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  • Mufti Perlis: Umat Islam Dinasihatkan Supaya Hangan Mainkan Bacaan Ayat Suci Al-Quran Dalam Masjid

    Mufti Perlis: Umat Islam Dinasihatkan Supaya Hangan Mainkan Bacaan Ayat Suci Al-Quran Dalam Masjid

    KANGAR: Umat Islam dinasihatkan supaya jangan memainkan bacaan ayat suci al-Quran di dalam masjid atau surau seperti sebelum waktu solat.

    Mufti Perlis Datuk Dr Mohd Asri Zainal Abidin berkata ini kerana Nabi Muhammad SAW sendiri melarang jemaah yang berada di dalam masjid membaca al-Quran dengan suara nyaring, inikan pula jika memainkan bacaan yang bunyinya boleh kedengaran hingga ke luar masjid atau surau.

    Beliau menyatakan demikian pada sesi soal jawab program Semarak Dakwah Ehya’ Masjid di Masjid Behor Empiang di Perlis malam tadi.

    Beliau berkata Nabi Muhammad melarang membaca al-Quran dengan suara nyaring dalam masjid kerana ia boleh mengganggu tumpuan jemaah lain yang datang ke masjid untuk beribadah.

    “Jika memasang kaset bacaan al-Quran sebelum masuk waktu solat seperti solat Subuh, tentu akan menggangu orang lain di persekitaran masjid atau surau, yang mungkin sedang tidur, dan ini dilarang oleh Islam,” ujarnya.

    Kepada soalan lain, Datuk Asri berkata umat Islam tidak dilarang untuk berqasidah kerana ia merupakan syair, namun liriknya perlu tidak menyeleweng daripada ajaran Islam sebenar.

    Mengenai penggunaan alat-alat muzik, beliau berkata terdapat khilaf (perbezaan pendapat) dalam perkara tersebut kerana terdapat ulama yang membolehkan dan ada yang tidak membenarkannnya.

    Namun bagi beliau secara peribadi, beliau berkata ia boleh digunakan jika tidak membawa kepada keruntuhan akhlak.

    Source: http://berita.mediacorp.sg

  • London-Based Priest Slammed For Allowing Muslim Prayer Service To Take Place In Anglican Church

    London-Based Priest Slammed For Allowing Muslim Prayer Service To Take Place In Anglican Church

    A London-based priest has been slammed after allowing a Muslim prayer service to take place in an Anglican church in the British capital, the Daily Mail has reported.

    Reverend Giles Goddard – described by the newspaper as a ‘leading liberal clergyman’ – held the ‘Inclusive Mosque’ event at St John’s Church in Waterloo, South London, where he is the vicar.

    Speaking at the service he asked the congregation to praise ‘the god that we love, Allah,’ the report added.

    Rev Goddard said: “It is very much about St John’s being a place of welcome. We understand God as a generous God, a God who celebrates love and celebrates life.”

    Speaking of the ‘Inclusive Jummah’ event which was held in partnership with the Inclusive Mosque Initiative, he added: “They could have gone to a community center, I suppose, but they loved being in a church, they were just really pleased and delighted to have the welcome and it was very moving, really. It is the same God, we share the same tradition.”

    And he said that ‘everything his church did was legal and within bishops’ guidelines’.

    Finishing the service he read from religious text Psalm 139, adding: “This is from the Hebrew scripture – we all share these great traditions, so let us celebrate our shared traditions, by giving thanks to the God that we love, Allah.”

    But the event – which is believed to be the first time an entire Islamic service was held by the Church of England – has come under criticism from conservative clergy, who say it breached canon law.

    Reverend Stephen Kuhrt, vicar of Christ Church, New Malden, said: “I am appalled by islamophobia and when people whip up anti-Muslim frenzy, but the vicar of St John’s Waterloo has done something that is completely illegal, which is to allow an Islamic service to be held in his church, and then he has participated as well.’

