NinBrown

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  1. What race Dajiye? Generally looking for ideas and topics that might be useful to a young audience. But also would like to hear funny/weird questions people can come up with.
  2. I guess the fate of muslim women rests on the shoulders of free-thinking, fiercely intelligent females like Naden, Lazyie, Cara et al. Wadaads aren't into womens rights. Relly....what of Aisha and the other saxaabiyaat. SOL is turning out to be an extension of the Daily Mail these days.
  3. Sad story and wouldn't wish it on anyone. However, i do wonder what proportion of Somali women in Yemen turn to this. This a newspaper article and we know all newspapers run sensational stories. And just because one asks questions about the article doesn't mean I am not caring or not emotionally moved.
  4. None no voilence in the NHS.. Boss I thought u just need to be tired to fall sleep. No need for medications just good old hard work.
  5. That's funny man...if its true.. So are we sayin *** Hiddinkwould never get a job in Somalia.
  6. ...I need a direct line to God for some negotiations so he can push it. Who is stopping you mate....ducayso cos every1 is got direct access to allah through duco/prayer.
  7. Some people who go to the Caribbean schools even come to the UK to do their clinical rotations. Seen some students from St Georges university Grenada. http://www.sgu.edu/ I think where ever you study medicine as long you can speak good English and have a good basic grounding, you will do well in postgraduate training everywhere (Europe or US).
  8. General practice or general questions
  9. Just wanted to know what questions you guys would ask a doc on medical show. Whats acceptable, whats funny or whats weird?
  10. warya c'mon son....you remind me of them old ladies, who dont trust any1 with there money. Why dont u just put it through xawaalad and it will be waitin for ya in dubai.
  11. xiin well said. He should occupy serving his slave master.
  12. what drug r u on or is it the applied physics that is messin with ur head.
  13. ''Be a native speaker of American English (meaning, English should be your FIRST language)'' What nonsense.
  14. true norf...BNP and EDL are more dangerous than these lunatics but..the media gives them so much attention and they crave this whilst pretending to represent islam.
  15. if my granma saw what they r doing with these goats she would be upset.
  16. about time these attention seekers were dealt with. Norf...the guy is too busy makin coffee for this masters....under psychological capture.
  17. life is all balancing risks. I will say you more likely to come to harm from swine flu than the flu jab. However, its your choice and le others make their own choice.
  18. NinBrown

    Prayer Beads

    What is the ruling on using the masbahah (prayer beads)? Praise be to Allaah. Some scholars say that it is permissible to use the masbahah, but they say that it is preferable to do tasbeeh on one’s fingers; others say that it is bid’ah (reprehensible innovation). Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah said in al-Fataawa (22/187): “Some of them might show off by putting their prayer-mats over their shoulders and carrying their masbahahs in their hands, making them symbols of religion and prayer. It is known from the mutawaatir reports that neither the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) nor his Companions used these as symbols. They used to recite tasbeeh and count on their fingers, as the hadeeth says: “Count on your fingers, for they will asked, and will be made to speak.” Some of them may count their tasbeeh with pebbles or date stones. Some people say that doing tasbeeh with the masbahah is makrooh, and some allow it, but no one says that tasbeeh with the masbahah is better than tasbeeh with the fingers.” Then he (may Allaah have mercy on him) goes on to discuss the issue of showing off with the masbahah, saying that it is showing off with regard to something that is not prescribed by Islam, which is worse than showing off with regard to something that is prescribed. Shaykh Muhammad ibn Saalih al-‘Uthaymeen (al-Liqa’ al-Maftooh, 3/30) was asked whether using the masbahah for tasbeeh is bid’ah, and his reply was: “It is better not to do tasbeeh with the masbahah, but it is not bid’ah, because there is a basis for it, which is the fact that some of the Sahaabah did tasbeeh with pebbles. But the Messenger (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) taught that tasbeeh with the fingers is better, as he said, ‘Count with the fingertips, for they will be made to speak.’ Doing tasbeeh with the masbahah is not haraam or bid’ah, but it is better not to do it, because the one who does tasbeeh with the masbahah has shunned something better. Using the masbahah may also be contaminated with some element of showing off, because we see some people carrying masbahahs that contain a thousand beads, as if they are telling people, ‘Look at me, I do a thousand tasbeehs!’ Secondly, those who use the masbahah for tasbeeh are usually absent-minded and not focused, so you see them doing tasbeeh with the beads, but their gaze is wandering all over the place, which indicates that they are not really concentrating. It is better to do tasbeeh with one’s fingers, preferably using the right hand rather than the left, because the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) used to count his tasbeeh on his right hand. If a person counts his tasbeeh using both hands, there is nothing wrong with that, but it is better to use the right hand only.” Shaykh Muhammad Naasir al-Deen al-Albaani said in Al-Silsilat al-Da’eefah (1/110), where he quotes the (weak) hadeeth “What a good reminder is the subhah [masbahah],” “In my view, the meaning of this hadeeth is invalid for a number of reasons: Firstly, the subhah [masbahah] is bid’ah and was not known at the time of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him). It happened after that, so how could he (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) have encouraged his Sahaabah to do something that was unknown to them? The evidence for what I have said is the report narrated by Ibn Waddaah in Al-Bid’ wa’l-Nahy ‘anhaa from al-Salt ibn Bahraam, who said: ‘Ibn Mas’ood passed by a woman who had a [masbahah] with which she was making tasbeeh, and he broke it and threw it aside, then he passed by a man who was making tasbeeh with pebbles, and he kicked him then said, “You think you are better than the Sahaabah, but you are following unjustified bid’ah! You think you have more knowledge than the Companions of Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him)!”’ Its isnaad is saheeh to al-Salt, who is one of the trustworthy (thiqah) followers of the Taabi’een. Secondly, it goes against the guidance of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him). ‘Abd-Allaah ibn ‘Amr said, ‘I saw the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) counting the tasbeeh on his right hand.’” He also said (1/117): “If there is only one bad thing about the masbahah, which it is that it takes the place of the Sunnah of counting on the fingers, even though all are agreed that counting on the fingers is preferable, then that is bad enough. How rarely I see people counting their tasbeeh on their fingers! Moreover, people have invented so many sophisticated ways of following this bid’ah, so you see the followers of one of the [sufi] tareeqahs wearing the masbahah around their necks! Or some of them counting with the beads whilst talking or listening to you! Or another one – the like of whom I have not seen for some time – riding his bicycle through a street crowded with people, with the masbahah in one of his hands! They are showing the people that they are not distracted from the remembrance of Allaah for even an instant, but in many cases this bid’ah is a cause of their neglecting what is obligatory (waajib). It has happened many times – to others as well as myself – that when I greet one of these people with salaam, they answer only by waving and not by saying the words of the greeting. The bad results of this bid’ah are innumerable, and no one can say it better than the poet: ‘All goodness is in following that which went before (the salaf) All badness is in the innovations of those who came later.’” And Allaah knows best.