My websiteS.

Assalamu Alaykum.

O know i havnt been posting up here much lately. Yeah well i've been buzz-zz--zzy!'


Anyway i just want to post up my website and forum addresses.

I along with some others recently made up a forum, actually about 4 days ago. So yup, looking for members, InshaAllah.

The Voice Of Islam

The website- Y-W-M-A

HOPE THAT INSHA'ALLAH THESE ARE OF BENEFIT.

My Friends, I care

This is for you my dear true friends.

This is Just to let you know i care...
even though, i hardly joke and chat
I still care...
I may be quiet and abrupt
But i still care...
I may not respond
But i still care...
Be it in a particular way
I still care...
I may disagree vehemently with you
But i still care...
I may be angry and upset
But i still care...
Be it with you or someone else
I still care...
I may not be the type of friend you want at that time
But i still care...
I may be uncaring to a particular matter
But i still care...
for you
i still care...
Even though i am not always there
I still care...
I still love..
My friends you are but few
I care and i love
I dont show it
But inside
I still care...

This is for you Tasneem, Bilqees, Humaira, Zakia and Naseema

"Death" Hawk Moth

An adult hawkmoth (Manduca sexta) with its 4 inch (10 cm) proboscis fully extended. Note the 6 orange spots on the moth's abdomen. A related species (M. quinquemaculata) has 5 orange spots.

Rapist's, Racist's, Slaughtering Bloody Israeli's

The office at the Adiv fabric-printing shop in south Tel Aviv handles a constant stream of customers, many of them soldiers in uniform, who come to order custom clothing featuring their unit's insignia, usually accompanied by a slogan and drawing of their choosing. Elsewhere on the premises, the sketches are turned into plates used for imprinting the ordered items, mainly T-shirts and baseball caps, but also hoodies, fleece jackets and pants. A young Arab man from Jaffa supervises the workers who imprint the words and pictures, and afterward hands over the finished product.

Dead babies, mothers weeping on their children's graves, a gun aimed at a child and bombed-out mosques - these are a few examples of the images Israel Defense Forces soldiers design these days to print on shirts they order to mark the end of training, or of field duty. The slogans accompanying the drawings are not exactly anemic either: A T-shirt for infantry snipers bears the inscription "Better use Durex," next to a picture of a dead Palestinian baby, with his weeping mother and a teddy bear beside him. A sharpshooter's T-shirt from the Givati Brigade's Shaked battalion shows a pregnant Palestinian woman with a bull's-eye superimposed on her belly, with the slogan, in English, "1 shot, 2 kills." A "graduation" shirt for those who have completed another snipers course depicts a Palestinian baby, who grows into a combative boy and then an armed adult, with the inscription, "No matter how it begins, we'll put an end to it."

There are also plenty of shirts with blatant sexual messages. For example, the Lavi battalion produced a shirt featuring a drawing of a soldier next to a young woman with bruises, and the slogan, "Bet you got raped!" A few of the images underscore actions whose existence the army officially denies - such as "confirming the kill" (shooting a bullet into an enemy victim's head from close range, to ensure he is dead), or harming religious sites, or female or child non-combatants.

In many cases, the content is submitted for approval to one of the unit's commanders. The latter, however, do not always have control over what gets printed, because the artwork is a private initiative of soldiers that they never hear about. Drawings or slogans previously banned in certain units have been approved for distribution elsewhere. For example, shirts declaring, "We won't chill 'til we confirm the kill" were banned in the past (the IDF claims that the practice doesn't exist), yet the Haruv battalion printed some last year.

The slogan "Let every Arab mother know that her son's fate is in my hands!" had previously been banned for use on another infantry unit's shirt. A Givati soldier said this week, however, that at the end of last year, his platoon printed up dozens of shirts, fleece jackets and pants bearing this slogan.

"It has a drawing depicting a soldier as the Angel of Death, next to a gun and an Arab town," he explains. "The text was very powerful. The funniest part was that when our soldier came to get the shirts, the man who printed them was an Arab, and the soldier felt so bad that he told the girl at the counter to bring them to him."

Does the design go to the commanders for approval?

The Givati soldier: "Usually the shirts undergo a selection process by some officer, but in this case, they were approved at the level of platoon sergeant. We ordered shirts for 30 soldiers and they were really into it, and everyone wanted several items and paid NIS 200 on average."

What do you think of the slogan that was printed?

"I didn't like it so much, but most of the soldiers wanted it."

