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Saturday, April 20, 2013

Cat stevens, who changed his name to Yusuf Islam since his conversion to Islam.

Cat stevens, who changed his name to Yusuf Islam since his conversion to Islam, is a british singer, author and composer. He lives now in London and takes part in Islamic charity operation.

Stephen Demetre Georgiou was born on the 21st of July in 1948 in London from a Cypriot Grecian father and a Swedish mother. He studied in a catholic school to which he felt a religious inclination. His father, Stavros and his mother, Ingrid, manage a restaurant with the rest of the family. Stephen has a brother and a sister older than him, David and Anita. Being influenced from his parents, he practiced music at an early age; piano and then guitar. By the age of 16 he plays music in bars during evenings where he had become famous by the age of 17 and entered an artistic school.

When he was 18, he went around Mike Hurst’s who asked him to show him his compositions. Being surprised, the producer asked him for his name; he answered: “My name is Stephen but they call me Cat Stevens” (That name was given to him by a girl because he had eyes of a cat”. Thus, he was known under that name.

Since 1966, he published a great deal of songs. He embraced success and fame very quickly thanks to his fist track “I love my dog”. After a period of sickness (tuberculosis) he published his first album Matthew and Son in 1967 which was followed by other dozens.

A guitar or a piano were simply the instruments that he was using in folk ballads and brought him a universal fame and made of him a key singer of his time. From 1967 till 1977 he multiplied his success (40 millions CDs). His masterpieces during that period are still very appreciated like The First Cut Is The Deepest, Father And Son, Wild World and Lady d’Arbanville; the latter is in the memory of the actress Patti d’Arbanville, his girlfriend at that time. It was the greatest world wide success ever reached. Patti d’Anberville, a warholienne muse, was 17 when she became an actress in the “cultissime” Flesh (1968) of Paul Morrissey. In 1971, composes the original classic featuring of Harold and Maude de Hal Ashby who has several works such as: Don’t Be Shy, Trouble and If You Want to Sing Out.

After his conversion to Islam he abandoned his pop star life. He came back to singing in 1985 to take part in the Live Aid for human vocation. Almost three decades later after his art abandon, it was announced that a new album was defused in 2006 in favour of Islam and its occidental perception.

After his miraculous surviving from a car accident on the 23rd of December in 1977 (he said that God saved his life), Cat Stevens left his artistic folk life to embrace the religion of Islam under the name of Yusuf Islam.

It is with this name that he is living now in the United Kingdom with his wife and daughters. He participates in Islamic movements (He founded an Aid association for Muslims) and goes on singing basically religious songs (nasheed). He leads many charity operations (Tsunami aids 2004). His conversion made him ask for the compatibility of Folk/pop music and the rigorous practice of Islam; and that’s why he stopped singing for years. It is only in 2006 when he decided to edit a new Pop album; An other Cup.

.His conversion to Islam was also a polemical source. In 1989, when he was asked about his opinion concerning Salman Rushdie’s Fatwa, he declared that he was against the writer’s thoughts; however, he did not show any opposition towards Fatwa. This controversy made him highlight in a press release that he did not encourage personally the Fatwa application (calling for Salman Rushdie’s assassination).

In 2004 he was at the middle of an other controversy when his plane United Airlines 919, from London to Washington, was immediately forced to land by American security services since his name was already black listed on the Computer Assisted Passenger System in the “No Fly List” category. The American authorities accused him of supporting financially Hamas without any evidence. He is then not allowed to enter the United States territory. When he got out from the plan, he got arrested by the FBI and sent to the United Kingdom few days later. Until this day, he is still not allowed to stay in the American territory (the United States). This fact pushed Jack Straw, the ex-minister of foreign affaires, to lodge a complaint against his counterpart Colin Powell, the American secretary in the United Nations at that time. According to Yusuf Islam, the name “Yusuf Islam” was really black listed but it was not about him.

