Urumqi looks to the future with prayer

Urumqi looks to the future with prayer
By Hu Yinan, Mu Qian and Lei Xiaoxun (China Daily)
Updated: 2009-07-11 08:48


URUMQI: Contrary to earlier reports, mandatory Friday prayers were held in some mosques in Urumqi, which is still struggling to recover from the July 5 riots.

Urumqi looks to the future with prayer
Children play on Xiheba Qian Street in Urumqi, the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, on Friday. [Xu Jingxing]
Urumqi looks to the future with prayer
Mosques run by Uygur and Hui communities in the city's Liudaowan area were opened for the afternoon prayer, a bold move by imams that scotched rumors that the government had asked all the mosques to shut their doors to avoid more violence.

A municipal official of the capital of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region said the authorities did not ask any mosque to close. Some imams did close a few mosques, but they did so voluntarily out of security concerns.

Memetimin Hudaberdi, deputy chief of the Islamic association of Shuimogou district, which runs the Uygur mosque in Liudaowan, told China Daily that more than 1,000 people, almost as many as on other Fridays, prayed in the mosque.

"The imams believed things would be under control, that's why they decided to keep the mosques open," he said.

The Friday congregational prayer, jumu'ah in Arabic, was a critical test for the authorities in their relentless efforts to restore order in the city.



Tens of thousands of armed police have been deployed to restore normalcy in the city. On Friday, they continued patrolling Urumqi's densely populated areas and using loudspeakers to urge people to maintain ethnic unity.

Combined with a heavy security presence, the efforts have restored peace and order to a large extent. But some people still fear that it could take a long time before the city emerges out of the shadow of the gruesome riots.

A notice in Uygur saying jumu'ah had been cancelled and advising the faithful to pray at home was posted outside the Yanghang mosque in Tianshan district, one of the worst affected areas in Sunday's riots.

But the Uygurs who began gathering there around 1 pm, more than an hour before jumu'ah, said prayers in the mosque cannot be cancelled. Some claimed to have walked across the city to attend the prayer.

"It's incumbent upon all Muslims to attend jumu'ah in a mosque," said Abdullah, a construction worker from China's westernmost city of Kashgar.

With tears welling up in his eyes, the 23-year-old, surrounded by dozens of anxious Uygurs and supported by up to 100 others outside, said no one wanted violence. Many among the crowd burst into tears when Abdullah said his 18-year old brother, who is still in high school, had been missing since July 5.

The mosque gate was opened around 2 pm, and more than 1,000 people joined the prayer half and hour later.

"This (jumu'ah) is the call of the people and the mission (of the mosque). Not letting people in could only have produced negative results," said Yasim Xukur, a civil servant, just after the prayer.

The 28-year-old said the Uygurs involved in July 5 riots "are not true Muslims".

Kemelut politik

Nik Aziz gesa Nasharuddin keluar PAS

Malaysiakini
Jun 17, 09 1:29pm

Mursyidul Am PAS Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat menggesa timbalan presidennya Nasharudin Mat Isa meninggalkan parti itu dan meletakkan ahli parlimen Bachok jika masih ingin kerajaan perpaduan.

"Isu kerajaan perpaduan bukannya datang daripada PAS, ia adalah lontaran (idea) peribadi. Perkara itu tidak pernah dibincangkan dalam kertas sebagai agenda PAS mahupun dalam kertas Pakatan Rakyat.

"Kalau benar Nasharuddin nak setuju (dengan kerajaan perpaduan) lebih baik dia masuk Umno, letak jawatan timbalan (presiden PAS) dan di Bachok.

"Apa buat sampah, menyusahkan," menteri besar Kelantan dipetik berkata selepas mempengerusikan mesyuarat exco kerajaan negeri di Kota Bharu hari ini.

Nik Aziz diminta mengulas kenyataan Datuk Seri Mohd Najib Razak semalam yang yakin terhadap keikhlasan PAS berhubung cadangan tersebut seperti yang dicetuskan oleh Presiden PAS Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang baru-baru ini, lapor Bernama.

"Orang Umno sekarang ini sedang berpesta kerana PAS sedang berpecah dan Pakatan Rakyat sedang berpecah," katanya.

Beliau juga dilaporkan berkata jika agenda kerajaan perpaduan itu benar-benar ingin dijadikan satu realiti, BN seharusnya melantik pemimpin daripada gabungan pembangkang untuk jawatan menteri.

"Kalau semua setuju...PAS jadi menteri, DAP jadi menteri dan Keadilan jadi menteri," katanya.

