The Real Thanksgiving aka Thievesgiving

Striking Awareness: It seems (sadly) that religion and bringing religious evidence does not work in every case of educating people on the facts of certain holidays and/or actions. Let's have a talk with REAL facts and participation in awareness in an educational sense.

LITTLE KNOWN HISTORICAL FACTS: when the about 100 settlers came from England to the United States only about 40 of them were actual "pilgrims". These Puritans had broken from the Church of England to develop their own faith in the America's but the rest of the people on board were laborers and seamen, of different races, ethnicities and religions. These same Puritans also rejected many holidays that are practiced today (like Christmas) because of it's roots in paganism. YES, these were the early Christian's rejecting Christmas. 0_0 Don't look so shocked!! It is proven that many of the practices in Christmas, Easter, and other holidays have Pagan undertones (Winter Solstice, The Evergreen or Christmas tree, hanging lights...). I digress.

Many of the settlers defected to the "way" of the Native Americans and reverted to living in the mannerisms of the original people on the land (obviously because they could survive) and at a time there WAS an integrated society of the settlers and the Native Americans. Albeit short-lived as the pilgrims over populated, brought their disease and war to the Indians. The European settlers were pretty upset that the Native American tribes attracted so many of their people. So why does my family not participate in Thanksgiving?

Many of us claim to have Cherokee (Tsalagi) roots within our families. Many of us DO NOT know the story of the Trail of Tears or the falsehoods of the pilgrim/native american experience, the wiping out of entire nations for greed.... I'm not a fan of Thanksgiving or Columbus day for that matter either.

My non-Muslim family would celebrate it based on "tradition" (everyone is off, good chance for family to get together, etc). As my immediate family starting directing our attention more to celebrating Islamic holidays, we focused less on the national holidays. I CHOOSE NO. My personal opinion is it is about as fabricated as Kwanzaa and just another capitalist supported farce holiday but to each his own. I sincerely cannot see how we as Muslims can appropriately celebrate something that supports everything that our values are against... But that is just my humble opinion.

I'm welcome to hear your opposing opinions or even your additional HISTORICAL evidences. Let's keep it civil and as always bring your proofs and evidences!

The Real Thanksgiving

Quoted from: The Hidden History of Massachusetts 

Source: http://www.danielnpaul.com/AmericanIndiansGenocide.html

Much of America's understanding of the early relationship between the Indian and the European is conveyed through the story of Thanksgiving. Proclaimed a holiday in 1863 by Abraham Lincoln, this fairy tale of a feast was allowed to exist in the American imagination pretty much untouched until 1970, the 350th anniversary of the landing of the Pilgrims. That is when Frank B. James, president of the Federated Eastern Indian League, prepared a speech for a Plymouth banquet that exposed the Pilgrims for having committed, among other crimes, the robbery of the graves of the Wampanoags. He wrote:

"We welcomed you, the white man, with open arms, little knowing that it was the beginning of the end; that before 50 years were to pass, the Wampanoag would no longer be a free people." 

But white Massachusetts officials told him he could not deliver such a speech and offered to write him another. Instead, James declined to speak, and on Thanksgiving Day hundreds of Indians from around the country came to protest. It was the first National Day of Mourning, a day to mark the losses Native Americans suffered as the early settlers prospered. This true story of "Thanksgiving" is what whites did not want Mr. James to tell. 

What Really Happened in Plymouth in 1621? 

According to a single-paragraph account in the writings of one Pilgrim, a harvest feast did take place in Plymouth in 1621, probably in mid-October, but the Indians who attended were not even invited. Though it later became known as "Thanksgiving," the Pilgrims never called it that. And amidst the imagery of a picnic of interracial harmony is some of the most terrifying bloodshed in New World history. 

The Pilgrim crop had failed miserably that year, but the agricultural expertise of the Indians had produced twenty acres of corn, without which the Pilgrims would have surely perished. The Indians often brought food to the Pilgrims, who came from England ridiculously unprepared to survive and hence relied almost exclusively on handouts from the overly generous Indians-thus making the Pilgrims the western hemisphere's first class of welfare recipients. The Pilgrims invited the Indian sachem Massasoit to their feast, and it was Massasoit, engaging in the tribal tradition of equal sharing, who then invited ninety or more of his Indian brothers and sisters-to the annoyance of the 50 or so ungrateful Europeans. No turkey, cranberry sauce or pumpkin pie was served; they likely ate duck or geese and the venison from the 5 deer brought by Massasoit. In fact, most, if notall, of the food was most likely brought and prepared by the Indians, whose 10,000-year familiarity with the cuisine of the region had kept the whites alive up to that point. 

