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Sister Pouring Rain, may Allah (SWT) remove all the hurdles in the path of her guidance, was puzzled by the urgency towards real life implementation of what we learn here at SF. I have mostly answered the question there but one point has to be stated separately - though this point too is a repetition. Yours truly has been at SF, in active posting mode, for about a year and a half. The intention is to decommission heavy participation by the end of coming Decemeber, 2012 - just after about two years.

This has been an incredibly learning experience and a lot of thanks are due to all of your. Each and every one of you. The new comer youngster deserves my thanks because life will be very dull without you. Regular brothers and sisters deserve thanks because SF is what it is because of you. In depth people too take a large share of thanks for you provide strength to Ummah by your presence and it gives a lot of Taqwiat ( solace) to people like yours truly. People who understand various and diverse locations of Ummah spread far and wide are thanked for sharing their perspective. Scholars, especially the young ones, deserve thanks for their consummate dedication - it has been most humbling to read posts where you do not find a single unnecessary statement. And though laughing is not a Muslim activity but smiling is his way of life and thus I thank all those who have kept the forum cheerful by their devastating sense of humour. My thanks are due to all female members also for they are the grace of Ummah and they are its modesty and I can not thank Allah (AWJ) enough for the blessing that they have maintained that demeanour which is next to impossible in modern world in which they have been the most sought after target of Taghoot in its effort to destroy Al-Islam. May Allah (SWT) strengthen you against all Batil forces.

And All Praise is due to Allah (SWT) for each and every blessing and SF is one of His grand blessings and yours truly values it a lot. May Allah (SWT) protect it from evil eyes.

And then some apologies too are due. My apologies to each and everyone of you whom I have hurt knowingly or unknowingly. I seek your forgiveness if I have hated the sinner rather than the sin or, worse, if I have hated the non-sinner. Apologies are particularly due to those brothers and sisters who lie on the either side of the border of the Manhaj under which your truly has sought protection of Allah (SWT). Yours truly, being human, might get perturbed for a while at some difference in the Minhaj but by the infinite Grace of Allah (SWT) at the time of writing these words only the sentiment of love is the one that is coming to the fore. May Allah (SWT) unite whole of Ummah on the Path that is acceptable to Him.

And thanks once again to you all.