dog turd!!!


The history of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict has its roots in the events that began during World War 1. At the turn of the twentieth century, Palestine was a province of the disintegrating Ottoman Empire. During the course of World War 1, the British promised to support Arab independence in exchange for Arab assistance against the Turkish Army. These British promises are clearly documented in the Hussein-McMahon Correspondence (1915-1916) which largely focused on the borders of a post-war independent Arab State that included Palestine

Although the Arabs rallied behind the infamous Lawrence of Arabia, fulfilling their part of the bargain, the British and the French repaid them with imperial plots that ran contrary to the letter and spirit of the promises made to the leaders of what came to be known as the 'Arab Revolt'. In the Sykes-Picot Agreement (1916), the British and French secretly agreed to colonize the Eastern Arab world after the war. Almost on a whim, the British also issued the Balfour Decleration of 1917.

The Balfour Declaration was an agreement between European and American Zionists and the British Government to create a 'Jewish' national home in Palestine. The text read:

"His Majesty's Government views with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object: It being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country."

The 'existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine' were the Palestinian Arab Muslims and Christians, who comprised over 90% of the population. Both the Balfour Declaration and the Sykes-Picot Agreement were secret agreements between England, France and the Zionist interest groups. In drafting both agreements, no attempts were made to consult the Arab inhabitants of these lands. In fact, the existence of the two agreements were successfully kept under wraps until they were disclosed by the Bolsheviks in Moscow after the Russian Revolution. They were then widely publicized by the Turkish Government as a way of demonstrating British betrayal of assurances given to the leaders of the 'Arab Revolt'.

In response to the revelation of these secret agreements, The Anglo-French allies gave the Sherif of Mecca more assurances in the form of the Anglo-French Declaration of November 9, 1918. This promise was that "France and Great Britain agree to further and assist in setting up indigenous governments and administrations in Syria (which included Palestine) and Mesopotamia."

The end result of British promises and counter-promises was the implementation of the Sykes-Picot Agreement and the division of the Eastern Arab World into British and French Mandates. These mandates were given international sanction by the League of Nations. Legally, a mandate was a 'pet colony' where the colonizing power's sole mission was to prepare the natives population for eventual self-governance.

Once the Sykes-Picot double cross was completed, the British moved on to another, more sinister, act of duplicity. Instead of preparing the natives of Palestine for self-rule, they prepared them for eventual exile.

To get an idea of the magnitude of this most heinous of British Colonial crimes, one only has to take a look at the demographics of the Palestine mandate in 1922. The area was inhabited by a population of 650,000 Palestinians and a little over 50,000 Jews. By the end of the Mandate in 1948, the population had increased to 1,380,000 Arabs and 650,000 Jews. The unnatural growth of the Jewish population was facilitated by a heavy influx of European Zionist immigrants who came with the explicit ideological intent of displacing the native Palestinian Arabs.

During the period the Palestine Mandate, the British conducted themselves in a manner that amounted to sanctioning the creation of a Jewish 'government' for the Zionist immigrants. In 1936, the Palestinians revolted against the British. Their major demand was that Jewish immigration be curtailed. By then, the Palestinians, at all social and political levels, were acutely aware of the Zionist program and its ultimate goals of dispossessing the Palestinians. It took three years for Great Britain to put down the revolt. It was a revolt that decimated the leadership of the Palestinians and further paved the road to the political and military domination of Palestine by the Zionists.

In November 1947, the United Nations General Assembly, made up mostly of European and Latin American countries, approved the partition of Palestine into an Arab state and a Jewish state. The partition plan provided for the establishment of a Jewish State on 56% of the total area of Palestine, This 'Jewish State' had an Arab population of almost 50%. It took blatant gerrymandering to carve out the borders of the 'Jewish' state in a manner that would give the minority Jewish population over half of the land.

The Partition Plan, although grossly unfair to the native Palestinian majority, contained many provisions to safeguard their rights. The text of the Partition Plan had provisions "Guaranteeing to all persons equal and non-discriminatory rights in civil, political, economic and religious matters and the enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms, including freedom of religion, language, speech, publication, education, assembly and association". These were lofty words that the architects of the plan knew would not be honored by a Zionist movement determined to create a state as "Jewish as England is English".

