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			<title>What to do when you are not going for Hajj</title>
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			<description>Praise be to Allaah, we seek His help and His forgiveness.  
We seek refuge with Allaah from the evil of our own souls and from our bad deeds.  
  
Whomsoever Allaah guides will never be led astray, and whomsoever Allaah leaves astray, no one can guide.  
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><div align="left"><font color="navy"><font color="navy">Praise be to Allaah, we seek His help and His forgiveness. </font></font><br />
<font color="navy"><font color="navy">We seek refuge with Allaah from the evil of our own souls and from our bad deeds. </font></font></div> <br />
<div align="left"><font color="navy"><font color="navy">Whomsoever Allaah guides will never be led astray, and whomsoever Allaah leaves astray, no one can guide. </font></font><br />
<font color="navy"><font color="navy">I bear witness that there is no god but Allaah, and I bear witness that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger.</font></font> </div> <br />
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<div align="left"><b><font color="#407f00"><font color="#407f00"><b>Bismillah Walhamdulillah Was Salaatu Was Salaam 'ala Rasulillah</b></font></font></b></div> <br />
<div align="left"><b><font color="#407f00"><font color="#407f00"><b>As-Salaam Alaikum Wa-Rahmatullahi Wa<i><i>-</i></i>Barakatuhu</b></font></font></b></div> <br />
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<div align="left"><b><b><font color="red"><font color="red">WHAT TO DO IF YOU ARE NOT </font></font></b></b><b><b><font color="red"><font color="red">GOING FOR HAJJ ?</font></font></b></b></div> <br />
<div align="left"><font color="#004080"><font color="#004080">The first ten days of Dhul-Hijjah are the most beloved to Allah .The Prophet testified to that. He said: </font></font><br />
<i><font color="#007f40"><font color="#007f40"><i>&quot;There are no days in which righteous deeds are more beloved to Allah than these ten days.&quot;</i></font></font></i><font color="#008040"><font color="#008040">(Bukhaari</font></font> <br />
<b><font color="#004080"><font color="#004080"><b>WHAT ACTIVITIES IN THESE 10 DAYS WILL BRING THE REWARD OF JANNAH?</b></font></font></b></div> <br />
<div align="left"><font color="#004080"><font color="#004080">Obviously, Hajj is one of the best deeds that one can do during these ten days. </font></font></div> <br />
<div align="left"><font color="#004080"><font color="#004080">However, for those of us who were not invited to His House this year, there are still many, good deeds that one can do and earn the Pleasure of Allah</font></font> <br />
<font color="#004080"><font color="#004080">Some of these are</font></font><br />
<b><font color="red"><font color="red"><b>1) Fast all nine days and especially fast the Day of Arafah</b></font></font></b><br />
<font color="#004080"><font color="#004080">The Prophet (PBUH) said</font></font><br />
<i><font color="#007f40"><font color="#007f40"><i>Anyone who fasts for one day for Allah pleasure, Allah will keep his face away from the (Hell) fire for (a distance covered by a journey of) seventy years.&quot;</i></font></font></i><br />
<i>Buk</i><font color="#004080"><font color="#004080">hari, Muslim)</font></font><br />
<font color="#004080"><font color="#004080">The Prophet (PBUH) used to fast on the ninth day of Dhul-Hijjah and he said</font></font><i><font color="#007f40"><font color="#007f40"><i>&quot;Fasting the Day of Arafah (ninth Dhul-hijjah) is an expiation for (all the sins of) the previous year and an expiation for (all the sins of) the coming year.&quot;</i></font></font></i><br />
<b><font color="red"><font color="red"><b>2) Do a LOT of Dhikr and Takbeer</b></font></font></b><br />
<font color="#004080"><font color="#004080">The Prophet (PBUH) said:</font></font><font color="#007f40"><font color="#007f40"> &quot;There are no days on which good deeds are greater or more beloved to Allah than on these ten days&quot;, so recite much </font></font><font color="#007f40"><font color="#007f40">Tahleel (<i><i>saying Laa ilaaha ill-Allaah</i></i>), </font></font><font color="#007f40"><font color="#007f40">Takbeer (<i><i>saying Allahu akbar</i></i>)</font></font><font color="#007f40"><font color="#007f40">and Tahmeed (<i><i>saying al-hamdu Lillaah</i></i>).&quot;(</font></font><font color="#004080"><font color="#004080">Ahmad -Saheeh)</font></font><br />
<font color="#004080"><font color="#004080">Ibn Umar and Abu Hurayrah used to go out in the marketplace during the first ten days of Dhul-Hijjah, reciting Takbeer, and the people would recite Takbeer when they heard them. (Bukhaari)</font></font><br />
<font color="#004080"><font color="#004080">Takbeer at this time is a Sunnah. </font></font><br />
<font color="#004080"><font color="#004080">So, recite it in the masjid, in your home, on the street and every place where it is permitted to remember Allah. </font></font><br />
<font color="#004080"><font color="#004080">Revive the Sunnah that have been virtually forgotten and earn great rewards for doing so</font></font><br />
<font color="#004080"><font color="#004080">The Prophet said:</font></font><font color="#007f40"><font color="#007f40"><i><i>&quot;Whoever revives an aspect of my Sunnah that is forgotten after my death, he will have a reward equivalent to that of the people who follow him, without it detracting in the least from their reward.&quot;</i></i></font></font><font color="#004080"><font color="#004080">(Tirmidhi- a hasan hadeeth)</font></font><br />
<font color="#004080"><font color="#004080">Men should recite these phrases out loud, and women should recite them quietly.</font></font><br />
<b><font color="red"><font color="red"><b>3) Stand in Night Prayers: (Tahajud, Qiyam al Layl)</b></font></font></b><br />
<font color="#004080"><font color="#004080">Remember the virtues of spending the night in prayer, and its sweetness in Ramadan? </font></font><font color="#004080"><font color="#004080">Why not revive this beautiful act of worship during these nights as well? </font></font><font color="#004080"><font color="#004080">Remember, how in the last third of every night</font></font><br />
All<font color="#007f40"><font color="#007f40">ah Almighty calls out to us, His servants:Is there anyone to invoke Me, so that I may respond to his invocation? Is there anyone to ask Me, so that I may grant him his request? Is there anyone seeking My forgiveness, so that I may forgive him?</font></font><font color="#004080"><font color="#004080">Bukhaari, Muslim)</font></font><br />
<font color="#004080"><font color="#004080">Why do we miss this golden opportunity? </font></font><br />
<font color="#004080"><font color="#004080">So, seize the chance NOW and expose yourself to His Divine Generosity and Mercy, ask Him to forgive you and guide you and set things aright. </font></font><font color="#004080"><font color="#004080">He will surely listen</font></font><br />
<b><font color="red"><font color="red"><b>4) Make Sincere Repentance.</b></font></font></b><br />
<font color="#004080"><font color="#004080">One of the most important action during these ten days is to repent sincerely to Allah and to give up all kinds of disobedience and sin right away because we do not know when we will die and thus become unable to repent, and also because one evil deed leads to another.</font></font> <br />
<font color="#004080"><font color="#004080">But, what does <i><i>'repentance'</i></i> mean ? </font></font><br />
<font color="#004080"><font color="#004080">It means that you come back to Allah and give up all the deeds, open and secret, that He dislikes…. </font></font><font color="#004080"><font color="#004080">That you regret whatever you did in the past, giving it up immediately and be determined never ever, to return to it, and resolve to adhere firmly to the Truth by doing whatever Allah loves.<i><i>&quot;</i></i></font></font><br />
<i><font color="#007f40"><font color="#007f40"><i>But as for him who repented, believed and did righteous deeds, then he will be among those who are successful</i></font></font></i> <br />
<b><font color="red"><font color="red"><b>5) Come back to the Noble Quraan</b></font></font></b><br />
