http://www.hidayahblog.com Thu, 30 Jun 2011 21:22:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en HidayahBloghttp://feedburner.google.com Assalaamu-Alaykum (Peace be Upon you) Well it would seem that this post has been a long time coming. Not just due to the fact that it has been almost a year since my last post but also because so much has been written about this topic in the last couple of weeks, ... http://www.hidayahblog.com/index.php/2011/06/30/are-the-kids-alright/ Assalaamu-Alaykum - Peace be Upon you Well just a quick one to say Eid Mubarak to everyone. Alhumdulillah (all Praise belongs to Allah) it seems that everyone (bar a few exceptions!) is doing Eid-ul-Fitr on Friday 10 September 2010. May Allah accept our worship in Ramadhan and may He give us all the ... http://www.hidayahblog.com/index.php/2010/09/10/eid-mubarak-2/ Assalaamu-Alaykum - Peace be Upon you So you've probably heard that the poison that is the English Defence League (EDL) held a 'static' protest in Bradford yesterday. And yes, it could have been a very volatile affair.  What with the sole intention of the EDL to provoke the Asian (and especially Muslim) ... http://www.hidayahblog.com/index.php/2010/08/29/the-day-that-bradford-did-us-proud/ Assalaamu-Alaykum - Peace be Upon you So as we grow older (and possibly wiser!), it is only natural that we go forth and move on with our lives. Sometimes the move is towards things that are bigger, better and brighter and sometimes the change is a little more modest but something of ... http://www.hidayahblog.com/index.php/2010/08/21/movin-on-up/ Assalaamu-Alaykum - Peace be Upon you Well well well.  After an eventful week showing the actions of the Israeli state upon the flotilla of aid to Gaza, what can I say that has not already been said? So I thought, instead of pointing out the facts again, and re-iterate to the world ... http://www.hidayahblog.com/index.php/2010/06/09/we-are-humanity-and-we-hope-not-hate/ Assalaamu-Alaykum - Peace be Upon you Well I actually started this post when the Icelandic volcano first erupted in April, but as usual, me being sidetracked into doing other things together with my built-in laziness meant that this post would have been posted long after the volcanic ash cloud was out ... http://www.hidayahblog.com/index.php/2010/05/29/humans-0-volcano-1/ Assalaamu-Alaykum - Peace be Upon you Alhumdulillah (all Praise belongs to Allah)  for those good fellows at the Lancashire Council of Mosques who have been meeting with KFC in trying to sort out once and for all the question of whether the KFC chicken is really halal. You may or may not ... http://www.hidayahblog.com/index.php/2010/04/28/kfc-klarified-well-for-the-time-being-anyway/ Assalaamu-Alaykum - Peace be Upon you So what's with all this new Halal KFC business? Is it really Halal - no really, is it?  Cos I really wanna know if I can finally sink my teeth into one of them tasty Zinger Burger Meals and sample the Colonel's 'secret recipe' myself!! Well although ... http://www.hidayahblog.com/index.php/2010/03/13/kan-i-have-some-kfc-klarity-please/ Assalaamu-Alaykum - Peace be Upon you Whether you are a Muslim or a non-Muslim, I'm sure everybody's either heard or read this before; that Islam is a religion which oppresses women. Or you may have heard or read that Islam doesn't give women equal rights, etc, etc.....and the list goes on. One thing ... http://www.hidayahblog.com/index.php/2010/02/03/the-real-position-of-women-in-islam-what-the-media-dont-want-you-to-know/ Assalaamu-Alaykum - Peace be Upon you Here's another video regarding Palestine.  This one's about the second Viva Palestina convoy that went to Gaza to deliver much needed humanitarian aid and supplies to the suffering Palestinian people who are suffering as a result of the illegal blockade imposed by Israel. The incident in ... http://www.hidayahblog.com/index.php/2010/01/28/video-of-the-week-a-message-of-truth-from-the-viva-palestina-convoy/