The Partition Plan resolution had a whole chapter on religious and minority rights. The provisions of the plan included the following choice legalisms:

1. No discrimination of any kind shall be made between the inhabitants on the ground of race, religion, language or sex.
2. All persons within the jurisdiction of the State shall be intitled to equal protection of the laws
3. No expropriation of land owned by an Arab in the Jewish State (by a Jew in the Arab State) shall be allowed except for public purposes. In all cases of expropriation full compensation as fixed by the Supreme Court shall be paid previous to dispossession.

The provisions were principally directed at the government of the proposed Jewish State. Which was accorded 56% of the land area of Palestine. This area contained a population of 498,000 Jews and 497,000 Arabs. The remaining 44% of the land had a population that consisted of 10,000 Jews and 725,000 Arabs. These figures can be confirmed by referring to the original Resolutions and decisions of the General Assembly and the Security Council of the United Nations on the Palestine Question.

While the Partition Plan provided for all kind of legal protection for the native Palestinians, it did not provide any mechanism for enforcing these rights. Instead, it relied on the unlikely good will of the British and the Zionists. Not long after the Partition plan was adopted in 1947, the Zionists initiated a campaign of terror aimed at expelling the Arab inhabitants, confiscating their property and occupying as much of Palestine as they could before the British left.

The massacre of 250 men, women and children in the village of Deir Yassin on April 9, 1948 was one of many methods the Zionist forces resorted to in their efforts to induce the Arabs to flee. Menachem Begin, the leader of the attack, later declared that "The massacre was not only justified, but there would not have been a state of Israel without the 'victory' at Deir Yasin."

Before the British left, the Zionists had already occupied territory reserved for the Arab State and International Zone in Jerusalem. This was in addition to controlling the 56% that had been allotted to the Jewish State in the Partition Plan.

One of the greatest canards that the Israelis disseminate is that the Palestinians fled of their own free will to make way for the invading Arab armies from neighboring states. By the time the Arab armies entered the fray on May 15,1948 the Zionist forces had already penetrated deep into the area allotted to the Palestinian 'Arab' state and 650,000 of the natives of Palestine had become refugees.

Ben Gurion, a Polish immigrant and Israel's first Prime Minister, said of this offensive that was initiated six weeks before the British Mandate ended,

"As fighting spread, the Arab exodus was joined by Bedouin and Fellahin, but not the remotest Jewish homestead was abandoned and nothing a tottering administration (the British) could unkindly do, stopped us from reaching our goal of May 14, 1948, in a State made larger and more Jewish by the Haganah".
David Ben Gurion, Rebirth and Destiny of Israel

Having achieved Ben Gurion's goals, the State of Israel was declared the very next day, May 15,1948. In June 1948, The United Nations formally demanded a statement of policy from the new Israeli Government regarding the Arab refugees who had fled the carefully scripted Haganah reign of terror. Israel's Foreign Minister replied in an official letter on August 1,1948. The letter not only denied responsibility for the exodus, not only pleaded security, but went on to state that "On the economic side, the reintegration of the returning Arabs into normal life, and even their mere sustenance, would present a problem." Meaning, the Palestinians could not return to their village and harvest their fields. The land that had sustained them for untold generations was now incapable of providing sustenance. This Israeli stance marked the beginning of a policy that endures to this day, the denial of the right of return to the Palestinians.

The 'Shahak Report', written by Dr Israel Shahak, who was for many years the chairman of the Israeli League for Human and Civil Rights, details what happened to the villages that were left behind by the exiled Palestinians. He reports that Israel destroyed 385 Palestinian villages in order to establish a 'new' State. The purpose was to make the Arab presence disappear. In the decimated wastes of these villages, 320 Kibbutzim were erected together with 267 moshavim.

From the birth of the state, the Israeli trademark has been to 'make facts on the ground'. The Shahak report details this process of manufacturing facts:

"To say that three quarters of a country was destroyed, and only a small fraction of its land left in the hands of its original inhabitants, is no figure of speech. For this is what happened. A largely non-native collection of people simply effaced 385 villages in order to establish a 'new' state. This was no land without people. Rather it was the case of a land, Palestine, with people, transformed into a desert so that a 'new' land could blossom."

"The pattern of destruction was chillingly radical. An Arab village would be invaded. Then every house, every garden wall, every cemetery and its tomb stones would be razed, literally to the ground."

