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My darling abaya!

Sameen Tahir Khan March 23, 2005

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#26 Posted by echoboom on March 24, 2005 8:22:20 am
``Voh aa gaey maiaray milnay vaalay``--Faiz


Vail, hai jee Vail hai

O meiN tO thumkaa lagaa kay banee shemale-- oieee
O miree goray kay duum sey bandH gayee nkail-- oieee
O meiN tO angraijee pURRh kay naheeN ubb Juleel --oieee

MeiN tO ubb biaah rchaooN hamidm2 chachaa sey
Miri `free-willy` ko rokay gaa kaun ubb gunaa-h sey.
....................................................................................................................................
The arrival of the Hijraa quartet

With a flick of my finger, I changed my gender
And now my nose-string is tied to whitie`s tail
No more am I condemned , english now I know

O now I can marry my Uncle hamidm2
No one hold my `free-willy`; any sin will I do
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#27 Posted by echoboom on March 24, 2005 9:09:20 am
What?
No free-willy here?

& the `witch` could be a manji-muslim. or really not a muslim at all.
but even such perception is bad for the thUGGs.




Wolfowitz Dating Muslim Woman Causes Stir
Barbara Ferguson, Arab News


Shaha Ali Riza



WASHINGTON, 23March 2005 — Here’s a bit of news that had Washingtonians choking on their coffee this morning: President Bush’s neoconservative hawk Paul Wolfowitz, the Pentagon’s architect of the US invasion of Iraq, is dating a Muslim!

While battle lines have hardened over President Bush’s nomination of Wolfowitz to become president of the World Bank, what many say is really fueling the controversy is concern within the bank over Wolfowitz’s reported romantic relationship with Shaha Ali Riza, an Arab feminist who is the acting manager for External Relations and Outreach for the Middle East and North Africa Region at the World Bank.

Political foes of Wolfowitz portray him as a leader of Washington’s Jewish neo-conservatives driving a blindly pro-Israel policy in the Middle East. Critics have also noted that his sister, Laura, a biologist, lives in Israel and has an Israeli husband.

But Wolfowitz, a married father of three, is said to be so blinded by his relationship with Riza, that influential members of the World Bank believe she played a key role in influencing the Pentagon official to launch the 2003 Iraq war. As his trusted confident, she is said to be one of most influential Muslims in Washington.

What they are said to share is a passion to establish democracy in the Middle East.

Riza, in her mid-fifties, was born in Tunis and grew up in Saudi Arabia. Her childhood is said to have done much to shape her commitment to democracy, equal rights and civil liberties in the Arab world based on her first hand experiences.

She brought those beliefs with her when she joined the World Bank in1997 .

Riza studied at the London School of Economics in the1970 s before taking a master’s degree at St. Anthony’s College, Oxford, where she met her former husband, Turkish Cypriot Bulent Ali Riza, from whom she is now divorced.

After they moved to America, Riza worked for the Iraq Foundation, set up by expatriates to overthrow Saddam Hussein after the first Gulf War. She subsequently joined the National Endowment for Democracy, created by President Ronald Reagan to promote American ideals.

It was this time that Riza, a British citizen eight years younger than Wolfowitz’s wife — started to meet with Wolfowitz about reforming the Middle East. They allegedly began dating two years ago.

Even by the discreet standards of Washington’s powerful inner circle, their relationship is a remarkably closely guarded secret. The Washington Post says the couple rarely goes out together or demonstrates affection publicly, according to friends who are aware of the relationship. They attend low-key Washington social events and visit friends’ homes together and Riza also sometimes goes to official functions and dinners with him, but is not identified as his partner, an acquaintance said.

“His womanizing has come home to roost,” a Washington insider told reporters. “Paul was a foreign policy hawk long before he met Riza but it doesn’t look good to be accused of being under the thumb of your mistress.”

A Wolfowitz opponent at the World Bank told a reporter: “Unless Riza gives up her job, this will be an impossible conflict of interest.”

Wolfowitz married his wife Clare Selgin in 1968. But they have lived separately since2001 , after allegations he had an affair with an employee at the School of Advanced International Studies where he was dean for seven years. They are now believed to be legally separated.

The World Bank’s staff association has told executives it has been swamped with complaints from employees about Wolfowitz.

However, Wolfowitz’s only comment on the complaints has been a terse statement issued through a Pentagon spokesman. He said: “If a personal relationship presents a potential conflict of interest, I will comply with bank policies to resolve the issue.”

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#28 Posted by ntsyed on March 24, 2005 10:05:27 am
Good penmenship!

I`m sure she takes it as her religious obligation, but is being politically correct not to mention this aspect of her fondness for it.

One free advice, if she and others would care to heed: fear of bandits and social pressure must not supersede the fear of Allah and His divine instructions for the believers.
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#34 Posted by ShoreSahib on March 24, 2005 3:48:32 pm
Re: # 31
I must offer a correction.
Allah is comprised of two words Al Elah
Al means The
Elah simply means God in Semitic languages such as Hebrew, Aramaic, and Arabic.

