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The radical sweep (INDIA TODAY)

July 31, 2008 When Safdar Nagori was a 15-year-old teenager studying at the Ujjain Polytechnic, he came in contact with Hafiz Nehmatullah Nadvi, the imam of Ujjain's Fateh Masjid and a known leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH). Nadvi individually counselled the young son of the police officer from Madhya Pradesh and very soon, Nagori was inducted into the radical Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI). When he was arrested in Indore in March, Nagori, 38, held a diploma in mechanical engineering and a masters degree in journalism and mass communications. But he also headed the ultra-extremist SIMI, dedicated to the jihadi ideals of the Taliban. Nagori's organisation had trained and indoctrinated youth-doctors, engineers and web designers- for assassinations and planting bombs. The youths were nabbed before they could execute their macabre plans. All of them subscribed to the hardline Wahhabi ideology of the Deoband school which practices a rigid, puritanical version of Islam. They loathe what they view as contamination of the faith by Sufi practices and regard the Prophet as a messenger, to be respected but not revered. Deobandis and their missionary wing, the Tablighi Jamaat-distinguished by their long white tunics, turbans and flowing beards-call for a pan-Islamic identity unencumbered by nation or region. They are in sharp contrast to the Barelvi school to which over two-thirds of India's 15 crore Muslims  subscribe to and who follow the Islam enriched by its contact with fertile local cultures, revere the Prophet and revel in Sufi traditions like dargah visit, music and mysticism. The struggle is almost as old as their origin-both schools sprang from Uttar Pradesh towns, Deoband and Bareilly, in the 19th century. Interestingly, the differences between the Deoband-Tablighi Jamaat and Ahle Hadis schools on one hand and the Barelvi school on the other are deep. Deep enough to often result in physical fights. The Barelvis have a group called Rifai Committee whose only job is to counter the radical propaganda of the Deobandis regarding Islamic tenets. The attacks on Barelvi school's followers in Ajmer Sharif, Hyderabad and Malegaon were believed to have been organised by ultra Wahhabi groups which follow strong Deobandi or Ahle Hadis tenets. "The terror that is being inflicted in India is not Islamic terror, but Wahhabi terror," says Mohammed Hamid, a government servant in Nagpur who runs a moderate Islamic organisation IMAN (Indian Muslim Association-Noori) which fights Deobandi fundamentalism. Except for the Mumbai bomb blasts of 1993, carried out in revenge for the communal riots in the aftermath of the Babri Masjid demolition, Barelvis have not been involved in any terror attacks. Whereas a majority of terror groups like the Jaish-e-Mohammed, HUJI, Lashkar-e-Toiba and Harkat ul-Ansar owe allegiance to the three subgroups of Wahhabism in India. "Wahhabis should explain as to why almost all the terrorists are invariably their followers," says Abdullah Patel, a Barelvi preacher from Bharuch. In Pakistan, another frontline state, where Deobandis have declared war on the moderates, the war is predictably a little more vicious. A decapitation explosion at a religious congregation in Karachi on April 11, 2006, killed the entire senior leadership of the Sunni Tehrik, an anti-Deobandi-Salafi Sunni organisation of Pakistan. Fifty other innocent civilians, many of them lower-level leaders of the Tehrik, were killed in the explosion. In India too, Barelvis have been at the receiving end of terror attacks. A blast at the Ajmer dargah in October last year, frequented by Barelvis, killed three worshippers. A vast majority of terrorists invariably follow the Deoband-Tablighi or the Ahle Hadis tenets. "Terror outfits seem to draw their raw material from these groups," says G.L. Singhal, former ACP of Ahmedabad Crime Branch. These groups do not necessarily tell their cadre to don suicide jackets and blow themselves up for the cause of Islam. But the security threat from them stems from challenges in dealing with people who dream of recreating a universal Muslim community cut from all existing societies, including Muslim society. "These second-generation Muslims-some of them, of course, not all of them-feel alienated from a pristine culture of their grandfathers. They don't care about how one lives in a Moroccan village, they feel so alienated by the modern Western culture. And by not reverting, but by joining a neofundamentalist movement, which tells them, 'Don't care about society, any kind of society; don't care about culture; don't care about politics; just try to be a good Muslim and to recreate the true Muslim community,' they feel at home. They would say, this is an identity for me," argues Olivier Roy, author of The Failure of Political Islam. It is to this new identity that fundamentalists address the injustice against the community. In recent years, the demolition of the Babri Masjid, the Mumbai riots of 2003 and the Gujarat riots of 2002 have formed powerful propaganda tools. On the face of it, there seems to be no contest. The non-Wahhabis still command nearly 80 per cent of the Muslim community and are seemingly in no danger. Yet, their moderate voice is well in danger of being swamped. From Barelvi mosques in the north to ritual art forms in the south, Wahhabis and their offshoots are threatening years of assimilation. When a more organised and vocal minority takes over, mostly with a petro-dollar funded message, choreography and persona, a hapless majority fights back weakly. "The Wahhabis are conducting an aggressive campaign of mobilisation for a particular brand of Islam with the other sects in a permanent defensive posture. Their's is a violent interpretation of jihad and has the enormous potential to create and sustain