2b] Ramadan 2012, The 13th Day

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There are Signs inthat for people who reflect.In the earth thereare
diverse regions side by side and gardens of grapes and cultivated
fields, and palm-trees sharing one root and others with individual
roots, all watered with the same water. And Wemake some things better
to eat than others. There are Signs in that for people who use their
intellect. (Surat a-Ra'd, 2-4)
It is He Who created the heavens and the earth in six days, then
established Himself firmly on the Throne. Heknows what goes into the
earth and what comes out of it, what comes down from heaven and what
goes up into it. He is with youwherever you are – Allahsees what you
do. (Surat al-Hadid, 4)
An Increase In The Number Of Earthquakes
Doomsday will not come until earthquakes multiply, strife appears, and
murders increase. (Portents of Doomsday, p.109)
Our Prophet (saas) stated in the above hadith that "a rise in the
number of earthquakes" will be a sign that the End Times is nigh.
Indeed, the twentieth century went down in history as one in which
many thousands of people lost their lives in earthquakes. The
devastating earthquake inKobe (Japan), and those that followed one
after the other in Turkey, Taiwan, Greece, and Mexico, are important
signs.
There will be earthquakes in my community. Ten thousand, twenty
thousand, thirty thousandpeople will die. Allah will make this a
counsel for the taqwa, a mercy on believers and a suffering for
unbelievers. (Ibn 'Asakır, Geleceğin Tarihi 1(History of the Future
1), Orhan Baytan, Mevsim Publishings, p. 81)
The days when you can find no homes to shelter you or animals to carry
you have come close. Earthquakes will demolishyour houses. (Barzanji,
Al-Isha`ah, p. 146)
If you see the caliphate has descended to the HolyLand, (al-ard
al-muqaddasa) know thatearthquakes, afflictions, and great events are
nigh.On that day, Doomsday is closer to humanity than this hand is to
my head. (Sunan Abu Dawud)
When the generations that follow my community insult those who went
before (with various pretexts and excuses), expect red winds,
earthquakes and changes of appearance (metamorphosis or stonesraining
from the sky). (Tirmidhi Hadiths, Fitan 39, p. 2211)
In the End Times, when amusements and dancers appear and alcohol is
said to be permitted, there willbe collapse; it will rain stones; and
people will change their appearance. (Sahl Ibn Sa`d, Ahmad Diya'
al-Din al-Kamushkhanawi,Rumuz al-Ahadith, 2:302/8)
Doomsday will not take place until knowledge vanishes, earthquakes
multiply, time is shortened, strife appears, and murders flourish.
(Sahih Bukhari, Ibn Majah)

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2a] Ramadan 2012, The 13th Day

