Originally posted by Yo-Yo Ma: ^^^^Couldn't agree more the Italians need to go. MMA..I don't know wat happened Nedved's boys. Apart from the flag incident, it was an interesting, and as for other game, I hope they don't allow that referee in the game again. Sharmarkee.....I think he did for more personal reasons. He was supposedly getting axed from his club. That "gesture" might have won a spot in his club. Qleap....I can't wait either. I hope they crush da yanks real good. N wat happen to Brasil....pathetic how they played yesterday.N France need to go home too. Thanks Yoyo man for clearification, apperciation for Bariis-isku-Dhexkaris goes a long way, in fact i was wondering when he waved that flag,saying what the heck & what's the point? Oi Peeps I think it's good for the game if England wins this time, a powerful media and mad fans - a deadly combination Come on England, who cares the boys from brazil,or latino lads, surley we will have a free national holiday if england wins - Go England Go it's like having a tea with the queen, something Aussies, Canadians plus kiwis die for!

Originally posted by Jamilah: Go Ghana!!! The only African nation which I have hope in....please don't disappointment me. BTW what was with the Israeli flag when the Ghanans were celebrating thier victory?? I think Isreal was playing political and connecting with the African nations - mostly christian nations in africa, creating many charities and orphan centres to reach-out to the hearts and minds of the people, for so many reasons such as - to beat politial isloations, natural resources, trade, voting in UN, and all the rest, while Muslim Arabs alawys shutting the door at the face to the war-torn Somalians, great difference of friendship. my guess.

Salaam, Red I always support Brazil, they are football superpower sure, but dont undermnind the Argies(Argentine) they look non-stopable this time, they can easily win for the third time. Germans and Italians too have the strength and confidence, in fact they are world class gamewise. it's anybody's cup I guess, yaa cirka roob ku og!

marry early. Good advice indeed, in Somali wise it's called Walaalkii dhalee - means fathering in a young age,wiilkii dhalee means marrying in reasonable age bordering to a young age, and Wadkii dhalee - means fathering in an old age.

