Bismillah [IslamCity] Prayer mats
Salaams everyone, I have a question about prayer mats. I thought we lifted and folded our prayer mats to stop them becoming contaminated. During Eid celebrations several of us were discussing this and it became clear there were other views too eg. we lift them because the Devil will walk on them otherwise. Has anyone else heard this and if so can you tell me where it comes from? Thankyou http://www.petitiononline.com/hb24332/petition.html http://HerbertJBlakeney.fusiveweb.co.uk
Bismillah [IslamCity] the secular-nuclear
the Indian-secular-Rocket-bomb The USA has decided finally to supply to India any and all nuclear components and materials !! Bearing in mind , that there are more Muslims living in India than there are Muslims living in Iran one must assume that the US-Congress and the US State Department are not anti-Muslim nor are they Islamophobics . I told so !! ..didn't I ?? All religious-prejudices shall disappear when national-interest is at stake.. after all Terrorism has no religion !!! Eng. Moustafa Roosenbloom multi-culti-agent-provocateur second of October 2008
Bismillah [IslamCity] They have forgotten Back Street
Back Street Main Street Wall Street They want to save Wall Street while trying to include ,incidentally, Main Street but they surely have forgotten Back Street Because if socialism is practically the only rescuer, then they will use it to rescue the Hospitals but not the Patients. After all the Hospitals bring the profit and patients only cost money !!! It follows their same own philosophy applied in the Middle East : To fight Terrorism , you must build better prisons To eradicate apartheid , you must build higher and longer walls To glorify Judaism , you must pray at a Roman-Wall Back Street is where the deprived lives Main Street is where the illusion lives Wall Street is where ultimate-greed lives the difference with Palestine is that in New -York, is a Wall-Street but without any wall and in Palestine all the streets lead to a Wall. Raja Chemayel third of October 2008
Bismillah [IslamCity] Disbelievers Efforts Wasted
*Bismillah Hir Rahmaan Nir Raheem* *Assalaamu alaykum wa rahmatuallahi wa barakatuhu* ** *9:32 Fain would they extinguish Allah's light with their mouths but Allah will not allow but that His light should be perfected even though the unbelievers may detest (it). * -- *Surah Isra 17 verse 80 Say: O my Lord! let my entry be by the Gate of Truth and Honor and likewise my exit by the Gate of Truth and Honor; and grant me from Thy Presence an authority to aid (me). Ameen Transliteration :Wa qur rabbi adkhilni mudkhala sidqiw wa akhrijni mukhraja sidqiw wa-j'al li mil ladunka sulta_nan nasira_(n). Al-Tirmidhi HadithHadith 2482 Narrated by AbuHurayrah (May Allah be pleased with him) Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) used to say, O Allah, grant me benefit in what Thou hast taught me, teach me what will benefit me, and increase my knowledge. Praise be to Allah in all circumstances. I seek refuge in Allah from the state of those who go to Hell. Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah transmitted it, Tirmidhi saying this is a tradition whose isnad is gharib. Ameen *
Bismillah [IslamCity] Somalia: The World's Most Utterly Failed State
Last Updated: Oct 2, 2008 - 5:28:44 PM Somalia: The world's most utterly failed state 2 Oct 2, 2008 - 9:42:01 AM TIPPED off by friends in ports from Odessa to Mombasa, Somali pirates captured a Ukrainian freighter, the MV Faina, in the Gulf of Aden and steered it to Somalia’s coast. At first they demanded $20m for the release of ship and crew. The captain died, apparently of “hypertension”, and several pirates may have then killed each other after a quarrel. This recent incident was only the latest in a long list of similar outrages and highlights the growing menace caused by the total failure of the state of Somalia, the ultimate cause of the virus of piracy in the region. The ship was carrying 33 T-72 Russian tanks, anti-aircraft guns and grenade launchers. Lighter weapons may have been offloaded on the Somali shore before an American warship arrived on the scene. Kenya claimed ownership of the cargo but the manifest suggests its destination was south Sudan, with Kenya’s co- operation in its delivery to be rewarded in the future with cheap south Sudanese oil. At midweek, a Russian warship was steaming to the scene to take responsibility for its citizens on the ship. The attack was only one of at least 60 off Somalia this year. Foreign navies can intercept vessels captured by pirates, but the desolation and length of Somalia’s coastline give them little chance of stamping out piracy without much larger and better co-ordinated forces. In cahoots with gangs in Yemen, Somali pirates look set to go on hitting
Bismillah [IslamCity] How Much is $700 Billion?
