An MM Exclusive: Interview with Shiraz Uppal, a famous singer, songwriter, musician, music producer and director Shiraz Uppal created waves in the Pakistani music scene by announcing he had quit the music industry.
“So remember Me; I will remember you.” [Al-Qur'ān 2:152]. | What are some of the ways that you remember Allah? Let us know!
Cross-posted from The Wall Street Journal By KATY BURNE A group of 16 banks resolved a quandary that has dogged the $1 trillion Islamic financing market for nearly three decades:
A total lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth passes between the sun and the moon, casting the moon completely in shadow. The eclipse will start at around 7:45 a.m. EST (4:45 a.m. PST, 1245 GMT), when the shadow of the moon inches across the lunar disk.
The celestial show will be visible from parts of North America, with those in the western portions of Canada and the United States particularly well placed for the event. People in Alaska, Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand, and central and eastern Asia should also be able to catch sight of the reddened moon. (Space.com)
Those who are able to see the eclipse should perform the special Sunnah prayer, known as Salat-al-Kusuf.
A bomb blast in Karachi Pakistan early this morning targeted the house of Senior Superintendent of Police Chaudhry Aslam who is a major figure in the fight against Al-Qaeda, Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan and various other elements in Pakistan. The house is situated right next to several major schools in Karachi and the dead included a student and a teacher along with several policemen.
The world is slowly waking up to news of a humanitarian disaster in Sindh Pakistan as torrential rains have caused havoc and as of 20 September, 2011 8,185,682 people have been affected (that’s the population of New York City or the population of Chicago, Los Angeles, & Houston combined!), 1,495,698 homes devastated, and 6,616,360 acres of land damaged (that’s an area bigger than the states of Connecticut, Delaware, and Rhode Island combined).
Having barely put behind them the haunting memories of last year’s flood when a fifth of Pakistan was submerged under water, the residents of Sindh are in dire need of your help and support. The United Nations has called for USD 357 million for flood relief and the financial impact could go into billions of USD.
Yesterday, the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan reached another low in their targeting of civilian targets when they ambushed a school bus with heavy weaponry. This attack was claimed to be a punishment
Around 10.30 pm on Sunday May 22, 2011, 04 explosions rocked PNS Mehran, a Pakistan Navy airbase. Aly Balagamwala (based in Karachi), reports on the attack which happened just 03 minutes drive from his house.
As Muslims we are instructed not to waste food and edibles. In today’s world of consumerism, food is often wasted tremendously in fast food restaurants when it gets cold, in bakeries and super markets all over when the expiry is passed. This initiative is a wonderful way to reuse this “waste” and make something useful from it.
Pies to petrol biofuels scheme launched
A large chunk of the world’s population celebrated Mother’s Day on Sunday, May 08, 2011. The legality of celebration of such days is a issue on which scholars differ and as such I will refrain to comment on it. However, I came across an article on the history of Mother’s Day in the US, and this fascinated me as I had never read up on this before.
When Anna Jarvis’s mother died on the second Sunday of May in 1905, she was devastated. Mrs. Jarvis had devoted much of her adult life to educating other mothers about health and sanitation and in 1868 held the first Mother’s Friendship Day to unite families broken apart by the Civil War. Anna vowed to honor her mother’s memory by turning Mother’s Day into a national holiday.
Showing the same determination that marked her mother’s service work, the well-educated Anna dispatched a flotilla of letters to ministers and politicians around the country, eventually buying the house next door just to hold her correspondence. And in 1914, the pertinacious Miss Jarvis saw President Woodrow Wilson decree the second Sunday of every May the United States’ official Mother’s Day. (Babble.com)
The story of Anna Jarvis and her devotion to the memory of her mother is indeed heart-warming and touching. However a few years after President Wilson decreed the holiday, it became apparent to Anna that she had created a Frankenstein. Marketing people and retailers decided Mother’s Day was just another way to sell their goods and the purpose that Anna had thought of got hijacked to become a Hallmark Holiday.
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