Bismillah


As salam alykom brothers and sisters,


I was inspired by Nasra’s sig to start this thread in order to help each other attain Khushu, which we all strive to attain, during salat.


I will start copying her sig, then Insh aAllah post a hadeeth.


Pls all post whatever can help us attain khushu.


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<b>"One of the Saliheen was asked how he kept
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his khushu' in prayer (concentration & humbleness)


He said, 'I imagine that Allah is before me,


that the Angel of Death is at my back,


that the gardens of Jannah are to my right,


that the fires of Jahannum are on my left


and that I am standing on the Sirat".

http://news.aol.co.uk/school-veil-row-igni...015042109990217


A Muslim teaching assistant's refusal to remove her veil was threatening to spark a full-blown row over religious relations as exchanges became increasingly bitter.


A series of controversial interventions from politicians in both main parties drew angry responses from Muslim community leaders, with neither side prepared to back down.


The Government's race minister demanded 24-year-old Aishah Azmi be sacked, accusing her of "denying the right of children to a full education".


Phil Woolas said Ms Azmi's stand meant she could not "do her job'' at Headfield Church of England junior school in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, and insisted barring men from working with her would amount to "sexual discrimination".


But the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) quickly condemned Mr Woolas for his "outrageous" and "reckless" foray into a "matter that should be decided by the school - and if necessary by the courts".


Read more

http://mobile.thenation.com/docmobile.mhtm...061120&s=ritter


I'm not even go to try and cut and paste any of that, its far too big to chop up and still do it any justice.

Saying of the Week


Foolish Man


"A foolish man may be known


by six things: Anger without cause, speech without profit, change without progress,


inquiry without object, putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking foes for friends.

THE FOLLOWING is a speech made by former South African President


P.W. Botha to his Cabinet. This reprint was written by David G. Mailu


for the Sunday Times


Pretoria (our Capital city) has been made by the White mind for the White man. We are not


obliged even the least to try to prove to anybody and to the Blacks that


we


are superior people. We have demonstrated that to the Blacks in a


thousand


and one ways. The Republic of South Africa that we know of today has not


been created by wishful thinking. We have created it at the expense of


intelligence, sweat and blood. Were they Afrikaners who tried to


eliminate


the Australian Aborigines? Are they Afrikaners who discriminate against


Blacks and call them Nigge*rs in the States? Were they Afrikaners who


started the slave trade? Where is the Black man appreciated? England


discriminates against its Black and their “Sus” law is out to discipline


the


Blacks. Canada, France, Russia, and Japan all play their discrimination


too.


Why in the hell then is so much noise made about us?


Why are they biased against us? I am simply trying to prove to you all


that


there is nothing unusual we are doing that the so called civilized


worlds


are not doing. We are simply an honest people who have come out aloud


with a


clear philosophy of how we want to live our own White life.


We do not pretend like other Whites that we like Blacks. The fact that,


Blacks look like human beings and act like human beings do not


necessarily


make them sensible human beings. Hedgehogs are not porcupines and


lizards


are not crocodiles simply because they look alike. If God wanted us to


be


equal to the Blacks, he would have created us all of a uniform colour


and


intellect. But he created us differently: Whites, Blacks, Yellow, Rulers


and


the ruled. Intellectually, we are superior to the Blacks; that has been


proven beyond any reasonable doubt over the years.


I believe that the Afrikaner is an honest, God fearing person, who has


demonstrated practically the right way of being. Nevertheless, it is


comforting to know that behind the scenes, Europe, America, Canada,


Australia-and all others are behind us in spite of what they say. For


diplomatic relations, we all know what language should be used and


where. To


prove my point, Comrades, does anyone of you know a White country


without an


investment or interest in South Africa? Who buys our gold? Who buys our


diamonds? Who trades with us? Who is helping us develop other nuclear


weapon? The very truth is that we are their people and they are our


people.


It’s a big secret. The strength of our economy is backed by America,


Britain, Germany. It is our strong conviction, therefore, that the Black


is


the raw material for the White man. So Brothers and Sisters, let us join


hands together to fight against this Black devil. I appeal to all


Afrikaners


to come out with any creative means of fighting this war. Surely God


cannot


forsake his own people whom we are. By now every one of us has seen it


practically that the Blacks cannot rule themselves. Give them guns and


they


will kill each other. They are good in nothing else but making noise,


dancing, marrying many wives and indulging in sex. Let us all accept


that


the Black man is the symbol of poverty, mental inferiority, laziness and


emotional incompetence. Isn’t it plausible? therefore that the White man


is


created to rule the Black man? Come to think of what would happen one


day if


you woke up and on the throne sat a Kaff*ir! Can you imagine what would


happen to our women? Does anyone of you believe that the Blacks can rule


this country?


