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Pizza Lagan
An easy meal to use up all your leftovers.
Ingredients:
4 slices of bread torn into small pieces
½ cup grated cheese
Around a cup of cooked meat/cold meat shredded or cubed
½ cup tomato chutney (or ½ tin tomato simmered with ¼ tsp chilli powder, salt, pepper and ½ tsp crushed garlic)
250g mushrooms or peppers or any other vegetable sliced and sautéed
Chopped spring onions/parsley/origanum
2 eggs
1/3 cup milk
The Worthlessness of this World
Sayyiduna Mustawrid bin Shaddaad (radhiyallahu ‘anhu) reports that he heard Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) mention, “By Allah! The (shortness of the life of this) world, compared to the (eternal life of the) Aakhirah, is like the example of one of you dipping this finger of his into the water of the ocean (saying this, Rasulullah [sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam] indicated to his index finger). (On removing the finger from the water,) he should look at how much water remains on it (i.e. …
Heart at ‘Shore’ in the Midst of a Storm
On one occasion, the great saint and ascetic, Ebrahim bin Ad-ham (rahimahullah) approached a ship and wanted to board it. The captain of the ship asked him to pay two dinaars (gold coins) in order to travel on his ship. Ebrahim bin Ad-ham (rahimahullah) explained that he did not have any money on him at that time but he will definitely pay him during the journey. The captain was quite amazed and wondered how Ebrahim bin Ad-ham (rahimahullah) would give him …
