Muslim Apple

I like to play Scrabulous. Do you?

Playing UNO with a bunch of sisters is fun and sometimes malicious. The malicious use of the draw four, draw two, skip, and reverse cards are not always in the spirit of loving for your fellow Muslim what you love for yourself.

Just to raise the stake a bit the winner gets to select an ayah from any place in the Quran and selects one of the losers (I mean runner-up, second place is first loser and all that) to tell us from which surah the ayah is found in and complete it.

Who wants to play? I’ll bring the cards.

Have they not looked at the birds above them, with wings outspread and folded back? Nothing holds them up but the All-Merciful. He sees all things. [Mulk 67/19]

Narrated ‘Umar bin Al-Khattab: I heard Allah’s Messenger peace and blessings of Allah be upon him saying. “If all of you relied on Allah with due reliance, He would certainly give you provision as He gives it to birds who issue forth hungry in the morning and return with their belly full at dusk.” [At-Tirmidhi]

If you like March of the Penguins, you’ll like Winged Migration. There is a soundtrack, not overbearing but you may want to watch it on mute. The film chronicles the huge distances different species of birds fly in their annual migration and some of their unique behavior.

How amazing is the Creator of the created beings. You can find many clips on YouTube from the film but it’s best to watch the documentary as a whole. I’ve included short clips on the Northern Gannets and Geese.

Northern Gannets:

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Mezba’s blog is a woman and Suroor’s blog is a man and my blog is a baby.

Although at times it feels like a penguin. Have you seen March of the Penguins? Watch the trailer.

When I neglect or put her (I guess my blog is a she) down for a while, she begins to cry out for me. When I go to work, I feel like I’m leaving her behind in daycare. I worry if she will be ok when I am away and wonder if I should put her into full moderation so she doesn’t see any mean-spirited comments or disgusting spam.

When I’m away from her, I’m always thinking of new gifts (posts) and clothes (themes) for her, she’s too young for hijab so I don’t password protect my posts although sometimes I am tempted to do so.

I wonder how she will turn out as she grows up, she has continually surprised and amazed me with her independance, even when I go away she is able to adpat and take care of herself.

The sister over at Patience and Gratitude also the name of a lovely gem-filled book by Ibn Qayyim tagged me some time ago for 6 weird things about myself but I didn’t do it and left an explanation here and she replied by saying this and then I felt bad and it’s been weighing on my mind since then.

I went to her house and I thought she would ask me about it but she didn’t and I felt relieved but also a little disappointed. Then Digital Nomad tagged me and I decided to do it because it was decidedly less personal that the weird one but then I felt bad again for not doing the weird one so I am now doing it in sha Allah but I don’t want people to take this as an invitation to tag me and as you can see I am not tagging anyone.

Six Weird Things about Muslim Apple:

I have a thing with touch, it’s weird. Read more »

Digital Nomad tagged me for the Political Compass Questionnaire and I did not wish to disappoint her so I did it. From the survey, my political compass is:

Economic Left/Right: -3.38

Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.87

In layman’s terms that means my views are akin to those of Nelson Mandela and Gandhi. It also means that Digital and I would probably see eye to eye on a lot of things.

Found this over at HijabisOverrated and in sha Allah I’m going.

Might as well have a laugh before Ramadan. Found this clip linked to on Planet Grenada but I’m using the shorter YouTube version rather than the one on Google Video.

The following film has been approved for all audiences: