just like the school days

Posted by anasimtiaz on Aug 15, 2010 in Uncategorized | 12 comments Time changes, but we don’t. Not me, at least. I wasn’t able to concentrate much at work on Friday and therefore failed to meet a self-imposed deadline, something that I use religiously to push myself to work. I decided to make up for it by doing the remaining bits at home during the weekend and it sounded like a good idea. Working for a couple of hours near sehri time, and the job...
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Moon Sighting Conflicts (UK)

Posted by anasimtiaz on Aug 11, 2010 in Uncategorized | 5 comments Coming from Pakistan, moon sighting conflicts for the start of Ramadan is something I am very familiar with. However, the conflict there occurs invariably when a certain part of KP province (formerly NWFP) sights the moon and announce the start of Ramadan while the majority of the country awaits for government announcement. In any case, there is no dispute officially and especially no dispute at...
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Fajr Timing Confusion in West

Posted by anasimtiaz on Aug 5, 2010 in Uncategorized | 5 comments Last year during my first Ramadan in UK, I did not find it surprising at all that there was a dispute over the sighting of moon. That seems to happen just everywhere. What was surprising though was the vast differences in the ending time of Suhoor/Sehri and the Fajr prayer timing. I did not notice this before Ramadan, because there is no strict cutoff under normal circumstances. The differences...
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The Knowledge of Self

Posted by anas on Mar 1, 2010 in Uncategorized | 3 comments Knowledge of self is the key to the knowledge of God [...] and real self-knowledge consists in knowing the following things: What are you in yourself, and from what source have you come? To which place are you going, and for what purpose have you come to tarry here awhile, and in what does your real happiness and misery lie? Some of your attributes are those of animals, some of devils, and some...
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I Can't Believe This!

Posted by anas on Nov 2, 2009 in Uncategorized | 27 comments On 29th September 2008 during the late hours of the night, just 3 days before my departure to London, my father summoned me to his room and we talked about various things for a while. I was carefully avoiding any talk about myself going abroad because my mother was also sitting there, who gets rather emotional. Eventually the subject came up when my father said “You have been good in your...
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What do you do?

Posted by anas on Oct 24, 2009 in Uncategorized | 8 comments Are you a student? NO Do you work? NO Oh..unemployed? Bad economy ehh? NO Err..okay so what do you do? Nothing. I am in transition, and it sucks! Posted via email using...
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