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Ramadan is not fasting. Ramadan is an Islamic feast where one stuffs oneself twice a day with food, and in between lets ones intestines dry out. To describe that process as 'fasting' seems rather ubiquitous to me. The amount of food transported into the body is probably exactly the same, but because of the dehydration the food is processed less effectively. As customs go, most customs are typically silly and Ramadan is no exception. I can accept such silliness when people keep it to themselves, but unfortunately one sees such a sharp rise in 'policing' others that even non Muslims are now experiencing violence because they are eating at daytime in the Ramadan period.

Rapid expansion coupled with social stability is proof of Umar's incredible capabilities as a leader

Rationalism is false not because it seeks to express reality in rational mode, so far as this possible, but because it seeks to embrace the whole of reality in the realm of reason, as if the reason coincides with the very principle of things.

Reh Gyi Rasm-e-Azan, Rooh-e-Bilali Na Rahi Falsafa Reh Gya, Talqeen-e-Ghazali Na Rahi Azan yet sounds, but never now Like Bilal’s, soulfully; Philosophy, conviction-less, Now mourns its Ghazzali

Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today. I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire, which has always been a force for liberty and against tyranny, dishonesty and stupidity. ‘Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect." [I Stand With Charlie Hebdo, as We All Must (Wall Street Journal, January 7, 2015)]

Religion is the most powerful entity on earth. A phenomenon that has conscripted millions to give or sacrifice their lives without so much as a minuscule query about their chosen beliefs or particular ideology. And today thousands of years on despite the huge advent, discovery and the advance of science forensic or otherwise, millions are still prepared and equipped to fall or kill in the name of their God, their Holy Scriptures, their messengers, their prophets and their faith’.

Religion is also a process of healing, I discovered – a healing of the soul. Even our language points to this relation. The words ‘holy’, ‘wholesome’ and ‘healing’ all have the same root. (In German, this is even more striking: heilig, heil and heilen.) Muslims believe that all humans are born in a state of purity, our fitra, and it is only in the course of our lives that we tarnish our soul through bad habits and wrong behaviour. Through spiritual practices such as prayer, recitation of Quran and dhikr we can cleanse these acquired ‘black spots’ in our soul and return towards our original primordial nature. More so, dhikr is said to enliven the heart.

Religion is like an art gallery. One painting will speak to you more than another, and there's no need to explain or defend your taste.

Religion is not what appears. It's what guides the appearance. There is an appearance of everything. But the appearance doesn't always have something behind it.

Religion is a different matter. Other subjects may lend themselves, in varying degree, to objective study, and in some cases personal commitment serves only to distort what should be a clear and balanced picture. Religion is a different matter for here objectivity only skims the surface, missing the essential. The keys to understanding lie within the observer's own being and experience, and without these keys no door will open. This is particularly true of Islam, a religion which treats the distinction between belief and disbelief as the most fundamental of all possible distinction, comparable only on the physical level to that between the sighted and the blind. Believing and understanding complement and support one other. We do not seek fir an adequate description of a landscape from a blind man, even if he has made a scientific study of its topography, and has analyzed the nature of its rocks and vegetation. In Islam, every aspect of human life, every thought and every action, is shaped by and evaluated in the light of the basic article of faith. Remove this linchpin and the whole structure falls apart.

Religious politics is the bent of those who push "The Myth of the Christian Nation" or "Muslim Supremicism" everywhere! ~ © gfp '42™

Religious intolerance is an idea that found its earliest expression in the Old Testament, where the Hebrew tribe depicts itself waging a campaign of genocide on the Palestinian peoples to steal their land. They justified this heinous behavior on the grounds that people not chosen by their god were wicked and therefore did not deserve to live or keep their land. In effect, the wholesale slaughter of the Palestinian peoples, eradicating their race with the Jew's own Final Solution, was the direct result of a policy of religious superiority and divine right. Joshua 6-11 tells the sad tale, and one needs only read it and consider the point of view of the Palestinians who were simply defending their wives and children and the homes they had built and the fields they had labored for. The actions of the Hebrews can easily be compared with the American genocide of its native peoples - or even, ironically, the Nazi Holocaust. With the radical advent of Christianity, this self-righteous intolerance was borrowed from the Jews, and a new twist was added. The conversion of infidels by any means possible became the newfound calling card of religious fervor, and this new experiment in human culture spread like wildfire. By its very nature, how could it not have? Islam followed suit, conquering half the world in brutal warfare and, much like its Christian counterpart, it developed a new and convenient survival characteristic: the destruction of all images and practices attributed to other religions. Muslims destroyed millions of statues and paintings in India and Africa, and forced conversion under pain of death (or by more subtle tricks: like taxing only non-Muslims), while the Catholic Church busily burned books along with pagans, shattering statues and defacing or destroying pagan art - or converting it to Christian use. Laws against pagan practices and heretics were in full force throughrout Europe by the sixth century, and as long as those laws were in place it was impossible for anyone to refuse the tenets of Christianity and expect to keep their property or their life. Similar persecution and harassment continues in Islamic countries even to this day, officially and unofficially.