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Saya jarang sekali mengomen tentang politik...tapi entahlah kesian rasa ke Tuan Guru Nik Aziz yg terpaksa mengharungi dan mempertahankan prinsip dikala ada suara2 yg cuba membawa PAS ke haluan yg lain... Walaupun saya tak lah nampak di kaca mata manusia aktif di sayap mana...tapi saya percaya dengan perjuangan Islam, tidak kira dimana Islam itu ditegakkan....yg benar tetap akan di katakan benar, yg salah tetap akan dikatakan salah... Walaupun mungkin ada yg mencemuh, tapi saya a firm believer in change of the person first, start drp individu kepada masyarakat dan seterusnya... mmg tak dinafikan perlunya org berusaha kearah daulah Islamiyah, tapi yg berusaha kearah daulah Islamiyah itu pun memerlukan individu2 yg hebat dan utuh kefahaman dan keimanannya...jika tidak, mungkin daulah yg dibina tak dpt bertahan disebabkan individu2 yg merosakkannya...

Buat mereka yg menyokong perjuangan Islam, teruskan menyokong tidak kira dimanakah sayapmu..yg penting berdasarkan Al Quran dan sunnah...yg penting silaturrahim dijaga..yg penting kita taklah bercakap besar disana sini tetapi hanya umpama tin kosong, mempersoalkan apa yg org dh buat sahaja tanpa diri sendiri tiada apa yg disumbang....

Akhbar Islami...Innalillahi wainna ilaihi rajiun

Islamic Action Front announces death of its leader Fathi Yakan

Daily Star staff
Monday, June 15, 2009

BEIRUT: The Islamic Action Front announced Saturday the death of its leader Fathi Yakan. He was 76 years old. Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, Grand Mufti Mohammad Rasheed Qabbani and an array of political and religious figures, as well as the Sunni Jamaa al-Islamiya and Shiite Hizbullah issued statements eulogizing Yakan.

In a statement, the IAF said Yakan passed away at 4:45 p.m. Saturday at the Hotel Dieu Hospital in Achrafieh, where he was admitted on Friday night.

Yakan's body will be moved to Tripoli on Sunday morning. The time and place of the funeral will be announced at a later time, the statement added.

The IAF earlier denied media reports of Yakan's death but said he was in critical condition.

Yakan was born in the northern port city of Tripoli in 1933. He became involved in Islamic work in Lebanon in the mid-1950s and was a pioneer in the establishment of the Islamic Movement. Yakan was elected a member of Parliament in 1992, and was also the founder of one of the earliest private universities in the northern coastal city, the Al-Jinan university.

Since the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, Yakan's IAF had been allied with the Hizbullah-led opposition; it ran one candidate in Tripoli during the 2009 parliamentary elections on June 7. - The Daily Star

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Islamic Action Front Announces Death of Sheikh Dr. Fathi Yakan

Readers Number : 600

13/06/2009 Head of Islamic Labor Front in Lebanon Fathi Yukon passed away Saturday afternoon after he was hospitalized for serious health problems on Friday night. Yakan was announced dead Saturday morning, but an Islamic Action Front statement later denied the Sheikh was dead, but acknowledged he was in serious condition. Dr. Fathi Yakan is a prominent Islamic scholar and caller. he was born in Tripoli, north of Lebanon, on the 9th of February 1933. With a Ph.D. in Arabic and Islamic Studies, Sheikh Yakan was among the pioneers of the Islamic movement in the 1950s. He was also the General Secretary of the Lebanese Al-Jamaa Al-Islamiya from 1962 until 1992 when he won his seat in the Lebanese parliament. He is a key activist on the political stage, which was very clear during the 1996 elections. Sheikh Yakan initiated a political effort between PM Fouad Saniora and his allies on the one hand and the opposition in a bid to end the rule crisis in the wake of the 2006 Israeli war on Lebanon. As a key figure in the Lebanese National Opposition, he headed prayers for Sunnis and Shiites on Friday, December 8, 2006 and called in his speech for the unity of Muslims against Israeli plots and schemes. Dr. Yakan was married to Mrs Mona Haddad with whom he had established a private Islamic university (Al-Jinan University). He has four daughters and a son. Sheikh Yakan was known for his support for resistance movements in Lebanon and the Arab and Islamic worlds. He described the 2006 victory as one for Lebanon and the whole nation, Sunnis before Shiites, “because the project of the resistance is not only Lebanese project but a global one.” The Islamic scholar also played a significant role in mending fences between political parties in the region. He was the mediator between the Islamic brotherhood in Syria and President Bachar Assad. He also played the same role between Syria and Turkey between 1998 and 1999, in the wake of the Syria-Turkey crisis. He is the author of more than 35 books, some of them were translated into many languages, including: How do we call for Islam? Towards a unified global Islamic Movement. What does “I’m a Muslim” mean?

http://www.almanar.com.lb/NewsSite/NewsDetails.aspx?id=89874&language=en

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Ustaz Dr Fathi Yakan Telah Kembali ke Rahmatullah

Lubnan, 13 Jun - Ketua جبهة العمل الاسلامي yang juga mantan ahli parlimen Lubnan, Ustaz Dr Fathi Yakan diberitakan telah meninggal dunia pada usia 76 tahun setelah bergelut dengan penyakitnya di sini hari ini.

