Wednesday, November 7, 2007

What a hypocrite

The PM says sorry for the interest rate rise, even though it was not in his control.

But refuses to say sorry to the native Australian people, because it was not in his control.

The hypocrisy is nauseating. I really dislike this man.

And here's what other people said.

Monday, November 5, 2007

LOL

Ghar Jamai

You'd have to be indian to understand this one.

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Blog of the ..... web

This blog is probably the best blog I have ever seen: Arabic Gems

Monday, October 15, 2007

A million bux

Question: What would you do if you won a million bucks in a lottery? If someone (a Muslim someone) out there visits this blog and sees this question, please let me know what you would do.

And you can't answer "well I would not allow myself to get into this situation".

Basically you were in a rush one day and bought some ticket that your mate was selling without realising it, and suddenly you get a call saying "Congratulations! You've won a million dollars!!"

What do you do?

Media power

Saturday, October 13, 2007

Saturday, October 6, 2007

Baby

"A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bank account smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for"

-someone

Thursday, October 4, 2007

Traditional Islamic Texts

From what I can see (or perhaps more correctly what I cannot see), there seems to be a lack of traditional islamic books in Brisbane. So, I am gonna get some and start selling. Even if I only sell one a year, it will be worth it inshallah.

What are traditional texts? Well, in a nutshell, these are books of knowledge which are written by people who come from a tradition of an unbroken succession of learning that goes all the way back to the Mercy of the Alamin sallallahu alaihi wa sallam!

Monday, July 30, 2007

What exactly is terror?

Is rape terrorism? Murder? Robbery? Or is terrorism specific to blowing things up and flying planes etc?

Thursday, July 26, 2007

Now sue their stinking pants off !!!!!

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22143899-29277,00.html

Sunday, July 1, 2007

Raat-Raani

We got home at about 7pm tonite from Farrell's house. Got of the car and smelt a lovely smell which I was sure I have smelt before, at night:

Me: Hey is that Raat-Raani
Me: Yeah that's Raat-Raani
Wife: No, its Deg smoke
Me: Realises it is in fact deg smoke (pakistan neighbours are cooking for a wedding)

Laughter.

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Hicks' lawyer to be honoured

Be interesting to see what the Australia's white Australia right wingers have to say about this:

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21935247-1702,00.html


Bolt, Albrechtsen, Hirsi Ali etc...

Monday, June 4, 2007

That's ok! Just make a few new laws to deal with this little hiccup...

...it is unclear whether the Combatant Status Review Tribunals will have to reclassify all detainees.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/us-judge-throws-out-case-against-canadian/2007/06/05/1180809459735.html

Flaxseed.

This is not a funny, witty or particularly stylish entry (none of mine are anyway) - but this is a very useful piece of info if you have men in the house, which is probably about 50% of households out there, unless of course you live in Malta.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/healthnews.php?newsid=72990

Saturday, June 2, 2007

O Christian

O ye Christian! How can ye think that Islam is not the truth if you have not read the Qur'an? Give yourself a chance - at least read it first - without any preconceptions - and then make up your mind. And here is our chapter on the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Thursday, May 31, 2007

I want to study more about this..

I learnt early in my university studies that there is a difference between a logical argument and a sound argument. The difference being that a logical argument does not denote accuracy or truth and is indeed often a fallacy. Why is it that A***** B*** continues to make fallacious logical arguments. The answer is that he doesn't really care what he says, he just wants to be heard. Where there's smoke there is not always fire.

Posted by: roger simpson of Richmond 2:08pm today
Comment 94 of 102

2 days with a Muslim family

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/comment/0,,2078473,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=19

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Planet Irf

This fella is a good friend of mine. Very intelligent.
http://planetirf.blogspot.com/

Saturday, May 26, 2007

Smoking and Television

First published in the Queensland Muslim Times May Edition

Late last night I was walking outside a supermarket and was approached by a brother who greeted me with the salaam and immediately proceeded to ask me a favour. He wanted me to buy for him, 10 cartons of cigarettes. He had already bought 10, and that must have been the limit. Presumably this brother runs a tobacco shop and the cigarettes must have been going cheap at the supermarket.

