Islamic perspective; Astrology vs Astronomy ( Myanmar Language)

ေတြးမိေတြးရာ(ငါး)

Astrology, Astronomy and ့Islam

မေန႕ကႏိုင္ငံတကာသတင္းမွာစူပါဘလက္ဟိုးလို႕ ေခၚ

တဲ့ ္ အာကာသဟင္းလင္းျပင္ထဲ မွွမဟာတြင္းနက္ၾကီး မ်ားအ

ေၾကာင္းဖတ္လိုက္ရတယ္။

အာကာသဟင္းလင္းျပင္ထဲမွာ Black Hole လို႕ေခၚတဲ့တြင္းနက္ၾကီးေတြ

ရွိေၾကာင္းသိတာ ႏွစ္အတန္ၾကာခဲ့ပါျပီ။ ၾကယ္ မ်ားသက္တမ္းကုန္တဲ့အခါ

ျဒပ္ထု ဟာပထမပိုင္းပြလာ ျပီးေနာက္တျဖည္းျဖည္း ျပန္က်ံဳ႕ပါတယ္။ ဒီလိုျပန္က်ံဳ႕

ေလေလသူ႕ရဲ့ ျဒပ္ဆြဲအားဟာလဲၾကီးေလေလ နဲ႕ေနာက္ဆုံး ၾကယ္ေသရဲ့ ျဒပ္ထုဟာ

လူသားမ်က္ေစ့နဲ႕ မျမင္ႏိုင္ေအာင္ ေသးငယ္သြားတဲ့အခ်ိန္မွာ သူ႕ရဲ့ဆြဲအားဟာ

အလြန္ၾကီးမားလာတဲ့အတြက္အလင္းေရာင္ေတာင္ျပန္မထြက္လာႏိုင္ပဲ စုပ္ယူဝါးျမိဳ

ျခင္းခံရပါတယ္။

ဒီအလင္းေရာင္မဲ့ တြင္းနက္ၾကီးေတြကို အာကာသပညာရွင္ ေတြက X ray ေရာင္ျခည္

သုံး အာကာသၾကည့္တယ္လီစကုပ္ မွန္ေျပာင္းၾကီးမ်ားနဲ႕ေလ့လာရာမွာ မေန႕က

မဟာတြင္းနက္ၾကီးတခုကိုေတြ႕ရွိတဲ့သတင္းကိုဖတ္လိုက္ရပါတယ္။

Super massive  Black Hole သို႕မဟုတ္ မဟာတြင္းနက္ၾကီးမ်ားဟာ

ဂယ္လက္ဆီလို႕ေခၚတဲ့ ၾကယ္အစု ၾကီးတိုင္းရဲ့ အလယ္ေခါင္မွာေနရာယူထားတယ္

လို႕ဆိုပါတယ္။

မဟာတြင္းနက္ၾကီးတခုဟာ အခ်ိန္ တနာရီျပည့္တိုင္းကမာၻျဂိဳယ္အရြယ္ရွိ ျဂိဳယ္ႏွစ္ခုကို

ဝါးျမိဳတယ္လို႕ဆိုပါတယ္။သူ႕ရဲ့အေလးခ်ိန္ကေတာ့ ကြၽန္ေတာ္တို႕ရဲ့ ေနမိသားစု ရဲ့ အၾကီးဆုံး

ျဂိဳယတခုျဖစ္တဲ့ ေန ရဲ့ျဒပ္ထုုေပါင္းသန္းသုံး ေထာင္မွသန္းငါးေထာင္ ရဲ့အေလးခ်ိန္နဲ႕ ညီပါသတဲ့။

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ေဗဒင္ပညာရဲ့အေျခခံဟာ ျဂိဳယ္မ်ားရဲ့အေနအထားနဲ႕လူသားရဲ့ ေမြးရက္

