hijaabwoman,s blog: August 2012

22 Aug 2012

Qandhari nan

Traditional Food particularly Balochistan, Azad Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, involves the use of mild aromatic spices, nuts and more healthy then other cuisine. Kandahari Naan also is a traditional recipe of northern side. It is the combination of sugar, dates and coconut.
Qandahari Naan ;
Cook dates in ½ cup of water, then apply this water on naan with brush and bake. Mix coconut, yellow food colour, raisins and sugar.
Method:
Mix flour, salt, yeast, sugar, oil and make soft dough with warm milk. Leave on warm place until it doubles in size. Then roll, fill coconut mixture, give them ball shapes again, cover and leave for some time. Then roll in oval shapes, apply dates water with brush and cook in oven or tandoor.

19 Aug 2012

Ilahi teri chokhat per

Ilahi teri chokhat per bhikari ban ker aya hoon,

Sarapa faqr hoon, ijz-o-nadamat saath laya hoon,

Bhikari woh ke jis ke paas jholi hai na payala hai,

Bhikari woh jisey hiras-o-hawas nay maar dala hai,

Mata-e-deen-o-danish, nafs ke hathon se lutwa ker.

Sakoon-e-qalb ki daulat hawas ki bhent charha ker,

Lutta ker sari poonji ghaflat-o-issyan ki daldal mein,

Sahara lene aya hoon tere kaabay ke aanchal mein,

Gunahon ki lipatt sey, kaynat-e-qalb afsurda,

Iraaday muzmehehal, himmat shikasta hoslay murda,

Kahan say laoon takat dil ki sachi tarjumani ki,

Ke kis jhanjhal mein guzri hein ghariyan zindagani ki.

Khulasa yeh ke bus jull bhun ker apni roo-sayahi sey

Sarapa faqr ban ker apni haalat ki tabahi sey,

Tere darbar mein laya hoon apni ab zaboon-haali,

Teri chokhat ke laeq har amal se hath hein khali,

Yeh Tera ghar hai ye Tere mehr ka darbar hai Maula

Sarapa noor hai, ik mohbat-e-anwaar hai Mola.

Teri chokhat ke jo adab hein, main unn se khali hoon,

Nahi jis ko saleeqa manganey ka, woh sawali hoon

Zuban ghalt-e-nadamat dil ki na’kas tarjumani per,

Khudaya reham meri iss zaban-e-ijz-zabani per,

Ye ankhein khushk hein, Ya Rabb inhein rona nahi aata,

Sulagtay daagh hein dil mein jinhein dhona nahi aata.

Ilahi teri chokhat per bhikari ban kay aaya hoon,

Sarapa faqr hoon, ijz-o-nadamat saath laya hoon,

Ek punjabi nazm...

میں کی کیتا ہاسے ہاسے

لے بیٹھی آ ں پریت دی کھاری

ہن چکاں تے بھا روں ڈردی

نہ چکاں تاں قولؤں ہاری

18 Aug 2012

Great inventions by great muslims

01 Coffee:

The story goes that an Arab named Khalid was tending his goats in the Kaffa region of southern Ethiopia, when he noticed his animals became livelier after eating a certain berry. He boiled the berries to make the first coffee. Certainly the first record of the drink is of beans exported from Ethiopia to Yemen where Sufis drank it to stay awake all night to pray on special occasions. By the late 15th century it had arrived in Mecca and Turkey from where it made its way to Venice in 1645. It was brought to England in 1650 by a Turk named Pasqua Rosee who opened the first coffee house in Lombard Street in the City of London.
The Arabic qahwa became the Turkish kahve then the Italian caffé and then English coffee.

02 Pin-Hole Camera:

The ancient Greeks thought our eyes emitted rays, like a laser, which enabled us to see. The first person to realise that light enters the eye, rather than leaving it, was the 10th-century Muslim mathematician, astronomer and physicist Ibn al-Haitham. He invented the first pin-hole camera after noticing the way light came through a hole in window shutters. The smaller the hole, the better the picture, he worked out, and set up the first Camera Obscura (from the Arab word qamara for a dark or private room). He is also credited with being the first man to shift physics from a philosophical activity to an experimental one.

