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Redwan Ferdaus: October 31, 2012 (Sentencing Statement: “Hope in Humanity”)
Dear family and friends, Judge Stearns, all those listening today both near and far, I, Rezwan Matin Ferdaus, stand before you all today to speak openly and at length, as accorded the opportunity to do...
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Mohammed Hamid: Addressing Hijra, the Mujahideen, and Sharia (More Scary Words)
[...continued from Part Four: Islamic Words are Guilty Words] Read from the beginning here. So here is my gathering: I didn’t teach them any of these [violent] acts, but I told them to be physically...
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Tariq Mehanna: November 24, 2012 (A Brief Conversation)
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم The photocopied lunar calendar affixed to the wall reminds me that today is the tenth of Muharram, 1434. It is the day of ‘Ashura’… …My mind travels back 1433 years to the city...
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Mustafa Kamal Mustafa: May 21, 2012 (Some Have to be Wronged)
A9962AQ Mostafa aka Hamza Wing A3 12 21-5-12 HM Prison Belmarsh Western Way Thameshead London SE28 0EB بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم السلام عليكم Assalamo Alikum W.B. Dear respected Sister, Praying to the...
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A Message to the Ummah from Ustadh Abu Taubah
Alhamdulillah wa kafaa From Abu Taubah to everyone: As Salaamu ‘Alaykum wa Rahmatullah. I’d like first and foremost to thank everyone for continuing to show support through these difficult times. And I...
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Fayiz Al Kandari: A Voice from Guantanamo
Fayiz Al Kandari is one of two Kuwaitis still held in the controversial prison and he says he is innocent. A lawsuit has accused Kuwait of conspiring with the US to torture prisoners [EPA]Fayiz Al...
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Zachary Adam Chesser: January 25, 2013 (The War on Salaah Persists)
BismIllaah ir-Rahmaan ir-Rahiim, As-salaamu ‘alaykum wa rahmatUllaahi wa barakaatuh, My name is Abu Talhah Zakariyya Al-Amriikii (legally Zachary Chesser, and I am a prisoner of the American...
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Abdullah Abu Shalbak: On Visitation Day
Episodic thoughts always overlap, and the constricted prison turns wide. Meanings become delicate. Sullenness of prison and sterile bitterness of cell are merely segments of a broken, dying world of...
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Firas Abu Shekhaidem: Prison and Pain
Narrow is the prison hole. Stubborn is the prison wall. I was contemplating the absurd. I imagined fleeting summer clouds and a sunshine descending a slope softly and touching the ground. I twinkled....
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Bassam Al Natsha: I Breathe Sweet Memories
A state of estrangement stole my heart and found its way through my breaths. I could not describe it. There, between the bricks of isolation and the bars of prison, pathways are stretching open, and...
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Jesse Curtis Morton: March 23, 2013 (Egypt and the IMF – An Economic Struggle...
In the two years since the Arab Uprisings turned over the geopolitics of the Middle East, coherent outcomes have escaped concrete formulation. Debate amongst policymakers in the West tends to split...
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Jesse Curtis Morton: March 23, 2013 (I Hope to Hear from You Soon)
Assalamulaikum warahmatullahi wa barakatuhu: Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, sender of the Messengers and the Revelation with them, Master of the day we die and the day we rise to be accounted...
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Chauncey Lamont Hawkins: March 25, 2013 (And Certainly, We Shall Test You…)
All praise is due to Allah, and the Salaat and Salaam be upon the Messenger of Allah, his family and his companions. AsSalaamu Alaykum wa RahmatuAllah wa Barakatu, my dear brothers and sisters in...
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Marcus Robertson (Abu Taubah): May 01, 2013 (This Simple Action Will Change...
Bismillah walHamdulillah wa salaatu wa salaamu ‘alaa rasulillah. As salaamu ‘alaa man attabi-ul hudaa. I have been in solitary confinement since November 2012. I am kept in a concrete cell with no...
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Zachary Adam Chesser: May 5, 2013 (It is The Name by which Tribulations are...
BismIllaah ir-Rahmaan ir-Rahiim: I had recently set out on the task of translating the book Fat’h ul-Majiid by ‘Abd ur-Rahmaan ibn Hasan, which is the most famous explanation of Muhammad ibn ‘Abd...
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Zachary Adam Chesser: April 24, 2013 (Response to ‘A Benefit from Prison –...
[Response to Sh. Ahmad Jibril's article 'A Benefit from Prison – When They Turn Their Backs on You!'] SubhaanAllaah, I am not a scholar, but this is very true and I have seen it myself. The number of...
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Chauncey Lamont Hawkins: April 19, 2013 (Upon Witnessing Gaflah, Parts 1 and...
[UPDATE: July 15th Hearing, Still in need of legal funds due to postponing of trial ] BismillahiRrahmaniRrahim Alhumdulillahi Rabbilalamin Wassalaatu wassalaam ala rasulillah wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa...
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Tahakum & Using the Courts & the Kufr Legal System
Question 1 [Tahakum & Using the Courts & the Kufr Legal System]: We have read in the book Al-Thalaatheeniyyah fit-Tah’theer min al-Ghuluww fit- Takfeer by Sheikh al-Maqdisi (May Allah Hasten...
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Zachary Adam Chesser: April 24, 2013 (Response to ‘A Benefit from Prison –...
[Response to Sh. Ahmad Jibril's article 'A Benefit from Prison – When They Turn Their Backs on You!'] SubhaanAllaah, I am not a scholar, but this is very true and I have seen it myself. The number of...
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Establishing al-Hukm Shari’a fi Sijin
Question 3: In some facilities the Muslims are given a great deal of leeway in policing themselves. It is to the point where some aspects of the Sharii’ah can be implemented in the community without...
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