The Muslim News

September

2014
Issue 26

Id Mubarak from Gaza

NEWS

From HOPE: Sister Sakina Rafeeq of Trinidad on Saturday 19

July 2014 wife of the late Imam
Mohammed Rafeeq, and the
mother of Dr Hamza Rafeeq and
Mrs Nareeman Hydal, among
others, mother-in-law of Maulana
Kemal Hydal.
Noor Saleem the lovely 13-year

-old-daughter of our dear brother,

Abid Saleem, who is the brotherin-law of our prominent member
from the Karachi Jamaat, Mian
Khurram Aftab.

Request for prayers

Safoera Hoeseini, wife of, Bro. A.
S. Hoeseni of the Stichting Ahmadiyya Anjuman, has gone through surgery.
Br. Enayat Mohammed, President of the Freeport Uquire Muslim
Association and also President of the
Lahore Ahmadiyya Muslim Literary
Trust in Trinidad.

Next Meeting

Broadcasts

Date: Sunday, 7th September, 2014

www.virtualmosque.co.uk

Time: 15:00

Friday service: 13:00

Dars: 13:45

Venue: Dar-us-Salaam, 15 Stanley

Avenue, Wembley, HA0 4JQ

Monthly meetings: first

Sunday of each month

From Br. Shaukat A. Ali

Contributions to projects in India
This book, in which there is no doubt, is a guide to
those who keep their duty, who believe in the Unseen (Allah) and keep up prayer and spend (on good
works) out of what We have given them, and who
believe in what has been revealed to you and what
was revealed before you, and of the Hereafter they
are sure. These are on a right course from their Lord
and these it is that are successful. (Holy Quran:
2:25)

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Skype
Weekly Urdu lecture/dars
Skype: Lahori-Ahmadi
Day: Sunday
Time: 10:00 am (BST)
We intensify spiritual activities including prayers, giving Zakaat and are
more charitable during Ramadan. It
may thus be appropriate to cite some
salient points and verses from the glorious Quran.
At the very beginning of the Holy
Quran as per verses cited above, we
are told the importance of the first
three pillars of Islam i.e., belief in
(Unseen) Allah; prayer and Zakaat or
charity (spending on good works, out
of love and fear of Allah).
The significance of Zakaat and charity
can also be ascertained from the fact
that it is stated directly with or in asso-

Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat Islam Lahore (UK)

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ciation with prayer scores of times

throughout in the Holy Quran. For
instance, in one of the earliest revelations, we are told: And keep up prayer
and give the due charity and offer to Allah
a goodly gift (73:20).
On the subject of Zakaat (which is
obligatory, as a tax) and charity, Almighty Allah is asking us to give in
His name a very small portion of what
He has given us to be shared with
those who may not be blessed materially. We are fortunate that Merciful
Allah has gifted most of us with brain,
eyes, ears, tongue, lips, an able body
with hands and feet as well as facilities
and opportunities to earn our living.
Consequently, whatever we earn
with the gift from Allah can be said to
be given by Allah, Who has told us:
And He it is Who made for you the
ears and the eyes and the hearts. Little thanks you give! (23:78). Have
We not given him two eyes, and a
tongue and two lips, (90:89).
We have also been advised who can
receive Zakaat or what it can be spent
on in the following verse: (Zakaat)
the due charity is only for the poor
and the needy, and those employed to
administer it, and those whose hearts
are made to incline (to truth), and (to
free) the captives, and those in debt,
and in the way of Allah and for the
traveller an ordinance from Allah.
And Allah is Knowing, Wise (9:60).
The noble projects being undertaken
in India by the Anjuman qualify for
contributions from Zakaat and more
particularly the charitable donations
from what Allah has granted us.
As has been the case in some other
places, there has been strong opposition to the propagation activities in
India. However by the grace of the
Almighty Allah and prayers of Hazrat
Ameer, Prof. Dr. Abdul Karim
Saeed, and other brothers and sisters
around the world we have made
steady progress. The Anjuman was
registered on 5 May 1999 and scores
of new members have joined us in

various locations every year. For instance, in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh,
Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu etc., apart from
Delhi. Alhamdulillah, by the grace of
our Sustainer, I have been able to visit
all these States; some of them several
times. It is gratifying to note that the
Beneficent has bestowed blessings on
the Jamaat as we now have over 300
members spread across the country
from only a few in 1999.
In light of the exponential growth
within a relatively short period, it is
felt that the disadvantaged members
deserve our generous contributions in
order to take the pure and pristine
teachings of the Holy Quran to the rest
of the communities and the country.
There are many verses which tell us to
give out of what Allah has given us,
such as: They only are believers whose
hearts are full of fear when Allah is mentionedthose who keep up prayer and
spend (on good works) out of what We have
given them (8:2-3). And those whokeep
up prayer and spend (on good works) out of
what We have given themwill enter
(gardens of perpetuity) along with those
who do good from among their fathers and
their spouses and their offspring (13:22
23). And give good news to the humble,
whose hearts tremble when Allah is mentioned, and who are patient in their afflictions, and who keep up prayer, and spend
(on good works) out of what We have given
them (22:3435). Surely those who recite
the Book of Allah and keep up prayer and
spend (on good works) out of what We have
given them. He may pay them back fully
their rewards and give them more out of His
grace (35:2930).
Further emphasis is placed on charity
in the broader sense when we are told
there is not much benefit in prayers if
what we recite is not practiced, i.e.,
doing good deeds (including paying
Zakaat and giving charity). The Reminder states: So woe to the praying ones,
who are unmindful of their prayer, who do
(good) to be seen, and refrain from acts of

kindness! (107:47).
The Glorious Quran also states
(pertaining to charity or spending in
the way of Allah):
the charitable men and the charitable women, and the fasting men and
the fasting womenand the men who
remember Allah much and the women
who remember Allah has prepared
for them forgiveness and a mighty
reward (33:35).
The Provider does not want to impose an
undue burden on anyone and has stated:
Let him who has abundant means spend out
of his abundance, and whoever has his
means of subsistence restricted for him, let
him spend out of what Allah has given him.
Allah does not lay on any soul a burden
beyond what He has given it (65:7).

A message from Shahid

Ramadan is the month of self-sacrifice
a month when we give up lawful
things, food and water among them, to
remind ourselves of how those deprived of these necessities feel. But it
seems that we learn very little from
this. The time, to the second, when
we must stop and start eating to start
and end our fasts, is more important
than morality and spirituality. It seems
that looking for the moon with the
naked eye is more important than the
genocide in Gaza. It seems that the
tarawih prayer and the number of its
rakahs is more important than fellow
feeling for human suffering for we see
that those who claim to represent early
Islam deprive their friends and neighbours of food and water and drive
them into the mountains under an
unforgiving and blazing sun.
We pay no heed to the message of the
Holy Quran and the example of our
noble prophet (s). We do not learn
how to be better human beings but we
fight over the timing of sunrise and
sunset and sighting the moon. And
we still say: I fasted for the whole
Ramadan and finished the Holy Quran
during the tarawih. I wonder how
Allah sees it!
Let us observe Islam in spirit as well as
letter and show the world what a truly
noble religion it is.