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Agree To Disagree !

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Reflect, Think and Ponder On Nature

“Every village must have its headman; every needle must have its manufacturer and craftsmen. And, as you know, every letter must be written by someone. How then, can it be that so extremely well-ordered a kingdom should have no ruler?”

Do they not travel through the land, so that their hearts (and minds) may thus learn wisdom and their ears may thus learn to hear? Truly it is not their eyes that are blind, but their hearts which are in their breasts.

-Holy Qur’an, Al Hajj 22:46

And in the creation of yourselves and the fact that animals are scattered (through the earth), are Signs for those who assured Faith.
And in the alternation of Night and Day, and the fact that God sends down Sustenance from the sky, and revives therewith the earth after its death, and in the change of the winds- are Signs for those that are wise.
Such are the Signs of God , which We rehearse to thee in Truth: then in what exposition will they believe after(rejecting) God and His Signs?

-Holy Qur’an, Al Jathiyah 45:3-6

It is He Who has made the sea subject, that ye may eat thereof flesh that is fresh and tender, and that ye may extract therefrom ornaments to wear; and thou seest the ships therein that plough the waves, that ye may seek (thus) of the bounty of Allah and that ye may be grateful.

-Holy Qur’an, An Nahl 16:14

Say: "Travel through the earth and see how Allah did originate creation; so will Allah produce a later creation: for Allah has power over all things.

-Holy Qur’an, Al ‘ankabut 29:20

Behold! in the creation of the heavens and the earth; in the alternation of the night and the day; in the sailing of the ships through the ocean for the profit of mankind; in the rain which Allah Sends down from the skies, and the life which He gives therewith to an earth that is dead; in the beasts of all kinds that He scatters through the earth; in the change of the winds, and the clouds which they Trail like their slaves between the sky and the earth;- (Here) indeed are Signs for a people that are wise.

-Holy Qur’an, Al Baqarah 2:164

And it is He who spread out the earth, and set thereon mountains standing firm and (flowing) rivers: and fruit of every kind He made in pairs, two and two: He draweth the night as a veil over the Day. Behold, verily in these things there are signs for those who consider!

-Holy Qur’an, Ar Ra’d 13:3

Seest thou not that Allah makes the clouds move gently, then joins them together, then makes them into a heap? - then wilt thou see rain issue forth from their midst. And He sends down from the sky mountain masses (of clouds) wherein is hail: He strikes therewith whom He pleases and He turns it away from whom He pleases, the vivid flash of His lightning well-nigh blinds the sight.

-Holy Qur’an, An Nur 24:43

Do not the Unbelievers see that the heavens and the earth were joined together (as one unit of creation), before we clove them asunder? We made from water every living thing. Will they not then believe?

-Holy Qur’an, Al Anbiya’21:30

And the earth- We have spread it out, and set thereon mountains standing firm, and produced therein every kind of beautiful growth (in pairs)

-Holy Qur’an, Qaf 50:7

Or, Who has made the earth firm to live in; made rivers in its midst; set thereon mountains immovable; and made a separating bar between the two bodies of flowing water? (can there be another) god besides Allah? Nay, most of them know not.

-An Naml 27:61

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Allahu A'lam.

The Way To Peace & Paradise

How to know the true way of life from among those thousands claimed to be a real one?

What is the indicator of truth if you were to find it?

Dr. Bilal Philips explains why Islam (submission to the will of God) is the only right way in life if one wants to be successful in this life and the next.

About Dr. Bilal Philps:

“Articulate” and “outspoken” are some of the words that describe Dr. Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips. His quest for the truth led him from his birthplace of Jamaica to Toronto, where he grew up and accepted Islam in 1972. He is renowned as an Islamic student of knowledge, lecturer, author, and critical thinker.

He obtained a B.A. from the College of Usul al-Din (Islamic principles) at the Islamic University of Medina in 1979. He later obtained an M.A. in theology from King Saud University in 1985. Finally, he obtained a PhD from the University of Wales in Islamic theology in 1994.

Bilal Philips has taught Islam and Arabic in private schools, lectured M.Ed. students in the Islamic studies departments of several universities, and founded Islamic information centres while travelling around the world to teach Islam to diverse audiences.

Allah's Artistry In Color

Have you ever thought what it would be like to live in a world without colour? Free yourself for a moment from your experience, forget all that you've learned and start using your imagination. Try to visualize your body, the people around you, the seas, the sky, trees, flowers, in short everything in black. Imagine that there is no colour around you. Try to think how you would feel if people, cats, dogs, birds, butterflies, and fruits had no colour at all. You would never want to live in such a world, would you?
Most people may never have thought about what a colourful world they are living in or wondered how such a diversity of colour has come to exist on earth. They may never have given a thought to how a world without colour would be. This is because everyone who sees was born into a world full of colour. However, a model of a black and white, colourless world is not impossible. On the contrary, the really amazing thing is our living in a bright, colourful world.

