Surah Al Kahf - Ayah No 18

Assalam o Alaikum. Juma Mubarak. Al Kahf time. Kahf is the Cave of refuge from forces of evil. And we need this refuge more than ever before because we are under attack 24/7, while moving from home to office, from university to market, from functions to funerals, we are being constantly mislead. Bombarded and fooled by information sans wisdom. We are being hoaxed by media lies. We are being deluded to look with lascivious eyes. We are being duped to talk in licentious manner. We are being tricked to put God behind material god. Fear Zionusts more than Allah.  How miserable? How turbulent? How messy? Ability to differentiate right from wrong is inbuilt in our consciousness. However, a veil shrouds our ability to discern right from wrong. Cutting through this fog of confusion is the greatest challenge humanity faces today. Al Kahf offers the lense to see through this intense fog of confusion. So let's spare some time today to recite and understand this magnificent Surah.

Moving over to today's Ayah No 18. In last Ayah, Allah swt fondly mentioned that if you were there you would have seen how His miracle was at work. Sun was providing The Boys at sleep with due sunlight and would incline in the afternoon.

Continuing with the same affection, Allah swt sketches their state in the cave with His magical poetic prose. If you (us or anyone) were there, you couldn't tell they were sleeping or awake. He swt made arrangenents in the Cave to turn them over from left to right and vice versa to avoid stiffness, bedsoars and maintaining their blood circulation. Whereas, their dog (namely Qitmir) sat at the front edge of the Cave. Though sleeping, Qitmir gave a ferocious look to passersby so that no one would try entering the Cave or in other words disturb The Boys' sleep. Look at the attention to details and care. Allah swt doesn't like to interfere with human freewill, so He swt created a scenario that onlookers would see the dog and wouldn't think of entering the Cave. On the other hand, He swt made arrangenents for The Boys' sustenance like a loving mother. 

Such were the privileges and VIP treatment The Boys got during their sleep in the cave. What happened next, shall follow next week.

May Allah swt make us like Kahf Boys. Ameen

Kakar at LUMS & cancel culture machine

Caretaker PM was mostly babbling. Trying to make sense out nonsense is what he has been selected for. Defending indefensible is part of his job description. 

Yet to his surprise and horror, the audience was informed and youthful exuberance can deliver sucker punch to duds like CPM. I heard the speech before sharing my thoughts on it. It was babbling. Small fraction of system beneficiaries won’t understand this but universities are the real deal. Oxford used to shape Britain’s political future. An institution with credentials like LUMS is the best yardstick to measure what’s the nature of our problems. PM’s thrashing at LUMS is being rejoiced by majority but will it change anything? It is nothing more than momentary catharsis. Optimism must be kept alive but there is no light at the end of the tunnel. Despondency rules riot. Indignant yet articulate students at LUMS represent true feelings of Pakistanis. For state this amounts to treachery. A cancerous mindset. A problem which is real. But our way of dealing with the problems is to cancel dissent voices whether journalists, politicians or students. It is systematic. If someone doesn’t budge by harassment then his manhandling takes effect. If this doesn’t work then his/ her immediate family is troubled. Next step is levelling moral or financial corruption charges. If it doesn’t shake the individual's resolve then he/she is incarcerated like so many men and women presently jailed in Pakistan. If still they persist they are tortured like animals. During third degree torture, one may loose a tongue (like Imran Riaz) or life (like Arshad Sharif). At every stage the level of trauma is raised. Trauma like never seen before. It leaves people with scars on their bodies and souls, also leavong deep rooted hatred for those who commit these atrocities for generations to come.

Wonder who does it?

Situation is worsening. 

Like 2.2 Mn Gazans, 250 Mn Pakistanis are also living in open prison except those who can leave are let go (except dissent voices). One: they get rid of educated people who may have the propensity to think. Two: they will inadvertently remit money to their families. Money which will contribute to the state revenues and help state modernise its torture skills and allow state functionaries enjoy more perks and privileges.

Bottom line. The narrative is controlled by Zionists all around the world with their accomplice rulers in Muslim world as well. We are no exception. Pakistan is a miniature sample of how the world functions today. Disagreement with the narrative activates cancel culture machine. Once this this machine cranks it doesn’t take any prisoners.

