Book 035, Number 6501: Anas reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) visited a person from amongst the Muslims in order to inquire (about his health) who had grown feeble like the chicken. Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: Did you supplicate for anything or beg of Him about that? He said: Yes. I used to utter (these words): Impose punishment upon me earlier in this world, what Thou art going to impose upon me in the Hereafter. Thereupon Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: Hallowed be Allah, you have neither the power nor forbearance to take upon yourself (the burden of His Punishment). Why did you not say this: O Allah, grant us good in the world and good in the Hereafter, and save us from the torment of Fire. He (the Holy Prophet) made this supplication (for him) and he was all right

asalaama aleykum Book 035, Number 6471: Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying that Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, thus stated: I am near to the thought of My servant as he thinks about Me, and I am with him as he remembers Me. And if he remembers Me in his heart, I also remember him in My Heart, and if he remembers Me in assembly I remember him in assembly, better than his (remembrance), and if he draws near Me by the span of a palm, I draw near him by the cubit, and if he draws near Me by the cubit I draw near him by the space (covered by) two hands. And if he walks towards Me, I rush towards him.

i NEED ramadaan. i dont know what it is, but these pst two months (rajab and shabcan) my iiman has been dragging. late for prayers, missing prayers, wasting time, hard to memorise quraan. im telling you, shaytaan is going all out before he goes in lock down.

hes a good songwriter/singer too. i bought one of his islamic cd's the other day. ill be jamming on it for a while

Originally posted by LayZieGirl: Nino Nino Nino, why won't you go open a daycare while you @it boy???(you are not running for election here, you are you trying to convince, me or you???) You talk about, "BACK HOME WE HAD SOMETHING CALLED EXTENDED FAMILY", news flash, we aren't back home, and back home, no one gave out free babysitting services, unless you were family.(u are a joke) I dont consider babysitting for strangers as a good deed in Islam. Lets talk about helping out the orphan children back home or all over africa, around the world, the children who are dying, those children need my services, not some lazy housewife, who doesn't know when to stop having kids, and doesn't know where her other 7 kids are, and is only aware of the one she just had as a good deed in Islam. Ways we contribute into islam is helping out the less fortunate, obeying allah, giving back to the community etc, but if you think I need to go back to the same high school I graduaded from 4 yrs ago, just so I can find out if babysitting for housewives is part of a good deed that a muslim sista like myself needs to do, then you are indeed a lost soul. PS: GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR ELECTION...whatever it is sister, you sadden me. re-read what you wrote, insha allah youll edit.

who else heard the story of a djiin falling in love and proposing to a woman

woow, wooow wooow, i never said its okay to wear tight clothing or ment to even imply it was. i said i still wear pants... LOOSE FITTING PANTS with long shirts that cover my thighs. however i have a new abaya in my closet now that i wear over my clothing anyways. imo tight clothing with something that covers your hair negates hijaab. its not a hijaab if yr body isnt covered right. i agreed with everything you said, i just thought a congratulations was in order for the young lady.sheeeesh. btw, how are pants mens clothing? now, im nt trying to start a debate here im asking cause i sincerely want to know how you came to this conclusion. who knows, maybe youll be the person to make me stop wearing pants. now before you start ill say why it doesnt register as mens clothing to me, cause the argument is entirely subjective to ones culture. our men wear macawiis, which resemble sarong skirts which women wear, but its still mens clothing, right? are button down shirts also mens clothing? men wear it too. if anything the ayah prohibitting men from wearing womens clothing and vice versa seems to prohibit cross dressers, who wear clothes that make them look more feminine or masculin (depending on the case).

that kinda hurt my feelings... cause its true. im pimply, skinny and quiet.

i never said og moti was unnattractive. anyways, now i just picture og moti as skinny, balding, a slightly oily mustache and glasses that are too big for his lil face... this accually makes him more comical to me cause i see him taking off the glasses and blinking profusely whenever he reads something that damages his sensitive male ego.

girl see how you read my mind. i was going to post a similar topic but it kept slipping my mind. anywhoo, i think ive mentioned before how i always invision (sp?) you wearing all white and big clumsy heels (even though youre extremely tall as is, or so i heard) similar to the ones daisy duck wears. og moti, i see as skinny wiht thinning hair and a thin somewhat oily mustache but no beard. rudy has a plesant face, much like the guy in his avatar but i think hes a lil older that that. qacqac i see with a cane and a pair of worn macawis. hes well fed, but not fat, and has smooth semi fair skin. no glasses. i cant think of any other members right now. salafi online for some reason i picture him to look alot like my friends brother... you dont live in montreal do you?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH *breathe* oooohhhhhhoohohohohoh!!! you called us SPINSTERS!!! merriam websters says: Pronunciation: 'spin(t)-st&r Function: noun 1 : a woman whose occupation is to spin 2 a archaic : an unmarried woman of gentle family b : an unmarried woman and especially one past the common age for marrying 3 : a woman who seems unlikely to marry - spin·ster·hood /-"hud/ noun - spin·ster·ish /-st(&-)rish/ adjective - spin·ster·ly adjective i hope you didnt mean definition three.

arent you guys scared that once he sees something coming out of you he wont ever look at you the same way? my philosophy will be to lap on the drugs (its permissible right?) and shield everyone and anyone from the ugliness and sheer nastiness of giving birth. you shouldnt be in the room unless you have to be. after its all done, ill present a pretty lil picture with me with my hair combed with just a hint of glow about my face and a clean, non-bloody baby... if only, right?