နဲ႕ ေရွ႕ျဖစ္ကိုတြက္ခ်က္တယ္လို႕နားလည္ပါတယ္။

ဥပမာေပးရရင္လရဲ့ဆြဲ ငင္အားေၾကာင့္ဒီေရအတက္အက် ျဖစ္ရသလို

ဒီျဂိဳယ္ေတြရဲ့ဆြဲအားနဲ႕တည္ေနရာကလူတဦးရဲ့ ေရွ႕ျဖစ္ရပ္ကိုစိုမိုးတယ္

ဆိုတဲ့အယူအဆပါ။

Islam ဘာသာကAstrology လို႕ေခၚတဲ့ ၾကယ္ႏွင့္ျဂိဳယ္ေတြကလူေတြရဲ့ဘဝနဲ႕ေရွ႕ေရးကိုလႊမ္းမိုးႏိုင္တယ္ဆိုတဲ့

ပညာကိုလက္မခံပါ။

အကယ္၍ Allah မွတပါးအျခားတစံုတခုက(ၾကယ္၊ျဂိဳယ္) သင့္ရဲ့ဘဝေရွ႕ေရးကိုအဆုံး

အျဖတ္ျပဳႏိုင္တယ္လို႕ယုံၾကည္မိ တာနဲ႕(Shirk Akbar)လို႕ေခၚတဲ့ဖန္ဆင္းရွင္နဲ႕တြဲဖက္

ကိုးကြယ္ရာ ေရာက္တဲ့ အလြန္ၾကီးေလးတဲ့အျပစ္ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

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Astrology vs Astronomy

တကယ္လို႕ ၾကယ္ေတြ ျဂိဳယ္ေတြမွာလူေတြကိုလႊမ္းမိုးႏိုင္တဲ့

ပါဝါေတြရွိတယ္ဆိုတဲ့ အယူဝါဒကိုလက္ခံသူေတြ ဒီလိုမျမင္ႏိုင္ေသာ္လည္း

အလြန္အင္အားၾကီးတဲ့ မဟာတြင္းနက္ၾကီးေတြကို ၾကားဖူးၾကမယ္မထင္ပါ။

သူတို႕ရဲ့တြက္ခ်က္မႉမ်ားမွာလဲဒိလိုအင္မတန္ဆြဲငင္အား

ၾကီးျပီးမျမင္ရတဲ့ Black hole ေတြ နဲ႕အျခားမျမင္ႏိုင္တဲ့စြမ္းအင္ေတြ

ပါႏိုင္မယ္မထင္ပါ။

ဒါဆိုရင္ Islam ဘာသာဝင္မဟုတ္သူေတာင္မွဒီပညာကိုလက္ခံဖို႕

အေသခ်ာစဥ္းစားရင္အေတာ္ခက္သြားျပီျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

Islam ဘာသာက Astronomy ဆိုတဲ့ၾကယ္နဲ႕ျဂိဳယ္ေတြရဲ့ေရြ႕ရွားမႉတည္ေနရာကို

ေလ့လာတဲ့ပညာကိုလက္ခံပါတယ္။

ဘာေၾကာင့္လဲဆိုေတာ့ ဒီၾကယ္နဲ႕ျဂိဳယ္ေတြဟာလူသားေတြအတြက္အခ်ိန္ကို

တြက္ခ်က္ရန္မွအစ ခရီးလမ္းညြန္မႉေပးရန္ အသုံးခ်ခံဖန္ဆင္းခံေတြျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

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အလြန္အင္အားၾကီးတဲ့ မဟာတြင္းနက္ၾကီးေတြကိုေတြ႕ရွိျခင္းဟာ

Allah ရဲ့ၾကီးၾကယ္ျမင့္ျမတ္မႉကို ညြန္ျပတဲ့သက္ေသ လကၡဏာမ်ားသာ ျဖစ္တယ္။

Allah အရွင္ျမတ္ရဲ့ေပးထားတဲ့စြမ္းအားနဲ႕လူသားေတြ အာကာသဟင္းလင္းျပင္ကို

ေျခဆန္႕ခဲ့တာ လေပၚကိုလူေရာက္ခဲ့တာ အႏွစ္ေလးဆယ္ေက်ာ္ခဲ့ပါျပီ။

ေနာင္အနာဂတ္မွာလူသားေတြဒီၾကယ္ေတြအျခားျဂိဳယ္ေတြကို Allah အရွင္ျမတ္ခြင့္

ျပဳရင္ေျခဆန္႕ၾကဦးမွာပါ။အဲဒီမွာေတြ႕တဲ့သယံဇာတေတြကိုလဲAllah အရွင္ျမတ္ခြင့္

ျပဳရင္ထုတ္ယူသုံးစြဲၾကဦးမွာပါ။

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ေသာသူမ်ားမသိနားမလည္မႉ ေၾကာင့္ဒီပညာမ်ားကိုယံုၾကည္မိလွ်င္ အလြန္အျပစ္ၾကီး

