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I made these graphs reflecting how fast Islam spread in Iran when Muslims were on the ball (prolly like around the year 500 Hijri or so). This took place over 250-300 years:

1.

then if you take the derivitive of that you get the rate at which they converted:

2.

then if you take the dervative of that, you get how hard Muslims had to try (Jihad level) to spread Islam (and of course in order to teach something about Islam to somebody else, you need to learn it fully, implement it, then you could teach it):

3.

This (just above) is actually the most interesting to me. First notice that this is the amount of struggle (or "Jihad") that is REQUIRED to keep up justice via Islam (the optimal way to deliver the highest amount of justice); of course there can be more struggling than just the required to keep it up. You know how there's that Hadith we keep hearing about Jihad-un-Nafs being the "greater" Jihad, well some say that that is a weak hadith and blah blah, but lets just say that it was true.

before analyzing it, lemme reiterate:

Once the Islamic State was established, after the battles and stuff, prophet Muhammad pbuh, supposedly (cuz like i said this may be a weak hadith) said that now will be the "greater Jihad." So the Q is: greater in what sense? and I think it is referring to the end of this graph. Where there isn't much need for Jihad, meaning that there isn't too much corruption, if at all, you could kinda chill, and go w/ the flow and still be good Muslims, free of any major sins, etc. but if there is a lot of corruption, and amidst oppression, that corruption and oppression itself will remind you to keep going w/ the struggle -- it serves as motivation. It's like trying to loose weight, if you go on a diet and exercise -- sure that's one heck of a lot of work and deprivation, and what not, BUT after the diet, comes maintenence, and statistically 90% of the ppl that lose weight gain it back, why? because it requires maintenance. Maintenance is easier than dieting, you could pretty much eat regular food, controlled amounts, and work out about half or 3/5 as much as when dieting, so it actually is easier, but keeping up w/ it, w/o having the motivation of "I'm fat, i've gotta do something about it," it becomes nearly impossible. So when the Islamic State is established, the act of establishing it was very tough, but keeping it strong, IN A SENSE is tougher -- like maintenance after losing weight. Which one is more Thawab? I'm pretty sure its the actual fighting Jihad thing -- cuz i mean staring death in the face for the sake of Allah takes some serious Iman.

That first graph is all I got -- which was from a non-Muslim source -- mind you, and it was about when Iran came to Islam (before it was Zoroastrian or something)... but this pattern is very common -- whether Islam has spread through peaceful interaction (for example by trade like in Indonesia), or conquest (where a strong Islamic State destroys a corrupt/oppressive non-Muslim government, doesn't hurt civilians in the process, and establishes justice, which includes feeding the poor, etc) -- civilians learn about Islam and convert in accordance to the pattern described by graph 1. 

SOOOOOO... as Imam Musa said "Rome came to Islam, Persia came to Islam, America can come to Islam!" or something like that... my Q is, where are we at now on the curve? can we meet the minimum "Jihad willingness amount"?

I would say we haven't even gotten to start that graph yet, we still have to have that high level of jihad first, and political tension like that was caused by 9/11 could just have been the necessary catalyst reactions to get us going (no disrespect to the victims of 9/11, many of which were Muslims anyway!), but in our case we experienced a little spark which died down for a while -- ie Malcolm X and that whole revolution -- why did that happen, Allah knows, but I think because if Islam would have spread at Malcolm's time that would have been an effort of primarily Black Muslims only, but if Islam spreads now, it is the effort of several cultures and races, of which one (very strong) race/culture is African-Americans (ie "Black" bros/sisters).

So the Q is "do we make the cut" -- I really really don't know, not now, the way I see it our parents were just in the very very beginning of the curve, as a "set-up" -- put us in the economical position, made us "seen," planted the seed -- it is up to us to grow and produce the fruit (our children) (so be sure to have a heck of a lot of children ;-), which i could go on about as well, ie the tremendous opportunity we have, cuz "Americans" (ie White and white-washed) people really don't want kids, which makes their future generation smaller in size than now (possibly)) ). However there are still currently a WHOLE LOT of Muslim kids that are very lost in this material world, so they might have to wait another couple of generations, but inshAllah I do think we'll make it, but we'd be more like the "Buzurgs" (urdu word for respectable old men w/ lots of wisdom and knowledge) who would feed the wisdom to our children, the youth, who would be the driving force. And growing the trees includes things like, building the Masjids, the Islamic Schools and Colleges (like places to go to become Alims), etc. And right there America would have to make a decision -- to go Musa pbuh's route or to peacefully learn about Islam, and the great thing about Americans (and yeah i'm one of them), is that we are very tolerant, and eager to learn, so both routes are really fair game --i really wish for the peaceful route. But anyway, one thing is pretty much for certain inshAllah, America will come to Islam, the only two questions are would they like to take the easy way or the hard way? and how long will the process take? It took Iran 250 to 300 years, and those were the strongest, amongst the best Muslims ever who were doing the Dawah, so for us it might take longer, so just "Surah Asr" until then, ie, have Iman, do the right things (according to Islam), and have sabr. However, we do have one advantage -- the liquidity of communication, like the internet, phones, TV, etc.

actually judging if we are even on the curve or in the beginning is pretty weird -- partially because we don't have just a straight typical curve, we have all this other stuff going on like the Civil Rights movement, it's impact on the Muslim movement, external Muslim/non-Muslim involvement, the lack of a caliph, disturbance w/in the Ummah. There's that whole natural separation going on even w/in the Ummah like how there's the Muslims, and the hypocrites that kinda are diverging in their own ways, all of that, but then again, this really is an overall assessment which includes all of these factors, which will be much better made 500 years from now.

And another very cool thing to look forward to (actually, we'll prolly never see it cuz we'll be dead) is, because of the amount of influence we have over the WORLD, that the Islamic influence may also spread over the World inshAllah... and this is also why I love the name "Zaytuna Institute," That Hamza Yusuf has started up, it really really makes sense, cuz you plant the olive tree, wait a heck of a long time and let it grow, roots get firmly established, the tree gets strong, and after a long time, it produces fruit, and I think we are at the baby tree phase. 

http://www.geocities.com/thapassionateone/signs

that's atif's page... mashAllah good stuff... look at it all and reflect.

