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		<title>10 Things You Should Never Ask</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following is a list of questions that you should never ask anyone: 

What happened to your face?
How much do you weigh?
I haven&#8217;t seen your spouse in a while, where is (s)he these days?
Are you pregnant?
Did you find a job yet?
Weren&#8217;t you married?
Is all that food for you?
You&#8217;ve put on some pounds, huh?
Is that what you&#8217;re wearing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anightingale.com/2010/02/25/10-things-you-should-never-ask/</link>
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		<title>Hajj Stories&#8211;Allah is al-Mujeeb</title>
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During Hajj one of the girls in my group kept a check list of all the things she made du&#8217;aa for.  As she asked, she&#8217;d scribble it down, whether it was something small or big.  And as her du&#8217;aas were answered, she physically checked them off her list.  It was a way for her to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anightingale.com/2010/02/01/hajj-stories-allah-is-al-mujeeb/</link>
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		<title>Slow and Steady Wins the Race</title>
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The first semester of the school year just ended a week ago.  Last week we had final exams, and the week before that was spent reviewing all the chapters we had covered thus far.  During that last week I had a lot of D and C students come and ask me what they could do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anightingale.com/2010/01/22/slow-and-steady-wins-the-race/</link>
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		<title>Hajj Stories&#8211;Sad, sad, sad.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve sat down on numerous occasions and opened my wordpress and started typing out long stories about Hajj, but I can never finish.  Just now I started three separate posts about the lack of luxuries, going to Arafah, and Muzdalifah being my favorite part.  But each post ended with me pressing ctrl+A and then delete. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anightingale.com/2010/01/18/hajj-stories-sad-sad-sad/</link>
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		<title>Hajj Stories&#8211;Somebody Pooped</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s taken me some time to write about Hajj.  Sorry if any of you were waiting.  But I&#8217;m having a tough time thinking, talking or reflecting on Hajj because it makes me really sad to know that it&#8217;s done and gone.
So to start myself off, I thought I&#8217;d pick a funny story, to make myself [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anightingale.com/2010/01/10/hajj-stories-somebody-pooped/</link>
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		<title>Preparing for Hajj&#8211;Packing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Alhumdu&#8217;lillah Saqib and I have recieved our passports and visas in our hands.  Our flight is leaving on Monday.  So this leaves us with just a few more days (4, I believe) to really get all our packing done.
This is difficult!  Lots of people have been giving us lots of advice&#8211;sometimes it is conflicting.  For [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anightingale.com/2009/11/12/preparing-for-hajj-packing/</link>
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		<title>Preparing for Hajj&#8211;Apologies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Insha&#8217;Allah my husband and I are planning on going for Hajj this year.  We&#8217;re leaving in a week from tomorrow (Nov. 16)   We decided back in July that we&#8217;d make the pilgrimmage this fall, and since then the we&#8217;ve slowly been trying to prepare.
One of the preparations people make before leaving for Hajj is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anightingale.com/2009/11/08/preparing-for-hajj-apologies/</link>
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		<title>A Teacher&#8217;s Dua</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ya Allah make my student caring and kind
Open his heart, and open his mind
Make her righteous, respectful and honest
And also pious, loving and modest
Make him appreciate the chance to come to school
And realize that knowledge is his greatest tool
To get what she wants in this life, and the next
And to be considered among the ummah&#8217;s best
Let him see the importance [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anightingale.com/2009/10/19/a-teachers-dua/</link>
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		<title>Good Eats</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About a month ago my two parents-in-law left for India and to perform Umrah.  In their absence it&#8217;s just me, Saqib and Waasiq at home.  I&#8217;d basically been left in charge of cooking dinner everyday.  I got help from Saqib and Waasiq, but for the most part I was faced with the difficult task of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anightingale.com/2009/10/04/good-eats/</link>
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		<title>Ramadan Power Hours</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been feeling recently that getting that Ramadan feeling has been a little difficult for me.  I feel like my Ramadan &#8220;Power Hours&#8221; are very limited.  What are Ramadan Power Hours?  It&#8217;s the time between sunset and sunrise&#8211;the time when it really feels like Ramadan.  Why?  Because you break your fast with your family.  You [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anightingale.com/2009/09/09/ramadan-power-hours/</link>
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