Amr (RA) narrates that Prophet (SAW) one day delivered a sermon saying: Listen carefully! The world and its things are temporary commodity (and as such have no worth and value), shared and consumed by both the good and the evil people alike! Indeed, the Hereafter is truly a reality and will arrive at its appointed time in which Judgement will be made by a Powerful King. Listen carefully! Indeed all good, in all its varieties, is in Paradise! Indeed all evil, in all its varieties, is in the Fire. Understand it well; whatever you do, do it being fearful of Allah; and understand that you will be presented (in front of Allah) with you actions. Whosoever does an atom's worth of good, he will see it, and whosoever does an atom's worth of evil, he will see it! Source: Musnad Sha'fi.

Ibne Umar (RA) used to buy sugar (made from dates) and distribute it among the poor. His servant once submitted that it would be better if bread were given to the poor instead of sugar, as they would benefit more from it. He agreed with the suggestion but said that Allah Ta'ala has said: You will never attain piety unless you spend of that which you love.(Al-Imran:92). Since, he himself loved sugar most, he gave the same to the poor. Source: "Fadhail-E-Sadaqaa Part I", translated by Prof. Abdul Karim. Subhan-Allah! How beautifully they would give away what they love the most, so that they may fulfill one of the commandments of Allah. May Allah also give us these great qualities. Ameen.

Ee yaa Khayr cindak ee? Akiid cindak xaaga kabiira, khalliina na shuuf ee li cindak! mutaradid lee?

No. 2 Please, and Jazaakalaahu Khayran

On the road to Dubai, my husband stopped at a small mosque to offer the Asr prayer. As I sat in the car, I saw a figure approaching from the direction of a small group of houses. It took some time before I realised it was a man, crawling towards the mosque. He wore rubber sandals on his hands. His lower body dragged on the hard, rocky ground. The sweltering heat was beating down hard on his body. By the time he reached the courtyard of the mosque, I could see he was soaked and his face was flushed. Many men passed him on their way to the prayer, perhaps accustomed to seeing him everyday. One man came out of a shop and watched him for a while. He went back into the shop and came out with a cold drink. He opened it for the crawling man and they sat together for a minute. I heard them talking as the man who offered him the cold drink requested that he would help the crawling man to make it up the stairs to the mosque. He was concerned about making it on time, so he excused himself and continued his slow, laboured journey to the prayer. I did not watch him as he mounted the stairs. I could not imagine how to help him. I was crying by then, remembering the Hadith of the Prophet (pbuh): “The hypocrites find the Fajr and Isha prayers in congregation very oppressive. If they could know the virtues of these two prayers, they would certainly join them, even if they had to go crawling.” (Bukhari, Muslim) This man, who literally did crawl even in the heat of the day, did not find the congregational prayer oppressive at all. May Allah reward all who struggle to please Him and may He always remind us of our own weaknesses through such people. By: Um Yaqoob

Haaruun, Sxb kaasoo kale waxaa la yiraahdaa DUF KU BAX ,

Originally posted by OG_Moti: 9. qadaamadii (housemaid) 59 years old, kulahaa i heard black men carry snake in their body and it is a mature copra, can i see please, anigii yaaab .. 4. Yuusan ku cunine ka carar xaad u dhihi weysay, qandho cagaarani ha dishee. Nuune, Saaxiiboow, Nin naagtiisii soo burisay oo dhahaaya gurigaygii ha la igu celiyo soow caadi ma noqon, yaabka dhimman aaway marka, :eek:

Khabbaab ibn al-Aratt (may Allaah be pleased with him) said: "We complained to the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) when he was reclining on his cloak in the shade of the Ka'bah. We said to him: "Why do you not ask Allaah to help us (grant us victory)? Why do you not pray to Allaah for us?" He said, "A man from the people before you would be placed in a hole dug for him, then they would bring a saw and cut his head in two, yet that would not make him renounce his faith. They would use an iron comb to drag the flesh and nerves from his bones, yet that would not make him renounce his faith. By Allaah, this matter will be completed (i.e. Islam will be perfected and will prevail) until a rider travelling from Sana' to Hadramawt will fear nobody but Allaah or the attack of a wolf on his sheep, but you are too impatient." Source: Sahih Bukhari. The conditions of Muslims may go up and down but Islam will always remain on top. We should never lose hope even during the most difficult times as Allah is always in control. Surely, Allah helps those who are patient. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Nuune qof soomaali arkay yaab u dhimman maba jiro, waa iyada la yiri Soomaali aragtayaaba yaab aragtay :confused: , mar intaan u soconnaa mar inta, mar xagga, mar horay mar gadaal, mar maraykan baan la dagaalsanahay mar dhexdeenna, mar xabashiyaan la dagaalsanahay mar jabuuti, mar yuhuudaan la dagaalsannahay mar carab, mar jinnibaan la dagaalsannahay mar shaydaan, mar caddaankaan la dagaalsannahay mar madowga, markaan dad rabno inaan cayno cunsuriyiin aan dhahnaa adduunkana annagaa ugu cunsurisan (iskuma jeedno),

Nuune, Hadalladaada murti weyn baa ka dambeysa :rolleyes: haddii aan kuu tiriyo waxyaabaha aniga iga yabiyay oon arkay adna sidaan u yaabay baad u yaabaysaa, markaynu wada yaabnana yaabkuba isgaa isla yaabayaya waayo wax ka yaabiyuu arkay. yaabkuna mar hadduu yaabo innagaa la inoo yaabaa. marka intii la inoo yaabi lahaa aan yaabka iska daawanno haddii kale waxaa inaku dhacaysa sidii ninkii yiri HAL WAA YAAB, HALNA WAA YAABKA YAABKIIS, HALNA WAA AMANKAAG :mad: .

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He is a MAN not like :eek:

OGUN first of all, I just told the story as it happened and i know the family very well and it's true. secondly, these kids were speaking Somali very well, also they were learning Quran etc. otherwise they wouldn't understand these people very well. Some people may not like to hear such stories but this is our reality, if we deny our reality we can't solve our problem (Soomaalidu sideedaba runta isuma sheegto) what i'm asking is this mother regrets that her children learned not only that they're from that clan and they're different from that clan enz. but also they were told that clan fulan made atrocities in their area and they're so and so ... in other words they were learned to hate others. OGUN also said "i have the feeling they would pick up quicker in the UK than in somalia.?!" that's true some parents or relatives,friends etc learn kids to clanisim in western countries, but we're talking about the parents who don't want their kids to learn such things. Finally, OGUN if you asked me the alternative i would say is LABA DARAN KALA DOORO or DILEMMA others may disagree but i myself have been to somalia recently and as they say QOFNA KA WAREYSAN MAYO :eek:

I will try to reveal here some true stories which happened in our society. some of them the witness is me or i got from a confident source and i will tell wether this happens to me or from reliable source. My purpose is to get your feedback from this real stories which, i am sure most of you have witnessed similiar or more exited ones. the title of the first story is: Is it worth to send our kids to Somalia? C, F, & D. are three young somali siblings (the oldest one is 11 yrs old) who were born in London and never saw Somalia, their mother very intelligent and kind woman decided to see her mother in Somalia before her death since she has'nt seen whole the 13 yrs which she is living in UK. it was very good idea, she also decided to take her kids with her to allow them to see their grandparents and also their mother country which they never saw. everything went allright, they reached small town which grandmather lives, they enjoyed their first days however, aftyer a several days something strange happened, what is that? According to mother, the children started to ask their mother, mum who's our friends from *** clan? the mother surprised, they never ask this question before, mother understood where they heard from but asked them WHY? we want to know mum, because everybody here is saying that they're enemies, they killed fulaan and fulaan etc. the mother surprised and told them don't ask me this question again, these people are liars, what they're telling you is not true it's false ...., but the kids insisted to know the differences between thier friends back home (Sorry back UK), they insisted to know, when she refused they named such as was D or G from that clan? etc. the mother regreted that she brought her kids in this country, she later decided, to prove that the people of this town are wrong, to tell some of her closest friends (both in terms of friendship & in terms of family) to be that clan and she asked are they bad children? they sid NO! so 'she said' don't listen to these people. but they come the next day (and believe me this is what she told us) and said O, Mum you know why they're so good because Abbayo N. (their cousion) is the mother of S,M, and ... and Aunt S. is the mother of H, M and.. but their fathers come from that Clan (which is not true). Who told them this details? :confused: the mother become upset and decided to leave ASAP before they learned many other things and they returned to UK. What's your idea? Is it worth to send them Somalia to learn So-called their culture or not?

