In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
45. Recite what is sent of the Book by inspiration to you, and establish regular prayer, for prayer restrains from shameful and unjust deeds. And rememberance of Allah is the greatest, without doubt. And Allah knows what you do.
46. And dispute you not with the people of the Book except with means better, unless it be with those of them who inflict wrong. But say, "We believe in the Revelation which has come down to us and in that which came down to you: our God and your God is One, and it is to God we bow".
47. And thus, that We have sent down the Book to you. So the people of the Book believe therein, as also do some of these, and none but unbelievers reject Our Signs.
The Spider 29:45-47
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We believe in the Revelation which has come down to us and in that which came down to you: our God and your God is One, and it is to God we bow.
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Letter to Julia 20120416
In the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Merciful.
Aaaaargh... Sundays are always busy days for me. I've been slammed since I woke up this morning, I need to wake up later, but that doesn't work either. Oh I'm so lazy, Julia. I just wanna snuggle up with you. The lot next to my house belonged to my grandfather, and it's twice as big as my yard. It was overgrown with trees, scrub and thick thorny brambles, with snakes and huge monitor lizards, but I managed to clear out most of them. The monitor lizards still come around occasionally, but I just found an old catapult on the ground. How convenient, but I would rather have an AK-47: those lizards can run pretty damn fast. I'm still working on chopping down useless trees, and burning trash, and digging up stumps, and whacking weeds, plus everything regrows at lightning speed out here in the tropics, so it needs to be maintained. But my Mom is in such a hurry to cultivate that land for some reason, so she also has me plant and maintain some crops. Of course I don't eat any of that stuff except maybe the okra and the peppers, but they are all still babies at this point. I transplanted a few banana trees for my Mom. Did you know that banana trees are kind of like giant celery bunches? Well, that's what it seems like to me. The babies grow right at the roots, so I chop off a portion of the root where the baby plant grows, just as you would chop off a segment of a potato where the eye grows. More daunting is the task of emptying out all the trash in the ruins of my grandfather's house. It's a big house, with about 7 or 8 bedrooms. It's most likely crawling full of jinns.
Everything of that house has to be demolished anyway, for some of the rooms are just ramshackle spaces made of reused wooden planks built by my grandfather for some odd reason, probably due to excessive jinn activity. God knows. Chee Cheah seems to think it's clean, because she hangs out there nearly all the time. Besides, I much prefer this little house I'm in now. But nowadays, there is something much more different going on here than when I was a small child. You may think that it's not your fault that you lag behind, as I may think that the front line is no place for someone as beautiful as you. Rather, it is preordained that you lag behind, due to the circumstances and the type of people I have to deal with in regards to this mission of mine to please Allah with music. The consequences are that decisions will be made for you, and the restrictions thereof. But do know that I love you and am faithful to you, InsyaAllah.
Aaaaargh... Sundays are always busy days for me. I've been slammed since I woke up this morning, I need to wake up later, but that doesn't work either. Oh I'm so lazy, Julia. I just wanna snuggle up with you. The lot next to my house belonged to my grandfather, and it's twice as big as my yard. It was overgrown with trees, scrub and thick thorny brambles, with snakes and huge monitor lizards, but I managed to clear out most of them. The monitor lizards still come around occasionally, but I just found an old catapult on the ground. How convenient, but I would rather have an AK-47: those lizards can run pretty damn fast. I'm still working on chopping down useless trees, and burning trash, and digging up stumps, and whacking weeds, plus everything regrows at lightning speed out here in the tropics, so it needs to be maintained. But my Mom is in such a hurry to cultivate that land for some reason, so she also has me plant and maintain some crops. Of course I don't eat any of that stuff except maybe the okra and the peppers, but they are all still babies at this point. I transplanted a few banana trees for my Mom. Did you know that banana trees are kind of like giant celery bunches? Well, that's what it seems like to me. The babies grow right at the roots, so I chop off a portion of the root where the baby plant grows, just as you would chop off a segment of a potato where the eye grows. More daunting is the task of emptying out all the trash in the ruins of my grandfather's house. It's a big house, with about 7 or 8 bedrooms. It's most likely crawling full of jinns.
Everything of that house has to be demolished anyway, for some of the rooms are just ramshackle spaces made of reused wooden planks built by my grandfather for some odd reason, probably due to excessive jinn activity. God knows. Chee Cheah seems to think it's clean, because she hangs out there nearly all the time. Besides, I much prefer this little house I'm in now. But nowadays, there is something much more different going on here than when I was a small child. You may think that it's not your fault that you lag behind, as I may think that the front line is no place for someone as beautiful as you. Rather, it is preordained that you lag behind, due to the circumstances and the type of people I have to deal with in regards to this mission of mine to please Allah with music. The consequences are that decisions will be made for you, and the restrictions thereof. But do know that I love you and am faithful to you, InsyaAllah.
