Nowadays a disturbing trend that has developed is the circulation of unsubstantiated and dubious information via emails. Below we reproduce a sample of one such email, as well as our response to it.
<The email reads:>
(Reproduced unedited)
ASSALAM U ALYKUM TO ALL,
“Scientist has proved that the sound which comes from heart beat is LUB DUB. But now they analyze that it is RUB RUB. RUB is an Arabic word which means He who made each and everything. That is ALLAH. So it means every heart beat says AL-LAH ALLAH. If u believe in this fwd dis to all your friends.”
“The Holy Prophet (SAW) said, Stop doing everything during the Azaan, even reading the Quran, the person who talks during the Azaan will not be able to say the Kalima E Shahada on his/her death bed. Please pass this message to Muslims.”
A little bit more information for you…
“Please always remember it. Don't say “Mosque”…..say "Masjid". An
Islamic organization found the meaning of “Mosque " is " Mosquitoes". Don’t write “Mecca “Its means ‘house of wines’. Write "MAKKAH", and don’t write the name of Our Prophet (S.A.W) or Ur name in short as "MOHD", for it means ‘The dog with big mouth’. So write “MOHAMMAD "spread this around. Plz forward this message to as many as possible.”
<End of email>
Our response is as follows:
1) Don't put too much faith in what the scientists say. Tomorrow they'll turn around and say the sound is DUB DUB. This will certainly please the rappers! So what, if the sound is RUB RUB? This won't help us one bit. What will count is whether Rab (ALLAH) is on our lips, in our actions, and proactively in our heart. Will it help the disbeliever if his heart says RUB RUB?
In fact, according to Surah Humaza (Chapter 104 of the Quran Shareef), the Hellfire will even penetrate the hearts of the disbelievers. Shall we believe that Allah will burn a heart that makes his thikr? The Hadith teaches us that the limbs and joints of Believers make the thikr of Allah. But this does not apply to Kuffaar or people who have rejected and denied Islam.
2) As regards the Hadith quoted about Athaan, this is not found in authentic books. Whoever quoted this Hadith must please furnish some source or reference. It is a major sin to pass of Hadith that are fabricated as authentic. This happens often in chain emails. People should refrain from circulating unsubstantiated Islamic beliefs.
3) The origin of the word mosque is not mosquito as some people have claimed. This can be checked on any online dictionary or lexicon. Instead, mosque comes from the Arabic word Masjid¸ which the Spaniards and French pronounced as mesqid. After going through a phase of different pronunciations, the word ended up as mosque.
As regards, Mecca we agree too, that it should be written 'Makkah' and not Mecca, but not because it means a place of wine. This is false. Mecca does not mean that at all. Mecca originates from the Arabic word Makka, but since the Westerners have now used the word Mecca for any place where people flock to in abundance, even casinos and businesses, (as people flock to Makkah for Hajj), hence we should avoid using the spelling ‘Mecca’.
The same applies to Mohd. Where this story about a dog with a big mouth originates, only Allah knows, but we should not abbreviate the Name of Our Rasool (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) in any way. Generally abbreviations are done out of laziness.
Another practice related to emails is the campaign to ban certain websites. People will send out an email providing the address of a website. In that email it will be stated that this website attacks and nsults Islam and The Rasool of Islam (sallallahu alayhi wasallam), and people should sign up to have it banned. This is how we responded to one such email:
With reference to the subject above, my personal view is that by circulating emails to have such websites banned we are in reality promoting the website in a passive way. Unwittingly, we are doing the job for our enemies, which was to let as many Muslims see the filth they write against our Deen. Just figure it out. You need 15,000 signatures to have it banned, which means that 15,000 Muslims must receive this email.
How many of them will open this website purely out of curiosity, to see what's written there? Does Islam allow this type of deliberate dissemination of insult and mockery to Allah and His Rasool, along with the fear that somewhere some weak Muslims might be influenced adversely? As far as the banning of the website is concerned, that is firstly not guaranteed. Who says they will ban the website? Where does the 15,000-signature story come from? Is this not perhaps part of the conspiracy hatched by these same devils?
Secondly if it is banned, these morons will go and open another site somewhere else and start the process all over again. The best is to let these websites die their own death. Ignore them; don't let other Muslims see them, don't circulate them, don't react and get all excited. Delete such emails when they arrive. Remember, there is no answer to filth and drivel. One may still respond to constructive criticism and tenable argumentation, but the answer to rubbish is silence.
I wonder in the first place, how this website gets circulated among Muslims. Don't you think that this was also contrived and orchestrated by the makers of the website themselves, to set the cat among the pigeons? If it is so then they sure succeeded, thanks to our injudicious us of the internet.
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