Posted on 01/08/2010 10:20:13 PM PST by spyone
Date: January 8, 2010
ISCC affiliated Imams Issue Important Fatwa
Attack on Canada and the United States is Attack on Muslims Over 10 million Muslims Live in North America
Calgary) Twenty Imams affiliated with the Islamic Supreme Council of Canada have issued a Fatwa today declaring the attacks on Canada and the United States by any extremist will be the attack on 10 million Muslims living in North America. This is the first Fatwa by the Muslim clergy declaring attacks on Canada and the United States as attack on Muslims. Following is the text of the Fatwa.
FATWA (religious edict)
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
We, the undersigned Imams, are issuing the following Fatwa in order to guide the Muslims of North America regarding the attacks on Canada and the United States by the terrorists and the extremists. In our view, these attacks are evil and Islam requires from Muslims to stand up against this evil. In the holy Qur’an Almighty Allah orders Muslims,
"Let there among you be a group that summon to all that is beneficial commands what is proper and forbids what is improper; they are the ones who will prosper." (3:104)
"Believing men and believing women are protecting friends of one another; they enjoin what is right and forbid what is wrong; they perform salat and give zakat..." (9:71)
"Those who, if We establish them in the land (with authority), establish regular prayers and practice regular charity and enjoin the right and forbid the wrong..." (22:41)
Our beloved Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said in a Hadith;
"When people see a wrong-doer and do nothing to stop him, they may well be visited by God with a punishment."
Therefore, it is an obligation upon us (Imams) to inform all Muslims around the world that Muslims in Canada and the United States have complete freedom to practice Islam. There is no single city in Canada and the United States where MASAJIDS (Mosques) are not built. In all major cities Islamic schools provide education to Muslim children about Qur’an and the Islamic traditions. Thousands of Muslims perform Hajj every year and travel to Saudi Arabia with complete freedom and respect. In the month of Ramadan, both Canadian and the United States governments recognize the occasion and greet all Muslim citizens. Muslims pray five daily prayers in mosques without any fear or restrictions. Muslims have complete freedom to pay Zakat (poor due) to the charity or a person of their choice. Muslims have complete freedom to celebrate their festivals openly, publicly and Islamically. Muslims enjoy freedom of religion just like Christians, Jews and others. No one stops us from obeying Allah and His Messenger (Peace be upon him). No one stops us from preaching Islam and practicing Islam. In many cases, Muslims have more freedom to practice Islam here in Canada and the United States than many Muslim countries.
In fact, the constitutions of the United States and Canada are very close to the Islamic guiding principles of human rights and freedom. There is no conflict between the Islamic values of freedom and justice and the Canadian /US values of freedom and justice.
Therefore, any attack on Canada and the United States is an attack on the freedom of Canadian and American Muslims. Any attack on Canada and the United States is an attack on thousands of mosques across North America. It is a duty of every Canadian and American Muslim to safeguard Canada and the USA. They must expose any person, Muslim OR non-Muslim, who would cause harm to fellow Canadians OR Americans. We, Canadian and American Muslims, must condemn and stand up against these attacks on Canada and the United States.
May Allah save Canada, the United States and the entire world from the evil of wrong doers. Ameen.
Signed by:
Prof. Imam Syed B. Soharwardy - Calgary Allama Imam Ghalib Hussain Chishty - Calgary Allama Imam Syed Mukhtar Naeemi – Houston, USA Allama Imam Muhammad Nasir Qadri - Montreal Allama Imam Abdul Latif No’mani - Vancouver Imam Hafiz Muhammad Zarif Naeemi - Calgary Imam Nizamuddin Sayed Qadri - Calgary Imam Qazi Bashiruddin Qadri - Hamilton Imam Osman Qazi - Toronto Imam Saeed Ahmed Saifee - Toronto Alimah Hafizah Sister Zaheera Tariq - Calgary Imam Ayaz Khan Qadri - Calgary Alimah Sister Fatimah Zohra - Toronto Imam Shahid Bashir Lahori - Calgary Imam Hafiz Intizar Ahmed Qadri - Montreal Imam Sayed Sajid Qadri – Calgary Imam Arif Mahmood Naqshbandi - Calgary Imam Muhammad Anees Siddiqui – Calgary Sister Shahana Kamil – Mississauga Mr. Mushtaq Khan - Mississauga
Today, January 8, 2010, Calgary Imams will be available at the Al Madinah Calgary Islamic Centre, 5700 Falsbridge Dr. NE at 2:00 PM to explain the Fatwa and answer any questions. The other Imams will be speaking about this Fatwa in their Friday sermons.
