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Friday 26 July 2019

THE LAST REMINDER From Our Creator: 'Follow The Revelation (the Quran)!'


The Last Reminder
From Our Creator:
‘Follow The Revelation!’

“How many towns have We
destroyed (for their sins)?”

(M. Javed Naseem)


The Quran is the last Reminder to the mankind from the Supreme Creator, Almighty Allah. If we ignore His signs and the Reminder, we will be doomed not only in this world but also in the Hereafter. The fate of the earlier nations is the proof scattered all over the world; and that invites those who believe in God; reflect and ponder upon their existence. Here are the first 10 verses of Surah al-Araaf (Chapter 7) of the Holy Quran. The Almighty tells us:

“(It is) a Scripture that is revealed unto you
(O Muhammad); so let there be no heaviness in
your heart on that account – that you may warn
thereby; and (it is) a Reminder unto believers.”
(al-Quran 7:2)

That revelation is a Scripture (the Quran) which has been sent down to the mankind to remind them to be God-conscious and be warned in case they disregard God’s signs and commands. Allah, the Almighty, reminds us every day, in every phase of our journey and in every sphere of life that He is running the show; He is the Master of Ceremony and He is the Supreme Controller. Whatever is in the heavens, on earth and in-between, belongs to Him; and to Him belongs the sovereignty of the universe. He has no partners and there is nobody else who could save us from any disaster, any catastrophe or death.

“Follow (O men!) the revelation given unto
you from your Lord; and follow not, as friends
or protectors, other than Him! Little it is
you remember of admonition.”
(al-Quran 7:3)


Today (Thursday, July 25, 2019), while writing this article, I received some disturbing information from the media. In southern Morocco, a van carrying 16 passengers on a country road, disappeared in a landslide. After more than 20 hours of search, with the help of heavy equipment and modern machines, they could not find anything – neither the van, nor the victims. Second news came from Paris (France) where European heat wave shot up the temperature to 43c degrees – a new record in the history of the city! Of course, there were also other disturbing news of killing from Palestine and Syria; heavy rains and floods in Southeast Asia; a Devil’s disciple taking over as British Prime Minister; fire somewhere and earthquake at some other place. We can’t label all this as ‘climate change’ and walk away. No, I can’t.

These are the warning signs from God, the Almighty, Who is telling us that He alone is running the show and He is not pleased with us. If we don’t repent and seek His forgiveness; and don’t fix what needs to be fixed to serve humanity better, we better be prepared for bigger disasters which we have no means of controlling at all. Here is a reminder of His warning!

“How many towns have We destroyed (for
their sins)? Our punishment took them on a
sudden by night or while they slept for
their afternoon rest.”
(al-Quran 7:4)

“When (thus) Our punishment took them, no cry
did they utter but this: "Indeed we did wrong."
(al-Quran 7:5)


Yes, we are going to realize it one day that we were wrong but then it would be too late – way beyond the possibility of fixing it. The time to act is now. It is now or never! The Evil Empire, controlled by the Devil, has been destroying the countries of the world, one after the other, to exercise its total control and show its super powers to the corrupt, dishonest and coward world leaders who have no courage, nor plans to stand up for justice, honesty and democracy – actually humanity. They are all (Jews, Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, etc.) trying to please the Evil Empire only to stay in power in their own countries. It’s a shame that the world has come to that point today! People are showing their moral bankruptcy with a bold face!

Today, believers are believers in word only, not in practice. Those hypocrites say something else but do something else with a cunning smile on their faces. They use lies to start wars and kill innocent people because those people refuse to obey them. But God is watching them all and every action of theirs is being recorded. On the Day of Judgment that book of records will be thrown on their faces. And eventually, the justice will be delivered by the Supreme Justice.

“And verily, We shall recount their whole
story with knowledge, for We were never
absent (at any time or place).”
(al-Quran 7:7)

Allah tells us in the Quran that justice will be delivered – every good deed will earn good rewards and every bad/evil deed will be punished. Those in the corridors of power today, are following the Devil’s plot. They don’t want to hear about Allah, God, the Scriptures or the Quran. They are lost in power. They’ll come to their senses after losing that power. And it’s going to happen soon – maybe very soon!


Now is the time for checks and balances; preparing the profit-&-loss accounts and clearing all dues. Once the term-limit is over, the game will be over! We should worry about our scales – the scales of good and bad deeds!

