وقل رب زدني علما

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    وقل رب زدني علما

    <p align="right"><br /><br /><font color="#ff0000" size="5"><strong>السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته الطيبات وبعد:</strong><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: center" align="center"><span style="font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font color="#000000"><strong><br />Distinguishing Features of Islam<p></p></strong></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: center" align="center"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><p><font color="#000000"></font></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: center" align="center"><span><strong><font color="#000000">Introduction<p></p></font></strong></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 0in 0pt; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font color="#000000">Allah, the Great and Almighty, has chosen for mankind Islam as a religion : with feasible precepts, and tolerant teachings. And He made it a seal for Divine Messages.<p></p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 0in 0pt; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font color="#000000">Allah says in the Holy Qur’an:<p></p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 0in 0pt; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-hansi-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;">[</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">On no soul does Allah place a burden greater that it can bear</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-hansi-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;">]</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">[2:285]</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><p></p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 0in 0pt; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-hansi-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;">[</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">And (Allah) has imposed no difficulties on you in religion.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-hansi-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;">]</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">[22:78]<p></p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 21.3pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-hansi-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;">[</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">Allah intends every facility for you; He does not want to put you to difficulties.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-hansi-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;">]</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">              </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"></span><span style="mso-tab-count: 6">                                                    </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">[2:185]</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><p></p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 0in; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font color="#000000">Thus, since Allah has sealed Divine Messages with Islam, He considers it the only way of achieving salvation in the Hereafter and the sole convenant by which people can lead the straight life, which conduces to bless.<p></p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 0in; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font color="#000000">Allah says in the Holy Qur’an:<p></p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 21.3pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-hansi-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;">[</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"> The Religion before Allah is Islam (submission to His Will).</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-hansi-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;">]</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">[3:19]</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><p></p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 21.3pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-hansi-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;">[</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"> If anyone desires a religion other than Islam, never will be accepted of him </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-hansi-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;">]</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2">                   </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 5">                                          </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">[3: 166]<p></p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 0in; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font color="#000000">Islam is the only Divine System which has a comprehensive way of life, which takes both religious and mundane interests into accounts. It is the only religion without which no time neither place might be adjusted, improved or put in order. <p></p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0in 4.25pt 0pt 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font color="#000000">It, therefore, came with a general law suitable for all times and places and for the whole community. It recognizes the needs and interests of all people, of all individuals as well as all groups.<p></p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 0in; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font color="#000000">Allah says in the Holy Qur’an:<p></p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 21.3pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-hansi-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;">[</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">This day I have perfected your religion for you, completed My favour upon you, and have chosen for you Islam as your religion.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-hansi-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;">]</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">   </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">        </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">    </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 7">                                                               </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 2">              </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">      </span>[5:3]<p></p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 0in; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font color="#000000">Thereupon, by dint of Allah, the teachings and precepts of Islam have come to : (1) sanction every good action and declare every bad action unlawful, (2) command justice and kindness as well as forbid injustice and highhandedness, and (3) enjoin what is right and bar what is wrong. And He has chosen this name, i.e. Islam, and considered it: the Religion of Truth and Guidance.<p></p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 0in; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font color="#000000">Allah Says in the Holy Qur’an:<p></p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 21.3pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-hansi-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;">[</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"> It is He (Allah) who has sent His Messenger with guidance and the Religion of Truth to cause it to prevail over all religion, even though the pagans may detest (it).</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-hansi-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;">]</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"> <span style="mso-tab-count: 4">                                  </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">    </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">   </span>[9:33]<p></p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 0in; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font color="#000000">In addition to that, Allah the Almighty, has decreed and guaranteed: No part of the Message of Islam, in any form or by any means, will be distorted.<p></p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 0in; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font color="#000000">Allah Says in the Holy Qur’an:<p></p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 21.3pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-hansi-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;">[</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"> We have, without doubt, sent down the Message; and We will assuredly guard it (from corruption). </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-hansi-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;">]</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><span style="mso-tab-count: 4">                              </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">   </span>[15:9]<p></p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 0in; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font color="#000000"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>In conclusion, we are invited to learn and comprehend Islam, to translate our knowledge into action, and then, to name it to judge in all our affairs and walks of life so that we can attain bless Here and Hereafter.<p></p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 0in; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font color="#000000">Allah Says in the Holy Qur’an:<p></p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 21.3pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-hansi-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;">[</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"> …… Whosoever follows My guidance, will not lose his way, nor fall into misery. But whosoever turns away from My Message, verily for him is a life narrowed down, and We shall raise him up blind on the Day of judgement. He will say</span><span dir="rtl"></span><span lang="AR-SA" dir="rtl" style="mso-ansi-font-size: 14.0pt"><span dir="rtl"></span><font size="2">: </font></span><span dir="ltr"></span><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><span dir="ltr"></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span><span dir="rtl"></span><span lang="AR-SA" dir="rtl" style="mso-ansi-font-size: 14.0pt"><span dir="rtl"></span><font size="2">’</font></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">O my Lord! Why have You raised me up blind while I had sight (before)? (Allah) will say: ‘thus did not Our sings come to you, and you forgot them; that is why you have been forgotten today.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-hansi-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;">]</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"> <span style="mso-tab-count: 4">                                </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">   </span>[20:123-126]<p></p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: center" align="center"><span style="font-size: 15pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><strong><font color="#000000"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Definition.<p></p></font></strong></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 0in; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font color="#000000">Distinguishing features of Islam are” characteristics, virtues and excellence of its creed, shari‘ah and morals.<p></p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 0in; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font color="#000000">Scholars of Islam have been writing about this theme, among them: “Mahasen al-Islam Sharae‘ al-Islam:” Islam characteristics Ordained systems”<p></p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: center" align="center"><span style="font-size: 15pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><strong><font color="#000000">Importance.