China’s Rise as Challenger Provoking US Anxiety Martin Jacques, Guardian BEIJING, 16 June 2006 — At the time of 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq, the US stood supreme with barely a challenge visible on any meaningful time horizon. Almost five years on, we can clearly see both the inadequacies in the then-prevailing common sense, and the fallacies intrinsic to the neoconservative view of the world. There are, of course, always limits to power, even if they are not visible. The last five years have made the limits of American power plainly visible. It is Iraq that has exposed those limits. The idea of US omnipotence always depended on its overwhelming military power, and the neoconservatives saw the latter as the key to a new era of American ascendancy. Iraq has demonstrated the limits of military power when it comes to subduing and governing a society. This failure has curbed the desire to intervene elsewhere: even if military action is contemplated in Iran, which now seems less likely, there will be no Iraq-style invasion and occupation. The idea that Iraq would be a precursor to a new kind of American empire — as advocated by Niall Ferguson, for example, in his book The Colossus — is dead in the water. Overwhelming military power, moreover, is subject to other limitations. What underpins power — all kinds of power — is economic strength, and in this respect the US is the subject of both a short-term crisis — the twin deficits — and a longer-term constraint, namely the fact that it accounts for a declining share of global GDP. Iraq also demonstrated another profound shortcoming in the neoconservative worldview. It was seen as both important in its own right, and as a means of reorganizing the Middle East. But this approach, magnified by the failure to subdue Iraq, led to an overwhelming preoccupation with the Middle East and, to a much lesser extent, central Asia, and the implicit relegation and neglect of US interests elsewhere. Perhaps superpowers always overreach themselves; arguably it is an occupational hazard. But history will surely judge the invasion of Iraq to have been a huge miscalculation and the moment when the geopolitical decline of the US, following the end of the Cold War, first became manifest. In contrast to five years ago, the likely identity of the next superpower has become crystal clear. It is no longer just a possibility that it will be China; on the contrary, the probability is extremely high, if not yet a racing certainty. Nor does the timescale of this change have us peering into the distant future as it did five years ago. China is already beginning to acquire some of the interests and motivations of a superpower, and even a little of the demeanor. Beijing feels like a parallel universe to the US, and certainly Europe. There is an expansive mood about the place. China is growing in self-confidence by the day. And with good reason. There is no sign of China’s economic growth abating, and it is this that lies behind its growing confidence. The massive contrasts between China and the US, both socially and economically, are enjoined in the argument over America’s trade deficit with the China. The latter is deeply aware that its future prospects depend on the continuation of its economic growth and this remains its priority. But no longer to the exclusion of all else: China is beginning to widen its range of concerns and interests. This has received most airplay in the context of China’s search for secure supplies of oil and other commodities. To this end it has been acquiring a growing diplomatic presence in regions of the world like Africa and Latin America, making the US increasingly nervous about China’s intentions. This is understandable. China’s growing economic clout and connections mean that it will increasingly offer an alternative to the US as an economic partner, and China is making it perfectly plain that it will not insist on the same kind of political strings as the US. We are only at the beginning of what will over time become a growing competition for the hearts and minds of the developing world. In his speech at Yale University during his recent visit to the US, Hu Jintao set out — for the first time in such a forum — the Chinese view of a harmonious world based on the idea of Chinese civilization. The most dramatic changes, though — albeit sotto voce — have been taking place in East Asia. Though far from Europe’s line of vision — it has had little stake in the region since the postwar collapse of the European empires there — East Asia is pivotal to China’s prospects and the future of Sino-US relations. For the last decade, China has been busy overhauling its approach to the region and involving itself for the first time in its multilateral arrangements. This process has been steadily accelerating, especially since the Asian financial crisis. The key has been China’s developing relationship with ASEAN, which comprises the nations of Southeast Asia and is by far the most important regional institution. China has made the running — ahead of Japan — in the creation of a nascent broader regional framework. While in Northeast Asia, it has used its role in the talks over North Korea to forge a much closer relationship with South Korea. All very reasonable. The result, however, has been the slow but steady marginalization of the US, a process exacerbated by the fact that America’s attention has been overwhelmingly directed toward the Middle East, which in the long run is actually far less important. It is a combination of these developments that perhaps helps to explain why Hu Jintao’s visit to the US was not accorded the full status of a visiting head of state. It was a deliberate snub, reflecting the unease with which Washington views the rise of China and its possible implications. But this was more a matter of pique than substance. It is now too late for the Bush administration to seriously rethink its relationship with China, but this will surely be top of the agenda for the next administration. But it admits no easy solution. Whatever the Pentagon may suggest, the Chinese have been careful to avoid posing a military challenge to the US, which lay at the heart of the Cold War antagonism between the US and the Soviet Union. Moreover, again unlike in the Cold War, the two countries now find themselves highly economically interdependent. Yet China’s continued rise is bound to provoke growing disquiet and anxiety in Washington. It is this relationship that will lie at the center of global politics; if that is not apparent at the moment, it will be very soon.

Originally posted by Legend of Zu: ^^^ LoooL..I think you should go and study; let the pommies cry - I think they needed it - May be It is the Heat.. General Zu, you know where I live in Somerset, they still talk about - Aussies - aren't more than outlaw pommies they ask themselves were did they get that skills? only we sent them there for a long detention

