Thank you Mr. Mbye Jabang, for a pice worth keeping in mind.
May Allah reward you.
>From: Momodou Mbye Jabang <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Fwd: The Millennium Craze: Where Will You Be?
>Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 09:17:17 +0800
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> With the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful, Bestower Of Mercy
> Guest Editorial
> The Millennium Craze: Where Will You Be?
>
> Editor's
> Word
>
> Volume 3, Issue 12 Sha'baan 1420 (December 1999)
>
>
>Assalaamu alaikum,
>
>Alhamdulillah and here is an important Y2K admonition from
>www.alharamain.org
>Party-revelers and fun-makers can hardly contain themselves as they wait
>for the final hour to dawn to celebrate the party of all parties in the
>most unusual of ways. Preparations for the great millennium bash have been
>underway for months in advance and the people of this planet want to
>celebrate it in a big, big way. Every capital of the world is vying with
>the other to offer the best in millennium reveling and celebrations.
>London has constructed the massive Millennium Dome. Airlines are offering
>crazy schedules to people wishing to see the 'arrival' of the Millennium
>in three continents in one day! Others want to be the first to see the new
>millennium arrive - flying to remote Pacific Islands in the East to do
>that!
>
>Our thoughts, conversations, plans and even our commercial activities seem
>to be overtaken by and dictated to by the millennium madness. Do we really
>need to give prominence to this event just because it is hyped-up to the
>point of hysteria by the media?
>
>The dates of the millennium coincide with Ramadhaan 1420. What a
>remarkable coincidence and a blessing in disguise for Muslims! Allah
>Ta'ala has been very kind and merciful to the weaklings of the Muslim
>Ummah. Knowing fully well the temptations that many would have faced to
>join in the fun and transgression, it is His sheer mercy that the advent
>of Ramadhaan would come at that time, and serve as a major deterrent from
>evil and sin, Insha-Allah.
>
>Ramadhaan itself, the state of fasting, the acts of Ibaadah and the
>chaining of the rebellious Shaitaans are all factors that will help the
>Muslim Ummah to stay on course. There is a not so remote a possibility
>that the eve of the millennium may even coincide with the 23 night of
>Ramadhaan; one of the possible nights for "Laylatul-Qadr" and also a time
>for I'tikaaf for many.
>
>No Muslim in his right mind would give up such a beautiful opportunity of
>catching 'Laylatul-Qadr' (83 years and 4 months of Ibadaah), much less for
>a silly bash or party or just to go or sit around viewing people doing so!
>
>An appeal is directed to all Muslims to allow sense to prevail. Please take
>care to distance yourselves and your children from the ways of modern
>Jahiliyya on this occasion. Respect the sanctity of Ramadhaan. It is going
>to be the final nights of Ramadhaan. Respect these holy nights and please
>do not switch on the TV to view the heedless ones drowning themselves in
>the disobedience of their Maker and Creator! You may be counted among
>them, if you do so!
>
>Millennium celebrations could invite the wrath and Adhaab (punishment) of
>Allah Ta'ala. Would you like to be caught at the 'wrong' place when the
>unannounced Adhaab of Almighty Allah may come down or would you rather
>prefer to be in the safe sanctuary of a House of Allah or engaged in your
>devotions of Ramadhaan at home? O Muslim friend, it's your choice.
>
>Allahumma salli wasallim alaa Nabiyyina Muhammad. Wasalaam.
>Modou Mbye
>
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