Friday, April 13, 2012
Qur'an 20120414
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
18. And if you reject, so did generations before you. And the duty of the messenger is only to preach publicly.
19. See they not how Allah originates creation, then repeats it: truly that is easy for Allah.
20. Say, "Travel through the earth and see how Allah did originate creation, so will Allah produce a later creation, for Allah has power over all things."
The Spider 29:18-20
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Travel through the earth and see how Allah did originate creation, so will Allah produce a later creation, for Allah has power over all things.
18. And if you reject, so did generations before you. And the duty of the messenger is only to preach publicly.
19. See they not how Allah originates creation, then repeats it: truly that is easy for Allah.
20. Say, "Travel through the earth and see how Allah did originate creation, so will Allah produce a later creation, for Allah has power over all things."
The Spider 29:18-20
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Travel through the earth and see how Allah did originate creation, so will Allah produce a later creation, for Allah has power over all things.
Letter to Julia 20120414
In the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Merciful.
It's always difficult to make chicken soup without bouillon, or chicken stock, and I didn't have any bouillon last night. You might think that salt would do the trick, but it's not that simple: the soup is either tasteless or salty, and not like chicken soup. Well, I didn't have a any bouillon for my chicken rice gruel, but I did have chicken. I always buy my white meat from chickens cut in half, and you need the bones for chicken soup, for it is bone marrow that gives soup its thickness. So I cut the chicken lengthwise parallel to the neck, and separate the rest to be used as white meat for sandwiches, or whatever. I marinated 2 portions of neck & ribs in salt and dry hot peppers, y'know the kind you put on pizza, then fried them up in a pot. Meanwhile, I had a cup of rice cooking in the rice pot with 4x extra water. My Mom has some chives growing in her yard, and I have some lemongrass in my yard, so I added them to the frying chicken with garlic and onions. When everything browned, I added the hot rice and water from the rice cooker. I then slow cooked the mix, separated the meat from the bones, and added salt until there was slight flavor, making sure to scrape the bottom when mixing. When it turned into gruel, it was ready to eat. With each bowl a soup, you add a thin layer of light soy sauce, and hot sauce. Don't stir it! Just scoop it up and eat it.
The oppression of humans is not the Wrath of God. We are instructed to fight oppression. Though fighting may seem overwhelming, is that not better than being overwhelmed by evil? Perhaps Allah will grant us a swift and easy victory. Certainly Allah knows who the hypocrites are. And don't follow unbelievers who say that they will help bear your burdens. How can they bear the problems of others with their selfish skepticism and lack of faith? That's illogical, and by their standards.
It's always difficult to make chicken soup without bouillon, or chicken stock, and I didn't have any bouillon last night. You might think that salt would do the trick, but it's not that simple: the soup is either tasteless or salty, and not like chicken soup. Well, I didn't have a any bouillon for my chicken rice gruel, but I did have chicken. I always buy my white meat from chickens cut in half, and you need the bones for chicken soup, for it is bone marrow that gives soup its thickness. So I cut the chicken lengthwise parallel to the neck, and separate the rest to be used as white meat for sandwiches, or whatever. I marinated 2 portions of neck & ribs in salt and dry hot peppers, y'know the kind you put on pizza, then fried them up in a pot. Meanwhile, I had a cup of rice cooking in the rice pot with 4x extra water. My Mom has some chives growing in her yard, and I have some lemongrass in my yard, so I added them to the frying chicken with garlic and onions. When everything browned, I added the hot rice and water from the rice cooker. I then slow cooked the mix, separated the meat from the bones, and added salt until there was slight flavor, making sure to scrape the bottom when mixing. When it turned into gruel, it was ready to eat. With each bowl a soup, you add a thin layer of light soy sauce, and hot sauce. Don't stir it! Just scoop it up and eat it.
The oppression of humans is not the Wrath of God. We are instructed to fight oppression. Though fighting may seem overwhelming, is that not better than being overwhelmed by evil? Perhaps Allah will grant us a swift and easy victory. Certainly Allah knows who the hypocrites are. And don't follow unbelievers who say that they will help bear your burdens. How can they bear the problems of others with their selfish skepticism and lack of faith? That's illogical, and by their standards.
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Letter to Julia 20120412
In the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Merciful.