Many controversial shirts have been ordered by graduates of snipers courses, which bring together soldiers from various units. In 2006, soldiers from the "Carmon Team" course for elite-unit marksmen printed a shirt with a drawing of a knife-wielding Palestinian in the crosshairs of a gun sight, and the slogan, "You've got to run fast, run fast, run fast, before it's all over." Below is a drawing of Arab women weeping over a grave and the words: "And afterward they cry, and afterward they cry." [The inscriptions are riffs on a popular song.] Another sniper's shirt also features an Arab man in the crosshairs, and the announcement, "Everything is with the best of intentions."

G., a soldier in an elite unit who has done a snipers course, explained that, "it's a type of bonding process, and also it's well known that anyone who is a sniper is messed up in the head. Our shirts have a lot of double entendres, for example: 'Bad people with good aims.' Every group that finishes a course puts out stuff like that."

When are these shirts worn?

G. "These are shirts for around the house, for jogging, in the army. Not for going out. Sometimes people will ask you what it's about."

Of the shirt depicting a bull's-eye on a pregnant woman, he said: "There are people who think it's not right, and I think so as well, but it doesn't really mean anything. I mean it's not like someone is gonna go and shoot a pregnant woman."

What is the idea behind the shirt from July 2007, which has an image of a child with the slogan "Smaller - harder!"?

"It's a kid, so you've got a little more of a problem, morally, and also the target is smaller."

Do your superiors approve the shirts before printing?

"Yes, although one time they rejected some shirt that was too extreme. I don't remember what was on it."

These shirts also seem pretty extreme. Why draw crosshairs over a child - do you shoot kids?

'We came, we saw'

"As a sniper, you get a lot of extreme situations. You suddenly see a small boy who picks up a weapon and it's up to you to decide whether to shoot. These shirts are half-facetious, bordering on the truth, and they reflect the extreme situations you might encounter. The one who-honest-to-God sees the target with his own eyes - that's the sniper."

Have you encountered a situation like that?

"Fortunately, not involving a kid, but involving a woman - yes. There was someone who wasn't holding a weapon, but she was near a prohibited area and could have posed a threat."

What did you do?

"I didn't take it" (i.e., shoot).

You don't regret that, I imagine.

"No. Whomever I had to shoot, I shot."

A shirt printed up just this week for soldiers of the Lavi battalion, who spent three years in the West Bank, reads: "We came, we saw, we destroyed!" - alongside images of weapons, an angry soldier and a Palestinian village with a ruined mosque in the center.

A shirt printed after Operation Cast Lead in Gaza for Battalion 890 of the Paratroops depicts a King Kong-like soldier in a city under attack. The slogan is unambiguous: "If you believe it can be fixed, then believe it can be destroyed!"

Y., a soldier/yeshiva student, designed the shirt. "You take whoever [in the unit] knows how to draw and then you give it to the commanders before printing," he explained.

What is the soldier holding in his hand?

Y. "A mosque. Before I drew the shirt I had some misgivings, because I wanted it to be like King Kong, but not too monstrous. The one holding the mosque - I wanted him to have a more normal-looking face, so it wouldn't look like an anti-Semitic cartoon. Some of the people who saw it told me, 'Is that what you've got to show for the IDF? That it destroys homes?' I can understand people who look at this from outside and see it that way, but I was in Gaza and they kept emphasizing that the object of the operation was to wreak destruction on the infrastructure, so that the price the Palestinians and the leadership pay will make them realize that it isn't worth it for them to go on shooting. So that's the idea of 'we're coming to destroy' in the drawing."

According to Y., most of these shirts are worn strictly in an army context, not in civilian life. "And within the army people look at it differently," he added. "I don't think I would walk down the street in this shirt, because it would draw fire. Even at my yeshiva I don't think people would like it."

Y. also came up with a design for the shirt his unit printed at the end of basic training. It shows a clenched fist shattering the symbol of the Paratroops Corps.

Where does the fist come from?

"It's reminiscent of [Rabbi Meir] Kahane's symbol. I borrowed it from an emblem for something in Russia, but basically it's supposed to look like Kahane's symbol, the one from 'Kahane Was Right' - it's a sort of joke. Our company commander is kind of gung-ho."

Was the shirt printed?

"Yes. It was a company shirt. We printed about 100 like that."

This past January, the "Night Predators" demolitions platoon from Golani's Battalion 13 ordered a T-shirt showing a Golani devil detonating a charge that destroys a mosque. An inscription above it says, "Only God forgives."

One of the soldiers in the platoon downplays it: "It doesn't mean much, it's just a T-shirt from our platoon. It's not a big deal. A friend of mine drew a picture and we made it into a shirt."

What's the idea behind "Only God forgives"?

The soldier: "It's just a saying."

No one had a problem with the fact that a mosque gets blown up in the picture?