<p></p></font></strong></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 0in; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font color="#000000">Importance of this subject comes out of:<p></p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 21.3pt; direction: ltr; text-indent: -21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><strong><font color="#000000">1-<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">  </span>Being a source of remedy.<p></p></font></strong></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 0in; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font color="#000000">Knowing virtues of Islam leads a Muslim to know the truth of his religion and to recognize its peerless qualities and greatness. Thereupon, the Muslims faith becomes stronger and sounder.<p></p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 21.3pt; direction: ltr; text-indent: -21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><strong><font color="#000000"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>2-<span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>Being a shield for Muslims.<p></p></font></strong></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 0in; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font color="#000000">Knowing virtues of Islam makes as Muslim immune from misconceptions that are aroused about Islam. In other words, knowledge of merits of Islam makes suspicions fade away.<p></p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 21.3pt; direction: ltr; text-indent: -21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><strong><font color="#000000">3-<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">  </span>Being a channel to Da‘wah.<p></p></font></strong></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 0in; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font color="#000000">Defining characteristics of Islam and clarifying its fundamentals originate a new channel of Da‘wah that may actuate non-Muslims not only to search for knowledge about Islam but also to embrace it.<p></p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: center" align="center"><span style="font-size: 15pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><strong><font color="#000000">Purposes of Shari‘ah<p></p></font></strong></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 0in; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font color="#000000">Purposes are the reasons for which things are done, existed or created.<p></p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 0in; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font color="#000000">Thereupon, the purposes of Shari‘ah are the goals and secrets for which Allah has laid down legislations and regulations. <p></p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 0in; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font color="#000000">In fact, the fundamental purpose which Shari‘ah aims at is making man happy in this world and in the Hereafter.<p></p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 0in; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font color="#000000">Allah the Almighty says in the Holy Qur’an: <p></p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 21.3pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-hansi-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;">[</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"> He (Allah) said: ‘Get you down (from the Paradise to the earth), both of you together! Some of you (will become) enemies of others. Should guidance ever come to you from Me, no one who follows My guidance shall ever stray away nor regret it. But whosoever turns away from My message, verily for him is a life narrowed down, and We shall raise him up blind on the Day of Judgement, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-hansi-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;">]</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">   </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">[20:123-124]</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><p></p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 0in; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font color="#000000">To secure happiness Shari‘ah of Islam has taken human interests into consideration. Those interests include:<p></p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 21.3pt; direction: ltr; text-indent: -21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font color="#000000">1-<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">   </span>Fundamentals.<p></p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 21.3pt; direction: ltr; text-indent: -21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font color="#000000">2-<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">   </span>Necessities.<p></p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 21.3pt; direction: ltr; text-indent: -21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font color="#000000">3-<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">   </span>Improvements.<p></p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 21.3pt; direction: ltr; text-indent: -21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><strong><font color="#000000">I - Fundamentals<p></p></font></strong></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 0in; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font color="#000000">Fundamentals are matters without which life will be vanished. They are: (1) Religion, (2) self, (3) offspring and honor, (4) reasons, and (5) Finances.<p></p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 0in; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font color="#000000">And Islam, without a doubt, has not only maintained of all those fundamentals without exception but also refused any kind of violation. <p></p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><strong><font color="#000000">Religion.<p></p></font></strong></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 0in; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font color="#000000">Religion means a set of ordained systems that includes beliefs, forms of worship, regulations and precepts laid down by Allah, who has maintained and guarded religion by means of sending Messengers, sending down revelations, making faith a must, and then, calling on others.<p></p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 0in; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font color="#000000">He, the great and Almighty, has also enacted Jihad, ordinances and punishments to safeguard the Religion.<p></p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font color="#000000">Self:<p></p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 0in; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font color="#000000">Allah, the Great and Almighty, has taken care of the human self. He has created every soul with sound disposition that leads to faith and inspired it with knowledge of sine and piety: blessed shall be the man who has kept it pure, and ruined he that has corrupted it. in addition to that, He has made many laws that protect the human self from all kinds of others’ transgression among them are blood money and penalty.<p></p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><span><font color="#000000"><strong>Offspring</strong>.<p></p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 0in; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font color="#000000">Allah, the Great and Almighty, has made allowance for marriage, progeny, repute and honor.<p></p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 0in; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font color="#000000">Thus, He has ordered His servants to marry and urge them to choose good wives as well as to educate their children according to the teachings of Islam in all walks of life.<p></p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 0in; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font color="#000000">At the same time, He has laid down some ordinances that keep the family in safe life. Among those ordinances are: punishments for slander,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>fornication and adultery.<p></p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><strong><font color="#000000">Reason.<p></p></font></strong></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 0in; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font color="#000000">Allah has not only given the right to reason to take its role but also ordered human beings to use their brains and to think of the universe and creation.<p></p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 0in; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font color="#000000">He has also guarded the human intellectual power from corruption by (1) forbidding taking drugs, wine and others spoiling intoxicants and (2) imposing some punishments in this concern.<p></p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 0in; direction: ltr; text-indent: 7.1pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><span><strong><font color="#000000">Finance.<p></p></font></strong></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 0in; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font color="#000000">Allah has made lawful to earn money to increase and to invest one’s wealth, but through lawful means such as trade, agriculture, industry and so on. He has also laid down: (1) the punishment for theft by the loss of a hand to guard others’ wealth, (2) banning of usury and interest and cheating, and (3) imposing interdiction on the feebleminded.<p></p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 21.3pt; direction: ltr; text-indent: -21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><strong><font color="#000000">II - Necessities.<p></p></font></strong></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 0in; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font color="#000000">Necessity means something needed to avoid constraint and hardship so Islam has come with viable and applicable teachings. For example, Muslims are advised to shorten and combine his <em>Sal<span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;">ā</span></span>h</em> (prayers) when on a journey. One is also exempt from the obligation of fasting as long as one is on a journey.<p></p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><strong><font color="#000000">III - Improvements:<p></p></font></strong></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 0in; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font color="#000000">Improvements are complementary deeds that give one’s action its completeness, exactness and perfection.<p></p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 0in; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font color="#000000">The Holy Prophet (Blessing and peace of Allah be upon him)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>was sent to complete and perfect good morals in all walks of life.<p></p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 0in; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font color="#000000">That is why Islam calls on Muslims: (1) wear their best cloth at every time and place of worship, (2) to give more charity, out of their won free will and (3) to observe voluntary fasts.<p></p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 0in; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><p><font color="#000000"></font></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 0in; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><p><font color="#000000"></font></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 0in; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font color="#000000"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span><p></p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 6pt 4.2pt 0pt 0in; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><p><font color="#000000"></font></p></span></p><p align="right"></p></font></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>
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  • ياسين الشيخ
    أعضاء رسميون
    • Aug 2006
    • 1045