“The balance that day will be true (to nicety):
Those whose scale (of good deeds) will be
heavy, will prosper.”
(al-Quran 7:8)

“Those whose scale will be light, will be their
souls in perdition, for that they wrongfully
treated Our signs.”
(al-Quran 7:9)

No Super Power will be able to protect the evil-doers, whether they are kings, presidents, prime ministers or Emirs in this world. They will all be begging for mercy on the Day of Justice which is approaching fast. If they want to avoid all humiliation and burning in the Hellfire, they better change their ways NOW, or else!


The King of the kings is reminding us again that all power belongs to Him and He alone bestows it upon whom He wills. But those who are given authority or power, they will be questioned about its use. Most of them seem like drifting towards Hellfire though – because they are not only wrong-doers and unfair, they are also ungrateful to the Almighty, Who gave them the power in the first place.

“It is We Who have placed you with authority
on earth, and provided you therein with means
for the fulfillment of your life. Small are the
thanks that you give!”
(al-Quran 7:10)


There’s still time (actually very little time left) to reflect and put the house in order!

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Friday 19 July 2019

AL-AQSA WILL BE DESTROYED To Build the 'Third Jewish Temple' on Temple Mount.


The Evil Empire (US-UK-Israel)
Is Preparing For The Final Blow!

Al-Aqsa Will Be Destroyed
To Build ‘Third Temple’
By Christian Zionists

(M. Javed Naseem)


These are the ‘End Times’ and a big number of Christian and Jewish Zionists are pursuing the End Times prophecies. As we all know, the Zionism is a politically motivated movement. It has nothing to do with the Jewish religion or even with the Christianity. Theodore Herzl’s motives of the Zionism have been explained in his book called ‘The Jewish State’.

According to the Zionists (more Christian Zionists than Jewish Zionists), there are three fundamental steps to create the perfect and promised ‘Jewish State’:

1)      – Declaration of a Jewish State: That has already happened in 1948, with the Balfour Declaration passed by the United Nations. A Jewish State of Israel for the Jews only, in the land of Palestine without the Palestinians. The first phase is complete (almost).

2)      – Declaration of Jerusalem as the Jewish State’s capital: That has also been achieved by the Netanyahu government, supported by the Trump government, and accepted by many countries of the world who moved their embassies there. And with that, the expansion of Greater Israel in all four directions continues.

3)      – Construction of the Third Jewish Temple: This is the final phase to complete the expanded ‘Greater Israel’. It consists of demolishing the al-Aqsa Mosque and on its site (the Temple Mount), building the The Third Jewish Temple.

(A still image of a 3-D video rendering of the Third Temple, proposed by Har Hakodesh, a Jewish organization which contemplates a worship site where the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa mosque now stand. (Photo: Christian Examiner)
The Zionists from all over the world are united on this issue – particularly the Christian Zionists of the USA and UK/Europe and the Jewish Zionists of Israel. They have influenced the powerful governments of the Western countries that control the United Nations. Now they are doing the groundwork and are preparing the West for a war on Iran (and Pakistan) because they think that Iran and Pakistan are the biggest hurdles. They can be handled separately, one by one, like Iraq and Syria. If they demolish al-Aqsa before destroying Iran (and Pakistan), there is a danger of Jihad (holy war) from the entire Muslim world.  


They have already dug tunnels underneath al-Aqsa and nobody knows what they are doing there. One day, they’ll tell the world that al-Aqsa caved in due to natural causes or erosion or some natural disaster like fire, flood, earthquake, etc.
 

The demolition of al-Aqsa Mosque will put the Zionist West at war with the Muslim world, therefore, the project is being phased out. But some hawks in the Trump govt. are pushing for immediate strike, without caring about the results for the entire world. They are over-confident because of two factors: Their military power; and the biblical prophecies.

These Christian and Jewish Zionists think that they are doing ‘God’s work’ to prepare the world for the ‘Second Coming’ of Jesus Christ.

This selfish, stupid and opportunistic alliance between two evil groups of the Christian and the Jewish Zionists, to kick start the Third World War in full throttle is going to destroy the world. But to them, that apocalypse is part of the prophecies. Ironically, they still don’t agree on what will happen after the construction of the Third Temple? Who will be in control? The Christian Zionists have joined the Jewish Zionists for the moment to destroy the opposition – the Muslim world, but they still believe that it was the Jews who killed Jesus Christ. They further believe that the fake savior – the Anti-Christ – will also be a Jew. So, the killing will never stop.

