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| Sorry if you can't read the text but this was too cute not to add in my blog |
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Friday, September 9, 2011
Where There is a Will!
I met an Atheist in my life for the first time
in the form of a colleague. It was a shocking experience for me. It's like if you see something disturbing on television, it seems fine but happening with you is an experience you might not handle. Turning from
the religion he grew up in, he had become extremely bitter, third form of bitter.
He had perfect counter arguments to everything we grew up believing in. And I must
say he was good in arguments, I never won. Just like the fact that shorter the
circle of a faith, ready and strong their arguments will be. My unconditional
belief in my religion never made me think otherwise, blasphemous things that he
said.
Once I talked to him something about Quran and I
was speechless when he said Quran is just a book written 1400 years ago, for
the people of that time, useless in today’s world. And I was speechless because
I dint have any argument to counter him. That was because of lack of proper
knowledge of Quran though I have recited it all my life. I don’t remember
feeling embarrassed then but I’m reading this book, Muhammad (SAW) Prophet for
Our Time by Karen Armstrong, where I found a perfect argument and it made me
feel this is the thing I should have known then to counter him. And here is the
answer to why the 1400 year old teachings of Quran are still as helpful and
applicable as that era.
The Quran is the Holy word of God. And his
authority remains absolute. But Muslims know that it is not always easy to
interpret. Its laws were designed for a small community, but a century after their
prophet’s death, Muslims ruled a vast empire stretching from the Himalayas to
Pyrenees. There circumstances were entirely different from those of the Prophet
and the first Muslims and Islam had to change and adapt. The first essays in
Muslim history were written to address current perplexities. How could Muslims
apply the Prophet’s insights and practices to their own times? When the early biographers
told the story of his life, they tried to explain some of the passages in the Quran
by reproducing the historic context in which these particular revelations had
come down to Muhammad. By understanding what had prompted a particular Quranic
teaching, they could relate to their own situation by means of a disciplined process
of analogy.
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It is like a common sense for a Muslim to know
this but it was a matter that I was dumbfounded at such a blasphemy and felt
sick that my brain didn’t work enough to counter. Also the reason that he is
guy who will never listen to you, no
matter what!
I feel light today!
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Join the Dots, Make Some Memories
Oh the time when we played this! How we waited for this time with a longing, didn't make the most out of it while we still could and all the little time we spent became sweetly painful memories.
I wait for these times to come again, only when times are even better and happier. How we had to play it silently and laugh silently. How i came to know a new rule which made sense when i thought about it. And i won, yes :-)
I wait for these times to come again, only when times are even better and happier. How we had to play it silently and laugh silently. How i came to know a new rule which made sense when i thought about it. And i won, yes :-)
Saturday, July 16, 2011
A Pity the Fools!
This is the article taken from Wikipedia. While it is nothing against Wikipedia itself, my heart cries a thousand tears reading this. I’m not a good Muslim, knowing all the teachings, I don’t follow them all so I’m not a good Muslim but for something like this, I’m outraged but helpless. It’s like if some effin relative treats me badly, I don’t give a fuck but if they act bad with any of my family members, I can’t do anything because I’m not trained to be disrespectful but I hate them from the core of my heart. Read on and you will know.
Everybody Draw Mohammed Day was an event held on 20 May 2010 in support of free speech and freedom of artistic expression of those threatened by violence for drawing representations of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad. It began as a protest against censorship of an American television show, South Park, "201" by its distributor, Comedy Central, in response to death threats against some of those responsible for the segment. If only they know why Muslims protested. Maybe their faiths, whatever they are, allows them to make fun of their religious guides, Islam doesn’t. And no Muslim will allow anyone else to do that. Observance of the day began with a drawing posted on the Internet on April 20, 2010, accompanied by text suggesting that "everybody" create a drawing representing Muhammad, on May 20, 2010, as a protest against efforts to limit freedom of speech. You call that freedom of speech or an ultimate act of cowardice?
U.S. cartoonist Molly Norris of Seattle, Washington, created the artwork in reaction to Internet death threats that had been made against cartoonists Trey Parker and Matt Stone for depicting Muhammad in an episode of South Park. Depictions of Muhammad are explicitly forbidden by a few hadiths (sayings of and about Muhammad), though not by the Qur'an. If it isn’t written in the Holy Book, does that mean we can go about doing as we think? This is a level at which no non-believer can reach; shallow as they are, so let’s not hold anything against them. Postings on RevolutionMuslim.com (under the pen name Abu Talha al-Amrikee; later identified as Zachary Adam Chesser) had said that Parker and Stone could wind up like Theo van Gogh, a Dutch filmmaker who was shot to death by a Muslim extremist, who afterwards pinned a letter to his body with a knife. The individuals running the website later denied that the postings were threats, although they were widely perceived as such.
