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Friday, 21 August 2026 / 8 Rabi' al-Awwal 1448 AH

Life doesn’t always go according to plan.

We make plans for our future, our careers, our families and our dreams. We imagine how things will turn out, and then sometimes life takes us in a completely different direction.

• A plan doesn’t work out.
• Someone we trusted disappoints us.
• An opportunity disappears.
• We experience loss.
• We face failure.
  
  And suddenly, the future we imagined doesn’t look anything like the future we’re facing...read more

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The Prophet Muhammad (Sallallahu Alayhi Wa Sallam) has said: "Allah has ninety-nine names, i.e. one-hundred minus one, and whoever knows them will go to Paradise." (Sahih Bukhari 50:894)

Abu Huraira RA reported Allah's Messenger (Sallallahu Alayhi Wa Sallam) as saying: "There are ninety-nine names of Allah; he who commits them to memory would get into Paradise. Verily, Allah is Odd (He is one, and it is an odd number) and He loves odd numbers.." (Sahih Muslim Book-48 Hadith-5)

الفتاح

(August 2026)

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O Allah, forgive our living and our dead, those present and those absent, our young and our old, our males and our females. O Allah, whom amongst us You keep alive, then let such a life be upon Islam, and whom amongst us You take unto Yourself, then let such a death be upon faith. O Allah, do not deprive us of his reward and do not let us stray after him. [Sunan Abi Dawud] (Aameen)

Method
Marinate meat with spices and cook till tender. Roast the spices fro a ew seconds in a frying pan and leave aside. Heat ghee add sauté onion and green pepper. Add the roasted masala and cook for 1 minute. Add the cooked chicken and chopped tomatoes. Add the yoghurt and steam for 5 minutes. Garnish with chopped dhania and serve.

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A real estate salesman had just closed his first deal, only to discover that the piece of land he had sold was completely under water.

"That customer's going to come back here pretty mad," he said to his boss. "Should I give him his money back?"

"Money back?" roared the boss. "What kind of salesman are you? Get out there and sell him a houseboat."

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