Letter to Samantha

I respect your opinions, but I disagree with them. I also respect the right you have to express what you know to be right. I assume from what you have written, that you do not have proper knowledge of Islamic teachings and your opinions are built on merely a hearsay.
As per your quote:
"The first thing we would do if we wanted to destroy anything Islamic is destroy your mosques and holy places. Our soldiers are not allowed to do this" This very statement of yours shows how your opinion is based on illusions you have in your mind rather then the facts. The facts dear Samantha are very disturbing and the soldiers of destruction in Iraq are there to destroy, as they have been for years now. Take in account the incident of bombing mosques and the killing of an unarmed man in front of the cameras, a man who was in a mosque ( a sacred place) and had no arms ( Geneva conventions apply).

In my opinion you are making grieve mistakes by finding excuses for a faulty bunch that made the choice to invade a sovereign nation, to prove your self right you will knock every door where every illogical excuse will be present, I recommend that you come to your senses and recognize that humanity can not be divisible.
The pain that one human lives is felt by others who recognize the rights from wrongs, this brings me to recognizing the truth by sane and decent human beings, if you can not recognize the truth of the occurring matters that goes around in Iraq, Afghanistan and occupied Palestine (the world of injustices), then I have no argument with you on what you are going to present me with, cause you have lost me, you have lost on recognizing that the job of invading nations is merely a barbaric attempt to prove insecurities of what so called the new world order.
You have lost on recognizing that the elite are also using you and your family to advance in destroying the world instead of helping humanity to excel.
As for socialism stamps that you were kind to throw on me, they are your opinions not mine, I am a human being who loves good for others. I am a Muslim who worships one creator non divisible, a creator who gave me all the rights to be the way I want to be with no right to commit crimes and injustices on others. I hope that this post will bring some light to your mind and keep you in peace.
With all my respect to you.
P.S: When you speak please speak for your self not for Americans cause I as an American, I am sick of people like you including the whole American public in such sick views about humanity.

Justice of Islam and the West

Prophet Muhammad, peace be up on him, describes in one hadith the Muslims of today as “the little material collected on top of the surface of the flood water” meaning : We are like the small material riding on the surface of the flood waters. We have no significant impact despite our massive numbers & collective strength. it does not have any effect despite the strength of the flood water that carries it. Islam gives us a very enlightening and smart way of managing a good, decent life for every human being. Its basic premise is justice for all.
Woman under Islamic jurisprudence may: vote for a leader, own a property, choose their own husband. If a woman falls captive in a war, Islam regulates the manner in which she ought to be treated. Islam elevates her rank to one that determines the fate of her daughters and sons in the hereafter, based upon obedience and good treatment towards her.

Just as countries and institutions have constitutions for governing their affairs, Islam also brought a constitution to govern every aspect of human life.

Islam teaches human beings how to understand their created body and its hygiene, the importance of clean homes therefore clean streets. It taught the pagans of Mecca how to be better human beings above and beyond. Because of its universal nature, this very message managed to cross borders in record time in the history of man. In a period of ten years, it spread from north Africa all the way to the borders of Pakistan today. The idea of Islam was embraced by everyone who encountered it. It was a simple message calling for justice - the basic justice that every human being deserves to have in every minute of his/her life.

Cultures were enriched with the very basics of Islam. Those basics were in every man and woman's heart, and Islam cultivated those basic ideas by making them common law. It also brought definition to relationships, on a level that never previously existed, between the kin and the distanced one, the husband and the wife, the ruler and the ruled, the worker and his boss, etc. These relations are defined by means of mutual respect, justice, and basic human rights with emphasis on contracts and documenting events to preserve rights.

One late night, with oil lamps burning, Omar, may Allah be pleased with him, was found working on the accounting books of the Muslim community when Ali, may Allah be pleased with him, entered his office. He requested to talk with Omar about a matter, so Omar asked, “Is it regarding the community, or a private matter?” "Private," was the answer of Ali. So immediately, Omar turned off the oil lights saying that this was the money of the community and could not be spent on his time. Such was the People who ruled in the first years of the newly born Muslim state. This mature behavior can not be disregarded when studied by the scholarly eye. It shows determination and deep understanding of what the core of the message of Islam is.
Citing another example of the understanding of justice in Islam . . . the man(Abu Lu'lua Al-majoosy) who killed Omar, the ruler of the Muslim community after Abu Bakr, may Allah be pleased with both of them, was very well known because of his animosity towards Islam and especially to Omar. He made public statements that he wanted to kill Omar, but was never arrested or treated in any form or fashion in a bad manner by the ruler Omar nor any other Muslim. He simply had not committed any crime, so he had the right to be free, and he was. The free speech aspect was in action till he later killed Omar. This is another example, when examined by a scholarly eye, that reveals the tolerance level the Islamic justice system exemplified. Al-majoosy was eventually charged with murder according to the Islamic justice system and was brought to justice.

