The

Friday Bulletin
The Weekly Muslim News Update

Issue No. 385

Shawwal 08 1431/September 17 2010

Maintain patience
This was the overriding Eid ul tr message to the faithful in the face of a recent
government wave of harassment and arrests of Muslims in the guise of ghting
terrorism.
In his Eid sermon, Sheikh Muhammad Abdi Umal said although these were turbulent
times for Muslims, it was important to exercise patience as this is an important teaching
of Islam in times of adversity.
The current clampdown, he said was a deliberate act to provoke Muslims but he went on
to urge the faithful not to fall into the game plans of its adversaries.
Their aim is to launch a big campaign of oppression of Muslims and they are looking
for a scapegoat so as to fulll their wicked schemes, Sheikh Umal who is a prominent
Nairobi scholar and the former Imam of Masjid Abubakar in Eastleigh said.
The Sheikh joined Muslim leaders in condemning the arbitrary arrest of Muslim youth
and their illegal rendition to Uganda saying that it was unjustied and cautioned that it
will further brew resentment of Muslims against the government.
His call for patience, he said, was not out of fear but a move to protect and safeguard the
interests of Muslims in the country. We are not scared but we should not accept to fall
into their traps as this will have grave repercussions for the country, he said.
Countries such as Pakistan and Afghanistan had been forced to implement such plans
by Western powers which have had negative consequences and noted that the same
should not be allowed to happen in the country.
The current campaigns, the Sheikh added were an attempt to contain the growing inuence of Muslims but scoffed at the plans saying that they were bound to fail as the light
of Islam will continue to expand not only in the country but around the world.
Addressing thousands who turned up for the Eid prayers at Sir Ali Muslim Club in Nairobi to mark the end of the month of Ramadhan on Friday last week, Sheikh Umal condemned the attempts to burn the Holy Quran saying it is a desperate attempt to eclipse
the rising power of Islam. He told Muslims not to respond in a similar manner to what
he described as obnoxious plans stressing that Islam respects the sanctity of the holy
books of other religions.
The prayers were led by the Imam of Jamia mosque Sheikh Muhammad Swalihu.
Earlier, the Assistant Secretary General of Jamia Mosque Ibrahim Ahmed Yusuf urged
the government to end its policies of harassment and unfair treatment of Muslims saying
that its action was creating anger in the community and was pushing Muslims to the
wall. The rule of the law should be observed. The arbitrary arrests and the illegal rendition of Muslim youth to the new African 'Guantanamo' in Uganda is pushing Muslims to
the wall, he cautioned.

Sheikh Muhammad Abdi Umal

He also took a swipe at a section of the media saying they were deliberately criminalizing
Muslims and urged them to exercise fairness
as its reports were contributing to the culture of
hatred against members of the community.
On the Census, Ibrahim told Muslims not to accept the census results pointing to a systematic plan to suppress the number of Muslims in
the country. How do they claim that the population of Muslims has reduced from 10 million
to 4.5 million yet it is clear that Muslims have
the highest birth rates and Islam is the fastest
growing religion in the country, he wondered.
When we accept these gures, during the next
census they will claim were are 1.5 million, he
added
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Thousands of Muslims gather at the Sir Ali Muslim Club in Nairobi for the Eid ul Fitr prayers last Friday

This Week

Editorial
Da'wa

Census:a wake up call to Muslim leaders P2

Bidding farewell to Ramadhan
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Women Issues

Youth and Children

www.islamkenya.com

Sayya Bint Huyay

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Save the changes

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EDITORIAL

Census results-A wake up call for Muslim leaders

The recently released census results were met with cynicism by
Muslim leaders who saw them as an orchestrated plot to perpetuate
the culture of marginalization of the community.
The population gures recently released by Planning minister
Wycliffe Oparanya which indicated that Muslims in the country were
only 4.3 million out of the more than 39 million Kenyans were inconsistent with the reality on the ground.
The erstwhile gures indicated that the number of Muslims in the
country was more than 10 million representing 30 percent of the
population. It was not therefore, surprising that the new gures
drew angry reactions from Muslims who read mischief in the whole
exercise and pointed to manipulation of the numbers to hide the true
population of Muslims in the country.
Early this year, leaked reports surfaced in the media which spoke of
concerns on the part of the government about the huge rise in the
population growth of Muslims. The reports which were not denied
by the government had put the number of Muslims to a gure as
high as 40 percent and this was cited as the reason for the delay
in releasing the results which were anticipated since December last
year.
In 2007, the Kenya Health Demographic Survey released a report
indicating that Islam was the fastest growing religion in the country
and the populations of Muslims had doubled during a 14 year period
between 1999 and 2009
It is also not a point of dispute that Muslims have the highest birth
rate among Kenyans and in addition to the number of reversions to
Islam, the gures presented by the planning minister do not reect
this reality.