^^^ you mean nothing more beautiful than a pious woman, cause i assure you once yr married youll say and think otherwise. anywhoo, are there any sisters here who wear niqaab here? im accually thinking of going niqaabi, bt im scared i might take it off. see im a recent hijaabi, and i can sense that my will towards the niqaab is just not as strong as the one for my hijaab. rayaana, go easy on the girl. if she wants to wear hijaab congratulate her for the steps shes taking to please allah (swt). the pants thing... yr very right some of us have a compulsion for them so let us ease out of them slowly thank you. thats what im doing anyway. i just need more abayas in my closet.

i think the shocking part is the number 9!!! most 9 year olds are children, we kinda have to remind ourselves that by than, she had reached puberty for some time.

everybodies got issues. muslim does not equate holiness, maybe you should give a muslim some lee-way as to how messed up htey can be. its kinda our duty to help one another excell in the after the life, not judge one another in this life.

Originally posted by Qac Qaac: Salafi online, only one girl is, and she is from Montreal, go figure. bisinka dadkaan maxee yihiin, hal kalmad maba dhihi kartid, Sweet girl, come back to the town. chill out. don't discriminate. if youre talking about me, yre mistaken. im not djiboutian, not that there is anything wrong with it.

but why though? is it an ego thing? timidity? it doesnt fit in with the pretty picture with how you want to get married or are you just not interested in getting married? if the case is the latter, pretend you are for the sake of this scenario.

khadijah (ra) did it and apparantly a number of women before and after her proposed marriage to the prophet (saw) so would you do it? and fellas how would yr reaction be if a woman proposed marriage to you? i mean after you got over the fact she spoke to you without her wali.

i just saw this film for the first time a couple of days ago. amazing.

its a lil overrated for my tastes. i liked it, but thats just cause i enjoy president bushes comedic style, but as far as "opening my eyes" or looking at the american government in a new light... nope. heck, the cbc has aired a documentary exposing the ties between the bush and ben laden family and has aired it at least twice this year, and THAT was a real movie. as much as i like micheal moore (been a fan since the awful truth aired) i think his ambush style of movie making to be a lil tiresome. show a little professionalism why dont you? and the exaggerations!!! sheeeesh.

ive heard similar stories and with each story i hear i bite my tongue for all the negatives things ive said about somali men. we need to get our reputations back.

