Are they closed?

if so who closed them?

There seems to be alot of contradiction on this subject.

My take: they are not closed. If you have the knowledge on the subject, you can do ijtihad on it.

I never used to believe in witch craft but for the past few month strange things are happening that I am starting to believe. First, I met people with power who can see and tell you if something bad is about to happen to you. I was told someone has visited the witch woman to destroy my life but I didn't believe that.. They offered me protections and asked if I want to retaliate to that person but I only agreed with protection as I didn't see any reason to refuse but didn't agree the retaliation.

Since then, I am starting to get bad signs, see strange things at night.

Famous Pakistani cricketer Yousuf Youhana converts from Christianity to Islam,and is Muhammad Yousuf now.

[quote]It may not be official yet, but Mid Day has reasons to believe that Pakistan cricketer Yousuf Youhana has converted to Islam last week.

But some of the middle-order bat’s teammates yesterday revealed that he had said the ‘Kalema’ (the declaration to convert) on his recent trip to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/engelhardt/engelhardt92.html

This article made me question whether Zarqawi really exists or not

I remember before the war he was used as the connection between al-qaeda and Saddam Hussein. I also read somewhere that he was transporting chemical weapons through Turkey into Europe.

Hazrat Umar was probably the greatest muslim king ever,during his ten years of caliphate Islamic arm forces conquered Syria,Palestine,Egypt and Perisa and to the west Islamic armies continued their push in North Africa.
Umar was a man of many distinctions. A study of his life shows that in many respects he had the unique distinction of being the first or foremost. Hereunder an attempt is made to catalogue the matters in which Umar was the foremost.

...this is a thread that will run along the lines of "dont u just hate it when..."

State ALL the things that bug you and get u all irritated

I'll start

...when the phone rings and you say hello and the other person says hello and then shuts up and wait for u to talk...(I feel like and saying "Talk dammit!!!!!!! who are u and who the hell do you wanna speak to!!!!!!")

....when the WHOLE bus is empty and the person who just got on the bus just HAS to come and sit next to you.....

Salaam

The Asian community does have a lot to be proud of…

As a community we welcome strangers into our home, we never leave guests without feeding them, we have unshakable family values and many are fiercely passionate about our culture.

So why is it that when it comes to the idea of adopting a child/baby all alone in the world, we don’t want to know?

Most of us have been lucky enough to have a mum and dad who we’ve taken for granted.

If someone has been trying for years and is unable to have a baby…is there something wrong with adopting a child?

Salaam

I was listening to a really interesting lecture on this topic.

Muslims are described as being the “best nation”. But would it be correct to say that we live up to this?

1,000 years ago Muslims were in the forefront in every field of knowledge. The students from the West came to Muslim Spain, Sicily, Cairo, and Baghdad to study the sciences.

The Muslims of today are nothing like our intellectual pious predecessors.

In the Mosques people leave free literature. How many of people pick them and read them?

Assalamu alaikum wr wb!

I no dat there is a bullying thread but i thought dis is sommat different.

Hav u eva been accused by sum1???

Been told of sumthin u hardly no bout????

Got the blame 4 no reason watsoever???

Since the 7/7 attack many things hav been happenin especially to the Muslim ummah.

Assalamu Alykum Sisters and Brothers!

Ramadhan is approaching and as i have never fasted i wanted to know if there is any tips that u can all give me?