Strange twist as Terror police deny arrest

Plans for Lamu port set in motion

The government has set in motion plans to construct a new
port in Lamu with the advertisement for an international tender
inviting bids to build what will be Kenyas second international
gateway to the sea.
The new port is expected to decongest the already overwhelmed port of Mombasa which also serves Kenyas neighbours.The new port to be built at Manda Bay in Lamu town
is part of a U$22bn (KShs 1.2 trillion) transport development
plan dubbed Lamu port-Southern Sudan-Ethiopia transport
(LAPSSET)which will include a railway line connecting Kenya
to Ethiopia and Southern Sudan.
The Ministry of Transport invited international companies to bid
for the initial phase of construction for the proposed KShs.280
billion Lamu port project, part of the projects lined up to realize
the Vision 2030 economic blueprint.
This rst phase will involve dredging and reclamation works and
construction of the rst three berths to accommodate design
ships with capacities of 100,000 deadweight tonnes (DWTs),
30,000 DWTs and 100,000 DWTs for container cargo and bulk
cargo respectively. The project will also see the building of related infrastructure for the three berths such as access roads,
railway sidings, warehouses and buildings.
Earlier announcement by the government of the planned facility met with protests by local residents who expressed fears
that the local residents will not appropriately benet from the
project.
Concerns were also raised by environmental groups that the
construction of deep berths could alter the local ecosystem,
which is home to a variety of marine life thereby disrupting way
of life for the residents many of whom depend on shing as
their economic mainstay.
Initial estimates put the cost of building the port on Kenyas extreme northeast coast at Sh1.2 trillion. In the last nancial year,
the government allocated Sh500 million for the studies.
Once complete, the project will comprise the Lamu Port at
Manda Bay, standard gauge railway line to Juba, road network,
oil pipelines to Southern Sudan and Ethiopia, an oil renery at
Lamu, three airports and three resort cities at Lamu, Isiolo and
Lake Turkana shores.

The minister wants the nation to believe him when he seems to

imply that there are virtually no Somalis who live outside North
Eastern region. He also seems to suggest that Swahilis who in the
census were placed under a cluster of groups including Arabs, only
add to 100,000, a gure which even a common man on the street
will roundly dismiss.
Demographic gures are a vital element in the countrys programmes to map future development agendas. These are the gures used in the disbursement of development programmes and
resources to regions. With the anticipated new administrative structures which were borne out of the new constitution, these population gures become even more relevant as they will be used in the
disbursement of the resources to the newly created counties, will
form the criteria for the demarcation of new constituencies and the
Constituency Development Fund Budget will be disbursed based
on these gures
That is why it becomes imperative that the response to these
manipulated gures should not be conned to mere rhetoric but
through an action plan which will ensure that the interests of Muslims are protected
Making pronouncements of protests is not enough as other strategies need to be explored to ensure that the correct gure of Muslims in the country is given.
At the onset of the census, Muslim leaders did appeal to the community to fully participate and the community aptly responded to
their call. Now with the disappointments on the face of Muslims, the
onus shift is on Muslim leaders to come out forcefully in ensuring
that the concerns of the community are addressed.

In a strange twist, the Anti-Terrorism Police Unit has come out to deny
the arrest of a Mombasa based journalist who was seized from his place
of work last week.
An ofcer attached to the police squad, Charles Ogeto told the High
court sitting in Nairobi that the unit was not responsible for Habib Suleiman Njoroges detention and furthermore, it had no information on his
whereabouts.
According to the Ugandan media reports and Muslim Human Rights
Forum,Habib who was working for Radio Salaam is now in a Ugandan
detention facility after being renditioned to the country.
The respondents in this matter are not aware of any such arrest, placement in the cells and eventual transfer of the subject, Ogeto said.
He said the unit which had previously admitted to participate in the rendition of Kenyans to Uganda only learnt on the purported arrest in the
media. Habibs brother Yahya Suleiman was earlier arrested by the police unit and handed over to Ugandan authorities to face trial for his alleged participation in the deadly attack in Kampala which left more than
70 people dead.
The court had issued summons against the Commissioner of Police
Mathew Itere, the ATPU commandant Nicholas Kamwende and the Attorney General Amos Wako in a habeas corpus case to show cause why
Habib should not be released.
Lawyer Mbugua Mureithi complained that his arrest and detention where
he was denied legal access and family visits violated the Bill of Rights
in the new constitution and international conventions which Kenya was
a signatory.
According to the court papers, Habib was arrested by a squad of police
ofcers attached to ATPU at the Radio Salaam premises in Mombasa
after having been lured to the station by the proprietor Noordin Hajj.

Call for patience

From Page 1
rum Al-Amin Kimathi called for concerted efforts from Muslim leaders
to defend the rights of Muslims from the unfair treatment. You have no
reason to fear, stand and protect the dignity and rights of Muslims, he
said.
Speaking separately, the Supreme Council of Kenya Muslims Secretary
General Adan Wachu told the government to bring back the ten Kenyans
renditioned to Uganda saying if it had a case with them, they should be
put on trial in the country.

