Earlier Today i woke up about to say my morning prayer and as usual the mind wonders to some things.. some focused and others at times.. God guide and help me with that...
for what ever reason, a voice called to me "Hasbuna llahu wa nima-al wa killlu"..
I blocked it out lest it was a distraction for me during payer..
I remember tthe saying but i have never bothered with what it meant..it is a saying from young when young alfa's gather round for prayers and praises afterwards..
what i remember them saying is ""hasbuna llahu wa nima-al wa killu"". "Wa nimma maola wa nimma nasirru". i now know Nassir means victory ( from surah Nasir.. "Idha jaa a nassru llahi wal fathu".. "when triumph and victory comes from God")but i am not sure of the meaning of the second part.. am not sure where it is got from..
Any ways,
I gots to reading the quran.. where i am at now is surah 3.. al-imran.. and the part i was reading that morning ... albeit a bit lazily read the words..
Lo and Behold..."Hasbuna llahu wa nimma wa killu" was at the end of one of the verses...
(2:173 to be precise)
I froze for a second and i bowed my head in adoration to the Almighty God who never ceases to amaze me, never ceases to astound me or to inspire me...
The meaning therein is.. "God suffiices for us( me) He is the best Protector"...
remember when i wrote that spill about " no weapon fashioned against me shall prosper" well... the best resolve and ending for that issue will be "God suffices for me.. He is the best Protector"...
Thursday, 30 April 2009
truth
What ever thing i read,hear or see.
Any good therein.. My lord Guide me to it
Any truth therein, My Lord, Direct me to it
Any bad therein, My Lord, Keep it from me
Any Falseness therein, My Lord Save me from it..
You alone Direct and Guide to the truth
You alone Insipre and Give meaning
Any good therein.. My lord Guide me to it
Any truth therein, My Lord, Direct me to it
Any bad therein, My Lord, Keep it from me
Any Falseness therein, My Lord Save me from it..
You alone Direct and Guide to the truth
You alone Insipre and Give meaning
Tuesday, 28 April 2009
interesting conversations...this life never ceases to amuse me...
Start
Salam everyone, Could someone who is knowledgeble please explain in simple English what is the issue with these counts? I've read about them before but can't seem to grasp it. When a situation comes up where I have an opportunity to talk about the message and the miracle, I have in the past sent people to submission.org or masjidtucson. .org. Should I not be doing this because of this count business? Also, some of you may already know this but there are also mistakes claimed in Appendix 15 regarding the multiples of 19 in the confirmation of the 5 prayers and the Friday prayer. I have confirmed this for myself and have brought it other people's attention in the community but they seem reluctant to make changes to the appendix. I find this unsettling because in my dreams of bringing the message and the miracle to the main stream media I feel all claims should be absolutely correct. Peace and God Bless,
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salamit is all interesting again.. a point i feel we are missing or might be missing is that 19 or not.. it is belief in God alone that matters. one only has to read the quran to see that... we are holding on to miracles i.e miracle of 19. the quran is clear in terms of prayer i feel and as long as you hold on to God and uphold Gods scriptures.. Quran and all... then God wiling everything becomes clear... yes it is good to have clarified and honest statements made about and in refeence to the quran.. i feel. personally i dont understand the 19 thing and have never made an attempt to understand bar counting the no of times out lips touch in fatiah... but using the 19 thing to justify everything else in life may not be ideal or right... it may be but i dont know that. as i see it, the 19 may be a valid evidence for the authenticity of the Quran... but it is authenticity of salat.. which by the way is authentic on its own because going nac history and worship lines.. it is a practice that is always constant. bar all the new formations and interpretations that humans tend to impose on themselves.. or zakat or anything else for that matter... God guide us all and guide us to the truth.. salam fats
i am quite intrugued though about what you say so if i may have missed it earlier apologies but can you bring our attention to your findings...if you say you have brought it to the communties atention and they have done nothing.. open it up to everybody and let everyone see what it is you say.. there may be someone in this forum who may help shed light on the issue for you...the apendixes i feel were a persons/group of persons understandin g and take on some topics in the quran as such changes to the apendixes may mean getting all the people who contributed to it together to agree on the change and get it done.. this my or may not be possible.. salam
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from your statements repeated below I gather you do not necessarily believe there is a mathematical miracle based on the number 19 in the Quran, and do not accept Rashad Khalifa as a messenger of God. Your statements which caught my attention: ”the apendixes i feel were a persons/group of persons understandin g and take on some topics in the quran as such changes to the apendixes may mean getting all the people who contributed to it together to agreeon the change and get it done.. this my or may not be possible..”
”a point i feel we are missing or might be missing is that 19 or not.. it is belief in God alone that matters. one only has to read the quran to see that... we are holding on to miracles i.e miracle of 19.” ”personally i dont understand the 19 thing and have never made an attempt to understand bar counting the no of times out lips touch in fatiah ” ”as i see it, the 19 may be a valid evidence for the authenticity of the Quran...but it is authenticity of salat.. which by the way is authentic on its own ” What you believe or not is of course entirely up to you. We are all free to believe what we want, or not, and nobody on this forum has anything invested in your choice,ither way. The thing is, that this particular forum, which is by invitation only, is for people who believe in the miracle of the Quran and have accepted the> mesesngership of Rashad Khalifa. As we have already accepted this new information from God and are reaping the benefits of increased and clarified understanding because of it, we wish to advance from this point forward, not go backwards. Therefore we made this a forum only for people who have passed this point of erification. If that was not made clear enough before, our apologies. Let it be made clear enough now If you feel that your statements have been misinterpreted, I welcome your correction of the same.
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salam my comments and personal opinion are thus as i wrote so I am not sure which part you dont understand.. but i am afraid to say that you gather wrongly.apeendices i gather were the work of rashad as well as contributions from other people.. according to the apendices themselves .. hence any alteration to them i feel should rightly involve those who contributed to it then get them all to agree on alteration and correct them whenb you have revised editions 1/2/3/4 them i can also safely assume that alterations have been made in the past this is my egenral observation
19 miracle is something which fascinated me but no something i personally can rwalte to.. i did not say i dont believe in it, i said it is something i do not understand.. there is a difference.. praise God that i am able to read the wquran and from my heart i know that it is the right thing for me: worship God alone and all religious laws according to the Quran.. i personally dont require validity as experience has taught me that my soul/heart knows validity from what it reads and understands( God willing i will sit and count the thing myself in the near future) because God will make it clear for me and all praises be to God that He has.. my statements have not been misrepresented. ..as i was clear what i wrote i will beg your indulgence to say that you are the one reading it wrong.. salam fats ps: having read it back i am amazed to say fats is the only person i know evene with spell checker who still gets everything spelt wrongly
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What part did I read wrong?
I stated that you do not beeve in the miracle of 19 – which you admit to. How can you, when you have not looked at it yet? I stated that you do not accept Rashad Khalifa as a messenger of God – which your statement that the Appendices ”were a persons/group of persons understandin g and take on some topics” indicates. It is either that or that you have not been bothered to look at it yet properly. Had you read the appendices, verified and accepted the information in them, you would not have said what you did about the contents, and you would know that the contents are not negotiable or adjustable, as it was conveyed through a commissioned messenger of God (there were some small contributions in terms of mathematical observations - some of which were later found to be wrong, and were thus removed - nothing else besides proof reading). Your take on all of this, as I entioned, may very well be because you have not taken the time to look at it yet. From what you are saying it seems however that you feel neither an urgency, nor a necessity in so doing. This strikes me as odd for someone who believes in God, and especially odd for someone who claims to believe in the Quran. That would be like a Christian hearing about Jesus being back, preaching in the church next door, deciding it is not important to go and listen. I raised this question to you, as one of the critierias to be a member of this forum is to have passed the point of verification of these facts. We made it so, as we know that these facts serve as a filter to distinguish those who believe from those who don’t (3:82), as well as those who harbor doubts who say it is not important, or ’so what’ (74:31). And if the simple facts of themiracle listed in the Appendices cannot attract enough of
your attention to convince you, of a miracle God describes
as ten times the miracle of all the previous ones, what
could you possibly share with us, and what could we possibly
say to you, that would be useful to either If you wish to stay a member of this forum, I urge you to look at the miracle and get back to us with your take on it as soon as possible.
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Salam AlaykumI dont understand it does not mean i dont believe in it..by my comprehension i can accept a fact without nevessarily understanding it...re apendicssare just what i have stated...and by the way.. dont assume i have not had a look. i must have had a look to notice that they were contributors to somer facts presented therein.. hence my logic on it... i have the second edition of the rashad translated quran so any omission/addition i am not aware of..as thankfylly I have eyes to read and ears to hear and brain to understandto verify that the worship of God is about God alone and the Quran as source of religious law.. do not be so hasty as to presume that we all have to follow verification on the same level..as i said previously, my soul/heart knows what is the truth from God ( which by the way is culmination of using my faculties to disern what is right from false) and as i leave and breathe God help me towards accepting it and following it...my opinions as thus i do not see any need to change it..as to being a part in the forum... it is ur choice if u want to remove or not.. doesnt add anything to my worship of God or subtract anything from my worship practices to God.. i enjoy the forum becos it given me things to ponder on re:different people different ways and i learn from each post so really its up to you...as previously stated i have said what i said ( not sure which part you are taking out of context bcos it is clear to me)and i stand where i stand.. God being my witness and my judge..ps: it is not you or anyone who decides who believes or does not believe.. True belief in God and His message comes from God and is by His grace...as such we are all racing in each our own ways to attaining the status of believers...though i am aware of a point you may be making in terms of this.fats
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Samun Alaykum
You neither believe in it, or not, even though, as you now add in your latest response, you may have already looked at it. Either way, you have not made up your mind about it, which is a criteria to be a member of this forum.
You were invited to clarify your position regarding this, but instead are restating your original attitude in downsizing the significance of the miracle. Even though you are using subtle words in so doing, and even though you state your commitment to God alone and being a believer in the Quran alone, you are posting ideas on this forum that the miracle of 19 does not really matter that much, that you don’t really need it, and that people are spending too much time on it. All of these attitudes are completely unquranic.