Ustaz Dr Fathi Yakan yang lahir pada tahun 1933 di Kota Tripoli di Lubnan Utara merupakan salah seorang tokoh penting bagi gerakan Islam di dunia Islam dan telah mengasaskan gerakan Islam di Lubnan pada sekitar 50-an.

Sepanjang hayatnya, beliau telah melahirkan sejumlah karya ulung, termasuk “Apa Ertinya Saya Menganut Islam”, “Masalah Dakwah dan Pendakwah” dan “Persepsi Yang Dinamis Dalam Kerja-kerja Islam” yang telah diterjemahkan ke dalam pelbagai bahasa lainnya.

Ustaz Fathi Yakan telah menyertai pilihanraya parlimen pada tahun 1992 dan memenangi kerusi bagi puak Sunni di Tripoli. Pada tahun 1992 juga beliau merupakan salah seorang peserta dalam Muktamar Islam Antarabangsa.

Beliau memainkan peranan besar di Lubnan bagi menyatukan dan menghindari perselisihan di kalangan rakyat Lubnan, terutama antara kekuatan golongan majoriti dan minoriti.

Ikatan Muslimin Malaysia (ISMA) merakamkan ucapan takziah atas pemergian Ustaz Dr Fathi Yakan ke rahmatullah ini. Sesungguhnya pemergian beliau bukan sekadar kehilangan besar bagi rakyat Lubnan, bahkan untuk seluruh umat Islam khususnya di kalangan aktivitis-aktivis dakwah yang banyak mendapat tunjuk ajar daripada beliau.

http://ismaweb.net/v2/Article1083.html

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Moga Allah mencucuri rahmat keatas roh beliau...indeed he will be missed...sedih pulak rasa....beliau telah meninggalkan banyak jasa dan contribution kepada Islam...kita pula, kalau mati nanti bagaimana????

May Allah blesses their souls....ameen

Beita hari ini di berita harian.....

'Saya hanya ingat mati'

Daripada Ismail Mat
ismailmat@bharian.com.my

ANGGOTA keluarga mangsa serangan di Masjid al-Furqan, Kampung Air Tempayan Narathiwat kelmarin, melihat jemaah yang mati ditembak penyerang bersenjata raifal ketika solat Isyak. - Foto Reuters

12 jemaah ditembak mati ketika imam baca al-Fatihah pada rakaat kedua solat Isyak

NARATHIWAT (Selatan Thailand): "Ketika itu saya hanya terfikir saat kematian dan tidak mampu berpaling melihat siapa menembak kami," kata Nasir Ibrahim, salah seorang jemaah yang terselamat dalam serangan ketika solat Isyak di Masjid al-Furqan, Kampung Air Tempayan, dekat sini malam kelmarin.

Nasir, 42, yang juga penghulu kampung itu berkata, imam Wan Abdullah Wan Latif, 62, sedang membaca surah al-Fatihah pada rakaat kedua apabila mereka diserang dua lelaki bersenjatakan raifel kira-kira jam 9 malam waktu Malaysia itu.

Dua penyerang itu, yang berpakaian serba hitam, masing-masing berada di pintu utama dan sebelah kanan masjid berkenaan, melepaskan tembakan dari jarak kurang tiga meter ke arah jemaah, menyebabkan kebanyakan mangsa mati akibat terkena tembakan di kepala dan tubuh badan masing-masing.

Serangan kejam itu, yang dianggap paling buruk di selatan Thailand, menyebabkan 10 jemaah termasuk Wan Abdullah mati serta-merta, manakala dua lagi jemaah meninggal dunia ketika dalam rawatan kecemasan di Hospital Narathiwat.

Sebelas lagi mangsa cedera parah dan dirawat di hospital itu. Hanya Nasir dan seorang lagi jemaah terselamat dalam serangan itu, tetapi terpaksa dirawat di Klinik Cho Airong dekat sini, ekoran trauma dan serangan jantung kerana terkejut.

