Download or read book Alhamdulillah Beads written by Myrmidon Books and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pretty gratitude journal for women and girls. With so many things to be thankful for in the world around us, how often do we take the time to collect our thoughts of appreciation for the gifts we take for granted from Him? Now you can do exactly that with this beautiful notebook, designed especially for the purpose! This blank-lined journal is ideal for Islamic teens, girls, and women of all ages. The pages of this simple-to-use journal are divided into two halves. Begin the day ahead's duties, hopes and tasks correctly by invoking His name, with 'Bismillah' on the lined left-hand of the page. Bring it to a close with gratitude to Him for the blessings of your accomplishments and 'Alhamdulillah' on the right. The English translations of these two phrases, taken from the Holy Quran, follow on the next page. The perfect gift for journal writing, to-do lists, diary entries, daily planning or simply to draw in, using a blank page. Use Amazon's 'Look Inside' feature to see more of the interior on a laptop or desktop for yourself!

Download or read book Psychology of Meditation written by Dr. Akbar Husain and published by Psycho Information Technologies. This book was released on 2021-01-13 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meditation is the essence of spiritual life. It is our mental attitude which brings in thoughts and shows us a positive outlook of life. Lots of patience is required to perform meditation. So everyone of us should do mediation to maintain positive attitude towards life. Performing mediation during stressful times in our life will make a big difference. There are many methods of meditation to keep the mind strong and for spiritual discipline. There has been a dramatic increase in the past 20 years on the impact of meditation upon one's health. There are various potential positive effects such as brain activity during meditation, brain waves during meditation, meditation and perception, sleep and elevation of positive emotions and outcomes, and positive behavior have been noted in the previous studies. In this book authors have reported a number of research based on various styles of meditation techniques: Insight meditation, Kundalini yoga meditation, Integrative body-mind training, Mantra Meditation, Non-referential compassion meditation, Mental Silence, Transcendental Meditation, Muraqabah and Tasbih meditation. Relaxation and different meditation techniques including bio-feedback, shavasana, vipasana, sudarshan kriyas, devotional songs etc. are of immense use in maintaining positive mental health. This book focuses on the relevance of psychology of meditation as a practical solution to improve the health-related quality life. We think meditative techniques suggested in this book are genuine in the sense that believers usually experience it. Readers may see what the general path is and the content this book reflects. It generates meaningful solutions of the physical, social , emotional, mental, and spiritual problems. This book will be useful for the students of psychology, social work and health caregivers.

Download or read book The Leper King written by Scott R. Rezer and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Leper King is a story of authentic history and imaginative fantasy interwoven with faith and love, war and magic set amidst the turbulent times of the Crusades. Upon the premature death of his father, BALDWIN IV, stricken with leprosy from a young age, ascends to the throne of Jherusalem at the age of thirteen. Immediately, enemies threaten his reign as war looms with the great leader of Islam, SALEHDIN. Guided by his trusted friend and Chancellor, Archbishop WILLIAM of Tyre, the young leper sets out to prove himself worthy of the crown, despite the political intrigues of his own High Court. Among those at Court with whom he must contend are his recently returned mother, AGNES de Courtenay, a grasping woman of immoral character, and his sister, SIBYLLA, who comes to Court after spending most of her life shut away from the world in a convent to marry a Western lord against her will. Being a minor, Baldwin must submit to the Regency of his much older cousin, RAYMOND III of Tripoli; but the young king chaffs beneath the Regents authority, longing to put it behind him so he can pursue his own course of action against the enemy. While Raymond continually argues for peace with the Muslims, Baldwin and the new lord of Kerak, REYNALD de Chtillon, hope to bring the Sarrazins to war before the sultans power grows too strong to push back. Unbeknownst to the king and the lords of Outremer, an old and secret cabal of heretic conspirators known only as the Order of Sion led by one, AMALRIC de Lusignan, that seeks to gain control of the kingdom. Their purpose is to proclaim a new form of Christianity with Jherusalem as its ecclesiastical seat of power in opposition to Rome and to crown a sacred king of their own making. That sacred king is none other than Amalrics brother, GUION de Lusignan, whom they claim is a blood descendant of Jhsu Christ. In this conspiracy, two influential men of the kingdom aid them: HERACLIUS, Archbishop of Caesarea and OTHON de Saint-Amant, Master of the famed warrior-monks, the Knights Templar. Saint-Amant, however, is a deeply conflicted man who begins to question how Sion, and the secretive master he reluctantly follows, is manipulating him and his Order. With Agnes diseased son crowned king, it isnt long before Lusignan draws her into the intrigues of the conspiracy as well with the belief she can protect her son. Seeking divine guidance in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in the aftermath of battle, Baldwin meets, by chance, an elderly woman who thanks him for a simple act of his kindness. He is astonished, though, when she casts aside her cloak and disguise, revealing to him that she is MARY MAGDALEN, a beautiful and immortal woman of Faerie who vows to guide and befriend him. Only later does she tell him that his leprosy is not the result of disease, but of a magic spell cast by an unseen enemy; a spell that not only devours the kings life, but also becomes the enemys own undoing. So begins a tale of history and fantasy, in which a young king must determine whether his faith or fate will guide him in the defense of his fragile kingdom. Visit the Authors Website at www.scottrezer.com to learn more about the novel and to read the prologue.

