Mashallah; I think I can do without the occasional glance at these pseudo "serious" magazines a la "the Economist" and other forms of not so subtle propaganda, I'd rather focus on occupying myself with original litterature and continue enhancing my arabic too. The trick is to surround yourself with alternatives and switch from Asdiqaa'u suu (evil friends) as friends are pivotal: al maru 'ala diini khaliilihi or one is according to his close friend...

an excellent suggestion for all of us: To quit the habit of backbiting or gossiping about people. Whether it is the "truth" or not, as long the person we are talking about would dislike it, then that is one of the major sins (regardless of how common it is)...

The damsels were literally both dressed like they were in a disco or brothel, rather than an hospital.At least, the first one get a bit embarassed as she stands ("too hot today").What kind of message those kind of prostitute dresses are supposed to sends? i wonder now whether my plans would now need some serious rethink...

I think there is no need to lose our focus as we all agree here on the Fundamentals: 1- Somalis land, ie in Oga-denia, is occupied with the blessing of Western powers; however, and despite any present incursion, Somalia frontiers are recognized and could be secured through a consensual government. 2- Somalis, however all Muslims, with their clan and others lines of division, and more generally level of Islamic and moral awareness, are clearly the prime responsible of this tragedy; however, that lever has been and is still exploited by foreign interests. 3- Only a sound state, largely supported internally, could gather the necessary wherewithal and prepare us for effective resistance, in accordance with Qur'aanic injunctions. 5- Finally, only the unanimously respected Ulamas, whether they be Somalis or non-Somalis, could interpret the Qur'aan and Sunnah for a settlement. What it should then be really about is the latter opinions and how to reconcile them...Fiqh rather than politics!

Of course, keeping your beard is a must, just like not imitating the disbelievers in terms of adornment, clothing and other specific traditions. However, I saw the article below in Islam Q&A and have to meet a women panel. What is advised as I'm really perplexed? Ruling on wearing trousers and a suit and tie What is the ruling on wearing trousers if they are tight and stick to one’s body, or if they are baggy in order to imitate the westerners, what if a person wears a different style from what the westerners wear? What is the ruling on wearing suit and tie and other clothes usually used by the unbelievers? Is it acceptable because it became of Muslims’ habits and that an average Muslim will not think that they are worn to resemble the unbelievers? What should a Muslim wear nowadays?. Praise be to Allaah. The basic principle with regard to clothes is that they are permissible, except those which Islam has definitely excluded, such as gold and silk for men, except in the case of scabies and the like. Wearing trousers is not something that is unique to the kuffaar, but wearing tight trousers which show the shape of the body, even the ‘awrah, is not permissible. Loose pants are permissible, unless the wearer intends to resemble those of the kuffaar who wear them. The same applies to wearing a suit and tie. These are not garments that are unique to the kuffaar, so they are permissible, unless the wearer intends to imitate them. To sum up, the basic principle with regard to clothes is that they are permissible, unless there is shar’i evidence to show that they are not allowed, as stated above. And Allaah is the Source of strength. May Allaah send blessings and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad and his family and companions. End quote. Standing Committee for Academic Research and Issuing Fatwas Shaykh ‘Abd al-Azeez ibn ‘Abd-Allaah ibn Baaz, Shaykh ‘Abd al-Razzaaq al-‘Afeefi, Shaykh ‘Abd-Allaah ibn Ghadyaan, Shaykh ‘Abd-Allaah ibn Qa’ood. Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa’imah li’l-Buhooth al-‘Ilmiyyah wa’l-Ifta (24/40).

Was not Somalis internal rifts the lever historically exploited by Ethiopia and its clients in order to prolong chaos and suffering? Is thus not reconciliation and a consensual government all the more required? Which precise Somali location other than Djibouti was considered unanimously safe and neutral enough by all interested parties? Beyond accusations on particular figures suddenly "losing" their free-will or popular support, is it not a fact that both local and international Ulamas have welcomed the Djbouti process as a major step forward, while the new TFG is ever eager for a pacific settlement? What other practical alternatives remain to mitigate the unprecedented humanitarian situation, avert further foreign invasions as well as Somalis becoming disenchanted with claims to Shariah implementation (whose precondition is an Islamic authority convincing the whole country)? Finalemente, and most crucially, why those advocating for an alternative, if there is one, get a consensus from the most learned Ulamas, both in Somalia and elsewhere, ya akhi Nur?