"The truth about Arab settlements which used to exist in the area of the State of Israel before 1948, is one of the most guarded secrets of Israeli life. No publication, book or pamphlet gives either their number or their location. This, of course, is done on purpose in order that the accepted official myth of 'an empty country' can be taught and accepted in the Israeli schools and told to visitors."

"The significance of this increases when it is remembered that until late 1948, Arabs owned 93% of the land of Palestine."

The end result of the Partition Plan and the horribly violent Zionist campaign that preceded the exit of the British was the creation of a nation of refugees. Israel disclaimed any responsibility for their flight, obstructed their right of return and passed laws to confiscate the properties that they left behind. The official Israeli attitude was that sooner or later the Palestinians would melt away and be absorbed into the surrounding Arab states.

Throughout the 1950s, the Israelis retained the hope that the Palestinians would simply vanish. But it was not just a random mass of individuals who fled the terror of 1948. It was a whole society. A common land and language, a common political fate and the cruelty of exile created a distinct Palestinian national identity. Although scattered, they survived as a nation.

Over 50 years later, many Israelis still cling to the false history that the Palestinians just 'up and moved' as a result of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. The fringe Zionists still teach their children that the 'there was no such a thing as a Palestinian'.

This Israeli denial of culpability infuriates the Palestinians who have suffered the torments and turmoil of an undignified exile. Many still live in the very refugee camps their parents fled to in 1948. It is a rare Palestinian family that was left unmolested by the events that led to the creation of a 'Jewish' State on real estate that amounted to 78% of what was the British Mandate in Palestine.

Israelis must abandon the mythology of Zionist history if they are ever to come to terms with the Palestinians. In Germany, the denial of the Holocaust is a punishable crime. Had it not been made a crime, who knows what German textbooks would be teaching today? The truth has been good medicine for post-war Germany. Widespread international awareness of the horrors of the Holocaust has also facilitated a healing process among the Jewish survivors and given them the strength to cope with their darkest memories.

It is long past the hour for Israel to acknowledge the reality of what was inflicted on the Palestinians. The continued denial reinforces Palestinian rage. Zionist fables will no longer sell in Paris or Peoria. As for the Palestinians, they would have to contract a bad case of mass amnesia before succumbing to the humiliation of accepting a contrived historic account that slanders the experience of every Palestinian family.

An essential part of making peace in the Middle East is coming to terms with the past. Let the Israelis use their desperate need of a safe haven from European anti-Semitism as an explanation for their systematic crimes against the Palestinians. Let the Israelis plead collective insanity emanating from the evil cruelty that was inflicted upon them at Aushwitz. But let them put an end to this denial of history that only serves to add to the deep sense of injury that is felt by almost every Palestinian.

Ban on Israeli Goods in Place: Customs Chief

RIYADH, 4 January 2007 — Director General of Saudi Customs Saleh Al-Barak reiterated that the Saudi regulations do not permit the import of goods manufactured in Israel.

“The official regulation followed by every customs house at the Kingdom’s border crosspoints is a total ban on any goods of Israeli origin,” Al-Watan Arabic newspaper quoted Saleh Al-Barak as saying yesterday.

Anyone found breaking the regulation would be treated as a smuggler of contraband goods to the Kingdom and fined accordingly and the seized goods destroyed, the director general said.

“The violations of this kind have, however, been limited in number, committed only by individuals and not by any importing establishment,” Barak said.

He said some people bring Israeli products to the Kingdom due to ignorance about the source of the goods. On the other hand, Barak said all products of Palestine are exempted from customs duty.

Barak said the customs revenues were estimated at SR11.5 billion out of the SR270 billion imports in 2006. The revenue did not drop despite new customs regulations implemented following the Kingdom’s accession to the World Trade Organization, he said.

The Kingdom has 33 customs checkpoints including airports and seaports and Barak hoped that they would be sufficient to cater for the needs of the next 10 years.

He added that the department has plans to expedite customs inspections with the help of the state-of-the-art devices at the checkpoints. The facility will be installed at first at the checkpoints experiencing heavy traffic and extended gradually to other checkpoints as well.

Barak said presently there is no difficulty for the Kingdom’s commodities to enter the neighboring counties of Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The obstacles found with the export of Saudi dates to the UAE have also been removed.

In September last year, Saudi date sellers expressed their frustration over new customs measures adopted by the Emirati Ministry of Agriculture, which curtailed the export of raw dates from the Kingdom to the UAE.

