Conservation of Mecca Masjid- a difficult goal

Edit The Times of India 07 May 2016
For the first time in the recent history of Hyderabad, plans are afoot to comprehensively conserve the historic Mecca Masjid and restore it to its pristine glory ... "This is absolutely different ... Not many know that there is also a sundial in the mosque ... The other structures in the mosque include the Maqbara Dilawar-unnisa; Minarets; Dargah Khan Bahadur; Aasar-e-Mubarak; Madrassa; Library; Lecture Hall; Control Room and; Shahi Ghusl-khana....

Iran election results: cynics' and reformists' views from Washington

Edit The Guardian 03 Mar 2016
Some US commentators claim results betray 2009’s pro-democracy spirit, while others say Iran is becoming more democratic in spite of itself ... “Can you blame them?” he asked ... Related ... Dina Esfandiary and Ariane Tabatabai ... Hooman Majd, sarcastically invoking a Muslim religious ritual when performing ghusl (ablution) after touching an unclean, “wash, rinse, repeat”, tries to examine how much change Iranians really want ... Related ... ....

J&K; CM Mufti Sayeed laid to rest in home town Bijbehara; thousands bid farewell

Edit Deccan Chronicle 07 Jan 2016
Srinagar ... It is situated on a side of  Bijbehara-Pahalgam road on the banks of river Jhelum and  has avenues of Chinar and cypress trees. Sayeed’s mortal remains draped in Tricolour and J&K’s state flag earlier arrived at the Chief Minister’s official residence ‘Fairview’ at Gupkar overlooking the Dal Lake in Srinagar where ‘Ghusl Mayyit (washing the dead body) and shrouding it were done ... ....

'Dead' woman makes miraculous recovery in Karachi

Edit Dawn 21 Sep 2015
KARACHI ... This particular woman, he said, is from Dumba Goth near the Super Highway ... However, when staff began performing 'ghusl' on the woman, she suddenly came to life ... ....

ADVICE TO MUSLIMS IN RAMADHAN

Edit The Siasat Daily 29 Jun 2015
June 29.. Few Introductory and Complementary Notes.. 1. Ramadhan is an auspicious opportunity for believers to renew their commitment to their Creator and the Sovereign of the Day of Recompense ... 2 ... (Al-Qur'an 5.27). 3 ... 4 ... 5 ... 6 ... ADVICE TO MUSLIMS IN RAMADHAN. ... 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... 4 ... 5 ... 6 ... 7 ... 8 ... 9 ... Perform ghusl before Fajr if you need to purify yourself from the state of major impurity so that you are able to do acts of worship in a state of purity and cleanliness....

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes review – a mortician’s dissection of death

Edit The Guardian 03 May 2015
Caitlin Doughty’s memoir chronicling her initiation into the death industry is fascinating and often very funny. Pallbearers carry a coffin. Caitlin Doughty spares little detail about what happens to the body postmortem. Photograph. Alamy. Hannah Beckerman. Sunday 3 May 2015 08.00 BST ... As such, we learn about the funereal cannibalism of the Wari’ tribe in Brazil, about Egyptian embalming techniques and about the Muslim practice of ghusl ... ....

ALLAAH THE ALMIGHTY LOVES DELIBERATION - II

Edit The Siasat Daily 06 Feb 2015
February 06.. We should be deliberate and not hasty in our speech. What makes us act hastily in any matter, without giving it careful consideration? As long as we are in the process of thinking and have not uttered any words or done an action, we still have the privilege of choice . However, once we have uttered the words or done the action, then we have no choice but to wait for the results ... Thus, the man performed Ghusl and he died ... ....

How Fatima Jinnah died — an unsolved criminal case

Edit Dawn 24 Jan 2015
This she never accepted ... It was Mr ... Also read ... Ayub had won ... A ... The report included interviews of the people who had given her the ghusl – ritualistic bath given to the dead before burial, as per Islamic tradition ... The news item quotes one of these hired men – Hidayat Ali aka Kallu Ghusl – as saying that the corpse of Miss Fatima Jinnah had visible wounds on it, and there was an opening in her stomach which oozed blood and other fluids ... ....

EXAMPLES OF GOOD ENDS

Edit The Siasat Daily 29 Dec 2014
December 29. ... Fear of an evil end had broken the hearts of our righteous Salaf(predecessors) may Allaah have mercy upon them ... He said ... “He whose final words are ... Allaah decreed that two righteous young men see the accident and rush to him whilst he was unconscious and took him with them and when he woke up they told him to perform Ghusl (ritual bath) which he did, then they instructed him to pray, and after he prayed they said to him ... ....

'Jaweed could have been saved had cops taken us seriously'

Edit The Times of India 11 Dec 2014
HYDERABAD ... And even as the South Zone police began a crackdown on Thursday on Hasan's oppressive ilk, a pandemic in the Old City, Jaweed's family - five brothers, five sisters and their mother was busy in the funeral rituals. It was during the ghusl (the last wash) that Basheeruddin Mohammed, the elder brother said he had approached Mir Chowk police a day before Jaweed was killed, urging them to take action against Hasan ... ....

MLC takes part in Ghusl-e-Kaba

Edit The Hindu 28 Oct 2014
TRS MLC Mohammed Saleem took part in the ‘Ghusl-e-Kaba’ ......

EID UL FITR!

Edit The Siasat Daily 29 Jul 2014
July 29.. EID-UL-FITR is celebrated on the first day of Shaw'waal, at the completion of Ramadan. Shaw'waal is the 10th month of the Islamic calendar. The Eid-al-Fitr is a very joyous day; it is a true Thanksgiving Day for the believing men and women ... On those two days they had carnivals and festivity. Prophet Muhammad (SAWS) asked the Ansaar (the Muslims of Madinah) about it ... (Hadith). SINNAH OF EID. ... - Take a Ghusl (bath) after Fajr ... PARDON....

A death and life experience

Edit Mail Guardian South Africa 16 Apr 2014
When I first learned how to bathe and shroud a dead body, I was in high school ... Still, it was the theory, the lessons drummed into us at schools and madrasas, that impressed on us the absolute importance of the ghusl (the bathing of the deceased) ... Volunteers ... And although the aunties are now both too frail to do the ghusl and kafn, I';ve heard that another pair of women are now the designated toekamannies in central Johannesburg ... ....
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