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Majlis Khuddamul Ahmadiyya Newcastle

Monthly NewsletterApril 2010

LOVE FOR ALL HATRED FOR NONE

In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Ever Merciful

Entering the Mosque

Qaid:Contact:

PRAYERS

HADITH

Writings of Promised Messiah (as)

HOLY QUR’ANChapter 103: Al-`Asr

1. In the name of Allāh, the Gracious, the Merciful2. By the testimony of Time,3. Surely, man is in a state of loss.4. Except those who believe and do goodworks, and exhort one another to accepttruth, and exhort one another to besteadfast.

Uthman bin Affān (ra) states that the Holy Prophet of Allāh (saw) said:“The best among you is the one who learns the Qur’ān and teaches it to others.” (Bukhari)(Selected Sayings of the Holy Prophet (saw): Hadith no.16)

The God (presented by the Holy Qur’ān) is an extremely faithful God, Who works wonders for those who remain faithful to Him. The world is intent on destroying them (those faithful to Him), but He Who befriends them delivers them from every danger and bestows victory upon them in every field. How singularly fortunate is he who never breaks ties with Him.(Kishti Nuh: Roohani Khaza’in vol 19 p.20)

Friday Sermon

Leaving the house

(I leave my house), in the name of Allah and I put my trust in Allah. There is no power (to protect against sin) and there is no power (to do good) except with (the help of) Allah.

Entering the house

O Allah! I supplicate You to grant me the best of entries (to my house) and the best of exits. In the name of Allah we enter and in Allah, our Lord, we put our complete trust.

Jalsa Salana Spain, 2nd April 2010Today Huzur (atba) delivered his Friday Sermon from Basharat Mosque, Pe-dro Abad, Spain. Huzur (atba) said that with the grace of God the Jalsa Salana of Spain commences with Huzur (atba) ’s Sermon and explained that today the institution of Jalsa Salana is firmly established in each country of the world where the Community is based. The Jalsa Salana is a sign of distinction and people of the Community take great care and attention in organising it. This is because this convention is certainly not like other worldly gatherings where people come to amuse themselves. Rather, for the past one hundred and twenty years it has been a successive source of realisation for Ahmadis that to gather for two to three days each year is in compliance of the desire of the Imam of the age, who wished for his followers to assemble and listen to matters relating to God and the Holy Prophet (saw), bring about a pure change in themselves and gain nearness to God.

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(copied from Ta’leem Workbook Unit 5)Sources of Islamic Jurisprudence

Sources of Islamic Law

There are three sources from which we obtain all our Islamic laws and principles:

1. The Holy Qur’ān.2. The Traditions, the Sunnah and the Ahādith of the Holy Prophet (saw). 3. Ijtihad (exercise of judgment).

The Holy Qur’ānThe Qur’ān is the real foundation on which the entire structure of Is-lam rests. The Qur’ān is the absolute and the final authority in any discus-sion related to Islamic principles or codes. One could even say that the Qur’ān is the only source and that the other two sources Traditionand ljtihād are directly or indirectly derived from the Qur’ānic teachings.

The Holy Qur’ān is a compilation of the verbal revelations given to the Holy Prophet Muhammad (saw) over a period of twenty three years. The Holy Qur’ān is the Holy Book or the Scriptures of the Muslims. It lays down for them the law and com-mandments, codes for their social and moral behaviour, and contains a comprehensive religious philosophy.

Compilation of the Holy Qur’anThe Divine revelations were com-mitted to memory and also written down by scribes appointed by the Holy Prophet (saw). Under divineguidance he arranged the verses and chapters in the Holy Qur’ān as we find them today.However, the compilation of the whole, in onevolume was undertaken after the demise of the Holy Prophet (saw). During the Caliphate of Hadhrat Uthman (ra), seven copies of the Qur’ān were dispatched to differ-ent parts of the Muslim world and they in turn became the standard texts from which other copies were made and thereafter in each genera-tion hundreds of thousands of people have been in the habit of commit-ting the entire text of the Qur’ān to memory. Even the bitterest enemies of Islam do not allege that any inter-ference with the text of the Qur’ān

has taken place since the time of the Holy Prophet (saw) . Regard-ing safeguarding the Qur ’ān, God Almighty says in the Holy Qur’ān.

