Amal's Page

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i was dead

i came alive

i was tears

i became laughter



all because of love

when it arrived

my temporal life

from then on

changed to eternal



love said to me

you are not

crazy enough

you don't

fit this house



i went and

became crazy

crazy enough

to be in chains



love said

you are not

intoxicated enough

you don't

fit… Continue

Deliver me from this imprisonment of free will,

O gracious and long-suffering Sustainer!

The one-way pull on the Straight Path*

is better than the two-way pull of perplexity.

Though You are the only goal of these two ways,

still this duality is agnonizing to the spirit.

Though the destination of these two ways is You alone,

still the battle is never like the banquet.

Listen to the explanation God gave in the Qur'ân:

they shrank from bearing… Continue

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
John Adams, August 1765


I think a big problem in America is the mass consumption and instant gratification and the need for entertainment and distraction that our media has over us. This keeps people stupid, and that makes it easier to control us and to get away with injustice. We need to be more inspired and motivated to learn for ourselves and use that knowledge for our benefit. Ameen!

Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said:

"Whoever takes a path seeking therein knowledge, Allah will make easy for him a path to Paradise. And Verily the Angels lower their wings to the student of knowledge due to their being pleased to what they do. Verily everything in the heavens and earth even the fish in the water ask that the scholar be forgiven (for their sins). The superiority of the scholar over the worshiper is like that of the moon over the rest of the stars. Verily the… Continue

Diversity raises the intelligence of groups. Homogeneity is a form of denial.

Nancy Kline

I see what she is saying, that we can learn from everyone. But, I think that those differences are merely illusions, and that we're all one underneath them.