The biggest challenge facing the Ummah today in the face of secularism is inferiority complex.
That is due to us being ignorant of our beautiful Deen which is complete, comprehensive, perfect and absolute.
Remember, a nation educated about it's values is a proud nation. Become an Aalim of Deen to address the challenge of the time.
Allah is the sole provider and sustainer, not secularism.
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Terminate the Haj Subsidy
Who exactly pay the Haj subsidy to Air India? Is it the Ministry of External Affairs or the Ministry of Civil Aviation? What is the exact amount? Does it change annually? These are matters of detail, but irrelevant to the the principle that State should not subsidise religious pilgrimage of any kind to any place irrespective of religion.
A senior Muslim leader like Syed Shahabuddin and the young Lok Sabha member from Hyderabad, Asaduddin Owaisi, have both exxpressed the will of the community to terminate the subsidy.
The impediment to Haj subsidy abolition lies squarely with Air India, a state corporation. The Government of India, throught the Central Haj Committee, should invite biddings from various airlines in India for Haj group travel and designate the lowest bidder as the official carrier of the Haj passengers.
Professors should be hungrier for knowledge
Cultivation of knowledge has become more a matter of "advancement of earning" instead of "advancement of learning".
Monday, August 3, 2009
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Today Only
The life of this world is made up of three days: yesterday has gone with all that was done; tomorrow, you may never reach; but today is for you so do what you should do today. |
Thursday, April 9, 2009
The Benefits of Smiling
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of your brother is charity. " (Bukhari)
It seems that nothing has more power to elevate a mood than the impact of a genuine
smile. The benefits of a smile extend not only to the recipient of the warm gesture
but also to the smile's originator. “A smile is a little curve that sets a lot of
things straight.” Here are some of the many .....
Benefits of Smiling!
1. Smiling Makes Us Attractive- People are spending millions on cosmetic products
and procedures to make them look better.If you want to look better, try adding a
genuine smile. Its cheaper and mush more attractive.The muscles we use to smile lift
the face, making a person appear younger. Don't go for a face lift, just try smiling
your way through the day -- you'll look younger and feel better.
2. Smiling Changes Our Mood-Next time you are feeling down, try putting on a smile.
There's a good chance you mood will change for the better. Smiling can trick the
body into helping you change your mood.
3. Smiling Is Contagious-When someone is smiling they lighten up the room, change
the moods of others, and make things happier. A smiling person brings happiness with
them.
4. Smiling Relieves Stress-Stress can really show up in our faces. Smiling helps to
prevent us from looking tired, worn down, and overwhelmed. When you are stressed,
take time to put on a smile. The stress should be reduced and you'll be better able
to take action.Smiling helps to promote release of a “feel good” group of
hormones called endorphins. These are the same group of hormones responsible for the
runners high you hear so much about. If you don't have time to get to the gym for a
hard run, try adding a smile to boost these natural, stress relieving hormones.
5. Smiling Boosts Your Immune System-Smiling helps the immune system to work better.
When you smile, immune function improves possibly because you are more relaxed.
Prevent the flu and colds by smiling.
6. Smiling Lowers Your Blood Pressure-When you smile, there is a measurable
reduction in your blood pressure. Give it a try if you have a blood pressure monitor
at home. Sit for a few minutes, take a reading. Then smile for a minute and take
another reading while still smiling. Do you notice a difference?
7. Smiling is medication-Studies have shown that smiling releases endorphins,
natural pain killers, and serotonin. Together these three make us feel good. Smiling
is a natural drug and leads to a healthier immune system.Various studies conducted
over the years have shown that smiling can boost the functioning of the immune
system. This may help to reduce your risk of developing everything from the common
cold to chronic diseases such as
cancer. Could there be a less expensive medicine than this?
8. A smile inspires others-When you smile you also send a positive message that can
potentially change someone else's mood for the better. The person you graced with
your smile may go on to pass the kindness to someone else. Who knows how far your
original smile will travel?
9. Smiling promotes Success -Smiling people appear more confident, are more likely
to be promoted, and more likely to be approached. Put on a smile at meetings and
appointments and people will react to you differently.When you smile, you appear
confident and capable. Given the choice between two equally qualified job
candidates, the smiling candidate is going to be perceived as being more of a team
player and easier to work with. Who do you think is more likely to get the job
offer?
