evil emails:
**Q **I am concerned about emails that Muslims are sending out to “everyone on their lists.” It seems that a lot of them are not really based on the teachings of Islam, that is the Quran and authentic hadeeths. What should we do?" (I am including a sample that just came to me and would like for you to confirm or refute the contents of the “Dream of Shaykh Ahmed in Madinah.”
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re: Fowarding Emails That LIE About Allah & His Messenger (peace be upon him
In a message dated 9/14/2003 6:14:55 PM Pacific Daylight Time, Muslim sent this email out
DONT DELETE! IF YOUR A MUSLIM! PLEASE READ THIS!
(This is NOT true - do not believe it; do not forward it; warn anyone about this LIE!)
This is true.
: (NO! It is NOT TRUE)
**From Madina Sheikh Ahmed has sent this news. On a Friday ****Sheikh Ahmed fell asleep reading the Quraan. Then he dreamt the Prophet **Muhammed (saw) standing in front of him and saying that in one week seven thousand people died but not even one was a true Muslim. None did what ALLAH wanted. He also said now is a bad time. These days Wives dont look after their Husbands, Girls go round without being covered they do not respect parents or others, Rich do not look after the poor, they do not give gifts or money or do not give fulfil zakaat.
He also said to Sheikh Ahmed make people understand to give zakaat, To do prayer and to keep fast. The day of judgement is near. When There is a single star in the sky, straight away the path of forgiveness will close. The writing in the Quraan will disappear (vanish). The Sun will lower itself with earth.
The Prophet said**: (NOT TRUE)**
whoever reads this news to someone else, " I WILL ON THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT MAKE HIM A PLACE IN PARADISE, AND IF SOMEONE DOES NOT BELIEVE THIS NEWS TO BE TRUE THEY WILL BE BANISHED FROM PARADISE"****: (NOT TRUE - FEAR ALLAH)
If a poor person gives out this news to other people his/her good wish will come true.
: (NOT TRUE - Whoever even repeats this or sends it to others - could go to HELL - Forever - DO NOT DO IT - FEAR ALLAH)
Sheikh Ahmed said if this is not true then my death will be of a Non-Muslim. The Prophet said **“KEEP FAST, DO PRAYERS, GIVE ZAKAAT AND GIVE KINDNESS TO THE POOR” **Whoever Forwards This will get his/her reward in three days.
: (NOT TRUE - Whoever even repeats this or sends it to others - could go to HELL - Forever - DO NOT DO IT - FEAR ALLAH)
One Person forward it to 40 people he had 8,000 thousand, take prophit in his buisness. One Person did not believe this news and his son died.
: (NOT TRUE - what kind of nonsense is this? FEAR ALLAH)
One kept Saying he will forward it today, tomorrow but never forward this news he died as well
: N****OT TRUE - Allah Subhannad wa Ta’ala tells us in the Quran that “Every soul shall taste death.” The time and date of our death is recorded with Allah befofre He ever created us. There is no way that Allah kills us for not forwarding email - especially LIES like this.)
**PLEASE DO NOT THINK THIS IS NOT TRUE. **
: (NOT TRUE - FEAR ALLAH)
PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE!
: (NOT TRUE - Whoever even repeats this or sends it to others - could go to HELL - Forever - DO NOT DO IT - FEAR ALLAH)
Obviously, no Muslim should forward this or anything like it. For the clear hadeeth narrated by our prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, says, “Whoever attributes to me something that I did not say, let him reserve his seat in the Hell-Fire.”
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EVIL WEBSITES:
PLEASE READ THIS CAREFULLY ABOUT WEBSITES THAT R ATTACKING ISLAM
Actually, we have written on this subject a number of times. It is not permissable according to Islam, to visit these sites, nor to mention them, nor to forward emails about them. This is not the proper way to handle the situation. In fact, this is exactly what the enemies of Islam want us to do. In many cases they pretend to be Muslims or friends of Islam who are supposedly “exposing” these evil websites. To those who are not familiar with the way that the search engines work on the internet, there would seem to be no problem in visiting these sites. However, nothing could be further from the truth. The more “hits” (visits) that the site gets, the higher it is going to be rated by the search engines and the higher position it will have on a search. This will help increase the chances of these websites to come up in a word search for “Islam.”
Do you doubt this?
O.K. Go to www.google.com and then type in the word “Islam” and see how many total sites there are out there with the word “Islam” in them. Today (Sept. 11, 2003) there are over 9,670,000 websites listed with Google.com and where do you think the position of one of the worst (Answering Islam) is?
Today it is on page 2.
For three years it has been on page #1. It’s position has changed from 8 to 7 and then up to 6 and even 3rd.
Now, how is it that the enemy of Islam can manage to stay on the page one for over 3 years in the top ranking position? HOW?
**Because Muslims continually send out messages like the one that you just sent and then they tell everyone to do the same thing. **
And it works - for the enemy.
They know it will work and right now they want to get back up on the first page.
**Imagine that out of 9,670,000 websites with the word “Islam” - the deviants and misguided and enemies of Islam are sharing the highest places. **
Why?
Because of Muslims promoting the wrong message.
The number one position usually goes to Ibrahim Shafi at: www.islamworld.net (because he has the most links with the word “Islam”)
The number two (and sometimes number one) goes to: www.islamicity.com (because they have so many links to them from their other site and others sites that link to them).
Number three is usually their other site: www.islam.org (same reasons)
Then number four is usually the Shiites or NOI (Nation of Islam under Louis Farrakhan) [notice I DO NOT give the address]
Then number five or six or seven is usually ANSWERING ISLAM - [no address again]
Islam is having another reason not to promote these sites. You see many Muslims today do not really know a lot about Islam and they are easily confused by these people who know how to mistranslate or misrepresent the verses of the Quran and the hadeeth of the prophet, peace be upon him. As a result I have a number of emails coming to me from different countries wherein the youth are asking me about things that have really messed them up, all of it stemming from these teachings.
For the above reasons you can see why it is haram to give out these sites or to even visit them.
What should we do?
Good question:
First, when you receive email talking about these sites - DO NOT FORWARD IT TO EVERYONE ON YOUR LIST.
Second, copy this letter and then send it back to everyone on the list that comes with the email to let them know the ruling on this.
**Third, begin to visit and promote the websites that are dealing with the real issues of being a Muslim in this place in these times. This is critical. **
We can all make a difference. But it takes cooperation and dedication. We must not play with this subject. We must work hard at promoting the real Islam based on the Quran in the Arabic language and the authentic hadeeth.
**Our prophet, peace be upon him, warned us of times like these and here we are. So, let us make an agreement to work together for Allah. **
Jazakalah khair was salam alaykum,
Yusuf Estes
For live discussions on these matters:
Live – Islam In Pure Simple English](file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/me/My%20Documents/ANSWERS%20FOR%20MUSLIMS/www.IslamTomorrow.com/live/)** (you must first download some software and then join as a member** ** and then you can ask your questions in “chatroom” style).**
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