Founder of CSJobs
Mr. Adil Akif is the founder of CSJobs egroup.
About Adil Akif
Academics :
I did my O levels from Beacon House Karachi, A levels from Saint Patrick's High School Karachi and am a proud graduate of FAST-ICS Lahore (did my BCS from there).
Professional :
I have worked in CresSoft Karachi, FAST Lahore, Hitachi Malaysia, Fujitsu
Singapore, Sprint USA and recently joined Sun Microsystems USA as a java architect. My part time
jobs include teaching O and A level students, teaching at Preston University
Karachi, working for Citibank Singapore and building websites for small companies.
Sports :
I love to play basketball, squash, volley ball and anything else that I get a
chase at, I also love to swim, early mornings especially.
Extracurricular :
Debating and public speaking is my passion though again I like to do anything that I get a chance at.
Pass times :
I love to read and write, I am in love with Urdu poetry. In terms of writing I have written for DAWN, computer world etc.
Message from Adil Akif
Aslam-o-Alikum
This website is for Muslim IT professionals, Pakistanis in particular. It contains information about the
[email protected] which is a public service mailing list for Pakistani IT professionals (more than 90 people have been relocated with the help of this list since its commencement in Oct. 98). This website also contains useful information about Singapore and American
jobs, cost of living, salaries, sending money to Pakistan from these places, calling Pakistan, things you will need in these places etc. etc.
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Best regards
Adil
Sharing my Thoughts
Here is the extract from one of my speeches that I gave to Muslims in Kansas city, USA
(Topics discussed include : Christianity, Halal food in USA etc.)
The second surah that I recited at the start of the lecture was surah-e-ahud, the second verse of this surah lum-ya-lid walum-you-lud means that Allah does not have any father neither does he have any sons. A few weeks back I met a young 16 year old
Muslim in the church at Kansas, who is actively and enthusiastically preaching otherwise. He has been converted to Christianity and I really felt a lot of disappointment, we are the people who draw their inspiration from Al-e-Mohammad, the personalities whom the Christians dared not to confront in mubahila. However today especially our young ones are confronted by the evangelist and due to the lack of knowledge of their own religion they are unable to defend and invite those. The parents are keen to make sure that there sons and daughters get the best education and become so-called
successful in life but let me tell you that the root cause for their success in life and hereafter would be if you are able to transfer the spiritual values to them.
I would briefly like to go over this form of shirk . Christians belief that Jesus Christ was the son of God and he sacrificed his life so that the sins of the whole humanity can be washed away. Before I go any further, I would like to tell you that when I typed this statement of the majalis on my computer, Microsoft Word which is the program that I was typing this in, underlined the expression son of God as wrong as I had used a small s for son, it suggested that I change the s to capital S, as in English grammar all the words used for God start with capital letters. So you can imagine the extent of evangelism that these guys go to, by making S as capital I would be making Jesus divine, due to all this evangelism its very important that we are aware of how to defend our religion and invite them to us rather than vice versa.
In Qumran Allah says about Jesus Christ:
O People of the Book! Commit no excesses in your religion: Nor say of Allah aught but the truth. Christ Jesus the son of Mary was (no more than) a messenger of Allah, and His Word, which He bestowed on Mary, and a spirit proceeding from Him: so believe in Allah and His messengers. Do not say "Trinity" : desist: it will be better for you: for Allah is one Allah: Glory be to Him: (far exalted is He) above having a son. To Him belong all things in the heavens and on earth. And enough is Allah as a Disposer of affairs.
And behold! Allah will say: "O Jesus the son of Mary! Did you tell the men, worship me and my mother as gods in derogation of Allah'?" He will say: "Glory to Thee! never could I say what I had no right (to say). Had I said such a thing, you would indeed have known it. You know what is in my heart, I do not know not what is in yours. For you know in full all that is hidden.
"I never said to them anything except what you commanded me to say, to wit, 'worship Allah, my Lord and your Lord'; and I was a witness over them whilst I dwelt amongst them; when you did take me up you are the Watcher over them, and you are a witness to all things.
