Nurah-Rosalie P. Jeter Amat'ullah | Truth Commission on Conscience in War

What Does Islam Say About War?
War Ethics In Islam
The Command of War In Islam

O people!  I charge you with ten rules; learn them well!

Stop, O people, that I may give you ten rules for your guidance on the battlefield.

Do not commit treachery or deviate from the right path.

You must not mutilate dead bodies.

Neither kill a child, nor a woman, nor an aged man.

Bring no harm to the trees, nor burn them with fire,

especially those which are fruitful.

Slay not any of the enemy's flock, save for your food.

You are likely to pass by people who have devoted their lives to monastic services;

leave them alone.

(Abu Bakr)

Fight for the sake of God those that fight against you*, but do not be aggressive.

(Quran 2:190)

To those against whom war is made, 

permission is given (to fight)*

because they are wronged.

(Quran 22:39)

Do no mischief on the earth, after it hath been set in order, 

but call on Him with fear and longing (in your hearts): 

for the Mercy of Allah is (always) near to those who do good.

(Quran 7:56)

*fighting is allowed only in self-defense

Muslim Heroes: 259 Dr. Nurah-Rosalie Amat'ullah (CEO, Muslim Women's Institute for Research and Development)
Muslim Women's Institute for Research and Development
Nurah Rosalie Amat'ullah @ Huffington Post

Rumi Tuesday

 

Speak a new language so that the world 

will be a new world. 

 Rumi

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Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

Rumi

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It is Love that holds everything together, 

and it is the everything also.

Rumi

Feed the World

There but for the Grace of The Beloved go you and I.

“There is no Them. There are only facets of Us.” 

John Green

Bread for the World Institute

You can make the difference!

We are prayer....

image from Wikipedia

WE ARE PRAYER, 

coming to prayer and abiding as prayer. 

We are prayer serving, 

prayer sleeping, 

prayer breathing. 

May we always move 

with the graceful movements 

of the prayer, 

and the silent dignity 

of the prayer, 

for prayer is 

the very nature of our humanity.

Lex Hixon in Atom from the Sun of Knowledge, Islamic Meditations 154

Clean Water --- In Honor of Rachel Beckwith

Rachel Beckwith's Mom Visits Ethiopia. from charity: water on Vimeo.

What Is Ramadan? An Explanation by Yusuf Islam

Ramadan Information from About.com
Yusuf Islam (formerly known as Cat Stevens)

image from Top Beautiful Islamic Wallpapers

Feed the hungry...

"The day that hunger is eradicated from the earth

there will be the greatest spiritual explosion

the world has ever known.

Humanity cannot imagine the joy

that will burst into the world."

---Federico Garcia Lorca, Spanish poet---

"I have the audacity to believe that people everywhere

can have three meals a day for their bodies,

education and culture for the minds

and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits."

---Martin Luther King Jr.---

Wikipedia on PlumpyNut

The victim of starvation burns up his own body fats, muscles and tissues for fuel.

His body quite literally consumes itself and deteriorates rapidly.

The kidneys, liver, and endocrine system often cease 

to function properly.

A shortage of carbohydrates, which play a vital role in brain chemistry,

affects the mind.

Lassitude and confusion set in,

so that starvation victims often seem unaware of their plight.

The body's defenses drop; disease kills most famine victims 

before they have time to starve to death.

An individual begins to starve when he lost about a third of his normal body weight.

Once this loss exceeds 40 percent, death is almost inevitable.

---Time Magazine---

We can feed the world!

One in seven people will go to bed hungry tonight.

There are more hungry people in the world

than the combined populations of

USA, Canada and the European Union. 

(statistics from World Food Programme website)

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