Eid Mubarak

Every last Friday in the month of Ramadan is Universal Quds Day, when people around the world show their solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for freedom.

One Ummah Network has produced the following video in commemoration of this day to spread the word about the plight of the Palestinians in the most effective way possible: through pictures.

The video is presented in MPEG1 format:

Universal Day of Quds

For those of you with slow connections, here is a YouTube version.

It took me a while to track him down, but I’ve managed to locate Professor Hassanain Rajabali in Australia. You can download and listen to his lectures at:

Al-emaan Australian Community

Former nun and western non-Muslim scholar of Islam, Karen Armstrong, speaks out about the Pope’s recent comments about Islam:

“In the 12th century, Peter the Venerable, Abbot of Cluny, initiated a dialogue with the Islamic world. “I approach you not with arms, but with words,” he wrote to the Muslims whom he imagined reading his book, “not with force, but with reason, not with hatred, but with love.” Yet his treatise was entitled Summary of the Whole Heresy of the Diabolical Sect of the Saracens and segued repeatedly into spluttering intransigence. Words failed Peter when he contemplated the “bestial cruelty” of Islam, which, he claimed, had established itself by the sword…”

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On the night that the Commander of the Faithful Imam ‘Ali ibn Abi Talib (peace be upon him) died, after having been stabbed with a poison dagger by the wretched Ibn Muljum, Ali’s son, Imam Hasan (peace be upon him), rose to deliver a khutbah, saying:

“Tonight you have killed a man on a night in which the Qur’an came down, a night in which Jesus the son of Mary was taken up, and a night in which Joshua the son of Nun, the champion of Moses was killed. By God, none of those who were before him are ahead of him and none of those who will come after him will overtake him. By God, if the Prophet sent him on a raid, Gabriel was at his right hand and Michael at his left. By God, he did not leave (at his death) gold or silver except for 800 or 700 dirhams, which he set aside for a servant woman.”

Imam ‘Ali was the first imam of the Prophetic household to undertake the office after the Prophet’s death and the fourth caliph of the Muslim Ummah to rule over it. He was the cousin of the Prophet (Allah bless him and grant him peace), the first male to accept Islam, the husband of the most perfect woman to ever live, Sayyida Fatimah (peace be upon her), the champion of the Muslim army, the progenitor of wilayah, the most knowledgeable among the companions of the Prophet, the father of the leaders of the youths of Paradise (Hasan and Husayn), the executor of the Prophet’s affairs (wasi), the gate to the city of knowledge, the door to the house of wisdom, and the well from which the divine fountain of secret knowledge of Allah pours fourth to all awliyah.

Peace be upon you, Ya Abu Turab, the day you were born inside the Ka’ba, the day you died, and the day you will pour the sweetest beverage for the believers at the fountain of Kawthar.

I was perusing a popular salafi site (just to see what type of information they had — and to check out their latest sufi-refutations), and I stumbled upon an intriguing fatwa, apparently from Shaykh Al-Uthaymeen, proving that the sun revolves around the earth.

His only argument is that the Qur’an mentions the sun moving, and thus he makes an assumption from those verses that the earth is stationary. But the fact that the sun moves is not indicative of its movement around the earth. The Qur’an clearly states that the sun has its own orbit and does not mention that orbit as being around the earth. Science now confirms this (although the Qur’an mentioned it 1400 years ago), that the solar systems revolve around the center of the galaxy.

There is also quite a bit of evidence in the Qur’an about the earth’s rotation on its axis and its revolving around the sun.