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   shiney

   August 26, 2012 at 4:56 PM

   this was very interesting indeed…i remember from an Al-Maghrib class that the shaykh told us about Malaysia’s Prime Minister’s amazing leadership skills. He quoted him saying something like, “…I invested in my own people and I see the [good] results of it.”

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   Richard Prior

   August 27, 2012 at 10:55 AM

   Great reminder…in my opinion many women get caught up with the “buy & spend” consumerist ideology which is often targeted at them as well as other segments in advertising, often including young children from an early age as well. When this happens and people think money will by them anything even spending money in an effort to make themselves happy, then those people may find themselves on a very slippery slope. Of course, men are not immune… though men in the West usually spend their money on non-essential items such as booze, cigarettes and fast food, not to mention gambling and the latest gadget or ‘mod-con’… with this style of living and with the addition of added credit/overdraft balances its not surprising people are becoming poorer overall… they are spending more than they can afford… and may people are in denial because they don’t want to think about how much they are spending and whether or not they can pay it back… which is the responsible thing to do. With denial comes the deceptive illusion that everything is ok and theres no problem… which leaves for a rude awakening when its too late to fix things and theres no turning back. This leads people inevitably to other vices, with the added burden of stress, people will often be more on edge and have shorter fuses and quicker tempers leading to arguments that may start off with something simple but may quickly get out of hand as other things get said in the heat of an argument which once said cannot be unsaid leading to hurt and further distress. What often intrigues me is how the West once was appealing to the world because of its pioneering modernisation and innovation or simply because of a variation of an “American-dream” style wish, but those of us living in the West know how much hell there is to pay, before we can buy our freedom. Nice article though, as a freelancer myself I can understand what thats like, although I’ve yet to get the “big break” people seem to expect, and sometimes I think there is more virtue in the humility of poverty than continued indulgences of those who think they have more money. There comes a time when these indulgences will have to end, and there is only a limit to how far they will go.. please God don’t let the temptations of this world seduce us away from Thy path of virtue and let this be a reminder for those teetering on the brink of an unstable foundation that anything which takes us over the edge should be taken as a warning sign for to us not to go there. Riba is haram but its just one of many things on that slippery slope…

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   Aly Balagamwala | DiscoMaulvi

   September 18, 2012 at 12:33 PM

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