Maulana Tariq Jameel's talk

Notes: Maulana Tariq Jameel's talk

Assalamu Alaikum WaRahmatullah

Alhamdulillah had the privelege of listening to a bayan by Maulana Tariq Jameel(May Allah reward him greatly) live; and am posting some of what i remember from the talk, which was, mashallah very inspiring.

Maulana started off by relating the power of Allah, and how he is the greatest, all seeing.
If Allah had wished so, he would have made the entire creation obedient to him, following every command of his. Lekin Allah ne humko ikhtiyar diya hain; he has shown us the right, straight path, then given us the choice
Islam
or
kufr.
Every part of us has a choice; with our eyes we can either see good, or view the haram. With our ears we can either hear music, or listen to the recitation of the quran. If we sin now, he will say nothing. But to the disobedient, let them know that Allah is not asleep, he see's and hears everything.

In the darkness, jet darkness of night, in the blackness imagine thousands of jet black ants travelling along a mountain. of those tiny, tiny miniscule ants, Allah can even see its undefinable footprints; Allah us ke paw ka nishaan dekh sakte hain.

He mentioned the beauty, the importance of Iman. Maulana outlined how beloved a heart full of Imaan is in the sight of Allah, to the extent that it is more beloved to Him than the ka'aba itself.Ka'aba ko torna chota ghuna, awr imaan waley ka dil torna bohot bara ghuna hain. i.e it is a lesser sin to break the kaba, than break the heart of a Muslim with imaan.

Maulana mentioned how we are ever concious of keeping our homes bright and well lit, and do not care that the light bulbs in our hearts have been dead for so many years. if a light bulb in our homes goes out, we rush to bring the light back, but our hearts are devoid of noor and we are'nt worried about bringing back the noor of imaan in our hearts. (noor=imaan.)
We beautify ourselves for others; wear make up and dress up to the nines to impress our friends and others, decorate our homes to impress and awe people, but we don''t beautify ourselves for Allah? What about beautifying ourselves for Him who will never leave us? It is the age when through a small mistake of the mother, the young person will create a huge fuss, and not remember, that THIS is the woman who gave birth to me? a woman can cook everyday for her husband, but one day of neglect and he will be harsh. Maulana said why do we sacrifice our Iman for people who treat us like this, we should direct our love towards Allah as his love for his servants has no bounds.

He talked about our prophet Muhammad peace be upon, how much he went through, and how we don't care in the face of that. He was the only prophet when he cried, Allah sent Jibrael down to ask, oh my Prophet, why do you cry? On one such occasion, our Prophet cried to such an extent that jibrael was sent to ask the reason why he cried so. He S.A.W: replied, i am worried about my ummah. Ummati, ummati. Hadhrat Aisha once asked him to make dua for her, and he peace be upon him prayed to Allah to forgive her past sins, her future sins, and to grant her jannah. she showed great happiness, and when he asked her why, she replied she was so happy at his making this dua for her.
To which he replied, but i make this dua for my ummah everyday.

The Prophet peace be upon him went through so much, the Maulana related. at the tender age of 6 his mother passed away, on the way back to makkah with the prophet, and her maidservant, umm ayman. Maulana said he visited this place when Amina (r.a) is buried, and he says even now there is no civilization near that place. a small, dark overgrown place with short, dark mountains. Imagine a small boy of 6, losing his mother, leaving her behind in such a place.

Our prophet peace be upon him was ma'sum, innocent. He was Allah's beloved. His worry for this ummah-us- was never ending. When he became ill, and the fever overcame him, he made hadhrat abu bakr lead the maj'maa and prayed behind him. one day, he faced his congregation, this great prophet innocent of sins, and asked his companions forgiveness, and that if he had ever hurt anyone in any way, for them to take revenge. he was innocent, yet he was scared that someone would complain to Allah regards him. subhanAllah.
When he was on his death bed, Allah sent the angel of death and he peace be upon him was given the choice of passing away, or living. The prophet before anything asked jibrael to go back to Allah and say, what of my Ummah, what of my ummah. Jibrael asked, and relayed to the prophet what Allah said, ' do not worry' i will not abandon your ummah.' when the Prophet passed away, this was the greatest 'sadma', or most saddening thing to happen. Maulana said it was this dua of the prophet, that has saved us, if it hadn't been for our beloved prophet's worry for us, where would we be today.

