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“You don’t have to FAST in Ramadan. Your excused”

May 28, 2012 by MyBeliefs.co.uk

A Year or two ago, i had heard rumours about this and dismissed it as pure heresy being spread around like many things that tend to. The ‘supposed’ rumour was, a sportsman who is a muslim can be excused from fasting in the month of Ramadan. Since fasting will have a dramatic effect on his/her performance. The stamina, the energy and the endurance levels of the athlete will be down due to the fast. He/she will not be able to train for that matter, which in turn will have an effect on his/her livelihoods. The exception, a fatwa issued by the “prestigious” Al Azar Islāmic university was used to justify the these ideas. Where highest ranking islamic scholars from the Sunni world were apparently ‘unanimous’ in agreement. That, a muslim athlete can be excused from fasting in the month of Ramadan. Should this co-inside with a person’s need to participate in a competition or event. Celebrity sportsman like Mesut Ozil, a Real Madrid football player. Took up this idea at once, when it first emerged.

Now, a year or two after this initial rumour was spread around and mouths had finished talking. Everything went back to normal, apparently. It seems not everything had been put to bed. A recent article on the emitates247 website seems to have dug up this issue again, and adding fuel to the fire once more. Suggesting;

There will be no pressure on the players to fast since the Grand Mufti of Dubai Sheikh Ahmed Al Haddad had said players who do not fast can make up by fasting in the period following the games,” UAE’s Olympic football coach Mahdi Ali, told this website.

Throughout my time growing up here in the west i have seen, heard and witnessed many strange, baffling and sometimes wondrous things. However, i have to say, this piece of ‘news’, tops all of them. I find it questioningly difficult to give credence to the authority of this ‘mufti’. Never have i heard such utter, useless and wrong decision being made! The answer to this question of fasting for a muslim athlete can easily be found in the seerah. The seerah is filled in valiant struggles that the companions made during the month of Ramadan. Take for example, the battle of badr. It took place right in the middle of Ramadan. Some narrations say 17th, whereas others say the 15th day of Ramadan.
People who have been to the Arabian deserts and experienced the heat. Can testify that the summer and the heat of the Saudi Arabian desert is like nothing else on earth. You can probably boil a raw egg just by cracking it open in the heat! The heat is just unbearable!
Fasting in ramadan was made obligatory in the second of hijri. This battle took place on the 17th of Ramadhaan in the second Hijri year near the well of Badr.

Now, imagine having to walk to the desert (the battlefield of badr) for more than 200 – 300 miles in that blazing heat. No cars, no air-conditioned coaches or trains to take you there. Just your bare feet and two horses, shared by 313 people over the length of the journey! On top of all that, imagine you had to make this journey whilst you were fasting. Not to mention then having to fight the actual battle once you arrived at the battlefield with swords, sticks, and stones.

This is exactly what the blessed companions of the prophet (Saw) had to endure and go through. This is why after the battle, the illustrious companions of badr were known as ‘Badris’. That is, the people who fought in badr. They were the people who had an extra special place in the heart of the prophet (saw)! He (saw) would remember these companions like no others.
My point in mentioning all this was to draw your attention to one crucial point. If the excuse is, the muslim athletic will suffer if he/she fasts during their performance. That, it will tire him or her. Then why on earth would the companions go through all these hardships, and endure all the things they did? Surely they too could have come to the same conclusion as the ‘mufti’ of Dubai. In that, they could have said, ‘we are going to a battle, in order to conserve and keep our energy we will not fast. This will enable us to eat and drink when we need to’. Despite this there was no let up and the companions went on fighting whilst fasting, valiantly!.
It just goes to show the time we are living in. The true people of Allah are slowly being taken away from us. In their place we are replacing them with mediocre ‘scholars’ who are the puppets of governments and stooges of ministers. When it comes to establishing the real truth of the matter, they shy away from it and think first of their pockets. ‘better not say this, lest i lose my post as the grand mufti. As a result lose my income’. Is what plays in their minds, hearts and souls.
Sad times indeed!

