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		<title>By: tanya</title>
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		<dc:creator>tanya</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Salaam,

Lovely poem masha&#039;A.

Insha&#039;Allah this response is directed to the writer of the poem and to any brother/sisters who love to write.

Insha&#039;Allah I am currently seeking Muslim writing talent and am accepting submissions.  
Please forgive me if this isn&#039;t the place, but if someone could direct me towards accomplishing my goal I would appreciate it.

Thank you!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Salaam,</p>
<p>Lovely poem masha&#8217;A.</p>
<p>Insha&#8217;Allah this response is directed to the writer of the poem and to any brother/sisters who love to write.</p>
<p>Insha&#8217;Allah I am currently seeking Muslim writing talent and am accepting submissions.<br />
Please forgive me if this isn&#8217;t the place, but if someone could direct me towards accomplishing my goal I would appreciate it.</p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
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		<title>By: Khadijah C.</title>
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		<dc:creator>Khadijah C.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 07:15:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Masha&#039;Allah!!! Great reflective insight! =)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Masha&#8217;Allah!!! Great reflective insight! =)</p>
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		<title>By: Hafiz KK</title>
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		<dc:creator>Hafiz KK</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:33:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Assalam Alikum Wa Rahmat Allah Iwa Barakatuhu Friends..

First off all amazing piece of poetry. Secondly i read through the whole page and saw the conflicting feelings going on btwn different sorts of people here. Well there is soo much to say but soo less time and space... Ill try to say what i have in mind in the shortest way possible.

Thomas, u think islamic education is backward, but in fact this &quot;revealed&quot; knowledge is essential for the advantageous usage of the &quot;acquired&quot; knowledge.. On top of that many new scientific discoveries are being made which were found to be foretold in the QURAN 1400 years ago.. One example is the existence of BLACK HOLES (Surah An-Najm, forgot the verse numbers).. Another one is the river in Cape town in South Africa.. These rivers flow together and they DONT MIX and there nature came to know in the starting of 20th century where as ALLAH (SWT) mentioned the nature of these two rivers in Holy Quran around 1400 years Back in Surah Ar Rahman (Verses 19-20)..

I know all this because i get islamic education where i live.. Many muslims in the world only know about Prayers and Fasting and Hajj (Pilgrimage) and only the basic pillars but in fact there is soo much in our Deen that if one dedicates his life to research on the Deen, then he will probably not even come close to understanding everything..

People realize the miracles of the Quran day by day, and then convert to Islam, and live a happier life.. I know some converted people myself who say that the world looks soo different.. More miracles are showing themselves slowly, and more and more non believers realise what a wrong path they were following the whole time.. ALLAH is the Most Benificent, the Most Merciful, and he will INSHALLAH accept thier conversion..

P.S.: Islam has the highest conversion rate from all religions, maybe thats why everyone else is workin so hard to bring down muslims, and mind it, ITS NOT FORCEFUL CONVERSION ;)..
 Thats my two cents..

Assalam Alikum Wa Rahmat Allah Iwa Barakatuhu</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Assalam Alikum Wa Rahmat Allah Iwa Barakatuhu Friends..</p>
<p>First off all amazing piece of poetry. Secondly i read through the whole page and saw the conflicting feelings going on btwn different sorts of people here. Well there is soo much to say but soo less time and space&#8230; Ill try to say what i have in mind in the shortest way possible.</p>
<p>Thomas, u think islamic education is backward, but in fact this &#8220;revealed&#8221; knowledge is essential for the advantageous usage of the &#8220;acquired&#8221; knowledge.. On top of that many new scientific discoveries are being made which were found to be foretold in the QURAN 1400 years ago.. One example is the existence of BLACK HOLES (Surah An-Najm, forgot the verse numbers).. Another one is the river in Cape town in South Africa.. These rivers flow together and they DONT MIX and there nature came to know in the starting of 20th century where as ALLAH (SWT) mentioned the nature of these two rivers in Holy Quran around 1400 years Back in Surah Ar Rahman (Verses 19-20)..</p>
<p>I know all this because i get islamic education where i live.. Many muslims in the world only know about Prayers and Fasting and Hajj (Pilgrimage) and only the basic pillars but in fact there is soo much in our Deen that if one dedicates his life to research on the Deen, then he will probably not even come close to understanding everything..</p>
<p>People realize the miracles of the Quran day by day, and then convert to Islam, and live a happier life.. I know some converted people myself who say that the world looks soo different.. More miracles are showing themselves slowly, and more and more non believers realise what a wrong path they were following the whole time.. ALLAH is the Most Benificent, the Most Merciful, and he will INSHALLAH accept thier conversion..</p>
<p>P.S.: Islam has the highest conversion rate from all religions, maybe thats why everyone else is workin so hard to bring down muslims, and mind it, ITS NOT FORCEFUL CONVERSION ;)..<br />
 Thats my two cents..</p>
<p>Assalam Alikum Wa Rahmat Allah Iwa Barakatuhu</p>
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		<title>By: gopi thomas</title>
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		<dc:creator>gopi thomas</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Obviously the poem from a &quot;poem quality&quot; ,especially written by a 16yr old is good.

