The 70 major sins.

The 70 major sins.

1. Associating partners with Allah (Shirk): This is the greatest of all major sins.
2. Committing murder: (Furqan:68)
3. Practicing magic and sorcery (2: 102)
5. Withholding the Zakat (Charity) (Al-Imran 3: 180)
6. Not fasting in Ramadan without a valid excuse.
7. Not performing Hajj (the pilgrimage) when one has the ability to do so.
8. Disrespect to parents (al-Isra 17: 23)
9. Cutting off the ties of relationships (Muhammad 47: 22)
10. Committing adultery or fornication (al-Isra 17: 32)
11. Committing sodomy (homosexuality)
12. Riba (interest) (Al-Baqarah 2: 275)
13. Devouring the wealth of orphans (An-Nissa 4:10)
14. Forging statements concerning Allah or forging Hadith (al-Zumar 39: 60)
15. Fleeing from the battle (al-Anfal 8:16)
16. Wrongdoing, deception or oppression on the part of the ruler (ash-Shura 42: 42)
17. Pride and arrogance (al-Nahl 16: 23)
18. Bearing false witness (al-Furqan 25:72)
19. Drinking alcoholic beverages (Al-Maidah 5: 90)
20. Gambling (Al-Maidah 5: 90)
21. Slandering chaste women (an-Nur 24: 23)
22. Stealing from the spoils of war or booty (Al-Imran 3:161)
23. Stealing (Al-Maida 5:38)
24. Committing highway robbery (Al-Maida 5: 33)
25. Making false oath
26. Committing oppression
27. Levying illegal taxes
28. Consuming forbidden wealth or taking it by any means (Baqarah 2: 188)
29. Committing suicide (An-Nisaa 4: 29)
30. Frequent lying (Al-Imran 3: 61)
31. Judging unjustly and ruling by laws other than the laws of Islam (Al-Maidah 5: 44)
32. Engaging in bribery (Baqarah 2: 188)
33. Women appearing like men and vice-versa
34. Being a cuckold (Cuckold: is the one who approves the indecency of his womenfolk and who is void of jealousy or the pimp

who facilitates indecency between two people. )
35. Marrying a divorced woman for the purpose of making her lawful for the first husband (Baqarah 2:229-230)
36. Not keeping clean from the remains of urine
37. Acting for show (al-Ma‘un 107: 4-6)
38. Acquiring knowledge only for worldly gain or concealing knowledge (al-Baqarah 2: 16)
39. Breaking trusts (al-Anfal 8: 27)
40. Reminding people of one’s kindness (al-Baqarah 2: 27)
41. Denying predestination (al-Qamar 54:47- 49)
42. Listening on other’s private conversation (al-Hujurat 49:12)
43. Spreading harmful tales (al-Qamar 68: 10-11)
44. Cursing others
45. Not fulfilling one’s promises/breaking contracts
46. Believing in what soothsayers and astrologers say
47. A wife being rebellious to her husband (An-Nisaa 4: 34)
48. Making statues and pictures as well as putting pictures of beings with souls on clothing, curtains, rocks and any other

items
49. Striking one’s self, wailing, tearing one’s clothing, pulling one’s hair and similar deeds as a form of mourning
50. Committing injustice (ash-Shura 42:42)
51. Being overbearing or taking advantage of the weak, slaves, wives or animals
52. Harming neighbors
53. Harming and abusing Muslims (al-Ahzab 33: 58)
54. Harming the slaves of Allah or offending and having an arrogant attitude toward them
55. Wearing one’s clothes too long, i.e. below the ankles
56. Men wearing silk and gold
57. Running away of a slave
58. Sacrificing animals for other than Allah
59. Claiming that somebody is one’s father while the claimant knows it is not true
60. Arguing or quarrelling for show and not seeking the truth
61. Not allowing excess water to flow to others
62. Not measuring the weights properly (al-Mutafafifeen 83:1-3)
63. Feeling secure from Allah’s plan (al-Araf 7:99)
64. Offending Allah’s righteous friends (al-Ahzab 33:57)
65. Not praying in the congregation and praying by one’s self without a valid excuse
66. Persistently missing Friday prayers and congregational prayers without any valid excuse
67. Usurping the rights of the heir through bequests (An-Nisaa 4: 12)
68. Deceiving and plotting evil (Fatir 35: 43)
69. Spying for the enemy of the Muslims (al-Qalam 68: 11-12)
70. Cursing or insulting anyone of the Companions of Allah’s Messenger (s.a.w.s.)

