Islam & the World - "No Muslim is a believer until he wishes the samefor his brother as he wishes for himself." Prophet Muhammad

The mosque should also be a place for celebration and socialization.
As per the celebrations inAl-Masjid Al-Nabawi- such as the wedding
between Ali ibn Abi Talib and Fatima daughter of Prophet Muhammad.
Mosques today should look into celebrating weddings in their own
communities.
The mosque is also a place for entertainment. Aisha relays:
"The Messenger of Allah once covered me while Iwas watching the
Abyssinians playing withthe spears in the Masjid." (Al-Bukhari and
Muslim)
The companions would also convene to read poetry, a past time that was
much loved even before the advent of Islam. They practiced their
oratory skills in front of the Prophet, andhe would sit and observe,
and sometimes share a smile with them.
Capitalize on Individual Strengths
No man is an island, and neither is any Muslim. Muslims need each
otherand need to learn to capitalize on individual strengths. The
fabric of the Muslim community comprises of unique anddistinctive
individuals with unique skills and interests. Prophet Muhammad advised
to do whatever you wishedto do as long as you did not feel embarrassed
by it. Muslims are allowed to indulge in any field ofinterest of
expertise as long as the particularly field was not consideredas
"forbidden" in the Quran and Sunnah.
A thriving community is actually one that is self-sustainable – one
that can survive without heavy-duty reliance on others. If every
Muslim is able to hone into his/herstrengths and give back to his/her
society, there would be far better cohesiveness in building Muslim
identity and independence. This would also ensure a closer practice
tofiqh, for example in procuringlawful food, having Muslim women
support mothers during birth, and a robust education system that
revolves strongly around Islamic principles.
Helping each other and working together also fuels the love for the
brotherhood. Prophet Muhammad said:
"No Muslim is a believer until he wishes the samefor his brother as he
wishes for himself." (Al-Bukhari)
The fabric between theAnsarandMuhajireenwas also bound by the
unconditional trust between strangers who were striving to please God
alone. God commands for Muslims to stick together and move as one.
This is to ensure the best of companionship for each other, as it is
in human nature to follow the religion of friends.
Creating a self-sufficient community allows new opportunities to arise
through partnerships and joint projects. This can be molded on the
need to provide constantda'wahto non-Muslims and to build strong
relationships with those who are curious about Islam.

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"Ahle Bait"