How funny that these are the same Western hypocrites who preach 'separation of State from Religion', but in practice pursue the religious wars on state level!


Here’s what Whitney Webb (a writer for GeoPolitics) says in her latest article published this week:

The Untold Story of
Christian Zionism’s Rise To Power in the US
By Whitney Webb (GeoPolitics)

Well before Theodore Herzl founded political Zionism and published The Jewish State, Christian Zionists in the United States and England were already seeking to direct and influence the foreign policy of both nations in service to a religious obsession end times prophecy.

The largest pro-Israel organization in the United
States is not composed of Jews, but of Christian
Evangelicals, with a total membership of 7 million,
more than 2 million more members than the
entirety of the American Jewish community.

Members of this organization, Christians United for Israel (CUFI), met in Washington on Monday (July 15, 2019), attracting thousands of attendees and featuring speeches from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Secretary of State and former CIA Director Mike Pompeo, Vice President Mike Pence, and National Security Advisor John Bolton. CUFI’s leader, controversial evangelical preacher John Hagee, has met with President Donald Trump several times and was recently part of an exclusive White House meeting in March on the administration’s upcoming “peace plan” for Israel and Palestine.

There are estimated to be more than 20 million of these Christians, often referred to as Christian Zionists, in the United States and they are a key voting bloc and source of political donations for the Republican Party. These Christian Zionists, much like religious Zionist extremists in Israel, believe that the Al-Aqsa mosque and the Dome of the Rock must be replaced with a Third Jewish Temple in order to usher in the end times.

These two groups of different faiths, since the 19th century, have repeatedly formed an opportunistic alliance in order to ensure the fulfillment of their respective prophecies, despite the fact that members of the other faith are rarely if ever on the same page in their interpretations of what occurs after the temple’s construction.

This alliance, based on a mutual obsession with hastening the coming of the Apocalypse, continues to this day and now, more than at any other time in history, these groups have reached the heights of power in both Israel and the United States. Religious Zionism has come to dominate the current right-wing government of Israel and has led Israel’s current government to take definitive steps towards the destruction of the Al Aqsa mosque and the imminent construction of a Third Temple.
At the CUFI conference, Pompeo, himself a Christian Zionist known for his obsession with the end times, told the group the following:

“Christian support in America for Zion — for a Jewish homeland — runs back to the early Puritan settlers, and it has endured for centuries. Indeed, our second president [John Adams], a couple years back, said… ‘I really wish the Jews again in Judea an independent nation.’”

Begin’s vision of “Greater Israel” — the complete annexation of Palestine as well as large parts of Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Egypt by Israel — was also shared and promoted by Falwell. In 1983, Falwell stated that “Begin will quickly tell you, ‘We don’t have all the land yet we’re going to have,’” and further predicted that Israel would never relinquish control over the occupied West Bank because Begin was determined to keep the land “which has been delivered to them (the Israelis).”

As Falwell helped turn Christian Zionism into a major political force in the United States, he also made himself a key political figure in the Reagan era and an important go-between for U.S.-Israel relations. In 1981 Begin informed Falwell of his plans to bomb an Iraqi nuclear facility before he informed the Reagan administration with the hopes that Falwell would “explain to the Christian public the reasons for the bombing.” According to Canadian academic David S. New, Begin told Falwell during that phone call: “Get to work for me.”

Significantly more American Christians (55 percent) than American Jews (40 percent) believe that God gave Israel to the Jews while that sentiment is shared by only 19 percent of Israeli Christians.


Richard Silverstein — an academic and journalist whose work has been published in Haaretz and MintPress, among other outlets — has argued that Israeli politicians, particularly Netanyahu, have sought out support from evangelical groups despite their anti-Semitic undertones and the fact they the act out of self-interest in pursuing their political objectives. In a 2017 article, Silverstein stated that for Israel’s nationalist right-wing:

“Judaism is not a spiritual value, it is a physical manifestation of power in the world. These Israelis understand that not all Jews are their “brothers.” Some Jews are too effete, too liberal, too humane, too universalist. These Jews are the detritus which will be washed away by the tide of history. Israeli nationalists need to replace these traditional Jewish allies and have done so by finding new ones: Christian evangelicals, African dictators, European neo-Nazis. Zionism as they define it is less a movement dedicated to ethics and more one dedicated to self-interest.”

