October 30, 2012

Allaah: The Knower of the Unseen

Sometimes I would read a few verses and then I would stop thinking what they meant. Tonight I was doing the same with surat an nahl. And after having read the first 17 verses I started thinking to myself about the fact that we have so many blessings in our life subhan Allah and asked myself the question ' can we really enumerate the blessings of Allaah?'

Lo and Behold! the exact next verse read- " And if you would count the graces of Allâh, never could you be able to count them. Truly! Allâh is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful." (verse-18)

Subhan Allaah He knew what I was thinking of. And obviously He knows everything in the hidden and everything in the apparent. So what do you think the next verse was?


"And Allâh knows what you conceal and what you reveal." (Verse-19)


October 18, 2012

bdnews24.com: News agency or blasphemy corp.?

An opinion on eid-ul azha (Qurbani eid) was posted on bdnews24.com recently. The author wrote some ridiculously blasphemous things which need to be rectified sooner rather than later. I think, we Muslims, should seriously be vocal about these things, otherwise this blasphemy could really take over. It is especially confusing to those of us who are not firmly established in the knowledge of Islam. Hence, we should raise our voice on a wider level. I mean, posting a blog post or a status on facebook is great and definitely nice for a start. But it is not enough.

So how do we go about it? Simple. Either stop reading and warn others about bdnews24.com or raise voice against the news agency.

However, this is not as simple an issue as you think. Let's face it, the media is one of the most powerful and dangerous means of communication. And it does not only provide you with information it also affects how you think. Worse yet, a large part of its trash goes into your brain and you start believing in pretty much everything it tries to sell you. The thing doesn't get that bad yet if it stops there. But it gets extremely bad when it starts affecting your religious belief or to say when it tries to teach you religion.

The problem at hand, therefore, is responsible news agencies publishing blasphemous stories to confuse the hell out of the 'confused lot'. Especially, in a 'Muslim' country such as Bangladesh this should, at any rate, not be tolerated and I speak WILL not be tolerated in sha Allah.

In doing so, we need to get, a sort of, conversation going on bdnews24.com page. Therefore, I need you to follow the link to that article and give your comment in sha Allah.


October 16, 2012

A message to B.

Missing someone. My heartbeat, my little boy.

He grew up in front of my very eyes, my little nephew.

He is, kind of, my Heart.

He is, somewhat, the smartest kid there is in my eyes.

I am not jealous of him knowing the fact that his grandmother, my mom, loves him more than me. Why because he is more beloved to me than myself (Of course after Rasulullah(as) )

You know I love you, you know you mean the world to me. I miss you. I haven't seen you in ages, I see you in my dreams and I cry out, wanting, to hug you and take you in my arms. But I know, now you are a big boy, at 12 ma sha Allah. You'd get annoyed saying 'mama I have grown up, please get of off me' :D

I see my youth in you, even though I know, someday, I might become a father in sha Allah (of course it happens after my marriage in sha Allah. Silly!) . But I know myself, hence I can tell you with conviction that none could take your place. I don't care if in the future my offspring, son or daughter, gets jealous of you, even though I believe they'll love you as much as I do; if not more.

My sweet nephew. You know how difficult it is for us without you? You are faraway from us, we cannot see you whenever we want to. Worse still, it is much more painful for us to think that you miss being with us. As you know very well, your happiness is all what we ask for.

Alhamdulillaah for everything and I apologize to my readers if I have upset them.

You know why I posted this? I posted this to let you know how much does this person mean to me. So if you benefit from any of my posts and you love me for that, please know that I'll want you to love him too and keep him in your prayers.

October 10, 2012

I'm a Chomskyan, hence I speak!

Noam Chomsky, the American linguist, has been talking a lot of sense lately. In fact, he has been talking sense for over a decade now, I suppose. I especially like the way he bashes the US policy. His uncompromising attitude is something needed in today’s world.

Time has changed. And with the winds of change, new government has come to power in the states. Namely, Obama administration. However, there has not been a departure from the way Chomsky speaks. In other words, one good thing about him, I find, is he does not change his stance be it Bush or Obama. Truth be told, there is basically no fundamental difference between Obama and Bush. If you really want to find one, you may find it in education.


