Kashmir Struggle

The video in following link tells what the unrest in Kashmir is all about. In spite of over half a million Indian troops they are screaming for freedom to unite with Pakistan.

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Good Indian

Arundhati Roy is a bold and respected Indian journalist. Apart from her good looks, she also has a clear vision of world events. Here is what she spoke at the time of the last Indian elections.

Arundhati

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New Pakistan Constitution

Unlike the US Constitution which runs in 17 pages, more than half of which consist of amendments, the Pakistani Constitution contains detailed stipulations and rules for the functioning of the parliament and the federal and provincial governments. 

However, there are no penalties for not implementing the constitutional stipulations. The result is that ambitious men and women attain power by hook or by crook and then simply ignore their constitutional responsibilities.

The Pakistani electorate which is mostly illiterate and impoverished is totally unaware of its 

constitutional rights. It does not know that it is being constantly short-changed, and in the case of the 

rural population that is utterly oppressed by the land and mill owners it is even afraid to find out. The 

result is that the same irresponsible and self-seeking fortune hunters are returned to power in every 

election on the basis of the same empty promises.

To ensure that office holders in government take their responsibilities seriously, it is imperative that 

the following clauses be included in the Constitution in appropriate places. If the politicians are not 

interested in doing so, the Supreme Court judges should find some way to incorporate these in their 

judgments. 

1. Any violation of the terms of the Constitutional oath of office that an individual takes shall be 

considered an act of treason.

2. Any prime minister or chief minister who fails to implement any stipulation of the Constitution 

applicable to his or her government shall be barred from taking part in politics and contesting elections for life.

3. Any speaker, deputy or acting speaker of national or provincial assembly who suspends rules or fails to implement Constitutional provisions or stipulations applicable to his or her office in relation to respective assembly's functioning shall be barred from taking part in politics and contesting elections for life.

Obviously, these clauses can not be applied retrospectively as it would disqualify almost the entire body politic, judiciary, military etc.

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Indians in Kashmir

Here is another picture from Kashmir showing Indian policemen beating up unarmed ladies with batons. Similar pictures of Taliban were used by the Americans as valid excuse for invading Afghanistan.
Are Kashmiris barred from fundamental human rights? Or are the Indians exempt from all international laws?

Can the western world shed its anti-Muslim prejudices and speak up against such barbarism?
Here are some more images of Indian atrocities that speak for themselves:

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Quranic Teachings

Some one did this excellent job. May Allah accept it:

Almost 100 direct instructions by Allah in the Quran for mankind

 1. Do not be rude in speech (3:159)
 2. Restrain Anger (3:134)
 3. Be good to others (4:36)
 4. Do not be arrogant (7:13)
 5. Forgive others for their mistakes (7:199)
 6. Speak to people mildly (20:44)
 7. Lower your voice (31:19)
 8. Do not ridicule others (49:11)
 9. Be dutiful to parents(17:23)
 10. Do not say a word of disrespect to parents (17:23)
 11. Do not enter parents’ private room without asking permission (24:58)
 12. Write down the debt (2:282)
 13. Do not follow anyone blindly (2:170)
 14. Grant more time to repay if the debtor is in hard time (2:280)
 15. Don’t consume interest (2:275)
 16. Do not engage in bribery (2:188)
 17. Do not break the promise (2:177)
 18. Keep the trust (2:283)
 19. Do not mix the truth with falsehood (2:42)
 20. Judge with justice between people (4:58)
 21. Stand out firmly for justice (4:135)
 22. Wealth of the dead should be distributed among his family members (4:7)
 23. Women also have the right for inheritance (4:7)
 24. Do not devour the property of orphans (4:10)
 25. Protect orphans (2:220)
 26. Do not consume one another’s wealth unjustly (4:29)
 27. Try for settlement between people (49:9)
 28. Avoid suspicion (49:12)
 29. Do not spy and backbite (2:283)
 30. Do not spy or backbite (49:12)
 31. Spend wealth in charity (57:7)
 32. Encourage feeding poor (107:3)
 33. Help those in need
 by finding them (2:273)
 34. Do not spend money extravagantly (17:29)
 35. Do not invalidate charity with reminders (2:264)
 36. Honor guests (51:26)
 37. Order righteousness to people only after practicing it yourself(2:44)
 38. Do not commit abuse on the earth (2:60)
 39. Do not prevent people from mosques (2:114)
 40. Fight only with those who fight you (2:190)
 41. Keep the etiquettes of war (2:191)
 42. Do not turn back in battle (8:15)
 43. No compulsion in religion (2:256)
 44. Believe in all prophets (2:285)
 45. Do not have sexual intercourse during menstrual period (2:222)
 46. Breast feed your children for two complete years (2:233)
 47. Do not even approach unlawful sexual intercourse (17:32)
 48. Choose rulers by their merit (2:247)
 49. Do not burden a person beyond his scope (2:286)
 50. Do not become divided (3:103)
 51. Think deeply about the wonders and creation of this universe (3:191)
 52. Men and Women have equal rewards for their deeds (3:195)
 53. Do not marry those in your blood relation (4:23)
 54. Family should be led by men (4:34)
 55. Do not be miserly (4:37)
 56. Do not keep envy (4:54)
 57. Do not kill each other (4:92)
 58. Do not be an advocate for deceit (4:105)
 59. Do not cooperate in sin and aggression (5:2)
 60. Cooperate in righteousness (5:2)
 61. ’Having majority’ is not a criterion of truth (6:116)
 62. Be just (5:8)
 63. Punish for crimes in an exemplary way (5:38)
 64. Strive against sinful and unlawful acts (5:63)
 65. Dead animals, blood, the flesh of swine are prohibited (5:3)
 66. Avoid intoxicants and alcohol (5:90)
 67. Do not gamble (5:90)
 68. Do not insult others’ deities (6:108)
 69. Don’t reduce weight or measure to cheat people (6:152)
 70. Eat and Drink, But Be Not Excessive (7:31)
 71. Wear good cloths during prayer times (7:31)
 72. protect and help those who seek protection (9:6)
 73. Keep Purity (9:108)
 74. Never give up hope of Allah’s Mercy (12:87)
 75. Allah will forgive those who have done wrong out of ignorance (16:119)
 76. Invitation to God should be with wisdom and good instruction (16:125)
 77. No one will bear others’ sins (17:15)
 78. Do not kill your children for fear of poverty (17:31)
 79. Do not pursue that of which you have no knowledge (17:36)
 80. Keep aloof from what is vain (23:3)
 81. Do not enter others’ houses without seeking permission (24:27)
 82. Allah will provide security for those who believe only in Allah (24:55)
 83. Walk on earth in humility (25:63)
 84. Do not neglect your portion of this world (28:77)
 85. Invoke not any other god along with Allah (28:88)
 86. Do not engage in homosexuality (29:29)
 87. Enjoin right, forbid wrong (31:17)
 88. Do not walk in insolence through the earth (31:18)
 89. Women should not display their finery (33:33)
 90. Allah forgives all sins (39:53)
 91. Do not despair of the mercy of Allah (39:53)
 92. Repel evil by good (41:34)
 93. Decide on affairs by consultation (42:38)
 94. Most noble of you is the most righteous (49:13)
 95. No Monasticism in religion (57:27)
 96. Those who have knowledge will be given a higher degree by Allah (58:11)
 97. Treat non-Muslims in a kind and fair manner (60:8)
 98. Save yourself from covetousness (64:16)
 99. Seek forgiveness of Allah. He is Forgiving and Merciful (73:20)

INTOLERABLE BARBARISM

A pathetic example of Indian atrocities on Kahmiris. They are firing pellet guns that are used for hunting birds on unarmed civilians and doing this to children in Kashmiri towns.