Time to bust an analogy (and analogies within analogies)-- 

I'm gonna show two analogies made by Prophet Muhammad pbuh, and Sheikh Ali Shafi'i from SD (the Philipino brother -- not Ron), (color coded, ketchup and mustard colors by coincidence), then tie them together:

I've heard this hadith several times, couldn't find it, but it's a known one:

"The Muslim Ummah is like a body, when one part suffers the whole body suffers" -- technically paraphrased, but i've heard it so many times, i put it in quotes, which might not be a good idea, but i'm safe cuz of my regular disclaimer that always applies

Every organelle in our cell has a purpose, it's a diverse purpose, some parts deal with the production of the DNA, some with the reading and translating, and some with stuff that's totally different like the cell wall that keeps the inside protected and interfaces with other cells, or the cytoplasm that provides the environment for all the other organelles -- but the point is that every organelle has a purpose -- and that is to make a cell. And every cell has a purpose, and that is to make tissue, and every tissue has a purpose, that is to make an organ (or another more complicated piece of equipment), and every organ has a purpose, and that purpose is to make a body, does it not make sense that the body has a purpose too? -- and Muslims believe that that purpose is to worship Allah, and Allah alone.

(worship = submitting and obeying him -- whether it means to pray 5 times a day, fast, or greet your neighbor with a smile)

come to think of it this was Ali Shafi'i paraphrasing another MAJOR scholar's work

Ok now here's how I tie all of this together, Brother Aslam Patel (my Tajweed teacher), said that Prophet Muhammad pbuh's word will never be untrue, we were talking about the signs of the day of judgment and stuff, but his statement applies here too. To go with prophet Muhammad pbuh's and whoever Ali was quoting's analogy of the world wide Ummah upside down here's what we get:

Islam is like an onion -- not that it stinks cuz it doesn't -- but that it has layers (and it could make you cry). At the highest (dunya (=(material)world)) level -- there is the world-wide coverage of Islam -- if perfectly implemented there would be world peace which does not mean that there would not be criminals -- just that they would be well under control. Another level down is the national level, that within the government there is peace if established Islamically. another level down is Islam in a society, if established there would be no social fitna (social conflicts? loosely translated). another level down -- the not-just-immediate-but-extended-family, if Islam is implemented well, there would be no, oh lets say, people would get along with there in laws per se. another level down is within the family -- if islam was implemented family conflicts would be extremely low -- well below the famous "law of 7 percent" (which means that as long as a society is under 7% of "screw ups," its in good shape); for example divorce rates, we're at a disgusting >60%; child abuse is rampant; drug abuse, spousal abuse, Adultery (while being married in particular) -- you name it, our "modern," "westernised" world has it all). And finally another level down, peace within ourselves -- the "organelles" -- remedied by praying, fasting, being nice nice to people, not lying/stealing/cheating, etc. 

So in order to build the "Body" which is often used as a analogy to the Muslim Ummah, it starts at the organelles, us individually. We need to accept Islam "fully"^{(TM) Omar Qureishi}, learn it, implement it, then teach it-- then we'll have the organelle part down. Then comes the cell, once we are implementing, and teaching, the cell should have no problem inshAllah, (ie the family), and it is important to do whatever it takes to pull the family along and allow other family members to pull you along in order to make the best cell possible. Then comes the tissue part -- the extended family / society, like friends, local Muslims, etc --  once you -- the organelle -- and your family -- are good to go, spreading the positive (keyword: POSITIVE, in attitude, humbleness, etc, off topic, if you dont' get what i mean in this set of parentheses, not ur fault) influence is not much of a large step, then once you get a couple of them hooked, they'll start pulling their "cell" along as well. once the tissue (ext. fam/ society) is built, build the organ -- the country (which, if country is big enough, means to build the cities, states, etc) -- once that is done, you have a nice "lock" on things. known as "Islamic State." if done right, there will be no poverty (and this is not a "Utopia," it has been done -- just look at spain of a few hundred years ago before the crusades), the whole sexual part of life will be under control, for example the concept of "sex sells" would be exterminated, etc. And the beauty of it all is that it's "Locked," it's not like somebody could just be like, uhh i feel like watching dirty movies -- because there won't be any! and there would be severe concequences -- so severe that it would be not worth it to risk making such things available or going out to get them; on top of all that there's the fear of Allah, and the constant remembrance of Allah, the integration of Islam into the school system, it's like a country made out of Surah Asr!!! once you've got many organs going like this, then comes the body -- "world peace" -- and I personally believe that it was VERY possible for Islam to spread at that calibur at the time of the Caliphs, but it didn't just because globalization wasn't so fluid. But now we have the tools, but we fear death and love the Dunya (= material world, roughly translated).

Just the way sins domino affect down to the worst level of transgression -- Islam could have that same domino affect, but of course tipping the domino rally in the opposite direction -- in the direction of light not darkness. I think it is VERY possible for Islam to flourish, and we just need to keep up the constant teaching of Islam, and have "Patience" (Surah Asr). Remember Iran -- Islam grew like the statistical "S-Curve" -- slow at first, crazy/awesome growth, then saturated at almost 100% conversion, and remember that it started with the poor (because they have less luggage)... and according to Adeel _____, every hour one person in jail converts to Islam (where the zarya is Islamic preaching programs at jails). (and there are more "poor people" in jail then "rich people" (Exception: Enron, small joke)). 

Allahumma A'Izzah Islama Wal Muslimeen... Ameen (Oh and btw, i dunno if you noticed, but the loudest "Ameen" at Jummah is always at this du'a which tells you that we're probably all on the right track inshAllah, may Allah guide us).

Right now Muslims are not at a state of being a "dead" body -- just terminally ill with a taqdir to live. (dang i'm good -- if i do say so myself). It's going to take hard work, but inshAllah it's very possible. and Ramadan is our "training camp" -- (see Hamza Yusuf's lecture on Ramadan on Dubaibuzz.com (he talks about "Ramadan is about waking up"... talks about how the utter state of Jahiliya (ignorance, roughly translated, but its translation is actually a lot deeper than "ignorance") is characterized by the reactionary state of man, how a jahil person just basically exists through life by reacting to things, and a worse case of jahiliya is reacting to negativity with a disproportionately high amount of even more negativity (THIS SKY BLUE PART USED TO BE A TYPO, A MAJOR TYPO, IT USED TO SAY "POSITIVITY" -- BIG MISTAKE) -- contrast that with Esa pbuh (Jesus), how somebody vulgarly insulted him, and he responded with a disproportionately high amount of POSITIVITY; or how some neighbor lady used to throw trash and filth at prophet Muhammad pbuh, but when she was sick he visited her and prayed for her -- opposite of jahilliya)).

