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		<title>Proundly Committed to the Earth Hour</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 14:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juzar Noorani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[His Holiness Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin TUS has always instructed his followers, Mumineen, to care for the environment, preserve resources and avoid wastage of any kind. All this is in accordance to the guidance of the Holy Quran and the sayings of our beloved Prophet Mohammed al-Mustafa Rasulallah (SA). Huzurala TUS is said to have given [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">His Holiness Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin TUS has always instructed his followers, Mumineen, to care for the environment, preserve resources and avoid wastage of any kind. All this is in accordance to the guidance of the Holy Quran and the sayings of our beloved Prophet Mohammed al-Mustafa Rasulallah (SA). Huzurala TUS is said to have given strict instructions for the usage of lights and electricity even at Saify Mahal in Mumbai, where many times he himself has been seen switching off the lights right after sunrise. It has also been reported that during the Iftetah of Masakin Mohammediyah, the gents hostel, at Jamea Saifiyah in Surat, he himself switched off the lights of rooms and staircases after returning from its inspection.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">We, <a href="http://mumineen.org">Dawoodi Bohras</a> proudly follow his example in his endeavor to <a title="Burhani Foundation India" href="http://www.burhanifoundationindia.org/">care for the environment and mother nature</a>. Let us all join hands for the sake of the Earth for it gives us food, shelter and blessings.  Let us join help ourselves and our future generations to come.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Remember not just to turn out lights tonight, but to switch off every possible electronic gadget and do not light candles or  burn any other fuel for light unless extremely necessary.</p>
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		<title>The Glory of Sport</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 06:36:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juzar Noorani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometime back in India we had a get together of old friends from the teenage. Some of them are in academics and we were discussing School buildings and its ambiance. The center point of the discussion was what makes a school too good academically as as well as administratively. Guess what almost everyone agreed upon? [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">Sometime back in India we had a get together of old friends from the teenage. Some of them are in academics and we were discussing School buildings and its ambiance. The center point of the discussion was what makes a school too good academically as as well as administratively. Guess what almost everyone agreed upon? Sports and Athletics. These two were the major things that made a school great in terms of Academics??!! <em>Duh</em>! The Administration was deemed superior if they had a football field size playground or even larger. The larger the playground the more expensive and quality driven the school was.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"> This someone would argue not to be correct but remember the people discussing were educationists with a background of more than a decade of experience in the <em>School Business</em>. The fact is just true. If you can spend enough on sport than a healthy attitude towards learning and teaching can definitely be expected, especially in a place like &#8220;India&#8221; where sport is given very little credit today.<em></em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Paan Singh Tomar</em> &#8211; The Movie, based on the real life of a national athletic champion turned outlaw is a must watch for the horrible treatment of sportsperson in our country, India. Well, not the Cricket maniacs who are given all the media publicity for the sake of dirty marketing tactics used by the idiot box companies. The most wonderful message and thought provoking idea in the entire movie was that the, 4th standard fail, school dropout, athlete had learned not to give up and surrender once the race had started, to any circumstance in any situation until the finish line was crossed. The glory of sport and sportsmanship lays in reaching the finish line no matter who gets the Gold, Silver and Bronze.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">When in school, we used to participate in the annual sports meet and take an oath under the school flag that we would strive hard for the glory of sport. This is true in every aspect of life, be it academics, play, business or any profession one takes up. Its the very decision a person takes at the starting point and lives up to it through the fire-up till the end of the finish line.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Sportsmen live up to this oath throughout their lives. However, at times, their lives become miserable when the country and its politicians do not understand the glory they have brought to the country. <em>Paan Singh Tomar</em> is dedicated to such forgotten record breaking sportsmen of our country. The forgotten men and women may not have become history but are still forgotten, standing before our own eyes. A few months back I had come across a picture of our hockey team, I think women, who had just returned home from a triumph abroad, standing at the International Airport for Taxis to pick them up. No one to receive the champions, while the country runs after the showbiz cricketers as if they were gods. I am not against any sport but a champion is a champion and pride of the nation for god sake.