Very often people just reflect upon the well known 5 pillars of Islam, but in reality there are many, many more.  It is narrated that the Prophet Muhammad said:

‘Iman is over 70 branches. The highest is to say Laa ilaha illallah…and the lowest is to remove harm from street.’ (Muslim)

I thought I would remind myself and others of them, they are:

30 qualities are connected to the heart

1. Belief in Allah
2. To believe that everything other than Allah was non-existent. Thereafter, Allah created these things and subsequently they came into existence.
3. To believe in the existence of angels.
4. To believe that all the heavenly books that were sent to the different prophets are true. However, apart from the Qur’an, all other books are not valid anymore.
5. To believe that all the prophets are true. However, we are commanded to follow the Prophet Muhammad alone.
6. To believe that Allah Most High as knowledge of everything from before-hand and that only that which He sanctions or wishes will occur.
7. To believe that Resurrection will definitely occur.
8. To believe in the existence of Heaven.
9. To believe in the existence of Hell.
10. To have love for Allah Most High.
11. To have love for the Prophet Muhammad
12. To love or hate someone solely because of Allah .
13. To execute all actions with the intention of religion alone.
14. To regret and express remorse when a sin is committed.
15. To fear Allah Most High.
16. To hope for the mercy of Allah Most High.
17. To be modest.
18. To express gratitude over a bounty or favour.
19. To fulfill promises.
20. To exercise patience.
21. To consider yourself lower than others.
22. To have mercy on the creation.
23. To be pleased with whatever you experience from Allah Most High.
24. To place your trust in Allah Most High.
25. Not to boast or brag over any quality that you possess.
26. Not to have malice or hatred towards anybody.
27. Not to be envious of anyone.
28. Not to become angry.
29. Not to wish harm for anyone.
30. Not to have love for the world.

7 qualities are connected to the tongue

31. To recite the testimony of faith (kalimah) with the tongue.
32. To recite the Quran.
33. To acquire knowledge.
34. To pass on Knowledge.
35. To make dua.
36. To make the zikr of Allah Most High.
37. To abstain from the following: lies, backbiting, vulgar words, cursing, singing that is contrary to the Shariah.

40 qualities are connected to the entire body

38. To make wudu, ghusl, and keep one’s clothing clean.
39. To be steadfast in offering salaat.
40. To pay zakaat and sadaqatul fitr.
41. To fast.
42. To perform the Hajj.
43. To make i’tikaaf.
44. To move away or migrate from that place which is harmful for one’s deen.
45. To fulfill the vows that have been made to Allah .
46. To fulfill the oaths that are not sinful.
47. To pay the kaffarah for unfulfilled oaths.
48. To cover those parts of the body that are fard to cover.
49. To perform the ritual slaughter.
50. To enshroud and bury the deceased.
51. To fulfill your debts.
52. To abstain from prohibited things when undertaking monetary transactions.
53. Not to conceal something true which you may have witnessed.
54. To get married when the nafs desires to do so.
55. To fulfill the rights of those who are under you.
56. To provide comfort to one’s parents.
57. To rear children in the proper manner.
58. Not to sever relations with one’s friends and relatives.
59. To obey one’s master.
60. To be just.
61. Not to initiate any way that is contrary to that of the generality of the Muslims.
62. To obey the ruler, provided what he orders is not contrary to the Shariah.
63. To make peace between two warring groups or individuals.
64. To assist in noble tasks.
65. To command the good and prohibit the evil.
66. If it is the government. it should mete out punishments according to the Shariah.
67. To fight the enemies of deen whenever such an occasion presents itself.
68. To fulfill one’s trusts (amana).
69. To give loans to those who are in need .
70. To see to the needs of one’s neighbour.
71. To ensure that one’s income is pure.
72. To spend according to the Shariah.
73. To reply to one who has greeted you.
74. To say Yarhamukallah (‘May Allah have mercy on you’) when anyone says Alhamdulillah (‘All praise to Allah ’) after sneezing.
75. Not to cause harm to anyone unjustly.
76. To abstain from games and amusements contrary to the Shariah.
77. To remove pebbles, stones, thorns, sticks, and the like from the road

I don’t need to comment on the following video much as  the Zionist Jews are displaying their nature for all to see.