Just like one needs to master common primitives before attempting the integration of several variables, we first have to ponder on and consider the force behind creation. That extensive contemplation and analysis of the creation in all its diversity is precisely the invitation offered in the Qur'aan; only after establishing for yourself the necessary existence of a creator, could we therefore come to terms with his attributes and qualities. It happens that I currently possess Arabic literature specifically explicating the parts of the Qur'aan that may seems ambiguous or contradictory for those of us not yet proficient and would happily part with it along other surplus, should you PM some details in all confidentiality...

I think that apart from property (speculation is not quite moral and highly lucrative renting is not always assured), there are indeed a handful of sectors worth investing if you are more into a sustainable business. That would requires local contacts and it is good to know that rent, utilities and labour are not cheap by regional standards. Having said that, I can advise on the suitability of a specific business plan and, if appropriate, connect with a potential partner; especially worthwhile for relatively significant capitals, say $50 000, at which stage things may largely "take care of themselve"...

Walaal, is there a parallel between Sh C. janaqow/Prof Sh Cadow/Sh Sharif & co, islamically learned super-achievers and a corrupt Fatah who was rejected through the last election? Did not the former forsake their comfortable routine and were already known for assisting their compatriots or calling for Shariah implementation while the latter Fatah & co were solely resting on the legacy of Arafat? What country other than Djibouti would have been an "ideal" place to negociate an Ethiopian retreat and a more legitimate authority? Is there a figure more consensual and able to unite us than Sh Sharif, who never ceases urging for negociations, a figure which will likely get fuller support? Is fighting now the only alternative for a "perfectly transparent" process or should we find a ulamas-mediated compromise granted the humanitarian catastrophe as well as the genocide raging in oga-denia?

Indeed, thanks to Qatari Al Jazeera again; why is David Shin stating twice that "independence is not the solution" when the US is still actively seeking that very independence for Southern Sudan? Why does he reproach to the Oga-denis people in his statement to "want independence" as if that was a crime in this case? Are they less human than his American compatriots or the rest of the nations that did or still fight for their independence? At any rate, the only way forward is to get the Somali government running as urgently as possible so to at the very least highlight that ignored genocide...

Pharynx: Qaaxo In North/West: Kaneeco: malaria Duri (xun or bad one): hargab or cold, flu etc Madax Xanuun is used for migraines, headaches etc Cuncun means itching in daily use... was also kind of right with this confirmation: Murugo ama Buufis (Depression) Bukaan eegida la xiriirta xaaladaha murugada waxa weye dhibaato ku timaada caafimaadka taa soo kula aada meel shishe oo ku dareensiisa “shucuur weyn.” Dhibaatadan waxay saameyneysa qeyb kasta oo noloshaada ka mid ah. Waxaa laga yaaba in aad dareentid in aad ka soo toosin aroortii sariirta. Waxaa laga yaaba in aad ka fikertid dhimasho. Murugada waxay dhaci karta ka dib marka noloshaada ku timaado dhacdo sida dhimasho, isbeddel shaqo, dhalmo ama guurid. Jiradaan waxay saameeyn karta qof kasta oo da’ kasta uu jiro. Arintani waxay ku abuuri kartaa jiro weyn (sida cudurada keena laleemada ama Parkinson). Murugada waxay beddeli kartaa niyadaada sida ay tahay iyo fekirkaaga. Xanaanka fekirka ee aad qabtid marka aad murugooneysid waxay kaa dhigaysaa “naxariis la’aan” waxayna adkayneysa in aad xalisid dhibaatooyinka. Calaamadaha murugada Calaamadaha bukaanka murugaysan ma aha mar kasta mid la aqoonsan karo. Calaamadaha waxay ka mid yihiin: dareemid tiiraanyo ama xanaaq fudud (dareemadaas kama tagaan) 2 isbuuc ama ka badan• ka lumid xiisayn iyo farxadba maalinba- maalinta xigta (waxa ku jira isu-tagga) Helitaan isbeddelo ku yimaada rabitaanka cuntada iyo culayska miisaanka Helitaan dhibaato ku timaada hurdada (sida hurdo aan ku filnayn ama hurdo aad u badan) Dareemid nasasho la’aan Dareemid daal ama helitaan tabar yari Dareemid rajo-xumo, qiimo lahayn ama dembi Helitaan dhibaato adag ama go’amo ka gaarida Helitaan dhibaatooyinka ku yimaada jirka kaa soo war celinaynin si loo daweeyo Helitaan kefir badan oo ku saabsan dhimasho ama is-dil.

