Letter to Julia 20140929

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

Everybody is in a big hurry!  Well, everybody is usually in a big hurry... to go nowhere.  Well, you could probably call this kampung "the middle of nowhere", but it's the center of the planet to me.  This is where I wish to settle down with my two beautiful wives inshaAllah, Julia and Erin.  I don't want to travel anywhere anymore.  I don't even like to commute.  So if anybody wants to reach my center of the planet, then they must be nice to my Julia and Erin.  So make sure you maintain your prayers.  Hurry, hurry!  Let them worship and fear Allah.

Yeah, I want them to be nice to my Julia and Erin because they are the most beautiful girls in the world to me.  They are my wives, so be extra nice to them.  My dearest and beloved wives, you are the center of the planet to me.  I love you, I love you.  And I need you, I need you.

Wow, these kittens are plump!  I was giving them a bath, and with their fur wetted down, I could see exactly how fat they are.  They look like light bulbs, or balloons filled with water.  Such pudgy little kittens!  Yeah, I spoil them.  Unlike humans, cats are cute when they're fat.  Yeah, I know thin cats live longer.  Soon they will be at the age where I can let them outside.  Ya Allah please protect my kitties from harm and cat burglars.  Hey, this flea shampoo doesn't work!  I have to use it a little bit at full strength to stun the flea, then I can pick it out of the cat and pop it with the tip of my fingernail.  Who has the time for that?  I'm in a big hurry to be lazy and watch TV.  I want to snuggle with my wives!  I'm getting irritated.  Must be patient...

Qur'an 20140930

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

54.  It is God who created man from water: then has God established relationships of lineage and marriage: for your Lord has Power.

55.  Yet do they worship, besides Allah, things that can neither profit them nor harm them, and the disbeliever is a helper against his Lord!

56.  But you We only sent to give glad tidings and admonition.

57.  Say: "No reward do I ask of you but this: that each one who will may take a path to his Lord."

58.  And put your trust in God who lives and dies not, and celebrate God's praise, and enough is God to be acquainted with the faults of God's servants.

59.  God who created the heavens and the earth and all that is between in six days, and is firmly established on the Throne.  The Most Gracious: ask you then about God, of any acquainted.

60.  When it is said to them, "Adore you the Most Gracious!", they say, "And what is the Most Gracious?  Shall we adore that which you command us?"  And it increases their flight.

The Criterion 25:54-60
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No reward do I ask of you but this: that each one who will may take a path to his Lord.

Letter to Julia 20140927

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

Hello my beloved darlings Julia and Erin.  How are feeling today, my precious wives?  I'm sure you are very busy right now.  So please take good loving care of yourselves, eat adequately, and get lots of rest.  Thank you for your love.  I love you, I love.  And I need you, I need you.  Right now, I'm watching the Sharon Tate biography again.  It's sad that there must be victims as well as predators.  But what would you do?  I know I have a limited amount of strength, plus I need the help of Allah.  I can't save everyone.  I only want to marry you.  I guess I'm not much of a prophet.  No, I'm not a prophet at all.  I want to marry my Julia and Erin, take good care of them and help protect them, inshaAllah.

Kittens!  Ya Allah, thank you for the kittens.  I'm not a wealthy man, but I have a lot of kittens!  I feel like a banker diving into a mountain of gold coins, and throwing gold into the air, except that it would be kittens.  Oh, how cute and fluffy!  But no, I don't even have a mountain of kittens, only five.  No, don't start leaving stray kittens at my doorstep.  I only want the ones Allah gave me, and to take good loving care of them.

Letter to Julia 20140924

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

Hello my beautiful beloved Julia and Erin.  How are you feeling today?  Are you working out and working hard for the busy work season?  Well please don't overdo it.  Please make sure you eat properly and get sufficient rest.  Beauty sleep.  We all need beauty sleep.  Please take good loving care of yourselves, and when we are married inshaAllah, I will help take good loving care of you.  Fancy a steak?  I eat more steak here than I ever did in the USA.  For dinner, it's steak and fries.  Beef and potatoes!  After dinner, I played guitar.  My guitar style is beef and potatoes.  Not!  Well, sometimes maybe.  I need a good tube amp, a Gibson Les Paul traditional 12-string goldtop, plus numerous other things too numerous to mention over and over again.  I need my Julia and Erin!  I pray you both are feeling absolutely great, and on top of the world.  Because you are my wives.  I want you to always know and be aware that there is someone who loves you.  I love you, I love you.  And I need you, I need you.