Differences between boys and girls

Naomi Campbell: Sarah Brown moved me to tears

Model’s meeting with PM’s wife encourages her to help charity
Sunday, 5 October 2008
Naomi Campbell says meeting Gordon Brown’s wife Sarah opened her eyes to lack of facilities for women giving birth in the Third World.The model met Sarah to learn about the White Ribbon Alliance, which promotes safer childbirth. The PM's wife lost her daughter Jennifer Jane when she was just 10 days old.‘When Sarah started talking I though she was going to cry,’ she says. ‘When someone’s talking from experience, it’s very touching.’Naomi, 38, organised her recent Fashion For Relief show to raise money for the charity.10,000 women die while giving birth every week, a figure that horrifies Naomi.
‘It’s a huge problem,’ she tells the Daily Mirror. ‘We’re very fortunate but these people don’t have the equipment to deliver a baby.
‘I connected with it, I’m a woman, I’d like to have kids.’

Paul Newman:Born:January 26, 1925 in Cleveland, OHDeath:September 26, 2008

In a business where public scandal and bad-boy behavior are the rule rather than the exception, Paul Newman is as much a hero offscreen as on. A blue-eyed matinee idol whose career successfully spanned five decades, he was also a prominent social activist, a major proponent of actors' creative rights, and a noted philanthropist. Born January 26, 1925, in Cleveland, OH, Newman served in World War II prior to attending Kenyon College on an athletic scholarship; when an injury ended his sports career, he turned to drama, joining a summer stock company in Wisconsin. After relocating to Illinois in 1947, he married actress Jacqueline Witte, and, following the death of his father, took over the family's sporting-goods store. Newman quickly grew restless, however, and after selling his interest in the store to his brother, he enrolled at the Yale School of Drama. During a break from classes he traveled to New York City where he won a role in the CBS television series The Aldrich Family. A number of other TV performances followed, and in 1952 Newman was accepted by the Actors' Studio, making his Broadway debut a year later in Picnic, where he was spotted by Warner Bros. executives.
Upon Newman's arrival in Hollywood, media buzz tagged him as "the new Brando." However, after making his screen debut in the disastrous epic The Silver Chalice, he became the victim of scathing reviews, although Warners added on another two years to his contract after he returned to Broadway to star in The Desperate Hours. Back in Hollywood, he starred in The Rack. Again reviews were poor, and the picture was quickly pulled from circulation. Newman's third film, the charming Somebody Up There Likes Me, in which he portrayed boxer Rocky Graziano, was both a commercial and critical success, with rave reviews for his performance. His next film of note was 1958's The Long Hot Summer, an acclaimed adaptation of a pair of William Faulkner short stories; among his co-stars was Joanne Woodward, who soon became his second wife. After next appearing as Billy the Kid in Arthur Penn's underrated The Left-Handed Gun, Newman starred opposite Elizabeth Taylor in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, scoring his first true box-office smash as well as his first Academy Award nomination.
After appearing with Joanne Woodward in Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! -- the couple would frequently team onscreen throughout their careers -- Newman traveled back to Broadway to star in Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth. Upon his return to the West Coast, he bought himself out of his Warner Bros. contract before starring in the 1960 smash From the Terrace. Exodus, another major hit, quickly followed. While by now a major star, the true depths of Newman's acting abilities had yet to be fully explored; that all changed with Robert Rossen's 1961 classic The Hustler, in which he essayed one of his most memorable performances as pool shark "Fast" Eddie Felson, gaining a second Oscar nomination. His third nod came for 1963's Hud, which cast him as an amoral Texas rancher. While a handful of creative and financial disappointments followed, including 1964's The Outrage and 1965's Lady L, 1966's Alfred Hitchcock-helmed Torn Curtain marked a return to form, as did the thriller Harper.
For 1967's superb chain-gang drama Cool Hand Luke, Newman scored a fourth Academy Award nomination, but again went home empty-handed. The following year he made his directorial debut with the Joanne Woodward vehicle Rachel Rachel, scoring Best Director honors from the New York critics as well as an Oscar nomination for Best Picture. The couple next appeared onscreen together in 1969's Winning, which cast Newman as a professional auto racer; motor sports remained a preoccupation in his real life as well, and he was the most prominent of the many celebrities who began racing as a hobby. He then starred with Robert Redford in 1969's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, which went on to become the highest-grossing Western in movie history. It was followed by 1971's W.U.S.A., a deeply political film reflecting Newman's strong commitment to social activism; in addition to being among Hollywood's most vocal supporters of the civil rights movement, in 1968 he and Woodward made headlines by campaigning full time for Democratic Presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy.
After directing and starring in 1971's Sometimes a Great Notion, Newman announced the formation of First Artists, a production company co-founded by Barbra Streisand and Steve McQueen. Modeled after the success of United Artists, it was created to offer performers the opportunity to produce their own projects. Newman's first film for First Artists' was 1972's Pocket Money, followed by another directorial effort, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds. After a pair of back-to-back efforts under director John Huston, 1972's The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean and the next year's The Mackintosh Man, Newman reunited with Redford in The Sting, another triumph which won the 1973 Best Picture Oscar. He next appeared in the star-studded disaster epic The Towering Inferno, followed by 1975's The Drowning Pool, a sequel to Harper. His next major success was the 1977 sports spoof Slap Shot, which went on to become a cult classic.
A string of disappointments followed, including Robert Altman's self-indulgent 1979 effort Quintet. The 1981 Absence of Malice, however, was a success, and for 1982's courtroom drama The Verdict Newman notched his fifth Best Actor nomination. He finally won the Oscar on his sixth attempt, reprising the role of Eddie Felson in 1986's The Color of Money, Martin Scorsese's sequel to The Hustler. After starring in two 1989 films, Blaze and Fat Man and Little Boy, Newman began appearing onscreen less and less. In 1991, he and Joanne Woodward starred as the titular Mr. and Mrs. Bridge, and three years later he earned yet another Academy Award nomination for his superb performance in Robert Benton's slice-of-life tale Nobody's Fool. His films since then have been fairly sparse and of mixed quality, with Joel Coen's and Ethan Coen's The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) being at the higher end of the spectrum and the Kevin Costner vehicle Message in a Bottle (1999) resting near the bottom. Newman again graced screens in 2000 with Where the Money Is, a comedy that cast him as a famous bank robber who fakes a stroke to get out of prison. For his role as a kindly crime boss in 2002's Road to Perdition, Newman became a ten-time Oscar nominee.
Turning 80 in 2005, Newman nonetheless remained a presence in Hollywood. That year, audiences could see him on the small-screen in the critically-acclaimed HBO miniseries Empire Falls, for which he won a Golden Globe, and the following year, he lent his voice to the Pixar animated film Cars.
Despite his movement away from Hollywood, Newman remained a prominent public figure through his extensive charitable work; he created the Scott Newman Foundation after the drug-related death of his son and later marketed a series of gourmet foodstuffs under the umbrella name Newman's Own, with all profits going to support his project for children suffering from cancer. Newman died on September 26, 2008 after a battle with lung cancer. ~ Born:
January 26, 1925 in Cleveland, OH
Death:
September 26, 2008

Leslie Tripathy speaks on good and bad actors

Divine British-Indian Princess Leslie Tripathy of Orissa says''Ninety percent of the actors,directors,producers give the other ten percent a bad reputation."

Nicole Richie opens up about her health

Nicole Richie opens up about her health, in the new issue of OK Magazine. Read some excerpts from the interview below.

About the dehydration incident:“It actually made me really upset because I did not need to go to the hospital at all - it’s just another headline. I was just tired, and I left [the hospital] after 10 minutes.”
What led up to it:“The hours that I’m doing are really crazy right now. I was getting my hair and makeup done in the morning and I turned the heat on to 90, which I probably shouldn’t have done, but I like it really hot in my room. I hadn’t eaten breakfast yet and I asked for a bowl of cereal, but when you’re on a big set it has to go through 15 people to even get to me. I walked outside and I just wasn’t feeling like myself. There wasn’t an on-set doctor, so instead they took me to a hospital. There was absolutely nothing wrong with me.”
On the most annoying rumor about her:“I don’t care about any other rumor except the one that I have an eating disorder. That really bothers me because there are people who truly have eating disorders and it is a serious disease. To put that title on someone when it is not true is disrespectful. I’ve repeatedly said, ‘No, I don’t have an eating disorder,’ and it has fallen on deaf ears.”
On reports that she takes diet drugs:“This is totally ridiculous. The second I gain weight it’s like, ‘She’s had gastric bypass surgery reversed!’ It’s sad because what I’ve come to realize from watching TV and reading magazines is that it’s not me that’s weight- obsessed. America is weight-obsessed. It’s either, ‘This person has an eating disorder,’ or ‘How to lose 5 pounds in 10 days.’ Everything is about diet and body image.”

Punchy Lohan Slams Palin as 'Narrow-Minded Homophobe'

Lindsay Lohan's online missives have come a long way from the days when she offered to "release a politically/morally correct, fully adequite [sic] letter to the press ... simply to state my oppinions [sic] on how our society should be educated on for the better of our country."
Now, with a little help from inamorata Samantha Ronson, she's penned a surprisingly coherent diatribe on Sen. John McCain's vice presidential running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin, which she says was sparked by her "fear, anxiety, concern, disappointment and stress" and her inability to "bite my tongue any more."
"Is it a sin to be gay? Should it be a sin to be straight? Or to use birth control? Or to have sex before marriage? Or even to have a child out of wedlock?" the Barack Obama-supporting actress, 22, rails on her MySpace page. "Is our country so divided that the Republicans' best hope is a narrow-minded, media-obsessed homophobe?"
She goes on to cite an Associated Press story about how Palin's longtime church in Wasilla, Alaska, promoted a conference "that promises to convert gays into heterosexuals through prayer."
And while Lohan says, "I am not against Sarah Palin as a mother or woman," she points out that "women have come a long way in the fight to have the choice over what we do with our bodies. ... And it's frightening to see that a woman in 2008 would negate all of that."
She adds that she "would have liked to have remained impartial; however, I am afraid that the 'lipstick on a pig' comments will overshadow the issues. ... I have faith that this country will be all that it can be with the proper guidance. I really hope that all of you make your decisions based on the facts and what feels right to you in your heart -- vote for Obama!"
Alas, LiLo then undoes much of her earlier eloquence by concluding, "Oh, and ... hint hint Pali-pal -- don't pose for anymore tabloid covers, you're not a celebrity, you're running for office to represent our, your, my COUNTRY! And in the words of Pamela Anderson, 'She can suck it.'"In between educating the public on policy issues and spreading Pam's deep thoughts on politics, Lindsay has been flashing a sizeable heart-shaped sparkler on her ring finger, which has led simmering betrothal rumors to heat back up.
But her rep insists that the diamond bauble isn't an engagement ring and wasn't given to her by Sam, whom she recently gushed to Marie Claire is a "great person."
"She bought it herself," the mouthpiece tells People. "It's an antique ring that she found at an antique store in NYC."
So, why show off an eye-catching rock that she knows will kick-start speculation about the seriousness of her relationship with Ronson, whom the New York Post says she enjoyed an extended and "intense liplock" session with during a recent night out at New York's Beatrice Inn?
"It's like her own personal joke these days," a snitch tattles to E! News. "She slips a ring on that finger, then goes to a party and watches the rumors start to roll. It amuses her."
Not amusing to Lindsay? Tripping in front of the paparazzi.
TMZ reports that Lohan stumbled over a barricade set up outside New York's Bowery Hotel on Sunday night for a birthday bash tossed by Jennifer Lopez for husband Marc Anthony.
Apparently concluding that a shutterbug was responsible for her lack of balance, LiLo "punched" one of them in the nose, all while talking on her phone and carrying a suitcase-sized purse.
After the supposed proboscis swing, she is said to have told the person on the phone, "Oh my God, I just hit a paparazzi."
Police were reportedly called but no charges filed.