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POLYGAMY AND OUR FAMILY'S INVESTMENT.

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Do not raise your children the way your parents raised you, they are born for a different time~ Ali ibn Abi Talib(RA) ................................................. Muna's father is at the 'Ataaya' base right now,  he came home to eat supper and went out to pray 'Isha'. I know he is not coming back any sooner, that has been the routine since we had a little discussion about he getting a second wife. I was against it not because of jealousy,  I rejected this offer because our oldest child, Muna, is just 15years old, and I was hoping Muna's father will let us invest in our family rather than bringing in a fresh bride. Muna just completed junior high school, and I believe getting her quality education is the best. I would not have rebelled if Muna's  father had a lucrative job, he has been managing with his 'tyre repair' business for a while now, we actually had plans of expanding it, and bringing in more innovations just before we got married,

MY THRONE, MY PEOPLE

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They are in a cold war,  a war with invincible boundaries. They meet each other with manly hugs, and big congratulatory vocabularies. They go ahead to enquire about each others health when it really does not matter to them, they do not wish for each others death, they only wish for each others downfall. Their dress code at programs say it all,  as they battle who has the biggest cover cloth and who holds the golden umbrella, alongside their flashy cars. Everybody wants to be recognised as the richest, most presentable and most befitting of my Throne.  I say my Throne because, I am the first to sit on it, I have no predecessor nor an ancestor, many were befitting of it when the time came for someone to sit on it, but I was favoured by grace. Anytime my father comes back from his Village tours,  he gives us stories of new and strange things he came across, one of these stories was about a man who was very old and the people in the village were wondering why he is not dead yet. They ques

STORY OF HARUT AND MARUT, THE TWO FALLEN ANGELS

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N B: This is an already graded assignment of mine , I am only sharing sharing with you , so that we all learn together . I am not an expert on Islamic History . This piece seeks to only enlighten us with it's content . --------------------------------------------- Harut and Marut are mentioned once in the Qur’an. Their story has different versions but two popular traditional views. These two traditional views will be dissected in the paragraphs below after which we will evaluate which one is unusual and difficult to understand or accept. In Qur’an Chapter 2 verses 102, Allah says “ They followed what the S haitan gave out (falsely of the magic) in the lifetime of Sulaiman . Sulaiman did not disbelieve, teaching men magic and such things that came down at Babylon to the two angels, Harut and Marut , but neither of these two angels thought anyone (such things) till they said : “We are only for trial, so disbelieve not by learning this magic from us”.……….” (Q 2: 102). One

WHO IS A GMSA MEMBER

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WHO IS A GMSA MEMBER? Asalamu Alaikum warahmatullah wabarakatu. We begin by thanking Allah for all his bounties, and seek his peace and blessings upon our Prophet Mohammed  (pbuh). I have received messages recently from some Muslim students across the country who are seeking to join GMSA, in light of this,  I have decided to explain to us all via this message, about who a GMSA member is. GMSA is the acronym for Ghana Muslim Students Association. According to Article 4, clause 1 of the GMSA constitution,  "Membership of GMSA shall generally be open to all Muslim students in the country upon registration" Therefore,  If you are a Muslim,  a Student, and a Ghanaian,  you automatically become eligible to be a GMSA member, you only have to register with the GMSA branch in your Region or Institution.  But if for some reason you have not been able to register with them, it doesn't stop you from contributing or participating in GMSA activities. Even if you are not a Stu