Northumbria ISOC Diversity Week 25th/26th Jan 2011
Northumbria ISOC Diversity Week 25th/26th January 2011 – 2 great events not to be missed!
New Muslim John takes Shahadah on the LATE SHOW
I am pleased to anounce that brother John has accepted Islam and took his shahadah on the LATE SHOW LIVE on Newcastle FASTFM 87.9 on Tuesday 17th August 2010.
May Allah keep you firm in Islam and protect you from misguidance.
Diam’s – France’s Female rapper TO Islam!
Diam’s – France’s Female Rapper
Adieu to feminism! Diam’s, France’s rebellious rapper, has turned to Allah. The voice of youth from the Parisian suburbs no longer seeks salvation in rebellion, but rather through religion. France’s feminists are not the only ones up in arms over this. Axel Veiel reports from Paris on the details
| Bild: ; "Diam's (photo: Website Diam's/Xavier de Nauw)")
From a brat in a Parisian suburb to the celebrated Hip Hop star of Arab immigrant communities to conservative Muslim rap singer – the French Cypriot Diam’s | Diam’s is a vocal acrobat. Her gruff staccato suddenly transforms into a pleasing legato, expressing her rage and sorrow in a unique way. With reference to the title of her ten-minute biographical song “I am somebody” that appears on her new album “SOS,” one could also say “Diam’s is somebody.”
For the last two years, the 1.68 metre tall woman with closely cropped hair and a mischievous smile has been France’s greatest rapper. With her 2007 album, “Dans ma Bulle”, the brat from Paris’s suburbs stormed the masculine domain of rap and sold more disks than any other musician in France. Young people have celebrated her since. This is especially the case for the children of Arab or black African immigrants forced to live on the outskirts of the French metropolis.
Advice to an individual who has just begun to practise Islam
Sheikh Muhammad bin Saleh al Uthaymeen ( may ALLAH have mercy on him ) was asked :
WHAT IS YOUR ADVICE TO AN INDIVIDUAL WHO HAS JUST BEGUN TO PRACTICE ISLAM?
“My advice to this new practicing individual is:
1- He should constantly ask Allah to make him firm.
2- He should increase in recitation of The Quran with contemplation. This is because recitation has a major (positive) affect on the heart, especially when coupled with contemplation and reflection.
3- He should be diligent in being obedient to Allah, and he should not become bored or lazy. This is because The Messenger (salAllahu alayhi wa salem) sought refuge from inability and laziness.
4- He should be diligent in befriending good companions, and distance himself from evil companions.
5- He should also advise himself when he finds himself thinking: Time is extremely lengthy and the path is too long! At this point, he should advise himself and remain firm. This is because Jennah (paradise) is surrounded with trials and difficulties, while the The Hell-fire is surrounded with desires.
6- He should distance himself from bad companions even if they (those companions) are individuals he knew in the past. This is due to the fact that evil/bad companions influence an individual. Because of this The Messenger (salAllahu alayhi wa salem) said: The example of a bad companion is the example of a black smith; either he burns your clothing, or you experience from him a disgusting odor. (Bukhari: 5534, Muslim:2628)”
Source: Liqaa al Bab al Meftu 3/530 (Arabic)
Translation is by Br. Mustafa George hafidhahullah
The Guard Who Found Islam at Guantánamo
The Guard Who Found Islam at Guantánamo
By Dan Ephron | NEWSWEEK
Published Mar 21, 2009
Terry Holdbrooks stood watch over prisoners. What he saw made him adopt their faith.
From the magazine issue dated Mar 30, 2009
Army specialist Terry Holdbrooks had been a guard at Guantánamo for about six months the night he had his life-altering conversation with
detainee 590, a Moroccan also known as “the General.” This was early 2004, about halfway through Holdbrooks’s stint at Guantánamo with the
463rd Military Police Company. Until then, he’d spent most of his day shifts just doing his duty. He’d escort prisoners to interrogations or
walk up and down the cellblock making sure they weren’t passing notes.
But the midnight shifts were slow. “The only thing you really had to do was mop the centre floor,” he says. So Holdbrooks began spending
part of the night sitting cross-legged on the ground, talking to detainees through the metal mesh of their cell doors.
He developed a strong relationship with the General, whose real name is Ahmed Errachidi. Their late-night conversations led Holdbrooks to
be more sceptical about the prison, he says, and made him think harder about his own life. Soon, Holdbrooks was ordering books on Arabic and
Islam. During an evening talk with Errachidi in early 2004, the conversation turned to the shahada, the one-line statement of faith that marks the single requirement for converting to Islam (“There is no God but God and Muhammad is his prophet”). Holdbrooks pushed a pen and an index card through the mesh, and asked Errachidi to write out the shahada in English and transliterated Arabic. He then uttered the words aloud and, there on the floor of Guantánamo’s Camp Delta, became a Muslim.
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