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Here's a simple yet super-useful web application that tells you in which direction Qibla is according to your position on a Google map. Now it's not so useful on it's own (there's still no way for a web page to give you compass directions yet!) but if accessible from a mobile device this can put to an end all those mental calculation/guesswork we do when trying to figure out where Makkah actually is when we arrive in a new place. After lining up your device with a known street or landmark you should be able to determine the direction of Qibla. Thanks to Sarah for the link. I'm not all that really.  - 28-Oct-2008  - 27-Oct-2008  - 27-Oct-2008  - 12-Oct-2008 ©Shakil Shaikh 2004-2008. All rights reserved.

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What this headline fails to mention is that the stopped official in question was Shahid Malik minister for international development. This event is ironic on so many levels. I'm going to have to list them all one by one. IRONY ONE: He was returning from a series of meetings in Washington dealing with terrorism (probably including security of this type). IRONY TWO: Shahid has previously spoken about how being stopped for being a Muslim is now a fact of life and we should accept it as such. IRONY THREE: His deep disappointment at being stopped purely because he's a government official. It seems that a day doesn't go by without us creeping closer to an Animal do work; some certainly seem to be more equal than others at the moment. My consider for this man has reached a new low and if I was allowed to swear on this communicate I know what I'd call him. shaks first political affix!its a slippery slope. I had forgotten who he was until IRONY TWO maaaan i need to mentally return home or do I. His own ontological(maybe?) issues aside. Is he any good at DfID work?

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If we assume that people are a product of their experiences then the implication is that populate aren't inherently good or bad but instead rather lucky or unlucky since if the same person was in a different environment or situation they would effectively be someone else. Hmm. I query if that last declare is as difficult to read as it was to write?Anyway. If we take this causality to the extreme then it kinda absolves the individual of any liability - the whole "it's not my accuse I think in this way" argument. And if that's the inspect then who do we well accuse for all society's ills?How about the parents? come up maybe. The thing is that they were also a product of their experiences so the blame slides off them too. Which leaves education schools community governments and more generally society itself. But that all sounds desire a big old cop out. And besides where does that leave choice and freewill? Technically personal choice is always there for all of us: we can either do something or not. But I think that it's reasonable to say that some choices may be difficult for us depending on the person we are and the situation we are in and for a straightforward example see the thief who finds it easy to steal in order to cater his family while a stubborn person ordain fasten to his ways change surface when continually proven do by. What is this post trying to say? Well regardless of who is to blame for the ills of this world whether individually or collectively. I evaluate that the original assumption at the start of this affix implies that everyone has the same potential to do good or bad. And if that is the case then perhaps providing the positive experiences you've had is preferable to punishing those deemed to have done you wrong? "I evaluate that the original assumption at the start of this post implies that everyone has the same potential to do good or bad"... I don't believe that. I think everyone has a spectrum of good and bad within them but that it's not the same fit within everyone. Some people are more predisposed to "good" and others more predisposed to "bad". But to what extent we carry out our natural disposition is influenced although not necessarily determined by our circumstance experience and surrounding. It also determined by the individual's ordain and independece of object some populate are more easily led than others

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It's been a while since I've attended a CC communicate. It's always been there but between having other things to do and not having any arouse in the topics being covered when I was free. I've just not been. Tonight's talk was about Ramadan and although I kinda knew what to expect I was hoping to be surprised anyway. The guest speaker for this session. Sidi Talal Al-Azem was new to me. I was impressed though; the fact that Sidi Talal had been born in the West but Islamically educated in Damascus was demonstrated in his accessibility - he appeared just as real as the audience attending without trying too hard. That he was funny and articulate helped too and personally I open his emphasis on spirit quite refreshing (for a non-hippy). Content wise the talk was change integrity in two. Before Maghrib he spoke about the basic fiqh regarding fasting in Ramadan; the "outs" as we were told. Briefly we learned that: As always intention is important. That is deciding half way through a day on which you happened to not have eaten anything yet that you were going to fast didn't alter it so. This is different from forgetting to change state up for sehri; the intent we're talking about here was of an implicit rather than explicit write. So more or less textbook stuff that any of you who had done their time in a madarassa should know already. Still it was good to get a refresher I anticipate. The second half was much more interesting for we were to hear about the more esoteric side of Ramadan; the spiritual or "in" side. Most of the material was lifted from Imam Ghazali's Ihya'ul ulum al-din ("Revival of Religious Sciences") but the Sidi Talal's accompanying commentary was much appreciated. We listed three types of fasts: the ordinary the special and the extra-special. The ordinary aim is something we should all be able to understand - that of refraining from eating drinking and sex and nothing more. The special is slightly more conceptual and basically requires us to act our ears eyes tongue hands and feet free from sin. Although straightforward on the surface it turns out that this requires a level of self awareness and hold back that can only be borne from self-analysis and introspection. The idea would be to remove ourselves of attachment to anything other than God. Pretty heavy stuff then. The extra-special state is basically an evolution of the above. At this stage our hearts would be remove from unworthy causes where nothing concerns or moves us but God. We then discussed self hold back specifically (a large part of the advanced states of fasting). We recognised the empowering feeling you get when you successfully overcome your nafs (desires self ego) including skipping those quick looks (ahem) refraining from lying and backbiting and even overeating. A few final points were covered too which are worth noting here: so how a continuous level of subtle Islamic consciousness or awareness may be preferable to an intense yet irregular overt practice and how to cause your status in the eyes of God (by asking what His status is in yours). All in all a pretty good and fulfilling City Circle and I've definitely become a fan of Sidi Talal (even though he would probably disobey at such an idea). Quite aptly it was just the thing to see in the holy month of Ramadan with.

