Assalaam alaykum,
I kindly advise all brothers and sisters to visit www.htspub.com and read the latest article posted by Brother Abu Ja'far Al-Hanbali. The other articles in the 'Our Failure is Our Loss' series are also highly recommended.
It is about time Muslims stopped and looked at the bigger picture of what is going on in this country between the Muslim community and the government. I can add one thing to this discussion:
Muslims need to stop thinking that worldly governments and disbelievers in general will accept us and like us as long as we are not violent and don't preach violence. This is an incredibly naive way of looking at things. The Seerah is there to teach; it's not merely a storybook. The fledgling Muslim community suffered immensely at the hands of the idol-worshipers in Makkah, and this was before any battle had been fought and even before any verse referring to armed combat had been revealed. 'Would you do this to a man because he says: "My Lord is Allah"?' Abu Bakr As-Siddiq asked after seeing the Noble Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, being abused. This question is rhetorical.
There will always be those who will seek to undermine Islam, regardless of the circumstances. Believers need to be wary of this and seek refuge in Allah.
Assalaam alaykum,
Sunday, 24 August 2008
Tuesday, 19 August 2008
Are you feeling cold this summer? What happened to global warming?
Scientist Predicts Ice Age Within 10 Years
University of Mexico expert says lack of solar activity to cause significant cooling that will last over half a century
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet (www.prisonplanet.com)
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
As evidence builds of the earth entering a dramatic cooling trend, another scientist has gone public with his conviction that we are about to enter a new ice age, rendering warnings about global warming fraudulent and irrelevant.
Victor Manuel Velasco Herrera of the Institute of Geophysics at the University of Mexico states that “In about ten years the Earth will enter a “little ice age” which will last from 60 to 80 years and may be caused by the decrease in solar activity,” according to a report in the major Mexican newspaper Milenio Diario.
Herrera slammed the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) stance on global warming as “erroneous” because of their failure to factor in the impact of solar activity.
The models and forecasts of the IPCC “is incorrect because only are based on mathematical models and presented results at scenarios that do not include, for example, solar activity,” said Herrera.
Herrera states that the earth is entering a natural phase of climate transition during which solar activity will diminish considerably, “so that in two years or so, there will be a small ice age that lasts from 60 to 80 years.”
Herrera cited the growth in glaciers observed at the Andes, Perito Moreno, Logan, the highest mountain in Canada, and Franz-Josef Glacier, New Zealand.
A dramatic cooling trend is being observed across the planet even as people like Al Gore continue to claim that the threat of global warming mandates the poor and middle class be hit with CO2 taxes in order to prevent climate change.
Both anecdotal evidence and hard data indicates that the planet is in the beginning stages of a significant downturn in global temperatures.
Following the end of the Sun’s most active period in over 11,000 years, the last 10 years have displayed a clear cooling trend as temperatures post-1998 leveled out and are now plummeting.
China recently experienced its coldest winter in 100 years while northeast America was hit by record snow levels and Britain suffered its coldest April in decades as late-blooming daffodils were pounded with hail and snow on an almost daily basis. The British summer has also left many yearning for global warming, with temperatures in June and July rarely struggling to get over 16 degrees and on one occasion even dropping as low as 9 degrees in the middle of the afternoon.
“Summer heat continues in short supply, continuing a trend that has dominated much of the 21st Century’s opening decade,” reports the Chicago Tribune. “There have been only 162 days 90 degrees or warmer at Midway Airport over the period from 2000 to 2008. That’s by far the fewest 90-degree temperatures in the opening nine years of any decade on record here since 1930.”
The reason? Sunspot activity has dwindled. There have only been a handful of days in the past two months where any sunspot activity has been observed and over 400 spotless days have been recorded in the current solar cycle.
“The sun’s surface has been fairly blank for the last couple of years, and that has some worried that it may be entering another Maunder minimum, the sun’s 50-year abstinence from sunspots, which some scientists have linked to the Little Ice Age of the 17th century,” reports one science blog.
Since the sun, and not carbon dioxide, is the principle driver of climate change, a dearth of sunspot activity would herald a repeat of the Maunder Minimum, the name given to the period roughly from 1645 to 1715, when sunspots became exceedingly rare and contributed to the onset of the Little Ice Age during which Europe and North America were hit by bitterly cold winters and the Thames river in London completely froze.
Long-time man-made global warming advocates NASA assure us that significant sunspot activity will return in 2012, but a recent a paper on recent solar trends by William Livingston and Matthew Penn of the National Solar Observatory in Tucson, predicts that sunspots will all but vanish after 2015.
As we reported last week, the Armagh observatory, which has been measuring sun cycles for over 200 years. predicts that global temperatures will drop by two degrees over the next 20 years as solar activity grinds to a halt and the planet drastically cools down, potentially heralding the onset of a new ice age.
