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The following is the first Sermon of the Prophet given in Makkah when he called his people to Islam. The Prophet started the speech by praising Allah and thanking Him and then said:

In a rather bizarre statement, IOC Chief Jacques Rogge has expressed his desire to make cricket an Olympic sport. We say bizarre for two reasons. One, the statement comes from the head of the global Olympic movement and two; it is for a sporting discipline that has number of competitive countries counting up in single digits

In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.

All thanks and praise are due to Allah and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.

Dear questioner! Thanks a lot for the apparent interest you show in understanding the teachings of Islam that enlightens the hearts and the minds of people.

Satya Bharti School, Nangal Mundi, has just three classrooms for the students of classes I to V who study here in two shifts. But the rooms are large, airy and clean, and decorated with colourful cut-outs of alphabets and fruits.

By the end of the last century, more people than ever before in human history lived in countries whose governments were democratic except for postcolonial Arabs. Arabs were living under authoritarian regimes that had been remarkably successful in sustaining their rule by repressing dissents and controlling public opinion through state-run institutions.

Signing herself as ‘Miss Diana’, the letters provide a glimpse into the private life of the couple, whom she dubbed simply ‘Mr & Mrs Wales’. In a poignant echo, her son Prince William and his new bride are also said to call each other Mr and Mrs Wales in private.

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Diana wrote about her ‘heavenly’ honeymoon in Balmoral and her plans to make Highgrove a ‘cosy nest’.

We have all heard about the importance of inculcating Khushu in our prayers. It refers to a state of mind when we stand in front of Allah and fully direct our minds and hearts towards Him. Ibn al-Qayyim defined Khushu as a state “. . . when the heart feels aware and humble before the greatness and glory of Allah, and is filled with awe, fear and shyness . . .” (Al-Rooh, p. 314).

A Hyderabad Protocol like the Kyoto Protocol? For the first time since Independence, a global conference of the UN will be held in India. Called the 11th Conference on Biodiversity, it will be held in Hyderabad from October 1-19, 2012, with 194 countries taking part.

That means an agreement or a declaration reached on biosafety will be named after the Charminar city such as the Hyderabad Declaration or the Hyderabad Protocol.

The Grand Mosque in Makkah is a very long distance in every sense of the word from Camp Delta, the infamous US Navy detention center at the base at Guantanamo Bay, but life has its ironies and this one involves the journey made by former Guantanamo prison guard Terry Holdbrooks, who performed Umrah last week.

Whether corruption is eradicated or not, public gets relief or not, but many personalities have made it a political issue. Since every section of society is the victim of this evil, it gets people’s support. To get rid of corruption is the desire of everyone but this is exploited quite often. There are may persons who get their personal interests fulfilled under the pretext of eradication of corruption and to get back black money in the country.

In an interview with the slain Pakistani journalist, Syed Saleem Shahzad, Ilyas Kashmiri had said, “The defeat of American global hegemony is a must if I want the liberation of my homeland Kashmir, and therefore it provided the reasoning for my presence in this war theater.” He declared that the Mumbai attacks would be overtaken by attacks that would be greater in scope and destruction.

Watching his son sitting in his classroom decorated by cartoon characters, projects and artworks, Syed Shahzad, whose 13-year-old son Shayan attends Houston’s largest Islamic school, was very proud of the level his son reached in memorizing Qur`an and Islam’s true teachings, Houston Chronicle reported.

“I’m blessed with this kid,” said Syed, Shayan’s father, who moved to the US from Pakistan when he was 12.

“At his age, I didn’t know anything.

The story of Maryam Jameelah is an extraordinary but painfully confused true tale of a young American woman whose search for moral absolutes and emotional security led her to abandon a middle-class Jewish upbringing in suburban New York in the 1960s for a vastly different existence as an exile and convert to Islam in Pakistan, where she experienced both great intellectual productivity and deep personal conflict.

Saudi Arabia, the Arab world’s largest economy, has the highest number of super-rich households worth more than $100 million in the world.

