Khalid Zaman

VIEWPOINT

I feel that it has to be said that many of our Brothers have found your magazine "Signs" to be quite offensive to those who believe in Hadith, for example in your recent edition March 1997 Issue No. 13 on page 6 you state the following, "This is not the only time that the 'SATANIC' Bukhari casts an evil slur on women".

If "Signs" main objective is to attract a wider audience of readers it would be advisable for you to deliver a more intellectual and scholarly approach in spreading your ideas and concepts.

I feel that you should adopt a careful approach in presenting certain Hadith that are not in accordance with the Quran. Although one is well aware that Bukhari collected some, Hadith which can in no way be attributed to prophet Muhammad.

However some of the Hadith, Bukhari complied were not in conflict with the Quran and can be regarded as reliable historical evidence.

Allama G A Parwez called those Hadith which coincided with the Holy Quran as, "SACH-CHE-MOTTI".

It had also been noted that you have called the act of hugging and embracing each other a, "queer habit", which the Tablighi people seem to like. Surprisingly it was not only the Tablighi people who seemed to participate in this, "queer habit", but history bears witness that Prophet Muhammad and his Jam'at-ul-Momineen acted in this brotherhood manner. And so it is truly an Islamic act, which Muslims do. Although I do believe you are against homosexuality no doubt, this act is truly not a homosexual one but is an act of true brotherhood which has been practised for centuries.

It has also been noted that on the same page of your magazine under "Laughing matters!" You have included a piece of deplorable humour. How can anyone who is supposedly educated thoroughly enough in Islam to produce literature on Quranic topics fail to denote that all prophets enter Jannat. If Ricky does find Noah in hell it would be totally against the Holy Quran. Humourising prophecies are blasphemous and should be ridiculed as the work of Salman Rushdie!
 
 

Unity is one of the most important factors in Islam

Muslims have been massacred throughout the world and the power of Islam has been lost which the Prophet Muhammed and his companions devoted their whole life to maintain. Unity is one of the most important factors in Islam and until unity is gained our Brothers and Sisters will he continuously massacred. One only has to look as far as Bosnia to see the harsh realities when Serb soldiers were ordered to rape and sexually assault Muslim women as part of a brutal "ethnic cleansing" campaign during the Bosnian war. Serb soldiers not only impregnated Muslim women, but also shamed and humiliated their victims with degrading public sexual violence that they and their communities were forced to flee. Sexual atrocities were particularly horrific in Foca, in southeast Bosnia where women, children and the elderly were held in houses and apartments run as brothels by paramilitary.

One can see similar atrocities are being cormmitted in occupied Kashmir by Indian troops on young women and innocent children. Similarly many youths have lost their lives in the pursuit of revolting oppression from their lands, such as Palestine.

It is therefore the up most responsibility to every Muslim to unite and deal with such inhumane, humiliating and catastrophic of violation of Human Rights. Muslims should be in the pursuit in the political power of Islam and put our theological differences aside.

If Capitalism and Communism can place their differences aside to demobilise the power of Islam, surly Muslims should try to put their theological battles aside and try to rekindle the power of Islam.

My intentions are not to insult your credibility in any particular way. My enemies are those who violate the Commandments of Allah and spread mischief and kuffar in the earth and divide humanity into sectarianism and deprive humanity of the blessed things ordained by Allah. "Those who reject the divine order are the friends of one another. If you do not act against them as directed by Allah, there will be fit'na and fas'ad in the land". (8:73)

MAFHUM AL-QURAN - By Late Allahma Ghulam Ahmed Parwez.