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Hi folks,
I would like to know if any one can interpret a dream here to the best of his knowledge or can direct me to a website.
I have a dream that I like to know about its possible meaning and for a reason, I dont wanna share in public.

Many thanks
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I would like to read Quran with an understanding that I have witnessed after becoming a member of this forum.
However it is only stated ; journey of thousand miles, first step is the most difficult one - for me it was to kept aside the sunni version of thoughts
that I have been told all my life.

1. I would like to find a copy of Quran with an Audio translation please so I could listen to it when I can. Hence I need an audio version
either based on freeminds or the one i read on the website http://www.tolueislam.org/Parwez/expo/exposition.htm

2. I would like to read it from the order of revelation of surahs not that order which we know of in todays compiled version/
So if some one can send me the list of chapters in the order they were sent down, It would be good for me to understand the context better.

3.Most importantly,  I would like to know if any one on here has the time and will to answer my questions; the idea is to take time to read a verse complete
and then i will share my understanding and may also benefit from yours. Discussing on here in public means I will invite tens of threads to debate which is not my objective as of now. So only those who are labelled as Quranic people, please pm me. and I know it is a big thing am asking but may Allah reward you for this,
because your mentoring will not only help me but also to the folks around me who in later stage will listen to me.

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If there is any one on here who is currently in Dubai and want to start up a business and in need of a partner, please share the concept.
I have been trying to settle into dubai for a year now and I wish i have like minded people for business and can work out on a partnership.

It may appear as an ad but I suppose people on here will at least not rob me out of the money or something as this place is not known to many
and I hope most of the folks on here are honest in their lives.

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Hi folks,
I am doing a sort of research into Turkish history and I would like to know if any one on here is from there and has time to communicate with me.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJrfoWWlYCc#t=683

Please focus on the part (starting from minute 6:00) where he talks about the religion and the their books in particular and the part that every one
claims to have been holding the right book/religion.

My logic tells me that he is not all wrong in his claims or deduction. What is your opinion? Because whether we agree or not
religion plays central role in such atrocities (used directly or indirectly).

Regards

Hello Folks,

I thought maybe if I express my inner feelings on here, being a complete stranger and no fear of any sort, perhaps some one on here replies and it makes a change in my thinking.

I have been feeling lack of motivation in life to continue. It feels like am going with the flow in every aspect of life; from professional to personal events.
I want to change the status quo but lacks the will to do it. I want to recite Quran on a daily basis but then what is the point? I like to pray contact prayer but yet again what will I get in return? or do I need it? I am not committing any sins, like I am stealing or am harming others. I am passing a life of an average father, a husband and a son. What is there to attain by submitting to the rituals of recite and pray or fast?

I see people on the streets wasting resources, I see lot of construction ; tall buildings and all of the shopping centers and I then turn my mind and think of all those people in poor countries and children in Africa dying of hunger?

I drop my kids to school and fear some thing could happen to them, I see typical hello, hi being exchanged with parents and my sibling. I see wife's talking about her folks and kept talking and I say what then? what is the point of all this around us? what is the point of all this world, all the people, all of them waking up, going to work, eating, sleeping and repeating the same?

I feel no security any place to go and live peacefully? I see routine sickness coming and going and we keep on eating and taking shit food and antibiotics? I see kids playing with ipad and all that like they are self-contain Artificial robots? I feel I am living in a state,waiting to reach the final destination-death and i see repeat of cycle will carry on and on.

I see my office and all of the issues and problems and fights and people taking it too seriously and personally, yet a couple decades from now, same issues will be there yet, myself and the people around me in the office will be replaced by other humans and we might be into bones and sands in graves. What is the point?

Yes there has to be a point but why cant I feel Living a life? Is it my fault am born into this era? I feel am like a computer processor executing millions of instructions per second while I wanted to be execute one instruction per second like the people in the past when the technology was not there so badly evolved into our lives?

I cant change anything? as am not alone now.. I have people looking upto me and where do I look to?

Some times I feel there is a soul out there thinking of the same and i make a connection and we exchange a letter a day sharing what we feel in our lives..
that would be some meaning of life to me... from rest of the things i do.  which by the way my relatives and friends think that I am a successful person in life in terms of financial and family? I am being ungrateful?

