Five simple tips for UAE residents to save water at home

UAE residents use 500 liters of water per day: Dewa

Almost 900 million people around the world still lack access to safe drinking water. (AFP)

An estimated 900 million people around the world still lack access to safe drinking water. This statistic is expecting to increase in the coming years. Certain measures need to be taken to conserve water and we can start with our consumption at home.

Water is the source of life. Without it, life would seize on Earth. According to Dewa, UAE residents use 500 liters of water per day compared to an international average of 300 liters a day.

The largest use of household water is when flushing the toilet, taking showers and baths. Despite the fact that over 70 per cent of the planet is covered by water, almost 900 million people around the world still lack access to safe drinking water. The importance of water can not be undermined and as a resource we must conserve it.

MP3 Qur'an Translations » English » Sheikh Sudais and Shuraym Qur'an Online Radio

This is the complete set of the Holy Qur'an along with an English Verse-by-Verse translation. The Arabic is recited by Sudais and Shuraim. The English is read by Naeem Sultan using the Pickthall Translation.

1- Surah Al-Fatihah ( The Opening )	2- Surah Al-Baqarah ( The Cow )
3- Surah Al-Imran ( The Famiy of Imran )	4- Surah An-Nisa ( The Women )
5- Surah Al-Maidah ( The Table spread with Food )	6- Surah Al-An'am ( The Cattle )
7- Surah Al-A'raf (The Heights )	8- Surah Al-Anfal ( The Spoils of War )
9- Surah At-Taubah ( The Repentance )	10- Surah Yunus ( Jonah )
11- Surah Hud	12- Surah Yusuf (Joseph )
13- Surah Ar-Ra'd ( The Thunder )	14- Surah Ibrahim ( Abraham )
15- Surah Al-Hijr ( The Rocky Tract )	16- Surah An-Nahl ( The Bees )
17- Surah Al-Isra ( The Night Journey )	18- Surah Al-Kahf ( The Cave )
19- Surah Maryam ( Mary )	20- Surah Taha
21- Surah Al-Anbiya ( The Prophets )	22- Surah Al-Hajj ( The Pilgrimage )
23- Surah Al-Mu'minoon ( The Believers )	24- Surah An-Noor ( The Light )
25- Surah Al-Furqan (The Criterion )	26- Surah Ash-Shuara ( The Poets )
27- Surah An-Naml (The Ants )	28- Surah Al-Qasas ( The Stories )
29- Surah Al-Ankaboot ( The Spider )	30- Surah Ar-Room ( The Romans )
31- Surah Luqman	32- Surah As-Sajdah ( The Prostration )
33- Surah Al-Ahzab ( The Combined Forces )	34- Surah Saba ( Sheba )
35- Surah Fatir ( The Orignator )	36- Surah Ya-seen
37- Surah As-Saaffat ( Those Ranges in Ranks )	38- Surah Sad ( The Letter Sad )
39- Surah Az-Zumar ( The Groups )	40- Surah Ghafir ( The Forgiver God )
41- Surah Fussilat ( Explained in Detail )	42- Surah Ash-Shura (Consultation )
43- Surah Az-Zukhruf ( The Gold Adornment )	44- Surah Ad-Dukhan ( The Smoke )
45- Surah Al-Jathiya ( Crouching )	46- Surah Al-Ahqaf ( The Curved Sand-hills )
47- Surah Muhammad	48- Surah Al-Fath ( The Victory )
49- Surah Al-Hujurat ( The Dwellings )	50- Surah Qaf ( The Letter Qaf )
51- Surah Adh-Dhariyat ( The Wind that Scatter )	52- Surah At-Tur ( The Mount )
53- Surah An-Najm ( The Star )	54- Surah Al-Qamar ( The Moon )
55- Surah Ar-Rahman ( The Most Graciouse )	56- Surah Al-Waqi'ah ( The Event )
57- Surah Al-Hadid ( The Iron )	58- Surah Al-Mujadilah ( She That Disputeth )
59- Surah Al-Hashr ( The Gathering )	60- Surah Al-Mumtahanah ( The Woman to be examined )
61- Surah As-Saff ( The Row )	62- Surah Al-Jumu'ah ( Friday )
63- Surah Al-Munafiqoon ( The Hypocrites )	64- Surah At-Taghabun ( Mutual Loss & Gain )
65- Surah At-Talaq ( The Divorce )	66- Surah At-Tahrim ( The Prohibition )
67- Surah Surah Al-Mulk ( Dominion )	68- Surah Al-Qalam ( The Pen )
69- Surah Al-Haaqqah ( The Inevitable )	70- Surah Al-Ma'arij (The Ways of Ascent )
71- Surah Nooh	72- Surah Al-Jinn ( The Jinn )
73- Surah Al-Muzzammil (The One wrapped in Garments)	74- Surah Al-Muddaththir ( The One Enveloped )
75- Surah Al-Qiyamah ( The Resurrection )	76- Surah Al-Insan ( Man )
77- Surah Al-Mursalat ( Those sent forth )	78- Surah An-Naba' ( The Great News )
79- Surah An-Nazi'at ( Those who Pull Out )	80- Surah Abasa ( He frowned )
81- Surah At-Takwir ( The Overthrowing )	82- Surah Al-Infitar ( The Cleaving )
83- Surah Al-Mutaffifin (Those Who Deal in Fraud)	84- Surah Al-Inshiqaq (The Splitting Asunder)
85- Surah Al-Burooj ( The Big Stars )	86- Surah At-Tariq ( The Night-Comer )
87- Surah Al-A'la ( The Most High )	88- Surah Al-Ghashiya ( The Overwhelming )
89- Surah Al-Fajr ( The Dawn )	90- Surah Al-Balad ( The City )
91- Surah Ash-Shams ( The Sun )	92- Surah Al-Layl ( The Night )
93- Surah Ad-Dhuha ( The Forenoon )	94- Surah As-Sharh ( The Opening Forth)
95- Surah At-Tin ( The Fig )	96- Surah Al-'alaq ( The Clot )
97- Surah Al-Qadr ( The Night of Decree )	98- Surah Al-Bayyinah ( The Clear Evidence )
99- Surah Az-Zalzalah ( The Earthquake )	100- Surah Al-'adiyat ( Those That Run )
101- Surah Al-Qari'ah ( The Striking Hour )	102- Surah At-Takathur ( The piling Up )
103- Surah Al-Asr ( The Time )	104- Surah Al-Humazah ( The Slanderer )
105- Surah Al-Fil ( The Elephant )	106- Surah Quraish
107- Surah Al-Ma'un ( Small Kindnesses )	108- Surah Al-Kauther ( A River in Paradise)
109- Surah Al-Kafiroon ( The Disbelievers )	110- Surah An-Nasr ( The Help )
111- Surah Al-Masad ( The Palm Fibre )	112- Surah Al-Ikhlas ( Sincerity )
113- Surah Al-Falaq ( The Daybreak )	114- Surah An-Nas ( Mankind ) http://www.qurantranslations.net/index.php?moshaf=39&id=8