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The very thing that, I myself do not remember what tournament the ladies had won and the details of their triumph, is embarrassing but then there are many champs out there who have died penniless, even to the extent that they have had to sell of their medals for a survival. The greatness of the country indeed lays in how it treats its national heroes and not how it takes care of the <em><a title="National Security and Patriotism" href="http://hikmah.ekhwan.com/index.php/2010/03/02/national-security/">national security</a> of its politicians.</em> A very small percentage of the entire money spent in budgeting for  personal security of zillions of representatives of the public would suffice to uphold the glory of these sportsmen and keep the honor of our country shining. Athletes and Sportsmen are the go getter of our society. They are the pride of any culture and tradition right from the dawn of human civilization, remember the Romans and their Colosseum, they are the dignity of our country for they win battles with perspiration and not a drop of blood shed. Our public consciousness needs to wake up and applaud their achievements for the sake of our civility and for the glory of sport itself.</p>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">My favorite place to in any city or town that I visit is a place where book lovers just stand glancing at the covers of books for such a long time that you could easily finish off the tour of the entire place. The statues you see among the piles of bound paper should amaze you more than any monument in the world. A few years back I came across a book which is now a high ranking and frequently visited website. The book cover cautioned the reader with these words &#8220;Beware, highly addictive&#8221;. If you have not guessed the book title by now, it was eHow. Well I have left no room for guessing since my post title seems self explanatory.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Back to where we started about this book with hundreds and hundreds of pages written on just about any topic and subject in the world. The book simply laid down basic bullet-ed tips for just about doing anything in the world. Well, that&#8217;s what I thought and found it to be and believe me it was really addictive. It made the reader feel a master of all sciences just like those wizards in magical fantasy movies. The book was quite nice reading and it gave me a hard time to part with the book, when finally I had to consider the space it was consuming in my books&#8217; cabinet, compared to its more regularly updated and far more handy and easily reachable electronic version on the worldwide web. Although the later is no more additive. In fact I doubt if any ready would actually spend more than only a few minutes on the site. This I guess would suffice for the age old and much talked about argument of modern times. Hard Copy or soft. Even though I would be easily termed as a geek by those who know me, but when it comes to the love for the written word, I would vote for the former without doubt. Except for the one reason, that, in our times just as we are running out of broader thoughts and vision, so are we lacking much space of storage elsewhere.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Short essay&#8217;s written wittily and with a wonderful sense of humor would turn the chapters of any book magical. <em>Guy Browning  </em>has a wonderful sense of writing as he elaborates the <em>Small Rules for Little Problems </em>in his book which I thought I should compare with eHow. The comparison would have been a real flop and would have ended up with a, <em>Duh,</em> at the end of the write-up. Both the books are totally unique in its own kind. Though when one picks up Guy Browning&#8217;s &#8220;Never PUSH when it says PULL&#8221;,  he would just think that it was a concise eHow with the power of knowledge. Though I do not really believe that Knowledge is power. Knowledge is NOT power at all. It is the application of knowledge which is power.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">That said, just like  Guy Browning puts it, <em>Antique books are bought by people who collect rather than read while second-hand books are bought by people who rather than collect,  </em>I find myself falling in the second category more over than the first. Its not that I do not buy new books but again, <em>Not all books are bought new, </em>and this one was from <a title="The Book Shelter" href="http://hikmah.ekhwan.com/index.php/2012/01/02/the-book-shelter/" target="_blank">the book shelter</a>. It was love at first sight with the book and as I found time to read it, it turned out not to be the concise version of eHow. Each <em>How to&#8230;  </em>essay wonderfully penned by the witty author and the art of brevity and humor, churned with some real life drama that we experience almost everyday, is sketched for the leisure of the reader. It&#8217;s two pages of <em>How to.. write a novel, </em>would inspire any blogger to write one in just a single day of dreams. The book simply has a <em>How to..</em> for every occasion, moment and scenario of the human life. Believe me this statement is a result of <em>How to&#8230; lie.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">That&#8217;s about all there is in the highly academic comparison above which should end here, else the entire writeup would simply suffer the status of a<em>lie. </em>A nice read to enjoy on a wonderful day out in the park. A book worth reading for those would would like to learn the art of narrating everyday humor and some funny stuff we do, without hurting anyone&#8217;s feelings that is. And no, I am not paid to write this review.</p>

