In the qiyama, when this GREAT CALAMITY is occuring. On the day of reckoning, what will you say, do! How can you ignore it all TOGETHER? Keep guessing Nomads! Nobody has been close yet! PLEASE KEEP GUESSING On a side note, earlier tonight we were reading quran and my shiekh was doing some tafsir and he told us that its promised in the Quran that WE will all see Jahnim, one way or another. From janna as a side view, passing it by on our way to janna, in it (Allah protect us from his WRATH!) and through it etc. ALLAHU AKBAR!!!

Salaamz, Yesterday I was watching the show 'Muulaqa Somalida' and nag ba shegisay that they will be showing the Aaboyo 2 film again during SOMALI WEEK. I saw some clips and let me tell you, it was jokes! Mpls people can represent!

Salaamz, Any of you that agree with Freeway or any other 'muslims' that engage in harm acts that are openly seen by the public, are trying to justify there own likes in that person. You can't be swinging a bottle of Liquor in a music video and drinking it (I don't care if you excuse is that there is Apple Juice in it, you are still imitating something that is HARM). Rap music is a Bidah Siyah (Bad Innovation). It brings more harm to people than good. You can say the same thing for somali singers too. Don't mix and mingle with the opposite sex at the riwyada and say its ALL GOOD/WAR WAX MAAXA. Get real! What part of singing about love songs and mixing and mingling with the opposite sex is in line with the SHARIAH. PLEASE, GET REAL!!! Mos Def (he acts as a half deaf character in the Italian Job) might be a muslim but participating in the world of HipHop is a definite HARAM. Nothing good comes out of it. HipHop reflects a culture-AMERICAN CULTURE. I don't care what colour you put on it, its still AMERICAN CULTURE. AMERICAN CULTURE is an anti-thesis/against any religion especially ISLAM. So you can't tell me that there is good imitating AMERICAN CULTURE.

Salaamz, To center the home and the family around the Television is what I was talking about. Why can't you have a small television in a small bedroom. The center of the home should be where Allah is remembered the most-The Masjid area of the home. You should also try to have a Quran in every room in a distinct area that highlights the QURAN. I never said shun yourself from technology and modern day innovations but inshallah know where there role is and how it effects your lives. If something is going to bring more harm to the souls of the members of family, then it should not be purchased or be given a secondary space in the home. Fi Amanallah

Salaamz, You know the other night I was at a dars/class with my shiekh and other brothers. We are reading sura Mutahinah, Ch. 28 of the Quran and our shiekh every once in a while stops us to explain about an ayat and its meaning behind. So at one point we are reading v. 5 of the sura 'OF NO PROFIT TO YOU WILL BE YOUR RELATIVES AND YOUR CHILDREN ON THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT. HE WILL JUDGE BETWEEN YOU. FOR ALLAH SEES WELL ALL THAT YE DO' So then my sheikh proceeds to explain this ayat and the ones preceeding it. He starts to describe the qiymah and how bani adam will be all naked in every direction that the eye can see. People will be too worried to worry about their nakedness. The floor will be whiter than snow and all you can hear is footsteps. From a far distance, you can see yellow-reddish light. The floor starts to concave and seperate and everyone will run in everydirection. Everyone running for their lives. Humanity will be in one big stamped. Then malikah/angels will descend like clouds on the people and pick out the believers by their Forehead. So I'm listening to this and subhanallah, I don't know about you but this is some scary sh*t. So I ask the question to my shiekh, 'I wanna know how I can skip this and go STRAIGHT to Janna.' My face was dead serious and the other brothers including my shiekh started to laugh and I said 'Look this is some serious business here'. So my shiekh tells me of a way to skip the qiyamah. It is something that you should do after doing a certain something everyday. It is very simple but inshallah you must be consistant with it. Can any of you nomads guess what it is?

Salaamz >"What school of thought do you follow because I thought about you all >through school > >Can I have your mahram's phone number?" > >"So, read any good Surahs lately?" > >"Do you believe in the hereafter? Oh you do? Then you know what I'm >hereafter." > >"Would you like to see my collection of Bukhari's?" > >"Lets get married so I dont have to lower my gaze everytime you walk in the room" Those where some funny pick up lines. Imagine calling the sistah a Horain/Hore. I think that your liking to catch a 'bad one' from her. Horain is not a familiar term and sounds like Whore to the avg. muslimah (I would think!). Anywayz, for those that got angry at Jamaal or didn't like the post, EASY UP! You need to broaden your sense of Humour. Fi Amanallah

