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Assalamu alaika Abjad.
Nobody has responded to you important arousal question. It is indeed what I have been trying to point to the members of this forum. The humiliation here is insignificant, for the highest and most unbecoming humiliation will be in the Hereafter when the majority of the followers of Muhammad will say: If I had but only listened and use my faculty of discrimination, I would not have been in hell-fire.
Out of 1.0 billion followers, only 19 have read your post! Don't be annoyed!
The reason for the humiliation is course ignorance and arrogance in the basic and fundamental teaching of Muhammad Rasulullah! If you are serious, imagine what is going on in the two holy mosques! Have you read: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1468070444/ref=cm_sw_su_dp? Is the author telling the truth or he is a joker?
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When the Apostle of Allah went to Taif with the message, the elders and prominent figures did not even care to meet him. The adults went into their houses and ignored him. While, sent their children on streets to make fun of him and stone him. - This was not just humiliation, rather a very cruel humiliation of the Best of Creation!
Why muslims are being humliated today is too simple a question, but the reason is not a one line response.
There are many many aspects to it.
Firstly we have to understand that not every muslim in every circumstance is humiliated. It depends where we are and what we are doing.
Shaykh Hamza Yusuf of Zaytuna Institute was called from President's Office Washington DC to advise Geroge Bush after the 9/11 incident. This was not a humiliation of a muslim rather quite the contratry. Why was he selected from so many muslims in US? Why was he not humiliated in the president's office after he was invited? Perhaps there is an answer here for why muslims are being humiliated today, while he was not. So, who is he and how does he go about his business being a muslim?
The Quran says Allah does not change the condition of a people, unless they change their condition themselves.
If we had honor some years ago, and have lost it now, its because we have changed our conditions by our own deeds.
If we want to go back to the state of honor, again we need to make it happen through our own deeds.
Before we make an effort to impress non-muslims (so that they stop humiliating us) we need to look at our community and build ties. We have to stop critisizing eachother for our minor failings, shortcommings and weaknesses. We need to find common grounds and dissolve our differences. We need to learn to love and respect eachother - then spread this sentiment globally.
-Shia/Sunni, Barelwi/Wahabi, practicing/moderate, hijabi/non-hijabi and so on - we must stop these discriminations within our community and embrace eachother as muslims of one millah - one ummah - beleivers in One God. The humiliation will begin to stop from here.
That is the frist step.
Next comes in the need to educate ourselves and our new generation about the true teachings of Islam.
In the age of internet, knowledge is under our fingertips. There are so many, many people who are trying to spread knowledge in an organized and systematic way through online academies. We all should join one of them and start our enlightenment process.
It is really, really very sad that today we can compile entire Quran in one CD and volumes of hadith lit. can be conpressed in small electronic devices but our hearts are more empty of their content than in the times when people had to travel months, leave the comfort and safety of their homes to seek the same sacred knowledge.
Everyone should start from within and spread from the immediate family, close freinds.
Personally I believe if humiliation is reciprocated with goodness and nobility of character its impact is much bigger.
When someone burns a copy of the Quran, prints cartoons or movies against our beloved prophet, we forget his response to the people of Taif.
What did he do when he was stoned and humiliated by the people of Taif? Did he burn sacred books of others, kill others in rage and assassinate ammassadors who had nothing to do with his humiliation?
Or did he make dua to Allah for their forgiveness and guidence to straight path?
I love these lines of Talib Al Habib:
When his blessed body was pierced by rocks
With blood streaming forth he gave this response:
O Allah forgive them for they know not.
Send Peace on him and his family!
Allahumma salli ala sayyidina Muhammad wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam!
Edited by Nausheen - 07 November 2012 at 4:58pm
Wanu nazzilu minal Qurani ma huwa
Shafaa un wa rahmatun lil mo'mineena
wa la yaziduzzalimeena illa khasara.
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Assalamu alaiki Nausheen.
