Forum Islam dan Cabaran Semasa 20 Januari 2013

Dalam usaha memberikan penjelasan berterusan tentang keprihatinan dan pendirian tegas mempertahankan kesucian kalimah Allah, gabungan Pertubuhan-pertubuhan Islam Bukan Kerajaan (NGI) yang bersepakat di atas nama PEMBELA, akan menganjurkan Forum Islam dan Cabaran Semasa dengan mengangkat tajuk “Polemik Isu Kalimah Allah” pada hari Ahad 20 Januari 2013, bermula jam 8.30 pagi, bersamaan 8 Rabiul Awal 1434 bertempat di Auditorium Utama, Kampus Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia, Gombak.Continue reading “Forum Islam dan Cabaran Semasa 20 Januari 2013”

20 NGO Islam tolak LGBT

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KUALA LUMPUR 5 Jan. – Lebih 20 pertubuhan bukan kerajaan (NGO) Islam akan mengemukakan beberapa cadangan kepada kerajaan berhubung rujukan syor untuk Semakan Berkala Sejagat (UPR) yang harus dipatuhi oleh setiap negara anggota Pertubuhan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu (PBB) dalam tempoh terdekat.

Naib Presiden Persatuan Peguam Muslim Malaysia (PPMM), Azril Mohd. Amin berkata, tumpuan cadangan kepada laporan itu lebih menjurus kepada memelihara hak-hak umat Islam di negara ini supaya PBB dapat memberi pertimbangan wajar mengikut perspektif betul berdasarkan syariah dan Perlembagaan Persekutuan.

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New Book: Gatherings of Illumination in Sending Blessings upon the Best of Creation

The following is from a mailing list I belong to:

The translation of Majalis al-Nur fi Salati ala al-Rasul or Gatherings of Illumination in Sending Blessings upon the Best of Creation (authored by Samar al-Asha and translated by Feryal Salem) is complete and available for purchase. Please support the work of our dear scholars by getting a copy and sharing the link with your contacts. All profits will go towards the Nur Foundation for Sacred Sciences and their efforts to provide education in the traditional sciences.

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A Response to Nurul Izzah Anwar

[NOTE] Nurul Izzah Anwar, the Member of Parliament for Lembah Pantai and Vice President of Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR), created controversy when she told a forum on “Islamic State: Which Version, Whose Responsibility” at the Full Gospel Tabernacle, USJ Selangor on November 3, 2012 that ‘freedom of religion should not just be limited to non-Malays but everyone’.

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Rohingyas: Support the call for Global Day of Action

Why is it that many Muslims never even noticed the Rohingyas until the recent attempts to cleanse them ethnically from Myanmar soil? How is it that the Myanmar opposition leader, recently triumphant in her release from House Arrest, wears a pretty white flower in her hair while she condones the killing of thousands of Rohingyas?Continue reading “Rohingyas: Support the call for Global Day of Action”

On the Islamic State

Published in Malaysiakini.

President Sukarno, Founding Father of Indonesia, was in Central Kalimantan on one occasion, directing the design of Palangkaraya to become the capital of the entire Republic. His design is still on the boards, and there is recent debate whether to move the entire governmental structure to that location. All three Islamic-based political parties have suffered losses in recent parliamentary elections. Furthermore, government workers complain bitterly at the overcrowding in present-day Jakarta.Continue reading “On the Islamic State”

Significance of the First Ten Days of Zul-Hijjah

[Note] The following is from a mailing list I belong to. This year, 1 Zulhijjah falls on Wednesday, 17 October.

The First Ten Days of Zulhijjah are especially significant and are among the most magnificent days in the Islamic calendar. It is reported from Ibn Abbas (radhiyallahu anhu) that Rasulullah (sallallahu alaiyhi wassallam) said: “There is no day wherein any good action is more beloved to Allah Ta’ala than these ten days (the first ten days of Zul Hijjah)”.Continue reading “Significance of the First Ten Days of Zul-Hijjah”

The Murder of a Sufi Leader

We have received recent reports of a Russian woman whose husband somehow persuaded her to commit suicide in the presence of a certain Sufi leader active in their community. Russian media quoted police as saying that Said Atsayev, a renowned Sufi Muslim spiritual leader popularly known as Shaykh Said Afandi al-Chirkawi, was killed in an attack when the woman entered his home disguised as his follower and detonated an explosive belt around her waist. The blast happened in the village of Chirkey in the southern republic, which borders Chechnya.

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