“Timely action will save stroke victims”

Timely action will minimisethe impact of stroke, 'brain attack,' and
with the administration of an injection within three hours it would be
possible to restore the patient's mobility. This was the message
conveyed to doctors drawn from various places of southern districts at
a workshop on stroke prevention and management organised at the Apollo
Speciality Hospitals here on Friday.
S. Meenakshi Sundaram, senior neurologist of the hospital, spoke about
four vital factors, FAST, to determine whether a patient had suffered
a stroke. He explained to reporters on the sidelines of the workshop
that a drooping face was an indicator of stroke.
If one of the arms was numb or the person experienced difficulty in
raising both the hands up together, he should be shifted to a
hospital. The third factor was slurred speech. The person should be
asked to repeat a simple sentence to identifyslur. Time was a very
important factor in saving the brain and hence the patient should be
shifted to hospital as early as possible.
An injection of tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) administered within
three hours of the onset of stroke would help regain lost faculties,
he said. Karthik of Department of Neurosciences said that thepatient
could be discharged in about three days, if the injection was
administered. Though costly, the injection would bring down the
medical expenses of stroke treatment considerably, he claimed.
The workshop included interactive lectures and drill.

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Free Muslim Women

Let us take a quick look at some of the rights of women in Islam,
comparing them with some of the legislation relating to women in
Britain:
Education
Considered by many these days as a basic human right, in Islam both
men and women are duty bound to seek education for the Prophet
Muhammad said: "The search for knowledge is a duty on every Muslim."
(Bukhari) So, while there were no places at British Universities until
the late 1870s (Ox. Ill. His. Brit. p493), there have been records of
Islamic Universities with women students throughout the history of
Islam: Nafisah was an early 8th century hadith scholar and the great
jurist Shafi participated in her circle at Al-Fustat. Shaika Shuhuda
another 8th century scholar was a lecturer at Baghdad University - the
Oxford and Cambridge of its time. Nazhun was a 12th century scholar
and ofcourse we cannot forget Ayesha, the wife of the Prophet who in
the 7th century was one of the greatest relaters of hadith.

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Subhanallah

If His benevolence, reward, blessing and goodness has no end when all
of these are a consequence and result of His pleasure, whatthen of
this attribute of His pleasure? It is related in a tradition, 'If I
bless, there is no end to my blessing.' What then of the quality from
where this blessing emanated? Pleasure necessitates love, benevolence,
generosity, kindness, pardon, ṣafḥ, forgiveness and mercy.
Juwayriyyah, the mother ofthe believers, may Allāh pleased with her,
related that the Prophet, may Allāhsend peace and blessings upon him,
left her sitting inher place of prayer one morning after having prayed
Fajr. On his return during the forenoon he found her still sitting as
he had left her, he asked
, 'Are you still in the same state as when I left you?' She replied,
'Yes'. The Prophet said, 'I said after leaving you four sentences
three times - if you were toweigh them against what you have said
today up until now, they would outweigh them: Subḥānallāh wa biḥamdihi
'adada khalqihi wa riḍā nafsihi wa zinata 'arshihi wa midāda
kalimātihi'."

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Are all Muslims the same? :-> What do Muslims believe?

Are all Muslims the same?
There is an extraordinary diversity of Muslim culturesstretching from
North Africa to Southeast Asia and from Europe to Latin America. There
are many Muslim interpretations of Islam that has invoked different
schools of theology and law, along with a rich tradition of mysticism
commonly known as Sufism. While this diversity exists, there is one
underlying unity of belief that binds all Muslims together – the
belief in the oneness of God and of his final Messenger, Muhammad.
What do Muslims believe?
The basis of the Islamic faith is the belief in One God (Allah, the
Creator, Sustainer, Ruler and Judge of the universe), His prophets
such as Abraham, Moses and Jesus, concluding with the last Prophet,
Muhammad. Muslims believe in angels, in the books of revelation
(Torah, Gospel), the Day of Judgement, in God's Will, and in Heaven
and Hell. Together, these beliefs constitute the seven articles of
faith.
Muslims regard Christians and Jews as the 'People of the Book',
believers who received, through prophets, revelation in the form of
scriptures or revealed books from God. Islam, commonly perceivedas the
'youngest' of the monotheistic religions, is from the Muslim point of
view, the original as well as the final revelation of God. The Quran
says, "He established for you the same religion as that which He
established for Noah, that which We have sent to you as an inspiration
through Abraham, Moses and Jesus, namely that you should remain
steadfast and makeno divisions within it." [Quran, Chapter 42, Verse
13] Muslims believe that the revelation received by Prophet Muhammad
through the Angel Gabriel served the purpose of correcting the human
errorthat had become part of the belief systems of Judaism and
Christianity.

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