If you're a non-Muslim reading this, this is not my scheme for "World Domination" but a description of an already existing full-on system, that was already implemented at a very large scale -- you think "Alexander the great" was "great" -- read up on Umar (or Omar) the Caliph, after doing so, it'll be like "Alexander the who???"

Of course my standard disclaimer applies, which goes something like this: I'm not an Alim (Scholar in Islam) or anywhere near it, so do not treat any of this as if i was, this is just my thoughts.

"Check It" ^{(TM) Atif Qadeer}:

I knew this, heard it many times, heard/read related things, etc, now its confirmed, oh yeah. (Don't take it as if I'm giving you an excuse to sin, cuz that's not what it is, when the person says "O my Lord! I have sinned, please forgive me," that implies sincerity,  going into the sin thinking that meh... all I have to do is say this and i'm forgiven, is not what this hadith is talking about, because having that attitude is a sign of insincerity, this is not a tax write off... but then again out of Allah's infinite mercy, he may forgive you anyway even if you go in to the sin w/ that attitude. Allah knows best, my regular disclaimers apply as always)

Jury duty, no not the movie, I've got jury duty tomm... and one funny story that i got from google is:

http://www.chiprowe.com/articles/jury.html

from there i got:

• I can tell if people are guilty by looking at them.
• I'm attracted to you, your honor.
• If a police officer told me I was a bug, I would believe him.
• Is it murder if I haven't been caught?
• My religion prohibits me from sitting near other people.
• Would I have to bathe?
• Can each of my personalities vote in deliberations?
• Laws are for sissies.
• Your marshall's handcuffs are turning me on.
• I'm allergic to justice.
• I'm deaf. (Answer questions thereafter by cupping hand and shouting "What?")
• A pit bull named [defendant's first name] just killed my baby.
• I have Tourette's Syndrome, you %$#^%.
• I get dizzy if I try to weigh evidence.
• Have you ever done this, your honor? (Chop off your ear with a razor).
• An eye for an eye? I say we take his head for an eye! (Point at defendant).

(I sensored some of it)

good stuff

here's another:

• When the Bailiff calls out "All rise!" stand up, click your heels, and shout "Ja wohl!"
• Laugh like a loon whenever someone says "jurisprudence."
• Inform the judge that the $10 a day stipend is insufficient, and you will be billing the court at your usual consultation rate.
• After the judge is introduced, kneel and kiss his hand.
• Repeatedly request a sidebar. No, you don't need to know what one is.
• When they question the juror next to you, shout "I object!"
• Bring your teddy bear, Mr. Cuddles, to the courtroom with you. When other people speak, say "Mr. Cuddles can't hear you!"
• Whenever an attorney pauses to refer to his or her notes, shout "Amen!"
• When questioned, persistently blame everything on freemasonry.
• Dress Mr. Cuddles in a tiny John Birch Society T-shirt.
• Make sure the judge knows all about that incident with the mud shark. Offer to show photos.
• Spill coffee on yourself, then ask "Hey, does anybody here want to help me sue McDonalds?" Then laugh and say "Just kidding."
• Address any female attorneys as "Foxy Mama."
• If asked about your willingness to apply the death penalty, declare "I'm agin' killin'

thats from http://www.toadalamode.com/juryduty.html

even tho i never do this (at least I never remember doing this), but I'm deleting part of my previous profile, I wrote it when I was in a bad and stressed out mood, and said things I didn't mean...  so I'm gonna just filter stuff that would be offensive, I still am leaving stuff that was a result of my bad mood-ness. 

... ok i just read it... my bad mood isn't so bad after all, wow I'm impressed, I thought I was going off, saying all kinds of stupid things, not so bad, Alhamdulillah, and I think it has a lot to do with not saying bad words strictly, it REALLY REALLY prevents getting angry... u should strictly stop saying bad words as well if you haven't stopped already... i'ts good for you (and the people around you, especially your family, because I see people displaying their anger in front of their family more than others).

Dunya (which means: this world/ emphasis on material world)...

This profile entry may not make sense, not that other ones do, but this one even less... I've been thinking about writing something like this sooner, but I'm getting around to it now...

As a lot of you know, I finally got that internship I've been longing for, why have i wanted it, well cuz the job market is tough, and this experience could pay off, and it seems like inshAllah it will, and not only that I didn't wanna have to do a masters... I mean I will inshAllah some day but through Boeing, I know this guy there that is doing his in an online course, once a week on his computer 6-9PM, and only goes to USC to take tests, all hook ups through Boeing, it takes like 4-5 years, and you get summers off, but that's still pretty chill in my understanding

anyway, here's what I'm gonna do, give you my schedule, and then "pass parameters" to it like throw in a wife, to see how life changes, and btw, there is a point to all of this, but it's at the end:

anyway... that's not what I wanted to talk about... this is: one of the reasons I wanted this internship was because I wanted to get a glimpse of what working full time would be like, and I'm getting that... in one word, it's a stinkin' pain, so that was more than one word, who cares, its still a stinkin' pain. Here's a typical week for me (and unfortunately the VAST majority of weeks are "typical" weeks): M-Thurs wake up for fajr, plan on 5:00, but really get up after hitting the "snooze" button 3 times and after my dad tells me to wake up and pray Fajr. Then as you all know, I'm fat and really need the excercise, so I go to the gym, do my one hour thing, it really feels good actually, take a shower at the gym and the piece of crap showers don't have curtains! so i have to take a super long towel (actually two towels sewn together), hang it up so that it becomes a curtain, do my thing, then get to work at 8, alhamdulillah it's not far, it could have been MUCH worse, it's in Seal Beach, and LB is an extra 15-20 mins in traffic. and traffic isn't so bad anyway until you pass Seal Beach. work work work, and in the middle of that, you have these meetings, if ur lucky the meeting will be entertaining as well, but half the time they are sooooooo freakin' boring, I mean I'd rather be programming in assembly (I used to say "I'd rather walk bare-foot on snails" but I think assembly programming's worse -- no crunchy sound effects). small joke. small joke. and these days are 8.5 hours, because that .5 hour accumulates over 4 days so that I could take two hours off for Jumma prayer on Friday. So anyway, That gets to be a total of 2.0 hrs + 8.5 hours work + 0.5 hour lunch (stinkin' HR requires it) + about 1.25 hrs commuting, which means that if you add it up, I get back home at like 5:45PM, but realistically, I dunno why, it's actually like a lil closer to 6:00PM when I actually enter the door. I sit down to eat, and O WHOOPTY FREKIN' DO I get to watch freakin' Kkusum on Paki sattellite TV (It's an indian "drama" I hate it more than, pretty much anything really, all the freakin' do is cry for a half an hour, then some other show starts and they cry for another half and hour, omg, what a horrible experience, and in between they show freakin' <<Deleted filtered stuff here see next profile (up)>> commercials with stupid people <<Deleted filtered stuff here see next profile (up)>> and of course there's those bone-headed commercials where there's some dumb brown girl comes out singing and laughing and trying to sell you a phone card or life insurance in ENGLISH, ITS  A DESI CHANNEL <<Deleted filtered stuff here see next profile (up)>> ) but i have to watch that bakwas cause my dad always watches that, and I can't go in any other room to eat (family rules, to protect the carpet). Then I do some chores sometimes or whatever, so its liek 7:00: I'm totally beat by then and I feel like going to sleep but I can't: two reasons: If I sleep I'll mess up my routine, AND Magrib is at 8:15PM, but knowing my dad he'll wake me up at 8:00PM, and that means not getting enough sleep, not getting enough sleep means stress-headaches for a while. so I pray Magrib and its like 8:30PM, from here, I have to make a decision, and the question is how much sleep do you want tonight? if I want 8 hours, I have to go to sleep by 9:30, which leaves 1 hour of "relaxation," and i've tried lessening that amount of sleep, but if i do, i get sleepy at work and slows productivity (and if it's a boring meeting I have to do Jihad-ul-Sleep to stay awake). so four days go by like that, and here comes Friday, it's the same stinkin' thing!!! u'd expect being able to have more of a break but no, there isn't, you still have to go to sleep by latest 10:30 to wake up for fajr on saturday right??, yeah! and here comes the blessed saturday and sunday, well saturday, I really can't complain, its a good day, and so is sunday, but here's the thing with it. you know how "time flies when ur having fun," well if you do something over the weekend, it FLIES BY!!! like crazy! and back to the dreaded boot camp of a life we call Monday through Friday, OR I could refuse to do anything, and just sleep all day, but if I do that, Sunday night I look back at my weekend and say, well crap, what a boring weekend, and it gets depressing, then you plan on something the next weekend, but u still have to get through freakin M-F. Its a hopeless, endless cycle, well in my case it ends when school starts, but there's another pain then, school + internship, i mean Alhamdulillah, truly Alhamdulillah, but it's still a lot of work y'know. Oh and I forgot to mention, that little "free" time I have during the week, is occupied by at least 2 days/ 1 hour each day + the amount of time I spend to study for Brother Aslam's Quran Tajweed class, and also Sheikh Iqbal's Quran Tafseer class on Thursdays, and I've been trying to go to Mustafa's Arabic class, but I just can't keep up

ok, now let me try throwing the excercise part out, well that's easy, I'll get even fatter than I am now, and yes that is possilble, and marriage forget about htat, hahahahaah

now lets try throwing in a wife... well i kinda get an idea of that anyway, first of all, there is no way in heck I'm gonna marry a girl that was born/raised in pakistan, or india or whatever, cuz it scares the crap out of me to think that she'll like indian shows like Kkusum. But lets say she's a "normal" Kkusum hating Muslim-American ie born?/raised here, well my sister is that, and lemme tell you, it's just another pain. I come home, and her sensors of my presence go off. It's like when sharks get a whiff of a drop of blood, well she's like that, so she comes up to me and starts asking questions. what questions? I dunno, who knows? who cares? but it's just more dialog that I have to process. In fact believe it or not, she's sitting next to me right now telling me to submit it and laughing at it cuz its true. so I mean a wife is probably gonna be the same stinkin' way, following you around and crap, asking you questions, and even worse but since u'r the husband she'll like dress up for you sometimes, and I won't give a crap, but she'll get mad at me for that. and let the nagging begin. and on top of that she'll demand I take her places, it'll be like go ur own freakin' self lady! oh idea! I'll send her with my sister!!!! bada bing!  anyway, I'm sure there are perks to having a wife around like telling her to do my chores, haahahahaahah, jk... well i dunno, I'm sure there's gotta be some perks, well there's definitely one perk ;-), unless of course she gets fat, then it's like, well crap what's the point, hhahahahah jk, kinda jk. speaking of that perk, then you have to wake up an extra like half hour early to take a shower before Fajr, then take another shower after working out. This is all assuming that she doesn't have a job, and that's cool with me, totally cool and here's why:

Lets say that I had a wife that did work, she'd be as worn out as I am when I get home, jeez, she'll wanna do her thing, and I'll wanna do mine, and we'll snarl at each other when we see each other... and on top of that there's all the chores and crap. 

to alleviate all this stuff, how about if I get a nice car, well whoopty freakin' do, thanks to stinkin' traffic I'll probably get to work in about the same time, I'll have the same Air Conditioner, well maybe temp control, but who cares, with all that extra money I could leave the A/C on full blast all the time, and I'll have to stop for gas more, cuz that V8 drinks gas like its freakin' water (well Coke, y'know what i mean). Only difference will be is if I have a "nice" car, I'll be more worried about scratching it, I'll have less money to spend on going places, and I'll have the urge for showing it off, and showing off is a sign of arrogance, and showing off is "minor shirk" according to some hadith-e-Qudsi, but then again they do look nice.

I'd hate to put an abrupt stop to all this complaining, but I have to, cuz I have to get to the point, and because of that little yellow profile a couple profiles down, all I wanna say is this:

this is what my life is gonna be like pretty much I'm guessing and your's wont be much different, and more importantly our parents' lives were just as hard, if not harder, I know there was a time when my dad had to load/unload trucks getting paid less then min wage fasting in summer ramadan while his MUSLIM friends are sitting around eating drinking and drinking alcohol, and not just that but had to keep his education going cuz he was here on a student visa, and didn't have enough money to go back to PK (who says memons are rich?). and now he's going through the same thing (I mean the hard work more or less, not the INS thing, haha), and my mom has it worse, she get stuck doing more house work AND works full time. I'm sure u'r parents are similar, we need to be VERY VERY VERY thankful for them, and let them know that they are appreciated. "Rabanag firli wali walidaya wa lil mu'mineen" forgot the rest but it means Oh Allah forgive my parents and the believer on the day of judgement. We need to be a WHOLE LOT more cooperative with them, have sabr with them, and give them some time. People in general slow down and keep doing so starting at birth (see heart rate patterns), they are "slower" than us (no disrespect intended) and have to do more, and hence have to work A WHOLE HWOLE lot more, the least they could ask for is obiedient children. I know some times we wanna "advance" rapidly, for example in religion, for example for me growing a beard was an issue, but we really have to realize how stressful life is and they need a lot of time to get used to it, and any kind of "change" that could possibly put thier hard work in danger is a very big deal, for us kids, it's nothing, we've had everything handed down to us. I mean I was throwing in a wife and little parameters (wanted to do more but its getting long), try throwing in rebellious children, people that you REALLY REALLY care about, people that you want to succeed, and since you've been through it, you know what it takes, but stupid kids, that you love so much, wanna do things their own way, and sometimes get so used to it, that they want to do things differently for the sake of doing things differently!!!! and some times they do things differently so because it annoys their parents, and get joy out of that, kind of like the joy I get when I annoy my sister. what a stinkin' pain in the ... ahem... neck.  I mean I know for Muslim families, including mine, the family is a WHOLE lot closer, and rebelliousness to the degree that kids do things to purposely annoy their parents is almost non-existant, I mean, I know non-Muslim people who actually say bad words to their own parents!!! but never the less, we all need to be VERY thankful to Allah for giving us such awesome parents, and if you are reading this, I know for sure that you have excellent parents, because I don't keep fools for friends, and I know that yo momma didn't raise no fool.

well on the flip side, it would be nice to be able to poor my thoughts out to a wife rather than have to type it out on this profile

Ok I feel better now, this is sad, I'm degrading my "profile" to a mere journal entry, won't happen again ishAllah. But as for all that "hard work stuff" it's not THAT bad, I mean after all there is no homework, except for the little studying I have to do (like .5 hrs 4 days a week or so) for Brother Aslam, and that "studying" means reading the Quran to the best of my abilities, and as for that the rewards are tremendous! 10 hasanat for each letter, Alif Laam Meem, that's 30!!! (I said it out loud).

Bollywood still gets on my last nerve, It's as if you went on a vaction that you were waiting a year to go on, and as you step off the airplane, a swarm of bees attack you, and you find out you were allergic to that, you live, but barely, when you finally feel good enough to go enjoy your vacation, it's time to go back home, and that instant, when you realize that it is time to go home, that's the way I feel about Bollywood, on top of that It makes me very sad as to how many innocent Muslims it corrupts, and everybody else, who have enough trouble figuring out the purpose of life (I mean they know deep down inside, that this whole polytheism stuff is whack), get corrupted to such an extent that they (India) are now the second largest population with AIDS, and the fastest spreading rate of AIDS, there is so much corruption there, it's very sad, and Bollywood, I believe is a root cause of this constant sexual reminder, and over the last couple of decades, not only have they been misleading Desis that the meaning of life is "love" (as opposed to love being a perk in life where the purpose of life is to worship Allah), but teaching them that one should go after that magical "love" even if it means to hurt one's parents, and this rhetoric has been extremely strong, and Bollywood being one step ahead of the actual society in terms of family relations (or anti-relations), is now at "ok, my parents will let me marry whoever I want, now I should illegitimately form relationships with the opposite sex in order to satisfy my natural needs." America is pretty bad too, but it's somewhat of a different flavor, they're lost souls that have an instict as to what is right, for example, they know lying, cheating, adultery (this part is pretty much faded, i know), stealing is wrong, and are more than willing to implement and teach, but they don't know WHY all of this is wrong. Bottom line -- It's because that's waht Allah wants us to do, and that's what Islam is all about: submitting and obeying Allah to attain Peace, Both in this world (within yourself, in ur family, in your society, in your country, and internationally) and in the "hereafter."

O, lemme quote some Ayah's, etc, (off the top of my head, didn't do a research or anything) pertaining to this profile:

"Laa uq simu bi haadhal balad, wa anta hillum bi hadhal balad, wa waalideewwa ma walad" ~= something, something, and [Allah created] the father and the son, then right after that:

"Lakad Khalaqnal Insaana Fi Qabad" ~= Man is made to work and toil... obviously it's a whole lot better reading it together, and even better in Arabic

"Fa inna ma'al usri usrah, inna ma'al Usri Usra" ~=  With hardship there is ease, surely with hardship there is ease

"Rabij Alni Muqi Mussalata wa min dhuri yatina wa taqabal dua'a, Rabanag Firli wa li walidaya wa lil mu'minina yawma ya qumul hisab" ~= (common Dua'a (invocation, asking God for somehting), (this one's canned)) [Oh Allah] make me and my children steadfast in prayers, and accept our dua'a; [Oh Allah] forgive our parents' sins and our sins, and the believers' sins on the day of judgment. 

This profile was long, all over the place, and more of a journal entry, and i'm sorry about that, not nearly as dense with Islam as other ones.

o ya, of course my standard disclaimer applies as always.

If you are using IE (not netscape), don't tell me that mouse pointer isn't sweet, cause i know it's freakin' awesome, didn't make it tho, threw some coloring parameters at it but that's all

I finally figured out how to describe my optimism/pessimism-ness:

For some people, the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, for others it's always greener on their side, but for me, the grass is always green enough

oh yeah.

Alhamdulillah

SubhanAllah... got myself a PS2 (well my dad paid for a part, had money saved up from other sold things from before), and a 27 inch flat screen by my fav non-Sony (TV) company -- Phillips/Magnavox OH YEAH!!!!! Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4, OH YEAH!!!!! what a game, what a game... and i just realized that when you revert when coming out of a trick from the half pipe, you could continue the combo by manualling (and possibly go into another half pipe) and keep going until you lose your balance from manualing or whatever OH YEAH!!!!

and it's always been like that (at least since THPS 3)

what a game, what a game... mashAllah

and again, not to be arrogant, but if anybody thinks their good at THPS, bring it, i'll make you eat your words boyyyyy or girlllll (well not really, mahram/non mahram thing)... but then again, i've heard of people who can do million point combos... that's too rich for my blood, at least until i beat the game.

Watched "Finding Nemo" on Saturday... one of the best, if not the best movie i have ever seen... ever.

the baby turtles were sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo awesome (and cute) "dude"

OMG, THIS IS SO SAWEEEEEEET, SubhanAllah (i didn't make this btw):

Click here to see the lineage of most if not all prophets mentioned in the Quran (and probably the Bible and Torah too)

I just saw the movie "Oh, God!" which was made like in the late 70s. It was about an ordinary guy who is visited by God, who comes to him in human form. Basic theme was, tell people about God, and let it go, kinda like the old "johny apple seed" stories. The person who plays God says, "are there enuff apples in the world?" ... "well you know how they got there right?" ... "one guy spread some seeds, they grew, others liked it, spread more, they got around and they're all over the place now" (that was paraphrased even tho they were in quotes and the "..." were skipped dialogs.)

