In Gog - They Trust?

	In Gog - They Trust?
		On November the 9th 1951, Winston Churchill made a speech at the Lord Mayor of London's Banquet at the Guildhall, marking the occasion of the restoration of the effigies of Gog and Magog to their traditional places of honour in the west end of the Guildhall in the City of London. They had been removed during the Blitz to prevent them from being damaged. Earlier figures had been destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666. The present pair were carved by Richard Saunders in 1708. "It seems that they (i.e. Gog and Magog) represent none too badly the present state of world politics. World politics, like the history of Gog and Magog, are very confused and much disputed. Still, I think there is room for both of them. On the one side is Gog, and on the other is Magog. But be careful, my Lord Mayor, when you put them back, to keep them from colliding with each other; for if that happens, both Gog and Magog would be smashed to pieces and we should all have to begin all over again  and begin from the bottom of the pit." (Source: The Times, London, for 10 November 1951) The term 'The Iron Curtain', was coined by Churchill. Rather an appropriate description, for it was a Curtain of Iron which Dhul Qarnain erected to prevent Gog and Magog spreading their terrifying, malevolent corruption in the land. In a television documentary, covering the world at war, it was disclosed that before the end of World War II, Joseph Stalin (lets say, representing Gog) and  Winston Churchill (representing Magog) met at what was called the 'Percentage Conference', at which they exchanged percentages of the various countries they controlled for those they wished to control. For instance, Britain took a 90% share in Greece, in exchange for giving up its 90% control of Rumania. Afterwards, Churchill is reported to have said to Stalin ‑ who, by the way, was a Georgian from the Caucasus:  "Its a pity God didn't consult us when He made the world?"  To which Stalin is said to have replied:  "Yes, and that was His first mistake."  Britain then fermented civil war in Greece in which the Communists, who looked to Stalin for help, were betrayed by him. A reflection of the Arabic root of Gog (Ya'juj) portrays a meaning association of something worthless, like an artificial pearl, as well as rendering something worthless, and of destroying, annihilating and burning out. Zainab bint Jahsh reported that Allah's apostle, upon whom be showered peace, got up from sleep saying: "'There is a destruction in store for Arabia because of turmoil which is at hand, the barrier of Gog and Magog has opened so much'. And Sufyan made a sign of ten with the help of his hand (in order to indicate the width of the gap) and I said: 'Allah's Messenger, would we be perished in spite of the fact that there would be good people amongst us'? Thereupon he said: 'Of course, but only when the evil predominates'." (Muslim) The Bible refers to 'Magog' as the second son of Japheth between Gomer and Madai, Gomer representing the Cimmerians, Madai, the Medes. But in the list of nations, Genesis 10, the term connotes rather the complex of barbarian peoples dwelling at the extreme north and north east of the earth as one finds in that chapter; in Ezekiel 39:6, the Magog is referred to as a northern people, the leader of whom is Gog. According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, article 'Gog and Magog', Josephus identifies them with the Scythians, a name which among the classical writers stands for a number of unknown ferocious tribes. According to Jerome, Magog was situated beyond the Caucasus near the Caspian Sea. The barrier referred to in the Hadith and the Qur'an is the famous wall built between Derbend and Darial. It is a very narrow defile, with overhanging rocks, occurring on the main route between Turkestan and India. It is now in Soviet territory in the district of Daghistan. Before the southern expansion of Russia in 1813, it belonged to Persia. A spur of Mount Caucasus here comes up close to the sea. A map showing this particular route is to be found in the opening of Arthur Koestler's book 'The Thirteenth Tribe'. However, Abdullah Yusuf Ali, in his translation of the Qur'an, says in the appendix to Surah 18, The Cave, in which Gog and MaGog are mentioned, that if, as he believes, Dhul Qarnain, or Zul - qarnain was Alexander the Great, then the more likely location for this iron curtain or obstruction, is near another Derbend in Central Asia. He states:  "...I do not consider that historical or geographical considerations have much bearing on a story treated as a Parable, as Zul - qarnain's story is. Indeed all stories or narrations are referred to in the Qur'an as Parables, for their spiritual meaning. Heated controversies or dogmatic assertions as to precise dates, personalities, or localities, seem to me to be out of place."  He further observes:  "The question of Yajuj and Majuj (Gog and Magog) and the iron barrier built to keep them out is of some interest. It is practically agreed that they were the wild tribes of Central Asia which have made inroads on settled kingdoms and Empires  at various stages of history. The Chinese Empires suffered from their incursions and built the Great Wall of China to keep out the Manchus and Mongols. The Persian Empire suffered from them at various times and at various points. Their incursions into Europe in large hordes caused migrations and displacements of populations on an enormous scale, and eventually broke up the Roman Empire. These tribes were known vaguely to the Greeks and Romans as "Scythians", but that term does not help us very much, either ethnically or geographically. If we could locate the iron barrier or iron gates referred to in Surah 18, verse 96, we should have a closer idea of the tribes whom the barrier was meant to keep out. The Barrier in the text must have been more in the nature of iron gates than an iron wall. Two Iron Gates, geographically far apart, have been suggested in the alternative. Sometimes they have been mixed up by writers not strong on geography. Both of them have local associations with the name Alexander the Great. Both are near a town Derbend, and have borne the name Bab - ul - hadid (Arabic for "Iron Gate")". "The best known in modern times is at the town and seaport of Derbend in the middle of the western coast of  the Caspian Sea", formerly the Khazar Sea, but "the gate which corresponds exactly to the Quranic description, and has the best claim to be connected with Alexander's story ... is near another Derbend in Central Asia, Hissar District, about 150 miles south - east of Bukhara. A very narrow defile, with overhanging rocks, occurs on the main route between Turkestan and India: Latitude 38N; Longitude 67E. It is now called  in Turkic, Buzghol - Khana (Goat House), but was formerly known as the Iron Gate (in Arabic, "Bab - ul - hadid"; in Persian, "Dar - i - ahani;  in Chinese "T'ie - men - kuan"). There is no iron gate there now, but there was one in the 7th century, when the Chinese traveller Hiouen Tsiang saw it on his journey to India. He saw two folding gates cased with iron and hung with bells. Near by is a lake Iskander Kul, connecting the locality with Alexander the Great. We know from history that Alexander, after his conquest of Persia and before his journey to India, visited Sogdiana (Bukhara) and Marcanda (Samarkand). We also know from Muqaddasi, the Arab traveller and geographer, who wrote about AH 375 (AD 985 - 6) that the 'Abbasi Khalifa Wathiq (842 - 846 AD) sent out a mission to Central Asia to report on this Iron Gate. They found the defile 150 yards wide: on two jambs made with bricks of iron welded together with molten lead, were hung two huge gates, which were kept closed. Nothing could correspond more exactly with the description in Surah 18, 95 - 96." "If then, the Barrier in Surah 18, 95 - 98 refers to the Iron Gate near Bukhara, we are able to proceed to a consideration of the Gog Magog people with some confidence. They were the Mongol tribes on the other side of the Barrier, while the industrious men who did not understand Zul - qarnain's language were the Turks, with their agglutinative language, so different from the languages then spoken in Western Asia. The Barrier served its purpose for the time being. But the warning that the time would come when it must crumble to dust has also come true. It has crumbled to dust. Long since, the Mongols pushed through on their westward journey, pushing the Turks before them, and the Turks became a European power and still have a footing in Europe. We need not bother about the legends of the Gog Magog people. They were reputedly giants, and two tiny hills in flat Cambridgeshire are derisively called  the Gog Magog hills! Similarly the statues of Gog Magog in the Guildhall in London, which Maulana Muhammad Ali takes so seriously, only remind us how legends are apt to grow and get transported to strange places. In the Alexander legends of medieval Europe, Gog and Magog are said to have come with 400,000 men to the help of Porus whom Alexander defeated, They fled to the mountains, and Alexander built a wall with brass gates to prevent their irruptions." On page 115 of 'The Cavendish