<font color="#004080"><font color="#004080">It is time now to dust off your copy of the Noble Quraan and return to its refuge. </font></font><font color="#004080"><font color="#004080">Make it a daily habit, using these 10 days the beginning of a strong and beautiful relationship with it. </font></font><font color="#004080"><font color="#004080">Read it with meaning, reflect on it, understand it, and then implement it in your daily life.</font></font><font color="#004080"><font color="#004080">Remember that reading one letter of the Quraan earns you ten rewards. </font></font><font color="#004080"><font color="#004080">In this way, reading Surat Al-Fatihah, which doesnt take more than two minutes, will give you more than one thousand rewards! </font></font><font color="#004080"><font color="#004080">This is on ordinary days, so what about these magnificent days!</font></font><font color="#004080"><font color="#004080">Certainly the reward will be far greater, Insha Allah.</font></font><br />
<b><font color="red"><font color="red"><b>6) Increase ALL the types of good deeds.</b></font></font></b><br />
<font color="#004080"><font color="#004080">If we are unable to go to Hajj this year, we should occupy ourselves in the worship of Allah; <b><b>pray extra prayers (Nafilah) recite the Quraan. </b></b></font></font><b><font color="#004080"><font color="#004080"><b>Make Dhikr of Allah, send Salaams on the Prophet, make dua, give charity, honor our parents, uphold ties of kinship, enjoin what is good and forbid what is evil, and add other good deeds and acts of worship during these days</b></font></font></b><br />
<i><font color="#007f40"><font color="#007f40"><i>So whosoever does good equal to the weight of an atom, shall see it; And whosoever does evil equal to the weight of an atom, shall see it.&quot;</i></font></font></i><br />
<b><font color="red"><font color="red"><b>7) Get the reward of Hajj wherever you are</b></font></font></b><br />
<font color="#004080"><font color="#004080">You may be unable to do Hajj this year, and you may feel sad. </font></font><font color="#004080"><font color="#004080">However, you can get the reward of it right where you are.The Prophet said:</font></font><br />
<i><font color="#007f40"><font color="#007f40"><i>&quot;Whoever prays Fajr Prayer in congregation, and then sits and remembers Allah until the sun rises, then (after a while) prays two rakas, he will gain a reward equal to that of making perfect Hajj and Umrah.&quot;</i></font></font></i><font color="#007f40"><font color="#007f40">[He repeated the word &quot;perfect&quot; thrice.] </font></font><font color="#004080"><font color="#004080">(At-Tirmidhi)</font></font> <br />
<b><font color="red"><font color="red"><b>8. Slaughter an animal and distribute the meat.</b></font></font></b><br />
<font color="#004080"><font color="#004080">Ibn Umar said:</font></font><font color="#007f40"><font color="#007f40">The Prophet lived in Madeenah for 10 years and every year he slaughtered an animal.&quot;</font></font><font color="#004080"><font color="#004080">Ahmad-Saheeh by al-Albaani)</font></font><br />
<b><font color="red"><font color="red"><b>9) Attend Eid prayers</b></font></font></b><br />
<font color="#004080"><font color="#004080">But, remember that Eid prayer is a form of worship and we should avoid unislamic behavior (especially) in dress and in etiquette during these times.</font></font><br />
<b><font color="red"><font color="red"><b>10) Thank Allah</b></font></font></b><br />
<font color="#004080"><font color="#004080">One of the best forms of worshipping Allah Subhaanahu wa Taala is to thank Him, deeply, sincerely and continuously</font></font><br />
<font color="#004080"><font color="#004080">Alhamdulillah, there is much to be gained in these coming days. </font></font><font color="#004080"><font color="#004080">Hasten to do good deeds and striving hard in worship .</font></font> </div> <br />
<div align="left"><i><font color="#007f40"><font color="#007f40"><i>&quot;And worship your Lord until there comes unto you the certainty (death).&quot;</i></font></font></i><font color="#007f40"><font color="#007f40"> [Al-Hijr 15:99]</font></font></div></div>

