Forecast for Global Oil Demand Cut

By DAVID JOLLY

Published: October 10, 2008

PARIS — Oil prices fell Friday to their lowest level in more than a year, as the slowing global economy led the International Energy Agency to cut its forecast for global demand.

The agency, which is based in Paris, said it was cutting its forecast for 2008 global demand by 240,000 barrels a day. It now estimates daily demand this year of about 86.5 million barrels, an increase of 0.5 percent from last year — the slowest growth in 15 years. It also cut its forecast for 2009 demand by 440,000 barrels a day, to 87.2 million barrels, an 0.8 percent increase over this year’s demand....Read more

Quran competition begines

The first quran competition organized by KAYLI has begun in this evening with more than hundred participants.It has been more than three years since the last quran competition was held by sh.atoll school.In this year's tournament all the participants are between the age of two and twelve, how ever its every ones dream to see, conducting such an event for all the age groups.Its every ones expectation to conduct this as long as KAYLI exists.

Ali Rifaz Team Vs Ulhiashi Team

A friendly match was played between Ali Rifaz's team and Ulhiashi team on today's evening in the newly renovated youth's football ground.The performance from both the teams were very imbalancing and as a result the match ended with a score of 0-6,finally Ulhiashi team winning over Ali Rifaz's team.A match will also be played on tomorrow's evening between the last year's champion of kanditheem soccur cup "Teens United" and Ali Rifaz's team.

Tips to Benefit Optimally from Ramadan

Brother, may you have a happy and blessed Ramadan! Ramadan is a month of discipline, self-control, patience, and good behavior. In Ramadan, Muslims are expected to gain the fruits of fasting, namely, piety and consciousness of Allah. In this context, Allah Most High says in the Glorious Qur'an, (O ye who believe! Fasting is prescribed for you, even as it was prescribed for those before you, that ye may ward off evil).) (Al-Baqarah 2: 183)

In his response to your question, Sheikh Ahmad Kutty, a senior lecturer and Islamic scholar at the Islamic Institute of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, states:

Ramadan is the most blessed month in the Islamic calendar. It is primarily a spiritual training course intended to help us cultivate essential virtues and skills in order to lead a meaningful life. Most often we live at a very superficial level of our existence, forgetting our true essence and identity as human beings. In other words, we become totally preoccupied with the physical and material dimensions, forgetting the spiritual core of our personalities. Ramadan, therefore, comes to remind us of who we truly are and how we can discipline ourselves in such a way that we are fully awake to our full spiritual potential.

In order to benefit from the blessed month of Ramadan and its spiritual regimen, I suggest that we focus on the following:

1. Welcome Ramadan with great fervor and spirit and expect to come out of it fully transformed in body, mind, and soul.

2. Perform all of the acts of worship while being fully awake to their inner dimensions and meanings. Most often we allow ourselves to go through these rituals as mere mechanical chores with the result that we gain virtually no benefit from them either spiritually or morally.

3. Let your fasting be a fasting of body, mind, and soul. As Imam Ghazali said, the vast majority of people fast only for namesake. For while staying away from food, drink, and sexual gratifications, their minds, eyes, ears, tongue, and other faculties feast on haram (unlawful matters). Therefore, in order to gain any true benefit from our fasts, we need to impose a total self-restraint upon all our faculties and stay away from all sinful and idle thoughts, words, and actions, and nurture the thought and remembrance of Allah.

4. Ramadan is not merely a month of fasting. It is rather a season to cultivate all sorts of virtues and good habits. It is the perfect opportunity to break free of all negative habits that have been holding us back from achieving the true happiness and perfection that is ours as a birthright. So seize the opportunity and focus on achieving real goals to make it a true life-changing and life-enhancing experience.

5. Ramadan is the month of empathy and generosity. In fact, one of the main purposes of fasting is to instill in us empathy for the poor and the less deprived. By exposing us to compulsory hunger, we are given a practical lesson in hunger and thirst and thus we become better motivated to empathize with the poor. Hence we are ordered to practice the optimum level of charity in the month of Ramadan.

6. Ramadan is the time to familiarize ourselves with the Qur’an, the true source of guidance, illumination, healing, and mercy—Allah’s perfect gift to humanity. We can only do justice to the Book when we go beyond merely chanting and memorizing it to reflecting and meditating upon the Revealed Word and respond to it in true spirit by acting upon its teachings.

