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mwishka
06/04/02 at 17:59:00
ok.  i had to think a while before i decided to put this here - it may be one of the stranger things people choose to tell "in public", since i guess that's kind of what this is, but if i can bare my soul here about god, well, then anything else i could say isn't even personal - ya know what i mean?  i found out today that i do NOT have MS!  ok, that's weird to write even...so far i've only written "it"....   i'm so relieved i can barely even think.  for about the last week or so i've been just avoiding thinking about it until i could get to my neurologist, and my only fear was that he'd say i couldn't go to palestine.  ok, this will not be funny to some people, so if you dislike morbid humor, you might want to skip this line:  my advisor (i tell him everything...hee heee...whether he likes it or not!) and i were making jokes like....the israeli soldiers tell us "nobody move", but i fall down, so they shoot me.  or....i fall down, and they tell me to get up, but i can't, so they shoot me.  yep, every joke ends with "so they shoot me."

ok, end of bad kind of humor.  ok to continue reading.....

i have way way too much to do as it is, and i've already had a bad injuryin my life plus been beaten to a pulp twice by lyme disease, (and that's leaving out about 20 billion other, um, "slight" difficulties i've had to get through), so i was feeling kind of like i'd had my share of tribulation.  i told some people in my lab about these, um, suspicious incidents that happened to me, then the next day i wrote to tell them i was staying home (kind of freaked out, i have to admit), and asked someone to go change the tiny little sign over my desk that says "always help those who come to you for help (ok, that part's ok), because we're never given more than we can handle."  i asked them to edit it to say "sorry, my plate's full.  come back later.  like 200 years from now"  no one did it for me... ;)   (yep, i've seen some similar saying here, but i think this thing i have has a tiny little bible number at the bottom....curious...but what do i know?  it's a cardboard from a cookie box or pair of shoes or something...i forget where i got it.)

i chose not to tell my family (well, i didn't know anything until today, anyway), because they are COMPLETELY flipped out already that i'm going to palestine.  didn't think they'd do too well with this.  (yeah yeah i would have told them eventually, when i knew what was going on and had a plan...)

ok, i have to go back to my work.  still have some other heaps of trouble surrounding me, hope to get out of them eventually, too.

mwishka  
06/04/02 at 18:15:15
mwishka
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Mohja
06/04/02 at 18:38:36
alhamdulillah that is indeed good news mwiskha :)
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Marcie
06/04/02 at 18:52:46
[color=Teal] Hi sis Mwishka,

Al hamdu lillah I'm glad that you are not sick with ms.   :-*

For the past few years I have had my share of illnesses too.  Every single time that I have begun to recover I know that I have been blessed by my returning health and the chance to continue living.  

I have been thinking about you and masha'Allah you have been blessed with this incredible intelligence, and yet you can't seem to find God.  It is like you are banging your head against a wall.  Whenever you have been sick and your health starts to return do you ever think about how blessed you are with the return of your health?  Just curious.

Marcie

Ps. I got your humor!!

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Kathy
06/04/02 at 21:42:11
Perhaps Allah swt is giving you another chance...... which of His signs will you deny?
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mwishka
06/04/02 at 22:10:39
(um, sis kathy, i didn't mean to leave you out...was stuck out there in reply-land for quite a while trying to get access to reply...)

thanks you two.  you've both been really sweet to me, it's kind of like having 3 sisters instead of only one....

sis marcie, i just love language and science..  :D  my OWN studies show that we're all equally gifted with "intelligence", we all just have different loves in the world, so we use it for different things.  i guarantee you that each and every person on this board could show each and every other person at least 10 things that they don't already know or know how to do!  (haven't you noticed some of the, um, dumb questions i've asked all over the place...  :(   i depend on other people loving other things to help me out, same as i'll help them out in whatever way i can...)

the rest of it is, well, a little too heavy for here.  i find contentment always, somewhere, but i don't ever seem to get to have things let up on me.  want to hear someone's theory on this??  it's sort of, um, not an acceptable story or source in islam - but let me know, i can get rid of it if i should.  ok, bear with me:  i was visiting a friend for lunch one day, and three other people stopped in, none of whom i knew.  one of them, a woman, walked in the door, was saying hello to my friend , whom she knew, and suddenly whirled around to look at me with a funny look on her face.  she was, unknown to me, considered to be psychic.  she was dominican, a culture where this is a highly regarded trait.  she came straight over to me with some kind of intent look on her face.  took both of my hands, and looking into my face said "you are so powerful!"  ok, so, what's going on here...i kind of looked at my friend.  the woman continued "you were a ruler.  a ruler in egypt, a pharoah, but a tyrant.  you had tens of thousands of people put to death.  but your cats....you so loved you cats...."  

hmmmm...explains a lot, eh?  ;)   ok, ignoring the past lives thing (and if this is too weird, i can delete it all.....), i wonder how anyone could ever make up for having done such harm in the world??

mwishka
06/04/02 at 22:21:59
mwishka
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mwishka
06/04/02 at 22:18:39
sis kathy,  i'm sure this will sound odd to you, but i don't even know what any of them are TO deny them..... :(     i haven't been able to figure that out yet.....i've heard that term used, but i don't know what they are....

miwshka
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Aabidah
06/05/02 at 00:30:04
[slm] (peace be upon you all)

mwishka, the sign of Allah are everywhere around us.  The fact that we are breathing and living each day as it comes is a sign of Allah.  Look at the human being, there are billions of people on this planet and all of them have a different finger print.  A human being has no power to create something like this, so who else could have created this many people, the seas, mountains, creatures of this world, the universe and many more universes, other than Almighty Allah.  Just by looking at the creations of Allah, you can marvel how great He is.  

