Mr Riaz plans to build houses for the flood hit people with this money. These will be simple two-room mud-brick houses costing about 300,000 rupees each. That means shelter for about half a million families.

If 100 top wealthy people of Pakistan begin to think on the same lines, things can be really turned around in our motherland.This is the letter that Malik Riaz has addressed to the super rich of Pakistan:

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But people of Pakistan are seeing the personality of Mr Malik Riaz from a different angle as well. A glimpse of which can be seen here.

Have you ever wondered how it always happens the same way: we make new year resolutions at the start of the new year and then…as time passes, our enthusiasm and commitment to stick to those resolutions lose steam. Then every year we get back to our old habits even before the end of the first quarter.

So what should be done to rectify this situation?

Simple: instead of waiting for a certain point in time, keep implementing on daily basis all the changes that you need in your life. This is bound to bring some real results for us to see.

So the best New Year resolution is : “No more New Year resolutions; daily action towards the change  instead”

Disclaimer and warning: To be able to prepare the burger properly, it is important to go through the whole recipe and read it patiently, word by word.  Otherwise, the writer of the recipe may not be held responsible in case the end result of your extensive effort turns out to be any thing less than spectacular due to your impatience and haste.

Now please click here for the recipe.

1) Quran Audio Library:

This site is available in five languages including Arabic and English. You will find recitation of Holy Quran by more than 100 different reciters from different countries. Clicking on the name of the reciter opens the list of all surahs recited by that particular reciter. Clicking “Download MP3″ in the last column will play the relevant surah. Right clicking on the same link and then clicking “Save Link As” will enable you to download the audio file on your computer. Clicking “Click to Listen” button in the second last column apparently does not work.

2) Tanzil:

This site allows you navigating through Quran using a number of available options. About 18 different reciters are lsited on this site.  Translation is available in more than 30 languages  which makes this site highly useful for a number of people across the globe.  Additionally, there is an option to show roots of Arabic words.

3) Quran Explorer:

This one is yet another great site that contains not only Quran exploring resources but also has a collection of 18000 Hadiths from four books.  In the Quran section, seven reciters with eleven translations in eight different languages are available. Usmani script is also among the options. This site has a lot more additional quran related knowledge base.

When explored in detail,  these three sites have really a great deal of resources for anyone who is interested in Quran Kareem.

It seems that the importance of faith and our actions cannot be over emphasised.

There was a time when a ringing mobile in a mosque was immediately and strongly frowned upon. However, with the passage of time, it became acceptable for the people to hear mobile ring tones in the mosques, including Masjid al Haram.

But that’s not it. Now people have become really broadminded in this regard. Not only they let their mobiles ring in the mosques, they actually receive the incoming calls and start talking loundly on their phones while people are praying in the mosque.

And owing to the aforementioned broadmindedness, such mobile phone users are not demurred by others present there anymore.

I envy the the people of Italy for the directness and ease with which they can interact with their prime minister and communicate to him their emotions about him so candidly: