Qur'an 20200617

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

7.  If you reject, truly Allah has no need of you, but God dislikes ingratitude from God's servants.  If you are grateful, God is pleased with you.  No bearer of burdens can bear the burden of another.  In the end to your Lord is your return, when God will tell you the truth of all that you did, for God Knows Well all that is in hearts.

8.  When some trouble touches man, he cries unto his Lord, turning to God in repentance.  But when God bestows a favor upon him as from Godself, he forgets what he cried and prayed for before, and he sets up rivals unto Allah, thus misleading others from Allah's Path.  Say, "Enjoy your blasphemy for a little while, verily you are of the companions of the fire!"

9.  Is one who worships devoutly during the hours of the night, prostrating or standing, who takes heed of the hereafter, and who places his hope in the mercy of his Lord...?  Say, "Are those equal, those who know and those who do not know?  It is those who are endued with understanding that receive admonition."

10.  Say, "O you servants who believe!  Fear your Lord.  Good is for those who do good in this world.  Spacious is Allah's earth.  Those who patiently persevere will truly receive a reward without measure!"

The Crowds 39:7-10

Fungus

Hi Natty!  How are you today, my beautiful Princess?  I hope you are feeling healthy and happy, and having a fabulous time.  Are you hungry?  I've been eating the same thing all day.  I went to the market early this morning.  I'm making stuffed won tons for my mother's birthday tomorrow, so I had to go early before the good stuff sold out.  So I got some fresh fish balls, and fresh tofu.  A LOT of them.  So I've been gorging on fish balls and tofu all day.  So simple!  So pure!  So good!  It has to be fresh, though...

I had to head back to town in the evening to get cable for the weed whacker, a bottle of hot sauce, and some stuff from the pharmacy.  I noticed that people were buying antifungal cream for their hands.  Yeah, people have been washing their hands more often than they ever have before.  The trouble is, there's fungus in the tap water.  If your skin keeps dry most of the time then it's not a problem, but if it's always wet...  Then it starts to itch and crack and peel, and moisturizer makes it worse...  You put antifungal cream on the itchy part, and then you go wash your hands again...  You wind up washing the medicine off your hands.  Oh, I'm not saying don't wash your hands.  I'm saying, don't wash the medicine off your hands!  And try to keep your hands dry!