Recommend a book to a guppy/guppan

[TLK]

BTW Hareem, you need to search in the self help section, not in the how to appear cheesy section.

[Monk]

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@Monk

"the book sitting on the desk staring at you"

PS: dude read it!!

[bao_bihari]

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@muqawwee123

Inshallah will read it..

http://www.thesufi.com/sufi_ebooks/Sufism%20ebooks%20BEST%20COLLECTION/The_Sufis_-_Idries_Shah.pdf

EDIT: Just went through few initial pages, looks like a good book, although not discussing actual sufiism but rather about sufis whom ibn juzi never liked.

Thank you for the book.

[redvelvet]

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The Memory Book by Rowan Coleman for @redvelvet

@hareem01

Novels by Amy Tan...if you haven't read them already. Start with earlier works like The Joy Luck Club, The Bonesetter's Daughter etc etc.

The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor

Dark Places by Gillian Flynn (dark mystery)

The Sugar Queen...by Sarah Addison Allen (a more light and airy read)

[bao_bihari]

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This is the book i am currently looking forward to read.
Structure and Qur’anic Interpretation

It deals with the ring composition of quran

The Remarkable Structure of the Qur’an. | Many Prophets, One Message

[hareem01]

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@redvelvet

@hareem01

Novels by Amy Tan…if you haven’t read them already. Start with earlier works like The Joy Luck Club, The Bonesetter’s Daughter etc etc.

The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor

Dark Places by Gillian Flynn (dark mystery)

The Sugar Queen…by Sarah Addison Allen (a more light and airy read)

Great recommends…but Gillian Flynn? Are you sure about that? :bummer: You know how I felt about Gone Girl, right?

[ajazali]

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@muqawwee123

For @KKF Ghlaib -manzarnama by Gulzar (This is the script in novel form of DD’s serial Mirza Ghalib directed by Gulzar).

For @mahool ‘The Scatter here is too great’ by Bilawal Tanweer. Story of Karachi and its people through an incident of a bomb blast at cantt station

For @LP ‘The forty rules of love’ by Elif Shafak, although it contains reference to death, but its not depressing.

For @ajazali @bao_bihari ‘The Sufis’ by Idrees Shah

For @hareem ‘Goat Days’ by Benyamin… Story of a Muslim immigrant from Kerala to KSA

For @Ali_Syed ‘Murder of History’ by K.K.Aziz

Thanks for suggestion. but to me, the problem with sufism remains. take the example of omar khayam sufi from that book. just like Sufis argue that music is ok if it does not make you do sins, similarly they would have argument that to drink wine is ok as long as it does not make you do sin. In reality, some Sufis do have argument for wine. Its actually near to shirk IMO that you disregard the Hikmah of Allah(s.w.t) and give preference to your own understanding.
Just skimmed some chapters, will read in details in sha Allah.

[redvelvet]

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@hareem01

Great recommends…but Gillian Flynn? Are you sure about that? You know how I felt about Gone Girl, right?

I haven’t read Gone Girl. Perhaps you’ll like Dark Places better. I’ll give you a brief synopsis and you can decide if you want to read it or pass on it. It’s about a woman in her early 30s who received a trust fund after her family was brutally massacred when she was just a little girl. The person convicted of the massacre was her brother, although there is a group of people who believe that he is innocent. Her once hefty trust fund is dwindling and to remedy this she agrees to help someone reinvestigate the murder case and her brother’s conviction.

[Southie]

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Brief synopsis? And RV?

I kid.

[hareem01]

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Thanks for suggestion. but to me, the problem with sufism remains. take the example of omar khayam sufi from that book. just like Sufis argue that music is ok if it does not make you do sins, similarly they would have argument that to drink wine is ok as long as it does not make you do sin. In reality, some Sufis do have argument for wine. Its actually near to shirk IMO that you disregard the Hikmah of Allah(s.w.t) and give preference to your own understanding. Just skimmed some chapters, will read in details in sha Allah.

"Ishrab sharabul hub". Wine in Sufic poetry most often refers to the metaphoric wine of love.

[hareem01]

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The New Digital Age for @Southie

The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business: Amazon.co.uk: Eric, III Schmidt, Jared Cohen, Roger Wayne: 9781491512203: Books

[redvelvet]

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I just googled online and it turns out that Dark Places has been turned into a movie as well. It stars Charlize Theron and will be releasing this year.

[lethal_kamikaze]

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@muqawwee123

whats it all about? any link?

Check toobaa research library.

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[LP]

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@muqawwee123

For @KKF Ghlaib -manzarnama by Gulzar (This is the script in novel form of DD’s serial Mirza Ghalib directed by Gulzar).

For @mahool ‘The Scatter here is too great’ by Bilawal Tanweer. Story of Karachi and its people through an incident of a bomb blast at cantt station

For @LP ‘The forty rules of love’ by Elif Shafak, although it contains reference to death, but its not depressing.

For @ajazali @bao_bihari ‘The Sufis’ by Idrees Shah

For @hareem ‘Goat Days’ by Benyamin… Story of a Muslim immigrant from Kerala to KSA

For @Ali_Syed ‘Murder of History’ by K.K.Aziz

Thank you. I’ll read it soon.

[LP]

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@Monk

@Monk

“the book sitting on the desk staring at you”

PS: dude read it!!

So did you?

[Monk]

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@LP

So did you?

yes.

[hareem01]

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How to be a Woman by Caitlin Moran for @PyariCgudia

[Muzna]

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All the books in Agatha Raisin series for @Muzna

I'm afraid that hareem pictures me as the "disliked old biddy" in this.....

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Reports of a haunted house soon have Agatha snooping around, but it turns out the victim is a universally disliked old biddy and someone is playing a practical joke. And then the old lady is murdered – but for Agatha, solving a crime is much more fun than hunting a ghost. Very soon she’s up to her usual tricks, involving the villagers, local police, and, of course, her handsome new neighbour…Complete and unabridged.
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:D

[hareem01]

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@Muzna

I'm afraid that hareem pictures me as the "disliked old biddy" in this.....

:D

Of course not. I think "disliked old biddy" is referring to the victim and not to Agatha.

Agatha Raisin is one of my favourite characters. She's witty, funny, intelligent, and smartask lady.

[Monk]

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On muslim question looks interesting I got it yesterday.
So far good nice look on rushdi thing and reacting of students etc...