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I am about *this close* to leaving Islam and Abrahamic religions as a whole.
Might try Wicca.
Then I’ll have to change my blog name to MugglebornWitch. Or something.
Allah wouldn’t keep allowing bad shit to happen.
But bad shit happens.
Which makes me wonder…
If there is a single higher power at all.
I think I’m going to start trying to do the marriage thing again.
I should have just married Adam when I had the chance. But I’m not even going to go back to that. And I miss AB, but I prefer someone older : /
I would like someone older who already has their life established and a job and looking for someone to complete their life and have kids.
I don’t want kids or a husband.
I want to spend my life as an adult gymnast firewoman with a kickass wife and two furbabies.
But I can’t sit around waiting for that to happen.
I might as well just get married to some nice Muslim dude and have kids and become a good Muslim wife or whatever.
So yay me. I’m on the prowl again. ugh.
The Boyprincess Diaries: can all us queer and/or trans* muslims on tumblr get together weekly...
can all us queer and/or trans* muslims on tumblr get together weekly or even monthly to chat? we could even hold our own makeshift worship service. i end up shying away from masjid a lot because i feel judged for being queer and i really need to feel some queer muslim community in a more immediate…
This, this, a thousand times this.
If you’re a Muslim ally or a queer ally or just think this is a fantastic idea, reblog! Let’s get some signal boosting going on!
would love this. also signal boosting
heyyyy sounds rad
(Source: theboyprincessdiaries)
You know what isn’t fair about life?
Every thing, it would seem.
I just saw an anon go on someone’s page who is suicidal just to tell them they do not like them. Was it really necessary? Do you feel nice about yourself? I don’t get it.
It’s unfair because so many people are hurting in side, and it takes so much energy just to wake up and and be an active participant in your own life, just for people to shoot you down for no apparent reason.
And how do we make it ok so that we can wake up the next morning? We tend to tell ourselves that there’s Karma, that that person will get what they deserve sooner or later. Or we tell ourselves that there is a god and that in the after-life, god will punish them for being so awful.
But you want to now something funny? Karma seems like bullshit to me. Because I know a lot of rude, mean and nasty people that are having the time of their fucking lives! Ha! And you want to know what’s even funnier!? There are people that are sweet, giving, caring amongst other things that do nothing but suffer their entire lives. They are unhappy, depressed, suicidal, self-harming, etc. and you mean to tell me that KARMA is somehow real?
Sorry. I call bullshit.
And this whole religion thing. What even is that? I am a Muslim, barely clinging on to my faith. But it gets to me that if I am cutting and depressed and negative from a life I didn’t choose to have, I can be sent to hell. The same hell that someone who is rude and nasty can be sent to. What the hell is that?
I hate to sound so angry, but I really am.
I did not choose to be born into this family.
I did not choose for my mum to marry her husband.
I did not choose to him to do the things he did.
I did not choose to be gay.
I did not choose to be so screwed up emotionally and mentally.
But because I can’t magically bounce back and become some sort of positivity machine, I can go to hell?
That’s a load of crap.
I am not trying to play the magical victim card, but if you’re going to deal someone a shitty lot in life, they should have a ‘get out of hell free’ card too.
I feel like this whole world we’ve created for ourselves as humans is just so completely false.
Karma? It really doesn’t seem to exist. What about all those countries that are harming other countries or their own people? Why aren’t leaders growing a foot out the side of their head or something?
And religion? HA. I’m starting to really have some issues with faith and god. I just can’t. I’ve been going through this for almost a decade, with no relief. And I’m not the nicest person in the world. I am sarcastic, negative and I distance myself away from people. But I do help others (why just the other day, a man passed out in the store, and I got on my first responder duties right away) and I am a good person. Yet I have all these problems and I learn that I STILL won’t get relief from them if I die. Thanks, but no thanks.
Atheists, you make good points.
Who knows, maybe I’ll be an atheist or maybe practice Wicca in the coming year.
Who really knows.
This episode of HawthoRNe is SO wrong. Seriously. Thanks for making Muslims look like idiots.
The Husband is violent, yelling, doesn’t speak English and refuses to allow his wife medical treatment without praying.
Their idea of “praying” is making salaat. Excuse me, but since when do people pray salaat in place of du’aa? Umm, we don’t just pray salaat all day, guys. We pray 5 times a day. The other times are just basic prayers…And we wouldn’t let our family die instead of getting treatment either…especially if their spleen is rupturing.
And yelling at the doctor and nurses every time they touch his wife? Some Muslim women have male OB/GYN’s…
And really, praying in the middle of the ER? There’s no private rooms for the public to use for religious purposes…in a hospital? Orlly.
Good job HawthoRNe. Good job.
Today my mum and I were talking, and the topic of me and Arabic came up. And I was all “Mum, I can totally read Arabic. I’m like a pro. I should be paid for it.” lol. And she’s like “So, if I give you something, you can translate?” And I realized that most people that have not tried to learn a language where they have to conjugate the word from symbols into letters that we recognize don’t understand that just because we can read Arabic doesn’t mean we can actually read the language. So I kinda had to explain that while I learned to read Arabic and write it, I can’t actually translate much of it.
I’ve been studying Madinah Arabic courses and going to 80Percent to learn, so I guess it’s getting better?
I remember now why the topic came up. I saw my Islamic school teacher driving in another lane and my mum mentioned (as a joke) that I must know her because she was wearing a Hijab (implying all Muslims know each other) and I saw the person and was like “Oh, that’s Sister ____! She was one of the Islamic school teachers for my age group!”
I wish The Fiks still had free Arabic videos.
Been Muslim for 5 years and haven’t been to a single Eid prayer. What is this the 9th Eid since I’ve been Muslim?