”a point i feel we are missing or might be missing is that 19 or not.. it is belief in God alone that matters. one only has to read the quran to see that... we are holding on to miracles i.e miracle of 19.” ”personally i dont understand the 19 thing and have never made an attempt to understand bar counting the no of times out lips touch in fatiah... ” ”as i see it, the 19 may be a valid evidence for the authenticity of the Quran...but it is authenticity of salat.. which by the way is authentic on its own ”
”my soul/heart knows what is the truth from God ( which by the way is culmination of using my faculties to disern what is right from false)...”
”my opinions as thus i do not see any need to change it..”
You are welcome to reapply to this forum when you have had time to properly verify the facts and state your position on them.
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salam alaykum..
but i am findnd this rather interesting...
nd point of note my personal opinion is my personal opinion as i am sure every one has theirs...
like i stated.before i do not need to understand the 19 before accepting that worshipping God is about God alone..if thats how it worked for u then good for you...
"Yu were invited to clarify your position regarding this, but instead are restating your original attitude in downsizing the significance of the miracle. Even though you are using subtle words in so doing, and even though you state your commitment to God alone and being a believer in the Quran alone, you are posting ideas on this forum that the miracle of 19 does not really matter that much, that you don’t really need it, and that people are spending too much time on it. All of these attitudes are completely unquranic"
i didnt realise i was being subtle.. because i am as clear with my writing as i clear in my head Thank God...
so let me clarify here, are you expecting everyone to have the same thought process?
will be better to read my postings with a clear mind not any hidden agenda..
if you or anyone dont agree with my comments then fair enuff. iam not expecting you to neither am i expecting you to.. is that un-subtle enuff.. postings are there i guess to bunce ideas of each person and God willing maybe learn something new..
as always i only speak fo rmyself, on my experiences and my understanding...
what is unquranic about that expect speaking the truth and holding onto god alone as that...
i wrote a whole splii there about the 19 but really on aftertough i am realising that you want me to account for myself re: how i can believe in God without necesarrily nderstanding the 19 miracle... but really it dawns on me that i cannot and will not stoop that low as to give you justification for my faith.. which is what you are asking...
first because i would want to know if you have asked everyone of this or am i just being singled out because you dont like what i have posted...
second because really i have already done that in my earlier replies to you.. much to my amazement...
in anycase both will imply that you are jdge and jury and neither of which apply. so i have deleted it...
"his approach and attitude is exposing arrogance and contributes to spreading poison and doubts. We have plenty of that outside this forum. THIS forum was created for people who have already passed the point of verification of these earth shattering facts and miracle, who have a clear mind and heart about this matters, so we can discuss other things here which will help us move forward, not spend time discussing things we have already passed a long time ago, which can only drag us back. "
arrgoance.. hmmm.. that is a new one... spreading poison/doubt.. who have i spread poisin and doubt to...
if you feel i have.. please Hold on to God and dont let go... because that is what we are invited to do.. I am clear that i want to hold on to God alon.. are you..?
and dear, what makes you think i have not passed the "point of verification of these matters earth shattering...." you seem to think yo uknow all the answers and have all the hands on everyones thought process...
why on earth would you imply that i d not have a clear mind or heart about...
like i said this is rather interesting...
God be praised that i know when i am from, know where i have been and thank God know where i want to go...
so really in all honesty ............
since you have a handle on everything you will decide what mkes us as a community progreaa forward or what makes us regress...arogance my dear....but i am glad i understand that is your personal opinion so good luck to you...
fats
This life amazes me because as usual it does...authocraty and power is when you leave no room for possibilities outside your own.. where you expect people to follow one norm.. yours..
the wor os God will always be the same whichever way you look at it, try to distort it or comprehend it.. word of God is the word of God.. and as i dont answer to any man. Gods will be done..
afterall, it is God i am asked to worship and his laws i am asked to upohold..
for those who require proof of Gods dominance good luck to them and for those who dont good luck to then as well.
in gods manifestation there is no mistake, no count error and no ambiguesness,, There is room for everyone and possibilities are endless.
like i said, there may not be a one size fits all,, we have to account that we are all individual each with our ous circumstances.. what happends for one may not necessarily be the same for the other.. the sooner we aret realising that the better..
The end result will always be the end result.. but getting there may involve trips, jumps, straigh forward or even wuru wuru to the answer..
organised religion/group/whateva name you call it.. leaves something to be desired,, especially when there is no room for expression.. if that expression does not fit in with you you want to fit in with...
everything happens for a reason as such this was meant to matrilise..
as always God is the one I hold on to and all my guidance and clarification is the the quran from God as is also in other scriptures of God, Oldtestament, Gospel of Jesus, Psalms..
and if I hold on to God alone i am most certain i will not fail...
fats
something else comes to mind...
gods system is always the same..
i.e look at jesus and his diciples... it was after jesus that we had gospel of mark, peter etc... Dem say jesus said that......some grave claims were made.. which were not made when jesus was alive o... some people choosing to believe in Paul/mark his diciples over what Jesus himself has said/brought from God.. as such we have different factions of chrustianity...
look at mohammed and his followers... it was their take that divided arab islam to shia sunni and whatever have you....Den say mohammed say that......some grave claims were made.. which were not made when mohammed was alive...some people choosing to believe his hadith.. his sayings that they heard other people saying over the word of God.. as such we have factions those who choose God alone vs those who choose messenger alone vs those who just mixthe two
now look at rashad Khalifa.. it was after him that we are having different people and their different takes.. Dem say that he say that...there are editions of the Quran..
now where in earth does one have editions of the word of God.. but rather these editions are in the appendices.. which man has written...
really in Gods words there is no mistake but rather it is in man and his actions that we find mistakes and erros
some people choosing to upholsd his hadith,.. which is his saying over the word of God...
really Gods system is always the same..
you knw what i call God.. "teacher of the Quran"... He is the one who will teach me, can guide me and provide meaning for me.. anyone else who think they can do this.. good luck to them.. but rather i choose God over anybody else.. Gods word is out there.. make of it what you will
but on a logicall level.. despite what ever else we have.. if you hold on to the word of God and god alone.. then no need for this nonsence...
Salam everyone, Could someone who is knowledgeble please explain in simple English what is the issue with these counts? I've read about them before but can't seem to grasp it. When a situation comes up where I have an opportunity to talk about the message and the miracle, I have in the past sent people to submission.org or masjidtucson. .org. Should I not be doing this because of this count business? Also, some of you may already know this but there are also mistakes claimed in Appendix 15 regarding the multiples of 19 in the confirmation of the 5 prayers and the Friday prayer. I have confirmed this for myself and have brought it other people's attention in the community but they seem reluctant to make changes to the appendix. I find this unsettling because in my dreams of bringing the message and the miracle to the main stream media I feel all claims should be absolutely correct. Peace and God Bless,
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salamit is all interesting again.. a point i feel we are missing or might be missing is that 19 or not.. it is belief in God alone that matters. one only has to read the quran to see that... we are holding on to miracles i.e miracle of 19. the quran is clear in terms of prayer i feel and as long as you hold on to God and uphold Gods scriptures.. Quran and all... then God wiling everything becomes clear... yes it is good to have clarified and honest statements made about and in refeence to the quran.. i feel. personally i dont understand the 19 thing and have never made an attempt to understand bar counting the no of times out lips touch in fatiah... but using the 19 thing to justify everything else in life may not be ideal or right... it may be but i dont know that. as i see it, the 19 may be a valid evidence for the authenticity of the Quran... but it is authenticity of salat.. which by the way is authentic on its own because going nac history and worship lines.. it is a practice that is always constant. bar all the new formations and interpretations that humans tend to impose on themselves.. or zakat or anything else for that matter... God guide us all and guide us to the truth.. salam fats
i am quite intrugued though about what you say so if i may have missed it earlier apologies but can you bring our attention to your findings...if you say you have brought it to the communties atention and they have done nothing.. open it up to everybody and let everyone see what it is you say.. there may be someone in this forum who may help shed light on the issue for you...the apendixes i feel were a persons/group of persons understandin g and take on some topics in the quran as such changes to the apendixes may mean getting all the people who contributed to it together to agree on the change and get it done.. this my or may not be possible.. salam
Reply
from your statements repeated below I gather you do not necessarily believe there is a mathematical miracle based on the number 19 in the Quran, and do not accept Rashad Khalifa as a messenger of God. Your statements which caught my attention: ”the apendixes i feel were a persons/group of persons understandin g and take on some topics in the quran as such changes to the apendixes may mean getting all the people who contributed to it together to agreeon the change and get it done.. this my or may not be possible..”
”a point i feel we are missing or might be missing is that 19 or not.. it is belief in God alone that matters. one only has to read the quran to see that... we are holding on to miracles i.e miracle of 19.” ”personally i dont understand the 19 thing and have never made an attempt to understand bar counting the no of times out lips touch in fatiah ” ”as i see it, the 19 may be a valid evidence for the authenticity of the Quran...but it is authenticity of salat.. which by the way is authentic on its own ” What you believe or not is of course entirely up to you. We are all free to believe what we want, or not, and nobody on this forum has anything invested in your choice,ither way. The thing is, that this particular forum, which is by invitation only, is for people who believe in the miracle of the Quran and have accepted the> mesesngership of Rashad Khalifa. As we have already accepted this new information from God and are reaping the benefits of increased and clarified understanding because of it, we wish to advance from this point forward, not go backwards. Therefore we made this a forum only for people who have passed this point of erification. If that was not made clear enough before, our apologies. Let it be made clear enough now If you feel that your statements have been misinterpreted, I welcome your correction of the same.