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			<title>Marriage quotes</title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:17:04 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[I am not opening this thread in Life as it doesn't have life 1 problems :D So quote some good, bad and funny marriage quotes you liked 
Here is the one I recently liked 
"Marriage is finding that someone SPECIAL someone, you want to annoy the rest of your life." :p]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>I am not opening this thread in Life as it doesn't have life 1 problems :D So quote some good, bad and funny marriage quotes you liked<br />
Here is the one I recently liked<br />
&quot;Marriage is finding that someone SPECIAL someone, you want to annoy the rest of your life.&quot; :p</div>

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			<title>An Indian Kills Wife For Seeking Divorce</title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:13:14 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>_Geeta Aulakh left to die with hand cut off after ambush on her way to pick up kids - mirror.co.uk (http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/11/18/geeta-aulakh-left-to-die-with-hand-cut-off-after-ambush-on-her-way-to-pick-up-kids-115875-21830449/)_ 
  
  
*Geeta Aulakh left to die with hand...</description>
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<b>Geeta Aulakh left to die with hand cut off after ambush on her way to pick up kids</b><br />
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<u>By Matt Blake and Jon Clements</u><br />
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A mum of two was left to die on a pavement by brutes who battered her and hacked off one hand.<br />
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Geeta Aulakh, 28, was ambushed as she walked from her workplace to collect her two sons from a childminder in Greenford, West London. She died in hospital. <br />
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Her estranged husband was among six men arrested yesterday.<br />
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One of Geeta's workmates told yesterday how they strolled along chatting just minutes before the mum of two was ambushed by killers who hacked off her hand and left her dying in the street.<br />
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Shocked Seema Sidha, 31, had left the offices of Sunrise Radio with Geeta and walked part of the way home with her.<br />
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Seema said: “I was with her. We walked together before I caught the train.<br />
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“She said she was going to pick her children up from the childminder’s. That is the last time I saw her, about 6.30pm. <br />
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“That was her normal routine. She would drop her kids off in the morning and pick them up after work.<br />
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“This has been a terrible shock. Why would someone do this to her? She was my friend. I wish I’d stayed with her.”<br />
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Just before 7.30pm on Monday, 28-year-old Geeta was found by a passer-by.<br />
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She lay a few yards from the house in Greenford, West London, where a childminder was looking after her boys, aged eight and nine.<br />
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She had been beaten and one of her hands was chopped off. <br />
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Geeta, who is estranged from her husband, died in hospital hours later from head wounds, it is believed.<br />
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Seema said she and other colleagues were horrified by the murder and mutilation of Geeta, a receptionist at the community radio station in Southall.<br />
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She added: “”It is something you never expect. An absolute shock. Geeta was a happy person, always smiling.” When Geeta was late to collect her children, childminder Safeen Arif tried to phone and text her. She did not suspect anything was wrong until police officers arrived at her home.<br />
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British-born Geeta is thought to have split from her Indian husband Harpreet. He was one of six men arrested yesterday.<br />
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Harpreet lives in the area and recently returned from a cousin’s wedding in India.<br />
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Radio news producer Seema, 31, said: “She was separated from her husband. It was something she didn’t talk about.”<br />
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Passers-by tried to tend Geeta’s wounds as they waited for an ambulance. She was taken to Charing Cross Hospital and declared dead at 11.20pm.<br />
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Her distraught mother Mrs Shinh said: “We cannot come to terms with what has happened. We are too upset to speak.”<br />
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Another Sunshine worker said: “This morning we found out and we are all totally shocked. The whole building is in shock. She was a normal woman. A jolly woman who did not get angry and did not have anything bad about her.<br />
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“I keep walking into the office and expecting to see her sitting there.”<br />
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Police believe Geeta may have been attacked elsewhere and dumped on the pavement in Braund Avenue.<br />
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Acting Detective Chief Inspector Andy Chalmers appealed for witnesses.<br />
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He said: “When the victim was found, we know that a lot of people were in the street and that several people may have tried to administer first aid before the police or ambulance arrived.<br />
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“These people left the scene before speaking to police and I would ask that anyone who was there, or anyone else who has information, to call us.”</div>

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			<title><![CDATA[Payback for "mooching"]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:41:57 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ok so first, "mooching"in american means to take advantage of a person, place or situation.  I "mooched" and got royally paid back lol! 
  
