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Topic: The reality of Nike-A question that needs to be asked properly!
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 sayfullaah
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| in Greek religion, the goddess of victory, daughter of the giant Pallas and of the infernal River Styx. Nike probably did not originally have a separate cult at Athens. As an attribute of both Athena, the goddess of wisdom, and the chief god, Zeus, Nike was represented in art as a small figure carried in the hand by those divinities. Athena Nike was always wingless... |
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| uk_Salafi
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته
Just to add to what our brother has posted
"THE SWOOSH
The SWOOSH logo is a graphic design created by Caroline Davidson in 1971. It represents the wing of the Greek goddess NIKE.
Caroline Davidson was a student at Portland State University interested in advertising. She met Phil Knight while he was teaching accounting classes and she started doing some freelance work for his company.
Phil Knight asked Caroline to design a logo that could be placed on the side of a shoe. She handed him the SWOOSH, he handed her $35.
In spring of 1972, the first shoe with the NIKE SWOOSH was introduced ? the rest is history.
NIKE: THE GREEK GODDESS OF VICTORY
NIKE, pronounced NI-KEY, is the winged goddess of victory according to Greek mythology. She sat at the side of Zeus, the ruler of the Olympic pantheon, in Olympus. A mystical presence, symbolizing victorious encounters, NIKE presided over history's earliest battlefields.
A Greek would say, "When we go to battle and win, we say it is NIKE." "
| I remember that our brother Abu Abdillah Hasan as-Somali was to have asked one of the ulamah regarding this, Shaykh Ubayd if I remember correctly, maybe he can post the response here if he has it at hand? |
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Hudhayfah ibn al-Yamaan radiallaahu 'anhu said. "The people used to ask the Messenger of Allaah sallallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam about the good, but I used to ask him about the evil for fear that it would overtake me ..."
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| shahid393
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as-salaamu 'alaykum,
is the issue solely with nike, or is it with any matter that is named after a false god?
examples of this are:
saturn cars (saturn was a god of the romans)
mazda cars (ahura mazda was a god of zoroastrians/magians)
mercury cars (mercury was a god of the romans)
venus razors (venus was a goddess of the romans)
isis breast pump (isis was a goddess of the egyptians)
juno internet service (juno was a goddess of the romans)
the days of the week (named after mostly norse gods)
the months of the year (some of them named after roman & greek gods)
aboo husaam shaheed williams
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| Yusef.Masood
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Was Salem Aleikoem Wa Rahmatoellaahi Wa Barakatoehoe
I have a question regarding NIKE:
Does this mean we can`t wear any nike clothes or shoes?
Inshallaah somebody can answer my question
Barrakallahoe fiekoem
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| Umm.Mariam
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Bismillah,
Assalaamu alaikum,
A while back there was an article with regards to wearing clothes with a cross/cucifix symbol upon them. This was answered by one of the Ulemah in a very clear and easy to understand manner mashaAllah.
If anybody remembers this article and has a copy of it then please could they post it here, as i believe this would greatly help with regards to this query of wearing clothes with Nike written on or with the symbol. As clearly the cross is something which is worshipped by the Christians as Nike was worshipped by the Greeks.
Jazaakallahu khairan.
Wassalaamu alaikum
Umm Mariam
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| zejd.peqin
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| MehdiMaghribi
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بسم الله الرحمان الرحيم
we asked our noble sheikh falaah ismail hafidahou Allah in Germany and we showed him the sign Nike and we told him what it means he said that it is allowed to wear Nike.
he said that the fire is worshipped and we use fire.
this was in the presence of some of the brothers of maktaba salafya when we visited the sheikh in Germany last year.
wa Allahou a'lam
there is an other answer from sheikh ahmad annajmi rahimahou Allah
http://z-salafi.com/v2/action?s_menu=23&idFatwa=825
there is a very interesting and detailed answer from the noble salafi sheikh mohammad ali ferkous hafidhahou Allah who is a specialist in fiqh and oussoul:
http://www.ferkous.com/rep/Bi76.php
if one of the english speakin toulab can translate it it would be good because the sheikh gives general rules about brands names and symbols
wa bi Allahin attawfeeq
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| Hamza-L-F
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Asalaamu 'alaikum,
Shaykh Farkus' article has already been translated into English:
http://www.ferkous.com/eng/Bi76.php
wa salaam
Subhaanakallaah humma wa bi Hamdika Ashadu allaa ilaha illa ant, astaghfiruka wa atooba ilayk
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