MAENDELEO YA KIELIMU KATI YA WAISLAM NA WAYAHUDI

Imechangiwa na Baajun Tambiko (sbaajun@yahoo.com)

Data zako zinazoonyesha wasomi wengi kati ya Wayahudi milioni 14 (14m) kuliko Waislam bilioni mbili na nusu (2.5b) duniani zina ukweli. Na Ujumbe wako ni muhimu sana. Lakini pamoja na hayo tafsiri ya data hizi ni lazima zichambuliwe kwa undani; kama ifuatavyo:

Kwanza wa-Jew wengi waliotajwa kwenye mchambuo huu, wana-asili ya Central Europe na Western Europe. Hivyo maendeleo yao mengi yanatokana na maeneo waliyoishi na sio dini yao. Na waJew wengine waliotolewa mfano kwenye article kama Karl Marx, Segmund Freud, n.k walikuwa Atheist (watu wasioamini Mungu). Hivyo uJew wao ulikuwa wa ukabila na sio wa dini. Hivyo tunapofanya mlingano ni lazima tulinganishe chungwa kwa chungwa na apple kwa apple.

Na kwa historia tu, waislamu walipokuwa wanatawala Spain, waliweza kuanzisha vyuo vikuu ambavyo vilitia chachu katika maendeleo ya sasa ya elimu yaliopo katika nchi za Magharibi. Na kwa mtaji huu dini ni imani na inatakiwa kupokelewa na mtu wa aina yoyote yule. Kwa upande mwingine elimu si imani, na maendeleo yake yana vigezo vingine ikiwemo sehemu watu wanayoishi. Na kama maendeleo ya elimu hayajali maeneo basi Ethiopia ingekuwa moja ya nchi iliyoendelea maana Jews wameishi Ethiopia toka zama za Nabii Suleiman.

Naomba nieleweke kuwa maelezo yangu sio ya kutafuta visingizio kwanini tupo nyuma kielimu. Maelezo yangu ni kutaka kusema kuwa ELIMU HAISHUKI kutoka mbiguni. Elimu inaambatana na maendeleo ya utawala ulio bora. Elimu inaambatana na maendeleo ya kiuchumi na vile vile usalama wa jamii. Himaya za KiIslamu zilipokuwa na utawala wa bora wenye kuhimiza maendeleo ya Elimu na maendeleo, waIslamu walifanya vizuri.

Katika kipindi cha miaka 50 iliyopita, nchi nyingi zimepata uhuru. Na zile nchi zilizojaribu kuleta maendeleo kwa watu wao matokeo yanaanza kuoneka. Na kuhakiki points zangu nitatumia article uliyotumia. Article hiyo inasema kuwa, katika vyuo 500 bora hakuna vyuo katika nchi za kiIslamu. Kwa miaka ya hivi karibuni usemi huu sio sahihi. Vifuatavyo ni vyuo vikuu katika nchi za Kiislamu vilivyo katika list ya 500 na nafasi zake. (http://www.topunive rsities.com/ university_ rankings/ results/2008/ overall_rankings /fullrankings/)

230 - Universiti MALAYA (UM) Malaysia
287 - University of INDONESIA Indonesia
313 - Universiti Sains MALAYSIA (USM) Malaysia
316 - Universitas GADJAH MADA Indonesia
320 - Universiti Putra MALAYSIA (UPM) Malaysia
338 - KING FAHD University of Petroleum & Mine... Saudi Arabia
374 - BILKENT University Turkey
376 - ISTANBUL Technical University Turkey
376 - National University of Sciences and Tech... Pakistan

Vingine katika orodha ni:

CAIRO University Egypt
University of LAHORE Pakistan
SABANCI University Turkey
AIRLANGGA University Indonesia
BOGOR Agricultural University Indonesia
University of BRAWIJAYA Indonesia
CUKUROVA University Turkey
University of DHAKA Bangladesh
DIPONEGORO University Indonesia
HACETTEPE University Turkey
University of KARACHI Pakistan
SHARIF University of Technology Iran
University of Engineering & Technology (... Pakistan

SWALA YA IJUMAA MSIKITI MKUU WA WASHINGTON DC

Wandugu leo hii niwaletee ya Msikiti mkuu wa Washington uitwao "Washington National Mosque." Ndio nimetoka huku muda huu huu kuswali swala ya Jamaa ya leo hii Mei 8, 2009. Alhamdullillah.