mobilisation and recruiting base of extremist movements in India," says Ajai Sahni, executive director, Institute for Conflict Management. "From just 28 websites eight years ago, there are over 1,000 websites dedicated to spreading Wahhabi ideology," says Shabeeb Rizvi, a professor at Rizvi College in Mumbai who researches Islamic ideologies in India. Even as Barelvi mosques struggle for funding, rows of shiny new Tablighi mosques funded by Saudi money have sprung up across the country from Haryana to Kerala and southern Gujarat to West Bengal. "Most Barelvi Sunni mosques are in a dilapidated condition so the hardliners donate money for repairs, appoint their own priest and slowly begin to take over," says Rizvi. About 30 per cent Barelvi mosques have been similarly taken over by front organisations of Wahhabi ideology over the past decade. But now, over the past few years, hundreds of Barelvi mosques have put up signboards warning the Tablighis, Deobandis, Jamaat-e-Islami, Ahle Hadis, their preachers as well as worshippers to keep out. The Deoband Tablighi preachers, however, deny that their ideology is spreading fanaticism amongst Muslim youth. Says Mohammed Patel, a Tablighi preacher: "How can an ideology or a seminary be held responsible for the violent behaviour of a few?" He compares the Tablighis to religious movements like the Swadhyaya Parivar or Gayatri Parivar. "What they are doing for Hindus we are doing for Muslims in order to bring them to the right path. What's wrong with it?" The corollaries appear out of place if one were to have a look as to what they preach in their madrasas in Gujarat. Symbols of exclusive Islam are glorified and paragons of inclusive Islam, run down. Emperor Akbar is sold as an "untrue Muslim" and Aurangzeb an "ideal" Muslim ruler. In Gujarat, clashes between the Deoband-Tablighi and the moderate Ahle-Sunnat Preachers of the Barelvi school have occurred in Bhavnagar, Junagadh, Surat, Dohad and many other places over the past decade. The Patel Muslims of south Gujarat's Bharuch were moderate until four decades ago when the Deoband-Tabligh preachers started swamping the area with their puritan message. Today most of the Patel Muslims are Wahhabis. The maulvis of Bharuch district are now carrying out the Wahhabisation of the Muslims of Bhavnagar. Mohammed Ali, a terrorist caught in 2001 from Sopore in Jammu and Kashmir told his interrogators that he had studied for four years at the Akwada Deoband-Tablighi madrasa near Bhavnagar. In south India, key figures in the emerging climax are JIH and the Kerala Nadvathul Mujahideen (KNM) represented by two factions. The Jamaat-e-Islami was set up in Lahore in 1941 by Maulana Maududi, who gave a call for setting up Islamic states. The JIH is now experiencing a serious mood swing as it takes up fresh routes and stresses personal reforms and abandoning, at least privately, its earlier slogans of political Islam. Unlike other neo-fundamentalist groups with larger lukewarm flock, the JIH has fervent activists to its credit and preaches an anti-imperialist, anti-multinational line-rehabilitation of endosulfan victims in five panchayats in Kasaragod district, call for retraction the draft Coastal Zone Management (CZM) notification by the Ministry of Environment and Forests, "which would hand over Indian coasts to bigger players and multinationals", raising voice for people displaced for setting up the International Transshipment Terminal in Vallarpadam in Kochi and waging a campaign against the Pepsi plant in Kerala. "These are posturings they use to make inroads into a secular society. They are yet to publicly question Maududi's idea of a religious state. In India they raise anti-fascist campaigns, but fail to explain why their founder emphasises mullah hegemony similar to Aryan hegemony," says M.N. Karassery, writer and professor at the Calicut University. With a growing realisation that their narrow interpretation of Islam is inspiring terrorism, the Deobandis are distancing themselves from terror acts and condemned these for the first time. On February 25, the Darul Uloom Deoband and other organisations organised a rally declaring terrorism as un-Islamic and against the Koran, condemned the maligning of madrasas and Muslims and exhorted the latter to continue their loyalty to their motherland. The Deoband influence transcends borders and has the potential to influence Muslims worldwide. Over the next few weeks, other Muslim organisations held similar conferences. In spite of its declared stance against terrorism, by preaching puritan Islam, hardliners run the risk of pushing Muslim youths to the thin line that divides fundamentalism and terrorism. Critics of neo-fundamentalist movements argue that groups like Al Qaeda find cadre from groups who define their Islamic politics primarily as encouragement of a narrow range of Islamic practices and symbols and whose background has nothing to do with traditional Islamic preaching. The solution to countering the spread of fundamentalism may well lie in encouraging the moderates. Between June 2 and 4, representatives of the British and Indian home ministries sat down for a series of meetings discussing their experiences of terrorism. The meeting comprised India's Intelligence Bureau, UK's MI5 and senior police officials. Their verdict was unanimous. Both sides would have to work to actively encourage moderates, which has worked well in the UK where community elders led the police to elaborate plans to serial-bomb aircraft in 2006. In India, this would mean encouraging the Sufis. Isolated peace efforts have come from the Sufi Foundation of India led by Hazrat Syed Mohammad Jilani Ashraf Kichhauchhvi, who is busy creating a Sufi corridor. But it will take many more deeds than mere words if the bigger battle against fundamentalism is to be won. —with Farzand Ahmed and Shafi Rahman
Sandeep Unnithan and Uday Mahurkar
July 31, 2008

