Beyond The River and The Lofty Mountains...

Beyond The River and The Lofty Mountains...
(With Jihad) The flowers will bloom, grief will depart and happiness will prevail... "Verily after difficulty there is ease" Holy Qur'an 94:5

Thursday, December 31, 2009

The Mouse Trap

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A farmer and his wife just came back home from doing some grocery shopping. While unpacking their shopping bags, a Mouse was carefully observing their actions and mumbled "hmmm... what food do they bring from the market this time??"

Apparently, what had been bought by the farmer on that day was a Mouse Trap. The Mouse became extremely panicky.

It rushed to its lair and yelled frantically, "There is a mousetrap in the house…. now, in the house… is a mousetrap!!...."

It then complained to the Chicken and screamed, "There is a mousetrap!" Then, the Chicken said, "Mr. Mouse! I am equally sad but it does not have anything to do with me."

Then, the Mouse went away to see the Goat while yelling as before.

The Goat answered indifferently, "I also sympathize… but there is nothing I can do. Furthermore, it does not have anything to do with me."

The Mouse then went to see the Cow. And he received the same response. "I am sorry… but the mousetrap is not dangerous at all for me. The size of me won’t fit in the mousetrap."

With frustration the Mouse ran towards the jungle to see the Snake. Mr. Snake said, " Hey, you… the mousetrap of that size does not endanger myself."

In the end, the Mouse returned to its dwelling resignedly because it knows that it will face the danger alone.

One night, the owner of the house was awakened by some beating sounds from his mousetrap indicating that something had taken the bait. As he was checking his mousetrap, apparently a poisonous snake had been trapped. The tail of the snake that had been pressed between the trap caused it to become more ferocious and it attacked the house owner’s wife.

Even though the husband managed to kill the snake, he could not rescue his wife on time. He rushed his wife to the hospital. A few days later, his wife could already go home but she was still feeling a bit feverish.

Therefore, the wife asked her husband to make her a chicken soup because she believed that the chicken soup could make her fever subside. Without further ado, the husband immediately slaughtered the Chicken and had it turned into a chicken soup.

For some days later, her illness was still not cured. So, a friend suggested that she should try and eat goat liver. The husband then slaughtered his Goat without further delay. But alas! The wife was still not cured and eventually she succumbed to her death. Inna lillahi wa inna ilaihi raji'un.

Many people came to visit her janaza and pay condolence. Due to the love of the husband for his wife, he did not have the heart to see the people coming without having anything to serve for them. Thus, he slaughtered his Cow and had its meat dished up for the guests who came to pay a visit.

From a distance... the Mouse observed the incident in total sadness. A few days later he saw the Mouse Trap not being used anymore.

THE MORAL BEHIND THIS STORY:

ONE DAY.... WHEN YOU HEAR THAT SOMEONE IS IN DISTRESS AND THINK THAT IT IS NOT YOUR PROBLEM... THINK AGAIN! In the same context, when we hear Muslims being oppressed anywhere in the world, be it near or far, whether it be in Palestine or Philippines… never think that it is only the internal problem of that country and that it does not concern us. We might find ourselves ending up like the fate of the Snake, Chicken, Goat or Cow.

Al-Qaida In the Arabian Peninsula Statement regarding the recent massacre of the Muslims in Abyan

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Presents


Muharram 13, 1431 A.H, December 30, 2009

In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful

All praise be to Allah, Who honors Islam with His Victory; and Who defeats polytheism by suppressing it; and Who manages matters and affairs with His command; and He Who brings gradually the infidels (into their defeat). He Who has ordained fortunes and misfortunes to revolve among people; and He Who secures the reward for the Mutaqeen (pious people) with His Grace. Peace and prayers are upon he (Prophet Muhammad) with who Allah has raised high the Minaret of Islam with his sword.

To Proceed:

Five U.S. fighter jets have carried out horrific air strikes on innocent Muslims from the Bakazm tribe in the village of Moajala in al-Mohfad district in Abyan province ,after dawn prayers on Thursday the 1st of Muharam 1431 H.

The brutal shelling on the village of Bakazm, resulted in the killing of approximately fifty women and children and men. At the same time they are waging military campaign against the tribes of Arhab, on the pretext of combating terrorism (Islam), and trying to stop the increasing jihadi activities of the proud sons of the tribes of Yemen.

And as we are in front of this great loss we want to send our condolences to our Islamic nation, especially the Bakazm tribes in their loss, and we ask Allah to accept their martyrs, and to bestow upon them patience and persistence on the Truth, "To Allah We belong, and to Him is our return" (Baqarah: 156)

The Muslim people saw U.S. unmanned drones patrolling the skies above the Yemen provinces a few months before the massacre, and they are still doing it, in violation of the sanctity of Muslims, and with the connivance of the puppet Government in Yemen, they are spying on the Muslims, and filming them, and killing innocent Muslim people.

This massacre happened with the agreement and coordination from Yemen, the U.S., Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the cooperation of other neighboring countries.

And everyone Has seen the congratulations from the commander of the Crusaders, the U.S. President Obama, and the Pharaoh of the Arabs, Hosni Mubarak to the Yemeni President regarding the brutal massacre on Abyan Province. And with the permission of Allah we will release more details about this later.

And in front of this brutal attack, we emphasize the following:

1. That the war on our country is a hateful Zionist-Crusader war, and it is still ongoing, aimed at the elimination of Islam and its people in Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Chechnya, Waziristan and other Muslim countries.

2. This operation reveals the falsehood of the alleged Western values of democracy and human rights, for they are the ones who are killing innocent civilians with air strikes, and committing genocide.

3. This massacre show us the magnitude of the collaborating by the Yemeni government and the rulers of the Arabian Peninsula supporting the Zionist-Crusader campaign, and they have become a tool in their hands; to kill our Muslim people.

4. The lies by the Yemeni government in their media statements about the massacre, claiming that the attacks are carried out by Yemen, while the Americans acknowledged it was done by Americans.

5. The discourtesy of the Yemeni government with the blood of Muslims, and their lies when they claimed that no civilians were present during the operation. The whole world has seen through the satellite channels, the bodies of women and children, as confirmed by the Director of the Mahvd district: "that the death toll reached forty-nine women, children and citizens."

6. The failure of the joint campaign to achieve its goal to eliminate the Mujahideen in the Arabian Peninsula in Abyan, Sana'a, and Arhab.

7. The proud Arhab tribes managed to stand strong in breaking and repulsing the campaign that was going on in Arhab district, sending the enemy back as filthy losers.
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8. We call on the Islamic scholars to fulfill their duty by supporting the killed Muslims in this massacre, and to explain to the people what the Islamic rulings is when you help the Americans to kill your fellow Muslim people.

