I have a dream

By Guest Author/Anonymous

What made me write this post is a dream that I saw 8 months ago. I had a dream that one of Native Deen (Islamic Nasheeds band) members was speaking in a conference sitting on a table on which there were some glasses. And he spoke of setting dreams and he said something that goes along the lines of:

“When you think about achieving your goals don’t have a negative image that no one will benefit from… ,your job or business or that you will end up with just a normal job or business.  Set your mind that you will have the best job and the best business, and people will extremely benefit from it.”
 
Now how to define your goal? I heard so much about goal setting and how to define it. Now so many schools of thought teach that your goal must be realistic. To me, I say never be realistic, realistic dreams do not move, realistic dreams do not motivate, realistic dreams DO NOT IGNITE the flame of passion that will keep you running with excitement until the end of life. Realistic dreams will set you for mediocrity. To me if a dream is not wild I don’t feel the smallest amount of excitement to get up from my chair to do it. If a dream is not wild I’d rather sit on my couch and eat potato all day.
 

Entertaining the Muslim Youth

by Somayya Gefori

When I was a young child, my family listened to the likes of Yusuf Islam in the car. Nowadays there are many nasheed artists, and over the last decade the industry has practically exploded with new talent: Native Deen, 786, Sami Yusuf, Zain Bhikha and Mesut Kurtis, to name but a few. Nor does this trend in entertainment come without controversy.


A recent BBC documentary followed the American nasheed group 786 (of Pakistani origin) and Native Deen (of African-American origin) as they did interviews and performed in the United Kingdom. A lot of points were raised, including the fact that 786 looks so much like the average boy band, and that most of its fans are female. They usually dress in jeans and t-shirts, though they mentioned in the documentary that they were starting to wear more traditional Pakistani clothing, because too many Muslims were basing their judgments of the band on the way they looked.
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Source : http://www.teenperspectives.com/