kilo234: the op is so on point. but i blame airtel to have let us known b4 blocking it, they should have just blocked it without letting us know as mtn has been doing ever since

. That is d problem. When a service provider does somtin witout telling her customers they should be sued for the inconvenience. But when we are told, it shows they kϞO̶̷̩̥̊͡w d right thing, dey should be appreciated and the others should be criticised

The truth is that. Approving it on d basis of religion is right based on d constitution. And one other thing is that any law formed due to a religion must be such that it doesn't affect the other religion or affect those dat don't ave a religion. Cutting of hands for theft is still practiced in d sharia court in nigeria. And issues taken to d sharia court are cases in which bot accused and prosecutor bth want a sharia court. So dese tins are all about our voluntary involvement. Paedophile or anytin we call it. D fact is dat passing d bill does not mean we will all now marry girls. D christian vouching for it is juat thinking right in that ЂƠ̴̴̴̴̴̴͡w can You prevent pple from doin W̶̲̥̅hα̲̅†̥ dey want dat is not disturbing You in any way. And one important tin to note is that d children are not forced into marriage. It is a matter of choice.

sex is a sin in islam if not done between married couples
There is an hadith of the HOLY PROPHET where he told his companions that having sex with ones wife is rewarding and a companion asked why and the prophet said if he had done it wrongly wouldnt he have been punished.
that is sex can be rewarding and punishable, depending on the context. so it is always good to do things at the right time

sorry guys got a question did GOD NOT SEND JESUS AS A messenger and sent the holy spirit as a dove to affirm that. did the bible not confirm jesus as a mortal that was given birth to, feed, defecate, breath, feel, pain, bleed, die. do not let us keep those misconceptions of the past. jesus is only a messenger that came to preach the existence of an ALMIGHTY GOD NOT EVEN A RELIGION. OR THE WAYS OF WORSHIPPING HIM

this is what i call lawlessness. Islam says after Allah, the Prophet obey ur leaders. This is against the virtues of Islam.

didnt the boble warn against translation of its prophecies by individuals

islam is a religion derived from two words 'salam'; and 'istislam' salam meanin peace and the latter meaning submission to Allah we really need to understand sometins. in the whole world muslims are the most killed by people who say they fight for islam. does it make sense at all. there are countries in the world that u dont ave a free life if u are a muslim despite they term themselves secular, e.g. france u cant use a long skirt there not to talk of hijab or keepin beard. please lets think right and not wrong. if only everybody about the deen called islam we will all realise that islam has the solution to all our problems

it is absurd why do we always copy the bad side of every culture and follow the pple wtout religion. why cant we jst uphold our culture and religious beliefs. are we not goin against the will of ALLAH who wants to be burned

Islam is a very easy religion. if u know the basics of things

>Give a copy of Qur'an to someone and eachtime they read from it, you will gain Hasanaat(Good).
>Donate a wheelchair to a hospital and each time a sick person uses it, you will gain Hasanaat.
>Share constructive reading material with someone.
>Help in educating a child
>Teach someone to recite du'a. With each recitation, you will gain Hasanaat.
>Share a du'a or Qur'an CD.
>Participate in the building of a Masjid.
>Place a water cooler in a public place.
>Plant a tree. Each time any person or animal sits under its shade or eats from the tree, you will gain Hasanaat.
>Share this message with someone. If one person applies any of the above you will recieve your Hasanaat until the Day of Judgement.

Author: Rashid Nuhman.

U can also print nd paste in ur various Masjid. Remember! Allah says:

"Whoever brings a good deed
(Islamic Monotheism and deeds
of obedience to Allah and His
Messenger SAW) shall have ten
times the like thereof to his
credit, and whoever brings an
evil deed (polytheism, disbelief,
hypocrisy, and deeds of
disobedience to Allah and His
Messenger SAW) shall have only
the recompense of the like
thereof, and they will not be
wronged" (Al-Anaam, Chapter
#6, Verse #160)

Pls ensure u Pass this Message to ur fwends and You'll be rewarded by Allah's will.:-)

