Sakina Ka'aba

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Islamic editors in Wikipedia have censored the Sakina entry we originally authored, removing most of its content, including all reference to the cosmic feminine, the satanic verses, and the whole section relating sakina as peace to takiya as faking the peace. The entire Sakina entry has also been subsumed as Islamic, under the Wiki Project Islam, when it has a wider cultural significance, also encompassing the sacred feminine and Jewish mysticism.

Please gro.aidemikiw|q-ne-ofni#aidepikiW liam-e and help liberate this editorial misuse, contrary to the pursuit of knowledge.

Compare the original with the censored version:

1. Original full Wikipedia Entry (in Wikipedia Sakina history)
2. Sakina Ka'aba Mirror of Original
3. Reduced Censored version currently on Wikipedia

It is essential to protect Wikipedia against vested establishment interests misusing the editorial collective socially to make it an instrument of canonical doctrine.

Introduction

The Sakina Ka'aba (Kaaba) is an emergent evolving sacred space, recreating the religious and sexual freedom of the original Ka'aba of Mecca, which everyone can contribute to and enrich. It is a site for all peoples, both religious and non-religious, including Muslims, Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, lovers of the sacred feminine in all her forms, nature shamans and pantheists, agnostics and athiests alike, provided each can accept a relationship of ecosystemic coexistence, and interdependence, in which no path, or belief, is allowed to dominate over the evolving nature of personal experience, or the natural diversity of the living planet.

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It's purpose and presence is to regain the spirit of religious diversity and respect for the sacred feminine, which was lost when Muhammad cursed al-Lat, al-Uzza and Manat, beloved in the environs of Mecca, in the Satanic Verses, leading to jihad and the genocide at Medina, and then, when he did embrace the peace of Sakina, the spirit of tranquillity related to the Hebrew Shekhinah, in the Treaty of Hudaybiyah, again turned away from the spirit of concord, when he had the force of numbers, and marched on Mecca and smashed the idols of the Ka'aba, ordered the slave singer Sarah to be killed the same day; and other singers who sang against Muhammad had their tongues cut out; and the shrines to the Goddess were desecrated and obliterated from the face of the Earth.

Before Islam, the Ka'aba was a holy shrine where all religions were respected. To regain this spirit of cooperation and make it possible for all paths to come to the holy site in freedom from persecution, the Sakina Ka'aba is a virtual planetary sanctuary, where the holiness of wholeness is respected, where all paths are accepted, in so far as they can mutually co-exist in peace. We seek to provide a space of indwelling tranquillity, in which women are safe from any threat of violence, free from any form of enforced cloistering, or covering, and able to freely express themselves, and act as they see fit. A home ground in which both sexes can meet in safety from repression, in which all people can describe their their life accounts and spiritual experiences on an equal footing as living beings, without fear of oppression, fatwah, or jihad.

In the place of the uniform rule of order, is the freedom of women and men to express ourselves, and our relationships with one another, and with the universe, in creative diversity, and to reflower the verdant paradise with living diversity throughout our generations.

We would like to see the Sakina Ka'aba become a sanctuary for women who have been directly affected by the male supremacy of all patriachal traditions, including Christianity, Judiasm, Hinduism, Buddhism and particularly Islam, which is the direct source of this unraveling, to be able to use the Sakina Ka'aba as a refreshing sanctuary, just as the spring of Zam-Zam, which Hajira is believed to have discovered in the desert by where the Ka'aba now stands, whose flight, when deserted by Abraham, became the basis of the name the Hajj pilgrimage now bears.

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A Fatwa on Purdah

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1. A Fatwa on Purdah: Unveiling Niqab, Burqa, Chador and Hijab The full 50 page Fatwa Monograph with full discussion of Sharia and Hadith.
2. Fatwa on Purdah: Unveiling Hijab, Niqab, Burqa and Chador High Quality Stereo MTV Video (Contains disturbing material)
3. Download of the mp3 stereo musical production Lyrics

This article is a fatwa to unveil the veil and liberate the world from violent and lethal punishments for adultery. It is designed to be explanatory, for Muslims, and non-Muslims alike, on the status of the veil, and its more oppressive forms. If you are a Muslim, it is set out as a valid religious opinion. If you are not a Muslim, its grounds are human common sense and compassion. It includes scientific and biological arguments, which are valid for all human beings, traversing all human cultures, and have implications for the practices of other religions as well as Islam. In religious terms, this is a fatwa rejecting the claim that, under Muslim teachings, women are required to wear the veil, or that it is desirable to do so.

It has come about now, because a conservative Muslim cleric in Saudi Arabia has called on women to wear a full veil, or niqab, that reveals only one eye. Sheikh Muhammad al-Habadan, an influential ultra-conservative cleric, known for cursing the Olympic games as showing ‘obscene scenes’ and giving a fatwa that permits the killing of the owners of satellite TV stations who show "immoral" content, who was answering questions on the Muslim satellite channel al-Majd, said showing both eyes encouraged women to use eye make-up to look seductive.

Although the one-eyed niqab is part of an older tradition, noted in the hadith, when a religion gets to the point of issuing a command that half the people on the planet are to be allowed to see only through one eye, whenever they go out in the world, it brings that religion into disrepute.

To cut out one eye from being able to perceive the world at large, is an assault on the most basic integrity and autonomy of the human being. The need to cover the woman entirely comes from a mistaken notion that because women are beautiful and attractive, they are entirely awrah (sexual parts), and thus must be entirely concealed, even to covering one eye, or they will pose a shameful threat to themselves and to their family, through being uncontrollably attractive to strange men.

This is an assault, not only on women, the sex who bear the living generations of humanity, but on men, social trust, the natural world, and our access to it. It stands alongside dire punishments, such as stoning women for adultery, which are an affront to the basm-allah بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم “Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate”. Neither niqab, nor stoning, are in the Qur’an, so it is a time to take stock and make the way clear, so women will not continue to be oppressed.

Sakina Pages

• Sakina Sakina A July 07 mirror on the meaning of "Sakina" from Wikipedia
• The Story of Sakina An account of Sakina, Muhammad, jihad and Islam.
• The Song of Sakina and the Video

Sakina Sources

• Sakina Wisdom Earth Democracy
• Islam, Jihad and Sakina from Sexual Paradox

Sister Sites

• Sister Sites

Virtual Shrines

To become a gallery of creative experiences, contibuted by all who pass through the Sakina Ka'aba giving expression to the diversity of Sakina.

Please bless the Sakina Ka'aba with a virtual shrine of your own creative contributions as gifts to the sacred diversity of this site.

• The Black Stone Pictures and history of the Ka'aba, the stone and the Goddesses.
• Arabian Gods and Goddesses before Islam
• Three Voices of the Shekhinah

Transformative Visions

To become a consensual basis for developing insights of how to best care for the living planet in perpetuity compassionately throughout our generations.

You are warmly invited to contribute your insights.

• Truth, Love and the Future Three Sufi Poems.
• The Trouble with al-Llah Unveiling reality.

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Joining Sakina

You can fertilize and bless this creative process by adding your own insights and new comments, images and features by clicking the how to join link on the left.

Currently membership is by application, or invitation, while the seed site is being put together by site members, but will open to public participation, once the first round of site conception is complete.

If you apply to join as a site member now, you will then become free to add additional images and commentaries, create new pages, initiate and join in the discussion forums to raise issues and discuss our experiences and plans for the future together. If you have already been invited to join, you can do so immediately using the site password and gain membership immediately.

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