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Looking at the Qur'an in general, we see that men and women are
addressed in the same manner. This is yet another indication that
Allah is concerned only with a person's true and heart-felt belief and
not his or her age or gender. In this respect, the Qur'an addresses
men and women together and reminds them that they have the same
responsibilities. There are many such verses, among them:
"Anyone, male or female, who does right actions and believes, will
enter the Garden. They will not be wronged by so much as the tiniest
speck " (Surat an-Nisa, 124)
When revealing things about unbelievers, Allah also addresses them in
the same manner. He reveals that unbelievers and hypocrites of both
genders will be treated alike. For example:
Allah has promised the men and women of the hypocrites and unbelievers
the Fire of Hell, remaining in it timelessly, forever. It will suffice
them. Allah has cursed them. They will have an everlasting punishment.
(Surat at-Tawba, 68)
As these verses make clear, men and women are equal in their trial on
Earth as well as in the reward they receive in theHereafter.
A Response To The Claim That ''If Students Do Not Learn About
Evolution They Can Never Learn About The Diversity İn Nature''
The idea that "If studentsdo not learn about evolution they can never
learn about the diversity in nature" is part of the mass hypnosis that
Darwinists are trying to perpetrate. Darwinists spread the deceptive
idea that someone who is ignorant of evolution can never know about
the diversity in nature in order to spread the fraud that "evolution
is part of science" and use that fraud in order to place evolution
permanently in school curricula.
The fact is, however, that it is evolution that prevents people
appreciating and understanding the extraordinary structures and
glorious variety in life. It is impossible to be aware of beauty and
appreciate its extraordinary nature if one is under the spell of a
false religion that conditions people with the idea that everything
ispurposeless and random. It is certainly impossible to appreciate
beauty as beauty, understand it, be affected by it and feel admiration
for it so long as it is not appreciated.
Evolution is therefore like a plague that prevents people seeing and
grasping the magnificent and glorious diversity andbeauty on Earth.
It is impossible for people who believe in themselves to be descended
from animals, who live devoid of purpose or spirit in an empty and
aimless world, to delight in and appreciate, despite all its glory,
the loveliness of a nature that they believed came about by chance as
the result of accidents anderrors. Even if they praise the beauty of
nature, to whom can they direct that praise? Such people's false god
is unconscious, random and aimless chance. It is therefore impossible
for someone who believes in evolution to love nature and draw any
conclusions from it.
It is only possible to comprehend the glory in nature if Almighty
Allah, the Creator of all beauty, so ordains. Only then can one
appreciate and admire the beauty before one. Only then can one know He
to Whom these beauties belong and understand that all praise must be
directed toward Almighty Allah. One will then rejoice to think that
these delights will never vanish but will exist for alleternity and in
the most perfect and delightful forms in the hereafter. Only then can
one attach meaning to and appreciate beauty.
Allah has created all entities. They are all under Allah's knowledge
and protection. The diversity on Earth is the artistry of Omniscient
and Almighty Allah. Every detail exhibits glorious beauty so that one
can appreciate Almighty Allah.Properly appreciating andunderstanding
the extraordinary beauty in nature is a privilege bestowed on those
who understand and appreciate Allah, in other words, on believers.
In conclusion, the imposition of a child is wrong in this regard, as
it is on so many others. A child can only understand and appreciate
the glory in nature if he is able to understand and appreciate the
greatness of Almighty Allah. Allah tells us that for those
whounderstand and appreciate our Lord's might and greatness and who
look through the eyes of faith, there are "signs," or evidence, in
each and every detail:
Allah is He Who raised up the heavens without any support – you can
see that – and then established Himself firmly on the Throne. Hemade
the sun and moonsubservient, each running for a specified term. He
directs the whole affair. He makes the Signs clear so that hopefully
you will be certain about the meeting with your Lord.
It is He Who stretched out the earth and placedfirmly embedded
mountains and rivers in it and made two types of every kind of fruit.
He covers over day with night.

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2] Ramadan 2012, The 13th Day

2]
I will not let the deeds of any doer among you go towaste, male or
female—you are both the same in that respect. Those who have left
their homes and were driven from their homes, and [who] sufferedharm
in My Way and fought and were killed, I will erase their bad
actionsand admit them into Gardens with rivers flowing under them, as
a reward from Allah. The best of all rewards is with Allah. (Surah Al
'Imran, 195)
Whoever meets Allah, without associating partners with Him, will enter
Paradise; and whoever meets Him as one who associated anything with
Him, will enter the Fire. (Muslim)
A woman and a man are both lower selves. They are souls. They are both
beings that come into being by Allah's breathing into them.
Consequently they have both the very same rights. A woman divorces as
she wishes, if she considers him to be abnormal and insincere. If he
is far removed from faith and religion, she divorces him. Even if she
does not divorce, their marriage becomes legally invalid. (A9 TV,
February 20, 2012)
The Qur'an Addresses Men And Women In The Same Manner
Every society knows all of the traditional arguments about women's
ideal role and place. Their social status and importance in the
family, whether or not they should work, and other social issues have
been discussed seemingly forever. For Muslims, these issues were
settled by the Qur'an: Men and women are equal. The facts that men and
women have different physical builds and that women are generally
weaker than men are irrelevant and cannot be used to reduce women's
value.
What truly matters in Islamic morality is not whether someone is male
or female, but whether or not he or she is a believer who fears and
respects Allah. Each believer is expected to strive to live by the
Qur'an's morality, for the results of this struggle are what Allah
values and will measure inthe Hereafter. Allah revealsthe qualities
that all Muslims, male or female, should have:
The men and women of the believers are friends ofone another. They
command what is right and forbid what is wrong, keep up prayer and
give the alms [zakat], and obey Allah and His Messenger. They are the
people on whom Allah will have mercy. Allah is Almighty, All-Wise.
(Surat at-Tawba, 71)
As Allah reveals, all Muslims, regardless of their gender, have the
same responsibilities: to worship Allah, live according to the
Qur'an's morality, command good and prevent evil, and abide by the
Qur'an's rules.Allah promises everyone who fears and respects
thelimits that He has established for humanity that He will give them
the ability to distinguish right from wrong:
O you who believe! If you have fear of [and respect] Allah, He will
give you discrimination, erase your bad actions, and forgive you.
Allah's favor is indeed immense. (Surat al-Anfal, 29)
Any man or woman who acts on the impulses of theintellect derived from
belief can achieve success in many areas. This depends on their will,
motivation, and persistence. Believers never rest on their laurels,
for it is part of Islamic morality to always strive to be more
intelligent, talented, responsible, and virtuous, as well as to seekto
always improve upon their character. Allah reveals that believers pray
to Him for a character that will make them role models for those
around them.
Islam states that men and women are totally equal. For both of them,
it all depends on their ability to exceed what is expected ofthem by
realizing the full potential of their characterand personality, and by
fulfilling their responsibilities. For this reason, believing women do
not struggle for equality with men, but exert themselves in the race
to do good, defined inthe Qur'an as the effort to win Allah's good
pleasure. For this end, they race to become the person most loved by
Allah so that theymay win His good pleasureand be the nearest to Him.
The equality between menand women is also seen in the fact that Allah
gives them equal rights in this world:
Every soul will taste death.We test you with both good and evil as a
trial. And you will be returned to Us. (Surat al-Anbiya', 35)
Allah gave each man and woman a fixed number of years, holds them both
responsible for their choices, gave them a senseof right and wrong,
and made their base instincts and Satan their enemies. He also reminds
men and women that no one will be treated unjustly as regards the
rewards they are to receive on Earth as well as in the Hereafter:
"Anyone who acts rightly, male or female, being a believer, We will
give them a good life and will recompense them according to the best
of what they did" (Surat an-Nahl, 97)

