I can't think of a more deserving person, I hope she wins it and the vile alshabaab need to give the land and children back.

Now, this is a straight up dhoongo. Urgh!

We have the same problem, but tajweed is pretty forward and try to listen to reciters like Hosary. When I was a teen, I used think that Muslims who did not read the Quran were losers. I'm heading that way as an adul, too busy chasing dunya. Ceeb badanaa.

Ask a mufti scholar. Amja online are pretty good and US based, they usually respond within a week. The basic principle of Zaka is that savings and gold held for a year long period are zakatable.

Does anyone know the poem he wrote about the irony UN meeting on Children's Day and the State (I think this was Egypt) clearing the streets of homeless children. Heard it at the recent Gaariye event and loved it. In the mean time... this is one of my favs... Adami Aadmiyahaw hallaysani! Ambadyahaw wareersani! Maqal ereyadaydoo! Buuraha ag joogsoo Amakaag daraaddii, Ilmo gabax ka siiyoo! Cirka sare u eegoo Xiddiggaha astaysoo Arag felegga meeroo! Onkodkiyo hillaaciyo Ufadaa dhacaysiyo Uurada waraysoo. Ololkeeda Gooraan Aammus oo dhegeysoo Shimbiraha la ooyoo. Badda "aw"-da haysiyo Waxa uurka ugu jira Axadhoo garwaaqsoo. Dhulka aad u baadhoo, Webiyada ordaayiyo Daruuraha indheeyoo. Oogada jalleecoo Ciirada aroortiyo Dabaylaha af gara oo. Uduggooda kaymaha Urso oo jeclaysoo Ku ilwaadso dooggoo. U abtiri naflaydoo Ayaamaha tilmaansoo Aabiga bilaashka ah, Waa inaad illowdaa! Afaggaalayaashiyo Cadceeddeenna oloshiyo Awrka samada yaa yidhi, Aadmigay u shidanyiin? Ifkoon cidi ku uunnayn, Miyaan Dirirku oognayn? Ururradu miyaanay Kaa ayni weynayn? Ilayskooda goormaa Loo daaray awgaa? Hadmaa felegga oosha ah Amar buuxa lagu yidhi Ku ekaw dadkoo qudha? Haddaad eegga madhataan, Miyaanuu iftiimayn, Sidiisaa ahaanayn? Aadmiyahaw hallaysani! Amarkaagu waa been! Waxaad uur wadaagtaan Ugaadhaa wareegtoo Ugbaadkiyo caleentaad Uur wada gasheenoo. Uumiyaha dhammaantii Ilma-adeer gudboon iyo Isir baad tihiinoo; Noolahaad arkaysaa Waa ul iyo diirkeed; Waa sida indhaha oo Kolkay midi ilmaysaa Ta kaleeto ooydaa; Looma uumin keligaa Inay kuu adeegaan. Ammuuraha badh baa sir ah; Sida xaal u eg yahay Ujeeddadu ka xeeldheer.

Good on him!

May Allah have mercy on his soul. He was indeed a gem amongst men.

We'll done to Edna, this award is well deserved, thank you for all the wonderful work you do for Somali women and being an inspiration for many.

My first job was at a shipping company as a receptionist, this was where I spend my Y11 work experience and they've asked me to come back that Xmas period as it was busy, it was a family run business and they were the nicest people I've worked for to this day. I was meant to go back that summer but hooyo felt it was going to get in the way of my studies, so that was the end of that. Then I did a few Saturdays at McDonalds, it was hard work but a total laugh at the same time. I continue on my short term gigs to this day, as I'm easily bored. Tips *Save some of you salary and use it for something constrcutive; driving lessons, car, etc. *Remember, your employers need you as much as you need a job , so don't settle for crap, don't be scared to negotiate a set up that works for you.

