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Just visit the link it is worth reading thru


http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/8B6...70603635511.htm

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/0A6...87B1104E139.htm


Two groups of Indian and Pakistani Kashmiris have walked over the Peace Bridge, breaking through a military line that has divided them and their land for almost 60 years.


On Thursday, 19 Indian Kashmiris, mostly elderly and wearing green commemorative caps, defied separatist threats and crossed the metal bridge - painted neutral white for the occasion - hours after 31 Pakistanis walked into India to reunite divided families.


"I can't control my emotion. I am setting foot in my motherland," a tearful Shahid Bahar, a lawyer from the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, Muzaffarabad, said.


On both sides, they were hugged and kissed by relatives they had not held for decades, or in some cases, ever.


"It's for the first time that I have seen my uncle," Noreen Arif, an adviser to Pakistani Kashmir's prime minister, said, bursting into tears and hugging him as he stepped off the bridge.


Threats fail


Attacks by Muslim rebels who threatened to turn the buses into "rolling coffins" scared off some passengers but failed to derail one of the most significant and emotive steps in South Asia's unsteady peace process.


India's prime minister flagged


off the service from Srinagar


"The caravan of peace has started," Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said as he sent off the Pakistan-bound bus in front of a crowd of thousands braving freezing drizzle at the Lion of Kashmir stadium in Srinagar, summer capital of Indian-administered Kashmir.


"Nothing can stop it."


Separatists tried, firing two rifle grenades at one of the Muzaffarabad-bound buses soon after it left. But no one was hurt, the bus was not hit and did not stop.


Defiant mood


Two separatists staged an attack on a fortified government complex housing the passengers on Wednesday just a few hundred metres from the Lion of Kashmir stadium. The passengers, however, escaped unhurt.


Separatist threats had created a deep sense of unease but also defiance among Kashmiris determined to see families reunited.


"Pakistan and especially President General Pervez Musharraf have helped us open this door"


Manmohan Singh.


Indian Prime Minister


"A door has opened," the Indian prime minister, in his trademark blue turban, said, speaking from behind bullet-proof glass.


"Pakistan and especially President General Pervez Musharraf have helped us open this door. This is the beginning of a new phase. Violence is not going to solve any problems."


"The Line of Control could fall like the Berlin Wall," Sharif Hussain Bukhari, a retired Pakistani judge going back after 55 years to see his sister and cousins, said.


The service, which will run only twice a month, is a small concession for families separated by conflict since 1947 but also carries hopes of a big boost to a cautious peace process.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/06F...ACE09FEDEB1.htm


Thursday 07 April 2005, 21:06 Makka Time, 18:06 GMT


The attack took place close to Cairo's famed al-Azhar Mosque


A bomb has exploded in a Cairo tourist bazaar, killing four people, among them a US citizen and a French national, and wounding 18 others, Greater Cairo's security director said.


An earlier Egyptian Interior Ministry statement said the wounded - four French, three Americans, an Italian, a Turk and nine Egyptians - were taken to hospital where the French woman died.


A US official said in Washington at least three Americans were injured in the attack.


Police sources said a man on a motorbike threw the bomb into the busy tourist area in the centre of the Egyptian capital but the subsequent ministry statement made no mention of what caused the blast.


One witness said it appeared a man on a motorcycle set off a bomb in the middle of a group of foreigners.


'Horrible sound'


Rabab Rifaat, an Egyptian woman who was shopping in a store several metres from the blast, said the explosion appeared to have been caused by a man who was either carrying a bomb or had it on his motorcycle.


She said she heard "a boom, a horrible sound, very loud. Everyone started running", and that she then saw a decapitated head flying through the air.


Egyptian police cordon off the


site of Thursday's deadly blast


She said she saw six or seven bodies on the ground, some of them foreign-looking, but it was unclear if they were dead or wounded.


A number of tourist bazaars surround al-Azhar, one of the most prestigious Islamic institutions in the Sunni Muslim world, in Cairo's old city.


Egypt has largely seen calm since it suppressed a fierce campaign of violence by armed Muslim groups seeking to overthrow the government in the 1990s.