Encyclopedia of Mythology', we find a 14th - century 'Mongol' painting linking Alexander with Gog and Magog. The caption reads:  "The legends of Alexander the Great seem to have inspired the exploits of a number of Arabian and non - Arabian warrior kings called Dhul - Qarnayn, one of whom is mentioned in the Qur'an. In this 14th - century Il - Khanid 'Mongol' painting, Iskandar (Alexander) is shown extending his realm into the northern regions perpetually shrouded by fog beyond the Caucasus on the route to Gog and Magog." The link, between Gog & Magog, Goemagog, Gog MacGog, (Mac, meaning son of) or Yajuj * Majuj, with England, was made by Geoffrey of Monmouth in his 'History of The Kings of Britain', around 1136 A.D. The two figures now standing in the Guildhall of the City of London have been officially known as Gog and Magog for the past 300 years. So was Geoffrey of Monmouth just being "inventive" or is there any additional evidence to support his assertion that Britain, particularly the occupants of the Palace of Brute, now The City of London's Guildhall, bear any resemblance to their namesakes - Gog & MacGog, (Yajuj & Majuj)? It might be a valid interpretation of the iron gate that would keep GogMagog at bay until they manage to overcome it, on a day when according to the Qur'an "people will mingle with each other like waves", that it is the mastery of iron, i.e. modern technology, that finally gave them the upper hand in world affairs after the industrial revolution. In a recent letter to Frank McManus (the present Lord Mayor of Todmorden), John Clark, Curator of Medieval London History and Collections at the Museum of London, pointed out that the link with the City of London and the giant Goemagog goes back to 1558, when wickerwork effigies of Goemagog and his captor, the Trojan Corineus, were carried around The City in the Lord Mayors' processions. In 1558 they were placed at Temple Bar to welcome Queen Elizabeth the Ist on a visit to The City of London having been used earlier on, to welcome Queen Mary and Philip II of Spain at London Bridge in 1554. Giants have appeared in civic processions in London for more than five centuries, according to Jennifer Westwood, in her book 'Albion. A Guide To Legendary Britain'. In 1415 a pair welcomed Henry V home after Agincourt. Prior to 1554 they seem to have been called Sampson and Herculese. But in Tudor times the more ancient legends of Albion - the earlier name for Britain - came to the fore, and with them, the names of Gog Magog - Gog the Son of Gog. The story has it, that, Feniusa Farsa was, according to Robert Graves in his 'The White Goddess', "an ancestor of the Irish Milesians". "Why", he says "is  Feniusa Farsa described as a Scythian, a grandson and founder of the Milesian race? Gog and Magog are closely connected names. 'GogMagog', Gog the son of Gog - was the name of the giant whom 'Brute the Trojan' is said to have defeated in Totnes in Devonshire in his invasion of Britain at the close of the second millennium. But from where did Gog mac Gog originate. The answer is to be found in Genesis X,2, where Magog is described as the son of Japheth (who figures in Greek myth as Iapetus the Titan, the father of the goddess Asia of Atlas, Prometheus and Epimetheus) and as a brother of Gomer, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meschec and Tiras - who are generally agreed to have been the Cimmerians, the Medians, the Ionians, the Tibarenians, the Moschians and the Tyrrhenians. The Moschians and the iron - working Tibarenians were tribes of the south - eastern Black - Sea region; the wandering Black - Sea tribe of Cimmerians eventually became the Cymry; the Ionians ranked as Greeks in historical times but were perhaps Aegean immigrants into Greece from Phonecia; the Tyrrhenians were an Aegean tribe some of whom emigrated from Lydia to Etruria... Gog is identified with the northern tribe of Gagi mentioned in an inscription of Amenhotep III, and 'Gogarene', in Strabo's day, was the part of Armenia, lying to the east of the territory of the Moschians and Tibarenians. Magog's grandfather was Noah, and Noah's Ararat [of course Noah's ark landed on mount Judi] was in Armenia, so that Magog is usually held to stand for Armenia; though Josephus interprets the word as meaning 'the Scythians', which was an inclusive name for all the Black Sea tribes of his day." This follows on from an earlier mention of Magog where he quotes the following from Keating's 'History of Ireland':  "Feniusa Farsa, a grandson of Magog and King of Sythia, desirous of mastering the seventy - two languages created at the confusion of Babel sent seventy - two persons to learn them." Another point worth remembering, is the fact that in Gaelic, Jesus is called Isa Mac Maryam - Jesus the Son of Mary. Another interesting fact is that many words in Irish are similar to Urdu and Persian. Ireland is supposed to be the Land of the Aryans. In Dublin you can find Aryan symbols. The Swastika Laundry for example; and some Irish script is similar to Indian. It is also interesting to note, that, when Mikhail Gorbachev addressed a gathering at a  Guildhall banquet in the City of London, mention was made of "our common European home...". From the foregoing, we can see  that Gog and Magog at one level, is a blanket term for all the people of Central Asia, Russia, including the earlier Scythians and the present day survivors of the Khazars, the Ashkenazi Jews. What ever the case may be, Gog and Magog were considered to be descendants of Noah, and as such, human beings; albeit, rather tall. Similar, perhaps, in stature to Goliath, the Giant killed by the Holy Prophet David, peace be upon him. Whether or not they were all tall, the fact remains that men of giant, stature and formidable military prowess existed, and are made mention of in both the Bible and the Qur'an. It could, of course, simply be a metaphorical reference to their military achievements, like those other military "giants" Alexander and Genghis Khan. There is evidence to support the claim that they were the Mongol precursors of Genghis Khan, thwarted by Alexander or Dhul - Qarnain, who still survive. We often hear Shakespeare being referred to as one of the "giants of literature", but he was, to the best of our knowledge, of average height physically. Following hard on the heals of finding the Ark of Noah, located as stated in the Qur'an on Mount Judi, and corresponding exactly to the biblical dimensions of 300 cubits long x 50 wide (515ft x 135ft), which have recently been carbon dated as being 100,000 years old, we have yet another archaeological find of major significance, which establishes that some accounts in the unaltered scriptures can be taken as literal truth. In 'Wake up!' a publication by 'British Israel', July/August 1994, we find the following information:  "Goliath's skull found near Jerusalem: The Kingdom Times, Belfast, May 1994, carried the story of how a leading archaeologist had found Goliath's scull in a valley west of Jerusalem with the stone from David's slingshot still embedded in his forehead! Dr. Richard Martin says the discovery proves that David's battle with the 10 - foot giant happened just like the Bible said it did, 1,000 years before the birth of Yahshua... " This is the archaeological find of the century, if not of all time," Dr.Martin told reporters at a conference in Jerusalem. "Many people, including scholars and clergymen, would have us believe that the biblical account of David and Goliath is little more than an interesting piece of fiction," he said. "But we found this skull in the valley of El'ah, in the Judean mountains, where David's battle with Goliath was said to have taken place. Even more intriguing, the skull is huge and clearly belonged to a man of enormous stature... And if you believe the Bible, you know that Goliath was 9 feet 8 inches tall... But the most telling piece of evidence is the small round rock we found embedded in the forehead. The Bible tells that David killed Goliath with a stone thrown from a leather sling." Dr.Martin found the skull during an archaeological survey 20 miles south - west of Jerusalem on the 23rd of March, 1993. He and his assistants instantly realized that the find was important; but, it was only when they had performed tests which showed the skull to be between 2,900 and 3,000 years old that they began to think they had found the remains of Goliath. "As I said before, the skull that we had found had a rock stuck in the forehead. There was also evidence to suggest that the head had been severed from the body by a sharp object, most likely a sword. There can be little doubt that this is Goliath's skull. To be perfectly frank, I'm staking my career on it," said Dr.Martin. It seems difficult to deny, that Gog -Magog are descendants of Noah, upon whom be peace, along with the rest of us. They were, and still are, a people with an overriding desire, and ability to create mischief, havoc and corruption as the means of attaining their objectives. Objectives, which, they believe, always justify the means. It is interesting to note that when discussing the various prophetic traditions about Gog and Magog, the tafsir of Al - Qurtubi, identifies them as the Slavs as the main group of descendants of Japheth, which throws yet another ray of light on the current conflict in the former Yugoslavia as well as previous events in the Balkans that destroyed world peace. Many of the Ahadith quoted describe the tribes of Gog and Magog as numerous and ferocious people who will degenerate into wild and bestial ways. Further light is shed on the information given by Robert Graves, in the footnotes to Genesis, in the Scofield reference bible. It states:  "A prophetic declaration is made that from Japheth will descend the "enlarged" races (Gen.9:27). On Genesis 10.2, it gives as the descendants of the 'Sons of Japheth' the following tribes: 1. Gomer, Progenitor of the ancient Cimerians and Cimbri, from whom are descended the Celtic family. 