BE GOOD BEYOND THE FASTING PERIOD: The MESSAGE OF RAMADHAN....
Khutbatu Al-jumma delivered in Golden Mosque, Quiapo Manila 27 Aug. 2010
Amrollah D. Diambangan

إن الحمد لله نحمده و نستعينه ونستغفره و نعوذ بالله من شرور أنفسنا و من سيئات أعمالنا من يهد الله فلا مضلا له و من يضلل ولا هادي له، و اشهد الله إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له الملك و له الحمد و هو على كل شيء قدير، و أشهد أن محمداً عبده و رسوله، بالغ الرسالة و أدى الأمانة و نصح الأمة و جاهد في الله حق جهاد و تركنا على المحاجة البيضاع ليلها كالنهارها لا يزيغ عنها إلا هالك.
 
اللهم صلى وسلم على سيدنا و حبيبنا و قدوتنا محمد بن عبد الله  وعلى آله و صحبه الذين قال لهم الناس إن الناس قد جمعوا لكم فاخشوهم فزادهم إيمانا و قالوا حسبنا الله و نعم الوكيل رضى الله عنهم و أرضاهم أجمعين….
 
عبادالله أوصى نفسي و إياكم بالتقوالله عز وجل، و اعلموا أنكم في شهر المبارك الذي انزل فيه القرآن هدى للناس و بينات من الهدى و الفرقان و يغفرفيه السيئات….
 
My dear brothers and sisters in Islam, All praises and thanks be to "ALLAH" Almighty for this great chance in life that we are in this blessed month. I am privileged to remind each and every one of us of this sacred month in which the Holy Qur'an was revealed as a whole to the Lawhil Mahfud. According to Ibn Abbas,  the Qur'an was revealed in Ramadhan as one whole complete book of "ALLAH" TO MANKIND, in its preserved form in the house tablet of Baiti'l izza, located between the heavens and earth. The Qur'an  was gradually revealed to Prophet Muhammad s.a.w within 23 years of Prophethood in order to strengthen the faith of the people across space, time and different occasions.

By Samira Gutoc , YMPN (11-21-Aug-2010) 

It's a RAMADHAN AF-FAIR on EID'ul Fitr (End of Fast)  in Cotabato and Manila. Join us September 11 onwards.

The ARMM Social Welfare Office has gone a long way in serving thousands of evacuees. It's World Bank-funded buildings in Cotabato City are the legacy of then Social Welfare Secretary and former MNLF Bainon Karon. The able Assistant Secretary  Pombae Karon was worried of the impact of another fighting among fronts  going on in Datu Blah Sinsuat that led to BURNING of homes. This would entail more shelters and food for another face of the war - vendetta.

Good luck to the fasting  barristers who will take the September BAR EXAMINATIONS, the hardest exams they say among all board tests! I remember fasting the whole month of the 2008 bar examinations. Lunchtimes at the exam site in La Salle were tempting but thankfully I was able to muster the fast along with other Muslim barristers. Even if I didn't pass the exams, it was worth experiencing the sacrifice.

Congratulations to the new doctors who passed the rigorous board examinations.

By Rham Joseph Cabasag, Zamboanga Times

District 1 Representative Beng Climaco has expressed dismay over relentless efforts to include Zamboanga City in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), as she reiterated opposition not only to one but two proposed bills amending the ARMM law.

This, as former president and now Pampanga (District II) Congresswoman Gloria Macapagal Arroyo filed House Bill 173 amending the ARMM law making Zamboanga City the seat of the autonomous region of Southwestern Mindanao, which is in support of another bill—HB number 143 refiled in the 15th Congress by Tawi-Tawi Cong. Nur Jaafar.

“As the city’s representative, working with the leaders and the people of Zamboanga, we will oppose this, as what we have done in the BJE-MOA-AD,” Climaco said referring to the city’s firm stand against the Bangsamoro Juridical Entity-Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain which was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court last 2008.