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Pondering...

First of all I wanted to thank you all for the sweet comments you added on my last post. :) i love you all!
Anyways I was just talking to a friend on the phone yesterday when she told me she was "yuyu". Because she said something and then was like "Oh, I just made fun of Christians". After that I was like "Wait but aren't you christian?" and she told me that she actually wasn't, she was a religion called "yuyu." I asked her what it was and she explained to me. So apparently it is a group of people who don't believe in the strictness of their religion or believe in scientific evidence rather than having a God. But they also believe all reigions are correct/right/true. That's really all I could understand because she didn't seem like she wanted to tell me much about it. So I kinda kept quiet and didn't aske alot of questons because she said that once she told 2 of her friends that she was "yuyu" and they had stopped talking to her cuz they were strict christians and were mad at her for not believing there was a God.

But anyways after we hung up, questions came rushing to my head. This is what I was wondering:

1. If they believe that all religions are true, then why not take one up? I mean like instead of being religion-less.

2. And if they believe all religions are true and those religions believe in God, then how would they think they were true if they themselves didn't believe in God?

3. Why did they celebrate Christmas and all other christian holidays, if they weren't christian?

4. And since they're not christian why celebrate christian holidays and not other holidays of different religion?

5. Do they pray/go to church or something?

6. What kind of scientific evidence could they provide about the creation of the world and other miracles?

I don't know these are just some of my questions that I would be thinking of. If you know the answers to any of these please feel free to educate me! And by the way, I'm not sure if that's how you spell "yuyu" it might be a different spelling I'm not sure.

From your little sister in Islam (Moi)!!

I feel so much better now and I'm going to become a better person now. Ok so this is like a "New Years Resolution" almost 3 months into the New Year lol.
Anyways I'm going to try to smile when someone insults me and become less sensitive about things people say/do. Cuz I'm tired of caring about everything someone says about me/to me that is mean. Because you know what? They can just go suck it up, anything bad said about someone, comes bouncing back to whoever said it, so there. :p And another thing I want to work on, well it's something that's been going on in my head for forever, but I'm going to try to memorize the whole Quran and learn it by heart. I've decided on starting from Juzu' 30 and going backwards through the Quran, because obviously if i started to memorize the Quran from Surat ALbaqara, it'd probably ruin my whole "enthusiastic" mood, if you know what I mean lol. :)) So inshallah I want to start as soon as I can... :P
Anyways that was just a check up again. :) Hope you're all taking care of yourselves and haing a great time

Your little sister in Islam,
malekat_el7oriya :P

Tagged again :p

I got tagged by Sumiya... ok this one is super fast:
3 things I would never do:

1. Sing in public
2. Put on lipstick (ugh...I hate it!)
3. Torture/hurt someone...
Lol.
Anyways I tag anyone who wants to do it....

Just because i wear a hijab, doesn't mean I can't speak english.

