In spiritual diseases (muhlekat-e-nafs) the rule of thumb is;
If one considers him/herself to be free from a specific disease, e.g. arrogance (kibr), hasad (envy) etc. it is for sure that he/she is afflicted with it.
That might be the reason that many of the noble companions ridhwanullah ta’ala ajmaeen considered themselves to be hypocrite (munafiq) and most of the pious (awliya) consider themselves to be worse than unbelievers (kafir-e-farang).
courtesy: 'abd
Friday, May 13, 2005
Thursday, May 12, 2005
Go 'mobile' using satellite navigation
The Netherlands-based company TomTom has developed a pocket-sized satellite navigation device that uses spoken instructions to direct pedestrians from their mobile phone.
The TomTom Mobile 5 personal navigation system that follows the success of in-car satellite navigation systems has started selling in Britain, reports the Scottish daily Scotsman.
The new system also displays a 3-D map on the phone screen to guide pedestrians and cyclists.
It works by inserting a memory card with pre-installed maps and software into a mobile phone. A separate Bluetooth wireless Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver device then connects to the phone.
Like an in-car "sat-nav", it works by picking up the user's position via satellite and then directing him to the required destination using the mapping software.
Available as a mobile phone package costing around 200 pounds sterling, the TomTom device will find the quickest and most direct route possible, giving an estimated time of arrival.
Manufacturers say it will be accurate to within 50 cm and will even be able to tell which side of the road the user is calling from.
They also claim the new device will be able to find given destinations from a postcode alone. If connected to the Internet, it will even be able to provide a weather forecast for whichever area the pedestrian is going to.
Harold Goddijn, TomTom's chief executive, described the new device as a huge step forward in personal navigation. "For the first time, satellite navigation has been extended outside the car and into the hands of anyone who needs to find their way from A to B, whichever mode of transport they choose."
The TomTom Mobile 5 is compatible with a range of mobile phones, including models by Nokia, Orange, Motorola, T-Mobile and iMate.
Indo-Asian News Service
[tom]humm...[/tom]
The TomTom Mobile 5 personal navigation system that follows the success of in-car satellite navigation systems has started selling in Britain, reports the Scottish daily Scotsman.
The new system also displays a 3-D map on the phone screen to guide pedestrians and cyclists.
It works by inserting a memory card with pre-installed maps and software into a mobile phone. A separate Bluetooth wireless Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver device then connects to the phone.
Like an in-car "sat-nav", it works by picking up the user's position via satellite and then directing him to the required destination using the mapping software.
Available as a mobile phone package costing around 200 pounds sterling, the TomTom device will find the quickest and most direct route possible, giving an estimated time of arrival.
Manufacturers say it will be accurate to within 50 cm and will even be able to tell which side of the road the user is calling from.
They also claim the new device will be able to find given destinations from a postcode alone. If connected to the Internet, it will even be able to provide a weather forecast for whichever area the pedestrian is going to.
Harold Goddijn, TomTom's chief executive, described the new device as a huge step forward in personal navigation. "For the first time, satellite navigation has been extended outside the car and into the hands of anyone who needs to find their way from A to B, whichever mode of transport they choose."
The TomTom Mobile 5 is compatible with a range of mobile phones, including models by Nokia, Orange, Motorola, T-Mobile and iMate.
Indo-Asian News Service
[tom]humm...[/tom]
Bharti top mobile phone service provider
Private cellular service provider Bharti Cellular Ltd is the country's leading mobile phone company, parliament was informed Wednesday.
With 10.4 million subscribers as on March 31, Bharti Cellular Ltd was ahead of competitors Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (9.4 million), Reliance Infocomm Ltd (9.3 million), Idea Cellular Ltd (3.1 million) and Hutchison Max Telecom Pvt Ltd (1.5 million), Minister of State for Communications Shakeel Ahmad said in a written reply in the Lok Sabha.
The minister said state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd proposes to augment its GSM (global system for mobile communication) network capacity by 14 million lines in the current year to ensure quality service.
Indo-Asian News Service
[]better to know paros-haltath sometimes..[/]
With 10.4 million subscribers as on March 31, Bharti Cellular Ltd was ahead of competitors Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (9.4 million), Reliance Infocomm Ltd (9.3 million), Idea Cellular Ltd (3.1 million) and Hutchison Max Telecom Pvt Ltd (1.5 million), Minister of State for Communications Shakeel Ahmad said in a written reply in the Lok Sabha.
The minister said state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd proposes to augment its GSM (global system for mobile communication) network capacity by 14 million lines in the current year to ensure quality service.
Indo-Asian News Service
[]better to know paros-haltath sometimes..[/]
Wednesday, May 11, 2005
Aaaa Bhii Jaaaa............
You wait, Wait...wAiT and WaiT then get the reward..... Am relying on this statement. Cuz, it seems now (Especially today that it is really upto limits). Khair, as Aay Dee said once everybody feels his problem is the major one. So, I don't regret it cuz, I am really enjoying it alot....
This wait state is the one I won't get once I get what I want. By the way Human is greedy by nature, so, my requirements might increase when I get what I want. Waisay Allah is Ghafoor-ur-Raheem so, I don't mind asking more more more and more....
Hey, AaayDee Daaant Under and Imm stop giving kinky smile... Its true yaaaar. I know I am very much Out spooken but who cares yaaaar. I don't regret any word I say.
I just wanna enjoy every moment and every portion of life. Really, I even enjoy hardships of the day, cuz, Once you enjoy leisure hard times are part of life as well...
Khair, blog is getting more about me me me and me... everybody is waiting for something to happen. Some take actions for it and want the results. Some just sit aside and wait for the fate to decide. Some do some other stuff..... But in any state everybody is worried and get more worried by just worrying more ( Haaaa haaaa I didn't get what I just said but its all right Our english teacher is not here to recommend Oxford Dictionary), So, best policy is to work real hard and leave the results to Allah,cuz, He knows what is best for you..... I know it is difficult but at least we can try naaaan...
This wait state is the one I won't get once I get what I want. By the way Human is greedy by nature, so, my requirements might increase when I get what I want. Waisay Allah is Ghafoor-ur-Raheem so, I don't mind asking more more more and more....
Hey, AaayDee Daaant Under and Imm stop giving kinky smile... Its true yaaaar. I know I am very much Out spooken but who cares yaaaar. I don't regret any word I say.
I just wanna enjoy every moment and every portion of life. Really, I even enjoy hardships of the day, cuz, Once you enjoy leisure hard times are part of life as well...
Khair, blog is getting more about me me me and me... everybody is waiting for something to happen. Some take actions for it and want the results. Some just sit aside and wait for the fate to decide. Some do some other stuff..... But in any state everybody is worried and get more worried by just worrying more ( Haaaa haaaa I didn't get what I just said but its all right Our english teacher is not here to recommend Oxford Dictionary), So, best policy is to work real hard and leave the results to Allah,cuz, He knows what is best for you..... I know it is difficult but at least we can try naaaan...
Anjanay Rastay Anjanaa Rahii....
Everytime I start to think that I have started to understand myself and my surroundings. I find my self in unrevealed territory. Man! life is really complex and one can't be sure what he actually wants and why he does what he does....
REally..., just think for one day, why have you made faces..., why you were thinking about something..., why.... why... why.....
Well, I guess you can almost never answer this why figure...
Read Seven stages of Men...... in my student life and it is really amazing that I have found nearly about every stages till some extent in everybody's life surrounding me.. But I am sure there are more stages in one's life than just seven.
Cuz, I am unable to understand the stage I am in now-a-days. It is like I am on an unchartered Island. I don't know what my feelings and my mind is trying to say....
Man, it is freaking me out..
Waaaaauuuuuugghhhhhhhhhhhhh...........
It is like I am still unable to conquer inner me.
Have you?????? ??????
REally..., just think for one day, why have you made faces..., why you were thinking about something..., why.... why... why.....
Well, I guess you can almost never answer this why figure...
Read Seven stages of Men...... in my student life and it is really amazing that I have found nearly about every stages till some extent in everybody's life surrounding me.. But I am sure there are more stages in one's life than just seven.
Cuz, I am unable to understand the stage I am in now-a-days. It is like I am on an unchartered Island. I don't know what my feelings and my mind is trying to say....
Man, it is freaking me out..
Waaaaauuuuuugghhhhhhhhhhhhh...........
It is like I am still unable to conquer inner me.
Have you?????? ??????
America Online to unveil free e-mail service
America Online will begin offering a free e-mail service on Wednesday tied to its popular instant messaging service, ahead of a big relaunch of its free AOL.com Web site later this year.
AOL's free Web-based e-mail service is nearly a decade behind Microsoft's Hotmail service and several years behind a Yahoo E-mail offering.
But the online division of Time Warner Inc. is betting that the combination of e-mail with its ubiquitous instant messaging software (AIM) will create a more powerful service combining all electronic and phone messages.
AOL will integrate its recently launched digital phone service this fall, when the AIM software will be rewritten, allowing users to retrieve voice mail, e-mail and instant messages from any computer.
Source : Reuters
AOL's free Web-based e-mail service is nearly a decade behind Microsoft's Hotmail service and several years behind a Yahoo E-mail offering.
But the online division of Time Warner Inc. is betting that the combination of e-mail with its ubiquitous instant messaging software (AIM) will create a more powerful service combining all electronic and phone messages.
AOL will integrate its recently launched digital phone service this fall, when the AIM software will be rewritten, allowing users to retrieve voice mail, e-mail and instant messages from any computer.
Source : Reuters
Car virus rumors taken out for a spin
After putting a Prius to the test, a team of antivirus experts has concluded that cell phone viruses are unable to infect cars.
F-Secure said rumors that mobile phone viruses could spread to cars via Bluetooth were erroneous, after technicians at the security firm failed to infect the onboard computer of a Toyota Prius with Cabir, which spreads by Bluetooth and infects handsets based on the Symbian operating system.
Cars catching viruses ??? What's next ? I think my toaster caught a virus,its been burning toast since last Tuesday.
Source : Link
F-Secure said rumors that mobile phone viruses could spread to cars via Bluetooth were erroneous, after technicians at the security firm failed to infect the onboard computer of a Toyota Prius with Cabir, which spreads by Bluetooth and infects handsets based on the Symbian operating system.
Cars catching viruses ??? What's next ? I think my toaster caught a virus,its been burning toast since last Tuesday.
Source : Link
Yahoo undercuts rivals with new music service
Yahoo Inc. on Wednesday plans to launch a trial version of Yahoo Music Unlimited, a new, aggressively-priced online music subscription service.
For an introductory price of US$59.88 a year, or $6.99 when paid monthly, the service will give users access to over 1 million songs from all major record labels and most independent labels, Yahoo said in a statement.
With its pricing, Yahoo is undercutting rivals RealNetworks Inc. and Napster Inc., which both charge about $15 a month for comparable services. Apple's iTunes, the biggest online music store, doesn't offer subscriptions but charges users per song or album download.
Source Link
For an introductory price of US$59.88 a year, or $6.99 when paid monthly, the service will give users access to over 1 million songs from all major record labels and most independent labels, Yahoo said in a statement.
With its pricing, Yahoo is undercutting rivals RealNetworks Inc. and Napster Inc., which both charge about $15 a month for comparable services. Apple's iTunes, the biggest online music store, doesn't offer subscriptions but charges users per song or album download.
Source Link
Tuesday, May 10, 2005
UIT News
I have some news to share regarding UIT.
There is a Mushaira being held at UIT on Thursday 12 May 2005 in the UIT Auditorium from 3 to 5.
The very first issue of UIT-CS magazine is out.It can be grabbed at the UIT Library.Yours truly got published in it so be sure to check it out.
Take Care
SHA
There is a Mushaira being held at UIT on Thursday 12 May 2005 in the UIT Auditorium from 3 to 5.
The very first issue of UIT-CS magazine is out.It can be grabbed at the UIT Library.Yours truly got published in it so be sure to check it out.
Take Care
SHA
Slow Dance!~
Have you ever watched kids
on a merry-go-round
Or listened to the rain
slapping on the ground?
Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?
You better slow down
Don't dance so fast
Time is short
The music won't last
Do you run through each day on the fly
When you ask "How are you?"
do you hear the reply?
When the day is done,
do you lie in your bed
With the next hundred chores
running through your head?
You'd better slow down
Don't dance so fast
Time is short
The music won't last
Ever told your child,
We'll do it tomorrow
And in your haste, not see his sorrow?
Ever lost touch,
Let a good friendship die
'Cause you never had time
to call and say "Hi"?
You'd better slow down
Don't dance so fast
Time is short
The music won't last
When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your day,
It is like an unopened gift....
Thrown away...
Life is not a race.
Do take it slower
Hear the music
Before the song is over.
- anon
[me]kewl!..don't be lazy to get some cake for your loved one when back home!--Period[/]
on a merry-go-round
Or listened to the rain
slapping on the ground?
Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?
You better slow down
Don't dance so fast
Time is short
The music won't last
Do you run through each day on the fly
When you ask "How are you?"
do you hear the reply?
When the day is done,
do you lie in your bed
With the next hundred chores
running through your head?
You'd better slow down
Don't dance so fast
Time is short
The music won't last
Ever told your child,
We'll do it tomorrow
And in your haste, not see his sorrow?
Ever lost touch,
Let a good friendship die
'Cause you never had time
to call and say "Hi"?
You'd better slow down
Don't dance so fast
Time is short
The music won't last
When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your day,
It is like an unopened gift....
Thrown away...
Life is not a race.
Do take it slower
Hear the music
Before the song is over.
- anon
[me]kewl!..don't be lazy to get some cake for your loved one when back home!--Period[/]
Friday, May 06, 2005
Kiss soch main doobi zindagii????????????
Many of the times a person is never honest while answering this question. Cuz, the moment he/she wakes up different problems and situations start to happen. And we never have time to really think that what is thing which is really fuelling us to put in such an amount of effort.
Well, seriously I thought about it but wasn't able to answer properly. Cuz, more I thought the more the list of wants and don't wants increased. So, what I realized is that one can only answer for the present condition and once the future arrives the situation and scenarios change.
You find out this is your destiny and once you pass by that spot you realize that you have just passed one level to be in search of the actual destiny.
Are you getting what I am saying.
Ofcourse, I don't blame you people If you don't understand the genius talking.
Khair, stay tune cuz, I'll be back with my another ambigious blog.
Man, don't take anything seriously cuz, I am writting anything coming into my mind.
Well, seriously I thought about it but wasn't able to answer properly. Cuz, more I thought the more the list of wants and don't wants increased. So, what I realized is that one can only answer for the present condition and once the future arrives the situation and scenarios change.
You find out this is your destiny and once you pass by that spot you realize that you have just passed one level to be in search of the actual destiny.
Are you getting what I am saying.
Ofcourse, I don't blame you people If you don't understand the genius talking.
Khair, stay tune cuz, I'll be back with my another ambigious blog.
Man, don't take anything seriously cuz, I am writting anything coming into my mind.
GATES VS. GOOGLE
Bill Gates is on a mission to build a Google killer. What got him so riled? The darling of search is moving into software—and that's Microsoft's turf.read article
[]Awesome research,seriously!..I wonder from where the writer Fred Vogelstein got that much info.According to researcher the Gates is in search of 'A Google killer'.Dear micro- soft...*silence*[/]
[]Awesome research,seriously!..I wonder from where the writer Fred Vogelstein got that much info.According to researcher the Gates is in search of 'A Google killer'.Dear micro- soft...*silence*[/]
Haiy yeh wardatain...
Well, I watched a program few days back naming "Excuse Me" recorded at 1989 having Moin Akhter. It had one clip about wardatain (burglaries) at those times.
Haiy yeh wardatain Haiy yeh wardatain
Police tou soay Hum Jagain
Choroon seh karain batain...
Well, times haven't changed much haaan. Cuz, police is still sleeping and we are still talking with all the Choor party.
It is 1:00 PM and I m not feeling sleepy at all, although I know that I have to go to office tommorow. Khair, Aay Dee hold on to the wild horses of your thoughts. Nopes, I am not feeling alone at all. :)
Actually,
Kahani hay yeh bauhat purani
keh Aik thaa rajaa aur aik thii ranii.
Raja office main Kaam karay
tou Rani peechay Ahain bharay
Raja laut keh jou ghar koo aa aiy
tou Rani Ahain bhar bhar keh pehlay hii soo jaa aiy
Maheenoon Saloon youn hee bbeet jaa ain
Tou Raja kou yeh khayal aa aiy
Kab tak guzaray gaa machini zindagii
kiyoon naan abb Insaan ban jaa ain
Kahaa uss nain Rani kou jaga kar
Baigam, bauhat howa yeh sonaa wonaa
Hum nahien chahtay tum koo khonaan
Subah chalain gay saath hii hum tum
kiyoon naan office main hum paingain ladaa aiin.
Subah Rani nain Raja kou yeh keh kar jagaya
Uthoo baitaa Aankhain Kholo
Bistar Chodoo aur moon dholoo
Dentonic seh daant Chamkaoo
Khoob achay bachay ban jaooo.
Tou sunii bachoon app nain kahaanii keh aik thaa raja aik thii rani.
You all really deserve to have medal of patience of reading this Takii howi blog.
Khair, I'll be back with another more thaki howi blog in few days. Till then have happy time.
Haiy yeh wardatain Haiy yeh wardatain
Police tou soay Hum Jagain
Choroon seh karain batain...
Well, times haven't changed much haaan. Cuz, police is still sleeping and we are still talking with all the Choor party.
It is 1:00 PM and I m not feeling sleepy at all, although I know that I have to go to office tommorow. Khair, Aay Dee hold on to the wild horses of your thoughts. Nopes, I am not feeling alone at all. :)
Actually,
Kahani hay yeh bauhat purani
keh Aik thaa rajaa aur aik thii ranii.
Raja office main Kaam karay
tou Rani peechay Ahain bharay
Raja laut keh jou ghar koo aa aiy
tou Rani Ahain bhar bhar keh pehlay hii soo jaa aiy
Maheenoon Saloon youn hee bbeet jaa ain
Tou Raja kou yeh khayal aa aiy
Kab tak guzaray gaa machini zindagii
kiyoon naan abb Insaan ban jaa ain
Kahaa uss nain Rani kou jaga kar
Baigam, bauhat howa yeh sonaa wonaa
Hum nahien chahtay tum koo khonaan
Subah chalain gay saath hii hum tum
kiyoon naan office main hum paingain ladaa aiin.