Norris said that if people draw pictures of Muhammad, Islamic terrorists would not be able to murder them all, and threats to do so would become unrealistic. I’m sorry, is Norris a four year old? With an undeveloped brain? Unrealistic you say? Within a week, Norris' idea became popular on Facebook, was supported by numerous bloggers, and generated coverage on the blog websites of major U.S. newspapers. As the publicity mounted, Norris and the man who created the first Facebook page promoting the May 20 event disassociated themselves from it. Well played! Nonetheless, planning for the protest continued with others "taking up the cause".[2] Facebook had an "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day" page, which grew to over 100,000 participants (101,870 members by May 20). A protest page on Facebook against the initiative, named "Against ‘Everybody Draw Mohammed Day'", attracted slightly more supporters (106,000 by May 20).[3] Oh, I see how ‘unrealistic’ they have managed to make it! Beat at their own game.
Subsequently, Facebook was temporarily blocked by Pakistan; the ban was lifted after Facebook agreed to block the page for users in India and Pakistan. Like it mattered! Some so-called Muslims continued using it even during the ban.
In the media, Everybody Draw Mohammed Day attracted both support from commentators who felt that the campaign represented important issues of freedom of speech, and the need to stand up for this freedom, as well as criticism from other commentators who found the initiative crass, juvenile, and needlessly offensive. Crass, juvenile and needlessly offensive it was!
It’s more than a year now since this happened and there wasn’t a single occasion when my outrage at this thing got milder. I was a Facebook freak, used it almost religiously, regularly, but I deactivated my account on the first day of the ban and never went back. 99% people returned to that damned social networking after the ban was lifted, a big percentage of these people were using Facebook even during the ban. I’m proud to say I didn’t nor ever felt the urge to go back there. I will always…always inwardly dislike the people who are still on Facebook. People kill for the love of religion, bear mortal pain and give away their lives but this was only a tiny test of faith, a very tiny test of faith. And very few Muslims managed to take it.
I’m not the judge of what’s wrong and what’s right in the eyes of Allah, maybe this wasn’t a big deal at all, but personally, such Muslims are no-good in my eye. These Muslims also include my friends and relatives but it doesn’t make them any less disliked in my eyes. Saying, ‘oh, but we only use it once in a while, almost never’, is a pathetic excuse. What do we use Facebook for? Like we cannot survive if we don’t have a social circle in the virtual world. Weren’t we talking and breathing and happy while there were no Facebook yet? For females, it is just to find guys who find their pictures cute, tell them they love their activities, showoff their activities to their friends, to find a random guy trying to make friends with them. For guys, it is just finding more and more girls, to look at their pictures, flirt and to see more n more girls in their friends’ list to show off to other guys. And if there is any other reason, it more or less comes to the same point mentioned above. To stay informed of others’ activities is same as poking their noses in the lives of people who have allowed it. Something is fun up to the point it doesn't start getting offensive at someone else's expense. Deactivating Facebook doesn’t make me a better Muslim, but it gives me a certain kind of joy that I could show support to our Holy Prophet Muhammad SAW.
P.S. These are just my views, not necessarily be anyone else's. I cannot do much if anyone finds it offensive, because if they have it, i have a 'freedom of speech' too!
Everybody Draw Mohammed Day was an event held on 20 May 2010 in support of free speech and freedom of artistic expression of those threatened by violence for drawing representations of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad. It began as a protest against censorship of an American television show, South Park, "201" by its distributor, Comedy Central, in response to death threats against some of those responsible for the segment. If only they know why Muslims protested. Maybe their faiths, whatever they are, allows them to make fun of their religious guides, Islam doesn’t. And no Muslim will allow anyone else to do that. Observance of the day began with a drawing posted on the Internet on April 20, 2010, accompanied by text suggesting that "everybody" create a drawing representing Muhammad, on May 20, 2010, as a protest against efforts to limit freedom of speech. You call that freedom of speech or an ultimate act of cowardice?
U.S. cartoonist Molly Norris of Seattle, Washington, created the artwork in reaction to Internet death threats that had been made against cartoonists Trey Parker and Matt Stone for depicting Muhammad in an episode of South Park. Depictions of Muhammad are explicitly forbidden by a few hadiths (sayings of and about Muhammad), though not by the Qur'an. If it isn’t written in the Holy Book, does that mean we can go about doing as we think? This is a level at which no non-believer can reach; shallow as they are, so let’s not hold anything against them. Postings on RevolutionMuslim.com (under the pen name Abu Talha al-Amrikee; later identified as Zachary Adam Chesser) had said that Parker and Stone could wind up like Theo van Gogh, a Dutch filmmaker who was shot to death by a Muslim extremist, who afterwards pinned a letter to his body with a knife. The individuals running the website later denied that the postings were threats, although they were widely perceived as such.
