Narrated Anas: Allah's Apostle said, "Help your brother, whether he is an oppressor or he is an oppressed one. People asked, "O Allah's Apostle! It is all right to help him if he is oppressed, but how should we help him if he is an oppressor?" The Prophet said, "By preventing him from oppressing others." (Bukhari)
Doing nothing
is like being an accomplice
to the crime.
“…if any one slew a person - unless it be for murder or for spreading mischief in the land - it would be as if he slew the whole people: and if any one saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of the whole people.” (Quran 5:32)
And the believers, men and women, are protecting friends of one another, they enjoin the right and forbid the wrong.
(Quran 9:71)
The ummah is like a body,
when one limb is harmed,
the entire body responds.
Muhammad, peace be upon him, said, "You will see the believers in their mutual kindness, love and sympathy just like one body. When a limb complains, the whole body responds to it with wakefulness and fever."
The Prophet (PBUH) said: If you hear a hadith reported from me which your hearts recognize, at which your hair and skin become tender, and you feel that it is near to you: know that I am nearer to it than you. And if you hear a hadith being reported from me of which your hearts disapprove, from which your hair and skin recoil, and you feel that it is far from you: know that I am even farther from it than you." Narrated from Abu Humayd al-Ansari and Abu Usayd al-Sa'idi, by Ahmad (al Arnaut ed. 25: 456 #16058 isnad sahih 'ala shart Muslim), al Bazzar (Mukhtasar al-Zawa'id #187), Ibn Hibban, Sahih (1:263 #63) and others with a sound chain of Sahih narrations cf. al-Haythami (1:150) and Ibn Kathir, Tafsir (1:473, 2:264).
Towards the One The Perfection of Love, Harmony and Beauty The Only Being United with all the illuminated souls Who form the embodiment of the Mother, The Spirit of Guidance. Amin
Omar Faruk Tekbilek - One Truth
There never was a people
without a Warner having lived among them.
-Quran 35:24
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And certainly We sent Messengers before you;
there are some of them
that We have mentioned to you
and there are others whom we have not mentioned to you.
-Quran 40:78
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Hadhrat Abu Zarr Gifaari (Radi Allah Anho) narrates
that the Holy Prophet, peace be upon him, said,
'The Prophets were 124,000.'
(Mishkaat)
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There is no truth but Truth
and the Prophetic Light
is Truth's messenger.
Ya Haqq!
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Every people has a book even if it is written in the language of the stars.
"Our Bible is the wind and the rain."
-Herbalist Carol McGrath
as told to her by a Native American woman
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Before the written word, sacred stories were spoken, entire books were memorized by the people, passed on generation to generation.
Every religion is a love song, an intimate gift to the peoples of the world. Though they come to us in different languages, the words are the same for the Word is one.
May S/He Who is the Abba in Heaven of the Christians, Hashem of the Jews, Allah Most Merciful of the Muslims, Sophia of the Gnostics, Buddha of the Buddhists, Tao of the Chinese, Ahura Mazda of the Zoroastrians and Brahman of the Hindus lead us from the unreal to the Real, from darkness to light, from disease and death to immortality. May the All-Loving Being manifest Him/Herself unto us, and grant us abiding understanding and all-consuming divine love. Peace, Peace, Peace be unto all.
- by Ramakrishna, (my revisions to the prayer in italics)
