Qur'an 20180429

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

23.  Say, "It is God Who has created you, and made for you the faculties of hearing, sight, feeling and understanding.  Little thanks it is you give."

24.  Say, "It is God Who has multiplied you through the earth, and to God shall you be gathered together."

25.  They ask, "When will this promise be, if you are telling the truth?"

26.  Say, "As to the knowledge of the time, it is with Allah alone.  I am only to warn plainly in public."

27.  At length when they see it close at hand. grieved will be the faces of the unbelievers, and it will be said, "This is what you were calling for!"

28.  Say, "Do you see?  If Allah were to destroy me and those with me, or if God bestows God's mercy on us, yet who can deliver the unbelievers from a grievous penalty?"

29.  Say, "God is the Most
Gracious.  We have believed in God, and on God have we put our trust.  So, soon will you know who it is that is in manifest error."

30.  Say, "Do you see?  If your
streams be some morning lost, who then can supply you with clear flowing water?"

The Dominion 67:23-29
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Dumb and dumber

Hi Honey!  How are you today?  I'm feeling a bit stupid, so I won't talk much.  It's a nice day, I stayed at home, I cut the grass a bit.  Dinner was steamed rice with teriyaki chicken and spicy okra.  I hope you had a great day, and are feeling great.

Hey Natty Honey!  I hope you are having a nice day.  Today the computer wants you to watch "Dumb and Dumber" from 1994.

Hi Honey

Nice to see you again.  I hope you're feeling better, and that everything is running smoothly for you.  It's about 12 days to Election Day, so it's time for me to be more antisocial than I normally am, and avoid people as much as possible.  Out of sight, out of mind hopefully.  Out of the question!  Today is Friday, so I went for Friday prayers as usual.  I planted some cashew trees over at your house inshaAllah at the behest of my mother.  She's been bugging me for more cashew trees lately.  Dinner was spicy beef, onion and eggplant burritos.  Good, and greasy.  I guess I should have taken a snapshot of them, but they look like burritos.  So what, huh?  Want one?

Oh Nattikins, how cute!  You look like a child.  You look like a young boy.  You look like a rebel in sneakers.  I guess wearing high heels would make the difference between looking like a boy or a  girl.  Hm.

Sleepy...

Oh, so sleepy.  I woke up late, and felt like a zombie all morning, each heartbeat was a chore.  My fault really, I stayed up late listening to music (work, you know) then woke up at 4:22 am so I did some extra worship.  I fell back to sleep after the dawn prayer, but I didn't really truly wake up until after voice training.  Rehearsal went quite well actually, there's something about being sleepy when singing love songs that enhances the singing.  If I could only stay awake...  I had to go buy eggs for my Mom in the evening, then had dinner at Ina's.  Which was good enough excuse for me not to do any yard work.  I'm so lazy.  If only you were here so we could make love...  How are you doing, Honey?  I hope your work is going easy for you.   Try to have fun, and please pray.

Hey Natty Honey, how's it going with you?  Are you staying busy?  It must be nice to be so pretty.  Everyday is like a dream in fairyland.  😁  Keep yourself safe, my precious one.  And don't forget to pray.

Hi Honey

How are you today?  I hope everything is running smoothly for you.  Don't you worry about a thing Honey, everything will turn out just great inshaAllah.  Oh, it's just the same old same old for me today.  I did my laundry this morning.  I had ramen for lunch.  I love ramen.  I taught the others in the chat room how to make a bowl of ramen.  The order is hot water, seasoning packet, greens, fish cake, noodle brick, and egg last.  Voice training was OK.  I was going along at full steam when at the 70 minute mark, a tickle came into my throat which turned into a coughing fit and near ruined my set.  What could have been a 99% perfect turned out 85%.  A reminder that whatever Allah gives can be taken back at any given moment.  I cut the grass in the evening and picked a few mangoes.  Not the Harumanis, but a hybrid tree that my grandmother planted.  A very fruitful tree, but not as sweet.

How about you, Natty Honey?  How's it going, Gorgeous Girl?  I hope I didn't spook you with the last letter.  But you know as well as I that life isn't supposed to be easy.  Don't worry Honey, I'll take care of you and I won't abandon you inshaAllah.  No movie today.  Maybe you can refer a movie for me.  If I can find it, that is.  It might take me a while.

This my apprentice, Gwen.

Of course

We can't just allow evil to do whatever it pleases, we have to get in its way, stop it, make it difficult, make its rewards unrewarding.  Yeah, they do have a lot of power.  But Allah is the Most Powerful.  So you must have God be with you in what you do.  Do not render false worship in your work, or you will be abandoned.  So if you want to set up a peaceful retreat by the beach, by all means do so and don't be cowed by your competitors.  You do need to get someone reliable to drive- that's a big reason why my situation is so right for me, because I don't have to go anywhere, and I have audience coming to me from all directions.  Allah set it up that way.  You know, you don't have to fight.  You may not see it that way, but it's the privilege of the female that the man do all the fighting.  Just keep yourself safe, and point to me when they come to bug you.

Natty Honey, how are you doing?  Are you having tons of fun?  You make sure you keep safe, OK?  I don't want anything bad to ever happen to you my love, but it's hard to truly appreciate the value of life without experiencing tragedy, because tragedy is understanding.  Ya Allah, please protect my wives.  Natty, the computer wants you to watch "The Matrix Revolutions" again.  I mentioned something like this before, that the hero is both the man and the woman.

Good Muslim wife

Well, it's almost fasting month again.  Ramadan will begin on May 16 this year inshaAllah.  I love Ramadan because many intensely strange things happen during that month.  By now I hope you have realized that you are part of an international business, not due to your or my influence, but because Allah made it so.  It should be clear to you that USA and Canada need you to represent them in this Rock and Roll business.  They will not allow you to conduct international business independently.  But not everyone is bad, there are still good people in this world.  And Allah was the One Who put you in my path that I be interested to marry you.  But I cannot be married to a non-Muslim.  You know this, and when the time/money comes inshaAllah, then Allah will inform me as to whether you have the integrity, chastity, and piety to be my Muslim wife inshaAllah, otherwise I will be told to find some other blonde to marry.  Now don't get a sinking feeling as to what a Muslim wife is.  Don't get ridiculous stereotypes in your head that you have to wear a burqa, strap a bomb to yourself underneath your clothes and blow up innocent people.  That is not Islam.  Allah will make your Islam easy for you.  You will perhaps even find fasting to be easy, especially if you have a bird-like appetite to begin with.  The most difficult thing for you to do, I estimate, is to maintain the 5 daily prayers, which we will do together inshaAllah.  Which puts you at the same level as millions upon millions upon millions of other people who can't pray 5 times a day who call themselves "Muslim".