You have elaborated what Abjad and I said. But I will take you on your statement that:
Before we make an effort to impress non-muslims (so that they stop humiliating us) we need to look at our community and build ties.
Response: The word non-muslims is an expression that should have been dropped today. It is better any one not following the Sunna of Muhammad be addressed as one following the faith of his prophet or messenger. This because a 'muslim' is one who submits to the Divine law and Muhammad came with the final message - their aggregates. Allah says: To each of you, We have given a way and Law: If Allah wanted He could have made you all obeying Him. I do not believe that non-muslims do humiliate the followers of Muhammad, but rather the followers of Muhammad humiliate themselves. I have visited many western countries and when I discuss Islam they give an ear of understanding and liking it. Read about the experience of an author in this website: sbpra.com//allamadrsanisalihmustapha.
2. You said: We have to stop critisizing each other for our minor failings, short commings and weaknesses.
Response: There is a great difference between criticism and telling the truth - that is pointing to the appropriate Sunna of Muhammad on that Sunna/action at that instant. I was opportune to be in your country Japan for one month. I attended the Friday prayer and after concluding it, I asked the Imam why he made the second Khutba in English language. He replied that it is only the first Khutba that must be made in Arabic language and the second one is made in the local language for it explains the first Khutba. I did not disagree although at that time I have no proof of that- that is ignorant of that fatwa. It was later after reading on Khutba that I came across his explanation. But supposing the Imam asked me why should I observe the friday prayer for I am a traveler? I will not believe him and consider his fatwa as 'criticism' or 'opposition' or 'an opinion' for we had so many visits by the Imams of the Ka'ba leading us in friday prayer when they come to commission a mosque built by Saudi Arabia. Technically this is wrong for the holy apostle never observed the friday prayer while on a journey. There is no criticism in the teaching of Muhammad but only telling the truth in confirming all actions to his actions. I am sure you attend friday prayers for there were females in that mosque, who prayed probably in the second floor. I am sure if you were to read the Sunna of Muhammad you will find the Imam making mistakes. Is that criticism if you tell him that he is prolonging the Khutba or read suras outside those read by the holy apostle?.
You said: We need to find common grounds and dissolve our differences. We need to learn to love and respect eachother - then spread this sentiment globally. -Shia/Sunni, Barelwi/Wahabi, practicing/moderate, hijabi/non-hijabi and so on - we must stop these discriminations within our community and embrace each other as muslims of one millah - one ummah - beleivers in One God. The humiliation will begin to stop from here.
Response: It is impossible to achieve that for the common ground has been rejected by the followers of Muhammad. Those are names or descriptions absent in the time of Muhammad and his sahabas. Please remember what happened during the expedition of Banu Al-Mustaliq when in a quarrel a sahaba yelled: O. the Muhajirins and the other yelled O the Helpers! When the holy apostle heard this, he came out of his tent angry and said: You are reverting to the period of ignorance! Stop using such abominable names! You are Muslims! He punished them by making them travel long distance without rest. They were exhausted.
I watched that discussion between President George Bush and Imam Yusuf. I did not like it because Imam Yusuf could not tell George Bush bluntly the primary reason of 9/11. I tried to communicate to him but failed. I did actually wrote to President George telling him that there will never be peace in the world once the Caliphate is not instituted. Who is right? Imam Yusuf or I?
You said: When someone burns a copy of the Quran,
Response: It is part of the ignorance of the followers of Muhammad to distinguish the holy Qur'an from scientific textbooks for each field of science is an 'ayat' of the holy Qur'an. For example Allah taught us arithmetic in that 3-7 is equal to ten in Sura 2:196. The entire medical profession is in Sura 17:5. So, what is the wisdom in disallowing the People of the Book from holding and reciting the Qur'an?
You said: we forget his response to the people of Taif.