PENDUDUK Islam Thai melihat jenazah mangsa serangan di masjid dikebumikan dalam satu liang lahad di tanah perkuburan Cho Airong, Narathiwat, semalam. - Foto Reuters

Nasir berkata, tembakan bertalu-talu dari dari arah belakang dan tepi berlaku hampir 10 minit, menyebabkan ramai jemaah tumbang.

"Saya yang berada di hujung saf di sebelah kanan, turut merebahkan badan. Ketika kelam-kabut itu, saya merangkak di celah jemaah yang cedera dan berlumuran darah, menuju ke stor di sebelah tempat imam. Saya duduk di situ sehingga penyerang melarikan diri," katanya ketika ditemui semalam.

Walaupun bersyukur kerana terselamat dalam serangan itu, Nasir amat bersedih mengenangkan ramai jemaah termasuk Wan Abdullah yang menjadi korban serangan kejam itu.

Isteri Wan Abdullah, Yah Che Kob, 58, berkata ketika kejadian beliau berada di rumahnya, kira-kira 50 meter di hadapan masjid berkenaan.

ORANG ramai melihat mayat mangsa serangan di Masjid al-Furqan, Kampung Air Tempayan, malam kelmarin. - Foto Reuters

"Secara tiba-tiba, saya terdengar bunyi tembakan bertalu-talu macam bertih goreng dari arah masjid. Saya terus berlindung di sebalik pintu rumah dan sejurus selepas itu, terdengar jeritan penduduk kampung menyatakan masjid diserang.

"Saya hanya mampu mendoakan keselamatan suami kerana saya tahu dia mengimamkan solat Isyak. Secara kebetulan anak lain keluar, jika tidak mereka juga berjemaah di masjid," katanya.

Yah berkata, jenazah suaminya hanya dapat dikeluarkan dari masjid itu kira-kira jam 7 pagi semalam.

"Serangan ini amat kejam. Mereka tergamak menyerang dan membunuh umat Islam yang sedang solat," katanya dengan nada sedih mengenangkan kematian suaminya yang sudah 15 tahun menjadi imam masjid itu.

Adik Wan Abdullah, juga seorang imam, Wan Ismail Wan Latif, 58, berkata selain abangnya, turut terkorban ialah lapan ahli kumpulan tabligh yang berkunjung ke masjid itu sejak tiga hari lalu.

Jenazah semua mangsa disemadikan dalam satu liang lahad di tanah perkuburan kampung itu kira-kira 11 pagi semalam dengan dihadiri kira-kira 2,000 penduduk termasuk kumpulan pelajar pondok sekitar Narathiwat.

Yang Dipertua Majlis Agama Islam Narathiwat, Abdul Razak Ali, yang meninjau tempat kejadian pagi semalam, mengutuk serangan kejam itu.

"Serangan kejam ini didalangi pihak yang tidak mahu melihat keamanan dinikmati semua penduduk di selatan Thailand. Mereka yang berbuat begini sebenarnya mahu melihat selatan Thailand terus berada dalam pergolakan," katanya.

Tinjauan Berita Harian mendapati, dinding depan masjid dan cermin pintu turut mempunyai kesan peluru, dipercayai akibat tembakan yang tersasar, manakala sebahagian besar lantai dipenuhi darah jemaah yang terkorban. Kesan itu hanya dibersihkan kira-kira 2 petang semalam dengan sebuah lori tangki air yang dihantar pihak berkuasa tempatan.

Ya Allah...Lindungilah daku dari kejahatan, yang menipuku daripada kemanisan iman...bawalah daku kepada cinta suciMu, berikan daku keredhaan dan SyurgaMu...

Obama di Mesir

Yesterday, Barack Obama went to Egypt and gave a speech. I've listened to part of the speech on BBC news and it seems ok. Dia cuba 'ambil hati' orang2 Islam dgn mengatakan bahawa mmg tak patut Palestinians di treat macam tu... tapi dia kata bond US dan Israel tak dapat dipisahkan...

I dont know what he will do in the future about Palestin and Israel situation. I suspect he will be less brutal compared to the Bush era, but you never know these american presidents... kita tak leh berharap sangat pada depa ni, oleh itu kene berusaha, fikir strategi, camne nak do it our way, inshaAllah...

Here are the comments of Robert Fisk, a journalist from the independence newspaper (original version)

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Robert Fisk: Words that could heal wounds of centuries

President Obama reaches out to the Islamic world in a landmark speech

Friday, 5 June 2009

President Obama's speach reached out to the Islamic world



Preacher, historian, economist, moralist, schoolteacher, critic, warrior, imam, emperor. Sometimes you even forgot Barack Obama was the President of the United States of America.