John Pilger THE "liberation" of Iraq is a cruel joke on a stricken people. The Americans and British, partners in a great recognised crime, have brought down on the Middle East, and much of the rest of the world, the prospect of terrorism and suffering on a scale that al-Qaeda could only imagine. That is what this week's bloody bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad tells us. It is a "wake-up call", according to Mary Robinson, the former UN Humanitarian Commissioner. She is right, of course, but it is a call that millions of people sounded on the streets of London and all over the world more than seven months ago - before the killing began. And yet the Anglo-American spin machine, whose minor cogs are currently being exposed by the Hutton Inquiry, is still in production. According to the Bush and Blair governments, those responsible for the UN outrage are "extremists from outside": Al-Qaeda terrorists or Iranian militants, or both. Whether or not outsiders are involved, the aim of this propaganda is to distract from the truth that America and Britain are now immersed in a classic guerrilla war, a war of resistance and self-determination of the kind waged against foreign aggressors and colonial masters since history began. For America, it is another Vietnam. For Britain it is another Kenya, or indeed another Iraq. In 1921, Lieutenant-General Sir Stanley Maude said in Baghdad: "Our armies do not come as conquerors, but as liberators." Within three years 10,000 had died in an uprising against the British, who gassed and bombed the "terrorists". Nothing has changed, only the names and the fine print of the lies. As for the "extremists from outside", simply turn the meaning around and you have a succinct description of the current occupiers who, unprovoked, attacked a defenceless sovereign country, defying the United Nations and the opposition of most of humanity. Using weapons designed to cause the maximum human suffering - cluster bombs, uranium-tipped shells and firebombs (napalm) - these extremists from outside caused the deaths of at least 8,000 civilians and as many as 30,000 troops, most conscripted teenagers. Consider the waves of grief in any society from that carnage. AT their moment of "victory", these extremists from outside - having already destroyed Iraq's infrastructure with a 12-year bombing campaign and embargo - murdered journalists, toppled statues and encouraged wholesale looting while refusing to make the most basic humanitarian repairs to the damage they had caused to the supply of power and clean water. This means that today sick children are dying from thirst and gastro-enteritis, that hospitals frequently run out of oxygen and that those who might be saved can not be saved. How many have died like this? "We count every screwdriver," said an American colonel during the first Gulf war, "but counting civilians who die along the way is just not our policy." The biggest military machine on earth, said to be spending up to $5billion-a-month on its occupation of Iraq, apparently can not find the resources and manpower to bring generators to a people enduring temperatures of well over the century - almost half of them children, of whom eight per cent, says UNICEF, are suffering extreme malnutrition. When Iraqis have protested about this, the extremists from outside have shot them dead. They have shot them in crowds, or individually, and they boast about it. The other day, Task Force 20, an "elite" American unit murdered at least five people as they drove down a street. The next day they murdered a woman and her three children as they drove down a street. They are no different from the death squads the Americans trained in Latin America. These extremists from outside have been allowed to get away with much of this - partly because of the web of deceptions in London and Washington, and partly because of those who voluntarily echo and amplify their lies. In the current brawl between the Blair government and the BBC a new myth has emerged: It is that the BBC was and is "anti-war". This is what George Orwell called an "official truth". Again, just turn it around and you have the real truth; that the BBC supported Blair's war, that day after day it broadcast and "debated" and legitimised the charade of weapons of mass destruction, as well as nonsense such as that which cast Blair as a "moderating influence" on Bush - when, as we now know, they are almost identical warmongers. Who can forget the BBC's exultant Chief Political Correspondent Andrew Marr, at the moment of "coalition" triumph. Tony Blair, he