For many of you who are out of the Education system, many schools, sxith forms and colleges have began to use the term "home learning" rather than "homework" in an attempt to help students understand that additional work which is set is not for the teacher (which homework might suggest) but rather for the student's developement (as home learning is supposed to suggest).

Last Chemistry lesson, I was set a very bizarre peice of home learning. I was given a question; "Why does James Bond prefer his martini to be shaken, not stirred?" We are currently studying an enormous chapter about compounds containing the carbonyl group and have just completed a section on reactions with aldehydes and ketones. This information may be somewhat relevant to the answer.

I wasn't sure whether I should make this into a blog or a forum post, mainly because I haven't differentiated between the two entirely but also because blogs seem a little bit more personal. I use them for things that affect me or have affected me in some way or another and I use forums for news related items. 

Before you proceed if you are a little child, then perhaps you shouldn't read this. Come back here when you grow up and mature a little and understand that the most cruelest of things do happen. They are real. They're usually unheard of until someone brave speaks up and speaks of their stories.

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The Hadith of the seven who are in Allah Almighty's shade on the Day of Judgment gives us guidance as to important milestones and markers for our spiritual development. These are goals that should be sought in one’s development.

The Prophet ﷺ said:

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How would we look in front of Allah for judging people for sins Allah swt has already forgiven them for?

It may be hard to guess from the title, but something remarkable happened this week. No, it wasn't another episode of Harry Enfield.

Something that corrected 90 years of wrong.

90 years ago, the Turkish republic was declared. In 2013, the first deputies wearing headscarves were allowed in - and this time without much of a fuss either!

A couple of months after replacing my PC, I have got around to making a few more updates to the site - I had quite a bit left to do after the changes to the layout etc that ended in Ramadan, but I never got around to them.

Right now, I have added preliminary support for a couple more sizes - screens that were 320px wide (eg iphone and smaller android phones) were already supported, but there was much wasted space on slightly larger devices - those that had a default device width of 340 or 360 pixels were less well supported creating wasted space.

That should now be fixed. I am aware that on some pages the page is being "stretched", making the view zoomed out and less easy to read. That might be figured out.

It seems that some Syrian clerics have issued a Fatwa allowing people living in besieged suburbs of Damascus to eat meat that is normally forbidden. So now, they may eat cats, dogs and donkeys to starve off hunger.

It's so heartbreaking to hear and shakes my insides to know that this is what is happening to our brothers and sisters half way across the world. The clerics add, that if the situation continues to deteriorate, the living would have to eat the dead.

Ya Allah, help these people, ease their suffering and make them amongst those who enter Jannah. O Allah they are in urgent need of Your Mercies, so send upon them Your Mercies, O Most Merciful. Ameen, thumma Ameen.

I ask you to make a special prayer for Syria tonight. A sincere dua. 

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Who wears a poppy? Do you? If so, why do you? Have you ever faced any evil looks by other Muslims who wonder why you support such a cause? Have you ever felt pressured into wearing one, simply because a colleague or friend is wearing one and you feel you are obliged to do the same?

Do you not wear a poppy? If not, why not? Do you feel this is something that only White British people or the families of those who had ancestors participating in the war should do? Are you strictly against Britain involving in war overseas? Are you confused about how they should be worn?