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By: Um Sumayyah

Um Sumayyah — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 07:34:01 +0000

as salam `alaykum wa rahmat Allahi wa barakatuh,

barak Allahu fiki Naiyerah! Great read ma sha’ Allah! My favorite quote from the article:
If Facebook messages, Twitter updates, instant messages, text messages, etc. top the list of what our brains process the most every day, we’re doing ourselves, our society and our Ummah a great injustice.

May Allah (swt) guide and protect our youth. Amin.

fi ‘amanilLah,
Um Sumayyah

By: Umm

Umm — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:50:55 +0000

3rd point –

3) media literacy is related; see http://www.medialit.org. there ‘s a 5 question analysis model they have that is helpful:

1) who created this message? (author)
2) What creative techniques are used to attract my attention (format)
3) How might different people understand this message differently (audience)
4) What values, lifestyles, points of view are represented in, or omitted from, this message? (content)
5) Why is the message being sent? (purpose)

again, jazaki Allahu khair!

By: Umm

Umm — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:43:29 +0000

Jazaki Allahu khair; great article, with great action steps to take.

3 points:

1) when i lived in west africa, you could drive around the city and see people reading under street lightsmasha’Allah. in other societies, there’s aversion to reading based on perception that it’s an impolite activity (one is isolated from the social group or family, and this is deemed insulting), or self-indulgent/uppity/impractical (who do you think you are?). insha’Allah these perceptions will change…

2) within the “select and assess”, get acquainted with the intellectual context of what you’re reading (the author’s school of thought, is it answering another work or opposing another theory?, if it’s science – who is funding the research?).

By: Amatullah

Amatullah — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:25:27 +0000

Amazing article ukhti. baarak Allahu feeki!

By: Rev. Cynthia

Rev. Cynthia — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:12:45 +0000

Greetings, Naiyerah~ Thank you for a truly insightful and honest article! I hope that you will be writing more along these lines. By the way, if you are on Facebook, I’d like to be added to your contact list. Please write to me privately about this.

Blessings multiplied,
Rev. Cynthia

By: Muslema

Muslema — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:29:44 +0000

AA,

This is a much needed reminder for our community. In America, one of the best times to do some consistent planned readings (especially with very busy work/school schedules) is the few hours you have after Fajr. In terms of diversifying, choosing 5-7 subjects you want to learn about, getting a good book for each subject, and then reading even half an hour after spending some time with one’s Quran goals, can be a really great way to start your morning, and enlighten your thoughts towards beneficial action.

Jazaki Allah Khair Naiyerah for this powerful article!

WS,
Muslema

By: JYB

JYB — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:10:04 +0000

MashAllah- this was such a beneficial article and so true. Amr Khaled, the Egyptian da’iya mentioned that when he was doing his PhD in the UK, he would go on the underground and most people were reading- either newspapers, books or magazines. And he said unfortunately in the Arab world especially- the most we read are movie subtitles.

May Allah reward you for bringing this up this issue!

By: Farhanah

Farhanah — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:12:38 +0000

Assalamualaikum sister,
Jazakallah for this wonderful article! Thank you for highlighting the issues that I myself am experiencing, being bombarded daily by an influx of information that it gets hard to focus and actually delve properly into something.
It is true that we need to be thankful that we are living in the Information Age where everything is so easily accesible, but we also need to utilize this fact by becoming responsible with the knowledge available to us.

By: mike

mike — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:56:14 +0000

I love to read and in the States and in Canada; they are libraries, book shops where you can read for free ie. chapters, indigo, barnes and noble etc They encourage their kids to read and expand their mind. Here in Pakistan; people read their school books and thats it off to tv or internet or nothing if you’re poor ie lower middle that gets sort of educated; the true poor do not even get that much. They denied education by their masters; for fear they will escape the bonds of serfdom.

No encourgement by parents, media, or goverenment. Even my parents though educated never will buy book on their own; instead will read what I have bought perviously and then when I do buy they say you are wasting your money. Reading anything but the Quran seems to be muslim south asian cultulral no-no. I got hooked on reading when I was a kid because a teacher offered 10 dollars per book read in a month; when I was in 2nd grade. It was an ESL class and we were 3 kids; the others read one book. I read a 100 books in that month and I have been hooked on books since. On side note; I never got the 1000 bucks. Ms Fooks bought me off with some chocolate and comic books. Lol.

Also becuase there is little or no reading; Urdu literature has suffered as well. While classical writings exist, nothing new is really added and no development of mystery, scifi and other avenues of modern literature are not being made.