We went to a lovely hotel over the summer for an out of town wedding.  They had SUCH llovely toiletries and the maid left her full cart right nearby while she...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>ok so first, &quot;mooching&quot;in american means to take advantage of a person, place or situation.  I &quot;mooched&quot; and got royally paid back lol!<br />
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We went to a lovely hotel over the summer for an out of town wedding.  They had SUCH llovely toiletries and the maid left her full cart right nearby while she took care of our room.  So yup.  I helped myself to a couple of items to bring home and I carefully put them in our medicine closet when we returned.<br />
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The other day, I ran out of my regular makeup remover and so opened one of those little packets and started scrubbing away at my eyes.<br />
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OUCHY!!!  HOLEY MOLEY!!!  What the HECK!!!!<br />
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Yup.  I ripped open a packet which contained a shoe-shining towelette instead of the make-up removing towelette.<br />
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I shoe-shined me eyes.<br />
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My mooching days are over.</div>

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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:34:52 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>during college life are very common...What i feel is you just  blink your eye n fall in love :D 
Okay in my class some are just friends n some seem seriously involved in each other.Are these relationships long lasting?Should one take it seriously?</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>during college life are very common...What i feel is you just  blink your eye n fall in love :D<br />
Okay in my class some are just friends n some seem seriously involved in each other.Are these relationships long lasting?Should one take it seriously?</div>

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			<title>concept of atomic fire in Quran</title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:00:21 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[[SIZE=3]Christianity                  had become the state religion of the Roman Empire. By fifth                  century every trace of opposition from any other school of                  thought had completely vanished. In seventh century when the                  darkness of the dark age of...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>[SIZE=3]Christianity                  had become the state religion of the Roman Empire. By fifth                  century every trace of opposition from any other school of                  thought had completely vanished. In seventh century when the                  darkness of the dark age of the West was on its increase, the                  Quran, in the first decade of that dark century, produced the                  prophecy about atomic bomb in a country which had to its credit                  nothing but ages of darkness as long as the memory of historian                  could take his thought back into its history. A prophecy which                  was to remain dormant for more than thirteen centuries awaiting                  its fulfillment. A prophecy at which no human intelligence could                  venture with utmost surety even a day before the first December                  1942, the day before Fermi, the Italian scientist achieved the                  first successful Fission Chain Reaction in Chicago.[/SIZE]</div>

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			<title>where the world is going now</title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:53:55 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[[SIZE=3]The atomic                  fire has possessed the heart of                  humanity with such tenacity that it will                  continue to afflict even the future                  generations. The ill-effects of the atomic                  radiations will be insidiously at work even...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>[SIZE=3]The atomic                  fire has possessed the heart of                  humanity with such tenacity that it will                  continue to afflict even the future                  generations. The ill-effects of the atomic                  radiations will be insidiously at work even                  in this present generation secretly                  sowing the seeds of misery and igniting                  the fires that will cause heart-burning                  to the future generations.                  That will as a result of the effects of the                  atomic radiations on this present                  generation be born as haggard apparitions,                  imbecile monsters, stinking                  lepers, and miserable chimeras of                  infinitely variant form[/SIZE]</div>

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			<title>Gupshup on facebook</title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:45:10 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[I just found out about the group on facebook accidently.....Why don't we have any information available on this forum regarding this group. I'm not really thinking of joining it but may be there are lots of other posters who want to join the group.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>I just found out about the group on facebook accidently.....Why don't we have any information available on this forum regarding this group. I'm not really thinking of joining it but may be there are lots of other posters who want to join the group.</div>