ေၾကာင္း အျမန္ဆုံး Allah အရွင္ျမတ္ရဲ့လမ္းကိုျပန္လွည့္ရန္အသိေပးလိုျခင္းျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

ဒီအထဲမွာ ဂ်ာနယ္မဂၢဇင္းေတြမွာပါတဲ့ Horoscope ဖတ္ၾကည့္တာကအစ

လကၡဏာ ေဗဒင္ေမးျခင္းနဲ႕ ဂဏန္းေဗဒင္တြက္တာေတြ အားလုံးပါပါတယ္။

တကယ္ေတာ့လူသားကိုAllah အရွင္ျမတ္ကအေကာင္းဆုံးပံု

စံနဲ႕ဖန္ဆင္းထားသလိုအျခားဖန္ဆင္းခံမ်ားကိုလဲ Allah ရဲ့အမိန္႕

ခံမ်ားအျဖစ္ဖန္ဆင္းထားပါတယ္။

ထူးျခားတာကလူသားကို Allah အရွင္ျမတ္က စမ္းသပ္ရန္ေရြးခ်ယ္ပိုင္ခြင့္ေပးထား

ပါတယ္။

အားလုံး မိမိရဲ့ေရြးခ်ယ္ပိုင္ခြင့္ကို အဖိုးတန္တဲ့အခ်ိန္အတြင္းမွာအေကာင္း

ဆုံး အသုံးျပဳႏိုင္ၾကပါေစ။

ခ်စ္ခင္စြာ

ေက်ာ္ေက်ာ္ဦး

Sajda e Tilawat

Sajda E Tilawat

Sajdah Tilawat is the Sajdah that one has to perform as an obligatory duty when one reads, recites, or hears, in the prayer or outside, some specific verses containing those words from the Holy Quran.

Q. 1) If the Ayat of Sajjda is heard while listening to Tape/Radio, is it necessary to perform the Sajjda Tilawat?

A. 1) If the Aayat of Sajdah is heard on tape recorder or played on radio, Sajda Tilaawat is not necessary. If the recitation is live on Radio, Sajda Tilawat is necessary.

Q. 2) During the month of Ramadan the mosque speakers are used in the Taraweeh. The voice is also heard outside the mosque. As the whole Quran is recited in the Taraweeh and obviously Ayaat of Sajjda are also recited. Now a person sitting at his home hears those Ayaat, is he going to perform those Sajjda Tilawat?

A. 2) Yes.

Q. 3) What is the correct way to do Sajda Tilawat? Do we need to say Takbir and give salam to both sides like in salat?

A.) Sajda-e-Tilawat is simply to make sajda by saying Allahu-Akbar, going into sajda, and reciting three times ‘Subhaana rabbi-al a’alaa’. There is no need to stand or even raise the hands, as one would do when commencing Salat. There is also no salam on any side after making the sajda. And Allah Knows Best.
Following verse of the Holy Quran is among the fifteen other verses of the Holy Quran that a Muslim need to do an obligatory prostration known as  Sajda E Tilawat, immediately after the recitation or  upon hearing the recitation of the verse.

Surah22 Verse 18 says

See you not that whoever is in the heavens and whoever is on the earth,and the sun,and the moon,and the stars,and the mountains and the trees, and Ad-Dawaab [moving (living) creatures , beasts],many of mankind prostrate themselves to Allah. But there are many (men) on whom the punishment is justified. And whomsoever Allah disgrace, none can honor him. Verily Allah does what He wills.

Above diagram reminds all of us how small we are in this solar system

This photo shows the actual Sun and Solar spots. The two spots at the middle of the Sun near equator are Sun spots which are  about  the size of our planet Earth.

This last photo of the Sun was recently taken from the earth. The two dots at the left middle area ofthe photo  are the NASA space shuttle Atlantis and the Hubble Space Telescope  seen  side by side during solar transit,at an altitude of 600 km (375 miles) and they zipped across the sun in only 0.8 seconds. (Photo-The big picture phtoblog)

All of us were impressed by the advanced technology and the skill  of NASA space shuttle crews  on the latest flight that was to rescue the ailing Hubble Space Telescope.

But to me, looking at these photos reminds me the Power of the Creator Allah SWT, and His Mercy to all of us in this universe.

Hubble Space Telescope was launched in 1990. In less than two decades the man made telescope need a major repair. But all of us forget  the fact that the planet Earth that we are living in together with the Solar System were running in their orbits for  4.5 billion years without a single minor repair job required.

But the day of judgment will arrive on the appointed time for all of us and the Universe will be transformed into a dimension that is beyond our comprehension. Holy Quran clearly stated that is the day that we all have to pay back according to our deeds.

May Allah bless all of us with the knowledge to become the good Muslims who will bring peace and love among all of us.

Allah knows the best,

Kyaw Kyaw Oo

Q and A

Interfaith Prayer Service for Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

The scene of Unity among the people of  different faiths

Burmese refugees of different faiths were united in the Prayer for the freedom of  Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, in Onn Pyant Refugee camp in Thailand on 24^th of May 2009.

Led by Abbot U Thu Min Ga La, about five hundred people attended the prayer service and candle light vigil for the freedom of detained pro democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

Religious leaders of Islam and Christians took turn to lead the prayer service that started around 4.00 pm in the remote refugee camp inside Thailand near the border with Military ruled Burma.

Later, Abbot U Thu Min Ga La said, “We are proud to organize this event that brings the people of the different faiths together”.  Abbot also said his gratitude to other religious leaders for joining hand together, as an event that demonstrated a good example of unity, for the future democratic Burma.

Later veteran political prisoner Thi Ha read the Onn Pyant Prayer service declaration.

Translated from  original post in Burmese ,Niknayman blog

Kyaw Kyaw Oo

Do we need to chop the hand of a poor thief in Somalia?

Today BBC News reported about, a Somali Shariah Court ordered to cut the right hand of Mohamad Omar Ismail for stealing 10 pairs of trousers, 10 shirts, 8 other items and a bag. The value of all the items are estimated to be $90.

BBC news continued

“The official quoted a chapter from the Koran known as Surah Maida, verse 38, which is about stealing and relevant punishment. He said that the verse decreed that punishment for stealing was that the right hand of the thief should be cut off. “

Then the news carried on with horrific scene of amputation as “bloody hand dangled”.

What message the above BBC news convey to the readers?

Islam and the Law of Allah will be seen negative by both non Muslims and  some Muslims who do not understand well about their faith.

Read the following Hadith about cutting the relationship and its punishment

The Swift Punishment for Transgression and Cutting the Relations of the Womb

A Hadith states that the Prophet said,

«مَا مِنْ ذَنْبٍ أَجْدَرُ أَنْ يُعَجِّلَ اللهُ عُقُوبَتَهُ فِي الدُّنْيَا مَعَ مَا يَدَّخِرُ لِصَاحِبهِ فِي الْآخِرَةِ مِنَ الْبَغْيِ وَقَطِيعَةِ الرَّحِم»

(There is no sin that is more worthy of Allah hastening its punishment in this life, in addition to what He has in store for its offender in the Hereafter, more than transgression and cutting the relations of the womb.) The act of Qabil included both of these. We are Allah’s and to Him is our return.

Above Hadith says Islam does not allow the cutting the relationship with the blood relatives, forget about cutting the parts of our own Muslim brothers physically.

For the Non Muslims readers, who are not familiar with the Holy Quran, I would like all of you to read few verses of Surah Al Maidah, and its translation before the mentioned Vesre 38.

