India Unvarnished Salaam Murad Sahib,

I am very impressed by your knowledge about the subject of human history. I have a question that no one seems to be able to answer. I hope you will be able to oblige.

The question basically any information about the ancient civilization that existed at the southern most tip of the Arabian penninsula more than 10,000 years ago. (Present day Yemen, yet they far outdate even the Persian settlers who colonized Yemen thousands of years ago.) I have read in the Yousaf Ali Quran tafseer, details (at the bottom of some surah, I can cite if need be) about this people.

They were the original race from which some of the more amazing parts of the Arabic language and wisdom come. They used stone tablets for writing, and in this Quran tafseer, I read that even to this day sometimes stone tablets of extremely fine workmanship can be found which no one understands because no one is even capable of conjecturing who these people were, where they came from or where the ended up disappearing to.

Any information would be most welcomed.

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thank you sir.

Seeker of Yet More.

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I still can`t get over how eloquently this conveys the point. Beautiful.

I want to know if you see other alternatives though. Given that you wrote this in the mode you did, does personal belief dictate that this is the only way? If you were to be writing this today, might something else come out? Do you ever think up revisions of things you wrote? Does one ever ``descend`` onto you? Inspiration-writing doesn`t have an end, as far as I can tell..

seeker.

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3 ``without which i cannot write,`` !!!

4 without which you have no peace

``4`` doesn`t seem to this reader to belong to the piece I just read. What made you write this line?

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Actually, I see a context in which it makes perfect sense! If via ``3`` you mean ``Without my WRITING you have no peace`` then it`s quite noble indeed. And I apologize for coming through like an english teacher bent on finding fault with obviously inspired writing.

For some reason I didn`t make that connexion earlier. Is this what you meant Zehra?

Gr8 if so. If not, please enlighten.

Recollections of my Grandfather Loved the visitation. Reminds of my own grandfather who I lost when I was out here in the early 90`s, in this anjaana watan, loosing my head, finding more.

Very simple and beautifully expressed. Gripping, I was hooked.

I am sure he is very proud of you.

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themoreihidebecauseitsthelessyoulisten !_!

Bravo! But isn`t this an admission of running away from facing up to ``that-which-could-be``? You give the impression of hiding because you have made the assumption that _they_ will not understand what _they_ find ``if you let _them_ see that far.`` I see the writer of this as either a woman disheartened for good or a girl who`s afraid to face up to the challenge. Tell me which is wrong. (I`d like to hear ``both!`` ,)

1 you will leave me in peace

2 to choke on my hurt.

3 ``without which i cannot write,`` !!!

4 without which you have no peace

3) Why is that??? This is facinating. I am myself trying to figure this one out. What does ``hurt`` hold within that joy knows not? How can grief open up doors happiness does not? I would love to hear more along this thought... But maybe you have already said what you wanted to say..

4) This smacks of either ``poor pitiable me`` excuses to continue hiding, or (please excuse the bluntness) plain simple conjecture. Blame.

It doesn`t seem to this reader to belong to the piece I just read. What made you write this line?

Lest It Spread into the World I think you should throw away the sin as
fast as possible. Your fear that it will
grow and pollute other people, is merely
a fear, having no reality to it. Don`t use your fear as an unconscious excuse to hold on dearly to the sin that you think you want to rid yourself of. Throw it away, NOW.
It is not the leaves of the tree that have the fault, it is the eyes/perception of the people that make the leaves either a remedy or a sickness. You don`t and can`t control it. Save yourself, nobody else will.

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Dies at 49
inna lillahi wa inna ilaehi raajioon.
May Allah have mercy on Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.

If one must listen to music, Nusrat`s music,
in my opinion, contained some of the most
powerful rythms, motifs, and verses. His music
could carry one into that transcendental
space, where one is more deeply in touch
with Reality, the true significance of
one`s self, and the cosmic unity. Sometimes,
one loses sense of time, a minute may seem
to have extended for hours. Sometimes, one
loses the sense of place, completely forgetting
effects of the physical surroundings. In
such moments, when one is free from the
immediate confines of time and space, the
Sure Reality of the Creator descends upon
one, and one knows this feeling form before,
from a time and place yonder -- peace --
until one gets snapped back, from out of the
continum, into the temporal.

But then, there are sunnah (of the
Prophet, PBUH) ways of getting closer to
Allah, and those are what we must follow.

As an analogy, wine (alchohol) has some
good properties, but it is haram on us. In
same way we have to be careful not to listen
to music that may not be `jaiz` even
though it has some good properties.

May Allah forgive us and guide us.