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| abubakr |
| 06/17/03 at 17:47:54 |
| i just want to share this with you i've run through many bad experiences in my life, but the worst maybe was moving from one city to another , you know leaving your house your school your friends , your first love ... ;) but subhanAllah it gave me like an imunity (i hope i spell it right) , i'm not attached that much to poeple, places, names etc i still love to have good pious friends who have knowledge so i can benefit from them and in return i will make any thing to try to help them, i wont mind if i have a good pious wife and i'm sure that i'll have one when my Lord finds that it's time for me to hold this big responsibility of having a family to support, and one of the rules of my life that everything comes in it's time so... the names change, the faces, the places, the web sites but it still the same ;) the same love for any human being, the love to see the smily faces, I love to hear from you keep me in your du'a Abdullah |
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| theOriginal |
| 06/18/03 at 04:19:12 |
| [slm] Ooh yeah...I understand...moving around...the WORST and the BEST part of my life. Seriously, 9 schools later, I realize that I will never have the kinds of friends that everyone else does....those who have known them forever...but at the same time I am very grateful, because of all the different people I met who have shaped my life. May Allah keep you safe and happy. Ameen. |
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| chiq |
| 06/18/03 at 08:00:19 |
| [slm] There was a beautiful passage I read once about the ever-changing currents of life...looking for it and will post it when I find it inshallah... Myself, I've changed schools and unis a lot, but I've lived in more or less the same place all my life ??? Travelling/change's good though - teaches you not to get too settled in this dunya. To make it more difficult for the unfortunates who are burdened by my acquaintance, my nature is intense and mercurial, so that I go through complete transfigurations with each new experience... ;D ...so although it was no surprise when I started practising alhamdulillah, they still couldn't quite keep up with my cold turkey method every time I learned something new...:-/ S'all good of course, because I've learned a lot that way. Most of all I've learned that the key to everything is listening...firstly to my heart (so better keep it polished if I don't want false signals ;D), to other believers (choosing my company well of course. A sobering thought - what if someone's avoiding [i]me[/i] 'cos they think I'm bad company? :o) and finally to the world of which I am an essential part... Learning to tell the difference between my right foot and my left so as not to trip up...learning that falling down is good for me 'cos it reminds me of where my feet are, and my rear end too :D...learning to remember what went before but not stare backwards else I'll fall into the ditch in front of me...and doing it all with a smile :) Character building innit...it's all good... [wlm] :-) |
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| chiq |
| 06/18/03 at 08:03:09 |
| [slm] Found it; here goes… The art of personality is like the art of music: it wants ear-training and voice culture. To a person who knows life’s music, the art of personality comes naturally, and it is unmusical of the soul, not only inartistic when it shows the lack of art in its personality. When one looks at the soul as a note of music and learns to recognize what it is, flat or sharp, or high or low, and what pitch it belongs to, then he becomes the knower of souls and he just knows how deal with everybody. In his own actions, in his own speech, he shows the art. He harmonizes with the rhythm of the atmosphere, with the tone of the person, with the theme of the moment. To become refined is to become musical; it is the musical in soul who is artistic in his personality. When a word is spoken in a different tone, the same word changes its meaning. A word spoken at the proper moment, and held back at the moment when it should not be expressed, completes the music of life. It is a continual inclination to produce beauty which helps one develop art in personality. It is amusing how readily man feels inclined to learn outer refinement, and how slow many souls are found to develop beauty of personality inwardly. It must be remembered that the outer manner is meaningless if it is not prompted by the inner impulse toward beauty. [wlm] |
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