Love for the Prophet SAW

 A young man was arrested beside the Rawdah of the Prophet ﷺ.

Four police officers arrested a young man near the blessed Rawdah of the Prophet ﷺ. Without saying a word, they immediately tied his hands behind his back with a rope.

The young man kept asking, "What have I done? I'm neither a thief nor a criminal. Why are you treating me like this?"

An elderly man had been watching the entire scene from a distance. He approached the officers and said, "I know this young man."

The police asked, "How do you know him?"

The elderly man replied, "I always see him standing or sitting in front of the Prophet's ﷺ Rawdah, sending salutations (salawat), offering salam, and weeping. Why have you arrested him? Is he a thief?"

The young man was an Albanian, around 35 or 36 years old, with shoulder-length hair and a light beard.

The police replied, "No, he is not a thief. He is from Albania and has been living in Madinah for six years without legal residency documents. We have tried many times to deport him back to Albania, but every time we arrest him, he somehow escapes. We always find him again in the Prophet's Mosque. This time, we had no choice but to tie him up immediately."

The elderly man asked, "What will you do with him now?"

They answered, "We will enforce the law. We are taking him to the airport and putting him on a plane back to Albania."

The young man wept, realizing that this time he might truly have to leave the city of Madinah—the city filled with the memories of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.

After a while, he pleaded with the officers:

"Please understand. I do not steal, rob, deceive, or harm anyone. I came here only out of love for the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. I have no worldly purpose."

The officers replied, "That is not enough. According to the law, you must return to your country. Foreigners cannot remain here without legal permission."

As they escorted him out of Al-Masjid an-Nabawi, the young man made one final request. The officers allowed him.

He looked toward the Green Dome and, overcome with emotion, cried out:

هل هكذا كان الاتفاق بيننا؟!

"O Messenger of Allah! Was this our agreement? I left my business, my family, and my parents so that I could become your neighbor, but now they will not let me stay."

As he uttered these words, he collapsed to the ground.

The officers initially thought he was pretending to faint so he could escape again. But when they lifted him up and poured water on his face, he did not respond.

One officer exclaimed, "Perhaps he has suffered a stroke or a heart attack. Call an ambulance immediately!"

An ambulance arrived and took him to the hospital. After examining him, the doctor said:

"He passed away about an hour and a half ago."

The officers broke down in tears, saying:

"By Allah, while carrying out our duty, we never realized the depth of this man's love for the Messenger of Allah ﷺ."

After he was washed, prayed over, and prepared for burial, he was taken to Jannat al-Baqi' and buried there.

The young man who was supposed to depart for Albania instead departed for Jannat al-Baqi', leaving behind a moving example of love for the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.

Translated from Arabic

By Golam Kibriya Azhary

Khalid ibn al-Walid, the Sword of Allah.

 

Not many Muslims around the world make it here. So I thought you guys might appreciate this. 

Tucked away in a corner of a mosque in Homs, Syria, lies the resting place of one of the greatest warriors in Islamic history.. Khalid ibn al-Walid, the Sword of Allah.

I’m not Muslim, but I knew I couldn’t leave Syria without standing in front of his mausoleum.

The man who never lost a battle. The commander who shattered Byzantine power at Yarmouk and opened the gates of Syria to Islam. His dome-topped resting place sits quietly in the corner of the mosque that carries his name.

Standing there felt heavy. Not like a tourist stop… more like standing in the presence of a real historical figure.

Palestine must not be forgotten. 🇵🇸

 We are taught that Islam teaches us to forgive, and it does — but forgiveness does not mean forgetting.

To forgive someone who has wronged you can be an act of strength, faith and trust in Allah. It means you choose not to let hatred consume your heart, and you leave the matter in the hands of Allah. But forgiveness does not require you to erase what happened, abandon your boundaries, or allow the same harm to happen again.

And when it comes to Palestine, we must never confuse forgiveness with forgetting.

We must not forget the lives lost.

We must not forget the families torn apart.

We must not forget the children who have suffered.

We must not forget the homes destroyed, the people displaced, or the pain endured.

Remembering Palestine is not hatred.

Speaking for Palestine is not hatred.

