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#16 [Permalink] Posted on 1st November 2011 16:15

Sorry, glitch.. fixing now...

Glitch sorted. Posts bounced a little but inshaAllah the message should show up around the site.

If anyone receives errors. Please let me know.

I pray this brings in a large amount of petition signatures

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#17 [Permalink] Posted on 1st November 2011 19:05

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Assalamu Alaikum Warahmatullah,

Dearest Brothers and Sisters,

Sometimes we receive messages about something and we don't bother to read it to the end. This is one message that NEEDS to be read to the very end. It not only needs to be read, it needs YOU the reader to place yourself in the shoes of someone. It NEEDS you to 'live' his reality, to smell what he smells, to touch what he is able to touch, to see what he sees and to imagine his future in the way that he does.

Are you ready to completely switch off from what is surrounding you and give your complete attention and heart for JUST 3 MINUTES! For the sake of Allah please do, as it could seriously be a source of ajr (reward) for you and could make the difference to someone's life.

Before you think, this message is asking for money - IT ISN'T! I simply want you to be this person for 3 minutes in your life...

You're happily married, you have a wonderful close family mashaAllah. You have a good job and you love your Islam. Life is good Alhamdulillah and you are one of those few individuals who goes out of your way to help others purely to seek the pleasure of Allah. You sleep soundly, you have the choice to eat what tickles your fancy and you can choose whether you bask in the beautiful sunshine or you spend a day listening to a wonderful lecture. You are free - you can choose - life is sweet.

In a matter of seconds, your happy life is ripped away from you. Now your reality is very different: you have lost your spouse, you can no longer enjoy being with your family, your heart aches and longs to be close to your loved ones - but it is impossible. And so you only rely on your dreams at night to bring back what you yearn to be your reality: spending Eid together, walking through the park, praying with fellow Muslims, enjoying a bite to eat with friends.

This is the reality of one individual.

You know what's really sad about this situation? This individual spent his life trying to help others. Those who knew him had such respect for him as he was one who tried to ease the pain and difficulty of others. The time has come where the Muslim Community can NOW help him to turn his dreams of freedom into a reality.

Yes, I'm talking about Babar Ahmad who has been imprisoned without trial for over 7 years and I want you to read til the end of this email as there is a message from him in the last few days which cut deep as I'm sure it will make you cry in both admiration for his strength and pain at his situation.

Thousands of emails have gone around about him, asking people to sign the petition. Sadly with only one month to go, there have only been 40,000 signatures. 60,000 more are needed. It saddens me that with only few weeks to go, we the Muslim Community have not exerted enough effort to reach the number of signatures needed which will enable Babar Ahmed's case to be discussed by parliament.

What faces Babar Ahmad should he be extradited to the US? � He will face the rest of his natural life in a Supermax Prison � He will be in solitary confinement for 22-23 hours per day � Regular body searches � Regular 'extractions' where fully kitted officers in riot gear 'remove' the prisoner by surprise and do a cell search which often results in serious physical damage to the prisoner � One call per month to a family or friend

As one senior Supermax officer put it, "Do we have an obligation to take care of them? Yes. But do I have an obligation to provide him touching, feeling contact with another human being? I would say no. He has earned his way to and he's earned just the opposite. He's earned the need for me to keep him apart from other people."

Babar Ahmad has not done anything to deserve being sent to such a place and you can be a part of the campaign to have him tried here in the United Kingdom.

I have faith in the Muslim Community as I have seen wonderful things happen in such a short space of time. We can do this and we owe it to our brother to support him in this cause.

So, what can we do: � Sign the petition and don't forget to activate the link that is sent to your email address. � Get every member in your household and extended family to sign it. � If everyone could try to get at least 10 others to sign than we could actually reach the target of 100,000 signatures by 10th NOVEMBER 2011. � Spread the word, forward this email on.

We all have excuses, but I wonder what excuse we will give to Allah when He (Swt) asks what we did to help a brother on our very own doorstep. What excuse will you give for not taking 2 minutes out of your time to simply sign a government e-petition.

I try to imagine how Babar must be feeling right now, only few weeks left and only 40,000 signatures from his brothers and sisters. I would have lost much hope but this is what he said to one of his sisters recently: 'Whatever you do, never give up, because the only thing worse than failure is the failure to try'. Babar Ahmad, October 2011

The question is not whether you should sign the petition, the question is what is stopping you from doing it and from getting others to do it??? Don't be a Muslim who merely shows his Islam though speech. ACT TODAY. Revisit the above steps as to how you can help and before Shaytaan makes you think about something else - SIGN, SPREAD THE WORD AND GET THOSE ADDITIONAL 10 PEOPLE TO SIGN TOO.

May Allah reward you for reading this far. You never know what something like this could do for an individual's life and future. More importantly -what it could do for your akhirah when everyone will do anything to go back to the life of this world to do the best deed they could do...

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Wasalaamu Alaikum Warahmatullah -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------And just a few things to clarify in case you're thinking:

1) I am worried about giving my name and address to this Addresses and email addresses are not published or accessible by any member of the public, 40,000 people have already signed this petition. Why would the Government spend time and resources chasing up on each of those 40,000 people in the middle of a recession when they have so many bigger issues to worry about-just because they signed a recognised and legitimate Government petition, acting within the law?

2) What difference would it make anyway? What's the point? It took one woman to cause a revolution in Egypt, billions of tiny drops of water come together to form the ocean...there is always a point-even if it is just the fact that we can say to Allah (SWT) on the Day of Judgement "We saw a brother in need, we did this to try to help him."

3) We don't want to ask this "non-Muslim" or non-shariah government for anything, we should just make dua and not do this petition. That would have been fair enough if this was an Islamic state. The bottom line is that there is no third option-Trial in UK or trial in the USA. No one has asked Babar what kind of trial he would like. Once you are arrested and locked up, you are bound by the laws of the authorities that locked you up in the first place-whether you like it or not.

