Muslim Ummah: YESTERDAY, Today, and Tomorrow #1

Dr. Syed Habeeb Ashruf
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“These final days and hours before the deadline, is, perhaps a time to recall the long road which has brought us to this point —not the one that began last August but rather the one that leads back more than one thousand years to when Islam’s armies first invaded Europe. The road winds through the middle ages, the councils of Europe in the middle ages—not unlike Congress this week-end debating whether to commit armed forces to a crusade. They did!
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Imam Ali’s Poem Translated:

أشعار رائعة للإمام علي عليه السلام
Imam Ali’s Poem Translated

An Invocation in Verse Munajat by Imam Ali (as)
Translation By Tahera Ali Canani Mp3

لك الحمد يا ذا الجود والمجد والعلى تباركت تعطي من تشاء وتمنع

For You is all praise, O Possessor of Bounty, Glory and Eminence,

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Why are Jews so powerful?

By: Dr Farrukh Saleem: Pakistani official.
UNBELIEVABLE AND WRITTEN BY A MUSLIM

The writer is the Pakistani Executive Director of the Center for Research and Security Studies, a think tank established in 2007, and an Islamabad-based freelance columnist.

There are only 14 million Jews in the world;
seven million in the Americas,
five million in Asia,
two million in Europe &
100,000 in Africa.
For every single Jew in the world there are 100 Muslims.

Yet, Jews are more than a hundred times more powerfulthan all the Muslims put together.
Ever wondered why?
Jesus of Nazareth was Jewish.
Albert Einstein, the most influential scientist of all time &
TIME magazine’s ‘Person of the Century’, was a Jew.

Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis was a Jew.
So were Karl Marx, Paul Samuelson and Milton Friedman.

Here are a few other Jews whose intellectual output
has enriched the whole humanity:

Benjamin Rubin gave humanity the vaccinating needle.
Jonas Salk developed the first polio vaccine.
Albert Sabin developed the improved live polio vaccine.
Gertrude Elion gave us a leukemia fighting drug.
Baruch Blumberg developed the vaccination for Hepatitis B.

Paul Ehrlich discovered a treatment for syphilis.
Elie Metchnikoff won a Nobel Prize in infectious diseases.
Bernard Katz won a Nobel Prize in neuromuscular transmission.
Andrew Schally won a Nobel in endocrinology.
Aaron Beck founded Cognitive Therapy.

Gregory Pincus developed the first oral contraceptive pill.
George Wald won a Nobel for our understanding of the human eye.
Stanley Cohen won a Nobel in embryology.
Willem Kolff came up with the kidney dialysis machine.

Over the past 105 years,
14 million Jews have won 15-dozen Nobel Prizes while
only three Nobel Prizes have been won by
1.4 billion Muslims (other than Peace Prizes).

Why are Jews so powerful?
Stanley Mezor invented the first micro-processing chip.
Leo Szilard developed the first nuclear chain reactor;
Peter Schultz, optical fibre cable;
Charles Adler, traffic lights;
Benno Strauss, Stainless steel;
Isador Kisee, sound movies;
Emile Berliner, telephone microphone;
Charles Ginsburg, videotape recorder.

Famous financiers in the business world who belong to Jewish faith include
Ralph Lauren (Polo),
Levis Strauss (Levi’s Jeans),
Howard Schultz (Starbuck’s) ,
Sergey Brin (Google),
Michael Dell (Dell Computers),
Larry Ellison (Oracle),
Donna Karan (DKNY),
Irv Robbins (Baskins & Robbins) and
Bill Rosenberg (Dunkin Donuts).

Richard Levin, President of Yale University, is a Jew.
So are Henry Kissinger (American secretary of state),
Alan Greenspan (Fed chairman under Reagan, Bush, Clinton and Bush),
Joseph Lieberman (US Senator),
Madeleine Albright (American secretary of state),
Casper Weinberger (American secretary of defense), Maxim Litvinov (USSR foreign Minister),
David Marshal (Singapore ‘s first chief minister),
Issac Isaacs (governor-general of Australia ),
Benjamin Disraeli (British statesman and author),
Yevgeny Primakov (Russian PM),
Barry Goldwater (US Senator),
Jorge Sampaio (president of Portugal ),
John Deutsch (CIA director),
Herb Gray (Canadian deputy PM),
Pierre Mendes (French PM),
Michael Howard (British home secretary),
Bruno Kreisky (chancellor of Austria ) and
Robert Rubin (American secretary of treasury).