9. We will not let the blood of Muslim women and children be spilled without taking vengeance for them, with the permission of Allah.

To conclude we call on all proud Yemeni tribes, the people of support and victory, and the citizens of the Arabian Peninsula to face the Crusader's campaign and their agents on the land of Muhammad - peace be upon him - by attacking military bases, embassies and intelligence, and the existing fleets in the waters of the Arabian peninsula and the surrounding territory; so as to stop the repeated massacres on the Muslim countries.

"And soon will the unjust assailants know what vicissitudes their affairs will take!" (Ash-Shu'ara: 227)

Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula
Sunday the 4th of Muharam 1431 H.

Pray for your Mujahideen Brothers

Source: (Al-Fair Media)

Afghan Population Wants Islamic Shari’ah Implementation And Urges America To Leave

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The Washington Post reported on 8/12/2009, by quoting its correspondent in Afghanistan, Gharif Witt, that every district in Afghanistan consists of two different authorities. First, the authority appointed by Karzai and supported by thousands of militaries to administer the governance in the day time, and makes itself as a part from the aids from foreign countries.

While the second authority is the authority appointed by the leader of the Taliban, Mullah Muhammad Umar, who is hunted by the US military, and these people sneak into the district in the night time only and they issue various legal decisions on official documents under the name of the Islamic Government of Afghanistan.

The Taliban has formed a shadow government, where there are the authorities, police chiefs and district heads. In this regards, their judges are more influential in the midst of the society than the judges of Karzai’s government.

The correspondent said in his column that "the mission of the Americans becomes more complex now, especially that there are currently many districts in Afghanistan that have decided to be ruled under the authority of the Taliban, which is firm and critical towards corruptions, whilst inability and incompetence are obvious on those appointed by Karzai."

The Washington Post’s correspondent said: "I have heard the people in Kandahar expressed their satisfaction with the judges of the Taliban. They said that the Islamic law settles all of their problems faster. Of course, when you put forward your problems to the judges you hope to obtain instant solutions. However, if you put forward the same problems to the court (of Karzai’as government), it would take one or two years to come to the same decision, or even worse there would be no solution at all. Whereas, if the problem is presented to the Taliban, it would only take one hour to reach the decision."

This is a by-product of Islam witnessed by the society, to the extent that they want the implementation of Islamic shari’ah. Now, how is it going to be supposing they see the total implementation of Islam in every aspect of life? It would surely bring security, stability, the establishment of justice, honour and the existence of various successes to their lives!

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

The Weirdness Of The People In The End-Times

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Indeed, the weirdness of the people in the end-times are so many and common. Sometimes we are less alert in noticing them that the world seems to be moving quite well. However, if we observe them closely, we would find a myriad of weirdness and peculiarity in the lives of the people of the end-times and they exist in almost all lines of existence. The weirdness that we mean here are not those related to natural events such as earthquakes, tsunamis, etc. or other kind of strange occurrences, but the paradoxical thought patterns of mankind which are thriving in this end-times.

The followings are a small part of the paradoxical thinkings which are thriving in the general public, as of late. It is even stranger when those paradoxes are possessed by some people in the Islamic ummah along with their notable figures. Examples are:

When entrepreneurs or government high officials commit corruptions worth thousands or even millions of dollars, the law enforcement apparatus will easily say that they don’t have the evidence to arrest and try them.

However, when the one who steals is an old grandma or a low-class (weak) citizen, she’ll easily be arrested, tried and sentenced, despite for only stealing a watermelon or three cocoa fruits from the big plantation belonging to a big firm, maybe due to hunger.

When there are people or a group who clearly harm or deride the fundamental teachings of Islam such as that of God, the Holy Book and the Prophet, in the Muslim countries, they will be easily seen as fulfilling their freedom to speak, express and interpret religion.

However, when there are khatibs, ustadzs or speakers in the Muslim community who invite the jamaah and Islamic ummah to be consistent with the teachings of their religion, then they will easily be accused as radical khatibs, speakers or ustadzs, who do not know how to conduct da’wah with hikmah, in fact they should be suspected as potential terrorists.

Whatever is written in the newspaper will easily be believed by the masses, despite being only human writings in which the truth has not been put to a test. Reading and studying them is considered as a symbol of progress.

However, what have been included in Al-Qur’an might not be believed as certainties, despite claiming to be Muslim. Whereas, the Qur’an is the Kalamullah (Speech of Allah) which is impossible to contain lies. Its truth has been put to a test, in all times, from the aspect of various sciences or knowledge. As of late, there appeared a belief that Al-Qur’an could teach the ideas of terrorism.

Not a few people, including those who claimed to be Muslims are confident and proud with the man-made (jahiliyyah) living system, even though the system they are confident and proud with has caused their lives to be in a mess and made them endure various atrocities and injustices from the rulers of their countries. They are still claiming: “this is the way of life that is compatible with the modern times (end-times)”.

However, when there are people who invite and call upon the ummah to return to the rules of Islam, they will be accused of inviting and calling towards backwardness, radicalism and terrorism, whereas they know that Islam is created by God, their Creator (Allah), for their safety in the dunya and akhira and it is impossible for Allah to be confused and oppressive to His slaves.

When the Jews or people of other religions grow their beards, people will say that they are just practicing the teachings of their religions.

However, when a Muslim maintains his beard, he will easily be accused as a fundamentalist or terrorist who has to be suspected, especially when entering public places like the hotels and so on.

When a nun wears a dress that covers her head and body tidily, people will say that the nun has presented herself for her god.

However, when a Muslimah covers her awrah with a jilbab or hijab, people would accuse her of being backward and not compatible with the modern times, whereas, those who accuse claimed to be following the concept of democracy, which according to them views people as free to practice his/her own religion.

When the Western women stay at home and choose not to work outside due to intending to look after or tend the house and teach the children, people will praise them for willing to sacrifice and not work outside for the interest of the families and households.

However, when the Muslimahs stay at home looking after the properties of the husband, tending the house and children, people will accuse them as oppressed and that they should be freed from being dominated by men or what they also refer as gender equality.

Every Western female university student is free to go to campus with an array of accessories or dresses that she likes, for a reason that it is their basic rights and freedom of self expression.

However, when the Muslimahs go to the campus or workplace wearing their Islamic dresses, people will accuse them of being restricted and narrow minded, incompatible with the regulations and paradigms of the campus or workplace.

When their children are busy with a variety of toys that they invented, they will say that it is talent, intelligence and creativity development for the children.

However, when the Muslim children follow the education of their religious practice, it will be said that that kind of educational pattern has no hope and future.

When the Jews and Christians kill someone or commit aggression against an Islamic country particularly Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc. nobody relates it to their religion. In fact, they say that it is their right and for the sake of saving the Muslim community there.

