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Tuesday, 27 March 2012/ 03 Jamaadal Ula 1433H

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26.03.2012 - Mayyit of: Abdul Gani Akoo - VENUE: 145 Tagore Drive - Time: 11:00am - QABARSTAAN: Roshnee - CAUSE OF DEATH: Natural

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26.03.2012 - Mayyit of: Salim Nadeem - VENUE: Pakistan - Time: 11:00am (Pakistani Time) - QABARSTAAN: Pakistan - CAUSE OF DEATH: Natural

MTN RADIO AWARDS - My Station Award
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As part of the MTN Radio Awards competition, the “My Station Award” competition has begun in which listeners can vote for their favourite radio station. Last year Radio Islam Listeners blew all competitors out of the water with their brilliant contribution, winning the Award for Radio Islam, and we are confident you will do it again. There are two Awards that will be taking place in this section:

• No. of SMS’s received as a percentage of the station’s latest RAMS Audience figures

• Total number of SMS’s received

Radio Islam has been allocated a short code (RIS) which needs to be sent by SMS to the following number: 40616. Stations are able to promote it over the period Monday March 26 to Sunday April 8. Voting will cease at midnight on Sunday April 8 and we will know who the winners are during the course of the following week.

The MTN Radio Awards will take place on 14 April. We know that we are the station with the most loyal listeners and so we ask you to please vote for us by sending RIS to 40616 and helping us to win the MTN RADIO AWARDS – My Station Award. SMS costs R 1.00 and terms and conditions apply.

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THE ACCEPTANCE OF DUA

It is mentioned in a Hadith Shareef that on certain occasions Allah Ta’ala orders the angels to grant us exactly what we had asked for; irrespective whether the supplication is correct or not. The request is fulfilled in the same manner that it was asked for. That is why; we must exercise great caution in our speech.

Sometimes it occurs such that the supplication is not granted but instead something better and of a superior quality is obtained which we never even dreamt of. This is also the result of the Dua.

Sometimes it transpires that neither the Dua made for is granted nor is a similar or better thing attained. But instead a calamity, which was to have befallen on oneself, due to some wrong action committed, is obliterated (cancelled). This is also in fact the result of the Dua being accepted.

Sometimes it also transpires that in this world there are no apparent signs of one's Dua being accepted. However in the hereafter it will be revealed to us that a certain Dua made in this world, which was apparently not accepted, has been accepted and this is the reward for it. We will receive such great rewards that our minds cannot even perceive them. That is the time you will exclaim,

“It would have been better had none of my Duas been accepted in the world, so that I could be fully rewarded here. The rewards here are so much greater.”

This world is going to terminate. The thoughts of the human mind will also come to an end, so will the desires of the heart. Whatever one asks for in this temporary world, it is as if one is asking for such things that will eventually terminate. A person’s reasoning does not perceive those things that last forever. Allah Ta’ala bestows rewards, upon an individual, in accordance to His great magnanimity.

A human being cannot comprehend the vast and unlimited treasures of Allah Ta'ala.

In the explanation of the Hadith Shareef, “That a person’s Dua gets accepted,” it is mentioned that sometimes a person makes a Dua and whatever he asks for is granted immediately. This person becomes amazed and says, “Surely my Dua has been accepted.”

Sometimes it gets accepted so quickly that a person wonders why he made such a Dua.

Once I was travelling to Madina Tayyibah from Makkah Mukarramah by taxi. I sat in the taxi, looked at the Haram Shareef and made this Dua: “O Allah, bring me back quickly.”

We had barely travelled a short distance when the driver stopped at a garage to fill petrol and asked the passengers to pay the fare. There was a Turkish person who had not paid his fare but insisted that his fare had been paid. He showed a form or a receipt to the driver to verify his claim. However, that payment did not apply to the private taxi. The driver spoke in Arabic and the individual in Turkish. The driver could not understand him nor could he understand the driver. The argument prolonged and both were getting angry at one another. Eventually the driver threw his luggage out of the taxi and drove off.

Now, we were one passenger less so we returned to Makkah Mukarramah to pick up another passenger. I thought to myself that how quickly my Dua got accepted. I have already returned to Makkah Mukarramah!

After completing my stay at Madina Tayyibah I proceeded to Jeddah. In Jeddah, while boarding the flight, again I made a Dua, “O Allah, bring me back quickly.”

As the plane started moving and preparing to take off, the crew seemed very worried and concerned pacing from one end to another. Eventually an announcement was made that there was some technical fault with the plane and we were returning to Jeddah. Again, I recalled the Dua that I made and I thought to myself that I did not mean in it this way!

~ taken from the discourses of Mufti Mahmood Gangohi RA ~

If a person forgetfully recites Dua-Qunoot in the first or second Rakaat of Witr Salaah, then he/she should recite the Qunoot in the third Rakaah again and also make Sajdah-Sahw (The Sajdah to rectify mistakes).

~ BEHISHTI ZEWAR ~

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As at (26/03/2012)

* Two die as car ploughs into home - A Mitchells Plain family thought they had been hit by an earthquake when a car ploughed into their home in the early hours yesterday.

* Domestic worker confesses to murder - The body of 21-year-old woman was exhumed from a shallow grave in the garden of a house in Newtown, KwaDukuza (Stanger), on Sunday after a domestic worker had gone to the Durban central police to confess to the murder.

* How to correct online flight bookings - Having a spot of finger trouble can be a very expensive business when it comes to making online purchases or payments.

* Pakistan MPs to debate US ties - Pakistani legislators are set to resume debate on revising the rules of relationship with the US, about four months after 24 of its soldiers were killed in an American air raid along the Afghan border.

* Obama in push for 'world without nuclear weapons' - US President Barack Obama says he is pushing for "a world without nuclear weapons", making direct appeals to North Korea and Iran.

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250 g cubed white meat
1 onion chopped
2 Tbsp ghee
1 tsp crushed dhunia
½ tsp ground chillies
Salt to taste
½ tsp ginger/garlic
1 green pepper cut into strips
½ tsp whole jeera
2 Tbsp dhunia chutney
1 Tbsp Yoghurt / maas

Fry onions with jeera seeds in ghee, when they begin to turn light brown add ginger/garlic, green chillies, salt and chicken to braise. Add green pepper and stir for a min then add ¼ cup water and slowly simmer till chicken begins to dry. Add tomato and rest of spices and a little more water & continue simmering. Mix dhunia chutney with yoghurt mix into rice and chicken and steam gently for 15 min.Serve the rice in a large platter and garnish with peas and fresh dhunia leaves.

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Then I made the most difficult call of all, "Honey," I stammered. I always call her "honey" in times like these. "I left my keys in the car, and it has been stolen."

There was a period of silence. I thought the call had been dropped, but then I heard my wife's voice, "Ken," she barked, "I dropped you off!"

Now it was my time to be silent. Embarrassed, I said, "Well, come and get me."

She retorted, "I will, as soon as I convince this policeman I have not stolen your car!"

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