Chomsky states concerning the US policy on Iran: “the Obama administration announced a readjustment of U.S. anti-missile systems in Eastern Europe. That led to a great deal of commentary and debate, which, as in the past, skilfully evaded the central issue. …The chance of Iran launching a missile attack, nuclear or not, is about at the level of an asteroid hitting the Earth -- unless, of course, the ruling clerics have a fanatic death wish and want to see Iran instantly incinerated.”



The US, if you look, is ready to take every kind of safety measures under the sky to protect their sovereignty. However, this is not referring to ‘physical’ safety measures a state takes for protection. But rather these measures are being taken to continue having the monopoly of the situation under the pretext of fighting terrorism.

Really, it does not take nuclear science to understand that the US does not give monkeys about fighting terrorism. In fact, you would find, by and large, the terrorising is done by the US and they are the primary source terrorism stems from.


Let’s bring in some examples from seerah here, to bring the point closer to home. If you look into history you would always find the hypocrites posing as the absolute model of truth and goodness. Abdullah ibn Salul, for example, was the leader of the hypocrites. Whenever prophet (s.) would stand on the podium he would get up and say ‘pay attention to the messenger of Allah.’ Why would someone do that? Is it not obvious that it is the messenger of Allaah? The irony is that by doing so Abdullah ibn salul had exposed his true nature of hypocrisy, because only a hypocrite would do that. In the same way, the US and its allies (The mastermind being the illegitimate state of Israel) would try to feed you everything, assuming, the rest of the world is a fool. Unfortunately, the rest of the world has been buying all this rubbish sold by the US.


I have worked in the media for a few months and I have practical experience as to how it functions. So I can tell you, with all my honesty, that CNN, BBC, al Jazeera, ABC these are all means of propaganda. And I suppose, I do not even have to give you this information you already know this in your mind but you still listen to their trash. Why because you think you are getting solid information. But the worst of all things is when you believe in something broadcasted in any of these channels, especially when it tells you of a Muslim to be a terrorist and a fanatic.

It is, indeed, your duty to verify the news given to you by the evildoer. How in the world do you accept news on face value? Of all things, newspapers and news channels are not the sources you blindly believe, because these sources are by their very nature infidels!

SO I leave you with your sense of judgment to take what you think best and leave what you think worst.

October 09, 2012

A little dawaah conversation on the road!

Even though my MA class was postponed tonight and at the beginning, I was exasperatingly annoyed with the fact, at the end I did manage to make the best use of my free time alhamdulillah. Not bragging here but I actually realized something very important tonight while I was talking to my non-Muslim classmate on our way back home. That is we often tend to let our 'preconceived notion' about a person come in the way of our dawaah. This is especially wrong because when you are having, say, a biased idea about a person you ignore a lot of things which if you were not biased you would have considered. Now, what if the person is everything you did not think them to be?

Simple yet a safe way to go about it is, just stop getting ideas. Start from the scratch and for sure you do not start with anything more important than the concept of oneness, not just any concept of oneness but the unique Islamic concept of oneness and monotheism. And why does it make sense? Why does Allaah get angry when we ascribe partners to Him? Everything. From the very beginning of it till the very end, explain the matter. Even though it is a very good ploy to start with Tawheed, a lot of times it is better to establish credibility before anything else. Because if you look into the life of the prophet(s.) you would see that when he actually started giving dawaah he already had his credibility firmly established.

I was saying I met this non-Muslim classmate tonight, you know these days I do not have to beat around the bush I just straight start talking about Islam or start giving him dawaah, that is to say. Why because I was able to establish a good foundation. Thus, our relationship became such that we could now talk about everything under the sky, so to speak.


Alhamdulillaah it was a positive conversation tonight and now let me see where it ends up in sha Allah! Please make du'a for him.

Allah Knows and I do not!

It so happens sometimes that you convince yourself into thinking you are not having high hopes concerning a matter. However, if you were really honest to yourself you would see that you were simply deceiving yourself. Because, when you do not get the thing you want you are upset and distraught. If your heart didn't long for the thing in the first place why would you be so upset? That is, because, deep down inside you wanted it badly. But when you do not find it coming your way, you are frustrated. Why am I saying all this? Why because I have been going through this in the last couple of days. At the beginning, I tell myself that I am not going to have high hopes this time as I have bitter experiences for doing so. Thus having this mindset I approach, and after things do not turn out as I want them to, I am miserable! I ASK Allah to give me patience and I ask Him to make me accept His qadr, even though at the beginning it always seems a bit difficult with practice it is possible in sha Allah. For Allaah does not give a burden to anyone beyond their ability.