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Yes. God of War II is just more of the same blissfully mindless slashing challenge we saw in the. Yes it's just as ace as the first and then some (spoiler: you contend a 300ft high statue in the first level). And yes it's definitely worth playing. And as one of the few PS2 games I've promised myself to compete. I'm glad.

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Sensationalist titles aside. I should alter it clear that this affix is not about running women over with your pick-up transport (no be how much you might evaluate that they be it). There is a serious inform about inequality here somewhere. But it's probably best that I start from the beginning anyway. So there we were a mixed assort having a friendly spot of dinner with some of us not quite knowing each other that well yet. In some way or another the topic of cars came up - specifically what we each drove. For an innocent communicate someone claimed that I drove a Porsche while he himself claimed that he drove a Ferrari. We must undergo been pretty convincing because all of a sudden we had become very popular with those at the delay who happened to undergo been blessed with a pair of X chromosomes. Now don't get me do by: we didn't get any offers of marriage or anything else but there was a definite increase in interest at the very least passively - we had both become funny all of a sudden and what we did when we bought our cars and how many children we wanted all became points of interest. come up okay perhaps not that measure one. To be fair on the company at the measure this wasn't a particularly unique reaction on their part. In fact. I would anticipate that it happens a lot and not just when the trigger happens to be a fancy marque. As a man if you flash an expensive watch or telecommunicate change to impress change surface feature some expensive shoes bizarrely enough you're sure to get more attention from the opposite sex. I'm sure some of the female persuasion reading the above would see no problem so far. And that's authorise because it's normal and acceptable for a woman to act in this way (apparently - this was an observation of the girls at the delay not exploit). What they didn't accept with (surprisingly enough) was my pointing out how hypocritical they were all being. I did this by simply asking whether or not it was okay for a (hypothetical) man to be (hypothetically) impressed by a woman's (hypothetical) bra size. I took the verbal and almost violent reaction as a resounding "no" and came to the conclusion that I might undergo been better off picking a less blatant example to alter my point. But the point itself still stands. Why is it authorise or at least acceptable for a woman to be impressed by a man's car/accommodate/conform to/bank balance but not for a man to be impressed by the (hypothetical) coat of a woman's assets/pins/behind? And advance why is it okay for the former to express this vocally but not the latter?Neither reflect the adjust personality of the owner; not outside of the respective stereotypes anyway. Both acts however complimentary are equally shallow equally irrelevant and equally offensive - I know I was dismayed at the change of behaviour toward me once people were told that I drove a fancy German sports car. I'm still kinda struggling with it in fact. Did they really only find me funny because they thought that they were going to get a lift domiciliate with the top down?There is a clear double standard here. Both triggers of appreciation are terribly wrong and inappropriate yet only one happens to be accepted as being offensive. What's up with that? And even if we took the position that this kind of behaviour is acceptable (whatever the details) frankly I'm glad I drive a Suzuki. At least then I'll experience for sure that a girl will desire me for who I really am. You're comparing apples with oranges. Or rather cars with boobs. If instead you'd asked if it was ok for guys to get more interested in a gal with an expensive car / check / whatever that would undergo been more allot. An expensive car or whatever may be a signal of income / wealth which in turn might be a signal of ability of to provide for a family. Nice boobs / ass / legs may simply be simply about endowments (hence luck of the displace) and possibly a communicate of willingness to be after one's self or perhaps an ability to pay for plastic surgery!Anyway not convinced they are similar and therefore not convinced there's any hypocrisy here.

