Courage wrote:

Did you tell her to explain herself?

I couldnt she walked off plus i was in the middle of my lunch so i wasnt gonna get up and go after her.

Advisor: Did you have a good weekend?

Me: not too bad just been working. Dont have the energy to do anything else coz im fasting.

advisor: oh has Ramadan started?

Me: yeah ages ago. It finishes next week

Advisor: bet it must be hard so what time can you eat then?

me: You get use to it. Opens at about 7:15

Advisor: Are you allowed to drink?

Me: No

Advisor:shock: No!

Me: Nope

Advisor: Im glad im not religious i could never do what your doing. I like my food too much

/A few minutes later

Advisor: im having a brew does anyone want one? Naz?

me:

Advisor: :? what?

Me: dont matter. No thanks.

I just tell them it's not as hard as it looks. You don't have to starve yourself dry! thye say the same stuff when you talk about salah.

Dunno if this is the right place for this, but I'll just pop it here:

MuslimBro has a couple of friends who are studying in Damascus the same time as me, and he gave me their email addresses so we could get in touch once here. I haven't got round to emailing them yet, and have never met them before.

Yesterday, I was walking through a souk near my house and I heard a couple of brothers speaking English, and said 'salam' to them and asked if they were from London. They said they were, and we got chatting about exactly where we're from etc.

Out of the blue one of them asked "Hey, you're not MuslimBro's friend, are you?"

So, Subhan'Allah! The first people I met here who were from London, were the same people I was supposed to be meeting here! What is most amazing was that I wasn't planning to walk that particular way, it was because I missed my bus stop.

What's more, I bumped into a South African friend of mine, while waiting for someone in the wrong place that I was supposed to be.

Allah (swt) really is the best of planners...and I am very good at getting lost.

simmilar thing happened to me in makkah.

The most amazing things happen to you when you least expect it. I always find myself grinning like an idiot lol.

Its 5am at the mosque

Azeem: sing a naat.
Haseeb: Only if you sing one first.
*Azeem sings one for about 2 minutes*
Azeem: Okay, now its your turn.
Haseeb: Err...I have to go and drop my brother off at school.
---------------------------
Azeem: So Dawud, what happened to you last night?
Me: It was weird, I went to sleep with Mohsin and woke up with Zaigum
Azeem: How could you go to sleep with Mohsin? He was sleeping with me.

If you can't sing, then you can rap one of Native Deen's nasheeds.

Mate, do you want to say who Mohsin and Ziagum are?

Courage wrote:

Mate, do you want to say who Mohsin and Ziagum are?

They're characters from Street Fighter II: Turbo.

Duh...

/cries a solitary, nostalgic tear.

I was asking Dawud. I doubt they're Street Fighter characters.

Nope - an email I recieved.

I thought it better to disprove the thing here than in a reply to the email.

More immediate satisfaction.

jus had this conversation with a girl on facebook. hidden her name for obvious reasons....

Her status said "sex is the best feeling.."

me:ur wearin a scarf in ur pic, n den u advertsin dat u lyk sex? wtf. either stick 2 bein a slag o either stick 2 wearn a scarf

her:oh sori did it offend ya? every gurl out there wearing a scarf is a slag anyway. every gurl hu wears it, jus have it on cuz they been told to not that they want to

me:erm no, hu r u 2 judge evry gurl? most people wear it coz dey resepect themselvez n dey followin thier religion, most of the gurlz i knw hu wear it wear it coz dey want 2, its thier own decision. a fink u need 2 sort ur head out

her:nah thats bullshit man, im a gurl n i knw the script man. thats what they want you to believe. its all a blag man. truss

me:ooo so u knw my m8z more dan me nw? am nt dum.. a knw reality 4rm wat ppl want me 2 belive. if u lyk sex, fair enuf it aint got fuk all 2 do wid me, bt wa u fink ppl r gnna fink bout u after sein ur pic n u rytin messagez lyk dat so any tom dick n harry can c it

her:im not tryin to say that. it jus the way ppl have become. alot of gurls out there jus wear the scarf, not because they want to or have the intention to. ppl fink all sorts of me anyway, so whats the point

me:well do u blame em? lol

her:listen yea

me:am listenin... knt hear u tawkin....

nnn now shez deleted me lol

what a twat :X why do girls like that have to give us hijabi's a bad name

Leave her alone.

No need to get holier than though.

If sex and the feelings it conjured were things reviled by humanity, let me assure you the human race would have died off yonks ago.

Each to their own.

Its not about being "holier than though" but the fact she said all hijabi's are like that. :X

If she had not been questioned, made to go on the defensive, she would not have said anything.

:roll:

Seriously, read this bit again:

me:ur wearin a scarf in ur pic, n den u advertsin dat u lyk sex? wtf. either stick 2 bein a slag o either stick 2 wearn a scarf

her:oh sori did it offend ya? every gurl out there wearing a scarf is a slag anyway. every gurl hu wears it, jus have it on cuz they been told to not that they want to

From that:

1. She has been forced to wear it. She she does. But has the opinion that others are probably forced too. Other friends of hers may be?
2. A (probably) random stranger confronts her to choose either Islam or something else.

Here I will assume that she is not married and has never been - which is not clear (or even used to sin and then gave up), but a random person is pushing her away from Islam.

Humans sin. Get used to it. Yes, when she got defensive, she went too far and insulted all the other people who choose to wear their hijab and take it seriously, but at the same time she should not have been asked to choose.

She knows what Islam says. She also knows what she can and cannot accomplish. After that, leave it be. She has a right to choose whatever she wants to (without insulting others, which she did).

Ok.

me: ( on msn with my sister)
my sis: so how's habooba?
me: huh? who's habooba? i never heard of anyone with that name!
my sis: you know habooba and halooma, our cousins.
me: loooooooooool. habooba and halooma?
my sis: oh! i meant habiiba and haliima.

I think I may have been needlessly harsh in my opinions above. Apologies.

(I do still stand by the sentiment though)

errm why r u apologizing?! im should probably be the one to do that.

An email back and forth over an overdue bill.

ThE pOwEr Of SiLeNcE wrote:

errm why r u apologizing?! im should probably be the one to do that.

Was not just to you.

(My point was i dont think u have anything to apologize for)

Me at work, introducing myself to another colleague
girl: what's ur name
me: Iram
girl: Ir....say that again
me; IRAM. think of the country Iran but with an M at the end...??
girl: Iran?? whats that
me: its a country
girl: really?? is it? I didn't know that
me: *laughing* oh, ur jokin right
girl: no, seriously I've never heard of it, where is it??
me: in the middle east? Near Iraq and Afghanistan
girl: Afghanistan?????? what???
me: so yeah my name's Iram!

well i was just visiting memory lane with my friend and i thought id share this with you

when i was in yr 7, there was this girl who didnt like me, dunno/cant remember why :/ lol
but once we both were gonna catch the bus and she goes to me "even though i dont like you, im scared of going through the subway so im gna walk with you, ok!" {links my arm and starts walking}

!!