10. Smiling Helps You Stay Positive-Try this test: Smile. Now try to think of
something negative without losing the smile. It's hard. When we smile our body is
sending the rest of us a message that "Life is Good!" Stay away from depression,
stress and worry by smiling.
Smile..!!!...It does not cost a cent and can make a persons day!
“It takes seventeen muscles to smile and forty-three to frown”.
The greatest reason for smiling is because it is a sunnah [practice] of our Beloved
Messenger of Allah [peace be upon him]!!!. The Messenger of Allah[pbuh] had a
smiling face and advised us to entertain our guest with a smiling face and good
conduct. To smile is an act of charity.
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Monday, January 5, 2009
'If you have a problem, the Taliban solves it. In the government offices there is only corruption and bribery'
AFGHANISTAN:
Losing the battle for Afghan hearts and minds. By Julius Cavendish in Kabul
THEY FLED in the dead of night, taking what belongings they could, and telling no-one twhey were leaving for fear of ambush. Dr Ehssabullah Hakimi, a young man with an aquiline nose, thin beard and gentle manner, locked up the house of his ancestors and led 22 members of his family to Kabul. He had been receiving death threats from the Taliban for practising medicine at a local clinic. "Because I had a good job, they thought I was a spy," he said.
Hakimi and his family did not quit the badlands of the south, though, nor the hostile reaches of eastern Afghanistan. They came from Wardak province, less than an hour's drive from the capital.
But just 30 miles from Kabul, it is Taliban country. Over the past year, the militants have established a stronghold in Wardak, which borders the capital to the south and west. Nine months ago, one of the province's two hospitals, a German-run clinic, shut down after staff there also received death threats.
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The UN evacuated its humanitarian staff from all but one of Wardak's eight districts in September, citing security concerns. Roshanak Wardak, a member of parliament for the province, has said there are areas she is "100% sure no government worker can go to".
Not without reason. The head of the attorney-general's office in one Wardak district was kidnapped and killed by the Taliban three months ago. Days later, Afghan army, police and coalition forces said they had killed or wounded around 60 insurgents in a two-day battle that raged close to the Afghan capital. The number of attacks by Taliban-linked militants in Wardak has increased by 58% since 2007, according to security analyst Sami Kovanen in Kabul.
As it reasserts control over large swathes of countryside, the Taliban has been installing a shadow government to answer civilian needs. In the absence of effective local governance, the militants have been arresting criminals, providing courts, dispensing justice, running prisons and organising public executions - all within an hour's drive of Kabul.
Hakimi's fears were borne out just weeks after his family's escape, when his cousin Naim was hanged by the Taliban for joining the Afghan National Army (ANA). His body swung from a tree for two days with a sign on his chest warning that whoever cut him down would suffer the same fate.
"My cousin was hanging three kilometres from the police district building," said Hakimi. "But they were not able to retrieve his body." Eventually, aid workers from the Afghan Red Crescent Society defied the ban and brought the body in.
A series of interviews with people from Wardak told a similar story.
"The police control their own buildings and maybe the 10 metres surrounding them," said 40-year-old Habibullah Noori, who runs a minibus service between Wardak and Kabul. "There may be police checkpoints but there are also lots of Taliban checkpoints."
News agency AP reported several days ago that checkpoint police in Wardak sometimes wear traditional robes so they can pass themselves off as civilians at the first sign of trouble. And whereas the government often turns a blind eye to crime - one interviewee said that "the other name for police is robbers" - the Taliban not only fails to tolerate it, but offers swift justice. Hakimi explained that the Taliban likes open and shut cases so its members can concentrate on fighting. "Every village has a Taliban representative and if anything happens, people go to him to say, We have this problem '. He doesn't want to spend much time on it - so decisions are quick." They can take a little as 24 hours.
But Noori, the minibus driver, said the Taliban's system is better than the government's. "If you have a problem the Taliban solves it," he said. "In the government offices there is only corruption and bribery.
"Last year, the Taliban did not have 80, 90 or 100% control," he added. "It was a mess. There were robbers, killers, everything. Now, you could walk around with 10kg of gold on your head and no-one would touch you. You can walk around at night without fear."