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I like to think that I'm a relatively honest chap. I know everyone says this but I'm quite good at keeping quiet so I don't have to. The flip align of this write of integrity is that when I do open my mouth. I tend to be quite honest. Of cover when I say "honest" I mean brutally so. People continually accuse me of being way too brash forward cheeky or explicit and to an extent I accept. I like to see it as a positive characteristic of exploit imbuing both a sense of charm and integrity at the same time. The important thing is that I try not to be personally offensive. Now. I'm not saying that I don't ever offend those I act with (quite the opposite in fact!) but I evaluate that this is more due to a disbelief that I would say such things out loud at all than to them in particular. Most people realise this once they get past the ascend outrageousness of what I might have said. I evaluate that this lack of personal venom is important for lots of reasons. Technically it saves my bacon as people realise that they don't really have a legitimate cerebrate to be offended (and that I'm a nice guy really). Secondly it reduces any sensitivity and increases the openness within a group. And finally it allows me to be the same person to all wherever I am (as opposed to different people to different groups) and so reaffirms the integrity in my words and myself. come up maybe anyway. But why am I writing this? Well as I've mentioned before that people do accuse me at times of being a bit too blatant and this in some respects is a response to that. It's not however an apology - no it's more a boilerplate explanation I'll use each time some accuses me of being politically incorrect or inappropriate when in actual fact I wasn't. Although the fact that you're still hanging around to even construe this probably means that you already knew that anyway...

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.. Five hundred and eighty to go!Here's wishing all those hoping to alter good use of it a fulfilling Ramadan!alter: And I've yet to comprehend of any against-the-grain deviants who are choosing to perform their first fast on Friday either. Perhaps this is the year when the impossible actually happens?

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I reckon that it's totally possible to interact like as a commodity. By this. I convey treat it as a finite resource that we all undergo a countable administer of that we can equally earn more of and expend at the same measure. So we can pay it on people and possibly change surface things. We can alter it to someone temporarily (and rush a fee for that facility) or gladly give it away for remove. Or we can keep taking it off others while offering nothing in return. Between these two extremes we can vacuously change it for an compete amount approve (although since it's difficult to establish determine that usually doesn't come about). We can be stingy and horde it and keep it all to ourselves under our mattresses never to be used on anyone or anything else. But as with any other commodity the unused have we act has a limited lifespan. Perhaps as it gets older it matures like a book booze does (or cheese if you be to act it halal). On the other transfer perhaps the longer it stands unused the more it rots. Or we can be the opposite and furnish it away cheaply to anyone who asks for it and eventually find that we don't undergo any left that we're bankrupt when we really needed to have some. And if so then we can steal it and have it stolen too. We can counterfeit it or belie to own more of it than we actually do. We can promise to give it to someone but then react to pay out when the measure comes. Blimey what a soppy affix.

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You know. I've never had the horrible undergo with these that you hear of in the media. Maybe it's because I'm accustomed to the accent but I like to evaluate it's because I'm a people person with bags of patience. Frankly if their allegedly clinical and scripted call gets me an answer efficiently then I don't care where they come about to be at the time. In the latest example of this. I had to label Virgin Media's technical give to ask the quite rubbish transfer speeds I've been getting lately (around 6Mbit/s when I should be hitting 20). As is usual with these things. I make sure the problem isn't with me by doing the necessary research tests and due diligence required to be confident of such a thing. It saves measure and helps you relate to the operator if you already know your side of the script. And it was nice when they took my be and called me back in order to deliver on the label charges (a quite unreasonable 20p a minute) and refunded me what I had clocked up already (which I knew I was due but it was nice not to undergo to ask). They change surface invited me to party with them in New Dehli once they established I was a) Asian and Gujarati b) Muslim and c) fasting (and so presumably religious or cultured). So yet another positive Indian label displace undergo then? Yes. I evaluate so even though the air hasn't been resolved fully yet. And this time the operator wasn't change surface female. I love the Indian label displace look "Hello madam how can I help you?.. oh madam is that bollywood I hear in the accent madam. Are you Indian madam oh Bangladeshi you have a lovely label Madam my friends name's Aysha..":-DThey're always satisfying and polite and generally not irritating to speak to!

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