Jackfruit

Gag... it's hot today.  How's it going, Honey?  I hope you're feeling great, because I love you so much.  I'm quite used to living life on my own, but I certainly want to share my life with you.  I would share some sweet fruit with you, do you like tropical fruit?  I don't have a sweet tooth like my Mom, but sometimes I enjoy sweet fruit.  There are 2 types of jackfruit trees on the compound: "nangka" and "cempedak".  The second type is sweeter, in a sickly sweet way, and that's what we have today.  The only certain way to know a jackfruit is ready for picking is by smelling it.  I was trimming down a starfruit tree that was overwhelmed with vines, which is right next to the jackfruit tree behind my house.  There is only one fruit on that tree this year: it was hanging just above my head, and I could smell it when I was operating the chainsaw.  But when I took it down, I couldn't smell it anymore.  There were some peck marks on the shell, so I guess the birds were fooled too: they could smell it, but when they pecked at it, the fruit was bitter.  So I left the fruit on my porch, perhaps it needed more time to mature.  Yesterday evening, the smell returned, so I opened it up, removed the fleshy seeds, and put them in the cooler.  I offered some to my Mom as there was a lot of it, but she didn't want it as I had kept it in the cooler.  She's fussy.

Happy 4th of July, by the way!  That's a sexy swimsuit Natty, and you sure look good in it.  I do hope you realize that you're going to have to cut down on your showing off after we are married inshaAllah.  Kids.  Global and spiritual politics.

Hi Pina!  I'm not mad at you, Sweetie.  How can I be?

Qur'an 20170706

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

84.  If any do good, the reward to him is better than his deed, but if any do evil, the doers of evil are only punished of their deeds.

85.  Verily God Who ordained the Qur'an for you, will bring you back to the Place of Return.  Say, "My Lord knows best who it is that brings true guidance, and who is in manifest error."

86.  And you did not expect that the Book would be sent to you except as a Mercy from your Lord.  Therefore, lend not your support in any way to those who reject.

The Narrations  28:84-86
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