The Pilgrims wore no black hats or buckled shoes-these were the silly inventions of artists hundreds of years since that time. These lower-class Englishmen wore brightly colored clothing, with one of their church leaders recording among his possessions "1 paire of greene drawers." Contrary to the fabricated lore of storytellers generations since, no Pilgrims prayed at the meal, and the supposed good cheer and fellowship must have dissipated quickly once the Pilgrims brandished their weaponry in a primitive display of intimidation. What's more, the Pilgrims consumed a good deal of home brew. In fact, each Pilgrim drank at least a half gallon of beer a day, which they preferred even to water. This daily inebriation led their governor, William Bradford, to comment on his people's "notorious sin," which included their "drunkenness and uncleanliness" and rampant "sodomy"... 

The Pilgrims of Plymouth, The Original Scalpers 

Contrary to popular mythology the Pilgrims were no friends to the local Indians. They were engaged in a ruthless war of extermination against their hosts, even as they falsely posed as friends. Just days before the alleged Thanksgiving love-fest, a company of Pilgrims led by Myles Standish actively sought to chop off the head of a local chief. They deliberately caused a rivalry between two friendly Indians, pitting one against the other in an attempt to obtain "better intelligence and make them both more diligent." An 11-foot-high wall was erected around the entire settlement for the purpose of keeping the Indians out. 

Any Indian who came within the vicinity of the Pilgrim settlement was subject to robbery, enslavement, or even murder. The Pilgrims further advertised their evil intentions and white racial hostility, when they mounted five cannons on a hill around their settlement, constructed a platform for artillery, and then organized their soldiers into four companies-all in preparation for the military destruction of their friends the Indians. 

Pilgrim Myles Standish eventually got his bloody prize. He went to the Indians, pretended to be a trader, then beheaded an Indian man named Wituwamat. He brought the head to Plymouth, where it was displayed on a wooden spike for many years, according to Gary B. Nash, "as a symbol of white power." Standish had the Indian man's young brother hanged from the rafters for good measure. From that time on, the whites were known to the Indians of Massachusetts by the name "Wotowquenange," which in their tongue meant cutthroats and stabbers. 

Who Were the "Savages"? 

The myth of the fierce, ruthless Indian savage lusting after the blood of innocent Europeans must be vigorously dispelled at this point. In actuality, the historical record shows that the very opposite was true. 

Once the European settlements stabilized, the whites turned on their hosts in a brutal way. The once amicable relationship was breeched again and again by the whites, who lusted over the riches of Indian land. A combination of the Pilgrims' demonization of the Indians, the concocted mythology of Eurocentric historians, and standard Hollywood propaganda has served to paint the gentle Indian as a tomahawk-swinging savage endlessly on the warpath, lusting for the blood of the God-fearing whites. 

But the Pilgrims' own testimony obliterates that fallacy. The Indians engaged each other in military contests from time to time, but the causes of "war," the methods, and the resulting damage differed profoundly from the European variety:

• Indian "wars" were largely symbolic and were about honor, not about territory or extermination. 
• "Wars" were fought as domestic correction for a specific act and were ended when correction was achieved. Such action might better be described as internal policing. The conquest or destruction of whole territories was a European concept. 
• Indian "wars" were often engaged in by family groups, not by whole tribal groups, and would involve only the family members. 
• A lengthy negotiation was engaged in between the aggrieved parties before escalation to physical confrontation would be sanctioned. Surprise attacks were unknown to the Indians. 
• It was regarded as evidence of bravery for a man to go into "battle" carrying no weapon that would do any harm at a distance-not even bows and arrows. The bravest act in war in some Indian cultures was to touch their adversary and escape before he could do physical harm. 
• The targeting of non-combatants like women, children, and the elderly was never contemplated. Indians expressed shock and repugnance when the Europeans told, and then showed, them that they considered women and children fair game in their style of warfare. 
• A major Indian "war" might end with less than a dozen casualties on both sides. Often, when the arrows had been expended the "war" would be halted. The European practice of wiping out whole nations in bloody massacres was incomprehensible to the Indian.

