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Eid al Adha Mubarak 1444/2023!

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  A Blessed and Accepted Eid to All the Ummah! May Allah Most High accept from us and you, heal our sick, bless our parents and families, guide our children, strengthen our nations, ease our suffering, forgive our departed ones, and grant us His pleasure in both abodes. Eid Mubarak!

On "Cruel Laws" Part 1 of 2

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  بسم الله The proverbially strange similitude of those who were charged to bear the Torah, yet incredibly bore it not, is like the strikingly strange likeness of a donkey laden with great tomes of enlightening wisdom: Vile a similitude indeed is that of a people who cry lies to the very verses of Allah Himself! And Allah guides not the people of the wrongdoers. (The Quran Beheld 62:5) I recently received a question from Pakistan that concerned responding to those who criticize the Sharia as it is implemented there. The questioner described two murder cases. In both cases the perpetrators were from a higher social stratum and the next of kin of the victims forgave the perpetrators who were set free as a result. Media outlets then publicized reports claiming that in both instances the next of kin were threatened by the perpetrators. As a result, secular-minded commentators are claiming that the Sharia provision which places the perpetrator’s fate in the hands of the next of kin