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Thoughts on Facebook

Thoughts on Facebook

I hate Facebook. That’s right, I hate it, but I still use it, it is compulsive, compelling, addictive, it is pointless, waste of time, redundant, everyone uses it and everyone wants to be your friend. It has pointless add-on applications and a ridiculous “Poke” feature that once you poke someone you can’t stop. Currently I am a couple of weeks in sending Pokes to Azhar Usman as we send pokes back and forth, if someone pokes you, you just have…

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Hajj: He calls you and then imbues you with strength

Hajj: He calls you and then imbues you with strength

Just a thought…. The Hajj is as physically demanding as it is spiritually uplifting. It is amazing how even the most ill and infirm of people, the most frail and weak seem to be given an injection of life in these places. Even those of us who are able-bodied seem to get this spurt of energy that enables us to walk 10 or 12 kilometres and not get exhausted. I have witnessed, with my own eyes, this phenomenon. It would…

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Hajj: The Yearning Made Clear

Hajj: The Yearning Made Clear

Before I performed the Hajj in 2007, I used to be very critical of those who would go every year, I thought that this was very selfish since the numbers of hujjaj increase year upon year and that if you have completed this sacred duty once and fulfilled your obligation you should go for umrah instead to lessen the human load and burden on this momentous occasion. I now understand why those whom Allah has given the tawfiq financially go…

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