Buush Mohamed Abdullahi

What is Tabligh?

21 Aug 08 19:44:40 GMT

What is 'Tabligh'?

Alsalamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatu ALLAHi Wa Barakatuhu,

'Tabligh' is the work done by Muslims to call others to Allah. It is the same work that was done by the prophets and messengers (May Allah's peace upon them and His blessings), to their people like Nuh, Lut, Ibrahim, Ismail, Ishaaq, Yaqub, Musa, Isa, Muhammed, etc. (May Allah's peace be upon them all.) Since Muhammed (May Allah's peace upon him and His blessings) is the final prophet and messenger, it becomes a duty on every muslim to invite and call people to Allah.

Who is the founder of 'Tabligh'?

It is Abu AlQasim (May Allah's peace and blessings be upon him), also known as Muhammed ibn Abdullah ibn Abdul Muttalib ibn Hashim, who is not the father of any man and the seal of the prophets. After receiving the messengership, Muhammed (May Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) conveyed the message of truth to His companions (called the Sahabah), who then brought the message to the rest of the world. It is this work that is, by the grace of Allah, alive and active today. It is by their efforts, May Allah be pleased with them and have mercy upon them, that we are Muslims.

Who are the 'jamaat tabligh'?

It is a great Mercy from Allah (All glory is due to Him the Most High) that this work has been revived in many places throughout the world. It is also a great Mercy from Allah (All glory is due to Him the Most High) that people doing this effort are able to organize together and support and help each other out in doing this work.

The ways that are followed are what Allah has revealed in the Quran, and according to the traditions of Muhammed (May Allah's peace and blessings be upon him.)

It is inappropriate for people to call people that do this work as the 'jamaat tabligh'. It is out of ignorance, and the works of the shaitan, to divide the Muslims. The Muslims are one Ummah (Nation), and amongst them are some that are foremost in good works, some that wrong their souls, and some that follow a way between the two. It is every muslim's duty to convey the message given by Abu AlQasim (May Allah's peace and blessings be upon him). It is the responsibility of every Muslim to first convey the message to himself/herself, by learning more about Islam, then conveying the message to his/her family, and to the people around them.

What are the benefits?

First, Allah the One that controls all the events of this universe, makes the person's life much better. The Shaitan makes people think other things control the events that surround them. It is Allah that controls them. Allah, the One that Created this universe Certainly knows about it. Allah did not make this universe in randomness or in chaos. Everything happens for a reason. Allah created This universe, and all the events that occur in the HAQ (TRUTH). Of course a person that follows the guidance of Allah will be better off, and will not have any fear or grief. Allah will put the Barakah (blessings) in the persons life.

Also Allah has prepared a beautiful repayment for the people that strive in His way, in the Akhira (after life). The Akhira is far better than anything a person can achieve in this world's life. The Akhira (after life) also lasts much longer than this world's life. It is eternal.

The Sahabah before us made huge sacrifices for this effort; many of them sacrificed their whole life. It is appropriate for us to also make some sacrifices for conveying this message. Allah is well aware of all the things that people do, and Allah will repay everyone according to the efforts that they do.

Allah Commands us to do tabligh.

Allah commands all of us to do tabligh. Allah says in the Quran:

061.014 O ye who believe! Be ye helpers of God: As said Jesus the son of Mary to the Disciples, "Who will be my helpers to (the work of) God?" Said the disciples, "We are God's helpers!" then a portion of the Children of Israel believed, and a portion disbelieved..

Allah makes this command to all the believers. We must be helpers of Allah and convey the message that Allah gave to His final messenger (May Allah's peace and blessings be upon him). Muhammed (May Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) fulfilled his duty by conveying this message to his sahabah, its now for us to convey it to others.

Also in Bukhari hadith:

4.667: ------- Narrated 'Abdullah bin 'Amr: The Prophet said, "Convey (my teachings) to the people even if it were a single sentence, and tell others the stories of Bani Israel (which have been taught to you), for it is not sinful to do so. And whoever tells a lie on me intentionally, will surely take his place in the (Hell) Fire."

