1 week and 2 days...

...and, al hamdulillah, the going has not been too bad as a pseudo-bachelor (temporarily) studying in a univeristy in UK.

Amazing how a person is well-equipped to face life once he tries to deploy the Muslim motto: 7asbun-Allahu wa nay3mal wakeel (Sufficient for us is Allah and He is the best Disposer of Affairs). But again Allah has also cautioned us: Yureedullahu an yukhaffifa 3nkum - wa khuliqa al-Insaanu Da3eefaa (Allah wishes to lighten the burden upon you - and man has been created weak). So one should never resort to reliance on Allah's kawnee will (i.e. His decrees related to the creation and its maintenance in which man has no active participation) until one has exhausted the compliance with His shar3ee will (i.e. what He has legislated for man to carry out of his own accord and thus man has choice in this domain). I hope in my case I have indeed tried my best to cover myself, and thus now i turn with hands raised and looking for support from The Best of Supporters (i.e. Nay3mul-Mawla wa Nay3mun-Naseer). Being un-distracted by family, though, has improved my ability to take thoughts one at a time so it has had its benefits.

Nothing else really to report on muslim thinking except that really enjoyed Surat-ul-An3aam. Amazing how Allah takes us through the beginnings of a persons straying and how and who is prone to this straying. How it is often a handful of major criminals in the village that cause the people to stray. How it is Allah's sunnah that these people have always existed for every Prophet sent. How Allah over-turns their hearts and sense of perception and damns them to be astray once their arrogance caused their willful abandonment of faith when given the opportunity the first time. And how they resort to that age-old argument: "Had He willed we would not have set up associates." And Allah asks again and again for knowledge to back their position. But He states: "Verily, you follow nothing but guesswork and you do nothing but lie".

In short they have a will, subservient to the Will of Allah (the Kawni one), which allows them to be truthful or lie, to be loyal or betray, etc. But Allah can, once their deeds bring about its necessity, put a veil over their hearts and block their ears, and thus they no longer possess the will to return to belief eventually. And Allah explains earlier in this chapter how He is the possessor of the Sublime Attributes that are evident in His creation.

Also there is Allah's statement how He sends a people tribulations in wealth and health to remind them who is the boss. But when they do not take their lesson, their hearts harden and Satan's beautification of their deeds succeeds in causing them to follow his wishes. They forgot what they were reminded with. Then Allah says He opens the doors to everything, until they become overwhelmed with joy... Then Allah takes them suddenly and they become mublisoon (plunged into destruction with deep regrets and sorrows).

And Allah finishes this passage with:

So the roots of the people who did wrong were cut off. And all the praises and thanks be to Allâh, the Lord of the 'Alamîn (the Worlds).

May Allah protect me and the simple believers in Him from the hardening of the hearts and the taking by such devastating end. Aaameen!