Letter to Erin 20160404

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

Of course, I would want to perform my wedding before yours.  InshaAllah.  Hopefully they are the same thing, but we will perform our humble ceremony before the lavish one, if that.  Another thing is that we will need a member of your family or a close friend to serve the position of "wali", or witness/representative of your family to bear witness that you are who you are.  OK?  I love you and I need you.

It rained today.  I've been thinking about the diagnosis of bipolar disorder.  I get irritated of people automatically dismissing Elisa Lam's death as a manic episode, when not even the autopsy, while knowing of her diagnosis somehow (she's Canadian), could directly tie her death to her "disease".  Toxicology detected a little of her medication in her system, so she didn't stop taking her medication, but people still attribute her death to bipolar disorder.  This made me realize that if you die of bipolar disorder, it means that you didn't take your medication, you took your medication, or you took too much of your medication.  Gah!  A society of drug addicts.  A diagnosis is obviously a great place to hang blame.

Qur'an 20160404

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

168.  The ones that say while they themselves sit, "If only they had listened to us, they would not have been slain."  Say, "Avert death from your own selves, if you speak the truth."

(The Family of Imran 3:168)
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