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salam my comments and personal opinion are thus as i wrote so I am not sure which part you dont understand.. but i am afraid to say that you gather wrongly.apeendices i gather were the work of rashad as well as contributions from other people.. according to the apendices themselves .. hence any alteration to them i feel should rightly involve those who contributed to it then get them all to agree on alteration and correct them whenb you have revised editions 1/2/3/4 them i can also safely assume that alterations have been made in the past this is my egenral observation
19 miracle is something which fascinated me but no something i personally can rwalte to.. i did not say i dont believe in it, i said it is something i do not understand.. there is a difference.. praise God that i am able to read the wquran and from my heart i know that it is the right thing for me: worship God alone and all religious laws according to the Quran.. i personally dont require validity as experience has taught me that my soul/heart knows validity from what it reads and understands( God willing i will sit and count the thing myself in the near future) because God will make it clear for me and all praises be to God that He has.. my statements have not been misrepresented. ..as i was clear what i wrote i will beg your indulgence to say that you are the one reading it wrong.. salam fats ps: having read it back i am amazed to say fats is the only person i know evene with spell checker who still gets everything spelt wrongly
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What part did I read wrong?
I stated that you do not beeve in the miracle of 19 – which you admit to. How can you, when you have not looked at it yet? I stated that you do not accept Rashad Khalifa as a messenger of God – which your statement that the Appendices ”were a persons/group of persons understandin g and take on some topics” indicates. It is either that or that you have not been bothered to look at it yet properly. Had you read the appendices, verified and accepted the information in them, you would not have said what you did about the contents, and you would know that the contents are not negotiable or adjustable, as it was conveyed through a commissioned messenger of God (there were some small contributions in terms of mathematical observations - some of which were later found to be wrong, and were thus removed - nothing else besides proof reading). Your take on all of this, as I entioned, may very well be because you have not taken the time to look at it yet. From what you are saying it seems however that you feel neither an urgency, nor a necessity in so doing. This strikes me as odd for someone who believes in God, and especially odd for someone who claims to believe in the Quran. That would be like a Christian hearing about Jesus being back, preaching in the church next door, deciding it is not important to go and listen. I raised this question to you, as one of the critierias to be a member of this forum is to have passed the point of verification of these facts. We made it so, as we know that these facts serve as a filter to distinguish those who believe from those who don’t (3:82), as well as those who harbor doubts who say it is not important, or ’so what’ (74:31). And if the simple facts of themiracle listed in the Appendices cannot attract enough of
your attention to convince you, of a miracle God describes
as ten times the miracle of all the previous ones, what
could you possibly share with us, and what could we possibly
say to you, that would be useful to either If you wish to stay a member of this forum, I urge you to look at the miracle and get back to us with your take on it as soon as possible.
Reply
Salam AlaykumI dont understand it does not mean i dont believe in it..by my comprehension i can accept a fact without nevessarily understanding it...re apendicssare just what i have stated...and by the way.. dont assume i have not had a look. i must have had a look to notice that they were contributors to somer facts presented therein.. hence my logic on it... i have the second edition of the rashad translated quran so any omission/addition i am not aware of..as thankfylly I have eyes to read and ears to hear and brain to understandto verify that the worship of God is about God alone and the Quran as source of religious law.. do not be so hasty as to presume that we all have to follow verification on the same level..as i said previously, my soul/heart knows what is the truth from God ( which by the way is culmination of using my faculties to disern what is right from false) and as i leave and breathe God help me towards accepting it and following it...my opinions as thus i do not see any need to change it..as to being a part in the forum... it is ur choice if u want to remove or not.. doesnt add anything to my worship of God or subtract anything from my worship practices to God.. i enjoy the forum becos it given me things to ponder on re:different people different ways and i learn from each post so really its up to you...as previously stated i have said what i said ( not sure which part you are taking out of context bcos it is clear to me)and i stand where i stand.. God being my witness and my judge..ps: it is not you or anyone who decides who believes or does not believe.. True belief in God and His message comes from God and is by His grace...as such we are all racing in each our own ways to attaining the status of believers...though i am aware of a point you may be making in terms of this.fats
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Samun Alaykum
You neither believe in it, or not, even though, as you now add in your latest response, you may have already looked at it. Either way, you have not made up your mind about it, which is a criteria to be a member of this forum.
You were invited to clarify your position regarding this, but instead are restating your original attitude in downsizing the significance of the miracle. Even though you are using subtle words in so doing, and even though you state your commitment to God alone and being a believer in the Quran alone, you are posting ideas on this forum that the miracle of 19 does not really matter that much, that you don’t really need it, and that people are spending too much time on it. All of these attitudes are completely unquranic.
”a point i feel we are missing or might be missing is that 19 or not.. it is belief in God alone that matters. one only has to read the quran to see that... we are holding on to miracles i.e miracle of 19.” ”personally i dont understand the 19 thing and have never made an attempt to understand bar counting the no of times out lips touch in fatiah... ” ”as i see it, the 19 may be a valid evidence for the authenticity of the Quran...but it is authenticity of salat.. which by the way is authentic on its own ”
”my soul/heart knows what is the truth from God ( which by the way is culmination of using my faculties to disern what is right from false)...”
”my opinions as thus i do not see any need to change it..”
You are welcome to reapply to this forum when you have had time to properly verify the facts and state your position on them.
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salam alaykum..
but i am findnd this rather interesting...
nd point of note my personal opinion is my personal opinion as i am sure every one has theirs...
like i stated.before i do not need to understand the 19 before accepting that worshipping God is about God alone..if thats how it worked for u then good for you...
"Yu were invited to clarify your position regarding this, but instead are restating your original attitude in downsizing the significance of the miracle. Even though you are using subtle words in so doing, and even though you state your commitment to God alone and being a believer in the Quran alone, you are posting ideas on this forum that the miracle of 19 does not really matter that much, that you don’t really need it, and that people are spending too much time on it. All of these attitudes are completely unquranic"
i didnt realise i was being subtle.. because i am as clear with my writing as i clear in my head Thank God...
so let me clarify here, are you expecting everyone to have the same thought process?
will be better to read my postings with a clear mind not any hidden agenda..
if you or anyone dont agree with my comments then fair enuff. iam not expecting you to neither am i expecting you to.. is that un-subtle enuff.. postings are there i guess to bunce ideas of each person and God willing maybe learn something new..
as always i only speak fo rmyself, on my experiences and my understanding...
what is unquranic about that expect speaking the truth and holding onto god alone as that...
i wrote a whole splii there about the 19 but really on aftertough i am realising that you want me to account for myself re: how i can believe in God without necesarrily nderstanding the 19 miracle... but really it dawns on me that i cannot and will not stoop that low as to give you justification for my faith.. which is what you are asking...
first because i would want to know if you have asked everyone of this or am i just being singled out because you dont like what i have posted...
second because really i have already done that in my earlier replies to you.. much to my amazement...
in anycase both will imply that you are jdge and jury and neither of which apply. so i have deleted it...
"his approach and attitude is exposing arrogance and contributes to spreading poison and doubts. We have plenty of that outside this forum. THIS forum was created for people who have already passed the point of verification of these earth shattering facts and miracle, who have a clear mind and heart about this matters, so we can discuss other things here which will help us move forward, not spend time discussing things we have already passed a long time ago, which can only drag us back. "
arrgoance.. hmmm.. that is a new one... spreading poison/doubt.. who have i spread poisin and doubt to...
if you feel i have.. please Hold on to God and dont let go... because that is what we are invited to do.. I am clear that i want to hold on to God alon.. are you..?
and dear, what makes you think i have not passed the "point of verification of these matters earth shattering...." you seem to think yo uknow all the answers and have all the hands on everyones thought process...
why on earth would you imply that i d not have a clear mind or heart about...
like i said this is rather interesting...
God be praised that i know when i am from, know where i have been and thank God know where i want to go...
so really in all honesty ............
since you have a handle on everything you will decide what mkes us as a community progreaa forward or what makes us regress...arogance my dear....but i am glad i understand that is your personal opinion so good luck to you...
fats
This life amazes me because as usual it does...authocraty and power is when you leave no room for possibilities outside your own.. where you expect people to follow one norm.. yours..
the wor os God will always be the same whichever way you look at it, try to distort it or comprehend it.. word of God is the word of God.. and as i dont answer to any man. Gods will be done..
afterall, it is God i am asked to worship and his laws i am asked to upohold..
for those who require proof of Gods dominance good luck to them and for those who dont good luck to then as well.
in gods manifestation there is no mistake, no count error and no ambiguesness,, There is room for everyone and possibilities are endless.
like i said, there may not be a one size fits all,, we have to account that we are all individual each with our ous circumstances.. what happends for one may not necessarily be the same for the other.. the sooner we aret realising that the better..
The end result will always be the end result.. but getting there may involve trips, jumps, straigh forward or even wuru wuru to the answer..
organised religion/group/whateva name you call it.. leaves something to be desired,, especially when there is no room for expression.. if that expression does not fit in with you you want to fit in with...
everything happens for a reason as such this was meant to matrilise..
as always God is the one I hold on to and all my guidance and clarification is the the quran from God as is also in other scriptures of God, Oldtestament, Gospel of Jesus, Psalms..
and if I hold on to God alone i am most certain i will not fail...
fats
something else comes to mind...
gods system is always the same..
i.e look at jesus and his diciples... it was after jesus that we had gospel of mark, peter etc... Dem say jesus said that......some grave claims were made.. which were not made when jesus was alive o... some people choosing to believe in Paul/mark his diciples over what Jesus himself has said/brought from God.. as such we have different factions of chrustianity...
look at mohammed and his followers... it was their take that divided arab islam to shia sunni and whatever have you....Den say mohammed say that......some grave claims were made.. which were not made when mohammed was alive...some people choosing to believe his hadith.. his sayings that they heard other people saying over the word of God.. as such we have factions those who choose God alone vs those who choose messenger alone vs those who just mixthe two
now look at rashad Khalifa.. it was after him that we are having different people and their different takes.. Dem say that he say that...there are editions of the Quran..
now where in earth does one have editions of the word of God.. but rather these editions are in the appendices.. which man has written...
really in Gods words there is no mistake but rather it is in man and his actions that we find mistakes and erros
some people choosing to upholsd his hadith,.. which is his saying over the word of God...
really Gods system is always the same..
you knw what i call God.. "teacher of the Quran"... He is the one who will teach me, can guide me and provide meaning for me.. anyone else who think they can do this.. good luck to them.. but rather i choose God over anybody else.. Gods word is out there.. make of it what you will
but on a logicall level.. despite what ever else we have.. if you hold on to the word of God and god alone.. then no need for this nonsence...
