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Posted on 07/18/2004 6:57:48 PM PDT by JustPiper
I get you. You were damned if you did and didn't. Yeesh.
As a totally unrelated aside, I was looking at the news over at Arab News, and I started clicking around and wound up on this page below. Is it a joke page? I didn't know whether to laugh or roll my eyes, especially with the second question and the answer provided!
http://arabnews.com/?page=5§ion=0&article=48581&d=19&m=7&y=2004&pix=islam.jpg&category=Islam
Good night Nana.
There was more than one time I was temped to.
Under the theory that if I was going to have to put up with being accused all the time, I might as well get the "benefits" of having done it.
Never did though. She'd freak out if I came in 10 minutes late from my 40 mile commute, when would I have had the time????
Here we go again:
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- An explosion rocked a Baghdad suburb Monday, witnesses said. Residents of Seidiyeh neighborhood in the southwest of the Iraqi capital reported hearing a loud blast in the market district.
Further details were not immediately available.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1173966/posts
Yippee!!! Some of our most crucial questions about Islam are now answered by Aran News. Here are the top 2:
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Arab News.com
Monday, 19, July, 2004 (02, Jumada al-Thani, 1425)
Mail Article | Print Article | Comment on Article
Unacceptable Use of the Prophet’s Name
Edited by Adil Salahi
Q. Some people use the name “Muhammad’ as a means of calling any person or drawing his attention. Instead of using any of the common calling words, such as Sir, Mr., Brother, etc. they say, “Hey, Muhammad!” when the man’s name is not so. They do not even know whether the person whom they are calling is a Muslim or not. Is this acceptable?
N. Madathil
A. No, it is totally unacceptable. Whoever thought of such usage has little respect for the Prophet (peace be upon him). God tells us in the Qur’an: “Do not address God’s Messenger in the manner you address one another.” (24: 62) If the Prophet’s companions were not allowed to address him as they addressed each other, and ordered instead to use his title as ‘God’s Messenger’, how can we imagine that using his name as a common word for drawing people’s attention can be acceptable. Anyone using it without giving the matter a thought should know better. He should reflect and ask himself whether he would accept that people use his own name in this way. How could he accept this for the Prophet’s name?
Real or Imaginary Complaint
Q. I am a 17-year-old boy who wishes to do the pilgrimage, but a physical problem has given me much worry. Although I clean myself properly after going to the toilet, I sometimes find urine stains on my underwear. This happens one or two hours after urination. I am troubled by what could happen if I am in my ihraam garments. Can I wear my underwear during consecration?
(Name and address withheld)
A. I have serious doubts about the genuineness of this complaint. The reader is only 17, an age associated with the desire to do everything right. Many religious young people are troubled by this desire in a way that opens the door to obsession. Some people imagine that they frequently invalidate their ablution by discharging wind, when it is all imaginary. They reach the stage where they often interrupt their prayer to go and have a fresh ablution, only to do it again and again. I met young men who complained that often they start their prayer four or five times before they manage to go through it without invalidating their ablution. The effective treatment for such people has been to get the obsessive person to understand first that he should not deem wind to have been discharged without a clear sign of sound or smell. Often the help of a trusted adult is very useful. The adult encourages him by being close to him when he prays, and practically preventing him from repeating the prayer, unless the ablution has clearly been invalidated. When the young man has done this for a few days, he finds the complaint has disappeared.
The case the reader is asking about has a different sign, which is physical. He says he frequently changes his underwear because of these stains. The stain could either be new or old. Therefore, he should check his underwear before wearing it to make sure of any stains on it. He should know that when he washes his private parts with water, the water leaves some faint traces which becomes more yellowish every time. Hence, the stain the reader may see afterward could be the result of the water with which he washed himself. If he thinks that it is a urine stain, he should first be sure that he dripped some urine over his underwear. This can only be certain if he felt some wetness first, because the couple of drops he thinks he discharged are sufficient to cause that wetness. If he feels it, he should check immediately to make sure of any drops. I think if he does this he will always find that there is no dripping.
