Reviving the Islamic Spirit - RIS
I know this event has passed and I kept hearing about it on Facebook not really knowing what it's about untill I came across this video. Having watched it, I would've loved to have been there (or watched the online streaming)! Just the whole spirit of it all sparks inside me.
If anyone would like to take some time out to watch these videos, which I'm sure will be amazing, then here is the link: http://ristalks.com/index.php If you scroll down, there will be several videos and also, on the right hand side are a list of speakers which you can chose from. Do try going for a speaker that you don't usually listen to.
The delivery man.
One of those days when your dad leaves the house and locks the door as he leaves. You begin to vacuum the house because a guest will be coming soon and also, to convince your mother that you have been productive whilst being at home alone.
Then you hear a knock at the door and presumably think that it's your dad whose forgotten something at home. You take a look through the eye piece and it's someone other than your father so you panic because the house keys aren't anywhere near.
9 Things You Didn’t Know About The Prophet’s Mosque
Seeing a scene of impeccable beauty, we often hear the term “Heaven on Earth!” But there is only one place that literally has the right to proclaim itself heaven on Earth. There, deep in the mosque of the Prophet (ṣallallāhu 'alayhi wa sallam), covered by green carpets and the tears of millions, lies a “garden from the gardens of paradise.” It is a place known to every Muslim who has ever lived, yet there's still much we don't know about it. Here are just some of the interesting facts and mysteries of the Prophet's [ṣallallāhu 'alayhi wa sallam]
9. The first place in the Arabian Peninsula to have electricity
Breaking News: Samer Issawi has been freed!
Palestinian political prisoner and resistance icon SAMER ISSAWI was released today (23-12-13) after spending over 17 months in an Israeli prison. He's said to be the "the longest hunger striker in history".
Alhamdulillah he's free to go and upon his release, he says "Now, we need to fast for the others. Never forget, Zionists hold dozens of men and women without charge, many still on hunger strike".
All those who campaigned for his release will now realise that all their efforts and support for him, paid off. But it doesn't stop here... Free Free Palestine!!
The Matrix
Morpheus: .."You’re here because you know something. What you know, you cannot explain but you feel it. You felt it your entire life. You don’t know what it is, but it’s there like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me. Do you know what i am talking about?
Neo: ‘The Matrix’
Morpheus: Do you want to know what it is?
The matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.
The biggest emergency in the UN’s history: Starving in Syria
Syrians 'forced to eat cats and dogs' to survive the war as three-quarters of population of 22 million will need aid to survive next year
Three-quarters of Syria’s 22.4 million people will need humanitarian aid to survive by 2014, according to a UN study. Bread in some areas costs five times what it was at the start of the conflict, and 80 per cent of Syrians say their greatest fear is shortage of food.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/starving-in-syria-t…