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I'm married about 6 years now, i have 2 beautiful kids.
but i just find out my wife is talking to an other man on the phone.
when i confront her, she was telling me it's a business thing bla bla bla...
So to make sure ,I just listen to her phone call... is it a bad thing in Islam ?.
But i was surprise to hear some conversations with the man . they were talking about love ... and things i can't say here. She even accept money from the man one time....
So what Islam said about wife who behave like that ? wa salam |
Jun 14 '12 at 12:18
Spend time wit her as much u can. Make her recognise ur importance, share wit her, pray Allah to bring back her to u, as she is misled
(Nov 23 at 07:25)
Spend time wit her as much u can. Make her recognise ur importance, share wit her, pray Allah to bring back her to u, as she is misled
(Nov 23 at 07:28)
aww, it seems like she isnt interested in you. Best thing to do is take her phone and get rid of it. SHe probably hasnt memorised the number. then get her a new (basic) one, with a new number. if she doesnt change, you may have to split. Also, it seems that if she is talking to other men, you are lacking in some area. Ask your wife to give you 10 things she likes about you, and 10 things she hates about you. The things she hates, you should stop doing. the things she likes, you should do more. Most of all, look after her and the kids, and she will come back to you. wwb
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That was called sarcasm to mock your amazingly ignorant and stupid ideas. You should search it up sometime. And secondly, no, I'm not a Human Pig like Mike. Unlike him, I actually talk sense. |
im going to sort of give my opinion i dont belive its haram just because its forbidden for her to speak to a man without a mahram even if it is buisness you are supposed to be with her when a non mahram speaks to her in case somthing happens like above but i think you shouldnt do it behind her back explain this to her and tell her you wil listen because she cannot talk to him withour you there wether she likes it or not since its your duty to protect since apparently she isnt protecting herself |
Jun 15 '12 at 20:49
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Did you even read the question properly? He said they were talking about love. You call that business?
(Nov 22 at 14:26)
Love? Love? Stop the woman before she is out of control!
(Nov 22 at 22:38)
brother according to my experience she will be not intersted in you anymore and she fairs of her kids life so she goes behind your back but Allah is the only judge whom can judge everything if you want her back show some interest in her, treat her like kid make her set with you talk to het nicely very calm but with love like you talk to a kid and make her undrstand how much you care and love her. most woman go to that path thinking that you have care for them but man's are always in their of life so be a mature person do not start fight in the middlle it will not sort anything start of from your self and tell her how much you love her your family and how much you care about them and if its in your power take her for a dine in a such resturant she likes but once you told her your feelings let her and see if she changed her path as I belive she will change het path and put more in your way if want her full on do that with her every week and she will be yours. Allah Malik of everything ask Allah to help you start going on the way Allah and ask him to help you he is the most mercyfull and kind. |
Wa alayka salam!!! My brother, all u need 2 do is, dnt react as if u hear or see anything, coz u will only be deep go thought all the time. Try 2 talk 2 Allah (SWT) and will definitely hear ur prayer, coz Allah (SWT) said, call on me and I will answer you... Maa salam |
I agree that you need to talk face to face. But you need to be able to face it. If she doesn't wanna be with you, accept it. Don't get all Hulk and let your kids see you two argue. If she does say she wants to be with you, then tell her to stop talking to that guy. If it actually was about business, then fine, you can't stop her there, but if she was talking about love and stuff that must be so inappropriate that you can't even post it on this site? Then you've gotta take action and ask yourself if YOU wanna be with her. But if you don't want it too hard on the kids, then you need to make sure she stops. But that isn't the actual problem. The actual one is that she probably isn't in love with you anymore. You've gotta do what makes her happy. Get her interested in you again, make her feel wanted and loved, all that stuff. Find the reason why she's talking to that guy. You've just gotta do what makes her happy. Salam man. Hope the world will be kind to you. |
aww, it seems like she isnt interested in you. Best thing to do is take her phone and get rid of it. SHe probably hasnt memorised the number. then get her a new (basic) one, with a new number. she cant ring the man anymore, nor can he ring her. if she doesnt change, you may have to split. Also, it seems that if she is talking to other men, you are lacking in some area. Ask your wife to give you 10 things she likes about you, and 10 things she hates about you. The things she hates, you should stop doing. the things she likes, you should do more. Most of all, look after her and the kids, and she will come back to you. wwb |
You need to buy 2 books. One how to be a good muslim husband and 2 how to be a good muslim wife. Both of you should read it . Hopefully if you are both practicing your religion there shouldn't be any issues occurring further. But if there is you both clearly have marital problems that need to be sorted before it all turns ugly. |
Nov 22 at 07:04
Obviously they have marital problems.And reading an Islamic book about marriage?'Here wife, here's a book bout how you should be acting as a proper wife in Islam.All we have to do is follow all the rules and we've cooked us up a perfect marriage. I've got my copy right here!' How do you think that'd turn out? Like either of them would read all of it.Who'd be arsed to do that with all the problems these days?And who would follow every single rule?You can't just depend on Islamic books bro.Unless you were being sarcastic with your answer, which isn't helpful dude.And now I'm being a hypocrite.
