Salam

Please do not say things here.

Simply do as women do: Just talk.

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Previous "New Topic 8" can be found here:

http://www.therevival.co.uk/forum/general/9024

Future No Topic 11:

http://www.therevival.co.uk/forum/general/11996

Omrow

The Muslim Ummah
Sectarian violence persists to this day from Pakistan to Yemen and is a major element of friction throughout the Middle East

Battle of Siffin
May–July 657 CE) occurred during the First Fitna, or first Muslim civil war, with the main engagement taking place from July 26 to July 28. It was fought between Ali ibn Abi Talib and Muawiyah I, on the banks of the Euphrates river,

Following the controversial murder of Uthman ibn Affan, Ali had become Caliph but struggled to be accepted as such throughout the Muslim Empire. Muawiyah, the governor of Syria, was a kinsman of the murdered Caliph, and wanted the murderers brought to justice. He considered that Ali was unwilling to do this so Muawiyah rebelled against Ali,
The battle and arbitration served to weaken Ali's position, but did not resolve the tensions that were plaguing the empire. To the Shia, Ali ibn Abi Talib was the first Imam. To Sunnis, Ali ibn Abi Talib was the fourth Rashidun Caliph, and Muawiyah the first Caliph of the Ummayyad dynasty.

Battle of Basra
The Battle of Basra (also known as the Battle of the Camel or Battle of Jamal) was a battle that took place at Basra, Iraq in 656 between forces allied to Ali ibn Abi Talib (Muhammad's cousin and son-in-law, Commander of the Faithful)
and forces allied to Aisha (widow of Mohammad, and Mother of the Believers

In the war, Aisha accompanied her army in her camel-litter.
Professor Leila Ahmed claims that it was during this engagement that Muslims fought Muslims for the first time.[21] Battle ensued and Aisha's forces were defeated. Aisha directed her forces from a howdah on the back of a camel; this 656 AD battle is therefore called the Battle of the Camel.

The combat had lasted 110 days in total.

End of the battle

Marwan ibn al-Hakam shot his own Muslim general

Yeh hai aap ki so called ummah

Apologies for misleading title
InshAllah I will be doing a dissertation in my final year on mental health, psychosis and religion.

It would be really great also to give a positive take on how spirituality is necessary for good mental health so

if you know someone who has been through depression or jinn possession or some sort of metal health problem that religion helped them overcome, I WOULD LOVE TO TALK TO THEM. Obviously they can remain anonymous and don't have to see me, I can call them or if that's a problem, we can also do it by email or however they feel comfortable.

pleeeeeeeaseee!

Salaam

So do you celebrate the mawlid/milad?

yes, no, why?

if you do how do you do it?

if not what's the main reasons...

How is it done in your town/city/local mosque?

Lets not get in to sectarian debates... and accuse each other of bidah, kufr etc...

If those who celebrate it and those who don't communicate properly hatred disappears and you start to understand and appreciate each other instead of seeing the other as 'wahabi', 'brelwi', 'deobandi', 'salfi', etc...

wasalaam

Salaam

I will inshallah take part in the Great Manchester Run on 20th May. Its 10km. I aim to get many donations/sponsors for The Revival magazine.

I will appreciate here if EVERYONE made some kind of a donation/contribution.

As we are not a registered charity as yet we dont have a just giving account so any donations would have to be through cheques. If you are interested please email/pm me and I will send you teh correspondence adress to send payments.

I will start my training this weekend...I have almost 4 months..so enough time to get in shape and run the race well.

You can also take part in the Run if you live in the north. Just register on the Great Manchester website.

wasalaam

Britain facing boom in dishonesty
New study reveals dramatic decline in private integrity; Public trust in politicians and business leaders hits fresh low

The British people are becoming less honest and their trust in government and business leaders has fallen to a new low amid fears that the nation is heading for an "integrity crisis".

Lying, having an affair, driving while drunk, having underage sex and buying stolen goods are all more acceptable than they were a decade ago. But people are less tolerant of benefits fraud.

The portrait of a nation increasingly relaxed about "low-level dishonesty" emerges in a major study seen by The Independent. Carried out by the University of Essex

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/britain-facing-boom-in-d…

One of the major questions asked by most of the Muslims residing in West is that, shaking hands with a non-mehram woman is permissible or not?

The ‘woman’ in the question includes both Muslim and Non-Muslim women. Though the Eastern countries provide far less places and chances, where non-mehram men and woman can shake hands with each other, on contrary survival is not possible without doing so in the western world. Moreover, shaking hands with a non-mehram woman is regarded as a sin in Islam.

For more details please visit the site below:

http://www.quranreading.com/blog/islam-religion/verdict-of-islam-on-men…

Abu Issa Mohammed ibn Harun al-Warraq was a 9th Century skeptical scholar and critic of Islam.
He was a mentor and friend of scholar Ibn al-Rawandi in whose work The Book of the Emerald he appears.
Some Muslim sources have described him as being a Muslim and others a Manichaean

Al-Warraq was skeptical of the existence of Allah because "He who orders his slave to do things that he knows him to be incapable of doing, then punishes him, is a fool." Warraq also doubted claims portraying Mohammed as a prophet

That Mohammed could predict certain events does not prove that he was a prophet: he may have been able to guess successfully, but this does not mean that he had real knowledge of the future. And certainly the fact that he was able to recount events from the past does not prove that he was a prophet, because he could have read about those events in the Bible and, if he was illiterate, he could still have had the Bible read to him

Al-Warraq challenged the notion that Islam was a revealed religion. He argued that if humans are capable of figuring out that, for instance, it is good to be forgiving, then a prophet is unnecessary, and that we should not heed the claims of self-appointed prophets if what is claimed is found to be contrary to good sense and reason

Warraq admired the intellect not for its capacity to submit to a god, but rather for its inquisitiveness towards the wonders of science.

He explained that people developed the science of astronomy by gazing at the sky, and that no prophet was necessary to show them how to gaze. He also said that no prophets were needed to show them how to make flutes, either, or how to play them