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Sheikh Yusuf Qardawi...does ring a bell...

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cik mod.. of course sheikh yusuf qardhawi rings a bell..

dia kan mufti tanah arab yang sentiasa mengeluarkan fatwa dan pendapat.. and most of his works are referred by scholars since he searched for evidence from hadith and Quran before he voiced out his opinion..

[ Last edited by limau_nipis at 31-3-2006 07:58 AM ]

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ahaks...no wonder...remember now where I read about him...

pessoa

yusuf qardhawi kan yang keluarkan fatwa suicide bombing untuk berjihad di jalan Allah, dijanjikan syurga

Tak bertanggungjawab punya manusia, kalau betullah dia yang kata.

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Originally posted by pessoa at 22/3/06 11:54 AM


Tak bertanggungjawab punya manusia, kalau betullah dia yang kata.

he also outlined the conditions on what he means by berjihad with suicide bombing.. as i said before, he is a well known and most researched scholars during current time.. he based his opinions on hadith and surah..

yes, some people tend to misinterpret berjihad thru suicide bombing.. i mean, the suicide bombers itself.. kan ulama' lain pun bersetuju outline yang dicadangkan yusof qardhawi.. based on hadith and Quran

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jgn emosi eh ...hehehe.Mari kita baca dulu transkrip fatwa Sheikh qaradawi sebelum kasi pendapat.

anyway.. maybe buku2 tulisan scholars ini tak banyak lagi kat malaysia. Kita dah biasa baca  buku2 agama melayu atau indonesia. Aku sangat2 galakkan korang try baca buku scholar macam diorang ini. Diorang ada tulis banyak pasal isu yang relevan dengan keadaan orang Islam sekarang. Or at least for the sake of knowledge.

Contoh dua buku dulu




chapters:
Introduction to the Islamic Movement.
The Islamic Movement in the field of Thought and Knowledge.
The Islamic Movement in the field of Da'wah and Education.
The Islamic Movement in the field of Tarbiyah and Education.
The Islamic Movement at political and International levels.

Buku ini sesuai untuk semua orang yang akan jadi pemimpin pada diri sendiri, keluarga, parti politik.. dan termasuklah wanita eh.  Sheikh qaradawi ada mention that muslim women must be more assertive and the men must open more opportunities for the sisters. Dia ada devote 1 sub-chapter for this issue.  Don't get intimidated with the title. Buku ini senang difahami, tak verbose langsung. the message: the ummah must get united and organized, starting from the bottom of every hierarchy imaginable : social, government, da'wah. Semua orang ada peranan masing : cikgu atau tukang kebun.. dua-dua boleh boleh majukan ummah, the first step: solat jemaah. Senang cerita, sheikh qaradwi calls for a collective effort.




Buku ni poetic sikit. Dalam setiap bab, Hamza yusuf akan ambil 2,3 stanza dari satu poem ni dan huraikan tanpa panjang lebar tentang macam mana nak menyucikan hati kita. Tenang ajer lepas baca buku ini( jangan baca satu buku terus! baca sikit2 pastu reflect). Jihad yang paling grand sekali, jihad nak "menjinakkan" hati.

~ Excerpted from Hamza Yusuf抯 Introduction
"If we examine the trials and tribulations all over earth, we抣l find they are rooted in human hearts. Covetousness, the desire to aggress and exploit, the longing to pilfer natural resources, the inordinate love of wealth, and other maladies are manifestations of diseases found nowhere but in the heart. Every criminal, miser, abuser, scoffer, embezzler, and hateful person does what he or she does because of a diseased heart. So if you want to change our world, do not begin by rectifying the outward. Instead, change the condition of the inward. It is from the unseen world that the phenomenal world emerges, and it is from the unseen realm of our hearts that all actions spring. . . . We of the modern world are reluctant to ask ourselves梬hen we look at the terrible things happening棑Why do they occur?

pessoa

Originally posted by limau_nipis at 22-3-2006 09:31 PM


he also outlined the conditions on what he means by berjihad with suicide bombing.. as i said before, he is a well known and most researched scholars during current time.. he based his opinions ...