Cheers

I saw a dream or it is more likely a nightmare that I feel and am pretty sure my eyes were wide open and i could see my wife sleeping next to me on the other end of the bed.
I see in my dream, that I am talking to my wife and kids in the same room and then I open the window, and the street looks the same but there is some thing terribly wrong. I have this feeling that this is not my actual family and that am not in my home but another place and at that time it occurred to me that am dead and that i left my physical world and am now as a soul and the people around me are just to make me feel better but the real physical people (wife and kids) are in the actual room where i still would be sleeping dead and that my family would soon realize that i have died. At that moment i felt so strange and helpless that will i continue to go in this infinite dream life wandering here and there as a soul and meeting people that i knew in real life... is death really means that am in an endless dream... but i could feel so strong that i some how want to break away from this world and go back to my real life.
At that moment i prayed to God and begged to give me one chance to go back to my real life and that i be good or better and do this and that etc etc. I kept doing it and suddenly my eyes(which were open and which were able to SENSE all this time that am also in the bed lying next to wife) suddenly blinks and i can feel an immediate some thing came into my body and i feel am now bck in my self.
I then verify again and see wife sleeping.
I woke up (was already as my eyes were open). stood up and wanted to realize what actually just happened.
I went to the other side of bed and tried to wake up my wife softly, after some time she opened her eyes and was about to scream, what the hell am doing standing in this our. I said i had a dream and i was like dead and as i was about to tell more, she said, can we please talk about it the morning and i shud go back to sleep, kids have to go to school tomorrow and i have to wake up etc etc.
I was sad and then i went to the other side of room, sat on the sofa and started to just imagine what has happened. After some time she realized and came and asked me what actually happened, i told her every thing and she said that it was a nightmare and nothing to worry about. She asked me what did i take before going to bed (as i was a bit sick with a bit of sore throat). I said I took 5 tablets of calcium and vitamin C at one as I felt so thirsty and i wanted miranda flavor drink. She said probably it is an over dosage and that my eyes were wide open due to the medicine.

She also told me that she has always been telling that life is short and i should not worry so much about future and that I have attained a lot with blessing of God and that we should now move to another place for a better life for our kids...

Since then I feel something is changed inside me.... i have a fear that perhaps there is no life after this life and that once we die, we are set into some infinite loop of chain of events and thats it...

Please can some one guide me or comfort me that there is actually life after death and that there is akhira and that there will be paradise and that we will be all living with our loves ones in that place.. else what is the point of all this circus that we see around us as humans living, comeing back and forth... there has to be a reason and a next stage?? As part of my faith i do believe in day of judgement but there is lot more than to just believe...what life would like there?


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Dear Fellows,

Please read the following story.
7-year-old hospitalized since birth
http://www.arabnews.com/saudi-arabia/news/657731

I would simply want to ask people on here, how can I understand such suffering and how can
I explain my conscious (heart and mind) so that my faith is not shattered?

Please note that I know the usual replies in such cases, what I want is a reply that can comfort my
soul in a way that will make my Iman better and stronger.

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In the following verses: Chapter 27 Namal

27:38 He said: ?O commanders, which of you can bring me her throne before they come to me in submission??
27:39 A powerful being from among the Jinn said: ?I will bring it
to you before you rise from your station. For I am strong and trustworthy.?
27:40 And one who had knowledge from the Book said: ?I will bring it to you before you blink.? So when he saw it resting before him, he said: ?This is from the grace of my Lord, so that He tests me whether I am thankful or whether I reject. As for he who is thankful, he is thankful for himself, and as for he who rejects, then my Lord is Rich, Bountiful.?

My question is that in the verse 39, it is Jinn is mentioned but in the verse 40, it is not explicitly mentioned was it a jinn or a man? If it was a man who is mentioned as "one who had the knowledge from the Book", then does it mean that we humans have the hidden mysterious power to perform what is termed as miracles?  And what is the Book that the person is talking about to Prophet Sulaiman? Was that a book like Quran available at the time or was it a book which contains all these miracles procedure etc?
Or the book mentioned here is a metaphor to the wisdom that God has given him?

Moreover I am really excited if some of the members wanna have a discussion with me on skype

My skype id is Nick.fusions

Cheers

Dear Folks,

I would like to know your opinion about the movie The Giver based on a novel written I think during 90s.
I have not read the book but watched the movie and I must say it does touch some of the areas I have been looking to find answers.

I will insist that please answer me only after you have watched the movie.

My question is if paradise is void of all those things that we encounter in this world, would there be a sense to it? For example, we have pain, thirst, hunger, tears, cries, sadness, efforts to achieve some objectives, passion for some goals to achieve and so many other emotional feelings.
If paradise is all about walking past rivers with wine and honey and all of the things which are mentioned in Quran and also mentioned specifically with names, then where would the urge come from to enjoy all of those things?

Of course, no one has seen or experience paradise and I can not comprehend what would be like , so perhaps my questions would not become valid if i had known its logic...

For now with all of my capabilities and short comings in this life, with what God has given to me, it seems like a place where one would get what he or she wants and goes on and on and there is not much similar to this life to look forward to.

There are clear verses in Quran which talks about people of paradise resting and enjoying the drinks and fruits and have young boys serving them and then men would have hoors which were not seen before by a human or Jinn (I did not say women have hoors, because normally we see a man having multiple women in this life) (not that I approve of it or this is my view-it is a separate discussion as some times I have been asked why not  a woman have men in paradise).

Anyway, if you watch the movie, you would understand my questions; for a place called paradise which is void of all the other-things which sole purpose for us in this life is to value the opposite.

Cheers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvp6FnYWRZU

Dear All,
I have been looking for a job in the Information Technology sector (banking or financials)
in the area of databases. I have a total of 15 years of experience and am working currently as
Head of Dept. Database Systems for a bank in one of the GCC country and would like to relocate to UAE.

Or, if some one has a business plan, I could also enter into business provided the share and efforts are distributed accordingly. In short I would like to move to UAE for better of my family.

Appreciate if any one can guide me.

Cheers