Qur'an 20140924

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

13.  And when they are cast bound together into a constricted place therein, they will plead for destruction there and then!

14.  This day plead not for a single destruction: plead for a destruction oft-repeated!

15.  Say, "Is that best, or the eternal Garden promised to the righteous?  For them, that is a reward as well as a goal."

The Criterion 25:13-15
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Is that best, or the eternal Garden promised to the righteous?  For them, that is a reward as well as a goal.

Qur'an 20140923

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

4.  But the unbelievers say: "This is nothing but a lie which he has forged, and others have helped him at it."  In truth it is they who have put forward an iniquity and a falsehood.

5.  And they say: "Tales of the ancients, which he has caused to be written, and they are dictated before him morning and evening."

6.  Say, "This was sent down by God who knows the Mystery in the heavens and the earth.  Verily God is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful."

7.  And they say: "What sort of a messenger is this, who eats food, and walks through the streets?  Why has not an angel been sent down to him to give admonition with him?"

8.  "Or why has not a treasure been bestowed on him, or a garden that he may eat out of it?"  The wicked say, "You follow none other than a man bewitched."

9.  See what kind of companions they make for you!  But they have gone astray, and never a way will they be able to find!

The Criterion 25:4-9
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This was sent down by God who knows the Mystery in the heavens and the earth: verily God is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.

I bear witness that there is no deity worthy of worship other than Allah, and I bear witness that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.

Letter to Julia 20140922

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

Assalamu'alaikum, my most beautiful Julia and Erin.  How are the most beautiful girls in the world?  Way prettier than all those other girls.  Yes you are the most beautiful girls in the world, because you are MY girls.  MINE, MINE.  I love you, I love you.  And I need you, I need you.  I'm still clearing out all the debris that was on my roof.  It's taking some time because there are some thick Tarzan sized vines mixed in there, plus a huge coil of PVC piping, a coil of thick steel wire, and some chunks of dead tree trunk.  All on my roof.  But there seems to be a lot lush and fertile soil, so I've been sifting out the dead leaves and deadwood, and saving the fragrant dark topsoil.

My kittens don't want to purr for me.  I guess they're still afraid of me somehow.  At least they're not snarling at me anymore.  They don't seem to like it when I gaze into their eyes and kiss them, so they turn their heads away.  But I can't help it, I love kittens!  When their mother is out, they start crying, or they group together and hide.  I spoke before how disciplined they seem to be.  At first they planted their poop wherever they felt like it, just like any other baby.  Then Floofy taught them how to use the litter box, and now they're concentrating their efforts there.  Te trouble is, that they all use the cat box at the same time, so they all don't fit in there.  Some of them had to think outside the box, and pointed their butts in that direction as well.  So my mop is working 24/7 right now.  I parked my mop right outside the front door, just in case a cute little kitten tries to take a bath in mop water.

Letter to Julia 20140920

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

Hello my beautiful Julia and Erin.  How are you feeling today?  I am longing for you as usual.  I write this letter today while watching "Plan 9 From Outer Space", arguably the worst movie ever made.  Whoever made that verdict must have seen a lot of movies.  Granted, it's pretty bad.  But it's also pretty funny.  Hee hee... "Plan 9 is the resurrection of the dead".

For dinner tonight is steak, with potatoes, onions and bamboo shoots.  Yeah, the same mix I was cooking when my kittens were born.  They will be 6 weeks old Sunday.  Oh, how time flies.  Their ears are already very big, even though they are still only kittens soft and fluffy.  Time does fly.  I remain faithful to you inshaAllah.  I spent the evening pulling down all the crap that got stuck on my roof from the big trees that were recently removed.  From my vantage point, I could see the big trees growing on the old house at Casa de Julia inshaAllah.  I have to take them down, they're already so big.  But I have faith that Allah will bring us together.  Yes, this is my inspiration from Allah, and you are my wives.  I love you so much, Julia.  And I love you too, Erin.  Soon it will be the next VS fashion show, so you must be busy.  I can't wait to see how beautiful you are.  And I can't wait to see you again my Julia, whenever you feel like showing yourself to me.  It must be fun, huh?  I love you, I love you.  And I need you, I need you.

Letter to Julia 20140918

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

Hi there, my dearest Julia and Erin.  How are you feeling, my love?  My love!  I pray you are feeling healthy and confident.  I'm still feeling slightly feverish, but functional, and working.  Everyday, working.  InshaAllah, I will be granted the wealth I need soon to give you a happy and secure marriage.