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		<title>National Security Policies from the Stone Age</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juzar Noorani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Countries like India, which off course I am a proud citizen of, brag about Human Rights and being the largest democracy in the world but are obviously the highest ranking crushers of basic human necessities and the right to live in the name of state security or even protecting their citizens. There are several instances [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">Countries like India, which off course I am a proud citizen of, brag about Human Rights and being the largest democracy in the world but are obviously the highest ranking crushers of basic human necessities and the right to live in the name of state security or even protecting their citizens. There are several instances and cases but the one I have been involved in for several years is a real pity about the way the government in India works and the way the government treats it own  official documents and citizens.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The world we live in today no longer believes in the story of Felious Fogg&#8217;s &#8220;Around the world in 80 Days&#8217; story&#8221;. Its far ahead and given the challenge one can make it in less then 80 hours. Our government still relies on manual processes and works at a snails pace for the people who pay them their wages through Taxes. Now here is the entire story which would surely turn you to think what are we really doing.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">A person of any country cast or creed has the right to marry any human being in accordance to his belief and desires be the human being from any colour or country. No man made law can stop that, if both were happy with the fact and the marriage contract is legally binding. This is basic within the norms of human rights and every person on earth will agree to it. Both these persons have the right to live a happy and fruitful life together within the social norms of humanity. The trouble comes in when the man made boundaries are levied on these people. To further elaborate, if a person is an Indian and his spouse a Pakistani, there you are. He and she enter into a nightmare of being married to a labelled terrorist or a harmful demon for the societies of both the countries. The agony further increases when the off springs take up the citizenship of one of the two parents at an age when they are not aware of even, ending up with a passport of a nation that is termed a danger by the other.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Enough of human right bragging and enough of what each country says to other and what the politicians mean. Below is the scenario of such a couple that resides in a third country instead to get over the woes of being label unpatriotic. Remember every citizen has the right to scold their government, term it whatever they want, for they have elected it for god sake. Remember the democracy lectures, for the people, by the people and what not.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The scene:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">A couple with an Indian male married to a Pakistani citizen having Indian children, the male having a history of generations in India and the female having a history of generations in Pakistan, are legally married and the names of each person endorsed in the passport of the other as well as in the children&#8217;s passport as parents. The passports are issued by the government of India and Pakistan accordingly. The family is living in a third country and happy until the woes of visiting their homeland start emerging.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The Pakistani wife would obviously join her husband to her homeland when he wishes to visit. What happens, she needs a visa to travel. The legal procedure starts here for the branded terrorist from a country living in the stone age to maintain its national security.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The visa application has to be made at a private courier company that manages the mails of the local consulate, after an online form being filled by the applicant. The application consists of the printout of the online form that is supposed to be an entry in the Home Ministry database. The form along with passport copies of both the Indian male and the Pakistani wife have to be submitted, in addition to the photos and previous visas if she has traveled earlier. So far so good, one draw back and problem with the application however, is that the Pakistani wife who is dependent on her Indian husband can only enter the country from only three stipulated places. 1) Mumbai 2) Dehli 3) Chennai. The Pakistani can enter India by Air from only these places and the exit from the same place she entered. So the husband and children do not have much of a choice of International Airports of a country, making the travel cumbersome. I think it is quite acceptable for most. The second application flaw is the the Pakistani wife of the Indian can only visit places for which is she granted visa, specified in her application along with address and phone numbers of people actually staying there. Now this means they can only travel to their home town and a place or two where their relatives live and the Indians are bared from tourism of the country that it so much takes pride in. That too can be acceptable.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The application once submitted to the private company is sent to the consulate for processing. Here comes the stone age scenario. The consulate faxes the visa application to the home ministry and sends of a courier containing a few copies of the application for verification of address. The home ministry then sends of the same to local police stations and departments for verification. All of this if the approval ever comes from the home ministry would take 5 to 6 months and even more.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The irony here is that the Indian government does not approve of its own endorsement of addresses on the Indian passport of the husband as well as the name of the spouse endorsed by the government itself.  What does the government want to prove?? Will the people who are threat of the security of innocent citizens arrive in the country taking such labor or simply enter the country through illegal means.