A colourless world would normally be thought of as having only black, white and shades of grey. However, black, white and shades of grey are also colours. In this respect, it is difficult to imagine colourlessness. To describe colourlessness, one always feels the need to mention a colour. With statements such as "it was colourless, completely dark", "there was no colour in her face; it was completely white" people try to describe colourlessness. In fact, these are not the descriptions of colourlessness, but of a world of black and white.

Try, just for a second, to imagine that all of a sudden, everything loses its colour. In such a situation, everything would mix with everything else and it would become impossible to distinguish one object from another. It would become impossible to see, for example, an orange, red strawberries or colourful flowers on a brown wooden table, for neither would the colour of the orange be orange, nor that of the table brown, nor that of the strawberries red. For a person, it would be quite annoying to live, even for a short time, in such a colourless world, which is even difficult to describe.

Colour has a crucial role in man's communication with the outside world, in the proper functioning of his memory, and in his brain's fulfilment of its learning functions. This is because humans can develop appropriate connections between events and places, people and objects only through their external appearances and colours. Neither hearing nor touch alone suffice to define objects. For humans, the external world only means something when it is seen as a whole with its colours.
Identifying objects and our surroundings are not the only benefits from the diversity of colours. The perfect harmony of colour in nature gives the human soul great pleasure. In order to see this harmony and derive pleasure from every detail of it, man has been equipped with a pair of eyes, which have a very special design. In the world of animate beings, human eyes are the most functional and can perceive colours in their smallest details, so much so that the human eye is sensitive to millions of colours. Evidently, the visual apparatus in humans that works so perfectly has been specially designed to see a world full of colour.

The only being on earth that can understand the existence of such an order in the universe is man because he has the power to reflect and reason. Hence, in the light of all the foregoing, we conclude the following:
Every detail, pattern and colour in the heavens and the earth have been created for humans to acknowledge and so to appreciate this order and reflect on it. The colours in nature have been arranged in such a manner as to appeal to the human soul. Perfect symmetry and harmony prevail within colour, both in the worlds of animate and inanimate beings. This situation will certainly evoke some questions in the mind of someone who reflects, such as:
What makes the earth colourful? How do the colours, which make our world so extraordinarily beautiful, come into being? To whom belong the design of the diverse colours and the harmony between them?
Is it possible to say that whatever exists might have come into existence by purposeless changes brought about by a chain of coincidence?

Certainly, no one would claim such an absurdity. Uncontrolled coincidences cannot create anything, let alone billions of colours. Just observe the wings of a butterfly or colourful flowers of any kind, each of which looks like a wonder of art. It is surely impossible for sound reason to attribute all these to unconscious processes.
We can have a better understanding of this fact if we take an example. When one sees a painting depicting trees and flowers in nature, one would not claim nor even think that the harmony of colour, the organised patterns and the conscious design in this painting could have come into existence by coincidence. If someone came along and said, "the paint boxes were overturned by the wind, mixed, and with the effect of rain etc., and after a long period of time this beautiful painting was formed", it is certain that nobody would take him seriously. There is a very interesting situation here. Although nobody would attempt to put forward such an unreasonable claim, some people can nevertheless claim that the perfect colouring and symmetry of nature came about by such an unconscious process. Nevertheless, evolutionists produce theses that it is the workings of coincidence to explain this subject and they produce various researches. They do not hesitate to put forward baseless claims on the issue.

This is obvious blindness, with which it is difficult to come to terms. Still, someone who escapes from this blindness through exercising his faculty of thought will understand that he actually lives in an extremely miraculous environment on the earth. He would also fully acknowledge that such an environment furnished with the most appropriate conditions for the survival of humankind could not have come into existence by chance. Just as a man who reflects, acknowledges the moment he looks at a painting that it has a painter, so will he understand that the multi-coloured, harmonious and extremely picturesque environment around him also has a Creator.

This Creator is Allah, Who has no partner in creation, Who creates everything in full harmony, and Who placed us in this world overflowing with numerous beautiful things embellished with millions of colours. All the things Allah creates are in perfect harmony with each other. Allah describes the uniqueness of His artistry in creation in the Qur'an as follows:

He Who created the seven heavens in layers. You will not find any flaw in the creation of the All-Merciful. Look again-do you see any gaps? Then look again and again. Your sight will return to you dazzled and exhausted! (Holy Qur'an ,al-Mulk: 3-4)

 *This article is not  mine actually. I am so sorry that I can't recall the source. Credit for the author =)

Loss of Adab

Assalamu’alaikum, may be peace and blessings be upon you,
Alhamdulillah, I managed to write something this time =) Here, I want to share with all of you one of the most thought provoking ideas forwarded by Professor Syed Naquib Al Attas in his works regarding the issue of the Loss of Adab. I personaly think that if we were to relate this notion with the current state of the Muslims mind, there is in fact truth in it. Anyway, what is the loss of Adab?