03 Chess:

A form of chess was played in ancient India but the game was developed into the form we know it today in Persia. From there it spread westward to Europe – where it was introduced by the Moors in Spain in the 10 ^th century – and eastward as far as Japan. The word rook comes from the Persian rukh, which means chariot.

04 Parachute:

A thousand years before the Wright brothers a Muslim poet, astronomer, musician and engineer named Abbas ibn Firnas made several attempts to construct a flying machine. In 852 he jumped from the minaret of the Grand Mosque in Cordoba using a loose cloak stiffened with wooden struts. He hoped to glide like a bird. He didn’t. But the cloak slowed his fall, creating what is thought to be the first parachute, and leaving him with only minor injuries. In 875, aged 70, having perfected a machine of silk and eagles’ feathers he tried again, jumping from a mountain. He flew to a significant height and stayed aloft for ten minutes but crashed on landing – concluding, correctly, that it was because he had not given his device a tail so it would stall on landing.
Baghdad international airport and a crater on the Moon are named after him.

05 Shampoo:

Washing and bathing are religious requirements for Muslims, which is perhaps why they perfected the recipe for soap which we still use today. The ancient Egyptians had soap of a kind, as did the Romans who used it more as a pomade. But it was the Arabs who combined vegetable oils with sodium hydroxide and aromatics such as thyme oil. One of the Crusaders’ most striking characteristics, to Arab nostrils, was that they did not
wash. Shampoo was introduced to England by a Muslim who opened Mahomed’s Indian Vapour Baths on Brighton seafront in 1759 and was appointed Shampooing Surgeon to Kings George IV and William IV.

06 Refinement:

Distillation, the means of separating liquids through differences in their boiling points, was invented around the year 800 by Islam’s foremost scientist, Jabir ibn Hayyan, who transformed alchemy into chemistry, inventing many of the basic processes and apparatus still in use today – liquefaction, crystallisation, distillation, purification, oxidisation, evaporation and filtration. As well as discovering sulphuric and nitric acid, he invented the alembic still, giving the world intense rosewater and other perfumes and alcoholic spirits (although drinking them is haram, or forbidden, in Islam). Ibn Hayyan emphasised systematic experimentation and was the founder of modern chemistry.

07 Shaft:

The crank-shaft is a device which translates rotary into linear motion and is central to much of the machinery in the modern world, not least the internal combustion engine. One of the most important mechanical inventions in the history of humankind, it was created by an ingenious Muslim engineer called al-Jazari to raise water for irrigation. His 1206 Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices shows he also invented or refined the use of valves and pistons, devised some of the first mechanical clocks driven by water and weights, and was the father of robotics. Among his 50 other inventions was the combination lock.

08 Metal Armor:

Quilting is a method of sewing or tying two layers of cloth with a layer of insulating material in between. It is not clear whether it was invented in the Muslim world or whether it was imported there from India or China. But it certainly came to the West via the Crusaders. They saw it used by Saracen warriors, who wore straw-filled quilted canvas shirts instead of armour. As well as a form of protection, it proved an effective guard against the chafing of the Crusaders’ metal armour and was an effective form of insulation – so much so that it became a cottage industry back home in colder climates such as Britain and Holland.

09 Pointed Arch:

The pointed arch so characteristic of Europe’s Gothic cathedrals was an invention borrowed from Islamic architecture. It was much stronger than the rounded arch used by the Romans and Normans, thus allowing the building of bigger, higher, more complex and grander buildings. Other borrowings from Muslim genius included ribbed vaulting, rose windows and dome-building techniques. Europe’s castles were also adapted to copy the Islamic world’s – with arrow slits, battlements, a barbican and parapets. Square towers and keeps gave way to more easily defended round ones. Henry V’s castle architect was a Muslim.