Will his lecture to a carefully chosen audience at Cairo University "re-imagine the world" and heal the wounds of centuries between Muslims and Christians? Will it resolve the Arab-Israeli tragedy after more than 60 years? If words could do the job, perhaps...

It was a clever speech we heard from Obama yesterday, as gentle and as ruthless as any audience could wish for – and we were all his audience. He praised Islam. He loved Islam. He admired Islam. He loved Christianity. And he admired America. Did we know that there were seven million Muslims in America, that there were mosques in every state of the Union, that Morocco was the first nation to recognise the United States and that our duty is to fight against stereotypes of Muslims just as Muslims must fight against stereotypes of America?

But much of the truth was there, albeit softened to avoid hurting feelings in Israel. To deny the facts of the Jewish Holocaust was "baseless, ignorant and hateful", he said, a remark obviously aimed at Iran. And Israel deserved security and "Palestinians must abandon violence..."

The United States demanded a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He told the Israelis there had to be a total end to their colonisation in the West Bank. "The United States does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements."

The Palestinians had suffered without a homeland. "The situation for the Palestinian people is intolerable," Obama said and the US would not turn its back on the "legitimate Palestinian aspiration for a state of their own". Israel had to take "concrete steps" to give the Palestinians progress in their daily lives as part of a road to peace. Israel needed to acknowledge Palestinian suffering and the Palestinian right to exist. Wow. Not for a generation has Israel had to take this kind of criticism from a US President. It sounded like the end of the Zionist dream. Did George Bush ever exist?

Alas, he did. Indeed, at times, the Obama address sounded like the Bush General Repair Company, visiting the Muslim world to sweep up mountains of broken chandeliers and shredded flesh. The President of the United States – and this was awesome – admitted his country's failures, its over-reaction to 9/11, its creation of Guantanamo which, Obama reminded us all again, he is closing down. Not bad, Obama...

We got to Iran. One state trying to acquire nuclear weapons would lead to a "dangerous path" for all of us, especially in the Middle East. We must prevent a nuclear arms race. But Iran as a nation must be treated with dignity. More extraordinarily, Obama reminded us that the US had connived to overthrow the democratically elected Mossadeq government of Iran in the Fifties. It was "hard to overcome decades of distrust".

There was more; democracy, women's rights, the economy, a few good quotes from the Koran ("Whoever kills an innocent, it is as if he has killed all mankind".) Governments must respect "all their people" and their minorities. He mentioned the Christian Copts of Egypt; even the Christian Maronites of Lebanon got a look in.

And when Obama said that some governments, "once in power, are ruthless in suppressing the rights of others", there was a roar of applause from the supposedly obedient audience. No wonder the Egyptian government wanted to select which bits of Obama's speech would be suitable for the Egyptian people. They were clearly very, very unhappy with the police-state regime of Hosni Mubarak. Indeed, Obama did not once mention Mubarak's name.

Over and again, one kept saying to oneself: Obama hasn't mentioned Iraq – and then he did ("a war of choice... our combat brigades will be leaving"). But he hasn't mentioned Afghanistan – and then he did ("we do not want to keep our troops in Afghanistan... we will gladly bring every one of our troops home"). When he started talking about the "coalition of 46 countries" in Afghanistan – a very dodgy statistic – he began to sound like his predecessor. And here, of course, we encountered an inevitable problem. As the Palestinian intellectual Marwan Bishara pointed out yesterday, it is easy to be "dazzled" by presidents. This was a dazzling performance. But if one searched the text, there were things missing.

There was no mention – during or after his kindly excoriation of Iran – of Israel's estimated 264 nuclear warheads. He admonished the Palestinians for their violence – for "shooting rockets at sleeping children or blowing up old women in a bus". But there was no mention of Israel's violence in Gaza, just of the "continuing humanitarian crisis in Gaza". Nor was there a mention of Israel's bombing of civilians in Lebanon, of its repeated invasions of Lebanon (17,500 dead in the 1982 invasion alone). Obama told Muslims not to live in the past, but cut the Israelis out of this. The Holocaust loomed out of his speech and he reminded us that he was going to the site of the Buchenwald concentration camp today.

For a man who is sending thousands more US troops into Afghanistan – a certain disaster-to-come in the eyes of Arabs and Westerners – there was something brazen about all this. When he talked about the debt that all Westerners owed to Islam – the "light of learning" in Andalusia, algebra, the magnetic compass, religious tolerance, it was like a cat being gently stroked before a visit to the vet. And the vet, of course, lectured the Muslims on the dangers of extremism, on "cycles of suspicion and discord" – even if America and Islam shared "common principles" which turned out to be "justice, progress and the dignity of all human beings".