It is basically referring to the loss of discipline-of body, mind and soul; the discipline that assures the recognition and acknowledgement of one’s proper place in relation to one’s self, society and community; the recognition and the acknowledgement of one’s proper place in relation to one’s physical, spiritual capacities, intellectuals and potentials; the recognition and acknowledgement of the fact that knowledge and being are ordered hierarchically. With regard to Adab itself, it is referring to the recognition and acknowledgement of the right and proper place, station and condition in life and to self discipline in positive and willing participation in enacting one’s role in accordance with that recognition and acknowledgement.The occurrence of Adab in one and in society reflects the condition of justice.Loss of Adab implies loss of justice which in turn leads to the confusion in knowledge.
In a simple manner, the present dilemma of Muslim is:
1-Confusion and error in knowledge, creating the condition for:
2-The loss of Adab within the community.The condition arising out of (1) and (2) is:
3-The rise of leaders who are not qualified for valid leadership of the Muslim community, who do not possess the high moral, intellectual and spiritual standards required for Islamic leadership , who perpetuate the condition in (1) above and ensure the continued control of the affairs of the community by leaders like them who dominate in all fields.
In fact, those three elements are operating in a vicious cycle.
The chief cause is however the confusion and error in knowledge. To break the vicious cycle, we must tackle first the problem of the loss of Adab since no true knowledge can be instilled without the precondition of Adab in the one who seeks it and to whom it is imparted. Knowledge in fact must be approached reverently and in humility and it cannot be possessed simply as if it were there available to everyone irrespective of intention and purpose and capacity.

-Legitimate Authority-
The interpretation and clarification of knowledge about Islam and the Islamic worldview is accomplished by authority, and legitimate authority i.e. those who recognize and acknowledge a hierarchy of authorities culminating from the prophet. It is basically incumbent to have to have a proper attitude towards legitimate authority and that is reverence, love, respect, humility and intelligent trust in the veracity of knowledge interpreted and clarified by such authority.
By ‘hierarchy’, it is not meant oppression, domination etc. Any kind of ‘hierarchy’ or ‘order’ is not necessarily legitimate for such order is not order at all.-It is DISORDER. By disorder, it means contrary to justice. In fact, disorder is the manifestation of the occurrence of injustice.

-Confusion of knowledge-
The confusion in knowledge of Islam by an individual very often creates in him an overweening sort of individualism.
>He looks at himself as equal to others whereas they are in reality superior to him
and cultivates immanent arrogance and tends to reject authority.
>He thinks he knows whereas in reality he doesn’t.
>He inclines towards envy.
>He allows his passion to hold sway over his actions and decisions in life.

When an individual instigated by his own arrogant ambitions and disposition does not hesitate to wrongly burden his soul by taking upon himself a trust and responsibility which he in his real capacity cannot adequately fulfill, this will lead to the Loss of Adab. When people like him increase in number some of them or those they consider representative of their kind, inevitably become leaders who we have earlier designated as false. And they consolidate their kind in all spheres of responsibility and trust in societal life: The resulting condition suffered by the society is what we have called the Loss of Adab which reflects the injustice that prevails and the continued corruption of knowledge.
-‘Levelling’-
Finally, Professor Syed Naquib Al Attas touched on the issue of levelling. The chief characteristic symptom of Loss of Adab within the community is the process of leveling cultivated from time to time in the Muslim mind and practiced in his society. By ‘levelling’ it means the leveling of everyone, in the mind and attitude to the same level of the leveller. It is perpetrated through the encouragement of false leaders who wish to demolish legitimate authority and valid hierarchy so that they and their like might thrive , and who demonstrate by example by levelling the great to the level of the less great, and then to that of the still lesser. In a sense, it is basically a tendency to challenge and belittle the legitimate authority. Indeed, even the Noble Companions –may God be well pleased with them –were not exempt from such censure: Sayyidina ‘Umar and Sayyidina ‘Ali were both charged by a lesser man with committing mistakes, notwithstanding the fact that, according to a well known Hadith, they were both included among the Ten who were assured paradise. We can only marvel how, when God Himself has overlooked their mistakes, a mere creature who lived centuries later could still persist in pointing out those mistakes!.

Allahu’Alam(Allah Knows Best).
p/s:I cannot resist myself than to agree with Professor Syed Naquib Al Attas on this issue. Take a look at around you and try to reflect what is happening with our Ummah now. Surely, the Loss of Adab is very much prevalent !.