In the above hadith from Bukhari, Prophet Muhammad (May Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) commands us to convey the message. In arabic the word for convey is baligh. That is what is tabligh. This command is for everyone. The prophet (May Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) orders us to convey the message even if it were a single statement. The prophet (May Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) also commands us to relate the stories of Bani Israel, and whoever says a lie about prophet Muhammad (May Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) will find his seat in the hell fire.

Bush's Somalia Strategy Enables an Ethiopian Despot

06 Dec 08 22:45:55 GMT

Bush's Somalia Strategy Enables an Ethiopian Despot Bush's Somalia Strategy Enables an Ethiopian Despot Bush's Somalia Strategy Enables an Ethiopian Despot

It may be too early to tell what, if anything, has been accomplished by the recent US-backed Ethiopian invasion of Somalia, but at least on the streets of Addis Ababa one thing has become clear. Here in the Horn of Africa, as elsewhere, Washington is all too happy to overlook the undemocratic excesses of a dictator who will do its bidding in the "war on terror."
Washington is all too happy to overlook the undemocratic excesses of Ethiopia's Meles Zenawi, who has pledged his support for Bush's "war on terror."
Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has ruled Ethiopia since 1991, when his minority ethnic guerrilla group, the Tigray People's Liberation Front, overthrew the country's postimperial Communist regime, the Dergue, which had murdered, tortured and imprisoned tens of thousands during its brutal seventeen years in power. Like most contemporary resistance groups in Ethiopia, the TPLF began as a Marxist-Leninist party. But by the time its fighters marched into Addis Ababa, Meles had realized the global political winds had changed and that he would be better off with patronage from Washington and London. "So Meles started talking about free elections and free markets--anything that was sweet to American ears," said Merera Gudina, an opposition parliamentarian and political scientist at Addis Ababa University.
Meles's ideological switch has paid off. By introducing several Western-friendly economic reforms, he was applauded by President Clinton as a sterling example of the "new generation" of African leaders and later by President Bush as one of the "strong friends of America." Development gurus chimed in. Meles combined "intellectual attributes with personal integrity: no one doubted his honesty and there were few accusations of corruption within his government," wrote Joseph Stiglitz in his 2002 book Globalization and Its Discontents.
But Meles is corrupt. He has turned the state and its resources into a trough for the ruling umbrella party, the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), in which the TPLF is pre-eminent. To take just one example, when Ethiopia's auditor general, Lema Aregaw, reported last year that about $600 million in state funds were unaccounted for, mainly in regional coffers, Meles fired him and publicly defended the regional administrations' "right to burn money."
Meles enjoys little support from Ethiopia's two largest ethnic groups, the Oromo and Amhara. Instead, he has appointed Tigrayans to the most important and sensitive government positions. But even among Tigrayans, who account for only 7 percent of the population, his support is waning. "The people are sick of the corruption, about the lack of government services, and they only support Meles out of fear," said Gabro Asrat, the former governor of Tigray. Asrat and several other top TPLF officials were expelled from the party in 2001, after they called for an inquiry into the handling of the disastrous 1998-2000 war with Eritrea. Meles, with no trace of irony, justified their dismissal as part of a crackdown on corruption within the party.
