As-salsabeel magazine - now available online
 

Assalamu’alaykum wa rahmatullaahi wa barakatuhuh,

Welcome to the first issue of as-Salsabeel – Having High Aspirations عُلوالهِمَّةٌ

In the true spirit of Islam, we welcome you with greetings of peace.

As-Salsabeel is the combined effort of a group of Muslims united with the goal of producing a newsletter as a source of glad tidings for the Muslims for the sake of Allah.

We are united with the vision to encourage good, inspire hope and enjoin trust and unity amongst the Muslims. Given todays troubled and volatile climate, if not this then at the very least we hope this initiative can serve as a much needed reminder for us all.

So, if you are a total beginner with nature exploring and have grown up in the urban jungle how would you go about discovering the beauty of the rest of the world? starting with the UK, Britain, the South East (for me)

where do we start? where do we go? how do we get there? what do we need to bring along? and any other relevant info.

so, was just looking at a map of britain online and saw those patches of green which seem to be national parks. that sounds pretty awesome. how does one prepare to go to a National Park? and what should one expect there?

What regular activity do you take part in, purely out of pleasure in your leisure time?

so why do you watch TV? have you ever thought abt it? the first reason you might come up with is "for entertainment" but i'd like you to think abt it more deeply and if that;s still your answer then please define entertainment.

and i'll define TV: not jsut the plasma screen, im including anything you watch ever.

do feel free to categorise your watching and talk abt them individually. documentaries, non fiction, fiction.

i realise i watch fiction as a mean to escape reality. pretty sad. wonder what that says abt me. then i get annoyed at myself, "why were you watching someone else's life, actually SOMEONE THAT DOESNT EVEN EXIST's fake life" that really annoys me. that those people arent even real. as in, the characters. urgh.

Yep, you've heard it right. This is a thread dedicated for members and non-members alike, to share their happy news with us all.

''The social influence a peer group exerts on its individual members, as each member attempts to conform to the expectations of the group''

Examples; type of clothes you wear, how you dress, what you say/do, places to go.

Good or bad? Does it make or break an individual? Have you ever been in a similar situation, and how would you respond? 

A video which appears to show a Syrian rebel taking a bite from the heart of a dead soldier has been widely condemned.

US-based Human Rights Watch identified the rebel as Abu Sakkar, a well-known insurgent from the city of Homs, and said his actions were a war crime.

The main Syrian opposition coalition said he would be put on trial.

Read More: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22519770

What do you make of this?

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Broad scientific consensus has it that relatively soon after the earth was formed chemicals began to act like small organisms that over millions of years evolved into loosely prokaryotic cells that continued to evolve into all the life we see around us today,  the little organisms and fungi and plants and animals, from which last group we humans evolved.