i recently heard this and cant believe it might actually be true :shock:

apparently it is haraam in islam to adopt a child and give them your 'name', when they are not actually your child (i have heard only fostering a child is allowed)

is this true???

i really hope its not, i had big plans for the future with me and my adopted kids

[b]EDIT: PLEASE POST [url=http://www.therevival.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=505]HERE[/url][/b]

Salaam

How often have become depressed over something that is bothering us? How often do we sit there feeling sorry for ourselves because of something that has happened?

And how many times do we put our problems into perspective by comparing it to those who maybe more stressed out them we are?

Only a few days ago I was sitting in a lecture in Uni feeling sorry for myself….and I got talking to the person next to me and that individual (unintentionally) made feel like an ungrateful spoilt little girl after I heard their life story…

I spent a day with another friend of mine the other day…all she could talk about was getting beats from her parents, forced marriage stress, financial problems and an “evil” stepmother…

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Islam underpins schools' lessons

Producer: Inside a Muslim School
BBC Radio 4 visits a privately-run Muslim school in Lancashire to see how Islam affects the curriculum and how such a school equips its students for their role in modern Britain.

Every morning at 8.45am, the sound of prayer - first in Arabic then in English - fills the only corridor connecting the classrooms of Al-Islah private school.
Nearly two hundred students, seated neatly at their tightly-packed desks, start their day by praising God.

Prayer punctuates the timetable.

[b]New group replaces al-Muhajiroun [/b]

Omar Bakri Mohammed ran the disbanded al-Muhajiroun group
A new group has been formed to replace radical Islamic cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed's al-Muhajiroun group, which was disbanded last year.
Ahl ul-Sunnah Wa al-Jamma was launched in a north London charity shop, with leading member, Simon Sulayman Keeler, calling the Queen "an enemy of Islam".

The convert to Islam said she was head of a country that attacked Muslims.

The controversial new group is formed of ex-leaders of al-Muhajiroun, widely condemned by most British Muslims.

[b]As-salâmu `alaykum dear brothers and sisters in Islam!

This is something important that needs to be done before 5pm THIS Friday (25th November)!

Very often, we listen or watch the news or documentaries relating to issues facing Muslims across the world and get frustrated if the presenter is an obviously biased journalist who is NOT going to say very nice things about Muslims and who is constantly distorting the facts or misleading the public.

it seems that unfortunately the last Potter thread could not withstand the dark forces that wiped clear the entire forum soon after it was created... :evil:

so here we are again...

has anyone seen the new movie? i've heard a lot about it, need to go see it still.

[b]edit:[/b] we started discussing LotR here too...

[quote="BBC NEWS"]Five women from the same family in Pakistan's Punjab province have refused to be "united" with their prospective husbands as ordered by tribal elders.

The village council has told them to "honour" 1996 childhood marriages, when the youngest of them was just five.

Elders ordered the marriages to resolve a feud between the girls' family and a rival one - a practice now outlawed.

The refusal to marry has renewed tensions, leading to a shooting incident and arrests on both sides.

Feud

The row between the families began in 1991 when a relative of the girls killed an

Salaam

There are numerous informal study circles’ that take place in my area. Some people choose to summarise/simplify and convey the words of contemporary or classical scholars whilst others based on their own understanding of the Qur’an and hadiths directly preach the word of Allah (swt) and His Rasool (saw).

Do any of you guys regularly attend such circles? If so, do you actually learn something or is it just a waste of time?

Do you find yourself benefiting from such circles and/or implementing what you have learned in the talk?

Or do you just attend cos your mum forces you?

[color=red][i]Reading today's BBC News article, this article came to my mind which i read this mornin. I find it quiet emotional but i still think u shuld read it as it really gets u thinkin[/i][/color]

[color=black][b]Title: Seeking Allah's Forgiveness [/b][/color]

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[color=green][b]This short synopsis is based upon a lecture of His Eminence Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri. It is an important spiritual discourse on the concept of ‘forgiveness’.

Asian gang who got out of control

Three British-born Pakistani men are facing life sentences after being convicted of murdering a white graduate in London while drunk. BBC News Website looks at the case in detail.

Three young men get very drunk, shout racist abuse, assault a waiter in a curry house and get involved in a series of brawls, climaxing with an attack on a innocent man who crosses their path.

It sounds like an all too familiar night of violence of the type which blights many city centres in Britain.