What's in a name?

Oh, you're so sweet and cheerful and optimistic.  Yes I know you're moody too, but still you're so sweet and cheerful and optimistic.  And you know what?  I don't want anything bad to ever happen to you.  I would give my life to shelter you, because I love you.  But life is not set up that way.  Life is supposed to be difficult.  If one has an easy life, it means that one will have a difficult death.  I will most likely to be the first one to go, so we must train the kids to look after their mother when she gets old.  Please remember that and burn it into your heart.  They will NOT do so automatically.  They MUST be trained.

Today is Independence Day.  No, I didn't go to see the parade.  I haven't seen a parade in decades.  I'm just not a parades kind of guy.   Actually, I'm fasting today.  Today is the 9th day of the month of Zulhijjah, which the 9th day of the hajj ritual, and the Prophet (peace be on him) said that anyone who fasts today will have their sins forgiven for the past year and the year to come.  Great investment, I say.  Tomorrow is the Eid.  It's not made into a big hoopla like the Eid of Ramadan, but I don't really celebrate much on that day either.  What did I do on that day?  I think I cut the grass.  I'm not much of a public holidays kind of guy.  It's all the same old day to me.

I think I posted this video before, but I'm going to post it again today, so I hope you watch it because I think you will like it.  I first got into Dr. Buscaglia back in college.  Oh, back then I thought love could save the world!  I was full of it.  Definitely.  Now decades later, I discovered that strength was the most useful asset towards happiness.  Or better yet, the love of God (namely God's strength).  Oh I still like Dr. Hug, even though I don't do much hugging nowadays.  I feel what the love philosophy is all about, is about being NICE.  And I will be nice.  Selectively.  😁

Natty, you have such a nice name.  It's so..... normal.  It could also be a movie star name.  And I hope your cold goes away quickly.

Pina, you have a nice name too.  It makes me hungry.

 

 

 

Qur'an 20170831

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

22.  Say, "Call upon others whom you fancy besides Allah.  They have no power, not the weight of an atom, in the heavens or on earth.  No share have they therein, nor is any of them a helper to Allah."

23.  No intercession can avail in God's Presence, except for those whom God has granted permission.  So far that, when terror is removed from their hearts will they say, "What is it that your Lord commanded?"  They will say, "That which is true and just, and God is the Most High, Most Great."

24.  Say, "Who gives you sustenance, from the heavens and on earth?"  Say, "It is Allah, and certain it is that either we or you are on right guidance, or in manifest error!"

25.  Say, "You shall not be questioned as to our sins, nor shall we be questioned as to what you do."

26.  Say, "Our Lord will gather us together, and will in the end decide the matter between us in truth and justice, and God is the One to decide, the One Who Knows all."

Sheba  34:22-26
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