I had to share this great article, MashaAllah. I'm always trying to find ways incorporating Quran recitation in my day and always fail miserably. This seems like a workable solution as I'm also concerned with learning the message and implementing rather than simly reciting the verses.. Does anyone else have tips? What has worked for you? How to Improve Quran Recitation by Mamoon Yusaf on productivemuslim.com In this article you’re about to learn the quickest, most effective ways to increase your fluency in reading the Quran in Arabic. By following these methods over time, you’d go from stuttering and stammering over simple words to reciting any page of the Quran as easily as you can recite Surah al-Fatiha. But first, let me tell you about the time I realized I seriously needed to improve my recitation fluency. I was at an Islamic event with quite a well-known scholar… WHEN I REALIZED MY RECITATION NEEDED WORK Back in my university days I was often involved in organizing events and activities for Muslim students. In fact, before long people saw me as the ‘I-Soc guy’ because of my activities in university Islamic Societies. I was busy organizing the event with the big scholar, running around and looking important, when it came to my attention that the hafidh we had asked to do the recitation for the beginning of the event had gone AWOL. (Can you see where this is going…?) My mind immediately ran down a mental list of people on our team who might be able to step in. As I looked around the room, none of them were there. I started looking around the room frantically now, for anyone who could step in – even people who had nothing to do with the I-Soc. I even asked a couple of random people, but they said, “No, my recitation sucks – why don’t you do it?” They were about to find out why I didn’t want to do it! When I completely ran out of options, I stepped up. First I thought of reciting something I knew off by heart, but I had only memorized a few of the really short surahs at the end of the Quran, and reciting them almost seemed like it would be cheating. Fortunately, I had been working on Surah Yasin and listened to it a few times recently, so I thought I’d give it a go…. Believe me when I say, I had never been so relieved to STOP reciting the Quran. I’m usually a cool customer on stage, but this time I was practically sweating. I was stuttering and stammering all over the place. I almost tripped up on the letters ‘ya-seen’. When it was over, the scholar leaned over and said, “You know, you really should read the Quran more”. How embarrassing is that?! By that time he was preaching to the converted. My mission was clear: I had to sort my recitation out and after much trial and error, here’s how to do it: 5 WAYS TO IMPROVE YOUR FLUENCY 1. Ancient Thai Saying The ancient Thai people, now famous for their Muay Thai Kick Boxing style, had a saying. “If you want to be a good kicker… kick!” The same holds true of your goal of improving your Quran recitation. Follow the first advice given to the Prophet Muhammad ṣallallāhu 'alayhi wa sallam (peace and blessings of Allāh be upon him) (peace and blessings of Allāh be upon him) “Recite!”. Recite as much as you can, as frequently as you can. Nothing can replace this discipline. The more you do it, the better you get at it. Before you know it, you’ll be reading an unfamiliar page in the same amount of time it used to take you to read a couple of lines. 2. Link New Habit With Old Habit This is without doubt the single most effective way to build a new habit. You need to link the habit of reciting the Quran in Arabic with something you already do every single day without fail. Something like brushing your teeth, or putting your clothes on in the morning. An excellent way to go about it is to link it with one (or more) of your 5 daily prayers. That way, you’re already in a state of wudhu, so one of the main psychological barriers is out of the way. Now make the commitment to recite a small amount of Quran every single day for the next 30 days after the selected prayer. 3. Intelligent Repetition – The Mother Of All Skill Here is a trick that will double or triple your effectiveness and speed at reading the Quran. Let’s say you’ve decided to recite 2 pages of the Quran after Isha every night and 2 pages before you leave for work in the morning. Instead of reciting the first 2 pages on day one morning and the next 2 pages on day one night, try this out. On day one morning, recite page 1, then recite page one again. Then on day one evening, recite page 1 again, and again. “But then I’ll only have done one page?!” I hear you exclaiming. That’s true, but you’ll have done that page four times, and what’s more important, is that by the 4th recitation, you will read it about 3 or 4 times quicker that on your first attempt. Aim for reading the page 5 times each day. The next day, you can move on to page 2, and so on. At the end of the week, you might like to do one marathon session of going through all 7 pages you covered that week. You may even want to do this with a Tajweed teacher, who’ll correct your recitation. You’ll notice that you can still recite page 1 about 2 or 3 times faster and more fluently than on your 1st attempt. 600 days later you will have completed the Quran 6 times. “Eat your heart out, Maulvi Saab!” If you recite the page 5 times each day, and once at the end of the week, it’s the equivalent of completing the Quran once every 100 days – just over 3 months. That’s like reading the Quran 4 times a year – but who’s keeping count? 4. Learn Some Vocabulary The key to the whole process of understanding the Quran is to learn Quranic vocabulary lists. If you learn around 300 words, that accounts for about 70% of the entire Quran. But you need to learn the right words. This links in with your recitation because when you know these commonly occurring words, you’ll spot them as you recite, and something magical will happen…. Just as you do in English, you will unconsciously read the first and lsat lteters in the wrod adn wrok out waht the wrod syas, without having to read each letter phonetically (cool eh?). In other words, just by being able to recognize the common words, your recitation speed will increase exponentially. HOWEVER, this does not replace numbers 1,2 & 3. DO NOT wait until you know all of Quranic Arabic, before you start reciting the Quran. This is a common mistake and it is a waste of time. You can know all 300 words, but if you never recite the Quran, you will still be a slow reciter. If you do manage to learn 5-10 words a day for 1 month, whilst still doing your daily recitations, you’ll know 70% of Quranic vocabulary in a month or two. This will give you a huge boost in motivation, and momentum. 5. Get Your iPod Out.. If you are still struggling, the iPod technique will propel you forward. Get an online recitation from a famous reciter, whose voice you love. Listen to the recitation, one page at a time, as you read along the script with your finger. Even if the reciter goes way too fast for you to start with, just finger along the page. Then, rewind back to where the page started, and do it again, and again. Because the reciter goes much faster than you, you can go over the same page several times in one sitting. Eventually, you will be able to follow with your eyes, and then your lips and tongue. So, here’s a quick review of the 5 ways to improve your recitation: 1. Practise Quran like a martial artist practices kicks. 2. Read 1 page of the Quran immediately after a prayer. 3. Repeat the same page several times before moving on. 4. Learn 5 words of Quran vocab per day for 2 months. 5. Get your iPod out and read along with a reciter. If you found any benefit in this article, by all means share it with your family and friends to spread the blessings. You never know which tip will transform which person’s life through the Quran. Read more: http://productivemuslim.com/improve-quran-recitation/#ixzz27sFLj4zP