Assalam aleikum !!.!
She used to be a Southern Baptist,
a radical feminist and a broadcast
journalist. Now Aminah Assilmi is
an ambassador of Islam.
The director of the International
Union of Muslim Women, Assilmi
calls Fairfield, Ohio, home. She
travels the country speaking on
college campuses, increasing
public awareness and
understanding of the faith.
She wears the traditional Islamic
hijab, which includes a head scarf,
covering her hair and neck and
modest clothing with long sleeves.
Last week at the University of
Tennessee, Assilmi spoke to a
near-full audience on the status of
women in Islam in her lecture, "A
Muslim woman speaks from
behind the veil."
Assilmi cautions critics who say
that women are oppressed in
some predominately Muslim
countries. She says their practices
are cultural, not Islamic.
"People who are held down, are
held down by ignorance," she
said."They follow cultural practices.
Do not judge Islam by these
individuals who have only
practiced like the people in their
family."
But, Assilmi told audiences, she
hasn't always been a Muslim and a
proponent of Islam.
Meeting her first "real life Muslims"
when she took a college theater
class some years ago, Assilmi said
she almost dropped the class
when she walked into the room
and saw some Arab students in
traditional hijab.
In the handbook she authored,
"Choosing Islam," Assilmi writes,
"There was no way I was going to
sit in a room with dirty heathens. ..
I shut thedoor and went home."
After her husband encouraged her
to go back to the theater class,
Assilmi said she felt it her duty to
"convert the poor, ignorant
Muslims."
Hoping to convert the students to
Christianity, Assilmi began to study
the Koran, the holy book of Islam,
in a quest to prove that
Mohammed was a false prophet
and that Islam was not a valid
religion.
But the more she read, the more
she became interested in Islam.
She was particularly interested in
what the Koran had to say about
men andwomen.
Islamic women, she thought,
"were freely beaten by their
husbands andtossed aside."
Assilmi says she had based her
opinion on stereotypes; and soon
found out those ideas were not in
keeping with the Koran.
Through intense study, she said
she learned that Islamic women
are equal to men and are paid
according to the job they do
regardless of their gender. Both
men and women have equal rights
to education. Islamic women have
had the right to own property for
more than 1,400 years. And when
a woman marries, she does not
change her last name, but keeps
her father's last name.
Thus, Assilmi told her college
audience, "We remain our own
distinct individual."
"For two years I studied in order to
convert Muslims to Christianity,"
shesaid.
But during that time Assilmi said
she started to change. Her
husband began to notice that she
no longer had an interest in going
to bars or parties. She was content
to stay home and study the Koran.
"I was quiet and more distant,"
Assilmi writes in her handbook.
Her husband attributed the
changes in her to another man
and the couple separated.
After she moved out with their
three children, Assilmi was visited
by a Muslim holy leader who
answered her questions about the
faith. He asked her if she believed
in only one God and Assilmi said
yes. He asked her if she believed
Mohammed was His messenger.
Again she said yes.
"He told me I was already a Muslim.
I argued that I was a Christian, I
wasjust trying to understand
Islam. I couldn't be a Muslim! I was
an American and white!
"We continued talking. Later he
explained that attaining
knowledge and understanding of
spirituality was a little like climbing
a ladder."
The first rung on the ladder was
the Shahadah, a statement of belief
that there is no God but the one
God and Mohammed was his
messenger. The Shahadah, done
before witnesses, is in the Islamic
faith,the Christian equivalent of a
statement of belief in Jesus Christ
as Lord and Savior.
For Assilmi, taking Shahadah in
1977 was the first step toward a a
deeper understanding of Islam.
But she still had a few hang-ups --
like hijab. Hijab is the modest dress
worn by both Muslim men and
women; however its most
recognizable feature is the head
scarf worn by women.
"I agreed with modesty, but I was
vain about my hair," Assilmi
said."The Koran tells us to cover
ourselves to be identified as
Muslims. I am a Muslim and I know
what my God-given rights are.
Hijab is not a requirement or
restriction, but a right and a
privilege. I would fight to the death
to wear it."
"I gave up being a women's
liberationist -- it wasn't fulfilling -- I
becamea Muslim ... Liberation, yeah,
that's Islam," said Assilmi who
adopted her name during the
Iranian hostage crisis in 1980.
She adopted the new name "to
protect my family from ignorance."
She no longer uses her given
name.
Assilmi said Islamic women are not
limited in professional fields by
theirreligion. However, "The most
powerful profession is being a
mother. Because we form the mind
of the next generation."
Muslim women, she said, are often
discriminated against because of
thehijab.
"In this country it's extremely
difficult for Muslim women."
That is why some Muslim women
wear varying degrees of hijab. For
example, some women might wear
loose-fitting modest clothing,
others may wear the head scarf,
covering the hair and neck, and
still others may have the courage
to wear the face veil where only
the eyes are visible.
An award-winning broadcaster in
the Denver market, Assilmi lost her
job when she began wearing
Islamic dress.
She says the persecution is intense.
"I've been forced off the road
before -- beaten up -- and I've
never lifted a hand against
anyone," Assilmi said.
She even tried to wear the face veil,
but said, "I could not handle the
experience."
The defining moment came when
she tried to cash a check at her
bank wearing the face veil. A bank
security guard drew his gun
preparing to shoot if she made any
questionable moves.
For Assilmi, her job as a
broadcaster was not the only thing
she lost when she first chose
Islam.
Her marriage over, she also lost
custody of her children because
the court decided that the
"unorthodox religion" would be
detrimental to them.
But since then, Assilmi says her
children have converted to Islam
and so have her parents and her
ex-husband.
"Relatives of mine are still
becoming Muslim right and left,"
she said.
Now at "well over half a century"
and having survived bone cancer,
Assilmi has made two pilgrimages
to Mecca, a holy trip that Muslims
areinstructed to take in their
lifetime. The cancer weakened her
bones and now she uses a
wheelchair as a "mobility
enhancement."
"God decided that I would
continue to live," she said.
And, "I ceased to be afraid of
anything. It became very important
that I would speak the truth
everywhere. I would have to
answer to God for everything I do
and say.
"I love sharing Islam."

