7 GUIDELINES ON HOW TO REACT TO CARTOONS OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD

Source: ilmfeed.com

By: Shaykh Yunus Haleebi & Yahya Adel Ibrahim

The following points are general guidelines for Muslims on how to initially deal with and immediately react to the depiction of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ in magazines.

CELEBRATING THE NEW YEAR

Source: blog.islamiconlineuniversity.com

By: Dr. Bilal Philips

Origins

January is named after Janus, the Roman god of doors and gateways. He was commonly depicted in statues, carvings and paintings as a two headed man with one head facing forward and the other head facing backwards. In 46BC Julius Caesar chose January 1^st as the first day of the New Year as Janus symbolically represented the door to the New Year. Wild parties and orgies were held on the night before the New Year’s Day as a re-enactment of the chaos which Roman mythology depicted as preceding the cosmos or the ordered world whose organization was set by the gods. Furthermore, by that time, Janus had become, in practice, the highest god receiving the ritual sacrifices of Roman worshippers before the other gods, including the chief god, Jupiter.[1]

Thus, in its essence the celebrations of the New Year on January 1^stand New Year’s Eve, the night before, are a part and parcel of pagan religious rituals based on idolatrous beliefs in false gods. Consequently, it is completely Haraam (sinful and forbidden) for Muslims to participate in or adopt any of its related rituals, customs and symbols.

 If a non-Muslim greets a Muslim, “Happy New Year”, the Muslim is not allowed to respond in a similar manner or say, “Same to you.” Instead, in order not to offend or hurt the feelings of non-Muslim friends or acquaintances, one may say instead, “Happy holiday.”

 

As for celebrating the New Year according to the Islamic calendar which begins with the month of Muharram, this is also not permissible from a number of perspectives. First and foremost, if one does so believing that it is pleasing to Allah to do so, thereby transforming it into an act of worship, it becomes a  Bid‘ah or cursed innovation in the religion about which the Prophet (pbuh) said, “Every innovation in religion is misguidance and all misguidance leads to the Hellfire.” If one does so merely as a custom, it is still impermissible as it falls under the prohibition of imitation of pagan customs about which the Prophet (pbuh) said, “Whoever imitates a people becomes one of them.”

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[1] Pope Gregory 13^th who set the modern calendar, the Gregorian calendar, also officially fixed the first day of the year for ChristianEurope as January 1^st in 1582.

Piece of advice: A heart can not be broken

Source: Road Side 2 Islam

Asalamu Alaykum,

Remember if he/she ‘broke’ your ‘heart’ and promises were made but broken. A heart can not be broken because after being hurt your still breathing. So if you gave your heart to this person but never got theirs in exchange know that they was not worth it and know this was what the outcome would be. So this hurt your feeling inside yourself is something which was always going to happen. Because when we commit an act of haram there is always consequences (i.e being lied to). However Allah being the Most Merciful this can be a blessing in disguise.

Yawning Caused by Anxiety

Yawning Caused by Anxiety

Anxiety causes a lot of unusual reactions in the body, and in some cases it can feel like it changes the way you process air.

It’s not uncommon to find that your anxiety is making you yawn more. Yawning is actually a very common symptom of anxiety, especially if you have anxiety attacks, and it’s not just because anxiety can leave you fatigued.

In this article, we’ll explain why anxiety makes you yawn. You’ll also find out how yawning can actually increase your anxiety.

Yawning = Anxiety?

Yawning may not seem like a traditional anxiety symptom, but if it’s accompanied by other common anxiety symptoms it may be due to an anxiety disorder. Click here to take my free 7 minute evaluation test to see if you have the other symptoms that are related to anxiety yawning.

Why We Yawn

Yawning is a mystery of science, and one that is otherwise completely normal. Yawning is most often due to a lack of sleep, but in many cases yawning may be the result of the way your body responds to anxiety, particularly during an anxiety attack.

If you haven’t already, make sure you take the 7 minute anxiety test. It’s designed specifically to help people understand their anxiety, and whether yawning is likely related to an anxiety disorder.

Anxiety Yawning – Your Breathing During Anxiety

Anxiety has causes some unusual physical responses, but yawning is easily one of the strangest. Yet the reason for yawning is actually fairly simple. When you have anxiety, especially anxiety attacks, your body has a tendency to hyperventilate.

When you hyperventilate, your body starts to feel like it’s not getting a full breath. As a response, it tries to yawn, because yawning expands the rib cage and sends a signal to your brain that you did indeed get a full breath. In that sense, yawning is trying to tell your body to relax.