(Nov 22 at 14:45)
What are you talking about. Have u been smokin something
(Nov 22 at 15:25)
Yep. Weed. Does the best job. If you wanna know what I'm talking about, read the comment again and actually use your brain. I know it might sound hard for someone like you, but it works.
(Nov 22 at 15:30)
Forunately we don't take advice on here from CRACK heads and smack heads which you quite obviously have admitted that you are.unless ur a humn pig there might an exception like mike.
(Nov 22 at 19:13)
Salaam brothers, this isn't a good show of brotherhood in Islam. If you need to comment on each other's answers, there is a better way of doing it. Make your point in a good manner and avoid insulting. Allah is a witness to us all. JazakAllah.
(Nov 29 at 23:47)
Salaam, my brother, she did wrong but talk to her, get close to her, may be she is missing the comfort and attention from you. |


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I'm not gonna lie, we didn't look very good. With that said, it's only our second pre-season game. It's in London. We are playing the paper champion Boston Celtics. I didn't expect us to dominate. Being that this was our second game, with a team composed of a plethora of new players, I'm not going to delve too deep into what we did wrong or focus solely on the negatives. We've still got more than half a month of training camp to work out the kinks, establish a set rotation and pecking order, cut some guys, make trades, find a new coach, etc. (Yes, I am aware this team has a long ways to go.) Am I confident in our Front Office and Coach Wittman's ability to ready this cluster**** of a roster into a cohesive unit come November 2nd? I'm not sure yet. I'll have to get back to you on that. We'll keep this "Musings" on the lighter side, there's still an entire season left for spewing negativity. Don't get me wrong, I like most of our roster and I think we've got great potential... I just hope that our Front Office, coaching staff, and the players can eventually put it all together at some point.
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TORONTO, Nov. 1, 2013 /CNW/ - Canada's manufacturing sector grew at the fastest pace for two-and-a-half years in October, according to the RBC Canadian Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index™ (RBC PMI™). A monthly survey, conducted in association with Markit, a leading global financial information services company, and the Supply Chain Management Association (SCMA), the RBC PMI offers a comprehensive and early indicator of trends in the Canadian manufacturing sector.
After adjusting for seasonal variation, the RBC PMI - a composite indicator designed to provide a single-figure snapshot of the health of the manufacturing sector - rose to its highest level in 30 months during October. At 55.6, up from 54.2 in September and above the series average of 53.3, the RBC PMI indicated a strong improvement in Canadian manufacturing operation conditions.
The RBC PMI found that both output and new orders increased at the strongest rates since April 2011, which manufacturers generally attributed to greater client demand. Concurrently, firms continued to take on more staff, although the rate of job creation eased slightly from September's 15-month peak. Meanwhile, inflationary pressures strengthened, with the latest rise in input costs the greatest since March.
