Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Letter to Erin 20150310

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

Busy, busy!  How are you doing right now, my beloved Erin?  I suddenly have too much to do right now.  A lot of cooking stuff, and a lot of driving around.  It looks like I'm going to be busy all week.  Plus the Internet is damned slow right now.  I have to make sure I get enough sleep.  Tomorrow is grill day.  I'll be grilling that stuffed scad, and a bunch of meat for my Mom.  I'm just going to man the grill, and nothing else.  I'm not the Iron Chef.  I hate running around the kitchen trying to finish 6 dishes at a time.  I used to that at the pizza joint, and it destroyed my feet, that I can't play the drums normally anymore.  So it's the grill only for me, with tongs in my left hand and a fan in my right hand, and the cats cooped up ion the cage.  I'm thinking lime juice and soy sauce for the stuffed scad.  So you wanna join me for lunch?

I hope you aren't getting too caught up in the competition of it all.  Try to relax, and soothe your heart.  I don't have a competitive bone in my body.  I want you to be happy.  I love you, and I need you.

Qur'an 20150310

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

39.  Say, "O my people!  Do whatever you can: I will do.  But soon will you know."

40.  Who it is to whom comes a penalty of ignominy, and on whom descends a penalty that abides.

41.  Verily We have revealed the Book to you in Truth, for humankind.  He then that receives guidance benefits his own soul.  But he that strays injures his own soul.  Nor are you set over them to dispose of their affairs.

42.  It is Allah that takes the souls at death, and those that die not during their sleep.  Those on whom God has passed the decree of death, God keeps back.  But the rest God returns for a term appointed.  Verily in this are Signs for those who reflect.

43.  What!  Do they take for intercessors others besides Allah?  Say, "Even if they have no power whatever and no intelligence?"

44.  Say, "To Allah belongs exclusively Intercession.  To God belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth.  In the end, it is to God that you shall be brought back."

The crowds 39:39-44
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O my people!  Do whatever you can: I will do.  But soon will you know.

Even if they have no power whatever and no intelligence?

To Allah belongs exclusively Intercession.  To God belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth.  In the end, it is to God that you shall be brought back.