    #2
    _MD_RE: وقل رب زدني علما

    <br /><br /><br /><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 14pt"><font size="5"><strong>Allah's Messenger (Blessings and peace of Allah be upon him)said<br />:"Seeking knowledge is a duty for each and every Muslim".Ibn Majah<p></p></strong></font></span></p><br /><br /><br />
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    • ياسين الشيخ
      أعضاء رسميون
      • Aug 2006
      • 1045

      #3
      _MD_RE: وقل رب زدني علما

      <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa"><font color="#999900" size="5">Allah's Messenger(blessings and peace of Allah be upon him )said:<br />"Convey from me to the people though it may be only one verse" Bukhari.</font></span>
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      • ياسين الشيخ
        أعضاء رسميون
        • Aug 2006
        • 1045

        #4
        _MD_RE: وقل رب زدني علما

        <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; direction: ltr; line-height: 25.9pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: center; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align="center"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;simplified arabic&quot;">«<font color="#ff6600">La Ilaha Illa Allah»<p></p></font></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; direction: ltr; line-height: 25.9pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: center; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align="center"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;simplified arabic&quot;"><font color="#ff6600">«There Is No God But Allah»<p></p></font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; direction: ltr; line-height: 25.9pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: center; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align="center"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;simplified arabic&quot;"><font color="#ff6600">The Way of Life of Islam<p></p></font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; direction: ltr; line-height: 25.9pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;simplified arabic&quot;"><p> </p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; direction: ltr; text-indent: 15.1pt; line-height: 16.8pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><font color="#999900"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;simplified arabic&quot;">La Ilaha Illa Allah</span></i><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;simplified arabic&quot;">: 'There is no god but Allah' is the foundation of Al-Islam and its very Essence. «<i>La Ilah Illa Allah</i>» is not only the basis which all beliefs, laws and commands of AI-Islam stand on but also their pure single mainspring. This sentence makes a distinction between a Muslim and a non-Muslim. It is the first step done by all Messengers in calling their peoples: "Say <i>'La Ilah Illa Allah</i> and you will succeed'.<p></p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 4.55pt 0in 0pt; direction: ltr; text-indent: 15.6pt; line-height: 16.8pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;simplified arabic&quot;"><font color="#999900">Mankind and <i>Jinns</i> are only created for carrying out this sentence in word and in deed. And all Divine Books were also sent for the same purpose. Accordingly, it becomes confirmed that: whoever does not actualize this <i>Shahadah 'La Ilaha Illa Allah</i>' in all walks of his/her life is not a true believer.<p></p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; direction: ltr; line-height: 16.8pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;simplified arabic&quot;"><p><font color="#999900"> </font></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; direction: ltr; text-indent: 15.35pt; line-height: 16.8pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;simplified arabic&quot;"><font color="#999900">In<b> </b>other words, the true believer is the only one who believes in <i>Tawhid</i> (i.e. Oneness and Unity) of Allah, and then, worships none except Him; who expresses his faith in words, accepts by heart and translates that into actions.<p></p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; direction: ltr; line-height: 16.8pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;simplified arabic&quot;"><p><font color="#999900"> </font></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; direction: ltr; text-indent: 15.8pt; line-height: 16.55pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;simplified arabic&quot;"><font color="#0000ff">Realization of <i>'La Ilaha IlIa Allah</i>' comes into existence via singling out Allah (<i>Subhanahu Wata'ala</i>) for '<i>Ibadah</i> (worship) and having faith in all what He and His Messengers have informed about Paradise and the Hell-Fire, Divine Books, Messengers and Prophets, the Last Day and in the Fate, good and bad, sweet and bitter.<p></p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; direction: ltr; text-indent: 15.8pt; line-height: 16.55pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;simplified arabic&quot;"><p> </p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; direction: ltr; text-indent: 14.85pt; line-height: 17.25pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;simplified arabic&quot;"><font color="#339966">As for the realization of the second half of the <i>Shahadah</i>, 'Muhammad <i>Rasulu Allah'</i>: 'Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah', one has to believe that Muhammad is Allah's Servant and Messenger, and then, to follow what the Messenger has informed us of Allah's Commands, Wholly and in detail: beliefs, types of worship, morals, all life activities, Jihad for Allah's sake as well as what the <i>Shari'a</i> commands or prohibits.<p></p></font></span></p>
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        • ياسين الشيخ
          أعضاء رسميون
          • Aug 2006
          • 1045