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DA'WA

Bidding farewell to Ramadhan

Imam Muhsin Shaker al-Bayoumi
We have bid farewell to Ramadhan, in whose shade we have been
living, and whose blessings we have been testing, and so we ask
Allah to accept our fasting, to grant us freedom from the Fire, and
to give us the chance to meet this blessed month again and again.
The Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, said: If my nation
knew the secrets that Allah has put in Ramadhan, they would wish
that it were Ramadhan for the whole year. Allah has chosen this
month over all other months, and we cannot possibly count the
blessings it contains.
Here are some of the things that we have been recommended to
do in order to preserve its gifts and blessings intact.
Taking account of our actions
The rst step is to take an account of what we have done during Ramadhan, remembering the wise saying of Umar bin al
kwataab(Radhya Llahu Anhu): Take yourself to account before you
are taken to account, and weigh your own actions before Allah puts
them in the balance for you. This refers to our good and our bad
deeds because we should thank Allah for our good actions and ask
His Forgiveness for our bad actions. This is the way of the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, and all the Messengers and
Prophets and the righteous among the believers. When we take account of the actions we made during Ramadhan, we will inevitably
nd that they are not sufcient, and regret that we were not able to
do more. If we nd a good action we must thank Allah for guiding
us to do it, and if we nd anything bad we must ask Allah to forgive
us for it.
Repentance and Asking for Forgiveness
We should complete every prescribed act of worship and every
good deed by asking Allah to forgive us for our mistakes in performing it, because only Allah is capable of perfection. The fth rightlyguided Khalif, Umar ibn Abd Al-Aziz, may Allah be pleased with him,
commanded his governors to seek the forgiveness of Allah, saying:
Say as your father Adam, alayhi salam said: O Lord we have
wronged ourselves. If you do not forgive us and have mercy on us,
we will be among the lost. (7.23). Say as Nuh alayhi salam said: O
My Lord, I seek refuge with You for asking You for which I have no
knowledge. If You do not forgive me and have mercy on me, I will be
among the lost. (11.47). Say as Ibrahim alayhi salam said: He Who
I sincerely hope will forgive my mistakes on the Day of Reckoning.
(7.82). Say as Musa alayhi salam said: My Lord, I have wronged
myself, so forgive me. (28.16). Say as Yunus alayhi salam said:
There is no god but You. Glory be to You. Truly I have been one of
the wrongdoers. (21.87).
The best of the Muslims from previous times considered the way
they had performed their devotions so imperfect that they would
ask Allahs forgiveness as intensely as if they had committed a sin.
A well-known scholar from the 8th Century AH, Ibn Rajab said: Our
noble predecessors would strive with all their ability to complete
each good action with sincerity, and yet afterwards they would be
afraid that Allah would not accept it. Allah mentions them in the
Holy Quran: And those who give what they give with their hearts
full of fear because they shall have to return to their Lord. (23.60).
Urwah ibn Zubair asked his aunt Aisha, may Allah be pleased with
them, about the meaning of this verse: Are those the people the
who committed major sins like adultery or murder? He asked her.
No! O son of my sister! She replied: Those are the ones who
performed good deeds but did not think they were good enough,
so they were afraid that Allah would not accept them. Allah says in
the Quran: Allah only accepts from the people who have Taqwa.
(5.27). We should follow the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon
him, his companions and the righteous by asking Allah to forgive us
for our inability to worship Him as He deserves to be worshipped.
Ibn Rajab said: Our predecessors would be praying for six months
before Ramadhan that Allah would allow them to reach the next
Ramadhan and praying for six months after Ramadhan that Allah
would accept their last Ramadhan. Unlike them, Muslims these
days do not appreciate the value of this month, nor do they repent

or ask forgiveness for the insufciency of their good actions.

Continuing the good actions that we started in Ramadhan
The sign that Allah has accepted our fasting is that He grants us
the ability to continue to perform the extra devotions that we began
during Ramadhan. Ibn Rajab said; Whoever performs an act of
obedience to Allah and completes it, then the sign of its acceptance
is he is granted the ability to make another act of obedience, and
the sign of its rejection is that he follows it by a sin. How great to
follow a sin by a good action, and how much better to follow a good
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The virtue of fasting six days of Shawwal

Fasting six days of Shawwal after the obligatory fast of Ramadhan is Sunnah Mustahabbah, not waajib. It is recommended for the
Muslim to fast six days of Shawwal, and in this there is great virtue
and an immense reward. Whoever fasts these six days will have
recorded for him a reward as if he had fasted a whole year, as was
reported in a saheeh hadeeth from the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him). Abu Ayyub (may Allah be pleased with
him) reported that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of
Allah be upon him) said: Whoever fasts Ramadhan and follows
it with six days of Shawwal, it will be as if he fasted for a lifetime.
(Narrated by Muslim, Abu Dawood, al-Tirmidhi, al-Nisaai and Ibn
Maajah).
The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) explained
this when he said: Whoever fasts for six days after (Eid) al-Fitr
has completed the year: (whoever does a good deed (hasanah)
will have ten hasanah like it). According to another report: Allah
has made for each hasanah ten like it, so a month is like fasting
ten months, and fasting six days completes the year. (al-Nisaai
and Ibn Maajah.). It was also narrated by Ibn Khuzaymah with the
wording: Fasting for the month of Ramadhan brings the reward of
ten like it, and fasting for six days brings the reward of two months,
and that is the fasting of the whole year.
The Hanbali and Sha fuqaha explained that fasting six days of
Shawwal after fasting Ramadhan makes it as if one has fasted for
an entire year of obligatory fasts, because the multiplication of the
reward applies even to naal fasts, because each hasanah brings
the reward of ten like it.
Another of the important benets of fasting six days of Shawwal is
that it makes up for any shortfall in a person's obligatory Ramadhan
fasts, because no one is free of shortcomings or sins that have a
negative effect on his fasting. On the Day of Resurrection, some of
his naal deeds will be taken to make up the shortcomings in his
obligatory deeds, as the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be
upon him) said: The rst thing for which people will be brought to
account on the Day of Resurrection will be their swalaah (prayer).
Our Lord, may He be gloried and exalted, will say to His angels
although He knows best Look at the swalaah of My slave, whether it is complete or incomplete. If it is perfect, it will be recorded
as perfect, and if something is lacking, He will say, Look and see
whether My slave did any voluntary (naal) prayers. If he did some
voluntary prayers, [Allah] will say, complete the obligatory actions
of my slave from his voluntary actions. Then all his actions will be
dealt with in a similar manner. (Narrated by Abu Dawood).
This fast may be observed continuously non-break, or it may be
observed one day at a time. If you observe it continuously, you may
start on the fourth day and end on the ninth of day Shawwal, or you
may select days at random, provided you complete six days before
the end of Shawwal.

