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1 PLANNING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES FACT SHEET SERIES N o 1 ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION, HEALTH AND COMMUNITY DESIGN: What is the Canadian evidence saying? Photo: Peter Blanchard Healthy Community Design: the big picture Numerous studies from Canada and around the world demonstrate a relationship between the physical design and layout of cities and towns also known as the built environment and the health of people living in them. Community form is associated with varying levels of physical activity, diet, safety and injury rates, and how easily people can access work, shops, services and schools. According to a 2009 report from the Canadian Senate, some 10% of population health outcomes can be attributable to our physical or built environment, with an additional 50% being related to social and economic determinants, many of which are deeply interconnected with environments. 1 Hence, creating physical environments that facilitate healthy living is a critical component of supporting individuals in making better choices for their health. Our Built Environment The built environment refers to the human-made surroundings that provide the setting for all human activity, including those places where people live, work, learn, rest and play. These spaces range from rural streets to bustling downtowns and all the places in between.
2 Planning Healthy Communities: How can this fact sheet be useful to me? Canadian research on the associations between health and built environment is expanding and becoming more sophisticated. While much work remains to unravel the complex relationships between physical activity, body weight and the built environment, the research is at a point where the planning implications are clear healthy community design matters. The purpose of this fact sheet is to provide Canadian planning practitioners and community stakeholders with a summary of the most current made in Canada research on healthy communities. It highlights leading edge Canadian research carried out between 2007 and 2011 and is meant to better equip planning practitioners, local government officials and community leaders to work more closely with researchers and public health officials in charting next steps in research and evidence-informed policy-making. Active Transportation, Health and Community Design: Issue Overview In recent years, Canadians have become less and less physically active. 2 This is a public health concern. Together with being overweight and obesity, lack of physical activity is considered a conveyor belt to heart disease, stroke and other chronic conditions, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes and various cancers. 3 On the other hand, physical activity is associated with more positive health outcomes, including improved physical, mental and social health. Active Transportation Active transportation is any form of human-powered transportation. It is any trip made for the purposes of getting yourself, or others, to a particular destination - to work, to school, to the store or to visit friends. Walking and cycling are the most popular forms of active transportation and are often combined with other modes, notably public transit. Community design that supports active transportation has been demonstrated to provide multiple transportation, environmental and public health benefits, including promoting physical activity, improving air quality, reducing contributions to climate change, and even improving community livability. Built environment improvements that support active transportation e.g., traffic calming, streetscape improvements, traffic speed reductions, and road space reallocation, etc. can also generate safety advantages and reduce injury risks, which is a benefit not only for pedestrian and cyclists, but also transit riders and other road users. 2 Planning Healthy Communities Fact Sheet Series
3 ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION, HEALTH AND COMMUNITY DESIGN: What is the Canadian evidence saying? Key Research and Findings The section provides some general background facts on health, physical activity and weight, followed by more specific, Canadian research findings around active transportation, body weight and the built environment. The highlighted findings come from a review of 96 peer-reviewed journal articles and 16 reports from respected Canadian agencies published between 2007 and Physical inactivity and obesity are growing issues of concern in Canada. 69% of Canadian adults and 91% of Canadian children and youth are not getting the recommended levels of daily physical activity. 4 One in four Canadian adults are considered obese, along with about one in ten Canadian children and youth between the ages of 6 and economic costs of obesity are conservatively estimated at $4.6 billion using the eight chronic diseases most consistently linked to obesity. This is up about 19% from Numerous studies and recent research from across Canada have linked the lack of physical activity as a key contributor to Canada s high (and growing) obesity rates. 7 8 It is estimated that if all Canadians engaged in 60 minutes of physical activity per day, 33% of all deaths related to coronary heart disease, 25% of deaths related to stroke, 20% of deaths related to type 2 diabetes, and 20% of deaths related to hypertension could be avoided. 9 Bringing destinations closer together is one of the most effective ways to facilitate active transportation. Shorter distances for daily trips are achieved in areas with higher building density and greater mix of land uses (e.g., residential, commercial, office, community service/institutional, etc.). Most studies agree that these two elements of the built environment are positively associated with walking and cycling for utilitarian trips. An evaluation of transportation behaviours in new urbanist developments (higher building densities and a greater mix of land uses) in Calgary, Markham, and Montreal found that 51% of residents of new urbanist communities used active transportation for local services compared to only 19% in more conventional communities. 13 A Montreal study found that adults aged 45 and older exhibited a greater likelihood of walking at least 30-minutes a day, five days a week if they lived in a neighbourhood with a greater density of destinations. 14 Research on the factors that influence cycling in Metro Vancouver found that odds of cycling were higher in areas of greater land use mix and higher population density. This study found that neighbourhoodscale commercial destinations attracted cycling trips, but that large big-box commercial uses deterred cycling. 15 3