Ibaadat deen ka bunyad hain, awr akhlaq us ka chat hain; worship is the foundation of deen, and good character is the roof of deen. without the roof, all kinds of sicknessess can get in. Good character is so important for our Imaan. Today, the sickness of gheebah has not left anybody untouched, no man woman or even aalim. As mentioned, it is a great sin to break the heart of the believer. If we clean our hearts, then we will be true Muslims. Excellent character is one of the completions of iman, if we have excellent character, we are beloved in the eyes of Allah who doesn't care how wealthy we are, or what we look like, or what we wear.

Maulana mentioned around the beginning of his talk, a great woman of Islam. Asiya, the wife of firawn. He said that beautiful people with beautiful homes etc, once thy are buried, are forgotten. But this great lady, who died for Islam, she lives on in the best of books, the Qur'an. Nails were hammered into her body, her skin was peeled off but she remained in iman. when she was hung, she made an amazing dua to Allah; along the lines of ; Oh Allah, i do not know if i can take more of this torture. i ask for protection from firawn. Oh Allah please be mine.' after which she made dua for jannah. amazing, she made dua to Allah first, for her to be him, i.e accepted, before asking for jannah. it is said that when she made dua, she was shown jannah and she died laughing. to which firawn said asiya has gone majnoon, she is laughing as she dies. when in reality she laughed because she was shown jannah. and she will be the wife of our prophet peace be upon him in jannah.we women can't compete with such a great lady, but we should follow her example, strive, and live and die for Allah, nobody else.
Maulana also mentioned that we have no excuse not to be deeni muslims, our excuses of ' oh my child prevented me from praying' our tiny excuses; we will ashamed to voice them in front of Allah when Asiya stood firm whilst being tortured in the most awful ways possible.
we cannot say, we lived in a non Muslim country, we couldn't do this. We have the ability to follow Allah's commands and those of his beloved wherever we are, in pakistan or hindustan or europe. As he said, Abdullah bin ubay lived in madina, in the presence of the Prophet peace be upon him, yet he was the greatest of munafiqs.so it matters not where one lives, but it does matter if we obey Allah or not.

did you know about quran

Since then, more than fourteen hundred years have passed, and nobody has been able to meet the challenge, and nobody will, because the Qur’an is the only existing book containing the word of Allah which no man can match or imitate. The most eloquent people in the Arabic language spent years going over and searching the Qur’an, trying to find any weak or inadequate word or sentence, but they could not. They even went further, trying to find a way to substitute a word or a sentence in the Qur’an, hoping to convey a similar meaning as the original one, but they failed to do so.

As a result of this, many people, especially linguists, throughout the last fourteen hundred years believed in the Qur’an as a revelation beyond any human capacity.

The Muslim Challenge to Nationalism…surveys showed majority support for a new Caliphate in some large Muslim countries…

Islam is at war with the nation-state. Evidence for this assertion is mounting, as pan-Islamic movements exploit a widespread view among Muslims that their national boundaries are foreign impositions. This belief, however, has gained little traction or sympathy outside the Muslim world. The administration of US President Barack Obama has joined hands with rival powers in Russia and China to enforce the national system in Western and Central Asia, repudiating those Muslims who see their future within a single, post-national superstate—an Islamic Caliphate.

Keep Your Countries

There is plenty of evidence that the world’s Muslims do not take the nation-state for granted. WorldPublicOpinion.org, supported by the University of Maryland, has run two sets of surveys in Muslim-majority countries to gauge public opinion of geopolitical affairs. The most recent poll, “Public Opinion in the Islamic World on Terrorism, al Qaeda, and U.S. Policies”, published in February 2009, produced much the same results as the first one two years earlier.

Both surveys showed majority support for a new Caliphate in some large Muslim countries. According to the latest survey, 70 percent of Egyptians believe Egypt should be erased in favour of a superstate. Sixty-nine percent of Pakistanis agreed that their country should be dissolved in a similar fashion while, according to the 2006 survey, 67 percent of Moroccans felt likewise. Indonesians, far-flung from the centre of Islamic geography and never a party to historical Caliphates, mostly rejected the idea (although 35 percent did not).

Respondents tended to view the system of nation-states as a foreign conspiracy designed to weaken and divide Muslims. Large majorities in every country polled (Egypt, Indonesia, Turkey, Pakistan, Morocco, Palestine, Iran, and Azerbaijan) cited “weaken and divide” as the main policy goal of the United States in the Muslim world. There was even greater unanimity as to why the U.S. sought this weakness and division: control over oil. This belief was “so widespread as to be consensual,” according to the report’s authors.

