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25 March 2020

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25th of March

What am I supposed to do?’: Covid-19 sparks mass unemployment across US

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/business/2020/mar/25/us-unemployment-coronavirus-hospitality-food-industries-claims

Death toll in Spain overtakes China

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/25/coronavirus-death-toll-in-spain-overtakes-china-as-lockdowns-extend-across-globe

COVID-19: Ikeja Electric Closes Offices Partially to Safeguard Customers, Staff https://www.ikejaelectric.com/covid-19-ikeja-electric-closes-offices-partially-to-safeguard-customers-staff/

Nigerian celebrity, Runtown gives donations

Receipt of Runtown’s money

Canada backs $57bn coronavirus relief bill

https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-us-canada-52022506?__twitter_impression=true

In darkness admist staying at home

LA County Sheriff allow gun store to remain open

https://abc7.com/amp/6045568/

Johns Hopkins: please take social distancing seriously to save lives https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/op-ed/bs-ed-op-0325-coronavirus-hopkins-social-distancing-20200324-b75k465kdfcq3jt235mr7uzaba-story.html?outputType=amp&__twitter_impression=true

US Navy called in

UNHRC measures to keep refugees safe

https://www.unhcr.org/news/stories/2020/3/5e79e2410/live-blog-refugees-covid-19-crisis.html

Police shut down 15 schools, clubs and religious gatherings in Lagos for non compliance

https://guardian.ng/news/coronavirus-police-shut-down-15-schools-in-lagos/

Vatican decree for upcoming Easter celebration

https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2020-03/covid-19-decree-regarding-easter-triduum-liturgical-celebration.html

Ontario confirms 100 new coronavirus cases in a day

Ontario confirms 100 new coronavirus cases and 5 more deaths, total jumps to 667 active cases

Online gaming booms as virus lockdowns keep millions at home

https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2020/03/25/covid-19-online-gaming-booms-as-virus-lockdowns-keep-millions-at-home

Final year students to be put on NHS frontline to deal with coronavirus crisis

Final year students to be put on NHS frontline to deal with coronavirus crisis

UN chief calls for global ceasefire to focus on ‘the true fight of our lives’

https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/03/1059972

Economic recession expected in G20 countries amid COVID-19 outbreak

https://www.euronews.com/2020/03/25/coronavirus-spain-surpasses-china-in-the-overall-number-of-covid-19-deaths

More than $200 milion received by WHO

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/donors-and-partners/funding

Nigerians respond to news of top Government officials testing positive for Coronavirus

Testing Kits for Coronavius from the Jack ma foundation arrive Nigeria and head to Abuja.

Rwandan Police employ extreme measures to enforce lockdown

https://twitter.com/BBGAfrica/status/1242866603596881920?s=20

FDA approves it’s first rapid Coronavirus test

Prince Charles tests positive for Coronavirus

World renowned Chef dies after testing positive for Coronavirus

Risk of dying from COVID-19

https://ourworldindata.org/covid-mortality-risk

Private hospitals will be made public

https://www.thejournal.ie/private-hospitals-ireland-coronavirus-5056334-Mar2020/

Angry italian mayors admonishing citizens disobeying self isolation order

NCDC calls citizen in self isolation

Young people are aware

Telemedicine regulations changed by a decade in two weeks

Don’t be silly

Nigeria’s Presidents spokesman complains about the coronavirus coverage in a chilling blast from the past

Family not taking any chances

Prince Charles 

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-52033845

Nigerian Celeb giving out money

New symptoms

Coronavirus patients exhibiting new symptoms, Ohio health director says

Refusing isolation, get charged with attempted murder

Text messaging

https://twitter.com/victorr_ugo/status/1242613027423297548?s=21

Corruption

New York executive order

https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/no-20210-continuing-temporary-suspension-and-modification-laws-relating-disaster-emergency

Response to racism

Zoom 

Visas extended

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/visas-extended-for-those-currently-unable-to-return-home-due-to-covid-19

Repurposing elephant projects

https://twitter.com/victorr_ugo/status/1242725104238411777?s=21

Trigeminal neuralgia a new symptom

Dead at home

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/25/london-woman-36-dies-of-suspected-covid-19-after-being-told-she-is-not-priority

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BEAUTIFUL DUA

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I thought to share this:
 
O Allah, O  my Rabb I turn to you in repentance, in submission. I beg you.
 
Forgive my sins, a complete forgiveness that leaves no trace

Forgive my transgressions of Your Commands & the violations of the rights of people

Grant me victory over my shortcomings – during & after Ramadan
Reform and upgrade me

O Allah
Accept my duaas, ibaadah & deeds 

O Allah bless me with witnessing Laylatul Qadr

Guide me towards performing good accepted deeds for Your Sake only

Help me to attain khushu’ & ikhlaas in my ibaadah

Help me get closer to you as my end draws near

Make me love You, Your Prophet (pbuh), Your Deen, Your Quran the way it deserves to be loved

Increase my eeman, tawakkul, yaqeen in You

Increase me in Taqwa

Make me of your grateful slaves

Give me the strength to be steadfast throughout the trials I encounter

Grant me a soft heart, content with Your Laws

Make the Quran be my companion in both worlds

Guide me to  the siraat mustaqeem until my last breath, never be deviated in shirk, kufr or bid’ah (big/small)

Make me among the muhsineen, muttaqeen  the mukhliseen, the sabiqoon fil ilm

Increase me in beneficial knowledge
Make me pleased with Your Qadr for me

Protect me from sicknesses of the heart (envy, arrogance, show off etc)

Bless me with happiness in this dunya, protect me from sadness & depression

Favour me with the ability to do tazkiyah of my soul throughout my life journey

Remove the love of this world in its degrees & forms from my heart

Invite me to Your House to worship You
 
Ya Rabb, grant me a good end. Make me love to meet You

Make my grave & barzakh a peaceful, cool abode

Grant me the Shade of your Arsh on Yawmul Qiyaamah

Give me my record of deeds in my right hand and make my mizaan (scale) heavy with the good deeds

Grant me the favour to drink from the Hawd Al Kawthar 

Ease my crossing of the Siraat & Qantarah (bridges before Paradise)

Favour me O Rabb the ultimate bliss of seeing You in Hereafter
 
Shield, increase & protect the love/mercy/barakah between my spouse & I for as long as we live 

Improve our behaviour with each other

Reward my spouse Your best reward for her/his striving for the family

Make the Quran & Your Commands be our judge in all matters

Strengthen our practice of the deen together

Make us join together in bliss in Jannah al Firdaus
 
O Allah, assist us with physical & emotional strength to be a good parents & example to our children

Save our children from the impact of our mistakes in their  lives

Bless us with righteous children

Make our children the coolness of our eyes and make them thawaab jaariya for me & my spouse ..

Make them of those who establish Salah and prostrate only to you 

Protect my family from evil, calamities, enviers & the shayaateen from man & jinn

Protect our children from harm, sicknesses, disbelief, haraam, social ills and destruction

Grant our children success in Deen,  duniya &  Aakhirah..

Grant us a lineage of righteous offspring until Yawm Qiyaamah.

Unite our entire lineage in Jannah al Firdaus

Make our children workers for Your Deen, hafidhul Quran, da’ees, imaams, scholars and shaheeds

Make them become the reason for our place in Jannah & shield against the Hellfire

O Allah save me & my entire family from the Fire & make us enter Jannah Firdaus A’laa without hisaab
 
O Allah, you are Al Gaffaar. Forgive my parents

Reward them in the greatest measure in this dunya & akhirah

Elevate their ranks and grant them Jannah al Firdaus

Make me coolness of their eyes in their old age

Grant my siblings success in this dunya & akhirah

Elevate the ranks of my parents, siblings, children, spouse, spouse’s parents, my elders, relatives, friends and the Muslim Ummah

Protect them from illnesses and difficulties of old age

Forgive the sins of those who have passed away in my family & the Ummah; young & old

Grant them a peaceful time in the barzakh till they meet You
 
Save us from trials of Dajjal, Yujuj & Majuj & the last Day

Grant my family & friends who are waiting, the gift of children

Unite the hearts of my worldly companions who work for You & strengthen our sister/brotherhood

Unite the hearts of those undergoing family/marital difficulties

Grant your perfect cure to those who are sick

Protect my brothers & sisters across the warzones; from the persecution, rape, slaughter, humiliation

Relieve their sufferings & elevate their ranks

Bring the downfall of those (modern day pharaohs) oppressors
Relieve those who are deprived, burdened, oppressed, in debt
 
O Allah, answer our Duaas this Ramadan. You are the All Hearing, All Knowing
 
O Allah send Your blessings & salams on our Prophet (pbuh). His entire household, companions & those who follow him till the last Day. Ameen Ya rabbil alaameen]

O Allah bless our unmarried brothers and sisters with the righteous and loving spouses.

O Allah bless us with righteous daughters and sons and make them leaders of the mutaqeen.

Aameen.

How Writing Things Down Can Change Your Life

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What do you write down? For most of us, writing consists of emails, task lists, and perhaps the odd work project. However, making time to write down certain things, such as our daily experiences, our goals, and our mental clutter can change the way we live our lives.