2. Magog: From Magog are descended the ancient Scythians, or Tartars, whose descendents predominate in the modern Russia." Note: Tartar, The New Encyclopedia informs us, was the name employed in China and medieval Europe for the mounted nomads of Central Asia. "Under Gengis Khan and his successors they established the empire of Tartary and from 1238 to 1462 they dominated Eastern Europe. In the form Tartar the name survives in Russian use... The Tartar Republic is an autonomous republic of the USSR. It is situated between the Chuvash and Bashkir and was formed in 1920. Kazan is the capital. People of Turkic speech". "Tartary. The Name, formerly used to describe the land between the Pacific and the Dnieper River which constituted the Mongol Empire. In terms of cities sacked and lands conquered, the Mongols were the mightiest of all the nomadic peoples. In 1206, Temujin, the son of a Mongol chief, who was slain, united the Mongol tribes under his unchallenged leadership. In  that same year he was declared Gengis Khan, 'Ruler of the World'." Genkis Khan's pillaging conquests are well known. Continuing in true Ma'Gogian tradition, the Merciless Great Khan, Timur, had 20,000 people massacred after taking Baghdad in 1401. These descendants of the Gog and Ma'Gog family created the largest empire in history. Other branches would keep up the family business. Genghis Cohen perhaps? Scofield Continued: "3. Madai: Progenitor of the ancient Medes. 4. Javan: Progenitor of those who peopled Greece, Syria, etc. 5 .Tubal: Tubal's descendants peopled the region south of the Black Sea, from whence they spread north and south. It is possible that Tobolsk perpetuates the tribal name. A branch of this race peopled Spain. 6. Meshech: Progenitor of a race mentioned in connection with Tubal, Magog, and other northern nations. Broadly speaking, Russian, excluding the conquests of Peter the Great and his successors, is the modern land of Magog, Tubal, and Meshech." 7. Tiras: Progenitor of the Thracians." From these seven sons of Japheth are descended the 'goyim', or Gentile, nations, translated "heathen" 148 times in the Bible. In Genesis 10:3, we find another name related to the present world's problems: That of Ashkenaz, son of Gomer. In the present State of Israel it is a fact that the Ashkenazi, or Gentile Jews, greatly outnumber the Orthodox, Semitic Jews, Giving rise to the assertion that Genesis 9:27, is now a fact of life. It states:  "God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem". The following article appeared in The Church Times, on the 24th January 1992, by Bishop Hugh Montefiore:  "The liberation of Eastern Europe and the former USSR is good news, but a sad consequence has been a resurgence of anti - Semitism, with stirrings even in Britain fanned by the Maxwell scandals. In fact 'Cap'n Bob', like most Jews, probably did not have much more than a fluid ounce of genuine Jewish blood in his veins. Anti - Semitism is built on a  powerful racial myth, accepted by Jews and anti - Semites alike. Christianity in the Old World is divided mainly on ethnic lines, with the Orthodox Churches in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, and the Catholic and Protestant Churches in the West. So also the Jewish world is divided into Sephardim and Ashkenazim. The Sephardim are so called because they once lived in Spain (Sepharad) until expelled, and thence in the Mediterranean, Turkey, and the Low Countries (and from there to England). The prosperous Spanish Jews had intermarried a lot with Gentile nobles. There were also many Jews who had settled in Italy and elsewhere in the Mediterranean by New Testament times, and their numbers were increased by refugees from Byzantium. Their descendants remained in these countries until eventually expelled. The largest group is the Ashkenazim in Eastern Europe. In the Bible Ashkenaz is not descended from Shem but Japheth, and Ashkenaz refers to a people living around Mount Ararat and Armenia. In the last century there were very large numbers of Jews in Russia and Eastern Europe. How did they get there? Received wisdom is that they were forced eastwards from France and Germany into Poland, the Balkans, Lithuania and Russia. But there were few Jews in France and Germany to migrate, and European migrations have actually gone from east to west. In the Middle Ages the Khazars, a people of Turkish stock, formed a great empire from the Black Sea to the Caspian, and from the Caucasus to the Volga. They found themselves between the triumphant followers of Muhammad and the forces of Christian Byzantium. They resisted both, and converted to Judaism. Pre - Christian Austria was even said to have been ruled by Jewish princes, and a Byzantine chronicle tells of Hungarian troops observing the Jewish Law. By the 11th Century the Khazar Empire had begun to crumble although it lasted into the 13th. Like the Jews of the Levant, the Khazars lived amid the great trade routes and engaged in commerce; like them too they kept their Judaic faith. Some remained in Russia: most went to the Balkans, Lithuania and Poland, and on to Germany. It is these who form the origin of the millions of Jews who lived in Eastern Europe. All kinds of evidence supports this. Yiddish, a mixture of Hebrew, Polish and German, contains no word of Franco - Rhenish origin. The hook nose is typical not of the Levant but the Caucasus. There is no one Jewish racial type: in each area  Jews conform to the Gentile type among whom they live. 'Anthropology concurs with history in refuting the popular belief in a Jewish race descended from the biblical tribe,' wrote Arthur Koestler 16 years ago in 'The Thirteenth Tribe' but his words were as distasteful to Jews as to their enemies. Shamir is busy peopling the West Bank with Russian Jews of non - Semitic origin, Russian pogroms were against people of Khazar - Turkish stock, Hitler's holocaust was a massacre of non - Semites. Maxwell, a Czech Jew, would have had a similar kind of genetic fingerprint." Bishop Montefiore should know, he is, after all, of Jewish stock. Which is why Mrs. Thatcher called him her 'Jewish Arch Bishop'. The Scythian, Ashkenazi - Khazar, Robert Maxwell, was certainly guilty of betraying and defrauding countless thousands of countless millions. But, this surely pales into insignificance at the side of the damage inflicted on us by that other False - Israelite, the late, Lord Victor Rothschild, who, at long last, has finally been identified as 'The Fifth Man', alongside the other four Cambridge spies: Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Kim Philby, and Anthony Blunt. He was correctly identified as "Britain's greatest traitor", in The Daily Express, on Saturday, October 15th 1994. Hardly surprising, in true Rothschild fashion, he was able to run with the hare and bite with the hounds. For this 3rd Lord Rothschild, of the mighty banking dynasty, was a member of MI5, Israeli Intelligence, the Mossad, the KGB, and an agent - runner for heads of MI6. For a banker, split allegiances do not represent a conflict of interests. They are essential if you are in the business of money lending. Bankers always create conflicts in order to finance both sides. After all these years of investigating the question of Gog and Magog, we still find some matters unresolved. However, what can be safely said is that the sons of Japheth will be responsible for bringing about the ultimate catastrophe - at the Hill of Megido i.e., Armageddon (Palestine). If, as would seem to be the case, the 'Tents of Shem' are now occupied by The Sons of Japheth, (Genesis 9:27), then the scene must surely be set for the final showdown. Although Judaism, should not have anything to do with the idea of racial superiority, over the centuries, this has become so, and is one of mankind's abiding errors. Apart from the evidence, identifying the Khazars as non - Semitic; their choice of the term Ashkenazi, immediately places them in the Gentile camp. For Ashkenaz, as we have seen, is identified in Genesis 10:3, as the first born of Gomer, who was the first born of Japheth:  "And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath and Torgomah."  Therefore, the vast majority of the inhabitants of the State of Israel can legitimately be called - Gog and Ma'Gog, who reject Christ and the religion of Abraham, and oppress Muslims. Therefore, they are the vanguard of anti - Christ. And who, but a Zionist sycophant, could deny their historic, despotic credentials.  Author: Islamic Party of Britain