In 2005 Meles's transgressions at last came to the world's attention during that year's parliamentary elections. The two previous contests, in 1995 and 2000, had largely been boycotted by the opposition, which felt the election process was heavily rigged in the government's favor. But in 2005 Meles opened up the process a little, granting opposition parties some access to the media and allowing international observers to monitor the vote. Still, in the run-up to the elections, "there were arrests, beatings and intimidation of candidates and supporters from the two main opposition groupings," reported Amnesty International.
Uncowed, 90 percent of eligible Ethiopians cast ballots on May 15. But as it became clear that the ruling party was in danger of losing power, the government stopped the vote counting and moved to manipulate the results. The partisan National Electoral Board called for reruns in thirty-one "disputed" areas. Amid even greater intimidation and violence, many EPRDF candidates regained their seats. During subsequent mass protests, on June 8 and November 1, police opened fire, killing 193 according to the government's own report. Meles had scores of opposition leaders and journalists arrested, and about 100 face charges of treason. Meanwhile, thousands more have been detained. Virtually all independent media has been shut down, and the new EPRDF-dominated Parliament remains a rubber stamp. The government continues to face limited armed resistance from two ethnic rebel groups, the Oromo Liberation Front and Ogaden National Liberation Front, but its most vocal opposition comes from Ethiopians in diaspora, particularly the relatively wealthy Ethiopian communities in the United States.
And yet for all his abuses, Meles remains our friend. In July 2006 US Representatives Chris Smith and Donald Payne introduced a bill to cut US military aid to Ethiopia unless it ended political repression. But the bill was quashed by Republican leaders doing Bush's bidding. After all, Meles had pledged his support for the President's war on terror. And after it became clear that CIA-funded warlords in Somalia--including one whose militia killed eighteen American troops in 1993--could not defeat that country's Islamic Courts Union, Washington turned to Meles to make good on his pledge. (Gen. John Abizaid's early December meeting with Meles in Addis Ababa is believed to have been the final go-ahead.)
The invasion was a rout. But it also was very unpopular in Ethiopia. "Somalia is not a threat to Ethiopia," said Negasso Gidada, the former Ethiopian president who served alongside Meles but recently has emerged as one of the prime minister's most outspoken critics. "The Somalis didn't attack us, so why are we fighting them?"
Most felt that the attack was a diversion, both for Bush, from Iraq, and for Meles, from international scrutiny of his domestic affairs. Bush's gambit may not have worked: Already, as Ethiopian troops withdraw, the Islamic Courts are regrouping, and there is little hope that the US-backed transitional government, a fractious collection of warlords, can hold Somalia together.
But for Meles, Somalia wasn't the risk. It was the prospect of losing Washington's support, and the Somalia adventure helped insure that didn't happen. "What I can't understand is why the Americans fall for this," Gudina said. "Do they think that if Meles was gone and terrorists attacked Ethiopia, that we wouldn't respond?"
It's a hypothetical Bush seems not to have pondered. And so Meles is further emboldened, a Washington-backed Big Man who now has ruled Ethiopia for as long as the Communist dictatorship he deposed.
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Kenya Muslim In Guantanamo