Allah speaks to the Jews in the Qur’an and says:

[And We said in the Taurât (Torah)]:  “It may be that your Lord may (yet) show Mercy unto you; but if you revert (to your sins), We shall revert (to Our punishments): And we have made Hell a prison for the unbelievers. Al Isra 8

President Obama lays out his position on Gaza and guess what?  It’s the same as Bush’s position – no change there then. Obama speaks only about (alleged) Hamas crimes and says that for there to be an enduring peace Hamas needs to do this and Hamas needs to do that.  Not one word about any of the crimes Israel is guilty of and not one word directed at Israel’s role in establishing “peace”

Noam Chomsky says in this very good interview that Israel does have the right to defend itself, and it can do this by stopping their crimes in Gaza and the West Bank.

It is true that Hamas is painted as a terrorist organisation throughout the media to get people to hate them, and it is working, there are even deluded Muslims that proudly state they don’t support Hamas and never will. The media is also portraying that the people of Gaza do not like Hamas and are even scared of Hamas to further isolate their support.  The official Israeli lair, Mark Ragev, has even said that Hamas are executing its own people and are the ones who used phosphorous on the Palestinians.

The reality on the ground is that Hamas’s popularity is astonishing among the people of Gaza and they should know and take comfort from the knowledge that in the Ummah of our beloved Muhammad, the majority are right behind them.

We are slowly beginning to see Obama’s true colours and allegiances coming out now and we should not be surprised by them.  The only people who will be surprised will be those Muslims who fell for the propaganda and were sucked into believing Obama will help the Muslims.

The BBC has continued in its “unofficial” position as the media arm of the Israeli government by refusing to provide airtime to a humanitarian appeal for the people of Gaza. The Disaster Emergency Committee (DEC) is an umbrella organisation of 13 humanitarian agencies that include Oxfam, Cafod and Islamic Relief and whenever there is a disaster DEC, on behalf of all 13 agencies, campaigns for that cause.  It is very common for TV adverts to appear on numerous TV channels to assist their campaign, however the Beeb felt this particular campaign was just too much for them.

Due to the BBC refusing airtime to the Gaza campaign, ITV and SKY have pulled out also.  This is what the BBC had to say about it:

“The decision was made because of question marks about the delivery of aid in a volatile situation and also to avoid any risk of compromising public confidence in the BBC’s impartiality in the context of [a] news story.”

This is the biggest load of nonsense I have heard today ( I have yet to listen to the latest lie by Mark Regev), The BBC have a problem about the delivery of aid in a volatile situation?  Blimey, that didn’t stop them from allowing airtime for The Congo and Burma recently and besides, that is NOT their decision – they have simply been requested to allow an advert to go up and not to play project manager in humanitarian aid distribution.

Moreover, they are not acting impartially by not allowing the appeal to be shown, they are actually showing their support for the murderous Israeli regime because that is exactly what Israel would have wanted.

We should not be surprised, they have a history of supporting Israel, the BBC refused the appeal in 2006 when Israel bombed Lebanon to smithereens and slaughtered over 1000 women and children.

The people at DEC are rightfully stunned at this, their spokesman said in a statement:

“We are totally apolitical … this appeal is a response to humanitarian principles. The BBC seems to be confusing impartiality with equal airtime.”

Sky and ITV have just no backbone either and we should all be absolutely appalled at their capitulation also.  However, I reserve the right to be more angry at the BBC because I pay the £140 tax each year and therefore deserve a much better service,.

People are dying, it is as simple as that, and the BBC refuse to assist them in their moment of need because of what?  A little Israeli word in their ear most likely.

The appeal needs to be spread via social media, here is Islamic Relief’s Gaza appeal

A short message to you from an Islamic Relief worker in Gaza

This is a picture of the famous Gharqad tree (or Boxthorn tree in English) that will not speak out to the Muslim in the battles towards the end of time with the Jews.