10 Surgery:

Many modern surgical instruments are of exactly the same design as those devised in the 10th century by a Muslim surgeon called al-Zahrawi. His scalpels, bone saws, forceps, fine scissors for eye surgery and many of the 200 instruments he devised are recognisable to a modern surgeon.
It was he who discovered that catgut used for internal stitches dissolves away naturally (a discovery he made when his monkey ate his lute strings) and that it can be also used to make medicine capsules. In the 13th century, another Muslim medic named Ibn Nafis described the circulation of the blood, 300 years before William Harvey discovered it.
Muslims doctors also invented anaesthetics of opium and alcohol mixes and developed hollow needles to suck cataracts from eyes in a technique still used today.

11 Windmill:

The windmill was invented in 634 for a Persian caliph and was used to grind corn and draw up water for irrigation. In the vast deserts of Arabia, when the seasonal streams ran dry, the only source of power was the wind which blew steadily from one direction for months. Mills had six or 12 sails covered in fabric or palm leaves. It was 500 years before the first windmill was seen in Europe.

12 Vaccination:

The technique of inoculation was not invented by Jenner and Pasteur but was devised in the Muslim world and brought to Europe from Turkey by the wife of the English ambassador to Istanbul in 1724. Children in Turkey were vaccinated with cowpox to fight the deadly smallpox at least 50 years before the West discovered it.

13 Fountain Pen:

The fountain pen was invented for the Sultan of Egypt in 953 after he demanded a pen which would not stain his hands or clothes. It held ink in a reservoir and, as with modern pens, fed ink to the nib by a combination of gravity and capillary action.

14 Numerical Numbering:

The system of numbering in use all round the world is probably Indian in origin but the style of the numerals is Arabic and first appears in print in the work of the Muslim mathematicians al-Khwarizmi and al-Kindi around 825. Algebra was named after al-Khwarizmi’s book, Al-Jabr wa-al-Muqabilah, much of whose contents are still in use. The work of Muslim maths scholars was imported into Europe 300 years later by the Italian mathematician Fibonacci. Algorithms and much of the theory of trigonometry came from the Muslim world. And Al-Kindi’s discovery of frequency analysis rendered all the codes of the ancient world soluble and created the basis of modern cryptology.

15 Soup:

Ali ibn Nafi, known by his nickname of Ziryab (Blackbird) came from Iraq to Cordoba in the 9th century and brought with him the concept of the three-course meal – soup, followed by fish or meat, then fruit and nuts. He also introduced crystal glasses (which had been invented after experiments with rock crystal by Abbas ibn Firnas – see No 4).

16 Carpets:

Carpets were regarded as part of Paradise by medieval Muslims, thanks to their advanced weaving techniques, new tinctures from Islamic chemistry and highly developed sense of pattern and arabesque which were the basis of Islam’s non-representational art. In contrast, Europe’s floors were distinctly earthly, not to say earthy, until Arabian and Persian carpets were introduced. In England, as Erasmus recorded, floors were “covered in rushes, occasionally renewed, but so imperfectly that the bottom layer is left undisturbed, sometimes for 20 years, harbouring expectoration, vomiting, the leakage of dogs and men, ale droppings, scraps of fish, and other abominations not fit to be mentioned”.
Carpets, unsurprisingly, caught on quickly.

17 Pay Cheques:

The modern cheque comes from the Arabic saqq, a written vow to pay for goods when they were delivered, to avoid money having to be transported across dangerous terrain. In the 9th century, a Muslim businessman could cash a cheque in China drawn on his bank in Baghdad.

18 Earth is in sphere shape?

By the 9th century, many Muslim scholars took it for granted that the Earth was a sphere. The proof, said astronomer Ibn Hazm, “is that the
Sun is always vertical to a particular spot on Earth”. It was 500 years before that realization dawned on Galileo. The calculations of Muslim astronomers were so accurate that in the 9th century they reckoned the Earth’s circumference to be 40, 253.4km – less than 200km out. The scholar al-Idrisi took a globe depicting the world to the court of King Roger of Sicily in 1139.