declared, "said that they would take Baghdad without a blood bath, and that in the end the Iraqis would be celebrating. And on both those points he has been conclusively proved right." If you replace "right" with "wrong", you have the truth. To the BBC's man in Downing Street, up to 40,000 deaths apparently does not constitute a "blood bath". According to the independent American survey organisation Media Tenor, the BBC allowed less dissent against the war than all the leading international broadcasters surveyed, including the American networks. Andrew Gilligan, the BBC reporter who revealed Dr David Kelly's concerns about the government's "dodgy dossier" on Iraq, is one of the very few mavericks, an inconvenient breed who challenge official truth. One of the most important lies was linking the regime of Saddam Hussein with al-Qaeda. As we now know, both Bush and Blair ignored the advice of their intelligence agencies and made the connection public. It worked. When the attack on Iraq began, polls showed that most Americans believed Saddam Hussein was behind September 11. The opposite was true. Monstrous though it was, Saddam Hussein's regime was a veritable bastion against al-Qaeda and its Islamic fanaticism. Saddam was the West's man, who was armed to the teeth by America and Britain in the 1980s because he had oil and a lot of money and because he was an enemy of anti-Western mullahs in Iran and elsewhere in the region. Saddam and Osama bin Laden loathed each other. His grave mistake was invading Kuwait in 1990; Kuwait is an Anglo-American protectorate, part of the Western oil empire in the Middle East. The killings in the UN compound in Baghdad this week, like the killing of thousands of others in Iraq, form a trail of blood that leads to Bush and Blair and their courtiers. It was obvious to millions of people all over the world that if the Americans and British attacked Iraq, then the fictional link between Iraq and Islamic terrorism could well become fact. The brutality of the occupation of Iraq - in which children are shot or arrested by the Americans, and countless people have "disappeared" in concentration camps - is an open invitation to those who now see Iraq as part of a holy jihad. When I travelled the length of Iraq several years ago, I felt completely safe. I was received everywhere with generosity and grace, even though I was from a country whose government was bombing and besieging my hosts. Bush's and Blair's court suppressed the truth that most Iraqis both opposed Saddam Hussein and the invasion of their country. The thousands of exiles, from Jordan to Britain, said this repeatedly. But who listened to them? When did the BBC interrupt its anti-Christ drumbeat about Saddam Hussein and report this vital news? Nor are the United Nations merely the "peacemakers" and "nationbuilders" that this week's headlines say they are. There were dedicated humanitarians among the dead in Baghdad but for more than 12 years, the UN Security Council allowed itself to be manipulated so that Washington and London could impose on the people of Iraq, under a UN flag, an embargo that resembled a mediaeval siege. It was this that crippled Iraq and, ironically, concentrated all domestic power in the hands of the regime, thus ending all hope of a successful uprising. The other day I sat with Dennis Halliday, former Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations, and the UN in New York. Halliday was the senior UN official in Iraq in the mid-1990s, who resigned rather than administer the blockade. "These sanctions," he said, "represented ongoing warfare against the people of Iraq. They became, in my view, genocidal in their impact over the years, and the Security Council maintained them, despite its full knowledge of their impact, particularly on the children of Iraq. "We disregarded our own charter, international law, and we probably killed over a million people. "It's a tragedy that will not be forgotten... I'm confident that the Iraqis will throw out the occupying forces. I don't know how long it will take, but they'll throw them out based on a nationalistic drive. "They will not tolerate any foreign troops' presence in their country, dictating their lifestyle, their culture, their future, their politics. "This is a very proud people, very conscious of a great history. "It's grossly unacceptable. Every country that is now threatened by Mr Bush, which is his habit, presents an outrage to all of us. "Should we stand by and merely watch while a man so dangerous he is willing to sacrifice Americans lives and, worse, the lives of others."