4 Safe and pleasant routes for cyclists and pedestrians are key attractors for increasing active transportation mode share. Many walkability and cycling studies determined that safety and comfort concerns caused by vehicle traffic (e.g., traffic speed, volume, road crossing conditions, etc.) were a primary influence on mode choice. Studies from several Canadian cities and regions show that perceptions of safety and the aesthetic quality of a route play an important part in influencing people s decision to walk or bike, both for themselves and their children. Path connections and quality, street trees, and scenery are all aspects of route quality identified as having a positive relationship with people s decisions to walk or bike For many cyclists, the characteristics of the route were more important than those of the origin or destination of travel. 24 A Metro Vancouver study found that cyclists were likely to detour from the shortest possible route in favour of routes with features such as traffic-calming measures, signage, tree cover, and bicycle-activated crossing signals. 25 Occasional, or so-called near market cyclists, are more likely to choose off-street paths and physically separated routes for their trips according to a Metro Vancouver study. 26 There are likely benefits in considering each community s unique context and to target specific user groups when designing active transportation programs and strategies. A Canada-wide study suggests that standardized, or uniform, active transportation promotion strategies may be less effective than more diversified initiatives targeting more specific groups (e.g., older walkers/cyclists, youth, new Canadians, etc.). 27 There are considerable regional differences in active transportation participation rates. As examples, the likelihood of walking is higher in the Northwest Territories (for men) and lower in Quebec (both women and men); cycling shows higher rates in the West, and lower in the Atlantic provinces. These trends may be related to other factors, which need to be considered (e.g., climate, socio-economic status, etc.) m 5.6 km 16 km FIGURE: On 350 calories a cyclist can travel 16 kilometres, a pedestrian 5.6 kilometres, and an automobile 30.4 metres Planning Healthy Communities Fact Sheet Series
5 ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION, HEALTH AND COMMUNITY DESIGN: What is the Canadian evidence saying? A study of Vancouver and Toronto found that the walkability index, and its components related to land-use mix, residential density and street connectivity were significant predictors of Body Mass Index (BMI) in Vancouver, and that only residential density was predictive in Toronto. The authors suggest that the difference in influences may be due to differences in neighbourhood design, as well as the substantial climatic variation between these cities. 31 Studies conducted in Montreal found that people with disabilities were more likely to engage in leisure time physical activity and active transportation in neighbourhoods with streetscape adaptations and supportive features. Within these research areas there are still many unpredicted results, which may reflect the variety in built environments across Canada and the range of influences on health (e.g., individual physiology, socioeconomic status, etc.). More research is needed to strengthen the evidence base. A Montreal study found that presence of active transportation infrastructure (e.g., safe, well-lit sidewalks, etc.) within different neighbourhoods was not positively associated with walking. Somewhat counter intuitively, this research also found that a low perception of safety was associated with a greater likelihood of walking. The researchers speculate that older, denser neighbourhoods, which were associated with higher walking rates, may be the very ones with poor infrastructure and perceptions of poor safety. 34 A six-year study of adults in Edmonton called into question the relationship between neighbourhood walkability and changes in Body Mass Index (BMI), while accounting for people s perceptions and attitudes toward their neighbourhood settings. By tracking changes over time (longitudinal survey), instead of just between places (cross-sectional survey), the study was able to follow health status over time. An analysis of the 500 individuals surveyed who did not change homes during the study period revealed no relationship between neighbourhood walkability and change in BMI 35. It reported that age, neighbourhood socio-economic status (SES), and perceptions of high traffic were the only significant predictors of changes in BMI. Specifically, younger participants, those living in low SES neighbourhoods, and those who reported that traffic made walking difficult were more likely to have increases in BMI. A second analysis of this study included those who moved within the six-year period to understand how their reasons for choosing the new location may affect the links between neighbourhood features and BMI 36. Findings confirmed people s values are influential on their behaviors. In particular, amongst those who moved, people who reported that ease of walking was not important in selecting a neighbourhood had larger increases in weight, in comparison to those who felt it was important. However, those who remained in the 5
6 same home over the study period did not show this trend between their values and their BMI. This could indicate that those who choose to live in walkable neighborhoods because it reflects their underlying values will walk more. In contrast, those individuals already living in highly walkable neighborhoods, and who are not inclined to walk, may not be influenced by neighborhood features only. The researchers point out that this does not disprove the link between the built environment and health outcomes, only that the complexity of the relationship must be considered, and more longitudinal studies are needed. In a study of factors that influenced the decisions of key stakeholders to develop walkable neighbourhoods, Edmonton City Councillors identified car culture as a barrier to change, underlining the social willingness to purchase housing that requires driving to work, school, and shopping, and the reluctance to use active transportation or take public transit. 37 HEALTH Healthy Community Design - A Triple Win Active transportation friendly communities can provide multiple health, environmental and transportation benefits. 38 E N V I R O N M E N T T R A N S P O R TAT I O N 6 Planning Healthy Communities Fact Sheet Series
7 ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION, HEALTH AND COMMUNITY DESIGN: What is the Canadian evidence saying? Conclusions This fact sheet presents research highlights from a wide body of work, with a focus on larger urban centres. This section summarizes key take home points that emerged as common, overarching themes from the review. Physical activity is among the most significant modifiable behaviours that can influence a person s likelihood of developing chronic diseases, such as diabetes, heart disease, stroke or cancer. Recent Canadian research, supported by a considerable body of US and international data, has associated the built environment, including active transportation and physical activity infrastructure, with more physically active lifestyles. Healthy community design has been demonstrated to support health objectives, including facilitating physical activity, reducing injury risks for pedestrians and cyclists, and improving public safety and perceptions of safety. Community design alone may not make more active living the most prevalent choice for individuals. Changes to the built environment might need to be supported by communications and education programs to help shift the societal values that are associated with the daily choices people make about where to live, how to get around, and personal health. Additional Canadian research is required to continue building the evidence base, particularly studies over a longer-term period of time (i.e., longitudinal studies) and research that considers multiple built environment variables simultaneously (street connectivity, density and land uses, etc.), and their collective influences on physical activity and health. Complete streets are designed for the safe use of all users, including pedestrians, bicyclists, motorist and transit riders of all ages and abilities. Complete streets make it easy and safe to cross the street, walk to shops, and bicycle to work, and are a key component of successful active transportation strategies. 7