Article on Emirates 24/7: http://www.emirates247.com/uae-olympic-team-exempted-from-ramadan-fast-2012-05-24-1.460034

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The loss of true LOVE

May 24, 2012 by MyBeliefs.co.uk

In a warm summers afternoon, with the fan on in my room humming out cool air and the noise of summer following in through the open window. I sat listening to a discourse of my shaykh. As the lecture progressed and the luminary delved into the matters of the journey to Allah. One thing began to become more and more clear. As we as humans and more importantly muslims, become more materialistic in our lives, more occupied with the ‘outer’ appearances than the ‘inner’. We are beginning to lose a vital nourishment required for a healthy spiritual life which an individual undoubtedly needs in this vicious crucible of life. That is nothing other than Love. This love is not the type of sexual, bestial, aggressive lust which we see prevalent in our societies today. This kind of special love only emanates from the true beings who have a celestial connection that binds them together. That, allows serenity to develop and settle in lives that are affected by such love. That, makes a person become more thankful for the blessings he or she has around them. It is the type of love that is a springboard to achieving the love of Allah. The love that the companions of the prophet (saw) continuously experienced in the blessed company.

It will not be a far-fetched idea to suggest, that even within the many islamic gatherings and circles this types of eternally and spiritually uplifting love cannot be found. As the men who harboured or harbour such divine love are fast fading away from this monstrous world we call life. The seerah is full with examples of such love strongly imprinted within the early muslim community. It is epitomised with the passing away of the greatest of beings, the prophet (saw). Where the whole community felt they had lost the sense of tranquility of their lives. With many on the verge of losing sanity. Our illustrious tradition is heaped in such love, which has been transferred from teacher to student throughout the centuries. Unfortunately, as the end times draw ever nearer and the slowly but surely, one by one the men of Allah depart from this world. This special capsule of love is also being with drawn from this wretched world. This is why we are seeing the increase in bestiality, lust and other ugly of habits.
However, all is not lost, a person can still experience or get a taste of this eternal love by accompanying the men of Allah. Who are the true inheritors of the prophet (saw). Whom are the exact replica you may say, of the sunnah. Just by sitting at their feet a person can be transferred to a time where such love was the fabric of a society. We can begin to appreciate how it must have been at those heavenly times of the ummah. The men of Allah are the people who will say and teach things which are the very essence of what constitutes what true love is. They leed you to understand what true love is, and how we are very distant from the actual meaning and experience of what they experience. Having said this, words cannot justify how grateful I am for having a shaykh, especially my shaykh. Books, and material words cannot suffice how much clarity there is in such lasting words. Spoken by my shaykh.

Only today he said;
‘- It is not the love of the shaykh that benefits the seeker. But, it is how much the seeker loves his shaykh. The syyid of humanity loves all, but only some benefit. Depending on their own level of love’.
‘- You have to become the cup of ‘want’ to then ‘drink’ the water of love!’
Only the men of Allah can conjure up such eternal words. Allah …
In other words, The love from the saints, the pious and the awliyah are always following out of them. It is not them that are holding back this love, but it is actually the seeker. The prophet (saw) has love for all muslims but only some benefit because of the amount of love they show towards the prophet (saw), his sunnah and his ways. As we see with the companions and their love. When we have the right mindframe, the right set of attitudes, and have the right approach, the fez (spritual blessings) from the mashaykh will undoubtedly follow into us.

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Muslim Directory’s Blasphemous Remark!

