Solomon The Wise

Hi everyone,

Can someone please give me an average price in UAE Dirhams (AED) of how much it would cost to buy a queen size bed (maybe from IKEA), a full size refrigerator and a washer and dryer in Abu Dhabi?

I'm an American and I am in talks with a company in UAE in regards to employment and I need to make sure that my relocation allowance will cover the cost of these items.

Thanks!

Assalamu Aleikum to everyone.

I know there are different ways you can say, "to think" in Arabic but I'm looking to conjugate the word يظن Please do show me in Arabic how to conjugate the word يظن "to think" in present and past tense.

If you can, please also include the harakat (vowel markings) then that would be excellent so that I would know how to pronounce the word. If you even know and can include the imperative form of the verb then that would be super awesome as well.

If you want to point me to website that has the word fully conjugated then that would be appreciated too.

So far this is what I know:

I think = أنا أَظُنُّ

you think (male) = أنتَ تَظُنُّ

you think (female) = أنتِ تَظُنِّينَ

he thinks = هو يَظُنُّ

she thinks = هي تَظُنُّ

we think = نحن نَظُنُّ

That is all I know :(

Shukran!

Assalamu Aleikum,

I would love to know how to say this in Arabic two ways (singular and plural):

1) Oh Allah accept my dua (singular)

and

2) Oh Allah accept my duas (plural)

Please only give the answer in ARABIC not English transliteration.

Like this:

...اللهم تقبل

Jazakallah kheir and may Allah reward all of you for teaching me. Salaam

My friend is writing a book about Emirati girls from age 7 to 13 and he says that these girls dream to be like models and they want to be seen as pretty when they grow up.

I told my friend that I am sure that young Emirati girls who are 12 or 13 years old look in magazines and see pretty models wearing pretty abayas and nice fashion clothes, but I said that I do not think in Emirati culture that the girls dream of growing up to be like pretty models.

I said to my friend, in Arab culture, I think maybe they will dream to be like the pretty female singers. Singers and music is very very popular in Arab culture, but I do not think Emirati girls dream to be models.

So please tell me, in Emirati culture, do the girls dream to be models? Who do the girls dream to be like? Is it actors, models, singers, poets, writers or doctors and how much does being beautiful mean to them at this young age from 7 to 13 years old?

I want to help my friend give a very true and accurate picture of Emirati girls who are 7 to 13 years old. Thank you all for your help. I come here for answers because I am sure I will get great answers. All of you are the best!

Thank you!

Do the Emirati children from the age of 7 to 13 years old normally go to schools where they have to wear uniforms or are they allowed to wear whatever they want?

I have a friend who is writing a children’s book and he noted that the children, particularly the girls, dress up to look pretty. I let him know that I do not believe Emirati culture is like this and I said that, to the best of my knowledge, the girls and boys wear uniforms to school just like the British do, and I also said I believe the boys and girls are separated. So all the girls are with the girls and all the boys are with the boys.

How do little girls and boys dress in school? Do they wear uniforms or do they wear their own clothes?

Do young Emirati girls wear makeup and lip gloss and eye liner? I did not think they do but maybe I am wrong.

Are the boys and girls from age 6 to 13 separated in school or do they freely mix with each other?

Thank you all for your help! :)

Someone was kind enough to tell me all the places of where to go to buy a Kandura in Abu Dhabi, but they did not mention WHERE is the best place to go for a GOOD PRICE. I am clueless as to how much I will pay for a nice kandura and ghutra. If anyone knows please do tell.

Thank you.

I will be in Abu Dhabi for one month and I need to wear clothes that are super comfortable. I like thobes and head scarfs (ghutra). Please tell me where I can go to buy a nice set of thobes and ghutra? I am American and I don't want to be overcharged just because I am American so I have come hear to ask the experts, LOL ;)

I also think buying thobes in the mall (Marina Mall, Al Wadha, etc.) is probably not a good idea because it will probably be very expensive, but maybe I am wrong about this.

