Islamophobia

Promotion of Islamophobia ,Why?
writer: Abolfazl Ebrahimi
Islamophobia is a term that describes the warped cognition and feeling, some people have in front of Islam and Muslims and today this false image in our world especially in the west, leads to some injustice behaviors toward Muslims. Also this results lots of prejudices and Intolerance against Islam and Muslims. Phobias in psychology are those disorders in witch a person have irrational fear from a particular thing or situation but this fear cannot be justified logically.
In other hand we see some countries and especially the Medias of them want to intensify this phobia. Why this is so? Are they gaining any benefits from Islomophobia? Why they want to give a hostile misinformation about Islam? And Why Islam is being targeted? These are some questions in front of us.
I think in all eras there were some governors who are at risk by coming God's prophets and this kind of governors felt a serious risk when Islam appeared, because if people follow God and religion, they would not follow those governors. This reason today is valid too. Those who promote hate of Islam are at first those governors who feel danger from propagation of Islam's redeemer Programs. They know that if people understand what Islam says, they can not continue to their governments.
In other hand Islam stands at the world stage as the main ideological challenge to other world ideologies and intellectual currents, especially the ones with neo-colonial intent. Islam, with its strong intellectual, political, moral, and theological components is regarded as a threat by the neo-colonial forces of our times. These forces find that in promoting conflicts, civil strife and wars, they have effective tools to achieve their strategy of divide and conquer.

Jihad in Islam

Jihad in Islam
Writer: Abolfazl Ebrahimi
There is a claim that because in Islam, there is no separation between religion and government -what in Christianity would be called the separation of church and state- this lead to violence in Muslims.
We, say that it a Prominence for Islam that covers all areas of human life. Islam has Edicts in both social life and Personal life. If we look closely, we see that in Christianity there are no social commandments because there is no Christian structure of society, no Christian legal system, and no Christian rules as to how a society is to be formed. Christianity is not more than a few moral teachings that form a set of advices such as "tell the truth", "do not tell lies", and so on, But Islam is a religion that has interrelated sets of ideals and realities covering the entire area of human notion and action, beliefs and practices, thought, word, and deed. Islam came to reform society and to form a nation and government. Its mandate is the reform of the whole world. Such a religion cannot be indifferent. It cannot be without a law of jihad. In the same way, its government cannot be without an army. It has laws which govern the society, economic laws, and political laws. It came to organize a state, to organize a government, so how can it remains without an army? How can it be without the law of jihad? Islamic principles and concepts cannot be fully and properly workable unless with this kinds of laws.
In other hand I think this reality that in Christianity there is no social Edicts is a big Deficiency, because in Christian society we see religious leaders that have not any power to actualize the moral rules and in other hand we see political governors who do what they want to do. They kill people, trespass other countries and the result of that is what we see today in our world.
But in Islam to doing all acts we should Gods satisfaction and all of our actions should lead to justice. In Islam we have the law of Jihad but we also have lots of commandments about war that prevent us from doing injustice actions.
We read in holy Koran: 5; 8
O you who believe! Stand out firmly for Allah and be just witnesses and let not the enmity and hatred of others make you avoid justice. Be just: that is nearer to piety, and fear Allah. Verily, Allah is well acquainted with what you do.
Also Imam Ali1 (peace be upon him) gave the following instructions to his soldiers before the battle.
Do not take the initiative in fighting, let them begin it. It is because by the Favor of Allah you are on the side of truth and justice. Leave them until they begin their hostilities and then you are at liberty to take to fighting. Their keenness to begin a battle will be another proof of your sincere belief in the orders of Allah. If Allah favors you with success and inflicts defeat to the enemy, then do not attack those who have surrendered, do not injure the disabled and weak, do not assault the wounded, do not excite women and do not make them angry with rude behavior even if they use harsh and insulting words against your commander and officers
This is war and jihad in Islam with specific provisos and limitations but those who criticize Jihad in Islam, today are battling without any proviso and limitation.