18 Sep 08 22:30:57 GMT

KENYAN MUSLIM IN GUANTANAMO

For over sixteen months now, a Kenyan has been confined in the US Naval station at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. He was arrested in Mombasa by Kenyan Police on suspicion of involvement in the 2002 bombing on Israeli interests in Kenya, better known as the Kikambala bombing. He is 37 year-old Mohammed Abdulmalik.

Abdul, as his family fondly calls him, was a Madrassa (Islamic class) teacher at Majengo ya Ropa in Mombasa and was a cross-border trader dealing in assorted merchandise between Mombasa and SomaliaHis eldest sister, Mwajuma Rajab Abdalla, describes him as a humble young boy who could not harm a fly.

To her, the arrest, detention and eventual extradition of her brother came as a surprise and still linger in her memories as ‘a lifetime nightmare'. Mwajuma's biggest worry remains the fate of her brother whom she is not sure of ever meeting again."I don't know if I will ever meet Abdul.

What will happen if he dies in Guantanamo Bay? What will the government tell us...that he was not Kenyan?" She posed during a phone interview. Mwajuma, like her step siblings Miriam Mohammed and Salim Khamis, says she cannot comprehend why Abdulmalik was extradited to Cuba, because he was not charged in Kenya.

Mariam and Khamis have for the second time lodged a bid to secure his repatriation citing legal issues which have been overlooked by the State.They are aggrieved that despite the Kenyan law providing for an opportunity to be heard before being condemned, their brother was not accorded one."This is against the rules of natural justice," their lawyer Mureithi Mbugua said when asked why he accepted to file the case which had previously been filed by human rights lawyer, Harun Ndubi.

The advocate, with the elder sisters' authority, filed the suit at the High Court against Police Commissioner, Major General Hussein Ali and Attorney General (AG) Amos Wako for Abdulmalik's unlawful detention.They claim that since the arrest of their brother in February last year, and subsequent transfer to Guantanamo in March the same year, he has neither been charged nor arraigned in a court of law, and is still in pre-trial custody.They now want the court to declare that his arrest was unlawful and unconstitutional, having violated his rights.They also want the government to secure his immediate release from the secluded, hard-core penitentiary, besides according him ‘general, exemplary and punitive damages'.

A previous bid to secure his release flopped in mid-November last year, after High Court Judge Jackton Ojwang threw out their suit, saying the matter was out of Kenya's jurisdiction."The high court's possible redress orders would probably fall short of restoring the subject (Abdulmalik) to the Kenyan jurisdiction, as there are no unfailing instruments for retrieving him from those now having his physical custody," he ruled.The judge suggested that it was essential to regulate the exercise of executive discretion when handing over Kenyans to foreign jurisdictions.In the fresh suit, the family has reiterated the gross violations of their brother's constitutional rights.

They blame the police for the ‘unsanctioned arrest and the government for its alleged laxity in ensuring justice for one of its own citizens'."

The Government of Kenya has tacitly and/or actively connived with the US government in the continued indefinite, unlawful, illegal and unconstitutional detention without trial of the subject (Abdulmalik), in violation of the Kenyan constitution, the constitution of the USA and numerous international human rights conventions that the two countries are party to," a paragraph of the complaint papers read.

The evidently disturbed siblings hold that ‘Abdulmalik had not committed any crime before his arrest', and has arbitrarily been alienated from his family."The Kenya Police held the subject incommunicado and denied him his fundamental right to be visited by his family, with express instructions at every police station he was held at that he should not be seen by anybody," they stated in their application.

As the only Kenyan being held in Guantanamo Bay, a prison whose mere presence has drawn wide condemnation from various international humanitarian organizations, human rights activists in Kenya have not taken it lightly.

Al Amin Kimathi, a Muslim Human Rights activist, describes the Abdulmalik case as an ‘apt abdication on the part of the government, to ensure the safety of its citizens.'Kimathi, who has been vocal on various issues afflicting the Muslim community, insists that the onus to restore Abdulmalik's safety rests with the Kenyan government to redeem its citizen from the high security penitentiary.

The Muslim Human Rights Forum (MHF) has written to President Mwai Kibaki over the issue and is looking forward to a favorable response."Abdulmalik is held in Cuba for an offence allegedly committed in Kenya. It is therefore his right for him to be tried under Kenya's jurisdiction," Kimathi said.

In the meantime, the family believes Abdulmalik's living conditions have improved, after they received information that their brother had been moved to a different cluster of prisoners at the hard-core penitentiary. Mariam says late July this year, a human rights lawyer who spoke to Abdulmalik conveyed information that he was safe. She says the lawyer confirmed that Abdulmalik has been allowed to mingle with other prisoners. "We have been told that he has been moved to group four. I hear in this status, he can watch TV and socialise with other prisoners," Mariam said.

When contacted, Government Spokesman, Dr. Alfred Mutua said his office was not ready to comment on the matter. Police Spokesman also declined to comment on the matter. He said: "I do not wish to comment on that matter, please". The Press had asked him to comment on the extradition and why he was never charged.Police have been accused of having violated his rights as a Kenyan citizen; beside allegations of torture on the suspect admit to involvement in Kikamabala bombings.

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