Rifangi hanya menawarkan sehelai pembalut putih yang steril, tapi manusia bukan cetakan tunggal mumi Adam di atas bumi, yang ditaruh dalam gelas, tanpa sejarah, tanpa ketelanjuran kebudayaan.

Robe Moj, ti zelis jedno, Ja drugo, a uvijek se desava onako kako Ja hocu. Pa ako se prepustis onome sto Ja hocu, pruzicu ti i ono sto ti hoces. A ako se ne pokoris... Mojoj odredbi, namucit ces se sa onim sto hoces, a ipak ce biti onako kako Ja hocu!

Ruby clapped her hands in glee and gave a comedic wiggle of her head, Bollywood style. I know the song now, can even sing it, but back then all I heard was the verdant Punjabi, the striking primary colours of the five rivers, the intricate history of a complex land.

Running away has been futile. Wherever I went life would be the same. Resisting my chains only seem to tighten them. Yet all around me women found ways to slip those bonds, to discreetly flout the rules and then return to their so-called captivity before anyone noticed.

Rwanda’s Muslim community is an example of a group (a full community rather than isolated individuals) that resisted the appeal of dangerous speech and other pressures to participate in the genocide. The Muslim community, which had both Hutu and Tutsi members, not only refused to participate in the genocide but actively opposed it. Its actions during the genocide included rescuing, hiding, and taking care of Muslim and non-Muslim Tutsis, and providing safe haven in mosques. Muslims also rejected commands to kill or reveal Tutsis hidden in their communities, on several occasions going so far as to fight back and be killed themselves.

Saying of the Prophet Distribution God it is who gives: I am only a distributor.

Saying of the Prophet Helping others I order you to assist any oppressed person, whether he is a Muslim or not.

Saying of the Prophet Love Do you think you love your Creator? Love your fellow-creature first.

Saying of the Prophet Privacy Whoever invades people´s privacy corrupts them.

Saying of the Prophet Reflection The Faithful are mirrors, one to the other.

Saying of the Prophet Ink and Blood The ink of the learned is holier than the blood of the martyr.

Saying of the Prophet Truth Speaking the truth to the unjust is the best of holy wars.

Saying of the Prophet Death Die before your death.

Saying of the Prophet Food Nobody has eaten better food than that won by his own labour.

Saying of the Prophet Desire Desire not the world, and God will love you. Desire not what others have, and they will love you.

Saying of the Prophet Practice Who are the learned? Those who put into practice what they know.

Saying of the Prophet Sleep Sleep is the brother of death.

Saying of the Prophet Struggle The holy warrior is he who struggles with himself.

Saying of the Prophet THE PEOPLE It is the people who are God's family. (Muhammad the Prophet)

Saying of the Prophet Understanding Speak to everyone in accordance with his degree of understanding.

Saying of the Prophet Women Women are the twin-halves of men.

Scheffer said a new ethnic underclass of immigrants had formed, and it was much too insular, rejecting the values that knit together Dutch society and creating new, damaging social divisions. There wasn’t enough insistence on immigrants adapting; teachers even questioned the relevance of teaching immigrant children Dutch history, and a whole generation of these children were being written off under a pretence of tolerance. Scheffer said there was no place in Holland for a culture that rejected the separation of church and state and denied rights to women and homosexuals. He foresaw social unrest.