“Based on the past Armagh measurements, this suggests that over the next two decades, global temperatures may fall by about 2 degrees C — that is, to a level lower than any we have seen in the last 100 years….”Temperatures have already fallen by about 0.5 degrees C over the past 12 months and, if this is only the start of it, it would be a serious concern,” concludes David Watt.
University of Mexico expert says lack of solar activity to cause significant cooling that will last over half a century
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet (www.prisonplanet.com)
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
As evidence builds of the earth entering a dramatic cooling trend, another scientist has gone public with his conviction that we are about to enter a new ice age, rendering warnings about global warming fraudulent and irrelevant.
Victor Manuel Velasco Herrera of the Institute of Geophysics at the University of Mexico states that “In about ten years the Earth will enter a “little ice age” which will last from 60 to 80 years and may be caused by the decrease in solar activity,” according to a report in the major Mexican newspaper Milenio Diario.
Herrera slammed the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) stance on global warming as “erroneous” because of their failure to factor in the impact of solar activity.
The models and forecasts of the IPCC “is incorrect because only are based on mathematical models and presented results at scenarios that do not include, for example, solar activity,” said Herrera.
Herrera states that the earth is entering a natural phase of climate transition during which solar activity will diminish considerably, “so that in two years or so, there will be a small ice age that lasts from 60 to 80 years.”
Herrera cited the growth in glaciers observed at the Andes, Perito Moreno, Logan, the highest mountain in Canada, and Franz-Josef Glacier, New Zealand.
A dramatic cooling trend is being observed across the planet even as people like Al Gore continue to claim that the threat of global warming mandates the poor and middle class be hit with CO2 taxes in order to prevent climate change.
Both anecdotal evidence and hard data indicates that the planet is in the beginning stages of a significant downturn in global temperatures.
Following the end of the Sun’s most active period in over 11,000 years, the last 10 years have displayed a clear cooling trend as temperatures post-1998 leveled out and are now plummeting.
China recently experienced its coldest winter in 100 years while northeast America was hit by record snow levels and Britain suffered its coldest April in decades as late-blooming daffodils were pounded with hail and snow on an almost daily basis. The British summer has also left many yearning for global warming, with temperatures in June and July rarely struggling to get over 16 degrees and on one occasion even dropping as low as 9 degrees in the middle of the afternoon.
“Summer heat continues in short supply, continuing a trend that has dominated much of the 21st Century’s opening decade,” reports the Chicago Tribune. “There have been only 162 days 90 degrees or warmer at Midway Airport over the period from 2000 to 2008. That’s by far the fewest 90-degree temperatures in the opening nine years of any decade on record here since 1930.”
The reason? Sunspot activity has dwindled. There have only been a handful of days in the past two months where any sunspot activity has been observed and over 400 spotless days have been recorded in the current solar cycle.
“The sun’s surface has been fairly blank for the last couple of years, and that has some worried that it may be entering another Maunder minimum, the sun’s 50-year abstinence from sunspots, which some scientists have linked to the Little Ice Age of the 17th century,” reports one science blog.
Since the sun, and not carbon dioxide, is the principle driver of climate change, a dearth of sunspot activity would herald a repeat of the Maunder Minimum, the name given to the period roughly from 1645 to 1715, when sunspots became exceedingly rare and contributed to the onset of the Little Ice Age during which Europe and North America were hit by bitterly cold winters and the Thames river in London completely froze.
Long-time man-made global warming advocates NASA assure us that significant sunspot activity will return in 2012, but a recent a paper on recent solar trends by William Livingston and Matthew Penn of the National Solar Observatory in Tucson, predicts that sunspots will all but vanish after 2015.
As we reported last week, the Armagh observatory, which has been measuring sun cycles for over 200 years. predicts that global temperatures will drop by two degrees over the next 20 years as solar activity grinds to a halt and the planet drastically cools down, potentially heralding the onset of a new ice age.
“Based on the past Armagh measurements, this suggests that over the next two decades, global temperatures may fall by about 2 degrees C — that is, to a level lower than any we have seen in the last 100 years….”Temperatures have already fallen by about 0.5 degrees C over the past 12 months and, if this is only the start of it, it would be a serious concern,” concludes David Watt.
Wednesday, 13 August 2008
Wednesday, 6 August 2008
Thursday, 24 July 2008
Ibn Jabal Arabic: Level One in Bradford, London and Manchester
Ibn Jabal Institute
Ibn Jabal Institute offers an unrivalled programme of part-time and full-time courses across the UK, with an established reputation as one of London's leading Arabic teaching Institutes. This summer we have courses coming up in Harrow, Angel, Bradford and Manchester.