John Hagee is the pastor of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas, which has an active membership of over 22,000. A charismatic Christian who believes in dispensationalist eschatology and thinks that Christians are biblically required to support Israel, Hagee has raised over $80 million for Israel since he first began hosting “A Night to Honor Israel” events in the early 1980s.

In 2006, Hagee sought to create the “Christian AIPAC” and revived a then-defunct organization previously founded in 1975 known as Christians United for Israel, or CUFI. Since its re-founding, CUFI has grown exponentially, now counting 7 million members, a figure that exceeds the Jewish population of the United States, which stands at around 5.7 million. Hagee chairs its executive board, which included Jerry Falwell up until Falwell’s death in 2007.

CUFI is exempt from paying U.S. taxes and from publicly disclosing its finances because it is officially registered as a church, though it is often likened to an arm of the pro-Israel lobby in the United States and actively promotes and funds illegal West Bank settlements. CUFI also advocates for Israeli sovereignty over all of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount and the construction of a Third Temple.

Much has been written about CUFI’s influence in the Republican Party. CUFI has since won powerful allies and counts neoconservative Elliott Abrams; former CIA director James Woosley; neoconservative archon Bill Kristol; former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee; Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Ted Cruz (R-TX); Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; and U.S. Vice President Mike Pence among its staunchest supporters. At a CUFI summit last year, Netanyahu described CUFI as a “vital part of Israel’s national security.”

Christian Zionists believe that Palestinians must be expelled
from the state of Israel. In addition, these end-times beliefs
are also a factor in the administration’s push for war with Iran,
which Christian Zionists like Hagee and Pompeo believe
is also a requisite for the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy.

Pence and Pompeo push “holy war”
Though several Trump officials spoke at the recent CUFI summit, two stand out — not just for their high-ranking positions but also for their open admissions that their Christian Zionist beliefs guide their policies. These officials are Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State and former CIA Director Mike Pompeo.


Concerns that the U.S. is under the influence of extremist religious Zionism and Christian Zionism that would prevent the country from acting as an “honest broker” in the Israel-Palestine conflict have, unsurprisingly, been proven true. In fact, Pence’s religious beliefs are believed to have been a major factor in Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and to move the U.S. Embassy to the contested city.

Though Mike Pence is the highest-ranking member of the Trump administration who is openly a Christian Zionist, it is Pompeo that is the most overt and open about how his religious beliefs regarding the end times guide his decision-making as head of the U.S. State Department.
For much of his political career, Pompeo has framed U.S. counterterrorism policy as a “holy war” between Christianity and Islam, which he believes is the earthly equivalent of a cosmic battle between good and evil. In 2017, as CIA director, Pompeo claimed:

“Radical Islamic terror [will] continue to press against us until we make sure that we pray and stand and fight and make sure that we know that Jesus Christ is our savior [and] truly the only solution for our world.”

That same year, Pompeo created a new CIA “mission center” targeting Iran headed by Michael D’Andrea, whose CIA nickname is “The Prince of Darkness.” Pompeo, like many Christian Zionists, believes that war between the United States and Iran is part of the end times, a belief that is outright alarming given his prior control over CIA covert operations and his focus on Iran, as well as his current role as the U.S.’ chief diplomat, in which he has also been laser-focused on promoting an aggressive policy towards Iran.

Pompeo made a statement earlier this year, in which he opined that it was “certainly possible” that President Trump had been sent by God to “save the Jewish people from the Iranian menace.”

(The proposed Third Jewish Temple to be constructed at Temple Mount)
Joining forces to target Jerusalem
Today, only one such prophecy has yet to be fulfilled, the construction of a Third Jewish Temple on the Temple Mount, which is currently occupied by the Al Aqsa mosque compound.

Now, more than ever before, Israel’s government is
filled with high-ranking officials who openly call for
Al Aqsa’s destruction and seek to hastily construct a
Third Temple. Similarly, the Trump administration
is greatly influenced by Christian Zionists who also
seek the mosque’s destruction, in hopes that the
Third Temple will soon be built.

The end result is that the hold of this apocalyptic ideology on both the governments of Israel and the United States appears to be stronger now than ever, meaning that the danger currently facing Al Aqsa mosque, and with it world peace, looms large.

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Friday 12 July 2019

FAITH IS POWER: Man Was Created Weak, Faith Gave Him Strength!