Subah Rani nain Raja kou yeh keh kar jagaya
Uthoo baitaa Aankhain Kholo
Bistar Chodoo aur moon dholoo
Dentonic seh daant Chamkaoo
Khoob achay bachay ban jaooo.
Tou sunii bachoon app nain kahaanii keh aik thaa raja aik thii rani.
You all really deserve to have medal of patience of reading this Takii howi blog.
Khair, I'll be back with another more thaki howi blog in few days. Till then have happy time.
Monday, May 02, 2005
Friday, April 29, 2005
Two Steps to Success
Mufti Mohammad Taqi Usmani sahib db said:
"Two things are always to be done actively in every endeavor.Firstly take the initiative and start working and secondly beseech Allah SWT for its successful completion. These two things are to be done for all things during your whole life and inshaAllah, you will succeed."
[]Man...how simple the words,but how effective & powerful...of course something which works doubtlessly.inshAllah[/]
"Two things are always to be done actively in every endeavor.Firstly take the initiative and start working and secondly beseech Allah SWT for its successful completion. These two things are to be done for all things during your whole life and inshaAllah, you will succeed."
[]Man...how simple the words,but how effective & powerful...of course something which works doubtlessly.inshAllah[/]
Kabhi tOu sUnooo Naaan MeriiiiIII BaaatH
Some one asked me do you know who is the very dangerous person in the world?????
Well, I pretending to be a logical person gave him lots of options but he continously rejected them and when in the end I said that I quit now you tell me.
He said, the one who knows he is dangerous. Well, to tell you the truth I didn't got what he was trying to say. So, without having any clue I asked. Are you afraid of me????
He laughed and said you would have to born twice to become a terror. I am sure that my fellows over here won't agree with him as I don't for them :).
Khair, leave this dangerous person topic. I am sure you people would be thinking what I am trying to say. Well, guys don't think to hard, cuz, I am dozing right now and writting what ever is comming in my mind. Well, before I write something that AayDee being a moderator has to cut down. I think I better take the hike..
Tou Isii Intizaar main keh Subah Shayad Intizaar naan hoo. I would be going to fell asleep and leaving you people in the state of Intizaar for my next stupid art of writting.
Haan tou friends don't mind but Intizaar is a bit baizaar now-a-days with the routine life. Khair, what can I say, May Allah forgive me for being such a Nashukra person.
Okz, Okz... I think I better go before you people throw something on me.
So it is TatA from this end.
Well, I pretending to be a logical person gave him lots of options but he continously rejected them and when in the end I said that I quit now you tell me.
He said, the one who knows he is dangerous. Well, to tell you the truth I didn't got what he was trying to say. So, without having any clue I asked. Are you afraid of me????
He laughed and said you would have to born twice to become a terror. I am sure that my fellows over here won't agree with him as I don't for them :).
Khair, leave this dangerous person topic. I am sure you people would be thinking what I am trying to say. Well, guys don't think to hard, cuz, I am dozing right now and writting what ever is comming in my mind. Well, before I write something that AayDee being a moderator has to cut down. I think I better take the hike..
Tou Isii Intizaar main keh Subah Shayad Intizaar naan hoo. I would be going to fell asleep and leaving you people in the state of Intizaar for my next stupid art of writting.
Haan tou friends don't mind but Intizaar is a bit baizaar now-a-days with the routine life. Khair, what can I say, May Allah forgive me for being such a Nashukra person.
Okz, Okz... I think I better go before you people throw something on me.
So it is TatA from this end.
Thursday, April 28, 2005
duh!...:
meri Aaashiqi khamosh hay
meri DilLagi bayAwaz hay
meri zindagi chup chup see hay
meri her khushi gum sum see hay
I read it audibly so one of my collegue after listening hurl a comment:'poet must have some sort of silencer chiped in'..
phooooooooooooooo...i bust out laughing -LOL
Anyway, I came across that mashAllah Intiziaar is really doing good here @ Islamic marriage, keep this up man.
@..:mind this 'isshmaal' post will clarify someone that why we claiming for 'random thought ...',yup,really random! :-)
*thumbs-down*
meri Aaashiqi khamosh hay
meri DilLagi bayAwaz hay
meri zindagi chup chup see hay
meri her khushi gum sum see hay
I read it audibly so one of my collegue after listening hurl a comment:'poet must have some sort of silencer chiped in'..
phooooooooooooooo...i bust out laughing -LOL
Anyway, I came across that mashAllah Intiziaar is really doing good here @ Islamic marriage, keep this up man.
@..:mind this 'isshmaal' post will clarify someone that why we claiming for 'random thought ...',yup,really random! :-)
*thumbs-down*
Thursday, April 21, 2005
Pakistan Launches New Brand of Car
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Monday presided over the launch Monday of a new brand of economy car, designed and assembled in Pakistan but powered by a Chinese-made engine.
The 800 cc Revo is being assembled at a plant in the southern city of Karachi owned by Pakistani private automaker Adam Motors. The company plans to make 5,000 of them a year. The engines will be built by China's Wuling Engineering Company. read more..

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The five-door car will cost about 300,000 rupees (US$5,000; euro3,855). The first models are expected to go on sale in June.
[me]hummmmmm,sasti tau hay .....per kia chalti bhee hay?[/]
The 800 cc Revo is being assembled at a plant in the southern city of Karachi owned by Pakistani private automaker Adam Motors. The company plans to make 5,000 of them a year. The engines will be built by China's Wuling Engineering Company. read more..
more views
The five-door car will cost about 300,000 rupees (US$5,000; euro3,855). The first models are expected to go on sale in June.
[me]hummmmmm,sasti tau hay .....per kia chalti bhee hay?[/]
Friday, April 15, 2005
Puraanii Kahani Na aiy (Phata Puranay) Cover Keh Saath....
Hmmm...., Blup Blup... Man what's this am I on Mars or what... Everybody is talking about chips, IBM, Technology.... Yaaar, looks like I would have to do something to proof that I know something as well.
Hmm...., But what to do???? Khair, lets start from The great gizmo TECHNOLOGY...
Khair, I do remember saying of one of our AI teacher( who had some real research work in the field of Random Behavior of Angry Child, Well.., you must be thinking what is that..., Aray we realized this thing afterwards cuz, he always used to talk about his Son who always used to get angry and slam the door but even then used to help him out with AI slides) that how come IT prevail in PAK where there many of the times are black outs. Khair, I couldn't resist quoting one of great research oriented teacher.
Hmmm..., according to www.dictionary.com,
TECH = technician or technical
NO = NO
and,
LOGY = Slugish or heavy
Well, since, left hand side is equal to right hand, hence according to our theorem it is proved that Technician is not Slugish.
Well, I leave my this research work to others scholars naming Dr. Immm bhai(Homeopathetic) and Dr. Adnan bhai(Adab wo BayAdab) to review and check my work.
Hmm..., looks like it is alot of TECH NI KAL talk for now.
So, lets take a break and have a KIT KAT.
Allah-Hafiz.
Hmm...., But what to do???? Khair, lets start from The great gizmo TECHNOLOGY...
Khair, I do remember saying of one of our AI teacher( who had some real research work in the field of Random Behavior of Angry Child, Well.., you must be thinking what is that..., Aray we realized this thing afterwards cuz, he always used to talk about his Son who always used to get angry and slam the door but even then used to help him out with AI slides) that how come IT prevail in PAK where there many of the times are black outs. Khair, I couldn't resist quoting one of great research oriented teacher.
Hmmm..., according to www.dictionary.com,
TECH = technician or technical
NO = NO
and,
LOGY = Slugish or heavy
Well, since, left hand side is equal to right hand, hence according to our theorem it is proved that Technician is not Slugish.
Well, I leave my this research work to others scholars naming Dr. Immm bhai(Homeopathetic) and Dr. Adnan bhai(Adab wo BayAdab) to review and check my work.
Hmm..., looks like it is alot of TECH NI KAL talk for now.
So, lets take a break and have a KIT KAT.
Allah-Hafiz.
Wednesday, April 13, 2005
Now we have one more contributor at this blog. Saad Hilal, a final year student of uit and he also contributes at one famous blog i.e. g3TechNews.
Reception,saad:)
Reception,saad:)
Monday, April 11, 2005
SMS via Yahoo
With Yahoo! Messenger for SMS, you can send and receive Yahoo! Messenger instant messages on your mobile. You just need a MOBILINK connected phone that can send SMS messages. Chat in real time with ...read more..
Saturday, April 09, 2005
Sony Invention Beams Sights, Sounds Into Brain
LONDON (Reuters) - If you think video games are engrossing now, just wait: PlayStation maker Sony Corp (SNE.N). has been granted a patent for beaming sensory information directly into the brain.
Sony Invention Beams Sights, Sounds Into Brain...
Sony Invention Beams Sights, Sounds Into Brain...
Monday, April 04, 2005
IBM launches academic program in India
IBM launches academic program in India - IBM will work with universities that support open standards and seek to use open source and IBM technologies for teaching purposes, IBM launches academic program in India - Friday, April 01, 2005.
BANGALORE: In a bid to bridge the skill gap in the information technology sector, IBM today launched its academic initiative program in India that will cover 75,000 students in 300 institutes across the country.
The pilot of the program is on in nine institutes across India and by 2005-end it will cover 300 institutes and 75,000 students, Managing Director of IBM India Shanker Annaswamy said.
As part of the program, IBM will work with universities that support open standards and seek to use open source and IBM technologies for teaching purposes, he said.
The company will make available more than 40 IBM technologies at no charge for integration into college curricula.
It will also offer hardware products, including the newest POWER5 servers and blade servers featuring latest power architecture, at special rates.
"The access to larget Power 5 servers will be made available through IBM's remote access program, including recently announced IBM Virtual Loaner Program within the IBM Virtual Innovation Center," Annaswamy said.
He said there were 2,50,000 IT students graduating every year in India while the demand was for 4,00,000 and this initiative would try to bridge the manpower shortfall of the IT industry.
Courtesy :bytes for all
bLurbPpP!
BANGALORE: In a bid to bridge the skill gap in the information technology sector, IBM today launched its academic initiative program in India that will cover 75,000 students in 300 institutes across the country.
The pilot of the program is on in nine institutes across India and by 2005-end it will cover 300 institutes and 75,000 students, Managing Director of IBM India Shanker Annaswamy said.
As part of the program, IBM will work with universities that support open standards and seek to use open source and IBM technologies for teaching purposes, he said.
The company will make available more than 40 IBM technologies at no charge for integration into college curricula.
It will also offer hardware products, including the newest POWER5 servers and blade servers featuring latest power architecture, at special rates.
"The access to larget Power 5 servers will be made available through IBM's remote access program, including recently announced IBM Virtual Loaner Program within the IBM Virtual Innovation Center," Annaswamy said.
He said there were 2,50,000 IT students graduating every year in India while the demand was for 4,00,000 and this initiative would try to bridge the manpower shortfall of the IT industry.
Courtesy :bytes for all
Monday, March 28, 2005
Friday, March 25, 2005
Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince
Lolz..I couldn't help laughing after reading the first two pages of this fake Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince.
In fact one of my friend who is die hard fan of Harry Potter got it from LimeWire.
If the above URL does't work then first land here and find HB-Prince.zip - happy reading..not that much:)
In fact one of my friend who is die hard fan of Harry Potter got it from LimeWire.
If the above URL does't work then first land here and find HB-Prince.zip - happy reading..not that much:)
Thursday, March 24, 2005
Monday, March 21, 2005
MIT's OpenCourseWare
MIT's OpenCourseWare is a free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners around the world. OCW supports MIT's mission to advance knowledge and education, and serve the world in the 21st century. It is true to MIT's values of excellence, innovation, and leadership.
MIT OCW:
* Is a publication of MIT course materials
* Does not require any registration
* Is not a degree-granting or certificate-granting activity
* Does not provide access to MIT faculty
Follow : MIT's OpenCourseWare
Courtesy: bytesforall_readers
MIT OCW:
* Is a publication of MIT course materials
* Does not require any registration
* Is not a degree-granting or certificate-granting activity
* Does not provide access to MIT faculty
Follow : MIT's OpenCourseWare
Courtesy: bytesforall_readers
Its 1:20 AM..n this is Aay Dee reporting in a dead sleepy tone from his world...hey there!yes, yes i can see no one is excited any more,duh!..but hey,all my friends on orkut list..FYI i have successfully deleted my orkut account..yes me a full-grown Abnormal anyway :-) - And one good news, inshAllah very soon i have plan to start another blog with a very interesting theme,infact its a totally different blog u ever seen..whats in it ?? & for what it will? I ain't sharing it now :)!!!!!
again,no more me on orkut!
tata
again,no more me on orkut!
tata
Tuesday, March 15, 2005
We are free of misery at least (Great story)
Assalaam-O-Alaikum,
For a long time I was under the impression that we are not free at all. For whatever reasons I was convinced to this point. But for the last week I was reading a story on the Ummat's web site written by Aleem-ul-Haq-Haqi. Well, I don't know why But while I started reading that I fell in love with this man. Aleem bhai, My brother I really salute you and pray for you as you are not feeling well now-a-days. You helped me realize so many things.
Khair, I realize the way one should be searching for Allah. The fact of Muhabbat. and most of all I realized, after how many efforts Allah Has given us this country to be free to pray Allah.
We are free in terms keh, while we sleep we don't have fear that somebody will break into our house and start robbing and killing us. We are free from the fear that once we are out of our house, our sisters and mother (i.e. ladies are safe). We are free from the fact that we can show freely that we are muslims.
I went back to home and asked my Nanii who performed the Hijrat herself while the Pakistan came into being. The facts she told me confirmed Aleem bhai's story, well, atleast the part where he discussed the movement for Pakistan. I realized that how one can live after dying. We are not here for tafreeh and hallah gullah. We have certian responsibilities and that is to give protection to those who can not protect themselves.
Well, I don't know about you people but I literally cried for help from Allah on my way back to home and wasn't able to sleep very well through the night. I was seeing myself in the condition as the Aleem bhai has stated when Balwaii attacked on the house.
And wasn't sure what to do, so, I prayed to Allah and realized that only Allah can protect anybody not me nor anybody. But still there are so many feelings of mine which I need to understand.
Honestly, people I am not joking. May be you people think that I am getting weak by crying out for help, but the more I gave it a thought, the more helpless I felt and asked Allah for help. Khair.
Don't want to ruin you people's good mode.
So, take-care.
http://www.ummat.com.pk/Kahanian/ishq_ka_sheen.htm
Allah-Hafiz.
For a long time I was under the impression that we are not free at all. For whatever reasons I was convinced to this point. But for the last week I was reading a story on the Ummat's web site written by Aleem-ul-Haq-Haqi. Well, I don't know why But while I started reading that I fell in love with this man. Aleem bhai, My brother I really salute you and pray for you as you are not feeling well now-a-days. You helped me realize so many things.
Khair, I realize the way one should be searching for Allah. The fact of Muhabbat. and most of all I realized, after how many efforts Allah Has given us this country to be free to pray Allah.
We are free in terms keh, while we sleep we don't have fear that somebody will break into our house and start robbing and killing us. We are free from the fear that once we are out of our house, our sisters and mother (i.e. ladies are safe). We are free from the fact that we can show freely that we are muslims.
I went back to home and asked my Nanii who performed the Hijrat herself while the Pakistan came into being. The facts she told me confirmed Aleem bhai's story, well, atleast the part where he discussed the movement for Pakistan. I realized that how one can live after dying. We are not here for tafreeh and hallah gullah. We have certian responsibilities and that is to give protection to those who can not protect themselves.
Well, I don't know about you people but I literally cried for help from Allah on my way back to home and wasn't able to sleep very well through the night. I was seeing myself in the condition as the Aleem bhai has stated when Balwaii attacked on the house.
And wasn't sure what to do, so, I prayed to Allah and realized that only Allah can protect anybody not me nor anybody. But still there are so many feelings of mine which I need to understand.
Honestly, people I am not joking. May be you people think that I am getting weak by crying out for help, but the more I gave it a thought, the more helpless I felt and asked Allah for help. Khair.
Don't want to ruin you people's good mode.
So, take-care.
http://www.ummat.com.pk/Kahanian/ishq_ka_sheen.htm
Allah-Hafiz.
Friday, March 11, 2005
Aga Khan University Examination Board
This blogger starts another blog which will have a collection of information, news items, statements for and against, and various opinions and op-eds related to the first private board in Pakistan - the Aga Khan University Examination Board.
URL:http://aku-exam-board.blogspot.com/
URL:http://aku-exam-board.blogspot.com/
Thursday, March 10, 2005
Gadgets
I don't know what to define about gadgets :S .
Anyways, gadgets are devices one can use for entertainment or to perform any regular daily task. Gadget can be mechanical or electronic device.
Some of examples of these days popular gadgets are
-Mobile Phone
-MP3 players
-Digital Cameras
-Portable media players
-USB drives
BTW my favourtite device these days ismy Nokia N-Gage. Its really a very cool thing. Some of its salient features are
-Its a mobile phone(with GPRS and MMS).
-Its a 3D game deck.
-Its an MP3 player.
-Its a video player(supports Real Media, AVIs and some other formats).
-Low price (I bought in Rs.9600 with 128MB MMC)
-I've installed complete Quran also in it, which can be read by surah or ayah bookmarks.(Just some KBs)
BUT no cam :( and MONO sound.
Whats your favourite Gadget??
Anyways, gadgets are devices one can use for entertainment or to perform any regular daily task. Gadget can be mechanical or electronic device.
Some of examples of these days popular gadgets are
-Mobile Phone
-MP3 players
-Digital Cameras
-Portable media players
-USB drives
BTW my favourtite device these days ismy Nokia N-Gage. Its really a very cool thing. Some of its salient features are
-Its a mobile phone(with GPRS and MMS).
-Its a 3D game deck.
-Its an MP3 player.
-Its a video player(supports Real Media, AVIs and some other formats).
-Low price (I bought in Rs.9600 with 128MB MMC)
-I've installed complete Quran also in it, which can be read by surah or ayah bookmarks.(Just some KBs)
BUT no cam :( and MONO sound.
Whats your favourite Gadget??
Wednesday, March 09, 2005
It might be a VERY good joke!