Who else but Thee
Who else but Thee can Guide and Protect me
Who else but Thee to Inspire and Encourage me
Who is like Thee that can Comfort and Soothe me
Subhanaka La Huma Rabb-il Aalamin
Who else but thee knows my heart and my longings
Who else but thee sees my suffering and anguish
Who else but thee surely will guide me to the truth
Subhanaka La Huma Rabb-il Aalamin
Who else but Thee is my King and Saviour
Who else but Thee can Provide and Grant me
Who else but thee is my Sustainer and Guardian
Subhanaka La Huma Rabb-il Aalamin
Who is like Thee Possesor of All Authourity
Who is like Thee Eternal and Ever Lasting
Who is like thee Preserver and Sustainer
Subhanaka La Huma Rabb-il Aalamin
Who is like Thee O one who cares for me
Who is like Thee My provider and and Protector
Who else but Thee means this much to me
Subhanaka La Huma Rabb-il Aalamin
Who else but Thee to Inspire and Encourage me
Who is like Thee that can Comfort and Soothe me
Subhanaka La Huma Rabb-il Aalamin
Who else but thee knows my heart and my longings
Who else but thee sees my suffering and anguish
Who else but thee surely will guide me to the truth
Subhanaka La Huma Rabb-il Aalamin
Who else but Thee is my King and Saviour
Who else but Thee can Provide and Grant me
Who else but thee is my Sustainer and Guardian
Subhanaka La Huma Rabb-il Aalamin
Who is like Thee Possesor of All Authourity
Who is like Thee Eternal and Ever Lasting
Who is like thee Preserver and Sustainer
Subhanaka La Huma Rabb-il Aalamin
Who is like Thee O one who cares for me
Who is like Thee My provider and and Protector
Who else but Thee means this much to me
Subhanaka La Huma Rabb-il Aalamin
"Subhanaka la Huma Rabb-il Aalamin"
Be you Glorified my God, Lord of the Universe..
Monday, 27 April 2009
buzzy bee
wow!!
I have been buzzzzzzy dis april...
Anyhow.. God be praised, a lot of issues highlighted and resolved..
very testing month it was for me... a lot of emotions i have been thru a lot os things happening underground as well as surface.
i broke down visibly.. emotionally spent and drained
God lifted me UP and i tried again
A lot of rejections enough to deflate the amazon spirit
God provided and made up for it
But i am able to say Thanks my Lord for the journey, for the learning and the realisation
I learnt a new arabic word.. something i was searching for but was right under my nose..
"Be you Glorified my Lord" which roughly translates "Subhanaka La Huma"
I drove a new car Vauxhall Insignia to Birmingham and back... need cushions to prop me up tho...
My friend had a baby Girl and was in my house while she was in labour..it was very interesting to watch it live and direct...
I ate fresh Yam..." Isu" for the first time in 9 years...
I signed up again for race for life.. bound to be fun
all in all, My Lord i am grateful for everything...
Sunday, 26 April 2009
No weapon fashioned against me shall prosper.... expect ordained by God
"If GOD touches you with a hardship, none can relieve it except He. And when He blesses you, no force can prevent His grace. He bestows it upon whomever He chooses from among His servants. He is the Forgiver, Most Merciful." 10:108
I was looking for somehting else and i came across this verse..
Do you remember when our parents will go,, it was he , she, dem people.. who are doing this that that against you... They dont want you to succeed etc bla bla bla
At least sometimes my mum has said that...
it makes me laugh you know..
what a powerful statement it makes - the above verse..
and i can understand it to mean, if God willed something for you then so be it..
I am reminded by another verse "Inama amruhu idha arada shayan an ya kula lahu Kun Fa Ya Kun".. ( arabic a bit hazy sorry)Surah 34 ( second to the last verse)
loosely without checking means.. "For anything to be done all He (God) has to say is Be and It is..."
so at all times God is always in control and as He has designed, so it shall be..
This is particularly true for me in that i am grateful to God that i can recognise that God's will be done so when those "nagging" "nipping" voices in my head start to bother me with weird suggestions that "maybe dis person doesnt like you and wants to do juju for you".. bla bla etc.. I can always overide with logic and say.. if that is the will of my God then so be it.. for in my times of triumph and tribulation I will always turn to my Lord.. In times of happiness and sadness I will still turn to my Lord. even when things dont go my way, even after longing and pining for ages and it still doesnt swing in my favour, I will still turn to the Lord.. For the Lord will always provide in His own time when He knows it will benefit me..
So no person or being can do nada to me except unless my God has ordained that they shall, No one can stop my flow unless My God has ordained so.. and if it is that way, Then i guess my Lord sets me a test to see if i will run helter skelter or if i will still remember Him..
God willing regardless of the test, I always turn to my God.. The Almighty..
Remember the scripture where solomon said.. "This is a test whereby my Lord tests me to see if i am appreciative or not"...
Well, in my own way i can say all these things are a test for me to see despite the adversity and hardship if i will still hold on to my Lord
May God be praised, always and eternally by me and by every being..
My Lord, for real, direct me to be appreciative of the blessings that you have bestowed on me and to do the righteous works that pleases thee.Admit me by thy mercy into the company of your rightous servants,
For even I in fields so broad, some duties I may fulfill. And i shall ask for no reward except to serve Thee still.
Let thy name be forever on my lips, my every breath my every thought, Let me never ever forget to praise you, exalt you, remember you..
For indeed you have never forgotten me, indeed you are always there for me..
though i may have ran away from you, for years and years, I come to thee in totality seeking thy ways and thy ways only. Seeking thy truth and guidance.
Who else but Thee will guide and inspire me
Who else but Thee can provide for me
Who else but Thee O Lord can I turn too
For all praise is Yours
All authority, Kingship and Glory
In this life and in the hereafter
Be you Glorified most Gracious Lord,
ps: i always feel knd of smug and sheepish when i blurb all gooey like this.. but this is me.. F.A.O..warts and all..
Wednesday, 22 April 2009
Meditation
“My Lord admit me a honorable admittance
And Let me depart a honorable departure
And grant me from You a Powerful Support”
Yesterday I was mulling over these words and another part of the scripture jumped to my head.
“Any one who reverences God, He will create an exit for him”
The first part I remember as one of the things I put down in my little book of prayers as part of a quartet of verses from the scripture Surah/Chapter 17 which we know as Bani Israel or Children of Israel.
I have included the verse before it and the ones after it, so we can get a glimpse of what it is referring to.
17:78
You shall observe the Contact Prayer (Salat) when the sun declines from its highest point at noon, as it moves towards sunset. You shall also observe (the recitation of) the Quran at dawn. (Reciting) the Quran at dawn is witnessed.
17:79
During the night, you shall meditate for extra credit, that your Lord may raise you to an honorable rank.
17:80
And say, "My Lord, admit me an honorable admittance, and let me depart an honorable departure, and grant me from You a powerful support."
17:81
Proclaim, "The truth has prevailed, and falsehood has vanished; falsehood will inevitably vanish."
(Parenthesis are the translators own inference to bind the verses together)
The words didn’t strike me till yesterday.. Half asleep, half awake
But before I mull it over I want to look at the bottom statement.
This was from chapter/Surah 65, which people may know as Talaq or Divorce.
As the theme goes, it talks about divorce/separation of partners. I have included the verse before it and the verse after it.. So that one can get a glimpse of what it is referring to..
65:1
O you prophet, when you people divorce the women, you shall ensure that a divorce interim is fulfilled. You shall measure such an interim precisely. You shall reverence GOD your Lord. Do not evict them from their homes, nor shall you make life miserable for them, to force them to leave on their own, unless they commit a proven adultery. These are GOD’s laws. Anyone who transgresses GOD’s laws commits an injustice against himself. You never know; maybe GOD wills something good to come out of this.
65:2
Once the interim is fulfilled, you may reconcile with them equitably, or go through with the separation equitably. You shall have two equitable witnesses witness the divorce before GOD. This is to enlighten those who believe in GOD and the Last Day. Anyone who reverences GOD, He will create an exit for him.
65:3
And will provide for him whence he never expected. Anyone who trusts in GOD, He suffices him. GOD’s commands are done. GOD has decreed for everything its fate.
At first in some sort of weird way, I thought the two were linked in that it was referring to the same thing.. But when I am looking at it now I cant see it..
The first statement I feel relates to meditation…
You see, the other time about a year ago, I was thinking about meditation…
I found it especially hard to grasp the notion of meditation because for someone like me -with so many things jumping around in my head all at the same time - who finds it hard to calm down and be restful… it is quite hard to grasp the notion of sitting idle and focusing on one thing.. So I was researching meditation and how to meditate…
I came across this chapter and verse and as such I am hoping Gw, it will be a nightly occurrence - One of my chanting mantras to fall asleep to.
Anyhow,
The second part relates to divorce so in a logical aspect they are not linked, unless you look at the word exit from a different perspective.
Exit as in “removal from a place/situation/process” - which is the way I was looking at it..
But back to the first statement…
Honorable admittance.
Admittance into Gods mercy, into paradise, into everlasting peace and light, Admittance to be part of Gods righteous servants…
Honorable departure.
Departure from sin, from this world and its trappings, from darkness
Powerful support
Support in testing times, in times of hope and longings, support to carry out ones obligations, to be on the right path, to uphold God’s revelations
Need I say more..
And Let me depart a honorable departure
And grant me from You a Powerful Support”
Yesterday I was mulling over these words and another part of the scripture jumped to my head.
“Any one who reverences God, He will create an exit for him”
The first part I remember as one of the things I put down in my little book of prayers as part of a quartet of verses from the scripture Surah/Chapter 17 which we know as Bani Israel or Children of Israel.
I have included the verse before it and the ones after it, so we can get a glimpse of what it is referring to.
17:78
You shall observe the Contact Prayer (Salat) when the sun declines from its highest point at noon, as it moves towards sunset. You shall also observe (the recitation of) the Quran at dawn. (Reciting) the Quran at dawn is witnessed.
17:79
During the night, you shall meditate for extra credit, that your Lord may raise you to an honorable rank.
