Posted in Teaching on August 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
Allah enabled us to visit Columbia University’s Butler Library a few days ago to view a facsimile copy of the huge Samarkand Manuscript of the Quran. Inquiring about it with the library via e-mail and being offered the opportunity to see the manuscript up close was surprisingly simple and the people involved [...]
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
Apropos of Yesterday, 14 August 2009
The flight on Virgin America from LAX to SFO was over before it felt like it had even gotten underway, easily the fastest trip Allah has blessed me with in my experience thus far. The online check-in and service quality at the airport was good, but the [...]
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
Postcards of Algiers
ما شاء الله لا قوة الا بالله
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
Palisades Park
First of all, a couple of corrections regarding the colors found at Santa Monica beach: the sand is not brown; it’s tan, and the ocean water is not strictly-speaking blue. As the tide brings it to shore, it shows the belly of the waves is in fact of an emerald greenish [...]
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
Thank you for not being naked.
- the rude version
Thank you for covering up.
- the polite version
لا حول ولاقوة الا بالله
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Apropos of 2 August 2009
Allah granted me a second visit to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, about one year after the first.
ما شاء الله
We had about half an hour alone in the serene rooms exhibiting Five Centuries of Indonesian Textiles, curated by Sharon Takeda (costume and textiles) and guest curator [...]
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
Apropos of our excursion to Will Rogers State Historic Park a few days ago:
We’re staying on Texas Avenue – about a block south of Brentwood. I drove up Barrington and along Sunset Boulevard towards the Pacific Ocean.
It was a lovely afternoon. Allah graced our visit with the presence of two grown and [...]
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
Regarding the truest of names, Sheikh Nuh Keller references a statement of the Messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه و سلم in this approximately two and a half minute recording on the topic of death.
والحمد لله رب العالمين
