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TIRANA DHA Photo Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his wife Emine Erdoğan shed tears on May 13 while a student recited a patriotic, Islamic-toned poem that Erdoğan had recently read on television. Erdoğan was in the Preza village near the Albanian capital Tirana to inaugurate a mosque during his official visit to the Balkan country.  During the ceremony, which turned into a political rally with more than 8,000 attendees, a student of a Turkish religious vocational imam-hatip school recited “Dua” (Prayer), a poem by Turkish nationalist poet Arif Nihat Asya, who passed away in 1975. The Erdoğan couple could not stop their tears while the student read the poem. Erdoğan himself had  read the poem last month  in a television commercial filmed to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Turkish victory in the Gallipoli campaign during World War I.  The choice of the poem and the way that it was repeatedly broadcast by many Turkish TV channels had stirred a p...

The Messenger of Allah, sallallahu `alayhi wa sallam, said,  "The best actions are continuous ones even if little..." [Muslim]  After I looked at my own state and the state of those who waste their time, I wanted to encourage our souls to obey and worship Allah `azza wa jall by compiling a list of some well-known actions that Allah `azza wa jall has honored us with and prepared a great reward for those who do them. This list is also a reminder of better utilizing our time and seizing the opportunity of every hour and making use of it. My goal in compiling the list is not to point out the actions as much as to show the necessity of organizing and planning and preserving one's time by investing it in something good. First of all, let us talk about time, with which many are heedless and wasteful, and which importance only few recognize. Time is like wealth, it requires our attention and care in both spending and managing. While it is possible to gather and store wealth, and ...