The  Surah Al Maidah  verse 32 says,

[مِنْ أَجْلِ ذلِكَ كَتَبْنَا عَلَى بَنِى إِسْرَءِيلَ أَنَّهُ مَن قَتَلَ نَفْساً بِغَيْرِ نَفْسٍ أَوْ فَسَادٍ فِى الاٌّرْضِ فَكَأَنَّمَا قَتَلَ النَّاسَ جَمِيعاً وَمَنْ أَحْيَـهَا فَكَأَنَّمَا أَحْيَا النَّاسَ جَمِيعاً وَلَقَدْ جَآءَتْهُمْ رُسُلُنَا بِالّبَيِّنَـتِ ثُمَّ إِنَّ كَثِيراً مِّنْهُمْ بَعْدَ ذلِكَ فِى الاٌّرْضِ لَمُسْرِفُونَ - إِنَّمَا جَزَآءُ الَّذِينَ يُحَارِبُونَ اللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ وَيَسْعَوْنَ فِى الاٌّرْضِ فَسَاداً أَن يُقَتَّلُواْ أَوْ يُصَلَّبُواْ أَوْ تُقَطَّعَ أَيْدِيهِمْ وَأَرْجُلُهُم مِّنْ خِلَـفٍ أَوْ يُنفَوْاْ مِنَ الاٌّرْضِ ذَلِكَ لَهُمْ خِزْىٌ فِى الدُّنْيَا وَلَهُمْ فِى الاٌّخِرَةِ عَذَابٌ عَظِيمٌ - إِلاَّ الَّذِينَ تَابُواْ مِن قَبْلِ أَن تَقْدِرُواْ عَلَيْهِمْ فَاعْلَمُواْ أَنَّ اللَّهَ غَفُورٌ رَّحِيمٌ ]

(32. Because of that, We ordained for the Children of Israel that if anyone killed a person not in retaliation of murder, or (and) to spread mischief in the land – it would be as if he killed all mankind, and if anyone saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of all mankind. And indeed, there came to them Our Messengers with Al-Bayyinat, even then after that many of them continued to exceed the limits in the land!) from the land. That is their disgrace in this world, and a great torment is theirs in the Hereafter.)

Above verse clearly stated that killing an innocent person would be as if he killed all mankind. Islam view point about killing an innocent person is a major sin, so why the same religion will preach to do injustice to somebody who is poor, and defenseless.?

Read some more,

كَأَنَّمَا قَتَلَ النَّاسَ جَمِيعاً]

(it would be as if he killed all mankind. .) means, “Whoever kills one soul that Allah has forbidden killing, is just like he who kills all mankind.” Sa`id bin Jubayr said, “He who allows himself to shed the blood of a Muslim, is like he who allows shedding the blood of all people. He who forbids shedding the blood of one Muslim, is like he who forbids shedding the blood of all people.” In addition, Ibn Jurayj said that Al-A`raj said that Mujahid commented on the Ayah,

[وَمَنْ أَحْيَـهَا فَكَأَنَّمَا أَحْيَا النَّاسَ جَمِيعاً]

(and if anyone saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of all mankind.) means, “He who does not kill anyone, then the lives of people are safe from him.”

And the Verse 38 mentioned in BBC news should be read with the next Verse 39 together,

[وَالسَّارِقُ وَالسَّارِقَةُ فَاقْطَعُواْ أَيْدِيَهُمَا جَزَآءً بِمَا كَسَبَا نَكَـلاً مِّنَ اللَّهِ وَاللَّهُ عَزِيزٌ حَكِيمٌ - فَمَن تَابَ مِن بَعْدِ ظُلْمِهِ وَأَصْلَحَ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ يَتُوبُ عَلَيْهِ إِنَّ اللَّهَ غَفُورٌ رَّحِيمٌ - أَلَمْ تَعْلَمْ أَنَّ اللَّهَ لَهُ مُلْكُ السَّمَـوَتِ وَالاٌّرْضِ يُعَذِّبُ مَن يَشَآءُ وَيَغْفِرُ لِمَن يَشَآءُ وَاللَّهُ عَلَى كُلِّ شَىْءٍ قَدِيرٌ ]

(38. And (as for) the male thief and the female thief, cut off their hands as a recompense for that which both committed, a punishment by way of example from Allah. And Allah is All-Powerful, All-Wise.)

(39. But whosoever repents after his crime and does righteous good deeds, then verily, Allah will pardon him. Verily, Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.)