According to one scholar, "The most notable feature of Indian warfare was its relative innocuity." European observers of Indian wars often expressed surprise at how little harm they actually inflicted. "Their wars are far less bloody and devouring than the cruel wars of Europe," commented settler Roger Williams in 1643. Even Puritan warmonger and professional soldier Capt. John Mason scoffed at Indian warfare: "[Their] feeble manner...did hardly deserve the name of fighting." Fellow warmonger John Underhill spoke of the Narragansetts, after having spent a day "burning and spoiling" their country: "no Indians would come near us, but run from us, as the deer from the dogs." He concluded that the Indians might fight seven years and not kill seven men. Their fighting style, he wrote, "is more for pastime, than to conquer and subdue enemies."


All this describes a people for whom war is a deeply regrettable last resort. An agrarian people, the American Indians had devised a civilization that provided dozens of options all designed to avoid conflict--the very opposite of Europeans, for whom all-out war, a ferocious bloodlust, and systematic genocide are their apparent life force. Thomas Jefferson--who himself advocated the physical extermination of the American Indian--said of Europe, "They [Europeans] are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of labor, property and lives of their people."

Puritan Holocaust

By the mid 1630s, a new group of 700 even holier Europeans calling themselves Puritans had arrived on 11 ships and settled in Boston-which only served to accelerate the brutality against the Indians.

In one incident around 1637, a force of whites trapped some seven hundred Pequot Indians, mostly women, children, and the elderly, near the mouth of the Mystic River. Englishman John Mason attacked the Indian camp with "fire, sword, blunderbuss, and tomahawk." Only a handful escaped and few prisoners were taken-to the apparent delight of the Europeans:

To see them frying in the fire, and the streams of their blood quenching the same, and the stench was horrible; but the victory seemed a sweet sacrifice, and they gave praise thereof to God.

This event marked the first actual Thanksgiving. In just 10 years 12,000 whites had invaded New England, and as their numbers grew they pressed for all-out extermination of the Indian. Euro-diseases had reduced the population of the Massachusett nation from over 24,000 to less than 750; meanwhile, the number of European settlers in Massachusetts rose to more than 20,000 by 1646.

By 1675, the Massachusetts Englishmen were in a full-scale war with the great Indian chief of the Wampanoags, Metacomet. Renamed "King Philip" by the white man, Metacomet watched the steady erosion of the lifestyle and culture of his people as European-imposed laws and values engulfed them.

In 1671, the white man had ordered Metacomet to come to Plymouth to enforce upon him a new treaty, which included the humiliating rule that he could no longer sell his own land without prior approval from whites. They also demanded that he turn in his community's firearms. Marked for extermination by the merciless power of a distant king and his ruthless subjects, Metacomet retaliated in 1675 with raids on several isolated frontier towns. Eventually, the Indians attacked 52 of the 90 New England towns, destroying 13 of them. The Englishmen ultimately regrouped, and after much bloodletting defeated the great Indian nation, just half a century after their arrival on Massachusetts soil. Historian Douglas Edward Leach describes the bitter end:

The ruthless executions, the cruel sentences...were all aimed at the same goal-unchallengeable white supremacy in southern New England. That the program succeeded is convincingly demonstrated by the almost complete docility of the local native ever since.

When Captain Benjamin Church tracked down and murdered Metacomet in 1676, his body was quartered and parts were "left for the wolves." The great Indian chief's hands were cut off and sent to Boston and his head went to Plymouth, where it was set upon a pole on the real first "day of public Thanksgiving for the beginning of revenge upon the enemy."

Metacomet's nine-year-old son was destined for execution because, the whites reasoned, the offspring of the devil must pay for the sins of their father. The child was instead shipped to the Caribbean to spend his life in slavery.

As the Holocaust continued, several official Thanksgiving Days were proclaimed. Governor Joseph Dudley declared in 1704 a "General Thanksgiving"-not in celebration of the brotherhood of man-but for [God's] infinite Goodness to extend His Favors...In defeating and disappointing... the Expeditions of the Enemy [Indians] against us, And the good Success given us against them, by delivering so many of them into our hands...