Norris said that if people draw pictures of Muhammad, Islamic terrorists would not be able to murder them all, and threats to do so would become unrealistic. I’m sorry, is Norris a four year old? With an undeveloped brain? Unrealistic you say? Within a week, Norris' idea became popular on Facebook, was supported by numerous bloggers, and generated coverage on the blog websites of major U.S. newspapers. As the publicity mounted, Norris and the man who created the first Facebook page promoting the May 20 event disassociated themselves from it. Well played! Nonetheless, planning for the protest continued with others "taking up the cause".[2] Facebook had an "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day" page, which grew to over 100,000 participants (101,870 members by May 20). A protest page on Facebook against the initiative, named "Against ‘Everybody Draw Mohammed Day'", attracted slightly more supporters (106,000 by May 20).[3] Oh, I see how ‘unrealistic’ they have managed to make it! Beat at their own game.
Subsequently, Facebook was temporarily blocked by Pakistan; the ban was lifted after Facebook agreed to block the page for users in India and Pakistan. Like it mattered! Some so-called Muslims continued using it even during the ban.
In the media, Everybody Draw Mohammed Day attracted both support from commentators who felt that the campaign represented important issues of freedom of speech, and the need to stand up for this freedom, as well as criticism from other commentators who found the initiative crass, juvenile, and needlessly offensive. Crass, juvenile and needlessly offensive it was!
It’s more than a year now since this happened and there wasn’t a single occasion when my outrage at this thing got milder. I was a Facebook freak, used it almost religiously, regularly, but I deactivated my account on the first day of the ban and never went back. 99% people returned to that damned social networking after the ban was lifted, a big percentage of these people were using Facebook even during the ban. I’m proud to say I didn’t nor ever felt the urge to go back there. I will always…always inwardly dislike the people who are still on Facebook. People kill for the love of religion, bear mortal pain and give away their lives but this was only a tiny test of faith, a very tiny test of faith. And very few Muslims managed to take it.
I’m not the judge of what’s wrong and what’s right in the eyes of Allah, maybe this wasn’t a big deal at all, but personally, such Muslims are no-good in my eye. These Muslims also include my friends and relatives but it doesn’t make them any less disliked in my eyes. Saying, ‘oh, but we only use it once in a while, almost never’, is a pathetic excuse. What do we use Facebook for? Like we cannot survive if we don’t have a social circle in the virtual world. Weren’t we talking and breathing and happy while there were no Facebook yet? For females, it is just to find guys who find their pictures cute, tell them they love their activities, showoff their activities to their friends, to find a random guy trying to make friends with them. For guys, it is just finding more and more girls, to look at their pictures, flirt and to see more n more girls in their friends’ list to show off to other guys. And if there is any other reason, it more or less comes to the same point mentioned above. To stay informed of others’ activities is same as poking their noses in the lives of people who have allowed it. Something is fun up to the point it doesn't start getting offensive at someone else's expense. Deactivating Facebook doesn’t make me a better Muslim, but it gives me a certain kind of joy that I could show support to our Holy Prophet Muhammad SAW.
P.S. These are just my views, not necessarily be anyone else's. I cannot do much if anyone finds it offensive, because if they have it, i have a 'freedom of speech' too!
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Artiste Moi!
Some of my best artistic work. I draw occasionally, either when i get a spark or a sudden urge and i always copy. I'm not creative enough to draw on my own. I want to learn how to paint and sketch, my drawings fine, admit it or not, i think so.
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| Is that a perfect copy or what!?! |
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| It looks like it would have used some more work but it was a 10 minute thing and its pretty OK. |
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| 'Love for Music' |
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| I drew it with pastel colors on the wall of my room. |
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| I drew it with my hand instead of a brush |
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| Watchoo doin' tonight, pretty mama! |
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| Not bad, eh? |
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| I have a hope in sketching. |
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| e he he he! |
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| I planned to write all 99, still unfinished. |
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| Made 5 people smile with this. |
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| Badshahi Mosque. My favorite draw. |
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| :) |
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
They don’t like my jeans, they don’t get my hair
Yeah, they don’t. And the heading, I don’t mean it literally. It’s just that people don’t or rather, don’t want to understand other people. I mean, they are thrusting their view points and other shit on them all the time without bothering to know what they think….or to take it seriously even if they do bother. And what do they expect in return? Repellent forces? Well, they get that all right! If you try to be your judge in front of them, it doesn’t help; it just makes you more of a freak than you already are in their eyes. Everyone is just so busy being selfish …. And I’m not saying I’m outta list of ‘everyone’. This is nothing sad. It’s just something you cannot help if you are the subject… so we wait until the quest is over; knowing deep down that all the search will get you nothing more than you couldn’t without the quest…
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