We’re all sinners, we’re all in the wrong, we’re all in need of forgiveness, and the first step on the path to earning that forgiveness is to acknowledge errors. For that, the prophet Jonah’s prayer from inside the fish is a good place to start…
لَّا إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا أَنتَ سُبْحَانَكَ إِنِّي كُنتُ مِنَ الظَّالِمِينَ
There is nothing worthy of worship but You, Glorified be You! Truly, I have been of the wrongdoers.
I wish I’d kept better records about where I got this thing and what I paid for it… Alas. This one looks like it, but I think I might’ve paid a bit more than that… or maybe not. My copy has the same markings on it, that is, all it says is “M42 –> Nikon” with no indication of manufacturer.
Short answer: whatever it was, it was too much, if I was after the best possible image quality.
Long answer… well, it’s complicated. Continue reading “Unknown M42–>Nikon Infinity Focus adapter review”
This got really long, and I doubt you want to read it all, so let’s put this right at the top:
tl;dr: if you’re in the market for a set of headphones in the $100 range and you want fairly clean, balanced sound, 1More Triple-Drivers should be at the top of your list. Continue reading “1MORE Triple Driver In‑Ear Headphones review”
Last Thursday, I reminded myself of the importance of truthfulness: truthfulness is paramount, but there are situations in which one can, and should, tell slight falsehoods, little white lies, and there is also one sort of lie that is worse than all others. Continue reading “on Truthfulness (part 2)”
Has it been 15 years already? May God bless you with many years of peace and prosperity together!
Continue reading “Happy (belated) Anniversary, DJ & Theresa!”
I’m not sure what happened to the beginning of this roll, but it’s kinda pretty… It looks like it got wet, maybe, and for the first time, I guess I’m thankful for the Espio’s rather excessive 4 frame auto-winder.
A reminder to myself first: as reported by Abdullah—and with thanks to Gyasi McKensie for the beautiful reminder at last Sunday’s meeting of the After Shahada Project at ICI—the Prophet, peace be upon him, said:
عَلَيْكُمْ بِالصِّدْقِ فَإِنَّ الصِّدْقَ يَهْدِي إِلَى الْبِرِّ وَإِنَّ الْبِرَّ يَهْدِي إِلَى الْجَنَّةِ وَمَا يَزَالُ الرَّجُلُ يَصْدُقُ وَيَتَحَرَّى الصِّدْقَ حَتَّى يُكْتَبَ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ صِدِّيقًا وَإِيَّاكُمْ وَالْكَذِبَ فَإِنَّ الْكَذِبَ يَهْدِي إِلَى الْفُجُورِ وَإِنَّ الْفُجُورَ يَهْدِي إِلَى النَّارِ وَمَا يَزَالُ الرَّجُلُ يَكْذِبُ وَيَتَحَرَّى الْكَذِبَ حَتَّى يُكْتَبَ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ كَذَّابًا
It is obligatory for you to tell the truth, for truth leads to virtue and virtue leads to Paradise, and the man who continues to speak the truth and endeavours to tell the truth is eventually recorded as truthful with Allah, and beware of telling of a lie for telling of a lie leads to obscenity and obscenity leads to Hell-Fire, and the person who keeps telling lies and endeavours to tell a lie is recorded as a liar with Allah.
May Allah guide us to truthfulness with Him, with ourselves, and with each other, and may He protect us from falsehood.