19 Rocket and Torpedo:

Though the Chinese invented salt-petre gunpowder, and used it in their fireworks, it was the Arabs who worked out that it could be purified using potassium nitrate for military use. Muslim incendiary devices terrified the Crusaders. By the 15th century they had invented both a rocket, which they called a “self-moving and combusting egg”, and a torpedo – a self-propelled pear-shaped bomb with a spear at the front which impaled itself in enemy ships and then blew up.

20 Gardens:

Medieval Europe had kitchen and herb gardens, but it was the Arabs who developed the idea of the garden as a place of beauty and meditation. The first royal pleasure gardens in Europe were opened in 11th-century Muslim Spain. Flowers which originated in Muslim gardens include the carnation and the tulip.

تھے تو آباء وہ تمھارے ہی ۔ ۔ ۔ پر تم کیا ہو؟

ہاتھ پہ ہاتھ دھرے منتظرِ فردا ہو

Very intersting

Agar aap ko samajh aa jae to mujhe bhi samjha den plzzzzzzzzzzzzz

A beautiful dua for my beloved country...............Pakistan

خدا کرے میری ارض پاک پر اترے
وہ فصلِ گل جسے اندیشہء زوال نہ ہو

یہاں جو پھول کھلے وہ کِھلا رہے برسوں
یہاں خزاں کو گزرنے کی بھی مجال نہ ہو

یہاں جو سبزہ اُگے وہ ہمیشہ سبز رہے
اور ایسا سبز کہ جس کی کوئی مثال نہ ہو

گھنی گھٹائیں یہاں ایسی بارشیں برسائیں
کہ پتھروں کو بھی روئیدگی محال نہ ہو

خدا کرے نہ کبھی خم سرِ وقارِ وطن
اور اس کے حسن کو تشویش ماہ و سال نہ ہو

ہر ایک خود ہو تہذیب و فن کا اوجِ کمال
کوئی ملول نہ ہو کوئی خستہ حال نہ ہو

خدا کرے کہ میرے اک بھی ہم وطن کے لیے
حیات جرم نہ ہو زندگی وبال نہ ہو

(احمد ندیم قاسمی

OUR COUNTRY IS OUR DIGNITY, WEAR IT WITH PRIDE

15 Aug 2012

You can expect from the universe only what you give it!

Only ALLAH can make this...., Ice canyon Greenland

A salute to pakistan army

‏Photo: اب میرے بغیر عید کیسے مناؤں گی ماں

سب کے بیٹے جب آئیں گے عید پڑھ کر
تم دروازے میں کھڑی تکتی رہ جاؤں گی ماں

سؤیاں جب بانٹنے لگو گی محلے میں
تمھاری پلکیں آنسوؤں سے بھیگ جائے گی ماں

شام تک بھی جب نہ پہنچ پاؤں گا گھر
تیرے دل کی ڈھڑکنیں جیسے رک سی جائیں گی ماں

عید پڑھ کر جب واپس آؤں گا ڈیوٹی پے
تسلی یہ دل کو دے کر سو جاؤں گا ماں

عید کا کیا ہے آگلے سال پھر آجائے گی ماں
DEDICATED TO ALL SOLDIERS‏

میں یہ عید بھی تیری رکھوالی میں گزاروں گا
ہاتھوں میں رائفل سینے پے گولی سجاؤں گا
اے وطن میں یہ عید بھی تیری سرحدوں پے مناؤں گا
اپنی خوشیاں غم ساتھ ہی مناؤں گا
اے وطن کٹ جائے سر سے تن ، پر تیری قسم تجھے ہی بچاؤں گا
میں یہ عید تیری سرحدوں پے مناؤں گا

13 Aug 2012

A living ayah.........

Between them is a barrier which they do not transgress:

Surah Ar-Rahman

NEW TO ISLAM A heart warming story

"My name is Cassie, I am 23 years old. I graduated as a qualified nurse this year and was given my first position as a home nurse.