Saturday Lecture
What after Ramadhan?
Sheikh Juma Amir
Sat. 18th September 2010 2.00 pm-4.00 pm
Jamia Multi Purpose Hall
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WOMEN ISSUES

Safya bint Huyay

Sayya bint Huyayy, (may Allah be pleased with her) married the
Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) in
7 AH, when the Prophet was sixty years old and she was seventeen
years old. As in the case of Juwayriyya bint Harith, this marriage
occurred after one of the Muslims' decisive battles, in this case, the
battle of Khaybar. After the battle of Khaybar in which the Muslims
defeated the Jews, two women were brought before the Prophet
Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) by Bilal, the
black mu'adhdhin of Madina. One of the two women was shrieking
and screaming, and rubbing dust in her hair, while the other was
mute with shock.
The silent one was Sayya, the daughter of Huyayy ibn Akhtab, the
chief of the Banu Nadhir who had all been expelled from Madina
in 4 AH after plotting to kill the Messenger of Allah by
dropping a stone on his head as he sat talking with
their leaders. The noisy one was Sayya's cousin.
Sayya could trace her lineage directly back to
Harun, the brother of the Prophet Moses (peace
be upon them). The Prophet Muhammad
(peace and blessings of Allah be upon him)
asked someone to look after the woman who
was screaming and then took off his cloak and
placed it over the shoulders of Sayya, whose
husband had been killed in the battle. It was a
gesture of pity, but from that moment she was to
be honored and given great respect in the Muslim
community. Then the Prophet (peace and blessings
of Allah be upon him) turned to Bilal and said, "Bilal,
has Allah plucked mercy from your heart that you let these
two women pass by those of their menfolk who have been killed?"
This was considered a severe reprimand, for the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) rarely criticized the
behavior of those who served him.
Like Umm Habiba, Sayya was the daughter of a great chief. The
only person who could save her from becoming a slave after having
enjoyed such a high position was the Prophet. Although her father
had planned to assassinate Muhammad (peace and blessings of
Allah be upon him) after the battle of Uhud, and had conspired with
the Banu Quraydha to exterminate all the Muslims during the battle of al-Khandaq, it was characteristic of the Prophet Muhammad
(peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) that he did not bear any
grudges. For those who did wrong, he felt pity rather than anger,
and for those who had done no wrong, he had even greater compassion. The Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah
be upon him) invited Sayya to embrace Islam, which she did, and
having given her, her freedom, he then married her. Some people
may have wondered how it was that Sayya could accept Islam and
marry the Prophet when her father had been his bitter enemy, and
when bloody battles had taken place between the Jews and the
Muslims. The answer may be found in what she has related of her
early life as the daughter of the chief of the Banu Nadhir.
She said, (may Allah be pleased with her): "I was my father's favorite and also a favorite with my uncle Yasir. They could never see
me with one of their children without picking me up. When the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) came to
Madina, my father and my uncle went to see him. It was very early
in the morning and between dawn and sunrise. They did not return
until the sun was setting. They came back worn out and depressed,
walking with slow, heavy steps. I smiled to them as I always did,
but neither of them took any notice of me because they were so
miserable. I head uncle Yasir ask my father, 'Is it him?' 'Yes, it is.'
'Can you recognize him? Can you verify it?' 'Yes, I can recognize
him too well.' 'What do you feel towards him?' 'Enmity, enmity as
long as I live.'
The signicance of this conversation is evident when we recall that
in the Torah of the Jews, it was written that a Prophet would come
who would lead those who followed him to victory. Indeed before the

Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him)

came to Madina, the Jews used to threaten the idol worshippers of
Yathrib, as it was then called, that when the next Prophet came to
the believers were going to exterminate them, just as the Jews had
exterminated other tribes who refused to worship God in the past.
It was thanks to these descriptions in the Torah, that the most
learned rabbi of the Jews, 'Abdullah ibn Salam, had embraced Islam
on seeing Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him)
and it was because of these descriptions that Huyayy ibn Akhtab
was also able to recognize him. However Huyayy, like most of the
other Jews, was deeply disappointed that the last Prophet (peace
and blessings of Allah be upon him) was a descendant of Isma'il
and not of Ishaq, (the two sons of the Prophet Ibrahim, peace be
upon them), since the Jews of that time claimed exclusive
descent from Ishaq. Not only did Huyayy resent the
fact that the last Prophet had appeared amongst the
Arabs, but also he did not want to lose his position
of power and leadership over his people.
It was for these reasons that Huyayy secretly
decided to oppose and ght the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon
him) while in public he and the other leaders
of the Jews made peace treaties with the Muslims and the Jews broke as soon as it seemed
a favourable time to do so. Although Sayya was
Huyayy's daughter, she had a pure heart and had
always wanted to worship her Creator and Lord.
Thus as soon as the opportunity arose, not only to follow the last Prophet, but also to be married to him, she took
it. Although Sayya had in Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) a most kind and considerate husband, she was
not always favorably accepted by some of his other wives, especially when she had rst joined the Prophet's household. It is related
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The Friday Bulletin Kitchen

Prawn Curry in Coconut (Kamba wa Nazi)
Ingredients
1 kg of prawns (well cleaned)
1 can of unsweetened coconut milk
1 teaspoon curry powder
2 finely chopped onions (or just one if its a very large onion)
4 crushed cloves of garlic
2 green chillis - optional
juice from 1 lemon or lime
3 sliced tomatoes
1 dessertspoon tomato puree or tomato paste
1/2 bunch of fresh coriander roughly chopped
salt to taste