Download or read book State of Terror written by Louise Penny and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER​ Named one of the most anticipated novels of the season by People, Associated Press, Time, Los Angeles Times, Parade, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Guardian, Publishers Weekly, and more. From the #1 bestselling authors Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny comes a novel of unsurpassed thrills and incomparable insider expertise—State of Terror. After a tumultuous period in American politics, a new administration has just been sworn in, and to everyone’s surprise the president chooses a political enemy for the vital position of secretary of state. There is no love lost between the president of the United States and Ellen Adams, his new secretary of state. But it’s a canny move on the part of the president. With this appointment, he silences one of his harshest critics, since taking the job means Adams must step down as head of her multinational media conglomerate. As the new president addresses Congress for the first time, with Secretary Adams in attendance, Anahita Dahir, a young foreign service officer (FSO) on the Pakistan desk at the State Department, receives a baffling text from an anonymous source. Too late, she realizes the message was a hastily coded warning. What begins as a series of apparent terrorist attacks is revealed to be the beginning of an international chess game involving the volatile and Byzantine politics of Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran; the race to develop nuclear weapons in the region; the Russian mob; a burgeoning rogue terrorist organization; and an American government set back on its heels in the international arena. As the horrifying scale of the threat becomes clear, Secretary Adams and her team realize it has been carefully planned to take advantage of four years of an American government out of touch with international affairs, out of practice with diplomacy, and out of power in the places where it counts the most. To defeat such an intricate, carefully constructed conspiracy, it will take the skills of a unique team: a passionate young FSO; a dedicated journalist; and a smart, determined, but as yet untested new secretary of state. State of Terror is a unique and utterly compelling international thriller cowritten by Hillary Rodham Clinton, the 67th secretary of state, and Louise Penny, a multiple award-winning #1 New York Times bestselling novelist.

Download or read book Agents of God written by Jeffrey Guhin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Agents of God, sociologist Jeffrey Guhin describes his year and a half spent in two Sunni Muslim and two Evangelical Christian high schools in the New York City area. At first, these four schools could not seem more different, yet they are linked by much: these are all schools with conservative thoughts on gender and sexuality, with a hostility to the theory of evolution, and with a deep suspicion of secularism. And they are all also hopeful that America will be a place in which their children can excel, even if they also fear the nation's many temptations might lead their children astray. Guhin shows how these school communities use boundaries of politics, gender, and sexuality to distinguish themselves from the outside world, both in school online. Within these boundaries, these communities have developed "external authorities" like Science, Scripture, and Prayer, each of which are felt and experienced as real powers with the ability to make commands and coerce action. Think how someone can describe Science as showing something, or the Bible itself as making a command. By offloading coercion to these external authorities, leaders in these schools are able to maintain a commitment to religious freedom while simultaneously reproducing their moral commitments in their students. Drawing on extensive classroom observation, community participation, and hundreds of interviews with students, teachers, and staff, this book makes an original contribution to religious studies, sociology, and education"--