Salaamz, Jazaka Allah khayr for posting this thread. Ya rabb, its funny how the reply of the Nonbelievers is to this question because when asked, all they reply is that they would indulge themselves in their DESIRES i.e. Try to get laid as much as possible, tell everyone they hate off and etc. For the mumin, it is the opposite. They would think of repenting for their sins. Imagine the rasul (salallahu caliyhe wasalima) use to weep for his LORD-ALLAH! and he was the BEST OF CREATIONS, GUARANTEED TO BE THE CLOSEST TO ALLAH OUT OF ALL HIS CREATIONS. Yet, subhanallah, sometimes we beomce to PROUD to shed a tear for Allah. To weep and ball out when speaking to HIM in privacy whether it be in sajda or when lying in sleep. The other day I was reading a verse of the Quran in which Allah was promising his wrath and punishment on those that don't take head to his warning. Then just at the end of the ayat, Allah says that he is the Most Merciful, Most Forgiving. ALLAHU AKBAR!!!

Salaamz, Waar ma walantaxey! Are you for real, Darman (Please see if you can try to make your fonts smaller) Why would you reveal your sins to someone when Allah was merciful to you and covered up your sins. Allah gets angry at those who try to UNRAVEL what Allah has kept Hidden from others. Its a Rahma from Allah and your gonna say No Allah, thank you but I'd like to disclose my sins to my spouse!!! Imagine for a minute, you told your wife that you did something once upon a time. For example, you ate some nonhalal meat (where toneing it down here!). I tell you this, that one day you might come home and not like the meat that she cooked and guess what, she will say it infront of you and your kids or whomever is there that 'WHAT, MA HILABKA DABADAA KAAUNTEY OHH HALAL AHEYEN BA RABTA' aka Waryaa, you like eating the haram meat instead of eating halal meat that I prepared for you! You mouth will drop on the floor and ofcourse might want to proceed with some 'aggression'. Trust me, women know how to PUSH YOUR BUTTON. So please, don't tell me your dark secrets and likewise, if Allah has kept them hidden then why should they be brought to light! There is no CONFESSION in ISLAM! Fi Amanallah

Salaamz, THIS QUESTION IS ONLY FOR THE MALE NOMADS IN HERE. If you just got married to a sistah that you did not know too well and on your wedding night, what would you expect her to be? Would you expect her to be a VIRGIN? How would you deal with the shock that she isn't a virgin? It would be interesting to here from someone that has experienced this. For me personally, I would have a difficult time to adjust to it. Choosing to marry a sistah and finding out that I am not the first one. Subhanallah!!! Do you think that it would be appropriate to ask HER during the negotation process (Privately ofcourse)!? I would like the fellas to reply to this and not the sistahs. Its a request inshallah and hopefully you can respect that.

Salaamz, The temptetations and the pressure are enormous. You meet ppl and hang-out with them and things, and before you know, you are not the same guy no more and everything is ok with you. no big deal!! SO TRUE!!! How you live your daily life shapes your life and if you compromise something today that you think is small, then tomorrow you will be willing to compromise something BIGGER and you will have convinced yourself that its OK! Entrepreneur, I think university education, in particular post graduate courses and onwards give you the ability to question things including religious arguments. I have found myself repenting every hour due to my thoughts. I think that what University teaches you is not to RESPECT anything and to Question Everything that is not PARALLEL WITH MODERNITY! And the danger is that you think that their RATIONALE ARGUMENTS are TRUE and more convincing than all the REVELATIONS put together. "...IF THEY SAW EVERYONE OF THE SIGNS, THEY WILL NOT BELIEVE THEM" SURA AL-ANAM, V. 25 Ilhaam, To say that high school was worse than University is coming from your own personal experience. You attend a smaller post-secondary institution and still live with your family, so really and truly, you haven't experiences what others have. The hectic mundane student life saps away at your IMAN. I found myself that I had to pray at whatever corner I could find at school just to preserve my deen. However, these prayers became rushed and so reflected my state. I hardly ready any Quran during my 4yrs. My first day that I started, I put up the Shahadah on my wall. I had a nonmuslim roommates and wanted to set things straight. Well, guess what, by the end of the first semseter, I took it down. Subhanallah! I always carried a Quran with me cause I found that it was essential in the home, for Barakah. Why don't you gather around other muslims? The muslims in University, most of them are Jahils. As the yrs went by for me, the muslim student population increased and it helped me because now I was surrounded with more muslims and had to 'WATCH OUT'.

