Like a dead goat

Jabir bin Abdullah reported that Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon
him) happened to walk through the market coming from the side of
'Aliya and the people were on both his sides. There he found a dead
lamb with very short ears.He took hold of his ear and said: Who
amongst you would like to have this for a dirham? They said: We do not
like to have it even for less than that as it is of no use to us. He
said: Do you wish to have it (free of any cost)? They said: By Allah,
even if it was alive (we would not have liked to possess that), for
there is defect in it as its ear is very short; now it is dead also.
Thereupon Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: By Allah,
this world is more insignificant in the eye of Allah as it (this dead
lamb) is in your eye. SahihMuslim Book 42, Number 7059.
Severe conditions come upon human beings so that they return back to
Allah. Dear friends, let us not wait for conditions to come upon us
also to remind us of Allah. The world that we admire is of no value at
all as we can see from this hadith. So let us turn to Allah and pray
for all the Muslims who are suffering in various parts of the world.If
Allah wanted, we could've been in their place right at this moment.

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Advice from Shaikh Sulaiman

Shaikh Sulaiman, a well known scholar from SouthAfrica, once visited
us and was asked to give some advice. He mentioned thatthe way
sweetness cannot be separated from honey, whiteness cannot be
separated from milk and fragrance cannot be separated from a flower,
the success of mankind cannot also be separated from following the
religion of Islam. Our totalsuccess is in Islam alone. Then he told us
to be mindful about keeping our duties to Allah. He gave an example
that assume India sends an ambassador to Canada forimproving
relationships between the two countries. Now, if this ambassador
becomes too busy with looking at the beautiful niagra falls and other
landmarks of Canada and forgets about his duties then what will happen
to him when he goes back to India? Yes, he will be fired from his job.
Similarly, if we also don't carry out our duties while we are sent to
this world then we will also not be appreciated in front of Allah on
the Day of Judgement when we return to Him. As a result, let us be
cautious about our responsibilities as being Muslims.

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A man argues that wine should be halal

A man came to Iyas Ibn Mu'awiyah, a Muslim judge famous for his
wisdom, and the following conversation took place between them:
Man: What is the Islamic ruling regarding wine?
Judge: It is Haram (Forbidden).
Man: How about water?
Judge: It is Halal (Permissible).
Man: How about dates and grapes?
Judge: They are Halal.
Man: Why is it that all these ingredients are Halal, and yet when you
combine them, they become Haram?
The judge looked at the man and said: If I hit you with this handful
of dirt, do you think it would hurt you?
Man: It would not.
Judge: How about if I hit you with this handful of straw?
Man: It would not hurt me.
Judge: How about a handful of water?
Man: It surely would not hurt me.
Judge: How about if I mix them, and let them dry to become a brick,
and then hit you with it, would it hurt you?
Man: It would hurt me and might even kill me!
Judge: The same reasoning applies to whatyou asked me!!

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NEWS - Rainstorms cause 65deaths in China 2012-07-10 00:00:58 GMT 2012-07-10 08:00:58(Beijing Time) Xinhua English

A man swims in Yangtze River in Wuhan, Central China's Hubei province,
July 9, 2012. The water level of Yangtze River rose after heavy rains.
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Rainstorms have killed 65people and left 30 others missing in eight
provincial-level regions since June 28, the Ministryof Civil Affairs
said Monday.
The downpours have triggered floods and landslides that have affected
17.44 million people in Jiangsu, Anhui and Shandong provinces in East
China, Henan and Hubei provinces in CentralChina, Chongqing
Municipality and Sichuan province in Southwest China and Shaanxi
province in Northwest China, the ministry said, adding that 1.17
million people have been evacuated.
About 982,400 hectares of farmland have been affected by bad weathers
and about 66,000 houses have collapsed, the ministry said.
The ministry has sent three teams of experts and officials to aid in
reliefwork in affected regions, as well as shipped tents and quilts to
hard-hit Sichuan, the ministry said.
In another Monday report, the ministry said 465 people were killed and
97 missing in natural disasters in the first half of this year.
More than 113.36 million people were affected by natural disasters
during the period, the report said.
Floods, hail and landslideshad the greatest impact on people, followed
by droughts, earthquakes, snowstorms and typhoons, the report said.

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