Goodbye suckers: how not to do it
After having been sentenced to twelve years in prison for shooting a youth of foreign origin and paralysing him in the process, an Austrian doctor decided to commit suicide in his prison cell. Before that, he wrote a suicide note wherein he confessed to other racism-based attacks as well as a high profile bombing of a Mosque in Vienna.
Contrary to his plans however, he did not expire in glory, and is now being grilled by investigators concerning his other crimes.
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Islamic prayer times in Ubuntu: Minbar
For practising Muslims, a prayer reminder tool is very helpful and important. At this moment in time, and up to and including Feisty Fawn, there does not exist any such tool in the Ubuntu repositories. The good news is that Minbar, a prayer reminder tool that sits in the notification area in GNOME, will be included in the next release of Ubuntu called Gutsy Gibon. Until then, Muslim Ubuntu users can use the ubuntume repository to install Minbar, here's how:
Quran Explorer
I have come across the perfect Quran study tool. The website is called quranexplorer.com. The application, called Quran Explorer, is web based and hence operating system independent. It is quite similar to Zekr but in my opinion much more useful and powerful.
Each verse is read out in Arabic and then followed by the English translation. You can choose from a list of 10 translations, my personal favourite is the Yusuf Ali version which I feel comes closest to the original in Arabic. German, French, Indonesian, Malaysian, Turkish and Urdu translations are available too.
Five reciters are offered, and you can choose how many times a verse is repeated, perfect for study or memorisation.
Looks very promising and here is a screenshot:
Yusuf’s Cafe
Recently I watched the Yusuf's Cafe Session DVD which contains Yusuf Islam's live performance at Porchester Hall in London as well as an interview by the BBC's Alan Yentob. The interview was for me the most interesting bit.
It is amazing, again and again, to see how Yusuf Islam has evolved since his days as the popstar Cat Stevens. An aura of humility and calmness surrounds him now. He appears to be in tune with his life and surroundings, quite different from the searching Cat of old. No longer is he on the path to find out. He has found what he was looking for.
If you too are a fan of Yusuf Islam make sure to get a copy of this DVD, you will not regret it. The live performance of his newly released songs (the album is called An Other Cup) proves that his talents have not diminished despite a lengthy break from the music industry that spans some 28 years.
He always seems to come to the rescue, in the 1960's his songs captured the mood and questions of that era, today, once again, his songs bear so much relevance to life's issues.
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