4) I want to sign it but I have had so much on, I have been too busy to get to it. This petition expires on 10th November 2011-then that opportunity to sign will be over.Imagine the feeling of sadness and regret if we miss out our target of 100,000 by just a small handful of signatures-that could have been if people didn't procrastinate. Or worse still, seeing the news that Babar Ahmad has been put on a plane to the US.

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#18 [Permalink] Posted on 1st November 2011 20:54

Number of signatures: 76,988 to date.

Closing: 10/11/2011

23,012 more needed.

Please use the correct email address as you need to verify the signature by clicking on the link they send you.

Jazakallah

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#19 [Permalink] Posted on 1st November 2011 22:34

mashallah the front page idea is brilliant!!!

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#20 [Permalink] Posted on 2nd November 2011 15:19

Number of signatures:
89,817

Almost there InshaAllah

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#21 [Permalink] Posted on 2nd November 2011 19:28

Number of signatures: 93,158

May Allah make it easy for our brothers and sisters in Islam and make the petition worthwhile and a lesson for others to ponder over.

Shame to all those who have not signed on purpose.

If we give up and don't help our brothers and sisters, we will be making it easier for the kuffar to destroy, divide and conquer us.

Muslims are for today, tomorrow and for ever.

Remember the pledge of the sahabas with the prophet SAW, they were going to wage war for the sake of one Muslim.

Look at the Taliban, they gave up their rule of the only Islamic country in the world for the sake of one Muslim.

All we need to do is sign the petition and inshaAllah, the kuffar will give testimony to our support for one Muslim.

If we reach the 100,000 mark it would be great. If we surpass the Target, which we should've done a long time ago, it will send shivers down the spines of those who think they can treat Muslims like animals.

We should be walking talking examples of true Islam.

We are the flowers of this ummah and at the same time, we are thorns that protect the flowers too.

We are One ummah, we are one body. If one part of the body feels pain, the whole body is affected. If one Muslim is in pain and we don't feel his pain, can we say we are part of that body?

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#22 [Permalink] Posted on 2nd November 2011 20:41

I'm just a kid, get your kids to sign too.

theres no age limit. as long as you are british you can sign it.

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#23 [Permalink] Posted on 2nd November 2011 22:01

MashaAllah, almost there.

Number of signatures:
97,771 Changed in seconds to 98,130 and again to: 100,457

Petition Created by:
Ashfaq Ahmad

Closing:
10/11/2011

SubhanAllah, May Allah reward brother Ashfaq Ahmad for starting this Petition.

Can you Imagine, Ashfaq Ahmad has MashaAllah, earned the reward and Dua's of 100,000 people InshaAllah. What a Muslim!

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#24 [Permalink] Posted on 2nd November 2011 23:33

101,126

Subhanallah. Now I wish I created a tracker to see how many went from the splash message on this site.

The message has now been removed but I do hope signatures continue to rise.

Amazing effort.

Wassalam

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#25 [Permalink] Posted on 3rd November 2011 17:12

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-15573941

Babar Ahmad parliamentary e-petition hits 100,000

By Dominic Casciani

Home affairs correspondent

Babar Ahmad:
An e-petition supporting a terrorism suspect held for seven years without charge has topped 100,000 signatures - the level for a parliamentary debate.

Mr Ahmad was first arrested by the Metropolitan Police in 2003 but then released without charge. The force later paid him �60,000 compensation after admitting that he had been assaulted during arrest.

In 2004 he was arrested again to face extradition to the US and since then he has been held in maximum security prison units. Two British judges who have dealt with Mr Ahmad's case have raised concerns, with one describing his continuing detention as an "ordeal".

Read more in the link above.

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#26 [Permalink] Posted on 3rd November 2011 20:30

May Allaah reward all the brothers and sisters that signed the petition.

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The believers are only those who, when All�h is mentioned, feel a fear in their hearts and when His Verses (this Qur'�n) are recited unto them, they (i.e. the Verses) increase their Faith; and they put their trust in their Lord (Alone)

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#27 [Permalink] Posted on 3rd November 2011 20:33

Imagine how the brother and his family feel knowing that more than 100,000 British muslims are supporting them.

AllaahuAkbar!! This is a great achievement!!

May Allaah protect the brother and keep him firm on the religion. (ameen)

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#28 [Permalink] Posted on 3rd November 2011 20:35

Yasin wrote:

Is there anyway you can find out?

May Allaah reward you and increase you in good.

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#29 [Permalink] Posted on 3rd November 2011 21:19

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"Yasin" wrote:

101,126 Subhanallah. Now I wish I created a tracker to see how many went from the splash message on this site. The message has now been removed but I do hope signatures continue to rise. Amazing effort. Wassalam

Is there anyway you can find out? May Allaah reward you and increase you in good.

The idea came across my mind too, but then I thought that if we find out, what will it do apart from generate pride in one way or the other.

If you do find out the stats then please don't display them here, just PM those who want to know.

We are not all the same! I fear pride may overcome me and for others it has no effect. Because their heart is better than mine.

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#30 [Permalink] Posted on 4th November 2011 02:22

I agree. There's no way of finding out except by contacting their site which is pointless as they must have had several thousand different referral sites.

I do believe that I'd feel the same satisfaction if one person signed it due to the message that I'd feel if one thousand signed it.

At the same time, I'd feel the same disappointment that one more didn't sign it that I'd feel that a thousand more didn't sign it after seeing the message.

So it's better that we don't have the stats.

All I know is, the hope should be reward and positive results. May Allah reward everyone. It's a tragedy we're in this situation in the first place.

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