          #5
          _MD_RE: وقل رب زدني علما

          <p align="left"><font size="5"><strong></strong></font></p><p align="left"><font size="5"><strong></strong></font></p><p align="left"><font size="5"><strong></strong></font></p><p align="left"><font size="5"><strong></strong></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="rtl" style="background: white; margin: 12pt 0in 6pt 0.85pt" align="left"><span dir="ltr" style="color: black; font-family: &quot;new century schoolbook&quot;"><font color="#ff0000"><font size="5"><strong>The Concept of Faith (Iman)</strong></font><p align="left"><font size="5"><strong></strong></font></p></font></span></p><p align="left"><font size="5"></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="rtl" style="background: white; margin: 6pt 0in 0pt 0.9pt; text-indent: 17pt; text-align: justify" align="left"><span><font color="#000000"><font size="5"><strong>Some people may think that man becomes a Muslim when he confesses belief in the Oneness of the True God and in Muhammad as His Last Messenger. But this is far from the full meaning of Faith. The full meaning of Faith in Islam is not, by any means, something nominal or mere formality. Faith in Islam is a state of happiness acquired by virtue of positive action and constructive conceptions as well as dynamic and effective measures.</strong></font><p align="left"><font size="5"><strong></strong></font></p></font></span></p><p align="left"><font size="5"></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="rtl" style="background: white; margin: 6pt 0in 0pt 0.9pt; text-indent: 17pt; text-align: justify" align="left"><span><font color="#000000"><font size="5"><strong>The Holy Qur’an and the Sunnah of Muhammad define these required measures and establish the standards, which build up a meaningful Faith. Thus, the true believers are:</strong></font><p align="left"><font size="5"><strong></strong></font></p></font></span></p><p align="left"><font size="5"></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="background: white; margin: 6pt 0.9pt 0pt 0.25in; direction: ltr; text-indent: -0.25in; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: right .25in list 27.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2" align="left"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;new century schoolbook&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;new century schoolbook&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;new century schoolbook&quot;"><span style="mso-list: ignore"><font size="5"><strong>1.<span style="font: 7pt &quot;times new roman&quot;">      </span></strong></font></span></span><span dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;new century schoolbook&quot;"><font size="5"><strong>Those who believe in God, His angels, His Books as completed by the Qur’an, His messengers with Muhammad being the Last of them all, the Day of Final Judgement, the absolute knowledge and wisdom of God.</strong></font><p align="left"><font size="5"><strong></strong></font></p></span></span></font></p><p align="left"><font size="5"></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="background: white; margin: 3pt 0.85pt 0pt 0.25in; direction: ltr; text-indent: -0.25in; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: right .25in list 27.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2" align="left"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;new century schoolbook&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;new century schoolbook&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;new century schoolbook&quot;"><span style="mso-list: ignore"><font size="5"><strong>2.<span style="font: 7pt &quot;times new roman&quot;">      </span></strong></font></span></span><span dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;new century schoolbook&quot;"><font size="5"><strong>Those who trust God always and enjoy unshakable confidence <span style="mso-spacerun: yes">     </span>in Him.</strong></font><p align="left"><font size="5"><strong></strong></font></p></span></span></font></p><p align="left"><font size="5"></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="background: white; margin: 3pt 0.85pt 0pt 0.25in; direction: ltr; text-indent: -0.25in; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: right .25in list 27.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2" align="left"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;new century schoolbook&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;new century schoolbook&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;new century schoolbook&quot;"><span style="mso-list: ignore"><font size="5"><strong>3.<span style="font: 7pt &quot;times new roman&quot;">      </span></strong></font></span></span><span dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;new century schoolbook&quot;"><font size="5"><strong>Those who spend in the way of God of what He has given them in the form of wealth, life, health, knowledge, experience, and so on.</strong></font><p align="left"><font size="5"><strong></strong></font></p></span></span></font></p><p align="left"><font size="5"></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="background: white; margin: 3pt 0.85pt 0pt 0.25in; direction: ltr; text-indent: -0.25in; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: right .25in list 27.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2" align="left"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;new century schoolbook&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;new century schoolbook&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;new century schoolbook&quot;"><span style="mso-list: ignore"><font size="5"><strong>4.<span style="font: 7pt &quot;times new roman&quot;">      </span></strong></font></span></span><span dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;new century schoolbook&quot;"><font size="5"><strong>Those who observe their daily prayers regularly as well as the weekly and annual congregations.</strong></font><p align="left"><font size="5"><strong></strong></font></p></span></span></font></p><p align="left"><font size="5"></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="background: white; margin: 3pt 0.85pt 0pt 0.25in; direction: ltr; text-indent: -0.25in; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: right .25in list 27.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2" align="left"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;new century schoolbook&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;new century schoolbook&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;new century schoolbook&quot;"><span style="mso-list: ignore"><font size="5"><strong>5.<span style="font: 7pt &quot;times new roman&quot;">      </span></strong></font></span></span><span dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;new century schoolbook&quot;"><font size="5"><strong>Those who pay their religious taxes (alms or Zak&atilde;h) to the rightful beneficiaries (individuals or institutions), the minimum of which is two and a half percent of the annual “net” income, or of the total value of stocks if in business-after discounting all expenses and credits.</strong></font><p align="left"><font size="5"><strong></strong></font></p></span></span></font></p><p align="left"><font size="5"></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="background: white; margin: 3pt 0.85pt 0pt 0.25in; direction: ltr; text-indent: -0.25in; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 9.0pt right .25in list 27.