I had a lot of milk and cauliflower in the cooler, so I decided to make cream of cauliflower with chicken soup.  It turned out OK, but it was so thick and rich.  I added ramen noodles to it, as well as seaweed, for a black and white soup.  Hey, it was good!  Alhamdullilah.  But I was stuffed.  I was so full, I could barely move.  The only problem is that I'm lactose intolerant.  Oh, well.  At least it tasted good.  Want some?  I have leftovers.

Qur'an 20140918

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

51.  The answer of the believers when summoned to Allah and God's messenger, in order that he may judge between them, is no other than this: "We hear and we obey."  It is such as these that will attain felicity.

52.  It is such as obey Allah and God's messenger, and fear Allah and do right, that will win.

53.  They swear their strongest oaths by Allah that, if only you would command them, they would deploy.  Say, "Swear you not.  Obedience is reasonable.  Verily, Allah is well-acquainted with all that you do."

54.  Say, "Obey Allah, and obey the messenger.  But if you turn away, he is only responsible for the duty placed on him, and you for that placed on you.  If you obey him, you shall be on right guidance.  The messenger's duty is only to preach the clear."

55.  Allah has promised to those among you who believe and work righteous deeds that God will, of a surety, grant them in the land inheritance as God granted it to those before them; that God will establish in authority their religion, the one which God has chosen for them; and that God will change the fear of theirs to one of security and peace.  They will worship God and not associate any with God.  If any do reject Faith after this, they are rebellious and wicked.

The Light  24:51-55
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Swear you not.  Obedience is reasonable.  Verily, Allah is well-acquainted with all that you do.

Obey Allah, and obey the messenger.  But if you turn away, he is only responsible for the duty placed on him, and you for that placed on you.  If you obey him, you shall be on right guidance.  The messenger's duty is only to preach the clear.

Letter to Julia 20140916

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

I kept on getting caught in the rain yesterday.  I was about to leave to post my love letter after voice training, then it started to pour.  At the same time I felt so dizzy, I had caught a fever.  I feel better now as I write this letter, but the rain again forced me to postpone my blog.  Please forgive me.  I love you, I love you.  And I need you, I need you.

Floofy is insisting on keeping her brood out of the coop.  Every time I put them back, she takes them out again.  But I've never seen such disciplined behavior in cats before.  The kittens, I mean.  When Mama Cat is outside using the toilet and patrolling Casa de Julia InshaAllah like she's doing right now as I write this letter, the kittens hole up quietly in the corner behind the door of your wardrobe/bathroom Julia, and wait for her return.  Then when Floofy gets home, she calls out to them and they come out of hiding to greet her.  They wander everywhere as a pack, but only under Mama Cat's watchful eye.  Just now, I was calling the kittens for some baby food with Floofy at my side, and they came one by one to me, all five with a mission.  I suppose when they grow up they won't be this cute.  Now I have to get them to use the kitty litter over using the corner of the room.

On the menu is egg rolls!  I'm using fresh tofu instead of eggs, so I an't call them egg rolls, I suppose.  The stuffing is tofu, chopped onion, garlic, chives, basil, and salted radishes.  At first I fried them.  The texture was good, but I couldn't handle all that grease.  So I made them again, and just dry pan fried them in a non-stick pan.  They're not bad.  Want some?  Vegetarian!  Oh no!  Next thing you know, I might start eating salads!  Bleah!

Letter to Julia 20140915

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

It's been raining, raining, raining.  It's so wet.  I don't get to go outdoors much when it rains, so I watch a lot of TV, and work on the computer.  Floofy gets frantic when it rains, and moves the brood around.  They can walk and run now, so I have to be cautious not to accidentally step on one of my babies.  But I don't think that letting them wander around the house is a solution.  Do you?  So I sealed them in the cat carrier, put a dry towel over it, placed them n the center of the living room under a recliner far away from the windows, and let their mother stare at them through the bars until the storm blows over.  Bat Cat had a dry left eye somehow, so I put lotion in his eye.  Bob Cat is the biggest of the kittens.  Which I find awesome, because he was the last kitten to start feeding.  When he was just born, I thought he was dead, so I poked him a couple of times to make sure, and he moved a little.  Now he's the beefiest of the bunch.  Could it be that he let the others feed first?  What a gallant cat.  His mother smothers him the most over the rest with kisses, and you should see the expression on his face.  He was the last to die from the previous batch of kittens.  But Allah let me have Bob Cat and Bat Cat again.  Now they are the last to wean.  All the girls have started to eat solid food, but the boys are more interested in playing.  Ya Allah, please protect and heal all my kitties.

