King Salman Put the World in Wonder..!

The new ruler/king of Saudi Arabia and the custodian of Kaaba  Sharif    Mr. Salam Bin Abdulaziz put the world into wonder when he left alone, the leader of Supper Power  America(  Mr Obama ) and moved  for Asar prays to remember the greatest Super Power of the universe (Allah).  

Now , this is the hot topic for media onward that day.In fact , he showcased a best example for other Muslims leaders too and revealed on them, the importance of prayer. He taught it by practical example that how much significant it is, when Allah call you to His home. Then a man  should resume all his businesses to attend the court of Allah.

It is a positive sign that Saudi is now changing and preparing for an effective and responsible role in Islamic world.
May Allah prove this forecast true..!
By Nisar Ahmad

King Salman leaves Obama in Asar prayer Time... by zemtv

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If you don’t have an email , you cannot have the job....!

A jobless man applied for the position of ‘office boy’ at a very big company.
The employer interviewed him, then a test: clean the floor.
“You are hired.” – the employer said. ”Give me your email address, and I’ll send you the application to fill, as well as when you will start.”
The man replied, “I don’t have a computer, neither an email.”
“I’m sorry,” said the employer, “if you don’t have an email , you cannot have the job.”
The man left with no hope. He didn’t know what to do, with only $10 USD in his pocket.
He then decided to go to the supermarket, bought a 10 kg tomato crate, then sold the tomatoes door to door. In less than two hours, he succeeded and doubled his capital. He repeated the operation 3 times and returned home with $60 USD. The man realized that he could survive by this way, and started to go everyday earlier, and returned late. Thus, his money doubled or tripled everyday. Shortly later, he bought a cart, then a truck, and then he had his own fleet of delivery vehicles.
Five years later, the man’s company was one of the biggest food retailers. He started to plan his family’s future, and decided to have a life insurance. He called an insurance broker and chose a protection plan. When the conversation was concluded, the broker asked him his email. The man replied: “I don’t have an email.”
The broker replied curiously, “You don’t have an email, and yet have succeeded to build an empire. Do you imagine what position you could have if you had an email?”
The man paused for a while, and replied: “An office boy!”
Don’t be discouraged if something is not in your favor today. Better opportunities are always waiting ahead

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What Other Provinces Can Learn from Punjab

Technology play a great role in solving problem of modern age. The scope of the solution is unlimited but effort and vision is required. The Punjab Governed left no stoned unturned when it comes to facilitate public unlike other provinces.

 A lot of the credit to this change can be given to the Punjab Information and Technology Board (PITB), headed by the Chairman Dr Umar Saif since 2011. Saif - who received his PhD from Trinity College, Cambridge - also serves as the Vice Chancellor of the Information Technology University in Pakistan, after a four year stint teaching and working at MIT.

The Pakistani province of Punjab holds more than half of the country's population and in 2011 it was facing a dengue epidemic, with 21,000 cases and hundreds of fatalities. Part of the problem was the haphazard of digitisation of records, which made it hard to co-ordinate work across departments. The solution that the PITB came up with was to create a smartphone application that could be distributed to workers and officials in the various government departments engaged in tackling dengue. The app was used to track the work being done to fight the disease, and to also map the spread of dengue.

 Saif shares his insights into the challenges of bringing a technology solution to a government problem.

"Historically, IT departments around the world have stuck to using personal computers as the platform for their solutions," Saif explains, "and this has some fundamental flaws. Governments spend billions buying the hardware and software, but the uptake of technology is very low."

"The bureaucracy - particularly the lower tiers, are not computer savvy, and PCs have a lot of infrastructural needs," he adds. "And a senior bureaucrat will often not want to use the computer either, and just gives it to an assistant in a back room. That's the state of things in Pakistan, and I suspect, in countries like India too - such devices are used more as typewriters."

To work around these constraints, the PITB invested in Android smartphones - cheaper ones for the lower level staff, and high-end ones for the senior officials - and distributed these devices with a few work-related pre-installed apps along with some paid for talk time and messages.

In 2011, when Saif joined the PITB, smartphone penetration was growing fast, and the networks were growing as well. With their own batteries and wireless connections, phones solved one of the bigger problems that PCs faced. But more than that, Saif says that the phones also come with "social value."

"You can call friends and family, watch a film, or play games on the phone," says Saif. "They're intuitive, and everyone wants to use one, so they won't get handed off to an assistant. So with the hardware taken care of, we [the PITB] could focus our efforts on developing smartphone applications for automating government work."

The PITB team would go on to develop an automated platform with which they could crank out simple, template-based apps for government departments in minutes, based on the queries that each department needed to track, but the first stage - after convincing an extremely sceptical bureaucracy - was making the dengue tracking app.

 

The app needed to be able to track the location of each report, save pictures both before and after interventions to measure their effectiveness, and also share this information to a centralised database. This helped the team in locating the epicentre of the disease, and tracking the aedes larva. To do this, the PITB equipped the field workers to track the containment activities, so that all incidents, larvae, and control activities could be viewed on a map to track trends and developments.

"We bought 1,500 smartphones and giving them out to different government departments," says Saif. "So everything you [the workers] do, go to a house, or do some fog spray, or use the chemicals to kill the larva in a pond of water, or you clear a puddle of water, or shred some tyres, or you are putting some fish in a pond, which will eat the larva, any such activity; [the workers] take a before and after photo, which geotags the activity, and time stamps it. We have entomologists who go around looking for the larva, and they geotag their findings as well. We use this as a predictive tool to figure out where the patients will come from. We also geotag the houses of the confirmed patients; the system carries out statistical analysis, and raises alerts and highlights that on the map and automatically messages the district staff as well."

This also solved one of the big issues that had been facing the different departments - staff accountability. Since all the work is being geotagged and time stamped, if there is any lacuna, it is possible now to zero in on the exact area and time where photos needed to be checked. Accountability was in fact the biggest selling point to many of the heads of departments, to get better insights into the work their staffers were doing, according to Saif.