Many people, especially Muslims who are reading this are thinking, "man playing God?!!?!?!?" that's blasphemous, I mean in the movie "The Message," we wouldn't even let them have a character play prophet Muhammad pbuh, and he was a human.  (They did that, from what i understand, so that people don't visualize the prophet, and eventually don't start worshipping him, or anything in between). But anyway... this movie got me thinking about a lot of things, one thing being:

Do we play in mud to teach pigs that this is what they do?

Do we eat worms to teach birds how and what to eat?

Do eat out of dog dishes to teach them that this is where their food is, and that the stuff inside the dishes is edible food?

The answer to all of those things are, no, we are above that. We COULD play in mud, we COULD eat worms, we COULD eat out of a dog dish from the floor without using our hands, but we don't (ok so some people do, but y'know what i mean).

So why is it so hard to believe that God, the one who is knowledgeable of all things, the most beneficent, the most merciful, the creator, the Almighty, chooses not to degrade and belittle himself to our level. Why should he limit himself to 3 dimentions? why should he isolate/quantify himself to let us know of his existence, that we'll be judged, and what we will be judged upon? as Allah says somewhere in the Quran, in response to Christian belief, did they not see that Jesus had to eat, sleep, and perform other bodily functions? Why should Allah degrade himself to that?

an argument could be, well we need to see it to believe it... without such visual evidence it would be unreasonable. Well, no.  Like in the movie, "God" (naudhuBillah (which is what Muslims say as somewhat of a disclaimer/pre-appology when they are about to mention something that is "blasphemous" in order to prove a point (proof by contradiction))),  reveals himself, flashes a couple of miracles in front of a room full of people, and yet people still have a problem believing. They make an agreement, to pretend like nothing happened, to keep it isolated or whatever. And that is because they know our eyes can be fooled, in fact earlier in the movie, they mention slight of hand, or magicians making elephants disappear. I mean even look at the sun (i know it's used as a "sign" many times... and it's no wonder right?) we see it, but it is not it, it is it 8 minutes ago because it takes 8 minutes for light to travel from there to here. In another words, if the sun instantaneously disappeared, we would not know it until 8 minutes. The stars are the same way, except that instead of an 8 minute delay, there may be several year delays. Similarly if u stick a pen in a glass of water, it will appear broken or bent, but it is not, will we trust these eyes?

If you became close friends with a blind person, you have touched that person, talked with that person, smelt each other, etc. he cannot see you, so does this mean that you do not exist?

now what if that person was blind AND deaf? however he has touched you, and smelt you, has tasted some food that you gave him. Is that food not evidence of your existence? do you not exist? 

mathematicians would call this a "proof by induction" where you prove something for n, then for n + 1, (or n-1 for that matter) and if it holds, it's true for all n. It makes sense. 

the skeptics would say, well what about when you run out of senses (ie have eliminated all 5 senses, so ie a person is blind, deaf, can't physically feel, can't smell, and can't taste)? that doesn't hold, well i've never heard of anybody like that, and if there was somebody like that, does he exist (ie is this person even a person?) (can he think without any input?, that sorta thing). and I don't wanna get into (modern, trivial/speculative) philosophy (which is, for those who have no idea about what i mean by this type of philosophy, they talk about things like HOW the soul connects with the body... and it's really pointless to talk about that because we are confined to 3 dimentions, talking about that would require having knowledge of a "4th dimention" <<play twilight zone music here>>)... but y'know what i mean. Well lets just say that a person has just ONE sense (if you find somebody without even one sense, let me know, and I'll update this entry (sarcasm intended)). Lets say the ability to see for example (since its simple and talked about the most)... one could see the sun, the moon, themselves, animals, plants, and realize that they did not spontaneously generate. I could go into how ridiculous and almost purely speculative the theory of evolution is, but i've got better things to do... watch a movie on it or something... well or IM me if you really wanna know, and we'll talk. 

But anyway it's all going to come down to this: you have a choice, choose the right path or the wrong, the existence of God is evident by all of the signs as mentioned above. As one brother put it, (he was paraphrasing some big-time scholar), our organelles have a purpose: to make cells, our cells have a purpose: to make tissue, our tissue have a purpose: to make organs, our organs have a purpose: to make our bodies (us), so does it not make sense for our whole body to have a purpose? Islam, Christianity, and probably other religions say that we will one day be asked, judged, questioned for the choices we made, the actions we performed, etc. Muslims (= people who believe in Islam) believe that this occasion is the day of judgment (aka the day of resurrection aka the day of recompense aka etc). It follows that after being judged that we will incur rewards and/or punishments for this. I mean our teachers don't grade papers for the sake of grading, and throw the papers away without even looking at the names right? Does it not make sense for us to know about what we will be graded on? Does it not make sense for us to have a "rubric," or "study guide" (see my profile entry on the analogy btwn the purpose of life and school). Muslims simply believe that that "rubric" is the Quran w/ "documentation" known as the hadith or sunnah and with very good reason. For some miraculous signs of the Quran see www.islamguide.com , but that's not even it, if you knew classic arabic and read the Quran, you would be amazed. Actually there were non-Muslims (kafirs), that were stubbornly opposed to prophet Muhammad pbuh/ true/pure monotheism etc. at that time. So Muslims, including the prophet pbuh himself used to recite the Quran at night, so these kafirs would secretly sneak and come just to listen. Every once in a while, one would catch another, and be like "what are you doing here?" and "what are YOU doing here?!?!" that type of thing.... so they would swear to never come to listen again, then, sure enough, they would catch each other there again and again... so they realized the beauty of it, but chose not to believe (at least not then, they may have converted later). and it's amazing that the Quran has stood the test of time, it is the most read book in the world (Encyclopedia Britannica) (and you might have seen the posters at skoo), people still love to just even recite it including my self, it's beauty has stood the test of time. I mean how many songs (not that the Quran is or even has a "song" in it) can even stay good for 30 years, this is a whole book that people love to recite and listen to for 1400 years. Not only that but even when analyzing it in terms of meaning, etc, it is and has proven to be as current as tomorrow's newspaper. Amazing.