There was one merciful omission: a speech of nearly 6,000 words did not include the lethal word "terror". "Terror" or "terrorism" have become punctuation marks for every Israeli government and became part of the obscene grammar of the Bush era.

An intelligent guy, then, Obama. Not exactly Gettysburg. Not exactly Churchill, but not bad. One could only remember Churchill's observations: "Words are easy and many, while great deeds are difficult and rare."

Gaza in ruins

Berikut adalah video drp Al Jazeera bertajuk Gaza in Ruins - A news special


Part 1


Part 2


Part 3


My review:

Semalam tengok tv, BBC Four, rancangan Unseen Gaza.... Dalam rancangan tu journalist interview both the muslims and the jews in the UK. Yg muslims kata BBC is not showing enough of what is happening in Gaza. They said that al jazeera and other tvs shows in depth news of what happened in Gaza..while the jews in UK blame BBC for siding towards the Hamas and marah coz BBC call Hamas the militant group and not the terrorist group! So both sides are blaming BBC...what does BBC said? BBC kata mrk memberi berita tanpa prejudice and giving as accurate as possible about the news there. There are laws in UK restricting gruesome pictures to be shown on TV before 10 oclock to protect the children. Anyhow, BBC admitted that the news on the war in Gaza was not as accurate as they want it to be due to the limitation that Israel put to the journalist..No journalist is allowed to enter Gaza, they have to stay in one hill and just report from there. The BBC journalist also said that Israel is playing a propaganda war, and their PR has been preparing months before the war to answer to the international journalist and to the world.

My comment?:

I think BBC is quite neutral, but not neutral enough. There must be some pressure that Israel put to BBC to withstand some of the news to us. But hey, no worries, we still have al jazeera to report to us, uh, i wish I can understand arabic! Israel memang jahat, they just want to kill the palestinians and not just Hamas. My heart and thoughts are with the palestinians, and I want to say to them, I am sorry that I cannot do enough to help them. I also hope that God will forgive me for shortcomings. My ambition is to educate as much muslims as possible to understand their role in this earth and perhaps one day, we are strong enough to defeat the enemy of this deen...

Song for Gaza

Lyrics:

A blinding flash of white light
Lit up the sky over Gaza tonight
People running for cover
Not knowing whether they're dead or alive

They came with their tanks and their planes
With ravaging fiery flames
And nothing remains
Just a voice rising up in the smoky haze

We will not go down
In the night, without a fight
You can burn up our mosques and our homes and our schools
But our spirit will never die
We will not go down
In Gaza tonight

Women and children alike
Murdered and massacred night after night
While the so-called leaders of countries afar
Debated on who's wrong or right

But their powerless words were in vain
And the bombs fell down like acid rain
But through the tears and the blood and the pain
You can still hear that voice through the smoky haze

We will not go down
In the night, without a fight
You can burn up our mosques and our homes and our schools
But our spirit will never die
We will not go down
In Gaza tonight

We will not go down
In the night, without a fight
You can burn up our mosques and our homes and our schools
But our spirit will never die

We will not go down
In the night, without a fight

We will not go down
In Gaza tonight

by Michael Heart

The song MP3 is available for download at:

http://michaelheart .com/Song_ for_Gaza. ..

Palestine We are With You

Laungan jeritan " FREE FREE PALESTINE" dan "STOP the GAZA MASSACRE" menggegar kan perkarangan Sheffield town Hall pada 3 January 2009... beratus-ratus manusia berkumpul untuk menyatakan kebencian mereka kepada Israel Rejim Zionis itu dan menyatakan sokongan mereka kepada penduduk palestin..



Disini dapat dilihat antara party2 yg datang ialah the socialist party and even communist party...dan sudah tentunya umat islam Sheffield..kami tiba sedang elok kata-kata semangat dimulakan...


Kami tak sempat buat sepanduk, jadi pinjam sepanduk mereka yg datang je lah... diatas Ustaz Yusof dengan salah satu sepanduk...


Tidak ketinggalan juga Musreen, anak usrah Ustaz Yusof pun bersama bergambar menunjukkan keprihatinan terhadap apa yang berlaku di Gaza..

