a sane voice in a mad world

Khilafate Rashida

2011-08-24T20:04:00.000-07:00

I looked at what Hizbut Tahrir is asking for - Khilafa or the Caliphate. Who is opposing it vehemently, and why? One may also ask why they have not asked for restoring Khifate Rashida. Sunni thought has always looked upon Khilafate Rashida (The Rightly Guided Caliphate) as the model to aspire to. Why then this group has not asked Muslims to unite with this aim? In the 1980's I came across a

Satan's deceit

2011-08-18T22:29:00.000-07:00

I see reports of conversions, mostly to Islam, but disturbingly enough, some from Islam to Christianity. A part of these are due to "marriage" of Muslim girls to Christians in the West. It is forbidden, but it does occur. With children, and the pressure of society, some of these girls enter Christianity. What their inner thoughts are, were they really knowledgeable and practicing Muslims before

American Dream or NIghtmare?

2011-06-30T00:00:00.000-07:00

A great essay - long but worth a read and reflection.

some authentic Islamic portals

2010-08-06T08:02:00.000-07:00

some authentic Islamic portals: -----Tanzil.info----- ---SearchTruth.com- ----Allah's_Quran--- ------Corpus_Quran--- ------ReadVerse----- -IslamicFinder

understand Quran links

2010-08-06T07:46:00.000-07:00

Understand Quran links --------------Last_Breadth----------why_understandQuran UnderstandQuran--- MesbahulQuran--------------- 80%--words--Units 80%words_practice QutrubVerbConjugator ------kalemaat------

red marquee: no loop

2010-08-06T06:06:00.000-07:00

useful but exercise caution

2010-08-06T06:00:00.000-07:00

exercise caution in links below

AirBlue plane crash over Margalla in Islamabad

2010-07-28T00:11:00.000-07:00

Inna lillahe wa inna ilehi rajeoon 152 on board. Plane reported leaving Karachi at 7:30 or 7:50 one hour and fifty minutes later, just short of the airport, it has come down. The cable is off. I can only get the news over the net. I often travel by this airline, but the reason of the crash is not the airline, it is bad weather. The Monsoons are here. It has been raining hard and the hills are

Quran: roots, words and explanatory dictionary

2010-07-22T00:51:00.000-07:00

80 % words on blogspot

2010-07-22T00:06:00.000-07:00

why some bodies do not decompose

2010-06-17T01:02:00.000-07:00

Ever wondered about the phenomenon of incorruptibles - the bodies that do not decompose over time, without any embalming or preservation techniques? These are touted as proof of Catholicism's trueness, or of Sufism in Islam. Nothing of the kind. read on >> AdipocereOneRiotYahooAmazonTwitterdel.icio.us From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Adipocere (also known

Murder in the name of false gods

2010-06-15T09:16:00.001-07:00

The latest is in Kyrgyzstan Those worshipping the false god of ethnicity have unleashed a reign of terror which has left more than thousand dead, by eyewitness accounts. More than a 100,000 have taken refuge in neighboring Uzbekistan. That is not the only place where false gods are being worshipped. The US worships the false god of "our way of life", and thinks that entitles it to wage wars

Social History of Muslims

2010-04-21T03:49:00.000-07:00

Questions I have thought about a lot, but am still unable to find enough material to enlighten myself. In early Islamic practice, exploitation of man by man was removed. All were equal in Islam - the ruler as well as the subject. There was no priesthood. Islam did not abolish employer and employee relationships, but it ordained a fair treatment. Yet, down the line: Caliphate turned into Empire,

downloads from kalamullah.com

2010-04-04T03:27:00.000-07:00

kalamullah.com/ is yet another wonderful and authentic site for downloading material (including learning-arabic) or learning the deen. The relevant page for learning Arabic is http://www.kalamullah.com/learning-arabic.html Here you will find many delightful downloads.

Quran made Easy

2010-03-30T23:33:00.000-07:00

Yet another good and free site for Quranic Arabic. Online, and Files are also downloadable. There are some quirks, though. Surah Falaq is spelt Falak here, the shadda is spelt sadda, Jajakallahu is spelt Zajakallahu, and the zeir (kasra) is spelt (jeir). I suspect the website belongs to a Bengali. Some dialects of Bengali have this inversion of the pronunciation.

searchtruth.com

2010-03-21T11:12:00.000-07:00

searchtruth.com is a wonderful authentic site. It has many features: like English/Arabic/English dictionary etc., a list of alphabetically arranged Quran words, when a word is selected, a display of Ayahs appears where that word occurs. One thing I would like is a comprehensive search-able database of roots linked to words in the Quran.

