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Inside this issue
Four misunderstood words .... 3
Rocket Science
Islam and science ................... 6
Muslim EPL players ............... 11
July 2021
Thul Qaidah / Thul Hijjah 1442
The sunnah of visiting the sick
In a hadith recorded by Bukhari Rewards for visiting the sick
and Muslim, Prophet Muhammad
Many hadiths describe the
(saw) said, “Every Muslim has five
rewards for visiting a sick person,
In the name of Allah, rights over another Muslim: to
including the blessings of the
return the greetings, to visit the
most Gracious, most Merciful angels, and Jannah (Paradise).
sick, to accompany funeral
processions, to accept an “When the Muslim visits his (sick)
invitation, to respond to the one Muslim brother, he is harvesting
who sneezes.” the fruits of Paradise until he
returns” (Muslim).
This article deals with the second
of these five rights: the right to be “Whoever visits a sick person or
visited by your Muslim brothers visits a brother in Islam, a caller
and sisters if you are sick. cries out to him, ‘May you be
happy, may your walking be
We often hear of people around us
blessed, and may you occupy a
– family, friends, work colleagues,
dignified position in Paradise’” (at-
etc – who are sick. visiting them
Tirmidhi).
when they are sick not only fulfils
the blessed sunnah; it also serves “There is no Muslim who visits a
as a reminder for ourselves. (sick) Muslim early in the morning
Imagine you were the sick person. but that seventy-thousand angels
How would you feel if nobody send blessings upon him until
visited you? This is especially evening comes, and if he visits
important if the person is really him in the evening, seventy
sick, or in hospital. thousand angels send blessings
upon him until morning comes,
and he will have a garden in
Paradise” (at-Tirmidhi).
Etiquette of visiting the sick
There are various practices in the
Islamic method of visiting the
sick.
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Intention: Before visiting the enter upon a sick person, then
sick, you should make the ask him to supplicate for you, for
intention of visiting the sick. In a his supplication is like the
well-known hadith, Prophet supplications of the angels” (Ibn
Muhammad (saw) said, “Actions Maja).
are according to intentions, and
everyone will get what was Conversation: The conversation
intended.” In other words, you will you use to talk to the sick person
only get rewards for visiting the should be joyful and positive. The
sick if that is what you intended. sick person may be in pain and
downhearted, so happy topics
Timing: You should not turn up should be used to cheer them up.
at a sick person’s house or the
hospital at any time of the day or Conclusion
night. You should check Living at a time when people are
beforehand that the time you becoming more distant and
intend to arrive is convenient for disconnected from one another, it
the sick person. is increasingly important that we
Brevity: The person you are revive the sunnah of visiting the
visiting is sick. They may be in sick. Not only will this benefit the
pain, drowsy from drugs, or sick person and you, but it will
sleepy. You should therefore also help build relationships and a
make your visit short, so as to not beautiful community based upon
overburden the sick person. This prophetic mercy for one another.
is unless the sick person asks you Can you imagine the impact on a
to stay longer. non-Muslim if we visited them?
Gift: A thoughtful gift will always This was the way of our beloved
be appreciated by a sick person. Prophet (saw). Despite his many
and varied responsibilities in the
Needs: During the visit, it is good community and at home, he
to ask the sick person if they have would always make time to visit
any particular needs, and then try people, keep the ties of kinship
to fulfil them. A hadith shows that and bonds of friendship strong,
Prophet Muhammad (saw) did and this was even more so when
this: “The Prophet (saw) visited people were unwell.
an ill person and asked, ‘Do you
long for anything? Do you long for “Allah will say on the Day of
sweet bread (ka’k)?’ The man Resurrection, ‘O son of Adam, I
replied, ‘Yes.’ So they sent was sick but you did not visit Me.’
someone to bring some ka’k for He will say, ‘My Lord, how can I
him” (Ibn Maja). visit You when You are the Lord of
the worlds?’ Allah will say, ‘Did
Duas: The person visiting a sick you not know that My servant was
person should say duas for their sick and you did not visit him, and
full and speedy recovery. Perhaps had you visited him you would
more surprisingly, there are have found Me with him?’”
hadiths that state that the (Muslim).
opposite should also occur. “If you
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Four misunderstood words
This article explains four terms that The noun jihad comes from the
have different meanings and verb juhud, meaning “to strive,
interpretations for Muslims, and struggle”. It does not mean “holy
non-Muslims. Needless to say, this war”. War in Arabic is harb and
leads to misunderstanding by non- holy is muqadassa. In extreme
Muslims, and to frustration among cases, jihad may involve fighting,
Muslims. but with strict limitations.
Jihad There are many teachings of
Probably the most misunderstood Prophet Muhammad (saw) (hadith)
or misrepresented Islamic word is that show this.
jihad. This was discussed in the Upon returning from battle,
February 2015 issue of Rocket Prophet Muhammad (saw)
Science1. explained, “We are returning from
It is not surprising that non- the lesser jihad to the greater
Muslims have a distorted jihad.” That is, the greater jihad is
understanding of the word jihad, the jihad against yourself, the jihad
when standard English dictionaries, against Satan, the jihad to become
such as the Longman Dictionary of a better person, the jihad to do
Contemporary English2, define it as more charitable deeds, etc. The
“A holy war fought by Muslims”. lesser jihad is fighting.
This incorrect definition is also In another hadith, Prophet
used by US courts of law: “As used Muhammad (saw) explained, “The
in this First Superseding greatest jihad is to battle your own
Indictment, ‘Jihad’ is the Arabic soul, to fight the evil within
word meaning ‘holy war’. In this yourself (nafs).”
context, jihad refers to the use of He also said, “The most beloved
violence, including paramilitary jihad to Allah is a word of truth in
action against persons, front of a tyrannical leader.”
governments deemed to be
enemies of the fundamentalist
version of Islam.”3
This situation led the Egyptian-
born American Muslim leader, Dr
Maher Hathout, to write a book
entitled Jihad vs. Terrorism, to set
the record straight, because of “the
discovery that everyone is defining
us except us, everyone is
explaining jihad except for
Muslims.”4 That is, the true
meaning of the Arabic, Islamic
word jihad is surely the one that is
understood by Arabic-speaking
Muslims (and indeed Arabic-
speaking non-Muslims).
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Fatwa schools allowing their students not
to wear school uniform on
To many non-Muslims, the word
particular days. Usually, students
fatwa is equated with “death
who turn up in everyday clothes
sentence”. The origin of this
are expected to give a gold coin
mistaken translation is usually the
donation (ie $1 or $2), and the
fatwa issued in 1989 by Ayatollah
money collected is donated to a
Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran in
charity. A very admirable way of
connection with the book The
raising money for charity.
Satanic Verses by British author
Salman Rushdie. The fatwa called When used in this way, the word in
on “all brave Muslims” to kill normally pronounced muff-ti.
Rushdie and his publishers. However, many people may not
realise that the word has Arabic
In reality, a fatwa is an opinion
origins, where it is pronounced
issued by an Islamic scholar, on
moof-ti. The Arabic word mufti is
the basis of their knowledge of
related to the Arabic word fatwa. A
Islam, the Quran and hadith,
mufti is therefore a religious
Arabic language, qiyas (use of
scholar who issues fatwas.
analogy), ijma (consensus among
Probably the highest-profile mufti
scholars), mathhabs (different
nowadays is Ismail Menk5 of
schools of thought), etc. Only after
Zimbabwe, who regularly appears
lengthy consideration by an
in online talks, khutbahs, etc.
established scholar can a fatwa be
issued, and it represents that So, how are the two words (for
scholar’s personal opinion. everyday clothes, and for the
Muslim cleric) related?
Fatwas are not binding, as they
only represent opinions on Heretaunga College in Upper Hutt,
Mufti Ismail Menk
contentious issues. Abu Hanifa and Trident High School in
(ra), the founder of the Hanafi Whakatāne, New Zealand, have
mathhab, said, “This knowledge of recently6 changed their “Mufti
ours is opinion; it is the best we Day”. Heretaunga are now calling it
have been able to achieve. He who “Be Yourself Day”, and Trident
is able to arrive at a different have adopted the Māori expression
conclusion is entitled to his opinion “Kakahu Kainga” meaning “home
as we are entitled to our own.” clothes”. The schools decided to
drop the word “mufti” after
Nowadays, fatwas are issued on a
learning the origins from an article
number of issues relating to
by the New Zealand online
modern everyday life, such as
magazine and news site The
vaccination, women’s rights, the
Spinoff.