However, when the Muslims fight the Jewish aggression in Palestine, or the Christian Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan, they will surely accuse those Muslims as insurgents and terrorists.
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When someone sacrifices himself to save others, everybody will praise him and he will be given the right to be honored or respected.
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However, when the people of Palestine do the same thing in order to save their children, brothers and sisters or parents from abductions or slaughtering by the Israeli forces, or to save their houses from destructions by the Israeli rockets, or to save their masjids or holy books from vandalisms or defacements, people will accuse them as TERRORISTS. Why? Because they are simply Muslims.

When Jewish children are taught about war and automatic weapons to kill the Palestinian Muslims, people will say that what they are doing is an effort to defend themselves despite they are the aggressors.

However, when the Palestinian children learn to throw stones to confront the Jewish soldiers who are fully equipped with tanks and other sophisticated weapons to demolish their houses, masjids and villages, people will accuse them as the perpetrators of crime who are fit to be arrested, their hands broken and imprisoned for a dozen years.

See, these are just a bit of the peculiarity of the people in the end-times. Could we extract a good lesson from here, so that we can determine the right attitudes? Otherwise we would fall and become victims of the peculiarity in this end-times? The Prophet SAW said that amongst the signs of the Age of Fitnah (Trials) is that truth and falsehood will change place, falsehood will become truth (and vice versa). Only those blessed by Allah SWT have the knowledge that would enable them to distinguish between truth and falsehood and fight falsehood with truth, otherwise they will be left confused following falsehood.
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The Prophet SAW taught us a do’a to this effect:

"O Allah, show me the truth as the truth, and enable me to follow it. O Allah, show me falsehood as falsehood and enable me to stay away from it and do not let it confuses me, so I may not be misguided."

The Prophet SAW also recommended reading Surah al-Kahf which contains very important signs for today, the signs of the End Times, a time near the Hour, during which the practices of systems of unbelief and falsehood become widespread and Allah sends forth the truth to destroy them.

By Allah's will, this time is very near, so much so that it has become crucial for people to reflect upon this matter. Allahul musta’an.
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Monday, December 28, 2009

Death Toll For US Terrorist Forces In Afghanistan Doubles In 2009

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Alhamdulillah, the number of dead kafir crusader-zionist forces in Afghanistan is increasing this year, as reported by the media.

It was reported that the number of US terrorists killed in Afghanistan this year has increased twofold compared with 2008. However, the small fractions reported are only figures officially admitted by the military, whereas the real overall casualty figures hidden by the military is much bigger than that.

Based on an AFP tally, foreign terrorist forces recorded 506 casualties in Afghanistan this year, 310 of which were US terrorists.The second figure showed that twice as many US invader forces were killed in Afghanistan in 2009 compared to 2008, when 155 US terrorists were killed.

The United States currently commands 113,000 US and foreign terrorist troops in Afghanistan and plans to deploy another 40,000 terrorists to the Central Asian nation.

Go ahead kafirs, the forces of Allah will never stop confronting and destroying you. Allahu Akbar… Indeed, Allah only commands the Muslims to prepare their strength in the best ability they can in mere compliance with Allah’s command: وَأَعِدُّواْ لَهُم مَّا اسْتَطَعْتُم “Make ready for them all you can.” Thereafter, victory is definite in the hand of Allah. The number of forces or war equipments do not mean anything without the help of Allah.

This is the secret behind 313 Companions triumphing over an army of one thousand at Badar. But then, it were the same Companions who set out on the Day of Hunayn, and it occurred to them that "we are in great numbers today; how can we be defeated today while we were not overcome when we were 313?"… And so Allah addressed them in Surah Al-Tawbah, verse 25:

“…and on the day of Hunayn, when you exulted in your multitude but it availed you naught, and the earth, vast as it is, was straitened for you; then you turned back in flight.”

Means were provided and force was present! But Allah says that it did not avail you in the slightest. It has been narrated that other than the Prophet of Allah SAW, nearly the entire army had turned back in flight.

Truly, this verse 126 from Surah Āli `Imrān does require reflection:

“…Victory comes only from Allah, the Mighty, the Wise.”

Therefore, may the number of death amongst the kafir forces keep on rising, in accordance with the thousands of Afghan civilians killed by their barbaric military operations in Afghanistan which have also caused hunger and insecurity to have increased to an alarming level across Afghanistan since the US-led invasion of the country in 2001. Ameen!

Sunday, December 27, 2009

Muslim People Of Gaza In Starvation

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The condition of the Muslims in Gaza, Palestine, is so sad especially after the food aid distribution for the people of Palestine in the Gaza Strip was halted by the UN with an excuse of fuel shortages. The people of Palestine had been in hardship to obtain food since Palestine was occupied in 1946. Some even resort to eating grass.

The UN body that manages the aids distribution, the UNRWA, stopped the delivery of food aids to Gaza two weeks ago due to their vehicles experiencing fuel shortages. More than 80% of the population of Gaza rely on the humanitarian aids, with the food supply from the UN meeting the needs of 1.5 million people. A big part of them are children.

Cris Gunness, the spokesman for UNRWA said that the aids to 650,000 people had to be stopped temporarily. The invading Israel and the UN are really cruel, after the land of Palestine was seized, they let the Muslim people of Palestine live in misery and starvation.

From then on until now, the Muslim people of Palestine had been screaming and crying out to their brothers in various parts of the world. In fact, last Friday, thousands of Muslims in Rafah border called on the Muslims in Egypt to free the country of Palestine from the grip of the invading Israel. However, to date, the so-called Muslim governments and military forces in the various parts of the world are still tight-lipped. Where are the liberators of the ummah today?

Until when this humiliating situation will go on? Until one day there exists a noble generation who will free Palestine from occupation. Only the Khilafah Rashidah could bring back the honour of the Ummah, not the OIC, not the rulers of the Muslim countries of today, let alone the UN.

Thursday, December 24, 2009

My Experience Of Meeting Sheikh Usamah bin Ladin (2)

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...back to my story about meeting Sheikh Usamah bin Ladin as I had delivered earlier. I began to observe his personality and main characters, how he stands and sits, the way he speaks, the way he walks, the way he eats, his laughter, his smile, his mixing with others, how his language is, the way he dresses, the way he teaches his children, the advices he delivered and so on.

So my conclusion -Wallahu a'lam bis-sowwab- is that he is a man whose thoughts, speeches and actions, as well as movements did not produce anything except that they contain hikmah (wisdom). I am not saying that he is maksum, because the maksum one is only Rasulullah SAW, however thus was my assessment during my association with him and I do not deify anyone except Allah.