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2" align="left"><font color="#000000"><strong><font size="5"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;new century schoolbook&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;new century schoolbook&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;new century schoolbook&quot;"><span style="mso-list: ignore">6.</span></span><span dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;new century schoolbook&quot;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">   </span>Those who enjoin the right and good, and combat the wrong and evil by all lawful means at their disposal.</span></span></font></strong><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;new century schoolbook&quot;"><p align="left"><font size="5"><strong></strong></font></p></span></font></p><p align="left"><font size="5"></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="background: white; margin: 3pt 0.85pt 0pt 0.25in; direction: ltr; text-indent: -0.25in; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: right .25in list 27.0pt left 29.75pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1" align="left"><span><span><font color="#000000"><font size="5"><strong>7.<span style="font: 7pt &quot;times new roman&quot;">       </span>Those who obey God and His Messenger Muhammad; and feel increasing strength of faith when the Qur’an is recited, and humility of heart when God’s name is mentioned.</strong></font><p align="left"><font size="5"><strong></strong></font></p></font></span></span></p><p align="left"><font size="5"></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="background: white; margin: 3pt 0.85pt 0pt 0.25in; direction: ltr; text-indent: -0.25in; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: right .25in list 27.0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1" align="left"><span><span><font color="#000000"><font size="5"><strong>8.<span style="font: 7pt &quot;times new roman&quot;">       </span>Those who love God and His Messenger most, and love their fellow men sincerely for the sake of God alone.</strong></font><p align="left"><font size="5"><strong></strong></font></p></font></span></span></p><p align="left"><font size="5"></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="background: white; margin: 3pt 0.85pt 0pt 0.25in; direction: ltr; text-indent: -0.25in; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: right .25in list 27.0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1" align="left"><span><span><font color="#000000"><font size="5"><strong>9.<span style="font: 7pt &quot;times new roman&quot;">       </span>Those who love their near and distant neighbors and show genuine kindness to their guests, especially the strangers.</strong></font><p align="left"><font size="5"><strong></strong></font></p></font></span></span></p><p align="left"><font size="5"></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="background: white; margin: 3pt 0.85pt 0pt 14.7pt; direction: ltr; text-indent: -14.7pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: list 14.2pt right .25in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1" align="left"><span><span><font color="#000000"><font size="5"><strong>10.<span style="font: 7pt &quot;times new roman&quot;">   </span>Those who say the truth and engage in good talk, or else abstain.</strong></font><p align="left"><font size="5"><strong></strong></font></p></font></span></span></p><p align="left"><font size="5"></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="rtl" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" align="left"><span><font color="#000000"><font size="5"><strong>It is clear that the very meaning of Faith makes Islam penetrate deeply and constructively into every aspect of life. According to Islam, true Faith has a decisive effect on the spiritual and material lot of man, and also on his personal and social behaviour as well as his political conduct and financial life.</strong></font><p align="left"><font size="5"><strong></strong></font></p></font></span></p><p align="left"><font size="5"></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="rtl" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" align="left"><font size="5"><strong></strong></font><span lang="AR-QA" style="mso-bidi-language: ar-qa"><p align="left"><font color="#000000" size="5"><strong></strong></font></p></span></p><font color="#000000"><span><p align="left"><font size="5"></font></p><p align="left"><font size="5"><strong>Three qualities are the sign of sound faith, and he who acquires them can really feel the sweet taste of Faith. They are (1) to love God and His Messenger most of all, (2) to love his fellow man for - the sake of God alone, and (3) to resent and resist returning to disbelief as much as he does being cast into fire.</strong></font><span dir="ltr" style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;new century schoolbook&quot;"><p align="left"><font size="5"><strong></strong></font></p></span></p></span></font><p align="left"><font size="5"></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="rtl" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" align="left"><font size="5"><strong></strong></font><span lang="AR-QA" style="mso-bidi-language: ar-qa"><font color="#000000"><p align="left"><br /><br /><font size="5"><strong>From "Islam In Focus". </strong></font></p></font></span></p><p align="left"><font size="5"></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="rtl" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" align="left"><font size="5"><strong></strong></font><span lang="AR-QA" style="mso-bidi-language: ar-qa"><p align="left"><font color="#000000" size="5"><strong></strong></font></p></span></p><p align="left"><font size="5"></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="rtl" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" align="left"><font size="5"><strong></strong></font><span lang="AR-QA" style="mso-bidi-language: ar-qa"><p align="left"><font color="#000000" size="5"><strong></strong></font></p></span></p><p align="left"><font size="5"></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="rtl" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" align="left"><font size="5"><strong></strong></font><span lang="AR-QA" style="mso-bidi-language: ar-qa"><p align="left"><font color="#000000" size="5"><strong></strong></font></p></span></p><p align="left"><font size="5"></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="rtl" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" align="left"><font size="5"><strong></strong></font><span lang="AR-QA" style="mso-bidi-language: ar-qa"><p align="left"><font color="#000000" size="5"><strong></strong></font></p></span></p><p align="left"><font size="5"></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="rtl" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" align="left"><font size="5"><strong></strong></font><span lang="AR-QA" style="mso-bidi-language: ar-qa"><p align="left"><font size="5"><strong></strong></font></p></span></p><p align="left"><font size="5"></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="rtl" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" align="left"><font size="5"><strong></strong></font><span lang="AR-QA" style="mso-bidi-language: ar-qa"><p align="left"><font size="5"><strong></strong></font></p></span></p><p align="left"><font size="5"></font></p><p align="left"><font size="5"><strong></strong></font></p>
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          • ياسين الشيخ
            أعضاء رسميون
            • Aug 2006
            • 1045