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Every citizen is concerned of <a title="National Security and Human Rights" href="http://hikmah.ekhwan.com/index.php/2010/12/28/national-security-and-human-rights/">national security</a> and patriotic about his country but here the country doubts his loyalty and patriotism and holds him responsible for acts of cowardice undertaken by a handful of maniacs. The irony is that the visa has to be approved each time it is submitted and takes months to get through even if the person has traveled many more times previously. Either the government needs to get its facts straight and data in place and stop harassing each and every person bringing him or her into the light of suspicion under the label of national security or face the the mistrust of its own citizens. Who would elect a government that does not trust its own citizens and its own documents so legal as the passport.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">And we call ourselves a country that is advanced and well versed in communication with a caring ans nurturing culture. The other side of the scenario which is totally related to the &#8220;<em>Chai Paani</em>&#8221; corruption is known to every Indian and is much of a reason for the delay of documents and procedures that can be followed up on by people whom we pay to serve us and not bully us around. Let&#8217;s face it we have become a nation concerned with <a title="Indian Government Policy on National Security" href="http://hikmah.ekhwan.com/index.php/2010/07/10/indian-government-policy-on-national-security/">national security</a> in terms of corruption and pocket filling politicians, where procedures such as these are legal persecution and harassment for the common man or let me put it this way in this wonderful season, the &#8220;mango man&#8221;, <em>aam aadmi</em>. A country where those in power do their every bit to stay in power yet display their might in bullying their own citizens, the people who actually not only pay their salaries but pay for their comfort, leisure and entertainment as well.</p>

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		<title>Beyond the thinking Mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 08:55:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juzar Noorani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Truth is far more all-encompassing than the mind could ever comprehend. No thought can encapsulate the Truth. At best, it can point to it. For example, it can say: &#8220;All things are intrinsically one.&#8221;  That is a pointer, not explanation. Understanding these words means feeling deep within you the truth to which they point. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">The Truth is far more all-encompassing than the mind could ever comprehend. No thought can encapsulate the Truth. At best, it can point to it. For example, it can say: &#8220;All things are intrinsically one.&#8221;  That is a pointer, not explanation. Understanding these words means feeling deep within you the truth to which they point.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Become at ease with the state of &#8220;not knowing&#8221;. This takes you beyond mind because the mind is always trying to conclude and interpret. It is afraid of not knowing. So, when you can be at ease with not knowing, you have already gone beyond the mind. A deeper knowing that is non-conceptual then arises out of that state.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Dogmas &#8211; religious, political, scientific &#8211; arise out of the erroneous belief that the thought can encapsulate reality or the truth. Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because it give them a sense of security and a false sense of &#8220;I Know&#8221;.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas. It is true that every dogma crumbles sooner or later, because reality will eventually disclose its falseness; however, unless the basic delusion of it is seen for what it is, it will be replaced by others.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Spiritual awakening is awakening from the dream of thought. Wisdom is not a product if thought, nor does knowledge bring wisdom. All knowledge is transitory and therefore when one becomes at ease with &#8220;not knowing&#8221;, the doors to wisdom are opened up.</p>

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		<title>Kahaani &#8211; Right and Wrong</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 10:04:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juzar Noorani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most wonderful scenario that &#8220;Kahaani&#8221; represents is the law. The officer Khan explaining the difference between the law enforcing agencies and the the terrorists or the outlaws is the the simple thing that they work for the law and the infidels against it. Looking at the world around us, does this explanation really make [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">The most wonderful scenario that &#8220;Kahaani&#8221; represents is the law. The officer Khan explaining the difference between the law enforcing agencies and the the terrorists or the outlaws is the the simple thing that they work for the law and the infidels against it. Looking at the world around us, does this explanation really make sense at all, maybe to an extent but then who would define the limits and what are they. The Taliban for instance are right in their own world while the invading US and allied forces are doing it for humanitarian cause. The &#8220;it&#8217; here is the mass murder of human beings in whatever circumstances may it be. Hundreds of people are scapegoats of the political warfare of views and theories. The entire scenario here is that what some country may regard are lawful according to the socio religious doctrine or political constitution they follow is regarded as suppression and barbarism by people of another country according to its cultural dogmas. Nothing has been more harmful to the human race over the ages then its own dogmas.