As an example of the rough justice meted out, he cited a robbery in late summer when eight trucks of wheat disappeared. The Taliban investigated, found the trucks and returned them to their owners. Militants shot the leader of the robbers in the head, and let the others go with severe beatings and after extracting promises that there would be no repeat offence. Other Taliban punishments include parading criminals with their faces daubed black or amputating the hands of robbers. But cases aren't limited to theft and murder. Far more frequently, aggrieved parties will seek arbitration of a property dispute - the most common cause of friction between Afghans, according to interviewees.
The procedure, should you have trouble of some sort, is to go to the nearest mosque and find the local Taliban representative. "He will say, Come back tomorrow at 10 o'clock and we will have the man who has done something' - and he will be there," Noori told me. "If the problem is small, a mullah will solve it. If it's bigger, it will be a judge trained more extensively in Sharia law."
Meanwhile, an uneasy detente is said to exist between the Taliban in Wardak and the local police, with both sides realising that full-scale confrontation is to neither's advantage.
"If they create problems for us, we can create problems for them," said 22-year-old Taliban foot soldier Spin Ghel. The failure of the police to drive 3km to retrieve Naim's hanging corpse would appear to bear out his point. But Ghel, who wore a leather jacket over his salwar kameez and seemed to have joined the Taliban more out of boredom or frustration than for any ideological reason, claimed the relationship went deeper than that.
"They exchanged powerful commanders for that Italian journalist who was kidnapped," he said, referring to the abduction in 2007 of Daniele Mastrogiacomo, who was released in exchange for Taliban prisoners. Whatever the extent of the alleged collusion, with a salary of just $65 a month it is hard to see why any police trooper would risk his life to take on the Taliban's protection racket.
A key part of the Taliban's success in Wardak is its network of informants. Gulbuddin, another young Taliban fighter, said there were around 70 spies in Kabul on the Taliban's payroll, providing information about convoy movements, individuals visiting the province, and their families. At roadblocks, which can vary from a handful of militants waving down traffic to as many as 40, the insurgents have the registration numbers of approaching vehicles and descriptions of the passengers they carry.
"When my cousin was arrested, making a visit home, there were 40 men who came to get him," said Hakimi. "All private taxis to Wardak leave from one specific location. That's why it's simple for them to know who is coming. They monitor everyone coming and going. If you're wearing beautiful, nice, expensive clothing they are suspicious. They think you must be working for the government or UN. If you're wearing dirty clothes, have a beard, long hair, turban, they think that's fine."
How far the Taliban's services reach is unclear, but they are far from comprehensive. "The Taliban are very poor," said Noori. "They can't afford to provide healthcare - most of the time they are asking people to feed them." Although in some places the Taliban is reported to extort a 10% tax from Afghans at the barrel of a gun, shadow governance of this sort has yet to reach.
--http://www.sundayherald.com/international/shinternational/display.var.2479045.0.if_you_have_a_problem_the_taliban_solves_it_in_the_government_offices_there_is_only_corruption_and_bribery.php
Losing the battle for Afghan hearts and minds. By Julius Cavendish in Kabul
THEY FLED in the dead of night, taking what belongings they could, and telling no-one twhey were leaving for fear of ambush. Dr Ehssabullah Hakimi, a young man with an aquiline nose, thin beard and gentle manner, locked up the house of his ancestors and led 22 members of his family to Kabul. He had been receiving death threats from the Taliban for practising medicine at a local clinic. "Because I had a good job, they thought I was a spy," he said.
Hakimi and his family did not quit the badlands of the south, though, nor the hostile reaches of eastern Afghanistan. They came from Wardak province, less than an hour's drive from the capital.
But just 30 miles from Kabul, it is Taliban country. Over the past year, the militants have established a stronghold in Wardak, which borders the capital to the south and west. Nine months ago, one of the province's two hospitals, a German-run clinic, shut down after staff there also received death threats.
advertisement
The UN evacuated its humanitarian staff from all but one of Wardak's eight districts in September, citing security concerns. Roshanak Wardak, a member of parliament for the province, has said there are areas she is "100% sure no government worker can go to".
Not without reason. The head of the attorney-general's office in one Wardak district was kidnapped and killed by the Taliban three months ago. Days later, Afghan army, police and coalition forces said they had killed or wounded around 60 insurgents in a two-day battle that raged close to the Afghan capital. The number of attacks by Taliban-linked militants in Wardak has increased by 58% since 2007, according to security analyst Sami Kovanen in Kabul.