Sayyida Nafisah*, eine noble Frau und Gelehrtin, sagte folgendes, nachdem sie das Totengebet für Imam al-Shafi'i betete: "Möge Allah barmherzig mit Muhammad bin Idris al-Shafi'i sein! In der Tat, er pflegte es seine Gebtswaschung zu perfektionieren." Die Perfektion bzw. das Perfektionieren (oder die "Vortrefflichkeit", oder "etwas schön machen" etc.), zu Arabisch "Ihsan"**, in seinen Anbetungen und Taten zu erstreben, ist eines der Eigenschaften, zu denen uns diese großartige Religion, der Islam, aufruft. Es ist die Eigenschaft derjenigen, die den geraden Pfad gehen: den Weg des noblen Propheten ﷺ. Sayyida Nafisah deutet mit ihrer Aussage auf dieses Perfektionieren hin. Imam al-Shafi'i pefektionierte seine Gebetswaschung und wer seine Gebetswaschung perfektioniert, der perfektioniert demzufolge sein Gebet. Und wer auch immer diese beiden Dinge perfektioniert, der perfektioniert seine gesamte Religion und all seine Taten in seinem Leben. D. h., wenn ein Gläubiger bestimmte Taten nicht perfektioniert, dann wird jener die Perfektion in seinen anderen Taten verfehlen. Jemand der sich nicht darum bemüht seine Gebetswaschung zu perfektionieren, der wird auch unachtsam gegenüber das Streben nach Perfektion innnerhalb seines Gebets sein. So wird jener ebenso das Perfektionieren im Verrichten seiner Zakat, seines Fastens, seiner Pilgerfahrt etc. nicht beachten. Möge Allah Sayyida Nafisah und Imam al-Shafi'i barmherzig behandeln und mit ihnen zufrieden sein. * Sie verstarb in Ägypten im Jahre 208 (823). ** Der Prophet sagte, dass Ihsan folgendes ist, nämlich Allah anzubeten, als würde man Ihn sehen, doch während man Ihn nicht sieht, soll man wissen, dass Er einen doch sieht. (Ü. von Muslim)

Scriptures are meant to serve humanity, not humanity to serve scriptures.

Saying of the Prophet Accusations Anyone reviling a brother for a sin will not himself die before committing it.

Saying of the Prophet Envy Envy devours good deeds, as a fire devours fuel.

Saying of the Prophet Obligation to Learn The pursuit of knowledge is obligatory on every Muslim.

Saying of the Prophet The Tongue A man slips with his tongue more than with his feet.

Sebelum ngegalauin perasaan si doi naik atau turun ke kamu, alangkah lebih baiknya ngegalauin imanmu yang masih naik turun. Sebelum mencari yang terbaik untuk kamu, alangkah lebih baiknya menjadi lebih baik dari hari kemarin.

Secara ringkasnya, jelaslah bahawa lafaz Allah tidak sesuai, atau tidak layak, digunakan oleh agama-agama yang konsep ketuhanan mereka berbeza dengan ajaran Islam. Walaupun terdapat agama bukan Islam yang dikatakan mengandungi ajaran satu Tuhan seperti Yahudi, Kristian, Hindu dan Sikh, namun kefahaman mengenai konsep Tuhan Yang Satu mereka adalah berbeza dengan ajaran Islam. Dalam akidah Ahli Sunnah wa al-Jamaah, kalimah Allah itu membawa pengertian keesaan dan pengakuan terhadap keesaan Allah yang tulen serta tidak ada sesuatu yang serupa (syirik) dengan-Nya. Mana mungkin umat Islam memberi kebenaran kepada fahaman atau agama yang mensyirikkan Allah untuk menggunakan lafaz Allah kerana implikasinya terhadap pengertian lafaz Allah amatlah buruk! Tidakkah ini akan termasuk dalam golongan orang-orang yang mempermainkan nama Allah!

Seine Zeit damit zu verbringen über die Fehler anderer nachzudenken oder zu sprechen, ist närrisch. Die Zeit ist knapp und es ist besser sie in das Erkennen der eigenen Mängel zu investieren, um dann beständig daran arbeiten zu können diese gänzlich auszumerzen.

Seek knowledge from the Cradle to the Grave

Sekali nafsu itu kau manjakan, maka nafsu itu akan semakin kurang ajar dan tidak tahu diri! Jangan pernah berdamai dengan nafsu! Sekali kau berdamai, maka nafsu itu akan menginjak harga dirimu dan menjajahmu! Jangan beri kehormatan sedikit pun pada nafsumu. Perlakukan dia sebagai makhluk hina, pengkhianat yang tidak boleh diberi ampun!

Saying of the Prophet Humility Humility and courtesy are themselves a part of piety.

Semua orang diuji. Lain orang, lain tahap imannya, lain tahap sabarnya, jadi lainlah tahap ujian yang ditempuhinya. Semua itu menuntut kita bersabar. Semua itu menuntut kita bersabar. Ertinya Allah masih sayang pada kita,

Saying of the Prophet. Lies, promises, trust He is not of mine who lies, breaks a promise or fails in his trust.

Saying of the Prophet Objects It is your attachment to objects which make you blind and deaf.

Serupa kekasih yang bangga, kulafaz kalimatMu tanpa jeda. --ketika doa terjawab seketika