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The 59th Street Columbus Circle stop is my point of call to get pretty much anywhere from work – the majority of time that’s back home of course. It’s a large subway station with plenty of train lines including the A, C, B, D, and 1. I imagine it’s pretty much a hub for a lot of people actually as the area is surrounded by businesses and companies of various sizes, as well as being in an obvious area for tourists to visit. I love the grittiness of the subway stations in New York, they can be great places for urban photography. Of course the downside is that many of them do need urgent repair so if you are a commuter make sure to visit the Straphangers campaign and help make the commute better!

“back in this bitch like i’m puttin on a jacket”
-Big Sean

peace, and fresh love.

…who forget Allah.

I just attended a program for a brother that recently died (inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raaji’oon, from Him we come and to Him we return) in Makkah, right after he’d completed his Hajj. I went on a last minute’s notice (with my father).

The program included a Qur’anic recitation, and the verses recited were a reminder to me. You see, I’d seen many  of my friends that I hadn’t seen in a while (mostly youth). Just thinking about the lifestyle of this generation (I believe about 5 cell phones went off during the program, unfortunately all from uncles). Another thing that attributed to my thoughts was a video I watched minutes before I left my house:

I saw it from Kashif Pasta’s blog. (just have to mention that this is an amazing kinetic typography piece).

The poet is Taylor Mali, and he brings to light the speech of my generation. Honestly, what caught me was the ‘conviction’ part, do we really mean and believe the words we say? When we stand up for Salah five times, are we mumbling through the words of our Lord? Or are we proudly speaking the truth that we believe?

Now, this reminds me of a few days back. I did a small personal experiment that I invite you to do as well.

I stood up for Salah (not a real Salah), and I raised my hands and loudly said “Allah is the greatest!”, Then I began Surah Fatiha:

“All praises are due to Allah, lord of all the worlds. The Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Master of the Day of Judgement. You alone do we worship and from you alone we seek aid. Guide us onto the straight path. The path of those whom have earned your favor, and not the path of those whom have earned your anger, nor of those who have gone astray.”

Then, thinking of the first Surah, surah Duha came to mind. “By the forenoon! … um…by the foren-…”

It was an eyeopening experience. If I am to stand in front of my Lord five times daily, will I continue to speak to Him with words that I do not understand?

InshaAllah, I’m trying to study, now, the meaning behind the words, especially in Salah.

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All of these thought tangents lead me back to my original contemplation on the following ayah:

“And do not become like those who forget Allah, and He causes them to forget themselves! It is they who are truly deprived.” -Surah Hashr, Verse 19 [59:19]

This is an ayah we easily see the effects of these days. Ask any person that doesn’t believe in God, or isn’t that ‘religious’. Are they happy? Do they feel at peace? A line from the poem (in the video above) also poses a great statement to contemplate on: “I’m just, like, inviting you to join me, on the bandwagon of my own uncertainty.” Is uncertainty where you should be in life?

The truth is, we are all creations of Allah, and our purpose in life is to worship Him. That’s who you are! If you forget that, then you’re forgetting your own self.

Simple and plain.

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God, I’m cheesy.

Anyway.

So they’re doing this dig. Out in Shakespeare country. At the last place Shakespeare lived before his death in 1616. Even though the house was demolished in the 1700s, it is theorized that there could be remains of it underground (which is currently a very pretty landscaped garden, so…sorry, whoever spent lots of time designing that).

I’m not entirely sure what they’re hoping to really find down there, but whatever it is, I’ll be curious to learn about it!

Aquí us penjo la meva intervenció en tres parts al programa de TVE 59 segons de dimarts passat. Vam abordar qüestions com ara, la sentència pendent del Tribunal Constitucional sobre l’Estatut, la lluita contra la corrupció política i social i la política de pactes d’Unió. El programa va ser moderat per Cristina Puig, i van intervenir els periodistes Milagros Pérez-Oliva (El País), Alex Salmon (El Mundo), Manuel Cuyàs (El Punt), Antoni Bolaño, Antoni Puigvert i Sònia Domènech (La Razón).

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From 1959 Yearbook

I have many fond memories of standing around the piano while Judy Langkammerer’s father played honky tonk for Judy and me.

— Gretchen Gravell Broadwater

A Brazilian man thought killed in a car accident, turned up alive and well at his own funeral. Family members of Ademir Jorge Goncalves were shocked when he arrived at the ceremony. In Brazil it is usual for the deceased to be buried within 36 hours of death. Despite some doubts, family members had identified a body of a man, killed in a road traffic accident, as Goncalves, 59. They body they had identified as his was badly mangled, but wearing similar clothes. However, Goncalves was not dead and had spent the night talking to friends at a truck stop nearby. When he heard over the radio what had happened he rushed to the service to alert his family that he was alive and well.