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This is my previous blog. Currently i have a new in-Indonesian blog on my own domain name, www.ibnufarid.com titled el-Faradis.

Wednesday, March 19, 2003

New Release: War Is Suck!

"Only dumb human did war, Evil itself did diplomacy". So, though Evil are bad, they're not dumb. They engaged in diplomacy with God to have the right to fool dumb human to do any bad things. But as stated in Shaikh 'Abdul Qadir al-Jailani's book The Secret of The Secrets (Sirr al-Asrar), God gave Evil the right to do anything to fool human, but they have no ability to make human do the bad things. Only dumb human who thwart their faith (with admission of God) will be fooled. So don't be easily fooled! May God help us. And congratulation to Arif who just expressed his cleverness through his Anti War blog! May God bless us.

Monday, March 17, 2003

Unsent Letter

I've heard it's healthy to write letters to those you have issues with and never send them but write them as if they were reading them right now, so here's mine at it.

Dear ?????

I'm writing because there's something i've always wanted to tell you but i guess i'm too chicken to do it. We've had a great past year hanging out together as friends and i realize i have more than just friend feelings for you. May be you've got that feelings too, but i can never be sure, because the same as mine, "your word" never comes out of your mouth.

Suddenly i feel that you're now keeping your distance farther and farther from me. May be i have done some mistakes to you, or may be you have a new one to hang out with, or may be you have a big problem you don't want to discuss to anyone particularly me. So, that's fine, you have your own life and so do i. May be our close friendship is reaching its ending limit, and it's time for us to become just an ordinary friend. I will find someone who will like me for who i am and want to spend the rest of my life with that person. I know this person isn't you, and never, but it took me this long to realize it. I wish you the best in life.

Monday, March 10, 2003

Indonesia's Muslims pray for peace

Over 500,000 Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) followers turned out at the parade ground inside the Brawijaya Military Command headquarters (Makodam) in Surabaya on Sunday for the largest rally so far in the country against a possible United States attack on Iraq and also to the country's worsening political situation in the face of the 2004 general election.

Separately, still on Sunday, hundreds of Muslims from greater Jakarta, after gathered at the Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta to listen to a sermon by Muslim preacher Abdullah "Aa Gym" Gymnastiar, the head of the Daarut Tauhid Islamic boarding school in West Java, traveled to the U.S. embassy to hand over a letter to U.S. President George W. Bush. In that letter, Aa Gym warned the President of a further loss of credibility in the eyes of the international community if he continue to insist on forcibly disarming Iraq.