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| muqaddar |
| 08/10/02 at 20:09:44 |
| [slm] This one made me cry ...almost... :'( Q: God gave you 2 legs to walk, 2 hands to to hold, 2 ears to hear, 2 eyes to see- but why did He give you only one heart ? A: Because He gave the other one to someone for you to find. :'( |
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| Aadam |
| 08/10/02 at 21:04:58 |
| [slm] muqaddar someone for you to find...some unmarried person, for sure ;) |
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| Aabidah |
| 08/10/02 at 21:17:43 |
| [slm] awwww....subhanAllah.... [wlm] Betul |
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| muqaddar |
| 08/10/02 at 21:23:36 |
| [quote author=Aadam link=board=bebzi;num=1029024585;start=0#1 date=08/10/02 at 21:04:58] [slm] muqaddar someone for you to find...some unmarried person, for sure ;) [/quote] that's pretty cruel akhi..and it hurt ok ? |
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| Aadam |
| 08/10/02 at 21:32:03 |
| [slm] Muqaddar I know it hurts bro...but it's true...anyway you have yet to find that person...insha'Allah akhi Aadam |
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| hijabi4L |
| 08/10/02 at 23:05:24 |
| [slm] ;D very cute joke! |
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| Savaira |
| 08/10/02 at 23:31:23 |
| [slm] That was funny Aadam, sometimes the truth hurts :'( Aadam is right muqaddar ka sikander jee, take his advice ;D |
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| Barr |
| 08/11/02 at 00:58:20 |
| Assalamu'alaikum :-) [quote]Q: God gave you 2 legs to walk, 2 hands to to hold, 2 ears to hear, 2 eyes to see- but why did He give you only one heart ? A: Because He gave the other one to someone for you to find.[/quote] MashaAllah :-* That is very sweet, akhi... thanks for sharing :) InshaAllah, there's already a person whom Allah has chosen for each of us. If we take the blessed path finding him (or her, in your case :)), I'm sure we'll receive His gifts as He has promised us. Take care :-) Wassalam P.S. Though I'm sure there's more to why Allah gave us 1 heart :) Any thoughts? |
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| jaihoon |
| 08/11/02 at 02:24:21 |
| [quote author=muqaddar link=board=bebzi;num=1029024585;start=0#0 date=08/10/02 at 20:09:44] [slm] This one made me cry ...almost... :'( Q: God gave you 2 legs to walk, 2 hands to to hold, 2 ears to hear, 2 eyes to see- but why did He give you only one heart ? A: Because He gave the other one to someone for you to find. :'([/quote] Its thoughtful... but then the philosophy of 'matches made in heaven' is alien to the freedom of the individual. ::) |
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| Aadam |
| 08/11/02 at 03:07:23 |
| [slm] "P.S. Though I'm sure there's more to why Allah gave us 1 heart Any thoughts? " so that heart surgeons can earn a living... |
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| muqaddar |
| 08/11/02 at 10:08:34 |
| [slm] Aadam bro let me guess your...a heart surgeon ! Nice way of getting free publicity.... ;D Jaihoon how so bro?.. isn't it about connecting with someone? like Heer Ranjha... actually thats quite funny ..because Ranja was from my nation and Heer, as i never tire of telling my Punjabi friends was from Punjab !... ;D. That one always gets them cause they all punjabi's prefer to themselves as Ranja's Thank you Savaira 'aa gia hai ji '! :) ...#..woh aiay gee he...aiay gee he...aane wali.. *sorry just had to slightly modify that song from Mahal..one of my all time favourites* :D |
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| muqaddar |
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| theOriginal |
| 08/11/02 at 13:11:12 |
| [slm] What was that Ancient Greek myth? Or was it roman....mentioned in that really weird book, wriiten by that long dead dude where he kills his father and marries his mother as was predicted by some great fortune teller. (Okay okay, I'm not making sense....but the book was called Oedipus.) Anyway, the myth that was mentioned in that book was that some god (lowercase intentional) took the 3 beings that inhabited this Earth and sliced them each, evenly into two pieces. So the reason that everyone runs around looking for their *mate* is because they are searching for their long lost other half. (The story continues to say that the original 3 beings...one was male, one was female, one was an in-between. Thus, accounting for homosexual people, where some, being male look for their male counterpart...etc etc) I apologize if that was highly inappropriate, but mythology fascinates me, and it seemed relevant. Also apologize if that didn't make sense, I'm terribly tired. Wasalaam. SF. |
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| readagain |
| 08/11/02 at 14:07:21 |
| Hey i know what u are talking abt Greek mythology by sphocles..Oedipus the King..when he was born the "witches" or somethign..said he is destined to kill his father and marry his mother..so his father ordered to have him killed, but the guy who was suppose to kill him didnt have the heart to kill a baby so he let him go, and so oedipus was found by another king and was raised as a prince and didnt know abt who his real parents were ..one day an old man tells oedipus abt what he will do and he gets so scared he decides to leave the country and on his way he encounters a king who he kills for soem reason (guess who this king was) so he does kill his own father even tho acc to him he was running away from doing exactly that..and then he arrives at this country (who's king he just killed) and marrys the queen (his mother) < this was soo grosse> adn then when he finds out abt it he makes him self blind...moral of the story..dont mess with destiny. |
