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    Je t'aime (poème)

    A toi qui n’as pas d’amant A toi qui rêves du Prince Charmant Que tu cherches et ne trouves nulle part A toi je dis : Je t'aime ! Je t’aime car, tu sais, Toi aussi t’as a nice face Même si l’on ne le voit pas sur MySpace Toi aussi t’as un nouveau look Même si l’on ne le voit pas sur...
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    Dua'a (prayers of supplication)

    Unto You, O Allah, belongs the sovereignty of the heavens and the earth. You create what You will. You bestow female offspring upon whom You will, and bestow male offspring upon whom You will; or You mingle them, males and females, and You make barren whom You will. To You, O Lord, I turn and...
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    My comment on your comments on my post about disasters

    MY COMMENT IS A BIT LONG, SO I PREFERRED TO POST IT SEPARATELY. As I tried to explain in my post, these disasters do happen sometimes as divine punishment, but most of the time they come as a reminder to people. We have noticed that there's some kind of pattern to these calamities over the...
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    On Work and Pay: A Muslim's Viewpoint

    Morocco, North Africa, Feb. 2006 Pay is money received in exchange for work. Volunteers apart, every worker expects to be paid. Some even refuse to work unless they get holidays with pay, a right to sick leave and a pension. What more could a worker ask for? Some workers do negotiate their...
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    On the End of History

    I wrote this in January 2006. History could have ended the day Noah boarded the ark. The whole civilisation Man had succeeded in erecting was gone overnight. No cities, no palaces, no schools, no roads, no gardens- nothing survived the Deluge. Nothing but what was saved in the ark. Hence...
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    Are Disasters Divine Punishment?

    What does (or should) one feel when he/she watches on television gruesome pictures of an earthquake or volcano survivors mourning their loved ones ? Many of us watch such scenes while eating or chatting with family or friends. The philosophers amongst us wonder why these things happen in the...
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    ibtila

    There are two kinds of ibtila: ibtila tarqiya and ibtila tanqiya. Ibtila tarqiya (or Promotion Test) is for the devout faithful who -at worst- commit minor sins or no sins at all. God tries these people with affliction and adversity so that their iman and yaqeen will rise higher and higher...
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    Arabic in English

    كَ ka kataba (he wrote, in the active voice) كَتَبَ تَ ta بَ ba haraba (he ran away) هَرَبَ مَ ma هَ ha shariba (active voice : he drank) شَرِبَ كِ ki تِ ti بِ bi مِ mi هِ hi كُ ku (short u) kutiba (in the passive voice : was written) كُتِبَ تُ tu بُ bu shuriba (passive voice : was drunk)...
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    A Muslim pen

    I write Islamic & love poetry in French & English. See my blog: http://salamlayla.blogspot.com/ Labbayk Wake up and stay awake -O Heart- and say Labbayk Say: Labbayk Allahumma Labbayk Say it with every seed and grain Say it with every drop of rain Say it and say it again and...
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    A Call to Allah

    A Call to Allah King like no other, With a throne like no other. Kinder than the kindest mother: Such is Allah. Brighter than the moon Or than the sun at noon. Clearer than the stars in June: Such is Allah. His place is the heart Of the devout or the...
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