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Tuesday, 13 Safar 1435 H / 17 December 2013

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THE BLESSING OF PAIN

by Sh Aa'idh Al-Qarni

Pain is not always a negative force and it is not something that you should always hate. At times a person benefits when he feels pain.

You might remember that, at times when you felt a lot of pain, you sincerely supplicated and remembered Allah. When he is studying, the student often feels the pangs of heavy burden, sometimes perhaps the burden of monotony, yet he eventually leaves this stage of life as a scholar. He felt burdened with pain at the beginning but he shined at the end.

More worthy and relevant examples are the lives of the early believers, who lived during the period of revelation and who took part in the most important religious revolution that mankind has ever seen. Indeed, they had greater faith, nobler hearts, more truthful tongues, and deeper knowledge than those that came after them: they had all of these because they lived through pain and suffering, both of which are necessary concomitants to great revolutions. They felt the pains of hunger, of poverty, of rejection, of abuse, of banishment from home and country, of abandonment of all pleasures, of the pains of wounds, and of death and torture.

Therefore. do not become excessively anxious when you think of pain, and do not fear suffering. It might well be that through pain and suffering you will become stronger. And furthermore, for you to live with a burning and passionate heart that has been stung is purer and nobler than to live the dispassionate existence of a person who has a cold heart and a shortsighted outlook.

If you wish to affect and influence others, whether it is with your speech or with your poetry, or even with your actions, you must first feel the passion inside of you. You must be moved yourself by the meanings of what you are trying to convey. Then, and then only, you will come to realize that you have an influence upon others.

"But when We send down water [rain} on it, it is stirred [to life}, it swells and puts forth every lovely kind [of growth}." (Qur 'an 22: 5)

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* Zimbabwe to ban private gold sales: Mugabe - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe says his government would soon ban private trade in gold, and require producers to sell the mineral through a state company.

* Top Oscar Pistorius cop quits - The head of police who took charge of the crime scene after Oscar Pistorius allegedly shot dead his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, has resigned.

* Heavy Gunfire Erupts in South Sudan's Capital - Heavy gunfire has erupted in South Sudan's capital in what security sources say is fighting between rival factions of the country's military.

* Death toll in Syrian bombing raid on Aleppo rises to 76 - BEIRUT: Seventy-six people, including 28 children, were killed when Syrian army helicopters dropped “barrel bombs” on the northern city of Aleppo, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

* President Rouhani: WMDs Not in Iran’s Defense Doctrine - TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Hassan Rouhani reiterated Tehran’s extreme opposition to the proliferation of the Weapons of Mass Destruction, and said WMDs have no room in the country’s defense doctrine.

BAKED ALASKA

Ingredients
125grm butter or margarine - ¾ cup sugar - 3 eggs - 1tsp vanilla essence - 1 ½ cups flour - 2 tsps baking powder - ¼ tsp salt - ½ cup milk - 4 egg whites - ½ cup sugar - 1 cup canned fruit salad drained - 2 small bricks vanilla ice cream.

Method
Step 1: Heat oven to 180c. Grease and bottom line a 20cm square tin. Cream butter, sugar and essence. Add eggs one at a time. Beat well after each egg. Sift flour, baking powder and salt and add the sifted ingredients to the creamed mixture alternatively with milk and blend gently. Pour into the prepared tin and bake for 30/35 minutes. Turn onto a cooling tray and leave to cool. Then slice cake in half. Raise oven to 200c.

Step 2: Whisk the egg whites till soft peaks form and gradually add the sugar and beat until stiff.

Step 3: Put half the cake on oven proof plate and cover with fruit salad and then the ice cream. Position the second half of the cake on top. Cover completely with the whisked egg white mixture. Bake for 15 mins at high temperature till egg whites are golden brown. Serve immediately.

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She looked at her mother and inquisitively asked, "Why are some of your hairs white, Mom?"

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