copy and paste job, sometimes, nothing else needs to be added. Salaam, below is an email and an email a good biradur wrote about the problem of muslim chrities, and their lack of focus on 'internal' problems. as far as can be known, there is ONLY ONE Muslim charity doing work for the Darfur refugees. Islamic Relief (www.irw.org). Please contribute either to IRW or to any other charity. and also, if you can, write to other muslim orgs and charities and ask them why they havent highlighted the problems in Sudan, or contributed aid. peace FWD: What About Darfur? Salaam, Sorry to start another thread... but this has been bothering me for a while now. This is the third in a series of Op/Eds Nick Kristof has written from Chad regarding the Darfur crisis. He quotes estimates of 340,000 who have already died as a result of the actions of the Sudanese government. Due to the debacle at Benevolence International, I personally have forsworn all Muslim charitable organizations that work outside this country. I of course still get the heartfelt fliers and emails to help Muslim brothers and sisters in Palestine, Chechnya, and Kashmir; but I have not heard a single peep - not in CAIR emails, not local listservs, nothing - about Darfur, where hundreds of thousands of Muslims have already died. Why is this? I have the feeling that Muslims don't want to criticize another Muslim country in general; my fear is that somehow the Muslims in Darfur, due to their ethnicity, are not considered 'real' Muslims, or that somehow we as Muslims only care about the suffering of our brothers and sisters if they are being persecuted by non-Muslims. One last thought from Kristof's blog: "Most big aid groups, including all the major faith-based ones, are helping, from Catholic Relief Services ( http://www.catholicrelief.org ) to World Vision ( http://www.worldvision.org )to American Jewish World Service ( http://www.ajws.org ). Indeed, one of the big gaps has been Islamic charities, which have tended -- inexcusably -- to show sympathy for Sudan's Arab government. So the sad and ironic outcome is that the people of Darfur, who are virtually all Muslims, are getting significant help from Christians and Jews but almost nothing from fellow Muslims. I hope some Muslim aid groups will quickly remedy that." Needless to say, this makes me feel like helping Muslim charities working outside the US even less. WS, ---Jihad Magboula's Brush With Genocide By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Published: June 23, 2004 Magboula Muhammed Khattar with Nada. ARTICLE TOOLSE-Mail This ArticlePrinter-Friendly FormatMost E-Mailed Articles Columnist Page: Nicholas D. Kristof Kristof Responds: The Columnist Addresses Readers' E-mail Forum: Discuss This Column E-mail: nicholas@nytimes.com ALONG THE SUDAN-CHAD BORDER — Meet Magboula Muhammad Khattar and her baby, Nada. I wrote about Ms. Khattar in my last two columns, recounting how the Janjaweed Arab militia burned her village, murdered her parents and finally tracked her family down in the mountains. Ms. Khattar hid, but the Janjaweed caught her husband and his brothers, only 4, 6 and 8 years old, and killed them all. Ms. Khattar decided that the only hope for saving her two daughters and her baby sister was to lead them by night to Chad. They had to avoid wells where the Janjaweed kept watch, but eight days later, half-dead with hunger and thirst, they staggered across the dry riverbed that marks the border with Chad. That's where I found Ms. Khattar. She is part of a wave of 1.2 million people left homeless by the genocide in Darfur. Among those I met was Haiga Ibrahim, a 16-year-old girl who said her father and three older brothers had been killed by the Janjaweed. So Haiga led her crippled mother and younger brothers and sisters to Chad. But the place they reached along the border, Bamina, was too remote to get help from overtaxed aid agencies. So when I found her, Haiga was leading her brothers and sisters 30 miles across the desert to the town of Bahai. "My mother can't walk any more," she said wearily. "First I'm taking my brother and sisters, and then I hope to go back and bring my mother." There is no childhood here. I saw a 4-year-old orphan girl, Nijah Ahmed, carrying her 13-month-old brother, Nibraz, on her back. Their parents and 15-year-old brother are missing in Sudan and presumed dead. As for Ms. Khattar, she is camping beneath a tree, sharing the shade with three other women also widowed by the Janjaweed. In some ways Ms. Khattar is lucky; her children all survived. Moreover, in some Sudanese tribes, widows must endure having their vaginas sewn shut to preserve their honor, but that is not true of her Zaghawa tribe. Ms. Khattar's children have nightmares, their screams at night mixing with the yelps of jackals, and she worries that she will lose them to hunger or disease. But her plight pales beside that of Hatum Atraman Bashir, a 35-year-old woman who is pregnant with the baby of one of the 20 Janjaweed raiders who murdered her husband and then gang-raped her. Ms. Bashir said that when the Janjaweed attacked her village, Kornei, she fled with her seven children. But when she and a few other mothers crept out to find food, the Janjaweed captured them and tied them on the ground, spread-eagled, then gang-raped them. "They said, 'You are black women, and you are our slaves,' and they also said other bad things that I cannot repeat," she said, crying softly. "One of the women cried, and they killed her. Then they told me, 'If you cry, we will kill you, too.' " Other women from Kornei confirm her story and say that another woman who was gang-raped at that time had her ears partly cut off as an added humiliation. One moment Ms. Bashir reviles the baby inside her. The next moment, she tearfully changes her mind. "I will not kill the baby," she said. "I will love it. This baby has no problem, except for his father." Ms. Khattar, the orphans, Ms. Bashir and countless more like them have gone through hell in the last few months, as we have all turned our backs — and the rainy season is starting to make their lives even more miserable. In my next column, I'll suggest what we can do to save them. For readers eager to act now, some options are at www.nytimes.com/kristofresponds, Posting 479. -------------------- "Whoever among you sees an offensive or evil act, he must change it with his hand, if he can not then (he must change it) with his tongue, if he can not then (he must feel it) with his heart, and that is the WEAKEST Iman (faith)." (Muslim) - Prohpet Muhammad (pbuh) “Stand out firmly for Justice as witnesses in front of God, even against yourselves, against your kin and against your parents, against people who are rich or poor. Do not follow your inclinations or your desires, lest you should deviate from Justice. Remember God is the best of all Protectors and well acquainted with all that you do.” -Qur’an 4:135

also,id like to add that i think your usage of the terms field and house niggers to be completely disgusting and unnecessary. all black people are either house or field niggers, right? and always niggers, right? wth?!?! ps, maybe you guys should read the book, uncle toms cabin.

Originally posted by maansoor: Bill Cosby is the man, of all his years as a comedian he has never cussed or anything like that like talking about sex. this guy has SOMALI humor ummmmm, someone needs to check bill's earlier works.

considering who painted it, as well as the date and where the artist was situated, not to mention the picture itself, i have to wonder, who made the correlation between aisha (ra) the prophets wife and this painting? is it the name that threw you off or does that in itself offend you?