Friday, June 22, 2012

Letter to Julia 20120623

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

**It's still the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show marathon on Shadowplay TV**

Hi, my dearest Julia.  It's nearly the fasting month of Ramadan?  Are you excited?  Are you?  Are you?  I love the fasting month.  So many people dread the fasting month, but I love it, especially because so many wacky things happen during that month.  Wacky, I mean strange.  The whole month is a celebration to me.  Most people buy their presents at the end of the month when the Eid comes, but if I had money, I would buy special treats and gifts everyday, and decorate everyday.  But since I'm poor and lazy, I compensate with a change of habit.  I usually have 2 large meals daily, a quick one before the afternoon prayer, and another after sunset.  For the fasting month, I will take a quick meal for breaking fast, and a big meal for the pre-dawn repast.  Vocal training will be difficult, because I won't be drinking coffee, and I'm liable to put myself into a coma, but perhaps a nap before I start singing will fix that.  Are you ready to fast?  Ramadan starts on July 21!

Qur'an 20120623

74.  Yet they take gods other than Allah, that they might be helped!

75.  They have not the power to help them, but they will be brought up as a troop.

76.  Let not their speech then grieve you.  Verily, We know what they hide as well as what they disclose.

77.  Does not man see that it is We who created him from sperm?  Yet behold!  He is an open adversary!

78.  And he makes comparisons for Us, and forgets his own creation.  He says, "Who can give life to bones, and decomposed ones?"

79.  Say, "God will give them life, Who created them the first time!  For God is well-versed in every kind of creation!"

80.  "The same Who produces for you fire out of the green tree, when behold!  You kindle therewith!"

81.  "Is not God Who created the heavens and the earth, able to create the like thereof?"  Yes, indeed!  For God is the Creator Supreme, of skill and knowledge!

82.  Verily, when God intends a thing, God's Command is "Be!" and it is.

83.  So glory to God in Whose hands is the dominion of all things, and to God will you all be brought back.

Ya Sin 36:74-83
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God will give them life, Who created them the first time!  For God is well-versed in every kind of creation!