The old layout is toast. I screwed it up initially myself and in my attempts to return it to prominence, I pulled an Afghanistan. The current layout is completely temporary. It's decent looking but is horribly un-unique as thousands of other have it. (It's a built in blogger joint)

I was reading through some of my old books and discovered some words of wisdom that I thought were worth sharing.

Abdal-Hakim Murad commenting on a hadith in the translation of Imam al-Qazwini's abridgement of Imam al-Bayhaqi's Branches of Faith:

The fitra is the primordial, natural disposition with which every man and woman is born; it is a tendency towards truth, beauty and wholesomeness. The function of Islamic law is to protect it.


Arif Patel Conversations of the week:

AP: recentlly i realzied what a natural i am at diagnosing cars
AP: shit i'm so good at this, even better than physics
AP: if only i excelled so in fashion and women

AP: i noticed so many people on the bus and subway wearing guess watches
AP: the exact ones i wanted a few of them were actually wearing
AP: so i'm like, i is got to stand out,
AP: when people see AP walking down dyem halls in Ryerson
AP: they've got to notice the signature museum dial (well atleast the ones with class and taste enough to understand the significance of the lone concave dot at the 12'o'clock position)

AP: when i was a little kid, i used to tell everyone i was from sweden
AP: in one of my earlier yearbooks, they had where you were born, and i saw
to that they wrote sweden for mine

AP: Greetings, great Pathan who slays women with his mere looks.


The Good: The look on my khala's face when she saw my arms uncovered by clothing for the first time.
The Bad: The look on my nana's face when I told him I couldn't pray with him in jamaat because of my 'clothes and stuff'
The Ugly: My father: 'What do you mean Mudasser, you piss yourself or something?'

Currently Addicted to: Canibus - Cemantics, Janet Jackson - Go Deep, Mariah Carey - Through The Rain (Hex Hector Remix)

Comments

Popular Posts