The project was a success - dengue is no longer at epidemic status in Punjab - and with World Bank funding, the core idea has been rolled out to multiple functions of the government. Agricultural expansion is now being tracked and verified, drug inspectors are uploading data on all the pharmacies they check, while the police in Lahore geotag all crime scenes to analyse patterns in crime.

"Often there are external factors which would affect the incidence of crime in an area," says Saif. "The map visualisation makes it possible to understand the problem and take preventative measures. For this reason, each station has two smartphones now."

If you think about it, that's not actually so different from most location-based social networks that exist right now, and once the PITB got the green light, it did not take them long to get prototypes running. Saif credits Burhan Rasool, a member of the PITB, with having done most of the actual coding required. Since then, Rasool has created several more applications for the PITB - 26 in total - which are being used in different spheres of the government.

Aside from smartphone applications, the PITB has also taken a page from the work being done in India, and is trying to move Punjab away from a stamp paper regime, by digitising land records. Along with this, the board is also rolling out educational campaigns on the phone, and SMS outreach programs, similar to the work being done in parts of India.

Three years ago though, all this was still pretty far off, and Saif had an uphill task of convincing people that the project would bring about the desired results.

"Convincing the district officers, then 17 government departments, was a challenge," says Saif. "Two and a half years down the line people have come to see the value and it has become easier, but it was definitely an uphill struggle at first. The Chief Minister's [Shahbaz Sharif] support was "We make the data public, that makes it harder to be inefficient, and will cut out commissions and bribes, and so there can emerge an adversarial relationship," says Saif.

Along the way, Saif has learned a useful lesson, which he believes is important for people here to know as well.

"When you talk to IT people," he says, "we often see the ideal solution. And the behaviour of people at the ground level does not always get factored into our thinking."

Instead, Saif believes, technology should be used as a measurement tool.

"Identifying the bottlenecks - are people doing their jobs properly - this is the real way in which to drive progress. Use technology to drive decisions, instead of replacing the existing processes."

 

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The Agents of British Rulers had Got lands in Return for their betrayal | Siraj

A man belonging to a middle class family is now challenging the feudals of Pakistan  while saying that  millions of people in the country did not have a piece of land to raise a shelter while feudal lords were not aware of the boundaries of their lands. He said Jamat Islami ( JI)  after coming to power would distribute the vast land of political pharaohs and pundits in Punjab and Sindh among land less tillers. He said the agents of British rulers had got these lands in return for their betrayal of Islam and the nation, therefore, the poor farmers had a right to get these lands.

Sirajul Haq advised the rich not to test the patience of the poor too much lest they should compel to march towards their palaces. All those exploiting the masses should realise if they did not mend their ways, the public would be compelled to rise against them, he warned.

He said two years performance of the present government had been disappointing as price hike, loadshedding, lawlessness and unemployment had made life of people a hell. “The problems of the ministers and assembly members of the ruling party are being solved while the problems of the masses remain unsolved,” he remarked.

JI ameer said Pakistan was an agricultural country and its farmers worked hard day and night, but they did not get any return for their labour. When their crop was ready, the industrialists would lift the produce on extremely low rates and the growers remained high and dry, he said.

Sirajul Haq said for the last 68 years, the masses had been feeding serpents who were biting them now. He said the power in the country was in the hands of feudal lords and capitalists who were holding the entire system as hostage. The tiny elite was in control of all the national resources and it was least worried about the problems and difficulties of the common man as its sole interest was in prolonging its rule. These people would show up only when they needed the votes of people, he added.

Sirajul Haq reiterated that JI after coming to power would provide subsidy to the growers on seeds, fertiliser, pesticides and farm machinery. Besides, he said, the JI government would provide free treatment to people suffering from diseases of cancer, heart, kidney, hepatitis and thalassemia at government hospitals. The citizens having monthly earnings below Rs 30,000 would be provided basic food items including flour, sugar, tea, rice and cooking oil on subsidised rates. He said JI did not have to take up arms for an Islamic revolution and would achieve the goal through democratic struggle.

This time his vice seems true and heart touching as his own life is the reflection of his thoughts.

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Know your worth!

Know your worth!  

Do not fall into the trap of believing that who you are and what you are worth are dependent on who you are with or what you have. No one can ever give you your self-worth. You decide if you let someone rob you of it. Become aware of how you medicate the pain in your life. It may include food, shopping, alcohol, drugs, or relationships which continue to diminish your sense of self.

You will never truly feel good until you learn to love yourself unconditionally. Your life is a gift. Say to yourself constantly..."I deserve the best that life has to offer." Live from this place. Make it a point to build new relationships that are positive, encouraging and supportive. Take it upon yourself to develop a sense of purpose, optimism, discipline. Realize that no one can take away your most valuable assets - your mind and your self-esteem, without your permission. You have GREATNESS within you!   #SelfEsteem

by Les Brown

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Finally Online Services is Here to Find Hostel on a Single Click in Pakistan

Finding hostel was a big problem for Pakistani students. Mostly, when students are shifting to university for higher studies. Due to a limited space in university hostels they can't provide hostel facility to all the student enrolled in the institution. Hence ,private hostels are  there for accommodation.  

Being a stranger in a new city, the new comers faces a lot of hardship in the process of finding a residence for their self . They mostly wast time in searching a suitable hostel with a reasonable rent and facilities .  

When I got admission in University of Peshawar ( UoP ) in the Department of Computer science( DCS )  in 2008. The university hadn't allotted me a seat in University hostel. So, I was quit confuse how to manage my accommodation. Though I got a seat in a private hostel on emergency basis,  near Arbab Raod Peshawar, but still I was not satisfied due to the long distance and high rent . After struggling for a  month, I found another hostel near university ,but frankly to say I wasted that whole month in searching  an appropriate  hostel. This  made me confused  to pay attention on my studies and my first semester went  very bad.   

