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I feel I'm not ambitious enough about financial growth. I just don't get winded up about it. Even though I need to get settled ASAP, pronto to turn my 3 year old nikkah into a marriage (rukhsati). But even apart from the marriage pre and post expenses. I want to get settled. I just fear the entire job/gig/work searching process and just can't get myself to do it. I see people starting with whatever comes their way and eventually landing some good job. And I just sit and wait for something 'perfect' and 'optimal' to come my way.... . Please suggest some al-Islam pdf content or personal advice for me to get excited about getting financially ambitious and eventually settled.... . I say financially ambitious because otherwise I like to study, keep myself up to date, keep my deen in place...

The Economic Human. It is no longer in style to be a Moral, Ethical Human. Corporate mentality has taken over the human life. They see everything thru this framework.( Personal, Social, Political=Religion) Individual achievements, short term plan/success is promoted, blending in is desired and is essential for success. Personal and Religious events are planned with corporate look and feel. More like a annual investors conference. Any thoughts?

I hope you are all in the best of health and the best of Imaan. Following the recent upgrade to the website, the admins of the site and @Ali have decided to also update the ShiaChat logo and we're asking you, the members, to come up with new, and exciting, designs for what the face of ShiaChat will look like for years, and perhaps even a decade, to come. What's more, if your design is selected, you'll win $100! A few ground rules: 1. The default size of the logo is 280 x 64 pixels. Now, it's obviously hard to work with images that small so just ensure that your final product maintains this aspect ratio (for example, something like 840 x 192 pixels, which is 3 times the original size). In fact, the larger the image, the better as we can easily scale it for use in different places. 2. Adding to that, we'll require you to submit the original source file if your design is selected so that we may be able to manipulate, resize and edit it for any future changes. 3. The logo must contain the words ShiaChat.com. 4. Try and keep it simple. Also, it should fit in well with the current theme. Similar to the current logo, we'll be using any 'white space' as transparent so your colours shouldn't clash with the current theme. 5. Being an Islamic site, it obviously goes without saying that the logo has to abide by Islamic guidelines. 6. The logo should be relevant to the site, and Shi'ism in general. 7. You can also just take the current logo and make your own edits and use that for your submission; it doesn't have to be entirely 'new'. 8. One member can submit up to three entries. 9. We would prefer if the final image is a .gif. 10. The rights of the winning design will be owned by ShiaChat henceforth. We can modify or re-purpose it as we see fit, based solely on our discretion, including using it on the ShiaChat facebook page. The design can be submitted here, on the thread, or you can contact one of the Development Team/Mods/Admins via PM. The competition will run for a month. Submissions are open for 25 days, starting today (that's the 1st/2nd of February depending on where you live) and the staff will deliberate for the next five days. After this, the winner will be announced publicly. As we've mentioned before, they will also receive a $100 prize. One last point to note is that while we'll choose the best design as the winner, other considerations may prevent us from using it as the official logo in the end. Though unlikely, that is still possible. The winner will still receive the prize and we'll announce them publicly. With all that said, get beautifying!

(bismillah) (salam) The Astane Quds Razavi, responsible for Imam Reza's Holy Shrine has put up an online competition for those who are interested. It's a small ebook with a couple of simple questions which you need to send to their email (imamrezashrine.8@gmail.com). They will reply to you and winners will be gifted (real gifts not virtual ones!) to their address. You just have until the end of the week to take part. The competition is in English, Persian and Arabic but i just have the address to the english file. If anyone is interested in the Farsi and Arabic, email them for the address. English Ebook (Flash Player ebook + Word Document containing explanation and questions): http://www.mediafire.com/?0pkw4zj4k5dwmxt/ Take part for the sake of learning, not the prize! :p (wasalam)

Salamon Alaikom all, Once again 15th of Shaban is approaching and Hidden Sun Educational Foundation is celebrating this auspicious occasion in an even more interative and fun event on Saturday 30th June and Sunday 1st July including: Exhibition on Mahdawiyyah Children Program Play about 4 young men who set on a mission to see their Imam by praying in the deserts Competition and Q&A Please register your place at www.hsef-uk..org/2012 as the event is registration based only. However the same program runs on number of slots during both Saturday 30th June and Sunday 1st July. Venue: al-Khoei Foundation Stone Hall, Chevening Road, London, NW6 6TN Please also visit our Facebook page to find out more about our program and the previous events Hidden Sun Educational Foundation has held in the past.