Saudi State Executed 6 Somalis Outside The Law





The Saudi Kingdom of Saudi Arabia brutally slaughtered like sheep six young Somali men without due process of law in the port city of Jeddah last Friday of April first 2005. The Interior ministry said that the Somalis were caught while in the process of robbery and piracy in which they wanted to seize a Taxi but the Saudi government had failed to produce any hard evidence in this regard or allow the young Somali men to have access to legal representation.


It is not clear what legal procedures or justice system the Saudis had applied because in accordance with Islam, you cannot kill people without due process of law and you cannot certainly execute people on unproven and dubious grounds. In the cases of robbery etc, the death penalty does not apply on Islamic jurisprudence. So it will be interesting to know what justice systems the Saudi state had applied to finish off the young Somalis.


Somalis at home and around the globe were saddened and dismayed by the cruel and heartless action taken by the Saudi state against 6 Somali men who were virtually refugees in Saudi Arabia.


To conclude, the Saudi state must give believable explanations as to why they executed the 6 Somali youths without fair and open trial. Similarly, the Saudis must alter their aggressive and merciless policies against the Somali people who happen to be in their country for whatever reason otherwise relations between the two peoples and nations will be severely damaged. This does not mean that the law should be overlooked but the manner in which the Saudi police and the security apparatus behave and deal with foreigners is most barbaric, uncivilised and utterly inhumane to say the least.


If I were the president of Somalia, I would have severed all relations with the Saudi government until they apologised and changed their bad treatments against the Somali people. The Saudis must understand the values of human dignity, the importance of God given life and the sacrosanct of God's justice.


Source:


http://www.hiiraan.org/2005/apr/somali_news05_2.htm

How many times have you said, or thought the words "I am too tired right now. I will relax a bit, then I will pray in a little while" when you have heard the adhan? Is that really YOU saying that or are you voicing the words that Shaitaan just whispered in your ear?


In the morning, when we are LEAST tired, we only have to pray a short Fajr prayer of two rakaas. the rest of the morning, we are not expected to be so tired, hence no obligatory prayer throughout the morning. At lunch time, its time to take a break from all the morning's work... so you pray Dhuhr... which relaxes you enough to last you the afternoon. Just when you finish work, feeling a little tired and stressed from the day's work, its time for Asr prayer. So you pray Asr. Then you go home... you are probably tired from your journey home... and guess what?? When you get home, there is another relaxing prayer waiting for you! SUBHANALLAH! Then finally, just before going to bed, when you need to be completely relaxed, you got a nice and long Isha prayer... along with the "waajib" Witr prayer to completely remove every ounce of tiredness from your body... and to get you relaxed enough to have a nice, comfortable sleep.


So, you still think you are too tired to pray? REALLY??? Maybe you are tired coz you have NOT prayed! So STOP listening to Shaitaan and making silly excuses that you are too tired to pray... Go and pray when you hear the adhan, and see how the prayer works like magic to get rid of your tiredness...

Questions& Answers about ISLAM


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Bismillah


as salam alykom


I came accross this hadeeth today and felt I really wanted to share it with my brothers and sisters here.


Narrated Abi Horaira that the Messenger salla Allah a`lyhee wa sallam said:"One whose amount of laughter increased will be taken lightly, one whose amount of jokes increases looses his awe, one whose kidding increased looses his respect among people, one who drinks water first thing in the morning his strength decreases, one whose amount of talking increased his falter concurrently increases, one whose falter increases his sins increases and one whose sins increased hell would be better for him" (reported by Tabarani)

Assalam alliekum sisters and brothers


I have a question regarding death. Hope you can help me.


Now when Christians and Jews die do they go to heaven or hell. (I am not quiet sure if that is what Islam calls it.) I am a new Muslim and just trying to find answers. I am asking this as they beleive in God but not Islam which is the way of life.


Also I am not quiet sure about this so bare with me. I heard when Allah comes to raise the living and the dead we all go to heaven? Please explain this to me and any technical terms that I have incorrect.


It is much apprieciated.


Wassalam


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