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NEWSLETTER

Friday, 08 Rabi'ul Awal 1435 H / 10 January 2014

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By Sheikh Saud Al-Shuraim - 24 Safar 1435

His eminence Sheikh Saud Al-Shuraim –May Allah protect him– delivered last Friday’s Khutbah titled “Optimism and Pessimism” in which he dealt with the importance of being optimistic and having good faith in Almighty Allah (May He be extolled) and explained how important and effective this is on the life of the Muslim. He also warned against despair, hopelessness and anguish and gave evidence as to the advantages of optimism and disadvantages of pessimism.

…O Muslims!

Amid the hustle and bustle of life, amid the doom and gloom, and man’s obvious and concealed blemishes and heart-rending flaws, man cannot tolerate more fuel or more air that may fan the blaze, nor can he tolerate more water to make matters worse. Otherwise, he would be running the risk of withering away or facing a fatal destiny.

Life’s conditions are irksome indeed where people are engaged in an incessant motion. People are bent on selling, manumitting or abusing their souls. This is the attitude of people vis-à-vis calamities and adversities that befall them or strike close to them except those on whom Allah Almighty have mercy albeit very few.

We see with our own eyes, and hear with our own ears whole-sale calamities and misfortunes befalling our brothers and sisters in faith, our neighbours or relatives, or befalling us before or after them –May Allah protect you and us from them– and we stare browbeaten not knowing what to do. We give in to despair, hopelessness and pessimism although this does nothing but aggravate our sorrow and multiply our plight as if we were travelling through high altitudes. It only makes our wound more painful. read more

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* 14 killed in Brazil bus crash - Fourteen people died on Sunday when a bus drove off a road in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo and plunged into a ravine, highway police told local media.

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125g butter
1 ½ cups flour
1 cup sugar
3 eggs
1 tsp vanilla essence
1 tblsp oil
¼ cup milk
2 ½ tsp baking powder

Method
Beat above ingredients for 7 – 10 minutes until fluffy. spoon into cupcake casings and bake for 10 – 15 minutes coffee mixture 125ml boiling water ½ cup castor sugar 2 tblsp coffee mix altogether and spread 1 ½ tblsp of coffee mixture on each cupcake once cooled cream cheese icing 125g butter 2 cups icing sugar 1 tblsp vanilla essence ½ tub cream cheese beat butter and icing sugar well. add vanilla essence and cream cheese and beat. pipe over cupcakes. dust cocoa powder with a sieve. cut 1 flake into 2-3 pieces. cut each piece into small logs. place 1 top of each cupcake.

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"It all felt like five minutes..." the gentleman said slowly.

The stewardess had just begun to remark on what a sweet statement that was when he finished his sentence with a word that earned him a sharp smack on the head: "...underwater."

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