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1d] Sunnahs Neglected in Ramadhan

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And our Messenger sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam said, "Beware of
(ghuluww) exceeding the limits in the Religion. Because those who came
before you were destroyedby their exceeding the limits in their
Religion."
So when Allah¹s Messenger, sallAllahu alaihiwa sallam, has made it
clear to us that there is in the matter of a persons taking suhoor ,
latitude and a margin of ease, to the extent that he said, "If one of
you hears the call to Prayer whilst the vessel is in his hand, then
let him not put it down until he has completed his need from it."
So it is opposition to Allah and to the Messenger that a person says
that one who hears the adhaan whilst he has food in his mouth must
spit it out upon the ground. This is not from the Sunnah . Rather this
is contrary to the Sunnah , and is contrary to the clear command of
the Messenger, sallAllahu alaihiwa sallam . And I have been asked many
times, soI will not leave the need for such a question, but rather I
will precede you init, by stating that this hadeeth is to be found in
some of the most famous books of the Sunnah . Fromthem being the Sunan
of Aboo Daawood, and it is the third book from the well-known six
books. Thefirst of which is Saheehul-Bukhaaree , the second being
Saheeh Muslim , and the third being the Sunan of Aboo Daawood.
This hadeeth is to be foundin it, and it is likewise reported by Aboo
Abdullaah al-Haakim in his Mustadrak , and it is likewise reported by
the Imaam, the Imaam of the Sunnah Ahmad ibn Hanbal, rahimahullaah ,
in his tremendous book known as the Musnad of Imaam Ahmad. So the
hadeth is not a strange hadeeth , rather it is a well-known hadeeth ,
and was reported by the Imaams ofthe sunnah in the early times, and
with an authentic chain of narration.
So here I say, to conclude this talk, since perhaps some of you have
questions, which we will answer if Allah wills, so I conclude it with
his, sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam, saying "Allah loves that
Hisallowances be acted upon just as He loves that His prescribed
duties be carried out," and in one narration, "Just as He hatesthat
disobedience to Him be committed."
So there are two narrations, "Allah loves that His allowances be acted
upon just as He lovesthat His prescribed duties be carried out" , and
the second narration is, "as He hates that disobedience to Him be
committed."
So therefore the Muslim should not practice false piety, and (as a
result) refrain from obeying the Prophet, sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam,
in that which he encouraged us upon and clarified to us.
And what has been said is sufficient, and all praise is for Allah, the
Lord of all of the creation."/<alhamdulillaah>

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