So this is the breakdown of what happened today at school. We had a sub for our health/gym class. He was the most racist person I have ever known. First, when he was telling us to quiet down me and a couple friends were zoning out and daydreaming, but apparently he was talking to us and and telling us to pay attention. He was like "Do you guys understand me? Please listen!" and I was, like I said daydreaming like all the rest of my friends. But of course being the racist person he is, singles me out, in front of the whole class and asks me if I understood what he was saying. And he didn't mean the regular check over sorta "Do you understand" but the whole "Do you understand English?" wtf! I mean how unfair is that? Of course he doesn't single out any of my other friends, just me. WHY? Simple, I was wearing a hijab, and i didn't look like an american. So of course that gives him the green sign to ask if I understood english. Yea...that's happened to me twice. Twice. Just because I wear a scarf covering a bunch of dead cells on the top of my head that gives them so much reason to ask if I spoke english. But the funny thing is, I don't have any accent whatsoever, I (not bragging at all) write essays and poems amazingly and I speak BETTER english than that teacher that singled me out. And if that's not enough, I get better grades in English class than anyone I know. But of course that's not enough. I bet you 100 dollars, that if I had perfectly white, white skin and blond hair and blue eyes, he would not have even bothered to ask me. Or what was better, if I had been black and had perfect curly hair that I flung, he would have laughed with me and joked along. But of course, me with the dark brown eyes, some what tanned skin, and scarf on my head predominentley made me stop knowing how to speak english. That is racism, that is messed up racism.
And then, after this, he gave us a test/survey thing to answer. When we were done, he told us to get out ipods, phones, whatever, as long as we were quiet. So my friends and I got out our phones and texted eachother quietly. Key word: QUIETLY. And there were two students sitting in front of us (both black) chatting away and discussing their phones. Yet this teacher, looked at me and my friends(who all happened to be white) and yelled at us for getting out our cellphones. WHAT?! Then, he took them away and told us to pick them up at the office after school ends with an adult. Yet he clearly had seen the two students in front of us talking and using their phones, but he of course said NOTHING because they were the same race as he. Therefore that gives him all the reason to not confiscate their cellphones. How nice. So...after that, in my last period class, I was working along with a friend of mine and we were filling out a sheet on why we chose to do a project about Mother Teresa. Anyways, my friend was like "I read a book on her and thought it was interesting." And so I was teasing her around and I said, " So you do know how to read!" because this particular friend HATED HATED reading. And she knew I was teasing, and usually she would laugh along and think up of a good come back to keep me quiet. But for some reason, she was sort of sad today and didn't answer. But the student teacher who was there, came over just as I said that and started yelling at me about being mean to this girl. I was just kidding and my friend knew it. So after that, I just couldn't take it anymore, and broke down crying. I ran to the bathroom and started to cry really bad. But in the bathroom, I found the friend I was joking around with. She kept asking me what was wrong and everything just spilled out. I was sick of everything. I told her, I was just kidding when I said that she couldn't read, and she said she knew that but she was just sad and really didn't feel like joking around. And I couldn't control my crying.I just kept crying and then finally, I pulled myself together and went back to the classroom.It's just not fair how everyhting was anymore. Did I really need to go to the extent of making a shirt that said "Just because I wear a hijab, it doesn't mean I don't understand english"? Because if I had to do that I would.

Minor signs of the day of judgment, which have already happened?!

I've already posted this on the Signs of the day of judgement post, but I thought I'd put the Minor signs back up and see which have already happened...

The Minor Signs:

· The disappearance of knowledge and the appearance of ignorance (Bukhari, Muslim, Ibn Majah, & Ahmad)-umm I'll say one thing, "Do you wear that thing on your head in the shower?!" how many of us has heard that?

· Books/writing will be widespread and (religious) knowledge will be low (Ahmad)-Definetley, books are everywhere and yet people are slowly letting go of their religion.

· Adultery and fornication will be prevalent (The Prophet, peace be upon him, said that this has never happened without new diseases befalling the people, which their ancestors had not known.) (Bukhari, Muslim, Ibn Majah, & Al-Haythami) -seriously now, isn't this like everywhere?

· When fornication becomes widespread among your leaders (The Prophet, peace be upon him, said that this will happen when the people stop forbidding evil) (Ibn Majah)-again, everywhere the whole concept of boyfriend/girlfriends where does it end up? usually with the girl getting pregenant. and are they married? of course NOT!

· Adultery and fornication will be performed in the open-hahhahaah No comments :p

· The consumption of intoxicants will be widespread (Bukhari & Muslim)-how many bars exist in your area?

· Women will outnumber men......eventually 50:1 (Bukhari, Muslim, & Ahmad)- There are more women than men in the world.... there was a census count taken.

· Killing, killing, killing (Bukhari, Muslim, Ibn Majah, & Ahmad)-Oh the poor people of Gaza, Iraq, and the endless wars going on...

· The nations of the earth will gather against the Muslims like hungry people going to sit down to a table full of food. This will occur when the Muslims are large in number, but "like the foam of the sea".-hmmm bound to happen, I mean it's already started in Palestine.

· People will beat others with whips like the tails of oxen (Muslim)-slavery and people around the world

· The children will be filled with rage (at-Tabarani, al-Hakim)-oh gosh, how true

· Children will be foul (at-Tabarani, al-Hakim)-yelling and raising their voices to elders, disrespect you know...

