first of all i take back whatever i say about grant, he's actually a really good teacher, very anal -- but then again all of the writing teachers are. He told me he has a copy of the Quran and talks to the MSU at the MSU table every once in a while about Islam... so i'm guessing he's interested in it. But yeah... i don't hate him (actually i never did), i just HATE writing (39C)!!!!
Ramadan's commin' up... Oh Yeah!
Every year we all have our little "new year resolution" type of goals that we practice during Ramadan and hope to carry on the new positive habits that we've developed or stay away from the bad habits that we've shaken for the rest of the year. So what about this year... if you can't think of anything, you could always pick something out of prophet Muhammad's last sermon:
http://islamicity.com/articles/Articles.asp?ref=IC0107-322
good stuff... very compact
Good stuff:
WIFE What would you do if I died? Would you
get married again?
HUSBAND Definitely not!
WIFE Why not - don't you like being married?
HUSBAND Of course I do.
WIFE Then why wouldn't you remarry?
HUSBAND Okay, I'd get married again.
WIFE You would? (with a hurtful look on her
face)
HUSBAND (makes audible groan)
WIFE Would you live in da same house as her?
HUSBAND Where else would we live?
WIFE Would you replace my photos with hers?
HUSBAND That would seem like the proper thing
to do.
WIFE Would she use my golf clubs?
HUSBAND No, she's left-handed.
WIFE - - - silence - - -
HUSBAND oh no, shoot.
-- courtesy of Azeem Qureshi
As I get back my homework from the ICS Distribution center and see that I got a 100 out of a possible 100 points -- not that it is too hard to do -- I am reminded of the words of a great scholar, "Oh Yeah!" Humza Javed, an expert in civil engineering and body building, graduated from Foothill High School, and will be graduating soon from the prestigious University of California in Irvine, his specialties are in Quri-Pataying, and Gadi-Chalaying. This interjection describes the situation at hand because...
hahahaha
there's your dang three-step-method Grant... cite, say who it's from, and state that person's qualifications, then go on with commentary.
Oh Yeah!
I just might be getting the hang of Writing 39C after all... not that i HATE it any less.. i still HATE it with a passion as described below.
I HATE WRITING... I HATE, HATE, HATE WRITING 39C... so much freakin' work!!!!!!!
HEY GRANT (my writing teacher)... IF YOU'RE READING THIS... I DON'T CARE!!! I HATE YOUR FREAKIN CLASS, THINKING ABOUT IT MAKES ME DEVELOP THIS SHARP, EXTREME, PRESSURIZED PAIN IN MY LOWER NECK... IT'S LIKE I WANNA GO TO SLEEP AND SHOOT YOU IN YOUR BALD HEAD ALL AT THE SAME TIME (nothing personal)... I just HATE THE COURSEWORK... I WOULD RATHER BE SENTENCED TO LIFE-LONG ASSEMBLY PROGRAMMING!!! (assembly programming??? couldn't think of anything worse)
ACTUALLY I DIDN'T SAY THIS, YOU CAN'T PROVE IT CAUSE TECHNICALLY THIS IS AN "ELECTRONIC SOURCE," ISN'T IT YOU CRAZY SOB***
hahahhahaahah... LOL... that felt good...
All i could say is, "I'd rather be programming."
I miss Java
Parody of "Say Shava Shava" from Kabhi Khushi Khabhi Gam... dang these Indian movie titles are long, and what the heck is a "Shava" anyway:
"Say Java Java"
| Urdu/Hindi | English |
| Roup hai tera sona, sona | You're Interface is beutiful, beautiful |
| Soni teri Payal | beautiful is your SWING |
| chan chanachan aise chanke | comp- comp- compiles |
| kar dhe sab ko ghayal | showed up Microsoft |
| keh raha hai aakhon ka kajol, Ishq mein Jeena Marna | The critics are saying, it's here to stay |
| Everybody Say Jawa Jawa, Say Jawa Jawa | Everybody Say Java Java, Say Java Java!!! |
ok that was gay... but i hereby declare my love for JAVA!!!
Tujhe Dekha, To Yeh Jaana sanaam... ok stop it right there
heck yeah!!!