Standing against injustice is not hatred.

Islam teaches us to stand for justice, even when it is difficult.

We can forgive without forgetting. We can seek peace without abandoning justice. And we can pray for an end to suffering while refusing to let the world forget Palestine.

Because forgetting an injustice does not heal it — sometimes, remembering is how we make sure it is never repeated.

Palestine must not be forgotten. 🇵🇸

They Cannot Compete With Us"

 🇹🇷Turkish General’s Bold Message on !srael: “They Cannot Compete With Us — We Are Not Like Other Countries”

Retired Turkish Lt. Gen. Zekai Aksakallı, former commander of Türkiye’s Special Forces, has delivered a strong assessment of Türkiye’s military capabilities in relation to Israel.

Speaking during a CNN Türk broadcast at the TEKNOFEST Mavi Vatan event, Aksakallı said: “Israel does not have the capacity to compete with us. We are not like other countries.” Turkish media reported that he was discussing Türkiye’s growing military capabilities and transformation of its domestic defence industry.

Aksakallı also highlighted Türkiye’s transformation over his roughly 26 years of experience in conflict and crisis environments, recalling that Turkish forces had significantly fewer capabilities when he began his career. He contrasted that period with Türkiye’s current defence-industrial capabilities and technological development.

The remarks represent Aksakallı’s personal assessment rather than an independently verified comparison of the overall military capabilities of Türkiye and Israel.

Source: Yeni Şafak, reporting on Aksakallı’s CNN Türk remarks; TRT World for his military background.

ICC gets Sanctioned

The US Treasury sanctioned International Criminal Court President Tomoko Akane on Tuesday.

Any assets she holds in the United States are now frozen, and she’s largely cut off from the American financial system. Senior ICC trial lawyer Abdoulaye Seye got hit with the same penalties.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio broke the news on social media, saying the administration was sanctioning Akane and Seye “in our unwavering mission to protect Americans from this sham of a court.” Akane, a Japanese judge who has led the ICC since March 2024, and Seye, a Senegalese trial lawyer, will be barred from transactions with any US person or entity starting September 17. In practice the reach goes further than the legal text. Banks tend to treat sanctioned officials as untouchable, severing ties well beyond what’s technically required to avoid getting caught up in US penalties themselves. This is the latest move in a campaign the Trump administration has run against the court since February 2025, when it first sanctioned ICC officials over the arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. Those warrants, issued in November 2024, accused the two of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza. More than a dozen ICC judges and prosecutors have now been sanctioned. Rubio called the court “a corrupt and fatally politicized supranational court that has maliciously abused its authority and exceeded its mandate.” The ICC answered the same day, saying the sanctions “undermine the rule of law” and warning that threatening judges for applying the law puts the entire international legal order at risk. REMEMBER: the US signed the Rome Statute that created the ICC back in 2002 but never ratified it, so it was never bound by the court’s jurisdiction to begin with. Israel isn’t a member either. Neither is Russia, which didn’t stop the ICC from issuing a warrant for Vladimir Putin in 2023 over the war in Ukraine. Washington had no objection to that one tho. The sanctions are drawing legal challenges on multiple fronts. In June, three ICC judges sued the Trump administration, calling the measures “arbitrary and capricious.” Last week, four human rights groups filed a separate suit in a New York court, arguing the sanctions block victims of war crimes from pursuing justice through the court at all. Akane addressed the earlier round of sanctions back in February 2025, saying she regretted an order that would harm the court’s independence and “deprive millions of innocent victims of atrocities of justice and hope.” The institution she leads was built as the legal answer to the world wars and the Holocaust. Now its own president can’t hold a bank account in the country that helped write the treaty that created it.

Imran khan

Imran Khan, the former Pakistan prime minister and legendary cricket captain, will be moved from his “death cell” in prison to hospital amid concerns about his health.

The Supreme Court of Pakistan ordered on Tuesday that Khan, 73, should be moved to hospital, having been in jail for the last three years for a string of cases following his ousting as prime minister in 2022⤵️

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2026/08/18/imran-khan-to-leave-death-cell/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_fb_photo_khan-to-leave-death-cell/