Posted on Wednesday, April 23 @ 16:21:49 EDT By Taliban Online
Anonymous writes "From: - Sahih Muslim - Kitab Al-Fitan wa Ashrat As-Sa`ah.

The Book Pertaining to the Turmoil and Portents of the Hour

Book 041, Number 6923:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: Iraq would withhold its dirhams and qafiz; Syria would withhold its mudd and dinar and Egypt would withhold its irdab and dinar and you would recoil to that position from where you started and you would recoil to that position from where you started and you would recoil to that position from where you started, the bones and the flesh of Abu Huraira would bear testimony to it.

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Clearer English translation of the wrom Syria - "Syria has a diversified economy based in agriculture and industry. The agricultural sector generates employment for a large percentage of the population. Wheat is the most important crop. ... its major exports are Petroleum, natural gas, textiles, food and live animals and manufactured goods".

Comparing with Islamic terminologies "mudd" is also a unit of measurement and interestingly almost always refers to a measure of Wheat! Here is a Hadith from Sahih Bukhari that mentions about Mudd as a measure of Wheat (grain).

Volume 2, Book 24, Number 497:

Narrated Abu Masud Al-Ansar:

Whenever Allah's Apostle (p.b.u.h) ordered us to give in charity, we used to go to the market and work as porters and get a Mudd (a special measure of grain) and then give it in charity. (Those were the days of poverty) and to-day some of us have one hundred thousand.

Another mention of Mudd in relation with Wheat comes from the time of Umar (ra). It states:

Yahya related to me frops. As an example see below:

In Cairo, in 1365, the Mamluke prince, Yalbagha Al-Umari, ordered that each student at the mosque of Ibn Tulun (who was living there as someone who live in a hostel/dormitory in a university today) be given forty dirhams and one irdab of wheat every month.

Mudd is the basic unit - and around 2.5 mudd equals one Sa'. If one Irdab is sufficient for a youth for one month - that means that an Irdab of Wheat is a lot more than a Mudd of Wheat. This is because one Mudd is considered enough food for one person at one time. Sa' is considered enough for a day - so if Irdab is enough for a month - it would be a much larger measure.

Based on this information - in my humble opinion - this means that the Hadith is telling us that the "measure" of Sanctions on Egypt - the "Wheat, or Crops for Money" program imposed will be much worse than that on Syria.

So next time - if someone asks "who is next" on the US list - you know exactly who that would be.

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Terbitan : 25 April 2003

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