I was only assessing from the outside, as for the batin (inner side) Allah SWT is the Most Knowledgeable, and no one can monitor him continuously for 24 hours every day and night, it is something impossible for me to do, but from the association I had experienced, I could give some judgements and may this judgement be not excessive and also not too inadequate (not ifrath and tafrith).

The assessments are more or less as follows:

1. Aqeedah.

He follows the creed of the salaf, with the aqeedah of Ahlussunnah wal Jamaah. This is always expressed by him in his spoken words.

2. Fiqh Madzhab.

I don't have or have not obtained information about the Fiqh madzhab that he follows, whether he follows the Hanafi, Maliki, Syafi'i, Hambali or Dzhahiri, but what's obvious is that the way he performs ibaadah (acts of worship) especially the characteristic of his solat, follows the sunnah of the Prophet SAW.

3. Akhlaq (Morals) and Adab (Manners).

Just like what I have explained earlier, he is one of the people who maintains and observes the akhlaq and adab greatly, whether it be the fundamental akhlaqs or the akhlaq that seems small. Examples of fundamental Akhlaq:

Al-Wala wal Bara'

He loves the believers very much, where ever they are from or which ever Harakah or Jama'ah they belong to.

Hard on the kafirs. This is very prominent particularly towards the Jewish America and its allies, maybe this is why he is on the first ranking in the history of mankind -wallahu a'lam- to be the most feared and wanted human figure by the enemies of Islam, be it in the East or the West, be it the kafir or mushrik or munafiq and this becomes the virtue that Allah SWT gives him, his position makes the kafirs, who are under this sky, angry.

Allah SWT said in surat At-Taubah (9) : 120.

" …nor do they tread on any ground that enrages the disbelievers, nor do they inflict upon an enemy any infliction but that it is registered for them as a righteous deed.."

Subhanallah – if he is ikhlas, how much reward of good deeds he could bag every second even by merely sleeping in his hiding place.

I also remember the virtues of the Ashabul Kahfi who were put to sleep by Allah for 300 years i.e. if we calculate by the AD year and 309 years if calculated using the Hijriyah year. They were feared even in their sleep.

See Allah’s verse in surat Al-Kahfi (18) : 18.

"If you had looked at them, you would have turned from them in flight and been filled by them with terror."

As for us, even turning upside down would not make the enemies fear us. What is the secret? Because our Imans are weak and there is no ruhul Jihad (spirit of Jihad).

He also takes care of the adab, such as:

The Adab of Eating.

Most of the Arabs, as well as the Afghans and the majority of people on this earth except those who are blessed by Allah – are less attentive when it comes to clearing or finishing food or minding the food that falls while eating. Whereas, according to a hadith, we are ordered to clear the food that has fallen by eating them, we can’t leave food on its place because who knows there could be barakah (blessings) in them.

He, if he eats - Subhanallah – not even a crumb would fall and be wasted in front of me. I found this truly amazing as he can easily go against the convention that has been entrenched.

Daily Presentation.

He always carries a small mushaf (a copy of the Qur’an), a weapon (rifle of the AK [Automatic Kalashnikov] or Klashenkov type), as well as a stick or staff which is a part of the Sunnah.

The Adab of Speaking to Others.

He, if he speaks to others (not in a majelis) normally faces his entire body to the person he speaks to while giving a smile if required and sometimes becoming very serious with an intent look.

Wallahu'alam bis sowab!

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

When The Palestinian Are Murdered On The Operating Table And Then Their Organs Harvested.

. Did Israel send their organ mafia to serve as IOF officers in the West Bank so that they could select and hunt Palestinian victims who had traits (and organs) corresponding to specific criteria, like the color of her skin, eyes and …?

This would help to explain many seemingly random murders by the IOF, of children, of people going about their business, people who often had no role in resistance and who were not involved in political activity of any kind.


How many innocent Palestinian were murdered by the IOF organ mafia? Were they executed for the theft of their organs, in order to make millions of gains for the IOF?


The answers to these questions will be more objective after reading the report translated from Arabic newspapers into English.


A video recording of a 57 minutes duration shocked the world. A doctor who was giving instructions to a number of other doctors about how to extract the organs of the dead could be seen in the video.


The technique of transferring the skin from the back of the human body belonging to the dead Palestinian was shown. Those pieces of skin were then given to the Israeli soldiers who had suffered burns and other kind of wounds inflicted from the conflict with the Palestinians.

Besides the skin from the back of the Palestinian bodies, the Israeli doctors also took the corneas, hearts and bones. Not surprising that the government of Israel had set up the skin bank in 1986 for the purpose of healing the wounds of their soldiers using the skin stolen from the bodies of the dead Palestinians.

''The process had already started since the early 1980’s and was going on until the end of 2000,'' Yehuda Hiss, the director and chief pathologist at the Abu Kabir Institute of Forensic Medicine, who made the film recording, said. The video confirmed accusations that Tel Aviv was illegally stealing organs from the dead bodies of Palestinians.

Hiss, who appeared in the video also handled autopsy problems on unnatural deaths in Israel and the districts that it occupies. He said that the other body organs that always become a target of theft are the bones, especially the long bones, and parts of heart.

The eyes are also the aims of the body organs thieves, though not the whole eyes are stolen. “We don’t take the whole eye, we only take the cornea and close the eyes back,” Hiss explained as quoted from Al-Arabiya.

The stolen body organs are not sold to the international market but are sent to the hospitals in Israel or Jerusalem. Hiss said that the hospitals that they were headed for is like the Tel Hashomer where all the doctors working there are his friends.

He admitted that he was not given incentives for his acts. But, four years ago Hiss was given a microscope. “We also send the organs to the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem and they gave us an instrument in the form of a special video camera that could view the internal organs of the body in return for the organs which we gave to them.”

The video recording becomes an evidence of the involvement of Israel in illegal snatching of body organs from the bodies of the Palestinians who were killed. However, Israel justified the practice in the name of scientific research.

The practice of plundering Palestinian body organs had already been published earlier in the Swedish newspaper, the Aftonbladet, which reported that Israel had been killing Palestinian citizens in order to harvest their body organs. The news right away triggered Israel’s anger.

Nancy Scheper Hughes, an anthropology professor at the University of California Berkeley told that her party had conducted an interview prompted by the news publication in Aftonbladet. That incident had made the diplomatic relation between Israel and Sweden heated for a while. In fact, the foreign minister of Sweden cancelled his supposed visit to Israel.

Scheper charged that the interview had to be done and publicized as stealing skins from the people considered as enemies is something serious and should be judged accordingly.