Q 1: Which personages are included in "Ahl-e-Bait"?
A. Posterity of the Holy Prophet and his near relatives for whom
"Sadaqa"(propitiatory gift, alms) is unlawful, his pious wives
(revered mothers of believers), Hadrat Faatemah, Hadrat'Alee, Hadrat
Imaam Hasan and Hadrat ImaamHusain (may Allah be pleased with them
all) are included in Ahle Bait.
Q 2: What is the status of the Holy Prophet's wives?
A. It is proved by the Holy Qur-aan that the pious wives of the Holy
Prophet are superior to all women. No woman is like them in any way.
Their virtues and good deeds earned them more reward than other women
(i.e. twenty fold for them and ten fold forothers) owing to their
submission to and worship of Allah and their services and obedience to
the Holy Prophet.
Q 3: Which personages are called "Panj-tan-Pak"?
A. "Panj-tan-Pak (five revered personages) means the Holy Prophet
Hadrat Muhammad Mustafa(may Allah's choicest blessings & peace be upon
him), Hadrat Faatemah, Hadrat'Alee, Hadrat Imaam Hasan and Hadrat
ImaamHusain (may Allah be pleased with them all).
Q 4: What are the excellences of Ahle Bait?
A. The Qur-aanic verses and sayings of the Holy Prophet concerning
Ahl-e-Bait indicate that their excellences are numerous. Some of
themare:
1. Allah Almighty has cleansed them of impurity and purified them
well. They have been protected from such things which are
unbecoming of their status.
2. Hell-fire is Haraam (forbidden) for them.
3. Sadaqa (propitiatory gift, alms) is unlawful forthem because it is
dross of the property/ wealth.
4. The first group of believers for whom the Holy Prophet will
intercede on the Day of Judgement is of Ahle Bait.
5. To love them is one of the obligatory duties of Islaam and to
harbour ill-will or malice against them is hypocrisy.
6. The case of "Ahle Bait"is like Noah's Ark that the one who boarded
it was safe and annihilatedwas he who avoided it.
7. Believers have been emphasised upon to hold fast to the rope of Ahle Bait.
A tradition to this effect says: I am leaving amongyou two things i.e.
the Holy Qur-aan and my "Aal" (progeny), you willnever go astray
unless you abandon them. Another saying stresses the believers to
equip their off-spring with three qualities i.e. love of the Holy
Prophet, loveof Ahle Bait and regular recitation of the Holy Qur-aan.
Q 5: What are the excellences of Hadrat Faatemah (may Allah be pleased
with her)?
A. The Holy Prophet is reported to have said: (1). I have named my
daughter "Faatemah" because Allah Almighty has protected her and those
believers who loveher, against hell-fire. (2).Hadrat Faatemah is
chaste and hell is "Haraam" (forbidden) for her and for her posterity.
(3).She is from me. I like what she likes and dislike what she
dislikes. (4).Addressing Hadrat Faatemah, the Holy Prophet once said:
O' Faatemah! Allah's anger lies in your anger and His pleasure lies in
your pleasure. (5). On another occasion, he said: O' Faatemah! Are you
not pleased with thegrace that Allah has made you the leader of all
female believers in paradise. (6). The Holy Prophet said (Hadrat)
Faatemah is dearest to me of all my family members.
Q 6: What are the excellences of Hadrat Imaam Hasan and ImaamHusain
(may Allah be pleased with them)?
A. The Holy Prophet said: (1) [Hadrat]Hasan and Husain are my two
flowers in the world. (2).He who loves them actually loves me and he
who harbours malice against them actually harbours malice against me.
(3). [Hadrat]Hasan and Husain are the leader of all youths in
paradise. (4) He who loves me and loves Hasan and Husain and their
parents [Hadrat 'AHand Hadrat Faatemah] will be in paradise with me.
In short, the Ahle Bait are Muqtadaa (leader) of
Ahle-Sunnat-wa-Jama'at (true followers of Sunnah). He who does not
love them is, indeed, accursed one. Hadrat Imaam Hasan andImaam Husain
are the "martyrs of high rank". Denial of their martyrdom is
misguidance and disbelief.
Q 7: Will the love of Ahle Bait be of any avail to believers without
the love of Prophet's companions?
A. It is obligatory upon every believer to love and respect
"Aal-o-Ashaab" (progeny and companions) of the Holy Prophet. One is
not true believer unless he loves Aal-e-Rasool. Similarly one's belief
is also defective until he loves the Prophet's companions. If
Aal-e-Rasool is a boat for the Muslim Ummah, the companions are stars.
Sothe help of boat and stars is must to achieve the goal of Islaamic
faith. A tradition runs in this respect which says: "the love of
Hadrat 'Aleeand malice against Hadrat Abu Bakr Siddique and Hadrat
'Umar-e-Farooq can not stay together in the heart of a believer". It
means that it is against Islaamic faith to love onecompanion and to
hate the other.
Q 8: Who was Yazeed?
A. Yazeed belonged to Bani Umaie-yah family whose hands are
stainedwith the blood of HadratImaam Husain and his family members.
His crime will keep him earning hatred and scorn of the Muslim Ummah
till the end of time.
Yazeed was born to Hadrat Amir Mu'aawi-yah (may Allah be pleased with
him). He was awkwardly fatty, ill-tempered, drunkard, dissolute and
tyrant. He re-enforced usury and desecrated the Holy Ka'bah and Holy
Madinah.
Despite all these ill and blasphemous activities at his part,
believers should not call him "Kaafir" (infidel,disbeliever), as
Imaam-e-Azam Abu Hanifa's (may Allah be pleased with him) creed is
"Sukoot" (silence) to this effect which means that we can call him
"Faasiq-o-Faajir" (transgressor and sinful) but should neither call
him "Kaafir" nor Muslim.
Now-a-days some misguided people say that Hadrat Imaam Husain and
Yazeed were both princes and we got no right to speak about their
dispute, such people are Kharijites (those who dissented from Hadrat
Ali) and render themselves liable to be cast into hell-fire.
Q 9: Who are twelve Imaams of Ahle Bait?
A. Twelve Imaams (religious leaders) of Ahle Bait are: (1)Hadrat 'Alee
(2) Hadrat Imaam Hasan (3) Hadrat Imaam Husain (4) Hadrat
ImaamZain-ul-Abideen (5) Hd:Imaam Baqar (6) Hd:Imaam Jaffar Sadiq (7)
Hd:Imaam Musa Kazim (8) Hd:Imaam 'AleeMusa Raza (9) Hd:Imaam Muhammad
Taqi (10) Hd:Imaam Naqi (11) Hd:Imaam Hasan Askari and (12) Hd: Imaam
Mehdi who will come towards the end of the world.