This is one of Ibliis categories of waswaasa we are supposed to ignore akhi. Sheikh la weydiyey sababta ahlul kitaabka "cibaadadooda" waswaasku uunan saameyn ayaa jawaab caynkan u dhigey "Guri Kharaab ah Tuug miyuu u dhacaa?" (waswaas may indicate Ibliss soldiers frustration)...

Originally posted by Raamsade: quote:Originally posted by Nur: Raamsade asks: Ingratitude towards who? Toward The One And Only , who gave you life, sight, hearing, intelligence and created you for the definite purpose of surrendering to His will by following his natural laws, and revealed commandments in the scriptures, of the Torah, Gospel and the Quraan. Nur But that would make God needy and human-like. A God that needs his "creation" to show gratitude is not a self-sufficient and perfect God. The Quran says God is perfect and self-sufficient. So which is it: the God that takes slight at human ingratitude or the perfect and self-sufficient God? As usual, we see only what we chose to see, revealing our own pre-conceived assumptions in the process. However convoluted the "logic" (or ,maybe more accurately the self-justification) which leads to the contrary may be, the real purpose of exclusive worship is hardly to fulfill a "need". In that latter scenario, and stating the obvious, the creation would have been optimised in that sense. Actually, the need for worship, or focalising one's devotion & hopes is inherent to human nature, should you study history in its breadth, regardless of the actual form this may have taken, whether it be towards abstract, inanimate or living pseudo deity (including our soul's whims). What is asked and tested here, or our own raison d-etre, is therefore how dutiful we are to our core responsability on which everything else rest. Yet, although you specifically chose to focus on the Qur'aan, this core requirement was the reason behind all revelations, including those from which no or scant data has survived...

Xiin, lexical use, esp of unconventional words may be a bit chaotic. I thought Buufis was used to depict paranoia too or the longing for emmigraton in refugee camps etc Were I a clinician, I'd settle personally for Murugo or melancholy in cases of depression and give simple Islamic/common sense as a routine.Why medicalise or seek chemical answers to changing states of mind, as if the brain was not inside a person, itself evolving in a society, with possible unhelpful reaction to problematic issues?

Originally posted by NinBrown: depression = walbahaar I thought Walbahaar is commonly used in langage as Walwal or anxiety, restless apprehension in relation to a specific issue/event. yet, isku buuqid or wareer signify a real mental disturbance like in schyzophrenia; interestingly enough, there are instances of remissions in that case, while medication with the usual assortments like Artan/Haldol/largact il etc only "calm" patients, not without serious side-effects (eg, prescribing the other one to counter the effect of the first drug). At any rate, Western psychiatry is controversial and needs to be more evidence-based like the rest of more scientific medical specialties, instead of being mostly preoccupied with managing patients with business, ideological or political considerations running in parallel, ie the introduction of chlorpromazine (largactil) coincided with the closure of Victorian mental institutions...

Feel free to mail your business plan when ready sxb; we are not into the same sector but may help nevertheless...

Indeed, brotherly Pakistan has welcomed many of us with open hands and even extend a scholarship program to Somalis in all fields. Clearly, only foreign agents (read Ethiopia) are able to commit such acts...

Originally posted by Torres: Abu Salman, the Dubai/Djibouti link-up gets more interesting by the day. That may help you should you wish to establish your consultancy branch over there; crucial sectors are now booming in Djibouti despite the worldwide crisis...

Maashallah, Allah mid kheyr qabtaha ha idinkaga dhigo

If I may try & correct few points: Kidney: Kali Cancer: Kanser is commonly used (but hardly understood as other than a serious disease I guess) Edema: Barar i guess (like in legs with poor circulation or with an inflammation, trauma etc) depression: Murugo or melancholy may best describe it in non-medical terms, this is culturally relative, as with other mental "medical pathologies"; pharmacological treatment distracting about the underlying cause, is very controversial and with serious side effects (just advise routinely proper diet, rest and social interaction and above all spirituality: prayers & Qur'aan) Blood pressure: Dhiig kar is for hypertension Bladder: Kaadi heysta. Gallbladder: maybe beer yar, this is the one commonly removed and produce bile Obstruction: Xidhid, or d-a-b-oolis Failure: Fadhiisitaan, istaagid, ie wadnaha istaagey but preferably kalyahaa fadhiistay (since it is about a flow)

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^^^Try this sis: Southall Travel Tx North, how things have changed since Air France monopoly; at around $240 a return Djibouti-Dubai, this could be combined with another Qatar Airways offer to fly back home, a return London-Djibouti for a total of $600 or to Hargeysa for maybe around 100 more.Not bad!