So tell me, where do the locals go to buy thobes? Also, please tell me what is a decent price to pay for a nice traditional white thobe and ghutra? This way I will know whether I am being overcharged or not!

I am asking for Abu Dhabi, but if you also just so happen to know of places in Dubai with good prices that would be good too, but mainly I am asking for Abu Dhabi because this is where I will be living for one month.

Thank you!

~ Salaam ~

I am starting a job search in Abu Dhabi and I am seeking some help. Right now I work for a large American company called AAA. I work in their Road Patrol Service Department and my position is a Resolutions Supervisor. I also work as a Customer Service Instructor at Los Angeles City College in California USA.

My questions are:

Does anyone have any contacts with Abu Dhabi Department of Transportation? My skills are in line with their Customer Care Division and Road Service Patrol Division.

Also, does anyone have any contacts with the media company called Twofour54? My customer service skills are in line with this company as well. Both of these companies I would like to work for.

And does anyone have any contacts with Abu Dhabi Police Department? My skills with AAA Road Service Patrol are in line with services at the Abu Dhabi Police Department.

Before someone says, “Just put in an application online”…let me just say, I know I can do that, but one’s application can get lost in the pile so I am looking for contacts instead :^)

Finally:

Please tell me; what are the reputable employment agencies in Abu Dhabi that I can contact while living in USA that focus on people with customer service skills. Also, if anyone knows of anything related in Customer Service whether it is working with the public or in a Call Center then let me know.

Please offer your brother some help and feel free to email me if you would like :^)

Shukran for your time!

May Allah give us all tawfiq.

Salaam

I am traveling from Dubai to Abu Dhabi by the Express Bus between the Emirates. I forgot where the main bus stop is in Abu Dhabi. Please let me know where it is and how far it is from Marina Mall.

I have to figure out if I can take a bus from there to Marina Mall or maybe a taxi.

Thank you!

Does anyone know of a good private hospital in Dubai that has good FEMALE gynecologists? No men, ONLY FEMALE. And do you know of any who specialize in fertility? I have a friend that needs to find one ASAP!

Thank you!

The National UAE

http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AI...

The news says that the girl dropped the charges of rape. I believe I read an article that said she dropped the charges for fear of getting put in jail, but look at what happened to her anyway.

The article states:

“Prosecutors said the fact she agreed to go with him alone in the car partly showed her consent to sex.”

This is false. The problem is this:

Simply because two people decide to go for a ride together in a car alone, this in no one determines or “partly” determines that a person consented to sex. It simply means that she was willing to “ride in the car with him alone!” or “hang out with him alone!” We cannot read their minds. That’s like saying: since a married woman decided to get into an argument with her husband, then this “partly” shows that she consented to getting punched in the face by the irate husband where she ended up being beaten badly. This logic is flawed.

The article states:

“Genetic material recovered from the scene led the judge to convict YM of consensual sex, while acquitting HA.”

And

“The forensics report found that LH was not a virgin and that there was no genital bruising.”

Simply because a woman has no vaginal bruising this does not mean she was not raped. Many women, out of fear when being gang raped, simply go limp and allow the men to rape them for fear of their life. Also, I am assuming that when they say “genetic material was recovered” they must mean sperm and vaginal fluids and possibly pubic hair; how can this determine casual sex alone had taken place and not possible rape? This is flawed too.

Also, even if the woman was not a virgin, what does that have to do with the case at hand now? Are they trying to imply that since she is not a virgin, then obviously this was consensual sex and not rape because she was a "bad local girl"? It is possible that a woman could have committed zina (unmarried sex) 20 times and then sincerely repented to Allah not to do it again. If this happened, then of course a test would show she is not a virgin, but we cannot prejudge her for this.

At best, we can say she was foolish for trusting this man and riding alone with him to some place to hang out. At best, we can say she was foolish for allowing herself to be alone with him without a guardian. At best, we can say yeah, it was foolish for her to disobey her parents being alone with a man she was not married too, but we cannot simply say it was consensual sex. Unfortunately we will never know. One year jail time for her is not just. Either charge everyone with jail time or let them all go.