" I was thinking that how many other students will be out there ,facing the same problem each year . But  luckily this problem caused to push me for a solution and I dreamed to have an online services which can facilitate students and other youth of Pakistan who come to a new city. I succeeded in 2012 to give a finalize shape to my  dream. I create an online services. Now I am so happy to see that the  majority of students using my  online services and searching hostel for them selves  with a single click. Its not only save their time but removing their worries to find a hostel more conveniently  " . Said Muhammad Tayyab,  CEO of Hostel PK website. 

This portal is not only giving  benefit to student but the hostel administration can also use it to manage their Hostel administrative tasks ; A comprehensive Account Management System, Inventory  Management System ,  Attendance ,  Fee and Room Record Management System are a  bonus facility in free .
In fact this is a very big initiative, taken by a student and now his idea is present in a practical form. The Team of Harf-e-Raaz is always here to appreciate such a type of endures.
In addition , if you have any good suggestion for the developer of this web portal. Feel free to comment in  comment section. Your feed back can improve this service more.   
   

The web portal can be reached at www.hostelpk.com

by Nisar Ahmad   

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Imran Khan Visit To APS: The Forgotten Point

IMRAN Khan said after his embarrassing visit to the Army Public School, Peshawar, he doesn’t understand why people were protesting.
I would like to answer. Mr Khan, this is Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the people here can throw you out the way they brought you in. This is
what happened to the late ANP government.
Don’t take KP for granted. You refocused on Punjab, but in the process you are losing
support in KP.
A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush. I advise you to heed these golden words.
KP is in a worse state than it ever was. We are not expecting any miracles from you but you
could have at least resolved our traffic and garbage issues. I and my family voted for you with hopes for the future but never again will we vote for you. You are as egoistic and fond of pomp and show and protocol as any other rejected politician, so why should we have any hopes from you? You are doing exactly what you criticised in others.

Tariq Khan
Peshawar

This letter was written by a #PTI supporter and printed in today's @dawn_com http://t.co/gYKytLsi4h #PeshawarAttack http://t.co/dVpVr5v0iY

Published in Dawn January 18th , 2015

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Appreciate Sky News for the Good Work ...Come on...!

Sky News decided not to show the Cover of Charlie Hebdo which depicted Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) again and published 5 million copies, Sky News made an editorial decision not to show that. As a Muslim we all should appreciate their decision & at least send them an email as they are facing pressure from far right & liberals.

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Jazakallah
محمد عربی ﷺ سے محبت کرنے والوں سے گزارش ہے کہ اور کچھ نہیں کر سکتے تو کم از کم ایک ای میل کر دیں سکائی نیوز کو جنہوں نے فیصلہ کیا کہ وە چارلی ہیبڈو کا سرورق (جس میں ایک بار پھر حضور ﷺ کا کارٹون بنایا گیا ہے) نہیں دکھائیں گے لوگوں کو۔ سکائی نیوز کے اس فیصلے کو سراہیں تاکہ باقی چینلز کو بھی کچھ خیال آئے۔
ان کا ای میل ایڈریس ہے
news@sky.com
زیادە نہیں لکھ سکتے تو صرف یہ الفاظ لکھ دیں
Dear Sky,
I as a Muslim really really appreciate your editorial decision of not to show the Cover page of Charlie Hebdo even you are facing lot of pressure from the so called liberals.
My message to all of them is, Call us terrorist/fundamentalist/Extremist/Radical/Fanatic, depict us, malign us, insult us, kill us, put us in Guantanamo prison, do whatever you want with us Muslims BUT Please don't insult, depict, don't do mockery of our beloved Prophet (PBUH). We love him more than anything else on this earth.
Regards,
(Your name)

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Mankind has moved into a new phase of its history

Mankind has moved into a new phase of its history. Death of distance has occurred and time zones have been conquered. Nation State is rapidly losing its legitimacy over absolute sovereignty along with loss of the total monopoly of power over the land it controls. Non state and non governmental organisations are on the rise to the extent that some of them are more powerful than any nation state or government. Microsoft and al Qaida are the two contradictory examples of such non state organisations who can play havoc with a nation state. World is slowly transforming into zones of stability (producing Microsoft) and zones of chaos (producing al Qaida). Due to the collapse of distance and time barriers stable zones cannot afford to have too many unstable zones in the world. So it becomes imperative to have a 'new world order' that can maintain rule of law and stability in the world which is getting smaller by the day. While all this is happening, the individual has completely lost his individuality and the ability to remain private and unique. This phase of uncertainty in my opinion is going to last at least for 25 years when things will start settling. In almost a quarter of a century new patterns will get established, new norms will come into being and a new way of global life will emerge. Humanity as a whole at the moment is going through birth pains of that new era. My gut feeling is that if understood properly and planned proactively this new era will bring unprecedented opportunities for the mankind. However, if we remain oblivious of the trends unleashed in the late 90s of the last century, we surely are then going to face some very unpleasant surprises.

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As a Muslim, I'm Fed Up With the Hypocrisy of the Free Speech Fundamentalists

An Open letter to read!

Subject: As a Muslim, I'm Fed Up With the Hypocrisy of the Free Speech Fundamentalists

Dear liberal pundit,

You and I didn't like George W Bush. Remember his puerile declaration after 9/11 that "either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists"? Yet now, in the wake of another horrific terrorist attack, you appear to have updated Dubya's slogan: either you are with free speech... or you are against it. Either vous êtes Charlie Hebdo... or you're a freedom-hating fanatic.

