This was the play of the game, play of the year and probably one of the best plays ever!
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The outcome of this year’s Superbowl has reminded me of this ayah:
“They plot & plan, and Allah too plans; but the best of planners is Allah” (Al-Anfal:30)
As my good friend ‘Junaid from the Bronx’ always says:
“We can plan whatever we want, but Allah has the better plan.”
The New England Patriots thought they were going to win. The entire country including many NY Giant fans thought the Patriots were going to win. Allah taught us all a lesson. No matter how perfect, how strong, how undefeated a person or group can be, they can be defeated. The Patriots before the Superbowl were 18-0. No loss in the entire 2007-2008 NFL Season. After the Superbowl. Their win count remained the same at 18. The 0 jumped up to 1. Yes this is the will of Allah. So no matter how much George Bush thinks he’s in control, he’s not. Allah can take away the power within a few seconds as what happened to Tom Brady, Randy Moss and the rest of the Patriots. This goes to show you, no matter how much we plan or they plan or whoever plans, there is Allah’s plan. No matter how strong or powerful one side is, there is always the side Allah allows to win regardless of strength.
Congratulations to Eli Manning, Michael Strahan, Ahmad Bradshaw, Plaxico Buress, Amani Toomer, David Tyree and the rest of the New York Giants. We are the Superbowl XLII champions!
A few hours ago I had just come back from playing my weekly basketball game (I’m part of the South Asian Basketball League – Basketballers team). I was with some close friends of mine, MoSin, Ohmz, Kingheer, Brighton Beach Waqas and TallDarknKhansome. We randomly started to talk about the Kings Park Psychiatric Center on Long Island. MoSin and TallDarknKhansome had already been there with Shakin Shadhili (formerly known as Contemplating Chishti) and N Veed. They boasted of how scary it was and they did research online and read about how the place was haunted and infested with drug addicts, homeless people and other weird stories…
George W. Bush is famous for his attachment to a painting which he acquired after becoming a “born again Christian.” It’s by W.H.D. Koerner and is entitled “A Charge to Keep.” Bush was so taken by it, that he took the painting’s name for his own official autobiography. And here’s what he says about it:
I thought I would share with you a recent bit of Texas history which epitomizes our mission. When you come into my office, please take a look at the beautiful painting of a horseman determinedly charging up what appears to be a steep and rough trail. This is us. What adds complete life to the painting for me is the message of Charles Wesley that we serve One greater than ourselves.
So in Bush’s view (or perhaps I should say, faith) the key figure, with whom he personally identifies, is a missionary spreading the word of the Methodist Christianity in the American West in the late nineteenth century.
Congratulations to the New England Patriots who became the first team since 1972 (Miami Dolphins went undefeated that year) to go undefeated in the NFL regular season.
Playoffs next month! Go NY Giants!
I just read this amazing article posted on Imam Suhaib Webb’s blog, “A Sufi Salafi Connection: Sh. Abdul Wahab [ra] and Muhammad Hayyat al-Sindi [ra]: Dr. John Voll“. It’s a long article, so I took my own notes highlighting what I thought was interesting and noteworthy.
Shaykh Muhammad Hayyat al-Sindi…
Shaykh Muhammad Hayyat al-Sindi was the teacher of Shaykh Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahhab (alleged founder of Wahhabism). He taught Sh. ibn Abdul Wahhab “rejection of popular religious practices associated with ‘ saints ‘ and their tombs”. I guess this shows Sh. Muhammad Hayyat al-Sindi wasn’t an extreme Sufi.
Sh. Muhammad Hayyat had 20 students including Sh. ibn Abdul Wahhab:
So in other words, from what I understand in the article, these 20 brothers, scholars, students of knowledge were the classmates of Sh. ibn Abdul Wahhab. Regardless of what the students, followers of Sh. ibn Abdul Wahhab have to say about Sufism, it is clear that his classmates, teachers, friends, brothers, and people who he most likely “hung out” with were madhab-following sufis.
The author of the article is Dr. John Voll. He is a professor of Islamic history and the associate director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University. You can find his profile here.
This is a very interesting documentary film that will be aired on PBS in February. It features Shaykh Hamza Yusuf and Imam Zaid Shakir. There is also a preview of it in DC. Tariq Nelson has more about it and more videos here.
Did you know that by law the US gurantees Isreal’s oil supply, even if it cuases a DOMESTIC SHORTAGE?
Under a 1975 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) the USA guaranteed all Israel’s oil needs in the event of a crisis. This Memorandum of Understanding is quietly renewed every five years. It commits U.S. taxpayers to maintain a strategic U.S. reserve for Israel, equivalent to $3 billion in 2002 dollars. Special legislation was enacted to exempt Israel from restrictions on oil exports from the USA. Moreover, the U.S. government agreed to divert oil from the USA, even if this causes domestic shortages. The U.S. government also guaranteed delivery of oil in U.S. tankers if commercial shippers become unable or unwilling to carry oil from the USA to Israel.
Read more of this stuff here.
Tariq Nelson says:
I have often stated that anti-Muslim bigots are ALSO anti-black. The following two posts from the same source further prove my point
This post is anti Muslim and calls for the complete banning Islam in the US (ala Dave Gaubatz), then the very next post you see this anti-black racist drivel. The crime they describe is heinous for sure, but they try to pin it on the fact that blacks are “on the left side of the bell curve” (READ: inherently less intelligent and inferior)
Part of their thesis is the blacks in jail accept Islam because they are “physically powerful, mentally deficient, and morally depraved”. In other words, they accept Islam because they are not intelligent. This is part of the thesis by white supremacist/anti-Muslim groups such as SANE (Society of Americans for National Existence). Do you see how this is not only a shot at blacks, but on Islam itself?
One of the things that need to be pointed out regularly to non-Muslims is that these people not only are LIARS but racists who mean no good to anyone other than themselves.
See also this post at my blog
Like Preacher Moss once said, “I’m Muslim and Black! I get two tickets!” (or something like that).
This is a pretty good documentary on the Islamic view on Jesus. It features Shaykh Hamza Yusuf and other scholars including some Quranic recitation by al-Efasy (part 4). Part 4 gets intense with some street Christian vs Muslim debates in the UK. They also had some Christian scholars speak about how Islam was “wrong”. It’s funny what they said. I didn’t like the Iranian film about Maryam though.
Part 1:
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