Letter to Julia 20120213

In the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Merciful.

As you know my beloved, beautiful sweetheart, everyday is a day of love and romance, and I love you each and every day. And it's all the same day anyway, and today I pledge my love to you, and I want to marry you, and live and be in love and happiness with you in this life as well as the hereafter, insyaAllah. I put my faith in Allah for God to grant us everlasting love everyday, and I don't need some "saint" to tell me to love you once every year.

The Qur'an places strict guidelines for the relationship between a man and a woman. After all, the love thereof is sacred, right? For example, in cases of fornication, 4 witnesses must be produced to prove that the chaste woman is guilty. God's rules in the Qur'an are perfect, after all, it is all to easy to revert to an animal state, especially in matters of lust, sex, greed and revenge. Many humans and humanists would argue the Qur'an's laws of relationships are archaic, but are these people really as advanced or progressive as they think they are? Could it be that they wish to intellectualize and legalize their animal state? Women seem to be getting more and more naked in public each passing day. Isn't freedom of choice actually the right to dance naked in the streets and the right to throw unwanted babies into the trash? No, today we have abortion. How compassionate and humanistic. Sure, there are the victims of rape. As the rapist follows his animal lust, so do some other people wish to protect their choice to follow their animal lust. How is that connected to abortion? But this is not a discussion of abortion: it's about the relationship between a man and a woman. Oh, but to be human is to have options! It's kind of like choosing to be born. Meanwhile, I chose celibacy to honor our sacred love.

So many people exalt love over all, being swept away and consumed by their emotions and all that, and succumbing to confusion instigated by the devil in the matter of the relationship between a man and a woman, and the sanctity of thus in respect to our relationship with God. But the devil can be beaten at his own game. Please be constantly aware! And seek protection with Allah from Satan, the rejected. I would have never met you if it had not been for the mercy of of Allah. Thus, I wish for Allah to bless our love.