http://thenlightenment.whatheblog.com Sat, 18 Apr 2009 06:51:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Close the gates of your limbs and senses to all that will harm your heart, remove your standing with Allah, and bring in its wake grief and regret on the Day of Judgement and shame about the evil actions you committed. The scrupulous person must have three principles: he should overlook ... http://thenlightenment.whatheblog.com/2009/04/17/being-god-conscious/ Round three of our discussion on the Iran. I don't have much time so I am going to be as terse as possible. It is almost time for finals, so I really can't dedicate that much time to this topic, because I think most of my readers are familiar with ... http://thenlightenment.whatheblog.com/2009/04/17/round-3-iran/ I guess the blogger has responded to the below post I made. You can find it here: http://granfalloon.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/response-to-response-to-reformation-post/. I'll just quickly make my points and call it a day, since the blogger is really just beating around the bush. -- "Iran physically and ideologically represents Shias all over ... " Some Shi'as may ... http://thenlightenment.whatheblog.com/2009/04/17/final-response-to-reformation/ A post was made on a blog I oftenly read about how we should "reform" Islamic text. "Reform" has became a buzz word for many non-Muslims and Muslims alike. Here is an excerpt from the original post: i have an interest in the idea of an islamic reformation and a rereading ... http://thenlightenment.whatheblog.com/2009/04/16/response-to-reformation-post/ Remember what the Commander of the Faithful, Imam Ali (pbuh) had said, Oh Allah, when I lose my hopes and plans, help me remember that your love is greater than my disappointments, and your plans for my life are better than my dreams. http://thenlightenment.whatheblog.com/2009/04/14/when-youre-feeling-down/ Tragedy worse than Gaza waiting to happen in Pakistan Ayatullah Nasir Makarim Shirazi, one of the top ranking Maraji’ Taqleed in Hawzah Ilmiyyah Qum, said: Taliban, Al-Qaida and extremist Wahabis have committed a massacre in Parachinar Pakistan that is worse than Gaza. They have beheaded 600 hundred people, cut off hands of ... http://thenlightenment.whatheblog.com/2009/04/12/tragedy-worse-than-gaza-waiting-to-happen-in-pakistan/ I think it is finally that time again.. to make a return. Regardless if anyone reads this or not, I didn't really feel the need to express my feelings in a blog-like style, but I think it does help me (and hopefully others) in not only expressing myself, but allows ... http://thenlightenment.whatheblog.com/2009/04/12/i-am-back/ There is a pamphlet online by Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamanei called "Al Tawhid and its Social Implications." It discusses the natural result of a Tawhidi world view from the viewpoint of society and humanity's relationship with all others. It emphasized a point which I find valuable; that ... http://thenlightenment.whatheblog.com/2008/09/15/al-tawhid-and-its-social-implications/ Basic layout/design complete! InshaAllah the new address to the blog is: http://www.whatheblog.com. Please update your links, because I will not be updating this anymore. I keep this as is, but please continue to visit the new blog. It is still under development stages, so any suggestions, etc would be perfect:). Edit: ... http://thenlightenment.whatheblog.com/2007/03/19/new-blog-is-up-whatheblogcom/ I will be revamping the entire blog in the upcoming weeks. I will use a different blogging system. There will also be many new features. For example broader categories catered towards a bigger audience and possibly a different url or domain. So stay tuned... :) http://thenlightenment.whatheblog.com/2007/03/15/total-revamp/ I get at least 5 of these types of email a day (for work)... it can get annoying :) Hi all, Does anyone have one or two extra mice that are CD45.1 positive (also known as Ly5.1 positive). Our order from JAX is only coming at the end of the month. Thanks http://thenlightenment.whatheblog.com/2007/03/06/work-email/ As the moon moved through the stages of the eclipse, George Lovely took this series of images from which he created a montage. (source: BBC) http://thenlightenment.whatheblog.com/2007/03/04/the-lunar-eclipse/ I apologize for the delay. I am really swamped with work and life, so please bear with me. We all strapped up in our gear. I had my double-layered kufi, and the others had thier own stuff. We were too excited to think logically and we were extremely late. The sun ... http://thenlightenment.whatheblog.com/2007/03/02/grand-canyon-adventure-part-2/ I wrote a letter in response to Parvez Ahmed's ( board chairman of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy group) and I received a generic response and I replied again. Here are the set of emails (in order). A Naqvi To: pahmed@cair.com Brother Ahmed Salaamun 'akaykum wa ... http://thenlightenment.whatheblog.com/2007/02/21/cair-article-comment/ The Canyon trip was indeed an adventure. I am inshaAllah going to blog on it. I don't have time to blog all of it, so I'll divide it into parts I guess. For the sake of confidentiality I will use fake names (Sam, Albert, Kemp, Abbas, Bernstein). This is not ... http://thenlightenment.whatheblog.com/2007/02/21/grand-canyon-adventure-part-1/