8 What can planners do? Whatever the context from smaller towns to major urban centres evidence points to several options for planners to be involved in encouraging and supporting healthy community design and more active transportation choices. Some actions planners might consider are briefly outlined below. Most of them are aligned with work planners may already be pursuing through their environmental and sustainability planning. See the next section for links to helpful resources and more information. Reviewing current and long-range planning: There are many opportunities for planners to get involved in bringing health back to the planning table. 1. Look for opportunities to include health objectives and active transportation goals and objectives in your community s plans. Ensure that your public health department and/or relevant health organizations and agencies are involved in plan review. 2. Review and update street standards to include better and safer pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure with your jurisdiction s transportation engineers (or equivalent) and, where necessary and required, provincial transportation departments. 3. Develop and adopt a Complete Streets policy that ensures all users and age groups are accommodated in new street designs, construction, and improvements to existing streets and roads. There are numerous sample policies available for communities of all sizes. 4. Encourage compact, higher density, mixed-use development with a high quality public realm and safe, accessible, pleasant multi-modal connections between destinations wherever practical and possible. 5. Consider using social marketing and/or other communications strategies to support community uptake of any built environment strategies implemented. Staying informed and exploring new opportunities: Healthy community design is rapidly growing field with new research and evidence, and standards coming out continually. 1. Network with other municipalities, provincial planning agencies, and health authorities who have undertaken healthy community design plans, projects and policies and who could support your work. Some provinces have established grant programs and resource networks. 8 Planning Healthy Communities Fact Sheet Series
9 ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION, HEALTH AND COMMUNITY DESIGN: What is the Canadian evidence saying? 2. Establish a healthy communities knowledge broker in your planning department capable of working with and liaising between the multiple public and private sector players involved in healthy community design (e.g., public health officers, developers, civil engineers, etc.). 3. Support healthy built environment research that occurs in your community. From research design to analysis and interpretation of findings, planners can support researchers and use resulting data to support evidence-informed, healthy community design policy-making. 4. Explore Health Impact Assessments: Used increasingly in the US and other jurisdictions, health impact assessments (HIAs) are used with larger development proposals to determine their potential health impacts and mitigate them. Quebec is actively exploring their use along with Peel Region in Ontario. New Canadian research on HIAs is emerging. Building the case for healthy community design: Whether planning for small towns or major cities, it is important to cultivate support from key community stakeholders including elected officials, the public, local neighbourhood and business associations, local planning commissions and review boards, public health officials, etc. Build awareness of healthy community design and its health, fiscal and environmental benefits with these stakeholders. 1. Establish a healthy community design or active transportation task force or committee to help develop evidence-based healthy community design policies, programs and plans. 2. Educate other planners, local government officials and community leaders about the public health implications of land use and transportation planning choices, including the economic burden of associated health costs. 3. Partner with the local public health office to get local health data and/or invite the Chief Medical Health Officer, or equivalent, to speak to Council on the benefits of healthy community design and active transportation. 4. Network to develop a broader healthy community design constituency, particularly those organizations and groups with an interest in healthy community design e.g., cycling groups, seniors organizations, school boards, public health agencies, developers, etc. 9
10 More Information and Resources There is a wealth of information and resources available to planners interested in learning more about healthy community design and planning. For more information, or to access additional Planning Healthy Communities Fact Sheets, please visit: National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health - Healthy Built Environment Inventory: A searchable catalogue of healthy communities case studies, guidelines, tools and key scientific papers. Heart and Stroke Foundation: A resource site with links to research, healthy physical activity guidelines and healthy community design information. Urban Public Health Network - Healthy Canada by Design: A clearinghouse of healthy community design resources and links. Canadian Institute of Planners: Information and links to a variety of healthy community planning resources, including a new Healthy Communities Practice Guide. Public Health Agency of Canada: Maintains a built environment webpage with helpful information and evidence. Canadian Institute of Health Information: A wide variety of resources and research studies on population health and environmental factors, including the built environment. N o 2 Planning Healthy Communities Fact Sheets: For information on child and youth specific active transportation and/or healthy community design please see Planning Healthy Communities Fact Sheet #2 Active Living, Children and Youth: What is the Canadian evidence saying? 10 Planning Healthy Communities Fact Sheet Series
11 ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION, HEALTH AND COMMUNITY DESIGN: What is the Canadian evidence saying? References 1. Keon WJ, Pépin L. A healthy, productive Canada: a determinant of health approach. The Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology, Final Report of Senate Subcommittee on Population Health. Ottawa: Colley RC, Garriguet D, Janssen I, Craig CL, Clarke J, Tremblay MS. Physical activity of Canadian adults: accelerometer results from 2007 to 2009 Canadian Health Measures Survey. Component of Statistics Canada Catalogue no X Health Reports. Ottawa: Berland, A. Foundations for a healthier built environment: summary report. Victoria: BC Provincial Health Services Authority; Colley RC, Garriguet D, Janssen I, Craig CL, Clarke J, Tremblay MS Canadian Institute for Health Information. Obesity in Canada: a joint report from the Public Health Agency of Canada and the Canadian Institute for Health Information. Ottawa: Public Health Agency of Canada; Canadian Institute for Health Information Bryan SN, Katzmarzyk PT. The association between meeting physical activity guidelines and chronic diseases among Canadian adults. Journal of Physical Activity and Health. 2011;8(1). 8. Janssen I, LeBlanc JG. Systematic review of the health benefits of physical activity and fitness in school-aged children and youth. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. 2010;7(40): Warburton DER, Katzmarzyk PT, Rhodes RE, Shephard RJ. Evidenceinformed physical activity guidelines for Canadian adults. Applied Physiology, Nutrition and Metabolism. 