17:80
And say, "My Lord, admit me an honorable admittance, and let me depart an honorable departure, and grant me from You a powerful support."
17:81
Proclaim, "The truth has prevailed, and falsehood has vanished; falsehood will inevitably vanish."
(Parenthesis are the translators own inference to bind the verses together)
The words didn’t strike me till yesterday.. Half asleep, half awake
But before I mull it over I want to look at the bottom statement.
This was from chapter/Surah 65, which people may know as Talaq or Divorce.
As the theme goes, it talks about divorce/separation of partners. I have included the verse before it and the verse after it.. So that one can get a glimpse of what it is referring to..
65:1
O you prophet, when you people divorce the women, you shall ensure that a divorce interim is fulfilled. You shall measure such an interim precisely. You shall reverence GOD your Lord. Do not evict them from their homes, nor shall you make life miserable for them, to force them to leave on their own, unless they commit a proven adultery. These are GOD’s laws. Anyone who transgresses GOD’s laws commits an injustice against himself. You never know; maybe GOD wills something good to come out of this.
65:2
Once the interim is fulfilled, you may reconcile with them equitably, or go through with the separation equitably. You shall have two equitable witnesses witness the divorce before GOD. This is to enlighten those who believe in GOD and the Last Day. Anyone who reverences GOD, He will create an exit for him.
65:3
And will provide for him whence he never expected. Anyone who trusts in GOD, He suffices him. GOD’s commands are done. GOD has decreed for everything its fate.
At first in some sort of weird way, I thought the two were linked in that it was referring to the same thing.. But when I am looking at it now I cant see it..
The first statement I feel relates to meditation…
You see, the other time about a year ago, I was thinking about meditation…
I found it especially hard to grasp the notion of meditation because for someone like me -with so many things jumping around in my head all at the same time - who finds it hard to calm down and be restful… it is quite hard to grasp the notion of sitting idle and focusing on one thing.. So I was researching meditation and how to meditate…
I came across this chapter and verse and as such I am hoping Gw, it will be a nightly occurrence - One of my chanting mantras to fall asleep to.
Anyhow,
The second part relates to divorce so in a logical aspect they are not linked, unless you look at the word exit from a different perspective.
Exit as in “removal from a place/situation/process” - which is the way I was looking at it..
But back to the first statement…
Honorable admittance.
Admittance into Gods mercy, into paradise, into everlasting peace and light, Admittance to be part of Gods righteous servants…
Honorable departure.
Departure from sin, from this world and its trappings, from darkness
Powerful support
Support in testing times, in times of hope and longings, support to carry out ones obligations, to be on the right path, to uphold God’s revelations
Need I say more..
Tuesday, 21 April 2009
Vauxhall pain...
I am in pain... OOOOOH it hurts so much...
My little tonto went to the doctor for its annual check up
My little tonto was certified not well
OOOOUCH! that hurt
Anyhow Tonto had to get fixed and what a SHOCKER!!
I was not prepared for what i got..
£300 just to have tonto back in order
AAAaaaaaRRRRRrrrrrGGGGGGggghhhhh!
I choked when i was given the estimate..
Wipers,rear registration lamp, Front brake pads, Rear coils,Rear Middle Seat belt, bearing..
I know tonto was slightly out of shape but not that much....
I defo was not prepared for that...
In retrospect, It could have been worse, so i just have to be thankful...anyways
I remember leaving tonto at the doctors, walking myself down the gravel path to the bus stop..
i was half laughing half crying.. asking God to look after my tonto for me.. hoping that the diagnosis didnt come out quite bad..."i commend my tonto in your hands Lord, let her be ok"
Darling Tonto... You are god sent...so what did i do...
Well got it paid, got tonto fixed and now tonto is in much better health and status
Not for me though, cos i am still fighting a cough/cold, which is intent on coming back...
My little tonto went to the doctor for its annual check up
My little tonto was certified not well
OOOOUCH! that hurt
Anyhow Tonto had to get fixed and what a SHOCKER!!
I was not prepared for what i got..
£300 just to have tonto back in order
AAAaaaaaRRRRRrrrrrGGGGGGggghhhhh!
I choked when i was given the estimate..
Wipers,rear registration lamp, Front brake pads, Rear coils,Rear Middle Seat belt, bearing..
I know tonto was slightly out of shape but not that much....
I defo was not prepared for that...
In retrospect, It could have been worse, so i just have to be thankful...anyways
I remember leaving tonto at the doctors, walking myself down the gravel path to the bus stop..
i was half laughing half crying.. asking God to look after my tonto for me.. hoping that the diagnosis didnt come out quite bad..."i commend my tonto in your hands Lord, let her be ok"
Darling Tonto... You are god sent...so what did i do...
Well got it paid, got tonto fixed and now tonto is in much better health and status
Not for me though, cos i am still fighting a cough/cold, which is intent on coming back...
Tuesday, 14 April 2009
in the spirit of being grateful .. a song rises from my lips.. Lord let it be acceptable unto thee
My Lord is wonderful
My Lord is Excellent
My Lord is Merciful
My Lord is Good
Compassionate King
Merciful Lord
You are my God
Yor are my God
Compassionate King
Merciful Lord
You are my King
You are my King
All Ihave is cos of Your mercy
You've been good to me
You've been good to me
Everything I own
Is because of thee
You are good to me
You are good to me
I am grateful Lord
I am grateful Lord
For all you have done
I am grateful Lord
I am grateful Bountiful
I am grateful Lord
Oluwa me sanu fun mi
Iwo ni kan ni Alagbara
Iwo ni kan ni Oba Aiye
Iwo ni kan ni Oba Rere
Iwo ni kan no Oba, Oba mimo
Olorun mii gbadura mii
Sanu fun mi Alagbara
Iwo ni kan no Oba Rere
Iwo ni kan ni Oba Anu
Iwo ni kan ni Olugbala, Oba mimo
@
My Lord is Excellent
My Lord is Merciful
My Lord is Good
Compassionate King
Merciful Lord
You are my God
Yor are my God
Compassionate King
Merciful Lord
You are my King
You are my King
All Ihave is cos of Your mercy
You've been good to me
You've been good to me
Everything I own
Is because of thee
You are good to me
You are good to me
I am grateful Lord
I am grateful Lord
For all you have done
I am grateful Lord
I am grateful Bountiful
I am grateful Lord
Oluwa me sanu fun mi
Iwo ni kan ni Alagbara
Iwo ni kan ni Oba Aiye
Iwo ni kan ni Oba Rere
Iwo ni kan no Oba, Oba mimo
Olorun mii gbadura mii
Sanu fun mi Alagbara
Iwo ni kan no Oba Rere
Iwo ni kan ni Oba Anu
Iwo ni kan ni Olugbala, Oba mimo
@
what people call Pillars of Islam... 3 Vs 5
Belief in God and devoting the religion to God only
Salst which invilves the act of bowing and prostration to God.. at specific times,, as designated by God in the scripture
Charity which should go to parents, poor, needy traveling alien
These three are my own take on what the creed is islam is all about...
remember the surah.. proof. Bayinnah.. Surah 98 All that was asked of them was to worship God, devoting the religion to Him alone, observe salst and give the obligatory zakat. SUCH IS THE PERFECT RELIGION
This is how i understand Islam to be..
The notion of 5 pillars to include fasting and pilgrim is not new to me because it was what was taught to me from young.. but when i look through the quran all i find repeatededly is these three points... Belief, Prayer and Charity..
Why has this come to my mind now.. i dont know,, i was thinking about it before but it wasnt until when Dr. K was grilling me that i gave him my own opinion as i understand it to be.. God be my Guide and provide me with wisdom and knowledge...
I find this interesting and perplexing slightly...
Oh point to note.. i am not discouraging fasting or pilgrimage.. far from it.. Fasting is there for a reason.. and it is up to each person to do or not do... ( it is better to fast as teh quran advises us.... Pilgrimage as well is there if we can go.. it is incumbemt on each person to fast and if possible complete pilgrimage..
my point being though.. in the quran as i understand this tobe.. There is no other alternative for belief, prayer or charity.. it is a MUST with a capital MUST. anything else i guess is disbelief in God.
I seek refuge with thee O Lord, You are Hearer and Seer
2:183
O you who believe, fasting is decreed for you, as it was decreed for those before you, that you may attain salvation.
2:184
Specific days (are designated for fasting); if one is ill or traveling, an equal number of other days may be substituted. Those who can fast, but with great difficulty, may substitute feeding one poor person for each day of breaking the fast. If one volunteers (more righteous works), it is better. But fasting is the best for you, if you only knew.
2:185
Ramadan is the month during which the Quran was revealed, providing guidance for the people, clear teachings, and the statute book. Those of you who witness this month shall fast therein. Those who are ill or traveling may substitute the same number of other days. GOD wishes for you convenience, not hardship, that you may fulfill your obligations, and to glorify GOD for guiding you, and to express your appreciation.
as for hajj
2:196
You shall observe the complete rites of Hajj and`Umrah for GOD. If you are prevented, you shall send an offering, and do not resume cutting your hair until your offering has reached its destination. If you are ill, or suffering a head injury (and you must cut your hair), you shall expiate by fasting, or giving to charity, or some other form of worship. During the normal Hajj, if you break the state of Ihraam (sanctity) between `Umrah and Hajj, you shall expiate by offering an animal sacrifice. If you cannot afford it, you shall fast three days during Hajj and seven when you return home - this completes ten - provided you do not live at the Sacred Masjid. You shall observe GOD, and know that GOD is strict in enforcing retribution.
2:197
Hajj shall be observed in the specified months. Whoever sets out to observe Hajj shall refrain from sexual intercourse, misconduct, and arguments throughout Hajj. Whatever good you do, GOD is fully aware thereof. As you prepare your provisions for the journey, the best provision is righteousness. You shall observe Me, O you who possess intelligence.
22:27
"And proclaim that the people shall observe Hajj pilgrimage. They will come to you walking or riding on various exhausted (means of transportation). They will come from the farthest locations."
As for the three that i am talking about..