May 23, 2012 by MyBeliefs.co.uk

For the past 10 years or so, the Muslim directory, widely circulated within the Muslim communities in UK needs no introduction. From its humble beginnings it has now become the emblem of the success of British Muslim businesses. Essentially, the directory deals with Muslim businesses and services which are available across the length and breath of the country. When it first came out I remember it as being the corner-stone for leading the way with more initiatives that would soon follow from within the Muslim community. Over the next ten years we then began to see the explosion of Muslim magazines, newsletters and the ilk, fill the plethora of the growing Muslim lifestyle market.
However turning to a darker side there is a sinister parallel ideology running along with that of the more credible and commendable actions of the directory.

In the 2012/2013 issue of the Muslim directory, there is a theme which the editors choose to include and run throughout the edition. That is the continuing events unfolding in Syria. Within the ‘did you know‘ sections of the pages. The reader is dressed to the life of an average individual living in Syria. The continual sufferings currently plaguing the county, the hunger, the pain, the sufferings etc. We, as the readers are fed to the idea of the inhuman (and rightly so) actions Bashr Al Assad. – The current president of Syria. Who is using unjust brutal force to suppress the uprising against him. That began in February 2011.
From the first page to the last, a series of chronological events surrounding Syria, its historical significance and the place it has in Islam, is enlisted in the directory.

In order to prepare the reader and to shed light on the hereditary monarchy of Syria. The editors of the Muslim directory draw on the historical events which in the eyes of many mislead and astray people is the cause and reason for ‘father-to-son’ monarchy establishment in Syria.
The story of Syyiduna Ali (ra) and Syyiduna Muwawiyyah (ra) is used as a definitive source for the monarchy establishment. As controversial and hotly debated topic it is. The editors try to draw a parallel line between the events back then, with that of the current situation in Syria today.
Dangerously, the columnist on page 368 has the audacity to suggest the cause for a monarchy establishment prevalent in Syria today was the result of the actions of one of the great companion of the prophet (saw). -SYYIDUNA MUWAWIYYAH (ra).
That, it was his call to make his son, Yazid become the successor to the throne. Therefore establishing the idea of a monarchy rule in the Muslim lands! In simple words saying, the mass injustice and the ‘kingship rule’ in Muslim lands, namely Syria is the fault of Syyiduna Muwawiyyah (ra). Secondly, the columnist suggests that it was Muwawiyyah (ra) who abolished the idea of a Khalifat based on religious qualification. Astagfirullah!

This suggestion, or even the idea/the thought is blasphemous in an of it’s self. Not to mention the greater disrespect and sin for publishing this idea in a popular ‘Muslim directory’. Where the infectious idea will be consumed by the millions of Muslims who read and use this directory.
Now Syyiduna Muwawiyah (ra) is a relative of the prophet (saw), a brother-in-law through marriage of Hafsa (ra) the sister of Syyiduna Muwawiyyah. He (Muwawiyah ra) is the son of Syyiduna Abu Sufyyian and Hind (ra). With that in mind, the Prophet (saw) was the son-in-law of Syyiduna Abu Sufyyian, in that the prophet (saw) was married to the daughter of Abu Suyyian – Hafsa (ra). To accuse the great companion of being the cause of injustice and upheaval is to indirectly also accuse the prophet (saw), and to attack his blessed family! These sorts of actions are nothing less than of being tremendously blasphemous! It is the sects which vehemently oppose the companions and the rightly guided kulafah, who talk in such manner and these ugly ideas are prevalent within their circles!
We as petty Muslims have no right what-so-ever to make any comments on the situations and events backs then. We cannot even say who was right and who was wrong. – (In the war between Ali (ra) & Muwawiyyah (ra).
- We cannot even compare ourselves to the dust below the hoofs of the horses of Muwawiyah (ra).
- There were great saints of Islam like Syyiduna Abdul Qadir Jilani (ra) who dared to speak of anything from that era & incident. He once famously said ‘I do not even think I am worthy to be compared to the dust which stuck under the hoofs of the horses of Imam Muwawiyyah (ra)’. When asked about the status of the great companion.
- Imam Abu hanifah also made similar remarks when asked about the incident between the two companions.
‘if Allah (swt) asks you this question of ‘who was right and who was wrong on the battle between Ali (ra) and Muwawiyyah (ra). I will answer on your behalf!’ was his reply to a question asked by someone.
In other words, he was saying, we should be preoccupying ourselves with our own deeds and actions. How we will die and what will happen to us in the hereafter. We will not be asked about them or anyone for that matter in our graves.
We should not have the time or be concerned in issuing out judgements about an incident which took place almost 1300 years ago!