LUCKNOW, India (Reuters) - An Indian teenager from one of the country's most backward states appears to have fooled governments, the media and even the president into believing he had topped the world in a NASA science exam.
In a country hungry for international recognition, 17-year-old Saurabh Singh was feted as a national hero after announcing he had won .... read more..
Its really stupendous!!! Hats-off for 17-year-old Saurabh Singh :-)
In a country hungry for international recognition, 17-year-old Saurabh Singh was feted as a national hero after announcing he had won .... read more..
Its really stupendous!!! Hats-off for 17-year-old Saurabh Singh :-)
Monday, March 07, 2005
Top 10 Gadgets of Current year
Sony PSP tipped as a 'must-have' Sony's Playstation Portable is the top UK gadget for 2005, according to a round-up of ultimate gizmos compiled by Stuff Magazine. It beats the iPod into second place in the Top Ten Essentials list which predicts what gadget-lovers are likely to covet this year. Owning all 10 gadgets will set the gadget lover back £7,455. That is £1,000 cheaper than last year's list due to falling manufacturing costs making gadgets more affordable. High street habits Portable gadgets dominate the list, including Sharp's 902 3G mobile phone, the Pentax Optio SV digital camera and Samsung's Yepp YH-999 video jukebox. TOP 10 GADGETS Sony PSP iPod Photo 60GB Sharp 902 3G mobile phone Pentax Optio SV digital camera Sony VAIO VGN-T2 laptop Samsung Yepp YH-999 Philips 32PF9986 Home Cinema Pentax Optio MX4 tapeless camcorder Blaupunkt Chicago IVDM-7002 satellite navigation BT Aviator 10M DAB radio
SOURCE BBC read more..
Some Links:
Sony Portable Play Station;
Not released yet, but Surprisingly on Top of the list.
Samsung YH999 Video Juke Box
Sharp 902 3G Mobile Phone
SOURCE BBC read more..
Some Links:
Sony Portable Play Station;
Not released yet, but Surprisingly on Top of the list.
Samsung YH999 Video Juke Box
Sharp 902 3G Mobile Phone
I agree...
Well, It is very difficult to go through each forum each day and keep track that what is the answer to your statement. There is lot more but at this instant I am out of time. So, Cheers.
Thursday, March 03, 2005
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my opinion:)
Wednesday, March 02, 2005
A new blog of mine....
Assalaam-O-Alaikum,
Well, I was going through my previous blogs that I am becoming so desperate to get married. Yeah Yeah, Aaay Dee and others I realized 2OOOOOOO. Well, I decided that I'll write my own stuff on this blog and rest of the articles that I read regarding marriage and stuff will not at all be published over here but on the other blog i.e.
http://islamicmarriage.blogspot.com
Yeah, you are thinking straight I am not giving up writting related to my feelings on this blog but rather changing the unnecessary material over here.
Allah-Hafiz.
Well, I was going through my previous blogs that I am becoming so desperate to get married. Yeah Yeah, Aaay Dee and others I realized 2OOOOOOO. Well, I decided that I'll write my own stuff on this blog and rest of the articles that I read regarding marriage and stuff will not at all be published over here but on the other blog i.e.
http://islamicmarriage.blogspot.com
Yeah, you are thinking straight I am not giving up writting related to my feelings on this blog but rather changing the unnecessary material over here.
Allah-Hafiz.
Monday, February 28, 2005
IBM's been so fed up with Java
An Extract from news:
"IBM's been so fed up with Java that they've been looking for alternatives for years," the executive said. "They want people to build applications quickly that tap into IBM back-ends...and with Java, it just isn't happening."
humm..
weep or cry?? O o no i mean sob...err..I mean u know..u know yaar!!!...lolz..at the moment I need to finish my Sooper Cookies and Tea...will comment on this nonsense soon!
PHP dumbo compete superb Java? no way !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"IBM's been so fed up with Java that they've been looking for alternatives for years," the executive said. "They want people to build applications quickly that tap into IBM back-ends...and with Java, it just isn't happening."
humm..
weep or cry?? O o no i mean sob...err..I mean u know..u know yaar!!!...lolz..at the moment I need to finish my Sooper Cookies and Tea...will comment on this nonsense soon!
PHP dumbo compete superb Java? no way !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Saturday, February 26, 2005
Is talking to your girl after engagement allowed. ( it is difficult but May Allah Help us.)
At the outset, we wish to point out that the western concept of engagement has no basis in Islam. That is the way of the Kuffaar. Rasulullah [Sallallaahu Alayhi Wasallam] said, ‘Whosoever imitates a nation is from among them.’
At most, an engagement is only a promise to marry. It should not be a celebration of a mini marriage as is the norm. Once a boy and girl is proposed to marry, they are still Ghayr Mahram unto one another. Ghayr Mahrams are those people that are not prohibited unto one another in marriage. It is compulsory to maintain the laws of Hijaab for Ghayr Mahrams. It is, therefore, prohibited for you to communicate with your future to be. The reason of getting to know one another has no basis. If there was any merit in that, then such marriages ought to be always successful and prosperous as the decision to marry has been on sound basis.
It is a normal practise in the western world to court before marriage, yet the divorce rate among them is extremely high. In the US, the divorce rate is 4 out of 5. The Darul Ifta has observed and handled many such marital disputes wherein the couples knew one another before marriage for a long time. The relationship suddenly sours after the marriage. In many cases, the spouses have stated that the attitude before marriage was different and changed only after marriage. Surely that synthetic positive approach was just to achieve one’s motive. It is also important to examine this issue from another angle. Everything has its full strength and limits. In such a premarital relationship, couples exhaust much of their natural resources of love and do not have much left when the actual time comes to express that. After marriage, love is an old boring affair and there is not much hope for building a loving marriage. Alhamdulillah, in Islam, individuals have the full resources of love and express it at the appropriate time, thus building a solid foundation of love. The concept of keeping contact with each other before marriage to know one another is incorrect and un-Islamic. There are many couples that have been dumped and abused by the ‘faithful’ partners.
and Allah Ta'ala Knows Best
Mufti Ebrahim Desai
At most, an engagement is only a promise to marry. It should not be a celebration of a mini marriage as is the norm. Once a boy and girl is proposed to marry, they are still Ghayr Mahram unto one another. Ghayr Mahrams are those people that are not prohibited unto one another in marriage. It is compulsory to maintain the laws of Hijaab for Ghayr Mahrams. It is, therefore, prohibited for you to communicate with your future to be. The reason of getting to know one another has no basis. If there was any merit in that, then such marriages ought to be always successful and prosperous as the decision to marry has been on sound basis.
It is a normal practise in the western world to court before marriage, yet the divorce rate among them is extremely high. In the US, the divorce rate is 4 out of 5. The Darul Ifta has observed and handled many such marital disputes wherein the couples knew one another before marriage for a long time. The relationship suddenly sours after the marriage. In many cases, the spouses have stated that the attitude before marriage was different and changed only after marriage. Surely that synthetic positive approach was just to achieve one’s motive. It is also important to examine this issue from another angle. Everything has its full strength and limits. In such a premarital relationship, couples exhaust much of their natural resources of love and do not have much left when the actual time comes to express that. After marriage, love is an old boring affair and there is not much hope for building a loving marriage. Alhamdulillah, in Islam, individuals have the full resources of love and express it at the appropriate time, thus building a solid foundation of love. The concept of keeping contact with each other before marriage to know one another is incorrect and un-Islamic. There are many couples that have been dumped and abused by the ‘faithful’ partners.
and Allah Ta'ala Knows Best
Mufti Ebrahim Desai
The article I would like my wife ( Once I'll get one. :) )
Why Should I Wear The Hijaab ?
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This is a good question and there is a beautiful answer! Allaah has commanded us with every action that is good for us and prohibited us from performing every action that is bad for us. Allaah orders the Muslim woman to wear the hijaab when she steps out of the security of her home or when in the presence of strange men. So to wear the hijaab is a source of great good for you - the Muslim woman - for many reasons. Among them:
1. You please Allaah. You are obeying the commands of your Lord when you wear the hijaab and you can expect great rewards in return.
2. It is Allaah's protection of your natural beauty. You are too precious to be "on display" for each man to see.
3. It is Allaah's preservation of your chastity.
4. Allaah purifies your heart and mind through the hijaab.
5. Allaah beautifies your inner and outer countenance with hijaab. Outwardly your hijaab reflects innocence, purity, modesty, shyness, serenity, contentment and obedience to your Lord. Inwardly you cultivate the same.
6. Allaah defines your femininity through the hijaab. You are a woman who respects her womanhood. Allaah wants you to be respected by others, and for you to respect yourself.
7. Allaah raises your dignity through the hijaab. When a strange man looks at you, he respects you because he sees that you respect yourself.
8. Allaah protects your honour 100% through your hijaab. Men do not gaze at you in a sensual way, they do not approach you in a sensual way, and neither do they speak to you in a sensual way. Rather, a man holds you in high esteem and that is just by one glance at you!
9. Allaah gives you nobility through the hijaab. You are noble not degraded because you covered not naked.
10. Allaah demonstrates your equality as a Muslim woman through the hijaab. Your Lord bestows upon you equal worth as your male counterpart, and gives you a host of beautiful rights and liberties. You express your acceptance of these unique rights by putting on the hijaab.
11. Allaah defines your role as a Muslim woman through the hijaab. You are a someone with important duties. You are a reflection of a woman of action not idle pursuits. You display your sense of direction and purpose through your hijaab. You are someone that people take seriously.
12. Allaah expresses your independence through the hijaab. You are stating clearly that you are an obedient servant of the Greatest Master. You will obey no one else and follow no other way. You are not a slave to any man, nor a slave to any nation. You are free and independent from all man-made systems.
13. Allaah gives you the freedom of movement and expression through the hijaab. You are able to move about and communicate without fear of harassment. Your hijaab gives you a unique confidence.
14. Allaah wants others to treat you - a Muslim woman - with kindness. And the hijaab brings about the best treatment of men towards you.
15. Allaah wants your beauty to be preserved and saved for just one man to enjoy - your husband.
16. Allaah helps you to enjoy a successful marriage through wearing hijaab. Because you reserve your beauty for one man alone, your husband's love for you increases, he cherishes you more, he respects you more and he honours you more. So your hijaab contributes to a successful and lasting marriage relationship.
17. Allaah brings about peace and stability in the society through the hijaab! Yes this is true! Men do not cause corruption by forming illegal relationships because you - the Muslim woman - calm their passions. When a man looks at you, he feels at ease, not tempted to fornicate.
So a Muslim woman in hijaab is dignified, not dishonoured, noble, not degraded, liberated, not subjugated, purified, not sullied, independent, not a slave, protected, not exposed, respected, not laughed at, confident, not insecure, obedient, not a sinner, a guarded pearl, not a prostitute.
Dear Muslim sister! Come towards the gates of Paradise with us! Fulfill your duties towards Allaah, put on your adornment - put on your hijaab, and race towards Jannah (Paradise) by doing all good actions. You should agree by now that wearing hijaab is extremely beneficial - it must be - because Allaah only commands what is good. and believe me dear sister, it is good to obey the commands of your Lord.
"Their reward is with their Lord: Gardens of Eden underneath which rivers flow wherein they will dwell for ever; Allaah is pleased with them, and they are pleased with Him; this is (in store) for whoever fears his Lord." [Sooratul-Bayyinah 98:8]
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This is a good question and there is a beautiful answer! Allaah has commanded us with every action that is good for us and prohibited us from performing every action that is bad for us. Allaah orders the Muslim woman to wear the hijaab when she steps out of the security of her home or when in the presence of strange men. So to wear the hijaab is a source of great good for you - the Muslim woman - for many reasons. Among them:
1. You please Allaah. You are obeying the commands of your Lord when you wear the hijaab and you can expect great rewards in return.
2. It is Allaah's protection of your natural beauty. You are too precious to be "on display" for each man to see.
3. It is Allaah's preservation of your chastity.
4. Allaah purifies your heart and mind through the hijaab.
5. Allaah beautifies your inner and outer countenance with hijaab. Outwardly your hijaab reflects innocence, purity, modesty, shyness, serenity, contentment and obedience to your Lord. Inwardly you cultivate the same.
6. Allaah defines your femininity through the hijaab. You are a woman who respects her womanhood. Allaah wants you to be respected by others, and for you to respect yourself.
7. Allaah raises your dignity through the hijaab. When a strange man looks at you, he respects you because he sees that you respect yourself.
8. Allaah protects your honour 100% through your hijaab. Men do not gaze at you in a sensual way, they do not approach you in a sensual way, and neither do they speak to you in a sensual way. Rather, a man holds you in high esteem and that is just by one glance at you!
9. Allaah gives you nobility through the hijaab. You are noble not degraded because you covered not naked.
10. Allaah demonstrates your equality as a Muslim woman through the hijaab. Your Lord bestows upon you equal worth as your male counterpart, and gives you a host of beautiful rights and liberties. You express your acceptance of these unique rights by putting on the hijaab.
11. Allaah defines your role as a Muslim woman through the hijaab. You are a someone with important duties. You are a reflection of a woman of action not idle pursuits. You display your sense of direction and purpose through your hijaab. You are someone that people take seriously.
12. Allaah expresses your independence through the hijaab. You are stating clearly that you are an obedient servant of the Greatest Master. You will obey no one else and follow no other way. You are not a slave to any man, nor a slave to any nation. You are free and independent from all man-made systems.
13. Allaah gives you the freedom of movement and expression through the hijaab. You are able to move about and communicate without fear of harassment. Your hijaab gives you a unique confidence.
14. Allaah wants others to treat you - a Muslim woman - with kindness. And the hijaab brings about the best treatment of men towards you.
15. Allaah wants your beauty to be preserved and saved for just one man to enjoy - your husband.
16. Allaah helps you to enjoy a successful marriage through wearing hijaab. Because you reserve your beauty for one man alone, your husband's love for you increases, he cherishes you more, he respects you more and he honours you more. So your hijaab contributes to a successful and lasting marriage relationship.
17. Allaah brings about peace and stability in the society through the hijaab! Yes this is true! Men do not cause corruption by forming illegal relationships because you - the Muslim woman - calm their passions. When a man looks at you, he feels at ease, not tempted to fornicate.
So a Muslim woman in hijaab is dignified, not dishonoured, noble, not degraded, liberated, not subjugated, purified, not sullied, independent, not a slave, protected, not exposed, respected, not laughed at, confident, not insecure, obedient, not a sinner, a guarded pearl, not a prostitute.
Dear Muslim sister! Come towards the gates of Paradise with us! Fulfill your duties towards Allaah, put on your adornment - put on your hijaab, and race towards Jannah (Paradise) by doing all good actions. You should agree by now that wearing hijaab is extremely beneficial - it must be - because Allaah only commands what is good. and believe me dear sister, it is good to obey the commands of your Lord.
"Their reward is with their Lord: Gardens of Eden underneath which rivers flow wherein they will dwell for ever; Allaah is pleased with them, and they are pleased with Him; this is (in store) for whoever fears his Lord." [Sooratul-Bayyinah 98:8]
Monday, February 21, 2005
Good Times for Pakistan
"These are the good times for Pakistan," said the Cathay Pacific manager in Los Angeles, who is originally from Karachi. Decades of neglect are being compensated (and in some cases overcompensated) by the government of President Pervez Musharraf. Investment is pouring in from countries in the Persian Gulf, from India, and especially from China.
Full Story...
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/40418.html
Refering this article, doesn't mean that the blogger agreed all of the points discussed in article.
Regards
Imran
Full Story...
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/40418.html
Refering this article, doesn't mean that the blogger agreed all of the points discussed in article.
Regards
Imran
Friday, February 18, 2005
Large Value Capacitors
I really amazed when I was working on the BOM(Bill of Materials) of our new product. I saw some suppliers(Digikey, Mouser) offering capacitors of value more than 1 Farad. Yes its more than 1 Farad.This large value is generally used as a battery for Real Time Clock chips etc.
Before that I thought Farad is very big value and one can not have a capacitor of 1 Farad. So if any one ask u that if there any capcitor possible of one Farad say YES !BTW u can take a look at http://www.digi-key.com/ (U'll have to search for). Not expensive though about $2 and yes size is also very small like a coin battery on your mother boards.
Before that I thought Farad is very big value and one can not have a capacitor of 1 Farad. So if any one ask u that if there any capcitor possible of one Farad say YES !BTW u can take a look at http://www.digi-key.com/ (U'll have to search for). Not expensive though about $2 and yes size is also very small like a coin battery on your mother boards.
The Rediff Interview/Jehan Ara, President, PASHA:
red:Could tell us about the business deals that the Pakistani companies have signed deals with Indian companies?
ja:An IT company, Emmaculate Solutions, has signed a deal with i-flex solutions to sell i-flex products in Pakistan.
Another company, Delhi-based company Compare has signed a contract with Creative Chaos to set up 6 Web portals on Pakistan's tourism sector. The content will be developed by the Pakistani company while the technology will be facilitated by the Indian company. The first portal was launched on February 9.
A company called Yevolve will be signing an MoU with an Indian transportation company to sell their e-ticketing solution.
Another company Arwen Tech, in the BPO (business process outsourcing) sector, will be entering into an agreement with Hewitt India to expand services in Pakistan in the call centre business.
SI3 is in talks with ICICI Infotech. In the financial and call centre business, there are lot of activities taking place as Pakistan is keen to expand its call centre business.
read more..
ja:An IT company, Emmaculate Solutions, has signed a deal with i-flex solutions to sell i-flex products in Pakistan.
Another company, Delhi-based company Compare has signed a contract with Creative Chaos to set up 6 Web portals on Pakistan's tourism sector. The content will be developed by the Pakistani company while the technology will be facilitated by the Indian company. The first portal was launched on February 9.
A company called Yevolve will be signing an MoU with an Indian transportation company to sell their e-ticketing solution.
Another company Arwen Tech, in the BPO (business process outsourcing) sector, will be entering into an agreement with Hewitt India to expand services in Pakistan in the call centre business.
SI3 is in talks with ICICI Infotech. In the financial and call centre business, there are lot of activities taking place as Pakistan is keen to expand its call centre business.
read more..
Thursday, February 17, 2005
Someone keeps stealing my letters...so CUTE man!!!
