@love to live bu... Yaqub is right. You said it yourself you have no experience and very limited knowledge so you cant afford to be picky. The position of lab tech would be tedious for you plus your over qualified for the position but at least you would have your foot in the door and if any relevant position came up in the firm then you would stand a better chance then other candidates. Your course at uni is it a 3 year course where its all written and then you do exams and coursework during the year or is it a sandwich course where its 4 years and in your last year you spend your time in an opticians? Have you not thought about seeing the careers advisor at uni they can help? Also the careers centre will have vacancies, sometimes firms advertise through the uni career centre.

Thats the problem right there. You would be better off applying in bradistan because you go uni down there. If your at Bradistan uni and you applying in Manchetser its gonna be hard coz a potential employer will look at your CV and realise that the distance is too much for you to be trekcing it up and down everyday. They probs want someone who is local.

Im pretty sure a 4 year course is called a sandwich course. A relative of mine is doing it in finance or something, hes in his 4th year now working in a bank.

Im a bit confused if your gonna be spending a year in a clinic why are you looking to work in an optician now? Wont working in the clinic count as experience meaning you can go and get a job straight away?

Show your parents all the rejection letters you have had, explain to them that its really hard to get a job in Manny what with you being at uni in Bradistan, tell them you really have tried but you aint had no luck. Explain that if you get experience now it will mean your more likely to get a job after you graduate. Tell them you will ring everyday and wont get up to no good lol. My big sis had the same problem she wanted to move out to uni (Wales). It was one of the top unis for her course but my dad was kinda against it at first but once she convinced him he let her move out. In her 2nd and 3rd year she didnt come home during term time coz she had a lot of work plus she were working part time to pay her rent.

Theres no harm in asking. If they no in the end well at least youve tried your best.

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xSmurfy786x wrote:

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Is that like X-Files and The truth is out there?

Note to Muslim TV channels:

Don't call a program 'I Want to Believe'

There should be no compulsion in religion.

Ya'qub wrote:

Note to Muslim TV channels:

Don't call a program 'I Want to Believe'

There should be no compulsion in religion.

I think thats only used in the context of non-believers.

love to live but living to die wrote:

have we got a thread or an article or a blod post on E'sa (AS)?? i can't find anything!

http://therevival.co.uk/the-muslim-jesus

It wasn't difficult to find. Click on 'Magazine' in the top left. Click on Malcolm X's face (issue 10). Click on 'The Muslim Jesus' (as)

Maybe you didn't find it using the search cos it was spelt with 'Isa.

Seraphim wrote:

xSmurfy786x wrote:

Switch to 819!!
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Is that like X-Files and The truth is out there?

Lol.. ermmm i guess?
its basically like a debate show, where the ppl in the programme choose a subject (eg: Milaad, 15th Shabaan, ilm-ul-ghayb[knowlegde of the unseen] and theres like one khwaarij (wahabi) and 2 sunnis and a host. and the khwaarij just presents evidences from quraan/hadeeth and stuff saying that most of the stuff sunnis believe in is bidah, and then the 2 sunni girls explain how it isnt etc etc.. its like a proper debate on air lol..

xSmurfy786x wrote:

Seraphim wrote:

xSmurfy786x wrote:

Switch to 819!!
Noor TV
Search 4 the Truth is on x

Is that like X-Files and The truth is out there?

Lol.. ermmm i guess?
its basically like a debate show, where the ppl in the programme choose a subject (eg: Milaad, 15th Shabaan, ilm-ul-ghayb[knowlegde of the unseen] and theres like one khwaarij (wahabi) and 2 sunnis and a host. and the khwaarij just presents evidences from quraan/hadeeth and stuff saying that most of the stuff sunnis believe in is bidah, and then the 2 sunni girls explain how it isnt etc etc.. its like a proper debate on air lol..

Sounds pretty sectarian. I thought Wahhabis were Sunni. Anyway, I think something like that is good if done with proper adhab.

Has anyone ever read an Istikhara? If so did you get a feeling, dream, both or neither? Has anyone ever acted upon their feelings or dreams?

Im only asking coz ive had some dreams lately which i totally dismissed when i first started having them but they are getting more frequent now and it got me thinking what if its sign hmmmm.

Naz wrote:

Has anyone ever read an Istikhara? If so did you get a feeling, dream, both or neither? Has anyone ever acted upon their feelings or dreams?

Im only asking coz ive had some dreams lately which i totally dismissed when i first started having them but they are getting more frequent now and it got me thinking what if its sign hmmmm.

Dealing with dreams are a risky business.

You have to deal with interpretation, diff possible meanings etc. Whether the dream is from God, the devil or just your rambling mind.

In the end i think it comes down to if its harmful. Obviously if its harmful dont go through with it. But if its in your best interest then maybe you should.

On the other hand doing nothing is also an option, except you gain nothing.

Naz wrote:

Has anyone ever read an Istikhara? If so did you get a feeling, dream, both or neither? Has anyone ever acted upon their feelings or dreams?

It is not necessary that you get a dream or even a "feeling." Rather, the istikhara is a prayer that Allah guide you towards that which is best (khayr) for you. If you do the prayer of guidance (istikhara) with the proper manners, the most important of which is to truly consign the matter to Allah and suspend your own inclinations, then Allah will make events unfold in the direction that is the best for your worldly and next-worldly affairs.