What are your thoughts?

I'm wondering if many locals are pet owners; specifically, do many or some locals have dogs as pets? I know Islam tends to frown upon having dogs as pets. Americans are big dog lovers. I am wondering how locals view dogs in UAE. There are hadith that speak against having dogs solely as pets, but I am wondering, does anyone know of locals who have dogs as pets? What do locals think of having dogs as pets? How do locals treat or view dogs in general?

Shukran and Salaam!

Sad to hear about Sheik Ahmed bin Zayed al-Nahayan’s death by glider accident. As a foreigner who looks to invest over in the Middle East, I cannot help but wonder what will happen to Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA). ADIA is respected world wide as a major global financial investment firm and much of that respect was due to how it was managed by Sheik Ahmed.

I know the royal family will try to “stick” another family member in the management position that Sheik Ahmed held, but this position can be very hard to fill. Who in the royal family has the business smarts and charisma to take his place and run ADIA? Who can earn the trust of world-wide investors that Sheik Ahmed had?

So many people trusted ADIA because of Sheik Ahmed was running it. I like that he had a good balance between being conservative and being a risk taker.

How do you think this will affect ADIA and Abu Dhabi economy? Do you think foreign investors will hold back from investing in UAE and wait to see what happens because of this? Do you think sister Emirate Dubai is nervous like “hell” because they are worried about who will take over the position; worrying if the new ADIA manager will be quick to bail out Dubai again in the future?

What are your thoughts please.

Salaam

"GOVERNMENT LOOKS TO MORE RIGHTS FOR WOMEN"

“ABU DHABI // The Government may be edging towards granting Emirati mothers who marry non-Emirati husbands the right to pass their nationality onto their children, a senior official said yesterday in response to a UN report on ending discrimination against women.”

See here in THE NATIONAL newspaper:

http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AI...

When I read this article I was shocked! I am an American Muslim who has considered marrying an Emirati Abu Dhabi woman for some time now and one of the concerns we had was: in what country should we have our children born- The United States or Abu Dhabi U.A.E.

I always said: ABU DHABI AND NOT U.S.A.

The reason being is that even if our future children are born outside of the United States. The U.S. will still give our children citizenship with no questions asked. However, Abu Dhabi law currently does not provide this at all. The current law states that when an Emirati woman marries a non-Emirati man the children that are born into the marriage have their nationality default to the nationality of their father and NOT the mother.

I am not sure if this law applies to non-Emirati husbands who are from Gulf states: Yemen, KSA, Qatar etc.. It may not but I don’t know. But this law clearly is set up in regards to Emirati women who marry Philipino, Australian, UK, German, American and other men outside of the Gulf region.

I have always said and we both agreed that it would be far beneficial to have our children born in Abu Dhabi because my reasoning was this:

I believed that one day Abu Dhabi would surely reconsider the law and change the laws thus allowing children born to Emirati women the opportunity to take Abu Dhabi citizenship/nationality.

I just thought that this would happen about 15 years from now. I never dreamed I would see this being talked about in 2010! I truly thought this would happen somewhere around the year 2025 or so.

Anyone surprised like me to see the government considering this now? I am very surprised. How come this is happening now? I cannot imagine that you have many Emirati women marrying foreign men. I do not think that is the “norm” at all. I think most Emirati women marry men from U.A.E. or from the Gulf countries.

What do you think?

I know that there are a number of hadith that elaborate on who is and who is not a Muslim, but does the Qur'an itself actually give a precise definition of what a Muslim is?

Please do not cite sources from hadith since I am familiar with a number of hadith that clearly show who and what a Muslim is. I am looking for specific references in the Qur'an only that would define what is a Muslim.

Even if you cannot find or do not know of precise verse that say "this is what a Muslim is", if you can provide verses that at least "imply" what a Muslim is then that would be great as well.

Jazak'Allah to everyone.

