Guest Column | May 18, 2012

How much clearer can the issue of Democracy = Islam = Deen = Shari’ah be?

Finally, the world seems to be getting around to understanding this equation. 

But notwithstanding those who haven’t got a clue, it seems to me that the message is gaining traction, as it were, across the world. You get the impression that more people are embracing this axiom, this truth. [...]

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Quote-Unquote – Book IV (301-400), Quote-Unquote: Dr. Pasha on Islam, Muslims and the World | May 17, 2012

“Democracy is Islam!

For those who understand both Islam and democracy, and the world in which we live, there is no doubt about the fact that democracy is Islam.

Do you think that is partly why the Qur’an mandated education – including a thorough knowledge and understanding of the world, for example – before people begin to even think or talk about Islam.

Leave alone boast and brag about it.

Why do you think God started his message to the world with the command: Read?

Iqra’!

Do you think it is a subtle hint from the creator of the world that Islam was not going to be a playground for fools, nincompoops and ignoramuses?

That it was a declaration from God that Islam was not going to be a bonanza for sundry Snake-Oil Merchants?

And for the marketers of all kinds of Mumbo-Jumbo in the name of what the world so glibly calls “Religion”?

Take heed people, Islam is democracy. That means, no democracy, no Islam.”

Dr. Pasha

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Quote-Unquote – Book IV (301-400), Quote-Unquote: Dr. Pasha on Islam, Muslims and the World | May 17, 2012

“Democracy is Islam! No ifs, no buts, you want Islam, you must have democracy first. And last.” (Dr. Pasha)

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Main Articles & Books | May 17, 2012

Everyone knows it is open season on Islam. Of course, turkey and deer season in some parts of the world is not too far off either.

That means anyone from any background, and proceeding from any combination of motives, is free to shoot their mouth in any direction they please on Islam and things Islamic.

And they will be none the worse for doing that.

And that includes friends, enemies and innocent bystanders.

That is why the word Shari’ah gets bandied about a lot these days. By friends and foes alike. [...]

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Main Articles & Books | May 15, 2012

Allah does not need anyone’s help. For, Allah is As-Swamad – the one who is totally and completely independent of others.

So also, Allah’s work does not need anyone’s help. For, Allah has no Shareek, no partner or associate of any kind, in anything he does.

Allah is Wah’dahoo laa shareeka lahu. [...]

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Main Articles & Books | May 14, 2012

Please read this document by Dr. Pasha why all lovers of freedom and democracy all over the world must voice their support for Dr. Morsi at this critical juncture in history. [...]

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Main Articles & Books | May 12, 2012

June 1, 2012: World Day of Education

Everyone is graduating from everywhere. It is that season again.

All over the world, it is graduation season. And what a blessed, happy season it is.

In this happy graduation season, we call on the world, all people all over the world, whether Muslim or non-Muslim, and whether they are male or female, to celebrate the 1^st of June every year as WORLD DAY OF EDUCATION.

Along with everything else that they celebrate.

Let us start out with June 1, 2012 as our first WORLD DAY OF GRADUATION. [...]

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Main Articles & Books | May 12, 2012

Everyone is graduating from everywhere. It is that season again.

Congratulations, Graduates!

What a day! You dreamed about it; you worked for it; and now it is here.

I am happy for you. And I am proud of you.

But just before you go, one more lesson.

The world is full of challenges. Go prepared to meet them. And meet them like the men and women you are: wanting to be the best.

It is not a jungle out there, as some people might have told you. The world is a fairly civilized place. [...]

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Quote-Unquote – Book IV (301-400), Quote-Unquote: Dr. Pasha on Islam, Muslims and the World | May 10, 2012

It is from the very first chapter, the Opening Chapter if you will, of the Qur’an.

If this does not convince you that this Qur’an is from God, I don’t know what will.

So, here goes:

“Lead us on to the straight path!

The path of those you have blessed.

Not the path of those who displease you.”[/quote]

(Dr. Pasha)

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Main Articles & Books | May 10, 2012

May 23: World Day of Democracy!

We call on the world – the entire world, Muslim as well as non-Muslim; in the East as well as in the West – to declare and celebrate Wednesday, May 23, 2012, as WORLD DAY OF DEMOCRACY.

This year, May 23 coincides with 1st of the blessed month of Rajab Al-Murajjab Al-Ahsab Al-Asamm. 

For, democracy is Islam and Islam is from Allah!

And it is the first day of Presidential Elections in Egypt.

Islam was sent into this world by the maker and master of the world to guarantee basic freedoms and rights to all human beings, regardless of their race, gender or religion. [...]

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Main Articles & Books | May 3, 2012

What is going on Egypt is heartbreaking. The dream of democracy in Egypt so near and yet so far!

And, as usual, the world is in crisis – one more time.

The world is in crisis due every bit to its own doings – a sum total of its omissions and commissions, all the things it did and failed to do. A fruit in the making if you will of what the world’s own hands have wrought, as they used to say.

Or Bimaa kasabat ayidinnas, as the Qur’an phrased it in its own immortal and timeless words.

