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South African Hujjaaj Inviting the Rath of Allah

IT IS NO exaggeration to say that among the 3 million Hujjaaj who assemble for the Hajj ibaadat from all over the world, the moral and spiritual condition of the South African Hujjaaj is decidedly the worst. The extremely low degree of moral turpitude in which the South African Hujjaaj excel, commences from the very time they reach the airport in Johannesburg. Hadhrat Fudhail Bin Iyaadh (rahmatullah alayh) who was among the greatest Auliya of Islam and a contemporary of Hadhrat Imaam Abu Hanifah (rahmatullah alayh) said:

This is precisely the state of most South African Hujjaaj. Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said that when the Mu’min makes a beautiful wudhu with a niyyat and thikr, his sins fall off his body as the water rolls off from his body. He thus emerges purified from sins from his bathroom. o­n the other hand, many people visit the Ka’bah after having undertaken the Hajj / Umrah journey for vile, filthy, nafsaani and worldly motives. They are absolutely bereft of ikhlaas (sincerity). The majority of South African Hujjaaj go to Makkah and Madinah for an evil holiday. Women who normally don an outer façade of hijaab for ‘respectability’ here at home, but with hearts brimming with moral depravity, go to the Holy Places with the express intention of discarding Purdah. They gain freedom among the masses of people. They sit along the streets; spend a considerable time shopping and dining at posh restaurants; they tour the malls; they mingle with males in the malls, shops, hotel lifts and foyers; a great many of them strike up temporary immoral relationships, and some marriages even breakdown as a direct consequence of the moral turpitude in which the miscreants and mal-oon males and females indulge. The Ghadhab (Wrath) and La’nat (Curse) of Allah Ta’ala are of no concern to those whose hearts are intoxicated with immoral lust which is given free expression in the public places of the Haramain Shareefain.

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THE MAS’ALAH OF MUHAATHAAT

Muhaathaat means to be mutually opposite—the o­ne directly opposite the other. In the Shariah it refers to women standing alongside men in the same saff of Salaat, or in front of the men. According to the Hanafi Math-hab, the act of Muhaathaat has a serious effect o­n Salaat. If the conditions for the validity of Muhaathaat are found, the Salaat of the man becomes faasid (i.e. is invalidated).

The following are the conditions for the validity of Muhaathaat:

1) The female has to be an adult (baalighah) or near to buloogh (muraahiqah).

2) Both the men and women are performingthe same Salaat.

3) The Imaam makes the niyyat (intention) of imaamate of the women, i.e. he intends that he is their Imaam in the Salaat they have joined in.

4) The Imaam makes this niyyat from the very beginning of the Salaat, not afterwards.

5) There is no barrier between the men and the women. The minimum height of the barrier should be the height of an average male.

6) There is no gap between the man and the woman standing in the saff. The gap is not so wide that a man can stand in it.

7) At least the leg or the ankle of the woman is in line with the man standing alongside in the saff.

The effect of Muhaathaat (standing alongside men) is the fasaad (invalidation) of the Salaat of the males when the abovementioned conditions exist. In the absence of any of these conditions, Muhaathaat will have no effect. For example, if the Imaam does not make intention of imaamate of the women, then even if the female stands alongside a man in the saff, the Salaat of the man will be valid. This should not be construed to mean that it is permissible for a woman to stand in the saff of men. In fact, it is not permissible for females to even go to the Musjid. Furthermore, if the Imaam does not make intention for being the Imaam of the women, then the Salaat of the females will not be valid.

If a woman stands in the saff, but between her and the men alongside her there is a gap sufficient to accommodate a man, then the rule of Muhaathaat will not apply. The Salaat of the men will be valid.

If the woman who stands in the saff is not directly in line with the men alongside her –her toes being just behind the heels of the men in the saff—then the rule of Muhaathaat will not apply. The Salaat of the men is valid.

If there is a pillar between the men and the woman in the saff, the mas’alah of Muhaathaat will not apply.

If the woman standing in the saff is performing her own Salaat, and is not following the Imaam, the rule of Muhaathaat will not apply.

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A Sombre Warning for Fathers

The Shariah has granted the father Wilaayat (jurisdiction and control) over his children in general, but in particular over his daughters. It is therefore not permissible for a girl to contract her own marriage without the approval of her father. According to the Shaafi Math-hab, the nikah without the father’s approval and consent will not even be valid. However, according to the Hanafi Math-hab, the nikah without the father’s consent is valid, but the act of the daughter is sinful.

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Democracy is NOT an Islamic System

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EATING WHERE THEY WINE AND DINE

RASULULLAH (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said that it is not lawful for o­ne who believes in Allah and in the Last Day to even sit in a place where liquor is being served. Eating at such a venue is unthinkable for o­ne who has Imaan.

In our age, Muslim inhibition to haraam food and even liquor served in proximity to the place where they dine, has evaporated. Many Muslims nowadays have no qualms about eating at non-Muslim restaurants even if liquor and swine flesh are served.

In flagrant violation of the Shariah’s prohibition and Rasulullah’s severe warning, Muslims no longer have any hesitation to eat at such places. Haraam meat and liquor are served at the adjacent tables while these vile Muslims patronize these dens of shaitaan.

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The Lament and Complain of a Muslim Girl

POURING out her lament and complaint, a Muslim girl pursuing a course of study at a secular university, writes:

"I am a 21 year-old daughter of well-to-do and respectable parents. Although our family is considered to be religious, my parents have strong leanings towards westernism and modernism. The proof of this is my presence in a co-ed non-Muslim varsity pursuing a medical career.

From the age of six, I was thrust into the lap of secular non-Muslim schools. The afternoon o­ne hour madrasa class was, in retrospect, a symbolic adherence to Islam. But the seeds of the Deen which were implanted in my heart by the old fashioned mullah, had sustained the safety of my Imaan which otherwise could not have withstood the sustained ravages of the assault of 15 years of indoctrination by the materialists and atheists—my school and colleges tutors, and the buffetings of the depraved culture of the west which we are indoctrinated to accept as the code of enlightment for the world.

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