Comments on: Saudi Arabia Today: What Would the Prophet (PBUH) Think?

By: Fatima

Fatima — Fri, 15 May 2009 14:39:53 +0000

I think the prophet already knew what was going to become of saudi arabia.

By: American Bedu

American Bedu — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:36:35 +0000

Reuters chose to carry this post:

http://www.reuters.com/article/blogBurst/technology?bbPostId=B6kcqoGH9Pf8Bzn7nRZ5sNNoAOhAxRwUfr5CzCCp0ffV3YZ9

By: coolred38

coolred38 — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:36:46 +0000

Because we all know that your name indicates your religion…sheesh…where do people come up with this crap?

By: ummadam

ummadam — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 07:19:53 +0000

@yakuv
Non-African American, I presume. well as an AA, let me tell you that is BHO, chose to use his birth name after years of using an Americanized version of it – this `would not be surprising to AAs. It could be more of an Ethnic Identity thing than a Muslim thang. Visit the ‘hood’ and see how many AA children with arabic/Muslim names, that know nothing of Islam. There was a post on another message board I am on that even spoke of AAs with names like ‘Shaytaan’ and ‘Iblis’, thosde are the Devils name! Are these people devil worshippers? No, just ignorant fools who want to give their children unusual names. Go to any random American University and check out the members of the Black Student Union. You may run into a few AA members wearing dasheekees (sp), but have never been to Africa. BHO father is African, he gave him an African/ Arabic/Muslim name. BHO says he is not Muslim – case closed.

By: Yakov

Yakov — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 04:07:18 +0000

As for Mr Obama. He was born in Hawaii’s King Kamehameha
Hospital (excuse possible misspelling). That is where his Americanism starts to end. Named Barack Houssein Obama by his parents, both practicing Muslims, both his first name and his middle name are Muslim. Mr Obama is not a closet Muslim, but in the finest tradition of Omar Khayyam he is ‘hiding in plain sight’! He submerged his names in school in madrassas in Jakarta yet was registered as ‘Barry Soetoro’ and as of the Muslim faith while in primary school in Indonesia. He learned his Qu’Ran in the original Arabic as that is what Madrassas do. Then when his mother’s second marriage, to Mr Soetoro, went sour, he was sent to Hawaii to live with his grandparents. There he went to school as ‘Barry Obama’ and graduated from High School and college. It is after his education that an introspective Barry Obama took a philosophical and geographical journey to the birthplace of his forefathers, Kenya and rediscoved his ethnic Somali heritage. Did I say ethnic Somali? Yes! Ethnic Somali, just like Blackhawk down!. Thatr does not mean that Barry is like Mr Aweys or Mr Mohammed Farah Aidid. It just means that some Somalis found life hard in Somaliland and wanted a better life, so crossed a border into Christian Kenya and became Kenyans just like so many other economic refugees, Mexicans find homes and work in the United States. It is after this that Barry became Barack again. Now that is interesting, as Barack has got to know that Barack is an anglicised form of ‘Buraq’, the direct transliteration from the Arabic of the magical horse that transported the Prophet Mohammed (Peace be on Him) to the ‘far Mosque’ sometimes called the ‘Seventh Heaven’. The first name that he took back is as Muslim as it gets, and any Muslim will instantly know it. It goes without analysis that even the more ignorant will know that the name Houssein is the name of the grandson of the Prophet and
the founding inspiration of all the Shia and some Sufi. Despite his denials, Mr Buraq Houssein Obama must be what he appears and affirms by his actions in life. I myself am tired of the usury visited on the unhappy people of the United States by its monopolistic, bloodthirsty, and ravenously greedy banks and other financial institutions. In my own small town here a shop was going to open up and the remodelers said that it was going to be a ‘check cashing facility’. My stepson, a lifelong ‘never do well’ informed me that ‘check cashing’ places charged up to ten percent of the face amount of checks to cash them, and they also made loans at interest rates up to eight hundred percent annually. That ‘check cashing’ place never opened, that the hole in the wall storefront is now again for rent with no takers. I came to find out that Washington Mutual, a monopoly bank, had owned the parent corporation of the corporation that was going to run that ‘check cashing/loan sharking’ store had it opened. This tells me that American banks prefer to lend money to bums at eight hundred percent interest, with the interest and loans guaranteed by ‘insurance’ ultimately paid for by the American taxpayer. These same banks are only willing to pay their depositors a paltry one quarter of one percent annual interest on the money that they are shoveling out to bums at eight hundred percent. In other words, our American banks are profiteering over seven hundred and ninety nine percent interest on money that is not theirs, and looking down their collective noses at the sources of their ill gotten gains. Maybe some Muslim principles would be good here in the United States. I understand that Muslim banks are only allowed to charge two percent interest. That is the same that the old Catholic Church allowed in the middle ages. Some of that old fashioned morality would be a breath of fresh air here in the United States. Inshallah!!

