Eid Mubarak!

It was time of the year again, when kids swarm every cow,  goat and camel in the street, and no matter how hard you try, you ultimately fall to one of the ‘cow dung’ traps strategically placed enroute to the masjid
But, today is Eid and over the next few days the animals will [...]

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Oh Traveller of this World!

Makes you think.

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Surah Ar-Ra’d – Ayah Four

And in the earth are neighbouring tracts, and gardens of vines, and green crops (fields etc.), and date-palms, growing out two or three from a single stem root, or otherwise (one stem root for every palm ), watered with the same water, yet some of them We make more excellent than others to eat. Verily, [...]

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Hadrat Salman Al-Farsi, The Seeker of Truth

This is a story of a seeker of Truth, the story of Salman the Persian, gleaned, to begin with, from his own words:
I grew up in the town of Isfahan in Persia in the village of Jayyan. My father was the Dihqan or chief of the village. He was the richest person there and had [...]

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Hadrat Abu Bakr As-Siddeeq (RA) – The Inspirational Leader

I’d like to share with you one of the sermons of Hadrat Abu Bakr (RA), the first Khaleefah of the Muslim Ummah, which highlights his extreme eloquence as an orator and his effective leadership skills. This sermon was delivered three days after the death of Rasulallah (SAW), in a time when the Muslims were in [...]

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3, 2, 1… Ramadan!

In exactly 24 hours time (from the time of writing this post), we’ll know whether Ramadan will be starting on Tuesday, September 2, 2008 or Wednesday, September 3, 2008 in Pakistan. Now that’s really not a very long time, and not at all enough to do everything required to prepare for this blessed month- but [...]

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NaseehaMan! :D

Check out the adventures of the blunderous NaseehaMan here! The comics are well written and really creative. Unfortunately, the author (Zuhair Munshey) passed away, and hence they’ve been discontinued
It would be nice if someone with a good sense of humor (unlike me) and a proper understanding of Islam could continue this, or come [...]

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If You Want – Nasheed

Came across this nasheed while surfing around. Brilliant Wording!
If you want to be like a mole (or “beauty mark”) distinguished amongst the human race.
Then track the trails of a generation that planned and outlined for excellence.
The generation of Zaid and Osaid and Mu’ath and Al-Bara’.
(Zayd ibn Thabit – Usaid bin Hudhair [...]

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Fairness

I was just wondering the other day- what exactly does the concept of fairness imply? Can we ever expect fairness from this world?
The answer that popped up in my mind immediately was in the negative. In this world, a single criteria is set for success- regardless of what a person has to go through, what [...]

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Reality Check

Wrote this a long time back- or what seems to be a long time back now. 03/11/2005.
Time flies, the clock cries
Yet you indulge in your brainless lies
You arent even aware of what logic implies-
Is that the reason behind your demise?

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