Are we under the wrath of Allah?

Take a look at the events happened in the last month, along with all the bomb blasts, drone attacks and killings Pakistan had suffered a lot from the natural disasters too.

Death of more than 150 soldiers and some civilians at Siachan. The crash of Bojha airways airline which cause more than 227 deaths.

The narration of Hadith about the events happening near the end of time. Holy Prophet had told us about the disasters which will happen in result if some sins become common in the Ummah.

This is the Mafhoom e Hadith e Nabvi Salallaho-alehi-wa-alehi-wasallam, a few lines from a long Hadith are summarized: “When the appearance of women who sings and dances and musical instruments, when the last people of the Ummah starts to blame the ancestors, during this time wait for the following disasters like red storms, earthquakes, destroying of faces, rain of the stones, and such disasters which will come one by one in a pattern like a necklace is broken and its beads fall one after another”. 

In another Hadith it is said: “In this ummah destructions like being pulled under earth, destroying of faces and rain of the stones will happen, a Muslim asked when will this happen, Rasool Allah replied when women who sing and instruments of musics will appear and drinking will be done” (Sunan Tirmizi, J-2, Hadith # 2138)

If we take a glance to present era, we will find that this might be the era, in this era the musical instruments are very cheap and easily accessible, almost in every home you will find a guitar or some sort of musical instruments. As said in the Hadith that the appearance of women who sings and dance will happen, we can see in every home nowadays there is TV set and access to cable network and these cable network are promoting the dance and singing with full extent. If you take a look at some channels like Geo, Hum and Ary you will see a number of singing / dancing competitions going on in which girls from good houses also participate and they feel no shame in it, as if this might be their routine. In every home now there is daily appearance of women who sings and dances in the form of musical programs going on in the television network. 

From the events we have seen in the last month which happened too fast and one after another, causing death of a number of people. This point not to think, but to do! We have to start following proper Islam, which Allah and his prophet had given us. We have to revive the concept of Amar Bil Maroof Wa Nahi ‘Anil-Munkar (to preach for the good and to stop from bad deeds), so that when we will face our Allah, we face him with smiling and a brighter face.

Article by Muhammad Sharjeel ______ "ابلیس کی بےلباس تہذیب اور اسلام"

قصہء آدم و ابلیس جہاں بہت سے پہلوؤں سے سبق آموز ہے وہاں یہ بات بھی قابلِ توجہ ہے کہ انسان کے ازَلی دشمن ابلیسِ لعین کا اوّلین حملہ اسکی شرم و حیا اور عفّت و عصمت پر تھا۔ گویا شیطان اوّل دن سے ہی انسان میں سے حیا کے عنصر کو ختم کر کے فحش کاموں کی ترغیب دینے کی کوشش کر رہا ہے۔ جس طرح ابلیس نے ہمارے والدین حضرت آدم و حوّا (علیہماالسّلام) کو جنّت کے ممنوع پھل کی طرف اکسا کر ان کو بےلباس کیا اسی طرح یہ آج بھی انسان کو بےلباس اور بے حیا کرنے کے لیئے اپنا "جہاد" کمالِ استقامت کے ساتھ جاری رکھے ہوئے ہے۔

انسان جس کی فطرت میں اللہ تعالٰی نے شرم و حیا کا عنصر رکھا ہے آج اسے شیطان نے بری طرح بےحیائی کے جال میں جکڑ لیا ہے۔ انسانیت کی عظیم اکثریت اسکی بے لباس تہذیب کو قبول کر چکی ہے۔ بلاشبہ یہ انسانیت کی فطرت کے خلاف بغاوت ہے کہ حیا جو اسکے لئے حیات تھی اِس نے آج اسے اپنی زندگی سے خارج کردیا ہے۔

لیکن وہ بات جو اس سے بڑھ کر تکلیف دہ ہے وہ یہ کہ آج مسلمان جن کے دین میں حیا کو امتیازی حیثیت حاصل ہے، جن کے دین میں حیا ایمان کا حصہ ہے اور جن کہ پاس سے اگر حیا رخصت ہو جائے تو وہ ایمان کو اپنے ساتھ لے جاتی ہے، آج وہی امّت اپنے عالمِ پیری کے بسبب اس ابلیسی تہذیب کی اندھی تقلید کررہی ہے۔