Allah  SWT clearly says that those who repents after his crime and does good deed to be pardoned.

Somalia is the country without Law and Order. People are poor and uneducated. The society is in chaos. In short, Somalia is far from reaching the status of Islamic State where Islamic Shriah Law applied according to the true teaching of Islam. That event should not be taken as executing the proper Islamic Law.

How is the welfare system runs in an Islamic State ?

Zakāh or “alms for the poor” is the Islamic principle of giving a percentage of one’s income to charity. It serves principally as the welfare contribution to poor and deprived people in the Muslim lands, although others may have a rightful share.

It is the duty of the Islamic state not just to collect Zakat, but to distribute it fairly as well.

It is an obligation on Muslims to pay ¹/₄₀ (2.5%) of the wealth which they have had for a full lunar year ¹/₄₀ (2.5%) of goods used for trade, and 5% or 10% of certain type of harvests depending on irrigation.

In Somalia do they have this type of welfare system to distribute money? Definitely not. That is the reasons during a last few months, there are so many cargo ships were attacked in the Gulf of Eden by the pirates from Somalia as they are desperate to survive in the Lawless country. These pirates activities clearly highlighted Somalia as a Lawless Country.

If Somali is a genuine Islamic State, where all the rich people pay the poor due, there will be no reason to see this kind of petty theft case. Even the person is caught; he will have a chance to repent by doing good deeds as Allah SWT clearly stated in His Holy Book.

The sad thing is, most people from the developed countries are ignorant about the big Ali Ba Ba who stole trillions of US Dollar from their pocket from the activity called “profit taking” from the stock and share market. The current economic crisis of this world is due to Reba or taking of interest which prohibits in Islam.

Multiplying money in the way of gambling (game of chance) is also prohibited and now only the US and the West is trying to curb this type of Ali Ba Ba in a very vague plan called G20 plan, emerged from the London Summit on 2^nd April 2009.

Islam is the perfect religion with Divine rules of law and also with the way to implement it. I would like to see what type of punishment would be appropriate for the Ali Ba Ba of 21^st Century with the man made Civil Law.

Allah knows the best,

Kyaw Kyaw Oo

Understanding Islam and Implementation in daily life

During a last couple of days I have decided to stop writing the posts. Instead I did read and listen more.

I have read a very interesting book that  I intend to share with the blog readers in the future posts. Audio lectures of Dr Zakir Naik were wonderful. I have listened most of them while driving two hours a day to and fro journey to work.

Any message?

Dr Zakir Naik is among the one of the best Scholars in the field of comparative religion. Most of his lectures and debates were for both Muslims and non Muslims.

For non Muslims, his lectures will be very useful for those who wish to know the true teaching of Islam.

For the Muslims, the knowledge from his lectures may fill the missing part of the jigsaw puzzle, for those who are with the limited and fragmented knowledge of Islam.

You can download his audio lectures, debates, and questions answers sessions about interesting issues such as “Similarities Between Islam & Christianity”,and “W omen’s Rights in Islam” in this link.

Take home messages,

Islam is the religion that all of us need to understand its teaching through the “Holy Quran”.

The differences between the Holy Quran and other Holy Scriptures are,

1. The Prophets before the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) brought the scriptures for the particular period of time for the particular groups or tribes of people and lost its authenticity.
2. The Holy Quran is for all mankind. It is the last and complete Divine Revelation for the mankind until the Day of Judgment. Relevant to the all mankind of any period.
3. The Holy Quran taught the mankind, the Law of Allah, and also shows the ways to implement into our daily life. Whereas in other Holy Scriptures there are Laws of the God but no clear guidance of implementation.

Dr Zakir Naik pointed out the important fact as most of the ordinary people of different faiths neither read nor study their religions properly before they decided to jump into the discussions. Muslims also do not read the Holy Quran to understand its real meaning to implement into our daily life.

Some of the Muslims from our home country hold the opinion that the Holy Quran is not for us to read and interpret. They claimed that if it is allowed, people may interpret the Holy Quran wrongly according to their own understanding.

In other words the reading and understanding of the Holy Quran, according to their opinion, should be through the teaching of Ulama, or Islamic Scholars.

