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Volume 2, Book 21, Number 228:

Narrated 'Aisha:

Allah's Apostle used to give up a good deed, although he loved to do it, for fear that people might act on it and it might be made compulsory for them. The Prophet never prayed the Duha prayer, but I offer it.

Not the one I was looking for, but its a start.

i don't understand what's going on. Why have the French gone there? Have the British gone too? what's happening there?

Yes you've heard it right. There are people in this world, who are living right now, who believe that getting their child married to the Quran is the way forward. I'm sure this will spark some discussion because of the recent broadcast on the news, as well as there being a book by the name of 'The Holy Woman'  which talks about this issue. So let's divert our attention here and discuss it here, rather than on the feedback for TheRevivalEditor's first video.

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[color=indigo]As salaatu was salaamu 'alayk Ya Sayyidina Ya RasoolAllah, Wa Ala Aalika Wa Ashabika Ya HabeebAllah! [/color]

*~ Allaahumma Salli 'ala Sayyedina wa Mowlana Muhammadin-nin-Nabiyyil Ummi wa 'ala Aalihi wa Sahbihi wa Barik wa Salim ~*

Rabbi al-Awal Mubarak!

“Say: Because of the (fadl) Blessings of Allah and His (rahma) Mercy you should celebrate (with happiness and pleasure). That is better than what (wealth) they amass.” Surah Yunus, (10:58)

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(I copied and pasted that from an old topic 😉 )

I want to re-read the seerah of the Prophet ﷺ but I also have podcasts on the seerah, so might just use them. I need to increase my salawat too. What else can I do? Leave your suggestions below.

***Of course these things can and should be done outside of this month too.***

For all discussions/arguments re: any of this I'd like to redirect you to this topic http://www.therevival.co.uk/forum/general/9521

About 1,000 Pakistani Shia Muslims are protesting in the southwest for a second day, blocking a main road with the bodies of relatives killed in a bombing to demand the government provide better security. 

The bombings in Quetta on Thursday were the worst in a series of attacks across Pakistan that have killed 120 people. Most of the dead were Shias killed in twin bombings at a billiards hall. Sunni extremists are increasingly targeting members of the beleaguered minority sect.

Shias in Quetta laid about 50 of their dead out in the street yesterday, saying they would not bury them until the government improves security in the area. Young Shia men also set tyres on fire and blocked a road in protest. “We want safety for our all sects and all security measures should be taken for our safety,” said Fida Hussain, a relative of one of the victims. “We will not bury them until the government fulfils all our demands.”

The strike was the worst of three bombings targeting Shia and soldiers in Quetta, capital of the volatile Baluchistan province, and worshippers at a Sunni mosque in the north-west on the same day.

The billiards hall bombing started with a suicide attack, followed by a car bomb.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/shias-refuse-to-bury-blast…

I've seen this being called a genocide. Is it? I think of like thousands of people dying when I hear genocide. But if it is systematic, then I guess it can be called a genocide.

But one thing's for sure killing any innocent is not wrong!

However protesting by not burying is also wrong - it goes against sunnah of burying quickly, and doesn't really help in any way. :S

... For example, this BBC article states, as if shocking, the statistic that a woman is raped in Delhi every 14 hours. That equates to 625 a year. Yet in England and Wales, which has a population about 3.5 times that of Delhi, we find a figure for recorded rapes of women that is proportionately four times larger: 9,509. Similarly, the Wall Street Journal decriesthe fact that in India just over a quarter of alleged rapists are convicted; in the US only 24% of alleged rapes even result in an arrest, never mind a conviction. This is the strange kind of reportage you tend to get on the issue.

Owen Jones's excellent piece in the Independent is a breath of fresh air, asking people to acknowledge that rape, as well as gang rapes, happen in the west too. Similarly, Laura Bates's recent article on victim blaming should act as sufficient retort to anyone who thinks police chief KP Raghuvanshi's advice that women should carry chilli powder to prevent rape is symptomatic of a specifically Indian brand of misogyny.

The coverage of Damini's death strikes a particularly ironic note following recent media controversy over a rape, in Steubenville, Ohio, of a 16-year-old girl – allegedly by members of the high-school football team. The case is that the young woman was dragged, drunk and unresponsive, from party to party, where she was sexually abused. The brutal death of Damini has spurred Indian civil society to its feet, causing protest and unrest, bringing women and men into the streets, vocal in their demands for change. Sonia Gandhi has met the woman's parents. The army and the states of Punjab and Haryana have cancelled new year's celebrations. What happened in the US? In Steubenville, football-crazy townsfolk blamed the victim and it took a blogger – Alexandria Goddard, who is now being sued – and a follow-up article from the New York Times four months after the incident to get nationwide attention for the story.

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I don't really have much to say, but thought I'd make a topic on it what with the Indian girl dying after being gangraped, the Pakistani 9yr old being gang-raped and the whole Savile case. Ignoring the Savile case, people seem to think that sexual abuse isn't a problem in the "civilised" west, but no it's a worldwide problem. A sad, sickening, horrifying problem.

Did anyone see The Independent's front cover a few days ago: https://twitter.com/Independent/status/289499432167301122/photo/1/large

The gossip and backibiting* box

Idea

So you put a money box your living room or something, and everytime someone starts to gossip/backbite you remind them and make them put some money in the box. Not coppers though, cuz despite every penny making a pound, no one really cares about coppers so it wouldn't have the desired effect. The money would be counted as sadaqah. 

It should work in two ways

1) Charity is charity. That's always useful. Also giving to charity is a form of purifying ourselves from our sins

But that doesn't mean you should just carry on backbiting, since you're giving to charity. It doesn't work like that, obviously.

2) Once people keep having to put money in the box, it should be a deterant, no?

Limitations

Will everyone accept the idea? 

Even if the idea is accepted, will it work when implemented:

• Will people accept they are backbiting/gossiping, or make excuses?
• How much would the listener have to listen to also give the money - since it's a sin to listen to as well. Or should both parties just pay?
• Do you ask random guests, who you hardly know, to pariticipate?

"The key of the kaaba shall remain with the family of uthman ibn talha (ra) till the day of judgement" muhammad saw

The Shaykh studied from numerous Shuyookh, however, the one from whom



he learnt the most through question-and-answer sessions was Shaykh 'Abd



al-'Azeez ibn 'Abdullah ibn Baaz (may Allah have mercy on him). He gives



lectures on Wednesdays and monthly classes in Riyadh and Jeddah. He



also has two programs on the al-Quran al-Kareem TV channel: Bayna



an-Nabi salla Allahu 'alahi wa sallam wa Ashaabihi (Between the Prophet



(blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) and his Companions). Shaykh



Salih al-Munajjid set up the Islam Q&A website (www.islamqa.com) in



1996 CE and has continued running it until now. He is also the



supervisor of the Islam Web Site (www.islam.ws) which includes eight



sites. He is also the supervisor of the Zad Group, which is involved in



Islamic education and da 'wah, with activities in the fields of mobile



phones, telecoms, production, broadcasting, TV and publishing.