Really hope to get (back) with someone, life on hold, WAITING, WAITING, WAITING…
50-50 Relationships
Artist career choices
HE’S TRYING. That’s the second step. #1 ADMIT you need to let go. #2 START attempting
I think it’s like quitting alcohol. Most former alcoholics say they are a RECOVERING alcoholic. I’ve never heard anyone say, they are a former alcoholic because everyday is anyday. They are aware that all it takes is one sip and it’s back to square one.
But TIME heals MOST WOUNDS. Other wounds, you have to find the lesson, something positive in it, and revisit it, share it and make sure you don’t repeat the same mistake that led to the wound…
‘Retha wrote in her autobiography that one day Stevie Wonder called her with a song he had written for her. She told him, “Well, send it over….”
She had many problematic love songs.
This one, begging for another chance, is so exemplary of ALL SECOND CHANCE PLEAS.
I’ve heard the same.
My response is that of any one with COMMON SENSE.
Has anything other than TIME and YOUR REMORSEFUL FEELINGS, CHANGED???
Unless, you have become a MUSLIM LIKE ME, you can forget it.
ONLY ALLAH CAN EFFECT THE CHANGE ENOUGH TO WARRANT ME GIVING YOU A SECOND CHANCE.
OTHERWISE, I WOULD BE SETTING MYSELF UP FOR ANOTHER HEARTBREAK AND THAT IS STRAIGHT INSANITY.
If nothing has changed besides time and your remorse, we will run into THE EXACT SAME PROBLEM(S) as before, even if we cannot label them. WE WILL FACE THE EXACT SAME PROBLEMS THAT BROKE US UP. WE ARE NOT COMPATIBLE.
That is, unless you have changed in the same proportion as I, meaning, accepted ISLAM, ALLAH and THE PEOPLE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.
This goes for the people that want to get back together AND those that don’t. I mean really, what has changed?
If not your RELIGION, then NOTHING.
YOU WILL EVENTUALLY END UP FACING THE EXACT SAME PROBLEMS YOU FACED THE FIRST TIME.
CONSIDER YOURSELF LUCKY, THAT YOU ARE NOT STILL IN THAT SITUATION, AND HAVE ENOUGH DECENCY AND INTELLIGENCE TO REGRET THAT YOU EVER INVOLVED YOURSELF WITH THAT PERSON IN THE FIRST PLACE AND RESOLVE TO HAVE THE WISDOM TO NOT REPEAT YOUR PREVIOUS MISTAKE!!!
AS-SALAAMU ‘ALAIKUM!
Here is another one from ‘Retha.
I love this song.
And the guy probably did base his song on the person I used to be – because if any song would make me reconsider, it’s this one (the violins OMG ❤ ❤ ❤ pizzicato 🙂 ) but I’m not her anymore….
I have to say tho. I don’t recall ever meeting him, but it’s possible he just made up an ending that he could live with because I didn’t like him. I’ve had several guys try to claim that I’m homo, because I don’t like them. Egos. I’m not gay. I just don’t like you. Really! I love this song tho. 🙂
FORWARD EVER
MUSLIMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m sorry, I know this doesn’t help, but maybe… it can help if you think about the repercussions!
You don’t want to be in the next day – Regretland…..
Think about that!
Every now and then, like now I have to fight the urge to check up on homeboy!
But if you think TWO STEPS AHEAD, you will remember what follows that step backwards.
HEARTBREAK and memories of HEARTBREAK, and you will feel worse than if you didn’t take that step!
FORWARD EVER BACKWARDS NEVER
RUN!!!!!!!!!!!! SERIOUSLY.
I just finished reading UP FROM SLAVERY and Booker said, the thing that makes your life’s work FUN AND EXCITING is to make sure you stay FAR AHEAD.
BACKWARDS NEVER!!!
ALUTA CONTINUA VITORIA E CERTA!!!!!!!
ALLAHU AKBAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m sure Steve knew who she was hung up on… She had so many heartbreak songs… “Chain, Chain, Chain,” “I ain’t never loved a man” “Ain’t No Way” “Don’t Play That Song For Me….”
But I’ll wrap by referring you back to the top of the blog and reminding you that we are all, regardless, ROSES… 🙂 🙂 🙂 Go head and blossom!!! KISSES!!!!!
As-Salaamu ‘Alaikum My Dearly Beloved Black and Beautiful Sisters!
السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته
I pray Allah you are well and happy and enjoying abundant blessings from Our Saviour, To Whom Be Praised Forever, MASTER FARD MUHAMMAD, سبحن و تعل!
I am happy to write I am the same, Al Hamdulillah! الحمد لله
First things first, Sisters!
Most of us were taught the Bible, right?
I love, like all Muslims, ALL THE SCRIPTURES OF ALLAH, the Bible included.
Mind you, when you become a MUSLIM, you read it with EYES OPEN and see things that christians will never be able to see and comprehend.
In the NATION we are commanded to give up ALL FORMS OF MEAT. (Anything that had parents, is my rule, although, I believe certain types of fish and squab are halal.)
So, for some reason, I am really into my studies right now, and am reading almost 99 per cent of the day. Some days.
So, in my reading, I started reading the KING JAMES VERSION of the BIBLE.
This is the one I was introduced to and the one OUR BELOVED MESSENGER, May the Peace and the Blessings of Allah Forever Be Upon Him, صلح الله علايه و السلام. Also, I have found it to be the most accurate.
GENESIS CHAPTER ONE
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
Now, Sisters, tell me, how after reading this chapter, anyone can justify eating meat?
29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
So, HERBS AND FRUIT (both with seeds) for people and animals, is what the Bible says Allah Gave to us for meat.
This is what he told the people that He Created on the Sixth Day of The Creation!
How people devolved to eating other living beings can probably be traced back to the caveys.
But when I see people even discuss the consummation of other living beings I cannot help but think CANNIBAL.
Why would you even consider consuming a bird – that is sitting in a fruit tree?
You wanna eat the bird that is surrounded by fruit.
INSANITY.
This bird may be dead and packaged and in a grocery store, yet it is still surrounded by FRUITS!!!!
YOU ARE CRAZY.
STOP EATING OTHER LIVING BEINGS!!!! CANNIBAL!!!!
There are SO MANY OTHER THINGS THAT YOU CAN EAT!!! OMG!!!!
I mean, really, we were supposed to be FREED on January 1!!!!
Here again for your perusal…
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES:
A Proclamation.
I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, and Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy thereof, do hereby proclaim and declare that hereafter, as heretofore, the war will be prosecuted for the object of practically restoring the constitutional relation between the United States and the people thereof, in which States that relation is, or may be, suspended or disturbed; that it is my purpose, upon the next meeting of Congress to again recommend the adoption of a practical measure tendering pecuniary (monetary) aid to the free acceptance or rejection of all slave States, so called, the people whereof may not then be in rebellion against the United States, and which States may then have voluntarily adopted, or thereafter may voluntarily adopt, immediate or gradual abolishment of slavery within their respective limits, and that the effort to colonize persons of African descent, with their consent, upon this continent, or elsewhere, with the previously obtained consent of the Governments existing there, will be continued; that on the first day of January in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State, or any designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of each persons, or any of them, in any effects they may make for their actual freedom; that the executive will, on the first day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the States, or part of States, if any, in which the people thereof respectively, shall then be in rebellion against the United States; and the fact that any State or the people thereof shall on that day be in good faith represented in the Congress of the United States by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such State shall have participated, shall, in the absence of strong countervailing testimony, be deemed conclusive evidence that such State and the people thereof, have not been in rebellion against the United States; that attention is hereby called to an act of Congress entitled “an act to make an additional article of war” approved March 13, 1862, and which act is in the words and figures following:
“Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That hereafter the following shall be promulgated as an additional article of war for the government of the army of the United States, and shall be obeyed and observed as such:
“Article – All officers or persons in the military or naval service of the United States are prohibited from employing any of the forces under their respective commands for the purpose of returning fugitives from service or labor, who may have escaped from any persons to whom such service or labor is claimed to be due, and any officer who shall be found guilty by a court martial of violating this article shall be dismissed from the service.
“Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect from and after its passage.
Also to the ninth and tenth sections of an act entitled “An act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate property of rebels, and for other purposes,” approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figure following:
“Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That all slaves of persons who shall hereafter be engaged in rebellion against the government of the United States, or who shall in any way give aid or comfort thereto, escaping from such persons and taking refuge within the lines of the army; and all slaves captured from such persons or deserted by them and coming under the control of the Government of the United States; and all slaves of such persons found or being within any place occupied by rebel forces and afterwards occupied by the forces of the United States, shall be deemed captives of war, and shall be forever free of their servitude and not again held as slaves.
ARTICLE- All officers persons in the military or naval service of The United States are prohibited from enjoying any of the forces under their respective commands for the purpose of returning fugitives from service or labour, who may have escaped from any person to whom such service or labour is claimed to be due, and any such officer who shall be found guilty, by Court Martial, shall be dismissed from the service.
“Sec.10. And be it further enacted, That no slave escaping into any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, from any other State, shall be delivered up, or in any way impeded or hindered of his liberty.
“And I do hereby enjoin upon and order all persons engaged in the military and naval service of the United States to observe, obey, and enforce, within their respective spheres of service, the act, and sections above recited.
And the executive will in due time recommend that all citizens of the United States who shall have remained loyal thereto throughout the rebellion, shall (upon the restoration of the constitutional relation between the United States, and their respective States, and people, if that relation shall have been suspended or disturbed) be compensated for all losses by acts of the United States, including the loss of slaves.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington this twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord, one thousand, eight hundred and sixty-two, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty seventh.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
By the President
William H. Seward, Secretary of State
SLAVERY THE CHIEF CORNER-STONE.
“This stone (slavery), which was rejected by the first builders, is become the chief stone of the corner in our new edifice.” – Speech of Alex H. Stephens, Vice President of The Cotton Confederacy, delivered March 21, 1861
السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته
امّي 🙂 🙂
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IN THE NEWS
THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE / WORLD COURT has ruled against israel in a case submitted by SOUTH AFRICA contending that israel is guilty of committing genocide against the Palestinian people.
THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE,, THE PRINCIPAL JUDICIAL BRANCH OF THE UNITED NATIONS, ORDERED israel to TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY WITHDRAW.
After hearing the Parties, the Court, by an Order of 26 January 2024, indicated the following provisional measures: “(1) The State of Israel shall, in accordance with its obligations under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, in relation to Palestinians in Gaza, take all measures within its power to prevent the commission of all acts within the scope of Article II of this Convention, in particular: (a) killing members of the group; (b) causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; and (d) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (2) The State of Israel shall ensure with immediate effect that its military does not commit any acts described in point 1 above; (3) The State of Israel shall take all measures within its power to prevent and punish the direct and public incitement to commit genocide in relation to members of the Palestinian group in the Gaza Strip; (4) The State of Israel shall take immediate and effective measures to enable the provision of urgently needed basic services and humanitarian assistance to address the adverse conditions of life faced by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip; (5) The State of Israel shall take effective measures to prevent the destruction and ensure the preservation of evidence related to allegations of acts within the scope of Article II and Article III of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide against members of the Palestinian group in the Gaza Strip;
(6) The State of Israel shall submit a report to the Court on all measures taken to give effect to this Order within one month as from the date of this Order.”
RUSSIA HAS THREATENED TO USE NUCLEAR POWER AGAINST THE UKRAINE. RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN WARNED THE UNITED STATES AND ITS WESTERN (EUROPEAN) ALLIES THAT IS THEY CONTINUE TO AID UKRAINE, HIS COUNTRY WOULD COUNTERATTACK WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS. THE KREMLIN IS CURRENTLY CONDUCTING NUCLEAR MANEUVOERS ON THE RUSSIAN/UKRAINIAN BORDER.
KOOL DJ HERC SPINNING WHILE HIS BEST FRIEND M.C. COKE LA ROCK FRONTS…
As-Salaamu ‘Alaikum Beloved Sisters!
CELEBRATE FIFTY-ONE YEARS OF HIP-HIP AT THIS YEARS FESTIVITIES
11 BLACK AUGUST BK24
HONOURING THE VERY MAN TO M.C.
M.C. COKE LA ROCK
We are all now very familiar with the originator of HIP-HOP MUSIC – THE GREAT KOOL D.J. HERCULES –
AND THE BACK-TO-SCHOOL JAM WHEREIN HE INTRODUCED “THE MERRY-GO-ROUND” SET THUS LAYING THE GROUNDWORK UPON WHICH THE MOST POPULAR GENRE OF MUSIC IN OURSTORY WAS BUILT!
Add now to that knowledge, the VERY FIRST TO GRAB THE MIC – AT THE AFOREMENTIONED JAM – THE GREAT COKE LA ROCK.