In the media,
famous Jews include Wolf Blitzer (CNN),
Barbara Walters (ABC News),
Eugene Meyer (Washington Post),
Henry Grunwald (editor-in-chief Time),
Katherine Graham (publisher of The Washington Post), Joseph Lelyveld (Executive editor, The New York Times), and Max Frankel (New York Times).

The most beneficent philanthropist in the history of the world is George Soros, a Jew, who has so far donated a colossal $4 billion most of which has gone as aid to scientists and universities around the world.

Second to George Soros is Walter Annenberg, another Jew, who has built a hundred libraries by donating an estimated $2 billion.

At the Olympics,
Mark Spitz set a record of sorts by winning
7 gold medals;
Lenny Krayzelburg is a three-time
Olympic gold medalist.
Spitz, Krayzelburg & Boris Becker (Tennis)
are all Jewish.

Did you know that Harrison Ford, George Burns, Tony Curtis, Charles Bronson, Sandra Bullock, Billy Crystal, Woody Allen, Paul Newman, Peter Sellers,
Dustin Hoffman, Michael Douglas, Ben Kingsley,
Kirk Douglas, Goldie Hawn, Cary Grant, William Shatner, Jerry Lewis and Peter Falk are all Jewish?

As a matter of fact,
Hollywood itself was founded by a Jew.
Among directors and producers,
Steven Spielberg, Mel Brooks, Oliver Stone,
Aaron Spelling ( Beverly Hills 90210),
Neil Simon (The Odd Couple),
Andrew Vaina (Rambo 1/2/3),
Michael Man (Starsky andHutch),
Milos Forman (One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest),
Douglas Fairbanks (The Thief of Baghdad ) and
Ivan Reitman (Ghostbusters) are all Jewish.

So, why are Jews so powerful?
Answer : EDUCATION
Why are Muslims so powerless?

There are an estimated
1,476,233,470 Muslims on the face of the planet:
one billion in Asia, 400 million in Africa,
44 million in Europe and six million in the Americas .

Every fifth human being is a Muslim;
for every single Hindu there are two Muslims,
for every Buddhist there are two Muslims &
for every Jew there are one hundred Muslims.

Ever wondered why Muslims are so powerless?
Here is why:
There are 57 member-countries of the
Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC),
and all of them put together have around 500 universities;
i.e. one university for every three million Muslims.
The United States has 5,758 universities &
India has 8,407.

In 2004, Shanghai Jiao Tong University compiled an ‘Academic Ranking of World Universities’ ,
and intriguingly, not one university
from Muslim-majority states was in the top-500.

As per data collected by the UNDP, literacy in the Christian world stands at nearly 90 per cent and
15 Christian-majority states have a literacy rate of
100 per cent.

A Muslim-majority state, as a sharp contrast,
has an average literacy rate of around 40 per cent and there is no Muslim-majority state with
a literacy rate of 100 per cent.

Some 98 per cent of the ‘literates’ in the Christian world had completed primary school, while less than 50 per cent of the ‘literates’ in the Muslim world did the same.

Around 40 per cent of the ‘literates’ in the Christian world attended university
while no more than two per cent of the ‘literates’ in the Muslim world did the same

Muslim-majority countries have
230 scientists per one million Muslims.
The US has 4,000 scientists per million &
Japan has 5,000 per million.

In the entire Arab world,
the total number of full-time researchers is 35,000 &
there are only 50 technicians per one million Arabs.
(in the Christian world there are up to 1,000 technicians per one million).

Furthermore,
The Muslim world spends 0.2 per cent of its GDP on research and development,
While the Christian world spends around five per cent of its GDP.

Conclusion:
The Muslim world lacks the capacity to produce knowledge!

Daily newspapers per 1,000 people and number of book titles per million are two indicators of whether knowledge is being diffused in a society.

In Pakistan, there are 23 daily newspapers per 1,000 Pakistanis
while the same ratio in Singapore is 360.

In the UK , the number of book
titles per million stands at 2,000
while the same in Egypt is 20.

Conclusion: The Muslim world is failing to diffuse knowledge.

Exports of high technology products as a percentage of total exports are an important indicator of knowledge application.
Pakistan ‘s export of high technology products as a percentage of total exports stands at one per cent.
The same for Saudi Arabia is 0.3 per cent;
Kuwait, Morocco, and Algeria are all at 0.3 per cent,
while Singapore is at 58 per cent.

Conclusion: The Muslim world is failing to apply knowledge.

Why are Muslims powerless?

…..Because we aren’t producing knowledge,
…..Because we aren’t diffusing knowledge.,
…..Because we aren’t applying knowledge.

And, the future belongs to knowledge-based societies.

Interestingly, the combined annual GDP of 57 OIC-countries is under $2 trillion.
America, just by herself, produces goods and services worth $12 trillion;
China $8 trillion,
Japan $3.8 trillion and
Germany $2.4 trillion (purchasing power parity basis).

Oil rich Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait and Qatar collectively produce goods and services (mostly oil) worth $500 billion;
Spain alone produces goods and services worth over $1 trillion,
Catholic Poland $489 billion and
Buddhist Thailand $545 billion.

(Muslim GDP as a percentage of world GDP is fast declining).
So, why are Muslims so powerless?
Answer: Lack of education & very narrow mindedness.

All we do is shout to Allah the whole day !!!
and
blame everyone else for our multiple failures!!!!!

On Burning of Quran

Very Interesting angle to the issue.

Dear Daniel, ( Pastor )
First of all my sincere gratitude to you and your father-in-law as you have enhanced my knowledge about Christianity and taken your valuable time whenever I have come to you on business meetings. This I call a real service and personally consider it as a prayer. May Jesus reward you for it.

As I said ,we all learn from one another and since you are in the Ministry ,I thought to forward you this email which I hope will be useful to you too to know what QURAN talks about other religions. Honestly speaking I didn’t know many things myself.
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Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an

Written by: Sebastian R. Prange ([email protected])
Aasil Ahmad (www.aasilahmad.net)

Facing the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. stands the Jefferson Building, the main building of the Library of Congress, the world’s largest library, with holdings of more than 140 million books and other printed items. The stately building, with its neoclassical exterior, copper-plated dome and marble halls, is named after Thomas Jefferson, one of the “founding fathers” of the United States, principal Read more

The Amazing Quran

By Dr. Gary Miller

Calling the Quran amazing is not something done only by Muslims, who have an appreciation for the book and who are pleased with it; it has been labeled amazing by non-Muslims as well. In fact, even people who hate Islam very much have still called it amazing. Read more

Muhammad’s Advent

Presentation by:
A.S. Hashim, MD

How is Muhammad viewed?

  1. More than a 1 ½ Billion bear witness that he is a Messenger of God
  2. Revered by numerous millions of people
  3. Wise men adore him as a great man
  4. Cartoonists in the West may caricature him in a mean way

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Al-Husain: Lessons of a Lifetime

Writer’s Views
Written by: Nazar Haidar
Translated by Yasin T. al-Jibouri

May Allah magnify our rewards and yours on the occasion of the somber anniversary of the tragedy of the Master of the Youths of Paradise, the Prophet’s grandson, al-Husain son of Ali, son of Fatima al-Zahra, daughter of the Messenger of Allah, (peace and blessings of Allah be with him and his family). Read more

Al-Husain and Martyrdom

Presentation by:
Mohammad Taha:
Reference, taken from:
Dr. Ali Shariati’s writings.

The word: martyr
In Western culture, the word: martyr stems from ‘mortal’ which means ‘death’ or ‘to die’. One of the basic principles in Islam and in particular in Shiite tradition however is ‘sacrifice and bear witness’. So instead of martyrdom, i.e. death, it essentially means ‘life’, ‘evidence’, ‘testify’, ‘certify’. These words: martyrdom and bearing witness show the differences which exist between the vision of Shi’as. Islamic tradition and the other cultures of the world. Read more