Response: This is not a good example for the reason behind his visit to Ta'if is as a result of no one to help him at that time in Makka. Anway, Zaid did his best to protect him. I will reserve my comment on that incident in the Hereafter. It was not humiliation for humiliation is only on those who desert Muhammad's actions. Imagine how the bodies of those killed in the battle of badr decomposed instantly. Imagine Abu Jahl killed by a small boy and Umayya killed by his servant Bilal. Hamza was not humiliated by Wahshi. What appears humiliation is a lesson, for example the injury of Muhammad in the battle of Uhud. It was caused by the disobedience to his specific and detailed unequivocal instructions. This is what his followers if facing today!
As you said, the only prescription is going back to his way. We are not ready for that.
Lastly, are you from Indonesia, Malaysia? That mosque was attended by the Malaysians.
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Wa Alaika Assalam Friendship,
Thank you for your careful and well worded response to my previous note.
Honestly I dont understand your sentiment thru the post -You do not seem to agree with most of what I said, which is okay. I guess we fail to find common grounds. Its sad, but lets accept the reality anyway.
Which mosque were you attending and in which city?
It is usual practice in Japan to say the Khutba in English. I don't know why it was first said in arabic, when there is only a very small group (naitive arabs) who would understand.
I am also not aware of any rulings regarding a multilingual khutba.
I do not attend Friday prayers.
I am an Indian.
Wanu nazzilu minal Qurani ma huwa
Shafaa un wa rahmatun lil mo'mineena
wa la yaziduzzalimeena illa khasara.
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Assalamu alaiki Naausheen.
Yes, indeed. We are understanding the Sunna of Muhammad based on Greek and Latin translations of the Qur'an and as such we create difference in opinion and the confusion facing the Muslim Umma. The Umma neglect the life history Muhammad and his immediate followers as the true way of life. Therefore, no one should explain the meaning of any word outside its actual meaning in Arabic. For example, Islam does not mean religion neither deen. Addua does not meaning supplication but prayers. Muhammad never addressed the Jews or Christians as dis-believers. They have their way of life and he has his way of life. There was no Shia or ahl-al-sunna in his time. No one should be forced to believe. However, when the time comes for one to believe in Allah, then that is the time for him to understand the Sunna and strictly abide by it.
In Japan I stayed in Tokyo close to Giza district. Although females did not have their own mosque earlier, today they should have their own mosques to observe the friday prayer. But this is rejected by the Saudi Arabia Ulama and therefore not available all over the Muslim countries, because Muslims regard what they say as final authority.
Please try to learn Arabic language and read. You will then understand what I am saying.
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However, when the time comes for one to believe in Allah, then that is the time for him to understand the Sunna and strictly abide by it.
Although females did not have their own mosque earlier, today they should have their own mosques to observe the Friday prayer.
If we are to strictly abide by the Sunna, why are you suggesting women have their own mosques for Friday prayer, when is was not apart of the Prophet's Sunna, and Friday prayer is not mandatory for women?
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You probably started saving money years ago in a piggy bank and may now have another favorite place at home to stash your cash. That's fine for smaller bills and coins, but what if you've got checks and large sums of money from birthday gifts or your job? Maybe your parents (or other trusted adults) have been keeping your money in their bank accounts. Now may be a good time to talk with them about opening your own bank account which, if you are under 18, you'll probably have to do with their help.
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OK So I started My challenge today! I tried this a few years ago and just didn't stick with it and this time I'm really determined that I'm going to. My workout went OK, It's amazing how weak I am but I made it through the full upper body workout and am looking forward to seeing my strength go up. My eating went OK too, I wasn't able to fit in the full 6 meals today. I was Very busy with My 3 year old daughter's birthday today and I have a 5 month old son who is also in need of lots of attention so I was busy :) However, I'm glad that I started and If anyone needs a support buddy be sure to send me an e-mail! Good Luck All!
Welcome!! If it is possible, try to get your workouts done in the morning before the little ones get up, that way it is out of the way first thing...Plan, Plan, Plan is key to success!! Best Wishes on your journey!!!