My patient was an English gentleman in his early 80s who suffered from Alzheimer's. In the first meeting, the patient was given his record and from it I could see that he was a convert to the religion of Islam, therefore he was a Muslim.

I knew from this that I would...

need to take into account some modes of treatment that may go against his faith, and therefore try to adapt my care to meet his needs. I brought in some ‘halal’ meat to cook for him and ensured that there was no pork or alcohol in the premises as I did some research which showed that these were forbidden in Islam.

My patient was in a very advanced stage of his condition so a lot of my colleagues could not understand why I was going through so much effort for him. But I understood that a person who commits to a faith deserves that commitment to be respected, even if they are not in a position to understand.

Anyway after a few weeks with my patient I began to notice some patterns of movement.

At first I thought it was some copied motions he's seen someone doing, but I saw him repeat the movement at particular time; morning, afternoon, evening.

The movements were to raise his hands, bow and then put his head to the ground. I could not understand it. He was also repeating sentences in another language, I couldn’t figure out what language it was as his speech was slurred but I know the same verses were repeated daily.

Also there was something strange, he didnt allow me to feed him with my left hand (I am left-handed).

Somehow I knew this linked to his religion but didn't know how.

One of my colleagues told me about paltalk as a place for debates and discussions and as I did not know any Muslims except for my patient I thought it would be good to speak to someone live and ask questions. I went on the Islam section and entered the room ‘True Message'.

Here I asked questions regarding the repeated movements and was told that these were the actions of prayer. I did not really believe it until someone posted a link of the Islamic prayer on youtube.

I was shocked.

A man who has lost all memory of his children, of his occupation, and could barely eat and drink was able to remember not only actions of prayer but verses that were in another language.

This was nothing short of incredible and I knew that this man was devout in his faith, which made me want to learn more in order to care for him the best I could.

I came into the paltalk room as often as I could and was given a link to read the translation of the Quran and listen to it.

The chapter of the ‘Bee’ gave me chills and I repeated it several times a day.

I saved a recording of the Quran on my iPod and gave it to my patient to listen to, he was smiling and crying, and in reading the translation I could see why.

I applied what I gained from paltalk to care for my patient but gradually found myself coming to the room to find answers for myself.

I never really took the time to look at my life; I never knew my father, my mother died when I was 3, me and my brother were raised by our grandparents who died 4 years ago, so now its just the two of us.

But despite all this loss, I always thought I was happy, content.

It was only after spending time with my patient that felt like I was missing something. I was missing that sense of peace and tranquility my patient, even through suffering felt.

I wanted that sense of belonging and a part of something that he felt, even with no one around him.

I was given a list of mosques in my area by a lady on paltalk and went down to visit one. I watched the prayer and could not hold back my tears.

I felt drawn to the mosque every day and the imam and his wife would give me books and tapes and welcome any questions I had.

Every question I asked at the mosque and on paltalk was answered with such clarity and depth that could do nothing but accept them.

I have never practiced a faith but always believed that there was a God; I just did not know how to worship Him.

One evening I came on paltalk and one of the speakers on the mic addressed me. He asked me if I have any questions, I said no. He asked if I was happy with the answers I was given, I said yes.

He asked then what was stopping me accepting Islam, I could not answer.

I went to the mosque to watch the dawn prayer. The imam asked me the same question, I could not answer.

I then went to tend to my patient, I was feeding him and as I looked in his eyes I just realized, he was brought to me for a reason and the only thing stopping me from accepting was fear.... not fear in the sense of something bad, but fear of accepting something good, and thinking that I was not worthy like this man.

That afternoon I went to the mosque and asked the imam if I could say my declaration of faith, the Shahadah.

لا إله إلا الله محمد رسول الله (lā ʾilāha ʾillà l-Lāh, Muḥammadun rasūlu l-Lāh)

There is no god except Allah, Muhammad is Allah's messenger.

He helped me through it and guided me through what I would need to do next.

I cannot explain the feeling I felt when I said it.

