April Fools

[Honeey]

Assalamu alaikom,
As we are approaching April 2006, we need to remind
ourselves..........................!!!



APRIL FOOL


Most of us celebrate April fool day every year and fool each other. But
how many of us know the bitter facts hidden behind it. It was around a
thousand years ago that Spain was ruled by Muslims. And the Muslim power

in Spain was so strong that it couldn't be destroyed. The Christians of
the west wished to wipe out Islam from all parts of the world and they
did succeed to quite an extent. But when they tried to eliminate Islam
in Spain and conquer it, they failed. They tried several times but never

succeeded. The unbelievers then sent their spies in Spain to study the
Muslims there and find out what was the power they possessed and they
found that their power was TAQWA .

The Muslims of Spain were not just Muslims but they were practicing
Muslims.
They not only read the Quran but also acted upon it.

When the Christians found the power of the Muslims they started thinking

of strategies to break this power. So they started sending alcohol and
cigarettes to Spain free of cost. This technique of the west worked out
and it started weakening the faith of the Muslims in particular the
young
generation of Spain.

The result was that the Catholics of the west wiped out Islam and
conquered the entire Spain bringing an end to the EIGHT HUNDRED LONG
YEARS'
RULE OF THE MUSLIMS in Spain. The last fort of the Muslims to fall was
Grenada
(Gharnatah), which was on the 1st of April. From that year onwards,
every year
they celebrate April fools day on the 1st of April, celebrating the day,
they
made a fool of the Muslims.

They did not make a fool of the Muslim army at Gharnatah only, but of
the
whole Muslim Ummah.

We, the Muslims, were fooled by the unbelievers. They have a reason to

celebrate April fool day, to keep up the spirit.

Dear brothers and sisters, when we join in this celebration, we do so
out of ignorance. If we had known about it, we would never have
celebrated
our own downfall. So now, that we are aware of it, and now let us
promise
that we shall never celebrate this day. We should learn our lesson from
the
people of Spain, and shall try to become practicing Muslims, never to
let
anybody weaken our faith.

Please forward this message to as many people you know. The more people
you
forward it to the greater will be the reward from your Lord in this
world
and the hereafter. Please try to do it before the 1st of April, to
create
awareness that WE ARE NOT FOOLS ANYMORE.

[Larache4eva]

thanks for this information, i actuallt wasn't celebratin aprils fool, but i was aware when it as soon or the day..n used to joke wit friends about on tha day so thats not a good thing for muslims take part in..we not fools to keep it on

[brim]

That, the OP, is nonsense! The celebration predates all of that in the OP and goes back to Roman and Hindu times maybe further. All Fool's Day was a folk celebration and elite participation in it was minimal (which is why it's so difficult to trace the exact origin of the day, because the people celebrating it back then weren't the kind of people who kept records of what they did).