2007;32(suppl.2E):S16-S Winters M, Teschke K, Grant M, Setton E, Brauer M. How far out of the way will we travel? Built environment influences on route selection for bicycle and car travel. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board. 2010; Clark MI, Berry TR, Spence JC, Nykiforuk C, Carlson C, Blanchard C. Key stakeholder perspectives on the development of walkable neighbourhoods. Health and Place. 2010;16(1). 12. Gauvin L, Riva M, Barnett T et al. Association between neighborhood active living potential and walking. American Journal of Epidemiology. 2008;167(8). 13. Fisher S, Tomalty R. Comparing Canadian new urbanist and conventional suburban neighbourhoods. Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation Research Highlight, Socio-economic Series Ottawa: 2010, Jun. 14. Gauvin L, Riva M, Barnett T, et al Winters M, Brauer M, Setton EM, Teschke K. Built environment influences on healthy transportation choices: bicycling versus driving. Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine. 2009;87(6). 16. Montemurro G, Berry T, Spencer J, Nykiforuk C, Blanchard, C, Cutumisu N. Walkable by Willpower : resident perceptions of neighbourhood environments. Health and Place. 2011;17(4). 17. Winters M, Davidson D, Kao G, Teschke K. Motivators and deterrents of bicycling: comparing influences on decisions to ride. Transportation. 2011;38(1). 18. Montemurro G, Berry T, Spencer J, Nykiforuk C, Blanchard, C, Cutumisu N Winters M, Davidson D, Kao G, Teschke K McCormack GR, Spence JC, Berry TR, Doyle-Baker T. Does perceived behavioral control mediate the association between perceptions of neighborhood walkability and moderate- and vigorous-intensity leisure-time physical activity. Journal of Physical Activity and Health. 2009;6(5). 21. Montemurro G, Berry T, Spencer J, Nykiforuk C, Blanchard, C, Cutumisu N Winters M, Davidson D, Kao G, Teschke K Winters M, Teschke K, Grant M, Setton E, Brauer M Winters M, Brauer M, Setton EM, Teschke K Winters M, Teschke K, Grant M, Setton E, Brauer M Winters M, Teschke K. Route preferences among adults in the near market for bicycling: findings of the cycling in cities studies. American Journal of Health Promotion. 2010;25(1). 27. Butler G, Orpana H, Wiens A. By your own two feet: factors associated with active transportation in Canada. Canadian Journal of Public Health. 2007;98(4). 28. Butler G, Orpana H, Wiens A Winters M, Friesen MC, Koehoorn M, Teschke K. Utilitarian bicycling: a multilevel analysis of climate and personal influences. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2007;32(1). 30. adapted from Transportation Alternatives. Bicycle blueprint: a plan to bring bicycling into the mainstream in New York City. New York: Available from: blueprint/contents.html 31. Pouliou T, Elliott, S. Individual and socio-environmental determinants of overweight and obesity in urban Canada. Health and Place. 2010;16(2): Spivock M, Gauvin L., Brodeur, JM. Neighbourhood-level active living buoys for individuals with physical disabilities. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2007;32(3). 33. Spivock M, Gauvin L., Mylene R, Brodeur JM. Promoting active living among people with physical disabilities. 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12 Planning Healthy Communities Fact Sheet Series This fact sheet is one of a series made possible by financial and in-kind contribution provided by Health Canada via the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer s Coalitions Linking Action and Science for Prevention (CLASP) initiative, the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, the Canadian Institute for Health Information, the Canadian Institute of Planners, and the Public Health Agency of Canada. The views expressed in this fact sheet represent the views of the Healthy Canada by Design CLASP initiative and do not necessarily represent the views of the project funders and partners. CLASP COALITIONS LINKING ACTION & SCIENCE FOR PREVENTION An ini a ve of:
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Karen J. Warren
Karen J. Warren
|20th-/21st-century philosophy
|Western philosophy
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|Ethics · Ecofeminism · Critical Thinking
Notable ideas
|Ecofeminism · Connections between the subordination of women and others, and the subordination of the environment.
Karen J. Warren (born September 10, 1947) is an author, scholar, and former Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Macalester College.
Karen Warren received her B.A. in philosophy from the University of Minnesota (1970) and her Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst in 1978. Before her long tenure at Macalester College, which began in 1985, Warren was Professor of Philosophy at St. Olaf College in the early 1980s. Warren was the Ecofeminist-Scholar-in-Residence at Murdoch University in Australia [1]. In 2003, she served as an Oxford University Round Table Scholar and as Women's Chair in Humanistic Studies at Marquette University in 2004. She has spoken widely on environmental issues, feminism, critical thinking skills and peace studies in many international locations including Buenos Aires, Gothenburg, Helsinki, Oslo, Manitoba, Melbourne, Moscow, Perth, the U.N. Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro (1992), and San Jose.
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Warren is a believer in allowing public access into the academic field of philosophy and describes herself as a "street philosopher"[2]. "I believe philosophy is relevant to people of all ages, in all cultural, geographical, and socioeconomic contexts,"[3] she said. Warren has taught philosophy in the Berkshire County House of Correction (MA), The Wilderness Society, Eco-Education, Pheasants Forever, Minnesota Naturalists Association and other organizations. As part of her commitment to public philosophy she has spoken for lay audiences and served as critical thinking consultant to the Science Museum of Minnesota and facilitator of a Women's Issues Book Group at Barnes & Noble Booksellers.[1]
Warren has written extensively in the fields of critical thinking, environmental ethics and ecofeminism. She has written more than 40 articles and edited or co-edited five anthologies, authored Ecofeminist Philosophy: A Western Perspective on What It Is and Why It Matters (2000). She is the author of a groundbreaking anthology, An Unconventional History of Western Philosophy: Conversations Between Men and Women Philosophers (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009).[2] The anthology explores 2600 years of Western philosophy, juxtaposing leading men and women philosophers' writing on ethics, metaphysics and other topics. Her work has been translated into Spanish, Mandarin, French, Japanese and Persian.[3]


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In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
"It is necessary for the group that has this determination to know the milestones on the road to this goal so that they know the nature and reality of its purpose, and to recognize the starting point of this long journey…
These milestones can only be brought from the original source of this belief – the Qur'an – and its basic teachings, and from the concept that was in the hearts of the best and purest people through whom Allah fulfilled His Will, those who changed the course of history…"
– Sayyid Qutb, 'Milestones' (p. 5)
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- to serve as an educational resource by providing exclusive translations of classic and contemporary Islamic texts for the benefit of those who cannot easily access Arabic books
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may Allah reward you.