Cuber criter sket outline dia...

limau_nipis

Originally posted by pessoa at 24/3/06 01:22 AM


Cuber criter sket outline dia...

pessoa... pendapat YQ tak jumpa pulak, I read article in a magazine last year tak silap.. tapi here is a fatwa in an article I found in the Internet from Sheikh Tantawi


Sheikh Tantawi's Positions on Jihad Against Coalition Forces, Saddam's Resignation, and The War in Iraq
By Yotam Feldner

The positions of Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi, the sheikh of Al-Azhar University, regarding the issue of Jihad against the U.S. and other coalition forces fighting in Iraq seem to be changing over time. Every few days, Sheikh Tantawi, who is the highest-ranking cleric in Sunni Islam, declares a position which seems to contradict the previous one. A look at statements made by Sheikh Tantawi shows that he supports Jihad against coalition forces, and supports suicide bombings. However, he is also in favor of the resignation of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and is opposed to labeling the war in Iraq a "Crusader war." The following are statements made by Sheikh Tantawi in recent weeks which demonstrate the contradictory nature of his opinions regarding the war in Iraq:

Stage I: Sheikh Tantawi Fires Top Cleric Who Declared Jihad Against the U.S.

In early March 2003, Sheikh Tantawi fired Al-Azhar Fatwa Committee Chairman Sheikh 'Ali Abu Al-Hassan after he ruled that "it is an obligation to fight the American forces if they enter Iraq" and that "the blood of the American and British soldiers is permitted in this case."[1]Sheikh Abu Al-Hassan also ruled that it is forbidden for Muslims to hold U.S. citizenship. On several occasions, Sheikh Tantawi stated that he fired Sheikh Abu Al-Hassan because he had reached retirement age; however, Sheikh Abu Al-Hassan said that he had been "promised an extension of my services for another year, but after the American and British embassies protested my two rulings, the idea to extend my services was dropped."[2]

Stage II: Sheikh Tantawi Approves Fatwa In Favor of Jihad Against the U.S.

A few days after firing Sheikh Abu Al-Hassan, Sheikh Tantawi approved a Fatwa issued by Al-Azhar University's Islamic Research Center. The Fatwa stated, inter alia, that "in accordance with reason and with Islamic religious law, if the enemy raids the land of the Muslims, Jihad becomes a personal imperative binding on every Muslim man and woman, because our Muslim nation will be subject to a new Crusader invasion targeting land, honor, belief, and homeland."[3]

Research Center Secretary-General Wafa Abu 'Ajour said, "The sheikh of Al-Azhar, Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi, read and approved the communiqu

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Stage VI: Sheikh Tantawi Condemns Shi'ite Clerics Who Support the U.S.

The Qatari television channel Al-Jazeera broadcast an interview with Shiite cleric Sheikh Mustafa Al-Qazwini, who lives in exile in the U.S. Sheikh Al-Qazwini said that he belonged to the Iraqi opposition and called on the Iraqi army to surrender in order to protect the lives of civilians.

In response, Sheikh Tantawi told the Al-Liwa Al-Islami weekly: "Islam, with all its various schools of thought and ethnic groups, orders every Muslim to defend the homeland, the people, property, and the honor to the last drop of blood. Anyone who listens to these defeatist calls spread by people like the one who has abandoned his religion [i.e. Sheikh Al-Qazwini] sins a tremendous sin, and Allah will call him to account for abandoning [his Muslim brethren]. This applies to every Muslim everywhere who refrains from defending his Muslim brethren in Iraq and flees from the enemy. Surrender to them is expressly forbidden by Islam."

"The Prophet said: Refrain from seven sins: [Worshiping another deity] along with Allah, sorcery, killing a soul whose unjust killing Allah has forbidden, usury, taking the money of orphans, abandoning [the battlefield] during invasion, and rebelling against parents. He who scorns his land, honor, and property, and he who does not defend his homeland with all his might, is not fit to live. What that man from Washington [meaning Sheikh Al-Qazwini] said is against Islam and morality. How can the Iraqis throw down their weapons and hand their country over to the cruel enemy who wants to plunder their lands and their resources?! These things are not even worthy of rebuttal."[9]

Stage VII: Sheikh Tantawi Again Calls for Jihad, Supports Saddam's Resignation

On April 6, Sheikh Tantawi again called for Jihad against the allied forces; at the same time, he called for Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to resign. The press reported from Cairo that in his Friday sermon at Al-Azhar, Sheikh Tantawi said, "The American aggression against Iraq is not acceptable to Islamic law, and the law [of the land], and the Iraqi people must defend itself, its land, and its homeland, with all means of defense at its disposal, because it is a Jihad that is permitted by Islamic law. Jihad is an obligation for every Muslim when Muslim countries are subject to aggression. The gates of Jihad are open until the Day of Judgment, and he who denies this is an infidel or one who abandons his religion. This is an obligation applying to the nation now, in order to respond to the aggression..."[10]However, Sheikh Tantawi was cut off by persons in the crowd of worshipers shouting, "You will not stop us from waging Jihad!"[11]