Our Prophet Muhammad said in a famous hadith:

“Judgment Day will come only when the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them, until the Jew hides behind the tree and the stone, and the tree and the stone say: ‘Oh Muslim, oh servant of Allah , there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him’ – except for the Gharqad tree.”

I found an interesting transcription of a conversation about this hadith that I thought I would share with you:

Khaled Al-Qudha: The decisive battle between the Jews and us will take place on the Jordan River, Allah willing. This is inevitable. This is a hadith of the Prophet, who does not talk idly.

Host: Did the hadith relate to the battle’s outcome as well?

Khaled Al-Qudha: Of course. “Until the Jew hides…” – because, as is well known, the Jews only fight from behind walls, when they are hiding. They don’t fight face to face. That’s why the tree and the stone will talk and say things.

Host: The hadith says: “The Muslims will kill them…” So this will be a victory of the Muslims.

Khaled Al-Qudha: Yes, and an overwhelming defeat for all the Jews, Allah willing. And this is not at all difficult for Allah .

This battle will take place. It is inevitable. Even if we go to Oslo, and so on, the battle must take place. The Jews know this, and that’s why they plant a lot of Gharqad trees. They know the hadith.

‘Ali Al-Faqir: They surround their settlements with Gharqad trees.

That explains all those Gharqad trees, but what of the stones and trees talking? Is this to be interpreted literally?

‘Ali Al-Faqir: One may ask: “How can a tree possibly talk? The hadith means that we should fight them with sticks and stones.” This is not true. We either accept these things as fact or as a metaphor. If you cannot accept it as a fact then it’s a metaphor. As long as it is impossible to accept the facts…

But brothers, the Prophet has told us that the time will come when man will talk without using his voice – the cell-phone, the cordless phone. This cordless phone – where did it come from? From the earth. Plastic comes from petroleum. The wires, the iron, and the copper – where do they come from? From the earth. Furthermore, some communication devices are now made of wood. It is not impossible that “the tree and the stone will speak” refers to the advanced scientific instruments that warn you about people. Today you have, for example, early warning stations in Sinai. Early warning stations exist in the Golan. They give the Israelites information about the other side’s movements.

Host: Sir, this is if we interpret (the hadith) metaphorically. But isn’t it possible that the tree and stone will actually talk? That the tree itself will talk, and the stone itself will talk?

‘Ali Al-Faqir: Sir, it has been proven scientifically that the trees and the stones have languages of their own. But we don’t have the ability to invent the instruments that will convey the tree’s voice and the stone’s voice to us.

Science has progressed so much that there are instruments that are placed in gardens. The plant produces certain waves, which are received by the instrument, and the plant says: “I am thirsty, water me, I am sick, heal me.”

……

It would be a very interesting study to see how many of these trees have been planted in Occupied Palestine by the Yahood.

Allah says

3:118 : O ye who believe! Take not into your intimacy those outside your ranks: They will not fail to corrupt you. They only desire your ruin: Rank hatred has already appeared from their mouths: What their hearts conceal is far worse. We have made plain to you the Signs, if ye have wisdom.

Below are scenes of a pro Israeli march organized by UJA-Federation of New York and the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York.  What we see is a bunch of apparantly respectable people but with such a large amount of hatred enspired filth upon their tongues, who openly and with much vigour support the heinous crimes Israel have comitted in Gaza.

Some go even further and say “they all need to be wiped out” and “what would be wrong with just wiping Gaza from the map…?”

If these words came from the mouths of Muslims here in the UK or elsewhere they would have been arrested and detained, no doubt.

May Allah bless the Palestinians, give them courage and strength and victory over these filthy oppressors.  Amin

George Galloway has a new show called Comment on Press TV.  Press TV is fast becoming a very influential and popular news service and certainly a news service that is far superior to the terribly bias BBC and CNN in its coverage of the crimes committed in Gaza.

The very popular “The Agenda” show, hosted by sister Yvonne Ridley on the Islam Channel, has now moved to Press TV which has now certainly increased it is its viewer ratings.