[Page 368 - (Below) where the outrageously blasphemous, and disrespectful comment is printed!]

To sum up, how can we as Muslims living almost 1200 years after the incident between the two illustrious companions dare to issue any judgements or even suggest what supposedly happened. We are living in a time where CCTV and cameras are recording almost every second of our lives. Yet, despite all these tangible evidences people are still unsure, for example, of what actually happened on September 11th. Despite the clear footage and samples of actual events recorded. People are still not sure what the fact is from fiction. Then how on GOD’s earth can we be sure what happened back then? When there was no cameras, no photos, no written reports. Just spoken words! Be able give definitive answers on the topic or be an ‘authority’ on the topic of the battle between Ali and Muwawiyyah (ra). There are bound to be things which are completely untrue in the ‘historical’ accounts of the incident. Things just cooked up from thin air and biased reporting done of what happened on that day.

Lastly, the editors of the Muslim Directory deleberately choose to let the dark, sinister, and disgusting idea flourish. The idea that, had Hafez Al Assad (the father of the current Syrian president, Bashr Al Assad) not taken the ‘supposed’ and ‘alleged’ actions of Muwawiyyah (ra) as examples and inspiration. – ‘Supposedly’ the handing over of the khalifate to yazid.
He (Hafez Al Assad) would not have handed the rule of Syria to Bashr Al Assad, his son. Whom in turn would have not come to power and done all these monstrous actions he is doing now.
- The murder, slaughter, rape, torture etc.
- To shun this evil idea and to clear the myth. Syyiduna Muwawiyah (ra) did NOT choose Yazid to succeed him to the ‘throne’. As the columnist suggests. After the death of the companion, Yazid forced his way into power.
The once held clean and praiseworthy work which the Muslim directory were and are doing. Has now been tarnished and forever blackened in my heart. It is my hope they (the editors of Muslim Directory) see the light in this and retract the statement which has been left to be printed. Where by letting it get distributed throughout the growing Muslim communities around the country.

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Usual reasons to SIN: ‘I am young, my desires endless’

May 20, 2012 by MyBeliefs.co.uk

At dawn with the night slowly easing away and the daylight peering out onto the horizon. A thought slowly formed. At fajr prayer, the thought was to take form and the idea was instilled. I just happened to have wondered then, how at times when we seek to justify committing sins. Our pathetic excuses are “we are forever young, our desires see no bounds and as a result we are forever more victims of the temptations of life”. Even though we have the examples of the companions in front of us. It still is not a means to hinder our determined approach to committing the sin. To undermine the valiant examples of the companions, with a satanic thought instilled in our occupied minds, we think “they were old and frail, gone past the ages of desires and temptations when they became muslims. ALso they did not face the age of fitna as we do now. Everywhere there is nudity and sin”. Tantamount to the blasphemous thought as it is. It is one of the frequent insidious thoughts we as muslims entertain when it comes to the situations of justifying the need to rebel. The hormone raging youth are forever more entertaining this idea. When told otherwise of the illustrious examples, an alternate lifestyle to follow they are thinking of such thoughts.
Contrary to this widespread idea, Most of the companions when they became muslims were young. In fact in their early teenage years, at an age where “temptations are high and desires are flaring everywhere”. They also faced more of a disastrous situations than we do. When, not only was there fitna in societies rampant. There was widespread nakedness publically displayed, in face of common gatherings and social interactions. People used to do tawaf aronund the kabah naked!. Now, yes, it is true our times are evil and full of fitna, it however, has not reached to the level of the companions time and age. We do not see naked people walking up and down the streets!
Take for example Syyiduna Ali (ra), he was 8 years old when became a muslim. Syyiduna Musab ibn Umar (ra) who used to lead the most lavish lifestyles and fashions of the day was only 16/18 years old when he converted – the most desirous boy/young man of the age. They too would have been tempted by the same things todays youth are inflicted with. – Drugs, women, alcohol and the like. Yet, whats so different that they managed to overcome these very same obstacles we face. They were also humans like us, faced and went through the same hormonal changes we do. SO what excuse can we really have to say or even use as an argument?

