On second thoughts, maybe some of the smilies.

"angel" wrote:

"Admin" wrote:

You Traitors! I can feel the pain!

But since you're all back, what do you think of the other forums? Which ones have you been on?

What I am really asking is, what ideas should I pinch? :twisted:

They all rubbish, dont get all paranoid, revival is fine the way it is

ok ok i just said that to make you happy, will have a visit at other forums and nick ideas! (but revival rules, no forum is better than this!)

Which ones? MPAC? I will have a look (I have never been there!).

What I like here is everything is in oe place. On other forums there are different discussions taking place in dfferent forums. I don't like that.

"Admin" wrote:

What I like here is everything is in oe place. On other forums there are different discussions taking place in dfferent forums. I don't like that.

That is very annoying. But these sites have a 'New Posts' link which lists the recently active threads on one page.

But having such a sys on the Revival ([img]http://forum.mpacuk.org/images/smilies/other/notworthy.gif[/img]) wouldn't be right.

Smilies on MPAC are on the whole rubbish. Very few good ones.

I HATE POPUPS, POPUNDER AND ANYTHING THAT STEALS FOCUS.

I will have to go to the Mpac forums to have a look, but generally if I am showed such 'popups', I never follow! Just to teach a lesson.

Hmmm.... 21 boards in 8 categories! Its a bit overkill.

We had over 40,000 posts in old forums, but still managed with 4 boards (One being rules!).

So where should I start?

Politics category at top? well its a political organistaion I suppose...

Go to 'If Britain is so bad, why live here?'. Heh, we should have more of these topics!

They have more people to bait aswell!

EDIT

The posts are too wide for my liking.

admin u mite wanna check out www.islamicaweb.com/forums/
i used to post there b4 i discovered the revival (stil do sumtimes, but rarely). its ok; much more massive compared to the revival and therefore harder to find ur way around. its kinda like the american version of the revival.

I agree with you admin, thats one thing i love bout revival forums its not cluttered up, you should not have so many boards it just gets confusin, you can have one for news if you want but really when it says general board, discuss anythin here its pretty self explanatory and less confusin, cuz if you have loads of diff. boards you might need a few more mods as well..so keeps everythin simple and less hassle!

According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 60's, 70's and early 80's probably shouldn't have survived, because our baby cots were covered with brightly coloured lead-based paint which was promptly chewed and licked. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, or latches on doors or cabinets and it was fine to play with pans.

When we rode our bikes, we wore no helmets, just flip-flops and fluorescent 'spokey dokey's' on our wheels.

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or airbags -riding in the passenger seat was a treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle and it tasted the same.

We ate chips, bread and butter pudding and drank fizzy juice with sugar in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside playing.

We shared one drink with four friends, from one bottle or can and no-one actually died from this.

We would spend hours building go-carts out of scraps and then went top speed down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into stinging nettles a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We would leave home in the morning and could play all day, as long as we were back before it got dark. No one was able to reach us and no one minded.

We did not have Play stations or X-Boxes, no video games at all. No 99 channels on TV, no videotape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones, no personal computers, no DVDs, no Internet chat rooms. We had friends - we went outside and found them.

We played elastics and rounders, and sometimes that ball really hurt!

We fell out of trees, got cut, and broke bones but there were no law suits.

We had full on fist fights but no prosecution followed from other parents.

We played chap-the-door-run-away and were actually afraid of the owners catching us.

We walked to friends' homes.

We also, believe it or not, WALKED to school; we didn't rely on mummy or daddy to drive us to school, which was just round the corner.

We made up games with sticks and tennis balls.

We rode bikes in packs of 7 and wore our coats by only the hood.

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of...They actually sided with the law.

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and problem solvers and inventors, ever. The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and
responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.

And you're one of them. Congratulations!

For those of you who aren't old enough, thought you might like to read
about us.

-------------
This my friends, is surprisingly frightening......and it might put a smile on your face:

The majority of students in universities today were born in 1986........They are called youth.

They have never heard of We are the World, We are the children, and the Uptown Girl they know is by Westlife not Billy Joel. They have never heard of Rick Astley, Bananarama, Nena Cherry or Belinda Carlisle.

