Isn’t it funny that during the month of Ramadan the sales of the food stores reach an all year high?
Why is it that women complain most about the workload in the kitchen during the month of fasting?
Why is it that during the month of Ramadan, I will always find a place to perform my isha and tarawih prayer at the mosque, but it is almost impossible to find a parking spot at a shopping mall?
Is it possible that we forgot about the true meaning of Ramadan, miss out on most of the blessings of this blessed month and need to reconsider our ways?
The purpose of the month of Ramadan is not to abstain from eating and drinking during the daytime only. That is just the way prescribed by Allah to reach the goal of drawing nearer to Him and to develop our Iman.
If thirst and hunger is everything we experience during this blessed month, we are doing something wrong and we miss out on the great blessings Allah has in store for us!
So, what is it we should keep in mind in order to make this Ramadan the most successful Ramadan of our lives?
u Most important we have to be very conscious that we do not commercialize the holy month of Ramadan. It is not about consuming, but about restriction on ourselves. Ramadan gives us the chance to shift down one or two gears and to reflect about our lives, the blessings of Allah and about our place in this beautiful religion. Do not gear up, take your time and enjoy this month. It is the best of the whole year.
One month every year we get the chance to actually experience all the blessings Allah has showered on us in abundance by refraining from them! So many things we take for granted, like food, water, good night sleep, money to spend. Try to recognize them by refraining from them. Then, we may know how it is like not to have all these things we take for granted. After one month, I guarantee, you feel a lot different about helping people who are not as fortunate as you are.
Ramadan is about fasting not feasting. We have to eat, of course, but restrain yourself in accordance with the tradition of the Prophet (peace be upon him). Iftar is about breaking the fast, not stuffing people. If you invite family or friends to share iftar with them, do not stuff them and do not stuff yourself. Do not use Iftar to make up for a whole day of not eating. Iftar is not the right time to show off to your family or friends how much money you can spend on food or what a good cook you are.
Use your time wisely in Ramadan. The blessing lays in making dua, asking Allah to forgive your sins, read the Qur’an or visiting the mosques, even if it is not prayer time. Just take some time for religious activities you always wanted to do but never found the time for. It will bring you closer to Allah.
Ramadan is a blessed month, overflowing with Islam if you want it to. Islam starts in the family, with your kids. Just spend some time with your kids. Turn the TV off and give some attention to your kids. Even if you do not talk about Islam in the first place. Just talk to your kids and listen to them. You will be surprised how much they have got to tell you. Go to the mosque with your kids. When was the last time you did that?
Do not try to make it harder for you, in order to impress Allah. Fasting ends with the first call of the Adhan, not five minutes later.
Ramadan is the month of mercy. So have mercy on your wife and your household staff. Do not make it harder on them as it is. One meal should do for Iftar. Your wife and your staff also need their time and their strength to fulfill their religious needs.
u Ask them to have the table ready with everything at least 10 minutes before iftar, so that they can make a dua before Adhan that will not be rejected.
Think about all the blessings Allah bestowed on you. If you have workers at your house present during the time of iftar make sure they get their food on time. Even ask them to join your table. The Prophet (peace be upon him) was never too proud to share his food with any Muslim.
Show them that the Ummah encompasses everybody.
Recharge your batteries for the day by eating Sahur till you hear Adhan. You need it and it is sunnah. It makes your day easier.
There is blessing in Sahur and you should not miss the reward by Allah.
If you need some rest during the day, do so. Nothing wrong with recharging your batteries for your night prayers. But taking a rest and sleeping all day makes a difference. Be careful not to crawl in this loophole just to avoid hunger and thirst during the day. That is not the meaning of Ramadan. Some effort is needed from our side.
The blessings of Ramadan are best found in the mosques or in your house spending your time with the Quran or the like. You will not find the blessings of Ramadan in the shopping malls.
Do not try to “feel sick” in order to have an excuse for not fasting. You do not cheat Allah, just yourself. Be steadfast in our religion.
During the month of Ramadan Allah is ready to forgive us our sins, so we should be ready to forgive other people. It is not the month to get even. If somebody bothers you or is looking for an argument just remind him of Ramadan and fasting. Even when in traffic.
Cleanse yourself and your house for the Eid holiday through your actions in the month of Ramadan. If you need to buy something do it during the day. Always keep in mind: “The places Allah loves most are the mosques, the ones He hates the most are the markets”.
Use the time of Ramadan wisely, it is only a limited time offer by Allah. The blessings of the month of Ramadan are only available in this special month
From SaudiGazette
written by Raziuddin
I am glad to inform you all guys that I got blessed with Baby Boy name Mohammed Wasifuddin Haqqani on Wednesday the 6th April 2011. Both the mother and the baby is doing good Alhamdulillah.
written by Raziuddin
THE onset of winter can be quite draining and depressing, and the freezing temperatures make it quite common to hear people complaining. Winter arguably is not the most favorite season in the year for anyone, but contrary to popular attitude, Islam has the formula of success in this month.
We don’t need to suffer from the “winter blues” because winter is the best time to develop ourselves spiritually!
Whilst many of us slow down our activities because of the conditions around us, our past predecessors actually rejoiced at the arrival of winter. It was said by Imam Al-Hasan Al-Basri may Allah be pleased with him): “The best season to a believer is the winter, its nights are long for those who wish to pray, and its days are short for those who wish to fast.”
So, here are three spiritual tips to beat the winter blues:
1) Perform the night prayers
The first act of devotion we can get into habitually, with the longer nights is to perform the night prayers. There is as much as a gap of eight hours after Isha so one can pray Tahajjud and sleep or sleep first then wake up early and pray Tahajjud. The blessing of winter is that it is our opportunity to ensure we pray Tahajjud because we can’t complain that there’s not enough time to sleep.
