Slander of the 'sexual kind' requires four witnesses who directly saw the 'action'. No witnesses, no case. Not our business any more parading ' pillows and mattresses' to prove a point. Not even 'DNA' finger-printing and all that jazz, etc and etc. This is not homicide. This is not murder. This is consensual sex between adults. Private. No slander. Allah is not interested in that.........
'....What you don't know you don't know, that is not your business anymore, that is MINE and let ME deal with the transgressors MY way, in MY own time, at the place of MY choosing. I give you guys privacy in your homes with your wife/wives. Go enjoy it. Do not peep around through keyholes looking for trouble...That is MY business! I am Knower of all things. I am the Most Compassionate,the Most Merciful
'Just mind your own 'fucking' business. If people do anything beyond what I already delineate, in the privacy of their homes, that is not your business. I, and only I, the Lord of the Universe, will take care of that according to MY rules , at My own time and at the place of My choice. Not your business peeping into people's keyholes.....Taking people's blood and finger printing people's DNA and parading people's honor into the public domain!....That is not for you,MY slaves to point fingers at fellow slaves.Certainly no, when you do not have FOUR RELIABLE witnesses.
I do not give a damn about your standard of proof....
You guys are great at making mistakes and causing trouble amongst yourselves.If you cannot even catch simple petty thieves amongst yourselves,nibbling away at MY resources meant for everyone, with your Penal Codes and your corrupted judiciaries, how can you guys hope to handle slander of the sexual kind JUSTLY and FAIRLY? This is not your business!..Leave that to ME!....'
That is what these ayats from the beginning of Surah Al Nur seem to convey........
"And those who accuse honourable women but bring not four witnesses, scourge them (with) eighty stripes and never (afterward) accept their testimony - They indeed are evil-doers - (4) Save those who afterward repent and make amends. (For such) lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful. (5)"
"As for those who accuse their wives but have no witnesses except themselves; let the testimony of one of them be four testimonies, (swearing) by Allah that he is of those who speak the truth; (6)And yet a fifth, invoking the curse of Allah on him if he is of those who lie. (7) And it shall avert the punishment from her if she bear witness before Allah four times that the thing he saith is indeed false, (8) And a fifth (time) that the wrath of Allah be upon her if he speaketh truth. (9) And had it not been for the grace of Allah and His mercy unto you, and that Allah is Clement, Wise, (ye had been undone). (10)
"Lo! they who spread the slander are a gang among you. Deem it not a bad thing for you; nay, it is good for you. Unto every man of them (will be paid) that which he hath earned of the sin; and as for him among them who had the greater share therein, his will be an awful doom. (11)
"Why did not the believers, men and women, when ye heard it, think good of their own own folk, and say: It is a manifest untruth? (12) Why did they not produce four witnesses? Since they produce not witnesses, they verily are liars in the sight of Allah. (13) Had it not been for the grace of Allah and His mercy unto you in the world and the Hereafter an awful doom had overtaken you for that whereof ye murmured. (14)
When ye welcomed it with your tongues, and uttered with your mouths that whereof ye had no knowledge, ye counted it a trifle. In the sight of Allah it is very great. (15)
Wherefor, when ye heard it, said ye not: It is not for us to speak of this. Glory be to Thee (O Allah)! This is awful calumny. (16) Allah admonisheth you that ye repeat not the like thereof ever, if ye are (in truth) believers. (17) And He expoundeth unto you the revelations. Allah is Knower, Wise. (18) Lo! those who love that slander should be spread concerning those who believe, theirs will be a painful punishment in the world and the Hereafter. Allah knoweth. Ye know not. (19) "
Friday, February 12, 2010
Sunday, February 7, 2010
...and they say: The Beneficient has taken Himself a son!!!