For them, there has always been only one Germany and one Vietnam.

AIDS has existed since they were born. CD's have existed since they were born.

Michael Jackson has always been white.

To them John Travolta has always been round in shape and they can't imagine how this fat guy could be a god of dance.

They believe that Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible are films from last year.

They can never imagine life before computers.

They'll never have pretended to be the A Team, RedHand Gang or the Famous Five.

They'll never have applied to be on Jim'll Fix It or Why Don't You.

They can't believe a black and white television ever existed. And they will never understand how we could leave the house without a mobile phone.

--------------------
Now let's check if we're getting old...

1. You understand what was written above and you smile.

2. You need to sleep more, usually until the afternoon, after a night out.

3. Your friends are getting married/already married.

4. You are always surprised to see small children playing comfortably with computers.

5. When you see teenagers with mobile phones, you shake your head.

6. You remember watching Dirty Den in EastEnders the first time around.

7. You meet your friends from time to time, talking about the good Old days, repeating again all the funny things you have experienced together.

8. Having read this mail, you are thinking of forwarding it to some other friends because you think they will like it too...

Yes, you're getting old!!

Quote:

Michael Jackson has always been white.

lol!

Has anyone heard of the new album by the 786 Boyz. One of the boys is my cousin so i have all their songs, but they're not that well known around here.

I recently bought their new album and i like the song "she made her mark on me" but my cousin was telling me that it has created a bit of a controversy as the lyrics are about a sister. In the song he praises her modesty etc and hence the song is titled "she made a mark on me".

I have to admit that the song is quite catchy, IMO, it is the best song in their album. All their background tunes are quite catchy... Do you think its ok to listen to a song with such lyrics.

i don't see anything wrong with the song but i gotta admit that I haven't heard any Islamic songs yet which talk about the opposite sex.

"chm1" wrote:

Has anyone heard of the new album by the 786 Boyz. One of the boys is my cousin so i have all their songs, but they're not that well known around here.

I recently bought their new album and i like the song "she made her mark on me" but my cousin was telling me that it has created a bit of a controversy as the lyrics are about a sister. In the song he praises her modesty etc and hence the song is titled "she made a mark on me".

I have to admit that the song is quite catchy, IMO, it is the best song in their album. All their background tunes are quite catchy... Do you think its ok to listen to a song with such lyrics.

i don't see anything wrong with the song but i gotta admit that I haven't heard any Islamic songs yet which talk about the opposite sex.

i've heard these guys as i was dragged to that islamic relief concert in london by my friends (gotta admit i had fun tho, lol). apparently their intention behind 'made her mark' was to show respect and admiration for a sister who is modest, one who does not wait to flirt around etc. on the whole i think the album was ok, although they nicked most of their tunes from other ppl. they sed theyl try to be more original for the next album, which is coming out in a coupla months. i think the best track on this first album of theirs is definitely Tajdar-e-Haram, even though i dont really understand the urdu all that well (my mate had to translate it for me) its really melodious and i'm sure those of u who know urdu properly will be moved by this nasheed (unfortunately i havent seen a sample on the net).

just to clarify: i am by no means a 'fan' of this nasheed group, just happened to know wot u wer talking about, so thought i'd chip in.

wassalaam

"Aasiyah" wrote:

i think the best track on this first album of theirs is definitely Tajdar-e-Haram, even though i dont really understand the urdu all that well (my mate had to translate it for me) its really melodious and i'm sure those of u who know urdu properly will be moved by this nasheed (unfortunately i havent seen a sample on the net).

It's not only Urdu. There's a bit of Farsi in there too.

I've tried finding an English translation of it on the web, but no luck.

"Aphrodite" wrote:

According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 60's, 70's and early 80's probably shouldn't have survived, because our baby cots were covered with brightly coloured lead-based paint which was promptly chewed and licked. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, or latches on doors or cabinets and it was fine to play with pans.

When we rode our bikes, we wore no helmets, just flip-flops and fluorescent 'spokey dokey's' on our wheels.

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or airbags -riding in the passenger seat was a treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle and it tasted the same.