For further questions, please contact Imam Syed Soharwardy at 403-831-6330 OR email, contact@islamicsupremecouncil.com. Thanks
Maybe maybe not.
That’s another possibility. The Imams may know it and are afraid of how it will impact them.
Hmmm. Muslims can be deceptive, but so can westerners. WE all do it, but they excuse it. We deny it.
I’m just saying it APPEARS to be a positive step.
But we should always keep our powder dry.
I probably know more about Islam than you do.
Check my prior posts on it.
If something positive appears, check it out, but keep your powder dry.
Please read the Sunnahs and Hadiths. That is the way Islam works. Else stick to the western interpetation of Islam and never understand what or who the ememy is, let alone name the ememy. Islam is an extreme political movement with religious trappings - nothing more.
The authority of Allah is absolute. Cannot be usurped. Cannot be modified. Individualism, freedom do not exist within Islam. Allah controls everything that happens down to the subatomic level and beyond - everything. The authority of Allah is absolute.
The problem these Islamists have is axiomatic truth that in America their people also have the freedom to leave Islam!
I’m with you - its a good sign - unless its just a CYA for a known upcoming attack to prevent a local (USA) backlash ... have to wait and see - similiar statements from imams world-wide would be helpful. ;-)
Sorry, but you’re misinformed. Grand Mufti’s are not equivalent to a Pope, but nice try.
The fellow pictured with Adolph Hitler was the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, by the way. Both were extreme Jew haters.
Lying Imam’s “Fatwa Against Terrorism” Exposed!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2425226/posts?page=1
“The authority of Allah is absolute.”
However corrupted by extremists who take it upon themselves to “martyr” other muslims who are not of the extreme?
Geez, I can just imagine how utterly insane it all must seem to clean-living, family-valued, law-abiding atheists who were born in the USA.
Finally! I knew there were good Muslims, but their leadership has yet to speak out against terrorists, UNTIL NOW. BRAVO.
The lack of a centralized Islamic authority, such as a Pope, is what makes dealing with Muslims so difficult. For Muslims, it is their religious books, and adherence to those books, that proscribe their lives and relation to a mosque and local religous leader.
There existed in the past powerful Muslim religous leaders located in large metropolitan centers such as Damascus, Cairo, Istanbul, or other Islamic cities, who would often go to war against one another in order to gain hegemony as ‘the most powerful Muslim spiritual leader’. Damascus held that position for a long time, even controlling events as far away in Spain for a long while.
Competition between these religous leaders was tough, but there has never been one official central encompassing religous leader for all of Islam world-wide. There is a group in Medina that is respected world-wide for its authority concerning Islamic law, and it has the final say on that subject. But Islam stretches from Morroco on the western shores of Africa all the way to New Guinea in the south Pacific and what sets it apart is that it is really so decentralized.
The Roman Catholic Pope, on the other hand, is in direct control of the Roman Catholic Church everywhere it exists: all priests, all nuns, all religous orders and over all laity.
There is no comparison.
I will join the NASCAR fatwah when they announce it.
“There is room for Islam i the west....”
Looks like you have sampled the kool-aid.
“Over 10 million live in North America?”
Well, at least in the United State, over 290 million don’t.
idk, but politics sometimes makes strange bedfellows.. don’t forget, that man in Iran that got cheated out of the election by Ahmanutjob was historically no great friend to America, but was a greater friend to freedom in Iran than the current regime.
In many cases, Muslims have more freedom to practice Islam here in Canada and the United States than many Muslim countries.
It's a reality seldom admitted.
Keep your powder dry and be ready to get the draw on ‘em.
Ok - but Mr. Pope only controls the Catholics - not the whole of Christiandom -— much like the aforesid Ali Gomaa.
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