Every Gazan soul shall stand as witness against us

Every ruler, people and military in the Muslim world should die of shame and fear the afterlife for their abandonment of the Palestinians, for Allah will account us and every single Gazan soul will be an irrefutable witness. We have no excuse as our eyes, ears and tongue will testify against us that we witnessed the “cries of death” and genocide unfold in full view and remained in our palaces, presidencies, homes and barracks.  

To the rulers, people and militaries of the Muslim world, below is a message from the Palestinians broadcast through Turkish TV;

"Tell Muslim countries not to offer funeral prayers for us. We are alive and you are dead."

To the Muslim leaders and their forces,

You are a disgrace to the memory of Salah ad Din Al Ayubi who was unwilling and unable even to perform Hajj because of his wish not be accounted by Allah for failing to liberate Palestine and Jerusalem. 

You are not Allah’s force but of Washington and Israel. For you are willing to give your lives for their causes and obey their commands through your enslaved leadership. 

But know, that your empty chants of Allah o Akbar have no meaning. Save them for the cause of the Americans. 

The real lions and Allah’s soldiers are exactly where they should be. Either fighting the Israelis or in Jannah alive as martyrs, for as the beautiful people of Palestine have spoken directly and told us emphatically that;

“We are alive and you are dead”

“Never say that those martyred in the cause of Allah are dead—in fact, they are alive! But you do not perceive it. Do not say that those killed in God's path are dead; they are alive, though you do not realize it (Al Baqarah 2:154)

May Allah help Palestinians and shake the Muslim world to take action against Israel. Ameen

Trap of the Zionist Criminal Narrative on Israel

 Statements have gravity, meaning and consequences. 

The West, it’s government and it’s  media, led by the Zionist Jews, have, as they have done throughout their history, created an intellectual vice which aims to legitimise Israel’s actions and blunt it further by creating sympathy for its position. This is usually done through immediate connections to the holocaust which are repeated by the pro- Zionist Jews as legitimacy for Israel’s actions. 

On this occasion of genocide in Gaza the buzz statement is “Israel has the right to defend itself”. Such is the nature of this imposition that it has put Muslims including those that oppose Israel’s genocide under immense pressure to work within this statement as if it is a legal position. But it is not.

Muslims need to fight back on this statements and obliterate its validity. For the “right of self defence” in international law only relates to states and external attacks and is clearly enshrined in Art. 51 of the UN charter. It does not apply to occupied territory which the Gaza, the West Bank and Jerusalem fits under, based on Israel’s occupation following the 1967 war, and is clearly laid out in UN Resolutions 242 and 338 as illegal based on international law according to which territorial acquisition as a result of war is illegal and must be returned.  

Consequently, according to the Western justification for Israel’s action, it would mean “green light” and precedent for regimes like India to argue the same with Kashmir and Kashmiri resistance. 

So Muslims, especially in the West and liberal desi confused horse in Pakistan need to avoid falling for this sword which has been put over their necks and who now in public discourse, start with statements such as “we understand that Israel has the right to defend itself” or the actions of Hamas in attacking Jews is “abhorrent”. For this is the subjugated narrative of the weak and the Zionist move to protect Israel and her genocidal criminality as well as their treacherous nature.The effects of this narrative on the Muslims can be clearly seen amongst the collaborators, hypocrites, and opportunists Muslim rulers whose financial and political interests are contingent upon Western powers’ approval. Unfortunately, there are no exceptions among Muslim whereas non Muslim states like Columbia and Ireland registered protest and Columbia went a step further by expelling Israeli ambassador. Even non- Muslim who have a conscience have resigned from their job instead of accepting coercive gagging.

Finally, Muslims need to be careful not to fall into the trap set by the Zionists and their Western protectors, and expose their true contradictions and reality in an articulate but forceful and open manner. For recognising and parroting “Israel’s right to defend itself”, mean legitimacy of decades of occupation, torture, killing, imprisonment, collective punishment and dehumanisation of the Palestinians. 

Only Allah knows the whole Truth. 

Surah Al Kahf- Ayah No 17

Assalam o Alaikum 

Juma Mubarak. Al Kahf Time. Please find time to recite and understand this amazing Surah or part of it.