At a press conference he convened on Saturday April 5, 2003, Tantawi called on the Iraqi people to "continue its Jihad in defense of religion, faith, honor, and property, because Jihad is a religious law of Islam aimed at opposing aggressors. It is the right of the Iraqis to carry out any operation in defense of their homeland, whether martyrdom operations [i.e. suicide operations] or [by] any other means." Sheikh Tantawi encouraged volunteers from Arab and Islamic countries to go to Iraq "to support the Jihad of their oppressed brethren there, because resistance to oppression is an Islamic obligation, whether the oppressor is Muslim or not." He reiterated, "The gates of Jihad are open until the Day of Judgment, and I say to the volunteer: Go in peace, and I wish you the best. I speak words of truth, but I cannot [issue an] order [to] any man." Sheikh Tantawi also said, "Some tried to exploit the description of the war as 'Crusader' in order to influence the positive positions of France, Germany, and Russia, which tried to prevent the war. Therefore, a need emerged to state that a war that bears religious slogans is unacceptable, and that Crusader wars were in the distant past and they had causes that have no connection to Christianity, which calls for peace among men."

At the same time, Sheikh Tantawi announced that he supported the demand of UAE leader Sheikh Zayyid that Saddam Hussein "should resign in order to save the Iraqi people from the aggression, and the Arab League should manage Iraq's affairs."

Sheikh Tantawi also said, "Saddam's clinging to power is one of the causes of what is happening, and of the aggression from which his people suffer, and of the threat of occupation hanging over its future." He said this was "one of the reasons for the division of the nation and the loss of its strength during the Eight-Year War against Iran, followed by the invasion of Kuwait."

However, Sheikh Tantawi reiterated, "

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Maverick Cleric Is a Hit on Arab TV

By Anthony Shadid
Washington Post Foreign Service

DOHA, Qatar -- His head draped in a white scarf in the tradition of the prophet Muhammad and his body made soft by years of religious study, Sheik Yusuf Qaradawi spoke slowly, his words simple, measured and frank.

The U.S. military has occupied the Persian Gulf, he declared, and any Muslim who dies trying to expel it should be deemed a martyr. An invasion of Iraq will "grow the seeds of hatred," giving rise to another Osama bin Laden, perhaps a thousand Osama bin Ladens. Palestinian suicide bombings -- martyrdom operations, he insisted -- are the weapon of the weak, their toll justified as a defense of sacred land.

Sheik Yusuf Qaradawi has condemned the prospect of a U.S. war against Iraq and voices support for Palestinian suicide bombings, but also embraces modern technology, women's rights and democracy for the Muslim world. (Anthony Shadid -- The Washington Post)

Moments later, he seamlessly shifted to words more welcome in the West. Women must be given greater rights, he said, and autocratic Arab states must turn to democracy. Islam must reform and celebrate tolerance. Terrorism like the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks must be denounced. "By God, I was sympathetic with the Americans from the beginning," the 76-year-old sheik explained in an interview. "But truthfully, I didn't imagine then that America would go on to declare a war against the world."

The views espoused by Qaradawi -- part religious scholar, part television star and part enigma -- have made him one of the most celebrated figures in the Arab world. His teachings are carried on what many contend is the most popular weekly show on al-Jazeera, the Arab satellite network. In translation, his tapes and videos are available as far away as Indonesia and Malaysia.

Qaradawi's appeal provides an insight into the religious currents flowing through the Middle East in the shadow of a war with Iraq. Despite the Bush administration's continuous insistence that terrorism is the enemy, many in this part of the world have interpreted the anti-terrorism campaign as a war against Islam. In this landscape, seething with resentment and perceptions of injustice, the Egyptian cleric is seen as a voice of moderation.

That might not seem obvious in the United States, given his views. But taken as a whole, Arab analysts point out, Qaradawi's message gives voice to what many view as the Arab Muslim mainstream, embracing awe of the United States, fear of its power, admiration of its democratic ideals -- and loathing of the way those ideals are often put into practice. Unlike the views of Western-oriented reformers or secular activists, his message is heard around the region.

"When you talk about Sheik Qaradawi, you're talking about an audience of hundreds of millions of Muslims across the world, someone who actually creates public opinion," said Azzam Tamimi, director of the Institute of Islamic Political Thought in London. "If Sheik Qaradawi gives a fatwa," he said, using the term for a religious ruling, "that fatwa will be heeded tomorrow in hundreds of places around the world."

Qaradawi is among a prestigious and relatively small group of Arabic-speaking religious leaders who emerged over the past decade at the intersection of technology and faith, using modern communications to deliver blunt and often provocative messages. At the same time, these people have maintained independence from governments, enhancing their reputations as straight talkers.

