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    Dany Kash <danyeye@gmail.com> Jan 06 06:07PM +0500  

    So kind of you . For Punjab it is working but not for Sindh
     
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    Javed Kaleem <kaleemjavediqbal@gmail.com> Jan 06 08:03AM +0500  

    [image: Laura booth.jpg]
     
    - Lauren Booth, broadcaster and journalist, who embraced Islam in 2010.
     
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    <http://www.arabnews.com/kids-need-dignified-mother-not-society-woman#><http://www.arabnews.com/kids-need-dignified-mother-not-society-woman#>
    Arab News, Friday 4 January 2013
     
    *Lauren Booth, broadcaster and journalist, is former British Prime Minister
    Tony Blair's sister-in-law, who converted to Islam in 2010. Here below is
    her journey to Islam and the heart-warming reaction of her family in this
    translated version of a recent interview:*
    *I thank Allah for giving me the chance to spend a month with the greatest
    Muslims alive in this Ummah today.
    At the end of Ramadan, I went to a family home in Rafa one of the poorest
    refugee camps in the poorest areas, of the over populated city in the
    entire world. I had iftar with a family there who had about 16 mats, which
    were used at night to sleep on. In the middle of this tent area the mother
    places the meal if she has any for her children to eat.
    This lady greeted me at the door and it was as if she was welcoming me to
    the Taj Mahal not a hellhole in the Gaza strip. "Sallam alaykum!" she says
    with a smile that lights up the whole area. I asked her: "What is it like
    in Rafa at Ramadan with very little food?" She said: 'Alhamdulillah!' with
    such joy I couldn't help but smile. And as I sat there on the floor of this
    home eating what little leaves that they had; a bit of hummus, a pita bread
    that was our Iftar.
    I got angry … really angry! I thought what is this God That makes hungry
    people even hungrier? What is this God Who creates a fast for the poorest
    of the oppressed people in the world. So, I turned to this sister and I
    said: "With all due respect I want to ask you, why does your God starve you
    in Ramadan? Why do you fast in Ramadan...sister, just explain to me?" This
    lady who never owned a handbag, whose children didn't have, never had
    shoes. Whose children I was sitting with didn't have pen or paper to do any
    drawings, she said to me: "Sister we fast in Ramadan to remember the poor."
    And a key went to my heart and unlocked it.
    But of course Islam wasn't for me that was for somebody else so I put the
    thought of how great Islam was to one side and said so what I like the
    Palestinian people but it has nothing to do with Islam.
    Then last year in Ramadan again I went to Iran as a journalist and I
    visited a mosque there, it's the Bibi Fatima Mosque and I made wadu because
    I knew how to do it and I put on a shadur and I made a simple prayer: Allah
    … and I used the word Allah. "Allah, don't give me anything. I have
    everything. Thank you for this journey, but Allah, don't forget the people
    of Palestine." Then I sat down in this busy mosque with women feeding their
    children, pilgrims coming and going; but when I sat down, this immense
    feeling of peace came over me. Peace and tranquility that I never knew
    before, such a calm that the tension in my heart went. There was no sound
    in my head for the first time in my life as an adult … just deep, deep joy
    and calm. I sat there for a long time in this place of calm knowing that
    somewhere in the universe everything is like this. Over the course of that
    evening women kept coming over to me holding me by the shoulders and
    saying: "I love you." At one point a child came over and held my hand and
    just said in Farsi (Persian): "I love you." I said to my friend Nadia, "Is
    this what it is like in the mosque?" She said, "Not really. I think
    something is happening."
    I slept that night on the floor of the mosque with a lot of other pilgrims
    and the next morning, Fajr sounded and I was inside the mosque and I prayed
    Fajr. Then I came outside and had a cup of chai and the sun was coming up
    and I had one very specific thought. "O, no... not Islam, please not Islam."
    I just want to say that a couple of strange things happened to me after
    that. I took the plane back to London from Tehran. As the plane was coming
    into London the pilot said: "Thank you for flying Tehran airways we'll be
    in London in 20 minutes." And at that point every Iranian Muslim woman took
    off the hijab and made out like she was from Sex in the City even showing
    some cleavage. I thought great. Thank goodness, my hands wouldn't take off
    the hijab. My hands wouldn't take off the hijab and I thought I was having
    a nervous break down.
    Seven days later I said my Shahada in a London mosque and it was time for
    me to return to the Qur'an. This time I opened the Qur'an, and Surah
    Al-Fatiha (the opening chapter) look like saying to me: 'Hello Sarah where
    have you been, welcome to the religion of peace, joy and tranquility,' and
    I couldn't put it down. Someone once told me — and I feel much like that
    before Islam — I had given up on God but God never gave up on me.
    Alhamdulillah.
    The question everyone wants to know is how did your family or children
    react. My two daughters who are very practical and are aged 8 and 10. They
    came to me with three questions:
    Mummy when you're a Muslim will you still be mummy?
    I said: When I am a Muslim you know what, I will be a better mummy, they
    said: "Horrayyy!"
    Mummy will you drink alcohol?
    When I am a Muslim I will never drink alcohol again and they said
    "Horrayyy!"
    When you're a Muslim will you show your chest?
    I said why would you ask such a question? They said when you come to the
    school and your chest is showing we are embarrassed and we hate it and we
    want you to stop it.
    When I am a Muslim I will cover all this area and to which they said: "We
    love Islam."
    It was that easy. When you look at those 3 questions the basic female
    womanhood is summarized in those 3 questions from the purity of children.
    Question no. 1. Will you be the center of our household? Can we rely on you
    as a mother to be there for us rather than putting your work, your
    colleagues/friendships or the bar in front of us?
    Question no. 2. Will you remain in the limits that Allah has described for
    all of us in behavior?
    Question no. 3. Will you be a modest dignified woman in Islam?
    Alhamdulillah that is all I have to say. What I have learnt this year in
    being a Muslim is this, when you have problems don't tell to your friends
    or family ...if you can read the Qur'an every night or read 10 min.
    everyday your Imaan is much, much higher. If you live in a non-Muslim
    country those of us who do it can go very low very quickly, you must read
    the Qur'an.
    If those who are not on the path of Islam if they come to Islam like me;
    or, if you're a Muslim ... you are on the path as well, so make sure that
    you don't miss those signs in everyday life. All praise is to Allah
    (Almighty).
    n Courtesy of **www.islamicbulletin.com* <http://www.islamicbulletin.com/>
     
     
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