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  • Know Your Enemy

    arabarabarab:

    “When they took away my children in 1995, they also killed me – in the most brutal manner. This is not life …. I had my family and in just one day I’m left without them, without knowing why. And every morning I ask myself why, but there is no answer. My children were only guilty of having the names they had and their names were different from their killers. It was not only my children killed on July 11, 1995; thousands of other innocent children were murdered in the bloody genocide in Srebrenica …. I no longer have anything to lose; the criminals killed all I had, except for my pride.”
        –Hatidza Mehmedovic

    In July 1995, an estimated 8,000 Muslim men and boys – sons, husbands and brothers – were dragged away never to be seen again.
    The Srebrenica massacre marks a particularly inhumane and brutal act within the tragedy and bloodshed of the 1992 to 1995 Bosnian War.

    these clips are from Al-Jazeera documentary called Women who refused to die

    Consider what your pettiness about madhab and scholarly debates matters to these Muslims that could not, and will not enjoy the security of having an Ummah unite in their defense.

    I am close to convulsing at the thought of people still suggesting that there is merit in the ridiculous debates about the merits of the house of Saud, the Sunni/Shia contention, and the Salafi/Hanafi/Shafi rhetoric.

    I remember a story (forgive my lack of details and sources) regarding a Muslim ruler that threatened war against the disbelievers when one of them lifted the dress of a Muslim woman to humiliate her. Then I look at this incident and I wonder how that compares to the blatant massacre of 8000 Muslims for no reason other than the fact that they were Muslim! Not Shia, not Sunni, not Salafi, not Hanafi, or any of those other despicable labels we love to subscribe to.

    The disbelievers don’t give a damn which madhab or scholar or sect you follow. If you intend to be a practising and conscientious Muslim, you are automatically their enemy.

    O you who have believed, do not take as intimates those other than yourselves, for they will not spare you [any] ruin. They wish you would have hardship. Hatred has already appeared from their mouths, and what their breasts conceal is greater. We have certainly made clear to you the signs, if you will use reason.
    ~ Qur’an 3:118 (Sahih International)

  • Serenity

  • A rant…

    And so it happened…again. My naivety led me down the garden path thinking that at some point principles and integrity will shed a glimmer of hope that not all corporates operate on the same basis. But like I said, my naivety once again got the better of me.

    At moments like this I’m reminded of that proverb that says that there is no limit to what a man can do if he doesn’t care who gets the credit for it. I generally don’t care about the credit, but I do care about the paycheck, because a pat on the back or a flowery compliment doesn’t pay the bills.

    I’ve been on both sides of this fence, and neither side has greener grass. Both sides have an equal amount of manure, and both sides have underhanded swines that will rather play political games to protect their fragile egos and to cloak their incompetence before they’ll do the right thing for the right reasons.

    Being sincere and having integrity requires conviction. Look around you, whether in the corporate setting, or in a non-profit organisation, the ethical void is disgustingly obvious. Conviction only exists in self-preservation. Everything else takes a back seat for the 99% that are prone to declare themselves victims of someone else playing their marked card before they got a chance to play theirs first.

    The human race disgusts me. That guy from Matrix got it right. We’re a virus. A disgusting virus that respects nothing but greed and self-indulgence, even in our arrogant piety we’re competing to prove that we’re more pious and more sincere than others, woefully inadequate in sincerity, and forever professing humility out of arrogance.

    This rant was triggered by yet another blow to my rib cage that knocked the wind out of me. A blow that came from behind even though I knew it was coming for a long time now. But I’m a naive fool, that’s why I give the benefit of the doubt to others even if they bear all the hallmarks of the putrid souls I’ve had the misfortune of dealing with before. If I judge them prematurely, I’ll step firmly on that slippery slope that will lead me to the place of putrefaction that most of them dwell in. So for now, I’ll continue to allow others to screw me over before I take any action to protect myself or my interests. My idealism will be the end of me.

  • Sadness is…

    Sadness is that moment when you gently lift your cup to your lip to savour that last sip of honey-sweetend Earl Grey tea only to discover that your cup is empty. :’(

  • Question – Handwriting Analysis

    storyseldomtold replied to your post: Hey! Do you think you can interpret my hand writing for me? That was mad cool! Do you have qualifications for it or are deep in that area of study?

    But my writing changes all the time… i.e if I don’t handwrite for a while. How does that say anything about my personality or traits?

    The trick is not to look at how neat or untidy the handwriting is. The characteristics of how the letters are formed and various other details is what reveals the state of mind, rather than the neatness of the formation of the letters, etc. 

    Also, chances are that if your handwriting is changing all the time, you’re probably going through a period of considerable growth in your life. Growth at a personal level, where your views and perspectives are morphing all the time in your efforts to discover what’s really important to you, or what you feel passionate about. 

    I sometimes write in block letters and at other times in cursive, but the characteristics of the flow always still reflect my state of mind at that point. 🙂

  • Handwriting Analysis

    I used to have some fun when interviewing candidates for various posts in IT at a previous company that I worked for. The standard process would be for them to complete and sign some forms before the interview commenced, so I would normally ask to see the forms before even meeting the candidate. 

    By looking at their signature, I would tell the other members of the interview panel what I thought the individual would be like, and often I would even guess the duration of the interview. I was right every single time. It was hilarious. Eventually, I had managers walking up to my desk before they went into an interview that I wasn’t involved in to find out if I thought it would be worth their while to interview the candidate before they even met him. 

    Poor candidates. Finding a job is tough these days. 🙂

  • Question – Handwriting Analysis

    old-man-amjad:

    I wonder what my handwriting says about me.

    Something along the lines of introverted sociopath.

    Here’s my amateur take on what your writing says about you. Don’t take offence if I get it horribly wrong…I’m a bit rusty at this…

    1. You don’t care much for rules but you’ll apply them where you see practical value in them
    2. You don’t care much for making mistakes and having it out there for others to see, because their opinions rarely matter any way. Besides, you’re not striving for perfection any time soon either
    3. You’re not particularly introverted, although you may be seen to be that way at times, but you’re generally level headed and practical and find a reasonable balance between being extroverted and introverted
    4. You don’t care much for details if it doesn’t add to the final outcome in a substantial way. So you’re more likely to cut corners than you are to abide by the rules for the sake of abiding by the rules
    5. More than all this, you’re at odds with yourself in many ways. You second-guess a lot of what you do, including decisions you make. That doesn’t necessarily imply that you’re doubting yourself, but you do reflect a lot on what you think or say or do. There’s a lot more going on in your head than your rants on Tumblr suggest.
    6. You have a creative streak that you’re suppressing. 

    That’s it from me. How wrong am I? (Respond quickly because this will probably be deleted soon) 🙂

  • Lazy Thoughts

    Lazy thoughts are weird. Not only do they suck every last ounce of energy that I have in me, but they’re even more difficult to express. It’s that whole intellectual constipation thing again. That urge to want to say something deep and insightfully meaningful but coming up with a few straggling lazy thoughts instead.

    So I end up reminiscing about days gone by because nostalgia is always best indulged in when I lack energy to deal with today. Not enough energy to care about tomorrow either, so I’ll leave it nagging at the door in the back of my mind waiting to be let in. Tomorrow is an energy sucker just like yesterday. They both demand a level of attention and indulgence that yield no immediate benefit.

    Ugh…blankness becomes me right now. So many blogs, so little inspiration.