THUS INDUBITABLY CEMENTING HIMSELF IN HIP-HOP OURSTORY AS THE VERY FIRST M.C.
I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, and Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy thereof, do hereby proclaim and declare that hereafter, as heretofore, the war will be prosecuted for the object of practically restoring the constitutional relation between the United States and the people thereof, in which States that relation is, or may be, suspended or disturbed; that it is my purpose, upon the next meeting of Congress to again recommend the adoption of a practical measure tendering pecuniary (monetary) aid to the free acceptance or rejection of all slave States, so called, the people whereof may not then be in rebellion against the United States, and which States may then have voluntarily adopted, or thereafter may voluntarily adopt, immediate or gradual abolishment of slavery within their respective limits, and that the effort to colonize persons of African descent, with their consent, upon this continent, or elsewhere, with the previously obtained consent of the Governments existing there, will be continued; that on the first day of January in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State, or any designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of each persons, or any of them, in any effects they may make for their actual freedom; that the executive will, on the first day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the States, or part of States, if any, in which the people thereof respectively, shall then be in rebellion against the United States; and the fact that any State or the people thereof shall on that day be in good faith represented in the Congress of the United States by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such State shall have participated, shall, in the absence of strong countervailing testimony, be deemed conclusive evidence that such State and the people thereof, have not been in rebellion against the United States; that attention is hereby called to an act of Congress entitled “an act to make an additional article of war” approved March 13, 1862, and which act is in the words and figures following:
“Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That hereafter the following shall be promulgated as an additional article of war for the government of the army of the United States, and shall be obeyed and observed as such:
“Article – All officers or persons in the military or naval service of the United States are prohibited from employing any of the forces under their respective commands for the purpose of returning fugitives from service or labor, who may have escaped from any persons to whom such service or labor is claimed to be due, and any officer who shall be found guilty by a court martial of violating this article shall be dismissed from the service.
“Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect from and after its passage.
Also to the ninth and tenth sections of an act entitled “An act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate property of rebels, and for other purposes,” approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figure following:
“Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That all slaves of persons who shall hereafter be engaged in rebellion against the government of the United States, or who shall in any way give aid or comfort thereto, escaping from such persons and taking refuge within the lines of the army; and all slaves captured from such persons or deserted by them and coming under the control of the Government of the United States; and all slaves of such persons found or being within any place occupied by rebel forces and afterwards occupied by the forces of the United States, shall be deemed captives of war, and shall be forever free of their servitude and not again held as slaves.
ARTICLE- All officers persons in the military or naval service of The United States are prohibited from enjoying any of the forces under their respective commands for the purpose of returning fugitives from service or labour, who may have escaped from any person to whom such service or labour is claimed to be due, and any such officer who shall be found guilty, by Court Martial, shall be dismissed from the service.
“Sec.10. And be it further enacted, That no slave escaping into any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, from any other State, shall be delivered up, or in any way impeded or hindered of his liberty.
“And I do hereby enjoin upon and order all persons engaged in the military and naval service of the United States to observe, obey, and enforce, within their respective spheres of service, the act, and sections above recited.
And the executive will in due time recommend that all citizens of the United States who shall have remained loyal thereto throughout the rebellion, shall (upon the restoration of the constitutional relation between the United States, and their respective States, and people, if that relation shall have been suspended or disturbed) be compensated for all losses by acts of the United States, including the loss of slaves.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington this twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord, one thousand, eight hundred and sixty-two, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty seventh.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
By the President
William H. Seward, Secretary of State
SLAVERY THE CHIEF CORNER-STONE.
“This stone (slavery), which was rejected by the first builders, is become the chief stone of the corner in our new edifice.” – Speech of Alex H. Stephens, Vice President of The Cotton Confederacy, delivered March 21, 1861
SISTERS, JUNETEENTH is here and we should all be aware of the exact wording in the speech given that PROCLAIMED OUR FREEDOM AND THE FREEDOM OF OUR ANCESTORS.
IT IS SO BEAUTIFUL!!! IT IS TRULY A SONNET!!! 😊😍😍😌
I CAN FEEL THE JOY, THE UNIMAGINABLE THRILL THAT OUR FOREFATHERS AND MOTHERS MUST HAVE EXPERIENCED UPON HEARING THIS PROCLAMATION.
