Thursday 27 June 2013

City Council Mistakenly Pronounces Nelson Mandela Dead

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The city council of an Amsterdam neighborhood observed a minute of silence to mark the death of South African icon Nelson Mandela on Tuesday. Mandela, however, is not dead.
Dutch broadcaster NOS reported that members of the council of Southeast Amsterdam concluded based on Facebook messages that Mandela had passed away Tuesday evening.
"Mart van de Wiel of the D66/OZO fraction told us during the pause that his hero had died," clerk Sjam Jokhan told Dutch newspaper Het Parool. "I tried to verify the report," he added. "I found dozens of messages on Twitter that seemed to confirm the news, includuing messages like breaking news and it's official."
The council decided to hold a minute of silence honoring South Africa's former president. However, council members quickly learned of their mistake.
Everyone is scared of dying and rightly so.  The uncertainty of what lies beyond is frightening. It may be that of all religions, Islam, provides the most graphic details of what comes after death and lies beyond.  Islam views death to be a natural threshold to the next stage of existence.
Islamic doctrine holds that human existence continues after the death of the human body in the form of spiritual and physical resurrection.  There is a direct relation between conduct on earth and the life beyond.  The afterlife will be one of rewards and punishments which is commensurate with earthly conduct.  A Day will come when God will resurrect and gather the first and the last of His creation and judge everyone justly.  People will enter their final abode, Hell or Paradise.  Faith in life after death urges us to do right and to stay away from sin.  In this life we sometimes see the pious suffer and the impious enjoy.  All shall be judged one day and justice will be served...
Every soul will taste death. And We test you with evil and with good as trial; and to Us you will be returned.
Holy Quran(21:35)

A Ramadan Message by Shaykh Ahmad Saad Al Azhari Al Hasani رسالة رمضان



In this video, Shaykh Ahmad Saad talks about the importance of Ramadan, how we should behave in it and to welcome it. He also suggests that we dedicate our time & efforts this Ramadan to our parents & the elderly.