"I don't see what you're getting at. I don't like the way you're going with this. Don't take this somewhere you're not supposed to, as though we hate Arabs."

After Operation Cast Lead, soldiers from that battalion printed a T-shirt depicting a vulture sexually penetrating Hamas' prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh, accompanied by a particularly graphic slogan. S., a soldier in the platoon that ordered the shirt, said the idea came from a similar shirt, printed after the Second Lebanon War, that featured Hassan Nasrallah instead of Haniyeh.

"They don't okay things like that at the company level. It's a shirt we put out just for the platoon," S. explained.

What's the problem with this shirt?

S.: "It bothers some people to see these things, from a religious standpoint ..."

How did people who saw it respond?

"We don't have that many Orthodox people in the platoon, so it wasn't a problem. It's just something the guys want to put out. It's more for wearing around the house, and not within the companies, because it bothers people. The Orthodox mainly. The officers tell us it's best not to wear shirts like this on the base."

The sketches printed in recent years at the Adiv factory, one of the largest of its kind in the country, are arranged in drawers according to the names of the units placing the orders: Paratroops, Golani, air force, sharpshooters and so on. Each drawer contains hundreds of drawings, filed by year. Many of the prints are cartoons and slogans relating to life in the unit, or inside jokes that outsiders wouldn't get (and might not care to, either), but a handful reflect particular aggressiveness, violence and vulgarity.

Print-shop manager Haim Yisrael, who has worked there since the early 1980s, said Adiv prints around 1,000 different patterns each month, with soldiers accounting for about half. Yisrael recalled that when he started out, there were hardly any orders from the army.

"The first ones to do it were from the Nahal brigade," he said. "Later on other infantry units started printing up shirts, and nowadays any course with 15 participants prints up shirts."

From time to time, officers complain. "Sometimes the soldiers do things that are inside jokes that only they get, and sometimes they do something foolish that they take to an extreme," Yisrael explained. "There have been a few times when commanding officers called and said, 'How can you print things like that for soldiers?' For example, with shirts that trashed the Arabs too much. I told them it's a private company, and I'm not interested in the content. I can print whatever I like. We're neutral. There have always been some more extreme and some less so. It's just that now more people are making shirts."

Race to be unique

Evyatar Ben-Tzedef, a research associate at the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism and former editor of the IDF publication Maarachot, said the phenomenon of custom-made T-shirts is a product of "the infantry's insane race to be unique. I, for example, had only one shirt that I received after the Yom Kippur War. It said on it, 'The School for Officers,' and that was it. What happened since then is a product of the decision to assign every unit an emblem and a beret. After all, there used to be very few berets: black, red or green. This changed in the 1990s. [The shirts] developed because of the fact that for bonding purposes, each unit created something that was unique to it.

"These days the content on shirts is sometimes deplorable," Ben-Tzedef explained. "It stems from the fact that profanity is very acceptable and normative in Israel, and that there is a lack of respect for human beings and their environment, which includes racism aimed in every direction."

Yossi Kaufman, who moderates the army and defense forum on the Web site Fresh, served in the Armored Corps from 1996 to 1999. "I also drew shirts, and I remember the first one," he said. "It had a small emblem on the front and some inside joke, like, 'When we die, we'll go to heaven, because we've already been through hell.'"

Kaufman has also been exposed to T-shirts of the sort described here. "I know there are shirts like these," he says. "I've heard and also seen a little. These are not shirts that soldiers can wear in civilian life, because they would get stoned, nor at a battalion get-together, because the battalion commander would be pissed off. They wear them on very rare occasions. There's all sorts of black humor stuff, mainly from snipers, such as, 'Don't bother running because you'll die tired' - with a drawing of a Palestinian boy, not a terrorist. There's a Golani or Givati shirt of a soldier raping a girl, and underneath it says, 'No virgins, no terror attacks.' I laughed, but it was pretty awful. When I was asked once to draw things like that, I said it wasn't appropriate."

The IDF Spokesman's Office comments on the phenomenon: "Military regulations do not apply to civilian clothing, including shirts produced at the end of basic training and various courses. The designs are printed at the soldiers' private initiative, and on civilian shirts. The examples raised by Haaretz are not in keeping with the values of the IDF spirit, not representative of IDF life, and are in poor taste. Humor of this kind deserves every condemnation and excoriation. The IDF intends to take action for the immediate eradication of this phenomenon. To this end, it is emphasizing to commanding officers that it is appropriate, among other things, to take discretionary and disciplinary measures against those involved in acts of this sort."

