Whisper 8 : Words (30/06/2008 ) Libération's publication of a three-page interview with carla bruni sarkozy resulted in an increase of 40% in sales compared to an average Saturday. That increase ...
Whatever the reason, a woman suddenly found herself in front of a fait accompli. Her husband said that she was as his mother, which meant he would never sleep with her any more. She knew her ...
What should the life of a good Muslim man be like? Well, let's see what the Koran says about it. "And We have commended unto man kindness toward parents. His mother beareth him with reluctance, ...
God would like to see you as perfect a man as possible. He would like you to be smart in your mind: "He giveth wisdom unto whom He will, and he unto whom wisdom is given, he truly hath received ...
You continue reading and listening to the Koran until you say from the bottom of your heart Yeah when you hear or read "Or shall man have what he coveteth? But unto Allah belongeth the after ...
You are a believer. You observe your duty to God, but then a calamity befalls you all of a sudden. You ask yourself in the heart of the night: why did this happen to me? Many answers come to your ...
There are two kinds of ibtila: ibtila tarqiya and ibtila tanqiya. Ibtila tarqiya (or Promotion Test) is for the devout faithful who -at worst- commit minor sins or no sins at all. God tries these ...
The solution, then, starts with du'a, as we saw in Whisper 26. But for du'a to bear fruit, it must be accompanied by taqwa (warding off evil, keeping one's duty to God). "And whosoever keepeth his ...
Sister ummabdurrahman wrote in her blog: "Putting my faith into everyday practice has been difficult. How can I strengthen my faith if I have been lacking it? How did I achieve this once newly ...
Patience is a big word. Patience is a frightening word. Patience is the last thing one would wish to hear about. A Moroccan proverb goes, “Patience is the only door where people don’t jostle.” ...
Journalism students learn that "when a dog bites a man, that is not news. "Man bites dog" is news. A woman called a doctor live on an Atlantic Radio program to ask why her three-year-old daughter ...
I was once standing alone, facing our classroom, when a classmate came up to me, and said, shaking with laughter: "On my way to the Faculty (College), a group of little children stopped me, and ...
Once, an American man went missing in Australia. After three months or so, he emerged from the other end of the Australian desert, wearing an ordinary shirt and pair of trousers, with leather ...
A Moroccan daily newspaper has quoted a source at the last edition of the Asilah Festival as saying : "In the Arab region there are around 600 satellite TV channels, and more than 70% of Arab ...
For many years I used to watch our national football team’s matches with beating heart. That is no more the case now. I stopped caring about our national team eight years ago when I was sickened ...
Gossipers have alleged that the 2008 Olympic Games are being used to tighten the grip of the Communist Party. Only Allah knows whether this is true. However, cool-headed Chinese analysts claim ...
Now the question is, what's the use of a country's honour if this country's individual citizens lose their own honour?I am not going to talk about dictatorships. But in Japan -an unquestionably ...
Libération's publication of a three-page interview with carla bruni sarkozy resulted in an increase of 40% in sales compared to an average Saturday. That increase in sales can easily be explained ...
I don’t remember the exact words, but I once heard a French expert say on RFI something like, "From my own experience in the police I noticed that the kids who came to blows did so simply because ...
Words can serve so many purposes. They can hurt. A girl killed herself when "a cute teenage boy named Josh" told her on MySpace that she was a bad person and the world would be better without ...
Parliament in Romania has recently passed a law requiring that national audiovisual media "balance" their news and programs ; that is, the media should give much more good news than bad news––so ...
While lecturing us on Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne, one of our university tutors used to say: "You cannot draw a line between sanity and insanity". You can't help wondering whether ...
What does (or should) one feel when he/she watches on television gruesome pictures of an earthquake or volcano survivors mourning their loved ones ? Many of us watch such scenes while eating or ...
A second reason that has been put forward is kind of morality. “Let that be a lesson to the survivors!” some would say. As I partly agreed with the first reason, I can’t discard this one entirely, ...
I remember seeing a program featuring Australia’s tropical forests. The TV cameras moved gracefully among breathtaking trees, beautiful native flowers, exotic birds and animals. I thought there ...
In other words, could there be a good side to disaster? Are earthquakes, cyclones, volcanoes, etc., just natural accidents that happen at random and spoil people’s lives? Even if scientists, who ...
The poor are now begging the rich to stop polluting the earth (thereby causing floods, cyclones, El Niños and other disasters), whereas the rich are begging the poor to accept money in exchange ...
When you see the international community pleading with (almost begging) the Burmese government to let in international aid workers without delay; when you learn that 200 rescue workers lost their ...
And what is more beautiful Man can do than rebuilding shattered lives ? Indeed, I regard reconstruction as the fourth probable reason after those I mentioned above. Destruction is no doubt ...
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