Sorry for the double post

Somali Islamists celebrate victory over warlords By Kim Sengupta in Mogadishu Published: 13 June 2006 They wave their Kalashnikovs and grenade launchers, proclaiming they are the new Mujahedin. Their leaders talk international power politics while imposing strict sharia laws. Yet some of the fighters we speak to do not want to be photographed, in case they want to emigrate to the West should events in Mogadishu take a turn for the worst. There are also tales of al-Qa'ida moving in the shadows inside Somalia's capital, a city now in ruins, and a potent symbol of a failure of American foreign policy. The blasted buildings and shattered streets, the burnt and looted factories, the lack of any kind of infrastructure, the ever-present men with guns, are the devastating legacy of a failed American intervention more than a decade ago. Now Somalia, a country the West subsequently chose to forget is the sudden recipient of frantic attention following the resounding victory of Islamist forces over US-backed warlords after months of fighting. President George Bush has declared he will not tolerate Somalia becoming a Taliban-style Afghanistan. Neighbouring states are pouring in money and arms. The United Nations and aid agencies are setting up emergency programmes. Somalia is now the subject of a New York summit. Yet in Mogadishu, the focus of so much fevered international analysis and speculation from the outside, there is a marked absence of foreign diplomats, or aid workers, or statesmen to gauge what is really happening. Here among the streets, shattered and blasted by years of lawlessness, there is a momentary respite from the fighting, especially after the recent bout of ferocious violence. Shops are opening and families venturing out of their homes. But no one believes that peace is about to break out. "We have learnt not to believe that good things will happen to us. I have seen too many people killed for that," said 28-year-old Hassina Ali, walking heavily laden with groceries back to her home, stumbling in the hijab, which has recently become the standard dress for women in Mogadishu and which she was still getting used to. "In the last days of fighting my sister was killed, she died while I was holding her. We fled outside the city. We spoke to aid workers in Merka where we fled, but they had no idea what was going on in Mogadishu. We came back, but we do not know what to do. We have no future." There is also little food or water, or power; some convoys are getting through, but Mogadishu is still largely cut off. Hundreds were killed and injured, especially in the past few weeks. Most of the destruction inflicted in the latest bout of fighting has been through the use of anti-aircraft artillery and mortars in an urban landscape of dense and crumbling housing. The pulverising effect of such concentrated firepower can be seen throughout the city - homes collapsed and solitary walls sticking out like jagged teeth in front of rubble. There is an acute shortage of medicine, but now at least patients are freer to move around and seek treatment in filthy, bloodstained corridors in hospitals. "My mother was trapped in our house for four days with bad injuries and broken bones, said Mohammed Khalid, a 47-year-old carpenter angrily jabbing his finger. "We have now taken her to a hospital, we used a cart for that. But there is no medicine." What happened in Mogadishuhas, local people say, much more to do with Islamists, clan chiefs and the business community united in an alliance of convenience against the depredations of warlords the Americans have backed. The business leaders who have bankrolled the Islamists say they did so to get a modicum of stability. They also described how they secretly met with US officials in Djibouti less than three months ago to argue that an Islamist takeover could be averted if the Americans stopped their deeply unpopular support for the warlords. They were snubbed and, for now, the Islamists are triumphant. Their militias parade through the muddy pot-holed roads in their gun-mounted four-wheel drives, Somalia's famous "technicals", declaring their intention to take the jihad to the rest of Somalia and the Horn of Africa beyond. They are a mixed bunch, many in their teens or just past that, their fedayeen scarves and bandoliers of ammunition incongruous against bright T-shirts, slacks and rubber sandals. The constant theme is that they joined the Islamists because of warlord corruption and a sense of Somalian nationalism. There is also simmering anger about the "disappeared", men abducted by militias who have subsequently turned up in Guantanamo Bay and Bagram air base in Afghanistan. Abdul Fadih Ali Ahmed, a member of the bodyguard of Sheikh Ahmed Sharif, the spiritual leader of the Islamist movement, said: "My older brother was killed in the fighting between the warlords; he was just 30 years old. I know so many who suffered so much. No one was doing anything to stop them. I was also angry that they were kidnapping good Muslims, holy men, and selling them to the Americans. "I felt that as a Muslim myself I must do something about it. I was injured in the fighting of the last few days, but I was so happy when we finally won." Standing beside his Toyota "technical", clutching a machine gun almost as big as himself, Ibrahim Daoud Mohammed lowered the red-checked scarf around his youthful 17-year-old face. "I took part in the fighting in north Mogadishu and I was among the first when we made the push to the south. I killed the enemy," he said. "My family are proud of me because I was fighting for my country. I do not know anything about Afghanistan and Iraq; the warlords here were corrupt and they were supported by foreigners. I do not want to continue fighting for ever. I want