MashAllah, beautiful

Surah tawbah from the Quran (112-129)

Hey this one's good!!

hahhaahaha...





man this is hilarious!!!!

I got a speeding ticket.

The cop who gave me a ticket let me take his picture. He got all happy, haha.

I was going 80 in a 65 zone, whoopty doo right?

At first when he pulled us over, i thought it was cuz we were looking muslim. I was wearing an all white shalwar khameez, i have a beard, and muneeba (my wife) was wearing wearing a scarf... we were coming back from mufti mudassir's class in fremont. (even tho class was cancelled, he had to go to a janaza).

I think the ticket is going to be 200-300 dollars... so basically it'll probably take a nice chunk out of our release-bonus for releasing flash player 9. I dunno how much the bonus will be, but i'll find out at the end of the month, it should be a pretty beefy bonus since flash palyer is very important to adobe's business strategy.

But anyway, here are the reasons why i would think that he pulled me over cuz i was a muslim:

• Cuz me and muneeba were looking very muslim... but our car has no bumper stickers, etc. though.
• Cuz he seemed to be a sheltered straight-edge CNN/Fox News believing white boy.

Here are the reasons that I DO NOT think he was pulling me over cuz we're Muslims:

• He wrote the ticket for going 75 not 81. But it's weird cuz in the ticket both numbers are mentioned, and he said to me that he'll make it out to be a 65-75 ticket, which will make it a little cheaper for me, and that I'll learn my lesson anyway. That was nice of him.
• He told me that there have been a lot of accidents on that road due to speeding, that's why they are tightening up there.
• When me and muneeba drove down the road, there was somebody else pulled over.

So my and muneeba's final assessment was that he was just doing his job.

Lessons learned / Reminders:

• This is a tribulation: the way to show sabr is to not say "Oh Allah why me?", rather say "what did i do to deserve this tribulation" and recheck all your sins, and take it as discipline from Allah. Blame yourself, not Allah.
• Realize that tribulations in this world wipe out bad deeds. Even if you get pricked by a thorn, that'll wipe some bad deeds out.
• Say "inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi rajioon" = "to Allah we all belong and to Him we shall all return." See the translation of the ayahs from surah baqarah below.
• Appreciate the fact that there is law enforcement. In under-developped and new countries like pakistan, the cops take bribes and pull people over basically cuz they need money. The traffic 5-0 here is just keeping it safe for all of us. May Allah guide them to the straight path.

Surah Baqarah:

155. Be sure we shall test you with something of fear and hunger, some loss in goods or lives or the fruits (of your hard work), but give glad tidings to those who patiently persevere,

156. Who say, when afflicted with calamity: "To Allah We belong, and to Him is our return":-

157. They are those on whom (Descend) blessings from Allah, and Mercy, and they are the ones that receive guidance.

It all reminds me of shaykh hamza's state-managent system in life (SMSL)... haha i just made up that name, but here's how it goes. You can be in only 4 states, they can be reduced to 2, then 1, or expanded to n (branches within the 4 states), but its optimally meaningful for the purposes of this blog to keep it at 4:

1. Tribulation - what is required of you is to be patient. The best patience is Sabr-jameel, where you just say it's from Allah, reflect on ur sins and struggle ("jihad") harder to remove them, and not complain at all. A lesser sabr is to complain, but not complain about Allah, just say "it hurts, but it's from Allah so i'm ok".
2. Blessing - This is also a test. Gratitude to Allah is what is required of you. You pass it by using the blessing in any permissible manner. It's best if you use it for good though. So, if you got an extra $10, by spending it on like halaal food you would pass the test in this state. Spending it on, maybe feeding a poor orphan, you'd pass it with flying colors. Both of these would show that you are "thankful". And in order to fail, you would spend it on something like alcohol. Simple examples, but they work. (Muneeba: "why does it always gotta be about food?!?!?!" haha)
3. Obedience - This is ALSO a test. To pass you must not be arrogant, and realize that the obedience itself is a blessing from Allah. If you take credit for your obedience, you are arrogant, and thus fail.
4. Disobedience - What is required of you in this state is to make tawbah. Which is done in these steps: 1. Immediately stop your sins. 2. Promise to never repeat the sin. 3. Express remorse for having committed the sin. 4. If the sin has to do with oppressing the right of another human, you have to restore the right -- so if you stole $10 from X, give the $10 back to X.

Alrighty, that's enough writing.

Aneesa: don't tell mummy/daddy, i'll take traffic skoo and it'll get erased off my record for insurance purposes. I'll also not ever speed again, and stop fully on stop signs.

jews against zionism

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RjnvQHWyLE

hey israel, Rabbi Yisroel Weiss and I have got an idea, get out of palestine!

Masjids, I see Masjids!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/masjid/show/

If you are not a muslim and love CNN and Fox News, de-program yourself by watching these images for a few hours.

Muslims are happy good family peaceful people, watch the slideshow in fast/1-second-mode and u'll see what i mean.

Masjid = a place where muslims pray as a community.

Masjid:Muslim::Church:Christian

George Galloway

man this is beautiful:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=249JaIaubVw

Flash Player 9 for Linux

I'm one of the two or three Quality Engineers working on Flash Player 9 for Linux

Mike Melanson is a Dev on it.
Emmy Huang is our Product Manager.

By mentioning this, maybe I could attract traffic to my blog (not that i care much for it).

I'm working on testing Red Hat 4 , but we'll be supporting more version(s), i dunno if i'm allowed to say which others.

here's some more words google can pick up, they mean absolutely nothing, they are only here to beef up my search engine hits:
GTK 1.2 GTK 2.0 GTK 2.10 make make clear libflashplayer.so mozilla firefox plug-in dot-release security release myspace.com youtube.com GCC C++ .cpp .h unix shell x86 SPARC Solaris FreeBSD Madrake ubuntu GNome PCLinuxOS Knoppix fedora OpenBSD SUSE Mandriva

again, those words mean nothing.

You know you want it, you linux nerd you, it's making ur mouth water isn't it, ISN'T IT!?!?!

MUHUHAHAHAHA

Auto-Login Registry Hack WinXP Home Edition

If you have WinXP home edition, like i do (at home anyway), it's annoying cuz there's that wussy fruit-cake login screen. So when u turn on ur computer, it asks you to log in, then u get in and have to wait again.

it's better to just hit the power button, walk away, come back and it be ready to use.

so to counter this, open up this registry key:

HKLM\SOFTWAREMicrosoft\WindowsNTCurrentVersion\Winlogon

Create/Edit DefaultUserName and DefaultPassword to = ur login/pword.

Create/Edit AutoAdminLogin (String value), set the value to 1

and boom, simple as that.

I guess I could make an app that does that for you (like i did for the max download hack), but this is super easy, i'll let u figure it out.

(btw, the date on this post is wrong by 9 days, i wanted the George Gallaway post to be on top.)