"Then she brought him to her own folk, carrying him. They said: O Mary! Thou hast come with an amazing thing. (27) O sister of Aaron! Thy father was not a wicked man nor was thy mother a harlot. (28) Then she pointed to him. They said: How can we talk to one who is in the cradle, a young boy? (29) He spake: Lo! I am the slave of Allah. He hath given me the Scripture and hath appointed me a Prophet, (30) And hath made me blessed wheresoever I may be, and hath enjoined upon me prayer and almsgiving so long as I remain alive, (31) And (hath made me) dutiful toward her who bore me, and hath not made me arrogant, unblest. (32) Peace on me the day I was born, and the day I die, and the day I shall be raised alive! (33) Such was Jesus, son of Mary: (this is) a statement of the truth concerning which they doubt. (34) It befitteth not (the Majesty of) Allah that He should take unto Himself a son. Glory be to Him! When He decreeth a thing, He saith unto it only: Be! and it is. (35) And lo! Allah is my Lord and your Lord. So serve Him. That is the right path." (36)
[ Maryam , 19 , 27-36 ]
"On the day when We shall gather the righteous unto the Beneficent, a goodly company. (85) And drive the guilty unto Hell, a weary herd, (86) They will have no power of intercession, save him who hath made a covenant with his Lord. (87) And they say: The Beneficent hath taken unto Himself a son. (88) Assuredly ye utter a disastrous thing (89) Whereby almost the heavens are torn, and the earth is split asunder and the mountains fall in ruins, (90) That ye ascribe unto the Beneficent a son, (91) When it is not meet for (the Majesty of) the Beneficent that He should choose a son. (92) There is none in the heavens and the earth but cometh unto the Beneficent as a slave." (93)
[ Maryam , 19 : 85-93 ]
"And the Jews say: Ezra is the son of Allah, and the Christians say: The Messiah is the son of Allah. That is their saying with their mouths. They imitate the saying of those who disbelieved of old. Allah (Himself) fighteth against them. How perverse are they! (30) They have taken as lords beside Allah their rabbis and their monks and the Messiah son of Mary, when they were bidden to worship only One God. There is no god save Him. Be He glorified from all that they ascribe as partner (unto Him)!" (31)
[ Repentence , 9 : 30-31 ]
"Praise be to Allah Who hath revealed the Scripture unto His slave, and hath not placed therein any crookedness, (1) (But hath made it) straight, to give warning of stern punishment from Him, and to bring unto the believers who do good works the news that theirs will be a fair reward, (2) Wherein they will abide for ever; (3) And to warn those who say: Allah hath chosen a son, (4)(A thing) whereof they have no knowledge, nor (had) their fathers, Dreadful is the word that cometh out of their mouths. They speak naught but a lie. (5)Yet it may be, if they believe not in this statement, that thou (Muhammad) wilt torment thy soul with grief over their footsteps." (6)
[ The Cave , 18 : 1-6 ]
...What is fundamentally wrong with the national leadership nowadays,'kowtaying' to 2 to 3 lost souls in Sabah, when even The Pope himself, spiritual head of 3 billion people, rightfully[ ..and I respect him for being so intellectually honest..], fight shy of calling his '1 in 3' and '3 in 1' God , Allah !
"Already have We urged unto hell many of the jinn and humankind, having hearts wherewith they understand not, and having eyes wherewith they see not, and having ears wherewith they hear not. These are as the cattle - nay, but they are worse! These are the neglectful."
[ The Plateau , 7 : 179 ]
"Say: Shall We inform you who will be the greatest losers by their works? (103) Those whose effort goeth astray in the life of the world, and yet they reckon that they do good work. (104) Those are they who disbelieve in the revelations of their Lord and in the meeting with Him. Therefor their works are vain, and on the Day of Resurrection We assign no weight to them." (105)
[ The Cave , 18 : 103-105 ]
"Say: I am only a mortal like you. My Lord inspireth in me that your God is only One God. And whoever hopeth for the meeting with his Lord, let him do righteous work, and make none sharer of the worship due unto his Lord."
[ The Cave , 18 : 110 ]
.......Raw, beautiful and direct....The Qur'an. At the end of the day, we Muslims cannot depend on people, even present cohort of leaders, to uphold our religion. We have to get back to Him through His Letters,His messenger's Sirah and hadiths,and seek for His solace and His enlightenment and decide and do what is best for us all.Our responsibility and accountability to Him is a personal one.Each soul will be questioned on what it does and does not on that Day when all the rest does not matter an iota. JMHO. Insyaallah.