Qaradawi has the added reputation of being a reformer, a voice not afraid to defy 1,300 years of sometimes sclerotic religious study. It is a measure of attitudes in the Middle East that his critics chastise him not for his support of Palestinian suicide attacks or his opposition to war in Iraq, but for his demand that Christians and Jews be respected as "people of the book" who share the God of Abraham.

Among those in the most militant strands of Islam, his fondness for movies and music is scandalous. Qaradawi is said to enjoy listening to Um Kalthoum, an Egyptian singer who is still a giant more than 25 years after her death. His call for dialogue with non-Muslims, some contend, is naive. They see in his embrace of democracy and his call for greater women's rights a slavish imitation of the West. In elections last year in Bahrain, he wrote a fatwa sanctioning women, especially those past their child-bearing years, as candidates in municipal elections. A Saudi cleric quickly weighed in: Not permitted, he ruled.

"The sheik is a one-and-only kind of guy," said Maher Abdullah, 43, the host of "Sharia and Life," the 90-minute program on al-Jazeera that carries Qaradawi across the Arab world and beyond. "He is a cast of his own."

Abdullah recalled that Qaradawi traveled with a delegation of religious scholars to Afghanistan in 2001 to appeal to the Taliban to save the towering, almost 2,000-year-old statues of Buddha in Bamian. More conservative voices accused him of supporting idol worship and paganism. "It's like they were talking about [Israeli Prime Minister] Ariel Sharon," Abdullah said.

Far more controversial was Qaradawi's consent to a fatwa in October 2001 that legitimized American Muslims fighting in the U.S. Army in Afghanistan. Caller after caller lambasted Qaradawi, Abdullah recalled, but the Egyptian cleric held his ground. "I had faxes saying, okay, Sheik Qaradawi, Afghan orphans will put slogans on their chests saying our fathers were killed by American Muslims because Sheik Qaradawi said they could do so," Abdullah said.

And then there was the show still gossiped about more than four years later. The topic was sex in marriage and, by the standards of a deeply conservative Arab world, the talk about what was sanctioned under Islam was graphic. Qaradawi was decidedly liberal. The crux of his message: The bottom line is consent of both partners.

Qaradawi made clear in the interview that he was seeking to create a new, moderate current in Muslim thinking, one that "seeks balance between intellect and the heart, between religion and the world, between spirituality and materialism and between individualism and the group." To do so, Qaradawi is fighting tradition that, Abdullah said, "takes a bulldozer to shift just a little." Some colleagues and family members point to a past that fostered what they see as his independent path.

Qaradawi was born in 1926 in Saft Turab, an Egyptian village in the Nile delta crisscrossed by irrigated cotton farms. His father died before his birth. His mother followed before he was a year old. Raised by aunts and uncles, Qaradawi was urged to choose a way to make a living -- running a grocery or perhaps learning carpentry, said his son, Mohamed Qaradawi.

Instead, he memorized the Koran before his 10th birthday and embraced religion as a course of study at Al-Azhar University, the preeminent seat for Sunni Muslim scholarship in Cairo. From there, he was swept up by the seismic events shaping Egypt after World War II. Like thousands of other Egyptians, he embraced the teachings of Hassan Banna, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, who enunciated a message not unfamiliar today: religious renewal, a fierce nationalism wrapped in faith and hostility to what was perceived as an imperial West. Throughout was a subtle critique of the weakness and corruption of the Arab world's own leadership.

The Brotherhood ran afoul of Egypt's rulers. Qaradawi was imprisoned first under the monarchy in 1949, then three times after the revolution that brought Gamal Abdel Nasser to power in 1952. He was tortured, but says little about the experience. By 1961, he had left Egypt, settling in the Persian Gulf state of Qatar and eventually distancing himself from the Brotherhood's politics.

"His objective was never to satisfy anyone. He always had his own way of thinking," said Mohamed Qaradawi, 35, a professor of mechanical engineering at Qatar University. "He does feel it, the pressure. I believe he's a moderate. He believes he's a moderate, yet there's all this pressure on him from both sides to change his thinking. The Americans believe he's an extremist; the [Muslim] extremists in places like London think he's sold out."

During the interview, Qaradawi sat somewhat feebly in his home, which is adorned with East Asian art and gold Koranic inscriptions set on black. But he became impassioned when he spoke of the Palestinian uprising and suicide bombings -- a term he rejects.

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"God gave the weak weapons that enable them to resist the powerful," he said, mixing the formal Arabic of scholarship with the colloquial Egyptian Arabic. "With these weapons they can sacrifice their lives for the sake of their countries and their people. These weapons are the only ones that others cannot wrest away from them."