to have a good job and a family, but for now we must continue." They wave their Kalashnikovs and grenade launchers, proclaiming they are the new Mujahedin. Their leaders talk international power politics while imposing strict sharia laws. Yet some of the fighters we speak to do not want to be photographed, in case they want to emigrate to the West should events in Mogadishu take a turn for the worst. There are also tales of al-Qa'ida moving in the shadows inside Somalia's capital, a city now in ruins, and a potent symbol of a failure of American foreign policy. The blasted buildings and shattered streets, the burnt and looted factories, the lack of any kind of infrastructure, the ever-present men with guns, are the devastating legacy of a failed American intervention more than a decade ago. Now Somalia, a country the West subsequently chose to forget is the sudden recipient of frantic attention following the resounding victory of Islamist forces over US-backed warlords after months of fighting. President George Bush has declared he will not tolerate Somalia becoming a Taliban-style Afghanistan. Neighbouring states are pouring in money and arms. The United Nations and aid agencies are setting up emergency programmes. Somalia is now the subject of a New York summit. Yet in Mogadishu, the focus of so much fevered international analysis and speculation from the outside, there is a marked absence of foreign diplomats, or aid workers, or statesmen to gauge what is really happening. Here among the streets, shattered and blasted by years of lawlessness, there is a momentary respite from the fighting, especially after the recent bout of ferocious violence. Shops are opening and families venturing out of their homes. But no one believes that peace is about to break out. "We have learnt not to believe that good things will happen to us. I have seen too many people killed for that," said 28-year-old Hassina Ali, walking heavily laden with groceries back to her home, stumbling in the hijab, which has recently become the standard dress for women in Mogadishu and which she was still getting used to. "In the last days of fighting my sister was killed, she died while I was holding her. We fled outside the city. We spoke to aid workers in Merka where we fled, but they had no idea what was going on in Mogadishu. We came back, but we do not know what to do. We have no future." There is also little food or water, or power; some convoys are getting through, but Mogadishu is still largely cut off. Hundreds were killed and injured, especially in the past few weeks. Most of the destruction inflicted in the latest bout of fighting has been through the use of anti-aircraft artillery and mortars in an urban landscape of dense and crumbling housing. The pulverising effect of such concentrated firepower can be seen throughout the city - homes collapsed and solitary walls sticking out like jagged teeth in front of rubble. There is an acute shortage of medicine, but now at least patients are freer to move around and seek treatment in filthy, bloodstained corridors in hospitals. "My mother was trapped in our house for four days with bad injuries and broken bones, said Mohammed Khalid, a 47-year-old carpenter angrily jabbing his finger. "We have now taken her to a hospital, we used a cart for that. But there is no medicine." What happened in Mogadishuhas, local people say, much more to do with Islamists, clan chiefs and the business community united in an alliance of convenience against the depredations of warlords the Americans have backed. The business leaders who have bankrolled the Islamists say they did so to get a modicum of stability. They also described how they secretly met with US officials in Djibouti less than three months ago to argue that an Islamist takeover could be averted if the Americans stopped their deeply unpopular support for the warlords. They were snubbed and, for now, the Islamists are triumphant. Their militias parade through the muddy pot-holed roads in their gun-mounted four-wheel drives, Somalia's famous "technicals", declaring their intention to take the jihad to the rest of Somalia and the Horn of Africa beyond. They are a mixed bunch, many in their teens or just past that, their fedayeen scarves and bandoliers of ammunition incongruous against bright T-shirts, slacks and rubber sandals. The constant theme is that they joined the Islamists because of warlord corruption and a sense of Somalian nationalism. There is also simmering anger about the "disappeared", men abducted by militias who have subsequently turned up in Guantanamo Bay and Bagram air base in Afghanistan. Abdul Fadih Ali Ahmed, a member of the bodyguard of Sheikh Ahmed Sharif, the spiritual leader of the Islamist movement, said: "My older brother was killed in the fighting between the warlords; he was just 30 years old. I know so many who suffered so much. No one was doing anything to stop them. I was also angry that they were kidnapping good Muslims, holy men, and selling them to the Americans. "I felt that as a Muslim myself I must do something about it. I was injured in the fighting of the last few days, but I was so happy when we finally won." Standing beside his Toyota "technical", clutching a machine gun almost as big as himself, Ibrahim Daoud Mohammed lowered the red-checked scarf around his youthful 17-year-old face. "I took part in the fighting in north Mogadishu and I was among the first when we made the push to the south. I killed the enemy," he said. "My family are proud of me because I was fighting for my country. I do not know anything about Afghanistan and Iraq; the warlords here were corrupt and they were supported by foreigners. I do not want to continue fighting for ever. I want to have a good job and a family, but for now we must continue."