"Surely it is We Who have revealed the Exposition, and surely it is We Who are its guardians"

(Al-Hijr, 15:10)

Whenever any portion of the Qur’ān was revealed to the Holy Proph-et (saw) , he used to commit it to memory and, as he continuously re-cited the Qur’ān from one end to the other, he always carried the whole of the revealed Qur’ān at all times in his memory. On the other hand the text of none of the sacred Scrip-tures, claimed to be revealed before the Holy Qur’ān has been preserved intact. They have all been interfered with to such an extent that an earnestseeker after truth finds it impossible to adopt any of them as a practical guide for right conduct. In contrast with this, the text of the Holy Qur’ān has been preserved intact and everyword of it has come down to us as free from interference and interpola-tion as when it was revealed to the Holy Prophet (saw) around 1400years ago. Sir William Muir in his work, “The life of Mohammed” sums up his conclusion on this matter as follows:

“What we have, though possibly corrected by himself, is still his own...”, “We may, upon the stron-gest presumption, affirm that every verse in the Qur’an is genuine and unaltered composition of Moham-mad himself” (p xxviii). “There is otherwise every security, internal and external, that we possess the text which Mohammad himself gave forth and used” (p xxvii)

The Tradition (Sunnah and Ḥadith)After the Holy Qur’ān, the most im-portant Islamic textual material is the Tradition, which includes the Sun-nah and Ḥadīth of the Holy Prophet (saw). The Sunnah is the practice

Macmillan Fundraising Session at

Killingworth Centre

Malis Khuddamul Ahmadiyya Newcas-tle is proud to announce that the first supermarket collection in response to MKA Charity Challenge 2010 has taken place by supporting Macmillan Cancer Support. On Saturday 20th March 2010, four Khuddam from Newcastle Qiadat went to Morrisons supermarket in the Killingworth Centre, Newcastle-upon-Tyne to collect funds for Macmillan Cancer Support.Three volunteers started the fundraising session at 10:00am and one volunteer joined this session at 2:00pm. The ses-sion began with du'a (silent prayer) and followed by Khadim making his own contribution of £1.

The Collection The Charity’s represen-tative Kelly, Knighting-Wykes, (Fund-raising Manager), met us at the venue, and, provided each of the volunteers with collection buckets and stickers. By the Grace of Allah, a very successful fundraising campaign was undertaken by the Khuddam present and the event was enjoyed by all. Macmillan Cancer Support was very happy with our enthu-siasm and fundraising efforts on the day.

Kelly Knight-ing-Wykes, the Fundrais ing Manager, said:“A huge thank you again to the boys and their dedica-

tion on the day. Also thank you to Fa-heem for coordinating the volunteers, you were fantastic!”

of the Holy Prophet (saw) while the Ḥadīth is his sayings.As the Qur’ān deals mainly with the broad principles of Islam, the details were frequently supplied by the Holy Prophet (saw) by his actions and his sayings. Since written communica-tion was not very common in those days, the transmission of the actions and sayings of the Holy Prophet (saw) took place from one person to another by the word of mouth. It was many years after the death of the Holy Prophet (saw) that a systematic compilation of his practices and say-ings started to take place. Extreme care used to be taken in tracing a tra-dition back through various narra-tors and establishing its authenticity.