Hijab in French public schools

Hijab is now almost officially banned in French public schools. An anti-hijab ban was passed with an overwhelming majority in the French Parliament. What is next? Other European countries, such as the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, are expected to follow in the French footsteps.
Oversimplified dogmas such as “Islamophobia,” “secular fundamentalism,” and even arguments such as “Handed to fanatics on a silver platter” or “This is a violation of my individual right” are no longer solutions to the size of the problem we now face. They will simply take us nowhere.
Victimization is now self-betrayal.
One needs to maturely assess what happened--paying attention to history, politics, law, society, demography, philosophy and culture. A truthful exercise of “self-examination” is the imperative problem-solving action at the moment. So far we have tried to take that path, in our attempt to act by a true and well-informed Islamic spirit, parting as much as possible from random misinformed ranting that does little but further fuel emotional bursts.
Both the particularity of the French political model and the French Muslim community should be examined, both in the global context and in comparison to their counterparts in other countries. It is not enough to criticize France without pinpointing some of the key characteristics of the distinctive French Muslim population. Problematic questions such as “assimilation,” “conspicuousness” and “defense of national values” partly underlie existing problems on the Muslim part.
Nonetheless, we should tactically look ahead. Plain and trouble-free as it appears to be to some, what happened is a sad chapter in the story of the demographic neutralization of Muslims in the “liberal” space of Europe. When tolerance is not an option, ideological indoctrination and “veiled” political freedom is not necessarily the right solution. This is at the heart of how far the secular nation-state project can go: to forcefully strip one of any differences to a one-sided perception of the norm.
Are Muslims now the new subjects to the experiments of modern statecraft?

The Prayer and the Importance of Prefaces (written by Maysam Ghasemi)

In the Name of God
As we've been created for eternity and we are going to finnish this life,we should
take supplies for afterlife.According to the holy Quran and traditiion the most necessary
provision for everyone's afterlife will be the "justifuied prayer". Based on the verses of
the holy Quran and tradition a justified prayer is the one wich is said with presence of
mind and to have presence of mind while saying prayers we should do the prefaces of
prayer such as taking ablution , saying supperogatory prayers and Azan & Eghamah
with presence of mind to be able to say the main prayers this way nevertheless we find
ourselves praying and thinking to everything and everyone eccept for God.
The first step of prefaces of the prayer in which we should have presence of mind,
is taking ablution.The final goal of inacting this deed as a preface of prayer is not just clarity
while praying but also it's been ordered to remind us the incidents of the day of judgment
and to make us ask for something that we need for that day from God ; the day in which
some faces are blackened and some are whitened as a sign of being hellish and paradisical.
Some people are given their deeds' report cards to their right hands and others are given to
their left hands as a sign of being paradisical and hellish . Some people are allowed to pass
the "Serat Bridge" to the paradise while others' feet slip and they fall from there to the hell ,
based on theirown deeds on the earth . And when we remember these devine promises we
naturally ask God to whiten our faces that day while washing our faces and to give us our
deeds' report cards to our right hands while washing our right hands and not to give them
to our left hands that day while washing our left hands . And to make us tight not to fall to
the hell while passing the bridge and to let us enter the paradise that day while wetting our
heads and feet . such an ablution would be an eligible preface for prayer and can prepare
us to pray .
The next step of prefaces in wich we should have presence of mind in order to perform
the main prayer with the same quality is saying superogatory prayers which was obligatory
to the prophet Mohammad (P.P.U.H) and an emphasized recommended one for us . The
prescription of this prayer is saying a "two units prayer" before the morning prayer and four
"two units prayer" before the noon and the afternoon prayer and two "two units prayer" after
the evening prayer stood and a "two units prayer" after vespers seated. If you could succeed
to have presence of mind while saying these thirty four units of prayer (counting the last one
as a one unit prayer) , then you are prepared to keep it while saying the main obligatory seventeen
units of prayer.
The last step of prefaces of prayer in wich we should have presence of mind is saying
"Azan & Eghamah". When you profess truly that the God is the greatest for ten times and there
is no devinity except for God for seven times and when you invite people to the prayer and
introduce it as the salvation and the best deed for four times by shouting Azan & Eghamah
you are notifying you and others that you are going to talk to the highest existent - God - with
the best means - prayer - which is performed with presence of mind.
Although the main prayer and its prefaces such as taking ablution, saying superogatory
prayers and Azan & Eghamah with presence of mind are good suplies for afterlife even with the
attention of earning the paradise and avoiding the hell , I think based on a story from Amir-ol-
moemnin (P.B.U.H) the best slaves pray their master with presence of mind just in order to earn
his satisfaction, the way which deserves him and will definitly imply the same result and will bring
them near the God in the paradise and will avoid them from the hell and evil.

