Chronical disease,

There are Blogs which are doing nothing but Islam-bashing, if the authors or the commentators carry a non-muslim name, one can understand the pathology, but when it comes from the seculars/communists/ and IBs (Islam-Bezars) so callled “muslims” then I should,and
have all the rights to condemn their birthdays, regretfully, and can prescribe
anti-biotics for them. Pakistani Blog has many
examples of these impurities.

Wa’alaykum assalam wa rahmatullah. JazakAllah-khair for the comments.

As for Muhammad Ali, it is an interesting observation you have made. Here is a person who believed at one point that he was invincible. It truly would be within the mercy of Allah Subhana wa ta’Ala that he be afflicted with an illness to remind himself and all of us that we really are powerless without the help of Allah. SubhanAllah.

I took this photo shortly after prayer Dhuhr on February 10, 2006 at my friend’s unfinished basement which doubles as his overflow Musalah.

He has a boxing punching bag for working out, and a prayer mat. I had Muhammad Ali on my mind as I stared at the ‘Everlast’ logo text on the glove. Thus I photographed this composition to remind myself.

My reflections lead me to wonder if Muhammad Ali’s rants during his Boxing Career of being “The Greatest” were a reminder that only Allah is Akbar, that only Allah Alone is “The Greatest”.

Our dear brother in Islam, the former World Heavyweight Champion now has an illness/disability. I pondered if in Allah’s (Glorified and Praised be He) mercy is expressed in that disability.

As we know that, “One day’s fever wipes away a year of sin” or words to that effect.

If we look to our fellow Muslims instead of Allah SWT for improvement of the Ummah, we are in deep yogurt.

Complain to you Lord, privately, directly. He will answer us. Complain to the Ummah, and we’ll all share an Alleluia or two.

My 2 cents…I mean 2 dirhams.

HiMY SYeD
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Jazakallah khair for posting your feedback on the entry!

The aim of the editors’ posts (we haven’t really given the series a proper title yet!) is parallel to our general aim to highlight the best of the Muslim blogosphere. We felt the site was missing something – no, not me ranting, hehe. The whole point of our efforts are not only to act as a “filter blog”, but to also help raise the profiles of the Muslim bloggers we link to. However, we cannot achieve this aim if Ijtema.net is not a place where people like to frequent. By placing original content on site that can only be found here, we hope to attract more regular visitors to the site, and thus help us to achieve our goal to promote the work of authors more talented than ourselves. Perhaps we were not clear in our objective, and that is what lead to your confusion.

Wrt my rant, and whether it fits with Ijtema, that is down to personal opinion. As an editor of Ijtema, one “gets around” and sees many things on the blogosphere; believe me, Muslim-bashing is a common phenomenon. I wanted to avoid describing the exact incident that spurred me to write, in case i identified the people involved. As i said, i am not about to stick my head in the sand when it comes to problems, online or offline. I do feel that ranting, even if it not always the best way, can achieve some good in itself, as it tends to be to the point, and if the emotion is used correctly, can get the message across better than a non-rantish entry – if that makes any sense! However, i accept your constructive criticism; maybe it didn’t work here!

And your manner of commenting was wonderful, masha’Allah. I really appreciate it. All the editors do.

Wa’salam