Hence, we have good reasons to let them all-the Mandelas-rot in prison,


and


I think we should be commended for having kept them alive in spite of


what


we have at hand with which to finish them off. I wish to announce a


number


of new strategies that should be put to use to destroy this Black bug.


We


should now make use of the chemical weapon. Priority number one, we


should


not by all means allow any more increases of the Black population lest


we be


choked very soon. I have exciting news that our scientists have come


with an


efficient stuff. I am sending out more researchers to the field to


identify


as many venues as possible where the chemical weapons could be employed


to


combat any further population increases. The hospital is a very


strategic


opening, for example and should be fully utilized.


The food supply channel should be used. We have developed excellent slow


killing poisons and fertility destroyers. Our only fear is in case such


stuff came in! ! to their hands as they are bound to start using it


against


us if you care to think of the many Blacks working for us in our


domestic


quarters.


However, we are doing the best we can to make sure that the stuff


remains


strictly in our hands. Secondly, most Blacks are vulnerable to money


inducements. I have set aside a special fund to exploit this venue. The


old


trick of divide and rule is still very valid today. Our experts should


work


day and night to set the Black man against his fellowman. His inferior


sense


of morals can be exploited beautifully.


And here is a creature that lacks foresight. There is a need for us to


combat him in long term projections that he cannot suspect. The average


Black does not plan his life beyond a year: that stance, for example,


should


be exploited. My special department is already working round the clock


to


come out with a long-term operation blueprint.


I am also sending a special request to all Afrikaner mothers to double


their


birth rate. It may be necessary too to set up a population boom industry


by


putting up centres where we employ and support fully White young men and


women to produce children for the nation. We are also investigating the


merit of uterus rentals as a possible means of speeding up the growth of


our


population through surrogate mothers.


For the time being, we should also engage a higher gear to make sure


that


Black men are separated from their women and fines imposed upon married


wives who bear illegitimate children.


I have a committee working on finding better methods of inciting Blacks


against each other and encouraging murders among themselves. Murder


cases


among Blacks should bear very little punishment in order to encourage


them.


My scientists have come up with a drug that could be smuggled into their


brews to effect slow poisoning results and fertility destruction.


Working


through drinks and manufacturing of soft drinks geared to the Blacks,


could


promote the channels of reducing their population. Ours is not a war


that we


can use the atomic bomb to destroy the Blacks, so we must use our


intelligence to effect this. The person-to-person encounter can be very


effective.


As the records show that the Black man is dying to go to bed with the


White


woman, here is our unique opportunity. Our Sex Mercenary Squad should go


out


and camouflage with Apartheid Fighters while doing their operations


quietly


administering slow killing poison and fertility destroyers to those


Blacks


they thus befriend.


We are modifying the Sex Mercenary Squad by introducing White men who


should


go for the militant Black woman and any other vulnerable Black woman. We


have received a new supply of prostitutes from Europe and America who


are


desperate and too keen to take up the appointments.


My latest appeal is that the maternity hospital operations should be


intensified. We are not paying those people to help bring Black babies


to


this world but to eliminate them on the very delivery moment. If this


department worked very efficiently, a great deal could be achieved.


My Government has set aside a special fund for erecting more covert


hospitals and clinics to promote this programme.


Money can do anything for you. So while we have it, we should make the


best


use of it. In the meantime my beloved White citizens, do not take to


heart


what the world says, and don’t be ashamed of being called racists. I do


not


mind being called the architect and King of Apartheid. I shall not


become a


monkey simply because someone has called me a monkey. I will still


remain


your bright star…His Excellency Botha. ”

Ibn Rajab and others gave an account of a worshipper who ran out of resources while he was in Makkah. He became extremely hungry and was about to die from lack of nourishment.


One day, as he was wandering in the precincts of Makkah, he found an expensive necklace. He put it into his sleeves and headed for the Masjid.


On his way he came across a man announcing that he had lost a necklace. The poor man later said, "I asked him to describe it to me, and he did so, perfectly, leaving no room for doubt. I gave him the necklace without taking reward from him.


I said,: "O Allah, I have given it for You, so compensate me with what is better."


The man went to the ocean and began a journey in a small boat. Only a brief period of time passed before a storm came with heavy winds crashing into the boat.


The boat smashed into pieces and the man was forced to cling to a piece of wood. The winds were violent, propelling him to the left and to the right.


Finally, he was washed ashore onto an island. He found there a Masjid filled with people who were praying, so he joined them. He found papers with parts of the Qur'an written on them and he began to recite from them.