· Women will conspire (at-Tabarani, al-Hakim) -hmmmmm

· Rain will be acidic or burning (at-Tabarani, al-Hakim)- ever heard of acid rain?

· Children of fornication will become widespread or prevalent (at-Tabarani, al-Hakim)-ugh

· When a trust becomes a means of making a profit (at-Tirmidhi, Al-Haythami) -oh yess how true.

· Gains will be shared out only among the rich, with no benefit to the poor (at-Tirmidhi)- isn't that how the world nowadays works?

· Paying zakat becomes a burden and miserliness becomes widespread; charity is given reluctantly (at-Tirmidhi & Al-Haythami) -of course....

· Miserliness will be thrown into the hearts of people (Bukhari) -already happened

· Episodes of sudden death will become widespread (Ahmad) -i don't know there are some cases where that's happened...

· There will be people who will be brethren in public but enemies in secret (He was asked how that would come about and replied, "Because they will have ulterior motives in their mutual dealings and at the same time will fear one another.") (at-Tirmidhi) -oh goodness how so so true.

· When a man obeys his wife and disobeys his mother; and treats his friend kindly while shunning his father (at-Tirmidhi) -how sad :( but it's reality

· When voices are raised in the mosques (at-Tirmidhi) -there have been FIGHTS in mosques let alone raised voices

· People will walk in the marketplace with their thighs exposed -hahahhahahhah blame the booty shorts and miniskirts

· Great distances will be traversed in short spans of time-airplanes, it takes like a day to go from one place to the other.

· The people of Iraq will recieve no food and no money due to oppression by the Romans (Europeans) (Muslim)-oppressed definetley and the romans maybe...

· People will hop between the clouds and the earth -what about skydiving?

· A tribulation will enter everyone’s home (Ahmad) -oh god yes

· The leader of a people will be the worst of them (at-Tirmidhi)-hahah stupid DICTATORS

· Leaders of people will be oppressors (Al-Haythami)-tell me about it!

· People will treat a man with respect out of fear for some evil he might do (at-Tirmidhi) -oh yess it'll take days to tell you of all the dictators that people respected out of fear.

· Men will begin to wear silk (at-Tirmidhi)-ohhhhh what can I say? Hasn't that happened!?

· Female singers and musical instruments will become popular (at-Tirmidhi) -NO way! *sarcasm* lol they're everywhere

· When singers become common (Al-Haythami)-again, they're everywhere!

· People will dance late into the night -nightclubs, etc...

· When the last ones of the Ummah begin to curse the first ones (at-Tirmidhi) -definetley already happened

· People will claim to follow the Qur'an but will reject hadith & sunnah (Abu Dawood)-already happened

· People will believe in the stars (Al-Haythami) -I wish I wish upon a star...

· People will reject al-Qadr (the Divine Decree of Destiny) (Al-Haythami)-how true

· Time will pass rapidly (Bukhari, Muslim, & Ahmad)-quoting my mom "It feels like yesterday when you were only 2 years old!"

· Good deeds will decrease (Bukhari) -The good deeds are goin' down

· Smog will appear over cities because of the evil that they are doing-hmmm?

· People will be carrying on with their trade, but their will only be a few trustworthy persons - oh yess

· Wealth will increase so much so that if a man were given 10,000, he would not be content with it (Ahmad & Bukhari) -how many people like that exist?

· A man will pass by a grave and wish that he was in their place (Bukhari) -*sigh*

· Earthquakes will increase (Bukhari & Muslim)-maybe, accroding to surveys and such..

· There will be attempts to make the deserts green -? maybe.

· The appearance of false messengers (30 dajjals) (Bukhari)-oh yess there are always people from Jehova's Witness claiming that another prohphet is coming/ already has come and also other religions.

· Women will be naked in spite of being dressed, these women will be led astray & will lead others astray (Muslim) -hahahhahahahh

· The conquest of Constantinople by the Muslims (Ahmad) -refer to the history, that's already happened.

· The conquest of India by the Muslims, just prior to the return of Jesus, son of Mary (peace be upon both of them)(Ahmad, an-Nisa'i, at-Tabarani, al-Hakim)-not yet...