I almost lost my hour in this CUTE-stupid game - but its really a silly fun :-)
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
Saturday, February 05, 2005
Friday, February 04, 2005
Thursday, February 03, 2005
Lasers help bridge network gap
WOW!..An Indian telecommunications firm has turned to lasers to help it overcome the problems of setting up voice and data networks in the country.
Tata Teleservices is using the lasers to make the link between customers' offices and its own core network. read more
- hello PTA?????
Tata Teleservices is using the lasers to make the link between customers' offices and its own core network. read more
- hello PTA?????
Bauhat Dinoon Kii Baat Hay
Bauhat Dinoon Kii Baat Hay
Fazaa Koo Yaad Bhii Nahien
Yeh Baat Aaaj Kii Nahien
Bauhat Dinoon Kii Baat Hay
Shabab Pur Bahaar Thii
Fazaa Bhii Khush Gawar Thii
Kissii Nain Mujh Koo Rook Kar
Badi Adaa Seh Took Ker
Kahaa Thaa Laut Aaa Iyay
Meri Kasam Naan Jaa Iyay
Aaaj Phir Wohi Shaam Hay
Keh Bahar Jiss Kaa Naam Hay
Naan Janay Main Kiyoon Machal Pada
Main Chal Pada Salam KOo
Nai Tarang Daikh Kar
Fazaa Kaa Rang Daikh Kar
Mujhay Badi Khushi Hoi
Main Kuch Issi Khushi Main Thaa
Kissi Nain Rook Kar Kaha
Meri Qasam Naan Aaa Iyay
Para aiy Ghar Seh Jaa Iyay
Tab Mujhay Khabar Naan Thi
Mahool Peh Nazar Naan Thii
Keh Wooh Jou Mujh Seh Door Thi
Magar Meri Zaroor Thi
Magar Meri Zaroor Thi
Aab Koi Nahien Jou Rook Kar
Koi Nahien Jou Took Kar
Kahay Keh Loot Aaa Iyay
Meriii Qasam Naan Jaa Iyay.
Fazaa Koo Yaad Bhii Nahien
Yeh Baat Aaaj Kii Nahien
Bauhat Dinoon Kii Baat Hay
Shabab Pur Bahaar Thii
Fazaa Bhii Khush Gawar Thii
Kissii Nain Mujh Koo Rook Kar
Badi Adaa Seh Took Ker
Kahaa Thaa Laut Aaa Iyay
Meri Kasam Naan Jaa Iyay
Aaaj Phir Wohi Shaam Hay
Keh Bahar Jiss Kaa Naam Hay
Naan Janay Main Kiyoon Machal Pada
Main Chal Pada Salam KOo
Nai Tarang Daikh Kar
Fazaa Kaa Rang Daikh Kar
Mujhay Badi Khushi Hoi
Main Kuch Issi Khushi Main Thaa
Kissi Nain Rook Kar Kaha
Meri Qasam Naan Aaa Iyay
Para aiy Ghar Seh Jaa Iyay
Tab Mujhay Khabar Naan Thi
Mahool Peh Nazar Naan Thii
Keh Wooh Jou Mujh Seh Door Thi
Magar Meri Zaroor Thi
Magar Meri Zaroor Thi
Aab Koi Nahien Jou Rook Kar
Koi Nahien Jou Took Kar
Kahay Keh Loot Aaa Iyay
Meriii Qasam Naan Jaa Iyay.
Naan Kissi Kii Aankh Kaa Noor Hoon
Naan Kissi Kii Aankh Kaa Noor Hoon
Naan Kissi Keh Dill Kaa Qaraar HOoon
Joo Kissi Keh Kaam Naan Aaa Sakaa
Main Wooh Aik Mushk-e Ghubar Hoon
Hanstii Aaankhain Khiltay Chehray
Sabb Aik Bahanaan Hay
Intizaar Main Sach Much Noor Kahaan
Intizaar Tou Khud Aik Weeranaan Hay.
Naan Kissi Keh Dill Kaa Qaraar HOoon
Joo Kissi Keh Kaam Naan Aaa Sakaa
Main Wooh Aik Mushk-e Ghubar Hoon
Hanstii Aaankhain Khiltay Chehray
Sabb Aik Bahanaan Hay
Intizaar Main Sach Much Noor Kahaan
Intizaar Tou Khud Aik Weeranaan Hay.
Friday, January 28, 2005
is Netscape optional ? no way!!!!
Its really sucks when any web site doesn't support your favourite browser.Yes I love Netscape and unfortunately found most of the Pakistani's site running without its support or they just become spaghetti when opted to browse with NS ;Pathetic! no?
Anyway just have some weary clicks on PEC & taste its spaghetti-ness with NS; its scrumptious ...:)try it
And yeah PEC's site asking something with a tone of lion-roar; yes here it is:
Message from PEC to all of its valued members ...
"All Engineers registered with PEC as Professional Engineers are advised to use the word "Engineer" or "Engr" as a prefix to their names."
okay, me obedient..
Engr.Aay Dee ;)
Besides ironies, this updated version of PEC's site is a bit better than prevoius one, but with IE.
Anyway just have some weary clicks on PEC & taste its spaghetti-ness with NS; its scrumptious ...:)try it
And yeah PEC's site asking something with a tone of lion-roar; yes here it is:
Message from PEC to all of its valued members ...
"All Engineers registered with PEC as Professional Engineers are advised to use the word "Engineer" or "Engr" as a prefix to their names."
okay, me obedient..
Engr.Aay Dee ;)
Besides ironies, this updated version of PEC's site is a bit better than prevoius one, but with IE.
Wednesday, January 26, 2005
open source
If you dont have any specific definition of Open Source then check this Definition. Also get your self update with OS News.
Tuesday, January 25, 2005
Saturday, January 15, 2005
we are changing..
we are trying to put some techno-flavour in this blog.Very soon you will find a different world here:).inshAllah
Wednesday, January 12, 2005
An answer of question "What you think of Islam as most terrorists are muslims" on bbc
Assalaam-O-Alaikum,
Guten Morgan ( Good Morning )
Well, did I mentioned I am learning German now-a-days. Well, I guess now I don't have to explain that why I am off the picture now-a-days.
I have answered so many times on BBC about there stupid questions but they never publish my answers. Khair, I thought why not to publish over here, so, here it is:
Well, Islam is a great religion. The problem is who is setting the standard for terrorism? Anybody who asks about his right to servive and if not acknolwdged tries to get that right is labeled as terrorist. Everybody is using this word to get hold of the resources of the world. By the way I am not amused by it as it is the part of signs of Qiyamat( Dooms day)
Allah-Hafiz.
Guten Morgan ( Good Morning )
Well, did I mentioned I am learning German now-a-days. Well, I guess now I don't have to explain that why I am off the picture now-a-days.
I have answered so many times on BBC about there stupid questions but they never publish my answers. Khair, I thought why not to publish over here, so, here it is:
Well, Islam is a great religion. The problem is who is setting the standard for terrorism? Anybody who asks about his right to servive and if not acknolwdged tries to get that right is labeled as terrorist. Everybody is using this word to get hold of the resources of the world. By the way I am not amused by it as it is the part of signs of Qiyamat( Dooms day)
Allah-Hafiz.
Thursday, December 16, 2004
yellow!!!!!!! its 9:30 pm n this is Aay Dee reporting from his world...hey there!
i m out..yes, out to write a long long post here...my life isn't particularly exciting... or maybe it's so excting and secret and underground that I can't post it all here ..:-) khair..i plan to up this blog again...till i back on track..tata;
i m out..yes, out to write a long long post here...my life isn't particularly exciting... or maybe it's so excting and secret and underground that I can't post it all here ..:-) khair..i plan to up this blog again...till i back on track..tata;
Monday, November 29, 2004
Tips for a Successful IT Career : by Tee Emm
Information Technology has taken our lives by storm. No matter who you are,you are bound to be affected by the advent of Information Technology. If technologies are about changing human life and improving its quality, noother technology does a better justice to this notion than IT.
We acknowledge the fact that Information Technology has, and will have, a driving - force impact on our lives. By the same token, Information Technology education and training is essential in today's environment.
We will talk about a few tips that can be consumed by young fellows who are either into IT Education or are entering into a professional IT Career. All this also applies equally well for people who are following some other profession 'applying' the Information Technology to their respective professional fields.
Tip 1: Identify yourself.
First off, identify yourself. Ask yourself if you would want to be an IT-Enabled Professional or a pure IT Professional? While apparently simple, this could be a tricky question. You could either be a 'Database Administrator' or a 'Finance Executive who does his Databases on his own'. You could be a 'CAD/CAM Guru' or a 'Mechanical Engineer who does everything on his machine'.
Once you answer this question, you are done with finding the right balance to strike between the endeavors in your professional career (or education) and your IT career (or education). The earlier you identify yourself, the less time you are likely to waste in a wrong direction.
Tip 2: Identify Your Key Technology Area. Information Technology is sort of a Swiss knife with all sorts of stuff bundled under the same label. There is a multitude of areas that can be classified under the IT umbrella and they are as diversified as they could possibly be. (Consider the divide between Computer Graphic Designing and Database Development - all being popularly
bundled under the two-letter magic word! )
One of the most important things you need to decide right in the beginning is the Key Technology Area you would be following in the rest of your foreseeable future. Of course, being dynamic in terms of goals and ambitions is good but there is a lot of difference between being dynamic and being undecided. If you are just getting into IT education, it's okay to take a diet that is a mix of a handful of technologies. But otherwise, you need to decide your key technology area. Nothing is more painful than to see someone into an IT career for tens of months being still undecided on this essential issue.
Tip 3: Don't Forget the Basics:
Whether you are into IT education or pursuing a professional career related to Information Technology, it is of utmost importance that you keep the 'basic rules and principles' of your technology in front of you all the time. Once you know what key technical area you belong to, identify basic rules and principles of that area. You would learn a few from the text books, a few from gurus around you and yet a few more from your own (most bad!) experiences.
If the current trend is to carry on, your 'Inbox' will remain a constant source of buzzwords and jargons that are constantly shot at you. These buzzwords and jargons usually tend to de-focus the activities of an average IT professional. You should be able to filter through this buzzword bombardment, sorting out the essentials from the junk. The mantra is to keep applying new trends and technologies in your respective interest areas as long as they go in-line with the basic rules and principals.
The quality of your day to day work and projects will depend greatly on the fact whether you kept the basics in mind while working on them or not. No amount of money or multitude of expensive equipment can undo the wrongs instigated because basic rules and principals were ignored in the design phase of a project. Learn your basics. And remember them!
Tip 4: Make Smart Use of Internet.
Today's corporate environment (and for that matter, IT Education campus) is extremely competitive. Unless you are the owner of your company, you either move up in the organization, or you move out of it. Remaining ahead of the rest of the crowd is a tricky job and requires a constant effort on your part. If you are pursuing a career in Information Technology, it is almost certain that Internet can be the very
tool you need to achieve this target of being a leader.
Making smart use of Internet sounds rather a trivial idea but just give it a thought and you would be amazed to see how often your class-fellows and co-workers get stuck up - and remain there - with issues answers to which are just a few keystrokes and clicks away. Making smart use of Internet might require some 'forced' practice for a few of us. Every time you face an issue, ask yourself how to address it by making an intelligent use of the Internet. With practice, you will see that making smart use of Internet lifts your efficiency levels up.
People who make smart use of Internet find themselves leading the crowd. Whether you are a student or a worker, remember that whatever you are doing now must have been done by someone out there. Remember that whatever stuff you are looking for, it might already be present on the Internet. Once again, there is a lot of difference between indulging in plagiarism and avoiding re-inventing the wheel every time you need one!
Tip 5: Interact.
As you move ahead in your IT career, you will realize how important it is to consolidate the new information and techniques that you learn everyday. Thanks to Internet, you can remain a student of your related field for as long as you desire. As new information makes its way to you, you would want to absorb all of it. This is a difficult job unless you make sure that you consolidate your existing information load on a regular basis.
A proven technique of strengthening your knowledge is 'Interaction' with others in the same field. What you teach to others is guaranteed to remain fresh in your mind for a very long time. As soon as you learn a new technique that relates to your area, teach it to someone. And this teach-to-learn exercise needs not be a formal one in a conventional class-room style. It can very well be done as you drive you buddy in your car to drop him home.
Like the rest of the things, Internet let you 'interact' in new, more exciting and more efficient ways. Identify your key technology area and then you can either join in an existing interest group or better still, identify people around you who have a potential for it and form a group of your own. Start a small, local mailing list for the group. Use free group-tools such as Yahoo! Groups (http://groups.yahoo.com) or Smartgroups (http://www.smartgroups.com) to build your community. Help people who are
new to the interest group making use of whatever you have learnt in the past.
If you are more confident, you can go even further. Team up with a few more people who are technically sound in your area of interest and organize 'Boot Camps' and short duration 'Workshops' for those who are new to your technology area. If you decide to be helpful, you would be amazed to see how much interested people could get.
You can also consider giving a try to technical writing. Technical writing can take many different shapes. You can write How-To documents for stuff you think you are good at. ('How-tos' are documents that target specific issues within a given technology area describing very precisely how to go about doing any thing). You can also write 'Beginners Guides' on topics that interest you. In the beginning, you can get you write-ups peer reviewed so that they are okay for consumption. Mailing lists could be great for this peer reviewing.
Tip 6: Keep a 'Book of Lessons'.
Try aintaining a small 'Book of Lessons'. A BoL is a set of very specific technical tips that you collect during your educational or professional career. Make a note of every lesson that you learn after an incident. Mistakes that ate up your entire days can be properly cashed if you derive proper lessons from them and then actually apply them afterwards. You can use an Internet blog to keep this BoL so that it is readily available over the Internet. [A blog is a facility that lets you maintain a log about anything off a website. You write your log on a website and when you publish it, it becomes the part of the website. For more information, check out http://www.blogger.com and
http://www.userland.com].
Tip 7: Develop a 'Financial Sense'.
People pursuing an IT career pose a general risk of being labeled as a 'purely technical' entity. People around you, and even you yourself, might end up marking limits around you that force you to remain a techy for the rest of your life. And it is not just about perceptions alone. A technical person who does not have a good financial sense would face problem sooner or later. Whether your job requires it or not, try to develop a financial sense that relates directly to your technology area.
Courtesy:Tee Emm
We acknowledge the fact that Information Technology has, and will have, a driving - force impact on our lives. By the same token, Information Technology education and training is essential in today's environment.
We will talk about a few tips that can be consumed by young fellows who are either into IT Education or are entering into a professional IT Career. All this also applies equally well for people who are following some other profession 'applying' the Information Technology to their respective professional fields.
Tip 1: Identify yourself.
First off, identify yourself. Ask yourself if you would want to be an IT-Enabled Professional or a pure IT Professional? While apparently simple, this could be a tricky question. You could either be a 'Database Administrator' or a 'Finance Executive who does his Databases on his own'. You could be a 'CAD/CAM Guru' or a 'Mechanical Engineer who does everything on his machine'.
Once you answer this question, you are done with finding the right balance to strike between the endeavors in your professional career (or education) and your IT career (or education). The earlier you identify yourself, the less time you are likely to waste in a wrong direction.
Tip 2: Identify Your Key Technology Area. Information Technology is sort of a Swiss knife with all sorts of stuff bundled under the same label. There is a multitude of areas that can be classified under the IT umbrella and they are as diversified as they could possibly be. (Consider the divide between Computer Graphic Designing and Database Development - all being popularly
bundled under the two-letter magic word! )
One of the most important things you need to decide right in the beginning is the Key Technology Area you would be following in the rest of your foreseeable future. Of course, being dynamic in terms of goals and ambitions is good but there is a lot of difference between being dynamic and being undecided. If you are just getting into IT education, it's okay to take a diet that is a mix of a handful of technologies. But otherwise, you need to decide your key technology area. Nothing is more painful than to see someone into an IT career for tens of months being still undecided on this essential issue.
Tip 3: Don't Forget the Basics:
Whether you are into IT education or pursuing a professional career related to Information Technology, it is of utmost importance that you keep the 'basic rules and principles' of your technology in front of you all the time. Once you know what key technical area you belong to, identify basic rules and principles of that area. You would learn a few from the text books, a few from gurus around you and yet a few more from your own (most bad!) experiences.
If the current trend is to carry on, your 'Inbox' will remain a constant source of buzzwords and jargons that are constantly shot at you. These buzzwords and jargons usually tend to de-focus the activities of an average IT professional. You should be able to filter through this buzzword bombardment, sorting out the essentials from the junk. The mantra is to keep applying new trends and technologies in your respective interest areas as long as they go in-line with the basic rules and principals.
The quality of your day to day work and projects will depend greatly on the fact whether you kept the basics in mind while working on them or not. No amount of money or multitude of expensive equipment can undo the wrongs instigated because basic rules and principals were ignored in the design phase of a project. Learn your basics. And remember them!
Tip 4: Make Smart Use of Internet.
Today's corporate environment (and for that matter, IT Education campus) is extremely competitive. Unless you are the owner of your company, you either move up in the organization, or you move out of it. Remaining ahead of the rest of the crowd is a tricky job and requires a constant effort on your part. If you are pursuing a career in Information Technology, it is almost certain that Internet can be the very
tool you need to achieve this target of being a leader.
Making smart use of Internet sounds rather a trivial idea but just give it a thought and you would be amazed to see how often your class-fellows and co-workers get stuck up - and remain there - with issues answers to which are just a few keystrokes and clicks away. Making smart use of Internet might require some 'forced' practice for a few of us. Every time you face an issue, ask yourself how to address it by making an intelligent use of the Internet. With practice, you will see that making smart use of Internet lifts your efficiency levels up.
People who make smart use of Internet find themselves leading the crowd. Whether you are a student or a worker, remember that whatever you are doing now must have been done by someone out there. Remember that whatever stuff you are looking for, it might already be present on the Internet. Once again, there is a lot of difference between indulging in plagiarism and avoiding re-inventing the wheel every time you need one!
Tip 5: Interact.
As you move ahead in your IT career, you will realize how important it is to consolidate the new information and techniques that you learn everyday. Thanks to Internet, you can remain a student of your related field for as long as you desire. As new information makes its way to you, you would want to absorb all of it. This is a difficult job unless you make sure that you consolidate your existing information load on a regular basis.