Salaam

KSA is the birhtplace of Wahabbi ideology and practice and all Wahabbi thought is disseminated from KSA worldwide.

I am curious:

Do local Arabs in UAE embrace this ideology?

Is this ideology shunned by locals?

What is the general take on Wahabbi practices and ideology in UAE.

Jazak'Allah for sharing your thoughts

Salaam

During the month of Ramadan the town of Aceh in Indonesia just passed a law that says that those who commit adultery shall be stoned to death and that this falls under Sharia Law.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8254631.st...

Hmmmm Ok, I am a Muslim and I am wondering what Sharia Law are they reading from. Any Muslim can clearly see that you do not need to be some big time Islamic scholar to know that stoning someone to death for committing adultery is NOT permissible in Islam. It is NOT in the Quran.

So can someone please explain to me why is it that these so called “true Muslims” so blindly ignore the true teachings of Islam? And what do you think Allah will do to these people on the Day of Judgement?

I know we can never know what Allah will do, but I feel that these Muslims will receive worse punishment than the non-believers. Because they were given truth and they distort the truth and words of Allah.

Salaam to all! And HAPPY EID!

I just got back from visiting the Middle East (Yeaa for me!!) and I watched a lot of Soap Operas while I was there. Mind you I speak NO Arabic, but I can understand what is going on, LOL!

I saw an episode where this guy was so so depressed and upset and he went to a beach and he was drinking wine from a wine bottle! And a woman tried to get him to stop (and she had no hijab by the way). So my question is this, in American soap operas I always see people drinking wine and crying over a lost girlfriend or boyfriend. The soap operas I see in the Middle East are supposed to Muslim people.

Why is it the Muslims are drinking wine on the beach and are they crying over lost girlfriends and boyfriends too? What happened to no alcohol and no girl friend boyfriends? I don’t speak Arabic, but I can tell he was crying over a girl, hehehehe. It look like a “lost girl cry” hehehehehe. The soap operas don't follow Sharia right?

Finally note: I saw a funny soap with this girl who goes to an all girl school and she was a bad little girl. She caused SO MUCH TROUBLE for the teachers at the school. She was smoking in the bathroom, she sprayed the fire hose on the teachers and she put little ants in the teacher’s abaya and the teacher could not stop scratching herself..hahahaha. She was a bad girl, but funny, LOL :^)

Is the UAE planning to build HSR (High Speed Rail)? Right now, Dubai just celebrated opening up the Metro and I have to say it looks great!

Look at pics here:

http://archive.gulfnews.com/indepth/dubaimetro/sub...

And here:

http://archive.gulfnews.com/indepth/dubaimetro/mai...

I have lived in New York City most of my life and I am very familiar with metro systems. New York City had its first metro built in 1869. I think it is great that UAE finally has a metro system. And it's the first Gulf state to have a metro too! I thought KSA would be first.

But I though that UAE would go bigger and fast with High Speed Rail. I think UAE can move faster than USA and the UK and Europe when it comes to building HSR because they have the capital (money) and far less bureaucracy than many Western nations at the time. USA is so massive that we need HSR badly.

It would be great to see HSR connect from Ajman to Sharjah to Dubai to Abu Dhabi than out to Al Ain. I think HSR could actually increase revenue (the economy) for UAE. Maybe the downside will be more tourists. LOL.

So is HSR coming to UAE and when?

Ramadan Kareem to everyone!

In Islam it is possible to be "in love" with your partner before you marry. But many times this is NOT the case because of an arranged marriage or the brother or sister chose their partner more so for that person’s character and not primarily for their looks or because they were “in deep love” with them.

I am curious to find out from my Muslim brothers and sisters who try to follow their deen in a good way.

What were the reasons you chose your partner to marry? And did you fall in love with them in time after you married? Yes, you can love someone before you marry, but being IN LOVE with him or her is different. (This is assuming you did not necessarily have what is called a “love marriage”)

Jazakallah to all for sharing

Salaam and Ramadan Kareem