Swala yetu leo Khutba yake ilitilia mkazo Upwekeshaji wa Mola wetu, kumjua Mjumbe wake na kujali familia; hususan wazazi wetu. Kwamba endapo hutatenda wema kwa wazazi, basi huwezi kujisifu kuwa unamjua Mtumbe wetu (S.A.W.) na vivyo hivyo endapo hutomjua Mtume wetu ni dhahiri kwamba na Mola wetu hutakuwa karibu naye. Hivyo tumeaswa sana katika mambo haya.

Baada ya Swala (kiasi cha saa nane na nusu mchana) kama kawaida katika msikiti huu, kulikuwa na chakula cha mchana. Leo kulikuwa na wali wa mboga na mchuzi wa nyama ya mbuzi, pamoja na mikate. Tukahudhuria katika sadaka hiyo, alhamdullillah. Japo hatukuwa watu wengi kiasi kwamba sehemu ya chakula ilibakia. Nikawakumbuka ndugu zangu nyumbani Tanzania na kujiuliza wakati huu sijui huko wanakula nini? Najua ni kipindi cha masika na hivi karibu mahindi ya kuchoma yatakuwa mengi tu.

Huku ndiko kutumia vibaya jina la Uislam. Ingeruhusiwa tabia hii, Mwenyezi Mungu asingesema kwamba hii (talaka) ni ruhusa inayochukiza; kwa sababu Uislam unahimiza mshikamano katika familia, sio utenganifu wa kiholela kama huu. Hivyo haiwezi kufanywa kirahisi kiasi hiki. Hii naona ni mila ya hao Wahijazi(Arabia).

Saudi man divorces wife by text message

Thu Apr 9, 10:19 am ET

RIYADH (Reuters) – A Saudi man has divorced his wife by text message, a newspaper said on Thursday.

The man was in Iraq when he sent the SMS informing her she was no longer his spouse. He followed up with a telephone call to two of his relatives, the daily Arab News reported.

A court in the Red Sea city of Jeddah finalised the split -- the first known divorce in Saudi Arabia by text message -- after summoning the two relatives to check they had received word of the husband's intention, the paper said.

Saudi Arabia practises a strict form of Islamic Sharia law, and clerics preside over Sharia courts as judges. Under the law a man can divorce his wife by saying "I divorce you" three times.

The Saudi man was in Iraq to participate in "what he described as 'jihad'," according to the Arab News. Many Saudis have gone to fight with al Qaeda militants against the Iraqi government and U.S. forces.

(Reporting by Asma Alsharif)

MADHILA YA KUADHIBIWA BILA KUFUATA TARATIBU

Wenzetu wanaodai kwamba wanaadhibu watu kufuatana na sheria za Huduud ( adhabu zilizotajwa katika Quran tukufu) katika habari hii hata hawafahamu utaratibu wake. Ili mradi adhabu bila kukusanya ushahidi kama alivyofanya Mtukufu wa Daraja (S.A.W.) alipomuuliza mkosaji mara tatu kama katenda kosa na mkosaji akakubali kuwa ametenda (ushahidi wa kukubali - confession). Hapa hakukuwa na kesi iliyosikilizwa ila mijeledi ilitembezwa tu. Na taratibu za mijeledi ilivyokuwa inaelekezwa na Seyyidna Ommar Khalifa wa Pili katika Uislam, ni kuwa isizidi kidole gumba unene wake na wala fimbo isiinuke kupita kichwa cha mpigaji, kwa sababu adhabu hii haikuwa na nia ya kujeruhi ila kumrudi mtu.

The Global Campaign to Stop Killing and Stoning Women! urges the government of Pakistan to bring to justice the perpetrators of the flogging of a young woman in Swat.

On April 3, 2009 a shocking video portraying a 17-year-old woman being publically flogged by Taliban militants in the Swat region of Pakistan was aired on Pakistani television. The video showed two men restraining a young woman while a third man whips her 34 times. She screams and begs for mercy as a large male-only crowd looks on. Reportedly, one of the men was her brother. The woman received no trial before her punishment. In response, Muslim Khan, spokesman for the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan in Swat, has shifted his position from initially stating that had a qazi (judge) been in charge, she would have been stoned to death, to contesting whether the incident happened prior to a government deal with the Taliban (currently awaiting the President’s signature for implementation), to denying the incident ever took place and claiming this was a ‘conspiracy’ by western NGOs. The Supreme Court did take suo motto notice and asked for the woman to be produced in court, but she did not appear and she and the family now deny the incident ever took place. While the Supreme Court has asked for fortnightly updates, we fear the case will be buried.

Hence, the Global Campaign, Stop Killing and Stoning Women! urges the United Nations to investigate this serious infringement of International Human Rights Law and the international community to send a clear message that it is unacceptable for women to be tortured, either in private or in public, while the fact that this flogging was witnessed by many, implicitly legitimizing it, is in grave breach of national and international laws. Reports from the region suggest that violence against women, including other incidences of public floggings, is increasingly common. We also request the United Nations to take note of the draft ‘peace’ deal the Government of Pakistan is entering into with the Taliban in Swat which denies women (and men) their rights under the constitution and will, we fear, open the gates to even greater injustices.

R E M E M B E R - A POEM

Muslimah Ali's Notes
(facebook)Yesterday at 13:30- 07 03 2009

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Poem - Remember Just Remember

When things are down

And you are out of your mind
Remember just remember
Allah is The All-Kind.

When your life is in darkness
And nothing is right
Remember just remember
Through the darkness, Allah is The Light.

When nothing makes sense
And your heading for demise
Remember just remember
Allah is The All-Wise.

When times are troubled
And no one seems to care
Remember just remember
Allah won't hurt you, He is The Most Just.

When your heart is breaking
And your pain makes you fall
Remember just remember
Allah Sees it all.

When you are weak
And the road seems long
Remember just remember
Seek strength from The All-Strong.

When life is a burden
And everything is unstable
Remember just remember
Allah is The All-Able.

When the way is cloudy
And there is no one by your side
Remember just remember
Allah is The Only Guide.

When no one wants to listen
Or is willing to lend an ear
Remember just remember
Allah is always ready to hear.

When you are poor and penniless
And you are stuck in a niche
Remember just remember
Allah is The All-Rich.

When you are down in your misery
And there is nowhere to run
Remember just remember
You can always run to The One.

When your all alone
And your pain has no end
Remember just remember
Allah is the Most Compassionate.

And when your scars are hurting
And your heart is in fear
Remember just remember
Allah's help is near.


Author Unknown

ALLAHU AKBAR - ALLAH IS GREAT !

Episcopal minister defrocked after becoming a Muslim

• Story Highlights
• Ann Holmes Redding says she saw no contradiction in Muslim being a minister
  
• Christian parishioners, family saw Redding as having abandoned her faith
  
• Diocese rules that priest "cannot be both a Christian and a Muslim"
  

By Patrick Oppmann
CNN

SEATTLE, Washington (CNN) -- Ann Holmes Redding has what could be called a crisis of faiths.

For nearly 30 years, Redding has been an ordained minister in the Episcopal Church. Her priesthood ended Wednesday when she was defrocked.

The reason? For the past three years Redding has been both a practicing Christian and a Muslim.

"Had anyone told me in February 2006 that I would be a Muslim before April rolled around, I would have shaken my head in concern for the person's mental health," Redding recently told a crowd at a signing for a book she co-authored on religion.

Redding said her conversion to Islam was sparked by an interfaith gathering she attended three years ago. During the meeting, an imam demonstrated Muslim chants and meditation to the group. Redding said the beauty of the moment and the imam's humbleness before God stuck with her.

"It was much more this overwhelming conviction that I needed to surrender to God and this was the form that my surrender needed to take," she recalled. "It wasn't just an episode but .... was a step that I wasn't going to step back from."

Ten days later Redding was saying the shahada -- the Muslim declaration of belief in the oneness of God and acceptance of Mohammad as his prophet.

But Redding said she felt her new Muslim faith did not pose a contradiction to her staying a Christian and minister.

"Both religions say there's only one God," Redding said, "and that God is the same God. It's very clear we are talking about the same God! So I haven't shifted my allegiance." Watch Redding say, "Being a Muslim makes me a better Christian" »

The imam at the Islamic Center in Seattle, Washington, where Redding prays said she brings the best of both traditions to her beliefs.

