Celebrating Ramadan at the White House

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Easy du'a for Ramadan

75 days in Bangkok - part 1

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2010 ေမလဆန္းမွာ ေက်ာင္းကအိမ္ျပန္တာနဲ႕ ေလွ်ာက္ထားတဲ့ Passport

လာေရြးရန္ ဆိုတဲ့ အေၾကာင္း ၾကားစာေလးကိုတံခါးဖြင့္တာနဲ႕

ၾကမ္းျပင္ေပၚမွာ ေတြ႕လိုက္ရလို႕ ဝမ္းသာသြားပါတယ္။

Passport ေရြးျပီးတာနဲ႕ သက္ဆိုင္ရာလူၾကီးေတြကို ဘန္ေကာက္

သြားလည္ေတာ့မဲ့ အေၾကာင္း ၾကားျပီး ေလယဥ္လက္မွတ္ဝယ္ရန္
အင္ငာာနက္ေပၚမွာ ၾကည့္လိုက္ပါတယ္။ ေနာက္ ၂ ရက္

မွာဘဲ ေလယဥ္လက္မွတ္ဝယ္ျပီး လိုတဲ့စာရြက္စာတန္းေတြ

စုစည္းလိုက္ပါတယ္။ ေက်ာင္းက ေမလ ၂၁ ရက္ေန႕မွျပီးမယ္ဆိုေတာ့

ဆရာမသင္တာ သိပ္စိတ္မပါေတာ့ပါဘူး။ နားၾကားထဲခဲတံ

ထိုးျပီး ေက်ာင္းခုံကို လက္ေခ်ာင္းေလးေတြနဲ႕ဖြဖြေလး

ေခါက္ေနမိတယ္။ မ်က္လုံးတစ္စုံက ေက်ာင္းအျပင္က ခ်ယ္ရီပန္းပင္

ေတြကိုေငးေမာၾကည့္ရင္း ဟိုး.... အေဝးမွာရွိတဲ့ အေဖကို

ဘဲသတိရေနပါ ေတာ့တယ္။ ဟင္း.... မေတြ႕တာလည္း ၅ ႏွစ္ေတာင္

္ရွိျပီဘဲေလ။

ကိုယ့္အျဖစ္ကို ေက်ာင္းခန္းထဲက classmateအစ္မေတြက

ျပဳံးျပီးၾကည့္ေနပါတယ္။ သူတို႕ထက္လည္းငယ္ ေက်ာင္းနဲ႕

ဆရာမေတြဘက္က မဟုတ္မမွန္တာျမင္ရင္ မေၾကာက္မရြံ႕

ထေျပာတတ္တဲ့အက်င့္၊ ဆရာမေတြကိုအၾကံေပး တတ္တဲ့

အက်င့္၊ မဟုတ္မခံအက်င့္ ေတြရွိတဲ့ဒီညီမကို အတန္းထဲက

အစ္မေတြက ခ်စ္ၾကတယ္ေလ။ ေက်ာင္းျပီးတဲ့ေန႕ မွာေတာ့

ေက်ာင္းဆရာၾကီးက ''တို႕သင္ခဲ့တဲ့ အတန္းေတြထဲမွာဒီအတန္းက

ေက်ာင္းသူ ေက်ာင္းသားေတြက အေတာ္ဆုံးတဲ့'' ေက်ာင္းသားအားလုံး

ေဟးကနဲေပ်ာ္ျပီး ထေအာ္ၾကတာေပါ့။ ေမလ ၂၁ရက္ေန႕မွာ

ေအာင္လက္မွတ္ကို ေပ်ာ္ေပ်ာ္ရႊင္ရႊင္နဲ႕လည္း

ရယူခဲ့ရတယ္၊ ေလွ်ာက္လည္းလည္ရတယ္။ စာနဲ႕ပင္ပန္းခဲ့ရျပီး ဒီေန႕
မွာေတာ့ ေကာင္းေကာင္းေပ်ာ္ခဲ့ရတာေပါ့။

ေက်ာင္းပိတ္တာနဲ႕ မိတ္ေဆြေတြအတြက္

အေဖအတြက္ လက္ေဆာင္ေတြဝယ္ေသတၱာေတြျပင္နဲ႕အခ်ိန္က

ခဏေလးနဲ႕ ကုန္သြားပါတယ္။ အိမ္မွာလည္းေမြးထားတဲ့ Guppy ငါးေတြနဲ႕
ေမြးကင္းစ ငါးေပါက္စေလးေတြ ဘယ္လို

ၾကည့္ရမယ္ အပင္ေတြဘယ္ႏွစ္ရက္တစ္ခါေရ ေလာင္းရမယ္

အပ္ခဲ့ပါတယ္

အဲ ... ေမလ ၃၁ ရက္ေန႕မွာ ဘူတာရုံကိုဆင္းခဲ့ပါတယ္။ အိမ္နဲ႕ ဘူတာရုံက ၁၀ မိနစ္ဘဲလမ္းေလွ်ာက္ရပါတယ္။ အျမန္ရထား ၁ နာရီဆီးျပီး Airport bus ေပၚေကာက္တက္လိုက္ျပီး နာရီဝက္မွာ ေလဆိပ္ကိုေရာက္လာပါတယ္။

MILLIONS OF FLOOD VICTIMS REQUIRE ASSISTANCE TODAY

At a UNHCR distribution point for flood survivors in Balochistan, children from Tali village rest on a new UNHCR tent while their father fetches help to move it. In Tali, 85 to 90 percent of houses have been destroyed. © UNHCR photo/August 2010
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Harsh rains and torrential floods have affected at least 12 million people in Pakistan, including children. Urgent help is needed. Please help UNHCR immediately provide flood victims with shelter and other emergency supplies.

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Friday Khuthabah from Haroon Masjid

Friday Khuthabah
August 13th, 2010
Haroon Masjid
Bangkok
Thailand

In the Name of Allah the most gracious the most merciful.

Brothers and Sisters,

Time, in a life of a Muslim, is not just a part that of many things but it is the important part of many things. We learned that average European work creatively more than 8 hours a day while average Muslim work creatively not more than 30minutes a day. Our work will be recorded in detail as seen from Al-Quran: Surah Al-Kahf 18:49 And the Book (one's Record) will be placed (in the right hand for a believer in the Oneness of Allah, and in the left hand for a disbeliever in the Oneness of Allah), and you will see the Mujrimun
(criminals, polytheists, sinners), fearful of that which is (recorded) therein. They will say: '' Woe to us! What sort of Book is this nor a big thing, but has recorded it with number!'' And they will find all that they did, placed before them, and your Lord treats no one with injustice.

Allah (Sub) Emphasize the importance of time in many Surah (Makeeyah) such as: By the night as it envelops, By the day as it appears in brightness. Or By the forenoon, By the night when it darkens. Or By Al-Asr (the time), Verily, man is in loss. Therefore, time is very important part of many thing in our lives. Al-Quran also reveals the benefits that Muslims will gain from proper time management.

From the Sunnah of Rasulullah (Sal), Muaaz bin jabal (Rd) narrated : '' Nabi Muhammad (Sal) said, the feet of the slave of Allah will not step out of its place on the day of judgement until he is questioned about 4 things

1st. How he spent his age
2nd. How he spent his youth
3rd. How he earned and spent his assets
4th. How to made use of his knowledge (Tabrani)

This way, man will be question about how he spends his time especially when he is fully strong between the two weaknesses of life as seen in Quran: Surah Al-Rum 30:54 Allah is He Who created you in (a state of) weakness, then gave you strength after weakness, then after strength gave (you) weakness and grey hair. He creates what he wills. And it is He Who is the All-Knowing, the All-Powerfull (i.e. Able to do all things).

The uniqueness of time for Muslim that Islam prescribed as the way of life makes us aware of how we spent our time not only for this world but for both worlds. Consider the time we spot a galaxy a million light years away, we know that they were already orbit away from the point that our eyes contact them for a million years too. Yet life is faster than light. We were born, grown up and reach old age as if it was only some years ag.

When the night pauses and its darkness slowly fades away, the caller for prayer calls believer to worship Allah (Sub), He says : '' Come to Salah, come to success '' , '' Salah is better than sleeping '' . Then believers will say: '' You are right, You are doing right '' . But for people who stay late and could not wake up to receive the Blessing in the early morning, they are really miserable.

In the month of Ramadan, we hope that we can spent our time effectively. This is to show our gratitude toward Allah (Sub). Rasullulah (Sal) said: '' whoever fasts in Ramadan with faith and hope to receive reward from Allah (Sub), his sins will be forgiven and whoever stands for Salah in Ramadan with faith and hope to receive reward from Allah (Sub), his sins will be forgiven.

