Category: religion

A Marked Departure from Morning Habits But Making Sure I am keeping One’s Eye on the Prize; A Leaking Hot Water Bottle Takes Center Stage: Definitions of Dour and Modesty; The path to Paradise Must be a Muslim’s Goal; Knowledge Makes the Path to Paradise Easy; 

My former focus, my specialty one could say, was my morning greeting, sent to select WhatsApp folks and then often circulated throughout my readership. Yesterday marked a major deviation form this practice. I am living…

A Year Ago; Reading About Love Brings Clarity; August 2024 Found Me in Bali; Colorful photo Sent to My WhatsAppers: Nurturing Emotional Intelligence Speaks of Love; Love For Anything or Anybody Cannot Exceed Our Love for Allah; A Hypocrite Caused Me to Loose Sight of a Noble Intention: Nesh’s Blog Breakdown Better Than the Real Thing; Photos of Colorful Bali

I remain living in Lyf for a few more days. Therefore, o sunrise photos to begin both my day and the day of others. Rather impulsively looked back at photos from a year ago and…

A New Different and Not Very Exciting Morning Greeting; Alexis Posing as a Lost Child; Excellent News Announcing Cessation of Neck Pain; Definition of Prophylactic Brings Laughter; Change of Heart versus Change of Mind; New Role for Artificial Intelligence, Advice to the Love Lorn: Peace Over Pity; Purpose over Pressure and Allah Over Everything  

At this moment I am living in Lyf – the result of which being:  no sunrise photos being sent to my faithful Whatsappers. This morning found me being, particularly, shall we say, creative. The caption…

A Song Comes to Mind; Let It Be Me; Listen to the Elvis Presley Rendition; Bantering with Shamir; Attempting to Decipher Blog Statistics; New Malaysian Work Force; Experiencing Trepidation: Finding Myself Kicking Over the Traces; Comfort Found in the “Passage of Time’; Photos of Recent Statistics; Work in Progress and a New Fangled Device

The words of a song came to mind. This oft happens. Cannot get it out of my mind. These are the words;  “ God bless the day I found you.”  This time I am (rather…

A Day’s Delay Makes Visiting the Islamic Art Museum Malaysia Made it into an Anniversary of Sorts; The First Floor Architectural Gallery was the Focus of This Visit; The Museum’s Ambiance: Return to Penang Resulted in a Conversation With Artificial Intelligence That Must Be Read to Be Believed; Imbedded Photographs

Faithful readers will remember, the planned visit to the Islamic Art Museum was delayed for a day because of a late start. Therefore the visit took place on July 8, 2025. Miraculously the admittance ticket…

My May 29 Birthday Brought Ambivalence; Resolved and Conquered by a Gift From our Creator; Fasting of Dhui Hijjah Made Possible; Yasmin Brings Comfort Saying I am on the Straight Path; Appointment for Massage and Facial Possible as Illness Abated; Vita Such a Gift, and Other Gifts Given; A Surprise Visit from Baby; Breaking Fast with a Strange Fruit at the Executive Lounge; Early to Bed; Photos of Fruit, Vita Baby and Me at Spa and Many Birthday Cakes Previously Provided

There was much ambivalence in the days prior to my birthday. Extensive celebrations had been made for the day itself. Scarcely required actually as the days preceding my birthday brought  EXTENSIVE celebrations here at the…

Began by Feeling Neglectful of My Faith; Martin Lings What is Sufism Brought Me Back; Friend Alina’s Mention of the Significance of May 29, 2025 Found Me Searching for More Knowledge; Breakfasting at the Executive Lounge for a Change of Pace; Messages to and Fro From ‘Family”; Retaining My Playful Personality: Photographs of the Morning Exchanges and a Reel of Marriott Musician

I recall a moment in time when I was feeling neglectful of my faith. I was in correspondence ,at that time, with Fazil. He was most reassuring. reminding me that Allah (WT) preferred his believers…