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19 Rajab 1428/03 August 2007
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FUNERALS - MAYYITS
02.08.07 - Mayyit of: Omar Essa Tayob - WILL LEAVE FROM: 6 Crocadile Street Brits - Time: After Maghrib - QABRASTAAN: Brits - CAUSE OF DEATH: Natural

02.08.07 - Mayyit of: Abdul latief Hassen - WILL LEAVE FROM: 408 Moore Road Durban - Time: 10:00 - QABRASTAAN: Grey street - CAUSE OF DEATH: Natural

02.08.07 - Mayyit of: Khatija Hassain - WILL LEAVE FROM: 218 9th Ave Laudium - Time: 11:00 - QABRASTAAN: Laudium - CAUSE OF DEATH: Natural

02.08.07 - Mayyit of: Rachmat Waja - WILL LEAVE FROM: 22 Marigold Ave Ext 3 Lenasia - Time: 9:00 - QABRASTAAN: Lenz - CAUSE OF DEATH: Natural

02.08.07 - Mayyit of: Rasheed Suleman - WILL LEAVE FROM: - Time: 10:30 - QABRASTAAN: - CAUSE OF DEATH: Natural

02.08.07 - Mayyit of: Sarah Moollah (wife of the late Cassim Moollah) - WILL LEAVE FROM: Niagara Falls Canada - Time: - QABRASTAAN: St. Catherine's Masjid Canada - CAUSE OF DEATH: Heart attack

02.08.07 - Mayyit of: Hassen Bhai Wadia - WILL LEAVE FROM: Mayet Drive Actonville - Time: - QABRASTAAN: Rynsoord - CAUSE OF DEATH: Natural

QUOTE
Thomas Carlyle in ‘Heroes, Hero Worship, and the Heroic in History,' Lecture 2, Friday, 8th May 1840.
"As there is no danger of our becoming, any of us, Mahometans (i.e. Muslim), I mean to say all the good of him I justly can... "A greater number of God's creatures believe in Mahomet's word at this hour than in any other word whatever. Are we to suppose that it was a miserable piece of spiritual legerdemain, this which so many creatures of the almighty have lived by and died by?... "These Arabs, the man Mahomet, and that one century, - is it not as if a spark had fallen, one spark, on a world of what proves explosive powder, blazes heaven-high from Delhi to Granada! I said, the Great man was always as lightning out of Heaven…"

PERSONALITY
Abu Muhammad Abdallah Ibn Ahmad Ibn al-Baitar Dhiya al-Din al-Malaqi was one of the greatest scientists of Muslim Spain and was the greatest botanist and pharmacist of the Middle Ages. He was born in the Spanish city of Malaqa ( Malaga ) towards the end of the 12th century. He learned botany from Abu al-Abbas al-Nabati, a learned botanist, with whom he started collecting plants in and around Spain. In 1219 he left Spain on a plant-collecting expedition and travelled along the northern coast of Africa as far as Asia Minor. The exact modes of his travel (whether by land or sea) are not known, but the major stations he visited include Bugia, Qastantunia (Constantinople), Tunis, Tripoli, Barqa and Adalia. After 1224 he entered the service of al-Kamil, the Egyptian Governor, and was appointed chief herbalist. In 1227 al-Kamil extended his domination to Damascus, and Ibn al-Baitar accompanied him there which provided him an opportunity to collect plants in Syria His researches on plants extended over a vast area: including Arabia and Palestine, which he either visited or managed to collect plants from stations located there. He died in Damascus in 1248.

Ibn Baitar's major contribution, Kitab al-Jami fi al-Adwiya al- Mufrada, is one of the greatest botanical compilations dealing with medicinal plants in Arabic. It enjoyed a high status among botanists up to the 16th century and is a systematic work that embodies earlier works, with due criticism, and adds a great part of original contribution. The encyclopaedia comprises some 1,400 different items, largely medicinal plants and vegetables, of which about 200 plants were not known earlier. The book refers to the work of some 150 authors mostly Arabic and it also quotes about 20 early Greek scientists. It was translated into Latin and published in 1758.

Ibn Baitar's contributions are characterised by observation, analysis and classification and have exerted a profound influence on Eastern as well as Western botany and medicine. Though the Jami was translated/published late in the western languages as mentioned above, yet many scientists had earlier studied various parts of the book and made several references to it.