The exposure of the organ stealing activities should have led to the suspension of Hiss from his post as a director of the medical institute, as a penalty. However, Israel's top attorney decided not to press charges. Hiss was only given a warning and came back to occupy his post at the so-called “Autopsy Institute of Forensic Medicine” in Israel (which in fact should be named Abu Kabir Butchery, as it is a strategic base for the harvesting of human beings – ed).

According to a report in Maan News Agency, the acts were carried out without the knowledge of the families of the deceased. This was admitted by Arieh Eldad, a squatter in Kfar Adumim, who is a medical doctor specializing in plastic surgery and was the chief medical officer of the IOF from 1997-2000, and who is a member of the Knesset for the National Union, said “We had orders not to take the consent of the families while taking the organs of the dead.”


So, Israel continues to show its inhumane face to the world. How is the world going to look at the consequences of the organized Israeli organ theft practiced at Abu Kabir hospital? Is it proper for the world to be silent and ever immuned to the Jewish atrocities?

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Read also: American Report: Mossad Systematically Killed 350 Nuclear Scientists And 200 Iraqi Academics

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

The Afghan 80s Are Back

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It is deja vu on a huge and bloody scale. General Stanley McChrystal, the US commander in Afghanistan, is about to advise his president that "the Afghan people are undergoing a crisis of confidence because the war against the Taliban has not made their lives better", according to leaked reports. Change the word "Taliban" to "Mujahideen", and you have an exact repetition of what the Russians found a quarter of a century ago.

Like Nato today, the Kremlin realised its forces had little control outside the main cities. The parallels don't end there. The Russians called their Afghan enemies dukhy (ghosts), ever-present but invisible, as hidden in death as they were when alive – which echoes Sean Smith's recent photographic account of the fighting in Helmand and the failure of the British units he was with to find a single Talib body.

The Soviet authorities never invited western reporters to be embedded, but you could track down Afghan war veterans in Moscow's gloomier housing estates. They were conscripts, unlike British and US troops, so perhaps they had a heightened sense of anger. But how many British vets would share the sentiments that Igor expressed, as he hung out with his mates one evening in February 1989 and let me listen? "You remember that mother who lost her son. She kept repeating, 'He fulfilled his duty. He fulfilled his duty to the end.' That's the most tragic thing. What duty? I suppose that's what saves her, her notion of duty. She hasn't yet realised it was all a ridiculous mistake. I'm putting it mildly. If she opened her eyes to our whole Afghan thing, she'd probably find it hard to hold out."

Every time I see footage of British troops riding in armoured cars past shuttered bazaars and empty streets, I think of Yuri, who told me that his first glimmerings of the war's futility came when he realised how little contact he and his comrades had with Afghans, the people they were supposed to be helping.
"Mainly our contact was with kids in the villages we went through. They were always running some kind of little business. Swapping stuff, selling stuff. Sometimes drugs. It was very cheap. You felt the aim was to get us hooked. There was not much contact with Afghan adults except the sarandoy, the police."

Only when he got back to Moscow did Yuri feel calm enough to reflect. "The first feeling while you're there is you start to get fed up. You get fed up with the shooting. But you don't think about it. You don't want to. Slowly, very slowly, after the war, you begin to think, to imagine, to remember what happened, the ruined villages, the expressions on people's faces. Not all the Afghan vets understand. Many of them, a substantial proportion, think what they did was necessary and right," he told me.

The details of the Soviet war were different from today's. The enemy used primitive mines rather than today's more sophisticated, remotely triggered roadside bombs. Without infrared night-sights for their sentries, Russian outposts were easy to overrun. Troops travelled in long tank-led columns that were prime targets for ambush. But the basic parameters of an asymmetrical war – hi-tech machines versus agile guerrillas – have not changed. It's just that Nato relies more on drones rather than helicopters to fire its missiles – and civilians still get hit.

Nor is there much difference between Nato's prized techniques of "cultural awareness" and Soviet practice. "They gave us a small piece of paper telling us what not to do and a little dictionary," Igor explained. "That was it. 'Don't fraternise. Don't look at women. Don't go into cemeteries. Don't go into mosques.'" The Russians' contempt for their local allies, the Afghan army, sounded just like that of British squaddies. "Many are cowards. If the ghosts shoot, the army runs away," said Igor as he recalled asking one Afghan soldier what he would do when his conscript service ended. "He said he'd join the ghosts. They paid better."

Nato's war aims echo the Soviets' – prop up a modernising and secular government against the threat from fundamentalist tyranny. The Soviet advantage was that they were operating in an age when nation-building by foreigners was in vogue. The Kremlin did not have to fall back on the claim that terrorism had to be stopped in Kabul in order to keep it from it the streets of Moscow.

The big difference, so far, is that after years of remorseless losses the Soviet leadership realised the war was unwinnable. Mikhail Gorbachev tried talking to the enemy to form a coalition Afghan government (shades of the current "Do we talk to the Taliban?" debate), but when they and their western backers refused, he pulled out anyway. Does Obama have the sense to do the same? In January 1989, six weeks before the Russians completed their withdrawal, I wrote in this newspaper:
"The Soviet invasion was an outrage which the majority of the world's nations rightly condemned … But the manner of their departure has been nothing but honourable … What led to the U-turn was a combination of factors: the political mistakes of their Afghan allies [in 2009 read "the corrupt Karzai government"], awareness that the entry of Soviet troops had turned a civil war into a holy crusade, and recognition that the mujahideen could not be defeated. It required a new leadership in Moscow to accept what Russians had privately known for months."

Yuri put it graphically:
"It wasn't a Soviet-Afghan war. It's a civil war. A powerful country like ours can't be defeated. If we had sent in more men, it would have been outright occupation or genocide. We thought it was better to leave."

By: Jonathan Steele

Sour©e: The Guardian

Monday, December 21, 2009

My Experience Of Meeting Sheikh Usamah bin Ladin

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This is the story of an ikhwan who conducted jihad in the land of Afghanistan and had the rare opportunity to personally meet and see Sheikh Usamah bin Ladin. How was Sheikh Usamah bin Ladin like in the land of jihad? How is his akhlaq and manners? Here’s the narrative...!

In The Battle Arena

There were a number of jabhah (fronts) that I had plunged into and there were also a number of combat operations that I had participated in, but I feel it is of no use to tell about all of them here, especially for myself.

I am only here to recount a bit of my sweet experience, while at the Front of Joji, Paktia, Afghanistan, especially my meetings and acquaintanceship with Ash-Sheikh Usamah bin Ladin (rhm) around the middle of 1987.

Joji is a mountainous or hilly region located in the Paktia Province, in the South of Afghanistan. The borderline of Afghansitan-Pakistan is a very beautiful place compared to other places I had visited as it is filled with a type of fir or pine trees, whereas there are only rocks in other places, it is also cool there and during winter the snow could reach a height of two meters or more.

