Thank you Mr. Mbye Jabang, for a pice worth keeping in mind. May Allah reward you. >From: Momodou Mbye Jabang <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list ><[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Fwd: The Millennium Craze: Where Will You Be? >Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 09:17:17 +0800 > > With the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful, Bestower Of Mercy > Guest Editorial > The Millennium Craze: Where Will You Be? > > Editor's > Word > > Volume 3, Issue 12 Sha'baan 1420 (December 1999) > > >Assalaamu alaikum, > >Alhamdulillah and here is an important Y2K admonition from >www.alharamain.org >Party-revelers and fun-makers can hardly contain themselves as they wait >for the final hour to dawn to celebrate the party of all parties in the >most unusual of ways. Preparations for the great millennium bash have been >underway for months in advance and the people of this planet want to >celebrate it in a big, big way. Every capital of the world is vying with >the other to offer the best in millennium reveling and celebrations. >London has constructed the massive Millennium Dome. Airlines are offering >crazy schedules to people wishing to see the 'arrival' of the Millennium >in three continents in one day! Others want to be the first to see the new >millennium arrive - flying to remote Pacific Islands in the East to do >that! > >Our thoughts, conversations, plans and even our commercial activities seem >to be overtaken by and dictated to by the millennium madness. Do we really >need to give prominence to this event just because it is hyped-up to the >point of hysteria by the media? > >The dates of the millennium coincide with Ramadhaan 1420. What a >remarkable coincidence and a blessing in disguise for Muslims! Allah >Ta'ala has been very kind and merciful to the weaklings of the Muslim >Ummah. Knowing fully well the temptations that many would have faced to >join in the fun and transgression, it is His sheer mercy that the advent >of Ramadhaan would come at that time, and serve as a major deterrent from >evil and sin, Insha-Allah. > >Ramadhaan itself, the state of fasting, the acts of Ibaadah and the >chaining of the rebellious Shaitaans are all factors that will help the >Muslim Ummah to stay on course. There is a not so remote a possibility >that the eve of the millennium may even coincide with the 23 night of >Ramadhaan; one of the possible nights for "Laylatul-Qadr" and also a time >for I'tikaaf for many. > >No Muslim in his right mind would give up such a beautiful opportunity of >catching 'Laylatul-Qadr' (83 years and 4 months of Ibadaah), much less for >a silly bash or party or just to go or sit around viewing people doing so! > >An appeal is directed to all Muslims to allow sense to prevail. Please take >care to distance yourselves and your children from the ways of modern >Jahiliyya on this occasion. Respect the sanctity of Ramadhaan. It is going >to be the final nights of Ramadhaan. Respect these holy nights and please >do not switch on the TV to view the heedless ones drowning themselves in >the disobedience of their Maker and Creator! You may be counted among >them, if you do so! > >Millennium celebrations could invite the wrath and Adhaab (punishment) of >Allah Ta'ala. Would you like to be caught at the 'wrong' place when the >unannounced Adhaab of Almighty Allah may come down or would you rather >prefer to be in the safe sanctuary of a House of Allah or engaged in your >devotions of Ramadhaan at home? O Muslim friend, it's your choice. > >Allahumma salli wasallim alaa Nabiyyina Muhammad. Wasalaam. >Modou Mbye > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------