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The above is the scenario of our society on a macro level but when it comes to a micro and personal level it has the same impact and therefore the Quran has exclaimed the act of killing a single soul as of killing the entire human race and vice-versa. Each person has his stature and sense of security within himself with beliefs differing from the point of view of the other person. The intensity of the cross-fire between two men therefore cannot be known by the onlooker. No violence can beat the death of the dignity of a human soul and people can easily be biased on the level of hurt inflicted on it. At such time of pain and suffering man finds the light of truth. To forgive as a single soul is much harder than to forgive as an entire nation. That is what &#8220;Kahaani&#8221; was all about. A nation may forget and forgive but a single soul hurt cannot. But then does vengeance solve the purpose of healing the scare inflicted on that soul. Not so much so. Therefore it is easier to forgive ones own self rather than battling with &#8220;The right and wrong&#8221; within.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The world is full of people whom you strive for thinking that they are your friends and family. But when tears drop of your eyes and your dignity is at stake no one comes to hold you. At such time of suffering man comes to know that all of those who he thought dear are far from that and he is but alone in life. Suffering is much needed until you feel it is unnecessary. Its the suffering that has taught me the truth of life. Never ask of a human for love, for love has no desire nor fear. Love and forgiveness go hand in hand. One cannot love unless he or she forgives the self first and then others.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">A wonderful message I would like to quote here, that someone had emailed me a few days back:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>The Prayer of an Afghan Woman</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">************ ********* *******</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Oh! The Killers of My Husband and Son!</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Sitting on the graves of my husband and son,</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Who fell victim to the savagery of your bullets,</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>My curse would have brought doom for you,</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>But the human passion still reigns my heart.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>I pray, your wives never see my horrible fate,</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>To shed the streams of tears on your deaths ,</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>I pray, your children bloom before your eyes,</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>You may never suffer the grief of their loss.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>I pray, God may make you leave my land,</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>And guide you to lead a humanitarian life,</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>I pray, you may never kill an innocent soul,</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>And save you always from His Divine wrath.</em></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">The above says the entire <em>Kahaani</em> of Afganistan and similarly Iraq and other war inflicted countries. The division of the entire world within the eyes of individual humans as being &#8220;right or wrong&#8221;. The killings condemned and justified by the human dogmas, dogmas that have imprisoned humanity since its dawn. The dogmas of <em>Jahiliyah</em> as known in the Islamic history. Islam is freedom from this prison cell for it is all about peace and forgiveness and not as perceived by those who have made up their mind into believing what they think as right or wrong. Until then politicians  and the so called elected leaders of countries like the US will keep meddling into the affairs of sovereign nations  and projecting its own policies as the law for the rest of the world.</p>

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		<title>Adsense Revenue</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 15:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juzar Noorani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Throughout the many years of blogging and writing over the internet and the many years surfing as well as hours of reading that is accumulated in my daily routine, I have found that Adsense revenue as well as Adwords advertisement to be of very little use. While many people still believe in adverts that say [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">Throughout the many years of blogging and writing over the internet and the many years surfing as well as hours of reading that is accumulated in my daily routine, I have found that Adsense revenue as well as Adwords advertisement to be of very little use. While many people still believe in adverts that say you can have a share of the pie of Google&#8217;s multimillion revenue just by building up websites and writing content that pulls in google spiders and later turns those visitors into money printing mints.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The entire scenario is just a myth and would earn you less a coffee though out the month. If you only rely on Adsense to pull in revenue across multiple sites it just does not matter unless you have a very high visitor base which doubtfully would ever click on the ad texts or banners served through.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Let us put it this way, how many times do we ever click on adverts while we are reading some interesting material or doing a bit of a research. The percentage of the links being clicked and visited within the article, referred to by the author , would surely be higher than the advert even though it is relevant.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">All in all it is totally insane to rely on Adsense alone to earn a living as well as rely on Adwords as a single marketing tool. There are several books and tutorials out there on sale that show you how to do it but those are theories not so perfect and merely a waste of time to an extent.</p>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Secret Revealed The Great Secret of life is the law of attraction. The law of attraction says that like attracts like, so when you think a thought, you are also atracting like thoughts to you. Thoughts are magnetic, and thoughts have a frequency. As you think thoughts, they are sent out into the Universe, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>The Secret Revealed</strong></p>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li>The Great Secret of life is the law of attraction.</li>