Download or read book WJEC GCSE Religious Studies Unit 1 Religion and Philosophical Themes written by Joy White and published by Hodder Education. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exam Board: WJEC Level: GCSE Subject: Religious Studies First Teaching: September 2016 First Exam: Summer 2018 For the new Welsh specification for first teaching 2017 Stretch and challenge your students to achieve their full potential with learning materials that guide them through the new Unit 1 content and assessment requirements; developed by subject experts with examining experience and the leading Religious Studies publisher - Enables you to teach philosophical themes confidently with clear explanations of Christian, Muslim, Jewish and Buddhist beliefs and practices. - Motivates students to build and cement their knowledge and skills using a range of imaginative, innovative activities that support learning and revision. - Prepares students for examination with exam focus sections at the end of each unit that provide guidance on how to tackle questions. - Helps students of all abilities fulfil their potential and increase their understanding through clear, detailed explanations of the key content and concepts. WJEC GCSE Religious Studies Unit 1 Religious Responses to Philosophical Themes Covering: - Christianity - Islam - Judaism - Buddhism - Life and Death - Good and Evil

Download or read book Jam on the Vine written by LaShonda Katrice Barnett and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this “captivating saga” of the post-Reconstruction era, a black female journalist blazes her own trail—“unforgettable; gripping; an instant classic” (Elle). Ivoe Williams, the precocious daughter of a Muslim cook and a metalsmith from central-east Texas, discovers a lifelong obsession with journalism when she steals a newspaper from her mother’s white employer. Living in the segregated quarter of Little Tunis, Ivoe immerses herself in the printed word until she earns a scholarship to the prestigious Willetson Collegiate in Austin. Finally fleeing the Jim Crow South to settle in Kansas City, Ivoe and Ona, her former teacher and present lover, start the first female-run African American newspaper, Jam On the Vine. In the throes of the Red Summer—the 1919 outbreak of lynchings and race riots across the Midwest—Ivoe risks her freedom and her life to call attention to the atrocities of the American prison system. Inspired by the legacy of trailblazing black women like Ida B. Wells and Charlotta Bass, LaShonda Katrice Barnett’s Jam On the Vine is both an epic vision of the hardships that defined an era and “an ode to activism, writ[ten] with a scholar’s eye and a poet’s soul” (Tayari Jones, O The Oprah Magazine).

Download or read book OCR GCSE 9 1 Religious Studies written by Lorraine Abbott and published by Hodder Education. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exam Board: OCR Level: GCSE Subject: RS First Teaching: September 2016 First Exam: June 2018 Motivate every student to deepen their understanding and fulfil their potential by following a stimulating, well-paced course through the strengthened content requirements; produced by subject specialists and OCR's Publishing Partner. - Equips students with the detailed knowledge they need to succeed with clear, lively explanations that make key concepts accessible to all ability levels. - Provides opportunities for students to learn, review and develop their knowledge and skills through a variety of engaging activities, discussion points and extension tasks to stretch high achievers. - Ensures that your lessons are both innovative and inclusive, supplying a bank of tasks that draw on best practice teaching methods. - Encourages students to take an active interest in every topic, using relevant news articles, real-life viewpoints and quotations from sacred texts to bring religious principles and practices to life. - Boosts students' confidence approaching assessment via practice questions and guidance on tackling different question types. - Enables you to teach the systematic study content confidently with comprehensive coverage of Christianity and Islam. OCR GCSE RS Spec Content covered: Christianity - Beliefs and teachings - Practices Islam - Beliefs and teachings - Practices Religion, philosophy and ethics in the modern world from a Christian perspective - Relationships and families - The existence of God - Religion, peace and conflict - Dialogue between religious and non-religious beliefs and attitudes - Covers the short course content.