A proven technique of strengthening your knowledge is 'Interaction' with others in the same field. What you teach to others is guaranteed to remain fresh in your mind for a very long time. As soon as you learn a new technique that relates to your area, teach it to someone. And this teach-to-learn exercise needs not be a formal one in a conventional class-room style. It can very well be done as you drive you buddy in your car to drop him home.
Like the rest of the things, Internet let you 'interact' in new, more exciting and more efficient ways. Identify your key technology area and then you can either join in an existing interest group or better still, identify people around you who have a potential for it and form a group of your own. Start a small, local mailing list for the group. Use free group-tools such as Yahoo! Groups (http://groups.yahoo.com) or Smartgroups (http://www.smartgroups.com) to build your community. Help people who are
new to the interest group making use of whatever you have learnt in the past.
If you are more confident, you can go even further. Team up with a few more people who are technically sound in your area of interest and organize 'Boot Camps' and short duration 'Workshops' for those who are new to your technology area. If you decide to be helpful, you would be amazed to see how much interested people could get.
You can also consider giving a try to technical writing. Technical writing can take many different shapes. You can write How-To documents for stuff you think you are good at. ('How-tos' are documents that target specific issues within a given technology area describing very precisely how to go about doing any thing). You can also write 'Beginners Guides' on topics that interest you. In the beginning, you can get you write-ups peer reviewed so that they are okay for consumption. Mailing lists could be great for this peer reviewing.
Tip 6: Keep a 'Book of Lessons'.
Try aintaining a small 'Book of Lessons'. A BoL is a set of very specific technical tips that you collect during your educational or professional career. Make a note of every lesson that you learn after an incident. Mistakes that ate up your entire days can be properly cashed if you derive proper lessons from them and then actually apply them afterwards. You can use an Internet blog to keep this BoL so that it is readily available over the Internet. [A blog is a facility that lets you maintain a log about anything off a website. You write your log on a website and when you publish it, it becomes the part of the website. For more information, check out http://www.blogger.com and
http://www.userland.com].
Tip 7: Develop a 'Financial Sense'.
People pursuing an IT career pose a general risk of being labeled as a 'purely technical' entity. People around you, and even you yourself, might end up marking limits around you that force you to remain a techy for the rest of your life. And it is not just about perceptions alone. A technical person who does not have a good financial sense would face problem sooner or later. Whether your job requires it or not, try to develop a financial sense that relates directly to your technology area.
Courtesy:Tee Emm
Thursday, November 25, 2004
one good Mag
The Truth International , a very good mag for Children and teenagers to groom their moral and spritual values.
me also plan to subscribe it...o yes, of course not a teen , but what if i still read Nonay-Haal tooo :-)
Intizaar,nice Pic of chiRya (a bird)..
me also plan to subscribe it...o yes, of course not a teen , but what if i still read Nonay-Haal tooo :-)
Intizaar,nice Pic of chiRya (a bird)..
Wednesday, November 24, 2004
Tuesday, November 23, 2004
Tabahii Masroofiyat...
Assalaam-O-Alaikum,
Hmmm......, Aray bhai logooon. Today was a very tough day for me. Aray at first I went to office and conducted lab after that I went to N.E.D, where I faced the bouncers from the teacher without having proper pading. Aray haaan yaaar, I had the exam over there. After three hours net practice I went back to office where I took three hours evening class.
Uff, when I went back to home I was feeling like I would never like to go back again, But I am sure in the morning my thoughts would be changed.
O' Allah give me power to face these days.
See you guys I am dozing off now.
Allah-Hafiz.
Hmmm......, Aray bhai logooon. Today was a very tough day for me. Aray at first I went to office and conducted lab after that I went to N.E.D, where I faced the bouncers from the teacher without having proper pading. Aray haaan yaaar, I had the exam over there. After three hours net practice I went back to office where I took three hours evening class.
Uff, when I went back to home I was feeling like I would never like to go back again, But I am sure in the morning my thoughts would be changed.
O' Allah give me power to face these days.
See you guys I am dozing off now.
Allah-Hafiz.
Sunday, November 21, 2004
Yahooo! Azadiiiiiiiiii
Assalaam-O-Alaikum,
Uff now I am free, it was very difficult to be alone in Ramadhan. Hmmm, and can't talk to people much as well. Yeah, I know what you people are thinking. Aray chandaa, I wasn't in Minna but in Aitakaaf. Abb I am back and very much busy as well. So, I will bug you people but after longer duration.
There is a series of Thakay howay Shair started at our group, so, You people will have to read it and bear it.
RD:
Shaid mujhe Nikal k kuch KHA rahay hain ap
Mehfil mai is khyal se phir aa gaya hon mai .........................
AayDee:
shaid pay yaqeen kerna hota hay kab sahee
jo kha rahay hain wo khila tau nahee rahay
RD:
khanay k liye sab hain yahan is deyar mai
khain ap khilanay walay hi tou nahi...........
jab se hua hai band shadioon ka khana
ta'aluq ap ka b dil jalanay walon se tou nahi .......
UBR:
mushaayaro.n me.n police vaalo.n kii 'duty' lagatii hai
aur vo ghar jaate jaate Khud shaayar ban jaate hai.n. Is
mauzuu par ek sher:
raftaa raftaa har police vaale ko shaayar kar diyaa
mahafil-e-sher-o-suKhan me.n bhej kar sarakaar ne
ek qaidii subah ko phaa.Nsii lagaa kar mar gayaa
raat bhar Gazale.n sunaa_ii.n us ko thaanedaar ne
Intizaar:
Shadi ki baat kar keh chaid diyaa hay mujh koo
Dil kou pateela samajh keh ragaid diya hay iss kou
Khanay main kiyaa rakha hay Woh tou hay hii khilanaan
Dataa Darbaar jaa naan tou mairay liyaay bhii lay anaan
Pakanay main hoo haath Hamaraa tou Paraishaan naan HO jaa naan
Jab tak wooH atii nahien part time bhi tou hay laga naan
Yaqeen nahien hay Tum koo tou Imm bhai seh Poochoo
Hubby keh Chubby honay main Haath kiss kaa hay bata naan
Shadi Shadii SHadiii, Sun Sun Keh HOo gaa aiy hain Adiii
Hoti kiya yeh balaa hay? Zaraa Sooch keH bataa naan
RD:
aray............
in hakoomati baton mai mujhe na tum ghaseeto
hal hai is ka jo ho hukam bus us pa ankhiaan meeto...
ab to shadi k khanay mai milta nahi sookha naan
bhol b jao ab mehndii mai milnay walay pakwaan
chup raho b'aee Police waloon ko koi bta na dai yeh ja k
ain gai DARBAAR ka sun k wahan b jain gai FINE laga k
khanay mai gar par gaya ghalti se b hath tumhara
hum to sooch k ghabrai hain k kia ho ga haal hamara
ghar wali lai aao to tab hum ko b bat'lana
hum b daira jama hi lain gai ,subah shaam wahin khain gai khana
Imm bhai ke to bat hi choro keun bhabi se pitwao gai
khud ko ghar ko bhago gai ,bhai ko kaisay bachao gai?
jo sun k shadi ka tum ho gaye ho adii....
yeh to zara btaoo k kab karo gai ab tum shadi
hum to kehtay hain bhai k tum jab ban jao BAKRA...
utha utha k thak jao tum BEWI ka har NAKHRA
tab yeh kehna k shadi kia hoti hai sarkaar.......
hamara to bus hai aik hi nara shadi hai bekaar..........;)
Intizaar:
Well, although I have paper tommorow (bhai logoon dua karnaan) I felt like continuing the Shaid series. Tou it starts like this:
Sahdi keh Khanoon peh howa hay jou BAN
Waja hay uss kee Kuch bhai logoon Kaa Nisbul-Ain
Hakumat aur police seh dartay hain bauhat Aap
Tax khanain kaa Aap nain bhi Tou nahien kiyaa paap
Khanain koo jou naan mila tou lagta hay, hoga bura haal tumhara
Hamaray Khanay Seh Ghabranain ki koi baat nahien Detol soap hay naan hamara
Ghar wali lai aa ain gay tou aaap kou tou zaroor batain gay
Aaap hiii tou Walimain kaay Khanain kaa bandobast karwain gay
Imm bhai kii jou hogi pitai tou hoon naan aaap paraishaan
Aaadii jab aap bhii hoon gay tou khaa ain gay dou aur naan
Aadii tou hain sun sun keh jou aap nain kiya sawal
Kab, Kahaan aur Kiss seh hogi? Allah hii janain haaal
Biwi kaa hoo nakhra, yaa hum banain bakraa
Tum naaan samjhoo gay yaroo, yeh maamla hay wakhra
Abb bolnaa naan yeh keh tumhain hum samjhaa dain
Chaloo line main peechay lagoo Kiyaa itnii jaldi bata dain.
Achaa, Its time to go now.
Allah-Hafiz.
Uff now I am free, it was very difficult to be alone in Ramadhan. Hmmm, and can't talk to people much as well. Yeah, I know what you people are thinking. Aray chandaa, I wasn't in Minna but in Aitakaaf. Abb I am back and very much busy as well. So, I will bug you people but after longer duration.
There is a series of Thakay howay Shair started at our group, so, You people will have to read it and bear it.
RD:
Shaid mujhe Nikal k kuch KHA rahay hain ap
Mehfil mai is khyal se phir aa gaya hon mai .........................
AayDee:
shaid pay yaqeen kerna hota hay kab sahee
jo kha rahay hain wo khila tau nahee rahay
RD:
khanay k liye sab hain yahan is deyar mai
khain ap khilanay walay hi tou nahi...........
jab se hua hai band shadioon ka khana
ta'aluq ap ka b dil jalanay walon se tou nahi .......
UBR:
mushaayaro.n me.n police vaalo.n kii 'duty' lagatii hai
aur vo ghar jaate jaate Khud shaayar ban jaate hai.n. Is
mauzuu par ek sher:
raftaa raftaa har police vaale ko shaayar kar diyaa
mahafil-e-sher-o-suKhan me.n bhej kar sarakaar ne
ek qaidii subah ko phaa.Nsii lagaa kar mar gayaa
raat bhar Gazale.n sunaa_ii.n us ko thaanedaar ne
Intizaar:
Shadi ki baat kar keh chaid diyaa hay mujh koo
Dil kou pateela samajh keh ragaid diya hay iss kou
Khanay main kiyaa rakha hay Woh tou hay hii khilanaan
Dataa Darbaar jaa naan tou mairay liyaay bhii lay anaan
Pakanay main hoo haath Hamaraa tou Paraishaan naan HO jaa naan
Jab tak wooH atii nahien part time bhi tou hay laga naan
Yaqeen nahien hay Tum koo tou Imm bhai seh Poochoo
Hubby keh Chubby honay main Haath kiss kaa hay bata naan
Shadi Shadii SHadiii, Sun Sun Keh HOo gaa aiy hain Adiii
Hoti kiya yeh balaa hay? Zaraa Sooch keH bataa naan
RD:
aray............
in hakoomati baton mai mujhe na tum ghaseeto
hal hai is ka jo ho hukam bus us pa ankhiaan meeto...
ab to shadi k khanay mai milta nahi sookha naan
bhol b jao ab mehndii mai milnay walay pakwaan
chup raho b'aee Police waloon ko koi bta na dai yeh ja k
ain gai DARBAAR ka sun k wahan b jain gai FINE laga k
khanay mai gar par gaya ghalti se b hath tumhara
hum to sooch k ghabrai hain k kia ho ga haal hamara
ghar wali lai aao to tab hum ko b bat'lana
hum b daira jama hi lain gai ,subah shaam wahin khain gai khana
Imm bhai ke to bat hi choro keun bhabi se pitwao gai
khud ko ghar ko bhago gai ,bhai ko kaisay bachao gai?
jo sun k shadi ka tum ho gaye ho adii....
yeh to zara btaoo k kab karo gai ab tum shadi
hum to kehtay hain bhai k tum jab ban jao BAKRA...
utha utha k thak jao tum BEWI ka har NAKHRA
tab yeh kehna k shadi kia hoti hai sarkaar.......
hamara to bus hai aik hi nara shadi hai bekaar..........;)
Intizaar:
Well, although I have paper tommorow (bhai logoon dua karnaan) I felt like continuing the Shaid series. Tou it starts like this:
Sahdi keh Khanoon peh howa hay jou BAN
Waja hay uss kee Kuch bhai logoon Kaa Nisbul-Ain
Hakumat aur police seh dartay hain bauhat Aap
Tax khanain kaa Aap nain bhi Tou nahien kiyaa paap
Khanain koo jou naan mila tou lagta hay, hoga bura haal tumhara
Hamaray Khanay Seh Ghabranain ki koi baat nahien Detol soap hay naan hamara
Ghar wali lai aa ain gay tou aaap kou tou zaroor batain gay
Aaap hiii tou Walimain kaay Khanain kaa bandobast karwain gay
Imm bhai kii jou hogi pitai tou hoon naan aaap paraishaan
Aaadii jab aap bhii hoon gay tou khaa ain gay dou aur naan
Aadii tou hain sun sun keh jou aap nain kiya sawal
Kab, Kahaan aur Kiss seh hogi? Allah hii janain haaal
Biwi kaa hoo nakhra, yaa hum banain bakraa
Tum naaan samjhoo gay yaroo, yeh maamla hay wakhra
Abb bolnaa naan yeh keh tumhain hum samjhaa dain
Chaloo line main peechay lagoo Kiyaa itnii jaldi bata dain.
Achaa, Its time to go now.
Allah-Hafiz.
Wednesday, November 10, 2004
Azaan!
Azaan ! Don't you think it is more attractive than any thing else..yes,a call from our Creator,our Lord a Lord of Alameen.Allahu Akbar.
Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar
Allah is the greatest, Allah is the greatest
Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar
Allah is the greatest, Allah is the greatest
Ashadu an La illaha illAllah
I witness/declare that there is no illah (god) but Allah
Ashadu an La illaha illAllah
I witness that there is no illah but Allah
Ashadu anna Muhammad ar Rasool Allah
I witness that Muhammad is Rasul (Messenger) of Allah
Ashadu anna Muhammad ar Rasool Allah
I witness that Muhammad is Rasul of Allah
Hayya 'alas Salat
Come towards the Salat
Hayya 'alas Salat
Come towards the Salat
Hayya 'alal Falah
Come towards the Success
Hayya 'alal Falah
Come towards the Success
Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar
Allah is the greatest, Allah is the greatest
La illaha illaAllah
There is no illah but Allah
Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar
Allah is the greatest, Allah is the greatest
Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar
Allah is the greatest, Allah is the greatest
Ashadu an La illaha illAllah
I witness/declare that there is no illah (god) but Allah
Ashadu an La illaha illAllah
I witness that there is no illah but Allah
Ashadu anna Muhammad ar Rasool Allah
I witness that Muhammad is Rasul (Messenger) of Allah
Ashadu anna Muhammad ar Rasool Allah
I witness that Muhammad is Rasul of Allah
Hayya 'alas Salat
Come towards the Salat
Hayya 'alas Salat
Come towards the Salat
Hayya 'alal Falah
Come towards the Success
Hayya 'alal Falah
Come towards the Success
Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar
Allah is the greatest, Allah is the greatest
La illaha illaAllah
There is no illah but Allah
Monday, November 08, 2004
No Haya, No Life
its 7:07 pm PST,25th Ramadan...here is one more artlice from Albalagh.
By Khalid Baig
Imam Shu'bah ibn Hajjaj was riding his horse when Abdullah intercepted him. Abdullah was a known street urchin. Not only he was given to a life of sin, he was also unabashed about it. Imam Shu'bah knew that trouble was ahead when Abdullah stopped him.
Shu'bah (d. 100 A.H) is known as the "Amirul Momineen fil hadith." He is one of the foremost scholars of the science of Hadith Criticism. Abdullah knew his stature as a great hadith scholar, but he was bent on having some fun. "Shu'bah! Tell me a hadith," he said with mischief in his eyes. "This is not the way to learn hadith," Imam Shu'bah replied. "You are going to tell me a hadith or else…" Abdullah threatened. When Shu'bah realized that he could not talk his way out of this he said: "OK, I'll tell you a hadith." He then narrated the isnad (a chain of narrators) and then the hadith: "Prophet Sall-Allahu alayhi wa sallam said: "If you have lost haya then do whatever you feel like."
Abdullah's demeanor changed suddenly. It was as if the Prophet, Sall-Allahu alayhi wa sallam, had himself caught him in his mischief and was speaking to him: "Abdullah, if you have lost haya then do whatever you feel like." He was totally shaken. "I just wanted to cause trouble for you," he admitted, "but please extend your hand. I want to repent."
This hadith turned a life around. Abdullah, the street urchin, became a student and then a great scholar of hadith. Today he is known as Abdullah ibn Maslamah Qan'awi. His name can be found repeatedly in Sihah Sitta or the six most authentic collections of hadith, especially in the collection of Imam Abu Dawud who was his disciple.
What is haya? It is normally translated as modesty or inhibition but neither word conveys the same idea as haya. Modesty suggests shunning indecent behavior but it also implies bashfulness based on timidity. That is why the adjective based on its opposite, immodest, is sometimes also used as a compliment suggesting courage. Inhibition is defined as: "Conscious or unconscious mechanism whereby unacceptable impulses are suppressed." This is a very neutral definition with no reference to right or wrong. So one finds psychiatrist "helping" their patients overcome inhibitions.
In contrast to the moral ambiguity of these words, haya refers to an extremely desirable quality that protects us from all evil. It is a natural feeling that brings us pain at the very idea of committing a wrong.
Along with its unique connotation comes the unique value of haya in Islam. Prophet Muhammad, Sall-Allahu alayhi wa sallam, said: "Every religion has a distinct call. For Islam it is haya." [Ibn Majah]. Another famous hadith says: "There are more than 70 branches of Iman (Faith). The foremost is the declaration that there is no god except Allah and the least of it is removing harmful things from the path. And haya is a branch of Iman." [Bukhari, Muslim]. As some Muhaditheen point out, the number 70 is a figure of speech. What the hadith tells us is that the declaration of faith is the most important part of Iman but that is not all. Iman also has to reflect itself in all kinds of actions in real life. Moreover, haya is a centerpiece of most of the actions that Iman calls for. It is the basic building block of Islamic morality. When it is lost everything is lost.