It was like someone woke me up from sleep and sees everything more clearly.

The feeling was overwhelming joy, clarity and most of all.... peace.

The first person I told was not my brother but my patient.

I went to him, and before I even opened my mouth he cried and smiled at me.

I broke down in front of him, I owed him so much.

I came home logged on to paltalk and repeated the shahadah for the room.

They all helped me so much and even though I had never seen a single one of them, they felt closer to me than my own brother.

I did eventually call my brother to tell him and although he wasn’t happy, he supported me and said he would be there, I couldn't ask for any more.

After my first week as a Muslim my patient passed away in his sleep while I was caring for him. Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi rajioon.

He died a peaceful death and I was the only person with him.

He was like the father I never had and he was my doorway to Islam.

From the day of my Shahadah to this very day and for every day for as long as I live, I will pray that Allah shows mercy on him and grant him every good deed I perform in the tenfold.

I loved him for the sake of Allah and I pray each night to become an atoms weight of the Muslim he was.

Islam is a religion with an open door; it is there for those who want to enter it.... Verily Allah is the Most Merciful, Most Kind.

* note * Our sister Cassie passed away October 2010 Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi rajioon, after she gave da'wa to her brother, who had accepted Islam."

MUHABBAT by Amjad islam amjad

محبت اوس کی صورت

پیاسی پنکھڑی کے ہونٹ کو سیراب کرتی ہے

گلوں کی آستینوں میں انوکھے رنگ بھرتی ہے

سحر کے جھٹپٹے میں گنگناتی، مسکراتی جگمگاتی ہے

محبت کے دنوں میں دشت بھی محسوس ہوتا ہے

کسی فردوس کی صورت

محبت اوس کی صورت

محبت ابر کی صورت

دلوں کی سر زمیں پہ گھر کے آتی ہے اور برستی ہے

چمن کا ذرہ زرہ جھومتا ہے مسکراتا ہے

ازل کی بے نمو مٹی میں سبزہ سر اُٹھاتا ہے

محبت اُن کو بھی آباد اور شاداب کرتی ہے

جو دل ہیں قبر کی صورت

محبت ابر کی صورت

محبت آگ کی صورت

بجھے سینوں میں جلتی ہے تودل بیدار ہوتے ہیں

محبت کی تپش میں کچھ عجب اسرار ہوتے ہیں

کہ جتنا یہ بھڑکتی ہے عروسِ جاں مہکتی ہے

دلوں کے ساحلوں پہ جمع ہوتی اور بکھرتی ہے

محبت جھاگ کی صورت

محبت آگ کی صورت

محبت خواب کی صورت

نگاہوں میں اُترتی ہے کسی مہتاب کی صورت

ستارے آرزو کے اس طرح سے جگمگاتے ہیں

کہ پہچانی نہیں جاتی دلِ بے تاب کی صورت

محبت کے شجر پرخواب کے پنچھی اُترتے ہیں

تو شاخیں جاگ اُٹھتی ہیں

تھکے ہارے ستارے جب زمیں سے بات کرتے ہیں

تو کب کی منتظر آنکھوں میں شمعیں جاگ اُٹھتی ہیں

محبت ان میں جلتی ہے چراغِ آب کی صورت

محبت خواب کی صورت

محبت درد کی صورت

گزشتہ موسموں کا استعارہ بن کے رہتی ہے

شبانِ ہجر میںروشن ستارہ بن کے رہتی ہے

منڈیروں پر چراغوں کی لوئیں جب تھرتھر اتی ہیں

نگر میں نا امیدی کی ہوئیں سنسناتی ہیں

گلی جب کوئی آہٹ کوئی سایہ نہیں رہتا

دکھے دل کے لئے جب کوئی دھوکا نہیں رہتا

غموں کے بوجھ سے جب ٹوٹنے لگتے ہیں شانے تو

یہ اُن پہ ہاتھ رکھتی ہے

کسی ہمدرد کی صورت

گزر جاتے ہیں سارے قافلے جب دل کی بستی سے

فضا میں تیرتی ہے دیر تک یہ

گرد کی صورت

محبت درد کی صورت

A lovely short poem i crossed by

While surfing on the net, i came through this lovely poem . so touching and beautifully woven.