<li>The law of attraction says that like attracts like, so when you think a thought, you are also atracting like thoughts to you.</li>
<li>Thoughts are magnetic, and thoughts have a frequency. As you think thoughts, they are sent out into the Universe, and they magnetically attract all like things that are on the same frequency. Everything sent out returns to the source &#8212; you.</li>
<li>You are like a human transmission tower, transmitting a frequency with your thoughts. If you want to change anything in your life, change the frequency by changing your thoughts.</li>
<li>Your current thoughts are creating your future life. What you think about the most or focus on the most will appear as your life.</li>
<li>Your thoughts become things.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>The Secret Made Simple</strong></p>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li>The law of attraction is a law of nature. It is as impartial as the law of gravity.</li>
<li>Nothing can come into your experience unless you summon it through persistent thoughts.</li>
<li>To know what you&#8217;re thinking, ask yourself how you are feeling. Emotions are valuable tools that instantly tell us what we are thinking.</li>
<li>It is impossible to feel bad and at the same time have good thoughts.</li>
<li>Your thoughts determine your frequency, and your feelings tell you immediately what frequency you are on. When you feel bad, you are on the frequency of drawing more bad things. When you feel good, you are powerfully attracting more good things to you.</li>
<li><em>Secret Shifters</em>, such as pleasant memories, nature, or your favorite music, can change your feelings and shift your frequency in any instant.</li>
<li>The feeling of love is the highest frequency you can emit. The greater the love you feel and emit, the greater the power you are harnessing.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>How to Use the Secret</strong></p>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li>Like Aladdin&#8217;s Genie, the law of attraction grants our every command.</li>
<li>The Creative Process helps you create what you want in three simple steps: ask, believe, and receive.</li>
<li>Asking the Universe for what you want is your opportunity to get clear about what you want. As you get clear in your mind, you have asked.</li>
<li>Believing involves acting, speaking, and thinking as though you have already received what you&#8217;ve asked for. When you emit the frequency of having received it, the law of attraction moves people, events, and circumstances for you to receive.</li>
<li>Receiving involves feeling the way you will feel once your desire has manifested. Feeling good now puts you on the frequency of what you want.</li>
<li>To lose weight, don&#8217;t focus on &#8220;losing weight.&#8221; Instead, focus on your perfect weight. Feel the feelings of your perfect weight, and you will sumomn it to you.</li>
<li>It takes no time for the Universe to manifest what you want. It is as easy to manifest one dollar as it its to manifest one million dollar.</li>
<li>Starting with something small, like a cup of coffee or parking spaces, is an easy way to experience the law of attraction in action. Powerfully intend to attract something small. As you experience the power you have to attract, you will move on to creating much bigger things.</li>
<li>Create your day in advance by thinking the way you want it to go, and you will create your life intentionally.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Powerfully Processes</strong></p>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li>Expectation is a powerful attractive force. Expect the things you want, and don&#8217;t expect the things you don&#8217;t want.</li>
<li>Gratitude is a powerful process for shifting your energy and bringing more of what you want into your life. Be grateful for waht you already have, and you will attract more good things.</li>
<li>Giving thanks for what you want in advance turbo-charges your desires and sends a more powerful signal into the Universe.</li>
<li>Visualization is a process of creating pictures in your mind of yourself enjoying what you want. When you visualize, ou generate powerful thoughts and feelings of having it now. THe law of attraction then returns that reality to you, just as you saw it in your mind.</li>
<li>To use the law of attraction to your advantage, make it a habitual way of being, not just a one-time event.</li>
<li>At the end of everyday, before you go to sleep, go back through the events of the day. Any events or moments that were not what you wanted, replay them in your mind the way you want them to go.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>The Secret to Money</strong></p>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li>To attract money, focus on wealth. It is impossible to bring more money into your life when you focus on the lack of it.</li>
<li>It is helpful to use your imagination and make-believe you already have the money you want. Play games of having wealth and you will feel better about money, as you feel better about it, more will flow into your life.</li>
<li>Feeling happy now is the fastest way to bring money into your life.</li>
<li>Make it your intention to look at everything you like and say to yourself, &#8220;I can afford that. I can buy that.&#8221; You will shift your thinking and begin to feel better about money.</li>
<li>Give money in order to bring more of it into your life. When you are generous with money and feel good about sharing it, you are saying, &#8220;I have plenty.&#8221;</li>
<li>Visualize checks in the mail.</li>