· When people begin to compete with others in the construction of taller buildings (Bukhari)-haha blaim it on the sky scrapers.

· There will be a special greeting for the people of distinction (Ahmad) -yuppers

· The Euphrates will disclose a treasure (The Prophet, peace be upon him, said that whoever is present should not take anything from it) (Bukhari & Muslim)-not yet

· Two large groups, adhering to the same religious teaching will fight each other with large numbers of casualties (Bukhari & Muslim)-oh how true.

· Wild animals will be able to talk to humans (Ahmad)-not yet

· A man will leave his home and his thigh or hip will tell him what is happening back at his home (Ahmad)-not yet

· Years of deceit in which the truthful person will not be believed and the liar will be believed (Ahmad)-yes and still going on...

· Bearing false witness will become widespread (Al-Haythami & Ahmad)-definetley

· When men lie with men and women lie with women (Al-Haythami) -*shhh* it's called gay and lesbo

· Trade will become so widespread that a woman will be forced to help her husband in business (Ahmad) -hah already happened

· A woman will enter the workforce out of love for this world (Ahmad) yes yes and double yes

· Arrogance will increase in the earth (at-Tabarani, al-Hakim) oh yes

· Family ties will be cut (Ahmad) already happened

· There will be many women of child-bearing age who will no longer give birth. abultion

· There will be an abundance of food, much of which has no blessing in it. already happened

· People will refuse when offerred food. yes that's already happened

· Men will begin to look like women and women will begin to look like men.-Hasn't it happened to you where you see a person and you can't tell if they're a boy or a girl?

Oranges are red Violets are blue

Subhan allah, my mom and i went grocery shopping and we were at the fruit section. I looked around and stopped at a basket with oranges. These oranges were orange(duh!) but they were blotched red too. My mom told me they were usually somewhat reddish on the inside too. So of course I beg her to get them cuz i really want to try red oranges .lol. We get 4 oranges(and other stuff too) and go back home. At home, for some reason I'm really excited about trying the oranges. I ask my dad to peel the orange and cut it up because I really can't be trusted with sharp objects (mwahahhaha). My dad peels it and gives it to me to eat. But the color of it is AMAZING. It's like a really dark blood red on the inside. We've never seen anything like it. Mom says the oranges she's eaten before are usually red but not THIS red. Anyways, they are probably the BEST oranges I've ever eaten subhan allah. ANd they were special enough for me to take pictures of them! The pictures aren't really clear because the camera was having a mind of it's own but anyways...

Until they change what is within themseleves

Poetry1: The same wind

The same wind

I travel down the dust swept road
Calm, and anxious
And I feel like I’ve been here before
Gone down this old
Harmonious road
Apple picking
Handed that same ash-torn basket
Pressed against my darkened palm
With that same feeling
The peaceful contentment
That lay heavy against my heart
I walk into the darkened shed
Where I had stood
Some years ago
Waiting for my first lesson
On how to apple pick
I remember sitting on my dad’s shoulder
Waiting for him to stop
Under the shade of some huge tree
The same tree I’ve picked from, ever since
The branches bend down obediently
As I put my weight on one of the apples
I tug on the big, red fruit
And hold it in my hands
I wonder if it could be the same apple I had picked with my dad
Too bad we hadn’t taken pictures
I sit down on the old road
And take a bite of the apple
Why is it so quiet?
***
I take the apple and throw it into one of the big containers
That stand beside the tree
The core thumps against the bottom of the metal can
Alone
Now what?
***
I walk up the wooden steps
On to the platform
I can’t remember a time when I hadn’t stood on the platform
After a long day of apple picking,
What I’d give for my dad to be here
***
It still smells the same
That same misty, calm smell of October
Those same burnt gold trees decorate the outside of the field
***
Red and yellow Chrysanthemums circle the wooden platform
In fiery anger
They toss and turn
Raging at the world
***
It was just my imagination
***
The autumn wind whips my dark hair
In circles
I start to shiver
And hug myself tight against the powerful wind
***
I remember my dad’s jacket
And how he’d always let me wear it
When it got this cold
***
I’m pretty sure it’s the same wind
That blew years ago