prophet (SallaAllahuALaihiWasallam) Qabar shareef

The Qabar Shareef of Rasulullah(SallaAllahuALaihiWasallam) in its original form 200 years ago during the Uthmani (Ottoman-Hanafi Sultanate) Turkey Khilafat and before the Wahhabi take over of the sacred monuments.
The Wahabis are drawing many similarities between Qabar Shareefs(of UsmanGhazi & Rasulullah(SallaAllahuALaihiWasallam) so as to prove that RasulAllahl(SallaAllahuALaihiWasallam)'s qabar picture is fake.After all both Qabar Shareefs(of UsmanGhazi &Rasulullah(s) are designed in its present model by Hanafi Ottomans(Usmanis,kingdom founded bu Usman GHAZI), who ruled Hijaz &Turkey for 600 years.Weather Wahabis are worried about the shape of the Qabar shareef ?
If uttman gazi's kabar shareef look like this, then how prophet (SallaAllahuALaihiWasallam)Qabar shareef becomes fake?
All these things clearly shows how much they are worried because the kabar shareef is not flat 

He is Allah

بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَـٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ

هُوَ اللَّهُ الَّذِي لاَ إِلَهَ إِلاَّ هُوَ عَالِمُ الْغَيْبِ وَالشَّهَادَةِ هُوَ الرَّحْمَنُ الرَّحِيمُ * هُوَ اللَّهُ الَّذِي لاَ إِلَهَ إِلاَّ هُوَ الْمَلِكُ

الْقُدُّوسُ السَّلامُ الْمُؤْمِنُ الْمُهَيْمِنُ الْعَزِيزُ الْجَبَّارُ الْمُتَكَبِّرُ سُبْحَانَ اللَّهِ عَمَّا يُشْرِكُونَ * هُوَ اللَّهُ الْخَالِقُ الْبَارِئُ

الْمُصَوِّرُ لَهُ الْأَسْمَاءُ الْحُسْنَى يُسَبِّحُ لَهُ مَا فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ وَهُوَ الْعَزِيزُ الْحَكِيمُ *

"He is Allah, there is no god but He, He is the knower of the unseen and the witness He is the All-Merciful, the All compassionate. He is Allah, there is no god but He. He is the king, the Holy, the Giver of Safety. The Taker-in shelter the All-Mighty, the omnipotent, the All-Sublime. Allah is Pure and Pure of what they associate (with Him). He is Allah, the Creator, the One who is Perfect. To Him belong names Most Excellent. All that is in the heavens and the earth, glorify Him and He is the All-Mighty, the All-Wise".

