US-Israeli intelligence activities thwarted in Yemen, while Israel admits being behind Haniyeh's killing and pager terrorist attack Plus highlights of Israeli hypocrisy and news from Syria. Ismaele Note to subscribers: the article exceeds the length limits of the e-mail. To read it in its entirety, just click on the title to open the full online version. Yemen foils US-Israeli led intelligence activities From Al Mayadeen. Yesterday, Wednesday 25th December 2024, Yemen News Agency Saba and Al Mayadeen reported that the Yemeni security services foiled intelligence activities led by the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Israeli Intelligence Service (Mossad). A statement issued by the Yemeni security forces said: The enemy's intelligence seeks, through espionage activities, to hinder the Yemeni people's stance in support of Gaza by targeting its military forces and leadership. …and warned that CIA an Mossad collaborators may even face death sentence. It is not the first time that Yemeni security services perform such an operation: in June this year (2024), they uncovered and captured a large US-Israeli espionage cell operated by CIA and Mossad within the US embassy, labelled as “a den of espionage and a tool for sabotage”, as I reported in this article. In my opinion the US embassy in Sanaa should be closed, as the one in Tehran was closed following the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979. Over the last few days, the Yemeni security forces arrested several collaborators and spies, whose intelligence missions included “tracking and gathering information on experts, laboratories, platforms, and vehicles used for launching missiles and drones […] as well as monitoring locations and positions of naval forces, camps, and weapons depots belonging to the armed forces”. The recruiter, Hamid Hussein Fayed Mujalli, is still fugitive and wanted… but hopefully he will be found and arrested soon, so that he can face justice. The spies and collaborators even tried “to locate and gather information on the whereabouts of the leader of the Yemeni Ansar Allah movement, Sayyed Abdul-Malik al-Houthi”, thus suggesting that Little Satan (a.k.a. Israel) and Great Satan (a.k.a. the Outlaw US Empire) are planning to launch decapitation strikes against Ansar Allah in Yemen as they did with Hezbollah in Lebanon (first with Fuad Shukr and then with Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah) and Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar (in Gaza) and Ismail Haniyeh (in Iran), whose targeted assassination - by the way - was finally admitted by Israel Katz, Israeli Minister of “Defense”, a couple of days ago, as reported by IRNA (Islamic Republic News Agency of Iran), which quoted him as saying (emphasis mine): We will strike hard at the H[o]uthis... and decapitate their leadership -- just as we did with Haniyeh, (Yahya) Sinwar, and (Hassan) Nasrallah in Tehran, Gaza, and Lebanon, we will do so in Hodeida and Sanaa. Anyone who raises a hand against Israel will have his hand cut off, and the long arm of the Israeli military will strike him and hold him accountable. …thus also confirming the Zionist decapitation plan against Ansar Allah in Yemen. Israel publicly admits to assassinating Hamas leader Haniyeh in Tehran Israeli Minister of “Defense” Israel Katz - from IRNA. Speaking of criminal admissions, just a few days ago two recently retired senior Mossad agents were interviewed by CBS and explained how they orchestrated the pager terrorist attack against Hezbollah over several years. Had it been the other way around, e.g. Hezbollah, Iran or Russia perpetrating such a heinous terrorist attack (which incidentally injured and killed not just Hezbollah militants, but also children, teachers, nurses, doctors, etc.) in US and Europe, NATO would have launched a renewed “war on terror” and massive carpet bombing against Lebanon, Iran or Russia, as it has been done in the past against Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya with similar excuses; instead, now Western mainstream media (MSM) is still celebrating this sick operation: utterly disgusting! UNSC to hold emergency meeting on Yemen, Israel United Nations Security Council (UNSC) - from IRNA. Today Al Mayadeen and IRNA have also reported that last Tuesday, 24th December 2024, the Zionist hypocrites summoned Vatican's envoy in Tel Aviv, Archbishop Adolfo Tito Yllana, for a meeting with Foreign Ministry Director General Eyal Bar-Tal, who protested against Pope Francis’ criticism for the ongoing Israeli bombing of Gaza, targeting mainly innocent civilians and children - by the way, just this morning they killed 5 Palestinian journalists in an airstrike that hit a vehicle clearly marked as “PRESS” (source: The Guardian). Not only that, but, as reported by IRNA, that hypocrite of Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar asked US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, current president of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), to convene a UNSC emergency meeting next Monday, 30th December 2024, to discuss the repeated attacks by Ansar Allah against Israel. If they really wanted to stop drone and missile attacks on their territory from Yemen, they could easily achieve this objective simply by ending the aggression on Gaza and lifting the siege, as requested by Ansar Allah in all its statements. However, I doubt they will ever do it, especially after they managed to reach a ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah, whose leaders were saying that they would stop their attacks against Israel only if the latter halted its military operations in Gaza… yet they are still ongoing and the Zionists are even taking advantage of the ceasefire with Hezbollah to infiltrate Wadi al-Hujayr in southern Lebanon, “a region that has been inaccessible to them during the war due to the Lebanese Resistance”, as per Al Mayadeen. Little Satan is so emboldened that it thinks that it can enforce its will on everyone, thanks also to the support of Great Satan, a.k.a. the Outlaw US Empire, and its vassals within NATO and EU. Ansar Allah fighters march during a rally of support for the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and against the US strikes on Yemen outside Sanaa on Monday, January 22, 2024 (AP) From Al Mayadeen. So, in the meantime Yemeni attacks against Israel continue: in fact, as reported by Al Mayadeen and Saba, yesterday the Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) announced that its Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) Forces had conducted two drone strikes: one targeting “a vital and sensitive target of the Israeli enemy in the occupied area of Yaffa” and another one targeting “the industrial zone of the Israeli enemy in the occupied area of Ashkelon”, after interception of a ballistic missile launched from Yemen and targeting central Israel overnight, as reported here. Thanks for reading GeoPolitiQ! This post is public so feel free to share it. Share VOA From Al Maydeen. Meanwhile the tension in Syria remains very high, as I discussed in the second half of my previous original article, focussing on the intolerance of so-called “moderate jihadists” towards Christians. VOA (Voice of America), quoted by Al Mayadeen, has reported the following concerns of a Sunni Muslim resident of Damascus, shared by many others (all emphasis mine): We know that Hayat Tahir al-Sham [HTS] is trying to change, and we welcome that. But there are two things that people in my circle are really concerned about. One is how genuine al-Sharaa is, and the other is how much control he really has over the more radical people in his group. Syrians in general, including the conservative ones, are not inclined to extremism. If al-Jolani keeps his promises and controls his men, then Syrians will support him. But if extremists dominate, Syrians will rise against them just as they rose against Bashar al-Assad. VOA also quoted, an expert on Islamist groups in Syria, Aymenn Jawad al-Tamimi, as saying that one of the main tensions is “between the HTS leadership under al-Jolani and the action of individual members who for years were fed propaganda” and that… They may collectively impute guilt to Alawites and others like Christians and engage in attacks and insults. The VOA articles then cites two other analysts who give a more optimistic view, suggesting that HTS and the caretaker government will sideline or even arrest extremist factions, but without providing any concrete sign in support of such a positive opinion. Instead, the situation seems to get worse on the ground, as reported in another Al Mayadeen article, which describes chaos and lack of security in Masyaf, northwest of Hama, where three civilian land registry judges from the Alawite sect were killed two days ago, and in Aleppo, where an undated video was geolocated showing armed men storming the religious shrine of Abu Abdullah al-Hussein al-Khasibi, the founder of the Alawite sect, resulting “in the killing of five attendants, the mutilation of their bodies, the vandalization of the shrine, and its burning”. Regardless of its date, the video went viral online and caused “public discontent among the residents in the area” yesterday, as reported also by IRNA, which mentions thousands of people demonstrating in Latakia, Tartus, Homs and Hama (see also the video below). And this morning Al Mayadeen reported clashes during an attempt by security forces to arrest an officer, who had served under Bashar al-Assad, in Tartus province yesterday, resulting in 17 people killed, 14 of which members of the General Security force and 3 armed men, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which identified the wanted person as Mohammed Kanjo Hassan, “an officer in the former regime forces who held the position of director of the military justice department and field court chief [and] issued death sentences and arbitrary judgements against thousands of prisoners”. Apparently the clashes broke out after “a number of residents refused to allow their houses to be searched”. From The Times of Israel. Finally, a nuclear bombshell (literally!): the Israeli airstrike on the weapons depot in Tartus on 16th December 2024 may have been carried out with a small nuclear bomb, such as an American B61, as speculated by some reports mentioned in India.com, considering spikes in radiation measured by the European Union’s Radioactive Environmental Monitoring in Cyprus and Turkey ~20 hours after the blast, which also caused an earthquake of magnitude 3 that was felt even in Iznik (Turkey), ~820 km away from Tartus. If true, this would be shocking, as it would be the first use of a nuclear bomb in a conflict since Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War 2… but, according to western MSM, we should be afraid of “Russian nuclear sabre-rattling”, not of the Outlaw US Empire, the only country in the world that used nuclear weapons, or Israel, with its hidden nuclear arsenal - by the way, the US National Security Archive recently declassified documents revealing that the Outlaw US Empire “has been aware since the 1960s of ‘Israel's’ ability to produce weapons-grade plutonium at its Dimona nuclear research center”, as per Al Mayadeen. I will conclude this article with the following cartoons from China Daily - excellent food for thought: 'China Daily' cartoon rebukes US for human rights claims “Preaching rights while destroying humans” - from China Daily. World situation casts shadow on Christmas - from China Daily. P.S.: Al Mayadeen and The Guardian have reported this afternoon Israeli warplanes carried out airstrikes on Sanaa international airport, destroying its control towers, and Hezyaz and Ras Kanatib power station, while Ansar Allah leader Sayyed Abdulmalik Badr al-Din al-Houthi was delivering a speech. 1 HTS leader Ahmad al-Sharaa, formerly known as Abu Mohammed al-Jolani. https://geopolitiq.substack.com/p/us-israeli-intelligence-activities?triedRedirect=true

Gaza proves Humanity is far more Backward than we Thought Stuart LittlewoodDecember 23, 2024 NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 27: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) at the United Nations headquarters on September 27, 2024 in New York City. World leaders convened for the General Assembly as the world continues to experience major wars in Gaza, Ukraine, and Sudan, along with a threat of a larger conflict in the Middle East. (Photo by Stephanie Keith/Getty Images) Become a VT Supporting Member Today Please keep VT Radio and VT Foreign Policy alive! Donate today to make sure VT stays on the internet free and clear of Big Tech control! Donate today: Please Donate - Click Here This is for the benefit of all those political piss-artists and ministerial scoundrels in London, Washington, Paris and other Western capitals who wilfully distort the Israel-Palestine narrative and, in particular, the Gaza genocide and would have everyone believe that the problem started with Hamas’s breakout on 7 October, 14 months ago. And who do this to give their adored friends in Israel a free pass to carry out unspeakable crimes against humanity in order to realise the Zionists’ dream of dominating the entire Holy Land in accordance with their ‘Plan Dalet’ drawn up in 1948 on Ben Gurion’s instructions. 17 years ago I was in Gaza to see for myself what was already a bad situation. That was before the murderous blitzkrieg they called Operation Cast Lead and subsequent massacres, but Israel’s crimes against humanity were already piled high. When I got home memories of the visit so haunted me that I sat down and wrote an article titled “See Gaza and Weep” describing my impressions in November of 2007. flattening Gaza to the ground SEE GAZA AND WEEP Traffic into Gaza through the smart new border ‘facility’ at Erez is down to a trickle since Israel branded this tiny Palestinian seaside enclave a “hostile entity” and imposed a blockade even harsher than before. We came to Gaza to visit Fr Manuel Musallam, who ministers to his flock, runs the excellent Catholic school against all odds and is revered as a local hero. If he leaves Gaza the Israelis won’t allow him back, so for 9 years he has stayed put, isolated. When he heard we were coming, said a colleague, he burst into tears. After a noisy arrival at breakneck speed, with police sirens blaring Palestinian-style, our visit quickly turned into a media circus. An unlikely cavalcade of priests, interpreters, teachers, cameramen and Hamas armed police then took off to inspect the Rafah crossing into Egypt, now closed indefinitely, then followed the iron barrier down to the sea and the coast road back to the city. I noted the deserted beaches and disused fishing boats… Israel has banned fishing off the Gaza coast, ruined the livelihood of 3000 fishermen and deprived local people of a proper diet. Boats defying the ban are fired on. The Gaza Strip is sealed off from the outside world with an Israeli fence guarded by watchtowers, snipers, tanks, armoured bulldozers and drones. Israel pretended to withdraw two years ago but still controls Gaza’s airspace, coastal waters and airwaves. It has the place bottled up like a prison and makes frequent incursions. Much of it is blasted to rubble but many fine buildings survive. So does the defiant community. One can easily imagine Gaza blossoming into a coastal paradise, but right now the strangulated economy is in free-fall and for 1.5 million ordinary folk life is hell. Unemployment stands at 65%, and 80% live below the poverty line. Fuel is running out, so are basics like washing powder. Shattered infrastructure and food shortages mean serious public health problems. Power cuts disrupt hospitals and vital drugs cannot be kept refrigerated. Thousands look death in the face as medi-care collapses. A friend emailed: “Today in Gaza we have no cement to build graves for those who die.” Palestinians pray by the bodies of people killed in the Gaza Strip in front of the morgue in Deir al-Balah. [Adel Hana/AP Photo] We were also there to show solidarity with the whole population, Muslim and Christian, against the crippling economic sanctions that have led to this crisis. According to the Ministry of Health 450 cancer patients (35% of them children) are forbidden to leave Gaza for treatment or surgery. Many go without medication because cancer drugs are blocked or delayed at the border. There’s no radiotherapy. 