Ibn Jabal Summer School
Free this Summer? Ibn Jabal Summer School runs 3 week Intensive courses throughout the summer. Level 1 covers in just 15 lessons the complete grammatical content of an entire full-time academic year at a British university. Available in Manchester, Bradford, and London. There are just 4 more 3-Week Intensive Courses left this summer, apply now as spaces fill up fast!
L1 3 Week Intensive D - Afternoon / London
Mon 4 August 2008 - Fri 22 August 2008
3 weeks full-time / 5 intensive classes per week Mon-Fri / 1pm - 5:00pm
Venue Ibn Jabal Institute, 29 Sidney Grove, EC1V 7LP / Register Now
L1 3 Week Intensive E / London
Mon 25 August 2008 - Fri 12 September 2008
3 weeks full-time / 5 intensive classes per week Mon-Fri / 9am - 1:00pm
Venue Ibn Jabal Institute, 29 Sidney Grove, EC1V 7LP / Register Now
L1 3 Week Intensive / Bradford
Mon 4 August 2008 - Fri 22 August 2008
3 weeks full-time / 5 intensive classes per week Mon-Fri / 9.00am - 1:00pm
Venue Bradford University, Richmond Road, BD7 1DP / Register Now
L1 3 Week Intensive / Manchester
Mon 4 August 2008 - Fri 22 August 2008
3 weeks full-time / 5 intensive classes per week Mon-Fri / 1.00pm - 5:00pm
Venue Islah Centre, Ladybarn Lane, M14 6YL / Register Now
For further details and to register please visit www.ibnjabal.com
Ibn Jabal Institute offers an unrivalled programme of part-time and full-time courses across the UK, with an established reputation as one of London's leading Arabic teaching Institutes. This summer we have courses coming up in Harrow, Angel, Bradford and Manchester.
Ibn Jabal Summer School
Free this Summer? Ibn Jabal Summer School runs 3 week Intensive courses throughout the summer. Level 1 covers in just 15 lessons the complete grammatical content of an entire full-time academic year at a British university. Available in Manchester, Bradford, and London. There are just 4 more 3-Week Intensive Courses left this summer, apply now as spaces fill up fast!
L1 3 Week Intensive D - Afternoon / London
Mon 4 August 2008 - Fri 22 August 2008
3 weeks full-time / 5 intensive classes per week Mon-Fri / 1pm - 5:00pm
Venue Ibn Jabal Institute, 29 Sidney Grove, EC1V 7LP / Register Now
L1 3 Week Intensive E / London
Mon 25 August 2008 - Fri 12 September 2008
3 weeks full-time / 5 intensive classes per week Mon-Fri / 9am - 1:00pm
Venue Ibn Jabal Institute, 29 Sidney Grove, EC1V 7LP / Register Now
L1 3 Week Intensive / Bradford
Mon 4 August 2008 - Fri 22 August 2008
3 weeks full-time / 5 intensive classes per week Mon-Fri / 9.00am - 1:00pm
Venue Bradford University, Richmond Road, BD7 1DP / Register Now
L1 3 Week Intensive / Manchester
Mon 4 August 2008 - Fri 22 August 2008
3 weeks full-time / 5 intensive classes per week Mon-Fri / 1.00pm - 5:00pm
Venue Islah Centre, Ladybarn Lane, M14 6YL / Register Now
For further details and to register please visit www.ibnjabal.com
Monday, 21 July 2008
10 things you should eliminate from your diet today
Assalaam alaykum,
Please read the following list from ABC news in the US. Number 5 is particularly interesting:
1) Trans fats
Read your labels! Anything that says "partially hydrogenated" is a trans fat.
Trans fats cause clogged arteries, type 2 diabetes, and other serious health problems. Only cook with organic butter or extra-virgin coconut oil as all other oils will turn into trans fat when used for cooking (including olive oil).
2) Artificial sweeteners
Contribute to diabetes because they prompt you to eat more.
Aspartame and sucralose (Splenda) should be avoided completely due to their toxic effects on the body. Alternatives are raw honey, agave nectar, stevia extract, and xylitol.
3) High fructose corn syrup and processed sugars
Fructose converts to fat more than any other sugar.
This may be one of the reasons Americans continue to get fatter.
4) Soy products
Creates hormonal imbalances in men and women by affecting estrogen levels.
Instead of soy milk for drinks and for infants, use goat's milk. It is the closest to a human mother's milk and is highly anti-allergenic.
5) Pork products
Creates toxic cells. Never meant for consumption.
6) Shellfish
Shellfish are scavengers ingesting countless toxins from the water in an attempt to keep our oceans and lakes clean.
7) Processed wheat and white flour
You used flour and water in elementary school to make glue paper mache hard as concrete. It has a similar affect on the body. Choose sprouted grain bread as an alternative.