I'm writing to you to make a simple request: please stop. You think you're defying the terrorists when, in reality, you're playing into their bloodstained hands by dividing and demonising. Us and them. The enlightened and liberal west v the backward, barbaric Muslims. The massacre in Paris on 7 January was, you keep telling us, an attack on free speech. The conservative former French president Nicolas Sarkozy agrees, calling it "a war declared on civilisation". So, too, does the liberal-left pin-up Jon Snow, who crassly tweeted about a "clash of civilisations" and referred to "Europe's belief in freedom of expression".

In the midst of all the post-Paris grief, hypocrisy and hyperbole abounds. Yes, the attack was an act of unquantifiable evil; an inexcusable and merciless murder of innocents. But was it really a "bid to assassinate" free speech (ITV's Mark Austin), to "desecrate" our ideas of "free thought" (Stephen Fry)? It was a crime - not an act of war - perpetrated by disaffected young men; radicalised not by drawings of the Prophet in Europe in 2006 or 2011, as it turns out, but by images of US torture in Iraq in 2004.

Please get a grip. None of us believes in an untrammelled right to free speech. We all agree there are always going to be lines that, for the purposes of law and order, cannot be crossed; or for the purposes of taste and decency, should not be crossed. We differ only on where those lines should be drawn.

Has your publication, for example, run cartoons mocking the Holocaust? No? How about caricatures of the 9/11 victims falling from the twin towers? I didn't think so (and I am glad it hasn't). Consider also the "thought experiment" offered by the Oxford philosopher Brian Klug. Imagine, he writes, if a man had joined the "unity rally" in Paris on 11 January "wearing a badge that said 'Je suis Chérif'" - the first name of one of the Charlie Hebdo gunmen. Suppose, Klug adds, he carried a placard with a cartoon mocking the murdered journalists. "How would the crowd have reacted?... Would they have seen this lone individual as a hero, standing up for liberty and freedom of speech? Or would they have been profoundly offended?" Do you disagree with Klug's conclusion that the man "would have been lucky to get away with his life"?

Let's be clear: I agree there is no justification whatsoever for gunning down journalists or cartoonists. I disagree with your seeming view that the right to offend comes with no corresponding responsibility; and I do not believe that a right to offend automatically translates into a duty to offend.

When you say "Je suis Charlie", is that an endorsement of Charlie Hebdo's depiction of the French justice minister, Christiane Taubira, who is black, drawn as a monkey? Of crude caricatures of bulbous-nosed Arabs that must make Edward Said turn in his grave?

Lampooning racism by reproducing brazenly racist imagery is a pretty dubious satirical tactic. Also, as the former Charlie Hebdo journalist Olivier Cyran argued in 2013, an "Islamophobic neurosis gradually took over" the magazine after 9/11, which then effectively endorsed attacks on "members of a minority religion with no influence in the corridors of power".

It's for these reasons that I can't "be", don't want to "be", Charlie - if anything, we should want to be Ahmed, the Muslim policeman who was killed while protecting the magazine's right to exist. As the novelist Teju Cole has observed, "It is possible to defend the right to obscene... speech without promoting or sponsoring the content of that speech."

And why have you been so silent on the glaring double standards? Did you not know that Charlie Hebdo sacked the veteran French cartoonist Maurice Sinet in 2008 for making an allegedly anti-Semitic remark? Were you not aware that Jyllands-Posten, the Danish newspaper that published caricatures of the Prophet in 2005, reportedly rejected cartoons mocking Christ because they would "provoke an outcry" and proudly declared it would "in no circumstances... publish Holocaust cartoons"?

Muslims, I guess, are expected to have thicker skins than their Christian and Jewish brethren. Context matters, too. You ask us to laugh at a cartoon of the Prophet while ignoring the vilification of Islam across the continent (have you visited Germany lately?) and the widespread discrimination against Muslims in education, employment and public life - especially in France. You ask Muslims to denounce a handful of extremists as an existential threat to free speech while turning a blind eye to the much bigger threat to it posed by our elected leaders.

Does it not bother you to see Barack Obama - who demanded that Yemen keep the anti-drone journalist Abdulelah Haider Shaye behind bars, after he was convicted on "terrorism-related charges" in a kangaroo court - jump on the free speech ban wagon? Weren't you sickened to see Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of a country that was responsible for the killing of seven journalists in Gaza in 2014, attend the "unity rally" in Paris? Bibi was joined by Angela Merkel, chancellor of a country where Holocaust denial is punishable by up to five years in prison, and David Cameron, who wants to ban non-violent "extremists" committed to the "overthrow of democracy" from appearing on television.

Then there are your readers. Will you have a word with them, please? According to a 2011 YouGov poll, 82% of voters backed the prosecution of protesters who set fire to poppies.

Apparently, it isn't just Muslims who get offended.

Yours faithfully,

Mehdi

Mehdi Hasan is the political director of the Huffington Post UK and a contributing writer for the New Statesman, where this article is crossposted

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Guidelines for the Muslims: New cartoons to be published Tomorrow

Guidelines for the Muslim Community regarding New cartoons to be published Tomorrow - Wednesday 14 January 2015

The following points are general guidelines for Muslims on how to initially deal with and immediately react to the depiction of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ in magazines due to be published tomorrow (WEDNESDAY).

1. For every Muslim, Love of the Prophet ﷺ is a NECESSARY part of his/her FAITH. He is dearer to us than our mothers, fathers, sons & daughters. We prefer him to our own self.

2. The publishing of cartoons will hurt the sentiments of 1.8 billion Muslims around the world, as well as millions of non-Muslims who respect the great personality of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him).

3. Muslims do believe in freedom of speech. And they do respect the right for people to say what they believe to be correct. However, we all know that there is no such thing as absolute free speech. There are laws to protect the dignity and properties of people. We urge all decent minded Governments and individuals to respect these sensitivities, as we should respect all races and religions.

4. As it is clear that the cartoons are to be published again, Muslims will inevitably be hurt, offended and upset, but our reaction must be a reflection of the teachings of the one we love & are offended for, ﷺ. Enduring patience, tolerance, gentleness and mercy as was the character of our beloved Prophet (peace and Blessings be upon him) is the best and immediate way to respond.

With dignified nobility we must be restrained, as the Quran says “And when the ignorant speak to them, they say words of Peace.”
Our aim is to not, inadvertently, give the cartoons more prominence through our attention. Muslims must remain calm and peaceful in their speech and actions. Repel harm with goodness is the Qur’anic imperative and by which the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) lived. Legal action, civil protest, letter writing & other legal avenues can then be considered, insha Allah.

5. Muslims have to remember that by depicting the Prophet ﷺ, no one can ever tarnish his image, as he is way beyond what is depicted, as Allah says, ‘We have elevated your remembrance’. We should spend such regrettable moments in reading lots of Durood, sending salawaat and blessings to his beloved personality. May Allah's mercy, peace & blessing be upon his soul.

6. Engage with others about your feelings. Speak of your love for the Prophet ﷺ and do not be shy to let your non-Muslims friends know your justified anger at the mockery that is made of our faith. People need to know HOW MUCH WE LOVE OUR NABI ﷺ.

7. Learn more & share more about the great Prophet Muhammed ﷺ.

Hassaan bin Thaabit (may Allah be pleased with him) describes him with the following couplets:

"My eyes have never seen anyone more perfect than you

No woman has given birth to anyone more handsome than you

You have been created free from all defects

As if you were created the way you wished"

8. We should, through our actions and deeds, display the sublime character of the Prophet (peace be upon him). The Prophet faced many great challenges but he exhibited impeccable beauty and character in his actions. He did not react inhumanely or violently. He was attacked verbally and physically in Taif but he forgave the people. His uncle and companions were murdered but he reacted peacefully and in a humane manner. And there are many such examples from the seerah of the Prophet (peace be upon him) we must display.

9. As British citizens we must not allow tragic incidents of Paris for hate to creep into our hearts. Muslims, non-Muslims and people of all backgrounds must come together and show unity and solidarity and not let it divide our communities. We must remember the statements of the Prophet (peace be upon him) such as: “Someone who unjustly kills a Dhimmi (non-Muslim person under protection) cannot attain a whiff of Heaven. However, its fragrance is felt from a distance of forty years. (Sahih Bukhari), or, “He who hurts a Dhimmi (non-Muslim person under protection) hurts me, and he who hurts me annoys Allah.” (Tabarani) And many other similar hadiths highlighting that Muslims are not allowed to hurt their non-Muslim brothers and sisters in humanity.

10. We must continuously supplicate to Allah that He rectifies our situation. Pray to Him that the chaos, injustice and oppression is lifted from our society. We should pray to Allah so that He makes Britain a better, fairer and just country for all. Pray to Him to aid the oppressed and the victims of the oppressors in France and all over the world. Pray that He allows us to contribute to a more peaceful and just world. Sincerely pray at night and beseech Him to protect our honour and our dignity.

May Allah give us the ability to do what is right and avoid what is wrong. May Allah protect the whole of humanity from trials and tribulations. Ameen

by

Muhammad Idrees

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Hatred Posters Displayed at Peshawar

Hatred posters against Jamat-e-Islami (JI), Jamiat Ullema Islam (JUI ) along with use of abusive language pasted on Peshawar walls by "Mehdi foundation International".
It's pertinent to mention here that there is a clause in "National Action Plan" that no one should be allowed to provoke or spread hatred against anyone.
Mehdi Foundation is banned outfit and all their publications and website are banned in Pakistan.The foundation following "Shah Gauhar" who penned the book named "Deen-i-Elahi".

NAP Point 8: Hate literature and propaganda to promote sectarianism, extremism and intolerance would not be allowed and effective action would be taken against newspapers and periodicals involved in such practices. 
11- Sectarian terrorists will be dealt with iron-hands .
3- Banned terror outfits will not be allowed to operate under new/different names.

by Izhar Ullah

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Breaking News : A -ve mind set of media in Pakistan

Recently the media have presented Imran Khan and Reham khan wedding and autobiography in such a way that reflect that the whole nation is only the fan of them .But keep in mind , the reality is quit the opposite.
Today, such a bogus and rotten role of media have reduced the popularity of "Breaking News" in media.  In fact the majority of the people have nothing to do with things like  Khan's marriage.

 
In addition, the biggest decline in the popularity of breaking news in electronic as well as in press media is due to the very non-serious attitude toward different kind of non-important Breaking News. People now get bore to see this type of unnecessary Breaking News , especially when the news are imposed rather to inform the audience.
Now here arises a very serious question. 

Why the media that always criticize politicians , businessmen , industrialist , religious leaders and other celebrities, but never criticize there own self and character ? 

 Why they don't do  accountability of their self rather to be a judge for others acts ?

 If the odd culture of this unnecessary breaking news continue in this way then definitely it will not only putt a bad impact in people but also will affect those media groups that have a tendency toward ethical journalism and right reporting.
In Pakistan, if the media start to play a good role then surely other institutions will also be corrected automatically. Because media can play a very good role in the development of a county.
Now its the need of the time that media should come out from the baseless race of  making " Breaking  News " and put an effort along the political parties for the basic right of public.
I hope the consequences will be much pleasant and no one will be deprived from his basic right.
By  Nisar Ahmad

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Those who hate Muslims and their religion have been strengthened by these murders #CharlieHebdo

The terrorist murder of French journalists and police officers in Paris this morning must like all such actions be utterly condemned. Only hypocrites decry some such murders but not others. Hypocrites like among others the French government which has been facilitating exactly such carnage, except daily, in Syria for the last four years. And through the agency of the very same kind of terrorists as murdered the French citizens today.
The provocative actions of the publication Charlie Hebdo cannot possibly be a justification for murder, mass murder. The idea that God, the master of the worlds, the creator of the universes is in need of "revenge" against a small satirical publication in Paris is absurd and makes a mockery of Islam.
It was already difficult being a Muslim in France in the teeth of ceaseless provocation and the lash of racism and Islamophobia. Today it just got more difficult. Those who hate Muslims and their religion have been strengthened by these murders. The west in general appears locked on a course of confrontation with much of the Muslim world. Invasion, occupation, bombardment, provocation chase and are chased by Islamist fanaticism ever more savage and dangerous. It is the road to disaster, for all of us. We must turn back before it is too late.    

