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Newsletter/Thur
14 Thul Hijjah 1427/04 January 2006
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THE MESSAGE
COMMERCIAL MORALITY
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The quest for sustenance is regarded as "seeking the bounty of Allah", and is thus hued with a profoundly religious character. The Noble Qur’an states: "When the (Friday) prayer is complete, disperse through the land and seek the Bounty of Allâh Ta'âla (through trade or lawful activity)."

Rasûlullah Sallallâhu alayhi wa sallam has said: "The quest of Halaal earning is a duty after a duty" which implies that seeking Halaal sustenance is a religious obligation second in importance to religious observances like prayer, fasting, etc. Economic activity in the life of a Muslim is therefore regulated by divine principles, principles that are premised on commercial morality. Commercial morality is intrinsically bound to religion and is as important to faith, as Wudhu is to Salaah.

The Qur’an describes upright merchants in the following words: "Men whom neither business nor sale can divert them from the remembrance of Allah, or from regularity in Salaah or from giving Zakah. True believers are not recluses or mystics; they are people of action distinguished by their moral fibre. They steer clear from unbecoming business ethics or ill-gotten gain.

Commercial Morality comprises of four fundamental ethics:
Legal activity; Justice; Kindness and the Fear of Allâh.

LEGAL ACTIVITY
Trade by definition entails dealing with people; it forges mutual association between buyer and seller. This association must be sustained by ‘Mutual Consent’. The Noble Qur'ân states: "O you who believe, do not eat up each other's property by wrong means except by way of trade based on mutual consent."

Unimposing Salesmanship
Rasûlullah Sallallâhu alayhi wa sallam has said: "Beware of excessive oaths in trade, it (may help) to secure a deal but will subsequently wipe out blessings."

Compassion
Rasûlullah Sallallâhu alayhi wa sallam has said: "May Allâh show compassion to a man who is lenient when he sells, buys or demands payment." (Bukhari)

Legal Commodity
A Muslim may only sell items that he himself is allowed to use or consume. Umar Radhiallâhu anhu was once informed that a certain person was selling alcohol. Umar Radhiallâhu anhu) said: "May Allâh curse him! Does he not know that Allâh had prohibited them to consume fat of animals, yet they melted it and sold it." (Bukhari).

JUSTICE - Hoarding
Sayyidina Ali Radhiallâhu anhu said: "When a man hoards food stuff (refuses to sell) even for a day, in order to gain from a price hike, his heart becomes hard."

Fraud
Uqba bin Amir Radhiallâhu anhu says: "It is illegal for a person to knowingly sell defective (flawed) merchandise, without informing him (the buyer of the defect). Rasûlullah Sallallâhu alayhi wa sallam said: "He who regards the unlawful as lawful, does not believe in the Qur'ân. Deceit in buying and selling is unlawful."

A Muslim therefore earns his bread with the believe that the proportion of sustenance is determined by Allâh. It is an act of worship to trade in order to avoid depending on others. Greed leads to perpetual poverty. Lawful earnings draw the blessing of Allâh, even though it may seem meagre. Kindness is more virtuous then obsession with wealth. Commit yourself to equity, justice and compassion.

May He imbue in us the conduct of an Allâh conscious trader and save us from the temptation of indulging in Haraam.

DUA (PRAYER)
Dua for a blissful marriage
"Allahumma rabana hab lana min azwaajinaa wa zurriyyatina qurrata a-ayun waj-alna lil muttaqeena imaama"

(O Allah! grant us such wives and offspring who will be a source of coolness for our eyes, and make us leaders of the Allah-Fearing)

AND… FOR THE KIDDIES
The Pecan Nuts
Nabila and Hasina were going outside to play. The previous day had been very windy and they had been cooped indoors. They opened the door of their house and stopped short. The yard was full of scattered leaves and was a mess.

“Mummy!” cried the children, “do you want us to sweep the yard?”
“Yes” replied their mummy, “that would be such a great help.” She was very busy baking, cleaning and cooking. She promised them a little party when they finished, repaying their kindness. “You will find the brooms and the bin in the garage, “she said.

Nabila and Hasina took the brooms and began to sweep. They swept all the leaves together into heaps, which they threw into the bin. They were almost finished, when Nabila saw some pecan nuts by mummy’s vegetable patch. “Look Hasina,” she said, “these pecan nuts must have fallen with the strong winds.” They gathered the pecan nuts in a small box. They were sorely tempted to eat them but knew that the nuts had fallen from the neighbors’ tree.

They asked their mother if they were allowed to eat them. She replied that they were not. They had to return the nuts to their neighbour as it belonged to her. The girls took the box and set off to the neighbour’s house.