400 renal failure patients should be getting dialysis three times a week but 20 of the 69 machines are out of action – no spares – and treatment has been cut to twice a week. 400 cardiac patients suffer unnecessarily owing to shortage of drugs. Spares for therapeutic and diagnostic equipment cannot get through. Hospitals are completely out of many essential medical and psychiatric drugs, X-ray bags and sterilisation bags. They are dangerously short of dressings, other disposables and cleaning materials. When the 2 weeks’ supply of anaesthetics is finished the operating theatres will close. Fuel stocks may last 15 days with luck, but there’s no patient food until MAP UK aid arrives. Physicians for Human Rights (Israel) say they have been trying to bring the critically ill out of Gaza for proper treatment, but are often refused. So they die in agony. A thousand patients – advanced kidney and cancer cases and victims of Israeli air-strikes – need immediate transfer. Channel 4 News screened a shocking report on UK TV about how the sick are blackmailed. If they agree to inform on relatives they are allowed to cross the border. If not they can “stay in Gaza and die”. The Red Cross repeatedly reminds Israel of its obligation under international law and the Geneva Conventions to ensure that humanitarian supplies reach Palestinian civilians. However, I’m told that drugs purchased from sales of my book ‘Radio Free Palestine’ cannot be delivered in the normal way and will have to be smuggled in somehow. The European Parliament in October passed a resolution calling on Israel to lift the blockade and guarantee humanitarian aid and essential supplies of electricity and fuel. Israel responded by declaring Gaza a “hostile entity” and announced more sanctions. As guests in the community we were invited for coffee at the House of Fatah and the residence of Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniyeh. It was a relief to see that relations between religious and political factions are friendly and good-humoured at such a difficult time. Taking our leave was double torture… the wrench of saying farewell to a brave people that Western governments are persecuting, and the prospect of once again running the gauntlet of Erez’s high-tech security procedures and questioning, which this time took 3 hours while Qassam rockets flew over and exploded on the Israeli side. They seldom do any damage but indiscriminate targeting of civilians by both sides is deplorable. Gaza was formerly under British mandate, which is surely reason enough to feel a special responsibility. In better days a kindlier British government might have landed supplies on Gaza’s empty beach and lifted the siege. Indeed, there are many things a kindlier British government might have done to set the Palestinians free. How different now. The appalling situation, created with Britain’s help, is designed to force democratically elected Hamas into submission and bring a sick and demoralised community meekly back under Abbas’s puppet regime. Meanwhile the subjugation and dispossession of Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land continues. It remains a mystery to me why our largely Christian (but increasingly Muslim-inclusive) democracy in the UK so slavishly supports the Middle Eastern ethnocracy that’s doing this… Question: What has changed for the better? Answer: Nothing. And that sums up the achievement of Mahmoud Abbas’s over-long stay as Palestinian president. Some say Abbas isn’t a bad guy, he just lost his way. Actually there’s a long crime-sheet against him. A founding member of Arafat’s Fatah faction, he ‘won’ the presidency of the Palestinian National Authority in January 2005 in a dodgy contest – let’s not dignify it with the word ‘election’ – in which Israel seriously interfered to obstruct other candidates. He has overstayed his 4-year term by nearly 3 years and is widely regarded as having no legitimacy and no popular mandate. Legitimate or not, he is still propped up by the US, Israel, Britain and those other beacons of democracy. According to the Constitution the presidency should by now have devolved to the Speaker of the Legislative Council, Aziz Duweik. But that could never be permitted because Duweik, although a professor with a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, is also a member of Hamas. So Abbas clings to office like used chewing-gum to the sidewalk. In 2007 he dissolved the Hamas-led unity government, of which Haniyeh was prime minister, and appointed Salam Fayyad in his place, a move that was almost certainly illegal under Palestinian Basic Law and designed to ensure the disunity and weakness that Israel so badly wanted to see. Since the Palestinian Legislative Council never approved Fayyad’s appointment, many Palestinians regard Haniyeh as the caretaker PM although his authority, as a result of Abbas’s treachery, is now confined to Gaza. In all probability Fayyad has no more legitimacy than Abbas. When he took up the post of president, Abbas would have sworn this solemn oath… “I swear to God almighty to be faithful to the Homeland and to its sacred places, and to the people and its national heritage, and to respect the Constitutional system and the law, and to safeguard the interests of the Palestinian people completely, as God is my witness.” We’ve seen how he respects his country’s Constitutional system. He was further undone by the Wikileaks suggestions that the Israeli government “consulted with Egypt and Fatah prior to Operation Cast Lead, asking if they were willing to assume control of Gaza once Israel defeated Hamas”. And only a few days ago Abbas was safeguarding the interests of the Palestinian people by announcing on Israeli TV, of all places: “Palestine now for me is ’67 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital. This is now and forever … This is Palestine for me. I am [a] refugee, but I am living in Ramallah. I believe that [the] West Bank and Gaza is Palestine and the other parts [are] Israel.” In other words, he relinquishes the Palestinian refugees’ right to return to their lands and homes and even surrenders his own right to return to his birth town Safad, which is now a district in northern Israel. “We don’t want to use terror,” he says. Agreed. Perish the thought. “We don’t want to use force. We don’t want to use weapons…” he says. But Palestinians have a perfect legal right to use any means to repel a foreign occupier. “We want to use diplomacy. We want to use politics. We want to use negotiations…” Has he learned nothing from 64 years of non-stop ethnic cleansing and failed diplomacy? The Israelis by all accounts are jubilant. Their Top Stooge has scored for them again. But Haniyeh is not amused. “It is not possible for any person, regardless of who he is … to give up a hand’s width of this Palestinian land, or to give up the right of return to our homes from which we were forced out…” If you visit the Holy Land, Palestinians will urge you to tell their story when you get home. But does Abbas bother to tell it? How many activists, supporters, sympathizers, journalists and writers have had a chance to meet this great leader of the Palestinian underdogs… to be enthused by him… to question him? When he comes to London for “talks” it’s hush-hush. We never hear about it. His good-for-nothing embassy says nothing. His worse-than-useless press office in Ramallah says nothing. In the struggle for their rights and independence the Palestinians have international law and UN resolutions on their side. But in the seven years Abbas has presided the West Bank has remained sealed, the theft of Palestinian land has continued unabated and the blockade on Gaza has not eased – it’s been tightened. Palestine goes on losing more than it gains. The bottom line is that in the 21st Century – this new age of enlightenment – Palestinians remain prisoners in their own country. How miserably must a leader fail his people before they kick him out? And how much longer will Western leaders continue to shirk their responsibilities towards our Christians and Muslims brothers and sisters in the Holy Land? Fast-forward 12 years and today the loser Abbas is still there, widely regarded as a quisling and achieving nothing for his own country… but still doing Israel many favours. Who, in 2007, could have believed that for 14 months in 2023/4 the international community would stand by and do nothing to stop the apartheid regime in Israel exterminating Palestinian civilians, women and children in their own homeland in revenge for their having struck back against over 7 decades of Israeli illegal and brutal military occupation, dispossession, theft of their lands, livelihoods and resources, and interference with their lives at every level? Who, in 2007, would have believed that the US and UK — those champions of democracy, freedom and self-determination — would be supplying Israel with the munitions and other wherewithall to carry out a full-blooded genocide? Who, in 2007, would have believed that the people of the US and UK could allow their sick-minded politicans to behave in such a despicable way? And who, in 2007, would have thought Western Christendom would be so spineless as to stand idly by watching their Christian and Muslim brothers and sisters being cruelly slaughtered in Gaza and the West Bank — the very wellspring of their faith — and not even raise a whimper never mind mobilise their millions in opposition to such downright evil. Stuart Littlewood 22 December 2024 After working on jet fighters in the RAF Stuart became an industrial marketing specialist with manufacturing companies and consultancy firms. He also “indulged himself” as a newspaper columnist. In politics, he served as a Cambridgeshire county councillor and member of the Police Authority. Now retired he campaigns on various issues and contributes to several online news & opinion sites. An Associate of the Royal Photographic Society, he has produced two photo-documentary books – Paperturn-view.com. 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☆Tadabbur Kalamullah 8 Jamadil Awwal 1446H☆ لَّقَدۡ صَدَقَ ٱللَّهُ رَسُولَهُ ٱلرُّءۡیَا بِٱلۡحَقِّۖ "Demi sesungguhnya! Allah tetap menyatakan benar RasulNya dalam perkara mimpi itu dengan kenyataan yang sebenar" [Surah al-Fatḥ 27] #al-Raghib al-Asfahani berkata: "Al-Ru’ya ialah apa yang dilihat dalam mimpi. #Antara mimpi yang menzahirkan rasa takjub ialah apabila mendengar seseorang itu pernah bermimpi melihat Rasulullah saw, kerana ia merupakan satu peristiwa yang pastinya diinginkan oleh setiap insan yang bergelar Muslim. Dan mimpi melihat Rasulullah saw adalah mimpi yang benar. #Sabda Rasulullah saw: مَنْ رَآنِي فِي الْمَنَامِ فَقَدْ رَآنِي فَإِنَّ الشَّيْطَانَ لاَ يَتَمَثَّلُ بِي ‏ "Sesiapa yang melihatku di dalam mimpi, maka sememangnya dia melihatku, kerana sesungguhnya syaitan tidak dapat menyerupai rupaku" (HR al-Bukhari dan Muslim) #Al-Hafiz Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani berkata, hadis ini mengandungi isyarat bahawa, meskipun Allah swt membenarkan syaitan untuk menyerupai sesiapa sahaja yang dikehendaki, namun ia tetap terhalang dari menyerupai Nabi saw. Beberapa ulamak berpanjangan, yang dimaksudkan dalam hadith ini adalah apabila seseorang melihat Baginda saw dalam rupa yang sama seperti rupa asal Baginda saw. #Terdapat banyak riwayat tentang orang-orang soleh mimpi bertemu Rasulullah saw yang boleh kita ambil iktibar dan pengajaran: 1. Dikisahkan oleh Ishaq bin Ismail katanya: Aku mendengar Sufyan at-Thauri berkata: "Aku telah melihat Nabi saw dalam mimpiku, lalu aku bertanya: Wahai Rasulullah, apa pendapatmu tentang bawang merah dan bawang putih. Baginda menjawab: Para malaikat merasa terganggu dengan keduanya. (Lihat: al-Manamat) 2. Dikisahkan bahawa al-Muthanna bin Sa‘id al-Qasir telah menceritakan kepada kami, katanya: Aku mendengar Malik bin Anas (Imam Malik) berkata: "Tidak pernah aku melalui satu malam pun melainkan aku melihat Rasulullah saw dalam tidurku" (Lihat: Hilyah al-Auliya) 3. Al-Rabi‘ bin Sulaiman meriwayatkan: Aku mendengar Imam as-Syafi‘i berkata: Aku melihat Nabi saw dalam mimpi, sebelum aku mencapai usia dewasa. Baginda berkata kepadaku: Wahai anak muda. Aku menjawab, Labbaik, wahai Rasulullah. Baginda bertanya: Dari golongan manakah engkau? Aku menjawab: Dari golonganmu, wahai Rasulullah. Baginda berkata: Dekatkan dirimu kepadaku: Maka aku pun mendekat, lalu Baginda mengambil sedikit daripada air liurnya. Aku membuka mulutku, dan Baginda menyapukan air liurnya pada lidahku, mulutku, dan bibirku, sambil berkata: Teruskanlah, semoga Allah memberkatimu. (Lihat: Manaqib al-Syafi‘i. al-Baihaqi) 4. Syeikh Muhammad bin Abdul Malik Al-Zughbi pernah menceritakan kisahnya, lebih kurang 16 tahun yang lalu, bahawa beliau telah bermimpi bertemu Rasulullah saw sebanyak 47 kali. Pada suatu ketika, beliau merasakan Rasulullah saw menyentuh kepala dan belakangnya, dan beliau dapat merasai kesejukan jari-jemari baginda pada kepalanya dan belakangnya. Kisah ini diceritakannya dalam rancangan Muntada Fursan al-Sunnah li al-Intaj al-Islami. Syeikh Muhammad bin Abdul Malik Al-Zughbi merupakan  seorang pendakwah Islam terkenal dari Mesir. Beliau terlibat dalam Rabitah al-Alam al-Islami (Liga Muslim Sedunia) di Mekah, khususnya dalam bahagian Mukjizat Saintifik dalam Al-Quran dan Sunnah. #Ya Allah, kurniakanlah aku kesempatan untuk bertemu dengan RasulMu, Nabi Muhammad saw, dalam mimpiku. Jadikan pertemuan itu sebagai pendorong kecintaan dan ikutan terhadap sunnah Baginda. Ya Allah, limpahkanlah selawat dan salam kepada Nabi Muhammad, ahli keluarganya, dan para sahabatnya. Aamiiin. ♡Jelas bahawa mimpi bertemu Rasulullah saw termasuk dalam mimpi yang baik dan merupakan perkhabaran gembira buat seseorang. Ini menunjukkan bahawa terdapat keistimewaan dalam dirinya yang membolehkannya bertemu dengan insan yang paling mulia, sekiranya benar orang yang dijumpainya itu adalah Rasulullah saw berdasarkan sifat-sifat Baginda yang diceritakan dalam hadis dan sesuai dengannya. Oleh itu, secara umumnya, tidak menjadi masalah untuk seseorang menceritakan mimpinya bertemu Rasulullah saw. Bahkan Baginda saw sendiri membenarkan seseorang yang bermimpi sesuatu perkara yang baik untuk menceritakannya kepada orang lain♡ 🐊Ust naim Klik link ini untuk join: http://bit.ly/tadabburkalamullah Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/tadabburkalamullah

Israel dropped over 85,000 tons of bombs on Gaza since start of genocide – Day 396 [email protected] November 7, 2024 beit lahiya, bombs dropped on gaza, campus protest, deportation, ethnic cleansing, massacre, military aid to israel, Netanyahu, Rashida Tlaib, university of minnesota, unrwa, west bank deaths Palestinians will not be allowed to return to homes in northern Gaza, says Israeli military Israeli ground forces are getting closer to “the complete evacuation” of northern Gaza and residents will not be allowed to return home, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has said, in what appears to be the first official acknowledgment from Israel it is systematically removing Palestinians from the area. In a media briefing on Tuesday night, the IDF Brig Gen Itzik Cohen told Israeli reporters that since troops had been forced to enter some areas twice, such as Jabaliya camp, “there is no intention of allowing the residents of the northern Gaza Strip to return to their homes”. He added that humanitarian aid would be allowed to “regularly” enter the south of the territory but not the north, since there are “no more civilians left”. International humanitarian law experts have said that such actions would amount to the war crimes of forcible transfer and the use of food as a weapon. (Read the full article here.) Israeli Strike on Home in Northern Gaza Kills 25, Including 13 Children An Israeli strike on a home in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza, killed at least 25 Palestinians, including 13 children, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported on Tuesday. Medical sources told WAFA that people are still missing under the rubble, meaning the death toll could rise. Dr. Hussam Abu Safia, the director of the nearby Kamal Adwan Hospital, which has come under repeated Israeli attacks, said the home that was targeted was sheltering several displaced Palestinian families. According to The Associated Press, Israel claimed it targeted a weapons storage facility but, as usual, offered no evidence for the claim. Smoke rises following an Israeli bombardment of Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza on Friday, Nov. 1 Smoke rises following an Israeli bombardment of Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza on Friday, Nov. 1 (AFP/Getty Images) Israel dropped over 85,000 tons of bombs inside Gaza since start of genocide The Israeli military has dropped more than 85,000 tons of bombs inside the besieged Gaza Strip since the start of the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza in October 2023, according to a statement by the Palestinian Environment Quality Authority. Palestinian officials say the continuous bombing “has caused the destruction of vast areas of agricultural land and contaminated soil with toxic chemicals, which will hinder agriculture in the enclave for decades.” Furthermore, the officials say Israeli attacks have caused significant damage to Gaza’s water sources, “causing polluted water to seep into groundwater basins, [posing] a health and environmental crisis that endangers hundreds of thousands of residents for future generations.” Earlier this year, the UN warned that removing tens of millions of tons of rubble left in the aftermath of Israel’s bombardment could take 15 years and cost between $500-600 million. Moreover, rebuilding destroyed homes could take at least until 2040. In economic terms, the UN Conference on Trade and Development said in a report released last month that if the war ends soon and Gaza returns to the status quo before 7 October 2023, it could take 350 years for its economy to return to its precarious prewar level. RECOMMENDED READING: Israel’s Scholasticide and the Irrelevance of US Politics: 11,923 Palestinian students didn’t go back to school this fall because Israel killed them Palestinian journalists at work during the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike in Gaza, Palestine, on October 15, 2023. Palestinian journalists at work during the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike in Gaza, Palestine, on October 15, 2023. (Momen Faiz / NurPhoto via Getty Images) Israel signs $5.2B deal to acquire advanced F-15 fighter jets Israel, which continues to strike both Gaza and Lebanon, announced signing a deal to purchase 25 next generation F-15 fighter jets from US aviation giant Boeing. In a statement, the Defense Ministry said the agreement, signed on Wednesday, is part of a broader aid package approved by the US administration and Congress earlier this year and includes an option for 25 additional aircraft. The jets will be “equipped with cutting-edge weapon systems” and integrated with advanced Israeli technologies, the statement said. According to the ministry, the upgraded aircraft will help the air force “maintain its strategic superiority in addressing current and future challenges in the Middle East.” Delivery of the aircraft will begin in 2031, with four to six aircraft to be supplied annually. Residents conduct a search and rescue operation after the Israeli army targeted Asma School, run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza Strip on October 27, 2024 Residents conduct a search and rescue operation after the Israeli army targeted Asma School, run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza Strip on October 27, 2024 (Ayman Alhesi/Anadolu Agency) New criminal probe alleges Netanyahu tried to make discussions of the war “untraceable” Israeli police are investigating “criminal incidents” reportedly linked to meetings held by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet at the start of the war on Gaza in October last year, Israeli media reported on 5 November. “The police’s Lahav 433 investigation unit is conducting a criminal probe related to incidents from the start of the war, including several open investigations,” a police statement said, adding that further details remain under gag order and are barred from publication. The Times of Israel added that reports appearing in Hebrew media earlier this year claimed that Netanyahu had been “attempting to keep his conversations regarding the management of the war in Gaza untraceable.” Senior figures in the security establishment allegedly fear that efforts were being made to edit the minutes of wartime discussions held with Netanyahu after discovering discrepancies between transcripts of the meetings and what officials in attendance had heard first-hand. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem, on August 4, 2024 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem, on August 4, 2024 (NAAMA GRYNBAUM/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) Knesset Passes Law to Deport Relatives of Resistance Fighters for Up to 20 Years Israel’s Knesset approved a bill on Wednesday to allow the deportation of relatives of resistance fighters (their word: “terrorists”) from Israel for up to 20 years. A temporary five-year provision was also passed, enabling the imprisonment of minors under 14 years of age who are convicted of homicide as part of a terror act. It was proposed by Likud lawmaker Hanoch Milwidsky, and states that family members may be deported by the Interior Minister to to Gaza “or another destination determined by the circumstances” if it is found that they “knew in advance of the [so-called] terrorist’s plan and did not take necessary measures to prevent it.” The interior minister would also have the authority to deport a relative who “expressed support or sympathy for the act of [so-called] terrorism or published praise, admiration, or encouragement.” A decision on the deportation will be made after a hearing. The law, which was fast-tracked, is considered extreme, and the Attorney General’s office did not issue an opinion on it after a representative claimed that despite the Attorney General’s request, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s position on the matter was not submitted. The law applies to the immediate family of [so-called] terrorists: parents, siblings, children, and spouses. Israeli citizens who meet the criteria will be deported for at least seven years and up to 15 years. Non-citizen deportees will face a minimum of 10 years and up to 20 years. Additionally, the police will have the authority to enforce deportations, “including the power to enter any premises, remove individuals, and use reasonable force.” NOTE: The use of the word “terrorist” for a group that resists occupation and oppression is a political, not fact-based choice. In reality, international law supports the efforts of resistance groups against an occupying power, the UN extending that right to the point of armed resistance. Hamas has clearly and openly stated that its enemy is not the Jewish people, but the supremacist ideology of Zionism – the ideology under which Israel dispossessed 750,000 Palestinian people and exiled them to Gaza and other locations. Red Cross officials wait outside Israel’s Ofer Prison as thousands of displaced Palestinians go to check on their homes as the 4-day humanitarian pause begins for prisoner exchange and aid in Ramallah, Gaza on November 24, 2023. Red Cross officials wait outside Israel’s Ofer Prison as thousands of displaced Palestinians go to check on their homes as the 4-day humanitarian pause begins for prisoner exchange and aid in Ramallah, Gaza on November 24, 2023. [Mostafa Alkharouf – Anadolu Agency] (Mostafa Alkharouf – Anadolu Agency) UN signals to Israel: Replacing UNRWA would be your responsibility The United Nations responded to Israel’s decision to cut ties with the Palestinian relief agency (UNRWA), by saying it has no responsibility to replace the agency’s operations in Gaza and the West Bank, signalling it was Israel’s problem as the occupying power, according to a letter excerpt seen by Reuters. Under a new law, Israel ended a 1967 cooperation agreement with UNRWA that covered the protection, movement and diplomatic immunity of the Agency. The law will also ban UNRWA’s operations in Israel from late January. UNRWA has said that its operations in Gaza and the West Bank are now at risk of collapse. “I would note, as a general point, that it is not our responsibility to replace UNRWA, nor do we have the capacity to do so,” UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres’ chef de cabinet, Courtenay Rattray, wrote to a senior Israeli foreign affairs official late on Tuesday. The mention of responsibility is a veiled reference to Israel’s obligations as an occupying power. The UN views Gaza and the West Bank as Israeli-occupied territory. International humanitarian law requires an occupying power to agree to relief programs for people in need and to facilitate them “by all the means at its disposal” and ensure food, medical care, hygiene and public health standards. NOTE: According to the Congressional Research Service, UNRWA’s budget for 2023 alone was $1.47 billion. RECOMMENDED READING: Israel Is Restricting Aid More Than Ever, UNRWA Warns as Millions Starve Israeli Settler Kills Palestinian, Israeli Forces Kill Another Israeli forces killed a Palestinian man, on Wednesday night, injured several citizens and abducted others, during a prolonged military assault on the northern West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp. The Palestinian Health Ministry announced that the citizen, Abdullah Mohammad Saeed Saadi, 53, succumbed to a critical gunshot wound inflicted on him by occupation forces. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said that its ambulance crews transported a critically injured citizen to hospital for treatment, while sources at the Ibn Sina Hospital said that they received a seriously injured man who was shot in the thigh, later announcing his death. The PRCS added that occupation forces shot Saadi with three live rounds while he was in the “Hursh Al-Sa’ada” neighborhood in the western part of Jenin city. On Wednesday afternoon, an Israeli colonizer killed a Palestinian man after an alleged car-ramming attempt near the illegal “Shilo” colony, built on citizens’ lands northeast of Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank. The General Authority of Civil Affairs informed the Palestinian Health Ministry that the young man, Harith Khaled Abdullah Jabara, 32, succumbed to critical gunshot wounds during an alleged car-ramming attempt. The Health Ministry announced that occupation forces shot Jabara after his vehicle crashed at the entrance to the “Shilo” settlement, near the town of Turmus Ayya, injuring two Israeli colonizers. Israeli media reported that two Israeli settlers sustained minor injuries, while an armed colonizer shot and killed the suspect after he exited his vehicle. Since the beginning of the Israeli military onslaught against the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, Israeli forces have killed 777 Palestinians in the West Bank, including 167 children, and injured 6,300. Abdullah Mohammad Saeed Saadi, Harith Khaled Abdullah Jabara, killed Wednesday Nov 6 in the West Bank Abdullah Mohammad Saeed Saadi, Harith Khaled Abdullah Jabara, killed Wednesday Nov 6 in the West Bank (IMEMC) Election: In Dearborn, Rashida Tlaib Did Nearly Twice as Well as Kamala Harris Harris refused to distance herself from the Biden administration’s support of Israel’s war on Gaza. Tlaib railed against it. Voters in the biggest U.S. city with an Arab-majority population shifted decisively toward Donald Trump on Tuesday, in a stinging rebuke of the Biden administration’s policies in the Middle East. Trump claimed 43 percent of the vote in Dearborn, Michigan, to Kamala Harris’s 36 percent. Jill Stein claimed 15 percent of the vote in the city, where the Green Party had notched less than 1 percent in 2020. Trump’s margin of victory in Dearborn represents a massive reversal from the 2020 election, when Joe Biden won 69 percent to Trump’s 30. The huge shift toward Trump will not be decisive in a race where he cruised to a Electoral College victory without the help of Michigan, the state with the highest percentage of Arab Americans. The state had yet to be called Wednesday morning. Still, it was a telling sign of how completely the administration has lost Arab Americans over the war. Down-ballot results suggest that the move was motivated in large part by anger toward the Biden administration rather than dissatisfaction with Democratic policies overall. Letter to U of Minnesota admin protesting suspension of students for protesting Gaza War Dear President Cunningham and Colleagues: We write on behalf of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) and its Committee on Academic Freedom to express our concern about the decision of the administration of the University of Minnesota (UMN) to indefinitely suspend eight students who participated in an occupation of a university building, Morrill Hall, on 21 October 2024. Whatever one thinks of the students’ action, we regard the university’s decision to bar them from classes, dormitories, dining halls and campus jobs as an unduly harsh sanction that violates their rights to education and sustenance. The fact that this sanction was imposed without the students having had the opportunity to defend their actions in a properly conducted disciplinary process makes it all the more egregious. The university’s actions in this regard seem aimed at deterring students from exercising the dictates of their conscience on matters of urgent public concern. They also contravene the University of Minnesota’s laudable tradition of countenancing contentious student protests… (Read the full letter here.) Pro-Palestine protesters stand firm as Chicago police officers prepare to begin arrests at the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois on May 4, 2024. Protests on US school campuses are continuing nationwide, with pro-Palestine encampments calling on institutions to divest investments in Israel and in support of a ceasefire in Gaza Pro-Palestine protesters stand firm as Chicago police officers prepare to begin arrests at the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois on May 4, 2024. Protests on US school campuses are continuing nationwide, with pro-Palestine encampments calling on institutions to divest investments in Israel and in support of a ceasefire in Gaza (photo) According to the World Health Organization, across Gaza as a whole, 556,774 children under age 10 -- or 94% -- received two doses of the polio vaccine in recent weeks. According to the World Health Organization, across Gaza as a whole, 556,774 children under age 10 — or 94% — received two doses of the polio vaccine in recent weeks. (social media) MORE NEWS: IMEMC Daily Reports. The Cradle: Israel’s war on Lebanon’s history and heritage Common Dreams: From Netanyahu to Orbán, Global Far-Right Figures Celebrate Trump Win Middle East Eye: How Arab autocrats enabled Israel’s Gaza genocide STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – NOVEMBER 6, 2024: Palestinian death toll from October 7, 2023 – November 6, 2024: at least 44,159* ( 43,391 in Gaza* – 69% are women and children, according to Gaza’s Media Office). [The Ministry’s figures have been contested by the Israeli authorities, although they have been accepted as accurate by Israeli intelligence services, the UN, and WHO. These data are supported by independent analyses, comparing changes in the number of deaths of UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) staff with those reported by the Ministry, which found claims of data fabrication implausible.] This is expected to be a significant undercount since thousands of those killed have yet to be identified – and at least 778 in the West Bank (~166 children). This does not include an estimated 10,000 more in Gaza still buried under rubble (4,900 women and children). In July 2024, the Lancet said: “Applying a conservative estimate of four indirect deaths per one direct death to the 37,396 deaths reported, it is not implausible to estimate that up to 186,000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza. Ralph Nader earlier estimated 300,000 Palestinians may have been killed in Gaza. At least 45 Palestinians have died in Israeli prisons (27 from Gaza, 25 from West Bank). At least 41 Palestinians have died due to malnutrition (at least 37 of them children)**. About 1.9 million of Gaza’s 2.3 million population are currently displaced. Almost 500,000 Gazans are currently experiencing catastrophic levels of food insecurity. Palestinian injuries from October 7 – November 6, 2024: at least 108,647 (including at least 102,347 in Gaza and 6,300 in the West Bank, including 830 children). [It remains unknown how many Americans are among the casualties in Gaza.] Reported Israeli death toll from October 7, 2023 – November 6, 2024: ~1,574 (~1,139 on October 7, 2023, of which ~32 were Americans, and ~36 were children); 396*** military forces since the ground invasion began in Gaza (most recent: Nov 2); 39 military and civilians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel) and~10,000 injured. The death toll in Lebanon since October 8, 2023 is at least 3,050, with 13,658 injuries. An estimated 1.34 million have been displaced. NOTE: It is unknown at this time how many of the deaths and injuries of Israelis on October 7 were caused by Israeli soldiers. *Previously, IAK did not include 471 Gazans killed in the Al Ahli hospital blast since the source of the projectile was being disputed. However, given that much evidence points to Israel as the culprit, Israel had previously bombed the hospital and has attacked many others, Israel is prohibiting outside experts from investigating the scene, and since the UN and other agencies are including the deaths from the attack in their cumulative totals, if Americans knew is now also doing so. **Euro-Med Monitor reports that Gaza’s elderly are dying at an alarmingly high rate. The majority die at home and are buried either close to their residences or in makeshift graves dispersed across the Strip. There are currently more than 140 such cemeteries. Additionally, according to Euromed, thousands have died from starvation, malnourishment, and inadequate medical care; these are considered indirect victims as they were not registered in hospitals. ***The figure does not include the reportedly 56 Israeli soldiers – nearly 16% of the total Israeli military deaths – killed due to friendly fire in Gaza and other military-related accidents. † For most of the conflict, women and children accounted for about 70% of deaths in Gaza, with children making up a little over 40% of those killed, according to official statistics. Find previous daily casualty figures and daily news updates here. Hover over each bar for exact numbers. Source: IsraelPalestineTimeline.org Human rights reports on Israel-Palestine (regularly updated) More than 100 BBC staff accuse broadcaster of Israel bias in Gaza coverage Witnesses Say The Israeli Army Is Using Facial Recognition Technology In Its Assault On North Gaza US Identified 500 Cases Where Its Weapons Harmed Gazan Civilians, But Hasn’t Taken Action UN schools in Gaza shaped our reporter’s childhood. She worries for the future. The powerful elites behind the Ukraine & Middle East wars – Col. Douglas Macgregor How Does AIPAC Shape Washington? We Tracked Every Dollar. The Religious Extremism That Motivates Israeli Settler Expansion in the West Bank Police escalate the British state’s war on independent journalism U.S. Media’s Doublespeak: Israelis Live in “Densely Populated Areas,” Palestinians Are “Human Shields” Where was Amnesty International during the Genocide in Gaza? FLASHBACK 2014: U.S. Senators Are Nearly All Stooges for Israel More on Israeli Atrocities: Attacking UN peacekeepers is a dangerous policy How Israel killed hundreds of its own people on October 7 The most precarious place in the world to be a child: Israel’s year of war on children Every accusation a confession: Israel and the double lie of ‘human shields’ Most Americans want to stop arming Israel. Politicians don’t care. Happy 100th birthday, Jimmy Carter – loved by many, smeared by some You can’t arm a genocidal state into moderation. So why does the West keep trying? How Does Israel Justify Mass Killings? It Starts in the Schools. From the Americas to Gaza: Spreading disease has long been used by colonizers to commit genocide Contrived charges of antisemitism are the new ‘Red Scare’ How Israel’s quadcopters traumatize, maim and kill Palestinians in Gaza Israeli society’s dehumanization of Palestinians is now absolute The unpublished genocide diaries of Refaat Alareer https://israelpalestinenews.org/israel-dropped-85000-tons-bombs-gaza-genocide-day-396/ https://donshafi911iamthefaceoftruth.blogspot.com/2024/11/israel-dropped-over-85000-tons-of-bombs.html