As it reasserts control over large swathes of countryside, the Taliban has been installing a shadow government to answer civilian needs. In the absence of effective local governance, the militants have been arresting criminals, providing courts, dispensing justice, running prisons and organising public executions - all within an hour's drive of Kabul.
Hakimi's fears were borne out just weeks after his family's escape, when his cousin Naim was hanged by the Taliban for joining the Afghan National Army (ANA). His body swung from a tree for two days with a sign on his chest warning that whoever cut him down would suffer the same fate.
"My cousin was hanging three kilometres from the police district building," said Hakimi. "But they were not able to retrieve his body." Eventually, aid workers from the Afghan Red Crescent Society defied the ban and brought the body in.
A series of interviews with people from Wardak told a similar story.
"The police control their own buildings and maybe the 10 metres surrounding them," said 40-year-old Habibullah Noori, who runs a minibus service between Wardak and Kabul. "There may be police checkpoints but there are also lots of Taliban checkpoints."
News agency AP reported several days ago that checkpoint police in Wardak sometimes wear traditional robes so they can pass themselves off as civilians at the first sign of trouble. And whereas the government often turns a blind eye to crime - one interviewee said that "the other name for police is robbers" - the Taliban not only fails to tolerate it, but offers swift justice. Hakimi explained that the Taliban likes open and shut cases so its members can concentrate on fighting. "Every village has a Taliban representative and if anything happens, people go to him to say, We have this problem '. He doesn't want to spend much time on it - so decisions are quick." They can take a little as 24 hours.
But Noori, the minibus driver, said the Taliban's system is better than the government's. "If you have a problem the Taliban solves it," he said. "In the government offices there is only corruption and bribery.
"Last year, the Taliban did not have 80, 90 or 100% control," he added. "It was a mess. There were robbers, killers, everything. Now, you could walk around with 10kg of gold on your head and no-one would touch you. You can walk around at night without fear."
As an example of the rough justice meted out, he cited a robbery in late summer when eight trucks of wheat disappeared. The Taliban investigated, found the trucks and returned them to their owners. Militants shot the leader of the robbers in the head, and let the others go with severe beatings and after extracting promises that there would be no repeat offence. Other Taliban punishments include parading criminals with their faces daubed black or amputating the hands of robbers. But cases aren't limited to theft and murder. Far more frequently, aggrieved parties will seek arbitration of a property dispute - the most common cause of friction between Afghans, according to interviewees.
The procedure, should you have trouble of some sort, is to go to the nearest mosque and find the local Taliban representative. "He will say, Come back tomorrow at 10 o'clock and we will have the man who has done something' - and he will be there," Noori told me. "If the problem is small, a mullah will solve it. If it's bigger, it will be a judge trained more extensively in Sharia law."
Meanwhile, an uneasy detente is said to exist between the Taliban in Wardak and the local police, with both sides realising that full-scale confrontation is to neither's advantage.
"If they create problems for us, we can create problems for them," said 22-year-old Taliban foot soldier Spin Ghel. The failure of the police to drive 3km to retrieve Naim's hanging corpse would appear to bear out his point. But Ghel, who wore a leather jacket over his salwar kameez and seemed to have joined the Taliban more out of boredom or frustration than for any ideological reason, claimed the relationship went deeper than that.
"They exchanged powerful commanders for that Italian journalist who was kidnapped," he said, referring to the abduction in 2007 of Daniele Mastrogiacomo, who was released in exchange for Taliban prisoners. Whatever the extent of the alleged collusion, with a salary of just $65 a month it is hard to see why any police trooper would risk his life to take on the Taliban's protection racket.
A key part of the Taliban's success in Wardak is its network of informants. Gulbuddin, another young Taliban fighter, said there were around 70 spies in Kabul on the Taliban's payroll, providing information about convoy movements, individuals visiting the province, and their families. At roadblocks, which can vary from a handful of militants waving down traffic to as many as 40, the insurgents have the registration numbers of approaching vehicles and descriptions of the passengers they carry.
"When my cousin was arrested, making a visit home, there were 40 men who came to get him," said Hakimi. "All private taxis to Wardak leave from one specific location. That's why it's simple for them to know who is coming. They monitor everyone coming and going. If you're wearing beautiful, nice, expensive clothing they are suspicious. They think you must be working for the government or UN. If you're wearing dirty clothes, have a beard, long hair, turban, they think that's fine."
