Monday, December 29, 2003
I am still savouring our last conversation ... it's taste lingers on my tongue and your voice echo's in parts of my head and ears... I can't wait till we meet...
I may not have lived in Iraq, at tmes I may not have felt a strong kinship with my compatriots, maybe even at times I may have felt that I am an outsider with my own people BUT NEVER had I at any point not been proud of my Iraqi & Arab ancestry & heritage.
So you say what brings this on.... aaah well here goes:
A colleague sent me an article written by the commander in chief of the Dubai Police, Major General Dhahi Khalfan bin Tamim - which has - while reading it - slowly but surely raised my blood to a boiling point and left it a slow yet embers red simmer.
below are a few of those mentioned in the article... am not well will continue and translate it tomorrow... I hope
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Al Hajjaj
"Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf al-Thaqafi is the one who is very well known for his promiscuity, apostasy, crimes, and total lack of respect for the faith. Al-Hakim has recorded on p. 556, Vol. 3, of his Al-Mustadrak, and Ibn Asakir has also recorded on p. 69, Vol. 4, of his book, the fact that al-Hajjaj used to say, "Ibn Mas`ud claims that he recited a Qur'an revealed from Allah, and Allah is nothing more than a filth of the Arabs." He also used to say, "Fear Allah as much as you want, for doing so is completely futile, and listen to and obey the commander of the faithful Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan for you will then be generously rewarded." Also Ibn Aqeel records on p. 81 of his book Al-Nasaih al-Kafiya saying that al-Hajjaj delivered a speech once in Kufa and referred to those who were visiting the grave site of the Prophet at Medina thus: "May they perish! They go around sticks and decaying cadaver; why don't they go round the mansion of the commander of the faithful Abd al-Malik? Don't they know that someone's successor is better than his messenger?"
Al Farazdaq
Al Imam Al Hussein
Jabir Al Ahmed Al Jabir Al Sabah
Kheirallah
I may not have lived in Iraq, at tmes I may not have felt a strong kinship with my compatriots, maybe even at times I may have felt that I am an outsider with my own people BUT NEVER had I at any point not been proud of my Iraqi & Arab ancestry & heritage.
So you say what brings this on.... aaah well here goes:
A colleague sent me an article written by the commander in chief of the Dubai Police, Major General Dhahi Khalfan bin Tamim - which has - while reading it - slowly but surely raised my blood to a boiling point and left it a slow yet embers red simmer.
below are a few of those mentioned in the article... am not well will continue and translate it tomorrow... I hope
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Al Hajjaj
"Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf al-Thaqafi is the one who is very well known for his promiscuity, apostasy, crimes, and total lack of respect for the faith. Al-Hakim has recorded on p. 556, Vol. 3, of his Al-Mustadrak, and Ibn Asakir has also recorded on p. 69, Vol. 4, of his book, the fact that al-Hajjaj used to say, "Ibn Mas`ud claims that he recited a Qur'an revealed from Allah, and Allah is nothing more than a filth of the Arabs." He also used to say, "Fear Allah as much as you want, for doing so is completely futile, and listen to and obey the commander of the faithful Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan for you will then be generously rewarded." Also Ibn Aqeel records on p. 81 of his book Al-Nasaih al-Kafiya saying that al-Hajjaj delivered a speech once in Kufa and referred to those who were visiting the grave site of the Prophet at Medina thus: "May they perish! They go around sticks and decaying cadaver; why don't they go round the mansion of the commander of the faithful Abd al-Malik? Don't they know that someone's successor is better than his messenger?"
Al Farazdaq
Al Imam Al Hussein
Jabir Al Ahmed Al Jabir Al Sabah
Kheirallah
