Hi, I just got my hands on an iPhone and I've been adding apps like crazy. Love this thing! What would you recommend? So far I have: Islamic Apps: - iQuran - iPray - Islamic compass lite - Islamic library - Al-Jazeera - Islamic calender - 40 hadith Reference/Student: - Dictionary.com - Myhomework - Wikipanion - Howcast - WikiHow - Convert units for free - iTranslate Games: - Tap Tap revenge - Cube Runner 1.2 - Fast and Furious - Unblock me - Tic Tac Toe FREE Medical: - Medpage - WebMDmobile - MedCalc - Medscape - Eponyms They are all free by the way.

iPhone 4.0 OS Features (Summer 2010) Notable new features for users ("tentpoles" are in bold): * Multitasking. * Spell check (like on the iPad). * Bluetooth keyboard support (again, on the iPad). * User-defined wallpaper (a jailbreak favorite). * Tap to focus when recording video, just like with photos, and a 5x digital zoom for the camera. * Playlist creation and nested playlists. * App folders for sorting apps! You can even put an app folder in the dock. * Enhanced Mail! You can have a merged inbox view, switch between inboxes quickly, and sync to more than one Exchange account. There's also threaded messaging (at last!) and in-app attachment viewing. * iBooks, just like on iPad, only smaller. You can wirelessly sync books between platforms, a la Kindle. * Enterprise features, including remote device management and wireless app distribution. * Game Center. It's like Xbox Live, but for iPhone games. Includes achievements, leaderboards, and match making. It will be available as a "developer preview," and out for consumers later this year. Source I'm glad I held off when the 3gs came out Although not really looking forwards to the iAd.

When I think of miskeen, doormat immediately comes to mind. I can't respect a weak man with no backbone.

GHAZNI, AFGHANISTAN—Outraged by the recent loosening of dress codes in her country, burqa wearer Uliya Salah condemned fellow Afghani Raheela Asaad Monday for appearing in public wearing an upper-face-revealing chador. The burqa-wearing Salah, who is outraged by Asaad's (far right) immodest dress. "Just look how she dresses, the bridge of her nose visible for all the world to see," said Salah, watching Asaad walk past her in downtown Ghazni. "Has she no shame?" Not wanting to risk the chance that a stranger might be forced to hear a woman's voice, Salah whispered her indignant remarks through the small mesh square in her garment. "Perhaps one could wear that sort of thing in the deepest recesses of one's home, where even male family members are not allowed," Salah said. "But doing so in public like that is outrageous. The harlot may as well strip off her veil and reveal her hair to the world." As a strict follower of Pashtun traditions, Salah said she finds it laughable that Asaad considers herself to be a devout Muslim. "[Asaad] is clearly pursuing her darkest passions," Salah said. "Now that the Taliban is no longer here to protect their virtue, many of the women in the city have begun to walk around in shockingly immodest garb, shamelessly wearing next to nothing on their hands." Asaad's garment was not only too revealing, Salah said, but it also bore numerous decorative touches—a mark of the sin of vanity. "Did you see that small line of embroidery at the border of her veil?" Salah asked. "What is next? A series of stripes at the hem of the garment near the ankles? I pray to Allah that I never see the day." Salah has been in a near-constant state of outrage since Nov. 13, when the Taliban was ousted from her village. On that day, emboldened by the Northern Alliance victory, hundreds of women threw off their conservative burqas in favor of skimpy, low-cut chadors that exposed portions of their faces. "It is sinful for a woman to tempt a man by revealing the color of her eyes to him," Salah said. "But the women around here leave nothing to the imagination. The pupil, the iris, the cornea... It's all right out there in the open for men to ogle." Now that dressing less conservatively no longer carries the risk of public whipping, Asaad said she may wear jewelry or Western fashions beneath her chador. "It is an important part of both my religion and my culture to observe full hajib," said Asaad, who has worn traditional garb since she was 13. "I keep my body covered when in the presence of men. In the mosque, I am careful to keep my eyes lowered at all times. But it would be nice to wear something different once in a while, like a shoe with an attractive but respectful heel." Salah was outraged by the notion. "Only whores of Babylon wear heels!" Salah said. "Under the Taliban, it was illegal to wear high heels or any other shoe that produces a sound when walking, because a man must not hear a woman's footsteps. What is this world coming to?" Asaad said she is eager to return to her old life, before she was confined to her house and only allowed outside when escorted by a male relative. "Of course, there are many things women should not do, like watch television or go to dances or read Western fashion magazines," Asaad said. "But I did miss being able to leave the house." Asaad said she also hopes to return to school-teaching, which was her occupation before the Taliban forbade women from working. "I taught math and reading and other subjects to young girls," Asaad said. "I taught them how to read the words of the prophet Mohammed and how to be a devoted follower of Islam." Salah questioned Asaad's claims of devotion to Islam, citing a scandal in which she was involved last year. In May 2000, despite restrictions against women being examined by men, Asaad was caught attempting to see a male physician for treatment of kidney stones. It was only through a large bribe to Taliban officials and a three-month period of seclusion in a neighboring village that she escaped execution. "It makes me sick to look at women like Raheela Asaad," Salah said. "She deserved no less a punishment than death for her blasphemy." Despite the scandal and her liberal interpretation of Islamic law, Asaad said she is not ashamed of her actions. "I am proud to be a modern woman," Asaad said. "I believe that women should be allowed to attend the university, so long as the school provides a separate area for women to sit in and they do not speak to the instructor before being spoken to. I even think it is acceptable for a young woman to ride a bicycle, provided