7. One of the main purposes of all of the acts of worship in Islam is to cultivate in us a true sense of community and spirit of fellow humanity. Therefore, it is imperative that our compassionate words and acts be extended not only towards ourselves but also towards all of Allah’s creation.

Excerpted, with slight modifications, from: www.islam.ca

This has been taken from islamonline.net

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Teacher: Tell me a sentence that starts with an "I".
Student: I is the....
Teacher: Stop! Never put 'is' after an "I". Always put 'am' after an "I".
Student: OK. I am the ninth letter of the alphabet.

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RAMAZAN MABARAK

A Brief Message From Imam Zaid Shakir

The Month of Ramadan is upon us. During this special time, we should all reflect on the many blessings God has bestowed upon us. Those of us who live here in the West have been blessed with many material bounties that are unimaginable to many of our coreligionists in the East. The amount of food we enjoy and unfortunately the amount that many of us waste, the expansiveness of most of our homes, our ready ability to own cars, trucks, and vans, our easy access to higher education, our ability to marry at a young age, all of these blessings and many others are incomprehensible to many Muslims in faraway lands struggling to live from day to day.........Learn more

why Muslims differ on the beginning and end of Fasting in Ramadan? Please explain! Jazakum Allahu Khayran.

Wa`alaykum as-salam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.

In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.

All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.

Thanks for your important question and we earnestly implore Allah to enable us to reap the fruits of the blessed month or Ramadan, accept our acts of worship, and grant us forgiveness and immunity against the punishment of Hell-fire.

Surely, the month of Ramadan is the best season for offering good deeds and gaining reward. It is the duty of every Muslim to prepare himself for that blessed month.....Learn more

Significance of The Change of Qiblah

Two momentous events in the life of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) bear special significance as regards the institution of Prayer (salah) in Islam: The Miraj (the Prophet's Ascension) and the change of the qiblah from Jerusalem to Makkah.
There is general agreement among Muslim scholars that the Prophet's Night Journey and Ascension occurred in the month of Rajab, most probably on the 27^th of that month, about a year before the Hijrah (the Prophet's emigration from Makkah to Madinah); and the change of qiblah happened in the middle of Shaban, about sixteen months after the emigration.....learn more

Rout to Islam-3

Stories Of Converted Muslims > Females > Ms. Afrah Alshaibani

May 2, 1996. Ever since I can remember, my family attended a non-denominational conservative Christian church (Church of Christ). I grew up in the church, taught bible school and sang in the choir. As a young teenager I began asking questions (as I think everyone does at one point in their lives): Why was I a member of the Church of Christ and not say Lutheran, Catholic or Methodist? If various churches are teaching conflicting doctrine, how do we know which one is right? Are they all right? Do `all paths lead to God' as I had heard some say? Others say that as long as you are a good person it doesn't matter what you believe - is that true??????Learn more

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Stories Of Converted Muslims > Females > Mrs. Lara

April 25, 1996

As-Salamu Alaikum wa Rahmahtullahi wa Barakatu (May the peace, the mercy, and the blessings of Allah be upon you).

I am Canadian-born of Scandinavian and other ancestry, and I was raised in Canada. I have been a Muslima since February 1993 when I was 23. While growing up, I was never affiliated with any religion nor was I an atheist. When I was in my mid-teens I started to think somewhat about religion and at that time I did believe in the Oneness of God (Tawheed). Christianity never interested me......Learn more

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Stories Of Converted Muslims , Mr. Christopher Shelton

My conversion to Islam began in my eighth grade year. There was a Muslim student by the name of Raphael who first told me a little about Islam. At the time he was not so knowledgeable about Islam, but he put the initial interest in my mind which never went away....Learn more

Football Latest

The third practice match of Teens United was played yesterday,against CFC a new team which is going to participate in this year's tournament.The match was really tough for both the teams and as a result the match ended with a score of 2-2 at the end.The goals were scored by the striker Ahmed Nimal and by Ibrahim Mabrook for the Teens United.

When I Thought There Was No Way Out

By Najaah Arij

My path to Islam, I believe, began the day I was born. I was born into an American family who did not want me. My mother was living with her future husband's family and she and her future father-in-law were having a relationship of some sort while her future husband was in the military. I was a result of that relationship. Lean more

Do you have any doubt about prayer???