• #SayNoToIslamophobia

by Allison Hubbard

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There will be no TV in heaven c'z there won't be many journalists there

The journalists fraternity in Pakistan will have least ratio of individuals who would qualify for heavens. In a country where all institutes are generally corrupt and non-professional journalism is just on another level. Police, judiciary, bureaucracy, education, doctors and engineers all institutes are filled with shameless individuals. But according to a classical saying, "the worst injustice with one's profession is that of a teacher with his teaching". Looks obvious as other professionals might destroy one nation but corrupt teacher destroys generations to come. Same goes for journalists. A journalist is a teacher and a guide, but when such a guide has sold itself for money, favor, agenda, personal associations, they become the scum of the society. Here are some categories that you can divide the journalist in Pakistan into. 

1. Yellow journalist: whose purpose of life is to dedicate themselves for defending whoever is in power. Or who is likelier to assume power soon. They jump ships every 5 years and invariably are the supporters of Dictator's regimes. These are the Naji's and the Saroop's etc. 

2. Lafafa journalists: Very easy to recognize. Their words are as irrational and as funny as watching a Bollywood film where every disconnected element somehow has a connection to what they want to infer. It doesn't take much of intellect to read between the lines what they write and smell the money/favors poured in their pen as ink. They sound desperate, indecent and obvious examples of prejudiced writers comparing of the good in one against the bad in other. They never do a good vs good analysis. Their rhetoric is based on good vs bad. These are the Qasmi's , the Siddiqui's and the Chaudhry's. Feel free to look up for examples.

4. Self defined agenda based journalists: The fulcrum of their work is to manipulate public opinions in according to their personalized objectives. For instance a certain class of journalists are first anti-establishment individuals and then professional journalists. The anti-establishment, anti-military agenda is so strong that any reporting they do, any columns they write or any show they anchor, everything has a prologue. Generals murdabaad! Another example of self defined agenda journalist is a certain Javed whose Anti-MQM sentiments means anybody who is silent on MQM should be in the line of fire. They think either you are with them, or against them. 

5. Politically affiliated columnist: Their rhetoric is based on defending a certain party based on its policies, vision and slogans. The thing that makes them different from the Lafafa journalist is that they attempt to do a good vs good or bad vs bad argument. They criticize their parties too for the wrong it does. They are not blind supporters nor too hidden. Creditable to a certain extent. 

6. Shameless journalists: Whatever they do, they can simply walk out of that. Nothing can dent their shamelessness even if caught on camera. The conspiracy theorist and the self proclaimed pundits. There are plenty of them out there. A certain Luqman, Bukhari etc etc are typical examples. They are spiritual followers of saints such as "App nain Mirza Ghalib dekhi hay".  

6. The doubters: Always in doubt. They are in total disbelief. You can generally spot them by watching them being too pessimistic about everything. However they are relatively unbiased and respected. These are the Hussain's and Abbasi's.

7. The dual face journalists. They say something that has one meaning but a different message. They would tell you, for instance, there are 10 bad guys in a 280 persons team A inferring how poor this team is. At the same time they will shut their eyes on team B that has 150 bad guys in 280. Not that they want to help Team B. they don't . Instead they hypocritically want Team C to benefit from the damage done to Team A. They are generically hypocrites, they say what they don't mean and they don't mean what they say. A certain Safi is a classic example of that category. 

"Gala tou ghont dya ahl-e-madrasa nain tera, 
Kahan se ayay sada la ilaha ilal'Allaha"

by Rizwan Mumtaz

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Cartoonists-sympathizers: Missing Points

To all those ignorant Cartoonists-sympathizers:

People are missing the points that:
1- For Muslims, there is something much more evil and worse than mere death or murder.
2- Freedom of Speech is NOT same as freedom to insult for the sake of point-making
3- HUGE difference between [disagreeing and criticizing Islam] vs. [mocking it with some slanderous stuff], and even going beyond the limits by slandering about the Prophet (SAAW) who is more dear to Muslims than their own lives, and more dear to them than their own parents and children.

You believe Muhammad (SAAW) was not a true prophet? Nobody killed you for not believing.
If you believe Islam is a false religion? Nobody attacked you in order to convert you to Islam.
But if you make pictures of animals for a human being, and you show some naked pictures and associate them to the most sacred person who NEVER even remotely showed any sign of nudity or vulgarity ---- then YOU ARE INVITING THE TROUBLE.

When will you people grow up and stop chirping whatever the society is chirping around?

Prophet Muhammad (SAAW) was THAT utmost peak of humanism, humanity, justice and mercy that nobody could reach to that level except him. Don't agree? Nobody gives a dime if you don't agree. But slanderously insulting such a man is much horrendous than Freedom of Speech of the eat-excrete-and-die masses.