Books by academics reviewed by academics, 6 August 2009 The Book of the Week: Punishing The Poor Louise Hardwick on the imbalance in the US social funding see-saw The US prison system employs seven times more people than IBM. The correctional services system in California alone has 45,000 employees - twice as many as Microsoft. From 1980 to 1990, government expenditure on public housing in the US fell by more than half, while expenditure on operating penal establishments more than doubled. And this trend continues: indeed, argues Loïc Wacquant, "the construction of prisons has effectively become the country's main housing programme". Prisons are multiplying so quickly that it is proving impossible to recruit enough personnel to staff them at a pace that keeps up with the frenzied building programme. In this resonant book, Wacquant describes the current withering of America's social state and the consequent burgeoning of its penal state. Boldly conceived and carefully constructed, the book details the grandeur of a penal state resourced by the plundering of the social one and dissects the attitudes that legitimate it in all its grandeur. Moreover, Wacquant not only chronicles the enthronement of the penal state in the US but also its imitative climb towards ascendancy in Western Europe. They say that any decent doctoral thesis can be easily summarised in three sentences, and this weighty book takes wing because its simple central thesis is pervasive and persuasive. The author recurrently focuses on the motif of the penal state battening on the ailing social state like a greedy infant whose twin must go hungry. Wacquant describes an America enthusiastically enslaved to the market. The "neoliberal government of social insecurity" abandons the Keynesian-Fordist legacy of state safety nets and stable wage structures in favour of sweeping deregulation and the precarious, piecemeal work that comes with it. It shrinks its social state, leaving people to fend for themselves. But in order to do so without ruinous social rupture, it multiplies its control functions. Hence the aggrandisement of the penal state: those many misfits exposed in the gap between deregulated labour and the reined-in social state must neither get uppity nor go under completely. Instead, they must go down. And go down in droves. Wacquant marshals pertinent statistics to indicate the scale of America's penal expansionism. He notes that when Ronald Reagan entered the White House in 1980 the US was spending $6.9 billion on operating its penal establishments but, by 1990, this had increased nearly fourfold to $26.1 billion. Add in the "tens of millions" of Americans trammelled in what Wacquant calls the "penal dragnet" of criminal databanks and judicial review and we see what a colossus the US penal state has become. The unsurprising consequence of the US defaulting on social provision in favour of penal control is social fragmentation in what Wacquant terms "neighbourhoods of relegation". The cityscape he surveys is as ruptured and ill-lit as an urban earthquake, but his gaze is clear and steady. Crucially, Wacquant always distinguishes between social presentation and social reality. Many politicians, including Michael Bloomberg, the Republican Mayor of New York City, have proved the truth of his assertion that "locking up the poor has the great benefit of being legible by (sic) the electorate". Inflating imprisonment presents itself as a commonsense initiative to protect the hard-working citizen from the parasitic criminal. But the reality is that it is an initiative founded on criminalising poverty so as to frighten people into submissive acceptance of the replacement of reliable wage-work with precarious labour, semi-wages and fractured hours. As the poor multiply and get poorer they seem to disappear, because their more spectacular and vociferous incarnations are hoovered from the sidewalk to be binned in the jail. In exposing the rampant individualism and social Darwinism that atomises American society and threatens to do likewise to the societies of Western Europe, Wacquant lays bare the facile thinking that diagnoses criminality in purely individual terms. If there is no such thing as society, then there is no such thing as societal context, and Christophe Caresche, a member of France's National Assembly, can take himself seriously in declaring: "We know that delinquency has no social nature whatsoever and that it pertains to the individual responsibility of each person." If crime has no social context and issues solely out of aberrant individual volition, then proactive social provision will only pander to the "welfare addict"; thus reactive criminal punishment is perceived as the only option. Here Wacquant deploys Pierre Bourdieu's model of the two-handed state. The state's left hand is its social aspect, proffering such provision as healthcare, social assistance and public housing. Its right hand is its penal aspect, pushing law enforcement through the courts and the police. And in contemporary America, the left hand does not know what the right is doing - but the right certainly knows what the left is doing, because it grips and controls it. The American policy of penal grandeur is not merely a policy but also a creed and a blueprint. It is a blueprint admired and applied by the nations of Western Europe, France being the most ardent imitator. Here, back in 2004, Nicolas Sarkozy, then an ambitious Interior Minister, won plaudits by calling for "automatic baseline sentences" for "habitual offenders". In doing so he aped America, echoing the "mandatory minimums" that have resulted in the needless long-term incarceration of petty criminals. He also bequeathed to the country he now leads a network of prisons that are frequently overcrowded to double capacity - and last year, 115 people incarcerated in French prisons committed suicide. However, Wacquant is too probing a critic to stop at detailing the physical miseries of penal expansionism and instead centres on the question of why America readily accepts poverty as the embedded condition for vast sectors of its population and also accepts - welcomes, even - the obliteration of its social state. Paradoxically, this acceptance of poverty is founded on the impregnable assumption that affluence is America's default position. Poverty is then explained as the decontextualised choice of the feckless individual, no matter how many millions of times such supposedly wilful individual choices are seen to accumulate. Given the formidable qualities - both core and conspicuous - of Wacquant's book, any defects are necessarily going to be relatively minor. Yet a defect there is, in the form of Wacquant's prose style. This reviewer has herself presented you, within a single sentence, with a penal state both enthroned and climbing, so she should not readily throw stones from her glass house. Nevertheless, it must be said that Wacquant's prose, while not consistently ungainly, is at its worst about as gainly as a John Sergeant pirouette. One overspilling sentence features an amputated economic arm that is wedded and a "social bosom" that is retracted, and the book's editor should have sundered such couplings as "planetary spearhead", "tenacious blurring" and "rampant gesticulation". Yet enduring these awkward phrases is a very small price to pay for any reader of this careful and impassioned work, whose strengths dwarf its defects. Urgent and timely, absorbing and alarming, Punishing the Poor should warn us that Britain's increasing dependence on our penal state and the accelerating erosion of our social state are one and the same thing, and may prove a disaster. The author Loïc Wacquant is professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley and researcher at the Centre de Sociologie Europeenne, Paris. His interests include urban marginality, the penal state, ethno-racial domination and social theory. This month, he will receive the American Sociological Association's Lewis A. Coser Award for "theoretical agenda-setting work". His output on marginality, particularly his book Urban Outcasts (2008), helped to create an international research network. Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity, By Loïc Wacquant,Duke University Press, ISBN 9780822344049 and 44223, 25 July 2009 Reviewer : Louise Hardwick is lecturer, School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Liverpool.