And the best is if we can master praying Tahajjud this month for each night it would train us to keep this habit after the winter season as well.
Allah says in the Qur’an:
“Verily! the rising by night (for Tahajjud prayer) is very hard and most potent and good for governing oneself, and most suitable for (understanding) the Word of Allah. (73:6)
2) Fast the short day
The second spiritual tool to combat laziness in the winter blues is fasting; a space of only 10 hours between Fajr and Maghrib makes it easy Alhamdolillah. Iftar is like a late-lunch! We can revive the Sunnah of fasting on Mondays and Thursdays or three days a month, or if you’re really brave you can try the fasting of Prophet Dawud (David) (peace be upon him) in which he’d fast one day and skip the other day.
Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: “No servant fasts on a day in the path of Allah except that Allah removes the Hell-Fire 70 years further away from his face.” (Bukhari and Muslim)
3) Ponder over Allah’s creation
Allah says in the Qur’an:
“Verily, in the heavens and the earth are signs for the believers. And in your creation, and what He scattered (through the earth) of moving (living) creatures are signs for people who have Faith with certainty. And in the alternation of night and day, and the provision (rain) that Allah sends down from the sky, and revives therewith the earth after its death, and in the turning about of the winds (i.e. sometimes toward the east or north, and sometimes toward the south or west and sometimes bringing glad tidings of rain etc., and sometimes bringing the torment), are signs for those who understand”. (45:3-5)
Just take a walk in the midst of the cold, you will find that the sky and the white snow lands are a cause for you to reflect on the Oneness and Greatness of Allah as He commands in the Qur’an. When a leaf falls, you can be reminded of the fact that Allah is Al-Alim (The All-Knowing) for a single leaf doesn’t fall without His Knowledge. And when winter is over and trees and animals come back to life, remember how Allah brings the dead back to life.
So those are just three tips to boost our spiritual productivity and keep the cold winds of idleness and inactivity out this winter. May Allah make us of those who increase our good deeds in these blessed days, Ameen!
written by Raziuddin
MIAMI: The global warehouse for Internet addresses ran empty Thursday. The non-profit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) doled out its last five batches of “IP” numbers that identify destinations for digital traffic.
“A pool of more than four billion Internet addresses has been emptied this morning,” ICANN chief Rod Beckstrom said at a Miami press conference.
“It is completely depleted. There are no more.”
He brushed aside fears of modern life being devastated by an “IPocalypse,” saying Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) worldwide will be doling out remaining addresses to support a shift to a bountiful new “IPv6” format.
“It is like running out of license plates,” said Internet Architecture Board chairman Olaf Kolkman. “Driving on the road the next day would not change.”
The touted solution to the problem is a switch to an “IPv6” format which allows trillions of Internet addresses, while the current IPv4 standard provides a meager four billion or so. The effort and expense of changing to IPv6 would fall mostly on Internet service providers, websites and network operators that have to make sure systems can handle the new online addresses and properly route traffic.
Beckstrom expected the full switch to IPv6 to take years with potential overall costs in the billions of dollars, some of which could be factored into routine replacement of equipment. Consumers, for the most part, should remain oblivious to the switch since complex IP numbers would still appear to them as words and domains, such as icann.org. Some people might need to update routers or modems that connect computers to the Internet.
Registries could begin running out of IPv4 addresses as early as next year, according to US computer scientist Vint Cerf, who is revered as one of the “fathers of the Internet.”
With about seven billion people on the planet, the IPv4 protocol doesn’t allow for everyone to have a gadget with its own online address.
The situation has been equated to not having enough telephone numbers for everyone.
World IPv6 Day will start at 0001 GMT on June 8.
written by Raziuddin
grep command syntax
grep 'word' filename
grep 'string1 string2' filename
cat otherfile | grep 'something'
command | grep 'something'
Use grep to search file
Search /etc/passwd for boo user:
$ grep boo /etc/passwd
You can force grep to ignore word case i.e match boo, Boo, BOO and all other combination with -i option:
$ grep -i "boo" /etc/passwd
Use grep recursively
You can search recursively i.e. read all files under each directory for a string "192.168.1.5"
$ grep -r "192.168.1.5" /etc/
Use grep to search words only
When you search for boo, grep will match fooboo, boo123, etc. You can force grep to select only those lines containing matches that form whole words i.e. match only boo word:
$ grep -w "boo" /path/to/file
Use grep to search 2 different words
use egrep as follows:
$ egrep -w 'word1|word2' /path/to/file
Count line when words has been matched
grep can report the number of times that the pattern has been matched for each file using -c (count) option:
$ grep -c 'word' /path/to/file
Also note that you can use -n option, which causes grep to precede each line of output with the number of the line in the text file from which it was obtained:
$ grep -n 'word' /path/to/file
Grep invert match
You can use -v option to print inverts the match; that is, it matches only those lines that do not contain the given word. For example print all line that do not contain the word bar:
$ grep -v bar /path/to/file
UNIX / Linux pipes and grep command
grep command often used with pipes. For example print name of hard disk devices:
# dmesg | egrep '(s|h)d[a-z]'
Display cpu model name:
# cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep -i 'Model'
However, above command can be also used as follows without shell pipe:
# grep -i 'Model' /proc/cpuinfo
How do I list just the names of matching files?
Use the -l option to list file name whose contents mention main():
$ grep -l 'main' *.c
Finally, you can force grep to display output in colors:
$ grep --color vivek /etc/passwd
written by Raziuddin
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