At the same time it is frightening too.. When she talks about enemies of islam, non believers etc.

It is high time Muslims move away from paranoia  - there is no state or govt against ISlam, People all over the world (may be except Muslims) have their lives to focus on, their own challenges, their childrens futuree tc vs any blind commitment to a  religion..  If ISlam thinks people are ganging against their religion, same can be then told about other religiosn also.. In fact, other than ISlam, nobody is fanatical about their religion. Christians dont go to churches, Hindus dont go to temples, jews dont go to temples as a must. They all pick and choose --there are no 5 day/week madrasas, compulsory five times prayers etc...nothing wrong either way.

Muslims have to stop living for  a religion.  Nothing wrong in being religious.  Live a religious life; but dont live for religion.   

Muslims, wherever tehya er, have created havoc - PAkistan, Saudi arabia, Egypt, Somalia, yeme, Sudan, nigeria..the lsit goes on.. 

It si time that they stop violence, eb introspective, and learn to adapt in a community of nation sattes.  Which emans they ahve toe xamine the concept of Umma, citizenship, education, etc various things that have frozen them in an AD 600 year mentality.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Obviously the poem from a &#8220;poem quality&#8221; ,especially written by a 16yr old is good.</p>
<p>At the same time it is frightening too.. When she talks about enemies of islam, non believers etc.</p>
<p>It is high time Muslims move away from paranoia  &#8211; there is no state or govt against ISlam, People all over the world (may be except Muslims) have their lives to focus on, their own challenges, their childrens futuree tc vs any blind commitment to a  religion..  If ISlam thinks people are ganging against their religion, same can be then told about other religiosn also.. In fact, other than ISlam, nobody is fanatical about their religion. Christians dont go to churches, Hindus dont go to temples, jews dont go to temples as a must. They all pick and choose &#8211;there are no 5 day/week madrasas, compulsory five times prayers etc&#8230;nothing wrong either way.</p>
<p>Muslims have to stop living for  a religion.  Nothing wrong in being religious.  Live a religious life; but dont live for religion.   </p>
<p>Muslims, wherever tehya er, have created havoc &#8211; PAkistan, Saudi arabia, Egypt, Somalia, yeme, Sudan, nigeria..the lsit goes on.. </p>
<p>It si time that they stop violence, eb introspective, and learn to adapt in a community of nation sattes.  Which emans they ahve toe xamine the concept of Umma, citizenship, education, etc various things that have frozen them in an AD 600 year mentality.</p>
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		<title>By: Faiez</title>
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		<dc:creator>Faiez</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:08:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yes you are wrong.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes you are wrong.</p>
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		<title>By: Abdallah</title>
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		<dc:creator>Abdallah</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 16:09:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wow!

That is a wise poem from a 17 years old sister!

Look at the words she choosed. Amazing...!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow!</p>
<p>That is a wise poem from a 17 years old sister!</p>
<p>Look at the words she choosed. Amazing&#8230;!!!</p>
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		<title>By: mystrugglewithin</title>
		<link>http://muslimmatters.org/2009/07/31/insightful-poem-on-the-state-of-muslims-today/#comment-47611</link>
		<dc:creator>mystrugglewithin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 05:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Asalamalaikum,

Is there a way that I can contact this sister? Someone stumbled upon my blog&#039;s entry for the same poem, and left a message for her.. I am at a loss about how to forward it.