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| Barr |
| 08/12/02 at 01:36:01 |
| [quote]moral of the story..dont mess with destiny[/quote] moral of the story.. blindness to reality won't change it -------------------- And guys...Don't get me started on Soulmates :P :-) Wassalam |
| 08/12/02 at 01:40:17 |
| Barr |
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| Aadam |
| 08/12/02 at 02:06:28 |
| [slm] [quote]And guys...Don't get me started on Soulmates[/quote] i'd like to hear what you've got to say... Aadam |
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| Nafisa |
| 08/12/02 at 06:13:18 |
| [slm] the joke is a sweet sentiment but I don't really believe in soulmates cos what happens if you marry your 'soulmate' and then he dies. then you find someone else and remarry. does that mean i have 2 extra hearts going spare? or maybe only one was the true soulmate. or when the first one died his 'soulmate-ness' was passed onto someone else? it's a tricky business all this matchmaking. wassalam Nafisa :-* |
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| muqaddar |
| 08/12/02 at 13:53:28 |
| [slm] Well isn't it obvious... Allah(swt) gave a portion of the heart to someone else.... Of course if you can't find your soulmate and your a nice person thats because Allah(swt) gave you a very large heart.. And if your a nasty person..then Allah(swt) gave the heart to someone else ! Sorry thats just the lawyer in me.... ;D |
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| Nafisa |
| 08/12/02 at 16:06:04 |
| [slm] well, according to logic if someone has my heart (or a piece of it) then i have someone else's heart aswell. But did I steal it from someone else or have i broken it? Or perhaps i waiting to give it back to its owner so we can do a heart exchange? just how many metaphors can i come up with? will I ever stop asking questions? ??? ??? *adopts thoughtful pose* |
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| muqaddar |
| 08/12/02 at 16:17:20 |
| [slm] No...no...no..no! you've got it all wrong..see...*sighs in exasperation*.. you put the pieces together and you have one heart again! ...#...kabhi...kabhi...mere dil mein...khiyaal..aaata heh...ke khudaa... ...#...ne banaaya...he tujhe mere liye... SEE ! so simple... |
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| muqaddar |
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| Nafisa |
| 08/12/02 at 16:43:35 |
| [slm] pieces....to make one heart....put it all back together again.... yeah, i guess that makes sense... so where does the heart surgeon come in? fnar fnar. :D |
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| theOriginal |
| 08/12/02 at 16:57:51 |
| [slm] Such hopelessly romantic people. It is almost poetic. (ALMOST...I can find a more suiting "-ic" word that starts with the letter 'P' .. thumbs up for the person who gets it first.) I don't know whether the issue is about *finding* him/her (the person people some patronizingly refer to as your "soulmate"). It's not about getting married....oh no siree! it's about STAYING married, and STAYING happy in THAT marriage. And more often than not, happiness is a decision we make. Have you guys heard that Chinese fable (uh oh, here she goes again *note* this is paraphrased entirely) where there's this dude, see...and he's standing in the middle of town yelling "I have the most beautiful heart." And everyone walking by is oohing and aahing, because certainly it is the most beautiful heart. It has neither scar nor gouge on it, and hence it is flawless. So this young man sets up a challenge, and says that he welcomes anyone to one-up his heart (unscarred and ungouged as it is). And no one steps up to the challenge. UNTIL, this old man who walks slowly up to the young man says to him "Me. My heart is more beautiful than yours." Now the young man scoffs, and is ultimately shocked that the old man would say this, because the old man's heart has scars, where it seems to have been patched up with pieces don't quite fit. In some places it has outright holes. And he laughs at him along with the rest of the town. The old man, after being ridiculed, attempts to explain: "My heart is more beautiful than yours. It has scars and it is gouged. You see, sometimes when you meet someone in your life, and you cut out a piece of your heart and give it to them, the size depending on how much he/she means to you. Sometimes, they give you a piece in return. Sometimes it is bigger than the piece they give you, because they love you more, and sometimes it is smaller, because you love them more. Sometimes you give them a piece, and they give you nothing in return. This is why I have scars (from the pieces that don't fit) and this is why I have gouges (from the pieces that I was never returned). But when you love someone, you love them unconditionally, without expecting anything in return, and being grateful for ANYTHING that IS returned." Upon hearing this, the young man started crying, and he cut out a piece of his heart, and handed it to the old man. The old man, in return, cut out a piece of his. And the young man said, "My heart is more beautiful now." I know I know...ignore the cheese... but the truth is that love is not tragic, unless you make it. We cannot love for the sake of love, it'll get us nothing but heartache. We have to love for the sake of Allah, and then things sort of clear up. You can't expect the birds to sing forever, and the sky to remain clear, and the sun to stay bright, and the flowers to bloom all the time. You're bound to get dissapointed. The real challenge is in finding the goodness in the rain...and finding a clearing in the fog... for yourself. My attitude is that I trust Allah (azza wa jall). I trust him with who I get married to. And I am very much capable to succeed in everything He tests me with, inshaAllah. Because it is His promise to us .. "On no soul doth Allah lay a burden greater than it can bear." (Paraphrased...last Ayah of Surah Bakarah) Anyway, in one word: chillax. Wassalaam.. SF. |