wildlife trade, kidney donation,
marriage, etc. In short, they do not The article7, by historian Katie
call for the execution of another Pickles, describes how the term
human being. was coined. “Once upon a colonial
time during the Raj in India, off-
Mufti
duty British military leaders
People in New Zealand are familiar adopted a subjugated culture’s
with this word, from the practice of
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informal attire. It appears that Jesus. Similarly, the Buddha is the org/wp-
officers started dressing in robes central figure of Buddhism, and content/uploads/2020
and slippers that they slightly people go to Buddhist temples in /02/Rocket-Science-
mockingly thought resembled order to pray in front of statues of Feb-2015.pdf
garments worn by Mufti. This the Buddha. 2
happened at a time when, with the www.ldoceonline.com/
However, the analogy does not dictionary/jihad
objective of rendering them
work. Prophet Muhammad (saw), 3
obsolete and powerless, the web.archive.org/web/
while being a major figure in Islam,
authority of Mufti in India was 20051227172402/htt
is not the most central entity to it;
being extinguished. From there, p://www.milnet.com/
Allah (swt) is. And people do not
the British Army started using the 2nd-indictment-hayat-
go to Muslim mosques in order to
word ‘mufti’ for their days out of dist-court.pdf
pray in front of statues of Prophet 4 Handwerk, B. What
uniform when they wore loose and
Muhammad (saw). There are no Does “Jihad” Really
comfortable clothing (including
statues of Prophet Muhammad Mean to Muslims?
dressing gowns). One culture’s
(saw) or any other of Allah’s National Geographic
power dressing was another’s play
prophets, as idolatry is haram in News, 24 October,
clothes.” 2003.
Islam. And no Muslims pray to
Mohammedanism Prophet Muhammad (saw). This news.nationalgeograp
would be considered shirk, hic.com/news/2003/1
The final term recently appeared in 0/1023_031023_jihad
associating someone as being on a
the answer to a crossword clue in .html
par with Allah (swt). In many 5
the New Zealand Herald
places in the Quran, Allah (swt) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
newspaper. The clue was “religion”
states that Muhammad (saw) is a Ismail_ibn_Musa_Men
(and an anagram).
human messenger, eg k
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commonly used in European (3:144). www.nzherald.co.nz/r
literature until at least the mid- otorua-daily-
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1960s. Muslim is more commonly
not used by Muhammad (saw) plenty-school-
used today, and the
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term Mohammedan is widely
religion is referred to as Islam; in due-to-cultural-
considered archaic or in some insensitivity/O62BBHO
the Quran (5:3), Allah (swt) states,
cases even offensive.”8 It is archaic HD2XDAW44PT5NYEL
“This day have I perfected your
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religion for you, completed My
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for you Islam as your religion.” Its y/12-02-2020/a-
developed, rational, flexible, and
followers are known as Muslims, as mufti-day-is-
superior” and, vice versa, that
in the Quran (2:128): “Our Lord, enormous-fun-but-
Islam is undeveloped, irrational,
make us Muslims (in submission) time-to-give-it-a-new-
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that Jesus Christ (Isa, as) is the You.” Both words relate to the root en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Mohammedan
central figure of Christianity, and “s - l - m”, with the meaning of
9
people go to Christian churches in finding peace by submitting to the
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
will of Allah (swt). Orientalism
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Islam and science
For centuries, people have argued established in 1984 by
about whether religion is Sheikh Abdul Majeed al-
compatible with science1. For Zindani with the backing of
instance, ever since the writings of the Muslim World League. The
Charles Darwin (1809 – 1882), his commission, and its conference,
Theory of Evolution has been has been criticised for its perhaps
brought forward in evidence over-zealous reporting of eminent
against the existence of a God scientists, giving their statements a
(Allah, swt). slant that could not be called
neutral.
Equally, some scientists have
bought forward evidence for the “Marine scientist William W.
existence of a God (Allah, swt). In Hay complained of having fallen
Islam, this often involves into a ‘trap’ in interviews, while
examining how what was written embryologist Gerald Goeringer
(Muslims would say “revealed”) in claimed ‘mutual manipulation’
the Quran 14 centuries ago between the scientists and
corresponds with scientific conference organizers.”3
discoveries from the last century or
Other scientists complained that
two, ie at least a millennium after
“they were misrepresented, their
the revelation of the Quran. There
video quotes were taken out of
is, they argue, no way in which
context (often after days of
anyone in the 6th or 7th century
preparation to get them to say
could have known these scientific
words that could be used in the
facts. It is, they conclude, perfectly
video), and were sometimes
reasonable to suggest a non-
quoted in written works saying
human origin for these passages,
things they had no recollection
ie they were not written by Prophet
whatever of saying.” 3
Muhammad (saw), but by a higher
power (Allah, swt). In light of this criticism, the
following discussion only details
There are many resources on the
scientists who have been
internet that list Quranic passages
accurately reported, often in videos
and the scientific truths that they
available on YouTube, etc.