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			<title><![CDATA[Slackistan - Pakistan's 1st Slacker Movie]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:28:42 GMT</pubDate>
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/...film-islamabad (http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/oct/24/slackistan-indie-film-islamabad) 
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Welcome to Slackistan: Pakistan's first ever slacker movie. A few hundred miles from Pakistan's Badlands, Islamabad is the setting for Hammad Khan's new...]]></description>
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Welcome to Slackistan: Pakistan's first ever slacker movie. A few hundred miles from Pakistan's Badlands, Islamabad is the setting for Hammad Khan's new low-budget indie flick. So why does it feel like smalltown America?<br />
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Riazat Butt The Guardian, Saturday 24 October 2009 Article history <br />
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Aisha Akhtar and Shahbaz Shigri, just - you know - hanging<br />
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Visitors to Islamabad, the small but perfectly formed capital of Pakistan, could be forgiven for thinking that the only things to rock the place were terrorist attacks. But they would be wrong. The city, population approximately 600,000, forms the backdrop for the country's first slacker movie. Titled Slackistan, the low-budget independent film from first-time British director Hammad Khan features the Pakistani young and privileged as they drift around in a rarefied world of cars, dating, drinking and parties. Worrying only about what to wear and where to go, this group of fashionably-dressed kids could be in Orange County or New York's Upper East Side.<br />
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Khan, who co–wrote the no–budget, independent film with his wife Shandana Ayub, says he could have picked an easier target for his debut but wanted to capture an undiscovered world.<br />
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&quot;It's a countercultural film, one that rejects the stereotypical western view of Pakistan, as well as one that rejects the prevailing establishment of older cultures and traditions.&quot;<br />
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The turbulence in Pakistan hasn't dampened spirits among the young creative community<br />
As the first film of its kind, Khan is confident it won't be the last. &quot;The people who worked on the film are writers, actors, photographers, musicians, artists and film-makers. Slackistan should be a wake-up call to the wider youth base, both in and outside Pakistan, to redirect the future of the country. I made the film without any backing and I hope it can influence others to tell their stories. Pakistan has had a zombie movie in the last couple of years, now my slacker movie. Who knows what's next to counter the same old superficial song'n'dance 'masala' movie?&quot;<br />
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The turbulence in Pakistan – played out on rolling news channels – has not dampened spirits among the country's young creative community. Pakistan's second largest city, Lahore, has a thriving underground rock scene (and has recently seen the launch of its first guitar school) while Islamabad is about to gain a new outdoor auditorium and recording studio, the Rock Musicarium. Its founder Zeejah Fazli says there's a real thirst for entertainment and estimates that there are at least 20 rock bands in the city.<br />
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Khan, meanwhile, likens Islamabad to Canberra or Brasilia – seats of power that are very organised but entirely uneventful – and affectionately calls it the city that always sleeps.<br />
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&quot;Islamabad is quite dead but it has a lot of young people. It feels like smalltown America. The kids are living in a bubble. It's chaotic outside but the two worlds don't meet.<br />
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 Slackistan &quot;The only pictures of Islamabad you see are western journalists reporting on the Taliban.&quot;<br />
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The Slackistan story – if it can be called that considering the absence of a hard and fast plot – is about the lives of young people in Islamabad. Khan cast locals – Islooites – with no acting experience, who were essentially playing themselves on screen.<br />
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&quot;Every Islooite is talking or listening to stories of other people. It is a small town and the mentality is that of characters from Gossip Girl. Who was seen with whom, what car they were in and what happened at the last party are typical concerns for the Islooite. This town isn't big enough to get away with much.&quot;<br />
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If you were in Islamabad and in your twenties, he explains, you'd probably be seen at places like The Hot Spot, an ice–cream parlour and B–movie shrine housed in a disused train, or Rendezvous, somewhere that offers outdoor sheesha and indoor dating.<br />