How Much is $700 Billion? Jeanna Bryner - Senior Writer LiveScience.com Tue Sep 30, 2008 The short answer: a lot. The long answer: depends on how you look at it. Whatever your viewpoint, here's how $700 billion - the figure inked in the initial dead-in-the-water government bailout bill for Wall Street - compares to other vast sums. NASA in fiscal year 2009 will launch several missions into space and pay for hundreds of people to operate a host of space telescopes and even remote robots on Mars and run a PR and media department that puts most large corporations to shame. The agency's budget: $17.6 billion, or 2.5 percent of the bailout sum. The National Science Foundation (NSF) has an annual budget of $6.06 billion to support research and education on astronomy, chemistry, materials science, computing, engineering, earth sciences, nanoscience and physics (among others) at more than 1,900 universities and institutions across the United States. You have to turn to much bigger initiatives, like war and defense, to get beyond this chump change and approach the bailout figure. From 2003 through the end of fiscal year 2009, Congress has appropriated $606 billion for military operations and other activities associated with the war in Iraq, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). The entire military budget for fiscal 2008 is $481.4 billion. Social Security is a $608 billion annual program. Many analysts fear the bailout because the cost must ultimately be borne by taxpayers. Based on the U.S. Census Bureau's estimate of the current population of about 305 million people, each person would have to pay $2,300 to fund the $700,000,000,000. If each American (including children) paid a dollar a day, it would take more than six years to pay the money in full. One might argue, however, that this $700 billion would be a modest splash in the bucket of national debt, which already stands at well over $9 trillion (which means you already owe $31,642 each). Even the New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez would lose sleep over all those zeroes. Currently the top paid major league baseball player, Rodriguez takes home $28 million a year, meaning it would take 25,000 A-Rod salaries to carry the $700 billion. Nobody is rich enough to pay back this $700 billion by himself. In fact, the Forbes 400 richest list recently came out. It would take most of what these 400 people collectively have - a combined net worth of $1.57 trillion - to dig out of this mess. http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080930/sc_livescience/howmuchis700billion
Bismillah [IslamCity] Open letter to the closed minds
An olive tree and a Palestinian mother , nothing is more genuine ! Open your eyes the Israelis are not even Semites ! Open your ears , they cannot pronounce the Semitic HA nor they cannot pronounce the Semitic DA Open your intellect , their language is artificial and re-invented Open your eyes , they are Peruvians , Latvians and Ethiopians invited in, by the Polish ,Russians and the Ukrainians.. on the account of the Americans. Open your mouths.. they have copied our Falafel , Shaourma and even our Hommos are called Israeli It is not a joke , they falsified history and ethnology they re-wrote the Bible and the Old Testament was re-edited. Nothing they are, is correct nor real : not their race nor their nation nor their culture nor their origins nor their language nor their ideology nor their identities They even have created the United Nations , just to issue for them a license to steal land and false identity-cards and ever since that day (1948) , all and each United Nation's resolution was either against them or even condemning them.. Even if your harts will remain closed , open ,at least , your minds, please !! and look objectively : 60 years of occupation 4 million refugees 4 million occupied 6 wars plus 3 invasions the biggest reason for the existence of Terrorism (if ever terrorism existed ) Open your eyes. even a blind-man can understand this letter. Unless if he is not blind , but just a pro-Zionism. Sherlock Hommos not, at all, blind Forth day in October 2008
Bismillah [IslamCity] Thoughts on Forgiveness
http://www.islamonline.net//english/index.shtml *Thoughts on Forgiveness* By Ahmad Shawqi http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_Ccid=1221720251625pagename=Zone-English-Family/FYELayout#**1 http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_Ccid=1221720251625pagename=Zone-English-Family/FYELayout [image: Image] One of the best gifts that we can offer ourselves is forgiveness: forgiving anyone who might have wronged us (according to our perception), and forgiving ourselves for our own shortcomings, and not continually beat up the drums of our failures in our mind and simply concentrating our efforts on doing the good. Personally, I embrace true forgiveness, and I encourage others to embrace it. However, in my teaching, I found that many misconceptions about what true forgiveness is abound. Below are some of my thoughts about true forgiveness. *Forgiveness does not mean Condoning* Forgiving someone for his transgressions against you does not mean you condone the transgressions. For example, if I steal something from you and you later decide to forgive me, what that means is that you