<li>Tip the balance of your thoughts to wealth. Think wealth.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>The Secret to Relationships</strong></p>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li>When you want to attract a relationship, make sure your thoughts, words, actions, and surroundings don&#8217;t contradict your desires.</li>
<li>Your job is you. Unless you fill yourself up first, you have nothing to give to anybody.</li>
<li>Treat yourself with love and respect, and you will attract people who show you love and respect.</li>
<li>When you feel bad about yourself, you block the love and instead you attract more people and situations that will continue to make you feel bad about you.</li>
<li>To make a relationship work, focus on what you appreciate about the other person, and not your complaints. When you focus on the strengths, you will get more of them.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>The Secret to Health</strong></p>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li>The placebo effect is an example of the law of attraction in action. When a patient truly believes that the tablet is a cure, he receives what he believes and and is cured.</li>
<li>&#8220;Focusing on perfect health&#8221; is something we can all do within ourselves, despite what may be happening on the outside.</li>
<li>Laughter attracts joy, releases negativity, and leads to miraculous cures.</li>
<li>Disease is heald in the body by thought, by observation of the illness, and by the attention given to the illness. If you are feeling a little unwell, don&#8217;t talk about it&#8211;unless you want more of it. If you listen to people talk about their illness, you add energy to their illness. Instead, change the conversation to good things, and give powerful thoughts to seeing those people in health.</li>
<li>Beliefs about aging are all in our minds, so release those thoughts from your consciousness. Focus on health and eternal youth.</li>
<li>Do not listen to society&#8217;s messages about diseases and aging. Negative messages do not serve you.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>The Secret to the World</strong></p>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li>What you resist, you attract, because you are powerfully focused on it with emotion. To change anything, go within and emit a new signal with your thoughts and feelings.</li>
<li>You cannot help the world by focusing on the negative things. As you focus on the world&#8217;s negative events, you not only add to them, but you also bring more negative things into your own life.</li>
<li>Instead of focusing on the world&#8217;s problems, give attention and energy to trust, love, abundance, education and peace.</li>
<li>We will never run out of good things because there&#8217;s more than enough to go around for everyone. Life is meant to be abundant.</li>
<li>You have the ability to tap into the unlimited supply through your thoughts and feelings and bring it into your experience.</li>
<li>Praise and bless everying in the world, and you will dissolve negativity and discard and align yourslef with the highest frequency&#8212;love.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>The Secret to You</strong></p>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li>Everything is energy. You are an energy magnet, so you electrically energize everything to you and electrically energize yourself to everything you want.</li>
<li>You are a spiritual being. You are energy, and energy cannot be created nor destroyed&#8211;it just changes form. Therefore, the pure eessence of you has always been and always will be.</li>
<li>The Universe emerges from thought. We are the creators not only of our own destiny but also of the Universe.</li>
<li>An unlimited supply of ideas is available to you. All knowledge, discoveries, and inventions are in the Universal Mind as possibilities, awaiting for the hman mind to draw them forth. You hold everything in your consciousness.</li>
<li>We are all connected, and we are all One.</li>
<li>Let go of difficulties in your past, cultural codes, and social beliefs. You are the only one who can create the life you deserve.</li>
<li>A shortcut to manifesting your desires is to see what you want as absolute fact.</li>
<li>Your power is in your thoughts, so stay aware. In other words, &#8220;Remember to remember.&#8221;</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>The Secret to Life</strong></p>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li>You get to fill the blackboard of your life with whatever you want.</li>
<li>The only thing you need to do is feel good now.</li>
<li>The more you use the power within you, the more power you will draw through you.</li>
<li>The time to embrace your magnificence is now.</li>
<li>We are in the midst of a glorious era. AS we let go of limiting thoughts, we will experience humanity&#8217;s true magnificence, in every area of creation.</li>
<li>Do what you love. If you don&#8217;t know what brings you joy, ask, &#8220;What is my job?&#8221; As you commit to your joy, you will attract to an avalanche of joyful things because you are radiating joy.</li>
<li>Now that you have learned the knowledge of The Secret, what you do with it is up to you. Whatever you choose is right. The power is all yours.</li>
</ul>