Islam, religion of violence or religion of mercifulness

In the name of Allah

Islam, religion of violence or religion of mercifulness

Today we are encountering with two groups of misgivings about the subject of Islam and violence. We should distinct these two groups.
First group are those that claim there is relationship between violence and Islam in a whole (Islamic texts and Islamic injunctions and commandments like Jihad and law of retaliation). They say Moslems and non Moslems have the same potential for violence as others, and Islam as a religion and an ideology seeks to exploit that potential.
Also they claim that in Islam, there is no separation between religion and government -what in Christianity would be called the separation of church and state- and this lead to violence in Moslems.
They bring some evidences from Quran and other Islamic texts in support of their claim .like verses of Jihad and law of retaliation.
The second groups are misgivings about Moslems and Moslem countries and also their actions. This one also can be divided to two branches:
About countries like Palestine, Iraq and other Moslem countries that are occupied and they only defend from their country and family.
About some sects who do some violent actions in the name of Islam like what occurred in September 11, 2001 in America.
The role of media and propaganda -in which the Western world associates Islam more than any other religion with violence, Despite the presence of violence in many regions of the world ranging from Ireland to Lebanon to the Pacific Basin and involving many religions from Christianity to Hinduism- also had a big influence on giving violent face to Islam the religion of mercifulness.
And (O messenger) we have sent you as a mercy for the 'Alamîn (mankind and all that exists). Holy quran 21:107.
We also should study some historical evidences about non Moslem countries occurrences in the past like world war I , and world war II to see how many people were killed in those wars and who was the cause, Islam or other things?
We should consider this question too, if Islam is the religion of violence how Islam prophet attracted so many people in a short time?
In this essay I will investigate these questions and we want God's favor to understand the truth Islam.

Jihad

In the name of Allah

Jihad



The Legitimacy of Jihad
The first issue that we shall consider relating the legitimacy of jihad, whether it is correct for a law of war to exist within the context of religion and the text of its commands, or not? Protesters say, "No, war is evil, and religion must always be opposed to evil, so religion must always be opposed to war. It must always support Submission. And, since it intends to support Submission and peace, it must not have any laws about war, and it must never itself go to war.

War
But what is the truth about war? Is it always bad? If it is in defense of a right, against oppression, is it still bad? Obviously it is not. So we must regard the conditions and motives of war and consider for what motive and aim war is fought. There are times in which war is aggression from the view of Islam. When, for example, a group of people or a nation sets its greedy eyes on the rights, wealth and lands of other nations. Obviously, war for these reasons- To take possession of land, to seize ownership of national wealth, or due to contempt of others- is not correct, it is a war of aggression. These types of war are certainly evil, and there can be no doubt about it.
But if a war of defense is undertaken in the face of aggression - others have occupied our land, or have cast their eyes on our wealth and property, or on our freedom and self-esteem, which they want to deprive us of, and intend to impose their rule over us - in these cases, what is idea of religion? Is it to say, "War is absolutely evil, laying hands on a weapon is evil, picking up a sword is evil," and that it advocates peace? And we, when facing imminent attack and the risk of being destroyed, must we not go to war - If we do not, would it not mean failing to defend ourselves - on the pretext of peace? This would not be peace, this would be surrender. And you know peace and surrendering are different from each other. The meaning of peace is honorable coexistence with others, but surrender is not honorable coexistence; it is coexistence in which one side is absolutely dishonorable with injustice and oppression.
And if did not Allah Check one set of people by means of another, the earth would indeed be full of mischief: but Allah is full of bounty to all the worlds. Holy quran; (2:251)
And:
If Did not Allah check one set of people by means of another, there would surely have been pulled down monasteries, churches, synagogues, and mosques, In which the name of Allah is commemorated In abundant measure. Allah will certainly aid those who aid His (cause);- for Verily Allah is full of strength, Exalted In Might, (able to enforce His Will). (22:40)
It is for this reason that all the countries of the world deem it necessary, essential for themselves to maintain armed forces for their defense.

who am I?

[O, Messenger] When your God stated to the Angels "I will appoint a Divine Governor on The earth" they said "[O, our creator]Do you appoint the kind of creature who will make Mischief therein and will shed blood? While we repeat the Remembrance of thanksgiving due to your Absolute purity and we celebrate Your Holiness." Allah stated:" indeed I know what you don't know." Holy Quran [2; 30].

how can I choose?