There was enough of a break in the rain for me to drive out and buy dinner.  You can come and share my dinner with me.  I bought fried noodles, and a lot of it.  I gave some to my parents, and there's plenty left over.  I pray you are doing well over there, and feeling healthy and confident.  I want you to be happy, and be happy with me.  I wish you the best of everything, and I miss you so.  I love you, I love you.  And I need you, I need you.

Letter to Julia 20140913

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

I've said it many times before, that fame is not a blessing.  But I must not be ungrateful as to what Allah has given me, so whatever fame I have I return to Allah.  Let the people worship and fear Allah.  I doubt that you enjoy the downsides of fame, so remember: I am your husband.  I will help to protect you.  If the crowd irritates you, tell them "I am his wife inshaAllah."  Then send them my way, and I will refer them to Allah.  I will distract them away from you, inshaAllah.  I pray that you both will distract them away from each other.  But Allah is the Best to protect.  Please maintain your prayers.  Lower your gaze and guard your modesty.

Don't forget that the goal of our marriage is to slow down, settle down and raise a family.  So your career is at its peak NOW, before we officially marry.  Make the most of it, stuff your bank accounts, and don't waste.  After we marry inshaAllah, you may still conduct business, but no more travel.  Use your spare time to figure out how to diversify when you get older.  I suggest your making connections in the halal food business.  Do some commercials for food business.  Frozen dinners.  Beware of acting jobs.  The movie and TV business will never be as lucrative as it was before the advent of digital recording, but more dangerous.  So please avoid that.  All you have to do is be beautiful, and you are.  You are so very beautiful.  You are the most beautiful girls in the world.  You are my Julia and Erin.  You are my wives, you are MINE, MINE.  Never forget that you are loved, no matter what some people may say or behave.  I love you, I love you.  And I need you, I need you.

Letter to Julia 20140911

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

Hello again, my precious Julia and Erin.  How are you feeling today?  How are those precious emotions?  I pray that you are feeling confident and healthy.  I am yours truly InshaAllah, I love you, I love you.  And I need you, I need you.  My baby kittens are a little over a month old, and it's the perfect age for kittens.  Oh, they're so adorable!  I want them to stay this size.  They are able to run around and play up a storm now, and they have lots of energy now, tumbling and flopping all over each other.  And naughty, of course.  They're still only as big a my hand.  Oh, they're so cute!  I love kittens!  I don't want to share my kittens with anybody.  I'm sure there are a lot of cat burglars out there.  I'm going to have to keep them cooped up and locked up in your bathroom/wardrobe Julia, which isn't easy because I've had to rebuild their nest 6 times already, because they escape all the time.  I'm training them on solid food right now.  Little ------- took to the baby food right away, and of course she was the first to pee on my floor.  ---- has also started to eat the baby food, but the rest don't seem to want to wean yet.  Then Floofy guzzles up the baby food quickly to set an example.  I love kittens!

Allah is all that is good and pure.  You are not in the same situation before you made the commitment of marriage, especially our situation in the business of the Public Eye.  So don't follow the whispers of the little devil inside you, not anymore, never again.  Stay pure.  Corruption now will not only destroy your work and beauty, but amplify your misery.  Please stay pure.  It is the Grace of Allah upon you that you be pure.

Letter to Julia 20140910

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

Hello, my dearest Julia and Erin.  How are my precious beauties today?  How are you feeling?  You are so beautiful, and I long to be with you always.  It has been raining everyday lately, and I find myself having to postpone my blogging to wait for a break in the rain so I can make the journey to the Internet cafe.  I think of you always, and of course I have faith in you, so please have faith in God and yourselves, that you are good, chaste wives, and you should know by now that the Public Eye is mostly full of shit, and that your own programming is much more fun than the crowd's.  So just ignore what they say.  Me, I don't read daily newspapers unless it's old news lining my counter top, and I have my own TV station, which happens to be more popular than all of theirs combined.  MashaAllah.  Allah bear Witness that I keep to myself, have few or no friends, and stay at home most of the time, and I'm sure your spy network will confirm that.  And I again, have faith in you.  Allah endorses you to me, so please be grateful to Allah.  I love you, I love you.  And I need you, I need you.

