Sunday Surkhi

 I am in a hurry
 Going for Aqiqa for a very good friend's
 But I was intrigued (This morning news) as always by the show they are putting on in NYC
Now they can get "married"
 I fail to understand why so much fuss is made on this subject and is continued. I do notice the "mood" and a 'smile" on the faces of the reporters, almost laughing (at?) May be "gay" means different to different people at different times and I have not grasped the full extent of modernization
 But I have been an ardent student of biology since  1948. Have been familiar with animal and human behavior especially regarding preservation of species. Nobody can therefore convince me this to be "normal behavior"

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Late Jum'ah Journal

 There is so much to do some Fridays.
 We had aWalima ceremoney to attaend which was fun.
 The important thing however was that it was held in a hall called Hill Alumni Center at UNC
 When reached for parking so many memories suddenly swelled up in our minds. I realized that this is a very familiar place just infront of a familiar residence hall where Ayesha and Jugnoo had lived when they were students and we used to bring them here and leave them off during those days
Then and now, now children coming here getting educated. Bothe the groom and bride belong to this UNC ChapelHill. In fact their cake was shaped as the symbolic UNC arch or whatever you call it


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Sunday Surkhi- Father's Day

This is an image of a poor photograph taken 2006 when I was visiting this site in Saugor (India)

Fathers day; reminding me of my father with whom I used to go this mosque some seventy years ago for our Jum'ah prayers.
This is now a beautiful masjid mashallah. Now I see my grandson (piyara pota) goes with his father to the masjid for Jum'ah. (That is here in NOVA) He will carry the same kind of feelings when he grows up as I do at this time. May Allah bless my father and forgive his sins and make his grave cool and wide and award him Jannah-Ameen

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Jum'ah Journal--Muslim wife of NonMuslim husband

 I guess it it should be no surprise for the Americanized and Westernized women to claim marriage with people of the book, after all why not. Muslim men can marry Christian and Jewish women why cant the Muslim women marry Christian or Jewish men?
  Yes you guessed it, I am referring to the Muslim wife Huma Abedin who carrying the first child of Mr. Anthony Weiner (they were married last July)
 No this has nothing to do with his extramarital sexual activities which is now the business of Huma and her future child. I am quoting for us all to see the guidance of Muslims which should come from that "kalam-Allah"
   "Do not marry unbelieving (Idolator) women until they believe.................Nor marry (your girls) to unbelievers until they believe........"   (Sura Baqara, Aya 221)
  Here there is clear wording that the Mulim men as well as women cannot marry Mushriks-nonblievers or idolators.
Next,  from Sura AlMaeda  Aya #6
"This day are all things good and pure (tayyibaat) made lawful unto you. The food of the people of the book is lawful unto you and yours is lawful unto them (lawful unto you in marriage) are (not only) chaste women who are believers but chaste women among the people of the book, revealed before time, when ye give them their due dowers and desire chastity, not lewdness, nor secret intrigues.........."
   I have highlited the important aspects from the wording in the holy book
 Here there is allowance being given to the Muslim men to marry women from the people of the book (Considered only the Christians and Jews) even if they do not be come Muslim
 It appears that Qur'an has made no mention that Muslim women can also marry Christian or Jewish men and therefore the understanding is that Muslim women can not be allowed to marry Christian or Jewish men unless after they accept Islam.
 Question is that Mrs. Anthony Weiner, that is Huma Abedin, is mentioned as a "Muslim wife", how did that happen?
 Is she a Muslim still or has adopted Christianity? If she has done so I have no further comments she must have done the right thing according to her own understanding and I have no business telling her, you cant do that. She is free from Islamic law.
 But if she still claims to be Muslim, I must question that. This is not an option you can play with as a Muslim. If you do not pray Namaz or do not recite Qur'an or do not pay Zakat or do not fast in the month of Ramadan, it is understandable, may be you have a reason but getting into marriage with a Christian/Jewish man is a "prohibited" thing ( not just alcohol or pigmeat but a lifelong relationship). Can a Muslim woman take such liberties , saying that Qur'an has not placed an outright prohibition for a Muslim woman to marry a Christian/Jewish man? May be it can be considered. I dont know
I feel sure the marriage must have taken place in the Church but did any "Muslim Chaplin" officiated the wedding ceremony also? I wonder



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Sunday Surkhi

 Wait let me get the photograph and then I will write
 The "All-Star" fellow is cutting the cake for his birthday which is actually today 13th June
 Mashallah
 He along with his cousin and younger sis had good time with parents and friends and of course grandparents


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Amrita pritam's most well-known nazm

 Read it (the panjabi) on my Urdu blog but here is English translation which of course cannot have the same effect as the original Panjabi
 " I say to Waris Shah today, speak up from your grave and add  a new page to your book of love
   Once a daughter of Panjab wept and you wrote a long saga; today thousands weep calling you Waris Shah
   Arise O! friend of the afflicted, arise and see the state of Panjab; Corpses strewn on the fields and the Chenab flowing with blood.
   Somebody filled the five rivers with poison and this same water now irrigates our soil
 Where is lost the flute which sounded the songs of love; And the brothers of Ranjha have forgotten to play it 
   Poison Issues from each particle of this rich soil; with half foot (baalisht) of red and foot of poison from each
   Blood has rained on the soil, graves are oozing with blood; The princesses of love cry out their hearts in the graveyard
Today all have become "Kaidoos" ( a classic Villain) thieves of beauty and love; Where today can we find another (like) Waris Shah."
 Some words are so special like "friend of the afflicted" actual word 'Dardia" is much more than friend, it may be more like the Urdu "hamdard" which also cannot be any more than "sympathizer" Dardia includes the person who actually feels the pain of the 'afflicted and does something for its relief.  Then bringing in all those references of Waris Shah himself like chenab and Ranjha etc. So totally Panjabi culture

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A new meaning of MGM

 Shocking news in California (That state is far advanced in peculiar practices-like first Gay church)
 People (Christians only) are collecting signatures to ban circumcision of babies saying it is
Male Genital Mutilation (MGM)
 Wow. They are stating without any medical knowledge that it is "serious damage" to the baby. We grew up in medical schools where the teaching is exactly ooposite,
NOT circumcising is harmful
 Frankly I was not aware of what Balanposthitis means or look like (really ugly) until I left Pakistan. Also I was so surprised to see an almost blue and swollen phallus of a man admitted for something else and he had no complaint about that. What it turned out (as I had never seen it before) was just tight end of foreskin that had been left retracted resulting in that appearance. Shocking appearance to me. Anyway yes I have performed "medical circumcisions" when it is advised due to frequent infections of prepuce and phallus. I learnt this way to always make sure the uncircumcised male organs were not left retracted after my examination of the patient.
 I am surprised that Jews are not making this campaign as "antisemitic"
It is interesting to see that people here consider this Jewish "Tradition" and not consider it as much Muslim
 I am still amazed at what is so "bad" about circumcision that makes it so "horrible" as to start a campaign against it.

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Dr. Death meets death

 When writing my Jum'ah Journal I had not gotten the news of Dr. Kevorkian's death but as it happened he died on Friday 3rd of June.
 He made his name for  assisting suicides and actually  helping patients push over to the 'other side'. Controvertial as it has been and I did not agree with his method of providing comfort to patients but he in this way "killed" over 130 patients in his life, I am told.The one good effect of his campaign for suicide or assisted suicide has been that
We have become greatly focussed on the end of life issues of comfort and pain free lives of our patients.


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