Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Letter to Julia 20140409

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

Hello Wednesday, my dearest, precious wives.  I love you, I love you.  And I need you, I need you.  I had my letter prepared yesterday, but I didn't come in to blog because it was too dangerous to travel.  So I had to stay close to the homestead instead.  How do I know?  Let's just say that Allah grants me some knowledge.  Let's also say that Allah gives me the responsibility of protecting the voices of some dead women, and that your husband serves Allah.  So I cut the grass around Casa de Julia inshaAllah, and I chopped down one of the trees on the west border.  You know, the one that leaned towards the inside.

I just had my first ripe mango this year.  I don't eat a lot of the local fruits because they're too damned sweet, but I love certain types of mangoes.  The big tree in my yard is a "harumanis", and that's one of types I like.  It's not officially mango season yet, and right now only the birds, the squirrels and the bugs know which fruits are ready to eat.  So they fall on the ground, usually half eaten.  I found one on the ground still firm and intact, and it smelled almost ripe, so I kept it in the house for a day before I put it in the cooler.  It turned out that the bugs took over the seed, but the flesh was unharmed.  Alhamdulillah.

Letter to Julia 20140408

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

So hang in there, my dearest wives.  I am your knight inshaAllah, your knight in armor of shadow.  Allah will bring us together, so what's most important is that you pray and have faith.  Marriage is sacred.  So this is a spiritual trip that we share.  Sure, you're getting more attention because of me.  I'm also sure that your bosses will love you more for that, so just tell all the nosy people that you are my wife inshaAllah.  You are MINE, MINE.  And I love you, I love you with all my heart.

It's been a busy day for me, so I'm rather tired.  Would you like some dinner?  It's sushi again today.  The fish is black sole, with oyster mushrooms sauteed in butter, and egg.  Sole meat is sweet, combined with the mushrooms made the sushi very sweet today.  I'm stuffed.  Alhamdulillah.

Qur'an 20140409

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

36.  Those to whom We have given the Book rejoice at what has been revealed unto you.  But there are among the sects those who reject a part thereof.  Say, "I am commanded to worship Allah, and not to join partners with God.  Unto God do I call, and unto God is my return."

37.  Thus have We revealed it to be a judgement of authority in Arabic.  Were you to follow their desires after the knowledge which has reached you, then would you find neither protector nor helper against Allah.

The Thunder 13:36-37
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I am commanded to worship Allah, and not to join partners with God.  Unto God do I call, and unto God is my return.

Qur'an 20140408

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

30.  Thus We have sent you amongst a people whom have peoples passed away, in order that you might rehearse unto them what We have sent down unto you by inspiration.  Yet they do reject the most Gracious!  Say, "God is my Lord!  There is no God but God!  On God is my trust, and to God do I turn!"

31.  If there were a Qur'an with which mountains were moved, or the earth were cloven asunder, or the dead were made to speak.... But truly, the Command is with Allah with all things!  Do not the believers know that, had Allah willed, God could have guided all humankind?  But the unbelievers, never will disaster cease to seize them for their deeds, or to settle close to their homes, until the Promise of Allah come to pass, for verily, Allah will not fail in God's promise.

32.  Mocked were messengers before you, but We granted respite to the unbelievers, and finally We punished them.  Then how was Our requital!

33.  Is then God Who stands over every soul, all that it does?  And yet they ascribe partners to Allah.  Say, "But name them!  Is it that you will inform God of something God knows not on earth, or is it a show of words?"  No!  To those who believe not, their pretense seems pleasing, but they are kept back from the Path.  And those whom Allah leaves to stray, no one can guide.

The Thunder 13:30-33
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God is my Lord!  There is no God but God!  On God is my trust, and to God do I turn!

But name them!  Is it that you will inform God of something God knows not on earth, or is it a show of words?