The reason why i am asking is because i can't believe anything a kaafir says over a muslim. its just that it was on the documentary on the history channel the other night saying that the warlords would give them Qad so that they would go and fight and that the Qad makes them aggressive. i knew it had to be be a conspiracy in what they say. They portrayed somalis as drugged out people. i think why they did this is the same thing they did Afghanistan, they are trying to make the muslim world believe that these muslims the US are striking are drug pushers.

I understand that the warlords use "Cott" a drug, to inhibit the militiamen to fight. is this true? if true, are many somali's addicted to this stuff? is it widespread through somalia or just in mogadishu?

salaam, Wallahi it gets me real angry when we only talk. i'm not criticizing any of you its just that, we know what we want for Somalia, then what are we waiting on? someone else to do it? subhanaAllah! do not procrastinate when enjoining good and forbidding evil. If you all are serious about this i am sure it can be done and Somalia can be reformed in 10 years totally. Somalia has the potential to be the ideal islamic State. All i will need is 33 Honest, Islamic, God-fearing supporters and no it will not be another taliban dictatorship. it just that when wealth comes in ones hands one tends to be unhonest and the foundation of reformers has to be upright so the system could be upright? are you all ready for this?

Uh Unix! do you think you really need to ask that? Rasullallah said he who fills his stomach with haraam morsel fills his stomach with jahannam. Also Allah does not accept the du'a of a person who eats haraam foods. there are many alternatives when there is no halaal meat. i guess the only excuse one has when eating haraam food, is that they don't fear Allah so they can do what they want. the prophet S said that is the foolish person on earth, then he said: al kaisu man daana ma ba'dal maut- An intelligient person is one who does actions, striving for the hereafter.

i really feel deprived, hibo can you translate?

i agree with you unix, please rephrase brother imam

Salama, yes it is permisible to take a mushrik to the masjid i guess that what Gall means, this is from the hadith where the bedouin arab came to the masjid and the prophet allowed him. The bedouin even urinated in the masjid. The Masjid is the house of Allah and it is not permisible for a muslim to decide who should or should not come to the house of Allah, in the case of the haram sherif that is different as Allah commanded for it to be cleansed from mushrik. So yes take him to the masjid. oh one thing, he is allowed to pray in the same Saf as well however he has to be to the end of the saf and told before if someone comes late to join that he has to move. he always has to be on the end, this is because if he is between two muslims it is as if the Saf is broken. same for if there are multiply safs, he should be in the last one, to the end of that saf.

Salaam i 2 agree with all of you. The only way a kaafir can conquer a muslim is to destroy them with themselves. This is our destruction- hatred for our brother. I say we can pull our resources together and start to build the United Islamic States (UIS). The most valuable resource we have is ourelves. I would suggest imam reading My Post under this General topic " The New Somalia" i want to refrain from giving in detail the details of Project UIS. Once we are serious for this Insha-Allah Islam can be restored and Allah will definately smile upon those who aided in its restoration. For those who say it is a dream and that i am taking it as a movie outta hollywood, i can realize you do not know much about the deen, because Rasullalh said imaamat will continue for 25 years after my death then kingship will reign (Mu'awiyyah R even is reported to say that, " i am the first Muslim King") he then said after kingship there will be oppresive kingship and we see places like Morocco during the reign of the past king. Many princes and kings today are starting to show mery to their people like Prince Abdullah, hence i say the Khalifah is about to be restored. Rasulullah said first use your hands to forbid evil and promote truth and justice then you tongue then hate it in you heart which is the least. let's not just base on the least, lets be all that we can be and use our hands to reform islam.

I know Africa is Condsidered the haven for HIV. What about it in Somalia? Are there many cases? I never heard or found anything relating to it. and word on this?

is obbia an island ? what does this article mean? http://www.nationaudio.com/News/EastAfrican/27082000/Maritime/MA5.html

Salaam Sis LF, I know it would be in your best interest to apologize to sis nim for the statement you u said " lakum deenakum waliiya deen" . this is only used to unbelievers as the beginning say "Qul, YA ayyuhal kaafiroon!" and verily we who belive in Allah, his messenger, books, angels prophets, his Qadr & yawmul Akhir does not make nafaaq or takfir on another muslims, concerning this Rasullah said " hold your tongue against calling another muslims kaafir or munaafiq, for verily if Allah sees that the person you called is more of a muslim then yu are then you are looked at as a kaafir. So becareful, our words even though we don't intend harm, could comeeback and harm us. that is why Abu Bakr Siddiq said if one can control his private part and tongue he can enter jannah.

alhamdulillah, may Allah grant us all the fikr and ability to learn our aqeedah and implementit insha-Allah towards the reviving of islam. ameen

Does anyone have a map of the obbia region? which includes the roads contours, features etc.? also where can you get a profile of the environment and the terrain for that region?