I AM CONVINCED (Verifiable by slave narratives) MANY THOUGHT THEY WOULD NOT LIVE TO SEE THE DAY WHEN THEY COULD WALK OFF THE PLANTATION WITHOUT HAVING TO FEAR BEING RECAPTURED, JAILED, FLOGGED/WHIPPED THEN PUT NAKED ON THE AUCTION BLOCK AND SOLD TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER, BEING ONCE AGAIN FORCEFULLY SEPARATED FROM FAMILY/FRIENDS AND FACING A FUTURE WHEREIN THE ONLY CERTAINTY WAS MORE SLAVERY, SUFFERING AND DEATH!
READ IT AGAIN SISTERS AND GET A BETTER, MORE THOROUGH UNDERSTANDING OF THE IMPLICATIONS!!
IT IS PURE ELATED BLISS…
A POEM THAT SHOULD BE FRAMED AND POSTED ON THE WALLS OF OUR HOMES, UNIVERSITIES, CLUBHOUSES, TEMPLES AND BUSINESSES.
IN PLAIN SIGHT FOR ALL TO SEE AND REJOICE!!!
AND, BE INSPIRED TO WORK HARD AND PURPOSEFULLY, TO MAINTAIN OUR FREEDOM – IF WE ARE TRULY FREE – AND TO WORK HARDER IF WE ARE STILL SLAVING FOR SOMEONE ELSE!
READ IT AGAIN!!!
RECITE IT OUT LOUD!!!
Summer heat activates us to make moves.
Implement your dream plan.
Or formulate one.
LET US GET FREE IN DEED.
Get up. Get out and Get FREE!
Enjoy this Beautiful and Wonderful World Allah Has Blessed Us With!!! Al Hamdulillah! الحمد لله
LET’S GET FREE!!!
Make sure learning continues EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR. Try to ensure your Angels (and you😊) can recall something at the end of the day that you did not know at the beginning.
If you sign your child up for tennis camp, canoe class, earth science, basket-weaving or any Summer day camp, DO NOT LEAVE!!!! YOU MUST BE WITH YOUR CHILD AT ALL TIMES!!!!
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHOULD YOUR CHILD NOT BE UNDER YOUR SUPERVISION.
Actively participate in your child’s progress. Don’t just sit there on your phone. Pay attention, so that you and your child can have a shared experience. ROOT for him/her. Actively Encourage him/her so that he /she can succeed at whatever task it is.
Please believe he/she is going to look to you for your support many times throughout the class. You make sure you don’t miss that glance! It could mean the difference between a successful lob or an out! Understand?
YOU DO NOT WANT TO HEAR THAT “OUT!”
You return your child’s split-second glance with a “YOU CAN DO IT!!!” And, then a “WHOO-HOOO!!!!” WHEN HE/SHE NAILS IT! Or a private thumbs up, if it’s a correct answer to a question at life-science camp. 🙂
When my son took capoeira, I learned (almost 😉 ) just as much as he did! 🙂 ❤ ❤ ❤
Maybe act as a teacher’s assistant ? Help pass out documents, assist with supervision…
Help in any way possible
Take notes for study/practice at home
Bring Crownies (chocolate-chip cookie covered brownies) or other treats/gifts for the instructor.
Arrive early and find an incognito location where your child is aware of your presence but not to intrude on the instructor’s authority/autonomy.
If, for any reason, you are not welcome, find another class. (!)
Continue HOMESCHOOL. Set aside an hour every morning for some type of educational activity.
Read it and write a report. Submit before LABOR DAY. In Sha Allah.
Commit a Surah to memory. Record a video of your recitation. Fil Arabiyyah. 🙂 🙂 🙂 ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤
🩷Umi🩷
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IN THE NEWS
Also, this Summer:
Discuss current events and let your angels read the newspaper and other periodicals, to keep up with their reading and instill a sense of activism in them.
Subscribe to your local newspaper!
Write Letters to the Editor!
Read the FUNNIES!
Find events in the calendar section that you can attend as a family!
Formulate ideas and solutions to better your community that you can implement yourselves; or write politicians so that they can implement them.
Participate in local government. Attend HOA and townhall meetings WITH YOUR CHILDREN sitting with you. Bring a book or something. 😊
Start a newsletter!🥰
Write news stories and produce your own community newspaper and/or broadcast!
Get to know and organize your neighbors by means of a BAKE SALE, LEMONADE/ICED TEA STAND, FREE ICE WATER DISTRIBUTION…. 🙂 ❤ ❤ ❤
Now THE NEWS…
NEW YORK – Donald Trump has become the first former POTUS to be tried and found guilty of committing a felony. The crime is punishable by up to four years in prison. Sentencing is set for July 11, 2024.