22:78
You shall strive for the cause of GOD as you should strive for His cause. He has chosen you and has placed no hardship on you in practicing your religion - the religion of your father Abraham. He is the one who named you "Submitters" originally. Thus, the messenger shall serve as a witness among you, and you shall serve as witnesses among the people. Therefore, you shall observe the Contact Prayers (Salat) and give the obligatory charity (Zakat), and hold fast to GOD; He is your Lord, the best Lord and the best Supporter.
other verses if interest are 2:83, 2:110. 2:117. 2:227, 4:162, 5:12, 8:3, 9:18, 22:41, 22:78, 31:4, 73:20, 98:5
Salst which invilves the act of bowing and prostration to God.. at specific times,, as designated by God in the scripture
Charity which should go to parents, poor, needy traveling alien
These three are my own take on what the creed is islam is all about...
remember the surah.. proof. Bayinnah.. Surah 98 All that was asked of them was to worship God, devoting the religion to Him alone, observe salst and give the obligatory zakat. SUCH IS THE PERFECT RELIGION
This is how i understand Islam to be..
The notion of 5 pillars to include fasting and pilgrim is not new to me because it was what was taught to me from young.. but when i look through the quran all i find repeatededly is these three points... Belief, Prayer and Charity..
Why has this come to my mind now.. i dont know,, i was thinking about it before but it wasnt until when Dr. K was grilling me that i gave him my own opinion as i understand it to be.. God be my Guide and provide me with wisdom and knowledge...
I find this interesting and perplexing slightly...
Oh point to note.. i am not discouraging fasting or pilgrimage.. far from it.. Fasting is there for a reason.. and it is up to each person to do or not do... ( it is better to fast as teh quran advises us.... Pilgrimage as well is there if we can go.. it is incumbemt on each person to fast and if possible complete pilgrimage..
my point being though.. in the quran as i understand this tobe.. There is no other alternative for belief, prayer or charity.. it is a MUST with a capital MUST. anything else i guess is disbelief in God.
I seek refuge with thee O Lord, You are Hearer and Seer
2:183
O you who believe, fasting is decreed for you, as it was decreed for those before you, that you may attain salvation.
2:184
Specific days (are designated for fasting); if one is ill or traveling, an equal number of other days may be substituted. Those who can fast, but with great difficulty, may substitute feeding one poor person for each day of breaking the fast. If one volunteers (more righteous works), it is better. But fasting is the best for you, if you only knew.
2:185
Ramadan is the month during which the Quran was revealed, providing guidance for the people, clear teachings, and the statute book. Those of you who witness this month shall fast therein. Those who are ill or traveling may substitute the same number of other days. GOD wishes for you convenience, not hardship, that you may fulfill your obligations, and to glorify GOD for guiding you, and to express your appreciation.
as for hajj
2:196
You shall observe the complete rites of Hajj and`Umrah for GOD. If you are prevented, you shall send an offering, and do not resume cutting your hair until your offering has reached its destination. If you are ill, or suffering a head injury (and you must cut your hair), you shall expiate by fasting, or giving to charity, or some other form of worship. During the normal Hajj, if you break the state of Ihraam (sanctity) between `Umrah and Hajj, you shall expiate by offering an animal sacrifice. If you cannot afford it, you shall fast three days during Hajj and seven when you return home - this completes ten - provided you do not live at the Sacred Masjid. You shall observe GOD, and know that GOD is strict in enforcing retribution.
2:197
Hajj shall be observed in the specified months. Whoever sets out to observe Hajj shall refrain from sexual intercourse, misconduct, and arguments throughout Hajj. Whatever good you do, GOD is fully aware thereof. As you prepare your provisions for the journey, the best provision is righteousness. You shall observe Me, O you who possess intelligence.
22:27
"And proclaim that the people shall observe Hajj pilgrimage. They will come to you walking or riding on various exhausted (means of transportation). They will come from the farthest locations."
As for the three that i am talking about..
22:78
You shall strive for the cause of GOD as you should strive for His cause. He has chosen you and has placed no hardship on you in practicing your religion - the religion of your father Abraham. He is the one who named you "Submitters" originally. Thus, the messenger shall serve as a witness among you, and you shall serve as witnesses among the people. Therefore, you shall observe the Contact Prayers (Salat) and give the obligatory charity (Zakat), and hold fast to GOD; He is your Lord, the best Lord and the best Supporter.
other verses if interest are 2:83, 2:110. 2:117. 2:227, 4:162, 5:12, 8:3, 9:18, 22:41, 22:78, 31:4, 73:20, 98:5
Monday, 13 April 2009
is it so hard to believe...
Is it so hard to believe that there is only one God and everything around us, attests to this fact..
Is it so hard to grasp that it is only one message through out time, from our Lord, Our God..
I am priviledged to see in various many religions, various many faiths and practices - these same religions that have divided man and nation apart- that it is still one God. when you look deep down, you can see, when you think to the roots, you can know.. and when you think about it, it all becomes clear..
i saw this bahia prayer and i was moved by its words.. As ever our Lord is one God.. once we stop spouting the words and practices of man and then concentrate on the words and direction from God... i think we will have started our journey...
My Lord, direct me in the path of righteousness and allow me to uphold thy words and commandments. Shine your light of truth upon me and provide for me from thee understanding and wisdom. For thine is the truth, Thine is all things, Knowledge and Guidance... fats
Is it so hard to grasp that it is only one message through out time, from our Lord, Our God..
I am priviledged to see in various many religions, various many faiths and practices - these same religions that have divided man and nation apart- that it is still one God. when you look deep down, you can see, when you think to the roots, you can know.. and when you think about it, it all becomes clear..
i saw this bahia prayer and i was moved by its words.. As ever our Lord is one God.. once we stop spouting the words and practices of man and then concentrate on the words and direction from God... i think we will have started our journey...
My Lord, direct me in the path of righteousness and allow me to uphold thy words and commandments. Shine your light of truth upon me and provide for me from thee understanding and wisdom. For thine is the truth, Thine is all things, Knowledge and Guidance... fats
Praise be to Thee, O Lord my God! I am the one who hath sought the good pleasure of Thy will, and directed his steps towards the seat of Thy gracious favors. I am he who hath forsaken his all, who hath fled to Thee for shelter, who hath set his face towards the tabernacle of Thy revelation and the adored sanctuary of Thy glory. I beseech Thee, O my Lord, by Thy call whereby they who recognized Thy unity have sought the shadow of Thy most gracious providence, and the sincere have fled far from themselves unto Thy name, the Most Exalted, the All-Glorious, through which Thy verses were sent down, and Thy word fulfilled, and Thy proof manifested, and the sun of Thy beauty risen, and Thy testimony established, and Thy signs uncovered,—I beseech Thee to grant that I may be numbered with them that have quaffed the wine that is life indeed from the hands of Thy gracious providence, and have rid themselves, in Thy path, of all attachment to Thy creatures, and been so inebriated with Thy manifold wisdom that they hastened to the field of sacrifice with Thy praise on their lips and Thy remembrance in their hearts. Send down, also, upon me, O my God, that which will wash me from anything that is not of Thee, and deliver me from Thine enemies who have disbelieved in Thy signs.
Potent art Thou to do what Thou willest. No God is there beside Thee, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.
copied from.....http://www.bahaiprayers.org/sacrifice3.htmSunday, 12 April 2009
Blessings
I have to ask myself why do I keep this post.. why do I have a need to write these things..
hmm that is a tough one..
ever since i was young i have always had so much to say.. so much stuff going on in my head and no where to keep them. I have too many thoughts, to much thinking..
it makes good reading.... going through and seeing how far i have come, where i have come from and if i am ( my standards) on course or if i am still letting my body/desires take control of me.
Indeed i have to be thankful..
Most assuredly i have to be thankful
I have to be thankful for The Good Lord has not failed me
He has never let me down, He has never forsaken me..
And I am thankful..
sometimes, when life seems bleak and we cant see what is past out nose stub
sometimes when all seems lost and we have no where to turn
The Good Lord does provide and shines on us a light of hope.
that is what God has done for me..
It took me till this evenings prayer to remember that.. it is I asking these things my lord..
I have asked thee o Lord, keep me away from evil and keep evil away from me
Keep me away from sins and keep sin away from me
keep me away from evil people and keep evil people away from me
tis a hard road, i know but the end results are the best..
so while the outward view may look bleak and unbecoming
I have to remember that which i am seeking
to be closer to my God, to worship God better i guess
I will still always be the "crazy thought tutu2, who says as she sees it..
I will still always be the inward tutu who reflects on everything
i will still always be the searching tutu, looking to improve her stance
In all perspective, I have to be thankful.
Everything comes from God, everything for me is a lesson
God does provide it for me to learn and develop, to learn and improve
My people i have many cause to be grateful..
Because like i say, The good Lord has never let me down,
But has provided for me and provided a-plenty
So even when chips are down, My lord, let me as ever remember thee.. and let me always remember to thank thee, for all that you do for me, for all that you mean to me and for all that you are to me.. Let me never for once forget the blessings you have bestowed on me, day after day..let me be able to say thank you Lord and know that it is from my heart..
For indeed, the good Lord has been bounteous unto me..
hmm that is a tough one..
ever since i was young i have always had so much to say.. so much stuff going on in my head and no where to keep them. I have too many thoughts, to much thinking..
it makes good reading.... going through and seeing how far i have come, where i have come from and if i am ( my standards) on course or if i am still letting my body/desires take control of me.
Indeed i have to be thankful..
Most assuredly i have to be thankful
I have to be thankful for The Good Lord has not failed me
He has never let me down, He has never forsaken me..
And I am thankful..
sometimes, when life seems bleak and we cant see what is past out nose stub
sometimes when all seems lost and we have no where to turn
The Good Lord does provide and shines on us a light of hope.
that is what God has done for me..
It took me till this evenings prayer to remember that.. it is I asking these things my lord..
I have asked thee o Lord, keep me away from evil and keep evil away from me
Keep me away from sins and keep sin away from me
keep me away from evil people and keep evil people away from me
tis a hard road, i know but the end results are the best..
so while the outward view may look bleak and unbecoming
I have to remember that which i am seeking
to be closer to my God, to worship God better i guess
I will still always be the "crazy thought tutu2, who says as she sees it..