Another one of Allah's signs that we will one day die and be reserructed again is proof in the four seasons.  The plants die and the trees are barren of leaves when it is winter, but when spring comes along, the flowers blossom and fresh leaves are grown on the trees.  This is proof that the One who created the leaves and nature has the ability to reserruct and create the same thing again.  So, when we die, we will wait in our graves until the Day of Judgment when we will be reserructed and questioned in front of Almighty Allah.  

Look deep inside of your heart and let your heart feel the presence of Allah all around you, because He is All-Seeing, All-Hearing and All-Knowing.  He knows what we know and do not know, sees what we see and do not see, and hears what we hear and not hear.  The beating of your heart is His sign that you are alive because Allah wishes you to be alive.

The health that Allah gives us is a blessing because there are so many people in the world who are worse than us, and we have to be grateful for that.  We actually have to be grateful for everything we have because Allah is The Provider and He has provided us with what he have right now.  
So, the signs of Allah are everywhere and if you try to feel them not just with your mind but also with your heart, from deep inside yourself, and also with Allah's guidance, InshaAllah (God willing) you will understand more.  

I've rambled on too much.  Hope that this helps, at least a little.  

[wlm]
Betul
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Kathy
06/05/02 at 09:19:13
[slm]

There are many of them listed in the Qu'ran. However, I was thinking about the many lines in your posts- of all your blessings, recuperations and comebacks.

You did not get through all these trials and tribulations with out the Mercy of Allah swt.  You are an intelligent woman. As Ann Landers says "Wake up and smell the coffee!"

[i] hmmm, Kathy is never so blunt with people... maybe she feels the little mouse needs it...[/i]

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mwishka
06/05/02 at 10:42:59
hey sis kathy:  darn straight.

mwishka
:-*

sis betul, thanks - it does help a lot.  :)
06/06/02 at 13:06:41
mwishka
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Marcie
06/05/02 at 10:48:49
[color=Teal] Hi Sis Mwishka,

I have been thinking again.  Have you read the book The Bible, The Quran and Science by Maurice Bucaille?  I have heard that the book is excellent, although I have not read it yet.   :(

When are you leaving?

Take care.

Marcie  :-)[/color]
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humble_muslim
06/05/02 at 13:05:51
[slm]

Mwishka,

"i wonder how anyone could ever make up for having done such harm in the world??"

The moment you become a muslim, EVERY single sin you ever did will be forgiven you.  The man who killed the uncle of Mohammed (SAW) during a battle became a muslim, and was forgiven.

"but i don't even know what any of them are TO deny them"

There is a whole chapter in the Quran, "The Beneficient", dedicated to the favors of our Creator.  This Chapter contains the question "So which of the favors of your Lord will you deny?" thruout it. Here are some of them mentioned in that particular chapter:

The creation of humans.
The ability to speak.
Intelligence.
Herbs and the trees.
The earth, laid out for humans and animals to use.
Fruit and date-palms, corn, with leaves and stalk for fodder, and sweet-smelling plants.
Pearls and Coral.
Ships sailing smoothly through the seas.
The periodic way the Sun and the Moon interact with the stars to enable humans to compute a calendar.
The seasons.
The oceans and the rivers.

And on top of all this, He taught man the Quran.

Are those enough favors ?
NS
06/05/02 at 13:08:54
humble_muslim
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ltcorpest2
06/05/02 at 17:56:07
Are those enough favors ?

he allowed man to create chocolate chip ice cream.  i thought that was huge also
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Shahida
06/06/02 at 08:00:59
Mwishka!!

Alhamdulillah (praise be to Allah!), am so glad about your good news!  I didnt even read the rest of the posts, mm, maybe I shoudl do that now..?:)  

Anyway, just wanted to say I'm happy that you are well!  

Isn't the big day coming sooooooon? Post about that too, pls?

:-*
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mwishka
06/07/02 at 09:13:53
sis marcie,

hope you didn't think i was ignoring your suggestion above.......

this:   Have you read the book The Bible, The Quran and Science by Maurice Bucaille

this book was recommended to me quite some time ago.  i haven't read it yet.  :(   in this case, it was a kind of, um, laziness i think.  it was being given out at the islam awareness week table at my school, but i only got there on the last day, they were all gone, and i didn't try to get it elsewhere....  (i was GIVEN! a quran and three other books there - yes, it is truly amazing to have people give you gifts of books, i was flabbergasted and there is not even a way to thank someone enough for that kind of a gift.....)

it's still on my "books i must find somewhere somehow sometime" list.  now i need to find those harun yahya books somewhere, too -- that website won't work for me..  i think both asim and my labmate would tell me this is because i won't give up my netscape 4.7......

mwishka
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eleanor
06/07/02 at 09:56:14
[slm]

hi mwishka, if you IM me your address I'll send you "The Evolution Deceit" from Harun Yahiya  :-X

wasalaam
eleanor :-*


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