here i am

[TheNabi]

Salaam and welcome. welcome

Joe

[Tay]

Welcome aboard Peaceful!!
sun

[Wakas]

Welcome.

I was also taught to read Arabic but not understand it. I am learning now though, and I recommend 'Arabic through the Quran' by Alan Jones (only ?12). Also, use the tools at www.studyquran.org

There is quite a few of us from the UK on this board, and I'm always happy to see one more.

[Jaxal]

SaLaM Peacefulmuslim

Welcome to the family bro wink

[unknownuser]

hi guys, thanks for the warm welcome.

and M_Mehdi, to begin with, i started on with the yusuf ali translation which one gets in saudi. now, i read a considerable lot than i did.

and wakas, thanks for the site. shall check that out. its funny, aint it, when one can read and write but cant understand? P

and jaxal, i am a female, so, would be a sister, if u insist on the brotherhood concept.

thanks for the welcome, guys.

[Jaxal]

SaLaM peacefulmuslim

My bad SIS. I always get this wrong. By the way, what part of the UK do you come from? Im in london, the frozen hell.

[unknownuser]

no worries, jaxal. am in london(not central, though) too.

[Wakas]

London is not cold, if compared to other places in the UK.

Where I stay, north-east Scotland, now thats cold (for the UK that is).

[unknownuser]

agree wakas, scotland must be really coldddddddddd!
The weather here isnt that bad yet.

[Jaxal]

SaLaM

Well considering that i saw snow the first time in my life when i came to london, there is no place colder for than London. Scotland is colder but london is cold enough.

[unknownuser]

Jaxal, where did u come to london from?

[Jaxal]

United Arab Emirated

cryhttp//www.geocities.com/bigjaxal/salute2.gif http//www.geocities.com/bigjaxal/uae_flag.gif

[unknownuser]

Thats quite patriotic

[Jaxal]

Its beautiful PM cry . One day, inshallah, i will go back to this paradise i call home.

[unknownuser]

if thats what u want, hope and pray u do!

[Jaxal]

This is the cornish in abu Dhabi (cornish is sea side). The view is breath-taking some evenings. You see that land mass below the sun? that is the beach. People come to that spot to watch the sun set in the sea.

http//www.alexandervandergraaf.nl/Welkom/Landen/V.A.E/VAE%20Abu%20Dhabi%20sunset.jpg

I hope you get to visit UAE atleast ONCE in ur life.

[unknownuser]

hi Jackal,
sounds like an interesting place. have not visited any of the arab countries. yeah, touring the world is on the agenda.

And the pic is awesome!

[Ming-Lo]

we are all taught to read arabic.. so that we can recite Quran. i am one of them. i can read arabic and cant understand a word of it.

LOL...Yeah, I went to a "muslim" school and we were taught the same way.....So I could read and write arabic but couldn't comprehend it if my life depended on it! Does that really make much sense??? Then again my teacher couldn't understand a lick of Arabic, but I guess it would have been too much to ask of my former school to hire a teacher who spoke Arabic and ACTUALLY knew what he was saying! shock .......lol.....Bermuda "muslims" are a riot!....Oh and Welcome to the forum.....though you were a member before me...oh well..lol )

[unknownuser]

Hi Ming-lo,
yeah, u r right, ur name does have a J-Lo feel to it

thanks for the welcome.
hope u have a good journey called life.

dunno about bermuda muslims, but arabic is spoken in only a few countries. so, i guess the rest of the world goes on reciting Quran in arabic considering the recital holy. i rememeber we were/are told that if we recite some particular sura some no. of times(say 100 etc), we would gain direct access to heaven or we get 500 steps closer towards heaven etc.
now, does that make any sense?

[warda]

Salam Peacefulmuslim

I like your name trance

and welcome on board