Dawud Wharnsby denies involvement in Michael Jackson’s reversion to Islam

Dawud Wharnsby from his blog reiterates that the article in the SUN reported incorrectly and Michael did not take Shahada with him ;

The Passing of Michael Jackson

by Dawud Wharsby at his blog

http://wharnsby.com/blog1/2009/06/26/the-passing-of-michael-jackson/

copy from this site,

“The Believers, men and women, are protectors one of another: they enjoin what is just, and forbid what is evil: they observe regular prayers, practice regular charity, and obey Allah and His Messenger. On them will Allah pour His mercy: for Allah is Exalted in power, Wise. “[9:71]

Since I have started with  some posts of demise of Michael Jackson, I feel that I should update some information about controversies in his alleged reversion to Islam.

Most of the Muslim youth who loved Michael, hope and wish their beloved Pop Star to be a Muslim and die as a believer . But as I pointed out in my previous post, that will be only for Michael to be pardoned and forgiven by Allah SWT or rewarded according to his deeds.

There will be more rumors expected to be read over www, to test and shake the faith of Muslim youths relating to this current events. At the same time, there are enormous lessons for those who are ready to reflect in this tragic death of  the Pop Star.

It is very clear that all of us have equal chance of choice that is, to believe or not to believe in Allah.There are ample of signs to reflects the existence of Allah, for all of us who are sincere in seeking the TRUTH..

I was born in other part of the world as a minority Muslim, but when I saw Jermaine Jackson shed tears, when mentioning Allah SWT, I could understand his inner sense as, we believe in the same faith, Islam.

There are no boundaries for the believing people of Islam, which is Universal Religion for all mankind.

Allah knows the best,

Kyaw Kyaw Oo

Jermaine Jackson; May Allah be with Michael Always

Did Michael Jackson revert to Islam in his last days?

I am a person who stick to the principle that  the status of Islam is nothing to do with  conversion of Celebrities. Islam is the religion of Allah. Allah will protect his religion. A knowledgeable  person should be able to differentiate between the faith and the conduct of  groups of people who called themselves  Muslims.

At the same time , I am also a person who always seek the truth.

When there were rumors spreading that Michael Jackson has  converted into Islam a few months ago, I did not pay much attention. I stood  by my principle.

But when I have heard the news of his demise, and when I noticed that most major news stations seems to ignore to report about his faith, than  I could not stop thinking that is  an act of  intentional  omission !

I am fully aware of the fact that the faith of a person  is a matter between him and Allah.At the same time the act of downplaying his religious faith while digging all his biography from A to Z is unfair to Micheal Jackson and the people who loved him.

Following are the youtube videos and links about Michael conversion. At the same time I will not be surprised if the news turn out to be other way round.

New York Post: Michael Jackson Accepts Islam

We should not forget the request of Jermaine Jackson’s request to respect the privacy of the family, at the same time those professional media people should report unbiased news coverage of his death.

Allah knows the best,

Kyaw Kyaw oo

Jermaine Jackson About Islam, Muslim and Michael Jackson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wzFW1D1MII

Youtube Video link.. Interview with Jermaine Jackson

A few days ago, I have searched in Internet about Michael Jackson’s alleged reversion into Islam. There were few links about his faith that turned into Islam by the help of two Canadian Muslims, who are also from the Entertainment Business.

Afterward, I have decided not to write a post about his faith as I am not so sure about his reversion.The matter is private between him and Allah SWT.

This morning I woke up with the news of his demise.I am not Micheal’s fan, but somehow sympathize him for so much of controversial stories pop up here and there together with waning popularity in recent years.

Undeniable fact is he has an  electrifying voice with creativity. Pop music is not my taste but still able to listen some of his lyrics, such as “Keep the faith” and ” We are the world”.

When I turned on BBC News, I found his brother Jermaine Jackson, requesting to respect the privacy of his family during this tragic time. I have noted he used the word “Allah “ in this short interview.

To me Michael Jackson, like all other human, has just started his eternal journey. If he dies as a Muslim, we should thanks to Allah, for allowing him to start the journey, exactly as when he was born, a Muslim.

Jermaine Jackson’s interview is interesting for those readers who wish to know more about reversion to Islam and the faith of Jackson  family.

Regards,

Kyaw Kyaw Oo

Quranic teaching and Swine Flu

Surah Maidah Ayat  3 in Burmese Translation

Muslims are often asked by the non Muslim friends regarding why they are forbidden to eat pork. Until last few years, most of the answers base on the  the scientific findings were,  from the growth hormone to parasite in the flesh of swine.

