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Post by smallkindness on Oct 29, 2002 19:22:59 GMT -5
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Post by 70sCat on Oct 29, 2002 20:23:45 GMT -5
AsSalaamu Alaikum Mohammed, How are you? It's nice to see you posting here again  Thanks for posting those pictures! I don't know about the others, but I've never seen these before. He's looking very young and fit isn't he? Is that Fawsia in the blue jilbab/ white hijab? Allah Hafiz, Sakinah |
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Post by Vivian on Oct 29, 2002 20:56:20 GMT -5
I don't think we will ever know!!
Peace,Vivian
PS, Oh, GREAT PICTURES and WONDERFUL SPEECH by Yusuf!
Peace,Vivian
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Post by 100dreamer on Oct 30, 2002 4:11:38 GMT -5
May allah bless Yusuf Islam. Truly islamic education is very important. Perhaps the most important issue for muslims (and indeed the world) today. The more islamically educated kids(and muslim adults) are, the less likely they are to be misguided and harm society ... this includes getting recruited into the tremendously misguided terrorist groups. Islamic education teaches people to be the best world citizens they can be(in my opinion)...it is really beautiful...love. Islamic education has been asleep in the middle east for a long time. For anyone who is confused, the "madrasas" of pakistan and afganistan are not the kind of education that Yusuf Islam is talking about and just because you are in a country where there are muslims does not mean you have islamic education(in fact in recent times the opposite is often true)... true islamic education is whollistic and teaches peace and great social intelligence.... well the links and Yusuf Islam explain it (repeatedly) in great detail. I am most surely preaching to the choir when it comes to that  as you guys are probably very familiar with this subject. Thank you so much for the links. peace 2 u (and assalamu alaikum) -anwar |
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Post by Aisha on Oct 30, 2002 10:44:14 GMT -5
Thanks for posting these links Mohammad. You know friends, Yusuf Islam is a fantastic asset to the Islamic religion. I went to a 'madrassa' in Jordan to learn to read Qur'an. And that was all they taught, the semantics of reading the Arabic language. Nothing was taught about how to live the actual religion of Islam. If you ask most Arab kids, especially here in the USA, 'What does it mean to be a Muslim?' They will tell you that you can't eat pork, drink alcohol, and during Ramadan you fast. I think that in the entire world, not just the Arab world, there is a large drought of quality Islamic teaching. Yes, there are many schools, but most of them are costly and often fall far behind the standards required by the government. (One friend took her boys out of the Islamic school because they were at a much lower level than the public schools) We have an Islamic school here in Columbus. I wanted to put Jamileh in it but discovered that the tuition was so expensive that I could not possibly afford to put my child in it. It turns out that this school is designed to accommodate the rich Arabs in the community and no one else. It is a shame though, because Jamileh could have benefited from having someone who can speak Arabic well teaching her Qur'an. My husband attempts this but with his work schedule he has little time. And my Arabic is so broken that Jamileh won't let me teach her. She says 'I don't do it right.' LOL There is such dire need for Islamic teaching among the Muslim youth. I know many Muslims who have teenagers who cannot even perform the prayers. This, if it is not stopped, will destroy the religion. Once an Arab girl laughed at my oldest girl because she prayed and wore the hijab at 14. Being that the father of the girl was always present at the Jummah prayer I was appalled by this. So you see, what Yusuf is attempting to do is a fantastic thing. I just wish he was here in America to do it as well. May Allah (swt) bless Yusuf for trying to do what is right. Love, A'isha |
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Post by Chris on Oct 30, 2002 15:17:33 GMT -5
Thank you Small Kindness, I never seen these links before and enjoyed reading them.
And nice to see you on Majicat again...:-)
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Post by kareema113 on Oct 31, 2002 7:31:25 GMT -5
Greetings and Asalaamu alaykom, Thank you Mohammed... I don't think I know you, however I can't thank you enough for posting these links... particularly the US one! That is the day that I made Shahada with Br Yusuf and all those other scholars you see at the head table... however I didn't know at that time that they were scholars. Now all of you know what Br Yusuf was wearing under that black leather jacket you like so much... Could someone figure out how to enlarge the shot taken across the ladies' side towards the head table? I think I see myself... I mean my hijab anyway... We are in the first line of tables directly in front of Br Yusuf. In fact I remember them taking some of the shots... you know the ones where Br Yusuf is sitting at the table?.... next to us... What a pleasant surprise!!! and what a blessed day that was for me! There were 800+ people there and Br Yusuf introduced me to them when it was his turn to speak! Shucks, folks! I'm speechless! Alhamdulillah! May we all find peace. Ma'as-salaama, kareema PS... in the Dubai shots, it is highly probable that those sisters are teachers in an Islamic school... and not Fawzia. There were many teachers there in the Bay Area who attended the day-long seminar... one of them was my Turkish sister, who teaches kindergarten. She knew that Br Yusuf was an educator, however had no idea that he had been a popstar! |
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Post by 70sCat on Oct 31, 2002 8:47:41 GMT -5
Salaams Kareema,
That's wonderful and thank you for the information! Wow what a coincidence huh? hehehe....