According to Abdulrahman Al-Zamil, head of the Saudi Export Development Center, the UAE Cabinet had given orders to the Ministry of Agriculture to impose certain conditions on Saudi date exporters “in violation of the United Gulf Customs regulations, the Arab Customs Union, and the World Trade Organization agreements.”

The director general said the current tendency in the Arab countries, like elsewhere in the world, is to simplify the customs formalities in order to have a gainful trade balance with other countries.

Barak said any difficulty felt in the export of Saudi products to countries such as Morocco, Tunisia and Sudan, which clamped restrictions on Saudi products against the spirit of the general agreements of the Arab free trade zone will be dealt with by the Arab League. He also attributed such difficulties partly to the bureaucratic delay in some countries.

AL-AQSA IN DANGER!

While the world is all agog over the Hizbullah victory in the "Israel"-Lebanon war, Zionist oppression of Al-Aqsa in the holy land of Jerusalem is going on unnoticed. While the world is fascinated by Hizbullah's triumph, and its current status as the hero of Lebanon, Al-Aqsa is disregarded. Aid is being channelled to Lebanon whilst Al-Aqsa struggles under constant Zionist aggression.

Al-Aqsa is still being violated by the Zionist regime. The situation in Jerusalem is deteriorating by the day. The humiliation and indecent treatment which the Palestinians have been experiencing in their own land is worsening. Until now, Palestinians are still being barred from performing Friday prayers in the mosque for several months running.

Our real responsibility is to defend Al-Aqsa based on its special status as the first qiblah. Our soldiers should be sent to Jerusalem to defend the holy sanctuary. The safety of the mosque should be our main concern.

As Muslims, we should familiarise ourselves with the steps the Zionists have taken to occupy Al-Aqsa and realise their ambition to build their Jewish temple, the Haykal of Solomon.

STEP 1: ANNEXING AL-BURAQ WALL

On August 20th 1929, a group of extremist Jews, with the help of the British army, broke through into the Al-Aqsa complex and took control of the western area, including Al-Buraq Wall (now referred to as the Wailing Wall by the Jews). In just 15 days, 338 Palestinians died in their effort to thwart the Zionists' plan.

STEP 2: ARSON OF THE MOSQUE

On August 21st 1969, an extremist Jew called Dr Dennis Michael Rohan (Jewish name: Mikhail Rohan) set Al-Aqsa on fire. The fire destroyed most of the mosque, including the historical minbar (pulpit), used by Salahuddin al-Ayyubi after he liberated Al-Aqsa from the Christian Crusaders. The Palestinians succeeded in extinguishing the fire, but Dr Rohan was freed from all charges on grounds of insanity.

STEP 3: LAYING THE FOUNDATION

On October 15th 1989, the "Guardians of the Temple" group laid the foundation for the Haykal. A spokesperson noted that this move constituted the beginning of Jewish renaissance.

STEP 4: JUDAISATION OF THE MOSQUE

Since 1967, various plans have been carried out by extremist Jews to replace Al-Aqsa with their Haykal. Temple guards were trained, special Kohannim robes for the rabbis were sewn, and even a model of the temple was built near Al-Aqsa. Ehud Olmert, former mayor of Jerusalem (now Prime Minister of "Israel") also officiated at the opening of the Jewish Museum, built underneath Al-Aqsa Mosque.

STEP 5: DIGGING THE TUNNEL

After laying the foundation, the Zionists started excavation works. Their tunnel underneath the mosque reached the length of 400 metres (half the length of Al-Aqsa), thus damaging the structure. Sheikh Raed Solah, the leader of the Islamic movement in Jerusalem who exposed this fact to the public was imprisoned by the Zionist regime.

STEP 6: EXPANDING THE GEOGRAPHY OF "ISRAEL"

After the declaration of "The Greater Jerusalem" in 1982 that was approved by the Knesset ("Israeli" parliament), the Zionist regime endeavoured to expand the geography of Al-Quds to 279 donums. They succeeded in doing so by including 49 Jewish towns and villages in Jerusalem and expanding the demography of Jews in Palestine. 70% of Palestinian land was confiscated and only 13% left to the original owners.