Amir <-- Hardcore Java programmer
yeah i'm prolly the most random person you know... went from my intense hate of writing 39C to some Indian song... to java
hmm... I wonder if it snows in Zimbabwe...
jk... i'm not that random... or am I???
actually i'm sure it doesn't... it's prolly pretty hot there year-round
HHAHAAHAHAHAHHA
Jerry Falwell's face is RED hahahhha
i'm sure he regrets saying that about Prophet Muhammad pbuh, especially cause he already has a death threat from Iran AND Lebanon... HAHAHAH
"Shiite Muslim clerics in Lebanon and Iran reacted with rage to Falwell's remarks, and an envoy of Iran's supreme leader called for his death." -- CBS News
set him straight...
He'll prolly never work in this country again... back to flipping burgers... casue from what i heard, almost every Church in the country "condemns" what he said and they will be asking the president to do the same... I wanna see his resume now, "condemned by the president," "received death threats from multiple Muslim countries," "Public Enemy Number 1 in the Muslim world," and "old-fat-piece-of-white-trash-that-nobody-likes."... ok that was harsh, but o well he had it coming... he should apply to the KKK, he's a shoe-in, full scholarship with a golden pointy hat... it's like frickin' bling bling for bigots... i'd REALLY hate to be in his shoes... i suggest he move to Canada, eh?
A long time ago... in my early freshman days... i was talking to a Christian about the prophets. He said that every prophet had flaws because they were human, except for Prophet Esa (pbuh) (Esa = Jesus in Arabic btw) which marked that they were human beings. But as for Christians and Jews... well maybe not them in particular, but their books... make prophets out to be pretty sinful ppl. Like he was saying that Moses killed a man out of anger or something, how Adam (pbuh) ate the fruit when he wasn't sposed to, and some other prophets' flaws too. He even said bad things about prophet Muhammad pbuh, that weren't true... made me wanna straighten him up right there, but had to keep the convo going and reminded him nicely... but ne way he got to saying that prophet Esa (pbuh) didn't have any flaws and was perfect, and hence was a part of the trinity or something along those lines because total perfection is a characteristic of Allah.
That was the Christian way to looking at it... it's way off in that he was trying to say that prophets were sinful ppl but were forgiven cause of the lack of arrogance....
Here's the Islamic way of looking at it... i'll get to my point in the next paragraph. Muslims believe that the prophets were VERY VERY noble ppl. very sinless, but had one sin or mistake which symbolized that they are not perfect. For example, Adam (pbuh) ate that fruit... when he wasn't sposed to, but repented a WHOLE lot, was forgiven and was always a great worshipper. Prophet Musa (Moses) (pbuh), had that whole story where the two guys were fighting, a big guy and a small, and the small acted like he was getting picked on, and prophet Musa (pbuh) went to help the little guy out, and hit the big guy w/ one punch and killed him unintentionally (i'm guessing hit him hard in the temples). Later he found out that the little guy was an evil little fraud and prophet Musa pbuh ran away because the little guy blamed prophet Musa (pbuh) for murder when all he was doing was helping the little guy out (what a namak haram huh (namak haram reffering to the little guy of course)), Musa finds a noble Muslim teacher, and the long and beautiful story goes on. But prophet Musa pbuh made the mistake that he killed the big guy when he didn't mean to, actually he meant to help the little weasel out. So he made a mistake (i chose not to say "sin" cause it wasn't intentional), and Allah does not make mistakes, thus shows that prophet Musa was not anything more than a human. Prophet Muhammad pbuh made the mistake of frowning when the blind Muslim came for advice about Islam while Prophet Muhammad pbuh was talking to some major non-Muslim political leader or something. Then Surah Abas (third surah in part 30), came down and the frowning was identified as a mistake (again i don't use the word sin, because there was no such rule yet and y'know how it goes) so it was a mistake that again symbolized that prophet Muhammad pbuh was also just a human and not "super human."
So... the Question is, what mistake, or imperfection is it that differentiates prophet Esa (pbuh), again Esa = Jesus in arabic, from God, and shows that prophet Esa pbuh is not perfect, and that he's a human?