Why Netanyahu Won’t Admit Over 5800 Jewish Terrorists Have Died while Committing Genocide In a retaliatory military operation after weeks of strategic restraint, Iran launched a symphonic barrage of long-range ballistic missiles at key Israeli military installations in and around Tel Aviv on October 1. Jonas E. Alexis, Senior EditorNovember 2, 2024 Become a VT Supporting Member Today Please keep VT Radio and VT Foreign Policy alive! Donate today to make sure VT stays on the internet free and clear of Big Tech control! Donate today: Please Donate - Click Here In a retaliatory military operation after weeks of strategic restraint, Iran launched a symphonic barrage of long-range ballistic missiles at key Israeli military installations in and around Tel Aviv on October 1. Each missile with a heavy warhead found its mark, slipping past multiple layers of air defense as if they were mildly inconvenient clouds, leaving Israel’s much-hyped military infrastructure reeling. As the dust settled and uncomfortable truths began to emerge, the Israeli regime swiftly enacted a media blackout, banning any discussion of the number of casualties or the extent of damage. After all, invincibility is easier to claim when nobody sees the broken glass. The regime brags about its military invincibility and impenetrable radar systems. Iranian missiles made mincemeat of them. Among the key targets were the “Tel Nof” airbase near Tel Aviv, the “Nevatim” airbase that houses F-35 warplanes, the “Ramon” airbase, and the “Hatzerim” airbase, among others. For the few journalists audacious enough to report on “Operation True Promise II,” and the damage it caused, like Jeremy Loffredo of Grayzone website, daring came with a price: quick detainment and trumped-up charges—a modern “reward” for seeking the truth. But information has a habit of leaking out, and so it did: reports of massive damage inflicted by Iranian missiles like the Ghadr, Emad, and the hypersonic Fattah-1—a reminder that not all high-tech military systems can withstand the power of Iranian missiles. It’s not for nothing that Iran is today known as a missile and drone power in the world. The missiles didn’t just destroy the military infrastructure. Scores of soldiers stationed at these bases also vanished into thin air, though Israel’s official line remained notably silent, preferring downplay over transparency, to avoid further embarrassment and humiliation. A journalist who spoke to eyewitnesses there told me that the Nevatim Airbase, which has served as a launch point for deadly air operations against Gaza and more recently Lebanon and is located deep inside the Negev desert, said dozens of missiles landed inside the base, inflicting heavy damage. The attack brought the base to a grinding halt and resulted in scores of military fatalities. The regime, however, refused to publicly acknowledge it. He also referred to the missiles that landed in Tel Aviv, near the Mossad headquarters, which destroyed a good part of the city block, resulting in both human and collateral losses. Again it wasn’t made public. “Cars were entirely destroyed, debris covered everything in a 200-foot radius and the missile crater — which was at least 50 feet wide, was filled in and covered with dirt almost immediately by Israeli authorities, which underscores how embarrassing this was for Israel which boasts often about the efficiency of its billion-dollar missile defense systems,” the journalist told me. Just weeks later, on October 18, the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement delivered a less subtle but strong message, this time with a drone dining-room delivery, straight to the Golani Brigade’s reconnaissance unit in the occupied city of Haifa. Israeli media initially hesitated, before begrudgingly confirming five soldier deaths. However, as sources under the cloak of anonymity later revealed, the real number was much higher, buried under layers of secrecy and silence that have come to characterize the Zionist military’s standard operating procedure. Recent ground battles between the Israeli military and Hezbollah resistance fighters in southern Lebanon have evidently driven Israeli forces to the breaking point, with eyewitness accounts suggesting Israeli fatalities in the hundreds, as well as destruction of Merkava tanks, military bulldozers, armored vehicles, troop carriers as well as Hermes 450 drones. The regime in Tel Aviv, however, trickles out only a fraction of these grim numbers, counting soldiers in “tens” instead of hundreds to soften the blow to the morale of settlers who continue to live in fear. On Sunday, an Israeli army spokesperson reluctantly announced the deaths of an officer and three soldiers from Battalion 8207, Alon Brigade (228) during the ground battles in southern Lebanon with Hezbollah under the “permitted to publish” clause. So, the publication of such content must fit these ambitious “clauses.” In Gaza, the death toll among Palestinians has tragically surpassed 43,000, most of them women and children, after one year of the genocidal aggression that began on October 7, 2023. Yet, the resilience and resolve of fighters from Al-Qassam Brigades, Al-Quds Brigades, and others shines through. Daily bulletins from these groups paint a picture of complex operations that continue to exact a toll on regime forces, employing a repertoire that includes Qassam Ghoul rifles, Al-Yassin 105 shells, Shuath explosive devices, and Thaqib barrel bombs. Even the sticks that Martyr Yahya Sinwar immortalized. But, we hardly hear anything from the Israeli military about the number of fatalities in these operations. They remain tight-lipped about the losses while bragging about their own genocidal crimes. Iran openly acknowledged the martyrdom of four soldiers following Israeli strikes on its cities on Saturday. Neither Iran nor the Axis of Resistance, spanning Lebanon, Palestine, Yemen, and Iraq, covers up its losses. Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Ansarullah in Yemen honor those who are killed in the struggle against the Israeli regime and its Western patrons. These fighters die for a cause, a cause greater than personal ambition. Be it Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, IRGC commander Abbas Nilforoushan or Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, these men fought on the frontlines and embraced martyrdom. They yearned for it and were prepared for it. As Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei aptly observed in his remarks on Sunday, Zionists do not know Iran, the youth of Iran, the Iranian nation, and they have not yet properly understood the “power, capability, ingenuity and will of the Iranian nation.” These child-murderers simply cannot fathom the spirit of Iran or the iron will of its people—let alone the resilience of Palestinians, Lebanese, and Yemenis, who wear martyrdom as a badge of honor. This is precisely why massive funeral processions fill Tehran, Gaza, occupied West Bank, southern Lebanon, and Sana’a for martyrs as sacrifice for a cause is an honor for them. In contrast, Israeli regime forces and settlers are caught in a dilemma of not belonging anywhere and dying without any cause. The Zionist entity is a cluster of illegal settlements occupied by settlers with no sense of belonging. While Zionists champion an agenda for their own political gains, those they command struggle to find conviction for a land they cannot call home, a land stolen from its original inhabitants. Most settlers, like Benzion Mileikowsky (better known as Benjamin Netanyahu) of Polish descent, carry foreign passports as a safety net. The rhetoric of a “promised land” fails to inspire nationalism, for it’s difficult to feel pride for a territory forcibly and illegally seized from others. In stark contrast to the unwavering conviction and resolve of resistance fighters, Israeli soldiers appear disconnected, fighting not for a cause but for political agendas, for settler-colonialism. An important example of this disposability is the Hannibal Doctrine, a grim reminder from October 7, 2023, when Israeli forces killed their own to prevent their capture by Hamas fighters, leaving many regime soldiers and settlers forgotten, turned into cold, wasted statistics. In Iran, Palestine, and Lebanon, martyrs inspire generations to carry on their legacy. Sayyed Abbas Mousavi’s torch was carried forward by Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and Sheikh Yassin’s legacy was preserved by Ismail Haniyeh and Yahya Sinwar. The movement grows and the ideology strengthens. On the other hand, slain Israeli troops or settlers rarely receive public tributes. They are statistics rather than symbols. Since October 7, large numbers of settlers have fled the occupied territories, with the regime frantically slapping travel bans to curb the exodus. Conscription is forced upon settlers unwillingly, with trauma and despair spreading like a second wave. If these settlers or mercenary troops had their way, they would book the next flight out of Tel Aviv. They know they don’t belong to the occupied land. They know it more today than ever before. So Netanyahu understands that the disclosure of military fatalities would further demoralize a settler populace already plagued by fear and anxiety. The freeze on casualty reporting is a calculated move, a gambit to avoid a mass awakening to the occupation’s mounting costs. Many Israeli soldiers and settlers perished on October 7 at the hands of the occupation military under the Hannibal Directive. Today, nobody knows them. They have been turned into cold statistics, wasted for an illegitimate entity with a shaky foundation increasingly staring at its annihilation. This is one of the perils of living on land taken by force. An occupier can never truly belong to the occupied land and an occupied land can never be home. And a regime built on illusion and force will forever sit on a foundation of sand, eroded by every act of resistance and every name it tries to bury. 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Iran, Saudi Arabia in talks for joint naval drills The exercise is being planned as Iran prepares for a possible attack by Israel News Desk The Iranian and Saudi navies are planning to hold a joint exercise in the Red Sea region, Iranian Navy Rear Admiral Shahram Irani announced on 22 October. ISNA news agency quoted Irani as saying that the Iranian naval forces are present in the Red Sea and that Saudi Arabia has expressed interest in organizing joint maneuvers in the region. The admiral stressed that the delegations from both countries would hold consultations on organizing the maneuver, adding that they had extended mutual invitations to visit each other's ports. Iran and Saudi Arabia normalized relations in March 2023 following a six-year rupture through talks brokered by China. The joint naval exercise proposal comes amid escalating tension between Tel Aviv and Tehran. Israeli leaders are threatening to attack Iran in retaliation for Iran's firing of a large barrage of ballistic missiles at Israel on 1 October. The Iranian attack, which targeted three Israeli airbases, came in response to multiple Israeli aggressions, including the assassination of Hamas leader Ismael Haniyeh in Tehran and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut. Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi stated on Tuesday that the Islamic Republic does not seek war in the region but is fully prepared for any conflict. “We have done our best to reduce the tension, but we are prepared to deal with any scenario,” he noted during a press conference in Kuwait. “Our message is very clear: the Zionist regime is seeking to expand the war in the region, and we must stop this disaster,” Araghchi said. Amid its mobilization in preparation for a possible Israeli attack, Iran hosted the IMEX 2024 naval maneuvers in the Indian Ocean on Saturday and Sunday, with the participation of the naval forces from Russia, Oman, Saudi Arabia, India, Thailand, Pakistan, Qatar, and Bangladesh. According to Iranian reports, the objectives of these maneuvers include enhancing maritime security, monitoring issues related to the marine environment, humanitarian measures, containing natural disasters, and exchanging information between the naval forces of the participating countries. https://thecradle.co/articles-id/27376 https://donshafi911iamthefaceoftruth.blogspot.com/2024/10/iran-saudi-arabia-in-talks-for-joint.html

Inside Israel’s torture, rape, and dehumanization centers Shocking even by Israeli standards, the horrifying truth of the occupation’s systematic torture, rape, and degradation of Palestinian detainees reveals a brutality buried in silence. Robert Inlakesh While the world witnesses the atrocities and massacres committed by Israel’s military assault on Gaza every day, the thousands of Palestinians detained by occupation forces – before and after the events of 7 October 2023 – face torture and death behind closed doors, alone. Worse yet, these detention horrors have been brazenly publicized and even bragged about by occupation soldiers, with violent, vocalized support from wide swathes of Israeli society. In the shadows of Israel’s prisons, tens of thousands of Palestinian detainees are enduring a relentless campaign of cruelty. Reports detail harrowing accounts of beatings, gang rape, and psychological torture, compounded by the denial of essential needs such as food, water, and medical care. This systematic abuse, carried out on an industrial scale, is staggering in its scope and savagery. Public protests have emerged – not to condemn these atrocities – but to demand the release of Israeli soldiers implicated in acts of sexual violence so severe that their victim tragically died from the injuries inflicted. Secrecy and suffering inside Israeli prisons Ronen Bar, the head of Israel’s Shin Bet security agency, issued a dire warning to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in June, describing the situation in Israeli prisons as a “ticking time bomb,” which may endanger senior Israelis abroad and expose them to “international tribunals.” Bar’s letter revealed that over 21,000 Palestinian detainees were being held, far exceeding official figures and the capacity of the centers. Rather than addressing these concerns, Israel’s extremist Security Minister, Itamar Ben Gvir, who has barred Red Cross and humanitarian access to Palestinian detainees, responded by boasting about his role in worsening conditions for prisoners. A policy paper from the Institute for Palestine Studies highlighted the draconian measures implemented as early as 17 October – a mere 10 days after the launch of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. These measures included: Constricting living spaces; removing detainees’ beds when necessary and replacing them with mattresses on the floor, leading to overcrowding; a policy of ‘closures’ whereby prison cells are locked, and total isolation is imposed; closing prisons to all family visits or visits by the Red Cross or by lawyers, and rescinding the possibility of bringing detainees before judges so that all judicial sessions are conducted through video conference. The situation under the security minister has deteriorated to the point where Ben Gvir has openly called for the execution of Palestinian detainees, which he offers up as a “simpler solution.” Since 7 October, at least 35 Palestinian prisoners have died in Israeli jails and military detention camps. Reports of rape and abuse despite censorship While many details remain obscure, evidence from court documents, eyewitness testimonies, and leaked photos and videos paint a harrowing picture of the conditions inside these facilities. One particularly disturbing case is that of Bassem Tamimi, a resident of Nabi Saleh in the West Bank, who was released from administrative detention – a form of imprisonment without charge – physically emaciated and emotionally broken. Even Israeli news outlet Haaretz had its report on Tamimi’s treatment redacted by authorities in an attempt to conceal the breadth of prison brutality. In January, a joint report published by the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) detailed what it called “systemic” torture of Palestinians. One testimony presented in the report, from a detainee called “Prisoner R” held in Ketziot Prison, revealed the following details: The wardens would threaten to kill the prisoners as they entered the cells … Wardens would conduct searches while the prisoners were naked, place naked prisoners against each other, and place the aluminum device used in the searches in their buttocks. In another instance, the wardens passed a card in a prisoner’s buttocks. All of this took place in sight of other prisoners and wardens, while the wardens took pleasure in beating the prisoner’s genitals. After a prisoner exchange between Israel and Hamas in late November, claims began to emerge of severe torture and rape – testimonies that largely fell on deaf ears. On 1 December, Baraah Abo Ramouz, a Palestinian journalist just released from prison, told the press that: The situation in the prisons is devastating. The prisoners are abused. They are being constantly beaten. They’re being sexually assaulted. They are being raped. I’m not exaggerating. The prisoners are being raped. Gender-based violence as collective punishment Upon exiting the prisons, many Palestinian detainees opted to remain silent on their experiences inside Israeli detention facilities due to fears of retribution but also out of a deep sense of shame and the need to preserve their honor in a conservative society. At the time, the Israeli security minister directed Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai to crack down on any celebrations by families of the released prisoners. As Ben Gvir publicly stated: My instructions are clear: there are to be no expressions of joy ... Expressions of joy are equivalent to backing terrorism; victory celebrations give backing to those human scum. A UN report released on 12 June almost entirely focuses on cases of sexual abuse and rape committed against Palestinian men, women, and children while under detention. Israeli forces, the report says: Systematically targeted and subjected Palestinians to SGBV [Sexual and Gender-Based Violence] online and in person since October 7, including through forced public nudity, forced public stripping, sexualized torture and abuse, and sexual humiliation and harassment. The report further states that gender-based violence “directed at Palestinian women was intended to humiliate and degrade the Palestinian population as a whole.” The men and young boys were stripped and paraded through the streets, and the women were forced to watch as the kidnapped, cuffed, and blindfolded captives were “coerced to do physical movements while naked.” In Gaza, not only are random Palestinian civilians rounded up and subjected to public degradation, but many are then transferred to Israeli detention centers, without charges, to suffer torture and even death. According to eyewitness testimonies collected by the Palestinian Prisoners Club (PPC) in July, four blindfolded detainees held without any charge were summarily executed in front of other inmates at the Kerem Abu Shalom site located along the perimeter of Gaza. Palestine’s Abu Ghraib Perhaps the most infamous cases of abuse, torture, and rape against Palestinian detainees have emerged from the Sde Teiman detention center, a facility located at an Israeli military site in the Naqab (Negev) desert that is specifically designed for people abducted from Gaza. Per an amendment to Israeli law back in December, the military is permitted to hold ‘suspected terrorists’ for up to 45 days without charge before transferring them to the Israeli Prison System (IPS). Many of the Palestinian abductees, however, were held for much longer using loopholes in Israel’s legal and prison system. Despite countless leaked reports on the conditions faced by detained Gazans, including women, children, doctors, people with disabilities, and the elderly, the first real expose that broke through the English-language mainstream media barrier was an investigative piece published by CNN in May. The US outlet leaked photos of prisoners kept bound, blindfolded, and held behind barbed wire fences in stress positions, and quoted Israeli whistleblowers who worked in the facility. The testimonies attested to the horrifying sanitary conditions and routine torture practiced there, which one Israeli whistleblower said had “stripped them down of anything that resembles human beings.” Later, the New York Times went on to publish its own three-month-long investigation into the Sde Teiman facility, confirming three cases of electrocution, two cases of prisoners having their ribs broken during arbitrary beatings, and heinous crimes such as the anal rape of detainees. It also detailed how prisoners were humiliated and forced to wear only diapers during interrogations. Corroborating the investigative piece’s evidence, a leaked segment of a UN report on the facility quoted prisoners directly, revealing stomach-churning details. ‘We saw worms coming out of his body’ In testimony collected by UNRWA, a 41-year-old former detainee said: They made me sit on something like a hot metal stick, and it felt like fire – I have burns [in the anus]. The soldiers hit me with their shoes on my chest and used something like a metal stick that had a small nail on the side ... They asked us to drink from the toilet and made the dogs attack us … There were people who were detained and killed – maybe nine of them. One of them died after they put the electric stick up his [anus]. He got so sick; we saw worms coming out of his body, and then he died. A woman in her thirties also testified to being shown the aerial view of her neighborhood and threatened with the bombing of family members. While another 32-year-old woman described her harrowing experience while being transferred between different detention facilities: They asked the soldiers to spit on me, saying, ‘She is a b****, she is from Gaza.’ They were beating us as we moved and saying they would put pepper on our sensitive parts [genitals]. They pulled us, beat us, they took us on the bus to the Damon prison after five days. A male soldier took off our hijabs, and they pinched us and touched our bodies, including our breasts. We were blindfolded, and we felt them touching us, pushing our heads to the bus. We started to squeeze together to try to protect ourselves from the touching. They said ‘b****, b****.’ They told the soldiers to take off their shoes and slap our faces with them. Dehumanization of Palestinian prisoners Confirming previous reports on the issue, Haaretz also published a piece on the amputation of prisoners’ limbs by unqualified individuals, which was performed due to the extended periods detainees were shackled, leaving their circulation-deprived flesh to rot and get infected. A 32-year-old Gazan man, speaking to The Cradle on the condition of anonymity, says Israeli guards “beat me repeatedly and then urinated on me” while held at Sde Teiman detention center. He testifies to being severely tortured, too. “There were even doctors there, disabled people and young people, but they didn’t care who you were; we were all treated below animals,” he says, explaining that sounds were constantly played to disrupt sleep and make it impossible to tell what time it was. He goes on to say that he was beaten with metal tools and that the prison guards would mock him and threaten to kill the rest of his family, with full knowledge that his brother had been murdered in a previous series of Israeli airstrikes prior to his abduction, and using the information to torment him mentally. The director of Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City, Dr Mohammad Abu Salmiya, who was released after spending seven months in Israeli detention without any charge, testified to what he witnessed after being ferried through a range of detention facilities, including Sde Teiman. Dr Abu Salmiya stated that “prisoners in Israeli jails endure different types of torture. The army treats them as if they were inanimate objects, and Israeli doctors physically assaulted us.” He went on to say that there were “severe torture and almost daily assaults inside the prisons and were denied medical treatments,” adding that “no international organization visited us in Israeli prisons, and we were prohibited from meeting any lawyers. Many detainees are still left behind in very poor health and psychological conditions.” Showers come with severe punishments Beyond the countless makeshift detention facilities hastily erected inside Gaza – where prisoners were stripped, blindfolded, and left in the sand to endure harsh weather conditions – there are three official detention centers specifically for Palestinians from Gaza, surrounding the besieged coastal territory. Palestinian lawyer with Israeli citizenship, Khaled Mahajneh, provided an insightful first-hand account of the conditions faced in the Sde Teiman detention camp after being granted a rare visit, stating that “the treatment is more horrifying than anything we have heard about Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo.” Mahajneh recounted the testimony of one prisoner, who revealed that the only time shackles were removed was during a weekly one-minute shower. But Palestinian detainees began refusing these showers because exceeding the one-minute limit, without a timer to guide them, resulted in “severe punishments, including hours outside in the heat or rain.” After months of mounting evidence on the deadly conditions faced at Sde Teiman, 10 Israeli reservist soldiers were accused of gang-raping a Palestinian prisoner with a stick. Nine of the accused were arrested, one of whom would be released the next day and go on to brag about his actions on Israeli television. The arrests, however, triggered the invasion of military facilities by thousands of Israeli protesters, backed by Ben Gvir, who lionized the rapists as “heroes.” A debate on the incident even followed in the Israeli Knesset, where Likud Party MK Hanoch Milwidsky argued in favor of the gang rape. Since then, a video of the assault has surfaced, and Israel’s Honenu legal aid organization, representing four of the accused, has claimed their clients were acting in “self-defense.” It’s not just one facility At a press conference held in the West Bank city of Ramallah in mid-July, Mahajneh also revealed that he had learned, during a visit to the Ofer detention center located in the West Bank, that a 27-year-old Palestinian inmate was brutally raped as follows: A pipe from a fire extinguisher was used on a handcuffed prisoner. Forcing him to lie on his stomach, stripping him of all his clothes, and inserting the pipe of the fire extinguisher into the prisoner’s rectum. Then, activating the extinguisher … in front of the eyes of the other prisoners. The case of Palestinian bodybuilder Muazzaz Abayat from Bethlehem, who lost half his body weight during his nine-month incarceration, is indicative of the inhumane conditions that all prisoners are subjected to and that the foul treatment is in no way confined to the detention camps surrounding Gaza. Official Israeli figures put the number of Palestinian political prisoners at just under 10,000, including 3,380 administrative detainees and 250 children. These numbers are clearly inaccurate, given that Israel’s Shin Bet director has already estimated detainees to number around 21,000 – in June. The exact figures remain elusive, and many prisoners remain unaccounted for. The confirmed death toll among Palestinian prisoners, currently at 53, is also likely an underestimation, as many detainees are still considered missing. In stark contrast to the intense media coverage and political concern for the Israeli captives held in Gaza, the plight of Palestinian detainees is largely ignored. There are more Palestinian children held as hostages by Israel than the total number of Israelis seized on 7 October, even according to the lower 10,000 prisoner estimate. In comparison to the suffering of Palestinian detainees, the issue of their Israeli counterparts – less than 100, by some accounts – is a mere drop in the ocean. https://thecradle.co/articles/inside-israels-torture-rape-and-dehumanization-centers https://donshafi911iamthefaceoftruth.blogspot.com/2024/10/inside-israels-torture-rape-and.html

FREEMASONRY and ZIONISM – 2. Toward a Diabolical Apocalypse. Update: Israeli Attack on Iran!!! Fabio G. C. CarisioOctober 25, 2024 VT Condemns the ETHNIC CLEANSING OF PALESTINIANS by USA/Israel $ 280 BILLION US TAXPAYER DOLLARS INVESTED since 1948 in US/Israeli Ethnic Cleansing and Occupation Operation; $ 150B direct "aid" and $ 130B in "Offense" contracts Source: Embassy of Israel, Washington, D.C. and US Department of State. By Carlo Domenico Cristofori VERSIONE IN ITALIANO UPDATE ON OCTOBER, 25, 2024 (1 AM CET) The Israeli military confirmed on Saturday (1 am CET) that it has carried out “precision strikes” on military targets in Iran “in response to months of continuous attacks” by the Islamic Republic. “In response to months of continuous attacks by the Iranian regime against the State of Israel, the Israeli military is carrying out precision strikes on military targets in Iran,” the military said in a statement. More details coming as soon as possible… ONGOING UPDATES HERE The tremendous danger to which Biden-NATO’s wars are exposing us ARTICLE FIRST POSTED ON OCTOBER, 6, 2024 Unlike other investigations, this one will be shorter. Especially because too many American and European idiots have not yet understood the tremendous danger to which Biden-NATO’s wars in Ukraine and the Middle East are exposing us. If you can wake them up, you will give a great beneficial gift to humanity before it’s too late!!! Carri Armati Israeliani Penetrano in Base UNIFIL in Libano: Feriti. NETANYAHU SPARA IN FACCIA ALL’ITALIA CHE LO ARMA. Giusta Nemesi per il Governo Sionista Meloni But above all, they have not even remotely grasped that some of the world’s leaders, more servants of the New World Order than responsible for the fate of their nations, are leading us towards an abyss well prefigured by the Book of the Apocalypse of St. John to which we have dedicated an exhaustive geopolitical-theological investigation. Even the British newspaper The Guardian, out of respect for the truth that has been completely hidden in the Italian mainstream for many years and in particular after the massacres caused by the adverse reactions of the Covid vaccines, had to publish an article analyzing the geopolitical situation in the Middle East in which it points out enormous problems that contrast with the easy Zionist-Masonic policy of US and UE… The Guardian: “ESCALATION with IRAN coul be RISKY: Israel is more Vulnerable than it seems” “The core fact remains that Iran has proven it can hit Israel hard if it so chose,” writes Decker Eveleth, an analyst with the research and analysis group CNA, who analysed the satellite images for a blogpost. “Airbases are hard targets, and the sort of target that likely won’t produce many casualties. Iran could choose a different target – say, a densely packed IDF ground forces base, or a target within a civilian area – anda missile strike there would produce a large number of [casualties].” FREEMASONRY & ZIONISM – 1. Apocalyptic “Cataclysms” by Synagogue of Satan: Genocides in Palestine & Plotted Pandemic for Lethal Vaccines. In the longer term, Israel may target Iranian ballistic missile production lines and infrastructure in order to prevent attacks. Benjamin Netanyahu has long argued that the Iranian ballistic missile programme is as dangerous to Israel as its nuclear programme is. «In the longer term, Israel may target Iranian ballistic missile production lines and infrastructure in order to prevent attacks. Benjamin Netanyahu has long argued that the Iranian ballistic missile programme is as dangerous to Israel as its nuclear programme is» adds Andrew Roth in his analysis on The Guardian that prefigures an apocalyptic scenario already announced by Russia. A Diabolical Project that goes beyond the Military The explanation of these potentially suicidal maneuvers is complex from a geopolitical and military perspective but extremely simple from a spiritual one… US OK TO ISRAELI INVASION IN LEBANON. BIDEN forces MIDDLE EAST toward HUGE WAR. To Engage Moscow and Weaken the Russian Army in Ukraine Since this entire project of genocide and devastation is animated by diabolical Zionism, Netanyahu does not care how many victims (also Israeli) he will be able to cause because they are all prey that his satanic vision and exaltation leads towards the Hell to which he is devoted (if they are not ready to die in the Grace of God as the Queen of Peace of Medjugorje teaches). “I’ve told the Americans, I’ve told my colleagues in the White House and the US Department of State that you are pushing [the world] towards a nuclear catastrophe,” Russian Ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov said. “TOWARDS A NUCLEAR CATASTROPHE”. Russia Warning on US Policies in Middle East and Ukraine. Arrest’s Risk for NATO Chief Despite this, both the American Democratic President Joseph Biden, the great director of the plot that unleashed the war in Ukraine, and the Republican challenger for the White House (of the Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris) Donald Trump insist on wanting to face a war against Iran that could become nuclear due to the atomic warheads developed by Tehran especially after the treacherous assassination of the Iranian general Qadeem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Forces of the Pasdaran who helped Syria defeat the Islamic State created by the Caliph Al Baghdadi with the complicity of the American counter-espionage CIA and Israeli MOSSAD who were responsible for the latest escalations in the Middle East. NASRALLAH KILLED by American-Made Bombs! Iran: “US complicit with the Zionists in Terror Attack vs the Hezbollah chief” But the third most terrible danger for Italy, Europe and the entire West comes from the fact that any nuclear explosion in Iran, Israel, Lebanon or Palestine will produce winds of highly harmful waste – and potentially lethal in the short and medium term – like the toxic cloud that was produced by the explosion in a depleted uranium-based ammunition depot in Ukraine in May 2023 and hidden by all the mainstream media to minimize the direct consequences in Europe of the conflict between Moscow and Kiev. This “flood” of radioactivity could cause not only hundreds but thousands and thousands of deaths in a few months or years… One of the greatest Italian scholars explained it in a previous article on Gospa News. RELATED TOPICS US OK TO ISRAELI INVASION IN LEBANON. BIDEN forces MIDDLE EAST toward HUGE WAR. To Engage Moscow and Weaken the Russian Army in Ukraine Nasrallah: “New Blasts Declaration of WAR”! ISRAELI MOSSAD MASSACRE IN LEBANON, SYRIA. UN and Russia Condemn Civilians’ Carnage Depleted Uranium Cloud toward Europe: Expert’s Proofs! High Radioactivity Recorded by Monitors in Poland after Ammo Depot Destroyed in Ukraine Bombshell! 9/11, PLANDEMIC & MOSCOW MASSACRE. Black Man of CIA Intrigues alongside Biden jr in Ukrainian Company Accused of Financing Crocus’ Terrorists NUCLEAR NIGHTMARE. Israeli Attacks in Lebanon despite Iran is Close to have Atomic Warheads Iran’s revenge starts from Qom. Thanks to Fordow’s nuclear bunker plant AL BAGHDADI: ISIS CALIPH AND MOSSAD-CIA AGENT HIDDEN BY US L’INCUBO DI UNA GUERRA NUCLEARE. Dettaglio delle Devastanti Conseguenze anche per la Popolazione dell’eventuale Paese Vincente Vatican Cardinal who Bless Gays discredits Medjugorje Visionaries and Queen of Peace Messages Fabio is investigative journalist since 1991. Now geopolitics, intelligence, military, SARS-Cov-2 manmade, NWO expert and Director-founder of Gospa News: a Christian Information Journal. His articles were published on many international media and website as SouthFront, Reseau International, Sputnik Italia, United Nation Association Westminster, Global Research, Kolozeg and more… Most popolar investigation on VT is: Rumsfeld Shady Heritage in Pandemic: GILEAD’s Intrigues with WHO & Wuhan Lab. Bio-Weapons’ Tests with CIA & Pentagon Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio, born on 24/2/1967 in Borgosesia, started working as a reporter when he was only 19 years old in the alpine area of Valsesia, Piedmont, his birth region in Italy. After studying literature and history at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, he became director of the local newspaper Notizia Oggi Vercelli and specialized in judicial reporting. For about 15 years he is a correspondent from Northern Italy for the Italian newspapers Libero and Il Giornale, also writing important revelations on the Ustica massacre, a report on Freemasonry and organized crime. With independent investigations, he collaborates with Carabinieri and Guardia di Finanza in important investigations that conclude with the arrest of Camorra entrepreneurs or corrupt politicians. In July 2018 he found the counter-information web media Gospa News focused on geopolitics, terrorism, Middle East, and military intelligence. In 2020 published the book, in Italian only, WUHAN-GATES – The New World Order Plot on SARS-Cov-2 manmade focused on the cycle of investigations Wuhan-Gates His investigations was quoted also by The Gateway Pundit, Tasnim and others He worked for many years for the magazine Art & Wine as an art critic and curator. 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*🌅Do'a Menjelang Maghrib🕌* اَللّٰهُمَّ هٰذَا اِقْبَالُ لَيْلِكَ وَاِدْبَارُنَهَارِكَ وَأَصْوَاتُ دُعَاءِكَ فَاغْفِرْلِى ... *Allahumma haadza iqbaalu laylika wa idbaaru nahaarika wa ashwaatu du'aaika faghfirlii...* _Ya Allah... ini adalah kedatangan malamMu dan lenyapnya siangMu, serta suara orang-orang yang berdoa padaMu maka ampunilah aku_ *(sumber: Al Adzkar Imam Nawawi).* ✨🌳 Apabila waktu shalat telah tiba, maka tinggalkanlah semua kegiatanmu, sebab Allah Subhaanahu Wata'aalaa lebih pantas untuk engkau perhatikan daripada yang lainnya. *🌴🕌(Habib Umar bin Abdurrahman al-atthas)🕌🌴* 🌹 *Keutamaan Waktu antara Maghrib dan Isya'*🌹 Waktu ini sangat singkat. Tapi penuh dengan kucuran rahmat Allah. 👳 Alhabib Abdullah bin Abu Bakar Alidrus berkata الكنوز كل الكنوز فيما بين المغرب و العشاء *Pusaka (hal yang paling berharga) dari segala pusaka ada pada waktu antara maghrib dan isya'.* 📜Dikisahkan bahwa ada seorang murid mengadu kepada gurunya. Dia berkata," _Wahai syekh, aku ini sangat ingin untuk beribadah puasa dipagi hari dan juga ingin menghidupkan waktu antara maghrib dan isya' dengan ibadah. Akan tetapi jika aku lakukan keduanya itu sangat susah. Jika paginya aku berpuasa, tentu diwaktu maghrib aku akan sibuk untuk berbuka,masak, dll. Lalu bagaimana??_ Gurunya menjawab, " _Kau lakukan keduanya itulah yang afdhol...!! Pagi harinya berpuasa, dan ketika adzan magrib engkau berbuka sebentar kemudian langsung beribadah._" Muridnya pun mengadu bahwa susah melakukan 2 hal itu. Lantas mana yang harus dipilih diantara 2 ibadah itu..? Puasa tapi waktu antara maghrib dan isya' sibuk dengan makanan,,, atau sebaliknya?? Syekh tsb menjawab: اذن احيي بين العشائين!! *Kalau begitu, hidupkan waktu antara maghrib dan isya* 🕕 Maka jangan lewatkan waktu yang mulia ini untuk hal yang sia-sia. Gunakan untuk beribadah. 🕌 Setelah adzan maghrib langsung sholat berjama'ah, 📖 Kemudian sibukkan dengan mengaji, berdzikir,membaca ratib, dll hingga datang waktu isya'.🕖👍🏻 Yang lagi kerja,,stop dulu kerjaannya..⛔ 🖥TV dimatikan dulu 📱HPnya ditaruh dulu,,kalau perlu di _silent_,, kan lagi sibuk sama Allah.. ❤ Jangan ngrumpi, atau ngomongin orang diwaktu ini. Jangan juga bahas masalah dunia!!!

