Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Cute Scottish Fold Kitty

Awwwwwwww MashaAllah TabarakAllah!! He's so cuteeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. I want to hold him! I want a kitty now =(.
I miss my old cats. ='(

Saturday, January 27, 2007

The Torments Of Hell





The Torments Of Hell



If only you knew the torments of hell
It is the worst of places where anyone could dwell

It is in existence even as we speak
And for its inhabitants the outlook is bleak

On the day of rising, hell will be in view
A terrible sight, if only you knew

It will be brought forward by 70,000 reigns
And 70,000 angels will be on each of those chains

After burning for a thousand years , it’s flames turned white
A thousand more years, now it’s as black as the night

You think the flames are bearable, you’re totally wrong
The flames are of hell are sixty nine times as strong

In a flash it will disintegrate all of your bones
The hellfire will be fuelled by man and stones

The thickness of your skin will greatly increase
Causing your threshold for pain to greatly decrease

The people in hell are there to stay
They will melt to nothing, 70,000 times in a day

70 years it will take, for a stone that is thrown
to hit the bottom of hell and it won’t be alone

the food of hell resembles a devil’s head
and to drink, boiling water and blood bright red

which cuts up the bowels, everything will fall out
the inhabitants of hell will scream and shout

some will be taken out by Almighty Allah’s command
but the polytheists will stay eternally damned

take up islam, the only way to succeed
and if you don’t, you’re unfortunate indeed

Brothers and Sisters, Help determine your fate
Once you see Hellfire, It'll be far too late...

Author Unknown

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Random Stuff

As Salamu Alaikum Wa RahmatuAllahi Wa Barakatuh

I'm bored. I should be reading Quran or something. There's a station with Quran all day. So nice! Egypt is not all the way sucky, eh. I want to go to Saudi though, inshaAllah! Last Ramadhan was sorta nice here, alhamdulilah. Except I was kinda "Ramadhan Homesick". I wasn't tempted by food. Well I wasn't tempted in the states either. I mean come on, how many grown people break their fasts out of temptation? Or want to? (Don't answer that. That'd be a sorry thing to find out.) Anyways what I mean is my favorite foods aren't here to really tempt me. I havent forgotten I'm fasting. I don't know if that's good or bad but whatever. I remember going shopping with my mom in Ramadhan. She'd pick up anything that looked good, lol.

Anyways what I found a shame though is that here they rushed Maghrib. I mean RUSH. You put two dates in your mouth, sip some water and khalas! Don't chew just swallow. Well I'm over-reacting but the iqamah was called like a minute or two after the athaan. Then the imaam recited the shortest surah possible. And oh man! The streets! Mrs.Dmsalafi descibred it as the twilight zone. It's so clear! I can ACTUALLY cross the street without being blown at or almost hit, lol. Where are all the people? Inside eating their feast, lol. Isn't that a shame? Clear the streets for food but when it comes to making salah, oh no "We'll pray later" or even not at all. Astagfurullah. Make Allah guide us. Ameen. Even though it was boring I miss Ramadhan, the month of peace. InshaAllah next year I'll experience MORE peace.

I slept on the floor a couple of nights ago since my back was hurting bad, SubhanAllah! I think it was because of my bad habit that started when I was little....sleeping on my stomach! Everytime I go to sleep on my right side or my back, I wake up on my stomach! Or even sometimes I can't go to sleep unless I lay on my stomach. =/ The nights before that I was tossing and turning cause my back urt baddd. Then I slept on the floor and my bad felt fine. =/ Then I got on the bed again and it started hurting. =/ I wonder if it's the matress. Maybe part of the other reason is people here get rheumatism from not wearing warm clothes in the winter or not putting a sheet on the bed and I dunno what else. Nowadays it feels better, alhamdulilah. Man, you'd think I was a 50 year old describing her back pains. =/ Don't sleep on your stomach people! Or even let your baby, he or she might grow up doing the same thing. Allahu Musta3an.

