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Sleep Is a Great Gift
After mentioning in verse [8] that Allah has created mankind in pairs, Allaah Ta’aala states in verse [9] that among the means of their comfort, He created sleep, which is a great divine gift.

Sleep is a great source of relaxation for the entire creation - for rich as well as for poor, for learned people, as well as for the illiterate ones, for kings as well as for labourers. This gift is made available equally and simultaneously for all. Rather, experience shows that this gift is most readily available to the poor and labouring class, as compared to the affluent and the elite class.

The latter class has all the means of comfort, they have comfortable homes, they have moderately warm and cold places, and they have comfortable mattresses and pillows that are rarely available to the poor. But the gift of sleep is not dependent upon the mattresses, pillows, cottages and bungalows.

It is purely a divine gift that is given directly by Allah. Often the poor, with no means of comfort and without bed or bedding, enjoy the best sleep in an open space. Sometimes, the affluent and the men of means suffer from insomnia and can only get sleep when they take sleeping pills. Often the pills do not work either. Not only that this great gift is given to all creatures - humans as well as animals - and it is given free of charge, without working for it. Allah has made it compulsory for everyone in a way that even if he wishes to keep awake because offload of work, sleep is imposed on him by Allah's mercy, so that his tiredness is removed and he is refreshed to work further. This arrangement is a wonderful means of providing rest and peace for man.

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The 10-month trial saw over 120 witnesses testifying, including 56 of Jinxela's alleged victims.
The State says Jinxela's crime spree spanned over 10 years, up to the day of his arrest in August 2004.

40 people have died in a gas explosion at a coal mine in northern China. Reports say dozens more are trapped underground.

MADERIA CAKE
Ingredients
125 g Margarine - 250ml Castor Sugar - 2 eggs - 5ml Vanill - 500ml cake flour - 10ml baking powder - 250ml milk - Grated rind of 1 lemon.

Method
Cream margarine and sugar till light and fluffily. Beat the eggs in one at a time. Add lemon rind and vanilla. Sift flour/ baking powder together and add to mixture alternatively with milk. Pour into well-greased 23cm loaf tin. Bake at 180 c for 1 hour.

THE GORILLA
An out of work mime is visiting the zoo and attempts to earn some money as a street performer. However, as soon as he starts to draw a crowd, the zookeeper grabs him and drags him into his office.

The zookeeper explains to the mime that the zoo's most popular attraction, a gorilla, has died suddenly. The keeper fears that attendance at the zoo will fall off. He offers the mime a job to dress up as the gorilla until they can get another one. The mime accepts.

The next morning, before the crowd arrives, the mime puts on the gorilla suit and enters the cage. He discovers that it's a great job. He can sleep all he wants, play and make fun of people and he draws bigger crowds than he ever did as a mime. However, eventually the crowds tire of him and he gets bored just swinging on tires. He begins to notice that the people are paying more attention to the lion in the cage next to his. Not wanting to lose the attention of his audience, he climbs to the top of his cage, crawls across a partition, and dangles from the top to the lion's cage. Of course, this makes the lion furious, but the crowd loves it.

At the end of the day the zookeeper comes and gives the mime a raise for being such a good attraction as a gorilla. Well, this goes on for some time. The mime keeps taunting the lion, the crowds grow larger, and his salary keeps going up. Then one terrible day when he is dangling over the furious lion, he slips and falls. The mime is terrified. The lion gathers itself and prepares to pounce. The mime is so scared that he begins to run round and round the cage with the lion close behind.

Finally, the mime starts screaming and yelling, "Help, Help me!", but the lion is quick and pounces. The mime soon finds himself flat on his back looking up at the angry lion and the lion says, "Shut up you idiot! Do you want to get us both fired?"