Honor Killings in India and Pakistan

[andak01]

There's a story about one of the Companions of the Prophet that used to laugh and cry at different times, seemingly for no reason. The just of it is as follows. One day someone asked him why. "I cry when I think of burying my own daughter alive in the time before I became a Muslim, as was the custom. She reached up and stroked my beard as I was putting dirt on her. And I laugh because of another incident. The Qaraish had a law that anyone found without an idol would be punished. We were made to carry a small statue with us on our travels. One day, I was out without my idol and I saw some men coming. The only thing I had with me was some dates, so I fashioned an idol quickly out of dates and pretended to worship it. After the men left, I ate my idol. And that is why I laugh."

[Agnosthiest]

^ really andak, did you find that funny? If that was really a joke then this part completely spoiled it for me:

"I cry when I think of burying my own daughter alive in the time before I became a Muslim, as was the custom. She reached up and stroked my beard as I was putting dirt on her."


It was awful. Too graphic. To emotional. I have a young daughter.

[andak01]

It was awful. Too graphic. To emotional. I have a young daughter.

That's the sort of thing that Islam saved him from. Daughter slaying was also common among the pre-Israelites, the Arabs of Jahilia and today among Indians. Daughters are a blessing from God and everyone should see them as that, not as simply an economic burden on the family. The Quran specifically speaks against burial of daughters, so common was the practice at the time.

16:58
When news is brought to one of them [non-believers], of (the birth of) a female (child), his face darkens, and he is filled with inward grief!

16:59
With shame does he hide himself from his people, because of the bad news he has had! Shall he retain it on (sufferance and) contempt, or bury it in the dust? Ah! what an evil (choice) they decide on?

[Agnosthiest]

Daughter slaying was also common among the pre-Israelites, the Arabs of Jahilia and today among Indians.

It was tolerated for sure, but i doubt that it was 'common'. else if daughters are commonly killed then how can that co-exist with a culture of polygamy?


Here's another joke:

An elderly lady was well-known for her Iman and for her confidence in talking about it. She would stand in front of her house and say Alhamdulilah "Allah be praised" to all those who passed by. Next door to her lived an atheist who would get so angry at her proclamations he would shout, "There ain't no Lord!!" Hard times came upon the elderly lady, and she prayed for Allah to send her some assistance. She would pray out loud in her night prayer" Oh Allah! I need food!! I am having a hard time, please Lord, PLEASE LORD, SEND ME SOME GROCERIES!!" The atheist happened to hear her as she was praying, and decided to play a prank on her. The next morning the lady went out on her porch and noted a large bag of groceries and shouted, "Alhamdulilah, Allah be praised!." The neighbor jumped from behind a bush and said, "Aha! I told you there was no Lord. I bought those groceries, God didn't." The lady started jumping up and down and clapping her hands and said, "ALHAMDULILAH WA SHUKRILLAH”. He not only sent me groceries, but he made the devil pay for them!"




I dont know about you guys but that was unfunny to me because I found it too predictable.

[Kenneth]

AAAAGGHHHHHH, quoting scriptures is not funny, I hate the pair of you, look at my emoticon


Now this is funny.

[Agnosthiest]

Now this is funny.

LOL! Indeed it was! But was it a muslim who threw that cat up in the air?

[andak01]

http://www.theonion.com/content/news...may_experience

[Roland]

I'd vote for this thread to be the most lame and unfunny one I had read for quite a while.

[Agnosthiest]

^ well what andak posted right above you was very funny to me.

[Agnosthiest]

A chap walks in to a sex shop in London and asks for an inflateable doll.

The sales attendant ask him whether he'd like a male or female. "female, pls" , he says.

Black or white, sir? "White, thank you" he replies.

Christian or Muslim, sir? "I say, what on earth has religion to do with a sex toy" exclaims the customer.

Replies the attendant, in a whisper, "the Muslim dolls tend to blow themselves up, sir"

[andak01]

Let me go get some jokes from Stormfront. I'll change the word Jew to Muslim and they'll be funny.

[Agnosthiest]

Let me go get some jokes from Stormfront. I'll change the word Jew to Muslim and they'll be funny.

hey its worth trying. as long as its funny.

[andak01]

Here's a little something to offend everybody. Turns out racists are lousy comedians.

http://www.racist-jokes.com/

[Agnosthiest]

^ those are indeed pretty lame.



Tissa Hami, an Iranian-born woman who performs covered from head to foot in a full black chador. Occasionally, she shows a tiny bit of flesh when - as she puts it - she is feeling "kinda slutty". She jokes about being given a full body search at an airport, saying: "I was hoping to save that for the honeymoon."

[Agnosthiest]

Rules of Joking in Islam


Some people joke too much and it becomes a habit for them. This is the opposite of the serious nature which is the characteristic of the believers. Joking is a break, a rest from ongoing seriousness and striving; it is a little relaxation for the soul. ‘Umar ibn ‘Abd al-‘Azeez (may Allaah have mercy on him) said: “Fear joking, for it is folly and generates grudges.”

Imaam al-Nawawi (may Allaah have mercy on him) said: “The kind of joking which is forbidden is that which is excessive and persistent, for it leads to too much laughter and hardening of the heart, it distracts from remembrance of Allaah, and it often leads to hurt feelings, generates hatred and causes people to lose respect and dignity. But whoever is safe from such dangers, then that which the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) used to do is permissible for him.”

Sa’d ibn Abi Waqqaas said: “Set a limit to your jokes, for going to extremes makes you lose respect and incites the foolish against you.”

The amount of joking should be like the amount of salt in one’s food.

The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Do not laugh too much, for laughing too much deadens the heart.” (Saheeh al-Jaami’, 7312)

‘Umar ibn al-Khattaab (may Allaah be pleased with him) said: “Whoever laughs too much or jokes too much loses respect, and whoever persists in doing something will be known for it.”

So beware of joking, for it “causes a person to lose face after he was thought of as respectable, and it brings him humiliation after esteem.”

A man said to Sufyaan ibn ‘Uyaynah (may Allaah be pleased with him), “Joking is not right, it is to be denounced.” He replied, “Rather it is Sunnah, but only for those who know how to do it and do it at the appropriate time.”

Nowadays, although the ummah needs to increase the love between its individual members and to relieve itself of boredom, it has gone too far with regard to relaxation, laughter and jokes. This has become a habit which fills their gatherings and wastes their time, so their lives are wasted and their newspapers are filled with jokes and trivia.

The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “If you knew what I know, you would laugh little and weep much.” In Fath al-Baari it says: “What is meant by knowledge here has to do with the might of Allaah and His vengeance upon those who disobey Him, and the terrors that occur at death, in the grave and on the Day of Resurrection).

Muslim men and women have to be inclined to choose righteous and serious friends in their lives, who will help them to make good use of their time and strive for the sake of Allaah with seriousness and steadfastness, good and righteous people whose example they can follow. Bilaal ibn Sa’d said: “I saw them [the Sahaabah] jokingly pretending to fight over some goods, and laughing with one another, but when night came they were like monks.”

Ibn ‘Umar (may Allaah be pleased with him) was asked, “Did the Companions of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) laugh?” He said, “Yes, and the faith in their hearts was like mountains.”

So you have to follow the example of such people, who were knights by day and monks (i.e., devoted worshippers) by night.

May Allaah keep us, you and our parents safe on the Day of the Greatest Terror, those to whom the call will go out on that great Day:

“Enter Paradise, no fear shall be on you, nor shall you grieve”

[al-A’raaf 7:49 – interpretation of the meaning]

Obtained from http://www.islamisforyou.com