Islamic Reminders

It was narrated from Abū Hurairah رضي الله عنه that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: "Whoever says one hundred times each day: لاَ إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ، وَحْدَهُ لاَ شَرِيكَ لَهُ، لَهُ المُلْكُ وَلَهُ الحَمْدُ، وَهُوَ عَلَى كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ [Lā ilāha illAllāhu, waḥdahu lā sharīka lahu, lahul-mulku wa lahul-ḥamdu, wa huwa ʿalā kulli shaiʾin qadīr] (There is no god but Allah alone, without any partner. The Kingdom and praise belongs to Him and He has power over everything.) It will be equivalent to him freeing ten slaves, and one hundered merits will be recorded for him, and one hundered bad deeds will be erased from (his record), and it will be a protection for him against Satan all day until night comes. No one can do anything better then him except one who says more.'" [Sunan Ibn Mājah 3798, Graded Ṣaḥīḥ]

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at had it been us there back then at that point of time, we would have been at the right side of history and we have that opportunity today to be on the right side of history. I am asking all of you to be brave. The question of Palestine can not be resolved without a freed Palestine. I know that the occupation will end. Like all injustices, it will end. It must, all empires fall. The Palestinian cause will erupt victorious. I know this. I know that people will look back at the reality we live through today with so much moral clarity. One day there will be museums honoring us, memorials in our remembrance and statues built in our names, people will stand on top our lands and acknowledge the suffering that happened in them. I just hope that such recognition, such recourse, such reparations, happen while the Palestinian people are still here. We deserve justice and liberation within our lifetime. We deserve our land back. Thank you very much.

es roam freely on the streets. No questions asked. On any given night, a dozen gun-wielding fanatics patrol my street with arrogant impunity. They are protected, even supported by the troops, blockading our community. I have to take a minute to acknowledge the millions under seige in the Gaza strip, the millions living in an open air prison. I have to acknowledge the thousands of Palestinian prisoners subjugated in Israeli prisons. I have to acknowledge my neighbor, Murad Attiya, an elementary school teacher who was robbed from his family and put into prison, slapped with trumped up and fabricated charges only because he dare to say no to ethnic cleansing. You know, I have to ask what is it that I can say today that has not been said? How many Palestinians have stood on this platform for decades and decried the same broken promises and unfulfilled UN resolutions? How many of us have tried to articulate the atrocities that everyone and this body knows very well and still ignores? At a certain point in every Palestinians life we realize that the Nakba is far from over. It continues every time the Israeli occupation revokes Jerusalem residencies. It blares in street signs, stripped of Arabic. It punctures us in constant campaigns of dehumanization. If you're not thrown out of your home, it's demolished. If you're not imprisoned, you're shot in the street. If you're not shot in the street, there's a drone in your sky in the Gaza strip. If it's not a bomb, it's exile. I am tired of reporting on the same brutality every day of thinking of new ways to describe the obvious. The situation in my neighborhood Shaikh Jarrah, is not hard to understand, it is a perfect microcosm of settler colonialism. The reality that Palestinians across 70 years of Zionist rule have experienced, this vocabulary is not theoretical, it is evident in attempts to throw us out of our homes so that settlers can occupy them with the backing of the regime whose forces and policies provide violent support for the transfer of one population to install another. I do not care whom this terminology offends, Colonial is the correct way of referring to a state whose forces collude in the violence of settlers, whose government works with settler organizations. Who's judicial system uses expansionist laws to claim our homes. Who's nation's state law inshrines Jewish settlements as a national value to encourage and promote. The appetite for Palestinian lands without Palestinians has not abated for even seven decades. I know this because I live it. I have no faith in the Israeli judicial system. It is part of the settler colonial state built by settlers, for settlers. Nor do I expect any of the international governments who have been deeply complicit in the Israeli colonial enterprise to intervene on our behalf. But I do have faith in people around the world, in your citizens who protest and pressure governments to end what is essentially unconditional support for Israeli policies of ethnic cleansing. Impunity and war crimes will not be stopped by statements of condemnation and raised eyebrows. It will not be stopped by tweets of concerns. We have repeatedly articulated what kind of transformative political measures must be taken. Boycotts and state level sanction. The problem again is not ignorance. It is inaction. The United States has vetoed more than 53 security council resolutions critical of Israel. In fact, more than half of the vetoes that the US casted were in favor of Israel. How long must we offer the Israeli occupation and impunity? Negotiations are not going to bring about peace, ending impunity will. You know, when we reflect on history's most horrible, most inhumane atrocities today, we think of them with so much moral clarity, so much moral clarity that we've tend to forget that when these atrocities were happening, they were perfectly legal. Not only perfectly legal, but at the time that they were happening, they were all ones controversial, contested, "too complex". People talked with neutral language, like we do today. We all think th