But all of us failed to understand  the magnitude of the problem of  keeping swine population, for the food industry until recent H1N1 or Swine Flu outbreak.

Generation Gap (Myanmar Language)

Hardening of the Heart

Hardening of the Heart

By : Dr. Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips

Transcript of a lecture copied from Words of Love..and Words for Love blog
Darul Arqam, Singapore, 26th November 1998

The Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu ‘Alayhi wa sallam informed us in a very famous tradition, commonly quoted with reference to halal and haram, about the importance of the heart. He said :

“There is in the body a clump of flesh – if it becomes good, the whole body becomes good and if it becomes bad, the whole body becomes bad. And indeed it is the heart.”

[The hadith in full:- Bukhary, Volume 1, Book 2, Number 49: Narrated An-Nu'man bin Bashir: I heard Allah's Apostle saying, 'Both legal and illegal things are evident but in between them there are doubtful (suspicious) things and most of the people have no knowledge about them. So whoever saves himself from these suspicious things saves his religion and his honor. And whoever indulges in these suspicious things is like a shepherd who grazes (his animals) near the Hima (private pasture) of someone else and at any moment he is liable to get in it. (O people!) Beware! Every king has a Hima and the Hima of Allah on the earth is His illegal (forbidden) things. Beware! There is a piece of flesh in the body if it becomes good (reformed) the whole body becomes good but if it gets spoilt the whole body gets spoilt and that is the heart.]

He said that after explaining that the halal is clear and that the haram is clear and that between them are obscure areas, not known to most people. However, what protects a person from the haram and ensures that he remains in the halal is knowledge; but beyond knowledge, it is the state of the heart. If the heart is good, then it makes use of the knowledge and it avoids what is prohibited. If the heart is bad, then the knowledge is of no benefit to it and it will indulge in what is prohibited.

The Prophet Sallallahu ‘Alayhi Wa sallam, on the last pilgrimage, informed his Companions and the nations of Muslims to come, that there is no favour or no special place of the Arab over the non-Arab; nor is there any favour or special position of White over Black, but that favour in the sight of Allah, is with those who fear Him, those who have taqwah. After bearing witness to that, he said that “Taqwah is in the heart.”

In these statements and other similar statements, we find stress being placed on the heart – that the heart is the part of the body, which Allah has favoured over all other parts. It is the place of imaan. Had there been in the body another part that were nearer to Allah, taqwah would have been placed there because imaan is the most valuable thing that a human being can have. There is nothing more valuable. It is the determination ultimately of those who have belief in Allah – those who have accepted the message and who have chosen Paradise over Hell. It is the distinction of those who have belief and those who have disbelief.

Journey to Allah

Dr. Zakir Naik – Does God exist?

This short video is Dr Zakir’s explanation about existence of the Creator, Allah SWT.

Intellectual discourses are welcome by this blogger. However,comments that are  against the spirit of ” Words of Love”  will be deleted.

The purpose of creating this blog is, to enhance understanding of Islam among Muslims brothers and sisters. It is also meant to form the bridges of understanding between people of different faiths.

regards,

Kyaw Kyaw Oo

About the Eternal Hell and the Day of Judgement

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ဒါေပမဲ့ ဒီspam ေတြအမ်ားစုဟာ ေဆးေၾကာ္ညာေတြ ညစ္ညမ္းတဲ့ linkေတြ

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ကြၽန္ေတာ္ Post မေရးျဖစ္တာ Dr Zakir Naik ရဲ့ audio lecture ေတြ

နားေထာင္ေနလို႕ပါ။ကြၽန္ေတာ့ ဘေလာ့ရဲ့ညာဘက္ဆိုက္ဘားမွာလင့္ရွိပါတယ္။

ေဒါင္းလုပ္ လုပ္ျပီးနားဆင္ႏိုင္ပါတယ္။

ကြၽန္ေတာ္အထူးစိတ္ဝင္တစားနားေထာင္ျဖစ္တာကအေမးအေျဖ အပိုင္းျဖစ္

ပါတယ္။ဆိုၾကပါစို႕။ Concept of God in Islam အစ္စလမ္ဘာသာရဲ့ ဖန္ဆင္းရွင္အယူ

ဝါဒအျမင္ကို အျခားဘာသာအယူဝါဒမ်ားနဲ႕ယွဥ္ျပီးေျပာပါတယ္။

ျပီးေတာ့ ပရိတ္သတ္ထဲကေမးတဲ့သူေတြရဲ့ေမးခြန္းကို ကုယအန္က်မ္းျမတ္သာမက

အျခားက်မ္းစာမ်ားကိုပါ လက္တန္းကိုးကားျပီးေျဖသြားတာအလြန္စိတ္ဝင္စားစရာ

ေကာင္းပါတယ္။

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ကြၽန္ေတာ္ေဒါက္တာဇာကီရဲ့ ပို႕ခ်ခ်က္ေတြကိုအလုပ္အသြားအျပန္ေသာကားထဲမွာ