"But he who turneth away from remembrance of Me, his will be a narrow life, and I shall bring him blind to the assembly on the Day of Resurrection. (124) He will say: My Lord! Wherefor hast Thou gathered me (hither) blind, when I was wont to see? (125) He will say: So (it must be). Our revelations came unto thee but thou didst forget them. In like manner thou art forgotten this Day." (126)
[ 20 : 124-126 ]
"Lo! unto Us is their return (25) And Ours their reckoning." (26)
[ 88 : 25-26 ]
Dr Nik Howk
Related Topics:
Early Muslims in Abysinia
Trinity
The Lina Joy Case
[ Maryam , 19 , 27-36 ]
"On the day when We shall gather the righteous unto the Beneficent, a goodly company. (85) And drive the guilty unto Hell, a weary herd, (86) They will have no power of intercession, save him who hath made a covenant with his Lord. (87) And they say: The Beneficent hath taken unto Himself a son. (88) Assuredly ye utter a disastrous thing (89) Whereby almost the heavens are torn, and the earth is split asunder and the mountains fall in ruins, (90) That ye ascribe unto the Beneficent a son, (91) When it is not meet for (the Majesty of) the Beneficent that He should choose a son. (92) There is none in the heavens and the earth but cometh unto the Beneficent as a slave." (93)
[ Maryam , 19 : 85-93 ]
"And the Jews say: Ezra is the son of Allah, and the Christians say: The Messiah is the son of Allah. That is their saying with their mouths. They imitate the saying of those who disbelieved of old. Allah (Himself) fighteth against them. How perverse are they! (30) They have taken as lords beside Allah their rabbis and their monks and the Messiah son of Mary, when they were bidden to worship only One God. There is no god save Him. Be He glorified from all that they ascribe as partner (unto Him)!" (31)
[ Repentence , 9 : 30-31 ]
"Praise be to Allah Who hath revealed the Scripture unto His slave, and hath not placed therein any crookedness, (1) (But hath made it) straight, to give warning of stern punishment from Him, and to bring unto the believers who do good works the news that theirs will be a fair reward, (2) Wherein they will abide for ever; (3) And to warn those who say: Allah hath chosen a son, (4)(A thing) whereof they have no knowledge, nor (had) their fathers, Dreadful is the word that cometh out of their mouths. They speak naught but a lie. (5)Yet it may be, if they believe not in this statement, that thou (Muhammad) wilt torment thy soul with grief over their footsteps." (6)
[ The Cave , 18 : 1-6 ]
...What is fundamentally wrong with the national leadership nowadays,'kowtaying' to 2 to 3 lost souls in Sabah, when even The Pope himself, spiritual head of 3 billion people, rightfully[ ..and I respect him for being so intellectually honest..], fight shy of calling his '1 in 3' and '3 in 1' God , Allah !
"Already have We urged unto hell many of the jinn and humankind, having hearts wherewith they understand not, and having eyes wherewith they see not, and having ears wherewith they hear not. These are as the cattle - nay, but they are worse! These are the neglectful."
[ The Plateau , 7 : 179 ]
"Say: Shall We inform you who will be the greatest losers by their works? (103) Those whose effort goeth astray in the life of the world, and yet they reckon that they do good work. (104) Those are they who disbelieve in the revelations of their Lord and in the meeting with Him. Therefor their works are vain, and on the Day of Resurrection We assign no weight to them." (105)
[ The Cave , 18 : 103-105 ]
"Say: I am only a mortal like you. My Lord inspireth in me that your God is only One God. And whoever hopeth for the meeting with his Lord, let him do righteous work, and make none sharer of the worship due unto his Lord."
[ The Cave , 18 : 110 ]
.......Raw, beautiful and direct....The Qur'an. At the end of the day, we Muslims cannot depend on people, even present cohort of leaders, to uphold our religion. We have to get back to Him through His Letters,His messenger's Sirah and hadiths,and seek for His solace and His enlightenment and decide and do what is best for us all.Our responsibility and accountability to Him is a personal one.Each soul will be questioned on what it does and does not on that Day when all the rest does not matter an iota. JMHO. Insyaallah.
"But he who turneth away from remembrance of Me, his will be a narrow life, and I shall bring him blind to the assembly on the Day of Resurrection. (124) He will say: My Lord! Wherefor hast Thou gathered me (hither) blind, when I was wont to see? (125) He will say: So (it must be). Our revelations came unto thee but thou didst forget them. In like manner thou art forgotten this Day." (126)
[ 20 : 124-126 ]
"Lo! unto Us is their return (25) And Ours their reckoning." (26)
[ 88 : 25-26 ]
Dr Nik Howk
Related Topics:
Early Muslims in Abysinia
Trinity
The Lina Joy Case
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