Dr. Aisha Utz has
returned to her Lord رحمها الله
بسم الله
الرحمن الرحيم
الحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على نبينا محمد
The eyes shed tears, there is sadness and grief in the
heart, but we only say things pleasing to our Lord. Indeed we are saddened by
the passing away of our dear sister Aisha رحمها الله.
إنا لله
وإنا إليه راجعون
Indeed to Allaah we
belong and to Him we shall return.
Allaah, the Most Perfect and the Most High, said,
155. And certainly, We shall test
you with something of fear, hunger, loss of wealth, lives and fruits, but give
glad tidings to As-Sabirin (the patient ones, etc.).
156. Who, when
afflicted with calamity, say: "Truly! To Allah we belong and truly, to Him
we shall return."
157. They are
those on whom are the
Salawat (i.e. blessings, etc.) (i.e. who are
blessed and will be forgiven) from their Lord, and (they are those who) receive
His Mercy, and it is they who are the guided-ones. [Al-Baqarah 2:155-157]
Usamah bin Zaid (May Allah be pleased with them) reported:
A daughter of the Prophet (ﷺ)
sent a message to him that her son was at his last breath, and requested him to
come to her. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) sent back the
informer saying: "To Allah belongs what He takes and what He gives, and
everything has a limited period (in this world). So ask her to endure
patiently, and expect the reward of Allah."
أن لله تعالي ما أخذ وله ما أعطى، وكل شئ عنده بأجل مسمى، ...فلتصبر
ولتحتسب”. [Al-Bukhari and Muslim].
Aisha was a dear friend to many. She was a very quiet,
gentle, humble and polite sister despite her raised rank educationally as
Assistant Professor at the University in Riyadh.
She accepted Islaam due to justice. When she knew that there
would be a Day on which no-one would be wronged and that everyone would take
their right.
She was very studious and loved to research. She was always searching for the
truth and meticulously asking about the correct way and whether it was from the
salaf or not.
When she learned something was right she was strong in implementing it.
She attended Shaykh Saalih Fawzaan’s lectures. She attended
the Madeenah Conferences when Salafi Publications and the other salafi centres
came together for umrah and seeking knowledge. She taught Tawheed to the
sisters in her hometown in Minnesota, USA at the salafi Masjid al Wahyain.
Someone forwarded me a message that was circulating on
various whatsapp groups speaking about Aisha’s past contributions to Al Jumuah
Magazine and Bilal Philips’ Online University. This message should have been
deleted by admin and our sister’s reputation should have been defended. Many
sisters who did not know Aisha thereafter doubted her salafiyyah. Admin of
groups need to fear Allaah in their responsibilities especially when they are
allowing people by passively giving them a platform to promote their deviant
ideologies. Many links to deviant materials were also included in that message.
It also provided links to her books that she had written to download as a PDF.
This surely was in breach of her copyright and took away from her royalties to
the books (and those of her children after her!)
Aisha had studied Islaam according to what was available to
her at the time which she later found to be incorrect. Once she had found the
true path of Islaam according to the Salaf as Saalih The Pious Predecessors,
she left her previous paths she had tread. This included writing for a magazine
and preparing courses for an online ‘Islamic’ university.
She personally told me, “I wasn’t Salafi when I wrote my
first two books so I don’t usually recommend them to people. For ‘The Prick of
a Thorn’, I was getting more into true Salafiyyah so that one is better.”
She said to me once, ‘The nice thing about having Salafi
sisters is that you know that they will implement the Sunnah which is very
important.’
Her 6 children are a testament to her striving and the Islaam
that she directed them to اللهم بارك .
She displayed great patience with the immense pain she was tested with during
her final illness. Her sabr and tawakkul (patience and putting her trust in
Allaah) was an inspiration to all those around her. She made plentiful du’aa
and prepared for her death with seeking forgiveness and sincere repentance. Allaah accept it from her, forgive her sins
and make her grave spacious aameen.
She will be greatly missed in the community.
Aisha رحمها الله passed away before our eyes on Sunday 31st
March 2019 / 24th Rajab 1440 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia after living in
the Middle-East for 17 years.
Her name: Umm Mujaahid (Lauren) Aisha Utz (name from a previous marriage - Aisha
Hamdan).
Written by
Umm ‘AbdirRahmaan Tara Hashim
Riyadh,
Saudi Arabia
1st
Sha’baan 1440/ 6th April 2019
Appendix
Errors Relating to
Al Jumuah Magazine
- Its Editor Hassan Laidi
spoke badly about Shaykh al Albaanee and Shaykh Muhammad Amaan al Jaamee.
- The magazine prevented an
advert for Shaykh Rabee’s book on ‘The Methodology of the Prophets’ and
they spoke badly about him because the shaykh حفظه
الله had refuted the deviances of Sayyid Qutb and Mawdoodi.
- The masjid funded by the
magazine was supporting Safar al Hawaalee and Salman al ‘Awdah who were
two revolutionaries imprisoned on recommendation by the noble scholar
Shakyh bin Baz رحمه الله (former mufti of
Saudi Arabia).
- The Publishing Director
Mounir Ibrahim used to teach new Muslims the false ideology of ‘Al
Haakimiyyah’.
- The magazine promoted the
erring Jamaal Zarabozo as mufti.
- The magazine cut and paste
from the erring Munajjid’s website.
- The magazine advertised
deviant organizations such as ISNA, ICNA and IANA.
- The magazine was run by Al
Muntada al Islami who are known to be deviant.
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Errors Relating to Bilal Philips
- Bilal Philips is an
‘ikhwaanee’ and not a ‘salafee’ as he has claimed in the past.
- He praises the founders of
deviant ideologies such as Muhamad Qutb, Hasan al Banna (who was a sufi
and worked with the raafidah shee’ah) and Mawdudi.
- He supports the misguided
way of revolution and political activism.
Written by
Umm ‘AbdirRahmaan Tara Hashim
Riyadh,
Saudi Arabia
4th
Sha’baan 1440/ 9th April 2019