In this episode of Comment on Press TV, George Galloway dedicates the show to the war on Gaza and explains the context very well, he doesn’t pull any punches either, he says it how it is.

Click here to see more

If you don’t watch Press TV yet, its time to tune in…(sky 515)

There is an online petition at the Number 10 website, it reads:

The biggest prize for the Zionists is to have their final temple built upon the grounds of Masjid Al-Aqsa and they will do anything to get it.  This is their end game, and this is what they are striving for at this very moment.  We may not understand their logic but they have one and they are determined see through their plan.

The Zionist have a phrase:  “There is no meaning to the Jewish people without the State of Israel and there is no meaning to the State of Israel without Jerusalem and there is no meaning to Jerusalem without the Temple Mount”

So, everything boils down to the building of their third temple, everything.  Plans have already been drawn up for its construction, the interior, even the patterns on the curtains, it’s all there – they just need a reason to begin.

The following talk by Shaykh ul Hadith Abu Yusuf Riyadh ul Haq is extremely important for us in that it allows us to fully understand the Zionist plan, their plots, their nature and the importance of Masjid al-Aqsa in Islam and how we should feel and behave towards it.  It is an even more important lecture considering our present condition in Occupied Palestine.  A must listen.

Masjid Al Aqsa in danger: Part 1

Masjid Al Aqsa in danger: Part 2

By Jawad Harb

Jawad Harb is a Palestinian living in Rafah, Gaza, with his wife and six children. Harb has worked with CARE since 2002, managing a program supporting women’s centers in Gaza. Since the Israeli attacks began Dec. 27, Harb’s program has stopped operating because of the constant bombing.

He writes:

My child just started crying – she just heard on the news that Israel will start bombing our neighbourhood, because there are allegedly insurgents living here. She has been having nightmares that our house will be totally destroyed, and our family will die under it. She has seen the photos of other destroyed homes on TV.

She said to me, “Dad, if they bomb us, where are we going to go? What do we do? All the houses are targeted. We can’t even run.”

I didn’t have an answer. My brain is totally paralyzed. I have a masters degree in psychology, but I have no idea how to counsel my own family.

For 10 days, the bombs have been falling. The nearest one destroyed a home 300 metres from where we live. My 12-year-old son is becoming an expert at pinpointing the distance of the bombs: “That one was 500 metres away, to the north,” he says to me. He is always right. But this is not the kind of expertise I want my child to have.

I can’t really describe what my children are feeling. They burst out crying when it is dark and cold, at night when we listen to the bombs like thunder.

We live in Rafah, about 500 meters from the border with Egypt. There are tunnels to Egypt nearby, which people use to smuggle food and supplies. So the bombing has been heavy here. Israel is trying to destroy the tunnels.

We don’t have any bread. No fruit, no vegetables, no milk. The last time I ate meat was nine days ago, bought in the market. The market is closed now. There is no more food coming through the tunnels. We have just rice and macaroni for the children. We have no stocks. No biscuits for my children, like they used to eat. We survive, just.

This is the third day without electricity. We used to get electricity for three hours a day, but that stopped with the Israeli ground troops came in. My wife has to go out with the other women to find firewood because we have no electricity to cook. We have a three day supply of cooking fuel, but we are saving it for an emergency.

The water is almost gone. We hope we will get more tomorrow. Without electricity, the water pump doesn’t work. I have a generator that we use a couple of hours a day, to watch the news, charge our mobile phones, and try to work. But the generator is not strong enough to run the water pump. I bought 10 days’ worth of fuel, and it is almost gone.

We ran out of drinking water last night, so my nephew and I went out to the desalination station one kilometre away. We know there are bombs falling, but we can’t live without water. We had to carry the 20-litre containers on our shoulders, because there is no transport. On our way home, a bomb fell nearby and we dropped the containers to take shelter – but we couldn’t leave the water behind. But it is hard to run with a 20-litre container.

We fear everything. Every day, every sound. The children in my neighbourhood – and my kids – are not hoping to live. They don’t think they will live. Instead, they are waiting to die, waiting for the bomb to fall. And they are asking me when it will happen.