Based on such teachings, Islam brought about a moral revolution of unprecedented dimensions with haya as its cornerstone. The pre-Islamic Jahilya society of Arabia knew the word but did not understand its meaning. Nudity, the antithesis of haya, was not only common in every day life, it was even part of the most important religious ritual of tawaf (circumbulation of Ka'bah). So were all the other evils that flow from it. Islam exterminated all of those evils and changed the society in such a way that haya became one of its most cherished values. To this day in Friday Khutbahs around the world, the third Khalifah Hazrat Usman Radi Allahu unhu is mentioned as the person with perfect haya and perfect Iman (Kamil lil-haya wal Iman). Is there any other religion that celebrates haya like that?
Islam's laws about hijab, its ban against free mixing of men and women, its teachings about gender-relations --- all of these reflect a deep concern for haya.
For men and women who have not lost their haya, these come naturally. There is a moving story from the earlier Islamic period about a woman who learnt that her young son had been lost in a battle. She ran in a panic to confirm the news, but before that she took time to make sure that she covered herself fully in accordance with the newly revealed laws of hijab. She was asked how did she manage to do that in a time of great personal tragedy. She replied: "I have lost my son, but I did not lose my haya."
And for centuries afterwards Muslim societies did not lose their haya.When Muslim lands came under the western colonial rule about three centuries ago, they were faced with a civilization that was no different than the pre-Islamic Jahilya on the issue of haya. While it did not have better morality, it did have better guns. At the gunpoint of military and political domination, Muslim societies were made to loose their grip on haya on the collective scale. The powerful and attractive media became an important instrument in this war. First it was books, magazines and newspapers. Then radio. Now it is television. Together they projected ideas and images detrimental to haya. They made indecency attractive. The pace was increased tremendously by television, which has shown more firepower than all the previous media combined.
When historians write about the moral decline in Muslim societies in the twentieth century, they will probably underscore television in subverting the moral fabric of society. We can get a sense of the rapidity of our fall by realizing that what was unthinkable just a decade ago has become routinely accepted today. In some cases, we seem to have lost all control. Isn't it shocking that while contraceptive ads cannot be shown on TV in the U.S. or U.K for moral reasons, they are freely shown in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan?
We can get out of the morass by making haya as our number one concern in both individual as well as public lives. There is no Islamic life without Islamic morality. There is no Islamic morality without haya.
By Khalid Baig
Imam Shu'bah ibn Hajjaj was riding his horse when Abdullah intercepted him. Abdullah was a known street urchin. Not only he was given to a life of sin, he was also unabashed about it. Imam Shu'bah knew that trouble was ahead when Abdullah stopped him.
Shu'bah (d. 100 A.H) is known as the "Amirul Momineen fil hadith." He is one of the foremost scholars of the science of Hadith Criticism. Abdullah knew his stature as a great hadith scholar, but he was bent on having some fun. "Shu'bah! Tell me a hadith," he said with mischief in his eyes. "This is not the way to learn hadith," Imam Shu'bah replied. "You are going to tell me a hadith or else…" Abdullah threatened. When Shu'bah realized that he could not talk his way out of this he said: "OK, I'll tell you a hadith." He then narrated the isnad (a chain of narrators) and then the hadith: "Prophet Sall-Allahu alayhi wa sallam said: "If you have lost haya then do whatever you feel like."
Abdullah's demeanor changed suddenly. It was as if the Prophet, Sall-Allahu alayhi wa sallam, had himself caught him in his mischief and was speaking to him: "Abdullah, if you have lost haya then do whatever you feel like." He was totally shaken. "I just wanted to cause trouble for you," he admitted, "but please extend your hand. I want to repent."
This hadith turned a life around. Abdullah, the street urchin, became a student and then a great scholar of hadith. Today he is known as Abdullah ibn Maslamah Qan'awi. His name can be found repeatedly in Sihah Sitta or the six most authentic collections of hadith, especially in the collection of Imam Abu Dawud who was his disciple.
What is haya? It is normally translated as modesty or inhibition but neither word conveys the same idea as haya. Modesty suggests shunning indecent behavior but it also implies bashfulness based on timidity. That is why the adjective based on its opposite, immodest, is sometimes also used as a compliment suggesting courage. Inhibition is defined as: "Conscious or unconscious mechanism whereby unacceptable impulses are suppressed." This is a very neutral definition with no reference to right or wrong. So one finds psychiatrist "helping" their patients overcome inhibitions.
In contrast to the moral ambiguity of these words, haya refers to an extremely desirable quality that protects us from all evil. It is a natural feeling that brings us pain at the very idea of committing a wrong.
Along with its unique connotation comes the unique value of haya in Islam. Prophet Muhammad, Sall-Allahu alayhi wa sallam, said: "Every religion has a distinct call. For Islam it is haya." [Ibn Majah]. Another famous hadith says: "There are more than 70 branches of Iman (Faith). The foremost is the declaration that there is no god except Allah and the least of it is removing harmful things from the path. And haya is a branch of Iman." [Bukhari, Muslim]. As some Muhaditheen point out, the number 70 is a figure of speech. What the hadith tells us is that the declaration of faith is the most important part of Iman but that is not all. Iman also has to reflect itself in all kinds of actions in real life. Moreover, haya is a centerpiece of most of the actions that Iman calls for. It is the basic building block of Islamic morality. When it is lost everything is lost.
Based on such teachings, Islam brought about a moral revolution of unprecedented dimensions with haya as its cornerstone. The pre-Islamic Jahilya society of Arabia knew the word but did not understand its meaning. Nudity, the antithesis of haya, was not only common in every day life, it was even part of the most important religious ritual of tawaf (circumbulation of Ka'bah). So were all the other evils that flow from it. Islam exterminated all of those evils and changed the society in such a way that haya became one of its most cherished values. To this day in Friday Khutbahs around the world, the third Khalifah Hazrat Usman Radi Allahu unhu is mentioned as the person with perfect haya and perfect Iman (Kamil lil-haya wal Iman). Is there any other religion that celebrates haya like that?
Islam's laws about hijab, its ban against free mixing of men and women, its teachings about gender-relations --- all of these reflect a deep concern for haya.
For men and women who have not lost their haya, these come naturally. There is a moving story from the earlier Islamic period about a woman who learnt that her young son had been lost in a battle. She ran in a panic to confirm the news, but before that she took time to make sure that she covered herself fully in accordance with the newly revealed laws of hijab. She was asked how did she manage to do that in a time of great personal tragedy. She replied: "I have lost my son, but I did not lose my haya."
And for centuries afterwards Muslim societies did not lose their haya.When Muslim lands came under the western colonial rule about three centuries ago, they were faced with a civilization that was no different than the pre-Islamic Jahilya on the issue of haya. While it did not have better morality, it did have better guns. At the gunpoint of military and political domination, Muslim societies were made to loose their grip on haya on the collective scale. The powerful and attractive media became an important instrument in this war. First it was books, magazines and newspapers. Then radio. Now it is television. Together they projected ideas and images detrimental to haya. They made indecency attractive. The pace was increased tremendously by television, which has shown more firepower than all the previous media combined.
When historians write about the moral decline in Muslim societies in the twentieth century, they will probably underscore television in subverting the moral fabric of society. We can get a sense of the rapidity of our fall by realizing that what was unthinkable just a decade ago has become routinely accepted today. In some cases, we seem to have lost all control. Isn't it shocking that while contraceptive ads cannot be shown on TV in the U.S. or U.K for moral reasons, they are freely shown in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan?
We can get out of the morass by making haya as our number one concern in both individual as well as public lives. There is no Islamic life without Islamic morality. There is no Islamic morality without haya.
Wednesday, October 27, 2004
Learn to call on Allah
Asslamo Aleykum ....an untitled poem by an Anon ...but its awful
Learn to call on Allah,
In the dark,
While Riding on a bus,
Or sitting in a park
Learn to do it when,
Alone in a room,
Or staying up late,
Staring at the moon
And if someone boasts about,
What he did for Allah,
And asks you to tell him,
What you did for Allah
Just Say, "Why should I tell you"
If I did it for Allah?"
Learn to call on Allah,
In the dark,
While Riding on a bus,
Or sitting in a park
Learn to do it when,
Alone in a room,
Or staying up late,
Staring at the moon
And if someone boasts about,
What he did for Allah,
And asks you to tell him,
What you did for Allah
Just Say, "Why should I tell you"
If I did it for Allah?"
Sunday, October 24, 2004
Main Apnay Saray Gunahoon Peh Yoon Sharmindaa Hooon
Main Apnay Saray Gunahoon Peh Yoon Sharmindaa Hooon
Jou Udd Naan Paaa Aiy Fizaa Main Main Wooh Parindaa Hooon
Ilahi Taqat Day Parwaz Kar Ataa Mujh Koo
Abhii Hayat Hay Baqi Abhi Main Zindaa Hoon
Yeh Manaa Sab Hii Gandoon Main Sab Seh Gandaa Hooon
Magar Yeh Sach Keh Nabo Jehal Saa Darindaa Hoon
Rasool-e-Pak Peh Iman Dil Seh Layaa Hooon
GunahGaar Hooon Laikin Khudaa Kaa Bundaa
Jou Udd Naan Paaa Aiy Fizaa Main Main Wooh Parindaa Hooon
Ilahi Taqat Day Parwaz Kar Ataa Mujh Koo
Abhii Hayat Hay Baqi Abhi Main Zindaa Hoon
Yeh Manaa Sab Hii Gandoon Main Sab Seh Gandaa Hooon
Magar Yeh Sach Keh Nabo Jehal Saa Darindaa Hoon
Rasool-e-Pak Peh Iman Dil Seh Layaa Hooon
GunahGaar Hooon Laikin Khudaa Kaa Bundaa
The Value of Words
a very good article; with so many thanx to Albalagh.
By Khalid Baig
"Whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day should say something good or keep quiet." [Bukhari]
Famous companion, Sayyidna Muaz ibn Jabal, Radi-Allahu anhu, once asked the Prophet Sall-Allahu alayhi wa sallam, "Tell me about an act that will cause me to enter Paradise and be protected from the Fire." "You have indeed asked something profound," responded the Prophet, Sall-Allahu alayhi wa sallam, "But it will be easy on whom Allah makes it easy. Worship Allah and do not associate any partners with Him. Establish regular Salat, pay Zakat, fast during Ramadan, and perform Hajj." Then he asked "Shall I not tell you about the doors of good: fast is a shield (against sins and against Hell-fire), charity extinguishes sins like water extinguishes fire; and the midnight Salat (the voluntary Tahajjud Salat)." Then he recited this verse: "Their limbs do forsake their beds of sleep, while they call on their Lord, in Fear and Hope: and they spend (in charity) out of the sustenance which We have bestowed on them." [As-Sajda 32:16]
Then he continued: "Shall I tell you about the beginning, the mainstay and the high point of this? The beginning is (acceptance of) Islam; It's mainstay is Salat; it's highest point is Jihad."
Then the Prophet, Sall-Allahu alayhi wa sallam, asked: "Shall I tell you about the thing on which all this depends?" He, then held his tongue and said "Guard this." Sayyidna Muaz ibn Jabal, Radi-Allahu anhu, asked: "Shall we be questioned about our utterances?" On this the Prophet, Sall-Allahu alayhi wa sallam, said, "Most people will be thrown into Hell---face down---because of the transgressions of their tongues."
The ability to speak and express themselves separates human beings from animals. The proper use of this great gift---or its absence---separates the good and successful people from the bad and unsuccessful ones.
Sayyidna Mu'adh's question was about eternal success. In response, the hadith mentions both mandatory and voluntary good deeds that cover a person's entire life. But then we are reminded that the outcome of all these depends upon guarding our tongue. In other words carelessness with the tongue can poke holes in all of our good deeds.
Another hadith highlights the same issue in a different way: "Every morning all the limbs of a person plead with his tongue: 'Fear Allah for our sake, for our fate is tied to yours. If you follow the straight path so shall we. And if you go astray so shall we.'"
Yet another hadith reminds us about the far reaching consequences of the words we utter. "Sometimes a person says something good but he does not realize how far will his words go. Yet it earns him the pleasure of Allah till the day he will meet Him. On the other hand sometimes a person says something bad, although he does not realize how far his words will go. Yet it earns him the wrath of Allah till the day he will meet Him." [Tirmizi, Ibn Maja, Muwwata Imam Malik].
The pre-Islamic Arab society was a very vocal society. While reading and writing were not that common, people did pride themselves in their facility with words---both prose and poetry. A person commanded respect based on his command over words. Using power of words only, they could sink reputations, start wars, and impact life in a similar fashion as modern media has come to demonstrate on a much larger scale. Then, as now, it was raw power like the power of the beasts of the Jungle.
Islam tamed this beast. It reminded us that each and every word we utter is being recorded by the angels and one day we will have to stand accountable for all this record. It reminded that a person's greatness lies not in how powerful he is with words but in how careful is he with them. It reminded that it is better to keep silent than to say something bad. And it is better to say something good than to keep quiet.
The social revolution it engendered was unprecedented. It produced a people who truly understood the value of words and who were as pious with them as they had been powerful. Their silence was the silence of quiet reflection. And they spoke only when they could improve the silence. Is it any wonder that even their extempore statements were pearls of wisdom.
Today, everywhere there are schools that can teach one how to read, write, and speak a language. But their students would never learn how to civilize this raw power; to use it only in promoting truth and spreading virtue; to never use it for promoting falsehood or spreading evil.
There is a lot of unlearning we have to do if we want to get out of this. It is a costly mistake for a believer to think that talk is cheap; that you can say whatever is expedient without any concern for any consequences beyond the immediate ones.
Such attitudes, prevalent today, lead to all kinds of sins: vain pursuits, gossip, dishonesty, insincerity, arrogance, belittling others, backbiting, spreading scandals and corruption, telling lies. Each of these has been clearly defined as a deadly sin by the Qur'an and Hadith. The treatment for each of these sins begins with learning the Islamically responsible use of the tongue. Then there are secondary problems caused in turn by these. In fact most of the problems in the family, in the society, and even between countries are either created or augmented by the irresponsible use of the tongue.
Modern communication technologies have made it possible for messages to be transmitted instantaneously all over the globe. But as the world marvels at these achievements, it continues to confuse the speed of a message with its quality and value. We pride ourselves on the ability to spread trash around the world at the speed of light. Witness the rubbish that continues to dominate the Internet alone. We are amazed by the sophisticated techniques of telling lies in a convincing manner. Witness the modern mainstream media machine and its hold on our thoughts and actions.
The "information age" is begging for the moral guidance of Islam.
By Khalid Baig
"Whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day should say something good or keep quiet." [Bukhari]
Famous companion, Sayyidna Muaz ibn Jabal, Radi-Allahu anhu, once asked the Prophet Sall-Allahu alayhi wa sallam, "Tell me about an act that will cause me to enter Paradise and be protected from the Fire." "You have indeed asked something profound," responded the Prophet, Sall-Allahu alayhi wa sallam, "But it will be easy on whom Allah makes it easy. Worship Allah and do not associate any partners with Him. Establish regular Salat, pay Zakat, fast during Ramadan, and perform Hajj." Then he asked "Shall I not tell you about the doors of good: fast is a shield (against sins and against Hell-fire), charity extinguishes sins like water extinguishes fire; and the midnight Salat (the voluntary Tahajjud Salat)." Then he recited this verse: "Their limbs do forsake their beds of sleep, while they call on their Lord, in Fear and Hope: and they spend (in charity) out of the sustenance which We have bestowed on them." [As-Sajda 32:16]
Then he continued: "Shall I tell you about the beginning, the mainstay and the high point of this? The beginning is (acceptance of) Islam; It's mainstay is Salat; it's highest point is Jihad."
Then the Prophet, Sall-Allahu alayhi wa sallam, asked: "Shall I tell you about the thing on which all this depends?" He, then held his tongue and said "Guard this." Sayyidna Muaz ibn Jabal, Radi-Allahu anhu, asked: "Shall we be questioned about our utterances?" On this the Prophet, Sall-Allahu alayhi wa sallam, said, "Most people will be thrown into Hell---face down---because of the transgressions of their tongues."
The ability to speak and express themselves separates human beings from animals. The proper use of this great gift---or its absence---separates the good and successful people from the bad and unsuccessful ones.
Sayyidna Mu'adh's question was about eternal success. In response, the hadith mentions both mandatory and voluntary good deeds that cover a person's entire life. But then we are reminded that the outcome of all these depends upon guarding our tongue. In other words carelessness with the tongue can poke holes in all of our good deeds.
Another hadith highlights the same issue in a different way: "Every morning all the limbs of a person plead with his tongue: 'Fear Allah for our sake, for our fate is tied to yours. If you follow the straight path so shall we. And if you go astray so shall we.'"
Yet another hadith reminds us about the far reaching consequences of the words we utter. "Sometimes a person says something good but he does not realize how far will his words go. Yet it earns him the pleasure of Allah till the day he will meet Him. On the other hand sometimes a person says something bad, although he does not realize how far his words will go. Yet it earns him the wrath of Allah till the day he will meet Him." [Tirmizi, Ibn Maja, Muwwata Imam Malik].
The pre-Islamic Arab society was a very vocal society. While reading and writing were not that common, people did pride themselves in their facility with words---both prose and poetry. A person commanded respect based on his command over words. Using power of words only, they could sink reputations, start wars, and impact life in a similar fashion as modern media has come to demonstrate on a much larger scale. Then, as now, it was raw power like the power of the beasts of the Jungle.
Islam tamed this beast. It reminded us that each and every word we utter is being recorded by the angels and one day we will have to stand accountable for all this record. It reminded that a person's greatness lies not in how powerful he is with words but in how careful is he with them. It reminded that it is better to keep silent than to say something bad. And it is better to say something good than to keep quiet.
The social revolution it engendered was unprecedented. It produced a people who truly understood the value of words and who were as pious with them as they had been powerful. Their silence was the silence of quiet reflection. And they spoke only when they could improve the silence. Is it any wonder that even their extempore statements were pearls of wisdom.
Today, everywhere there are schools that can teach one how to read, write, and speak a language. But their students would never learn how to civilize this raw power; to use it only in promoting truth and spreading virtue; to never use it for promoting falsehood or spreading evil.
There is a lot of unlearning we have to do if we want to get out of this. It is a costly mistake for a believer to think that talk is cheap; that you can say whatever is expedient without any concern for any consequences beyond the immediate ones.
