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I was going through your blogs and found it quite interesting.

I write to you from GO, the Business Management Magazine that is published by CPI, Dubai and Images Multimedia India.

GO’s target audience is young business professionals and management students who are in waiting to be entrepreneurs.

The magazine’s various sections cover: Management, marketing, industry profiles etc. We also have a section called Doing Business In that looks at living and working in different cities across the world. For our past issues we have covered Dubai, London, Singapore, Mexico, Istanbul and many more.

This time round we are featuring the city of Amman, and it is in the context that I am writing to you.

It would be great if I could interview you and get your take on Jordan.

Looking forward to your swift and positive reply

Best regards,

Sana Vishwanath

Some crazy- blue loving- aliens seem to have abducted ur blog

Great to see you back up and running. A Nas-less blogosphere isn’t half as interesting.

3awdan 7ameedan !

welcome back online!

I think the few and vague information we know about the other life that does not make sense in our earth conceptions and the different versions among various beliefs what puzzles us most. As every person finds some sense or logic in some other beliefs than his mostly or partly be it any commonly known or discrete beliefs. However, I think that god would judge on good will and deeds, on how much every person moved to maximize the good in the universe within his potential that was endowed or earned.

eyad: thanks man

Batir: loooool

anyway deep post Nas, thnx

“…As for the question of whether humans are predestined to enter Paradise or Hell, we must remember that Allah transcends the limits of time. He is All-Knowing of the past, present and future. Thus He knows in advance which path — good or evil — each individual will choose and what will be his or her final destination — Paradise or Hell. But such knowledge does not mean that He makes each person choose a certain path.“

Isn’t this a contradiction? How does He not make each person choose a certain path? After all, everything is pre-destined and everything is within Allah’s will (which I deeply believe in), for when He created everyone and everything He determined when each would come into this life, the qualities, wealth and nature of each and when each would depart. Also, everything in the universe - whether we’re able to see it or not - is completely subject to the overriding power of Allah…ultimately, nothing what-so-ever can happen outside His will!

I agree with the fact that we cannot know our future and, to a large extent, we cannot control it…and I also agree that we can make decisions within the limits of what we can control, based on our understanding of the way the world works…so I don’t sit idle and expect things to come to me…I have to actually work towards what it is I want to achieve, perhaps exhaust all possibilites to make it happen..but ultimately, if Allah doesn’t want it to happen, then it will not no matter how hard I try. So basically, my free will isn’t so free, for there is a greater will that controls it - and that is Allah’s will.

And even if sincere prayers do change the course of how things unfold in our lives, that too is pre-determined. I mean, how do I guarantee that my prayers are sincere? I’ve sincerely prayed for many things, and almost none of which have been answered. Maybe my understanding of sincere isn’t clear? Or perhaps none of which actually happening is Allah’s way of answering my prayers… Who knows best but Allah!

And believing (?) such makes my experiences, past and days in general a lot more bearable! But that still doesn’t change the fact that I’m confused…confused about my existence, my purpose, events unfolding or lack of…about my life in general…

Here it is…