Choices are a lot but time is limited

We are encountering with lots of choices to select. We can only choose some of them. To have the best choose we should select with awareness, in which we are considering all choices and also our ultimate blissfulness.

judge about islam with awareness

Do not judge about islam without sufficient information

I want to present some general concepts about judging about Islam. I think these concepts can help you to have a real understanding about Islam.

1. Considering Islam as a whole.
We should see Islam as a system and regard Gods commandments as a whole. Islam isn’t only one or two sentences. We have to pay attention to all traditions and verse of Quran. Each of them interprets each other. And if we found a statement that is in front of whole we should construe that one.

2. Generality of laws.
When a lawgiver enacts a general law, it is impossible to consider all peoples benefits.
What is important is this: that he has to enact a law that its outcomes are better than others a whole. I mean he should consider public benefits.

3. Considering life's needs.
Maybe we think that logic is the important things in the life and because of this for example we say that man is privileged. But reality is something else. I mean our life needs two basic things: logic and affection. Man and woman have different among of these because of their responsibility. Each of man and woman are prevail in one and deficient in other. So in some position man do better than woman but in other places woman do better, so none of them (logic and affection) are not advantages for man or woman.

4. Differences between Islam's commandments and Moslems behavior.
Some actions in Moslems societies are not attributable to the laws in Islam and Quran and or Islam leaders' behaviors. sometimes we see a great disparity between what God advocates us and some accepted behaviors in Moslem society . For example it is a common sentence that man can divorce his wife without any problem but we read in quran : you should treat women honorably if you dislike them (be mindful that) you may dislike something and Allah brings through it a great deal of good for you.(4:19).

woman rights in Islam

In the name of God

Islam and woman rights

Islam appeared at a time when the society was denying the humanity of women. The woman was considered as a thing created for the humble service of the man. Islam has done a great service to woman. It gave woman freedom, personality and independence of thinking and opinion. while the western woman, till the end of the 19th century was denied the most elementary human rights, Islam has given these rights many years ago. For example the right of having property for self, which has been recognized by Islam from the very beginning, did not exist in western countries till recently centuries.
No doubt the recent movements in western countries have rectified many grievances of woman, but it has also brought many misfortunes to her. Why? Has she no way out of this vicious circle? She was suffered in the past mostly because it was forgotten that she was a human being. She is suffering now because her womanhood, her inborn requirements and her special capabilities have been ignored.
During the women's liberation movement attention was not paid to the point that, besides equality and liberty, there existed other questions also. Liberty and equality are no doubt essential, but they are not all in all everything in entirety. Equality of rights is one thing, but the similarity of rights quite another. The equality of man's and woman's rights from the viewpoint of material and moral values is quite different from the uniformity or similarity of their rights. During this movement, intentionally or unintentionally, equality has been used in the sense of similarity and thus quality has overshadowed quantity. It was stressed that a woman is a human being, but it was forgotten that she is a woman too.
So there are two basic differences between the steps taken by Islam and what is happening in the West and is being followed by others.
The first difference concerns the psychology of man and woman. Islam has done and revealed wonders in this respect.
The second difference is that, while Islam made the women aware of their rights and gave them an identity, a personality, freedom and independence; it did not instigate them to revolt and harbour malice against the male persons. It did not put an end to the respect in which the daughters held their fathers and the wives their husbands. It did not upset the basis of the family life and did not make women suspicious of their responsibilities in regard to their fathers and husbands. It did not snatch away the wives from their husbands and the daughters from their parents .
By this revolutionary changes in the west , the home wich is the basis of our social organization, the conjugal system , which prevented debauchery and gave stability to family life have been upset .
There the paternal protection has vanished. No one knows what to do with all the corruption that is rampant, with the ever-growing cases of infanticide and abortion, with 40 per cent illegitimate children and with those new-born infants whose fathers are not known and whose mothers do not want to have anything to do with them, because they were not born in lawful wedlock. The mothers of such children simply hand them over to some social organizations and then never come back to inquire about them.
In fact, this indifference was not the outcome of mere haste; there were other factors also, which impelled the exploitation of woman in the name of liberty.
One of them was the excessive greed of the industrialists, who wanted to lure woman from her house to a factory, in order to exploit her economic potentiality. For this purpose, they advocated woman's rights, her economic independence and her liberty and equality of rights with those of man
female workers were cheaper and the employers preferred them to strong-headed and costly male workers.
Obviously all these things have been done in the name of freedom for women and their equality with men and I think this is the problem of non divine laws.