"Come forward as servants of Islam, organise the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody." --- Muhammad Ali Jinnah
The second ten days (the second “‘ashra”) of the Blessed Month of Ramadan are the days in which we should seek the *Forgiveness* of Allah (swt): Supplication for the second ‘ashra: “Astagfirullah rabbi min kulli dhanbi wa atoobu ilayhi”. (Image: Uzbekistan, Bukhara, Kalon Mosque, Islamic Tile Work by MY2200)
"But do you mean to tell me that the man who in the full flush of youthful vigour, a young man of four and twenty (24), married a woman much his senior, and remained faithful to her for six and twenty years (26), at fifty years of age when the passions are dying married for lust and sexual passion? Not thus are men's lives to be judged. And you look at the women whom he married, you will find that by every one of them an alliance was made for his people, or something was gained for his followers, or the woman was in sore need of protection." --- Dr Annie Besant, 'The Life and Teachings of Mohammad,' Madras, 1932