By: anonymous

anonymous — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:25:02 +0000

who’s said anything about abandoning holy places? Or westernizing? Heaven forbid.

By: hissweetheart

hissweetheart — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:11:05 +0000

As for the increase in the rate of cars accidents, let me tell you this since I am Saudi plus has been living here all my 25 years old. Saudis become blind “males” since driving is not allowed for females when it comes to driving cars. The reason behind driving at carzy speeds is simply because they don’t want to be late when it comes to breaking their fast.

They could simply have “Dates” while driving so that they break their fast instead of killing themselves as well as hundreds of innocent souls.

About the shows, they will be increasing and increasing along with their uselesness!!

Prophet Mohammed is with us, he can see every single thing that happens here I am sure!!

What scares me most is the idea of abandoing the holy places we have here due to the rapid of blind Westernizing changes!!

By: Keeping It Real « Soliloquies of A Stranger

Keeping It Real « Soliloquies of A Stranger — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:22:47 +0000

[...] 16, 2008 It’s been a few hours since I have read this comment directed to me on another blog, and I still have not been able to get it off of my mind. Well you [...]

By: Andrea

Andrea — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:26:31 +0000

eyes rolling. biting tongue. baffled and irritated..

anyway. I will put my originally intended comment under “debates” page.

By: ummadam

ummadam — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:47:16 +0000

Carol – this is true.It is between you and Allah. However, there a few main reasons why I chose to comment.

1. The Religion is Naseehah (Sincere Advice).

On the authority of Abu Ruqayya Tameem ibn Aus ad-Daaree (radi Allaahu anhu) that the Prophet (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) said:

‘The Deen (religion) is naseehah (advice/sincerity)’. We said ‘To whom?’ He said ‘To Allah and His Book, and His Messenger, and to the leaders of the Muslims and their common folk.’

[Related by Muslim]

The explanation for this hadeeth in regards to the common folk (us) is:

“And as for the Naseehah to the common folk of the Muslims, and they are those who are other than the rulers, then it involves guiding them towards that which will correct their affairs of both this life and the next, and helping them in that. And it involves protecting them from harm, and helping them in times of need, and acquiring what is beneficial for them, and ordering them with al-Ma’roof (good) and forbidding them from al-Munkar (evil) with kindness and sincerity, and showing mercy towards them. And it involves honouring and respecting their elders, and showing kindness to their youngsters, and supporting them with good advice. And leaving cheating them or having jealousy of them, and that one loves for them what one loves for oneself of goodness, and that one hates for them what one hates for oneself of evil, and protecting their wealth and honour, and other than that from speech and action. And it also involves encouraging them upon all that we have mentioned above of the various types of Naseehah, and Allaah knows best. ”

2.I have an intense and burning jealousy for Islam. it is said that, the mightiest rank of jealousy is the jealousy for Islam which manifests when one hears someone treat Allah’s religion as a jest.

3. Dawah. Dawah in Islam is actually an order from Allah:

You are the best of people raised up, for you call to all that is right and righteous and you forbid the evil, and you believe in Allah.
[Qur'an 3:110]

There are non – Muslims, new Muslims, Ignorant Muslima, and others who read your blog. Something as serious (though you took the ‘blasphemy’ comment lightly) as your open statement of the Quran needing to be updated need to be addressed. If not for your benefit, than for the benefit of others.

You allow all types of evil comments spread on your blog about Islam and Muslims. I assumed that sincere advice and dawah would be welcomed as well.

@Ryan

I understand. Your comment about being most comfortable in secular places and around non-religious people, describes the first 25 years of my life! To be honest I didn’t even know any religious people and had never been involved in any type of religious discussion for that long. Gosh, now that I read your comment I think I was really like you. I mean I never gave much thought to religion. I knew there was a higher power and even called on Him. I guess the difference between us is that I did not know anything about any religion to even be a ‘religiophobe’! I never had anyone around me to ‘turn me off’ of religion and I think Allah for that and praise Him for guiding me to Islam and the Sunnah.