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| Do Not Worry:
We can't foresee the turning of the tide.
When problems beset us and tears are cried.
Sometimes life deals from the bottom of the deck.
Filling us with worry and leaving us a wreck.
The enemy seeks to devour and destroy,
Using deceptions to eliminate our joy.
While walking through the valley, our heads hung low.
The mountaintop seems so high, our footsteps slow.
How many times have we traveled this road?
To battle the frustrations of troubles bestowed?
Yet when we come to our darkest hour,
God demonstrates His infinite power.
It doesn't matter how bad things might seem,
He always comes through, our faith to redeem.
God will not fail us in our times of pain.
He'll never forsake us, by our side He will remain.
So when we find ourselves at a total loss,
Or when the valley seems too wide to cross.
Just remember you're in His love and care,
Look over your shoulder; He's always there! | | |
| As Salaam alaikum:
This is a challenging question for all of you...
How might monotheism be less "expensive" or more "economical" than polytheism? | | |
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Animated Theaterworks, in association with Queens Theatre in the Park, presents
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Taxi To Jannah
A new comedy by Mark Sickman
Directed by Donald Douglass
59E59 Street Theaters
February 8th - February 20th
Visit www.59E59.org for details and tickets |
Can Nasrudin, a clever and plucky Muslim taxi driver, succeed in building a storefront mosque in a derelict storefront church? Can he overcome the resistance of the local mosque hierarchy, the disdain of his father-in-law, the building department, his wife's desire for a new kitchen and his son's basketball dreams? Where will a humble taxi driver find the money for this ambitious project? Taxi to Jannah is a bumpy ride to paradise. | | |
|  [above picture] The rock is carved into a person prostrating towards the Ka'bah in Makkah (Saudi Arabia), the direction which all Muslims around the world face.
Verses From the Holy Qur'an on Prostration
God, the Almighty, said:
The Cow
[2.125] And when We made the House a pilgrimage for men and a (place of) security, and: Appoint for yourselves a place of prayer on the standing-place of Ibrahim. And We enjoined Ibrahim and Ismail saying: Purify My House for those who visit (it) and those who abide (in it) for devotion and those who bow down (and) those who prostrate themselves.
[2.275] Those who swallow down usury cannot arise except as one whom Shaitan has prostrated by (his) touch does rise. That is because they say, trading is only like usury; and Allah has allowed trading and forbidden usury. To whomsoever then the admonition has come from his Lord, then he desists, he shall have what has already passed, and his affair is in the hands of Allah; and whoever returns (to it)-- these arc the inmates of the fire; they shall abide in it.
The Women
[4.102] And when you are among them and keep up the prayer for them, let a party of them stand up with you, and let them take their arms; then when they have prostrated themselves let them go to your rear, and let another party who have not prayed come forward and pray with you, and let them take their precautions and their arms; (for) those who disbelieve desire that you may be careless of your arms and your luggage, so that they may then turn upon you with a sudden united attack, and there is no blame on you, if you are annoyed with rain or if you are sick, that you lay down your arms, and take your precautions; surely Allah has prepared a disgraceful chastisement for the unbelievers.
The Pilgrimage
[22.26] And when We assigned to Ibrahim the place of the House, saying: Do not associate with Me aught, and purify My House for those who make the circuit and stand to pray and bow and prostrate themselves.
[22.77] O you who believe! bow down and prostrate yourselves and serve your Lord, and do.good that you may succeed.
The Immunity
[9.112] They who turn (to Allah), who serve (Him), who praise (Him), who fast, who bow down, who prostrate themselves, who enjoin what is good and forbid what is evil, and who keep the limits of Allah; and give good news to the believers.
The Poets
[26.46] And the magicians were thrown down prostrate;
[26.219] And your turning over and over among those who prostrate themselves before Allah.
She Who Pleaded
[58.5] Surely those who act in opposition to Allah and His Apostle shall be laid down prostrate as those before them were laid down prostrate; and indeed We have revealed clear communications, and the unbelievers shall have an abasing chastisement.
The Inevitable
[69.7] Which He made to prevail against them for seven nights and eight days unremittingly, so that you might have seen the people therein prostrate as if they were the trunks of hollow palms. | | |
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