Follow OCA: Twitter | Facebook | Pinterest   OCA Homepage The Biggest Food Labeling Scam of All Time Last week the junk food industry tested the limits of credulity when it asked the FDA to officially allow food manufacturers to use the word “natural” on labels describing foods contaminated with genetically modified organisms. It’s just one more reason we need to push harder than ever in 2014 for state GMO labeling laws and county bans. Thanks to the more than 2,800 of you who have already contributed, we’re getting closer to our year-end fundraising goal of $200,000. If we can raise $45,000 by midnight December 31, your donation will be worth twice as much, thanks to a matching grant from natural health leader Mercola.com. Can you make a tax-deductible donation to the Organic Consumers Association today? (If you want your donation to be used exclusively for GMO labeling legislation or initiatives, in Vermont, Oregon or elsewhere, you can donate to the Organic Consumers Fund, our allied lobbying arm). Ever since GMOs invaded our food supply, the Junk Food Giants have been hiding the truth from us—and getting away with it, thanks to their cozy, revolving-door relationship with the FDA. But it wasn’t enough to slip their unsafe, untested—and unlabeled—GMOs into our food. Once food manufacturers realized that consumers would pay a premium for anything labeled “natural,’ they took their deception to a whole new level. Absent any legal definition of the word “natural,” they slapped it on everything in sight—including foods containing genetically engineered soy, corn and beets. Now that the FDA is about to finalize its (voluntary) guidelines for GMO labeling, food companies want to be sure the FDA doesn’t crack down on one of the biggest food labeling scams of all time. It’s one more battle to wage. For months, you helped us fight Congress (and finally win) the repeal of a law that gave Monsanto immunity from federal courts. Then you watched with us, stunned, as the food industry’s multi-billion dollar lobbying group brazenly broke campaign finance laws by laundering millions of dollars in campaign contributions used to defeat (by a mere 1 percent) a GMO labeling law in Washington State. Now this. Where will it end? It will end with you. It will end with us. Monsanto and Big Food have underestimated the power of grassroots organizing if they think we will give up. We won’t. And neither should you. If you’ve already contributed to our year-end campaign, thank you. If not, please consider a generous donation today. If we can raise $45,000 by midnight December 31, your donation will be worth twice as much, thanks to a matching grant from natural health leader Mercola.com. Can you make a tax-deductible donation to the Organic Consumers Association today? If you want your donation to be used exclusively for GMO labeling legislation or initiatives, in Vermont, Oregon or elsewhere, you can donate to the Organic Consumers Fund, our allied lobbying arm. Thank you! Ronnie Cummins National Director, Organic Consumers Association and Organic Consumers Fund P.S. More than 80 percent of our funding comes from individual donors like you. Thanks to you, the OCA has been able to OCA to donate more than $2.5 million directly to the fight for GMO labeling laws. You have forced Monsanto and Coca-Cola to take this movement seriously. Please make a generous donation to keep this fight alive. Thank you!

’Uthaimeen on Steadfastness and Not Relying on Yourself

’Uthaimeen on Steadfastness and Not Relying on Yourself

December 24, 2013 § Leave a Comment

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Shaikh ’Uthaimeen, may Allaah have mercy on him, said, “It is an obligation for a person to turn to Allaah, the Mighty and Majestic, because He is the One in whose Hands is the dominion of the heavens and the earth, so do not, for example, rely on the firmness of eemaan in your heart, relying on [the idea that] the Devil will not overcome you and that the desires of the soul that orders evil will not infiltrate you, rather always recourse back to Allaah, the Most High, and ask Him for steadfastness.”

Tafseer Surah Yaa Seen, p. 26.

Shaikh Muqbil on the Justness of Ahlus-Sunnah in Jarh and Ta’deel

Shaikh Muqbil on the Justness of Ahlus-Sunnah in Jarh and Ta’deel

December 22, 2013 

The Imaam of Yemen, Muqbil ibn Haadi al-Waadi’i, may Allaah have mercy on him, said, “Indeed in His Noble Book, Allaah عز وجل says, “O you who have believed, be persistently standing firm in justice, witnesses for Allaah, even if it be against yourselves or parents and relatives. Whether one is rich or poor, Allaah is more worthy of both. So follow not [personal] inclination, lest you not be just. And if you distort [your testimony] or refuse [to give it], then indeed Allaah is ever, with what you do, Acquainted.” [Nisaa 4:135]

And He سبحانه وتعالى said, “O you who have believed, be persistently standing firm for Allaah, witnesses in justice, and do not let the hatred of a people prevent you from being just. Be just—that is nearer to righteousness. And fear Allaah, indeed, Allaah is Acquainted with what you do.” [Maaidah 5:8]

And He سبحانه وتعالى said, “And do not let the hatred of a people for having obstructed you from al-Masjid al-Haraam lead you to transgress. And cooperate in righteousness and piety, but do not cooperate in sin and aggression. And fear Allaah, indeed, Allaah is severe in penalty.” [Maaidah 5:2]

And He سبحانه وتعالى said, “Indeed, Allaah orders justice and good conduct and giving to relatives and forbids immorality and bad conduct and oppression. He admonishes you that perhaps you will be reminded.” [Nahl 16:90]

And He سبحانه وتعالى said, “And when you speak [i.e., testify], be just, even if [it concerns] a near relative.” [An’aam 6:152]

Ahlus-Sunnah are the ones who have the most right and the greatest share of these verses and those proofs similar to them, for if they write, they write what is for them and against them, and if they talk they mention what is for them and against them.  They stick to justice whether dealing with those who are close to them or distant, whether an enemy or friend.  And if you were to look at the books of Jarh and Ta’deel you will find that they are the epitome of justness: they will disparage a man if he deserves such jarh even if he were one of the heads of the Sunnah, and they will praise a person of innovation with the good that he has if there is a need for that, contrary to the people of desires—for they will praise whoever agrees with their innovations even if he is worthless, and they vilify whoever opposes them even if he were one of the heads of the religion.”

Al-Ilhaad al-Khumaini fi Ardil-Haramain, pp. 1-2.