Faith Is Power!
Man Was Created Weak,
Faith Gave Him Strength.

Faith In God
Will Get You Through
Any Crisis!

(M. Javed Naseem)


“Allah would make the burden light for
you, for man was created weak.”
(al-Quran 4:28).

Faith gives you strength! It gives you hope! Faith is the power that makes a man take on Nimrods, Pharaohs and the most vicious tyrants of the time. Faith is the power that keeps a man alive;
--- that keeps a drowning man afloat;
--- that binds a diverse community together; and
--- that holds the nations together in the fight against evil.

“Now has Allah lightened your burden, for
He knows that there is weakness in you. So
if there be of you a steadfast hundred, they
shall overcome two hundred; and if there
be of you a thousand (steadfast), they shall
overcome two thousand by permission of
Allah. Allah is with the steadfast.”
(al-Quran 8:66)

Your Faith is like your house; if the foundation is solid and stable, the house stands in rain and storms. If any part of the house or a wall is damaged, you can fix it or repair it. But if the foundation caves in, the whole house crumbles. A believer’s whole life is built upon Faith. If he/she loses the Faith, his/her life will be shattered.

“Then We strengthened those who believed
against their foe, and they became
the uppermost.”
(al-Quran 61:14)


What is Faith? If you believe that there is a Supreme Creator who originated all creation, a Supreme Commander controlling and running the show of this universe, you are a believer. This is the Faith of Islam – the faith God prescribed for mankind. The True God of Moses, Jesus and Muhammad (peace be upon all of them) is One God worthy of worship. He is the Cherisher, the Sustainer, the Beneficent and the Merciful. This Faith had different names during the times of Moses and Jesus, and even before. But during the period of Muhammad (s.a.w.) it was named Islam by the Almighty.

“Truly, the religion with Allah is Islam …”
(al-Quran 3:19)

Islam is the lifestyle that has been prescribed by Allah through the Quran; and it is the lifestyle Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w.) adopted to show all Muslims that it was practicable in every era if we only wanted to live a simple and peaceful life. Only the stubborn, the ignorant and the misguided people look for the alternatives.

“Do they seek for other than the Religion of Allah?
while all creatures in the heavens and on earth have,
willingly or unwilling, bowed to His Will (accepted
Islam), and to Him shall they all be brought back.”
(al-Quran 3:83)

All Prophets and their descendants, as well as followers, submitted to Allah. Islam is defined as “complete surrender (or submission) to the Will of Allah”. The Almighty, sent angel Jibril (Gabriel) to teach Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w.) the elements of true Faith of Islam. Here’s what Allah tells us in the Holy Quran:

“The Messenger believes in what has been
revealed to him from his Lord, as do the men of faith.
Each one (of them) believes in Allah, His angels, His
books, and His messengers. ‘We make no distinction
(they say) between one and another of His messengers’.
And they say: ‘We hear, and we obey’; (we seek)
your forgiveness, our Lord, and to you
is the end of all journeys."
(al-Quran 2:285)


According to a Hadith, narrated Abu Hurairah:
“One day while the Prophet (s.a.w.) was sitting out with people, a man came to him and asked: “What is Faith (Iman)?”
Allah's Messenger (s.a.w.) replied: "Faith is to believe in Allah; His angels; His Messengers; (the) meeting with Him (on Judgment Day); and to believe in the Resurrection."
Then he (the man) further asked: "What is Islam?"
Allah's Messenger (s.a.w.), replied: "To worship Allah alone and none else; to perform Salat (prayers); to pay Zakat; and to observe Saum (fasting) during the month of Ramadan".
Then he (the man) further asked: "What is Ihsan (perfection)?"
Allah's Messenger (s.a.w.) replied, "To worship Allah as if you see Him, and if you cannot achieve this state of devotion then you must consider that He is watching you."
Then he (the man) further asked: "When will the Hour be established?”
Allah's Messenger (s.a.w.) replied: "The answerer has no better knowledge than the questioner. But I will inform you about its portents:
1. When a slave (lady) gives birth to her master.
2. When the shepherds of black camels start boasting and competing with others in the construction of higher buildings.
And the Hour is one of five things which nobody knows except Allah. The Prophet (s.a.w.) then recited (from the Quran):

"Verily, Allah, with Him (alone) is
the knowledge of the Hour”.
(al-Quran 31:34).