RAMADAN 10: DEATH ANNIVERSARY OF BIBI KHADIJA ؑ

RAMADAN 10:
DEATH ANNIVERSARY OF BIBI KHADIJA ؑ

Sayyeda Khadija ؑ was born in the year 555 AD in Makkah. Her father Hazrat Khuwalid ibn Asad ؓ from the Bani Asad clan of the Quraish tribe was a successful merchant and businessman of Makkah, while her mother Bibi Fatimah bint Zidah hailed from the Bani Hashim clan of the Quraish tribe. Her ancestry to Prophet Abraham ؑ could hence be traced both through her paternal as well as maternal sides. She had three siblings; two brothers Hizam ؓ and Awwam ؓ, and a sister Halah ؓ. As Bibi Khadija ؑ grew older, she began to take interest in her father’s trading business and earned herself quite a name.

Bibi Khadija’s ؑ mother passed away in the year 675 AD, and ten years later her father passed away too. Bibi Khadija ؑ was now thirty years old and successfully carrying forward her father’s business. It was a well known fact that the size of Bibi Khadija’s ؑ trade caravan equaled that of all the other Makkan trade caravans. Her success as a businesswoman attracted many noble and wealthy Arabs to ask her hand in marriage but she declined all offers. Despite her immense wealth, Bibi Khadija ؑ should great modesty and generosity. Several impoverished households in Makkah were financed through Bibi Khadija’s ؑ money.

It was some time in the year 595 AD, that she hired a trusted merchant, Abu Talib ؑ to head her trade caravan to Syria. Her real motive to hire Hazrat Abu Talib ؑ was to know more about his orphaned nephew Hazrat Muhammad bin Abdullah ؑ, who had already earned the titles of As-Sadiq (truthful) and Al-Amin (trustworthy). She also send her servant Maysara along with the caravan to keep an eye on Hazrat Muhammad bin Abdullah ؑ. Aged 25, Hazrat Muhammad ؑ did not have much experience of trading, but skillfully and honestly earned a large profit for Bibi Khadija ؑ. Moreover, Maysara witnessed certain paranormal events occurring around Hazrat Muhammad ؑ, of which he told his mistress. So moved was Bibi Khadija ؑ by Hazrat Muhammad’s ؑ fair conduct that she approached Hazrat Abu Talib ؑ with a marriage proposal to his nephew. Hazrat Muhammad ؑ accepted the proposal, knowing that Bibi Khadija ؑ was in fact a widow. The marriage was presided over by Hazrat Abu Talib ؑ. After marriage, Bibi Khadija ؑ moved in with Hazrat Muhammad ؑ and the happily-married couple started together a new begging. Their house was soon blessed with the birth of Hazrat Qasim ؑ, their first child. However, he died at a very young age. Sayyeda Khadija ؑ gave birth to two other more boys, Hazrat Abdullah ؑ and Hazrat Ibrahim ؑ, but they too passed away young. Among daughters, Bibi Khadija ؑ gave birth to Bibi Zaynab ؑ, Bibi Ruqayya ؑ, Bibi Umm Kulsum ؑ and Bibi Fatimah ؑ. Their last child, Bibi Fatimah was the favorite of Hazrat Muhammad ؑ, the reasons for which he would soon find out!

The couple were in their fifteenth year of marriage in 610 AD, when an event occurred that would forever alter their destinies. Hazrat Muhammad ؑ had begun to feel tired and bothered by all the rampant bloodshed and corruption of Makkah. He would often leave his family and go off to the hills to mediate. On one such occasion, Hazrat Muhammad ؑ came running back home, shivering violently and drenched in cold sweat. He wore a petrified expression on his face and immediate asked his wife to put him in his room and cover him with blankets. Horrified at her beloved husband’s disoriented behavior, she persuaded him to tell her the reason. He answered to her that he had been meditating in a cave when out of nowhere an angel like figured appeared before him claiming to be Gabriel ؑ, who declared him a prophet. Shocked by what she had heard, Bibi Khadija ؑ at once contacted her learned cousin Waraqah. He heard all that had happened and exclaimed that Bibi Khadija’s ؑ husband, Muhammad bin Abdullah ؑ, was in fact Prophet Muhammad ﷺ ,the last prophet to be send by God, whose coming was foretold in the Hebrew scriptures. This explained all the weird happening that Bibi Khadija’s ؑ servant had noticed when he had accompanied Prophet Muhammad ﷺ to Syria. Bibi Khadija ؑ comforted her husband and told him all that Waraqah had said. She solemnly testified the Oneness of ALLAH and the prophet –hood of Rasoolallah ﷺ, thus becoming the first ever believer.
As Rasoolallah ﷺ embarked on his mission to eradicate falsehood and spread the word of ALLAH, he faced stiff opposition from the people of Makkah, specially from the nobility, who saw Rasoolallah ﷺ as a threat to their wealth and leisure. Bibi Khadija ﷺ patiently bore all the taunts and insults that were flung at her family. Not once did she waver in the commitment that she made to Rasoolallah ﷺ. In the year 617 AD, the chiefs of Makkah declared a boycott of the muslims. Bibi Khadija ؑ gave away all her wealth in the cause of Islam by providing for food and shelter for the ousted muslims. The boycott lasted for two years, when it eventually failed to prevent the growth of Islam.