It’s to the point that I don’t even want to go to any Eid prayer or celebration this year.
Over it.
We made these in Islamic summer school a few years ago. Mine is the one at the top.
Juz30 Quran Memorization Software for computers:
- Memorize the Quran one Ayah at a time.
- Put the Ayah on a loop so that it plays over and over again, or a certain amount of times.
- There is a setting so that you can make the ayah play on a loop, but pause after the ayah for a certain amount of time, so you can repeat the ayah aloud before it loops again. Almost like listening to someone say the ayah and you having to repeat it back to them. Very effective.
- There are three settings for how you see the surah. There is arabic script, translation and transliteration. I usually keep it set with all three, like the picture shows.
- FREE.
- The Quran packages for this programme are broken up in 30 Juz just like the real quran. Which means that if you would prefer, you can download the packs starting at juz 30, memorize it, then download juz 29. It’s brilliant for pacing yourself.
- I just love the programme a lot and I share it with every one I can. I have it on all my laptops.
I wish they would make it on Android, so I can use it while I’m in the car and away from home.
DOWLOAD INSTRUCTIONS:
1). Go Here
2). Scroll down just a bit and click on ‘Juz30 2.2 (main program)’
3). Save the file (Firefox) and Run (IE…shame on you : p). Each browser differs, but for this, you should probably know what to do.
4). Find the set up file and install it (if it doesn’t pop up immediately, the file is called ‘juz30_v22’. Locate it, double click it and install it that way.
5). Juz30 will launch if you have the box checked for it to do so. If it doesn’t launch, you can double click it to launch it yourself.
6). A box will pop up so you can create your own personal programme. Especially helpful if you share the computer with other siblings or friends that will also use Juz30 to learn.
7). Choose a super awesome name.
8). A message will come up that says that you need to install surah packs, ignore it, we’re going there right now.
9). Go back to the Juz30 ImaanStar tab and ind the reciter that you like best. I love Mishary Rashed Alafasy’s recitations, so I chose him.
10). Click on one of the Juz (30 would be good for beginners) and save the file.
11). Locate the file. It should look something like this ‘j30_pack_078_114_alafasy’ (alafasy would change according to whomever you downloaded)
What I find easy is to create a folder on the desktop and label it “Juz30 surah packs” and save all the packs to that folder, so when it’s time to install them, you can just go down the list.
12). Double click and run it.Install it.
13). Close Juz30 and then reopen it. Choose your profile name and click “load selected profile.
- Instead of some seeing a blank space in the drop down menu between “choose a sura” and “I know this sura”, you should see a book and “78. An-Naba” Of course the number and surah are subject to change, depending on which pack you chose.
14). Go to ‘File’ and click on ‘Preferences’. A sound card tester will open. Play the sample sound, just to be sure every thing is in working order. Once that is done, you are ready to get going!
HELP WITH USING JUZ30:
Juz30 can be very…unfun to use, if you do not know how to work it. So here’s a bit of help.
Go to ‘View’ to set it to show translation or transliteration. Transliteration is especially helpful if you would like to know how to pronounce things and are still struggling with reading arabic. It’s also helpful if you just want to practice reading the arabic and you check the transliteration to make sure you are correct in your readings.
There are language packs on the ImaanStar site, if you scroll all the way down to the bottom. You would load those languages the same way you would load the surah packs. And that is what the ‘Language’ button is for on the task bar.
The drop down menu will have all the surahs that you installed. Once you have memorized a surah in its entirety, you can click the “I know this sura” button and drag it to your “heart” on the left side. It should say “YourName’s Heart”. Soon you’ll have a nice list of surahs in your heart.
Now, the fun stuff.
To simply play the ayah, press “play aya” button. A blue ‘play’ symbol.
To play the ayah over and over again (just that one ayah) go to ‘Aya settings’ (located under the ‘play aya’ button) and under ‘Repeat’, press how many times you’d like to repeat the aya. You can set the “Pause” to however many seconds you think it would take for you to repeat the aya back to the computer.
Then, go to ‘Aya range settings’ and check the box. Then pick what ayah you’d like it to repeat. you can pick just one aya (1 to 1) or maybe just ayahs 3 through 5 (3 to 5) It’s all up to you. Starting out, it’d probably be best to do one ayah at a time. (1 to 1, 2 to 2, etc.).
Then, click ‘Play aya’ and behold this programme’s amazing-ness.
There is also something else that I really like:
You can ‘Stack’ the ayas! That means, if it was playing say surah Falaq, it would play them like this:
1). Ayah 1
2). Ayah 1, Ayah 2
3). Ayah 1, Ayah 2, Ayah 3
4). And so on
I love this setting. And you can ‘Loop Sura’ if you want to hear the stacked ayahs over and over again.
Just play around with all the settings, it makes it easy for almost any one to learn the quran, even if they do not have a teacher.
Also, this programme is good for people wanting to practice their arabic (as far as reading it goes). The Arabic is pretty large in script. You can see every vowel and pronunciation mark very, very clearly. I usually pause the ayah before it even starts playing, then I read the ayah just in the arabic script. Once I get through the entire sentence, I go down to the box below and read the transliteration to see if I got all the words right. Once I check that, I go to the next ayah. I, personally, cannot memorize the quran this way. I cannot memorize it just using the arabic script, but, It does help me with reading the actual physical quran a lot faster and easier from practicing reading on here.
Alrighty, that’s about it. I hope this gets reblogged a few times, so others will see. It surprises me just how many people do not know of this programme 0_0
So pleaseeeee pass it around.
Have fun and happy memorizing!
Ramadan Mubarak!