Every Rukuh contains one complete speech of Allah swt addressed to you and me. At the same time, each Ayah is a sign of Allah swt and there is always sonefhing for us to take home. Thus way every Rukuh is like a necklace, wherein every Ayah is like pearl in contact with the previous & next Ayah maling complete sense of the whole thing. 

Last Ayah ends with sincere submission of The Boys to Allah swt for all their matters and retreat to the Cave (Al Kahf). And right there their matter was taken over by Allah swt. 

What happens next is explained in this Ayan in an exquisite manner. Like when someone is unable to make it your sumptuous dinner and you tell them,' You should have seen the arrangements and food'. Allah swt is also telling us, if we were there, we would have raved about how laws of physics bent to serve His favourite Boys. He swt arranged sunlight, shade, food and shelter. This was only because they were guided. And only those are guided whom Allah swt guides. And those who deliberately ignore true guidance, shall remain astray forever. So, we can extrapolate that the most precious treasure in this universe is guidance. The richest,  is the one guided. The Kahf Boys earned their guidance certificate from none other than Allah swt.  They shall stand tall on the victory stand. They are among the most successful in human history. We shall also pray to be guided and stand among blessed company our heroes, The Kahf Boys. Ameen.

Arab Leadership - An eye wash

The gathering of Washington’s puppies in Egypt on 21 October was beyond shameless. It was merely symbolic and an attempt to show the Arab street that the leashed up Arabs could sit together without the owner. Yet the script was from their owner. Whilst Israel continued its bombing and genocide, the best these puppets could do was to ask for a “humanitarian ceasefire” and commitment to the “two state” solution, exactly what the Americans, the owners of the pets were expecting from their puppies. Not a single warning was issued from the puppies’ military action or military aid or any sort of threat to Israel. Instead one of America’s  most vile slave dog, Egypts Fattah Al Sisi, had instructed the security services to prevent any demonstrations for Palestinian support in Egypt, especially in the iconic Tahir. Only those that are controlled by the government in terms of their scope and content, and the reason why despite the rage in the Egyptian masses, no demonstration of note has occurred as there has been fear of arrest, torture, imprisonment etc (sounds familiar to our part of the world) which has been highlighted by the human rights groups globally yet the “champion” of human rights, the Americans, turn a blind eye to due to their ‘watchdogs’ (watchdog sounds better than dog because liberals start lecturing on language) commitment to the security of Israel. It is now clearer to all the existence of this Arab League is total eye wash. It acts on the behest of kennel owner in Washington DC.

Surah Al Kahf - Ayah No 16

Assalam o Alaikum. Shab-e-Juma Mubrak. Al Kahf Time. Please find time to recite or understand complete or part of Al Kahf on this blessed day.

In last Ayah No 15, The Kahf Boys questioned their peoples' faith system and asked for some authentication of their beliefs. On listening to their counter arguments, Roman King at the time, Decius haughtily gave time to The Boys to recant their faith. He was mistaken. The belief of Kahf Boys was true and tenable. 

However, it was obvious that they could not live among their people anymore. They were very smart, like people of faith should be. First proof of their intellectual ascendancy was that they adopted the only true belief system i.e. Oneness of Allah. Second, most impressive indicator of their conscientiousness was their plan to deal with the situation wherein they were already up against the wall. They submitted their matter to Allah by inciting His mercy and with the firm belief that their Lord would facilitate in all their affairs.

What happened next shall unfold in later part of the Surah but what had happened thus far deserved some reflection. What made Kahf Boys so intelligent? How could they come up with such ingenious plan? Of course, their unwavering faith in Allah. So the million dollar question - was it their intelligence or faith? None. Their sincerity. 

Lesson for us to take home is to be sincere in our thought and act. Our inbuilt dormant consciousness can exactly differentiate right from wrong, sincerity from insincerity, good from evil, truth form lie and virtue from vice. And we are so lucky, if there were iota of ambiguity, Al Furqan was gifted to us a millennium and half ago which vividly distinguished right from wrong. We might have to let loose our consciousness from inactive to active role in our thought process and decision making. By decision making I mean choices. Faith is one of those choices. Rest is easy, believe and submit. Stop worrying about taking the wheel anymore, just sit back and enjoy the ride of life in cruise control mode.

May Allah help us achieve Kahf Boys' sincerity and faith. Ameen