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A Perfect Perceiver: Skin

You can hold and carry objects with smooth surfaces like a glass, for
example. You can feel softness when you touch a feather and hardness
when you hold a stone. Perceiving all this and sending necessary
signals toyour brain, your skin has the characteristics that enable
you to visualize the objects in your brain.
A great number of nerves exist in the fingertips. This provides you
with facility in movement and does not cause any inconvenience. On the
other hand, in "less important" regions, on a man's back for example,
there are fewer nerve endings present. This is a very important
advantage. Now, let's assume the opposite: Let's assume that our
fingertips are quite insensitive while nerves are arranged in greater
numbersat the back of our bodies. This, undoubtedly, would be very
troublesome. In such a situationwhile we could not use our hands
properly, we would feel the slightest object touching ourback, the
folding of our clothing,for example.
Human skin is a complex organ consisting of many layers, containing
nerves for perception, circulation canals, airing systems and heat and
moisture regulators which protect the body like a shield against the
rays of the sun. Because of this, a man can be in great danger if a
part of his skin is damaged. Under the skin is a layer consisting of
fat. This layer of fat serves as insulation against heat. Over this
layer is another one, most of which consists of proteins that give
theskin elasticity.
If we were to lift the skin and look just one centimeter below it, the
sight greeting us would be an unaesthetic, even frightful sight, where
fats and proteins and various blood vessels exist. By means of the
feature that enables it to cover these structures, the skin both
provides a very important aesthetic contribution and also enables us
to protect ourselves from outside factors. It will be sufficient to
remark upon a couple of the functions of the skin that makes it vital
for us and to ponder on them in order to understand the importance
ofits existence.
Human skin prevents the disturbance of the water balance of the body,
is strong and elastic, can repair itself, protect the body from
harmful rays, maintains contact with the outside world, and protect
the temperature of the body in cold or hot weather.
Human skin, which functions as a sensitive detector and an advanced
air-conditioner meeting all kinds of needs, is a blessing that has
been created by God, with the beauty it provides visually and the
features it has to protect man. The skin, about which many pages of
books have been written, once again displays God's magnificence in
creation to us.

WHY IS DENYING THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION PORTRAYED AS REJECTING DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESS?