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Congratulations on the start of an incredible journey! DebbieMO is right...planning is key. You need to get those 6 meals in. Try 2 hours apart for the first 3 and 3 hours apart for the last 3. It's imperative that you fuel your body properly. Don't forget your water and HIIT your workouts and cardio hard. Oh, don't forget to get plenty of sleep too.
You're off to a great start!
Keep the faith!
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I started today too! Good luck to you. So far, today went well. It does take some getting used to eating 6 times a day, might have to set an alarm or something :)
My challenge for tomorrow will be getting up early when it's dark and cold to do my cardio, (running). But it can be done, right? :) I only have myself to take care of, and you have two little ones! You can do it though, I know you can.
Welcome to the BFL Forum! And Congratulations on starting your challenge! Everyone has given you some great advice! Stick with BFL , follow it to a T and you will see amazing results, I promise! Come here often for great advice, encouragement and support.
Best wishes to you! Hope to see you around the forum!
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today was my first day as well. I had the same problem with fitting in 6 meals today I managed 4. My work schedule is insane and i get way too busy to stop and eat... i will do better tomorrow though.
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There is a roll call forum that a wonderful lady named Aussie Debs posts everyday. It sure does help us all feel the mental accountability. Post your start date on there and you will watch your name slowly grow to the 12 week mark. Amazing feeling!
Stay strong!
My first day was yesterday and I am really feeling sore today. I hurt in places I didn't know I had.
I chose dumbell bench, dumbell military shoulder press, lat pulldowns, alternating bicep curls, and behind head dumbell tricep skullcrushers. For a couple of the reps ie the final 12X weight I hit a wall around 6 reps and found that I had to divide the remaining six reps into another set. I did all of them but not all 12 at once...I also worked out for the first time in nearly 10 years. I hope to lose 2 pounds per week for the 12 weeks and then reevaluate my goals. That is to go from 280 pounds to about 256. I am not sure if I am pushing myself too hard or not enough. I just really want this to work. I am tired of being out of breath as I chase after my son. I am tired of diabetic medicine. I am tired of the lackluster unfulfilling sex life...this is why I must change. I turn 30 in 2 weeks and thought it was time to wake up.
I wanted to ask for advice on how to be successful. I work 630 pm (night) to 630 am (morning) so I am essentialy reverse of every normal person. How should I structure my workouts and diet plan to accomodate this new lifestyle...of working out and eating 6 times a day...before I would just wake up go to work and not eat and get off work and go to Mcdonalds on a mad binge eating spree...loading up on my daily allowance of 3500 calories and then start all over again....I need and want a plan because Bil says if you fail to plan you plan to fail. ANy help and encouragement you can give me as I go out on this fine day 2 of the program would be appreciated.
Rob: I saw this question earlier, and myself was hoping somebody would chime in for you. I cant let the sun set without putting in my 2 bits because I want to see you succeed. For you.
I used to do shift work and it is the devil! on a body. It looks like you do nights alot, so my thinking is, just make that your normal. Do your cardio and workout BEFORE you go to work, just like the rest of us do that work day shifts. If you plan your 6 meals and eat every 2.5 - 3 hours, your insulin will not be spiking and those crazy adventures to the "M" place (shhhhh!) will be all in your past. In a few days of clean eating, working out, sleeping well, you will recognize how good it feels to eat well. Your body will actually crave the proteins and fruits as opposed to the grease and fat you consume at times now. You may experience funny withdrawls of sugar the first few nights and may be restless. Your body will start changing and metabolizing differently after day one. DAY ONE!. The important thing is to start a momentum going and keep putting good days back to back.
It isnt easy. It requires you to dig deep as to why you want to do this. Why THIS time, Robert will make it work. You can do this Robert. One day at a time.