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SABRA AND SHATILA

SABRA AND SHATILA 
 
By Robert Fisk 


What we found inside the Palestinian camp at ten o'clock on the morning of September 1982 did not quite beggar description, although it would have been easier to re-tell in the cold prose of a medical examination. There had been medical examinations before in Lebanon, but rarely on this scale and never overlooked by a regular, supposedly disciplined army. In the panic and hatred of battle, tens of thousands had been killed in this country. But these people, hundreds of them had been shot down unarmed. This was a mass killing, an incident - how easily we used the word "incident" in Lebanon - that was also an atrocity. It went beyond even what the Israelis would have in other circumstances called a terrorist activity. It was a war crime. 


Jenkins and Tveit were so overwhelmed by what we found in Chatila that at first we were unable to register our own shock. Bill Foley of AP had come with us. All he could say as he walked round was "Jesus Christ" over and over again. We might have accepted evidence of a few murders; even dozens of bodies, killed in the heat of combat. Bur there were women lying in houses with their skirts torn torn up to their waists and their legs wide apart, children with their throats cut, rows of young men shot in the back after being lined up at an execution wall. There were babies - blackened babies babies because they had been slaughtered more than 24-hours earlier and their small bodies were already in a state of decomposition - tossed into rubbish heaps alongside discarded US army ration tins, Israeli army equipment and empty bottles of whiskey. 


Where were the murderers? Or to use the Israelis' vocabulary, where were the "terrorists"? When we drove down to Chatila, we had seen the Israelis on the top of the apartments in the Avenue Camille Chamoun but they made no attempt to stop us. In fact, we had first been driven to the Bourj al-Barajneh camp because someone told us that there was a massacre there. All we saw was a Lebanese soldier chasing a car theif down a street. It was only when we were driving back past the entrance to Chatila that Jenkins decided to stop the car. "I don't like this", he said. "Where is everyone? What the f**k is that smell?" 


Just inside the the southern entrance to the camp, there used to be a number of single-story, concrete walled houses. I had conducted many interviews in these hovels in the late 1970's. When we walked across the muddy entrance to Chatila, we found that these buildings had been dynamited to the ground. There were cartridge cases across the main road. I saw several Israeli flare canisters, still attached to their tiny parachutes. Clouds of flies moved across the rubble, raiding parties with a nose for victory. 


Down a laneway to our right, no more than 50 yards from the entrance, there lay a pile of corpses. There were more than a dozen of them, young men whose arms and legs had been wrapped around each other in the agony of death. All had been shot point-blank range through the cheek, the bullet tearing away a line of flesh up to the ear and entering the brain. Some had vivid crimson or black scars down the left side of their throats. One had been castrated, his trousers torn open and a settlement of flies throbbing over his torn intestines.
The eyes of these young men were all open. The youngest was only 12 or 13 years old. They were dressed in jeans and coloured shirts, the material absurdly tight over their flesh now that their bodies had begun to bloat in the heat. They had not been robbed. On one blackened wrist a Swiss watch recorded the correct time, the second hand still ticking round uselessly, expending the last energies of its dead owner.

On the other side of the main road, up a track through the debris, we found the bodies of five women and several children. The women were middle-aged and their corpses lay draped over a pile of rubble. One lay on her back, her dress torn open and the head of a little girl emerging from behind her. The girl had short dark curly hair, her eyes were staring at us and there was a frown on her face. She was dead. 


