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It rhymes!

2 Jun 2007 – 2:02 am

Transliteration of Al-Fatihah:
Bismillah hir-Rahma nir-Raheem
Alhamdul lil-lahi rab-bil ‘alameen
Ar rahma nir-raheem
Maliki yawmid-deen
Iyyaka na’budu wa iyyaka nasta’een
Ihdinas siratal mustaqeem
Siratal Lazeena an’amta ‘alayhim
Ghai-ril maghdubi ‘alayhim
Walad dal-leen
Ameen
I know, I’m slow. Just got it from this book I’m hooked on: Understanding the Qur’an: Themes and Styles by Muhammad Abdel Haleem.

Go get it.

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A Clockwork Orange!

13 Feb 2007 – 12:28 am

I just borrowed A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (1962):

‘All right, Dim’, I said. ‘Now for the other veshch, Bog help us all.’ So he did the strong-man on the devotchka, who was still creech creech creeching away in very horrorshow four-in-a-bar, locking her rookers from the back, while I ripped away at this and [...]

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Lesson for today #6

25 Jan 2007 – 9:23 pm

The lesson for today is that your ultimate goal in life is to become your best self.
It’s from a book I’m reading:

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