Dear LivingHalal fan!

Assalam alaikum,

We can’t thank you enough but to say Jazakum Allahu khaira.

After the help of Allah, alhamdulillah, your help, dua, kind words, comments, suggestions, and spreading the words really made a difference.

May Allah surprise you on the judgment day with tons of rewards!

To give you a quick idea for the difference that you made in the Ummah, here is an update of LivingHalal’s progress as of the end of 1428 (12/31/2007):
-LivingHalal Shahada clips has received tons of hits, and one sister used it to say her Shahadah!
-Similarly, for LivingHalal Hajj & Umrah supplications clips, alhamdulillah
-LivingHalal YouTube channel has received 148,001 video views
-Started an article syndication service, and our first article was carried by around 100 sites, including Islamicity.com
-Called to offering your Qurban locally (video featured on many sites)
-Organized its first school essay and drawing contest, with prize totaling $1000
-Helped promoting Muslim businesses at different events

Some of our on going projects,
-Working with two Hollywood producers/directors in an instructional DVD about prayer
-Launching LivingHalal life-changing teleconferencing service, topics cover halal life, health, success, marriage, and parenting.
-Launching GoodNewsBuzz service that helps sisters to work from a Halal environment at their convenience schedule.

If you want to work with us, sponsor any of our educational shows, or carry our contents, please contact us (livinghalal at gmail).

Keep us in your dua,

Again, may Allah reward you!

~LH

PS: You can help by joining our mailing list, subscribing to LivingHalal channel on YouTube, spreading the words, or joining LivingHalal facebook group.

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Islamweb.net is a Web site that has a considerable amount of Islamic resources, e.g. Quran audio with English translation, which LivingHalal has used in its videos.

May Allah reward them and help them to improve.

Below is a review that we received from a brother about the Kids corner of Islamweb.

Well, you are often collecting reviews and opinions on things. You now have your first review of “kids corner” on Islamweb.

Something funny just happened.

I was looking through Islamweb and found “kids corner”. Excited that I can show it to Haniyah, I clicked through and started going through one of the illustrated stories. First, I was a bit disappointed that everything looked arcane, and I was sure Haniyah will find it “scary.” Why is Islamic = Medieval?

Anyway, I continued. The name of the story was “who is the owner of the jar” (I was thinking it would be about a cookie jar but it wasn’t!). Anyway… i clicked through the story which was about two men who couldn’t decide as to who is the owner of the jar full of gold that one man finds buried in a land he bought. Neither wants to claim the gold. One says he sold the land with whatever was in it so the jar is not his. The other says he bought the land not the gold so the jar is not his. They go to the judge. And the judge says… check this out… “do you have children?” Conveniently, one has a son and the other has a daughter. So the judge tells them to marry their children so that both can share the gold… and they both are happy!

I mean… what the heck is that! What is going on here? Marry your children so that you can split the gold? What’s the point, what’s the message for the children or the adults for that matter…? Now… I don’t know if the story is taken from a narration or someone just made it up (later seems to be the case) but whatever its genesis might be, it certainly doesn’t belong to “kids corner” (or any corner for that matter).

By the way, I checked out one Nasheed as well (Galla Allah is the title). It’s so poor even I can’t figure out what the message is for half of it. I don’t know how much it costed to create this site but it really is disappointing…

I once searched for and found some “Islamic cartoons” they were so scary that i didn’t even ask Haniyah to watch them after five minutes. can’t Muslims create something that is relevant to what kids experience these days? we live in LA and never see stars but even then twinkle twinkle seems more relevant for my daughter.

The prophet (SAW) said: Eid Al-Adha plus the three following days are days of eating and drinking.

So, why not try this recipe for your Qurbani meat?

Ingredients required:
2lbs ground beef
1/3 cup cooking oil
2 tablespoons ginger paste
2 tablespoons garlic paste
1/2pkt Shan Seekh Kabab Masala (available at Desi stores)
[LivingHalal disclaimer: we are not promoting Shan :)) ]

Directions:
Mix all of the above ingredients except oil.
Make small meat balls.
Thread each meat ball through a skewer.
With a wet hand, flatten the ground meat mixture in a thin layer
around each skewer.
Pour oil onto a cookie sheet to coat the surface, and arrange the kababs on the cookie sheet.
Bake at 350 to 400 degrees until meat is cooked through.

This can be served as a snack or a dinner dish.

Recipe courtesy of aunty Nasreen Kakli for LivingHalal

A sister telling her sweet memories from her Hajj trip, some highlights:
-You can communicate without knowing the other person’s language
-Hajj is like walking into the National Geographic Magazine
-Excitement about sharing Hajj stories with classmates
-Human generosity in action
-Hajj is what you make of it

Please post your comments so we know what you think… may Allah reward you.

**If you are a sound engineer and would like to give us some free tips about recording… please contact us. May Allah reward you.

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The statement of offering

Back Story of Tuhfa’s First Time Slaughtering

Below is an email sent from Tuhfa (of the above video) to his Qurbani-friends.

assalam alaikum

The first time I cut an Udhiyah is with Mohsin’s Afzal-bhai-meat-vendor. (I think Eid 1425/2004).

I still remember, I didn’t book any animals with you guys, but bought one on the spot (one lil secret, I didn’t even pay from my pocket, I called a sister, “Hey, you want a qurban, so I can practice cutting.” Well, didn’t really confess that latter part to her, and subhana Allah, she agreed, and later I found out she already did one before I called, so may Allah reward her for paying for two Qurbans in that year.)

Anyway, since then, I’ve learned more about the virtues of Udhiyah, and started to practice and call others to do this worship every year. Alhamdulillah, every year I dedicate part of Jummah Khutbah about it, and more and more are doing it locally.

So, never underestimate the impact that you can make by simply taking someone along to this act of worship, or taking the initiative to organize this activity, or buying an extra Qurban so someone can practice this worship for the first time

May Allah reward all local Qurbani initiators and supporters, ameen.

-tuhfa

PS: For that sister who funded the learning experience, may Allah surprise you with tons of rewards in the hereafter.

PS2: I see Karim is leading people do the same up North!! May Allah accept from you!