Brother Mohammed pops in here once every 6 months or so...heheeh...we can't get him to stick around much more than that ;D
Wasalaams,
Sakinah
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Post by Aisha on Oct 31, 2002 10:36:03 GMT -5
Kareema, It must have been thrilling to see the pictures from your big day posted online. I am so happy for you.
And folks, I think Yusuf is very careful of Fawzia's safety and privacy. (I don't blame him either) I doubt we will see any photos of her where she can be recognized any time soon.
Love,
A'isha
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Post by Vivian on Oct 31, 2002 12:02:01 GMT -5
Nah, I doubt very much that that is Fawiza! Yusuf is way to protective to ever allow his family tp be photographed in public, where they can be recognized!! He has to be!
Peace,Vivian
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Post by smallkindness on Oct 31, 2002 20:50:58 GMT -5
hi ,,well,, i did not know about the links,, except when Sakinah(LilyWhite) told me and gave me the link,,that MOL is moving to Dubai,,in the bottom of the page,, there are two links,,,
so thanks for the news, and the link,, Lilywhite
and kareema are you already in UAE now,,,
when u said the Bay area,, it is where Dubai media city located,,,
i am in UK now,, studying for one year
in Sheffield far from London
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Post by kareema113 on Nov 1, 2002 1:37:30 GMT -5
"and kareema are you already in UAE now,,, when u said the Bay area,, it is where Dubai media city located," Salaam, This is even more amusing since the 'Bay Area' to which I was referring is the 'Greater San Franscisco Bay Area' in California! San Francisco is called 'the City by the Bay'! So there is a 'Bay Area' in Dubai, too! So IBERR held their conference in the 'Bay Area' 2 years in a row... 2001 in California and 2002 in Emirates, ie Dubai! So, brother, do you call Dubai 'the City by the Bay' as well? My husband wants to move to Emirates... Sharjah to be exact... however I understand it's just a hop, skip and a jump from Dubai! His main selling point now is that it must be the perfect place for me since even Br Yusuf has moved MOL there! I live about 90 min from the Bay Area now and I think that's how far the Sharjah is from Dubai! As I say repeatedly, Allah swt has a wry sense of humor! Jazakallah kheir, Ma'as-salaama, kareema Ps... new meaning has been given to the lyric "Oh I'm on my way, I know I am, somewhere not so far from here." This is the song that played as I set out for the CA Bay Area in January 2001... to find Br Yusuf and say my Shahada! Alhamdulillah! |
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Post by smallkindness on Nov 1, 2002 9:31:19 GMT -5
well,,, if he is going to work in Dubai,, and live in Sharjah,,, the problem is with the traffic...it is only five miuntes drive,,,, but if it is rush hour,,, it might take him more than an hour,,, i will compare it to LA during rush hour... the same problem,, cars are not moving!!! there is only one highway connecting the two cities,,,, and since renting a place is cheaper in Sharjah, and if they build another highway, nobody would live in Dubai... i heard there is another one,, but Dubai city closed that one,, because people started leaving Dubai,, and live in Sharjah. anyway,, i still think,, and recommend that both of you go for a visit there before deciding to move there,, and make sure that the company he is going to work for, is well known,,
a lot of people like UAE,, well,, because 80% of the people living there are not from UAE!!!
sometimes you can find some tickets offers,, but usually to east of the US,,, British airways is the best, i think the offers all the airlines start after mid Jan. until late March,, you can find round trip tickets for about $1000 from the west coast,, and the east coast about 2700-3000dhs which is 800$... 1 $ =3.685dhs
Good luck
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Post by Aisha on Nov 1, 2002 15:59:02 GMT -5
Hey Mohammad, is driving in Dubai anything like driving in downtown Amman? I shudder when I think of how they drive in Jordan. Honk Honk Love, A'isha |
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Post by smallkindness on Nov 1, 2002 16:56:06 GMT -5
no,, most of the roads and highways are new,,, which make people drive very fast!!!so now Dubai,, is very Restrict,,, Radars are everywhere,, and if you drive careless,, i mean really carelessly!!!they might take your car for 30days!!!no matter who you are,,, the highways you can drive 100km or 120km or 140km,, but believe me people there drive over 200km ,,, i mean in the highways!!
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as you guys are probably very familiar with this subject.