Lettre du Ramadan 2020
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Sans doute, cette année, le mois sacré du Ramadan sera impacté grandement par la pandémie Covid-19. Avec la propagation du coronavirus qui touche des millions de personnes dans le monde, le mois sacré du Ramadan sera très différent cette année. Néanmoins, l’importance de ce mois sacré demeure la-même.
Les 1,6 milliard des musulmans à travers le monde jeûneront chaque jour pendant le mois sacré du Ramadan pour raviver leur foi. Ils s’abstiendront du lever au coucher du soleil, de manger, de boire, de fumer ou encore d’avoir des relations intimes. Le jeûne leur permet de renforcer leur relation avec Dieu, de fortifier leur volonté et de s’identifier aux plus démunis. Chaque jour du mois, les pratiquants tenteront également de renouer avec leur foi par des actes de culte tels que la prière, la lecture du Coran et les dons caritatifs, mais aussi en ravivant leurs rapports avec leurs amis et leur famille.
Spurious Hadiths
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Scholars who spent a great deal of their lives with the hadith of the Prophet (peace be upon him) developed a sense which they could use instantly in detecting error. Their example was like that of a man who lived with a beloved friend for scores of years, knew him very well in every situation and so could easily say which statement belonged to him and which not. Similarly, a literary critic who studies a poet for a long time and becomes fully acquainted with his style can, on the basis of his perception and personal experience, easily detect a poem which does not belong to the poet. However, Muhaddithin (hadith scholars) did not depend solely on personal experience as it may be counted a form subjective criticism. In short, if a hadith was not transmitted by any trustworthy scholar, and there was a liar or a person accused of lying in the chain of transmission it was said to have been fabricated by that person.
Pious Foundations
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Al-Baqara (The Cow) Sura 2: Verse 274
"Those who spend their wealth by night and by day, in secret and in public, shall have their reward with their Lord. No fear shall fall upon them, neither shall they grieve."
The call to give to charity can be seen as the Quran's way of urging Muslims to establish pragmatic and perpetual institutions for the social transformation of society. Across the Muslim world, such institutions were known as waqfs, 'pious foundations'. Muslims seeking spiritual advancement would leave a legacy in the form of property or a plot of land as a trust in perpetuity to be used for the benefit of humanity. The individual establishing the waqf would specify its purpose clearly, and appoint a legally responsible person or group to carry out its function with knowledge and experience. Such trusts supported universities and hospitals, scholarship and learning, and funded research and travel. As George Makdisi shows in his detailed study, The Rise of Colleges, waqfs played a vital part in enabling the flourishing of science and civilisation in the classical era of Muslim civilisation.
Plastic Rice
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By Assad Bhuglah
Some food manufacturers have taken processed foods to a whole different level by making rice out of plastic. The news of plastic rice started in China, but has now reached Vietnam, Singapore, Indonesia and India. Certain rice production factories in China and other Asian countries are producing rice made of synthetic materials (mostly plastics). They are doing it because it is an incredibly cheap way to make money off of unsuspecting hungry humans. The end result of consuming plastic rice actually looks and tastes like rice with the addition of fragrance sprayed on. But this synthetic rice is toxic and dangerous for health. At present, this news is being treated as an unconfirmed rumour pouring out of various parts of Asia.
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