"Canada's manufacturing sector experienced a significant jump in October - up to 55.6 from 54.2 in September - a sign that global economic momentum is continuing to improve," said Craig Wright, senior vice-president and chief economist, RBC. "Firmer global growth should boost external demand going forward; this pickup in demand for Canadian exports will no doubt augur well for Canadian manufacturers in the foreseeable future."
The headline RBC PMI reflects changes in output, new orders, employment, inventories, prices and supplier delivery times.
Key findings from the October survey include:
The volume of new orders received by Canadian manufacturers increased further in October. Firms generally attributed this to greater client demand in both domestic and international markets, with new export work also rising since September. Overall, total incoming new work rose strongly over the month, and at the second-strongest pace since data collection began in October 2010.
Reflective of higher new order requirements, firms raised production for the sixth consecutive month in October. Moreover, the latest rise in output was strong and the fastest for two-and-a-half years. Nonetheless, backlogs of work increased for the second month running, while stocks of finished goods were depleted only slightly.
Manufacturers bought a larger quantity of inputs in October, with the latest rise in buying activity the strongest since September 2011. Some of the increase in purchases was held back in stock, with input inventories rising modestly over the month. Meanwhile, suppliers' delivery times lengthened further in the latest survey period, as vendors were generally busier. The latest increase in lead times was the greatest for 16 months.
Employment in Canada's manufacturing sector rose for the twenty-first successive month in October. Approximately 16 per cent of surveyed firms hired additional staff over the month, often linking this to higher new order volumes. Overall, the rate of job creation was solid, despite having eased from September's peak.
Input costs faced by Canadian manufacturers continued to rise in October, with firms commonly reporting higher fuel and raw material prices, including steel and packaging. Although the overall rate of inflation was the fastest in seven months, it nonetheless remained weaker than the series average.
Meanwhile, companies passed on greater costs to clients by raising their output charges. Average selling prices rose solidly and at the strongest pace since August 2011.
Regional highlights include:
"Canada's manufacturing sector started the fourth quarter in spectacular fashion, seeing the strongest expansion for two-and-a-half years. Greater client demand, both domestically and in key export markets such as Europe, drove new orders up at the fastest pace since April 2011," said Cheryl Paradowski, president and chief executive officer, SCMA. "The improvement in manufacturing business conditions resulted in building supply chain pressures, as evidenced by the strongest increase in input prices in seven months and suppliers' delivery times lengthening to the greatest extent since June 2012."
The report is available at www.rbc.com/newsroom/pmi
Notes to Editors:
The RBC Canadian Manufacturing PMI™ Report is based on data compiled from monthly replies to questionnaires sent to purchasing executives in over 400 industrial companies. The panel is stratified geographically and by Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) group, based on industry contribution to Canadian GDP.
Survey responses reflect the change, if any, in the current month compared to the previous month based on data collected mid-month. For each of the indicators the 'Report' shows the percentage reporting each response, the net difference between the number of higher/better responses and lower/worse responses, and the 'diffusion' index. This index is the sum of the positive responses plus a half of those responding 'the same'.
Diffusion indexes have the properties of leading indicators and are convenient summary measures showing the prevailing direction of change. An index reading above 50 indicates an overall increase in that variable, below 50 an overall decrease.
The RBC Canadian Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index™ (RBC PMI™) is a composite index based on five of the individual indexes with the following weights: New Orders - 0.3, Output - 0.25, Employment - 0.2, Suppliers' Delivery Times - 0.15, Stock of Items Purchased - 0.1, with the Delivery Times Index inverted so that it moves in a comparable direction.
The Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) survey methodology has developed an outstanding reputation for providing the most up-to-date possible indication of what is really happening in the private sector economy by tracking variables such as sales, employment, inventories and prices. The indices are widely used by businesses, governments and economic analysts in financial institutions to help better understand business conditions and guide corporate and investment strategy. In particular, central banks in many countries (including the European Central Bank) use the data to help make interest rate decisions. PMI surveys are the first indicators of economic conditions published each month and are therefore available well ahead of comparable data produced by government bodies.
