Usayd has written a plugin that places images and text of traditional invocations and blessings that Muslims use after the names of Allah and Prophet Muhammad .

There are lots of different little images and gifs to choose from and when you want to put a particular invocation after the name of the Prophet, you simply write the word and if required add a few characters. For example, if I want to have an alternative image that contains a glorification of the name of the Almighty Creator, I can write simply “Allah ” or “Allah ″ depending on which one I want to use.

Well, it definitely works, alhamdulillah, so a big jazakallahu khayran goes out to Usayd!!!

P.S. He also has a Hijri date plugin and service - woohoooo, off to download now.

http://www.hijabman.com/i…tore&Side=store

Just the other day my T-shirt from Hijabman arrived. I bet you can’t guess which one I ordered!

It’s wunnerful, I love it. I wore it today and the man from the shoe-shop said he liked my t-shirt! The quality is very good and I can heartily recommend buying t-shirts from Hijabman, not the least because profits go towards funding his Imam training.

The shirts he stocks say the following:
“My name causes national security alerts. What does yours do?”
“This is what a radical feminist Muslim looks like.”
“Good things come in small Pakis.”
“Make Chai Not War”

Anyway, please do consider buying a t-shirt from him. Having Hijabman as an Imam would be absolutely fantastic (but then we’d have to steal him away to Australia bwaaahahahahah) but also because they have great, thought-provoking messages on them.

I’ll post a piccy soon.

Khalas! Boro!

http://backpackit.com/

As some will remember, I was in search for the perfect “to do” app. Abu Yasmin made me a wonderful excel spreadsheet that works as a task management tool, but now there is an online service which looks really good and easy to use: Backpack. You can make lists, write notes to yourself, send reminders and if you are willing to pay upload files. Worth checking out if you are into task management stuff.

http://www.maryams.net/quran.htm

Comprehensive list of English translations, Qur’an tools and resources.

This is my attempt at trawling the web for each available English translations in .html, .txt, .pdf format. I managed to find nineteen different translations.

I also have listed parallel translations, transliterations, Arabic text, a hyperlinked edition, recitations, search facilities, concordance & dictionaries, manuscripts, tafsir information, software, essays and some non-Muslim stuff.

Enjoy!

Abu Yasmin and I created a simple task management tool which is an Excel spreadsheet (be warned it has macros, I am pretty sure my computer doesn’t have a virus, but if you download and use it, I’m not to be held responsible if your computer up and dies on you or something).

I wanted something that would be quick and easy to run, fairly intuitive, allow me to assign dates to tasks if I wanted, that I could sort into a variety of categories, and would keep me on top of the numerous things I have to do now that I’m a free woman (not studying anymore).

Couldn’t find anything on the web that wasn’t huge and clunky or that I had to pay for. Anyway in the Creative Commons spirit of making useful stuff available to others, here is the collaborative work of Abu and Umm Yasmin:

Download here.

Feel free to email me or post a comment if you like it (or… errr.. not).