We ate chips, bread and butter pudding and drank fizzy juice with sugar in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside playing.

We shared one drink with four friends, from one bottle or can and no-one actually died from this.

We would spend hours building go-carts out of scraps and then went top speed down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into stinging nettles a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We would leave home in the morning and could play all day, as long as we were back before it got dark. No one was able to reach us and no one minded.

We did not have Play stations or X-Boxes, no video games at all. No 99 channels on TV, no videotape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones, no personal computers, no DVDs, no Internet chat rooms. We had friends - we went outside and found them.

We played elastics and rounders, and sometimes that ball really hurt!

We fell out of trees, got cut, and broke bones but there were no law suits.

We had full on fist fights but no prosecution followed from other parents.

We played chap-the-door-run-away and were actually afraid of the owners catching us.

We walked to friends' homes.

We also, believe it or not, WALKED to school; we didn't rely on mummy or daddy to drive us to school, which was just round the corner.

We made up games with sticks and tennis balls.

We rode bikes in packs of 7 and wore our coats by only the hood.

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of...They actually sided with the law.

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and problem solvers and inventors, ever. The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and
responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.

And you're one of them. Congratulations!

For those of you who aren't old enough, thought you might like to read
about us.

-------------
This my friends, is surprisingly frightening......and it might put a smile on your face:

The majority of students in universities today were born in 1986........They are called youth.

They have never heard of We are the World, We are the children, and the Uptown Girl they know is by Westlife not Billy Joel. They have never heard of Rick Astley, Bananarama, Nena Cherry or Belinda Carlisle.

For them, there has always been only one Germany and one Vietnam.

AIDS has existed since they were born. CD's have existed since they were born.

Michael Jackson has always been white.

To them John Travolta has always been round in shape and they can't imagine how this fat guy could be a god of dance.

They believe that Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible are films from last year.

They can never imagine life before computers.

They'll never have pretended to be the A Team, RedHand Gang or the Famous Five.

They'll never have applied to be on Jim'll Fix It or Why Don't You.

They can't believe a black and white television ever existed. And they will never understand how we could leave the house without a mobile phone.

--------------------
Now let's check if we're getting old...

1. You understand what was written above and you smile.

2. You need to sleep more, usually until the afternoon, after a night out.

3. Your friends are getting married/already married.

4. You are always surprised to see small children playing comfortably with computers.

5. When you see teenagers with mobile phones, you shake your head.

6. You remember watching Dirty Den in EastEnders the first time around.

7. You meet your friends from time to time, talking about the good Old days, repeating again all the funny things you have experienced together.

8. Having read this mail, you are thinking of forwarding it to some other friends because you think they will like it too...

Yes, you're getting old!!

good piece of writing that Aph - we must be the same age, i cant imagine my kid playing out dawn till dusk but i did

"irfan" wrote:

"Aasiyah" wrote:

i think the best track on this first album of theirs is definitely Tajdar-e-Haram, even though i dont really understand the urdu all that well (my mate had to translate it for me) its really melodious and i'm sure those of u who know urdu properly will be moved by this nasheed (unfortunately i havent seen a sample on the net).

It's not only Urdu. There's a bit of Farsi in there too.

I've tried finding an English translation of it on the web, but no luck.

really?! which part is in Farsi? i was checking it out on the net, and looks like Tajdar-e-Haram the original was made by 'The Sabri Brothers', never heard of them in my life, and gotta say the 786 remake sounds much better...

btw i found a lil' sample of the 786 version, lemme know wot u think ppl!

http://www.meem.info/mediac/400_0/media/Tajdar-E-Haram.wma

"Aasiyah" wrote:

really?! which part is in Farsi?

I find it hard enough trying to distinguish the Urdu. Really can't help you there.

"Aasiyah" wrote:

btw i found a lil' sample of the 786 version, lemme know wot u think ppl!

http://www.meem.info/mediac/400_0/media/Tajdar-E-Haram.wma

I LOVE that Naat...and this remix is fantastic.

I would like to hear the track chm1 is referring too...

Does anyone have a link?

These are the lyrics.