Yeah, it's chili time again at Casa de Julia! This time, the batch of chili was made with a cheap kind of chilli sauce (instead of tomato paste) that her cook bought in bulk, because it was cheap. Thus her cook couldn't eat too much of the chili, even though it tasted good, because it gave the cook gastritis, or acid reflux. But the chili worked excellently when matched with other items! So on the menu tonight is chicken and beans tacos, made with fried chicken, chili, blackened onions, and home made soft flour tortillas with BIG air bubbles in them. Oh, what a soft and savory dinner!
Allah will test the faith of everyone. We can't just say, "We believe," and not expect our faith to be tested. This is something I can't save you from, nobody can save you from Allah except Allah. This is your personal relationship with God, where your own personal convictions and decisions will be put to the test, for God and the the world to see your true colors. Do the evil ones think they will not be called to account? In the end, Allah will save the righteous, and destroy the wrongdoers.
Yeah, it's chili time again at Casa de Julia! This time, the batch of chili was made with a cheap kind of chilli sauce (instead of tomato paste) that her cook bought in bulk, because it was cheap. Thus her cook couldn't eat too much of the chili, even though it tasted good, because it gave the cook gastritis, or acid reflux. But the chili worked excellently when matched with other items! So on the menu tonight is chicken and beans tacos, made with fried chicken, chili, blackened onions, and home made soft flour tortillas with BIG air bubbles in them. Oh, what a soft and savory dinner!
Allah will test the faith of everyone. We can't just say, "We believe," and not expect our faith to be tested. This is something I can't save you from, nobody can save you from Allah except Allah. This is your personal relationship with God, where your own personal convictions and decisions will be put to the test, for God and the the world to see your true colors. Do the evil ones think they will not be called to account? In the end, Allah will save the righteous, and destroy the wrongdoers.
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Letter to Julia 20120411
n the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Merciful.
And I definitely don't want to tour. Hey, I've become old: I spent most of my life abroad, and now that I'm old, and am not renting anymore, I refuse to travel unless absolutely necessary. No, traveling for the sake of some corporate protocol and community is NOT necessary. Hey, I have to protect the knowledge given to me by Allah, and I don't want what I have learned to be warped by the materialistic opinions of some committee! What the hell?
No, the real reason I don't want to tour is that my parents are old, and I've become too old, and too lazy, to tour. I DON'T want to go to South America, or anywhere else, even though I've never been there. I just want to snuggle up with my sweetie in our beloved home, raise a family, and try to be happy for a change. InsyaAllah. They can come over here to exotic Perlis, and listen to my singing.
With Allah as my witness, they are already coming in trickles to observe how I serve Allah with music. The nature of water is truly complex: we all have seen how a trickle can turn into a stream into a river into a waterfall, by the Will of Allah. What I'm most concerned is with this flood of people, InsyaAllah, there will be those who sincerely seek guidance. So come and join us in Islam, oh sincere ones, so we may return to God as one faith. The imams and teachers here had better brush up on their English and foreign languages.
You, my beloved Julia, please come to my arms, join me in Islam, and embrace my love in marriage. I want to marry YOU my love, please come to me. And don't ever be of any help to the rejectors of faith.
And I definitely don't want to tour. Hey, I've become old: I spent most of my life abroad, and now that I'm old, and am not renting anymore, I refuse to travel unless absolutely necessary. No, traveling for the sake of some corporate protocol and community is NOT necessary. Hey, I have to protect the knowledge given to me by Allah, and I don't want what I have learned to be warped by the materialistic opinions of some committee! What the hell?
No, the real reason I don't want to tour is that my parents are old, and I've become too old, and too lazy, to tour. I DON'T want to go to South America, or anywhere else, even though I've never been there. I just want to snuggle up with my sweetie in our beloved home, raise a family, and try to be happy for a change. InsyaAllah. They can come over here to exotic Perlis, and listen to my singing.
With Allah as my witness, they are already coming in trickles to observe how I serve Allah with music. The nature of water is truly complex: we all have seen how a trickle can turn into a stream into a river into a waterfall, by the Will of Allah. What I'm most concerned is with this flood of people, InsyaAllah, there will be those who sincerely seek guidance. So come and join us in Islam, oh sincere ones, so we may return to God as one faith. The imams and teachers here had better brush up on their English and foreign languages.
You, my beloved Julia, please come to my arms, join me in Islam, and embrace my love in marriage. I want to marry YOU my love, please come to me. And don't ever be of any help to the rejectors of faith.
Qur'an 20120411
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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My Lord knows best who it is that brings true guidance, and who is in manifest error.
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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My Lord knows best who it is that brings true guidance, and who is in manifest error.
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