Egypt today is a serious challenge to the entire world.

The question is will the world support Egyptian struggle for freedom or will it sit back and watch as Democracy in Egypt is crushed, elections are stolen and the Great Egyptian People are massacred with impunity? [...]

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Main Articles & Books | Apr 29, 2012

It was 1971, in Trinidad & Tobago, West Indies, the Caribbean – and of course everywhere else.

Some of us started then to teach some of the others among us how to read the Qur’an.

This 1400-year-old book on this earth from Allah in our hands.

Still pure and pristine in its original form, every word and every letter of it, exactly the way Prophet Muhammad, Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam, taught his followers whom he called his Companions.

Imagine this!

A man without any formal or informal schooling or tutoring or mentoring or training of any kind from any human source, a man who could not read or write himself, teaching the whole world this book that called itself Qur’an – The Reading!

And called itself Al-Kitaab – The Book!

And this book further claimed that it was a book free from all error and doubt.

Who writes a book like that?

And who makes a claim like that? [...]

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Main Articles & Books | Apr 28, 2012

Many of those who say they work for Allah, sometimes – or should I say often? – they forget one important detail about life: They forget that they should learn to put God above self.

As a result, many of them are too often too preoccupied with themselves: what they need; what they would like; what is remiss with their lives; and all the wrongs the world is doing to them, including many of their own fellow-workers for Allah.

They forget that putting God before Self is putting God’s Messenger and God’s book, and the teachings of God’s Messenger, Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam, above oneself and above one’s own needs, desires and preferences.

And all that also means putting the best interests of God’s creation above their own narrow and selfish personal interests and needs and wants. [...]

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Main Articles & Books | Apr 24, 2012

Those Working for Allah must know this simple – and self-evident – fact. For, it is an axiom of Working for the Creator of the Worlds.

They should know that at all times they are in the safe, secure and unfailing hands of their maker and master, their true employer, God Almighty.

As a result, they should not become overly upset or despondent if at any given time or in any given place things don’t seem to go their way. [...]

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Quote-Unquote – Book IV (301-400), Quote-Unquote: Dr. Pasha on Islam, Muslims and the World | Apr 24, 2012

“Allah is truth.

Not just any kind of truth, but clear and transparent truth.

That is what the Qur’an says.

Allah is Al-haqqul Mubin, says the Qur’an — clear and manifest truth.

Working for Allah, therefore, is all about truth and integrity.

When those are compromised, or replaced by fraud and deceit to any degree, there is nothing left of working for Allah.

This includes what is called “Spin” by the media and political commentators.

And it also may end up including what people think is merely ”Cutting Corners.” (Dr. Pasha)

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Main Articles & Books | Apr 24, 2012

Part of Working for Allah – part of life in fact, because both things are the same: life as well as what we are calling Working for Allah – is that things don’t always seem to go the way you want.

Some may see this as failure. And feeling of failure may lead to frustration.

But a Muslim never fails. [...]

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Main Articles & Books | Apr 21, 2012

On Friday, April 20, Ikhwan, and other good people of Egypt, came out on Tahrir Square, Cairo, a million strong to jump start their teetering Democracy Revolution.

They were “demanding” the Egyptian Military Council SCAF keep its promise of handing over power to civilian representatives of the Egyptian People by the end of June, and return to barracks.

The Ikhwan – and the great Egyptian People – must beware of the enemy. [...]

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Quote-Unquote – Book IV (301-400), Quote-Unquote: Dr. Pasha on Islam, Muslims and the World | Apr 19, 2012

God is one. Everyone knows that. Or, at least, they should.

So, the Qur’an says: “Say, God is One!”

Qul Huwallahu Ahad (112:1).

And then of course, if God is God, then he does not, should not, owe anything to anyone. He should not be beholden to or dependent on any one.

And the Qur’an says that too: Allahus Swamad (112:2).

So, that is who God is, our lord and master: Dhaalikumullahu Rabbukum (6:102; 10:3).

So, let us all join together in worshipping him – Fa’budoohu (6:102; 10:3).

A most beautiful message from the most beautiful Qur’an! (Dr. Pasha)

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Main Articles & Books | Apr 13, 2012

People talk. They talk all the time.

For, that is what it means to be a human being: Talk, talk, talk.

But the question is what do they talk about?

Answer: They talk about practically everything in the world – and many things that may not even be in the world.

And yet there is one thing they do not talk about. Or they are reluctant to talk about.

Or they don’t put as much effort and energy into talking about.

Or, even, don’t show as much interest or inclination in talking about.

God! [...]

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Main Articles & Books | Apr 3, 2012

God is truly one. And he is truly one of a kind.

Here is how the Qur’an describes God: There is nothing like him.

The words of the Qur’an are: Laisa kamithlihee shaiy.

To me, that is self-evident.

For, if he is not one of a kind, and if there are two or three or 10 or 15 running around who are exactly like him, and who look, talk and walk like him, then why is he God?

In that case, all of them, each and every one of them, should be God, right? [...]

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