Please keep these verses of Quran in mind, it wasn't until I read the bible that I realized how much it conforms to the Islamic version of Jesus, I would like to quote from the American standard bible, please note that the verses I am about to recite are part of the bible and are not taken from any Islamic books.
Jesus is quoted in the bible as saying:
"Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone."
"The greatest commandment of all is to worship One God"
"I cannot do nothing of my own authority"
"I do as the Father has commanded me."
"The Father is greater than I."
He who is my God and yours.
He refereed to himself as prophet.
About calamity he said
"But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven,
nor the Son, but the Father only I have been sent by Him.
I do his will
I can go on and on there is a lot of evidence right inside the bible that Jesus himself treated God as an entity that was the creator. So the next time when an evangelist approaches us and our children they can reply that when Jesus himself is saying that my father is greater than I then who are they to say that he is equivalent to the father? If he is saying that he takes commands and do the will of God than nobody has the right to say that he is the form of god himself. This indeed is shirk and we need to make sure that our kids have enough spiritual material to prevent themselves from getting indulged into this shirk. In Christianity the sins are forgiven after the blood of Jesus Christ has been spilled and that we must accept him as the savior, they say that God cannot forgive the sins without some kind of punishment. While
coming for this lecture I bumped into someone and he said sorry and I said that's okay, I did not punch him, I did not punch my son and I did not punish him in any way, I just forgave him. When a mere insignificant person like me can do it, why is it so hard to imagine that the one who created me and the compassion in me will not have the mercy to forgive someone who repents with a true heart. If one cannot enter heaven without accepting the blood of Christ then what about billions of people who died before him and what about the people who lived during and after his time and never heard about him, if God is capable of forgiving there sins without any punishment then why can't he forgive mine? the
Islamic way of repentance of sin hasn't changed from the time of Adam till today.
Before I move on to the next issue I would like to quote New American Bible, in its introduction it tells us, I
quote:
"It is difficult to know whether the words or sayings attributed to Jesus are written exactly as he spoke them. . . . The Church was so firmly convinced that . . . Jesus . . . taught through her, that she expressed her teaching in the form of Jesus' sayings."
This is the same church that preached that Mary was the literal mother of God, today half of the 2 billions Christians do not belief that (they are called protestants). It took 1500 years, for half the Christians to realize that Mary is not the literal mother of God, I wonder how many more years will it take for them to realize that Jesus
was a prophet of God, not the literal son. It was the same church that made galileleo apologize when he said that its the earth and not the sun that revolves, he had to bow down and say that i am sorry i will never say that again, its the sun that revolves and not earth, on the contrary we my friends are follower of a book that is full of scientific knowledge and logic.
Salawat
After the study of bible the greatness of Quran became even more apparent to me. Today there are many of versions of bibles that differ from each other
significantly, inside the bible you will find statements (for example in luke) that these eleven verses may or may not be part of the bible, I counted around 20+ foot notes only in the first four books saying that the verses are disputed. Today there are 1 billion
Muslims in 183 countries and we fight on almost on everything imaginable amongst ourselves, we do not have any consensus or any central body, yet all of us no matter where we are have just One Quran ! Isn't it amazing that we have one central book that has been the same for last 1400 hundred years,
I would also like to share with you today an incident that happened a few months back at our sprint dinner. Where we had us and another
Muslim family on the table along with a jewish couple, and a couple of other
Indian Hindus and Americans, one of them is an atheist whose name is George. When the food had been served,
George noticed that the Hindus hadn't touched the meat dishes, he asked the
Hindus why have they not done so, and one of the persons, who has been born in Kansas and was a non vegetarian before replied that eating of meat is not allowed in
Hindu religion and the other nodded his head in agreement. I was really impressed by his religious fervor. I mean excuse my words but if you go through the
Ramayana and Vedas and look at the concepts of gods that these guys have I really commend that they are still following it, I mean there religion is
so illogical yet many of them have not forgotten the difference between halal and haram even when they are so much away from there homes. Today in every major restaurant in America you will find vegetarian dishes which is due to the fact
that lots of hindus are vegetarian. The Jew person present there did not touch the meat and on inquiry answered that torah or the old
testament disallows a person to eat an animal that is tainted with blood and is not cut in a certain way so as to get the blood out of the body of the animal and to also purify it by the name of
yewah.
