Qur'an 20211021

 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 want- 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)

Just an average day

 

Hi Natty! What's happening today, my love?  I hope you are doing and feeling well, and enjoying yourself.  It's just an average day here for me.  I got a haircut in the morning.  Then I stopped by the supermarket and picked up some frozen beef neck bones.  I'm tired of using a fish for soup stock, mostly because I find it tedious to separate the meat from the bones.  No matter how hard I try, there's always a fish bone in my soup.  Beef bones don't have much meat on them usually, but it's easier to separate them from the soup.  It's also a different flavor, but I need to beware how much salt I put in it.  Let's see, I think I paid RM9 for 8 bones.  I usually pay about RM1 or so for one fish.  Although I might miss looking at the guy's face when I buy just one mackerel, I think beef bones are a better deal because I can use them again.  I just got done simmering the broth for Friday's ramen.  Ramen is such a serious procedure for me!  Anyway, gotta go.  I love you!