Method
Combine in a pan all the ingredients except for the prawns
and the a portion of the coconut milk, reserving the rest for a
later step
Cover and cook on low heat until very much thickened, nearly
dry. Add the reserved solidified coconut milk, and stir it in to
dissolve it.
Add the prawns and cook for a short time stirring occasionally
to get all parts of the prawns heated enough to turn nicely pink but not long enough for them to shrink and toughen.
Serve hot with rice or Ugali .
Share your favourite recipes with our readers. Send them to P. O. Box 10078600100 or email:fridaybulletin@islamkenya.com or fridaybulletin@gmail.com

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YOUTH AND CHILDREN

Ramadhan: Save the Changes

During the blessed and beautiful month of Ramadhan many have
navigated themselves to the deen of Allah and have brought about
substantial positive changes. Now is a critical time to click on the
right tab- Save those changes!
Nearly everyone in this age of modern technology has at some
stage worked with a Computer. We have used it to draft documents,
amend these documents, copied and pasted onto documents, used
the 'undo' icon, edited documents, just to mention a few of the time
saving operations that we nd on this device.
After opening a document that we have worked upon previously
and made the necessary changes and improvements a little box
appears on the screen asking the question: Do you want to save
the changes you have made to this document? You are then given
the option of selecting the YES tab or the NO tab. Selecting the
YES tab will give you the desired results while selecting the NO
tab literally takes you back to square one. All the effort made in
editing, improving and shaping the document becomes an exercise
in futility.
Don't we all nd ourselves in a similar predicament when the blessed month of Ramadhan passes us? Just think of your book of deeds
like a document on your Computer. During the month of Ramadaan
we have done amongst other things the following Increased our Ibaadah and acts of charity;
Took control of our feelings and emotions;
Responded with compassion and sensitivity to the needs of
others.
Multiplied our good deeds;
Repented: we have spent many hours on the Musallah begging
for Allah's forgiveness for our sins, errors and transgressions.
The vital question that needs to be asked is :
Do we want to save the changes that we have made in the month of
Ramadhan? Are we going to press the YES tab or the No tab?
Pressing the YES tab will leave us with a new, improved version. A
version of heightened spirituality, a version of righteousness, a version that is pleasing to our Creator. Pressing the NO tab will take us
back to square one; back to our old habits before Ramadhan, back
to the life of sin and immorality, back to a life of heedlessness and
back to a life subjecting ourselves to the wrath of the Almighty.
How do we improve on this document; the document of our lives,
the document of our deeds, the document that we are going to
present to Allah the Almighty on the Day of Reckoning? Here are
some hints: Copy and Paste from the life of our illustrious master
Muhammad Sallallahu alayhi Wasallam.
Use the 'undo' icon by making Taubah immediately after any transgression as the Hadith states "The one who repents from sin is like
one who has committed no sin at all"
There may not be a need to do a "spell check" but there is certainly
a need to do a "sincerity check" and a "Shari'ah check"? Are we
complying?
There may be les and folders that we want to keep while there
could be some others we would not even want others to know exist.
Many of us begged Allah to "delete" our sins and dark deeds .We
cried before Allah, shed tears of remorse and vowed not to commit
those sins in future. Going back to the sins that we have asked
Allah's forgiveness for would be like making a visit to the "recycle
bin".
What about viruses? Computer users are also very wary about
e-mails they receive and the sites that they visit, fearing the admission of a virus that may pollute their system and cause it to
malfunction. The environment and people who we associate with
could adversely infect us! Why do we then subject our minds and
thoughts to immoral sites and dens of vice which would pollute our
moral system and cause us to malfunction? What anti-virus software have we installed to ward off the variety of tnahs that confront
us everyday?
We need to install the right version of the anti-viruses. There is
indeed only One version. Without delay install every Command of
Allah and the Sunnah of Rasulullah ( Salallahu alaihi wa sallam)
onto our hard drives (lives). This will allow us to repel the attempts

by shaytaan and other evil forces to infect our Computers (souls).

Now lets connect ourselves to deen of Islam and the amal (good
actions) that takes place in our masjids...as no one knows when
his or her computer will crash (when we will die)! By performing
good deeds we will have permanently backed up our records in
Jannah(Paradise). Be carefull not to engage ourselves in evil lest
we back-up our evil deeds in jahannam (Hell)
Fortunate is the person who has "saved the changes". Extremely
unfortunate is the person who has made no changes as he /she
has nothing to save.!
IMPORTANT: As we dont know the time when our computer will
shut down ...Make those Changes Now and more important.........
Save it!

Fortunate is the person who has "saved the

changes". Extremely unfortunate is the person
who has made no changes as he /she has nothing
to save.!
As we dont know the time when our computer will
shut down ...Make those Change Now and more
important.........Save it!

come and eat with me

We all love to eat good food and Mmmm
it tastes real good! We know that food is
from Allah so we should thank Him.
Now if our Muslim friends come by and
with us take a seat, we should try to
share our food and give them some to eat.
Do not keep them sitting there, looking
on in hope. Do not say if they want some,
You cant have some food, nope! That
would really not be kind, that would be
quite wrong.
Youd really hurt their feelings and they
would not stay for long.
Imagine now how you would feel if you
were hungry too. But then your friends
refused to give some yummy food to you!
Wont you start to feel upset and wont
you feel quite sad?
Then youll know how others feel when
you do something bad.
Dearest Muslims, always share and better
try to be. Allah will be pleased with this
and give you more, youll see! Think of me,
my dear young Muslim, I will think of you.
Allah loves it when we share and think of
others too.
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Shawwal 08 1431/September 17 2010