Salaamz, Have you ever noticed that every home today centers their home around the living room. And the living room is centered around the TELEVISION SCREEN. It is this Television that becomes the Center of the home. How big of an effect do you think that this has on the inhabitants of the home? I found that at my home, we onlyeat together during RAMADAN, the rest of the year, its usually around the Television. Going on with this phenomena, most muslim homes nowadays don't have any semblance (impression) of ISLAM. In islam, the HOME was an extension of the MASJID!!! This is a very important concept that has become lost and archaic! How can you claim to be a Muslim family and say that you worship ALLAH, when the largest things in your homes consist of a TELEVISION and COMPUTER, in which the family gathers around!!! These are the family IDOLS!!! Why is there the most room made for these things and the PRAY MAT and QURAN are pushed over to some corner and ONLY during SALAT times do they appear. SUBHANALLAH!!! Why the muslim home should be centered around SALAT and the QURAN and not TELEVISION AND INTERNET!!! How can you convince children that you want to raise in a western society that they are muslims and that Allah and his Rasul (salallahu caliyhe wasalima) comes FIRST, when everything in the home shows other wise. If you were to see now a home that doesn't have a Television in its MAIN room, you would find it Strange, wouldn't you. Why? Fi Amanallah

Salaamz, Just a question for some of the nomads in here, who might have gone away for school or known others that have done so. Have you found that going away for school 'STEALS YOUR CULTURE AND DEAN' away from you??? Speaking from my personal contacts with people, I would say YES-FOR THE MAJORITY. If you deny it, then I would think that it is being naive! Allahu Akbar, the other day I was talking to this brother who had only been here 2-3yrs. He has come from the U.A.E. to do his post secondary education at a University down here. I called him the other day b/c my dad had asked me to contact him (Family Favour!). I called the brother and he could not speak any Somali or understand it (maybe a few words at the most!) When he came here, it wasn't like that. He sounded more Canadian then most of the people that I have met. Pure CBC type Canadian linguistics. I was shocked!!! I will see him inshallah sometime soon and I hope that my visit has a positive effect on him, inshallah. On a personal example, when I went away for school, I definitely got caught up in the 'mix up' and really and truelly was changing. It was only the fact that I still kept my daily salwat at all times, that inshallah I think preserved me. Alhamdulillah, I maintained that SALAT link. I know for many other brothers/sisters, they did not pray or even FAST in Ramadan. Some of them, drank too! With all this in mind, I have a younger brother that is about to go away to school in Septemeber and I can't help to feel worried for him. For his SOUL!!! If he thought that HIGH SCHOOL was bad, wait untill he sees UNIVERSITY. The thing is, I told him that he needs to learn to read QURAN before he goes away for school. Because the first thing that he will lose when he goes there, is his Salat b/c of the hectic schedule and socializing. Reading Quran helps to preserve that link to Allah . This is very IMPORTANT! Just look at any nomads personal life, the less quran you read, the more scattered your thoughts become and the less Rememberance of Allah you do. University is really and truelly a place where most either SINK or SWIM. No middle ground on it. PLEASE SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS AS I AM VERY INTERESTED IN THEM FI AMANALLAH

Salaamz, I was trying to see the other day if I could pay the interest on my loan for a yr. but I was told that I couldn't. I always have to pay the interest on a monthly basis, never ever really deducated from the principal untill they have made twice the money off me that I borrowed off them.

Salaamz, I don't think that any muslimah should live by herself. I don't even know that if she can leave her parents side if she's not married. I am sure not sure if this has been discussed in the axkham al-shariah. But you can see that situations like this, that Modesty is experiencing, would inshallah be minimized, if not Avoided ALL TOGETHER. Have you tried to tell him that you would call the police on him and get a restraining order? Threats do WORK!!! The man will steppp offff! Otherwise try what Ibado/Sthlm Lady said and start recording his msgs and take pictures of him when you see him. Tell him indirectly that you are 'Gunning for Him'. A sister should never live alone or with none muslims. You should change your number and change homes. But my questions are-HOW LONG HAS THIS BEEN GOING ON? HOW MANY TIMES A NIGHT DOES HE CALL? WHAT MIGHT HAVE PROVKED HIM TO DO BECOME LIKE THIS? HOW OFTEN DOES HE COME TO YOUR HOME? The Police would ask you these questions.

Salaamz, People can be a little more real when they have nothing to lose. You're asking this question about 'DOUBLE IDENTITIES' Well if your line of questioning is understood to be correct and the theory proves to be TRUE, then what can you, DARMAN, say about yourself.

