Salaam

The things I do to raise money for The Revival!

First the Great Manchestrert Run and now this:-)

I will be taking part in the Bungee Jump on 27th October

It would be great if you could all sponsor me.

To sponsor me send email to editor@therevival.co.uk or send me a PM

Wassallaam

Sajid Iqbal

Editor, The Revival

Although Islam recommends us to ask questions and clarify what we are unsure of, I think sometimes, it is possible to go too far with the questions. It's no longer asking questions, but questioning the reasoning, logicalness of something - it is easy to go from trying to clarify our own understanding to trying to make Islam make sense based on our understanding.

Wait, does that make sense?

It's a bit like the difference between"Is it compulsary to pray five times a day?" and "why do we need to pray 5x? once should be enough". 

That's not a great example but I think you'll get what I mean.

I think, this problem mostly arises when there is a lack of Islamic knowledge. 

One man + One woman heard a loud roar, took their binoculars out and saw with their very own eyes, a lion! But they changed their mind and called it a BIG CAT instead. How boring!! This animal was listening to them and glared at the couple with its big eyes. Its not from the zoo. Its not from the recent circus. Its not been reported to be missing.

All this hoo-haa which is a rarity in Britain, drafted in armed police, one helicopter hovering over the area in which this LION was spotted and another helicopter using a thermal imaging camera to try to detect any trace of an animal. Residents are now advised to stay indoors. Such drama queens and scaredy-cats!! They need to live in the wild for a day...

so yeah, abit everywhere recently ive ben posting stuff about how im trying to boycott anything related to helping Israel.

so ive also just been doing light research aka google, opening lots of tabs, browsing.

and i found a few things i want to share with you.

First and foremost, this list. right from the horse's mouth. Its called "THESE COMPANIES SUPPORT ISRAEL...LET'S SUPPORT THEM..." why the need to ellipses is beyond me..so is the need for capital letters, so there we go:

http://www.ruthfullyyours.com/2011/02/27/these-companies-support-israel-...

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India and Australia Under 19 cricket teams are ready to face each other on 26th August 2012.

Here we can tell you the squad of both teams and you have to comment us your faverite teams with reason.

Australia Under-19s squad
WG Bosisto, KR Patterson, CT Bancroft, MJ Buchanan, S Cassel, HNA Conway, AJ Gregory, SR Hain, TM Head, JS Paris, JJ Peirson, GS Sandhu, MT Steketee, NG Stevens, AJ Turner

India Under-19s squad
U Chand, AD Nath, B Aparajith, P Chopra, SS Das , Harmeet Singh, AA Herwadkar, RB Kalaria, K Passi, SK Patel, Ravikant Singh, Sandeep Sharma, GH Vihari, Vikas Mishra, VH Zol

Samsung Vs Apple.

Apple says that Samsung copies its rounded corners and made lists bounce. They want $2.5 billion for it.

Samsung says that rounded corners already existed, and so did precursors to bouncing lists.

They also say that apple are using their technology (they basically helped design how the 3g system works) without paying them. They want $500million for it.

Apple is saying that yes they are using Samsung Tech, but they think they sould give something like less than a penny per device - and get $40 per samsung device for the rounded corners.

Samsung argue it is crazy to ask for such royalties for something so simple as rounded corners.

(and I hate Apple. Scumbags.)

And the jury has reached a verdict.

Last few Ramadans:

Ramadan for me was always an inconvenience.

Such a disruption to my daily routine.

I mean, I have things to do, places to go, people to see and all this “don’t eat at daytime” or “do extra-long prayers in the evening” had always taken me away from the important things.

I mean, come on, staying hungry all day – what does that even do for someone? (other than help them lose a few kg?)

But it doesn’t even help you lose a few kg really cos the samosas and pakoras in the evening just pile on everything you lost during the day.

And sleeping straight after eating loads and loads just stores fat onto you so I’d always end up putting weight on rather than losing it.

<<<Eid Sunnahs>>>

1- Reciting Takbeer

2- Eating odd number of dates b4 leaving for the Eid prayer

3- Wearing your best (clean) clothes & Adorning yourself on the occasion of Eid

4- Doing ghusl for the Eid prayer

5- Praying two rakah Tahiyyat al-Masjid

6- Paying Zakatul Fitr B4 Eid Prayer is Must

7- Shaking hands & Greeting one another on Eid

8- Going to the prayer by one route and returning by another

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This Ramadan… I will strive for consistency, even after the month is over.

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Ramadan is over, or nearly so. It leaves like a guest afraid to overstay its welcome. As we hold on to its last few moments, it’s important to remember that the journey isn’t over.

The effort we put in during the last month should carry on through the rest of the year. We might not be able to keep everything up, and probably not to the same extent… but the attachment to Allah’s Book, the increased worship and remembrance, the love of extra prayers at night… these things should not be forgotten.

But how do we keep it up? By taking it day by day. One day at a time.