IN Digestion

Well, again I had no idea today was Eid? (I am still not sure if it is or not?) But Fatima called me to let me know it was Eid in Jordan yesterday? Amir told me Eid was on Sunday, and I guess a lot of people celebrated it today? But somehow it went all past my head - I was really sick last night (there is vomit all over my hotel room floor and bathroom)

So I woke up and found out I had to go into work for a bit today and that Sameer is going to be bringing me some halwa or something at the end of the day…

BUT, BUT - I forgot about this to until I got online, Saddam Hussein has been executed, and whatever anyone can or can not say about the rest of the war, this just made my Eid, Humiliated by the Americans and his own traitor government.

But I can’t keep sleeping through every single Eid!

Well, I had a lot of fun at Texas Dawah Conference - I enjoyed many of the classes, I even enjoyed some of the stuff from Shaikh Waleed! (I do not normally enjoy his stuff as much) but the one part of his Khatira at the end about Optimism was really enjoyable -

I liked anything I heard from Shaikh Yasir Qadhi, and Dr. Ibrahim Dremali (I love his voice and personality, so anything he says is automatically good).  I got to hang out with Neon Night and Aamir (with TWO A’s) for 5 or 6 days? And a bunch of other people, but do not rememember all of them -

I missed all of the morning lectures each day (I woke up around 2pm on average) and by the time I had breakfast/lunch it would be 4ish -5ish -

Some of the more interesting things were the obvious first lectures telling us all to be ‘Good Ameircans’ and there seemed to be a consensus that the lecture “In the Mind of a Terrorrist’ just sucked -

I got into a fight with at least two Sufis and about four or five salafis and I enjoyed the company of about 20 or so other Salafis who were surprisingly pretty openminded to my beliefs (most Salafis are slowly becoming desensitized to the so called people of innovation)

The funny thing was a Sufi who was walking around with a chip on his shoulder about how this conference was a sellout panzy conference, and was instead a Hamza Yusuf/ISNA fan boy - that was interesting -

What was more interesting was some one who knew Abu Zubair personally and was apparently good friends with him who told me to completely ignore his takfeer of me, I ended up having to defend his takfeer of myself - and then after finding out what he made takfeer of me for he went on to explain to me that it is shirk in 3 of the 4 madhabs to make Wasilah with anyone but the Prophet Sallalllahu Alayhi wa Sallam (and that it is shirk to even do so with the  Prophet sallallalhu alayhi wa sallam) in the Hanafi Madhab - He said he would e-mail me the details of that -

Another interesting thing was hearing a Pretty Nice Deobandi guy explain the artistic beauty and merits of Chaiya Chaira (the hit Bollywood Song) and how well it was executed. - LOL
All in all, though a conference like this would have sickened me as a Salafi (as so many people were open minded to the sufi ways, it’s not even funny) as a Sufi - I throughly enjoyed the fact almost everyone was respectful and even open to different views  -  It’s nice knowing that even though many people claim to be Salafi they hesitate in making takfeer of someone who calls out to the Awliyah of Allaah - it shows their slowly becoming sufi without even realizing it in the name of ‘Hikmah’ or whatever.

And at least one of the invited guests whom I did not already know had learned of me and my online antics, thats always nice!
Sas

Arabic food … again

It was very good, a friend made it and brought it over.

Sas

After work  (and Ameer left) i put on theTV - and what else!

Pride And Prejiduce!

(But I still have m ore work to do,  so I won’t be able to enjoy the company of Mr. Darcy)

I think Fatima is actually more jealous of my feeling towards other men then women.

Sas

Breakfast around 11AM:
Cocoa Pebbles

Lunch around 3PM
Tanduri Naan / Chicken Al-Frazy?

Dinner around 9PM
Chicken Shawarma and Baklawa

I just apologized to someone because I had told them to perform Felatio on King Fahd! (After they reminded me when we were reminissing) - (this is one of my enemies by the way). But we just realized we are like enemies who love each other or something.

Gosh, I don’t even remember half the stuff I said…

Sas

Due to What Abul Layth said here, Hearts Of Green Birds asked here the question: What is Friendship?