Elah is the same word root for the Hebrew word for God in the Old Testament as God was called El and Elohim.

By the way, You say Al lah means the Most Powerful. Hmmmm, Most powerful amongst whom. Are there other gods and goddesses that Allah is most powerful amongst.
If Allah is the only God, then isnt it understood She is Supremely powerful, and not most powerful.

Hope I have helped. I am glad you are enjoying your beard. Hope you dont have a moustache, because that is against the Sunnah.
Allah ki Panah

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#142 Posted by ntsyed on March 28, 2005 6:00:24 am
Re: # 134

jazak-Allah-khairan

ma`as-salaam
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#134 Posted by r3dlipstick on March 28, 2005 2:34:08 am
Re: # 31

I found your handling of these myopic secular jahils very commendable :)
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#31 Posted by ntsyed on March 24, 2005 12:32:38 pm
Re: # 29

Dear malikjahanzeb, it is quite typical of self-proclaimed seculars to get personal and post insipid questions when they cannot describe the true orientation of their own. But don`t take it personally; as you can see for yourself, the preceding observation describes the general behavior of the lot.

To soothe your curiousity, my beard is long enough to be considered sunnah - tradition of the Prophet (PBUH), and not a fad. Unlike the modern perception of objects that ``their dimensions determine their capability``, beard symbolizes submission to Allah and humble acceptance of His blessings, however abhorrent they may seem to the disbelievers.

As for your other questions:
1. Do you really really believe that a god named Allah lives up there?

A. Yes I do believe in Allah`s Oneness. In case you didn`t know, Allah is not His name, it`s what defines Him the best: al=the, lah=most powerful. Names are what He has given to the multitudes of His creations, perhaps to help the different creatures identify each other easily more than anything else.

He has many different qualities which can be observed in our daily lives if one wishes to make use of his/her intelligence rather than grabbing random gibberish floating around freely in the air.

2. Who did tell you this?

A. Before I learned to read, my parents, teachers, and other elders did. But ever since I`ve learned to read and ponder on my own, no one else has to tell or convince me. ``What you seek is what you get``, get it?

For example, He created you out of a microscopic blot from your father, which fermented with your mother`s eggs inside her womb. For the first few week she didn`t even know about you, thus couldn`t possibly care for you. But Allah, who created you insider her, ensured that you survive. She only discovered that the her wish had come true when she demonstrated symptoms of your inception through morning sickness and the pause in her menstural cycle.

Allah enabled your mother to care for you and bear the pain of your growth inside her with pride and uncontested love, and delivered you alive instead of a lifeless clot. You could have belonged to a species whose mothers kill and/or eat their infants ;)~

He bestowed resources on your parents to feed you, put clothes on your back to protect you from weather so you could be ``accepted`` by the society as a good looking boy.

He is the one who has given you the brain which you`re trying to use to discredit Him and deny His existance by rediculig His believers. Do you really think the world would miss you if today He decides to end your intelligence and strikes you with a disease which leaves you retarded? Can you really prevent such a scenario?

I hope you can recall some other blessings He has bestowed on you. Otherwise I pray He doesn`t put you in a situation when you lay helpless on your bed and wait for people to feed you and wash your excretion off of you. Because there is a chance that one day those very people may get weary of your existance and pretend that you do not EXIST anymore. And when they do recognize your helpless existence, they may verbally or physically abuse you out of sheer frustration. I hope your current mindset doesn`t lead you to a point when you WILL accept His existence only then, and lying paralyzed on your deathbed you will beg to be ended, but that end will not come until He wills.

3. Why do you believe him?

A-If you`re referring to Allah, then there is no other to be believed than Him. I have seen life and death from a distance that I do not wish for anyone to see. Everyday I see His miraculous blessings on myself and my family - how He answered my prayers when my brother was shot twice in the chest at point blank range in broad daylight. The bullets whizzed by his heart only millimeters away (you couldn`t convert those millimeters into inches even if you knew how to, as the answer would be negligible). Yet, he ``walked`` out of the hospital in a week, where he had arrived without a pulse, heartbeat or any other vitals doctors look for in such situations.

I remember how Allah answered my desperate plea instantly when my 3 year old asthematic son was on the verge of passing on.

4. Do you think you will end up in an extravagent place called heaven after you die?

A- I certainly strive to achieve that goal, whether I deserve it or not is up to Allah.

Now let me ask you a few simple questions:
i understand you don`t believe in Allah or the life hereafter.

Then what is the purpose of your existence?
How long do you think you will live?
How much control do you have over the visible and invisible elements around you?
Contrary to your beliefs, what if there really is an Allah and you endup standing in front of Him on the Day of Judgement? Would you be able to deny that no one told you about His existence?
What if you died as soon as you finish reading this, do you really believe you`ll die satisfied?

