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بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ
There is this guy I know.  I’ll refer to him as”M”.
M had a rough childhood, dysfunctional family, parents who should not have been parents, bounced around in the foster care system, trouble with authority, etc..  Your “typical” case of someone in that type of situation.
Fast forward to university days.  M, being a [...]

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بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ
One aspect of the Internet is that it allows like minded people to connect on a global scale.  One community that has grown in collaboration considerably is the Atheist community. An on going debate between groups/individuals is does God exist, or, is someone a believer in evolutionism or creationism.  Often, the [...]

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بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ
I recently attended a lecture about marriage at a convention.  The convention covered a wide variety of issues, but all the sessions by this particular speaker were about marriage.  The speaker was trying to provide a reference to what marriage means.  He went on with all the things people say…
Some of the [...]

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We were having breakfast with some friends a few weekends ago.  We were making the usual small talk, catching up, when we came up on a story that began in the summer.  To give the full perspective, we’ll start there.
My friend and his wife went to the Caribbean during the summer to [...]

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Today’s world is one that necessitates the full exploitation of the senses. Food, entertainment, religion, transportation, etc. – everything now involves the maximum use of everything possible.
Some (negative) examples below:

Virtue has almost no value
Everyone has the right to do everything, but no one needs the “license”
Being moderate is considered bad
We encourage [...]

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بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ
Sitting around gaging how things have been going the last three years, I began to contemplate if I was content with the present, my present. I then recalled something that my wife shared (something someone said to her):
People who look for drastic changes in their lives are not happy with [...]

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بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ
The inability for children (younger than seven) to process things is often accepted as normal, that they don’t have the cognative ability to understand certain situations. While this statement often has merit, every now and then something comes through that completely contradicts this and really brings things into perspective.
(For whatever reason, [...]

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بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ
I helped with interviews on campus this past Friday. Since it was my first time helping I doubled up with someone and took most of the notes while the other person asked all the questions. I took advantage of the opportunity to look for the the distinctive behaviors that separate [...]

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Baqi Graveyard in Medina, KSA
A friend and colleague was recently struck by a death in the family (his father). He never really spoke about it until a month or so after it had happened. The now deceased had a heart attack and they were not able to resuscitate him. [...]

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The only reason I have a blog is to act as a repository for my own thoughts. I would write them down, but then I have to retrieve them and translate my chicken scratch to English (which isn’t always easy). That and then I would have to take care of [...]

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