a (quick) look back

Posted by anas on Mar 3, 2010 in Life | 1 comment Now that I look back at the events that left be sad, devastated, heart-broken and all those sorts, I laugh at myself thinking “I was sad for THAT?!!!” And I also realize how those apparently bad events have made me stronger and just to kill time I also pondered upon how life would have been different if a couple of them had happened as I wanted them to only to conclude in the end that...
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The Knowledge of Self

Posted by anas on Mar 1, 2010 in Uncategorized | 3 comments Knowledge of self is the key to the knowledge of God [...] and real self-knowledge consists in knowing the following things: What are you in yourself, and from what source have you come? To which place are you going, and for what purpose have you come to tarry here awhile, and in what does your real happiness and misery lie? Some of your attributes are those of animals, some of devils, and some...
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So… what is Halal?

Posted by anas on Feb 16, 2010 in Life | 7 comments While I am on the topic of Halal food and the meaning of Halal there is another issue that I’ve learnt of after coming to the UK related to a food item being declared as Halal or not. Now there are atleast two Halal certifying authorities in the UK (that I know of) and both do not accept each other’s way of accredition. One of them says that meat (for example of chicken) is halal only...
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Halal, is it?

Posted by anas on Feb 13, 2010 in London Diary | 12 comments Last week I decided to take some relatives out for dinner to celebrate the  first pay with them. Weekends are the only time such events can take place for two reasons: weekdays are terribly busy and I live far from the city. So, on a fine Saturday evening we all decided to go out to a restaurant with subcontinental cuisine. No one had been there or seen that place before so it took a while to...
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The Big Day!

Posted by anas on Jan 26, 2010 in Life | 12 comments Today was my first payday! First pay from a full-time job feels … new. Obviously, never felt before. All the freshies were waiting for this day at the company. There were jokes yesterday about how each one will be keeping an eye on the online bank account page for the first glimpse of something being credited in. One of the guys actually checked it before leaving for work and called us to...
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