            #6
            _MD_RE: وقل رب زدني علما

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            • ياسين الشيخ
              أعضاء رسميون
              • Aug 2006
              • 1045

              #7
              _MD_RE: وقل رب زدني علما

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              • ياسين الشيخ
                أعضاء رسميون
                • Aug 2006
                • 1045

                #8
                _MD_RE: وقل رب زدني علما

                <br /><br /><br /><br /><h1 style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%"><u><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><font color="#0000ff">2. Other names of the Qur’an<p></p></font></span></u></h1><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; direction: ltr; line-height: 150%; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><font color="#0000ff">The revelation from Allah to the Prophet Muhammad is referred to - in the Qur’an itself - by the name <i>Qur’an</i> (recitation) as well as by other names, such as e.g:<p></p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; direction: ltr; line-height: 150%; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><font color="#0000ff">Furqan (criterion, see: 25:1).<p></p></font></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; direction: ltr; line-height: 150%; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><font color="#0000ff">Tanzil (sent down, see: 26:192).<p></p></font></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; direction: ltr; line-height: 150%; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><font color="#0000ff">Dhikr (reminder, see: 15:9).<p></p></font></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; direction: ltr; line-height: 150%; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><font color="#0000ff">Kitab (scripture, see: 21:10).<p></p></font></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; direction: ltr; line-height: 150%; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><font color="#0000ff">Other references to the Qur’an are by such words as <i>nur</i> (light) <i>hudan</i> (guidance), <i>rahma</i> (mercy), <i>majid</i> (glorious) <i>mubarak</i> (blessing), <i>bashir</i> (announcer), <i>nadhir</i> (warner), etc.<p></p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; direction: ltr; line-height: 150%; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><font color="#0000ff">All these names reflect one of the various aspects of the revealed word of Allah.<p></p></font></span></p>
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                • ياسين الشيخ
                  أعضاء رسميون
                  • Aug 2006
                  • 1045

                  #9
                  _MD_RE: وقل رب زدني علما

                  <br /><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 14.15pt; direction: ltr; text-indent: -14.15pt; line-height: 150%; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%; mso-list: skip"><b><u><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">3. Distinctive Characteristics of the Qur’an.<p></p></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 14.15pt; direction: ltr; text-indent: -14.15pt; line-height: 150%; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%; mso-list: skip"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><p> </p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt -0.05pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: center" align="center"><b><u><span style="font-size: 6pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><p><span style="text-decoration: none"> </span></p></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="rtl" style="margin: 0in -0.05pt 0pt 0in; text-align: center" align="center"><b><u><span dir="ltr" style="font-size: 6pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><p><span style="text-decoration: none"> </span></p></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="rtl" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 0in -0.05pt 0pt 0in; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%"><b><u><span dir="ltr" style="font-size: 6pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><p><span style="text-decoration: none"> </span></p></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 6pt 14.15pt 0pt -0.05pt; direction: ltr; text-indent: 0.05pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -14.15pt"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><span style="mso-list: ignore">1- </span></span><span dir="ltr"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Its Excellence and Rank<p></p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 6pt 0in 0pt -0.05pt; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">It is a well known fact that the Holy Qur’an is Allah’s Speech, upright constitution, everlasting message, standing miracle and the only way leading<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>to happiness in this World and in the Next one.<p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 6pt 0in 0pt -0.05pt; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">It is the Messenger’s proof that shows truthfulness of his Messengership. It is an everlasting book that includes the teachings of Islam concerning: creed, worship, rules, manners, morals and purposeful stories.<p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 6pt 0in 0pt -0.05pt; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">It is the foundation of <i>Tawhid</i> (Oneness of God), source of legislation and the right way.<p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 6pt 0in 0pt -0.05pt; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><p> </p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 6pt 14.15pt 0pt -0.05pt; direction: ltr; text-indent: 0.05pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -14.15pt"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><span style="mso-list: ignore">2- </span></span><span dir="ltr"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">A means of Shafa ‘ah<p></p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 6pt 0in 0pt -0.05pt; direction: ltr; text-indent: 0.05pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">The Holy Qur’an will be a means of <i>Shafa</i>‘<i>ah</i> (intercession and compensation) for <i>Hafizes </i>(those who memorize it) as well those who recite and study it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Prophet Muhammad ( Blessing and peace of Allah be upon him) has<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>said: “ Study al-Qur’an for it will come as intercessor for its readers and <b>adopters</b> in their life”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Reported by Muslim.<p></p></span></p>
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                  • ياسين الشيخ
                    أعضاء رسميون
                    • Aug 2006
                    • 1045