That view -- widespread in the region -- has wrecked Qaradawi's reputation among some in the West. Soon after he issued a fatwa sanctioning such attacks, he said, Qatari officials passed on a message to him from the U.S. Embassy that his 10-year U.S. visa had been revoked.

The passion of his anti-U.S. statements has deepened since. He has denounced the prospect of a U.S.-led attack on Iraq. While not calling for attacks on U.S. soldiers, he said those killed trying to expel them should be considered martyrs. He said he is not opposed to a U.S. presence in the region, but that the latest buildup has evolved into an occupation laying the groundwork for an illegitimate strike against an Arab and Muslim country.

"My position is against this war, which has no justification. In my view, the death, ruin and destruction it will bring will bequeath hatred between West and East, between Americans and Arabs and Muslims," he said. "It's not necessary."

He also lamented U.S. support for Arab governments in a region populated by what he called "democracies of 99.99 percent."

Unlike many Muslim scholars, he said he believes that Israel and a Palestinian state can coexist. In a region where bin Laden is often declared innocent of the Sept. 11 attacks, he was forthright in assigning blame and called on Arabs to give blood for the victims. In the interview, he praised Western ideals, if not the way they are carried out in the Middle East.

Three of his four daughters have PhDs from British universities -- in nuclear physics, organic chemistry and botany. The fourth has a master's degree in biology from the University of Texas. His son Mohamed earned his PhD from the University of Central Florida in Orlando. One of his two other sons is working toward a master's degree in business administration at the American University in Cairo.

"In the modern age, Muslims and Arabs considered America a friend to them, the closest to them," Qaradawi said after demanding his guest drink the carrot juice he had offered. "America had not occupied Arab nations or Islamic nations. It didn't have the historical baggage that the British, French, Spanish, Italians, even the Dutch, who colonized Indonesia, had. Its history was unblemished."

There is still room for dialogue and respect, he insisted, despite the prospect of war, and coexistence, even now, is a better goal than a clash of civilizations. "We're all the sons of Adam," he said.

pessoa

"[12]Tantawi also stated, "Martyrdom operations [i.e., suicide bombings] carried out against invading troops are permitted by Islamic religious law."[13]"

Bunyinya macam seorang manusia yang gila kuasa. Kenapa tidak dia saja pergi letupkan dirinya kalau dia terasa fatwanya benar?

Cakap memang murah.

limau_nipis

Originally posted by pessoa at 27/3/06 12:14 AM
"[12]Tantawi also stated, "Martyrdom operations [i.e., suicide bombings] carried out against invading troops are permitted by Islamic religious law."[13]"

Bunyinya macam seor ...

cool.. cool.. pessoa
that is just only his opinion on the matter of suicide bombing..

anyway, there are other fatwas that rejects suicide bombing based on al-Quran "Dan janganlah kamu membahayakan diri kamu sendiri.." something like that, I can't remember which surah..

Maybe later I will paste other fatwas that rejects suicide bombing..

pessoa

Aku punya pertentangan tentang fatwa macam ni ialah, kalau si pemberi fatwa tu percaya sangat dengan fatwa dia, kenapa dia tak letupkan diri dia - barulah boleh dinilaikan dengan kritikal apa yang dia kata. Kalau tidak, hipokritlah dia.

Tapi fitrah manusia yang kononnya sangka diri lebih bijak, gajah depan mata tak nampak...

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Sheikh Hamza Yusuf



haykh Hamza Yusuf was born in Walla Walla, Washington, and grew up in Northern California in a Greek Orthodox family. He is founder of the Zaytuna Institute. He embraced Islam in 1977 in Santa Barbara, California when he was only 17 and set off almost immediately to study Arabic, Islamic jurisprudence, philosophy, and spiritual psychology with masters in the Muslim world.

In 1979, he moved to the United Arab Emirates and studied in the Islamic Institute of Al-'Ain for four years, augmenting his studies with lessons by leading scholars of the Islamic world.

Some of the scholars he studied with include Shaikh Baya bin Salik, head of the Islamic court in Al-'Ain; Shaikh Muhammad Shaybani, Mufti of Abu Dhabi; Shaikh Hamad al-Wali; and Shaikh Muhammad al-Fatrati of Al-Azhar University. In 1984, Hamza Yusuf entered the Bilal ibn Rabah Madrasa of Tizi, Algeria and studied with Shaikh Sidi Bou Sai'd. After being expelled from Algeria by the government, he travelled to a unique madrassa in Mauritania and studied with the most noble scholar Shaykh Murabit al-Hajj bin Fahfu where he continues his studies periodically.