Prayer
The one who knows most of the Qur'aan should lead the prayer
Shaykh Naasir ud-Deen al-Albaanee
Prayer in a Night Thobe
Shaykh Muhammad bin Saalih al-`Uthaymeen
Wearing a head covering during the Prayer
Shaykh Muhammad bin Saalih al-`Uthaymeen
Listening to Songs after the Prayer
Shaykh Muhammad bin Saalih al-`Uthaymeen
Prayer with Urinary Incontinence
Shaykh Muhammad bin Saalih al-`Uthaymeen
Eating dates for Eid Prayer when it is perfromed in the Musallaa of Fajr
Shaykh Muhammad bin Saalih al-`Uthaymeen
Firing an Employee Who Doesn't Pray
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Quoted from fatwa islam

The Meaning of Islam

ISLAM is derived from the Arabic root "SALEMA": peace, purity, submission and obedience. In the religious sense, Islam means submission to the will of God and obedience to His law.

Everything and every phenomenon in the world, other than man is administered TOTALLY by God-made laws i.e. they are obedient to God and submissive to His laws i.e. they are in the STATE OF ISLAM. Man possesses the quality of intelligence and choice, thus he is invited to submit to the good will of God and obey His law ie. become a Muslim. Submission to the good will of God, together with obedience to His beneficial law, i.e. becoming a Muslim is the best safeguard for man's peace and harmony.......Learn more

I Knew God Would Take Care of Me

By Aziza (Um Aisha)

I was baptized in the Roman Catholic Church in my home country of Slovakia.

I also attended the first Holy Communion, but my family never went to church. In spite of that, I grew up as a Christian who always believed in the existence of God and pursued the truth.Lean More

BREAKING NEWS -Violance during the final match

There was a violation between some of the supporters and a supervisor during the final match played,yesterday's evening.According to the supporters the violation started due to the injustice between the students."the girls got closer to the goal,then most of us also moved near to the goal,but what happened was a supervisor came and ask only to the boys to move away'' a supporter said.However,its not a good idea to fight or even ague to teachers in any circumstances,and it could have been much better if the problem was complained to the seniors.

Day one of the tournament

The most challenging football tournament the, inter house senior football tournament has started.The first match was played between Blue house and Green house.There was a balanced performance from both the teams, but finally Blue house took over Green house with a score of 2-1.Second match was also played in the morning,just after the first match and it was played between last years champ Red house and Violet house.In this match both the teams played well,how ever Violet house scored a goal early,but as a result of joined team effort Red house scored an astonishing goal in the last minute.The third match was played in the evening and it was played between Red house and Blue house.As expected it happened to be really tough for both the teams, but Red house took over Blue house with a score of 1-0,at the end.

Two days to go

The most challenging event ,the inter house senior football tournament of sh.atoll school will be launching with in two days.All the teams are practicing really hard for the trophy,including the last years champion Red house.But this time most of the supporters are expecting blue house to be the champ,however we shouldn't under estimate the performance of last years runner-rup Green house and the Violet house.

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Ali Rameez’s two shops vandalized

Apparently some people aren’t fans of Ali Rameez’s music. Two shops owned by the former singer who had reached superstar status in Maldives with his singing before calling it a day and retiring to a life of piety and entrepreneurship, were vandalized on Monday night.

The former singing sensation told Haveeru on Tuesday that the windows of his two shops, Freeze Brand and Freeze Veg, had been smashed sometime during the night. The two shops are situated next to each other.

“The windows were smashed by a thrown pavement stone,” he said. “The windows were almost completely destroyed. One of the pavement stones was found inside the store.”

He also said that he did not think robbery was the motive behind the attack but admitted that he had no idea who had done it or why.

“Robbing the place was clearly not what was on the mind of whoever who did it,” Ali Rameez, who now worked for a society dedicated to spreading religious awareness, said. He also said that it would probably take around Rf2,500 to replace the broken windows.

A Media Official from the Maldives Police Service said that they were investigating the incident but that no arrests had been made yet.

