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Friday, 7 Safar 1434H / 21 December 2012

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20.12.2012 - Mayyit of: Yusuf Karodia - VENUE: 16 Mahatma Ghandi Street Stanger KZN - TIME: After Zohr - QABARSTAAN: Stanger

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20.12.2012 - Mayyit of: Maimoona Bibi Khan - VENUE: 347 Mendhi Street Laudium - TIME: 11h15 - QABARSTAAN: Laudium

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By Sh Saleh bin Muhammad Al-Talib - 23 Muharram 1434

Praise be to Allah! Blessed be He in His divine essence, He Who blessed whom He wills among His creatures! Praise be to Allah, the Supreme and the Most Generous. No human being can give Him His due in full. No creature is capable of disengaging itself from the bonds of His service; nor can any human being exist independently of His generosity and bountiful gifts. He is the First in the whole existence and to Him alone all creatures stand upright in performance of worship rituals and lie in prostration. His existence (?) is unequalled by any form of being and His generosity is peerless. His might takes those who shy away from His message unawares, either in their waking time or during their sleep.

I bear witness that there is no deity worthy of worship except Allah, with no rival partner to Him and that Muhammad (Sallallahu Alayhi Wa Sallam) is His servant and Messenger. O Allah! Send Your Salat (Graces, Honors, and Mercy) and Peace on your servant and Messenger Muhammad (Sallallahu Alayhi Wa Sallam), his family, his Companions, the tab'în (the contemporaries of the Companions of the Prophet (Sallallahu Alayhi Wa Sallam) after his death), and all those who righteously follow them till the Day of Judgment!

O people!

My recommendation, to myself then to you, is to adhere to taqwa (fear of Allah). It is our resort in time of hardships, our source of assistance in ordeals, the inspiration of the soul and its quietude, the generator of patience and tranquility, the stimulator of strength and firm conviction, the tool of ascension to heaven to seek sublimity, the guarantee of guidance in moments of perilous predicaments, and the booster of morale in time of stressful affliction: ?O you who believe! Keep your duty to Allâh and fear Him, and speak (always) the truth.? [70]. ?He will direct you to do righteous good deeds and will forgive you your sins. And whosoever obeys Allâh and His Messenger (Sallallahu Alayhi Wa Sallam), he has indeed achieved a great achievement (i.e. he will be saved from the Hell-fire and will be admitted to Paradise).? [Al-A?zeb: 70-71] read more

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* Motlanthe: Exit of a gentle giant - After Kgalema Motlanthe was defeated by President Jacob Zuma in a much-anticipated battle for the leadership of the ANC, he declined to serve in the party’s national executive committee, laying the basis for a withdrawal from active politics. But with the ANC losing Motlanthe, South Africa lost a hero it never had.

*ANC gets new integrity commission - The ANC has announced a new integrity commission that will have power to dismiss any member, including public servants, for corruption.

* Rolling with Cape town’s Ghost Squad - The simple act of crossing a solid white line on Cape Town’s Hospital Bend soon had the driver of white Isuzu bakkie looking frazzled when he was pursued by a convoy of Ghost Squad traffic officers.

* Obama presses for gun control policy changes - US President Barack Obama has asked a team led by Vice President Joe Biden to offer "concrete proposals" to curb gun violence no later than January, following the killing of 26 people at a Connecticut primary school last week.

* UN criticises Israel over settlement plans - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and members of the Security Council, except the United States, have criticised Israel for its plan of the construct thousands of new settlement homes in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Ingredients:

Topping:
250ml icing sugar
1Tbsp hot water
2 drops lemon juice
Double quantity of Baker’s custard
1 packet of cream crackers

Method:
Line a dish with 2 crackers next to one another. Cover biscuits with warm custard. Cover the custard with another 8 biscuits making sure that the top layer of biscuits are evenly aligned with the bottom ones. Continue to make another custard and biscuit layer. Refrigerate until cold. Make topping by mixing icing sugar, hot water and lemon juice. Spread icing sugar over dessert and cut into squares to serve.

Soon they met another couple. "How shameful of you!" cried the woman, "let your father ride, won't he be tired?" So, the boy got down and the father rode the donkey. Again they marched on.

"Poor boy", said the next person they met, "why should the lazy father ride while his son is walking?" So, the boy got onto the donkey too, with his father. As they went on, they met some travelers. "How cruel of them!" They are up to kill the poor donkey." cried one of the travelers.

Hearing this, the father and the son got down. Now they decided to carry the donkey on their shoulders. As they did so, the travelers broke into laughter. The laughter frightened the donkey. It broke free and galloped away.

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