After ten-years of studies abroad, he returned to the United States and completed degrees in nursing at Imperial Valley College and religious studies at San Jose State University.

In the early 1990's he began to teach classes in the San Francisco Bay Area and in 1996 he established Zaytuna Institute. Two years later the institute acquired a property in Hayward, California, where it is now based. Zaytuna Institute is committed to inspiring a traditional understanding and study of the core Islamic sciences. In addition to weekly classes, week-long and month-long educational programs, and annual conferences that addresses contemporary issues affecting the American people, Zaytuna Institute has published four small books and several major audio-tape sets of Shaykh Hamza's classes.

His classes on the life of the Prophet Muhammad, may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, produced as a 24-audio tape set, has sold well thousands of copies world-wide.

As the executive director of the Zaytuna Institute, Shaykh Hamza travels frequently to major North American and European cities to teach and lecture to both Muslims and non-Muslim audiences.

After years of passionate work Shaykh Hamza completed the first comprehensive English translation of the Burda of Imam Al-Busiri. In June 2002 Sandala Productions in the UK has released 揟he Poem of the Cloak: The Burda of Al-Busiri.

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aiseh.. tersalah orang.. Yusuf Qardhawi doesn't support suicide bombing.. here is the fatwa.. I am going to edit my post before...

Suicide bomber cleric Yusuf Qaradawi issues fatwa warning "Anyone who kills a dhimmi will not smell the fragrance of paradise!"

All thanks and praise are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah who was sent as a mercy to the whole world. Pea ce and blessings be upon the rest of the prophets and messengers, and those who honorably followed them until the Day of Judgment.

The International Association of Muslim Scholars (IAMS) was really appalled to see the bloody incidents both inside and outside the Muslim world such as those that took place in Egypt, London, Turkey, and other countries. Such grisly incidents left behind great numbers of innocent civilian casualties who were killed in cold blood without any sin committed on their part. The IAMS, which is keen to clarify Islam's stance concerning these grisly bombings, decides the following for the whole Muslim Ummah and other nations:

1. All divine religions in general and Islam in particular assert the sanctity of human life and strongly prohibit aggression against it. All divine religions clearly state that the blood of all human beings is sacred and unlawful to shed unless the human being himself committed a criminal act or caused corruption in the land or transgressed against the lives of others. The Qur'an, along other divine scriptures, states that [Whosoever killeth a human being for other than manslaughter or corruption in the earth, it shall be as if be had killed all mankind, and whoso saveth the life of one, it shall be as if he had saved the life of all mankind] (Al-Ma'idah 5:32).

2. Islam considers killing others and taking their lives as one of the gravest of sins in the sight of Allah. Such heinous sin and abominable crime lead to Allah's curse in this world and His severe punishment in the Hereafter. In addition, committing such a crime is a strong support for the application of retaliation or qisas on the perpetrator and it makes no difference whether the one they killed is a Muslim or a non-Muslim. Allah Almighty says, [Whoso slayeth a believer of set purpose, his reward is Hell for ever. Allah is wroth against him and He hath cursed him and prepared for him an awful doom] (An-Nisaa' 4:93).

The above divine warning encompasses all those who utter the Shahadatayn (Two Shahadahs)梩estifying that there is no God but Allah and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) strongly condemned `Usamah ibn Zayd when he killed a man in one of the battles after the man had uttered the Shahadatayn. The Prophet addressed `Usamah saying, "Have you killed him after he uttered the Shahadatayn, `Usamah!" To this `Usamah responded, "Prophet of Allah, he uttered the Shahadatayn for fear of the sword (that is, in order to save himself from being killed)." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) then said, "Have you split his heart into two pieces?"

Thus, we are to deal with people as Muslims as long as they are apparently known to be Muslims. The above ruling also applies to those who have a permanent pledge with Muslims. This category of people is named by Muslim jurists as Dhimmi or non-Muslims living under the protection of the Muslim state. This category is protected by the covenant of Allah, His Prophet, and the whole Muslim Ummah. They are known, according to all jurists, as ahl dar al-Islam or the people belonging to the abode of Islam; they are citizens who enjoy the same rights and bear the same responsibilities as Muslims.

There is another category of people who have an interim pledge with Muslims, such as those who enter Islamic territories through the state authorities or any other recognized body such as travel agencies, etc. The individual pledge of security of a single person is as effective as the state pledge, and it prohibits any violation or cancellation of this individual pledge.