STEP 7: EVICTING THE PALESTINIANS

Since 1967, more than 435 Palestinian families have had their houses demolished and 700,000 of the people were driven out of their homes. 50,000 were exiled; they were not allowed to re-enter Palestine after they furthered their studies or sought medical attention abroad. As a result, before the construction of the segregatory West Bank Wall, there were only 70,000 Palestinians left in "Israel" while the number of Jews reached 400,000. After the wall was built, the number of Jews in "Israel" rose even more rapidly.

STEP 8: OCCUPYING THE MOSQUE

In 1967, the Zionist army under the command of General Mordechai entered Haram As-Sharif in tanks. The army seized the key of Al-Magharibah Gate and took control of the city's east side, including Al-Aqsa Mosque.

STEP 9: KILLING THE PALESTINIANS

In the Deir Yassin incident, 254 Palestinians were murdered. This number includes 145 women, 35 of which were pregnant. 150 corpses were flung into disused wells. 150 women were paraded around the city while naked, and the Jews spat on them. Jewish tyranny over Palestinians has never stopped; the brutality and injustice have been going on for decades and continues every single day.

AL-AQSA MOSQUE IN OUR HEARTS

Palestine is extremely special to Muslims because:

• Al-Aqsa Mosque is located there. Al-Aqsa was the first qiblah, the second mosque to be built and the third holiest mosque in Islam.
• It is the land of the prophets; Ibrahim, Daud, Musa, Zakaria and 'Isa a.s. amongst them.
• Prophet Muhammad s.a.w. travelled to Jerusalem during the miraculous Isra' Mi'raj journey, and ascended to Heaven from Al-Aqsa.
• Prophet 'Isa a.s. will descend there during the Day of Judgement.
• Allah called Jerusalem and its land "the blessed surroundings".
• 'Umar al-Khattab, the second caliph, declared the region to be part of Islamic waqf (endowment).

"Glory be to the One who took His servant on a journey by night from Al-Masjid Al-Haram in Makkah to Al-Masjid Al-Aqsa, whose precincts We have blessed..." (Al-Israa' 17: 1)

WHAT CAN WE DO?

Prophet Muhammad s.a.w. said, "Whoever dies without having striven for the cause of Allah or having had the intention of doing so, has died following one of the branches of hypocrisy." (reported by Muslim)

There are many steps we can undertake to show solidarity with our brothers and sisters and to protest the unjust occupation of their land. The main thing is for us to propagate the cause by denouncing the oppression, and to use all available resources to help the suffering Palestinians morally and financially.

• Pray for the safety and well-being of our Palestinians brothers and sisters, and implore Allah to grant the fighters victory over their enemies.
• Recite Qunut An-Nazilah, a kind of special prayer recommended in time of calamities and tragedies.
• Finance the institution of Jihad and those who fight in Allah��s cause by donating to the Palestinian people and Al-Aqsa Mosque through trustworthy channels.
• Support the weak and the oppressed in all ways, including the media as well as the Internet.
• Get scholars, du'at, Imams as well as Muslim writers to explain the oppression that is happening to the fellow Muslims and the negligence on the part of the ummah, and to mobilise the ummah to defend the holy land.
• Boycott the products of the "Israelis" and their proxies, as well as condemning their atrocities and barbarism.
• Write letters of support for the Palestinian cause to our local media, members of the Parliament, the United Nations and various other national/internatio nal agencies.
• Support the Islamic organisations all over the world which are staging peaceful demonstrations or making petitions.
• Increase our own knowledge about the Palestinian issue.

Basically, we should spread the word through any means possible, for example by distributing pamphlets; writing articles; organising exhibitions, "Save Al-Aqsa" campaigns, talks on Palestine and fundraising concerts; composing songs and lyrics; circulating solidarity for Palestine postcards; screening documentaries; writing short stories and novels; giving talk shows on the TV and radio; writing scripts for dramas and films and a variety of other ways.

BOYCOTT!

Boycotting "Israeli" and American products is a religious obligation as well as a necessary human procedure to repel the aggressors, and it is a basic form of Jihad ( i.e. economic Jihad). Boycotting has a very negative effect on the economy of the enemy just as it will help in pushing forward the wheel of national economy in the long run.

Dr. Hussein Shihata, Professor of Islamic economy at the Faculty of Commerce, Al-Azhar University opines that the economic boycott is a religious obligation; Muslim jurists have also agreed that it is a necessity. Therefore, economic Jihad is given the same legal ruling as physical Jihad in its broadest sense.

