“And if you were to count Allah’s favors, you would not be able to number them…” Sheikh Salman al-Oadah And if you were to count Allah’s favors, you would not be able to number them; most surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful. [Sūrah al-Nahl: 18] Our lives are a continuous succession of Allah’s gifts. Many people, due to their outlook on life or their circumstances, fail to see that they are receiving Allah’s bounty. Allah has made it clear that we will never be able to count all of His blessings upon us, since they are innumerable. This statement is found … Continue reading And if you were to count Allah’s favors, you would not be able to number them…

“Is there any creator besides Allah who provides for you from the heavens and the Earth?” Sheikh Salman al-Oadah Allah says: “O humankind! Remember Allah’s grace toward you! Is there any creator besides Allah who provides for you from the heavens and the Earth? There is no God save Him. How then are you turned away?” [Sūrah Fātir: 3] Allah also tells us: “Say: ‘Who gives you sustenance from the heavens and the Earth?’ Say: ‘It is Allah.’” [Sūrah Saba`: 24] All sustenance is provided by Allah alone. This does not contradict with the fact that we have to work … Continue reading Who provides for you from the heavens and the Earth?

“By the morning hours…your Lord has not forsaken you, nor is He displeased.” Sheikh Salman al-Oadah “I swear by the morning hours, and by the night when it is still; your Lord has not forsaken you, nor is He displeased. And surely what comes after is better for you than that which has gone before. And surely your Lord will give you that which will make you well pleased. Did He not find you an orphan and give you shelter? And find you wandering and gave you guidance? And find you destitute and made you to be free from want? … Continue reading The Creator has not forsaken you, nor is He displeased.

A rebirth for Rupert Murdoch? By having his children baptised in the River Jordan, perhaps the head of News Corp is signalling his own conversion Nicholas Blincoe guardian.co.uk, This week’s Hello Magazine has a cover so Hello-ishly Hello-esque that one ought to wear sunglasses before picking it up. Royalty, in the shape of Queen Rania of Jordan, rubs shoulders with celebrity (Nicole Kidman), in a composition of flowing white robes and surrounded by decoratively angelic children. But wait, who is the outsize leprechaun in the corner? Surely not Rupert Murdoch, looking like he has wandered into a Broadway revival of … Continue reading Satan asks forgiveness! Should we trust him?

A Society Consumed by Locusts: Youth in the Age of Moral and Political Plagues by: Henry A. Giroux, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed (Image: Jared Rodriguez / t r u t h o u t; Adapted: D Sharon Pruitt, [niv], ‘Playingwithbrushes’) As the recent health care debate has made clear, the decades-long conservative campaign against the alleged abuses of “big government” is far from over. In the 1980s, when Ronald Reagan insisted that government was the problem not the solution, he unleashed what was to become a neoliberal juggernaut against both the welfare state and … Continue reading A Society Consumed by Locusts: Youth in the Age of Moral and Political Plagues

Not Just Guantanamo: US Torturing Muslim Pretrial Detainee in New York City Monday 05 April 2010 by: Bill Quigley, t r u t h o u t | Report (Image: Jared Rodriguez / t r u t h o u t; Adapted: assbach, Temari 09) Today, in New York City, the US is torturing a Muslim detainee with no prior criminal record who has not even gone to trial. For the last almost three years, Syed Fahad Hashmi has been kept in total pretrial isolation inside in a small cell under 24-hour video and audio surveillance. He is forced to … Continue reading US Torturing Muslim Pretrial Detainee in New York City

Break Up the Banks by: Robert Reich, RobertReich.com A fight is brewing in Washington – or, at the least, it ought to be brewing – over whether to put limits on the size of financial entities in order that none becomes “too big to fail” in a future financial crisis. Some background: The big banks that got federal bailouts, as well as their supporters in the Administration and on the Hill, repeatedly say much of the cost of the giant taxpayer-funded bailout has already been repaid to the federal government by the banks that were bailed out. Hence, the actual … Continue reading Break Up the Banks NOW!

The radical alternative: hardcore UK Muslim militants who came in from the cold The wreckage of the double-decker bus in Tavistock Square, London after a suicide bomber blew himself up in one of four explosions on July 7, 2005. PA Archive / PA Photos Two former members of an organisation banned in most of the Middle East have turned their backs on extremism and taken a leading role in the debate within the British-Muslim community on the role of Islam as a religious and political force. Hamida Ghafour reports. “Your democratically elected governments continuously perpetuate atrocities against my people all … Continue reading Muslim militants who came in from the cold

Best of friends the jang news.com.pk Chris Cork How many friends have you got? Me? One hundred and sixty-six. That’s a lot of friends you may think, but I know people who have thousands. Out of my list I have actually met sixty-four face to face, the rest I am unlikely ever to see in the flesh. Why? Because they are my Facebook friends, I have another hundred or so with many duplicates on Orkut, fifty or sixty in various scale modeling chat-rooms and thirty-eight on Skype. My ‘virtual’ friends have long outnumbered my ‘real’ friends and living far from … Continue reading Making friends with Chris Cork in Pakistan!

Imran’s stand on the Taliban Dr Arif Alvi The terror situation in Pakistan is getting worse every year. If the number of killings and suicide bombings are any indicator, statements by many politicians and by government functionaries that the terrorism is the terrorists’ last stand is based more on optimism than reality. Mr Imran Khan offered to negotiate peace much before the Americans started to talk to the Taliban in Afghanistan, but our lobby supporting the ”War-on-Terror” accused him of being a Taliban sympathiser. The Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf is not a supporter of the Taliban. Far from it. We condemn the … Continue reading Imran Khan stand on the Taliban!