Kashmir

The real torch of liberty consumes the blood of martyrs. The Kashmiris have kept their torch of freedom burning for the last 69 years with the blood of thousands of martyrs. They have faced the atrocities of the Indo-Aryan monstrosity with unflinching resolve. In the last week or so more than 50 innocent Kashmiris have been massacred by despicable Indian occupation forces. The world has to wake up and stand by the Kashmiris.

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The Advent of Adam

The singular event of the creation of Adam, the first human being, has been repeatedly described in the Holy Qur’an, possibly to emphasize its importance and to ensure it attracts the attention of the reader. As a matter of fact it does open new channel of thought in the mind each time one reads it. Here is a second view of the verses already discussed in the previous article. Verse 30 of Chapter 2, the Cow is translated into English as follows:

And when thy Lord said unto the angels: Lo! I am about to place a viceroy in the earth, they said: wilt Thou place therein one who will do harm therein and will shed blood, while we, we hymn Thy praise and sanctify Thee? He said: Surely I know that which ye don’t know.

On reading the above verse one thing immediately becomes clear: mankind was created with the explicit purpose of populating the earth and the notion that the human race is a continuation of the punishment given to Adam and Eve for being disobedient is not correct. Man and woman came into being on earth as God’s viceroys or deputies with the task of continuing God’s work and the dignity of all men and women must be respected in spite of differences. As to the scope of God’s work to be carried out by men and women there can be infinite speculation – but everyone would agree that it must include the protection, nurturing, development and facilitation of the existence of all living beings and life forms. The Creator would certainly like his viceroys to be creative in some way or the other.

The second point that stands out is that almighty God worked with complete transparency, taking His angels into confidence about His intentions and granted His angels the right to question His decisions. Apparently God had a sort of a parliament. When the angels objected that mankind would quarrel and cause bloodshed on earth, The Almighty did not punish them, nor imprisoned them, nor destroyed and replaced them with more obliging ones. Instead, God chose to convince them of the wisdom of his decision by a practical demonstration. Convincing, rather than punishing opposition is God’s way of doing things and obviously His favorite way of doing things for man.

The narration is continued in the same style in verses 2:31 to 2:33 translated as follows:

2:31 And He taught Adam all the names, then showed them to angels, saying:     Inform me the names of these if ye are truthful.

2:32 They said: Be glorified! We have no knowledge saving that which thou hast taught us. Lo! Thou, only Thou, art the Knower, the Wise.

2:33 He said: O Adam! Inform them of their names, and when he had informed them of their names, He said: Did I not tell you that I know the secrets of the heavens and the earth And I know what ye disclose and which ye hide.

To the naïve reader it would appear that God tricked the angels by conniving with Adam who was his favorite and teaching him the names of objects that the angels were not familiar with. But for the keen seeker of the truth, this was not Divine politics. It was the revelation of the human faculty of giving names that would make human beings superior to all other creatures. The ability to give names to objects, actions, feelings and ideas has enabled mankind to develop languages, arts, sciences, laws and civilization as a whole. Animals created before man had limited power of speech. Parrots could repeat what they heard, but could not give names to what they saw and so remained unable to talk to each other. But a human child, as soon as it can control its voice starts giving names to things it sees. In many families the infants introduce new names for objects and people that become adopted. If the speech processing part is removed from the human brain, what remains is pretty much the same as an ape’s brain.

The story of Adam’s creation is continued in chapter 15 (Al-Hijr) verses 26 to 43 translated as follows:

15:26 And certainly We created man of clay that gives forth sound, of black mud fashioned in shape.

15:27 And the jinn We created before, of intensely hot fire.

15:28 And when your Lord said to the angels: Surely I am going to create a mortal of the essence of black mud fashioned in shape.

15:29 So when I have made him complete and breathed into him of My spirit, fall down making obeisance to him.