He is in Hargaisa, cadar nafle ma jiro. I'm thinking this is a qurbaawi or expat girl, if so, a piece of authentic SL art would be pricesless.

LooooooooL. Wadani. Che, na dhaaf, we're putting the world to rights with our muran.

Oo haday immediate familigu kaa diidaan na? LOL. Waxaagu waa maseerkii reer hawdka, saw maaha? Waa iga kaftan.

What's the need to worry about someone elses marriage to a fellow Muslim from a different culture? Was Bilaal not competing with Quraishi men who were richer, etc...? Let’s not forget that Somali men (in fact, more so than sisters) are also marrying ajenebi, Muslim and gaal ah but at the end of the day, there are a greater number of Somali women who are happy to build a life with those good (and also the not so good) Somali men and vice versa, so please explain why these sisters are being called all sorts for merely exercising an Allah given right to choose a spouse on the basis of deen alone.

Wadani;874300 wrote: They were converts, but the women they married were Arabs so there wasn't an issue. Read what some well known Arab scholars past and present say about Arabs marrying non-Arabs, and you'd be surprised. This whole notion of all the matters is the deen, being propagated by malika and others, is pure baloney. It isn't baloney, it's what the Quran says an it's what the Prophet (saw) acted upon. Bilaal was married to a Quraishi woman, so was Salman the Persian and many of the Sahaba who went to Africa married local women. I understand and respect some may have prefrences and cultural considerations when it comes to their marriage but if two Muslims feel that they can over come these and it doesn't bother them, who is anyone to have a view on their xalaal union?

If you think about it, all of the sahaabis were converts....not saying current converts are on the same level.. but a Muslim is a muslim and you'll find good/bad whatever their path to Islam.

^You wish. LOL

I don't really view people in terms of gaal/muslim, I try to be polite and professional in my interactions and expect the same of others. I personally enjoy talking to people from other cultures,esp. older colleagues because those interactions help you grow as a person. Having said that, at the moment I don't interact much (in the socialising sense) with my colleagues as I only work two days per week in a very busy envitronment.

It's obvious that Blackflash was using his lack of believe to back up his arguement that Somalis don't practice honour killing. He doesn't believe in Islam, it would be 'shameless' if he pretended to. There's also no need to drag people's commentary elsewhere here, since you visit that forum too, you should have had your discussion there, instead of bringing it here for a public lynching of Bf. Bf, Your comments on slavery are completly off, there were black / xabash slaves in Arabia before the prophethood, Somalis were members of the first empire to embrace Islam, much longer than your 1000 years claim. Somalis were also, sadly very much part of the slave trade-- they along with many of of their black African counterparts, engaged in the trading.

Congrats, Stoic. Enjoy your little man walaaal, I pray Allah protects and guides him Inshaalla. Do you know who the worst teacher is? Get rid of it or limit and monitor your child's exposure to it. I'A. There's bad akhlaaq and company, even back home.

LooL Chimera, you remind me of a great father that I know. I think with the time (and exhaustion), you'll find the right balance but be great still, InshaAllah.

He said like them differently, love them the same. Unless kids have identical personalities, which is very unlikely, you're bound to find things to like about one / the other.

Buzz Bishop;873496 wrote: I don’t love either of my sons any more than the other, but I do like them differently. I’d be willing to bet you’re the same." I agree.

Malika;873645 wrote: ^Thats what I meant, sometimes its not within them to have ability nor the stamina to raise children. I also think , western societies way of life encourages one to be so self involved that if any time one is asked to put themselves out there for anyone it becomes a mundane task. Not saying there arent such women in our own society - kuwa caruurtoduu habeen iyo maliin inkara weyjoogan on top of abandoning them. . We call it dhaqan celis, caruurtay u fiicantahay. LOL. I agree with everything you say, though, very selfish weeyan this world.

Allah, Ibts that is harsh.. I like her songs, esp "Walaal" with Fuad. Laakin, I know who you have in mind and runtii fanaaniintii hore cid maanta la tartami kartaa ma jirto.