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Is there a way.....
Safiya
09/09/00 at 02:57:52

i posted this thread before but its gone ????

anyway i wanted to know if there was a way of removing ones own thread and its replies if it was out of date...?

Re: Is there a way.....
jannah
09/09/00 at 12:24:37
salam safiya,

i think you modified your own message and wrote this thread is deleted, so i removed it.

you can always modify your own message and remove the contents.
Re: Is there a way.....
Arsalan
09/10/00 at 22:41:27
Assalamu alaikum,

Safiya, let me add to what Jannah said.  You can delete your own post (by using the "Modify" feature - see Help for details).  However, only admins (aka moderators) can delete [i]threads[/i].  

The reason for that is simply to give them more control over the board.  I don't think, for example, that I should be able to delete the thread "ISNA - the good and the bad", even though I started the thread, because others (Asim, se7en, jannah) wrote some important things in there that should be available for everyone to read.  The admins can delete anything, depending upon whether or not its content is appropriate.

Wassalam.
P.S. I'm not an admin here (alhamdulillah), even though I have 3 stars!  Apparently some people are confused about that :)
Re: Is there a way.....
jannah
09/11/00 at 12:35:02
good point arsalan, maybe we can add that to the faq
Re: Is there a way.....
bhaloo
09/11/00 at 14:29:37
slm

We are going to post in the FAQ that Arsalan is not an administrator, so don't bother him? ???  3 stars are the maximum anyone can earn?
Re: Is there a way.....
se7en
09/11/00 at 14:53:27

you know you're a jannah.org addict when you get mistaken for an admin :)
Re: Is there a way.....
bhaloo
09/11/00 at 15:09:34
slm

There must be a way to list who the top 10 posters are to the board.  It would be interesting to see who the real addicts are. :)
Re: Is there a way.....
Arsalan
09/11/00 at 17:36:44
Assalamu alaikum,

I would rather be a jannah.org addict than a "x-files" addict or "irc" addict or "insert-any-computer-game-here" addict!!!

This messageboard rocks, and that is the truth!  (Jannah, you can pay me by check :))

Hey bhaloo ... you got 4 stars!!!  I guess that answers your question :)

Wassalam.
Re: Is there a way.....
bhaloo
09/11/00 at 17:35:42
slm

Wow, I got 4 stars!  See what happens when you complain a little? heheheh ;)  Arsalan, believe it or not all the categories you listed, I used to be addicted to all of them!
Re: Is there a way.....
jannah
09/11/00 at 18:40:15
there's an add on at the yabb board site that you can use to get the top 25 posters etc.. but i mean i figure we know that here, it's all the people who post :)

and arsalan checks in the mail :P

[quote]slm

There must be a way to list who the top 10 posters are to the board.  It would be interesting to see who the real addicts are. :)
[/quote]
Re: Is there a way.....
jannah
09/11/00 at 20:09:46
arsalan you are now made famous in the madina news :)
Re: Is there a way.....
jannah
09/12/00 at 17:17:00
you know what's weird is that we set up categories like Madina Newbie for guests
then you're a Madina Citizen
then after 50 posts Madina Geek
and after 100 posts Madina Mujahid

dunno why it's not kicking in, maybe cause we disabled the automatic letting guests posts thing

i think i'll do it manually... if you have more than 100 posts you're a Madina Geek... if you have more than 200 you're a Madina Mujahid... what else anyone else have any cool names?
Re: Is there a way.....
Arsalan
09/13/00 at 17:32:01
Assalamu alaikum,

So I see that the feature is now working.  I'm a "Madina Mujahid"!  Woo-hoo!  What'll be the next level?

Too bad the admins can't "ascend the ladder."  But hey, I guess they're already at the top :)

I think you should make the titles go with the number of stars though, not the number of posts.  So, 1 star = Madina Citizen; 2 stars = Madina Geek; 3 stars = Madina Mujahid; 4 stars = ??? (whatever); etc.  

Wassalamu alaikum.
Re: Is there a way.....
jannah
09/13/00 at 17:38:46
good idea arsalan! but we'll have to wait for everyone to catch up.. most everyone else is < 50
Re: Is there a way.....
jannah
03/22/01 at 23:48:11
Ok here are some suggestions for someone with 1000 posts:

Madina Aalim

Madina Siddique

Madina Hakim

Madina Junkie

Madina "12 step program"

Madina Maulana

Madina Zahid

Madina Mu'min

Madina Muslim

Madina Murabit

Madina Da'ee

Madina Zabardast Poster

Madina Muhsin


add yours then we'll vote inshallah!!
Re: Is there a way.....
bhaloo
03/23/01 at 00:26:02
slm

Madina Junkie or Madina 12 step program.

maybe, madina addict ? ???
Re: Is there a way.....
Arsalan
03/23/01 at 01:43:41
What do these mean?
[quote]Madina "12 step program"
Madina Murabit[/quote]
Re: Is there a way.....
jannah
03/23/01 at 01:45:14
jowk bruzzah

murabit is traveler or something? i forget what br abdulbasir said
Re: Is there a way.....
BrKhalid
03/23/01 at 02:04:10
Asalaamu Alaikum ;-)

[quote]murabit is traveler or something? i forget what br abdulbasir said [/quote]

I was reading a Tafsir about about this the other day

"Murabit"

"One who stays in the way of Allah" [swt]


Apparently it can be applied to those who guard Islamic frontiers in the way of Allah [swt] or to those who offer salah with Jama'ah and then wait for the next salah.

Hmm..can't make my mind up at the moment though
Re: Is there a way.....
bhaloo
03/23/01 at 08:56:15
slm

Or how about

Madina FANatic  :)
Re: Is there a way.....
AbdulBasir
03/23/01 at 10:34:05
[quote]"Murabit" "One who stays in the way of Allah" Apparently it can be applied to those who guard Islamic frontiers in the way of Allah  or to those who offer salah with Jama'ah and then wait for the next salah.[/quote]

[i]murabit[/i]- lit. "one who is garrisoned" "bound ones"...but the term took on other connotations...just to add to what ;-) said, murabit is not really a traveller, the term was also applied to ppl on the roads spreading the word of Islam...and just to add to the frontiers thing, [i]murabit[/i] was somewhat distorted into [i]marabout[/i]. That term should sound familiar, as it refers to the same Marabouts who were protectors of the Islamic frontiers in Muslim Africa..

Originally these [i]murabitun[/i] were actually "garrisoned" in [i]ribats[/i] in remote areas protecting the Islamic frontiers. They were not just soliders, but served in both religious as well as military capacities. The people living in the [i]ribat[/i] had to have certain religious qualifications, and were learned jurists of fiqh, or qaris, or scholars of hadith, and some were ascetics.

In western Africa, specifically, these propagators and defenders of Islam became know as the [i]Murabitun[/i], who took power in Africa and Spain, and this term was severely Anglicized into the well known Almoravids. The term began to take on other connotations as a result and lose its original military meaning, so every person giving daw'ah who had students of daw'ah became known as [i]murabit[/i]. It even caught on with the Sufis who used the term to denote preachers calling for the formation of the tariqas, the religous orders.

[slm]




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