Few respondents believed that the U.S. genuinely supports democracy. Large majorities concluded either that the U.S. actively opposes free elections in their countries (especially respondents in Jordan and Egypt), or that the U.S. seeks democracy only when it is likely to result in a cooperative government.

The Eastern Angle

The survey was not entirely comprehensive. It could not sample, for instance, the opinions of the Muslims who inhabit the vast steppes of Central Asia, including the Uighurs of western China. However, it is fair to assume support for a Caliphate would also be strong in those countries, for two reasons. First, the region is a central theatre of operations for Hizb ut-Tahrir (HuT), the world’s largest pro-Caliphate movement. Secondly, regional governments are sufficiently worried by HuT’s activities to have forged a multilateral response.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) unites Russia and China with the Central Asian republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. The group was created to combat what it called the “Three Evils” of terrorism, separatism, and religious extremism. Put simply, the SCO enlists the vast military might of China and Russia to preserve Central Asia’s nation-states against any form of revolution or dissolution. Islamist groups are the main object of suspicion, followed by the U.S.

Four years ago the SCO faced its biggest threat. In early 2005 Kyrgyzstan overthrew its government in what became known as the “Tulip Revolution”. This was swiftly followed by an uprising in the Uzbekistani town of Andijan, which ended with the protesters being gunned down in their hundreds by security forces. Two months after that, the SCO demanded that the U.S. set a timetable for removing its military bases from Central Asia.

The thread linking these events was a belief in Moscow and Beijing that the U.S. had found common cause with the pan-Islamic movement. The “color revolutions” sweeping the world at the time were orchestrated by U.S.-based NGOs, and they tended to install pro-U.S. governments. In Central Asia, the theory went, these NGOs worked in harness with HuT in order to remove SCO-friendly governments and install U.S. proxies. These proxies would give the United States access to the region’s vast natural resources, as well as unfettered military access. The Uzbek government claimed that those killed at Andijan were HuT agitators.

Such suspicions were heightened by the fact that HuT is based not in Peshawar or Ramallah, but in London. The British government has refused to ban the organization which, although non-violent, espouses radical and anti-Jewish beliefs in dozens of countries around the globe. A conviction began to form in SCO capitals that the U.S. and its British allies were exploiting their military presence in Afghanistan, supported by U.S. bases in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, to sew the seeds of revolt across Central Asia. It was this belief that caused the SCO to demand a timetable exit for U.S. forces based in the region in July 2005.

Change in the Air

Afghanistan has long been Central Asia’s Achilles Heel. Under Taliban rule it became a safe-haven for numerous Central Asian militant groups such as the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), which fights to liberate China’s Uighur Muslims and to forge a pan-regional Islamic superstate. Even now, after eight years of war, such groups continue to coexist with the Taliban forces based along the Afghan-Pakistani frontier.

In the first months of the Obama administration, it appears that the wedge of mutual suspicion dividing NATO in Afghanistan from the SCO in Central Asia is beginning to give way to a united defense of the nation-state in Central Asia. Two recent developments bore the hallmarks of a deal.

First, on 27 March 2009, the SCO convened in Moscow for a summit on Afghanistan. Its members agreed that the spread of terrorism and powerful narcotics from Afghanistan posed a threat to SCO members. The group offered to exchange counter-terrorism and counter-narcotics intelligence with NATO forces and to harden security along national borders.

Crucially, the SCO also offered to integrate Afghanistan into its counter-terrorism structure. This has a strong military component. If evidence were needed as to what preoccupies SCO military thinkers, in April 2009 SCO forces held joint military exercises in Tajikistan. The training scenario was that Islamic militants had entered from Afghanistan and captured a chemical factory.

The US response to these offers was extremely guarded. American relations with individual SCO members are variable, particularly in the case of Russia. U.S. relations with China are more reliable: two weeks after the summit Obama’s special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, arrived in Beijing for talks.

A few days after that, the U.S. gave in to a longstanding Chinese demand. It announced that the East Turkestan Islamic Party (ETIP), which China says is just a front for the terrorist ETIM, would be added to the U.S. list of organizations that support al-Qaeda. ETIP’s assets would be frozen, as would those of its leadership.

It should be noted that ETIP survived the Bush administration without such sanctions being applied, regardless of pressure from China. Instead, Bush tended to focus on China’s denial of religious rights to the Uighurs, and was a support of the exiled Uighur figurehead Rebiya Kadeer. China’s foreign ministry welcomed the change of approach, which it said was a step forward in the “international anti-terrorism struggle”. Such internationalism is consistent with the Obama administration’s stated foreign strategy.

It is also consistent with the HuT’s world view. Speaking to the Diplomatic Courier in London, Taji Mustafa, the media representative for Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain, said the SCO’s rhetoric on terrorism “has become a cover for SCO member states to aggressively persecute their political opponents, independent Muslims and those opposed to their policies… SCO member states have also played up the fact that this is their part in the West’s so-called war on terror”.

He added: “The Obama administration—like other U.S. administrations—will always look out for America’s geopolitical interests first and foremost whatever lofty slogans are banded about regarding ‘human rights’ and ‘religious freedoms’. Proof of this includes U.S. re-engagement with the brutal Karimov regime [in Uzbekistan], engagement with other Central Asian regimes in a push to secure alternative supply routes to its forces in Afghanistan, and continued engagement with China, especially during the current global economic crisis, with hardly any criticism of China’s treatment of its religious minorities in western China.”

The HuT seems to be winning the argument where it matters most. A great many Muslims appear to view their cartographical boundaries not as the legal delimitations of free nations, but as an iron grid imposed by departing colonial powers and now enforced by the United States through unelected proxy governments. One upshot of this belief was that large majorities polled by WorldPublicOpinion.org voiced approval of terrorist attacks on U.S. forces based in Muslim lands—though not of attacks on civilians.

However, there is now very little sign that the world’s most powerful nations—those represented in the UN Security Council—are prepared to allow Muslims to experiment with their own sovereign identity. Rather, the Obama administration prefers the tactical advantages of a compliant China to resolve the impasse in Afghanistan. This “realist” approach does not take a view on the political and religious repression needed to maintain the current network of Muslim nation-states, or whether this repression will inevitably translate into extremist violence directed at U.S. soldiers and civilians.

The Beautiful Historical Buildings in Lahore Pakistan

The Beautiful Historical Buildings in Lahore

Lahore Fort


Alamgiri Gate Lahore Fort


Allama Iqbal International Airport, Lahore (notice the Mughal architecture)


Allama Iqbal's Tomb, Lahore


Anarkali's Tomb, Lahore


Chauburji, monoment in Lahore built around 1646 AD by Zebinda Begum or Princess Zeb-un-Nissa, daughter of the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb Alamgir.


Food Street, Lahore


Gurdwara Dera Sahib Panjvin Patshahi, Sikhs' holy shrine, in Lahore


Minar-e-Pakistan, Lahore


Minar-e-Pakistan, Lahore


Entrance of Mughal emperor Jahangir's Tomb, Lahore

Mughal emperor Jahangir's Tomb, Lahore


Regal Church, Lahore


The historical Shalimar Gardens, Lahore


The Lahore Museum


The Mughal Empress Noor Jahan's Tomb, Lahore


The Mughal Empress Noor Jahan's Tomb, Lahore


The Punjab University, Old campus building, in Lahore


Wazir Khan Mosque in Lahore, In 1866 water colour by William Carpenter

Name of Allah every where

BUTIFUL NAMES OF aLLAH EVERY WHERE IN THIS WORLD

Melon

Ant house

Name Of Allah In Arabic Language Found In A Cantaloupe Fruit By Chance

Brinjal

Cactus tree

Apple

Egg

Trees

Allah's name written by the Bees

Image from outer space (taken by NASA) , Allah's name as a wave in a sea

Allah's Name in bean

This picture of cloud taken in Mecca

Name of Allah in Tsunami wave

Tomato

Photograph courtesy NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI)

Nebula Star

"When the sky is rent asunder, and it becomes red like ointment." [Al Quraan : Surah Ar Rahmaan - Verse 37]

This aurora in Alaska shows Allah's (swt) beautiful name.



A tree like someone Ruku' in solah (prayer)

Stone like someone prostrate (in prayer)



Directing forefinger at the end of muslim prayer

These all just what was recorded by cameras and going publicity, but there are lots more that was not recorded and still mystery out there. And Allah is The Al Knowing .......