Jzakallahu khayrun akhee awesome blog!
Masha'allah ,
Alhamdulillah you are doing a great service for us brother.
May Allah reward you akhi , ameen.
Mashaallah, inshaallah you can put up some daleel for those sufi fools in seekingilm to refute
حيك الله اخي العزيز وجز اك الله كل خير
Mashaa-Allaah, tabaraaka-Allaah!!! May Allaah subhanaahu wa ta'aala reward you for your efforts!
Wa assalamu alaikum
keep up the good work.
Jazakallahu kheyr ya akhy, we are benefiting alot mashallah.
Baarak'Allahu feek
Just a suggestion insha'Allah, perhaps you could switch the colours around as the white writing against black background leaves imprints on my vision!
Ahsanallahu ilayk wa nafa3a bik
Assalaamu alaykum wa rahmatullaahi wa barakatuh,
I just want to say Jazaak Allaahu khayran for all your efforts. These translations are really beneficial.
I was wondering if you have read anything on the eating habits of the salaf or famous scholars, in specific what they ate, how often and how much etc.
Please keep up the good work. May Allaah ease your affairs.
Assalaamu alaykum
As-salaamu'alaykum WaRahmatullaahi WaBarakaatuh
May Allaah accept your efforts Akhee and compile them as your Zaad-AlMa'ad. Aameen!
BaarakAllaahufeekum Akhee, I love you for the Sake of Allah.
Akhi, may Allah reward you for all the translating that you have done and give us all the ability to assist His Deen in whatever way possible for us. May He give you barakah in your time and ability to do more in future. Ameen
Assalamualaikum again, Just wanted to ask when are you going to post the book 'scales of Allah'. Jazakallah
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may allah reward you akhi for your contribution to the welfare of this ummah i was wondering if you can translate "100 lessons from the story of prophet yusuf peace be uopn him"
And what a blog.. ! may Allah make you among those of his servants who are sincere in their acts and eager in implementing and sharing their knowledge and lastly may Allah azza wajal reward you with the best of rewards in this world and in the hereafter Ameen ..
Akhee the sis is right regarding the background.. it is really difficult to read white in black. … ..it hurts the eyes.
Assalamu 'alaykum,
Not intending to disagree for no reason, but the black background is actually easier on the eyes. The bright shining white is not good. Maybe grey or something in between would be good. But I don't mind the black, personally.
Barak Allahu feek
Salam alaikum akhee.
I have a question as to why do you translate the works of Abul Baseer, Muhammad Qutb, Sayyid Qutb and them along with the works of the Ulemaa such as Shaykh Muqbil and Shaykh al Albaanee and Ibn Uthaymeen and others who severely disagree and oppose the likes of those individuals. Is this not confusing to the people? Unless you agree with the ideologies of Abul Baseer and them to which I remind you that the Ulemaa here are stern against them, the likes of Shaykh Bakr rahimahullaah, Shaykh Uthaymeen and Shaykh Muqbil were all against these ideologies and these people.
By the way, I'm not seeking an argument or even discussion, I just want to know the answer to that question barakAllaahu feek.
Mashallah brother, great site, with great effeort, jazakallahu khairan , may Allah make us of those who benefit themselves and the ummah..ameen
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This has to be one of the best blogs i have ever visited.
May Allah SWT reward you in both worlds..Aameen.
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I love you for the sake of Allah bro…
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Ya Abu Sabayyiah why do you translate articles from person who are not scholars, rather the Major Scholars have refuted these persons, such as Sayyid Qutb, Muhammad Qutb, Abu Basir, Safar al-Hawali, Nasir al-Umar etc. Enough are for you Imam Ibn Baaz, Imaam Ibn Uthaymin, Imaam al-Albani and their students who followed them in their Aqeedah and Manhaj.
May Allaah Ta'alaa guides you to the correct understanding!
Keep up the good work bruv.
I agree with Hammad, that this is one of the best blogs I have read. It is balanced, relevant, regular, with articles at a digestable length and quoting from sources that are useful for the English audiences to know about.
Masha Allah
Allah ya'eenak
Assalamu alaykum. Keep it real insha-Allah. I however continue to wonder what it takes to reach this level. Any advise?
Assalaamu alaykum.
Just wanted to say jazaak Allaahu khair akhi for the blog. It is the best blog I have ever read/visited! Masha Allaah!
Keep it up!
Btw, do you live in Alexandria, Egypt?
Assalamu alaykum…. Please I just want your advice. What Tafsir would you recommend for the layman….
Tafheem-alQur'an by AlMawdudi
Ma'ariful Qur'an by Mufti Muhammad Shafi?
Tafseer Ibn kathir might not be self explanatory
Dhilal might be too long
Adwaa'ul Bayan is not fully available in English
Please can you help. I understand it is going to be from what you know but could you give even a hint?
Assalamu alaikum,
Jazakum Allahu khayran for maintaining this blog, and may Allah cause it to be a source of benefit to yourself and others.
Below is a link to a lecture series that you might be interested in —
شرح فضيلة الشيخ محمد حسان لكتاب "الأصول الثلاث" للشيخ محمد بن عبد الوهاب:
You were asking (elsewhere on the internet) some questions relating to the science of aqeedah (if I understood correctly), and you may find the answers to what you were looking for in this series.
Barak Allahu feekum.
keep the brother in your dua, inshaa'Allah.
Please continue making Dua for the brother.
Assalaamu 'alaykum,
barakalahu feek for this beneficial blog. Keep it up.
One question: Didn't the blog earlier have all the categories on the right of the page? Which made it much more easier to look for articles from certain scholars.
Jazaak Allah Khayran.