اس سے بڑھ کر افسوس یہ ہے کہ ہم مسلمان اس بات کو سمجھنے سے قاصر ہیں کہ کس طرح مغربی اور مغرب زدہ میڈیا اور اس پر مسلّط دین بیزار افراد کے ذریعے ہمیں اس بے حیا تہذیب کی طرف مائل کیا جا رہا ہے۔ یہ لوگ بظاہر تو مسلمان ہیں مگراندر ہی اندر ابلیسی ایجنڈے کو پورا کر رہے ہیں۔ ان سے بھی بعض اوقات "ھمدردی" محسوس ہوتی ہے کہ ان کیلیئے اسلام ایک ایسے لباس کی مانند ہے جسے نہ یہ اتارتے ہیں کہ سرِعام رسوا نہ ہوں اور نہ اسے پورا زیبِ تن بھی نہیں کرتے کہ گھٹن محسوس ہوتی ہے۔ لہٰذا یہ دعوٰی تو مسلمان ہونے کا کرتے ہیں مگر اندازِمسلمانی یہ ہے کہ جب انھیں اپنی خواہشات کہ بت ٹوٹتے نظر آتے ہیں تو یہ ‘خود بدلتے نہیں قرآن کو بدل دیتے ہیں‘ اور اسلام کی من گھڑت تاویلیں کرتے ہیں۔ 

یہی حال ہے کہ جب انکو اسلام کا تصوّرِ حیا اپنی آزادی یا یوں کہیئے کہ "مادر پدر آزادی" پر "تیشہ" بن کر گرتا محسوس ہوتا ہے تو یہ اپنی تاویل کے خنجر نکال کر انکا مقابلہ کرتے ہیں ۔ انکو اسلامی تعلیمات دقیانوسی معلوم ہوتی ہیں جو ان کی نظر میں آج کے ‘جدید دور‘ میں مسفٹ ہیں۔ یا پھر کمال عیّاری سے ان تعلیمات کو عرب تہذیب کا نام دیتے ہیں جنکا اسلام سے دور دور سے تعلّق نہیں۔ لہٰذا جو عورت اپنے آپکو باحجاب کرکے شیطان کے تیروں سے بچا لیتی ہے تو انھیں وہ عورت قدامت پسند محسوس ہوتی ہے۔ اور اسکا یہ عمل انسانی مساوات کہ خلاف نظر آتا ہے۔ دراصل یہ وہ لوگ ہیں جنھوں نے اپنی خواھشات کی خاطر اللہ کو بھلا دیا لہٰذا اللہ نے انھیں اپنے آپ سے بھلا دیا ہے۔ اب اگر ان سے قرآن و سنّت کے دلائل کے ساتھ گفتگو بھی کی جائے تو یہ نہیں سنتے۔

چنانچہ ضرورت اس امر کی ہے کہ وہ لوگ جنہوں نے برضا و خوشی اپنی خواہشات کو جنّت کے عوض اللہ کے سپرد کر دیا یے اور اسلام کو اپنا طرزِ حیات تسلیم کر لیا ہے وہ اپنی استطاعت ک مطابق ان تعلیمات پر عمل کرتے رہیں اور اپنے گھر والوں کو بھی اِن فتنوں سے بچایئں۔ جہاں تک ممکن ہو ان تعلیمات کو دوسروں تک پہنچانے کا ذریعہ بنیں۔ اور اجتماعی سطح پر بے حیائی کے خاتمے کیلیئے اپنی صلاحیتوں کو اسلامی تعلیمات پر مبنی معاشرے کے قیام کےلئے وقف کریں۔ اللہ ہم سب کو اپنے دین کی طرف پلٹنے کی توفیق عطا فرمائے اور حیا کو ھمارے معاشرے میں عام فرمائے-آمین!۔

Note: The writer Muhammad Sharjeel is an Islamic Activist / Social Media Activist. He loves to write on issues which have impact on environment. Owner of the Remove Immodesty from Media facebook page.

Is Hijaab Covering the "West" ?