After that, the man left and the Prophet (s.a.w.) asked his Companions to call him back, but they could not see anything (him). Then the Prophet (s.a.w.) said:
"That was Jibril (Gabriel) who came to teach people their religion.”
Abu Abdullah said: He (the Prophet, s.a.w.) considered all that as a part of Faith (Iman).
(Bukhari, Book 2, Chapter 37, No.50):


Jesus Christ on Faith
“Wherefore God, having created before all things His Messenger, gave to him before aught else the faith which is as it were a likeness of God and of all that God has done and said. And so the faithful by faith sees all things better than one sees with his eyes; because the eyes can err; no they do almost always err; but faith errs never, for it has for foundation God and His word. Believe me that by faith are saved all the elect of God. And it is certain that without faith it is impossible for any one to please God.” – Jesus  Christ. (From the Gospel of Barnabas).


Our Merciful Creator reminds us in many places in the Quran that He created us weak; then strengthens us; and then again (during our old age) He’ll make us weaker till our death. A wise person cannot ignore these phases of human life.

“Allah is He Who shaped you out of weakness,
then appointed after weakness strength, then,
after strength, appointed weakness and grey
hair. He creates what He will. He is the
Knower, the Mighty.”
(al-Quran 30:54)

“He whom we bring unto old age, We reverse him
in creation (making him go back to weakness after
strength). Have you then no sense?”
(al-Quran 36:68)

If you have faith in your heart, you are a strong person! Numbers matter to the weaker people. Those whose faith is pure and strong, they don’t care about numbers. They know that they have the Almighty’s support in every situation. The believers are always stronger than the faithless (unbelievers). Allah says:

“There was a token for you in two hosts which met:
One army fighting in the way of Allah, and another
disbelieving, whom they saw as twice their number,
clearly, with their very eyes. Thus Allah strengthens
with His succour whom He will. Lo, herein verily
is a lesson for those who have eyes.”
(al-Quran 3:13)

“And remember, when you were few and reckoned
feeble in the land, and were in fear lest men should
extirpate you, how He gave you refuge, and strengthened
you with His help, and made provision of good things
for you, that haply you might be thankful.”
(al-Quran 8:26)


Remembrance of Allah, the Supreme Creator, through prayer and study of the Quran, is the best source of strengthening one’s faith and boosting his confidence. Those who are faithful believers, Allah promises them strength and prosperity in this world, in addition to the success and forgiveness in the Hereafter. Here’s His promise:

“You will not find folk who believe in Allah and the
Last Day loving those who oppose Allah and His
Messenger, even though they be their fathers or their
sons or their brethren or their clan. As for such, He has
written faith upon their hearts and has strengthened
them with a Spirit from Him, and He will bring them
into Gardens underneath which rivers flow, wherein
they will abide. Allah is well pleased with them, and
they are well pleased with Him. They are Allah's party.
Lo, is it not Allah's party who are the successful?”
(al-Quran 58:22)

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Friday 5 July 2019

JUSTICE PREVAILS UNDER JUST RULERS, Corruption Under The Corrupt!


Justice Prevails Under
Just Rulers, Corruption
Under The Corrupt!

The Quran And The Bible Deliver
The Same Message of Justice
And Righteousness!

(M. Javed Naseem)


وَقُلْ آمَنتُ بِمَآ أَنزَلَ ٱللَّهُ مِن كِتَابٍ وَأُمِرْتُ ِلأَعْدِلَ بَيْنَكُمُ
… Say: "I believe in the Book which Allah
has sent down; and I am commanded to judge
justly between you ...”
(al-Quran 42:15)

The leaders of today are neither honest nor sincere with people. They don’t believe in any ideology. The only ideology they pursue is the money and power. They are not there to lead you to the land of freedom, happiness, success, prosperity and peace. They are out there to take control of your area, your town, your country, your continent and your planet. In other words, they want total control of your lives so that you cannot demand your rights, protest against injustice or suppression. They’ve got guns and bombs, armies of mercenaries to silence you, in case. They want to keep you as slaves!

Look at the world we are living in today! It’s a chaotic society full of inequalities, racism, discrimination, hate and Islamophobia. It seems our world leaders are more clearly defined by terms such as greedy, power hungry, criminal, psychopathic, manipulative, and are overall, parasitic in nature. Obviously this is a blanket statement that doesn’t apply to every single person, as there are many honorable community leaders out there —but when we think of our leaders as a whole, in areas such as government, banking, entertainment, and big business, it’s hard not to come to such negative conclusions.