15:30 So the angels made obeisance, all of them together,

15:31 But Iblis (did it not); he refused to be with those who made obeisance.

15:32 He said: O Iblis! what excuse have you that you are not with those who make obeisance?

15:33 He said: I am not such that I should make obeisance to a mortal whom Thou hast created of the essence of black mud fashioned in shape.

15:34 He said: Then get out of it, for surely you are driven away:

15:35 And surely on you is curse until the day of judgment.

15:36 He said: My Lord! then respite me till the time when they are raised.

15:37 He said: So surely you are of the respited ones

15:38 Till the period of the time made known.

15:39 He said: My Lord! because Thou hast made life evil to me, I will certainly make (evil) fairseeming to them on earth, and I will certainly cause them all to deviate

15:40 Except Thy servants from among them, the devoted ones.

15.: He said: This is a right way with Me:

15:42 Surely. as regards My servants, you have no authority ,over them except those who follow you of the deviators.

15:43 And surely Hell is the promised place of them all:

Here is another classic example of God’s tolerance of dissent. Iblis (the devil) flatly refused to obey a direct order from the Almighty God. The expression, “What aileth thee…” shows that God’s initial reaction was concern for the well-being of his dissenting creature rather than anger at the dissent. 

Verse 15:27 could mean that Iblis (Satan) a jinn is an intelligent life form which came into existence while the Earth was still a cloud of very hot gases; probably as a consequence of the imaginary components of the complex equation of life. Even in terms of established modern physics it does not seem impossible that out of a large mass of plasma there could emerge stable configurations of fundamental subatomic particles containing logic circuits and sensing and transmission capabilities of magnitude sufficient to create enough excitation of a few cells of the human brain to initiate an idea. In a healthy and sound brain, the old devil or jinn seems unlikely to produce any more disturbances than a temporary distraction. Moreover, in nearly five billion years since the separation of the Earth from the Sun, it is likely that most of them have become extinct; and one should not expect continuous production of Jinns from a considerably cooled down Sun although there might be some coming from distant stars in all directions.

The question as to whether or not there exists an intelligent and resourceful enemy bent on destroying mankind can be answered by studying the history of medicine. Just as in a war situation, the combatants try to develop countermeasures and disrupt the defense supplies of the enemy; when mankind developed vaccines utilizing the immune system and it seemed that all epidemics had been brought under control, AIDS surfaced which attacks and immobilizes the immune system itself. Anyway, we find that at that juncture in prehistory there was an agreement between God and Iblis (Satan) that whereas man was created to follow the righteous path, the Satan would be free to divert him and lead him astray. God would not interfere in this process and it is up to man alone to recognize if he is being led astray and to fight the evil thoughts and stay on course. This makes sense because if man is superior to Satan then there is no reason why he should get any help when he is losing his struggle against an inferior adversary. One should expect that God would be quite chagrined if man, the best of His creatures betrayed His trust by losing the battle against Satan by allowing himself to be led to counterproductive thoughts, thus causing an insult to God. As to what happens to those who accept Satan's leadership there is a clear statement in chapter 16 verse 63:

"By God, we sent apostles to many a people before you, but Satan made their acts seem attractive to them, and he is their friend this day, and a painful torment is their destiny."

It may be worthwhile, here, dwelling a little upon the intent of angels and the Satan being asked to bow down before the first man. Obviously, God would not have wished to make man the object of worship for other forms of life, as He has reserved this privilege for Himself alone. He would also not have wanted to make them subservient to human will for the same reason. The only valid explanation that remains is that God wanted the angels and the Satan to accept man's sovereignty over the physical universe, the role of other agencies being relegated to one of assisting him in the execution of the assigned objectives for which man was created. This thought is further strengthened by the statement in chapter 2, verse 30 which says that man is God's viceroy on earth.

The question now is, “How does man exercise his sovereignty on the universe or at least earth?”