سنو جاناں

محبت رُت میں لازم ھے

بہت عُجلت میں یا تاخیر سے وہ مرحلہ آئے

کوئی بے درد ھو جائے

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12 Aug 2012

Thadal sharbat

This is a very refreshing sindhi drink which cools down in summer heat and is energetic also. Especially in Ramadan it gives fast relief from thrust at aftari. You can mix it alternatively with water or milk.
Thadal

Almonds – 150 g (peeled and soaked overnight)
Water- 1 litre
Sugar- 1 kg
Fennel seeds – 1 tbsp
Char maghaz – 1 tbsp
Poppy seeds – 1 tbsp
Green cardamom – 1 tbsp
Cumin seeds – 1 tbsp

In 1 cup of water, mix and soak fennel seeds, char maghaz, poppy seeds, green cardamom and cumin seeds overnight.
Method:
In 1 litre of water, cook sugar and clean it as it cooks. In a blender, add almonds, fennel seeds, char maghaz, poppy seeds, green cardamom and cumin seeds along with some water, and blend well. Now strain the water from this mixture and pour over the sugar syrup. Discard of the seeds, green cardamom, char maghaz and almonds. Now cook until thick. Refrigerate and enjoy homemade thadal or thandai. Almost 1tb is sufficient to make 1 glass of sharbat in water or milk.

Spicy chicken tikka

ingrediants

Chicken boneless – ½ kg
Yogurt – ½ cup
Coriander leaves – ½ bunch
Lemon – 4
Garlic – 6 cloves
Green chilies – 8
Yellow color – a pinch
Crushed black pepper – 1 tsp
Ginger garlic paste – 1 tbsp
White vinegar – 2 tbsp
Shashlik sticks – 4
Oil – as required
Salt – to taste

method;
Cut ½ kg chicken into cubes and wash well. Then marinate with vinegar and a little yellow color. Then apply salt, yogurt, ginger garlic paste and leave for some time. Now blend together coriander leaves, green chilies and cloves of garlic. Now remove this mixture in a bowl. Add lemon juice and salt to taste. Add this paste to the chicken and mix well. Now thread a few chicken cubes in each Shashlik stick. Then fry in a greased grill pan, fry from all the sides till golden brown. Remove in a platter, serve with naan or paratha.

Tea time recipies

Gathia;

this snack is basically from gujrat, or kathiawari origin, but is liked a lot in all south-east asia.

recipe;

Ingredients;

115 g gram flour 30 g hot oil 60 ml water 1/2 teaspoon soda bicarbonate ( cooking soda ) 1/2 teaspoon salt ( or to taste ) 1/2 teaspoon ajwain A pinch asafoetida ( hing ) 1/2 teaspoon crushed peppercorns Oil for frying

method';

sift gram flour. Add crushed peppercorns, ajwain and asafoetida.

Add hot oil and rub in well.

Dissolve salt and soda in 60 ml of water. Bring to a boiling point and cool.

Make a well in the centre of the flour and prepared water enough to make stiff dough.

Mix a teaspoon of oil to remaining water and sprinkle over the dough.

Knead the dough till quite smooth.