Definition of ḤadīthḤadīth (plural Aḥādīth) is an Arabic word, its root meaning is ‘a statement which may either be an entirely novel one or may have been put in a novel way.’ Since the speech of the Holy Prophet (saw) is pregnant with novel and priceless truths, it has been ter-minologically described as Ḥadīth.Ḥadīth thus stands for the holy word that our Master the Noble Prophet (saw) actually uttered or which re-lates some incident of his holy life, in terms of ocular evidence, and was committed to writing after the lapse of some time through his companions and the Muslim narrators of a later date.The method of narrating Aḥādīth consisted, on the part of a compan-ion, who had personally heard the Holy Prophet (saw) make a statement or seen him do a particular thing, in communicating it, for the purpose of disseminating knowledge, to such others as had not so heard or seen the Holy Prophet (saw) or had not seen the blessed period of the Holy Prophet (saw). The statement, nar-rating the Ḥadīth, would ordinarily run like this: “I heard it from so and so that he heard from such and such companion of the Holy Prophet (saw) that he heard the Holy Prophet (saw) say on such and such occa-sion or saw him do such and such a thing.” They would thus convey the report to the other with a view to refreshing faith or spreading knowledge. Thus it was that the

Aḥādīth of the Holy Prophet (saw )were preserved for the succeed-ing generations, through a regu-larly linked and unbroken chain of narrators.Standard Works of ḤadīthThe Aḥādīth were collected and com-piled in book form, roughly speaking, from the middle of the second century of the Hijra, to the end of the third century. There is a large number of books on Ḥadīth, but six of them are considered to be of great reliability and treated as standard works. They are, therefore, known as Ṣiḥāḥ Sittah, i.e., six authentic books of Ḥadīth. Their names are as follows:

1. ṢAḤĪḤ BUKHĀRĪ: Compiled by ImāmMuḥammad bin Ismā‘īl Al-Bukhārī (A.H. 194 to A.H.256). This work of Imām Bukhārī is an authentic book on Ḥadīth and Imām Bukhārī is regarded as the most outstanding figure among the compiler-scholars of Aḥādīth. The Ṣaḥīḥ Bukhārī has therefore been termed as the most-genuinely correct book after the Holy Qur’ān, the Book of Allāh.

2. ṢAḤĪḤ MUSLIM: Compiled by Imām Muslim bin Al-Ḥajjāj An-Nīshāpūrī (A.H. 204 to A.H. 261) His work is considered to be the second best among the six standard books of Aḥādīth and is regarded an excellent and reliable collection. Most of the scholars of Ḥadīth have named the Ṣaḥīḥ Bukhārī and the Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim as the two correct works (Ṣaḥīḥain).

3. JĀMI‘ TIRMIDHĪ: Compiled by Imām Abū ‘Īsā Muḥammad bin ‘Īsā al-Tirmidhī (A.H. 209 to A.H. 279) He was a disciple of Imām Bukhārī. His collection of Aḥādīth has been held in high estimation.

4. SUNAN ABŪ DĀWŪD: Com-piled by Imām Abū Dāwūd Sulaimān bin al-Ash‘ath as-Sijistānī (A.H. 202 to A.H. 275). In the collection and collation of legalistic material he holds a high place. But scholars are divided on the question of assigningpriority of merit of Jāmi‘ Tirmidhī and Sunan Abū Dāwūd.

The fundraising session finished at 6:00pm and all the buckets were re-turned to the Macmillan Fundraising Manager. A special thank you to Kelly Knighting-Wykes who arranged such a fantastic and good natured event for MKA Newcastle. Also a special thanks to volunteers for sacrificing their time to volunteer towards this noble cause

jazakumullah.