Salaamz, ISLAMIC HIERARCHY FOR BUILDING A COMMUNITY 1. TAQWA (FEAR AND CONSCIOUSNESS OF ALLAH) 2. IMAN=FAITH 3. LISTENING AND RECEIVING ALIM AD DEEN 4. OBEDIENCE 5. IMAMAT 6. JAMAT MODERN SOCIETY'S HIERARCHY 1. SPIRITUAL 2. PSYCHOLOGY 3. MORALITY AND ETHICS 4. CULTURE 5. POLITICAL STABILITY 6. ECONOMIC POWER 7. MILITARY POWER You can't jump the gun and concentrate on establishing Economic power without doing things in the proper order. You can't concentrate on Economics, when your children and other members of the community and their children are going to a public school or some other madrassah that is being taught by people that don't share the same Vision with you. I have been to a few gatherings and read some of the works of AbdulQadir as-sufi and his followers. There was a substantial effort to 'establish the Islamic Dinar System'. But if this is the case, where is the muslim community. I didn't see them living close to one another and interacting with each other in the daily work lives, praying salat together on a daily basis etc. Inshallah, Allah is concerned with our LEVEL OF IMAN, and what nurtures this best is a consistant interaction btwn the Shiekh and his followers with emphasis on QURAN,SUNNAH, SHARIAH AND TARIQA. All other things being Secondary and of no use if the members of a muslim group can not connect everything to the ISLAMIC SYLLABUS. The aim is always to cultivate TAQWA AND IMAN. So Islamic Economics can come into play when all other criterias are fullfilled. In anycase, to add a spin on this issue, what are your thoughts on 'FUNDRAISING' activities such as dinners etc. Is that a modern concept or inline with the traditional ideas of Zakat?

Salaamz, You know a few yrs. back, I was in London, England and I attend a few gatherings by Sh. Abdul Qadir-as sufi's followers. These brothers always talked about 'ESTABLISHING THE ISLAMIC COIN SYSTEM' of currency for trade and that it was through this way, that inshallah that a sort of 'struggle' against the nonmuslim capitalist system and society can be 'overtaken'. Well, alhamdulillah, it is the Vision of a certain Alim but a vision that I think is a Waste of Time and very unrealistic. Why would you say such a thing brother, subhanallah brother??? Well, inshallah in any tariqa/jammat/halqaa/muslim community, the aim is to cultivate Iman. To nurture Souls. Now how can you nurture souls and make Islam a REALITY for muslims when there are is no MASJID, no Madrassah and the members of that muslim group don't live within proximity of one another. How can you suddenly skip all the necessary steps that the Rasul (salallahu calihye wasalim) established to be emuluated and experience by every muslim community. These patterns are very essential. The necessary steps in an muslim community are these: ISLAMIC HIERARCHY WESTERN HIERARCHY FOR A MUSLIM FOR A STABLE SOCIETY COMMUNITY 1. TAQWA 2. IMAN 3. LISTENING & RECEIVING ALIM AD-DEEN 4. TA'A/OBEDIENCE 5. IMAMAT 6. JAMMAT/TARIQA

Salaamz, I can't speak from personal experience b/c I am not married yet. However I can speak from what I have heard from other brothers that are close to me and their dealings with their wives. Also, the Sunnah encompasses this b/c the rasul (salallahu calihe waslim) was a compassionate, passionate (yes passionate!!, how else did he keep 9 or so wives at the same time! ), and merciful husband to his wives. Last night we were talking about how a marriage is not real until: 1) You have your first agrument 2) You can fart together in Bed Inshallah, one thing that many muslim couples forget is that why did Allah and his rasul (salallahu calihe waslim) create things in opposites and have them unite. i.e. MAN AND WOMEN It is b/c one is lacking in something that the other has, so their for to become complete, thye need to be joined with thier OTHER HALF. But does this union meaning JUST PHYSICALLY? No, it means in CHARACTER AND BEHAVIOUR. One sign that a marriage is inshallah succeeding, is when the spouses begin to take on characteristics that are not normal to their Gender. Meaning the Man/Masculine, inshallah begins to display some femine qualities like Tenderness, Cleaning around the house, Cooking, Nurturing. The Women/Feminine inshallah taking on MASCULINE traits like firmness, patience, resilience etc. So inshalah, the only way truely that a HUSBAND can become a better SPOUSE is through knowing HIMSELF. In the hadiths, it says 'TO KNOW ALLAH, YOU MUST KNOW YOURSELF' So frustration, miscommunication is natural and inshallah like everything it takes REFLECTION, TIME AND PATIENCE.