Friday Khuthabah from Haroon Masjid, Bangkok

6 August, 2010
Friday Khuthabah
Haroon Masjid
Bangkok
Thailand

Brothers and Sisters,

Middle East is both historical and beneficial region for powerful nations. Jerusalem and Mekka shares historical and religious relation as appeared in the Holy book og Allah:

Surah Al-Isra 17:1
Glorifiled (and Exalted) is He (Allah) to Al-Masjid Al-Aqsa (in Jerusalem), the journey by night from Al-Masjid Al-Haram (at Mekka) to Al-Masjid Al-Aqsa (in Jerusalem), the neighbourhood whereof We have blessed, in order that We might show him Muhammad (Sal) of Our Signs. Verily, He is the All-Seer.

Narrated Jabir bin Abdullah (ra) that he heard Prophet Muhammad (Sal) saying '' When the people of Quraish did not believe me (in the story of my night journey), I stood up in Al-Hijr and Allah displayes Jerusalem in front of me, and I began describing it to them whiule I was looking at it. '' (Sahih Al-Bukhari)

Masjid Al-Aqsa in Jerusalem is a scared place to all Jews, Christians and Muslims. The people of the books including Muslims know that God is One. Prophet David and Solomon (As) were preaching the same Oneness of Allah as Prophet Moses and Jesus and the last Prophet Muhammad (Sal) preached. The same house of Allah that His Glorious Names have ever been cherishing since the time of old. All of these are in Jerusalem. But why people who believe or said to be believers have to kill and oppressed one another whenever they are in power. The answer can be explained into two folds. Firstly, Greed and secondly, arrogance or pride.

After world war I, England resumed the role of governor of the region soon after it was separated from Ottoman Empire. And after the world war II, England played evident role in protecting their investors who invested in oil exploration and production in the Middle East except Saudi Arabia where United States of America is a major investor. England and the USA tried to prevent the expension communisim from the USSR or Rassia by providing military assistance to the region.

Later on in 1946 with the help of England and USA, Isreal had been established. This brought three wars between the Arabs and Isreal. The Arabs including Egypt, Iraq and Seria in supporting the Palestinians to fight the Isrealis supported by the UK and USA. The Arabs could not win the war therefore they asked for military assistance from Russia. The Russia was facing tough situation when confronting USA and UK. Finally, the USSR was broken into pieces after the cold war since the USSR became the threat to Isreal by supporting the Arabs. This phenomenon creates more Muslim nations and most of them are in Central Asia with full of Natural Gas and Oil reserves. The USA already invested in these countries. There are three countries, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajakistan that have no access to the sea but all of these countries are connected to Afganistan. Therefore Afganistan is a key to transport goods and resourses to thesea from Central Asia through Pakistan.

Arrogant caused the fall of Iblis. Iblis thought that he is superior to Adam and he arrogantly refused to submit himself to Allah's Command i.e. to salute Adam. The punishment is the torment in the hell fire.

Surah Al-A'raf 7:12.
Allah said : What prevented you O Iblis that you did not prostrate yourself, when I commanded you/ Iblis said : I am better than hin (Adam), You created me from fire, and hin You created from clay.

Adam's fault was out of his greed. He broke Allah's Command because he wanted to eat the forbidden fruit.

Surah Al-A'raf 7:20.
Then Shaitan (Satan) whispered suggestions to them both in order to uncover that which was hidden from them of their private parts (before); he said : Your Lord did not forbid you this tree save you should become angels or become of one another.

And the punishment was to be enemy of one another.

Surah Al-A'raf 7:24. Allah said : Get down, one of you an enemy to the other. (Adam, Hawar, Iblis) ON EARTH WILL BE A DWELLING PLACE FOR YOU AND AN ENJOYMENT FOR A TIME.

Anyhow, later on Allah forgive Adam. If we disobey Allah because of greed then we should repent and ask for forgiveness. But if we disobey Allah because of greed as well as arrogance then Allah will punish them reverely.

With reference to the truth about the night journey of prophet Muhammad (Sal), shows that human soul can grow in the stages of life step by step. The steps include morally good conduct, kind to parents and kids, kind to fellow men, keep ourselves clean and pure from illegal acts and to protect the orphans and/or the week. Do not forget that we are not coming to this world for any other purposes but to worship Allah alone. And along with our sincere Ibadah to Allah, we have to be good to all human folks as well.