On the day of judgement when we claim ‘i was young Allah and could not avoid the sins. It was all to tempting for me’. Allah will bring forward the likes of syyiduna Musab ibn Umar (ra), and say he also went through the same situations as you. He was also a young muslim. He also faced the temptations of women, drugs, alcohol, gambling etc, even worse situations where he had to leave behind everything. Family, home, friends. You were not the only ‘young’ to walk the earth. You did not have to leave behind family, friends or even your home’. What will we say then? Our flimsy argument will fail to stand up on these grounds. Personally speaking, on countless occasions i have my self found victim to this satanic thought. ‘Dont worry you are young, live life and enjoy. when you get old you can start praying, being righteous’. But, when will that time come. The 20 year old thinks when he is 30 he’ll/she change. The 30 year olds think ‘when im 40 ill stop, lets enjoy a few more years’. The 80-year-old thinks ‘ill stop when im 90′! This game of shadows is endless. If one does not do it now, you will never do it.

The companions also faced the same thing we are facing now. For the youth who usually think when they hear about companions, ‘they were old and mature people, who were able to do all these good deeds because of their age’. Should see something coming towards them. No! they were not all ‘old and mature’, most of the companions were teenagers or in their early 20s when they choose to become muslims! Just the same ages you or i am now. The same temptations to look, drool and fantasise over women/men. The want to ‘experiment’ with alcohol and drugs were also their obstacles to overcome. They overcame them, just like we can. There is no excuse ‘we are living in an age of fitna and trouble’. The companions faced far greater situations and drama than we are. Naked dance girls everywhere, open vileness, nudity and adultery being committed widespread. These are not the scenes of our streets and times, but the scenes from the times of the companions. To have an adolescent shun all these and to choose to become a muslim in the face of all these temptations sends us endless lessons of how we can (if we really wanted to) overcome all these vices in societies.

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Illuminati origins of Wahabism

May 18, 2012 by MyBeliefs.co.uk

A vital and a damning analysis on the actual origins of Wahabism which is plaguing the muslim world:

The radical faction of Islam, known as the Salafi, are a movement created through British intrigue and coordination with occult secret societies, toward fomenting a “Clash of Civilizations”. And though the West is largely unaware of them, they are almost entirely responsible for the extremism that Islam is mistakenly perceived for.

Zarqawi, in his letter to bin Laden, described the Mujahideen, those who have been duped by the CIA to believe they are fighting a “holy war”, as follows: “These are the quintessence of the Sunnis and the good sap of this country. In general, they belong to the Sunni doctrine and naturally to the Salafi creed.”

Interestingly, their most recent response to challenges against their authenticity has been to admit, in part, to their Masonic origins, although apologizing that the men claimed as its founders, Masons and British agents like Jamal Aghani, and Mohammed Abduh, were not its true representatives.

But this is a feeble attempt to disguise their true mischief and service to Western powers. Instead, the Salafi now claim to be devoted followers alone of Abdul Wahhab, the founder of Wahhabism, whose service as a British agent they have yet to discover.

Islam was essentially consolidated for a period of about 1000 years, until the advent of Wahhabism. Islam developed four primary schools of legal thought, called Math’habs. These developed out of the tolerant attitude that it was possible to arrive at different conclusions based on an appraisal of the very same evidence. At a certain point, nevertheless, the legal development of Islam was eventually closed, called the “Closing of the Doors of Ijtihad”, to avoid any further controversy. That is how the schools were established at a number of four.

These various schools were not considered sects. They were legal schools of opinion, and were each considered orthodox and mutually compatible.

That is, until the 19th century, and the advent of colonialism, and the common British strategy of “Divide and Rule”, which evidently exercised its hand in disrupting this situation. According to the Wikipedia article on Shariah:

During the 19th century the history of Islamic law took a sharp turn due to new challenges the Muslim world faced: the West had risen to a global power and colonized a large part of the world, including Muslim territories. Societies changed from the agricultural to the industrial stage. New social and political ideas emerged and social models slowly shifted from hierarchical towards egalitarian. The Ottoman Empire and the rest of the Muslim world were in decline, and calls for reform became louder. In Muslim countries, codified state law started replacing the role of scholarly legal opinion. Western countries sometimes inspired, sometimes pressured, and sometimes forced Muslim states to change their laws. Secularist movements pushed for laws deviating from the opinions of the Islamic legal scholars. Islamic legal scholarship remained the sole authority for guidance in matters of rituals, worship, and spirituality, while they lost authority to the state in other areas. The Muslim community became divided into groups reacting differently to the change. This division persists until the present day (Brown 1996, Hallaq 2001, Ramadan 2005, Aslan 2006, Safi 2003).

* Secularists believe the law of the state should be based on secular principles, not on Islamic legal theory.
* Traditionalists believe that the law of the state should be based on the traditional legal schools. However, traditional legal views are considered unacceptable by most modern Muslims, especially in areas like women’s rights or slavery.[6]
* Reformers believe that new Islamic legal theories can produce modernized Islamic law [7] and lead to acceptable opinions in areas such as women’s rights.[8]
* Salafis strive to follow Muhammad and his companions, tabiin (followers of the Companions), tabiut tabiin (followers of the tabiin) and those who follow these 3 generations.

An excellent article has now been posted, however, at Salafi Publications, which not only admits, but thoroughly exposes, the Masonic and deviant origins of the founders of the Salafi movement, and their successors, the Muslim Brotherhood.

Instead, they hold to the claim that Salafism derived from the earliest centuries of Islam, from the time of the Salaf, meaning the earliest generations, and referring to the time before the development of the Math’habs. Contrary to their claims though, while it is true that the word “Salaf” refers to these early generations, the use of the term in this manner is a modern development.

This deceptive interpretation of history is derived from Abdul Wahhab, who appeared in the mid-18th century. According to his memoirs, a British spy by the name of Hempher, was assigned to the Middle East in order to discover ways to undermine Islam, with the aim of advancing British control over the region. His mission eventually focussed on the support of Wahhab, and backing him through the Saudi family, through whom he preached the British’s destructive message of Islam.

Essentially, Wahhab’s innovations made it legal for his followers to fight other Muslims, by pronouncing them “unbelievers”, under the pretense of “purifying” Islam, but in reality serving British strategy against the great Ottoman Empire. Wahhab did so by claiming that all of Islamic history, except for the generations of the Salaf, that is, from the time of the Math’habs onward, had fallen out of Islam.

Once adherence of the Muslims had been unbound from their traditional legal schools, it was possible for the British and their agents to come in with their own. And this is the purpose of the Salafi movement. The Saudis were then formally installed in Arabia in 1932, and have since acted as protectors of the oil interests of the Rockefellers, who are regarded as second-in-command within the Illuminati, after the Rothschilds. Particularly since 1973, when the Oil Crisis was orchestrated to enrich the Saudis, they have used the tremendous wealth at their disposal to advance their deviant interpretations.