How honest are you guys with your friends? Best friends? My best friend is making a very big mistake (I believe) and all she wants is my support and doesn't want to hear any kind of critism or negative view. She's been seeing a guy her parents disapprove of for a while now and they want to elope without both their parents' knowledge in a couple of days. Everytime I try to tell her she's being ******, she gets angry and doesnt want to hear it. In my opinion - a true friend does not support you without question. You have to deserve support. I'm not going to support your choices or lie to you and say what you want to hear but I guess some people look at it like that. What's the point of being a best friend if the relationship is a lie and you can't tell how you really feel? this stinks

How come every single story whether it's a fairytale or 'supposedly' true Somali experience, the stepmother is always evil? I've never heard of an evil stepfather, ever. This is one of the reasons I would never marry a guy with kids. The 'uqdad' is already there, built in. Even within my family, my stepbrother feels different from the family and less loved even though my mom treats him better than she does us. She took care of him since he was 3 years old but he he thinks everyone hates him. Repeat that story tenfold; from other family members and friends. I'm sick of it. What's up with that? Has there ever been a good Stepmother?

Make up should enhance what you already got and not make you into a whole different person. Because some people-- when they remove their makeup are scary walahi.

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The truth will always win.

Assalamu Alaikum, I wanted to open this thread so that we can share what we have learned at a khutbah/halaqa. Inshallah, with us being all over the world, we might learn from each other and it serves as a benefit & it generates diverse topics & discussions. A halaqa I went to yesterday was about the difference between Prophet and Messenger. How would you define a prophet compared to a messenger, and with that definition, what do you think Adam was (why). No google please. It was a very interesting discussion.

Wonderful thread. Thank you for sharing.

Hi, im starting university this fall and I"m debating about whether to go into nursing school or pharmacy. I am leaning more into nursing...... are there any nurses/student nurses in SOL? can you tell why you choose to go into nursing and how you found your program? any tips and ideas would be wonderful.

Has anyone else noticed this unspoken competition to finish school first, get married first (preferably young) & have kids first. What's going on? On top of that...the second a girl graduates high school...she hounded by family & relatives to settle down. Why is there pressure to be married and have kids. Don't people know that if they push their kids to marry when they don't want to...it might lead to an unhealthy marriage. Are people getting married for the sake of marriage? Is that why Somalis have such staggering divorce rates? It's nuts. I don't think people think too deeply about what they're getting into and the fact that this WILL affect their lives forever. It's a major life decison. Not a competition.

A muslim site with 108 responses to the topic: Is there 108 ways to say sick & hell no for my kids?

Taliban ^Alhamdulliah that I haven't reached the stage that I've become desensitized to violence as you have. I'm not sorry that I hurt and feel deep pain when I see suffering of any kind. Just because you don't have a heart and are indifferent to these horrific pictures does not mean that everyone else should be. I am well informed about what is happening in the world, I do not need to see a 16 year old being viciously tortured to death to make myself feel connected to the Muslims/humanity suffering his fate. P.S. Naming yourself Taliban, your reponse itsn't surprising.

Funny, I was just learning about conformity in class today. It just takes one person to start an astrocity and the rest follow whether or not they agree with it. Blind sheep and all. Of course that does not excuse anyone, but it does make sense whenever you hear some people defend themselves saying ' I was just following orders'. One person's actions does affect others. People have no idea how much influence they have. And that makes it that much more scarier. P.S. I don't think we need to see those pictures. The rest of my day and probably week is ruined. I don't know how I'm going to sleep with those pictures running around my head.

hope is a funny thing it has the power of puffing u up filling u with dreams and expectations making u feel as if nothing is impossible it starts as a sigh gentle and soft unthreatning safe so u trust it and build on it run with it let it grow and expand and rise then somewhere somehow along the way unexpectantly it all falls apart bit by bit u come to realize that that initial sigh carried with it a breeze of disappointment a scent of sorrow all that work the hopes dreams plans goals gone and as you lay head bowed heart heavy a gentle sigh escapes ur lips and it carries with it a breeze of disappointment

u know how to grab a heart n squeeze it. great poem. thank u for sharing with us.

A/wr/wb Sisters and brothers, it is time to wake up to reality. While we often like to boast about the large size of our Ummah, the fact is that we are losing more hearts and minds everyday, due in large part to our silence about human rights abuses, especially those directed towards women. These people will continue to turn to the secular philosophies promoted by those who do take the time to speak out on their behalf: the feminists, socialists, and secularists. This comment, although it might make us squirm and try to ignore its message, the fact is that it is true. Who do we see fighting on the streets, tv, radio on behalf of our oppressed muslim sisters? The feminists and secular christians. Althought their goals might be two-sided...eitherway one looks at it...they are the ones who donate money and speak up on their behalf. Truly sad indeed for our ummah. Thanks for the article.

LOL. Good one.