I refused. I then tried to politely explain why. Unfortunately this was not well received. I do know that some Imams from the Indo-Pak subcontinent have the opinion that smoking is makruh, but the Ulama I studied from in Syria and Jordan state that smoking is haram – no less. Since this is the opinion I follow, it would be haram for me to buy the cigarettes.

The brother proceeded to question my own line of work.

Amongst fridges, freezers, washing machines and deep fryers, we sell televisions. Not only televisions in fact, but dvd players and hi-fi systems as well. All of these evil instruments of sin. Or are they? The brother questioned how I could make such a statement on smoking yet be happy enough to continue to sell televisions.

This made me think. Did he have a point? One can always learn something and furthermore it can always happen at a time you least expect, like late at night in front of a supermarket. I looked at all the possible uses for a cigarette and all involve smoking it one way or the other. I don’t think it could be used for anything beneficial at all.

Then I looked at the TV. Yes one could watch pornographic movies on it (this was his argument), but on the same token you could also watch the news. Or motor racing. Or then again you could watch the Tarawih from Makkah.

Clearly this is chalk and cheese. You could not possibly compare the two. The use of one is inherently harmful (ie. smoking harms the health) and anyone who seriously doubts this lives in blissful ignorance, whilst the other can either be harmful or not, depending on what the user chooses to do with it.

I know some of the most pious people in Brisbane who own televisions. My late tajweed teacher Muhammad Nabih Aziz (may Allah have mercy on him ) once asked me for a TV and I am sure he took it back to Egypt with him (he did ask me if he could keep it first, of course!).

Saying that TV's are haram is analogous to saying that cars are haram, because one day you might just hop in your car and pick up a prostitute. It all depends on what you do with it.

To the brother, if you are reading this, I am sorry if my refusal upset you, but please respect the opinion that I follow, and furthermore please respect the fact that a difference of opinion exists on this issue between ones more learned than either you or I.

As a final thought, even if I was of the more relaxed belief that smoking was “only” makruh, how could one get upset at another because he didn’t want to perform a makruh action? Avoiding makruh is a praiseworthy action…

http://qa.sunnipath.com/issue_view.asp?HD=1&ID=677&CATE=115

And Allah knows best
Abdul-Khalik Kassim

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Imam Ashraf Ali Thanvi’s Fatwa On the Shadhili Loud Dhikr

Courtesy of seekersdigest.com

In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful and Compassionate

Imam Ashraf Ali Thanvi’s Fatwa On the Shadhili Loud Dhikr

Question:

In the Shadhili tariq, they perform loud group dhikr while standing. Is this permitted or not?

Answer:

[After quoting the hadiths and Qur’anic verses related to the permissibility of loud group dhikr]

….And it is mentioned in al-Tafsirat al-Ahmadiyya[1]
in the discussion on loud and silent dhikr that, ‘This is a matter differed upon among people in our times, though there is no reason for is—for the purpose of all is to reach Allah, by any possible means.’

It is thus established that all forms of loud dhikr are permitted, and no one should be stopped from any particular form. This is the correct (rajih) position. Furthermore, one should not stop common Muslims from such actions even if one were to hold that such dhikr is not permissible, because this is a means for them to be doing some form of good….

Source:

Mawlana
Ashraf Ali Thanvi, Imdad
al-Fatawa (5.151-155) Maktaba
Darul Ulum Karachi, Karachi,1999

Monday, May 21, 2007

A saying..

A wise man once said:

"Where there is a suburban road, with houses on the side, there are bound to be cars on the road also"

Reflect on that mate.
Solid.

Sunday, May 20, 2007

al-Hamdu wash-Shukru lillah

It is late, Maymunah has some sort of teary eye, runny nose allergic conjuntivitus happening and she is coughing and spluttering in her sleep. Even through all this she demonstrates such patience and not once have I heard her complain. May Allah Most High keep her like this and may He make her from the Saliheen and one of His awliyaa. Masha-Allah, la hawla wa la quwwata illa billah. Now I know what a parents's love feels like.