Another child lay on the roadway like a discarded doll, her white dress stained with mud and dust. She could have been no more than three years old. The back of her head had been blown away by a bullet fired into her brain. One of the women also held a tiny baby to her body. The bullet that had passed into her breast had killed the baby too. Someone had slit open the woman's stomach, cutting sideways and then upwards, perhaps trying to kill her unborn child. Her eyes were wide open, her dark face frozen in horror. 


"...As we stood there, we heard a shout in Arabic from across the ruins. "They are coming back," a man was screaming, So we ran in fear towards the road. I think, in retrospect, that it was probably anger that stopped us from leaving, for we now waited near the entrance to the camp to glimpse the faces of the men who were responsible for all of this. They must have been sent in here with Israeli permission. They must have been armed by the Israelis. Their handiwork had clearly been watched - closely observed - by the Israelis who were still watching us through their field-glasses.
When does a killing become an outrage? When does an atrocity become a massacre? Or, put another way, how many killings make a massacre? Thirty? A hundred? Three hundred? When is a massacre not a massacre? When the figures are too low? Or when the massacre is carried out by Israel’s friends rather than Israel's enemies?
That, I suspected, was what this argument was about. If Syrian troops had crossed into Israel, surrounded a Kibbutz and allowed their Palestinian allies to slaughter the Jewish inhabitants, no Western news agency would waste its time afterwards arguing about whether or not it should be called a massacre.
But in Beirut, the victims were Palestinians. The guilty were certainly Christian militiamen - from which particular unit we were still unsure - but the Israelis were also guilty. If the Israelis had not taken part in the killings, they had certainly sent militia into the camp. They had trained them, given them uniforms, handed them US army rations and Israeli medical equipment. Then they had watched the murderers in the camps, they had given them military assistance - the Israeli airforce had dropped all those flares to help the men who were murdering the inhabitants of Sabra and Chatila - and they had established military liason with the murderers in the camps


http://www.countercurrents.org/pa-fisk180903.htm

Sit and Wait?

Sit and Wait? Dr. Ali Al-Timimi Transcribed from the lecture "Muslims and Studies of the Future"

We have been informed by the Prophet sallallahu `alayhi wa sallam about many events that will occur in the future. What attitude should we take in this regard?
There are some ideas which some Muslims have that we should just sit and wait for `Eesaa ibn Maryam to come, we should just wait for the Mahdee to appear and until that time we should just sit and just engage ourselves with a lot of intellectual discussions and so forth. Just s it and wait for these events to occur. This is not the way of the Sunnah, the way of the Sunnah is that we face a qadar with a qadar so therefore we know that for instance that Constantinople will be taken over by the Christians again because the Prophet (Sallallaahu `alaihi wa sallam) said that. Constantinople, when it's going to be conquered before the Day of Judgment, it will be conquered without fighting, but that Muslims will say Allaahu Akbar, and some of its walls will fall, and they'll say laa ilaaha ill Allaah, and some of it walls will fall. This is going to be one of the signs of the Day of Judgment, just by saying these takbeers, the city walls will collapse.
We know therefore that what we call now Istanbul will have to return back to Christians one day. So then do we just say let the things in Turkey go as they are? Let the secularism and let the Western entrenchment in Turkey continue as it is, because this is a divine decree that Allaah has decreed.
No, we fight that qadar with another qadar, in the sense that we make sure that da`wah is in Turkey is strong for as long as it is, so when the time comes for that to occur, it occurs. The Prophet (Sallallaahu `alaihi wa sallam) told us that an Ethiopian with two thin shanks will destroy the Ka`bah, piece by piece. So therefore do we say, "Well, OK, it's going to happen, the Ethiopian s going come and destroy the Ka`bah, so therefore whatever happens in the East Africa, we'll just let it happen?" No. We know this will happen, one day the Ka`bah will be destroyed by an Ethiopian, but we fight that qadar with a qadar by making sure that the da`wah is strong in East Africa and that it remains that no non-Muslim country ever has a rule in East Africa, but that strong Muslim states have that.

http://www.islaam.com/Article.aspx?id=76

Muslims' Victories Before the Dajjal's Appearance

Muslims' Victories Before the Dajjal's Appearance A. Hijazi © 1995 But, Some of Its Signs Have Already Come!

Jabir bin Samurah narrated, "Nafi' bin 'Utbah said, 'We were accompanying the Messenger of Allah sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam to a battle.' Then, he (Nafi') said, 'Then, some people from the west (of Madinah) came to the Prophet wearing clothes made of wool and they met him next to a mound. They were standing while the Messenger of Allah was sitting.' He (Nafi') then said, 'So I told myself, "Let me come closer to them and stand between them and him so that they will not assassinate him." He (Nafi') then said, '(Then, I said to myself) "They may be having a conversation with him." However, I came close by and stood between them and him.' He (Nafi') then said, 'And then I memorized four sentences from him, and I can count them with my hand. He said,
"You will invade the Arabian Peninsula and Allah will grant it (to you). Then (you will conquer) Persia and Allah will grant it (to you). Then, you will invade Ar-Rum and Allah will grant it (to you). Then, you will invade The Dajjal and Allah will grant him (to you)." Nafi' said to Jabir, "O Jabir! We do not believe that the Dajjal will appear until Ar-Rum is conquered."[Ibid., no. 2028]
The land of Ar-Rum is Europe and Rome is its heart. The Messenger of Allah gave us the good tidings that we will conquer Rome, the capital of Christendom today, after the Muslims conquered the first capital of Christendom, Constantinople.
Imam Ahmad narrated that Abdullah bin 'Amr bin Al-Aas said, "While we were around the Messenger of Allah) writing (the Hadith) the Messenger of Allah sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam was asked/ 'Which of these two cities will be conquered first, Constantinople or Romiyah (Rome)?' He said, 'The city of Heraclius will first be conquered.' He meant Constantinople.'' [Al-Hakim, Al-Mustadrak, vol. 4, p. 508. Also, see As-Silsilah as-Sahihah, vol. 1]

http://www.islaam.com/Article.aspx?id=226

Signs of the Appearance of the Dajjal and His Destruction

Islaam.Com Iman

Major Signs of the Last Hour A. Hijazi © 1995 Al-Hijazi

Signs of the Appearance of the Dajjal

 