The Dangers of Having Female Teachers for Boys in Elementary Schools

have come across what the newspaper al-Madinah printed in Issue#3898, dated 2-30-1397 A.H., written by one calling herself Nura bint Abdullah, under the title, "Face to Face.” In sum, Nura is saying that she had a meeting with a number of women, including the female Dean of the College of Education in Jeddah, whose name is Faiza. Nura mentions Faiza's surprise that there are no female teachers teaching boys in the elementary level, even to the fifth grade.Nura supported Faiza's views in that article for a number of reasons. Personally, with thanks to Faiza, Nura and their colleagues for the concern about the teaching of our young boys and for their welfare, I find it an obligation upon myself to point out that their suggestion is filled with evil and harmful consequences..........Learn more

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Women appearing in front of men

Many men in some families allow their wives, daughters and sisters to appear in front of men who are not their mahrams, such as their friends and colleagues, and let them sit with them and talk to them as if they were their mahrams. If we advise them they say that this is their custom and the custom of their forefathers, and they claim that their hearts are clean. Some of them are proud and arrogant although they understand the ruling, and others are ignorant of the ruling. What is your advice to them?.

Praise be to Allaah. What every Muslim must do is not to rely on customs; rather he should refer the matter to the pure sharee’ah. Whatever Islam approves of is permissible and whatever it does not approve........Learn more

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A Hindu's Journey to Islam

It all started when Saumya enrolled in a Family Law course at college, that included both Hindu and Islamic Laws. It was only th......Learn more

A busy man

How do you make a foolish person busy all day???? PUT HIM IN A ROUND ROOM
AND TELL HIM TO SIT IN A CORNER.

A British Teen Embraces Islam at 15

At the young age of 15, British Amirah embraced Islam. Picture © Microsoft.comAt the age of 15 many teenagers are interested in boys ,going out and other such activities.I am not going to lie, I was one of them all right, however now and again I would always think there must be more than this to my life, more to my purpose on this Learn more

School news

In order to increase the students awareness of Islam Sh.Atoll School has planned several events including giving Fatawas about Islam.The first Fatawa was conducted yesterday at 2:30pm in the AV room of the school to which many students were attended.The Fatawa was about the importance of prayer which was given by Sheikh Ilyas Hussain."it was very good and government wants Islam 'off' in Maldives,hopefully this will bring Islam 'in' Maldives" a paticipant said.Our reporters reported that it was just the beginning of this and it is going to be held in every weekend.

Football Latest Updates

The second trial match by the Teens United was played against a new team that has come to existence and played two days ago.The match was played in the evening.In the first half both the teams played almost equally,how ever as the second half begins the striker AhmedNimal of Teens United scored the first and one and only goal of the match.In the second half there wasn't a good approach from the rival team and finally theTeens United took over them.And it's their second consecutive win in the trial.

Report:Ali Sulaimaan

Last year's champ is getting prepared

The champion team of the last year's kanditheem soccer cup has started it's practice matches almost two months before the cup.The first practice match was played on last Friday against Off point Junior.Both the teams played their first practice match without some of their key players.During the first half, no goals were found and there was a balanced approach from both the teams,how ever at the start of the second half Ibrahim Mabrook brought the break through after scoring a goal for the teens united.Unlike the first half the second half was mainly dominated by the teens united and as a result,a second goal was scored by Mabrook soon after his first goal and a third goal was scored by the striker Ahmed Nimal nearly at the end of the match.FinallyTeens United took over Offpoint Junior with a score of 3-o.

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ضوء الإسلام

إبراهيم بن ادهم އަކީ ހެޔޮލަފާ ޞާލިޙް ޢިލްމުވެރިންގެ ތެރޭގައި ހިމެނި ވަޑައިގެންވާ ބޭކަލެކެވެ. އެއްދުވަހަކު ބަޞަރާގެ ބާޒާރުން ވަޑައިގަތެވެ. އެވަގުތު އޭނާގެ އަރިހަށް ދިޔަ ބަޔަކު މީހުން އޭނާއަށް ދެންނެވިއެވެ. އޭ އަބޫ އިސްޙާޤެވެ. އަހުރެމެންނަށް މިވީ ކިހިނެކުންތޯއެވެ. އަހުރެމެން ދުޢާކުރަމުއެވެ. ނަމަވެސް އަހުރެމެނަށް ދުޢާ އިޖާބެއް ނުވެއެވެ. ޖަވާބުގައި އަބޫ އިސްޙާޤު ވިދާޅުވިއެވެ. ކަލޭމެންގެ ހިތްތައް ދިހަ ކަމަކުން މަރުވެފައި ވެއެވެ.

