May 2012
40 posts
What's the relevance to Abu Hanifa??
Like Abu Hanifa (la), Ammar Nakshawani makes up the religion as he goes along, bending it to his opinion, whims and analogies.
Sheikh al-Habib Sends A Sharp Message To Muqtada al-Sadr: "Evil is that for which you've knowingly confounded truth with falsehood" →
alqatrah.net
(Please keep in mind the following is a translation from the original Arabic, and has some problems in its grammar and syntax.)
His Eminence Sheikh Yasser al-Habib has sent a written message with a sharp language to Muqtada al-Sadr in condemning his conference in Najaf, in which he raised the status of the murderers and the enemies of the Messenger of Allah and his family (may peace be upon them), Abu Bakr, Omar and Uthman (may Allah curse them), as well as he called for a unity with the Omaris and the Wahabis.
The message contained the following:
In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Beneficent.
All praise is due to Allah, and may blessings and peace be upon the Messenger of Allah and his family, the people of Allah, and may the curse be upon their enemies, the enemies of Allah.
May blessings and peace be upon you, my Master, O Commander of the Faithful, and upon those beside you from the Prophets, the successors, and those who are near to Allah, and the mercy of Allah and His graces.
To the disobedient boy Muqtada:
May peace be upon those who followed the right path.
We have been informed of your disobedience, silliness and foolishness in hurting the heart of the Messenger of Allah (may the blessings of Allah be upon him and his family) as you gathered in a conference in the city of his brother, the Commander of the Faithful (may the blessings of Allah be upon him), in which you mentioned the enemies of his daughter, Al-Siddiqa al-Kubra Fatima al-Zahra (may the blessings of Allah be upon her), with tribute and glory.
Have you not been restrained by the modesty of our Master and Imam, the Argument of Allah, Mohammad, the son of Hassan (may the blessings of Allah be upon them) while you were ‘qualifying’ the caliphate of Abu Bakr, Omar and Uthman (may Allah curse them) and make the Master of the Monotheists, the Commander of the Faithful, Ali, as a fourth?! And you would then place those whom you called “Sahaba” in the understanding of “Al-Qurba” as a repulse to Allah and His Messenger, and judge without knowledge in which you condemned insulting the tyrant Omar, meanwhile the Messnger of Allah (may the blessings of Allah be upon him and his family) ordered that, as mentioned in the reliable and noble Al-Kafi, in which he said: “And increase your insults upon them” and you would contradict the pure Imams (may peace be upon them) in which their Al-Sadiq (may the blessings of Allah be upon him) says, as in the narration of Al-Kashi (may satisfactions be upon him): “We, the whole of Bani-Hashim, command our big ones and small ones to insult them and dissociate themselves from them.”
And you would then foolishen yourself and the people by whitewashing the Wahabis - as a doctrine and ideology - from terrorism and killings, and would then make it a duplicate with legacy, logic, religion and humanity, by saying: “O Alawis! O Omaris! O Wahabis! Enough distinction!” And as if uniting with the murderous and criminal Omaris and Wahabis are not a great misdeed according to you?! And as if the importance of Islam is unity on all cases, even if it would be based upon falsehood and betraying the covenant of the Messenger of Allah (may the blessings of Allah be upon him and his family)!
Woe to you! Do you not know what our Great Prophet said to his successor (may the blessings of Allah be upon them and their families)? Have you not read what Al-Saduq (may satisfactions be upon him) narrated in his chain of narrators on the authority Salman al-Mohammadi of the Prophet (may the blessings of Allah be upon him and his family), saying: “O Ali, Allah has ordained distinction and diversity upon this nation, and if Allah wished then He would have joined them upon the right path in which two of this nation would not dispute, nor would there be a strife on anything of its case, nor would the more preferred be denied.”