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Ice-cream parlours and Gossip Girl? This hardly sounds like a cinematic feast. So why should anyone care about another bunch of bored and privileged kids?<br />
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&quot;They are the kids of businessmen, politicians or professionals,&quot; explains Khan. &quot;They are the future of Pakistan. They will inherit Islamabad and it is more interesting to look at what they might do with it, rather than look at the poor or the radicalised who have very little real power. The film is about growing up, too. It asks, can we really do this for the rest of our lives?&quot;<br />
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It's not just the cast and story that lend Slackistan its realism. The soundtrack features underground hip–hop and rock artists such as Zerobridge, the Fatsumas and Adil Omar.<br />
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'People ask me if I live in a hut! Those who don't know Islamabad will learn something'<br />
Indeed, the strapline for the film is: &quot;Think you know Pakistan. Think again.&quot; While it sounds like it ought to be part of a tourist campaign, it points to a country that is rarely explored in modern cinema, TV or literature. &quot;It's a weird conflation of Pakistani and western cultures and privilege,&quot; observes Khan.<br />
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His friend and mentor Asif Kapadia, who won a Bafta for his film The Warrior, says the trailer surprised him. &quot;I have my ideas of what I think Pakistan is like, so I can only imagine how much of a shock it will be for western audiences. It will really affect their preconceptions. It's exciting.&quot;<br />
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For Slackistan's two leads, Shahbaz Shigri and Aisha Akhtar, the film is quite simply a reflection of their day-to-day realities. &quot;It's about being a big fish in a little pond,&quot; says 20-year-old Aisha, when we meet in a bar at London's Cumberland Hotel.<br />
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&quot;You live in your comfort zone but you get stuck in a rut there.&quot;<br />
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 Slackistan Shahbaz, 21, who plays the film's protagonist Hasan, an aspiring film-maker, says there's a real lack of ambition.<br />
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&quot;Most jobs that kids get are through contacts. Ninety percent of Pakistani boys say they want to take over their dad's business. The slacker thing was always there, I was just never aware of it.&quot;<br />
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Aisha agrees that their Islamabad life is like &quot;Gossip Girl without the glamour. It's fun. It's awesome.&quot;<br />
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&quot;No matter how bored or unproductive it gets, it's nice,&quot; adds Shahbaz.<br />
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Having lived in the US and the UK Aisha says she has a more &quot;rounded vision&quot; than people who never leave Isloo. Both say it is &quot;completely normal&quot; for 20-somethings to hang out with and date 30-somethings in Islamabad, whereas it would be socially unacceptable elsewhere in the country.<br />
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&quot;You're friends with whoever is left in town,&quot; says Aisha.<br />
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Shahbaz feels the audience for Slackistan is a limited one. &quot;All the films that come out of Pakistan are either religious or political. I'm looking forward to see how it does abroad. It's made in a way that an indie would be made.&quot;<br />
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That would be, according to Khan, with a one–man crew, no script, no budget, no permission and, at one point, when the Taliban were just 60 miles away from Islamabad.<br />
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Shahbaz used his own car in the film, Aisha used her own room and they borrowed houses from friends to keep costs down.<br />
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&quot;We enjoyed making it and when it was over we were so bored, we were just being pathetic,&quot; says Aisha.<br />
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&quot;People who don't know Islamabad will learn something,&quot; says Shahbaz. &quot;People who don't know it have asked me if I live in a hut!&quot;<br />
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<b>&quot;This is the anti–Slumdog,&quot; proclaims Aisha. &quot;That was a good film but highly overrated. It wasn't anything new. It didn't show people a side they didn't already know. This will be a film people talk about.&quot;</b><br />
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			<description><![CDATA[Growing up, what were your favorite toys to play with as a child?   
 