နားေထာင္ပါတယ္။ ကားရဲ့Mp3 player ထဲကို ေဒါင္းလုပ္ လုပ္ျပီးရင္ နားေထာင္လို႕

ရပါျပီ။

ဒီေန႕ျပန္ေျပာျပခ်င္တာကကြၽန္ေတာ္တို႕အားလုံးသိထားတဲ့ကိယာမတ္ လို႕ေခၚတဲ့

ျပန္လည္အစားေပးရမဲ့ ေန႕ၾကီးရွိေၾကာင္းဘယ္လိုသက္ေသျပမလဲဆိုတဲ့ေမးခြန္းကို

ေဒါက္တာဇာကီနိက္ ေျဖဆိုသြားပံုပါ။

ေမးခြန္းေမးသူသည္ Islam ဘာသာဝင္ဟုတ္မဟုတ္ကိုေတာ့ကြၽန္ေတာ္မသိပါ။

ေဒါက္တာဇာကီကေမးခြန္းေမးသူကို ဓားျပတေယာက္ဟာလူေကာင္းလားလူဆိုးလား

လို႕ျပန္ေမးပါတယ္။

ေမး-   လူဆိုးျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

ဇာကီ -   ဘာေၾကာင့္လူဆိုးလို႕ေျပာသလဲ

ေမး-   သူမ်ားပစည္းမတရားယူလို႕ပါ

ဇာကီ –    ဒါေပမဲ့ဓားျပအတြက္ အေတာ္ေကာင္းတယ္။ လုလို႕ရတဲ့ေငြနဲ႕

အိမ္အၾကီးၾကီးဝယ္တယ္။ကားေတြဝယ္တယ္။ မိသားစု သုံးျဖဳံးႏိုင္တယ္။

ႏိုင္ငံျခားကိုခရီးအလည္သြားႏိုင္တယ္။

ေမး-  သူ႕ကိုအျပစ္ေပးရမွာေပါ့

ဇာကီ    သူ႕မွာလက္နက္နဲ႕အေစာင့္ေတြရွိတယ္။ဒီလူေတြကိုလဲလခေကာင္းေကာင္းေပးတားတယ္။

အေရးယူမဲ့လူေတြကိုလဲလိုခ်င္သေလာက္ေပးထားတယ္။

ေမးသူ   ဒါေပမဲ့သူလုပ္တာတရားမွမတရားတာ။

ဇာကီ    မတရားဖူးဆိုတာခင္ဗ်ား ဘာကိုအမွီျပဳျပီးေျပာသလဲ။ဒီလူအတြက္ေတာ့

သိတ္အဆင္ေျပေနတာ။သူနဲ႕ပတ္သက္တဲ့သူေတြလဲေၾကနပ္လို႕ပဲ။

ေလာကမွာဒီလိုလူမ်ိဳးေတြအမ်ားၾကီးပဲ။မဟုတ္မတရားတာေတြလုပ္ျပီးေလာကၾကီးမွာ

ေပ်ာ္ေပ်ာ္ၾကီးေနသြားၾကတာ။ေသတဲ့အထိ  ဘာမွအျပစ္မရဖူး။

က်မ္းျမတ္ကုယအန္မွာလူသားေတြလိုက္နာရမဲ့ဥပေဒသေတြအတိအက် ျပ႒န္းထားတယ္။အစားေပးရမဲ့ျပန္လည္ရွင္ျပန္ထေျမာက္ရမဲ့