The following volunteers participated in this session: Faheem Ahmad TahirAwais AhmadMuhammad Akram AnjumMuhammad Ehsan

Most of all, each Khadim thor-oughly enjoyed the experience of collecting for the charity, which not only deepened the sense of brother-

hood amongst the Khuddam but also raised a total of £655.42 for the charity. Once again a big thank you to all the vol-unteers for. achieving this, masha’Allah May Allah (swt) shower His blessings on them without measure, and enable them to keep up the good work Ameen. Please remember all of those who helped make this a successful session in your prayers and we hope to keep up the good work in the future.Future CollectionsWe have sent letters to other superstores along with the MKA Charity Challenge 2010 brochure and also several phone calls have been made with the help of Macmillan Cancer Support to help en-able us to organise similar events in the future. We are just waiting for the green light from these superstores. Addition-ally, we have just had confirmation of a collection at Asda in Benton to be held on 8th May.

All these Muḥaddiththin (compiler-scholars or editors of Ḥadīth) spent the whole of their lives in search of Aḥādīth and compiled their collec-tions out of a vast store of hundreds of thousands of Aḥādīth. The entire Muslim world owes these savants a heavy debt of gratitude. In addition to the above listed six books there is another very well-known book of Ahādith titled Muwatta (the Leveled Path) compiled by Imām Mālik Ibni Anas Al-Madanī (A.H. 95 to A.H. 179).

Imām Mālik, in addition to holding a leading position among the scholar-compilers of Ḥadīth, is regarded as a leading jurist and is one of the four celebrities of jurisprudence whom the vast majority of Muslims seek to follow in all questions pertaining to Fiqh, (jurisprudence). The Mu-watta of Imam Malik is not listed in the above list as every Hadith in his compilation are already present in both Bukhari and Muslim.

Difference between Ḥadīth and SunnahAn important point which should be borne in mind is that, though the general mass of people make no dis-tinction between Ḥadīth and Sunnah, the two are, in fact, quite distinct.Ḥadīth consists of the actual words or details of the deeds of the Holy Prophet (saw) as reported down the line of successive narrators. But these Aḥādīth or reports were com-mitted to memory, jealously safe-guarded and treasured in the hearts of the reporters and were communi-

cated verbally at first. They were later collected and edited with great care in the form of books at different imes, varying from hundred to two hundred and fifty years after Hijra. As against this, the Sunnah is not the name of a recorded report but stands for the actual practice of the Holy Prophet (saw) in respect of a religious matter and which his companions, adopted in his own lifetime and under his own supervision. Each generation held fast to this actual form in which the Holy Prophet (saw) practised reli-gion, and in its turn was passed on to the succeeding generations.

Thus was established a mode of prac-tised religion that was immutable in form and that was passed on from generation to generation. The Sun-nah is evidently, therefore, distinct and something apart from Ḥadīth and carries much greater weight and sta-bility than Ḥadīth. We, therefore, hold that the Islāmic Sharī‘at is based originally on the Holy Qur’ān and the Sunnah. For, the Qur’ān is the word of God and the Sunnah is the practical explanation of this word, which the Prophet (saw) of God es-tablished through his personal exam-ple and then, through the personal ex-ample of the companions, it reached the succeeding generation, and thus was one torch lighted from the other torch. But, as against this, the Ḥadīth is, in fact, a collection of verbal re-ports and has the status of a support-ing witness. No doubt, it is a forceful supporting witness which cannot be ignored. In any case, it is not as basic as the Qur’ān and the Sunnah. Nev-ertheless, there is no gainsaying the fact that the Ḥadīth is a most precious treasure-house of historical, intellec-tual and spiritual wealth. So long as a Ḥadīth is not found contrary to aQur’ānic verse or a more reliable Ḥadīth, it is the duty of every Muslim to accept it, in obedienceto the Qur’ānic command, “Obey Allāh and the Prophet” and make it for life a source of divine guidance. It is a matter of regret, however, thatsome of the so-called Muslims of our day seem bent on minimizing the im-portance of this priceless treasure of wisdom. It must be remembered that

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5. SUNAN AN–NASĀ’Ī: Com-piled by Imām Aḥmad bin Shu‘aib an-Nasā’ī (A.H. 215 to A.H. 306) Imām Nasā’ī is one of the leading scholars of Aḥādīth and his work is generally accorded fifth place among the six standard books (Ṣiḥāḥ Sittah).