buttons and ribbons

2010-03-20T23:27:00.000-07:00

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8a. 8b. 9. 10. 11. 12a. 12b. Ribbons:

a sane voice's Hajj, 2005

2010-03-18T12:08:00.001-07:00

a sane voice in a mad world - Hajj, 2005

another site for Arabic

2010-03-16T10:52:00.000-07:00

Try this site: http://www.happychild.org.uk/freeway/arabic/index.htm

How to pass time

2010-02-15T22:56:00.000-08:00

A Story Worth ReadingSince last night my young son has been unwell. When I got back from Work this evening I decided to take him to hospital despite my exhaustion. There were many waiting; perhaps we will be delayed by more than an hour. I took my number and sat down in the waiting room. There were many faces, young and old, but all silent. Some brothers made use of the many booklets available

Free Islamic Downloads

2010-02-15T22:46:00.000-08:00

Asim Iqbal is a wonderful person who has taken the trouble to gather free downloads from many sources, and provide these under his sites: http://asimiqbal2nd.downloads.googlepages.com/ http://asimiqbal2nd.wordpress.com/ May Allah (Subhanahu wa Ta`ala) give him plenty jazae kheir for this effort.

Arabic Verb Conjugators

2010-02-15T10:54:00.000-08:00

When learning Arabic, verbs are considered the most difficult. There are two sites that allow one to create conjugation of Arabic verbs from the root letters: The first site is: http://qutrub.arabeyes.org/index#options The free downloadable qutrub software is beta version. I have found some verbs that are in the Quran and textbooks of classical Arabic, but qutrub sometimes gives the message:

Last Breath

2010-02-12T09:54:00.000-08:00

kalamullah.com

2010-02-10T06:49:00.000-08:00

Dr Aafia's case

2010-02-10T06:19:00.000-08:00

If anyone ever thought the US system of justice delivers justice, this case should open his/ her eyes. http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=223448 The truth about US justice Wednesday, February 10, 2010 By Yvonne Ridley Many of us are still in a state of shock over the guilty verdict returned on

The Powerful Testimony of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui

2010-02-10T04:45:00.000-08:00

THE POWERFUL TESTIMONY OF Dr. Aafia Siddiqui As captured by El-Hajj Mauri’ Saalakhan Aafia Siddiqui – a daughter, a sister, a mother of three, committed Muslim, social scientist, hafiz of Qur’an – needed to be heard. For years she had suffered in virtual silence…aching to be heard, to be understood, to have certain malicious untruths corrected and exposed for the lies they were. That day

UQ verb example from ppt

2010-02-05T05:47:00.000-08:00

Mesbahul Quran: مصباح القرأن

2010-01-30T08:14:00.000-08:00

The organisation baitul Quran has more publications than the ones shown on its website: bait-ul-quran.org These are for understanding the Quran without using terminology of Arabic Grammar. The language of teaching is Urdu. There are two main publications: 1. meftahul Quran, which describes the function of various indicators (alamaat) in a word, and how each indicator is used in the Quranic

Allah's Quran and tanzil.info

2010-01-30T06:34:00.000-08:00

Allah's Quran and tanzil.info are two sites that provide the Quran is various Arabic scripts/fonts, translations of the meanings, recitations, searches, etc. Admittedly these are also provided by many other sites, some with a greater variety than in these two sites. However, an attractive feature of these two is search by roots. There is a database of roots on both these sites. By selecting a

The Quran Corpus

2010-01-30T06:05:00.000-08:00

The Quran Corpus is an annotated linguistic resource which shows the Arabic grammar, syntax and morphology for each word in the Holy Quran. Clicking on an Arabic word shows details of the word's grammar, or a correction may be suggested. One of the features is the Quranic Syntactic Treebank. An example is given below: Another example is:

Understand Quran the easy way

2010-01-29T23:08:00.001-08:00

understandquran.com claims to teach most of the Arabic of the Quran (more than 70% words) without using too much grammatical terms, in 52 lessons. Two supporting sites provide practice of the 80% words and are: 80percentwords.blogspot.com/ 80percentwords.com Previous claims were for more than 80% words, hence the names of these two supporting sites. understandquran.com uses modern methods of

more massacre of children by US mercenaries

2010-01-16T23:17:00.001-08:00

Were Afghan Children Executed By US-led Forces?Why Aren't The Media Interested? By Media Lens January 16, 2010 "Media Lens" -- Ignoring or downplaying Western crimes is a standard feature of the corporate Western media. On rare occasions when a broadcaster or newspaper breaks ranks and reports 'our' crimes honestly, it is instructive to observe the response from the rest of the media. Do they