d Quran is a book with d knowledge of the past, d present and d future. D Quran does nt condemn the prophets in d Bible. But it corrects some part of it. D Bible is a book of records of d dos of d prophets b4 Muhammed S.A.W. Do nt b mistaken. D Quran acknowledges d works of prophets lyk Abraham, Jonah, David, Solomon e.t.c. And truly Islam is the only religion accepted by Allah.

Via Ibn Abdur Rahman
Arabic and Bible .
Revelation to Prophet
Muhammad [PBUH]
The first revelation of Allah
through the angel Gabriel to Muhammad [PBUH] was the
word "Iqra" which
means"Read"
in Surah 96:1-5. As he was
illiterate he replied;"1 cannot
read." This first revelation was prophesied inIsaiah 29:12: "And
the book isdelivered to him that
is not learned, saying, Read
this, I
pray thee and he saith, I am not
learned." The order of the revelations is
not as the order it is seen in the
Qur'an. In other words the first
pan revealed is not in the first
page and the last part revealed
is not in the last page. That these
revelations came in instalments
and inserted in certain order in
the Qur'an as ordained by Allah,
was also mentioned in Isaiah
28:10-11: "For precept must be upon precept, precept upon
precept; line upon line, line
upon
line; here a little, and there a
little:
For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak co
his people." Another tongue
means here another language,
not Hebrew or Aramaic but
Arabic.
Muslims all over the world are using one language, which is
Arabic, in calling their God, in
their prayers, pilgrimage and in
their greetings to each other.
Also this unity of language had
been prophesied in Zephaniah 3:9: "For then will Iturn to the
people a pure language, thai
they
may all call upon the name of
the
Lord, to serve him with one consent." Alas the Truth has
come in Arabic, but some still
expect Prophet Jesus
[PBUH],who
might teach mankind to
worship Allah in one unique language in
his second coming. We Muslims
are sure that Prophet Jesus in
his
second coming will join the
Muslims in their mosques as he is
like any other Muslim,
circumcised, not eating pork,
and
performing prayers with
ablution, standing, bowing and prostration...