This mountainous and hilly region is a very strategic area for defense as well as for attacks for both sides, whether it be the Mujahideen or the kafir communist Russian forces.

It was strategic for the Mujahideen as it was the main access for the transportation of logistics, ammunitions, personnels, etc., and very strategic for attacks as it is made up of high grounds, very advantageous for the Mujahideen to attack the surrounding areas which had not been taken over whether with their infantry forces or artilleries.

As for the kafir communist Russian forces, the area was very important to them, they were prepared to buy the area for any price supposing that it could be bought because by controlling Joji, they would be able to block the movement of the Mujahideen in this area, in other words the Mujahideen would not be able to enter the Afghan territory, if they were to enter it they would be easily prevented and smashed, so the Mujahideen would be forced to position their base in the Pakistani territory.

If the Mujahideen could not enter the territory of Afghanistan, then they would not be able to launch attacks, especially with the artilleries as it was not possible to launch attacks from a neighboring country because it was certainly very sensitive then, in addition to the needs to take care of the neighborly ties with fellow Muslims in Pakistan especially that Pakistan was under the rule of the late Dhiya-Ul-Haq as the President of Pakistan at that time and it could be said that he was like a foster father for the Mujahideen.

Due to such importance of Joji for both fighting sides, the place had always become a battle field, be it on the land or in the airspace, until it was taken over completely by the Mujahideen and it became safe from enemy attacks as its surrounding areas could also be controlled in their entirity, if I am not mistaken it was sometime around the end of 1987 or early 1988.

The ground of Joji was also famous for its bunkers for almost every Mujahideen who were stationed in that front, their camps were made underground, there was a gigantic tunnel under the mountains built by the Mujahideen where thousands of weapons could be brought inside, in fact even dozens of heavy vehicles could also be brought inside.

Meeting Sheikh Usamah bin Ladin

The Arab Mujahideen brothers were writing brilliant records in the history of the Afghan war against the Red Bear kafir forces, then in fighting the bughot (rebellion in Islamic law) people and the munafiqeen, and later fighting the kafir Crusaders led by America today.

Indeed, their services were so significant in the development of the jabhahs (battle fronts) and defense of Joji. They built bunkers and trenches, and worked together with the tandzhims of the Afghan Mujahideen especially the Ittihad Al-Islamiyyah which was led by Ash-Sheikh AbdurRabbi Rasul Sayyaf, they were not only creditable in preparing the facilities but also even in every attack launched from that area, they were the ones who became “the head of the spear”.

Almost every frontal defense of Joji which was close to the enemies was occupied by the Arab brothers, though there were one or two camps which were occupied by the Afghan Mujahideen including those from the tandzhim of Hizbul Islam led by Al-Muhandis Ghulbuddin Hikmatyar, they managed to dig up trenches and build bunkers in the most frontal area which stretched into the enemies’ territory. They named this area "Ma'sadah" (the meeting point of the lions), which means the meeting points of the Mujahideen who were always ready to pounce and devour their enemies. It was in this area that Ash-Sheikh Usamah bin Ladin (hfz) was stationed, he was the general commander of all the Arab Mujahideen in that area, he was the one leading the fight personally.

It was in this Ma'sadah that I was introduced by Allah SWT to him i.e. in an underground bunker which was covered by very thick snow and in a dark condition, only lighted by a small oil lamp.

I did not expect beforehand that he was Ash-Sheikh Usamah bin Ladin, because I had not known him for certain or from near, sure I had seen him in a glance but only from a distance, besides that I did not hear any of the Arab brothers calling him by his name at that time, everybody called him by his Kuniyah name i.e. Abu Abdullah, whereas there were a lot of kuniyah name with the prefix Abu, including Abu Abdullah.

But alhamdulillah, there was one Arab Mujahid who slowly whispered to my ear, he said: "Ta'rif Anta ya Akhi?" (Do you know who that is, brother?), so I asked him back, "Maaza?" (What?), the Akhi said, "Haaza...Huwa Ash-Sheikh Usamah Ibnu Ladin." I was still a bit doubtful, so he added "Uqsimu Billah" (I swear by Allah), thus is the custom of the Arabs in order to convince people of what they say.

With that information, I did not waste the precious chance and opportunity, so I introduced my kuniah name to him with the extra familiar greetings like: "Kaifa Hallukum?", "Kaifa Shihatukum", "Kaifa Akhbarukum?" (how’s your condition, your health, your news), then he responded with a smile and his distinctive look while also asking, "Kaifa Hallukum?", "Kaifa Shihatukum", "Kaifa Akhbarukum?"

My acquaintanceship with him was only limited to this, thus was always the culture of getting to know each other amongst the Mujahideen, each one is guarding their own secrets mostly to the extent they did not know from which country the other was originating from, the most they could do would only be guesses, only certain people know, therefore not even one Mujahid would occupy themselves with asking, for example, "Where are you from?", "With whom?", "How did you come here?" and so on.

Normally, those who occupied themselves with these questions were the assigned intelligence, though not all of them. There were also those who did it due to habit or nature that was very difficult to change. Normally, if it was evident that the person was an assigned intelligence or munafiqeen, it could be seen for sure that he would not stay long in the Front. In fact, there were those who stayed for only a day or two because the bombardments of the enemies had made them cringed like a heated worm and they wanted to go back to their country or to a more secure place. There were even those who admitted that they were actually an intelligence while leaving in full humiliation.

From time to time, from moment to moment, from day to day, I observed Sheikh Usamah’s personality in silence because at that time, I had faith that Allah SWT had blessed my life by allowing me to meet the personage of a servant of Allah who has virtues and advantages not given to others.

Looking at him, I was as if looking at one of the companions of the Prophet SAW i.e. Utsman bin Affan (RA) or Abdurrahman bin Auf (RA) because there were on them (RA) similar characteristic i.e. plunging into the battlefields with their wealth and lives.

Ash-Sheikh Usamah bin Ladin (hfz), as is generally noted is not only a millionaire but a billionaire or even more than that, but he did not use his wealth like how the common wealthy people use their wealth. Instead, he plunged into the battle arena with his properties and life and was prepared to live zuhd (renunciation of the world or abstaining from the pleasures of this world) in the battle arena like the other Mujahideen. So my instinct told me that someone like him was a not just an average person, it might be that in one million there is not one like him and I, up to now, have not found anyone who equals him.

There is one natural character in me, may that character be good in the sight of Allah SWT i.e. I have a high regard for a servant of Allah who has virtues and excellence, especially in the matter of dien, even though that person does not have anything in the sight of others, in fact he could even be seen as insignificant, because it is too difficult to find someone who has advantages and then with those advantages is having an important role in a program, in accordance with his presence, to boost the progress for Islam and the Muslims.

