Salaamu Alaikum

WOW, its 12:53 afternoon, and its been a lonnnng day. this is gonna require a brief history lesson. earlier this year, while the spring semester was drawing to a close, my 98 nissan sentra died. inna lillahi wa inna ilaihi raji'oon. i killed it. by accident. really. there was nothing i could have done to avoid it >_> ...except maybe not go on the road. but whatever, Allah is the best of Planners. so i survive the rest of the semester without a car, getting rides from friends, and nearly walking home from work (out of boredom and lack of patience to wait for a ride) a couple of times.

so we're looking around for another car. we go to this local public auction. its vicious cuz im seeing some good cars for like 100 bucks n what not. this part is a whole nother in itself, so im gonna just go to the end. i bought a Lincoln Mark VIII, and my dad who was pretty angry that i did that went ahead and got a 87 volvo station wagon, talkin bout volvos are the best and what not. the Lincoln served a purpose, basically i traded it for the Max that i got now, alhamdulillah. but for the volvo, somehow we managed to lose the keys the first day. it wasnt me, but i still took the heat for it. by the time we went to the dealer and got another copy of the keys and came back (a few days) the car was stolen. police report. they didnt find it. whatever. i didnt want the volvo anyways.

2-3 months go by, i manage to get this Maxima of mine, things are settling down. yesterday, we get a letter from some impound place talkin bout your car has been sitting here for this many days, and you have to pay this much money. today, we gotta go take care of this.

thats the history. this is today:

so im up early and i take my dad to the MVA, where I wait in line for like 40 mins. we're trynna get temp tags so we can move the car once we claim it. but when we first got the car, we already GOT temp tags, and when it got stolen, we returned the tags, not before they expired tho. so the ppl at MVA are like you already got tags once, you can't get em again. blah blah, so the trip to the MVA proves useless, and now its to the impound place. i take my dad there, and we claim the car, show the title, ID, and that it got stolen and what not. they show us the car, i try to turn it on and it needs a jump. my dad still wants it. im still wondering what were gonna do with another car? especially since this thing is an 87 and it probably wont pass inspection without us dishing out a good amount of money. but my dad wants it. we cant get tags. we gotta get it towed.

lines and more lines. dude offers to tow. they dont take credit cards, we gotta go get cash. their "detectives" have to double check to make sure the car was stolen, cuz then we wont have to pay the 300 dollars worth of storage fees. this and that. just running around everywhere.

anyways, by the TIME we have some cash and are ready to pay to release the car and get it towed to an inspection center, a cop is there. and they're like, "you cant get the car."

what? why?

it was used in a homicide.

GREAT.

may Allah take forgive our sins and alleviate our hardships and make us from among the Dwellers of Paradise. Ameen.

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2 of my college classes got cut cuz of insufficient enrollment. man they were gonna be the 2 easy classes too. one of them was about islam and muslims in the west, and the other was some community service thing (both of which I DO need as electives :D) but now im gonna have to replace them with something harder. i gotta do that today.

what else.....Fiqh of Love. haha thoughts on this one later.

Allahumma Inni Astaghfiruka bi Rahmatika, Yaa Arham al-Rahimeen.

Assalaamu Alaikum

these last few days i started going back to quran class in the morning. to review. cuz i got time. cuz one of my friends has just started hifdh school elsewhere and sorta motivated me. and cuz RAMADAN is around the corner! and this is precious review time right here. 2 weeks off? i wont have this type of time for a MINUTE once the semester starts. just yesterday after maghrib, the brother who did the hadith (the imam is away on vacation in south africa, back in his hood where he studied at, where his wife is from, and where his father in law lives (basically mashaAllah HES CHILLING - and he definitely deserved it) so the hadith was the famous hadith where the Prophet SAW mentions that there are two things that people dont take advantage of when they have them. Free time, and Health. Its usually one or the other. in youth, you got health, but you're at school and work all day. then you get married. providing for a family. etc etc. then you get old, and you got the time, but not the health. its truly a blessing to have BOTH free time and health, and an infinitely more precious blessing to have the tawfeeq to CHOOSE TO DO GOOD and sacrifice your health and time for the sake of Allah.

so anyways, i dont know HOW i overslept today. i went to sleep a lil bit after fajr, and woke up at dhuhr! 0_0 then i was at the MVA. ALHAMDULILLAH, i got the maxima is inspected, and i JUST GOT TAGS, and things with the car are finally seeming to fall into place. alhamdulillah. one of my friends offered to get me a super NICE CD player for the car for reallll cheap. like 50 bones. but im still thinkin bout it, since i know his hookups are kinda shady. i remember in fiqh class we talked bout that, i asked if it was jaa'iz to buy like a laptop off a crackhead for 50 bucks, even though it was obviously stolen. he said something bout benefit of the doubt (haha) but im not sure. though this is indirect...soooo....maybe i wont even get a CD player and juss hook my ipod up to the car. then ill have complete control over whats being played and random cats wont come in the car wit their Jada CDs like o_0?

i think imma go make a quick appearance at the masjid. :D im like alumni up there. i can still give the kids orders n stuff. tell em to read, stop talking. go get me a soda. haha. sike nah.

Rabbanaa Aatina fid Dunya Hasanah, wa fil Akhirati Hasanah, WaQinaa 'Athaaban Naar. Ameen.

Assalaamu Alaikum

last night after isha, a brother I know personally told me that his wife was having complications with her pregnancy. man i cannot describe how my heart went out to him. Allah can test us with so many things, and it seems like the longer we live, the more we get nailed down to this earth, and the harder the tests become. Allah might test us with marriage. and then once we are married, Allah might test us with our kids.

Inna Maa Amwaalukum wa Awladukum Fitnah.
"surely your wealth and your children are trials."

man i can NOT IMAGINE how I would react in a situation like that. Allah does not burden a person beyond his scope, and this bro is one of the strongest ppl i know.

may Allah give this brother a fully healthy child and protect both him and his wife, Ameen.
may Allah protect us all from having to go through something similar, Ameen.

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this is the Ba'dal Fajr crew. everyone on my buddy list is away. o_0 inshaAllah my car should be ready by today, inspected n all that. i got these two weeks off before the fall semester starts, and im gonna have to get everything down and ready. they should be pretty chill, but man, i am not really looking forward to classes starting.