09.19.09
My Epiphanies (XIV)
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
Assalamu Alaikum,
(These Roman Numerals are starting to get more complicated.)
The last two days have been nuts and today will probably be nuts as it is potentially the last day of Ramadan. But I am not sad. I am not planning to leave Allah swt’s presence after Ramadan. In fact, Ramadan is here just to give us a gentle nudge or ‘recharge’ or another way to remember to constantly turn back to Allah.
With that said, don’t be disheartened that Ramadan is ending. Allah’s love will be with you. He is the Most Loving.
Anyway, the topic(s) of today’s epiphany(s) deal with yesterday (Friday). Thursday deserves its own post, but because yesterday is still fresh in my mind, I better write it now:
I went to a different Masjid to attend the ending of the recitation of the Quran and the ‘khatm’ duaa afterwards. I don’t like to use the term ‘khatm’ as it suggests that the Imam ‘ended’ the Quran. He actually finished it in the 19th rakah, and in the 20th, he started again with surah Baqarah. The reason for this is so people don’t think you simply ‘end’ at the closing of Ramadan. Islam is this constantly cycle of renewing ourselves and going back to Allah. It kind of reminds me of the Expanding and Contracting cycle–>we keep going in and out, but we must always keep coming back.
So after the 20th rakah, we all sat and the duaa began. The first half of the duaa was in Arabic and I understood a good portion of it because some of the duaas the Imam were making were duaas I have learned. Some of them were beautifully spoken (in terms of language) and some I simply didn’t know. I obviously broke a few tears and prayed for everyone’s forgiveness, spiritual state, relationship with Allah swt, etc. etc. until the Imam started to speak in English. Read the rest of this entry »
09.13.09
A Question: What is Grace?
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
Assalamu Alaikum,
I was reading about questions that make you think (which half the questions are loaded or can be answered with Islam–I should get my money back) and I came across one question that captivated my interest:
What is Grace? Read the rest of this entry »
03.12.09
My Epiphanies (XII)
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
Assalamu Alaikum,
***Sorry for the poor use of language, thank you.***
I have been away from school for awhile and I started thinking:
What in the world is happening with our humanity? What is happening to our souls? When are we finally going to wake up? Read the rest of this entry »
01.06.09
Chemistry in the REAL world (V)
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
Assalamu Alaikum,
Here are some new ones I kind of got inspired to write:
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Equilibrium: A+B<=>C+D
In an equilibrium reaction, the forward rate of reaction and the reverse rate of reaction are equal. That doesn’t mean nothing is happening, it is just both reactions are happening at the exact same rate and continually reacting, but there is not apparent change because the changes keep canceling each other out. In equilibrium, reactions will keep happening until it reaches this equilibrium point. Similar to the real world, when people spend too much money or live extravagant lives, there are those who are poor or generous to ‘equate’ or ‘reverse’ the ‘reaction.’ It will keep going back and forth until there will soon be a balance (where no one is too poor or too rich.) Or war–there will be those for it and against it, people who believe in religious conservatism and being extremely liberal. The reactions will keep going until there is an equilibrium or balance between the two ends. (Or we are screwed for eternity.)
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Equilibrium– aA+bB<=>cC+dD –> Q= ([C]^c[D]^d)/([A]^a[B]^b) Read the rest of this entry »
01.03.09
Chemistry in the REAL world (IV)
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
Assalamu Alaikum,
(I seriously need to stop using the roman numerals. 4 and 6, 9 and 11 always confuse me….)
Anyway, let us start this post–
Thermodynamics–Entropy:
Anyone who took sophomore chemistry would remember one of the biggest rules of Chemistry–the law of entropy: disorder creates more disorder. This is very applicable to our world today. The U.S. economy is one, war and destruction, environmental natural disasters and instability, capitalism (requires more buy and spending to work–it cannot by its very nature by stable), and even friendships. If some friendships go wrong, it may keep getting worse and worse without outside intervention (random variables) but if things keep going the way they are without human beings changing, it will lead to more and more disorder. So people, for the sake of the WORLD, be better people!
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Chemical Bonding–Electrostatic Bonding: Read the rest of this entry »
01.02.09
A Question–Religious Impulse?
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
Assalamu Alaikum,
I had a discussion with a non Muslim friend of mine on a rather interesting quetion:
Is there an intrinsic human impulse to believe in a religion or God?
She argued that in times of desperation, it is a natural human quality to turn to something for comfort (family, God, money, etc.). There is also the universal need of security and intimacy (which can be found in religion, people, oneself, an object, etc.) and that above all, human beings have the impulse of the nature to want everything to be explained why existence came to be, which religion and the existence of God can explain. (Sounds a bit God-of-the-gapsish, no?) Read the rest of this entry »
01.01.09
Chemistry in the REAL world (III)
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
Assalamu Alaikum,
C1V1=C2V2
(C=concentration, V=volume)
This formula represents the inverse relationship of concentration and volume. When volume goes up, concentration goes down and vice versa. As dorky as it sounds, the first example I thought of when I heard about this formula is about fair trade vs. crazy abuse of many workers with jobs that pay little to work insanely hard. If you force people to work long hours, their quality or concentration of work goes down. But with fair trade, it is supposed to stabilize work hours and pay, so by giving less time (not too little though) more work and concentration can be done.
09.11.09
My Epiphanies (XIII)
Posted in Character, Chemistry, Epiphanies, Faith786's Favorites, Islam, Knowledge, Social Commentary, Sufism, Tazkiyah at 6:56 pm by faith786
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
Assalamu Alaikum,
Note: Written 9/10/2009
Being my 13th epiphany, I guess I better make this one count! (FYI, 13 is one of my favorite numbers)
Note: Please excuse poor grammar, poor conveying of what I am trying to say, poor organization, etc.
WARNING: Long, powerful and… beautiful.
What happened in my lab today may have changed my life–or at least my outlook on life. No–both. Read the rest of this entry »
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