Such attitudes, prevalent today, lead to all kinds of sins: vain pursuits, gossip, dishonesty, insincerity, arrogance, belittling others, backbiting, spreading scandals and corruption, telling lies. Each of these has been clearly defined as a deadly sin by the Qur'an and Hadith. The treatment for each of these sins begins with learning the Islamically responsible use of the tongue. Then there are secondary problems caused in turn by these. In fact most of the problems in the family, in the society, and even between countries are either created or augmented by the irresponsible use of the tongue.
Modern communication technologies have made it possible for messages to be transmitted instantaneously all over the globe. But as the world marvels at these achievements, it continues to confuse the speed of a message with its quality and value. We pride ourselves on the ability to spread trash around the world at the speed of light. Witness the rubbish that continues to dominate the Internet alone. We are amazed by the sophisticated techniques of telling lies in a convincing manner. Witness the modern mainstream media machine and its hold on our thoughts and actions.
The "information age" is begging for the moral guidance of Islam.
Thursday, October 21, 2004
Message of Ramadan
Asslamo Aleykum ppl...Aay Dee here...yes in Ramadan its very hard to find time slot for blog...yep, its easy to put some good articles :-)..so here is one good article from Albalagh.
JazakAllah!
By Khalid Baig
We observe Ramadan every year. Do we also listen to it?
Ramadan is the most important month of our calendar. It is a tremendous gift from Allah in so many ways. In our current state of being down and out, it can uplift us, empower us, and turn around our situation individually and collectively. It is the spring season for the garden of Islam when dry grass can come back to life and flowers bloom. But these benefits are not promised for lifeless and thoughtless rituals alone. They will be ours if our actions are informed by the message of Ramadan.
Today the message of Ramadan tends to get drowned out by much louder voices of the pop culture that have an opposite message. We have become so accustomed to them that many of us remain enslaved to them even during Ramadan.
The most important message of Ramadan is that we are not just body. We are body and soul. And that what makes us human beings and that determines our value as human beings is the soul and not the body. During Ramadan we deprive the body to uplift the soul. This is all simple and familiar. But we can understand its significance if we remember that the message of the materialistic hedonistic global pop culture that has engulfed every Muslim land today --- just like the rest of the world--- is exactly the opposite. It says that body is everything. That the materialistic world is all that counts. That the greatest happiness -- if not virtue-- is in filling the appetites of the body. This message produces endless appetites and consequently endless wars to fill those endless appetites through endless exploitation. It produces endless frustrations since the gap between desires and achievements can never be filled. It produces endless chaos and endless oppression. Yet this trash comes in such beautiful and enticing packages that we can hardly resist it. We equate this slavery with freedom. We consider this march to disaster as progress. And with every movement, we get further and deeper into the mire.
The message of the materialistic hedonistic global pop culture that has engulfed every Muslim land today is exactly the opposite of the message of Ramadan.
Ramadan is here to liberate us from all this. Here is a powerful message that it is soul over body. Take a break from the pop culture. Turn off the music and TV. Say goodbye to the endless and futile pursuit of happiness in sensory pleasures. Rediscover your inner self that has been buried deep under it. Reorient yourself. Devote your time to the reading of the Qur'an, to voluntary worship, to prayers and conversations with Allah. Reflect on the direction of your life and your priorities. Reflect on and strengthen your relationship with your Creator.
On the last day of one Sha'ban, Prophet MuhammadSall-Allahu alayhi wa sallam, gave a Khutbah about the upcoming month of Ramadan. It is a very important Khutbah that we should carefully read before every Ramadan to prepare ourselves mentally for the sacred month. It begins: "Oh people! A great month is coming to you. A blessed month. A month in which there is one night that is better than a thousand months. A month in which Allah has made it compulsory upon you to fast by day, and voluntary to pray by night. Whoever draws nearer to Allah by performing any of the voluntary good deeds in this month shall receive the same reward as is there for performing an obligatory deed at any other time. And whoever discharges an obligatory deed in this month shall receive the reward of performing seventy obligations at any other time. It is the month of Sabr (patience), and the reward for sabr is Heaven. It is the month of kindness and charity. It is a month in which a believer's sustenance is increased. Whoever gives food to a fasting person to break his fast, shall have his sins forgiven, and he will be saved from the Fire of Hell, and he shall have the same reward as the fasting person, without the latter's reward being diminished at all."
The hadith continues and contains many other very important messages. However let us take the time to highlight two of the statements contained above. First, that Ramadan is the month of sabr. The English translation is patience but that word has a very narrow meaning compared to sabr. Sabr means not only patience and perseverance in the face of difficulties, it also means being steadfast in avoiding sin in the face of temptations and being persistent in performing virtues when that is not easy. Overcoming hunger and thirst during fasting is part of it. But protecting our eyes, ears, minds, tongues, and hands, etc. from all sins is also part of it. So is being persistent in doing good deeds as much as possible despite external or internal obstacles. Ramadan requires sabr in its fullest sense and provides a training ground for that very important quality to be developed and nurtured. Here is a recipe for the complete overhaul of our life, not just a small adjustment in meal times.
The highest point of Ramadan is itikaf, an act of worship in which a person secludes himself in a masjid to devote his time entirely to worshipping and remembering Allah. Some in every Muslim community must take a break and go to the masjid for the entire last ten days of Ramadan. Others should imbibe the spirit and do whatever they can.
But we must differentiate between worldly pleasures and worldly responsibilities. We take a break from the former and not the latter. Syedna Abdullah ibn Abbas, Radi-Allahu unhu, was performing itikaf, when a person came and sat down silently. Sensing his distressed condition Ibn Abbas enquired about his situation, learnt that he needed help, and proceeded to leave the masjid to go out and help him. Now this action does nullify the itikaf, making a makeup obligatory. So the person, though grateful, was curious. Explaining his action, Ibn Abbas related a hadith that when a person makes efforts to help his brother, he earns the reward for performing itikaf for ten years.
This brings us to the second statement to consider: that Ramadan is the month of kindness and charity. With those in distress in the millions in the world today, the need for remembering this message of Ramadan cannot be overstated.
Unfortunately, today another scene seems to be dominant in some parts of the Muslim world. Here Ramadan is the month of celebrations, shopping, fancy iftars at posh restaurants, entertainment and gossip. People stay up at night but not for worship; they while away that time watching TV or wandering in the bazaar. Ramadan here is more a month of feasting than fasting.
No one can take away our Ramadan from us; we just give it away ourselves. And if we realize the utter blunder we have made, we can take it back.
JazakAllah!
By Khalid Baig
We observe Ramadan every year. Do we also listen to it?
Ramadan is the most important month of our calendar. It is a tremendous gift from Allah in so many ways. In our current state of being down and out, it can uplift us, empower us, and turn around our situation individually and collectively. It is the spring season for the garden of Islam when dry grass can come back to life and flowers bloom. But these benefits are not promised for lifeless and thoughtless rituals alone. They will be ours if our actions are informed by the message of Ramadan.
Today the message of Ramadan tends to get drowned out by much louder voices of the pop culture that have an opposite message. We have become so accustomed to them that many of us remain enslaved to them even during Ramadan.
The most important message of Ramadan is that we are not just body. We are body and soul. And that what makes us human beings and that determines our value as human beings is the soul and not the body. During Ramadan we deprive the body to uplift the soul. This is all simple and familiar. But we can understand its significance if we remember that the message of the materialistic hedonistic global pop culture that has engulfed every Muslim land today --- just like the rest of the world--- is exactly the opposite. It says that body is everything. That the materialistic world is all that counts. That the greatest happiness -- if not virtue-- is in filling the appetites of the body. This message produces endless appetites and consequently endless wars to fill those endless appetites through endless exploitation. It produces endless frustrations since the gap between desires and achievements can never be filled. It produces endless chaos and endless oppression. Yet this trash comes in such beautiful and enticing packages that we can hardly resist it. We equate this slavery with freedom. We consider this march to disaster as progress. And with every movement, we get further and deeper into the mire.
The message of the materialistic hedonistic global pop culture that has engulfed every Muslim land today is exactly the opposite of the message of Ramadan.
Ramadan is here to liberate us from all this. Here is a powerful message that it is soul over body. Take a break from the pop culture. Turn off the music and TV. Say goodbye to the endless and futile pursuit of happiness in sensory pleasures. Rediscover your inner self that has been buried deep under it. Reorient yourself. Devote your time to the reading of the Qur'an, to voluntary worship, to prayers and conversations with Allah. Reflect on the direction of your life and your priorities. Reflect on and strengthen your relationship with your Creator.
On the last day of one Sha'ban, Prophet MuhammadSall-Allahu alayhi wa sallam, gave a Khutbah about the upcoming month of Ramadan. It is a very important Khutbah that we should carefully read before every Ramadan to prepare ourselves mentally for the sacred month. It begins: "Oh people! A great month is coming to you. A blessed month. A month in which there is one night that is better than a thousand months. A month in which Allah has made it compulsory upon you to fast by day, and voluntary to pray by night. Whoever draws nearer to Allah by performing any of the voluntary good deeds in this month shall receive the same reward as is there for performing an obligatory deed at any other time. And whoever discharges an obligatory deed in this month shall receive the reward of performing seventy obligations at any other time. It is the month of Sabr (patience), and the reward for sabr is Heaven. It is the month of kindness and charity. It is a month in which a believer's sustenance is increased. Whoever gives food to a fasting person to break his fast, shall have his sins forgiven, and he will be saved from the Fire of Hell, and he shall have the same reward as the fasting person, without the latter's reward being diminished at all."
The hadith continues and contains many other very important messages. However let us take the time to highlight two of the statements contained above. First, that Ramadan is the month of sabr. The English translation is patience but that word has a very narrow meaning compared to sabr. Sabr means not only patience and perseverance in the face of difficulties, it also means being steadfast in avoiding sin in the face of temptations and being persistent in performing virtues when that is not easy. Overcoming hunger and thirst during fasting is part of it. But protecting our eyes, ears, minds, tongues, and hands, etc. from all sins is also part of it. So is being persistent in doing good deeds as much as possible despite external or internal obstacles. Ramadan requires sabr in its fullest sense and provides a training ground for that very important quality to be developed and nurtured. Here is a recipe for the complete overhaul of our life, not just a small adjustment in meal times.
The highest point of Ramadan is itikaf, an act of worship in which a person secludes himself in a masjid to devote his time entirely to worshipping and remembering Allah. Some in every Muslim community must take a break and go to the masjid for the entire last ten days of Ramadan. Others should imbibe the spirit and do whatever they can.
But we must differentiate between worldly pleasures and worldly responsibilities. We take a break from the former and not the latter. Syedna Abdullah ibn Abbas, Radi-Allahu unhu, was performing itikaf, when a person came and sat down silently. Sensing his distressed condition Ibn Abbas enquired about his situation, learnt that he needed help, and proceeded to leave the masjid to go out and help him. Now this action does nullify the itikaf, making a makeup obligatory. So the person, though grateful, was curious. Explaining his action, Ibn Abbas related a hadith that when a person makes efforts to help his brother, he earns the reward for performing itikaf for ten years.
This brings us to the second statement to consider: that Ramadan is the month of kindness and charity. With those in distress in the millions in the world today, the need for remembering this message of Ramadan cannot be overstated.
Unfortunately, today another scene seems to be dominant in some parts of the Muslim world. Here Ramadan is the month of celebrations, shopping, fancy iftars at posh restaurants, entertainment and gossip. People stay up at night but not for worship; they while away that time watching TV or wandering in the bazaar. Ramadan here is more a month of feasting than fasting.
No one can take away our Ramadan from us; we just give it away ourselves. And if we realize the utter blunder we have made, we can take it back.
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
Answer to a recent blog
Answer to a recent blog at
http://www0.bbc.co.uk/urdu/blogs/articles/1097519517.shtml?thanks=1
Assalaam-O-Alaikum,
Janab! You said the word Molvi and mentioned that it means someone who thinks, his lame knowledge is the last word to stand. Well, you used this word as Satan used a drop of honey to start a fight. What I have observed from your blog is that you are one of those who think of your self out of any restrictions. My friend, the way you have used word Molvi, It looked to me that one day you would use some prestigious personality of Islam in twisted brand of statements.Bhai Meray, It is good to tell the truth without any fear i.e. Amar Bil Maroo Wa Nahee Anil Munkar. But would have to take care that we should not blame somebody with what he is not. I have seen people saying to every person having beard, Assalaam-O-Alaikum, Molvi Sahab. Bhai, people now-a-days have become so repetitive in saying things that they don’t even think while they are saying. I agree with Zubair bhai, keh Molvi is the person who is Alim (Scholar). People don’t think what they are supporting and I see Fidaa bhai congratulating for using this word for short sightened people. While I was thinking to defend this thing against you I see Abbas sahib giving one more definition of word molvi. Aray bahi, you can’t tackle each and every person with same attitude only because you guys had some mishaps or didn’t have a good experience.
Religion related stuff is not like keh you say 2+2 = 4. It is much more complex, so, please avoid using such statements which you educated but seemingly illiterate person don’t know what it really means.
http://www0.bbc.co.uk/urdu/blogs/articles/1097519517.shtml?thanks=1
Assalaam-O-Alaikum,
Janab! You said the word Molvi and mentioned that it means someone who thinks, his lame knowledge is the last word to stand. Well, you used this word as Satan used a drop of honey to start a fight. What I have observed from your blog is that you are one of those who think of your self out of any restrictions. My friend, the way you have used word Molvi, It looked to me that one day you would use some prestigious personality of Islam in twisted brand of statements.Bhai Meray, It is good to tell the truth without any fear i.e. Amar Bil Maroo Wa Nahee Anil Munkar. But would have to take care that we should not blame somebody with what he is not. I have seen people saying to every person having beard, Assalaam-O-Alaikum, Molvi Sahab. Bhai, people now-a-days have become so repetitive in saying things that they don’t even think while they are saying. I agree with Zubair bhai, keh Molvi is the person who is Alim (Scholar). People don’t think what they are supporting and I see Fidaa bhai congratulating for using this word for short sightened people. While I was thinking to defend this thing against you I see Abbas sahib giving one more definition of word molvi. Aray bahi, you can’t tackle each and every person with same attitude only because you guys had some mishaps or didn’t have a good experience.
Religion related stuff is not like keh you say 2+2 = 4. It is much more complex, so, please avoid using such statements which you educated but seemingly illiterate person don’t know what it really means.
Saturday, October 16, 2004
The Meaning of Ramadan
By Khalid Baig
Fasting during Ramadan was ordained during the second year of Hijrah. Why not earlier? In Makkah the economic conditions of the Muslims were bad. They were being persecuted. Often days would go by before they had anything to eat. It is easy to skip meals if you don’t have any. Obviously fasting would have been easier under the circumstances. So why not then?
The answer may be that Ramadan is not only about skipping meals. While fasting is an integral and paramount part of it, Ramadan offers a comprehensive program for our spiritual overhaul. The entire program required the peace and security that was offered by Madinah.
Yes, Ramadan is the most important month of the year. It is the month that the believers await with eagerness. At the beginning of Rajab --- two full months before Ramadan --- the Prophet Muhammad, Sall-Allahu alayhi wa sallam, used to supplicate thus: "O Allah! Bless us during Rajab and Sha’ban, and let us reach Ramadan (in good health)."
During Ramadan the believers get busy seeking Allah’s mercy, forgiveness, and protection from Hellfire. This is the month for renewing our commitment and re-establishing our relationship with our Creator. It is the spring season for goodness and virtues when righteousness blossoms throughout the Muslim communities. "If we combine all the blessings of the other eleven months, they would not add up to the blessings of Ramadan," said the great scholar and reformer Shaikh Ahmed Farooqi (Mujaddad Alif Thani). It offers every Muslim an opportunity to strengthen his Iman, purify his heart and soul, and to remove the evil effects of the sins committed by him.
"Anyone who fasts during this month with purity of belief and with expectation of a good reward (from his Creator), will have his previous sins forgiven," said Prophet Muhammad, Sall-Allahu alayhi wa sallam. "Anyone who stands in prayers during its nights with purity of belief and expectation of a reward, will have his previous sins forgiven." As other ahadith tell us, the rewards for good deeds are multiplied manifold during Ramadan.
Along with the possibility of a great reward, there is the risk of a terrible loss. If we let any other month pass by carelessly, we just lost a month. If we do the same during Ramadan, we have lost everything. The person who misses just one day’s fast without a legitimate reason, cannot really make up for it even if he were to fast everyday for the rest of his life. And of the three persons that Prophet, Sall-Allahu alayhi wa sallam cursed, one is the unfortunate Muslim who finds Ramadan in good health but does not use the opportunity to seek Allah’s mercy.
One who does not fast is obviously in this category, but so also is the person who fasts and prays but makes no effort to stay away from sins or attain purity of the heart through the numerous opportunities offered by Ramadan. The Prophet, Sall-Allahu alayhi wa sallam, warned us: "There are those who get nothing from their fast but hunger and thirst. There are those who get nothing from their nightly prayers but loss of sleep."
Those who understood this, for them Ramadan was indeed a very special month. In addition to fasting, mandatory Salat, and extra Travih Salat, they spent the whole month in acts of worship like voluntary Salat, Tilawa (recitation of Qur’an), Dhikr etc. After mentioning that this has been the tradition of the pious people of this Ummah throughout the centuries, Abul Hasan Ali Nadvi notes: " I have seen with my own eyes such ulema and mashaikh who used to finish recitation of the entire Qur’an everyday during Ramadan. They spent almost the entire night in prayers. They used to eat so little that one wondered how they could endure all this. These greats valued every moment of Ramadan and would not waste any of it in any other pursuit…Watching them made one believe the astounding stories of Ibada and devotion of our elders recorded by history."
This emphasis on these acts of worship may sound strange --- even misplaced --- to some. It requires some explanation. We know that the term Ibada (worship and obedience) in Islam applies not only to the formal acts of worship and devotion like Salat , Tilawa, and Dhikr, but it also applies to worldly acts when performed in obedience to Shariah and with the intention of pleasing Allah. Thus a believer going to work is performing Ibada when he seeks Halal income to discharge his responsibility as a bread-winner for the family. However a distinction must be made between the two. The first category consists of direct Ibada, acts that are required for their own sake. The second category consists of indirect Ibada --- worldly acts that become Ibada through proper intention and observation of Shariah. While the second category is important for it extends the idea of Ibada to our entire life, there is also a danger because by their very nature these acts can camouflage other motives. (Is my going to work really Ibada or am I actually in the rat race?). Here the direct Ibada comes to the rescue. Through them we can purify our motives, and re-establish our relationship with Allah.