chose forgiveness. It does not mean that stealing is OK. It is still wrong. *Forgiveness is not an Invitation to Repeat* When you forgive someone, you are not giving them a carte-blanche to repeat the same mistake. For example: if a husband beats his wife and later she decides to forgive him and resume their married life, that does not mean that he can repeat the same mistake and expect that she should forgive him again. *Forgiveness is not Forgetting* I found this to be the most common misconception. Forgiveness is not the same as forgetting. Simply advocating forgetting the mistakes of the past is pseudo-forgiveness at best. People who practice that are typically repressing or avoiding looking at the reality of the matter. I found such people to be really unforgiving: they get easily upset, and their bodies typically manifest some form of dis-ease True forgiveness is remembering the events of the past with no negative emotion attached. For example, when you remember what you wore yesterday, you typically remember it as a fact. You are not upset over it. Similarly, you can know that you have forgiven someone from your past if you can remember the event without any stressful reaction. You remember it because it did happen. There is no power in denying that what happened did happen. The power is in lovingly remembering it, seeing what happened with different understanding (than the one that caused your hurt) and more compassion for yourself and for the people involved. There are always many lessons to learn in whatever happens to us in our lives. So we can actually end up rejoicing all our past events. This may be tough for some of us, so if you can't be happy for what happened in your life, you can at least be free of any negative emotions associated with it. In my experience, people who believe that forgiveness means forgetting are never free from the negative sting of their past. *You can Forgive and still Move On* An example: You were in a business relationship and someone cheated you. The fact that you decide to forgive them does not mean you have to remain in business with them. You can forgive them and never do business with them again. That decision does not mean you are still angry with them or that you have not forgiven them. You have forgiven them and decided not to have a relationship with them. I deal with this theme over and over especially within the context of family relationships and it is a bit difficult for people. They feel guilty to think that the best way to deal with a family member is to love them from a distance. But sometimes it could be the best thing for you and for them. A mother was confused about dealing with her brother whom she found mistreating her young girl. Won't I be cutting the ties of kinship?, What is my family going to say?, How can I explain it to people? were some of her questions. Obviously there are many ways to deal with this issue, but the point I want to make here that this mother can forgive her brother and still take measures to protect her daughter (even if one of the measures is to temporarily prevent the brother from visiting her). Another example that could also explain what I mean by 'Forgive and Still Move On': a friend of mine has a father who lies a lot, and what bothered my friend more was that his father would swear by God that what he said was true. He would swear by God to do something and shortly after swear by God that he didn't say he would. My friend was very frustrated narrating this. What I told my friend was: (1) The main source of your frustration is your expectation that he would not lie, when – according to you – you had a life-long evidence that him lying is more likely than him keeping his word (2) You can forgive your father and choose never to believe or
Bismillah [IslamCity] china - Candy with chemical in Chinese milk found in Connecticut
Candy with chemical in Chinese milk found in Conn. By LARRY SMITHWed Oct 1, 2008 An industrial chemical blamed for sickening thousands of infants in China was found in candy in four Connecticut stores this week, a state official said Wednesday. Days after contaminated White Rabbit Creamy Candy was found in California, Connecticut Consumer Protection Commissioner Jerry Farrell Jr. said tests found melamine in bags of the candy sold at two New Haven stores, a West Hartford market and an East Haven store. We're concerned, obviously, there may have been bags sold of these before we got to them, Farrell said. Anyone who has the candy should destroy it, Farrell said. The contamination has been blamed for the deaths of four children and kidney ailments among 54,000 others. More than 13,000 children have been hospitalized and 27 people arrested in connection with the tainting. Melamine, which is high in nitrogen, is used to make plastics and fertilizers and experts say some amount of the chemical may be transferred from the environment during food processing. But in China's case, suppliers trying to boost output are believed to have diluted their milk, adding melamine because its nitrogen content can fool tests aimed at verifying protein content. Melamine can cause kidney stones, leading to kidney failure. Infants are particularly vulnerable. Melamine has been associated with contaminated infant formula and other Chinese products containing milk protein. On Wednesday, the Chinese government identified 15 more Chinese dairy companies as producing milk products contaminated with melamine, bringing the total to 20 companies. At least 100 batches of milk powder have been found to contain the chemical, according to data on the food safety administration's Web site. Last week, California health officials announced it discovered traces of melamine in White Rabbit candy it tested. Queensway Foods Company Inc. of California distributed the candy and says it is recalling it. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is working with state and local governments to check for and test products that could possibly be contaminated with melamine. Last Friday, the FDA warned consumers not to consume White Rabbit Candy and Mr. Brown coffee products because of possible melamine contamination. The vanilla-flavored candy has also been pulled from shelves in Hawaii, Asia and Britain, and tests in Singapore and New Zealand last week found White Rabbit sweets tainted with melamine. The Shanghai-based maker of the candy, Guan Sheng Yuan Co., said last week it was halting production of the sticky, taffy-like confection, an iconic brand beloved by generations of Chinese. The candy is sold in more than 50 countries throughout Asia and the world, including most of the Chinatowns in the United States. Overseas sales have reached $160 million over the past five years. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081001/ap_on_bi_ge/candy_melamine
Bismillah [IslamCity] usa: Sarah Palin and the Jews
Sarah Palin and the Jews THE NATION posted by Jon Wiener Sarah Palin took the biblical Queen Esther as her role model when she became governor, according to her former pastor--a report that suggests her ties to Jewish history are stronger than you might have expected. When Palin took office as governor in 2006, according to the New York Times, she asked her former pastor in the Assembly of God church in Wasilla for a biblical example of people who were great leaders and what was the secret of their leadership- -that's what Paul E. Riley, the pastor, told Kirk Johnson and Kim Severson of the Times. He recommended the Old Testament story of Esther, the beautiful Jewish queen who persuaded the Persian king to save the Jews from annihilation and instead let them kill their enemies. The story is celebrated by Jews annually in the Feast of Purim. The parallels are clear. Esther was selected queen in a beauty contest; Palin was runner-up in the Miss Alaska pageant. So Queen Esther apparently provided the role model for the former beauty queen who went to our own king and asked for earmarks for her people. The Palin/Queen Esther report has sparked a flood of commentary from fundamentalist Christian web sites. One reports that Sarah Palin, like Esther, was an unlikely choice. Sarah Palin, like Esther, is bold and courageous in the face of fear. Sarah Palin, like Esther, proves you can be loyal and devoted to your family while having a high position. But perhaps, more than anything, . . . we are seeing someone right before our eyes who is capturing the hearts of the American people in a way that defies description - just like the Bible says, And Esther won the favor of everyone who saw her. Another says Every once in a while a woman comes along who is made for the times. Sarah Palin is such a woman. . . . Another woman, Esther, was brought on the scene by God at just the right time. God's timing was perfect for he used Esther to save the Jews--and now he is using Palin to save the Republicans. One problem with this view -that God sent Palin the way He sent Esther -- is that the Book of Esther never mentions God. It never says God sent Esther to save His people, or even that Esther's belief in God gave her the power to defeat her enemies. Somebody should point this out to the fundamentalists. If you follow the logic in the story - as another fundamentalist Christian website did - you find a major, and creepily precise parallel between the threats to Jews then and now. In Esther's day the threat came from Persia - and what country is the modern successor to Persia? Iran, of course -- the same Iran that has vowed to wipe Israel off the map and is (allegedly) well on their way to acquiring the nuclear weaponry to do so . . . . And along comes tough, clear-eyed, plain-speaking Sarah Palin. The implications for Palin's Iran policy are clear. In the Bible, after the Jews are saved from annihilation, and after the first day of Jewish revenge against their enemies, the King tells Esther the Jews have killed 500 people, and asks what she wants to do next. Esther says she wants permission for a second day of killing - so the king grants the Jews the right to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish the entire host of every people and province that oppress them, small children and women, and to take their spoils for plunder. The Bible says the Jews then killed 75,000 more of their enemies. It doesn't say anything about Jewish casualties, which makes it seem like a one-sided slaughter. (This part usually doesn't get mentioned at the Purim carnival.) The cover of Newsweek this week is a photo of Palin with a shotgun. The Iranians should be worried - and so should the Americans.