I partially agree with them. It is very important for all the Muslims to learn Arabic Quran properly under the guidance of Islamic Scholars. At the same time all the Muslims have the absolute right to try to read and understand the teaching of Holy Quran in their own capacity in the language that  they understand.

The first Surah revealed to the Prophet Muhammad starts with the words, “Read”. Allah wants all mankind to read His guidebook, the Holy Quran. However, there should be a systematic approach to it and one must understand his own limitation.

But if we approach the Holy Quran with sincerity, Allah, SWT, will open our hearts and make us understand His Divine revelation as He promised.

Allah knows the best,

Kyaw Kyaw Oo

ေတြးမိေတြးရာ(၄)

ကြၽန္ေတာ့ကို စာဖတ္သူအခ်ိဳ႕က ျမန္မာလိုပဲေရးေစခ်င္တယ္လို႕ေစတနာနဲ႕အၾကံျပဳတာကိုသတိထားမိပါတယ္။

ဘာသာေရးစာေပသည္ဘေလာ့လိုင္းမွာ ေပၚျပဴလာမျဖစ္္ပါ္။ဒါေၾကာင့္

Islam ဘာသာေရး ေရးေသာဒီ ဘေလာ့မွာလာျပီးဖတ္တဲ့မိတ္ေဆြမ်ားသည္ ကိုးကြယ္ရာဘာသာ Islam ကိုေလးေလးနက္နက္သိခ်င္ၾကသူမ်ားလို႕ယူဆတဲ့အတြက္ မူရင္း

အာရဗီ မွမျပန္ဆိုႏိုင္ပဲအဂၤလိပ္ ဘာသာမွတဆင့္ျပန္တဲ့အခါမွာ မူရင္းဆိုလိုခ်က္မွလြဲသြားမွာကိုစိုးရိမ္မိပါတယ္။

အာရဗီဘာသာမူရင္းသည္အလြန္ႂကြယ္ဝေသာဘာသာစကား

ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ဖန္ဆင္းျခင္း ကို အဂၤလိပ္လို Creation လို႕ဘာသာ

ျပန္လို႕ ရတယ္လို႕ထင္ရ ေပမဲ့ အာရဗီမွာ အလြန္ႂကြယ္ဝေသာ

အဂၤလိပ္လိုဘာသာျပန္လို႕မရတဲ့ အျခားအေခၚအေဝၚမ်ားစြာ့ရွိတဲ့အတြက္

အဂၤလိပ္ဘာသာဟာအာရဗီနဲ႕ယွဥ္လိုက္ရင္ေဝါဟာရအလြန္ခ်ိဳ႕တဲ့ပါတယ္။

ဒီကတဆင့္ျမန္မာလိုဘာသာျပန္ရတာအလြန္တာဝန္ၾကီးျပီး

အဂၤလိပ္,အာရဗိ နဲ႕ျမန္မာစာ ပိုင္ႏိုင္ျပီး ဘာသာေရးပညာရွင္မ်ား အဖြဲ႕အစည္း

နဲ႕လုပ္ရမဲ့အလုပ္တခုပါ။

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ခ်စ္ခင္စြာ

ေက်ာ္ေက်ာ္ဦး

About the People with diseased heart, deaf, blind and dumb

Above recitation of Holy Quran with its meaning in English is a beautiful presentation of our brothers (Islam the Love of My Life)

I would like to request the non Muslim readers of this weblog to give little of your time to listen the recitation and  read the English translation of the Holy Quran.

This Surah is the second Surah of Holy Quran which explained in detailed about attributes of  the good people and the bad, misguided, sinful people.

Al Quran mentioned the misguided sinful people as people with the diseased heart, and also explained about their destiny, which is eternal Hell.
Surah 2:17 says

“Their likeness is as the likeness of one who kindled a fire;then, when it lighted all around him, Allah took away the light and left them in darkness.(So) they could not see.

Surah 2:18 continued,

“They are deaf, dumb and blind, so they return not (to the right path).”

It has been said that there are three types of people

1. Those who make things happen.

2.Those who watch thing happen, and

3.Those who wonder what happened.