    And the minister of Wimbledon’s Emmanuel Church, Reverend Robin Weekes, said: “The issue is not primarily that canon law has been broken, which it has, but that it is offensive to Christians who believe that there is only one God.”

     

    Source: http://english.alarabiya.net

  • German Court Overturns Ruling, Female Muslim Teachers Allowed To Wear Headscarves

    German Court Overturns Ruling, Female Muslim Teachers Allowed To Wear Headscarves

    (Reuters) – Muslim women teachers can wear headscarves as long as it does not cause disruption in school, Germany‘s top court said in a ruling that overturns an earlier ban and may fuel debate about what some nationalist groups see as creeping “Islamisation”.

    The Constitutional Court struck down its own 2003 ban on headscarves for teachers, which had led some German states to forbid Muslim headscarves in schools while permitting the use of Christian symbols such as crucifixes and nuns’ habits.

    The court in Karlsruhe, ruling on a case brought by a Muslim woman blocked from a teaching job because of her headscarf, said religious symbols could only be banned when they posed “not just an abstract but a concrete risk of disruption in schools”.

    “This is a good day for religious freedom,” said Volker Beck, a lawmaker from the opposition Greens.

    He argued that headgear worn by devout Muslim, Jewish and Christian women and men was less of a threat to German society than “opponents of diversity” such as the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD), neo-Nazis and extremist Muslim Salafists.

    Christine Lueders, head of the federal anti-discrimination agency, hailed the ruling for “reinforcing religious freedom in Germany”. With education administered by Germany’s 16 states, she called on local authorities to review the relevant rules.

    But the German Teachers’ Association (DL) called the ruling “problematic”, saying it undermined the principle of political and religious “neutrality” in schools and public services.

    “We fear this ruling could lead to disruption in certain schools if, for example, non-Muslim parents do not agree with their children being taught by teachers in headscarves,” said Josef Kraus, president of the teachers’ body.

    Regional AfD leader Alexander Gauland said the ruling was “wise but only given that the crucifix goes unchallenged and is common in German schools and it’s totally right that a headscarf does not, in general, pose a concrete enough threat for peace at school or the state’s neutrality in Germany”.

    Berlin daily TAZ warned that the anti-Islam protest group PEGIDA, which began last year with marches in Dresden and soon spawned imitation rallies across Germany and beyond, would seize on the ruling to argue that Europe is being taken over by Islam.

    “PEGIDA will celebrate,” said TAZ on its front-page, beneath a photo of coloured headscarves in a shop-window in Berlin.

    Enthusiasm for PEGIDA, which stands for ‘Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West’, fizzled after its members began to be outnumbered by anti-racist demonstrators and PEGIDA founder Lutz Bachmann posed for a photo with a Hitler moustache.

    Chancellor Angela Merkel has accused the PEGIDA organisers of spreading hatred against immigrants, whom she says Germany, with its shrinking workforce and ageing population, badly needs.

     

    Source: http://uk.reuters.com

  • Turkey: Spy From Anti-IS Coalition Who Helped Three British Girls Cross Into Syria Arrested

    Turkey: Spy From Anti-IS Coalition Who Helped Three British Girls Cross Into Syria Arrested

    Turkey said on Thursday it had caught a spy working for a country in the U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) who had helped three British girls cross into Syria to join the militant group.

    “Do you know who turned out to be the person helping these three girls cross into Syria and join ISIS?” Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told broadcaster A Haber in an interview.

    “He was caught. It turned out to be someone who works for the intelligence of a country from the coalition.”

    He did not specify which country the spy was working for but said it was not the European Union or the United States. The coalition also includes countries such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan, Bahrain, Australia and Canada.

    Cavusoglu said he shared this information with his British counterpart, who had replied “as usual.”

    Spy in custody

    A Turkish official who declined to be identified told Reuters the spy was now in custody.

