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1. Thought for the Week: Utilize Your Leisure Time

2. Special Event: Men's Friday Circle & Dinner Evening

3. Dates for your Diary
- Tuesday Sisters' Islamic Study Circle
- ISOC Islamic Study Circle
- Ladies Fitness Classes
- Brothers Friday Islamic Study Circle & Dinner
- Abu Bakr Islamic School
- Ladies Swimming
- Qur'anic Classes for Children
- Boys Youth Group
- Girls Youth Group
- Horse Riding Trip

4. Computer Virus Alerts

5. Contact Us
- See this section for a list of ways to contact us.


==== 1. Thought for the Week: Utilize Your Leisure Time ====

Assalaamu-alaikum wa rahmatullah.

Utilize Leisure Time
By Khaled Al-Jeraisy
Time Management - An Islamic View

To be free from worry and distress is a great blessing, and to have a body free from diseases is a great blessing, too. However, they are the very blessings on which people are deceived. The Prophet sallallahu `alayhi wa sallam was reported to have said, "There are two blessings in which people are cheated: health and leisure time." [Sahih Al-Bukhari, Book 81, Chapter 1, Hadith No. 6412, p. 1232.] This Hadith implies how people are unaware of the real value of health and leisure time; they are not properly invested in what is good for them in this world or the Hereafter. What a real loss!

Calling on Muslims to utilize their time, to benefit from it and not to waste it, the Prophet said, "On the Day of Resurrection the feet of the son of Adam [man] will not move away till he is questioned about four matters: how he spent his lifetime, how he spent his youth; from where he acquired his wealth and how he spent it, and what he did with his knowledge." [Abul-Qasim Attabarani, “Al-Mu`jam Al-Kabeer” (The Great Dictionary), 20/61. Sunan at-Tirmidhi, no. 2417]

He also said, "Grab five things before five others: your youth before your decrepitude, your health before your illness, your wealth before your poverty, your leisure before your work, and your life before your death." [Al-Hakim, “Al-Mustadrak”, Book No. 44, 4/341] This Hadith is a direct call on Muslims to invest their time as early as possible when conditions are favourable, i.e., youth, health, wealth and time before being handicapped by impediments, such as old age, sickness, poverty or preoccupation.

The Righteous Salaf were extremely careful about occupying their time with useful deeds, and they hated laziness and unemployment. Umar Ibn-Al-Khattab was reported to have said, "I do hate to see any of you unoccupied, doing nothing for this world or the Hereafter." [Abul-Qasim Azzamakhshari, “Al-Kashshf “, in Arabic, investigated by Mohamed A. Shaheen, 4/761]

On the authority of Ibn-Mas'ud, the Prophet, sallallahu `alayhi wa sallam, said, "I do hate to see a man doing nothing for this world or the Hereafter." [Abul-Qasim Attabarani, ”AI-Mu`jam Al-Kabeer”, 9/102]

Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradhawi says, "Leisure time will never remain unoccupied. It will be occupied with good or evil. If one does not occupy himself with truth, that self will make him occupied with falsehood. Successful is he who fills his time with what is good and righteous, and woe to him who fills it with evil and corruption.” [Time In The Muslim’s Life, p. 15]

From http://www.islaam.com/Article.aspx?id=608

Wasalam,
Elias Karim
News Editor, Cambridge Muslims ONLINE
cmo@CambridgeMuslims.info


==== 2. Special Event: Men's Friday Circle & Dinner Evening ====

Friday, 6th February, from 8.30pm - 10.00pm.
A short study circle followed by dinner has been organised at the Abu Bakr Siddiq Mosque, Mawson Rd. All Welcome. This is a brothers only event! Organised jointly by the Men's Friday Study Circle and Cambridge Muslims ONLINE.


==== 3. Dates for your Diary ====
compiled by Elias Karim

Any last minute updates and changes can be found at
http://www.cambridgeMuslims.info/Events/

- Tuesday Sisters Islamic Study Circle
Tuesday, 3rd Feb '04. The Sisters' Islamic Study Circle is open to
non-Muslim and Muslim ladies who have an interest in learning about Islam.
The group meets at Coleridge Community College each Tuesday at 8.00pm to
10.00pm.
http://www.cambridgemuslims.info/services/TuesdayLadies/

- ISOC Islamic Study Circle
Wednesday, 4th Feb between 7.00pm - 8.30pm. Cambridge University Islamic Society: The Life and Times of Omar ibn al-Khattab (RA) - PART 2 by Brother Omar Mahroo. Venue: Room N7, Pembroke College. The circle is open to both brothers and sisters.

- Ladies Fitness Classes
Thursday, 5th Feb between 5.45pm to 6.45pm. Weekly Fitness Classes run at
Ross Street Community Centre from 5.45pm to 6.45pm each Thursday. £1 per
session.

- Brothers Friday Islamic Study Circle & DINNER
Friday, 6th Feb between 8.30pm - 10.00pm at the Abu Bakr Siddiq Mosque, Mawson Rd. A short study circle followed by dinner has been organised jointly by the Friday Study Circle and Cambridge Muslims ONLINE.
http://www.cambridgemuslims.info/services/FridayCircle/

- Abu Bakr Islamic School
Saturday, 7th Feb. Week 5 at Abu Bakr Islamic School. Children should
be at school by 9.55am. Please read the important school announcements at
http://www.cambridgemuslims.info/services/school/

- Qur'anic Classes for Children
Saturday, 7th Feb, 10.00am - 1.30pm at Abu Bakr Mosque, Mawson Road,
Cambridge.

- Ladies Swimming
Saturday, 7th Feb, 7.00pm - 8.00pm at the Leys school.
http://www.cambridgemuslims.info/services/LadiesSwimming/

- Qur'anic Classes for Children
Sunday, 8th Feb, 10.00am - 1.30pm at Abu Bakr Mosque, Mawson Road,
Cambridge.

- Boys Youth Group
Sunday, 8th Feb, 10.30am - 1.30pm at The Barn on Sundays. For boys aged
11-18 years who come together and learn more about each other and Islam,
whilst enjoying sporting and creative activities.
http://www.cambridgemuslims.info/services/BoysYouthGroup/

- Horse Riding Trip
Sunday, 8th Feb from 11.00am - 12.00pm. Remember from February through to
March 2004, riding will be on the second and last Sundays of the month.
http://www.cambridgemuslims.info/Events/HorseRiding/

- Girls Youth Group
Sunday, 8th Feb, 1.30pm - 4.00pm. At Romsey Mill (at corner of
Hemmingford and Mill Road).
http://www.cambridgemuslims.info/services/AlNoor/


==== 4. Computer Virus Alerts ====

VIRUS ALERTS
Microsoft has issued an alert about the Mydoom worm. You can learn more about this worm and which software is affected by reviewing this notice on Microsoft.com:
http://www.microsoft.com/security/antivirus/mydoom.asp

BEWARE OF BOGUS BULLETINS
If you receive an e-mail message that claims to contain a Microsoft software update, it is probably a virus trying to trick you into infecting your computer. Microsoft never widely distributes software in e-mail. Learn how to spot a bogus bulletin:
http://www.microsoft.com/security/antivirus/authenticate_mail.asp


==== 5. Contact Us ====
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