Evil is that for which you have made the truth becomes falsehood and the falsehood becomes truth, meanwhile you yourself are the ignorant who neither learned, nor were polite, and this miserable time made you become a head that would draw the general public with you, and you neither know how to write, nor to read! And this disastrous word of you is a witness against you, as it contains lingual and Arabic weaknesses, tunes and errors which would make the sorrowful laugh.
Get down on your ribs, and repent to Allah (may He be praised) from what you did, and announce your repentance to the people so that they will not be deceived because of you, do you not fear the Day of Judgment?! Do you not fear that the Messenger of Allah (may the blessings of Allah be upon him and his pure family), the Commander of the Faithful (i.e. Imam Ali), the Lady of all worlds (i.e. Fatima al-Zahra), and the Imams (may the blessings of Allah be upon them) would be your opponents in front of the One who overcomes over all creation, as you raised the status of the leaders of disbelief, deception and treachery, Abu Bakr, Omar and Uthman, who destroyed the religion of Islam?!
Would you be pleased that one would mention Saddam with tribute, and he was the killer of your father in front of you? For what is on your mind when you accepted, and did not feel embarrassed, to mention Abu Bakr, Omar and Uthman with tribute, and they were the killers of Al-Zahra, in front of her husband, the Commander of the Faithful, in Najaf, and he said: “Indeed, it is honoured Ali, the son of Abi-Talib, that the inside of Fatima would be darkened due to the hit!”.
Repent, or otherwise you are worse than a dog for your disobedience towards your forefathers. The poet said, and he said the truth:
“If the Alawi would follow a Nasibi, then what is it left from his father? Verily, the dog would be better than him because the father of the dog is visible in him!”
Yasser al-Habib
24 Jumada al-Akhira year 1433 of the noble Hijra
Abu Hanifa Of Our Time defends exorbitant speaking fees, a real Shi`ah of `Ali responds
Ammar Nakshwani - Speakers who don’t charge a lot of money are a disease!
“Beware of procrastination for verily it is the sea in which losers drown.”
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Imam Baqir (as)
(I think I sank to the bottom of that sea a long time ago…)
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How to Productively Call People Out on Their BS (Without Being an A**hole) →
lifehacker.com
Actually pretty accurate, from a clinical/therapeutic standpoint.
Humble Findings...: Marriage has become so complicated!! →
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Marriage is supposed to be based on Moral values right? so WHY then is everything based on financial considerations? after all, the prophet did say, “if one whose religiousness and manners comes to you to marry your daughter, accept him”.
When Ali proposed to marry Fatimah, he didnt have anything…
This.
What is wilayat at taqwini?
I think Grand Ayatollah al-Khoei provides a sufficient explanation (and defense) of this as follows:
“There are some people who do not believe Amir-Al-Momineen (as) and other Imam’s (as) to be God but believe that the Imam’s (as) are the most beloved and closest to Allah (swt) and hence give Rizq (sustenance) to the creations of Allah (swt) and also believe that it is Allah (swt) who is true sustainer (Raziq). This is similar to the case of angel of death being the one who gives death, the angel of rain sending down rainfall, Prophet Isa (as) giving life to the dead with the will/permission of Allah (swt) as has come in the Holy Quran. Having such a belief is not Kufr and is not a rejection of any belief of Shiasm. In fact as defined above the belief of Imam’s (as) being the “Creator - خالق” and “Sustainer - رازق” is not wrong and is not exaggeration (غلو) and also there is no alternative but to accept this.”
It should also be noted that this is not a strange of foreign belief to tashayyu` and has been espoused both classically as well as by modern scholars ranging from Khomeini to Ayatollahs al-Khoei and Shirazi. To the extent that it appears controversial, this is largely due to a misunderstanding of what precisely is meant by the term.
I watched this video on Fadlullah and apparently he says Ali (a) deserved hellfire based on his actions... Come on, there's no way he said, what is the context? That's just... wow, if he said that, how the hell has he gotten away with it?