The people of the island asked him, "Do you read Qur'an?" He answered in the affirmative.


"Teach our children Qur'an," they said. So he began to teach them and he took a salary for his services.


One day, they saw him writing and they asked, "Will you teach our children to write?". Again he answered in the affirmative and began teaching them for a salary.


A short time later, they said to him, "There is an orphaned girl with us whose father was a good man. Will you marry her?"


He agreed to the marriage and later related, "I married her and found that she was wearing the exact same necklace. She said that her father lost it in Makkah and a man found it and returned to him. She said that her father would always supplicate while prostrating, for her daughter to become blessed with a husband similiar to the honest man. I then informed her that I was that man."


Umm Salamah reported: I heard the Messenger of Allah (salAllahu alayhi wasalam) saying,


Inna lillahi wa inna ilaihi raji`un. Allahumma ujurni fi musibati, wakhluf li khairan minha


We belong to Allah and to Him we shall return. O Allah! Compensate me in my loss, recompense my loss and give me something better in exchange for it.


[Muslim]


Abandoning something for the sake and Pleasure of Allah - Allah will definitely compensate with something that is better, either sooner or later, in this world or Hereafter.

Bismillah


Assalamu alaikum


A story some time back. An American Christian man that lived as a Muslim for 30 days.


Here is what happend during these days.


http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=56...docidfeed&hl=fr

:confused_smile: salaam, how was everyones eid?


i had one question on my mind, which i would really like an answer to.


After returning to University after ramadan and Eid, i came out of lecture, and bumped in to one of my mates, and i asked him


how come his friend (female) and himself never came to lecture. He replied, Im not studying that module i just come to sit in with my friends, but my friend was there u just prob didnt see her. (when i first met her she wore the hijab) so i started


describing her, and he said, oh u prob never saw her because shes taken the head scarf off, i asked curiously why? abit


disappointed, and he replied, 'well ramadans over innit, she doesnt need to wear it now' i tried to explain how that was not right, and abit hypocritical of her, but for some reason he felt that there was nothing wrong with that.


Am i wrong to think like this? because i feel that a head scarf is not a fashion accessory where you can just put it on n off when u please. It has many responsibilities, which these days many girls do not show n e respect for.


I hope someone can put my mind at ease lolzzz


allah hafiz


shorty

i am a 29 yo white australian male, baptised a catholic but turned my back on the institution itself cause of its ineptitude to protect the most vulnerable members of our community but thats neither here nor there and im not looking too be converted :P


i see alot of stuff on tv about islam, i know enough to know when im seeing propaganda but i cant help but ask " WTF is going on?"


in the opinions of all the members here what would you say it would take to bring peace to the middle east?


from one brother to another (or sister)

In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful


War In Iraq a Ballot Initiative In Some States


WASHINGTON, DC - Oct. 26, 2006 (MASNET) Several states and municipalities will give their citizens the opportunity to voice their opposition to the war through non-binding ballot initiatives. Below is an article from the Boston Globe which highlights the issues concerning ballot initiatives on the war in Iraq. Although the resolution is non-binding, we encourage those voters who live in areas where the war in Iraq is on the ballot, to make their voices heard. Vote No to the continued U.S occupation of Iraq. Vote Yes to bringing our troops home now.


Iraq Pullout Resolution On Ballot


By Jonathan Saltzman and David Abel, Globe Staff


October 11, 2006


Voters in more than one-third of Massachusetts' cities and towns will get a rare chance to register their opinion on the war in Iraq next month when they consider a ballot question on whether the United States should immediately withdraw all troops.


The nonbinding question asks voters in all or parts of 139 municipalities whether their state representative should be instructed to vote in favor of a resolution calling on President Bush and Congress to end the war and bring the soldiers home.


The American Friends Service Committee, one of several groups that organized volunteers to fan out across the state to collect signatures in the spring and summer to get the question on ballots, said yesterday that more voters can consider the Nov. 7 ballot question than any other advisory policy issue in state history.


The question, which was approved for the ballot in recent weeks by Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly and Secretary of the Commonwealth William F. Galvin , will be considered by communities as far west as Hancock in the Berkshires and as far east as Provincetown, as large as Boston and as small as Gill, and as conservative by reputation as Orange and as liberal as Cambridge. About 22 percent of the state's registered voters will get the chance to have their say, organizers estimated.


Voters have approved similar bring-the-troops-home resolutions in recent months as part of statewide efforts in Vermont and Wisconsin, and in scores of cities from Chicago to Chapel Hill, N.C.


To learn more visit: http://www.boston.com


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