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Butterscotch Date Roll
A delicious (and easy) alternative to a traditional Swiss roll.
Place 150g chopped dates, ¾ cup boiling water and 1 tsp bicarb in your liquidizer.
Let it stand for 5 minutes.
Add 60g butter and 160 ml brown sugar. Process.
Add 2 large eggs, ¾ cup flour and 1 ½ tsp baking powder. Process.
Stir in 50g chopped pecan nuts.
Line a 25 by 30 cm baking sheet with baking paper.
Spread your batter …
A Modest Muslimah Inspires to Islam
The following is the first hand account of a female American doctor who accepted Islam due to a young Muslimah’s piety:
I am a gynaecologist and have been working in a hospital in America for the past eight years. Last year, a young, Muslim, Arab girl arrived in the hospital in the throes of labour. The labour pain was naturally severe and excruciating, yet I did not witness even a single tear fall from the eyes of this young girl.
The Demand of Knowledge
مَا كَانَ لِبَشَرٍ أَن يُؤْتِيَهُ اللَّـهُ الْكِتَابَ وَالْحُكْمَ وَالنُّبُوَّةَ ثُمَّ يَقُولَ لِلنَّاسِ كُونُوا عِبَادًا لِّي مِن دُونِ اللَّـهِ وَلَـٰكِن كُونُوا رَبَّانِيِّينَ بِمَا كُنتُمْ تُعَلِّمُونَ الْكِتَابَ وَبِمَا كُنتُمْ تَدْرُسُونَ
It is not (possible) for a man that Allah Ta‘ala give him the Book, wisdom and prophethood, and he then begins saying to the people “Become my worshippers, rather than Allah’s”. Rather, (he would say), “Be men of the Rabb; for you have been teaching the Book, and …