I hope this helps you continue with your goals. :)
Thank You:) I would Love to get my workouts done in the morning, however it is nearly impossible unless I get up at around 3:30 in the morning. You see, I don't get to bed until the earliest 10 because of all of the things I need to do in the evening with getting my kids and husband dinner and the kids bathed/bedtime routine and then cleaning up, etc. etc. and then my son who is only five months old cries quite a bit during the night for his pacifier so I am up and down out of bed pretty much every 20 mins.-30 mins until he gets up for the day around 6am. I get up at 5 to make my husband's lunch for the day and breakfast before he leaves and so my dilemma is that it gets incredibly busy in the am and pm and during the day I'm taking care of my kids:) I did fit in going to the gym last night from 8-9:30 but didn't get to bed until 12:30 and up throughout the night and up for the day at 5:00 so I'm seeing a long day ahead of me. I'm wondering how the lack of sleep is going to affect this as well because I know how important that is for your body to recover. Anyways, I'm not sure that this makes sense, lol. One more thing is that I go to the local YMCA and they don't have childcare until 8:45am, I LOVE working out early in the am, but I'm not sure it's going to be possible until my son is a little bit older, until now my workouts are going to have to be done wherever I can squeeze them in.
I hope your challenge is going well. How far along are you in the challenge?
Howdy Sulsar, Robert and Jackson - sorry I missed you all on the first day.
Sulsar - you poor love, you have your hands full don't you... Have you thought about sitting down with hubby telling him how important this is for you right now and ask him for his support by seeing if he will compromise 3 mornings a week where he makes his lunch and gets his breaky (weight mornings) - the other 3 you can hopefully squeeze 20 minutes of cardio in whilst the kids sleep - you can do it with a jump rope at home or using steps if you have any... so you wouldn't need the gym for that....
We all wish you well and hope you can work it into your busy day somehow. take care - Debs - C3 and 1 year of eating clean.
Hi Aussie-Debs,
My husband is very supportive. I like to do that stuff for him to help him get ready. He drives over an hour each way for work so he gets out of bed and pretty much has to run out the door. He was just transferred to a job close by. You see he is an electrical lineman and he so he gets moved around and travels alot. I've only had him back home for a week and a half so far because he's been working too far away to come home at night and was only here on the weekends. I'm really not complaining about anything that I have going on. I am very blessed with all that I have with my husband and kids I just need to find a way to schedule my stuff in there with theirs:)
Thank you for taking the time to write and for the encouragement:) How long have you been doing this program?
Okey Dokey, gotchya - well pat yourself on the back for even thinking about doing this for yourself - it all begins with a thought and if you keep an open mind and the desire strong, you will find a way to make it work.
I've just finished one year of BFL - 3 challenges - feel fantastic, look fantastic - lifes good mate - very good. I just put a couple of pics up on my home page - just click on my avatar and have a look. Cheers - debs
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Salary negotiation: Everything you've been told is wrongNovember 9, 2012: 11:18 AM ET
Asking for a million-dollar salary in jest can actually increase your pay package, according to a recent study. Here's how.
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FORTUNE -- There comes a point in every successful job interview when it's time to talk money. The standard advice to job applicants has long been to play it coy.
John Challenger, CEO of outplacement firm Challenger, Gray, and Christmas, urges applicants to "let the employer name a salary first -- it may be higher than you expect." Penelope Trunk, founder of Brazen Careerist, advises that "the right answer to the question, 'What's your salary range?' is almost always some version of 'I'm not telling you.'"
This often leads to an uncomfortable, even adversarial, game of chicken. If that's the sort of conversation you dread, here's good news: there are better alternatives.
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A recent study out of the University of Idaho found that making a joke about a million-dollar salary actually increased subsequent offer amounts by more than 10%.
The hypothetical applicant in the study's test scenario was an administrative assistant candidate who had listed her last salary as $29,000. When asked what salary she wanted in the new job, she either demurred or quipped, "Well I'd like a million dollars, but really I just want what's fair."
In the cases where the applicant declined to name any number, the average salary offer was about $32,500. When she joked about a million bucks, the average offer rose to almost $36,200.
