In the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Merciful.
49. No, here are Signs self-evident in the hearts of those endowed with knowledge, and none but the unjust reject Our Signs.
50. Yet they say, "Why are not Signs sent down to him from his Lord?" Say: "The Signs are indeed with Allah, and I am indeed a clear warner."
51. And is it not enough for them that We sent down to you the Book which is rehearsed to them? Verily, in it is Mercy and a Reminder to those who believe.
52. Say: "Enough is Allah for a Witness between me and you: God knows what is in the heavens and on earth, and it is those who believe in vanities and reject Allah, that will perish."
53. They ask you to hasten on the Punishment: had it not been for a term appointed, the Punishment would certainly have come to them, and it will certainly reach them- of a sudden, while they perceive not!
54. They ask you to hasten on the Punishment: but of a surety, hell will encompass the rejecters of Faith!
55. On the Day that the Punishment shall cover them from above them and from below them, and shall say: "Taste you of your deeds!"
56. O My servants who believe! Truly spacious is My Earth, therefore serve you Me!
57. Every soul shall have a taste of death: in the end to Us shall you be brought back.
58. But those who believe, and work deeds of righteousness- to them shall We give a Home in Heaven: lofty mansions which flow rivers, to dwell therein for aye- an excellent reward for those who do!
59. Those who persevere in patience, and put their trust in their Lord and Cherisher.
60. How many are the creatures that carry not their own sustenance? It is Allah who feeds them and you, for God hears and knows.
61. If indeed you ask them who has created the heavens and the earth, and subjected the sun and the moon, they will certainly reply, "Allah". How are they then deluded away?
62. Allah enlarges the sustenance to whichever of God's servants God pleases: and God grants by measure, for Allah has full knowledge of all things.
63. And if indeed you ask them who it is that sends down rain from the sky, and gives life therewith to the earth after its death, they will certainly reply, "Allah!" Say: "Praise be to Allah!" but most of them understand not.
The Spider 29:49-63
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The Signs are indeed with Allah, and I am indeed a clear warner.
Enough is Allah for a Witness between me and you: God knows what is in the heavens and on earth, and it is those who believe in vanities and reject Allah, that will perish.
Praise be to Allah!
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Letter to Julia 20120418
In the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Merciful.
How are you today, my dearest beauty? Oh my Julia, you are the most beautiful girl in the world to me, you are all I could ever dream of in a girl. I long to be with you, and I long for a long and happy life, and afterlife together. I pray you are taking good care of yourself, and that you are maintaining your prayers. I wasn't scolding you last time, my dearest. You know I love you, perhaps I was simply longing too much for you. It is simply that since where I am and what I am doing here is the cutting edge of music insyaAllah, then anything and everywhere else is not. That would make anything and everywhere else the trend followers instead of the trend setters. Sure, I need money to marry you, because I want to give you the best life and love. But meanwhile, you will miss the most of the expansion of this phenomenon, and most importantly the point of expansion.
But Allah is the Master Creator, so all the credit goes to God. The music comes from God, and will return to God. It's nothing really new either, just like everything else out there is some sort of recycled hash. Here, it's just a bunch of ghosts and weather distortion. Just like the destruction of cities and communities is nothing new. And much of the shit that I recorded and composed in the past is just shit, which by they way, does NOT have my consent to be released posthumously (I mean ALL of it, people). It's like watching TV, and you would switch to a channel at some random moment that has a show that resonates with what is happening to your life at the moment, and the show is 20 years old. Perhaps what is fascinating is what people perceive as random. Louise Brooks once preached that, "Everything happens by chance, and it is the people who think they have everything under control that get into the most trouble." She was right about control, but I don't think that chance exists. Putting aside theology for a moment, may Allah forgive me, I don't believe that "random" exists. This comes from working with computers all my life. What is "random" is actually a program, or a mathematical equation. After all, the machine needs to be told what to do, so what is "random" has to be programmed. In real life, an occurence that is "random" is the end of a sequence of events which could have originated from a point far away or at the same place at some different time which carries some sort of emotional meaning to the observer. If there is no observer, or if the observer doesn't care, then the event is meaningless. Increase of entropy becomes negligible with the vast expansion of space to the point where only space is able to be observed and not its entropy. Then consider the doors to more space where entropy can be sucked away, like black holes. And the Big Bang could be a white hole, or the explosion of a black hole, for what black hole can hold infinite mass? The white hole being an event among many similar events which create order out of chaos. So the universe is actually a multiverse, with various loops of sequence of events, for anyone who cares enough to notice. And chaos itself eventually reverts to order. The broken cup pieces itself together again and jumps back onto the table in the next life. But humans want to think of a universe with a beginning and end because humans are born and die. Allah is Eternal.
