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The One With No Name

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slowly slow my child the world waits for YOU and your window of time will come shining THROUGH slowly slow dont rush you know itll all come easy theres somethings you cant take back no regrets for what youre gonna get need some thinking down the LINE slowly slow my darling im here for YOU (here for you) and every stumble every fall breaks my heart in TWO i only want the best for you and every step makes up the mile even though it takes a WHILE and god will always smile on you my CHILD so have faith have faith just like the bird that feels the SUN and sings before the dawn has COME have faith have FAITH slowly slow my boy I see youre STRONG (see youre strong) and everybody wants to find a place where they BELONG but dont you find yourself some DAY in a cold and dark and lonely PLACE and you wonder how you got THERE i know it gets clouded in your MIND (clouded in your mind) and you wanna move faster it seems youre running out of TIME but i love YOU together well get THROUGH dont you know slowly SLOW slowly my son you wanna be a MAN and I guess those days are gone when I used to hold your HAND cos this is the age of winks and smiles butterflies deep INSIDE but youll always be the coolness of my EYES so have faith have FAITH just like the bird that feels the SUN and sings before the dawn has COME have faith have FAITH slowly slow my child the world waits for YOU and your window of time will come shining THROUGH slowly slow dont rush you know itll all come EASY

Its been great knowing you, Diary and now it's time to move on. Follow a bad deed with a good deed and behave WELL towards people and have no regrets. Live a fresh and long life. All the love from the bottom of my heart and the extent of my being.

Wa-s salaam.

21 Feb 07: Senrū for Today

Walter

Painted seagulls
Some say to relieve his thoughts:
For some, it's the only way.

Senrū

21 Feb 07: Quote For Today

Doesn't it strike you as odd that none of our relatives are related to us? (Source)

19 Nov 2007: Words From Your Friends

Inna-s solaata 'alaa-l mu'mineeyna kitaaban mawqoowta
(Indeed, prayers are enjoined on believers are stated times - Quran 4:103)

19 Nov 2006: Quote For Today

"I went looking for God in a Church and didn't find Him there.
Then I went to a Synagogue and didn't find Him there.
I went to a Mosque and didn't find Him there.
Then I looked in my heart, and there He was." (Rumi)

19 Nov 2007: Thought For Today

Things happen when they are supposed to

13 Feb 2006: Quote for Today

"...Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers..." (Source)

13 Feb 07: Senrū for Today

Maturity

Experience and time
Both shape us:
Absorb all around, accept.

Senrū

13 Feb 07: Links For Today

Muhammad - Legacy of a Prophet
5 Minute Intro to Islam
Rice genome fully mapped
Diversity and autism
My Atkins Diet Story
Rice
Biologically based software
MSA 2006 Diversity Camp Video
Carl Rogers
Isaac Asimov
Humanistic psychology
Why Islam? One-minute reasons!

27 Nov 06: Senrū for Today

Networks

Fragile, complete function
At once we become known:
There's no going back.

Senrū

27 Nov 06: Article for Today

Three Conditions to Acquire Excellent Manners
By Ibn ul Qayyim al Jawziyyah (One of the great loves of my life)

This is one example of the excellent manners with which Allah has equipped his Messenger. He described him as,

"Verily, You (Muhammad) are on an exalted standard on character." (68:4)

Aa’isha described him as,

"His character was the Quran." (Muslim, Abu Dawood, Ahmad)

Such excellent character cannot be attained without three conditions:

1. The foundation must be good. If one has a rough and dry nature, it will be hard for him to submit to this (excellence of character) through knowledge, will, or practice. On the other hand, a mild and smooth nature will be ready and willing to receive the plowing and the seeds (to prepare it for character excellence).

2. The soul must be strong and capable of conquering calls of laziness, transgression, and desire. Those matters contradict perfection, and souls which cannot defeat them will always be defeated and conquered.

3. (One must possess) a discerning knowledge of the truth of matters, enabling one to put them in the rightful position, and to distinguish between flesh and cancer – between glass and jewels.

If these three qualities are present in a man, and Allah's facilitation helps him, then he will be among those whom the best has been decreed and for whom Allah's care has been secured.

And I say: subhaanallah! I do not know of anyone who thinks, feels and articulates as much like me as ibn Al Qayyim. I wish I could meet him, because I truly love him so much. I hope to meet him and spend time with him in Paradise, inshaa-a Allah.

26 Nov 06: Quote for Today

"Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can. The revelation, if it comes at all, will come in a small fraction of a second with an unconscious gesture, a gleam of the eye, a brief lifting of the mask that all humans wear to conceal their innermost selves from the world. In that fleeting interval of opportunity the photographer must act or lose his prize." (Yousaf Karsh)

26 Nov 06: Senrū for Today

Reality

Keep heart, mind and body firm
And mantain strength:
Worship Allah ALONE.