Mohmmed El Kurd delivered a powerful speech at the United Nations on the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. Full transcript in comments: Um, hello, international community. Thank you for these groundbreaking speeches. I'm sure the occupation authorities are really concerned right now. My name is Mohammed El Kurd, I am here to deliver a speech. When I was 11, I came home from school and saw my furniture scattered across my street in Sheikh Jarrah, a neighborhood in occupied Jerusalem, occupied Palestine, the street overflowed with soldiers, police and settlers. My neighbors were screaming and protesting. Some of them hospitalized. Settlers had invaded our home and taken over half of it. They said it was there by divine decree as if God is a real estate agent. Now, more than a decade later, they're coming to finish what they started. Billionaire backed settler organizations protected by the Israeli occupation forces will likely throw out my family from our home forever, not only my family, but hundreds, if not thousands of Palestinians in my neighborhood and other communities like Silwan and Isawiya and Masafer Yatta in the south Hebron Hills and elsewhere. This fate of dispossession looms over much of my neighborhood. Our lives are consumed by the anxiety of living on the brink of homelessness. The UN has called this a war crime, but more importantly, I know that this is theft. My community, like all Palestinian communities is no stranger to dispossession. My grandmother was expelled from her home in Haifa in 1948, when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were displaced in the Nakba. She found refuge in the fifties after the United Nations, [you all] and Jordan built a housing project in Sheikh Jarrah promising that the 28 refugee families would receive legal title to their properties. Then the 1967 war happened. After Israeli forces illegally annexed Jerusalem, several settler organizations, some of which are headquartered in the United States, have relentlessly attempted to take over the neighborhood. We obviously tried to fight this forced expulsion in court, but as my grandmother used to say, "if the judge is your enemy, to whom do you complain?". Israeli land grabbing has been rubber-coated with legislation, making it almost impossible to challenge. Even so, the battle over Sheikh Jarrah is not legal in its essence. It is political. It is part of the larger systematic effort Israelise the entirety of Jerusalem, my native city. My family and our neighbors understand this, we know firsthand that the Israeli judicial system is created by, and for those who benefit endlessly from the Israeli settler colonial regime. As I speak to you, our family lawyer is attempting to persuade a settler judge to rule against settlements. The word apartheid comes to mind, but saying there's asymmetry and injustice in the Israeli judicial system is a gross understatement. What we have on our hands is a colonialist ideologically driven system built by and for colonizers working exactly as it was intended to. These unjust laws are not preferential, serving the demographic and political goals of the Zionist project. They are concealed behind a cloak of quasi democratic seemingly disputable legislation. This summer, we took our struggle to the streets, our efforts to resist the state over were joined by Palestinians, across Jerusalem, and the world, in what became known as the unity uprising. The situation rapidly escalated into attacks on beseiged Gaza. Palestinians mobilized and resisted, and around and around the world people demonstrated in support of the Palestinian right to liberation and decolonization. But months later, the world's attention has moved away. The reality for Palestinians, however, has not changed. Our neighborhood was put under a blockade for three months, maintained by Israeli forces with continuing restrictions intended to suffocate the lives of the hundreds of Palestinians who live there. And yet, meanwhile, armed Jewish settlers who have already occupied some of our hom

Mohammed El Kurd addresses the UN [Full Speech] https://youtu.be/1xuan2uAQg0

Narrated Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh رضي الله عنه‎: Allah's Messenger ﷺ said, "Whoever after listening to the Adhan says, اللَّهُمَّ رَبَّ هَذِهِ الدَّعْوَةِ التَّامَّةِ وَالصَّلاَةِ الْقَائِمَةِ آتِ مُحَمَّدًا الْوَسِيلَةَ وَالْفَضِيلَةَ وَابْعَثْهُ مَقَامًا مَحْمُودًا الَّذِي وَعَدْتَهُ ʾAllāhumma Rabba haḍihi d-daʿawati t-tāmmah wa-ṣ-ṣalāti l-qaʾimati, ʾāti muḥammadan al-wasīlata wa-l-faḍīlata wa-bʿathhu l-maqaman al-maḥmūdan al-laḍī waʿadtah [O, Allah! Lord of this perfect call and of the established prayer, give Muhammad the right of intercession and illustriousness, and resurrect him to the best and the praised position that You have covenanted him] … then my intercession for him will be allowed on the Day of Resurrection". [Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 614]