Thursday, May 17, 2007

Solid

What fuels someone else's intolerance towards you, is your intolerance towards them.

Friday, May 11, 2007

Alternative gathering

I have a GREAT idea as an alternative to the barbecue. I mean the barbecue is really a "been there" done that sort of thing isn't it? Meat grilling, drink swilling, chatting around the fire, joking around... all old news.

How about this:

A poetry and lentils night!!!!!!

COOOOL! Reading poetry around a bare table with nothing on it but lentil soup, lentil curry, lentil this, lentil that... pure genius. I am going to patent this idea.

What is in that milkshake?

A typical artificial strawberry flavor, like the kind found in a Burger King strawberry milk shake, contains the following ingredients: amyl acetate, amyl butyrate, amyl valerate, anethol, anisyl formate, benzyl acetate, benzyl isobutyrate, butyric acid, cinnamyl isobutyrate, cinnamyl valerate, cognac essential oil, diacetyl, dipropyl ketone, ethyl acetate, ethyl amyl ketone, ethyl butyrate, ethyl cinnamate, ethyl heptanoate, ethyl heptylate, ethyl lactate, ethyl methylphenylglycidate, ethyl nitrate, ethyl propionate, ethyl valerate, heliotropin, hydroxyphenyl-2-butanone (10 percent solution in alcohol), a-ionone, isobutyl anthranilate, isobutyl butyrate, lemon essential oil, maltol, 4-methylacetophenone, methyl anthranilate, methyl benzoate, methyl cinnamate, methyl heptine carbonate, methyl naphthyl ketone, methyl salicylate, mint essential oil, neroli essential oil, nerolin, neryl isobutyrate, orris butter, phenethyl alcohol, rose, rum ether, g-undecalactone, vanillin, and solvent.

From "Fast Food Nation" by Eric Schlosser

News Corp's Green Thing

Whilst I am in no fan of Rupert Murdoch and his News Corp propoganda machine, I have a reserved admiration for his declaration that News Corp be carbin neutral by 2010...

Mind you, I am no fan of any of the large media outlets either. They are all dogs.

I have just recently managed to acquire Jerry Mander's "Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television" off Ebay for a song... and I recommend it to anyone interested in protecting their mental health from an oh-so-subtle stealth attack of television.

Sunday, May 6, 2007

The Prophet's funeral prayer, May the Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him

Very rarely am I able to read the story of the Prophet's passing (May the Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) without my eyes welling with tears. Here's what happened once everyone accepted what had happened and realised that they had to get on with their life:

Ibn Hisham relates from Ibn Ishaq in his renowned biography of the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him & give him peace), al-Sirah al-Nabawiyya:

“When the Companions (Allah be pleased with them all) finished bathing and shrouding the body of the blessed Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him & give him peace) on the Tuesday, they placed his body on his bed in his house. The Muslims differed as to where he (Allah bless him & give him peace) should be laid to rest. Some were of the opinion that he should be buried in the Masjid, whilst others said that he should be buried with the other Companions. Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (Allah be pleased with him) said: “I heard the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him & give him peace) say: “A Prophet does not pass away except that he is laid to rest where he passes away”. Thus, the bedding of the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him & give him peace) on which he passed away was raised, and the grave was dug on that spot. Thereafter, people began to enter into the room and offered prayers in groups. First the men entered, and when they had finished praying, women entered, and upon them completing their prayers, children entered. Everyone prayed individually and no one individual lead the prayer.” (See: Ibn Hisham, al-Sirat al-Nabawiyya, 3/233).

Ya Rabb! Grant us the chance to be of his companions in the hereafter! Amin

Saturday, May 5, 2007

Umpteenth try at a blog

This will be the umpteenth try at making a blog. All other attempts have failed, for various reasons. Maybe this one will too, but maybe it won't...