What he should understand is the rule that doubt cannot remove certainty. Only a certainty can remove an earlier certainty. How does this rule work in his case? He first performs ablution. This is a certainty which enables him to pray. Ablution is invalidated if one goes to the toilet or discharges anything from his private parts. So the invalidation of the certainty of ablution depends on a certainty of having urinated or discharged winds or stools. This certainty is not established by a stain that could have more than one cause. Therefore he needs to check for wetness, and if it happens to see the drops causing it. If there is no wetness, then he has not dripped, and his ablution remains valid.
Often people who have this complaint are too shy to discuss it with relatives or friends, or even with a doctor. But they need to discuss it with a scholar and be open about it. This is the reason I have given it such space. Such matters are no cause for shame. They need to be treated, and the treatment is proper counseling, unless there is a real physical condition which should be dealt with by a medical doctor.
Having said that, people who complain of incontinence or similar problems with wind need not worry about their condition. They are allowed to wear something that stops the urine from dripping on their clothes or the floor of the mosque. They should have ablution for every prayer. They pray despite having discharged wind or drops of urine. When they go on pilgrimage, they wear underwear and they do not have to compensate for that, because this is caused by a condition beyond their control.
I now know how to address a møøselimb...
Thank you Revel.
We can address everyone that way; let us all call each other "Muhammad" with relish now!
Hey Muhammad!
Does it work when addressing women???
LOL!!!!!!!!
This was posted by Lenore over at TB2K:
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Published: Saturday, Jul. 17, 2004
NASHUA - This is a test. This is only a test.
“That’s what I was saying, but it wasn’t working,” Nashua Fire Rescue Chief Roger Hatfield explained after a test of a local emergency notification system failed to work as planned and instead ended up spooking some local residents.
The department, as well as city officials, received calls from residents after Hatfield and Comcast officials conducted a test of the company’s emergency notification system starting at about 5 a.m., he said.
A text message urging people to contact other media sources for information remained posted on the Nashua cable channels during the hour-long test. However, Hatfield’s voice declaring the message a test failed to broadcast, he said.
Hatfield said company officials were attempting to upgrade the system so that both the city’s co-emergency management directors, Hatfield and Ed Lecius, as well as Mayor Bernie Streeter could interrupt the cable service when needed to quickly get information to the public.
With concerns about emergency preparation for the Democratic National Convention in Boston this month, Hatfield said he and other city officials have been double-checking all of the city’s emergency procedures and tools.
“With us right on the border, the question arises ‘would we be able to handle the flocks of people that would come this way?’ ” Hatfield said.
Ideally, Hatfield, Lecius or Streeter could input an access code into the system that would interrupt the current broadcast, replacing it with a blue screen containing the text message.
The men would then be able to broadcast either a live video shot or an audio message through the channels.
“And that was what we were trying to do,” Hatfield said.
Hatfield said residents should expect to see more testing of the service throughout next week.
“It is going to be beneficial for all of us, but we just need to tweak the system,” Hatfield said.
http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps...07170354&Ref=AR
Yes, when the goal is to disrespect their satan prophet, it works! Shucks, now I feel mean... Seriously. I can't even maintain hatred for those who hate us for very long.
ISLAM ONLINE.net: "Ask The Scholar"
http://www.islamonline.net/fatwaapplication/english/browse.asp
Not to worry. They'll give you a new reason soon enough...
Good Night
Goodnight drymans wife.
Sleep well.
I feel like it's going to be a looooong week this week.
If you still want input for the marriage to be,
and I haven't gotten back to you by Tuesday evening, please FREEPMAIL me.
Maybe this is partly why Sharon wants the Jews in France to come to Israel ASAP. I bet this plan will be carried out in the near future, they don't mess around. I can only imagine that a strike on the nuclear plants will receive much more 'heated' responses than when they did the same to Iraq in 81.
Just Asimov's Law:
"Going into a career in writing is like getting married.
Anyone who CAN be talked out of it SHOULD BE!"
I know we are graced with many "Don't Mess With Texas" TMers. I see we still need an emergency contact from the great lone star state, too. Any volunteers?
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