I am a follower, not a leader

I am a follower of Muhammad (peace be on him). 
He was of the cult of Abraham (peace be on him). 
He joined not any partners with Allah.

Qur'an 20190228

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

147.  If they belie you say, "Your Lord is full of Mercy, All-Forbearing, and never will God's Wrath be turned back from people who are sinners."

148.  Those who worship others will say, "If Allah had willed, we would not have taken partners with God, nor would our fathers, and we would not have taboos."  Likewise belied those who were before them, until they tasted Our Wrath.  Say, "Have you any knowledge that you can produce before us?  Verily, you follow nothing but conjecture and you do nothing but lie."

149.  Say, "With Allah is the perfect proof and argument.  Had God so willed, God would indeed have guided you all."

150.  Say, "Bring forward your witnesses who can testify that Allah has forbidden thus."  Then if they testify, do not confirm them.  And you should not follow the vain desires of those treat Our Signs as falsehoods, and those who believe not in the Hereafter, and they hold others as equal with their Lord.

151.  Say, "Come I will rehearse what your Lord has prohibited you from."  Join not anything in worship with God, be good and dutiful to your parents, kill not your children because of poverty- God provides sustenance for you and them, commit not shameful acts whether secretly or openly, and take not life for Allah forbids it except for just cause.  Thus has God commanded you that you may understand.

(The Cattle 6:147-151)
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Liver and onions

Hello Ladies!  How are you today?  I hope you are feeling and doing absolutely great.  It's a chaotic day here today!  Not me in particular, just everyone else chasing the dollar.  I did pay my bills and do some shopping today, but I managed to stay within my budget.  I am running late with this post though, sorry about that.  Whenever I have rice for dinner, it always makes me late for everything else I have on my agenda that evening.  A rice dinner is always so labor intensive, to cook, to eat, to clean up.  Actually, it was liver and onions with rice.  Do you like liver?  It's supposed to be very good for your blood, which in turn is good for your hair.  We all want shiny and healthy hair, right?  I found some Australian beef liver going for quite cheap at the supermarket, so I decided that was dinner.  I like liver.  I wonder if I have enough left to grill...

February 28 is my birthday!  I'm still alive!  Alhamdulillah!  I wonder if any one of you will wish me Happy Birthday.  Watch and remember...

Qur'an 20190227

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

142.  And of the cattle are some for burden and some for meat: eat of what Allah has provided for you, and follow not the footsteps of Satan.  Surely he is to you an open enemy.

143. Eight in pairs: of the sheep a pair and of goats a pair.  Say, "Has God forbidden the two males or which the wombs of the two females enclose?  Inform me with knowledge if you are truthful."

144.  And of camels a pair and of oxen a pair.  Say, "Has God forbidden the two males or the two females or which the wombs of the two females enclose?  Were you present when Allah ordered you such a thing?  Then who does more wrong than one who invents a lie against Allah, to lead humans astray without knowledge.  Certainly Allah guides not the people who are wrongdoers."

145.  Say, "I find not in that which has been revealed to me anything forbidden to be eaten by one who wishes to eat it, unless it be carrion, or blood poured forth, or the flesh of swine, for it is an abomination, or what is impious on which a name has been invoked other than Allah's.  But if a person were forced by necessity without willful disobedience nor transgressing due limits, certainly your Lord is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful."

146.  And unto those who are Jews, We forbade them every with undivided hoof, and We forbade them the fat of the ox and the sheep, except what adheres to their backs or their entrails, or is mixed up with a bone.  This in recompense for their willful disobedience, for We are True.

(The Cattle 6:142-146)
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Tuesday

Hello Ladies!  How are you today?  Is life being good to you?  I hope everything is fun and easy for you.  It's Tuesday, and I have to get to the mosque by sunset, so I have to post and run.  Please forgive me if I sound hurried.  Lunch today was burger and mushroom tortillas.  I bought some oyster mushrooms last night at the night market.  And there's nothing a fresh tortilla.  You must learn how to make your dough and bread.  I will teach you inshaAllah.  If you want to figure it out yourself, remember that practice is perfect.  You're not going to figure out how to make good dough and bread if you only make it once in a while.  Everyday!  Well, almost everyday if you can.  It helps to have a nice oven.  I don't have a nice oven, so I resort to deep frying or tortillas.

