Friday, July 20, 2012

Letter to Julia 20120721

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

**Shadowplay TV now returns to its regular programming**

I love the fasting month, don't you?  It's so mysterious.  I used to dread it like everyone else, because I didn't get to stuff my face whenever I felt like it, but now I love it.  And I just had the most delicious baked tuna.  I'm stuffed.

By the way, sincerity is quality, not quantity.  Or better yet, you do things to please God, not to please humans.

Shadowplay TV is back on the randomizer and larger database.  There are still some unanswered questions about the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, like what lurks in the complicated mind of the mysterious Butt Blurrer, but that will have to remain unanswered for now.

Anyway, have a fantastic Ramadan my beloved, and may Allah bless our love.

Qur'an 20120720

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

8.  When some trouble touches man, he cries unto his Lord, turning to God in repentance.  But when God bestows a favor upon him as from Godself, does forget what he cried and prayed for before, and he does set up rivals unto Allah, thus misleading others from the Path.  Say, "Enjoy your blasphemy for a little while, verily you are of the companions of the fire!"

9.  Is one who worships devoutly during the hours of the night prostrating himself or standing, who takes heed of the Hereafter, and who places his hope in the Mercy of his Lord...  Say, "Are those equal, those who know and those who do not know?  It is those who are endued with understanding that receive admonition."

10.  Say, "O you servants who believe!  Fear your Lord.  Good is for those who do good in this world.  Spacious is Allah's earth!  Those who patiently persevere will truly receive a reward without measure!"

11.  Say, "I am commanded to serve Allah with sincere devotion."

12.  And I am commanded to be the first of those who bow to Allah in Islam.

13.  Say, "I would, if I disobeyed my Lord, indeed have fear of the Penalty of a Mighty Day."

14.  Say, "It is Allah I serve, with my sincere devotion."

15.  Serve you what you will besides God.  Say, "Truly those in loss are those who lose their souls and their people on the Day of Judgement.  Ah!  That is indeed the evident loss!"


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Enjoy your blasphemy for a little while, verily you are of the companions of the fire!

Are those equal, those who know and those who do not know?  It is those who are endued with understanding that receive admonition.

O you servants who believe!  Fear your Lord.  Good is for those who do good in this world.  Spacious is Allah's earth!  Those who patiently persevere will truly receive a reward without measure!

I am commanded to serve Allah with sincere devotion.

I would, if I disobeyed my Lord, indeed have fear of the Penalty of a Mighty Day.

It is Allah I serve, with my sincere devotion.

Truly those in loss are those who lose their souls and their people on the Day of Judgement.  Ah!  That is indeed the evident loss!