Valentine's day. A day on which a couple show their outward affection for each other through gifts and other acts of devtion. It may involve flowers and even chocolate. Isn't this the height of western decadence mixed with fairytale Hollywood romance?

Surely this is something that all Muslims should stay away from Or should they?

If you look at the underlying message of Saint Valentine, who was Christian, the message is not one of romance, decadence or fairytales. It is a simple tale of marriage.

Saint Valentine conducted marriage ceremonies for individuals who wanted to get married but for whatever reason wanted to get married, religion allowed but but for whatever reason they couldn't (including reasons of societal taboo).

http://www.islamawareness.net/Dua/Fortress/061.html

Allaahumma 'innee 'as'aluka khayrahaa, wa 'a'oothu bika min sharrihaa.

O Allah , I ask You for the good of it and seek refuge in You against its evil.

Reference:
Abu Dawud 4/326, Ibn Majah 2/1228. See also Al-Albani, Sahih Ibn Mjjah 2/305

Allaahumma 'innee 'as'aluka khayrahaa, wa khayra maa feehaa, wa khayra maa 'ursilat bihi wa a'oothu bika min sharrihaa, wa sharri maa feehaa, wa sharri maa 'ursilat bihi.

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As a student, quite often, I seem to struggle through many days when ropes, so resistant, tie me to books and pieces of paper. Trying to balance my individual life, my home life, my social life, and two big chunks of my studying life is near to impossible. Though on the rank of priorities, some dance around sky high whilst others sail along the bottom.

Whilst ideas are whizzing around, lists are circulating my mind, the heavy weight of fulfilling expectations, doing chores and trying to keep as many people as happy as possible occupies me, I wish that everything would just slow down, slow down to a pace that was manageable for me. Then, it does slow down.

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Tony Blair backs Egypt's government and criticises Brotherhood

Former British PM says Muslim Brotherhood was stealing Egypt's revolution and army intervention has put it on right path

It's like you read in the Qur'an described as the blind, deaf and dumb, people who are so evil they God has closed them to the truth.

Assalamualaikum fellow revvy-ers!

So yesterday i went to a talk at DMU and the event was called 'Be Like Muhammad - Through Thick and Thin'. As soon as i seen that the speaker was AbdelRahman Murphy, I HAD to make a effort to attend. I love watching his videos on youtube and I find him to be very relatable and he explains things in a simple manner, which I respect a lot.

So anyway, I thought I should share the scribbles of notes I made so people can learn what I learnt!

Have a look:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/26/syria-heritage-in-ruins-bef...

...from Monday.

So that they can kill all the men.

#ReadBetweenTheLines

Then again that may be better than them all starving to death.

This is beautiful

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk9tDIu79nQ