Heat oil in a kadai and reduce heat to medium. Press through sev mould / chakali press / gathia maker ( disc with big hole ) directly into hot oil. Fry till crisp

.Recipe Credit - Ms Thangam Philip

Namak pare;

it is avery easy and very much popular pakistani snack. have not much spices in it ,so can be enjoyed by every one including children.
Ingredients for Namak Pare:

Ingredients: All Purpose Flour – 1 Cup Carom Seeds (Ajwain) – 1/2 tsp Clarified Butter (Ghee)/Oil – 3 tbsp Soda-Bi-Carb – 1/4 tsp Salt - to taste [1/4 tsp] Warm Water – 1/4 cup
Oil - for deep frying

Method:
1. In a wide bowl mix flour, salt, ghee/oil, ajwain and rub until ghee is mixed well with flour.
2. Add water in small quantity to form a stiff dough [stiffer than roti dough].
3. Meanwhile heat Oil for deep-frying at medium to high heat.
4. Divide dough in 2-3 portion and make smooth balls and grease with oil, also grease the rolling surface and the rolling pin with little oil so doesn't have to dust with flour.
5. Take one ball of dough and roll it into a circle, you can keep thickness of 1/4” or less than that.
6. Using a sharp knief cut rolled dough in diamond shape. Repeat same for remaining dough.
7. Drop handful carefully in oil and fry until golden brown in slow to medium heat so it can cook properly.

8. Once done take them out in kitchen towel, and allow to cool.

MOLTEN LAVA CHOCOLATE CAKE;

ingrediants;

Dark Chocolate: 120 gms
Butter: 5 tbs
Sugar: 2/3 cup (powdered)
Warm water: 1/4 cup
Instant Espresso Powder: 2 tsps
Eggs: 2
Egg yolks: 2
Salt: pinch
Flour: 2 cup

method;

Pre-heat oven to 200 degrees centigrade. Grease 3 ramekins.
Melt chocolate and butter in a double boiler. Keep aside.
Mix together espresso and warm water. Keep aside.
Mix the powdered sugar, eggs, egg yolks and salt. Add espresso liquid and mix for about 2 mts.
Add the chocolate mixture to the egg mixture and whisk to combine.
Add the flour and mix. Do not over mix. Pour into prepared ramekins.
Place in the oven in the middle rack and bake for 12 mts.
The center will appear still gooey but the edges slightly firm.
Run a knife along the edge and invert onto a serving plate.
Sprinkle with powdered sugar . SERVE HOT

note- i have not tried this cake yet it looked very deliciouse

Easy homemade chat masala

Ingredients for Chat masala

Coriander seeds, 4 Tbsp
Cumin seeds, 2 Tbsp
Carom seeds (ajwain), 1 tsp
Red chili powder, 1 tsp
Black salt crystals (or ordinary salt), 1 Tbsp
Mango powder (amchoor), 1 Tbsp
whole round chillies 15 /16
black pepper 1/2 tsp
long 1/4 tsp
tatri or noshadar 1 tsp

method;

Spray oil in a non-stick frying pan and roast coriander seeds, cumin,whole chillies and carom seeds separately till they turn aromatic.
Mix all the ingredients and grind into a fine powder using a grinder.
Store chat masala in a air-tight bottle and useit when required.

Best homemade ubtan with almonds

almonds
husn e yousaf (a clay)
gond kateera (TRAGACANTH GUM)
dried neem leaves
jo ka atta (finely grinded oats)

take all five things in equal quantity and grind well. apply on wet face and use like scrub mask. It means , make a paste of this powder with rose water or milk, and apply on face for 10/15 minutes. then rinse like a scrub. This is the best home made remedy for all skin problems like acne, dark complexion,wrinkles, uneven skin tone ,roughness,etc,etc.

Beautiful hijaab styles

Hijaab enhances confidance and grace in a muslimah. Here are some beautiful styles of hijaab. please leave comment about what is your favourite and why.

True place of a woman

3 Aug 2012

Quran with understandable urdu translation

QURAN…………… OUR BELOVED HOLY BOOK, it is an ultimate blessing to have Quran in our hearts, or in our homes and also on our machines.
so folks……… here is an easy , undestandable, word by word translation of QURAN. if you like the effort plz remember me and the developers of the project in your prayers.
(barik Allah fi hi)

click once to read.

to download, press right mouse and “save target” .

001 AlFatiha

031 Luqman

061 AsSaff

091 AshShams

002 AlBaqarah

032 AsSajda

062 AlJuma

092 AlLail

003 AalImran

033 AlAhzab