How You Hyperventilate With Anxiety

Hyperventilation is most common during anxiety attacks, but it can actually happen to anyone that suffers from anxiety, and it can happen even when no anxiety is present. The most common ways those with anxiety hyperventilate include:

• Rapid Breathing – During a panic attack, it’s not uncommon for the nervousness to force your body to breathe more quickly. This dispels too much CO2 without taking in enough oxygen to compensate.
• Tracked Breathing – Hyperventilation may also occur when you’re thinking about your breathing. This is because the body usually takes very small breaths, because that’s all the oxygen it needs. When you think about your breathing, you have a tendency to think you need larger breaths, thus taking in more oxygen than you need. You’re still breathing slowly, but because you’re mentally controlling your breathing rather than letting your body control it automatically, taking in too much oxygen the result.
• Poor Habits – Unfortunately, in many people hyperventilation can become a breathing habit. This generally occurs when you have anxiety attacks, and your body starts to learn to breathe incorrectly. This is one of the reasons that those with anxiety often hyperventilate even when they don’t think they have anxiety.

Hyperventilation is, in essence, the act of “over-breathing.” It’s the body letting out too much carbon dioxide while taking it too much oxygen. That can be strange for many people because hyperventilation feels like you haven’t gotten enough oxygen, but in truth it’s the opposite.

Of course, because you feel like you haven’t gotten a deep breath, you likely have a tendency to try to take even deeper breaths. This will just cause you to hyperventilate more, as you continue to take in too much oxygen.

How Yawning Can Actually Hurt Your Anxiety

It’s for this reason that yawning can actually harm your anxiety. Your mind and body have a tendency to try to yawn so that it can feel your ribs expand and help you feel calmer. But this causes two problems:

• Because you’re hyperventilating, it may be hard to get your ribs to expand, since it’s arguably a forced yawn. Forced yawns don’t always feel completed, and when that occurs it can lead to more anxiety over your health.
• When you yawn it’s not uncommon to feel a bit better about getting a full breath. But yawning is still taking in a great deal of oxygen, so when you yawn you’re still furthering the hyperventilation. Yawning has a calming effect on your worries about breathing, but it may still cause other hyperventilation symptoms, like chest pain, that may make you feel as though you need to yawn more.

In a way, yawning is simply a way that you and your body tell yourself that your heart and lungs are still working. It’s a way of curing that “shortness of breath” feeling that occurs when you’re anxious. But despite that “benefit,” yawning may also be furthering your anxiety, and potentially even triggering more anxiety attacks.

How to Yawn Less

Anxiety yawns cannot be easily turned off, because yawning is still an involuntary movement. In fact, even when you try to force a yawn, your body has to go along with it otherwise a yawn is nearly impossible – your chest simply will not expand to take in a yawn unless your body is willing.

So the key to yawning less is not to stop the yawning, but rather to fight the hyperventilation. You can do this by taking slower, calmer breaths. At first, those breaths will not necessarily decrease that feeling of being unable to take a deep breath, but over time your Oxygen and CO2 levels will be back in the right balance, and your mind and body won’t have that desire to take a full yawn again.

Source: http://www.calmclinic.com/anxiety/signs/yawning

The Manners of Yawning in Islam

Be like a tree, even if people throw a stone to hurt you, drop a fruit to benefit them.

 Be like a tree, even if people throw a stone to hurt you, drop a fruit to benefit them.
 Ser como un árbol, incluso si la gente tira una piedra a hacerte daño, deje caer una fruta para beneficiarlos.
 Wees als een boom, zelfs als mensen gooien een steen om je pijn te doen, laat een vrucht aan hen ten goede komen.
 Comme un arbre, même si les gens jettent une pierre de vous blesser, tomber un fruit à leur profit.
 Sei wie ein Baum, auch wenn die Menschen werfen einen Stein, um Sie zu verletzen, fallen eine Frucht, um ihnen zu profitieren.
 Yào xiàng yī kē shù, jíshǐ rénmen rēng shítou shānghài nǐ, fàngxià shuǐguǒ yǒuyì yú tāmen.
 Var som ett träd, även om folk kastar en sten för att skada dig, släpp en frukt för att gynna dem.
 Bud’te kak derevo , dazhe yesli lyudi brosit’ kamen’ prichinit’ tebe bol’ , padeniye plod v ikh interesakh.
 Insanlar sana zarar vermek için bir taş atmak bile, onları Yardımı bir meyve damla, bir ağaç gibi.
 Siate come un albero, anche se la gente gettare una pietra di farti del male, cadere un frutto a loro favore.
 Jadilah seperti pohon, bahkan jika orang melemparkan batu untuk menyakiti Anda, menjatuhkan buah untuk Manfaat mereka.