I will still always be the inward tutu who reflects on everything
i will still always be the searching tutu, looking to improve her stance
In all perspective, I have to be thankful.
Everything comes from God, everything for me is a lesson
God does provide it for me to learn and develop, to learn and improve
My people i have many cause to be grateful..
Because like i say, The good Lord has never let me down,
But has provided for me and provided a-plenty
So even when chips are down, My lord, let me as ever remember thee.. and let me always remember to thank thee, for all that you do for me, for all that you mean to me and for all that you are to me.. Let me never for once forget the blessings you have bestowed on me, day after day..let me be able to say thank you Lord and know that it is from my heart..
For indeed, the good Lord has been bounteous unto me..
Saturday, 11 April 2009
Highway
You know that feeling when you just feel like standing in the middle of the road and then you just hear the horns and shouts of cars and people passing by checking for you to move away..
Everything is a blur and the noise stops just short of penetrating your drums.. In short, you dont want to hear so you have blocked everyone out hence you are not concerned of the commotion and buzzle hapenning around you.
All you want to do is just continue walking on the road as far as your legs can carry you.
you stop briefly and glance back to see how far you have come,... Then it hits you...
You have taken this route for a reason, you want to get hit..
Everything is a blur and the noise stops just short of penetrating your drums.. In short, you dont want to hear so you have blocked everyone out hence you are not concerned of the commotion and buzzle hapenning around you.
All you want to do is just continue walking on the road as far as your legs can carry you.
you stop briefly and glance back to see how far you have come,... Then it hits you...
You have taken this route for a reason, you want to get hit..
Thursday, 9 April 2009
Broken Spirit
Today is the 9th of April 2009.
I admit defeat
I admit defeat because my strength is gone.
I do not have any fight left in me, I cant go on..
My zeal is broken and I am way laden with grief
As ever I seek to my Lord, to provide me with strength to hold on
I seek to my lord not to depart from me but to be near
I ask for patience and understanding..
I seek to my Lord for His guidance and help.
Seek help through steadfastness and prayer
Steadfastness I guess is holding on inspite and despite
Steadfastness is patience and fortitude
Steadfastness is a gun with a trigger
Prayer is an act of worship
Prayer is reverence and thought
Prayer is the bullet that feeds the gun
I admit defeat
I admit defeat because my strength is gone.
I do not have any fight left in me, I cant go on..
My zeal is broken and I am way laden with grief
As ever I seek to my Lord, to provide me with strength to hold on
I seek to my lord not to depart from me but to be near
I ask for patience and understanding..
I seek to my Lord for His guidance and help.
Seek help through steadfastness and prayer
Steadfastness I guess is holding on inspite and despite
Steadfastness is patience and fortitude
Steadfastness is a gun with a trigger
Prayer is an act of worship
Prayer is reverence and thought
Prayer is the bullet that feeds the gun
Parents part 1
Sometimes I don’t know why I bother with my dad because each time his action send me messages that he doesn’t care about me..
Apparently he is around the country,, visiting all his children as usual,, he will not come to visit me…
It is very interesting all the time he does this.. But there is a God and God does sees his actions towards me as he does see my actions towards me..
So in this matter I leave it to God to judge…
the last time he visited me he accused me and my mother of stealing his cap to do some juju of some sort.. god help me.. i went to meet him at the station .. infact three people went to meet him at the station, me my friend and my mother.. my dad said when he alighted from the train he was wearing his cap.. ant to the best of my knowledge as God who made me, when he alighted from the train he wasnt wearing the cap..even my friend will agree with me on this... but noo! my dad said it is a special cap that we have taken it.. i am quite sure we can go to the train station and ask for cctv evidence to this fact...infact i leave him to God to judge him for all his accusations without proof.. but he still wants to do his blind accusations.. God dey.
so does that mean he will never come and visit me... ok make those round trips round the children.. There is a God who sees you and me too for that matter.
This is not a matter btw you and my mother but a matter between me and You. Regardless of what you do to me i will always commit you to our creator.. Thats at best all i can do...
I understand my dad and my mum have issues,,, but what has that issue got to do with me.. I have always done my duty as a daughter to my parents as best as I can.. I insist I will not get involved in their dispute because frankly speaking that has nothing to do with me… though I am not close to both parents.. In terms of going to them for help and advice.. Does it mean that my dad will shun me?
One day the truth will out.. As it always does.. And whoever regardless in my mum and dads dispute that is wrong ...on their head be it.. Really in that respect.. I don’t give a shit.. Its their life,,, if they mess it up that’s btw them and their creator..
If they lie and do bad deeds that is btw them and their creator.. It is not for me to judge.. Though I may ponder on it…it is not for me to cast blame.. Though I may want to.. It is for them to sort out with their creator.. I wasn’t there when they were having sex and courting each other an dall whatever was happening.. So my reasoning is: if they didn’t call me to watch porn film of both of them then they are having a dispute, then don’t call me either (that’s a bit disturbing really but what I mean is.... what I haven’t witnessed or been party do.. its not my business.) If they ask my opinion I can only give then advise based on the info they give me.. If that info is severely flawed.. Then I can still only give me info based on what they present to me…
This father of mine… it is very interesting.. As usual I watch with gusto at what will happen.. “God dey” as we naija people say…
Even if he does not like my mother does that mean he should dislike me too
I don’t dislike him. He is my father.. Though I may not agree with his actions and choice but as my feelings go.. That’s life.. His choice his life his actions his consequences…
That is btw him and his creator..
My life my choice, my action my consequence..
On a logical “tit for tat level”,, person who don’t care about you,. You just have to forget about them too.
But this is different in respect to ones parents.. Regardless of how much he may hate me or dislike me… he will still be my father and I am duty bound as a daughter to observe my duties to him both on a religious level and a cultural level.. Though I don’t really bag that cultural view that much unless it makes sense..
But like I says “God dey”…. This particular subject moves me to tears.. Because…I don’t know what I have done to deserve parents like mine..
It is not a complaint.. It is a general observation..
I cannot complain at all. Far from that, I can only thank God.. For what He has given me..
Others may have had it worse.. dads raping them/murdering them etc just like stories you hear in papers..
But my dad thank God is not like that (well frankly I don’t know.. all I know is that he looked after me as best as he could given that I was a stubborn child and suffered a great many beating from both parents.. many were my fault and some were not but that’s life…) without the conditions I suffered going up , I may not be the person I am today, I have to thank God for that.. Because of them see in them in “action” I grow to appreciate my life and my experiences…
Lets watch this space…
Apparently he is around the country,, visiting all his children as usual,, he will not come to visit me…
It is very interesting all the time he does this.. But there is a God and God does sees his actions towards me as he does see my actions towards me..
So in this matter I leave it to God to judge…
the last time he visited me he accused me and my mother of stealing his cap to do some juju of some sort.. god help me.. i went to meet him at the station .. infact three people went to meet him at the station, me my friend and my mother.. my dad said when he alighted from the train he was wearing his cap.. ant to the best of my knowledge as God who made me, when he alighted from the train he wasnt wearing the cap..even my friend will agree with me on this... but noo! my dad said it is a special cap that we have taken it.. i am quite sure we can go to the train station and ask for cctv evidence to this fact...infact i leave him to God to judge him for all his accusations without proof.. but he still wants to do his blind accusations.. God dey.
so does that mean he will never come and visit me... ok make those round trips round the children.. There is a God who sees you and me too for that matter.
This is not a matter btw you and my mother but a matter between me and You. Regardless of what you do to me i will always commit you to our creator.. Thats at best all i can do...
I understand my dad and my mum have issues,,, but what has that issue got to do with me.. I have always done my duty as a daughter to my parents as best as I can.. I insist I will not get involved in their dispute because frankly speaking that has nothing to do with me… though I am not close to both parents.. In terms of going to them for help and advice.. Does it mean that my dad will shun me?
One day the truth will out.. As it always does.. And whoever regardless in my mum and dads dispute that is wrong ...on their head be it.. Really in that respect.. I don’t give a shit.. Its their life,,, if they mess it up that’s btw them and their creator..
If they lie and do bad deeds that is btw them and their creator.. It is not for me to judge.. Though I may ponder on it…it is not for me to cast blame.. Though I may want to.. It is for them to sort out with their creator.. I wasn’t there when they were having sex and courting each other an dall whatever was happening.. So my reasoning is: if they didn’t call me to watch porn film of both of them then they are having a dispute, then don’t call me either (that’s a bit disturbing really but what I mean is.... what I haven’t witnessed or been party do.. its not my business.) If they ask my opinion I can only give then advise based on the info they give me.. If that info is severely flawed.. Then I can still only give me info based on what they present to me…
This father of mine… it is very interesting.. As usual I watch with gusto at what will happen.. “God dey” as we naija people say…
Even if he does not like my mother does that mean he should dislike me too
I don’t dislike him. He is my father.. Though I may not agree with his actions and choice but as my feelings go.. That’s life.. His choice his life his actions his consequences…
That is btw him and his creator..
My life my choice, my action my consequence..
On a logical “tit for tat level”,, person who don’t care about you,. You just have to forget about them too.
But this is different in respect to ones parents.. Regardless of how much he may hate me or dislike me… he will still be my father and I am duty bound as a daughter to observe my duties to him both on a religious level and a cultural level.. Though I don’t really bag that cultural view that much unless it makes sense..
But like I says “God dey”…. This particular subject moves me to tears.. Because…I don’t know what I have done to deserve parents like mine..
It is not a complaint.. It is a general observation..
I cannot complain at all. Far from that, I can only thank God.. For what He has given me..
Others may have had it worse.. dads raping them/murdering them etc just like stories you hear in papers..
But my dad thank God is not like that (well frankly I don’t know.. all I know is that he looked after me as best as he could given that I was a stubborn child and suffered a great many beating from both parents.. many were my fault and some were not but that’s life…) without the conditions I suffered going up , I may not be the person I am today, I have to thank God for that.. Because of them see in them in “action” I grow to appreciate my life and my experiences…
Lets watch this space…
Saturday, 4 April 2009
Solution...
the answer was in the script all along..