Thanks.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Asalamalaikum,</p>
<p>Is there a way that I can contact this sister? Someone stumbled upon my blog&#8217;s entry for the same poem, and left a message for her.. I am at a loss about how to forward it.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
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		<title>By: Suhail</title>
		<link>http://muslimmatters.org/2009/07/31/insightful-poem-on-the-state-of-muslims-today/#comment-47497</link>
		<dc:creator>Suhail</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I also think you do not read many forums where muslims participate. I think people hate Saudi, Algeria, Egypt, and other countries rulers more than the west. There is so much criticism of muslim countries by muslims themselves that we need to tone is a bit down. 

Not just that Muslim doctors, scientists and engineers are leaving the muslim countries to settle in west. That is enough criticism of muslim countries. I mean muslims who migrated to west should stop criticising muslim countries because they came to the west looking for better oppoutunities while leaving there respective countries to rot.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I also think you do not read many forums where muslims participate. I think people hate Saudi, Algeria, Egypt, and other countries rulers more than the west. There is so much criticism of muslim countries by muslims themselves that we need to tone is a bit down. </p>
<p>Not just that Muslim doctors, scientists and engineers are leaving the muslim countries to settle in west. That is enough criticism of muslim countries. I mean muslims who migrated to west should stop criticising muslim countries because they came to the west looking for better oppoutunities while leaving there respective countries to rot.</p>
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		<title>By: Suhail</title>
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		<dc:creator>Suhail</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I don&#039;t understand your arguments against Ulema of Pakistan. The condescending tone that you use against the muslims of Pakistan is amazing. None of the Ulema in Pakistan say that all the problems is with Hijab and Beard. You are just putting words in there mouth and making a mountain out of a mole. If they admonish people for keeping Hijab and Beard than that is from the Quran where Allah says that call people to good and stop them from evil.

Isn&#039;t Hijab important, isn&#039;t beard important? Is admonishing people for hijab and beard important as it is part of Shariah. Why do you think it is not important? Remember when the Dua of Musa(AS) was not answered and Musa(AS) asked Allah why the dua was not answered. Allah said to Musa(AS) that a man in your community is commiting a big sin.

There are many problems with Ummah and Hijab/Beard is one of them. All the problems cannot be solved just by keeping beard and hijab but it does not mean that you can ignore them. There is a reason why Allah has asked us to wear hijab and Prophet(SAW) commanded us to keep beard.  Hijab is vanishing from the Ummah each day and thus it is important to constantly remind people of this fard.

Regarding blaming everything on west well who is blaming everything on west. We are blaming them for what they have done. Regarding torture issue it came to light only after the they arrested so many brothers and sisters. Who said that muslims only cared about torture recently. It may be correct for muslims in west but the muslims in muslim country know full well the torture that go in the prisons there and still they have no power to do anything about it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t understand your arguments against Ulema of Pakistan. The condescending tone that you use against the muslims of Pakistan is amazing. None of the Ulema in Pakistan say that all the problems is with Hijab and Beard. You are just putting words in there mouth and making a mountain out of a mole. If they admonish people for keeping Hijab and Beard than that is from the Quran where Allah says that call people to good and stop them from evil.</p>
<p>Isn&#8217;t Hijab important, isn&#8217;t beard important? Is admonishing people for hijab and beard important as it is part of Shariah. Why do you think it is not important? Remember when the Dua of Musa(AS) was not answered and Musa(AS) asked Allah why the dua was not answered. Allah said to Musa(AS) that a man in your community is commiting a big sin.</p>
<p>There are many problems with Ummah and Hijab/Beard is one of them. All the problems cannot be solved just by keeping beard and hijab but it does not mean that you can ignore them. There is a reason why Allah has asked us to wear hijab and Prophet(SAW) commanded us to keep beard.  Hijab is vanishing from the Ummah each day and thus it is important to constantly remind people of this fard.</p>
<p>Regarding blaming everything on west well who is blaming everything on west. We are blaming them for what they have done. Regarding torture issue it came to light only after the they arrested so many brothers and sisters. Who said that muslims only cared about torture recently. It may be correct for muslims in west but the muslims in muslim country know full well the torture that go in the prisons there and still they have no power to do anything about it.</p>
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		<dc:creator>Muslims Today &#171; HIS PEACE UPON US</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:07:55 +0000</pubDate>
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