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That time of the year has come again when everyone around will stop eating and drinking from dawn till dusk in hopes of pleasing The One True God, The Almighty Allah. And surely so will you if you’re a Muslim for which Truly Yours brings you some facts everyone should know to carry out their Ramadan Fasting properly.

Significance of Ramadan: Fasting during the Ramadan had been made compulsory on Muslims during the second year of migration (Hijra) of The Prophet (pbuh) from Makkah to Medina in order to let them achieve piety and consciousness of Allah. It’s said in the Quran: “O you who believe, fasting is prescribed for you as it was prescribed for those before you, so that you may gain Taqwa (piety)” (2: 183) Muslims also engage themselves in reciting the Quran more often during this month because the noblest way of honouring the Quran is by reading it.

People who need to Fast: Every Muslim who has reached the age of puberty and is sane is obligated to fast during the holy month of Ramadan. So if you’re a Muslim and not a retard, you fall in the category. But Allah being as Merciful as He is has made fasting an exception for people who are of old age, who are ill and children. It is preferable for travellers to fast unless it causes them hardship for which they have to make up for later. Females having menstrual bleeding or post-natal bleeding and men incurring seminal ejaculation are also required to make up for the missed fasting days later.

Three Pillars of Fasting: The First Pillar is of course to make the intention of fasting.  Now the intention is not just verbally reciting something your parents have told you to after eating Seheri. In fact, the verbal intention has not been legislated yet; the intention must be made in heart and before the break of dawn for the fast to be accepted. The second pillar is to keep away from things which break the fast from the Fajr to Maghrib. And the second pillar is to fast during the days of Ramadan and not during the night.

Induced Vomiting: If someone throws up unintentionally or swallows vomit (who’d do that?) then his/her fast is not broken but fasting Muslims are advised to keep away from things which might result in vomiting.

Eating or drinking unintentionally: As long as it’s accidental and unintentional, eating or drinking during the fast does not have to be made up for afterwards and the fast can recommence on as normal. Swimming is also permissible unless the swimmer has had beforehand experience of swallowing water more frequently than usual.

Maintaining your attitude: A fasting Muslim must not only restrain from eating and drinking but also from any undesirable act which displeases Allah. They must not see immoral things, hear music or vain speeches, swear or backbite, anger anyone or hit anyone, express anger on anyone and go to places which encourage unholy acts.

Breaking the Fast: When breaking the fast with odd number of dates or by drinking water, one must recite the following: Allahumma inni laka sumtu wa bika aamantu wa 'ala rizq-ika aftarthu. This means: O Allah! I fasted for You and I believe in You and I break my fast with Your sustenance.

The last 10 days of Ramadan: The ten days which mark the end of Ramadan is said to be immensely holy especially because the night of Lailatul Qadr lies in one of the odd numbered dates. The Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) used to engage himself in excess prayers on this night because every act of worship will have a reward better than a thousand nights of worship. So, all believing Muslims are encouraged to utilize the last ten days of the month of Ramadan in acts of worship of The Almighty Allah and ask for His forgiveness.

The holy month of Ramadan is an opportunity for Muslims everywhere to glorify Islam and ask for Allah’s forgiveness. And hope not but this could even be your last (Hint: next year is 2012). So, ask Allah to strengthen your faith and to bless you and everyone around you. Remember, if you can be a good person for a month, I’m sure eleven more would not be that hard.

Source: http://qa.sunnipath.com http://www.missionislam.com

Diary of a Stealth Bomber

They thought we were a boat in the dark of the miserable sea. Some knew when to watch-out.

Not all our missions are as succesful as we'd like. Radar jamming isn't necessary.

Thought it would help.

With a success rate of 25%, you take everything you can get. "Poker on the Sea", Gale called it.

Not until we got captured did it all sink in. Not all targets were hostile pirate boats.

Hits on the country's infrastructure were bombing practice.

"Moral", the chief calls it.

"It was dirty warfare".

On the ground the game of war was changed. Soldiers died mid combat due to untimely heart attacks.

It was like fighting a population with a time bomb on their chest.

Any sudden rush of adrenol...

Many died the night before, during sex.

The rules of war change once the dirt hits.

Some follow them, most don't. But the ones that do are the dangerous ones.

Math involved, I knew we'd be out by dawn.

El peso del ropaje heredado se fue cayendo, mientras entraba en tu abrazo,
Desnudo, ya casi sin piel, pura alma en ese rincón compartido.

Una gota de agua en la sed diaria,

un grano de sal, para la insípida semana,

luz tenue en la oscuridad de la rutina.

En tu cuerpo el olor a rocío, informa que hay un nuevo amanecer,
y ahí me espera el paraíso de flotar a tu lado.

LoneunderstandsFeral/how could this be soperfect?