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| muqaddar |
| 08/12/02 at 18:17:10 |
| [quote author=theOriginal link=board=bebzi;num=1029024585;start=15#20 date=08/12/02 at 16:57:51] [slm] The real challenge is in finding the goodness in the rain...and finding a clearing in the fog... for yourself. Wassalaam.. SF.[/quote] Then i'll leave you to look for the goodness in the rain...because i've had rain when i didn't need it and drought when i wanted rain. The fog has no clearing and all the flowers have been trampled. You laugh for me SF because i can't find joy in anything |
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| sunset |
| 08/12/02 at 22:42:01 |
| [slm] the real challenge is not searching for what we do not have but making use of what we have ... perhaps i rephrased that wrongly ::) anyway... sometimes we were/are not given the person/thing we wished for but that does not mean we should spend our life feeling sorry for ourselves ... well, human nature sometimes will compare with other ... why cant i be happy like him or i could have a happy family like that etc .... if given choice, nobody wants to be lonely or to have marriage that doesnt work as expected, to get brokenhearted etc etc but that is life ... some may seem like having a smooth journey of their life and some may have thunderstorm... but we must always remember there are always people who experience something much better and also... those who experience much worst ... why not look up at those who are at worst...and then...we will realise...how grateful we are to be who we are... this seems to work for me, alhamdulillah :) whenever i dont feel good bout myself or my life i will think of those who are less fortunate...it makes me feel so grateful to Allah Subhanahu Wata'ala for being who i am. The last ayah from Surah Al Baqarah is the best to explain the situation. sorry if i wasnt making any sense but just wanna share some opinion...always remember no matter what happen...you are not alone ;) [wlm] :-) |
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| Barr |
| 08/13/02 at 09:53:55 |
| Assalamu'alaikum :-) [quote]I don't know whether the issue is about *finding* him/her (the person people some patronizingly refer to as your "soulmate"). [/quote] Hm.. how is it patronising? However, I agree with you. It is not so much about *finding* this soulmate in that aspect.. but more so, in building, strengthening, developing, searching and fighting and working hard for the marriage... that's when you'll find, the person whom you're spending the rest of your life with... is your soulmate. Soulmates don't happen just like *that*, it takes a lot of shared sacrifices, shared times, shared dreams and hopes, and shared pains and hardship... what ensues and grows is the relationship of the ruh that extends the physical matter. I wrote smt about Soulmates in this thread... [url=http://www.jannah.org/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl/YaBB.pl?board=madrasa&action=display&num=5228]click here! >>>>Of Souls and Mates<<<< here, click![/url] [quote] in soulmates cos what happens if you marry your 'soulmate' and then he dies. then you find someone else and remarry. [/quote] Perhaps there is more than one soulmate for some of us. What about those is polygenous relationships? I'm sure there's a spiritual bonding to each spouse, though the intensity and degree in each of such bonds may differ. [quote]Q: God gave you 2 legs to walk, 2 hands to to hold, 2 ears to hear, 2 eyes to see- but why did He give you only one heart ?[/quote] Perhaps, the answer to the *joke* should be... [i]because there is another million of your hearts, in each of those lives whom you've touched.[/i] For what comes from the heart will touch the other heart... and hence not an exclusivity to the romantic lovey dovey doo doo. Allahua'lam :-) |
| 08/13/02 at 10:03:58 |
| Barr |
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| muqaddar |
| 08/13/02 at 15:32:44 |
| [quote author=Barr link=board=bebzi;num=1029024585;start=15#23 date=08/13/02 at 09:53:55]Assalamu'alaikum :-) Perhaps, the answer to the *joke* should be... [i]because there is another million of your hearts, in each of those lives whom you've touched.[/i] For what comes from the heart will touch the other heart... and hence not an exclusivity to the romantic lovey dovey doo doo. Allahua'lam :-)[/quote] Agree with a lot of the rest of what you said but the above implies that everybody is at the same level...whereas your relationship with your BEST friends is not the same as just the friends and the reason is your best friends have more of a heart connection with you...like a soulmate.. I think some people confuse falling in lust with falling in love |
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