Shlomo Tzipori, a lieutenant colonel in the reserves and a lawyer specializing in martial law, said the army does bring soldiers up on charges for offenses that occur outside the base and during their free time. According to Tzipori, slogans that constitute an "insult to the army or to those in uniform" are grounds for court-martial, on charges of "shameful conduct" or "disciplinary infraction," which are general clauses in judicial martial law.

Sociologist Dr. Orna Sasson-Levy, of Bar-Ilan University, author of "Identities in Uniform: Masculinities and Femininities in the Israeli Military," said that the phenomenon is "part of a radicalization process the entire country is undergoing, and the soldiers are at its forefront. I think that ever since the second intifada there has been a continual shift to the right. The pullout from Gaza and its outcome - the calm that never arrived - led to a further shift rightward.

"This tendency is most strikingly evident among soldiers who encounter various situations in the territories on a daily basis. There is less meticulousness than in the past, and increasing callousness. There is a perception that the Palestinian is not a person, a human being entitled to basic rights, and therefore anything may be done to him."

Could the printing of clothing be viewed also as a means of venting aggression?

Sasson-Levy: "No. I think it strengthens and stimulates aggression and legitimizes it. What disturbs me is that a shirt is something that has permanence. The soldiers later wear it in civilian life; their girlfriends wear it afterward. It is not a statement, but rather something physical that remains, that is out there in the world. Beyond that, I think the link made between sexist views and nationalist views, as in the 'Screw Haniyeh' shirt, is interesting. National chauvinism and gender chauvinism combine and strengthen one another. It establishes a masculinity shaped by violent aggression toward women and Arabs; a masculinity that considers it legitimate to speak in a crude and violent manner toward women and Arabs."

Col. (res.) Ron Levy began his military service in the Sayeret Matkal elite commando force before the Six-Day War. He was the IDF's chief psychologist, and headed the army's mental health department in the 1980s.

Levy: "I'm familiar with things of this sort going back 40, 50 years, and each time they take a different form. Psychologically speaking, this is one of the ways in which soldiers project their anger, frustration and violence. It is a certain expression of things, which I call 'below the belt.'"

Do you think this a good way to vent anger?

Levy: "It's safe. But there are also things here that deviate from the norm, and you could say that whoever is creating these things has reached some level of normality. He gives expression to the fact that what is considered abnormal today might no longer be so tomorrow."

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I mean it's not like someone is gonna go and shoot a pregnant woman."

oh yeah? >:-( what crap.

Daddy Can you give me 10$ ?

A man came home from work late, tired and irritated, to find his 5 year old son waiting for him at the door.
"Daddy, may I ask you a question?"
"Yeah, sure, what is it?" replied the man.
"Daddy, how much money do you make an hour?"
"That's none of your business! What makes you ask such a thing?" the man said angrily.
"I just want to know. Please tell me, how much do you make an hour?" pleaded the little boy.
"If you must know, I make $20.00 an hour."
"Oh, " the little boy replied, head bowed. Looking up, he said, "Daddy, may I borrow $10.00 please?"
The father was furious. "If the only reason you want to know how much money I make is just so you can borrow some to buy a silly toy or some other nonsense, then you march yourself straight to your room and go to bed. Think about why you're being so selfish. I work long, hard hours everyday and don't have time for such childish games."
The little boy quietly went to his room and shut the door. The man sat down and started to get even madder about the little boy's questioning. How dare he ask such questions only to get some money. After an hour or so , the man had calmed down, and started to think he may have been a little hard on his son. May be there was something he really needed to buy with that $10.00 and he really didn't ask for money very often. The man went to the door of the little boy's room and opened the door. "Are you asleep son?" he asked.
"No daddy, I'm awake," replied the boy.
"I've been thinking, maybe I was too hard on you earlier," said the man. "It's been a long day and I took my aggravation out on you. Here's that $10.00 you asked for."
The little boy sat straight up, beaming. "Oh, thank you daddy!" he yelled. Then, reaching under his pillow, he pulled out some more crumpled up bills. The man, seeing that the boy already had money, started to get angry again. The little boy slowly counted out his money, then looked up at the man.
"Why did you want more money if you already had some?" the father grumbled.
"Because I didn't have enough, but now I do," the little boy replied. "Daddy, I have $20.00 now... Can I buy an hour of your time?"

A Strong Woman vs A Woman of Strength

A strong woman works out every day to
keep her body in shape ...
but a woman of strength kneels in prayer to keep
her soul in shape.

A strong woman isn't afraid of anything...
but a woman of strength shows courage in the midst of her fear of ALLAH.

A strong woman won't let anyone get the best of her...
but a woman of strength
gives the best of her own to everyone.

