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1- I'dad Ruhi Imani, yakni persiapan ruh keimanan.

Orang-orang yang sholeh biasa melakukan persiapan ini seawal mungkin
sebelum datang Ramadhan. Bahkan mereka sudah merindukan kedatangannya sejak bulan Rajab dan Sya'ban. Biasanya mereka berdoa : "Ya Allah, berikanlah kepada kami keberkatan pada bulan Rajab dan Sya'ban, serta sampaikanlah kami kepada Ramadhan."

Dalam rangka persiapan ruh keimanan itu, dalam surah At-Taubah Allah
melarang kita melakukan berbagai maksiat dan kedzhaliman sejak bulan Rajab. Tapi bukan berarti di bulan lain dibolehkan. Hal ini dimaksudkan agar
sejak bulan Rajab kadar keimanan kita sudah meningkat. Boleh dikiaskan, bulan Rajab dan Sya'ban adalah masa pemanasan *(warming up),*sehingga ketika memasuki Ramadhan kita sudah bisa bisa menjalani ibadah shaum dan sebagainya itu bak sudah terbiasa.

2- I'dad Jasadi, yakni persiapan fizikal.

Untuk memasuki Ramadhan kita sebaiknya menyediakan fizikal yang lebih kuat dan bersedia daripada biasanya. Sebab, jika fizikal lemah, boleh menjadikan kemuliaan yang dilimpahkan oleh Allah swt. pada bulan Ramadhan tidak dapat kita raih secara optimal.

Maka, sejak bulan Rajab Rasulullah dan para sahabat membiasakan diri melatih fizikal dan mental dengan melakukan puasa sunnah, banyak berinteraksi dengan al-Qur'an, biasa bangun malam (qiyamul-lail), dan meningkatkan aktiviti seketika berkecimpung dalam masyarakat.

3- I'dad Maaliyah, yakni persiapan harta.

Jangan salah faham, persiapan harta bukan untuk membeli keperluan
berbuka puasa atau hidangan di hari raya sebagaimana tradisi kita selama ini. Mempersiapkan harta adalah untuk melipatgandakan sedekah, karena Ramadhan padanya disediakan peluang yang banyak untuk bersedekah.

4- I'dad Fikri wa Ilmi, yakni persiapan intelektual dan keilmuan.

Agar ibadah Ramadhan dapat direbut seoptima mungkin, diperlukan bekal wawasan dan tashawur (persepsi) yang benar tentang Ramadhan. Antaranya dengan membaca berbagai bahan rujukan dan menghadiri majlis ilmu tentang Ramadhan.

Kegiatan ini berguna untuk mengarahkan kita agar beribadah sesuai tuntunan Rasulullah saw. seketika Ramadhan. Menghafal ayat-ayat dan doa-doa yang berkait dengan pelbagai jenis ibadah, atau menguasai berbagai masalah dalam fiqh puasa, juga penting untuk dipersiapkan.

Semoga persiapan yang dilakukan mampu menjadikan ibadah puasa kita kali ini adalah yang terbaik dalam sejarah puasa yang kita lakukan. Dan semoga ianya diterima oleh Allah swt. dan diberikan ganjaran yang sewajarnya bila amal dihitungkan untuk diberikan pembalasan. Amiin.

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15th August 2008 morning as usual I have opened news paper. Front page was almost blank and naturally it captured my attention. I have gone through the whole page and throughout my reading thrilled with joys. Hats off to the person/team whoever thought of this idea.

Let me tell you what it is if you have not read the news paper.

Teach India is a social responsibility initiative from Times of India and various NGOs which brings together children in need of education and people who can contribute a little time towards teaching them. Bueaty of this initiative is flexibility, you may have to spare your 2-3 hours of weekdays OR weekends in teaching underprivileged children. For more information please visit http://www.teach.timesofindia.com/about_teach_india.aspx.

There was no second thought, I have filled volunteer application online http://www.teach.timesofindia.com/login_join.aspx?strvalue=join and waiting for their call.

I strongly believe we don't get this kind of opportunity to serve our society often, so please register yourself as a volunteer for TEACH INDIA.

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Another set of ideas that were presented in another POP SCI article, was the 10 audacious ideas to save the world. I'm not crazy about the microwave solar satellites, or the flocked plants, but there were other ideas like the nuclear power plants to produce synthetic gasoline from the carbon dioxide from the air. Or the methane digester, powered by sewer systems. Of course, then there is the awesome use of hog urea for plastics and deicers... uh yeah, pig pee... Or then the mini nuke 4S "battery"...
Of course my main source for alot of these things was terrain.org. And there is one more thing I'd like to highlight from their recent blog issue. A highlight of a recently built new urbanist community. I'd love to visit this place!

BTW, this is the first time I haven't used a outsource editor for my blog. I'm actually writing this from the wordpress area. I love using BlogDesk, but after it messed with my supposed post for Sarah's birthday, which never got published, and it didn't seem right to publish it after her birthday... So then I started using the Firefox plug in Scribefire, which is awesome for note collecting, but I have to come here to wordpress to edit my html tags so they'll actually work, and of course it always post it to uncategorized, whether I change the check boxes or not... But both Scribefire and BlogDesk (which is a separate program) post to all of my blogs should I so desire... So what is a guy to do?

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Yes I know... The actual WP window itself is killing my links the same way it was killing my ScribeFire and BlogDesk links... It's on WordPress, not my programs. So I guess I'll start looking for other ways. Anybody know of a good blog site?

sweet... it worked perfectly..... I think this will make things a lot better now..... more posts to come

of course, there is also windows live writer... which I am using for the edit (right here) trying a photo plugin as well to see what it does...

Mit BlogDesk kann man völlig easy - wie in einem Schreibprogramm, das man auf der Platte hat - seine Blog-Beiträge verfassen und mit Bildern bestücken, ohne sich jedes Mal extra neu bei Wordpress (oder einem anderen Blog-Anbieter) einloggen zu müssen, da alle Einstellungen, die fürs Einloggen nötig sind, bereits bei der Einrichtung des Programms eingegeben wurden.

O ScribeFire, um plugin do Firefox que eu muito apreciava, parou de funcionar direito. Ele é bonitinho, prático, mas parou de fazer upload de imagens o que é um problema meio tipo sério para quem escreve um blog. De modo que, depois de uma meia hora de pesquisa, decidi-me pelo discreto, prático e, até agora, eficiente BlogDesk.

Aparentemente ele tem tudo que o ScribeFire tem: permite categorias, tags, upload de imagens e também editar posts antigos. Tudo isso offline.

Por que, você há de me perguntar, por que ter todo esse trabalho se a interface do Wordpress é tão boa? Porque, hei de responder, porque ela é boa mas lenta. Lenta pra cct. Eis porque, dir-te-ei eu, ainda que tenha sérias dúvidas se essa é uma conjugação correta.

Kemudian ia menceritakan ini.

Ada dua siswa sekolah minggu yang bosan dengan pelajaran
agama. Yang satu mengusulkan untuk membolos saja.

“Bolos?… Tetapi ayah kita akan menangkap kita dan memukul
kita.”

“Kita balas memukul!”

“Apa? Memukul ayah? Apa kamu sudah gila? Apakah kamu lupa
bahwa Allah memerintahkan untuk menghormati ayah dan ibu
kita?”

“Benar … Nah, kalau begitu, kamu memukul ayahku dan aku
memukul ayahmu.”