ေန႕ၾကီးအေၾကာင္းကို သင္ျပတယ္။

ဥပမာေပးရရင္ ဟစ္တလာ လိုလူမ်ိဳးတေယာတ္ဆိုပါေတာ့။သူ႕

ေၾကာင့္ဂ်ဴးလူမ်ိဳး ေျခာတ္သန္းေသတယ္လို႕ဆိုတယ္။စစ္ပြဲေၾကာင့္

အျပစ္မဲ့ေသရတဲ့အျခားလူေတြ ေခြၽး ေသြးမ်က္ေရ နဲ႕ခံစားမႉေတြမပါေသးဖူး။

ဆိုပါေတာ့ ဟစ္တလာကိုလူ႕ေလာကဥပေဒအရ အမ်ားဆုံးအျပစ္

ေပးႏိုင္ရင္ေသဒဏ္ေပါ့။

တကယ္လဲသူ႕ကိုသူသတ္ေသသြားပါတယ္။

သူတခါေသ လို႕တရားမွ်တသြားျပီလား။သူသတ္ထားတဲ့လူေတြကသန္းေပါင္းမ်ား

စြာေနာ္။

လူသားေတြရဲ့အသိညဏ္နဲ႕ဖန္တည္းထားတဲ့ဥပေဒနဲ႕ ဘယ္လိုမွတရားမွ်တေအာင္

မစီရင္ႏိုင္တာရွင္းေလာက္ပါျပီ။

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ဒီေလာကမွာဟစ္တလာလိုလူမ်ိဳး၊သူ႕ထက္ဆိုးတဲ့လူေတြအမ်ားၾကီးပါ။

က်မ္းျမတ္ကုရအန္ကဒီလိုဆိုထားပါတယ္.

“Those who reject our signs, We shall cast into the fire; as often as their skins are roasted through.  We shall change them for fresh skins, that they may taste the punishment; for Allah is Exalted in power; Wise.” ( 4:56)

(إنَّ الذٌينّ كّفّرٍوا بٌآيّاتٌنّا سّوًفّ نصليهم نّارْا كٍلَّمّا نّضٌجّتً جلودهم بدلناهم جلوداَ غيرها ليذوقوا العّذّابّ إنَّ اللَّهّ كّانّ عّزٌيزْا حّكٌيمْا)  (النساء56).

လူ႕ရဲ့အေရျပားမွာရွိတဲ့ နာက်ဥ္မႉသိအာရုံခံကလပ္စည္းေတြကနာက်င္

မႉကိုသိေစရန္ဦးေႏွာက္သို႕ သတင္းပို႕ပါတယ္။

Superficial Burn=Painful

Deep Burn =painless

လူတေယာတ္ဟာအေရျပားေအာက္အထိမီးေလာင္ကြၽမ္းခဲ့ရင္ နာက်င္မႉ

မရွိေတာ့ပါ။ နာက်ဥ္မႉသိအာရုံခံကလပ္စည္း ေတြအေရျပားႏွင့္အတူမီးေလာင္ရာ

မွာပါသြားလို႕ပါ။အထက္ပါအာယတ္ေတာ္အရ ငရဲလားသူမ်ားသည္မီးေလာင္ကြၽမ္းျပီးလွ်င္အေရျပား

အသစ္ျပန္လည္ေပး မည္ဟုဆိုထားျခင္းသည္ ခံစားမႉေပးေသာ နာက်ဥ္မႉသိအာရုံခံကလပ္စည္းေတြျပန္လည္ျဖစ္ေပၚေစမွာျဖစ္လို႕ ငရဲမီးနဲ႕ေလာင္ကြၽမ္းျပီးတိုင္းနာက်င္မႉခံစားရမယ္လို႕ဆိုထားျခင္းျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

လူေပါင္းမ်ားစြာကိုမတရားသတ္ျဖတ္အႏိုင္က်င့္ေသာလူယုတ္မာမ်ားသည္
ဒီလိုအျပစ္မ်ိဳးနဲ႕ထိုက္တန္တယ္ဆိုတာသေဘာေပါက္ႏိုင္ပါတယ္။

ဒါေၾကာင့္လူသားအားလုံးကိုမွ်တစြာတရားစီရင္ႏိုင္သူမွာဖန္ဆင္းရွင္ Allahသာျဖစ္ျပီး

ထိုစီရင္မဲ့ေန႕ေတာ္ၾကီးရွိ ေနေၾကာင္းကို ဦးေဏွာက္သုံးျပီးစဥ္းစားတတ္သူမ်ား အတြက္

ရွင္းရွင္းလင္းလင္းသိႏိုင္ေၾကာင္းေဒါက္တာဇာကီနိက္ရွင္းျပသြားတာကို တင္ျပလိုက္ရပါတယ္။

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