Rasulullah SAW said :

"People are just like camels, out of one hundred, one can hardly find a single camel suitable to ride."

Therefore, if we observe mankind’s journey through history, there are actually not many people who had been given advantages by Allah SWT. The number of men chosen to become His Messengers is only 25. The number of As-Siddiqin, Ash-Shuhada' and As-Solihin is also small compared to the total number of the majority.

The number of fuqaha' ulama, tafseer experts (mufassirin) from the time of the Sahabas (RA), to the tabi'ut-tabi'in (followers of the tabiin) is also very small. The number of transmitters of hadiths with the given title of "mukhorrij" is only small, less than one hundred of them.

To be continued...

Saturday, December 19, 2009

Pakistan Court Summons 52 Suspects On Graft Charges

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It's proven many times that these so-called leaders are not fit to be leaders of the Muslim people. The taghoot puppet governments are all the same where ever they are. They and their supporters are the same. They are indeed enemies of Islam and the Mujahideen!

Amid growing political turmoil, Pakistan's anti-corruption court in the southern city of Karachi has summoned 52 suspects, including high-ranking officials, a report says.

Prosecutors say, among the top officials are Interior Minister Rehman Malik and presidential secretary Salman Farooqi. The Supreme Court on Thursday had also banned Defense Minister Chaudhry Ahmad Mukhtar and other top officials from leaving the country.

The summons were issued only two days after Pakistan's Supreme Court ruled as illegal an amnesty that protected thousands of Pakistanis from graft charges.

The amnesty, known as the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO), was issued by former military ruler General Pervez Musharraf on Oct. 5, 2007. It granted amnesty to politicians, political workers and bureaucrats who were accused of corruption, embezzlement, money-laundering, murder and terrorism between January 1, 1986 and October 12, 1999.

The court has called on the suspects to appear before a judge on January 8. This could also reopen some 8,000 cases against current and former Pakistani officials, including President Asif Ali Zardari.
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Sour©e: PTV
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Friday, December 18, 2009

Amazing Bird Appears at Martyrdom Operation

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Watch Carefully from 01:00 till 01:1. We can see a bird appearing out of nowhere!!! Where did it come from???

Read also:
The Birds Of Karomah Received The Three Shaheeds

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

"Foie Gras" and "Treatment of Animals: An Islamic Perspective"

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Foie Gras means "Fatty Liver"

It's A very luxurious delicacy that originates from France

But this dish comes from FORCE FEEDING a goose or duck to make them develop FATTY LIVER DISEASE.

Let's see the source of this wonderful dish


THE GEESE ARE FORCED TO EAT.. EVEN IF IT DOES NOT DESIRE TO


THE METAL PIPE PASSES THROUGH THE THROAT TO THE STOMACH... EVEN IF IT DOES NOT WANT TO EAT ANYTHING

TO MAKE THE LIVER BIGGER AND FATTER


THE CAGES ARE VERY SMALL AND THEY FORCE THE GEESE TO STAY IN ONE POSITION TO PREVENT THEM FROM USING ENERGY, THUS CONVERTING ALL FOOD INTO FAT.


HOW SAD THEIR EYES LOOK


THEIR LEGS BECOME SWOLLEN FROM THE LONG STANDING EVERYDAY. NO NEED TO SLEEP BECAUSE THEY WILL BE CAUGHT TO FEED AGAIN.


ALTHOUGH THEY TRY TO DEFEND THEMSELVES, IT IS USELESS


HOW SAD THIS LIFE IS…


THEY ARE FORCED TO EAT UNTIL THEY ARE DEAD OR THEIR BODIES CANT STAND IT ANYMORE

YOU SEE... THE FOOD IS OVER ITS MOUTH


THE REMAININGS THAT SURVIVED HAVE INFLAMED ANUSSES... BLOOD EASILY COME OUT WITH THE STOOL

NOT ONLY THE MOUTH AND THROAT HURT, STOMACH ACHING FROM THE FOOD ALL THE TIME, SWOLLEN AND BLOATED LEGS, NO SLEEP AND NO EXCERCISE BUT ALSO NO FREE MOVEMENT ALL THEIR LIVES TO SEE THE SKY OR RIVER


TO GET THE BEAUTIFUL AND WHITE LIVER THAT BECOMES UNUSUALLY BIG LIKE THIS


AS LIVER-CANNED FROM ABROAD
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Foie gras is one of the most sickening examples of humans' using cruelty to get “luxury.”

THIS IS CERTAINLY CRUELTY TO ANIMALS!

STOP THE DAILY TORTURE ON THE POOR ANIMALS.


NOW, WHAT DOES ISLAM SAY ABOUT CRUELTY TO ANIMALS?

Treatment of Animals: An Islamic Perspective

Cruelty to Animals: Excerpt from the book Animals in Islam, written by Al-Hafiz B.A. Masri

According to the teachings of Islam, causing unavoidable pain and suffering to the defenseless and innocent creatures of Almighty Allah is not justifiable under any circumstances. Islam wants us to think and act in the positive terms of accepting all species as communities like us in their own right and not to sit in judgement on them according to our human norms and values.

Prevention of physical cruelty is not enough; mental cruelty is equally important. In the following incident, a bird's emotional distress has been treated as seriously as a physical injury:

"We were on a journey with the Prophet (SAW) and he left us for a while. During his absence, we saw a bird called hummara with its two young and took the young ones. The mother bird was circling above us in the air, beating its wings in grief, when the Prophet (SAW), came back and said: 'Who has hurt the FEELINGS of this bird by taking its young? Return them to her.'" (Narrated by Abdul Rahman bin Abdullah bin Mas'ud- Muslim)

It is reported by the same authority that "A man once robbed some eggs from the nest of a bird. The Prophet (SAW), had them restored to the nest" (id.)

The Islamic concern about cruelty to animals is so great that it has declared the infliction of any unnecessary and avoidable pain "even to a sparrow or any creature smaller than that" as a sin for which the culprit would be answerable to the Almighty on the Day of Judgement.

The Prophet (SAW) told his companions of a woman who would be sent to Jahannam (Hell) for having locked up a cat; not feeding it, nor even releasing it, so that it could feed itself. (Narrated by Abdullah bin 'Umar. Bukhari)

Islam's concern for animals goes beyond the prevention of physical cruelty or even condescending kindness to them, which is a negative proposition. It enjoins on the human species, to take over the responsibility of all creatures in the spirit of a positive philosophy of life and to be their active protectors.

The Prophet (SAW) asked if acts of charity even to the animals were rewarded by the Almighty. He replied: "Yes, there is a reward for acts of charity to every beast alive." (Narrated by Abu Huraira, Bukhari)

Mishkat Al-Masabih concluded from "Bukhari" and "Muslim" to the effect that: "A good deed done to a beast is as good as doing good to a human being; while an act of cruelty to a beast is as bad as an act of cruelty to human beings," and that: "Kindness to animals was promised by rewards in Life Hereafter" (Mishkat al-Masabih; Book 6; Chapter 7, 8:178).

During the pre-Islamic period, certain pagan superstitions and polytheistic practices involving acts of torture and general cruelties to animals used to be common in Arabia. All such practices were condemned and stopped by Islam. The following few sayings of the Holy Prophet (SAW) will serve as an example:

Hazrat Jabir (RA) has reported that Allah's Messenger (SAW) forbade striking the face or branding on the face of animals.…The same companion of the Holy Prophet (SAW) reported him as saying, when an ass which had been branded in its face passed him by, he (SAW) said : "Allah curse the one who branded it." (Narrated by Jabir bin Abdullah- Muslim). This Hadith is concerned with causing pain to the animal on the sensitive parts of its body, as well as with the disfigurement of its appearance.

When the Holy Prophet (SAW) migrated to Madinah from Makkah, people there used to cut off camels' humps and the fat tails of sheep. The Prophet (SAW) ordered this barbaric practice to be stopped. The temptation for the people to perform this sort of vivisection on the animals was that the juicy humps and fatty tails could be eaten while the animal remained alive for future use. To remove this avidity, he declared: "Whatever is cut off an animal while it is still alive, is carrion and is unlawful (Haram) to eat." (Narrated by Abu Waqid al-Laithi. Tirmidhi; Hadith No. 1480, Chapt. On Al-At'imah)

To make sure that no injury was inflicted on the animal while there was even a flicker of life in it, it was forbidden by the Holy Prophet (SAW) to molest the carcass in any way, such as: by breaking its neck, skinning, or slicing off any of its parts, until the body is dead cold.

Many Muslim authorities have also given juristic opinions (fatwa) to the effect that, after slaughter, time should be given for the rigor mortis to set in before cutting up the carcass.

Not only physical but also emotional care of animals was so much emphasized by the Holy Prophet (SAW) that he once reprimanded his wife, Hazrat A'ishah (RA), for treating a camel a bit offhandedly. Hazrat A'ishah (RA) herself narrates: "I was riding a restive camel and turned it rather roughly. The Prophet SAW said to me: 'It behooves you to treat the animals gently.'" (Narrated by A'ishah (RA). Muslim, Vol. 4, Hadith No. 2593).

The following Hadith forbids the disfiguration of the body of an animal: The Prophet (SAW) said: "Do not clip the forelock of a horse, for a decency is attached to its forelock; nor its mane, for it protects it; nor its tail, for it is, its fly-flap." (Narrated by 'Utbah ibn Farqad Abu Abdillah al-Sulami. Abu Dawud)

The incidents of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (SAW)'s personal grooming of his horse; his wife A'ishah (RA)'s rough handling of her camel; the Holy Prophet (SAW)'s, prohibition of cutting forelocks, the mane or tail; the condemnation of striking and branding on the face or ears — all these and many other such hadiths show that this Prophet of Allah, Muhammad (SAW) had realized even fourteen centuries ago that animals have a sense of adornment and sensitivity and should be treated well.

Allah Ta'ala gave us the free use of the plants and animals of this Earth. He said, "Eat and drink of the good things of the Earth." He also said, "It is Allah Who has provided you livestock of every kind. You can ride some kinds and others you eat..." (Qur'an 40:79) But we must balance our use of animals and plants with our primary role as a caretaker on the Earth.

For example, we are not allowed to harm animals or plants for no reason. The Prophet (SAW) forbade people from capturing baby birds, burning ant hills and whipping animals cruelly. All the people he stopped from doing these things were doing them "for fun." Well, as the Prophet SAW pointed out, it wasn't fun for the animals.

If we use animals for our work, we must feed them and not over work them. If we eat animals we are supposed to slaughter the animals according to Dhabiha rules which prevent all cruelty to animals and if we have them as pets we are to feed them and care for them.

SOME HADITHS ON TREATMENT OF ANIMALS:
  • The Prophet (SAW) not only preached to the people to show kindness to one another but also to all living creatures. He forbade the practice of cutting tails and manes of horses, of branding animals at any soft spot, and of keeping horses saddled unnecessarily. (Sahih Muslim)
  • If the Prophet (SAW) saw any animal over-burdened or ill-fed he would pull up alongside the owner and say, "Fear Allah in your treatment of animals." (Abu Dawud, Kitab Jihad)
  • A companion to the Prophet (SAW) came to him carrying baby chicks in his clothing and mentioned that the mother bird had hovered over them all along. He was directed to return the chicks back to the same bush. (Mishkat, Abu Dawud)
  • During a journey, someone traveling with the Prophet (SAW) gathered some birds eggs from a nest. The mother bird's painful cries and commotion attracted the attention of the Prophet (SAW) who asked the man to return the eggs to the nest. (Bukhari)
  • "Allah has ordained kindness (and excellence) in everything. If the killing (of animals) is to be done, do it in the best manner, and when you slaughter, do it in the best manner by first sharpening the knife, and putting the animal at ease." (Muslim)
  • "If someone kills a sparrow for sport, the sparrow will cry out on the Day of Judgment, 'O Lord! That person killed me in vain! He did not kill me for any useful purpose.'" (Nisai)
  • "Any part cut off a living animal is dead flesh." (ie. Unlawful to eat. The implication is that it is not allowed to mutilate a living animal.) (Ahmad, Abu Dawud, Tirmidhi, Hakim)
  • The Prophet (SAW) said, "Whoever kills a sparrow or anything bigger than that without a just cause, Allah will hold him accountable on the Day of Judgment." The listeners asked, "O Messenger of Allah, what is a just cause?" He replied, "That he will kill it to eat, not simply to chop off its head and then throw it away." (Nisai, Hakim)
  • "When you set your dog (for the chase), mention the name of Allah, if he catches the game, and you reach it while it is still alive, cut, its throat quickly (so it won't suffer)." (Bukhari, Muslim)
  • Narrated Sa'd bin Jubair (RA): "While I was with Ibn Umar (RA), We passed by a group of young men who had tied a hen and started shooting at it. When they saw Ibn Umar (RA), they dispersed, leaving it. On that Ibn Umar (RA) said, 'Who has done this? The Prophet (SAW) cursed the one who did so.'" (Sahih Bukhari, Hadith No.423, Vol. 7)

    If thus is the stance of Islam on the treatments of animals, fittingly it goes without saying that humane treatments on fellow human beings (who are not hostile to Islam) is more emphasized.

Courtesy: www.everymuslim.com