There is concern for justice in our world today. However, to achieve justice for the world, we must better understand how God views it. Here are some verses from the Quran and the Bible for a better understanding of God’s intentions.

Al-Quran says:
إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ يَأْمُرُ بِٱلْعَدْلِ وَٱلإحْسَانِ وَإِيتَآءِ ذِى ٱلْقُرْبَىٰ
وَيَنْهَىٰ عَنِ ٱلْفَحْشَاءِ وَٱلْمُنْكَرِ وَٱلْبَغْىِ يَعِظُكُمْ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَذَكَّرُونَ
“Allah commands justice, the doing of good, and
liberality to kith and kin, and He forbids all shameful
deeds, and injustice and rebellion. He instructs you
that you may receive admonition.”
(al-Quran 16:90)

يَا أَيُّهَآ ٱلَّذِينَ آمَنُواْ كُونُواْ قَوَّامِينَ لِلَّهِ شُهَدَآءَ بِٱلْقِسْطِ
وَلاَ يَجْرِمَنَّكُمْ شَنَآنُ قَوْمٍ عَلَىۤ أَلاَّ تَعْدِلُواْ ٱعْدِلُواْ هُوَ أَقْرَبُ
لِلتَّقْوَىٰ وَٱتَّقُواْ ٱللَّهَ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ خَبِيرٌ بِمَا تَعْمَلُونَ
“O you who believe! Stand out firmly for Allah, as
witnesses to fair dealing, and let not the hatred of others
to you make you swerve to wrong and depart from
justice. Be just, that is next to piety, and fear Allah.
For Allah is well-acquainted with all that you do.”
(al-Quran 5:8)

إِنَّآ أَنْزَلْنَا إِلَيْكَ ٱلْكِتَابَ بِٱلْحَقِّ لِتَحْكُمَ
بَيْنَ ٱلنَّاسِ بِمَآ أَرَاكَ ٱللَّهُ وَلاَ تَكُنْ لِّلْخَآئِنِينَ خَصِيماً
“We have sent down to you the Book in truth, that
you may judge between men, as guided by Allah …”
(al-Quran 4:105)

وَتَمَّتْ كَلِمَةُ رَبِّكَ صِدْقاً وَعَدْلاً لاَّ مُبَدِّلَ لِكَلِمَاتِهِ وَهُوَ ٱلسَّمِيعُ ٱلْعَلِيمُ
“The word of your Lord does find its fulfillment in
truth and in justice. None can change His words, for
He is the One Who hears and knows all.”
(al-Quran 6:115)

إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ يَأْمُرُكُمْ أَن تُؤَدُّواْ ٱلأَمَانَاتِ إِلَىۤ أَهْلِهَا وَإِذَا حَكَمْتُمْ
بَيْنَ ٱلنَّاسِ أَن تَحْكُمُواْ بِٱلْعَدْلِ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ نِعِمَّا يَعِظُكُمْ بِهِ
إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ كَانَ سَمِيعاً بَصِيراً
“Allah commands you to render back your Trusts
to those to whom they are due. And when you judge
between man and man, that you judge with justice.
Verily how excellent is the teaching which He gives
you! For Allah is He Who hears and sees all things.”
(al-Quran 4:58)

The Bible says:

“The Lord loves righteousness and justice, the earth is full of his unfailing love.” --  Psalms 33:5

 “Do not pervert justice; do not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the great, but judge your neighbor fairly.” -- Leviticus 19:15


“This is what the Lord Almighty said: Administer true justice; show mercy and compassion to one another.” -- Zechariah 7:9

“Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow!” -- Isaiah 1:17


“For I, the Lord, love justice; I hate robbery and wrongdoing. In my faithfulness I will reward my people and make an everlasting covenant with them. Their descendants will be known among the nations and their offspring among the peoples. All who see them will acknowledge that they are a people the Lord has blessed.” -- Isaiah 61:8-9

“He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.” -- Micah 6:8

“Turn from evil and do good; then you will dwell in the land forever. For the Lord loves the just and will not forsake his faithful ones. Wrongdoers will be completely destroyed; the offspring of the wicked will perish. The righteous will inherit the land and dwell in it forever.” -- Psalms 37:27-29

“But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!” -- Amos 5:24

“But you must return to your God; maintain love and justice, and wait for your God always.” -- Hosea 12:6