Just two years later one could reap a ££50 reward in Massachusetts for the scalp of an Indian-demonstrating that the practice of scalping was a European tradition. According to one scholar, "Hunting redskins became...a popular sport in New England, especially since prisoners were worth good money..."

References in The Hidden History of Massachusetts: A Guide for Black Folks ©© DR. TINGBA APIDTA, ; ISBN 0-9714462-0-2

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During March 1623 Myles Standish lured two Chiefs to a meeting then murdered them. The picture of the monument, erected by the Weymouth Historical Commission, depicts how the town of Weymouth, Mass, takes pride in his barbaric deed.

What Hellish Pride and Prejudice

What in hell is a hearth built on blood of a brother’s harvest you absconded, along with a curve of land kissed by ocean for first people given this fine land, who were sickened on your flu-filled flannel gifts until they were too weak to wise on to your malicious plans? 

You merchant-adventurers of Weymouth, mount your monument of treason against corn-fed Wessagusset, as you celebrate 300 years of your encroachment on eternity’s placement of a people who had heroes like Pecksuot who, even thirty years ago, still, is said, tucked a child into her covers at Bricknell house so she did not have to see your scurrilous skirmishes.

You promote your pestilent importance on this land, as if you thought you would be allowed to stay forever. You hold a fatal flaw in this grasp to make it seem you made something worthy.

What is worthier than Wampanoag in first light, who had their blood spilled by you, on the very ground you grind against?

Listen, they speak, and trace truthful steps through and around this place you think you own: Such pride and prejudice in this piece of cement that will not outlast us, the true people of the East, or sun that burns red on mornings it remembers.
Carol Desjarlais

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New York Times
November 25, 2004
Banned in Boston: American Indians, but Only for 329 Years
By KATIE ZEZIMA
BOSTON, Nov. 24 - It is a prejudicial, archaic concept that prohibited Native Americans from entering a city for fear members of their "barbarous crew" would cause residents to be "exposed to mischief."

But it is more than notions and phrases in Boston. A ban on Indians entering Boston has been the law since 1675.

Mayor Thomas M. Menino took a step toward repealing the ban on Wednesday, filing a home rule petition. Mr. Menino said a repeal would remove the last vestiges of discrimination from a vibrant, diverse city that is looking past old racial conflicts.
"This law has no place in Boston," Mr. Menino said. "Fortunately this act is no longer enforced. But as long as it remains on the books, this law will tarnish our image. Hatred and discrimination have no place in Boston. Tolerance, equality and respect - these are the attributes of our city."

Joanne Dunn, executive director of the Boston Native American Center, said she laughed a bit as she drove into Boston on Wednesday, realizing that she was, technically, breaking the law (being without benefit of the "two musketeers" required to escort American Indians with business in the city). "For us indigenous people it brings some closure," Ms. Dunn said. "You come into the City of Boston and it crosses your mind that you're not welcome here."
The Boston City Council, which in April 2003 unanimously passed a resolution calling for repeal, must now approve the petition to remove the ban. The repeal must then pass the legislature and be signed by Gov. Mitt Romney.

A spokeswoman for Robert E. Travaglini, the president of the State Senate, said Mr. Travaglini had not seen the petition and would allow the City Council to act before considering action. A spokeswoman for Mr. Romney, a Republican, said he had not seen the petition either and would be "happy to take a look at it" when it crossed his desk.
Felix Arroyo, a city councilman, said he expected the measure to pass unanimously at a council meeting on Dec. 1. "I think all of us will look forward to voting yes on this," Mr. Arroyo said.

The Massachusetts General Court enacted the law, called the Indian Imprisonment Act, in 1675. The legislation came at the height of King Philip's War, a conflict between the Wampanoag tribe, led by Metacom, known as Philip, and settlers near Plymouth, Mass. The war began in 1675 with a raid on the town of Swansea and spread across Massachusetts, spilling north to New Hampshire and south to Connecticut. The war, one of the bloodiest on American soil, ended the next year.

The law rolled over when the state's Constitution was enacted in 1780 and has lingered for centuries, with no one taking the steps to repeal it. The Muhheconnew National Confederacy, a lobbying group based in Falmouth, Mass., started pushing for repeal in 1996 after working with the city to protect Indian burial grounds on the Boston Harbor islands. The group petitioned the legislature, then the city, and received the necessary resolution last year. It renewed the push in July, before the Democratic National Convention.
"It means a great thing," said Sam Sapiel, 73, a member of the Penobscot Nation of Maine who lives in Falmouth and worked with the Muhheconnew Confederacy on the repeal. "It's what we've been striving for."

