Right now I'm reading "Stories of the Prophets" by Sayyed Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi. I know it's supposed to be a children's book, but as a new revert I am very much of the school of thought that says one of the best ways to learn is to learn as a child would, even though I'm almost 40. Start with the simple things and work your way up!
The last book I read wasn't about Islam . . . it was called "Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street" by Michael Davis. Very good read, and an excellent insight to how difficult it was to get the show off the ground and on the air. I just wish it had more on the international broadcasts.
It is a best seller based on Mortensons life, it is amazing, highly reccomended!! Completely perfect with a cup of sweet cinnamon chai.
salaams sis
just for the record.. .there is a lot of controversy over that book... and a lot of what mortenson has said. just ... read it with a grain of salt.
Serena
I was looking at myself talking to myself and I realized this conversation...I was having with myself looking at myself was a conversation with myself that I needed to have with myself.
Finished reading "The Giver" by Lois Lowry, and I've now started "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde... I think I'll probably go through some more classics after that, since I haven't had a chance to before now like most people... Most likely Dracula, Crime and Punishment, and perhaps some Jane Austen...
Finished reading "The Giver" by Lois Lowry, and I've now started "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde... I think I'll probably go through some more classics after that, since I haven't had a chance to before now like most people... Most likely Dracula, Crime and Punishment, and perhaps some Jane Austen...
Allah made everyone different thats what makes them special,so no matter what ppl say just remember you're SPECIAL!! "You are with the one you love"
Nem0
This thread has been dormant for a while. Needs some shaking up. I hope others contribute as well, and not let it go hibernating again.
Currently, I'm reading Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare, A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore, and The Biography of ʻUthman ibn ʻAffan by Ali Muhammad as-Sallabi.
I don't know if anyone can claim that they are actually reading a Shakespeare play, because you don't read them, you study them. They take comfortably longer than most books, and you're not done with them if you've just finished what's written in the book. You gotta consider the reference notes, the summaries, the dictionaries, etc.
A Dirty Job is quenching the fiction thirst, and the biography of the third caliph is doing double-duty of non-fiction and Islamic.
If Allah helps you, none can overcome you; and if He forsakes you, who is there after Him that can help you? And in Allah (Alone) let believers put their trust.
Surah Ale Imran : 160
It was narrated that Anas ibn Maalik (may Allaah be pleased with him) said:
The Prophet (blessings and peace of Allaah be upon him) climbed up Uhud, accompanied by Abu Bakr, ‘Umar and ‘Uthmaan, and the mountain shook with them. He struck it with his foot and said: “Stand firm, O Uhud, for there is no one on you but a Prophet or a Siddeeq or two martyrs.”
Narrated by al-Bukhaari (3483)
Allah (Subhaanahu Wa Taala) does not inspire seeking forgiveness in a slave whom he wishes to punish.
just finished Carthage Must Be Destroyed The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization by Richard Miles. currently reading Egypt, Canaan And Israel In Ancient Times by Donald B. Redford. both are excellant.
for background i watched TTC's 12part series Great Pharoahs of Ancient Egypt by Prof. Bob Brier, which was great. then, rewatched TTC'S 12 part Origins of Great Ancient Civilizations by Prof Kenneth Harl, which really rocks. the maps in Harl's later courses are phenomenal. and all that made me toss in TTC's 36 part lecture series The Holy Land Revealed by Prof/Archaeologist Jodi Magness. she is a great lecturer and offers great insight into the history of Palestine, though her maps could use some work.
Had the non-believer known of all the Mercy which is in the Hands of Allah, he would not lose hope of entering Paradise, and had the believer known of all the punishment which is present with Allah, he would not consider himself safe from the Hell-Fire http://www.muftimenk.co.za/Downloads.html
I was looking at myself talking to myself and I realized this conversation...I was having with myself looking at myself was a conversation with myself that I needed to have with myself.
Finished reading "The Giver" by Lois Lowry, and I've now started "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde... I think I'll probably go through some more classics after that, since I haven't had a chance to before now like most people... Most likely Dracula, Crime and Punishment, and perhaps some Jane Austen...
You should read the count of monte cristo.
I was looking at myself talking to myself and I realized this conversation...I was having with myself looking at myself was a conversation with myself that I needed to have with myself.
Paul De Kruif: Hunters of micro-organisms/Mikrobien metsästäjiä
Book tells about the history of scientists whose created science of micro-organism in Europe (from Leeuwenhoek (1600th century) to Pasteur and Ehrlich). As book is printed at 1927, it is more as historical than pure scientific one.
From Occupied Palestine:
We have suffered too much for too long. We will not accept apartheid masked as peace. We will settle for no less than our freedom.
^ I rather slash my wrists and see it get infected than read any books based on science. >_>
I was looking at myself talking to myself and I realized this conversation...I was having with myself looking at myself was a conversation with myself that I needed to have with myself.
Falling leaves by adeline yen mah reminds me of hong kong.
Allah made everyone different thats what makes them special,so no matter what ppl say just remember you're SPECIAL!! "You are with the one you love"
Nem0
I recently read a book called Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Al-Sanea. The author is a Saudi who has lived/still lives abroad, and she was able to make the status of women in Saudi look nearly as bad as in Afghanistan. Of course, they have the financial independence, but the book was so focused on the characters being overly concerned about their reputation. I've read a few reviews by Saudi nationals who say that it does not represent all the Saudi tribes, but even then the damsel in distress angle in the Saudi context seemed quite unbelievable. I've been to Saudi - I mean not just Makkah and Madeena, but even Jeddah, Dammam, and Khobar - and it was hard for me to believe that I was reading about those same women.
If Allah helps you, none can overcome you; and if He forsakes you, who is there after Him that can help you? And in Allah (Alone) let believers put their trust.
Surah Ale Imran : 160
It was narrated that Anas ibn Maalik (may Allaah be pleased with him) said:
The Prophet (blessings and peace of Allaah be upon him) climbed up Uhud, accompanied by Abu Bakr, ‘Umar and ‘Uthmaan, and the mountain shook with them. He struck it with his foot and said: “Stand firm, O Uhud, for there is no one on you but a Prophet or a Siddeeq or two martyrs.”
Narrated by al-Bukhaari (3483)
Allah (Subhaanahu Wa Taala) does not inspire seeking forgiveness in a slave whom he wishes to punish.
Al Ghazali on disciplining the soul, breaking the two desires and the revival of the religious sciences (same book) translated by T.J Winter (aka Abdul Hakim Murad, English convert, professor at Oxford University). Rethinking muslim women and the veil-challenging historical and modern stereotypes – Katherine Bullock Ph.D - (An Australian convert to Islam)
“This book straddles many academic disciplines: political theory, feminism, anthropology, sociology, history as well as Middle Eastern and Islamic studies...a powerful critique of the popular western notion that the veil is a symbol of Muslim women’s oppression...the author argues that in a culture of consumerism, the hijab can be experienced as a liberation from the tyranny of the beauty myth...”
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