Hypocrites

Allah, the Almighty, said:
“Lo! The hypocrites (both hypocritical men and hypocritical women) shall be in the lowest levels/depths of the Hellfire.” [Qur’an 4:145]

It was narrated that the Messenger Muhammad SallAllahu ‘alaihi wa sallam said: The signs of the munaafiq/hypocrite are three:

When he speaks, he lies (he/she frequently tells lies). When he promises, he breaks it (when he/she states that they’ll do something in the future, they almost never do it. they break their promises frequently.). And when he disputes/argues, he behaves in a very insulting and egotistical manner (always thinking that he/she is right when it is obvious that they are wrong).

For the sake of Allah, never be friends with a hypocrite. Other signs of hypocrites include:

1. Acting as though they are religious Muslims when on the inside they have no faith/Imaan at all (i.e. they do not even believe in Allah).

2. They only pray when amongst Muslims, as in Friday and Eid prayers. They never pray when they’re alone.

3. Their intention of pretending to be Muslims are usually to spy on Muslims and create disunity/problems (such as promoting evil deeds etc.) in the Muslim society. Allah knows best.

Those are some of the reasons why the hypocrites will be in the lowest levels/depths of the Hellfire.

Wasalaam~

Hypocrites

Friday, April 19, 2013

There is an evil storm blowing through the world today...

The Prophet sal Allahu alayhi wa sallam warned that “Before the Last Hour there would be great liars - so beware of them” (Sahih Muslim)

Allah has chosen to begin the Qur’an with a statement concerning believers, disbelievers and hypocrites. He has informed us that He has sealed the disbelievers’ hearts, as well as their hearing, and that He has placed veils before their eyes in consequence of which they are a people who have ‘eyes’ and yet cannot see, ‘ears’ and yet cannot hear, ‘hearts’ and yet cannot perceive the truth (Surah Al Baqarah : 7). In addition, Prophet Muhammad sal Allahu alayhi wa sallam has warned of the coming age in which “there will be wrong beliefs which will blind and deafen men to the truth” (Sunan Abu Dawood).

The world today is controlled by a godless power the likes of which history has never previously witnessed. Exactly as declared in the Qur’an, in Surah Al-Kahf, and as prophesied by The Prophet sal Allahu alayhi wa sallam , those godless evil rulers of the world are increasingly terrorising mankind (the term in the Qur’an is Fasad) and, in particular, Muslims. But they devote their great oppression for Arab Muslims, and the Prophet prophesied that as well.

Here are the methods of their evil and deceptive campaign of terror:

They commit acts of state-sponsored terrorism and then justify them as the legitimate use of force against those whom they falsely accuse to be terrorists.

Sometimes they commit by stealth spectacular acts of terrorism against their own people, and then maliciously put the blame on Islam and Muslims on the basis of false evidence that they themselves skillfully, and sometimes less-than-skillfully, manufactured.

At other times they deceive or pay gullible Muslims to commit acts of terrorism, and assist them in planning and executing those acts, and they turn around and provide information leading to their arrest while they, the masterminds, remain carefully concealed and out of the picture.

Finally, they keep on terrorising Muslims by:

Impoverishing them through a blood-sucking economic system built on usurious loans (i.e.,Riba);

Waging war on Islam on Islam by changing the curriculum in institutions of Islamic learning;

Sexually abusing them in the US military base in Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere;

Invading their lands and mercilessly slaughtering them in what constitutes genocide and ‘ethnic cleansing’ in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere;

Supporting dictatorial and oppressive regimes within the Muslim world which, in turn, unleash terror on innocent Muslims;

Establishing secret prisons around the world, and especially in Europe, where innocent Muslims with a profile of resistance can be imprisoned without due process and even tortured.

Eventually some Muslims are driven to such a state of anger and frustration that they retaliate by hitting back at their tormentors with acts of terrorism. Those Muslims are caught and that, also gives the godless evil rulers of the world added ammunition with which to escalate the war on Islam while hiding behind a smokescreen.

May Allah protect us from the skillfull enemies, and from cowardly, shameful, and despicable acts of terrorism which kill innocent people, and for which innocent Muslims are then blamed. Ameen.