Say what you must my friend, but the phrase ``there are no atheists in a foxhole`` was not coined for nothing. When you will find yourself in that foxhole is only known to Allah. You may have an armed break-in as we speak, or a tsunami crash on your head, niether of which may not give you enough time to get out in time.

Think ... before you remain nothing but a fading thought of yesterday.
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#29 Posted by malikjahanzeb on March 24, 2005 10:28:56 am
ntsyed,

Just curious to know, what is the length of your beard? Please answer in inches as I can`t convert millimeters.

Do you really really believe that a god named Allah lives up there? Who did tell you this? Why do you believe him? Do you think you will end up in an extravagent place called heaven after you die?

J
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#32 Posted by echoboom on March 24, 2005 1:32:49 pm
ntsyed:
A hearty welcome to you here.
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#33 Posted by Rakaposh on March 24, 2005 3:36:32 pm
Sameen,
A very funny article...
I dont know why people instead of enjoying it are taking baal ki khaal !!

I wish there was an abaya here in amreeka too. I am sick and tired of being out of fashion !! When I bought Levi 501, they told me Europeon Jeans called Fcuk ( toba toba ) are in fashion. When I buy tight sleeves , they say flares are `in`. when I buy flares , they say lose the sleeves altogether , they are `out`...
vo tau Allah bhulla karay kai mazhab is not allowing us to wear bikinis...vurna tau the whole beach would have been deserted had I been in the beekeeni...
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#35 Posted by malikjahanzeb on March 24, 2005 4:50:03 pm
ntsyed (ever thought about upgrading to xpsyed? anyways)

The point is, I heard it from surroundings too that 1400 years ago, an arab wandered this earth telling people that there is a god on the seventh floor of heaven who wants us to have nice long silky beards and women to be shuttle cocks and such cool stuff. I believed...

After growing up, I digged the idea more because I had some eerie feeling that hundreds and thousands of other nutt crackers have done same claims too. I also figured out that the surroundings people are not trustworthy because just a century ago, they thought that time is absolute but somebody shown them that it isn`t.

So, I don`t believe that arab and sincerely suggest that you take a pill of wisdom too.

You said that I am at a great risk of being struck by a thunder bolt. How do you know that? Can you trigger one? I mean, I don`t like one to strike me but your claim makes me too curious to try at least one. Can you tell me how can I get one?

J
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#36 Posted by hamidm2 on March 24, 2005 7:15:40 pm
ntsyed,

......... i am a lost soul and have been searching for the truth on chowk for quite a while now ........... unfortunately i have fallen prey to pretenders and charlatans like urstruly, echoboom, malik and the barelvi munafiq named naqshbandi ......... these people are not syeds like you - they have been misleading me and have managed to push me away even further from the faith of my fore fathers ......... it got so bad that, anouzobillah, i even considered reverting back to the religion of my forefathers and joing the ranks of the horrible hindoos ........... lucky for me that i am married to a good muslima, mrs hamidm, and she has saved me from the life of a vegetarian on earth and hell fire in the hereafter ............

........... but now i am in search of a murshid - someone who can lead me down the garden path which leads to jannah ......... you appear to be such a person and i am eagerly waiting for your advice and guidance ..... jazak allah khair ........ may allah subhanutallah bless you and your family ............
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#37 Posted by Nadia_Zehra on March 24, 2005 8:22:27 pm
is it necessary to `Thonk` a comment in every batty article. So shall I?

This article remindes me of an unstitched [Udhri Hui] Big Black Chaddar [sometimes used to tie Laundry] which once used to be a Black Burqa of my mother given to her in dowry with a thought that she would tag it along. But it didn`t passed the clearance i her new home.
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#38 Posted by DoubleC on March 24, 2005 8:28:45 pm
ntsyed,

I like the way you explained God in you post. It is much better than certain mullahs here. Just hope you are not as negative as the mullahs here who puch their faith in peoples faith.

I do have a question, sort of putting you on the spot. Do you think that Muslims are better than non Muslims? Will Muslims (as preached) go to heaven and non Muslims (even one who takes looks after His people) will go to hell?
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#39 Posted by supersize on March 24, 2005 9:54:02 pm
Sameen this was delicate. And I can relate with it very well. Great job but I do wish you were a bit more aggressive, if you know what I mean?
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#40 Posted by malikjahanzeb on March 25, 2005 12:56:10 am
hamidm you are one lucky son of a b_tch to find your desitny here. You must go out singing in the streets right now:

aye jogi nain, koi roop hay rab da,
bhais jogi da, iss noo phabda,

iss jogi mera joora khasya,
aye jogi mere man wich waseya,

sach aakhaan mein qasam qurane,
jogi mera deen eeman aye,

iss jogi menoon kita rogi,

ni mein iss jogi, hun hor naa jogi,



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