It was little coincidence that Mr. Menino signed the petition the day before Thanksgiving. The podium at the news conference was decorated with a splash of crimson chrysanthemums, and the desk Mr. Menino used to sign the petition was festooned with a pumpkin and other gourds. An Indian leader also invoked the holiday.

"Being so close to Thanksgiving, this is a good day for native people," said Beverly Wright, a member of the Wampanoag tribe of Martha's Vineyard, the state's only federally recognized tribe. "It's been on the books for a long time."

Ms. Wright believes there might be other, similarly discriminatory laws. Mr. Menino said he would look into the possibility of repealing them.

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Scholars of Ahlus Sunnah

Here is a list of 'some' of the websites of the Scholars upon Ahlus Sunnah wa'l Jama'ah. This is NOT a comprehensive list to say the least and incomplete. If you find one of the shuyookh who have a website that is not listed here, please feel free to leave it in the comments so that it may be added. As I find more websites, I will add to this list. *Please note, these are the direct websites of the scholars, so many of the sites are in the original language of the scholars (mostly Arabic) however on some of the sites there is an option for English translation.

***Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia Shaykh 'Abdul 'Azeez Aali ash-Shaykh***
www.mufti.af.org.sa


Shaykh 'Abdul 'Aziz ibn Baaz
www.binbaz.org.sa


Shaykh Muhammad Naasirudin Al-Albaani
www.alalbany.net


Shaykh Muhammad ibn Saalih al-'Uthaymeen
www.ibnothaimeen.com


Shaykh Muqbil ibn Haadee al-Waadi'ee
www.muqbel.net


Shaykh 'Abdur Razzaaq 'Afifyee
www.afifyy.com


Shaykh Muhammad Amaan al-Jaamiy
www.amanjamy.net


Shaykh Ahmad ibn Yahyaa an-Najmi
www.alnajmi.net/


Shaykh Muhammad Taqiyyuddeen al-Hilaali al-Maghribi
www.alhilali.net


Shaykh 'Abdur Rahman ibn Naasir as-Saadiy
www.binsaadi.com


Shaykh Saalih al-Luhaydaan
www.lohaidan.af.org.sa


Shaykh 'Abdul 'Azeez ibn 'Abdillah ar-Rajihi
www.shrajhi.com


Shaykh Saalih ibn Fawzaan ibn 'Abdillaah al-Fawzaan
www.alfawzan.ws


Shaykh 'Abdul Muhsin al-'Abbaad
www.alabad.jeeran.com


Shaykh Rabee' ibn Haadee al-Madkhalee
www.rabee.net


Shaykh Saalih Aali ash-Shaikh
www.salehalshaikh.com


Shaykh Zaid ibn Muhammad al-Madkhalee
www.z-salafi.com/v2/zsalafi.php


Shaykh Saalih ibn Sa'd as-Suhaymee
www.alsoheemy.net


Shaykh Falaah ibn Ismaa'eel al-Mundakaar
www.mandakar.com


Shaykh Muhammad ibn Sa'eed Raslaan
www.rslan.com


Shaykh Muhammad ibn Aadam al-Ethiyoobee
www.alsonah.org


Yemen Mashayaakh
www.olamayemen.com/


Shaykh 'Abdullah ibn 'Abdur Rahmaan al-Ghudayyaan
www.g-olamaa.com/index.php


Shaykh Muhammad 'Alee Ferkous
www.ferkous.net/rep/index.php


Shaykh 'Abdul Muhsin ibn Naasir al-'Ubaykaan
www.al-obeikan.com/index.html


Shaykh 'Abdus Salaam Burjis Aali 'Abdul Kareem
www.burjes.com/


Shaykh 'Abdur Razzaaq ibn 'Abdul Muhsin al-Badr
www.al-badr.net/web/


Shaykh Sa'd bin Naasir ash-Shathriy
www.alshathri.net/index.cfm


Shaykh Saalim ibn Sa'd at-Taweel
www.saltaweel.com


Shaykh Muhammad 'Umar Saalim Baazmool
www.uqu.edu.sa/mobazmool


Shaykh 'Abdullah ibn 'Abdur Raheem al-Bukhaari
www.elbukhari.com/


Shaykh Muhammad Sulaymaan al-Bassaam
www.m-al-bassam.com/index.php


The Permanent Committee of Scholarly Research and Ifta of Saudi Arabia
www.alifta.com/Default.aspx


