In a Nutshell
“The foolish among the people will say, “What has turned them away from their qiblah (direction), which they used to face?”
Say,
“To Allah belongs the east and the west.
He guides whom He wills to a straight path.”
[Qur’an 2:142 ]
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Hajiani Sara Sona (Brock) Barnes
Hajiani Sara Sona (Brock) Barnes
Spot on!
Agree 100%
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
― Plato
“Humans see what they want to see.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
Definition of Shirk (equating creation with the Creator) : not separating the bull from the shit
“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”
“Five percent of the people think;
ten percent of the people think they think;
and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.”
― Thomas A. Edison
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
― Isaac Asimov
“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”
― Benjamin Franklin
“The highest form of ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about.”
― Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
“But you can’t make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can’t last.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Hajiani Sara Sona (Brock) Barnes
My fear is over.
It already happened.
Get over it.
Wake up.
Conquer the vampire within.
May Allah make it easy for all of us.
In addition to the poem Forbidden Fruit Punch, I drew a picture too yesterday:
Seeing Stars Opening Both Eyes
– Sona –
21 September 2013
When you untwist the tangled rope, you are left with just the rope.
You can use it to hang yourself, or escape.
The choice is always yours.
Hajiani Sara Sona (Brock) Barnes
Learning to unlearn is no easy task. I should know – I was born into a Christian family and embraced Islam. But like everything else in life, beginning is always half done. The greatest truths are the simplest.
Are you courageous enough to let me burst your bubble?
If yes, then please watch the following clip.
So near, yet, so far away…
Haven’t we been utterly mad to let them do this to us?
These are mad times indeed. Enjoy the song.
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Peace be upon those rightly guided.
Hajiani Sara Sona (Brock) Barnes
Hajiani Sara Sona (Brock) Barnes
Reaching Out 