The vast majority of mankind find themselves in the last two categories. Most have “”eyes to see” but don’t “see” what is happening. Most have “ears” but they could not “hear” the truth, and they have “mouths “but unable to speak up the truth according to the teaching of Allah (SWT).

Allah also mentioned about the postponing of punishment to people  those who are having diseased heart, deaf, dumb, and blind, in

Surah 3:178

“And let not the disbelievers think that Our postponing of their punishment is good for them.We postpone the punishment only so that they may increase in sinfulness. And for them is a disgracing torment.”

May Allah give all of us the strength to follow the right path , and prevent all of us from falling into the  group of the people who are “the deaf, dumb and blind”. ( Ameen)

Allah knows the best

Kyaw Kyaw Oo

( This post is meant for those who are responsible for demolishing the place of worships for Muslims, in Burma. Also to remind all of us as mankind is created for the test by Allah, to decide who are the best among all of us.)

Hundred Years Old Mosque demolished by DKBA in Karen State Myanmar

This is the third Mosque which was demolished by the DKBA, a splinter Buddhist Karen group closely associated with the Military Junta of Myanmar.  A Destroyed Mosque in Kha Law Thaw Village

The Mosque, which was more than hundred years old, was completely demolished on 2.5.2009,7:15 AM, by a group of more than fifty people led by  ten armed DKBA soldiers, in Ka Tine Ki Village, which is in the township of Pharpun, in the Karen State of Myanmar.

The last and frantic appeal by the various Muslim Originations to prevent the demolishing order given by DKBA Spiritual Leader, Abbot U Thuzana of Myaing Gyi Ngu, met with the deaf ears from the Myanmar Military Junta or SPDC.

The appeal letter to Senior General Than Shwe

Abbot U Thuzana ,allegedly had a dream that there was an old pagoda underneath the Mosque. Subsequently he had given an order to demolish the Mosque to local DKBA armed group.

Later all the Muslim groups desperately turned to the regional commander, General Zaw Min to prevent the destruction. General Zaw Min only replied that “If the Abbot wants it to be destroyed, let him do it, and we will find a new piece of land for the Mosque later”.

Local village head, Aung Myo also reminded the Muslim villagers about their shaky minority status and safety, just one day before the destruction.

This is the third Mosque destroyed by order of the DKBA Spiritual Leader, Abbot U Thuzana. The previous Mosques destroyed by his orders were at Nabu Village and Tha Khut Phoe Village.

Karens are one of the most friendly ethnic groups of Myanmar. Previously, there were no discrimination against Muslims in the Karen State until DKBA became  powerful while Christian dominated KNU became weak  in recent months due to systemetic onslaught of Military Junta and DKBA troups.

About the Holy Quran translation in Burmese and authenticity

Holy Quran is the Divine revelation from the Creator Allah (SWT) to the mankind.

It was originally revealed in Arabic to Prophet Muhammed (PBUH). The Holy Quran has been translated into several languages including Burmese or Myanmar language.

So far, the standard translation accepted by the Burmese Muslim Organizations and Burmese Muslims,  is the work of the Holy Quran Translation  Board of Burma. It was published in three volumes from 1977 until 1980. It was direct translation work from Arabic to Burmese language. The chief translators were the late Mufassirul Quran Allahmah Ghazi Muhammed  Hashim and late Maulana Masquad Ahmad Khan.

The translation can be downloaded in the following link.

The Holy Quran translation work is not for the person who is without proper scholarly background both in Arabic and in Burmese language. There must be a Board to supervise the translation work. And the board should be formed with the Ulama who are well respected and accepted by the Burmese Muslim Community.

Recently I have found a person or group of people trying to translate the Holy Quran into Burmese language. Even, the partially translated Quran into Burmese language, according to their version is already available on Internet. However, the background history, qualification of the translator or translators and their experience is nowhere to be found to check the authenticity of the translation.

I hope Burmese Muslim youths who wish to read the Holy Quran translation in Burmese should check with the relevant Islamic Organizations in Burma  to verify the authenticity before  reading  to understand its real meaning.

I have written this post as a response to inquiry by Dr Saleem of  USA.

Allah knows the best,

Kyaw Kyaw Oo