There is probably some broader context, I haven’t checked the source myself. Probably it is available on mezan.net, but my Arabic is not good enough for that site to be of much value to me. On the other hand, he has said a lot of things outside of the boundaries of the religion that he has “gotten away with,” such as expressing doubt about the assault on Sayyeda Fatimah, the authenticity of Ziyarat `Ashura, the permissibility of masturbation (albeit for women only), the permissibility of takattuf, the denial of the third holy shahada as part of the adhan and iqamah, etc., and has made various comments praising the enemies of Sayyeda Fatimah and Ahlul Bayt at large (peace be upon them). IIRC, he also issued a rather infamous fatwa on the permissibility of suicide bombing. All of this led a significant number of renowned scholars to declare him outside of the religion.
Tafsir al Qummi = Mizan? Is it available in English?
Different books. Tafsir al-Qummi is one of the oldest and most reliable classical Shi`i tafasir, compiled (mainly) by Shaykh `Ali ibn Ibrahim al-Qummi. The only comparable ones, really, are maybe Tafsir al-`Ayyashi, Tafsir al-Furat and—more recently, relatively speaking—al-Burhan by Shaykh Bahrani, which is sort of a compilation of the aforementioned books with other additions as well. Unfortunately, none of these are available in English yet—at least not as complete translations, although parts of them are available here and there online. AFAIK, one Pakistani publisher is producing an English translation of Tafsir al-Qummi and insha’Allah it will be available relatively soon (I really can’t wait to get my hands on it, personally). Brother MacIsaac has also been working on translating the book himself over at tashayyu.org, but that may be somewhat on hold as he seems busy compiling his own tafsir based on narrations gathered from other classical sources.
Book status update
For those of you follow me on tumblr but aren’t aware, I recently completed a book on the subject of tabarra a couple of months ago. I finally received review copies from the printer today, and once it has been read and re-edited by the reviewers, I’ll post a link for anyone interested who would like to purchase a copy. Insha’Allah, I am hoping to have the finalized copy publicly available by sometime in June, if not sooner!
Persecution of followers of Grand Ayatollah Sayed Mohammad Shirazi by the Iranian regime, part 2
Hojjatoleslam val moslemin Sayed Morteza Shirazi, Hojjatoleslam Sayed Mehdi Shirazi
Arrests ceased for almost six months, but started again on 19 June 1996 with the arrest of Hojjatoleslam Sayed Mehdi Shirazi, the fourth son of Grand Ayatollah Shirazi, while in a car between Qom and Tehran. On the same day Hojjatoleslam ‘Ali Rumaythi, a member of Grand Ayatollah Shirazi’s staff, was arrested in Qom. On 20 June, Hojjatoleslam Sheikh Hossein Dhakeri(the brother of Sheikh Mohammad Taqi Dhakeri and Hadi Akhound Dhakeri), another member of Grand Ayatollah Shirazi’s staff, was arrested, also in Qom. On 20 or 21 June, Hojjatoleslam val moslemin Sheikh Azizollah Hassani(aged about 60) was arrested in Tehran. Also in June, thewife of Sayed Sadeq Fali, a follower of Grand Ayatollah Shirazi said to have been exiled to Iranshahr in 1995 by the Special Court for the Clergy, was reportedly arrested in Qom following an argument with security forces surrounding an Islamic centre linked to Grand Ayatollah Shirazi, who are said to have beaten her in public. She was released on bail after a couple of days to await trial before the Special Court for the Clergy. Other members of the Fali family, who also follow Grand Ayatollah Shirazi, are reported to have been arrested, tortured and some sentenced to prison terms in previous years.
In September 1996, Hojjatoleslam Sheikh Fazel Fazeli, a follower of Grand Ayatollah Shirazi and a poet, was arrested from his home in Qom. According to unconfirmed reports, he was released shortly afterwards. Several others were arrested on 14 and 15 January 1997. They included Hojjatoleslam val moslemin Sheikh Mohammad Amin Ghafoori, a well-known religious figure and writer on Islamic themes, and his wife, and Hojjatoleslam val moslemin Sayed Hossein Fali who has reportedly been arrested several times before for association with Grand Ayatollah Shirazi. He is said to have been tortured during his previous detentions and to have undergone surgery as a result. Unconfirmed reports suggested that the latter three were all beaten during their arrests. Reports from detention have also indicated that they have been tortured during their detention.