Miskiin by saying you are not a salafi and covering up that you are by saying i follow the sahabah and rasullah is a waste of time. Do we muslims go around saying i am one who submits to Allah? no we are muslim. you are salafi because of the methodolodgy you have in discerning your fiqh. nothing is wrong with that. to acknowledge differneces is a prestige in islam because it shows the qudrat of Allah i.e he created so many differencs and evertything agrees still. Where the problem lies is each group taking this atribute of Allah and destroying it by the sufis saying that they are the better or vice versus. Personally i do not say that i am a sufi because of the stereotype behind it, rather i say i follow the path of tasawwuf as a sheikhs (Maududi) says tasawwuf is an integral part of islam. see his book towards understanding islam. example of what you said(and correct me if i'm wrong) about sufis killing those who turned towards quran and sunnah? if this is the case that is not tasawwuf and how could a muslim generalize a people because of on small group of them. if nothing is wrong with generalizing then am i a TERRORIST?

Salaam, this is a much heated debate in the ummah now. I am not qualified or granted ijaza as yet however as Rasulullah says "teach what you know even if it is an ALIF" amma b3ad The Hadith Sis Fatima relates to is any group that adds or extracts from the aqaa3da of islam, this is the basic principle. what heats the debate today is that people scrutinize if the sect violates the shariah, however the shariah is based on fatwas ( certain situation) the aqeedah is the basic belief of islam ( Similar to al-Qaida- Means base)and once that is violated no if or ands about it the person becomes a kaafir. check out http://themodernreligion.com/basic/al-tahawiyya.html concerning Sufis, Sunnis, Wahabbi's Tableeghis etc. all of them are considered Ahlus Sunnah wal Jama'ah, however they again have petty little differences example where to place your hands etc. then there are some of them who are extreme. sadly these extremist are looked at by the other groups as the representation of their group. example: an extremist tablighi might declare that you have to spend 40 days in jamaat. in fiqhi talk this is a khasi statement-(meaning he has made it fard that a person does this)this is bid'ah. Because of this extreme statement you might find that a salafi for instance would generalize and say the tablighi's on preach bid'ah. This is haraam, because tha Salafi has slandered the innocent tablighi and concerning slander Rasullah said huwa shaddu minal zina- it is worst than fornication or adultery. I believe what divides the ummah FIRSTLY: Lack of knowledge of our religion SECONDLY: Lack of knowledge on the ettiquettes of acquiring knowledge. and THIRDLY: lack of Implementing Knowledge. and concerning knowledge and Confusion (the Sects) says in hadith " in the last days corruption and chaos would enter into the ummah by the removal of knowledge from the ummah. the knowledge would not be lifted, rather the scholars would die and ignorant persons would be made to deliver false fatwas" Ever wonder why Allah would allow his beloved ummah to end up like this? let me tell you, because we would fail to do what he wants us to". concerning this he AZZA wa JALLA says" Verily if i wanted i could erase you from the face of the earth and create another people who would do my work even better". SUMMARY: As long as a group adheres to the basic Aqeedah, they are with in the rightly guided sect even though they are a sub-sect of that sect.

Salaam, I hope that we do not listen to our emotions and lash out at each other. That is the last thing we need now. It is a waste of time even trying to prove to people who you are, if Allah all ready knows. What benefit can they give that all can't? So By Allah i am not concerned or would not allow shaitan to divert my concern from establishing islam to defend my integrity or honour( that is bieng nafsi and i will wait on qiyaamah for that) What i do want us to be clear on is that tribalism is Very good, as Allah encourages it, however when one tribe puts down another it is totally haraam. all of us or from one tribe, and further more for africans to hold on so strongly to tribalism justifies the Trans atlantic slave trade, where the europeans believed their tribe was more superior than all the african tribes. And wallahi even today the black people in the west still have the scares of slavery. I don't believe you all might be able to fully appreciate that slavery( i stand corrected ). Concerning the relationship of this kind of tribalism and xenophobia to islam is the same as a football player playing in diving fins. Moral: you would never be able to play the game right.

oh and most importantly we have to set a time, perhaps Greenich mean time or which ever zone has the most members online. do we have a voting room so that we could conduct votes on these issues? we all are eating out of the same plate, so we should have a say in how the meat is cooked.

Perhaps admin it would be good to set up some forums. for example one night wecould have sisters issues. it would be good to know the topics in advance so we could have some questions ready. i think it is good to know what the sisters are going through and how they perceive things. Example, a christian asked me how can she accept that her husband has another wife, she asked me asshe knows it is with in our religion. but i had not the slightest clue on the muslimah's view on this, sorry for my ignorance but i only know it from the shariah POV. is this a good idea for the chat ?