Shaykh Muhammad ibn 'Abdillaah al-Imaam
www.sh-emam.com/


Shaykh Saalih as-Sadlaan
www.alsadlan.net


Shaykh Yahyaa al-Hajoori
www.sh-yahia.net


Shaykh 'Alee al-Hadadiy
www.haddady.com


Shaykh Saad al-Husayen
www.saad-alhusayen.com


Shaykh 'Abdullah ibn Ibraaheem al-Qar'aawee
www.qaraye.com


Shaykh 'Abdul 'Azeez al-Bura'ee
www.alburaaie.com


Shaykh Sultaan al-'Eid
www.sultanal3eed.com


Shaykh 'Alee Ridaa
www.ali-raida.com/index.php


Shaykh 'Abdul 'Azeez as-Sadhaan
www.a-alsadhan.com/


Shaykh 'Abdul Hameed al-Hajooree
www.alzoukory.com/index.php


Shaykh Abu Maalik 'Abdul Hameed
www.abumalik.net/index.php


Shaykh 'Abdullaah ibn Muhammad ibn Humayd
www.g-olamaa.com/ibn-hmid/index.php


Shaykh 'Abdul Kareem ibn 'Abdillaah al-Khudair
www.khudheir.com/


Shaykh 'Abdullaah ibn 'Abdur Rahmaan ibn Jibreen
www.ibn-jebreen.com/index.php


Shaykh Muhammad Amaan ibn 'Alee al-Jaamiy
www.eljame.com/mktba/index.php
Another website of the Shaykh


Shaykh 'Abdullaah ibn Hasan al-Qu'ood
www.alqaoud.net/


Shaykh 'Abdur Rahmaan ibn 'Abdul 'Azeez as-Sudays
www.alsudays.com/index.php


Shaykh Su'ood ibn Ibraaheem ash-Shuraim
www.shuraym.com/main/


Shaykh Muhammad Ahmad Lowh
www.drmalo.com/
The Shaikh, Doctor Muhammad Ahmad Lowh is from the Mashaayikh of Senegal. He graduated with his doctorate's degree from the Islamic University of Medinah and served as a professor there for a period. It is a current understanding that he established an accredited branch of the Islamic University of Medinah in Senegal upon his return to him homeland. It is also my current understanding that there is no age limit for entrance into this branch of the university. If anyone has any more authentic and detailed information concerning either the Shaikh or the university, please feel free to share. May Allah reward you.


Shaykh Maahir al-Qahtaanee
www.al-sunan.org/


Shaykh 'Umar ibn Hamad al-Harkaan
www.tasel.net/


Shaykh 'Abdul 'Azeez ibn Muhammad Aali 'Abdul Latif
www.alabdulltif.net/


Shaykh Khaalid ibn Muhammad ibn 'Uthmaan al-Misriy
www.sh-khaled.bizhat.com/


Shaykh Khaalid ibn 'Abdur Rahmaan ibn Zakee al-Misriy
www.shkhalid.com/


Shaykh Saalim al-'Ajamee
www.salemalajmi.com/main/


Shaykh Haytham Sarhaan
www.haythamsarhan.com/
A collection of lessons the Shaykh delivered in the Prophet's Mosque.


Shaykh Saalih ibn 'Abdullaah ibn Humaid
www.ibnhomaid.af.org.sa/


Shaykh 'Abdur Rahmaan ibn Saalih al-Mahmood
www.islamlight.net/almahmood/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1


Shaykh Abul Hasan 'Alee ibn Mukhtaar Aali ar-Ramliy
www.alqayim.net/index.php


Shaikh Saadiq ibn Muhammad al-Baidaaniy
www.baidhani.com/


Shaykh Ibraaheem ibn 'Abdullaah al-Mutlaq
www.al-mutlaq.net/


Shaykh 'Abdul 'Azeez ibn Rayyis ar-Rayyis
www.islamancient.com/index.php


Shaykh 'Abdur Rahmaan ibn Naasir al-Barraak
www.albarrak.islamlight.net/


Shaykh 'Abdullaah ibn Saalih al-Fawzaan
www.islamlight.net/alfuzan/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=44