Here are six different ways that writing things down can change your life, and what you can do to get the most out of each.

1. It clears your mind for higher-level thinking.
You can clear your mind by writing things down in two different ways.

David Allen, productivity speaker and author of Getting Things Done, recommends doing what he calls a “core dump”. This involves writing down every task, activity, and project you need to address. This could range from picking up milk on the way home, to a multi-person project at work. Writing down every “to-do” item you can think of clears space in your head for more important topics.

You can also use a technique called “morning pages”, which was pioneered by Julia Cameron, author of The Artist’s Way. Morning pages involves completing three pages (around 750 words) of stream-of-consciousness writing. Through doing this first thing each morning, you clear your head in preparation for the day’s most important thinking.

2. It helps you process your emotions.
Writing down what’s on our mind is a great way to work through inner conflict or process your feelings around a particular situation. It’s similar to talking a situation through with a friend, except it’s a useful way of strengthening your self-soothing abilities and enhancing your self-knowledge.

3. It gives you a record of the past.
If you keep a journal and regularly write down your thoughts and feelings, you’ll soon have a record of your experiences that you might otherwise have forgotten.

Reading back through this record is not just fascinating—it also provides a valuable insight into your thought process and emotional life. You can savor moments that you could have potentially forgotten and increase your levels of gratitude.

Keeping a journal can also enhance your levels of self-trust. When you can look back and see how successfully you’ve traversed and dealt with important decisions and tricky situations in the past, you’ll feel more confident in your ability to do so in the future.

4. You gain a sense of achievement.
Writing things down can foster a sense of achievement and progress, expanding our possibilities and increasing our productivity.

If we journal, it’s incredibly satisfying to fill up one or more journals with our thoughts and feelings. Many people harbor dreams of writing a book, but balk at the reality of how long it takes. When you finish a journal, you’ll realize that you have written a book. This opens up a new sense of possibilities, not just in writing but in other areas of our lives, too.

Equally, if we write down everything we need to do in a particular day or week, we gain an additional sense of satisfaction when, having completed the task, we can cross the item off our list. Feeling productive enhances our productivity, creating a virtuous cycle.

5. It helps you think big.
Writing things down gives you space to think big and aim high. No matter what’s going on in our outside world, when we write things down, we enter a world of possibility.

Doing this helps us stay motivated, and it reduces the chance that we fall prey to self-limiting beliefs. (Even if we do, we can keep writing things down to process our feelings!)

When we write things down, we have a chance to explore dreams and ambitions that we might not feel safe revealing to anyone else yet. We also have a space to keep track of all our ideas and desires so we can return to them later.

6. It makes you more committed.
As well as offering a space for exploring possibilities, writing our goals and ambitions down makes it more likely that we’ll achieve them.

As with any goals, they are most effective if they are SMART: specific, measurable, actionable, realistic, and timed. These are all variables we can work out and commit to through writing.

Writing down our goals is the first step towards making them a reality. It can also help us stay accountable. When you’ve outlined your SMART goal in writing, display it somewhere you can see for an extra shot of motivation.

-Hannah Braime
http://www.lifehack.org
http://t.co/ubL8mvmw6o

Scientists Fear Mutation of MERS Coronavirus from Animals to Humans -Gulf News

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Dubai: Earlier this week, medical investigators for the first time have confirmed the Mers coronavirus in a camel, one belonging to a Saudi man also ill with the new virus. The tie has provided a critical clue into the virus’s animal hosts and transmission

The first definitive confirmation of the Mers coronavirus in the camel provides a “missing link” for disease experts, said Henry L. Niman, a microbiologist in Pittsburgh who tracks the Middle East virus and other infectious diseases.
Mers typically causes severe respiratory problems.

The virus typically spreads in limited fashion from person to person after appearing in a community, but medical experts have been mystified as to the original source animal.
Owning racing stables or farms with camels and other livestock is popular among Saudi and other Gulf residents with the means to do so. Some, but not all, of the originating human cases in clusters of Mers have been found to have come in contact with camels or other livestock.

But the reality too is that if you walk past the endless rows of vegetables, past the dozens of stalls selling every possible part of animals in any market around the world, scores of people are selling and butchering live animals, breathing the same air and in constant contact with the animals’ blood, urine and faeces.

Of the roughly 400 emerging infectious diseases that have been identified since 1940, more than 60 per cent are zoonotic — they came from animals. Throughout history this has been common. HIV originated in monkeys, ebola in bats, influenza in pigs and birds. The rate at which new pathogens are emerging is on the rise, even taking into account the increase in awareness and surveillance.

Which pathogens will cross the species barrier next, and which one is the greatest potential public health concern, is a subject of intense interest. A modern outbreak, caused by a previously unknown virus, could travel at jet-speed around the world, spreading across the continents in just a few days, causing illness, panic and death.

For more, visit
http://m.gulfnews.com/news/world/usa/mers-link-to-camels-opens-a-pandora-s-box-1.1255185

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..:: Beauty ::.. [Written by: Lauren T]

Beauty is the Qur’anic verses
Exquisite in it’s sequence
As the Arabic words drip off one another
Silky a transition as the pattern of the rain.
Raining on our barren tongues and quenching the thirst of searching

Beauty is the Hijab
Complementing the natural splendor of a woman
Hiding that which is hers
Promoting a sense of awareness
That all she does is for her Lord

Beauty is the sound of the mu’azzin
Calling to that which is called to five times each day
Reminding us of our purpose as mere mortals
Welcoming us to our reward
Feeding our souls as we continually starve them

Beauty is the act of prostration
To the one and only Allah ta’ala
As we bow our heads so full of pride
Acknowledging our insignificance
Together in congregation and alone

Beauty is the status of our mothers
Women who strive in the way of our Lord
Nurturing the cries of the young
Caressing their promises
Whispering to the ears which hear more then we fathom

Beauty is the bond of love
For Allah ta’ala alone
As brothers and sisters, husband and wives
Peace is bestowed upon us
And charity spread through smiles

Beauty is the Qur’anic verses
Which spell all that we know
In which it’s hidden beauty may be unlocked
Unlocked by the searchers
Who care not of this world.

***
May Allah make beauty easy for us…insha Allah…amin

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..:: Beauty ::.. [Written by: Lauren T]

Beauty is the Qur’anic verses
Exquisite in it’s sequence
As the Arabic words drip off one another
Silky a transition as the pattern of the rain.
Raining on our barren tongues and quenching the thirst of searching

Beauty is the Hijab
Complementing the natural splendor of a woman
Hiding that which is hers
Promoting a sense of awareness
That all she does is for her Lord

Beauty is the sound of the mu’azzin
Calling to that which is called to five times each day
Reminding us of our purpose as mere mortals
Welcoming us to our reward
Feeding our souls as we continually starve them

Beauty is the act of prostration
To the one and only Allah ta’ala
As we bow our heads so full of pride
Acknowledging our insignificance
Together in congregation and alone

Beauty is the status of our mothers
Women who strive in the way of our Lord
Nurturing the cries of the young
Caressing their promises
Whispering to the ears which hear more then we fathom

Beauty is the bond of love
For Allah ta’ala alone
As brothers and sisters, husband and wives
Peace is bestowed upon us
And charity spread through smiles

Beauty is the Qur’anic verses
Which spell all that we know
In which it’s hidden beauty may be unlocked
Unlocked by the searchers
Who care not of this world.

***
May Allah make beauty easy for us…insha Allah…amin

Don’t Judge!

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This particular story has been making the rounds online for quite some time. It has been sent and resent so many times that it mau have lost its original text. Nonetheless, the underlying lesson has remained unchanged

“A young lady was waiting for her flight in the
boarding room of a big airport. As she would
need to wait many hours, she decided to buy
a book to spend her time. She also bought a
packet of cookies.

She sat down in an armchair, in the VIP room
of the airport, to rest and read in peace.
Beside the armchair where the packet of
cookies lay, a man sat down in the next seat,
opened his magazine and started reading.

When she took out the first cookie, the man
took one also. She felt irritated but said
nothing. She just thought: “What a nerve! If I
was in the mood I would punch him for
daring!”
For each cookie she took, the man took one
too.

This was infuriating her but she didn’t
want to cause a scene. When only one cookie
remained, she thought: “ah… What has this
abusive man done now?” Then, the man, taking
the last cookie, divided it into half, giving her
one half.

Ah! That was too much! She was much too
angry now! In a huff, she took her book, her
things and stormed to the boarding place.
When she sat down in her seat, inside the
plane, she looked into her purse to take her
eyeglasses, and to her surprise, her packet of
cookies was there, untouched, unopened!

She felt so ashamed! She realized that she
was wrong… She had forgotten that her
cookies were kept in her purse. The man had
divided his cookies with her, without feeling
angered or bitter.
“While she had been very angry, thinking that
she was dividing her cookies with him. And
now there was no chance to explain herself,
nor to apologize.”

* * * * * *
There are 4 things that you cannot
recover:
The stone… after the throw.
The word…after it’s said.
The occasion…after the loss.
The time…after it’s gone.