How far the Taliban's services reach is unclear, but they are far from comprehensive. "The Taliban are very poor," said Noori. "They can't afford to provide healthcare - most of the time they are asking people to feed them." Although in some places the Taliban is reported to extort a 10% tax from Afghans at the barrel of a gun, shadow governance of this sort has yet to reach.
--http://www.sundayherald.com/international/shinternational/display.var.2479045.0.if_you_have_a_problem_the_taliban_solves_it_in_the_government_offices_there_is_only_corruption_and_bribery.php
Monday, July 28, 2008
A philosophical answer
We have heard that a member of the C.I.D once approached a senior worker of the Tablighi Jamaat and enquired:
-' What is the name of your Jamaat?
'' Muhammad Jamaat,(PBUH) ' replied the senior.
C.I.D :-' Does your Jamaat follow a set of principles or a code of law? '
Senior:- ' Yes of course! That is the Holy Quran.
'C.I.D:- ' Do you have a head-quarters (a Markaz) ?
'Senior:- ' Yes, there is a city in Saudi Arabia namely Makkah Muazzamah wherein stands the House of Allah. That is our head-quarters.
'C.I.D:- ' How many branches does this head-quarter command and in which countries are they?
'Senior:- ' All the Mosques of the world are the branches of this head-quarters.
'C.I.D:- Who is the leader of this group?
'Senior:- ' Our leader passed away more than thirteen centuries away. His name is Muhammad peace be upon him.
'C.I.D:- What is the total roll of your members and where are they stationed in the world?
'Senior:- ' All those who recite the Shahadah- Laa Ilaha Illallah- are members of this Jamaat.
'C.I.D:- Do you have funds? If so, where are the funds?
'Senior:- The money in the pockets of those who profess the shahadah of Laa Ilaha Illallah makes up our funds.
'Note: This is not a temporary solution, but in fact our mission should be moulded eternally onto these lines and effort is made on this by coming out in Jamaat.
This is an all-encompassing movement which was explained by Maulana Ilyas Saheb thus:-' The aim of our Jamaat is to disseminate amongst the Muslims the Deen bought to us by Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him. This is our cardinal aim. '
-' What is the name of your Jamaat?
'' Muhammad Jamaat,(PBUH) ' replied the senior.
C.I.D :-' Does your Jamaat follow a set of principles or a code of law? '
Senior:- ' Yes of course! That is the Holy Quran.
'C.I.D:- ' Do you have a head-quarters (a Markaz) ?
'Senior:- ' Yes, there is a city in Saudi Arabia namely Makkah Muazzamah wherein stands the House of Allah. That is our head-quarters.
'C.I.D:- ' How many branches does this head-quarter command and in which countries are they?
'Senior:- ' All the Mosques of the world are the branches of this head-quarters.
'C.I.D:- Who is the leader of this group?
'Senior:- ' Our leader passed away more than thirteen centuries away. His name is Muhammad peace be upon him.
'C.I.D:- What is the total roll of your members and where are they stationed in the world?
'Senior:- ' All those who recite the Shahadah- Laa Ilaha Illallah- are members of this Jamaat.
'C.I.D:- Do you have funds? If so, where are the funds?
'Senior:- The money in the pockets of those who profess the shahadah of Laa Ilaha Illallah makes up our funds.
'Note: This is not a temporary solution, but in fact our mission should be moulded eternally onto these lines and effort is made on this by coming out in Jamaat.
This is an all-encompassing movement which was explained by Maulana Ilyas Saheb thus:-' The aim of our Jamaat is to disseminate amongst the Muslims the Deen bought to us by Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him. This is our cardinal aim. '
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
The Smile
THE SMILE
COMPUTER WONDER:
Ever wondered why one must click on 'start' to turn 'off' the computer?
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Message from the Ameer of the Jamiatul Ulama
It is important to always have an exemplary, before us, from whose life we can take examples and be constantly guided to the straight path. There are many pious people in the world today to whom we can align ourselves to in order to preserve our imaan and take good counsel from. Such people are living examples and an inspiration to all; their mere presence in our lives makes it such that it becomes difficult for us to deviate from the straight path. By associating with such people we will be identified with those who are pious and Allah-fearing on the day of judgment.
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