Salaamz wHAT IS IT THAT MAKES YOU STUPID/INTELLECTUAL? STUDIES, EXPERIENCE? AND WHO DECIDES IF YOU ARE AN INTELLECTUAL OR STUPID? The modern view of what makes a person an intellectual is based on their accumulation of knowledge in quantification i.e. MBA,LLB & PHD and the fact that you are SKEPTIC about everything. That you question religion, creation and society! If you look at the intellectual elites of modernism i.e. Galaleo, Descarte, Einstein, Stephen Hawkins etc. they are praised because they DARED to be SKEPTICAL of what was revealed in the Revelations. They wanted to seek new areas of knowledge for the mere sake of knowledge and questioning of the Church. In the traditional view of knowledge, knowledge was always connected to it benefitting the SOUL and helping a person to grow closer to ALLAH . In this modern day and time, the effects of the quantification of knowledge can be seen. The rasul (salallahu caliyhe wasilm) said that if anyone wants to see how much knowledge has been given to MAN , let him go the ocean and put their finger in it and see what they can take from it. Meaning that MAN can not know everything and that what MAN has been given interms of Ilim/Knowledge is very little. In the Islamic view, an Intellectual is one who seeks to KNOW ALLAH and has GNOSIS (Intuitive Intellection). Inshallah, this can only be attained through KNOWLEDGE (OF RELIGION FIRSTLY (QURAN,SUNNAH,SHARIAH,TARIQA) + PRACTICE (THE KNOWLEDGE SHOULD PREMEATE THROUGH THE DAILY LIFE OF THE MUSLIM)===UNDERSTANDING Definition of Stupidity Modernity---Lack of Quantification in Knowledge Often you are considered STUPID if you can not speak ENGLISH well or adapt to modern society. Islamic View- IGNORANCE=STUPIDITY . Meaning the rejection of Tawhid (Unity of Existence/ONENESS OF CREATION/ALLAH) is STUPIDITY. Because the fact that MAN can question his Nothingness and existence, is a proof that Allah exists and that he has appointed Man as his Khalifah in this World. As to who decides if you are an Intellectual/Stupid? Well, in Modernity, this is best measured in your rank in society via how many degrees you hold, how high your position is in a company, university etc. In the Islamic view, this is often done through TIME and especially after the Muslim Intellectual/Alim has passed away. 4 things continue for a man after his death to give him Hassnat/Ajar/Barakah and one of them is the KNOWLEDGE/ALIM that a muslim has shared with others i.e. in the form of books, teachings to his students etc.

Salaamz, This is a very beautiful story indeed. Inshallah, I can relate it to in my daily life and how Allah's Planning is manifested in everything and in every aspect of our being. You know, the other day I was reading sura Saffat and it disussed the conversations that the people of Jannah would be having and how we would say how each person's life was and why Allah (subhanahu watalla) had made their live that way. Allahu Akbar!!!

Salamz, Was checking the old archives and saw this thread inshallah. Knowledge and Education-Is there a difference? How do we measure them? Do we give them the same method of measurements? Which one is higher?

Salaamz, found this thread to be interesting. Some readings: I have been reading some parts here and there of the Tafsir by Ibn Kathir. I am not aware of other classic works of tafsir translated into English. I once read a tafsir of the Fatiha by Imam Khomeni, it was 40pages long. Biography of Imam Shamil (Imam of Chechnian muslims) I really enjoy reading books about Islamic personalities (recent and classical!) Too bad my arabic is very weak b/c I would love to read many of the great works of the Ulama such as Ibn Hajar Al-Asqlani's explanation of Sahih Bukhari. Fi Amanallah

Salamz, If anyone has seen it this past weekend, let me know how it was? Was the theatre packed? How was the crowd reaction?

Salaamz, I just saw this old posted and wanted to bring it back to attention b/c the cylce repeats itself on every level. Now, similiar events are occuring in Iran where the Young iranians who were born after the Islamic Revolution, don't see the purpose of having an Islamic State anymore. Thanks to other Ulama who have their own personal agendas, they will eventually get support from them to re-align themselves with the U.S. again. Wait and see, inshallah! History has repeats itself over and over again!!!

Salaamz, I spoke to my parents and I have never heard of this Usmaniyya writing. What I have heard is the Somali Language was an oral language and that it wasn't written but rather transmitted orally i.e. Through Speech For writing, somalis used arabic. Judging by the number of responses to this topic, I don't think too many people really can relate to this 'Usmaniyya' writting. I know for one I can't and it looks very Alien to me. But inshallah, I am keen to learn new things. What are the alphabets for this Usmaniyya?