The Friday Bulletin

NATIONAL NEWS

American Islamophobia threat to world peace

Billow Aden Kerrow
An obscure cleric in US threatened to burn copies of the Holy Quran,
the Last Testament, to mark 9/11 anniversary. The man was convinced the Quran inspires evil in Islam.
To most Americans, 9/11 was the work of Islam as it was ostensibly
done in its name. The construction of a mosque and Islamic cultural
centre in New York is being frustrated on grounds it will be too close
for comfort, to the so-called hallowed Ground Zero.
From the outset, the US pastor, Terry Jones, needs to know he can
seek further inspiration to burn all the copies of the Quran in the
world, including those on our mobile chips, computers, CDs, and the
internet but he wont succeed in erasing it from our memory. The
Quran is memorised by most Muslims and even children below the
age of ten can recite or write out the entire Quran. Mr Jones and his
supporters in US are largely ignorant of this fact.
But I believe his primary reason for doing so is to link Islam to violence and terrorism and in so doing blossom the growing Islamophobia in the US. Well, his Government has beaten him to it.
Since 9/11, the US has used the purported war on terror to disparage
Islam and portray it as an affront to Western values and ideals.
Muslims critical of its actions were soon branded radicals, extremists,
militants, and were considered legitimate targets for arrests, persecution and placed on watch-lists.
In Abu Ghuraib, Guantanamo and other secret rendition prisons, suspects were denied basic human rights and tortured. Quranic madrasas were deemed to be breeding grounds for terrorists and host
countries pressured to shut them down, as were most Muslim NGOs
involved in Islamic propagation and relief.
Jones is not considered an extremist or barbaric in US; it is his democratic right. If a Muslim would preach similar extremism, he would
be a terror suspect, and would probably be behind bars. Sheikh Abdullah al-Faisal, the Jamaican Islamic preacher whose presence in

Bidding farewell to Ramadhan

From Page 3
action by another good action!
In Ramadhan some of the Muslims make a special effort to perform
extra acts of devotion such as supererogatory prostrations, standing in prayer during the night, reading the Quran, controlling their
tongues, their eyes, their ears and all their limbs, giving to the needy
and so on. It is better for these people to continue these actions after
Ramadhan has passed. Allah has made it easier for us to worship
Him during Ramadhan, so it is the best time to try to increase our
acts of devotion.
We practiced fasting in Ramadhan and so after Ramadhan we
should continue to fast. It was the custom of the Messenger of Allah to fast on Mondays and Thursdays, on the three days of the full
moon, and six days of Shawwal. Abu Ayub al-Ansari, may Allah be
pleased with him, related that the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon
him, said: Whoever completes the fast of Ramadhan and fasts six
days in Shawal, will be rewarded as if he had fasted the whole year.
(Muslim)
Some of us complete the Holy Quran once or several times during
Ramadhan. After Ramadhan we must continue reading the Quran. It
is better if we can continue to control our tongue, our eyes, our ears
and all our limbs as well. We should continue doing a good action
even if we think it is too small, because Aisha related that the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him said: The actions best loved by
Allah are the ones which are repeated continuously, even if they are
small.
Al Hasan Al-Basri, may Allah have mercy on him, said: O my people! Continue and continue, because Allah does not put any limit on
the actions of the Believer until his death. I advise you to read what
Allah has said in the Holy Quran: Worship your Lord until what is
certain (death) comes to you. (15.99).We must be the slaves of our
Lord, not just slaves of Ramadhan, because Allah is also the Lord
of Shawwal and all the other months too! When a believer does not
lessen in his worship after Ramadhan, it is a clear sign that Allah has
accepted the worship that he did during Ramadhan.

Kenya caused a storm this year was arrested and deported out
of UK for extremist views against Judaism and Christianity, and
placed under watch-list.
In its blind duplicity, the West celebrates even the most perverted
anti-Islamist such as atheist Salman Rushdie who wrote the Satanic Verses, the Danish cartoonists, Ayan Hirsi, etc.
Mr Jones action worries US because it places their citizens and
security forces at risk; it does not prick their conscience that adherents of a major world religion is offended and provoked, or
profanity visited upon Islamic faith. There were no spontaneous
demonstrations in the US, such as we saw in New York against the
Islamic cultural centre.
As the worlds super power, their actions are being copied in many
countries, including our own. Secret renditions of Muslim terror
suspects are carried out with impunity amid claims of torture. Yet,
when a pastor suspected of Uhuru Park bombing was arrested, he
was quickly arraigned in court and released on bond. The slighting
of Islam is also patented; for instance, Muslims celebrated Idd on
Friday throughout the country, but it is Saturday that is declared the
public holiday. Would it ever happen that Christians are asked to
work on Christmas Day but have public holiday the next day?
The US needs to appreciate that protection of world religions is no
less important than protection of property or intellectual rights of its
individuals. Allowing such uncivilised behavior only strengthens the
widely held belief among Muslims that it is at war with Islam. Jones
may or may not go ahead with his threat but that he has been allowed to entertain his weird thoughts reveals the double standards
and earns US more enemies.
Billow Kerrow is a former MP for Mandera Central and the Religious Affairs Convenor Jamia Mosque Committee Nairobi