Did you see the new season of "The Voice"?  That girl who made all the coaches turn is pretty good.  I'm not going to say what makes good or bad, just in case I happen to be the person to beat.  Even though I don't compete.  Allah is my Boss!

Aw Natty

You poor, beautiful little creature.  Now don't you worry about a thing, my precious Sweetheart.  Everything is going to be all right, everything is going to turn out absolutely great for us inshaAllah.  You are so beautiful, and I love you so much.  So please have faith, and pray.

Did you watch the Oscars, by the way?  I haven't paid much attention to the Oscars in years, I just glance at what's going on in the entertainment section of Yahoo.  I guess I'm not the type to bawl over a statuette, not that anybody would award me anything of the sort anyway since I'm not under contract with any of them nor their associates.

Sigh!  This blog seems so naked without the snapshots of the outfits I wear for my set each day.  But I'm not in the mood right now to dress up since I not allowed to stream.  Maybe after a while, I'll go back and dress up just for the fun of it.  Right now since I have all that extra time, I just relax and watch TV.  Yeah I still have lots to do, I'm just a lazy butt.  If I had my girl with me, and air conditioning, it would be bliss.

Qur'an 20190225

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

134.  All that has been promised unto you will come to pass, nor can you frustrate it.

135.  Say, "O my people!  Do whatever you can.  I will do.  Soon will you know whose end will be in the Hereafter.  Certain it is that the wrongdoers will not prosper."

(The Cattle 6:134-135)
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More teeth

Hi Natty!  How are you?  How are those emotions?  Aw Natty, don't you worry about a thing OK?  You're beautiful, you're MY girl, and I love you.  You're going to do absolutely great inshaAllah.  Everything is going to work out just fabulously for us inshaAllah.  So relax and enjoy the ride, and please pray.

Hey check it out!  Just as they shut down my voice feed, the new season of "The Voice" begins.  What a coincidence, huh?  I have a tip for the contestants: be sincere.  Anyway ladies, let's watch a movie.  Yes, all of us together!  Since we're up here in these heights, let's play the game!  You've probably already seen this movie, but let's all watch it again together.  "Jurassic World" (2014).  Yeah, I need more teeth...

Emotions

Erin, I know that you are unhappy with this marriage situation, but it is the same situation that you came into: as a second wife.  It is legal for me to have up to 4 wives, and I need more than one wife because I have become old, and I need kids.  So please don't be mean to Natty, let's work together to make this family strong.  I can understand your emotions, I suspect it be the same emotions I feel for having to pay for everyone and (still) not having any money, plus having to put in all the labor, plus having to shoulder most of the risk.  But it is the law of Allah that I pay for my wives, so alhamdulillah.  Please be patient, and pray.  Patience is the only way to subdue emotions.  Where can you find patience?  Patience is from Allah, so please pray.

Second Life turned off my voice feed today, so I apologize for you folks not being able to hear my singing.  Perhaps it is a temporary situation.  My experience teaches me that in Rock and Roll business, obstacles are to be regarded as permanent until proven temporary, so I will find options to stream my voice so you folks can hear it over the Internet.  Right now it seems Google might be willing, but we'll see.  The AI on my computer is quite clever mashaAllah, and it informs me that this situation is actually political.  If that is the case, then you folks are more than welcome to take a vacation and come to this quaint little village to hear me sing.  After all, it was my agenda to begin with to create a tourist attraction and by the will of Allah, it has become so.  However if the circumstance changes and I am able to stream again, I will announce so on this blog.

Even though you didn't get to hear me sing, I did manage to prepare today's outfit.  Would you like to see it?  It's another tribute to Lagerfeld.