  A lengthy hadith narrated by Ibn Majah, Ibn Khuzaimah, and ad-Dhiyaa’, attributed to Abu Umamah, reports that the Prophet of Allah, sallallahu `alaihi wa sallam, said,
“There will be three hard years before the Dajjal (appears). During them, people will be stricken by a great famine. In the first year, Allah will command the sky to withhold a third of its rain, and the earth to withhold a third a third of its produce. In the second year, Allah will command the sky to withhold two thirds of its rain, and the earth to withhold two thirds of its produce. In the third year, Allah will command the sky to withhold all of its rain, and it will not rain a single drop of rain. He will command the earth to withhold all of its produce, and no plant will grow. All hoofed animals will perish, except that which Allah wills.” He (sallallahu `alaihi wa sallam) was asked, ‘What sustains people during that time?’ He said, “Tahlil, takbir and tahmid (Saying, la ilaha ill Allah, Allahu Akbar and al-hamdulillah). This will sustain them just as food does.” [Sahih Al-Jami` as-Saghir, no. 7875]
Abdullah bin Umar narrated that the Messenger of Allah sallallahu `alaihi wa sallam said,
“The fitnah of Al-Ahlas (continuous calamity) is mass desertion and war. Then, the fitnah of As-Sarraa [meaning ‘the rich’, when some reach people use their money to hire others to fight for them] will start from under the feet of a man who claims that he is of me (of my descendants). However, he is not of me, for my loyal friends are the ones who have taqwa. Afterwards, people will unite around a man whose reign is unstable. Then, the fitnah of Ad-Duhaymaa [it is called ‘dark and black fitnah’ because of its enormity] (will start) and will not leave any member of this nation without severely touching him. When it is thought that its time has come to an end, it will be lengthened. Meanwhile (during this fitnah), a man will wake up as a believer and will meet the night as a disbeliever, until people divide into two camps: A camp of belief that contains no hypocrisy, and a camp of hypocrisy that contains no belief. If this happens, then await the Dajjal on that day or the next.” [Ahmad, Abu Dawood and al-Hakim, Mishkatul-Masabih, vol. 4, no. 5403]
There are other signs to the imminent coming of the Dajjal. Mu`ath narrated that the Messenger of Allah, sallallahu `alaihi wa sallam, said,
“The flourishing of Jerusalem will mark the desertion of Yathrib (Madinah). The desertion of Yathrib will mark the start of Al-Malhamah [the great war that will start between ar-Rum and the Muslim forces before Muslims conquer Constantinople for the second time]. The start of Al-Malhamah will mark the conquering of Constantinople. The conquering of Constantionple will mark the appearance of Dajjal.” [Sahih Al-Jami` as-Saghir, no. 4096]
The flourishing of Jerusalem will happen by the hands of Muslims, by the will of Allah, after it will be retrieved from the Jews.
The Holy Land will be the seat of the Caliphate because the Messenger of Allah sallallahu `alaihi wa sallam said to Ibn Hawalah,
“O Ibn Hawalah! If you live to see the seat of the Caliphate of the Holy Land, then earthquakes, disasters and great calamities are imminent. Then, the Hour will be closer to people than this hand of mine to your head!” [Al-Hakim in Al-Mustadrak, vol. 4, p. 420, and he says, “Sahih”]
Then, Muslims will migrate to Ash-Sham to join the Jihad against the enemies of Allah from among the Jews and Christians. People of Madinah will desert it, not because they dislike it, but for the purpose of joining the Jihad for the sake of Allah. Then, it will be totally uninhibited, wild animals and beasts will roam through it, and it will stay deserted until the Hour begins.
Abu Hurairah narrated that the Messenger of Allah, sallallahu `alaihi wa sallam, said,
“Madinah will be deserted while in its prime! Then, it will be inhabited by birds and beasts.” [Al-Hakim in Al-Mustadrak, vol. 4, p. 436]
“They (Muslims) will leave Madinah while in its prime. Only wild beasts and birds will roam it. The last persons to be gathered (for the beginning of the Last Day) will be two shepherds from (the tribe) of Muzainah heading towards Madinah. They will be herding their sheep, and (when they reach it) they will find it deserted. When they reach Thaniyyat Al-Wadaa` they will collapse on their foreheads (because the Hour will have started then).” [Ahmad, Al-Bukhari and Muslim, As-Silsilah As-Sahihah, vol. 2, no. 683]
Also, Abdullah bin `Amr said, “There will be a time among people when every believer will migrate to Ash-Sham.” [Al-Hakim in al-Mustadrak, vol. 4, p. 457, and he says “Sahih according to the conditions of Bukhari and Muslim” Adh-Dhahabee agrees.]


The Destruction of Al-Masih Ad-Dajjal

 
As was narrated in the Hadith by An-Nawwas bin Sam`an, the Dajjal will be killed at the hand of Jesus son of Mary.
The Dajjal’s death will occur after the angels turn him towards Ash-Sham away from the outskirts of Madinah. He will perish in Ash-Sham near the eastern door of Lud in Palestine, may Allah return it to the Muslim.
Before we start mentioning the second coming of Jesus son of Mary, we will mention the story of Al-Mahdy, Muhammad bin Abdillah.
Al-Mahdi will appear just before the coming of Jesus, alaihis salam. He will lead the Muslim nation with justice and kindness and establish Allah’s rule. A righteous Caliphate will reappear after the earth has experienced its share of injustice and tyranny. Jesus son of Mary will pray behind him. Among Al-Mahdi’s characteristics is that he will spend money on his subjects without counting it, along with many of his other righteous deeds that were mentioned in several correct hadiths.

http://www.islaam.com/Article.aspx?id=402

Soalan : Kenapa digunakan perkataan 'Kami' untuk Allah?

Soalan : Kenapa digunakan perkataan 'Kami' untuk Allah?

Assalamualaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh.


Saya mendapat komen dari rakan blogger nasi ayam yang bertanya :


Salam Mahaguru, Harap sihat di bawah lindungan Allah swt. 
Saya ada soalan, tetapi off topic, harap maafkan. 


Saya baru selesai membaca alquran, dan saya menyedari banyak ganti nama Kami digunakan untuk mewakili Allah, selain dari perkataan Aku. 


Contohnya dalam Surah AlMaarij-ayat 40, dan surah Yaasin-ayat 41,42,43 dan 44. 


Saya cuba merujuk kepada internet, tetapi banyak sumber yang dijumpai mengatakan itu adalah bukti Tuhan itu tidak Esa, tetapi tiga. Saya merasa takut dan berhenti membaca kerana takut terpesong.


Namun begitu, persoalan kenapa penggunaan Kami selain Aku atau Allah masih berlegar-legar di fikiran saya. 


Harap Mahaguru bantu saya, takut juga saya tersesat,kerana ini babitkan soal ketauhidan.


By nasi ayam on Why do Muslims wage war or quarrel against each ot... on 9/1/10



Maka selepas saya mengkaji perkara ini, inilah jawapan jawapan yang saya kira sesuai diberikan kepada pertanyaan di atas.


Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala ada kalanya menggunakan gantinama 'Kami' didalam penurunan ayat ayat suci didalam bentuk Al quranul Karim melalui wahyu Nya kepada Rasul Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam dan ianya merupakan bimbingan dan panduan bagi kita makhluk ciptaan Nya untuk menghadapi kehidupan duniawi ini sebagai persediaan bagi kita menjalani kehidupan di akhirat pula nanti.