Shaikh Muhammad ibn Ramzaan al-Haajiree
www.ahlussunnahaudio.com/en/index.html


Shaykh Ibraaheem ibn 'Aamir ar-Ruhaylee
www.al-rehaili.net/rehaili/index.php


Shaykh 'Abdullaah ibn 'Abdul 'Azeez ibn 'Aqeel al-'Aqeel
www.alukah.net/Web/alaqeel/

Shaikh 'Abdul 'Azeez ibn Nadaa al-'Utaybee
www.ahlalathar.com/index.php


Shaikh Wasiyyullaah Muhammad 'Abbaas
www.wasiullahabbas.wordpress.com


Shaikh 'Abdul Ghanee 'Awsaat
www.aoussat.com


Shaikh 'Izzud Deen Ramadaanee al-Jazaa'iree
www.azeddin.ramdhani.com


Shaikh Saalih ibn 'Abdul 'Azeez as-Sindee
www.salehs.net

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Fight For Her Faith

Surah al Baqarah 2:256

SubhanAllaah, this had me in tears in quite a few parts. May Allaah guide her family to Islaam. Ameen.

A story of a coptic girl describing her long grueling struggle against those who did everything imaginable and unimaginable to keep her from becoming a Muslim.

AlHamdu Lillaah 

 

 

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The Importance of Being Truthful

The Importance of Being Truthful

One of the scholars from Kuwait, Shaikh Falah Isma'eel, recently relayed a heart-warming story that may interest you.

When Shaikh Isma'eel visited Holland, he was of course met by Muslims from Holland, and they told him, "if you had come two weeks ago, you would have seen it yourself. We prayed over this man [asking Allaah to have mercy on the deceased Muslim in what is called 'the funeral prayer'],"...and then they told him the following beautiful story.

[What follows is not verbatim, but a summary, with some explanations so as to clarify some terms that may be new to non-Muslims.]


He was a 26-year-old Christian from Holland. One day, he changed his dress to thobes, a burnoose, grew a beard, and the people started calling him "the one who looks like Jesus."

One day, he met some Muslims, and he said to them, "I love Jesus." And the Muslims told him, "We also love Jesus, and it is even a condition of Islam. We love Jesus and Moses."  

So this man tried imitating Jesus, helping others when he could, cutting their lawns and the like. After two years, he entered the mosque [the Muslims' place of worship] for the first time, and he was greeted with "ahlan" [which means welcome, and thus was not greeted with the greeting reserved for Muslims "as-salaamu 'alaykum" (which means: may peace and safety be upon you on the Day of Judgement)].

He said, "no; I want to be a Muslim."

Then, the Muslims witnessed his testimony (pronounced "shahada") -  there is none deserving of worship except Allaah, and Muhammad is His servant and Messenger, and Jesus is His servant and Messenger - taught him the basics, and taught him how to pray. He began praying in congregation with them, not missing a single congregation. Then one day, he noticed that the other Muslims were arriving at the mosque after him, so he asked for a key to the mosque. And he was given one.

The Muslims then observed that not only was he opening the mosque, but additionally he was routinely found in optional prayer whenever they entered the mosque for the dawn prayer. [They would enter and find him already engaged in the worship of Allaah.]

Then one day, he told the Muslims how he decided to become Muslim. He said he had a dream about Jesus (the son of Mary), and Jesus said to him, "Be Muslim. Be Muslim. Be Muslim." He said, "I woke up, and a few days later, I had the same dream. This happened three times."

[The shaikh interjected and said, this is success from Allaah.]

So after having prayed for 20 days with the other Muslims, he died.

May Allaah have mercy on him.

This is the mercy of Allaah, and Allaah saved him [from dying upon other than Islam].

This is Sidq (truthfulness); he truthfully loved Jesus, so he became Muslim. Allaah guided him to become Muslim, because he was truthful in his love for Jesus.


If one is truthful in his love for Jesus and his following Jesus, then this should lead him to the true religion of Jesus (Islam) and should lead him to following whom Jesus commanded to be followed after him - Muhammad, the seal of all Prophets.