NEW JERSEY – After one hundred and fifty-five years (1869) beaches are now open on Sunday. Church groups had previously made it illegal for the beaches to open on Sundays to prevent citizens from missing service!
YATHRIB – A Parable
There once was a husbandman who waited for someone to bring him food and other provisions.
NO ONE BROUGHT HIM ANYTHING.
UP! GET OUT AND GET IT YOURSELF.
WISCONSIN – Two journalist organizations are demanding the public disclosure of information pertaining to local police officers; including but not limited to Names, current addresses and phone numbers, and MOST IMPORTANTLY their history of POLICE ABUSE records and any disciplinary actions taken thereafter.
The lawsuits have become more pressing following violent attacks by police officers against Pro-Palestinian students at the University.
KOREAN PRESIDENT KIM JONG UN, retaliated against Southern separatists who had dropped anti-government propaganda using air drones.
KOREAN PRESIDENT KIM JONG UN dropped tons of garbage on them using the same method. Symbolically communicating the message that the value of their propaganda is as worthless, unwanted and odious as TRASH! Allahu AKBAR!
I lucked up on the first one. Truly a collectors item full of brightly coloured illustrations of nothing but BLACK PEOPLE and references to OURSTORY.
Plus took me back down memory lane when my baby played with this beautiful doll that looked just like her.
Majik lotion?
Al Hamdulillah tho because there was no such thing as a black doll like Miss Kenya when I was her age!
The story was great but as with most tales and images of Black Family in America, one parent is ALWAYS missing.
Sadly, we have become so used to it that we never complained.
WELL, I AM IN THE NATION OF ISLAM AND WE ARE WELL KNOWN FOR POINTING OUT FAULTS AND ERRORS.
I AM COMPLAINING! THE SQUEEKY WHEEL GETS THE OIL!!!
Where is Kenya’s GRANDMOTHER?!?!?!?!!!!
All these aunties, uncles, cousins and Grandfather built the house fifty years ago…. Pardon me, but FOR WHAT???
I know it may be difficult to discuss a deceased relative in a children’s book, but The Nation of Islam is also known for keeping it real. Teach the children to honour OURSTORY and the people who lived it! Keep Grandmother’s memory alive. Talk about how wonderful she was. Share stories. PHOTOS AND VIDEOS! SLIDES! 😂😭😂😂😘
I vividly remember when my Grandmother stopped talking about my Grandfather.
TRAGIC…
My quilting book doesn’t mention the GRANDFATHER but there is half a photograph of him in the background on the cover. 😊😊😊😍
It’s addictive and I cannot think of any kind of addictive that is good.
I get “cravings!”
Positive is that I aways have something to sew now! I love to sew. But cheah. I make Salat and Du’a and the cravings have diminished. الله لكبر
I kind of finished one.
I am such an OURSTORIAN. I know the ourstory. So when it got big enough for me to use, I started using it!
I am not trying to follow any white nor Black commercializers instructions on specs.
You may remember my euphoria when I first started.
Well, now I say, start cutting out squares but AT YOUR OWN RISK.
Kind of like Lemony Snickett.
I regretted that for about six months.
But time heals most wounds.
Other wounds, you may need to find in it the lesson or something positive.
AND ACTIVELY REMEMBER, ALSO TEACH THE LESSON!
Like in New Orleans, they have memorials – Second Line – for a deceased loved one every year!!!
I think that is so important for posterity’s sake.
I know so little about my ancestors.
And I don’t trust Google.
It is much more heartfelt and meaningful to hear FIRST-PERSON accounts.
In the Nineties, around the time of Kenya, Kwanzaa hit its peak – Libations and Ancestors, Kente Kloth, Kiswahili and Karamus : OURSTORY was very important.
Thirty years later it seems like a fad.
How could my Grandmother forget about my Grandfather???
If we had done like New Orleanians and had a get-together every year in September, theirstory would be much better. On me.
I became Muslim.
But I don’t think it is ever too late. 🙂
My Grandfather was AWESOME.
He took my father in, even though his parentage was suspect. Yes.
My Grandmother told me several stories hinting that her husband was not the father of her middle child. And he knew it. He accepted him regardless.