Prophet Muhammad s.a.w. stressed the significance of economic Jihad, saying, "Whoever helps a fighter in the cause of Allah is given the same reward as the fighter, and whoever takes care of his family (the fighter) is given a similar reward." (reported by Al-Bukhari and Muslim)

In this regard Sheikh Yusuf al-Qardhawi says, "To buy ("Israeli" and American) goods is to support tyranny, oppression and aggression. Buying goods from them will strengthen them; our duty is to make them as weak as we can. Our obligation is to strengthen our resisting brothers in the Sacred Land as much as we can. If we cannot strengthen the brothers, we have a duty to make the enemy weak. If their weakness cannot be achieved except by boycott, we must boycott them."

He goes on to state, "It is a legal obligation upon all Muslims to boycott Israel and all countries that support it, especially the United States of America for each dirham or dinar that reaches them turns to a bullet used in shooting our brothers in Palestine."

As long as we go on buying their products, the Zionists will continue committing all sorts of atrocities on our brothers and sisters in Palestine. Palestine will be bombed, houses will be demolished and Palestinians killed with the bullets we have bought. Therefore, Muslims should stop buying and supporting products that are known to aid "Israel" and America. Our buying power can paralyse the "Israeli" economy and bring peace back to Palestine.

LIBERATING AL-AQSA IS A SACRED AND NOBLE DUTY

Freeing Al-Aqsa and Jerusalem is a very noble task, the striving towards and achievement of which will be handsomely rewarded by Allah s.w.t. In a hadith narrated by Abu Umamah al-Bahili, Prophet Muhammad s.a.w. said:

"There will be a group from my ummah that will be always be on the true and righteous path. They will overcome their enemies and they will not be transgressed against unless suffering befalls them, until Allah's help comes and they return to their normal state. The companions asked: Where do they live, oh Rasulullah s.a.w.? The Prophet replied: In Jerusalem and the surrounding areas." (reported by Ahmad)

Allah s.w.t. has chosen the Palestinian people to be the ones to protect Al-Aqsa. They have sacrificed everything, including their lives, wealth, family, children and their whole world in order to defend our holy land. They have given everything for their Lord and when they meet Him, their responsibility will have been fulfilled.

The question is, what have WE contributed to Al-Aqsa? Defending Al-Aqsa is an obligation, so is it enough for us to just look on while our brothers and sisters suffer? What will we answer in front of our Lord on the Day of Resurrection?

Hopefully our small but consistent contributions will save us in the Hereafter. Don't hesitate, start helping now!

Safwan and Zaid Omar

11 September 2006

Misplacing the Temple of Solomon

Kajian oleh Dr. Ernest Martin membuktikan bahawa lokasi asal Rumah Ibadah Kaum Yahudi yang dibina oleh Nabi Sulaiman a.s. berada di luar kawasan Masjid al-Aqsa, Baitul Maqdis...

The book The Temples That Jerusalem Forgot is a result of the in-depth research of Dr. Ernest Martin that shows that the Temples of God in Jerusalem were indeed located over the Gihon Spring and not under the Dome of the Rock.
http://www.askelm.com/temple/t000601.htm

Ambil tahu... Chechnya!

Ambil tahu...
Dalam kesibukan kita memenuhi kepentingan diri kita, sama-samalah luangkan masa untuk mengetahui kisah perjuangan saudara kita di seluruh dunia. Saudara-saudara kita di Chechnya telah lama menderita. Marilah kita ambil pengajaran terhadap apa yang menimpa mereka, dan jangan berhenti dari terus berdoa untuk mereka, di samping memikirkan bentuk bantuan lain yang dapat diberikan...


http://www.globalissues.org/Geopolitics/Chechnya.asp

Informasi yang tepat membantu memberi gambaran yang menyeluruh dan tindakan yang betul.

Negara kecil ini telah sekian lamanya memperjuangkan kemerdekaan, namun cengkaman penjajahan Russia terus menghalang impian rakyat Chechnya untuk bebas di bumi sendiri. Kekayaan minyak dan pelbagai hasil bumi menyebabkan ia menjadi rebutan Russia, ditambah dengan kepentingan politik Vladimir Putin untuk terus kekal berkuasa di Kremlin. Kekacauan yang berterusan hanya menyebabkan kemusnahan... yang menjadi mangsa, rakyat awam yang tidak bersalah.

Betapa ruginya dunia apabila orang Islam hilang kuasa!