Sunday, September 23, 2012

Letter to Julia 20120924

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

My dearest Julia, I'm still perfectly capable of doing my own laundry, even though I'm bad and lazy at it.  I can cook for myself, and I even clean up after myself, and others, when I'm forced to.  I don't don't want to consume your hard earned money, for what I want is my own wealth that comes directly from Allah.  InsyaAllah.  So I can take good care of you.  I am here to give you love, stability, and your own family.  A family to call your own, a family to belong to.  There is no other "Mrs. Abdullah".  I have never been married.  Our Lord is Allah, and Muslim women keep their names when they marry, so you will always be Julia Stegner.  By the way, "Mrs. Abdullah" would mean my father's wife.  But Julia, I love you.  I am perfectly satisfied with just you for this life, and the hereafter.  InsyaAllah.  I need to be married.  I want to marry you.

Friday, September 21, 2012

Letter to Julia 20120922

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

Hi Julia, my beloved young bride! It's been a busy Friday for me, doing mundane things.  I started the morning growling and swearing, though I normally don't bitch so much, because it took me forever to get out the door.  I'm just not a morning person.  Then, I was drowning in a sea of cats.  MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW etc.  Since I can't go to town on Friday because of Friday prayer, I decided to do some house cleaning for my parents, so as to cut my Sunday workload in half, so as not to get a heart attack trying to get all the Sunday work done before voice training at 2pm.  Why must I do voice training at the same time everyday, you may ask?  Because I'm trying to create a tourist attraction, that's why.  But I just can't hang with all the laundry and ironing.  I hate laundry and ironing.  It hurts my feet.  Bat Cat hates my feet.  He keeps attacking them, and I don't blame him.  My feet are trashed.  What to eat?  Leftovers, which I usually have plenty of, because I always cook for us, because I love you.  It's been a busy Friday, just doing stuff.  I just finished mending my pants.  That's another thing I'm bad at, besides house cleaning, laundry, and ironing, is sewing.  I can't hold a needle and thread without tensing up.  I'm afraid you rule the rag trade in the family, my dearest Julia.

Qur'an 20120922

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

2.  The revelation of the Book is from Allah, the Exalted in Power, full of Wisdom.

3.  We created not the heavens and the earth, and all between them but for just ends, and for a term appointed.  But those who reject Faith turn away from that whereof they are warned.

4.  Say, "Do you see what it is you invoke besides Allah?  Show me what it is they have created on earth, or have they a share in the heavens?  Bring me a Book before this, or any remnant of knowledge, if you are telling the truth!"

5.  And who is more astray than one who invokes, besides Allah, such as will not answer him on the Day of Judgment, and who are unconscious of their call?

6.  And when mankind are gathered together, they will be hostile to them, and reject their worship.

7.  When Our Clear Signs are rehearsed to them, the unbelievers say of the Truth when it comes to them, "This is nothing but evident sorcery!"

8.  Or do they say, "He has forged it"?  Say, "Had I forged it, then can you obtain nothing for me from Allah.  God knows best whereof you talk!  Enough is God for a witness between me and you!  And God is Oft-Forgiving, most Merciful."

9.  Say, "I am no bringer of new doctrine among the messengers, nor do I know what will be done with me, or with you.  I follow that which is revealed to me by inspiration.  I am but a Warner, open and clear."

10  Say, "Do you see?  If this be from Allah, and you reject it, and a witness from among the Children of Israel testifies to its similarity, and has believed while you are arrogant.  Truly, Allah guides not a people unjust."

Winding sand-tracts 46:2-10
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Do you see what it is you invoke besides Allah?  Show me what it is they have created on earth, or have they a share in the heavens?  Bring me a Book before this, or any remnant of knowledge, if you are telling the truth!

Had I forged it, then can you obtain nothing for me from Allah.  God knows best whereof you talk!  Enough is God for a witness between me and you!  And God is Oft-Forgiving, most Merciful.

