No this post is not about Barack Obama (sorry Obamanation, you’ll have to go elsewhere to get your fill). What it is about is a lecture that I had the fortune of attending roughly three years ago. At the time, I was an officer in the MSA helping organize an Islam Awareness Week and the [...]
Archive for April, 2008
The Audacity of Hope
Posted in Beneficial Articles, Lecture Notes, Random Thoughts on April 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Sentencing Hearing for Ali Asad Chandia
Posted in Current Affairs/Civic Activism on April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ali Asad Chandia will be back in District Court on April 25 in his continued quest for justice following his conviction in 2006 on charges of conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. The popular third-grade teacher from the Al-Huda School in College Park, Maryland, will appear before Judge Claude Hilton, this [...]
Be Steadfast Like a Mirror
Posted in Beneficial Articles on April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
|Tariq Sohrab Ghazipuri|
Philosophers have often held certain essential qualities to be ideals for what exists in the world. A mirror is something that presents qualities. It does not bring about any distortion to the essence of the person whose image it reflects.
This is why Muslim scholars encourage people to adopt the mirror’s qualities into their [...]
5 ways to save cash at the pump
Posted in Uncategorized on April 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
by Stacy Rapacon
Thursday, April 10, 2008provided by
It seems every day, gas pump prices hit another record high. The latest record national average for regular unleaded, as of April 9, was $3.34 per gallon, up 20% (or 55 cents) over the past year.
Prices are expected to top the $4 mark this summer. But don’t let $80.00 [...]
Palestine/Israel
Posted in Current Affairs/Civic Activism on April 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m not sure how many people had the opportunity to see the op-ed section of today’s Washington Post, but its a must read. In it there are two articles of significance with regards to the current conflict in the middle east. The first is written by Mahmoud al-Zahar, a surgeon and one of [...]
Becoming Serious….
Posted in Random Thoughts on April 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Bismillah, Was Salaatu Was Salaam Ala’ Rasool Allah.
I remember hearing a tape by Shaykh Muhammad AlShareef (may Allah preserve him) years ago. He was talking about how, when in Madinah, there was a brother who wanted to learn Quran from him and although I dont remember all the details, the moral of the story [...]
Way’s to Improve One’s Character
Posted in Beneficial Articles on April 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sahih Bukhari: Volume 8, Book 73, Number 61:
Narrated Masruq:
We were sitting with ‘Abdullah bin ‘Amr who was narrating to us (Hadith): He said,
“Allah’s Messenger was neither a Fahish nor a Mutafahhish, and he used to say, ‘The best among you are the best in character (having good manners).”‘
Faith and Knowledge
Posted in Beneficial Articles, Dawah Stuff on April 10, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Awesome lecture by Shaykh Ja’faar Idris
USA vs. Al-Arian
Posted in Announcements, Current Affairs/Civic Activism on April 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Bismillah, was Salaatu was Salaam ala Rasool Allah.
Although there have been a number of Muslims put on trial after 9/11, few have drawn the attention of Sami Al-Arian’s case. Originally charged with a litany of terrorism related allegations, he was acquitted on all counts in December of 2005. Thereafter, the government attempted to [...]
Down the Tube: the Sad Stats On Happiness, Money and TV
Posted in Current Affairs/Civic Activism on April 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
By Jonathan Clements (published in today’s Wall Street Journal)
Put down the remote and back slowly away from the television.
Despite the sharp rise in our standard of living in recent decades, Americans today are little or no happier than earlier generations. Why not?
A new study suggests one possibility: Maybe we need to be smarter about how [...]