A strong woman makes mistakes and
avoids the same in the future...
but a woman of strength realizes life's
mistakes can also be Allah's
blessings and capitalizes on them.

A strong woman walks sure footedly...
but a woman of strength knows Allah will
catch her when she falls.

A strong woman wears the look of confidence on her face...
but a woman of strength wears grace.

A strong woman has
faith that she is strong enough for the journey...
but a woman of strength
has faith that it is in the journey that she
will become strong

ANIMAL VOICE - DEC. 2007 ISSUE

Tribute an African Wild Dog

The Devoted Nanny

Marlice van Vuuren runs a
wildlife rehabilitation centre on her
farm near Windhoek in Namibia. It
is called Nla'ankuse which, in
Bushman language, means "God is
watching over us".

In early October 2007, she received a telephone call from one of the beef farmers in an area some 700km north of Nla'ankuse. He said a pack of African wild dogs had come onto his farm, that they had already killed 24 of his cattle and that he had managed to shoot 7 of them. The farmer said he felt sure the pack had a den somewhere and that there were probably pups in the den.

About a week later, Marlice received a second call. This time the farmer told her he had found the den, that he had managed to smoke out three pups and the 'nanny' wild dog in whose care the pups had been left. He had trapped them in a cage as they emerged from the entrance of their den. Marlice jumped into her jeep and traveled the 700km to the site of the den where she found three more pups still inside. She brought all six together with their nanny back to Nla'ankuse. "The pups were tiny," said Marlice, 'not more than a month old." People who have studied wild dogs, know that the pack always leaves an older member behind to
look after the pups when they go off hunting. The pack then comes back from the hunt and regurgitates food for the pups and 'nanny'.

This time, however, no member of the pack had returned from the hunt. They had been killed by the beef farmer. Marlice said it was clear that they hadn't eaten for a week. Marlice also said that the nanny was in a very emaciated condition and she estimated that she was probably about 15 years old. 'Her teeth were completely worn down," she said. Marlice and husband Rudi placed the wild dog nanny and the pups in an enclosure at Nla'ankuse and with food and water, they immediately began to gain condition, although the nanny was old and remained
emaciated. Then, two weeks later, said Marlice, "one of our workers left the gate open and without us knowing, the nanny ran off, taking all six of the babies with her."
Immediately, the Nla'ankuse trackers formed a search party. "Our trackers saw that the nanny and the pups were heading north, back towards the site of the den 700km away. She was busy
returning the pups to their mother," explained Marlice. From the spoor, Marlice and the trackers could see that the nanny was carrying the pups in turns along the way. "We tracked them for kilometre after kilometre and then the rain came and wiped out every trace. The next
day, the search party set out again. "On the third day, we found the tracks and once again we felt we were getting close. The nanny had covered 100km in three days, carrying the pups in turn. Then again that night it rained and we lost every trace of them. Eventually, we realised that we had lost them and all I could do was alert the farmers in the district to watch out for them and call us if they were spotted."

Three days later, Marlice was awakened at 2am by the yelps of baby wild dogs. She woke Rudi and together they went outside with a spotlight. What they found brought them both to tears. The nanny had brought all six of her charges safely back into the enclosure at Nla'ankuse. Her emaciated body lay at the entrance of the enclosure.
She was dead.
'I believe that she realized that she was not going to make the 700km journey back to the den," says Marlice. "So she turned around and brought them back to a place
of safety where she knew they would be fed and cared for."

This issue ot Animal Voice is dedicated to Nanny African Wild Dog whose devotion, self-sacrifice
and immense wisdom humbles every one of us who hears this story. And we honour Marlice and Rudl van Vuuren and the trackers and caring people at Nla'ankure for providing a safe haven for so many vlctims of the meat farming business. After rehabilitation, most of the wild animals at Nla'ankuse are expertly reintroduced back into the wild.

Contact details for Nla'ankuse are:
website: www.ecotourism-namiBia.com
www.volunteersnami bia.com

emall: naankuselodge@iway.n a

*MUJAAHIDA* IN PALESTINE

PICTURES OF MUJAAHIDA IN PALESTINE.
SUBHANALLAH, LOOK AT THE WOMEN, WHO ARE DRIVEN INTO FIGHTING FOR THEIR LIVES, HONOUR, FAMILY AND COUNTRY

FALLUJAH

FALLUJAH

Attack, O Lions of Fallujah,
Destroy for me a crooked head.

My cavalry long ago bowed,
In humiliation, with their gnashed bellies.

Strike the Invaders of Iraaq,
For their proofs have become exposed.

