It’s early morning in Srinagar. The chinar leaves are fluttering in Lal Bazar. The sweepers are busy clearing the leaves from the roads. While walking through the tiny lanes that lead to ‘Rasool Kandur’ (Rasool the Baker), Charagh Baigh a 14 year old boy, hears a woman cursing the Autumn season, “Yem harud’an tul toas…
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The Story of The Elephant
Abraha began gathering a big army. He asked permission from the Najâshi, who sent his personal elephant, Mahmûd, and eight other elephants with Abraha’s army. When the news of Abraha’s plan reached the Arabs, they prepared to oppose the attack. Abraha defeated the armies of several Arab tribes along the way to Makkah, and he took one of their leaders, Nufail bin Habeeb, as a prisoner and used him for a guide. As he approached Makkah, the people of Tâ’if decided that instead of trying to fight Abraha, they will help him out, so that he would not destroy their own temple. So they sent with him one of their leaders named Abû Righâl.
When Abu Bakr, Umar nearly lost all
This is an article I received in e-mail. Read and share and apply in your lives. THE Prophet (peace be upon him) was once sitting with his companions when they were approached by some horsemen as delegates from the tribe of Banu Tamim. As with any tribe coming to…
Modern Stress And Its Cure
Well here I am again, sharing something I received in my inbox today. I hope you find it useful. May Allah relieve the stress in our lives. Modern Stress And Its Cure From Quran by Shahin Akhtar MD Stress is the most common aliment of modern age. It has been implicated in the causation of…
Abortion
Someone shared this note with me on Facebook, and I share it with you all! A worried woman went to her gynecologist and said: “Doctor, I have a serious problem and desperately need your help! My baby is not even 1 yr. old and I’m pregnant again. I don’t want kids so close together.” So…
How to poison your mother in law
Got this in another email! And yes, it is very very interesting. 😛 Poison Your Mother-in-Law … A long time ago in China, a girl named Li-Li got married and went to live with her husband and mother-in-law. In a very short time, Li-Li found that she couldn’t get along with her mother-in-law at all….
Manners of talking in the light of the Quran.
Got this in an email. Its a lesson for all of us to learn and implement in our lives… Manners of talking in the light of the Quran · Talk straight, to the point, without any ambiguity or deception [33:70] · Choose best words to speak and say them in the best possible way [17:53,…
Women who suffer by Dr. Nurit Peled-Elhanan
Dr. Nurit Peled-Elhanan is the mother of Smadar Elhanan, 13 years old when killed by a suicide bomber in Jerusalem in September 1997. Below is Dr. Elhanan’s speech made on International Women’s Day in Strasbourg in March 2005. Although a year on from the time of this address by Dr. Nurit Peled-Elhanan, the issues and…
Setting the Record Straight: The Miracle of Islamic Science
Excerpted from: Appendix B of ‘The Miracle of Islamic Science’ by Dr. K. Ajram, Copyright © 1992 The concept that the sciences are exclusively the products of Western minds remains unquestioned by most individuals. A review of any of the standard texts or encyclopaedias regarding the history of science would support this view. As these…
Does God Exist?
[Got this in an email, found it interesting, so here it is for you to read and THINK!] “WHAT DO U FEEL ABOUT THIS? A man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed. As the barber began to work, they began to have a good conversation.They talked about so…