Allah is great! Allah is great!

We were in doubts that the moon will gonna show tonight…  to mark the end of my favorite month. I was not that excited anyway… I was kind of used to do the things that I need to do everyday on this very special month. Cook, eat, pray, and learn.

I have been remembering things… a lot of things again this month. When you’re hungry, you remember the feeling of being betrayed, the rejection of the family, the hatred of the envious, the depression and dissapointments, things that made a big hole in my soul by the very people you cared for and the very people you loved. And its hard to forgive when they didn’t realize what they did. I don’t want them to ask me to forgive them. I just wanna know if they learned something from hurting me and my family. I wanna know if they even empathize on what we have been through. Its even harder to hope that the KARMA to NOT hunt them down.

 Well, its hard to forgive them right away. I have time. I am trying to learn how simple life is… its not that complicated. We are here temporarily anyway. I might as well cancel my plan on eye-for-a-claw (eye for an eye) to this people. theyre not worth it anyway. I am not anymore… I pity them. Hope them all in good health. (no, seriously)

What is exciting about tomorrow is to pray on the Golden Mosque of Cotabato City, which is the largest mosque in the country.

Masjid Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah dang Brunei or The Golden Mosque in Cotabato City

The Sultan of Brunei, funded the construction at a cost of $48 million! It is located in the seaside village of Inawan, occupies 1.7 hectares of a 5-ha. Hopefully tomorrow will be its “grand opening” and that the construction is done. I just hope that my two digicam wont fail me so I have evidence to show and tell my grandchildren about it. lol

After this… Me and Manny will be going to Davao City fo a 2-3 day vacation, inshaAllah!Another thing to get excited about. But surely, I am going to miss Ramadhan.

Forbidden Fruit

Ive explained to someone yesterday, and to other people in the past… lol - to my friends… why some muslims OVER REACT when they see pork meat or pig on wherever.

My answer? well, in ma mind i think it is because ALLAH says so… there are several reasons why by the way,  but to make it brief and easier for them- I will say:

THAT it’s for our health. BUT we CAN still eat it - if its the only thing thats left— for us to SURVIVE (i am emphasizing the word). which is impossible by the way cause God is a good provider.

THAT it is something that theyre (emphasizing they cause - I was kinda used to seeing pork meat- after all the acting of ‘not-minding’) that theyre not USED TO seeing. some of them are from Mindanao where even Christian Restos respect Muslims, they understand the need and the importance of halal way to us… they would serve/grill/cook it separately.

this is considered taboo to us, eating pork or any pork products.

Taboo by the way is something thats extremely not normal to the community.

I would like to give some examples (and when I say these to them - I am not surprise of how they reacted)

for example - if youre a dog lover… would you eat dog meat? if youre a cat lover - would you eat cat meat?

Or deep fried rat meat? how about toasted cockroach?

ew right?

and if youre most people - would you eat aborted babies? google it, ive seen THAT picture- a picture of a man eating fried aborted baby serve on a plate. posted by an FB friend would unthoughtfully post it on the newsfeed.

Now you know… How would YOU react? would you just act like its nothing? deep-fried-aborted-babies? — being served to you? same cooking wares to cook your food? c’mon?! dont be a hypocrite! faint! be disgusted!

no way! right? NOW YOU KNOW

           ” Forbidden to you for (food) are: dead meat,
            blood and the flesh of the swine and that
            which hath been invoked the name other than
            Allah. “
                                                                    Holy Qur’an 5:4

                             Such prohibition is also found in the Bible:

          
                              ” The pig also because it is a splitter of the
                                hoof but there is no cud. It is unclean for
                                you. None of their flesh must you eat and carcass
                                you must not touch. “
                                                                      Deuteronomy 14:8 ( Bible)

*WORD OF THE DAY - EMPHASIZE  *lol