By the year 619 AD, Bibi Khadija ؑ had reached sixty-four. Her health began to deteriorate and she fell ill. After sharing the companionship of Rasoolallah ﷺ for twenty-four years, Bibi Khadija ؑ passed away on the 10th day of Ramadan, in 619 AD. That same year, Rasoolallah ﷺ also lost another of his relative, his beloved uncle Sayyedna Abu Talib ؑ. The Holy Prophet ﷺ was so depressed by the loss of his two dearest relatives that the year 619 AD came to be known as the Year of Sorrows. Both these great personalities were laid to rest in Makkah’s Al-Mualla Graveyard.

Rasoolallah ﷺ dearly loved Bibi Khadija ؑ., and would often speak of her long after she was gone, to Bibi Ayesha ؓ and his other wives. He placed her in the ranks of the four greatest women of all times, the other three being Bibi Aasiya ؑ (wife of Pharaoh), Bibi Mayram ؑ, (the Virgin Mary), and Bibi Sayyeda Fatimah Zehra ؑ. (daughter of Bibi Khadija and Rasoolallah). While none of Bibi Khadija’s ؑ sons survived beyond childhood, her three daughters did grow to adulthood. Bibi Ruqayya ؑ and Bibi Umm Kulsum ؑ married the great companion and future Caliph, Uthman bin Affan ؓ. However, both of them passed away before giving birth. It was Bibi Khadija’s ؑ youngest daughter Bibi Fatimah ؑ who grew up to marry Hazrat Ali bin Abu Talib ؑ, the inheritor of Rasoolallah’s ﷺ spirituality. It was through Bibi Sayyedah ؑ that the progeny of Rasoolallah ﷺ continues.

THE NAME 'ALLAH' - A PSYCHOLOGICAL DISCOVERY

THIS IS NOT A FICTITIOUS STORY... IT IS REAL AND VERIFIABLE ... Vander Hoven, a psychologist from Netherlands, announced his new discovery about the effect of reading the Qur'aan and repeating the word ALLAH both on patients and on normal persons. The Dutch professor confirms his discovery with studies and research applied on many patients over a period of three years. Some of his patients were non-Muslims, others do not speak Arabic and were trained to pronounce the word 'ALLAH' clearly; the result was great, particularly on those who suffer from dejection and tension. Al Watan, a Saudi daily reported that the psychologist was quoted to say that Muslims who can read Arabic and who read the Quran regularly could protect themselves from psychological diseases. The psychologist explained how each letter in the word 'ALLAH' affects healing of psychological diseases. He pointed out in his research that pronouncing the first letter in the word 'ALLAH' which is the letter (A), released from the respiratory system, controls breathing. He added that pronouncing the velar consonant (L) in the Arabic way, with the tongue touching slightly the upper part of the jaw producing a short pause and then repeating the same pause constantly, relaxes the aspiration. Also, pronouncing the last letter which is the letter (H) makes a contact between the lungs and the heart and in turn this contact controls the heartbeat. What is exciting in the study is that this psychologist is a non-Muslim, but interested in Islamic sciences and searching for the secrets of the HolYQuran Allah, The Great and Glorious, says, We will show them Our signs in the universe and in their ownselves, until it becomes manifest to (remember me in ur Dua) ALLAHU AKBAR Allah is great Allah keeps me going day and night. Without Allah, I am no one. But with Allah, I can do everything. Allah is my strength.' This is a simple test. If you love Allah and you are not ashamed of all the great things that he has done for you, send this to everyone you know, May Allah help u to succeed...Ameen Allah said, 'If you are ashamed of me, I will be ashamed of you.'