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Azaan a miracle? Yes!

Amazing as it sounds, but fortunately, for the Muslims of the world, it is an established fact.

Have a look at a map of the world and you will find Indonesia on the eastern side of the earth. The major cities of Indonesia are Java, Sumatra, Borneo and Saibil. As soon as dawn breaks on the eastern side of Saibil, at approximately 5:30 am local time, Fajar Azaan begins. Thousands of Muazzins in Indonesia begin reciting the Azaan. The process advances towards West Indonesia. One and a half hours after the Azaan
has been completed in Saibil, it echoes in Jakarta. Sumatra then follows suit and before this auspicious process of calling Azaan ends in Indonesia, it has already begun in Malaysia.

Burma is next in line, and within an hour of its beginning in Jakarta, it reaches Dacca, the capital city of Bangladesh. After Bangladesh , it has already prevailed in western India, from Calcutta to Srinagar. It then advances towards Bombay and the environment of entire India resounds with this proclamation. Srinagar and Sialkot (a north city in Pakistan) have the same timing for Azaan. The time difference between Sialkot, Quetta, and Karachi is forty minutes, and within this time, Fajar Azaan is heard throughout Pakistan. Before it ends there, it has already begun in Afghanistan and Muscat. The time difference between Muscat and Baghdad is one hour. Azaan resounds during this one hour in the environments of Hijaaz-e-Muqaddas (Holycities of Makkah and Madinah), Yemen, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Iraq .

The time difference between Baghdad and Alexandria in Egypt is again one hour. Azaan continues to resound in Syria, Egypt, Somalia and Sudan during this hour. The time difference between eastern and western Turkey is one and a half hours, and during this Alexandria and Tripoli (capital of Libya) are located at one hour's difference. The process of calling Azaan thus continues throughout the whole of Africa.

Therefore, the proclamation of the Tawheed and 'Risaalat' that had begun in Indonesia reaches the Eastern Shore of the Atlantic Ocean after nine and half hours. Prior to the Azaan reaching the shores of the Atlantic, the process of 'Zohar Azaan' has already started in east Indonesia, and before it reaches Dacca, Asr Azaan has started. This has hardly reached Jakarta one and half hours later, the time of 'Maghrib' becomes due, and no sooner has 'Maghrib' time reached Sumatra, the time for calling 'Isha Azaan' has commenced in Saibil!

When the Muazzins of Indonesia are calling out 'Fajar Azaan', the African Muazzins are calling the Azaan for Isha. If we were to ponder over this phenomenon thoughtfully, we would conclude the amazing fact that there is not even a single moment when hundreds of thousands of Muazzins around the world are not reciting the Azaan on the surface of this earth. Subhaan Allah!!!

Even as you read this material right now, you can be sure there is Azaan
somewhere !!!

'Yes, I've faith in Allah. Allah is my fountain of Life and My Savior. Allah keeps me going day & night. Without Allah, I am no one. But with Allah, I can do everything. Allah is my strength.'

Submitted by SAFIYA SEEDAT

* Death sentence for robber baboon. Fred, a baboon who gained notoriety for opening car doors and robbing tourists, is to be captured and put down.

* The lights went out around the globe like a Mexican wave in a football stadium at the weekend, as successive settlements observed Earth Hour.

* Expat found dead after wedding called off. Franita Swart was ecstatic. She advertised as much on Facebook, saying she was going to marry "the most wonderful guy in the world that fits me perfectly".

* The Syrian government has said 12 people were killed in violence in the port city of Latakia, which has been rocked by protests and unrest over the weekend.

* Japan's prime minister has warned there is still no end in sight to the world's worst nuclear crisis in 25 years as his government sought to clear residents from the vicinity of the radiation-leaking Fukushima Daiichi atomic plant.

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One of the most memorable case studies on Japanese management was the case of the empty soap box, which happened in one of Japan's biggest cosmetics companies.

The company received a complaint that a consumer had bought a soap box that was empty.

Immediately the authorities isolated the problem to the assembly line, which transported all the packaged boxes of soap to the delivery department. For some reason, one soap box went through the assembly line empty.

Management asked its engineers to solve the problem. Post-haste, the engineers worked hard to devise an X-ray machine with high- resolution monitors manned by two people to watch all the soap boxes that passed through the line to make sure they were not empty. No doubt, they worked hard and they worked fast but they spent whoopee amount to do so.

But when a workman was posed with the same problem, did not get into complications of X-rays, etc but instead came out with another solution. He bought a strong industrial electric fan and pointed it at the assembly line. He switched the fan on, and as each soap box passed the fan, it simply blew the empty boxes out of the line.

Moral of the story:

Always look for simple solutions.
Devise the simplest possible solution that solves the problem.
So, learn to focus on solutions not on problems.

"If you look at what you do not have in life, you don't have anything;
if you look at what you have in life, you have everything."

Allah, The Most Wise, says: "... If you are grateful, I would certainly give to you more (favours), and if you are ungrateful, truly My punishment is terrible indeed."
(Ibrahim/ 14: 7)

....your Lord will open a way for you from His Mercy and will make easy for you your affair." (Al-Kahf/18 : 16)

Anas reported that Nabi Sallallahu alaihi Wa Sallam used to supplicate,
"O Allah, there is no ease except what You make easy, and You alone can turn a difficulty into ease." (Ibn As-Sinni)

Submitted by FAHMIDA J.

* Put a tspn of vinegar when boiling eggs or beans; prevents the pot from staining!
* A tspn of oil in rice keeps the grains loose after cooking nd draining!
* Squeeze lemon juice in fruit salad;doesn't let the apples nd bananas from going brown!

Submitted by SALEHA MEEAH

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