PERKONGSIAN 1 HARI 1 HADIS Tidak Masuk Syurga Pemilik Sifat Sombong عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ عَنْ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ لَا يَدْخُلُ الْجَنَّةَ مَنْ كَانَ فِي قَلْبِهِ مِثْقَالُ ذَرَّةٍ مِنْ كِبْرٍ قَالَ رَجُلٌ إِنَّ الرَّجُلَ يُحِبُّ أَنْ يَكُونَ ثَوْبُهُ حَسَنًا وَنَعْلُهُ حَسَنَةً قَالَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ جَمِيلٌ يُحِبُّ الْجَمَالَ الْكِبْرُ بَطَرُ الْحَقِّ وَغَمْطُ النَّاسِ   Daripada Abdullah bin Mas'ud RA dari Nabi SAW, baginda bersabda: "Tidak akan masuk syurga, orang yang di dalam hatinya terdapat seberat biji sawi dari kesombongan." Seorang laki-laki bertanya, "Sesungguhnya laki-laki menyukai apabila baju dan kasutnya bagus - cantik (apakah ini termasuk kesombongan)?"Baginda menjawab: "Sesungguhnya Allah itu cantik dan  menyukai yang cantik, kesombongan itu menolak kebenaran dan meremehkan manusia." (HR Muslim No: 131) Status: Hadis Sahih Pengajaran: 1.  Sifat sombong adalah sifat iblis, merasa dirinya lebih baik dari yang lain 2.  Imam Nawawi  berkata: Hadis ini berisi larangan dari sifat sombong iaitu menyombongkan diri kepada manusia, merendahkan mereka, serta menolak kebenaran 3.  Tidak masuk syurga sesiapa yang memiliki sifat sombong dalam dirinya walaupun sebesar biji sawi. 4.  Sifat sombong mendorong seseorang menolak kebenaran dan merendah serta memperlekeh orang lain. 5.  Dalam Kitab Riadussolihin menyebutkan: Menolak kebenaran adalah dengan menolak dan berpaling darinya serta tidak mahu menerimanya. Sedangkan meremehkan manusia yakni merendahkan dan meremehkan orang lain, memandang orang lain tidak ada apa-apa dan melihat dirinya lebih dibandingkan orang lain 6.  Suka kepada kecantikan pakaian tidak termasuk kepada sifat kesombongan. #BangunkanJiwaMerdeka #TeguhkanUkhuwahSebarkanRahmah #BinaNegaraRahmah #PertubuhanIKRAMMalaysiaNegeriJohor #PalestinMerdeka 09hb Rabiul Akhir 1446H 12hb Oktober 2024 Utk dapatkan 1 Hari 1 Hadis Pertubuhan Ikram Malaysia Negeri Johor, sila klik link di bawah : telegram.me/hadisharian_ikram

☆Tadabbur Kalamullah 10 Rabiul Akhir 1446H☆ إِنَّ أَكْرَمَكُمْ عِندَ ٱللَّهِ أَتْقَىٰكُمْ ۚ "Sesungguhnya semulia-mulia kamu di sisi Allah ialah orang yang lebih taqwanya di antara kamu, (bukan yang lebih keturunan atau bangsanya).. [Surah al-Hujurat 13] #Allah menilai manusia pada taqwanya. Bukan pada rupa paras atau hartanya. #Diriwayatkan bahawa ada seorang lelaki melintasi Rasulullah aw. Baginda pun bertanya: "Apa pandangan kamu semua tentang dia?" Mereka menjawab: Dia ini pasti, jika meminang, orang sudi nikahkan. Jika beri cadangan, orang terima. Jika berkata, orang dengar.’ Nabi hanya diam. Kemudian lalu pula seorang lelaki Muslim yang miskin. Nabi pun bertanya: "Apa pandangan kamu semua pula tentang dia?" Mereka menjawab: "Dia ini pasti, jika meminang, orang tidak sudi. Jika beri cadangan, orang tolak. Jika berkata, orang tidak dengar" Rasulullah pun bersabda: "Dia seorang sahaja pun adalah lebih baik daripada seramai-ramai orang di bumi yang serupa dengan orang pertama tadi!" (HR al-Bukhari)   #Disebut dalam riwayat, ada beberapa orang sahabat Nabi yang hodoh, antaranya Sayidina Ju'ail bin Suraqah r.a. Sebelah matanya buta. Sudahlah hodoh dan buta, miskin pula. Selepas pembahagian harta perang Hunain, Nabi tanya Sayidina Abu Zar tentang Ju'ail bin Saraqah r.a. Mereka berdua sekampung. "Bagaimana awak tengok Ju'ail?" Sayidina Abu Zar menjawab: "Kesian orangnya sepertimana rupanya di mata orang" Nabi tanya pula pandangan Sayidina Abu Zar tentang seorang pemimpin kabilah yang baru Nabi hadiahkan harta kepadanya. Beliau pun menjawab: "Dia adalah tokoh antara tokoh!" Lalu Nabi pun sebut: "Namun Ju'ail seorang adalah lebih baik daripada orang itu sekalipun seramai sampai penuh bumi orang sepertinya!" (Ma'rifah al-Sahabah) #Walaupun rupa hodoh, buta dan miskin, namun jika dia seorang yang bertaqwa, dia sangat bernilai disisi Allah swt bahkan dijanjikan syurga teristimewa. ♡Alhamdulillah, Allah tidak menilai kita pada rupa dan harta, tetapi pada iman, amal usaha dan taqwa. Bertaqwakah kita? Selamat bermuhasabah!!♡ 🐊Ust naim Klik link ini untuk join: http://bit.ly/tadabburkalamullah Facebook:    https://m.facebook.com/tadabburkalamullah

, *Kisah Ashabul Kahfi – Bukti Ketinggian Ilmu Imam Ali Bin Abithalib R.A* ashabul-kahfi-15 Dalam surat al-Kahfi, Allah SWT menceritakan tiga kisah masa lalu, yaitu kisah Ashabul Kahfi, kisah pertemuan nabi Musa as dan nabi Khidzir as serta kisah Dzulqarnain. Kisah Ashabul Kahfi mendapat perhatian lebih dengan digunakan sebagai nama surat dimana terdapat tiga kisah tersebut. Hal ini tentu bukan kebetulan semata, tapi karena kisah Ashabul Kahfi, seperti juga kisah dalam al-Quran lainnya, bukan merupakan kisah semata, tapi juga terdapat banyak pelajaran (ibrah) didalamnya. Ashabul Kahfi adalah nama sekelompok orang beriman yang hidup pada masa Raja Diqyanus di Romawi, beberapa ratus tahun sebelum diutusnya nabi Isa as. Mereka hidup ditengah masyarakat penyembah berhala dengan seorang raja yang dzalim. Ketika sang raja mengetahui ada sekelompok orang yang tidak menyembah berhala, maka sang raja marah lalu memanggil mereka dan memerintahkan mereka untuk mengikuti kepercayaan sang raja. Tapi Ashabul Kahfi menolak dan lari, dikejarlah mereka untuk dibunuh. Ketika mereka lari dari kejaran pasukan raja, sampailah mereka di mulut sebuah gua yang kemudian dipakai tempat persembunyian. Dengan izin Allah mereka kemudian ditidurkan selama 309 tahun di dalam gua, dan dibangkitkan kembali ketika masyarakat dan raja mereka sudah berganti menjadi masyarakat dan raja yang beriman kepada Allah SWT (Ibnu Katsir; Tafsir al-Quran al-‘Adzim; jilid:3 ; hal.67-71). Berikut adalah kisah Ashabul Kahfi (Penghuni Gua) yang ditafsir secara jelas jalan ceritanya… .. Penulis kitab Fadha’ilul Khamsah Minas Shihahis Sittah (jilid II, halaman 291-300), mengetengahkan suatu riwayat yang dikutip dari kitab Qishashul Anbiya. Riwayat tersebut berkaitan dengan tafsir ayat 10 Surah Al-Kahfi: “(Ingatlah) tatkala pemuda-pemuda itu mencari tempat berlindung ke dalam gua lalu mereka berdo’a: “Wahai Tuhan kami berikanlah rahmat kepada kami dari sisi-Mu dan sempurnakanlah bagi kami petunjuk yang lurus dalam urusan kami (ini)” (QS al-Kahfi:10) Dengan panjang lebar kitab Qishashul Anbiya mulai dari halaman 566 meriwayatkan sebagai berikut: Di kala Umar Ibnul Khattab memangku jabatan sebagai Amirul Mukminin, pernah datang kepadanya beberapa orang pendeta Yahudi. Mereka berkata kepada Khalifah: “Hai Khalifah Umar, anda adalah pemegang kekuasaan sesudah Muhammad dan sahabatnya, Abu Bakar. Kami hendak menanyakan beberapa masalah penting kepada anda. Jika anda dapat memberi jawaban kepada kami, barulah kami mau mengerti bahwa Islam merupakan agama yang benar dan Muhammad benar-benar seorang Nabi. Sebaliknya, jika anda tidak dapat memberi jawaban, berarti bahwa agama Islam itu bathil dan Muhammad bukan seorang Nabi.” “Silahkan bertanya tentang apa saja yang kalian inginkan,” sahut Khalifah Umar.ashabul-kahfi-132 “Jelaskan kepada kami tentang induk kunci (gembok) mengancing langit, apakah itu?” Tanya pendeta-pendeta itu, memulai pertanyaan-pertanya annya. “Terangkan kepada kami tentang adanya sebuah kuburan yang berjalan bersama penghuninya, apakah itu? Tunjukkan kepada kami tentang suatu makhluk yang dapat memberi peringatan kepada bangsanya, tetapi ia bukan manusia dan bukan jin! Terangkan kepada kami tentang lima jenis makhluk yang dapat berjalan di permukaan bumi, tetapi makhluk-makhluk itu tidak dilahirkan dari kandungan ibu atau atau induknya! Beritahukan kepada kami apa yang dikatakan oleh burung puyuh (gemak) di saat ia sedang berkicau! Apakah yang dikatakan oleh ayam jantan di kala ia sedang berkokok! Apakah yang dikatakan oleh kuda di saat ia sedang meringkik? Apakah yang dikatakan oleh katak di waktu ia sedang bersuara? Apakah yang dikatakan oleh keledai di saat ia sedang meringkik? Apakah yang dikatakan oleh burung pipit pada waktu ia sedang berkicau?” Khalifah Umar menundukkan kepala untuk berfikir sejenak, kemudian berkata: “Bagi Umar, jika ia menjawab ‘tidak tahu’ atas pertanyaan-pertanya an yang memang tidak diketahui jawabannya, itu bukan suatu hal yang memalukan!” Mendengar jawaban Khalifah Umar seperti itu, pendeta-pendeta Yahudi yang bertanya berdiri melonjak-lonjak kegirangan, sambil berkata: “Sekarang kami bersaksi bahwa Muhammad memang bukan seorang Nabi, dan agama Islam itu adalah bathil!” Salman Al-Farisi yang saat itu hadir, segera bangkit dan berkata kepada pendeta-pendeta Yahudi itu: “Kalian tunggu sebentar!” Ia cepat-cepat pergi ke rumah Ali bin Abi Thalib. Setelah bertemu, Salman berkata: “Ya Abal Hasan, selamatkanlahagama Islam!” Imam Ali r.a. bingung, lalu bertanya: “Mengapa?” Salman kemudian menceritakan apa yang sedang dihadapi oleh Khalifah Umar Ibnul Khattab. Imam Ali segera saja berangkat menuju ke rumah Khalifah Umar, berjalan lenggang memakai burdah (selembar kain penutup punggung atau leher) peninggalan Rasul Allah s.a.w. Ketika Umar melihat Ali bin Abi Thalib datang, ia bangun dari tempat duduk lalu buru-buru memeluknya, sambil berkata: “Ya Abal Hasan, tiap ada kesulitan besar, engkau selalu kupanggil!” Setelah berhadap-hadapan dengan para pendeta yang sedang menunggu-nunggu jawaban itu, Ali bin Abi Thalib herkata: “Silakan kalian bertanya tentang apa saja yang kalian inginkan. Rasul Allah s.a.w. sudah mengajarku seribu macam ilmu, dan tiap jenis dari ilmu-ilmu itu mempunyai seribu macam cabang ilmu!” Pendeta-pendeta Yahudi itu lalu mengulangi pertanyaan-pertanya an mereka. Sebelum menjawab, Ali bin Abi Thalib berkata: “Aku ingin mengajukan suatu syarat kepada kalian, yaitu jika ternyata aku nanti sudah menjawab pertanyaan-pertanya an kalian sesuai dengan yang ada di dalam Taurat, kalian supaya bersedia memeluk agama kami dan beriman!” “Ya baik!” jawab mereka.ashabul-kahfi-14 “Sekarang tanyakanlah satu demi satu,” kata Ali bin Abi Thalib. Mereka mulai bertanya: “Apakah induk kunci (gembok) yang mengancing pintu-pintu langit?” “Induk kunci itu,” jawab Ali bin Abi Thalib, “ialah syirik kepada Allah. Sebab semua hamba Allah, baik pria maupun wanita, jika ia bersyirik kepada Allah, amalnya tidak akan dapat naik sampai ke hadhirat Allah!” Para pendeta Yahudi bertanya lagi: “Anak kunci apakah yang dapat membuka pintu-pintu langit?” Ali bin Abi Thalib menjawab: “Anak kunci itu ialah kesaksian (syahadat) bahwa tiada tuhan selain Allah dan Muhammad adalah Rasul Allah!” Para pendeta Yahudi itu saling pandang di antara mereka, sambil berkata: “Orang itu benar juga!” Mereka bertanyalebih lanjut: “Terangkanlah kepada kami tentang adanya sebuah kuburan yang dapat berjalan bersama penghuninya! “ “Kuburan itu ialah ikan hiu (hut) yang menelan Nabi Yunus putera Matta,” jawab Ali bin Abi Thalib. “Nabi Yunus as. dibawa keliling ketujuh samudera!” Pendeta-pendeta itu meneruskan pertanyaannya lagi: “Jelaskan kepada kami tentang makhluk yang dapat memberi peringatan kepada bangsanya, tetapi makhluk itu bukan manusia dan bukan jin!” Ali bin Abi Thalib menjawab: “Makhluk itu ialah semut Nabi Sulaiman putera Nabi Dawud alaihimas salam. Semut itu berkata kepada kaumnya: “Hai para semut, masuklah ke dalam tempat kediaman kalian, agar tidak diinjak-injak oleh Sulaiman dan pasukan-nya dalam keadaan mereka tidak sadar!” Para pendeta Yahudi itu meneruskan pertanyaannya: “Beritahukan kepada kami tentang lima jenis makhluk yang berjalan di atas permukaan bumi, tetapi tidak satu pun di antara makhluk-makhluk itu yang dilahirkan dari kandungan ibunya atau induknya!” Ali bin Abi Thalib menjawab: “Lima makhluk itu ialah, pertama, Adam. Kedua, Hawa. Ketiga, Unta Nabi Shaleh. Keempat, Domba Nabi Ibrahim. Kelima, Tongkat Nabi Musa (yang menjelma menjadi seekor ular).” Dua di antara tiga orang pendeta Yahudi itu setelah mendengar jawaban-jawaban serta penjelasan yang diberikan oleh Imam Ali r.a. lalu mengatakan: “Kami bersaksi bahwa tiada tuhan selain Allah dan Muhammad adalah Rasul Allah!” Tetapi seorang pendeta lainnya, bangun berdiri sambil berkata kepada Ali bin Abi Thalib: “Hai Ali, hati teman-temanku sudah dihinggapi oleh sesuatu yang sama seperti iman dan keyakinan mengenai benarnya agama Islam. Sekarang masih ada satu hal lagi yang ingin kutanyakan kepada anda.” “Tanyakanlah apa saja yang kau inginkan,” sahut Imam Ali. “Coba terangkan kepadaku tentang sejumlah orang yang pada zaman dahulu sudah mati selama 309 tahun, kemudian dihidupkan kembali oleh Allah. Bagaimana hikayat tentang mereka itu?” Tanya pendeta tadi. Ali bin Ali Thalib menjawab: “Hai pendeta Yahudi, mereka itu ialah para penghuni gua. Hikayat tentang mereka itu sudah dikisahkan oleh Allah s.w.t. kepada Rasul-Nya. Jika engkau mau, akan kubacakan kisah mereka itu.” Pendeta Yahudi itu menyahut: “Aku sudah banyak mendengar tentang Qur’an kalian itu! Jika engkau memang benar-benar tahu, coba sebutkan nama-nama mereka, nama ayah-ayah mereka, nama kota mereka, nama raja mereka, nama anjing mereka, nama gunung serta gua mereka, dan semua kisah mereka dari awal sampai akhir!” Ali bin Abi Thalib kemudian membetulkan duduknya, menekuk lutut ke depan perut, lalu ditopangnya dengan burdah yang diikatkan ke pinggang. Lalu ia berkata: “Hai saudara Yahudi, Muhammad Rasul Allah s.a.w. kekasihku telah menceritakan kepadaku, bahwa kisah itu terjadi di negeri Romawi, di sebuah kota bernama Aphesus, atau disebut juga dengan nama Tharsus. Tetapi nama kota itu pada zaman dahulu ialah Aphesus (Ephese). Baru setelah Islam datang, kota