Salaam, Something to watch tonight, the artistic and entertaining footwork of world's top players, the Brazil's own: Ronaldo, Ronaldinho and Kaka,Adriano, Robinho their attaching artillery will be enormous, Croatia iself is an underdog and hard to beat, it will be sensatinal game, what you say Punters? - your commentary is highly apperciated

Salaam, Wa Iyaak Yaa Xiin

Salaam, Share with me a gem from Imam Ali Bin Abu Talib(KAw), in his eloquent peom reminding people the temporary stay of this world and the Inevitability of the death to all mankind, whereas building that habitat of morrow is today’s endeavour, good if good or bad if bad.. النÙس تبكى على الدنيا Ùˆ قد علمت أن السعاد Ùيها ترك ما Ùيها لا دار للمرء بعدالموت يسكنها إلا التي كان قبل الموت يبنيها Ùان بناها بخير طاب مسكنه وإن بناها بشر خاب بانيها أين الملوك التي كانت مسلطنة حتي ساقها بكاس الموت ساقيها أموالنا لذى الميراث نجمعها ودورنا لخراب الدهر نبنيها كم من مداءن ÙÙŠ الآÙاق قد بنيت أمست خراباً وأÙني الموت أهليها إن المكارم أخلاق مطهرة الدين أولها والعقل ناثنيها والحلم ثالثها والعلم رابعها والجود خامسها والÙضل ساديها والبر سابعها والشكر ثامنيها والصبر تاسعها واللين باقيها والنÙس تعلم أني لا أصادقها ولست أرشد إلاحين أعصيها لكل Ù†Ùس وإن كانت علي وجل من المنية آمال تقويها النÙس تنشرها والموت ينقصها والدهر يبسطها والقبر يطويها لاتركنن إلي الدنيا وما Ùيها Ùالموت لا شك ÙŠÙنينا ويÙنيها واعمل لدار غدا رضوان خازنها والجار أحمد والرحمن ناشيها قصورها ذهب والمسك طينتها والزعÙران حشيش نابت Ùيها

^^ Qalwadii Masba galay, Prime ministerkoodi baa xayawaan ah, maxaad u malyn - ma-alif-6 ,waxba la basaasabay maqleen

Salaam, Is Alexus is mesmerised by the Guniness beers/fosters/xxxx swigging Aussies's cleverness, that iself is cleverness from Alexus: Secondly How do you detemine or measure the intelligence of a group of people or individual???:by nature/or narture, or by experince/proper education,,,,. Mise waa Ninba intuu Eeba gashaa? "Caqliga" ayay na latahay anakee ma ogtahay Gacalo - Dib looma abuuro dadkee so they can vary even within the group,and from individual into individual.