Letter to Julia 20140907

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

It never fails to amuse me how people prefer to believe in luck over God.  They don't even give credit to thier own intelligence by referring to luck as probability.  You know what I mean, right?  Like counting cards.  So obviously the word "luck" is the language of the uneducated.  Even if something happens repeatedly over a long time, they call it luck, luck, luck, luck, luck, luck, luck, luck, luck, luck, luck, luck....  To say that they worship luck is only half true, for they have entities like Lady Luck, God of Luck, etc.  So for a Muslim to believe in luck is an indication that he doesn't believe in God at all.  Hell, the guy was probably just seeking entertainment.

But I'm no expert mathematician.  I appreciate the beauty of mathematics, and I can see that it is more real than luck, especially when placed in comparison to the environment.  Just as I can see that the Qur'an is more real than luck, especially when placed in comparison to the environment.  I study the Qur'an, and I submit that my knowledge comes from Allah.  Allah had mercy on me, and that knowledge from Allah is the most superior.  Islam is the most superior religion, and God is Mathematical.  This is not going to convince people who think that all religions are equal.  Just let God squash them, that's the only evidence they accept anyway.

Hey there my brainy beauties, did you know that I like geeky girls?  Especially when they're gorgeous blondes like you.  Please be good and chaste girls, now that the world is watching.  I love you, I love you.  And I need you, I need you.

Qur'an 20140907

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

115.  Did you then think that We had created you as a joke, and that you would not be brought back to Us?

116.  Therefore exalted be Allah, the King, the Reality, there is no god but God, the Lord of the Throne of Honor!

117.  If anyone invokes, besides Allah, any other god, he has no authority therefor, and his reckoning will be only with his Lord.  And verily the unbelievers will fail to win through.

118.  So say, "O my Lord!  Grant Your forgiveness and mercy, for You are the Best of those who show mercy!"

The Believers  23:115-118
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O my Lord!  Grant Your forgiveness and mercy, for You are the Best of those who show mercy!

Letter to Julia 20140906

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

Hello, my beloved wives.  How are you feeling, my darlings?  I pray you are feeling healthy and happy.  My kittens are 4 weeks old already, and they seem all right.  Alhamdulillah.  Soon they will be taking baby food, and I'll be taking mama cat to the vet for a contraceptive shot.  They're still sleeping a lot, but when they are ready to play, they start jumping around in their box like a bunch of jumping spiders.  They're so adorable.  I was in a bad mood all Friday, but they cheered me right up.  I'm still a little grumpy, mostly because I still don't have my wives with me, so please forgive me if I don't have much to say today.  Please know that I love you, I love you.  And I need you, I need you.

Letter to Julia 20140904

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

Back during the time when I had no home, I was staying at a mosque in a sort of religious exile.  One day there was a forum going on at the mosque, and one of the kids asked the teacher, "Is it true that prophet Muhammad (peace be on him) never made any mistakes?"  The teacher replied, "If he did, then Allah compensated for him."  Well, I'm definitely not a prophet, and I make mistakes all the time.  I wonder what my life would be like if I hadn't made any mistakes?  My music is full of mistakes, in fact I consider it "The music of mistakes."  So if I had had perfect conduct, I wouldn't have had any music.

I'm pleased that you have become more vigilant, after all, if you expect the treachery of humans, then no human will ever disappoint you.  What is it are you protecting?  You have God-given beauty obviously, and I pray that you are also protecting your innocence, chastity, and piety.  There's no such thing as perfect happiness in this life, but we want to try to be happy, right?  So you must be optimistic, and work for happiness.  Don't consider yourselves "the two Juliets".  Plus, there are good people out there.  Yes, they do exist.  We want to be good people, right?  Ya Allah, please help, protect, and guide us.  When we are married inshaAllah, I will help to protect you.  But Allah is the Best to Protect.  Please be grateful to Allah for guiding you to Islam.

I need to inform you that it is the death penalty to possess illegal firearms in Malaysia.  While it is possible to obtain a license here to wield a gun, you can't bring them into the country.  Meanwhile, please take good loving care of yourselves in my absence, please try to hide your beauty, and maintain your prayers.  I love you, I love you.  And I need you, I need you.

Qur'an 20140904

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

86.  Say, "Who is the Lord of the seven heavens, and the Lord of the Throne Supreme?"

87.  They will say, "Allah."  Say, "Will you not then be filled with awe?"

88.  Say, "Who is it in whose hands is the governance of all things, Who protects, but is not protected, if you know?"

89.  They will say, "Allah."  Say, "Then how are you deluded?"

90.  We have sent them the Truth, but indeed they practice falsehood!

91.  No son did Allah beget, nor is there any god along with God.  Behold!  Each god would have taken away what he had created, and some would have lorded it over others!  Glory to Allah, from the things they attribute to God!