Abū Hurayrah رضي الله عنه‎ reported Allāh's Messenger ﷺ as saying: “Allāh has mobile (squads) of angels, who have no other work (to attend to but) to follow the assemblies of ḏikr and when they find such assemblies in which there is ḏikr (of Allāh) they sit in them and some of them surround the others with their wings till the space between them and the sky of the world is fully covered, and when they disperse (after the assembly of ḏikr is adjourned) they go upward to the heaven and Allāh, the Exalted and Glorious, asks them although He is best informed about them: ‘Where have you come from?’ They (the angels) say: ‘We come from Thine servants upon the earth who had been glorifying Thee (reciting SubḥānAllāh), uttering Thine Greatness (reciting Allāhu Akbar) and uttering Thine Oneness (reciting Lā ʾilāha ʾillā llāh) and praising Thee (reciting Alḥamdulillāh) and begging of Thee.’ He (Allāh) would say: ‘What do they beg of Me?’ They (the angels) would say: ‘They beg of Thee the Paradise of Thine.’ He (Allāh) would say: ‘Have they seen My Paradise?’ They (the angels) said: ‘No, our Lord.’ He (Allāh) would say: ‘(What it would be then) if they were to see Mine Paradise?’ They (the angels) said: ‘They seek Thine protection.’ He (Allāh) would say: ‘Against what do they seek protection of Mine?’ They (the angels) would say: ‘Our Lord, from the Hell-Fire.’ He (Allāh) would say: ‘Have they seen My Fire?’ They (the angels) would say: ‘No.’ He (Allāh) would say: ‘What it would be if they were to see My Fire?’ They (the angels) would say: ‘They beg of Thee forgiveness.’ He (Allāh) would say: ‘I grant pardon to them, and confer upon them what they ask for and grant them protection against which they seek protection.’ They (the angels) would again say: ‘Our Lord, there is one amongst them such and such simple servant who happened to pass by (that assembly) and sat there along with them (who had been participating in that assembly).’ He (Allāh) would say: ‘I also grant him pardon, for they are a people the seat-fellows of whom are in no way unfortunate.’ [Ṣāḥīḥ Muslim 2689]

Narrated Abū Hurayrah رضي الله عنه‎: The Prophet ﷺ said, "There are two expressions which are very easy for the tongue to say, but they are very heavy in the balance and are very dear to The Beneficent (Allāh), and they are, 'Subḥāna-llāhi wa-bi-ḥamdih and 'Subḥāna-llāhi l-ʿaẓīm.'" [Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 6406]

ʿĀʾishah رضي الله عنها narrated: "The Prophet (ﷺ) used to try to fast on Mondays and Thursdays." [Jāmiʿ at-Tirmidhī 745, Graded Ṣaḥīḥ]

Abū Hurayrah رضي الله عنه‎ reported Allāh's Messenger ﷺ as saying that Allāh, the Exalted and Glorious, thus stated: “I am near to the thought of My servant as he thinks about Me, and I am with him as he remembers Me. And if he remembers Me in his heart, I also remember him in My Heart, and if he remembers Me in assembly I remember him in assembly, better than his (remembrance), and if he draws near Me by the span of a palm, I draw near him by the cubit, and if he draws near Me by the cubit I draw near him by the space (covered by) two hands. And if he walks towards Me, I rush towards him.” [Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 2675a]

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Narrated by Abū Hurayrah رضي الله عنه‎: Allāh's Messenger ﷺ said, "There is a compulsory Ṣadaqah (charity) to be given for every joint of the human body (as a sign of gratitude to Allāh) everyday the sun rises. To judge justly between two persons is regarded as Ṣadaqah, and to help a man concerning his riding animal by helping him to ride it or by lifting his luggage on to it, is also regarded as Ṣadaqah, and (saying) a good word is also Ṣadaqah, and every step taken on one's way to offer the compulsory prayer (in the mosque) is also Ṣadaqah and to remove a harmful thing from the way is also Ṣadaqah." [Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 2989]