IN Digestion

Neon Knight, (one of the few people I bother giving serious answers to) asked me something about who we can and can not hate:

The Jews split into 71 groups; one will enter Paradise and 70 will enter Hell. The Christians split into 72 groups; 71 will enter Hell and one will enter Paradise. By Him in Whose Power is the life of Muhammad, without doubt, my Ummah will be divided into 73 groups. Only one will enter Paradise and 72 will enter Hell.

When asked which group will be on the right path, the holy Prophet(Sallal laahu alaihi wasallam) replied, “The group on the right path, which will enter Paradise, will be the group which follows my Sunna and that of my Sahaba and this will be the largest group of Muslims.”

For me, it is a LOT easier to know who DOES NOT belong to the saved sect then it is to determine who belongs to the saved sect - so where as I do not know who we can NOT hate, I do know who we can hate.

I have two tools to determine who I will follow:

1. The one tool I have which helps me determine who I will follow is somethign Muhammad AlShareef said (though, I do not in any way follow him): He mentioned in ‘When wolves become Shepherds” that there are many levels of peolpe - and the highest level of person whois hated by Shaytan - you will see EVERYONE on earth lining up trying to get rid of this person, because the muslims will hate him (because of shaytan, the kuffar will hate him, etc. all of the cronies of Shaytan will hate him) so if you see someone like this, then know that Allaah LOVES this person.

2. The second tool I have always used is when I die, if I had to pick one person right now - on the face of the planet who I want to be resurrected next to because we know from the hadith that we will be resurrected with the people we love - who from this point in time in our ummah would I want to be raised with, if someone is NOT on this list - most likely their way is not the right way.

Everyone else:

I hate.

1. So for example, salafis - do I see Salafis or any of their scholars falling on the list above - NOPE, I sure as hell don’t wanna wake up next to someone who said Rabee al Madkhali is the man, and I Sure as hell do not want to wake up next to someone who sold the religon to the crusaders, etc.

2. I don’t wanna wake up next to no soofie - HELL no.

3. Nore tablighis

4. Nore modernists, etc.

So its a lot easier to determine who I do not like.

and I have 2 questions to determine who I would love to be resurrected with.

There is one person on the top of that list, actually at least 5 people off the top of my head at least. But what really led me to believe my way of determining whom to Love really connected when I heard that from Shaikh Muhammad Alshareef -

If you make those two statements your basis for determining who we should love and follow, you will be able to rest - because many of the individuals on that list are such amazing people, that really we do not even care what their aqidah is , or how much knowlege they had, and we rush to forgive them for ALL of their mistakes, because we know for sure, we have certainty that from we know about them  - 100% we would LOVE to be resurrected with them.

I mean can anyone really contend with putting someone like Shaheed Sayyid Qutb on that list? Oh yea - probably 95% of salafis on earth would hate to be resurrected with him.,which shows you idiotic the salafi movement is.

So one person I know for sure not to hate is Sayed Qutb, rahimahullah. And you can fill in the list and/or make your own list. But thats how I determine who is worth not hating. Everyone else is a dickhead. Because the religon is easy, 14 year old kids can understand Islam - so everyone else who is fucking around with Islam is a proper dickhead - and you can and should hate them.

I have a project that I have to complete within a few hours… (kinda important) - and unable to concentrate cause all I wanna do is eat…

So (since I am travelling), I am 100% positive I want to break my fast, if even so I can get through my work more easily.

But I know I can’t do it with my family here, word will be spread and Ill have to be annoyed about it for the remainder of the trip and my dad might be impatient with my explanation.

Or, I could walk over to Wendy’s (no one lets me drive, but its not to bad of a drive), and I could REALLY REALLY use a ciggarette so I could knock two stones with one kiss.

But, I think I am just gonna slowly work until I have like 5 more minuts of work left and then finally bend AND ill only have a glass of water, and thats the end of that… and I’ll still have to make up the fast.. If only I could just last one more hour and a half -

Sas

I’ve always hated women - you know some guys, we are just like that - they have nothing interesting to offer to life, and our only contact with them is well basically when they are:

1. Crying
2. Nagging
3. Can’t follow anything with logic at all
4. Have the intelligence of a child

And I am sure the list goes on - but basically some people just dislike certain kinds of people.