6. SUNAN IBN MĀJAH: Com-piled by Imām Muḥammad bin Yazīd bin Mājah al-Qizvainī (A.H. 209 to A.H. 273). This book is placed sixth among the standard Ṣiḥāḥ Sittah (the sixth correct works). It is a really good book.

Ijtihād or Exercise of JudgementIjtihad, or the exercise of judgement, is the third source of Islamic pri ci-ples and codes. To enable you to un-derstand the importance of Ijtihad, we will narrate an actual Hadīth of the Holy Prophet (saw) :

On being appointed Governor of Ye-men, Mu'adh was asked by the Holy Prophet (saw) as to which rule would he follow. Mu'adh replied, "The law of the Qur’ān". "But if you do not find any direction therein", asked the Prophet (saw). "Then I will act according to the Sunnah of the Prophet", replied Mu'adh. "But if you do not find any direction there-

This is the true example of how human judgement should be used in the mat-ter of religion. Muslims believe that the most accurate and perfect form of knowledge is that which is given to man through the process of revela-tion. To properly understand God's revelation, however, some human reasoning and judgement is always required. As long as the Holy Prophet (saw) was alive himself, he provided this judgement and explained to the people many of the rules and regula-tions given in the Qur’an. After his death, the people continued to carry out this threefold approach to the Is-lamic principles. Whenever a prob-lem arose, the Muslims tried to find its solution in the Qur’ān. If it was not mentioned in the Qur’ān, they searched the Holy Prophet’s Sunnah and Hadīth. Not finding the solu-tion there either, they used their best judgement based on the general phi-losophy and principles of Islam. This process of using human judgement in elaborating Islamic principles or solving problems is called Ijtihād.

Basically, they all fall under the gen-eral category of "viruses". However, there are a few distinctions.

Virus - Technically, a virus infects another file (attaches or inserts itself into it). They usually infect program files or MS Office documents. From there, it can replicate, do damage, etc. Unlike a worm, these do not function as a stand alone (except possibly to infect a given file).

Worm - This is almost identical to a "true virus", except that it lives on its own and generally doesn't infect other files (although it can replace them). Usually, these copy them-selves using e-mail, networks, disks, etc. Again, these are very close to a true virus, and can do the same kind of damage.

Trojan Horse - This type of program doesn't copy itself but does cause damage to your computer. These types of programs rely on people to pass them around and open them inadvertently. They do not e-mail themselves. The idea is to make the program look like it's something harmless, like a screen saver or joke, so it gets sent around.

Jokes !

(Q)-What’s the most musical bone ? (The trom-bone!)(Q)-What makes music on your head? (A head band !)(Q)-How do you get cool muzic ?(Put your cds in the fridge !)(Q)-What is a computers favor-ite music? (Disc-o)(Q)-What do you get if you pour hot water down a rabbit hole?(Hot cross bunnies!)(Q)-Why did the easter egg hide?(He was a little chicken!)(Q)-How many Easter eggs can you put in an empty basket?(Only one – after that it’s not empty any more!)

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in", he was asked again. "Then I will exercise my judgement (Ijtihad) and act on that", said Mu'adh. The Holy Prophet (saw) approved of this and prayed for Mu'adh.

there is a clear distinction between the Qur’ān and the Hadīth.

The Qur’ān is the Word of God. Hadīth, on the other hand, is the word of the Prophet Muhammad (saw), as narrated by various persons.Generally speaking, Muslims will follow the Hadīth if it does not con-tradict the teachings of the Qur’ān. If there is an apparent contradictionbetween the teachings of the Qur’ān and the Hadīth, then the Hadīth must be considered suspect. The Holy Prophet (saw) is reported to have said, “If you find anything foolish as-cribed to me,

discard it. For it is not from me”.

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