sentenced to DIE after Ramadhan

[aisha83]

Asalamualaikum,

please remember Brother MirzaTahir Hussain in your dua'as at iftar time, during salah, tahajjud and Taraweeh. His hanging has been delayed until after Ramadhan (please see story below). :(

The month of Ramadhan, a month when they shayateen are locked up, the gates of Jannah are wide open and prayers are answered.

The Prophet said: Duas of three persons are not refused: a fasting man when breaking the fast, a just ruler, and an oppressed person, Allah's blessings be upon him. (Abu Huraira in Tirmidhi).

Please continue to contact the Foreign secretary, Pakistan's High Commissioner and President Musharraf by visiting the link below http://www.ihrc.org.uk/show.php?id=1852

JazakAllah khair

Walaikumsalaam



http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/5391090.stm

'No reprieve' for death row man

Mirza Tahir Hussain was due to be hanged on Sunday
Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf has repeated that he cannot intervene in the decision of a court to execute a Leeds man on death row in his country.
Mirza Tahir Hussain, 36, was jailed in 1988 for killing a taxi driver and was due to be hanged on Sunday.

His conviction was quashed by the High Court in Pakistan. He was retried by an Islamic court and sentenced to death.

General Musharraf said on ITV's The Sunday Edition that he could not overturn the judgement.

"I am not a dictator," he said. "I cannot violate a court judgement, whether you like the court or not."

Oxford Union

Mirza Hussain was due to be hanged at 0500 BST on Sunday morning but it has not happened - reportedly because it is the holy month of Ramadan, when executions are not usually carried out.

His family in the UK staged a demonstration at the Oxford Union last week, where the President was addresssing students.

His brother Amjad, appearing live on ITV immediately after President Musharraf's recorded interview, said his statement "beggared belief".

"The President can pardon my brother if he chooses. He is empowered by the Pakistan constitution - it is nothing to do with dictatorship."

Brother 'suffered'

He told the BBC Asian Network earlier that the rollercoaster ride of emotion would now go on.

"My brother has suffered beyond belief," he said.

The Oxford demonstration was joined by Amnesty International's UK death penalty campaigner Sara MacNeice and Catherine Wolthuizen, the director of campaign group Fair Trials Abroad.

Earlier this year the Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett appealed to President Musharraf to halt the execution.

The Prime Minister Tony Blair is also believed to have raised the issue during recent talks at Chequers with President Musharraf.

[aisha83]

:(

bumping up the views and inshAllah hopefully the campaigning as well

[wilford]

Let's just pray for the repose of his soul..

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[Nusayba bint Ka'b]

I will keep him and his family in my duas inshaAllah.
May Allah accept our duas, ameen.

[awwabah]

I don't see what the big deal is. He commited murder. He has been tried in a court of law, where there were lawyers and there was a Judge. he was found guilty. That's all there is to it. I think the most one can do is pray to Allah to forgive him the sin of killing a fellow human being and pray to Allah that he truly has repented.
He's been in jail 18 years, they've been over his case all that time. he's guilty and it is Allah's judgement that he should be punished for his crime.

He doesn't get special kudos because he's got a dual nationality.

I feel sorryfor the poor taxi drivers family who now have to fend for themselves orphaned and widowed and derived of their son.

salam alaykum

[bint]

yeah but why delay his hanging?,
he might as well be hung now than after ramdhan, makes sense.

[Refugee]

Pakis normally dont carry out death sentences during the month of ramadan

[tricky]

But he is adamant that he didn't commit the crime and having done 18 years, I think that, that is punishment enough. I feel so sorry for him and his family.

[awwabah]

Well everytime I think of huddud laws I remember the prophet's companions going to intercede for the woman who stole and the prophet saaws getting angry then going to the minbar and calling the people and saying to them that if Fatima bint Mohamed had stolen then he would have ordered her hand to be cut off, and that the previous ummahs were destroyed (halaku) because they didn't follow the huddud laws put down by Allah.

You know there are only 500 ayahs in the whole Quran which the scholars of Islam use to bring us the laws and the rest is aqueedah and i3tibar(alqisas), belief and morals, there's a reason, the belief must be so firm that if Allah tells us to do something and we hate to do it, we will do so, that's what belief is. complete and absolute surrender and submission to Allah. Your love for Allah is measured by the degree of accepting his decrees.

The guy was tried in a court of law, they spent 18 years reviewing his case, he was found guilty, case ends. I would feel extremely sorry for him if after all this time he hadn't repented of the sin, then it would be suffering in this world and the next-yes there's a next world.

The woman who commited adultery kept on going to the prophet to be stoned, and the prophet kept turning her back, first to deliver the baby, then to breat feed the baby and finally when the baby was full grown she went and said I want to be purified. She didnt know whether her istighfar had been accepted or not, she wanted to make sure the other life was going to be in heaven.

As for leaving him until after ramadan, I think that's very kind of them, he gets a chance to pray to Allah to forgive him his sin when the gates of heaven are open.

:wswrwb:

[Dante Alighieri]

Actually, the Lahore High Court dismissed the case twice, citing lack of evidence and discrepancies. It was the Federal Shariat Court later that found him guilty, despite lack of evidence and despite required eyewitnesses. Of the three judges, it was a 2-1 decision, with the dissenting judge strongly advocating that Tahir be acquitted of all charges.