They rang the bell and waited. When the neighbour opened the door, she was surprised to see them. They gave her the box telling her they had found the nuts in their garden. She was touched by their honesty and asked them to wait. Moments later, she returned with a bigger box filled with pecan nuts which she gave to them. She said she was glad to have such honest neighbours and that in future, they could eat any of her fruit or nuts that fell into their garden.

They returned home very happy. They asked their mother to lend them her nut cracker and they enjoyed shelling the nuts. They kept a handful for their party and gave the rest to their mummy. What a fine party they had thereafter with juice, cake, sweets and nuts.

RECIPE
MAGAJ
Ingredients
1 kilo Channa Flour - ¼ Cup Milk - 2 tblsps Ghee

Make the above ingredients into breadcrumbs.

Method
Braise the breadcrumbs in 550g of pure butter- must be golden brown in colour. Cool well and then add 250g klim and from the one kilo icing sugar take out 1 cup. Add 2tsps elachi and 1 cup of chopped pecans into the mixture. Mix with your hands and then leave to set in the pan. Decorate with pecan nuts.

COOKING TIP
Baste is defined as putting drippings, butter or marinade over food while cooking. Usually meats or vegetables. This can be done with various cooking utensils like a spoon, basting brush, suction squirter.

POEM
By LAILAH SHAIK MODEEN
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With time do memories fade?
From the birth of Adam the man first made
Till this moment in time so much has changed
The ways of people have stranged.

As night descends evil stirs
Behind the shadows that dusk creates
As dawn spreads it’s wings of light
The new day brings an end to the continuous fight.

The world in time has only deteriorated,
And all that war has inflated
is greed, jealousy, slaughter and everlasting tears
As the world it’s end rapidly nears.

Time... Its past known but what the future may hold
Will surely be far too bitter and cold.
I ask 'where has the hope gone to? Why is this world so torn?'
My reply: silence, plain silence to my ear
and the growing fear.

I ask again 'Where do we go from here?'
For surely this seems to me like evil hell.
But only the sands of time will tell.

A THOUGHT
May Allah Almighty let all of you taste real faith. It is sweet, real faith's taste. When you taste real faith, you keep it, never losing it. The one who does not taste, he quickly leaves, quickly loses.

THE SMILE
A fisherman from the city was out fishing on a lake in a small boat. He noticed another man in a small boat open his tackle box and take out a mirror. Being curious the man rowed over and asked, "What is the mirror for?"

"That's my secret way to catch fish," said the other man. "Shine the mirror on the top of the water. The fish notice the spot of sun on the water above and they swim to the surface. Then I just reach down and net them and pull them into the boat."

"Wow! Does that really work?"
"You bet it does."
"Would you be interested in selling that mirror? I'll give you $30 for it."
"Well, okay."

After the money was transferred, the city fisherman asked, "By the way, how many fish have you caught this week?"

"You're the sixth," he said.

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THE NEWS
The person believed to have recorded Saddam Hussein's execution on a cell phone camera was arrested. The adviser to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media, did not identify the person. But he said it was "an official who supervised the execution" and who is "now under investigation." Iraqi state television aired an official video of the hanging, which had no audio and never showed Saddam's actual death. But the cell phone video showed the deposed leader being taunted in his final moments, with witnesses shouting "go to hell" before he dropped through the gallows floor and swung dead at the end of a rope.

A man who led protests against the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad denied calling for the murder of Danish and U.S. citizens. Prosecutors have told the trial of Umran Javed, 27, that he attempted to rally the crowd at the Feb. 3 demonstration to launch attacks against the United States and Denmark with the words, "Bomb, bomb, Denmark, bomb, bomb USA." Javed, from Birmingham, central England, acknowledged the words but denied charges of soliciting murder and stirring up racial hatred.

UN staff and peacekeepers in southern Sudan have been accused of sexually abusing children as young as 12, a British newspaper said, a report the Sudanese government described as "very disturbing." The abuse allegedly started when the UN, which has around 10,000 personnel in the area, moved in two years ago to help reconstruction after the end of a 23-year civil war. Initial claims of abuse emerged within months of the UN's arrival and an internal report was reportedly compiled on the issue in 2005.

A mentally disturbed man was killed by another patient at the Komani Hospital in Queenstown. Captain Mlumkisi Baku Baku said Siphiwo Howard was found lying on his stomach with face wounds. It appeared as if he had been kicked to death. Howard shared a room with the suspect, said Baku Baku. Police have opened a case of murder against the 41-year-old mental patient.

Two men drowned in separate incidents while swimming in Parys and Heidelberg. Morena John Mahale, 27, of Tumahole, died while swimming with two others in the Vaal River near the Mimosa holiday resort in Parys, said Sergeant Malebo Khosana. His body was found by police divers. Gauteng police recovered the body of Mouccow Houssein, 18, from the Suikerbosrand river near Heidelberg, said Superintendent Eugene Opperman. Houssein and three friends were swimming on Friday when he disappeared.

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