PearsonSoundjumps offthegoodendofMr.Magpie/gotsomenerve

FourTetsends early morning sunon your shoulders/hopeinSeparator

how lucky we are

look out 

where it works

where it should

where it shouldn't

where it doesn't matter

where it does

and is

no matter

When?, said the moon to the stars in the sky

Soon, said the wind that followed him home

Who?, said the cloud that started to cry

Me, said the rider as dry as a bone

How?, said the sun melted the ground

Why?, said the river that refused to run

Where?, said the thunder without a sound

Here, said the rider and took up his gun

comment made by Bourgeois Machinery, You Tube - Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - The Proposition #1 

You wore your crown of thorns and you called it your reason
Your burden, is hurting, and I only have one question, dear demon
Will you ever be happy? If you can't have it now, if you have to use fear
to get whats dear... if your worry is the only thing that to you, comes clear
You want to learn to fly?! you want to make it out of hell, demon?!
You lived your life in a well! That's the definition of you! Your meaning!!
Your fire has yearned & burned out, and now your scared of what you've done
Scared that one day, someway, your fire will end and you will no longer become
What lingers in your head is every lifetime and dream, that hangs above your sky
Just out of reach, you look into everyone eyes to see it, then ask yourself why
They turn away when you ask them to tell you meaning of life!
You can't see the stars with your own eyes, so you ask them for sight
For you, for truth, for every hell you've ever lived!
You wanted to complete, but this isn't it...

This is cold, this is the opposite of bold, this is what grows
in those who reach for the sun and only hold onto the snow
My demon, my meaning, my reason for believing..
My past, at last, this is my time, I've been defeating!
And we use it all till we are gone, without a song or a wrong
Just a bright light to and a sharp right and we all carry on
This demon.. This is the last time we speak
Without putting both arms up and a knife called belief!
In myself! I created you, I loved you and hated you
I made the world small so I could dissipate it through
You.. but there's a point I've never reached, a mountain left to climb
A road that burns inside that sparks all that is mine

I love you, therefor I leave you
I must leave when I no longer need you

Dear demon, you've crept in my soul, hoping I'd let go
Hoping I'd join you, in a small room called "whole"
but there's no one there, but this I share!
That your pain, I feel it too! and I care
Where you go, because I will carry you inside
But just like time we change, swallow your pride

All you want is happiness, so you bought it and called it fear
Demon, now is the time you open your ears to hear
This is the last time I call you demon, to me it's clear
Life is to be taking for what it is, potential & full... in that, you disappear.

Super hero

Насчет предстоящего феста в Финляндии. Удалось снять два смешных скрина:

Да, не забудьте мне сообщить, когда он посетит наш уголок. А иначе откуда же еще я узнаю?

My condolences from New York City.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWDUJ8sKvMU

the DL for the separate MP3s is sweet.

My Father By Name

Jason's going through a "phase". He needs a reason to believe in himself
How many times does the stronghold fall ten-fold to see you need help?
What we've seen we absorb, but what's never there - we want more
So Jason picked up this rough cut, said "Enough." and moved to the door
From a small room decorated with a blank canvas & blank people...blank evil, they pretend..
To be happy He thinks.. "burdensome", he worries one day he'll have the same expression as them
So he leaves, out of that small room, & into a autumn colored lobby and he waits
For his father to come and pick him up, but on the tip of his tongue is this taste
He had trouble in school, to him it all felt subtle and cruel, all he can do is think.
Parents from an Ivy league - they thought "I never failed, why does he?" so they sent him to a shrink
That's what he tastes, he remembers what the psychiatrist said, about everything entwined in his head
"Your a smart kid Jason, you just need help" and he holds up a light color that reminds him of red
That's what Jason says... "Red." "Jason, this color is different then red, you can't call every hue.
The same because they are similar, you have to learn to classify the difference in the two.
As he sits in that dusty old hallway that hasn't been renovated since Elvis was king
He dreams, that he's a super hero, opens his eyes and notices a soda machine
With an old school Coke can with the slogan... "Catch The Wave"
Pulls out 75 cents, inserts it into the vintage robot & watches it fall from it's cave..
He picks up the icy cold, expired, old, can of soda & he notices the red
Has been faded... degraded from time, then it all rushes back to his head
Jason was diagnosed with ADD, so he takes a pill to make him fit in
Parents wishing, for normality, but every time he took it his mind is in prison
Locked into this, lifeless, bodiless thought and all he can visualize
What life is like on the outside, it hurts because it blinds.. he realized
This feeling, I can't be this, he's reeling, he can't believe what he's fed
One small pill, Or how they all will, look at him like he's a dog to be put to bed
They look at him like he's stupid.. Maybe he is.. all that I know
Is that potential is more determination & how far your willing to grow
& Jason wants to be a hero, We give everyone a name and a title.. as if it's a need..
But what if your different? The first cut is the deepest but how long do you bleed?
Just then his father drives up in his new BMW, then they had left
Jason wants to tell him what's on his mind but nothing is said