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As the leading and largest association in Canada for supply chain
management professionals, the Supply Chain Management Association
(SCMA) is the national voice for advancing and promoting the
profession. SCMA sets the standard of excellence for professional
skills, knowledge and integrity and was the first supply chain
association in the world to require that all members adhere to a Code
of Ethics.
With nearly 8000 members working across the private and public sectors,
SCMA is the principal source of supply chain training, education and
professional development in the country. Through its 10 Provincial and
Territorial Institutes, SCMA grants the Supply Chain Management
Professional (SCMP) designation, the highest achievement in the field
and the mark of strategic supply chain leadership.
SCMA was formed in 2013 through the amalgamation of the Purchasing Management Association of Canada and Supply Chain and Logistics Association of Canada. With a combined history of more than 140 years, today the association embraces all aspects of strategic supply chain management, including: purchasing/procurement, strategic sourcing, contract management, materials/inventory management, and logistics and transportation. For more information, please visit scmanational.ca.
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Purchasing Managers' Index™ (PMI™) surveys are now available for 32 countries and also for key regions
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Love & Hunger – Charlotte Wood's ode to food and what it means to share it
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Often food resonates not just for the taste, but also for the meaning. Perhaps you remember a meal from childhood – one a parent made for you when you were sick. Maybe you can still remember what you ate the night of your first date with your future husband or wife.
The Australian novelist and blogger has written about this idea in her new book Love & Hunger.
She came into the studio to talk to Richard about just that.
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have the civ attributes represented in the SMAC way (ie, +1 production -1 commerce), and have it change over time based on several factors. for instance, early on have it based heavily on geography / terrain, later on based on how the individual manages the cities, etc.Originally posted by Trifna
Cultures are changing with time. They may of course keep some broad elements through millenaries, but they DO change. Thus, the 19th century American culture doesn't have the same strengts as the actual one.
I was wondering how this could be modelized in a simple and complete way. I guess the ethos of MOO3 is an exemple, but starting from scratch, what should be look at? (The MOO3 model wasn't the simplest BTW...)
therefore, a warmongering civ would develop more warmongering attributes, and a builder civ would develop more industrious / commercial ones.
perhaps you could have a max "base" for your civ, of say, 5 points, in either direction. so if you were a warmonger early on, and then became a peaceful builder, you would lose "warmonger traits" and gain the "industious" ones.
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TULIP wrote:Ha ha! I could have written Lynn's post, only for me it is arthritic symptoms that fade when I banish the dairy and gluten.
I just saw Dr. McDougall's new book on amazon, and I ordered it. Nice catchy cover!
I too had the original book sitting around for years...before I sold it to a used book store. Shame on me for not listening.
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MPAA Rating : G
Year of Release : 2011
Stars : Larry the Cable Guy (Mater), Owen Wilson (Lightning McQueen), Michael Caine (Finn McMissile), Emily Mortimer (Holley Shiftwell), Eddie Izzard (Sir Miles Axlerod), John Turturro (Francesco Bernoulli), Brent Musburger (Brent Mustangburger), Joe Mantegna (Grem), Thomas Kretschmann (Professor Z), Peter Jacobson (Acer), Bonnie Hunt (Sally), Darrell Waltrip (Darrell Cartrip), Franco Nero (Uncle Topolino), David Hobbs (David Hobbscap), Patrick Walker (Mel Dorado), Tony Shalhoub (Luigi), Jeff Garlin (Otis)
As all Pixar movies have since Toy Story in 1995, Cars 2 begins with the familiar Pixar Animation Studios logo, in which a bouncing desk lamp (a character that appeared in one of their earliest short films) bounces across the screen, turns, hops up and down on top of the I in Pixar, and then replaces it. The difference is that now the lamp's bulb dissolves into a screen card that reads "Celebrating 25 Years," reminding us that it was back in 1986 that Apple co-founder Steve Jobs bought Pixar, then a computer graphics division of Lucasfilm Ltd., and soon transformed Pixar into one of the most successful movie studios of the modern era, with a track record of critically praised hit films (now numbering a dozen) that would be the envy of just about anyone past or present.