    “The person was working for the intelligence agency of a coalition country but is not a citizen of that country. The person was not a Turkish citizen either,” he said.

    The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) seized large swathes of land last June, including territory close to the Turkish border. The U.S.-led coalition is using mostly air power in an attempt to push the Sunni militant group back.

    British police and the girls’ families have issued appeals for their daughters to return home after they flew to Istanbul from London on Feb. 17. Friends Amira Abase, 15, Shamima Begum, 15, and Kadiza Sultana, 16, are thought to have since entered Syrian territory controlled by Islamic State.

    Thousands of foreigners from more than 80 nations including Britain, other parts of Europe, China and the United States have joined the ranks of Islamic State and other radical groups in Syria and Iraq, many crossing through Turkey.

    Turkey has said it needs more information from foreign intelligence agencies to intercept them, pointing to cases such as the three London schoolgirls who fled Britain.

     

    Source: http://english.alarabiya.net

  • Why I Admire Muhammad: A Response To Islamophobes

    Why I Admire Muhammad: A Response To Islamophobes

    Islamophobes have attacked me because I’ve written positively about Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam. Because I am a Catholic, they consider me to be a heretic and feel that my interfaith activities are sacrilegious. Islam, to these critics, is evil and Muhammad is nothing but a terrorist. I see Muhammad very differently from these fanatics. This short piece highlights his exemplary character and challenges Islamophobes to think differently about the Prophet.

    One reason why I admire Muhammad is that he was an advocate of equality. In his Last Sermon at Mount Arafat, he declared: “An Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab, nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab… a white person has no superiority over black nor does a black have any superiority over white except by piety and good action.” The Prophet’s sermon ensured freedom for all people in society. His democratic message could be seen as a precursor to the American Constitution, which stands for similar egalitarian values, and to the pluralist outlook of the Founding Fathers, such as George Washington and Benjamin Franklin.

    I also admire Prophet Muhammad because he advocated for religious tolerance,particularly towards Jews and Christians. In the Treaty of Maqnah, the Prophet told followers of Judaism that “[you] may be in peace… you are in security [under my rule]… Towards you is no wrong and no enmity.” As in his relations with the Jews, Muhammad wanted to protect Christians, who are also considered to be revered people to Muslims. In a covenant he made with Christian monks at Mount Sinai, Muhammad ensured the monks that Christian judges would be protected and churches preserved. The words of the covenant state that Muslims should look to Jews and Christians as their brothers and sisters who are children of the Almighty. In light of these treaties and covenants, the recent attacks by the Islamic State against religious minorities in Syria and Iraq are particularly striking because they blatantly contradict the Prophet’s call for tolerance within the Abrahamic tradition.

    By extending religious tolerance to non-Muslims, Muhammad stood for human rights. The Prophet wanted women to have liberty so that they could live the kind of life that they desire. Two of his closest female companions demonstrate this point. His first wife, Khadija, was a successful merchant who ran a thriving caravan trade. Another of the Prophet’s wives, Aisha, became a leading Muslim scholar and jurist who was the first ever-female scholar of Islam. The relationship that he had with his wives showed that the Prophet believed that women should take leading roles in society and partake in important matters related to law and politics. The integration of these women into Arab society demonstrates that Muhammad did not want women to live in isolation, but rather he wanted them to become active members of society.

    Smaller things outside of equality, religious tolerance and human rights also make me appreciate Prophet Muhammad. The Quran, as revealed to Muhammad, tells Muslims not to defame or be sarcastic towards other people. The Prophet believed that name-calling was wicked and he encouraged his followers to be civil in their interactions with others. He also taught us the importance of humility, and he encouraged Muslims and non-Muslims to be humble and pray.

    The Islamophobes who do not see the value in Muhammad’s qualities are simply being close-minded. If the Prophet were alive, he would show them mercy and compassion in spite of their actions. He would also tell them to seek more knowledge.

     

    Source: www.huffingtonpost.com