With this in mind, Islam considers the act of issuing an entrance visa to a tourist to be a pledge of security given to this tourist, and hence it categorically prohibits transgressing the security given to tourist. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) is reported to have said, "Anyone who kills a Dhimmi will not smell the fragrance of Paradise " (Al-Bukhari).

3. Islam, which prohibits killing innocent civilians, also prohibits terrorizing the secured and terrifying the peaceful. Islam considers it a basic right that everyone enjoys security regarding himself, his family, his property, his religion, and all other special rights that man strives to protect. Islam ranks safety as one of the top blessings Allah favored man with, and it considers committing any violation against this safety as an act that entails Allah's curse in the Hereafter and His punishment in this world. It is no wonder that Islam stresses the punishment of theft and highway robbery, as such crimes threaten the security of people.

Islam also prohibits terrorizing the Muslim even if it is done jokingly. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) stressed this when he said to a Muslim who jokingly terrorized his brother, "It is not permissible for a Muslim to terrorize another Muslim." In this hadith, the Prophet did not intend terrorizing Muslims in particular, but the word Muslim was mentioned in the above hadith because the context of the situation was that a Muslim terrorized another Muslim and not somebody else (that is, a non-Muslim). With all this in mind, the Prophetic hadith assures "The believer is the one to whom people feel secured regarding their blood and property."

4. The Islamic Shari`ah basically asserts openly that every man is responsible for his own actions, mistakes, and crimes. A person is not responsible for mistakes or crimes done by others unless he is personally sharing in them. Allah Almighty says, [Each soul earneth only on its own account, nor doth any laden bear another's load] (Al-An`am 6:164). Moreover, the Qur'an declares that this ruling is shared by all divine scriptures, as Allah Almighty says, [Or hath he not had news of what is in the books of Moses. And Abraham who paid his debt. That no laden one shall bear another's load] (An-Najm 53:36-38).

Based on this, it is not permissible to punish the innocents because of an act committed by the guilty or to punish the group for a sin committed by a handful of its individuals. Taking the rough with the smooth, as far as the issue in point is concerned, is an erroneous judgment that does not belong to the Shari`ah. The Islamic Shari`ah has nothing to do with the acts of those few deviated people who follow its teachings but change them from their proper contexts. They claim to punish people because of injustices done by their rulers.

Reality bears witness that the victims of those crimes are the peaceful citizens such as those who were killed in London bombings recently while going to their work in the morning or going to their schools, universities, etc. The same are those victims killed in the bombings that hit the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh. Those innocent victims are peaceful Egyptians and tourists given the pledge of security as clarified above.

5. The ethical constitution of legitimate war in Islam dictates that it is prohibited to kill anyone except those who are fighting. In this legitimate war, fighting is restricted to face-to-face confrontation between Muslims and the army of the aggressors. Upon seeing a woman killed in the battlefield, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) renounced the act and said, "That woman shouldn't have been killed anyway!"

Moreover, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade killing women, children, the aged, monks in their hermitages, farmers in their lands, and traders. This ruling of prohibition is stressed by the Qur'anic verses, the Prophetic hadiths, as well as the directives given by the Rightly-Guided Caliphs.

How come that people who neither carry a weapon nor participate in war against Muslims practically or verbally are killed?

6. The IAMS has previously issued a fatwa related to the prohibition of kidnapping innocents who have nothing to do with war. Even if it happened that an innocent is kidnapped, then he should be dealt with honorably, as he enjoys the same honorable status of treatment that should be rendered to the prisoners of war (POWs) whom the Prophet ordered his followers to treat kindly, as Allah Almighty says regarding them: [and afterward either grace or ransom till the war lay down its burdens] (Al-Ahqaf 47:4).

For the above, the IAMS has asked the kidnappers to fear Allah regarding those who kidnapped them, and to treat them honorably until they set them free. The IAMS took part in releasing the French and Italian hostages in Iraq, and it has condemned the killing of the head of the Egyptian diplomatic mission in Iraq, too, and these days it calls for the release of the Algerian diplomat in Iraq and those kept with him.

7. Indeed, the IAMS condemnation of all these bombings and devastating acts that aim at killing others, demolishing their infrastructure, and terrorizing them, doesn't mean that we justify the injustices and tragedies against Muslims in Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, and other Muslim countries. As Muslims, we should resist these injustices and tragedies using legitimate means. It is not permissible to take the occurrence of such injustices as a pretext to perpetrate criminal acts. The IAMS calls for mutual cooperation between the rulers and the ruled to stand together to face these immense threats imposed on the whole Muslim Ummah. Such threats require concerted efforts to be done in order to achieve mutual aims.

limau_nipis

Tumpang tempek sini.. I received this file from my sister, enlisting which ulama' should we refer to for fatwas..