So I just now realized where my deeprooted hatred for Salafis comes from - now let me make something clear their leaders do not Fall into this category at all - and by their leaders, I am talking about the heavy weights - like Shaikh Fauzaan, Shaikh Ibn Baaz, Shaikh Al Albani - they are remarkably not like All of their Followers in these characteristics.

Ok, here it is:

I can’t think of any difference between a Salafi and A Whiny wife - they are one in the same - they act like a bunch of women, they have no balls - they need permission from their wives to travel to give classes - whaetever - the list goes on.

Soofies are pretty much the same way - the only thing they have up on us is that some of them possess intelligence - our intelligent guys are ok to, but I have no issues with them  - it’s all these whiny guys that want to sit around and always talk after the friday prayer about this and that, or wanna go out and eat some pastries while discussing the latest conference they went to - I swear its just like a bunch of women talking about the next house they will be sleeping over and what color the last sister’s abaya was - its the same thing.

Women are expected to act like groupies - they are like that - but when you see a bunch of men acting like that, its sickening - thats why I just realized I can not stand Salafis - they are a bunch of women - Their Mac Daddy scholars by the way ARE Nothing like this.

The scholar that I am most attached to is Shaikh Ibn Baaz - when I think of a great wise man, I always think of him - when I think about ‘A Scholar’ I think of him - maybe its just the fact that that is how we were raised and we see him as our father, and as much as you may hate some things your father does - he is still your father - thats how I feel about him, we were told to love and respect him like we do our fathers - and well - we did - and thats really the hardest problem with aceepting some of the stances he took, because we considered him to be one of the greatest men to walk on earth - and they let us down, him specifically.

Once you can find it in your heart to hold him accountable for the problems he is responsible for - its just not that much fun anymore - the magic - the harry potter like feeling we had when we first started learning about Islam is gone - those were the golden days - when everyone you met, everyone you spoke to would look proudly and beem about Shaikh Bin Baaz, with a look that said - thats Our father, and we will always love him and attach ourselves to him, and scholar on earth right now is better then him - and what a person he was - people like him made the religon magical for us, and I don’t think he can ever be replaced for most of us who experienced Islam and learned in any way shape or form from him, his students, legacy / any of that stuff. Your eyes would light up when you read a brilliant article or fatwa and it said Shaikh Biin Baz at the end of it… If he could have been just a bit better, it would still be magical…

Required Reading:
Shaikh Munajjids biography of him
Muhammad AlShareefs khutbah that starts off talking about his death

If you read my post, and don’t read the above two links, don’t bother coming back to my blog - thank you.

One of the best parts of a pakistani american soofie is that when its ramadhan - we listen to tbe best naats ever (well sounding at least).

The best part about being an american soofie is I have no idea what the naats actually say, so I do not have to feel guilty about the incorrect things that may be being said in them (my salafi background still has a strong influence on my new found soofism).

But, this time its even more so - my uncle is sick, and I am here in Dallas, - and they have ‘his’ naats playing all of the time, in the car on the way to the hospitol, during the day when I am here and now I have it playing on my laptop. Later, I will put them all up so you can see how mac daddy they really are.

I feel like talking to my wife - but uh, well I never really know how to - so I will just blog it - it’s weird being in another city and only seeing your wifes posts on a message board…
I miss you, and love you very much - please give me a call when you read this.

Sas

This is why I love Islamic Network. I feel restricted anywhere else - even my own site (sasjamal.com back in the day) - was hijacked by Mr. Wood And Abu Hurayrah and they took over my site!