The increase is a function of a psychological effect known as "anchoring." "When we encounter a number -- even an irrelevant number -- we fixate on it, and it influences our judgment," says Todd Thorsteinson, a psychology professor at the University of Idaho and the study's author.
But before you start throwing numbers around, you should consider the potential for backlash. "In practice, if one's negotiating partner opens with an offer that is too extreme, the most common response is to disengage from the negotiation," warns Rachel Croson, professor of economics at the University of Texas at Dallas and director of the school's Negotiations Center.
Participants in Thorsteinson's study were not given the option to decline to hire the candidate, but were merely asked how much they would offer to pay her.
So should job applicants make a high-salary joke in hopes of increasing compensation?
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Only if you're comfortable with the possibility that you might lose the job offer altogether, says Croson. Before recommending the strategy in general, she'd want to see a follow-up study that quantifies the level of risk involved -- for example, "what percentage of interviewers would be turned off by the joke and choose to find a different employee."
Being the first to talk numbers can still pay off, though. The standard advice -- to dodge the question -- ignores the very real effects of anchoring.
The key is information, says Croson, who has taught negotiation strategies to undergraduates, MBAs, and executives for 18 years. If an applicant knows the salary range for a given position and can name a number at or near the top of what a company is willing to pay, being the first to throw out a dollar figure is always to her advantage.
Challenger still prefers to play it safe. "Companies are all over the map," he says. "The same position may pay 20% more or less, depending upon that company's specific salary structure."
But with company-specific salary data available from sites like Glassdoor.com, today's job candidates have at least a fighting chance to set a high anchor and come out ahead.
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It is a numbers game and hackers are working day and night to crack codes and steal your personal information. That information includes draining your bank accounts. With two million Americans banking online, the next victim, if you're not vigilant could easily be you.
"I used to be pretty old fashioned but now I do everything online," says Tony Clark.
"I know a lot of my friends, that's all they do is the online banking. For me I still like going to the bank and talking to the teller," says Rachel Higginbotham.
Higginbotham is not alone when it comes to using the "play-it-safe" method. More people seem to be taking extra safeguards as hackers and their software become savvier than ever.
Randy Marchany specializes in computer security, constantly monitoring threats against Virginia Tech and its students. Marchany says it used to be bored braniacs behind this kind of "hacking" shenanigan. Today it's morphed into full-fledged organized crime, offering a way of life to people in third world countries.
"They're hiring and saying who is a bank site, let's see if we can break into it and here's a $100,000 if you can," says Marchany.
Monitoring the last time you logged into your bank account can be a telling sign as to whether you are being watched. Also, while WiFi is convenient, banking on public computers puts you at risk.
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John Mariani tells his side of the story in regard to the Critics vs. Comps issue I talked about a while back.
The a variety of interesting things he writes about, but the one I focused on is the following:
The reason comps exist is simply BECAUSE media cannot afford the money required to make food and travel sections possible. It is on record that the NY Times spends well over $100,000 on its restaurant critic's expenses each year. I doubt very many newspapers, excepting the very biggest, have paid $20,000 and more for their restaurant critics to spend in one year. I've had such jobs, and believe me, if I went over $1,000 a month, I heard about it from my editor. How many other papers or magazines, now with chronically reduced bugets and staff, can afford to spend anything close to that amount? Which is why they pick up so much freelance and syndicated material and never asked who paid for what.
This is something that Steven Shaw had mentioned as well. For all this talk of ethical standards that the New York Times and other similar institutions put on their payed staff, these standards not only do not apply to freelancers, but cannot. For if the freelancers were forced to pay their own way, they'd never be able to work as food or travel writers.
He also touches upon the Moto comments as well as the Cleveland comments. For those who are interested in this story, his posts (and the subsequent ones) are a must read.
Kudos to eGullet and to Mr. Mariani for helping clarify this episode.
Which reminds me. From here on out, I will endeavor to let you guys know of any influences that may bias my own opinions. I'll codify into a post the same way that I documented the PR Agreement post.
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