Lepas tu kami pun march beramai2...berjalan membuat satu pusingan sambil melaungkan slogan2 anti israel dan pembebasan palestin... Yang pastinya yg paling kuat melaungkan slogan adalah orang2 putih...moga Allah bagi hidayah untuk mereka memeluk Islam, ameen

Antara yg menarik ialah seorang mat salleh tidak membawa sepanduk biasa tetapi mengangkat sepatu...mula2 terfikir kenapa pulak, oh baru teringat kes seorang journalist al jazeera yg melemparkan sepatunya kepada George Bush...ahh bijak sekali idea mat salleh ini....

Demonstrasi ini akan diadakan setiap hari sabtu pada pukul 12 tengahari di depan town Hall Sheffield sehinggalah Israel keluar daripada Gaza. ALLAHUAKBAR!! Marilah kita semua sama-sama menunjukkan keprihatinan kita terhadap saudara-saudara seislam, seaqidah kita di Palestin, dan menyertai demonstrasi ini. Jika ada sarana2 yg dapat dibuat untuk palestin maka buatlah dan bantulah mereka. Akhir sekali, jangan lupa mendoakan buat mereka disana....

Gaza berdarah syuhada’ -

- diambil daripada blog ustaz Annuar Salleh dalam entri bertajuk Gaza berdarah syuhada’ -

Sabarlah ya ikhwani.
Kalian diharamkan
daripada kenikmatan dunia
oleh tangan-tangan durjana
kerana kealpaan
saudara-saudaramu di mana-mana
meninggalkan jihad
leka dengan syurga dunia
yang hina fana

Tuhan telah menjanjikan
untukmu Syurga
bersama-sama
Sumayyah dan Yasir
Hamzah dan Khubaib
yang jua
telah mendahuluimu
mewakafkan hidup untuk Allah

Namun airmataku yang mengalir
bukan kerana darah syuhadamu
tapi kerana ramainya
saudaramu di sini
yang gugur murtad
fasik dan bangga
mengikut jejak
budaya Zionis keparat.

Sedangkan para duahnya
ramai yang tertidur
mimpikan pangkat
nama dan darjat.

(Annuar Ibnu Salleh Hussain)

- diambil daripada blog ustaz Annuar Salleh dalam entri bertajuk Gaza berdarah syuhada’

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Selasa ,30/12/2008 -Dr Moawiya Hassanen, ketua Unit Kecemasan Kementerian Kesihatan Palestin di Gaza, melaporkan tentera udara rejim Zionis terus menyerang pada waktu Subuh hari Selasa dan membunuh 10 Rakyat Palestin.Mereka turut mengebom pihak medik yang cuba memindahkan mangsa yang cedera. Jumlah maut terkini menjadi 360 dalam kurang daripada empat hari, hampir 1700 cedera .

Serangan udara Israel itu mensasarkan kawasan kementerian di belakang Islam University, kawasan bekas Penduduk Palestin Preventive Security di Tal Al Hawa, kawasan Navy barat Gaza, pusat Qassam Brigades di Timur Al Zeitoon Gaza City, utara jalan Gaza City, satu bengkel tukang besi di tengah Gaza dan sebuah rumah yang menjadi kepunyaan salah seorang daripada pemimpin-pemimpin Al Qassam Brigades di utara Gaza.

Helikopter Apache Israel telah menembak dua peluru berpandu ke arah sebuah pusat kepunyaan Popular Resistance Committees, barat Gaza City. Serangan ini di buat sejurus pihak rejim Zionis mengumumkan 2 orang askar mereka mati dalam satu serangan pejuang Palestin.

TV Al Aqsa Hamas melaporkan beberapa penduduk telah terbunuh dan cedera dalam satu serangan udara yang disasarkan ke arah rumah Ayman Siyam , salah seorang daripada pemimpin briged Al Qassam di Jabalia.

Note:
sumber : http://www.imemc.org
penterjemah : gunx

http://www.palestinkini.info

COST OF LIVING IN UK 2008

Family type	Weekly budget	Breakdown of expenditure
Single working age	£157.84
Couple working age	£240.61
Lone parent, one child	£210.31
Lone parent, two children	£282.66
Lone parent, three children	£378.90
Couple, one child	£286.45
Couple, two children	£370.05
Couple, three children	£465.71
Couple, four children	£508.18
Single pensioner	£136.60
Couple pensioner	£201.49
Food and drink Fuel (heating etc) Personal goods and services Other Clothing Travel Household goods, services, council tax etc *Note: Weekly budget does not include housing or childcare costs.

Taken from news in http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7481927.stm#costofliving

So, erm cukup ke apa yang goverment bagi?