Its like NO BODY, I mean NO BODY will let me just say what I want to say without being so threatened that they either:

1. Kick me Out
2. Remove all my posts

So I decided a long time ago that an organzation should exist that does not censure myself (and later Fatima broadened that to other groups and sects [those I do not even belong to!]) so now I am in a place where I can say what I want, when I want as long as I do not break any of the rules (and NO the rules are not set up in such a way that it only applies to me, it applies to everyone)…

But this thread is a great example of a place where I can just by myself and just say what I want (and boy there is nothing funner then hearing yourself talk/type)

http://talk.islamicnetwork.com/showthread.php?t=11188

Mr. Wood, if you are listening…

This is VERY VERY Lame.

http://indecisivefickleness.muslimpad.com/

I have a sickness - I know I do, since whenever I can remember I have loved being a jerk - not in anything important mind you, I won’t try to harm anyone really - but I have a low tolerance for anything I deem ‘gay’

I know it is unislamic, but it just very very hard to not be a jerk these days - unless you want to go down the whole, I love ‘every’ muslim route - which while is true, should not apply to:

1. Leaders
2. Organizations
3. Scholars

So, how do you deal with an organization which you deem idiotic? or a scholar who wouldn’t know the difference between Jihad and Miswak, and the organizations that are always finding a new way to make siwaak?

Well you could patiently put up with their harms and let your family and friends have a good opinion about them, or you can expose them for the idiots that they are. (and hopefully they will not waster years of their lives learning from them).
Now there is really no fun way to call these guys idiots - and secondly, its not like anyone is even smart enough to understand why we have so many fools amongst us -

You may as well be a sarcastic jerk, and have some fun with it…

Now I do wish I could change, and sometimes I do for a day or two - but well when your as smart as me, its just to hard to not.

My Dad is the oldest in a family of 15+ Brothers and Sisters (I always forget how many).

My Dad’s brother died a few years ago from a heart attack, (or some other heart related problem).

My Dad’s other brother died last week of a heart attack, (or some other heart related problem).

My mom called me this morning to tell me that my Dad was in dallas for two weeks because his other brother now is also hospitolized because of heart problems and he just had a stroke.

So, you can imagine that my family from the UK flew down, my dad from ohio and I drove in from Houston to be here -

The main point of the story is, I was alarmed also for my fathers health - considering that he is the oldest of these guys - (he reassured me he eats healthy, etc. and is in good standing with the doctors) - the fact he pops about 7 pills a day though is not so reassuring.

But THAT is not even the main point of the story.

Today was not such an unordinary day in my life (food wise), so you get the idea of what I normally eat and why I am alarmed.

1. I woke up, consitpated and sick to my stomach so I had one of those mix in water fiber drinks (ispaghol for the desis) - mostly because of the two boxes of maceroni I had consumed the day before.

2. Had I not waken up consitpated, I probably would have had two aslee gee parathas with some short of salan, or meat

3. I had two super size meals (frenchfries, burgers, cokes, the whole deal)

4. I ate the super size meal because I was to constipated to eat pizze (there was a pizza hut right there)

5. When I arrived in dallas, my cousins had gotten me a pizza.

6. I was to consitpiated to eat the pizza in point number 5.

7. I ate it anyway (but only two slices)

8. I over heard my cousins asking my other cousins if we should have paratha salan or paratha chain for suhoor

9. Thank god they said parata chai, at least its not some glob of meat

10. This was not even a full day, this is just an average day

On a better day, I can uusally down two plates of biryani and 5-6 slices of extra cheese pizza. (and thats just all, dinner (after 6pm) (lets call this a good day)

I average about 4-6 good days a month, and 5-10 average days a month

Combine that with a pack of cigarettes daily… and all the men in my family from both sides having heart problems, and diabetes - and blogging being the closest thing to exercise in my life….

I am pretty sure I am going to die of heart problems, pretty early.

The thing is I really sincerely do try to change my eating habits daily. I even ‘make’ my wife say she will not give in to me and not let me eat what I want, and instead I will try to eat only dhaal chaaval.

But since I am such a good arguer somehow I convince her daily (shes kinda smart) to let me eat what I want, and that its better for me.

The reason I can do that is because I actually believe what I say.

My most common argument is that its better for me to eat the way I want so that I am inspired, so that I can do the work on my task list.

My best argument recently was if she lets me eat as much as I want of a typical thing (I wanted to eat two things of maceroni and cheese that day) - I will get tired of it quicker and not want to eat it anymore.

Got to go, i think i feel a bowel movement coming on…