Raise your head, O brave hero,
For my split forehead is bleeding.

Your sons taught my sons,
By the whizzing of bullets singing.

Teach me, so that i become a man,
Fighting the disbelievers and infidels.

Fallujah become a hope for me,
A sister for distressed Jenin.

Never fear an invader,
Their bravest men fear chickens.

Sons of Mu'aadh and al-Qa'qaa,
The shine of Dawn has appeared.

Sons of Iraaq, do not lose hope,
Be firm, sons of al-Oojah
For the steeds of Allah have forth,
In the morning, for glowing honour.

Fallujah- The Nasheed

Beautiful Turkey Masjid

"Sabanci Merkez Cami" in Adana.

Credit:

Photo taken by: Güven

DON'T QUIT

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,

When the road you are trudging seems uphill,

When the funds are low and the debts are high

When u want to smile but you have to sigh

When care is pressing you down a bit

Rest if you can, but don't quit.

Life is queer with its twists and turns

As everyone of us sometimes learns

And many a failure turns about

When you could have won had you stuck it out

Don't give up when the pace seems slow

You may succeed with another blow.

Success is failure turned inside out

THe silver lines of the clouds of doubt

And you can never tell how close you are

It may be near when it seems so far

So stick to the fight when you are hardest hit,

Its when things seem worse

That you must not quit.

Yesterday is history

Tomorrow is a mystery

Today is a gift

And that is why it's called The Present!

You can complain that roses have thorns..

Or you can rejoice that thorns have roses!

Written by: Taz and Humz

"Life"

Peeping down memory lane

Tears began to flow

As things would never be the same

Yes! Life was indeed calm and slow.

With time, as life began to get fast

Our pious elders were treated as social outcasts

Our youth are all lost

And none can pay the cost..

If men does not begin to rethink

This world is bound to sink

Life come and life goes

But our Creator is the only one who Knows

When our final sound shall be hailed

And the non-believers will realize they have failed

And it will indeed be too late

to change

So remain on the straight path

And you will indeed be saved

from your Creator's Wrath

After all, life is a gift unto thee

And a trust it will always be.

Written by my friend:Taz

Where are You?

Youth, a branch of sheer madness once realized brings total sadness Are tomorrow's family breadwinners but today's individual sinners.


By the west we have been brainwshed into doing all types of wrong Yes! That west that feels untouched And over it, they sing a song.

We have unfortunatley been led Into all types of evil and vices thus leading the world into a state of crises And sadly not a tear is being shed.


It is about time we stand up for our rights and by it we shall reach great heights Oh yes! It is the west we shall fight to get them out of our sight.

So those of you, Who are fortunate to be in this institution though you may be few should express abundant appreciation together with earnest supplication We shall save our declining generation.

This poem was written by my friend: Taz

Marriage

This is an article i wrote about marriage in my other blog.

Thoughts put into words more like...

Today in this world where divorce is becoming more and more common, free mixing of the sexes is the norm and dating is part of daily life, a practising Muslim interested in marriage may find herself/himself in a confusing situation.

We wonder if we will find someone trustworthy and honest, someone who hasn’t fallen prey to the fitnah of the intermingling of todays youth.

The first thing we look for is character, is it not? Or is it looks? Like if he/she passes in looks then go on into character, or vice versa. Nonetheless, both are important, so to carry on.
Most of us tend to want someone moreorless from the same background as we are, for fear of, either cultural clashes or different lifestyles, kind of the same difference. However i do note that some people do not mind the cultural/background differences and have lived happy lives, Alhamdulillah.

We want to have a home were we will be happy and comfortable and what makes part (the vital part, if i may say so) of this home is the kind of people we will be marrying into. It is not only the man/woman we are marrying, it is the family as well, perhaps this goes more from the woman than the man, but either way we will be having contact with our partners family as well and maybe even living with them. Women look for pious men. Men who are able to provide for them. They look for men who will understand them and who will be tolerant. Men look for women with haya (modesty). They look for women with piety. They look for women who will be able to manage their homes. Both look for partners who haven’t been involved in an unlawful relationships before, don’t mix freely with the opposite sex and good character.

I’m sure it has crossed many a time to more a person than myself, that just how are we going to find the right partner? And in this world full of deception and lies how are we going to know if what the person tells us is true, especially if we don’t really know the family? True we can check what he/she says with people he/she knows and we know. But then people have lied before. That is not to say that this is always the case, but it has happened.

Life is no joke, neither is marriage and its not something to be taken lightly either. Marriage is a big step in life, a step that will take you either into misery or happiness. A step that will change your life. Are we ready for this step? Do we women really understand what married life is all about? Surely, we know its not all bliss and happiness. While happines and a successful marriage is every Muslims Dua, all marriages have their ups and downs. We have to learn to deal with them correctly and make sabr.