Sayya bint Huyay

From Page 4
by Anas that on one occasion, the Prophet (peace and blessings
of Allah be upon him) found Sayya weeping. When he asked her
what the matter was, she replied that she heard that Hafsa had
disparagingly described her as 'the daughter of a Jew'.
The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) responded by saying, "You are certainly the daughter of a Prophet (Harun),
and certainly your uncle was a Prophet (Musa), and you are certainly the wife of a Prophet (Muhammad), so what is there in that
to be scornful towards you?" Then he said to Hafsa, "O Hafsa, fear
Allah!"
Once the Prophet was accompanied on a journey by Sayya
and Zaynab bint Jahsh when Sayya' s camel went lame. Zaynab
had an extra camel and the Prophet asked her if she would give
it to Sayya. Zaynab retorted, "Should I give to that Jewess!" The
Prophet turned away from her in anger and would not have anything to do with her for two or three months to show his disapproval
of what she had said.
She still underwent difculties after the death of the Prophet (peace
and blessings of Allah be upon him). Once a slavegirl she owned
went to the Amir al Muminin Umar and said, "Amir al Muminin!
Sayya loves the Sabbath and maintains ties with the Jews!" Umar
asked Sayya about that and she said, "I have not loved the Sabbath since Allah replaced it with Friday for me, and I only maintain
ties with those Jews to whom I am related by kinship." She asked
her slavegirl what had possessed her to carry a lie to Umar and the
girl replied, "Shaytan!" Sayya said, "Go, you are free."
Sayya was with the Prophet for nearly four years, She was only
twenty-one when the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be
upon him) died, and lived as a widow for the next thirty-nine years,
dying in 50 AH, at the age of sixty (may Allah be pleased with
her).

Shawwal 08 1431/September 17 2010

The Friday Bulletin

NATIONAL NEWS

Kenyans send food donation to Pakistan ood victims

Kenya on Friday donated foodstuffs to Pakistan, which has been
ravaged by oods that have left over 1,000 people dead and displaced millions. President Mwai Kibaki donated 100 tonnes of aid
consisting of rice, tea, powder milk and canned beef for onward
delivery to Islamabad on Friday last week.
"I wish once again on behalf of the Government and people of
Kenya, and on my own behalf, to convey to the Government and
the people of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, our deepest condolences and sympathies following deaths, human suffering and
extensive damage caused by the unprecedented rains," President
Kibaki said.
The donation came a day after United Nation (UN) humanitarian
ofcials cautioned that the international attention on the devastating ood disaster in Pakistan is dwindling even before the millions
of people affected have received adequate relief and others are
awaiting assistance to rebuild their lives.
Valerie Amos, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator said the worlds attention

was waning at a time when some of the biggest challenges for the
relief effort here are still to come.
Kibaki who handed over the donation to Pakistan High Commissioner Masroor Ahmad Junejo said the government and the people
of Kenya were making the donation in solidarity with the people of
Pakistan, who have suffered greatly due to the heavy oods in parts
of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
"The Kenyan people, particularly crop and livestock farmers, in an
act of solidarity and friendship with their brothers and sisters in Pakistan, have come up with a token donation of 100 tonnes of their
produce for onward delivery to the victims of the oods."
The President also condoled those who lost their lives in the ooding and assured that Kenya stood with Pakistan "during this difcult
period as you begin the hard task of restructuring your country."
Floods in Pakistan since late July have already created one of the
largest humanitarian crisis in the Asian country. The oods are the
worst in 80 years after monsoon rains swept up to 1,600 people to
their deaths iand left an estimated 14 million people homeless.

Red Cross in Sh10 million water project for Lamu's Manda island
The water crisis that Lamus Manda Island residents have been
enduring for several years is set to be a thing of past once a Sh
10 million Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS)s water project is
unveiled this week.
The humanitarian agency has since last year been connecting undersea pipes from Lamu Island to Manda Island to help ease the
perennial acute water shortage in the area.
KRCS Lamu branch chairman, Abdallah Miraj told hundred of residents during Idd-ul-Fitri celebrations at Lamu Fort, at the weekend
that they have successful linked up under sea water connectivity
systems to pump the essential commodities from the main Island
after years of difculties.
Manda resinders will soon also enjoy a regular supply of water.
They have been spending Sh 50 daily crossing to Lamu to purchase a jerricane of water at Sh 10 and spend the rest of money to
cross the less than one kilometer channel, Abdallah observed.
He said Sh8 million was spent to lay down the undersea water
pipes which supply water to underground water tanks before being pumped to overhead tanks located at the agency farm within
Manda Island.
The chairman said the residents would later fetch water from their
farm using wheelbarrows and bicycles recently donated by KRCS
to boost logistics of accessing water sources.
Absolutely we have managed to alleviate water issue that has
hampered the daily routine of the farming of the Manda community. We have also constructed nine new boreholes to increase
water sources within Lamu, he told the gathering.
Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS) has also set up at least ve
green houses in its farm in Manda to grow cereals and vegetables. Abdallah said the green houses will also be used as training
centres for local farmers to learn the latest farming technology to

boost food security in the area and reduce relying on relief foods.
I call upon Manda farmers to take advantage of this modern farming system to acquire lifetime skills to produce enough food and sell
surplus in the local market, he added.

Renditions: Churches condemn government

The National Council of Churches of Kenya (NCCK) has joined the
growing list of condemnation of the governments policy of extraditing those arrested in connection with the July 11 Uganda bombing
without following due process of the law.
A statement by the councils Secretary General Reverend Cannon
Peter Karanja said the move was being done in contravention of the
law and the government should not be seen to be doing injustice to
its citizens.
While appreciating the need by the government to protect Kenyans
from terrorism, we reiterate that the rights of suspects should be respected, said a statement signed by Karanja.
The umbrella Church body called on the government to respect the
rule of the law saying that its action were sending a wrong signal
that the government was not respecting the constitutional rights of its
Muslim citizens.
The condemnation came as civil society organisations planned to
hold a roundtable consultative meeting to discuss the violations and
heap more pressure on the government to end its campaign against
Muslims.
The meeting will be held at the Hilton Hotel on Wednesday next week
and scheduled speakers include former Kabete MP Paul Muite and
lawyer Pherowzee Nowrojee.