Justice In Islam

During The Time of The Prophet (s.a.w.):
Narrated An-Nu'man bin Bashir:
"My mother asked my father to give me a gift from his property and he gave it to me after some hesitation. My mother said that she would not be satisfied unless the Prophet (s.a.w.) was made a witness to it. I being a young boy, my father held me by the hand and took me to the Prophet (s.a.w.). He said to the Prophet, ‘His mother, Bint Rawaha, requested me to give this boy a gift.’
The Prophet (s.a.w.) said, "Do you have other sons besides him?"
He said, "Yes." The Prophet (s.a.w.) said, "Don’t make me a witness to injustice.” 
(Narrated Ash-Shabi that the Prophet (s.a.w.) said, "I will not become a witness to injustice.”). -- (Bukhari, Book 48,  Hadith No.818).

During The Time of Caliph Umar (r.a.a.):
Shurayh al-Qaadhi (the judge), narrates that Caliph Umar bin al-Khattaab (r.a.a.), bought a horse from a Bedouin, paid its price and rode off with it. However, after traveling a little distance, the Caliph noticed some kind of defect in the horse, so he returned to the seller and requested him to take it back since it was defective. The man refused, telling the Caliph that the horse was perfectly healthy when it was sold to him. Umar (r.a.a.) asked the man to choose a judge for resolving the dispute. The man suggested Shurayh ibn al-Haarith al-Kindi whom Umar (r.a.a.) accepted.
After the judge listened to the Bedouin’s testimony, he turned to Umar (r.a.a.), asking: “Was the horse normal and healthy when you bought it?”
Umar (r.a.a.) replied: “Yes, it was.”
Shurayh then said: “Then keep what you bought or return it as you took it.”
Umar (r.a.a.) looked at Shurayh in admiration and said: “That’s the way justice should be! I give you the position of Chief Justice of Koofah in Iraq.”
This is Islamic justice, an ordinary Bedouin taking the Caliph to court, deciding which judge to go to and the Caliph accepting the judge’s decision voluntarily.


During The Time of Caliph Ali (r.a.a.):
Ali ibn Abu Talib (r.a.a.) lost a shield that was dear to him and later found it in the hands of a non-Muslim who was selling it in one of Koofah’s markets. Ali (r.a.a.) recognized the shield and said: “This is my shield that fell off my camel on so and so night at such and such time.”
The man answered: “No, this is my shield because it is in my hand.”
Ali (r.a.a.) replied: “No, it is mine since I never sold it or gave it to anyone.”
They decided to take the matter to the Qadhi (judge) and went to the court of judge Shurayh. (This was the same judge who was appointed by Caliph Umar binn Al-Khattab (r.a.a.) many years ago). The judge asked Ali (r.a.a.) for his side of the story. Ali (r.a.a.) claimed that the shield was his and that he had found it with that man. It had fallen off his camel and he had never sold it or given it to anyone.
The judge turned to the other man asking his story. The man said that he did not accuse Ali (r.a.a.) of lying but the shield was his as it was in his hands.
Shurayh turned to Ali (r.a.a.) saying: “I believe you, but we need the testimony of two witnesses to back your story.”
Ali (r.a.a.) said that there was his aide Qanbar and his son Hassan with him, to which the man replied that a son could not testify for the benefit of his father.
Ali (r.a.a.) said: “My God! A man who is promised paradise cannot act as a witness! Have you not heard what the Prophet (s.a.w.) said that Hassan and Hussain would be the leaders of the youths of paradise?
Shurayh said: “Yes, I have, but a son cannot bear witness for his father.”
Then Ali turned to the man and said: “Keep the shield as I have no other witnesses.”
The man, who was a non-Muslim, then said: “O Ali, the shield is yours! What a great religion (Islam)! I can bring the Caliph to the court and get a judge to pass a decision for my benefit! I declare myself a Muslim.”
He told the judge that he was following the army and had seen the shield fall down and picked it up. Ali (r.a.a.) then told the man to keep the shield and, on top of that, he also gave him a horse. That incident changed the life of that man. Soon after, the man was seen under Ali (r.a.a.)’s leadership fighting the Khawaarij.
That’s called justice in Islam!


Islam has prepared its followers to follow this righteous instinct. It is a joy to our spirit to stand and think of the greatness of Islamic justice, how fair Islamic law is to individuals and groups, rulers and the ruled!

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