Sheikh Anwar Al Awlaki Stories Of The Prophets
Carmel Useted
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As American Muslims, many of us used to wonder at how Allah has blessed Imam Anwar with such a degree of eloquence, and the gift of storytelling if you will, that he could move you to tears within 5 minutes of his lecturing. The news that he was detained a few years ago in Yemen brought many of us into a state of shock and depression. We invoked Allah (subhanahu wa ta ala) to free our beloved Imam nightly until we heard the wonderful news that he had been freed on December 12, 2007. I remember all the text messages, emails, and blog posts with ecstatic Muslims around the country praising Allah for his release.
Our search for answers and excuses for Anwar Al Awlaki have run out. Today we are hearing the words of hate and violence in the voice of the very same Imam which used to bring us so much good through the stories of our prophets and the remembrance of the hereafter. His call today for us as American Muslims to take up arms against our own country serves no other purpose but to wreak havoc and destruction. It is the same call of the kharijites that has been repeated so many times that feasts on the frustration and uncontrolled emotions of vulnerable youth that do not have the foundation or knowledge to recognize its illegitimacy.
In the next few days, I sincerely hope that American Muslim scholars will repudiate this call of hate using the injunctions of the Quran and the authentic Sunnah of our beloved Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). In the long run however, as Muslim communities and organizations we must seek to offer avenues of positive energy, in accordance with the Quran and Sunnah, for our zealous youth. We also should not shy away from repudiating calls of violence and hate that recklessly ignore the manhaj (methodology) of our pious predecessors. It is only through the dissemination of authentic knowledge of our religion that such calls can be drowned.
As for the Imam Anwar of today who spreads messages filled with hate and violence, perhaps no one could refute you more effectively than the Imam Anwar that was so beloved to our community who once said in a sermon back in October 2001:
I sincerely ask Allah to guide Imam Anwar back to the path of moderation, and enlighten him to renounce this new methodology which stands contrary to the Quran and Sunnah. May Allah protect our community and allow us to be amongst those who call to guidance and are guided, and not amongst those who call to misguidance and are astray. Ameen.
You are right the actions of the muslim youth are in response to Americas foreign policies. Even Imam Anwar says in this audio that I did not recruit Nidal Hasan he was recruited by the american foreign policies and he challenged the American authorities to make the emails between him and Nidal Hasan to make it public.
Assalamu Aleykum Warahmatullahi Wabarakaathuh wa Jazakallah Kyran wa Barakallahu Feeka bi-alfee-me-athin, wa oola-ikalazeena nuhibbu fesabee lillahi subhanahu wa ta alla (Oh brother, Make Allah (SWT) reward you with good and bless you by the hundred thousands and also may he do the same for those whom we love for his sake, Ameen!) brother Muhamnmad for making this point clear. May Allah (SWT) protect our beloved Sheikh from sins, Taghut, and from the fitnah of the Duniyah and ad Dajjal, and from the punishment of the grave and the punishment of Jahanam and the Akirah, Ameen Ya Arham Araahimeen!
JAzakAllahkhair to the Imaam who wrote this, as i believe it is important for a body like the council to respond to what Anwar Al-Awlaki has said. however, it is sad that the imaam like many others were first surprised, then surprised some more, then surprised some more and then finally baffled and then kind of came to their senses in figuring out what Anwar Al Awlaki was saying.
It is not very encouraging to know how long it took for the imaam to realize the path this person was heading down or what type of ideology Anwar Al Awlaki was pushing. Since many of us already recognized it many years ago and many of us have been busy trying to refute/clarify to the muslims in america and else where the doubts that he has been propogating via his lecutres and writings.
i do appreciate what has been written, but again i will say that it is too little in depth, not strong enough of a refutation and it is disappointing that it took them so long to realize who they were dealing with.