Brother, if i sounded funny i'm sorry, as Allah is witness i am not making this a joke. i wanted to see your all reactions as you all are Somalians. After reading your all responses it is evvidence to the authenticity of words of Rasullullah and Allah. Islam will soon become the most shameful religion on earth. As rasullah said remarks towards islam would be in those days" i use to hear my parents speaking about it" i can now see why this will happen, simply because we do not give the rights due to our muslims sisters and bretheren. before we look on ourselves as the problem it is always the other person. NB. this is the same thing that Shaitan did. "Ana khairu minhu" Please my people, i believe on this forum we are all muslims. If this is the case please let us unite and put our differences aside, and appreciate our comman features. we are young and able and Allah has gifts set aside for those who served him in their youth. We can revive Islam and regain the respect of our religion it had. Can we all strive on this? can we all wage jihad on ourselves, to scrutinize our morals and show ikram? Can we all do this TOGETHER?

MAcha how can i say the shi'a are my brethren when they believe that ALi R was the last nabi? and besides Allah says let not your hands harm yourselves. these pictures depicts people remembering the suffering on the day of Karbala, when the "muslims" killed the Prophet's Family in cold blood and you want me to support them. The palestinian issue only came about because of the palestinians themselves. Has not Allah said clearly if we do his work he layed out for us, never will the kaafir be over us? for years it has been going on we muslims do nothing just start pointing fingers and wait for someone to do something instead we do ourselves. We are all judges and commentators, but never workers. And MR. Exposed why don't you post about the christian atrocities like the slave trade? would you like those stroies? to date there has never been a more atrocious event like the trans atlantc slave trade which started in the name of cristian expansion.

thanx alot Oblivion.. the map is the thing i was looking for.

Again Siser fatima lets say if this project IS set up in arabia or yemen a true islamic state would you join the state and feel sorry for not contributing in the first instance? just wondering?

Bro i'm serious about this, and i think you are making a joke about it. Power is not sought it is given. let me explain again why somalia. Rasullah said the destruction of his ummah will come with the acquisition of wealth. Somalia is economical a poor country, and this is a gift in disguise to its people because i gaurantee you that Somalians turn to Alllah in hope versus to a palestinian who still has the option on what to eat today. Also tha fact that there is no governemtn there. If a portion of Somalia was to start shariah with no capitalism in it do you think if there was a government there that they would allow it? no they won't, because this system will not tolerate corruption as the capitalist countries do. Wallahi sister this is my intention to set up a country under the islamic banner. like i said even if after all i have invested personally be sqabbled and embelzed by the people after it has been set up then that is between ALLAH and them. Ever since i had that dream at that age i believe this is my mission on earth to revive islam. i am also happy that you have voiced your opinions on me as it has made me to requestion my intentions and purify them if they are defected, as that is what shaitan strives to do. however it would be more effective if you were to positively support me. Basically if you feel it is a continuation of my dream then why not help me out then, what will u loose by giving me information that you know will not materialise to anything?

sister you are reffering to my dream that i had when i was 7 years old. at that time i was a kaafir, and in the dream as a kaafir i believed that prophet always come, the never stopped. you are mixing up the contexts here. in the dream i was a very respected leader, and as a child kaafir what words would be best to describe a respected leader than a prophet or a king? come on give me a break, who would be soo foolish to compare themselves with the nabi. It is apparent that you have misunderstood what i was saying. If you are truly interested in Somalia as i know i am then ask me to explain something you don't understand, not misquote me in the awrong context. Concerning marrying a Somalian woman. it branches not only for acceptance but in 2 1: the black people here in the caribbean does not and is not concern which clan is from where, who or what. all we are concerned about is AFRICA!!!! As long as you are from AFRICA that is is enough for us here. honestly speaking i don't think even if i live the rest of my life in Somalia that i would appreciate the different tribes, just as the brother stated earlier there are also sub clans, just like the fighting the other day because of the split in the clans. so clanshp is baseless as long as new generations spring up new clans are formed. The other reason It was practiced by Rasullah to accept MAryam ® into marriage to make a link with ethiopia, a form of acceptance. Woman are the foundation of a society, and in this project it should not matter whether you are somalian or not and if that is the case, if the people accept you because you marry into a somali tribe, insha-Allah later they would realize that tribalism does not hold water in islam, all of us or brothers. Lastly to argue further on this to me is a waste of time, because correct me if i'm wrong, but aren't you opposing tribalism as well? Again i am NOT a PROPHET!!! that was the dream that i had when i was 7 years old and at that time a kaafir.

another question.. IF 15- 2 years from now, all what i am aspiring for materialises, and it is proven internationally that which ever region takes this up to be a very peaceful, honest and very islamic state and all of the people in it are happy and those around the region, would you all regret not supporting in the first stage? would you all consider living in the region?