Senrū

26 Nov 06: Links for Today

FBI Widens probe of American Israeli Public Affairs Committee spying
Ascii Generator
Global illumination
Hindu squats
Jeremiah
Senryū
ArtisanCam Bradford
Functional fixedness
Cognitive dissonance
Reification
Symbolic interactionism
Polytheism
Skipping ropes: who's ya mamma???? Yum!
Pray! You have no reason not to!
Heart of a Muslim
Planet of the Arabs
Prince of Persia (documentary)
Yusuf Karsh

25 Nov 06: Links for Today

Downing Street Says...
Hassle me
Placeopedia
Your history here
Hear from your MP
Pledge Bank
Write to them
Independent Review of the Impace of the Freedom of Information Act (October 2006)
Not apathetic
Petition the Prime Minister by email
Petition to abolish faith schools and "creationist" (?) teaching
Petition to ask the PM to stand on his head and juggle ice cream
Fitnah (definition)

23 Nov 06: Links for Today

Interview with Abu Bakr Ash-ShaaTireey (16 mins)

22 Nov 06: Links for Today

Turning Muslim in Dallas ( Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 )
How much Heroin seized in the UK in 2000 came from Pakistan??? (answer?)
Polygamy is Islam: a safety net for society

21 Nov 06: Quotes for Today

Did You Know ?

• Did you know that non-Jewish Israelis cannot buy or lease land in the Zionist entity?
  
• Did you know that Palestinian license plates in Zionist entity are color coded to distinguish jews from non-jews?

• Did you know that Israel allots 85% of the water resources for jews and the remaining 15% is divided among all Palestinians in the territories? For example in Hebron, 85% of the water is given to about 400 settlers, while 15% must be divided among Hebron's 120,000 Palestinians?
  
• Did you know the United States awards the israel $5 billion in aid each year?
  
• Did you know that yearly US aid to israel exceeds the aid the US grants to the whole African continent?
  
• Did you know that the israel is the only country in the Middle East that has nuclear weapons?
  
• Did you know that the israel is the only country in the Middle East that refuses to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and bars international inspections from its sites?
  
• Did you know that israel currently occupies territories of two sovereign nations (Lebanon and Syria) in defiance of United Nations Security Council resolutions?
  
• Did you know that israel has for decades routinely sent assassins into other countries to kill its political enemies?
  
• Did you know that high-ranking military officers in the israeli Defense Forces have admitted publicly that unarmed prisoners of war were executed by the IDF?
  
• Did you know that israel refuses to prosecute its soldiers who have acknowledged executing prisoners of war?
  
• Did you know that israel routinely confiscates bank accounts, businesses, and land and refuses to pay compensation to those who suffer the confiscation?
  
• Did you know that israel blew up an American diplomatic facility in Egypt and attacked a U.S. ship in international waters, killing 33 and wounding 177 American sailors?
  
• Did you know that the second most powerful lobby in the United States, according to a recent Fortune magazine survey of Washington insiders, is the jewish AIPAC?
  
• Did you know that israel stands in defiance of 69 United Nations Security Council Resolutions?
  
• Did you know that today's israel sits on the former sites of more than 400 now-vanished Palestinian villages, and that the israeli's re- named almost every physical site in the country to cover up the traces?
  
• Did you know that it was not until 1988 that israelis were barred from running "jews Only" job ads?
  
• Did you know that four prime ministers of israel (Begin, Shamir, Rabin, and Sharon) have taken part in either bomb attacks on civilians, massacres of civilians, or forced expulsions of civilians from their villages?
  
• Did you know that the israeli Foreign Ministry pays two American public relations firms to promote israel to Americans?
  
• Did you know that Sharon's coalition government includes a party -- Molodet -- which advocates expelling all Palestinians from the occupied territories?
  
• Did you know that israel's settlement-building increased in the eight years since Oslo?
  
• Did you know that settlement building under Barak doubled compared to settlement building under Netanyahu?
  
• Did you know that israel once dedicated a postage stamp to a man who attacked a civilian bus and killed several people?
  
• Did you know that recently-declassifi ed documents indicate that David Ben-Gurion in at least some instances approved of the expulsion of Palestinians in 1948?
  
• Did you know that despite a ban on torture by israel's High Court of Justice, torture has continued by Shin Bet interrogators on Palestinian prisoners?
  
• Did you know that Palestinian refugees make up the largest portion of the refugee population in the world?
  
• And finally do you know who is the terrorist now?

21 Nov 06: Links for Today

Identity Cards Act 2006 of the British Parliament (I didn't think this would ever get passed - amazing!)
British National Identity Card: Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
Plane stupid! (I tried the train system: it stinks!)
MP4 Players