What a beautiful site, Mashallah may Allah reward in this life and hereafter.
Informative work,keep up with the right work.
JazakumAllahu khairan, may you see the fruits of this blog in the hereafter in your balance of good deeds, great blog, it puts my blog to shame. Keep up the good work, may Allah sw bless it as well as the whole ummah, ameen!
assalaam alaikom, i just come across this site, subhan allah its amazing, i ont know how i got here, i think its the title bit, iskandarani, coz rite now im in alexandria, ebrahimyya, gamb al traam.
akhy, do u know any student of knowledge here that i can benefit from, i know theres shuyuukhs,
anyways …
ya askandaani…
rabbina ma'k
Keep up the good work, it is a pleasure reading this blog. This is a great way to raise awareness amongst the Muslims, since we are still in a state of deep slumber. May Allah purify our intentions.
Spread the word about the site!
As salaamu 'aleykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu,
A brother has written a fascinating new book on Al Andalus called An Incomplete History: The Muslims of Spain Post-1492/897 ـه In A Global Context And Its Relevance to Muslims Today. Have a flip through it. I would be grateful if you could post this up on your site.
It is a voluminous release and covers briefly the period of Muslims in Andalus from the opening of Andalus by Tariq bin Ziyad to the fall of Garnata in 1491. The focus of the book is what happened to the Muslims of Andalus after the fall of Garnata. It includes within it:
1. Imam Ghazalis fatwa to Yusuf Bin Tashfin to fight the Muslim rulers fighting alongside the kuffaar and implementing other than Allah's law.
2. Numerous documents pertaining to the life, worship and jihad conducted by those Muslims within Andalus.
3. All of the work is analyzed not just through the prism of Andalusi and Maghribi politics but through the perspective of the deen and global events at the time as well.
Links to the book:
http://www.uploadjockey.com/download/3917543/The Incomplete History- Andalus after 1492.rar
BarakAllahu feek for your help. If you could encourage others to put it up on their sites, i would be grateful.
As salaamu 'aleykum.
Salaamun Alaykum Akhi
I am a revert – and came upon this blog from a brother who was supporting you. This is a great site – as I have no masjid and no access to materials like this.
Jazak'Allah Khair!
Jazak Allaho khairan. Did you study at Qortoba? Please join this FB group if you did: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=70115550708&ref=mf
وعليك السلام ورحمة الله وبركاته
Asalamu Alaikum wrwb ukhi Alhumduillah we get to read many articles here that we don't normally as they are not in english language so Jazakillah khayr and Allah make you ascend brother for your efforts.May Allah have mercy on you
mashaAllah nice blog
Jazakallahu kahiran ya akhee…May ALlah increase you in knowledge and make you a ligth of his deen ameeeeen:) wallahi your effort is deely appreciated…may Allah purify your intention and preserve you ameen :)
mashaa Allaah, this blog keeps getting better and better. May Allah continue to make it a success and a source of benefit for every believer, ameen.
baarakallaahu feek wa ahsanallaahu ilayk.
Asalamu Alaikum wrwb ukhi Abu Sabaya masha'Allah
I do love [ Milestones on the Road to Firmness in Faith ] may Allah swt) make our hearts strong and firm in faith for whats ahead ameen , Jazakillah khayr and may Allah be pleased with you
Kepp the brother in you ad'iyaa, that Allah aids him in his time of need, gives him sabr and ruins the plots of the kufaar, allahuma ameen.
thumma ameen ya Rabb.
Lan yuseebanaa illaa maa kataba Allaahu lanaa Huwa Mawlaanaa
By the Lord of the Worlds, he wont spend a single second longer as Allah wants him to spent in the prison, remember this …
And also remember the Sunnah of Allah for the tyrants…may Allah harden their hearts on kufr and let them die the death of fir'awn – qaatalahumullah. Allahuma ameen.
It is clear that everything they've accused him is what he has spoken against many times.
How can they accuse him of planning to cause havoc at a mall when he believes killing innocent men, women and children is totally impermissible and wrong (see his translation here: https://iskandrani.wordpress.com/2008/02/09/a-discussion-regarding-the-targeting-of-women-and-children/ and here: https://iskandrani.wordpress.com/2008/02/07/nasir-al-%E2%80%98umar-regarding-the-explosions-in-the-lands-of-the-muslims/)
We all know Abu Sabaya to possess an impeccable & good character, is very humble, very balanced and an asset to his community. So for the government trying to convince us that he is otherwise (let alone a terrorist) is a futile attempt and one that cannot be believed by anyone who has sense.
Truth shall prevail, as they say.
It is clear that everything they've accused Abu Sabaya of is what he has spoken against many times.
How can they accuse him of planning to cause havoc at a mall when he believes killing innocent men, women and children is totally impermissible and wrong (see his translation here: http:// iskandrani. wordpress. com /2008/02/09/a-discussion-regarding-the-targeting-of-women-and-children/
and here:
http:// iskandrani. wordpress. com /2008/02/09/a-discussion-regarding-the-targeting-of-women-and-children/) – I've spaced out the link, so join it up when you copy&paste it.
That accusation has to be the most ridiculous and far-fetched one so far in this clear blackmail against him.
We all know Abu Sabaya to possess an impeccable & good character, is very humble, very balanced and an asset to his community. So for the government trying to convince us that he is otherwise (let alone a terrorist) is a futile attempt and one that cannot be believed by anyone who has sense.
Truth shall prevail, as they say.
How honourable you are in the sight of Allaah ya Aba Sabaya. They try to silence you and keep you away from us but wAllaahi ya akhi you still remain in our hearts and minds. We ask Almighty Allaah to break free your shackles and unite you and all of our prisoners with us once again in peace and tranquility, ameen. We shall never forget you ya Aba Sabaya…
Please keep up the good work!