Islamic thoughts spread rapidly towards Asia and the Mediterranean; however, it took a long time for Islam to be acknowledged as a power of change by the European elite. Islam actually entered every home in Europe, through the exceptional educational system that was established by the Moors in Andalusia. Almost all of the books that were used to teach students in al-Andalusia were eventually translated, and the European students benefited from them, to the extent that the basics of today's knowledge, including that of modern day sciences such as psychology, mathematics, physics, etc., are still upheld and taught by scholars in the West.

The very teachings and concepts that brought Muslims to the top of the world were eventually forgotten by the majority of Muslims. It was not the knowledge of chemistry or the exploration of today's America that brought Muslims to the top. Rather, it was the basic manners and understanding of justice and tolerance exemplified in their treatment towards other nations,their wise dealings in general life issues, their courage to say the truth, even if it was their own heads at stake, etc., which allowed the Muslims to rule peacefully for hundreds of years.

Because of the justice of Islam, Christians and Jews often preferred solving their problems and disagreements before a Muslim judge in Andalusia and other Muslim lands. Emperors and kings bowed in respect to Islamic thought, and others embraced Islam in secret, knowing it was the truth, as in the case of the king of Ethiopia during the first days of Islam.

Europeans were elevated by the Muslim scholars through their learning in Al-Andalusia. They took those teachings to heart, and even though they did not embrace the full spirit of Islam, they learned how to explore the knowledge to their benefit. This journey of knowledge that was acquired from the Muslims is having its effect on the Europeans till this day.

Despite the fact that the Ottomans conquered other nations in order to bring justice to the lands they swept through, they showed a great example of tolerance towards the communities they governed. The proof to my claim is the fact that most of these conquered lands still speak their native languages and freely practice their native religions. No more need to be said in this aspect.

As the world advanced, and Muslims left their role of being the guide to justice, the world grew angry. There was no one left to hold the flag and speak up for injustice. Humanity struggled and fell apart bit by bit as Muslims under the Ottomans began to compromise the justice of Islam for wealth and notoriety. Starting with the battle of Vienna, in which Muslims agreed to a commercial dealing that involved usury, they breached the basic code of justice and the unravelling of the Islamic Ummah began. It took more then three hundred years, but it eventually happened.

The anger felt by many Americans and Europeans towards the Muslim Ummah is understandable. Europeans who tasted the dark ages, the French Revolution, WWI and WWII, still remember the agony of those times. Now, they were seeing flaws in the Islamic justice system due to the corruption of the Ummah and were becoming angry. Eventually, this anger resulted in the attempts of mass occupation of Muslim lands from North Africa to India & Pakistan. The revenge for letting go of the Islamic justice system took place on a massive scale. Millions upon millions were slaughtered in the Muslim lands. Europeans lost the guide and the compass. They lost the justice that brought them to light. They wanted it back, and the only way they could bring it back was to punish the people who had lost focus and became slaves to their egos and desires. They are no longer known for being Muslims. Instead, they are simply Arabs, Pakistanis, Turks, Iraqis, Saudis, Egyptians, etc., and they are even more divided than ever. The punishment that the Europeans thought might restore Islamic justice to the world did not work. Instead, it turned the people into vicious creatures with no end in sight for their salvation. By the time the Europeans woke up from their deeds, they found that they were carrying more burden then ever before. They could not heal the wounded by massacres or occupations; and in the process, an artificial body was implemented with the thought that it would awaken the sleeping giant. But again, this did not work. The more the artificial body moved, the more the cracks widened and spread all over the Muslim Ummah. There was no solution in sight for the Europeans to gain back their teacher & guide (i.e. Islam).

Today’s world lacks a just ruling body such as the Muslim state, which was the only Muslim state ruled by faith in the history of men The lack of Muslim participation in the modern world has resulted in an imbalance of world power. If not for the dealings that were against the Islamic way of life, such as the involvement of usury after the battle of Vienna, justice might still exist in today's world, and humanity might not be suffering so much as it is today.
As long as the Muslims are away from their teachings, focusing on worldly gain, materialism, and following the path of waste and selfishness, there will be no peace in this world.

Mark my words.

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