Assalaamu alaikum G-L
Alhamdullilah, (praise be to Allah)
(There is no power and might except by Allah)
Thank you so much Mambuna Bojang for your forward message.
May Allah The Almighty pay you the reward for Jannah..Ameen!!
Allahummasalli alaa saidina Muhammadin wa alaa alli Muhammadin.
Samba Goddard
Folk, check this out!!! and try to make a copy
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From: Mambuna Bojang
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Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 3:40 PM
Subject: FWD: A LOOK AT OUR PLANET
Assalamailaikum
>I would like to share with you the following article. It has also appeared
>in the February's edition of the newsletter named The Muslim Voice
>published by the Muslim Student Association of the University of Toronto. I
>thank you for your time.
>_____________________________________________________________________
>A LOOK AT OUR PLANET
>by: Abubakar N. Kasim Toronto, Canada
>
>It makes one's feelings very pessimistic after observing and analyzing the
>situation of our planet.
>
>The past century has been the worst and bloodies century in the history of
>human kind. It has been filled with wars, human starvation, incurable and
>fatal diseases, natural disastrous such as earthquakes and hurricanes and
>other devastations, which have been terrifying mankind.
>
>On its editorials and opinion page dated December 30, 1999, the Toronto
>Star stated, "more than 120 million people perished in world wars,
>political persecution, genocide, or ideologically-engineered famine"
>
>Wars in Europe and Asia claimed the lives of approximately 10 million from
>1914 and 55 million from 1939. Six million Jews were massacred in the Nazi
>concentration camps. Lenin and Stalin executed or starved 30 million or
>more
>including Ukrainians, as the paper also indicates.
>
>Also, Khmer Rouge of Cambodia massacred 2 million. Mao's China killed 30
>million. Hutu extremists killed 800, 000. Serb extremists claimed 250, 000
>lives in Bosnia.
>
>And last but not least, Russia is waging a brutal war against a million
>Chechens and the war is still boiling.
>
>As a war ends on one corner of the globe, a new one erupts somewhere else.
>
>As Milosevic is washing his hands from the blood of innocent Kosovars,
>Yelsten and now Putin has started a new bloody war against Chechens and no
>one knows how it will end. It doesn't seem that the world will ever say a
>word to him especially after he and his predecessor claimed to be crushing
>"extremists" and "terrorists".
>
>The Ozone layer, which protects our planet from the sun's harmful
>radiation, is under threat from the excessive use of chemicals. Scientists
>have already reported its depletion over Antarctica. If it is destroyed,
>then we will have to look for another planet that could sustain us while
>there isn't one other than earth.
>
>The absence of democracy and true leadership in third world countries has
>made it impossible for people to live there peacefully without fear of
>government's aggression. Ruling parties never leave office unless force is
>used to throw them out. Unfortunately, such force devastates the entire
>country most of the time. This is exactly what happened in Somalia in early
>1991. If anyone utters a word or writes a phrase against the government in
>these undemocratic societies, he/ she just disappears without a trace.
>
>On the other hand, the so-called first world countries are also the
>architects of a strange phenomenon. Although there is a great advancement
>in technology in these parts of the world, but people have fallen behind in
>morality and everything for them is "cool." Almost everyone in these
>societies is after material goods as if that was the key to happiness in
>life.
>
>As parents age, they are thrown into senior's residence with flowers sent
>to them occasionally and that is only if they are lucky enough to be
>remembered.
>
>People in this region obviously have gone further in their style of living.
>There is no limit in what is acceptable as human conduct and behavior.
>Everything is deemed acceptable.
>
>After the Canadian Supreme Court's recognition of same sex marriages on May
>20, 1999, one should hopelessly ask what is next? Should marriage between
>fathers and their daughters or sons to their mothers or someone who falls
>in
>love to his dog be legalized then? If same-sex marriage is "cool" why not
>all other forms?
>
>It is a part of reality to have problems in our lives. Expecting a
>universe, which is problem-free, is only a dream. It seems obvious,
>however, that we have gone way over the limit. We are out of control.
>
>Allah says "evil (sins and disobedience of Allah) has appeared on land and
>see because of what the hands of men have earned (by oppression and evil
>deeds) that Allah may make them taste a part of that which they have done
>in
>order that they may return (by repenting to Allah and begging his pardon)
>(The Glorious Quran 30: 41)
>
>There must be a source for the solution to humanity's problems. This
>solution lies in the final book revealed to Prophet Mohammed, peace be upon
>him, about fourteen centuries ago.
>
>Many educators and scientists in the west have come to realize this fact
>lately after studying Islam objectively.
>
>As a result, many people are coming to Islam and it is the fastest growing
>religion in the world today.
>
>Dr. Keith Moore, a retired Professor of Anatomy and Chairman of the Faculty
>of Medicine at the University of Toronto made a remarkable conclusion about
>the Quran. He expressed his amazement of the scientific accuracy found in
>the Qur'an in his article Highlights of Human Embryology in the Koran and
>the Hadith published in 1982.
>
>He concluded that, is completely impossible for any human being to author
>the Quran and it must have come from Heaven as a revelation from God.
>
>Another scientist, Dr. Maurice Bucaille of France, the author of The Bible,
>The Quran and Science and What is the Origin of Man. He embraced Islam
>after studying it extensively. And many other open minded scholars and
>scientists.
>
>George Bernard Shaw in his The Genuine Islam, Vol. 1, No. 81936 stated:
>
>I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of
>its wonderful vitality.
>
>- It is the only religion, which appears to me to possess that assimilating
>capacity to the changing phase of existence, which can make itself appeal
>to every age.
>-
>- I have studied him?the wonderful man and in my opinion, far from being
>anti?Christ, he must be called the saviour of humanity.
>-
>- I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the
>modern world, he would succeed in solving its problems in a way that would
>bring it the much needed peace and happiness;
>-
>- I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable
>to the Europe of tomorrow as it is beginning to be acceptable to the Europe
>of today.
>
>
>Fe'Aman'Ullah
>
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