Sila lawati pautan ini untuk mengkaji ayat ayat suci Al Quran Al Karim yang berkaitan dengan penggunaan 'nahnu' @ gantinama untuk Allah yang membawa maksud 'Kami'.


Allah itu Maha Esa.


Ini tiada sebarang keraguan lagi bagi kita umat Islam yang berusaha mempelajari kebenaran ajaran ajaran Al Islam yang dibawa dan di sampaikan kepada kita oleh Junjungan Kita Muhammad al Mustafa Sayyidul Mursalin, Rasulullah Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam.


KeEsaan Allah itu diterangkan sejelas jelasnya didalam pelbagai ayat ayat suci Al Quranul Karim dan bilamana kaum Quraisy bertanya kepada Nabi Muhammad Rahmatulil Alamin tentang Allahu Ta'ala, maka diperturunkan Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala akan Surah Al Ikhlas untuk menjelaskan tentang DiriNya tanpa sebarang keraguan lagi :

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

112:1

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Transliteration

Qul huwa Allahu ahad

Sahih International

Say, "He is Allah , [who is] One,

Muhsin Khan

Say (O Muhammad (Peace be upon him)): "He is Allah, (the) One.

Malay

Katakanlah (wahai Muhammad): "(Tuhanku) ialah Allah Yang Maha Esa;

112:2

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Transliteration

Allahu assamad

Sahih International

Allah , the Eternal Refuge.

Muhsin Khan

"Allah-us-Samad (The Self-Sufficient Master, Whom all creatures need, He neither eats nor drinks).

Malay

"Allah Yang menjadi tumpuan sekalian makhluk untuk memohon sebarang hajat;

112:3

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Transliteration

Lam yalid walam yoolad

Sahih International

He neither begets nor is born,

Muhsin Khan

"He begets not, nor was He begotten;

Malay

"Ia tiada beranak, dan Ia pula tidak diperanakkan;

112:4

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Transliteration

Walam yakun lahu kufuwan ahad

Sahih International

Nor is there to Him any equivalent."

Muhsin Khan

"And there is none co-equal or comparable unto Him."

Malay

"Dan tidak ada sesiapapun yang serupa denganNya".

Didalam Surah Al Ikhlas ini, Allahu Rabbi menjelaskan tentang Diri Nya yang Maha Esa sejelas mungkin bagi manusia yang ingin mengetahui akan Tuhan Nya?


Bagi kita umat manusia yang mempunyai akal yang sempurna dan tahu akan maksud setiap ayat didalam Surah Surah Al Quran Al Karim ini sesudah mengkaji akan intipati tafsiran ayat ayat suci ini, maka tidak akan kita ada sebarang keraguan lagi tentang Ke Esa an Tuhan yang kita sembah dan menyerahkan diri kita kepada Nya.


Bagi orang yang mungkin keliru tentang penggunaan gantinama 'Kami' oleh Allahu Rabbul Alamin didalam beberapa ayat ayat suci Al Quranul Karim, maka hendaklah kita faham bahawa sesuai dengan kedudukan Allah, Tuhan Sekelian Alam membahasakan Diri Nya dengan perkataan perkataan yang memberi erti akan kedudukan Allah yang Maha Tinggi dan Maha Suci, yang paling hebat dari segala galanya, maka dipergunakan istilah ' Kami' untuk menunjukkan Kedaulatan Allahu Ta'ala mengatasi sekelian makhluk makhluk ciptaan Nya termasuklah segala raja raja, sultan, ratu dan sesiapa sahaja yang duduk memerintah, bersemayam diatas takhta kerajaan duniawi masing masing.


Gantinama 'Kami' itu digunakan untuk menjelaskan Kebesaran Allah dari sekelian alam alam ciptaan Nya yang tidak terjangkau oleh minda dan fikrah manusia mahupun para jin serta malaikat malaikatNya.


Cuba kita lihat contoh penggunaan gantinama 'Kami' ini oleh Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala didalam Surah Taha Ayat 102 berikut :


Surah Taha Ayat ke 102

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Transliteration

Yawma yunfakhu fee assooriwanahshuru almujrimeena yawma-ithin zurqa

Sahih International

The Day the Horn will be blown. And We will gather the criminals, that Day, blue-eyed.

Muhsin Khan

The Day when the Trumpet will be blown (the second blowing): that Day, We shall gather the Mujrimun (criminals, polytheists, sinners, disbelievers in the Oneness of Allah, etc.) Zurqa: (blue or blind eyed with black faces).

Malay

(Iaitu) hari ditiup Sangkakala, dan Kami akan himpunkan pada hari itu orang-orang yang bersalah dalam keadaan kelabu matanya.

Begitu juga didalam Surah Taha Ayat 132, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala menggunakan gantinama yang sama bagi menjelaskan tentang KeEsaan DiriNya yang Tidak Memerlukan Apa Apa dari makhlukNya tetapi makhlukNya tetap memerlukan Ehsan Nya :

Surat Ţāhā (Ta-Ha) - سورة طه

This is a portion of the entire surah. View more context, or the entire surah.

20:132

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Transliteration

Wa/mur ahlaka bissalatiwastabir AAalayha la nas-alukarizqan nahnu narzuquka walAAaqibatu littaqwa

Sahih International

And enjoin prayer upon your family [and people] and be steadfast therein. We ask you not for provision; We provide for you, and the [best] outcome is for [those of] righteousness.

Muhsin Khan

And enjoin As-Salat (the prayer) on your family, and be patient in offering them [i.e. the Salat (prayers)]. We ask not of you a provision (i.e. to give Us something: money, etc.); We provide for you. And the good end (i.e. Paradise) is for the Muttaqun (pious - see V.2:2).

Malay

Dan perintahkanlah keluargamu serta umatmu mengerjakan sembahyang, dan hendaklah engkau tekun bersabar menunaikannya. Kami tidak meminta rezeki kepadamu, (bahkan) Kamilah yang memberi rezeki kepadamu. Dan (ingatlah) kesudahan yang baik adalah bagi orang-orang yang bertaqwa.

Perlu difahamkan disini bahawa adalah teramat penting bagi kita setiap Muslimin dan Muslimat supaya tidak ada sekelumit was was terhadap Sifat Allahu Rabbul Alamin yang IaNya hanya Satu.


Tidak ada dua atau tiganya Allah yang Maha Pencipta kerana sudah sebegitu banyak sekali penerangan yang diperturunkan oleh Allahu Ta'ala kepada kita tentang Diri Nya yang Maha Esa melalui ayat ayat suci Al Quranul Karim dan melalui petunjuk petunjuk yang disampaikan oleh Rasul kita Muhammad Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam tentang Keesaan Allah.


Tidak masuk akal bahawa akan ada dua tiga tuhan kerana akan berlawanan dengan realiti fungsi tuhan itu sendiri.


