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Salam Brothers and Sisters,
I have not posted in a while but there is one topic on my mind everyday which I cannot conclude and would like to hear your views.
I am getting tired by the day of the acts that occur in this country and around the areas I work and live. I have a wife and my daughter Aisha is nearly 15 months old. On a daily basis there is killing, theft amongst so many other things and the rulers that police this land are not even close to being in control.
I am more and more contemplating moving away to somewhere safer, more livable and where my daughter will not have an upbrining which has to include being taught about why people kill their own children because they are jealous of their loved one or something ridiculous.
Where, if anywhere would people consider?
WS
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You made the crucial edit in the nick of time. Fair enough.
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Yes i did
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[quote="Noor"]from what i heard there are 12 imams at that masjid and the head being ash shaykh asad saeed sagarji or have i confused myself with another masjid? hmm, can a minhaji help me out here![/quote]
Ummayad Mosque has 4 head Imams, one for each sunni Madhab. Shaykh Saghargi Hafizullah is the Head Hanafi Imam.
I remember one of the Mua'zzin's of the mosque came on a tour with Shaykh Yaqoubi, to UK, his azaan and salawat recitation was absolutly amazing.
Why do most muslims not live in villages? only evertowns n cities..
It would be major cool if Muslims started living in villages, did there own farming, ate from their own crop, lived peaceful lives, without the city lights and screams.
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they do live in villages
just not in this country
over here, they like to live together for support financially, socially, etc etc
makes life easier
in the village, altho its kool..........halal food, other muslims to chill with?
and besides, leave the poor village people alone........its the only place we havnt tuk over
lol it wouldnt be peaceful anymore if asians moved in
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oh and imagine the smell of farms and curry blended in 😛
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i dont no how ppl in pak can live in the village, dad took us back to our village when we went and the electricity went and it was thundering. pitch black! was so scared, dad was gona make us stay the night but we cried and he took us back to the city.
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u big baby :roll:
no electricity? big deal!!
wat would u have done if electricity hadnt been invented?
lol cant believe u scared of the dark
pak village life is kool u knw, its peacefull and nice for a change...simple people, simple lives. living in the fast-paced world of communication and technology, it can be a relief
but the city of lahore is the best
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[quote="Sirus"]but the city of lahore is the best[/quote]
too right it is! only cz of the markaz there! my first visit to pakiland and lahore and i met qibla in person!
back to the village, it was pitch black for goodness sake! i aint scared of the dark but in pakistan, its dangerous, you no the dodgy people and that.
the village was too, too hush for my liking. after an hour i was bored and was longing to go back to pindi.
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I love pakistan everything apart from the village!
Love Islamabad, pratcially live thier ,loved gena market and super gena market! 😃
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lol it can get a lil boring, u jus gotta make sure ur not there for long
hav u been around the markaz? the minhaj uni's? full tour?
and Darbar-e-Ghousia? 😃
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[quote="Sirus"]lol it can get a lil boring, u jus gotta make sure ur not there for long
hav u been around the markaz? the minhaj uni's? full tour?
and Darbar-e-Ghousia? :D[/quote]
my aunt and uncle are very active minhajis (shaykh ul islam did there nikah and linked them up! and they no shaykh ramadan and his wife!) so she gave us the full tour around the markaz, uni, darbas the lot! we didn't see the building cz they've only started building it but we saw the room in which the men were reciting.
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my dad knws every1 there too alhamdulillah, when ma bro went year b4 i did he got to go downstairs where the actual tomb of Hazoor Peer saab is. the one u see isnt the actual one, its the exact same shape, but on ground level. directly beneath is the actual mizar.
but i tell you what, there was something special in teh air that i could feel and sense as we stud their at the darbaar listening to my bro recite qasida burdah
truly its the blessings of Sarkar Ghous Paak (RA) 😃
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wow maasha'Allah. you get that feeling when sitting in the company of an awliya. its the same with qibla, when your next to them you can feel all the baraka reflecting on you and their noor on you.. subhaanAllah. its amazing, cant be described and even when they are talking to you, your heart is pounding, you know your talking to someone special.
btw, i got named by qibla at al hidayah 😛
cant get better than that can ya!
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lol tell me bowt it
everytime i have met Qibla Hazoor, my heart pumps and my body starts shaking
and only till i sit down and take 5 mins to take it all in, do i go back to normal
its the spiritual aura mashallah, of that i have no doubt
got any gud links for karbala or Imam Hussain (RA) lectures to watch online?
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hes stayed at my house 😛
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[quote="Sirus"]hes stayed at my house :P[/quote]
omg, you lucky, lucky person! an awliya has been to your house! mubarak! (qibla always congratulates people!)
yah there are loads online, i'll dig some up for you. some top stuff! well, everything by qibla is ace!
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Anywhere where there is a diverse multicultural or dominant Islamic population and lots of jobs :? and not corrupt. Which I don't think exists :?
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[quote="Alisha"]Anywhere where there is a diverse multicultural or dominant Islamic population and lots of jobs :? and not corrupt. Which I don't think exists :?[/quote]
London is not corrupt!!
ok, not THAT corrupt...
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Like i said queens park is the place! it's boring but it's the place!!
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I visited Bedford today as part of my work and....WOW!! that place is really rubbish 😃 !
