Stranger's Words

Beating your wife? Why are we not rejecting these?

mohsenali — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:05:02 +0000

Somehow I reached to this video(http://youtu.be/Y-Tw7WhH_aQ ) in which some Arabic (socalled) scholar was telling about Rules of Beating your wife. He had audacity to say that this honors the wife, because it is for her discipline. Oh no wait wait, he does say that man cannot beat wife on food or work or anything else, he can beat wife for only one point, i.e. when she refuses to sleep with her? Get it!

Well I don’t, For the people who actively believe that it is to give discipline to wife, what if the husband is undisciplined? he is selling things of house, he is misbehaving with the relatives, or anyother thing for which anyone thinks that wife could be beaten, should not wife has a right to beat her husband?

I don’t get why Muslims cannot setup a committee for Ijtihad and say you know these things even if previously thought to be valid (which I don’t believe were valid at anytime, I believe beating wife is misrepresentation of the word) are no more valid. Why are we shy of taking important decisions?

We need to understand that cannot live in this “push everything under the carpet” situation, we need to talk and discuss these very serious issues. We need to tackle such issues, make declaration that acts of one person beating other, acts of having slave or any such actions have lost all of the validity, even if such validity existed.

Annie Hall, thoughts and words (Balcony Scene)

mohsenali — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:01:21 +0000

Do I need to say anything? just watch this and you will know (although starting dialogues are uneasy ones, but when the sub-titles start poping up showing the thinking of the characters vs what they are syaing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLblwVUEHyw

Muhammad Asad…. does anyone from Pakistan know him?

mohsenali — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 21:39:24 +0000

during conversation with an American Muslim friend, my friend quoted something from the Muhammad Asad’s book. I did not knew about him. Only thing I knew about him was that he wrote “the Road to Makkah” and nothing more.
To my amazement I found out he was given Pakistani citizen and become part of Pakistan’s Foreign ministry. Very interesting personality. Have a look at his wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Asad
I never knew about those aspects of his life and (I might be wrong) I think that not many Pakistani know about him.

Broncos, Tim Tebow and Gainesville

mohsenali — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 04:22:00 +0000

You know there are people who you just like, whose success are cherish by many people who might not have any direct contact with him, the successes which might be just small. Tim Tebow appears to be one of them, a lucky one I must say.

Today he did it again, the last pass (which finally he made) resurrected his image of quarterback you should be always be watching. Although he ruined previous two chances by taking too much time before making a pass and once almost getting sacked. The last pass just put him back on the list. He should be thankful to the defense that did the hell of job in containing the competitors.

His success is being cheered by many of the people who might even not like Broncos. Most of the Gainesville wants Broncos to succeed because of Tim Tebow . He has this feel good thing about him. people want him to succeed; to be fair it has very less to do with his being religious or not. Just a microseconds Broncos made touchdown, facebook was full with the status updates and tweeter was singing.

Here is for Tim Tebow and this is for Gators and for Tebowing.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/08/tebow-thomas-broncos-steelers-overtime-win-thomas_n_1193054.html

something interesting about 316 passing yards and 3:16 on his face

http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/fade-black/2012/jan/8/sunday-school-tim-tebow/

Hurry BY MARIE HOWE and Poetry Foundation.

mohsenali — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 21:56:14 +0000

Very interesting poem by Marie Howe, very interesting point of view. read more of her poems in http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/marie-howe. There is one interesting poem about the her childhood.

This website Poetry Foundation itself is very interesting, having huge resources of poems and selection of poets. So if you are beginner and want to study some, you can pick one of the categories and read through the listed poets. For some poems they have comments, commentary and reading material; which makes understanding those poems more easy.

Hurry

BY MARIE HOWE

We stop at the dry cleaners and the grocery store

and the gas station and the green market and

Hurry up honey, I say, hurry,

as she runs along two or three steps behind me

her blue jacket unzipped and her socks rolled down.

Where do I want her to hurry to? To her grave?

To mine? Where one day she might stand all grown?

Today, when all the errands are finally done, I say to her,

Honey I’m sorry I keep saying Hurry—

you walk ahead of me. You be the mother.

And, Hurry up, she says, over her shoulder, looking

back at me, laughing. Hurry up now darling, she says,

hurry, hurry, taking the house keys from my hands.

soource http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/237292

Time to Rise by R.J. Chevalier

mohsenali — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 01:04:48 +0000

No music literate much, but really like this piece

and this one,

and this one

Checkout his full page,

http://soundcloud.com/rjchevalier

enjoy.

Tim Tebow is back!

mohsenali — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 06:22:44 +0000

Not back to UF but back in game, scored two touchdowns. Lately have been getting quite a lot of criticism and bag full of predictions that he is out. Today atleast he did something, even when it was after long wait. And Urban Mayer was there also in the stands.

I hope he plays and plays good.

Somehow I am not been able to add the video link here you anyone wants to see his touchdowns look at this story http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/After-disastrous-start-Tebow-leads-Broncos-to-o?urn=nfl-wp10165

a ghazal by Saraj Aurang Abadi

mohsenali — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 18:07:22 +0000

reached this poem through a firend’s posting,

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the amazing verse is “Na Khurd Kea Bakhea-giri rahea na janoon kea perdah dari rahea”.

It’s meaning in accordance to the one verse before that (atleast to me) is that I am such situation that I cannot use Intelligence to conjure up some excuses/explanation of my actions and neither I can use insanity to hide behind.

If you understand Urdu you will enjoy wordplay

iPhone5 errr… sorry iPhone 4S with Siri

mohsenali — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 19:44:38 +0000

If someone asks what will sell iPhone4S, I will say Siri will sell it or should sell it. If it really works the way it is being told then it’s one step near to what we all see a future which disturbed us in Terminator but we loved in Knight Rider. Right now it’s looking more like assistant in Knight Rider.

Why it will sell it? because it’s a dazzling feature, a personal assistance, telling me about the weather, next appointment, replying to not just simple commands but appears to be doing a slight bit of conversation. It’s a great great step,

But it’s a step only, it will get boring quickly when you are not alone and so don’t want to tell anyone about your next appointment.

iPhone 4S (image from the Guardian Website)

Let’s see what Andriod does now or what Amazon comes up with.

youtube and Gmail Account?

mohsenali — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 20:47:49 +0000

No I don’t want you to automatically login me to the youtube through gmail account, I never made youtube one because I don’t want to make. No thanks I don’t want you to track which videos I have see and what songs I am listening, if you have not noticed that I could have done that by signing up for youtube account, which I did not.

I want to keep my life in different compartments, facebook for socializing, gmail for emailing and youtube for listening songs and mocking cat videos. I don’t want to mix them up. I don’t want youtube suddenly start telling me because I emailed some XYZ guy right now and he likes certain song, I must like it also. He might be some undergrad student wasting my time asking stupid question about the stuff that he would have known if he was not facebooking during lecture.

And no I don’t want to suddenly start telling my friends that I am suddenly listening more Nicki Minaj instead of Adele or no more cat videos That’s scary.

To be serious, I want google to ask me before logging in me to some service, request an approval. Don’t just assume that I will like to co-sign my two accounts and share the information.

Yes google provide me link to opt-out, I don’t want “Easy Login” you are selling. If I need I will login to each website I want to login.