"Coming from an example of wanting to be Christ-like and coming from the perspective of wanting to follow the best example -- the example of our prophet Mohammed -- it all makes sense then," Benjamin Shabazz said.

There are many contradictions between the two religions. While Islam recognizes Jesus as a prophet, Christianity worships him as the son of God.

James Wellman, who chairs the department of comparative religion at the University of Washington, said that while it is not unusual for people to "mix and match" beliefs, it is almost unheard of for a minister to claim two religions.

"When you take ordination as a Christian minister, you take an explicit vow of loyalty to Jesus. It's hard for me to understand how a Christian minister could have dual loyalties," Wellman said.

Redding said she sees the theological conflicts but that the two religions, at their core, "illuminate" each other.

"When I took my shahada, I said there's no God but God and that Mohammed is God's prophet or messenger. Neither of those statements, neither part of that confession or profession denies anything about Christianity," she said.

To her parishioners and family, though, Redding has turned her back on her faith and office. There was, she said, "universal puzzlement" at her decision to convert to Islam but still remain an Episcopal minister.

"I have people who love me very much who really don't want me to do this, and I love them very much. And I would love to be able to say, 'Because I love you I will renounce my orders' or 'I will renounce Islam' ... I hate causing pain to people who love me, that's not my intention," Redding said.

The Episcopal Church also rejected Redding's religious choice.

"The church interprets my being a Muslim as 'abandoning the church,' " she said. "And that [there] comes an understanding that you have to be one or the other, and most people would say that. It simply hasn't been my experience that I have to make a choice between the two."

The Diocese of Rhode Island, where Redding was ordained, told her to leave either her new Muslim faith or the ministry. A diocese statement said Bishop Geralyn Wolf found Redding to be "a woman of utmost integrity. However, the Bishop believes that a priest of the Church cannot be both a Christian and a Muslim."

Even though she has been defrocked, Redding said she is not capable of turning her back on either faith. She said she wants to continue speaking about and teaching religion and perhaps even travel to the Hajj, a journey to Mecca that every Muslim is supposed to make in their lifetime.

Redding said she does not want her belief in two religions to diminish the value she holds for both Christianity and Islam. Each faith by itself is enough to fulfill a person spiritually, she said.

"It's all there. I am not saying you have to go somewhere else to be complete. Some people don't need glasses, some people need single lenses. I need bifocals."

TOFAUTI KATIKA VIUMBE WA MWENYEZIMUNGU

Imechangiwa na Dada Saada al-Ghafry.

Kuna waganga wa kitabu wa kweli na matapeli, lakini kwa Tanzania wengi wao ni matapeli. Mganga akishakwambia "umefanyiwa hivi na xyz ", mara nyingi huyo xyz akiwa ni mpenzi wa aina moja ama nyingine kama ni kwenye familia au urafiki, ujue huyo ni tapeli. Kimbia haraka sana. Yapo matibabu ya Kitabu, lakini ni wachache sana wenye ujuzi huo, na tiba hiyo haistahili kupokea malipo.

Majini yapo, na ni kweli yapo mazuri na mabaya, kama walivyo wanadamu wazuri na wabaya. Vitendo vyema (vinavyotekeza amri za Mwenyeezi Mungu) vinamfanya jini na binaadamu wajulikane kuwa ni wazuri na wale wenye vitendo vibaya (vinavyoasi amri za Mwenyeezi Mungu) vinamfanya jini na binaadamu wajulikane kuwa wabaya. Sote ni viumbe wa Mwenyeezi Mungu kama walivyo wanyama na Malaika pia kuwa ni viumbe wa Mwenyeezi Mungu. Sote tumeumbwa ili tumuabudu Mwenyeezi Mungu. Binadamu na wanyama tunaonekana, Malaika na majini hawaonekani nasi ila kwa wenye elimu ya majini km Nabii Daud aliweza kuwafuga na kuwatuma majini. Wapo pia hivi sasa wenye elimu ya kufuga na kuwatumikisha majini, lakini Mwenyeezi Mungu amekataza shughuli hiyo. Nabii Daud alipewa ruhusa maalum, wengine hawaa ruhusa hiyo.

Kwa Kiarabu anaitwa jinn, na kwa Kiinglish anaitwa genie.