Change link to my little brother’s blog

Changed some things so that categories show oldest-first. Makes more sense to me, especially when you are looking at the Contentions category archives.

Well this site is in sore need of my attention, and I am getting back into it.

Raumaan Ahmed was born on April 16th and he’s doing just fine. Pictures available here.

He is now two months old and I’m able to just now begin doing other things I used to do. He gets his shots today, hopefully he can handle like a big boy, even though he’s really quite little!

Al-baz.com has needed my attention as well, but Br. Ruslan had some problems with the access at the current hosting. Soon it will be hosted some place where I can do much more interesting stuff with it. Both this site and the Al-baz suffer from comment spam, and its a nightmare to stay on top of it.

I have a way to fix it, but I dont want to adjust moveable type any further on this server. I’m very limited what I can do here. So the site will move. Probably to www.yursil.com.

I’m sure you can imagine taking care of a pregnant wife, attended classes, and work are three fulltime jobs. I will continue to post, just at my own pace.

classes are ending now so I have some more free time. I’ll work on some stuff tomorrow.

comment spam is killing the site, i’m thinking of moving servers so I can use typekey registration.

we are just considering names right now, if you have any good ideas please send them my way.

Where did I go?

A lot has occurred since we last met (as it may be). One of the biggest things is that my wife and I are expecting a baby. Classes started again, and work is… as usual.

The baby has been on my mind and I realized that the children of today will probably have a unique insight into their parents as many parents will have a ‘trail’ on the Internet, as I know I do.

Obviously one reason I stopped blogging is because I got extremely busy with my family life.

Besides that I began to have a distaste for blogging itself. I felt the blog was becoming an outlet and expression for my nafs. Working on and typing out Shaikh Abdul-Qadir Jilani’s (rad) site has imprinted this fear of my own nafs. I often feel I am the young man he talks to. Studying Shaykh Nazim’s work itself has also done this to me.

Who cares what I think about something, except me? If it has any value it is simply because I think it has value, and who am I? If someone else thinks it is meaningful they are unfortunately misguided people, since I am not a scholar nor anything close to the quality muslim I need to be. What I was spewing out wasn’t knowledge but mostly bad interpretations and maybe some links to real knowledge.

The baby has helped me get past that somewhat, in a way I will be doing this for him/her. Another way for my child to get to know me better, maybe see me in a way that they may never know personally.

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Another thing that occurred is that this site got targetted by a lot of spam comments. The site is receiving about 50 SPAM comments a day on various pages.

In a way this is kind of interesting, and to me symbolizes that when you leave something good, bad creeps in to fill its place.

Unfortunately, this has meant I have had to make comments go through an approval process first. I will be visiting my old blogging friends sites and start getting active again inshah’allah.

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see you tomorrow.

Decided to get at least -something- up about the Contentions. It’s not much, but these are tough ones.

Sorry I had a big weekend planned again. Cool scavenger hunt with the brothers. Contention will be updated tomorrow!