Allah had blessed us with a beautiful and loving daughter. Allhamdullillah. Bismah our 7 year old princess used to pray to Allah day and night asking for a baby brother. Allah has accepted her prayers and granted our family  with a precious gift. A very cute and gorgeous baby boy Mashallah.  Our son’s name is Rayyan Yusuf. He is about seven months old now. Here are some of his pictures to share and celebrate our happiness with everyone. Mashallah.

I am posting here a video called “Secret of Kaaba”. It shows that how the Kaaba is located at the golden ratio point of earth. It also shows that how that golden ratio point is related to human body, DNA, and cosmology etc. I am posting this video here for information of the readers.
Is there really a such thing as golden ratio or it is just a conincdence? Is it really important to show the world or Muslims that Kaaba is a miracle? It is good to watch these videos …

According to NYT, Pakistan has accelerated developping its nuclear arsenal. Members of the Cogress were told about the Pakistani nuclear arsenal in confidential briefings. If it is appearing in the newspaper headline, then it cannot be confidential or one of the Members attending confidential briefings could not keep it confidential. Adm. Mike Mullen, Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff when asked whether he had seen evidence of an increase in the size of the Pakistani nuclear arsenal replied quickly, “yes”.
NYT has also quated Bruce Riedel, the Brookings Institution scholar who …

By Riaz Haq
Amidst major counterinsurgency operations in and around Swat Valley and growing refugee crisis, there are signs of optimism by investors and bond holders in Pakistan’s economy. The KSE-100, Karachi’s stock index, is up 27 percent this year, compared with a 12 percent gain in MSCI’s emerging-market stock index of 26 emerging economies, including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Egypt, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Israel, Jordan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey and Venezuela. The Pakistani rupee, which declined 22 …

Everybody is now a day talking about twitter or tweeting. It is a microblogging (only 140 characters max) medium of communication between friends and family members through internet or cell phones.
Here is video to explain what tweeting is all about.
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Indian Primeminister Monmohan Singh told reporters, “The people of India have spoken, and spoken with great clarity”. The victory over the opposition Hindu-nationalist-led alliance means the left-of-center Congress may find it easier to form a stable coalition with smaller parties and be less vulnerable to pressure on issues like economic reforms.
“Eventually the people of India know what’s good for them and they always make the right choice,” Sonia Gandhi, the head of the Congress party, told reporters. Congress party supporters carrying banners of star campaigners Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi, …

Pakistan’s drive to overcome its chronic energy shortages received a boost when France expressed willingness to transfer civilian nuclear technology to the South Asian country to meet its energy requirements. This was decided during the talks between the visiting Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and his French counterpart Nicholas Sarkozy here Friday. Briefing media about the meeting, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said the negotiations regarding the transfer of civil nuclear technology will be held in July this year and a new framework agreement and Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is …

I wanted to share with linkmuslims readers the following informative article by  Asghar Ali Engineer.
RECENTLY I read a news item datelined Riyadh that said that Saudi Arabia was contemplating banning the marriage of girls under 18. This became necessary because a case of a girl aged eight years came to light. She was married off to a man over 40 years her senior. Many Saudi jurists and ulema, however, uphold such marriages. Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh endorses the practice of marrying underage girls, arguing that in doing so …

Roxana Saberi, a 32-year-old dual Iranian-American citizen, met her parents outside Evin prison Monday evening after the court cut her eight-year prison sentence on charges of spying for the U.S to a two-year suspended sentence.  ”She was reunited with her father and mother. They left for their house,” her lawyer Saleh Nikbakht told The Associated Press. He said Saberi was free to leave Iran immediately.
On Sunday, a court heard an appeal of Saberi’s conviction and sentence and her lawyers emerged saying they were able to defend her and were optimistic her …

Ottawa Muslims Association has been in the local news due to a number of issues related to Muslim community in Ottawa, Canada. It is always very painful to see such kind of behaviour on part of the people who have been entrusted with huge responssiblity of keeping the Muslim community united. The issue of Immam of Ottawa Mosque has created so much rift between the officials of the Ottawa Muslims Association that a large majority of the officials has decided to resign.
I do beleive that their resignation is not going to make …