convey2. It is not the purpose of
this article to list them again. The branches of science in which
Instead, this article describes these scientists work are primarily
modern, largely western, scientists embryology, astronomy and
who have been surprised by the geology.
correspondence between Quranic
Embryology
verses and recently discovered
scientific facts. As a result, some of The development of the human
these scientists have converted to embryo in its mother’s womb is
Islam. described in Surah al-Muminun
(23:12-14):
A word of caution
The Commission on Scientific Signs
in the Quran and Sunnah3 was
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“We (Allah) created man from a couldn’t read, didn’t know how to
quintessence of clay. We then write, in fact he was an illiterate.
placed him as a nutfah (drop) in a We’re talking about 1,400 years
place of settlement, firmly fixed, ago, you have some illiterate
then We made the drop into person making profound
an alaqah (leech like statements that are amazingly
structure), and then We changed accurate, of a scientific nature. I
the alaqah into a mudghah personally can’t see how this could
(chewed like substance), then We be mere chance, there are too
made out of that mudghah, izam many accuracies and like Dr
(skeleton, bones), then We clothed Moore, I have no difficulty in my
the bones with lahm (muscles, mind reconciling that this is a
flesh) then We caused him to grow divine inspiration or revelation
and come in being and attain the which led him to these
definitive (human) form. So, statements.”5
blessed be God, the best to
Similarly, E Marshall Johnson (born
create.”
1930) was Professor and Chairman
Keith L Moore4 (1925 – 2019) was of the Department of Anatomy and
Professor Emeritus of the Developmental Biology, and
Department of Anatomy and Cell Director of the Daniel Baugh Keith L Moore
Biology, University of Toronto, Institute, Thomas Jefferson
Canada. His Wikipedia page University, Philadelphia,
comments, “the Holy book claims Pennsylvania, USA. Commenting
that at one point the embryo looks on the same description in the
like a small piece of meat which Quran, he states, “As a scientist, I
can be chewed, or mudghah, and
Moore consents, “by golly, it does,
sorta”, agreeing and signaling to
the knowledge we have about the
structure and appearance of the
actual embryo, which actually
comes into a stage where it
resembles the size of a small thing T. V. N. Persaud
which can be chewed by teeth ie it
is approximately 1.0 cm.
Meanwhile in the alaqah stage, the
embryo is forming and only 3.5
mm, which can’t be chewed.”
T. V. N. Persaud (born 1940) was
Professor of Anatomy, and
Professor of Paediatrics and Child
Health, University of Manitoba,
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He E Marshall Johnson
echoed Keith Moore’s observations:
“It seems to me that Muhammad
was a very ordinary man, he
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can only deal with things which I Joe Leigh Simpson (born 1943)
can specifically see. I can was Professor and Chairman of the
understand embryology and Department of Obstetrics and
developmental biology. I can Gynaecology, Baylor College of
understand the words that are Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA. He
translated to me from the Quran. … echoed the above opinions: “These
if I were to transpose myself into hadiths (sayings of Muhammad)
that era, knowing what I do today could not have been obtained on
and describing things, I could not the basis of the scientific
describe the things that were knowledge that was available at
described. I see no evidence to the time of the ‘writer’. It follows
refute the concept that this that not only is there no conflict
individual Muhammad had to be between genetics and religion
developing this information from (Islam) but in fact religion (Islam)
some place ... so I see nothing may guide science by adding
here in conflict with the concept revelation to some of the
that divine intervention was traditional scientific approaches.
involved in what he was able to There exist statements in the
write.”6 Quran shown centuries later to be
valid which support knowledge in
On another occasion, he stated,
the Quran having been derived
“To see any detail in it as is
from God.”9
described in the Quran, I need an
instrument that wasn’t developed
until the 1700s.”7
Tejatat Tejasen was Chairman of
the Department of Anatomy and
Tejatat Tejasen the Dean of the Faculty of
Medicine, University of Chiang Mai,
Thailand. He observed, “I became
interested in the Quran. … From
my studies and what I have
learned throughout this
conference, I believe that
everything that has been recorded
in the Quran fourteen hundred
years ago must be the truth, that
can be proved by the scientific
Joe Leigh Simpson means. Since the Prophet
Muhammad could neither read nor
write, Muhammad must be a
Messenger who relayed this truth
which was revealed to him as an
enlightenment by the one who is
eligible creator. This creator must
be God, or Allah.”8
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Astronomy Professor Siaveda is a Professor of
Marine Geology in Japan. He
An often-quoted astronomical
observed that the shape of all
passage in the Quran is in Surah
mountains, whether they are on
al-Anbiya (21:30): “Have not the
land or in the sea, is in the shape
disbelievers seen that the Heavens
of a wedge. “Could anyone during
and the Earth were one piece and
the time of Prophet
we parted them? And We made
Muhammad have known of the
every living thing from water. Will
shape of these mountains? Could Professor Siaveda
they not then believe?”