Hollywood star Lindsay Lohan turns to Islam

Brooklyn, New York : Famous American actress Lindsay Lohan has reportedly turned to Islam after she was photographed carrying a copy of the Qur'an on her first day of community service in Brooklyn, New York on Wednesday, according to media reports.

The Hollywood actress was completing the first day of her court-ordered community service at a Brooklyn children’s centre, when she was pictured carrying a hard copy of the Muslim holy book.

Every Disease has a Cure

Narrated Abu Hurairah (radi Allahu anhu) that the Prophet (sal Allahu alaihi wa sallam) said: “There is no disease that Allah has sent down except that He also has sent down its treatment.” [The Book of Medicine: Sahih Bukhari]

The reason that Muslims advanced so much in Medicine is because the Prophet (sal Allahu alaihi wa sallam) had told them that for every disease there is a cure and that they should seek treatment. He pointed to many cures himself. He encouraged the women of his household to learn medicine from those who knew it. Women, in the time of the Prophet (sal Allahu alaihi wa sallam), excelled in medicine. The Prophet had pitched a tent in the yard of his mosque in Madina and appointed a lady named Rufaidah to run it as a field hospital, nurse the wounded and care for homeless newcomers to Madina. [Tarikh at-Tabari]

In Baghdad in 1168 C.E., there were no less than sixty well-organized medical institutions and the Mustansiriyya Medical College at Baghdad had magnificent buildings, luxurious furniture, library with rare scientific books and a great dining hall to serve good food to students.

I found Qur’an mother of all philosophies

Myriam Francois-Cerrah became popular when she was a child for acting in the 90s hit film 'Sense and Sensibility.' Now she is gaining more popularity for being one of a growing number of educated middle class female converts to Islam in Britain. She has recently contributed to a series of videos on Islam produced in the UK titled, “Inspired by Muhammad.”
I embraced Islam after graduating from Cambridge. Prior to that I was a skeptical Catholic — a believer in God but with a mistrust of organized religion.
The Qur’an was pivotal for me. I first tried to approach it in anger, as part of an attempt to prove my Muslim friend wrong. Later I began reading it with a more open mind.
The opening of Al-Fatiha, with its address to the whole of mankind, psychologically stopped me in my tracks. It spoke of previous scriptures in a way, which I both recognized, but also differed. It clarified many of the doubts I had about Christianity. It made me an adult as I suddenly realized that my destiny and my actions had consequences for which I alone would now be held responsible.
In a world governed by relativism, it outlined objective moral truths and the foundation of morality.
As someone who’d always had a keen interest in philosophy, the Qur’an felt like the culmination of all of this philosophical cogitation.