Where is Bro. Yusuf Addie, because he was asking @How do they know which qabiil r u from? i told him in that thread as this: "Since 1991 there are many examples of coalitions formed and others broken, everything is depend upon the desire of the warlord for example recent coalition between Abdiqasim and Muse S. Yalahow no one expected, before that the coalition between Abdullahi Yusuf and Husein Aideed no one anticipated, before that A/qasim and Barre Hiiraale was one of the miracles in Somalia and so on, and imagine as soon as the two warlords formed a coalition not only militi's (who were fighting yesterday) becoming friends but also their fellowers in the caffes and Kat places" and i will add now and the Somali Internet Sites I know many Somalis who were defending certain warlords and now become their worst enemies why? because they were blind of his crimes before he comitted crime against his/her tribe/family etc. I always ask myself how we can expect US to condemn Israel or Tony blair to resign because his misleading of British people while we only see other warlords crimes and when it comes our warlords we say as the george bush say today Israel has a right to defend herselef , BILLAAHI CALAYKUM how george bush can see Israelis agression while i (Somali) can't see my cousion or coalitions agression to other Somalis.

INAA LILLAHI WA INAA ILAYHI RAAJICUUN. Samir iyo iimaan walaal, ILAAHAY isagana jannada ha ka waraabiyo SUUBANAHANA rafiiq ha uga yeelo, AAMMIIN

It's a bitter TRUTH

Wlc Back Sis :cool:

I can't say better than what Bulo said, I just wonder weather rudy agree what he/she posted?

Originally posted by Shujui-1: Residents say the 1,400-student university and an affiliated Mogadishu school network that teaches more than 150,000 pupils have done more to rebuild the city's morale in recent years than all the U.N. and Western relief agencies put together Residents hail the teachers' achievement in getting young people off the streets and behind desks. They also recognize it as something the fractious political class has never managed. Does anyone knows why these people are not known by us or at least most of us?

Only in Britain Only in Britain... can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance. Only in Britain... do supermarkets make sick people walk all the way to the back of the shop to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front. > Only in Britain... do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries, and a DIET coke. Only in Britain... do banks leave both doors open and chain the pens to the counters. Only in Britain... do we leave cars worth thousands of pounds on the drive and lock our junk and cheap lawn mower in the garage. Only in Britain... do we use answering machines to screen calls and then have call waiting so we won't miss a call from someone we didn't want to talk to in the first place. Only in Britain... are there disabled parking places in front of a skating rink. NOT TO MENTION... 3 Brits die each year testing if a 9v battery works on their tongue. 142 Brits were injured in 1999 by not removing all pins from new shirts. 58 Brits are injured each year by using sharp knives instead of screwdrivers. 31 Brits have died since 1996 by watering their Christmas tree while the fairy lights were plugged in. 19 Brits have died in the last 3 years believing that Christmas decorations were chocolate. British Hospitals reported 4 broken arms last year after cracker pulling accidents. 101 people since 1999 have had broken parts of plastic toys pulled out of the soles of their feet. 18 Brits had serious burns in 2000 trying on a new jumper with a lit cigarette in their mouth. A massive 543 Brits were admitted to A&E in the last two years after opening bottles of beer with their teeth. 5 Brits were injured last year in accidents involving out of control Scalextric cars. And finally......... In 2000 eight Brits cracked their skull whilst throwing up into the toilet. RULE BRITANNIA!!

Originally posted by JASMIINE: So this is Southall i heard so much about it. Am sorry to say this but it looks horrible, old looking clustered tiny streets. But i have to give it to the two ladies strolling the streets just like somalia. Jasmine Somalia meel ha uga dhicin Somalia is more beatiful than this half Mumbai city :cool: Jamal 11 dadka ha ugu yeerin buulasha Southall, waad ogtahay qof waddan kale bartay ma dhex socon karo Bombay :eek:

LATEAFHA It's unbeliveable such a person like you to leave from SOL, you were one of the most respectful nomads in the site , i also have seen many un-islamic topics but i rise imidiately to the Admin or Moaderators, So, instead of leaving us would not be better to rise the issue to the Admin. I hope you'll amend you're desicission, and even if you don't change yopur mind we will held a petition to bring you back , So, don't force us to to held a petition and finally remember your departure is only mean less good topics but not less bad topics :cool:

Qacqac Bro. remember our RASUULL (S.A.W) was becoming very happy when someone weak or powerfull to become Muslim, not because he was weak (Xaashaahu) but after all because ALLAH resued this person from hell fire, he (S.A.W) was very happy when small jewish boy accepted to say LAA ILAAHA ILLA LAAH just minutes or seconds before his death as well as when UMAR BINUL KHTAB (R.A converted to ISLAM. So, it's not weakness to be very happy if a rich or famous person to convert ISLAM because this person could help ISLAM and Muslims more than many ordinary muslims could do, take an example When CUAMR (R.A) converted ISLAM there was dramatic change for the SAHABA's situation which one could say that the ISLAM become public in Makkah. and remember it's ALLAH'S SUNNAH and WISDOM that this religion needs the efforts of the people, not waiting ALLAH'S help without doing anything as many Muslims now dreaming.