 
 
Do you guys remember POGS? It was the "coolest" thing to play when I was growing up...all the kids at recess would bring their long plastic containers filled with these circular shaped pieces of cardboard and their...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><font color="black">Growing up, what were your favorite toys to play with as a child?  </font><br />
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<font color="black">Do you guys remember POGS? It was the &quot;coolest&quot; thing to play when I was growing up...all the kids at recess would bring their long plastic containers filled with these circular shaped pieces of cardboard and their &quot;slammers&quot; and trade with other kids :P  Man i don't know how I remember this...</font><br />
<font color="black">Marketers really know how to take advantage of kids and in their parents :P</font><br />
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oh and there was also the Tamagotchi craze with all the girls!</div>

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			<title>World Philosophy Day 2009</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>Hi Guys and Peace 
  
Please contribute to the Philosophy forum today ... I will write a couple of anecdotes as soon as I get a chance ...  
  
As it is  
  
WORLD PHILOSOPHY DAY 2009 today ... 
  
Hosted in Russia this time around ...</description>
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Please contribute to the Philosophy forum today ... I will write a couple of anecdotes as soon as I get a chance ... <br />
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As it is <br />
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WORLD PHILOSOPHY DAY 2009 today ...<br />
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Hosted in Russia this time around ...</div>

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			<description><![CDATA[what do you think of bi-racial relationships? 
 
what do pakistanis abroad think about a pakistani going out with a guy/girl of whatever other country you're living in? 
 
this includes Pakistanis from every strata of Pakistan, not talking of any specific class/region. there is every sort of...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>what do you think of bi-racial relationships?<br />
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what do pakistanis abroad think about a pakistani going out with a guy/girl of whatever other country you're living in?<br />
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this includes Pakistanis from every strata of Pakistan, not talking of any specific class/region. there is every sort of very-closed-minded / closed-minded / open-minded family. what's the larger perception of this situation?<br />
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how many of you are in a bi-racial relationship, or know someone who is in one? what are their issues? what problems do they face? what are the positive aspects of them being together?</div>

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			<title>Naats and shirk</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Have u ever noticed that sometimes nasheeds we listen usually have some wordings wrong in them.And Naoozbillah if we say those words by mistake then it is form of shirk.I am so angry right now someone send me a naat "Jashn e amaad e rasool ALLAH hi ALLAH " I was listening and when it was ending it...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Have u ever noticed that sometimes nasheeds we listen usually have some wordings wrong in them.And Naoozbillah if we say those words by mistake then it is form of shirk.I am so angry right now someone send me a naat &quot;Jashn e amaad e rasool ALLAH hi ALLAH &quot; I was listening and when it was ending it said &quot; Hazoor ka saya tak naa paya gaya &quot; What does this mean he was not human. And I really used to like one naat until I discovered its meanings it was &quot;na kaleem kaa tasawur naa kayal e  toor e seena &quot; and in the middle it said &quot;mein ne kaha al madad MOHAMMAD to ubhar gaya safeena &quot; we should be calling ALLAH instead of Mohammad.<br />
What are your views on nasheed do u still wana listen those kind of nasheeds or not</div>

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			<description>For those of us who do not understand slang (including me) here is a slang dictionary 
 
 
Dictionary of English slang and colloquialisms of the UK (http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/) 
 
 
vese how bout we guppies make our own gs slangtionary :faizy:</description>
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<a href="http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/" target="_blank">Dictionary of English slang and colloquialisms of the UK</a><br />
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vese how bout we guppies make our own gs slangtionary :faizy:</div>

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			<title>Urdu Slangs</title>
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			<description>Heyyy 
 
my lovely friends, 
its been ages i havent posted something silly here lol 
I hope that all of you are doing awesomely awesome lol 
 
okay lets start with the topic.. 
 
What are the urdu slangs.. 
do urdu slangs vary from Pakistan to India?</description>
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my lovely friends,<br />
its been ages i havent posted something silly here lol<br />
I hope that all of you are doing awesomely awesome lol<br />
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okay lets start with the topic..<br />
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What are the urdu slangs..<br />
do urdu slangs vary from Pakistan to India?<br />
and across Pakistan aswell?<br />
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like .. one of my friends she uses Chawal alot..<br />
she says it means from an idiot to a bad word.. you can put it anyway you want..<br />
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and guys tend to use bachi alot!! lol<br />
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some slangs which I think Karachiites use alot are:<br />
scene kya hai?/ scene on hai<br />
fit<br />
Chawal<br />
etc<br />
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input people!! =P</div>

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