So we go back to theology, of course there is absolutely a Judgement Day. Humans die, and that is a Judgement Day. The extinction of the human race is a Judgement Day. The observer of theology is the human being. Of course humans will be raised again to life after death. Just as they were born in the first place, or wouldn't have been born if the sperm had swum elsewhere. Flesh and bones are put together in a sequence of events, and taken apart in another sequence of events. And the emotional meanings, and the actions thereof, of the humans is what is judged on THE Judgement Day.
I love you, Julia.
How are you today, my dearest beauty? Oh my Julia, you are the most beautiful girl in the world to me, you are all I could ever dream of in a girl. I long to be with you, and I long for a long and happy life, and afterlife together. I pray you are taking good care of yourself, and that you are maintaining your prayers. I wasn't scolding you last time, my dearest. You know I love you, perhaps I was simply longing too much for you. It is simply that since where I am and what I am doing here is the cutting edge of music insyaAllah, then anything and everywhere else is not. That would make anything and everywhere else the trend followers instead of the trend setters. Sure, I need money to marry you, because I want to give you the best life and love. But meanwhile, you will miss the most of the expansion of this phenomenon, and most importantly the point of expansion.
But Allah is the Master Creator, so all the credit goes to God. The music comes from God, and will return to God. It's nothing really new either, just like everything else out there is some sort of recycled hash. Here, it's just a bunch of ghosts and weather distortion. Just like the destruction of cities and communities is nothing new. And much of the shit that I recorded and composed in the past is just shit, which by they way, does NOT have my consent to be released posthumously (I mean ALL of it, people). It's like watching TV, and you would switch to a channel at some random moment that has a show that resonates with what is happening to your life at the moment, and the show is 20 years old. Perhaps what is fascinating is what people perceive as random. Louise Brooks once preached that, "Everything happens by chance, and it is the people who think they have everything under control that get into the most trouble." She was right about control, but I don't think that chance exists. Putting aside theology for a moment, may Allah forgive me, I don't believe that "random" exists. This comes from working with computers all my life. What is "random" is actually a program, or a mathematical equation. After all, the machine needs to be told what to do, so what is "random" has to be programmed. In real life, an occurence that is "random" is the end of a sequence of events which could have originated from a point far away or at the same place at some different time which carries some sort of emotional meaning to the observer. If there is no observer, or if the observer doesn't care, then the event is meaningless. Increase of entropy becomes negligible with the vast expansion of space to the point where only space is able to be observed and not its entropy. Then consider the doors to more space where entropy can be sucked away, like black holes. And the Big Bang could be a white hole, or the explosion of a black hole, for what black hole can hold infinite mass? The white hole being an event among many similar events which create order out of chaos. So the universe is actually a multiverse, with various loops of sequence of events, for anyone who cares enough to notice. And chaos itself eventually reverts to order. The broken cup pieces itself together again and jumps back onto the table in the next life. But humans want to think of a universe with a beginning and end because humans are born and die. Allah is Eternal.
So we go back to theology, of course there is absolutely a Judgement Day. Humans die, and that is a Judgement Day. The extinction of the human race is a Judgement Day. The observer of theology is the human being. Of course humans will be raised again to life after death. Just as they were born in the first place, or wouldn't have been born if the sperm had swum elsewhere. Flesh and bones are put together in a sequence of events, and taken apart in another sequence of events. And the emotional meanings, and the actions thereof, of the humans is what is judged on THE Judgement Day.
I love you, Julia.
Qur'an 20120418
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.
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.
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.
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