Download or read book Pearls of the Faith written by Edwin Arnold and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Pearls of the Faith: Or Islam's Rosary, Being Ninety-Nine Beautiful Manes of Allah With Comments in Verse From Various Oriental Sources It is a custom of many pious Muslims to employ in their devotions a three-stringed chaplet, each string containing thirty-three beads and each bead representing one of the "ninety-nine beautiful names of Allah," whenever this use - among many other religious uses - is made of it. The Korân bids them "celebrate Allah with an abundant celebration," and on certain occasions - such as during the intervals of the Tarâwih night service in Ramadhân - the Faithful pass these ninety-nine beads of the rosary through their fingers, repeating with each "Name of God" an ejaculation of praise and worship. Such an exercise is called Zikr, or "remembrance," and the rosary Masba'hah. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Al Jumu ah written by and published by . This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book We Are Better Than This written by Robyn Cadwallader and published by ATF Press. This book was released on 2015-10-07 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We Are Better Than This is a collection of essays and poetry addressing the Australian government's asylum seeker policy. The aims of the book are several: to provide some of the information about the situation in detention camps that is being withheld by the government; to correct some of the government's misrepresentations of the current situation; to clarify some of the complex legal issues surrounding the right to seek asylum, and to give some insight into the plight of those who are seeking asylum. It is hoped that this book will better inform people about the government's policies: to support those who are unsatisfied and seeking to change the situation, as well as those who are uncertain and need more easily accessible and reliable information. Contributors are drawn from several areas of expertise and engagement with asylum seekers.

Download or read book Tasbeeh of Fatimah Zehra written by Jameel Kermalli and published by Jameel Kermalli. This book was released on with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a short course on the importance of the glorification of Allah SWT known as Tasbeeh of Fatimah Zehra.

Download or read book The Roles We Play written by Sabba Khan and published by Myriad Editions. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two-thirds of today's British Pakistani diaspora trace their origins back to Mirpur in Azad Kashmir, a district that saw mass displacement and migration when it was submerged by the waters of a dam built after Partition. Sabba Khan's debut graphic memoir explores what identity, belonging and memory mean for her and her family against the backdrop of this history.

Download or read book From a Crooked Rib written by Nuruddin Farah and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-06-27 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written with complete conviction from a woman's point of view, Nuruddin Farah's spare, shocking first novel savagely attacks the traditional values of his people yet is also a haunting celebration of the unbroken human spirit. Ebla, an orphan of eighteen, runs away from her nomadic encampment in rural Somalia when she discovers that her grandfather has promised her in marriage to an older man. But even after her escape to Mogadishu, she finds herself as powerless and dependent on men as she was out in the bush. As she is propelled through servitude, marriage, poverty, and violence, Ebla has to fight to retain her identity in a world where women are "sold like cattle."

Download or read book The Walk In written by Gary Berntsen and published by Crown. This book was released on 2008-08-12 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gary Berntsen, longtime CIA operative and the field commander who cornered Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan, writing with award-winning novelist Ralph Pezzullo, offers in this edge-of-the-seat thriller a terrifying vision of where the next threat to America may come from. When a highly placed Iranian intelligence operative walks into a U.S. embassy claiming to possess explosive information, counterterrorism officer Matt Freed is dispatched to interview him and is warned of an impending attack on the United States that could kill millions. But is the man’s story precious truth or calculated fiction? Matt isn’t sure, but with a possible catastrophe looming in less than two weeks, his superiors reluctantly prepare for the assault. Matt can’t leave it alone, though. With questions still lingering about what is really going on, he defies his superiors’ orders and launches his own investigation. As the clock ticks down, he searches frantically for the truth at an Afghan prison under siege, an abandoned Uzbekistan bio weapons facility, and a Moscow hospital where an arms dealer is dying of a mysterious disease. Ultimately, Matt’s efforts brand him an out-of-control renegade, and he finds himself left out in the cold. Yet he may be the only one with the knowledge needed to avert unimaginable chaos. From a counterterrorism warrior who has spent a lifetime thwarting those who would do us harm, The Walk-In is an exhilarating plunge into tradecraft and terror.

Download or read book Reading Nuruddin Farah written by F. Fiona Moolla and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2014 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A close analysis of Farah's novels is used to track the contradictions implicit in the notion of the modern, disengaged self and how transformations of the novel in literary history attempt to negotiate this founding contradiction.

Download or read book Children of Persia written by Napier Mrs. Malcolm and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Children of Persia' is a book intended to teach its primary audience, Christian and American children, about their counterparts who lived in Persia (modern-day Iran). Some of the languages and perspectives about the Persian people and their culture displayed in this book can be quite offensive for today's sensibilities; but it nevertheless provides an honest insight into the American perspective of Persians, including their children.