When I got older and became Muslim, THE TRUTH, in all areas of my life, became manifest.
He (My Grandfather) treated me, in my opinion, better than his biological grandchildren.
Maybe he saw me in my father (another man’s son) when he was born.
Everytime I said something he would give it a melody 😍😊 by singing a song with lyrics echoing what I had just said.
To this day, I don’t know if he was making it up or singing something already written.
Maybe a combination of both.
But I do know that I read Eleanora Fagan’s “autobiography” (I don’t think she was literate) and she said in it that something was just too marvelous for words. 😊 And then… This:
It is loosely based on Booker Taliaferro Washington’s aching desire to learn to read.
I could so feel the JOY described in this book when at last, the ciphered “hieroglyphics” he had been meticulously pondering finally shared their secrets with him and the veil was lifted!!! ALLAHU AKBAR!!!
After the Joy of FREEDOM; YET another truly indescribable feeling too marvelous for words!
LITERACY!!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂
For Older Readers:
UP FROM SLAVERY.
Might as well.
That is the only reason I can justify writing and publishing a biographical book about someone who has already written their own.
In 2PAC’s latest, he said he wrote his autobiography when he was 18. Just publish that. We know you have it because some of it is in the new book.
You just want to suck every penny out of our poor Brother. REST IN LOVE MAKAVELI DON.
BACK TO UP FROM SLAVERY… I am not finished but so far, it is fascinating.
When you have true understanding, you can read “between the lines.”
My psychiatrist and I had a discussion once.
During the time of BTW, DuBois was also a very popular activist for Black People in America.
Their solutions were diametrically opposite. Understandable considering just ONE FACTOR.
BOOKER T. – DARK
DUBOIS – LIGHT
Just the shade of the BLACKNESS of their skin will explain why.
Their experiences were completely opposite therefore their perspectives which are based on their perceptions of their opposite experiences cannot be anything but opposite.
perceptions ——> PERSPECTIVES
If perceptions opposite then PERSPECTIVES opposite
My light-skinned psychiatrist told me that when BW had wealthy white donors visit Tuskegee, the students had to hide their textbooks lest these white people discover that they were learning anything more than how to be better servants/freed slaves. Heaven help them if the students actually used the Knowledge to FREE THEMSELVES IN DEED, as Abraham Lincoln’s PROCLAMATION impelled them.
Right understanding dictates that like most Black People BTW has a subconscious FEAR of the devil that makes him apologize for hating him (devil).
I am reading it strictly for a first-peron account of OURSTORY and have had to skip consecutive PAGES of his glazing!
Hakuna Matata though because It has already led to me reading the speech given by President Abraham that freed us.
It is So Totally AWESOME!!
I hope it helps us realize that most of us are still being used as slaves/servants for the slavemasters and incites us to go for self and really get free. (WORK FOR YOURSELF!!!)
It says we can colonize! Here or elsewhere!
Let’s get it on!!!!
On January 1, 1863 The President delivered a shortened version of the PROCLAMATION he issued the previous year, thereby freeing all enslaved people in the States.
*LEARN A TRADE WHEREBY YOU CAN SUPPORT YOURSELF AND FINALLY TAKE ADVANTAGE OF YOUR FREEDOM AND LEAVE YOUR SLAVEMASTER*
IF THERE IS SOMEONE BETWEEN THE WORK THAT YOU DO AND THE MONEY MADE FROM THE WORK THAT YOU DO, THEN THAT MIDDLE MAN IS YOUR SLAVEMASTER.
I EAT AT BURGER KING SOMETIMES.
CONSIDER THE AMOUNT THE CASHIER TAKES IN DAILY.
NOW CONSIDER SAID CASHIER’S DAILY PAY.
NOW, DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE SLAVERY?
FREE YOURSELF!
MAKE YOUR OWN BURGERS, FRIES AND SUGARWATER AND SELL THEM YOURSELF!!!
MOST PEOPLE NEED TO EAT EVERYDAY! FILL THEIR NEED, MAKE SOME MONEY AND GET RID OF YOUR SLAVEMASTER FOREVER.
BISMILLAHI RAHMANI RAHIM
AS-SALAAMU ‘ALAIKUM!
YOUR SISTER,
UMI 🙂 ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤
post script Be sure to print this out, DOUBLE-SIDED and in colour ALSO it is very important that you make sure THE MUSLIM PROGRAM is on the back cover. 🙂 Salaam!
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