God is great, the most Merciful, the most Beneficient, there is a good chance that he will forgive you for the sins you commit if you ask for forgiveness sincerely and in the proper manner (for example promising to try your best not to do it again). I mean it's not smart to assume that he will forgive you and commit a sin cause first of all he might not, and this assumption could be evidence of insincerity, second, you will be giving up a chance to do jihad-un-nafs (struggle against your desires (see the song below (even tho the point of the song is a little irrelevant))). But anyway, there's one thing God will not forgive, shirk (disbelief in him, associating partners with him, etc)... i mean think about it, you've gotta draw the line somewhere right? and the belief part is so easy, its inherent in us, we WANT to believe in God, its logical, God built that into us, it's embedded (pardon the ICS jargon). I mean its not like we have to DO anything, just believe something that is logical. I mean how Merciful of Allah ( = God) is that of him, in order to attain "basic membership," all we gotta do is believe in what is logical, what is attractive to human beings (especially to intelligent human beings, i mean if you look at polytheism, it emerges in more ignorant societies, Satan's got more room to do his dirty work, generally anyway, and i could go into that, but i don't wanna, at least not now). And once we've got that, start by just changing the basis for a lot of our actions, i mean we do so many things that are already "good" (for the lack of a better word, i mean going by the etymology of the word "good" derives from the word "God," so... some logical flaws occur in this part if you wanna get down to the nitty gritty). For example, SO many people hold the door for others, hold elevators for others, etc. WHY do people do that, well it may be because it prevents a sense of guilt, or brings a sense of satisfaction, however, the Muslim does it because it pleases Allah. The Prophet pbuh was cool like that, so by doing something like this would please Allah, and by changing this intention from self satisfaction to "for the sake of Allah" ( = Fi Sabilillah (and yes this what J5 says in one of their songs)) we get rewarded for it... i mean capitalize for God's sake (double entendre... dang i'm good... hahah).

alright that was long... that's it for now.

<< Deleted my baby pic, was getting too much attention (almost entirely by my sis, but still too stinkin' much)>>

Dang I was Cute... Ahhhh the good old days... 

"24/7 - 5 days a week" -- A person who shall remain nameless

I should have put this up a long time ago,,, dunno why i didn't:

Sounds/authority.ram

Sounds/islam.ram <-- one of my favs

Sounds/jihadunuffs.ram <-- one of my favs 

Sounds/presidentialproducts.ram 

Sounds/usa.ram (United Snakes of America ... hahahahah, serious, that's the name)

Sounds/wakeup.ram

That's music by An-Nasr-Productions aka ANP... Muslim Rap group in Chicago, IL... good stuff... not as popular cuz of political content... mp3.com got rid of them cuz of that

I AM HOSTING THESE NOW, so... you could directly link to them

here's Umar's Q again: 

what is the one substance mentioned in the quran that doesn't rot, besides obviously water?

and the answer IS honey

jeez this makes me look stupid... after all that in the ghetto guestbook... maybe i should delete the entries -- muhuhahahahah -- the answer is honey after all

ISLAM AWARENESS WEEK: 6th WEEK

Tuesday - Evolutionary Deciet
-12 pm flagpoles - Atif and Mustafa
-6pm HIB 100 - Film "Evolution Deciet"

Wednesday - Tawheed and the Prophets

Thursday - Jihad: A Call for Peace

here's another Trivia Q

what is the one substance mentioned in the quran that doesn't rot, besides obviously water?

(courtesy Umar Faruki (UCLA wala))

Oh, back in the day of "yo mamma" jokes, aka "snaps," aka "freestyling"... i remember me and the guys were sitting around telling each other them, for example:

Yo mama's so dumb that under "Education" on her job apllication, she put
"Hooked on Phonics."

or

yo mamma so fat, she sat on nintendo and made gameboy

or

yo momma so fat she stepped on a scale and it said 90210

or

yo momma so stupid it took her an hour to make minute rice

or

Yo mama's so dumb she sat on the TV & watched the couch

Ah the good old days, so a certain somebody who was like 5 years old, and shall remain nameless, was trying to get in on the action, so she thought and thought and came up with:

Yo mamma so dumb that when the teacher said find a partner, then everybody found a partner except her, and she was all alone

HAAHAHAHAAHAHAHAAHH, how cute is that!!!!

she had another couple too, but i can't remember

HAHAHAHHAHAH... i dunno maybe you had to be there, we'd all be laughing, and this person would think she made a funny, and she'd bust out another one. HHAAHAH

ahhh the good old days

for more yo moma jokes, please go to:

http://www.geocities.com/urban_humor/sections/

Ok, so i see nobody answered my Islamic trivia question, dissapointed, well here's the Q again:

Where is the one place in the world where the sun shined once and will never shine again?

you wanna know the answer?

I bet you do

alright i'll tell you, scroll down

The bottom of the red sea! when prophet Musa pbuh was being chased by Ferone (Pharoah) and his goons, Allah had told him to throw the stick in the water and it would part and Musa pbuh woudl be able to get passed, so he did and it did, and hence the bottom of the red sea was exposed and the sun must have shined on it. 

Why can't the sun shine on the bottom of the red sea normally, water is clear right?

well when it's that deep, it gets really dark, actually pitch black i think... but y'know whatever it was trivia no hadith or anything... thanks for not trying, even you zain

Hampster dance, hilarious (courtesy, azeem):

http://www.hampsterdance.com/

Osman Umarji (from egypt): actually anything that works to make one pessimestic or nervous about problems without evidence is work of shaytan, just stay optimistic and make dua Allah keeps the bonds strong

ie: stay optmistic... how fundamental is that, but i forgot it for a few mins while talking to the bro

Islamic (well actually is Christian and Jewish Trivia as well) Trivia (courtesy Br. Aslam):

Where is the one place in the world where the sun shined once and will never shine again?

(post your answers on the Guestbook, then in a few days i'll post the real answer (and yes, i am aware that this profile entry is assuming that people actually read my profile))

Tafsir by Sheikh Iqbal was saweeeet.... spent an hour on two Ayahs (verses) (Ayahs 21 and 22 in Surah Baqara)... and still left out some stuff, for example didn't want to go into the explanation of the word "taqwa," which can alone take up hours... subhanAllah, the compact wisdom of the Quran... and we thought winzip did a good job in compressing stuff... psshhh, winzip, you thought you were all that

anyway... i've got an awesome idea for a "profile" entry... like a real one that makes you think, not one of these little dinky ones that are more like random thoughts of the day... i'm talking about my old-school "How our (Muslim-Americans') status has become like that of Prophet Musa (pbuh (peace be upon him))" type of profiles... it'll probably take two weeks tho

O and i also was thinking about revisting my school vs. world analogy profile and adding even more to it, i've been getting a lot of ideas....... 