Actually some marine species are considered as luxury which could fetch more than $ 100 000 the piece, ie bluefin Tuna which is very demanded in Japan. However, many more products from sesame seeds and citrus fruits to medicinal and aromatic plants exported worldwide from the antiquity (eg Punt's trade with Egypt), are worth billions on their own. With rapid growth and environmental challenges accross the globe, they are predicted to be at an ever higher premium... WARSHADA KALUUNKA EE LAASQORAY AYAA GAADHAY HORMAR XAWLI AH (Las Qorey Fish-processing Plant Latest Success)

From what I've heard (this may not be true), the land dispute started when Syad's government offered a farm to a Wadaad from Gabiley; finally, the Somaliland Court decision in favor of his relatives was not implemented and they thus "took the law in their hands", suspecting Riyaale's government of ignoring a judicial verdict out of nepotism. As for those prominent men killed, aside from "waxaa la yiri", their involvement in the dispute has not been determined; regardless, there is no doubt that this was a criminal, cowardly act. Of course, the other usual khat-induced paranoia, mafrish conspiracy involving Djibouti in a "widespread anti-Somaliland coalition", run in parallel lol More importantly, we should stop interpreting every dispute as clan X vs clan Y from a comfortable distance; reer Gabiley and reer Borama are more related between them than say with the rest in Berbera or Burco.I myself can hardly count my ancestors/relatives from the other side and any disturbance will mostly affect locals, when we have much bigger common challenges such as the drought etc...