The solution
"My lord do not condem me if I forget or make a mistake.. My Lord protect me from blaspheming against you like others before me have done..My Lord protect me from sinning until it becomes too late for me to repent.. pardon me and fogvive me you are my Lord and master. Grant me victory over disbelieving people..
as simple as that...
fats
The solution
"My lord do not condem me if I forget or make a mistake.. My Lord protect me from blaspheming against you like others before me have done..My Lord protect me from sinning until it becomes too late for me to repent.. pardon me and fogvive me you are my Lord and master. Grant me victory over disbelieving people..
as simple as that...
fats
Thursday, 2 April 2009
Initiatir or Originator
i was reading again and i came across this part where it says
BLRM.. "badiu samawati wal ardh"... as part of a verse in surah 2:117. Now the translation is what concerns me the most since i am not an arabic speaker and it was translated "initiator of the heaven and earth"...
now i jumped for a minute because there is also another part in the scripture that is translated "initiator of the heaven and the earth" and this is "fatiri samawati wal ardh"..
so how come two different arabic words are translated the same...
Now i googled it and came up with another translation for "badiu samawati wal ardh"... which is "originator or the heavens and the earth."..
which for me for some reason feels right. because as God is the originator.. because we have all come from him.. he created us, established us..
At the same time he is "fatiri samawati wal ardh" which is the "initiator of the heavens and the earth" because to create us we have to be initiated... if u catch my drift.. God conceptualised our creation and initiated us and established us... Our originins are from Him.. He is the one who know fully well where we come from..
just a note to put down
fats
BLRM.. "badiu samawati wal ardh"... as part of a verse in surah 2:117. Now the translation is what concerns me the most since i am not an arabic speaker and it was translated "initiator of the heaven and earth"...
now i jumped for a minute because there is also another part in the scripture that is translated "initiator of the heaven and the earth" and this is "fatiri samawati wal ardh"..
so how come two different arabic words are translated the same...
Now i googled it and came up with another translation for "badiu samawati wal ardh"... which is "originator or the heavens and the earth."..
which for me for some reason feels right. because as God is the originator.. because we have all come from him.. he created us, established us..
At the same time he is "fatiri samawati wal ardh" which is the "initiator of the heavens and the earth" because to create us we have to be initiated... if u catch my drift.. God conceptualised our creation and initiated us and established us... Our originins are from Him.. He is the one who know fully well where we come from..
just a note to put down
fats
voices in my head
some things are troubling me you know...some new and some old...
i thought i had a grip on it but i guess it is a constant thing in my mind whereby i have to overcome it as best as i can. God willing this is possible.
I am hearing voices... trust me i am already mad... but I am hearing voices.
The perturbing thing is that there are two voices. one which conforms to my thoughts and understands my stance.. and the other which just blasphemies until i get a grip on it...
untowardly this does not bother me at all because i like to know the far right and far left of every action and thought... it amuses me... but i have discovered that my left voice- the one which goes on and on nd blasphemies- is made up of words, actions and thoughts that i have witnessed from friends and people i surround myself with, from programmes i have watched of books that i have read. these culmination of words is thereby thrown at me "en masse" from time to time... which i dont mind, ( because i then have an internal arguement with myself and go on facts on logic alone) but the one that seems to bother me the most is when i am seeking solace through prayer and deep in thought.
Whilst i know that there is one God and i agree with that fact whole heartedly... I get this rather annoying voice going jesus jesus in my head... rather annoyying wont you think... because why jesus jesus...why not mohammed mohammed... or moses moses... lol
just like the other time that i was researching the hindu religion,,, all my head was going was hindu chants that i read and playing them back in my head and saying things that i consider as horrible and untrue
anyhow, of late i have been around my friends who are all christians and who at every moment exclaim jesus jesus and this reported speech /repeated speech is replayed in my head... over and over again.
Whilst i accept jesus as a messengerof God, i dont accept him as anything else. and that is that frankly..
some christians may say that is is a sign for me to finally accept jesus as lord and master... but i think not..
God be praised and glorified far above the heavens and earth.
My God is one God and all are subiervant to Him.
He is the one who is One God, He did not beget not was He begotten and no one equals him. no one comes even close to the magnitude of my Lord, least of all a mere human that he has creted.
i know who my Lord is.. and i affirm this choice day after day and on this stance i take and am proud to say that My Lord is God, The most gracrious. He is my lord and your Lord, jesus's Lord and mohammeds Lord and he is the same Lord of Abraham and moses and everything else He created.
Jesus is not my God, can never be, will never be.. Jesusu is a servant of my Lord and one of greater rank in my Lords cause.. as is mohammed as is every otehr messenger of my lord.
it is very easy for someone to be mistaken thinking that the voices are signs for them pointing them to what is good for them... but I am not someone.. I am adetutu.. I am beholded to my God so i know and my heart/soul knows that this voice is false..
Logic will always overide everything else. and truth will always stand out from falsehood.
on so many levels i cannot blame it, because i am the one who surrounds my self with the material for its onslaught on me.. i am the one who feeds it because of my long disregard for what was right and truth.. thereby giving myself the hard task of cleansing myself...
See how my mind works..... especially with what i hear and listen to...???everything is played back in my head... when i dont want it to... worse of becausei picture everything... full 360 degree playback.
I have given up watching some movies... because my head stores the pictures and replays then willy nilly, I also veto books that i read now adays due to the same thing... By and large this has helped me streamline where my head/voices gather from... but i guess i need to do more.
By admitting and freely speaking of it... i am able to get a first step and God willing i will be victorious...
suffice to say that before embarking on any film/book/ visit i should seek refuge with God and ask that my thought are not polluted by what i may be privy to even though i may not share their stance...
how do i reconcile these two statements...
one who does not persecute you because of religion you may be friends with them 60:8
one who is hopelessly stuck in disbelief you should not befriend them... 60:13
this is bothering me you know.....
i thought i had a grip on it but i guess it is a constant thing in my mind whereby i have to overcome it as best as i can. God willing this is possible.
I am hearing voices... trust me i am already mad... but I am hearing voices.
The perturbing thing is that there are two voices. one which conforms to my thoughts and understands my stance.. and the other which just blasphemies until i get a grip on it...
untowardly this does not bother me at all because i like to know the far right and far left of every action and thought... it amuses me... but i have discovered that my left voice- the one which goes on and on nd blasphemies- is made up of words, actions and thoughts that i have witnessed from friends and people i surround myself with, from programmes i have watched of books that i have read. these culmination of words is thereby thrown at me "en masse" from time to time... which i dont mind, ( because i then have an internal arguement with myself and go on facts on logic alone) but the one that seems to bother me the most is when i am seeking solace through prayer and deep in thought.
Whilst i know that there is one God and i agree with that fact whole heartedly... I get this rather annoying voice going jesus jesus in my head... rather annoyying wont you think... because why jesus jesus...why not mohammed mohammed... or moses moses... lol
just like the other time that i was researching the hindu religion,,, all my head was going was hindu chants that i read and playing them back in my head and saying things that i consider as horrible and untrue
anyhow, of late i have been around my friends who are all christians and who at every moment exclaim jesus jesus and this reported speech /repeated speech is replayed in my head... over and over again.
Whilst i accept jesus as a messengerof God, i dont accept him as anything else. and that is that frankly..
some christians may say that is is a sign for me to finally accept jesus as lord and master... but i think not..
God be praised and glorified far above the heavens and earth.
My God is one God and all are subiervant to Him.
He is the one who is One God, He did not beget not was He begotten and no one equals him. no one comes even close to the magnitude of my Lord, least of all a mere human that he has creted.
i know who my Lord is.. and i affirm this choice day after day and on this stance i take and am proud to say that My Lord is God, The most gracrious. He is my lord and your Lord, jesus's Lord and mohammeds Lord and he is the same Lord of Abraham and moses and everything else He created.
Jesus is not my God, can never be, will never be.. Jesusu is a servant of my Lord and one of greater rank in my Lords cause.. as is mohammed as is every otehr messenger of my lord.
it is very easy for someone to be mistaken thinking that the voices are signs for them pointing them to what is good for them... but I am not someone.. I am adetutu.. I am beholded to my God so i know and my heart/soul knows that this voice is false..
Logic will always overide everything else. and truth will always stand out from falsehood.
on so many levels i cannot blame it, because i am the one who surrounds my self with the material for its onslaught on me.. i am the one who feeds it because of my long disregard for what was right and truth.. thereby giving myself the hard task of cleansing myself...
See how my mind works..... especially with what i hear and listen to...???everything is played back in my head... when i dont want it to... worse of becausei picture everything... full 360 degree playback.
I have given up watching some movies... because my head stores the pictures and replays then willy nilly, I also veto books that i read now adays due to the same thing... By and large this has helped me streamline where my head/voices gather from... but i guess i need to do more.
By admitting and freely speaking of it... i am able to get a first step and God willing i will be victorious...
suffice to say that before embarking on any film/book/ visit i should seek refuge with God and ask that my thought are not polluted by what i may be privy to even though i may not share their stance...
how do i reconcile these two statements...
one who does not persecute you because of religion you may be friends with them 60:8
one who is hopelessly stuck in disbelief you should not befriend them... 60:13
this is bothering me you know.....
Praise
My praise goes out to the Initiator of all things.
The One who made the foundations of the heavens and the earth.
My praise goes out to the Creator of all
The One who created life :- the seen and the unseen
My praise goes out to the One i call the Most Gracious Lord
The Compassionate Most Merciful Lord
My praise goes out to the one who is the Ultimate Lord,
One whose Kingship is already established and whose sovereignty is Eternal and encompasses all dimensions.
My praise goes out to the One who has the Authority to forgive all sins.
The One who can redeem me an guide me to the truth.
My praise goes out to the One who is in need of no one.
One who possesses all knowledge and understanding
My praise goes out to the One who is Most Merciful, Most Kind and Most Generous
My praise goes out to the one who is God, the Eternal the Ever-Living
Above whom there is no one else
My praise goes out to thee O Lord for you are all these things and more
You are all these things and more and for the rest of my life
My praise goes out to Thee
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