While the Saudis have been under agreement with the CIA to finance many of its covert activities, including the funding of the Mujahideen in Afghanistan, and the support of Islamic terrorists worldwide, many of the Saudi scholars as well as the government are putting on a public face of rejecting terrorism and bin Laden. They claim that terrorism and anti-government activities are contrary to the true tenets of Salafism.

This is not true. At times the purpose of Salafism is to inculcate terrorism, but in general, the purpose of Salafism is to provide a new Math’hab, to estrange the world’s Muslim population from traditional Islam, and thereby lead them wherever Western interests deem fit.

Courtesy: http://www.terrorism-illuminati.com/content/islamic-radicals-admit-masonic-origins

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The best product on the market!

May 14, 2012 by MyBeliefs.co.uk

The best product on the market!

Monday 14th May 2012 – Discourse Notes:

In this world we live in, and the people we interact with are trying to sell us something. – marketing something, parents for example want to seek you a have better worldly life, a better future.
(a very few also help secure your hereafter, but mostly your worldly life). Some friends that are bad are trying to sell you worldly assets, cars, house etc. where as other friends want to sell you drugs so that they can fill their pockets with money to buy a flashy car, house etc. Shaitan is also trying to sell you his package/product (buy giving you all the pleasures of the world) and buy the hereafter in return from you. – A business transaction.
The wife/husband is also trying to sell you their comforts. If they do not receive comforts from you then the wife/husband is unhappy! All of them -(categories of people) are trying to in essence suck the blood out of you. The worst are those who try and sell you drugs. The people who do this are the worst, as they are destroying families and friends. A father is lost to drugs, a friend is lost. In that the children no longer have a father figure to look to as their father is now a drug addict. He is not a father! They are like orphans, even worse off. As the children who are orphans, they sometimes have good a mother who can cover for the loss. At times thaws orphans also look up-to the work left by their fathers. Whereas the drug addict is completely lost, in this world and the next. His children no longer have any role model or anything to look forward to.
- Similarly those fathers/Mothers who have lost their children to drugs. It is as if their children have died! Due to the fact that they are no longer receiving any benefit from them. – the love, care and kindness.

It was the promise of the devil who said he will buy the hereafter of the people. In return for offering all the pleasures of the dunya to them. – A sacrifice, one for the other! it will be a means to leading people astray.
Allah (swt) and the prophet (saw) are also trying to sell you something. But, this is without any ulterior motives or needs. This is the better life of this world and the hereafter.
- Remember everyone has a death sentence looming above their heads! We hear news of people being sent to the gallows, the newspapers and media are always reporting it. A judgement given by the judges. Allah (swt) who is the best of judges, has given a judgement to all of us! This death sentence can be turned around and made into a gift. Issued by the judge, how? By having firm conviction on the shahadah. The prophet (saw) said; death is a gift to the believers. (paraphrased)
- the irony of democracy is it says ‘do what you like. We have freedom’. However, when someone kills, rapes or hurts others they are reprimanded. This is why religion has not given unrestrained freedom to people. It has to be in a controlled environment. Then only freedom can co-exist with others, without harming, or killings others. In reality the person who says ‘I am free’ is in actual fact become a slave to his egos.
“the heart of every problems, is the heart itself”. – A parable, to explain that the human heart is the cause of every problem on earth. – The main cause (heart) of the problems in the world.
- Human desires are unlimited in an limited world. So, how can we fulfill them here? A king who rules the world will still have desires which are not fulfilled. A glass which is filled to the top cannot be filled continuously in one go. As it has reached its limits. Likewise for unlimited desires you need a unlimited place to fulfill them.
- all the activities of the servants can become worship with the right intention.
- the reasons why there were gaps in the coming of prophets on earth was because Allah did not send prophets at times when the vast majority of people were on the right path. Simply because there was no need for prophets to remind people of the hereafter. As they already were focused on that. Once they slowly began to move away from this and become rebellious. Thats when the prophets came. – At the time when people were getting lost and forgetting the right beliefs.
So, if anyone has gone down the wrong way, drawn a wrong picture. Turn to Allah and he can wipe your slate clean.
- There are four witnesses to a persons sins:
1) angels
2) earth
3) own organs
4) books – the books of deeds.
When someone repents, these four categories are made to forget by Allah. So, these do not stand against you on the day of judgement. Just look at the mercy of Allah!