I am no bringer of new doctrine among the messengers, nor do I know what will be done with me, or with you.  I follow that which is revealed to me by inspiration.  I am but a Warner, open and clear.

Do you see?  If this be from Allah, and you reject it, and a witness from among the Children of Israel testifies to its similarity, and has believed while you are arrogant.  Truly, Allah guides not a people unjust.

Qur'an 20120919

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

22.  Allah created the heavens and the earth for just ends, and in order that each soul may find the recompense of what it has earned, and none of them be wronged.

23.  Then do you see such a one that takes as his god his own vain desire?  Allah has knowingly left him astray, and sealed his hearing and his heart, and put a cover on his sight.  Who then, will guide him after Allah?  Will you not then receive admonition?

24.  And they say, "What is there but the life of this world?  We shall die and we live, and nothing but time can destroy us."  But of that they have no knowledge: they merely conjecture.

25.  And when Our Clear Signs are rehearsed to them, their argument is nothing but this: they say, "Bring our
forefathers, if what you say is true!"

26. Say, "It is Allah who gives you life, then gives you death.  Then God will gather you together for the Day of Judgment about which there is no doubt."  But most men do not understand.

The kneeling down 45:22-26
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It is Allah who gives you life, then gives you death.  Then God will gather you together for the Day of Judgment about which there is no doubt.

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

letter to Julia 20120920

In the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Merciful

Hi Julia, my beloved!  How are you feeling today?  Molten indecision?  Me, I'm getting old, and losing my mind.  I'm sorry I didn't blog yesterday, because it was raining heavily.  And today, I forgot my flash drive, so I have to type everything in again.  If I don't post a letter everyday, it's not because I don't love you.  I love you with all my heart.  I love you, and I want to marry you.  You are the one I love, and I choose to marry you.  It's just sometimes I just can't make it to town to the internet cafe to blog.  And I usually don't go on Fridays because of Friday prayer, and on Sundays I have to clean my parents' house.  Please forgive me.

Monday, September 17, 2012

Letter to Julia 20120918

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

Hello again, my beloved young Julia.  I do so love you, and I do so long to marry you, but right now all I have to offer you are these letters, so please forgive me.  You are the most beautiful girl in the world to me, and you are all I could ever dream of in a girl.  Please have patience with me until Allah grants me my own wealth, so I can afford to give you a good married life.  I love you.

Letter to Julia 20120917

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

Hello there, my dearest princess Julia!  How are you feeling today, my love?  Smile!  Say, did you know that I share the same birthday as Karolina Kurkova?  Does it mean that if you were to make love to me, it would be the same as making love to Karolina Kurkova?  Errr... no, I don't think so.  But I think I can safely say that I have a bigger one than Karolina.  It's not great, but it's bigger than hers.

I saw a big ass snake in my yard yesterday.  I had just finished voice training, and it had just stopped raining.  That's when all the beasts become super active, is when it just stops raining.  It was a dark snake about 2m long, with dark stripes, and it was crawling along the brick wall that separates my house and my parents' house.  I went to get a weapon, and I got an extra long bamboo, and went back to tackle the snake.  By then it had propped itself against the front wall in an L shape by the big mango tree, and it was staring at me.  It wasn't aggressive, but I think it was waiting for me to make the first move, and since it was braced against the wall, it could push hard to jump at me.  I got the wrong weapon: I couldn't hit it from the top, right, or left because of the wall and the tree.  I could only attack it with a forward thrust, and the bamboo was too weak for that.  Plus the snake would have a chance for counter-attack if I had missed.  So I rattled the leaves of the mango tree to let it slip away, then went for a heavier weapon: a long steel bar with a flat spade head.  I went around the wall to kill it from the other side, but it had gone, or gone hiding.  Grrrr.

Certainly there are the type of people who are stubborn, and pretend they didn't hear instructions being given by the Qur'an, and the Signs of God being rehearsed in front of them, and they joke about it.  Let them laugh at their own unprofitable business.  But you are righteous, so you must forgive those who do not look forward to the Days of Allah, whether those days be now or the hereafter.