                    #10
                    _MD_RE: وقل رب زدني علما

                    <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 6pt 14.15pt 0pt -0.05pt; direction: ltr; text-indent: 0.05pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -14.15pt"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><span style="mso-list: ignore">3- </span></span><span dir="ltr"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">A healing and Mercy to Believers <p></p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 6pt 0in 0pt -0.05pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">          </span>Allah says in the Holy Qur’an :<p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 6pt 0.5in 0pt -0.05pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;; mso-ascii-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-hansi-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;">[</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> We send down [stage by stage] of the Qur’an that which is a healing and a mercy to those who believe </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;; mso-ascii-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-hansi-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;">]</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0.5in 0pt -0.05pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">[Sura 17:Verse 82 ]<p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 6pt 0in 0pt -0.05pt; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Consider how Allah Al-mighty has described the Holy Qur'an as a healing, not as a cure. This is to stress the fact that the Holy Qur’an is a genuine means of recovery not only a cure, which might be hurtful or useful.<p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 6pt 0in 0pt -0.05pt; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Assuredly, the Holy Qur’an is a healing for psychological diseases which are spread in our contemporary societies. But, it is a true healing when we have a true firm belief in this Divine Guarded book <p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 6pt 14.15pt 0pt -0.05pt; direction: ltr; text-indent: 0.05pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-text-indent-alt: -14.15pt"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><span style="mso-list: ignore">4- </span></span><span dir="ltr"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">With Divine Guard<p></p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 6pt 0in 0pt -0.05pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">          </span>Allah Al-mighty says in the Holy Qur'an :<p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 6pt 49.65pt 0pt -0.05pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;; mso-ascii-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-hansi-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;">[</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> We have, without doubt, sent down the Message, and We will assuredly guard it (from corruption).</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;; mso-ascii-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-hansi-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;">]</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">                                </span>[ 15:9]<p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 6pt 0in 0pt -0.05pt; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Great events, big terrors and dangerous disasters, that were designed by opponents of Islam, hit the Muslim Ummah aiming at its source of power,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>i.e the Holy Qur'an . But, by Allah’s favor, the Holy Qur'an is still existing exactly as revealed to the Prophet Muhammad:.<p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 6pt 21.3pt 0pt -0.05pt; direction: ltr; text-indent: -21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">- <span style="mso-tab-count: 1">   </span>It is original writing, not translations as other Divine books.<p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 6pt 21.3pt 0pt -0.05pt; direction: ltr; text-indent: -21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">- <span style="mso-tab-count: 1">   </span>In a living language spoken and taught world wide, not dead language<p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 6pt 21.3pt 0pt -0.05pt; direction: ltr; text-indent: -21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">- <span style="mso-tab-count: 1">   </span>Pure, not mixed with human words as other books.<p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 6pt 21.3pt 0pt -0.05pt; direction: ltr; text-indent: -21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">- <span style="mso-tab-count: 1">   </span>It is impossible to find any difference between any two copies of the Holy Qur'an all over the world.<p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 6pt 0in 0pt -0.05pt; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">That is why Shillidy, D D. in his book “ The Lord Jesus in the Qur’an”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>says: ‘The Qur'an in more revered than any other sacred book.’<p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 6pt 0in 0pt -0.05pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><p> </p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 6pt 0in 0pt -0.05pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><p> </p></span></b></p>
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                    • ياسين الشيخ
                      أعضاء رسميون
                      • Aug 2006
                      • 1045

                      #11
                      _MD_RE: وقل رب زدني علما

                      <br /><br /><br /><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 6pt 0in 0pt -0.05pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><strong><font size="5"><font color="#000000">5- With Human Guardians<p></p></font></font></strong></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 6pt 0in 0pt -0.05pt; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><strong><font size="5"><font color="#ff6600">Memorization of the Holy Qur'an is a collective duty for Muslims and this is one of the great distinctions of the Holy Qur'an from among all divine books.<p></p></font></font></strong></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 6pt 0in 0pt -0.05pt; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><strong><font size="5"><font color="#ff6600">It was also written in the Prophet’s presence, not after Prophet’s death as<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>happened other Holy Books.<p></p></font></font></strong></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 6pt 0in 0pt -0.05pt; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><strong><font size="5"><font color="#ff6600">The two above-mentioned points were not applicable to any other<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>divine book. This led to the preservation of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>the Holy Qur'an and to make others corrupted and lost.<p></p></font></font></strong></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 6pt 0in 0pt -0.05pt; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><strong><font size="5"><font color="#ff6600">A Muslim who reads the Holy Qur'an regularly can recognize any omission<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>or commission to the text. <p></p></font></font></strong></span></p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;traditional arabic&quot;; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><strong><font color="#ff6600" size="5">Furthermore, hundreds of thousands of <i>Hafizes</i> are spread worldwide at all times</font></strong></span>
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                      • ياسين الشيخ
                        أعضاء رسميون
                        • Aug 2006
                        • 1045