It is unfortunate, then, that Pixar's silver anniversary is marked by the release of Cars 2, the company's first non-Toy Story sequel and easily their weakest film to date, a spot that had previously been held by its predecessor. The first Cars, which was a long-time labor of love for director and Pixar honcho John Lasseter, wasn't a bad film, but it was hobbled by the fundamental problem that automobiles are not easily anthropomorphized, and their resulting lack of physical expressiveness beyond their eyes and mouths made it hard to become emotionally involved with them. Richness of character is one of the hallmarks of Pixar's films, and Cars had a notable lack of it. That problem was ameliorated somewhat by the film's old-fashioned sweetness and nostalgia for an America that was more leisurely and contemplative, when getting somewhere was a journey, rather than a chore.
What an irony, then, that Cars 2 is in many ways the epitome of the fast-paced, superficial postmodernity that its predecessor bemoaned. Dropping all pretenses of nostalgia and charm, Cars 2 replaces reverence for an idealized past with gun battles and chase sequences in a subpar spy caper involving big oil companies trying to squelch the development of alternative fuels, a timely political topic that is treated with jackhammer subtlety. Screenwriter Ben Queen (working from an original story by John Lasseter, Brad Lewis, and Dan Fogelman) takes the story out of Radiator Springs, the out-of-the-way burg that was the heart and soul of the first film, and sends us on a dizzying trip around the world as returning racecar Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson) competes in a trio of international races sponsored by Sir Miles Axlerod (Eddie Izzard), a billionaire Land Rover who is trying to sell the world on an alternative fuel called Allinall. His plans are being thwarted by a cadre of gas guzzlers and outdated clunkers led by Professor Z (Thomas Kretschmann) who are sitting on a huge oil reserve and want to make sure that gasoline remains the fuel of choice.
For most of the movie Lightning McQueen's challenges on the racetrack (his primary nemesis is an Italian speedster voiced by John Turturro) take a backseat to the antics of Mater (Larry the Cable Guy), the buck-toothed, accident-prone hillbilly tow truck whom Lightning takes with him on his round-the-world tour. After embarrassing McQueen with his backwoods ignorance, Mater is mistaken for an American spy by Finn McMissile (Michael Caine) and Holly Shiftwell (Emily Mortimer), two British secret agents who are trying to uncover Professor Z's plans. The central joke is that Finn thinks Mater's goofiness is just an elaborate cover, rather than his inherent state of being, which forces Mater to come to terms with the fact that most everyone around him thinks he's a fool. Lasseter, who co-directed with Ratatouille producer Brad Lewis, tries to shoehorn in a feel-good message about just being yourself, but it is mostly lost amid all the explosions, which would have happened even if the cars themselves had had more personality. The action is certainly fast and furious, and at times it is quite clever, even as we recognize how derivative it is from decades of spy thrillers both serious and comical.
What Cars 2 does more than anything is highlight all the weaknesses of the central premise of a world in which cars live like we do. The problem is that, unlike all the other Pixar films, Cars takes place completely in its own universe, and that universe doesn't make any sense (it, of course, looks fantastic, gleaming with almost unfathomable photorealistic detail). Not to get too literal here, but how exactly have these cars built a complete replica of our world--which here includes the neon gaudiness of downtown Tokyo, the medieval stonework of an Italian villa, and the familiar sights of London--when they not only lack opposable thumbs, but working appendages? The beauty of movies like Toy Story and A Bug's Life (1998) and Finding Nemo (2003) is that they reimagine elements of our own world in a way that makes the familiar fantastical and funny and whimsical; after seeing those films, you can never look at a child's doll or an anthill or a coral reef the same way again. The world of Cars 2, on the other hand, is just an exaggerated facsimile of our own, overly commercialized world, populated by talking autos whose grills have been replaced by teeth and whose windshields now house eyes, and all the technological wonder of its creation does little to hide the fact that it is built around a mostly empty core.
Copyright ©2011 James Kendrick
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