After all, the religion of all the Prophets was Islam, and their creed was the same, and their message was the same, and they confirmed each other. It is only the deviant who have distorted the message of the previous Prophets, and thus Allaah - from His infinite Mercy - has promised to preserve His last revelation (the Qur`an) from corruption so that those who truthfully want guidance may be guided.
Source: http://www.salafitalk.net/st/viewmessages.cfm?Forum=12&Topic=8274&sortby=desc

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The Definition of Faith (Iman) - Dr. Saleh Al-Saleh

The Definition of Faith (Iman) - 

Dr. Saleh Al-Sale, rahimahAllaah

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How To Pray According To The Authentic Sunnah

How To Pray According to the Authentic Sunnah (Pt 1) 

 

How To Pray According to the Authentic Sunnah (Pt 2) 

How To Pray According to the Authentic Sunnah (Pt 3) 

How To Pray According to the Authentic Sunnah (Pt 4)

 

How To Pray According to the Authentic Sunnah (Pt 5)

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Be Careful

The woman in Islam is regarded as a precious jewel; rather Prophet Muhammad (May peace and blessings be upon him) described the Muslim woman as he was traveling with one of his companions, and some of his wives were in the caravan, he said:

رفق يا أنجشة! ويحك بالقوارير

“…O Anjashah be careful! Don’t break the fragile vessels”, (Sahih Al Bukhari)

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My Jihad

There are some triumphs in life that make you really proud and excited about being a part of the human race. Overcoming phobia's and stereotypes are some of those leaps and bounds that transgress the limits that hatred and ignorance place on us.

Once in a while, every now and again, you just want to thrust your fist in the air and scream "YES!" at these kinds of accomplishments.

In Chicago, CAIR-Chicago, launched their "My Jihad" campaign to help stomp out the recent hateful and ignorant Islamophobic "Defeat Jihad" hate campaigns, recently advertised and propagated by Pamela Gellar, a known anti-Islam conservative blogger. 
  
 The goal, according to a CAIR statement, Rehab explained, is "reclaiming Jihad from the Muslim and anti-Muslim extremists who ironically, but not surprisingly, see eye to eye on Jihad..."
 
So what is Jihad?  Jihad technically is an Islamic term that means struggle. It appears 41 times in the Quran and is used frequently in terms to describe a Muslim "striving in the way of God." The Quran, however, never uses the term Jihad for fighting and combat in the name of Allah; qital is used to mean “fighting.”


So let us support this movement of "My Jihad". Rehab hopes that the "MyJihad" ads will also appear in cities including New York, San Francisco, Houston, Seattle and Washington, D.C. in the future.

Fighting Islamophobia, One Jihad At A Time

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Al-Albaani Destroys the Stance of One Salafi Trying to Impose His Opinion on Another Salafi

Al-Albaani Destroys the Stance of One Salafi Trying to Impose His Opinion on Another Salafi

by The Albaani Blog

The Imaam said, “Your imposition on another to adopt your opinion whilst he is not convinced of it negates one of the principles of the Salafi da’wah–which is that judgement [Haakimiyyah] is for Allaah Alone, and I reminded him of the Most High’s Statement about the Christians, ‘They have taken their scholars and monks as lords besides Allaah,’ [Tawbah 8:31] thus it is enough for you that each one of you remains on his opinion–since neither one of you is convinced of the other’s–and that you should not declare him to be misguided, as he should not declare you to be misguided, and through that it is possible for you to continue cooperating with him in those principles of the da’wah and their subsidiary issues that you are both agreed upon.”

As-Saheehah, vol. 6, p. 30.

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AMF: East Coast Storm Relief

As you know the Northeast part of the country was hit hard by Hurricane Sandy.
Severe damage was suffered by many states such as New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, Delaware and other states have felt the side affects of the storm.

While flood waters have receded, many families are still without power and had damage to their homes. Also due to state mandated travel restrictions there is no access to roads leading back into many towns.

Due to evacuations, people are unable to return home or resume work. Also some families had to stay in shelters or are in hotels. Food has become spoiled, property damaged. This will result in more families needing more help then ever.

Please help us ease the financial burden due to lost of work hours, vehicle damage,money spent having to house & feed their families has taken away from paying bills and so much more.

Help your neighbors in need.

AL MAUN FUND HURRICANE SANDY CAMPAIGN

VISIT AL MAUN FUND TO DONATE: http://almaunfund.org/20/donations/donations

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