Traveling for hours above the clouds, businessman Abdalhamid Evans could not perform most of his daily prayers on time while flying as he crosses various time zones at thousands of meters above sea level.

"I usually don't pray when I am in a plane," Evans, the London-based founder of a website that provides information on the global halal, or Islam-compliant, industry, told Agence France Presse (AFP) on Friday, April 6.

"But lately I have been thinking that it is probably better to do them in the air than make them up on arrival," he told AFP.

Evans’ work, like millions of Muslims worldwide, obliged him to miss some of the five daily prayers required from Muslims on certain times every day.

Recently, hope for solving the problem appeared thanks to an innovation called the Air Travel Prayer Time Calculator.

Assalamu Alaikum brothers and sisters:

In shaa Allah this message will find you and your families in the best of health and Iman. Ameen.

Shaw University Mosque invites all he believers to come to a special program ” General Body Meeting ".

The program will hold as follow:

Date : Sunday, 15 April 2011

Time : Start from 12:00 PM sharp.

Place : Shaw Masjid

He was a very pious and learned man. He was not a companion of the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him), but a Taabeii (successor of the Sahaba). He met Abdullah bin Abbas, Imam Maalik and Hasan Basri. His family was from Sijistan (or Kabul) who later embraced Islam. He lived a very austere life and earned his livelihood by writing the Holy Qur’an. He learned Hadith from leading scholar and narrated few Hadith from Hasan Al Basri. He died in 127 A.H. He was a beacon of light for new Muslims.

Malik bin Dinar narrates his story in the following way: “I was a policeman and very fond of drinking. I led a care-free life. I bought a beautiful slave girl whom I loved dearly. I had a daughter from her, a lovely child. When my daughter began to walk, I loved her all the more and she remained with me all the time. The innocent child had a strange habit. When she saw a glass of wine in my hands, she would snatch it and spill it on my clothes. Being fond of her, I never scolded her. As fate would have it, my child died when she was two years old and I was shocked and sorely grieved.

“On the night of 15th of Shaaban, I was drunk and went to sleep without performing Isha prayers. I had a horrible dream. I saw myself among those being driven to the assembly of people on the Day of Resurrection. I heard a noise and felt something following me. When I looked back, I saw a huge snake chasing me. Ah! It was a horrible sight; the snake had blue catlike eyes, its mouth was wide open and it was rushing toward me furiously! I ran faster in terror, desperate for my life, the horrible snake still running after me and drawing closer.

Alif Laaam Meeeem..Dhalik-al-Kitaabu Laa rayeba feeh….

And the Imaam starts off reciting the Soorah in his awesome voice, causing your heart to turn over at the sweetness. You make a promise to yourself that after this Ramadaan you will recite the Qur’aan more often

Ramadaan passes, Shawwaal comes and goes, then Dhul Qa3dah and then Dhul Hijjah…Safar…and you haven’t touched the Qur’aan since Ramadaan. This is the fourth time this occurred, you remember making the same promise to yourself the year before…and the year before…and the year before…only to end up being distracted each time and leaving the Qur’aan on top of the shelf to collect dust.

Why is it that we can find ourselves spending so much time doing other things, reading other books, studying secular studies, and surfing the internet yet it’s hard for us to find time for the Qur’aan?

“O mankind! There has come to you a good advice from your Lord (this Qur’aan), and a healing for that in your breasts, – a Guidance and a Mercy for the believers.” (Surah Younus: 57)

On the authority of Mu`adh ibn Jabal, who said: I said: "O Messenger of Allah, tell me of an act which will take me into Paradise and will keep me away from Hell-fire."

He said: "You have asked me about a major matter, yet it is easy for him for whom Allah Almighty makes it easy. You should worship Allah, associating nothing with Him, you should perform the prayers, you should pay the zakah, you should fast in Ramadan, and you should perform hajj to the House." Then he said:" Shall I not show you the gates of goodness ? Fasting [which] is a shield, charity [which] extinguishes sin as water extinguishes fire; and the praying of a man in the depth of night."

Then he recited: {Who forsake their beds to cry unto their Lord in fear and hope, and spend of that We have bestowed on them. No soul knows what is kept hid for them of joy, as a reward for what they used to do".} (As-Sajdah 32: 16-17)

Then he said: " Shall I not tell you of the peak of the matter, its pillar, and its topmost part?"

I said: "Yes, O Messenger of Allah."

He said: "The peak of the matter is Islam; the pillar is prayer; and its topmost part is struggle in the path of God."