In a way, bagus gak, kalau ramai2 keje cleaner kat uk ni akan timbul perasaan humbleness didalam diri..

teringat lagi masa balik mesia hari tu lepas buat undergrad kat Cardiff, UK.. masa kat cardiff pernah keje cleaner utk tolong2 mak dan cari duit extra... bila balik UIA, tengok makcik2 indonesia menyapu, terasa aku dulu pernah cam tu gak.. and develop a bond with the cleaners there...

Jadi ada la pro and kontra nye... Allah dah bagi rezeki cukup untuk kita semua, inshaAllah..

Allah azza wa jalla berfirman (2: 212):
“And Allah provides ‘Rizq’ to whom he wishes without any account.”

Mas kahwin di Malaysia

NILAI MASKAHWIN SELURUH MALAYSIA

BIL	NEGERI	NILAI						CATATAN
		ANAK DARA			JANDA
		A	B	C	A	B	C
1	JOHOR	RM 22.50			RM 22.50
2	MELAKA	RM 40.00			RM 40.00
3	NEGERI SEMBILAN
	a. Bukan Waris	RM 24.00			RM 12.00
	b. Ahli Waris		RM 48.00			RM 24.00
	c. Kerabat Diraja di Wilayah			RM 725.00
	Datuk Kelana& Kerabat
4	SELANGOR
	i. Puteri Sultan	RM 2,500.00			RM 625.00
	ii. Puteri Raja Muda atau Puteri	RM 2,000.00			RM 500.00
	kpd Putera Sultan yg bergelar
	iii. Puteri Kerabat	RM 1,000.00			RM 250.00
	iv. Puteri Anak Raja (Waris)	RM 550.00			RM 137.50
	Puteri Anak Raja (yang lain)	RM 300.00			RM 75.00
	v. Anak Perempuan org-org besar	RM 300.00			RM 75.00
	vi. Cucu orang besar	RM 200.00			RM 50.00
	vii. Orang Kebanyakkan	RM 80.00			RM 40.00
5	KUALA LUMPUR	RM 80.00			RM 40.00
6	PERAK	RM 101.00
7	PULAU PINANG	RM 24.00			RM 24.00
8	KEDAH							Tidak ditetapkan
9	PERLIS							Tidak ditetapkan
10	PAHANG	RM 22.50			RM 22.50
11	TERENGGANU							Tidak ditetapkan
12	KELANTAN							Tidak ditetapkan
13	SABAH	RM 100.00			RM 80.00
14	SARAWAK	RM 120.00			RM120.00
15	W.P LABUAN	RM 80.00			RM 80.00

taken from http://www.islam.gov.my/informasi/nilaimaskahwinnegeri.html

AFTER HE WAS SENTENCED OF 3 YEARS PRISON

Harun Yahya (turkish islamic author) has been sentenced for three years of jail

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Controversial Turkish Islamic author Adnan Oktar was sentenced to three years in prison on Friday for creating an illegal organization for personal gain, state-run Anatolian news agency said.

A spokeswoman for his Science Research Foundation (BAV) confirmed to Reuters that Oktar had been sentenced but said the judge was influenced by political and religious pressure groups.

Oktar had been tried with 17 other defendants in an Istanbul court. The verdict and sentence came after a previous trial that began in 2000 after Oktar, along with 50 members of his foundation, was arrested in 1999.

In that court case, Oktar had been charged with using threats for personal benefit and creating an organization with the intent to commit a crime. The charges were dropped but another court picked them up resulting in the latest case.

Oktar planned to appeal the sentence, a BAV spokeswoman said. No further details were immediately available.

Excerpt from http://www.reuters.com/article/artsNews/idUSL0992091620080509

His comments :

Let me state once again that I have no complaints regarding the court. I harbor no resentment or recrimination towards anyone. It is Allah Who caused the court to sign that verdict. Only one thing in the court decision surprised me and gave me pause for thought, which was that we had three female friends. Like my other friends, they had absolutely nothing to do with the allegations. But they were sentenced to three years’ imprisonment each. These were really well brought-up young ladies. That did surprise me. But again I still respect the court, and there is something auspicious in all things.

Read more at his website

May Allah help him....ameen

Masjid Al-Aqsa. Keselamatannya Meruncing.

. Israel semakin berani mencabar kewibawaan umat Islam apabila usaha mereka yang ingin merosakkan Masjid Al-Aqsa semakin rancak. Regim haram Israel telah menggali halaman Masjid Al-Aqsa dengan menggunakan alasan untuk mencari bukti kewujudan Haikal Sulaiman (Solomon Temple) yang didakwa kononnya dibina di atas tapak Masjid Al-Aqsa hari ini.

Apakah tindakan kita sebagai umat Islam??????