Maybe it was just the bits I saw, but it was rally run-down and had no energy. The train also went through Luton, which is absolutely terrible, maybe even a bit worse.
Maybe I was spoilt by leaving from the brand-new St Pancras station which gives new meaning to the word 'blinging'. Seriously, why is there a need for a Hamley's store in a train station?!
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[quote="MuslimBro"]So [i]that's[/i] the Ummayad mosque in Damascus. The Imam of that mosque came to our local mosque to give a talk on the topic 'Islam in the West'.
I heard he comes from the lineage of the Prophet (pbuh).[/quote]
ive been syria.. its wikkidd.. really gd ziyaarat sites there.. the atmosphere is great too.. really kind ppl.. nyc weather, foods not bad either..
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[quote="Sirus"]oh and imagine the smell of farms and curry blended in :P[/quote]
hey.. in pk villages they rub cow dung on the walls.. thats yuckyy!
i liked pk.. i always liked it.. i live in lahore back home.. but sumtimes its still abit 2 fast paced to me, i member the girl next door 2 my house asked me why i wore a scarf?! i was like OMG !!! :shock: and she was even more shocked 2 hear that i wear it 2 skool back home and stuff!! sum parts of pk are more westernised that we are!
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[quote="Ya'qub"]I visited Bedford today as part of my work and....WOW!! that place is really rubbish 😃 !
Maybe it was just the bits I saw, but it was rally run-down and had no energy. The train also went through Luton, which is absolutely terrible, maybe even a bit worse.
Maybe I was spoilt by leaving from the brand-new St Pancras station which gives new meaning to the word 'blinging'. Seriously, why is there a need for a Hamley's store in a train station?![/quote]
Really?!?! should have told me, so you went through it or actually went in queens park, i think you went to st johns stop which is pretty shoddy but did you actually get off the train if so where abouts?
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i got off at bedford train station. then got a taxi to Kingsway, which was at one of the County Council buildings (which were pretty crummy inside too!) It was next to a 'Dreams' beds superstore.
It had a place nearby called Kids' World which looked [b]really[/b] creepy...
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😂 yes that place is really crappy and thats why our county council is closing for the new town council but if you went over the bridge that you drove passed you would have entered the wonderfull world of queens park lol.
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[quote="xSmurfy786x"][quote="Sirus"]oh and imagine the smell of farms and curry blended in :P[/quote]
hey.. in pk villages they rub cow dung on the walls.. thats yuckyy!
i liked pk.. i always liked it.. i live in lahore back home.. but sumtimes its still abit 2 fast paced to me, i member the girl next door 2 my house asked me why i wore a scarf?! i was like OMG !!! :shock: and she was even more shocked 2 hear that i wear it 2 skool back home and stuff!! sum parts of pk are more westernised that we are![/quote]
i was asked by several people, including relatives back home that if my beard was for fashion? and when i said no, i was asked why have i kept it so young when i have years ahead of me
i wonder how they knew how long i was gona live for, coz i dont!!
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[quote="xSmurfy786x"]
hey.. in pk villages they rub cow dung on the walls.. thats yuckyy!
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lol they dont rub it. They mix hay into so that it becomes a bit harder coz otherwise the cow dung is really soft and doesnt stick together. You then roll it into a ball and roll it out and make a round circle and slap it onto the wall. The sun then comes and drys it. You then peel it off and use it to make a fire. It also makes good fertiliser for the crops.
I dont think they do it anymore coz gas cookers have finally come into existent.
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salaam brothers and sisters,
just thought id drop in a different perspective on belonging and some other points brought up.Many bros and sisters i know have the question of belonging which comes from being second or third gen in this country, i however do not.
I was born in rural Gloucestershire and now live in Leicester, my family are English for as far back as anyone can figure and even tracing us we go back at least 1000 years on this island.
I am English, i am white and i am Muslim and i dont find any problem with that fusion, there are many wonderfull things about being British and living in this country and i like to think that i am able to balance these things.I am tremendously proud of my british culture but i will stand up and say when things are going wrong.
There is nothing british about binge drinking, the sexual promiscuity and crime in this country, though they are now becoming characteristic and this is very unfortunate.
If you think of the archetypal Brit pre war they were polite, well dressed, honourable, honest to a fault, respectfull of others and others belonging, loyal, restrained,devout and family oriented...sound like any brothers or sisters you know?...in my opinion, , being a good muslim makes you a fine example of the best of what it means to be British.
The religious freedoms in this country are what allowed me to stand up and say my shahadah without being burned at the stake 😃 , but i cant help feel that in many ways this country has lost its (to quote Gordon Brrown, of all people) "moral Compass"...if you ask me as long as our moral compass is a qibla finder it will be Islam and Muslims who help bring this country back to its true roots.
For me home is where my heart is, and whether that is walking in the Malverns, the streets of a city or in the Masjid that is home.
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woo hooo! a newbie!
wa'alaykum assalaam akh!
marhaba marhaba!
[quote="Joie de Vivre"][quote="Irfan.khan"]No im referring moss side.....yeh bedford[/quote]
Just checking.
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queens bloody park!!!!! not bedford i think it might be in the directory but i am honestly telling you there are no pubs running but there is a charles well brewery