Made her mark

Assalaamu-alaikum
how are you today?
I hope you're doing well
but she kept on going
and I couldn't tell
she made her mark
she made her mark on me

something different
a bounce in her step
and all the while
maintaining modesty in her smile
shined so bright
she made her mark
she made her mark on me

(chorus)
not her looks
nor perfume
not that she lit up the room
all her heart
all her mind
everything inside
could open the eyes
of even the blind
she made her mark on me

she was a sister
but all so very real
didn't go over
one way or the other
feared Allah, feared Allah moreover
she made her mark
she made her mark on me

she deserves a song
she's better than me
goes against the grain
no matter how great the pain
doesn't care what people say
she'll go her own way
she made her mark
she made her mark on me

(chorus)
not her looks
nor perfume
not that she lit up the room
all her heart
all her mind
everything inside
could open the eyes
of even the blind
she made her mark on me

theres something in her mind
theres something in her soul
it takes some years to find
but she already knows

(chorus)
not her looks
nor perfume
not that she lit up the room
all her heart
all her mind
everything inside
could open the eyes
of even the blind
she made her mark on me

So the sister "made her mark" on him cos she was decent and modest?

I think that's OK....he must be a decent guy himself if he was impressed by such a girl...

"irfan" wrote:

"Aasiyah" wrote:

really?! which part is in Farsi?

I find it hard enough trying to distinguish the Urdu. Really can't help you there.

lol, thanx for trying anyways.

"MuslimSister" wrote:

So the sister "made her mark" on him cos she was decent and modest?

I think that's OK....he must be a decent guy himself if he was impressed by such a girl...

guys plural - theres 5 of them in the group. i think ppl question the song because of the way its sung, take a look at their website to hear the entire 'Made her mark' song, go to the media section on:

www.786boyz.com

i didnt link this site earlier coz their 'tajdar-e-haram' link wasnt working - still isnt but u can listen to the rest of their first album in the media section.

I listened to it

it dont sound all that-

and I didnt pick up any urdu/farsi

"MuslimSisLilSis" wrote:

I listened to it

it dont sound all that-

and I didnt pick up any urdu/farsi

What did u listen to? Made Her Mark or Tajdar e Haram.

make her mark

You'll probably have to let it grow on you.

There is no Urdu/Farsi in it. :roll:

"irfan" wrote:

You'll probably have to let it grow on you.

it sounds like sumin backstreet boys would do :?

i cant stand any boy bands

"MuslimSisLilSis" wrote:

"irfan" wrote:

You'll probably have to let it grow on you.

it sounds like sumin backstreet boys would do :?

i cant stand any boy bands

786 are a bit like a boy band.

Funny story. I went to nasheed concert. 786 were there. The organiser of the show came on at the start and said 'we don't want our sisters to be screaming and shouting as if they have seen their boy bands.' He was being serious, but I cracked up. Hillarious!

lol-

girls do that when Sami Yusuf some on stage too

I admit he's very good looking :oops:

but Islamic nasheed singers dont want/need that kind of audience

it gives nasheeds a bad rep

"irfan" wrote:

Funny story. I went to nasheed concert. 786 were there. The organiser of the show came on at the start and said 'we don't want our sisters to be screaming and shouting as if they have seen their boy bands.' He was being serious, but I cracked up. Hillarious!

lol, wos that one of the islamic relief concerts by any chance? pity the organiser didnt say the same thing in the one i went to! but luckily girls werent so loud in the Royal Albert Hall - not really the place for screaming and shouting anyways

"MuslimSisLilSis" wrote:

girls do that when Sami Yusuf some on stage too

I admit he's very good looking :oops:

he got married recently!

maybe thats y he hasnt been coming out in concerts much recently - the unwanted attention... :?:

"MuslimSister" wrote:

So the sister "made her mark" on him cos she was decent and modest?

I think that's OK....he must be a decent guy himself if he was impressed by such a girl...

Like I said before, one of the boys are my cousins. They're are decent in the sense that they are active in Islam, as in they organise talks and hold concerts and play their songs but my cousin still don't wanna grow a beard and does not always practise prayers 5 times a day. But i gotta say he is a cool guy. He's got a really clean and good heart.