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Sister Insha'Allah they dont do this..

i wont really write in detail what they do cos these are not original turkish practises but maybe for the into paragraph i can add to it. My essay question is about my culture. Since Turkey is influenced by İslam, mostly it will talk about the islamic perspective but there are other practices in turkey that are non islamic as in weddings, new born child, women golden days etc So my essay will be mixture of İslam influence with non islam influence. Also unfortunately my argument have to supported from texts that my teacher gave... its gonna be hard

Sis haya its out of wonder how is adding non muslim traditions in my essay could be a sin? Unfortunately these practices are very common... Also it would be really good if anyone can post a article about gift giving in islam. İt will be also nice that it is more detailed

Sis Haya, yes these are good ideas for my essay. U do this without expecting something from them. Well it didnt quite answer my question cos i was excepting something like, we give gifts to someone when they are married etc but actually you gaved me the idea, im going to argue about :) hmm i understand ablam. To be honest i believe that we are loosing our culture values. When it comes to Turkey there is not much thing to say cos most of the gift giving customs are birthdays or valentine and so on. We have some but maybe after some time it will go too. Some gift giving traditions we have in Turkey comes from İslam. Like we have Ashura, Eid. This is rare but some parts of Turkey still do this, they give to the wife's family some amount of money. i think its called dowry.

As salamu alaikum respected members I need help for my essay and i would like to ask all of you that what are the gift giving traditions in your countries? Since this a international site. I believe you all have intresting facts about gift giving traditions in your countries . JazakAllahu Khayran

to be honest i saw this news in Turkish and i wanted to share it so i found the original one... İnsha'Allah saudi doesnt plan to do this. and i totally agree. İ wonder the inside of it too. İts not fair if only man enters. We have the right too. They should make new rules regarding the enterance of the library.

The Indepentant Mecca under threat: Outrage at plan to destroy the ‘birthplace’ of the Prophet Mohamed and replace it with a new palace and luxury malls According to the Gulf Institute, up to 95 per cent of the holy city’s millennium-old buildings have been destroyed. The site in Mecca where the Prophet Mohamed is said to have been born is about to be “buried under marble” and replaced by a huge royal palace. The work is part of a multibillion-pound construction project in the holy city which has already resulted in the destruction of hundreds of historic monuments. The project, which began several years ago, aims to expand the al-Masjid al-Haram, or the Grand Mosque, to cater for the millions of pilgrims who make their way to the holy city each year for the Hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca that all Muslims are obliged to make at least once. Mecca is the holiest city in Islam because of its link to the birth of the Prophet, and because it is the site of the Kaaba, a cube-shaped building made from black granite and said to have been built by Abraham. The Grand Mosque is built around it, and Muslims face towards it when they pray. Many have looked on aghast at the destruction of hundreds of historic buildings and monuments to make way for the Grand Mosque’s expansion. According to the Gulf Institute, based in Washington, up to 95 per cent of Mecca’s millennium-old buildings have been destroyed, to be replaced with luxury hotels, apartments and shopping malls. Last week, the remaining 500-year-old Ottoman columns, commemorating the Prophet’s ascent to heaven, were destroyed, Dr Irfan Alawi of the UK-based Islamic Heritage Research Foundation, told The Independent. He said that the House of Mawlid, thought to be where the Prophet was born in AD570, is likely to be destroyed before the end of the year. The new royal palace is to be built for King Abdullah, the formal custodian of the mosque, for his visits to Mecca. Plans for the building, seen by The Independent, include the site of the House of Mawlid, which has recently been closed to pilgrims. The plans have been verified by an independent source who added that many critics of the construction process are unwilling to speak publicly for fear of being punished by the regime. Saudi Arabia is ruled by the strict Wahhabi version of Islam, which prohibits the worship of any object or “saint”, a practice considered “shirq”, or idolatrous. The destruction of historic sites was defended recently by Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti, Sheikh Abdul Aziz Bin Abdullah al-Sheikh. According to Press TV, Iran’s English-language news organisation, he said the demolitions were necessary and that the nation should thank the government for the work, which is increasing the capacity of the mosque. The rooms of the House of Mawlid are under the ground, and in 1951 a library was built over them to preserve them. This has now been closed to pilgrims. Signs on the building warn worshippers against praying. “There is no proof that Prophet Mohamed (peace be upon him) was born in this place, so it is forbidden to make this place specific for praying, supplicating or get blessing [sic],” it says. Dr Alawi, one of the few voices to publicly oppose the destruction, claimed that religious police are posted outside the library to prevent worshipping. “The site of the Prophet’s birthplace has again come under imminent threat of being permanently forgotten under concrete and marble,” Dr Alawi told The Independent. “Now that Hajj is finished, the 24-hour construction work has started again. They have finished the expansion on one side of the mosque. The royal palace, which will be five times bigger than the current royal palace, is to be built into the side of a mountain and will overlook the mosque. “Between now and December the library and the rooms of the House of Mawlid are likely be built over. It’s inevitable that it will happen. “It will be history. It will be gone. We are saying, ‘Let us excavate that house and preserve these rooms that are still there’.” In September The Independent revealed that even the tomb of the Prophet – which is in the holy city of Medina in the al-Masjid al-Nawabi mosque – was not off-limits for some hardline Wahhabis. The article, which revealed that calls for the removal of the tomb had been made in a 61-page consultation document, caused an outcry in the Middle East, and forced a denial from the Saudi authorities, who had previously refused to comment on the construction works. Details of that plan, obtained by a leading Saudi academic, Dr Ali bin Abdulaziz al-Shabal of Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University in Riyadh, were circulated to the Committee of the Presidency of the Two Mosques. Several pages of the consultation document were published in the presidency’s journal. The Independent has made numerous attempts to contact the Saudi authorities for a comment without success. However, in a previous statement the authorities said: “The development of the Holy Mosque of Makkah al-Mukarramah [Mecca] is an extremely important subject and one which the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in its capacity as custodian of the two holy mosques, takes with the utmost seriousness. This role is at the heart of the principles upon which Saudi Arabia is founded.”

What a beautiful reminder :) JazakAllahu Khayran

it will be really good if there is the transliteration for this dua

Quran is not to be put on the shelf and decorated and covered. Abu Darda رضي الله عنه said: ‘Whenever the time comes when you will decorate your mosques and your mushafs, that is the time when you will be destroyed because that is an indication you are favouring symbols over substance.’ At the time of Abu Darda رضي الله عنه, Quran was written on bones, leaves and pieces of leather. These days the Quran is decorated so much that people don’t even want to touch it and read it because it looks so good! If people were to see the Quran written on bones or other pieces, they would be quick to say that such a thing is disrespect to the Quran. Yet people do not think that not following the Quran is disrespect to it. We have lost track of what the Quran should do for us and how we should study the Book of Allah ﷻ. Allah says: (This is) a Book (the Qur’an) which We have sent down to you, full of blessings that they may ponder over its Verses, and that men of understanding may remember.’ [surah Saad, Verse 29]. ‘Do they not then think deeply in the Quran, or are their hearts locked up (from understanding it)?’ [surah Muhammad: Verse 24]. Allah is not only asking us to recite the Quran, rather He is asking us to meditate and contemplate over the Quran. We have to have ‘tatabbur’ (deep contemplation). [Transcript from a lecture by Shaykh Anwar Al-Awlaki: Understanding the Quran] May Allah help us gain understanding of the Quran and help us live by it.