Courtesy by ‪#‎truth‬

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Action Plans and 21th Amendments are Further Dividing the Nation

Such Action Plans and Amendments are further dividing the nation,,, polarizing the society where religious and liberals will go to extreme poles, making coexistence more and more difficult which may eventually lead to a type of civil war,,, just because we as a nation exploited the situation for defaming religion and religious people... if we want peace and prosperity, we must learn coexistence with everyone having their ideology.... let me make it clear that no one is supporting those barbaric actions and all those who are doing it but why are we pushing a great part of this nation away and unnecessarily make controversies. 
by Nasib Rawan

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He was my Prophet (SAW). He liberated me. (A women Opinion)

There is much talk about Islamic learning paving way for religious extremism, so much debate over how oppressed Muslim women are. Arguments that tend to rationalize domestic abuse, which glorify abandonment of family for the simple good purpose of tableegh. Many cultures that prefer sons, many families that refuse to ask a women for consent before marriage. Many many enlightened families that refuse to allow women to own property. There is this constant clash of Islam and Women and big fancy words like empowerment and feminism and emancipation are frequently used. I’ve tried – but it doesn’t make sense to me. You see, 1400 years ago, My Rab-ul-Aa’lameen sent a Rehmat-ul-lil-Aa’lameen. He taught me a husband and wife can be best friends just like he was with his Khadija, he taught me wives should be celebrated just like he did with his Ayesha. He showed daughters should be cherished just like he did with his own. He allowed his wives to work, to be successful thriving business women. He gave piggy back rides to children and made an entire army headed for war – take a detour because a cat had given birth on the path. He could not have moved the animal because he said it was now a ‘Mother’. He said the best amongst you is the one that is best to their families.
No debate, claim, righteous man or woman dedicating their life to ensure my freedom can make any sense to me because 1400 years ago A wonderful, complete, beautiful human being did just that. He was my Prophet (S). He liberated me.

May the love, the light, the blessings, the infinite rehmat of Hareef-ul-Alaikum find its way into your life and into your heart. Eid Milad-un-Nabi Mubarak Everyone.

by Haya Hamid

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Reality of Punishment and Reward of Grave

Now a days many people think that a person will get rewards and punishments of his good and bad deeds only on the day of judgement and after his death he will not be accountable for his deeds .It is a misconception which has nothing to do with the message of Quran and authentic hadiths.

Allah swt has said in Holy Quran in surah At-Takathur:

The mutual rivalry for piling up of worldly things diverts you, Until you visit the graves (i.e. till you die). (At-Takathur 102:1-2)

These verses are indicating that a man will see result of his deeds when he will die and enter the grave.If some one thinks that death will finish his activities and these verses are not indicating any thing about rewards and punishment of grave than he should read this verse of Holy Quran:

The Fire; they are exposed to it, morning and afternoon, and on the Day when the Hour will be established (it will be said to the angels): "Cause Fir'aun's (Pharaoh) people to enter the severest torment!" (Ghafir 40:46)

This verse is a clear indicator of the fact that Pharaoh and his supporters are bearing fire of hell before the day of judgement for their transgression .

Similarly there are many hadiths which indicate the punishment and reward of grave some of these are as follows:

It is narrated on the authority of Abu Huraira that a dark-complexioned woman (or a youth) used to sweep the mosque. The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) missed her (or him) and inquired about her (or him). The people told him that she (or he) had died. He asked why they did not inform him, and it appears as if they had treated her (or him) or her (or his) affairs as of little account. He (the Holy Prophet) said: Lead me to her (or his) gtave. They led him to that place and he said prayer over her (or him) and then remarked: Verily, these graves are full of darkness for their dwellers. Verily, the Mighty and Glorious Allah illuminates them for their occupants by reason of my prayer over them.(Muslim : Book 4 , Hadith 2088 )

Usman radi Allahu anhu narrates that the Messenger of Allah (Salal laho aliehi wasalam) said:

"Indeed the grave is the first stopping place for the Hereafter; so if he is saved therein, then what comes after is easier than it. And if he is not saved there from, then that which comes after is harder." At-Tirmidhee, Ibn Maajah,al-Haakim: Hasan)

This hadith mentions that the person will start his journey comfortably in grave if he is pious and will bear torment of grave if he is a sinner.

Similarly in another hadith Imam Abu Dawood ,Imam Tirmidhi and Imam Al Hakim narrates from Fadalah bin Ubaid radi Allahu anhu and Imam Ahmad narrates from Uqbah ibn Amir radi Allahu anhu that the Messenger of Allaah (Salal laho aliehi wasalam) said:

"Everyone who dies then his actions are sealed except for the one guarding the border in the way of Allah his actions continue to increase for him until the Day of Judgement and he is saved from the trials of the Grave." (Saheeh.)

This hadith clearly tells us that the person who struggled in the way of ALLAH he will get continuous benefits and rewards even before day of judgement.

In another hadith Kab ibn Malik radi Allahu anhu narrates that the Messenger of Allah (Salal laho aliehi wasalam) said:

"The souls of the believers (martyrs) are inside green birds in the trees of Paradise until Allah returns them to their bodies on the Day of Judgement." (At-Tabraanee in 'al kabeer)

This hadith clearly tells the reward of martyrs before the day of judgement.

In another hadith Umm Khalid bint Khalid ibn Saeed ibn al Aas radi Allaha anha narrates that the Messenger of Allaah (Salal laho aliehi wasalam) said:

"Seek Allaah's protection from the Punishment of the Grave, since punishment of the Grave is a fact/true." ( At-Tabraanee in al-Kabeer :Saheeh)

This hadith once again tells that punishment of grave is a reality.

In another hadith Anas radi Allahu anhu narrates that the Messenger of Allah (Salal laho aliehi wasalam) said:

"When a human being is laid in his grave and his companions return and he even hears their footsteps, two angels come to him and make him sit and ask him: What did you used to say about this man, Muhammad? He will say: I testify that he is Allah's slave and His Apostle. Then it will be said to him, 'Look at your place in the Hell-Fire. Allaah has changed for you a place in Paradise instead of it.' The Prophet (Salal laho aliehi wasalam) added, "The dead person will see both his places. But a non-believer or a hypocrite will say to the angels, 'I do not know, but I used to say what the people used to say! It will be said to him, 'neither did you know nor did you take the guidance (from Quran and Sunnah).Then he will be hit with an iron hammer between his ears, and he will cry and that cry will be heard by whatever approaches him except human beings and jinns." (Saheeh: Al-Bukhaaree (2/422), Muslim, Ahmad, Abu Daud, an-Nisaa.ee)

It means that punishment of grave is physical reality because their cries is listened by all the creations except human beings and Jinns.

