Sunday, December 05, 2004
Marriage News!!!!
Got the good news that my uncle is getting married in Pakistan. But sadly, I will not be able to attend because I have school in the summer (i can thank the co-op program for that). But nonetheless insha Allah my mom will go and bring back all the videos and the pictures.
In this sense, I feel I am very lacking when compared to other Muslims. A vast majority of them have relatives in Canada if not Edmonton (some Arabs have been here for three or four generations), but I do not have any. One can have all the 'best friends' he wants but its just not the same as family.
Read an amazing article on a man named Abdul Sattar Eidhi. He started off with a narrow room as a clinic fifty years ago and now runs the world's largest charity ambulance services in the world. The sacrifices this man has made are amazing and I cannot even bring to count them here. I choked up when I was reading about his life. One small incident I found very touching was that he has not been able to attend any of his children's weddings because he is on call 24-hours a day for the LAST 50 YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.islamicity.com/articles/Articles.asp?ref=SW0412-2541
Also read another articles producing concrete evidence that US forces are categorically targetting civilians, especially doctors, so the real death toll is not revealed in places like Fallujah and Mosul. A good read because it is not based on emotion but rather on hard evidence.
http://arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=55580&d=5&m=12&y=2004&pix=opinion.jpg&category=Opinion
Interestingly, another case of prisoner abuse has surfaced but this time its with the Navy seals. So much for the American counter arguement to Abu Ghraib being an 'isolated incident.'
Goes to show how much morality really does exist in the army.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1204-03.htm
Lately for some reason, this verson keeps popping in my head:
"It is not righteousness that you turn your faces towards the East and the West, but righteousness is this that one should believe in Allah and the last day and the angels and the Book and the prophets, and give away wealth out of love for Him to the near of kin and the orphans and the needy and the wayfarer and the beggars and for (the emancipation of) the captives, and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate; and the performers of their promise when they make a promise, and the patient in distress and affliction and in time of conflicts-- these are they who are true (to themselves) and these are they who guard (against evil)." (baqaraah: verse 177)
In this sense, I feel I am very lacking when compared to other Muslims. A vast majority of them have relatives in Canada if not Edmonton (some Arabs have been here for three or four generations), but I do not have any. One can have all the 'best friends' he wants but its just not the same as family.
Read an amazing article on a man named Abdul Sattar Eidhi. He started off with a narrow room as a clinic fifty years ago and now runs the world's largest charity ambulance services in the world. The sacrifices this man has made are amazing and I cannot even bring to count them here. I choked up when I was reading about his life. One small incident I found very touching was that he has not been able to attend any of his children's weddings because he is on call 24-hours a day for the LAST 50 YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.islamicity.com/articles/Articles.asp?ref=SW0412-2541
Also read another articles producing concrete evidence that US forces are categorically targetting civilians, especially doctors, so the real death toll is not revealed in places like Fallujah and Mosul. A good read because it is not based on emotion but rather on hard evidence.
http://arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=55580&d=5&m=12&y=2004&pix=opinion.jpg&category=Opinion
Interestingly, another case of prisoner abuse has surfaced but this time its with the Navy seals. So much for the American counter arguement to Abu Ghraib being an 'isolated incident.'
Goes to show how much morality really does exist in the army.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1204-03.htm
Lately for some reason, this verson keeps popping in my head:
"It is not righteousness that you turn your faces towards the East and the West, but righteousness is this that one should believe in Allah and the last day and the angels and the Book and the prophets, and give away wealth out of love for Him to the near of kin and the orphans and the needy and the wayfarer and the beggars and for (the emancipation of) the captives, and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate; and the performers of their promise when they make a promise, and the patient in distress and affliction and in time of conflicts-- these are they who are true (to themselves) and these are they who guard (against evil)." (baqaraah: verse 177)
Faraz Ahmed 2:09 p.m.