itu berubah nama menjadi Tharsus (Tarse, sekarang terletak di dalam wilayah Turki). Penduduk negeri itu dahulunya mempunyai seorang raja yang baik. Setelah raja itu meninggal dunia, berita kematiannya didengar oleh seorang raja Persia bernama Diqyanius. Ia seorang raja kafir yang amat congkak dan dzalim. Ia datang menyerbu negeri itu dengan kekuatan pasukannya, dan akhirnya berhasil menguasai kota Aphesus. Olehnya kota itu dijadikan ibukota kerajaan, lalu dibangunlah sebuah Istana.”ashabul-kahfi-10 Baru sampai di situ, pendeta Yahudi yang bertanya itu berdiri, terus bertanya: “Jika engkau benar-benar tahu, coba terangkan kepadaku bentuk Istana itu, bagaimana serambi dan ruangan-ruangannya! “ Ali bin Abi Thalib menerangkan: “Hai saudara Yahudi, raja itu membangun istana yang sangat megah, terbuat dari batu marmar. Panjangnya satu farsakh (= kl 8 km) dan lebarnya pun satu farsakh. Pilar-pilarnya yang berjumlah seribu buah, semuanya terbuat dari emas, dan lampu-lampu yang berjumlah seribu buah, juga semuanya terbuat dari emas. Lampu-lampu itu bergelantungan pada rantai-rantai yang terbuat dari perak. Tiap malam apinya dinyalakan dengan sejenis minyak yang harum baunya. Di sebelah timur serambi dibuat lubang-lubang cahaya sebanyak seratus buah, demikian pula di sebelah baratnya. Sehingga matahari sejak mulai terbit sampai terbenam selalu dapat menerangi serambi. Raja itu pun membuat sebuah singgasana dari emas. Panjangnya 80 hasta dan lebarnya 40 hasta. Di sebelah kanannya tersedia 80 buah kursi, semuanya terbuat dari emas. Di situlah para hulubalang kerajaan duduk. Di sebelah kirinya juga disediakan 80 buah kursi terbuat dari emas, untuk duduk para pepatih dan penguasa-penguasa tinggi lainnya. Raja duduk di atas singgasana dengan mengenakan mahkota di atas kepala.” Sampai di situ pendeta yang bersangkutan berdiri lagi sambil berkata: “Jika engkau benar-benar tahu, coba terangkan kepadaku dari apakah mahkota itu dibuat?” “Hai saudara Yahudi,” kata Imam Ali menerangkan, “mahkota raja itu terbuat dari kepingan-kepingan emas, berkaki 9 buah, dan tiap kakinya bertaburan mutiara yang memantulkan cahaya laksana bintang-bintang menerangi kegelapan malam. Raja itu juga mempunyai 50 orang pelayan, terdiri dari anak-anak para hulubalang. Semuanya memakai selempang dan baju sutera berwarna merah. Celana mereka juga terbuat dari sutera berwarna hijau. Semuanya dihias dengan gelang-gelang kaki yang sangat indah. Masing-masing diberi tongkat terbuat dari emas. Mereka harus berdiri di belakang raja. Selain mereka, raja juga mengangkat 6 orang, terdiri dari anak-anak para cendekiawan, untuk dijadikan menteri-menteri atau pembantu-pembantuny a. Raja tidak mengambil suatu keputusan apa pun tanpa berunding lebih dulu dengan mereka. Enam orang pembantu itu selalu berada di kanan kiri raja, tiga orang berdiri di sebelah kanan dan yang tiga orang lainnya berdiri di sebelah kiri.” Pendeta yang bertanya itu berdiri lagi. Lalu berkata: “Hai Ali, jika yang kau katakan itu benar, coba sebutkan nama enam orang yang menjadi pembantu-pembantu raja itu!” Menanggapi hal itu, Imam Ali r.a. menjawab: “Kekasihku Muhammad Rasul Allah s.a.w. menceritakan kepadaku, bahwa tiga orang yang berdiri di sebelah kanan raja, masing-masing bernama Tamlikha, Miksalmina, dan Mikhaslimina. Adapun tiga orang pembantu yang berdiri di sebelah kiri, masing-masing bernama Martelius, Casitius dan Sidemius. Raja selalu berunding dengan mereka mengenai segala urusan. Tiap hari setelah raja duduk dalam serambi istana dikerumuni oleh semua hulubalang dan para punggawa, masuklah tiga orang pelayan menghadap raja. Seorang diantaranya membawa piala emas penuh berisi wewangian murni. Seorang lagi membawa piala perak penuh berisi air sari bunga. Sedang yang seorangnya lagi membawa seekor burung. Orang yang membawa burung ini kemudian mengeluarkan suara isyarat, lalu burung itu terbang di atas piala yang berisi air sari bunga. Burung itu berkecimpung di dalamnya dan setelah itu ia mengibas-ngibaskan sayap serta bulunya, sampai sari-bunga itu habis dipercikkan ke semua tempat sekitarnya. Kemudian si pembawa burung tadi mengeluarkan suara isyarat lagi. Burung itu terbang pula. Lalu hinggap di atas piala yang berisi wewangian murni. Sambil berkecimpung di dalamnya, burung itu mengibas-ngibaskan sayap dan bulunya, sampai wewangian murni yang ada dalam piala itu habis dipercikkan ke tempat sekitarnya. Pembawa burung itu memberi isyarat suara lagi. Burung itu lalu terbang dan hinggap di atas mahkota raja, sambil membentangkan kedua sayap yang harum semerbak di atas kepala raja. Demikianlah raja itu berada di atas singgasana kekuasaan selama tiga puluh tahun. Selama itu ia tidak pernah diserang penyakit apa pun, tidak pernah merasa pusing kepala, sakit perut, demam, berliur, berludah atau pun beringus. Setelah sang raja merasa diri sedemikian kuat dan sehat, ia mulai congkak, durhaka dan dzalim. Ia mengaku-aku diri sebagai “tuhan” dan tidak mau lagi mengakui adanya Allah s.w.t.ashabul-kahfi-11 Raja itu kemudian memanggil orang-orang terkemuka dari rakyatnya. Barang siapa yang taat dan patuh kepadanya,diberi pakaian dan berbagai macam hadiah lainnya. Tetapi barang siapa yang tidak mau taat atau tidak bersedia mengikuti kemauannya, ia akan segera dibunuh. Oleh sebab itu semua orang terpaksa mengiakan kemauannya. Dalam masa yang cukup lama, semua orang patuh kepada raja itu, sampai ia disembah dan dipuja. Mereka tidak lagi memuja dan menyembah Allah s.w.t. Pada suatu hari perayaan ulang-tahunnya, raja sedang duduk di atas singgasana mengenakan mahkota di atas kepala, tiba-tiba masuklah seorang hulubalang memberi tahu, bahwa ada balatentara asing masuk menyerbu ke dalam wilayah kerajaannya, dengan maksud hendak melancarkan peperangan terhadap raja. Demikian sedih dan bingungnya raja itu, sampai tanpa disadari mahkota yang sedang dipakainya jatuh dari kepala. Kemudian raja itu sendiri jatuh terpelanting dari atas singgasana. Salah seorang pembantu yang berdiri di sebelah kanan –seorang cerdas yang bernama Tamlikha– memperhatikan keadaan sang raja dengan sepenuh fikiran. Ia berfikir, lalu berkata di dalam hati: “Kalau Diqyanius itu benar-benar tuhan sebagaimana menurut pengakuannya, tentu ia tidak akan sedih, tidak tidur, tidak buang air kecil atau pun air besar. Itu semua bukanlah sifat-sifat Tuhan.” Enam orang pembantu raja itu tiap hari selalu mengadakan pertemuan di tempat salah seorang dari mereka secara bergiliran. Pada satu hari tibalah giliran Tamlikha menerima kunjungan lima orang temannya. Mereka berkumpul di rumah Tamlikha untuk makan dan minum, tetapi Tamlikha sendiri tidak ikut makan dan minum. Teman-temannya bertanya: “Hai Tamlikha, mengapa engkau tidak mau makan dan tidak mau minum?” “Teman-teman, ” sahut Tamlikha, “hatiku sedang dirisaukan oleh sesuatu yang membuatku tidak ingin makan dan tidak ingin minum, juga tidak ingin tidur.” Teman-temannya mengejar: “Apakah yang merisaukan hatimu, hai Tamlikha?” “Sudah lama aku memikirkan soal langit,” ujar Tamlikha menjelaskan. “Aku lalu bertanya pada diriku sendiri: ‘siapakah yang mengangkatnya ke atas sebagai atap yang senantiasa aman dan terpelihara, tanpa gantungan dari atas dan tanpa tiang yang menopangnya dari bawah? Siapakah yang menjalankan matahari dan bulan di langit itu? Siapakah yang menghias langit itu dengan bintang-bintang bertaburan?’ Kemudian kupikirkan juga bumi ini: ‘Siapakah yang membentang dan menghamparkan- nya di cakrawala? Siapakah yang menahannya dengan gunung-gunung raksasa agar tidak goyah, tidak goncang dan tidak miring?’ Aku juga lama sekali memikirkan diriku sendiri: ‘Siapakah yang mengeluarkan aku sebagai bayi dari perut ibuku? Siapakah yang memelihara hidupku dan memberi makan kepadaku? Semuanya itu pasti ada yang membuat, dan sudah tentu bukan Diqyanius’…” Teman-teman Tamlikha lalu bertekuk lutut di hadapannya. Dua kaki Tamlikha diciumi sambil berkata: “Hai Tamlikha dalam hati kami sekarang terasa sesuatu seperti yang ada di dalam hatimu. Oleh karena itu, baiklah engkau tunjukkan jalan keluar bagi kita semua!” “Saudara-saudara, ” jawab Tamlikha, “baik aku maupun kalian tidak menemukan akal selain harus lari meninggalkan raja yang dzalim itu, pergi kepada Raja pencipta langit dan bumi!” “Kami setuju dengan pendapatmu,” sahut teman-temannya. Tamlikha lalu berdiri, terus beranjak pergi untuk menjual buah kurma, dan akhirnya berhasil mendapat uang sebanyak 3 dirham. Uang itu kemudian diselipkan dalam kantong baju. Lalu berangkat berkendaraan kuda bersama-sama dengan lima orang temannya. Setelah berjalan 3 mil jauhnya dari kota, Tamlikha berkata kepada teman-temannya: “Saudara-saudara, kita sekarang sudah terlepas dari raja dunia dan dari kekuasaannya. Sekarang turunlah kalian dari kuda dan marilah kita berjalan kaki. Mudah-mudahan Allah akan memudahkan urusan kita serta memberikan jalan keluar.” Mereka turun dari kudanya masing-masing. Lalu berjalan kaki sejauh 7 farsakh, sampai kaki mereka bengkak berdarah karena tidak biasa berjalan kaki sejauh itu.ashabul-kahfi-12 Tiba-tiba datanglah seorang penggembala menyambut mereka. Kepada penggembala itu mereka bertanya: “Hai penggembala, apakah engkau mempunyai air minum atau susu?” “Aku mempunyai semua yang kalian inginkan,” sahut penggembala itu. “Tetapi kulihat wajah kalian semuanya seperti kaum bangsawan. Aku menduga kalian itu pasti melarikan diri. Coba beritahukan kepadaku bagaimana cerita perjalanan kalian itu!” “Ah…, susahnya orang ini,” jawab mereka. “Kami sudah memeluk suatu agama, kami tidak boleh berdusta. Apakah kami akan selamat jika kami mengatakan yang sebenarnya?” “Ya,” jawab penggembala itu. Tamlikha dan teman-temannya lalu menceritakan semua yang terjadi pada diri mereka. Mendengar cerita mereka, penggembala itu segera bertekuk lutut di depan mereka, dan sambil menciumi kaki mereka, ia berkata: “Dalam hatiku sekarang terasa sesuatu seperti yang ada dalam hati kalian. Kalian berhenti sajalah dahulu di sini. Aku hendak mengembalikan kambing-kambing itu kepada pemiliknya. Nanti aku akan segera kembali lagi kepada kalian.” Tamlikha bersama teman-temannya berhenti. Penggembala itu segera pergi untuk mengembalikan kambing-kambing gembalaannya. Tak lama kemudian ia datang lagi berjalan kaki, diikuti oleh seekor anjing miliknya.” Waktu cerita Imam Ali sampai di situ, pendeta Yahudi yang bertanya melonjak berdiri lagi sambil berkata: “Hai Ali, jika engkau benar-benar tahu, coba sebutkan apakah warna anjing itu dan siapakah namanya?” “Hai saudara Yahudi,” kata Ali bin Abi Thalib memberitahukan, “kekasihku Muhammad Rasul Allah s.a.w. menceritakan kepadaku, bahwa anjing itu berwarna kehitam-hitaman dan bernama Qithmir. Ketika enam orang pelarian itu melihat seekor anjing, masing-masing saling berkata kepada temannya: kita khawatir kalau-kalau anjing itu nantinya akan membongkar rahasia kita! Mereka minta kepada penggembala supaya anjing itu dihalau saja dengan batu. Anjing itu melihat kepada Tamlikha dan teman-temannya, lalu duduk di atas dua kaki belakang, menggeliat, dan mengucapkan kata-kata dengan lancar dan jelas sekali: “Hai orang-orang, mengapa kalian hendak mengusirku, padahal aku ini bersaksi tiada tuhan selain Allah, tak ada sekutu apa pun bagi-Nya. Biarlah aku menjaga kalian dari musuh, dan dengan berbuat demikian aku mendekatkan diriku kepada Allah s.w.t.” Anjing itu akhirnya dibiarkan saja. Mereka lalu pergi. Penggembala tadi mengajak mereka naik ke sebuah bukit. Lalu bersama mereka mendekati sebuah gua.” Pendeta Yahudi yang menanyakan kisah itu, bangun lagi dari tempat duduknya sambil berkata: “Apakah nama gunung itu dan apakah nama gua itu?!” Imam Ali menjelaskan: “Gunung itu bernama Naglus dan nama gua itu ialah Washid, atau di sebut juga dengan nama Kheram!” Ali bin Abi Thalib meneruskan ceritanya: secara tiba-tiba di depan gua itu tumbuh pepohonan berbuah dan memancur mata-air deras sekali. Mereka makan buah-buahan dan minum air yang tersedia di tempat itu. Setelah tiba waktu malam, mereka masuk berlindung di dalam gua. Sedang anjing yang sejak tadi mengikuti mereka, berjaga-jaga ndeprok sambil menjulurkan dua kaki depan untuk menghalang-halangi pintu gua. Kemudian Allah s.w.t. memerintahkan Malaikat maut supaya mencabut nyawa mereka. Kepada masing-masing orang dari mereka Allah s.w.t. mewakilkan dua Malaikat untuk membalik-balik tubuh mereka dari kanan ke kiri. Allah lalu memerintahkan matahari supaya pada saat terbit condong memancarkan sinarnya ke dalam gua dari arah kanan, dan pada saat hampir terbenam supaya sinarnya mulai meninggalkan mereka dari arah kiri. Suatu ketika waktu raja Diqyanius baru saja selesai berpesta ia bertanya tentang enam orang pembantunya. Ia mendapat jawaban, bahwa mereka itu melarikan diri. Raja Diqyanius sangat gusar. Bersama 80.000 pasukan berkuda ia cepat-cepat berangkat menyelusuri jejak enam orang pembantu yang melarikan diri. Ia naik ke atas bukit, kemudian mendekati gua. Ia melihat enam orang pembantunya yang melarikan diri itu sedang tidur berbaring di dalam gua. Ia tidak ragu-ragu dan memastikan bahwa enam orang itu benar-benar sedang tidur. Kepada para pengikutnya ia berkata: “Kalau aku hendak menghukum mereka, tidak akan kujatuhkan hukuman yang lebih berat dari perbuatan mereka yang telah menyiksa diri mereka sendiri di dalam gua. Panggillah tukang-tukang batu supaya mereka segera datang ke mari!” Setelah tukang-tukang batu itu tiba, mereka diperintahkan menutup rapat pintu gua dengan batu-batu dan jish (bahan semacam semen). Selesai dikerjakan, raja berkata kepada