ފުރަތަމައީ: ކަލޭމެން ﷲ ތަޢާލާ މަޢުރިފާކޮށް ދެނެގެން ވަމުއެވެ. ނަމަވެސް އެކަލާނގެ ޙައްޤު ކަލޭމެން އަދާއެއް ނުކުރީމުއެވެ.ދެވަނައީ: رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم އަށް ލޯބިވާކަމުގައި ކަލޭމެން ދަޢުވާކޮށްފީމުއެވެ. ނަމަވެސް ކަލޭމެން އެމާތް ސާހިބާގެ ސުއްނަތް ދޫކޮށްލައިފީމުއެވެ.ތިންވަނައީ: ކަލޭމެން ﷲ ގެފޮތް ކީރިތި ޤުރުއާން ކިޔަވައިފީމުއެވެ. އެކަމަކު އެފޮތަށް ކަލޭމެން ޢަމަލެއް ނުކުރީމުއެވެ.ހަތަރުވަނައީ: ﷲ ތަޢާލާގެ ނިޢްމަތްތައް ކަލޭމެން ކައި ހަދައިފީމުއެވެ. އެކަމަކު އެނިޢުމަތްތަކުގެ ޝުކުރު އަދާއެއް ނުކުރީމުއެވެ.ފަސްވަނައީ: ހަމަކަށަވަރުން ޝައިތާނާއަކީ ކަލޭމެންނަށްވާ ޢަދުއްވެއް ކަމުގައި ކަލޭމެން ބުނެފީމުއެވެ. ނަމަވެސް ކަލޭމެން އުޅެނީ އެއާ އެއްގޮތަށެވެ. އަދި ޝައިތާނާއާ ޚިލާފެއް ކަލޭމެން ނުވީމުއެވެ.ހަވަނައީ: ހަމަކަށަވަރުން ސުވަރުގެއަކީ ޙައްޤު ތެދު ކަމުގައި ކަލޭމެން ބުނެ އިއުތިރާފު ވެއްޖައީމުއެވެ. ނަމަވެސް ކަލޭމެން އެސުވަރުގެއަށް ވަދެވޭނެ ފަދަ ޢަމަލެއް ނުކުރީމުއެވެ.ހަތްވަނައީ: ހަމަކަށަވަރުން ނަރަކައަކީ ޙައްޤު ތެދުކަމުގައި ކަލޭމެން ބުނެފީމުއެވެ. އެކަމަކު ކަލޭމެން އެއާދުރަށް ފިލާކަށް ނުދުވީމުއެވެ.އަށްވަނައީ: ހަމަކަށަވަރުން މަރަކީ ޙައްޤު ތެދުކަމުގައި ކަލޭމެން ބުނެފީމުއެވެ. އެކަމަކު ކަލޭމެން އެމަރަކަށް ތައްޔާރެއް ނުވީމުއެވެ.ނުވަވަނައީ: ކަލޭމެން ނިދިން ހޭލައިފީމުއެވެ. ދެން ފަހެ ތިޔަބައިމީހުން މީސްތަކުންގެ ޢައިބުތައް ބަޔާންކުރުމުގައި މަޝްޣޫލުވެގެން ވީމުއެވެ. އަދި ކަލޭމެންގެ އަމިއްލަ ޢައިބުތައް ހަދާން ނެތިކޮށްލައިފީމުއެވެ.ދިހަވަނައީ: މަރުވެފައިވާ ކަލޭމެންގެ އަޚުން ކަލޭމެން ވަޅުލައިފީމުއެވެ. އެކަމަކު ކަލޭމެން އެމީހުންގެ ކިބައިން ޢިބްރަތެއް ލިބިއެއް ނުގަތީމުއެވެ.(ނޯޓް: މިލިޔުންކޮޅު ނަގާފައިވަނީ ضوء الإسلام އިންނެވެ އިންނަގާފައިވާލިޔުމެކެވެ(manadhoolive.com)މިލިޔުމަކީ

Al-Quran al-kareem القران الكريم

This section is underconstruction. Insha Allah will update soon.
Shaykh Fareed's recitation of some chapters.
01 - AL-Faatihah
02 - An-Naba'
03 - An-Naazi' aat

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About the sh.atoll school

Sh.atoll school is one of the most successful school in sh.atoll.In this school many co-curricular activities are held in each year.As normal in this year also many activities are on the way,such as inter house football tournament and it is considered as the most important of all.And it is about to conduct and most probably it will be held in the current month.similarly all the houses are getting prepared quiet hardly for the trophy.And more information will be on this site as it goes on.

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