October 06, 2012

The myth that the Great Wall of China Can be seen from space originated in 1754

And despite the fact that space travel wasn’t even considered a possibility yet, everyone believed the myth. But then again, it isn’t too hard to believe if you don’t think about it too much; the Great Wall of China is an overwhelmingly large structure that doesn’t have a lot of problems standing out from the surrounding greenery. It is 21,196 km long, and has been around since 7th century BC. The myth that the Wall’s magnificence can be seen from outer space is thought to have been created by the English antiquary William Stukekey in 1754. In a letter, Stuckeley wrote that, “This mightly wall of four score miles (Hadrian’s Wall) is only exceeded by the Chinese Wall, which makes a considerable figure upon the terrestrial globe and may be discerned at the moon.” Through the years, many innocent fun-fact enthusiasts have uttered this myth with confidence. In fact, it even appeared in a 1932 Ripley’s Believe it or Not Strip. However, actual space exploration has confirmed that outer space isn’t the place to go if you want to see the Great Wall (my apologies to all the disappointed astronauts and aliens). Source: http://www.omg-facts.com/Other/The-myth-that-the-Great-Wall-of-China-ca/53625?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=first

Lessons from the short story 'After a Shadow' -TS Arthur

I just finished reading this short story by TS Arthur ‘After a Shadow’. And something in it hit me, real hard! You see, even though the story is somewhat subtle, it is yet profound in addressing this thing we have inside of us all. The self-deluded,that we are, into thinking we are smart enough and we can do everything for ourselves, we do not need a supreme power to have any kind of authority over our lives.

Anyhow, the story commences by portraying a scene on a bright June morning involving a little boy and his parents. So what happens in the scene is, the boy Arty runs after his shadow, confused, as to what it was that didn’t seem to leave his company. The boy was terribly scared with this fact and asked his father to look at it. The father obviously laughed it away and told his baby boy that it was only his shadow and it was nothing significant, everyone had a shadow and it was a commonplace.

The father, Mr. Mayflower then narrates that the ‘shadow lesson’ was soon forgotten by the time he reached the store, and thought entered business with its usual ardour. One of his clerks, then, comes to him and tells him of a Mr. B, who wants to make a bill of a thousand dollars. And even this interruption disturbs Mr. Mayflower and he thinks to himself ‘what were a new customer and a bill of a thousand dollars to me at that moment of time? I saw tens of thousands in prospective!’

Now, let’s stop here for a bit. What do we get from this attitude of Mr. Mayflower? We get nothing better than an arrogant little trader whose destruction was to come sooner rather than later or to say it was just around the corner. Wait a little to see how Allah destroys people who are so full of themselves.So as Mr. B… didn’t have much success with Mr. Mayflower he turns to another company for sending off his goods. Mr. Mayflower’s clerk informs him about it and he arrogantly says let him have whatever he wants and that he should not mind if any other company sells their service to him. Later that day, Mr. Mayflower asks one of his clerks whether the goods were sold to that new customer from Arton. The clerk replied in the affirmative. Then Mr. Mayflower asks about the amount of bill that was made by the customer. To his amazement and shock, the clerk replies – ‘Seventeen hundred dollars!’ To this, Mr. Mayflower, distraught, says to his clerk that he thought the customer was to buy only to the amount of a thousand dollars. The clerk says, ‘you went so easy on him that I encouraged him to buy; and the bill ran up more heavily than I was aware until the footing gave exact figures.’ After all this drama, the father, Mr. Mayflower keeps on reprimanding himself to the fact that he didn’t learn the lesson from his son, in the morning. He then goes,
I grow philosophic sometimes. Thought will, now and then, take up a passing incident, and extract the moral. But how little the wiser are we for moralizing! we look into the mirror of truth, and see ourselves--then turn away, and forget what manner of men we are. Better for us if it were not so; if we remembered the image that held our vision
I suppose, I should stop here and let you do the thinking. For value judgment, I reckon, is an individual thing. Every person is different and perceives things in a unique way. So, if you could provide me with your own interpretation of the story, please do!