para pengikutnya: “Katakanlah kepada mereka yang ada di dalam gua, kalau benar-benar mereka itu tidak berdusta supaya minta tolong kepada Tuhan mereka yang ada di langit, agar mereka dikeluarkan dari tempat itu.” Dalam goa tertutup rapat itu, mereka tinggal selama 309 tahun. Setelah masa yang amat panjang itu lampau, Allah s.w.t. mengembalikan lagi nyawa mereka. Pada saat matahari sudah mulai memancarkan sinar, mereka merasa seakan-akan baru bangun dari tidurnya masing-masing. Yang seorang berkata kepada yang lainnya: “Malam tadi kami lupa beribadah kepada Allah, mari kita pergi ke mata air!” Setelah mereka berada di luar gua, tiba-tiba mereka lihat mata air itu sudah mengering kembali dan pepohonan yang ada pun sudah menjadi kering semuanya. Allah s.w.t. membuat mereka mulai merasa lapar. Mereka saling bertanya: “Siapakah di antara kita ini yang sanggup dan bersedia berangkat ke kota membawa uang untuk bisa mendapatkan makanan? Tetapi yang akan pergi ke kota nanti supaya hati-hati benar, jangan sampai membeli makanan yang dimasak dengan lemak-babi.” Tamlikha kemudian berkata: “Hai saudara-saudara, aku sajalah yang berangkat untuk mendapatkan makanan. Tetapi, hai penggembala, berikanlah bajumu kepadaku dan ambillah bajuku ini!” Setelah Tamlikha memakai baju penggembala, ia berangkat menuju ke kota. Sepanjang jalan ia melewati tempat-tempat yang sama sekali belum pernah dikenalnya, melalui jalan-jalan yang belum pernah diketahui. Setibanya dekat pintu gerbang kota, ia melihat bendera hijau berkibar di angkasa bertuliskan: “Tiada Tuhan selain Allah dan Isa adalah Roh Allah.” Tamlikha berhenti sejenak memandang bendera itu sambil mengusap-usap mata, lalu berkata seorang diri: “Kusangka aku ini masih tidur!” Setelah agak lama memandang dan mengamat-amati bendera, ia meneruskan perjalanan memasuki kota. Dilihatnya banyak orang sedang membaca Injil. Ia berpapasan dengan orang-orang yang belum pernah dikenal. Setibanya di sebuah pasar ia bertanya kepada seorang penjaja roti: “Hai tukang roti, apakah nama kota kalian ini?” “Aphesus,” sahut penjual roti itu. “Siapakah nama raja kalian?” tanya Tamlikha lagi. “Abdurrahman, ” jawab penjual roti. “Kalau yang kau katakan itu benar,” kata Tamlikha, “urusanku ini sungguh aneh sekali! Ambillah uang ini dan berilah makanan kepadaku!” Melihat uang itu, penjual roti keheran-heranan. Karena uang yang dibawa Tamlikha itu uang zaman lampau, yang ukurannya lebih besar dan lebih berat. Pendeta Yahudi yang bertanya itu kemudian berdiri lagi, lalu berkata kepada Ali bin Abi Thalib: “Hai Ali, kalau benar-benar engkau mengetahui, coba terangkan kepadaku berapa nilai uang lama itu dibanding dengan uang baru!” Imam Ali menerangkan: “Kekasihku Muhammad Rasul Allah s.a.w. menceritakan kepadaku, bahwa uang yang dibawa oleh Tamlikha dibanding dengan uang baru, ialah tiap dirham lama sama dengan sepuluh dan dua pertiga dirham baru!”ashabul-kahfi-16 Imam Ali kemudian melanjutkan ceritanya: Penjual Roti lalu berkata kepada Tamlikha: “Aduhai, alangkah beruntungnya aku! Rupanya engkau baru menemukan harta karun! Berikan sisa uang itu kepadaku! Kalau tidak, engkau akan ku hadapkan kepada raja!” “Aku tidak menemukan harta karun,” sangkal Tamlikha. “Uang ini ku dapat tiga hari yang lalu dari hasil penjualan buah kurma seharga tiga dirham! Aku kemudian meninggalkan kota karena orang-orang semuanya menyembah Diqyanius!” Penjual roti itu marah. Lalu berkata: “Apakah setelah engkau menemukan harta karun masih juga tidak rela menyerahkan sisa uangmu itu kepadaku? Lagi pula engkau telah menyebut-nyebut seorang raja durhaka yangmengaku diri sebagai tuhan, padahal raja itu sudah mati lebih dari 300 tahun yang silam! Apakah dengan begitu engkau hendak memperolok-olok aku?” Tamlikha lalu ditangkap. Kemudian dibawa pergi menghadap raja. Raja yang baru ini seorang yang dapat berfikir dan bersikap adil. Raja bertanya kepada orang-orang yang membawa Tamlikha: “Bagaimana cerita tentang orang ini?” “Dia menemukan harta karun,” jawab orang-orang yang membawanya. Kepada Tamlikha, raja berkata: “Engkau tak perlu takut! Nabi Isa a.s. memerintahkan supaya kami hanya memungut seperlima saja dari harta karun itu. Serahkanlah yang seperlima itu kepadaku, dan selanjutnya engkau akan selamat.” Tamlikha menjawab: “Baginda, aku sama sekali tidak menemukan harta karun! Aku adalah penduduk kota ini!” Raja bertanya sambil keheran-heranan: “Engkau penduduk kota ini?” “Ya. Benar,” sahut Tamlikha. “Adakah orang yang kau kenal?” tanya raja lagi. “Ya, ada,” jawab Tamlikha. “Coba sebutkan siapa namanya,” perintah raja. Tamlikha menyebut nama-nama kurang lebih 1000 orang, tetapi tak ada satu nama pun yang dikenal oleh raja atau oleh orang lain yang hadir mendengarkan. Mereka berkata: “Ah…, semua itu bukan nama orang-orang yang hidup di zaman kita sekarang. Tetapi, apakah engkau mempunyai rumah di kota ini?” “Ya, tuanku,” jawab Tamlikha. “Utuslah seorang menyertai aku!” Raja kemudian memerintahkan beberapa orang menyertai Tamlikha pergi. Oleh Tamlikha mereka diajak menuju ke sebuah rumah yang paling tinggi di kota itu. Setibanya di sana, Tamlikha berkata kepada orang yang mengantarkan: “Inilah rumahku!” Pintu rumah itu lalu diketuk. Keluarlah seorang lelaki yang sudah sangat lanjut usia. Sepasang alis di bawah keningnya sudah sedemikian putih dan mengkerut hampir menutupi mata karena sudah terlampau tua. Ia terperanjat ketakutan, lalu bertanya kepada orang-orang yang datang: “Kalian ada perlu apa?” Utusan raja yang menyertai Tamlikha menyahut: “Orang muda ini mengaku rumah ini adalah rumahnya!” Orang tua itu marah, memandang kepada Tamlikha. Sambil mengamat-amati ia bertanya: “Siapa namamu?” “Aku Tamlikha anak Filistin!” Orang tua itu lalu berkata: “Coba ulangi lagi!” Tamlikha menyebut lagi namanya. Tiba-tiba orang tua itu bertekuk lutut di depan kaki Tamlikha sambil berucap: “Ini adalah datukku! Demi Allah, ia salah seorang di antara orang-orang yang melarikan diri dari Diqyanius, raja durhaka.” Kemudian diteruskannya dengan suara haru: “Ia lari berlindung kepada Yang Maha Perkasa, Pencipta langit dan bumi. Nabi kita, Isa as., dahulu telah memberitahukan kisah mereka kepada kita dan mengatakan bahwa mereka itu akan hidup kembali!” Peristiwa yang terjadi di rumah orang tua itu kemudian di laporkan kepada raja. Dengan menunggang kuda, raja segera datang menuju ke tempat Tamlikha yang sedang berada di rumah orang tua tadi. Setelah melihat Tamlikha, raja segera turun dari kuda. Oleh raja Tamlikha diangkat ke atas pundak, sedangkan orang banyak beramai-ramai menciumi tangan dan kaki Tamlikha sambil bertanya-tanya: “Hai Tamlikha, bagaimana keadaan teman-temanmu? “ Kepada mereka Tamlikha memberi tahu, bahwa semua temannya masih berada di dalam gua. “Pada masa itu kota Aphesus diurus oleh dua orang bangsawan istana. Seorang beragama Islam dan seorang lainnya lagi beragama Nasrani. Dua orang bangsawan itu bersama pengikutnya masing-masing pergi membawa Tamlikha menuju ke gua,” demikian Imam Ali melanjutkan ceritanya. Teman-teman Tamlikha semuanya masih berada di dalam gua itu. Setibanya dekat gua, Tamlikha berkata kepada dua orang bangsawan dan para pengikut mereka: “Aku khawatir kalau sampai teman-temanku mendengar suara tapak kuda, atau gemerincingnya senjata. Mereka pasti menduga Diqyanius datang dan mereka bakal mati semua. Oleh karena itu kalian berhenti saja di sini. Biarlah aku sendiri yang akan menemui dan memberitahu mereka!” Semua berhenti menunggu dan Tamlikha masuk seorang diri ke dalam gua. Melihat Tamlikha datang, teman-temannya berdiri kegirangan, dan Tamlikha dipeluknya kuat-kuat. Kepada Tamlikha mereka berkata: “Puji dan syukur bagi Allah yang telah menyelamatkan dirimu dari Diqyanius!” Tamlikha menukas: “Ada urusan apa dengan Diqyanius? Tahukah kalian, sudah berapa lamakah kalian tinggal di sini?” “Kami tinggal sehari atau beberapa hari saja,” jawab mereka. “Tidak!” sangkal Tamlikha. “Kalian sudah tinggal di sini selama 309 tahun! Diqyanius sudah lama meninggal dunia! Generasi demi generasi sudah lewat silih berganti, dan penduduk kota itu sudah beriman kepada Allah yang Maha Agung! Mereka sekarang datang untuk bertemu dengan kalian!” Teman-teman Tamlikha menyahut: “Hai Tamlikha, apakah engkau hendak menjadikan kami ini orang-orang yang menggemparkan seluruh jagad?” “Lantas apa yang kalian inginkan?” Tamlikha balik bertanya. “Angkatlah tanganmu ke atas dan kami pun akan berbuat seperti itu juga,” jawab merekaMereka bertujuh semua mengangkat tangan ke atas, kemudian berdoa: “Ya Allah, dengan kebenaran yang telah Kau perlihatkan kepada kami tentang keanehan-keanehan yang kami alami sekarang ini, cabutlah kembali nyawa kami tanpa sepengetahuan orang lain!” Allah s.w.t. mengabulkan permohonan mereka. Lalu memerintahkan Malaikat maut mencabut kembali nyawa mereka. Kemudian Allah s.w.t. melenyapkan pintu gua tanpa bekas. Dua orang bangsawan yang menunggu-nunggu segera maju mendekati gua, berputar-putar selama tujuh hari untuk mencari-cari pintunya, tetapi tanpa hasil. Tak dapat ditemukan lubang atau jalan masuk lainnya ke dalam gua. Pada saat itu dua orang bangsawan tadi menjadi yakin tentang betapa hebatnya kekuasaan Allah s.w.t. Dua orang bangsawan itu memandang semua peristiwa yang dialami oleh para penghuni gua, sebagai peringatan yang diperlihatkan Allah kepada mereka. Bangsawan yang beragama Islam lalu berkata: “Mereka mati dalam keadaan memeluk agamaku! Akan ku dirikan sebuah tempat ibadah di pintu gua itu.” Sedang bangsawan yang beragama Nasrani berkata pula: “Mereka mati dalam keadaan memeluk agamaku! Akan ku dirikan sebuah biara di pintu gua itu.” Dua orang bangsawan itu bertengkar, dan setelah melalui pertikaian senjata, akhirnya bangsawan Nasrani terkalahkan oleh bangsawan yang beragama Islam. Dengan terjadinya peristiwa tersebut, maka Allah berfirman: Dan begitulah Kami menyerempakkan mereka, supaya mereka mengetahui bahawa janji Allah adalah benar, dan bahawa Saat itu tidak ada keraguan padanya. Apabila mereka berbalahan antara mereka dalam urusan mereka, maka mereka berkata, “Binalah di atas mereka satu bangunan; Pemelihara mereka sangat mengetahui mengenai mereka.” Berkata orang-orang yang menguasai atas urusan mereka, “Kami akan membina di atas mereka sebuah masjid.” Sampai di situ Imam Ali bin Abi Thalib berhenti menceritakan kisah para penghuni gua. Kemudian berkata kepada pendeta Yahudi yang menanyakan kisah itu: “Itulah, hai Yahudi, apa yang telah terjadi dalam kisah mereka. Demi Allah, sekarang aku hendak bertanya kepadamu, apakah semua yang ku ceritakan itu sesuai dengan apa yang tercantum dalam Taurat kalian?” Pendeta Yahudi itu menjawab: “Ya Abal Hasan, engkau tidak menambah dan tidak mengurangi, walau satu huruf pun! Sekarang engkau jangan menyebut diriku sebagai orang Yahudi, sebab aku telah bersaksi bahwa tiada tuhan selain Allah dan bahwa Muhammad adalah hamba Allah serta Rasul-Nya. Aku pun bersaksi juga, bahwa engkau orang yang paling berilmu di kalangan ummat ini!” Demikianlah hikayat tentang para penghuni gua (Ashhabul Kahfi), kutipan dari kitab Qishasul Anbiya yang tercantum dalam kitab Fadha ‘ilul Khamsah Minas Shihahis Sittah, tulisan As Sayyid Murtadha Al Huseiniy Al Faruz Aabaad, dalam menunjukkan banyaknya ilmu pengetahuan yang diperoleh Imam Ali bin Abi Thalib dari Rasul Allah s.a.w. *اَللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى سَيّدِنَا مُحَمَّدٍ وَعَلَى آلِ سَيّدِنَا مُحَمَّدٍ ﷺ* 🍃♥️🌹📚📚

*"KEUTAMAAN ZIARAH ORANG TUA DI HARI JUM'AT"* ___🖤🌹 عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ رَفَعَهُ مَنْ زَارَ قَبْرَ أَبَوَيْهِ أَوْ أَحَدَهُمَا فِي كُلِّ جُمُعَةٍ مَرَّةً غَفَرَ اللَّهُ لَهُ وَكَانَ بَارًّا بِوَالِدِيه Dari Abu Hurairah Radhiallahu Anhu : "Siapa saja yang menziarahi makam kedua orang tuanya atau salah satu dari keduanya pada setiap Jumat, niscaya Allah mengampuninya dan ia tercatat sebagai anak yang berbakti kepada keduanya." وَفِي رِوَايَةٍ مَنْ زَارَ قَبْرَ وَالِدَيْهِ كُلَّ جُمُعَةٍ أَوْ أَحَدِهِمَا فَقَرَأَ عِنْدَهُ يَس وَالْقُرْآنِ الْحَكِيمِ غُفِرَ لَهُ بِعَدَدِ ذَلِكَ آيَةً وَحَرْفًا وَفِي رِوَايَةٍ مَنْ زَارَ قَبْرَ وَالِدَيْهِ أَوْ أَحَدِهِمَا يَوْمَ الْجُمُعَةِ كَانَ كَحَجَّةٍ . Dalam riwayat lain, Rasulullah Shalallahu Alaihi Wasallam bersabda: "Siapa saja yang menziarahi (makam) kedua orang tuanya atau salah satu dari keduanya setiap Jumat, lalu membaca di dekatnya Surat Yasin dan sejumlah ayat Al-Quran, maka diampuni baginya dosa sebanyak ayat dan huruf. Dalam riwayat lain, '‘Siapa saja yang menziarahi (makam) kedua orang tuanya atau salah satu dari keduanya pada hari Jumat, maka itu bernilai ibadah haji. وَرُوِيَ إنَّ الرَّجُلَ لَيَمُوتُ وَالِدَاهُ وَهُوَ عَاقٌّ لَهُمَا فَيَدْعُو اللَّهَ لَهُمَا مِنْ بَعْدِهِمَا فَيَكْتُبُهُ اللَّهُ مِنْ الْبَارِّينَ. "Diriwayatkan bahwa seorang anak yang kedua orang tuanya wafat sementara ia pernah berdurhaka terhadap keduanya, lalu ia berdoa kepada Allah sepeninggal keduanya, niscaya Allah mencatatnya sebagai anak yang berbakti." وَكَانَ ابْنُ وَاسِعٍ يَزُورُ الْقُبُورَ يَوْمَ الْجُمُعَةِ وَيَقُولُ بَلَغَنِي أَنَّ الْمَوْتَى يَعْلَمُونَ بِزُوَّارِهِمْ يَوْمَ الْجُمُعَةِ وَيَوْمًا بَعْدَهُ. Dan ada beliau Ibnu Wasi‘ menziarahi makam-makam pada hari Jumat. Ia berkata, ; ‘Sebuah riwayat sampai kepadaku bahwa ahli kubur itu mengetahui orang-orang hidup yang menziarahi mereka di hari Jumat dan sehari sesudahnya. Mudah-mudahan Kita Semua Tergolong Menjadi Anak Yang Sholeh / Sholeha Yang Ta'at Berbakti Kepada Orang Tua Semasa Hidupnya Lebih-Lebih Setelahnya Wafatnya. Aamiin ya rabbal aalamiin 🤲🏻🤲🏻