I finally got that answer... i was waiting on brother Aslam to ask a big-boy scholar and tell me, but he kept forgetting... I found out from elsewhere... so here's the answer:
In World religions class (w/ McKenna), the prof said that there were like 32 Gospels, but only like 4 or 12 or something were included in the bible, these were the major ones. In one of the ones that were not included in the bible, it talks about how prophet Esa (pbuh) went to go cure the blind and stuff... but one time it happened that he went to cure a blind man (or was it a guy w/ HORRIBLE vision), and he tried to cure him. Then the blind guy was like i could see... but it's still kinda blurry, can you do that again. Then prophet Esa pbuh did it again and the originally blind guy had good vision. So it took prophet Esa pbuh two tries before it was perfect.
So that's the thing that i was looking for... since when does Allah need to repeat himself like that???... just like one of my fav ayahs (about a page below) (36:82), says, Allah says "Be" and it is. That's a characteristic of Allah... note it doesn't say that Allah says Be and if it doesn't work says Be again and then it is... naudhubillah... So this imperfection shows that prophet Esa was not anything more than a human because he had to repeat himself. Prophet Esa (pbuh) pretty much said "be", and it wasn't till he said it again. Obviously Muslims believe that prophet Esa pbuh wouldn't just say "be", he'd be like "be with the permission of Allah" or something like that, because he knew, and let everybody else know that his miracles were just miracles given by Allah, and were performed with Allah's permission.
Disclaimer:
(DO NOT JUST SCROLL DOWN, ACTUALLY READ THIS DISCLAIMER):
Keep in mind that this incident was from a Gospel, not the Quran or Hadith... so
the authenticity is questionable. actually McKenna said that for this very
thing, some people at the time when copying this stuff down (cause they
obviously didn't have photo copy machines), they left out some things, such as
this thing, because they found it to be insulting to Prophet Esa (pbuh). O and
please notice that i'm no where NEAR an Alim... so don't quote me as if I were,
however it's definitely something to think about.
political cartoon: http://juneemoon.8m.net/images/militarismterrorism.gif
http://islamicity.com/mosque/arabicscript/Ayat/36/ra101_36-81.ram
that's recited by Qari AbdulBasit from Egypt (passed away '95, so pray for him btw)... Dang dude, mashAllah he's so good. Listen to the detail, his tajweed is flawless, juices the beauty out of every stretch, beautiful voice/ voice modulation,
modifies his pitch I think based on artistic value rather than meaning (just a
preference, not that it's right or wrong, they're both right from what i
understand), very good, very good, A-1, tip-top, fundastic
36:81-83
includes one of my fav Ayahs: "Verily, when He intends a thing, His Command
is, 'be,' and it is!" 36:82 and "He" is obviously referring to Allah in this
Ayah.
very fundamental yet very useful... like when talking to non-Muslims, especially Christians, you have to remind them about this. like when they talk about miracles of prophets... especially Noah (pbuh), for some reason it's hard for them to accept that story... but not so hard that Allah created Quran, the sun, the moon, the rest of the universe, and they for sure believe in a lot of the miracles of Jesus (pbuh) as we do... but for some reason, when you mention prophet Noah's (pbuh) story they get like "Whaaaat?!?!?!?!" o well that's my little speal... went off on a tangent, as usual.
o and what's up w/ that box they found???
I heard the owner's not letting them see what's inside... what a punk huh?
it prolly has something that confirms the oneness of Allah... meaning not trinity... either that or it's a hoax... or it's just some paranoid fruity SOB***
High Scores:
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3, PlayStation one, best combo:
Tony Hawk, The Foundary, 26 for 186,484... DAAAAAAAAAAAANG
even tho i think i already beat that
Why Amir likes the corvette so much...
"And (the unbelievers) plotted and planned, and Allah too planned, and the best of planners is Allah." -- 3:54
I think this is the Ayah that Amir AbdelMalik Ali was referring to when he said "Man plans, and Allah plans, but Allah is the best of planners."
cool sites in no particular order:
http://www.islam-guide.com/frm-ch1-1.htm - your usual-everyday-Islamic-Miracles website
www.islamicity.com - the complete package!
www.islamway.com - Quran MP3s!!!!
www.soundvision.com - What an awesome site... that and islam.org
http://www.soundvision.com/info/marriage/ - for all the Saad's out there (cause he just got married mashAllah)
Ralph would click there too, as you could see, he's pointing to it.