Hj Zaharuddin Hj Abd Rahman,
M.A (Jayyid Jiddan), Univ Al-Yarmouk, Jordan
Email : zaharuddin@yahoo.com

Segala puji bagi Allah tuhan sekalian alam, selawat dan salam buat junjungan mulia Rasulullah SAW yang telah menyampaikan risalah Islam dengan amanahnya dan pujian buat ahli Bayt Nabi SAW yang suci dan mulia serta para sahabat baginda SAW yang terpilih dan diredhai Allah juga para pejuang Islam yang menuruti jejak langkah Rasul SAW.
Penulisan ini akan memfokuskan pengenalan ringkas tentang ulama dunia Islam yang masih hidup dan yang telah meninggal di sekitar 50 an keatas ( kurun ke 19-20)

Greenbottle3

ah mr pessoa...your logic is sometimes quite kooky...

so......kalau yusuf qardawi kata suicide bombings are permissible kenapa dia tak pergi letupkan diri dia eh?...based on this logic kalau misal nya  dolah badawi kata kita mesti jadi petani moden (just an example) mengapa pak lah sendiri tak jadi pak tani moden??

pessoa

Simple. Pak Lah is the Prime Minister, a job, legitimately or not, and he has an earthly duty and responsibility. Yusuf Qardhawi is an ulamak, not a real job, unless you believe we have a priestly class in Islam. So he should het off his butt and do something else instead of gazing at his navels and getting other people to blow themselves up (if he really did believe that to be what jihad is).

The religion is TOO IMPORTANT to be left to a few doddering power hungry maniacs.

Now whose logic is kooky?

limau_nipis

cool cool guys...

another Islamic scholars on motivational books;

Dr Aidh Abdullah Al Qarni

His famous work is of course La Tahzan / Don't Be Sad
His new book entitled.. "Jagalah Allah, Allah akan Menjagamu.."

"Apabila matlamat akhir dari perjalanan seorang manusia adalah tempat yang kekal selamanya, nescaya setiap bencana akan terasa ringan, pelbagai beban hidup akan membuat mata tetap berkilauan, dan semua kesengsaraan hidup tetap dapat dilalui dengan hati yang gembira."

Dr Aidh Abdullah Al Qarni dari buku La Tahzan...




Rupanya muda lagi Syeikh kita ni..baru dalam 40-an..tapi dah pernah masuk penjara betullah memang "sunnah" org yang ikut dan cuba ikut nabi hampir serupa, kalau tak dibuang negeri dipenjara, kalau tidak dipenjara ianya dibunuh.Kalau tak kena hadap benda benda tu kena juga penderaan seperti itu cth : pemulauan (nabi pernah kena tiga tahun), kematian(nabi dah rasa semua bermula dari ayah, ibu, datuk, bapa saudara, sahabat sahabat yang syahid dan juga anak- refer sirah nabi menangis atas kematian Ibrahim. r.a satu satunya anak lelaki nabi saw yang masih hidup tapi Allah "jemput" pada usia nabi 62 tahun.Orang arab cukup bangga kalau ada anak lelaki dan kalau ramai anak lelaki tapi nabi sampai tahap tu diuji.)

Dan kebanyakkan orang yang dah kena tarbiah sampai level macam tu sekali,kebanyakkannya memiliki jiwa yang cukup besar antaranya suka memaafkan cthnya seperti di bawah

Petikan temuramah media indonesia dgn beliau:

Soal: Buku Syekh sudah dicetak berpuluh-puluh kali dengan angka penjualan yang fantastis termasuk di Indonesia. Bahkan, puluhan penerbit di Indonesia mencetak buku tanpa sepengetahuan Syekh. Tanggapan Syekh?

Jawab:Tidak menjadi masalah bagi saya kalau penerbit Indonesia mau mencetak karena karya cipta hanya milik Allah. Khusus royalti semua buku yang saya buat juga sudah saya serahkan kepada orang lain bukan lagi milik saya. Lillahi ta'ala saya silakan kalau ada muslimin yang mau menerjemahkan buku-buku saya. Semoga dapat bermanfaat dan semoga Allah memaafkan kita semua.Silakan tulis surat kepada saya untuk meminta izin menerbitkan buku-buku yang diinginkan karena saya tidak terima apa pun dari penerbitan buku-buku saya. Tetapi, khusus buku Laa Tahzan izinnya sudah saya serahkan ke Akhmad Bawazier dari Qisthi Press.

taken from Ummu Amiir's POV