A Matter of Destiny

Naseeb is a great site! You all who`re dissing it should re-evaluate your opinions. Even if everyone on that site was a fundo, the articles Vibes presents are quite extra-ordinary. And those ideas will eventually seep into and change views.

Cheers!

tahmed, hamidm, Sameerjb

The people who I would have expected to be all support for a website like Naseebvibes and both of you are the most critical. Maybe had you read the article ``Warraq`s attack on Islam`` instead of just looking at the title you would have another opinion... it is a website that is trying to build bridges, not burns them. NaseebVibes is a progressive and forward looking website dedicated to reform ... and is highly critical of the narrowminded Islamists and fundamentalist Islamism that is on the loose... look at the kind of people who are writing for or speaking at Naseeb... Chomsky... Asra Nomani... Judaea Pearl.... Irshad Manji... Bina Shah... Feroz Khan.. As for calling it obscure... it already has 130 000 strong membership... not all of whom are Muslims by the way... Soon enough you will see an interfaith project starting on Naseeb ... which deals with Islam`s interaction with the Modern world... I am surprised at how every thing is always the opposite of reality on Chowk... people who should be supporting Naseeb for finally coming out... as a Progressive and liberal website ... are denouncing it like narrowminded fanatics...

And the only person who has so far spoken out for Naseeb.com before my post, is someone who will probably be most disappointed by the liberal, progressive, and anti-Mullah views of Naseeb.


Please give something a chance before you condemn it...

-YLH

Desi Orkut...
balay!balay!

People must have exceptional requirements or suffering from some deficiency syndrome to search for friends on obscure websites like naseeb.com in the presence of similar services provided for free with database many fold larger from across the world at yahoo, msn and aol to name few sites. All one needs is to be noticed by another person and then moving to one-on-one interaction modes, provided by all major sites in a variety of ways. Chowk is actually better than naseeb.com because it also offers noticing through interaction without the undue pressure to extend noticing to be fruitful through multiplication. At least 2 couples and many friendships have been developed among chowkies.

There is no better place to meet people than yahoo. But one has to be smart to be successful in developing friendship or relationship without using religion to click fellings between two individuals. Actually gupistan.com is better than naseeb.com for providing pressure-free interacting environment for Pakistanis and letting people notice the ones they like.

I was introduced to this site way back. I have even forgotten when. I do not remember if I ever signed up for it or just browsed through it. It seemed pretty technical and kind of functional. A friend of mine constantly kept on sending me email invites to look into the site and join his network of friends. There was a time when I could stand the mailing lists, the email invites and the back and forth email communication, but I have no tolerance left for it anymore. Also, both email communication and chat groups are not the best way of knowing anyone; face-to-face communication reveals a lot more about a person. I detest chat groups and consider msn messenger a curse of nature!

One of my friends has looked into some other Muslim networks and online groups. Interestingly, the most weird people she came across on those sites were the ones who claimed to be either the most religious or looking for a god fearing woman (mostly of the Pakistani Origin). They were indeed very romantic in the beginning (sweet talk and stuff) but ended up being complete perverts. Since this friend had grown up in North America therefore she was quite interested in looking into a Muslim male of Pakistani origin to preserve the culture (a fallacy). So far she has come across all kinds - liars, losers, good for nothing and perverts. Now, she is even hesitant to share any of her experiences since she knows my take. By the way, last time we talked she had a friend over and they were reviewing and dissecting Naseeb.Com. We all laughed at it.

I agree that people have their own way of meeting a person and evaluating how suitable he/she may be when it comes to a long-term partnership. It can be a scary deal. Not many people like to put all their cards on the table. Some (both men and women) love to stay elusive.

hamidm - you write ``just goes to prove that there is something terribly wrong with the ummah when they cannot even go about the simple task of trying to find a bed-partner without dragging in god, saddam and rumsfield``

sounds like you have some better ideas and suggestions for the ``ummah`` in its quest to find bed partners. Lets hear them. If you don`t have any better ideas, then please let the ``ummah`` talk about god, saddam and rumsfeld. We already have too many commentators like yourself, and very few doers like Monis Rehman.

BTW - how did you find your bed partner? I bet when your parents arranged your marriage, they must have mentioned how ``god fearing`` you were. You probably even recited some verses of Quran with a maulvi on the day of nikah. So even you could not get a bed-partner without bringing in god.

I am a paid member of naseeb.com. I occasionally go to the website and I have made some online friends through it, as well as having reconnected with old friends. This is a very good website :)

Orkut is no longer the sole abode of the frivolous.

tahmed,

............ you are right .... just goes to prove that there is something terribly wrong with the ummah when they cannot even go about the simple task of trying to find a bed-partner without dragging in god, saddam and rumsfield ............ they even have an islamic tv commercial for viagra that starts off with ominous koranic verses extolling the virtues of sex fee-sabeehlillah and shows a happy momin with four beaming fat women in death-shrouds!....... go figure

re: this article
Though i do not belong here, i have something interesting to say. Go to the Url below:

http://www.naseeb.com/naseebvibes/prose-detail.php?aid=1856&pg=1
There is an article by Yaseer Latif Hamdani. Ring a bell?
Sridhar

I clicked on naseeb.com and realized that perhaps it is nothing new when i saw a picture of saddam and rumsfeld shaking hands (we all know that, for Gods sake. What would have been new would have been a picture of BENAZIR shaking hands with saddam - yes, she went to baghdad to meet with the rat, and after saddam had made it clear that he couldnt care less about kashmir).

I then saw an article titled ``warraq`s attack on islam`` - and came to the conclusion that this was another web sites of the morons, by the morons and for the morons. Get a life you whining, miserable little fools. Young people from the US, China, Russia, africa, australia, carribean, latin america compete in olympics.

PS: As for this being a pan-Islamic website - forget it. It is a web site by pakistani morons, for pakistani morons. You wont find any arabs and turks and indonesians and iranians and nigerians joining in. Rest assured. And just replacing the aol ``youve got mail`` with a panjabi accented guy saying the same thing would be funny if it was intended to be funny - it is merely pathetic (and do you seriously think that non-pakistanis will identify with a guy with a panjabi accent - half the muslim morons around the world dont even know what a panjabi is).