The examples of man’s benevolent authority on earth can be seen in the domestication of animals, dams that change the courses or control the flow of rivers, artificial rains by cloud seeding, harnessing of wind and solar energy for power generation, mining of solid and liquid resources such as metal and oil, space travel etc.  It seems that most peaceful engineering endeavors amount to the execution of God’s will and achieving the object of our creation.

(Extract from “What and why I Believe by Mohammad Nasim alias Naseem Mahnavi.)

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Manuela and the future.

I recently came across the following news item on the social media and got to thinking about faith and prejudice. Let us start either news item:

“http://todaysbreaking.com/world/daughter-of-italian-parliamentarian-converts-her-religion-to-islam/

IN INTERNATIONAL / BY DIGITAL TEAM / ON JUNE 18, 2016 AT 4:07 PM /

Italy : Italians are in shock after the daughter of a parliamentarian announced her conversion to Islam and changed her name to Aysha. Manuela Franco Barbato is a 22 years old student at the Università L’orientale de Napoli. She is the daughter of Franco Barbato, a former parliamentarian representing the ‘Italy of Values’ party.

Her dad told a newspaper “This conversion is not just bad, but terrible because this religion is too harsh, too radical, too rigid. It is a fundamentalist religion.

Manuela Franco Barbato converts to Islam wear Hijab

I am seeing this firsthand, my daughter lives with me. I see it every day. At the time of prayer, she does not even take care of the children and I get angry about it. If a baby cries, it means that he needs something, he needs his mom. I feel a lot of pain for this choice she has made for her life”.

She wrote on facebook “The veil is what Allah has chosen for me, I am proud of the purity of my soul. This is the law of God, who am I to oppose it?”. Her comments were met with a lot of hostility on social media as most Italians have negative views of islam and Muslims.”

The question that has been begging an answer for many years now is, “Why are Italians and all other Christians and Jews so opposed to Islam? Do they know anything about it?”

In reaction to terrorist attacks by depraved Muslims, the leaders of Western countries including USA, UK, France, Germany etc. all reacted with precisely the same rhetoric:

 “We shall not change our way of life.”

That, indeed, is the crux of the matter.  The western antipathy towards Islam is driven by the fear of having to change their life styles if Islam becomes dominant in those regions as predicted by Christian saints such as Nostradamus and Baba Vanga.

There may be some justification for this fear.  If you take wine, pork, fornication and abuse of science out, there is hardly anything left in the western civilization, although the people therein are still precious.

In the USA 77.7% of the population was white in 2013, which is expected to change to 53% by 2050 and if the same trend continues, it would be less than 25% by the end of the 21^st  century and perhaps white men and women will only be found in special reservations by the end of the 22^nd century.

The trend in Europe is even worse.  Population growth rate of Caucasians or white people in almost all European countries is negative and the rate of depletion is growing.  Whereas the deficit is being compensated by immigration in most European countries, Germany, Greece, Poland and Russia have trend of net population decrease. However, the leaders of those countries are in a constant state of denial. They would, for fear of losing votes, not accept that there is something wrong with their way of life.

Now let us suppose that the Western nations (Christian and Jewish people) mange to destroy the Islamic powers in the world and thus thwart the prophecies of Nostradamus and Baba Vanga so that they may continue to live in their chosen way, albeit as a negligible minority, who will dominate the world? Obviously the communist Chinese and the Hindu Indians will. The Hindus, once they taste power will naturally revert to their Aryan originality declaring the white populations as “untouchables” or doing what the German Aryans did in their hay days.

Ref: http://www.nap.edu/read/9599/chapter/4

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Redefinitions -2

Life: Ability to feel and respond or the possession of at least one sense and some sort of an autonomic nervous and motor system.

Humanity: Ability to respond to sensory inputs with meaningful speech or writing or art.

Faith: Ability to integrate an idea into one's life.

Love: Ability to perceive another's feeling.

Wisdom: Ability to extract ideas from life.


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