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Christ in you - His Kingdom in the world
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None need live in separation from God today. We have been given union. This is our modus operandi and the way of the Kingdom. We can continue dining on a picnic of religious bits and pieces or we can eat Jesus. Those who eat Him live because of Him. They are the manifestation of our Father and are sons in spirit and in truth.
One of the illusions of religious piety is that there is a dichotomised world – a world where God is and a world where our carnal selves hang out and God is not. The worst version is that He is repelled by us. More inane versions are that religion has nothing to do with life. Once in my Bible class I made a worksheet with a picture of a young man at the beach. He was relaxing after an enjoyable surf. I had a speech balloon coming from his head that said, 'I thank you Lord that I can enjoy this warming sun and wondrous green ocean.' A fundamentalist parent with a shrunken soul took exception to this and removed his child from the class. I have since wondered if he had removed him from real life to live in the realm of religiosity. On the other hand a theologian I quite often utilise in these posts is highly intelligent, creative and perceptive. He has an apostolic ministry though he would be the last to say so. He is a fly fisherman with a hobby of inventing amazing lures.
In common parlance this artificial boundary is called 'sacred and secular.' There was none of this before the fall. There became lots of it when man entered the realm of the knowledge of good and evil and began to divide up existence according to his own definitions – dividing it on the supposition that man was a god. Some of the divisions were valid. Most are futile. There were no such division in the beginning. There is none now – not in the mind of Christ or the Kingdom of God. HE HAS MADE THE TWO ONE. These words have their overt application to the Jews and Gentiles. But their greater meaning is the union of people and the earth with God and heaven.
'For in him we live and move and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'We are his offspring'' Acts 17.28 NIV.
I've noticed in the papers recently that there's a 'thing' about 'fat shaming.' Jesus told us not to judge. But there are issues of greater moment than 'fat shaming' – the chief one being society's separation from God. This separation and resulting dichotomies are the province of the knowledge tree, the law and humanistic ethical systems. But they do not come from God and they do not give us dignity let alone make us Godly.
A friend of mine was invited to go on a mission to trip. 'She would ponder it,' she said. She wanted to be sure it was God's will she was following and not her own.' But she need not have bothered. Had she been alive in the Spirit, living in the consciousness of the new covenant where we and Father are one – she may have understood that living in the inheritance of a son, God's heart is our heart, God's will our will and God's intentions our intentions Our intentions because we are one by the One Spirit. There is no separation in God. Not in time, not in space and not in the Spirit. We live in the One Spirit. Today you and Father are one.
'But the person who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with him' 1 Cor 6.17 NLT.
Many holy men and women of God retreat to the desert or a peaceful place to find more of God. What they find there is less distractions God and more focus on He who is real. But God is no more present in the desert than He is in the metropolis. When we live in God we simply bring our sense of His reality from the desert into the hurly-burly of daily living. There is no place that God is not and He is always in you – even when you sin and especially in your sinning. He hurries to where He is most needed to impart forgiveness and life.
When Jesus cried. 'It is finished,' the alienation between God and ourselves was undone. Union with God was now ours in Jesus and in no spatio-temporal thing. He had made the two one. When Paul declares that Christ is our life he is saying that God is our life because we are in God and He is in us.
When Christ is our life, we ourselves are alive and become life multipliers, life imparters, touching inert and dead things with the supernatural spirit of heaven. The more we live in this life and hide ourselves in Christ our life the more we are saturated with spirit and truth. This is new covenant life, you as a son and the expression of our Father in the same manner as Jesus.
Live from a moral frame-work and you will never be a real person let alone a son of God. Genuine sons are the Father manifest as you. Big difference. The difference between religion and sonship.
The extent to which we attempt to extract life from special places, Sabbaths and imagined sacred behaviours, the more we deplete ourselves of real life and live in religion. It is not chance that the religious are as blind as bats and as insensitive to spiritual death as marrows and water melons. There is good reason why we should be in step with Father and His new covenant. We can see life, discern death and we are competent to minister spirit and life.
'He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant--not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life' 2 Cor 3.6 NIV.
The notion that we enter God's presence through praise and worship is an illusion of the institutional church and its religiosity. It supports the notion that God and His presence is in a special place, a separated domain detached from normal living. The fact is that God is always with you, in you and incarnated in your everyday doings. Live in what He has accomplished for you and cast off the humbug of religion. You will enjoy God, know yourself and flourish as you were made to be.
In the new covenant Kingdom of God. A theologian of sharp discernment has written,
The secular becomes sacred. There are no longer two worlds. We no longer must leave the secular world to find sacred space because they've come together. That was the significance of the temple veil rending when Jesus died. The temple divided reality into the holy world inside and the unholy world outside. That's why Jesus said the temple had to fall. "Not a stone shall stand on a stone." Our word "profane" comes from the words pro and fan um, which means "outside the temple." Teilhard de Chardin said there is nothing profane for those who have learned how to see. There is only one world, and it's the supernatural one. There is no "natural" world where God is not. [There is no day or place where God is not] It is all supernatural. All the bushes burn now if you have seen one burn. Only one tree has to fill up with light and angels, and then you never see trees the same way again
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Date Posted: 27/04/12
The 18th National Television Awards (NTA) are to return to the O2 Arena on Wednesday, January 23rd 2013, giving fans of Britain's most popular television shows ample time to book London hotels.
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Glaxo Stops Paying Doctors to Speak About Drugs
John Lynn is the Founder of the HealthcareScene.com blog network which currently consists of 10 blogs containing over 8000 articles with John having written over 4000 of the articles himself. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 16 million times. John also manages Healthcare IT Central and Healthcare IT Today, the leading career Health IT job board and blog. John is co-founder of InfluentialNetworks.com and Physia.com. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can also be found on Twitter: @techguy and @ehrandhit and LinkedIn.
