Author: Mohammad Yusha
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Movie Review: The Dark Knight Rises
If ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ was the most anticipated movie of the year, it certainly wasn’t the best. At least not the best among the Batman sequels. Not to mention the unnecessary long running time, which failed to hold my interest unlike the first two parts. The villian, Bane, seems to be dull character, which…
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Virtues Of Ramadan
“O you who believe! Fasting is prescribed for you as it was prescribed for those before you in order that you might learn piety . . . . The month of Ramadan is that wherein was revealed the Quran, as a guidance to mankind, and clear proofs of the guidance, and the Criterion (to distinguish…
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‘Batman’ Visits Colorado Survivors While Gun Sales Rise After Cinema Massacre
Batman star Christian Bale along with his wife Sibi Blazic visited survivors of the Colorado theater shooting Tuesday and stopped by a makeshift memorial to victims of the attack that killed 12 people and injured 58. Bale, who stars as Batman in The Dark Knight Rises, previously issued a written statement saying: “Words cannot express…
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Stephen Covey, author of ‘The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People’, Dies
Stephen R. Covey, author of the bestselling motivational book “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People,” died on Monday at an Idaho hospital from injuries he suffered in a bicycle accident in April, family members said in a statement. He was 79. Covey, a former professor at Brigham Young University in Utah, founded an executive…
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Money Is Happiness
Love of money is the root of all evil Lack of money is the root of all evil I keep hearing things like money can’t buy happiness, can’t buy love, and paise se kuch nahi hota (from tablighees). I would like to settle this issue once and for all. First and foremost, I would not…
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Movie Review: The Devil’s Double
Based on Iraqi soldier Latif Yahia’s autobiographical novel, the movie shows the traumatic events in his life. How he was pulled from the front and forced to be a body double, or pay with the life of his family. Dominic Cooper plays both Saddam Hussein’s son Uday, and Latif Yahia. He stars in a double…
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The Husband Store
A store opens which sells husbands. When women go to choose a husband, they have to follow the following instructions: You may visit this store ONLY ONCE! There are 6 floors and the value of the products increases as you go up. You may choose any item from a particular floor, or may choose to…
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Why do people finish their prayer before the Imam?
I have noticed that while finishing salah, when the imam is in the process of saying ‘assalam alaikum wa rahmatullah’ while turning his head towards the right, the people praying behind him have already finished saying ‘assalam alaikum wa rahmatullah’, and the same thing happens when the imam says ‘assalam alaikum wa rahmatullah’ while turning…
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Bangladesh rickshaw puller starts clinic for the poor
Joynal Abedin still remembers the rainy and windy night when he saw his father die because there was no medical treatment. His village in the northern Mymensingh district of Bangladesh did not have any medical facility at that time, and the nearest hospital was about 20km (12 miles) away. The death of his father, about…
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What Happened To The Sunnah Way Of Marriage?
It seems as though to go along with society’s customs, people are willing to compromise with Islamic teachings, specifically the sunnah way of marriage. Even religious people spend enormous amounts of money on their son’s and daughter’s marriages. In this day and age, the sunnah way of marriage seems non-existent. What happened to the sunnah…