The Boston Consulting Group said that other Gulf countries such as Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates also ranked among the 10 nations with the highest density of ultra-high net worth individuals (UHNW).

The BCG study said that it measured Saudi Arabia UHNW per 100,000 households, at 18, while Kuwait had 8, Qatar had 6 and the UAE had 5.

The Gujarat government today said that Congress was trying to spread a “charter of lies” against Chief Minister Narendra Modi to tarnish his clean and transparent image.

Government spokesperson Jaynarayan Vyas said this while reacting to a petition filed by Congress leaders in Gujarat to President Pratibha Patil today, demanding a CBI probe into the alleged corruption of Rs one lakh crore during Modi’s tenure.

Arab countries’ focus on creating governments, economic revival, and human rights will likely remain a priority in the coming months [GALLO/GETTY]

President Barack Obama’s speech on the ongoing popular uprisings in the Middle East, followed by Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s recent visit to Washington, was intended to kick off a renewed effort to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Things are not turning out as planned.

Often people object to the term ‘feminism’ as being a western one. One maulana when invited to speak in a workshop of this title refused to come as he considered feminism un-Islamic. Is the use of this term objectionable from an Islamic viewpoint? Not at all.

Baba Ramdev has widely publicized what he wants to accomplish by going on the hunger strike that he’s set to begin on Saturday. He is demanding that the government nationalize the money that Indian nationals have unlawfully sent abroad as well as declare that such transfers are prosecutable as treason.

The introduction of advanced technology to make Haj and Umrah more comfortable for pilgrims will be the main topic at a forum looking at the annual pilgrimages.

The forum of Haj studies will be organized by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Institute of Haj Research at the Umm Al-Qura University in Makkah on June 12-17.

New Delhi: Admitting that illegal mining is “rampant”, the Mines Ministry has blamed corruption as one of the main reasons for the menace, which not only causes revenue loss to the exchequer but also promotes lawlessness.

“Though Section 23C of MMDR Act, 1957, empowers the state governments to frame rules to prevent illegal mining…make such rules for preventing illegal mining, transportation & storage of mineral, illegal mining is still rampant,” the Mines Ministry pointed out as areas of concern emerging during the 11th Plan.

The Srikrishna Committee appointed to look into the demand for a separate Telengana state had submitted a “secret” second report to the Union home ministry suggesting ways and means to ensure that there is no division of Andhra Pradesh.

The secret note has gone into minute details of what needs to be done to ensure that a Telengana state is not formed, although in its public report the Committee did not rule in favour of any one option.

Islam, as we know, provides a comprehensive system of life. As such, it lays down certain basic principles to guide us in all of our activities.

An essential requirement in all our affairs concerning two or more persons is that of Shura, or consultation. Shura must take place in all situations – in our homes and all other areas of our society. It was denied us by authoritarian regimes back home, and its deficiency has led to multiple problems in our society.

Top US officials’ gmail hit by Chinese phishing

Google sued over mobile ‘wallet’Google says hundreds of personal gmail accounts, including those of some senior US government officials and military personnel, were hacked as a result of a massive phishing originating from China.

The account hijackings were a result of stolen passwords, likely by malware installed on victims’ computers or through victims’ responses to e-mails from malicious hackers posing as trusted sources, or what is known as phishing.

Gmail’s security systems themselves were not compromised, Google said.

The torture and murder of leading Pakistani journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad throws into sharp relief an ironic twist in the politics of the Muslim world. As the populations of one Middle Eastern country after the other revolt against authoritarianism in favour of democracy, Pakistan is headed the other way. Shahzad’s death follows two other high-profile murders. Earlier, the minister for minority affairs Shahbaz Bhatti was apparently slain for supporting Aasia Bibi, a Christian woman jailed for blasphemy. Also killed was the governor of the Punjab, Salman Taseer, by his own bodyguard.

The involvement of two personalities who invoke the spiritual and the divine in the India Against Corruption (IAC) coalition was seen by many within as something that provided a moral compass to the movement. Indeed, Muslim, Christian, Buddhist and Jain gurus, too, figure as founder-members on the IAC’s website but they remain more or less silent.