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Cash Flow Control Just as jet fuel keeps a plane aloft, cash fuels business. A pilot is very careful to accurately predict the fuel requirements. You should place the same importance on cash flow control because if at any point in the future, you run out of fuel, like the pilot, you've got a BIG problem. Cash flow control is a simple method of projecting your future needs for cash. It is an income statement covering future periods of time that has been changed to show only cash: cash coming in and cash going out and what your balance of cash is at the end of designated periods of time. This is a great tool because you can predict your future needs for cash before the needs arise. In cash flow control, for each of a number of intervals of time, you make conservative estimates for your future sources of cash (IN) and future expenditures (OUT). Use low, conservative figures for IN items and use high estimates for OUT items. For the initial period, say a month, you start with th...
IBN AL-JAWZI `Abd al-Rahman ibn `Ali ibn Muhammad ibn `Ali ibn `Ubayd Allah ibn `Abd Allah ibn Hammadi ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Ja`far ibn `Abd Allah ibn al-Qasim ibn al-Nadr ibn al-Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn `Abd Allah ibn al-Faqih `Abd al-Rahman ibn al-Faqih al-Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn Khalifat Rasul Allah -- Allah bless and greet him -- Abi Bakr al-Siddiq, Abu al-Faraj ibn al-Jawzi al-Qurashi al-Taymi al-Bakri al-Baghdadi al-Hanbali al-Ash`ari (509/510-597). He was, with Shaykh `Abd al-Qadir al-Gilani, the imam of Hanbalis and foremost orator of kings and princes in his time whose gatherings reportedly reached one hundred thousand, a hadith master, philologist, commentator of Qur'an, expert jurist, physician, and historian of superb character and exquisite manners. Orphaned of his father at age three, Ibn al-Jawzi was raised by his aunt who later brought him to the hadith scholar Ibn Nasir, his first shaykh. He took hadith from him as well as over eighty shaykhs and was teacher ...
The Jews and Hypocrites In the first year of his reign at Yathrib the Prophet made a solemn treaty with the Jewish tribes, which secured to them equal rights of citizenship and full religious liberty in return for their support of the new state. But their idea of a Prophet was one who would give them dominion, not one who made the Jews who followed him brothers of every Arab who might happen to believe as they did. When they found that they could not use the Prophet for their own ends, they tried to shake his faith in his Mission and to seduce his followers, behavior in which they were encouraged secretly by some professing Muslims who considered they had reason to resent the Prophet’s coming, since it robbed them of their local influence. In the Madinah’s surahs there is frequent mention of these Jews and Hypocrites. The Qiblah Till then the Qiblah (the place toward which the Muslims turn their face in prayer) had been Jerusalem . The Jews imagined that the choice implied a leaning to...
Shear and Bending Lecture 1: Shear and Bending ( PDF ) Lecture 2: Balance ( PDF ) 2 Characteristics of Thin Walled Sections Lecture 3: Bending Without Twist ( PDF ) Lecture 4: Pure Twist Open Section ( PDF ) Lecture 5: Pure Twist Closed Section ( PDF ) Lecture 6: Pure and Warping Torsion ( PDF ) Lecture 7: Calculation Of Section Properties - Open ( PDF ) [This consists of four parts (and how we will treat each) (suggest printing at most pages 1-9) A - derivation of geometric algorithms for section properties (cover quickly for sense of approach) B - derivation of first moment approach (for info - not covered) C - computational routine resulting from A (demo a few examples - routine available in lab) D - computational routine resulting from B (routine available in lab)] Lecture 7a: Calculation of Section Properties Closed ( PDF ) Lecture 8: Shear Center - Closed Section ( PDF ) Includes example problem. Lecture 8a: Shear Stress Multicell Section ( PDF ) Example problem s...
Ilmu Maqasid al-Syari`ah (مقاصد الشريعة) atau al-Maqasid al-Syar’iyyah (المقاصد الشرعية) adalah satu bidang ilmu yang membahaskan tentang tujuan, matlamat, natijah, kesan, hikmah dan illah (punca asas dan sebab) di sebalik perintah-perintah Allah S.W.T yang terkandung dalam hukum-hakam syariat. Allah S.W.T berfirman di dalam al-Quran al-Karim: ذَلِكَ مِمَّا أَوْحَى إِلَيْكَ رَبُّكَ مِنَ الْحِكْمَةِ وَلَا تَجْعَلْ مَعَ اللَّهِ إِلَهًا آَخَرَ فَتُلْقَى فِي جَهَنَّمَ مَلُومًا مَدْحُورًا “Perintah yang demikan itu ialah sebahagian dari hikmah yang diwahyukan kepadamu (wahai Muhammad) oleh Tuhanmu. Dan (ingatlah) janganlah engkau jadikan bersama-sama Allah itu terdapat tuhan yang lain. Kerana akibatnya engkau akan dicampakkan ke dalam neraka Jahanam dengan keadaan tercela dan tersingkir (dari rahmat Allah).” [Al-Isra’: 39] Ayat di atas ini datang setelah Allah S.W.T menyatakan sejumlah perintah dan larangan (hukum-hakam berkaitan akidah, syariat dan adab) seperti menjauhi perbuatan syirik,...
The Autobiography of a Moroccan Soufi Ahmad Ibn'Ajiba (1747-1809)    Ibn Ajiba, an 18th-century Moroccan saint in  the Darqawi Sufi lineage , wrote his fahrasa or autobiography not for the pleasure of talking about himself but "to celebrate God's kindness" by informing others of the graces bestowed on him. This account details Ibn Ajiba's travels in search of both secular and spiritual knowledge; his entrance on a Sufi path strongly based within the Islamic tradition; and the social, intellectual, and spiritual struggles that such a search entailed. He spent time in prison, and time in ecstasy.  He tells his tale with humility and a sense of humor, and the story manages to be at the same time practical (details of how much he paid to workmen to build a house or advice to his followers on how to consummate their marriages) and spiritual (explaining the subtleties of mystical experience and how the esoteric way is superior to the exoteric). His zeal f...
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Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall ‘Action is the Life of all and if thou dost not Act, thou dost Nothing.’ (Gerrard Winstanley) Marmaduke Pickthall Before we consider the life-story of the British Muslim and Koranic translator, Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall, it is as well to recall that aspect of the practice of every believer without which there are only ashes: holiness of life. In the case of Pickthall, this was a luminous, steadily progressing reality which impressed all who came into contact with him. Even his unbelieving first biographer, Anne Fremantle, opined that ‘had he changed from evangelical or even from high church Anglicanism to the Roman faith, doubtless the machinery of sanctification would have by now been set to work.’ He was a man of discreet charity, the extent of whose generosity was only discovered after his death. He turned down lucrative and prestigious speaking tours and the pleasures of travel in favour of his last and, in his eyes, greatest project, ...