The big news last month in the pharma world was when Glaxo decided to stop paying doctors to promote drugs and stopped tying compensation of pharma sales people with the number of prescriptions a doctor writes. Here's an excerpt from a New York Times article:
The British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline will no longer pay doctors to promote its products and will stop tying compensation of sales representatives to the number of prescriptions doctors write, its chief executive said Monday, effectively ending two common industry practices that critics have long assailed as troublesome conflicts of interest.
This is a move that many people will applaud. Although, I wonder if there's not a lot more to this story than what it purports. Was this really an acknowledgement that paying doctors might influence what they say or were those techniques just not working as well as they use to work?
I've long seen pharma companies salivating over the possibility of providing their "education" right at the point of care in the middle of the prescribing process. This would usually be in the EHR software. In fact, the Free EHR companies have mostly made their business model around this idea. However, I have yet to see this business model really take off, but it will.
I wonder if this shift by Glaxo will present the right opportunity for EHR vendors to really engage pharma in this. I can assure you that the pharma companies still have the same goals. I just believe they have to consider new methods. Could EHR be the next method they use to communicate with the doctor?


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Wolfpack baseball helps Japan with relief fundraiser, fireworks
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The Loyola University New Orleans baseball team is encouraging all students, alumni and supporters to attend the March 25 game against Lee University as a way to help disaster relief efforts in Japan. The team will donate a portion of the proceeds from the gate to the NOLA Japan Quake Fund, and members of the Japan Club of New Orleans will also be in attendance providing information and accepting donations on site. The game will be held at Segnette Field, located behind the Alario Center off the Westbank Expressway in Westwego. First pitch between the Wolfpack and Flames is scheduled for 6 p.m. A fireworks display will follow the game.
The event will also feature a collaboration between the sophoMORE Initiative, the Student Government Association, Mission and Ministry, and Athletics and Wellness. Loyola faculty, staff and students can purchase tickets prior to the event for $5, which includes admission to the game, transportation from campus, and food and drink. Tickets for the Loyola community can be purchased in the Danna Student Center or the residence halls on campus.
Buses will begin to load at 4:30 p.m. in the turnaround by Carrollton Hall on the Loyola campus. One bus will return to campus at 7:30 p.m. with the remaining buses returning after the game.
Admission to Loyola baseball games for the general public is $6 for adults. Senior citizens, military, and children between the ages of 12-18 are $3. Children under the age of 12 are free.
"We want to do what we can to help relief efforts in Japan and encourage all the groups on campus, as well as alumni and fans, to come out and take part in a special evening. We also want to thank those who are assisting with this effort to have a post game fireworks display. Not only are we looking forward to the Loyola community coming out, but we hope that our fans on the Westbank and metro New Orleans area can make it as well. It's going to be a great night," said Loyola head baseball coach Gee Cassard.
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By the Way, House Prices Just Went Up
Yesterday at 9 AM Standard and Poor's released the latest Case-Shiller Home Price Index data, showing that existing homes actually increased in price in May, for the first monthly rise since July 2006. All the major media outlets ran with it as their lead story, the stock market zoomed up more than 5%, and Fed Chairman Bernanke announced that the recession is now officially over.
Okay, I made most of that up. But the C-S 20 city composite really was up for the first time in 33 months. And that's really a big deal, not that anybody seems to have noticed. This is not an index that changes direction often. Before the run of 33 down months was a run of 55 consecutive up months going back to January 2002. (In fact, other than small declines in December 2001 and November 1998, the 10 city index was up every month from March 1997 to June 2006.)
Obviously, there is no guarantee that this will be the start of a long run of positive months, but a change in direction is a comparatively rare event and ought to be newsworthy. All the more so given the centrality of house prices in the causes of the Great Recession. And yet this isn't apparently a big story.
The New York Times' web site had nothing on it for most of Tuesday and this morning has a cautious article about first stirrings of hope, but they are leading with the Microsoft-Yahoo deal to cooperate on internet searching. As of 9 AM this morning, you had to scroll down the Wall Street Journal's site to find a mention of house prices, at the very bottom of the What's News roundup. Bloomberg also buries it, ranking it the third story under Personal Finance.
Part of this downplaying may be due to the S&P press release from yesterday, which was titled "Home Price Declines Continue to Abate According to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices" and managed to save the tidbit that prices rose on a monthly basis for its second page. I really don't understand what the S&P PR people are thinking. Generally, you try to hype the news your organization has to report, not downplay it.
I am not going to break any new ground observing that the media tends toward the pessimistic when discussing the economy. Partly this is due to the nature of news reporting. Modest growth and prosperity is dog-bites-man. But the Great Recession is great copy, so there's no rush to report that it is over.
I think there is also something else going on here. The business outlook for the mainstream media is grim. Newspapers are closing and reporters are losing jobs or taking big pay cuts. And although the state of the wider economy is accelerating the decline in traditional media, it's pretty clear this is not a temporary thing. It's no wonder that reporters and editors concerned their jobs could suddenly disappear have trouble seeing green shoots and silver linings.
But this is a green shoot. A healthy seedling pushing its nose out of the soil right at ground zero.
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MANILA — Opposition leader Corazon Aquino warned President Reagan today not to let her be cheated out of election victory and expressed alarm that U.S. envoy Philip Habib's visit might be interpreted to mean civil war was imminent.
Aquino, 53, said that Habib, Reagan's trouble-shooter, would be welcome in the island nation, and that she hoped his mission would be successful.
"As Filipinos have courteously welcomed a stream of other American visitors here, Mr. Habib will no doubt also be welcome," Aquino said.
Confesses Alarm
"I must confess to some alarm, however, that his last task for the President was trying to negotiate an end to Lebanon's civil war. I hope neither Mr. Reagan or Mr. Marcos are expecting our beloved country to go the same way," she said.