In another hadith Abu hurairah radi Allahu anhu narrates that the Messenger of Allah (Salal laho aliehi wasalam) said:

"When the dead person is buried two black-blue angels come to him, one called al-Munkar and the other called an-Nakeer, and they say to him: 'What had you used to say about this man?' So he says what he used to say: 'Allah's slave and His Messenger, I bear witness that no one has the right to be worshipped except Allah and that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger.' So they say: 'Indeed we knew that you (would) say that.' Then his grave is widened for him to the extent of seventy cubits by seventy, then it is made light for him, then it is said: ' Sleep.' So he says: 'I should go to my family and inform them.' So they say: 'Sleep as the newly married sleeps whom no-one awakes except his favourite wife.' Until Allah raises him up from that place of sleep. And if he is a hypocrite he says: 'I heard the people saying something so I said it too, I don't know.' So they say: 'We knew that you (would) say that.' So it is said to the earth: 'Crush him', so he is crushed until his cross over and he remains in the state of torture until Allah raises him up from that resting place." (At-Tirmidhee :Hasan)

This hadith indicates that pious person will sleep in a peaceful manner where as the hypocrite and non believer will be tortured continuously before the day of judgement.

In another hadith Al-Baraa bin Azib radi Allahu anhu narrates: We went out with the Prophet of Allah (Salal laho aliehi wasalam) accompanying the bier of a man of the Ansar. When he reached his grave, it was not yet dug. So the Prophet of Allah (Salal laho aliehi wasalam) sat down and we also sat down around him as if birds were over our heads. He had in his hand a stick by which he was scratching the ground. He then raised his head and said:

Seek refuge in Allaah from the punishment of the grave. He said it twice or thrice. The version of Jarir adds here: He hears the beat of their sandals when they go back, and at that moment he asked: O so and so! Who is your Lord, what is your religion, and who is your Prophet? Hannad's version has: Two angels will come to him, make him sit up, and ask him: Who is your Lord? He will reply: My Lord is Allah. They will ask him: What is your religion? He will reply: My religion is Islaam. They will ask him: What is your opinion about the man who was sent on a mission among you? He will reply: He is the Apostle of Allah. They will ask: Who made you aware of this? He will reply: I read Allah's Book, believed in it, and considered it true, which is verified by Allah's word: "Allah establishes those who believe with the word that stands firm in this world and the next." The agreed version goes: Then a crier will call from the heaven: My servant has spoken the truth, so spread a bed for him from Paradise, clothe him in Paradise, and open a door for him into Paradise. So some of its air and perfume will come to him, and a space will be made for him as far as the eye can see. He also mentioned the death of the infidel, saying: His spirit will be restored to his body, two angels will come to him, make him sit up and ask him: Who is your Lord? He will reply: Alas, alas! I do not know. They will ask him: What is your religion? He will reply: Alas, alas! I do not know. They will ask: Who is this man who was sent on a mission among you? He will reply: Alas, alas! I do not know. Then a crier will call from the heaven: He has lied, so spread a bed for him from Hell, clothe him from Hell and open for him a door into Hell. Then some of its heat and pestilential wind will come to him, and his grave will become restricted, so his ribs will be pressed together. Jarir's version adds: One who is blind and dumb will then be placed in charge of him, having a sledge hammer such that if a mountain were struck with it, it would become dust. He will give him a blow with it which will be heard by everything between the east and the west except by men and jinn, and he will become dust. Then his spirit will be restored to him. (Ahmad, Abu Dawud (3/4735) ,Ibn Khuzaimah, al-Haakim, al-Baihaqee 'Shu'ab ul-Imaan', ad-Diyaa :Saheeh)

The details mentioned in this hadith is indicating the punishment and reward of transgressors before the day of Judgement

In another hadith Abu Hurairah radi Allahu anhu narrates that the Messenger of Allah (Salal laho aliehi wasalam) said:

"The righteous man sits in his grave and is not alarmed or afraid, then it is said to him (by angels): 'In (what state) were you?' So he says: 'In the (state of) Islam.' So it is said to him: 'What is this man?' So he says: 'Muhammad the Messenger of Allah who came to us with clear signs from Allah, so we believed that.' Then it is said to him: 'Have you seen Allah?' So he says: 'It does not behove any man that he sees Allaah.' So an opening is made for him in the direction of the Fire, so he sees it, some parts of it smashing into others, and it is said to him: 'Look at what Allah, the Exalted, has saved you from.' Then an opening is made for him in the direction of Paradise, and he looks to its brilliance and what is therein and it is said to him: 'This is your place.' And it is said to him: 'You were upon certain Faith and died upon it and upon it you will be raised up, if Allah wills.' And the wicked man sits in his grave alarmed and terrified and so it is said to him: 'In what state were you?' So he says: 'I do not know.' So it is said to him: 'Who is this man?' So he says: 'I heard the people saying something so I said it!' So an opening is made for him in the direction of Paradise and he sees its brilliance and what is therein, and it is said to him: 'Look at what Allah has refused you.' Then an opening is made for him in the direction of the Fire, so he sees it crashing against itself and it is said: 'This is your place, you lived upon doubt and died upon it and you will be raised up upon it, if it is Allah's will." ( Ibn Maajah ,Saheeh)

This hadith indicates that a pious man before going to paradise will see his destination in the grave and the sinner will see hell fire before the day of Judgement.

Conclusion:

It is proved both from Quran and authentic hadiths that punishment and reward of grave is a reality and the people who deny this reality actually deny the clear verses of Quran and authentic sayings of Rasool sala laho aliehi waslaam may Allah guide us all to right path and make us believe in all the realities mentioned in Quran and authentic hadiths.

Ibtisam Elahi Zaheer

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