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		<title>The Ghosts Book</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 14:24:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juzar Noorani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the dawn of the human race, people have been fascinated by the term of &#8220;Ghost&#8221; or by the thought of any paranormal or super natural activity. Almost everyone, believers and non-believers alike seek more and more information that would quench their thirst of curiosity about the bewildered world. From the presenter of the &#8220;Most [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">Since the dawn of the human race, people have been fascinated by the term of &#8220;Ghost&#8221; or by the thought of any paranormal or super natural activity. Almost everyone, believers and non-believers alike seek more and more information that would quench their thirst of curiosity about the bewildered world.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">From the presenter of the &#8220;Most Haunted&#8221; comes the book &#8220;Ghost Hunters&#8221; which captured <a title="Keeping a Journal – One Of The Three Treasures To Leave Behind" href="http://hikmah.ekhwan.com/index.php/2006/08/06/keeping-a-journal-one-of-the-three-treasures-to-leave-behind/" target="_blank">my reading attention and the time spent with the book</a> has been wonderful. The authors have dealt with the subject in a fairly balance way and have put in a lot of effort to pen their thoughts in words. At stages they simply call the &#8220;Ghost&#8221; as an act of the mind, or the sub consceince referring in their write-up to <em>SickMan Fraud</em>, that&#8217;s what I would personally call him, as these fellows are practically creating short circuits for the perfect human brain and making it go haywire, by explaining their sick theories. That said, the other side of the &#8220;<a title="Ghost Hunters" href="www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0340899794/ekhwan-20" target="_blank">Ghost Hunters</a>&#8221; comes with some scientific explanations, explaining the apparitions as electrical impulses or the soul as being such, while on the other hand the authors have also tried to explain these unknown mystical happenings using the time theory and the existence of a  parallel worlds and planes.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The authors have also taken pain to refer some deliberately fraud ghost stories as well to being about the balance needed in their work. Some unexplained and fascinating events have also been brought up from the files of investigators.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">All in all, the book is a good read and have found it worth having. Though a portion of the book still remains incomplete in my read, I would surely return back to it. For me, the existence of paranormal beings and activities is a subject related to faith and therefore unquestioned, along with intensive studies into the subject, but the book&#8217;s neutral way of putting things up for inquisitive mind is very much appealing and sheds light on both sides of the coin, for a subject that has never been given it&#8217;s justified place in the real world of education, science and logical examinations.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The books is indeed <a href="www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0340899794/ekhwan-20" target="_blank">THE guide to investigating the paranormal</a>, and that too with some practical implications. And please do not judge it by its cover.</p>

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		<title>The Book Shelter</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 06:17:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juzar Noorani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The year 2011 has been quite dull in terms of writing good blog posts and now as the year 2012 rises bright and shiny, I just look forward to punching up some material on my blog. Thoughts come and fly by but when reduced to writing are saved for a lifetime. A few days back [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">The year 2011 has been quite dull in terms of writing good blog posts and now as the year 2012 rises bright and shiny, I just look forward to punching up some material on my blog. Thoughts come and fly by but when reduced to writing are saved for a lifetime.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">A few days back I stumbled on a twitter account thebookshelter and found that two young ladies in the Emirates have literally started and orphanage for BOOKS!! There are so many good things you could do one might wonder and better buy a new one rather then hording old stuff and also spending on the maintenance of the so called Book Shelter. Apart from that, since the flow of eBooks have begun people have just begun to forget the touch, feel and scent of paper. These are the first few thoughts that same up my mind.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Being a book lover with so many sitting on my bookshelf, personally I would not even think of parting with my books with any one. I love them. Just looking at the shelves filled with them makes me feel my hunger for learning. I took a breath and emailed <a title="The Book Shelter" href="http://thebookshelter.ae">thebookshelter.ae</a> that I would like to donate. They replied promptly and had the few books that were ready with me, picked-up.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I started surfing their website and found a book that I had been wanting to have a glimpse at since some time but had not dared buy it for the simple reason that time would not permit to go through it.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">People who love the written word would not part for it even though the digital world grows faster and feel of paper, its wonderful smell that one breathes in being engrossed in the book opens the doors of imagination, creativity and knowledge. Homes are growing smaller, and the price that once pays per square feet nowadays its much larger for someone to actually fall in love with having a library at home but then I would not dare speak the same having more then 150 books lying on my bookshelf and having known people who have collected newspapers and weeklys over years. The lust and hunger for knowledge in these people cannot be explain in words, for the written word would fall short of it.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">For those who would like to know more about the work done by the two Emarati ladies or even have a book for yourself visit http://thebookshelter.ae</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Hoping to write more blog posts then the past in 2012. <img src='http://hikmah.ekhwan.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>

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