I said  ”Yes”

الكويت ليست أرضا مقدسة و نحن لسنا بشعب الله المختار,

و ما ظن بغير ذلك إلا و قد خاب ظنه

( و يا مالكم من الخيبات ).

]]> http://www.fluenthoughts.net/2008/04/04/%d9%85%d8%b3%d8%a7%d8%a1-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ae%d9%8a%d8%b1/feed/ http://www.fluenthoughts.net/2008/01/16/the-belated-tag/ http://www.fluenthoughts.net/2008/01/16/the-belated-tag/#comments Wed, 16 Jan 2008 07:03:19 +0000 True Faith Tags http://www.fluenthoughts.net/2008/01/16/the-belated-tag/ Sweet Intlxpatr has tagged me to answer the following questions;

1. Do your closest friends have any nicknames for you?
People call me with a name that isn’t really my official name; but for some reason I prefer not to mention it here.
2. What is the greatest achievement of your life so far?
Kuwait Stuttering group.
3. Where would you live if anywhere was possible?
Anywhere with the people I love
4. Is there a religion that’s fulfilling for you and/or the masses?
Islam.
5. What inspires awe in your life’s experience?
People who believe that there is nothing impossible
6. What was/is your best pick-up line?
I make my own lines
7. What and when is the most potent emotion you’ve ever experienced and why?
Fear and shame
8. On what occasions do you act self-absorbed or just plain selfish?
In all occasions yet the level of it differs from one occasion to another
9. If someone assigned you a quest, or if you decided your own, what would you be looking to find?
I would want to find the “ON” button for many minds around !!!
10. If you had to choose between them; would you live in Hollywood, Washington D.C. or New York; and why?
Washington D.C
11. Who or what makes you feel “whole”
Caring words in a wiry night
12. What do you consider to be the greatest opportunity for humankind?
Knowing the true reason for their creation
13. What surprises you about getting older?
There is always more to learn
14. What or who makes you feel younger or rejuvenated?
My father
15. Where or when do you feel most alone?
On my sever stammering days
16. Where or how is society most ripe for change?
The society isn’t the issue here, an individual can work towards that by him/her self; each individual is an atom of the element called society!
17. When or where do you feel the most free?
When wearing my Hijab.
18. What is the greatest memory of your life to date?
It’s yet to come
19. Where and when did you find out who you really are?
Every day I’m a different person yet with the same soul; finding who I really am isn’t my task in life; I live every day as a different person
20. How and when do you collect your thoughts and why?
Each thought has its own way
21. If someone told you when and where you would die, what would you do immediately after being told?
I will simply not believe
22. What are the best parts of being in love?
Altruism
23. What’s your favorite libation (drink)?
Does coffee count?
24. What “life philosophies” have you adopted since you’ve become an adult?
He who loses faith loses all
25. How would you like to be remembered?
Smiling till the end

An Islamic scholar called Ibn Taimeyyah once said
“انا جنتي وبستاني في صدري أني سرت فهى معي”
“My heaven and orchard are in my chest, where ever I go, they are with me”

Amazing how few words can answer the most complicated question to many, “where is happiness?”.

Happiness is in you, it’s a seed that needs to be irrigated and tendered to grow; and no matter how big it grows there is always space for more, happiness would never be a burden on a human’s chest.

Be happy

As I’ve noticed in the past couple of years that some as REKAAZ have taken a path in intention to lead as many youth as possible to the right direction (yes right). I’m not writing this post to point out the objectives of such campaigns because as I believe it is their job to do so not mine; I will raise here the issue that many people think of it as a judgmental and shallow sighting ( I know that many supporters to this campaign will have a conflict on that).

Rekaaz has chosen one part of the two main parts of the human mind; they have only concentrated on emotions neglecting logic. I’m a person of logic when it comes to religion and other matters of life; I can’t bear listening to those crying and shouting religion instructors, I wouldn’t spend time listening to Mohamed or Nabeel Al Awadhi, yet I wouldn’t mind listening to Dr. Zaghlool Al Najjar and Ahmad Deedat for hours without boredom. I can’t see a sign of Reekaz’s and not think of it as offending my intelligence. Amazingly, from what I see in their website, forum and TV interviews I find that it has been affecting a lot of people but by going back in time to my University years I do kind of understand the mechanism of such numbers (University elections), most of them are already religious so they are not an add to it, it is only a number (quantity) yet not a real figure (not quality).

A friend of mine while discussing this issue pointed out that morals are emotional, okay but what about the unfaithful do you think they think of it emotionally as you do, I guess not; an atheist or the “unfaithful” usually looks at religion from the logic side. Shouldn’t they be a target to such campaigns as well?

What if I’m not a person of printed stories, Mohamed Al Awadhi lectures, the full of praise forum or an emotional campaign of huge signs, what do you have to offer me?