Friendship is accepting someone and loving them no matter what.

Sas

Well, I am defintely going to be travelling for a while - I can’t seem to get myself in one location for one and only one location - I should be back in Houston in just a few days, and won’t be back in Jordan probably until the first week of January

The good thing is - Pride and Prejiduce plays like every day, and I can not get enough of Mr. Darcy -

I am going to get some movies on request of Fatima - but besides that, I am sick of American FOOD!!!! I don’t know what to do, if I have to eat another Wendy’s Chicken Sandwich, I am going to yell!

I am a very very picky eater, and you don’t even know how hard it is for me to eat NON Desified food, my friend cooked me some maqlooba - it’s ok, its better then the alternative, but I need something that is spicy man - I don’t know how to eat this stuff

But besides all of that, ironically enough when I was a child, we (my parents and me, I am am only child) used to listen to: 1. Mariah  Carey, 2. The guy who sang the song: In the Middle of the Night, Billy Joel, and 3. Michael Jackson - and I think I still pretty much like all of their music -

I guess what you grow up with never really changes - I still have a crush on Mariah Carey BUT not because of how she became later on, but because she is just HOT, as a child I just liked her song Dreamlover where she jumps around the garden, etc. I still love In the Middle of The Night, and I still hate the idea of Michael Jackson being prosecuted - I was in choir when I was younger my teacher recognized my amazing voice and made me be in Choir, and I Sang his song:  Heal the World -

But more then that, this is what I grew up with! I rememember when the emmmys came on (or was it the grammys) and we all just enjoyed “Dreamlover” - I was just a kid back then, but its still a great song-

Point Being, I do not recall forgetting any of these thoughs any time soon - so yes I know Music is Forbidden, but kindly realize I already know that, and that does not change anything, when and if I GET To paradise, I want the same songs, the same music, the same life I had when I was a child, - thats all - music is what I use to symbolize my growing up  and that is what I want -

I had to stop my an electronic store and buy some hardware, and my friend was like wait up - I need to buy something for my wife - he was buying a cd of Shania Twain for his wife (he does not consider music to be impermissable, and i can’t really do much to change his opinion) - but the Same Exact thing happened with me when I was younger, I was buying an OffSpring CD? (I think), and my friend was like, wait I need to come buy a Shania Twain cd for my mother -

I guess the morale of the story is if you think music is ok, and your looking for a gift for your mom or wife, you can probably buy Shania Twain  - it seems to be a big hit, I myself like the one song that came out a long time ago: Your still the one.

But besides all of that, I have a nasty headache, I have been in a meeting all day, and I am sick to my stomach -  and I don’t know what I can possibly eat, I don’t want to go to Wendys, I am sick of any kind of Arabic food, and as much as I like desi -food, I hate desi food at  a resturant (I Like good ole home cooked desi food)

There was a song from the grammys or emmys I really liked (a long time ago), but I was never sure who sang it, I believe it was song of the year a long time ago, and it was by counting crows - anyone know? It goes something like, ‘laid the witch so she lies behind the bedroom door’? I remember spending a few years trying to sort out who actually sang, it  - it was terrific song, but I never knew who sang it.

I want something to eat, but I just can’t think of anything I want to get (I only really have the option of Karai Chicken, Chaval and Tandoori Naan OR not eating at all) - but it’s weird, to eat nothing sometimes feels like your eating and its a pleasant feeling - like WAIT! I just realized I have Cocoa Pebbles and Coca puffs - but no, I do not want that either - Either way, its nice being hungry but not REALLY starvingly hungry and be able to fall asleep while being to tired to eat, but enjoying eating air, its a weird feeling -

Someone asked me if I was a negroe today (he was black) I woinder if anyone else thinks I am black to - any comments Mr. Wood?

I just saw this for the fourth/fifth time it seems - and this movie is just AMAZING. (I can’t wait to read the book) - but I just love this movie, I love the setting, the way they speak, the mannerisms, the plot, the way they fall in love - ALL of it.

The hotel I am at (I am here for a business trip) plays it every day I think -

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