Most of those listed above have been released at various times since July 1996. They include Hojjatoleslam val moslemin Abdolrahman Ha’eri; Hojjatoleslam val moslemin Sayed Abdolrasoul Musawi; Hojjatoleslam Taleb Salehi; Hojjatoleslam Mohammad ‘Ali Ma’ash; Iyad Fujian; Hojjatoleslam Sayed Abbas Musawi; Ahmad and Jalal Akhound; Sheikh Hossein Dhakeri; ‘Ali Rumaythi; Hojjatoleslam Sheikh Azizollah Hassani; Mohammad Ghaffari; and Mohammad Fazel al-Saffar. Sayed Morteza Shirazi was released for almost 48 hours between 21 and 23 October, after which he was summoned back to prison. He was released again on 1 January 1997; his younger brother Sayed Mehdi had been released a few days earlier on 28 December 1996. Among those still held are Sheikh Mohammad Taqi Dhakeri; Hadi Dhakeri; Iyad Fujian; Sheikh Mohammad Amin Ghafoori; and Hojjatoleslam val moslemin Sayed Hossein Fali.
Most, if not all of those from Qom arrested in 1995 were transferred to Tehran for further interrogation. They were held in incommunicado detention, probably in Tawhid Prison in Tehran until early 1996, when most received at least one family visit.
During their detention, there have also been reports that most, if not all of the detainees referred to above, have been tortured. Methods are reported to include:
beatings on different parts of the body, including prolonged beatings on the soles of the feet, after which the detainee is forced to walk on injured feet
cigarette burns on the tips of the fingers and the soles of the feet
burning with hot metal elements such as an iron, or hot liquids poured onto the body
prolonged enforced standing (sometimes on one leg) including in the snow during winter
detention in extremely confined spaces
suspension by the hands, ankles or other body parts from the ceiling and occasionally from a ceiling fan which was rotated with beatings administered at the same time
exposure to heat and cold for long periods
the plucking of hair from the beard or the head (which causes severe humiliation to religious figures, as well as physical pain)
shackling the arms in contorted and painful positions, such as the right arm behind the right ear and the left arm behind the back, and shackled at the wrist
prolonged sleep deprivation, reportedly up to 16 days
electric shocks, including in the mouth
threatened execution by electrocution after telling the detainee to write his will and attaching electrodes to the body
prolonged blindfolding for up to two months
the playing of extremely loud music or screams of other people apparently being tortured
- stating that relatives of the detainee have been arrested and threatening to torture them.
At least one, Sheikh ‘Ali Ma’ash, is reported to have required medical treatment after his release as a result of torture, including for a toe on his right foot which was broken and left untreated. At least one of the detainees is reported to have severe burn marks on his arms and neck, which is said to look like “a creased piece of material”. There have also been reports that detainees were denied access to medical treatment and given inappropriate treatment in prison for illnesses such as diabetes.
-Amnesty International, Iran: Human Rights Violations against Shi’a Religious Leaders and their Followers (June, 1997)
14noor replied to your video: Q & A, episode 6, regarding rulings, sayings and…
what good does bashing a passed away alim have? I am sure most of these are actually not said by him…
Uh huh. You’re sure because you don’t personally like what he said, but couldn’t be bothered to check the sources provided. In other words, personal opinion based solely on sentiment becomes a fact, by virtue of simply having occurred to you in the first place. Nice work there, Abu Hanifa. So much for “seeking knowledge even if it is in China.”
As for discussing a deceased “alim,” that is precisely the point: many people still misguidedly believe that he is a valid source of emulation, and so their taqlid may be invalid.