THE word "evolution" has been used in several senses in recent times.
A social aspect has been added to it, for instance, and theword has
come to mean human progress and technological development. There is
nothing wrong with the concept of "evolution" when it is used in this
sense. There is no doubt that man will use his intelligence,
knowledge, and strength to develop over time. The sum of human
knowledge will grow from generation to generation. In the same way
that this is not evidence for the theory of evolution itself, which
seeks to explain the emergence of life by chance, neither does it
conflict in any way with the fact of creation.
Yet evolutionists engage in a facile word game here, and confuse a
true concept with a false one. For example, it is true to state that
"On account of man's long years of living as a social being, his
knowledge, culture, and technology are in a constant state of
development." (We must remember, however, that there can be regression
over time as well as progress. Sociologically speaking, there have
been times of progress, as well as times of stagnation and
regression.) However, the claim that "In the same way as man has
developed and progressed, living species have also advancedand changed
over time" is completely false. Although it is perfectly logical and
scientific to say that, as a thinking being, man's knowledge has
increased and been passed on to subsequent generations, allowing
constant progress, it is utterly senseless to claim that living
species developed and evolved by chance and coincidence, in accordance
with uncontrolled and unconscious natural conditions.
The greatest names in the advancement of science were all creationists
No matter how much evolutionists try to identify themselves with
concepts such as innovation and progress, history has shown that the
real initiators of innovation and progress have always been faithful
scientists who have believed in divine creation.
We see the mark of such believing scientists at every point of
scientific progress. Leonardo da Vinci, Copernicus, Kepler, and
Galileo, who opened a new era in astronomy, Cuvier, the founder of
paleontology, Linnaeus, the founder of the modern classification
system forplants and animals, Isaac Newton, the discoverer of the law
of gravity, Edwin Hubble, who discovered the existence of the galaxies
and the expansion of the universe, and many othershave believed in God
and that life and the universe were created by Him.
One of the greatest scientists of the twentieth century, Albert Einstein, said:
I cannot conceive of a genuine scientist without that profound faith.
The situation may be expressed by an image: science without religion
is lame...1
The German Max Planck, who laid the foundations of modern physics, said:
Anybody who has been seriouslyengaged in scientific work of anykind
realises that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science
are written the words: Ye must have faith. Itis a quality which the
scientist cannot dispense with.2
The history of science reveals that change and progress have been the
work of creationist scientists. On the other hand, of course,
scientific developments in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
especially have allowed us to come by countlesspieces of evidence of
creation. Modern science and technology have allowed us to discover
the fact that the universe came into being from nothing, in other
words that it was "created." It isa fact accepted by the whole
scientific world that the universecame into being and developed as a
result of the explosion of one single point. In this way, themodel of
the infinite universe, with no beginning or end, maintained by
materialists under the primitive scientific conditions of the
nineteenth century has been destroyed. It has been realised that the
universe was created, as it says in the Qur'an, and that it has a
beginning and frontiers and has expanded over time. The Qur'an
expresses this fact thus:
Do those who disbelieve not seethat the heavens and the Earth were
sewn together and then We unstitched them and that We made from water
every living thing? So will they not believe? (Surat al-Anbiya,30)
It is We Who have built the universe with (Our Creative) power, and
verily, it is We Who are steadily expanding it. (Surat adh-Dhariyat,
47)
It was again twentieth century scientific progress that allowed us to
discover more evidence of the design in life. The electron microscope
revealed the structure of the cell, the smallest unit of life, as well
as the parts that comprise it. The discovery of DNA demonstrated the
infinite intelligence in the cell. Biochemical and physiological
advances have shown the flawless workings at the molecular level of
the body, and its superior design which cannot be explained by
anythingother than creation.
As opposed to all this, it was theprimitive state of science 150 years
ago that prepared the ground for the formation of the theory of
evolution.
In conclusion, it is impossible to consider those who believe in
creation, and who constantly provide new evidence of it, as being
opposed to progress, development, and science. On the contrary, such
people are their greatest supporters. Those who actually oppose
progress are those who turn their backs on all the scientific evidence
and defend the theory of evolution, which is nothing but an
unsubstantiated fantasy.
1. Science, Philosophy and Religion, A Symposium, published by the
Conference on Science, Philosophy and Religion in Their Relation to
the Democratic Way of Life, Inc., New York, 1941, (emphasis added)
2. Max Planck, Where Is Science Going?, Allen & Unwin, 1933, p.214,
(emphasis added)