Salaam, beyond the scope of imagination why they are fighting against each other, as they are next to kin of each other! Garan waaye wuxuu wa qabaal wana kabataane Ragow kibirka waalagu kufaa ee ka halaogaado! Sad Somalis - when they gonna learn how to live and let live.

The land the world forgot Simon Tisdall The Guardian Hilary Benn's foray into war-torn, drought-plagued Somalia last week was a brave attempt to focus attention on the land the world forgot. Few politicians have ventured there since the central government collapsed in 1991 and warlords took over. Visiting a camp for displaced persons, the international development secretary pledged an additional £8m in humanitarian and educational assistance. But Mr Benn was peddling more than handouts, homilies and good intentions. His additional offer of £1.5m "to support the functioning of the parliament and ministers" represented a clear British commitment to Somalia's political rehabilitation. It was the sort of initiative expected of a foreign secretary. And it contrasted sharply with the Bush administration's current attitude. The US is increasingly pursuing a proxy war against al-Qaida-backed jihadis that analysts say is turning Somalia into a new front in the "war on terror". Badly burned there in the 1990s, nation-building is not Washington's main concern. "The US is treating Somalia primarily as a counter-terrorism issue. That is the prism through which everything there is seen," a source said yesterday. "Britain is taking a broader, more holistic approach. It believes that is the way to stop Somalia being a problem in the longer term. That's why Benn was there, discussing a wide range of issues." The UN-backed Somali transitional federal government certainly needs all the help it can get. Like President Hamid Karzai's Afghan administration, it has limited control of a country dominated by warlords. Unlike Mr Karzai, President Abdullahi Yusuf lacks a democratic mandate and foreign military support and is an exile from his capital, Mogadishu. Mr Benn's spokesman said the British funding would be channelled through the UN and used to provide government facilities and pay MPs' stipends. Britain's hands-on political commitment is not without risks and complications. Somali MPs meeting in the southern city of Baidoa last week said several senior ministers were warlords and clan chiefs guilty of genocide in the last decade. "Their treacherous acts have caused so many civilian deaths, they should be charged with crimes against humanity," MP Muhammad Hassan claimed. Muhammad Dhere, head of a self-styled counter-terrorism alliance comprising secular warlords, has claimed in turn that parliament, far from being a beacon for the future, is packed with hardline Islamists and al-Qaida sympathisers. "They are spies and foreign agents. They are working to undermine government efforts to pacify the country," he said recently. But Mr Dhere may be an unreliable ally, too. His Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counter-Terrorism works in parallel to, rather than under, the control of the transitional leadership - and stands accused of exaggerating the Islamist threat to win US assistance. Declining to deny it was supporting the warlords' alliance, the White House said last week that its first priority was preventing Somalia becoming a Horn of Africa "beach-head" for al-Qaida. The US continued to work with "responsible members of the Somali political spectrum", the state department said, without specifying with whom. But President Yusuf said last month there was no doubt Washington was backing Mr Dhere's factions against Islamist groups - and asked that it work through his government instead. Demonstrators in Mogadishu denounced the warlords as Washington's puppets last week. One banner said: "We don't want people who take dollars to kill us." After a brief ceasefire, fighting has flared anew. According to the International Crisis Group, the US has got it wrong and spreading Islamist ideas are not Somalia's main problem. "Somalis in general show little interest in jihadi Islamism; most are deeply opposed," it said. A bigger danger was that America, fixated on the spectre of al-Qaida, would exacerbate existing divisions and undermine the transitional leadership. "So much time and effort was put into getting this government in place," said Richard Dowden, director of the Royal African Society. "Now the US seems to be pulling it all to pieces by setting one side against the other." What with Washington, warlords and the weather, Mr Benn has his work cut out.