DUA/PRAYER
Eating
Allahumma barik lana fima razaqtana, waqina adhab-an naar. Bismillah
O Allah! Bless (the food) you provided us and save us from the punishment of the fire. In the Name of Allah. [ibn as-Sunni]

Upon forgetting to say the Du'a
Bismillahi fi awwalihi wa akhirihi
In the Name of Allah, in the beginning and the end. [abu Dawud 3:347, at-Tirmidhi 4:288]

AND… FOR THE KIDDIES
THE BOY WHO CRIED 'WOLF'
Once there was a shepherd boy who had to look after a flock of sheep. One day, he felt bored and decided to play a trick on the villagers. He shouted, "Help! Wolf! Wolf!" The villagers heard his cries and rushed out of the village to help the shepherd boy. When they reached him, they asked, "Where is the wolf?" The shepherd boy laughed loudly, "Ha, Ha, Ha! I fooled all of you. I was only playing a trick on you."

A few days later, the shepherd boy played this trick again. Again he cried, "Help! Help! Wolf! Wolf!" Again, the villagers rushed up the hill to help him and again they found that boy had tricked them. They were very angry with him for being so naughty.

Then, some time later, a wolf went into the field. The wolf attacked one sheep, and then another and another. The shepherd boy ran towards the village shouting, "Help! Help! Wolf! Help! Somebody!" The villagers heard his cries but they laughed because they thought it was another trick. The boy ran to the nearest villager and said, "A wolf is attacking the sheep. I lied before, but this time it is true!"

Finally, the villagers went to look. It was true. They could see the wolf running away and many dead sheep lying on the grass.

MORAL: We may not believe someone who often tells lies, even when he tells the truth.

MUSLIM NAMES
MALES
Nassar - helper/ protector/ victory
Mu'tasim - Adhering (to Faith, to Allah)

FEMALES
Nabihah/ Nabeeha - Intelligent/ Noble
Maymunah - Auspicious/ blessed, wife of prophet SAW

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NEWS
An American Republican party member says the only way to prevent a nuclear terrorist attack on the US is to threaten to bomb the Muslim cities of Makkah and Madina.

Petrol stations began running dry yesterday as workers affiliated to Ceppwawu continued their countrywide pay strike.

PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki has rejected a request by the Democratic Alliance (DA) to establish a multiparty task team to “advise” government on the post-TRC legal process.

Deputy Foreign Minister Aziz Pahad say South Africa will “seriously consider” sending more soldiers to Sudan. They will form part of the new African Union-United Nations Peacekeeping force.

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) says their efforts to end the crisis in Zimbabwe are not crumbling. SADC secretary general Tomaz Salomao says the process is very delicate.

The United States says they will not hesitate to use military force to free 21 South Korean hostages held by the Taliban in Afghanistan.

PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS
06h45: Yaseen
08h30: Islamic discussions
09h05: Issues in Islam & Nasiha
10h30: JUZ/PARA A DAY – DAILY QURAN
11h30: Dua for the ill and Nikah Announcements
12h00: Live Jumuah
14h00: Iqra (Dawah Programme)
14h30: Quran Translation
14h45: Islamic History
16h05: Actuality
18h15: Youth/Doc PC
20h05: Alternative Radio - Jim Inghals & Sonali Kolhatker, Afghanistan
21h05: Spiritual Advises

RECIPE
Chicken Karai
Ingredients
1 chicken – cut into small pieces - 2 tsp ginger garlic - 3 tsp crushed chillies - 1 ½ tsp salt - ½ tsp pepper - 1 tsp fresh garlic.

Roasted Spices
1 tblsp crushed jeeru - 1 tblsp dhana - 1 tuj - 3 whole black pepper corns - 3 tblsp ghee - 2 small onions cubed - 1 green pepper cubed - 2 medium tomatoes cubed - 3 tblsp yoghurt - ¼ cup dhania – chopped.

Method
Marinate meat with spices and cook till tender. Roast the spices fro a ew seconds in a frying pan and leave aside. Heat ghee add sauté onion and green pepper. Add the roasted masala and cook for 1 minute. Add the cooked chicken and chopped tomatoes. Add the yoghurt and steam for 5 minutes. Garnish with chopped dhania and serve.

COOKING TIP
Cottage cheese will remain fresher longer if you store it upside down in the refrigerator. This slows the effects of oxidation.

A THOUGHT
It is a favour from our Lord that we live in a vibrant multi-coloured world. Every colour we see in nature, the perfect harmony of living beings' colours are all signs of the matchless art and unique creation of Allah. The colours of a flower, or a bird and the harmony of these colours or the soft interplay between colours, the fact that nothing disturbs our eyes in nature, that, for instance, the colours of the seas, the sky, and the trees are in tones that give us peace and do not exhaust our eyes, show the perfection of Allah's creation. Reflecting on all these, we come to understand that everything we see around us is a work of the infinite knowledge and omnipotence of Allah.

THE SMILE
A real estate salesman had just closed his first deal, only to discover that the piece of land he had sold was completely under water.

"That customer's going to come back here pretty mad," he said to his boss. "Should I give him his money back?"

"Money back?" roared the boss. "What kind of salesman are you? Get out there and sell him a houseboat."

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