92.  God knows what is hidden, and what is open.  Too high is God for the partners they attribute to God!

93.  Say, "O my Lord!  If You will show me that which they are warned against,"

94.  "Then O my Lord!  Put me not among the people who do wrong!"

95.  And We are certainly able to show you that against which they are warned.

96.  Repel evil with that which is best.  We are well acquainted with the things they say.

97.  And say, "O my Lord!  I seek refuge with You from the suggestions of the evil ones."

The Believers  23:86-97
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Who is the Lord of the seven heavens, and the Lord of the Throne Supreme?

Will you not then be filled with awe?

Who is it in whose hands is the governance of all things, Who protects, but is not protected, if you know?

Then how are you deluded?

O my Lord!  If You will show me that which they are warned against, then O my Lord!  Put me not among the people who do wrong!

O my Lord!  I seek refuge with You from the suggestions of the evil ones.

Letter to Julia 20140903

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

My dearest Julia and Erin, my beautiful, darling wives, I love you so much.  You are my life and afterlife, I want to give you happiness and help protect you.  I pray that you are feeling on top of the world, and I assure you inshaAllah that you are at the top of your game, so please maintain your prayers.  You are so beautiful, you are the most beautiful girls in the world, because you are MY girls.  MINE, MINE.  Thank you for your love.  I love you, I love you.  And I need you, I need you.

Do you remember September of last year?  I swear to you that I was completely clueless, and was just going with the flow.  I didn't want to do or say anything to hurt Julia's feelings.  But Allah clued me in that Julia would have a super tough time being the only blonde in Perlis plus having to live in the Public Eye with me, and warned me not leave a certain other girl hanging in limbo, but I didn't know who she was.  It was her sad eyes that made me know for certain that she is my second wife.  There was no calculation, I was just stupid.  And we were all just dancing to a show that never ends.

Qur'an 20140903

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

78.  It is God who has created for you hearing, sight, feeling, and understanding.  Little thanks it is you give!

79.  And God has multiplied you through the earth, and to God shall you be gathered back.

80.  It is God Who gives life and death, and to God the alternation of night and day.  Will you not then understand?

81.  On the contrary, they say things similar to what the ancients said.

82.  They say, "What!  When we become dust and bones, could we really be raised up again?"

83.  "Such things have been promised to us and our fathers before!  They are nothing but tales of the ancients!"

84.  Say, "To whom belong the earth and all things therein?  If you know!"

85.  They will say, "To Allah!"  Say, "Yet, will you not receive admonition?"

The Believers 23:78-85
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To whom belong the earth and all things therein?  If you know!

Yet, will you not receive admonition?
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Ya Allah, thank You for all You have given me.  Please forgive me as I will never be able to thank You adequately.

Letter to Julia 20140902

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

My dearest, gorgeous Julia, I really want you to have your own bathroom.  I feel humiliated to have you share my shower.  You are my Queen, and I want you to have a Queen's bathroom which, when we marry and you move into this little house with me while we supervise the building of your house inshaAllah, would be part of an entire room of this little house reserved strictly for your wardrobe.  Sigh!  Life is full of unattainable dreams of various magnitudes.  Please pray that Allah allows me the means to treat you as the Queen that you are, because I love you, and I need you.  Besides, Boss Spider has been hanging out in my toilet for the past 7 months, and while I accept that you wouldn't want to deal with him, I don't want you to hurt him either because he is a friend of mine.  There's so much I need to give you a good married life.  And sweet beautiful Erin, I want you to have the same, for you are my Queen too.  You wouldn't have to live in this little house when we marry inshaAllah, that's why Julia with all due respect is the Boss Wife.  I don't want you to be unhappy with me, you are so precious to me, and I want to give you the best of tender loving care, because I love you, and I need you.

My compound was a mess, because for the past few days 4 mature trees had been broken down to be removed.  My Dad arranged to have that done for which I am grateful.  Thanks, Dad.  After they remove everything by truck, there will be much tidying up to do.  But actually, they did quite a good job of cleaning up, so my task is light.  Alhamdulillah.  Meanwhile, please take good loving care of yourselves in my absence, and be good girls that the world would be proud of.