Ina Lilahi wa inaa ilayhi raajicuun

Rageh is coming to Bristol Central Library on 19th of June at 2.00pm to give a talk of his experience of Iraq war and sign his new book called ONLY HALF OF ME: Being a Muslim in Britain

^^ Human tragedy befallen on Somalia, made Us the less fortunate and humble, the insignificant citizens of this world – a shameful endeavour, snatching and wiping the pride, and smile from our faces wherever we are – It’s all “US†against “Them†tradition – call it clannish if you like! It’s Shame On US,it's the reason that made other NATIONS don't take us seriously anymore!

^^ pure sheep shearers

^^ Beautiful, Dabshid, very intertesting, I liked the ciyaar- Somali, that woman is singing in the last part of the program Waa taayadiiyay walaalkaybana dhalayay Oh I used to remember that when i used to go to miyi - Baadiye in summer holidays. War Gabadha daayaay - rag bay geel dhalay u tahayaye amazing, singing in kiwiland - world's end makes more interesting.

Originally posted by ThePoint: ^I agree with you in general but what makes me especially outraged is that they proclaim themselves the vanguard/leadership of Muslims and the ummah and they engage in this. The heights of hypocrisy reached by the Saudis and other rich Gulf Arabs are seldom seen anywhere else. White people don't suffer in their hands, they give them a maximum respect - But if you are Black, and Muslim you had it :eek:

Salaam I h've read somewhere long ago that, at his time some people asked Sheekh Ibn al-Qayyim,"What made you so Zaahid Yaa Sheekh?", in otherwords "what is all this Zuhd yaa Imam?", he said simply, "three Ayyah in the book of Allah, made me realise this world is not for me,(am paraphrasing here - cannot remember the exact words),and then he recited those ayyahs: Ø£ÙŽÙَرَأَيْتَ Ø¥ÙÙ† مَّتَّعْنَاهÙمْ سÙÙ†Ùينَ 26:205 But hast thou ever considered [this]: If We do allow them to enjoy [this life] for some years, Ø«Ùمَّ جَاءهÙÙ… مَّا كَانÙوا ÙŠÙوعَدÙونَ 26:206 and thereupon that [chastisement] which they were promised befalls them – مَا أَغْنَى عَنْهÙÙ… مَّا كَانÙوا ÙŠÙمَتَّعÙونَ 26:207 of what avail to them will be all their past enjoyments? As I was reading the other day Surat Hud when I stopped over this Ayyat(Reminding me the Hadith which Abu Bakr asked the Prophet of mercy,"O Messenger of Allah! I see you getting older?" He (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) replied, "What made me old are Surah Hud and its sister surahs." Al-Daraqutni says, *** where that sister surahs are: Haqqah,Qiyaamah,Qar'ah and those narrating about the day of Judgment. It's truely a landmark which is immediatley grabing your attention when you recite the following Ayaahs: ÙَاسْتَقÙمْ كَمَا Ø£ÙÙ…Ùرْتَ ÙˆÙŽÙ…ÙŽÙ† تَابَ مَعَكَ وَلاَ تَطْغَوْاْ Ø¥Ùنَّه٠بÙمَا تَعْمَلÙونَ بَصÙيرٌ 11:113 And do not incline towards, nor rely upon, those who are bent on evildoing [142] lest the fire [of the hereafter] touch you: for [then] you would have none to protect you from God, nor would you ever be succoured [by Him]. [143]وَلاَ تَرْكَنÙواْ Ø¥ÙÙ„ÙŽÙ‰ الَّذÙينَ ظَلَمÙواْ ÙَتَمَسَّكÙم٠النَّار٠وَمَا Ù„ÙŽÙƒÙÙ… مّÙÙ† دÙون٠اللّه٠مÙنْ أَوْلÙيَاء Ø«Ùمَّ لاَ تÙنصَرÙونَ 11:114 And be constant in praying at the beginning and the end [144] of the day, as well as during the early watches of the night: [145] for, verily, good deeds drive away evil deeds: this is a reminder to all who bear [God] in mind. ÙˆÙŽØ£ÙŽÙ‚Ùم٠الصَّلاَةَ طَرَÙَي٠النَّهَار٠وَزÙÙ„ÙŽÙًا مّÙÙ†ÙŽ اللَّيْل٠إÙنَّ الْحَسَنَات٠يÙذْهÙبْنَ السَّـيّÙئَات٠ذَلÙÙƒÙŽ Ø°Ùكْرَى Ù„ÙلذَّاكÙرÙينَ 11:115 And be patient in adversity: for, verily,. God does not fail to requite the doers of good!ÙŽ اصْبÙرْ ÙÙŽØ¥Ùنَّ اللّهَ لاَ ÙŠÙضÙيع٠أَجْرَ الْمÙحْسÙÙ†Ùينَ 11:116 BUT, ALAS, among those generations [whom We destroyed] before your time there were no people endowed with any virtue [146] - [people] who would speak out against the [spread of] corruption on earth -except the few of them whom We saved [because of their righteousness], whereas those who were bent on evildoing only pursued pleasures which corrupted their whole being, [147] and so lost themselves in sinning. Ùَلَوْلاَ كَانَ Ù…ÙÙ†ÙŽ الْقÙرÙون٠مÙÙ† قَبْلÙÙƒÙمْ Ø£ÙوْلÙواْ بَقÙيَّة٠يَنْهَوْنَ عَن٠الْÙَسَاد٠ÙÙÙŠ الأَرْض٠إÙلاَّ Ù‚ÙŽÙ„Ùيلاً مّÙمَّنْ أَنجَيْنَا Ù…ÙنْهÙمْ وَاتَّبَعَ الَّذÙينَ ظَلَمÙواْ مَا Ø£ÙتْرÙÙÙواْ ÙÙيه٠وَكَانÙواْ Ù…ÙجْرÙÙ…Ùينَ 11:117 For, never would thy Sustainer destroy a community [148] for wrong [beliefs alone] so long as its people behave righteously [towards one another]. [149]وَمَا كَانَ رَبّÙÙƒÙŽ Ù„ÙÙŠÙهْلÙÙƒÙŽ الْقÙرَى بÙظÙلْم٠وَأَهْلÙهَا Ù…ÙصْلÙØ­Ùونَ May Allah shower us with his love and mercy (Wa Ma Daalika Calal Allahi Bi Casiis) Wa Salaam