Berlawanan dengan fahaman orang orang kaffir yang mengada adakan jumlah tuhan ciptaan penyelewengan fikiran karut mereka sendiri sesuai dengan kehendak masing masing.


Didalam kefahaman orang orang Yunani @ Greek zaman zaman dahulu, mereka merekacipta pelbagai macam tuhan untuk mereka sembah, puja dan puji ikut kepala otak masing masing.


Didalam bahasa Inggeris di sebut 'Greek Mythological Gods'.


Perkataan 'Mythological' itu sendiri membawa maksud 'Khayalan' atau 'Rekaan'.


Kepercayaan karut sebegini dikenali sebagai 'Polytheism' @ mempercayai akan keujudan serba satu tuhan. Macam masing masing ada peranan tertentu begitu.


Ada 'tuhan Zeus' @ ketua tuhan, duduk bersemayam dipuncak Gunung Olympia. Zeus tuhan fiksyen ini dikatakan mempunyai kuasa 'overriding' ke atas peranan tuhan tuhan yang lain, macam Ketua Kerajaan lah. :P


Semua ini karut semata mata.


Jangan membuang masa melayan bisikan bisikan iblis laknatullah yang menimbulkan was was didalam hati sanubari saudara.


Begitu juga dengan fahaman Kristian, Hinduism, Taoism dan segala macam 'ism' lagi. Semua fahaman fahaman ini tidak berasas dan merupakan dongeng ciptaan anak cucu Nabi Adam Alaihis Salam yang menyeleweng dari Ajaran Tauhid yang diajarkan kepada Ayahanda kita itu oleh Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Sendiri!


Mustahil Allahu Rabbi, Tuhan Maha Pencipta kita mahu membiarkan makhluk ciptaan Nya iaitu Adam Alaihis Salam hanyut tanpa pedoman dan mempertuhankan sebarang ciptaanNya yang lain?


Didalam Surah Al Baqarah Ayat ke 21, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala berfirman :

2:21

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Transliteration

Ya ayyuha annasuoAAbudoo rabbakumu allathee khalaqakum wallatheenamin qablikum laAAallakum tattaqoon

Sahih International

O mankind, worship your Lord, who created you and those before you, that you may become righteous -

Muhsin Khan

O mankind! Worship your Lord (Allah), Who created you and those who were before you so that you may become Al-Muttaqun (the pious - see V.2:2).

Malay

Wahai sekalian manusia! Beribadatlah kepada Tuhan kamu yang telah menciptakan kamu dan orang-orang yang terdahulu daripada kamu, supaya kamu (menjadi orang-orang yang) bertaqwa.

Fikirlah akan maksud ayat diatas ini. Takkan Allah menciptakan kita dengan begitu sempurna, lengkap diperbekalkan kemampuan berfikir dan mengkaji akan sesuatu boleh sahaja membiarkan kita semberono pergi menyembah yang itu dan ini?


Sebab itu, kefahaman agama hanya dapat dicapai oleh manusia yang mahu berfikir dan menyedari akan kesementaraan hakikat kehidupan duniawi ini.


Kita dicipta Allahu Rabbi dari setitis camporan airmani ayah dan ibu kita yang di  persenyawakan dan ciptaan kita ini diterangkan dengan sebegitu terperinci oleh Allahu Ta'ala melalui penurunan ayat ayat pertama sekali sebagai Kitab Suci terakhir Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala sebagai pedoman bagi kita, umat terakhir keturunan manusia melalui Rasul Nya yang terakhir dan terutama sekali iaitu melalui Rasulullah Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam.


Ingat lagi akan Surah Al Alaq, Ayat 1 sehingga ke 5?

Surat Al-`Alaq (The Clot) - سورة العلق

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

96:1

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Transliteration

Iqra/ bi-ismi rabbika allathee khalaq

Sahih International

Recite in the name of your Lord who created -

Muhsin Khan

Read! In the Name of your Lord, Who has created (all that exists),

Malay

Bacalah (wahai Muhammad) dengan nama Tuhanmu yang menciptakan (sekalian makhluk),

96:2

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Transliteration

Khalaqa al-insana min AAalaq

Sahih International

Created man from a clinging substance.

Muhsin Khan

Has created man from a clot (a piece of thick coagulated blood).

Malay

Ia menciptakan manusia dari sebuku darah beku;

96:3

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Transliteration

Iqra/ warabbuka al-akram

Sahih International

Recite, and your Lord is the most Generous -

Muhsin Khan

Read! And your Lord is the Most Generous,

Malay

Bacalah, dan Tuhanmu Yang Maha Pemurah, -

96:4

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Transliteration

Allathee AAallama bilqalam

Sahih International

Who taught by the pen -

Muhsin Khan

Who has taught (the writing) by the pen [the first person to write was Prophet Idrees (Enoch)].

Malay

Yang mengajar manusia melalui pena dan tulisan, -

96:5

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Transliteration

AAallama al-insana ma lamyaAAlam

Sahih International

Taught man that which he knew not.

Muhsin Khan

Has taught man that which he knew not.

Malay

Ia mengajarkan manusia apa yang tidak diketahuinya.

Ayat ayat suci ini diperturunkan kepada Junjungan kita, Nabi Muhammad Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam yang dipelihara Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala dari sebarang khilaf dan didalam keadaan Nabi tidak boleh membaca atau menulis, seorang 'Ummi'.


Allah itu Maha Esa wahai Muslimin dan Muslimat.


Ia Maha Sempurna.


Tidak Berkehendak atau Memerlukan.


Kita ini sahaja sebagai hamba ciptaanNya yang amat memerlukan Rahmat Ilahi dan MaghfirahNya.


Tuntutlah ilmu agama wahai saudara dan saudari sebagai pedoman kita masing masing menjalani kehidupan sementara duniawi ini.


Sebagai umat Akhirul Zaman, kita kan menghadapi pelbagai macam dugaan dan godaan sepertimana diperingatkan Nabi.


Berwaspadalah membaca dan mengikuti sebarang penulisan berkaitan agama dilaman laman blog yang kekadang penulisnya sendiri keliru dan merekacipta fahaman fahaman baru mengikut sesuka hati mereka.


Rujuklah kepada Al Quran Al Karim dan Hadis Hadis Sahih Nabi sebagai pedoman.


Sementara masih hidup, Insya Allah akan saya bantu setakat yang saya terdaya.


Saya sendiri senantiasa mempelajari ajaran ajaran Al Islam kita dan walaupun sampai ajal saya akan ada lautan lautan ilmu yang tak akan sempat saya sendiri ketahui.


Hanya Allahu Ta'ala sahaja Maha Mengetahui akan segala galanya.


Selamat berpuasa dan selamat hidup dan semoga matinya kita nanti tetap sebagai Mukmin!


Amin Ya Rabbal Alamin.


Wabillahi Taufik Wal Hidayah.


Wassalamualaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh.


* Sila layari laman laman berikut untuk bacaan lanjut :

• Sunni Path
• Islam 101

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