There’s the house work first of all. No matter what we have become and what titles we may have to our names, a woman always has her housework. Do we know exactly how to go about it? Ironing- do we iron at home? Washing? Even if it is operating the machine or hanging the washing on the line? Cooking, can we cook a few pots of edble food? Patience- ah yes- patience/sabr, do we have this? Patience i think is VITAL in marriage for either partner. Do we have what it takes to run a home?
Seriously, i’m not being a sceptic or finding faults with everything. Do we understand marriage? Of course we want love and happiness but this doesn’t just come, it has to grow. And how will it grow? By both partners working together and becoming accustomed to the new life together, sharing and sacrificing. Look at the amount of marriages breaking up before our eyes. Our own friends. Why? Most often because of small issues that blow up. A girl newly married sometimes expects to have in her own house every thing she had in her parents. What we don’t realize is, that when our fathers and mothers started out, they too started small and the with time through the Qudrat and Mercy of Allah Ta’aala they got more and more, and so did we. Now we as young women starting out, can’t expect have everything. Some of us are not able to manage because of this and it can sometimes be how problems start. We must remember that adapting to the new life is going to be a change, maybe even hard. But that can only be determined how we look at it and react to it. Another factor as to why marriages are breaking is the tolerance partners have for one another. Often when one blows the other blows and a row starts. Not good. One has to keep their mind and make sabr. There will be things we cannot understand of our new partners, there will be things we dislike our partners doing. There may be habits that irritate us. I’m sure that partners will avoid things that their partner dislikes. But it takes time, maybe even years to stop certain habits. Look at our parents, surely there still argue and have differences over certain things? But Alhamdulillah they are still together and have managed to sacrifice and tolerate one another till now.

So all in all, we want good Muslim partners, partners who will help us get closer to Allah Ta’aala. Partners who will make us comfortable and help make a good home. And partners we can trust. So long as our partners are Allah loving, Allah fearing and and have good character, Insha’Allah with the mercy and power of Allah Ta’aala our marriages will work out. But we too have to make an effort and sacrifice. All in all it is only Allah who can give us the right partner and Dua is a powerful tool. Never give up making Dua, ever.

I know i am young and not even married, but this is what i have come to understand from what i’ve seen around me. Please feel free to give any advice, balanced criticism, reminders or something you think will help todays youth.

Hasty - Delay

Dont be hasty- but dont delay either;)

WHEN WILL WE WAKE UP

When will we Wake Up?

We are sleeping, we are sleeping.
Letting life and its goals go by with time
Each important time and moment slipping by as we go on dreaming
Or life, or aims, our purpose in the Dunya
How much have we fulfilled?

Yet in a trance we keep on plodding and plodding
Giving in to whims fancies and desires,
Do we not realize soon will be reckoning?
How then are we to answer to Our Lord?

The fire of hell, there, burning and raging
Now is the time to avert from the punishment
We cannot wake up then, for its too late
We need to wake up now and realize reality-stop dreaming

This life, but a passing of a flash
Yet we cling to it, singing and crying-
Depending the reason, not realizing that
This life's pleasures and trials are fading
Even now, We have to wake up
Shake the cobwebs from our minds'
And start LIVING.

This is my first poem.
Full of errors and plain...
More to follow!
As i learn and go..

Picture of a Muslim Girl

Picture of A Muslim Girl

There she sits in utter silence,
Here only in body-
Head and heart in Allah Ta'aala's presence
Surrendering soley.
This is a picture of a Muslim Girl,
She keeps Islam safe in this world.

In her hands, the heart of the Qur'aan-
Yaseen Shareef her companion and savior
Helping her shine in the eyes of Allah Ta'aala
And shielding her from shaytaan forever.
This is a picture of a Muslim Girl,
She values Allah Ta'aala's immeasurable worth.

Lowering her gaze in shame,
Never raisning her voice to innocent ears-
She shies away from worldly fame,
For Jahannum is her worste fear.
This is a Picture of a Muslim Girl,
Guarding her Modesty like pearl

She awakes at sehri intending
To fast and burn away sin,
Her place in Jannah she is defending
and falling not into temptation.
This is a Picture of a Muslim Girl,
Preparing for the Hereafter in this world.

By Quraisha Daya

Leopard VS Corocodile

Assalamu Alaykum
I know i said poems are following but havnt the time to type out one let alone think one.

This is an amazing occurrence!

The astonishing spectacle of a leopard savaging a crocodile has been captured for the first time on camera.