Originally posted by JUSTICE: Family ,Family ,Family It's all start from home. If you are from a dysfunctional home, then you are more likely to have a dysfunctional future. Why mothers and fathrs are not loving each other no more. when kids see their mom and dad they relate to them. IF the father is chewing all night and sleep all day and not concerned about his family, and the poor mom running around trying to fix and mend what is left of her family. Guys all I can see is that the most families in the somali community are going in to the point of nowhere. The problem that I've seen the most os that parents are not willing to spend money on their kids. they save the money so they can spend it back home , to build 100,000$ house that they not gonna live in !!!!!! This make me go mad.......... ^^ Justice, That people building 100 grand dollars on a waterless and electric less hillside backhome are the same people having their aroos party in Heathrow Sheraton, or parklane hilton,while they are on caydh payroll. they are just Fake community and their kidds ain't no better - fake kids too

^^ Salaam, Usually that money never see the light again, they just freez by the change of the political landscape of that countries, from Shah of iran to Qadaafi via Sadaam hussien they see how the wind blows, shah's money all frozen instantly, after Khomaini gate-crashed tehran, Saddam they used and abused costing him his freedom, and his iraq, Fahad was paying the invasion of iran by saddam, liberating kuwait, and then foot the bill by the destruction of iraq again,Qadaafi got new lease of life after he licked their boots. the west is milking that wealth, and they call them friendly Muslim moderates, otherwise if no gains there, definitly they are breeding terrorim, transfering their files to the security council before they bomb back to the dark ages.

Salaam, Keeping that money in western banks, shares and bonds, dont yu see that is why the west is so rich, giving back the needy muslims few handouts from the interest and that money in business for the west.