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Yaya Toure: ‘I am Muslim’

May 9, 2012 by MyBeliefs.co.uk

Currently this video: (below) is trending on YouTube. Causing a stir across the virtual universe to occur.
Why i chose to write a post about it is for two reasons.
1) With the barrage of media attacks on the religion of Islam. – Its attempt at corrupting the image of Islam and its followers, it seems that the whole religion of Islam has been turned into a ‘boogeyman’ or rather, ‘boogeymen’ character. A villan in the movie of moral liberties and civilisation. Who is hellbent on taking away the moral rights, liberties and freedoms of people. ‘Taking over the world’. It also goes without saying that ‘Islam’ has become the scapegoat for blaming all the world’s problems, situations and misfortunes. Anything wrong with th world is somehow connected with Islam, or is the fault of ‘islamic people, “Them damn muzlims!”.
Yaya Toure, a multi million pound player for Manchester city football club recently blurted out (whether purposefully or otherwise) that he is a muslim. (Watch video) Now, this has caused a storm to erupt in the social media outlets around the world. He said the dreaded and much feared few words. ‘I am muslim’, instantly this got the virtual world (the internet) talking and speculating. Many expressing their disgust at new revelation of knowledge that he is a ‘muzlim’. There are wide-spread comments, views and opinions expressed in which people, who once held him as a great football player on longer seem to see him in the same light. In turn have demoted him from being held in their view, as one of the best player for Manchester city football club. Most of the shock and horror people are expressing is due the widely held myth that ‘how can someone choose to be part of that backward, cave dwelling religion, the turbanators‘.

One comment on YouTube read;

You don’t read the news do you? There’s currently 9 Muslim males who cavorted a ring on 47 different other Muslim males and started trafficking Caucasian girls as young as 13. That’s happening right now,

Clearly, this shows how people are linking one instance of bad news committed of a group of men, with him. In turn, painting all the muslims with the same paint brush. A group of pedophiles, white skin loving, rapists! It is also worthy to note how in every situation muslim men are involved in something, the religion of Islam bares the brunt of their actions. It’s funny how i don’t see that happening with the countless crimes being committed by, other faith groups; the white english, christian, jewish, or other faith groups.

Anyway, anyone now who has the courage to say he is a muslim in public is seen as if he has just declared he is a Nazi! This is how much people are disgusted and horrified by the news. Any celebrities or famous people who dare to show any inclination to either being muslim, or favouring muslims will undoubtedly now have their entire career brought into question by the general public. Some even go as far as questioning their sanity!

2) On a brighter and more happier note, as muslims we can learn that despite, being famous, having money, all the world at his feet. Yaya Toure has not lot his traditions and principles. Many muslims lose themselves in the forest of temptation and desires, once they get into the crucible being a ‘celebrity’. Once a person reaches the highest point in the world, and all the doors to pleasure, glory and material gains are open to him or her, it is very difficult to live a disciplined life. Even on our mediocre level of life that we lead, we do not spare any moment in not committing a sin. Unfortunately, any opportunity we get, to sin we avail the chance. For example glaring at women, fantasising etc. Any chance to do any particular sin, we will extinguish it without fail. So what to say when or if we have the whole world at our feet? Do you think we will be as disciplined as him? Many of us will jump headlong into the world of unlimited pleasure and desires.
So in this respect, for the die-hard muslim fans of football, Yaya Toure should be a good role-model to follow and take lessons from. In that despite all the gleam and glamour that is at his feet, he still maintains his islamic code of living and is proud to be a muslim and to say it out loud!

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