I read an Istikhara about a year ago but coz i had some other stuff going on i didnt get the "feeling" or maybe i did but i didnt realise it. I decided to postpone the Istikhara until my mind was clear which never happened. Anyway i had totally forgotten about it until early this year when i started getting dreams about it. The only dreams i remember are the ones where im crying in the dream coz i will start crying in real life and the tears rolling down my cheeks wake me up. These dreams ive been have ive remembered every single one because i get them just before my alarm goes off for Fajir. Then yesterday my mum was describing a dream she had and i was kinda freaked out by it coz its exactly the dream i had 2 months ago! Ive never discussed these dreams with anyone. Ive didnt even tell my mum that i had the same dream as her.

@MuslimBro i have got reams and reams on Istikhara and i know some ppl will get dreams while others get feelings i just wanted someone elses experiences of reading an Istikhara.

@Seraphim yeah dreams are risky and when i started getting them i thought it was the devil interfering but they aint bad dreams which made me think maybe they are from Allah(swt). As of yet i have not acted on my dreams and have asked Allah(swt) for guidance but all HE keeps giving me is more dreams.

@Long to live but...Even if i wanted to act on my dreams i couldnt coz its complicated.

Aslong as they're not telling you to kill people, you'll be fine.
The way i see it, you asked God for guidance and God answers all prayers... maybe not in the way we wanted him to but HE always does. Seems to me, like he's shown you the way.

The question is will you follow?
If not, then what was the point in asking him? Tut tut Naz, wasting Gods time lol.

My dreams are all so odd and never seem to have any particular message. Mainly just a collection of random events and me looking like a dork.

i have very interesting dreams and some very beautiful ones. would love to know what they mean.

Sometimes when you're really worried about something you will get dreams about it.

I did istikhara bcoz I wanted to know whether the timing was right for the thing I was doing. Some people are encouraging me and others are discouraging me. I'm just going for it unless there is an obstacle which is stopping me.

Ya'qub wrote:

My dreams are all so odd and never seem to have any particular message. Mainly just a collection of random events and me looking like a [strong]dork.[/strong]

I don't remember the last time I heard that word.

Seraphim wrote:

Aslong as they're not telling you to kill people, you'll be fine.
The way i see it, you asked God for guidance and God answers all prayers... maybe not in the way we wanted him to but HE always does. Seems to me, like he's shown you the way.

The question is will you follow?
If not, then what was the point in asking him? Tut tut Naz, wasting Gods time lol.

Now now im sure if you ask God nicely He could spare you a couple of minutes

love to live but living to die wrote:

*Naz: Are you seeing something that might happen in the future? ie. do you get premonitions? or is it more like if you do this then this will happen? and if you don't then this might happen, meaning both sides of the story??

lol you make it sound like charmed. My dreams show something that will happen in the future and it involves someone else who are i know of but not personally so you see why its complicated. I cant up to a ajnabee (stranger) and tell them ive been dreaming about them coz theyr gonna think im weird. If a complete stranger said to me they had been dreaming about me i would be freaked out then run a mile. This dream if i act on it, it cant harm that person but it could possibly benefit them.

MuslimBro wrote:

Sometimes when you're really worried about something you will get dreams about it.

I did istikhara bcoz I wanted to know whether the timing was right for the thing I was doing. Some people are encouraging me and others are discouraging me. I'm just going for it unless there is an obstacle which is stopping me.

When im worried about something i have very vivid nightmares. These dreams that ive been having ive never thought about it, theyve just completetly come out of the blue.

A guy I know from college said to this girl in his biology class that he'd dreamt about her the night before. Bit creepy don't you think.

Does anyone know how many terminals Liverpool John Lennon Airport has? Im thinking only one but not sure hmmm.

Naz* wrote:

Does anyone know how many terminals Liverpool John Lennon Airport has? Im thinking only one but not sure hmmm.

Why, wat are you hijacking?

love to live but living to die wrote:

however, i do see the future (that sounds sooo cool!) .. at first it started of with just a still picture and when it happens in real life that i realise that i saw it in my dream ... and now its more like a motion clip that lasts for 2-3 seconds... and again i don't remembr it until i see the real life experience and i can immediately smile and dismiss the events that i saw em coming!

No, that is deja vu, almost everyone experiences it.

You don't really see the future, its just an illusion of the mind making you think you did. I'm really surprised you've never heard of it.

Move along people, nothing to see here.

Seraphim wrote:

Naz* wrote:

Does anyone know how many terminals Liverpool John Lennon Airport has? Im thinking only one but not sure hmmm.

Why, wat are you hijacking?

ha ha very funny

Im flying out from liverpool this week. Im not leaving the house until ive read fajir which means im gonna be cutting it fine. If there is more then one terminal them im buggered coz im gonna be running around like a headless chicken and gonna miss my flight. My mates have said its just 1 terminal but i dont trust them coz they are more dozy then me lol. Ahhh well we'll just have to see how things pan out.

Naz wrote:

Im flying out from liverpool this week. Im not leaving the house until ive read fajir which means im gonna be cutting it fine.

If your on a journey, you can be more flexible with prayer times. That is, if you leave before Fajr starts.

love to live but living to die wrote:

Bloody hell, its deafening silence here!

one question: Why?

Its called the silence before the storm

No offence but whats with the crappy font, there was nothing wrong with the old one. Also why dont the smilies work?

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