8) Soft drinks
Sodas (even diet ones) poison the body. They don't reduce your hunger as solid food does, so your caloric intake is even higher. Regular soft drinks are sweetened with high fructose corn syrup and diet drinks use artificial sweeteners. A great alternative to the fizz you crave is to add fresh lime or lemon to sparkling water along with approved sweeteners.
9) Unfiltered tap water
Regular tap water is filled with chemicals and infused with chlorine. Always drink fresh spring water or filtered water and use a water filter for your home (even for bathing and washing clothes).
10) Non-organic dairy and meat products
Animals that are not raised organically are fed chemical and hormone-laced foods and by eating them, those harmful toxins go directly into you.
Source: http://www.abc15.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=c0437975-6777-4664-911c-51ca437286e3
Please read the following list from ABC news in the US. Number 5 is particularly interesting:
1) Trans fats
Read your labels! Anything that says "partially hydrogenated" is a trans fat.
Trans fats cause clogged arteries, type 2 diabetes, and other serious health problems. Only cook with organic butter or extra-virgin coconut oil as all other oils will turn into trans fat when used for cooking (including olive oil).
2) Artificial sweeteners
Contribute to diabetes because they prompt you to eat more.
Aspartame and sucralose (Splenda) should be avoided completely due to their toxic effects on the body. Alternatives are raw honey, agave nectar, stevia extract, and xylitol.
3) High fructose corn syrup and processed sugars
Fructose converts to fat more than any other sugar.
This may be one of the reasons Americans continue to get fatter.
4) Soy products
Creates hormonal imbalances in men and women by affecting estrogen levels.
Instead of soy milk for drinks and for infants, use goat's milk. It is the closest to a human mother's milk and is highly anti-allergenic.
5) Pork products
Creates toxic cells. Never meant for consumption.
6) Shellfish
Shellfish are scavengers ingesting countless toxins from the water in an attempt to keep our oceans and lakes clean.
7) Processed wheat and white flour
You used flour and water in elementary school to make glue paper mache hard as concrete. It has a similar affect on the body. Choose sprouted grain bread as an alternative.
8) Soft drinks
Sodas (even diet ones) poison the body. They don't reduce your hunger as solid food does, so your caloric intake is even higher. Regular soft drinks are sweetened with high fructose corn syrup and diet drinks use artificial sweeteners. A great alternative to the fizz you crave is to add fresh lime or lemon to sparkling water along with approved sweeteners.
9) Unfiltered tap water
Regular tap water is filled with chemicals and infused with chlorine. Always drink fresh spring water or filtered water and use a water filter for your home (even for bathing and washing clothes).
10) Non-organic dairy and meat products
Animals that are not raised organically are fed chemical and hormone-laced foods and by eating them, those harmful toxins go directly into you.
Source: http://www.abc15.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=c0437975-6777-4664-911c-51ca437286e3
Saturday, 21 June 2008
New Books available from Sunni Publications
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THE MOST DANGEROUS BID`AH THREATENING THE ISLAMIC SHARI`AH
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THE MESSENGER OF ALLAH (ASWS)
HIS SUBLIME CHARACTER & EXALTED ATTRIBUTES VOLUME 1
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Thursday, 29 May 2008
The Essentials of Islam: Fiqh for Beginners
Assalaam alaykum,
Alhamdulilah, the dates and venue have been confirmed for the Fiqh Class.
Start Date: Monday, 16 June, 2008.
Time: 6-8 pm
Venue: Room 547, Chaucer Building, City Campus, Nottingham Trent University
Finish Date: Before Ramadan insha'Allah
Requirements: Pen, paper and a copy of the book Ar-Risalah Al-Jamiah, translated as the Essentials of Islam and available from www.ivpublishing.co.uk, and preferably a translation of the Qur'an and a copy of the Jibril Hadith.
Topics: Beliefs, Purification, Prayer, Fasting, Zakat, Hajj, and basic Halaal and Haraam
Brother and Sisters welcome!
Assalaam alaykum,
Mahdi Lock
Notts New Muslims
www.nottsnewmuslims.com
Monday, 26 May 2008
Monday, 19 May 2008
Ar-Risalah Al-Jamiah
Assalaam alaykum,
Alhamdulilah, before the class starts I was wondering who would be interested in buying a copy of the text Ar-Risalah Al-Jamiah, translated into English by Shaykh Abdul Aziz Fredericks.
The text is available from http://www.ivpublishing.co.uk/ for £2.99, but I've spoken with Brother Naeem Ali and I will insha'Allah be ordering 20 copies of the book and distributing them for £3.50 to cover shipping costs, which will be approximately £10 altogether.
If you're interested please let me know asap by email: nottsnewmuslims@yahoo.co.uk. As I write 7 copies have already been reserved, so there are only 13 left!
Assalaam alaykum,
Mahdi Lock
Notts New Muslims
www.nottsnewmuslims.com
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