Take up the Jihad of the pen, youths adviced

Youths have been urged to sharpen their writing skills and write to
the media to demystify negative aspects about Islam.
This message was given by Rashid Muiruri, a Nairobi based daee
(Islamic propagator) who said in the current scenario where stereotypes and prejudice against Islam are prevalent, it is important for
the youth to put pen to paper in setting the record straight on Islam
and Muslims to give a true picture about the teachings espoused
by the faith.
There is widespread propaganda about Islam and Muslims youth
have an obligation to write articles in newspapers to demystify
these stereotypes, he said at Park Road mosque.
"Even something as small as a letter to the editor is sometimes
important in clearing the myths and misconceptions," he noted.

Rashid said writing to defend Islam was a form of Jihad (striving)

which had been neglected by many youth and went on to urge the
youth to revive this important aspect. This is one of the best forms
of jihad and we should take it up to defend our religion from the incessant attacks, he said.
The daee commended former Mandera Central MP Billow Kerrow
for his vigorous defence of Islam and called on the youth to emulate
his work as it was contributing greatly to dispel myths and negative
propaganda against Islam and Muslims. His efforts should be an inspiration for the youth and may Allah reward him for his noble work,
he said
Billow is a regular columnist for the Sunday Standard and his articles
mainly focus on issues to do with Muslims.

Niqab now ofcially banned in France

The senate passed the bill on Tuesday
which means no Islamic veils will be able to
be worn on public streets and other public
places, according to media reports.
The senate voted 246 to 1 in favour of the
bill in a nal step toward making the ban a
law.
However many Muslims believe the legislation could increase the level of Islamophobia
in the country.
Although it affects fewer than 2000 women
who wear the burqa, Islam is France's second most popular religion.
The only way the ban can be overturned is if France's watchdog, the Constitutional
Council, decides to reject the new bill within the month.
France is the rst European country to pass such a law. But others are considering following suit.
If a woman is caught wearing a burqa she faces a ne of 150 euros ($NZ268) or citizenship classes for any woman caught covering her face, or both.
Islamic authorities in Asia warned on Wednesday that French lawmakers decision to
ban full-face veils could spark a backlash, arguing the decision only widened rifts with
the Muslim world. The top Islamic body in Indonesia said the Tuesdays vote had violated
French ideals on human rights, while Malaysias opposition said the decision could stoke
extremism. Muslim women wear full-face veils as part of their religious belief, Amidhan,
the chairman of the Indonesia Ulema Council, said.
If the French parliament wants to champion human rights, it should allow women to
wear the veils in public. If its for security reasons, the question is to what extent is there
a threat posed by women wearing niqabs?
Indian scholar Syed Ahmed Bukhari of the vast Jama Masjid mosque in New Delhi, said
he vehemently condemned the ban and described the law as anti-Islamic. He urged the
French judges to reverse the ban.
Habits of Christian nuns are not much different to the burqa so it is quite obvious the
French government is against Islam and Muslims of that country, he said. We vehemently condemn this. Governments must treat all religions equally. (Agencies)

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APPRECIATION FOR
HELP

YOUR

The Chairman, Board of Directors and Staff

of Ummah Foundation would like to express
their gratitude to all those personalities and institutions who worked with us, and those who
gave us support in making our Ramadhan
programmes a success.
We worked closely with institutions like the
Jamia Mosque, the Parklands Mosque, Park
Road Mosque, Maahad Daawah Organization and many others, Lillahil hamd. There
were orphanages such as Mama Fauzia Childrens Home, Madaaris such as Umoja Madrasah, Matuu Madrasah for Tahdhul Quran,
Kithimani Madrasah, Prison centres such as
The Industrial Area Remand, Naivasha Maximum Prison, refugee camps such as the GTZ
Refugee Camp and many other institutions
who benetted from food, clothes, and Islamic
reading materials donated by Ummah Foundation.
The end of Ramadhan is not the end of
Ibadaat. In fact, it should be the beginning of
more vigorous Ibadaat after gaining the experience and Imaan of the Holy month of Ramadhan. Some of Ummah Foundations objectives are:
-To eliminate illiteracy amongst Kenyans in
general, and Muslims in particular.
-To empower the Ummah to be economically
and socially self-sustaining.
-To motivate Muslims to practice pure Islam according to the teachings of the Noble
Quran and Sunnah of the Prophet salallahu
alayhi wa sallam
For the few years of our organizations existence, we have worked tirelessly to bring a
smile and hope to thousands and thousands
of needy people who are struggling through
poverty, underdevelopment and marginalization.
At the advent of independent Africa in the 60s,
it was evident that the worst drawbacks to development were poverty, disease, hunger and
ignorance. It is almost 50 years since these
challenges were recognised but the situation
is pretty much the same as it was then. For
some, like many of our Muslim rural and urban
communities, it is a ght for survival in the arid
famine prone areas of North Eastern region or
in the slums of Kariobangi, Korogocho, Kibera
and Majengo.
It is therefore, our hope that you will continue
helping us to help our Muslim community to
come out of underdevelopment and shine at
par with the rest of the country. Saum Maqboul for those who are fasting the Six Days of
Shawwal.

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