When a few days before election 2004 a BBC reporter asked me about the possibility of election fraud, I felt deeply offended and start defending America. I told him these were not elections being held in a Third World country. This was America. Now I am beginning to feel my defense was based more on nationalistic reaction than the truth.
He was the Muslim Che Guevara in the world of freedom struggles. With the demise of communism and a bipolar world, Palestinians lost the main political power game which had helped them balance the Israel-America axis.
"O ye who believe! Stand out firmly for God, as witnesses to fair dealing, and let not the hatred of others to you make you swerve to wrong and depart from justice. Be just: that is next to Piety: and fear God. For God is well-acquainted with all that you do." [Quran 5:8]
It is abusive to partially quote the Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, thus distorting what he said. How many times have you heard the Hadith "Paradise is under the shadow of the swords?
The first ten days of the Islamic month of Zul Hijjah are a special time when all kinds of good deeds are encouraged and highly rewarded. Here are a number of Duas that you can make or use as a model to make your own Duas during these blessed days.