in a world full of misery, i am left wanting. 21 years old with a mentality of a 15-year-old. if i had my way, i never want to grow up. but life has a way of serving you ironies in a silver platter, so let's make the best of it.I love helping people - whether it's giving advice or physical help. There's always that gratification and satisfaction when you know you've made a difference - even just a little - in someone's life. But the thing is, no matter how much I give advice, i never really follow my own advice. Ironic really. I'm still trying to be the better person, I fall more times than I can count, but hey, I'm still here fighting aren't I? I'll always keep the faith, because in the end, it's the only thing left really.
dreaming a better reality
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The 99 Names of Allah: No.33: Al-Halim (الحليم) The Forbearing;
إِنَّ اللَّهَ يُمْسِكُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ أَنْ تَزُولَا ۚ وَلَئِنْ زَالَتَا إِنْ أَمْسَكَهُمَا مِنْ أَحَدٍ مِنْ بَعْدِهِ ۚ إِنَّهُ كَانَ حَلِيمًا غَفُورًا
“It is Allah Who sustains the heavens and the earth, lest they cease (to function): and if they should fail, there is none - not one - can sustain them thereafter: Verily He is Most Forbearing, Oft-Forgiving.”
سورة فاطر, Surat Fāţir, (35:41)
“The fact is that I have not found any book, be it by an Arab or a Persian, an Indian or a Greek, right from the beginning of the world up to now, which contains at the same time praises of God, belief in the prophets and apostles, exhortations to good, everlasting deeds, command to do good and prohibition against doing evil, inspiration to the desire of paradise and to avoidance of hell-fire as this Qur’ân does. So when a person brings to us a book of such qualities, which inspires such reverence and sweetness in the hearts and which has achieved such an overlasting success and he is (at the same time) an illiterate person who did never learnt the art of writing or rhetoric, that book is without any doubt one of the signs of his Prophethood.”
- Said by Alî bin Rabbân at-Tabarî who was Nestorian Christian, and at the age of 70 converted to Islam.
Inside the Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem.
“I hope that in the next century we will come to terms with our abysmal ignorance of the Muslim world. Muslims aren’t a bunch of wackos and nits. They are decent, brilliant, talented people with a great civilisation and traditions of their own, including legal traditions. Americans knows nothing about them. They are people in that part of the world with whom we are simply out of touch. That’s a great challenge for the next century.”
U.S. Supreme Court Justice: Anthony Kennedy, December 1999