Islam is the fastest spreading religion in west these days; people are understanding and accepting Islam more than ever. Unfortunately there are some steps which are causing problems for Muslims to live in west; well it's true that they are free to go to their mosques and Islamic centers getting Islamic education and performing their Islamic practices. The controversial issue is the ban on the Hijab, Veil, Niqab, Burqa. Is the west afraid of the veil or is it another step to underestimate Muslim women.
Muslims are everywhere in the world, certainly it's a success that wherever they live despite of the enormous cultural differences they achieved their target of protecting their own Islamic tradition and values. There are many families who might have mixed up in the western civilization but still in a large number who are still resisting the change and feel proud on their Islamic morals.
After the law passed in the French parliament about the veil and Nicolas Sarkozy's regretting remarks about the Niqab, the veil of a normal woman in France is in danger; she will be punished for wearing Niqab, she had to pay a penalty for her act!
There are some arguments made by the western authorities, well I like to list some of them and try to give proper answers according to my knowledge and understanding of ethics. Some argue that it's not our culture, well, if this is the point, then why the Jews are allowed to wear their cultural dresses in public, if you have to put a ban on Muslim Niqab then you should also put a ban on Jewish veil. Without doubt this is a very weak argument, because Government can not pressurize the citizens to follow any specific culture. Can they ban the Chinese restaurants just because it is not their culture and forcing people to eat English food? Indeed not!
This is also argued that the veil promotes racism, first of all Niqab is not a racist element, it's a religious matter. Secondly, Muslims women from all over the world irrespective of race, country, language, color, and ethnicity wear Niqab and cover themselves. Well, the biggest racist element a person wear on himself is his face, you can not force a person to change his face and be all alike.
While some say that it's a security risk but the fact that this is only because they are targeting a specific religion. Banning the Niqab will bring more hatred and this step will give rise to more terrorism. The policy of "live and let live" should be adopted or else this will start a hate war and wars with no reason have no ending.
At the end, why interfere with my principles if I'm not interfering with yours. Despite the ban, the girls are widely adopting the Hijab, they are covering their faces in public, in schools, in universities and they still feel proud. They are happy to show their identity as a Muslim. They are doing this and still getting education performing well in job and prospering. They are doing Hijab on their own, despite some parents stop them after the ban but still they wear Hijab and fully support their step and resist the ban.
The western authorities should seriously think what they are doing, and what will be the outcome they will be facing, the minimum will be a worldwide campaign in the support of Hijab.

Dr. Afia Siddiqui - Where is the justice ?

The Date was 30th of March 2003, it was Sunday, Dr. Afia Siddiqui, a Ph.D. doctor from Karachi was kidnapped by unknown authorities. She was kidnapped along with her kids. For several years her relatives searched for her but in vain, the security forces local forces and responsible authorities were taking no responsibility of her disappearance from Pakistan. Until, some prisons from the US custody were freed and they told the story of the screams of a lady in their cells due to the brutal torture of the American marines. Later the US authorities confirmed her possession.

Since she disappeared the Islamic organizations were raising the voice against the oppression of the US and Pakistani government to let them understand their negative efforts which are causing hatred in the mind of Pakistani Nation about their actions. The dictator-ism in Pakistan was at its top, General Pervez Musharraf, who might have thought he was going to rule Pakistan forever, took steps so shamelessly and thus, sold Dr. Afia as well as many other persons from Pakistan, he mentioned in his book, "We have sent many prisons belonging to Al Qaeda and earn a lot of dollars". But he might have not think that he was planting hatred in the minds of the people of Pakistan for him and the Govt. of Pakistan which caused his era to come to an end with shame & disgrace.

In the democratic era of president Mr. Asif Ali, the incident of Raymond Davis happened at this moment most of the public; a common man were thinking that Pakistani Government might take a courageous step and will swap Dr. Afia with Davis but despite that Raymond Davis was given a clean sheet, while Afia is still under siege of America.

The Islamic Organizations from Pakistan were still speaking for Dr. Afia, while at the very same time the Human Rights Organization and Women Rights Organization, most of which are foreign funded still silent on the issue.

When writing these lines the captivity of Dr. Afia has passed for about 09 years, while she is completing her 86 years sentence.

At this point, here a question arise, why can’t she come home and live a normal life with her family and kids?

Where are the rules of freedom, peace and human rights, settled by the western nations?

Why we should accept the American imposed democracy and rule of law?

Seems dissimilar, but all of the above questions are interrelated. Despite being a biggest speaker of the democracy America still supports the anti-democracy forces (Gen. Mush) to carry out his missions.

On this 30 March 2012, whole Pakistani nation should stand up and ask for the freedom of their beloved sister Dr. Afia, to give a proof that we are still alive and are able to get back what is really ours, just think what we would do if she was our sister!

By: Syed Owais Mukhtar