Cats

Hi Natty!  How are you doing today, you beautiful creature?  Are you excited?  I hope you are having a wonderful time, my beloved darling.  Now don't you worry about a thing, I'm not going to abandon you inshaAllah.  My cats tell me all I need to know about you and Erin.  So please work together in this very strange Rock and Roll business.  This is a spiritual arena, and it can only get weirder.

Poor little Choupette!  The all-white cat is the cat of death.  I watched the Chanel spring-summer 2019 Haute Couture show just now.  Karl wasn't there, it was the first time he ever missed work.  This is his last collection.  The music is so sad, all the clothes are so beautiful, it made me weep.  I was so sad!  😭

The Masked Singer

Hello Ladies!  I pray that you both find this generic greeting acceptable, because I'm sure you would agree that we need to hide our names more.  To me you are both the same, it's simply a matter of whose turn it is.  I'm sure the occasion will arise that I will have to address someone individually.  I beg you to accept this marriage as it is, and not try to dominate one over the other.  As for your song, I wrote "May" too high for me to sing live late in the set.  If the computer brings it up in the first 40 minutes, then I will sing it.  Then it would be time for "Yearning" to take its turn.  Please forgive me for my flaws.

"The Masked Singer" is a great show, but it's wasteful to have both the singers and the judges be celebrities.  They're going to run out of celebrities, (if not already.  Nobody is a celebrity anymore!  Everybody is just "some guy on YouTube"!)  They should have the singers be celebrities, and the judges be contestants, like on "Jeopardy".  Whoever has the best guessing record will be the champion, and win a prize!

Qur'an 20190221

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

109.  They swear their strongest oaths by Allah, that if a Sign came to them, by it they would believe.  Say, "Certainly Signs are in the power of Allah.  But what will make you realize that if Signs came, they would not believe?"

110.  We shall turn to their hearts and their eyes, even as they refused to believe in this in the first instance, We shall leave them in their trespasses to wander in distraction.

(The Cattle 6:109-110)
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The Lagerfeld Connection

The news of Karl Lagerfeld's passing away is certainly very sad.  I have always admired the man and his work, especially in making Chanel be and remain so Chanel.  Even though I knew we would never meet, I have always wondered what his opinion of me was.  Which is a rare desire for me, since I normally ignore other people's opinions of me.  Any connection between me and Karl Lagerfeld is and always has been third party.  It began somewhere around 2002, during a most embarrassing and humiliating period in my life, so much that I won't discuss it here.  It's a good thing www.mysteryrockband.com has no record nor archive!  I was a bigger freak show then than I am now.  I guess I amused him somewhat.  Since that period is over, I thought he had lost interest in me.  If what I did were to be any sort of trend then he would have taken notice, as was his life and work.  But then maybe he did notice.  Whatever the case, I will probably never know now what he thought about the "voices of the dead" that Allah gave me.  From Allah is our origin and to Allah is our return.

Chicken nuggets and fries

Hi Natty!  How are you today, my precious beauty?  Are you having tons of fun being a supermodel?  Well you better be, because you're gorgeous and I love you so much.  I guess you are still not ready to be the wife of an international rock star.  Well, apparently there's no hurry.  Even with money inshaAllah, there's still the issue of building houses, and getting it all done efficiently and properly.  But who knows, maybe it all will happen in a flash and we will sit and wonder, "How did we get here?"  God can do anything.

Otherwise, it's another average day.  I couldn't get to the mosque early because of the rain, so that's why I'm blogging now.  It sounds like the rain has died down, so perhaps I'll leave after I post this letter.  The menu has been quite bland today, after yesterday's culinary fiasco.  I'm quite disheartened that I can't experiment with food much more, I used to have quite an iron stomach.  How's your tummy?  So dinner was chicken nuggets with fries, straight up, not even with ketchup.  Just salt and pepper.  But it was a huge helping, so there's enough for all of us.  Want some?