A series of incredible pictures taken at a South African game reserve document the first known time that a leopard has taken on and defeated one of the fearsome reptiles.



The photographs were taken by Hal Brindley, an American wildlife photographer, who was supposed to be taking pictures of hippos from his car in the Kruger National Park.



The giant cat raced out of cover provided by scrub and bushes to surprise the crocodile, which was swimming nearby.

A terrible and bloody struggle ensued. Eventually, onlookers were amazed to see the leopard drag the crocodile from the water as the reptile fought back.



With the crocodile snapping its powerful jaws furiously, the two animals somersaulted and grappled. Despite the crocodile's huge weight and strength, the leopard had the upper hand catching its prey by the throat.



Eventually the big cat was able to sit on top of the reptile and suffocate it.

In the past, there have been reports of crocodiles killing leopards, but this is believed to the first time that the reverse scenario has been observed.
Mr Brindley said: 'I asked many rangers in South Africa if they had ever heard of anything like this and they all said no.



'It just doesn't make sense. The meat you get out of a crocodile is just not worth the risk it takes a predator to acquire. The whole scene happened in the course of about 5 minutes. Then the leopard was gone.



'I drove away, elated in disbelief. It may have been the most amazing thing I've ever seen.'



Ellie Rose, a reptile keeper at London Zoo, said: 'Normally, crocodiles are well able to defend themselves against attack. I can't think of any examples of this happening before.'

Beautiful Scenery

Some poems coming up next, InshaAllah

Beautiful Scenery

Some beautiful pictures of this Earth that Allah Ta'aala has given us.

Nazams- English and other languages

Assalmu'alaykum

Some more English naats (songs more like it)
It has no music ot musical instruments but some of it sounds quite abit like it does, for which reason i hardly listen.
There are some which are nice tho.

One

Two

Three

Four

Five

Six

Seven

Eight

Arabic Nasheeds

Arabic Nasheeds

Some contain English and other African Languages

Assubuhu

Ya Allahu Ya Allah

Alhamdulillahi

In The Land

Urdu Naats

Urdu-

Urdu .1

Urdu .2

Urdu .3

"Beating"

''..~*♥*~.."

Beating, beating. . .

Listen to the subtle silence

Drawing you in with buried thoughts from buried dreams

Suddenly the thunderous roar erupts from witthin,

Beating, beating. . .

Unheard, filling the room,

It's there seeming eternal- never ceasing

Like clockwork, ticking, until time runs out

For everything living must see Death

Even the beating. . . beating will die. . .

. . . rushed back into reality too soon-

the beating labours on effortlessly

A perfect creation of Allah Ta'aala- Never misses a beat

Beating. . . beating,

Nourishing my every nerve like water

Streaming through my fingers

Dependent on a fist of life,

Spreading red, needed warmth like fire,

Yet life fleets past, without one giving-

A grateful glance at the Giver of life- and the beating

of a silent Heart.

''..~*♥*~.."

By-♦ Quraish Daya Ayob

"Dear Youth"

~~~~~~

"Raise your hands in Dua, fellow youth,

Bow your heads in humilty.

Gain the knowledge to conquer kingdoms

And feel the power of Allah Ta'aala's bounty

~~~~~~

HE has given you the gift of youth,

Of vibrance and exhuberance unrelenting.

Prostrate before Him in Salaah,

Submit to Islam unashamedly

~~~~~~

Stand tall, each the brother of the next

In harmonious agreement that Allah is one.

When bullets are aimed at you,

Be the wall that reflects them back

~~~~~~

Youth of Islam, be loud in truth

And never silent in persecution

In your hearts, carry the Qur'aan Shareef-

Never forget, Allah Ta'aala is your solution

~~~~~~

Always protect this Divine religion,

You would not be if He did not desire.

Be the flame that lingers, dear youth

Gather strength from Islam to Build empires"

~~~~~~

By~ Quraish Daya Ayob

~Just be Good~

You dont have to be a great person

Just be good and do good

-On Top Of The World-

If Your Imaan is intact

You have a roof over your head

And you have food...

You should be on Top of the World

A New Blog with Better Produce

Assalamu'Alaykum

After my last Blog, which i deleted nearly all posts because i didnt think it what i wanted about a blog, here is another attempt at a better one.

On this one i hope to have various Nasheeds, Poems, Lectures, Animal Facts, Pictures (Animal + Scenery), and other iteresting stuff.

If you want to contribute a poem, nasheed, etc please e-mail: sparkster009@gmail.com
with the name you want for crediting.

I present to you The Media Den for a time of enjoyment and enlightment.

Wassalam.