Principle Peabody (when he is shocked to see Junior in the school that he jsut started principaling): You're in the 3rd grade!?!? that means your here for another 4 years!!! 

Jr: <<burps in the TV version, farts in the real version>>

PP: EWWW, whew, yuckie, etc, anyboyd that could belch like that has to have a mind, you're off to the 6th grade, one year and you're out of here!

Jr: the sixth grade, but my dad said that 3rd grade is the foundation of a great education

PP: your dad said that eh? well you know what? your dad is a MORON! He's a MORON! you know what a MORON is, well that's what your dad is!!! 

HAHAHAAAHAAHAH that last line is hilarious... coming out of that guy anyway, (the voice of iago the parrot in alladin)... HAHAHAAHHA

I was doing hw, and zain was there too (doing his own hw). There was a problem where it was like 10 true or fales, and it was odd!!! so here's our convo went:

Amir: OH YEAH!!!! all of these are in the back... that's so easy, i just have to look in the back of the book for all the answers

zain: < says something about something else and concludes with saying something about being in the same situation or something while doing something some time in his life when he wasn't doing some other things and was doing this thing or something >

<< awkward silence >>

Amir: yeah man... i wish life was so easy

<< total silence for approximately 10 seconds >>

Amir: o wait it is

(referring to the Quran)

Zain: hey, i was about to say that! hey Amir, put this in your profile

Amir: ok

Why did i put that in my profile? cause zain told me to...but yeah, funny how simple life is

ok getting back to ics 184 hw... databases... pshhh...

Please make dua for Kabir, he passed away in a car accident.

A really good way to make dua is by reciting Surah Al Ikhlas (Qul-ho-Allaho Ahad...) three times and pray that Kabir gets the thawab (hasanat) for that. The reason i say that is because when you recite surah Ahad 3 times it is equal to the quantity of thawab you get if you read the whole Quran... nice deal. But of course don't just limit it to that.

Ben and Jerry's free ice cream day:

http://www.benjerry.com/scoop_shops/free_cone_day/index.cfm

(link given by Ubaid)

never been there but i know ppl like it and free ice cream is free ice cream... maybe we should make it an msu thing... haha... like we could all fast that day and end our fast there and have ice cream for iftar and dinner and dessert... haha... ok i'm a nerd... it's late... back to 121 hw

Jungle Book 1 was awesome (I just DLed and saw it again)... and the sound track was really good too

And i just DLed Jungle Book 2... that was really good too... why am i writing this... i dunno

A look back at previous MSU  idiomatic (note: doesn't say idiotic) phrases and running jokes ever since last year:

D-we-D (DVD)

Tick Tock (Teekh Taakh (urdu way of saying "i'm good"))

OH YEAH

Diaa's laugh

ASH

.... which then became more formally defined into different levels of ASH-1 to 5

Big Time _________

Big Time Player

Kareem saying Thabbat, Tawa--kul, Bring It, and one more thing that i forget(Amir Abdel Malik Ali style)

OMG... this is soooo freaky...

http://home.attbi.com/~saab/cat.wmv

-- courtesy Azeem Qureshi

Surah Qaaf, recited by Shuraim, good stuff, check it: www.islamway.com

And Umar... Efasi is growing on me... slowly tho... Surah Jumma is pretty good

Actually Ajmi too... MashAllah all of their recitation is excellent tho of course... i sound like i'm bagging on some sometimes when i get all excited... haha, not good to do that... 

THIS JUST IN!!!

a special Jazzakallah khair to Mustafa... just made another correction... Below i have written that jews don't believe in an afterlife, I wrote that cause McKenna from 5A said that, also the TA from 5A, and now Levine said it too, but in my book Mustafa is like a million times more reliable.... soooo...

Jews believe in an afterlife (contrary to what i have written below)... i don't go down and physically correct cause that's just the style, unless it's like TOTALLY messed up or if its a joke or something, and doing this abrogation thing would mess it up.

my ICS 121 hw, the last question:

b) Briefly discuss what you are planning to do once you graduate from UCI, and how ICS 121 might relate to your professional goals. Will this class be useful to you?

B.)

hey... they asked... I left out the part about making my 5 kids work day and night shifts at the gas station starting at the age of puberty before i send the boys off to do Jihad, because it seemed a little too irrelevant.

HAHAHAHAHAH... i crack my self up sometimes... and yes i am mentally sane, that's what it says on the certificate... but ya, besides 5 kids part... i'm serious

In the actual hw i left out the stuff in the double parentheses (( ))... but yeah, my boss told me a way that, now even without a small business if you buy a mercedes ML (the SUV), since it tows over 6k pounds, it get written off as a item of value or something like that (started w/ a 'V'), and you can write off the price of the SUV!!!! I mean you have to be making over a 100k gross combined family income, but it's very possible. This law actually expires at the end of this year... but it's a good RWM (Rich White Man) trick. This, btw, is why we see so many more hummers than usual nowadays, cause they are pretty much getting paid for by YOUR (and my) parents' hard earned money... my boss's sis is a big time accountant, and that's how he knew and was able to tell me, but yeah... hardcore i know...

Oh... I should have also put that, while working part time during the first gas station, i'll try to lower my gas prices so low that my neighbor's run out of business, while i still survive... yes i'm aware that there is a min at which you can sell the gas... and thus set up a mini-monopoly... but it's just business and i'm Memon... that's how it goes. 

(yes, i'm also aware that my monopoly schemes have holes in them... but i've got plenty of time to work on it)... ok going to sleep now

THIS JUST IN!!!!: 

correction, below you will read my opinion on certain Qaris, in it i wrote that Sheikh Sudais and Sheikh Shuraim lead in opposite places (ie Makkah and Madinah, ie not at the same place at the same time and they alternate), that's WRONG, they usually lead at the same place. especially in ramadan. Thanks Mustafa! After so much profile writing... that was the first correction!!!! and i'm sure there are other thigns to be corrected, keep it coming...

Actually he said that Sheikh Hudhaifi leads at Madinah in Ramadan (dunno who he is, and how he sounds, but will check him out very shortly inshAllah)

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