I want to post pictures of the Egypt Safari and Zoo on here but we have to get the cable b4 we can upload anything. So yeaaa...just waiting until my mom decides to get the cable.

I don't feel like writing anymore. I don't know how I manage to keep a blog. Or 3! But I say more on my msn space and I like that better cause it's private. Ha! VIP SISTERS only! So I'd never delete that.

I'm so bored...with a capital B-O-R-E-D!

~ As salamu alaikum

Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Be grateful for the food you have











The photo is the Pulitzer Prize winning photo taken in 1994 during the Sudan famine.

The picture depicts a famine stricken child crawling towards the United Nations food camp, located a kilometre away.

The vulture is waiting for the child to die so that it can eat it.

This picture shocked the whole world.

No one knows what happened to the child, including the photographer Kevin Carter who left the place as soon as the photograph was taken.

Three months later he committed suicide due to depression.





This was found in Kevin Carter's diary:

Dear God, I promise I will never waste my food no matter how bad it can taste and how full I may be. I pray that He will protect this little boy, guide and deliver him away from his misery. I pray that we will be more sensitive towards the world around us and not be blinded by our own selfish nature and interests. I hope this picture will always serve as a reminder to us that how fortunate we are and that we must never ever take things for granted.



( ^from an email)

SubhanAllah this makes you really grateful for the food you have and not to be greedy. Or not to look up at others and want what they have but instead look to those lower than you and thank Allah for what He has given you. SubhanAllah. Alhamdulilah for the food I have.

Tuesday, January 02, 2007

The Crow



An 80 year old man was sitting on the sofa in his house along with his 45
years old highly educated son. Suddenly a crow perched on their window.

The father asked his son, "What is this?" The son replied "It is a crow". After
a few minutes, the father asked his son the 2nd time, "What is this?" The son said "Father, I have just now told you"
It's a crow".

After a little while, the old father again asked his son the 3rd time, what is
this?"

At this time some expression of irritation was felt in the son's tone when he
said to his father with a rebuff. "It's a crow, a crow".

A little after, the father again asked his son the 4th time, "What is this?"

This time the son shouted at his father, "Why do you keep asking me the same
question again and again, although I have told you so many times 'IT IS A CROW'.
Are you not able to understand this?"

A little later the father went to his room and came back with an old tattered
diary, which he had maintained since his son was born. On opening a page, he
asked his son to read that page. When the son read it, the following words were
written in the diary:-

"Today my little son aged three was sitting with me on the sofa, when a crow
was sitting on the window. My Son asked me 23 times what it was, and I replied
to him all 23 times that it was a crow. I hugged him lovingly each time he asked
me the same question again and again for 23 times. I did not at all feel
irritated I rather felt affection for my innocent child".

While the little child asked him 23 times "What is this", the father had felt no
irritation in replying to the same question all 23 times and when today the
father asked his son the same question just 4 times, the son felt irritated and
annoyed.

Allah says:

“Thy Lord hath decreed, that ye worship none save Him, and (that ye show)
kindness to parents. If one of them or both of them to attain old age with thee, say not "Fie" unto them nor repulse
them, but speak unto them a gracious word.
And lower unto them the wing of submission through mercy, and say: My Lord!
Have mercy on them both as they did care for me when I was little”. (Surah Bani Isra’el (17); Ayah # 23~24)

So……
If your parents attain old age, do not repulse them or look at them as a
burden, but! Speak to them a gracious word; be cool, obedient, humble and kind
to them. Be considerate to your parents. From today say this aloud, "I want to
see my parents happy forever. They have cared for me ever since I was a little child.
They have always showered their selfless love on me. They crossed all mountains
and valleys without seeing the storm and heat to make me a person presentable in
the society today".


Say a prayer to God, "I will serve my old parents in the BEST way. I will say
all good and kind words to my dear parents, no matter how they behave.