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		<title>Happy New Year! Purification of the Soul, Chapter 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 02:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each New Year that comes and goes brings an opportunity for me to reflect, to recommit, and to refocus my priorities and goals. What better time, as work slows down a bit and school gives a break, for us to to find the moments to get ourselves back on track and renew our intentions for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raggiungere.wordpress.com&amp;blog=767185&amp;post=117&amp;subd=raggiungere&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Post- ICOI Camp Reflections</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:18:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cassie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year&#8217;s ICOI Youth Group camp was another experience in my life in which at first, I thought I was volunteering to help and to kindle the flame of inspiration in others, but in reality, I was the one who was helped and who was inspired by each of the camp attendees, by the speakers, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raggiungere.wordpress.com&amp;blog=767185&amp;post=111&amp;subd=raggiungere&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pre-ICOI Camp Reflections</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:19:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cassie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This coming weekend, I and many of my friends, will be headed for Malibu, California with busloads of teenagers for the annual Islamic Center of Irvine youth camp. While I volunteered to be a counselor without thinking twice, now that the camp is less than a week away, I am beginning to reflect on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raggiungere.wordpress.com&amp;blog=767185&amp;post=108&amp;subd=raggiungere&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Plan for Pulverizing Procrastination</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 22:44:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;m pretty sure we can come to some sort of consensus that procrastinating bites. In one way or another, we have all been a victim of procrastination&#8217;s death grip on our time. And more likely than not, we&#8217;ll succumb again. But that fatalistic attitude won&#8217;t help if we are really interested in changing our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raggiungere.wordpress.com&amp;blog=767185&amp;post=101&amp;subd=raggiungere&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Procrastination</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 19:13:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cassie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was going to write this blog post on June 8, 2010. But one thing led to another and I didn&#8217;t. I kept meaning to. But things just keep popping up that I prioritized above writing this post. Not because this post is not important. It is. It&#8217;s probably one of the most important topics [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raggiungere.wordpress.com&amp;blog=767185&amp;post=96&amp;subd=raggiungere&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Time to Hit the Books</title>
		<link>http://raggiungere.wordpress.com/2010/06/07/time-to-hit-the-books/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 03:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[اللَّهُمَّ انْفَعْنِي بِمَا عَلَّمْـتَنِي وَ عَلِّمْنِي مَا يَنْفَعُنِي Oh Allah! Make useful for me what You taught me and teach me knowledge that will be useful to me. It&#8217;s that time again&#8230;school is coming to a close and students around the globe are reaching for their books to study for final exams. Middle schoolers, high [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raggiungere.wordpress.com&amp;blog=767185&amp;post=92&amp;subd=raggiungere&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Idea for Raggiungere</title>
		<link>http://raggiungere.wordpress.com/2010/03/30/new-idea-for-raggiungere/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 23:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have many friends who are scholars of Islam. I am not a scholar by any stretch of the imagination, but I do have lots of questions. I love to ask and learn. And I love when others ask questions that I don&#8217;t know the answers to so that I can go look up the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raggiungere.wordpress.com&amp;blog=767185&amp;post=90&amp;subd=raggiungere&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Surat Al-Qamar Reflection</title>
		<link>http://raggiungere.wordpress.com/2010/01/29/surat-al-qamar-reflection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:55:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Surat Al-Qamar is one of those Meccan surahs that needs special attention. It&#8217;s one of those surahs that can elicit a knee-jerk negative reaction from non-Muslims and Muslims alike who take it at face value and don&#8217;t really reflect on the true meaning behind the words. A brief run-down of the surah first: The surah [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raggiungere.wordpress.com&amp;blog=767185&amp;post=83&amp;subd=raggiungere&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Topics to Come</title>
		<link>http://raggiungere.wordpress.com/2008/04/25/topics-to-come/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:33:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just thought I would give a little preview of some of the topics that will be written about, insha&#8217;Allah, in the coming weeks. Abortion, Suicide, Euthanasia, and Human Cloning in Islam The Jews in the Qur&#8217;an &#8211; Lessons Learned Why Voting Muslims Must Lean to the Left Muslim Americans &#8211; The &#8217;08 Election and You [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raggiungere.wordpress.com&amp;blog=767185&amp;post=82&amp;subd=raggiungere&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why I Write</title>
		<link>http://raggiungere.wordpress.com/2008/04/25/why-i-write/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:16:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This pen in my hand Allows me to express What I can&#8217;t type, I can&#8217;t say, I can&#8217;t hype, I can&#8217;t get across in any other way&#8230; My thoughts swirlin&#8217; From home To Work To Iraq And back&#8230; From coffee with friends To wars with no end in sight How do I fight The forces [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raggiungere.wordpress.com&amp;blog=767185&amp;post=81&amp;subd=raggiungere&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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