                        #12
                        _MD_RE: وقل رب زدني علما

                        <p align="justify"></p><p align="justify"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 6pt 14.15pt 0pt -0.05pt; direction: ltr; text-indent: 0.05pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -14.15pt"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><span style="mso-list: ignore">6- </span></span></b><span dir="ltr"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">An Uninterrupted Chain<p></p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 6pt 0in 0pt -0.05pt; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">All know that readers and <i>Hafizes</i> of the Holy Qur'an learn it at the hands of Professional <i>Hafizes</i>, i.e. orally in addition to learning via studying for comprehension and memorization.<p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 6pt 0in 0pt -0.05pt; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Thus generations, one after another, have been learning the Holy Qur'an by heart. This chain of <i>Hafizes</i> goes back to the Companions of the Prophet, and then the Prophet himself, who received the revelation from Jibril, the <place w:st="on">Archangel</place> who carries Allah’s messages to Prophets and Messengers.<p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 6pt 0in 0pt -0.05pt; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">It is a great distinction that Allah Almighty has granted only to the Holy Qur'an.<p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="rtl" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 6pt -0.05pt 0pt 0in; text-indent: 21.3pt; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%"><span dir="ltr" style="font-size: 4pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><p> </p></span></p><p align="justify"></p>
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                        • ياسين الشيخ
                          أعضاء رسميون
                          • Aug 2006
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                          #13
                          _MD_RE: وقل رب زدني علما

                          <br /><br /><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0in 0pt -0.05pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: center" align="center"><span style="font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><strong><font size="5"><font color="#ff0000">Merit of Recitation.<p></p></font></font></strong></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 6pt 14.15pt 0pt -0.05pt; direction: ltr; text-indent: 0.05pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -14.15pt"><strong><font size="5"><font color="#009900"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><span style="mso-list: ignore">1- </span></span><span dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Full wages and increases.<p></p></span></span></font></font></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 6pt 0in 0pt -0.05pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><strong><font size="5"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">     </span><font color="#0000ff">Allah says in the Holy Qur'an :<p></p></font></font></strong></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 6pt 49.65pt 0pt -0.05pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%"><strong><font size="5"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-hansi-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;">[</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> Those who rehearse the Book of Allah, establish regular prayers and spend ( in charity ) out of what we have provided for them, secretly and openly , hope for commerce that will never fail:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>For He will pay them their wages in full, and give them even more… </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-hansi-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: &quot;aga arabesque&quot;">]</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">                           </span>[35:29,30]<p></p></span></font></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 6pt 0in 0pt -0.05pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%"><p><strong><font size="5"> </font></strong></p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 6pt 0in 0pt -0.05pt; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><strong><font size="5"><font color="#993366">Prophet Muhammad</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>(Blessings and Peace of Allah be upon him ) has said: “A person who recites al-Qur’an, and reads it fluently, will be in the company of the obedient and noble angels and he who reads al-Qur'an haltingly and with difficulty will have a double recompense.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">       </span>[ <i>Reported by Bukhari and Muslim</i>]<p></p></font></strong></span></p>
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                          • ياسين الشيخ
                            أعضاء رسميون
                            • Aug 2006
                            • 1045

                            #14
                            _MD_RE: وقل رب زدني علما

                            <p align="right"></p><p align="right"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 6pt 0in 0pt -0.05pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">2- Intercessor for the Reciter<p></p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 6pt 0in 0pt -0.05pt; direction: ltr; text-indent: 21.3pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">It is reported in the sound Hadith: “Study al-Qur'an for it will come as a intercessor for its readers and <b>adopters</b> in their life”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">                 </span>[<i> Reported Muslim</i>.]<p></p></span></p><p align="right"></p>
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                            • ياسين الشيخ
                              أعضاء رسميون
                              • Aug 2006
                              • 1045

                              #15
                              _MD_RE: وقل رب زدني علما

                              <p align="justify"><font size="5"></font></p><p align="justify"><font size="5"></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 6pt 17.9pt 0pt -0.05pt; direction: ltr; text-indent: 0.05pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-text-indent-alt: -14.15pt"><font size="5"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><span style="mso-list: ignore">3- </span></span></b><span dir="ltr"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Double Rich Reward<p></p></span></b></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: kashida; margin: 6pt 3.75pt 0pt -0.05pt; direction: ltr; text-indent: 24.6pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify; text-kashida: 0%"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><font size="5">Prophet Muhammad (Blessings and Peace of Allah be upon him )<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>said: “When somebody recites one letter from al-Qur'an he will get one good deed in recompense and this one recompense will be equal to ten good deeds. I do not say that Alif Lam Meem (A.L.M) is a letter, but A is a letter, L is a letter and M is a letter, i.e. it is equal to three letters ”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">                            </span>[ Reported by Tirmizi ]<p></p></font></span></p><p align="justify"><font size="5"></font></p>
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