mashaAllah, Helpless, your post helped me to see the good news, and to have an opportunity to thank Allah for helping this brother, and to ask Him for more help for this prisoner and others.

i understand your feelings: we may have no power at all, if power is measured only in terms of freeing and imprisoning persons. that is one of the powers that the Bush Administration abuses so readily, reminding me most of the words of Pharaoh that Allah reports in Surah An-Naziat: “ana rabbukumul-aala (i am your lord the most high).” it takes supreme arrogance for a human being to think himself godlike, or to exercise power as though there were no accountability to Allah. so i pray for the members of the Bush Administration repentance and remembrance of the One Who is Most High, Allah.

and i remind you that dua to, and dhikr of, Allah are the weapon of the believer, his shield, and his fortress. Allah is our wali and mawla, so no believer is ever without help and succor.

and everyone who reads these words today should go themselves or send everyone they know to the hearings on December 17, in NYC.

if not for “Helpless”‘s subhanAllah-bump, i would never have seen this good news!!! while i pray Allah will soon make the prison-address-info irrelevant by advancing Tariq’s release on bail, yet i would have loved to have had that address information earlier… alhamdolillah alaa kulli haal.

[posted by abu abdAllah]