Islam does not approve of monasticism. It does not ask us to permanently isolate ourselves from this world, since our test is in living here according to the Commands of our Creator. But it does ask us to take periodic breaks from it. The mandatory Salat (five daily prayers) is one example. For a few minutes every so many hours throughout the day, we leave the affairs of this world and appear before Allah to remind ourselves that none but He is worthy of worship and of our unfaltering obedience. Ramadan takes this to the next higher plane, providing intense training for a whole month.
This spirit is captured in I’tikaf, a unique Ibada associated with Ramadan, in which a person gives up all his normal activities and enters a mosque for a specific period. There is great merit in it and every Muslim community is encouraged to provide at least one person who will perform I’tikaf for the last ten days of Ramadan. But even those who cannot spare ten days are encouraged to spend as much time in the mosque as possible.
Through direct Ibada we "charge our batteries"; the indirect ones allow us to use the power so accumulated in driving the vehicle of our life. Ramadan is the month for rebuilding our spiritual strength. How much we benefit from it is up to us.
Courtesy:
Fasting during Ramadan was ordained during the second year of Hijrah. Why not earlier? In Makkah the economic conditions of the Muslims were bad. They were being persecuted. Often days would go by before they had anything to eat. It is easy to skip meals if you don’t have any. Obviously fasting would have been easier under the circumstances. So why not then?
The answer may be that Ramadan is not only about skipping meals. While fasting is an integral and paramount part of it, Ramadan offers a comprehensive program for our spiritual overhaul. The entire program required the peace and security that was offered by Madinah.
Yes, Ramadan is the most important month of the year. It is the month that the believers await with eagerness. At the beginning of Rajab --- two full months before Ramadan --- the Prophet Muhammad, Sall-Allahu alayhi wa sallam, used to supplicate thus: "O Allah! Bless us during Rajab and Sha’ban, and let us reach Ramadan (in good health)."
During Ramadan the believers get busy seeking Allah’s mercy, forgiveness, and protection from Hellfire. This is the month for renewing our commitment and re-establishing our relationship with our Creator. It is the spring season for goodness and virtues when righteousness blossoms throughout the Muslim communities. "If we combine all the blessings of the other eleven months, they would not add up to the blessings of Ramadan," said the great scholar and reformer Shaikh Ahmed Farooqi (Mujaddad Alif Thani). It offers every Muslim an opportunity to strengthen his Iman, purify his heart and soul, and to remove the evil effects of the sins committed by him.
"Anyone who fasts during this month with purity of belief and with expectation of a good reward (from his Creator), will have his previous sins forgiven," said Prophet Muhammad, Sall-Allahu alayhi wa sallam. "Anyone who stands in prayers during its nights with purity of belief and expectation of a reward, will have his previous sins forgiven." As other ahadith tell us, the rewards for good deeds are multiplied manifold during Ramadan.
Along with the possibility of a great reward, there is the risk of a terrible loss. If we let any other month pass by carelessly, we just lost a month. If we do the same during Ramadan, we have lost everything. The person who misses just one day’s fast without a legitimate reason, cannot really make up for it even if he were to fast everyday for the rest of his life. And of the three persons that Prophet, Sall-Allahu alayhi wa sallam cursed, one is the unfortunate Muslim who finds Ramadan in good health but does not use the opportunity to seek Allah’s mercy.
One who does not fast is obviously in this category, but so also is the person who fasts and prays but makes no effort to stay away from sins or attain purity of the heart through the numerous opportunities offered by Ramadan. The Prophet, Sall-Allahu alayhi wa sallam, warned us: "There are those who get nothing from their fast but hunger and thirst. There are those who get nothing from their nightly prayers but loss of sleep."
Those who understood this, for them Ramadan was indeed a very special month. In addition to fasting, mandatory Salat, and extra Travih Salat, they spent the whole month in acts of worship like voluntary Salat, Tilawa (recitation of Qur’an), Dhikr etc. After mentioning that this has been the tradition of the pious people of this Ummah throughout the centuries, Abul Hasan Ali Nadvi notes: " I have seen with my own eyes such ulema and mashaikh who used to finish recitation of the entire Qur’an everyday during Ramadan. They spent almost the entire night in prayers. They used to eat so little that one wondered how they could endure all this. These greats valued every moment of Ramadan and would not waste any of it in any other pursuit…Watching them made one believe the astounding stories of Ibada and devotion of our elders recorded by history."
This emphasis on these acts of worship may sound strange --- even misplaced --- to some. It requires some explanation. We know that the term Ibada (worship and obedience) in Islam applies not only to the formal acts of worship and devotion like Salat , Tilawa, and Dhikr, but it also applies to worldly acts when performed in obedience to Shariah and with the intention of pleasing Allah. Thus a believer going to work is performing Ibada when he seeks Halal income to discharge his responsibility as a bread-winner for the family. However a distinction must be made between the two. The first category consists of direct Ibada, acts that are required for their own sake. The second category consists of indirect Ibada --- worldly acts that become Ibada through proper intention and observation of Shariah. While the second category is important for it extends the idea of Ibada to our entire life, there is also a danger because by their very nature these acts can camouflage other motives. (Is my going to work really Ibada or am I actually in the rat race?). Here the direct Ibada comes to the rescue. Through them we can purify our motives, and re-establish our relationship with Allah.
Islam does not approve of monasticism. It does not ask us to permanently isolate ourselves from this world, since our test is in living here according to the Commands of our Creator. But it does ask us to take periodic breaks from it. The mandatory Salat (five daily prayers) is one example. For a few minutes every so many hours throughout the day, we leave the affairs of this world and appear before Allah to remind ourselves that none but He is worthy of worship and of our unfaltering obedience. Ramadan takes this to the next higher plane, providing intense training for a whole month.
This spirit is captured in I’tikaf, a unique Ibada associated with Ramadan, in which a person gives up all his normal activities and enters a mosque for a specific period. There is great merit in it and every Muslim community is encouraged to provide at least one person who will perform I’tikaf for the last ten days of Ramadan. But even those who cannot spare ten days are encouraged to spend as much time in the mosque as possible.
Through direct Ibada we "charge our batteries"; the indirect ones allow us to use the power so accumulated in driving the vehicle of our life. Ramadan is the month for rebuilding our spiritual strength. How much we benefit from it is up to us.
Courtesy:
Tuesday, October 12, 2004
Incredible Informations..
Assalam-O-Alaikum,
I went to UIT yesterday at 1:08 and went to Chinyoot Mosque but the door was locked. So, I went back to UIT and had to wait till the end of lunch hour to get some document signed.
I decided to go to Canteen to have something to eat. I approached there and ordered a beef burger and pakola. I don't know why, but it seems to me as cows are too much onion and myoneez now-a-days. Cuz, both were in access in the burger. I am sure it’s not the fault of the Canteen men. Anyhow, some students started song:
Choli keh peechay kiyaa hay Cholii keh peechay
Chunrii keh neechay kiyaa hay Chunrii keh neechay
Khair, Then all the other students around him starting clapping. Khair, I just looked at them and remembered my times then thought keh yaaar, Garam khoon hey Garmii nain Taliyaan bajanay per majboor kar diya hay. Abb when I looked on the other side of the wall segregating boys and girls section and you know what got to know a weird knowledge. Aray bhaya, I had heard sometimes back keh, having mustache is becoming a fashion between girls. After sometime from the boys section someone from boys section called the girl I was talking about with a boy like name (I guess it was Waheed, Saleeem, or something) and I got astonished. Not only mustache but also her name is like boys.
Khair, I shooked my head and thrown all that new info in my mind and went to the office from where I had to take some certificates. Khair, Allah Allah kar keh, I got all the work done and went back to my office.
Uff! I am too tired now.
Insha-Allah, I’ll see you guys again.
Allah-Hafiz.
I went to UIT yesterday at 1:08 and went to Chinyoot Mosque but the door was locked. So, I went back to UIT and had to wait till the end of lunch hour to get some document signed.
I decided to go to Canteen to have something to eat. I approached there and ordered a beef burger and pakola. I don't know why, but it seems to me as cows are too much onion and myoneez now-a-days. Cuz, both were in access in the burger. I am sure it’s not the fault of the Canteen men. Anyhow, some students started song:
Choli keh peechay kiyaa hay Cholii keh peechay
Chunrii keh neechay kiyaa hay Chunrii keh neechay
Khair, Then all the other students around him starting clapping. Khair, I just looked at them and remembered my times then thought keh yaaar, Garam khoon hey Garmii nain Taliyaan bajanay per majboor kar diya hay. Abb when I looked on the other side of the wall segregating boys and girls section and you know what got to know a weird knowledge. Aray bhaya, I had heard sometimes back keh, having mustache is becoming a fashion between girls. After sometime from the boys section someone from boys section called the girl I was talking about with a boy like name (I guess it was Waheed, Saleeem, or something) and I got astonished. Not only mustache but also her name is like boys.
Khair, I shooked my head and thrown all that new info in my mind and went to the office from where I had to take some certificates. Khair, Allah Allah kar keh, I got all the work done and went back to my office.
Uff! I am too tired now.
Insha-Allah, I’ll see you guys again.
Allah-Hafiz.
Sunday, October 10, 2004
UIT: I have no feeling for you.
Assalam-O-Alaikum,
Hmmm..., Didn't hear any clapping from you guys while I entered the blog. Khair, I will have to get use to it as I shouldn't be expecting much from some bunch of _________ ( you can fill it as it suits you).
Read Aay Dees blog, and I investigated myself to find out whether I am also in love with UIT as stated by my two dear x-fellows. But guys found a discouraging information for you guys. I have no feelings attatched with UIT. Now, please don't start I don't have time for you people's lame logics, I am better off with my feelings for things that can respond as well. For your information, I do have feelings about my teachers and I do thank them in my heart. But as far as UIT is concerned there is nothing that I feel about it. Can't answer to you people that why the things are so? because I would have to accumulate the reasons for that.
Hmmm..., nothing much is comming in my mind right now, so, I'll take a hike now.
Allah-Hafiz.
Hmmm..., Didn't hear any clapping from you guys while I entered the blog. Khair, I will have to get use to it as I shouldn't be expecting much from some bunch of _________ ( you can fill it as it suits you).
Read Aay Dees blog, and I investigated myself to find out whether I am also in love with UIT as stated by my two dear x-fellows. But guys found a discouraging information for you guys. I have no feelings attatched with UIT. Now, please don't start I don't have time for you people's lame logics, I am better off with my feelings for things that can respond as well. For your information, I do have feelings about my teachers and I do thank them in my heart. But as far as UIT is concerned there is nothing that I feel about it. Can't answer to you people that why the things are so? because I would have to accumulate the reasons for that.
Hmmm..., nothing much is comming in my mind right now, so, I'll take a hike now.
Allah-Hafiz.
Wednesday, October 06, 2004
no more UITian
Asslamo Aleykum…its 1130 PM (PST)….n this is Aay Dee reporting from his world! hey there!...
Well, ….o o!
DELLLLLLLLLLLLLL…again my laptop’s keys are not working fine….anywayz…
almost a week back I found Qazi and Ammar having their UIT roll number as a nick on MSN…moreover after few hrs also find Imran joining the two comrades n put same sort of nick as well, yep a roll number…lolz….whatever but this thing (to spell 99A ) seems to me very sexy at that time… Wow….yes, n I mean a big loud WOW….hey boy, i wan my UIT days back….i want Sir Tauseef Rajput to call for attendance ..ah!...how sweet it was to hear 09CS from TR….really missing ….yes yes i want Sir Ather to roar for assignments…n offcourse never forget Haroon comments on it …..ah…nothing I have now…only memories, must to named golden memories, anyways….when all these guys reflecting their roll number as a nick then just to have fun I put my nick ‘no more UITian’….. suddenly one patriotic uitian jump on me and …..see what happen then:
(I m putting the chat as it is)
Baila... says:
assalam o alaikum...
Baila... says:
kyun dear why is it so
no more UITian says:
wslam
no more UITian says:
yes it is
Baila... says:
but y
Baila... says:
kia kia hai becharay uit nay
Baila... says:
aur uit is our pechan u should never forget that
Baila... says:
be a proud uitian
Baila... says:
no more UITian says:
nops....
no more UITian says:
now i totally forget the uit
no more UITian says:
zara bhee yaad nahee ati ab uit
Baila... says:
koi baat nahi
Baila... says:
yaad na ayay beshuk...
Baila... says:
but it can never b out of ur life
Baila... says:
kyun k us ka naam tau jur gaya hai abb aap k sath
no more UITian says:
hahaha....
no more UITian says:
btw i love uit
no more UITian says:
nick does not mean i forget
Baila... says:
hunn yeh hui na baat
no more UITian says:
asee hee tafreeh main rakaha hay nick
Baila... says:
u know i am very much devoted to uit
Baila... says:
aur mujh se bardasht nahi hota k koi uitian
Baila... says:
uit k liay aisa sochay ya uss se lataluq ho
Baila... says:
i think i am extra passionate about uit
no more UITian says:
yes...its better if u put cube with EXTRA
Baila... says:
Baila... says:
waisay bhi mai waha ki future lecturer hun
Baila... says:
i ought to think this way
no more UITian says:
acha?....u willing to see this un painted building more????
Baila... says:
yes... i do... n i do wish to see it being done in front of my eyes
Baila... says:
jub uss ki tameer humaray samnay rukhi gai haitau payay takmil bhi humaray samnay hee kyun na ho
no more UITian says:
then u have to have a big bag of patience with u...coz i guess its still need time to complete
no more UITian says:
no more UITian says:
wasay app ka uit say khloos dekh ker khusi hoi
no more UITian says:
ok jeeee
Baila... says:
no more UITian says:
takecare
no more UITian says:
app abhee topi main hain na?
Baila... says:
ya i am in topi
no more UITian says:
MS kitna baqi hay app ka?
Baila... says:
will end in 2005 may inshallah
Baila... says:
hey one good news.....
no more UITian says:
inshAllah
no more UITian says:
yes
Baila... says:
i got my research accepted internationally
no more UITian says:
Wow...well done dear uitian
no more UITian says:
bravo
no more UITian says:
mashAllah
Baila... says:
thnx
no more UITian says:
thats great
no more UITian says:
ok jee leaving
Baila... says:
oh sure
*********END************
hello….u see how much uitians love uit…:)….also u guys are update to congrats this uitian for doing well …mashAllah….anyways…..i m bit sleepy …c ya ppl later!
Okay gear up guyz.. and tune ur voice in thunder tone..shout "LOVE u UIT!":-)
tata
Well, ….o o!
DELLLLLLLLLLLLLL…again my laptop’s keys are not working fine….anywayz…
almost a week back I found Qazi and Ammar having their UIT roll number as a nick on MSN…moreover after few hrs also find Imran joining the two comrades n put same sort of nick as well, yep a roll number…lolz….whatever but this thing (to spell 99A ) seems to me very sexy at that time… Wow….yes, n I mean a big loud WOW….hey boy, i wan my UIT days back….i want Sir Tauseef Rajput to call for attendance ..ah!...how sweet it was to hear 09CS from TR….really missing ….yes yes i want Sir Ather to roar for assignments…n offcourse never forget Haroon comments on it …..ah…nothing I have now…only memories, must to named golden memories, anyways….when all these guys reflecting their roll number as a nick then just to have fun I put my nick ‘no more UITian’….. suddenly one patriotic uitian jump on me and …..see what happen then:
(I m putting the chat as it is)
Baila... says:
assalam o alaikum...
Baila... says:
kyun dear why is it so
no more UITian says:
wslam
no more UITian says:
yes it is
Baila... says:
but y
Baila... says:
kia kia hai becharay uit nay
Baila... says:
aur uit is our pechan u should never forget that
Baila... says:
be a proud uitian
Baila... says:
no more UITian says:
nops....
no more UITian says:
now i totally forget the uit
no more UITian says:
zara bhee yaad nahee ati ab uit
Baila... says:
koi baat nahi
Baila... says:
yaad na ayay beshuk...
Baila... says:
but it can never b out of ur life
Baila... says:
kyun k us ka naam tau jur gaya hai abb aap k sath
no more UITian says:
hahaha....
no more UITian says:
btw i love uit
no more UITian says:
nick does not mean i forget
Baila... says:
hunn yeh hui na baat
no more UITian says:
asee hee tafreeh main rakaha hay nick
Baila... says:
u know i am very much devoted to uit
Baila... says:
aur mujh se bardasht nahi hota k koi uitian
Baila... says:
uit k liay aisa sochay ya uss se lataluq ho
Baila... says:
i think i am extra passionate about uit
no more UITian says:
yes...its better if u put cube with EXTRA
Baila... says:
Baila... says:
waisay bhi mai waha ki future lecturer hun
Baila... says:
i ought to think this way
no more UITian says:
acha?....u willing to see this un painted building more????
Baila... says:
yes... i do... n i do wish to see it being done in front of my eyes
Baila... says:
jub uss ki tameer humaray samnay rukhi gai haitau payay takmil bhi humaray samnay hee kyun na ho
no more UITian says:
then u have to have a big bag of patience with u...coz i guess its still need time to complete
no more UITian says:
no more UITian says:
wasay app ka uit say khloos dekh ker khusi hoi
no more UITian says:
ok jeeee
Baila... says:
no more UITian says:
takecare
no more UITian says:
app abhee topi main hain na?
Baila... says:
ya i am in topi
no more UITian says:
MS kitna baqi hay app ka?
Baila... says:
will end in 2005 may inshallah
Baila... says:
hey one good news.....
no more UITian says:
inshAllah
no more UITian says:
yes
Baila... says:
i got my research accepted internationally
no more UITian says:
Wow...well done dear uitian
no more UITian says:
bravo
no more UITian says:
mashAllah
Baila... says:
thnx
no more UITian says:
thats great
no more UITian says:
ok jee leaving
Baila... says:
oh sure
*********END************
hello….u see how much uitians love uit…:)….also u guys are update to congrats this uitian for doing well …mashAllah….anyways…..i m bit sleepy …c ya ppl later!
Okay gear up guyz.. and tune ur voice in thunder tone..shout "LOVE u UIT!":-)
tata
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