Unfortunately my Muslim brother and sister could not resist eating the chicken, on the inquiry they told the guy that those are the customs that they follow when they are in India and Pakistan but as soon as they come to USA they stop differentiating between halal and haram. I could feel that persons shame when George commented that it seems that your God has changed when you came from India and Pakistan to USA. Was he an Indian or Pakistani Allah that you were worshiping back there and that he is not present in Kansas. I met a health inspector in Singapore who told me that in Singapore even the pigs are cut the halal way, as
they have found out that it is the best way for health. He thought that I am a Hindu and commented that it seems that some Arab doctors found this out and made it part of their religion. So my friends by the grace of Allah we have a religion that is extremely scientific and logical yet we suffer from such an inferiority complex that we are always enthusiastic to abandon our religious principles and call them orthodox and backward. If today we do not differentiate between the halal and
haram in terms of food tomorrow our children will not differentiate between the right and wrong in other things as well. I am so amazed that the followers of illogical religions are following it so profoundly yet the followers of an extremely scientific and logical religion feel defensive at upholding their right
principles.
My friends today we are in a time and at a place where everything like elian
Gonzales is politicized over hyped and confusing. Islam is a religion of educated people, education is a must for men and women, however please note that the purpose of education is not to earn a few thousand dollars, education is a purpose in itself, the job that you get is a consequence. Please also note that today words like 'independent', 'freedom', rights' have been grossly misrepresented in the media that actually break downs the family structure, even in animals you will find that they have family structures and family members that are dependent on each other. Yet the American concept is that the man is independent of his wife and children the wife is an independent women and the children are independent children, as
a result, they live independently and lead separate lives and die independently in old homes. Islam does not prohibit either men or women from working and earning halal money, its absolutely allowed and
infect its an ibadaat to earn rizq-e-halal whether by women or men. Yet let me also tell you that that should not be the focus of life, the reason you work is to support living and for your family, and not vice versa, both the man and the woman should remember that the primary focus is the institution of the
family. A famous saying goes that if you want your children to be successful double the time and half the money. A woman who is a mother and spends her time to train her kids should not be looked down by either her husband or the society. She is following sunat-e-zehra and probably doing the hardest and the most
Afzal of all professions, and it is in no way inferior to someone who have their kids in a day care center while they do something at an xyz location. Please
note that I am not against working women, what I am saying is that for both men and women working should be a secondary thing as compared to family and both of them should keep their work secondary to the time that they give to their children.
According to the Hindu philosophy we are passing through a time that is know kali-youg and one of the attributes of this time is that the concepts of good and bad has been confused and reversed. I am shocked to notice when people actually ask the people who are doing right about why are they doing so and actually look down upon them. I am amazed to see that today the
Muslim women who are not observing hijab are asking the ones who do why do they do it and that they are actually considered less modern or advance. Don't you think that it should be vice versa that the women observing pardah-e-zainab should feel confident and
proud of what they are doing and those who are not doing so should strive for it. The people who do eat haram look down on people who eat halal only and consider them rigid and backward. its amazing, doing a wrong thing is one thing and all of us do things that are wrong, we feel ashamed and strive for improving ourselves,
that's human. But if you do not do the right thing yourself and actually condemn and look down upon someone who is doing it and try to stop him from doing so, that is not human and that is not being modern or advanced, that is satanic and we should make sure that we do not become instruments for the evil. Whether we like it or not or whether we talk about it or not but the
fact of the matter is that most of us has a maximum of 20-30 years left in this world, kul-e-nafsin-zaiqatul-moot is a fact that even the atheist cannot deny. If we do not do right the least we can do is actually look up to the people who are doing it and ask Allah to give us the strength to follow the path defined by Quran and lived by prophet Mohammad
(PBUH) and ahl-e-bait.
More Thoughts, Topic discussed include relocation to USA as a
Muslim, Importance of Science in Islam
Even More thoughts, Topic discussed include Atheism, women in Islam