anyone imagine that the solid
This is the Big Bang theory of the massive mountain that he sees
origin of the universe, not before him actually extends deep
proposed by scientists until the into the earth and has a root as
1940s. scientists assure? A large number
of geography books when
Yushidi Kusan (born 1920) was the
discussing mountains, only
Director of the Tokyo Observatory,
describe that part which is on the
Tokyo, Japan. He remarked, “I say,
surface of the earth. This is
I am very much impressed by
because they are not written by
finding true astronomical facts in
specialists in geology, but modern
Quran, and for us modern
science informs us about it
astronomers have been studying
and Allah says in the Quran, ’And
very small piece of the universe.
the mountains as pegs.’”11
We have concentrated our efforts
for understanding of very small
part. Because by using telescopes,
we can see only very few parts of
the sky without thinking about the
whole universe. So by reading the
Quran and by answering to the
questions, I think I can find my
future way for investigation of the
universe.”10
Geology
Discussions about geology in the
Quran often mention the following
verse from Surah an-Naba: “Have
We not smoothed out the earth like
a bed, and made the mountains as
its pegs?” (78:7). The pegs
referred to here are like tent pegs,
not pegs for hanging washing.
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Conclusion
1
Perhaps the most famous such en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relationship_bet
scientist is Dr Maurice Bucaille ween_religion_and_science
(1920 – 1998), who was chief of 2
the Surgical Clinic, University of www.slideshare.net/kingabid/miracles-
Paris, France. He is famous for the of-the-quran-new-full-colour-pdf-book
1976 book The Bible, The Quran www.ioqas.org.sa/wp-
and Science12, originally in his content/uploads/Scientific-Miracles-in-
the-Quran-and-Sunnah.pdf
native French, but subsequently
www.ukm.my/kamal3/iae/The%20Basi
translated into many languages. s%20of%20Muslim%20Belief.pdf
On page 119 of the book, he 3
writes, “These scientific en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_on_
considerations, which are very Scientific_Signs_in_the_Quran_and_Su
specific to the Quran, greatly nnah
surprised me at first. Up until then, 4
I had not thought it possible for en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_L._Moore
one to find so many statements in 5
idealmuslimah.com/quraan/scientists-
a text compiled more than thirteen
Dr Maurice Bucaille amazed-by-the-quraan/303-prof-tvn-
centuries ago referring to persaud.html
extremely diverse subjects and all 6
of them totally in keeping with www.radioislam.org.za/j3/index.php/re
modern scientific knowledge.” sources/library/158-the-noble-
quran/10604-quran-findings-of-prof-e-
Does Islam have a problem with marshall-johnson.html
science? No. 7 www.thedeenshow.com/amazing-
quran-miracle-embryology/
8 idealmuslimah.com/the-
quraan/scientists-amazed-by-the-
quraan/313-tejatat-tejasen.html
9
idealmuslimah.com/quraan/scientists-
amazed-by-the-quraan/305-prof-joe-
leigh-simpson.html
10
www.facebook.com/theawakenings/pos
ts/yushidi-kusan-director-of-the-tokyo-
observatory-tokyo-japan-i-say-i-am-
very-much/957650614264512/
11 muslimconverts.com/islam-and-
science/OriginOfEarth-Mountains.htm
12
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Bucaille
13
www.islamicbook.ws/english/english-
048.pdf
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Muslim EPL players
In the March 2021 issue of Rocket Science, we listed all the Muslim
players in the English Premier League (EPL). Almost every EPL team has
some Muslim players, some of them being stars, such as Liverpool’s
Mohamed Salah and Manchester City’s Ilkay Gundogan. Here we highlight
four Muslim players who have recently shown their Muslim identity by
their actions on the pitch.
April/May 2021 was Ramadan. Being able to fast, and to
break your fast, was thus a difficult time for Muslim
footballers. In the match against Southampton on 30
April, play was stopped in the 29th minute to allow
Leicester defender Wesley Fofana to break his fast.
After Chelsea defeated Manchester City
1-0 in the UEFA Champions League final
on 29 May, Antonio Rüdiger gave thanks
to Allah for the result.
After their EPL match against Fulham on 18 May, Manchester
United players Paul Pogba and Amad Diallo held up a flag in
support of Palestinian rights.
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