While I agree that we should accept the truth from anyone regardless of who says it, yet taking knowledge randomly from all the scholars of the different sects is incorrect, as not all of them are preaching the correct beliefs and ideologies. How can you listen to one shaykh say something and then turn around and listen to a different shaykh from a different group who is saying something completely opposite? This will only lead the person to confusion and not knowing who is right and who is wrong. So definitely, a person should only take knowledge from the top scholars who are known to be upon the correct beliefs of Islam according to Quran and sunnah the way it is understood by the companions and their followers.
How could one truly understand the life of the Prophet (AS), his wives, and Sahabi and come to these conclusions involving pure murder later in life? Even if we believe he was radicalized after prison (and this is a new tale which has no basis in fact, he was making terrorist -positive remarks well before his imprisonment), it means the knowledge he had before was, at minimum, unable to sustain a sufficient internal response to his new views.
The existence of tacit knowledge means that the person is intimately involves whenever we are communicating information, especially religious knowledge which is all-encompassing and all-impacting in ones life.
This also means there are better sources for this than books or cds, there is knowledge which will be presented holistically which accounts for tacit knowledge to allow one to live a lifestyle connected to the Holy Prophet (AS), with authority, vibrancy and completeness.
Can we Muslim Americans Believe for one day what if we were in Palestine or in a place where we have no hope of survival and our mother or sister is being RAPED in front of us. what will we do i guess nothing but to watch and wait for own turn to die.
Why cant The Muslim organizations and scholars hear in US select a DAY of PROTEST in every Federal building and make a calender day.
Why cant the Muslim organizations and scholars hear in US call for PROTEST in front of WHITE HOUSE and just call every Muslim from world to join to protest the oppression which taking place in MUSLIM world.
Thank brother MR for understanding the spirit of my comment and not for putting words in my mouth.
Sadly I agree with you we do have problems with the hypocrites in Iraq but ultimately it would work out if the bullies left one sad way or other.
However, as the palestinians say, the problem is the occupation.
Plenty I wish to regurgitate every time the non muslims speak about muslims who have no blood on their hands, when they condone, initiate and execute death every day in congress and on the street and in the media whist commiting wholesale slaughter and death of innocent muslims.
They are barbarians and the most uncivilized, uncultured civilization we have encountered.
If you click on the CNN link in this article there is a video embedded on the bottom left. It has an audio excerpt from Awlaki in which he calls for Jihad against America. So there is no hearsay or slander involved here. Click on it and listen for yourself.
Back in 2007 he put out an audio in which he praised an al-Qaeda militant Amrozi so anyone who has been paying attention to him would know that he went to the dark side a while ago. The link to that audio was originally here: -anwar-al-awlaki-has-been-freed-released/ you can follow the comments. So this is nothing new.
If this hadith meant the ummah as a whole,.. then we are in big trouble.. What percentage of the ummah do you think prays 5 times a day? What percentage of Muslim men have the obligatory beard> what percentage of women wear acceptable hijab? the majority of the ummah? I think not. Not even close. Have they agreed on error? Definitley.
and please dont tell me the american scholars have agreed on something..the hadith says ummah not american muslims. Something which people on this website seem to forget, MM and American Muslims make up .0001 percent of muslims in the world. Just because you have a blog called MM does not mean this site or its opinions speak for muslim ummah. Lets be real. Why dosent ICNA focus on its own issues of mixed gatherings, mixed idealogies and mixed deen instead of throwing in its 2 cents.
Who said that we are only taking what local shaykhs have to say on this? Many of the senior shuyukh in Muslim countries have refuted these type of extreme ideas like killing civilians or bombing random places.
This type of thinking and behavior stems out from the beliefs of the khawaarij who were at the time of the companions may Allah be pleased with them, and it is enough to see that they were wrong because they fought the companions and went against them.
We would have been able to say he is brainwashed if his point of view did not make sense of anything, but why not at least address the arguments he uses. If we really want to counter him, let us use his own proofs.
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